Saving Neopia II: Light and Darkness
Well, in this chapter...the Heroes of Light are going to continue pursuing Deluge...and the Villains of Darkness are going to try to get even with Cyrus and Luna for framing them for a crime they didn't commit.
And interestingly enough, both of them are going to start kicking a few Puppyblews like they have before...although Deluge is going to kick a lot more of them...as you'll find out.
Chapter 8: Hot Pursuit
Investigating the site where the campers once were, Bloony immediately became curious. He wasn't surprised to see green slime littering the place, but what was peculiar was that there was orange slime there as well.
"How very odd...can the monster change color like a Neopet at the Rainbow Pool? Something fishy is going on..." said the Blumaroo.
Curious, Cherry decided to touch the orange goo...
...and she ended up burning herself.
"Ouch! Hot hot hot!" exclaimed the Chia.
"Cherry! What's the matter?" asked Bloony.
"This goo is boiling hot! What the heck is wrong with it?" bellowed Cherry, who began blowing on her stubby arm.
"Strange...the green goo seems to be at a pretty normal temperature." said Marvin.
Bloony then noticed that the campfire had mysterious been put out, and immediately he began to feel concerned.
"Apparently the monster can absorb not just Neopets, but it can also absorb fire, too...come to think of it, it might even be able to absorb Faerie magic...if I'm right, we may be in trouble. How are we supposed to fight it?" inquired the Blumaroo.
Suddenly, he heard something that sounded like earth moving.
"Um, Bloony..." warned Cherry.
Immediately, Bloony turned around and discovered that the nearby trees had come to life. Apparently Deluge had splattered them with his goo, and now they were attacking. And to make matters worse, some of them could walk.
"I thought trees were our friends..." stated Bloony, remembering that the Neopian Times were made using said trees.
"How could they walk like that? Trees are supposed to be rooting to the ground!" exclaimed Cherry.
"I guess the goo is giving it nutrients aside from making it aggressive..." pondered Marvin.
Some of the trees walked over to our heroes and swiped at our heroes, forcing them to duck. Others started pelting them with fruit.
"I'm blind!" exclaimed Marvin as a banana splattered on his face.
Unfortunately, this caused him to fire his weapons like crazy...most of which did not hit the trees and some of them ended up hurting our heroes.
"Ow! Quit it!" bellowed Bloony.
"Watch it buddy!" demanded Cherry.
Thankfully, the Mynci then pulled out a napkin and wiped the banana goop out of his eyes.
"That's better." stated Marvin the Mynci.
He then pulled out a flamethrower and started barbecuing the trees...this was rather effective, but unfortunately it didn't get all of them.
"Those trees sure look sturdy. Maybe we need to chop some of them down..." suggested Bloony.
"Good idea...but we don't have lumberjacking gear." pointed out Cherry.
On cue, Marvin handed them two axes.
"The amount of gear you can hold in your backpack is astounding, Marvin." applauded the yellow Blumaroo.
"Let's just say it never hurts to be prepared." answered the green Mynci.
Bloony and Cherry then began chopping the trees. Interestingly enough, they were taken by surprise, and as such they were able to cut through them like butter.
They even began to wonder if they should sing a song about it, although they eventually decided not to since they were rather busy nowadays.
"Get to the choppa!" squealed Cherry.
"Where's the helicopter? I don't see one." questioned a confused Bloony.
"I have a helicopter in case you guys were wondering..." answered Marvin.
"We don't need to fly right now." stated the yellow Blumaroo.
"Never mind then." said the green Mynci.
Curious, they decided to see if there was a trail they could use to follow Deluge. Unfortunately, it seemed that he was trying to hide from them from the time being and that it wasn't leaving a mess...although as the trees indicated he still was bringing inanimate objects to life.
"Clever boy..." thought Bloony.
They then noticed something rather peculiar...although it didn't seem to have anything to do with Deluge...it seemed that there were several robotic Myncis...and that they were searching for somebody.
"Funny, these robots look kind of like something I would make...then again, they look rather aggressive..." stated Marvin.
"Are you saying you didn't make these robots, Marvin?" questioned Bloony.
Marvin shook his head.
