Episode 2: Alpha, Bravo, Unicorn

Wasn't really a big fan of this episode but I tried :')

Also, guys I realized all the episode so of Season 2 so far are really hard! I don't know if you realized in my first story, but I tried to stop cutoffs between scenes and actually give some actions and dialogue in between the scenes of the show. As in, I really tried to make sure there was an explanation to everything happening. But oftentimes the heroes have episodes where they go to more than two worlds and it's just so much effort so, I'm sorry if I can't come up with any background to all the episodes :')

Also, I'm sorry to disappoint but I don't have any good ideas for special episodes, I've only got two. If you readers have more to suggest, feel free to pm!

"I really hope this works…"

Penn held his MUHU in his hand as he and his friends walked to the Odyssey, ready to get working.. Verge was sitting on his shoulder this time, also gazing at the device.

"I'm sure we'll be able to find a world with a shard," Verge piped.

"Just don't get your hopes up," Sashi warned.

"It is the infinite multi-verse we're talking about," Boone added, shrugging.

The redhead sighed, pocketing his MUHU. "I'm well aware of that…"

"Hey, what if the last dimension with the talking boats had the shard?" Verge suggested, rubbing her chin. "Would Phyllis allow us to go back?"

"Doubt it," Penn scoffed. "And if the shard really were there…man I'd be annoyed."

The quartet entered the theatre. Phyllis was already at the controls, typing away. As the four stepped onto the zap platform, their boss looked over the rail with a smile. "I hope you have fire in belly, because today you go back to dragon world!"

Sashi looked excited. "Dragon World? Really?"

"Oh cool!" Verge grinned. "I'm gonna be a dragonfly again!" She looked over to her left to see Sashi was blushing.

The Japanese girl held her hands behind her back. "Uh, yeah, that's cool." She laughed nervously.

Penn just didn't look impressed. "Aw, it's all good Sash," He rolled his eyes. "We all know you're excited to see Blaze." The look on his face made it seem like he'd just made a really good insult. "You're blushing brighter than Boone."

The brunette boy was indeed, turning a new shade of red as he giggled. Penn just groaned. His eyes widened as he looked upwards. "You too, Phyllis?"

The mechanic's face was also red as she held a pair of what looked like Blaze's sunglasses. A poster of Blaze signing a picture of himself, smiling, was laid out behind her. "Phyllis like how Blaze talk about himself in third person." She put the sunglasses on, her hand under her chin as her expression looked dreamy. "Very appealing quality. Heehee."

Penn crossed his arms. Verge, who was still flying above him, knocked on his forehead. "Don't worry, Zero," she said, somewhat proudly. "I'm not at all affected by Blaze's looks!"

The redhead smirked as Phyllis flipped the switch. "Yeah, but you're not affected by anything!"

Once the heroes were zapped, Verge looked behind her, admiring her dragon fly wings beating as fast as they could. She grew to a bigger dragon size and stood beside Penn.

"Sweet!" Boone piped, pointing. "A Blaze statue photo-op."

"Uh-oh," Verge said, a hand on her hip.

This irked Penn greatly as he uncrossed his arms and pushed his sunglasses up. "Ahh. A statue of only Blaze, holding the trophy that he and I both won." At this, Boone and Verge rolled their eyes playfully. "Huh. That doesn't bother me in the least!" He huffed.

"Sure it doesn't, Zero," The dragonfly reached to ruffle his hair, and Penn glared.

Just then, a large shadow loomed over them, and when the heroes looked upwards, they gasped. A giant ship in the shape of a unicorn was approaching the academy, and it did not look friendly. All the dragons began to scream and scatter, searching for places to hide.

"All cadets report to the head base! All cadets report to the head base!" A siren blared throughout the school, and all students began to assemble at the designated area. The heroes had no choice but to gather there as well.

Once they'd arrived, they'd taken front row seats in front of the projector, where General Talon waited for them. Verge turned smaller again to make room, and sat on the table in front of Penn. All dragons took their seats and the lights dimmed down. The projector displayed a visual of the giant ship that had loomed over them.

"As you know, the enemy has declared war on the dragons!" The general looked immensely serious. "They've already taken out our other bases with their colossal new battle station! Wingfire Academy is our last line of defense! We've detected a weak spot in the underside of the battle station!" She pointed at the area on the visual. "Here."

Suddenly, Boone giggled and raised his arm. "His weak spot looks like his belly button!"

"What?" Verge whispered. "This is ser—"

General Talon only smiled. "Very perceptive analysis, Cadet Cupcake! From now on, this will be known as 'Operation: Belly Button'!" The dragon at the projector changed slides.

"Mm-hmm," Booned hummed to himself in satisfaction. A puff of smoke poured out of Verge's snout.

"The battle station will be ready to fire when its horn is completely filled with rainbow colors! We will attack from the east. To create a distraction for Lieutenant Renegade," At this she smiled proudly at Penn, who smiled back. "who will lead a small team to strike the belly button from the west!"

Sashi leaned back in her seat, looking annoyed. "Well. I guess I don't need to check my Specs."

