As the three jets glided through the warphole, they traveled through a mysterious blue tunnel, acting like a tornado almost. The three of them shifted their ships leaving Kayden in the middle, Leyla on his right, Bastian on his right. Leyla and Kayden were talking through their headsets. Bastian had turned off his headset and thought.
Well, I hope this time around I can at least get the respect I deserve from Kayden. I'll never forget that day when he crashed into the outskirts…I honestly thought he was going to die out there. If it weren't for me, he'd be vulture bait. Yet, I still doubt my actions. I know, I know, it does sound a little odd, especially for me. I'm the youngest member on Team Xtreme, and of course, I am treated like a underling to them. One day, I'll show them I'm ready.
"Bastian." Said Kayden through his headset. Bastian almost jumped out of his seat when he heard his name.
"Yeah I'm here." Said Bastian, positioning his headset on his furry head.
"You're awfully quiet." Said Kayden.
"Something the matter, hun?" asked Leyla.
"No…no, I'm fine." Said Bastian.
Kayden nodded and looked at Leyla. "Allright Leyla, the warphole to Metropolis is just up ahead. Contact me if you find any information ok?"
"Sure thing, Kay!" said Leyla. "See ya!"
Leyla's ship turned to the left and zoomed off through another warphole, leaving just Kayden and Bastian to see the next warmhole. They glided through it with ease.
MUSHROOM KINGDOM ATMOSPHERE
Kayden and Bastian's ships exited the warphole, not far from the Mushroom Kingdom.
"Bastian you made it allright?" said Kayden
"Yeah, I'm sailing smooth." Replied the falcon.
"Good. Now let's go see what this signal is that we got from Mario."
The two of them ignited their jet engines and zoomed down into the misty skies of the Mushroom Kingdom. Everything was silent. The usual hustle and bustle of the small town was not heard as it usually was. Things were very unusual. Kayden observed the surrounding sky, not detecting any life or signals.
"Hmm...that's odd." said the wolf.
"What is?" asked Bastian.
"We're in the Mushroom Kingdom...but...I'm not getting any signs of life on my radar. I'd better check with ground crew."
He punched in a few buttons on his keyboard and took out a small radio.
"Ground crew, this is Kayden Seyak requesting landing, two ships, acess code Triple AU. Come in."
There wasn't any signal. Kayden waited a few moments before punching in a different code.
"That's awkward…" said Bastian, listening to what had been going on, also looking at his radar, noticing no signs of life.
"Let me try it again." said the wolf. "Kaden Seyak and Bastian Htarnok requesting landing, two ships, acess code; Triple AU. Come in ground crew!"
"Maybe they're all to break." Said Bastian, jokingly.
"I doubt they would do that. Mario keeps his ground crew available at all times."
"Can I try it?" asked Bastian.
"Knock yourself out kid." Replied Kayden.
Bastian nodded, then sighed at the word kid. He slowly pressed a few buttons and picked up his own radio. "Ground crew, Bastian Htarnok and Kayden Seyak requesting landing.. Come in."
There was still no signal or interceptions.
"Okay, now this is just creepy…" said Bastian, putting down his radio and stretching back slightly.
Kayden nodded. "Something's just not right here…Let's go check it out."
The two jets zoomed through the murky fog expecting to see a very tranquil environment. In actual reality, what they say before them was the excat opposite. The entire kingdom had been on the receiving end of a massive onslaught. The entire kingdom itself was nothing more then a blazing inferno. Dark smoke clouded the entire area, creating spiraling towers of poisonous fumes.
"Oh my god…" was all the young falcon boy could say.
"Who the-what the hell happened here?" said Kayden.
"Someone must have been in a bad mood..." said Bastian.
Kayden observed the entire town from his jet. "There's no way Sonic could have done this…or Shadow."
"Bowser?" asked Bastian, circling the kingdom.
"Not possible. His army has never been this strong." said the dark red wolf. "Eggman could never accomplish this nor does he have the nesscary powers…who could have done all this?"
