KKD: *looks through information on the new Skylanders game* ...Ugh… Activision… why do you have to have Spyro stoop so low as to have him not be Spyro as he truly was anymore? At least the Legend of Spyro tried to make him look cooler; now you barely have any time for him.
Pikatwig: *walks in with some papers and is wearing a Sengoku Driver at the moment.* Alright let's see… got this… and got that… all of the Smash DLC is mine at the moment… got a new game and… oi… the major bad-bad-bad-bad-bad-bad-super-duper-bad-news I need to tell KKD… *Notices KKD almost freeze as he looks at his computer monitor* And… he already knows...
KKD: *eye twitches* That… is… it…
Pikatwig: Uh oh… *slices Lockseeds thrice.*
=ORANGE SPARKING!=
=JINBA DRAGONFRUITS SPARKING!=
Pikatwig: *Armor Part folds back up and spins around in a defensive motion.*
KKD: Adding in another installment wasn't enough for you, was it, Activision? You had to go and team up with Nintendo on this freaking project to sell more stupid figurines? At least Amiibos were doing something right before THESE abominations showed up! And just when I got Hyrule Warriors on my new Wii U, too… this is going too far! *stands up and roars, looking like he'd hulk out any moment* I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE! I NEED A TRUE SPYRO GAME! STOP MAKING THESE GAMES THAT DON'T EVEN INCLUDE MY FAVORITE PLAYSTATION STAR!
Pikatwig: Uh…
KKD: *Turns to see Pika* PIKA! WE NEED TO MAKE A STORY IN WHICH WE GET SPYRO OUT OF THIS MESS! NOW!
Pikatwig: Uh… first of all… calm down a bit...
KKD: CALM DOWN?! HOW CAN I CALM DOWN OVER SOMETHING LIKE THIS?! THEY RUINED MY CHILDHOOD, AND THEY'RE SLOWLY KILLING MY INNER CHILD BY TORTURING THE GAME CHARACTER AND FRANCHISE THAT GOT ME INTO VIDEO GAMES IN THE FIRST PLACE! *roars as he starts tearing down the studio in his rage, getting larger and more Hulk-like in the process*
Pikatwig: Uh… they didn't go into Smash territory…
KKD: IT STILL COUNTS! *flips a table before seeing a Spyro plushie sitting on a nearby couch*
Pikatwig: Will that help?
KKD: *calms down and returns to normal before picking up the plushie and hugging it.* Very much…
Pikatwig: Well… you do know you are going to be paying for theses damages, right?
KKD: ...of course I am.
-Some hours later…-
Pikatwig: Does this sound like a good idea? *hands concept notes to KKD*
KKD: Yea. I think so. And I think we have just enough material to write the story. *turns to audience* Oh, hi guys. Sorry you had to see me hulk out like that. It's just when I see anything about 'the games boosted by Spyro but hardly include him anymore'... well…
Pikatwig: And well… Nintendo stepped into some deep areas they shouldn't have… but honestly, part of me was kind of expecting it being perfectly honest… and as I mentioned, they didn't touch Smash Bros, as the Bowser knock off was originally going to go Giga Bowser, but Nintendo told them to get more creative… so that will at least keep them away from Smash… for now, hopefully.
KKD: Yea… but to at least allow me to feel like we can get back at Activision and Toys for Bob for what they did, I feel this story is what I need to help me calm down. But before the real adventure, some background info in the form of a prologue. Right?
Pikatwig: Right. *hands KKD an Amiibo that is nothing more than a black dot*
KKD: A Disclaimer Amiibo? ...Okay. *sets Amiibo onto his gamepad*
DISCLAIMERS: Neither KKD nor Pikatwig own anything in this story related to Spyro, Skylanders, or any other franchises that are seen in this story. They belong to Activision, Toys for Bob, Insomniac Games, and their respective owners. Any other original content is the only thing in this story belonging to the authors along with the idea for this story.
