Arc 4: Trouble in Adabat

Takes place during Stories: 52-56

Part 2

A sewer lid on the pavement lifted up and moved to the side as Ravage Bloodfang opened up the entrance to his lair. He shielded his eyes as he stepped out of the darkness of his lair into the bright sunlight of Adabat. Bunnie climbed out after him, holding Ravage's detector device and she closed the sewer lid after herself.

"Eww! Ya'll made your lil' ol hidin' place in a sewer?" said Bunnie in disgust, sticking her tongue out.

"No child, the sewer lid is merely a disguise." corrected Ravage "Anyone walking past my lair will not suspect a thing down there, they'll just think it's a perfectly normal sewer."

"Why do ya'll need to hide yourself?" asked Bunnie suspiciously "Ya'll seem to be awfully secretive right now."

"Sometimes, I want to be alone and the best way to isolate yourself is go in hiding." explained Ravage "It's nice and peaceful when you have a moment to yourself."

"Oh ah see." said Bunnie "So, let's get findin' that lil' ol sceptre shall we?"

"Of course." said Ravage "Lead the way my dear."

Bunnie peered down at the device she held in her hand. It wasn't displaying any finds so far so she had no idea where to start. She didn't feel that she should start in the village since the village wouldn't be a good place to hide a dangerous weapon. She wondered off down the road in no particular direction just to see what she would come across or find. Ravage followed her closely. The two Mobians walked down the road and disappeared around a bend. The moment they left though, Geoffrey, Scott and Jessica had arrived at Ravage's hiding place. They all got down onto their knees and Scott opened the sewer lid. Geoffrey screwed his face up.

"What blinkin' evil man hides in a sewer?" he sniffed.

"It's not a sewer idiot!" snapped Scott "The sewer lid is there to fool people. What's underneath the sewer lid is more then what it seems."

"I see." said Geoffrey.

So Geoffrey, Scott and Jessica climbed down the ladder, closing the lid after them so Ravage wouldn't suspect anything, and into Ravage's lair. After reaching the bottom, Geoffrey surveyed his surroundings. He, Scott and Jessica were in a dark tunnel that led to some rooms located in the walls.

"So where do you think Ravage will be hiding then?" asked Geoffrey.

"In any of those rooms." said Jessica "Let's try them as we go down the corridors."

So Geoffrey, Scott and Jessica wondered down the corridor and looked through any door they came across. They didn't find Ravage in any of the doors they looked in as they made their way down the corridor. However, as they neared the end of the corridor, Scott opened a door and peered inside. What he found was a laboratory; the place Bunnie and Ravage had been in while talking about the Sceptre of Fates. Scott smiled. This place was important and using the computer monitor, they could find Ravage and stomp all over him.

"Hey Jessica! Geoffrey!" called Scott "I've found a lab!"

"Good finding Scott!" Jessica congratulated, running up to where the lynx in the blue shorts was standing with Geoffrey just behind her "I bet we can find something useful in there."

The three Mobians crept through the door and into the lab. There was just one problem. It wasn't empty. The lab was full of Robians and they clearly did not seem happy to have intruders in the lab of their master Ravage Bloodfang. Gilbert glared at the intruders with his red optics.

"In-tru-ders!" he yelled "Robians! Get-them-and-des-troy-them!"

