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"The Slug Run"
Elizabeth sits in the couch and watches a commercial.
"SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY! It's the Slug Run!" In the background shows many types of mechabeasts crossing a finish line.
"As always a new deadly course with new deadly challenges!" A purple-haired girl's hyena mechabeasts trips over a rock while a black horse mechabeast leaps over it. "And a new deadly awesome slug as a prize! So awesome it can kill you DEATH BY AWESOME!"
A maroon colored slug with armor like an Armashelt but blue and outlined with bright yellow. As it pokes out of the ground, a crowd of people startle it by the flashing lights of their cameras. "This year we've got one of the rarest slug of all. A Crystalyd slug, one surfaces every one hundred years! So expect the most ruthless, wild races on a course so dangerous!" A yellow bull mechabeast is knock down in midair as the horse mechabeast knocks it down below the bridge.
"IT'S INSANE, INSANE!" A dirty blonde man appears and thanks to special effects, his eyes explode and also along the screen.
"Umm, thaaat," Elizabeth points to the screen with her blue eyes widened at the event.
"Yeah, the Slug Run is always amazing," Tricks replies to the excited Shane.
"Total mecha-crush fest, I can't wait to watch it," Kord pounds his fist into his palm as he stands up from his chair.
"What do you mean watch," Elizabeth slyly grins as she rises from her seat.
"No, no way, you've done a ton of crazy things since I met you. When it comes to this race, you're going to have to trust me," he replies to her.
A few hours later, Elizabeth smirks as she is on Lucky with many other mechabeasts walking around.
"Or not," Kord sighs, "This gonna be-"
"Hahaha, awesome," Elizabeth finishes.
(Theme Song)
The camera zooms in from the starting line of the race to a smirking, confident Elizabeth Shane with her hair done in a braid.
"Come on, it's a race. How bad could it be?" she assures her teammates.
Kord tuning up Lucky, Tricks recording the event, and Pronto just standing there.
"Welcome racers, make sure your death and dismemberment forms are filled out. As always when you lose limbs it's up to you to pick them up. And if you lose both of your arms, in which case, no high fives for you," the guy from the commercial announces with strange content. Elizabeth looks at Kord, who also confused by the announcer's behavior. "And remember the slugging rule will be in effect."
"Oh ok that's good, I'm not bad with my blaster," Elizabeth spins her blaster in her hand.
"Uh, the slugging rule is that you can't use your blaster against other riders," Tricks keeps on recording the other mechabeasts.
"Shouldn't that be called the no slugging rule," she smirks at her joke.
"If you want to survive, you need to be like Pronto," Pronto says catching the young girl's attention.
"Razor sharp focus!" Pronto playing a game.
"Nerves of steel!" Pronto struggling to arm-wrestle against Elizabeth who just yawns.
"And never let anything get in your head!" The Molenoid sets his finger on his head.
Then a bunch of cheering causes Pronto to gasp as he sees another Molenoid. This Molenoid has a handlebar mustache, a red shirt covered by a brown jacket, a black belt and pants, black fingerless gloves, and posing on a gold colored mole mecha.
"Sedo, my life long nemesis," Pronto mutters as he narrows his eyes.
Pronto walks up to Sedo then stops as a chicken mechabeast runs between them and disappears in sight.
"So Sedo, we meet again," Pronto says as he catches the other Molenoid's attention.
"Yes," slyly grinning but holds out his hand with an innocent smile, "Nice to meet you too."
"Oh well, the pleasure is all mine. What, what, no," Pronto shaking out of his friendliness, "It is me, Pronto. Your life long nemesis!"
Sedo just looks at him, confused why Pronto is acting like that.
"But, aghh, come on, ugh, it's me, what, come on," Pronto pointing at himself trying to trigger a memory.
"Always a joy chatting with a fan," Sedo hands him a picture of himself with a signature. Pronto rises his neck in anger with a furious expression.
"Hold that look, thanks Pronto. Got it," Tricks recording Pronto then he looks to see the mole mecha, "A mole mecha, that's cute."
"I take great pride in my roots. I'm a mole on a mole, doubling my moleness," Sedo sits on his mechabeast.
"Ooh Pronto, your nemesis claims to be twice the mole you are. Any reaction?" Tricks faces the camera to Pronto.
Pronto just frowns deeply, rips the autograph in half, drop the two pieces, and storms away.
