Yoshi Underground
Authored by Santuh Klozzy
After a long hiatus, Santuh Klozzy is back. Well here is the last chapter of the firstYoshi Underground story. Cheers.
Chapter 4. Triumph and Failure
Out on the waters of the bay by the port town of Bongo-Kongo, the small yacht that Yoshi and Helix had stolen was making its way quickly towards the small, rocky island and tower. In the distance, several gunboats drifted lazily along their patrol routes. There were a couple of these patrollers that shifted their courses and began heading in the direction of Helix and Yoshi. This did not bother them; they would be at the island long before the boats reached them.
"Well we're on our way, I suppose." Yoshi tried sparking up a conversation or anything. Helix said nothing. His thoughts were still focused on Ragnarok and what had transpired at the marina. "Right. Well…" Yoshi's voice left him. He didn't know what to say to comfort Helix, so he chose to say nothing. This was how the rest of their trip to the island passed. In the distance the gunboats kept closing in, aware that they'd probably be too late to catch up with them. There was nothing but the sound of the boat's sails flapping in the wind and the water splashing past them. No sound of the gunboats' cannons. No conversation or talk between the two. No distant sounds or noises at all. It seemed like they were in the eye of the storm. There was no motion except for the slow moving dots and the water flying by. This kept up until they reached the island.
What they saw when they got to the tower was much different than what they had seen from the shore. The tower was so much larger than they had anticipated; it rose up a good ten or fifteen floors into the sky. It was dull gray and made from some type of sturdy stone that made a clinking, metallic sound when you rapped on it. It was perfectly cylindrical and windowless. The only thing ruining the perfect, smooth surface of the tower were the numerous balconies that dotted the sides of the tower. There were no lookouts on these balconies, though. It seemed that there were no guards here. However there was one empty gunboat that was beached on the rocky shore a bit away from their yacht. It seemed that someone had landed here before them and gone on inside the tower. Yoshi wondered if the tower had a garrison or if the crew of the silent gunboat were the only other legionnaires here. It didn't matter at the current second, though. With these thoughts weighing heavy on their minds, Helix and Yoshi proceeded towards the main entrance to the tower. They were not quite aware of what lay inside.
Inside the tower, the legionnaire that had captured Ragnarok was pacing back and forth in a circular stone room at the top of the tower. The sides of the room were covered with black and gold mosaics depicting scenes of various creatures being sacrificed. The only exit was a small, circular iron trapdoor in the center of the room. The floor was covered with hundreds of candles, arranged into geometric patterns. The legionnaire knew that this room had no true purpose. The legion had the rest of the war to think of a purpose for it. He supposed it would be used for ceremonies or rituals. Perhaps it would be a room for prayer or meetings. That was not determined at the present time, however. The legionnaire looked at the many thick, white candles that dotted the room's floor and cast a flickering glow throughout it. He stopped and looked at his hands. They were covered in thick, red gloves made from a heavy and leathery cloth. These gloves covered the numerous scars and mutilations his hands had suffered during his work for the legion. He looked at his robes. They were long and made of the same red cloth. His entire body was covered with this red material. Except for his face, which he hid behind a crimson and gold mask that was in the likeness of a bird. He had heard the name of the bird before. It was called a raven. He had never seen of or heard of a raven before but he liked it very much. He figured that did not need to know why. This mask had been forged long ago when he had finally been promoted to his current position. After his promotion he donned his knew robes and mask, signals of his status and power but also shields to hide his wretched body. He also had a hood made from the same material that he wore constantly. Between the hood, the mask, the gloves, and the long blood-red robes, he had managed to successfully hide every part of himself from view. Anybody who knew what the commander looked like had either forgotten or died. He figured he was special in some way. Perhaps the gods wanted no other living being to see the darkness that consumed his corporeal self. The commander brought his gloved hands to his mask, about to remove it. Then a voice came to him, halting his removal of the signature mask.
"Kine. You are needed." The man known as Kine turned about, seeing the figure of another legionnaire climbing slowly out of the trapdoor. This legionnaire was dressed in the traditional soldier's armor. Reddish in color with gold and blue designs on it and a mask of some strange animal Kine could not identify easily. "They have reached the tower. They are here, now. As we speak. Ein Virgil begs you to allow us to move the hostages to a safer location. Though I doubt that it is needed, Ein Virgil still begs, no demands that you allow us to move them. What shall I tell the Ein?" Kine was slow in response. If he wanted to, he could order the Ein executed, but now was not the time for their dislike of each other to get in the way of the current situation. The Ein, or commander of the legion's troops at Bongo-Kongo, was jealous of Kine's influence in the legion. Every soldier, every other Ein, and every other warrior in allegiance with the legion knew it. At least most of them knew it, anyways. Kine took his time, knowing that nothing in this world could harm him, the tower's garrison, or the hostages.