"How very odd..." thought Cherry.
Suddenly, one of the robots turned towards our heroes, and immediately it let out a screech.
"Uh-oh..." murmured Bloony.
Immediately, the monkey robots started rushing towards our heroes...to make a long story short, they got ready to defend.
Well, two of them did.
"Get them off me!" demanded Marvin, who as it turns out was being swarmed by the vicious robots.
Cherry blasted the robo-Myncis away with one of her sonic burps, then helped the regular Mynci to his feet.
As for Bloony, he started using his telekinetic powers to crash the robotic Myncis into one another.
"Why don't I use this more often? Surely it would have saved me a lot of trouble..." questioned the Blumaroo.
However, as it turns out, the robotic Myncis had more than one trick up their sleeve. Immediately, they started shooting laser beams out of their eyes. Thankfully, these weren't very deadly, but they stung nonetheless.
"Ow!" exclaimed Cherry. Just who exactly made these robotic Myncis? It certainly couldn't have been Professor Nyctus...after all, he had been consumed by a blob monster not too long ago.
Marvin pulled out a Bzzt Blaster and started shortcircuiting the metallic Neopets...as it turns out, this was a rather effective tactic, as this rapidly shut them down.
"These robo-Myncis just keep getting more random...who the heck even built these? Dr. Sloth? Then again I recall putting an end to his evil schemes in my last adventure..." thought Bloony.
It also became apparent that some of the Robo-Myncis also had self-destruct buttons on their backs...immediately, the leader of the Heroes of Light became curious.
"Why did he even put those there? That's not something I would do if I wanted to build a robot army..." questioned the yellow Blumaroo.
Suddenly, they heard roaring, and the sound of something mechanical approaching. Immediately, they noticed that apparently the mecha Myncis had a leader...in this case it was a robot mutant Mynci.
"A mutant robot? I'm confused...is this a result of an experimental paint brush or something? Mutants and robots seem like an odd combination..." pondered Cherry.
The mutant robo-Mynci then turned its arm into a cannon...which it then fired at our heroes.
"Whoa!" Bloony exclaimed.
"This is going to get messy..." said Marvin.
Suffice to say, there was an explosion, and Bloony and Cherry were sent flying.
"Whoa!" exclaimed the yellow Blumaroo.
"I'm getting dizzy!" yelled the red Chia.
"Funny, I actually wasn't hit this time..." thought Marvin.
It then became apparent that the state-of-the-art robot Mynci was much tougher than the rest of its kind.
Shortly afterwards, a laser cannon then came out of the robot's back. It then began charging.
"3, 2, 1..." muttered the Robo-Mynci.
Suddenly, a laser beam was fired out of the cannon...thankfully, our heroes dodged in time, but it nonetheless did quite some damage to the environment.
"That laser cannon is powerful stuff!" exclaimed Cherry.
"Thank goodness it gave us a warning!" agreed Marvin.
Curious, Bloony noticed that there was also a button on the metal Mynci's back saying "Do Not Press". He decided not to follow directions and press it anyway.
However, instead of self-destructing like he thought it would, it instead began to short-circuit. While this nonetheless hurt the robot, this also made it really mad.
Immediately, a jetpack appeared out of its back, and it started flying high into the air, dropping bombs on the Heroes of Light's heads.
"Run for cover!" demanded Bloony.
Our heroes did so...since of course, they did not want to get blown to smithereens.
Afterwards, the jetpack ran out of fuel, so the mutant Robo-Mynci started to repeat the same pattern. However, this time, it decided to fire two rockets instead of just one. Once again, our heroes leaped out of the way.
"It seems that the Robo-Mynci has decided to quit playing around with us...I guess I'll have to press the button again." thought Bloony.
Unfortunately, as soon as the yellow Blumaroo attempted to so, he ended up being swatted away.
"Oh right...I guess it knows its weakness now. Lousy artificial intelligence..." he murmured.
Thankfully, Marvin also happened to have a jetpack...in his case, he used it to sneak behind the Robo-Mynci and press its button again.
Unsurprisingly, this caused the mutant Robo-Mynci to get zapped again...and of course, it became furious.
