"The Brave 12 and the Scotsman"


They, the Brave 12, were travelling through the forest when they noticed a huge support system and followed it, hearing the ropes creak.

"Wow!" remarked J.D. "That is a huge support system."

"No kidding," Varie responded.

They soon came to a lengthy bridge that extends into a dense fog bank.

"Hmm," J.D. muttered. "This bridge can only hold one person at a time."

"We'll have to fly on the sides while Jack and Jessie go on the bridge," Varie suggested.

"That sounds good to me," Jack replied.

"I agree," answered Jessie.

J.D., Varie, Vince, Naruto, Sakura, and Fu were on the right side of the bridge, while Lincoln, Laney, Lisa, and Lily were on the left and Jack and Jessie were walking. They'd been walking and flying across the bridge for 18 hours when they suddenly heard bagpipes playing.

"Bagpipe music," Laney explained.

"I wonder what's coming our way," Lincoln mused.

"We'll find out in a few seconds," Naruto promised. "I see someone coming."

On the bridge, they noticed a figure emerge from the fog and approach them. It was a Scotsman.

"A Scotsman," J.D. explained.

"What brought him all the way out here?" Lily wondered.

"We'll find out shortly," Fu said.

When the Scotsman noticed them, he stopped playing.

"The Brave 12," the Scotsman stated with a Scottish accent. "I've heard a lot about you, we lads and lassies."

"We apologize for interrupting you, sir, but are we getting closer to the other side of the bridge?" J.D. asked.

No far from it, laddie, the Scotsman replied. "I've been walking across this bridge for days."

"Boy, this bridge is longer than we first thought," J.D. commented.

They heard an enormous explosion and saw two large one-wheel machines approaching them from both sides of the bridge. Bounty hunters were after them.

"They're after me!" Jack and the Scotsman yelled. "After you? They're after me!"

A pig bounty hunter opened fire with his gun and fired a set of shackles their way.

"Aku's got a price on my head!" cried the Scotsman.

"Aku has a price on my head!" Jack shouted back.

The shackles attached to Jack and the Scotsman.

The bounty hunters were getting closer.

"We have to destroy the bounty hunters," J.D. declared.

He attacked the pig bounty hunter with an energy blast, destroying his vehicle.

"I've got this," Jessie assured.

She unsheathed her sword and launched a fireball at the farmer bounty hunter and his car, destroying them both.

But the bridge collapsed, and they plummeted into a swamp.

"Great job lads and lassies," the Scotsman remarked sarcastically. "Do you know where we are?"

"We're in a swamp," J.D. replied.

"We're safe from those bounty hunters for the time being," Vince added.

"Yeah, but we have to find shelter before they find us," Fu responded.

"I agree," Jack replied. "We are defenseless in this lagoon."

"Aye," answered the Scotsman.

They arrived at the shore and headed into the forest.

"What I don't understand is why Aku is after you," mused the Scotsman.

"It's because Jack has a sword that can destroy Aku," J.D. explained.

"Yes," Vince agreed. "As our top priority, we have a powerful mission. Our mission is to help Jack in returning to the past, so he can finish what he started and fully destroy Aku."

"Well, good luck to you lads," the Scotsman responded. "You are all infamous."

They come upon a metal wall with a wanted poster of Jack on it.

"You laddies were right," remarked the Scotsman.

"Yep," Lincoln nodded.

J.D. cut a hole in the wall, revealing an abandoned bayou town.

"This town has been here for a while," Jessie noted.

"No kidding," J.D. replied.

"Let me see if I can cut you two free," Jessie suggested.

"Okay," Jack replied.

Jack and the Scotsman extended the shackle chain. Jessie drew her sword, sliced the chain, and broke it.

"That did it," Jack declared.

J.D. hears something coming.

They noticed a bunch of vehicles approaching, and it was the bounty hunters.

"Here they come!" shouted J.D.

"Let's go get them!" shouted Vince.

They charged and sliced apart a bunch of gator robots armed with guns, causing them to explode.

The Scotsman headbutt a bunch of them and they exploded.

It was becoming an explosive fight.

The Scotsman grabbed a tank and chased after some bounty hunters before throwing it at them, crushing them and firing at additional bounty hunters, who exploded.

Robot alligator dogs bit the Scotsman on the arms.

The Scotsman was laughing. "Is that the best you can do?"

He slammed them and destroyed them.

A gator bounty hunter fired a machine gun at Naruto, and he slashed all the bullets with lightning fast speed.

Jessie slashed the robot, and it exploded.

"Let's get 'em!" J.D. yelled.

They charged at the rest of the bounty hunters, yelled a battle cry, and sliced all the robots into bits.

The Scotsman used his machine gun leg to destroy them even further.

The entire Bayou town was destroyed.

They were panting and sheathing their swords.

"I'd say we've wiped out our bounty hunter problem," the Scotsman observed.

"For now," Jack added.

"Aye," the Scotsman replied. "For now."

"Yeah," J.D. agreed. "But we'll never be safe. Aku will always send bounty hunters and mercenaries after us, and we will always be ready."

"Yeah," Varie agreed.

"Affirmative," Lisa responded.

"We'll always be ready for them," Naruto added.

"That's right," Sakura acknowledged.

"Aye," answered the Scotsman.

Later, they continued their journey.

Continues in Part 9