"Tell Ein Virgil that when I deem the situation too dangerous, I will give the order to extract the Yoshi prisoners and move them to a…safer location. Since this should infuriate the Ein, tell him as well that there will probably be no safer location than here at the Ein's tower. If this does not anger the Ein enough, convey the message that Sir Kine of the First Order of The Steel-Eaters believes that his tower fails to portray the picture of grandeur that he envisioned it to have. Tell him this." Kine turned his back to the legionnaire who grunted in acknowledgment and left. It would not be long now. Kine laughed to himself as he thought of how Ein Virgil would stop the public humiliation that would ensue when he would let the Yoshis through his grasp. It seemed natural that Virgil would fail to keep the hostages safe.
At the base of the tower, Yoshi and Helix were exploring the apparently lifeless entrance hall of the fortress. Why were there no guards rushing to attack them? It could have been a trap. Too late now. Yoshi thought to himself darkly.
"This may sound kind of strange, but where is everybody?" Yoshi was hoping Helix would have some answer to this query.
"I don't know. None of this makes sense." Helix looked at a couple heavy iron doors that were closed and locked. No sounds came from them, nor did any sounds come the endless side passages that branched off throughout the massive tower. It may have seemed abandoned at the time, but shortly it would be quite the opposite. A floor above them, a door slammed shut and a harried Ein Virgil came striding out, accompanied by an aide. The commander of the tower was fuming.
"What does Kine think he's doing?" Virgil stopped and looked around, rubbing his eyes. Today had not treated him so well. "I want the barracks emptied and all soldiers prowling this tower. Find the Yoshi intruders and kill them quickly." He looked up and down the hallway, expecting to see the 'intruders' popping out of a door any second now. "First Order of Steel-Eaters my ass!" The Ein remembered the imposing form of Kine, a walking tribute to the wars that had been waged and won by the legion. Ein Virgil remembered that the scarlet robes and raven mask commanded more respect and attention than his simple armor and mask. Virgil's mask resembled a goat. A goat didn't demand people's respect as much as a raven. A raven was a symbol of morbid majesty. The goat was usually found in relation to farming and herding. Virgil had heard of an advanced civilization on a world that considered goats sacred, but Virgil had also heard that that planet had been destroyed by war thousands of years ago. Still, why a goat? He only grew angrier at Kine, the man who had stolen one of the greatest commanding positions in the legion from him. Now Kine was charged with the occupation of Yoshi Isle and he was an Ein stationed at a port nobody had heard of.
"Yes, Ein Virgil. Shall we put the dungeons into lockdown? Shall you like to meet with Lord Kine? What about…"
"Yes, yes and yes. Now hurry up and get going!" Virgil barked at the lowly aide. The aide was not fit to be a warrior. Thus he had no armor, simply a dirty old habit that he wore with whatever pride one got from being an aide. You were a commander, a soldier or an aide. The aide hurried away, eager to fulfill his duties to the Ein.
"Everything is going straight to hell or the equivalent thereof." Virgil shook his head and realized that those were the truest words he had spoken since they invaded this pathetic little isle.
Downstairs, Yoshi and Helix were wandering their way through the almost mazelike passages of the tower fortress. In the distance they heard the sound of heavy footsteps and clinking armor. It seemed their luck had run out. It was now or never.
"We have to go. NOW!" Helix grabbed Yoshi's arm and dragged him towards an open doorway. Inside was a circular staircase that must have gone up six or seven floors, with exits on each of the different levels. A doorway banged open and a dozen or so legionnaires, fully armored and with their weapons drawn, rushed out onto the stairway. They saw the two Yoshis and began descending the stairs. "This won't work. Don't you think?" Not waiting for a response, Helix dragged Yoshi out again.
