Roleplay:Beast Legends

News
I've restarted the RP and added a few rules. Everyone who's on the invite list will have to re-add your characters if you want to join.

Plot
Legends of primordial deities living on Mobius have been around for eons. Such talk of powerful creatures would surely bring out those who would like to use them to take over the universe...

Normally, these creatures stay concealed, away from everyone else, said to be dormant, or at the very least highly secretive. But now, sightings have been reported...what could be causing them to surface?

Rules

 * 1) No Godmodding
 * 2) No flaming
 * 3) No trolling
 * 4) No stealing the plot
 * 5) No RP-ing with someone else's character without permission
 * 6) NO "Crazy Dancing"
 * 7) Ask before getting your character(s) involved in an existing scenario.

Involved Users

 * Flash
 * Kagimizu
 * Hunter
 * Memphis
 * Lightning
 * Xabior
 * RandomFlab
 * BloodSonic
 * S-Flare
 * White
 * Shima
 * Artemis
 * DigiKatana
 * BoostPowah
 * KaiserDarque
 * Smash
 * Banzai
 * Gale
 * TeamSonicPrez
 * Frost the Wolf
 * Monk the Cat
 * HS664
 * TheDarkGenesis
 * MaverickHunterSigma
 * AwsomeSONICFAN

Heroes

 * Johnny D. the Fox (Jon)
 * J the Hedgehog (Jon)
 * Flare the Wolf (Flare)
 * The Elementals (Flare)
 * Pyre the Carbuncle (S-F)
 * The Random Rangers (Ryushu)
 * Gale the Hedgehog (General Knight aka Gale the Hedgehog)
 * Lucas "Gunfreak" Bandicoot (GK)
 * Katherine Bloodson (Monk)
 * Vexx the Timewalker (Memph)
 * Robin Owsparr (Frost)
 * Vinka Santerre the Porcupine (MHS)
 * Monica DeLouise the Hedgehog (MHS)
 * Shari Hayoko the Hedgehog (MHS)
 * Athena Pyress the Ocelot (MHS)
 * OmegaCorp Mercenary Organization (MHS) (Unless I'm not allowed to bring my own military into this.)
 * Statyx the Hedgehog (Kagi)
 * BloodSonic (Blood)
 * Caelum the Hedgehog (Blood)
 * Sico the cat (AwsomeSONICfan)

Neutral

 * Sledge the Hedgehog (S-F)
 * Bartholomew "Blind" the Serval (Monk)
 * Paul "Phantom" the Serval (Monk)
 * Guardian Units of Nations (All)
 * Nudge the Lopunny (Nudge)
 * Angela the Lucario hybrid (Nudge)
 * Nuubey (Nudge)
 * Haruhi Kazuro (Nudge)
 * Novanic the Trollhunter (Blood)

The Beast Legends

 * All played by Ryu. The primordial ones are considered the beast legends.


 * Agni
 * Gabieta


 * Rahab
 * Durga


 * Akheilos
 * Tiamat


 * Xevioso
 * Narukami


 * Latobias
 * Saranyu


 * Sumugan
 * Etugen


 * Endovelicus
 * Hathor


 * Aglibol
 * Vorhaten


 * Sucellos
 * Druantia


 * Obaluaye
 * Ghede

Other Legends

 * Non-primordial deities. All played by Ryu.


 * Jacawitz
 * Berylsythe


 * Chraden
 * Telchur


 * Ryujin
 * Mizuchi


 * Radigast
 * Perkunas


 * Stribog
 * Theia


 * Sephazer
 * Trodarche


 * Malakbel
 * Austerine


 * Erebos
 * Nyx


 * Fenthald
 * Ninsar


 * Kharnarax
 * Feriluce

Villains

 * Dr. Robotnik (TheDarkGenesis)
 * Snively Robotnik (TheDarkGenesis)
 * Ursula the Cat (TeamSonicPrez)
 * Various witches and familiars (Nudge)
 * The Trolls (played by anyone)
 * Solex (Blood)
 * Jeremy D. the Fox (Jon)

Prologue
[In the Great Sea, a massive G.U.N battleship, roughly 40 feet in length, can be seen...but something is following it!]

Soldier 1: [Scanning the water]

''[He doesn't see the massive, dark shape swimming towards the rear of the battleship. Suddenly, the ship lurches!]'' thumb|300px|right

Soldier 1: Whoa!!

[The other soldiers are panicking, as the water is calm...what could have caused the lurch?]

{SFX: *creak*}

''[The boat lurches again. At a distance...VS Soldiers are watching]''

Random Energy Hawk: "Well, they're f***ed."

Random Bolt Eagle: "Indeed."

''[Back at the ship...something huge suddenly leaps upon it in a burst of water! The soldiers scream in terror!]''

???: RROOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRR!!

[A comical small box views white-eyed VS Soldiers.]

VS Soldiers: "WTF?!"

[The massive beast brings down the ship with its force.]

VS Bolt Eagle: " 'kay we're outta here."

They shift the Thresher's HoverPads into Ultra, making them fly away from the water. The ship sinks beneath the waves, and the monster disappears from view...

Part 1
Later, the news of the G.U.N battleship being downed by an unknown leviathan hits televisions everywhere. The TV blares in the small coffee shop as Kyle watches, downing about three shots of tea between each sentence. "Huh... Big-ass fish monster... Meh. G.U.N. idiots had it coming anyway." He threw his head back, drinking yet another shot and put the empty glass back down, sighing contentedly and apparently unaware that his eyes were twitching.

"G.U.N is debating whether or not to send in reinforcements to try and figure out exactly what happened out in the Northern Great Sea," the reporter continued.

A few people looked briefly at the television facing out the window, which also had the news on, as they passed by, but then continued on their way, apparently not too interested.

A black cat with yellow markings wearing a long robe began to pass by the television set, but she stopped to see what was going on. Her cloak fluttered in the wind as she watched the chaos on the screen, fascinated by the destruction and mildly pleased. She smirked, amused, and removed her hood to reveal midnight blue, long hair and red eyes. "This is the sort of chaos I enjoy seeing." she muttered to herself, the tone in her voice revealing herself as Ursula the Cat.

"Really? I find it disheartening." A chocolate-brown wolf next to her simply shrugged. "Tiamat isn't normally that aggressive."

Meanwhile, at Duncan Hills Coffee Shop, The Random Rangers were watching one of the little televisions. It was turned on to the news, showing the same thing as many other screens at the time.

"Sucks to be them," Linebeck said, smirking. "I hope all those assholes got eaten."

"Statyx is a G.U.N agent, you know," said Shanoa, staring reproachfully at the ferret.

"Yeah, one of the few good agents."

He took a sip of his coffee. Rosa was nibbling on a cheese croissant.

"Even though he can be an arsewad sometimes," he continued.

Meanwhile with J and Johnny, the two are doing some tweaks with Johnny's P10-XR for him to perform practice runs.

"Is it good, buddy?" Johnny asks J.

"Yes." J replies. "Although I have never seen your..." he pauses, thinking momentarily, "P10-XR, at least that's how you call it, considering as how it isn't a living vehicle than my retired vehicles, like the Desert Hawk. Nice car, Johnny." J smiles.

"Hehe thanks! I have a lot and use them to dominate the races, that's for sure." Johnny smiles with determination.

"Alright, you'll be doing some practice runs around a large, vacant parking lot as your very own test track." J reminds Johnny. "Now then. Starting the countdown in 3... 2... 1... GO!"

Johnny, in his P10-XR, races off from the starting line at the parking lot as he begins to slide through corners with precision, thus impressing J as he races around the parking lot to get the record time.

What remained of the wrecked battleship was floating upon the Great Sea, bobbing slightly in the now still waters. There was a single lifeboat as well, with the remaining few soldiers huddled in it. A drowned corpse occasionally floated by; the survivors pulled each one close to the boat to try and identify it.

"God dammit," one of them muttered, pulling the upper half of a bisected body onto the boat with help from the others. "McCalligan, Aaldenburg, Dabney...all gone thanks to that damned monster."

After recording the identity of the bisected corpse, it was pushed back into the sea; there was no point in keeping any of the fallen.

"Where the hell is that chopper?! I called in two hours ago!"

Back at Duncan Hills Coffee Shop, the news was still on.

"Authorities reported spotting a G.U.N chopper heading towards the Northern Great Sea. It seems that rescue operations are finally under way."

"Maybe the thing'll gobble up the helicopter too," Linebeck continued, grinning as he pictured the scenario.

"Funnily enough, I don't doubt that it could, considering it took down an entire battleship by itself," Ryu mumbled to herself. She had been deep in thought since the news had broadcast the Great Sea disaster. A monster living in the Great Sea...she could've sworn she read something about that a long time ago; reading was one of her favorite past-times, after all.

Back at the parking lot, Johnny stops next to J as he opens the door to look at him. "Hey, I'm a bit hungry at the moment. Is it okay if we drive to the café?" Johnny asks J, "Sure thing, I guess even a hardcore racer like you needs to grab a bite or two. I'll come with you if you like" J replies with a chuckle. "Eh, if it's okay with ya." J gets inside Johnny's P10-XR on the passenger side as Johnny speeds off from the parking lot as he races through the streets of Mobius to find a café nearby.

As his car goes unpredictably fast, he slams on the brakes as the car skids to a stop next to the curb close to the Duncan Hills Coffee Shop. J was clutching onto the seatbelt after the car skidded to a halt. "Hehe, that car is surely fast. Too fast, that is." J chuckled nervously to Johnny. "Ah don't worry about it, I'm just a big show-off, that's all. Anyway, I'll grab a bite to eat and give ya one on the go, 'kay?" Johnny asks J as he exits the car. "Sure thing. I'll wait inside."

Johnny enters the Coffee Shop, unaware of the Random Rangers' presence as he sits on a stool. "'Ey you, can I have a bagel to eat, and another one on the go?" The clerk nods as he walks off to prepare the bagel for Johnny.

The loud screech of the P10-XR's tires as it skid to a halt in front of the coffee shop had the Rangers grimacing and holding their ears, with Kotuu growling in frustration.

"Gah....damn those f***ing hotrods of Johnny's!" he snarled, his claws pulling on his still-ringing ears.

"He must not've seen us," said Albus.

As Johnny noms the bagel he received from the chef, he notices the Random Rangers and waves hi to them as he chews, although he is unable to speak, knowing that he would choke while eating his bagel.

The Rangers wave back, save for Kotuu, who growls irritably, points at the P10-XR, and then points at his ears, to say "Your car is too god-damned loud".

Johnny looks at his P10-XR from the window and chuckles nervously, "Yeah, most of my cars sound like that, since they're built for speed. Sorry buddy." Johnny replies Kotuumath as he stuffs the last piece of bagel into his mouth.

Ryu nudged Kotuu a bit as the halfbreed snorted.

"So, what's up, Johnny?" said Ryu.

Johnny swallows his last piece of his bagel, "Not much, just happened to cruise along the streets with my ride, no biggie, Ryushu. Yous?"

"Nothing much, really. A G.U.N battleship on the Northern Great Sea got destroyed by some monster."

"I hope they all died," Linebeck said bitterly.

"Damn. That must suck." said Johnny.

"Hehe, yeah, for them! Hehehe-ow!" he yelped as Shanoa slapped the back of his head.

"Heh. Anyway, it don't surprise me, I mean, considering as how I've seen creepy mosters before, so it ain't a biggie if you ask me." said Johnny. "It still sounded weird, tho."

"It took down a battleship by itself," Ryu continued, looking serious.

"whatever it was, it had to be huge. And powerful."

"Wow. Well, hopefully, someone can find it and take it down." Johnny commented to Ryushu. He was given a bagel on the go by a clerk as he heads back to the kitchen. "Oh, sweet! Thanks!" Johnny said as the clerk waved at him before heading back.

"I hope they don't."

"Shut up, Beck."

J exits Johnny's P10-XR before arriving at the café, "Hey Johnny? Sorry if I had to come inside, just a bit hungry, that is all." J said with a chuckle before he catches the bag containing a bagel inside that was thrown from Johnny. "Today's your lucky day, J." Johnny said with a thumbs up to J. "Haha thanks, Johnny." J said as he starts to eat the bagel. "Anytime, pal." Johnny replies.

Albus leaned back with his hands behind his head.

"Think this'll be the last we hear about some sea monster?"

"Eh, who knows, Albus." Johnny replies.

"Knowing G.U.N, they'd just keep sending fleet after fleet in until they find and capture whatever it is that attacked them earlier," said Linebeck. He grinned as he suddenly had an idea.

"We should go find the creature ourselves!"

"Hmm... cool." Johnny said to Linebeck. "We could check and see what it looks like."

J whispers to Johnny, "Isn't that a bit risky, Johnny?"

Johnny shakes his head, implying that it's not too risky as long as they stick together.

"Awwwww yeah! Let's go!"

He jumped out of his chair excitedly.

"C'mon, J! Let's go with them!" Johnny gets up from his chair as J follows him, "Oh, and Kotuu," Johnny takes off his own wireless headphones and tosses it to Kotuumath, "you might need it, buddy." Johnny said to Kotuumath as he and J exits the café and heads inside Johnny's P10-XR supercar.

"Uhh, thanks," he said as he put them on.

Linebeck stared at the supercar.

"I hope you don't mind leaving that at the pier," he said.

"Hehe, don't worry, I will, buddy. I suggest you cover your ears though." Johnny tells Linebeck as he prepares to start up his P10-XR.

"Okay, just make sure you go to the pier closest to Station Square," said Linebeck as the other Rangers pile awkwardly into the backseat on the P10-XR.

"We're gonna need my boat."

"Alright." Johnny fires up the P10-XR as the car emits a roar-like noise from its engine, before shifting its transmission gear and lowers its e-brake, "Here we go!" Johnny speeds off on the road as he speeds to the pier in Station Square.

"Whoohoo!"

"Adventure!"

"W00T!"

"Swanky!"

"WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU GUYS!!"

The P10-XR finally arrived at Station Square's pier, as it screeches to a stop. Johnny and J opens the car doors for The Random Rangers to exit the car, "Wow... I've never felt that much speed since my retirement, Johnny." J said with a chuckle.

"Haha, are you kidding me, J? It was AWESOME! Did you Rangers enjoyed the ride?" Johnny asks them with a determined smile on his face.

The Rangers spilled out of the back seat in a heap, looking exhilarated. Except for Linebeck, who didn't seem overly impressed.