The Robians obeyed and they lunged at Geoffrey, Scott and Jessica. Geoffrey was the first to attack by leaping into the air and kicking a Robian cheetah directly in the jaw and sending it hurling backwards. The cheetah landed straight on top of Gilbert, the Robian rabbit yelping in surprise as he was knocked off his feet. Two Robian iguanas tried to attack Scott and Jessica but the lynx and cougar threw some energy blasts at them, striking them and sending them hurling backwards into the wall. Scott summoned some concentrated energy to his hands and he gave a Robian mole an enormous uppercut. The uppercut combined with his energy power made the blow all the more painful for the unfortunate Robian that got punched by the lynx. Two Robian rabbits kicked Jessica in their natural rabbit style but the cougar wasn't too affected. She threw an energy beam at the rabbits but they used their metal ears to shield themselves from the blow. Geoffrey attacked them both from behind with a powerful punch and then he shot a dart each into their necks to put them to sleep. A Robian hawk flew out of nowhere and pile-dived Geoffrey from behind, knocking the skunk onto his stomach. Then the hawk grabbed Scott by his arms, carried him off the floor and flew around the room with the lynx in its razor sharp talons. Scott struggled and squirmed but a robotic hawk has a very firm grasp so Scott just couldn't get free. The hawk then flew down to the floor and let go of Scott, sending him crashing into the floor and skidding across it painfully. That attack had left some nasty scrapes on his face and Scott was ticked off to say the least. Jessica pounced on the hawk from behind but the hawk flew off again, carrying her with it. The hawk flew all around the lab with Jessica clinging for dear life on to its back. Geoffrey tried to help her by firing a dart at the hawk but the hawk was much too fast so the skunk completely missed him. Jessica decided to down the hawk by summoning concentrated energy to her hands and thumping it sharply on its head and back. The hawk screeched a mechanical sounding version of its natural screech as Jessica thumped it ever so sharply on its head and back. Jessica then pounded the hawk's wing and the roboticized hawk began to plummet down to the ground. Jessica leaped off the hawk before the hawk could crash land and she landed into Scott's arms. The hawk crashed into the floor and skidded across it before coming to a stop against the wall. Geoffrey shot it with a stun-dart before it could get back up and the hawk was put to sleep. Another Robian cheetah tried to pounce on Geoffrey but Geoffrey gave it an uppercut and sent it hurling over his head and crashing onto the floor directly behind him. Then he shot it with another stun-dart and put it to sleep. Scott and Jessica took out two Robian rabbits each and then they both took Gilbert out. Geoffrey shot them all with stun darts to put them to sleep and keep them out of trouble. Now the Robians were defeated, Geoffrey, Scott and Jessica could investigate the lab.

"Now the robo-blighters are in dreamland we can search this joint for Bunnie and Ravage." said Geoffrey "If that scoundrel has done anything to Bunnie I swear I'll knock his blinkin' block off!"

"You really like Bunnie don't you Geoffrey?" asked Jessica.

"I do luv." said Geoffrey "Me and Bunnie are good mates and we were hoping to have a nice relax here until those Robian ninnies ruined everything."

"No wonder you're so keen to find her." said Scott as he was searching around the lab for Ravage.

Geoffrey nodded at the lynx and he wondered around the lab, hoping to find something. The three Mobians had a thorough search of the lab but they couldn't find Ravage or Bunnie anywhere for they had already left earlier. After a few minutes, Geoffrey eventually gave up.

"They ain't here." he grumbled to himself "That Ravage bloke and Bunnie must be somewhere else."

"I bet we'll find them by using that computer monitor." said Jessica, wondering over to the huge monitor that loomed over everybody.

Jessica began to tap a few keys on the computer. She was good with computers despite the fact Adabat hardly had any and she knew how to work this one easily. She typed on the computer and began leafing through the displays on the huge screen, hoping to find where Ravage and Bunnie where. She taped a key on the keyboard and the screen showed her the ground plan of the entire lair. She began searching through that on the computer only to find no sign of Ravage or Bunnie anywhere.

"According to this, Ravage and Bunnie aren't even in the lab." said Jessica "They must be hiding elsewhere."

"I bet they're outside somewhere." thought Scott "That's it! Ravage must be attempting to find the Sceptre of Fates again and he's probably using Bunnie against her will to help him find it."

"That's preposterous mate, Bunnie's too strong for some wolf in a cape to apprehend." scoffed Geoffrey.

"Well since they're not in the lab, they must be outside." said Jessica "I'll see if I can find them."

She taped some more keys on the keyboard and found Ravage and Bunnie on the screen. The computer had pin-pointed their location to just beyond the village and down a long stretch of road that seemed to go on for a while.

"There they are." said Jessica "Just beyond the village."

"Now we know where they are, let's skedaddle before the creepy, scary Robians wake up." said Scott.

With that said, the skunk, lynx and cougar all ran out of the lab, leaving the powered-down Robians behind. They ran back down the corridor, up the ladder and out of Ravage's lair. They climbed out of the lair and into the blazing hot sunshine outside, closed the lid behind them so Ravage wouldn't suspect anything should he come back at any time, and they ran off down the road in search of Ravage and Bunnie.

