Chapter Eleven: We do not have a problem! *Six seconds Later* Maybe a small one...
"Just wait till I get my hands on you!" Lloyd blurted out as his hands were tied firmly behind his back.
A snort of disbelief escaped Nindroid as he shoved the teen super thief into the wall, knocking him down so that he was sitting instead of standing. " Right... I'll believe that when your not tied up and ready to be delivered to the Council."
Lloyd could feel his heart pound loudly in his chest, his mind trying to find a way to get out of there. Before he could say anything, a familiar voice sliced through the air. "I'll take him from here." Scales slipped silently into the room, his features devoid of any emotions.
Lloyd felt his heart sink as he came to the realization that Scales was still the enemy. Gene arched one eyebrow upwards, surprise flashing in his eyes. "I didn't know you were in the area."
"I was tracking Lloyd down. You see, a while back I had feed him a bunch of lies about his origins. Told him that Pythor found him on the side of a road in Croatia. Pathetic really that he believed all that... Pythor has never even been to Croatia!" Scales burst out laughing, which made the three enemy agents to laugh as well. Lloyd fought back a sigh and a smile, realizing that Scales was still on his side. None of what he said just then was true. "The Council sent me to retrieve him. Top secret mission. We'll be going now." Scales hauled Lloyd to his feet roughly, shoving him from behind as he escorted the currently imprisoned super thief.
Lloyd waited till they were out in the hall, out of ear shot of the others before he spoke up. "Can you untie me puh-lease."
"Sorry about that." Scales quickly undid the knots, allowing the ropes to fall free. "We best get moving quickly before they..." A shout of outrage rented the air in half from somewhere behind them. "Realize that I have gone rogue and am no longer welcomed by the Council."
Lloyd rolled his eyes, before breaking at a sprint. "Try to keep up while your at it!"
"Speaking about keeping up..." Scales nervously, and sounding a bit too guilty for Lloyd's liking, spoke up. "We have a pit stop that we need to make."
"Scales... I don't like the sound of that!"
…...
"Lloyd! You won't believe it, but one of those Darkley's Agents is dressed as a bird...BEHIND YOU!" Jay babbled nonsensically as he was finally released the large tin container that he and Cole had been shoved into.
Scales sighed, before turning to look at Lloyd again. "As I was saying... I was tracking Mindroid when these buffoons nearly gave me away. I had to do something."
"So...you tied my teammates up and tossed them into a container?" Lloyd arched one eyebrow upwards, clearly surprised about his actions. Scales grumbled under his breath, though he didn't have long to wait for Lloyd to pull out his phone and push a button. "Z... we've located the mine. It's basically empty, how would you suggest that they smuggle them out so that I can smuggle them back into the city?"
"The parade. It's going to start any minute now..." Zane's voice came over the phone's speaker, the clicking of a keyboard filling the background.
"Then let's go watch a parade. The one float that leaves the parade is them." Lloyd nodded in firm agreement, despite the fact that Zane couldn't see him.
….
Lloyd shifted slightly, scanning the parade route in front of him, looking for the one float that was different than the others. Frustrated, he lifted his phone up and spoke directly into it. "Report."
"Still got nothing... are we sure that they're going to try to smuggle them out tonight?" Cole responded instantly, though his voice sounded more like it was stuffed full of food at the moment.
"Come on Dirtclod, swallow before you speak." Lloyd rolled his eyes, before lowering his phone to turn to stare at Scales. "What about you? See anything of interest?"
"Yes... that castle float is headed to the harbor, away from the rest of the parade." Scales jerked a finger towards where the aforementioned float was driving along a different route.
Lloyd eyed the float, confusion flooding him for a few minutes before something clicked inside of him. "Of course... Ducks!"
"What about ducks?" Four confused voices echoed over the phone.
Before Lloyd could explain, Zane spoke up, his voice eerily calm still. "Not actual ducks. Ducks is also a nickname given to a special type of tour bus that can drive on both...land and sea. That float must be a duck in disguise."
"Couldn't have said it better Z." Lloyd smiled, please that his friend could explain it for him.
"And how do we get onto the float to stop them?" Scales questioned, unaware how that was a bad idea where the friends where concerned.
"Easy..." Lloyd smirked, before summoning a large amount of his powers, forming it into an actual dragon. "We fly." The energy made dragon snatched up Scales with no warning before taking off in the night sky.
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Scales dodged a quick karate kick from Gene, vaguely aware of Lloyd using his powers to blast the twins over board. Hearing the loud, and panicky, yelps from Nindroid and Mindroid briefly distracted Gene, allowing Scales to toss him overboard just as Lloyd took control of the float, making it move full throttle towards the docks.
"How are we going to sneak this back into the city? Surely they know what their float looks like!" Scales frowned, worried about how much of a plan there was formed.
Lloyd chuckled as he slowed down once they were a safe distance from the Darkley's Agents. "Relax. I already gave Cole and Jay the okay to instigate Operation: Chameleon."
Scales frowned, confused about what he meant by that, however before he could actually say anything though, Jay's voice cut through the night air. "Over here Lloyd! They had a bunch of duck float covers...but then we found this!" A minute later, a...dragon float cover landed on top of the float, completely covering it.
"Are...all of you dragon crazy?"
Cole jumped down, a crazy smile on his face. "You make it sound like we have a problem since we can summon dragons using our powers to fly around on, and we draw dragons in our free time… we use them as our team symbols. We're in heaven if we're in a situation where we can use dragon-based termology… we totally don't have a problem."
Scales felt his eye twitch as he stared at the young team he was now officially joining. "Oh no... you guys have a problem."
A/N: So... Ella seems to think that we, particularly me since it was my idea, need to explain how yes, we know that in the show it was a duck and not a dragon. However, I think with dragon based powers, and how the showverse has soo many dragons, that they need to be obsessed with dragons. And Scales isn't too sure about any of this. Oh well. Till next time!
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