Gravity Winx
By Adventuremaker16
Chapter 6: The Black-Mud Swamp part one
Authors note: I am so sorry for my long 5 month break, but I had college to go to. I was also on a kick for my spin-off series; The Protectors. I also binged watched Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood again after it miraculously appeared on Netflix again.
I'm also open in taking in a co-author and/or a beta-reader or two for this story, my Protectors story series, and my experimental FMA:B story. If your interested, PM me and we can talk things through.
The joys of an outdoor class have always been a favorite to students, whether they be from earth for a peaceful reading class, or for the students of Alfea ready for a personal test. Here, in the middle of a strange swamp, we see the students wearing matching safari outfits, with some students wearing safari hats (or in Dipper's case, his trapper hat) to help them protect themselves from whatever lies within the woods they their in. "Before I would like to explain today's activity" began the elf professor "I should warn you that it will be a little challenging to those who have little experience with the outdoors," He sees that a student was raising her hand. "Yes, miss Francine?"
"Professor Palladium, a mosquito just bit me." She said, feeling all high and mighty. "This is the outdoors, my dear. Mosquito's and other insects will be out here. It's all part of one big ecosystem of animals and plants." He said, trying to make her feel better. "But look where it got me." She said, lifting her shorts to reveal her thigh. "No one's going to date me with a bump on my thigh." The professor stepped back in response as Bloom covers the twin's eyes, not wanting to corrupt their fragile little minds. "I wanna see." Said Mabel. "Oh my...well-um...what I m-meant to say was...um..." He stuttered his response the best he can as the other students laughed at him. "Poor Palladium. We really shouldn't be giving him a hard time." Said Flora. "If he was more confident, maybe he would have gotten more respect." Tecna agreed with her friend.
Palladium cleared his throat and started saying something. "Now, as I was saying, today's activity will further your worth as a true fairy. You and your assigned teams of seven have three hours to get out of the the Black Mud Swamp and into the clearing in the Gloomy Wood Forest, all without using magic unless it's an emergency." He then teleports out of the swamp, but is still present enough to give one last sentence to his class. "Remember," he began, "Listen to nature and follow it's voice. They give out some really good advice."
The students break off into their groups, but the group were focusing on is getting knee deep in the mud, but to Dipper and Mabel, it's going up to their necks. "Can you carry us," asked Mabel, "We're not exactly tall as you girls and I don't want to drown in goop before marriage."
They immediately help their younger friends out by having Stella carry Mabel on her back and Tecna carrying Dipper bridal style. "I don't know about you girls, but this place is totally disgusting." Said Stella, who detests on being in the mud. "First thing i'm doing when I get back is taking a long, hot bath."
Musa agreed with Stella completely, saying "Totally, but I'll take one before you. There is no way i'm letting this mud get into my hair. It's personal, but it has to do with my cousin."
Tecna waves her hands the best she can without dropping her little 'genius buddy' in the mud to cast a spell, but Dipper stops her. "Wait," he began, "Remember what the professor said about magic. We have to listen to the voice of nature...whatever that means."
Flora sniffs the air quickly and covers her nose. "Ugh, that smell. It smells like..." she was about to finish her thought as she immediately knows what she smelled. "We have to get out of here, NOW!" She demanded. The others move away from the area as Flora picks up a stick, throws it and pops a gas bubble, which causes a chain reaction of other bubbles popping. "If Tecna cast that spell, Alfea might have been serving fried fairy wings for dinner tonight."
"Yea, and my outfit would have been ruined in the crossfire," Stella complained. "And you would have paid me back every cent of its value."
At the darkest, coldest rooms of Cloud tower, a door swung open and the Trix witches stormed in, obviously done with classes for the day. Pacifica was the most done of them all, as she just wants to lay down and think about stuff, maybe create a small metallic statue of herself.
"Thank God," began Pacifica, "Classes are done for the day. If you need me, i'll be in my bed, covered in soft blankets," she said as she began to head to her bed.
