Twisty Tunnels
Once the team returned to Woodburrow the Arkeyan Empire was already displaying Avalon's Final Punishment to all of Creation as well as Emperor Drake himself delivering a personal transcript of his speech. The Emperor had already banished Adinda back to the Radiant Isles and turned her to stone for her constant yapping after Ayumi defeated the Mystic Arkeyan who in turn defeated Adinda in battle for the position of the Mystic Arkeyans.
"Well this is just great," Spyro sighed, "The Arkeyan Empire is on the warpath, the Mystic Arkeyans have Ayumi as leader, Adinda's been turned to stone for mouthing off one to many times, and Ayumi has gone and murdered all those that Alex just had revived and this time they're not coming back."
"What did you expect?" Cynder said, "Ayumi's had it with Adinda and she's had it with everyone giving the Empire's allies the short end of the stick."
"Just be glad they haven't destroyed the earth and every star and planet in it's galaxy yet," Tree Rex said, "Though at this point I wouldn't be surprised if they destroyed the earth and every star and planet in its galaxy."
"Let's just get to the Ancient Terrasquid before things get even worse," Ninjini suggested.
"As if they aren't worse now," Bouncer chimed in rhetorically as the team landed and Baron Sharpfin gave them the details.
"All we have to do is go to the Twisty Tunnels," Sharpfin said, "And I guarantee that is where we will find the Ancient Terrasquid."
"And once we get there all we have to do is guide it back to Woodburrow," Ice said as Imperial General Lamorak showed up.
"And I'm going to personally oversee this mission," Lamorak said, "The Emperor has sent me to take Tessa's Place on account of the Chieftess needing her help in Woodburrow."
"Personally I think it's more around the lines of the Chieftess being terrified of the Arkeyan Empire at this point," Chrissie said.
"Considering the Empire is displaying Shendu's final punishment I don't blame the Chieftess," Camo said All of Skylands saw Shendu's spirit being tormented by the Entire Arkeyan Empire Past and present for all eternity as the demon was screaming in pain from the 500 megawatt volts the Empire was using to fry him, "If I pissed off the Arkeyans the way that stupid lizard did then I'd be begging to let a soul eating monster devour me."
"You said it Camo," a Skylander of the Earth Element said. The JTeens saw it was an ankylosaur with sharp teeth sticking up from his lower jaw, green scaly skin, dull green armor, and a spike on his head.
"Who are you?" Cody asked the ankylosaur.
"I'm Slobber Tooth," The new Skylander said, "I'm a Core Skylander like Spyro and Camo."
"Oh that's right I forgot," Jade said, "You were among the Skylanders that were blasted to earth when Kaos destroyed the Core of Light."
"That's right," Slobber Tooth said, "But I wasn't found until you found the Swap Force. That's why I couldn't come to help you earlier. But Even so I agree with all the Swap Force Skylanders who say that the Divorce was that slutty brat's fault in a way."
"And I second that completely! In fact I'd rather have an Arkeyan Sorcerer as a portal master than any of you guys at this point!" Flashwing added as all the Giants and Swap Force Skylanders and nearly all the Core Skylanders agreed with that much to Cody, Colleen and Chrissie's shock as the team bolted for Twisty Tunnels on Sharpfin's ship.
In Kaos' Fortress Kaos, Glumshanks, Vrak and Malefor were watching the Ancient Terrasquid when Kaos' Mother appeared on the Screen.
"Kaos' Mother," Malefor said, "Glad you could join us."
"Malefor welcome back," Kaos' Mom said, "So how goes Kaos' play time."
"If by play time you mean watching him work on another of his plans then his play time sucks," Malefor said, "Fortunately I could easily do something about the ancient Terrasquid now."
"No need for that Malefor," Vrak said, "From what I can see so far the wedge between the JTeens, the Skylanders and the Arkeyans is driving them further apart. And there's a bigger wedge between the Skylanders themselves."
"Excellent work Vrak," The Dark Master spoke, "In the Meantime Kaos. Unleash the Fire Viper of Doom."
"Good idea Malefor," Kaos said as said viper was getting ready to emerge from the portal.
Over on Dragon's peak King Ramses and Eon were shocked as they saw everything. Buck was paying a visit to King Ramses so as to mock him as usual about his performance as a pathetic leader much to Flavius's stunned expression but before he showed up he overheard the two talking.
