Here's the next chapter, enjoy…
Chapter 17: Let's Swap It Out!
NEW ISLAND DISCOVERY!?
The scene opens to what were once scattered floating islands, now grabbed & brought together to form a larger island continent held together by insurmountable roots that dug in. And they all lead back to a super gigantic dark brown tree which had many open holes in the roots to the bark base, even the branches up top. There were rope-like things, growing out of the bulges that were around the branch roots above & around the darken flow of tree leaves. From the tree, there were evidence of light orange color fruit that looked similar to a lychee fruit which was being gathered by strange individuals.
The 1st were Chompy species with light green color skin with just their round shape head body frame, & black pupil eyes, & had on light green, light bronze & light gray theme outfit & gear on. They had Chompy Head, Default on their species eyes, Ninja Arms, & Samurai Legs. Their accessories were Chompy Eyes, Wildstorm Arm Armor, Skeleton Leg Armor, & had Chompypack on their backsides. They each wield the Steel Sunstars as their melee & throwing type weapons.
"Chompy Ninja…Chompy Ninja…Chompy Ninja…Chompy Ninja…" The Life Ninja Doomlanders simply repeated the same phrase like a group of soldier drones.
The 2nd was a Chompy species only with a full body size & not the head body frame, he had light green color skin & black pupil eyes, & had on dark green, green, tan dark green & tan dark brown color theme outfit & gear. He had a Chompy Head, Plain Chompy-like eyes, Chompy Ears, had on Heavenly Chest, Redsleeves, & Scarecrow Legs. His accessories were Chompy Eyes, Chompy Shoulder Guards, Dragonscale Arm Guards, Barbarian Leg
Armor, & wore a Chompypack on his backside. He wields the Chompy Staff for close melee fights & for casting long range spells.
"Alright you Chompy Ninja, this is Chompyman giving you direct orders. Keeping harvesting that fruit! For everyone picked, find the next. Do I make myself clear!" The Life Sorcerer Doomlander gave out orders like a drill sergeant ordering his troops to follow along without anyone complaining.
The 3rd was a Lizardman species with green & yellow pattern scales, dark bronze spikes & red & orange color lizard eyes, & had on dark tan brown, gold & grey color outfit & gear theme objects. He has a Chameleon Head, Human like eyes, had a Chameleon Torso, Chameleon Arms, Wolfgang Legs, & a Chameleon Tail. His accessories were a Dragon's Ridge, Shoulder Shell, Doomlander Spiky Arm Guards, Spiky Leg Armor, & a Torn Cape on his backside. He wields The Doomblade as his close combat weapon.
"Okay, Gecko's log…no sign of any trouble. And I hope so, cause if there was I….PANIC!?" The Life Knight Doomlander issued off to write things down before he yelped with a panicky expression.
The 4th & final one was a Cobra with dark green & light green pattern scales, & red & orange color lizard eyes, & had gold, dark emerald & red theme color outfit & gear. He has a Snake Head, Monster like eyes, had a Snake Torso, Chameleon Arms, wore a Genie Tasset, & a Snake Naga tail. His accessories were a Snake Helmet, Snake Shoulder Pads, Steel Bangle Wrist Guards, & a Tailed Cape on the backside. He wields the Serpentine Blades for close combat weaponry.
"Whelp I Cobra Strike, have checked around all areas. We'll be ready to ship these fruits from the Tree Of Might off to Kaos before you know it." The Life Swashbuckler Doomlander stated off to say in taking things on an easy side-note of their current situation.
While the Doomlanders were working, they did not see that Flynn had park his airship from faraway. And Unity lead her Life Imaginators to spy on what was going on: the enemy was guarding & collecting the fruit from this tree. During the same motion, inside Unity's consciousness by her Imaginate Crystal, the souls of the Mane Six observe to overheard & learn what is happening.
"Tree Of Might? Fascinating?" Twilight stated in thinking the name sounded quite intriguing: why was there a tree of that name.
"What could it be?" Fluttershy asked in not sure what this Tree Of Might could be.
"Applejack darling, any words or advice on what this is?" Rarity asked in not sure what this Tree Of Might is, only someone with a farmer background may have the right intel.
"Nope! First time Ah ever heard of a tree by dat name!" Applejack shook her head off that even she doesn't understand what kind of tree goes by such a bizarre name.
"Maybe it stands for being a mighty tall tree." Pinkie Pie stated in having a random guess about the topic.
"I doubt it, from what I can tell, it's trouble with a capital 'T' in it! Lets take it out & ask questions afterwards!" Rainbow Dash issued off that they ask question after eliminating such a troublesome plant.
