A/N: D'oh! What was I thinking? I accidentally called her Ham-God, didn't
I? It should actually be Ham-Goddess, since it's a female. Sorry, angry
female fans! Also, sorry if you thought that's it's been a long time since
I've updated. My increase of homework, obsession with F-Zero GX, and
Weekend Laziness Disease have all backed me from typing this chapter. Just
try to bear with me, k?
Chapter 14: The Final Temple
"All right we're half way there!" Hale cheered. "After this temple, we can go to Ham-Ham World and defeat Sheiug and Spat once and for all...at least I hope so."
"Well I'm wondering what would be in the last temple." Boss told Hale. "Okay, according to those symbols, there should be four 'something's in there, right?"
"Wow I almost forgot about those!" Hamtaro remembered. "I guess I just wanted to forget and find out who the guardians would be on my own!"
"Well it has said to be a rumor that hamsters prefer discovering things on their own." Hale said. "It's even in the Ham-Bible, which tells the story of hamsters from the beginning of time and how they affected us. I say that it only occurs to us at random times. Also I've heard that..." but he was interrupted by Boss's instant yell
"Hey there's the 4th temple!" he yelled out, making the Ham-Hams look straight ahead. It, the final temple, was approximately 50 hamster feet away from them.
"All right!" Hale cheered. "Now let's go and...Heke?"
"Vat's vrong, Hale?" Bijou wondered.
"Something's coming out of the temple." He answered. "I can't really see it, but I can sense it very clearly."
"What is it?" Hamtaro asked.
'I'm not sure." Hale still wondered. "There are four of them, I can say that." He then took a few steps forward...and stepped on something with his right foot. He looked down and saw a dusty pair of binoculars. He picked it up and blew the sand off.
"Whoa how'd those get there?" Hamtaro asked.
"I don't know, but that's not important." Hale told him. He then looked through the lens of the hamster-sized binoculars and looked at the door of the temple. What he saw shocked him.
"What do you see, Hale?" Boss wanted an answer. 'We wanna know!"
"C...Clones." Hale just stuttered out. "Clones of you three."
"HEKE?!" The three Ham-Hams were very confused. How could Sheiug create clones of themselves if he didn't know what they looked like? Hale told the details as he analyzed the three clones he saw:
They looked almost exactly like the three Ham-Hams except their eyes were shaped like Sheiug's and were glowing green. They were also slightly darker and had a strange C-shaped scar on their foreheads.
They came closer and closer to the Ham-Hams, which prepared them to attack, but Hale told them that they should wait and see what these hamsters really are.
Soon the three clones of Hamtaro, Bijou, and Boss were in front of the 4 surprised Ham-Hams. They all talked at the exact same time, their voices similar to the other three, but somehow deeper.
"Hamha, Ham-Hams." They said.
"Who are you hamsters?!" Hale demanded an answer.
"Calm down, impatient one." The three clones said, chuckling. "We were about to get there. Anyway, as you can see, we are replicas of, according to our master, Hamtaro, Bijou, and Boss. He, Sheiug, analyzed those three's appearance and voices to create us, then gave us a copy of his energy to each of us. He then gave us our names: C.Boss, C.Bijou, and C.Hamtaro. We were then asked to destroy those three and a gray one named Hale. We now see who Hale is. We must follow out master's orders, so we must eliminate you!"
Simultaneously, the three clones' eyes glowed more brightly and the 4 Ham- Hams were levitated in the air by some force and were then thrown about 6 hamster feet away from the clones. They all just got up, unharmed.
"Hah! Is that the best you can do?" Boss laughed. "It's a shame if you think throwing us will defeat us."
"Oh you'll regret that you ever said that." Boss's clone, C.Boss, angrily said. His eyes glowed brightly and he levitated the sarcastically yawning Boss.
"Oh so you're gonna again, eh? Fine with me." Boss then put his arms on the back of his head, now in a resting position.
"Oh I'm not forcing you away from me." C.Boss told him. "I'm forcing you to me!"
"HEKE?!" Boss instantly became warned. He was then flying to C.Boss, who grabbed him and [KRRRFF!] slammed him to the sandy ground, almost breaking Boss's back.
"BOSS!" the other Ham-Hams yelled to him. The other 2 clones then grinned and ran to their counterparts. Hale just stood there, watching Hamtaro and Bijou defend their selves as they've never done so before. Because of their increased reflexes, they could block each fast hit their clone tried to make. Hamtaro even grabbed C. Hamtaro's arm and instantly punched him in both of his eyes, causing him to yell in pain and put his hands on his eyes to try to cure the injury. Bijou also side-dodged C.Bijou's attempts to wound her with her lightning- fast fists. Bijou then grabbed both of C.Bijou's arms and KOed her by hitting C.Bijou's head with her knee.