"Doesn't beat speeding over the open ocean for me," he said as he got up.

"Now then..."

Pulling a pair of keys from his coat pocket, he jogged over to one of the garages where his boat was kept. Jumping into the shallow water below, he waded over to the garage door

"There's not much room, though, so Ryu, you might wanna get out one of your Water Pokemon, whichever one's the fastest you have with you."

"Good idea," said Ryu as she pulled out a Pokeball. Tossing it, the Pokeball opened, and in a flash of red light, it revealed a Blastoise.

"Blaaaastoise!!"

"I'm pretty sure two people would be able to ride on Sarvai's back," Ryu continued, patting the Pokemon's tough shell.

Part 2
As Johnny and J enters the boat, he gets his own headphones back from Kotuumath, his hearing unharmed by the P10-XR's loud engine, as he puts his headphones back onto his head. "Hehe, I've never been on a boat trip in, I dunno... months, I think." Johnny chuckled.

The Blastoise waddled into the shallow water next to Linebeck's boat. Albus eyed the large Pokemon nervously.

"I think I'll be less likely to fall off and drown on the boat," he mumbled as he boarded said vehicle, with Shanoa following him. The Blastoise floated prone on her front so Ryu and Kotuumath could climb atop her shell.

"Okay guys, are we ready?" Linebeck asked. Rosa was perched on his shoulder like a furry pink parrot.

"Yeah! Let's go!"

Both Johnny and J nod as the boat sets sail, as Johnny turns to see his parked P10-XR remaining at the lot while the boat is sailed along the river along with Sarvai. Linebeck kept his boat at a stable speed until he passed the open floodgate, where he then sped into the ocean.

"WHOOOOOO!!"

Astonishingly, Sarvai kept up with relative ease.

J hands onto the side of the boat, "I thought we're going on an adventure?"

Johnny replies to J, "A little action can't hurt, right?! It's just getting more awesome!"

"S'what I'm talking about, Johnny! WOO!"

The ferret seemed very exhilarated to be speeding over the water.

"Besides, we'll get to where we're going faster this way!"

"Hell yeah!" Johnny hollered as he too is very exhilarated by Linebeck speeding over the water.

They were the only ones on the water that day.

"Damn Ryu, how much Carbos have you been feeding Sarvai?!" the ferret called out over the roar of the engine.

"She's like a Golduck!"

Ryu just laughed; she and everyone else was in good spirits.

"She's in top shape, that's for sure!" she replied.

As the boat keeps up the pace, both Johnny and J are still having fun, despite J's slight worriness, Johnny's headphones inadverdently slips off from his head from the speed of Linebeck's boat as it lands onto the river.

"This is more fun than driving my awesome car!" Johnny hollered, unaware of his headphones gone missing. Behind the group, a fox seemed to form out of the water, his hands grasping the headphones before he liquefied and vanished once again. Nobody noticed him disappear.

"Are we there yet, guys?" J asked, trying to not get seasick.

"Uhh..."

The ferret hadn't planned on a specific location; he was just going to drive around until something showed up. He slowed the boat to a stop, Sarvai slowing down as well, until both vehicle and Pokemon were floating idly in the ocean.

"Well...I...really didn't have a set plan for that..."

"Really? Weird..." Johnny replies to Linebeck.

".....why is that weird...?"

"You said that we were going to find the creature for ourselves, right?" Johnny asks Linebeck.

"Yeeeaaaah...I was just gonna drive around until it showed up, but..."

Suddenly, a massive G.U.N chopper could be seen flying towards the group. It stopped within 7 feet of them, hovering in mid-air, its whirling blades churning up the water below. A voice boomed out at them.

"You are in a designated disaster zone! Please leave immediately!"

Linebeck stood up, glaring at the chopper.

"You don't own this ocean! Nobody does!" he yelled over the roar of the whirling copter blades.

"Leave immediately, or we will be forced to detain you for disobeying a direct order!"

"Dude, let's just get out of here," Albus muttered to the ferret.

Johnny and J nods at Albus. J still holds on from not getting seasick, "Try and hold onto your lunch for a bit, 'kay?" Johnny asks J, who nods to him. Linebeck ignored Albus and continued to berate whoever it was sitting inside the helicopter.

"You ain't got no warrant, bro! You can't do squat!" he yelled, hands akimbo.

"So why don't you go fly back to your little fortress and let my friends and I enjoy a nice Wednesday ride on the ocean?"

As Linebeck argued with the helicopter pilot, J can be seen still trying to not get seasick, to no avail, as he rushes to the side of the boat and throws up. "Well, there goes his lunch" Johnny said as he saw J run off before watching both Linebeck and the G.U.N. helicopter.

The ferret grimaces upon hearing J vomit.

"Uhhhhh....."

"Yeeeah, I shouldn't have gave him a bagel, but hey, you can't blame to not give food to a hungry person, y'know?" Johnny comments as he too grimaces upon J vomiting from the side of the boat.

"We're giving you one last chance; leave the area immediately, or you will be arrested."

"Mmm...nah. I don't think so, buddy!"

Part 3
The people of Station Square were not the only ones aware of the fiasco on the Northern Great Sea. A large silhouette was sitting in a chair, contrasted by the glow of numerous computer monitors, some of them showing a replay of the broadcast.

"Looks like G.U.N bit off more than they could chew, hehehe," the figure sneered to himself, obviously amused by their misfortune.

"An entire battleship, though? Couldn't have been Chaos; he's still locked away in the Master Emerald. Hmm..."

With a few precise keystrokes, all available data on the Northern Great Sea and its inhabitants was brought up for the figure to ponder over. He quickly scanned through all irrelevant information until he finally found what he was looking for.

"Ah-ha! I think I may have found the culprit!"

The largest screen in the center showed a 3D model of a monstrous sea dragon, aquatic blue-green and pale yellow in color, adorned with fins of all shapes and sizes.

"With a beast that powerful under my command, wiping out the opposition will be a breeze! But I don't want a fiasco to happen again, like what happened with Chaos. I'll need to be careful about this."

Part 4
Just outside of Station Square, a female Mobian Lopunny, accompanied by what appears to be a female Mobian Lucario, seem to be wandering around as if they where searching for something.

The Lopunny took a look at the gem in her hand. "Are you sure it's here?" she asked the Lucario.

"Yep," said the Lucario, "After hearing about those recent abnormalities, it has to be."

The Lopunny turned her attention to the Lucario, and notices the gem around her neck. "You better sit this one out, you haven't got much magic left".

The Lucario looked at her gem. "I guess your right." She said.

A small white rabbit-like creature leaps onto the Lopunny's shoulder. "It's alright, Angela," said the creature. "You can still use your regular pokemon attacks without draining your magic."

A grey cat with unusually long ears walks past them looking miles away yet still somewhat aware of his surroundings.



Meanwhile with the Trolls, they are walking down the pier to try and find a boat for use.

"All right, trolls, listen up. News came out and they mentioned something abou--" Toxic is immediately interrupted by Liam. "A shark? An octopus? A barracuda? A lo--" Liam's speech is interrupted when Toxic places his hand onto his mouth, "Shut it, n00b. As I was saying, news came out and they mentioned something about a giant monster lurking around in the lake. If that's true, we'll either kill it or capture it and we'll return to the Moon Base and have Rageik take a look at it and determine what it is." The Trolls cheer, save for Nuts and Bolts, as Bolts are shown to be running around in fear.

"No, I refuse to be pulled by gravity! Leave me be, skies!" Bolts exclaims while running around screaming in fear for no reason.

"Ugh, Nuts, you partner is a GOD-F***ING-D**N WASTE OF TIME! LEAVE HIM FOR ONCE!" Tantrum yells at Nuts as Nuts shake his head. "No way! Bolts is my partner! I can't just leave him unsupervised!" Nuts replies to Tantrum, as Tantrum is about to blow his steam before intervened by Toxic. "Let's just leave him and get to the lake, Tantrum."

Tantrum, having seen Toxic intervening him, calms down and briefly glares at both nuts and Bolts before turning around. "Fine..." Tantrum resumes heading to the pier with the other trolls as Toxic looks on to both Nuts and Bults. "Why did I even recruit those two useless Trolls anyway..?" Toxic thought as he turns to see a large boat. Toxic chuckles a bit, "Hehe.. this boat is big enough for most of us, minus Nuts and Bolts..." Toxic turns to the Trolls after finding a big boat. "Alright, listen up! I found us a boat that can hold the lot of us, but Nuts and Bolts are ineligible to proceed with the mission. Now, are we ready to proceed?"

The Trolls cheer, "Hell yeah, let's do this!" Tantrum said; "If it's worth the risk, then I'm in." Nightshade replies in a calming manner.

They arrive onto the boat as Toxic starts it up and drives off to the source of the lake, leaving Nuts and Bolts behind.



Back on the sea, a dark shape grows beneath the boat and the helicopter. The G.U.N soldier quickly pulls out his rifle and points at the dark shape.

"Dammit...I think it's back!"

"What's b-"

With a horrific roar, a great blur of green-blue scales erupts from the water, the waves it created knocking both the boat, Sarvai and the passengers away.

"F***!!"

The creature's jaws close around the bottom of the chopper as the terrified soldier leaps for his life, abandoning his weapon. He lands in the water near the boat, the impact having knocked him unconscious. The ferret's dislike for Overlanders (those affiliated with G.U.N in particular) seems to vanish as instinct takes over, and he and Albus pull the unconscious soldier aboard. The other two soldiers who were on the helicopter have already perished (or were eaten) as the remains of the vehicle crash into the sea.

"What the hell is that...?!" Ryu cried.

"Huh?!" Johnny sees Linebeck and Albus vanish. "Where did Linebeck and Albus go?!" He then shouts out for both of their names, "Albus! Linebeck! Where are you?!"

"Uhh, John? We're still here," said Albus.

"?!" Johnny turns to see Albus. "Oh thank goodness you're still here... What about Linebeck and Kotuumath?" Johnny asks Albus.

"We're all still here, thank goodness," said Albus.

"Yeah, no one got knocked overboard. But now we KINDA GOT A BIG PROBLEM-"

"RROOOOOOAAAAAAARRR!!"

"GET US OUTTA HERE MAN!!"

"Oh S**T!" Johnny runs to the driver's seat of the boat for him to commandeer, "Hold on guys, I'm hauling @$$!" he pushes the throttle at max as he steers the boat away from the giant monster. J desperately clings onto the boat as it speeds up. "Was that a lake monster after us?!" J asks as he still holds on.

The monster immediately begins to chase after them, and it's fast. It looks like a monstrous sea-dragon. Sarvai's just barely managing to keep up with the boat.

"It's gaining on us!" Shanoa yelled.

"We gotta hold it off somehow!"

She starts to charge up an Ignis shot as Albus pulls out Agartha. Both fire at the creature at the same time. The bullets only bounce off it's chest, but the fireball catches it in the face, causing it to roar in anger and pain. It dives below the water.

Hearing the creature roar in pain, Johnny looks back to Shamoa and Albus, "What's the status, guys? Is that creepy lake monster gone?"

"I think so..."

As the boat continued to speed away, a dark shape continued to pursue them.

"S***! I think it's gonna try and knock us out of the water!"

Looking back, Johnny can see a dark shape pursuing thing. "Oh f**k... I'd ask J to get behind the wheel, but he's too seasick.." Johnny thought before turning to Ryushu, "Ryushu, I need you to take the wheel, I'll try and hold the dark thing off! I'd ask J, but he's still recovering from his seasickness." He turns his attention to Kotuumath, "Kotuu, let's see if we can deal with the dark thing!"

"Uhh, hello? Certified mariner right here," Linebeck huffed.

"Ryu's sitting on Sarvai anyways, and it's too dangerous for her to try and get onto the boat while it's moving.

"Yeah, what he said."

Linebeck got behind the wheel of the boat as Kotuumath jumped off of the Blastoise's shell and hovered in mid-air.

"Let's see what we can do," he said to Johnny.

Johnny nods to Kotuumath before nodding to Linebeck, "Good luck, man." He rushes towards Kotuumath, positioning himself in his combat stance next to Kotuumatch as he faces the dark figure, with flames igniting onto his hands, "You ready, Kotuumath?"

"Ready; just don't fall off the boat."

Unfortunately, the two barely have any time to react before the monster explodes out of the water once again.

"RROOOOOOAAAAAAARRR!!"

"Wah!" Johnny lands onto the ground from the boat, barely falling off, after seeing the monster exploding out of the water, "D*mnit... this monster got clever by surprising us. Well, let's see how it'll fare up with this!" He opens his hands as he releases a stream of flames to the monster. "Hyah!"

At the same time, Kotuumath opens his mouth and spews fire at the creature as well. But it opens its mouth and retaliates with many large, fast-moving bubbles. They explode into water upon hitting the flames.

"Whoa, look out!" He jumps out of the way from the fast-moving bubbles, barely avoiding from getting hit from the monster's retaliatory attack. The stray bubbles near the boat are popped by Agartha's bullets.

Kotuumath ducks below the bubbles and attempts to strike the beast's lower jaw. But it swings its head at the last second and smacks him, down towards the water.

"Gah!!"

"Kotuumath!" Johnny watches Kotuumath gets smacked by the beast's lower jaw.



The Lucario's ears perked up, from the sound in the distance. "Hey Nudge," she said to the Lopunny, "did you hear that?" The Lopunny looked in the direction of the sound. "Angie, look!" The Lopunny pointed to the creature in the distance. "What the hell is that!?" The Lucario asked in shock. "I don't know, but let's find out!" The lucario the held out a red, egg-shaped, gold trimmed gem, and its glowed brighter in her hand as she underwent an intricate transformation sequence. She then unfurled her large, bat-like wings, picked up the Lopunny, and flew towards the the disturbance.



Meanwhile, the Trolls are still looking for the source until Toxic suddenly hears a roar. "Whoa... this must be it! Hang on, trolls! Money's calling out for us!" He picks up the speed from the boat to follow the sound of the monster's roar as the other Trolls hold on.

Back at the scene of the fight, Kotuumath catches himself at the last second, narrowly avoiding plummeting into the cold water. He flies back up; the creature is preoccupied by Johnny now.

"Alright..." Johnny performs a stance as if he is holding a bow and arrow, which causes his pyrokinesis to materialize both a bow and an arrow, both which are made of pure flames, as he aims at the creature, getting ready to shoot "Have at me, bro!"