"Maybe next mission," Verge assured.

General Talon stood straight as the lights came back on. "Any questions?"

Screeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Everyone covered their ears and flinched as someone's claws scratched the blackboard at the side of the base. A yellow couch was placed there, and on the couch was a messy, fat dragon that looked to be surrounded by trash. Pizza boxes, soda cans, and chips littered his area, and upon closer look, the heroes were shocked to recognize who the dragon was.

"Just one." The dragon burped, a small flame of fire appearing. "Blaze wants to know why we don't save ourselves a lot of trouble and surrender now."

"You've got to be pulling my wings." Verge stared at the couch dragon in surprise. This was definitely the Blaze they'd met but not the Blaze they're remembered. He was not like this when they left the world.

"Officer Blaze," General Talon started. "Return to your barracks, and continue being pathetic on your own."

But the once-cool dragon didn't move from his couch. He only sipped one another soda can. "Blaze has some spare time while Blaze's frozen pizza cooks, and these dragons have a right to know what they're flying into. Blaze was there when the unicorns attacked the first dragon base. Real trouble started when Blaze got close to the target and encountered…General Bighorn. Blaze thought Blaze was the best, but Blaze was wrong about Blaze. It wasn't just Blaze's shades that were cracked. It was also Blaze's confidence. So Blaze gave up being great, and started drinking flaming soda, and binge-watching cooking shows." The heroes shuddered in disgust. Verge was still frozen, staring at Blaze with her mouth agape.

A ding sound was heard, and Blaze began to stand up. "Blaze's pizza is ready, but heed Blaze's words…" He struggled, fell off the couch, and stood right back up. "Run away from things that are difficult." And with that, he went to retrieve his pizza.

General Talon gave a deep sigh of disappointment before returning to the rest of the cadets. "Alright, you're all dismissed!"

The dragons began to pile out, but the heroes were still sitting at their seats. "I can't believe it," Sashi breathed. "How could Blaze do that to himself."

Penn had no response. "Come on, guys, let's settle it at the Officer's Club." He picked up Verge, who was still frozen, by her shirt collar, and carried her out the door. The three flew to their destination.

When the three arrived at the club, it was nighttime and they were shocked to find Blaze was already there, stuffing his mouth with his cooked frozen pizza and other treats. They made a silent agreement to sit at a round table farther away from his, and a dragon came up to take their orders.

"I'll have a steak with mashed potatoes," Boone said instantly.

Sashi shrugged. "Same, I guess."

"Just an iced tea," Penn nodded.

The waitress nodded back and moved away.

They sat down and Penn set Verge down on the table. Verge finally shook out of her daze and stood. "Wow. I'm still having trouble getting that image out of my head." Penn jokingly pointed at the table Blaze was seated at, and she returned to her frozen, agape stance.

"Tell me about it," Boone twitched a bit. "It's hard to believe someone that cool became that washed up."

Sashi sighed. "I know, right?"

The waitress from earlier arrived with their orders, and once she disappeared, Verge put a serious face on. "Guys, game plan."

The green dragon nodded, intertwining his hands. "Okay, Blaze is the only one who's fought General Bighorn. He knows the unicorns better than anyone. We could really use his help. We just gotta pull him outta that fat, disgusting slump he's in." He took one glance at Sashi and changed the tone of his voice. "If only there was someone he had an emotional connection with!" The yellow dragon rolled her eyes. "Hmm…"

"Lay her off, Zero," Verge defended. "She obviously doesn't want to do it."

Boone raised his hand the same way he did at the base meeting. "I'll do it!"

"Hello?" Sashi raised an eyebrow. "He was talking about me?"

"Oh yeah no definitely okay," Boone shrugged innocently. "I guess either one of us could do it but yeah sure you go ahead!"

Sashi turned to look at the purple dragon, chowing down on a burger, and winced. She gagged and forced herself to approach him. "Good luck!" Verge whispered.

The boy dragons and the dragonfly continued to watch from their table. They couldn't hear their conversation, but from what they could tell, Sashi looked very persuasive.

"What do you think they're saying?" Verge asked.

Penn shrugged. "Dunno. Blaze still looks chill."

"I want some of that chicken," Boone admitted.

When Blaze looked like he had sighed, Verge clapped her hands. "I think she got him!"

Sashi came back to the gang a few moments later. "He's willing to train us," she reported. "But, I didn't get him enough to get him to fight back with us."

"It's okay Sash," Verge reassured. "He will!"

"What matters is you were able to persuade him!" Penn nodded, satisfied.

"We start tomorrow morning."

And so they did. Blaze helped them do all sorts of training. He helped time their flights, he held the punching bag for them to punch, he gave them the number of times they needed to lift a barbell. The only problem is, he didn't seem to have his heart in it. While he timed, he timed how fast his hotdogs cooked, he chewed on the sandwich he made Boone lift. He made them do yoga but he still had chicken legs and was falling asleep. Verge knew this wasn't proper training if their own coach couldn't seem to be at one with them. His belly jiggled when someone moved him, which made Boone, Sashi, and Verge exchange looks.

