Chapter 23: Deep Water, Dark Water
The Shane Gang were chasing one of Blakk's convoys, firing their Hop Rocks as they exited a tunnel. "Now we can see what we're chasing!" Eli said as he picked up Rocky. "Which is?" Trixie asked. The convoy was carrying a big drill of some sort. "I've never seen anything like it. But since Blakk's moving it, my technical analysis would be: big machine that does bad stuff." Kord said, firing Bludgeon.
Bludgeon transformed, knocked down a Hop Rock and a Vinedrill, and knocked a guard off the transport. The gang hopped over the guard and continued their pursuit. Another guard fired a Hop Rock. Trixie fired her Jellyish, knocking the slug down with Loogi.
"You guys really didn't bring your A-game, did you?" Eli asked as they closed in. Another goon fired a Vinedrill. Eli slung Joules, knocking the slug down and latching onto the cart, shocking the last two goons. The Vinedrill bounced off Lucky and dropped to the ground. "Hey, wait. These guys aren't using any ghouls." Eli said in realization. Everyone was shocked at hearing this. "Why would Blakk be skimping on the ghouls?" Eli asked himself.
Eli looked ahead, gasping at where they just entered. "Undertow Cavern?" Kord asked. "I didn't know it had a land-based entrance." Trixie said. "Well, all that matters is they're running out of land." Eli said, thinking that they had the transport trapped. "You got nowhere to run! You guys ready to surrender now?" Just then, a siren started blaring on the transport. The driver put on an air helmet and buckled in. The transport then drove off the edge of the cliff. The tires then changed into submarine turbines as it hit the water. The gang stopped in their tracks as they watched the bubbles in the water disappear. "I hate to say it, but that was kind of awesome." Eli admitted.
"So, what do we do now?" Kord asked. "You put your hands up, princesses." A familiar voice said. Eli turned to see that he was held at blaster point by their old enemy, Captain Malvolio Drake.
"You have some brash showing your faces again in my cavern." Drake said. Drake then noticed Trixie reaching for her blaster. "I wouldn't do that." He threatened. Trixie drew her hand back. "We're only here because you're letting Blakk transport…stuff through the Cavern Sea." She said. "Huh! You think I'm working with Blakk? Oh, that's rich. Thanks to him, I'm not working with anyone. Not even my own crew!" Drake said. "Right." Eli said sarcastically. "Stay alert guys. They're probably gonna jump out any second." "No! This is no trick. My men have been snatched away!" Drake said. "By Blakk?" Eli asked. "By Brutale!" Drake corrected. "The scurvy rat Blakk hired to build a deep-water drill at the bottom of my Cavern Sea. Course, Brutale needed some underwater breathers to help him do that. So, the treacherous savage captured me crew." "Why would Blakk-" Eli started to ask until he realized. "Dark Water!" "He's looking to hit paydirt by drilling into the Deep Caverns!" Drake said. "That's why he's limiting the use of ghouls. He doesn't have enough Dark Water left to create new ones." Eli said.
Drake took that as his cue to offer his services. "Well now, you want to stop that rig, and I want to crush Brutale. And free my crew. What say we help each other out, eh? That's what you Shane's do right? Help people?" Drake offered. "Yeah. Like we would ever-'' Trixie started to say, until she saw a familiar look on Eli's face. "Tell me you aren't buying this, E.'' Eli hopped off Lucky. "I know we can't trust Drake, but if we stop Blakk from getting more Dark Water, we might be able to put him out of business." Eli said. The others dismounted their mechas. "So, we got a deal?" Drake asked, holding out his hand. "Deal." Eli said, shaking it. "In that case, I hope you know what you're signing on for. Because to do this, you're gonna have to follow me all the way to the bottom." Drake said, leading the gang to the cliff as the remains of his wrecked ship came into view. "In that?" Kord asked. "Of course not! You're gonna use what's inside her." Drake corrected.
