"Sheila! H - help!"

"I - it hurts!"

"S - stop it! P - ple- AH!"

"I... Can't... B - breathe..."

"HELP!"

"SHEILA!" Spyro calls out to her. "Watch out!"

"Wha- Oh, yeah!" She turns around and kicks the ape, making him hit a rock. "Sorry, mates... I was so deep in my thoughts..."

"We'll talk about that later!" Malefor quickly uses his Stone Pierce to kill the ape. "More enemies are coming!"

Then, a group of armardillos spin to them, but fortunately they dodged them. "Well, that was new." Sparx said.

"Let me try hitting it!" The purple dragon uses his stone breath, but they blocked it with their body. "Guess that was a bad idea."

"If sharp things don't work, then..." Elora mumbled.

"We're dead aren't we?" Stealth, who heard her, frowns. "There's gotta be another way!"

"That means..." Flame said. "We should try charging in to them."

"Got it!" The 2 brothers charge at the enemies, throwing them away to the skies. "We did it!"

"Heads up!" They all look at some Rubble Brutes that are walking towards them. "Huh. Those guys again."

"They're too hard to fight." The red dragon turns around. "We have to flee."

"Easy for you to say." The dragonfly points at other brutes that are surrounding them. "Going up is not an option either." Above them are cliffs with many Rubble Brutes waiting for them to fly.

"Great. What do we do now?" The faun asked.

"They're getting closer!"

...

Suddenly, 2 brutes get grabbed by a bigger one, who then spins them around, breaking them and the other ones on the cliff. It then stomps the other brutes that are still alive, killing them all. Slowly, he turns around to see the group.

"Guys, get ready for a big one..." Spyro said as all of them prepare to attack.

"NO, WAIT!" The kangaroo shouts, making them stop. She immediately rushes to the brute and hugs his leg. "Bentley, mate! I missed ya so much!"

"Wait, who?" The others asked.

"Everyone, meet Bentley. He's one of my friends that live here." Sheila looks at him and smiles. "So, where have ya been these days, mate?" The brute tilted his head. "Oh, right! My bad! Forgot that you can't talk, now. Where are the others?"

Then, a dreadwing descends from the sky, with an orc riding it. "Rrr." The dreadwing grins after seeing her.

"Byrd, Charles!" She approached them and hugs both. "It's been 2 years since all of ya gone bush! Dontcha know how hard it is to live without ya?"

"Wait, Sheila? They're your... Friends?" The said kangaroo nods.

"Yeah, they... Got messed up by apes." The orc walked up to her and smiles. "I know, Charles. I'm gonna find a way to turn all of ya back." She looks at the others with a serious expression on her face. "Follow me."

They arrive in the middle of Tall Plains, a wooden house can be seen below a big tree. "Here we are." Sheila knocks on the door. "Handel? Greta?"

"Sheila?" A male voice is heard from inside the house. "Coming!" The door then opens, revealing a teenage blonde human boy wearing a brown lab coat with matching brown pants. "Found them yet?"

"See for yourself." He looks at the 3 as they wave at him. "After 2 years, they came back!"

"Great! Now we can try to return them back to normal! Come in!" The human walked inside. "Bring your new friends too."

After they entered the house, a loud explosion noise is heard from a room. "Holy ancestors, what was that?!" Flame asked in shock.

"Oh, that's just my stupid twin, Greta." The door then opens, a female teen walked out of the room, wearing the same outfit, but wearing glasses.

"It failed again..." She sighed. "Could you be quiet next time, Handel?"

"Oh, so it's MY fault now?!"

"It's ALWAYS your fault!"

"Cmon, mates! No time for fightin'!" The kangaroo stopped them. "We got some new job to do!"

"What is it, Sheila?" Greta asked, but quickly notices the dragons. "Oh... You must be here to save Cyril and Lacus, right?"

"Yep." Stealth said. "And we gotta do it fast."

"Yeah, no time to waste." Elora starts speaking. "That rain must've meant something bad."

"Poor Lacus." The female twin said. "You should bring the other 3 with you. They could be a great help."

"For once, I agree with you." The other twin grips her shoulder. "Looks like being experimented by apes is not that bad after all. Except for THAT part..."

"Please, don't remind me..." Greta replied. *Sigh* "Each day, their disease gets worse."

"What kind of disease?"

"It's the effect of their soul not being placed on their own bodies." Handel explained to them. "They will suffer from immense pain on their body, sometimes they even bleed."

This is... So messed up... Malefor thought to himself.