AN: References so far: Super Smash Bros. Brawl (mainly), Marvel/X-Men, Nintendo, Final Fantasy XII (minor), Code Geass, Naruto, Pokémon, and Dragonball Z. In this chapter: nothing new.
Chapter 10 — Solitary
Hoppity's start: in a forest land, in the southwest region of Subspace.
Hoppity walks through the forest with a sad look on her face. She feels that she has already started to fail as leader of the remaining ten Titans of the New 12. It is not just the chaos that Subspace has wrought; it is the fact that the ten heroes have been separated to parts unknown. Hoppity puts the blame on herself because she hesitated to stop the bomb at the stadium.
She looked up and saw the crimson clouds again. It meant that the Halberd was crossing again, deploying more of the Subspace Army by raining shadow bugs on every area of the world.
Hoppity had to try and redeem herself because her own survival was a priority at this point—catching up to the Halberd was another.
Six enemies that seemed like puppets dropped in on Hoppity.
"What? No masters?" she asked them.
They ignored her and each one tried to move in and impale her with their metal claws. Hoppity only closed her eyes, while focusing on making her body transparent. The six claws went straight through her, but only the puppets were killed, impaling each other. Once they fell, Hoppity returned her body to normal.
"I only asked a question." she mentioned aloud. "Then again, these guys don't have enough mentality to use words."
Within the next fifteen minutes, she fought through a great number of foes while in pursuit of the Halberd from the ground. The airship was still a great deal of distance away from her, but she could not let it out of her sight.
Felix's start: in front of a facility of sorts.
The leopard found himself on the ground, facing an opening to the ventilation system of the building in front of him. Behind him was nothing but a heavy greenland, and navigating through it would be impossible. Felix's only choice was to infiltrate the unknown facility; he entered the ventilation pipe.
As he crawled through, he noticed that there was a big number of R.O.B. drones patrolling the place, which was a research facility. Felix now had to find a place where there was not any robots scouting for anything out of the ordinary, i.e. Felix. Soon, he found the storage room and jumped down into it. His stealth mission began now.
"Jeez... where's Sly when you need him?" Felix whispered, sneaking by the first group of drones. Sly was the best spy in the Titans, being able to sneak around undetected very frequently. It's too bad that he is incapacitated back on Earth right now.
Luckily, Felix made himself unseen, making it to another room with no R.O.B. drones. Inside of it, there was a pair big white "hands" that appeared to be suffering inside of an electrical turbine.
"Okay... a pair of hands are in pain. Guess I oughta free them." Felix said, focusing a Chidori that was strong enough to break the glass on the turbine and cancel the lightning inside of it.
The hands floated in front of Felix afterwards, and gave him thumbs up for saving them. Then, they suddenly disappeared, giving off an evil laugh somehow.
"O-kay... that was weird." Felix uttered.
The research facility's alarm was set off, and on the sound of it, every drone inside the facility was notified that there was an intruder. They rushed to the room that Felix was in.
"Intruder found. Power source of 1,000." detected one of the drones.
"Oh, you sense power levels... get ready to be mistaken." Felix responded, slowly powering up to his Legendary strength.
"3,000... 5,000... 7,500—!" the drone announced, before it spontaneously self-destructed at Felix's power. To be honest, Felix was only getting warmed up.
"Uh oh." said another drone.
"'Uh oh' is right." said Felix, whose power level was at 8,250, surging high above anyone else's. Felix cleared the way with Thunderclap, a sound wave from a clap of his paws that pushed and stunned all within range of it. Having done that to most of the drones, Felix continued to fight his way to the next safe room.
After ten minutes of twisting and turning, Felix finally made it to a secure room without any witnesses. Inside, it looked like a surveillance chamber, as there were countless screens on the sides of the room. Powering down, Felix thought it would be a good opportunity to map out the facility, and to find out where its exit was.
As he looked from screen to screen, he found a giant room with a big containment dome... and inside of it were the three Pokémon that were named the "Legendary Beasts"—Entei, Suicune and Raikou.
"No way..." began Felix, surpised at what he saw. "The three of them, of all Pokémon, were caught? These guys have gone too far. I guess I gotta free 'em. Who knows? Maybe they'll be on my side once I do."
He exited the surveillance room once he memorized where both the containment chamber and the exit was.
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Can the young and ambitious Bean Titan's plans go smoothly, or will they crumble? And will Hoppity be able to redeem herself and become a better leader?