Chapter 25
Once we got into the battle arena, we saw that there were a lot of Quinkan in there already, at least 6 of the giant crystal ones that we've called Uberquin and the Quinkan that shot electricity, which we called Electroquin. "Be careful of the Uberquin, Ty. They can only be brought down with explosives," I said to him with a frown as I shot at the giant Uberquin in one side of the arena with my new Gunnerang model of the Sniperang, made exclusively into the Bazookarang. It caused the Uberquin to blow into the lava around the arena, which caused it to die afterwards. "I'll handle the smaller ones, you just get the bigger ones out of the way," Ty said to me as he then demonstrated the use of his gauntlet, which was the only weapon good against the Quinkan that wasn't explosive.
I kept shooting the Uberquin as Ty sliced apart the Electroquin with quick slashes of his rangs, me shocked at how each one made the gauntlet on his left hand glow a bright green, almost as if it recognized what the Quinkan were and forcing them to get crippled after getting sliced to bits. "Well, that gauntlet sure is a great addition!" Shazza smirked as I finished off the last Uberquin while Ty got the last Electroquin.
We repeated this for two more waves with the 2nd of the 3 being a fight with Uberquin and Uber Frills (which made me curious as to how Karlos got them) and the final wave being a bunch of Lavaquin and Uberquin, which I could tell made Ty a bit shocked at how they were actually made of lava and how my Nitrorang was the only good weapon against them. "Freezing the fire-based Quinkan is the only way to defeat them," Shade explained as she had her own Nitrorang on her, which she used on the final of the Lavaquin, forcing it to fall down and spread out into the lava around the arena.
"WHAT?! This is not possible!" I heard Karlos exclaim from the upper booth. "We had a deal, Karlos. Now you hold up your end of the bargain and we'll leave you alone," I smiled at him. "Hmm... very well, I did make a deal with you, didn't I? Very well, then," Karlos said as he hit a button and a gate opened from behind us, Julius emerging in a metal cage that opened up afterwards. "TY?! You're alive!" Julius gawked at the sight of him, making Ty groan at that. "Be prepared for a lot of people to say that in the future, possum..." Shazza frowned at him. "Yeah, I know," Ty sighed as we got back into the elevator that led up to Karlos's control room with Data joining with us afterwards.
"So... I trust that you'll be good to my experiment and that you'll show her how to truly battle... that way she can destroy you one day," Karlos smiled at us. "Sure, yeah, whatever," Shade smirked as she stuck her tongue out at him. "Hmph. Nevertheless... I have a tracker installed in her to make sure she isn't attacked by you. And trust me, I know when she'll be attacked by you, since the device allows me to see through her eyes," Karlos frowned. "Okay, we got it already old codger! We won't hurt her and we'll treat her kindly! God, you are just as annoying as Dennis when he complains about decorations..." I groaned at him as we then left the place with Data joining up with us.
"So you're going to be letting me travel with you, huh?" we heard a voice ask us as we exited the hideout and got into the watering hole area, us gasping to realize that Data had just spoken. "I thought Karlos said you couldn't talk?" I frowned at her. "Teehee, that's what he thinks. I added a voice box to my person while he was asleep a few weeks ago. It was very simple and it didn't hurt me one bit," Data explained. "Huh... you're very talkative for a robot," Julius admitted to her. "Well, being able to learn more and more with every experience gives me a vast vocabulary," Data said with a smile. But it was then that we saw something above us that we gasped at.
There was a helicopter we immediately recognized being attacked by some Skyquin, which sent the helicopter into the area we now called Cinder Canyon, an area where the Quinkan resided at and their closest base of operations to Burramudgee! "DUKE! We need to save him! Cinder Canyon is a base of operations for the Quinkan!" Shade exclaimed at that. "Really? A base of operations? Hehe, I think I could enjoy this," I smiled as I brought out my Bazookarang with a mad smile. "Um... is she okay?" Ty asked as I took the lead, petting my Bazookarang as I led the way to the entrance to the canyon. "She's been wanting to take out a base of operations for awhile, especially after the ordeal a month ago... that was when the Quinkan struck Burramudgee the worst, and when she had to kill her own mother," Shazza explained, me wincing at those words, but I still kept going. I was going to take out this area no matter what, all while rescuing Duke from these violent monsters.