HELLO! Okay so I know that the last chapter was pretty uh.. decent. But I needed to take a break off of other stories since right now I actually have four stories to update. -_-. Yeah I have many projects that I have to work on. But it was my fault for putting that many stories on here. So today I am actually trying to get this to be pretty interesting and it will add in a few things that will add to the plot later on. Since it was a month long hiatus. Tee hee. If you guys even remember what happened last time. LOL. Anywho let's get going. (I hope you like the new format for everything. I'm trying new formats for each of my stories too. :P) Also a new Austin & Ally story if you guys still didn't know.) Plus I'mma edit the other chapters to make it kinda interesting. But not as interesting as this chapter!
Previously...
"Now. Go check on her if she is awakens use you know...that power.", the voice said. "Got it.", the mechanical voice said. You can hear footsteps slowly walking away.
You can hear a scream coming from the room. "What did you say?!" Before hearing a thump and footsteps walking away.
In the darkness you can hear an evil chuckle.
"Team Balance...you have one heck of an adventure coming for you."
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Chapter 8: Welcome to Hartlock City
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The sunlight hit Spark's face, making her blink rapidly. Once she got used to the sunlight she got up and looked at her surroundings. Isis was already awake looking over the edge of the hot air balloon. She was currently smiling at something. "Isis?", Spark said groggily. Isis jumped nearly a feet up into the air.
When she turned around, she had a hand on her chest. "Spark! You actually gave me a heart attack!" Spark got up and rolled her eyes she then walked over to where Isis was standing which was at the edge of the hot air balloon. She noticed that Roxy and Fite were still asleep on the hot air balloon's floor in their not-very-comfortable-sleeping-bag. "What were you doing, Isis? Plus, why were you smiling down at the field of nothingness.", Spark asked looking down at the field below them as well.
"Because we're pretty close to the city we are going to.", Isis answered, still smiling contently. Before Spark could speak Isis said," Yeah and also the scene is so beautiful."
Spark looked down and noticed the array of white, red, and yellow flowers littering all over the field. The trees were tall and the leaves were the color of evergreen and looked healthy as well. It was beautiful.
"Um.", they both heard three voices say at the same time. Spark and Isis turned around to see Roxy, Fite, and Lacy standing there. "Whatcha guys looking at?", Roxy and Lacy asked looking down before gasping. "It's soooo pretty!", Roxy said excitingly. Lacy nodded in agreement with Roxy . Fite looked down as well before nodding in appreciation. "Girls.", Isis said. The four toons were still enthusing about the beautiful scene below them to even bother hearing what Isis had to say. Irritated, Isis said again," Girls." She said this a litttle bit louder but yet the three toons did not hear her.
Very frustrated, Isis yelled out," Girls!", This caught their attention due to it being loud. The birds that were flying near them all flew away to be away from the extremely mad toon. All girls turned towards Isis. "Yes?", They all said unison. Isis pointed out of the hot air balloon towards a new scene that was increasingly coming closer to them. She kept pointing at it until she said," Welcome to Hartlock City."
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As they all landed in front of the gates to the city, they were all given weird looks before someone yelled out from the crowd," Guys! It's Team Balance!" Before all five of the toons could do anything or say anything they were mobbed with all sorts of toons- (Like chickens, goats, cows. etc.) they have never seen before. Due to all five of them have never been outside of Toontowns' borders. They were bombarded with a whole bunch of questions.
What is Team Balance doing here in Hartlock City? I heard that you talked to the Cog Leader, what was it like? What did he say? How was Team Balance formed? Are you strong enough to fight them? Wait...can you even save us?
The last question hit the five toons very hard. All toons walked into the City ignoring the toons that were asking them questions. Once they got into the city they were covering their faces with their hands trying to hide from all of them.
"Did you guys hear the question about you know..?", Roxy whispered towards the other four toons. All of the four remaining toons, made their hands into fists and they all were wearing an angry expression. "Yeah of course I heard it!", Isis said screaming out. Fite grabbed her arm to calm her down. Which it worked and she sat back down. Before anyone could talk again a beep was sounded around them. In confusion all five toons stood up and looked around. From a very busy street, it suddenly became a barren wasteland.
"What happened to this place?", Spark asked still looking around to find any evidence as to where everyonehad went. A toon ran right past them looking like they were in a big hurry. "Wait!", Fite yelled out while running to catch up with the toon with the other four toons running right behind her. The toon stopped and turned around, it was a blue bunny. As soon as she turned around her face lightened up. "You're-You're-You're Team Balance!", the toon squeaked in surprise. "Yes, that is us. But why is everyone fleeing? Also what was up with the beeping?", Spark asked the toon.
