Chapter 11: All Your Base...
Dylan's House- 10:43 AM
Ever since they confessed their love to one another, Spyro and Cynder have become unusually cuddly, it's almost as if they're joined at the hip or something. I get that they're in that "all I can think about is you" faze of their relationship, but we kinda had an apocalypse to prevent today, and while I'd find it hilariously ironic that the world being targeted for all the violence and pain we cause, would end because the heroes were too busy making goo goo eyes at each other to stop the badguy. But I kinda didn't want all life on earth to be eradicated.
And another unfortunate side effect of this was that Sparx in his undying need for attention, decided to start bitching to me about the whole thing. Yeah apparently Sparx isn't too thrilled his brother is dating the "evil she-dragon" as he so lovingly dubbed Cynder, and apparently I was here for him to vent at for hours on end.
Thank god I have my iPod to drown him out with, because one can only take so much whining from Sparx. That was until he found out that I was ignoring him and pulled my earbuds right out of my ears! "OW!" I cried as the earbuds where violently yanked out of my ears. "You're ignoring me!" Sparx accused. "Dude you've been complaining about Spyro and Cynder all day! I get that you're upset but there's only so much I can take!" I replied.
"Come on Dylan this is NOT normal! It's like he's under her mind control or something!" Sparx said. "Hey just be thankful they're not giving each other pet names." I replied as I went downstairs. "Come on Dylan this is serious! It's like we don't even exist anymore!" Sparx continued. God was Sparx irritating when he was upset, if he thought this was bad I'm glad I'm not gonna be there when their first batch of eggs comes along. "Hey hon, rough morning?" Mom asked as she got off the phone with the school, since we had to watch the base for Malefor today she had to convince the school I was sick so I could stay home. "You have no idea..." I said sitting at the kitchen table. "Spyro's completely ignoring me! He NEVER does that!" Sparx complained. "Oh they're just excited about their new relationship. I think it's adorable how in love they are." Mom commented.
"Speaking of which, where are they anyway? We need to start making our way to the military base." I asked. I swear if they were ditching us for a date I was gonna go nuts. "Oh they went outside about an hour ago. I'm sure they wanted some privacy so I haven't been keeping an eye on them." Mom answered. Man I hope I don't get this flaky when I get in a serious relationship.
Meanwhile...
Well today was the day, I really hoped against all hope that we would be able to stop Malefor, ironically it was a beautiful day today, the sun was bright and the birds where singing, how ironic would it be if Malefor got his way and this wound up being the last morning for humanity? No no, best not to think like that Amber, freaking out is only going to make this harder than it needed to be.
I pulled up to Dylan's and... Spyro and Cynder were out there, and without Sparx, Spyro never went anywhere without Sparx! Then I remembered they had officially started their relationship yesterday and they were probably in that stage when nothing exists but each other. I parked my car and got out. Spyro and Cynder not even noticing that I was here. Oh boy, I could see this being very bad when we had to actually fight Malefor. "Unnerving isn't it?" I heard Erin say from behind me. "GAH! Don't do that! You scared the hell out of me!" I scolded. "It's like they're hypnotized or something.." Erin theorized completely disregarding what I said. I hated it when she did that.
"I just hope their little love spell doesn't get us killed at the testing sight." I said. Erin then sneaked up to the two, oh god what was she up to? Erin then shouted startling the two lovebirds, Erin then laughing at the two. She is such a child sometimes I swear! "What was that for?!" Spyro asked. "You two gonna make out already or just keep staring at each other?" Erin asked in between giggles. Spyro and Cynder just sort of blushed. "Okay Erin, I think you've tortured them enough." I said.
"You two do realize today is the day we're supposed to fight Malefor right?" Erin asked once again ignoring me. "Yeah we know! Is it so much to ask for us to enjoy a little time together before then?" Cynder said getting kinda defensive. "Just as long as that time together doesn't end up ending the world." Erin replied. "Erin's right Cyn, we do need to keep our focus on saving this world, we'll have plenty of time for each other after." Spyro said. Cyn? Really? They already have nicknames for each other? Wow. "Okay Spy, I'll see you later." Cynder said before giving Spyro as little kiss on the cheek and walking off.