Darcy stops and thinks for a second. "I feel like we're forgetting someone...someone big, yellow and kind of incompetent." As she said that, the closet starts rustling around.
"Ow..." a voice from the closet spoke. "I can't feel my foot and I really need to stretch my legs. Can I come out now?"
Icy, not looking at the closet, busy fixing her looks in front of a mirror, said "Let him out, Stormy. Knut may be a huge hulking ogre, but he still needs to be prepared for anything."
Stormy grunts and lets out Knut, who somehow made the room smell with his body odor. Immediately, the 4 witches cover their noses and groan at the smell.
"Oh come on, Knut. I know you're a ogre, but you should at least smell better then this," exclaimed Stormy.
"Oh..." he began, "Then it's probably a bad time to mention that I ate beans for lunch."
Pacifica, extremely pissed at their servant, got up from her bed, and stormed to his face. " Listen up, you big puke colored buffoon. I was going to be the nice witch and give you one of my blankets because you complained that you were cold at night, but you can forget it." She turned around and took a step forward and resumed her rant. "What were you thinking, eating those beans. In the two weeks that I've known you, I learned that you always smell up the place, and that your stomach can't handle beans. We're taking this big risk in hiding you for our plan to capture Stella's ring and to obtain ultimate power, but if anyone catches us here, our plan will be foiled and I will make sure to throw you under the bus when we fall. Plus with Cloud Tower's no pet policy-" as she said that, the little duckling came up and hugged Pacifica's leg. She bent down and pats his head and said "Not now, Pepe, mama's dealing with her issues. Why don't you go on my bed and make yourself comfy. i'll be there as soon as I can." The duckling, named Pepe, hugs her again and waddles off to the bed, nesting herself on a pillow. "Where was I?"
"Something about pets?" said Darcy.
"Oh right, thanks. As I was saying, Plus with the school's no pet policy, that could easily get us kicked out before our master plan kicks in." She sighs, upset at the beast. "Did you at least spy on Red Fountain while we were gone?"
"O-of course, mistress of metal," he said, getting up from the floor. "My hunting troll some specialists captured on Earth is being sent to Magix City later today and once he reaches Subtombian Prison, the guards and staff will know of everything he knows, including our plan for Stella's staff and the energy that rests within."
Icy screams and throws her brush at Knut, pissed off at him like Pacifica was a minute ago. "Great, now our entire plan is in jeopardy either way. Pacifica, Stormy, Darcy, get your stuff. We have a troll to silence."
Above the Black Mud Swamp, flew a ship. Inside the ship was a cage with a blue creature in it. It was growling and snorting inside it, grossing out Crimson, who was impressed that even an android can be grossed out.
"By my standards, this creature is likely to tell the truth before we reach our destination, which'll be in 3.143 hours, plenty of time to interrogate the beast... if he's capable of speech, that is," Crimson coldly said, calculating their team's estimated time of arrival.
"Gee, thanks mom. I'll be sure to get right on that after we get our grade," Riven said while piloting the ship.
"But I do want to know why Alfea took in a couple of kids into it's educational program. It's one thing for an experimental android to join our ranks, but kids?" Asked Brandon, watching the beast from the weapon's chair.
After a few beeps from Crimson, they responded to Brandon's statement. "Alfea takes in the best and finest students from all over the magix dimension. The ages of Mason and Mabel Pines is irrelevant as long as they go beyond the code of the fairy, which I assume is making those miserable into those who can feel only joy." Riven gives off a little giggle over hearing the male fairy's name.
"His name is Mason? Who name's their child that?" Riven said, obviously amused by the name. As soon as Crimson was about to respond to him, the ship gets hit with some sort of force, destabilizing the ship's trajectory.
"What in the name of Ragnarok was that?" Crimson demanded, wanting to know what hit the ship.
"I don't know, robot, but the sensors didn't pick up anything," said Riven, who's trying to level the ship after it was hit off course, but it fails and there in a nosedive straight to the swamp.