The monster opens its mouth and spews a stream of clear liquid that produces steam as soon as it makes contact with the air. Kotuumath's eyes widened once he saw it.

"That's...that's Cryogen! Get out of the way, Johnny!!"

"OHSH-!" Johnny makes a dash to evade the stream of clear liquid.

Suddenly, an explosion from a rocket launcher hits the monster. It screeches in pain and rears back, droplets of the fiercely cold liquid splashing into the water below, which promptly begins to boil and steam.

"What the--?!" Johnny looks around for the source of the attack and sees another boat, albeit covered in fog. He can see an incoming missile speeding towards the monster and exploding onto it upon impact.

"Who the hell-"

With an angry snarl, the monster dashed past Linebeck's boat, pushing it aside with the waves generated, and went for the source of the missiles.

Johnny grasps onto the boat as the waves rocked onto it as the monster dashes past by, "Wah!"

J looks on in disbelief. "Did it suddenly lost interest with you?" Johnny shrugs, "Can't be too sure.. then again, if its after another innocent bystanders, then we can't just stand by and let it attack. Who knows what'll happen?"

"I'm pretty sure innocent bystanders wouldn't be armed with missiles," said Linebeck, watching the creature swim towards the other, hidden boat.

"Yeah.. we might need to get on out of here, though. Once it destroys that boat, it'll resume coming after us next, Linebeck." Johnny replies to Linebeck.

"That's a good idea. Let's go."

He drove the boat away from the creature. It ignored them.

Back with the Trolls, they can see the creature coming after them at dangerous speeds. "It's closing in, fast!" said Tantrum, with a rocket launches in his possession. "Good..." Toxic replies and looks at Biggie. "Biggie, throw the noobs in the lake! We're gonna need live bait if we don't want it thrashing our boat!"

"Duhh okay!" Biggie approaches to Liam, Macabre, Pop and Cloud and tosses them, one by one, onto the lake before Toxic sees a boat that's passing by. "Well, well, well... Tantrum, we'll deal with the monster later. Right now, let's give them a nice, warm welcome..."

Tantrum nods as Toxic makes a U-Turn to follow the boat passing by, leaving the four newcomer trolls behind.

"GABRIEL HUGO!" Cloud shouts inadvertently.

"Why do you MUST shout for no reason, Cloud?" Pop asks Cloud in a stern manner.

"I guess Toxic is off to make deliveries?" said Macabre.

"What is that?!" Cloud points to the monster approaching. It stops in front of the four incompetent Trolls and leers down at them, before swooping its neck down and devouring Cloud.



Meanwhile, the Lucario lands at the shore of the lake, and lets go of the Lopunny, she then looked at the lake, and noticed the chaos that the creature was causing.

"What is that!?" The Lucario said as she pointed at the bizarre creature. "I have no idea," said the Lopunny. "Do you think it could be a witch?" "I'm not sure?" Said the Lucario, she then turned her attention to the group that the creature was targeting. "And who the hell are those wierd @$$ hedgehog freaks?" The lopunny then turned her attention to the "hedgehog freaks". "What the f**k?" She said. "They look like a bunch of noobs, but if this is a witch we're dealing with, we should wait for it to make a kill, before we have at it."

The creature had not noticed the Lucario and the Lopunny at all; it was busy eating attacking Liam, Macabre and Pop, after having made a meal of Cloud.

The grey cat which had walked past them earlier had also made his way to the shoreline (although further down), his curiosity attracted by the ongoing chaos. "This ain't somethin' you see everyday" the cat said to himself in an amused tone.



Back at the lake, Only Pop and Macabre are left as Cloud as been easily devoured.

"I must go after it! It has eaten Cloud!" Macabre unwittingly swims towards the monster. Pop simply rolls his eyes as he watches Macabre swim towards it.

Within seconds, Macabre has been devoured as well.

"Well, I never." Pop glares at the monster. "You are incompetent into devouring my fellow allies and that you are indeed classified as a generic version of a Loch Ness monster, and therefore, you have absolutely no right to use them as yesterday's meal..." Pop continues to ramble on against the monster, not aware that he too will fall victim to the monster.

It leaned its head down towards Pop, as if listening to his words.

At last, it spoke.

"{They're in my territory,}" it, or rather, she, growled.

"{Therefore they are free game. Just like you!}"

And then Pop was eaten as well.

Back with Toxic, he hatches a plan on getting the other boat's attention...

"Nightshade, if they get on board, be sure to disable their boat, but discreetly so they can't be suspicios of us. And Biggie, wait for my mark." Toxic finishes instructing Nightshade. "Duhhh okay, Toxic!" Biggie replies.

Nightshade nods. "Will do. Since the fog is thick enough, I'll be able to provide stealth." He runs and drops himself off of the side of the boat carefully as to not cause spashing noises.

"Since this fog is thick, as Nightshade mentioned... they don't know what will hit 'em." Toxic chuckles softly and evilly as he grabs a flare gun from the gun cabinet and fires it in the air.

The flare's bright light cuts through the fog, and gets the attention of our heroes.

"Hey, look at that!" said Albus, pointing at the light. "That's gotta be a flare light! The other boat's gotta be in trouble; we should help them."

Linebeck was quiet, his arms crossed as he contemplated this.

"I don't know...I can't see it being a civilian boat if it's arms with missiles..."

He scratched his chin.

"Hmm...you guys stay and guard my boat. I'll go see what's up."

He looks at the still-unconscious G.U.N soldier.

"The extra firepower would've been nice, but I should be fine on my own."

He then started driving towards the other boat.

"Who could it be..?" Johnny wonders.

"No idea..."

They finally reach the boat. Linebeck gets up and goes to board the larger vessel, using his grappling hook.

Toxic awaits for someone aboard, as even he doesn't know who it is. Eventually Linebeck boards the larger boat. It's hard to tell who's on board already due to the fog.

"Hello?"

Lineback can see three figures from the fog; a hedgehog, a large cat and a fox, all staring at him blankly. He squints at them in return.

"Did you need assistance? You sent a flare up..."

The hedgehog figure nods to Linebeck slowly, but ominously.

"Okay, so...what is it? Engine trouble? I'm not really a repairman, but my friend has a Blastoise that can help me tow your ship back to shore..."

The hedgehog figure nods again, ominously once more before turning to the large cat figure and nods to him as the large cat slowly walks towards the other side of the boat.

"Okay then, so...uhh..."

He can't help but feel uneasy; the hedgehog and his comrades haven't said a single thing.

Suddenly, the large cat figure jumps onto Linebeck's boat, nearly capsizing it!

"What was that???"

On the other boat, Albus and Shanoa fall overboard as the large cat jumps onto it.

"WHOA!!"

"Wah!" J hangs on to the side of the boat as he sees both Shanoa and Albus fall overboard. He rushes to Albus and reaches out his hand for him, "Albus! Grab onto my hand!"

"Grah!" Johnny, having stumbled onto the ground from the large cat's landing, and not aware who it is due to fog, growls and gets up and walks towards the large cat, "Hey, who the hell do you think you are, trying to--"

As Johnny angrily approaches, the large cat figure spins and lands a Power Whip from his large tail, sending him flying with sheer force! "GAH!" Johnny screams out as he was sent flying into the thick fog from the sudden attack; his screams fade away.

Albus is about to grab J's hand when Johnny goes sailing over his head.

"Jon!!"

Ryu and Kotuumath, riding on Sarvai's back, go towards Linebeck's boat as Shanoa activates Volaticus and flies up above the water, trying to find Johnny. The G.U.N soldier starts to wake up.

"Ugh...what the hell happened...?"

J quickly grabs Albus' hand as he looks around before pulling him onto the boat. "What the-- where's Johnny?!"

Meanwhile, the hedgehog figure approaches towards Linebeck, revealing himself to be Toxic!

"Hello, ferret. Hope flame boy knows how to swim..." he chuckles, then laughs evilly "Oh wait, he's probably eaten by the monster already!" he chortles as well.

"You...! What the hell are you doing here?!"

Shanoa is flying over the water, still trying to find Johnny.

"Johnny! Where are you?!"

There was no answer from Johnny. Toxic looks up to Shanoa overhead, "Hey, lady, if I were you, I'd focus on that dingy boat with yer pals here, or Biggie here will sink the ship whole!" he turns his attention to Linebeck, "You know, I'm surprised you asked. For a ferret with a passion for treasure hunting, you sure aren't very clever, are you? Who'd knew the fog would do wonders to let me and my Troll companions go incognito and have you pathetic losers take the ultimate bait. Furthermore, Biggie took care of flame boy so once he'll turn into lunch for the monster, it'll come after us next." Toxic grins evilly, "And by us, I mean you, cat-girl, and the rest inside that tiny boat of yours and the monster'll be mine for the taking!"

"You really think you can do anything about that beast?" he asked, looking incredulous.

"You're just as much a potential meal as we are! Stop acting so cocky!"

He pulled out his Swiss Army Knife, flicking the blade open.

"But I ain't forgiving ya for wrecking my ride and my friends!"

Kotuumath, meanwhile, jumped onto Biggie.

"Go help Shanoa find Johnny!" he said to Ryu, who nodded and urged her Blastoise forward.

"You're shark bait, you fat sack of fur!" Pulling out his sword, he tried to stab Biggie. The G.U.N soldier, now fully awake, sees the Big recolor.

"First man-eating leviathans, and now Trolls!"

"Ooh, I'm soo scared! Hah! Tantrum?" Toxic snaps his fingers.

Tantrum grins evilly as he runs towards Linebeck, "With pleasure!" He lunges to Linebeck.

"Really? You're gonna send your lackey to fight me? Typical cowardly Troll."

He jumps and rolls out of the way of Tantrum's lunge.

Back at the boat, Biggie attempts to use Mega Punch on Kotuumath, but his attacks are interrupted by J's Spikedash as his quills stab him in the back!

"Yeooowch!" Biggie yelps out in pain. "I gots stabbed, durrr!"

"And you'll get stabbed again!" He drives his sword into Biggie's head.

"What he said!" J replies.

Biggie is stabbed in the head by the sword, which kills him while still standing.



Meanwhile, the lopunny at the shore decided to take advantage of the situation, "I think its made its kill," she said, she then transformed as the lucario had earlier. "That witch is mine!" She shouted, as she seems to have the creature mistaken. She then removed her bowtie, and it wrapped around her magic staff and it turns into a medium sized, precision lock cannon. As she prepared to fire, the lucario interrupted her. "Nudge, wait!" She shouted as she tackled her sister, throwing off her aim, and causing her to fire in a different direction. "What was that for?!" The lopunny said angrily. "I don't think that this is what we think it is.

Part 5
Johnny is seen underwater, briefly unconsious as he wakes up, realizing that he is underwater as he desperately swims up for some air. He does so, but coughs up a lot of water as he tries to breathe.

"Ack! Gah! What the--?!" Johnny frantically looks around and yelps out in pain. "Agh! D*mn! What the... hell was that all about..." he pants as he catches his breath; he frantically looks around, but now squinting his eyes upon realizing that his eyeglasses are gone, "Wha--? Oh no! My eyeglasses! Where are they?! "He frantically dives underwater to look around. However, it is so murky that its nearly impossible to see from underwater. He moves his head from underwater as he gasps for breath.

"Great.. my glasses are gone..." He moves his hand and opens his palm to try to use pyrokinesis, but has no effect since he is floating on water. "Ohhh man! This is why I hate water! Not only does it cancel out my pyrokinesis, it makes me weaker!" Johnny lets out a disgruntled sigh, "Right now, I bet aqua-ba***** must be laughing at me right now, even though he's not there..." He looks around to see if his friends are there, despite his poor eyesight. "Shanoa? Albus? Ryushu? Linebeck? That... thing that's not willing to finish me off..? Anyone?"

Faintly, he can hear Shanoa calling out for him.

"What the-- Shanoa?!" Johnny looks around, still unable to see clearly not just from the fog, but also his poor eyesight from his lack of eyeglasses.

"Johnny! I'm over here!" she called out as she flew towards the sound of his voice.

A liquid figure rippled, distorting the fog around the shape of a fox before vanishing again.

This caused Shanoa to stop, confused.

"What was that...?"

Johnny tries to swim towards the sound of the voice, albeit slowly because of the sheer impact he took from the attack, as well as his pyrokinesis cancelled. "I gotta... take it easy on swimming. If I swim too hard... it'll drain my strength further." He thought to himself.

Unfortunately, he stops swimming, fatigue setting in as he pants harshly, not being able to swim further for the trace of Shanoa's voice. "D*mnit.. can't swim further... whenever I move or swim underwater, it'll eat away my strength, not just pyrokinesis..." He mutters to himself.

The liquid being reappeared, the fog distorting. However, instead of attacking, a pair of semi-solid arms wrapped around Johnny, holding him above the water with ease. A male voice seemed to emerge. "If you struggle, I could lose my grip, and I'm sure drowning is no fun."

He looks back and sees what appears to be a liquid resembling him, but cannot tell due to his nearsightness, "Oh no... I gotta.. get outta here..." He tries to struggle from the semi-solid arms, but unfortunately, his strength has been utterly drained away from being attacked by Biggie's Power Whip and staying onshore from the lake which drained his pyrokinesis, thus slipping into unconsiousness again from his lack of strength.

Shanoa watched in shock as the semi-solid fox lifted Johnny above the water.

Oblivious to Shanoa's presence, the liquid being placed Johnny onto a nearby piece of driftwood. Seemingly out of nowhere, he withdrew a set of headphones and rested them on Johnny's chest before vanishing.

Shanoa fluttered down to Johnny, having watched the mysterious figure vanish. He is lying there, motionless and unconsious, the headphones Johnny used to wear resting on his chest.

"Ryu, he's over here!" she called out. Soon, Ryu and Sarvai arrived on the scene, and the two helped Johnny onto the Pokemon's back.

"Johnny? Are you alright?!" J asks to Johnny as he was helped onto the Pokemon's back. Unfortunately, Johnny does not respond. J lets out a sigh. "Great.. this is what Johnny has been telling me on why he doesn't like to swim, let alone traverse through the snowy weather."

"We gotta get back to shore," said Ryu. Back on Linebeck's boat, Kotuumath had just dumped Biggie's corpse overboard.

"There."

On the other ship, however, Linebeck was still fighting Tantrum. Or rather, taunting him and dodging his attacks.