"What now? These guys must of spotted us. Figures. Yeah, I'd say we're screwed." It seemed that some people couldn't work through this type of problem. Without a word, Helix and Yoshi made their way off once again, now and then spotting more legionnaires moving down adjacent corridors. What were they going to do? Head up a staircase, of course! That was Helix's thought. He saw an empty stairwell and took the chance to go up. "Wait? What now? Oh. Stairs. Isn't that just rich? STAIRS!" Ignoring Yoshi's whining, the dozens of legionnaires that crowded the bottom floor of the tower, and still trying to keep Ragnarok out of his head, Helix headed up the staircase. This one seemed shorter than the last staircase they had come across. The two Yoshis found their way, unhindered to the top of the staircase and took the exit there. They were now in an almost exact replica of the first floor. They didn't know where they were and they didn't know where Sasha and Galalc were. Nothing was going as planned. Not for them and not for Ein Virgil. This whole time the only person who knew what was going on was Kine, who sat patiently in the circular mosaic room. He was waiting for Ein Virgil to arrive and start begging for his thoughts on the situation. Kine knew the next person to walk through that door would be either a Yoshi insurgent or else a jealous and annoying Ein. He wasn't terribly happy with either choice. Several floors beneath him, Yoshi and Helix were stumbling their way through the tower. They didn't have an infinite amount of time before they were overwhelmed by legionnaires and all hope of rescuing Sasha and the scientist Galalc disappeared with them.
"Look, Yoshi. Wandering around here waiting to be caught by some soldiers and killed isn't going to get us anywhere. We need to figure out where Sasha and Galalc are and rescue them. Then we can get out of here, right?" Yoshi looked around uneasily before starting to talk.
"Yeah, but I never figured we'd get up to this point so I didn't really think about finding Sasha and Galalc. Did you?"
"Of course I did." Helix nodded and kept speaking, "Sasha and Galalc were, well, I mean. Let me start over. I never thought that we wouldn't get them back. If you know what I mean…it's nothing, really." He looked around, thinking. "I wonder if they might have a map here or something. Let's keep going." So Helix and Yoshi set off again, with their only current goal being to evade their pursuers long enough so that they could safely rescue Sasha and Galalc.
They were not aware how many floors up they were or how long it had been by the time the first thing went wrong. Yoshi and Helix were once again sneaking past and outrunning various groups of soldiers they encountered. Then they entered a small room. It was large and rectangular. There were many panes of glass, bigger than either of them, which were spaced throughout the room, creating a mazelike structure made out of glass. Several massive clay pots hung from the ceilings, suspended by chains. Various plants, both local and foreign, were in these plants. There were also pots on the floor, scattered throughout the maze. The room had no practical purpose, so what was it doing here? It was then that Helix and Yoshi discovered the purpose of the room the hard way. They entered and wandered down a wide glass hallway, confused at their surroundings. When Yoshi reminded Helix that they should be leaving, they turned around just to discover that the hallway behind them had been sealed off by glass. Helix struck it with his boot, attempting to shatter it but nothing happened. He tried again and the glass gave a low and weak thudding sound. Yoshi tried, now, but nothing happened. They were effectively trapped.
"One could guess that this room is used as a kind of punishment or torture room. Couldn't one?" Helix tried scaling the glass walls but slid back down after he was only a foot off the ground.
"One could also speculate that we are rats in a maze." Yoshi looked upwards, expecting a ladder to drop from the ceiling and give them a means of escape. He looked around, knowing they were helpless.
"Well we've got to keep trying to escape." Helix was about to say another thing, but then the second thing went wrong. The door to the room opened and five legionnaires came in. Following them was another legionnaire. This one wore a red cape with blue and yellow designs on it, like the armor of the other legionnaires. The caped legionnaire had a mask made in the likeness of a goat. When he saw Yoshi and Helix, he made a slight wave with his hand and the glass disappeared in an instance.
"It seems that we have…finally found you." The caped legionnaire strode forward. "I am Virgil, commander of The Legion troops staying here and in the vicinity of the Yoshi city of Bongo-Kongo. You are…?"
"Why should we tell you?" Helix eyed him. This legionnaire wanted more than to simply kill them. Whatever he wanted, Helix prayed to any listening god that he didn't have it.
"I suppose you make a point." The five legionnaires spread out, circling Yoshi and Helix. "If you wanted to be formal, you could call me Ein Virgil of the Fifth Order of the Plutonian Soldiers. The Plutonian Soldiers are an order of knights under the command of our holy and almighty leader. I could get into details, but I won't." He seemed to have manners, at least. "Sadly I must insist that you will have to be killed for tampering with the affairs of The Legion. The Legion is the official name of the holy military organization that I have pledged my life to. Now if you'll excuse me, it is time for you to be killed." The legionnaires drew their broadswords from their sheathes and Ein Virgil turned to leave. Luckily for Yoshi and Helix, another thing went wrong. Luckily it went wrong for both them and for Virgil.