"I see your ship is just the way we left it." Eli gloated as they entered the cargo bay. "You got lucky in your first battle at sea! Now hop to and fetch me those, princess." Drake ordered, pointing to a bag of supplies. Eli glared and walked over to Drake. "Let's get something straight here. I'm not your servant or your princess." He said. "Oh my! Is the leader of the Shane Gang too important to fetch a little tiny sack?" Drake asked mockingly. "How 'bout you then, mole-face? Hop to like old times, eh?" He said to Pronto. "After the way you treated me when I was your cabin mole? Never!" Pronto immediately rejected. "Now, if perhaps you were to offer me a promotion. Say to first-mate or-" Eli face-palmed himself. "Why don't we each grab our own, huh?" Eli suggested. "What do you think, Burpy? You guys ready to get wet?" He asked. Burpy chittered excitedly. Eli then walked over to Drake's supplies. "So, how does this stuff work?" He asked, examining a helmet and a torpedo shell.
Later, Drake dived into the water, followed by the gang, now wearing dive-suits. Everyone looked around as they swam deeper into the sea. Different varieties of sea creatures swam about in the sea. Kord, being water-phobic, was feeling nervous. "These dive-suits will provide you gilless landlubbers with an air supply, and help you move through the water." Drake explained as they swam. Eli pressed a button on his wrist, activating his suit's turbo jets. "Sweet." He said, jetting around some jellyfish. "You'll need it to keep up with me and me Mimkey down here. Just remember to keep an eye on your air gauge." Drake instructed. Eli pushed another button, activating his air gauge. He had a full tank. "If you run out in the deep blue, it's 'imitating a person gasping for air!" This was now making Kord more nervous. "We get it! We get it!" He said, switching on his gauge. Just then, Trixie and Pronto jetted around him, having fun with their suit's turbo jets.
As they continued, Eli caught sight of some AquaBeeks coming out from some water reeds. "Hey, those guys look just like you, Beeker." He said as his own AquaBeek, Beeker, popped out of his barrel and swam over to them. He greeted one of them with a head nuzzle and looked at the others, who suddenly hid back into their reeds. Beeker seemed confused. "Aw. Shy little guys." Trixie said as Eli bumped into Drake. "Not shy. Smart." Drake said, pointing up. A couple of cavern sharks were circling over them. The gang looked around as more swam into view. "Maybe if we stay still, they'll go away." Pronto said with fear. "Yeah. And maybe a barnacle will dance a jig for ya." Drake said with sarcasm. Just then, everyone's eyes went wide as they noticed a shark swimming up behind Pronto. Pronto screamed and jetted to the group before the shark could eat him. "Arm yourselves!" Drake called. Eli loaded Joules and slung him at the shark. But he didn't reach velocity. He swam back as the shark tried to eat him. Eli suddenly felt embarrassed. Pronto screamed louder as the gang spread out. "Most slugs aren't gonna reach velocity underwater like that. You got to use a torpedo shell." Drake explained. "Torpedo shell?" Kord asked, holding up a shell, then jetting out of the way of another shark. Drake slung a shell containing a Hop Rock at the shark. "Don't tell me you toe-scrubbers have never used a torpedo shell before." Drake said. Eli jetted upwards as another shark chased after him. "Burpy and I got this." He said, loading Burpy into a torpedo shell. But as Burpy was slung, his fire quickly died out due to being underwater. Burpy screamed and swam back to Eli. Eli jetted away as the shark continued to chase him. "I doubt an Infurnus will be any good down here, princess." Drake said.
As the chase continued, Eli saw another shark coming right at him. He jetted upwards, causing the sharks to crash into each other. Eli tried to prepare another torpedo shell. "Ugh! No time for a torpedo shell! Use your AquaBeek!" Drake called, grabbing onto a passing shark and punching it. Eli loaded Beeker's barrel and slung him. Beeker transformed and blasted his Seawee at the sharks, scaring them away. The other AquaBeeks chittered cheers as Beeker transformed back and swam back to Eli. "He doesn't need a torpedo shell?" Eli asked. "You have a lot to learn about slinging slugs underwater, princess." Drake said as he continued his assault on his shark. Burpy chittered and pointed towards the others. Eli saw that they were having trouble and jetted towards them.
