Rescuing

This takes place 2 hours after Leo & his friends left the Mall & dropped off their stuff at home. They are now making their way to a nearby cavern.

"So Christi you never told us where we're going." said Leo as pulled up to her on Walker.

"We're going to one if the unnamed caverns." answered Christi.

"Why what's there?" asked Leo

"Well I've been hearing rumors of a strange slug called the Strang lives there." answered Christi as she sped up her mecha, she calls Skip. In about 3 minutes they made it to the cavern.

Leo looked around there were no buildings, it was all forest and streams, and there seemed to be no people there.

Save chirped "This place is pretty."

"It sure is." agreed Leo as he stepped off Walker & made his way to the forest.

Leo, Garo, Christi, & Quiver hiked around the forest for a little bit, hunting for slugs. Christi found an Aquabeek that was playing in a nearby stream, Garo found himself a Dirt Urchin, & Quiver found a Bubbaleone. Leo however was having some difficulty finding slugs.

"Where are they?" asked Leo who was starting to get frustrated.

"They're all over the place." answered Christi as she picked up an Arachnet slug. "Just curious but have you ever gone slug hunting before?" asked Christi as she placed the Arachnet in a slug tube.

Leo turned silent because the last time he went on a slug hunt he almost ended up dying.

"Are you ok?" asked a concerned Christi.

"What? Oh I'm fine. Anyway no I have never been on a real slug hunt." answered Leo in disappointment & embarrassment.

"Well all you have to do is find a slug & ask it if it would like to join your team." explained Christi. She looked around look and said "Look over there. There's a Negashade over there." said Christi pointing to a rock with a Negashade on it. Leo quickly ran over to it but the Negashade freaked out & ran. Leo looked around but then realized that he had lost it.

Christi walked up to him saying "You can't just run up to them. If you run they'll think your trying to hurt them." answered Christi as Jinx tapped her neck & chirped "Look over there!"

Leo turned to where Jinx was pointing too & on a small mushroom sat a Thresher slug.

Christi noticed what Jinx & Leo were looking at "What are you waiting for? Go ask that Thresher." ordered Christi.

Leo took a breath & calmly walked over to the Thresher. He took a knee & asked "You look like a cool little guy. How about joining my team?" asked Leo as he reached out his hand to the slug. The Thresher sat there looking at Leo & at his hand thinking. Save hopped down from Leo's shoulder & he was able to convince the slug to join them. The Thresher smiled & chirped "I'm in." The Thresher hopped into his hand.

"Glad to hear it." said Leo "So how about I call you Gasher?"

"I love it!" chirped the Thresher as Christi walked over.

"See nothing to it." she said with a smile.

Garo then yelled out "Hey guys get over here!" Leo, Christi, & Quiver walked over to where Garo was standing.

"What is it?" asked Leo. But Garo just pointed at a clearing.

Leo looked at the clearing and he could see a giant group of slingers each one of them had a gold H on their belts or on their cloths. They wondered around & carried barrels of slugs.

"Who are they?" asked Leo

"I don't know." answered Garo

"Well however they are they're clearing this place of slugs." said Quiver

"They're probably here for a Strang." suggested Leo as he watched the slingers gather up more slugs. "We need to stop them."

"But how?" asked Christi

"Well they'll have to use their mecha-beasts if they want to get these slugs out of here." said Leo

"What are you suggesting?" asked Garo.

"I'm suggesting, sabotage." clarified Leo as he crept toward the camp of slingers with his friends following close behind.

They stopped behind a rock & a couple busts near the mecha-beasts, there appeared to be 20 of them & 5 of them had trailers attached to them.

"Ok guys here's the plan." said Leo turning to face his friends. "Ok Quiver go it the other side of the camp & cause a distraction, I don't care what it is as long as they don't see you."

"I'm on it." said Quiver as he saluted.

"Alright, Christi stay here and spot Garo & I while we free the slugs & sabotage the mechas." ordered Leo as Quiver hurried off & the others readied themselves.

After about 2 minutes a loud boom was heard & a large fire had erupted on the other side of the camp. The slingers immediately grabbed buckets & ran to the stream to get water. A couple of them launched Aquabeeks, but thee the fire that was put out was soon replaced by more flames, curtsy of Quiver and his Flaringo & Hop Rock.

As the slingers fought the fire Leo crept up to the trailers, while Garo fiddled around with the mechas. Leo opened a trailer to see it full of slugs. "Don't worry I'm here to help. So keep it quiet." said Leo calmly so the slugs would stay quite.

Leo picked up 2 barrels & placed them on the ground & freeing the slugs. He grabbed the next 2 & the next finally he put the barrels down & freed the slugs he finally moved on to the 2nd trailer which ended up being empty. He moved to the 3rd and it had at least 3 barrels of slugs. Leo picked them up & freed the slugs. But a Flaringo hung back & stood by Leo's foot.

"Go on your free." said Leo trying to tap the Flaringo away with his hand, but the Flaringo chirped "But I want to join your team!"

"Oh my bad." apologized Leo as he let the Flaringo hop into his hand. "I'll call you Rocket." The Flaringo chirped & clapped his hands. Leo placed him in a slug tube he looked around to see Garo heading back into the bush & to see the slingers extinguishing the fire. Leo ran back into the bushes. As he got there Quiver appeared to be there too with Christi & Garo the 4 of them then crept back toward their mechas when they got there they sat on their mechas & took a breath out of relief.

"Great job guys. We did a great job." praised Leo

"You sure did." said a man's voice from the bushes. Before any of them could react the group of slingers from the camp surrounded them blasters ready.

A bulky man stepped forward blaster at his side. "Who are you kids?" he asked.

"Weird, I was wondering the same thing about you." sassed Leo as he put his hands up.

"Well it doesn't matter as long as we get what we want." said the man as a couple of slingers took Leo's & his friends' blasters. Then they snatched Leo's slugs.

"Hey give them back!" demanded Leo but the slingers aimed at his head.

"Since you took our slugs we'll be taking yours." said the man as one if the slingers snagged Save & put him in a slug barrel along with the rest of Leo's slugs. The man examined the slugs "This is your arsenal, only 19 slugs." complained the man as the other slingers took Christi's, Garo's, & Quiver's slugs. But then the man spotted Sorry, Prize, & Save. "These are some rare slugs, at least they'll pay for a good price." said the man with a smile & the slingers laughed at his joke.

"Now step off the mechas." ordered the man. Leo groggily stepped off Walker. "Good, now we'll be taking those mechas since ours seem to be in need of repairs." said the man looking at Garo as the slingers took their mechas away.

"There you have our blasters, mechas, & slugs now we can go." said Quiver trying to walk away but a slinger stepped in his way.

"Not quite." said the man "Since you've seen us you'll probably get the Shane Gang to help you, but that's not going to happen instead you 4 are going to work for us." he laughed at his remark.