The Dark Glow
Over on Sodor, Coop, Kiva, and Jamie were hanging out and eating some lunch at Knapford with Sally Sinister and the Ed Boys.
Coop and Ed were stuffing themselves, much to Double-D's repulse.
"For heaven's sake chew with your mouths closed." the hat wearing Ed pleaded.
"Listen to Double-D and show some decent table manners." Sally put in.
"Yeah. Can't you see we have a lady in our presence?" Jamie added.
"Yeah and besides you're embarrassing us." Eddy finished.
"Eddy's right and for once so is Jamie." Kiva agreed.
Ed and Coop looked at their friends and each other before smiling sheepishly and ceased their poor eating.
"Now that that's settled we can enjoy our lunch." Double-D said.
"Who would've thought that Cheese Dishes from around the world would taste so good?" Eddy said.
"These are some of the best that I've eaten yet." Sally added.
"See what'd I tell you, Sally?" Coop asked.
Before the group could discuss Zeng the Messenger Bird showed up.
"Who's the bird?" Jamie asked.
"I'm Zeng and I bring a message for Sally Sinister from the Planeteers and Master Eon."
"Who are they?" Eddy inquired, as Sally answered.
"The defenders of Earth's environment."
"Now why do they want to see us?" Coop wondered.
"I'm afraid there's trouble." the messenger explained.
"We better go see them at once. Where are they?" Kiva asked.
"Hope Island Waiting for us."
"Hope Island? How are we gonna get there?" Eddy asked.
"We'll take Megas." Coop suggested.
"Road trip!" Ed announced.
The group grabbed their lunch and hopped into Megas with Coop at the Wheel before flying to Hope Island.
Double-D was amazed, "This is truly a fascinating piece of technology."
"I just wish it was in better hands." Kiva sighed.
Eddy spoke, "Relax will you. Kira and Tori fixed the Time Flux unit and all the other parts that Coop may have broken so we'll be fine."
"In coming!" Coop called.
They saw they were flying into a flock of seagulls that squawked in shock and dispersed.
"I hate birds!" Eddy frowned.
Ed called to the seagulls, "Penelope! Edwin! Nestor!"
"You actually named those birds?" Sally asked.
"He once had some in his room." Double-D explained.
"Anyway I think we're here." Jamie noted.
The group then spotted Hope Island from the Robot and Coop Landed Megas near the Crystal Chamber.
Double-D spoke, "Excellent parking."
"For once you didn't break anything." Kiva added.
"No sweat." Coop replied.
So the crew dismounted. When they got to the Crystal Chamber they found the Planeteers waiting for them.
"Who are these Dragons?" Jamie asked.
"These are the Planeteers." Sally explained.
Ed gasped, "Dragons! Cool!"
Ed ran and gave the Dragons a bone crushing hug. Unfortunately for them his stench was fouling the air.
Wheeler gagged, "Oh! Smells like dirty diapers mixed with dead fish!"
"When was the last time this boy was cleaned?" Gi asked.
Eddy answered, "Remember when Drago was defeated and sent to the Netherworld?"
"Ya." Linka nodded.
"Same day."
"Ew!" The dragons gagged.
Double-D spoke, "Yes well, we've all gotten used to Ed's putrid odor over time... More or less."
"Anyway could you please tell us why Zeng said you wanted to see me?" Sally inquired.
Kwame spoke, "Follow us to the Crystal Chamber. Gaia will explain everything."
So the group followed the dragons.
When they got there they saw that Team Avatar minus Carol was there along with a tan skinned woman with black hair wearing a purple robe.
"Welcome my friends." the woman greeted.
"Who are you?" Kiva asked.
"I am Gaia. I am the Spirit of the Earth. I have summoned all of you here for a big reason. Especially you Sally Sinister."
"How do you know who I am?"
"I am the living spirit of planet earth itself."
"Then you know what's been happening this planet?" Double-D asked.
"Yes I do."
"I still don't see what this has to do with me." Sally said.
"Perhaps this will explain."
Gaia used her power to summon a friend of hers. This friend happened to be the spirit of an elderly man with a white beard. He had a crystal Viking helmet, a wizard's robe and a sash with eight symbols on it. Sally took one look at him and knew who it was.
"Master Eon."
"Yes, Sally, it is I Master Eon. And Gaia has summoned me because what she is about to show you concerns all of us."
"Like what?" Eddy wondered.
