CHAPTER 19-SKY DIMENSION I:
It was the next morning in the sky dimension; the day of which Ludo begins his attack on the universe. The sky dimension was simply just a big blue sky with no footing below, aside from the mass amount of white clouds that were lingering around. However, one thing that did stand out in this dimension was the mass fleet of Ludo's battleships that had entered the dimension. All four teams were on different battleships, destined to reach the same person; the real Ludo. Ludo's voice was heard as he was aware that the heroes made it onto his battleships.
"Ha ha ha ha ha, you fools must all have a death wish," Ludo's voice was heard on the intercom that spread through all of the airships. "Witness these invincible battleships, founded by the hands of a ruler! Its power is UNMATCHED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!"
The heroes overheard that and were destined with reaching Ludo's main flagship. Whatever it takes, even if it takes until the end of the day, they will put a stop to Ludo's plan for different reasons. Each team was shown one by one on each of the battleship.
"Once vee start job, vee finish job," Buff Frog declared on one battleship, with Tom and Archibald by his side. "That's our true policy; vee are Team Demonstrix!"
"Alright then Ludo, if you want to pick a fight with us, then you're about to get one," Daron motioned both Pony Head and Jackie to follow her on another battleship. "Come on girls! Let's take down that short thieving buffoon of a crow!"
Neither of them opposed since they also wanted to give Ludo a piece of their mind.
"I swear, you will regret this Ludo," Nebula growled, getting Janna and Upsilon to follow her, on a separate battleship. "Even if my memories aren't real, I'm still the Ultimate Life Form: Nebula Dragonfly!"
And then there was Team Star, who was on a fourth battleship separate from the other heroes, as Star could only say these words.
"Alright now Ludo, let's get this party started," she growled before she got Marco and Andrew to follow her as they also storm through the fleet of bird shaped ships to stop Ludo once and for all…
"Alright, I'm sure you overheard us on our true job policy," Buff Frog was speaking into the talkie while he was grinding down the rails with Tom and Archibald along his side. "So let's finish job by you telling us vat vee need to do next."
"Of course, your next mission, which if we're lucky will be your second to last," the client sounded as if he was on the edge of victory. "You boys have to infiltrate the Eagle Falcon flagship that is running the armada! And you have to make sure not to get caught by the monsters!"
Without another word, the client hung up as Tom looked slightly irritated.
"That's our second to last mission; get by this flock of bird shaped ships without being caught by monsters," Tom also sounded a little disappointed. "I thought that we would be doing some more sabotaging or something along that line…"
"Maybe vee are getting to that," Buff Frog shrugged. They landed on a nearby battleship and took cover to avoid being spotted. 'Maybe flagship vee gotta get to is Ludo's main hideout that's operating this fleet, and if vee hit him where it hurts, then perhaps whole armada vill tumble."
"I guess that makes sense," Tom decided to go with that. "But we'll just have to find out for ourselves once we get there."
"Yeah, let's get by these ships and get to where we need to get to," Archibald insisted.
Buff Frog nodded as Tom and Archibald got onto his shoulders. The frog monster then did his job by using his training in the espionage to get by without being caught by the monsters…
Team Sparkle was already prepared for what was in store for them this morning. There were plenty of missiles being fired at them from different ships, but they got out of the way. Daron also noticed just how high they were and that the dimension they're in is mainly sky and nothing else.
"Yeah girls, it looks like we've gotten way over our heads this time around," Daron called as they jumped to a set of rails.
"That may be true, but this is where the medallion and seashell necklace we're looking for are located," Pony Head reminded.
"I sure hope so," Jackie agreed. "This is probably the last place that they could be."
"Yah gurl, and if they're not here, then they may be gone forever," Pony Head sighed and shook her head.
"Now don't worry you two, I took you on this journey to find your stuff and I'm sticking to it until the bitter end," Daron promised. "Besides, Star is counting on us to take down Ludo once and for all, and we can't disappoint her either. I know that once we finally show Ludo who we are and take him out once and for all, we'll finally get your stuff back."
"Yeah, I trust you gurl," Pony Head smiled. "We did promise B-Fly that, and Ludo has pushed our buttons for the last time."
"Exactly, so we can do this, girls," Daron seemed confident.
"I trust you too, Daron," said Jackie, grinding down the rails with them.
It's strange; I never lost my seashell necklace like this before. The skateboarder chick thought to herself. I mean no one ever seemed interested in my seashell necklace which is my family heirloom, so I'm very upset that Ludo would want to take it."
Keeping that thought quiet for now, Jackie with Daron and Pony Head headed through the fleet of bird-like ships to head to Ludo's main flagship…
Team Dread was soaring through the sky too as they got off the battleship they were standing on. Janna noticed how there was nothing below them but clouds and more clouds. This was definitely a bizarre dimension.
"Wow guys, we are definitely flying very high," Janna looked down and remarked. "This dimension is nothing by sky and clouds! I wouldn't be surprised if we managed to make it into the space dimension next."
This got Nebula's attention as the name 'Space Dimension' sounded eerily familiar to her, but she just didn't know from where. The name caused her to mentally click.
"Wuh, S-Space Dimension, did…did you say Space Dimension Janna?" Nebula had to double check to make sure what Janna said was correct.
"Yeah, why, did something spark in your memory," Janna wondered as the three of them landed on some rails. Nebula just looked bewildered and rubbed her temple.
"Uh, I feel that it's supposed to," Nebula struggled. "But it's not, and neither is the other stuff you told me either…"
"Oh…It's alright," Janna felt choked up by that, following right behind Nebula. "Either the memories will come back on their own, or…or…"
"There's nothing to come back," Nebula finished gravely. "And that I might as well be another Nebula Android..."
Janna sighed in defeat. It just didn't make any sense. If the Nebula that was with them was an android too, then why was this Nebula kept in a top-secret closet in Ludo's castle instead of in a group of capsules with the rest of the Nebula Androids? Not only that, but the real Nebula would have been needed as a model for the other androids. Janna refused to give up, as she felt Ludo is probably messing with her for sick kicks, and won't answer any important questions just to rub salt on the wound. That was all the more likely reason that they had to take down Ludo.
