The Visions of Heroes

by StormesJay

prologue

Aerrow slowly dropped from the airshaft of the wrecked ship. He knew it was dangerous to be in Terra Deep, home of the Merc Raiders, but the scanner had picked up such high crystal energy levels that they had to go. He consciously looked around the room before taping on his ear piece, "Finn, what's your status?"

Finn stood up from his crouch and held his ear piece, looking around. He raised his crossbow in alertness, "I'm fine, but Junko headed west to find to other crystal."

Aerrow responded, "Right, make sure you stay alert." he tapped his ear piece twice, "Piper, anything new?"

Piper kept a strong hold of her pipe. She blinked eagerly, "I'm looking around the entire area, but I don't see the crystal yet, but my scanner's going crazy..."

"Keep in touch." He tapped, "Stork, where are you on the ship? Anywhere near the crystal?"

Stork walked cautiously toward a corner of the ship, twitching when Aerrow began to talk, "Nothing yet, but my peepers are picking something up..."

Junko lifted a chunk of metal up, searching for the crystal, "Junko, what's your status? Anything yet?"

"Yeah, I'm okay, no sign of the-- hold on a sec... I think I found something." Aerrow left the channel open for everyone to talk.

"Y'know, there's only one crystal that could do this alone." Piper cut in as she approached the cause of her scanner's interest, "And that's a helix stone."

Finn blinked, "Yeah, but what if there's a bunch of them together?" he lifted a chunk of metal off of a glowing piece of machinery.

Stork pulled a slice of metal out of the way, exposing a bomb, hooked up to four bomber crystals, "Uhh, guys? I think we need to leave."

Junko lifted his flashlight to a wall, lighting up a merc raiders insignia, "Oh boy! We need to leave!" He turned and saw his bomb, "Whoa!"

Aerrow saw the bomb near him, "Noted. Let's go!"

Piper shook her head, "Hold on! I think I see-- oh!" she saw her bomb, "Ah!"

Finn's eyes widened, "Aw man!" he lowered his crossbow reluctantly. The bombs went off with a loud bang, sending a concussion through out the entire ship.