Shattering Time

After the events of "Cough Gag Cough"…

The two skylanders checked that no one was watching, then heaved the machine down the staircase.

"Over here," one of them said to the other, signalling to the corner of the dark basement.

The sensei shoved the mysterious machine over to the swapper and covered it in a thick blanket.

"This is too obvious, Doc," the swapper murmured, his bright green eyes the only things visible in the gloomy basement.

He nodded, "There are some boxes on the other side of the room. We'll conceal it with those."

"Are you sure no one's gonna find this place?" the green-eyed swapper asked the sensei, who shook his head.

"Even if they do, they won't be in here for long, since Chompy and I stashed a ten thousand year-old slice of cheese down here," the sensei heaved a massive pile of boxes back over to the other inventor and cast them over the machine.

"So that's why you insisted on the nose-peg things," he nodded. "Ha! Diabolical."

"Indeed," the doctor dipped his hat.

"Thanks for helping out with this," the spyder murmured unexpectedly, even surprising the doctor.

"Don't mention it," the sensei told him. "After all, it is crucial that no one else knows about the machine. Time should never be toyed with again."

Days later…

"OOOOOHHHHH!" Rattle Shake and Freeze Blade howled with laughter.

"TELL ME THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN!" Rattle Shake wheezed.

Chompy Mage nodded subtly.

"AHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAAAA!" the two rolled all over the living room floor.

"Who had the idea of stealing Master Eon's beard spray?" Wash Buckler questioned suspiciously.

Chompy Mage and Dr Krankcase immediately pointed at each other.

"He was the one who committed it!" Krankcase argued.

"Well you encouraged it!" the mage retorted.

"WELL YOU HAD THE IDEA!" the doctor and the mage narrowed their eyes at each other and stood face to face.

"Alright, alright!" Wash Buckler stepped in between them. "Break it up!"

"NO, NO, DON'T BREAK IT UP!" Freeze Blade laughed manically. "IT'S SIMPLY TOO HILARIOUS FOR IT TO END!"

"YOU SAID IT BRO!" Rattle Shake chimed in.

Wash Buckler shot the swappers a glare, then shoved the senseis apart.

"I HAVE A COOL HOOD AND YOU DON'T!" Chompy yelled.

"OH YEAH, WELL I HAVE AN EPIC HAT!" the doctor shouted back.

"I HAVE MORE GREEN THAN YOU!"

"YOU WANNA SEE GREEN?" Dr Krankcase ripped his goo gun out and pointed it at the mage.

"Woah, woah!" Wash Buckler shoved his way in front of the life sensei. "No reason for that!"

But the tech sensei didn't hesitate, and instead pulled the trigger, casting deadly goo all over the mermasquid and the mage, and Freeze Blade and Rattle Shake started laughing even more hysterically on the floor.

"GGGAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Chompy wailed. "IT BURRRNNNSSS!"

"WELL YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE INSULTED MY LACK OF GREEN!" the doctor spat at him.

"You both have green! JUST STOP FIGHTING!" Wash Buckler yelled at them. He turned to the other four who weren't mad or hyperventilating on the floor. "A little help here?"

Spy Rise rolled his eyes and called over to the mage, "Hey, Chompy. There's a new episode of My Little Pony."

The mage's eyes suddenly lit up and he rushed over to the spyder. "My Little Pony? YESSS! Let's go to you lab and watch it!"

He followed the swapper down the hallway.

"YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT!" Krankcase shrieked after him. "YOU BETTER RUN! YOU COWARD!"

Wash Buckler groaned, "Calm down!"

But the doctor just ignored him and charged through the wall.

"HAHAHAHAHAAA!" Rattle Shake howled. "THEY'RE SO ANGRY!"

Freeze Blade was laughing too, until he started choking.

"Woah, are you okay?" the serpent asked the ice cat through uncontrollable laughter.

"Just a furball! I'll be fine!" he replied through snickering, then threw up on the carpet.

"THAT'S DISGUSTING!" the serpent roared and they continued hyperventilating together on the floor.

"RIGHT?!" the ice cat gagged.

Wash Buckler rolled his eyes at them and joined King Pen on the couch to watch Skylander Academy. "Dorks," he muttered.

…

"PPPFFFFTTT!" Freeze Blade spat.

"Nah, it's more like 'PPPPUUUUUURRRRRFFFFTTTT!'" Rattle Shake corrected.

Spy Rise trudged into the living room sleepily the next morning, then saw the two swappers being themselves again and murmured to Knight Light in the kitchen, "What are they doing now?"

"They're imitating farts apparently," the trap master replied dryly. "They've been making those noises all morning."

"Ugh," the spyder groaned, slumping down on the couch next to Wash Buckler and the three senseis, who all looked equally tired. "Dorks."

…

Freeze Blade and Rattle Shake sat on the carpet that afternoon, playing with their toy superchargers.

"VVVRRRRRROOOOOMMMM!" Rattle Shake swerved his supercharger around the corner of a corner.

"EEEEEERRRRRRRRR, BOOOOMMMM!" Freeze Blade suddenly hurled his own supercharger into Rattle Shake's brutally.

