The ships and airships practically covered the skies and waters as they closed in on the singular ship where Spyro and the others stood. The five dragon elders stood their ground in front of Spyro and his friends, preparing themselves to fight.
"To tell you the truth, I've been itching to go a few rounds!" Gavin said, squeezing his knuckles.
"There's a lot of em.' Do you think we can take em?'" asked Cleetus.
"If Cosmos can get his nose out of the air long enough to concentrate," Lateef teased, causing Cosmos to snort.
"Come, dragons!" Titans said, before turning to Spyro and the others. "Spyro, you and the others stay here. Let us handle this."
The purple dragon was taken back a bit by Titan's comment. "What?! No! I wanna help!" he said.
"You are in no position to help right now!" Titan responded. "Without Sparx, we don't know how you will fare!"
"He has a point, Spyro," said Gavin. "Better leave this to us."
Spyro tried to use his new breath as an argument, but Titan refused to budge.
"You just got that new ability, Spyro. Not to mention you don't have any experience with it," said Lateef.
"Just stay put. We'll take care of this," said Cosmos.
With that, Lateef, Titan, Gavin, and Cosmos flew off the ship towards the armada. Cleetus just shrugged his shoulders at Spyro before taking off with them.
Titan, Cosmos, and Lateef focused on the airships while Cleetus and Gavin took care of the ships.
The airships fired multiple shots at the three dragons who dodged them using mid-air twirls and spins.
Titan took out two airships with his Ax, Cosmos used his magic to turn one of them into feathers and Lateef used his to turn another into a giant turkey which fell into the ocean.
Meanwhile, Cleetus and Gavin used their muscle to overpower the gnorcs and rhynocs on the ship. Gavin punched out a number of the pilots. One of them went for a punch, but Gavin grabbed him and threw him into the ocean before doing a victory pose, kissing his muscles. One of the ships fired at him, but he quickly flew out of the way.
Cleetus punched out a few of the pilots himself. One gnorc tried to get him from behind, but he jumped up and squashed him with his butt. "Looks like you fell a little 'flat' there," he chuckled. He flew over to another ship and gave a rhynoc a headbutt followed by a body slam.
While the elders were holding their own against most of the armada, they couldn't fend off all of them and a number of them broke through and made their way towards the ship.
"Uh oh! We're in trouble, mates! Those bogeys are closin' in fast!" said Sheila.
"Indeed! I fear our current arsenal may not be enough to withhold them!" said Bentley.
"Bring em' on! I'll blast them off the map!" said Agent 9.
As the armada drew closer, Peter addressed the four. "Not to worry, mateys! A pirate is always prepared!" he exclaimed with a sly smirk before he made a large lever appear next to the steering wheel and pulled it back.
From the sides of the ship, multiple turrets came out; two on the right side and two on the left; then a giant cannon came out the front, much to the amazement of Spyro and his friends.
Peter directed them to the turrets, all of which had seats in them. "Well? Are you all just gonna stand there like a bunch of scurvy sea snails, or are you gonna man the guns?!" he shouted.
With that; Sheila, Bentley, Agent 9, and Hunter went to a respective turret while Sgt. Byrd flew up.
"Be careful, Hunter," said Bianca before Hunter winked back at her.
"You all provide ground fire! Meanwhile, I'll provide aerial defense!" Sgt Byrd proclaimed.
Sheila and Bentley shot down a number of airships while Agent 9 just went wild.
"WOOO! ADRENALINE RUSH, BABY!" Agent 9 exclaimed.
One rhynoc ship went in from the front, but Peter countered by firing a torpedo which took it out.
The airships fired away at Sgt. Bryd who just barely dodged them and took them down with his missiles.
One of the ships torpedoes managed to hit Peter's ship on the side. Luckily, it managed to stay afloat.
Hunter shot down two ships while Agent 9 shot down three ships and a couple of airships.
Meanwhile, the elders continued to hold their ground. Titan slashed away at a few airships while Gavin knocked out a fair number of ships himself. Cleetus grabbed two pilots and threw them into the ocean, then knocked one of them out with his tail.
Cosmos took out one of the gnorc pilots, turning him into a baby. He turned and noticed a rhynoc pilot going in for a sneak attack, but Lateef turned him into a billy goat, taking him out, much to his surprise.
The two shared a complementary grin as two airships came in. They used magic to levitate them and slam them together before giving each other a thumbs up.
Though the elders and Sheila and the others held their own, they couldn't stop a few soldiers in the armada from passing through and boarding Peter's ship. Despite the elders suggestion, Spyro was ready to fight alongside Bianca and Elora, even without Sparx.
"Sorry, mates! We'd love to help ya, our hands are kinda full at the moment!" said Sheila.
Spyro gritted his teeth as the pilots boarded.
Meanwhile, Elora and Bianca stood back to back; Elora putting her fists while Bianca put up her wand.