"Alright, lets do it!" Twilight nodded in thinking that was the best answer; as they left things for Unity to handle.
Back in the real world, Unity had gain her thoughts about the manner in what to do before looking to her teammates.
"Everyone ready. Then lets do it! Attack!" Unity issued this off to the others before suddenly giving the word; they attack right away.
At that signal, the Skylanders began to charge up the large tree roots. And during that time the Chompies cease working to notice the commotion: as well as the other head Life Doomlanders of the bunch.
"Huuuugh!? Hey, where did these guys come from?" Cobra Strike yelped in looking surprised; where did these Skylanders come from to be here.
"Oh my! This wasn't apart of the daily routine? What now?" Gecko yelped in panicking in knowing this will be bad for them.
"You both know that if anything happens to this tree, Kaos will have our HEADS!" Chompyman issued to remark in recalling how upset Kaos will be if they fail here, it's over for them. "Chompy Ninjas assemble! Let's Gett'em Boys!" He held out his staff to encourage those to follow him into battle.
"Yeeeah!" The Chompy Ninjas cheered as they started to prepare themselves for the Skylanders reaching up to the base of the gigantic tree: where a big battle was about to be underway.
BATTLE: UNITY & LIFE SKYLANDERS VS. LIFE DOOMLANDERS
A large cloud of dust was seen as lots of different battle cry voices were heard, but unseen. There were arrow shots, ninja star throws, blast shots, sword clashes, & a few thrown punches into the mix.
"Take some of THIS!/PUNCH!" Stinger was seen as he punched a Chompy Ninja nearby in the face. "Some of THAT!/PUNCH!" Then he turn around to drill a left hook against another small Doomlander nearby. "And one of THESE!/PUNCH!" And then he delivered an upperhand jab motion that spiral the target off.
"Seems as if your getting very into this Stinger?" Insecto "SLASH!" Then he slashed
"Hey-Hey, don't be beating around the bush! Listen to me, I'm gonna Beat you when your socks get knock off!" Pumpkinhead was seen clobbering enemies left & right while bringing down a beat box rap battle chatter.
"Do you ALWAYS have to wrap every single word?" Harvestor asked as he used his double pole sided scythe weapon to twirl around to knock other foes off.
"Sorry you guys, I think my mind was thinking up something random that time?" Unity apologized in seeing Pumpkinhead was probably a random idea; which she may know how it came to be from in her own mind.
"Don't matter what you imagine! As long as WE get a piece of the action!" Lefya stated as she was crashing against the Chompies left & right.
"I'm like, so gonna blast away all the competition, kay?/KABOOM!" Palin remotely stated before aiming her bazooka that fired & exploded that took down a large dozen or so targets.
"Oh careful! We're trying to save nature!" Blossom Bloom alerted with worry about the plant life they are walking on.
"Yeah, the nature that ISN'T stealing life force over all of Skylands?" Lina Dryad rolled her eyes to remark this while taking out more Chompies.
"Stay clear, once we taken out this bunch, we gotta focus on destroying this tree!" Robin Arrowhead proclaimed as she took her arrows to fire many shots at the Chompy Ninjas that tried to attack from above but were stopped.
The battle continued on as it seem that Unity's team was doing well, then again, even if the enemy were Doomlanders, the fact is clear: Chompies are still Chompies. The little guys were bash, smacked, & blown across all over, & only those watching from the sidelines saw how the situation was tunring.
"Uh Oh! Looks like we're losing…Really badly too? Oh Kaos is gonna be MAD!?" Gecko panicked in seeing their side was not doing too good here.
"Ah Man…we just started this gig & already we're failing. He'll probably burn our scales off just to blow off steam?" Cobra Strike exclaimed with feeling worried about the pain they will endure if they come back with failure.
"Quit that kind of talk! There's one way to turn this battle!" Chompyman snapped off to get those here to not be talking like that.
"There is!?" The 2 lizard Doomlanders responded in surprise when they heard this.
"Yes…with all eat…The FRUITS!" Chompyman proclaimed in pointing to nearby cart filled with the harvested fruits.
"But-but…Kaos told us to provide ALL the Fruit Of The Tree Of Might for him to sample." Cobra Strike yelped in lastly recalling that all the fruit was for Kaos to have.
"If he learns that we ate some, oh….then he'll REALLY be mad?" Gecko exclaimed in having a really bad feeling about all of this.