Without another word, the dreadful team stormed through the fleet of ships to get to Ludo…
Prior to jumping off the ship, Andrew had to make sure to tighten the hat on his head so it won't fall off. Since this was the sky dimension, it would be easy to lose it to the point where it'll never be recovered. That hat is Andrew's personal prize that means a lot to him, aside from the Ruler Gemstone of course. He was soaring through the air along with Star and Marco and they got a look at some of the battleships below them.
"Hey Star and Andrew, right below us is an odd battleship that's shaped like a flamingo!"
"Marco, we are flying through a sky dimension with no landing area below us, and you're thinking about a flamingo-shaped battleship?"
"I'm just trying not to think of falling," the Latino gulped. "I'm the only one who can't fly Andrew."
They had landed on a set of rails that they proceeded to grind down on. They were heading to the first battleship that they hoped on decimating.
"Ah come on you two," Star scoffed. "This area is nothing, so let's keep moving!"
"Nah," Andrew replied, throwing his hands up above him. "How about we stick around and enjoy the view around us?"
"Just remember," Marco had to remind them. "We only have to take out the flagship that Ludo is controlling in order to take down the armada. I just hope that the other teams will be on the safe ground before they plummet to their deaths when the air fleet is taken down."
"So what does that mean, a ton of battleships will careen down and explode into nothingness in this dimension," Andrew seemed a little shocked by that implication. "There's definitely something wrong with that…"
"You got a better idea, Andrew," Star dared to ask.
"Well, no…but I-!"
"Then there you go," Star said quickly.
"Just like Marco said, we have to make sure the other teams aren't in danger when this air fleet goes crashing down," Andrew warned. "We don't want our pals to be killed when we take down this massive fleet of ships!"
Star didn't pay attention to him. Instead, she observed all the bird-shaped ships around her and saw just how many of them there were.
"Well what do you know, these airships look like a literal 'flock' of birds migrating through the air," Star admired. "At least Ludo got creative with how he set things up this time."
"As admiring as it may be Star, we don't have time to gander at all the airships," Marco insisted.
"He's right, we need to be on track and bring these ships down," Andrew agreed. "Without bringing our friends down with them of course…"
"Of course, I was just scoping out to see what we're up against," Star directed them to all the battleships in front of them. "And from what I'm seeing, we're in for a lot of ships to get by."
With the comment made, Star took Marco and Andrew as the three of them headed through the fleet of ships to finally save the universe from Ludo's wrath…
The Demonstrix crew were surprisingly alone on the battleship that they were on. The battleship, in particular, was shaped like a giant crow. Tom was slightly amazed by what he saw while Buff Frog observed throughout the ship so there weren't any monsters lurking around. By contrast, Archibald was pretty bored.
"Ugh, this is lame," he cried out in a voice that pierced through the silence. "Hey monsters, come out where ever you are!"
"Hush," Buff Frog clamped his mouth shut. "Vee have to get by flock of ships, not draw in monster's attention. Do you vant our cover to be blown?"
"Don't worry Buff Frog," Tom spoke, while Buff Frog activated a switch that opened the way down into the current ship they were on. They approached the way down. "There aren't any monsters here, and if there are, it's not like we can't just take them out before the word of our arrival gets to the leading flagship and to Ludo."
"Let's not be too careless comrades," Buff Frog huffed as they jumped down.
"We can also try unleashing some attacks from a distance so they can't spot us," Archibald suggested.
"Vee shall see," Buff Frog then went and jumped to a high height to the next battleship with his comrades still on his shoulders. This ship took the shape of a crane bird. After landing with a thud, Buff Frog hides behind the obstacle and peeked over to see if the coast was clear for them.
Once they saw nothing in sight, Buff Frog decided to slowly get away from the obstacle and moved onward.
"Y'know, you have to vonder how Ludo got these ships," Buff Frog muttered.
"The better question would be how he got the funding for all these battleships anyway," Archibald wondered as they went through a large corridor.
"I don't think he had funding for all these ships," said Tom. "For all we know, he probably discovered these battleships somewhere and modeled them after birds to his likeness."
"Yeah, that seems like the most legitimate explanation," Buff Frog nodded.
When they got outside again, they saw just how high they were. They also noticed that Ludo really does have good security on these ships with cannons and such. One has to wonder how he made this possible since he's not the type of person to construct anything like this. Then again, Ludo probably did discover these ships and designed them after birds.
"Okay comrades, vee gotta make sure vee don't fall," warned Buff Frog. "Because if vee do, our goose is cooked."
"Yeah, and this dimension has no landing area below us," Archibald gulped.
"All the reason to keep away from the edge," the demon muttered.
Buff Frog with his comrades steered clear from the edges while also making sure there weren't any monsters in sight. When there wasn't, they continued on through the battleship…
Daron was feeling the same adrenaline rush that Star felt on her journeys since she was free falling through the air along with Pony Head and Jackie, despite the former actually being able to fly. They saw nothing but clouds below them so it was a good idea not to plummet downwards. Thankfully, they landed on some rails which they used to grind and get across the area.
"I can't believe we're in a sky dimension," Daron winced.
"Yeah, there's nothing but clouds below us," Pony Head commented. "We better not fall off."
"Unless of course, you all want to go skydiving," Jackie added.
"Uh, no Jackie, that's completely out of the question," Daron quickly said.
"Yeah, it wouldn't be a good idea anyway, not in this dimension," Jackie understood where she was going.
"Uh huh," Daron focused on grinding on the rails with her partners until they landed on a battleship. This battleship was shaped like a duck. Daron was focused less on the designs and more about how Ludo gained possession of these battleships, to begin with. It was possible that it wasn't any different than finding a missile that he wanted to use to destroy Echo Creek.
Daron was walking with Pony Head and Jackie that she wasn't aware of the cannons aiming for them with the target markers under their feet.
