OMG! Joz without his clothes! Well he's not going to swim in his coat is he?

My DA has a load of sketches of both the Demons and Joz. The latter has sketches of his Gemcraze forms including a special third one yet to be seen. It also has a sketch of his White Thunder technique.

Link's in my bio. If you're using the fox right click my name, open in new tab, click the DA link. Or you could just type Master-hunter-joz "DOT" deviantart "DOT" com

You do check my DA don't you?

All copyright stuff is in Chapter 1

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The 3 Shadows, Episode 8 - Deep Pressure

Chapter 2 - What is Deep Pressure?

"This is the spot", said Miles as the Tornado slowed down over the ocean.

"Right then. We swim down, beat the defenses, enter the base and save Shadow", said Joz.

"Yep, let me just put this into autopilot", said Miles.

Joz took off his long black coat and left it in the Tornado. Joz looked completely different as his mostly black body became one of a brilliant white fur, hinted only by the open front when he wore the coat. The Magenta stripes on his arms were the only part besides his wings and clothes to break the white

"Huh? I never really seen you without your coat on", said Miles.

"Well I'm hardly going to swim with that on am I?" asked Joz.

"Makes sense. Ok then you ready?" asked Miles.

Joz nodded and the two jumped into the water beneath them.

Meanwhile inside Deep Pressure Gerald and Shadow were discussing things in the prison cells.

"So what is Deep Pressure then?" asked Shadow.

"It's a base resting on the Pacific Ocean floor right next to the edges of two tectonic plates", said Gerald.

"Tectonic plates? Oh now I remember. The Earth is made up of several large surface plates resting on the magma", said Shadow.

"Indeed. Here the surface is weak and easy to drill through", said Gerald.

"And you're point is?" asked Shadow.

"I plan to drill through to the Earth's core and blow it up with a nuclear device. This'll start a chain reaction leading to the Earth Exploding from the core", said Gerald.

"And being under all this water means assaults on your base is difficult. You're well protected here. But you know Miles and Joz aren't going to sit down and do nothing", said Shadow.

"Maybe, Maybe not", said Gerald.

Gerald played back a security tape. It showed Joz and Miles in ARK's core.

"I think it's time we assumed the unthinkable", said Joz.

"No! He's alive I know it", said Miles

"But he's not here and he's not on Earth", said Joz, "Let's go home"

Miles started to cry and pushed his face into his arms resting on the computer console.

"Miles, come on. I know it hurts but Gerald's not here either, we still have a job to do", said Joz.

Shadow bowed his head.

"They think I'm dead? I can see Joz's reasoning but I didn't think they'd give up that easily. Dammit! You win Gerald. How long do we have left?" asked Shadow

"You're giving up! Very wise choice Shadow. In a couple of hours it'll be ready", said Gerald.

Then all of a sudden loud sirens went off and bright red lights started flashing.

"ASSAULT ON DEEP PRESSURE DETECTED!" said a computer system

Gerald went to a console and displayed images from cameras he spread across the ocean floor. One of them showed Miles and Joz swimming straight for Deep Pressure.

"Yes! I knew they wouldn't give up", said Shadow.

"But how did they find me?" asked Gerald, "No matter. Eighteen B and Eighteen C will take care of them"

"Eighteen B & C?" asked Shadow softly to himself.

Back outside the base Joz and Miles swam towards the bright metropolis sat on the Ocean floor. That was definitely Gerald's base.

"Wow its huge", said Joz, "Wait a minute we can talk?"

"Yes. I knew it would be necessary", said Miles, "But I'm a little worried. Shouldn't we be fighting robots now?"

Just then two objects appeared from the base. They swam through the water straight towards Joz and Miles.

"Dammit! Why did I have to open my big mouth?" asked Miles.

The two objects were orangey/olive coloured robots. They were human shaped, had big blue bulbous eyes and pattern of three dots on their chests. Inside the three dots were "18B" and "18C". They suddenly stopped and stared at the two Shadows.

"What the hell? Why aren't they attacking?" asked Miles.

"Who cares? Time to smash us some robots", said Joz.

Joz tried using his jet wing. He managed to create some momentum for his initial attack as the jet blasted bubbles pushing him forward. Before he could strike though the robots, who he was aiming for 18b, eyes flashed red.

"Skill copied", said the robot 18b

Before Joz could strike the robot 18b moved towards Joz the exact same way. Its right hand morphed into a shape similar to Joz's Annemuir Sword. The Annemuir and 18b's replica smashed into each other as the two attacks met. Joz jetted back to Miles.

"I don't like this. Did you see how that robot just copied my moves? And it's not affected by the water like we are? What are we going to do?" asked Joz.

"I'm not quite sure yet. Let's keep on fighting and see what happens", said Miles.

"Ok then", said Joz.

And Joz and Miles dashed towards 18b and 18c in an attempt to get by the two robots.