Out of nowhere, an aide appeared in the doorway before Virgil could leave. "Ein Virgil, the dungeons have been opened and any prisoners down there have escaped! We're scouring for them but we cannot find ANY of the Yoshis that we captured. What shall we do, Ein Virgil?" The aide looked up at Virgil, afraid he was going to snap and kill him.
"Damnation!" Virgil turned to the soldiers around Yoshi and Helix. "We have to go. We must find those escapees. Come. We shall deal with the Yoshi insurgents later."
As quickly as they had come in, they were gone.
"HELL YEAH!" Yoshi saw a faint glimmer of hope in this gloomy tower. "Dude, we might still be able to rescue Sasha and-" He was cut off as another event went off badly. Somewhere deep inside the tower, there was a hissing sound and then a boom. Smoke burst out into the corridors and waves of intense heat and flame started overtaking several unlucky legionnaires caught near the explosion. "No!" Yoshi looked around and groaned. "Who planted the bomb? WHO?" He looked around and made a growling noise that was one-third aggravation, one-third confusion, and one-third irritation. It seemed like everything involved bombs these days.
The tower swayed sickly; smoke driving the oxygen out of the hallways and flames incinerating legionnaires, rooms and hallways. Somewhere a stone in the base fell loose.
"We better get out of here. This thing might collapse…" Helix looked around nervously. What if it did? What if Sasha and Galalc were buried underneath tons of stone and armor? "It may sound bad leaving them here, but they could have been the ones who planted the bomb. They probably escaped their prison and got some stuff together and made a bomb. Galalc is probably some super-intelligent prodigy who can do anything." Yoshi didn't really care what they did; he had forgotten about Sasha, Ragnarok and Galalc. His survival instincts took over and told him that he should leave this tower.
"Right. Once we get outside we can see if they've found a boat or something." That sounded good. After all, who else would be here to plant a bomb? Galalc was the only person here who could make a bomb out of a vase, a couple loose stones and some loose cloth or something. However the last bad event that would befall them had to happen at that exact time.
There was a sound of crashing rocks, and Yoshi saw the outside hallway starting to collapse. They didn't have time for words; they rushed out of that room and down the hallway as fast as they could. The roof was collapsing all around them, sealing off rooms and other hallways.
Crash! The hallway in front of them disappeared in a tornado of dust and bits of rock. The wall of rubble had them trapped in this hallway.
"Great. These rocks are effectively blocking our way." Yoshi said, unaware of how strange he sounded right then.
"Great. Yoshi is pointing out the blindingly obvious." Helix grabbed Yoshi and forced him towards a door that wasn't blocked by rubble. "This is probably our only way out of here." Yoshi nodded.
"A conveniently located escape. Right." Helix shoved him towards the door, growling. They opened the door and found out that this was one of the many balconies dotting the outside of the large tower. Helix pushed Yoshi out onto it and stepped out after him. They looked down and saw that two floors below them was the ocean. Helix saw their boat and the legion's gunboat from here. On the deck of the gunboat was a figure…a Yoshi! Had Sasha and Galalc really found their way out?
"What the-" a voice yelled at them from the balcony's doorway. Standing behind them was the legionnaire who had called himself Virgil. He raised a broadsword and strode towards them.
"Come on, Yoshi!" Helix raised his sword and deflected a stab from Virgil. He started combating Virgil as Yoshi looked around and wondered what could they do to get out of this situation?
"Helix, we might have to…you know…jump!" Yoshi ducked and avoided a swing of Virgil's broadsword.
"Are you crazy?" Helix roared over the clash of blades. Virgil was quickly overpowering him.
"Yeah. I-" Yoshi watched in horror as Virgil hammered his fist into Helix's head, sending him stumbling back. Helix came to the edge of the balcony and swayed for a second before dropping off the balcony and two levels down into the cold sea. Yoshi turned to Virgil. Yoshi threw his sword at him and jumped down after Helix. The only way he got through that fall in one piece was the fact that Helix's sword, when it had fallen with Helix, had landed in the water and broken the surface tension.