"Look out, the cannons are aiming for us," the skateboarder chick was the one to say that. "We have to watch out for the target markers in front of us!"
"Huh," Daron snapped to and saw a target marker right under her foot as well as two cannons; one was about to fire at her. This got her to react as she jumped out of the way before she got shot. Not only were there two cannons, but there were three Craw monsters as well.
Seeing the danger they had entered, Pony Head took action and blasted one of the cannons with the magic from her horn. Meanwhile, Daron then hit one of the craw monsters on the head with her fake wand before Jackie went and karate chopped the second one before tossing it onto the third one. This knocked the three craw monsters out, but they still had the one remaining cannon to worry about.
"Hey gurls, the other cannon is going to shoot in your directions," the floating unicorn head hollered.
"Huh," both of them saw the remaining cannon aiming its target marker right below them and it was prepared to fire away.
Fortunately, before they got caught in the crosshair, Pony Head went behind it and zapped it down to bits with her horn.
"Wow, nice save there Pony Head," Daron praised.
"Thanks," Pony Head thanked them.
Daron then felt a little dejected before frowning. "I should have been wary of what was in front of me…"
"Aw, it's no worries gurl," Pony Head didn't seem too upset. "I've made plenty of slipups worse than that."
"Really, and what were the slipups like," Daron had to ask.
Pony Head was started to float off but came to a halt once she was asked that. She slowly turned to face Daron and her ears were drooped down.
"Well, the slipups were primarily because of me," Pony Head shamefully admitted. "You see, prior to this adventure, I have been nothing but selfish, arrogant, self-centered and a narcissist to everyone. I acted like everything in the universe revolves around me. But then I lost my medallion, and I ended up starting a team with you two. After a while of traveling with you gurls, I have figured that I've been nothing but mean to my friends and that I've learned that not everything in the universe can revolve around me and my interests."
Pony Head then delivered a small smile to her teammates.
"With that being said, I've especially learned that as a team, I have to look out for you gurls and that you gurls have to come first, no matter what…"
"It would seem that this adventure has been changing you Pony Head," Daron remarked. "And it's probably for the better too."
"Yeah, I'm glad that I've been on this journey too," Jackie sounded very laidback when she made that comment.
"I agree," Pony Head smiled once again. "Now what do you say we continue on from these fleet ships."
Daron and Jackie nodded as they continued through the armada of bird-shaped ships that were all around them…
Team Dread was now descending at an alarming pace, thanks to the rail that they were grinding on. They were used to the wind blowing at them from grinding on the rails, but because they were in the sky dimension, the feeling was much different. It had much more pressure on it. Janna was deterred by this as she had to keep her beanie from falling off her head. Nebula was seemingly indifferent to it, however, while Upsilon never had such an opinion on the topic anyway. Upsilon was also focused on something vastly different.
"Must annihilate all Ludo's minions," he boomed, jumping off the rail and heading down to the ship below while locking onto the craw monsters below. The ship that he was heading for took the shape of a giant raven. Nebula grabbed Janna and flew her down afterwards while veering to the left while at it.
"Whoa, what was that for," Janna asked, disliking that feeling. Nebula just pointed to the cannon that had blasted its ammo where they were once flying. Upsilon was off to the side, launching at missiles at any incoming monsters as well as trying to take out the cannons.
"Look, we gotta keep away from those cannons," Nebula explained as she set her Filipino partner to the ground.
"I see, well if we stay away from the target markers, we should be alright." Janna seemed to have understood this.
"Not a problem," Nebula then dashed off to join the fray with Upsilon and taking out all the craw monsters. Janna decided to give this one a break and let them do what they have to do. As always, all the craw monsters were disposed of before they vanished, with Nebula walking away while Upsilon was on the search for more monsters to wipe out.
When Janna caught up, Nebula grabbed a hold of her again and flew her up to the upper part of the battleship, with Upsilon hovering after them. When they got to the top, Nebula saw a rail and flew over, got Janna to grind on it before grinding on the rail herself, with Upsilon joining them immediately afterwards, once he shot down another monster.
"Wow, so this is Ludo's armada," Nebula trailed, as she saw all the bird-shaped fleet ships around them. "I must say, that this is a magnificent sight."
"But why does he need so many," Janna rubbed her chin. "To me, this fleet of ships can be compared to a flock of birds."
"Regardless, total destruction for all of Ludo's ships!" Upsilon declared an assault on all the battleships.
"No Upsilon," Nebula interrupted. "We only need to destroy one ship; the flagship that Ludo's hiding out in where he is possibly in control of this armada from."
"Not to mention some of the other teams are exploring these ships," Janna shivered. "And we don't want to kill them off."
"I suppose that's a good point," Nebula sighed. "Isn't that clear Upsilon?"
"Affirmative," despite how disappointed the robot was in not being able to destroy all the ships, Upsilon oblige as they continued through the fleet of ships…
"It's probably a shame that I'm having too much fun," chimed Star, who was riding the loops at such an incredible pace. "But I'm too high on adrenaline to care, woohoo!"
"Don't let this air get to your head Star," Andrew warned her. "Get too careless and you could be falling off one of these ships!"
"Not a problem, I can just fly myself back to safety," Star dismissed.
"Not at this height, there's no ground below us," he reminded.
Star ends up sticking her tongue out at him, which he shrugs off. The three of them landed on the deck of a ship below this; this ship took the shape of a goose. They encountered some Craw monsters right in front of them, who were charging at them with weapons. Thankfully, Star was ready for this as she got out her wand and unleashed a Hurricane Force Wind on the craw monsters. The blast was so powerful, it sent the craw monsters off the ship.
"Yeah, I bet you'd hate to fall from this height Star," Andrew eyed one of the craw monsters plummeting through the sky.
"Oh hush it, Andrew," Star countered. "You don't know what you're implying."
Before Andrew could make a retort, Marco was heard screaming as he then ducked and cover from a pink laser that was being fired at them. Star and Andrew followed and ducked out of the away right next to their Latino partner.