"Specialists, brace yourselves," said Brandon, who's buckled in and preparing for the worst possible scenario.
Five minutes later, at the crash site, the boys and the android we're adjusting to the crash.
"Aside from minor cuts and some bruises, all four of you are functioning at full capacity," Crimson spoke, but notices that their voice is a little distorted. Brandon and Sky notices it and are scared of the damage to Crimson's helmet for some reason. Timmy and Riven are confused at the recent events between the three of them.
"Crimson, head back into the ship and check up on the troll. While you're in there, try to repair your voice box," Sky demanded as Crimson saluted and headed back into the ship. As they head into the ship, the Winx walks up to the specialists, wanting to see if they were OK.
"By the Dragon, what happened here?" Said Stella, worried about the crash and the hot boys.
"Isn't it obvious, Blondie, we crashed," Riven said coldly, not wanting to deal with fairies at the moment. "At least the package is secured." As he said that, Musa looks at him and blushes. Riven sees her and looks away, huffing in the process.
Crimson came out of the ship in a hurry with terrible news. "Teammates, we have an issue. The troll we captured on Earth escaped in the crash." The girls in the group all gasp as the twins were confused at what they were talking about.
"You had a troll and he escaped?" Said Mabel, looking around quickly to see around her to protect herself from the troll.
In response to Mabel's question, Riven said "It wasn't our fault. Something it us that made us crash."
Timmy spoke next, saying "But don't worry, little lady. The troll has a special pair of handcuffs on him. He wont get far."
Crimson coughed the best they can to get everyone attention. Everyone looks at the android specialist and says "I wouldn't be too sure about that, teammates." Someone was about to ask, but they show a pair of broken advanced handcuffs, shocking the group.
Riven, obviously angry, yells "WELL THAT'S JUST GREAT! WE LOST A PRISONER ALL BECAUSE TIMMY COULDN'T FIND THE SOURCE OF THE ATTACK AND WE HAVE A PIECE OF GARBAGE FOR AN ANDROID!" Dipper is getting a little annoyed with his attitude towards Crimson, but they put their arm forward, stopping him. They nod their head 'no', indicating to not go to him and to cause a scene. Riven now decides to ask the elephant in the forest, saying "By the way, why did you come here in this forest? You could have used a shuttle to send him to Red Fountain instead of Alfea. It's a lot safer that way."
Now Dipper's getting a little angry at Riven, but decides to keep his cool and says "Well, Riven, we Alfea students are in the middle of a magical assignment to ues the forest's voice to find out way back to Alfea."
Riven then says "Then go back to it, fairies, and leave it to the Specialists, who actually know how to do their jobs."
Stella chimed in and says "The Specialists? I didn't know they would come here. Did you know they were coming, Tecna?" Tecna then shrugs in responce, causing the fairies to laugh at the specialists.
"I think we may have deserved that," said Crimson, joining in on the joke.
The specialists see that Riven was getting mad, so Sky chimed in before he can say anything, saying "What Riven means is that we should be the ones to handle the troll while you girls...and Dipper... go back to your assignment and get your grades."
Riven sighs, calming down, says "Fine, go do what you girls need to do, but if you run into the troll, don't expect us to come and help you out." When he said that, the specialists walked back to their ship, leaving the Winx behind in the swamp.
After a few seconds, Bloom decides to ask the group an important question. "Now what do we do?" she said.
Stella remembers something about the troll and says "Bloom and I know the troll. He attacked us on earth when Bloom discovered her powers. Sky and the others don't know what they're into."
Flora hesitates on that, saying "I don't know, girls. I think we should stick to the assignment. Stella needs the grade for her to pass and I don't want to fall behind on my plant studies."
Musa chimes in to her thought, saying "But we have no choice, Flora. I say we go out there and help those poor boys. No offence, Dipper." He shrugs at that, telling her its fine and to not worry about it. "Now come on, Winx, lets go capture a troll." With that, everyone starts following the specialists to the ship, unknowingly entering a world of secrets and betrayals.