Gaia then used her powers to show the team a vision of dark purple crystals on the screen that appeared around Earth.
Sally gasped, "Those are fragments of Petrified Darkness."
"Exactly." Eon confirmed.
"They're what now?" Eddy asked.
Sally spoke, "Perhaps I can explain. As you all know the Darkness is very dangerous."
The Eds nodded, as Kiva, Jamie, and Coop listened.
"What I did not tell you was that in the past Petrified Darkness was used as a power source for ancient Arkeyan Battle Suits 10,000 years ago."
Double D gasped, "Good Lord, what were the Arkeyans thinking?"
"That's like using radiation as a battery. Kiva any comments from you?" Eddy asked.
"They were insane to use something as unstable like that."
Geoff spoke, "Edna, Carl, Maggie, and I know that. It wasn't our Arkeyan Ancestors' finest hour. But you have to understand that was the Robot half of the Arkeyan Empire."
Carl added, "All of us aside from Russel and Brian are from the Sorcerer half of the Arkeyan Empire and let me tell you the Arkeyan Sorcerers never used Petrified Darkness for anything."
Sally continued, "Well, that's good news but I'm afraid it gets worse. In the present day one of my enemies Kaos has used the petrified darkness in a bid to take over Skylands by evilizing innocent creatures to strengthen his army. His ultimate plan was to evilize the Ancient Elementals so that when they came together they would spread darkness across all of Skylands. Fortunately the Skylanders and I stopped him."
"What a relief." Jamie said.
Gaia spoke, "But now it seems that these dark crystals are in Korea. You must find them before our enemies do."
"Sure we can do that." Coop answered.
"Except we have no idea where to start looking." Double-D reminded him.
"Well, that blows it." Eddy sighed.
Gaia spoke up, "Not really turns out the Petrified Darkness is coming from South Korea. In a small town."
"This wouldn't happen to be the same town where Linka told me that some street kids found some cesium and mistook it for a magic star would it?" Edna wondered.
"Actually it is." Eon answered.
Wheeler gasped, "Déjà vu much?"
"Who knew?" Ed shrugged.
Sally spoke, "I suggest we get going right away. I hope that nobody else has found the Petrified Darkness by now."
"Oh Oh. Perhaps they think it is a magical star." Ed suggested.
"Go back to sleep, Ed." Eddy replied.
"Let's just get going. Good thing the last Cheese dish Sally ate was one made of Goat Cheese." Jamie said.
"Come on!" Coop ordered.
So Sally, the Eds, Coop, Kiva and Jamie headed off to Korea while the Super Megaforce stayed with the Planeteers.
"Okay so while they're off on business why are we here?" Geoff asked.
Kwame answered, "Basic Training. You guys need to get used to your powers as well as using our Rings."
"But I thought the Rings were bound only to you guys?" Maggie wondered.
"Yes. But we are all defenders of the earth so we are in fact one in the same." Gi explained.
"So basically if anything happens to you we should be able to use your rings?" Edna asked.
Gaia answered, "That's about the size of it."
"But what do we do if we run into something that we can't handle?" Geoff asked.
"Combine the power of the rings just as you combine your chi with that of Avatar Carol's." Gaia replied.
"Amazing." Maggie gasped.
"Yes but we better start training. Who knows what could happen." Brian said.
The Super Megaforce began to train while over in Megas Sally, Coop, Kiva, Jamie and the Eds were discussing.
Sally spoke, "So, Kiva, do you and Double D have a plan for when we actually find the Petrified Darkness?"
"We'll need a way to contain it, as well as making sure the enemy has no chance to grab it from us."
Double D spoke, "Since metal shielding is used to contain cesium perhaps we can build something to contain the Petrified Darkness."
"Well, nothing you can't come up with sockhead." Eddy said.
"Eddy's right. This'll be easy." Jamie kicked back.
Kiva sighed, "Nothing ever is."
"But as long as we work together we should be back in time for lunch." Sally said.
"Took the words right out of my mouth." Coop agreed. The group traveled on.
Meanwhile in Jack's Ship Jack Spicer was with Vrak, Levira and Damaras as they were heading to where the Petrified Darkness was. This time they brought Wuya Along as well.
"So tell me again what the Petrified Darkness is?" Jack asked,
Damaras spoke, "I'll take this one. Levira set up the projector so I can give Jack a lecture on Petrified Darkness."
"All right." She set things up as Jack sat on a stool with a bag of popcorn.