"We already secured plenty! Besides...We can call this a trial run in seeing if what we got will indeed provide some fruitful effort." Chompyman issued off a devious plan to test out how powerful the fruits are that the Tree Of Might produce are that give them results. "Alright you Chompy Ninjas! Change of tactics! EAT SOME FRUIT & FIGHT HARDER!" He yelled out this order for all the Chompies to hear & obey.
"I Am Wooky?" Wooky raised an eyebrow when he & the other Skylanders heard the strange order…to eat.
"Yes, something doesn't seem right?" Moss Man firmly stated in thinking something was up with the enemy's weird tactic.
Suddenly the Chompy Ninjas went ahead to start chomping down on a piece of fruit each. At 1st nothing, but then their body musculars expanded & before long, dead silence filled the air when….
"CHOOOOOMPY NIIIIINJAAASSSS!" Then without warning, the Chompy Ninjas unleashed all of their ninja stars at once, causing the Skylanders to duck & dodge. "SLASHvhhmmm…/Creak….KABLAMvhmmm…" Then at that moment, some nearby large tree trunk roots were slashed by the ninja stars & caused them to be split clean & fall onto the ground that made a heavy impact.
"WOooooah! What Just Happened?" Harvestor yelped in what they saw happen, just really happen.
"That was just a simple ninja star throw? Wasn't it?" Lina Dryad asked in thinking that attack that went so fast was hardly a normal measure of tiny fighter's strengths.
"Um, you might wanna see this?" Palin remotely spoke with a less emotional tone to have everyone notice behind them.
Nearby some large tree trunk log size roots were hit by the earlier attacks, & were scattered to leave such devastated sites. It was clear to anyone, the Chmpy Ninjas attack power raised to a ridiculous level.
"That ninja star move was so powerful it cut through a solid thick tree object?!" Lefya stated in never imagining that was a possible feat; even for a regular Chompy.
"It's those fruits! They all took some bite, & suddenly gain a burst of power now!?" Robin Arrowhead alerted the gang that the enemy has taken something that has raise their power to untold measures.
"Everything nature provides for us, even energy to help fuel us when we are weak. But this…is not natural? Something is behind this I'm sure of it." Blossom Bloom stated in sensing the nature of what happened, & this action was against the laws of nature it's self.
"Better get ready, cause we're about to join the PARTY!" Then all eyes were on Chompyman as he along with Gecko & Cobra Strike were seen eating the same fruit as they felt the same power rush as seen before. "ATTACK!" He yelled out for them to begin their counterattack.
At that moment, Gecko & Cobra Strike landed blows that knock down the Giants Moss Man & Wooky that they crash into large tree roots to be crashed through to the other side.
"You got to be kidding me? They even got more power to knock down 2 Giants!? What's in those fruits?" Stinger asked off in not believing what happened even with his own 2 eyes.
"Boy oh boy, I don't know why….but energy is coming all over from the fly. Every root of which it takes, goes up & into them fruits on the roots!" Pumpkinhead rapped off a rhyme in stating the facts for those to get it, right…?
"The fruits…could it be this tree is taking all the life force energy of our world to provide that which can give those a tremendous power boast?" Insecto pondered to think that if trees make fruit with the right feeding vitamins, then what if the life force was used as the nutriment property.
"You bet! We get 15x times the normal power. Even plain old Doomlanders like us can take down a Giant!" Cobra Strike issued off to boast about how the fruits given them almost 15 times more strength then usual.
"And you can guess how much stronger Kaos will be when he eats a WHOLE batch of them!" Gecko smirked off to brag about how when Kaos gets a load of these things, there's no stopping the guy.
"Hyyaahh!" Unity unleashed a powerful fist that knock half a dozen Chompies away, but another dozen showed up. "Ugh….I can keep up for now, but we need a way to get an opening or we're gonna be wiped out? Think…Think….THINK!?" She muttered to herself while trying to figure out, how to get themselves out of this mess.
Just then within Unity's consciousness, the Imaginate Crystal began to emit a glow. The souls of the Mane Six yelped when it took a strange action response.
"Wah! The crystal!?" Rarity yelped in seeing the thing shine brightly.
"Look! It's happening again!" Pinkie Pie pointed in knowing the crystal is at it again.
"Unity must be awakening a new ability. But what?" Fluttershy pondered to wonder what would happen this time.
"I hope it's something AWESOME!" Rainbow Dash issued in looking forward to what they witness.
"Lets hope it'll be something to help out." Applejack stated in hoping the new ability will help them out.