"Seriously, that's just rude," Tricks rolls his eyes.
Now the race has stated with the line up from the left to the right.
A chicken mecha malfunctioning, a yellow bull mecha, a blue snake mechabeast, Sedo on his mole mecha, a girl on a hyena mechabeast, and at the end is Elizabeth on Lucky, her white wolf mechabeast. Elizabeth revvs Lucky flaring his engine, ready to go while Burpy who looks nervous on her shoulder.
"Don't worry Burpy, we'll take it easy. We're just here to have fun and if we have to win, bonus," Burpy smiles at his slinger and hops in her bandoleer.
"Haha!"
Elizabeth notices a familiar looking donkey mechabeast, "Pronto, what are you-"
"Sedo thinks he is more mole than Pronto! Pronto will show him who is the moliest of the Molenoids. AAAAHHHH!" Pronto giving some sort of warlike cry but ends up throwing a coughing fit.
"Are you racers ready?" the announcer raises a blaster.
Everyone revvs their engines creating a lot of noise. Then a louder, smoother engine blasted over everyone's motors and a bunch of cheering came from many people.
"All right," a blonde man in his early twenties riding a black and dark purple horse mecha. His mecha rears up as he goes between Sedo and the hyena mecha. "Yes I know, I'm right on time, hahaha. Vance Bolt doesn't do standing around, so if we can just, you know," in a very boastful voice.
"Sure thing Mister Bolt, GO!" the announcer exclaims as he fires a Flaringo into the sky.
The racers are off setting up a good lead throwing up dust in their wake, expect the chicken mecha as it runs in a circle and goes the right direction.
Elizabeth smiles along with her slugs as she feel the breeze. A green mammoth mecha knocks the yellow bull mecha but tripped by the bull for revenge. Vance's mecha kicks the hyena knocking the girl out of the race. Elizabeth gasps and quickly pulls up Lucky into a jump avoiding from squishing the girl.
"Dude, what's with that Vance Bolt guy? Who is he?" she looks at Pronto.
"I'm the three-time champion and the guy to beat, also single," Vance winks causing the female Shane to roll her eyes, "Not that any of you have any chance to do that. Now that I completely overhauled my mecha thanks to my sponsor, Blakk Industries." Vance accelerates forwards as he activates his boosters.
"Bolt works for Blakk, he must be after the tunneler," Elizabeth says, "You know what this means?"
"Yes, I must defeat Sedo!" Pronto does his 'cry' again as he too pushes forward.
"No now we've got to win, to stop Bolt from- HEY, WAIT UP," Elizabeth shouts as she too accelerates to catch up to the other riders.
Now the racers are entering a cave with rock towers touching the floor and ceiling, rocks scattered everywhere, and purple glowing mushrooms on the rock towers.
The snake mecha swerves between a boulder and a tree but the mammoth mecha bulldozes through the boulder like it was nothing. Then the mammoth continues to run causing a rock tower to fall on top of the girl's snake mechabeast, knocking her out of the race. Elizabeth, now the only girl left, jumps on the tree and jumps off pushing forward.
Vance looks back and smirks with his had facing forward as he hops on the three mushrooms avoiding a mud pit below him. The bull mecha wasn't so lucky as it jumps on the forest mushroom and tries to land on the second, it falls into the mud. Elizabeth uses the down mecha as a trampoline and crosses the pit successfully.
"A little young to be in the Slug Run, aren't ya," Vance says as Elizabeth catches up to him and keeps his pace.
"Ha I've been riding mecha since," she starts boastfully but remembers she just came down to Slugterra recently, "Wait, has it really been since January?"
"What's so advice newbie?" Bolt asks her.
"What, work on my racing venture?" she quips.
"Don't follow me if you want to live," he accelerates forward leaving the female Shane in the dust.
"Who does this guy think he is?" she scoffs and follows him.
Now Vance reaches the end of the cave but instead of turning towards the bridge, he jumps off the cliff and lands on a rock tower.
"Woah," Elizabeth exclaims as she stops Lucky from falling.
"Haha," Vance salutes her and hops in each rock tower like a cat.
Elizabeth looks to her left and see the other contenders going to the direction of the bridge.
"That's going to take too long," she mutters then looks at Bolt, "If Vance can take a shortcut, so can I!" She revvs Lucky as the wolf mecha tries to land on the rock but slips a bit, still holding on.