"Hang on Bunnie." Geoffrey said to himself "I'm coming…"

Hours ticked slowly by and all Bunnie and Ravage had been doing was going around in circles just trying to find the sceptre. The detector Ravage had built to find the sceptre wasn't being of much use to them since it could only detect objects at a close range and since Bunnie and Ravage had no idea where the sceptre was hiding, they didn't know where to look and where to find it. Looking around in any possible place was the only thing they could do but even that didn't seem to be helping the rabbit and wolf much. After ten minutes of going nowhere, Bunnie slumped on a bench and sighed loudly.

"Ravage, ah'm pooped, ah think we should rest ourselves for a minute." said a very tired Bunnie Rabbot.

"Very well then." said Ravage, sitting beside her "No harm in resting for a few seconds is there?"

So the two Mobians sat on the bench, gazing out to sea and resting their weary bones for a moment.

"Ah really have no clue on how to find this durn sceptre." said Bunnie sadly "This detector isn't of much help to us. Any ideas why?"

"Well when I built it, I made it so it could detect high levels of concentrated energy." explained Ravage "But ONLY at close range. I don't know why I decided to be such a dumbo and do that since it doesn't help us find anything quicker. If only I'd given it some way of pin-pointing the location of anything with high energy levels then we'd be going somewhere. As is, we're just going to have to look as hard as we possibly can my child."

Bunnie nodded and rested her head on her hand. She gazed out into the glorious sea which sparkled like diamonds thanks to the sun's rays shinning off of the gentle water. The sea always looked beautiful on a sunny day. Bunnie then turned to her left and saw Mount Adabat, still in view from where she and Ravage were but a very long way away from where they were. Looking at the semi-active volcano seemed to give Bunnie an idea of some sorts.

"Hmmm…" she thought to herself "What if…"

"Bunnie? What is it dear?" asked Ravage "Got an idea?"

"Ah think so." said Bunnie quietly "What if…the Royals hid the sceptre back in Mount Adabat after they retrieved it from the thieves you spoke about?"

"Hid it back in Mount Adabat?" blurted Ravage "Why ever would the Royals do something so bone idle and ridiculous?"

"Because nobody would expect it." explained Bunnie "Nobody would expect the Royals to he stupid enough to put a powerful weapon in a place it was once in so maybe the Royals pretended to re-locate it when really they hid it in Mount Adabat again so no one would expect to find it there and no one would ever find it ever again."

"Bunnie…that is a brilliant thought!" cried Ravage "It may not be the case but there's no harm in trying. We could always just row over to Mount Adabat and see if the energy detector picks anything up."

"No need to row to the volanco Ravage." said Bunnie brightly "Ah'll fly us over with mah rockets, a gift from mah robot parts."

"Well, looks like Eggman did some good when he half-roboticized you after all." chuckled Ravage "So shall we get going?"

"Whenever ya'll are ready old friend." said Bunnie with a smile.

Ravage leaped to his feet as if he was ready to go. Bunnie stood up from the bench but before anything could happen, Ravage was struck in the face by an energy spear and sent falling onto his side. Bunnie screamed in shock and tried to help the cloaked wolf up. The moment Bunnie helped Ravage stand up though, he was stricken by another energy spear. The spears were both being fired by Scott and Jessica, who had found Ravage and Bunnie at long last and their first response was to attack Ravage before he could do anything. Ravage turned around and roared a very fearsome roar at Scott and Jessica. Scott and Jessica threw more energy spears at Ravage but the caped wolf dodged them with no effort and he snarled at them.

"Ravage, who the hoo-hah are they?" cried Bunnie.

"My mortal enemies!" answered Ravage "They're bothersome little kids who find it funny to pick on the innocent!"

"You're anything but innocent you deceitful wolf!" yelled Jessica, leaping into the air and preparing to give Ravage a black eye "You're a monster and we're going to put you back into exile!"

All this seemed to amaze Bunnie. Exile? What was the cougar talking about? Ravage roared at Jessica and he smacked her before she could even get close to punching him. Jessica landed rather painfully on the ground and she groaned to herself. Scott tried to attack Ravage but Ravage gave the lynx an uppercut that sent him hurling over the fence and onto the sandy beach on the other side of the fence. Scott landed face first in the sand and he grumbled to himself. Ravage growled at him.

"Didn't anyone ever tell you to respect the elderly you wretched children?" he growled.

"Why are they attacking you and why did the cougar girl say she was gonna put you back into exile?" asked Bunnie "What's going on Ravage? Please tell me."