Trixie tried to sling her slugs at the sharks, but the kick from the blast was pushing her backwards in the water. Kord was still a little nervous, but he drew his blaster and slung Bludgeon from a torpedo shell, punching another shark in the face. Kord and Trixie bumped back-to-back. "Kord, I thought you hated the water. How are you-" Trixie started to ask. "Fighting helps me forget I'm swimming." Kord said, firing his Polero at two more sharks. But the slug went right in between the sharks. The slug glared as he transformed back. "But you just reminded me. Thanks." Kord said. Trixie smiled sheepishly. Just then, they screamed as the sharks started to swim towards them. Luckily, Eli fired Chiller and froze the sharks with Deepfreeze.
"Alright guys. Circle up and cover each other from all sides." Eli said as the gang regrouped. The gang went back-to-back, blasters ready as four more sharks circled them. "What're you doing, you cowering cods?!" Drake asked as he swam towards them. "You'll never beat these things as a scaredy ball! Now break up and spread out!" He barked. "Stop giving us orders! You're not our captain and we're not your crew." Eli said. "You couldn't even handle a cavern shark without me!" Drake said, lightly pushing Eli. "So, unless you and your chums want to be chum-" Suddenly, a loud noise scared the sharks away. "Come on guys!" Eli said. "What was that?" Trixie asked as they swam into a cave. "Who cares if it got rid of the sharks?" Kord asked. "You do realize that if the sharks are scared of it, it has to be scarier than the sharks." Pronto said with fear.
Eli sped ahead to the front of the group. The gang came up to a cliff and peeked over the edge. They saw a huge tower with the drill from before connected, drilling downwards and crawling with Blakk goons. "That's the huge machine we were chasing." Eli said. "Only now it's part of an even huger machine." Kord said. "What is that?!" "That's the drill. Looks like they haven't hit Dark Water yet." Drake said. "And who's that?" Kord said, pointing to a light blue amphibanoid in the tower's control room. "Let me guess. That's Brutale?" Eli guessed. "Aye. That's my brother." Drake revealed. Everyone gasped from hearing this.
"Your brother?!" Eli asked. "Yes! I know it's hard to tell because I'm so much better looking." Drake said. Suddenly, someone was heard shouting. "I think he spotted us." Kord said. Brutale was swimming towards them! "Take the tower!" Eli called. "Smash my brother in the face!" Drake ordered. Brutale slung a Hop Rock at the cliff and rammed into Drake. Eli looked down, seeing that Blakk's goons were joining the fight. Eli jetted down and took cover behind a rock as two goons swam up. Burpy chittered. "You want another shot?" Eli asked. Burpy nodded. "Okay, buddy." Eli said, loading Burpy into a torpedo shell and firing him. Burpy transformed, but still couldn't conjure any fire. Burpy transformed back and bumped into a goon's chest. The goon just flicked Burpy aside. "Uh oh." Eli said as the goons fired at his cover. "Home turf hero! Help me out!" He said, taking Beeker's barrel. As two more slugs hit the rock, Eli slung Beeker, blinding the goons with Inksting.
"You took my crew!" Drake said, kicking Brutale. "You started this years ago, when you stole from your own blood!" Brutale said. "That's a load of bilge!" Drake yelled, firing a Rammstone. Brutale dodged and fired a Hop Rock. "I never stole from you! The Drakes have never stolen from family, until you took my crew!" Drake said, firing another slug. He then chased Brutale up to the tower. "It's not stealing when you offer more gold, and they decide to take it." Brutale stated as Drake's former crew came out from hiding. "He pays much more for our loyalty than you ever did." Watts said, making the others laugh. "You treacherous leech lickers!" Drake screamed, firing a Hop Rock in the middle of the crew.
