Rocket Knight Adventures-Sparkster

Dark Rocket Knight Axel-Opossum's Waltz

Chapter 2- Operation Run n' Jump

"Does that even make sense?"

Axel awoke once again in a different cell than before, a darker and smellier cell.

"Augh, my head. I swear I'm going to die before I get back to Zebulos". Axel Stood up and surveyed his surroundings as he had done before. "Seems to be a similar cell as the one before, probably farther back from my original position. When I escape, I'm going to give those skeletons a knuckle sandwich."

Axel Pressed the button on his belt buckle covering his upper body back up with his dark purple armor. Axel then walked up to the cell bars and tapped it, this time nothing happened. "Hrmm" Axel inquired. Axel gave the cell bar a few good punches when he realized it wasn't giving way any time soon. "Argh, if only I still had my rocket pack" Axel then touched his back to realize he STILL has his rocket pack "Wow, not only are these people imbeciles, but they don't even seize your arsenal. Alright then let's get started".

Axel grabbed the Rocked bed and using all his might, he yanked the rock bed from the large metal chains. "Now let's position this in front of the cell bars" he said as Axel grabbed the edge of the Stone bed and positioned its flat side to face the cell bars. Axel then gave an arrogant smirk as he used his Rocket pack to thrust himself and the rock bed through the cell bars and causing the rock bed to break through a wall on the opposite end.

Axel slowly walked over to the hole he had created and peered outside. "Heh, I knew this wou..." Axel's words were soon cut short when he saw that this castle was surrounded by a vast lava lake, with many winged turtle-like troops and ghosts flying about, Strange cannons could be found all over the place. This situation did not even give Axel a chance to fly away, as he found himself at the lowest level of the castle and a place where he could be easily spotted. "Damn too many outer defenses, I wouldn't be able to fly away undetected"

Axel stepped backwards and looked down the dimly lit dungeon hall. "Maybe I should reconsider the security here. Even if I made my escape out of this castle, I would be hunted down by all those aerial nuisances, however, whichever way I go, I will be caught and bombarded if I escape this dungeon"

Axel knocked the rock bed down to the floor and sat himself down and thought. "This can't be a kingdom, there's no village, not even an inner city. There's not even anything to stand on besides that stone bridge outside the castle. So this must be a heavily guarded fortress of some sort. Flying away would be suicide as they would be able to attack me in all directions. Yet escaping any other way would lead my outside and… still get me annihilated.

And so Axel sat and pondered and thought of a way out that wouldn't get him diced into millions of pieces by his strange foes. However he fell asleep on the rock bed from thinking too hard.

"Hello, again" the alternate Axel said as soon as Axel became visible.

"Damn it, I fell asleep again" Axel said as he started rubbing his eyes

"You mean you finally fell asleep, the two times you were here you were hit in the head"

"Ok fine" Axel said, after rubbing his eyes saw a sight that gave him a fright

"What is he doing there!" Axel said pointing his finger at the demon Sparkser

"Oh him, he got bored not appearing for awhile so he came here to have some food. Want some?"

"But he is our sworn enemy! How could you invite him here?"

"Meh, he is not that bad. Besides he from your head. Just because he looks like our foe doesn't mean he is our foe. Just an apparition"

"Yah chill out" the demon sparkster said after biting into a meat bun.

"It doesn't matter, he stabbed me in my nightmares and now you think he can just stay here!" Axel yelled, ready to slam Sparkster and Alternate Axel in the face.

"Ok, that's all I needed. You can disappear now" alternate Axel snapped his fingers causing the demon Sparkster to change into a puff of blue smoke.

"What just happened?" Axel said, scratching his head

"You just temporarily synchronized with me, powering you up for a limited time."

"But even though I hate Sparkster, you invited the apparition of him into my mind"

"Indeed I did, that way you would have the strength to make your way through the castle and reach the leader, take him out, and lower the morale of his troops to make your daring escape"

"But you didn't even hate the demon apparition, I thought I had to be facing the person, who is Sparkster, so our hatred could bond and form a spiritual link? Yet we just formed this link by just one person doing the hating? How does that make sense? HOW!"

"Ok look. One, the power is temporary at this point and I suggest you get a move on. Two, I'm generated from the crystal and from your soul, so I think that I have more power than you spiritually"

"But, you said synchro…"

Axel could not even finish his sentence when he suddenly awoke from Alternate Axel's snap of the fingers.

"Nized!" Axel managed to get out when he quickly rose from the bed as if he was having a nightmare.

Axel covered his face with his hands "damn it, most of this stuff doesn't even make sense anymore. But it doesn't matter now, this is my only chance."

Axel stood up started running towards the exit of the dungeon and came across the turtle shaped bones.

"Alright you decayed piles of crap! Come out and play." Axel said while motioning his hand and fingers in a "come and get it" fashion.

The bones started to rise and arrange themselves into four skeletal turtle bodies.

"Escaped again I see, well like we sai…"

Axel gives a quick jab to the skull of the talking bones, cutting his sentence short and knocking his body apart.

"You'll pay for that!" the other bones said as they readied their bone clubs

The first pile of bones gave a sword like slash at Axel, but to no avail as Axel spin jumps upward and dives fist first into the bones, he then front flipped above the other 2 bones and smashed their skulls together, shattering their skulls.

"Too easy" Axel said as he quickly ran up the dungeon stairs to appear in a long hallway, with lava flowing on the outer rims, and many portraits of a large turtle liked figure with fire red hair, medium sized horns, and spikes on the back of his green shell.

Axel looks up and sees a security camera. "Dammit, maybe I should have thought this through".

Suddenly the large door at the end of the hallway opened to reveal a large set of stairs with turtle troops storming downwards as a voice on an intercom could be heard.

"So, you've come to bother me again have you, I haven't even captured the princess yet! Fine if you just came for a fight, then don't expect to win. This time you're going down! Move my koopa troops, move!" the voice on the intercom yelled.

"Hrm, wanting to capture a princess, a themed form of troops? Maybe whoever reigns around here is planning an attack on Zebulos! A slight change of plan"

Axel waited for the troops to come near him so he could take their sword and hurry upwards on that path of stairs.

Axel rocket punched a koopa troop in the shell stomach, causing him to fall. "And that solves my sword problem for now, a little small though". The troops stopped and stared at Axel and started mumbling to themselves.

"Dude it isn't him this time"

"Who is he?"

"I dunno, he doesn't even seem to be from around here"

"I think the question is how he got here without notice"

"Dude, cool he is a shinobi or something"

"He's not a shinobi, ya idiot! Shinobi don't wear knight armor"

"Maybe he is a new villain wanting to take our king's throne like the others"

"That must be it!"

"Alright men, lets get him."

But as soon as the koopa troop raised their heads, all they could see is a spiraling smoke trail leading to the giant stairs.

"Troops , reverse and charge, REVERSE AND CHARGE!"

The koopa troop rushed backwards, bumping into each other like bumbling idiots, and rushed towards the top of the castle.