"Okay, this was a bad idea," Elizabeth stammers as she looks down. Elizabeth pushes Lucky into a successful landing on another rock tower but on the next one, Lucky only made it half way. Elizabeth laughs nervously as her eyes widen to see Lucky's grip slipping.
"Woah," she guides her white wolf into sliding off the towers. On her bandoleer her slugs pop out enjoying the speed. Her mecha jumps from one tower to another until it slides off and does a flip in the air but slams against a rock tower. Elizabeth falls off her mecha and lands on the ground.
"I told you not to follow me," Vance shouts at the fallen Shane, but continues on.
Elizabeth rises on her knees, "Everyone alright?", she asks her slugs. They look at Elizabeth and nod confirming that they are not hurt. Lucky rises on his feet, by himself.
Elizabeth mounts him with a smile, "Looks like we're all good or maybe not." She looks up to see herself trapped in a canyon with dark atmosphere and glowing mushrooms providing light.
Now the scene changes to Pronto riding side by side to Sedo. "You think you have bested me, Sedo. But I have you right where I want you. Feel the wrath of Pronto the Destroyer! AAHH!" Pronto's mecha jumps but misses Sedo who has a blank expression, not noticing Pronto. Pronto collides to a rock wall and slides off, heading into the direction of Vance, causing the racer to be knocked down into the canyon.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing," Vance asks as he falls.
"Oh, my aching brains," Pronto looks forward to see Sedo way ahead, "Sedo. AAHH!" Pronto pumps Fernando, his mecha, onto its feet and runs forward oblivious to what he did.
Now we see Vance guiding his mecha expertly by sliding on the hill, takes a sharp turn around a slim rock tower, then slides down a trail, hopping on ledges of cliffs, and finally skidding to a stop in front of Elizabeth. "Well looks like this race just became a bit of a challenge," he looks around the scenery.
"You do know this isn't a shortcut," Elizabeth scoffs and narrows her eyes at him.
"I've gotten out of worse," Vance looks to see Elizabeth backing up, crouching low. "I know Vance Bolt is intimidating, heh, but there's no reason," his amusement then interrupted.
"Sshh," she points behind him, her expression nervous.
Vance turns his head as his eyes widen to see black and green creatures with tails and four legs. "Shadowclan," he gasps at the sight if the mysterious creatures. They crawl towards them, one leaps closer giving a warning shriek.
"Something tells me, they're not in the race," Elizabeth quips nervously.
"Yeah something tells me you're right," Vance turns his mecha as it rears up, "Let's move!"
Elizabeth quickly follows him putting the pedal to the metal. Elizabeth looks straight forward knowing the Shadowclan following them by feeling her slug's nervousness at the approaching threat. Vance pushes his mecha to hop on a rock and clear a ledge cleanly. Elizabeth follows but Lucky's belly hits the ledge, struggling to get up.
"Come on kid, kick it! GO, GO!" Vance urgently shouts. Elizabeth uses his advice and finds herself up and running again. Elizabeth looks back to see them coming closer and each second.
"They're not slowing down. We have to find a way out of this canyon," she exclaims to the other racer.
"Well eventually this leads to a dead end, we're trapped," Vance replies.
Then some of the Shadowclan start to fire slugs but dodged by the mecha racers.
"So that's the way it's going to be," Elizabeth smirks as she fires Rocky, her Hop Rock, who creates an explosion making a bunch of local flora to fall and create a wall. Then the Shane fires Chiller who reinforces the wall by creating it into an ice wall. The two slugs look content among gazing at their handy work.
"What do you think you're doing?" Vance confused at her actions.
"Mostly trying not to die so I can get back into the race," she replies like it is the most common thing.
"This is the race, everything's a race. And you just broke the slugging rule," he scoffs her like she is a child.
"The rule states that I can't fire at another racer," she hooks her blaster back onto her belt, "I don't the Shadowclan are trying to win a race." The female Shane looks back to see the ice wall shattered and the Shadowclan pours out continuing to chase them.
Vance gives the Shane a nod of confirmation. Elizabeth fires Savage which the slug creates a black and red tornado but controlled.
"GO!" Vance and Elizabeth speed up to top seeds at the gate of freedom.