Spyro looked up at the sky, seeing a flying vehicle and a car, being the Sky Slicer and Hot Streak, belonging to two of the Supercharged Skylander warriors, leaving the purple dragon to watch in awe for a moment.
"Amazing. It's so cool how these new guys keep popping up even keeping the fight going," Spyro gawked, as he, Cynder, Hex and Whirlwind watched this.
"Stormblade to Spitfire. Stormblade to Spitfire, do you read me, over?" Stormblade asked via a comlink.
-Spitfire here, I copy, Stormblade. What's up?- Spitfire asked.
"Skies are clear. We managed to clear out Kaos and his idiotic troops," Stormblade smiled, before she saw something flying in the distance, "Hold up, Spitfire. I see something in the distance. Looks like somebody flying on their vehicle."
-I see something odd too… some sort of… monkey driving a car. I'm gonna investigate, you do the same with this person in the air.-
"Roger that, Spitfire. Stormblade out,"
"Who is that?" Hex gawked in confusion, seeing a monkey driving what looked like some sort of car with barrels for wheels, and a barrel in tow.
"No idea," Cynder shrugged as he began to drive around like a mad man, tossing explosive barrels. Suddenly, the Hot Streak drove up and Spitfire jumped off of it and tried to contain the giant monkey with fire attacks, however, it easily dodged him.
Stormblade had managed to catch up with the guy flying around, trying to corner him, but whoever this flyer was, he was fast, capable of doing various air rolls, Stormblade could just barely hear him say it was called a "barrel roll" or something like that. However, she ignored that and tried to use air current shots, but he fired what appeared to be some sort of shells as homing torpedoes, Stormblade barely able to dodge the shells.
"Okay, just what is this guy up to?" Stormblade muttered, dodging the blasts, one shell nearly grazing her ship's wings, but she was able to do some flips to keep out of the range, "Okay, the jig's up, buster! Time to get out."
The pilot then looked to Stormblade, revealing some sort of a turtle, with sharp teeth, a spiky shell, a mohawk, some dark armor, and having some kind of giant hammer.
"Gather the storm!" she shouted, however, suddenly, the plane and the turtle just… vanished into thin air, "What the-?!"
With that, she dove down to the ground and parked the Sky Slicer.
"I don't know what the heck just happened… the rider of that aircraft just… up and vanished." Stormblade sighed.
"Same here… luckily nobody was injured," Spitfire responded.
"So now what do we do? Report back to Master Eon?" Stormblade wondered.
"I don't know… there are just so many strange things happening… first there was Snap Shot and the Trap Team vanishing, the Portal Masters seem to just vanish without a trace, and now these new guys show up out of nowhere only to vanish just as quickly," Spitfire sighed, trying to wrap his own head around their situation.
Stormblade simply scratched the back of her head in thought, trying to figure out what to do and how to manage it.
Both of them were stumped about what to do and just decided to take a walk to clear their heads.
"Cynder, do you think that something fishy is going on?" Spyro asked as they walked.
"What do you mean?" Cynder asked, a bit confused.
"Just… even with Kaos gone… there's just some… strange evil influence, and… other just… odd things," the purple dragon noted as they stopped by a small lake. Spyro took a moment to look at his reflection, feeling something wasn't right, especially with the smushed snout, the odd coloration of everything but his scales, and even the shape of his horns, but they changed in the reflection; his horns looking somewhat more straight instead of looking like ram horns, his underbelly being yellow with his tail tip and his wing membranes being red, his snout looking like most dragons', and even having a familiar golden dragonfly near him.
"...is something bothering you?"
"...just been having… strange dreams… I guess…" Spyro shrugged, "Instead of the large teams of Skylanders I'm working with now, and fighting against Kaos… I found myself going against odd looking villains that seemed more serious, fighting alongside only a smaller band of friends… with you alongside me, and that little Sparx fella that hangs out with High Five or just at the track as a trophy,"
"...that's sort of odd." Cynder blinked, "It's as if you had a completely different life before becoming a Skylander, and not the one you told most about…"
Spyro just gave a shrug at this.