"When will they stop…?" Dr Krankcase muttered.

Chompy Mage narrowed his eyes at the swappers and huffed, "Dorks."

…

"Freeze Blade!" Rattle Shake burst into the ice cat's room the next morning.

The water swapper didn't even acknowledge him.

"Wake-y, wake-y, Knight Light's serving up breakfast!" the serpent exclaimed, then noticed a piece of paper and pencil in the cat's paws. "Oooohhh! I didn't know you liked drawing!"

His friend snickered, then flipped the piece of paper to face the undead swapper. It had two circles overlapping each other. "I DREW A BUTT!" the cat cackled immaturely.

Rattle Shake stared at it blankly for a few seconds, then started cracking up with Freeze Blade.

"Dorks," Dr Krankcase murmured as he past the ice cat's doorway.

…

That afternoon, Spy Rise was chilling up in the attic with Knight Light, and Freeze Blade and Rattle Shake saw opportunity. They stood in front of Spy Rise's lab excitedly.

"Let's go in," Freeze Blade rubbed his hands together, and Rattle Shake nodded.

They pressed the button on the side of the giant, metal door and tapped it. The door lifted up and they skated and slithered into the lab.

"I wonder what kinds of cool things Spy Rise keeps in here!" Rattle Shake exclaimed.

"Hey, Rattle Shake," Freeze Blade said from the other side of the lab, and the serpent turned around to see him with a pair of gold and green goggles on. "I'm Spy Rise! I'm edgy and creepy and I like My Little Pony and muffins!"

They burst out laughing.

"Wait!" Rattle Shake hissed, as metal clanking sounded from outside. "I think he's coming back! QUICK, SHUT THE DOOR!"

Freeze Blade darted over to the metal door and tapped the button urgently, and the door lowered down to the ground. Then he tapped the red button below it and sent the entire base into lockdown, securing the metal door even further.

"What the-?" Spy Rise's edgy voice muttered from the other side of the door, then banged loudly on it. "YOU TWO! I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE! LET ME IN!"

The swappers howled in laughter.

"YOU'LL REGRET THIS!" the spyder roared.

"Hurry! The door won't hold him long!" Freeze Blade exclaimed, then lowered his voice so the tech swapper couldn't hear, "We have to hide!"

"Will this work?" Rattle Shake asked, holding open a trap door.

"Woah! I've never seen that place before," the ice cat murmured, skating over, then was cut off as Spy Rise started launching missiles at the door. "But it'll do!" he climbed down the ladder, with the serpent following.

They shut it the trap door closed just in time for Spy Rise to break the lab's door down as the alarms sounded furiously.

…

Freeze Blade reached for the lights and switched them on.

"Woah!" the swappers gasped, gazing around at the new room.

"I didn't know we had a basement," Rattle Shake said, then he started gagging, "WHAT IS THAT HORRIBLE STENCH?"

Freeze Blade inhaled the atrocious aroma and started rasping for fresh air, but he snapped at the serpent, "Keep it down! We don't want Spy Rise to know we're here!"

"Right, sorry," Rattle Shake gave him an apologetic look. "Hey, what's over there?" he motioned to a colossal pile of boxes.

"Woah, that is a lot of important boxes," Freeze Blade said, attempting to ignore the disgusting odour. He skated over to them and started tearing them open with Rattle Shake.

"I found the cause of the stink," the serpent held his breath as he held up an extremely mouldy slice of cheese that came from a box.

"Eww!" Freeze Blade shrieked. "Get that away from me!" he slapped it out of the snake's hands and into the wall. The swappers watched as the yellow-green slop slowly descended down the wall, leaving a trail of slime behind it. "Ugh, come on. We're running out of words." He picked up another box, to reveal something metal.

"Woah, what's that?" Rattle Shake noticed it too.

"I recognize that design," the ice cat said, tossing some more boxes off of the machine, then gasped, "That's the time machine Wash Buckler used to travel back in time to stop Knight Light from buying the new muffin recipe!"

Rattle Shake grinned and turned to Freeze Blade, a despicable look in his eye.

Freeze Blade smirked back, "Let's do it."

"What time to we set it to then?" Rattle Shake asked.

"Let's say…" the ice cat thought. "Eight years ago!"

"Got it," the serpent typed in the details and they both squished themselves onto the small platform.

Freeze Blade tossed his ice chakram at the 'confirm' button, and they faded away.

…

The two swapper landed on top of each other.

"Ow!" Rattle Shake complained. "You're standing on my tail!"

"Sorry, sorry," Freeze Blade said, standing up. "Woah, look at this place."

"It looks like it's just a part of the forest that Fisticuffs lives in," Rattle Shake murmured, gazing around at the new surroundings. "The base hasn't been built yet."

"Wait, what's that sign for?" Freeze Blade skated over to the front of a sign that was at the edge of the forest and read it, "'For Sale'."

"Wash Buckler must not have bought the property yet," Rattle Shake wondered aloud.

"Hey! What do you two think you're doing here?" a voice snapped from behind them.

They turned around slowly to see Chompy Mage staring at them, eyes narrowed. He spat, "Skylanders."