"Hale!' Bijou then yelled to him. "You must get inzto ze tzemple to get ze last part of your turbo engine!"
Hale nodded and ran rapidly inside the already opened temple. When he got inside, C.Bijou came back up from her petite unconsciousness with a furious face.
"You vill pay for zat!" C.Bijou said. Her green eyes then glowed and the blue ribbons she had tied to her hair near her ears glowed and changed into red snakes. Bijou panicked, not knowing what might take place after that shocking scene.
Hale then ran into the temple and was amazed; instead of a maze-like path, the entire temple was a huge, detailed room with large Greek-like pillars which made the temple look like an actual ancient temple. Like the other temples with the exception of the 3rd, in the middle of the temple was a statue of a grinning Spat holding a part of the turbo engine on its right hand.
Finally, Hale thought to himself. All I need to do is get that piece and defeat those clones so we can finally get out of this planet.
Hale then ran to the statue to grab the piece, but was halted by an invisible force. He bumped and fell to the ground with a tiny bump on his forehead. He then heard a voice that sounded like it came from in front of him.
"OWW! That hurt!" the voice yelled. All of a sudden a clone of Hale appeared in front of him. He was rubbing the injured part of his head with his left hand. It was him who was invisible and blocked Hale from grabbing the last piece of the turbo engine.
Like the other clones, he looked almost exactly like Hale, but was slightly darker and had green eyes. He seemed a bit hyper due to his high voice and closed teeth, almost grinding.
"Oh great: a very dumb clone of me." Hale said to himself.
"How dare you call me dumb?!" C.Hale yelled out. "I'll have you know that I was created by Sheiug and is highly respected by him!"
"Oh so now you whine?" Hale asked. "Huh. It's like when he was creating the clones, a problem occurred on you." This statement angered C.Hale.
"...That's it! You will see that my master is the strongest hamster out there! But first you'll have to deal with us!" C. Hale angrily yelled out to his counterpart.
His green eyes then glowed brightly and he jumped into the air. His fist ready to attack, he then fell and headed for Hale to clobber him. Bad luck for him, though, for Hake just grabbed C.Hale's brought-out fist and slammed him to the rocky ground, making him yell in pain. He then got up with an anime ticked-off sign on his head popping.
"Ohh you'll wish you'd never done that!" He yelled out.
Hale just sarcastically yawned, angering his clone more. C.Hale then closed his two fists and connected them. He ran to Hale, trying to attack once more. Still being bored, Hale then promptly moved his head out of the way, which allowed him to punch C.Hale two times, then kick him in the head to knock him down to the ground 4 hamster feet away.
"I'm waiting for something challenging..." Hale said in a singing tone.
If I can't get him physically, then I'll get him telepathically, C.Hale thought to himself. His eyes then illuminated green as he raised his hands to make them face Hale and he started to levitate him. Hale didn't care though, for he was prepared for anything to happen. C.Hale's eyes' green color shined more as he charged his power. A moment later he then strongly threw Hale to the wall behind him.
It was only a waste of time, though, for Hale just jumped from the wall and the ground, no injury at all. C.Hale then became stunned at how fast he could do that. Hale went lighting speed to the wall yet he jumped from it at the exact right time.
"My turn." Hale grinned for a response. He then pulled his hand back and soon red energy was forming: Ham-Fire. When the energy could now be heard burning, Hale released the massive fire beam by pushing his hand all the way forward.
C.Hale then 'eep'ed and instantly ran. Luckily the Ham-Fire was now a homing fire beam, which meant that it could follow C.Hale wherever he ran to, another example of the quote, "You can run, but you can't hide." which ran across Hale's head.
C.Hale kept running around the temple trying to get away from the devastating Ham-Fire, but it seemed like it would be an eternity before it would be over. He even tried going around the large pillars around the temple, but the fire beam just went through them and burned them down. Luckily the temple didn't fall from the support of the pillars, which meant they were there only for detail.
C.Hale soon ran on the side of the temple walls. Bad luck then fell upon his survival, for he soon accidentally ran into the right corner of the temple.
"NNNOOOO!!!!!!" C.Hale screamed at his horror as the Ham-Fire then instantly got to him and burned him.
"What the heke...?" Hale wondered to himself as he saw a bizarre scene.