"Well it's good to see you two are happy together." I commented. "Yeah, I never realized how much I liked her until now... I've never been this happy before." Spyro said, god it was like he ripped that line right out of a crappy romantic comedy. "Maybe you two should pace yourselves, take it from someone who's been in a relationship, rushing in is never a good idea." I told him. "We're fine Amber." Spyro said getting a bit defensive. "Okay! Geeze..." I replied.
Just then Zack came in on his bike, how sad was it that Zack was the only one of us who didn't have a driver's license? Even Erin had a license! "Hey guys, what's up?" Zack greeted. "Other than Spyro and Cynder being deaf to the world around them nothing much." Erin answered. "We are not "deaf to the world around us"!" Spyro chimed in.
"Oh come on, you two didn't even know we where here until I startled you two!" Erin pointed out. "Uhh guys... could we not grill Spyro over his new relationship? Because we kinda have an evil dragon voiced by The Joker who's trying to destroy humanity." Zack stated. "The Joker?" Spyro questioned. "Don't ask, Zack is a huge comic geek he'll never shut up about it." I told him. "Oh thanks!" Zack said sarcastically.
Dylan finally emerged from his house, Sparx following closely behind. "Hey guys, everything okay?" Dylan asked. "Yeah we were just talking." Spyro said. "Oh! So now we exist?" Sparx stated rather bitterly. "What do you mean?" Spyro asked clearly clueless. "What do I mean?! You've been ignoring me all day!" Sparx shouted clearly hurt. "I'm sorry Sparx, it's just... I've never been in a relationship before and..." Spyro said trying to explain himself. "Come on Sparx, you've made your point." Dylan said, Sparx just huffing and crossing his little arms.
Okay now that that little argument was over, now we could get to practical things, like you know, preventing the end of the goddamn WORLD?! So we all went to the guardians after that, we were just about as ready as we'd ever be. "I do hope you all are prepared, what we do today will decide the fate of every creature in this land, we must stop Malefor at all costs, or there will be no world to save." Terrador explained. "So no pressure." I said trying to lighten the mood. "I doubt the human military is going to be willing to trust us, so be prepared to fight them if need be, I hope we can avoid this, but we cannot afford to lose any of you out there either." Terrador explained, yeah I was hoping we wouldn't get shot at, but if I were a soldier and saw a bunch of punk kids trying to break in with dragons following them, I probably would shoot. But that's just me.
"We cannot afford to waste any more time, we must make haste before Malefor makes his move." Terrador finished. "Wait... you guys are coming with us?" Zack asked. "Of course we are! It would be indecent for us to sit here uselessly while you all put your lives in danger!" Volteer replied. Well it was good to know that we'd have three huge ass dragons to back us up.
"Okay so who's car are we taking?" Dylan asked. No one answered, yeah it was a safe bet that whoever's car we took was gonna end up looking like the loser of a demolition derby by the end of this, and I'm sure none of us were willing to sacrifice our expensive cars over this madness. "Oh ancestors sake you MUST be joking!" Cyril commented. "Dude I lost HALF of my car when rock head over here first found us!" I said. "Rock head?" Terrador questioned. "It's just a hunk of metal! You can get another one!" Cyril butted in, clearly not getting that cars aren't just things you can up and replace like an old t-shirt.
"We can always steal someone else's." Erin suggested. "Erin that's a horrible idea, we don't need Malefor, the army, AND the police trying to kill us!" I snapped at her. "Guys come on! I think a car is a small price to pay to save everything that ever was!" Zack chimed in. So we decided to draw straws, smallest has to drive.
Dylan got the shortest straw. "Aw come on!" Dylan whined. "Good now that that rubbish is over we can finally get a move on!" Cyril said cheerfully. "Dude!" Dylan objected. But it was useless. His car was going to be our sacrifice.
Later...
I can't believe that it was MY car we decided to take, haven't I suffered enough? I was the one who had to keep the dragons at home, I was the one who got mind controlled by Malefor! What the hell?! Well too late now.
Erin had the location of the testing site on a map, because of course she did why wouldn't she? I never drove in a desert before, it was odd yes but thankfully we didn't get spotted by the cops because I doubt this is legal. Granted, neither was busting into a military installation so that rendered it kinda moot.
The guardians were flying up high above us, luckily they hadn't been spotted yet, lucky us. I finally saw the base, but of course I didn't dare get any closer, I didn't want to get a sniper bullet to the brain thank you.