Meanwhile, as Kaos was kicking some stones in annoyance at his most recent failure, he was marching around some kind of well, the short bald human wizard wearing black and was at the moment, growling.
"Stupid Skylanders… I thought that a car might actually work, or any vehicle for that matter, but no~! They just had to come in and ruin my attempt to try and take over Skylands!"
As he walked around the area in anger, the well glowed a menacing purple color, making Kaos look down it as it he heard someone speak.
"Yes yes, I know. I've been trying for four years ever since the Skylands have been around, but the more I set up ways to take over Skylands, the more those Skylanders found ways to counter them! And even with those stupid Portal Masters cut off after each victory they obtain, they still manage to block off every minor chance I have to win!" Kaos snapped back, only to gasp in shock when the glow flashed brightly for a moment, "Okay, okay! Sorry! No need to get huffy. Yeesh…"
There was another flash from this glow in annoyance.
"Yes yes… I know you had to rescue me from Earth when I was stuck in some stupid toy shop… and help convince my mother to help me… and helped me break out of Cloudcracker prison… and free me from that Traptanium Crystal… and even helped me before I got run over by those blasted vehicles, but I'm not totally useless!" Kaos replied, the glow flashing in a way as if it was groaning, "I heard that, you know. I may fluke at these plans you help me set up, but I'm not deaf."
The flash occurred again, this time as if to try and convey something.
"Hmm… you think you finally found a way to form an empire for me? ...Keep talking… or grunting or… flashing, I suppose," Kaos replied.
The flash continued, basically telling Kaos the next plan.
"So basically, find a way to make the Trap Masters hate Spyro. D'oh… I hate that little dragon…" Kaos growled, "One of the first Skylanders to foil my plans, been there even in the background at every Skylander victory, and… wait… didn't you mention something about him the first time we met?"
The glow, which came out in the form of an orb, nodded, seemingly getting upset, and floating around as if to convey a very serious point.
"So let me see if I got this right… the further he is in the background the better, and if Spyro were to say… have a different set of memories or whatever he's like a mold of clay…" Kaos replied, trying to put two and two together, "...Guess that would explain why he was easy to mold into the whole Skylander thing when I first arrived… but you said he had a different set of memories before…"
The orb motioned around a bit.
"Oh… that's bad… Glumshanks! We have to get back to the castle and come up with our newest plan!" Kaos shouted, as a taller green gremlin walked in.
"What is it this time, Lord Kaos? Is it plan numbers 6-37?" the gremlin, Glumshanks, asked, holding out some kind of notepad.
"None of them!" Kaos informed, confusing the gremlin, "I have devised a new plan, number 38, and this time we will make sure not to awaken any new Skylanders once again, but rather get some new help…"
Eon had slowly noticed the damages to their realm, the Trap Team had vanished, the Superchargers were still looking for those two mystery riders, and at the time, Spyro had been attempting to talk to him about these mysterious headaches he's been having. However, he could not bring himself to explain the source of the headaches when there was so much going on.
"...I kind of feel… useless," Spyro sighed, the purple dragon at the moment talking with Whirlwind.
"Oh Spyro, please don't talk like that," the unicorn/dragon hybrid tried to assure him, placing a feathered wing around Spyro, "You know you're useful. You've lead us to stop Kaos so many times and-"
"...did I ever actually lead you? Honestly, I feel like those weren't even my own missions; it felt more like… someone else was there… and I'm just… one of those funny background characters…" Spyro sighed.
"W-Well… perhaps that makes you even cooler!" Whirlwind tried to tell him.
The purple dragon simply just took his leave, trying to find a way to calm down and wash away the headache pain.
"...I can't help but feel… everything I've been through… is a lie… but why?" he wondered, not sure what to do until he came across some sort of a rabbit hole, "The Truth's Hole. ...Said to reveal what is real and what isn't… well… here goes nothing. Truth's Hole, I ask you now… am I truly a Skylander?"
Then, a light came from the hole, Spyro seeing the oddly familiar version of himself going through worlds that do not look at all like Skylands, but somehow feel familiar to him.
