PIRATE ADVENTAAAHH!

"TEAM MEETING IN THE LIVING ROOM!" Wash Buckler screamed. "FIRST ONE HERE GETS MY ROOM!"

Since they knew that their leader had the most comfortable bedroom, immediately, other teammates dashed into the room.

"I got it first!" Freeze Blade yelled.

"NO IT'S MINE!" Chompy Mage wrestled the ice cat to the ground.

"Yeah!" Mage's chompy puppet agreed, before sinking its felt teeth into Freeze Blade's fur.

"YOU'RE BOTH WRONG!" Dr Krankcase screeched as he hurled himself into them, followed by the others, besides Spy Rise, who didn't seem to care. "THE ROOM BELONGS TO ME!"

"Oh yeah?" Rattle Shake sneered at him.

"YEAH-"

"Stop that this instant! All of you!" Wash Buckler ordered firmly. "No one is getting my room."

"But you said-" Freeze Blade began.

"I know what I said!" Wash Buckler spat at the water swapper. "But I have called this meeting for something of the upmost importance! MUCH more important than deciding who gets my room." He slammed his fist on the table. "King Pen has been kidnapped by a team of greebles. I'm guessing they're planning to use his penguin butt feathers for soft bedding."

A wave of gasps chorused through the other six skylanders.

"Okay, guys you don't have to make a big deal about it," Wash Buckler said dryly. "This isn't the first time he's been kidnapped this month."

"Point taken," Krankcase noted. "There was that time with the greebles…"

"And that one time with the doom raiders," Freeze Blade added.

"And that one crazy event-" Rattle Shake said but was interrupted.

"We get it!" Spy Rise growled from the corner of the living room. "The important thing is, what are we going to do about it exactly?"

"I am SO glad you asked that SR!" Wash Buckler said excitedly.

"Don't call me that."

"For what I have in store for us all today, is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience!" the mermasquid was practically hopping from tentacle to tentacle on the spot. "We are going on a PIRATE ADVENTER!"

The others groaned, disappointed.

"I thought you'd be more excited."

"This is the third time we've had a "Pirate Adventure" this week," Rattle Shake sighed. "Can't we do something that's not related to you and your weird pirate-based addictions?"

"NO!" the mermasquid yelled. "WE ARE GOING ON A SUPER SWEET PIRATE ADVENTURE IN MY NEW AWESOME PIRATE SKY SHIP I JUST STOLE-I MEAN BOUGHT!"

"Ugh, fine," Chompy Mage said unenthusiastically. "But only if we get back before lunch. Chompy puppet doesn't like to miss main meals."

"We will take as much time as we need to rescue our beloved feathered friend!" Wash Buckler said with great inspiration in his voice. "Now, come my loyal comrades. Let us adventure out into the mysterious world that lies beyond the academy!"

"Okay, I'm officially bored," Rattle Shake complained, as he gazed over the boat at the sky-islands below.

"But isn't it worth it for King Pen?" Wash Buckler asked him as he steered the skyship.

"No, not really," the serpent said without hesitation.

The mermasquid scowled and muttered to himself, "You guys really need to learn how to bond as a team."

"Are we almost there yet?" Chompy Mage asked wearily. "Chompy puppet's airsick."

"We don't care about your stupid puppet, Mage!" Spy Rise snapped at him.

"HEY!" Dr Krankcase threatened. "Do you WANT puppet to throw up in your face? Because I will make him if he needs to!"

"Stay out of this, Doc!" the spyder snarled. "This isn't your fight."

"Will you two stop your bickering?" Rattle Shake hissed at them. "You're only making this trip more unbearable."

"Quiet, all of you!" Wash Buckler commanded. "Why don't you at least try to enjoy the journey Rattle Shake? And Spy Rise, leave Chompy Mage and his puppet alone."

Dr Krankcase smirked at Spy Rise, who returned it with a sharp scowl. Then Freeze Blade stood in between them and shoved them apart.

"PUPPET VOMIT GOING OVERBOARD!" Chompy Mage warned as he bent his puppet over the side of the skyship and mimicked the sound of barfing. "Uh oh."

"Don't tell me," Rattle Shake guessed. "Chompy puppet fell-"

"MY CHOMPY WOMPY PUPPET FELL OVERBOARD!" Chompy Mage cried.

The Mage ran up to Wash Buckler and shook him back and forth pleading, "WE HAVE TO GO BACK! PLEASE! PLEAAASSSSEE! CHOMPY PUPPET HAS SEPARATION ANXIETY!"

"We have no choice but to turn back," Dr Krankcase said. "When Mage and his puppet are separated - well… you don't want to know. You're just gonna have to trust me on that."

Wash Buckler sighed heavily, "Fine. We'll go back for Chompy Puppet."

"OH THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!" The green mage exclaimed, hugging the captain tightly.

"But I can only turn back if you let go of me so I can steer without being suffocated."

"Right, right. Sorry."

The leader rolled the steering wheel to the left, turning the skyship around to the opposite angle. It surged forward, then stopped suddenly when it was hovering above the area that the puppet fell to.

"Spy Rise, take Chompy Mage and Dr Krankcase down to find the puppet. But be quick. We can't afford to waste any more time since King Pen is still missing."

Spy Rise nodded and called the mage and the doctor over to him.

The spyder attached his green, glowing webbing to the wooden posts on the left side of the skyship. Chompy Mage held on to him and they floated down to the ground below. Dr Krankcase leapt off of the ship, squirting goo from his two guns below him, and slowly descended downwards to join them.

"I'm coming for you my trusty puppet!" Chompy Mage called out.