The Shane Gang saw what was happening from afar. "Anyone else get the feeling that there's actually no one to save here?" Eli asked. Trixie nodded. Suddenly, a goon came up from behind Trixie and grabbed her. "No, you don't!" Kord said, grabbing the goon, punching him and triggering his turbo jets. "I think you're starting to like it down here." Trixie said. That made Kord cringe. "Will you stop reminding me where we are?!" He snapped.
Eli looked at the rig and eyed some high ground. "There! Quick, now's our chance!" He said. "Follow me! Get Brutale!" Drake called. "No! We're heading for the high ground to take out the rig!" Eli said. "Oh, no you're not princess! You're gonna listen to me!" Drake argued. "Let's go!" Eli said, jetting up for the high ground. The rest of the gang followed. Drake just growled and followed. As they turned a corner, two goons and two pirates fired a Vinedrill, a Hop Rock, a Polero and a Rammstone. Just then, Drake zipped in front and slung Mimkey. Mimkey mimicked the Vinedrill's transformation, grabbed the slugs with his tentacles and threw them back at their slingers. "Drake's good." Eli admitted. Four more goons were jetting towards them. "This way! Quickly! That is, if you don't mind taking orders from me!" Drake said. He led the gang into a small cave and blocked the entrance as the goons swam by.
"You know nothing of the perils of the deep! Yet you continue to endanger your crew by defying my orders!" Drake scolded. "Thank you for your concern, but when this crew has an issue, we will take it up with our captain! Which is not you, good sir!" Pronto said. "And while we're on the subject of crews, yours wasn't captured! They left you!" Trixie said. "This is all some sibling rivalry thing with Brutale! You lied to us! About everything!" "Of course, I lied! I'm a PIRATE!" Drake shouted. The gang groaned. "But I was telling the truth about wanting to get my brother." Drake admitted. "I need you to get what I want, and you need me to get what you want. So, if we can work together-" "Dude, we already tried that and we ended up here." Kord said. "Because I didn't listen to him." Eli said. "Because we can't trust him." Kord said. "I know. But we're out of our element down here. And this is our shot to really hit Blakk where it counts." Eli said. "I know working with Drake is a huge risk, but he's got skills we need. I think it's worth it." The others felt unsure about this. "Heh. Real predicament you lot got there. I'd be happy to chat about it all day, but you can't." Drake said. Eli looked at his air gauge. He had already lost two bars. "We're with you, Eli." Trixie said. "Always." Pronto added. "Good choice. Because I have a fantastic plan." Drake said. Eli glared. "Don't smile, princess. You'll like this one. It involves us splitting up." Drake said.
After going over the plan with the gang several times, they started preparing for their mission. While Eli was looking over the slugs on his bandoleer, he noticed movement on the far wall. Looking around, he swam a little closer and noticed a small purple slug swimming about. He didn't recognize it right away, but the spikes reminded him of a slug that Jimmo had taught him about. "Hey, little guy. What are you doing?" The slug shrunk back a little before swimming closer to the Shane and chittering a little. "I've never seen a slug like you before. How do you feel about joining my team? I'm always looking for new friends." The slug looked thoughtful before nodding and swimming into Eli's hand. "Awesome. I think I'll call you Spike. What do you think?" The newly named Spike chittered happily. "All right then. Let's get going. We have a rig to bring down.
Eli, Trixie, and Kord hid by some rocks, investigating the side of the rig. "Kord?" Eli asked. "There." Kord said, looking at a vent. "If we can get that vent open and fire some sploders in there, that should bring the rig down." "But first, we have to take out Blakk's henchmen, which shouldn't be impossible, if Drake does his part and handles his brother and the pirates." Eli said. "Well, at least we have an insurance policy to make sure he does." Trixie said, looking up at the rig.
Drake and Pronto were positioned near the entrance to the bridge. Pronto was holding a nasty looking eel. "Why does Pronto have to hold this thing?" He asked in disgust. "Because I'm a captain! And you're the first mate." Drake said, patting Pronto's head. "And I-" Pronto gasped. "You did promote me!" He said with heavenly glee. "Now, release that thing, mole-face!" Drake said. Pronto tossed the eel towards the entrance. The eel swam behind the one guard. Startled, the guard looked to his right, staring into the face of the eel. He got so scared, he swam backwards to get away. But then he turned to see Drake raising his fist and punching him, knocking him out.
