At Least We Tried (Part One)

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Some parts of this story contains information used from the TV series, Skylander Academy. However, readers that haven't seen the show should still hopefully understand the chapter, but I just wanted to point this out.

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As usual the team of eight lay sprawled all over the living room and kitchen with the television on. Wash Buckler was lazily hanging over the side of the couch limply, Knight Light was lying on the kitchen bench, King Pen was sitting comfortably on top of Rattle Shake next to Wash Buckler, Freeze Blade was sharpening his chakram next to Dr Krankcase, Spy Rise was hanging from the roof and Chompy Mage was face-planted on the carpet.

Suddenly, Fisticuffs came crashing into the room and ripped the television off the wall.

"Hey," Wash Buckler said unenthusiastically. "Give that back."

"NO!" with that, the evilkin sprung back out the window where he came with the television, laughing manically.

"At least you tried," King Pen muttered, patting Wash Buckler on the shoulder.

Everyone sighed heavily.

"There's nothing to do around here…" Knight Light groaned, managing to lift his head from the bench.

"I ran out of My Little Pony episodes to watch," Spy Rise complained.

"And my chakram melted," Freeze Blade moaned, then started fanning himself with his hand. "Is it getting hot in here?"

"Someone turn the air conditioner on," Chompy Mage said from the floor.

"No," the others replied.

"At least I tried," the mage gave up.

"What do the other skylanders do in their free time?" King Pen asked, sinking his penguin butt feathers deeper into Rattle Shake's spine. Bu the serpent was too bored to complain.

Krankcase shrugged and said, "Something like training… or something. I'm too tired to think about it." He pulled his hat over his eyes.

"Hey, maybe we should try and strike up a conversation," Rattle Shake suggested.

"Or maybe try and offend someone so we can get into a fight?" Freeze Blade added.

"Go for it," Wash Buckler muttered.

Freeze Blade skated over to Spy Rise, opened his mouth to say something, but closed it again, realising that he didn't know what to say. The spyder stared at him expectantly.

"I-I'm just too bored…" the ice cat stuttered, skating back to the couch.

"At least you tried," Rattle Shake told him. "Maybe we just have to suffer through this."

Wash Buckler sighed heavily, then his head perked up, his eyes wide. He turned back to his lifeless team, "Wait a minute. We're skylanders for crying out loud! If we can defeat the most dangerous villains in Skylands, then we can find a way to have fun."

"He's right," Knight Light said. "We should really try harder. Maybe we should go outside and see what happens?"

"If someone carries me out, I'm in," Chompy Mage said.

"I did it last time," Dr Krankcase said, but everyone kept staring at him. "Fine."

"Let's go guys," Wash Buckler encouraged the team.

They tried with all their strength and power to get up, but in the end, they collapsed back down, panting furiously.

"At least we-" King Pen started, but was interrupted by Wash Buckler.

"No! We can't give up yet," the mermasquid instructed the others, who groaned, but obeyed.

Freeze Blade managed to roll off the couch and onto the floor next to Chompy Mage, King Pen fell forward onto both of them, and Rattle Shake slithered over them and face-planted. Spy Rise came plunged onto the pile of skylanders from the roof and Dr Krankcase decided to fall asleep on them all. Then Knight Light fluttered over and perched lazily on the pile.

Wash Buckler face-palmed as he gazed at his helpless team, and then told them, "Come on. You can do better than that."

Knight Light rolled his eyes under his helmet and hopped off of the others. Rattle Shake slipped out from under Dr Krankcase and shoved him off, and the others followed, to leave a suffocated Chompy Mage on the carpet. Everyone eventually managed to stand up, except for Chompy Mage, who Krankcase dragged outside with the rest of them.

"Great," Wash Buckler congratulated them. "We stood up! Now, let's go and have fun." He strode forward away from the base.

"Yaaaaaay…" the others chorused, following their leader out.

…

Wash Buckler piloted the skyship as they swooped through Skylands. The mermasquid was determined to bring fun to this dull morning. So he crashed the skyship into Skylander Academy.

The others stared in utter shock at the complete destruction of the academy.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Dr Krankcase yelled over the uncontrollable screaming.

"Just added a little excitement to our day," Wash Buckler replied, with no concern whatsoever.

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Rattle Shake screamed.

"I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO JAAAAIIILL!" Chompy Mage cried rolling around on the wooden deck of the skyship.

"Well, at least we're not bored," Wash Buckler said positively.

But the others kept wailing furiously.

