Arsenal
Chapter 28-Kayla
The Phoenix Woman
We quickly got back into the jeep, managing to bring all of our injured guests, they led us to another village. Fortunately no more robot drones bothered us. "Crap!" I yelled out as I almost drove into a very deep crater.
I looked down towards it, since there wasn't a smoking rock at the bottom it couldn't have been a meteorite or something. As I pondered this, Lana quickly stepped out of the van and examined it closing. "Tyson was here!" She said with excitement.
I smiled, glad to know he got on the Planet safely.
One of the Nemuina girls flew out of the van, her name was Opal. "Your friend must've headed over to the village!" she declared as she pointed to a very large forest.
It was like a regular Earth forest on steroids, because all of the trees were as tall as the robot from earlier. It was breathtaking, to see all the flowers and animals live in harmony. The forest ground was littered with blue deer, they seemed to have pink flowers over their torso's.
Opal and the rest of her friends quickly flew off, probably in a hurry to meet their neighbors. "Hey when in Rome." I told Lana as I quickly turned into Pesky Dust and flew after them.
The forest looked even more amazing from above, I was so busy gawking that I suddenly hit my head on a thick branch.
"Careful." Warned Lana as she flew past.
I cursed under my breath before I continued to ascend. I quickly saw a large number of houses built into the trees. Once I landed, many of the residents greeted me. "Are you from the other tribe?" One asked, clearly mistaking me for one of the refugees.
"Uhm, you can kind of consider me a tourist." I replied as I hit my Omnitrix symbol and turned back to normal.
"Incursion!" They all cried out, clearly scared of me.
Before I could explain, Opal flew in front of me. "It's okay! She saved me and the others from the robot! It was amazing she turned into a Pyronite and melted it!" she explained as they all began to cheer for me.
It felt good, the worship and thanks you get for being a hero.
"Kayla, I think you'd want to hear this!" said Lana who poked her head out of the house.
I quickly entered, seeing Lana talk to an old fairy woman. She held a large wooden cane. "This is Kayla, Lady Mina! So where did Tyson go?" she asked, her eyes seeming rather bright.
"Well yes after we fed the boy he turned into some strange bird creature and flew off to a nearby village Vilgax was attacking." She explained.
She sighed before saying, "It's only a matter of time before this village ends up like the others.."
I knelt down towards her. "It's okay maam we'll get Vilgax out of here."
"It's not just that my child, you must stop him from getting the map piece on our planet. I curse the fact that I didn't have time to explain this to your friend.."
After that, we both quickly left. Me and Lana reentered our jeep and sped off towards the other village. We had hoped to find Tyson, trying not to fear the worst case scenario of an encounter with Vilgax.
As we drove closer, a mysterious figure in a black cloak seemed to appear out of nowhere. When we stopped a few feet from her, I couldn't see her face. "Surrender the map pieces children." Said the figure in a feminine voice.
I sighed, not wanting to waste any time. I quickly pressed the main button of my Omnitrix and made my selection. I quickly jumped out of the jeep and hit the core, causing me to quickly transform into Cannonbolt and curled myself into a ball. Planning to make a pancake out of this mysterious stranger, but she deflected my attack with a powerful jolt of fire.
I felt my curled body fly into the sky, as I uncurled myself I realized that woman just sent me flying 30 feet away. From what I could tell she was approaching Lana, so I re- curled myself and sped towards the woman.
Before she could reduce the jeep to slag, I managed to ram myself right into her. I uncurled myself and reverted to normal, confident that I had bested her. Normally an attack like that would leave someone down for the count. But she merely got up and dusted herself off. Before she could reduce me to cinders, I managed to turn into Chromastone before that happened.
I watched as Lana used her telekinetic grip to restrain our attacker. "Sorry Kayla, needed a sec to build up my nerve.." she said as she intensified the grip.
She floated out of the jeep, wearing the high tech backpack which contained the map pieces.
"Now who are you..?" asked Lana, clearly trying to look into her mind.
The woman simply smirked, "Don't even try it Athenian, I have Level 10 Psychic shields." She said confidently, even though she could barely move.
"So what you're just another one of Vilgax's cronies?" I asked, ready to fire an ultraviolet beam.
She merely laughed, "Please! Me work for that moron? He's merely just a pawn. And frankly, I could easily roast the both of you. But how much fun would that be?" She asked slyly before pulling out a small device from her cloak.
"Hey!" I asked as I tried to blow it to pieces.
"Ciao." She said casually before pressing the button and teleporting out of our sight.
I sighed as I reverted, knowing I failed to get any information from this mysterious woman.
We both reentered the jeep and drove towards the village, naturally it was decimated like the one from earlier, but this time a large number of drones could be seen patrolling the area. At the center, was Vilgax's feared ship floating above. The Chimerian Hammer II..