"Oh everyone is fleeing because a cog invasion is about to start.", the toon said so nonchalantly. "And why can't you deal with these cogs, you guys have gags correct?", Fite asked curiously. "Oh. Yes we do have gags. But we can't exactly take on these cogs with weak little gags.", the toons said. "And why exactly can't you do that?", Lacy asked getting curious as well. "Oh, well it is because these cogs have been modified.", the toon said said looking at them, like they were supposed to be Team Balance and that that should know everything about the cogs in order to save all of them. It seems this toon is starting to have doubts, like those other toons from before.
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"How is the toon doing?" a voice asked. "Um.", there was a shuffle. "Well?", the voice asked again. "Sir, the toon..um. escaped.", the same mechanical voice said. "What do you mean they escaped?!", the unkown figure yelled obviously furious. "It means they escaped.", the mechanical voice said sarcastically. "Stop joking! This isn't a time to be joking right now!", the unknown figure said irritated.
"Where could the toon even be?! It could be all over Toontown! OR even somewhere unknown!", the unknown figure continued to yell out. "How did you let this toon escape?!", the unknown figure yelled out with his voice already cracking from all of the yelling that had been done. "I tried using the power. But they simply over powered me!", the mechanical shot right back at the figure.
The figure started laughing, but it was like a short laugh that was meant to be teasingly but yet evil. "A measly toon overpowered you?", the figure said.
"You must be joking.", the figure said. "No sir. I'm not.", the mechanical voice said. The figure stopped laughing. It was back to the mad atmosphere. "Really? Wow. If you can't even fight a toon like that. Then your fired.", the unknown figure said calmly. "But.", the mechanical voice said. "No buts! You have been fired. So. Get out!", the figure said.
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"So this is my home.", the toon said happily running into the quaint little house. "Oh. By the way I forgot to tell you my name! My name is Lily!", the toon introduced herself.
As the five toons walked into the house, they looked around at everything before plopping themselves onto the couch -(with permission of course.). "So tell us. What exactly are these "modified" cogs?", Spark asked. "Well."- there was a pause. "These cogs are ones that the scientist, have changed up a bit. Instead of the regular attacks cogs have, they have these elemental powers.", Lily said.
There was silence, all five of their jaws dropped. "Seriously!?", Lacy was the first to speak and the one that broke the silence. "Well. If that means if they are cogs they're part of the army of cogs.", Roxy said. "That means we have to fight them.", Lacy added. "And they have elemental powers.", Fite added. "Then they have the same power as us.", Spark finished with a expression of true horror on her face. "Then how are we gonna fight them when we have equal power?", Roxy asked still with the expression of horror on her face.
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"Sir. Team Balance is in Hartlock City now.", a familiar black cat said. "Thank you Oblivious.", the same mysterious figure said. "Oh sir, you can call me Livia.", Oblivious said. "Hah. They're coming to fight me. I doubt them.", the figure said. The figure then focused his attention to Spark. "Sir. I would watch out for Spark. She's the most determined out of all of them possibly.", Livia advised towards him. "Oh don't worry, Livia. I have talked to her single-handed-ly myself."
"Well. I still advise you to watch out sir.", Livia said before leaving out the door. "Oh don't worry. I've got this handled. I mean I know more about her than her own mother.", the figure said.
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"But we still need to get Starlight!", Spark yelled. Ever since all five of them found out that there had been modified cogs in the same exact town they were in, it had turned into a full-blown argument. "How can we focus on getting Starlight when our powers are useless!?", Roxy yelled back.
"But we cannot leave Starlight to rot inside her cell or wherever they kept her!", Fite yelled to them. "Stop!", Isis yelled getting attention on herself. "I know we all feel kinda useless right now. But I think you are kinda making Lily feel uncomfortable in her own home.", Isis said point to the blue bunny that was sitting in a corner watching everything unfold in front of her.
"What do we do then? Huh? Huh, Isis?", Spark asked still frustrated. "All we gotta do is train."
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I am so tired I literally just wrote two chapters right now. But I feel like editing all of my other chapters cause I'm on a roll right now! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Plus I hope you enjoyed the plot twists. (Those come into play more later on.) Who is this mysterious figure? Lol. I'm just gonna tell you straight out it was the cog leader...or is it? I'll leave you to figure it out. It could even be Lily.. :o if you have a guess as to who it is, review it!
Plus I'm starting to like the format. If I'm confusing on any bit then tell me I'll clarify it. Anywho. Gotta edit the other chapters and then post all of them and update stuff and my profile. WISH ME GOOD LUCK!
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"How can we exactly train when we are in a middle of a crisis?!", Lacy yelled. "We can train! It's part of planning everything out so we won't be equal strength to them, we could be more powerful than them.", Isis answered, Lacy's question. "Yeah. One major problem to this plan. They're a whole lot bigger than us!", Spark argued. Isis shook her head," You didn't have a problem with it the last time we encountered the cogs, Spark.", Isis pointed out.
-Shining Starlightxo