As Drake and Pronto entered, Drake closed the door and drained the water from the room. They peaked around a corner, seeing two pirates guarding the door to the bridge. Drake took out a small coin and tossed it in between the pirates. The two dived for it. The one on the right grabbed it first, but the other one pounced on him. As they fought over the coin, Drake slung a Frostcrawler, freezing them with Deepfreeze. The one pirate, whose hand was still free, dropped the coin. Pronto noticed it as Drake stepped over it. Pronto picked it up and bit down on it. He chuckled as he started to continue. Suddenly, Drake punched Pronto, knocking him out. "Sorry mole-face, but this is between me and me brother." Drake said, taking the coin back and continuing.
"It's now or never." Eli said, drawing his blaster. The group swam out from behind the rocks, blasters at the ready. Eli fired Banger, and Trixie fired her own Armashelt. The two Armashelts rolled into the guards. Three more guards came out. Kord swam in and bashed the first one, then swung him at the other two. The three members of the gang then started to brawl with the guards.
Inside the control room, Brutale sensed Drake entering with his blaster aimed at him. "So, have you come to beg for forgiveness for stealing from me when we were lads?" He asked, drawing his blaster. "You're gonna kiss my fist with that lying mouth!" Drake shouted. "I never took anything from you!" "Oh, yes you did." Brutale said. "Did not!" Drake argued. The two brothers then started to brawl with each other. "Did too!" "Did not!" "You did!" "Did not!"
The gang fired their Hop Rocks at the guards, blasting them away. Trixie then fired her Frostcrawler, freezing the one guard in an ice cube. "Alright Kord, let's get that vent open." Eli said as they swam towards the vent.
Meanwhile, Drake and Brutale were still struggling with each other. "Did too!" Brutale said. "What was it that you think I stole from you?!" Drake asked. "My Mimkey!" Brutale said. "What?! I didn't steal him! You gave him to me for my birthday!" Drake said. "I did?" Brutale asked. The brothers looked at Mimkey standing beside the blasters, who nodded. "You know, you're right. I did." Brutale said, now remembering that he gave Mimkey to Drake for his birthday. "So, now what?" He asked.
Eli and Kord pulled the vent open. "Let's bring this thing down!" Eli said. "No longer a need for that, princesses!" Drake called. The gang turned and saw Drake, Brutale, and the other pirates shoving Pronto at their feet. Drake slung a Lavalynx, sealing up the vent with a cooled Geyservault. "I wouldn't want to harm that drill now it's so close to hitting Dark Water. And belongs to the brothers Drake!" He revealed. The entire gang was shocked.
"Well, if it's any consolation, I fully intended to stick with our plan. But a better offer came along. That's just how pirates roll. You should've learned that much about us by now." Drake said. "Oh, I have. Which is why I'm offering your crew 10 times their pay to join me!" Eli said. "Hmm. Really?" Watts asked intrigued. "Nope." Eli said, slinging Aries into the pirates. The gang took cover behind some rocks. "Sink 'em, boys!" Brutale barked. "I was gonna say that!" Drake argued. The gang and the pirates slung their slugs back and forth. "The drill could hit Dark Water any minute! And it doesn't look like Drake's in the mood to give us fresh dive suits with more air." Eli said, checking his air gauge. He was down to three bars. He fired another slug. "We gotta get that vent open now!" "I got just the mod for the job." Kord said, placing a new torch mod on his blaster. "Cover him!" Eli called, firing Rocky towards the pirates. The gang fired more of their slugs as Kord swam over to the vent. He activated the torch and began to cut into the cooled magma.
