The Little Girl and the Ottomans
Chapter 7
Everyone had no idea what to do. They were surrounded by hundreds of wolves, all armed, some of them driving tanks or helicopters.
"Damn. We're outnubered 40:1. I don't think my rockets are enough," Soldier whispered.
"WE SURRENDER," Rocco shouted. He didn't want to be blasted into smithereens. Scout knocks Rocco off of his shoulder.
"We ain't surrendering. You guys aren't even wort-"
"Scout. I have a plan," Sumer told him. "Fine. We surrender."
"Hehe, good. Get some cuffs on them," Boss Wolf ordered. A few of the wolves began to approach them. One of the predators look at Sumer in worry.
"Alright, when we're cuffed and taken to Shin, we destroy his super-weapon after breaking free. Agree?" Everyone agreed. However, before they could do anything, the Cryocopters fires their freeze beams, freezing them all in a big block of ice.
"I've seen the dirty tricks they pull off. Get them loaded and cuff their hands, legs, and cover their mouth with duct tape after we cut the ice from said parts. That way, they won't be able to fight after freeing themselves from their icey tomb," Boss Wolf told them.
Off in the distance, Val, Aggie, Vida, Medic, Sniper, Tracker, and Engi watch as the others are loaded into a truck, all frozen solid.
"It's only gonna get worse, mate," Sniper told them.
"We've got to help them! Come on," Val exclaimed, trying to drag Medic with her. However, he simply pulled back his arm, picking her up.
"Zat would be suicide. I know I'm a crazy madman, but even I vouldn't do such a zing," Medic told her.
"That's why ah brung backuhp," Engi said, motioning for them all to turn around. A snake humal, a crane humal, and a mantis humal all show up. "Thayse ahr Yılan, Vinç, and Peygamber."
"Pleasure being a service to you," Vinç said, bowing to them.
"Come on! We have to go save them," Val yelled as she tried escaping but Medic's grasp.
"Hold awn a moment! We have t' fahnd a way t' git in thair fuhrst without bein' spotted," Engi told her. Val quieted down as he began to brainstorm.
"How about we do it like you said, run in, guns blazing," a mysterious voice mentioned. Everyone, except Val, looked around in confusion until Twilight got out of the ring.
"Oh okay, yeah, sure. Never in my day would I see a blue alien come out of a ring on a little girl's finger," Peygamber said.
"Isn't going in and shooting up the place a bad idea? I mean, they kinda do have an entire army on their side," Vinç questioned.
"A have en idea," Aggie exclaimed.
"You do?"
"Yes! Here it goes."
Shin awaited Sumer's arrival. He wanted to be the one to get rid of her. He's known her from the start. Ever since he formed a syndicate with Vexus, he has learnt of Sumer's true identity.
"Shin." He turns around, noticing Boss Wolf.
"Did you get them?"
"Yes sire. They are currently being brought up onto the ship right now," Boss Wolf told him. Right on cue, Sumer and her team were brought up, with cuffs on their legs, arms, and duct tape over their mouths. They also had their weapons, armor, and summoning charms removed.
"What's with the tape," he questioned.
"We don't know if any of these people have the ability to breath fire, so we put tape over them all just in case," Boss Wolf explained.
"No human has the ability to breath fire unless they specifically have the fire avatar on them. I believe you already took their avatars?"
"Yes."
"Then TAKE THE TAPE OFF!" A few wolves took the tape off of Sumer and the other's mouths.
"Greetings Sumer! We meet at-"
"Hey you! Let us out of these cuffs and we will surely put a beat-down on you," Quinn yelled at him.
"...hey." Quinn was absolutely fuming. First they get captured, and then they take away her friends summoning charms. Damien was at a loss. He missed Triple D already.
"Why are you doing this Shin?! I thought peacocks are supposed to be peaceful," Sumer questions him.
"Ah, you may think so. But it's the call of the wild. Even the peaceful peacocks have to go savage if their going to survive. I've just advanced it," Shin exclaimed. The predators, without their armor, revealing their faces, growl at him.
"That doesn't sound good," Rocco said, being held in a cave that's strapped to Quinn's back.
"Enough! Pick them up and follow me," Shin ordered the wolves. They pick Sumer and the others up and drop them off at the end of the carrier.
"Where's the weapon!? I'm gonna take it down once I'm free," Rocco told him, shaking his tiny fists in the air with courage Damien, Quinn, and Gem haven't seen before.
"Open the hatch!" Sumer watched on in horror as the large plasma beam cannon is risen steadily from the open carrier. Rocco lost his courage and coward in the cage. "You really think that THESE are the warriors destined to defeat me?"