Suddenly, Master Eon himself landed his floating podium just by the right side of the skyship, a furious expression on his face. Seeing this, Wash Buckler started to panic. Eon opened his mouth to speak, but before he could, the mermasquid started up the skyship again and swivelled to the right, knocking Eon off of the island, and rocketed off.

The others saw Eon plunging into endless skies silently. They sighed with relief when they saw him using his magic to float himself back to the surface.

"YOU HAVE MAJOR ISSUES!" King Pen squawked at Wash Buckler angrily. "YOU JUST KNOCKED MASTER EON OFF A CLIFF!"

"Well, he survived didn't he?" Wash Buckler muttered, unable to work out why his team was yelling. "What's the big deal? We're having fun right?"

The others just stopped and stared at him, dead in the eye.

"This is your idea of FUN?!" Knight Light screamed at him. "YOU JUST DESTROYED THE ACADEMY AND ALMOST KILLED EON, AND WE'RE ALL GONNA GO TO CLOUDCRACKER PRISON FOR IT!"

That made Chompy Mage panic even more.

"Hm, well that's not very positive of you Knight Light," Wash Buckler remarked calmly.

"You are CRAZY!" Spy Rise shook him back and forth rapidly.

"Should we take ourselves in and confess…?" Freeze Blade asked miserably.

"NO!" Chompy Mage pleaded. "PLEASE, NO! I DON'T WANT TO!"

"It was just a bit of fun back there," Wash Buckler reasoned. "There's no reason we could get arrested."

…

"Well, well, Wash Buckler," Dr Krankcase growled as the eight of them were being escorted through Cloudcracker prison to their cells. "Looks like you got us arrested. What a surprise."

Chompy Mage was shaking all over at the sight of the familiar prison cells they passed. He swivelled around to one of the guards and cried, "PLEASE LET US GO! WE DIDN'T MEAN IT! JUST TAKE WASH BUCKLER, NOT US!"

The guard simply shook his head as he shut the mage inside a prison cell. Then he escorted the rest of them to their own cells.

"Wait, so we're gonna be separated?" Rattle Shake murmured to the others nervously. "We don't stand a chance here!"

As they locked King Pen in his cell, the penguin was shrieking, "I'M JUST AN ADORABLE PENGUIN! YOU CAN NOT LOCK ME IN HERE!"

"Yes we can," one of the guards muttered sternly to him, then moved forward.

"Well, you got me there," the penguin gave up quickly.

Next, they shoved Spy Rise into his cell. Spy Rise scowled at them edgily, and to his surprise, they returned it. Eventually they had all the eight skylanders locked up.

To their surprise, Snap Shot, the head of the guards, walked up to each of their cells.

He stood in front of Wash Buckler's, shaking his head, "You never learn, do you Buckler?"

"No, never," the mermasquid replied.

The crocodile sighed, then said in a voice everyone could hear, "Listen up. The rules in this prison are simple. If you are given an order, you obey it. If you don't, the guards will have every right to tap the badges they have, sending a temporary, paralysing shock through your body. But if you really don't like to behave yourselves, the guards can simply tap their badges twice and, well, you don't want to know what will go down. Consider yourselves warned." And with that, Snap Shot and the other guards walked away without another word.

Wash Buckler called out, "Krankcase, what happens when the guards tap their badges twice?"

"You'll be sent to a dark place called 'The Hole'," the doctor muttered gloomily. "Only one prisoner is sent there at a time, in case they use their powers all at once to escape down there."

"Then how will we get out?" Rattle Shake asked, a little too loudly.

"SHHH!" Freeze Blade hissed at him through the wall. "Do you want them to put this place on lockdown?"

"Sorry, sorry," the serpent corrected himself, and lowered his voice. "But how are we going to manage this?"

There was a brief moment of silence, until Knight Light said, "Maybe we should just wait out our sentence."

"And how long is that exactly?" Spy Rise growled.

"Probably months," Dr Krankcase sighed. "Maybe years."

"Okay, well then that's not an option," Wash Buckler said.

"But then we'll be criminals! Villains!" Knight Light pointed out.

"What other choice do we have?" Rattle Shake hissed.

"A better one, that's for sure!" Freeze Blade backed the trap master up.

Wash Buckler asked, "Chompy Mage, Krankcase. Can you get us out, sicne you two are probably experts?"

"DON'T MAKE US DO IT!" Chompy Mage wailed from his cell.

"We're never going back down that path, Wash Buckler," the doctor told the mermasquid, who groaned in return.

"Fine, suit yourselves. But I'm gonna get myself out of here," Wash Buckler said, then added darkly. "Whatever it takes. Who's with me?"

There was silence.

The mermasquid sighed, "At least I tried."

To Be Continued…

Written By Uni.