Eli jetted in and fired Rocky at three more pirates, sending them floating away. He stopped at the sight of Drake and Brutale. Brutale was about to blast him, but Drake stopped him. "I've got this one, brother. Won't be hard. This princess is hopeless down here without me telling him what to do." Drake assured. "I'm a pretty fast learner." Eli said, firing Spinner from a torpedo shell. Drake fired a shark-like slug called a MakoBreaker. It knocked Spinner aside and fired Razorstorm. The teen dodged the incoming teeth and swam into a forest of seaweed. Suddenly, the seaweed started to wrap around the Shane, grasping him tightly. "Nice move there, taking cover in grasping seaweed!" Drake mocked, laughing maniacally. Eli struggled to get free as the seaweed grasped even tighter.
The rest of the gang were pinned down as the pirates continued their assault. The blaster fire and debris eventually caused a pipe to bust, causing air to escape. Burpy noticed the leak and chittered to Eli. "Burpy, I know you wanna help, but your fire doesn't work down here." Eli said. Burpy knew that his slinger was right, but he wouldn't give up. He swam to Beeker and chittered his plan. Beeker popped out and swam towards the leak while Burpy entered Eli's pack. He came out with Spike and the two followed after Beeker. "Burpy wait! Where are you-" Eli started to ask. "Ah, ah, ah. Drop it, princess." Drake threatened. Eli dropped his blaster. "Nice to see you finally take an order properly." Drake said. "Care to do the honors?" Drake asked his brother. "With pleasure." Brutale said, loading a torpedo shell. Mimkey leaned forward with anticipation at the Shane's imminent pain.
Burpy, Beeker, and Spike made their way to the leaking pipe. Mimkey sensed them, which also alerted Drake. Burpy and Beeker made their way down the current, while Spike waited for a moment. "Oh, no you don't! Match him, Mimkey!" Drake called, holding up a barrel for Mimkey. Mimkey hopped into the barrel, was loaded into the blaster and slung towards Burpy. Burpy transformed and Mimkey mimicked him, but with both being underwater, they couldn't conjure any fire, so they transformed back. Beeker transformed next and blasted Mimkey with Seawee, blowing him backwards. Spike finally went down the current and transformed into a large purple sea urchin, blasting Mimkey further down the water with an acid blast. Mimkey shook off the shock and chittered with annoyance. Just then, a shark chomped down on Mimkey. Drake and Brutale gasped. "Whoa!" Eli said. The shark swam into the caves. "No! Come back here with me Mimkey!" Brutale cried. "Your Mimkey?! That was my Mimkey!" Drake argued. "AFTER THAT SHARK!" They swam after the shark.
As everyone cheered in victory, Buzzsaw hopped out of his barrel and cut Eli free. Eli looked at his air gauge. He was almost out of air! "Kord! We're almost out of time!" He called. Kord finished cutting, gave the magma a pound and the cut part opened a hole. "I got it!" Kord called. He loaded his Hop Rock into a torpedo shell and slung him into the vent. The Hop Rock trailed the vent and exploded. "That should do…it?" Nothing was happening. The entire thing was still standing. "Why isn't it working?" Trixie asked. "Looks like it's gonna take more than the Hop Rock to bring her down. We need something that can pull it from the inside and collapse it on itself. I tell ya, if this weren't so exciting, I'd be really freaking out right now!" Kord said.
Beeker chittered. "You think you can do it?" Eli asked. Beeker nodded. "Okay, Beeker." Eli said, loading Beeker into his blaster and slinging him into the vent. Beeker blasted his Seawee into the vent. The vibrations from the sound started to cause the entire place to collapse into the trench where it was drilling. As everyone started to cheer, their air gauges went full red, meaning that they were out of air. Eli loaded a torpedo shell as everyone started coughing and slung it downwards. Suds came floating up, swallowed the gang and started to float up to the surface. Everyone quickly got their helmets off and gasped for air. Beeker swam up to the hole in the vent and Eli gave a thumbs up. But then, the facility started to crash around the vent, trapping Beeker in the vent. "Beeker!" Eli cried as Suds continued to float up.