Vance launches into it followed by Elizabeth but Lucky's leg is caught by a Shadowclan's tail. Elizabeth looks up to see many of them crowding around her but they are launch back as Lucky scatters them. Lucky runs towards the tornado but it is already lifting off.
"Here!" Then a hook with a line attached to it pop out and being swift, Elizabeth attaches it to Lucky.
Then in a few seconds, she finds herself on the trail and the tornado disappears showing Vance unharmed.
"Now we're even. If you got any brains, you'll drop out of the race before it kills you," Vance bolts off.
Elizabeth mouth open, shock at what he said after everything she done. Savage hops backs into her backpack with his fellow ghouls. Elizabeth catches up to Pronto who looks tired for some reason.
"You okay?" she asks worry about his well being.
Pronto shakes his head, "I will be once I best Sedo! AAHH!"
Now the racers find themselves in a cave with beautiful ice-like crystals, the ground hard as diamonds, and the most peculiar thing is crystals that are embedded into the ground in a half circle. Vance dodges some crystals that are attached to the ground in clumps, then he runs across a ridge and leap over the half circle crystals. "Whatever you do, don't touch those crystals," Pronto points to the half circle crystals.
"Why?" Elizabeth replies, confused at his warning of the radiant crystals.
"Less questions, more crushing Sedo," Pronto resumes back to his 'revenge' and charges ahead. Elizabeth rolls her eyes, continues forward taking a different path.
Pronto finally reached Sedo but coughs after he does his 'fearsome war cry'. "Bet you didn't expect to see me again, huh, haha," he points and boasts about himself.
"And you are?" Sedo awkwardly avert his eyes from the other Molenoid.
"It's Pron-," Pronto is interrupted from his rant as Fernando trips over a bundle of crystals and sends Pronto flying.
A shattering sound emerges as Pronto makes contact with one of the circular crystals by hanging off of one the edges from his pants. Pronto gulps nervously and glances at the crystal he warned about to Elizabeth. Then the crystal glows red, the ground shakes as the crystal moves deeper underground, leaving Pronto on the surface. A creature bursts through the diamond hard ground, it was worm-like with crystals as its skin which is glowing red from the contact, it's face resembles some sort of predatory dinosaur, red glowing eyes, pointed polished white teeth, and crystal flaps on the side of its mouth to protect it from digging into the ground. The Crystal Worm shrieks causing Elizabeth to skid as she halted and her mouth open at the sight of the creature.
Pronto dizzy from the impact walks over to his mecha, "And that is why we don't touch the crystals."
The Crystal Worm cocks his head at the sight of the Shane, clearly ready to pounce. Then the chicken mecha racer catches the attention as the farm boy runs in circles around Elizabeth. The Crystal Worm dives, over Elizabeth, into the shiny ground and bursts the other racer by diving in and out of the ground like a dolphin in water. The boy looks behind, fear running through him but the Worm knocks him behind some crystals and its attention now on Vance who speeds by it.
Two more Crystal Worms awake from their slumber, hissing at the racers intruding on their territory. One Crystal Worm knocks the guy on the yellow bull mecha by diving and creating an eruption of crystals. Two follows Vance, diving and breaking through the diamond ground but no luck as Vance dodges them. Vance looks forward to see the land becoming uneven with islands of ground, then he hurdles on each one avoiding the Worms. Vance then takes a magnificent surge across two ridges, continues towards the exit with a Worm pursuing after him.
Elizabeth tries to mimic but couldn't make it fully with Lucky trying to claw his way up.
"Man, I gotta know how he does that," Elizabeth mutters to herself, ashamed that she couldn't take the leap.
As she continues another Crystal Worm emerges but this time Elizabeth is ready. She crosses her left arm under her right creating a support to shoot straight, which she shoots her Rammstone. Her Rammstone's punch was so powerful it causes the Worm to catch air and slump down in defeat. Elizabeth clears the gap and looks back at her Rammstone.
"Nice work now get back home safe." The slug gives her a nod and hops away back to the Shane Hideout.
As she clears from the cave, the Shane spots the Crystal Worm gaining Vance. Elizabeth fires Rocky, her Hop Rock, which impacts the support of the ridge which causes it to collapse bringing down the Worm. Gaining speed, Elizabeth clears the gap and looks behind with a confident smirk at the fallen Worm. She hooks her blaster back on her blaster as she turns around a corner to spot Vance way ahead.
