Saving Neopia

In this chapter, our heroes will go up against Professor Nyctus once again…this time he'll be attacking them with a giant robot instead of a battleship…who do you think will win the battle?

Chapter 51: Familiar Adversary

The Heroes of Light were fighting the many Cult of Apocalypse members they were trying to attack Faerieland.

There were so many of them…

Which suffice to say, made our heroes glad that they got new abilities and weapons recently.

Suddenly, they heard stomping noises.

"Um, Bloony, what was that?" Cherry asked curiously.

"I don't think it's anything good." worried Bloony.

"Hahahahaha!" laughed Professor Nyctus. "So good to finally be able to face you heroes again!"

"Oh no…" thought Marvin.

"He's got a giant robot!" screamed Ursula.

"I want my mommy!" shrieked Gary.

"At least I'll be able to outrun it since it's so slow…" stated Sheldon optimistically.

"Magic vs. Science…I wonder who will win?" wondered Desdemona.

"Lord Cataclysm wasn't happy with me when he found out about what had happened during that fiasco that occurred in Neopia Central. He gave me quite a beating…suffice to say I'll have to return that favor." the mad doctor told our heroes.

"We're not going to let you win this time!" Bloony retaliated.

"I'm sure you will once you see what this robot can do." taunted Professor Nyctus, who proceeded to fire several rockets at our heroes.

"Whoa!" exclaimed Cherry, as the heroes dove out of their way.

"Ah yes, these rockets don't seem to be particularly accurate…let's try the laser beam, shall we?" suggested the crazed Korbat, firing an enormous laser beam at our heroes.

This time, one of the heroes was hit by the laser beam. In this case, it was Marvin, who had a large amount of his fur burnt off thanks to the power of the state-of-the-art weapon.

"Aargh!" screamed Marvin, who subsequently started trying to cover himself in embarrassment.

Professor Nyctus laughed, and decided to fire more rockets at our heroes, this time making sure that they were heat-seeking so that the Heroes of Light couldn't dodge them so easily.

However, Ursula proceeded to toss one of them at the robot, which proceeded to damage its hull.

"Ergh! How dare you! I'm going to make you pay for that!" bellowed the professor. Pressing a button, a bunch of weapons popped out of the robot, such as a circular saw, a sword, an axe, and peculiarly a wrench.

"What are we going to do?" asked Cherry.

"I suggest we try to destroy those before that robot can do us any more harm." plotted Bloony.

After dodging the weapons the robot used against them for a while, the Heroes of Light proceeded to take action against the doctor.

Gary turned invisible so that Professor Nyctus couldn't see him and bit off the wrench, causing it to fall on the floor.

Marvin fired a rocket at the sword recalling how the robot had been vulnerable to its own explosives, causing it to shatter into pieces.

Sheldon broke the circular saw while it wasn't spinning, punching it so many times that it was dented beyond repair.

Bloony used his telekinesis to toss a building (hoping that there weren't any faeries inside of it) straight at the axe, causing it to break as well.

Cherry created a few copies of herself and used them to climb to the top of the robot, breaking the glass that was encasing the mad doctor and leaving him vulnerable.

"That does it! No more games! I'm going to take you down once and for all whether you like it or not!" screeched Professor Nyctus.

He proceeded to jump straight into the air, knocking Ursula and Marvin out cold.

"Guess I'll have to take action now." spoke Desdemona, causing chains to wrap around the robot's legs and prevent it from moving.

"Why won't this thing work? And why aren't those heroes defeated yet?" inquired the psychopath as he attempted to make the robot move forward without any success.

Finally, the remaining Heroes of Light got together and started hacking away at the robot with everything they got, doing severe damage. One of these attacks even hit the Korbat in the face.

"No! My robot is on the ropes! How could this be happening?" thought the crazy doctor.

Launching one last attack at our heroes, the robot proceeded to punch Desdemona with its fist, causing her to be knocked out as well.

"This robot is even stronger than the Black Knight…" thought Sheldon.

But still our heroes kept on fighting the robot despite the state of roughly half their teammates. Pretty soon the robot was on fire and was short-circuiting.

"Aargh! It looks like I'm going to have to retreat again..." complained Professor Nyctus, asking himself what Lord Cataclysm would do to him this time.

The doctor left the control panel and went inside a nearby escape pod, and started heading back towards Apocalypse Castle.

"Farewell Heroes of Light! We'll be seeing each other in the near f-"

Professor Nyctus was suddenly interrupted when the robot collapsed on top of the escape pod, causing it to explode and sending the doctor flying into space.

"Aaah! How could I have been defeated twice in a row by a bunch of Neopets that shouldn't have even stood a chance against me? How could this have happened? Why?" he cried out as he started heading into the cosmos, leaving behind a sparkle as he did so.

"I suppose we actually won't be seeing him in the near future." replied Bloony, contradicting what Professor Nyctus had said.

"You think this will be the last we see of him?" asked Cherry.

"Well, Lord Cataclysm was pretty mad when he failed him the first time…I don't want to know what he'll do with him if he sees him again…" worried Bloony.

"We should probably heal our teammates." suggested Sheldon.

"Yeah, that robot was horrifying!" yelled Gary.

And so our heroes went to the Healing Springs so that their friends could fight another day…

Meanwhile in the Hidden Tower…

Lord Cataclysm contacted his troops. "How are you holding out?" he asked.

"Not very well. We're taking pretty heavy casualties!" replied the troops. "Worst of all, we've lost Professor Nyctus to the Heroes of Light! He was sent off flying into space into who knows where! We don't think we'll be able to find him…"

"Leave him to his fate. He has served his purpose." Lord Cataclysm ordered them.

The Black Knight and Fallenova looked at each other in astonishment, noticing how uncaring their leader was about his allies.

"He's a real smug Hissi." the Black Knight thought.

Lord Cataclysm and his two bodyguards continued climbing the tower, eventually coming across a strange staircase. No matter how far they went, the staircase never ended!

Until Lord Cataclysm pointed out the statues were pointing in various directions, telling them which way they were supposed to go.

Suffice to say, they were able to cross this puzzling obstacle, and they proceeded to continue towards the library.

Meanwhile, Shuriken was continuing placing explosives around the castle.

"He sure wants me to place a lot of them…" he thought.

He just hoped that when he was finally done, Lord Cataclysm would give him a raise or something.

"Yeah, a raise would be really nice. I could use a few more Neopoints…" he thought.

Shuriken continued doing as his boss asked of him, still thinking about getting a promotion.

Well that, and worrying that one of the guards would catch him before he could finish, since that would be pretty bad news for him.

The Heroes of Light have succeeded in Round 2 with the mad doctor of the Cult of Apocalypse…but the war is still ongoing…

What do you think Steven will do now that his boss is gone? No doubt that he's going to miss him…do you think he'll go crazy just like him? He'll probably be looking for revenge…

And what exactly will happen to Professor Nyctus?