Suds finally reached the surface, hovered over dry land and popped, dropping everyone onto the ground. Everyone recovered and resumed their cheer for victory. But not everyone was happy. The gang turned and saw Eli and Burpy looking very sad. "Taking out Blakk's drill was important. But nothing's more important to me than this gang. Including you, Beeker. I'm sorry." Eli said. The gang sighed with despair. Suddenly, there was a bubbling sound. Everyone looked to see bubbles in the water. Then, a familiar slug popped out of the water. Everyone cheered as Beeker swam over to them. Beeker hopped into Eli's hand and nuzzled him. "Wait. What about Drake and Brutale?" Trixie asked. "Oh, I think they'll have their hands full for a while." Eli said.
"Hey, Eli, where did that slug come from? I've never seen you use it before." Kord asked. "That's because he's new. I found him while we were planning our attack on the rig with Drake. Everyone, meet Spike. Spike, meet the gang." Eli said, pulling the slug out of his pack. Upon seeing the slug up close, Trixie let out a delighted gasp. "Oh my gosh. It's a Spikeshade slug. They're only found in some of the deepest water areas of Slugterra. I don't know many slingers that have one in their arsenal." Eli shrugged. "I'm just glad that he's with me. You guys know I don't care for rarity when I bond with my slugs. And he'll definitely be a good addition to the team." He said, giving the slug a scratch. "Let's head out guys, before Drake and Brutale find Mimkey and decide to go after us." With those words, they headed out and mounted their mechas before riding out of the cavern.
Meanwhile, back under water, Drake and Brutale were still searching for Mimkey. "Mimkey!" Drake called into a shark's mouth before punching it away. "Come here you!" Brutale said, grabbing another shark. "They all look the same!" Drake pointed out. "Ignore the ones with punch marks in them!" Brutale said as he punched his shark. "Mimkey? Not this one." Drake swam over to another shark. "Come here you!" He yelled. "Nothing personal." Brutale said, punching his shark away.
A/N: I own nothing. Hope everyone enjoys this chapter, with the addition of the Spikeshade slug, Spike. I am still working on this story, but with school and my work on other stories, updates may be slow. I ask for your patience with me, especially since I do have another fledging story. Until next time.
Shane Gang Slugs:
Eli Shane: Burpy (Infurnus), Noodle (Flopper), Joules (Tazerling), Banger (Armashelt), Aries (Rammstone), Suds (Bubbaleone), Mucky (Dirt Urchin), Bolo (Polero), Rocky (Hop Rock), Burner (Lavalynx), Goober (Jellyish), Chiller (Frostcrawler), Doc (Boon Doc & the Energy Elemental), Sparky (Grenuke), Larry (Lariat), Zephyr (Tormato), Buzzsaw (Thresher), Digger (Crystalyd), Spinner (Arachnet), Tangles (Vinedrill), Spooker (Frightgeist), Charger (Fandango), Stunts (Speedstinger), Glimmer (Phosphoro), Mo (Enigmo), Dazer (Hypnogrif), Urchin (Sand Angler), Frosty (Narwhaddle), Dozer (Slyren), Torch (Forgesmelter), Golden (Midas), Ping (White Boon Doc), Yang (Negashade), Beeker (AquaBeek), Spike (Spikeshade)
Trixie: Bluster (Tormato), Arachnet, Thresher, Rammstone, Frostcrawler, Polero, Bubbaleone, Frightgeist, Hop Rock, Slyren, Narwhaddle, Jellyish, Vinedrill, Sand Angler, Tazerling, Armashelt
Kord: Bludgeon (Rammstone), Phosphoro, Tormato, Bubbaleone, Flatulorhinkus, Frostcrawler, Hop Rock, Tazerling, Polero, Frightgeist, Flaringo, Arachnet, AquaBeek, Slyren Lariat, Gazzer, Armashelt
Pronto: Stinky (Flatulorhinkus), Jellyish, Frostcrawler, Bubbaleone, Rammstone, Frightgeist, Flaringo, Lariat, Tormato, Slyren, Hop Rock
Jimmo: Hoverbug, Tazerling, Rammstone, Hop Rock, Flaringo, Frostcrawler, Grenuke, Arachnet, Flaringo, Armashelt, Lariat