"Gotta find a way to catch," she narrows her eyes, calculating a way. Then some chirps break her concentration to see Burpy pointing to slide of ice which descends ad stoops up.
"Great idea Burpy," she turns to the slide. Lucky speeds down with great accuracy.
"WAHOO!" Elizabeth exclaims excitedly as the wind rush through her hair and causes her to lose her hair band, and her hair fall to its waist length. The mecha lands on the side of the ridge where the other racers at on and strips forward.
"Hey, how's it going," she smirks confidently at Vance. The racer frowns deeply and body slams his mecha to Lucky causing Elizabeth to nearly fall out of her seat. Her eyes widen at the depth of the gap which Lucky is skimming the edge of the ridge. Elizabeth mecha slams him back.
"Give it up kid, I'm going to be the winner," he says as the two racers continue to slam into each other.
"Yeah you're a real winner alright, racing for Blakk," frustration fueled the Shane who slams into Vance so hard he hits the ice wall.
"Mechabeasts are expensive and I've gone through a lot of them. I don't care who sponsoring me," Vance argues but while they are so caught up into each other's throats they hit a Crystal Worm.
"You should care, Blakk is not a good guy," Elizabeth looks at him coldly, "I won't let you win and get that slug for Blakk." Once she slams him they couldn't break apart, their mecha stuck together like glue. "We're hooked," Elizabeth gasps realizing the situation.
The two of them run and swerves along the path attempting to free their mechas. Elizabeth then raises her blaster focusing on something. "Wait, what are you-" Vance is cut off by the Tazerling being blasted an electrocutes a Crystal Worm which was approaching them. "I thought you were going to slug me," he says to her as they run past the unconscious Worm.
"I just saved your life besides there's that no slugging rule. So I wouldn't shoot you even if I wanted to," she says as they sprint down the path still trying to unhook their mechas.
"You're nuts kid, you're risking your life just to get a slug!" Vance puzzled at her motions to be in the race.
"I can't let you win and get the Crystalyd. But I don't need to chat to win," she smirks, "Besides so far, I haven't seen anything I can't handle."
Then Sedo crashes into the chicken mecha which touches a dormant Crystal Worm but this one is more vast than the other ones. It rises up climbing into the air, giving an enormous roar making the two approaching rival racers' eyes widen.
"Umm until now," Elizabeth gulps nervously at the gargantuan creature. Both drive their mechas to stop but found themselves sliding down the ridge towards the Crystal Worm. An idea pops into Elizabeth's head then she grabs a slug barrel containing a light blue slug with a mohawk style spikes which go down to its back.
"Do it Buzzsaw," Elizabeth loads him into her blaster and fires him, aiming him at one of the hard flaps. Buzzsaw bounces off and transforms, spins cutting the two mechas free just in time for them too avoid the Worm. The Crystal Worm roars frustrated then he curls his long body inside and starts to roll like rock but very quickly.
Elizabeth and Vance zoom past a stopped Sedo and the chicken mecha. Sedo's eyes widen at the sight of the creature and follows, along with the farm boy, the other two racers.
But they all run into the homestretch which is a long tunnel then the farm boy is out of the race as the Crystal Worm runs over the mecha. Pronto follows behind, yelling his lungs out trying to catch Sedo. Sedo's mecha isn't fast so just like the other racer he is run over, dazed from the enormous impact. Vance speeds ahead of Elizabeth which the young Shane pushes Lucky into high gear as they take sharp turns and run over small hills.
"Are you crazy? You're not fast enough to stay ahead of that thing, you wanna get squashed," Vance shouts worried about the Shane.
"No, do you want to let me win," Elizabeth replies loudly over the rumble of the rolling Worm.
"Sorry kid," Vance gives her one last glance as he turns on his boosters and easily strips Elizabeth.
"I'm beginning to think Kord was right about this race. If we get killed, he's totally going to rub it in our faces," she nervously jokes to Burpy who seems worried too. "So I hope this works!"
Elizabeth fires Spinner, her Arachnet, who uses his expert weaving skills to create a giant web slowing down the creature but clings on the back of Lucky.
"Hang on guys," Elizabeth warns her slug then her eyes widen in realization, "Wait I'm the one who needs t hang on!"