When the fire disappeared, his now burned-colored body was frozen in a trying-to-block-something position with his eyes and mouth still in a frightening mode. Obviously the heat had hardened to trap him in a rock. Surprisingly his body then slowly melted into blue liquid in Hale's confused eyes.
C.Hale's body now looked like a puddle of water. Hale ran to where C.Hale originally was to see what the liquid truly was. He put his left hand through the liquid, feeling it to see what it was: water.
"They're made of ice? How is that possible?" Hale became confused. "And if so, why did C.Sheiug vanish then...oh yeah he was a ghost version of Sheiug. Still....wait a minute..."
Hale then put his hand through the water again, realizing that it wasn't water.
"This is blue japelona! How could Sheiug know about this ingredient?! He can read anything that's in our minds from wherever we are. This is unnatural!"
Hale then ran to the statue of Spat. He grabbed the final part of his turbo engine and, after psychically staring at it, made it transport to who-knows- where? After sighing in happiness, he remembered about the other Ham-Hams and then ran to the exit. When he got outside, he saw something that he expected, but only worse.
C.Bijou was choking Bijou with her snake ribbons, C.Hamtaro held his foot on a knocked down Hamtaro, and C.Boss just stood there in front of still KOed Boss, chuckling evilly.
"Hey, Clones!" Hale yelled out, which gave the C's attention to him. They all stopped what they were doing and stood up. The weakened Ham-Hams all turned their injured heads to see Hale.
"Hale...what took you...s-so long...?" Hamtaro begged to find out, his eyes squinting due to exhaustion.
"Sorry, Ham-Hams." Hale said. "I had to deal with something."
"Heh. We almost forgot about you." The clones simultaneously said. "Yes, C.Hale was a failed copy of you. We might as well tell you how we clones were made." Hale and the still weakened Ham-Hams then listened carefully.
"To make us, Sheiug put transparent cameras that had the ability to fly all around the 2nd Temple. That way he could analyze not only you, Hale, but the other helpers. When he fully analyzed your physical appearances, he immediately made ice sculptures of us. The analyzation process could also crack your DNA codes, so he 'magically' put them in the ice sculptures and then we were created. We were even given the same powers you 4 have.
But with C.Hale, there was a strange glitch in the cloning process that caused him to not act properly. Generally, he didn't think before he fought. Then again, who cares about him? Anyway, he then told us our objectives, telepathically sended us here, and now look! Now we can destroy you and these other imbeciles to stop you from reaching The Almighty Sheiug!"
"...or will you?" Hale then responded. He then closed his eyes and moved his arms around.
"Heke? What are you doing?" The clones asked. "Answer us immediately!"
The three still-down other Ham-Hams, who were beaten up by the clones, soon slowly recovered and got enough energy to get up and back away a few feet. They knew something would happen; they just didn't know what.
"I can't sense what he's doing." C.Boss said.
"Neither can I." C.Bijou then said.
"He's probably trying to trick us." C.Hamtaro predicted. "If we can't sense anything, he's probably doing nothing!"
But C.Hamtaro's prediction was probably incorrect, for the ground below him and the clones started to shake, and it was only the ground below them.
"What's going on?" C.Boss became worried.
"(gasps) You fool!" The clones yelled out. They all looked at Hale angrily, who was still in his waving-arms position, for they found out what was about to happen. Soon an enormous fire vortex came out of the ground to where the three clones stood.
"RRAAUUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!" They all yelled in pain as the vortex went through their cold bodies, burning every part of them. Soon the vortex fully came out of the ground and just flew to the sky. The intense heat obviously hardened their bodies. Like C.Hale, their bodies slowly melted to cold, liquid japelona, impressing the three Ham-Hams.
"Wow Hale..." Boss said. "That was pretty amazing."
"Thanks, Boss." Hale was pleased. "I'm also happy to see that you three have recovered."
"Well rest always gets our wounds out." Hamtaro smiled. Hale just chuckled for a response.
"Okay, so can we get to the ship now?" Boss became impatient. "I want to see how evil Sheiug really can be."
"What are you talking about?" Hale said. "The ship's over there!" Hale pointed right behind the Ham-Hams. They turned around and then were completely baffled. The black ship was right in front of them, only a few feet away.
"But...but...I thought...we...uhh...okay what's going on here?!" Boss became confused and wanted an answer for his question.
"I secretly transported us immediately to where my ship was." Hale said.
"HEKE?!" The three Ham-Hams blurted out angrily.
"Then why didn't you do this to take us to the temples?!" Hamtaro complained first.
"You know how much my feet bothered me with each step after the 2nd Temple?!"
"Ve demand an explanation!" Bijou yelled out.
