Spells and Louds
Chapter 289: April reports, and upcoming birthday
(Royal fortress.)
Martin McKenzie is back on his feet and busy with his tech suits, making sure they will operate under his new fusion pacemaker. But he also spends some time with Becky, just so that she can feel fine with him being alive and well.
Martin is sitting by the edge of the fortress and next to him is Becky.
"So, am I in trouble with you after what had happened?" asked Martin.
"Sort of, but I'm glad you're okay and not dead" replied Becky.
Martin sighs. "I was just doing what I thought was right, sorry for not telling you sooner."
Becky kisses his cheek. "You had a job to do, same with us and I don't blame you for going in head first into the gaping maws of death itself. Just, please don't scare me like that again."
Martin and Becky then share a small kiss. "I can't promise that, but I will tell you this. No matter what happens we'll have each other's backs and be there for when either of us is in grave danger. I was kinda scared as well from almost dying."
They then continue staring into the distance. "Me too. Did Victor tell you about what had happened with Washington and Victoria?" asked Becky.
"He did, and it surprised me that the Livingstone's actually got passed the lockdown we placed onto their own town, we have to double the security to avoid any other enemies from that wretched neighborhood from escaping" replied Martin.
"At least they won't be much of a threat now, those two psycho couple are gone for good" said Becky.
"Would've been better if they were in jail. But they did mess with the Spellman family and when it comes to Spellman's they take family seriously and personally" said Martin.
"Just like us, and the rest of the Royal Defenders" said Becky.
"Did your parents know about my near death experience?" asked Martin.
"I told them, they were shocked at first. But then they calmed down when they heard you were okay and still breathing, they really like the fact I'm dating someone like you" replied Becky. She then looks to his glowing triangular object through his shirt. "This is gonna be hard to adjust."
Martin also looks to his chest. "Yeah, it's the best thing I got to keep me sustained. Gyro imbued me with magic after my near assassination in the command and conquer world, so healing magic cannot heal critical damage and I can't replace my heart with the same thing Jack Cyber has, because that would make things worse. So this … This is the best thing I got so far."
Becky then hugs him. "Just as long as you're alive and here with me, then I'm okay with it."
Martin puts his arm around her. "Thank you Becky, you know how to make me feel safe and happy. Unlike some people I know and somewhat despise."
Then Becky asks him. "Also, I saw Boomer earlier in his airship in Royal Woods and again here at the Royal fortress. How the heck did he get from one place to another so fast?"
Martin sighs and chuckles. "Then I guess, you met the clone."
Becky is shocked and confused by this. "What?"
(Defense Bureau, FutureTech HQ.)
Neil and Victor are looking at the new testing for some chemical compounds through a glass window.
"I can't believe Boomer volunteered to do this shit" said Neil.
"That's not Boomer" replied Victor as he looks to his tablet.
Neil looks to him confused. "What?"
Victor then looks to the window. "Okay, add the compound now and let's see what happens."
On the other side of the glass is Boomer. "You got it man." He then puts one drop of Vibranium onto the Spectrum beam generator and it blows up killing Boomer with it, though all they see left is the spectrum generator and some splattered Boomer parts.
Victor write this down while Neil is left shocked and confused and horrified.
"Penny, please open up Boomer clone number 9. Thank you" said Victor. He then pushes a button and what was left of Boomer number 8 is being cleaned up.
Neil looks to Victor in angered horror. "What. The. Fucking. Hell. Was. That?!"
Victor looks to Neil and sighs. "Okay, follow me." They head into another room, and they follow Penny.
They enter a large room (once empty) and what Neil sees shocks him. "Holy shit!"
On the walls are pods, and each pod has a Boomer clone in them, each with a number. "Neil, welcome to the cloning chamber!" said Victor.
Neil is shocked by this. "I don't know whether to be impressed or horrified! How in the hell? And why?"
"Well, do you recall that before the war of the three powers, there was the psychic domination disaster?" asked Victor.
Neil then realized what he meant. "Yuri's cloning project."
"Indeed, we were able to get some salvaged information from the Guardian about Yuri and his Pricorp. So we reverse engineered his tech and decided to make our own cloning facility. At first it almost failed, but Hollow came by with some information on cloning operations, since he was able to get his hands on some cloning blueprints from the Galactic Republic before he left his Star Wars world. Pretty cool huh?" replied Victor.
"I guess, but why Boomer though?" asked Neil.
"Well, we were thinking of cloning each other, but then we realized how wrong that sounds. Why? Martin is a genius, I am a mad man of tesla tech, you are a freak of nature with both DeathWing and Zerg DNA, Leon is a monster, Sergei is …. I don't know, and the rest of the team are both highly skilled and over powered with emotional turmoil and we cannot have clones going through problems and running around causing chaos and trouble. Also, cloning each of our teammates and loved ones is kinda evil and sorta morbid" replied Victor.
Neil was about to say something, but then he realized. "Well, you made a good point. Still, why Boomer?"
"Well, we know little about Boomer and most of us don't care much about him. Also, he's insane and stupid, so we put all the pieces of math together and asked him to volunteer and he accepted. The cloning process was a success and the first Boomer was made, he died five days after his birthday" replied Victor.