"Are you two alright," he was concerned about them.
"Yes, but where did that pink laser come from," asked Star.
"I want to find that out too," Andrew stomped off to see what did that with Star and Marco following him.
The source behind the pink laser was now staring them in the face. It was a new type of monster, but it looked vastly different from the others. For starters, it was a Falcon jet fighter type of monster that was of the red and yellow color scheme. If that wasn't freaky enough, this monster was also humanoid in figure and it was able to shoot that pink laser with its hands. Team Star was looking at a rather dangerous monster.
"Uh guys, I've never seen this kind of monster before," Star was confused.
"Well, this monster looks more challenging," Andrew cocked his fists. "No matter, any of Ludo's minions can't be good."
"There's always Upsilon," Star said aloud while Andrew was drilling right for the monster. Marco grew wide-eyed at what Andrew was going to do.
"Stop, Andrew, that's a new type of monster," he yelled frantically. "We don't know what that monster is capable of! Drilling yourself right into it may not be a-"
He didn't get to finish as Andrew collided head first with the monster's shield, causing him to collapse onto the ground with a splitting headache. The monster went and grabbed Andrew as it was charging up another pink laser.
Before it could, however, Star fired a Rainbow Blast in the monster's direction, getting it to recoil and be caught off guard long enough for Marco to jump in and karate chop the arm that Andrew was being held in. The monster fired a shot from its arm, causing the three of them to get out of range before they were blasted. Once that was done, Star started firing Rainbow Fist Punches at the monster that was now clearly angry and wanting to blast them down.
"Wow, looks like your temper is as bad as Andrew's," Star teased.
"Say what," Andrew groaned with a splitting headache. He looked up and saw Marco, who had his arms crossed as he shook his head.
"Andrew, I told you not to just go drilling yourself into the monster, and look what happened," Marco expressed disapproval. "You literally drilled right into the shield and got yourself a headache."
"Ugh, forget it," Andrew grunted as he glanced at the monster that Star was taking care of and holding off. "Just how are we supposed to take out this kind of monster anyway?"
"Well," Marco looked thoughtfully. "We could always rip the shield out of its possession before dishing out a full frontal attack-"
"YAHOO, MEGA NARWHAL BLAST!"
This got Marco and Andrew to gape as they saw the Mewni Princess fire a Mega Narwhal Blast at the monster's hidden head. The monster was blasted down where it then got dismantled to pieces before vanishing like all the other monsters. Star turned around and motioned her team to follow her as she cleared the way for them.
"…or Star, we can just use Star and have her use her Mega Narwhal Blasts…" Marco found himself saying.
"Oh, of course," Andrew groaned as he followed his partners through the battleship, wondering what other deadly new monsters they'll run into…
"Vow, how could vee have gotten at such a height," Buff Frog looked at how they were traveling. Tom and Archibald were still on his shoulders and they haven't gotten caught by any monsters yet. Currently, they were grinding down a rail. The rail led them to a penguin-shaped airship, as clouds moved by them. Archibald's pupil shrank at the sight before him as his eyes were visibly rolling in circles.
"Flying at this height in any dimension makes me dizzy." He complained.
"You're a gargoyle," Tom pointed out. "You should be used to flying, aren't you?"
"Yes, but when was the last time you heard about a gargoyle flying in a sky dimension with no ground in sight; in the air with a bunch of battleships around them, huh?" Archibald countered.
"Yeah, you seem to have a point," the demon mused. "I would have to look at a history book that contains a list of gargoyles that flew in a sky dimension such as this."
Buff Frog decided to disregard this as he continued to get by without being spotted. So far so good as it seems since they haven't allowed themselves to be spotted yet. They got by some cannons and got over some gaps, but no monsters have detected them at all.
Buff Frog with his comrades landed on some rails shortly after. They then took a good look at all the battleships around them. They really did resemble a flock of migrating birds. The type of birds they saw included peacocks, ostriches, emus, pelicans, toucans, parrots, and even smaller birds like seagulls and pigeons. It was definitely a sight to see.
"Wow, there's so many of these ships flying by," mused Tom. "This is definitely Ludo's armada."
"Yes, it's an armada, an armada!" Archibald cried.
"All these ships are run by monsters," Buff Frog proclaimed. "I guess Ludo must get pretty lonely."
"The path to evil tends to be a lonely one," Tom said.
"I should know," Buff Frog sighed. "I use to vork for Ludo after all."
"I still don't get it," Archibald exaggerated. "I thought Ludo had given up on evil five months ago and retired! I also thought that he turned over a new leaf and became good! So what happened that caused him to resort to being evil again!?"
"Vell, if all Ludos we faced previously vere fake," Buff Frog came to a possible theory. "Then it's possible that scheme might not be of Ludo, but of some unknown source that vee haven't discovered yet."
"That's not a bad theory, but if this isn't Ludo behind this, then who is responsible," Tom wanted to know.
"You don't think Toffee is behind all of this, don't you guys?" Archibald found himself asking.
Buff Frog took that in and shook his head.
"Nah, that's impossible," he dismissed. "Toffee vas killed off a vhile ago. I saw it with my own two eyes vhen Star restored all magic in the universe, and she vent super and blasted Toffee vith all the magic she stored. Then vhen Toffee vas reduced to talking sludge monster, Ludo himself knocked a pillar on top of him and killed him off for good."
"Yeah I have to agree with Buff Frog," Tom sided with the frog monster. "I remember Starship talking to me about it sometime after that happened, so that leaves Toffee out of the question."
"I guess so," Archibald didn't argue with that. "But if it isn't Toffee, then who is it?"
"Well, we'll just have to find out for ourselves once we get to flagship," Buff Frog said as they got onto the deck of another battleship. "Let's continue onward…"
Tom and Archibald didn't oppose that as the three of them continued through the air fleet without being caught by any monsters…
After some more traveling, including using a big balloon to get by a giant running fan, Team Sparkle had ended up on the upper part of an airship; this one took the shape of a giant swan. They then ended up encountering some more cannons, and they knew that they had to be careful of those. Still, one of them felt like reminding the others in case they had forgotten.
