"Why should we help two strangers?" Porta asked, to which Spyro and Cynder rolled their eyes.

"Because we're needed for the same reason you two are." Spyro said plainly.

"Start from the beginning." Grace said before jumping up and down like a hyperactive child, this stopped after a moment. Cynder sat up, as she had been laying down, and walked over to the opening that showed the timer.

"This all started about four-hundred years ago. That was when me and Spyro defeated my evil father, Malefor, Everything was alright back then. One day, a rift opened up across the land of Avalar, from it came humans and they took several of us here. We were forced to test for about two years before we started getting put in cryogenic storage. One of us escaped though, they called him 'The Shadow Master' he started leaving nesting areas around the facility, these each aided in either the test or his ultimate goal, to Kill the man responsible for this." Cynder began.

"About two and a half days ago, we were awoken by someone, they didn't identify themselves or even show themselves, but they needed us. Malefor was in cryo as well and when that timer" Spyro motioned toward the timer, which currently read 1:22:45:30, "hits zero, he'll be released. The human, as that's definitely what he was, said that he'd been monitoring Malefor's brain activity and that Malefor intends to take control of the facility, after that, it's likely that he'll attempt his original plans again."

"Total annihilation of the world."

The two ex-humans nodded in understanding as they left the nesting chamber, followed by the other dragons in the room, who were currently in general testing equipment (long-fall bracers and ASHPDs).

The next chamber would require use of mobility gels, which made Porta excited. GLaDOS came on and explained what to think of for Porta to use her mobility breaths (which were basically beam versions of mobility gels). With her instructions, Porta fired a blue beam (the same color as Repulsion Gel). When the beam hit the floor in front of a heightened area with an anti-flight field blocking flight as an option, it left a glowing blue substance. Porta quickly jumped on it and bounced up to the rise, followed by her three allies.

The next part of the chamber required a jump using Propulsion Gel, the anti-flight field was still in effect though so they'd be unable to fly to the other side. After preparing the jump, Porta took to the substance, laughing as she shot off the ramp with her wings shifting uncomfortable from the locking effect of the field. Porta landed, falling through another anti-flight field which released her wings from their locked state, and stretched out the appendages, smiling at the feeling it brought. Spyro, Cynder, and Grace landed and did the same.

Next came Conversion Gel the chamber itself was complex as well though. Porta spread Conversion energy (She had decided to call the substances Mobility Energies since they weren't at all like gels) around the area before using portals to bring her group to a higher area and from their to four separate locations with elemental locks. Porta used pure Aperture energy, like the others, to trigger the Aperture, Light, Darkness, and Convexity locks respectively. After that, they all raced to the door, Grace coming in first with Spyro last.

Next was a chamber that involved pressing several buttons to align different panels in the proper places before Porta had to cover the panels in Reflective Energy (which looked like Conversion energy, only with a surface that closely resembled a mirror. After that, on the other three corners of the chamber, her allies (she didn't see any of them as friends just yet) had to set up Discouragement Redirection Cubes so that the laser would hit the first of the maze of, now reflective, panels until it activated the receptacle near her and the group left.

The final section to the chamber was one that involved Porta's all-time favorite gel, Adhesion Gel. Porta absorbed a large amount of Mana Crystals and stayed next to even more of them as she spread Adhesion Energy all over the chamber, allowing full movement. After that she split up with her group and each took a separate wall. Porta had to coat some cubes in Adhesion Energy to place them on detector panels (which were for that very purpose and were light blue until a cube was adhered to them, which changed their color to orange). After setting up all the cubes for her wall, she placed a patch of Repulsion Energy and jumped off (using her wings to propel herself). Porta laughed a little at the feeling of gravity suddenly taking hold of her again. She quickly hit the patch of Repulsion Energy and bounced over to the wall opposite her's (Grace's Wall). She repeated this (helping the others out) until she got to the final wall (Spyro's).

"So, this Malefor guy, exactly what's he like?" Porta asked as she slowed down to speak to Spyro, she was barely bothered by the fact that she was standing sideways.

"Evil. Malefor believes that it's the destiny of the purple dragons to bring about what he calls 'The Great Cleansing' which basically means destroying the world and allowing it to rebuild itself. As I just said, he's a purple dragon like me, meaning he can control all the elements (well… all except yours). He also dabbles in dark magic (which even Cynder knows) its actually something that runs in their family. Malefor is willing to do and kill anything to complete what he believes to be his destiny." Spyro stated angrily.

Soon, Porta and her group were walking into the exit elevator. They had gone through a few more chambers and were now going to N6. All of them were tired, Porta mostly, since she was using a lot of her elemental energy during the tests.

Shadow Nest of chamber 13 Test Track D67

Doug watched from his hacked camera as the group of four relaxed in N6. They weren't exactly friends just yet, but it wouldn't be too long before they at least knew enough for them to be able to work together. He just hoped that the addition of the final card wouldn't cause problems.

"You're doing great for a human." a male voice said as a video feed activated, showing a black scaled dragon with brown eyes, not much else could be determined from the feed.

"I know that Shadow Master, I just hope the addition of a hatch-ling won't cause too many problems." Doug said as he glanced protectively at CC who looked like she was sleeping, of course, he already knew it was merely a trick of his mind.

"A hatch-ling wouldn't likely cause problems between the four, but I'm sure Porta and Grace will enjoy teasing her. Cynder would too, though I'm also sure that they'll do anything to protect her." Doug just nodded at that.

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A/N: I got the chapter out on time! Hope you enjoyed.