"But isn't Boomer a walking biohazard?" asked Neil.
"He is, but we were able to reconstruct the DNA of Boomer and make his clones more flesh like and less dangerous and also made them lesser in intelligence and more into listening. Like Rabbids" said Victor.
Neil is confused. "Rabbids?"
"Oh well Gyro told us about these weirdo rabbit creatures called Rabbids, they live in this other dimension and they are dumb and low minded. But they are chaotic and cause trouble, so we decided to make these Boomers to be like Rabbids, only without the trouble causing part and no need to worry they all remain here on the Royal Fortress obeying orders, they also make great human shields and Martin, Jack Cyber, Penny and Tadashi know about project clone the moron, best name we ever came up with!" replied Victor.
Neil is confused again. "Okay, and when are you planning to tell the rest of the team about this?"
"Maybe on May, it's fine man. Everything is good" said Victor.
They see Penny release a Boomer clone out of the pod. "I'm born!" said the clone.
"Welcome to the world, now head for the testing bay and get ready" said Penny.
"You got it chief" said Boomer clone number 9. He then walks there. "Hey boss and hey boss" he says to Neil and Victor and he leaves the room.
"See what I mean? Morons" said Victor.
"Okay, well I guess this is fine with me. Let's hope the others are okay with it" said Neil.
"I'm sure they will" replied Victor. "So, your daughter Duchess. Her birthday is tomorrow right?"
"Yeah, it is and I have everything set and ready for her. Normally we would celebrate it at Spellman Estate, but we were thinking Ever After High instead" replied Neil.
"And you must've gotten her a gift right?" asked Victor. "Same with Gwen."
"Ya dang right I did and Gwen has a Chicken Drago eggs ready for her, same as the others" replied Neil.
"Your kids must be really excited for celebrating …. How old will she be tomorrow?" asked Victor.
"Sixteen, she's gonna be sixteen. It's gonna be her sweet sixteen and we are gonna make it as great as I made Luna's sweet sixteen!" replied Neil.
"And a lot of guests are gonna be there for sure" said Penny as she stands next to them.
"Hell yeah" replied Neil.
Then Victor asks. "By the way, how come Gwen's uncle Stone Cold wasn't there for the whole Family fun time with you guys?"
"He was busy, but he said he'll be there for the next one. Maybe" replied Neil. 'I wonder how the kids are doing. They must be hard at work with their gifts for Duchess's sweet sixteen.'
(Spellman Estate.)
Neil is right about that one, they are all prepping in wrapping their gifts.
"Duchess will totes love this!" said Leni.
"When it comes to us and gifts for each other's birthdays, we really know how to deliver how we express our love to each other" replied Sunset.
"And chances mom will get her the chicken Drago egg, like how we all have ours" said Linka.
They each have their little Chicken Drago with them. "I think Duchess's will be ballerina type" said Timmy.
"Not wrong about that one Timmy" said Poof.
"Pop said he has the venue for her sweet sixteen all set. Kinda reminds me of when I had my sweet sixteen" said Luna.
"That was awesome and just plain wicked" said Lincoln.
"Let's continue wrapping these up, then we can head downstairs and help with the rest of the planning" replied Linka.
"We are bringing all family members, right?" asked Absol, he is sitting on the ground with Lily next to him.
"We are, Grandma Diana, Grandma Hailey, Uncle Steven Ray, Aunt Sabrina, Great Aunts Hilda and Zelda" replied Linka.
"And let's not forget the rest of the Royal Defenders, they're family as well" said Poof.
"Luan said that she'll volunteer to act as pranks guard in case of any Cheshire trouble" said Sunset.
"Uncle Leon, Uncle Sergei, Aunt Loona and our pup cousins Fenrir and Felicia are definitely coming. And sure as heck Odette Swan from Regal Academy as well" replied Leni.
"Wrathion said he was coming as well. I heard it from dad" replied Timmy.
"And from what I head from Lori, Lola is also invited. She wants to repay Duchess for letting her come to Ever After when it was her birthday after all" said Sunset.
"We just gotta make sure she doesn't want to be treated like a queen when she gets there" said Lincoln. They all agreed and chuckled at what he said.
"We're also gonna need to keep an eye on Washington, Victoria and they're kit-ttens as well" said Linka. "We cannot let what happened days ago happen again!"
Luna then realizes. "And what about ….. Great Uncle Stone Cold Steve Austin dudes?"
They all stop and realize this. "Oh, oh wow. How did we not see that one coming?" asked Leni.
"We have to ask mom and dad about him? About if we should invite him to Duchess's birthday or not" said Lincoln.
"We can get to that later after we wrap up these gifts, we're gonna have one heck of a talk later" said Linka.
They all continue to wrap up their gifts and chat about what they're planning to do for tomorrow for their black swan ballerina princess sister and her sweet sixteen birthday.
Gwen has already finished wrapping up the chicken Drago egg and is now headed for her phone and calls someone. "Hey Uncle Steve, tomorrow is my daughter's birthday. Duchess Swan's sweet sixteen."