"Guys remember, the target markers that those cannons make are where they are aiming," this came from Jackie.
"We haven't forgotten," Daron sighed.
Pony Head stepped up and decided to handle the cannons as she fired at them with her magical horn. Once the cannons have been cleared out, Pony Head motioned her team to follow her, which they did. Once they got to the end of the battleship, Pony Head then carried Daron and Jackie up to the next battleship above them. This one actually resembled a giant white dove, as they thought this ship would be safe to navigate through.
Sad to say, it was anything but safe.
Once they landed on the deck of the ship, they had to duck under a pink laser that was coming from the same falcon jet fighter monster that Team Star had to deal with. The monster was advancing on them, as they never entered this kind of monster before.
"Uh…Pony Head and Jackie, what kind of monster is that?" Daron stuttered.
The monster then shot another pink laser from its arms, getting them to move out of the way.
"Gurls, we have a problem," Pony Head felt fear building up. "This guy is totally mad and insane, and powerful!"
"I have to agree, we never faced something this tough before," Jackie tried to remain cool despite the tension that was building up. "What are we suppose to do?"
"But what's worse is that monster has a shield," cried Daron, as she took out her fake wand. "I'll have to handle this directly!"
"Oh Daron my gurl, try to be careful," Pony Head was concerned. "That monster is dangerous."
Daron nodded as she charged for the monster with the fake wand in her hand. She smashed it right into the shield, which left a couple of dents in it. Despite this, she was unable to make contact with the monster itself. Pony Head was growling at how this menace was giving Daron a hard time, so she flew over and zapped the monster with a blast from her horn. It hardly did a thing thanks to its shield, but this was made as a distraction long enough for Jackie to get behind the monster and karate chop it right in the back. That blow was strong enough to cause the monster to careen forward. Daron then smack the shield away from its arms and sent it over the edge of the battleship. Pony Head delivered the final blow by zapping one more laser at this monster, causing it to be defeated by crumbling into several pieces before vanishing.
All three of them were panting at how they handled that creep.
"Whew, I never thought we'd have to face something so challenging," Daron huffed.
"Yeah, tell me about it gurl," Pony Head groaned. "That monster was brand new; one that we never faced before."
"Well, I'm glad that it's all over for now dudettes," Jackie panted as she sounded relieved.
"Me too Jackie," Daron wiped her forehead. "Shall we continue onward girls?"
"Uh huh," both of them nodded.
They then went onward through this fleet of battleships after having taken out a new challenging monster together…
Nebula was now soaring through the air after having gotten off of one of the battleships with Janna and Upsilon right beside her. As they were doing that, Nebula glowered past the battleships below them and noticed the sky underneath.
"Wow, this feels all too familiar," Nebula uttered quietly. "I feel like I've done something like this before…"
They ended up on some rails which they rode on until they brought them to the deck of the next ship. The ship that they were on now took the shape of a giant owl.
Sadly, as soon as they got their footing back, two of the same new monsters that Team Star and Team Sparkle faced had ambushed them and were guarding the door right behind them, leading to the rest of the deck. Nebula grunted at the sight of them as she tried firing Dark Purple Lightning Spears at them. Unfortunately, they ricocheted off the shields they were holding, rendering the attack useless. Nebula landed on the ground while growling. She had to come up with a new strategy…because apparently, Upsilon's strategy wasn't working.
"Exterminate and destroy: Fire. Fire," the killer robot blared, trying his hardest to blast those new monsters down. Janna had to tell Upsilon many times that his technique won't work on the new monsters, but Upsilon kept firing away. Janna gave up on Upsilon and turned to face Nebula.
"You got a game plan Nebula?"
Nebula nodded in Janna's direction. "Hopefully it'll be more effective than Upsilon's plan."
"My sensors have picked up that morsel of information; I hope to inform you…"
Nebula brushed that off as she continued.
"Anyway, I need you to distract them long enough for me to get a strike on them so they can't block, just like you did to those wizard monsters back in the spooky dimension."
Janna smirked upon hearing that. "You don't even need to ask me to help you twice."
Janna got straight to work by getting behind the monsters. While Upsilon kept firing at their shields, the monsters paid no attention to him. But once Janna started jeering about how they are knuckleheads and how bad their aim is, as well as blowing a raspberry or two at them, the two monsters focused their attention on her from behind, turning around to face her.
While they were distracted, Nebula got out her wand and unleashed a Dark Purple Fist Punch on both of their heads, getting their heads to spiral as they were dizzy, getting Upsilon to cease fire. Seeing this as an opportunity, Janna then bashed their heads multiple times with her hairdryer until they were defeated. They crumbled into pieces as they vanished shortly after.
"Alright, thanks for that Janna," Nebula was genuine with the Filipino.
"Anytime Nebula," Janna winked at her. "How about we continue on after how we defeated those monsters."
Nebula nodded as she followed along with Upsilon. Upsilon was heard muttering 'it would have worked eventually' while he followed his partners to the far ends of the battleship they were on…
"Alright guys, are you ready for some parasailing," Star asked daringly while kicking the door open and pointing to a silver propeller. Andrew grimaced at the sight of this.
"Ugh, as long as it ain't a repeat of the whole jungle escapee," Andrew narrowed his eyes as Star shrugged her shoulders.
Star then grabbed it with Marco and Andrew grabbing hold of Star before they started flying off. The huge gust of wind that was occurring helped them to get by.
"I wonder what all of those things are for," Andrew gestured to a bunch of yellow and black striped metal bars that were floating with no purpose.
"I honestly wish I knew myself," Marco murmured. "I have no idea why those things are there."
"I think I know why they're there," Star excerpted.
It was then several bullets went flying in their direction, triggering Marco and Andrew to scream hysterically.
"They're firing at us," Andrew yelped. "We gotta dodge the bullets by moving up or down!"