Tantrum keeps on trying to attack Linebeck, to no avail, "You think you're some worthy treasure hunter, ferret boy?! YOU AIN'T WORTH BEING A CLASSES, STUPID..." Tantrum continues to insult Linebeck in an effort to intimidate him. Meanwhile, Nightshade peeks behind the engine of Linebeck's boat and begins to grab and pull the wires from the engine, with careful procedure as to not be seen.

"C'mon, Hothead! You couldn't hit the side of a barn!" He continued to strafe and dodge around the Tails recolor, grinning. Nightshade's sabotage of the ferret's boat went unnoticed.

"You dare call me names?! YOU DARE CALL ME NAMES?!" Tantrum keeps lunging at Linebeck in an effort to attack him. Nightshade finishes pulling off the wires from Linebeck's boat discreetly as he lets go of the wires so they will sink under the murky lake as he slowly swims to the side of the boat Toxic is, trying to not create noises along the way.

"Ohohoho, I dare!" he taunted, expertly dodging out of Tantrum's way each time. He then lunged forward himself, aiming a punch at Tantrum's face.

Tantrum lands himself being punched in the face by Linebeck, "Grahhh!!"

Toxic heads to the side of the boat to see Nightshade, "Did ya tampered their boat?" Toxic whispered.

"Yeah... they're gonna become open water and lunch for the hungry monster." Nightshade replies to Toxic in return, also whispering to him.

Linebeck is preoccupied with fighting Tantrum, so he doesn't notice Nightshade and Toxic.

Toxic nods to Nightshade before turning to Tantrum, whistling to him, "Tantrum! Back out for now."

"Ugh, finally! I was getting nailed here!" Tantrum retreats from Linebeck to join up Toxic and Nightshade.

"Aww, did the little baby get all tuckered out?" Linebeck sneered at Tantrum. He quirked an eyebrow at Nightshade.

"Where'd Mr. Short, Dark and Emo come from?"

"If you're talking about me, you might as well look elsewhere, ferret." Nightshade replies in a stern manner. "WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOUR SORRY LITTLE NECK, I--" Tantrum is interrupted by Toxic when he placed his hand on Tantrum's shoulder. "Tantrum! You'll deal with ferret boy later, but we have to back out for now. Besides, the longer we stay here and ramble on about, the more we end up grabbing the monster's attention."

Toxic gives a smug look at Linebeck, "You oughta be lucky for now, so when we return, you WON'T be so lucky, and believe me, the fog will play our tricks..."

"Ooh, well excuuuuse me, princess," he shot back at Nightshade, faking a look of hurt. He smirked at Tantrum again.

"Please, Hothead; I can run circles around you! And as for you, Toxic," he continued. "You're forgetting I'm here with all my pals; you're the one who's lucky they didn't come on board with me."

Toxic simply rolled his eyes to Linebeck.

J looks up to Linebeck from the side of the boat, "Linebeck, I'd love to help you and deal with the Trolls, but right now we need to get Johnny back on shore. He's not looking good..." J looks back to Johnny, his fur having changed color from dark brown to semi-light blue, signifying hypothermia since there is no direct sunlight from the thick and foggy weather.

"S***, really?? Damn..."

Without a word to the Trolls, he jumped back down to his own boat.

The Trolls snicker and speed off from the boat once Linebeck jumped down to his own boat, away from our heroes.

Meanwhile, the lopunny looked around, and then moved closer to the lake. "Hey, what happened to the witch? She said, as she couldn't see much, due to the fog. The lucario went after her sister. "Get back, I don't think that this is a witch!" The lopunny turned her magic staff into a black and white musketoon. "Well if its not a witch, then what is it?" "I don't know, but whatever it is, those hedgehog freaks seem to be very interested in it." The lopunny quickly lept into the lake. "Ha! There after it to! No way, that grief seed is mine!" She shouted as she fired into the fog.

The bullet travels towards the Trolls.

"What the--?! If it's ferret boy again, then he's getting on my last nerves!" Toxic exclaims, seeing the bullet whizzing close by.

The lucario tried to stop the lopunny from firing any more shots. "Knock it off Nudge! Your gonna attract unnecessary attention!" The lopunny ignored her sister. She pushed her away and continued firing.

Toxic, having fed up with having nearly shot at, speeds the boat up to find the source of shots firing, "I'll make sure to have ferret boy's pathetic hide!"

Back with our heroes, however, they could hear the shots in the distance.

"Gunfire," the G.U.N soldier immediately said.

"Sounds like a musket."

"Well we don't wanna go towards that," said Albus. Linebeck, however, was trying to start up his boat.

"Damn...not now...!"

"What's wrong?" Shanoa asked.

"My boat won't start at all!" he said, looking rather distraught.

"Those Trolls must've sabotaged the engine! Those sons of b****es...!!"

With a loud groan, he rested his forehead on the steering wheel.

"Hmm.." J takes a close look at the engine, which seemed fine at first, but upon further inspection, he can see the wires have been torn off!

"Linebeck... they pulled the wires off from the engine." J notifies Linebeck, much to his disbelief.

He lifted his head, quite pissed.

"F***! Urgh...at least $40-$50 isn't too expensive...but how are we gonna get home now?"

"Hey Linebeck, do you have rope?" Ryu suddenly asked. He looked at her, a bit perplexed.

"Yes...why?"

"All we need to to is tie the rope to your boat and Sarvai's cannons, and she can tow the boat home!"

The ferret blinked, and then facepalmed.

"Oh Ka, why didn't I think of that...?"

Getting up, he went to the little cabin and fished the rope out of it, and then anchored one end to his boat, tossing the other to Ryu. Within a few moments, the two were hitched together.

"Let's get out of here."

Back with the two Pokemon, the lucario's ears perked up. "Nudge, wait!" She grips the lopunny's arm to stop her from firing. The lopunny dropped her weapon. "What?" The lucario held out her hand and summoned a long, double sided, battle axe.

Toxic notices the gunfire that has ceased, "Hmph... Tantrum, do you have the missile launcher?" Tantrum nods as he grabs it from the lower cabin. "Right here! Shall I return to sender?!" Tantrum asks.

Toxic nods.

"Yes... we're teaching that idiot ferret boy and make him think twice before going guns blazing on us!"

Tantrum aims the missile launcher and fires a rocket at the source from the gunfire.

The rocket landed right in between the two girls, causing them both to be thrown back. "Aah!" The lucario stood back up. "What the hell was that?" "Its the witch!" Said the lopunny. "She knows we're here!" She then summons six more musketoons, and fires them all at once with her magic.

The grey cat is still watching from the shore although he is now focusing on the two girls. "Oi oi, a rocket laucher isn't exacly an anti-personnel weapon.  (Sigh).  Maybe i should help as well."

The boat becomes hit with magic, with the hull cracking open as the boat begins to capsize, "F**K! We're hit!" Tantrum exclaims.

Toxic growls.

"Ferret boy has magic too?! He has a LOT of nerve to attack us AND make our boat sink!" he turns to Nightshade and Tantrum, "Nightshade, Tantrum! Grab whatever weapons you can find. We have no choice but to abandon ship and swim towards the source of the sound, which I assume it's ferret boy, and give him a piece of our minds!" Toxic grabs a flare gun from the cabinet, along with some of the flare gun ammo.

"Yes sir!" Tantrum and Nightshade replies as Tantrum grabs the missile launcher, whereas Nightshade grabs some of the ammunition for the missile launcher.

The three jumps off from the boat as the three watches it sink.

"Now then... let's blow ferret boy up like a stick of dynammite."

The three trolls swim towards the source of the sound.

Meanwhile, our heroes had finally reached the shoreline. Linebeck was quite irate.

"Motor wires are gone, and that fat-ass Troll practically split my boat in half...ugh..."

"The bright side is that we made it back to shore. That's all it matters..." J replies to Line beck as he carries Johnny, struggling ahold to him as he carries onto the docks.

Albus goes to help J carry Johnny. The G.U.N soldier gets off the boat as well.

"I'd better report back to base...thanks for saving my ass out there, though," he said to the others.

"Yeah. No prob." J replies. The soldier then left. Linebeck sighed, still sitting in his boat.

"Now what...?"

"We'll have to get him to a hospital. From the looks of his, he took a harsh hit, not to mention that his pyrokinesis got sapped really good." J finishes suggestion to The Random Rangers.

"Ah...right...you guys do that, I'm gonna get my boat back in the garage...I'll catch up later."

He got out into the shallow water and started pushing the boat towards the garage it usually sat.

"Alright then; let's go."

Our heroes carry the still unconscious Johnny to the hospital, who is still not looking very good... whereas Linebeck pushes the boat inside the garage.

J looks at Johnny, "Hang in here, Johnny. The hospital's not that far."

They finally arrive at the hospital. As they get inside, the receptionist sees them.

"Goodness...what happened???"

"Our friend fell into the Northern Great Sea," Shanoa explained.

"He can't exactly swim, and the water there is cold as hell."

"Not only that, he's been badly hurt from a sudden attack, and by the looks of him..." J looks at him, can tell that the midsection of his chest that took a nasty blow from Biggie's Power Whip, despite that he was unable to determine from the thickness of the fog. "Not only did he took a beating, but the cold water she mentioned sapped his pyrokinesis, since it's his main strength and all..." J explained to the receptionist as well.

The receptionist called in a few nurses.

"He's definitely suffering from hypothermia. We'll take him in and see what we can do."

J nods to the receptionist.

"Alright. Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Johnny was then taken away. The doctors take him inside the emergency room, a small, cold steam can be seen emitting from the body, since his body temperature is still gradually lowering.

Back with the two pokemon girls, the lucario could here the troll swimming towards the two of them. "Someone's coming." She said as she stood back and waited for the trolls to make it to the shore.

Part 6
A teenage arctic wolf knocked on Johnny's room. She wore a dark purple body armor over most of her body. The armor had a GUN logo on the left shoulder, and a small white circle with a red drop shape on its forehead. Katherine stood outside the door and waited for a response.

A door opens, revealing to be a doctor.

"Yes? What is it?"

Katherine looks at the doctor, then takes her helmet off, resting it at her side against her arm, "Is this the one who was in the battle, yesterday?" She asks the doctor.

"If you mean the fox... yes. If you mean the soldier from G.U.N., then I don't have any confirmation as of yet." The doctor replies.

Katherine nodded in response. "I still came here, so I might as well heal this one, too. If you don't mind, that is." She asks, looking into the doctor's eyes.

The doctor looks back to Johnny, while the other doctors were doing they can to heal him after they wrapped a patch around the section of his chest with a bandage, before looking back to Katherine. he wasn't sure at first, but upon looking a G.U.N. insignia on her shoulder pad, he gave a nod. "Alright." He leads Katherine to Johnny, "This way."

She nodded and followed quietly. When there, she pulled a chair up to the bedside and motioned for the doctors to leave.

The doctors and nurses murmur a bit after being suddenly instructed to leave by Katherine. "It's alright. She is one of the G.U.N. soldiers. Let her handle it." The doctor replies as the staff nods and proceeds to leave the room.

He stops for a moment, "By the way, according to the yellow hedgehog.. the young fox is pyrokinetic, so we only managed to patch him up around his fractured chest. But even if he recovers..." He lets out a sigh, trying to not worry, "I just hope he will be alright. I would hate to tell his friends the bad news." He leaves the room, leaving Katherine alone with the unconsious Johnny.

The arctic wolf looked at Johnny, "Well, buddy, let's see what we can do..." She dais, then took off her gauntlets, exposing her furry hands. She closed her eyes and concentrated as a red glow would form on her hands, and around Johnny's body. The glow would start to heal the wounds that were afflicted on the fox's body, until they would be gone. She finished and put her gauntlets back on. Johnny would likely be wake up after this.

The fractured chest was easily healed. However, his body temperature is still low because the lake was cold enough to sap away his strength in terms of his pyrokinesis. Suddenly, Johnny opens his eyes, but very narrowly, as he looks at Katherine, but thanks to his nearsightness, he cannot tell who she is, but still tries to do his best to speak, long enough to try and regain consiousness.

"Get... Kotuumath... fire..."

Johnny finishes telling Katherine, albeit quietly, his eyes closed shut as he slipped into unconsiousness again.

Katherine was confused about this, ''Kotuumath. I've got to remember that.'' She thought to herself. She looked as he fell unconscious again, and pondered if she should try bringing him back to consciousness.

Back at the lobby room with our heroes, J suddenly receives a very faint sense within his mind.

"What the--? "Kotuumath... fire..?"

Katherine shook her head and stood up to leave. She looked back at Johnny unconscious face one more time before leaving the room and putting her helmet on. She walked down to the lobby and looked at J, before sitting down a short distance from him.

The other Random Rangers were still in the lobby, except for Linebeck. He entered the lobby just as Katherine had entered.

"Is Johnny okay...??"

"Johnny? You mean that pyrokinetic fox? I fixed up his ribcage, but he's still sleeping..." Katherine replied, turning her head to face them.

"Ah...okay then..."

J suddenly gets an idea.

"Say Kotuumath, you have fire-based abilities, right?"

"Yes.."

Katherine's ears perked up at that name, "He did say he wanted someone named Kotuumath to help him." She said.

"Really?"

Katherine nodded.

"I see..."

He got up.

"I should go see him, then."

J follows them as they enter the emergency room. "If I'm correct, Johnny is highly immune of any types of fire abilities and can absorb it to use it against enemies. If that's the case..."

He pauses for a moment before looking at Kotuumath, "Try and see if it works."

"Okay," he said, looking at Johnny.

"If I somehow set the bed on fire, though, I'm probably gonna get kicked out of the hospital."

Taking a deep breath, he exhaled a stream of fire onto Johnny.

The stream of fire spewed by Kotuumath is enough to increase Johnny's body temperature as his fur reverts back to normal, thanks to Kotuumath's heat.

"There. It worked!"

Katherine walked into the room and watced. "Seems unusual that I can't heal his body directly, but that fire heals him..." She commented.

J nods to Katherine. "True. While physical injuries can be easily healed, his main strength lies within pyrokinesis. Without fire, Johnny may not survive whatsoever."

"It's weird how he works like that, but...yeah."

The doctor rushes in to see what was going on.

"Was there fire?!" he check on Johnny, with a surprised expression to see that his body temperature has been restored, "Oh.. the fox is recovering well. I'm so relieved." He turns to J, "Did you do this?"

"Nope. It was Kotuumath, he did it." J nods in reply.

The doctor immediately shook Kotuumath's hands for his effort, "I don't know how you did it, but thank you so much, mister! The fox wouldn't be able to stay lit to live!" He then clears his throat, "No pun intended."

