Deserted
After Leo & his friends explained what they discovered about Hyper. Eli decided to help face the problem. And eventually Leo was able to convince Eli to agree to let him & his friends help out.
Now Eli has assigned Leo and his friends to raid a Hyper transport out in the western caverns.
Leo, seated on Walker, watched as the Hyper transport, 3 mecha-beasts each pulling a trailer, pass through a canyon. "Lets go!" yelled Leo as Walker hopped downward from rock to rock & then landing in front of the transport. Christi, Quiver, & Garo also hoped down & they surrounded the Hypers, blasters aimed at them. "Let these slugs go, or we let them go!" ordered Leo.
The Hyper slingers smirked before they fired Hyper slugs at Leo & his friends. They then returned fire & in the chaos a signal mecha & trailer sprinted away, with no driver, toward the open desert. "I'll stop that mecha!" yelled Leo as he started Walker & he chased after the rouge mecha-beast, leaving his friends to deal with the rest of them.
"Wait!" yelled Christi as the Hyper slingers continued to fire Hyper slugs, but Leo was already gone.
Leo chased after the mecha, he fired Bomb who exploded in front of the mecha. The mecha broke apart & fell on its side as well as the trailer near a sand cliff. Leo stopped Walker away from the trailer, he stepped off, approached the trailer blaster out, he then opened the trailer, & aimed his blaster only to see that it was completely empty of any life. "No way it was a decoy." said Leo in frustration.
"I guess so." chirped Save.
Just then the ground began to shake. "What was that?" asked Leo, but then his feet began to sink downward & before he knew it the sand slid downward creating a giant landslide, & Leo was swallowed up by the sand along with Save, the trailer, but not Walker. The sand carried Leo far out into the desert.
Back to his friends, they continued to fight the Hyper slingers. Garo launched CaveIn who smashed into the side of the canyon & created a rock slide that toppled over the slingers, trapping them. "That takes care of them." said Garo
"Yeah, let's get these guys to Stalagmite 18 (Got improved over the years so now it is 18 not 17). And then let's go find Leo." said Christi.
Meanwhile, Leo struggled to get out of the sand. He spit out sand. "Maybe, I should have used Trip instead of a slug that blows up." said Leo as he picked up Save from the sand.
He freed himself & then he emptied out his slug tunes of sand so his slugs could breathe & he did the same for his backpack. "Is everyone ok & accounted for?" asked Leo as he counted the slugs.
"We're all here!" chirped Save. Leo smiled with relief and then reached for his intercom but it was missing.
"Hey!" yelled Heat "Aren't you missing something?" he asked Leo
"Um do you mean the intercom." answered Leo. Heat then winked his left eye several times. Leo wasn't sure but he touched his left eye to see that he lost his metal eye patch, revealing a glowing green eye. "My eye patch!" he yelled as he frantically tried to dig through the dirt to find it. That's when he noticed that his silver sleeve was missing too. "No way I lost the sleeve too." he wined
"Get over it. It's not like anybody's here." chirped Basher
Leo picked up his slugs & then he looked around. "Are we lost?" asked Save
"What? No, I know where we are." answered Leo. He then spotted the trailer he walked over to it & opened it up, there were several crates inside. He searched the crates for anything useful. He found a raggedy cloak, an empty canteen, & he found a bunch of bandages. He put the cloak on, he tied the canteen to his belt, & he wrapped the bandages around his left eye & left arm. "All is good." said Leo trying to look confident, Save shook his head in disbelief.
Leo then searched around for anything else that seemed useful like water or his mecha, but he found nothing. "Well we can't stay here." said Save
"You're right lets get moving." agreed Leo. Leo then made his way through the barren desert, clearly he was lost, & unknown to him was that something very small is following him from under the sand.
As he walked on Christi, Garo, & Quiver searched for him. "Where is he?" asked Christi. "I can't get him on his intercom."
"No idea. But how far could he have gone?" asked Garo
"Guys I have his scent!" yelled Quiver, who was sniffing the ground. He then ran off to the sand cliff, the sane one that had a land slide, when they got there they immediately spotted Walker.
"There's his mecha." said Garo
"Yeah, but where's Leo?" asked Christi, she turned to face the desert that laid below them from the cliff. "Do you think he might have gone into the desert?"
"It's possible, but we can't be sure." answered Garo "Lets look around here some more and then spread the search out some more." They then spread out to search for their missing friend.
Meanwhile, Leo continued to tread through the sand, still unaware that he was being followed. He eventually heard the roar of mechas. "Do you hear that?" he asked Save.