"Any ideas?" Elora asked Bianca.
"Stay alive?" Bianca subtly suggested.
"Great idea. Why didn't I think of that?" Elora answered sarcastically.
Three rhynocs and and four gnorcs boarded the ship as Spyro and the others stood their ground.
"Come on, uglies! Bring it on!" Spyro proclaimed.
The gnorcs and rhynoc acquiesced to Spyro's request as they charged in towards him and his friends.
Spyro knocked a gnorc and a rhynoc with a charge, another gnorc with his fire breath, and tripped one rhynoc with his tail.
Meanwhile, Elora knocked down a gnorc with a roundhouse kick and another with an uppercut while Bianca nervously fended off some gnorc and rhynocs with some blasts of magic.
Spyro froze a couple of rhynocs with his ice breath and bit one gnorc in the butt.
A rhynoc dodged one of Bianca's blasts and tripped her. Bianca braced herself for the attack, but Spyro intervened and charged the rhynoc off the ship.
"Thanks, Spyro," said Bianca.
"No problem," said Spyro.
Elora gave an incredulous look towards Spyro and Bianca before a gnorc came towards her. Spyro however stopped him in his tracks with his ice breath. He then turned to Elora who gave him a slight smile before he went back to the battle.
For the moment, the three were able to hold their own, but more gnorcs and rhynocs began boarding the ship, increasing their numbers. Bianca and Elora were already exhausted, but Spyro was determined to keep going.
"Is there no end to them?!" Elora said wearily.
"Hey, the more, the merrier, I say!" Spyro exclaimed.
For a while, the three were doing as well as before, but then the soldiers started double teaming them, making things more difficult. A gnorc distracted Spyro, allowing a rhynoc to land a hard punch on him. The gnorc went for an axe handle slam, but Spyro dodged it and got him with his fire breath, the the rhynoc with his ice breath. However, one gnorc grabbed him from behind and slammed him to the floor, then two rhynoc began pounding away at him.
"Spyro!" shouted Elora before she ran towards him, only to be grabbed by a rhynoc.
The fawn struggled, but the rhynoc's grip was too strong. Luckily, Bianca was there to blast him away with her magic. Bianca offered her hand to her, but she declined.
"I'm fine," Elora said.
A gnorc came in from behind to try and attack Bianca, but Elora quickly took him down with a punch and a roundhouse kick.
"Thanks," said Bianca.
Elora stared back. "C'mon. We'd better help Spyro," she said reluctantly.
Bianca blasted away the army while Elora kicked them back.
"Spyro, are you alright?" asked Elora.
"Yeah. But who knew those guys packed such a punch?" Spyro said.
An aerial missile hit the ship, causing it to tilt to the side, making Bianca lose her balance and roll backwards and be grabbed by a rhynoc. A rhynoc grabbed her, intending to throw her into the ocean.
Spyro and Elora tried to stop him, but they were attacked by more gnorcs and rhynocs.
Hunter turned to see Bianca in the clutches of the rhynoc and did not hesitate to leave his turret and tackle him. The rhynoc got to his feet as Hunter nervously smiled at him and grabbed him by the neck, choking him, and tossed him to the side.
"Hunter!" shouted Bianca and Elora.
Bianca struggled to get free, but couldn't.
Meanwhile, one of the airships fired a missile at the turret which Hunter left, taking it out.
After Spyro took care of one gnorc, he freed Bianca by taking down the rhynoc with a tail whip.
"Spyro!" shouted Elora who was being squeezed to death by a giant gnorc.
"Bianca, look after Hunter!" Spyro commanded before going after the gnorc. "Toasted or iced?! Those are your choices unless you let her go!"
"You want her?! OK!" the gnorc said before he threw Elora right at Spyro, knocking them both down.
"Hey there," Elora said to Spyro.
"Hows it going?" Spyro asked.
"Hmm, could be a little better," Elora said with a chuckle.
Two more gnorcs accompanied the bigger one, but Spyro and Elora didn't back down. Spyro got one with his ice breath, but another shoulder tackled him. Elora retaliated with a kick, but was grabbed from behind by a rhynoc. The gnorc charged in, but Elora ducked, causing the two to run into each other. However, Spyro and Elora were not in the clear yet as they still had to deal with the big guy and it wasn't easy. He just took their attacks like they were nothing before pushing them back with his big belly.
Meanwhile, Bianca was still tending to Hunter so neither she nor him could be of any help.
While this was going one, Sheila, Agent 9, Bentley, and Sgt. Byrd did their best to fend off the armada, however, without Hunter, it proved to be more difficult. They managed to shoot down a few ships and airships, but the ship was still getting hit from left to right. It almost on the verge of sinking.
"Is that the best ye got, ya overgrown sacks of blubber?!" said Peter.
"I don't know, mate. They seem to have us pinned down at the moment," said Sheila.
"Relay that talk, lass! As long as ye have the bullets, ye stand a chance!" exclaimed Peter.
