Spyro and his fellow Skylanders couldn't believe their eyes. Sprocket returned to the Academy. She arrived minutes ago with an airship, but without any sign of the Doom Raiders.
"Where have you been Sprocket?" Spyro stood next to his curious allies who formed a circle around the engineer. "Did you escape the Doom Raiders? Did they hurt you?"
No one was aware that the Sprocket they were looking at was only an evil clone created by the Golden Queen. She pretended like she had no idea how she left or even got back. "No… they let me go. They blindfolded me before throwing me on the ship and here I am."
"So, you have no idea how to find the Doom Raiders?" Cynder recently landed next to the crowd and had a bunch of questions to ask.
The clone of the Skylander shook her head with fake sadness. "All I know is that we were in some dark old castle on a distant island, but I have no idea where it is." She lied the heroes straight to their faces and none of them suspected a thing.
"A castle?" Stealth Elf tried to recall the several fortresses she saw on their adventures. "There's so many, I don't know where to start looking."
"We have to inform everyone about this." Spyro sounded strict and was sure that they had a solid hint. "You should go and rest Sprocket, we'll take care of this."
The crowd scattered out to tell everyone about the news. New missions to look for castles were assigned, Sprocket's clone executed the Doom Raider's plan with success.
The Doom Raiders rest assured that their current hideout would never be found. Snap Shot was glad they didn't punish Sprocket any further, but he had a strange feeling about her release. Meanwhile the real Sprocket was hidden deep within the woods, trying to break free and call for help.
Snap Shot leaned himself against a tree and glared at the Doom Raiders. He couldn't bear watching his sworn enemies out here enjoying their freedom after everything they've done. Out of everyone, he kept his eyes on Wolfgang the most. He didn't understand why the wolf even bothered to bond with him if he was going to stab him in the back. Snap Shot's thoughts were interrupted by a mesmerizing voice behind him.
"You really can't keep your eyes off him, can you?" Snap Shot turned around to face the Air Doom Raider Dreamcatcher, who had a wide smile all across her face.
"Just leave me alone." The Trap Master didn't enjoy the head's presence and turned back around.
Dreamcatcher didn't like the reptile's attitude and decided to float in front of him. "I know you kinda hate all of us, but you sure seem to have a thing for Wolfgang." The villainess grinned again and enjoyed teasing the Skylander.
"Why do you even care? You can see my dreams, you don't need my confirmation as well." The Skylander turned around again and started to walk away from the strange being.
"So, you admit that being with Wolfgang is one of your dreams?" That question made Snap Shot halt and Dreamcatcher felt that she was correct about her statement.
"What do you want?" The blue crocodile slightly turned his head to look at the villain with one eye.
"I want to help you." Dreamcatcher floated towards the Skylander to explain her intentions.
Roller Brawl arrived at the Academy hospital, anticipating to visit Chill who was still unconscious. However, as soon as the Undead Skylander entered the building there, all she could see was pure dismay. Roller Brawl got over her sudden shock and quickly skated into Chill's room. Surprisingly, the warrior was gone and there was a giant hole in the wall. It was surrounded by ice and the Skylander immediately knew what happened. She didn't waste anymore time and dashed through the opening, following the trail of ice going from it.
After a short search, Roller Brawl slowed down, and her jaw dropped. She spotted a massive snowstorm moving forward in the middle of an island which left behind the trail of ice. The skater knew that Chill was responsible for that, but she was also certain that it wasn't intentional. The Skylander gathered all her courage and entered the cloud of ice and snow. She shielded herself from the piercing wind with her hands and tried to find Chill in the eye of the storm. After progressing deeper inside, she finally recognized a familiar figure floating in mid-air.
"Chill!" Roller Brawl shouted from the top of her lungs, hoping that her friend would hear her.
Chill kept on floating forward and didn't turn around after the call.
"Chill!" Roller Brawl yelled once more. "You have to stop this!"
The vampire was frightened to see her friend turning her head around and staring at her with glowing white eyes. She knew that this wasn't Chill who created the storm. After the creepy guardian fully turned around, the storm became faster and even more brutal. Roller Brawl had to dig her roller blades into the ground to not get swept away by the wind.
"I don't know what's happening to you Chill, but I know that this isn't you!" Roller Brawl desperately cried out and tried to reach the Skylander. "We can fix this together!"
Chill looked at the Undead Skylander blankly before starting to twitch. She closed her eyes and after opening them, they reverted back to normal. The storm vanished, and Chill fell to the ground. Roller Brawl swiftly skated over to the exhausted Skylander and fell to her knees. She carefully put her hands around her friend, attempting to wake her up.
"Please. Please wake up." Roller Brawl was on the verge of tears and she was terribly worried.
Finally, Chill opened her eyes and inhaled deeply. Roller Brawl smiled with relief and joy "I'm so glad you're okay!" The Skylander exclaimed happily while keeping her hands around her bewildered companion. "Chill… what just happened?"
The snow guard looked into the skater's eyes with fear. "She's alive Roller." Chill kept her eyes on those of Roller Brawl and wanted to explain what happened. "She wants me back."
"Who's alive?" Roller Brawl thought for a second before being struck by realization. "No, it can't be…"
Chill blinked and inhaled before revealing the name of the person she was referring to. "The Snow Queen."
Dreamcatcher guided Snap Shot to a quiet place inside of the dense forest. The Skylander placed himself on top of a tree log while the Doom Raider was floating circles around him.
"So, you want to win Wolfy all for yourself, huh?" The mischievous head was curious about the odd relationship and she wanted to know all about it.
"It seems like I can't keep anything hidden from you, so yes." Snap Shot felt bad about admitting his true feelings. After Wolfgang's betrayal and his recent behavior, he shouldn't have any reason to still like him, but he does.