"Once I get out of these cuffs, I'm gonna headbutt yah," Scout yelled as he tried separating the cuffs to no avail.
"Look at them! A lifetime to plot their attack and they come to me on their knees," Shen exclaimed. His soldiers laughed as Sumer glared at the robotic peacock.
"Hey, birdbrain. I did not have a lifetime...Skyway Patrol only heard about Algier's occupation a few days ago, and we came to take it back," she growled. The predators look at her, wondering if she knew what she was doing.
"Bloody hell," Demo whispered.
"Nothing else," Angel questioned.
"Um...I never really thought that far," Sumer said, looking down in embarrassment. Quinn, Aggie, Damien, and Gem look at her in shock. Meanwhile, Rocco was secretly unlocking one of the predator's cuffs.
"Thankfully I already don't remember this," Demo said in a slurred tone. One of the predators look at Shin, who began to chuckle.
"The thing is...you clearly do NOT know!"
"Enough of the riddles man! Would you just spill the beans already," Scout yelled. Quicker than the eye, a knife extended from Shin's wing and he pointed it at Scout's face, shutting him up.
"The only reason you all are still alive is that I find your...stupidity...MILDLY amusing."
"Yah...wait," Demo said.
"So...Sumer...who do you think you are," Shin questioned her.
"Who do you think I am, peacock?" A long silence began, but was broken when Shin began to chuckle.
"Oh I know who you are..." Shin used his knife and cut the veil and robe, revealing a robot with white metal skin, light blue hair with pigtails, a very short shirt revealing her belly, and a short light blue skirt. "XJ-9!"
"WHAT!?" Everyone was taken aback when they saw Sumer's true identity.
"Vexus told me all about you. How you basically were the savior of the world ever since you were created over 300 years ago. After your hometown in Israel got destroyed by her, you spent your life helping the military for payback! She will be pleased. Take her, and take aim at the others," Shin told them. Quinn's eyes widened even more.
"No!" Boss Wolf aims the plasma beam cannon at the others as everyone puts on sunglasses to keep themselves from going blind from the light the machine produces when firing. Rocco continues to pick the cuffs off of the predator, though at a faster pace. Angel and the others prepare themselves as Boss Wolf puts his fingers on a touch pad.
"Start it up!" Boss Wolf moves the slider on the touch pad to max, causing the machine to glow as energy began to gather quickly in the cannon. Shin looked at one of his soldiers. "You. Contact Vexus and tell her we have XJ-9 in our hands. And try to get contact with Mortem. I haven't heard from that bastard in a while."
"Wha...Mortem?! But...how did he know of this timeline," Quinn yelled.
"Simple, he was the one who fount the portal many years ago, when I was banished to the Atlas Mountains and formed a syndicate with Vexus. He also joined the syndicate," Shin explained with a menacing grin on his face.
"But...I thought..."
"The syndicate just wants to rule the world, that's all. Mortem secretly believed that a little girl with extraordinary powers would help us with that, even though he keeps saying he was going to use her to control his army of hybrid dinosaurs," Shin finished. Quinn's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. Val would've been used by this Vexus person to conquer both this and their world!? A computer voice went off, saying the machine is fully charged.
"Fire!" Boss Wolf hits the fire button as Shin laughs evilly...but then realized that nothing has happened. "What happened!?"
"Someone must've turned it off. It still has it's charge ready," Boss Wolf groaned.
"Well?! Turn it on again!" Boss Wolf puts the slider back at max, but a flash green turns it back down faster than their eyes could see. He tries again, multiple times actually, but to no avail. Suddenly, a green mantis human kicks the touch pad out of Boss Wolf's paws and hold it above him like a wrestler with a trophy belt.
"FEAR THE BUG!" At that moment, Rocco unhatched the predator's cuffs, to which it strikes the cuffs off of them all. As well, Val, Aggie, Vida, Medic, Engi, Tracker, Sniper, Yılan, Vinç, and Peygamber join them.
"Let's have a go at it," Sniper yells, readying his smg.
"Get them!" Peygamber comes back with everyone's weapons, too which they take. Wolves begin to charge at them as they prepare to attack.
Quinn activated Justitia and fired her blasters at a few wolves that came at her. A wolf managed to get close after activating a shield. He took out a sword and swung it at Quinn, who blocked it with ease with her twin laser blades. She easily knocked the sword out of the wolf's hand and knocked him out. She summons Araceli the Griffin, who smacked a few wolves away before joining with Quinn
Damien summoned Triple D the Chimera, who scared away a few wolves while whacking one off of the carrier.
Gem used her elemental powers to push a few wolves off of the carrier with the wind. She then punched a wolf into a few other wolves. She then summoned Shetan the Babadook, who also began scaring wolves away.