"Err...no problem," he said, grinning a bit.

Back with Nuts and Bolts, Bolts is seen screaming and running throughout the docks.

"Nooooo don't let a man-eating aardvark eat me!!!"

Nuts chases after Bolts, "Come back here, Bolts! We need to find chicken boy!"

A few people stare at the two, perplexed.

Bolts continues to run, inadvertently running inside the garage, still screaming and flailing his arms for seemingly no reason whatsoever.

Nuts still continues to run after Bolts as they enter inside the garage, "Bolts! Come back, will ya?!"

It happens to be the garage where Linebeck's boat is sitting.

Bolts inadvertently pulls some of the parts, including the engine apart from Linebeck's boat and starts to throw them at random, as if he was trying to kill the "man-eating aardvark".

"Bolts, come on, we have to find chicken boy instead of you screaming around like a total baby!" Nuts exclaims, although Bolts hardly listens to his partner, Nuts.

The tossed parts clank against the wall and splash into the shallow water. Linebeck is going to be pissed once he finds out what happened to his boat.

Nuts finally managed to intervene as Bolts was halfway tearing Linebeck's boat, as well as throwing the parts on the wall and on shallow water, as Nuts pulls Bolts from the garage, with some of parts from Linebeck's boat in his hands.

"Ugh, let's just go!"

The two have finally left the garage as they head off.

Meanwhile, our heroes are still waiting around the hospital. The doctor returns to the lobby to give them the good news.

"Good news, everypony! The young fox will make a miraculous recovery by tomorrow, all thanks to a fellow G.U.N. soldier and a fellow dragon for their amazing contributions." He lets out a smile to our heroes.

"....did you just say 'everypony'?" Linebeck quirks an eyebrow at the doctor.

"I'm pretty sure I'm not a tiny, pastel horse."

"Err, nevermind," said Ryu. "Good thing Johnny's gonna be okay!"

The doctor lets out a sheepish chuckle before clearing his throat, "Sorry, I mean't everyone. But yes, he will be alright by tomorrow morning."

"Alright, then."

She looked around.

"So, uhh...what now? Do we just come back tomorrow?"

The doctor changes the channel from the TV for the news.

"Here's a recent one just now."

The news shows the silhouette of a mysterious creature spotted in the volcanic mountains, according to G.U.N. officials.

"Another monster...? Geez, why are they popping up all of a sudden?"

The doctor shrugs.

"I only wish I knew..."

J suddenly gets another idea.

"Assuming that the creature's at Red Mountain, or volcanic mountains, according to G.U.N. we would definitely need Johnny for that one, since he can handle any kinds of heat."

"Yeah, or else G.U.N's gonna get there and probably fail. Again," said Linebeck, crossing his arms.

"Looks like we're waiting until tomorrow, then."

J nods.

"Yeah. Thanks again, doc!"

The doctor smiles.

"Always a pleasure, and be careful out there."

"Thank you."

So they leave the hospital.

"So...now what?"

"Will you stop asking that, already?"
 * (Jon-We should wait for Monk to arrive, since he's with The Random Rangers and J.)
 * (Ryu-Yeah.)
 * (Sorry about the wait -Monk.)
 * (Ryu-It's okay)

Katherine followed them, having listened in, but not said anything, "I'm not entirely sure..." She replied.

"I can't help but wonder...who else knows about these monsters suddenly showing up?" Albus mused out loud, his hands behind his head.

"The Trolls do, that's for sure...but what about Eggman?"

"Not sure. Still, we'll need Johnny for Red Mountain, as well as Kotuumath." J replies.

Katherine looked at the other people there, "I guess I'm coming with you people..." She spoke to them. Ryu nods.

"Okay."

Linebeck is silent; it's clear he's a bit uncomfortable, given Katherine's G.U.N affiliation.

J gets another idea.

"Apart from that, I'll need to get another spare of eyeglasses for Jon, since he has poor eyesight."

"Ohh, yeah," said Shanoa.

J nods as he dashes off.

"Catch you guys tomorrow! I promise to bring something for Johnny from my younger brother!"

They wave and say goodbye to J as he runs off. Ryu stretched a bit.

"Welp, if we're going to the Red Mountain Zone, I better prepare a team that can handle it."

Katherine looked at Ryushu, "Do you think I should gather some friends to come along?" She asked.

"That's a good idea. Not only are we going to be dealing with what is possibly a very powerful creature, we're probably going to have to deal with Trolls or Eggman, too."

***

Meanwhile, Eggman has seen the latest news involving a mysterious monster roaming around the Red Mountain Zone.

"Hmmm...interesting. It seems that the sea dragon's not the only beast wandering around Mobius."

He stands up, smirking.

"Snively? We've got a monster to hunt!"

Eggman's near-bald, midgety nephew, who was standing at his uncle's side, simply nods.

"Yes, sir."

It isn't long before the engines of the Egg Carrier 2 roar into life, and the massive airship sets a course for the Red Mountain Zone...

***

Part 7
The next morning, Johnny is seen walking out of the hospital, his wireless headphones around his neck, as he stretches his arms with huge relief.

"Ah... nothing like a smell of fresh, clean air, not to mention the not-so cold temperatures." He chuckles to himself, but as he looks around, his vision is quite blurry around him.

"Aaaand I lost my glasses from the cold-@$$ lake. Fantastic." He mentions to himself sarcastically. "Oh well."

He suddenly hets an idea.

"Oh! I know! I need to be in style, now." Johnny starts to take off his white, fire-resistant gloves, revealing bandages wrapped around his hands, and some on his fingers, and stuffs them in his pockets, "There we go."

Suddenly, Nuts is still dragging Bolts, still in possession of parts from Linebeck's boat. Johnny looks at the two, mystified, despite not being able to see clearly.

"Huh... what the hell's up with them? Weird."

"It's not hard to be in style when you can't see anything..." A four foot tall serval, wearing a headband over his eyes said as he walked down the street towards Johnny.

"Huh?"

Johnny narrows his eyes to try and gain a better view to see who is approaching him.

The serval shook his head, "Relax, there's not much to see here..." He said as he walked closer.

Johnny's vision becomes clearer as he sees the serval.

"So, who are you?" Johnny shrugged, "Also, blame my nearsightness. Can't see very well without eyeglasses, to be honest."

The serval "looked" down at Johnny, "It might beat not being able to see at all... Besides, I'm one of the people that Katherine had come to meet her here." He replied.

"Katherine..?" He tries to remember what happened, which appeared to be an arctic wolf, but blurry from his vision, "The wolf, right?"

"Yep, that's the one..." He replies.

Johnny nods.

"I see."

J is seen running towards Johnny, with eyeglasses in his posession.

"Johnny! Glad you're alright!" he skids to a stop.

Johnny brofists J. "Wassup? And yeah, I felt better. Had it not been for Kotuumath, and I wouldn't have been able to survive another day."

J hands Johnny the new eyeglasses, "Yeah. Kotuumath can be cocky sometimes, but he's overall great. Anyway, I got you a new eyeglasses."

Johnny nods as he wears it that was given by Johnny, thus gaining great vision, "Awesome, thanks!"

Johnny looks around, only seeing the serval and J.

"So, where The Random rangers at?"

J chuckles a bit, "They'll be there soon."

Indeed, they were arriving not a moment too soon.

"Hey! We're here!"

Johnny waves at them.

"Wassup?!"

"Nothing much. You guys all ready to go?"

Johnny nods, "Yep!"

"Hold on guys, I got a surprise for Johnny, one which it'll help us navigate through Red Mountain Zone easily." J presses the button, which calls out N, his younger brother.

Johnny gasps in surprise.

"We're going to Red Mountain Zone? Sweet!"

A few minutes later, a large helicopter can be seen approaching to our heroes, and carrying what it appears to be a giant truck!

"Ohohoho! Sweet!"

In seconds, the winch is released, causing Johnny's monster truck to land on the ground on all four wheels, with a loud thud. It didn't shook the ground much as N, who is the one piloting the helicopter, gives a thumbs up to our heroes as he flies off.

The serval "looked" at everyone who had gathered around, "A whole lot of people, and a truck... a lot of stuff in a little time." He said, shaking his head.

Katherine started walking up at a leisurely pace, again, wearing her armor and other equipment.

Johnny jumps with joy.

"Hell yeah! Sheer Impact! This baby will do well for me! Also, I'll have to let you guys know that there's no passenger seat as it'll be too uncomfortable sitting there, being a monster truck and all. However, You're free to sit on the truck bed of it, though I would recommend holding on tight." Johnny nods to J, implying him for a boost for him to reach for the door.

J nods in return as he grabs Johnny's foot as he manages to lift him up for Johnny to reach the door, thus opening it and entering inside as he closes the door.

The serval nodded to Katherine, then stood still.

Katherine nodded back, "Blind here will stay back and come to us when we are there. He may get some more people to help." She said to the others and started to climb into the back of the truck.

Johnny looks at Kotuumath from the windshield.

"Oh, by the way, the monster truck's gonna be loud, a word of advice." He gives him a thumbs up.

"Don't worry, I can handle it!"

Katherine tapped on the back window of the truck, "You should wait a little while. Another friend of mine might be coming... And so are my chao." She said to Johnny.

Johnny nods to Kotuumath. "Awesome!"

He peeks out from the window to see Katherine as he gave a nod. Linebeck drummed his fingers impatiently on the side of the truck.

Johnny looks around to see if there are any chao. "I hope they're not taking too long. I can tell Linebeck is just eagerly wanting to go.."

Katherine replied, "They shouldn't take that long. I have a few more friends, possibly coming..." She said as she looked out the back of the truck.

A black fox, wearing an open-front sleeveless red vest was running towards the group, with two white chao following him.

Johnny looks back again, and can see a black fox and two white chao, "Here comes more of them!"

"Oh good!"

The black fox reached the truck and looked back to see the wheelchair-bound serval following not too far behind. He hopped up into the back, and the two chao flew over and landed next to Katherine.

The serval made his way to the back of the truck and levitated himself telekinetically into the back, dragging his wheelchair along.

"Alright, now that the gang's all here, Red Mountain, here we come!"

Johnny slams onto the gas pedal, the engine from Sheer Impact letting a loud roar as it goes on a wheelie a bit before landing back on all four wheels as our heroes race to the Red Mountain on Johnny's monster truck.

The Egg Carrier 2 had already stationed itself at the Red Mountain Zone; however, there was no sign of the mysterious creature that had been seen on the news.

"That beast has to be around here somewhere..."

He turns on the radar and starts searching the landscape with it. He finds no life energy of unusual size.

"Drat...how on Mobius can it hide so well?!"

In a mysterious hazy zone, the liquid fox reappeared near a barn. As the smoke rose from the top, he entered.

"Flare, it's started. Reports of Agni waking has joined with Tiamat. Next thing you know..." The wolf within, still hard at work shaping a sword in the red-hot iron, nodded.

"They'll all be awake, they'll wake other beings connected to the elements, and it might lead the Demon Clans to return to join the havok. I'll pass the message on to Crisis, Soaker, but you probably better keep an eye out for trouble, just in case." The fox nodded and began to walk out the door, fading from that realm as he did. The wolf sighed and returned to focusing on the blade. He could tell Crisis later.

Back at the Red Mountain Zone, Eggman's radar finally shows a rather large blip on the screen.

"It's about time...!"

Down below, emerging from a cave, a monstrous, fiery, bipedal creature clad in rocky armor wanders out. It doesn't notice the Egg Carrier 2 hovering high above.

"Perfect," Eggman mumbled to himself. "Snively! Ready the Egg Swats! The Egg Carrier will provide cover if necessary." The Doctor's disgruntled lackey grumbled his response and went off to work. Eggman himself stood up from the ship's computers and went off on his own as well.

Moments later, six egg-shaped capsules launched from the underside of the massive aircraft and landed in the mountains. They quickly opened to release small squadrons of Egg Swats, forming together into a small army that surrounded the Beast. Simultaneously they readied their blasters and aimed at the massive creature.

The monster snorted out flames as it eyed the Egg Swats surrounding it.

"{You dare to challenge me?}" it rumbled, baring its fangs. It then drove its fiery claws towards the nearest Egg Swat, intent on running it through.

The robot stood no chance as the monster's claws easily tore it to pieces. The remaining Egg Swats proceed to fire on the beast, hitting all across its exterior with their blasts, which exploded into some sort of energized adhesive.

It snarled and lumbered towards the attacking Swats, striking them down with its powerful claws. The strange adhesive was slowing it down by the minute, however. It roared in fury and clawed at the substance coating its rocky armor and blazing hide, trying to remove it.

"Now now, play nice," teased the Doctor's voice from up above. Hovering down in his Eggmobile came Eggman himself, stopping just out of the beast's reach as the adhesive spread over its body and slowly sapped away its energy. "I've got big plans for you, and I expect you full cooperation." His tone lowered as he continued, "Bah, this oaf probably doesn't understand a word I'm saying. Snively, take him up!" On the Doctor's command, a green light shone down from the Egg Carrier, exerting a force that worked to pull the beast from the ground and into its source.

"You'll stand guard here," Eggman called to the remaining Egg Swats, "It's reasonable to believe that I'm not the only one who had this bright idea... I just did it faster." With a loud chuckle he flew off in his Eggmobile, tagging behind the rising beast as it ascended into the Egg Carrier.

"{You...how dare you do this to me?!}" Agni roared, although Eggman couldn't understand the ancient tongue in which he spoke. He tried to claw at Eggman, but the force of the tractor beam kept him immobile. "{I will destroy you for this!!}"

Eggman glared at the helpless beast with satisfaction. "You behave yourself now," he started, "With your power, getting my hands on the others like you will be made exponentially easier. Then, once all of them are in my control, the world will bow before me!" His maniacal laughter that followed rang through the hanger of the Egg Carrier that he and the beast were carried into. Once securely inside, the beast was coated further with the same adhesive that the Egg Swats used, and shackled in odd mechanical restraints. The Egg Carrier's engines fired up once again, and the craft began to make its way out of the region.

The adhesive was definitely doing its work on the monster, and it eventually crumpled to the ground, utterly exhausted. The flames that had once sprouted from its armor were snuffed out.

"{You...will fail...!}"

Back with our heroes, as they arrive at the Red Mountain Zone, Johnny spots the Egg Carrier!

"What the--?! Is that the Egg Carrier?!" Johnny exclaims.