"Uhhh......I thought we needed some exercise before fighting Sheiug...." Hale weakly said. The Ham-Hams just feel down anime style, sighing.
"Heh heh...sorry." Hale apologized. Obviously for him he was used to taking long walks. Probably from his home planet, Ham-Ham World.
"Ahh we forgive ya.'" Boss then said. An anime mad sign then popped out of his forehead. "But don't you do something like that again!"
"Okay okay! Sorry!" Hale apologized once more. "At least our temple objectives are over. Anyway..."
Hale then walked to his ship. The Ham-Hams followed his back. He walked over to the right corner of the ship, where there was an almost invisible outline of a door. Hale's eyes widened and the camouflaged-looking door vertically opened and in front of the Hale was a small, isolated area with 4 holes on the sides .
"Is this where you put your turbo engine?" Hamtaro asked.
"Yes, and you guys might want to back away few feet." Hale said under his shoulder since he put his upper body in the small turbo engine area. The Ham-Hams backed away pretty much, satisfying Hale for some reason. He then told them to stop where they were and pulled his body out of the small area. The Ham-Hams squinted to see what he was about do. He raised his hand soon, floating above his hand, were the 4 pieces of the turbo engine. He telepathically put in the correct holes. They soon touched each other. Hale then grinned as he physically closed the thin door and ran to where the Ham- Hams were.
"Hale, why'd you come here?" Boss asked.
"It's not like ze ship vill explodze, no?" Bijou asked in her high, French accent.
"Just watch." Hale said. "The ship does something more than go faster with the turbo engine put in it."
They got their answer soon, for the ship then started to glow white. Slowly it grew bigger with new parts growing out. The Ham-Hams watched in awe, Hale grinned, and the ship was still transforming. There were even sounds coming out as the Ham-Hams made out new boosters, a larger cockpit, more fire cannons, and sharper shields from the white glow. Soon the ship stopped growing and bringing out new parts. When the white glow faded, the 3 watching Ham-Hams were stunned as they saw a massive, blue and yellow, Ham Wars-like space shuttle in front of them. Sphere shaped boosters were seen in the center-bottom,, cannons connected on top and bottom of the monster face- shaped cockpit on the top, and a vertical 4-cannon gun on the far back. It was hard to believe that they weren't dreaming and were only sleeping in their houses at the moment.
"What the heke...?" Boss just stated.
"It's unbelievable!" Bijou said with her white eyes sparkling in awe.
"It's like that ship from the space stuff Laura's dad watched on TV once!" Hamtaro said.
"I know. It's masterpiece, isn't it?" Hale said. "The turbo engine also holds the main defenses and attack cannons. I guess I only told you the main reason I needed it.....Well I guess we should be going inside now."
The Ham-Hams then followed Hale he raised his hand and made a door from the side of the ship open with a large stairway coming out of it. As the Ham- Hams walked to the ship, Boss then asked something.
"Hale, why couldn't we just 'transport' to the inside?" he asked.
"Obviously we can't because the entire ship is invisibly covered with a shield that only allows me to enter. That way, enemies can't mess with it. Sheiug, however, was strong enough to 'hack' into the shield and steal the parts of my turbo engine, which turned my shuttle into its Basic formation. Thankfully I now have them all back and the ship is back in its Advanced formation."
After his talk, the Ham-Hams were in the ship and were walking on a large pathway. Behind then the entrance door closed automatically. They walked past and through large rooms, some included a meeting room, a large and closed one with large humming noises inside, and even a bathroom, which confused the Ham-Hams.
Hale then opened a door and they all knew were they were: the cockpit. Much bigger than before. An advanced rectangular steering wheel was on the middle of a counter with a radar screen, engine management buttons, air conditioning, and much more. A large seat was in front of the control counter with three seats a few inches behind it.
"Have a seat." Hale said. All 4 of them sat down to where they were.
"Let's do this." Hale then said.
Everything went as expected: seatbelts automatically connected around their waists, Hale turned on all the engines by flipping 5 switches with the engines humming loudly with each one turned on. The shuttle then rumbled slightly as it slowly levitated to the air.
"Hang on." Hale said as he controlled the airplane-ish steering wheel. "The speed could give you guys some weird feeling."
The ship then pointed to a small dot that was in the air. That dot was obviously Ham-Ham World. The ship's boosters then charged out energy and then instantly flew away at 110 mph, which was very fast for hamsters. The ride was like a roller coaster, but without the scary thought that you might fall down. The spacecraft, in 9 seconds, came out of Ham-Ham Planet's atmosphere and was heading for Ham-Ham World.