"Well we're about to find out, she seems to be using it!?" Twilight commented that whatever Unity unlocked, she's using it without delay…
Suddenly, Unity opened her eyes as she felt a strange glowing aura surround her…
"SWAP FORCE!" Unity yelled forth these words without warning…
Without warning, many of the Skylanders bodies were glowing the same thing, before half their lower & top body parts were switched around: giving many a different look of new legs or serpent body tails.
"WHAT IN BLAZES!?" Chompyman shouted off in shock when he saw the enemy Skylanders looked completely different compared to earlier.
"Wait, did they just had their lower & upper parts switch…" Cobra Strike asked in trying to understand, what just happen that left him lost & confused.
"Wait a second, wasn't there some group of Skylanders that did this…?" Gecko pondered off in recalling there was something about this ability that seem…familiar that belong to one unique group of Skylanders.
"I….AM….WOOKY!?" Wooky suddenly stood up with his knew legs before he swung his wooden hammer off.
"BASHFruvhmmm!/WAAAAAaaughhhh!" The Chompy Ninjas all made loud yelp cries when almost 2 dozen of them were sent packing without warning by Wooky's swing.
"URRRAaughh!" Moss Man was also seen tackling some surprise Chompies that began to panic when they thought they had the advantage until just now & he almost got the lizard Doomlanders if they didn't back awayin fear.
"YIKES! Not only are these guys surprisingly tough, but now they got new moves mix in that's hard to predict?" Cobra Strike yelped in thinking the advantage they had, just vanished; why & how did this happen?
"Uh Oh! This doesn't look good!? They're Imaginators that can Swap? I didn't think that existed until now!?" Gecko yelped in realizing these guys are doing an ability that belong to the Skylanders: Swap Force, swapping body parts to utilize different powers & abilities.
"Incredible…is this another of my ability?" Unity was amazed by what she just pulled out without knowing it. "Alright…time for me to try something else!" She issued in deciding that it's time, she partakes in this too.
At this moment, the lower half of Unity's legs got SWAPPED by a magical glow that flash & then from a glitter works came…an Imaginator lower leg parts that were belonging to a Fire Elemental Skylander type.
"HEEEEEY! Where that lower half come from!?" Chompyman yelped to ask in seeing the Imaginator suddenly gain parts that seem more fire theme.
"I can swap with other Imaginators even those not here? Amazing!" Unity exclaimed in having studied what she can do, & was amazed by the connection to swap body parts even when farther away from said allies. "Alright….time to set this tree ablaze!...Friendship WAAAAVE!" She became determined, as she channeled for a familiar move.
Then without warning, the fire aura element on the lower half synchronized with the magic element half top of Unity, before firing off a powerful fire force wave blast. That alone impacted & was going through the Tree Of Might, breaking through it's inner parts & setting it ablaze to cause much of it to fall apart & weaken the roots to come out from the island terra.
"Uh oh….she's burning it!" Cobra Strike yelped with big fear of what the solo hero was up to.
"Run for it! She's coming down!" Gecko panicked out in fearing what they will get next.
"CURSE YOU SKYLANDERS!" Chompyman shouted off loudly in cursing for this action as they flea.
"WAaaaaahhhh!?" The Chompy Ninjas screamed as they began to run & panic all over.
Soon much of the Tree Of Might had it's branches falling the size of a skyscraper tower that made explosive impacts: this continued for mere moments.
WINNER: UNITY & THE SKYLANDERS
LATER ON AFTER THE BATTLE WAS OVER
The scene opens to reveal the fire had settled out to reveal the once feared Tree Of Might remains all over. Half of it was still connected to the cluttered islands, but it did not have any leafy tops above. Many of the Skylanders that came out victorious were seen searching, & they had long since regain their actual body parts when the battle was over.
"Looks like those Doomlanders high tailed it out of here. I couldn't find a trace of them in the air." Robin Arrowhead returned from her flight scouting to report, no signs of the enemies.
"What about the Tree Of Might? Is it still harming the Skylands?" Harvestor asked in thinking that could still be the biggest concern right now.
"No….I sense that whatever it was doing has cease, that last attack stopped it from taking the Life Force." Blossom Bloom stated as she sense that the abnormal tree they stopped has cease harming the Skylands.
"Then that means that everyone can breath more easily without suffocating." Insecto commented in believing that will let those that had hard times breath more at ease.
"Well, why not ask a certain Mabu if he's feeling alright?" Stinger exclaimed to make a light humor on such a comment.
"Hey you guys!" Flynn's voice was heard as everyone saw he piloted his airship towards them. "Saw the whole thing, which while I was distracted I took a enchilada to eat which I had to remove my protective breathing mask. But guess what…I Can BREATH!" he revealed he long cease had his mask removed, & was able to breath & eat his favorite food.