"ET?" joked Bastian.
"This isn't the time to joke Bastian. This is serious. Let's land and search the kigndom. If there are any survivors, hopefully Mario and Luigi are among them."
The two flew their jets down to the cobblestone couryard in Toad Town, the center piece of the Mushroom Kingdom not far from Princess Peach's castle. Yoshis and Toad warriors lay strewn across the courtyard, the thick stench of blood hung in the air.
"Poor little guys…" said Bastian, kneeling down to check one of the toad warriors.
"This is a lot worse then I thought…" said Kayden, checking the pulse of one of the Yoshis. "Be on your guard."
Bastian drew one of his sword hilts, flipping a button and a long energy blade popped out. Kayden also drew his blaster, looking through the houses, staying on his guard. The two creatures strolled to the castle gates, puzzled to find them wrenched down and battered.
"Who do you think did this Kayden?" said Bastian, surveying the entire landscape of the molten structures.
"I still do not know...it is hard to predict, or even take a guess at who did this."
The two slowly opened the giant castle doors to find a horrible surprise for them. Inside of the giant courtyard lay a mass assortment of dark shadow creatures. They were slumped like gargoyles, each of them having small yellow glowing eyes and one small cleaved sword. Kaden watched with shock in his eyes, both of them quickly getting into a battle posistion.
"This…definitely doesn't look good." said Kayden.
"ET ganging up on us…this is NOT how I pictured my death! And I'm not gonna die here!" growled Bastian.
Kayden smirked. "These guys made a bad mistake on invading Mario's world! Time to teach them a lesson in Xtreme!"
"I follow ya!" said Bastian.
Kayden slapped on a small black wrist-watch morpher to his wrist. Matt did the same as they stood back to back, activating their morphers.
"HENSHIN!" they both shouted. They both separated and rose into the air, emitting waves from them. Kayden's wave were red as he was enveloped with fire. He emerged with a dark red battlesuit on him, a red X on the centerpiece. He held his blaster and flipped the top part back, producing a long energy blade. Matt rose up and his waves turned purple as he gained a dark purple battlesuit with the same X symbol on it. He grabbed another energy blade from his holster and the two of them floated down to the ground.
"You think we can take them all on our own Kayden?" said Bastian through his helmet headset.
"Beats me kid…but it's gonna be fun doing it on our own!" said Kayden running forward first, delivering a hard tornado slash into one of the shadow creatures. It blocked it though and press slammed the wolf into the ground. Bastian watched, charging forward and diving into one of the creatures. It simply blocked and swatted him away. Kayden handspringed up but was still caught and thrown into the wall. Bastian was thrown next to him.
"Damn it!" yelled Kayden. He ran forward yet again, swinging his sword and then jumping up, aiming his foot directly down, only to have the creatures, yet again, catch him and ths time, nail Kayden right in the face with their sword hilt.
"Kayden!" said matt, running to Kayden. "You allright?"
The dark red wolf nodded. "Y..Yeah I am. Leyla installed those new powers into your suit, go ahead and use them..."
Bastian nodded, sending mind waves slamming into the creatures. The falcon pointed at multiple pieces of stone wall and used telekensis to throw them at the creatures. Bastian also uhad been training to use two swords at the same time, while combining his pyschic powers, this made him one of the tough members of Team Xtreme. Kayden, becoming more frustrated with having his ass kicked, got on all fours and tilted his head back, howling as his entire body was enveloped in flames as he zoomed thorugh the creatures, eliminating them with hard sword swipes and fire kicks.
But everytime they eliminated one dark monster, more seemed to come in it's place. Almost worn out from fighting, Kayden turned his attention to the flames on his body.
"They can withstand normal attacks…but my fire...hmmm"
"Something up Kayden?" asked the falcon.
"Yes. If we can combine our attacks together, we can use our powers to our advantage."