But then 5 slingers on hyena mecha-beasts appeared & surrounded Leo, blasters aimed at him. The slingers were all wearing raggedy brown & white cloths & cloaks. They had their faces covered by clothe. "Who are you, & what do you want?" asked Leo
One of the slingers hopped down from his mecha, he was taller than Leo, a bit more muscular, & probably the leader of the group. "We want to know the same thing about you." answered the cloaked leader.
"Well I'm just wondering around, heard this place is beautiful this time of year." said a sarcastic Leo. But the slingers didn't like that answer instead they started to charge their blasters.
"That is not a good answer." snapped one of the cloaked slingers.
"Fine, my name's Leo Shadow." lied Leo so he can investigate this group. "And I'm lost in this desert."
Save smirked & chirped "I was right."
"Well Leo my name is Clark. And we can help you out." responded Clark. "For a price."
Leo stepped back "What is it you want?" he asked as he cautiously reached for his blaster.
"Not much, we'll lead you out of here in exchange you give us 4 of your slugs." answered Clark.
Leo grabbed his blaster but one of the cloaked slingers fired a Speedstinger, hit his hand, & sent the blaster sliding in front of Clark. Clark picked it up "And for your blaster." he said as he examined the Storm Raider GXZ.
"You're not getting my slugs or my blaster!" answered Leo
Clark laughed "You are in no position to make any choices right now." he said, he placed Leo's blaster on his hyena mecha. "Now since you don't want to pay for our services then we'll be taking...you."
After he said that Leo was tackled by several of the cloaked slingers. This surprised Leo's little follower & a Sand Angler (Leo's follower) popped out of sand because it was startled by the sudden excitement. They tied him up, took his slugs, placed him onto a mecha, & rode off into the desert but what they didn't know was that the Sand Angler decided to hitch a ride along with them.
Back to the cliff, a worried Christi rode Skip back to Garo & Quiver but Leo was not with them. "You guys didn't find him." she said in disappointment.
"Yeah." answered Garo "I think we should ask Eli for help."
"What? No!" answered Christi "If they find out that Leo went missing they'll find him sure, but they'll never go anywhere without a baby sitter." explained Christi
"I get it." said Garo "But what choice do we have?" he asked.
"Lets search the desert." answered Christi as she activated Walker to follow her & she drove her mecha down to the sand below.
Meanwhile, the desert slingers brought Leo to a small village. The houses are old, dirty, made of clay, & held up by stones & giant rocks. They took Leo and stood him by a hole in the ground. "So where are you taking me?" he asked but the slingers shoved him & he fell into the hole.
He fell & he landed on a giant pile of sand & he rolled down the pile. The slingers laughed as they walked away. Leo shook off the sand & looked around to find himself in a small dark dome made of stone & sand. "Who's there?" asked a nervous voice from near the wall of the dome.
Leo looked over to see a group of scared people sitting & standing around in the dome. "Who are you people?" asked Leo
One of them answered "We're prisoners of the Desert Sand."
"Desert Sand?" asked Leo
"The guys that just dragged you here." answered another prisoner.
"Oh that's who they are. But what is their problem?" asked Leo
"Their problem is the Shadow Clan." answered another prisoner.
"Why the Shadow Clan?" asked Leo
"These people are descendants of those that traveled through Shadow Clan territory. And when they were captured by the Shadow Clan then they were taken to this desert so either they would die or somehow survive." explained a prisoner.
Leo knew that the punishment for disrespecting the Shadow Clan was banishment to the desert. "So I'm guessing they decided to make a living here." guessed Leo
"Precisely." answered a prisoner. "They dream of speaking revenge on the Shadow Clan, but they haven't done anything to do about it."
"But why are you all here?" asked Leo
"We were either lost in the desert, traveling near it, or they captured us from our own caverns." answered another prisoner "Only because we refused to hand over our property, slugs, or gold."
"Yeah, I figured that part out already." responded Leo as a Sand Angler hopped down into the cave, unnoticed.
"Who are you anyway?" asked a prisoner
"I'm Leo Shane." answered Leo
"You're a Shane!" said the prisoners excitedly "So you're here to rescue us?!"
"I am now." said Leo. He then began to look around & devise a plan to get free. "Is there any kind of rope?" he asked. The prisoners all said no. That's when he noticed the Sand Angler. "Hey there." he said friendlily like to the slug. "What are you doing here?"
The Sand Angler explained that he was caught in a landslide & he has been following Leo the entire time. Leo then asked the slug if he could climb out of the hole & look for Save & the other slugs. The slug agreed to help so Leo chucked him out of the hole & the slug hopped away to search for Leo's slugs & blaster.