[End of Chapter]
A/N: Also, I hope y'all NFL fans enjoyed the Super Bowl! I won't say who I was rootin' for, though.
Chapter 14: The Final Temple
"All right we're half way there!" Hale cheered. "After this temple, we can go to Ham-Ham World and defeat Sheiug and Spat once and for all...at least I hope so."
"Well I'm wondering what would be in the last temple." Boss told Hale. "Okay, according to those symbols, there should be four 'something's in there, right?"
"Wow I almost forgot about those!" Hamtaro remembered. "I guess I just wanted to forget and find out who the guardians would be on my own!"
"Well it has said to be a rumor that hamsters prefer discovering things on their own." Hale said. "It's even in the Ham-Bible, which tells the story of hamsters from the beginning of time and how they affected us. I say that it only occurs to us at random times. Also I've heard that..." but he was interrupted by Boss's instant yell
"Hey there's the 4th temple!" he yelled out, making the Ham-Hams look straight ahead. It, the final temple, was approximately 50 hamster feet away from them.
"All right!" Hale cheered. "Now let's go and...Heke?"
"Vat's vrong, Hale?" Bijou wondered.
"Something's coming out of the temple." He answered. "I can't really see it, but I can sense it very clearly."
"What is it?" Hamtaro asked.
'I'm not sure." Hale still wondered. "There are four of them, I can say that." He then took a few steps forward...and stepped on something with his right foot. He looked down and saw a dusty pair of binoculars. He picked it up and blew the sand off.
"Whoa how'd those get there?" Hamtaro asked.
"I don't know, but that's not important." Hale told him. He then looked through the lens of the hamster-sized binoculars and looked at the door of the temple. What he saw shocked him.
"What do you see, Hale?" Boss wanted an answer. 'We wanna know!"
"C...Clones." Hale just stuttered out. "Clones of you three."
"HEKE?!" The three Ham-Hams were very confused. How could Sheiug create clones of themselves if he didn't know what they looked like? Hale told the details as he analyzed the three clones he saw:
They looked almost exactly like the three Ham-Hams except their eyes were shaped like Sheiug's and were glowing green. They were also slightly darker and had a strange C-shaped scar on their foreheads.
They came closer and closer to the Ham-Hams, which prepared them to attack, but Hale told them that they should wait and see what these hamsters really are.
Soon the three clones of Hamtaro, Bijou, and Boss were in front of the 4 surprised Ham-Hams. They all talked at the exact same time, their voices similar to the other three, but somehow deeper.
"Hamha, Ham-Hams." They said.
"Who are you hamsters?!" Hale demanded an answer.
"Calm down, impatient one." The three clones said, chuckling. "We were about to get there. Anyway, as you can see, we are replicas of, according to our master, Hamtaro, Bijou, and Boss. He, Sheiug, analyzed those three's appearance and voices to create us, then gave us a copy of his energy to each of us. He then gave us our names: C.Boss, C.Bijou, and C.Hamtaro. We were then asked to destroy those three and a gray one named Hale. We now see who Hale is. We must follow out master's orders, so we must eliminate you!"
Simultaneously, the three clones' eyes glowed more brightly and the 4 Ham- Hams were levitated in the air by some force and were then thrown about 6 hamster feet away from the clones. They all just got up, unharmed.
"Hah! Is that the best you can do?" Boss laughed. "It's a shame if you think throwing us will defeat us."
"Oh you'll regret that you ever said that." Boss's clone, C.Boss, angrily said. His eyes glowed brightly and he levitated the sarcastically yawning Boss.
"Oh so you're gonna again, eh? Fine with me." Boss then put his arms on the back of his head, now in a resting position.
"Oh I'm not forcing you away from me." C.Boss told him. "I'm forcing you to me!"
"HEKE?!" Boss instantly became warned. He was then flying to C.Boss, who grabbed him and [KRRRFF!] slammed him to the sandy ground, almost breaking Boss's back.
"BOSS!" the other Ham-Hams yelled to him. The other 2 clones then grinned and ran to their counterparts. Hale just stood there, watching Hamtaro and Bijou defend their selves as they've never done so before. Because of their increased reflexes, they could block each fast hit their clone tried to make. Hamtaro even grabbed C. Hamtaro's arm and instantly punched him in both of his eyes, causing him to yell in pain and put his hands on his eyes to try to cure the injury. Bijou also side-dodged C.Bijou's attempts to wound her with her lightning- fast fists. Bijou then grabbed both of C.Bijou's arms and KOed her by hitting C.Bijou's head with her knee.