The projector then showed Crystalized Darkness on the screen.
Damaras explained, "This is an image of Petrified Darkness, Jack Spicer. It is a powerful substance that can benefit the Armada and the Forces of Darkness."
"Ooh, sounds neat." Jack smiled.
Wuya shushed him, "Quiet."
Levira then brought up an image of an Arkeyan Battle Suit as Damaras continued to explain.
"In the past these crystal fragments of Petrified Darkness were used to power Arkeyan Battle Suits. They were buried in a robot graveyard that is known as the Rampant Ruins, guarded by a stone monkey."
"Amazing. If we had that petrified darkness we could power the entire armada fleet forever." jack said with excitement.
Levira interrupted him, "Don't get to comfortable Jack. According to my analysis the materials were very unstable in the Arkeyan Robots. However in modern times there is a much better use for them. Have you heard of Kaos?"
"A bit, but run it by me."
Damaras continued, "He's an evil portal master that tried to take over Skylands numerous times. He destroyed Eon but his newest enemy is now Portal Master Sally Sinister and thanks to her all of his plans have failed though it was due to his own incompetence. Anyway he's currently trapped in a Cell made of Traptanium but one of his plots involved using the Petrified Darkness to evilize creatures and turn them into his servants so that he could try and take over Skylands. Unfortunately the plan failed and the crystals were destroyed."
"Well, that sucks."
Vrak spoke, "Damaras never said that all the crystals were destroyed. There are tons more buried in the Rampant Ruins and quite a few are in South Korea. If we can get them we'll be able to make plenty of Evilizers and we might even be able to dig up even more. Especially now that the Stone Monkey is gone."
Wuya was pleased, "Excellent"
Vrak got close to her, "Let me make this clear, Wuya. Gianna pulled up your file and it says that you've done a lot of things to make your allies distrust you. If you pull off this mission we will give you some of your power back. Fail and I'll have my father make sure you'll be doing janitor duty. Is that clear?"
Wuya winced, "Crystal."
Vrak nodded, "Good now we're almost to South Korea. Levira managed to create a device that'll let us locate the Petrified Darkness."
"Oh, I can't wait." Jack beamed.
Damaras turned to the evil boy genius, "Just be careful. I do not want you to repeat Prince Vekar's Mistakes."
"No sweat. I'm way more competent than him."
Wuya snarked, "Not that much."
Vrak spoke, "I hate to say it but Wuya has a point. Still at least you're willing to dirty your hands unlike my foolish brother. However you have had some occasional success so you are slightly more competent than Vekar."
"Score for Jack Spicer evil boy genius!" he pumped a fist.
Damaras stopped him, "Save the celebration for after we get the petrified Darkness." Jack understood as the Egg Fort headed to Korea.
Over in a Korean Junkyard two street kids around the age of 7, a girl named Soo and a boy named San had snuck looking for something. Both had black hair and were barefoot. Soo had an orange dress and carried a bag while Son wore a simple light orange t shirt and shorts.
San spoke, "Soo, what are we doing here? Didn't the manager tell us not to come back?"
"And I say why listen to him when he's not our boss."
"But still…."
"Come on, San. Don't be such a scaredy cat."
"I'm not."
The two looked around the scrap yard before Soo spotted something, "Hey, what's that?"
Soo spotted a capsule that was on the ground, "There's something inside. Help me, San."
San went over to help. Soo and San opened the capsule and out popped a big dark purple Crystal.
"Wait till we show our friends." Soo began.
"But what is it?" San inquired.
"Hey whose there?" came a voice. The two suspected it was the manager.
"Let's go." Soo said, as they bolted for it with the big dark purple crystal in hand.
Meanwhile Megas had landed in town near a food joint and surprisingly didn't wreck anything.
"You're getting better, Coop." Sally noted.
"Well, thanks."
Kiva spoke up, "According to the scanner that I created with the information on the Petrified Darkness the Scanner shows that some petrified Darkness was released at one minute past 6."
"So let's find it and bag it." Eddy said.
"Unless somebody found it before we did." Jamie feared.
"Well, we better hurry." Double-D said.
"Can we at least get some lunch on the way?" Coop asked.
The group minus Ed rolled their eyes.
"Let's just go." Sally ordered. So they hurried while tracking the location.
Meanwhile with Soo and San they were looking at the Crystal they had found completely unaware that said crystal was actually petrified Darkness.