"Can you believe this Eon?" King Ramses asked Eon's spirit, "The Arkeyan Empire's Influence is spreading far and wide as is their invasion. And dare I mention that Ayumi is now in charge of the Mystic Arkeyans and Adinda has been turned to stone."
"I did not see this one coming," Eon sighed, "And here's more bad news. Even my own Skylanders have sided with the empire and with Adinda turned to stone nobody will be able to reason with the Arkeyan Empire anymore."
"I hate to say it but the Arkeyan Empire Policy is die or bow to the Empire," Ramses said, "And those who refuse to bow down to the empire are gonna die."
"Which is what Malefor had planned to do all along," Eon spoke, "Which means the wedge between the Skylanders, the JTeens and the Arkeyans is about to grow into a canyon."
As Ramses and Eon talked Buck heard every word but what he didn't know was that Malefor sent Shadowkhan to spy on Ramses and listen in on all of his conversations.
Meanwhile in the Twisty Tunnels Sharpfin was piloting his ship to the location of the ancient Terrasquid.
"Is this the place Lamorak?" Bash asked the Imperial General.
"This is the place," Lamorak said, "The Twisty Tunnels. Home of the Ancient Terrasquid."
"Let's just find the Terrasquid and get the hell out of dodge," Slobber Tooth said, "Then we can get back to watching Shendu's Final Punishment and pointing and laughing at him and his misfortunes."
"I'm down for that any day," Flashwing said as the Swap Force Skylanders and all the Giants along with most of the Core Skylanders agreed with that.
"Would somebody please tell me what's with the Skylanders? How can they take the destruction of the Empire's enemies so lightly?" Sharpfin asked shocked.
"Perhaps I had best explain what's been going on lately," Chrissie said as she explained everything up to that point, "And there you have it."
Baron Sharpfin was completely at a loss for words. He knew that Yakon had a fierce temper due to being an earth dragon but he didn't know Yakon was an Arkeyan Influenced Dragon and was Clay's Partner.
Meanwhile in Chor Gum Prison the Emperor was having a word with the Warden about the recent attempted Jail Break.
"Avarona came out of nowhere I'm so sorry Emperor Drake," The Warden said.
"How could you let this happen?" Emperor Drake demanded.
"She caught us by surprise," The Warden said, "And she's got a Shadowkhan Tribe working for her."
"This can't be happening," Drake said, "Do you have any idea the power Avarona has? She's dangerous enough on her own but now that she's got Ninjas working for her and if she and Malefor free the rest of Avarona's teammates they'll have enough power to eliminate anybody. Including the Arkeyans."
"Then we must stop her now!"
"Send Word to Cloudcracker Prison and tell the Trap Masters to beef up security. Then call the other Wardens at once and tell them to double guard weapons everything. The Rest of Malefor's Generals do not leave those prisons!"
"Yes your highness." The Warden said carrying out the Emperors orders before he left.
Meanwhile back at the Twisty Tunnels the Skylanders and the Arkeyans correlated to the Earth Element were doing all the work as they were making their way to the Terrasquid while destroying the evilizer crystals.
Eventually they destroyed all the evilizer crystals just as Emperor Drake himself arrived with Imperal General Percival by his side.
"Great news everyone," Drake said, "I had another team of Skylanders locate the remaining two elementals and send them back to Woodburrow and we even captured Kaos as well as Avarona for attempting to break the brat out of jail."
"I take it there's more good news?" Ice asked.
"There is," Percival said, "The brat pack's families have officially disowned their kids in an attempt to try and appease the Arkeyan Empire but they're still officially enemies of the state."
"So does that mean no more Stacey?" Drago asked.
"Pretty much," Percival said as Hsi Wu, Ice and Drago cheered loudly much to the chargin of the other JTeens, Alex, and Jade , "You have no idea how happy Sophie was when Kira forced Fiona to give up her parental rights to Sophie. Governess Karen has officially adopted Sophie as her daughter which means Kira is now her adoptive Aunt."
"I don't know about you but let's get the Terrasquid back to base," Zap said as the others guided the Terrasquid back to Woodburrow but before they could the Fire Viper showed up and began to attack.
"How do we fight something like that?" Camo asked.
"Allow me," Emperor Drake said using the main cannon on his flag ship to blast it to atoms with one strike, "Now we can go."
The team nodded and stayed silent as the Ancient Terrasquid returned to Woodburrow.