Author's Notes: I will be the first to admit that this is a really dialogue heavy chapter. I know it's boring but it sets the stage for the rest of this fic which I promise will be really action-packed and even better then the original.
The Fusion Monster screeched, the severed tentacle had stopping bleeding and its attention was drawn back to the three that stood in front of it.
Brave stared at the monster octopus, an expression of pure shock on his face. "I've never seen something that big, are you sure we have to fight this?"
"Yes," Nero stared intently at the monster. "Don't get in my way."
The monster swung its appendage at the group at that moment, Zoey managed to dodge the move using several aerobatic flips however, Brave was sent skidding across the ground and Nero was sent flying into the air; thankfully he landed on his feet.
Zoey used this opportunity to run up to the monster and began to fire round after round of her pistol's laser ammo.
The monster wailed in pain and swept its tentacle at her. Zoey was able to dodge the first swipe but was then struck down by another that came from above, before the third crushing strike could connect Nero ran ahead of Zoey and swung his sword in an 'X' formation, immediately two of the creature's arms were cut off, the monster stopped the attack and writhed in pain.
Zoey quickly got up and jumped away, landing beside Brave who was still sitting on the ground. "Come on," she said, "we need you to help us."
"Oh, right," he weakly got up and held the golden sword with both hands, a fiery expression appeared on his face and he charged towards the monster, recklessly swinging his sword.
To retaliate, the monster balled up its remaining tentacles into fists and barraged both Brave and Nero. The moment it stopped, Zoey fired her weapons again, this time it buried its fist into the ground, then, right from where Zoey stood its fist fired up sending the girl flying.
"Okay, I'll finish this." Nero mumbled to himself. He held his sword in reverse grip and began to charge towards the monster, in a flash he appeared behind the beast, his back turned against it.
The Fusion monster, seemingly unfazed by the attack, turned its attention to the blue haired boy and used its remaining tentacle to punch him. However, it stopped before the attack could connect, leaving less then an inch of remaining space between the two. Instantly, the monster's appendages began falling off, one by one until it dissipated into green goo.
"You're done," he turned towards the red head and Brave. "Thank you," he held out his hand.
"No, don't mention it, I was only helping," she said, graciously shaking his hand.
"Yeah," Brave said extending his hand as well. "It was no prob-" before he too could shake hands with Nero, the boy put down his hand and turned away.
"Learn to fight, we don't need people like you here."
Brave squinted is eyes, angrily. "I definitely can fight, come on, I'll fight you right now, one on one!"
"Nah, it wouldn't be fair, for you."
"That's it," Brave picked up his sword. "I'll kick you ass, right here, right now! Let's do it."
"Brave, don't make a fool of yourself, do you even know who he is?"
"No, and it doesn't matter, I'm going to kick-"
The dark skinned girl got up, after walking over to help the other boy she began speaking to Nero. "I hear the hero's here, seen any sign of him?"
"Nope, what about you two?" He looked at Zoey and Brave.
"No, we've been looking for him too." Zoey sighed and looked down on the ground. "Nobody's seen him, I hope he's alright."
"Hold on, I have a question," Brave spoke up. "Who's this hero and why's he so important?"
The dark skinned girl, Numbah 5, answered. "You see, Dexter accidentally sent this kid to the Future and we're supposed to find him and fix the time machine so we can send him back. We need him because it's been rumored that he has the power to stop the war we're in."
"Huh, sounds like a big load. Why should everyone wait from some kid to come along an save them? If you want something, go ahead and do it yourself, don't wait for someone who's rumored to be able to do something"
The boy in the green jacket spoke this time. "You haven't been keeping up with events, haven't you? At the rate everything's going, the whole world's going to be destroyed. If Dexter says someone can do something like that, do we have any other choice then to believe him?"
"You've got a point."
Suddenly, the entire area shook, causing all five of them to fall down in shock. Almost instantly, green balls of the same slime that erupted from the monster earlier rose from the ground, they each has blood red eyes and a set of ravenous green teeth, though nothing else
"We don't have much time; you three, go to Dexter, me and Ben will handle these creeps." Numbah five and Ben both loaded their guns and began firing at the slime balls.
"Right," with that, the other three teens ran away, up the hill until both Ben and Numbah five could no longer be seen.
Another tremor, this one, although not as bad as the one before still caused the three to flinch.
"Hey, Nero, where's Dexter?"
"He's in the infected zone."
They all ran up to a blue, circular machine.
"Okay, we have to enter through here to get to the other side."
"Why?"
"Don't you know anything," Nero scoffed.
"It's so the infection of Fusion Matter doesn't spread, in order to get past the force field that keeps it at bay you need to use these teleportation machines."
"Oh,"
"Okay, it's set," Nero said, punching in a few buttons. "These areas are extremely dangerous, one wrong move and you'll be killed. Can you do it?"
"Yeah," Zoey nodded. "Not much else to do here anyway."
"Well," Brave had to think about what he was going to say. "Yeah, let's do it!"
Nero pushed a button on the monitor and the next thing they all saw was a bright light.