"Hale!' Bijou then yelled to him. "You must get inzto ze tzemple to get ze last part of your turbo engine!"
Hale nodded and ran rapidly inside the already opened temple. When he got inside, C.Bijou came back up from her petite unconsciousness with a furious face.
"You vill pay for zat!" C.Bijou said. Her green eyes then glowed and the blue ribbons she had tied to her hair near her ears glowed and changed into red snakes. Bijou panicked, not knowing what might take place after that shocking scene.
Hale then ran into the temple and was amazed; instead of a maze-like path, the entire temple was a huge, detailed room with large Greek-like pillars which made the temple look like an actual ancient temple. Like the other temples with the exception of the 3rd, in the middle of the temple was a statue of a grinning Spat holding a part of the turbo engine on its right hand.
Finally, Hale thought to himself. All I need to do is get that piece and defeat those clones so we can finally get out of this planet.
Hale then ran to the statue to grab the piece, but was halted by an invisible force. He bumped and fell to the ground with a tiny bump on his forehead. He then heard a voice that sounded like it came from in front of him.
"OWW! That hurt!" the voice yelled. All of a sudden a clone of Hale appeared in front of him. He was rubbing the injured part of his head with his left hand. It was him who was invisible and blocked Hale from grabbing the last piece of the turbo engine.
Like the other clones, he looked almost exactly like Hale, but was slightly darker and had green eyes. He seemed a bit hyper due to his high voice and closed teeth, almost grinding.
"Oh great: a very dumb clone of me." Hale said to himself.
"How dare you call me dumb?!" C.Hale yelled out. "I'll have you know that I was created by Sheiug and is highly respected by him!"
"Oh so now you whine?" Hale asked. "Huh. It's like when he was creating the clones, a problem occurred on you." This statement angered C.Hale.
"...That's it! You will see that my master is the strongest hamster out there! But first you'll have to deal with us!" C. Hale angrily yelled out to his counterpart.
His green eyes then glowed brightly and he jumped into the air. His fist ready to attack, he then fell and headed for Hale to clobber him. Bad luck for him, though, for Hake just grabbed C.Hale's brought-out fist and slammed him to the rocky ground, making him yell in pain. He then got up with an anime ticked-off sign on his head popping.
"Ohh you'll wish you'd never done that!" He yelled out.
Hale just sarcastically yawned, angering his clone more. C.Hale then closed his two fists and connected them. He ran to Hale, trying to attack once more. Still being bored, Hale then promptly moved his head out of the way, which allowed him to punch C.Hale two times, then kick him in the head to knock him down to the ground 4 hamster feet away.
"I'm waiting for something challenging..." Hale said in a singing tone.
If I can't get him physically, then I'll get him telepathically, C.Hale thought to himself. His eyes then illuminated green as he raised his hands to make them face Hale and he started to levitate him. Hale didn't care though, for he was prepared for anything to happen. C.Hale's eyes' green color shined more as he charged his power. A moment later he then strongly threw Hale to the wall behind him.
It was only a waste of time, though, for Hale just jumped from the wall and the ground, no injury at all. C.Hale then became stunned at how fast he could do that. Hale went lighting speed to the wall yet he jumped from it at the exact right time.
"My turn." Hale grinned for a response. He then pulled his hand back and soon red energy was forming: Ham-Fire. When the energy could now be heard burning, Hale released the massive fire beam by pushing his hand all the way forward.
C.Hale then 'eep'ed and instantly ran. Luckily the Ham-Fire was now a homing fire beam, which meant that it could follow C.Hale wherever he ran to, another example of the quote, "You can run, but you can't hide." which ran across Hale's head.
C.Hale kept running around the temple trying to get away from the devastating Ham-Fire, but it seemed like it would be an eternity before it would be over. He even tried going around the large pillars around the temple, but the fire beam just went through them and burned them down. Luckily the temple didn't fall from the support of the pillars, which meant they were there only for detail.
C.Hale soon ran on the side of the temple walls. Bad luck then fell upon his survival, for he soon accidentally ran into the right corner of the temple.
"NNNOOOO!!!!!!" C.Hale screamed at his horror as the Ham-Fire then instantly got to him and burned him.
"What the heke...?" Hale wondered to himself as he saw a bizarre scene.
When the fire disappeared, his now burned-colored body was frozen in a trying-to-block-something position with his eyes and mouth still in a frightening mode. Obviously the heat had hardened to trap him in a rock. Surprisingly his body then slowly melted into blue liquid in Hale's confused eyes.
