Rio the Darkness 5: Alternative Darkness

chloemcg: Maybe we will find out where is Jewel and the kids, and maybe we will find out who that mysterious bird is and his prophecy :D And sorry to hear you're not feeling well. And it's cool that you're having internet problems. The FanFiction servers were down earlier anyway. :D And thank you. Get well soon.


The next morning, Blu had woken up nice and early to get the day started, and hopefully could get some answers still about what has happened to all of Rio and where all of his family are. He was now walking through the underground rebel base to Rico's workshop.

When he arrived, Blu slowly made his way into Rico's workshop where the Hawk was waiting for him.

"Hey, Rico." Blu greeted the Hawk, walking towards him to investigate what he was making this time as his job as a mechanic.

"Morning, Blu." Rico greeted, while he drunk a quick sip out of a bottle of vodka before attention back to the blue macaw. "Glad you're here. I've made something that can help you a lot in battle."

Rico picked up something up from his work desk and gave them to his blue macaw friend. Blu kindly accepted them and studied them, noticing they were metal wrist gauntlets-like the ones the mysterious figure was wearing.

Blu took the metal gauntlet into his wings and studied them for a brief moment with a curious eyebrow raised. "What are these?"

"They're wrist gauntlets Blu. Go ahead and put them on." Rico offered, while he folded his two wings together and waited for the blue macaw to attach them to his wings just above his wingtips.

Blu attached the two gauntlets just above his wingtips, securing them on tight using the two black straps that were on each gauntlet to keep them on and to use in battle. "Wow, Rico. They're great. Thanks a lot."

"No prob-lame-ooo." Rico grinned, before he began to explain to Blu how they worked in battle and how to use them correctly. "These gauntlets are made out of chrome steel-almost impossible to break. If you encounter any guards with swords are axes, all you need to do is block their attacks using these."

"Hmmm." Blu hummed, still looking at the two metal gauntlets to make sure they were secured on tight enough. "These sure will come in handy."

"Indeed they will." Rico agreed, smirking a little on his beak until he and Blu were soon interrupted by a knock at the door.

The macaw and hawk turned their attention to the room exit/entrance where they saw David had came inside the room to tell them a message and request from Sapphire: "Guys, Sapphire wants us all in the meeting as soon as possible."

"Alright, we'll be there in a minute." Rico said, as he and Blu went to leave Rico's workshop and go and meet Sapphire in the meeting room. "Come on, Blu. Let's go."


A few minutes later, Blu, Rico, Sapphire, David, and Joe were together in the meeting room, discussing something very important that needed to be handled as soon as possible. Sapphire was explaining to everyone the situation in the front of the room while the others were sitting in chairs, listening to Sapphire talking.

"...Everyone. We have a situation." Sapphire began to explain to the macaws and hawk as she revealed a wooden board with four pictures hanging on them. "According to our spies, General Raxos has hired four assassins to hunt us down and kill or capture us. So far, only one of them has been defeated. Thanks to Blu and Rico."

"Ahhh, anytime." Rico said, leaning himself back on the chair he was sitting on with his wings folded together like arms.

"Anyway, with three of these assassins left, we can't attack the military macaws anymore until they are apprehended and defeated." Sapphie explained, placing a single wing on her hip with a bit of a serious face. "Are we understood?"

"Yes, Sapphire." David answered.

"You got it, sis." Joe agreed, rubbing back his head feathers with his wing.

"Oh, that won't be a problem, Sapphire." Rico said, as he placed his wing under Blu's wing and lifted it up to show them the metal gauntlets he had attached to his wings. "As you can see, Blu can now block enemy attacks and with his invisible power, he's pretty much unstoppable."

"Let's hope you're right there, Rico." Sapphire said, before she dismissed everyone in the meeting room, giving them permission to leave the room. "Now, all of you may go. And be careful."

The birds nodded in response before making their way out of the meeting room to go and continue their daily lives for the day. Joe had stayed with his sister, David had went back to his medical room to attend to the wounded, Rico had went back to his workshop to make some more gadgets or weapons that could be handy.

As for Blu, however, he had decided to go out of the rebel base all on his own. But as long as he has his invisible power, his new metal gauntlets, and Rico's drinking bottle with the sacred water inside across his neck, then he should be perfectly fine on his own.