"So what? We just wait here until Malefor shows up?" I asked. "Yeah pretty much." Amber answered. Well... this was gonna be boring... or a fatal tango with my anxiety, fun times either way.
Meanwhile...
Well today was the day, the nuke test. Excuse me for not being all that excited. Really what was the point? Nothing ever happened here anyway. We were in one of the tents, looking over radar equiptment making sure nothing was out there. "So Hollis, anything yet?" I asked jokingly. "Nothing but sand." He answered. Should have figured, nothing ever happened here, that would be interesting.
"You know, why are we being so paranoid about this? Who the hell is gonna come out here to the goddamn desert to steal a nuke from a heavily armed military unit?" I asked. However then the radar went off. "Sh** what's going on?" I asked, Hollis looked to the radar and sounded the radio. "Eagle 67 this is ground, we've got three unidentified aircraft approaching the base. Repeat, we've got three bogies in the air." Trevor said over the com device. "Rodger that ground, mobilizing the birds now." The man on the other end said.
"What do you think they are?" I asked. "I have no idea, whatever they are, they're damn big." Hollis said.
Meanwhile...
Me and my fellow guardians made sure to stay high up in the air, we couldn't risk being seen, and it would help greatly to have an eye above the clouds in case Malefor tried to use them to cover his approach. The base itself was pretty basic, but like most things in this world, was strange and unfimiliar.
And speaking of that, suddenly a bizarre noise was heard, I couldn't put my claw on what it could possibly be. Just then several metal objects were flying towards us. "What are those?" Cyril questioned. Suddenly they shot something in our direction. "THEY'RE ATTACKING!" I shouted before we spread out to doge the attack.
"Ground this is eagle 12, you're not gonna belive this, our bogies are some kind of flying lizard things... stop laughing!" One human inside the object said.
I was willing to bet these were the human military units. Not what I was expecting but I had bigger problems, my earth breath wasn't as effective in the air, and I had no intentions on harming these humans, after all they didn't know we were on their side. "Unidentified...uh...dragon...You are in restricted airspace! Land now or be shot down!" The human ordered. It would probably be a good idea to comply, but I couldn't risk these humans shooting down my cohorts, I doubted Cyril with his pride would comply with these humans.
"I am not your enemy human! Stand down or I will use force." I warned him. I wanted to give him the chance to stand down, but I doubted he'd take it. I was right, he opened fire, I managed to avoid the shots. "Dammit! This is going to me more difficult than I had anticipated.
Meanwhile...
"Dragons?" Hollis questioned. It was ridiculous, but all three pilots claimed to be tailing dragons. And I doubted the boys in the air force where going insane, and if they were would just so happen to have the same delusion. "Eagle come in, what's your status? Over." Hollis asked. "I can seem to get a good shot on him! Damn this son of a bitch is fast! We may need backup! Over." The pilot said over the radio. This was insane! Dragons?
"Chambers!" A gruff voice called from outside the tent. It was the general. "What the hell is going on here?! I got a call from the air force that their pilots are seeing goddamn dragons!" The general barked. "I don't know sir! I'm just as confused as you are!" I replied honestly. "I want you and Valentine to search the outside perimeter! Somethings going on here and I don't like it." The general said. "Yes sir!" I saluted before heading out.
Me and Marcus met up outside the base, neither of us able to make heads or tails of what the hell was going on. We did a search around the base, and just as we thought that we wouldn't find anything we did, a car. "What the hell is that doing here?" Marcus asked. "I don't know but I'm gonna find out." I said making my approach.
Oh man, I was so hoping those two soldiers wouldn't see us, but they did. "Oh man oh man! What do we do?" Zack asked. "Get down and make sure you can't be seen, I have an idea." Amber said. "Uhh okay Amber..." Zack said before he and Erin ducked down. I was confused, what was she up to?
No sooner did I ask that then I got my answer. Amber grabbed me by the shirt and started to make out with me out of nowhere! The soldier ripped the car door open and was just as shocked as I was when he did. Amber stopped making out and looked indignantly at the soldier. "Ugh! Do you mind?!" She asked. "This is a restricted area civilian, what are you doing here?" The soldier asked.