With a splash, Yoshi landed below and immediately got pushed down several feet. Everything was dark and cold and salty around him. He heard water rushing around him and his entire body ached with the impact on the freezing water. He tried his best to struggle to the surface, his body desperately needing air.
"Eh!" He broke the surface and gasped. He heard voices and a clammy hand grasped his shoulder. His eyes stung from the salty water and he didn't know who was dragging him. Then, with a clunk, he was forced onto the deck of a boat.
"Come on, Yoshi. Open your eyes." Yoshi wiped the water off his face and opened up his eyes. Helix looked over his shoulder and saw the Yoshi that was on the deck of the ship. This Yoshi was a grayish color with streaks of white. He looked to be about a bit older than middle-aged. He was wearing a pair of small, circular glasses. Helix turned to him and looked him over, slowly. "Who are you?" The Yoshi grinned, revealing that his mouth was full of yellow and jagged teeth.
"My name is Galalc. I was employed as a scientist in His Majesty's military forces until about a year ago. Anything else you would like to know?" The man looked towards the entrance of the tower.
"What's going on?" Yoshi looked around. Shouldn't Sasha be with this guy? "Where's Sasha?" Galalc cocked his head to one side.
"You mean the lady I was with when we got captured?" Yoshi and Helix nodded. "I don't remember, really. One minute she was with me and the next minute…" Galalc looked around and pushed his glasses higher onto his face. "Oh I don't know!" This came as quite a hammering blow to Helix and Yoshi. Why didn't he know where Sasha was?
"Well, what about that bomb? Did you set that off?" This could get one question answered, hopefully.
"Well, yes I suppose I did set that off. I didn't make it, though. After our cells were opened, we wandered out into the tower and eventually we found the armory. That's where the bomb was. So I just set it off, figuring we could maybe cause a distraction or take down some legionnaires." Galalc pushed his glasses up, again. "Sorry but I still don't know where your friend is. I could have sworn she was right next to me…"
"Well, whatever." Helix turned to Yoshi, cursing under his breath. "Where is Sasha? I really wish I knew." Helix looked back towards the tower, expectantly. He groaned miserably and kept talking. "I hate to do this to Sasha but we have to leave right now." He pointed to three legion gunboats that were floating a short distance away from them. Then he pointed back to the tower where several legionnaires were piling out of the front entrance and running towards the boat. "Let's get to the cabin and start this thing, now!" The three Yoshis hurried inside to the boat's cabin.
The controls to the boat were pretty easy to figure out. They were much more basic than the usual controls on Yoshi motorboats. Yoshi motorboats were expensive, though, and as a result not many people owned them. Anyways, Helix grasped the control concept quickly and set the boat off into the bay, determined to escape the three gunboats that were chasing them.
Eventually they wound up having enough breathing room. The gunboats were only small dots in the distance and the tower was silent. They were quite safe at this distance.
"Well, now what?" Yoshi looked around the gunboat's cabin. What were they to do now? Sasha had vanished, Ragnarok had been killed for all they knew, but they had Galalc.
"I guess we go back to our base. See if Mr. Galalc here can enlighten us to the meaning of the transportation system underneath Barg." Helix looked in Galalc's direction but saw that he was paying them no attention. He was moving his mouth, but no words were coming out. Then Galalc began to talk, his voice quivering.
"I think someone else is on this boat with us." He looked at Helix. "I thought I heard something up on the deck."
"Don't worry; nobody's onboard this boat except for us. Listen, Yoshi go with him up to the deck and show him we're alone, okay?" Helix looked pleadingly at Yoshi.
"Fine. Let's go up on the deck and you'll see there are no legionnaires." Yoshi lead Galalc out of the cabin and down a hallway. At the end of the hallway there was a short metal ladder that they ascended to reach the deck of the gunboat. There was nobody, just as Yoshi had expected.
"Wait, can't you hear that?" Yoshi listened. He heard nothing but the sound of the waves crashing against the side of the boat. Then he heard it. A faint clunking noise was echoing from somewhere on the deck. Somebody was wandering around the deck, but who? Immediately Yoshi thought that a legionnaire had strayed onto the stolen gunboat before they set off. The problem was that he had no weapons with him. Helix had lost his sword when he fell into the water and Yoshi had distracted Virgil by throwing his sword at him. What would they do if there were a legionnaire on the ship with them? "I told you I heard something!" Galalc looked around, afraid of what might be on the deck with them. Then the unseen person on the deck came into view.