When the three skylanders landed on the forest floor, they glanced around for any sign of the lost puppet.

"We need to spread out, to cover more ground," Spy Rise suggested.

"No," Krankcase said. "Who knows what's lurking in this wild forest? Probably threats bigger and more dangerous than only one of us can handle. We should stay together."

"Fine," Spy Rise agreed hesitantly. "Come on Mage. Mage?"

They glanced around for the life sensei, but he was nowhere in sight.

"Where did he go?" Spy Rise scanned through the forest to see if he could locate their teammate.

"I thought I made it pretty clear that he gets VERY desperate when he's separated from Chompy Puppet," Dr Krankcase pointed out. "We probably shouldn't have let him out of our sight."

Spy Rise face-palmed as he wondered why the mage was a part of the team in the first place.

"Come on," the spyder sighed wearily. "I don't know what Wash Buckler would do to us if he found out that we lost him."

"Agreed. We better get moving."

As they searched through the deep, dark forest, desperate to find Chompy Mage, they started to get the feeling that they were being watched. Dr Krankcase glanced around timidly, his goo guns firmly clamped in his hands. He silently hoped that those glowing eyes were just Chompy Mage trying to make an entrance.

Spy Rise stretched his left arm out beside him, stopping the doctor in his tracks. "Something's coming," he murmured.

He was right, the doctor realised. The eerie, glowing eyes edged closer and closer by the second. Without hesitation, he readied himself and pulled out his goo guns. Spy Rise slipped his metal goggles down in front of his eyes and aimed a bright green laser in between the eyes of the uninvited stalker. Then, suddenly, more and more pairs of eyes began to emerge from the darkness. The two skylanders gulped. Dozens of well-built drows entered from the shadows and surrounded them quickly, aiming at them with their piercing spears.

They glanced around at their opponents. The number of them was countless.

Dr Krankcase grimaced and said, "Leave me with them."

"What? That's the most idiotic plan you've ever had, Doc."

"Just trust me. I'm a sensei, remember?"

"And you're also-" the spyder tried to reason but was cut off.

"Old? Weak?" the doctor questioned him, but with no trace of offense. "I'm not that useless. After all, I've been able to defend myself from Chompy Mage every time I shot a chompy."

I suppose that's true the spyder thought. "Are you sure?"

"I'll catch up. Go find the mage and get back to the team. King Pen will need help - and soon."

Spy Rise nodded briskly, then dragged himself up into the trees with his webbing, and rushed away to find his other teammate.

As he abandoned the ambush, he could hear the sounds of furious battle.

"Oh Chompy Puppet!" Chompy Mage exclaimed, hugging his life-long companion. "I'm so happy I've found you! What would I do without you?"

"I missed you too, Chompy Mage!" the puppet said in his regular high-pitched voice.

"I'll never toss you over the side of a skyship again!"

"There you two are!" Spy Rise emerged from the trees. "We've been looking for you everywhere!"

"'We'?" the mage responded. "I only see you."

"Long story. Let's just get back to the ship," the spyder said in his edgy tone.

"Fine with me," Chompy Puppet said. "This forest is just too edgy for me."

When they returned to the area the ship was above, Freeze Blade threw down a rope for them when he saw them. They climbed back up onto the deck of the ship.

"Wait, where's Krankcase?" Wash Buckler questioned them.

"Uhh…"

"YOU NINCOMPOOPS LOST A TEAMMATE?!"

"Nah, I'm good," Dr Krankcase replied.

"GAH! When did you get here?!" Rattle Shake said.

"Again, I'm not that useless," the doctor said with an irritated tone to his voice.

"Right," Wash Buckler said. "Now, let's go save King Pen!"

"Yeah!" the team exclaimed enthusiastically.

"I'm bored again," Rattle Shake muttered.

"We all are," Freeze Blade said in a dull tone.

"NO, THIS IS FUN!" Wash Buckler yelled at them. "YOU ARE ALL HAVING SO MUCH FUN BECAUSE THIS IS A SUPER COOL PIRATE ADVENTURE!"

"I just hope we're almost there," Spy Rise said edgily.

"Where are we going exactly?" King Pen asked.

The others gasped in surprise.

"KING PEN?!" Krankcase yelled. "HE HAS BEEN HERE THIS WHOLE TIME?!"

"Yeah, I figured that I was under that trap door for a long time, so I decided to come out. I hope you don't mind Wash Buckler."

"But-but…" Rattle Shake stammered. "You got kidnapped by greebles!"

"How did you get HERE?" Freeze Blade asked the sensei.

"Umm…" Wash Buckler stuttered. "I may have made up the whole 'greebles kidnapping King Pen' idea."

"You WHAT?!" the team exclaimed.

"Well, I sort of wanted an excuse for us all to go on a pirate adventure together…"

"And by all of us, I assume you mean all of us but King Pen," Spy Rise noted.

"It's sort of obvious that he's my least favourite team member."

The others looked to King Pen for a reaction, but he just shrugged.

"Well why didn't you just leave him at the base instead of hoping that he wasn't seen on the ship?" Freeze Blade asked the mermasquid.

"Do you even know how ANNOYING King Pen is?" Wash Buckler answered. "He kept nagging and nagging to come along on the trip. I couldn't say no!"

"Yes, I am indeed very aggravating," King Pen said calmly.

"Anyway," the leader said. "I'm glad you're all such good sports and loyal, trustworthy friends. Now let's head back to the base, shall we?"

The team exchanged thoughtful glances, which quickly turned despicable.

"Nah, I have a better idea," Rattle Shake rubbed his hands together.

Then they threw him overboard.

The End.

Written By Uni