C.Hale's body now looked like a puddle of water. Hale ran to where C.Hale originally was to see what the liquid truly was. He put his left hand through the liquid, feeling it to see what it was: water.
"They're made of ice? How is that possible?" Hale became confused. "And if so, why did C.Sheiug vanish then...oh yeah he was a ghost version of Sheiug. Still....wait a minute..."
Hale then put his hand through the water again, realizing that it wasn't water.
"This is blue japelona! How could Sheiug know about this ingredient?! He can read anything that's in our minds from wherever we are. This is unnatural!"
Hale then ran to the statue of Spat. He grabbed the final part of his turbo engine and, after psychically staring at it, made it transport to who-knows- where? After sighing in happiness, he remembered about the other Ham-Hams and then ran to the exit. When he got outside, he saw something that he expected, but only worse.
C.Bijou was choking Bijou with her snake ribbons, C.Hamtaro held his foot on a knocked down Hamtaro, and C.Boss just stood there in front of still KOed Boss, chuckling evilly.
"Hey, Clones!" Hale yelled out, which gave the C's attention to him. They all stopped what they were doing and stood up. The weakened Ham-Hams all turned their injured heads to see Hale.
"Hale...what took you...s-so long...?" Hamtaro begged to find out, his eyes squinting due to exhaustion.
"Sorry, Ham-Hams." Hale said. "I had to deal with something."
"Heh. We almost forgot about you." The clones simultaneously said. "Yes, C.Hale was a failed copy of you. We might as well tell you how we clones were made." Hale and the still weakened Ham-Hams then listened carefully.
"To make us, Sheiug put transparent cameras that had the ability to fly all around the 2nd Temple. That way he could analyze not only you, Hale, but the other helpers. When he fully analyzed your physical appearances, he immediately made ice sculptures of us. The analyzation process could also crack your DNA codes, so he 'magically' put them in the ice sculptures and then we were created. We were even given the same powers you 4 have.
But with C.Hale, there was a strange glitch in the cloning process that caused him to not act properly. Generally, he didn't think before he fought. Then again, who cares about him? Anyway, he then told us our objectives, telepathically sended us here, and now look! Now we can destroy you and these other imbeciles to stop you from reaching The Almighty Sheiug!"
"...or will you?" Hale then responded. He then closed his eyes and moved his arms around.
"Heke? What are you doing?" The clones asked. "Answer us immediately!"
The three still-down other Ham-Hams, who were beaten up by the clones, soon slowly recovered and got enough energy to get up and back away a few feet. They knew something would happen; they just didn't know what.
"I can't sense what he's doing." C.Boss said.
"Neither can I." C.Bijou then said.
"He's probably trying to trick us." C.Hamtaro predicted. "If we can't sense anything, he's probably doing nothing!"
But C.Hamtaro's prediction was probably incorrect, for the ground below him and the clones started to shake, and it was only the ground below them.
"What's going on?" C.Boss became worried.
"(gasps) You fool!" The clones yelled out. They all looked at Hale angrily, who was still in his waving-arms position, for they found out what was about to happen. Soon an enormous fire vortex came out of the ground to where the three clones stood.
"RRAAUUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!" They all yelled in pain as the vortex went through their cold bodies, burning every part of them. Soon the vortex fully came out of the ground and just flew to the sky. The intense heat obviously hardened their bodies. Like C.Hale, their bodies slowly melted to cold, liquid japelona, impressing the three Ham-Hams.
"Wow Hale..." Boss said. "That was pretty amazing."
"Thanks, Boss." Hale was pleased. "I'm also happy to see that you three have recovered."
"Well rest always gets our wounds out." Hamtaro smiled. Hale just chuckled for a response.
"Okay, so can we get to the ship now?" Boss became impatient. "I want to see how evil Sheiug really can be."
"What are you talking about?" Hale said. "The ship's over there!" Hale pointed right behind the Ham-Hams. They turned around and then were completely baffled. The black ship was right in front of them, only a few feet away.
"But...but...I thought...we...uhh...okay what's going on here?!" Boss became confused and wanted an answer for his question.
"I secretly transported us immediately to where my ship was." Hale said.
"HEKE?!" The three Ham-Hams blurted out angrily.
"Then why didn't you do this to take us to the temples?!" Hamtaro complained first.
"You know how much my feet bothered me with each step after the 2nd Temple?!"
"Ve demand an explanation!" Bijou yelled out.
"Uhhh......I thought we needed some exercise before fighting Sheiug...." Hale weakly said. The Ham-Hams just feel down anime style, sighing.