"Is that… r-really… me?" he muttered, peering closer, crawling into the rabbit hole before he saw a small green gem, which looked familiar as he reached out for it and touched it, suddenly, he began to glow green, a pain being shot throughout his body, his screams of pain being heard throughout Skylands.
"...we need to move with our plan as quickly as possible… go out there, and bring me Spyro!" Kaos demanded of some warriors.
Spyro had slowly began to wake up, feeling like his headache was gone and that his head was a lot clearer. He stepped out of the Truth's Hole, and he looked… different. He looked into a nearby lake at his reflection, which looked like it did earlier in a flash, but this look stayed and it somehow felt… right.
"I… feel… so… good..." he noted, feeling like he was back in a form he never thought he had before… that is until the memories came back, without the headaches, "I… I remember… Cynder… Hunter… Sparx… Bianca… my friends."
However, as he was recalling these memories, he heard an attack come from nearby. He turned over to see Snap Shot, Blastermind, Lightning Rod, Wallop, Trap Shadow and Doom Stone.
"Oh? Hi guys," Spyro waved, "What's going on? Is there a problem?"
"Sorry, mate," the blue bipedal gator, Snap Shot, apologized as he readied Traptanium Bow and Arrows, "But this is fer yer own good… and for the sake of Skylands, too."
"What do you mean?" Spyro blinked in worry, as the Trap Team surrounded him until his memories made him realize something about Skylands, "Wait… this isn't Skylands! It was the Dragon Realms!"
"Trap Shadow, Doom Stone, swap!" Snap Shot ordered.
The two Swap Force members nodded as they swapped their bottom halves with each other, Trap Shadow becoming Trap Stone and Doom Stone becoming Doom Shadow.
Spyro began to run away out of fear, trying to keep away from the Trap Team and Swap Force members, but they almost seem to knew where he would be going before he could leave.
"I gotta get help!" Spyro said in worry, as he began to make blast them with fire attacks, charging, and when he jumped, even headbashing them from above, the style feeling much more familiar and natural compared to the combo-heavy moveset he was used to before, "This is… not bad…"
He began to run, charging farther and farther away from his former allies, but as they caught up, he quickly leapt up and was able to freely fly, not being restricted to gliding by any means and was having a lot of fun.
Spyro landed and then saw two of his best friends… at least, he assumed they were his friends, Gill Grunt and Stealth Elf, "Guys! Man am I so happy to see you!" Spyro smiled.
The two Skylanders, however, both of them looked at him for a moment.
"Gill? Stealth? ...Don't tell me you're against me, too," Spyro whimpered.
Spyro got his response without a single word, being Stealth Elf hitting his back, knocking him out.
Snap Shot and Wallop walked over to him, both of them smiling at Stealth Elf and Gill Grunt.
"Great job you two. You did well in catching him," Snap Shot smiled as Wallop handed him a Magic Trap.
"This rebellious dragon won't think twice before trying to betray the safety of Skylands again with his talk of any dragon realms or some poppycock like that," Wallop scoffed as he set up the trap, which caused Spyro to get sucked in.
"Spyro!" Cynder shouted in fear, she and Whirlwind running over, Snap Shot and Wallop looking in their direction.
"Back off, Cynder. There's no need for you to get caught up in this as well," Snap Shot warned as he aimed his weapon at her.
"Spyro… you've had so much to deal with… and yet you meet a cruel fate at the hands of all this?" Cynder muttered, "For the sake of the Dragon Realms… I will get you back."
"I see… well Cynder, if you threaten the safety of Skylands as well, I'm afraid we have to trap you as well," Snap Shot sighed, preparing an Undead Trap, with Wallop, Gill Grunt, and Stealth Elf preparing to attack them.
Whirlwind then proceeded to use her Rainbow Singularity attack to temporarily blind them and allow herself and Cynder a chance to run for it.
"Blast it! They got away!" Wallop groaned when their vision cleared.