It could have been a legionnaire, but the garbs it wore were much different. It carried the traditional legionnaire sword but instead of the colorful and patterned armor the person wore a long, pitch-black cloak. A hood was pulled up over its head and the person's hands and feet weren't visible in the many folds of the cloak. Instead of a face staring at them from the folds of a cloak, a legion-esque mask resembling a locust did. The strange person did not speak; it simply started gliding towards Yoshi and Galalc.
"Oh. Damn." Yoshi didn't know if he should yell for Helix, run, or else jump overboard to get away from this attacker. Without paying Yoshi any attention, the attacker raised its curved broadsword. It turned to Galalc, its hidden gaze fixed upon him.
"May God have mercy on your soul…" Galalc stared up at the figure. He was paralyzed with fear and didn't move as the being came closer, the sword still raised above its head.
"Um…Galalc, what are you doing?" Yoshi was overtaken by fear. Galalc was sitting there, waiting to be killed by this new person. It was then that Yoshi took action. He opened up the hatch leading into the hallway by the ship's cabin and yelled in. "Helix…we've got a visitor!" He looked nervously back at the cloaked figure. "He's going to kill us, too…what should I do?" Yoshi didn't realize Helix couldn't hear him. "Come on-" Yoshi heard a sick slicing sound and then somebody fell to the ground. He turned around, knowing what he was going to see.
A couple feet in front of him, Galalc was lying spread-eagle on the deck of the gunboat a long, vertical gash disfigured his chest. Beneath him, a small pool of blood was forming. His eyes were glazed over in death and his mouth hung open, blood trickling from it. The figure that had killed him stood over his corpse, the bloody sword dangling by its side. It turned slowly and faced Yoshi.
"You are next." Then the figure disappeared, leaving Galalc's slashed up body on the deck. It was now that Yoshi screamed. Not a shout of surprise or a grunt of pain, but a scream. It was a long, blood-curdling howl that seemed to echo to the ends of the world. After this scream, all was silent. Then there was the sound of the hatch opening and Helix came flying out.
"What the hell, Yoshi?" He saw the body of Galalc and went quiet. "What happened?" Yoshi shook his head.
"I…I don't know. We were up here, and then this guy came out and he frickin' killed Galalc! Then he…he was gone." Yoshi closed his eyes and tried to vanquish the image of the black-cloaked killer from his mind.
"Galalc's dead. They must have wanted to kill him when he escaped so that we couldn't figure out…I don't get it." Helix shook his head. "Galalc is dead. Ragnarok is dead. Sasha is dead or gone. What do we do?"
Yoshi looked out over the bay waters, completely silent. There was only one option.
"We tell Thorn and the others. Then we figure out another plan." It was hard to say it, but that was the only thing they could do, for now at least.
"Well…I guess you're right." Helix almost laughed to himself. "Funny how things go completely wrong. I guess we should get back to the cabin and find somewhere to land…" He turned his back to Yoshi. This had been the worst mission yet.
Off in the distance, a solitary gunboat was hovering on the waters. On board Ein Virgil and a couple legionnaires were assembled on deck.
"It seems that they were unsuccessful in their attempts to rescue the prisoners. He made sure of that. Now we must simply wait." Virgil stopped addressing his troops for a second, and then he continued. "This war is not yet over. Not by a long shot. However, what they might consider a failure we must consider failure as well. Those transportation tunnels they have been mentioning are now lost to all parties in this war. We must now begin our crusade to conquer these rebels, and thus ease all of our operations. Whatever comes and whatever happens in these following dark days will surely dictate who comes out of this war winning. He is a factor as well as any other force that is yet unseen. For now, however, we continue our war." Virgil turned his back to the soldiers and addressed a Yoshi that was with them. The Yoshi was a yellow one that was bound and gagged. "Watch now and wait. You will see many more strange things to come." Virgil left the soldiers and the Yoshis and strolled to the deck of the ship. He thought to himself. Somewhere out there. Somewhere out there, there is a force that will choose the victors. Today I have proved myself worthy and others have not. Kine is an example of such. He shall be berated for the fact that our new enemy killed one of the two prisoners. Our new enemy, huh. A new enemy for us means a new enemy for the Yoshi insurgency. However, for now we shall wait. We shall wait…and see.
To Be Continued In…Yoshi Underground 2: Reloaded