"Heh heh...sorry." Hale apologized. Obviously for him he was used to taking long walks. Probably from his home planet, Ham-Ham World.
"Ahh we forgive ya.'" Boss then said. An anime mad sign then popped out of his forehead. "But don't you do something like that again!"
"Okay okay! Sorry!" Hale apologized once more. "At least our temple objectives are over. Anyway..."
Hale then walked to his ship. The Ham-Hams followed his back. He walked over to the right corner of the ship, where there was an almost invisible outline of a door. Hale's eyes widened and the camouflaged-looking door vertically opened and in front of the Hale was a small, isolated area with 4 holes on the sides .
"Is this where you put your turbo engine?" Hamtaro asked.
"Yes, and you guys might want to back away few feet." Hale said under his shoulder since he put his upper body in the small turbo engine area. The Ham-Hams backed away pretty much, satisfying Hale for some reason. He then told them to stop where they were and pulled his body out of the small area. The Ham-Hams squinted to see what he was about do. He raised his hand soon, floating above his hand, were the 4 pieces of the turbo engine. He telepathically put in the correct holes. They soon touched each other. Hale then grinned as he physically closed the thin door and ran to where the Ham- Hams were.
"Hale, why'd you come here?" Boss asked.
"It's not like ze ship vill explodze, no?" Bijou asked in her high, French accent.
"Just watch." Hale said. "The ship does something more than go faster with the turbo engine put in it."
They got their answer soon, for the ship then started to glow white. Slowly it grew bigger with new parts growing out. The Ham-Hams watched in awe, Hale grinned, and the ship was still transforming. There were even sounds coming out as the Ham-Hams made out new boosters, a larger cockpit, more fire cannons, and sharper shields from the white glow. Soon the ship stopped growing and bringing out new parts. When the white glow faded, the 3 watching Ham-Hams were stunned as they saw a massive, blue and yellow, Ham Wars-like space shuttle in front of them. Sphere shaped boosters were seen in the center-bottom,, cannons connected on top and bottom of the monster face- shaped cockpit on the top, and a vertical 4-cannon gun on the far back. It was hard to believe that they weren't dreaming and were only sleeping in their houses at the moment.
"What the heke...?" Boss just stated.
"It's unbelievable!" Bijou said with her white eyes sparkling in awe.
"It's like that ship from the space stuff Laura's dad watched on TV once!" Hamtaro said.
"I know. It's masterpiece, isn't it?" Hale said. "The turbo engine also holds the main defenses and attack cannons. I guess I only told you the main reason I needed it.....Well I guess we should be going inside now."
The Ham-Hams then followed Hale he raised his hand and made a door from the side of the ship open with a large stairway coming out of it. As the Ham- Hams walked to the ship, Boss then asked something.
"Hale, why couldn't we just 'transport' to the inside?" he asked.
"Obviously we can't because the entire ship is invisibly covered with a shield that only allows me to enter. That way, enemies can't mess with it. Sheiug, however, was strong enough to 'hack' into the shield and steal the parts of my turbo engine, which turned my shuttle into its Basic formation. Thankfully I now have them all back and the ship is back in its Advanced formation."
After his talk, the Ham-Hams were in the ship and were walking on a large pathway. Behind then the entrance door closed automatically. They walked past and through large rooms, some included a meeting room, a large and closed one with large humming noises inside, and even a bathroom, which confused the Ham-Hams.
Hale then opened a door and they all knew were they were: the cockpit. Much bigger than before. An advanced rectangular steering wheel was on the middle of a counter with a radar screen, engine management buttons, air conditioning, and much more. A large seat was in front of the control counter with three seats a few inches behind it.
"Have a seat." Hale said. All 4 of them sat down to where they were.
"Let's do this." Hale then said.
Everything went as expected: seatbelts automatically connected around their waists, Hale turned on all the engines by flipping 5 switches with the engines humming loudly with each one turned on. The shuttle then rumbled slightly as it slowly levitated to the air.
"Hang on." Hale said as he controlled the airplane-ish steering wheel. "The speed could give you guys some weird feeling."
The ship then pointed to a small dot that was in the air. That dot was obviously Ham-Ham World. The ship's boosters then charged out energy and then instantly flew away at 110 mph, which was very fast for hamsters. The ride was like a roller coaster, but without the scary thought that you might fall down. The spacecraft, in 9 seconds, came out of Ham-Ham Planet's atmosphere and was heading for Ham-Ham World.
[End of Chapter]
A/N: Also, I hope y'all NFL fans enjoyed the Super Bowl! I won't say who I was rootin' for, though.