Academy Chronicles: Rise of the Skylanders
Chapter 9: We Have Liftoff!
Making it to the lowest floor, deep underground the Borg Industries building, the elevator opened up to reveal a hangar bay.
Surrounding us is hundreds of vehicles and other means of transportation. Tanks, aircrafts, even mechanized dragons, everything Borg has for his Nindroid army to get around is stored here. But this place is also where we store some of our ships as well.
Tails looked at his DEUS and pressed a button, causing lights to flicker and a horn blaring from the far left of the room.
"The Dreamcast is over there!" I said, pointing to the locations of the lights and sound.
"No shit, Sayaka." Homura huffed, obviously causing me to get annoyed.
Pop Fizz became the first to run towards the ship, hands flailing. "Oooooh! Oooooh! I wanna drive!"
However, the blue gremlin was pulled by his backpack by Tails.
"Nuh-uh. No way am I letting someone like you drive. Let the person who built the thing drive it!" Tails insisted, triggering a disappointed groan from Pop Fizz.
All of us Disciples arrived at Tails' ultimate spaceship, designed for interdimensional travel. The "ship casted from his dreams" he calls it, hence why it has the name of the "Dreamcast".
It's a circular ship, with two giant spherical thrusters on each side. The top and bottom are outfitted with special cannons and a final hole to act as the main thruster on the back. A far cry from my Magical Girl days, that's for sure. Not that I'm complaining, spaceships are awesome.
With that said, Sonic makes his command.
"Alright, team. All abo-"
DING!
The elevator rang again, causing all of us to turn around.
"Huh? Did we leave anyone behind?" Madoka asked.
She turned around, mentally counting all of us. Me, Sonic, Tails, Homura, Neptune, Pop Fizz… every Disciple that came around is here and accounted for. So who's coming to the hangar bay?
Well, we didn't have to wait long to find out.
Stepping out of the opened elevator door was Makoto and Kyoko.
"Huh? You two? What are you doing here?" Sonic asked.
Makoto turned to Sonic. "We're coming with you." He stated.
That immediately caused Sonic's eyes to widen. He shaked his open hands in protest.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa… no can do, Naegi! You were in a real bad risk taking on those bears with us when you don't even have fighting experience! Wherever they went, it's gonna be real risky! I can't afford having you all lose your lives."
Kyoko's eyebrows raised.
"Doesn't that sound hypocritical of you?"
Sonic's face furrowed into a frown.
Kyoko continued to explain. "You went on at Kyosuke about gathering a bigger team to take down threats. Wouldn't you think this is an ample opportunity to prove this to him?"
"Y-Yeah," Sonic replied. "But this is different. You have no combat experience whatsoever. You don't even have any powers."
"But we're far more experienced at investigating than any of you. If you want to uncover Monokuma's plot, you're going to need us. Not everything requires brawn, Sonic. You seem to miss that."
I lean forward to my partner. "Kyoko has a point, you know? Don't worry, we can protect them. This is our chance, let's not lose this now!"
Taking a deep breath, Sonic makes his response.
"…Fine, but be extra careful."
Makoto smiled. "Thanks, Sonic. You won't regret this."
With that, all of us entered the Dreamcast.
Once we're all in our seats, Tails entered the coordinates from his DEUS onto the control panel: The Master System. Next to Tails is Sonic, naturally.
"Alright, Tails. Where are we going?" He asked.
Typing things down on an installed keyboard, the front window displayed a hologram of our destination.
"…Skylands, apparently."
Skylands? The home of the Skylanders? What does Monokuma want there? There are tons of mythical and powerful artifacts, but what requires Alter-Ego?
Just as those thoughts race through my mind, the Dreamcast proceeded to lift off. The sirens in the Hangar Bay go off as a door above opens, revealing the starry night sky.
The Dreamcast took off into the night, the cannon on top shooting a vortex to which we fly into, ready to foil Monokuma and LOSE's plot once and for all.