Immediately, it once again used its jetpack...and it swatted Marvin out of the sky.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" he bellowed as soon as he hit the ground.
"Are you OK?" questioned Cherry.
"I think so...this mutant Robo-Mynci means business!" exclaimed the green Mynci.
As before, the mutant robotic Mynci started throwing bombs at our heroes' heads...however, there were now more explosives to worry about.
Suddenly, Cherry got an idea. She picked up one of the bombs and threw it at the metal Mynci.
This worked surprisingly well. Blinded by its aggression, the Robo-Mynci failed to notice that it was coming...and it ended up crashing into the ground from the blast.
The red Chia then took the opportunity to press the button on its back one last time...
This time the robot exploded...although unlike the weaker Robo-Myncis it actually burst into pieces rather than simply experience obliteration.
Curious, Bloony decided to read the label he had noticed on the robot's leg.
"Property of the Flippers Family. #300."
"Wait, 300? That's not good! There might be more of those mechanical Neopets where that came from...and just who the heck is the Flippers Family?" warned the yellow Blumaroo.
"You think this has anything to do with the thieves that ambushed us in Neopia Central?" questioned Cherry.
"It looks that way...whoever is leading this so-called family clearly wants us to stop interfering with their business." pondered Marvin.
"If that's the case, we'll need to keep an eye out. Something tells me that there's going to be even worse things ahead..." said Bloony.
Meanwhile in Meridell...
Cyrus and Luna were busy searching Meridell...however, in the process, they were making a mess of things.
The Shapeshifter became known as the Backburner when Cyrus shot a fireball and then set him on fire.
"Stop, drop, and roll!" screamed the Christmas Ixi as she tried to put out the flames.
"Dang nabbit! I was about to get the avatar!" screamed a Shoyru that was trying to figure out the puzzle.
A Mortog exploded when Luna shot one of her ice spells, which annoyed a Skeith that was playing the game.
"Hey! No fair! I was about to get 10000 Neopoints!" he bellowed.
And to top it all off, they destroyed the archery targets that were being used for games of Ultimate Bullseye. The Turtum that was in charged whimpered sadly.
As it turns out, they wanted to get everything out of their way before they began searching. All the while, they began getting closer to their destination.
Eventually, they determined that the keystone to the Earth Temple was located inside the Symol Hole. The problem was how they were going to get inside. After all, only a Petpet could actually get through.
All of a sudden, Luna noticed that there was a Symol cuddling up against her leg. Getting annoyed, she decided to kick it down into the pit.
"It looks like we're going to need someone to dig the hole up..." stated Cyrus.
"I guess we'll have to start looking..." said Luna.
Shortly afterwards, the farmers of Meridell found themselves in a rather unusual situation...two Neopets were destroying their crops using fire and ice. They immediately cowered in terror.
Afterwards, Cyrus and Luna approached them.
"What do you want?" demanded one of the rural Neopets.
"Oh, nothing much." stated the Scorchio.
"Just do as we say and we won't hurt you." answered the Acara.
The farmers nodded their heads nervously.
After forcing the citizens of Meridell to dig up the Symol Hole for them...it became apparent how deep it was.
"I don't think we should jump down." stated Luna.
Thankfully, Cyrus was actually feeling nice after terrorizing the suburbs of Meridell simply so he could dig for treasure, so he decided to grab Luna and use his wings to gradually descend into the pit.
"That was a little embarrasing..." stated the Acara.
"You grab me for your teleport spells all the time." answered the Scorchio.
"Oh, yeah..." sweatdropped Luna.
And so the two of them decided to search the caverns.
Meanwhile in Neopia Central...
"So, why police guy chasing you?" questioned Rocky.
"Well, you see Rocky, we got framed for a crime we didn't commit." answered Redtooth.
"Two rather mysterious Neopets came into the museum while we were going on a tour and made off with this golden compass." said Snotty. "Apparently it leads to some crystals that can be used to grant wishes...I can't really remember to be honest."
"Want to read another copy of Neopian Times? Things have gotten really crazy in Neopia as of late..." asked the Lupe.
Curious, the Blumaroo decided to read the latest copy.