The web launches the Worm towards Pronto who gets flattened but gets taken away leaving Fernando by himself. Elizabeth's mecha is deep inside the web and finally physics takes its course. Elizabeth launched at high speeds causing her and Lucky to fly through the tunnel.
"WHOOHOOHOOHOO!" Elizabeth shouts, pleased with the wind in her face and she squints her eyes from the blinding light of the exit of the tunnel which leads to the finish line. Elizabeth looks to the sides of her as she spots crowds of people taking pictures of her and she flies through the air. "You hear that Burpy, we made it!" Elizabeth relieved that she lives to see another day.
"And here comes Elizabeth Shane sliding into second place!" Elizabeth frowns at what she hears, then she turns to see Vance already there talking to his fans.
"Thank, thank you. Looking good, alright," he winks as he receives the praises. Elizabeth looks at her Infurnus with a sorrow expression and walks away with Lucky's and her head down in defeat.
"Excuse me folks," Vance notices the Shane, remembering how many times she saved him, and walks towards her. "Sorry kid no prize in coming in second." Elizabeth bows her head in defeat, being silent with her internal pain. "Expect this time," Vance holds out the Crystalyd slug.
"Oh, really. Are-are you sure?" Elizabeth asks unsure why he is doing this.
"I won, that's a good enough prize for me. Like I said I'm a racer not a slinger," Vance says as the Crystalyd hops in Elizabeth's hand and looks at her admirably, knowing she is a Shane.
"What about Blakk? He's expecting you to give this to him," she says as they walk together.
"Well seeing what you put on the line to stop him from getting that thing, something tells me he shouldn't have it," Vance replies as they take a right turn.
"Oh but he will have it." A voice broke out. It is Sedo and as he presses a button on his mole mecha, a blaster comes out from the top. Vance's and Elizabeth's eyes widen to see a Hop Jack being fired at them. The Hop Jack explodes where their mechas are standing, Elizabeth flies in the air off her mecha and land on her knees. While Vance lands onto his back hard, groaning from the impact. The Crystalyd slug thumps on the floor, knocked out from the blast.
"I'll give him the slug myself," Sedo chuckled evilly.
"What, you work for Blakk," Elizabeth points to him and pounds her fist on the ground.
"Do you really think Blakk will entrust everything to a showoff like Vance Bolt?" Sedo replies. Elizabeth looks at the racer who is groaning and unconscious. "I was his hidden mole in the race. You could say I'm a mole who is a mole on a mole," he sets his hand on his chest and points his hand to his mole mecha, "Tripling my moletude to untenable awesomeness. Blakk plays all the angles, that's why he always get what he wants."
Elizabeth glances at the now sleeping Crystalyd who had no idea what's going on. "He doesn't have what he wants yet," Elizabeth faces back to the Molenoid setting her hand near her blaster.
"You really think you're that fast," Sedo mocks her sneering.
"I don't know lets find out," Elizabeth raises an eyebrow, her lips pulled up to a smirk.
Sedo pushes a button making a Hop Jack fly then Elizabeth counters it by firing her Bubbaleone. The Bubbaleone uses its tentacles on the bottom of its inflated body to grab the ghoul and spin, making the explosion useless. Sedo yells, clearly annoyed and frustrated. He walks closer pressing the button multiple times, creating four explosions as for Hop Jacks make contact at Elizabeth's feet. Elizabeth sprints to a rock and takes cover behind it.
"Come on out guys." The slugs on her bandoleer hop back into her backpack while Terrorbang, Savage, and Wildpunch replace their spots causing the blue barrel to transform into red. Thunderstriker hops into her blaster.
Sedo uses some the claw of his mecha to lift and toss the sleeping slug into Sedo's palm, as Sedo grins triumphment.
"Alright mole, hand back that slug or I'll-," Elizabeth raises her blaster as she jumps out from the rock.
"Hold that thought for a second," Sedo pressed a red button. Clanks break the silence, then Elizabeth's eyes widen to see FOUR canon blasters came out of his mecha. Two on each shoulder, and the other two, one on the two front legs. Elizabeth's ghouls sneer at the sight, growling in excitement. "You were saying," Sedo jeers at the outnumbered Shane.
Elizabeth clenches her jaw, bites her inner lip (a new habit when she's nervous), but her eyes show true strength.