"I wonder how much this is worth?" Soo wondered.
"Quite a lot." San believed.
"Oh, look it comes off." Soo removed it from it's spot.
"Maybe we should wipe it off." San suggested.
Meanwhile the Egg Fort was currently hovering over the scrapyard as Jack, Wuya, Damaras, Levira, and Vrak were searching the area.
"They say one man's trash is another man's treasure. What do the rest of you think?" Jack inquired.
Damaras answered, "I think this is everyone's trash."
Levira spoke, "You wouldn't see me making anything from this junk."
Wuya was disgusted, "So disgusting. How can you find anything in this filth?"
Vrak replied, "Even so the scanner says that a small shard of Petrified Darkness is here."
"So let's keep looking." Jack suggested.
The group continued looking till Jack found the Petrified Darkness in his usual manner. He stumbled over a pile of garbage burying him until he popped his head out.
"Over there." Spicer pointed to the Fragment of Petrified Darkness.
"Well here it is." Damaras said.
"We must contain it." Vrak noted.
"Why?" Jack wondered, as Levira explained.
"Because if Petrified Darkness is handled without a containment unit it could corrupt everyone nearby. I'd say in about half an hour to an hour give or take."
"Exactly." Vrak confirmed.
"Well we could use this," Jack presented a high tech containment unit complete with a bio hazard sign, "It's my latest invention. I was planning on using this to contain radioactive material."
"I'm impressed, Spicer." Vrak admitted.
"Me too. It's so unlike you to do something right, Jack." Wuya added.
"Well, there is a reason he graduated college at an early age." Levira said.
Jack controlled the unit as two metal claws gently picked it up and placed it inside the module, "Well, that takes care of that. Vrak perhaps you should take this to your father. We'll stay here and collect the other sample of Petrified Darkness.
"Very well. All of you be careful." Vrak ordered.
Wuya was curious, "Why because somebody else may have found the other sample of Petrified Darkness?"
"That and if you touch it without a containment unit then you know the story."
"All right you guys. Let's get to work." Jack ordered.
"Jack's, right. Once we get that last sample of Petrified Darkness we can start making some evilizers." Levira said.
Meanwhile with Soo and San they were showing their friends the crystal.
"It is a magic star that fell from the sky." Soo began.
"And when you touch it Stardust comes off." San added. Their friends gasped in amaze and got closer.
Meanwhile the heroes were following the trail when Eddy spoke up.
"Sally, how long would it take for somebody to be corrupted by the Petrified Darkness?" Eddy asked.
"Yes. What is the exact calculation?" Double-D asked.
"Either an hour or half an hour."
"Well, I hate to break it to you but the clock says that it's 21 past six." Jamie noticed.
"Which means we've only got 10 minutes left to find the remaining shards." Kiva realized.
Ed began to panic, "Oh, no! Oh, no! I'm not in my happy place, guys!"
Coop calmed them, "Relax, guys. It'll all work out. It usually does."
Kiva replied, "Only after something bad happens."
"I'm afraid to ask but what do you mean?" Double-D inquired.
Kiva explained, "Things have only worked out only after the worst has happened."
Jamie spoke, "Like how Jersey ended up being covered in Smog after a metal eating solar powered robot attacked."
"But in the end I got the slushee I was trying to get all day." Coop reminded him.
"I think I found the petrified darkness." Sally said.
"Where is it?" Eddy asked.
"It's in there." Sally was pointing to an abandoned building.
"According to the scanner it's very close." Kiva said.
"So let's go get this sucker." Coop smirked.
The group followed the scanner into the building and they found Soo, San, and the other kids.
"Now pass the star back to me." Soo said.
Sally spoke to the group, "We must not frighten them."
"I wonder how it tastes." Soo wondered.
On that note Kiva rushed into action. She flipped over and landed before them, "Back away from the petrified darkness."
"Run!" Soo cried. The kids ran out the window and ran for it.
Jamie spoke to the red head, "Nice going, Kiva. Sally said not to frighten the kids."
Sally called, "Soo. San. Wait. We won't hurt you."
The kids continued running for it with San still holding on to the petrified Darkness.
Eddy gasped, "They got the petrified darkness! Ed, fetch!"
"Awooga!" Ed chased after them as fast as his legs would let him.
Double-D spoke, "I'm concerned about letting Ed retrieve it."
"That's why I'm sending in back up. Wash Buckler, Blast Zone. I summon you." Sally summoned the two.
