Chapter 2: Flaming Galaxies
While Ash was off fighting the evil insects, a man appeared somewhere near the Team Galactic headquarters.
Mars, seeing the man, ran up to him. After getting a good look at him, she hugged him tightly.
"Guys! Cyrus is back!" she screamed as loud as she could.
Jupiter and Saturn were surprised to see their old boss right in front of them, while Charon was acting like he expected this to happen.
"Has everything been done according to plan?" he asked.
"Yes sir, we're getting ready for a complete surprise attack on Ash and his accomplices," Saturn replied.
"Perfect! Soon, we shall rule the universe!"
At Ash's camp...
They were defending a small town, which had no name, from an attack from the infernal insects the alloci, which were flaming locust-like creatures, commonly used for quickly infesting towns.
An allocus could easily take down an entire defense force in one swift strike, so it should be no surprise that the special forces had to be called in.
May held her rifle in her hands, aiming at a swarm of alloci and scattering them, thus making them easier for Lao to deal with, while also tending to the wounded people, applying a cream that would halt the burning.
Ash was busy dousing the flaming town, for the alloci had already started burning it down and kidnapping residents.
Lao was inhaling any scattered alloci he either found or the ones May scattered with her Ether Rifle.
After munching on the spicy insects, he gave up and swapped jobs with Ash, dousing his tongue and the town with his water.
"Guys, we've got a problem!" Lao yelled.
"What is it?" Ash yelled back.
"We're getting overwhelmed by alloci! They're just too much!"
"Don't say that! We can do this!"
"You're right. I'll give it all I've got!"
Suddenly, out of nowhere, all the alloci clustered together and formed a gigantic allocus.
"HEHEHE. YOU HAVE MESSED WITH THE WRONG INSECTS, DIMWITS," it said in an almost robotic voice.
Ash pulled out his longsword and began swinging his sword, attempting to kill it.
All it did, however, was slice it apart briefly and then it fused back together.
"YOU THINK YOUR PUNY SWORD WILL WORK ON ME? HA! I LAUGH. I LAUGH AT YOU. YOU ARE WEAK."
Lao began to feel his rage build up inside.
It then attacked, biting Ash's shoulders with jaws that injected a venom that caused a burning sensation.
"OW OW OW HOT HOT HOT!"
Lao was rushing to aid him, but he halted the very instant he heard a cry from a burning house.
"Help me! Please!" the voice said.
Lao rushed to the house with his bucket of water and chucked it at the house, then reached his hand in.
"Climb on! It's the only way to actually get out!"
He heard much shuffling about and felt a human climb onto his hand.
"You on?"
"Yes!"
He pulled his hand out of the house right when it caught on fire again, and looked in his hand. He saw a woman, sleek and tall, with delicate-looking eyes. Next to her was a man, short and fat, with one leg missing. He had a solid gaze.
"I can't thank you enough for helping me!" the woman said gratefully. "My father was injured when the fire came around, so I'm grateful we're alive."
He set her down. "It's my pleasure to help." He shrunk down to his human form and began to make conversation. "My name is Lao. I serve on the defense force in Jubilife."
"Oh, you're that guy! The one who defeated that gang of crooks with only a taser!" the man said. He got up, with the woman helping him. "My name is Percival, and this is my daughter Sharla." (A/N: I'M SORRY BUT I JUST PLAYED XENOBLADE AND I HAD TO! DON'T HURT ME!)
"Sharla, eh? Well, nice to meet you."
"Uh, Lao, I could really use some help here!" Ash growled as he blocked a scratching claw from the giant flaming locust.
"I'M COMING!" Lao yelled back. Then he turned to Sharla and Percival, handing each of them something. Then he morphed and flew over to help Ash.
During this, Ash was attempting to kill the giant allocus, but wasn't having much success. Every time he sliced off an appendage, it just regrew.
Lao got another bucket of water and threw it at the giant allocus, which solidified into a giant locust-shaped statue.
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS," it said.
Ash then stabbed it straight through the head and decimated it.
Ash and Lao then shrunk down to their human forms and reunited with their friends.
"We can't thank you enough," Percival said. There was a hint of pleasure in his voice, and when he told Lao he'd go with him, nobody objected.
Back at the Team Galactic headquarters...
Cyrus had reassembled the entire team galactic and had explained their alliance with Cyranek's army. Everyone seemed to take offense to it, but they did not dare make their boss mad.
"I have been in contact with Giratina, and I plan to use its powers to open a hole leading to the reverse world, which will absorb everything that is this world."
A grunt rushed in, with his hair singed, as if it were burned partially.
"Sir! We have a problem!" he said while pulling his hair. "The alloci have been defeated!"
Cyrus rubbed his chin and began to think.
Back at the town...
Ash got a medal put around his neck and had pride in his eyes.
"...and in honor of these heroes, we shall finally name this little town." the mayor said. "We shall call it Ashton!"
The inhabitants clapped and cheered as Ash, Lao and May walked onto the meeting stage and had received many declarations of love from many people; Ash and May said that they were already married, while Lao had had his eyes set on a different woman who had him from the first minute they knew each other.
He waved at Sharla, who waved back shyly, but a crowd of women thought he was waving to them and fainted out of emotional shock.
Back at the invasion's origin...
|Alpha-|
\Shut up, Phi! I don't need your constant annoyance bothering me!/
|But Alpha-|
\I SAID SHUT UP!/
|How do you think Master Cyranek is going to respond to this?|
\He'll take my side, that's for damn sure./
|We're siblings. We're also part of the Elite Guard!|
\I don't care! I can do what I want because I'm the leader of the Elite Guard!/
|...don't you think you ought to actually do something involving the destruction of that planet?|
\Like I said. I don't care./
|You really want your kids to be devoured by Master Cyranek?|
\.../
|Alpha?|
\Go away, Phi. You don't deserve the Namea namesake./
|...|
\I know full well you didn't leave yet./
|It's funny. You think that just because you have red lights and your name is Alpha Namea, you automatically are allowed to boss me around.|
\...get out of my sight, sister. Be thankful you aren't treated as bad as OMEGA. She might get a bite for doing something as simple as blinking./