"Those two have the wrong idea about me Bunnie." said Ravage bitterly "They seem to confuse me for some other evil doer and they always attack me. I keep insisting to them I'm a good soul but they won't have it, they just continue to attack me and irk me."

Before Ravage could do anything else, someone grabbed his arm and forced it behind his back, making Ravage grimace in pain. Then the attacker wrapped his other arm around Ravage's neck. It was Geoffrey St. John. Bunnie was pleased to see him but she wasn't pleased to see him attacking and old friend of hers.

"Alright you blighter, you can let Bunnie go and save us all the trouble of having to cave yer skull in or you can get your butt kicked by me!" yelled Geoffrey as he tightened his hold on Ravage.

"Geoffrey! Let him go!" cried Bunnie "Ravage is not a bad guy, he's on our side!"

"He…he is?" said Geoffrey, letting go of Ravage and turning to Bunnie "But Scott and Jessica here," he motioned to the lynx and cougar who had just go back to their feet and were glaring angrily at Ravage ",say he's the enemy of Adabat."

"Enemy of…what?" cried Bunnie "You two, where did ya'll ever get such a horrible idea?"

"From months of fighting him that's what!" retorted Scott, pointing sharply at Bunnie and looking very mad indeed "Ravage is a scoundrel and he's trying to find the Sceptre of Fates and use it for bad purposes! Don't tell me you believe this scum bag is a good guy!"

Bunnie could not believe what she was hearing. Scoundrel? Use the Sceptre of Fates for bad purposes? That did not sound like the Ravage she once knew! Something must be wrong here.

"Ah don't believe you." said Bunnie "Ravage is a friend of mine. Ah first met him when ah was a kid and he's a wonderful guy. He was part of the disbanded Peace Gatherers like ah was and he hasn't got an evil bone in his body. Ya'll must be mistaking poor Ravage for somebody else."

All this did not seem to convince the energy powered lynx at all.

"Ravage, I knew you were evil and sneaky but I didn't know you were a liar!" he yelled at Ravage "I bet you've been telling lies to Bunnie to get her to work for you! You're using her to find the Sceptre of Fates aren't you?"

"What a repulsive idea!" snapped Ravage "I am not lying to Bunnie at all, me and her have known each other for a while and I am not using her to help me find the sceptre, she is helping me find it from the kindness of her heart, something you two scrubs sorely lack!"

"That's it!" yelled Scott "I'm gonna give you a broken nose!"

He summoned some energy to his hands and he ran up to the wolf, ready to knock his daylights out but Bunnie tackled him from the side and sent him sprawling on the road.

"Ya'll leave Ravage alone!" yelled Bunnie "He's an innocent man and you are getting the wrong idea about him!"

Geoffrey could see this was going to end really badly and start a very bitter fight so he had to clear something's up before total war broke out. Geoffrey put his hands on Bunnie's shoulders and gazed into the Rabbot's beautiful eyes.

"Bunnie, is Ravage what you say he is?" he asked.

"Yeah Geoffrey." said Bunnie "Ah don't know why that lynx and cougar think he's a bad man though, he's not evil at all."

"Well Scott and Jessica have told me all about him." said Geoffrey "They say he led a raid on Mount Adabat to steal the Sceptre of Fates and ended up getting exiled for it. And they also say he's here to try and find the sceptre again and all Scott and Jessica are doing is trying to stop the bloke from finding it since it's against the law to use it."

"That can't be true!" blurted Bunnie "Ravage told me he left Adabat because he wanted to get out of the country for a while. And he also told me a gang of thieves tried to steal the Sceptre of Fates, he had nothin' to do with it!"

Geoffrey put a finger to his lips and thought for a moment.

"Well only one of us is wrong." he said "Ravage can't both be a bad guy and a good guy at once. We'll have to get to the bottom of this simply and peacefully. I'll ask questions and make the conclusion once I've finished."

Everybody stood still and waited for the skunk to speak. Geoffrey broke the silence and asked the first question.

"How long have you known Ravage for?" he asked Bunnie.

"Since ah was little." said Bunnie "About five."

"And you two said you first saw him at the age of six." said Geoffrey, looking at Scott and Jessica "Is that right?"

"Yes Geoffrey." said Jessica.

"And if Ravage was presumably exiled as you claim he was, how long has he been gone for?" asked Geoffrey.

