Chapter 4: Ruining Good Chances

Skarr was hoping the Ura would hand over the core willingly within the Tazal Terminals. Zulf was continuing the tour to Skarr who was showing the former general how militaristic his people were.

"Hmm, I'm very impressed" said Skarr as he observed the Uran troops in action, "very adequate troops. Wish Hector had some of them."

"So, you were a general?" asked Zulf to Skarr.

"Yes, sadly Hector was bought out" continued Skarr, "now all I own is a simple garden in Endsville. I thought the Calamity brought the perfect garden for me to forge forever, until that Billy had survived it!"

"Tell me more about this Billy?" asked Zulf.

"Are you kidding me, Billy always likes to destroy my garden, he's the reason why the Calamity started in my world" continued Skarr.

Meanwhile back in the Bastion, Billy arrived on the scene with the core and Rucks was there without Grim.

"Hey, where the heck did Grim go?" asked Billy.

"He had to head to the Wilderness" replied Rucks.

"Where the heck did the one eye weirdo go to?" asked Billy.

"Tazal Terminals" continued Rucks.

"So where the heck are Irwin and Mindy?" continued Billy.

"They headed to Caelondia" replied Rucks.

"Where's that?" asked Billy.

"Take the Skyward" continued Rucks.

Meanwhile poor Grim was having issues of his own, the peckers continued to follow the Reaper everywhere he went, and he tried to use his scythe a few times to take down some of the peckers.

"Darn, these birds won't leave me alone!" cried Grim.

Grim tried his best to fend off the peckers as they came their way, but the Reaper would sadly be no match for them. He had to outrun the peckers as best as he could, he once again tumbled on a rock and fell down another hill, this time landing in a giant Venus fly trap that spat the Reaper right on out.

"Great, I guess I wasn't good enough for that Venus fly trap" said Grim who dusted himself up.

There the core sat which Grim could see it.

"Oh my, it's so beautiful" said Grim.

But as the Reaper was going to take another step closer, an Ankelgator took the core toward its lair.

"Hey, that's mine, you bring that back to me!" roared Grim as he began to chase down the Ankelgator.

Meanwhile for Mindy and Irwin, Irwin was always following Mindy throughout the city of Caeolondia. She hated the idea of Irwin following her.

"This is indeed a punishment!" cried Mindy, "I cannot believe such a loser like you would ever be following me!"

"But the old guy back at the Bastion wouldn't let me take the statue of Mandy with me" whined Irwin.

"You should have gone on your own somewhere else!" continued Mindy.

"But I'll be all alone!" cried Irwin.

"Excuse me, but is this gentleman bothering you?" asked the Kid as he noticed Mindy and Irwin arguing.

"Duh, this loser won't leave me alone!" continued Mindy to which she noticed the Kid had a Marshal's badge, "If you're part of the law here, do something about this nerd!"

The Kid seemed like he had no other choice but to take Irwin away.

"Wait yo, don't listen to her, she's whacked up crazy yo, she wants to take the core of the city!" cried Irwin as he was being escorted away.

"I'm not buying it" said the Kid as he continued to escort Irwin.

"Serves you right you loser!" laughed Mindy.

As Mindy headed off, she bumped into Zia who was having her own trouble.

"Just my luck to bump into another loser" said Mindy, "where the heck are you off running from?"

"The Marshals" replied Zia.

"Well one of them just took a loser away" laughed Mindy referring to Irwin.

"Why what did he do?" asked Zia.

"Nothing, he was just following me about" continued Mindy, "and I couldn't take it anymore!"

"That's kind of mean to do" said Zia, "you should try to get your friend out of jail."

"What, help a nerd like Irwin get out of prison, this is the best day of my life" laughed Mindy as she headed off.

"Wow, I hated to have you hear that statement" said a Marshal soldier as he was listening on Mindy's ramblings, "just for that you're off the hook."

Mindy headed off to search for the core, meanwhile Zia headed toward the prison where poor Irwin was being kept in his cell.

"You have a visitor" said the Kid as he showed Zia in.

"Hey, I don't know who the heck you are yo" said Irwin.

"I'm Zia" replied Zia, "that girl was so mean to you for letting you get locked up like this."

"I know, that Mindy she's going after the city's core, you have to stop her yo!" continued Irwin.

"The core, she's targeting the core, I'll put the other Marshals on alert" said the guard.

Mindy indeed was just inches away from obtaining the core, when Irwin along with the Kid and Zia managed to make it all the way to where she was.

"What, how did you get out of prison you loser!" roared Mindy.

"Don't take the core yo!" cried Irwin.

"There's no way that I'll stand talking to a statue for the rest of my life!" said Mindy who ends up taking the core.

Mindy ended up racing for her life to which the Kid along with Zia began to follow Irwin along with helping him up since he was rather slow catching up toward Mindy as she was making her way to the skyward.

"See you later losers!" laughed Mindy.

As Mindy leaped through the skyward, the Kid along with Zia and Irwin promptly followed as the place started to fall apart.