Unfortunately for them, the Egg Carrier was already a ways away, and was ascending to up into cloud cover. Further ahead, the remaining Egg Swats - about 20 of them in all - began their advance towards the sound of the oncoming vehicle. Their blasters holstered, they simultaneously prepped their regular arm cannons.

"Nevermind about him!"

Albus looked at the advancing Egg Swats.

"He left us some company!"

Johnny grins as he extends his arm out, his hand open as flames materialize around his hand as he aims at the Egg Swats.

"Time for a drive-by fireball strike!"

He floors the gas pedal as Sheer Impact approaches the Egg Swats at a faster pace towards the Egg Swats. Johnny fires some of the fireballs from his hand at the Egg Swats while speeding towards them.

The serval grimaced and tightly held to the side of the truck. He didn't seem to like this at all.

Katherine drew a Falcon 45. Magnum from her side and tried to aim, but the motion of the truck threw her off to much,and she put the gun away and hugged her chao instead.

The black fox held tightly to the other side of the truck and tried to stay inside of it.

The leading Egg Swats reared back from the force of the fireballs' explosions, but sustained little visible damage. The squadron proceeded to open fire on the approaching vehicle, launching a volley of powerful energy blasts from their arm cannons.

Johnny manages to take down some of the Egg Swats with fireballs, as well as running over some of the Egg Swats from Sheer Impact's massive wheels and plowing through some head-on.

As the numbers of the Egg Swats slowly deteriorated, they began to change tactics. Each drew a hefty buckler from its back to block oncoming attacks, and they aimed their own strikes more carefully at the underside of the vehicle as it maneuvered through them.

As Sheer Impact drove over top of the Egg Swats, Kotuumath jumped off the back of it, and landed near the Egg Swats.

A human stood atop one of the mountains nearby. He watched as the group rolled by leaving their friend. "I know those people." He said with a sense of astonishment. "I know them...from when i was a Hedgehog, touched by chaos and changed with the way of this land." He smirked and a look of joy crossed his face. "It's been sometime, J...Ryushu, maybe they'll remember me if i tell them who i am." He smiled a bit more as black dragon wings opened from his back. He lept and dived into the wind, in a cross path with Sheer Impact.

Unconcerned with the halfbreed who now stood among them, the Egg Swats continued their assault on the Sheer Impact as it plowed down their numbers. Though it seemed they were on the losing end of the battle, their fire showed no cease. Perhaps they had a motive other than victory.

Johnny looks up.

"Hm.. its gotta be around here somewhere... somewhere..."

Suddenly one of the Egg Swats was slashed from no where. The attack caused the robot to melt into molten metal on the ground. Nearby stood the human holding a claymore with a flaming blade. He turned his head slightly and smirked. "Gotta love this sword." He turned back his wings open and used them to launch at another egg swat.

The Egg Swat fired at the human from behind its buckler, but the small shield stood no chance against the mighty sword. The other robots began to back off, and directed their fire at the human.

He raised the blade, which began to burn brighter and hotter, but no one could tell. It's heat began to reach beyond any normal flame and was able to absorb a couple of the shots. One grazed his left wing and he cringed. He lowered the sword and went for another wide swipe slicing through 2 more at once. "That hurt, you'll pay for that one."

"Hey! Leave some for me!"

The halfbreed had resumed his attack on the Egg Swats as well, impaling one of them with his blade. He brought it closer to him and spat fire in its face.

The enemies' numbers were dwindling. Less than half of them now remained, but they still fought without cease. The wreckage of the defeat robots tumbled through the rocky terrain, joining the scrapheaps of others that appeared to have been there since before the heroes arrived.

The human smiled looking over at the halfbreed. He spun his blade in his hand and sliced through another making it melt from the sheer heat of the blade. "Kotuumath, correct? I don't think i ever officially met you yet. I can't remember exactly, whether it was you or Albus. Sorry for stealing your thunder here, i've been itching for a fight." He brought his blade around into another robot's sheild, and after a moment, through it.

"Yeah, don't think we've met either."

With a growl, he beheaded the final robot.

The human sighed and looked at the flaming blade in his hand. He focused on it as the brightness and heat from the blade slowly died down a bit. He then sheathed it, the blade still lit, and turned back to Kotuumath. "My name is Endac Korinth...Ryu probably knew me as Endac Dragonbane the Hedgehog...it's been some time since i've seen anyone from that time of my life, quite some time." He held out a hand to Kotuumath "Good to see another half dragon though."

"Endac...I swear I've heard that name before..."

He smiled a bit, though.

"Well, a friend of Ryu's is a friend of mine! Nice to meet ya!"

Endac smiled and nodded "Right, so your still apart of the Random Rangers? i've heard alot about them. Tell me though, who else is with you guys in the truck." He said turning his attention to Sheer Impact.

"Uhh...Albus, Shanoa, Linebeck, J and these two other guys."

Endac looked up at the car again and smiled. He was able to recognize Albus and Linebeck, and of course J the hedgehog. He smiled looking at the racer, remembering alot of things he and J had done when he first was here on this planet. He mumbled something about walmart and chuckled a bit. "Well then, now it's time i ask the big question. Is there any known reason why your chasing Eggman...to be more exact, what did he do this time?"

"Well, there was reports on the news of some huge monster around here, and, seeing how Eggman's bots are here, he most likely was here. And that never means anything good."

Endac nodded understanging and smiled "Got it, makes enough sense. The thing would still be floating around here if no one touched it." He then reached the side of the vehicle and looked up at the passengers. "Would J the Hedgehog please come down for a moment, i'd like a word with him."

Johnny is seemingly busy looking for the Egg Carrier, as well as J and the others at the back of the truck bed.

Endac looked up at the group then over at Kotuumath, then back again. "Ya know...you have two half dragons down here who are capable of flying. I think a bird's eye view would be a bit more helpfull than searching from the ground." He said with a bit of a chuckle at the end of it.

"Hey, that's a good idea!"

Endac smiled and nodded. He kneeled down a bit and jumped up into the air catching the wind and flapping his wings quickly to gain altitude. He flew up high above the mountains and hovered there looking around. After a moment he said "I think i see it...pretty far off but i see something...a giant ship maybe."

In a tundra like area a fierce snowstorm was raging which an ice-blue hedgehog was walking through, oddly he was only wearing a long cap despite the frigid conditions, stranger still is the snow seems to just slip past him without making contact.

Somewhere further up, a great black mass was slowly making its way through the snowstorm as well. The black mass hadn't gone unnoticed by the hedgehog although he was rather curious about it.

"Odd, I would've sensed anything else, yet that thing...."

It's hard to tell what exactly it is, but it looks a bit like a huge lizard...

"Huh, a dragon perhaps.... Screw it, I'll tail it and see what happens."

The black, lizard-shaped mass doesn't seem to realize it's being followed as it trundles on through the howling blizzard.

Meanwhile with the three Trolls, they climb up onto the boat belonging to both female Pokémons. Toxic angrily approaches towards the two (but can't tell who they are from the thickness of the fog).

"If you think you can just go guns blazing all over us, you are sadly mistaken, ferret boy!"

Tantrum stands next to Toxic, as well as Nightshade, as Tantrum's steam is seen being released from his ears, having been furious from their unprovoked attack.

Meanwhile, back with Nuts and Bolts, Bolts finds Johnny's P10-XR, 'causing Bolts to run after it.

"It's chicken boy again!!" Bolts screams as he runs towards the car and starts to attack it with parts from Linebeck's boat. Nuts reluctantly follows suit and also begins to attack Johnny's P10-XR.

"Take that, and that, chicken boy!"

The serval got off of the floor and crawled to the side of the truck to see the two robots attacking. He shook off his dizziness and tries to pick Bolts up telekinetically.

Bolts shouts a bit louder as he is picked up by telekinesis, but despite this, he kept on swinging around, as if he was hitting the car.

A few random people passing by stare at the scenario unfolding, before moving on, shaking their heads.

Unbeknownst to the two Trolls, however, a pair of G.U.N. officers suddenly spot Nuts and Bolts, who are vandalizing the P10-XR, which has been damaged (e.g. headlights broken, bumpers hanging out from the damage, even a side mirror knocked off).

"Damn vandals," one of them mumbles.

"Wait, aren't those two Trolls?" asks the other. The first taps his chin.

"Yeah...I think they are."

He pulls out a pistol and fires at the two Trolls, taking care not to hit the P10-XR (don't want it to blow up now, do we?).

Both Bolts and Nuts were shot by the G.U.N. officer, and are dead, thus sparing the damaged P10-XR.

"...so...what do we do about the car?" asked one of the officers.

"We're not obliged to do anything with it. It's still the owner's responsibility," the other replied.

"Ah."

So the two left.

Back with the others...

"Hey J! Shouldn't you get your brother to haul us up to the Egg Carrier or something?!"

J shakes his head.

"I'm afraid not! He won't be able to carry us, including the monster truck, all at once!"

Johnny groans, "Great... no choice but to keep on driving around in hoping that we could find a way to get up on the giant ship."
 * (Ryu-Technically, we're not supposed to be able to get onto the Egg Carrier. At least, not until I've talked to the guy playing as Eggman and seen what he has to say.)
 * (Jon-I know. Hence why not even N won't be able to haul them up there at once, so they're still on the ground for now.)
 * (SDK-Hey J, can Endac reintroduce himself to J?)
 * (Jon-Knock yourself out. I'm Jon, BTW.)

"Let's just stop for now. Can't keep on driving around 'till this baby would be going to a dead stop." He presses the brake pedal to slow Sheer Impact to a stop.

Endac sighed coming back down from where he had been hovering, watching the egg carrier go. He sighed a bit and shrugged a bit. He caught up with sheer impact and smiled a bit looking up to the driver's seat. "Hey, is one J the Hedgehog up there?" He closed his wings now waiting for a reply.

"Huh?"

Johnny blinks a bit and pokes his head out the window (despite the monster truck having no windows) to see Endac. "J? Well, he's in the back if you wanna check." He pokes his arm out and thumbs over to J, who is still sitting on top of the truck bed.

Endac nodded and moved to the back of the truck and jumped up onto the bumper of the truck. "J the Hedgehog...I don't suppose you recognize me. Of course it would be understandable since if I remember well, we didn't talk much back when I knew you." He nodded to the rest of the party only recognizing a few of them.

"Hm?"

J looks at Endac, tapping his chin a bit, vaguely remembering Endac.

"More or less... it's been a long time since I was under a complete stasis."

Endac chuckled a bit "Then again friend, I was but a hedgehog when you knew me, but the fact is that it truly has been forever since we conversed. My name is Endac Korinth, once known as Endac the Hedgehog. If I recall correctly, one of my fondest memories of you was when I made a racing game with you being the main character." He chuckled a bit more. "But onto the more important matter at hand, I see you've been busy with the Eggman again."

The others sat in the bed of the truck, Kotuumath having rejoined them. The halfbreed was leaning back with his arms behind his head.

Johnny pokes his head out the window, seeing Kotuumath.

"Are the robots taken care of?"

"Yeah; I smoked 'em. The bigger question is, what do we do about Eggface?"

"Can't be sure. He's way up high by now..."

"Yeah...well, I don't really see a point in sitting around here," Kotuu finished, sitting up and stretching.

"Kotuu's right, we're not gonna be able to catch Eggman now," said Ryu, nodding.

"Might as well head back to Station Square or something..."

Johnny nods.

"Yeah, good point..."

With the heroes unable to locate the Egg Carrier, Johnny drives back with the heroes on the back of the monster truck to Station Square.

Katherine sighed in disappointment. Bladelocke fell asleep on the more peaceful ride home. Psyche looked pale green in the face, as if he was ready to vomit. Being bound to a wheelchair most of his life, he wasn't used to all the moving around at all.

J looks at Psyche, almost about to throw up.

"Hey, Johnny boy. Might wanna pull over, this guy's not looking good."

Johnny blinks a bit, who is still driving back to Station Square.

"Why? Something wrong with him?"

"Yep. He's about to throw up." J replies.

"What? Ohfu-"

Within seconds, Johnny slows down to a stop, knowing that he doesn't want any vomit onto the Sheer Impact monster truck.

Psyche rammed into the back of the truck's cabin and swayed back and forth. His eyes showed that he was remarkable dizzy, and wouldn't stand much more of it.

"If you're gonna puke, I'm gone," said Linebeck, looking ready to jump out of the truck bed.

"Linebeck, don't be rude," said Shanoa.

J nudges to Psyche, letting him know that Johnny had stopped the truck.

Psyche looked questioningly at him. He looked like he was about to vomit, then weakly crawled ver to the side of the truck.

J groans a bit.

"Here, lemme help ya out." He gets up and carries Psyche before looking down, "Alright, better hang on and not blow chunks."

He then jumps down from the monster truck while carrying Psyche.

Ryu sighed a bit.

"This makes me feel glad that I haven't gotten sick to my stomach enough to puke in over 14 years..."

Johnny taps his steering wheel with his finger impatiently, mumbling quietly to himself, "I'm gonna have to agree on Linebeck there..."

Psyche climbed over the edge of the truck and dropped outside. He just sat there for a minute as his stomach calmed.

Katherine scrossed her arms and waited.

J looks at Psyche.

"Feeling better?"

He nodded and levitated himself back into the truck. The little serval chao flew over to Psyche and nuzzled him sadly. Psyche hugged his little friend and nodded as he was ready.

J jumps onto the truck next to the others.

"We're good, let's go."

Johnny nods and drives off to Station Square with our heroes.

Endac quickly follows after the truck, prefering to fly rather than run along behind them or get in the back witht he rest. It's already pretty crowded, plus my wings could use a bit of a stretch. He thought as he followed above the truck, his sword resheathed in it's scabbard that hung from his belt.

Meanwhile, high above the clouds over Station Square, Eggman made his way through the Egg Carrier with a gleeful spring in his step.

"Snively, how are preparations coming on my new project?" he asked to the communication bot hovering beside his head.

"All preparations are complete, sir," answered the shrill voice through the communicator. "We're also arriving at out destination. Shall we begin Operation: Meteor?"

Eggman snickered, a devilish grin stretching across his face. He marched through the hall of the massive ship and entered the observation deck, looking out the wide glass as the Egg Carrier descended through the layer of clouds upon the G.U.N. base below. They had detected his arrival and were already armed to defend themselves, but he was prepared for that. As the base's mounted cannons opened fire the Egg Carrier retaliated, firing back a barrage of laser turrets. Numerous Egg Camels detached from based of the ship and dropped in front of the base, deploying armies of Egg Swats to combat the oncoming G.U.N. mechs.