"I have to say I'm surprised how quickly you two kissed and made up… minus the kissing part." Dreamcatcher giggled with excitement as she already plotted plans to bring the two rivals together. "I always kinda shipped you two, but I never expected it to be canon."
Snap Shot only responded by giving the head a confused stare. "Yeah… well what do you have in mind?"
"I'm glad you asked!" Dreamcatcher cleared her non-existent throat and inhaled before starting to talk. "As you know, Wolfgang is more of a lone wolf. Get it, Lone wolf?"
"Go on." Snap Shot wasn't in the mood to laugh at any jokes.
"Anyway, he doesn't really like to cooperate with others. He was always the type that would just run off and do his own thing." Dreamcatcher specifically thought of the time the musician kidnapped Kaos and used him to travel to the future. "But he kinda doesn't do that with you."
Snap Shot was interested and showed it by slightly moving his eyelids upward. "What do you mean?"
"Well when he's with us, all he wants to do is be the lone ruler of Skylands and share his music." Dreamcatcher shuddered at the thought of hearing the werewolf's music. "When he did that weird training thing with you he felt happy and didn't have the urge to ruin that as usual. Trust me, he dreams a lot about it"
Snap Shot felt flattered to hear about Wolfgang dreaming of their sessions. Those hours were the only ones they shared together as friends. "So he… has feelings for me?"
"It's hard to tell to be honest." Dreamcatcher concentrated on Wolfgang's dreams, trying to remember what she saw. "But whenever I entered his dreams, the focus was always on you. Everything else was so blurry, I'm not even able to tell you what time it was."
The Trap Master's mouth opened, and he started to blush. The fact that he was the thing that Wolfgang focused the most on was not only frustrating, because that means he didn't concentrate on the lessons, but also very sweet. "Should I talk with him about it?"
"No! God no!" Dreamcatcher immediately answered and made sure her message was clear. "If he finds out that I spied on his dreams, he will make sure that the only thing I hear for the next week are his terrible symphonies!"
"His music isn't that bad." Snap Shot wasn't completely honest, but he wanted to defend Wolfgang. "You're overexaggerating."
"Whatever." Dreamcatcher thought for another moment before finally telling Snap Shot what to do. "You should try talking to him when you're alone. Make sure to not mention any bad stuff from the past and just try to be nice to him, he'll appreciate it."
Snap Shot nodded and recapped the advice in his head. "Well… thanks for helping me. Even though I'm still not sure why."
"Don't even think I did that for you. I just want to make sure he annoys you with his music rather than us." Dreamcatcher did also want to see the two together but admitting that would ruin her reputation.
The Air villainess started to fly back to the camp before Snap Shot asked one final question. "Hey Dreamcatcher. If Wolfgang doesn't want to work in a team, then why did he agree to all of this?"
The head stopped and just stayed in place for a few seconds. "You don't want to know what happens when you disobey Golden Queen." The villain didn't turn around again and left without saying another word.
Snap Shot soon returned to the camp of villains as well. Everyone stopped their discussions upon seeing the Skylander arrive and stared at him with distrust. The Trap Master felt very uncomfortable and made sure to find a place where he wouldn't bother anyone. He entered the other half of the woods and made his way through some bushes. He finally settled down on top of a rock and took a moment to let his tension go. As he was listening to the sounds of nature, the reptile suddenly heard another silent noise. He soon realized that it wasn't a bird or the wind and decided to follow it. As he got closer, it started to sound like a person. Snap Shot's steps became quicker and the sound louder, until he finally reached its source and gasped in shock.
"Sprocket!?" Snap Shot was frozen and glared at the furious Skylander with wide eyes. "Why are you here?"
The engineer wildly threw herself from one side to another until Snap Shot finally untied her.
"They lied to you!" Sprocket had to pause and take a breath before revealing the truth. "They created a clone of me and sent her to the Academy. I don't know why, but whatever they have planned it's not good."
Snap Shot was processing all the information he just received and only managed to make stuttering noises with his jaw wide open. "We need to warn them!"
"We?" Sprocket gave the reptile another dirty look to remind him of his actions.
"I'm on the Skylanders' side Sprocket, I already told you that." Snap Shot once again tried to convince the Tech Skylander how sorry he is and that he wants to make up for his betrayal. "But I can't leave, they would come after me."
"Well I can't leave either! They're probably already on their way to check on me!" Sprocket carefully peeked behind the tree that was next to them to see if she was right.
"You can leave." Snap Shot's tone was serious, and he sounded confident in himself.
Sprocket was irritated and looked at the crocodile with disbelief. "Are you even listening to me? They will-"
"Look for you, I know." Snap Shot finished the engineer's sentence and kept a stern expression. "That doesn't matter. You must go back to the others and tell them where we are. I will take care of the Doom Raiders."
Sprocket wasn't sure about that plan, but it was her only way to freedom. "You can't go up against them on your own, they will kill you."
"You had to pay the price for my mistakes, now it's my turn." Snap Shot was certain about his decisions and knew that it could cost him his life. "There's an airship at the edge of the island. You just have to take some enemies out and you're ready to go."
Sprocket looked behind herself once more and then back at Snap Shot. She started to believe him about being loyal to the Skylanders again. The goldling didn't waste anymore time and headed deeper into the woods. Before Snap Shot returned to the villains, Sprocket turned around once more. "Snap Shot!" The Trap Master turned his head into Sprocket's direction and waited for her to continue. "Thanks." Snap Shot smiled and nodded, indicating that he's going to be alright. That was the last time Sprocket saw Snap Shot before reaching the airship and heading back to the Academy.