"Hur-ray…for you?" Palin shrug off her shoulders to roll her eyes back to remotely comment on hearing such news.
"I know, right? So, is everything good?" Flynn smiled off to comment while pondering if all was well.
"Oh yeah! We stopped evil in it's tracks!" Leyfa boasted in smiling that they took down one root of evil alright.
"During the battle of which we win, looky at what else became the spoils from the aftermath!" Pumpkinhead rapped off to say while revealing an oval shape object with a familiar glow & a symbol on it.
"An Eternal Source…it must have been here because this tree absorb all the Life Force?" Unity exclaimed in surprise, they found the Eternal Life Source, what a stroke of luck.
"Well it's yours now, after all…we couldn't have won without that surprise trick you pulled." Lina Dryad smiled to friendly offer this as a prize to their leader for getting them out of that tight jam.
Unity was seen receiving the Eternal Life Source while smiling from such praise. So far they have nearly all of the Eternal Sources, & with them they can not only help the Skylanders, but Unity evolve as well from unlocking new feats & abilities.
"We…Are…Wooky!" Wooky responded off to say these words, to which the 1st 2 were different compared to the usual 'I Am Wooky' sentence phrase.
"Hugh…you know I can never figure out what that guy says what with just 3 words? But now this, I'm really lost?" Flynn scratch his head to not make heads or tails of what Wooky says on only such few sentences.
"Do not let it bother you friend, with the mission finished…it is time we return to our base to inform the rest." Moss Man calmly stated to have those not be bothered, as they must prepare other things at this hour.
"Moss Man is right…we stopped a really big problem. We may need to plan a strategy to stop Kaos before anymore crisis problems pop up." Unity stated in feeling like they have to agree on the bigger factor here. "Flynn, set us back! We have to let Master Eon, Master King Vision & everyone know what's happen without a moment's delay." She issued that there isn't a moment to lose, they must return to inform everyone.
"Right-o! Everyone all aboard!" Flynn replied off with a smile as everyone was seen climbing onto the airship. "Then let's sail off!" He gave the next signal as he turns the steering wheel for the general direction.
Meanwhile as everyone was sailing off to return to base, nobody noticed something stuck to the bottom of the vessel. It was the Doomlanders: Gecko & Cobra Strike, & boy did they had worried expressions from holding under the bottom of the airship as it flew.
"Oh man! This is just plain CRAZY! Remind me again why we're doing this?" Cobra Strike exclaimed in thinking they were crazy in trying to pull this off.
"Because Chompyman stated that if we go back & report what happen. Kaos is gonna use us for target practice!" Gecko stated with worry about what they will face for coming back empty handed.
"Oh right….well if we learn where these guys have been operating from, maybe we can earn some brownie points?" Cobra Strike shgeepishly exclaimed before trying to be positive about what they get out of this.
"Oh….like despite failing so many times, knowing where the Skylanders are could be good!" Gecko exclaimed in suddenly showing a smirky toothy smile at the idea.
"Right, so we'll gonna snitch their location! Oh….lets hope it's not a long flight, I'm getting hungry?" Cobra Strike proclaimed to say while trying to hold himself together for the long ride.
"Sorry, I forgot to pack snacks, guess we're on our own for a while?" Gecko shrug off to say in being uncertain of their case.
The 2 lizard Doomlanders signed in feeling their stomachs growl as the airship continued on it's route. What sort of things are about to unfold in the future, remains unknown at this time…
NOTES: Some related reference from Dragonball Z The Tree Of Might film is made in this chapter.
The new Imaginators are those made by VISION-KING as well as who we can see them being based on.
*Doomlanders:
Chompy Ninja – (Zakus from SD Gundam Force)
Chompyman – (Red Zaku from SD Gundam Force)
Gecko – (Panic from Disney's Hercules)
Cobra Strike – (Pain from Disney's Hercules)
Bonus Fact: The Swap Force ability is something that was only known to be used by the Skylanders Swap Force Team. But now it's an ability in which case even Imaginators created, can have different lower body parts just like from the old Skylanders Swap Force game.
Well another chapter is done, & boy does it have some twist. In the next chapter, Kaos has learn where the Skylanders are currently hiding, & sends forth an army of Undead Doomlanders. Our heroes are about to have a difficult time holding off a larger & tougher batch of Doomlanders that Kaos has solely focused effort in. But that isn't to say the heroes are out of the game, what is their game plan gonna be…? Stay tune to find out…