He made his way through the underground base tunnels until he got to the end all the way to the ladders in the base and climbed up them to get out of the base and back into the Jungle. He slowly opened the exit/entrance to the rebel base and made certain that there was no military macaws around before exciting the base.

"Ahhh, a bit of fresh air to start off my day." Blu sighed, inhaling the air throughout the Jungle of Rio de Janeiro.

However, the blue macaw's peace was soon interrupted by multiple voices nearby. He made himself invisible to avoid them and lucky for him, his gauntlets went invisible too.

Blu made his way towards the sound of the voices and when he was nearby, he could see it was three military macaws nearby. Two of them carrying knife blades while one of them was wearing a protective body armor vest and protective helmet. "Hmmm, a couple of macaws. I should clear them away before they could discover the base."

Blu slowly made his way towards them to attack while they were talking with each other, and had no idea that someone was nearby.

"Why we even out here, anyway?" a military macaw with a blade asked his partners.

"Raxos wants us to look for any gangsters and take them hostage." the other military macaw with a blade too replied.

"Or better, we could find the blue macaw who's in charge of them all." the military macaw with the body armor and protective helmet suggested.

"Who, Sapphire?" the military macaw with the blade said, before he chuckled a little evilly. "I would sure love to get my wings on her pretty little face. I would love to hear her scream."

"Yeah, and her brother too." the military macaw with the protective armor and helmet added.

Blu growled silently to himself, not liking what these military macaws were talking about, and decided to take action. "Want to talk about my friends like that, do you? I'll show you."

Blu went visible to his enemies, and without hesitation, he grabbed one of the military macaws with a blade and slammed him into a tree, knocking him out completely. And it didn't take long for the other two macaws to see him.

The other military macaw with the blade pointed a single wingtip at Blu, and bellowed out at the top of his lungs. "GET HIM!"

He charged straight at the blue macaw, preparing to cut him into a million pieces. "I'm gonna cut you up into tiny pieces for doing that!"

The military macaw swerved his knife multiple times at Blu, trying his best to stab him. But he could not hit him because the blue macaw was using his new metal gauntlets on his wings to block each knife attack. Blu eventually blocked his knife attack again and used his free wing to knock his knife out from his wing, followed by him being hit straight in his face and then down to the ground.

The military macaw with the body armor attempted to hit Blu, but even though his armor may be his strength, it made him slower than usually.

While he dodged the armored military macaw, Blu remembered what Rico had taught him about armored guards and how to defeat them in combat. He poked the military macaw in the eyes to knock him off his concentration, and seconds later, Blu curled his wings like fists and began a series of quick, focused attacks in order to break the military macaws' defensives and take him down.

After a few more seconds, the military macaw was exhausted from the hits he was taking, and before knew it, he was taken down onto the ground by the blue macaw and completely unconscious from the attack.

Now that they were all knocked down, Blu leaned down to the military macaw who had a knife blade and checked his army satchel bag he was carrying on his belt for anything at all that could be important or useful. And bingo! Blu had found something.

Inside the bag was a letter from General Raxos and it seemed to have some important details written on it from the good general himself. Blu read the contents of the letter, hoping this would turn out to be something useful.

Dear, Sergeant. Lois.

I need you and a few of your men to patrol through the Eastern area of the Jungle for any of those rebels. If you find only gangsters, kill or capture them. Your choice. But if you happen to find any blue macaws or a black hawk, you may wound them but bring them back alive for interrogation. Once you have finished reading, burn this letter immediately.

Sincerely,

General Raxos.

"Didn't do a good job burning the letter, did you, sergeant?" Blu thought to himself while chuckling a little, but his expression soon changed when he felt something hard hit him on the back of the head, and before he could act, the impact of the force had left knocked out.

The bird who had knocked him completely unconscious was no other than General Raxos, who was chuckling a little with a smirk on his beak, and holding up the bo staff he had used to knock Blu out. "Got you. You're going to be very useful to me."


Good to see Blu has some new gadgets, but it doesn't look like he will be using them after he has just been caught by General Raxos. This won't end well, ladies and gentleman.