"Restricted area? I'm sorry I thought this was America! We have the right to be wherever we want!" Amber argued. "That right doesn't extend to a military base ma'am. You and your boyfriend best move along." The soldier said before closing the car door and going back to his buddy. "What the hell was that?!" I asked. "I call it a fake-out-make-out." Amber explained. Uhh...okay...
Meanwhile...
I must have been going out of my goddamn mind, I was in a dog fight with a dragon right outta mythology. I don't even want to think what the hell it wants, but I had to kill this thing before it got to it. However my radar picked up something from behind me. "Sh** now what?" I asked before I got my answer, suddenly a large dark purplish dragon latched onto my jet. "MAYDAY! MAYDAY! One of them's on my jet! I'm going down!" I yelled into the radio. The dragon looked right into my eyes, two yellow orbs with only thin black lines for pupils. "Oh god..." I commented, those eyes, I'd never seen something that looked so evil... it was like staring into the eyes of the devil. "Scared human? You should be... you along with all your ilk are about to be exterminated..." The dragon said with a laugh, he then inhaled preparing to shoot some kind of purple energy. "OH GOD!" I exclaimed before everything went black.
I heard an explosion from behind me, I looked to see it was Malefor, he had destroyed one of the humans jets with his convexity breath. That poor human never stood a chance, there was no way he could have survived that.
Malefor instantly locked eyes with my own. "Ah... the earth guardian, how nice of you to join us on the beginning of the end for man." Malefor said. "You are mistaken Malefor, the only thing that ends today is YOU!" I barked. I made a dive bomb for Malefor, I would kill him myself if need be.
Meanwhile...
Marcus couldn't stop laughing, good to see he found this so amusing. "Boy their date just got a hell of a lot more awkward didn't it Alec?" Marcus asked between laughing. "Shut up Valentine." I said indignantly. He couldn't seem to stop laughing "Come on... let's get back to base." Marcus said before suddenly a destroyed plane landed not ten feet from our position. "Oh my god!" I exclaimed. "Base this is Valentine, we've got a downed bird here!" Marcus said over his radio as he went to check on the wreckage. However something else came up on Marcus' right. It was some kind of monster made out of dirt and concrete. "MARCUS WATCH YOUR BACK!" I shouted before firing. "What the hell is that thing?!" Marcus exclaimed. "Don't ask...just shoot!" I told him.
Grublins! Malefor was making his move! "Showtime guys!" Dylan said, I wasted no time in getting out there. I made a straight shot for the grublins. "Sh** Chambers bogie on your six!" one shouted before shooting at me. I just barely managed to get out of the way of the fire. "Wait I'm on your side!" I pleaded but they just kept shooting at me.
However both of us were taken out of our fight by something crashing behind us. It was Terrador, and he was in bad shape, he was covered in claw wounds and burns. "Terrador!" shouted as I rushed to his aid. "Spyro... Malefor... he... he's making his move for the missile... you have to stop him!" Terrador said. "The hell's he talking about?" One soldier asked. "Where are you keeping the missile?" I asked. Of course they didn't trust me enough to answer.
"An evil dragon named Malefor is trying to start a nuclear war! You have to trust me on this! We need to keep him away from that missile!" I pleaded. "Don't listen to him Chambers, for all we know he wants the nuke for himself!" One soldier warned. "I promise you... I just want to help..." I said, I could tell these two wanted to protect this planet just like I did, and I needed them to help.
I wanted to shoot... I really did, but the idea of another dragon out there trying to take the nuke, it was too big a risk to ignore. "What's this Malefor guy want with the nuke?" I asked. "Alec are you serious?! This is a DRAGON! You can't trust him!" Marcus objected. "He thinks that humanity needs to be wiped out, and he wants to start a nuclear war to do it." the small dragon explained. I know I shouldn't trust him, but I had a duty to my country, and I needed to at least check this out. So I lowered my gun.
"The hell are you doing?!" Marcus objected. "Marcus if this dragons right we're looking at World War 3! I'm not about to let that happen!" I told him. He was hesitant, but he relented. "Alright... we'll take you to the testing sight." I told him...
A/N- I didn't want to end the chapter here, but it was getting lengthy and I'm sure none of you want to slog through a hilariously long chapter.
I should also mention I know little to nothing about the military or how it operates so if I mess up a few things, yeah that's why.
Oh and if you're worried this story is gonna be short... he he he... oh you poor fools...