They kept eyeing the horn, which looked ready to be fired up any second.

Once, Verge saw Penn glance down at his MUHU, but she chose to ignore that.

The team still did their best to do their crunches, their fireball shooting, and…wood chopping?

"How is chopping wood going to help us beat the unicorns?!" Penn said in between pants.

"Blaze just really likes s'mores." The dragon held up a marshmallow on a stick. The sight made Verge's droopy, see-through golden wings puff back up again and flap ferociously as she ran to tackle him. Penn easily held her back.

Suddenly, a siren sounded out throughout the base, the same siren that rang yesterday to call the dragons. But the heroes knew it was a warning siren this time.

"Last chance, Blaze!" Sashi cried, as they began to walk off. "Help us kick some unicorn butt!"

"Come on, Zero," Verge said, flying upwards. "You have a troop to lead!"

Penn nodded, and looked behind him to see the other dragons that nodded as well.

Together, in proper formation, they took towards the sky and headed for the battle station.

Thanks to their training, they shot perfect fireballs that shot down all the unicorns that guarded the belly button. "I got company!" Penn shouted, looking behind him.

"On it!" Sashi took out one unicorn with her fire.

Verge tackled another one. The unicorn whinnied and tried to shake her off. "Don't make me do this!" the dragonfly cried.

But the unicorn did a barrel roll, and Verge fell right off him. However, as a master of flying face up, she didn't have any trouble. "You asked for it." She shot a fireball, and the unicorn found himself falling. He screamed, and Verge moved out of the way, waving as he descended.

Penn smirked as he finally saw the belly button, and he shot his best fireball at it. Their mission would be accomplished!

But the General Bighorn finally appeared, engulfing the fireball with an evil smile. "That's not a shot!" she laughed, the Australian accent evident. "This is a shot!"

The horn on her head glowed rainbow colors and the General whinnied as she fired at Penn.

"Penn, watch out!"

Sashi suddenly appeared in front of the green dragon, and the shot exploded. The dragon passed out and began to fall into a truck of killer bees.

"Sashi!"

Penn, Boone, and Verge, watched her in horror, but the General Bighorn appeared from behind and smacked their heads together. "Haha!"

They trio were too dizzy from the hit that there was almost no time to save Sashi.

But thankfully, someone else did. Verge shook her head and found Blaze managed to catch her in the nick of time. "Blaze!" Verge cheered, pumping her fist.

There was no time to celebrate, however, as General Bighorn took the three of them by their collars, her wicked grin still plastered on her face. "I just threw your mate down under us! Next, I'm gonna send you two far off out!"

"Blaze thinks Bighorn should pick on someone her own size!"

"But there's no one my size! So I must pick on those much smaller!"

Bighorn completely forgot about the three and let them go, now flying after Blaze. The two engaged in their heated battle, Boone flew to a truck and Penn went to fly towards the belly button.

"I have eyes on the target," he reported, fire forming in his mouth.

"Ha! Met oo!"

The part-time hero turned to see Rippen shooting a fireball at him. Penn dodged in time but then that made the part-time villain laugh maniacally and start another chase.

Verge panicked, unsure of what to do. Bighorn had Blaze by the collar now, and it looked like she was about to blast him again. "Kick her gut!" she yelled.

Blaze seemed to get the message, and did just that. General Bighorn did a double take, and she began to descend. As she fell, she managed to land on Rippen in the process, and together they both landed in the truck of killer bees.

"Criiiikeeeey!"

"Haha!" Verge did a victory loop. "Yes!" She began to fly to the battle station.

Boone, who was jamming away on a keytar with Larry on drums, laughed as well. "General Bighorn got demoted to major buzzkill!"

Penn, who was focused on the belly button yet again, smiled as he reunited with Verge. "I have target visual. Ladies first?"

Verge smirked. "By all means, be my guest."

"Let's just do it together. Fire in the belly button!"

They both shot their flames at the hole, flew away quickly, and the battle station exploded in confetti and flames.

The dragons at the base cheered in victory.

"Alright!"

Verge did another victory loop, turned smaller, and she and Penn did a tiny fist bump.

Later that evening, a special awarding ceremony commenced, and the heroes saluted General Talon, as she rewarded them with special medals. As Blaze was the final awardee, Sashi – who actually had a case around her arm now – tiptoed to plant a big kiss on his snout.

However, when she did, his stomach protruded from his shirt, and she gave a look of disgust.

Penn and Verge exchanged a look, resisting the urge to laugh.

Once they arrived home, Penn couldn't help chuckling. "Still think he's all that, Sash?"

The girl groaned. "Not a word."

"I don't think so," Verge pointed out.

Penn raised an eyebrow, smirking, and placed a hand on his hip. "Suuure about that?"

The fairy only laughed as she poked his chest. "I like you more than him, and that's saying something."

The quartet laughed and got off the platform, ready to get home. But once Verge realized what she'd said, the same, frozen look from when she first saw the new Blaze crossed her face, as a sudden thought came over her.

I simply had enough time to write this! I wonder when I'll have time again for the next one…

Once again, there was no proof-reading! I'll do it soon