"Yes, thank you for that memo Andrew," Star retorted as she had to steer clear of the incoming bullets. Andrew felt like teasing Star by constantly saying 'here it comes, move down' and 'let's go up' depending on the situation, much to the chagrin of the Mewni princess. She stayed quiet though as she guided their way by.
Eventually, it came to an end as they jumped off the propeller and landed right on the deck of a huge hawk-shaped battleship.
"Alright, we handled that," Andrew huffed. "I'm glad that's over."
"Don't be so relieved just yet," Star pointed to the line of cannons on both sides which were firing in both directions, as well as a bunch of bat monsters swooping down along the deck.
Fortunately, Star took the easy way out and grabbed the hands of both her partners and flew by quickly, dodging all the bullets and bat monsters with no sweat. But now they were heading right for the one thing they weren't expecting.
"Andrew, do you think you can punch down the cannon for us," the karate expert suggested.
"I'm all over it," Andrew broke out of Star's grip and headed for the cannon and drilled right into it and turned it into smithereens. "In case you didn't notice, I've taken on several things tougher than that."
Star just rolled her eyes at that as she then motioned Marco and Andrew to follow her some more throughout the battleship they were on. Team Star was pushing their way through these battleships and they were planning on heading to the main flagship running this armada, where the big prize was waiting for them at…
Archibald had just touched another gargoyle statue at the insistence of his teammates. The statue then engulfed the detective agents into a bright light and would teleport them to where they need to get to…or so they hoped. They were teleported to another ship that took the shape of an albatross, and the area they were sent to be was surrounded by lasers, traps, gun turrets, cannons, and monsters.
"Whoa, so this is where all the action is taking place," Archibald gaped.
"Vee better keep outta sight," Buff Frog decided to get them by without being spotted.
The frog monster jumped from platform to platform with his partners still on his shoulders. To each monster they passed was taken out by Tom's fireballs or Archibald's acid without being caught.
The three of them got back without being spotted, ramming through several glass windows and taking out more monsters while going unnoticed. It seemed that the Demonstrix had this mission in the bag and they were one step closer to completing the job once and for all.
Sad to say, they had encountered a problem of their own.
They made it to a door that was being guarded by a monster. But this wasn't just an ordinary monster. This was the same new challenging monster that the three other teams have already faced. The Demonstrix had to fend off this newcomer without being spotted, so Buff Frog jumped up to a high pillar above where this challenging monster can't see them.
"Oh my, what kind of monster is that," Archibald whispered in shock.
"I dunno," Buff Frog muttered softly. "I'm villing to guess that it has been recently brought into Ludo's army. That monster looks challenging."
"And it's blocking the door," Tom said. "We got to get rid of it and not be spotted."
Buff Frog was coming up with a plan to get rid of the monster without being detected. It was then he came up with something and it seemed like the legit way of handling it.
"I've gotta plan," Buff Frog announced. "Tom, you can distract it by using that flame wheel thing and make its head spin. Then I will use tongue to grab hold of that shield and dispose of it. And then we'll unleash our attacks from a distance and then vee can finish it from there."
"Well, okay, if that's the plan," Tom went with it. "But I'm going to need total concentration for this."
"Right," Buff Frog nodded.
Tom rose his arms up and started to create a flame wheel. When he did, he pointed his finger to the new monster below, where the flame wheel hit it. Even though it didn't do any damage thanks to the shield, it did leave the Falcon jet fighter monster in a daze with flames spinning above him. With the distraction in place, Buff Frog extracted his tongue, lowered it right to the monster where he then focused on wrapping his tongue right around the shield. When he had a tight grip on it, Buff Frog then pried it off the monster, with Tom and Archibald helping him pull. In an instance, the shield came off and Buff Frog had the shield be sent flying off the edge of the battleship when he retracted the tongue back into his mouth.
Now the monster lost its shield and was wondering who's there. Since it had no way of defending itself anymore, Tom started by throwing a barrage of fireballs at it, leaving behind some burns and chars on it. Archibald then went and spat several spits of acid at the monster, getting it to smoke and melt. Buff Frog then took his chewing prum, blew several bubbles to the monster that got stuck moments later. All the impacts of these attacks caused the new monster to be knocked out cold and into unconsciousness. Buff Frog then finished it off by jumping down and slamming his feet onto the monster. This caused it to crumble into pieces before vanishing.
Upon the door opening, the three of them gave each other a high five.
"Alright, I can't believe we pulled that off," Archibald whooped.
"Yeah, we actually did it," Tom admitted.
"Now, let's go and finish mission up comrades," Buff Frog instructed.
With two nods, the Demonstrix headed through the open door and headed off, about to complete their second to last mission given by their client…
"Hey, you know what girls," Daron commented as her team was traveling on the deck of a chicken-shaped ship. "I think we've made some excellent progress on this adventure since we started. I've been able to fend for myself without Star having to come and rescue me from my captor."
"Yeah gurl," said Pony Head. "This trip has gotten me to soften up a bit and it taught me to be nicer to my friends."
"Yeah, I'm glad that I've been able to travel on this adventure too," Jackie smiled. "I've never traveled through several different dimensions before, and this is my very first time."
"Uh huh, and to think all this started because of a simple newspaper," Daron admitted. "If you girls haven't had told me about that medallion and the necklace, I wouldn't have known that you had stuff that went missing, I wouldn't have been able to find Star, and we wouldn't have gone on this adventure."
"Yeah," Jackie then started to think as Daron was curious about this.
"What's on your mind, Jackie?"
"Well, it's about the picture and the whole reason why we're here," Jackie started. "I had talked to Marco in the city dimension and he agrees with Star that she doesn't have my seashell necklace heirloom or Pony Head's medallion. Marco also told me that it was likely that someone else stole them and framed Star, and his theory was proven last night when Ludo straight up admitted to taking our stuff."
"But that's what has me confused," Daron shook her head, showing the picture from the newspaper again. "Ludo had been gone for as long as Star was, and unless Ludo had gotten some useful photo-editing technology, there's no way he could have framed Star so efficiently, even though he was the type of person to do something so devious."