"Let's waste them," Scout yells as he pulls out a small C.A.P.P.E.R laser pistol, to which he fires at a few wolves, incinerating them. He then took out his bat, which transformed into a lightsaber, to which he promptly cut a wolf's head off.
"Attack," Soldier screams. He takes out a Bison laser pistol as well, vaporizing a wolf, and then another as the same bullet went through the first wolf. He reached behind his back and pulled out a Mangler plasma launcher. He holds the trigger, charging energy from the knobs as he fires it, vaporizing some of the wolves while lighting others that survived on fire. "You're all a disgrace to the uniform!"
"Kill 'em all!" He takes out a wicked-looking grenade launcher, where he fired four round bombs that rolled over to the wolves. They thought it was funny until they exploded, turning the wolves into a bloody rain of body parts. He then takes out a machete and stabs a wolf with it.
The predators all went stealth mode, killing wolves that got too close to Val. Devlin also stood close to Val as she pushed wolves off of the carrier with her magic.
Angel uses her physic powers to lift a few wolves into the air before flinging them off of the carrier.
Dark got out of her ring. A wolf fired a missile at Val, who's eyes widened when she saw it. Dark got in front of the missile and simply kicked it with her heel, sending it into the sky where it exploded like a firework. Vida takes out the rocket launcher wolf while knocking a few more wolves unconscious. She then looked at Dark and got an idea.
"Wanna try?"
"Fuck yeah!" Dark's body transformed into a suit of blue demonic armor that surrounded Vida's body. A sword appeared and Vida grabbed it, to which she promptly began to chop down wolves.
"Medic!" Sniper yelled as he held his bleeding arm. Medic aimed his medi-gun at Sniper, which easily fixed the wound.
"I'm fully charged!"
"Hit it doc!" Medic flipped a switch, causing them both to be surrounded by a shield. An icon for a bullet appeared over their heads.
"This is going to go be a real piece of piss, you bloody fruit shop owners," Sniper yells as he takes out his smg. He begins to rain lead at the wolves, who were all mowed down by the fast rate. They tried firing back, but the bullets barely made him or Medic flinch. After the shield died down, a lot of wolves were covered in cork-sized holes.
"Bloody hell, you're awful," Sniper said, motioning to the wolves.
Tracker looked at the three wolves in front of him.
"THREAT'S DETECTED. ACTIVATING BATTLE MODE 1." His hand transformed into a laser cannon, to which he promptly shot the first wolf. He used his other free hand to knock the second unconscious. The other wolf turned on his avatar and sent a fireball at Tracker, who simply took the hit. It only burnt his paintjob. He then punched the wolf into the ocean.
Engi had just built a sentry, and laid back in his metal reclining chair as it rained lead and rockets at the wolves. He drank a little bit of whiskey as he heard the sentry running empty. He got out of his chair as it turned back into a toolbox. He took out his futuristic wrench and whacked it a few times, somehow refilling it. He smirked, but noticed a few wolves taking potshots at the sentry. He groaned and took out his pomson, shooting a few laser blasts at the wolves, incinerating them.
"Wooowhe, would ya look at that!"
Yılan, Vinç, and Peygamber stand their ground as they are surrounded by wolves.
"I'll get the weapon," Vinç yells. The wolves charge at them, to which Yılan and Peygamber cover Vinç as he flies to the machine. "WINGS OF JUSTICE!" With all his might, he created a strong gust of wind that somehow managed to push the machine off, causing it to fall into the ocean. Everyone cheered as they finished off the last of the wolves.
"No! Curse you! You may have beaten my forces, but you'll never beat the syndicate," Shin yells. He steps on a teleporter as everyone runs at him. However, they were too late as he disappeared through and the portal destroyed itself.
"We lost him," Aggie said. Scout flirts with Vida's armor, but it transformed into Dark again. He continues to flirt, causing Crane to lower his hat.
"What are we going to do now," Rocco questioned them.
"A have no idea. Without her, we won't know what to do," Aggie told them.
"Hm. Ah gawt it. That teleporter must've taken 'im back ta his place in thuh Atlas Mountains. We should git back ta HQ an git a few traynsports. Ah'm syhaw Algiers is safe now," Engi suggested. Everyone nodded as a few ships appeared overhead. Darumai, wearing the traditional Elite battle suit, exits one of the ships.
"You've all done well. We'll get this place under control again. For now, head back to HQ. Engi, your in charge of your team."
"Team? What team," Engi asked him.