"What's up?" Wash asked.
"I need the two of you to help Ed retrieve some petrified darkness."
Blast sighed, "Not again. Some of Skylanders had to absorb that stuff to keep it from escaping."
"We need to contain it and keep it out of enemy hands."
"Consider it done. Blast and I will help Ed." Wash Buckler and Blast Zone went after Ed while the rest of the team followed.
Over with Soo, San and their friends they had escaped to another part of town.
"Let's split up." Soo ordered.
"What if that big guy finds us? He looks like he'd eat us whole." San was scared.
"You should worry about yourselves kids!"
Right on cue Levira and the team that was with her showed up, "Hand over the petrified Darkness."
The group backed away in fright.
"Jackbots. Get the petrified darkness!" Jack ordered.
The kids ran for it but the Jack bots were catching up.
Two managed to grab hold of the crystal and yanked it out of the kids grasp.
"No our magic star." Soo cried.
"Is now ours! Let's go." Jack called.
The villains were about to leave but then a large yellow form charged in.
"Skull Bash!" Ed tackled one Jackbot making him let go while the second one couldn't hold it on its own.
Wash Buckler and Blast Zone grabbed the Petrified Darkness and contained it in a jar that Sally had given them.
"X Borgs! Get them!" Levira ordered. The X-Borgs went into battle.
Ed, Wash Buckler, and Blast Zone went into battle to fight off the X Borgs while protecting the kids.
"Jackbots, get in there!" Right on cue the Jackbots got in there and began attacking.
"Wuya, what can you tell me about Jack Spicer's Jackbots?" Damaras asked.
"They're practically useless against his enemies. Especially the Xiaolin monks."
True to form The Skylanders were making scrap metal out of the Jackbots.
"See what I mean?" she asked.
"They need upgrades." Damaras said.
"Fortunately I have some upgrade chips. But for now let's just grab the petrified Darkness and get out of here." Levira said.
Damaras nodded, as more X-Borgs went to retrieve the petrified darkness.
To the shock of the bad guys Ed began using a lamp post as a weapon and started swatting X-Borgs left and right.
"Prepare to meet your maker!" Ed shouted.
"That guy's strong enough to cause problems for you, Damaras." Jack warned him.
"He is but a mortal."
"So were the rangers on earth in your home dimension and look what happened." Wuya reminded him.
"This boy is nothing like them. He is an idiot."
As Ed and the Skylanders fought the X Borgs Soo and San were talking about them.
"Those guys are nuts." San began.
"But they stopped those bad guys from getting us." Soo noted.
"But they're fighting over what we found." Soo turned her attention back to the battle.
Back with Ed and the Skylanders the three discussed.
"Did you get the Petrified Darkness out of here?" Wash asked.
Blast answered, "Unfortunately not. I was trying to protect the kids. I still have it in the container though."
"Then let's get it out of here." Wash said.
"No need to tell us twice but we need to protect the kids first. As Skylanders we have a duty to protect the innocent."
Ed and Wash Buckler nodded as they continued to battle the X Borgs until they were defeated but what they didn't know was that Soo, San and their friends heard every word that they said.
"Those are Skylanders?" Soo asked.
"It appears so and it seems that they really are on our side." San said.
"Well, I feel so much better."
Once the X Borgs were defeated Ed and Blast Zone went to work facing the bad guys while Wash Buckler spoke to the kids.
Wash addressed them, "Greetings, kids. We apologize for the red haired lady yelling earlier but the magic star you found was actually a dangerous material."
"You mean to say that our magic star is dangerous?" San asked.
"Precisely." Blast confirmed.
"Will we be okay?" Soo inquired.
Wash replied, "We think so, kids. Now let's get out of here. Ed just finished going to town on the bad guys."
"Then let's go." San said.
Ed, Wash Buckler, Blast Zone, and the kids left the scene on that note.
Later on at the hospital the kids were being examined for any lingering effects as Sally, Kiva, Jamie, Coop, Wash Buckler, Blast Zone, and the Eds were in the waiting room.
Sally spoke, "Good thing you guys found the Crystal in time. Any longer and those kids would've been turned into evil versions of themselves."
"And that wouldn't have been a good sight." Double-D said.
"At least we have the Petrified Darkness and its safe. Now we can enjoy some down time here." Eddy relaxed.
The group agreed as they could see that the kids were gonna make a full recovery.