Meanwhile, Christi & the others rode their mechas through the desert "I found something!" yelled Garo, he stepped off Charger & reached into the sand & pulled out a metal eye patch & a silver sleeve.
"That's Leo's eye patch!" declared Christi
"It sure is." confirmed Garo as he placed the eye patch over his left eye.
"But if he doesn't have his eye patch...then something happened to him! Quick guys search around maybe he's still here!" ordered Christi
Back at the Desert Sand village the Sand Angler snuck his way around the place until he came upon a building & he heard chirping from inside. The slug burrowed through the clay, peered inside the building to see Clark holding up a slug tube with Save inside of it. "Someone will pay allot of money for you, my friend." said Clark.
Save growled & blasted a small wave of energy but to no avail. Clark laughed and placed Save into a slug barrel with the rest of Leo's slugs. The Sand Angler hopped over, jumped onto the barrel, & released Leo's slugs. They hopped out cheering & thanking the Sand Angler for his help. The Sand Angler then explained that he was asked by Leo to help them & that they need to find his blaster. They searched around the building & found Leo's blaster they picked it up & made their way back to Leo. They made it to the hole "Are you sure he's in there?" asked Prize, looking into the hole.
He unfortunately got to close to the edge & fell in only to fall into Leo's hand. "Thanks for dropping in." commented Leo
"Yeah, I just thought I would just drop by." responded Prize as the other slugs threw down his blaster & then hopped down themselves.
Leo was overjoyed to have them back, he picked them up, placed them in slug tubes, & then he picked up the Sand Angler "And thank you for all your help." he tanked. The Sand Angler smiled with glee for being appreciated. Leo then placed him on his shoulder alongside of Save. Then he explained his plan to the other prisoners. "Alright, the plan is to get out of here & over run these Desert Sand goons." explained Leo, the prisoners approved the plan.
He then fired Weaver who created a web that extends from the floor to the entrance of the hole. Leo climbed up the web with the other prisoners following him. He peered out of the hole to see the villagers of the Desert Sand just minding their own business & causing trouble. He jumped out of the wall & fired Weaver, who returned to him, at several of the slingers. The web pinned them to the wall, the other villagers turned around in shock, but they were overrun by prisoners. The prisoners snatched any blaster and slugs they could get & returned fire at the Desert Sand.
"Keep pushing them back!" ordered Leo as he fired Slushy, who froze several slingers. Leo & the prisoners continued to fire slugs at the retreating Desert Sand. Leo then fired Trip who was knocked away by an Armashelt.
"What's going on here?!" demanded Clark as he approached the raging battle. He spotted Leo, with his blaster, and he fired a Neotox at him. Leo quickly reacted & fired Soap who caught the Neotox in his belly.
The other Desert Slingers then fired a giant group of slugs at the prisoners at Leo. They continued to rain slugs down on them until they had them completely surrounded. "Give up!" ordered Clark.
"No way!" yelled a prisoner
"We have a Shane with us!" yelled another
"A Shane?" asked Clark then he looked at Leo who held up his blaster showing the Shane Star on it. Clark wasn't atoll happy about being lied to he fired his Grenuke at Leo. But before it made contact CaveIn knocked the Grenuke away.
"CaveIn?" asked Leo. Then his friends rode into the village & opened fired on the Desert Sand slingers.
Christi fired a Dirt Urchin who sprayed needles causing the Desert slingers to back off. "Perfect timing." thanked Leo as everyone continued to fire slugs at each other.
"No problem. And we found these." said Christi, handing over Leo's eye patch & sleeve.
"Thank goodness! These bandages are getting itchy & they're full of sand." said Leo as more slugs came flying at them. "We need to escape!"
"How are we going to get all these people out of here?" asked Quiver. But Garo came riding back to them with a trailer attached to his mecha.
"Everyone get in!" ordered Garo to the prisoners. They didn't hesitate they jumped right in or hung from the sides, Leo got back on Walker, he fired Save who cleared a path by blasting a giant wave of energy, & they sprinted away from the angry Desert Sand slingers.
"Thanks for the save guys." thanked a relieved Leo as they sprinted away.
"Any time." said Garo
"And thank you too." said Leo to the Sand Angler who hopped into his hand. "I'd love to have a slug like you. So what do you say?" asked Leo.
The Sand Angler chirped "Why not, I don't feel like crawling through the sand anymore anyway."
"Good point, PitFall." said Leo naming the slug as they all sprinted back to civilization.
After they left Leo returned all of the prisoners back to their friends & family.