So lets recap on how today was not a good day for a certian Specialist group from Red Fountain. Their ship crashed landed in the middle of the Black Mud Swamp, their trollish prisoner escaped and most of the fairies from Alfea made fun of the squad responsible in delivering the prisoner to the athoreties in Magix city. Needless to say, things could be better for this squad of teenage boys and their mysterious android partner who looks like they're wearing a modified bike helmet, in which Riven, the team hothead, found suspicious. Lucky for them, one of the fairy groups stayed behind to help the specialists; the Winx Club, formed merely 3 weeks ago after an incident with an ogre, and this group of fashionable teenage girls, along with their younger members of the group, twin siblings Mason (prefers to be called Dipper due to his birthmark on his forehead, but slowly learns how to love his new name thanks to his new friends) and Mabel Pines. Dipper, Tecna and Timmy, the specialist's main technician, went to work on the broken ship as Musa inspects the handcuffs that held the prisoner with Crimson, who's scanning it with her android vision.
"Whatever took out the ship also took out the stablizer," Timmy told his friends.
"But here's the thing; it doesn't look damaged from the outside, but under the plating, there's a lot of damages to the machinery. Tecna, would using your devices to check the electronics be against the assignment," Dipper asked his larger friend.
"As long as its just technology and not magical technology, of course," Tecna said while she plugged in her tablet to the machinery.
"You brought your tablet," Mabel curiously asked while looking for clues for the troll runaway. As she asks Tecna the question, a grappling hook falls out of Mabel's cargo pants and everyone, minus Dipper, looks at her like she's crazy. "What? Teacher only said no magic. He never said anything about a military grade grappling hook."
Dipper looks up from the stabilizer and says "Trust her on this one, shes really handy with that grappling hook."
"I bet she is," Riven said. "Perfect for you three shorties." As soon as he said that, he gets punched in the gut by Musa.
"I may be small, but I do know how to throw a punch," Musa said, semi-angry at the magenta haired specialist.
Bloom chuckles as she sees some large footprints. "Speaking of appendages, take a look at this." Both groups come over and see the footprints.
"Bet this guy spends a fortune on footware," Mabel joked.
"Oh please, Mabel," Stella corrected her, "Trolls don't even ware shoes. Even if they did, they would be so last decade."
"They are battle ready savages," Brandon added on
They then see the footprint trail until they see that it suddenly stops. Crimson scanned the footprints with their senses and says "It's our prisoner, alright, but the prisoner disappeared, along with the footprints. I'm also detecting a magical signature here."
"But trolls can't cast spells," Sky said.
"Then that means the troll had some outside help," Dipper, Crimson, Timmy, Musa and Tecna all said at the same time, surprising each other.
"Well, now we know theirs more then one culprit for this case," Riven said, ready to go into the swamp, but Flora stopped him
"You just cant go in there blind. You'll get lost unless your magical and listen to the voice of the forest."
Tecna huffs, crosses her thick arms and turns her head. "It's easy for you to say, Flora. Your a Lymphian. We Zenithians are useless when it comes to organic matter, like fruits, vegetables and the great outdoors."
Musa smiles like a little shit and says "So that's why you stuff yourself with the greasiest of foods? Don't lie because I know about your secret candy stash."
Mabel steps foward and says "Um...That's my candy stash, actually."
Riven grumbles and angerly says "Enough talk about fatty foods. We have a troll to catch."
"He's right, Tecna, and when we get back, we have got to talk about your diet," Flora says to her honestly. She then closes her eyes and feels the energy of the forest around her, sensing all of the people, animals, creatures and plant life in the forest. She then opens her eyes and says "I know where to go, girls. Follow me." The other fairies follow her.
"I honestly hope we don't regret this," Tecna said, unimpressed that the fairy of technology has to go into the heart of the forest.