"Eleven years." said Jessica "He came back a month ago."

"That's how long it's been since the Peace Gatherers disbanded." said Bunnie "Ah haven't seen Ravage since then."

"Right." said Geoffrey, thinking hard "Some people do change over time, me in particular after the time I was betrayed by a former friend of mine. Maybe Ravage changed into an evil bloke over time…but he doesn't seem to have any hostile intentions…"

"I don't have any hostile intentions young man because I am not a hostile character." snapped Ravage crossly "Can we stop this ridiculous game of good cop and bad cop, it's getting nobody anywhere!"

Geoffrey ignored the angry wolf and continued.

"Bunnie and you two seem to have a different view on Ravage." said Geoffrey, looking at Scott and Jessica again "But Ravage seems more like the way Bunnie sees him. Do you two have anyway to prove to Bunnie he's evil?"

"No unfortunately." said Jessica.

"In that case, I think we should leave Ravage alone and wait until further notice." said Geoffrey "It wouldn't be nice to attack a friend of Bunnie's without having a proper reason to do so."

"WHAT?" cried Scott "Are you stupid or what? Me and Jessica have told you everything about Ravage and you're not going to do anything about it? I thought you and Bunnie were heroes!"

"We are." said Geoffrey "But you two can't prove to Bunnie Ravage is evil and I've never met the bloke before so I don't know who's right about Ravage and who's wrong so I think the best thing to do would be keep watch on him and see what he does."

"Thank you young man, so nice of you to clear things up at last." said Ravage with a particular toothy grin that only a wolf could do "Now if you'll excuse me, Bunnie and I have an outing on Mount Adabat to get to. Come on Bunnie, fly us over to the volcano will you darling?"

"Sure Ravage." said Bunnie.

"Oh no you don't!" yelled Scott, stepping forward and summoning energy to his fists "Bunnie may not believe us and Geoffrey may not be willing to do anything about it but I'm not letting you get away in a hurry Ravage! You are evil and you are going back into exile, or even better, a cold dark prison cell!"

Scott tried to attack the caped wolf but Bunnie stood protectively in front of Ravage and glared at the lynx.

"Ya'll will not lay a finger on him!" she yelled "If ya'll wanna hurt Ravage for something he would never dream of doing then ya'll have to fight me first!"

"You're on Bunnie!" yelled Scott "I am going to show you up for the gullible prat you are!"

"Scott, please don't do this!" begged Jessica "This is only going to make matters worse!"

"Oh shut up Jessica!" snapped Scott "If Bunnie wants a pounding, she'll get one and it will serve her right for being so gullible and obstinate!"

That did it. Bunnie immediately pounced on Scott and tackled him to the ground. The two began to wrestle with each other as Bunnie tried to attack Scott and Scott tried to wrestle Bunnie off of himself. Ravage grinned evilly. Bunnie was beating up an enemy of his for him and he knew he was going to enjoy every minute of it. Scott kicked Bunnie off himself and threw some energy spears at her. Bunnie deployed her force field generator which was built into her robot arm and she defended herself with a pink laser barrier from the energy attacks. Bunnie then transformed her force field generator back into its normal arm form and she punched Scott in the face. The lynx was knocked off his feet and onto his back. Bunnie ran up to Scott, ready to attack him again but Scott threw an energy spear in her face. The Rabbot yelped in pain and rubbed her face, only to get an energy enhanced punch from Scott. The lynx began to punch Bunnie repeatedly and at a swift speed, not giving Bunnie a chance to fight back. With every punch he threw, he grunted and yelled loudly and after a dozen punches, he gave Bunnie an energy enhanced uppercut that sent her hurling backwards in a rainbow arch. But Bunnie managed to flip herself forward so she would land on her feet instead of her back and she did so, skidding backwards a good few meters before stopping. Scott ran up to Bunnie again but Bunnie extended her robot arm and let him have it in the cheek. The lynx was thrown onto his side and he grimaced in pain. Before Scott could get up, Bunnie grabbed him and tossed him over the fence and into the sand on the other side. The lynx had a face full of sand yet again and he began spitting it all out of his mouth. Scott picked himself up only to get pile-dived by Bunnie and knocked back onto his stomach. Then Bunnie picked Scott up and threw him further across the beach. So far in fact he landed right at the edge of the sand where the waves of sea came in and drenched everything. The sea came in and Scott found himself getting drenched by the water. Bunnie huffed to herself and flew back onto the road on the other side of the fence and she dusted her hands off.