The same could not be said for Sgt. Byrd who despite his best efforts was eventually shot down by a missile, landing hard on the ship's deck.
"Sgt. Byrd!" shouted Sheila.
Meanwhile, Spyro just barely dodged an attack from the giant gnorc only to be punched by another gnorc and charged by a rhynoc. He started to have trouble getting to his feet while the giant gnorc again grabbed Elora and squeezed her.
However, he soon released his grip when a blow hit him from behind. It was Bentley's club.
"Cease and desist, you ruffian!" commanded Bentley before he swung at the gnorc again.
While Bentley was busy with the gnorc, Elora tended to Spyro who wasn't looking too up to snuff, though he tried to hide it, claiming he was just fine, still willing to fight.
Bentley and the gnorc were practically even in strength as they traded blows with Bentley landing a few hits with his club and the gnorc scoring some hard punches. However, the gnorc soon gained the upper hand with a punch to the gut, followed by grabbing Bentley's own club and hitting him with it, knocking him down. Wanting to finish him off with his bare hands, the gnorc threw down the club and went in for the kill. But as he did, Spyro used his ice breath to freeze his feet in place, allowing Bentley to grab his club and knock him out.
"Exceptional work, Spyro!" exclaimed Bentley.
"No problem. Now let's take care of the rest!" Spyro said.
"I wouldn't do that!" said a gruff voice.
Spyro and Bentley turned to see a bunch of rhynocs and gnorcs surrounding Bianca and Hunter. He gritted his teeth and was about to charge in, before being stopped by Elora.
"Take one more step and we're gonna be feasting on roasted bunny and muskrat!" said one of the rhynocs.
"Hey! I'm a cheetah, not a muskrat!" Hunter protested.
As this went on, the dragon elders continued with their end of the fight when Titan suddenly noticed Spyro and the others. He then turned to his fellow elders. "Cleetus! Lateef! Gavin! Cosmos! Go help Spyro and his friends! I'll take care of the rest!" he ordered.
The other elders were concerned for Titan's well-being but they obeyed his command, taking out the gnorcs and rhynocs while he destroyed the last of the ships and airships, putting a stop to the armada.
The narrow victory was bittersweet. Spyro and the gang were practically exhausted from the battle with Hunter and Sgt. Byrd slightly injured.
Bentley tended to Byrd's injuries while Elora and Bianca respectively tended to Spyro and Hunter.
"I don't know about you guys, but we just about escaped that by the skin of our teeth!" said Sheila.
"What?! No way! Those knuckleheads didn't stand...a chance.." Hunter said, trying to get up before falling back down.
Cleetus casually lay on one of the masts, scratching his belly. "Hey, we beat em and all that matters," he said.
"Yeah, until more of them show up," Cosmos pointed out.
The possibility of more soldiers showing up was most likely and given that the group had just barely survived the first onslaught, there was a chance they wouldn't be so lucky next time.
"Well for right now, we should focus on making sure the boys are alright because I think those lunkheads attacking us means we're getting close to the islands," said Sheila.
Cosmos observed all the damage from the battle until before seeing Bianca tending to Hunter, holding up his head. He growled as he stormed his way towards her. "This is your fault!" he shouted. "If you hadn't have opened your big mouth about us, we wouldn't have had to deal with them in the first place!"
"It wasn't her fault!" Hunter protested.
"Yes it is! How else would they have known we were coming?! And now you're hurt as well! Guess she doesn't care about you as much as she claims!" Cosmos retorted.
For Bianca, that comment was the final straw. "How dare you?!" she said, quickly getting to her feet, inadvertently dropping Hunter's head on the floor.
"Ow," Hunter said subtly.
"Oops, sorry Hunter," Bianca said softly before turning to Cosmos. "Now listen here, you arrogant pile of scales! If you don't trust me, that's fine! You can say what you want about me! But don't you dare say I don't care about Hunter!"
This made Cosmos back up a bit before Titan approached the two.
"Be that as it may, yes, we still don't trust you. Which is why we are gonna keep a close eye on you," Titan said.
"I don't wanna jump to conclusions, but I think keeping an eye on you is best. Just to make sure you don't cause any trouble," said Gavin.
Cosmos quickly nodded in agreement while Lateef reluctantly did so. As did Sheila and the others. Bianca turned to Cleetus who just shrugged indifferently.
"Alright," she sighed. " If that's what you want, then fine."
So it was decided that Bianca would be watched very closely. And at no more an appropriate time as Agent 9 shouted out.
"ISLAND HO!"
Indeed, it seemed as though the gang's travels were finally over for ahead of them. However, upon closer inspection, Agent 9 wasn't entirely sure what he saw in front of him was an island.
Lateef and Gavin flew closer to get a better look.
"It is an island!" proclaimed Lateef.
"Yeah!" Gavin concurred. "But it looks like...a staircase?"