"I could see by the way you hide your expression, you're impressed. Blakk confiscated me quite well to be his back up plan," Sedo tone changes as he narrows his hand to the Shane, "Now drop your weapon, pretty please." Elizabeth pierce her eyes, then the ground starts to rattle. "AAAHHH!", is underground and Elizabeth immediately knows who it is. "Where have I heard that before," Sedo asks himself as the ground trembles more and more and the sound grows louder. Then the giant Crystal Worm jumps out of the ground with Pronto on his back, his fist in the air, and giving a successful 'war cry'. The Worm collides with Sedo's mecha making the evil mole drop the Crystalyd into Pronto's grasp. "You!?" Sedo eyes widen. "Ahh, now you remember me," Pronto loads the now awake Crystalyd into his blaster, "Pronto...Your...Life...Long...Nemesis!" Sedo charges but too late Pronto fires the slug. Its Protoform has two arm with blue and outlined yellow bracers, a narwhal like body, covered in the same colored armor, and a drill as a horn between its two eyes. It hits the ground creating an abyss and Sedo's mecha s about to fall into it. "You can't bury a mole. I'll dig my way back to get you, heh haha. One day!" he rants then he falls down, it will be long time for him to get out.
"The name is Pronto, Wormrider!" he poses on the giant Worm, creating an echo with his powerful voice. Then he notices Elizabeth standing by him looking down in the hole. "Eh sorry about your slug," apologizing for the slug never coming back.
"Are you kidding, as long Blakk doesn't have it I'm cool," Elizabeth then hears a chirp. "He came back," Elizabeth shocked as he hops on her shoulder, "So you must like me huh Digger." Her newly named slug nods giving her a cool smile. "Nice shooting, nice worm." She slaps the end of the tail then it triggers the worm to diving in and out of the ground.
Thirty minutes later, Vance now awake with Kord fixing his mecha and Pronto telling his story.
"And then Pronto saved the day then the Worm gives Pronto a baby," he bows.
"Yeah whatever, I'll eat my wrench if that really happened," Kord replies.
"You'll have to take Elizabeth's word for it, I was out like a light," Vance rubs the back of his head, sheeply.
"Actually that's exactly what happened and there's Pronto Jr." Elizabeth says with her arms cross and lifts her index finger pointing to the mini Crystal Worm the sixe of a medium sixed dog, on Pronto's mecha.
"Haha, start eating Cave Troll," Pronto mocks. Kord groans and takes a chomp out of his giant wrench leaving a bite mark on the tool.
"Sorry we didn't make it to the finish line in time," Tricks apologizes to Elizabeth.
"Yeah but the important thing is-" then Elizabeth is interrupted again by Pronto.
"Pronto CRUSHED Sedo!"
"And we stop Blakk, also I got a new slug, Digger," she looks at the Crystalyd on her left shoulder, "I'll take that as a win any day."
"Even though you lost to me," Vance walks up to his mecha, "How's it look?"
"She's good as new, plus a few extra touches," Kord replies. Vance revvs his mecha with a now smoother and louder engine than ever. "You've got a quite a team here," he looks at the Shane Gang then holds out his hand to Elizabeth, "And you have quite a beautiful leader."
Elizabeth shakes his hand blushing slightly by his lovely comment. "You know Blakk is going to be coming after you. If you want to join up with us," she offers.
"Heh, thanks but I told you Vance Bolt is a racer not a slinger. Besides if he wants me, Blakk has to catch me first," his mecha rears up on its hind legs.
Elizabeth narrows her eyes and stand in front of his mecha with her arms out, "You think it's simply like that, no way you're just riding out of here." Vance puzzled what she is meaning. "Until you teach me some of your moves," Elizabeth lightens up.
"You could stand to learn some new moves," Tricks nudges Kord and strides to his mecha.
"So can you," Kord walks over to his mechabeast.
"Try and keep up," Vance sprints forward with Elizabeth, Tricks, and Kord trailing behind him.
"Well if you want to truly learn a truly awesome move, watch as I demonstrate as I rode the mother of all Crystal Worms and Pronto Jr. And I told to the worm, 'Worm, be prepared to be tamed, I'm going to ride you and your going to like it'. I could tell by the expression on her face, she knew who was boss. Now here's the best part," Pronto snaps his eyes open and finally realize that he is alone, "Hey, where did everybody go?"
Done, next chapter on Thursday! March 18th, MY BIRTHDAY! Now I'm fifteen!
-Tahitiseabreeze