"Chompy!" Freeze Blade greeted. "It's good to see a familiar face around here!"

"It's us!" Rattle Shake said. "Your friends!"

"My only friends are chompies," the mage growled. "And you aren't chompies, so I DON'T LIKE YOU!"

"What?" Freeze Blade shrank back in confusion.

"He must still be a doom raider!" Rattle Shake hissed.

"And a doom raider I will always be, thank you very much!" Chompy snarled, raising his staff in the air, and a river of chompies started streaming through the trees at them. "MWAHAHAHAHAAAA!"

"RRRUUUUUNNNN!" Freeze Blade yowled to Rattle Shake, and they scrambled off before the mage could do anything else.

Chompy huffed, "Dorks!"

…

"Is he gone?" Rattle Shake panted as they halted in the forest.

"I-I think so…" Freeze Blade huffed. "Phew, that was a close one."

"Maybe we should head back to the present," the serpent suggested. "Before we get into any real trouble."

"I totally agree," the ice cat said. "But there's just one problem…"

"What is it?"

"Well… You see… Remember what Krankcase said before he sent Wash Buckler into the past? About how that little badge thing he gave him would send him back to the present?"

Rattle Shake nodded.

"We don't have it," Freeze Blade admitted.

"ARE YOU CRAZY?!" he hissed. "HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GET BACK NOW?"

"I-I don't know!" the ice cat shrank back under his furious gaze. "Maybe we can find Krankcase from this time and find out!"

"He'd kill us if we even stepped one foot into his factory!" Rattle Shake growled. "And his evilkins would outnumber us by far and stop us from even getting close!"

"Then maybe Spy Rise is around somewhere," Freeze Blade suggested. "He might be able to help."

"I suppose it's worth a shot," Rattle Shake murmured. "But where could we find him?"

"Well, you are known as 'the best tracker in all of Skylands'," Freeze Blade told him. "Couldn't you track him down?"

"I guess so," the serpent said. "Alright, let's get moving then."

"Agreed," the ice cat nodded. "After all, the word limit won't stop for us."

…

"YOU LED US INTO DR KRANKCASE'S FACTORY?!" Freeze Blade hissed at the serpent as evilkins surrounded them.

"OH, WELL YOU CAN'T BLAME ME FOR BEING A BIT RUSTY!" Rattle Shake retorted. "WE'VE BEEN LOUNGING AROUND ON THE COUCH FOR MONTHS!"

"Well, that's unfortunate," Dr Krankcase snapped back their attention. "Oh well. EXECUTION TIME!"

"PLEASE DON'T KILL US!" Rattle Shake begged.

"I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" Freeze Blade wailed.

"Y'know, since I'm the bad guy here," Krankcase muttered impatiently. "I don't really care about your feelings."

"PPPPLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSEEEE!" the swappers cried loudly.

"GAH! Will you just stop screaming?" the doctor pulled his hat over his ears. "Why can't anyone just let me carry out my evil plans in peace?!"

"OH PLEASE, OH PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEEEAAASSEE!" they wailed uncontrollably.

"WE'LL DO ANYTHING!" Rattle Shake cried.

"REALLY!" Freeze Blade pleaded.

"Y'know what?" the doctor growled. "This isn't fun anymore. It's only enjoyable when you sky-poopers fight back. But obviously a fight is not what I'm getting."

"SPARE OUR LIVESSS!" Rattle Shake begged.

"Evilkins, escort our guests well away from my factory," Dr Krankcase turned to leave, then added seriously, "And make sure they stay out."

…

Fisticuffs hurled the two swappers out of the factory and slammed the door shut.

"We're alive!" Freeze Blade cheered, then high-fived Rattle Shake.

"After all," the serpent said. "Annoying people is our speciality."

"Who else can we annoy?" Freeze Blade wondered aloud excitedly, but suddenly, his vision started fading. "Woah! What's happening now?"

"I don't know man!" Rattle Shake yelped.

…

"Are they back?" a voice asked.

"I think so…" another, edgy voice answered.

Freeze Blade and Rattle Shake slowly opened their eyes to find themselves in the basement.

"W-where are we?" Rattle Shake stammered.

"Is this what is feels like to be dead?" Freeze Blade asked.

"Imbeciles!" a familiar voice snapped. "You're not dead!"

They jerked their heads up to see Spy Rise and Dr Krankcase glaring down at them.

"GAH!" Spy Rise yelled. "When will you dorks grow up?"

They shrugged.

"How did you find this place?" Krankcase demanded.

"We were running from Spy Rise," Freeze Blade explained.

"And then we saw a trap door and went in it," Rattle Shake added.

Spy Rise face-palmed, "You two seriously just travelled back through time without the tap-y badge thing-y?"

Dr Krankcase glanced at him questioningly, and the spyder muttered, "I'm still working on a name."

Freeze Blade looked down, "Yeah…"

"You're just lucky that it doesn't only work when the person travelling through time taps it!" Krankcase told them.

"Heh, sorry," Rattle Shake murmured.

But the doctor just turned to the spyder, "Let's brainwash them."

"Wait, wha-?"

The End.

Written by Uni.