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Normal POV

"Storm shock in T-minus five minutes!" Sage exclaimed through the intercom.

"Everyone, gear up!" Vert said running to get dressed as well. "Cortez's you guys stay, and A.J., you're with us.

A.J. did a fist pump and made a loud, "WOO-HOO!" As Tezz shook his head at his immature teammate, and waved bye at the rest of them.

Everyone suited up and drove off into Salt Flats. Sage had a bad feeling deep down inside her as they left, but she shrugged it off and left to do more research on her twin brother and his Red Sentient gang.

The team went through the storm shock and landed in a Battle Zone, it was had a bright sky, with dark clouds, many trees, brush, and shrubs, but the ground was sandy-like a desert.

"Dude, this place is whack…" A.J. said, looking at the unusual Battle Zone.

Zoom looked at him weird, "whack? Whack? What is this? The 18th century?-" Zoom was interrupted by a arrow. "Whoa! Vandals!" Zoom said, turning to see Kalus, Sever, Krocomodo, Hatch, and Grimian driving towards the Battle Force 5.

"Zoom, go find the key, we'll deal with these guys." Vert informed Zoom, as he drove toward Kalus.

Zoom sped off through a small forest in hopes of finding the key, what he didn't know was someone saw him leave the team.

As Sever drove towards the BF5, he spotted their scout head off away from his team; Sever laughed to himself. "Foolish subspecies, I will capture him and take him to Vandal; Kalus will be most pleased." Sever said to himself and drove into the same forest Zoom went into.

Zoom POV

I looked around the large trees, trying to find the key, I was so busy searching, I didn't hear Sever come up behind my Chopper and knock my off; I got up a looked at him as he got out of his vehicle. "What do you want Sever?" He just smiled at me, showing his long menacing teeth; I shuddered.

"You." He laughed at me. 'He would use me for a ransom, the key to Earth for me.'

I smirked, "No way Fish Face!" He jumped at me, trying to bite me. "Watch it!"

I threw a punch at him, hitting him in his big nose; he screamed. Okay after that, I did something really stupid, I laughed at him, just laughed…so he took advantage of, he grabbed a large branch laying on the ground and swung it at me.

I was it RIGHT in the face and landed on the ground, I touched my face to feel large cuts and blood on my face, oh he's going to pay for that…except, when I tried to just up, he thwacked me again, only harder, I screamed…loud; I became dizzy, I blacked out after I heard a evil laugh.

Vert POV

We were doing great fighting the Vandals; I was going to contact Zoom, but I was stopped when I heard a loud, painful scream, then I realized that Sever was missing.

"Uh-oh." I said under my breath, how could I be so stupid? That scream came from Zoom!

I saw Kalus quickly reach for the walkie-talkie in his vehicle; he smiled at me evilly before saying, "Retreat to the portal!"

Grimian looked at him angrily. "What about the key?" He pounded his fist against the Prime Evil.

Kalus looked at him before driving to the portal, "we don't need it, we have something that will get us the key." He drove into the portal with his teammates behind him.

I looked at my team, I frantically drove through the forest Zoom went through. "Zoom! Zoom, Zoom! Answer me!" I said through my com-link.

The Tangler drove up beside my vehicle. "Vert, what's wrong?" I looked at her and told her. "Zoom…" She pointed at something small, behind a bush.

"Dude, that's his helmet!" A.J. said walking up to it, and looked around until he saw the Chopper. "Here's his bike!"

I came up to him and looked at Zoom's helmet, "And here's a ransom note." I said grabbing a note that was inside the helmet; I began to read it.

Subspecies

I have your sad excuse for a scout

I demand all your battle keys, in exchange, I will send your scout back alive and in one piece

If you deny this, he will be killed mercilessly.

I looked up from the note to see four scared faces; no one would speak, Agura was the first to speak. "We can't give them the keys!" She looked into my eyes. "But we can't let Zoom die."

I looked at them, getting a idea, and smirked, "we get Sage to make fake keys, so we get Zoom, and Earth is safe."

Everyone smiled with hope and joy. Stanford took the note and looked at it carefully.

"Uh, sorry to ruin this happy moment, but…this note says"I will send your scout back alive and in one piece" it didn't say, "unharmed" chap."

'Yes, thank you Stan, for once again, being Captain Obvious.' Okay that was mean. "We know Stan, we can't do anything about it or they might kill him." Stanford nodded. "We just need to hope he can hang in 'til we get the fake keys made."

Normal POV Hub

"Yes, I can make fake keys," Sage said as everyone smiled, Spinner and Sherman high-fived each other. "But, it will take a week to do so." Everyone's smiles faltered.

"Great…just GREAT! Zoom could die in a matter of days, he's just a kid! You can't speed things up?" Spinner yelled to Sage, getting more and more worried about Zoom's safety.

"I'm afraid I can not." Sage said frowning. "But I will try my very best to hurry."

"So what do we do now?" Sherman said, looking at everyone.

Vert took in a deep breath and spoke. "We wait." Vert walked off to his room, as everyone stared at him in surprise.

"Wait? How can we wait when our friend might be tortured as we speak!"

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