"Relax, Wallop. We got the real traitor we came for," Snap Shot assured, motioning to the Magic Trap that Wallop held, no one noticing the trap giving off a faint glow, "Let's take him to Cloudcrack Prison, where he will never try to escape from."
As they left, they couldn't hear Spyro's voice mutter something.
"Help… help… whoever can hear me… I'm trapped… my world's been turned into something it should never have been… free me from this prison of a world… restore the Dragon Realms… please… save me… Spyro the Dragon..." Spyro's voice weakly muttered, as a stream of purple light flowed from the Traptanium Crystal, flying through the air to who knows where.
It took weeks for this message to escape out of the Skylands and to a dimension that existed between dimension. At the moment, two giant white hands were playing a game of chess, and the right hand had just played his final move.
"Checkmate, Crazy Hand. I win again," the right hand said rather calmly.
"Hey! No fair, Master Hand! I wanna rematch! A rematch, I tells ya!" the left hand, Crazy Hand, snapped in a rather erratic manner.
"Crazy… we have been playing this game for days now…" the right hand, Master Hand, responded as he put it away, "...I'm honestly really bored. Perhaps we could hone our skills, or even set up a new Smash Brothers Tournament…"
"Or maybe you can help me figure out what this energy thingy I found that leaked into our world is," Crazy told his brother.
"What energy?" Master Hand wondered before Crazy Hand showed his brother a purple energy that looked like an eight pointed star, holding it in his palm before it began to pulse as a voice was heard from it.
"Help… help… whoever can hear me… I'm trapped… my world's been turned into something it should never have been… free me from this prison of a world… restore the Dragon Realms… please… save me… Spyro the Dragon..." it spoke loud enough for the right hand to make out, making Master Hand realize what was going on.
"...This is more serious than Tabuu…" Master Hand gawked, "Crazy… we have a mission…"
Operation: Rescue Spyro
Pikatwig: What an ending to the very first chapter, huh?
KKD: I'll say. Things already got pretty crazy; giving us background on some of the players of Skylands, showing us some who know and remembered the Dragon Realms, that fact Skylands is SUPPOSED to be the Dragon Realms, and the Trap Team coming back to capture Spyro… this is very intense. And if that's the prologue, I can't wait to see how the main story pans out.
Pikatwig: And if you claim we're making antagonists out of the Skylander characters… it's sort of plot needed.
KKD: Yea. If you guys didn't realize it by now, I don't like what Skylanders did to Spyro, but I can understand how it got big from a gameplay standpoint, so it has some ups… but using Spyro as a Marquee value cash cow is what really irks me the wrong way. As stated, this is my way of getting back at those guys I think should've never existed, but I do like some Skylanders, and I would like to see them in a PROPER Spyro game, rather than just this. Other characters who seemed to go bad just kinda sadly fell under that category, others I feel have some reason to be there in the first place.
Pikatwig: I mean heck, Whirlwind made number 15 on my Top 35 SSB4 DLC wishlist.
KKD: If you know me and my fondness of dragons, you could guess most of the Skylanders I'd like would be dragons, though some dragons I will exclude for various reasons, and the dragons I do like will indeed be included in this story. But much later as next time, we have to see what the Hands are going to do involving this mess.
Pikatwig: So, my favorite part really has to be where Spyro gets his memory and true body back. It's simple, yes, but… cute nonetheless.
KKD: Admittedly, that was one of my favorite parts. It's rather symbolic of how the rest of the story will play out, and is indeed the catalyst for the big shift that happens in Skylands before the real story begins. Also, those minor hints at the beginning may hint as to what will happen in the story itself. But for now, if you want to find out how this goes, and what the Hands have in store… tune in next time for the first chapter, and the debriefing of the operatives in this mission. Operation: Rescue Spyro. So, until next time, I'm KKD Silver, the Crossover King…
Pikatwig: *is half asleep by this point* And… Pikatwig… Raiden… Writer...
KKD: ...And we'll see you next time. Jaa ne!
Pikatwig: Just Live More.