Washington and Victoria overhear this and so does Courage.
"I think things might get intense or epic once tomorrow hits" said Victoria.
"Family is family, no matter how intimidating or scary they can be" said Washington.
"Let's hope there won't be any trouble tomorrow, this is Duchess Swan's birthday" said Courage.
(Tower of Karazhan.)
Gyro is back in his tower and is going through some books looking for anything about the world of Amphibia, he then grabs another floating book. "There has to be something in here. But what?"
Then he hears the sound of an engine humming. "Looks like the Sith lord is here."
He then sees Hollow's TIE Reaper land at his balcony and Hollow himself coming out. "Guardian."
"Supreme Leader of the Galactic Jennerit Empire, you got anything to report on?" asked Gyro.
"I do" Hollow takes a seat, but he does see the caged toad warrior in his cage and waving at him. "Is this the little bastard that you caught months ago?"
"Yes, and I have no clue what to do with him anymore. I have multiple choices. Either I cook him, toss him into the mouth of a dragon, feed him to some naga, let him get tormented by my ghosts, see if he makes good target practice, lock him here for the rest of eternity, send him to Northrend, throw him to the Firelands, let the orcs play with him, see if he can make a great potion, use him to test new spells, dissect him or use him as a door mat" replied Gyro.
Everything Gyro just said was enough to make the toad warrior croak and gulp and fear.
"Wow! Morbid, I like it" smiled Hollow as he drinks from the floating tea cup and pot.
"Yeah, but it's the best things I could come up with" replied Gyro. "So, what news for me?"
Hollow takes a sip from his tea. "News form Beach City. Turns out Steven visits Jasper who is living by herself far from any gems, Amethyst was able to provide some jobs for the gems staying on earth, Steven met the released Rose Quartz, Steven and Pearl tried to help fix Pink Diamonds old/damaged Pearl, Steven went face-to-face with two old enemies, I think the kid is stressed from so much work around town, Steven and the gems played the weirdest and most disturbing version of Steven Tag, ever! And Steven and Lapis fought some other Lapis Lazuli who were still terraforming planets, so in hindsight everything in beach city is A-Okay!"
Gyro looks to Hollow confused. "That's not even close to sounding A-Okay!"
"Well, this is Steven's issues. Not mine, not yours and definitely not anyone else's. So I think he has to do this on his own, unless things turn bad shit crazy then we take action" said Hollow as he stirs his tea.
Gyro pinches the bridge of his nose. "Why do I even bother?" He then looks to Hollow. "Anything else to report?"
Hollow finishes his tea. "Nope, that's about it. Unless you wanna know about Miracle City next."
"What about that crime driven city?" asked Gyro. "I mean, I haven't gotten any news about it from the rest of the team."
"Criminals are trying to regain a foothold of the city and raise the ranks of crime. But with the assist of Kane and the heroes White Panthera, El Tigre and Plata Peligrosa. Things went bad, then went back to good and there have been no signs of Sartana returning, yet. The only bad guy doing crime at night is Puma Loco and he's always getting caught by his own familia and scolded for his actions, at this point if he keeps this up they will lock him up for good and with no chances of bail" said Hollow.
"As long as he's the only villain problem, we can't let any of those dangerous villains let loose onto the city otherwise it'll be one hell of a fight once again" said Gyro.
"I have been talking to the beings of the balance between the force and we haven't had any leads as to where the Owl Lady you're hunting for is. Her dimension is very hard to track and she is tough to find" said Hollow.
Gyro puts his floating books away. "As if things weren't bad enough, and this is the worse time for me to know that one. Eda is still out there and we haven't figured out which demon realm does the boiling isles even is."
Hollow then tells him something he needs to know. "I … found another or better yet, an alternate dimension."
Gyro looks to him. "What do you mean by, you found an alternate dimension?"
"An alternate Star Wars dimension, this one is still in the clone wars" replied Hollow.
They then look out to the balcony. "And what do you intend to do when you get there?" asked Gyro.
"To ….. Stop Palpatine, to save the Galactic Republic from damnation and many innocent lives from being lost to a future war" replied Hollow.
"I find it odd that you wish to save that Star Wars alternate dimension from the Galactic Empire's rise" said Gyro.
"Same here, I don't know why but I feel as if fate wants me to do it. Soon" replied Hollow.
Gyro smiles. "Well then, let's hope the rest of the team is ready for it. But until then, I suggest you stand by and get your forces ready, tomorrow is a birthday we have to attend to."
"Ah yes, Duchess Swan's birthday. Well, I'm not going" he then hops back onto his TIE reaper. "We'll talk again soon Gyro" He gets inside and flies off.
Gyro sighs. 'First the Owl Lady, then Amphibia and now this alternate Star Wars realm. What the hell is next for us to come? Besides the upcoming family birthdays.'
Gyro heads back inside. "Umm, can you let me go?" asked the Toad warrior. Gyro whacks his cage with his staff to shut him up. "Okay, never mind."
To be continued …..
A/N: And next one is the birthday of our fave Ever After High Ballerina. And it seems like they might make a trip through the clone wars, soon. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Date made: 4/13/20.