"Well that takes care of that." she said "Ah'm sorry I had to do that to your friend sugah." she said to Jessica.

"Scott was begging for it." said Jessica "And he's always like that so I'm used to it. After that he'll hopefully learn not to pick a fight with everybody he meets."

"If that boy wants to become a Royal Fighter then he's gonna have to set a better example and change his attitude." said Geoffrey bitterly "Stubborn boys that love to pick a fight like him won't do well in the Royal Fighters Service."

Jessica nodded in agreement. These were the times were she wondered why she was friends with Scott in the first place. As for Scott, he had picked himself up and trudged back to the road on the other side of the fence. He was covered in sand and very, very wet. He didn't look very happy at all but he was too humiliated and upset to say anything so he kept quiet but he still glared at Ravage. The wolf just smirked at him, pleased to have seen Bunnie beat the snot out of him and make him look like a complete idiot.

"Now we've dealt with this messy business, can we go to Mount Adabat now?" asked Ravage.

"Sure Ravage." said Bunnie "Ah don't want things to start getting ugly again."

"What are you two going to Mount Adabat for?" asked Geoffrey suspiciously.

"That's classified business between me and Bunnie skunk boy." hissed Ravage "I'm not content with telling you since you don't trust me."

"Fair enough." said Geoffrey "I'll keep Scott and Jessica occupied while you two do whatever it is yer doing at Mount Adabat."

"Very well." said Ravage "Let's go Bunnie."

"Bye Geoff." said Bunnie "Ah won't be gone long."

Geoffrey just casually waved Bunnie goodbye as she put her hands on Ravage's waist and carried him off the ground and flew off towards Mount Adabat with the rockets in her roboticized feet. The moment the two were out of earshot, Geoffrey turned around and spoke to Jessica, who was trying to comfort a still very angry Scott Lynx.

"What do you two think about Bunnie being with Ravage then?" he asked.

"I would say that Ravage is manipulating Bunnie into helping him with his nefarious schemes but Bunnie really does seem familiar with him." said Jessica "Maybe she doesn't know about Ravage's raid, sentence and exile from eleven years ago so she still thinks he's a good person. In all honesty, me and Scott never knew Ravage WAS a good person to start with."

"I guess he's a traitor then." said Geoffrey "But we can't prove that to Bunnie without the right proof. I say we should wait and see what they're doing on Mount Adabat and if he does anything suspicious, we can attack him."

"But we can't see them from here." said Scott quietly and calmly, the fight with Bunnie seemed to have dampened his bad-tempered demeanour a little "Mount Adabat's too far away. There's no way of seeing what they're doing."

"There is actually." said Jessica "There's a telescope on that fence over there."

She pointed to the fence and a few sections away from them; a medium-sized blue telescope was attached to it. Geoffrey ran over to the telescope and he peered through it. To his good luck, he didn't have to put any coins in for it to work and he adjusted the telescope a little so he could see Bunnie and Ravage heading to Mount Adabat. He could see them just arriving at the volcano and getting ready to land. Now he could see what was going on, Geoffrey decided to just stand and wait and see what was going to happen. He hoped that Ravage wasn't what Scott and Jessica made him out to be and he hoped that Ravage was what Bunnie made him out to be otherwise Bunnie would be in trouble…

As for Bunnie and Ravage, they touched down on Mount Adabat and Bunnie whipped out the detector device and peered it at. It didn't appear to be displaying anything so far. Ravage looked out into the view he had from Mount Adabat's immense height, his flowing cape blowing in the gusty wind. He could see the golden sand beaches and the village from where he was and he could see the sea that surrounded the volcano he and Bunnie were standing on now.

"The view's splendid up here." said Ravage "Truly radiant indeed isn't it Bunnie?"

"It sure is." said Bunnie "Ah've been up here before* you know."

"Have you?" said Ravage with interest "Well this is my first time up here and I must say, I'm glad I'm up here, this view is incredible."