"Uh, perhaps someone framed Ludo who framed Star," Pony Head took a guess. "I'm not sure entirely."
"It also doesn't help that all the Ludos we ran into on this quest were all fakes as we found out in the canyon dimension," Jackie brought up.
"Well, if the Ludos we ran into were fakes, it might be possible that Ludo isn't the ringleader in this evil plot after all," Daron determined. "Someone else is plotting this in the shadows!"
"But if it isn't Ludo, then who could it be gurl?" Pony Head scrunched her face.
"Do you girls think that maybe this Toffee might have come back from the dead and come back for revenge by plotting everything that has happened," Jackie guessed. "I only learned about Toffee because Marco told me about it."
"Impossible," Pony Head shook. "Toffee was killed off when B-Fly restored all the magic in the universe and fired the magic in her super form, before the real Ludo slammed a pillar on the remains of Toffee, bringing him to death. I found out from B-Fly when she told me."
"Yeah, Star did tell me about the mishap of Toffee too," Daron pocketed the newspaper and started to think. "Honestly, unless there's a way to resurrect him from the dead that would be in Janna's department, there's no way Toffee could be behind this."
"Well, who else could there be," Jackie was still confused.
"Uh, how about Meteora?" Daron made a guess herself.
"Pffft, please gurl," Pony Head brushed. "B-Fly had taken care of Meteora 9 months ago after everything that had happened."
"Meteora?" Jackie didn't recognize that name.
"Long story short, she was once Ms. Heinous who was aiming to claim the throne to Butterfly Castle, but B-Fly put a stop to that and put her in her place." Pony Head said pretty quickly.
"Yeah," Daron nodded. "So that marks off Meteora too."
"And that means anyone could be plotting this and using Ludo as a cover up for it," Pony Head sighed as they kept walking.
"Honestly dudettes, it doesn't matter who has taken them," Jackie kept herself calm. "Just as long as we finally retrieve our stuff back…"
"No doubt gurl," Pony Head agreed.
"Let's keep going," Daron motioned them to continue following her as they went through the battleship that they were standing on currently…
"The only way by here is to acquire one of Nebula's speed boost spells from her wand."
"Upsilon, I don't remember ever using a speed boost spell before," Nebula barked as a conveyor belt was in front of them.
"Well there's only one way to find out," Janna sighed as Nebula took out her wand.
"You two better hang onto me," she instructed. "Because this is going to be fast, so get ready."
Both Janna and Upsilon grabbed a hold of Nebula as she spun it around in hopes of doing a speed boost spell.
In a matter of seconds though, she pulled it off as she speeds boost through the conveyor belt and broke right through it. This caused the loon-shaped battleship to explode as they were sent careening out of it as they saw the explosion for themselves. Of course, this impressed Upsilon as he was bound for the destruction of all things related to Ludo.
"I wonder where those pieces of debris will end up," Janna wondered. "I'm just glad none of the other teams were on that ship."
"Regardless, that's one blow against that Avarian's armada." Nebula smirked.
"Humor remains undetected," Upsilon deadpanned like the robot he is.
They landed on a couple of rails and started to grind down. They then used a big balloon they found just to get by a whole range of huge fans running down below them. Upsilon wanted to blow up more ships while Nebula only wanted to go after the flagship. Janna, on the other hand, wanted two things; for Ludo to be brought to justice and to get her hands on that secret artifact.
After taking the balloon, they found themselves surrounded by a bunch of cannons. Upsilon fired his own missiles against them, Nebula shot some Dark Purple Lightning Spears at them, and even Janna got in on the fun when she slammed her hairdryer into one of the cannons.
"That'll show them," Janna growled, destroying the cannon.
They then encountered the same propeller that Team Star had used. Feeling that they need it to get by, they grabbed it and the three of them hung on while steering it through the wind. Of course, they had to dodge incoming bullets being fired at them, but that's also what Team Star did as well. They then came to a course at another giant battleship; this one shaped like an eagle.
"Want to take down another battleship," Nebula dared to ask.
"Eh, I guess, as long as none of the other teams are on it," Janna shrugged.
"Destroy," Upsilon said to show his approval.
They then landed on the deck of the battleship where they started to trek down the ship. Sadly, right before they could go through the door, two more of the challenging monsters were waiting for them. This time they were glowing pink.
"They're firing at us!" Janna cried as they got out of the way in the nick of time. Once they were done firing away, Nebula snarled and didn't want to deal with this.
"Oh screw this, I'm putting an end to this," Nebula took out her green Miracle Gemstone and showed it to her partners. "Are you two thinking about what I'm thinking?"
"As I ever will," Janna took out her spell book from her backpack.
"Inferno Blaster Activation has been achieved," Upsilon announced.
They were about ready to perform Miracle Dark Inferno Blast on the two challenging monsters.
"Huh, you two aren't the only ones who could fire a pink laser," Nebula scoffed, throwing her gemstone into her wand where it was inserted. "You haven't witnessed our true power!"
With that, Nebula shouted 'Miracle Levitato' while Janna said that spell she likes to use, causing the time to stop and the two new monsters were getting plagued by dark smog which filled their heads with spooky images. Upsilon then fired his inferno blaster which did a significant impact on them. Once the effects of Miracle Levitato lifted, both monsters turned to ashes and were defeated quite quickly. As Upsilon relished this win, Janna put her book away and huffed.
"Whew," Janna wiped her forehead. "How much longer will it take for us to reach the flagship?"
"I dunno," Nebula said honestly. "But we will find it, even if it'll take us all day and night to get there."
"Right," Janna nodded.
And they did just that, they continued on for the remainder of the day to get to the flagship where Ludo is hiding out at…
The girly team had found the same propeller that Team Star and Team Dread had used previously, and the three of them decided to put that to work. As they did, Daron noticed how all the ships below and above them, as well as all around them, were flying at different altitudes. She just wanted to get to the flagship soon to get the stolen goods back from Ludo, or whoever is behind this.