"Perfect," Eggman sneered, marveling at his handiwork. "Bring forth the havoc, and make way for my new toy."

Meanwhile, what appears to be a mobian cat/fox like creature, dressed resembling a dark mage could be seen standing beside the building, and wielding a spear-like staff.

"Grrr, there is too much commotion, hopefully I can get this done without drawing any attention."

She held up her staff, as she appeared to be looking for something.

G.U.N. Commander Abraham Tower watched the unfolding scene through several video screens, each tracking both the G.U.N. troops and Egg Swats from multiple angles to give maximum tactical knowledge and allow Tower to issue orders as necessary. He was very wary of Eggman's sudden attack, especially since Tower had absolutely no idea what he was after. Grimacing at the possibilities of what such a madman could come up with, Tower spoke through the communicator in his hand. "Are you prepared to engage?" he asked with his usual calm, formal tone, never removing his eyes from the screens before him.

"Yeah yeah, I'm ready." A familiar tone responded without any apparent formality. "Barring one little question though; why exactly is Team Dark not dealing with this, when they have the numbers and don't happen to be on vacation at this point in time?"

"Because, Team Dark happens to be on another mission on another corner of the planet, and you were the first number that came up." Tower answered, the exasperation in his voice evident beneath his stony expression. "If you'd prefer, we can call for MARS or The Hunters to-"

"Oh no no no." The person on the other side interjected before the G.U.N. Commander could finish. "Now that I'm here, I've got no real choice. If I had any doubts about being hazed and jabbed for backing out now, I wouldn't be here in the first place. Of course, you know how I like to work nowadays."

"Of course. So long as you bring in results, you're free to operate under your own discretion with whatever methods you desire. But remember; G.U.N. expects results. I expect results. Any less than your usual and we'll have a much sharper eye on you." Tower explained with a cold tone of warning. Given the current situation developing, there was no room for mistakes or slacking off; Eggman was at their front door and came prepared for a full-on war. The other side merely chuckled at Tower's apparent threat.

"It's worked for me before, there's no difference today." the other side responded confidently before cutting off further communication. Tower merely sighed. That hedgehog can be such a headache. he thought to himself wearily. At least he's not an enemy.

As the G.U.N. Mechs and Egg Swats closed in on another, a plume of dust rapidly closed in on the soon-to-be battlefield. At nearly supersonic speeds, a small bundle of quills spun between the G.U.N. mechs and towards the army of enemy robots. As he closed in electricity began generate from and surround the rolling projectile, swerving side to side to easily dodge the incoming laser fire. Bouncing up into the air and almost point-blank with the Egg Swats, the hedgehog unfurled with electricity in his hands, both held behind his head. Flinging both hands forward, a large blast of electricity streamed from the hedgehog's hands and tore through many of the robots, melting them down or short-circuiting them, either way causing a chain reaction of vicious explosions. Skidding through the smoke resulting from his handiwork, the green hedgehog came to a stop and directed his gaze upwards at Eggman's massive airship.

"I'm guessing you can hear me Eggman, so I have a message to deliver to ya!" Statyx called up, confident Egghead had enough tech to hear him. "I'm afraid your dear friend Sonic can't come to play right now, so he asked me to to give a very warm welcome to one "Baldy McNosehair"! Would you like to come down and exchange your coat for a straightjacket, or would you prefer our patented 5,000 Volt Incentive Package!?" he said with a grin, his right hand crackling with electricity ready to be unleashed.

Eggman looked down at the hedgehog through his monitors. In a very sarcastic tone he lamented to himself, "Oh dear, a furry little nuisance has come to ruin my fun, and he's destroyed my toys. What ever will I do?" The grin on his face extended further as he continued, more menacingly despite the fact that no one but him could hear it, "Don't get too excited now, those were the easy ones." With a violent thrust of his hand he grabbed at the communication drone and pulled in in front of his face, yelling into it, "Snively!!! All systems, full power!!"

Within the Egg Carrier all was havoc as machines hissed and whirred to open the bottom hatch and prepare their "cargo" for dropoff. Back on the ground the momentum of the battle seemed to change. Egg Swats retreated and the Egg Camels slowly moved aside, still firing their cannons when able. Up above, the massive metal doors on the Egg Carrier's underside slid appart, and with little warning dropped a large object down to the ground. The object impacted with the force of a meteor, kicking up more dust than even Statyx had brought in with his entrance, completely hiding it from view. The air around the battlefield grew noticeably warmer in an instant, and for a moment all was still.

"Giant cargo dropped from the main ship ominously, and the temperature instantly rising a few degrees." Statyx mused, protecting his face from the resulting dustcloud. "Looks like Eggman has himself some newfound firepower... Which means the first thing that needs to go is those mook carriers!" The green hedgehog knew that until he could deal with the unknown variable in an appropriate, the best thing to do was to eliminate the other variables as well to maximize the chances of the G.U.N. Troops. Charging electricity in both of his hands, Statyx thrust them forward to launch twin beams of raw lightning to punch holes through as many Egg Camels as possible in one go, and their Egg Swat cargo with them.

The large mechs went down with little resistance, and no visible retaliation from the Egg Carrier above. Their sparking husks fell forward, attempting to take out as much of the enemy as possible with their explosions. The remaining Egg Swats continued their retreat, leaving only the large mass within the cloud of dust. It began to stir, a piercing yellow glow emanating from it and revealing its sillhouette through the obstruction.

"Behold! The newest member of my army!" called out the Doctor's familiar voice from a speaker attached to the mass. It stood, revealing its immense figure. Finally the dust cleared, and in the center of a newly formed crater stood the beast of Fire, equipped with shining chrome machinery covering its arms, head and back.

"Eggni, show them what you can do!" The cybernetic beast took a giant step forward, creating a small quake as it unleashed a mighty roar, the entire battle field now burning like the hottest deserts of Efrika.

"Yeesh, the 'capture a superpowerful being and turn it into your personal enforcer' shtick again? Seriously Egghead, when will you learned that this type of stuff gets predictable?" Statyx said with a taunting tone. Despite his bravado, Statyx knew that regardless of his arrogance and questionable sanity, Eggman wouldn't walk up to G.U.N.'s front door and attack if he didn't think he could win. "Hey!" Statyx called out to the troops behind him, "Everyone pull back and send in the mechs designed to take hostile environments and a lot of heat! We have no idea what this thing can do!!" The green hedgehog turned his attention to the Egg Carrier, a grin spreading across his face. "In the mean-time, I think I'll be better off going after the source!" Snapping his fingers, Statyx disappeared in a flash of Chaos Control, teleporting himself rapidly towards the Egg Carrier and the person in charge of the giant fire monster below.

As Statyx ascended, the Egg Carrier began to ascend as well. Cutting back through the clouds, a forcefield appeared to surround the Egg Carrier protecting it from outsiders. On the ground, Eggni continued towards the base, shrugging off any remaining fire that came his way. His metallic claws glowed with radiant energy as they danced in anticipation of the approaching rampage.

"Dammit..." Statyx scowled as the Egg Carrier backed off. At this point he figured he could chase after it if he instead used magnetism to propel himself, but that would mean leaving Eggni to attack the G.U.N. Base. Even if he did take out the source of the problem, the damage would still be done. Using magnetism to hover in the air, Statyx turned around and launched himself at the beast. Curling up into a ball Statyx spun through the air like a green bullet, aiming to slam himself into the monstrosity's back and send it into the ground.

The force of the impact caused Eggni to lurch forward, but his stance allowed him to maintain balance. Accompanied by a mighty roar, the beast's body began to glow with the same radiant energy as its claws. His surface rapidly increased in temperature until even the air around him was unbearably hot, and asphalt beneath his feet started to melt, making the battlefield more and more trecherous by the minute.
 * (Ryu- The battle scene in Part 7 is now restricted to Kagimizu, TheDarkGenesis and me. Everyone else, continue editing in Part 8, please.)

Rebounding off of the beast and landing on his feet a few yards away, Statyx couldn't suppress a growl at the unfolding events. "Okay, so touching the thing is obviously out of the question. His hands crackled with the familiar light and sound of concentrated electricity. "Hey magma-bot! I got something for ya!!" With that, Statyx lobbed two of his "Static Bolts" at the giant monstrosity before him. Regardless of how big it was, exposed metal and obvious cybernetic enhancements still meant it wouldn't like his electrokinetic attacks.

Eggni turned around to face Statyx, rather swiftly for a creature of his size. He raised his left hand towards the oncoming attack, allowing the bolts to strike his claws. The electricity coarsed through his metallic frame, causing the radiant aura to glow brighter.

"You didn't think I'd have planned for something like that?" Eggman taunted through the cybernetics, "I'm insulted. Eggni, teach this rodent some manners!" Responding to his master's command, the beast raised his right arm high into the air, and slammed its claw into the molten asphalt below, sending a shockwave of intense plasma rushing towards Statyx.

Statyx threw up one of his hands in front of him, sending electricity through the air in front of him to vibrate it at high speeds and create one of his Thunder Shields. The Thunder Shield deflected the shockwave of superheated gas and left Statyx unharmed. "Well given you've never planned for it when I wreck your other toys, I had ample reason for it." Statyx taunted back. "Now, those claws can absorb a bit of static, but let's see what happens if I amp it up a few volts!!" The green hedgehog disappeared from sight as asphalt and rubble were knocked up in the wake of his sudden acceleration, before he reappeared just a few feet above Eggni's head. His right arm was wound back and consumed in raw electrical power. "Try this, ya hothead!!" was his declaration before throwing his punch, launching a Fist of Zeus almost point-blank down onto Eggni's head.

The power of the impact forced Eggni several feet back, shredding the ground with his dug-in claw. However, like before, the electrical energy was drawn to his claws like lightning rods and absorbed into the cybernetics, brightening the glow.

"Given you're an electrokinetic, one would think you'd have a better knowledge of your own field," Eggman mocked. The beast growled with rage, hunched over and glaring at his foe. He belted yet another earth-shaking roar, followed by a massive burst of energy, expanding outward in all directions. The super-heated wave decimated everything in its path, even reaching the front of the base behind Eggni, and approached Statyx at an incredible speed.

Statyx threw up another Thunder Shield, this time surrounding himself in a sphere of accelerated molecules. Nonetheless, the force of the shockwave knocked Statyx back, sending him flinging through the air before landing on his feet and skidding back even further. "Well you know, enough raw power tends to overrule most laws and physics. Nonetheless, I do think a more sophisticated approach would be suitable here..." Glaring at the cyborg monstrosity, the green hedgehog launched himself forward at high speed, dashing from side to side to confuse it and make himself a much more difficult target as he closed in. When he finally got in close, Statyx jumped into the air and aimed an open palm at Eggni. "Absorb this, magma breath! EM Pulse!!" The air was visibly distorted as Statyx released a powerful electromagnetic pulse from his body, aiming to overwhelm and shut down the mechanical additions Eggman had made to his newest living weapon.

The EMP had a noticeable effect on Eggni, causing him to step back and shield himself with his arm. However, the pulse otherwise only seemed to cause a visible distortion in the aura of radiation.

"I've said it before and I'll say it again, rodent," Eggman sneered, "I've come prepared." The beast stood up tall, trying to take an intimidating stance with Statyx. It paused, though, and seemed to growl in frustration. Taking a few steps back, Eggni lowered himself into a ready stance, then charged forward towards his opponent. Yet, rather than trampling the small hedgehog, he launched himself into the city beyond with a mighty leap, leaving the damaged G.U.N. base in his wake.

Part 8
As our heroes arrive on Station Square, Johnny suddenly pulls over to see the P10-XR that was recently vandalized.

"What the hell?!"

"Whoaa."

Ryu climbed out of the truck bed.

"Wonder who did it?"

Johnny opens the door and jumps off of Sheer Impact as he looks at it. He lets out a disgruntled sigh.

"I'm assuming those wanna-be trolls..."

J nods, looking down at the two of them.

"Most likely."

Both Nuts and Bolts begin to regenerate as they get up and look around, not knowing where they are, but are also unaware of the heroes' presence. Linebeck's ears perk up and he looks around as well.

Johnny gives the two trolls a death glare.

"Did you two do this?!"

Nuts and Bolts looks at Johnny.

"What?" Nuts and Bolts asked in an untruthful manner.

Johnny growls at the two.

"Don't you 'what' ME, ya good-for-nothing trolls!"

"Oh, just smoke 'em, they ain't worth-"

He stopped when he noticed a broken object in Bolts' hands. Squinting at it, he slowly realized...

"...that's a part from a boat engine...!!"

The ferret bared his teeth and lunged at Bolts.

"YOU TRASHED MY F***ING BOAT, YOU LITTLE S***!!"

Bolts merely blinks.

"What boat? We were looking for chicken boy."

Johnny grabs Nuts by the throat and lifts him up, showing sheer anger in his face.

"YOU AND YOUR SLAB OF MEAT OF A PARTNER TRASHED MY CAR AND LINEBECK'S BOAT!!"

Nuts just chokes as he looks at Bolts who blatantly lied at Linebeck. The ferret, meanwhile, has his hands around Bolts' throat.

"DON'T YOU LIE TO ME, PISSWIPE! I RECOGNIZE THAT ENGINE MODEL!"

Both Nuts and Bolts are being strangled by Johnny and Linebeck as the two struggle to speak.

"YOU'RE BOTH F***ING DEAD FOR MESSING WITH HIS BOAT AND MY CAR!"

Endac at this point had slipped off on his own ignoring the rest of the group. It had been some time since he had been in the city and he smiled as he walked among the streets. "I haven't been here in forever..." He frowned slightly "To bad i can't stay for long either...but then again I could stay to at least help out with the problems here."

Pyre was walking past the group at this point, becoming curious at to why two people were being strangled although he quickly got the gist from the shouting "Um...."

Endac heard the yelling from a couple blocks, from behind him. He looked back a bit surprised and saw the two screaming at the trolls. He then sighed and kept going with a bit of a chuckle shaking his head and chuckling some. He kept on going, losing attention to the others as he kept walking making a passing comment to any humans he passed.

Johnny places a Burn Palm onto Nuts' face, burning his face off and killing him in the process!

"THAT'S FOR VANDALIZING MY RIDE!"

And then Linebeck pulled out his Swiss Army Knife and stabbed Bolts in the left eye, killing him.