Apparently, two mysterious Neopets had launched an attack on Meridell. They had attacked the Shapeshifter, blew a Mortog to smithereens, and had destroyed much of the crops that the farmers had worked so hard to grow.
Of course, the police chief believed that the Villains of Darkness were responsible for the crime spree that had affected Neopia lately, and told everyone in Neopia that he would not rest until they were brought to justice.
Immediately, Snotty became furious.
"What? How dare they! Thanks to them, everyone thinks that we're outlaws! C'mon, you two, let's go to Meridell and get our revenge on them for this horrible frameup!" exclaimed Snotty.
"I don't know Snotty...remember all those times we tried getting revenge on the Heroes of Light? Every time we did that, we ended up being humilated!" warned Redtooth.
"Rocky still shudders after the night they sent us flying away on a catapult..." agreed Rocky.
"Yeah, but these two actually deserve to be punished for what they've done! I mean, think about it! Look at how all the property damage they've inflicted already! Those two must be desperate to find the crystals or something!" bellowed the green Blumaroo.
"You have good point there...besides, maybe we can use crystals to grant wish?" said Rocky.
"That's actually a good idea Rocky! Maybe we can wish for treasure or something! That at least won't get us in trouble with the law, right?" questioned the blue Lupe.
"Yes...of course, if we do that, we probably won't even consider stealing anymore...talk about awkward..." pondered Snotty.
Eventually, all three Villains of Darkness decided that it would be a good idea to get revenge on the duo th
And so the three decided to head off to Meridell to teach Cyrus and Luna a lesson about disturbing the peace as they searched for the crystals...
In a local town not far from Neopia Central...
The local residents were having a good day. Their quiet town was rather prosperous, although they didn't receive many tourists.
In fact, they were about to celebrate the first anniversary. The mayor was of course hosting the said occasion. He was a Brown Meerca wearing a monocle and a top hat.
"Greetings everyone. You may already know this, but it's been a whole year since this town was built by my father! How about that, eh? I have to admit, we've had some difficulties, but so far this place has been a success! Already we're racking up the dough...perhaps if we're lucky this town shall become as big as Neopia Central! Of course, in order to do that, we'll have to create more buildings..." stated the mayor.
The residents of the town clapped and cheered.
"Now then, I've given you all some badges so that you can celebrate! Won't that be fun?" squealed the mayor.
Every villager nodded.
Suddenly, an Eyrie noticed that there seemed to be something approaching.
"Someone's coming!" exclaimed the Eyrie.
"Hmm? Is it another visitor...if that's the case, we're have a hundred and one citizens!" shouted the mayor.
"Funny, I read a book about one hundred and one Spotted Spardels..." spoke a Gelert.
However, it slowly became apparent that said resident wasn't a Neopet...in fact, it was something...slimy.
"Wait a minute...that's not a Neopet..." said the Meerca.
Suddenly, they noticed that an enormous ball of slime was being launched straight towards them.
"Incoming!" bellowed the mayor.
Thankfully, all of the villagers were able to get out of the way. But they were completely caught offguard by what happened next.
Many slimes came out of the puddle that Deluge had created, and they began swallowing the villagers whole. Immediately, everyone began to panic, even the mayor.
"What's going on?!" screamed the Meerca.
Deluge kept firing projectile and projectile, until eventually the entire town was overrun.
The mayor in fact was eaten by the blob personally, still wondering what was happening.
"Why?!" he bellowed as he was consumed.
The slimes then returned themselves to Deluge, who at that point was now much bigger than before.
"Yes...soon I shall have everything I need to absorb the Cult of Apocalypse members into me...and maybe when I'm finished I'll absorb the Heroes of Light as well..." he thought, letting out an evil laugh.
It looks like Cyrus and Luna are getting pretty close to finding what they need to unlock the Earth Temple...but will the Villains of Darkness be able to stop them before they can do so?
And of course, can the Heroes of Light stop Deluge before he locates one of the ex-Cult of Apocalypse members? He's doing a pretty good job of playing Kadoatie and Miamouse with them so far...
Last but not least, what crazy action will Officer Peanuts and Willis take against the Villains of Darkness and Heroes of Light next? Again, you'll find out more in the upcoming chapters...
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