"Quinn, Damien, Gem, Rocco, Sumer, Scout, Soldier, Demoman, the predators, Val, Aggie, Medic, Sniper, Tracker, Yılan, Vinç, and Peygamber are on your team. Your tasked with defeating the world's terrorists," Darumai told him.
"Don't forget us," Angel exclaimed.
"Who are they?
"That's Angel, Vida, and Devlin, they have powers just like us," Val explained to him.
"Hm...I see...where's Sumer," Darumai asked.
"She was taken by that wanker Shin," Sniper replied.
"He must've taken her back to his hideout...we better get you guys rested up. We'll leave for the Atlas Mountains tomorrow." Engi and his team got in the ship with Darumai, which then took off back to HQ.
'I hope Jenny's okay,' Val thought as she watched Algiers fall behind them.
In the Atlas Mountains:
In a facility on top of a mountain, Shin appeared with Jenny. Two wolf soldiers came and grabbed her, putting her in chains.
"I may have lost Algiers, but now I have the most valuable thing the syndicate needs. For now, if you would please be a good girl and stay here while I talk with the other members of the syndicate, you won't get a beating," Shin ordered her.
"You won't get away with this," Jenny warned him.
"Heh, heros, always wanting to stay strong, even when their lives are all but over...guards, keep an eye on her. Don't want her to escape," Shin ordered the wolves. He then walked away, passing by a window to reveal a giant robot being built before walking into a control room.
"Computer, find out if there is a meeting today," Shin ordered the computer.
"CHECKING...ONE FOUNT. MEMBERS IN THE MEETING: VEXUS, CARNO, LOFEL, RAMSES, MEDUSA, HAHVULON, THRAIN, FELIX, AMAYCE, GREY MANN, BOWSER, CAIN, CORTEX, DANNY, DIDREE, AND CLOCKWERK."
"Perfect! Join the meeting." The computer does what it's told, and the screen changes to the many faces of the syndicate, except for one, Clockwerk, who's box is blacked out.
"The humal finally decided to join. Were have you been," Didree questioned. Didree is part of an alien race known as the Irken, who want nothing but universal domination, kinda similar to the Cluster. He was sent to Earth hundreds of year after an earlier attempt by another Irken, named Zim, tried to take it over, but failed miserably and ultimately died when he was discovered by CELL during the Second Alien War, which was the precursor to Skyway Patrol.
"Nevermind that. We have heard about you losing Algiers just a few days after you captured it from the USSO. What do you have to say for yourself," Danny interjected. Danny is basically your average ghost, with translucent bluish-green skin, black hair, and enough strength to put down Earth's current and only hero by himself, Jenny.
"I do deeply apologize for the mishap. I just wasn't expecting the kind of power she and her "followers" possess," Shin replied.
"Don't do it again or else well have to kick you out of the syndicate for not being a good villain," Cortex added. Cortex is your average mad doctor, with sickly yellow skin, a black goatee, black eyes, and a metal "N" on his forehead. He had once tried to lead a take-over of the world hundreds of years ago from his base in Oceania after creating an army of mutated animals. However, he was ultimately stopped by one of his creations, a bandicoot named Crash. How did he manage to live for so long? He replaced his heart with a machine...simple as that.
"Alright, alright. You all may be angry at me for not making up to you all, but during the fight, I managed to grab someone that you may find useful," Shin told them. He touched a few buttons on his computer and wolves came in carrying the one person that they needed for their operation. Jenny.
"How in the world did you manage to take the LAST hero of the world without dying," Cortex questioned.
"Haha! You see you big-brained mutt, I new Sumer, whom you recall, was Jenny. So I specifically told my wolves to make her cuffs extra tight and to disable all her gadgets and weapons she could pull out at random. It worked perfectly! Though I lost Algiers-"
"That's all the information we need," Clockwerk told him. Shin himself has no idea who or what Clockwerk looksl like, but from what he's heard, Clockwerk is a huge mechanical owl. He lived just recently, but was defeated and destroyed by his arch-nemesis, Sly Cooper. But the syndicate decided to bring him back, which is why he's here.
"Why do we need this robot again!? We have enough strength to just destroy Earth itself, so I don't really see a need for that bucket of bolts," Amayce growled. Amayce is a strange being, with completely black eyes, orange skin, blonde hair, and wears a gas mask over his mouth. Nobody really knows who he is besides Hahvulon.
"We thank you for your service. For now, well be coming over to you so we can brainwash her into the syndicate. She'll be anything but valuable to my...I mean our take-over of Earth," Didree said. Everyone nodded and turned off their webcams, ending the session. Shin turned around and looked at Jenny, who glared back at him.
"Once were through with you, there will be nothing in this world that can stop us. The age of heros is over. The age of evil however, has only just begun!"