"AND THAT'S FOR TRASHING MY BOAT!"

Within seconds, both Nuts and Bolts are killed by Johnny and Linebeck simultaneously.

Pyre looked on in mild surprise "Well. That was graphic. Very graphic."

"They deserved it for wrecking our rides," Linebeck grumbled.

Johnny nods, also grumbling.

"Agreed."

"uhh huh.  err, if all the parts are still around i might be able to get them working again if you want." Pyre replied somewhat awkwardly.

Linebeck picked up the mangled boat engine.

"Can you fix half of a boat motor?" he asked.

Pyre scratched his nose. "If i have the other half, or something to replace the other half"

"I have no idea where the other half would be," Linebeck sighed.

"Probably down in the water somewhere..."

"Right.... juryrigging it is then." Pyre said

A deep growl within the Troll's throne room was enough to put the assembled generals back a few steps from their leader as Rageik fumed.

"You let Eggman take Agni?" he spat, his fury aimed at one of the three demons in the room, the self-proclaimed "god of time", Mephiles. "You let him LEGIONIZE A BEAST OF THAT POWER?" Despite not being in the firing line of Rageik's burning glaze, Toxic shuddered and shrunk back even further, while even his adopted son Reaper struggled to stand against it. Mephiles, however, managed to retain his composure.

"I did. It would have been foolish for me to have fought there and then, Eggman had a lot more powerful equipment than I was prepared to deal with. Besides, I was never instructed to prevent Eggman doing anything, just to monitor Agni until the point when we could act." Rageik growled again, and was clearly biting back on attacking his lieutenant.

"You can return to the No-Time Zone for now, there is no need for your presence here at the moment." He softened slightly, and looked to the troll generals. "Return to your assigned missions, be it sabotage, capture of monitoring." His head turned to Nazo. "You are to return to the Transitory Mists, to talk with Nihlus about the sudden increase of beast activity, and to whether or not the Elemental Ones are rising as well. And Phantom, escort Mephiles to the No-Time Zone, before bringing me back a few of the tomes on the beasts. They haven't risen like this since before my lifetime." His wife nodded, and grasped Mephiles' arm quite painfully as they vanished in a flash of purple light. The Troll Generals each vanished, one at a time, their missions in mind. Toxic was to keep hampering efforts with his underlings, while Reaper had his own tasks in Eggman's territory, and the other generals had yet more missions. Finally, Nazo vanished in a flash, leaving Rageik alone. He growled. If things kept this pace, he'd have to fight personally, and while he looked forward to it, the fact he had to rely on luck was eating at him.

Meanwhile, a Moebian reads a newspaper regarding of mysterious beasts before grinning.

"Well, well, well. The "mysterious beasts" are in town, eh? This'll be fun..."

He turns around to face a wooden boat before looking at the newspaper.

"Hmm... I could swim over there, but then the newspaper would be dissolved upon doing so."

He grins rather evilly, having devised a plan as he gets on a wooden boat and sails off towards the foggy lake, or specifically, the Northern Great Sea, with a paddle.

Part 9
Jeremy arrives at the Northern Great Sea, looking around at the foggy environment.

"Hmm... this must be the place where that giant, killer lochness monster was sighted in... I could wait, but then again... why not get its attention?!"

He clears his throat and begins to shout to try and get Tiamat's attention.

"HELLO! GIANT SEA MONSTER WITH INTIMIDATING LOOKS! I GOT A MESSAGE FOR YOU!"

A dark shape slowly grows beneath him.

Jeremy looks around to see if he spotted Tiamat.

"Hmm... where the hell is it?"

Suddenly, something crashes into his boat!

Jeremy is catapulted from the boat and splashes onto the water, with the newspaper tossed in the air!

"GAH!"

The head of a large dragon starts to emerge from the water.

The Moebian looks at the head emerging from the water.

"Whoa..."

He quickly realizes that the newspaper in his possession is still airborne, but can't go anywhere yet, not wanting to provoke it yet.

The large sea dragon, her head now out of the water, glares at Jeremy.

"{MORE unwelcome visitors?! How many people do I have to maim and devour to get my privacy?!}"

Jeremy is seemingly unfazed by the sea dragon's glare.

"If you think I'm here to trespass, you might wanna think again; I'm only here to deliver a message, and a very important one too. Besides, the last thing you'd want is to attack me, which I have no intention of."

Jeremy lets out a small smirk from his face.

"At least hear me out."

"{Then what do you want, fox? Make it quick!"}

Jeremy quickly grabs one of the newspapers before showing it to the sea dragon.

"Notice anything familiar?"

The newspaper consists of a large, silhouette creature.

"{Agni...! So my suspicions WERE correct...}"

Jeremy lets out a soft grin.

"Judging by your expression... this creature seems to be more or less related to you, am I wrong?"

"{He is one of the Grandchildren of Ka, as am I...}"

She looks deep in thought.

"{So I'm not the only one who's been made restless...}"

Upon seeing her expression, Jeremy sets the newspaper on the lake, which causes the newspaper to become wet and slowly dissolve before Jeremy clears his throat.

"Now that I'm not considered a trespasser, allow me to explain everything for you."

She frowns, but nods.

"{Very well...}"

Jeremy closes his eyes momentarily before looking at the sea dragon.

"Recently, according to the news, you're not the only one who has been provoked and sought to attack those set the wrong foot within a certain radius. However, ever since its been widespread, militants such as the G.U.N. degenerates have gone out and search out for creatures like yourself. And not just the militants, Mobians set out on a search as well just to try and capture them, and have all the fortune for themselves. Now, I fear that one by one, the creatures that are related like yourself, would be in danger, no matter how powerful they are. Many would consider them powerful, like you, yes, but numbers, especially large ones, maybe millions, can outweigh strength easily. You may be powerful from the looks of you, yes, but even the most powerful will eventually be defeated. I should know; I was always powerful like you, but I've been defeated many times because my efforts became in vain. On topic, however, your... relatives, are in grave danger, even if they would be considered powerful, and at any time, everyone will set their sights on them and will capture them for fortune, or worse yet, experiment."

Jeremy finishes explaining to the sea dragon.

"I hope my explanation has made sense to you."

"{I've had those G.U.N people come out here before! And earlier, there were Mobians as well! I will not stand for this outrage!}"

Jeremy crosses his arms before nodding.

"This lake may be your domain, but G.U.N. and Mobians trying to take over your territory will be the least of your worries. So, I will give you two choices; you could remain here in this lake and still consider me as your trespasser to devour me, at the cost of your relatives' demise at the hands of the meddlesome militants and Mobians alike, or, you can allow me to lead you to them and take them down to save your relatives. The choice is yours."

"{Lead me to them,}" she said, her eyes glinting with fury.

"{I will make them suffer!}"

Jeremy grins, judging by the look of her eyes.

"Come with me, then."

He willingly swims throughout the lake to lead her to our heroes.

Back in Station Square, Eggni continued his rampage through the evacuated streets.

"Wonderful, wonderful!" Eggman chimed, carefully monitoring his toy's actions from the safety of his now-hidden Egg Carrier. "A little mayhem here, a little destruction there. Soon the whole world will be trembling in fear! Oh ho ho ho~! Who knew such a valuable asset was hidden on Mobius all this time? And so easy to obtain. If it weren't for all the research data, I'd almost call my past endeavors a waste of time compared to this."

"The communicator is off, sir. Who are you talking to?" asked Snively, checking in on the observation deck.

"Myself, of course," Eggman snapped. "Leave me! I want to gloat in peace." With a roll of his eyes Snively did leave, while the Doctor went back to his business, eyes glued to the monitors that showed him Eggni's wave of destruction.

As Eggni thrashed about, Statyx charged at him from behind with a snarl. "Attacking G.U.N. base, running in the middle of the fight, and attacking Station Square again!? Now I'm pissed off!!" The green hedgehog rocketed himself up into the air, unearthly green flames forming around his hands. "Absorb these, ya burning bundle of bolts! Chaos Spear!!" With that Statyx swung his arms forward, launching two high-speed projectiles of raw Chaos Energy at Eggni's back.

The bolts struck their target dead-on, dealing no visible damage but noticeably jarring the beast. Enraged, it turned to face its opponent and thrust its right claw into the asphalt in front of it. Super-heated, the ground caved in, opening a large hole in the middle of the street that erupted a pillar of lava toward the airborne hedgehog.

Seeing the erupting pillar of molten earth, Statyx disappeared in a flash of green light the moment before it could make impact. Reappearing at ground level a few yards away from the massive beast, Statyx suddenly snapped his fingers at Eggni, three times in rapid succession. Three rifts in time and space formed in front of Eggni's chest, all three erupting into blasts of Chaos Magic an instant later. "I'm not playing around anymore Egghead; you better say your goodbyes, because this molten bot is about to become a pile of slag!"

The beast lurched backward, clearly upset by the attacks. "I will say no such thing, rodent," Eggman scoffed. "Eggni's not going anywhere!" Once again the beast let out a mighty roar, raising the temperature in the surrounding area to incredible levels. This time, however, it took a low stance, as if it were charging something.

"Oh no you don't!" Statyx declared, unleashing a flurry of Chaos Magic blasts underneath Eggni to dislodge it from the ground and prevent it from charging. "If you think I'm stupid enough to give you the time to charge up anything, you're a bigger idiot than I thought!!" The green hedgehog didn't let up, launching blast after blast at the molten monstrosity. Statyx refused to let the heat deter him; experience with several pyrokinetics taught him how to endure the rising temperature. There was also the untold destruction Eggni could unleash if Statyx wasted even a moment to make some distance. Any letup in pressure could be a costly error.

The beast held his ground, unmoved yet clearly angered by the onslaught of attacks. After several moments, he stood tall once again and slammed his claws into the ground. With a brilliant flash the fiery aura around his body expanded into a barrier of pure energy. Each new strike made the barrier ripple, but Eggni himself appeared free of further damage.

"Get a load of this!" Eggman shouted. "The oaf needed a little more protection, so I've equipped him with this shield, which you generously charged for me earlier with your electricity! Oh ho ho ho~!" No longer deterred by Statyx's attacks, Eggni turned his back to the hedgehog and continued his rampage through the city.

Tiamat had arrived on the scene just in time to see Eggni turn and face towards her. Her jaw dropped open in shock and horror.

"{A-Agni...?! No...i-it can't be...!}"

She started walking towards the Legionized Primordial, the horror on her face still evident.

"{Agni, who did this to you?! Was it G.U.N?!}"

Jeremy looks at Eggni carefully before walking next to Tiamat.

"This.. does not look good. I'd advise you to not let your guard down, giant sea dragon one."

"Oh ho What's this, now?" Eggman chimed with excitement from his perch concealed high above. "It seems Eggni's found us another play-thing. Snively, new plan! This is a recovery mission, now. Prepare the docking bay for Eggni's return, and make room for the... extra cargo."

Eggni was completely oblivious to Tiamat's cries. His eyes remained tainted with the unfounded rage that Eggman had instilled in him. At first he seemed uncaring of the sea dragon's appearance, but after a moment his intent changed. Glaring at Tiamat with burning fury, he stomped down hard, causing sharp stones to erupt from the ground beneath her.

She barely had time to react before the stones erupted from the ground beneath her and sent her practically toppling over backwards, an agonized roar escaping her. She handed on her back and struggled to get back up, clawing at the ground. She glared at Eggni.

"{So...is this how it's going to be?}"

Opening her mouth, she spat out a powerful, concentrated stream of water towards Eggni.

Jeremy looks at Eggni, and looks at Tiamat after she launched a powerful water attack.

"Is this your relative?" He looks back at Eggni before shouting to him in an effort to grab his attention.

"Hey! You! That's your.. sister you're attacking! Try it at me and see how I would feel!"

He murmurs to himself.

"Even though I just made a deathwish on myself..."

The blast of water collided with Eggni's fire barrier in an explosion of steam. Once the vapor had cleared, Eggni appeared completely unharmed, but the flames of his barrier had dimmed significantly. Completely ignoring Jeremy, Eggni roared as his fiery aura rapidly grew more intense. He then leaped high into the air, crashing down upon Tiamat with the full weight of his burning body.

There was nothing she could do to stop the other Primordial from landing directly on top of her; she had not been expecting him to leap onto her, and so she was unable to really move out of the way. She roared in pain and instinctively clawed at his body with ice-shrouded claws, trying to get him off of her.

Jeremy simply facepalmed, obviously Eggni couldn't pay attention to him before running towards him.

"Great... guess I'l have to play the 'Good Samaritan' here..."

He opens his palms and launches a series of water balls at Eggni, hoping that it would hit him and grab his attention.

Tiamat's claw slashes went unimpeded by the fire barrier and tore through Eggni's radiant aura, sending him into a rage. The water balls, however, merely exploded into steam as they collided with the weakening barrier. As he raised his temperature even further, the surrounding area became dangerously hot. Street signs began to fold as the metal soffened, and the air grew incredibly dry. Eggni tightly wrapped his arms around Tiamat, trying to drain her strength with his heat as quickly as possible. As he pulled her in closer, a distorted sound rang through her ears like a weak, raspy voice.

"{...Help...me...}"

Just then Eggni's cybernetics released a powerful shock of energy, causing the beast to roar out in pain as he squeezed his sister tighter.

The only sound that came out of Tiamat was a raspy howl, her claws dug into Eggni's hide. It was clear that the horrific heat was causing her great suffering.

"{Agni...no...}"

As the electricity hit, she too screeched in pain, and her claws fell away from her brother. Then she went limp in his arms, her eyes slowly closing as she lost consciousness.

Jeremy, shocked of what he is doing, opens up both hands and unleashes a stream of water with considerable force, hoping it would hit him.

"You oughta learn to pay attention for once here, because I'm not a ghost!"

Under the intense heat the water instantly evaporated, leaving only steam shooting from Jeremy's hands.

Holding the unconscious water dragon in his arms, Eggni looked to the sky and roared. On cue, a squadron of Balkiries flew over the city and unleashed a barrage of explosives around the two beasts. Kicking up massive clouds of dust and debris, the explosions concealed them for a brief time. There was a quick green flash before the dust cleared, revealing that the beasts were gone and the demolished street was empty once again.

Jeremy winces in pain from his water attacks being steam, before growling furiously, upon seeing the beasts disappear.

"Typical monster... never even had a brain in the first place!"

He storms off, ranting off a couple of heated words after his botched attempts.