Bastian thought for a moment. "Sounds like a plan! Let's do it!"
With that, Kayden and Bastian charged up their weapons with their elements and powered up their suits. Bastian smirked as he turned the dial on his morpher, making a falcon screech and covering himself in a ball of telepathic energy. Kayden turned the dial on his morpher as well, making a loud wolf howl as he threw fireballs at the ball igniting it in a firey inferno.
"INFERNOA!" yelled Kayden, a fire siloutette of a fire wolf appearing behind him.
"DEOXYS!" yelled Bastian, a silouette of a morpher falcon appearing behind him.
The ball bounced off all the walls, slamming into all the monsters, leaving finally one huge monster left in their path.
"This one's MINE!" yelled Kayden as he crippled the monster with sword swipes to his legs. He rose into the air and created a fire pillar, corkscrewing down to the beast. Kayden expanded his body then backed up to the wall, his sword turning dark red.
"WILDHEART SLASH!" he yelled, boucning off the wall and heading straight towards the beast. He dissapeared just moments before he came into contact. There was a loud shriek as he reappeared behind the mosnter, on one knee with his blade extended. A red fire syembol appeared over the creature and it burst into flames, turning into ash. Bastian panted and turned the dial back on his morpher, causing the suit to dematerialize off him. Kayden followed as well, standing up and putting his blaster into his holster.
"Is it over?" said Bastian, surveying the area.
"As far as I can see, yes." said Kayden, stretching and checking his body. "We should keep on going. I think we just got a clue as to what we're going to expect."
The duo slowly walked through the corridors, looking around for any survivors. So far, there was none. They slowly ascended the staircase, not a sound, not a whisper, not even a breeze.
"Everything's so…quiet." Said Kayden.
"Yeah." saidMatt, drawing one of his hilts. "A little too quiet."
It wasn't long before they spotted a fat plumber laying sprawled out on the floor.
"MARIO!" yelled Bastian, running to his side and helping him up. The plumber slowly woke up.
"This doesn't look good." Said Kayden, helping Mario up.
"No…it looks peachy keen…" said Mario, coughing up some blood.
"You've got some major internal injuries there man." Said Bastian, checkin out Mario's pulse.
"Whe-where is Luigi?" he asked. "Have you seen him at all?"
"We couldn't find anyone else." said Kayden. "No survivors, other then you."
Mario coughed up some more blood as he cleared his throat, finding his cap and putting it back on.
"What happened here?" asked Bastian.
The red capped man pointed to the security terminal, which now was bashed hard. Kayden and Bastian watched, they were shocked to see the events unfolding to what had happened.
"I have a vague memory of what happened during me and Sonic's battle." said Mario. "I remmember a flying fortress, Shadow teleporting us away, and then I awoke and the rest you know."
"Those black creatures we found...I've never seen anything like them." said Kayden.
"Neither have I." said Bastian, scanning the area. "We should check out the rest of the place. Maybe we might run into ol greenie."
Mario slowly nodded and stood up, the trio walking out the door. Eventually, they reached the underground chambers, surprised to find Toadsworth, Peach, and most of the toad warriors safe.
"MARIO!" yelled Peach, running and clinging tightly to Mario, crying.
"Shh, I'm here Princess...how did you all escape?"
"Quite odd creatures..." said Toadsworth. "We evacuated most of the townspeople...but most of them...didn't make it."
Peach turned her attention to Kayden and Bastian. "It has been a long time since I met you too. I am glad you came to help." Both Kayden and Bastian nodded and bowed before her.
"We will help find any survivors we can, and help find whoever attacked your kingdom." said Kayden.
"You find Luigi?" asked Bastian.
Peach shook her head. "No. No one else but who you see before you."
Kayden nodded. "I will be back soon, I'm going out to look for survivors and report this to Leyla."
Bastian nodded and stayed with the Princess. Kayden exited the tunnel and stood outside.
"Get ready for a war, whoever you are."