As Ravage observed the view, Bunnie continued pacing around the mountain while peering at the detector to see if it was picking up anything. Unfortunately, it didn't appear to be showing anything. Bunnie began to get a despairing feeling in her stomach that her guess was horribly wrong and they were up on Mount Adabat for nothing. Bunnie was not about to give up though, she wanted to help her friend find the Sceptre of Fates and find it is what she was going to do. Bunnie steadily climbed and stepped around Mount Adabat until she was completely around the back of the volcano. That's when the detector suddenly started beeping wildly and displaying waves of energy on the screen. Bunnie's ears stood up straight with excitement.

"Ravage!" she cried "Ah think ah durn found somethin'!"

Ravage heard the Rabbot's excited cries and he steadily stepped around the mountain, clinging onto the rocky surface with his claws so he wouldn't lose his balance and fall. He soon caught up with Bunnie and he peered at the detector. His face brightened and he grinned like a crocodile.

"It seems you may have been right about the Royals hiding the sceptre in Mount Adabat again." he purred happily "Why don't you bust your way through the wall and see what there is."

"Sho' nuff Ravage." said Bunnie brightly "Stand back, there maybe a lotta rocks flyin' about!"

She flew off the mountain with her rocket feet and she transformed her arm into an arm cannon. She blasted the volcano with her arm cannon and rocks were sent hurling everywhere. Ravage had stepped back like Bunnie had told him to so he didn't get hit by anything. After the smoke cleared and the rocks stopped falling and tumbling, Bunnie flew towards the colossal hole she had made in the rocky wall and was met with a bright green glow. There at the back of the crater was a green sceptre. The sceptre had a round structure at the top with two elegant spiked structures on either side, one pointed up and one pointed down. The centre had funny wobbly gel like stuff swimming around in it and it glowed brightly Ravage peered into the hole and beamed like a sunrise.

"The Sceptre of Fates!" he cried "Hallelujah we've found it!"

"That's the Sceptre of Fates?" asked Bunnie "It's beautiful looking isn't it?"

"It sure is Bunnie." said Ravage "And it'll look beautiful once I use it to smite the population of Adabat!"

"Huh?" asked Bunnie, not sure if she heard Ravage wrong "What did ya'll just say?"

Ravage didn't answer her. Instead he pulled out a tiny, round, metal device from his cloak pocket and attached it to Bunnie's neck before she could say anything or do anything. The moment the device was attached to her, the Rabbot passed out and fell on the rocky floor in a deep sleep. Ravage smiled evilly at the knocked out cyborg rabbit before him.

"Since I don't believe in killing those who don't deserve it, I thought I'd just put you to sleep and let you die peacefully up here." said Ravage with a smirk even though Bunnie wouldn't be able to hear him "After all, I can't let you stop me from getting my revenge on the country that gave me these abysmal scars and denied me my chance to bring world peace."

Ravage then stepped casually over the knocked-out Bunnie as if she was just a log to step over and he seized the magnificent sceptre with his clawed hands. He held the sceptre up to his face and grinned wildly and inanely.

"The Royals were smart to hide the sceptre back into Mount Adabat, the one thing I'd have never expected them to do," crowed Ravage "But they would have been wiser just to destroy it so I'd never find it again. Now I have the sceptre once again, I can use it's power to ruin the people of Adabat's lives and kill the Royals, and then I'll use it to crown myself the new King of Adabat and everybody will respect the power of the sceptre and what it can do or I'll smite them all!"

He bellowed with laughter and waved the sceptre around with joy. He stepped out of the crater Bunnie had made and looked over his shoulder at her. He smiled slyly and left her behind in an eternal sleep that she'd never wake up from unless the device was removed.

"Thank you for helping me find this Bunnie." said the wolf evilly "Pity you won't be here to see what you've helped me accomplish."

He climbed back around to the front of Mount Adabat and he raised the sceptre high above his head, it's green glow now right enough to engulf his hand and energy swirled around Ravage like a spinning snake decoration in a garden.

"Revenge is mine and soon ADABAT WILL BE MINE!" bellowed Ravage and using the power of the sceptre, he began to levitate off the ground and fly off Mount Adabat.

"YES!" he bellowed as he flew back towards Adabat with the sceptre in hand. He cackled with maniacal laughter as the sceptre's power flowed through his veins…

Footnotes:

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Ravage has the Sceptre of Fates! Is Adabat doomed or can Bunnie, Geoffrey, Scott and Jessica stop the mad wolf? Find out in the explosive finale next time! Reviews are welcome.