"Anyway," Daron got the attention of her partners. "Why does Ludo have so many battleships anyway? It's like he wants to start a war on the universe."
"That's because he is," Pony Head commented. "Though based on the amount there is, I'm surprised that he had a lot of free time on his hands to uncover all these fleet ships."
"It's been 5 months to be exact," Jackie said. "I'm also surprised that he has such a fascination with birds with all the bird-shaped ships out in the distance."
"I've noticed that too Jackie," Daron commented. "But that's because he is a bird monster himself."
Jackie nodded as she started to think. Finally, once they founded another fleet ship to land on, Jackie felt like sharing how she feels about her necklace being stolen.
"You know dudettes," Jackie started as they landed. "I never lost my seashell necklace before. It's always been with me ever since I got it on my 12th birthday. I keep it on my neck most of the time, and that one sleepover, I tuck it onto my shorts for safe keeping. But I never had it stolen before and no one seemed interested in it, until now. I just don't get why Ludo would want to do this."
"I know how you feel Jackie and what that necklace means to you since it's your heirloom," Daron assured, as they walked. "But we know Ludo is up to his tricks again and your necklace has mermaid magic which will aid him in his plot. That necklace means so much to you."
"Yes it does," her frown slowly turned into a smile. "And so does Marco…"
"You mean like that big kiss he gave to you on the mouth last night in the spooky dimension?" Daron teased.
"Uh…Uh…Uh…M-Maybe," Jackie felt a blush push on.
"Oh Jackie you can be just as adorable as Marco," Daron giggled. "It's no wonder why you two belong together."
"Yeah, that's true," Jackie giggled at that too. "Besides, our belongings are in the flagship, where we need to head."
"That's right, and that's where Ludo is leading this armada, and I bet the other teams are planning to head there now as we speak, so that means we're going there too."
"You know it," Jackie grinned.
"Uh gurls, I don't know if we'll be able to do that yet," Pony Head directed their attention to another challenge falcon jetfighter monster in front of them. "It looks like this punk didn't get enough the first time."
"You ready for round 2, mister," Daron smirked, getting her fake wand out.
Fortunately, this wasn't hard since they used the same technique they accomplished with the first one. This led to the monster's defeat and allowed them to carry forth.
"Well girls, let's head to the flagship Ludo is hiding in so we can finally put an end to all this nonsense," Daron commanded.
"I'm way ahead of you gurl-friend," Pony Head said.
"I'm ready too, Daron," Jackie was smiling. "And I hope we can meet Marco and the other heroes when we get to Ludo."
"Something tells me that we will," Daron smiled. "Now let's move out!"
The three of them headed for the flagship so they can finally settle this once and for all…
Team Star had taken out several battleships already while making sure the other teams weren't on them. They weren't thrilled about it as Upsilon was. They did their own thing while taking down cannons, using big balloons to get over huge fans and grinding on rails. They were thinking about this whole thing; all the Ludos they have encountered were fakes. If that's the case, the three of them were left to believe if Ludo really is behind this, or if someone else in the shadows is serving as the true ringleader behind this plot. Despite having theories of whom it could be, similar to those shared by Team Sparkle and the Demonstrix, they decided to drop it so they can finally head to the flagship.
"Hey guys, do any of you see the flagship yet," Star asked as she looked in the distance. Marco had gotten beside her and said.
"Not yet Star, but I bet we're getting close."
"Um, could it possibly be that giant battleship way off in the distance," Andrew was heard.
Star and Marco checked in the direction Andrew was pointing and they indeed saw a giant flagship that took the shape of an eagle and a falcon combined. That had to be their destination.
"Alright Andrew, you've got such a good eye. Looks like we found our destination," Star smirked before looking puzzled. "Now our only problem is how are we going to get there at this rate? Neither Andrew nor I can fly that far."
"And we all know Marco can't fly at all," Andrew muttered.
Marco ended up grimacing at that. Star was glancing in all directions on the ship they were standing on and then she had quite an idea in mind.
"I have an idea, but I need you both to trust me on this one," Star told them. "So hold on tight and don't let go."
Knowing that they won't have a choice, Marco and Andrew grabbed Star's hands before she then went into the battleship they were standing on and she headed for a conveyor belt. She then used the Bunny Rabbit Blast on the conveyor belt to propel herself and her teammates through the conveyor belt. They were boosted to the end, and before they knew it, the battleship exploded and it sent Team Star skyrocketing through the air, where they remained soaring with hopes that they'll land towards the flagship in the distance.
"Star, are you sure this is going to work," Andrew made sure his hat wasn't lost as he looked at Star, who looked like she was spreading her arms out like an airplane.
"I'm not, but I'm feeling really confident about this," Star said. "I'm sure we'll make it and show Ludo that we are putting a stop to his plans!"
"I just hope the others won't have to plummet to their deaths once the ships go tumbling down," Marco sounded concerned for the other teams. "They have their own reasons for going after Ludo."
"Which is why we'll likely see the other teams once we get to the flagship," Andrew assured before smirking. "Including that girl you kissed on the mouth with so much passion last night: Jackie Lynn Thomas."
This got Marco to blush as he shook that off.
"Yeah, they have their own stuff, and Jackie and Pony Head are looking for their belongings," Marco brought up. "Which reminds me, Jackie talked to me in the city dimension about their stuff being stolen, and I came up with the assumption that someone might have framed you Star for taking them. This was proven last night when Ludo straight up admitted to taking them."
"I've noticed, and that's the kind of stunt he'd want to pull," Star said. "And we're going to put a stop to his evil scheme once and for all."
"I just hope the teams make it there safely," the karate boy hoped as they were being sent to their destination.
"I hope so too Marco," Star hoped too.
"Same goes for me," Andrew stepped in.
Without anymore words, Team Star continued soaring through the air, with hopes that they'll make it to their final stop along with the other teams…
END OF CHAPTER 19!
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