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Chapter 2: The Training
It's been a week since Azalea has come to this Shuggazoom planet and she still hasn't gotten any answers yet from that Skeleton King bastard. He's been making her do non-stop training with her Powers of Darkness and having her practice her moves and combat on his formless so that she could get used to what actual battle was really like. And these formless were really working her too. At first she thought that fighting five formless at once was really hard, especially because she didn't know what she was doing, but now got the jest of using her powers. Even so, she still had a lot of work to do to be able to fight on equal terms with the Hyper Force.
Azalea was in the training room of the hide out that Skeleton King led her to using one of the formless. Five formless surrounded her in the wide and open room. She slightly bowed to them and drew her sword. She held it in her left hand and consistently slaughtered each and every one of the formless. It was a bit tricky trying to dodge their moves and attacks, but she managed and did so until they were all just a pool of black sludge on the floor.
At least that's what she thought.
Out of nowhere the last formless that avoided her sword attacks came up from behind her and slashed at her. She fell backwards on the ground and the formless knocked the sword out of her hand and out of reach. She arose onto her feet and maneuvered away from another one of its attacks just in time. Azalea shot out a blast of malevolent energy from the palms of her hands and caused it to blast apart the formless and its black ooze splattered everywhere. She stopped to catch her breath and picked up her sword and sheathed it on her right side.
"Not bad Azalea," the Skeleton King said through her brain chip. "But you're still a bit sloppy. You need more work on getting your moves down."
"But Skeleton King, it's only been a week. Surly it would have to take more time than that in order for me to get on equal grounds with the Hyper Force Team. They've been doing this much longer then I have."
"That's no excuse Azalea! I'll send you more formless to train and practice with. Until you master your Powers of Darkness perfectly I'm not going to let you out of there. So I suggest you keep working on them." He hung up once again and Azalea sighed. She didn't know that training with these powers was this hard. She found her newly found powers to be pretty cool and all, but still doesn't feel capable enough to go out in a real fight yet. She must get stronger, much stronger then she would ever dream to be. Azalea unconsciously shot out another blast of dark energy force from the palm of her hand and cracked apart the wall that she hit on impact. She looked around, hoping nobody saw that.
"Whoops."
At the team's Super Robot they were still mind boggled about what could've landed on Shuggazoom. As protectors of their planet it was their duty to protect the citizens and to make sure no harm came to them. They were all in front of the main computer of the robot and were trying to figure out what to do next. It's been almost a week and they still haven't had anything going on lately. No Skeleton King attacks or any sight of what could've been in that space pod. They found this awfully suspicious and had a feeling something big was going to happen soon.
"Has there been anything going on monkey team?" Chiro came in and asked.
"No, there hasn't," Gibson replied. "It's awfully strange since the Skeleton King hasn't made one move since then. I wonder if their preparing for something." Antauri was continuing to meditate in the air and to focus to see if he could sense the power that Gibson's device was reading before.
"Don't let your guard down team. You don't know when the Skeleton King might attack next. I still can't sense that dark power that I felt before when we were at the space pod crash sight." Nova pounded her fists together.
"I'm ready for anything."
"So what do we do now?" Sparx asked, sitting in one of the big oval chairs.
"Well if we can't track down whatever it is that landed on Shuggazoom at all, I think that we should just wait patiently and be on our guard," Chiro replied. Antauri stopped meditating and landed back on the ground.
"That's a good plan Chiro. We should save our energy for when we need it the most."
"Yes," said Gibson. "But who knows when that'll be."
"Whenever they come," said Nova. "But until then we'll be ready for him."
"And I could make some minor improvements to the Super Robot in the meantime," Otto said enthusiastically. He was off to the side with a box of tools next to him, working on a part of the robot to upgrade.
In the meantime Azalea was still in the hide out in the Savage Lands training. She was currently taking a break since the training was very harsh. She was lying down across the floor with sweat dripping from her forehead and neck. She felt like every part of her body was aching and stiff from how sore they were. Azalea knew that if she didn't get a break soon then she would probably injure herself really badly. After all the Skeleton King has been working her to death nonstop without any kind of break except for six hours of sleep during the night. She found this to be ridiculous.
"Azalea," the Skeleton King called in. "How is your training coming along."
"It's coming along good," she replied. "But do you think that I can take a day or two rest."
"And why's that?"
"Because, I don't think I can move even if I wanted to." Realizing that she's a mortal and her body can only take so much he let this one slid. He wanted to have her in top notch condition when Azalea begins fighting the Hyper Force.
"Fine," the Skeleton King replied. "I'll give you three days of rest and after that there's a test that I want you to take. If you pass then you'll be ready to fight the leader of the Hyper Force Team on equal ground."
"What kind of test is it?"
"One that you'll soon find out," he chuckled. He then went out and Azalea grew nervous. She wondered what the Skeleton King had in store for her, but at least she'll be all rested up and ready to go when the time does come. Azalea sat down on the floor and grabbed the world map that was on a nearby table that the Skeleton King gave her. She thought that she should use this time to rest her body and work her head for now. Azalea needed to know how to get around this Shuggazoom planet she was on after all. She didn't want to go out there in this strange world and not know where she's going. She also brushed up a tad bit on her moves the day before her test.
"It's a good thing that it's not a written out test. If it was then I'll never be able to pass."
Three days later the day has finally come. Azalea was dressed in a pair of black loose fitting pants with a tight violet shirt with brown boots. She also had her dark brown hair in a ponytail and her emerald green eyes were fierce looking. She prepared herself for what was about to come.
She went into the main communications computer that was in the hide out and the Skeleton King showed up on the screen. It was helpful to communicate to her through her brain chip when she was away, but at the same time can't see her. They looked at each other face to face.
"Azalea," the Skeleton King began. "I like that look in your eyes. You look ready for battle."
"Just cut to the chase," she said bluntly.
"You're going to go out into the Savage Lands and to make sure that you survive in there for one entire day and night. If you do then your training will end and your fight with the Hyper Force will begin."
"And if I don't…?"
"Then you will simply die in there and will have no use to me." Azalea shrugged her shoulders, unfazed by his answer.
"Sure, I can do that."
"Then the test starts…NOW!" She rushed out of the hide out as fast as she could and ran out into the Savage Lands for a while.
When she was quite a ways away from civilization she stopped and caught her breath. She looked around herself and saw that there were all kinds of vegetation, huge and thick trees surrounding her and most importantly a lot of dangerous predators lurking about. Azalea thought that it was ridiculous for the Skeleton King to just have her spend one full day and night here. She began walking around and cutting down any kind of vines or vegetation that was in her way. She easily let her guard down.
"Heh, of course I can spend twenty four hours here. I mean, how hard can it be?" Azalea didn't look where she was going and accidentally bumped into something. She fell down on the ground backwards and a loud roar echoed throughout the jungle-like place. Turns out she ran into a dinosaur that looked closely related to a T-Rex. It roared again and began chasing after her. She sprinted away from it as fast as she could and wasn't expecting herself to encounter something so dangerous this fast.
In no time Azalea began coming up to a swamp that appeared to look like the water was made out of black mud and sludge. She saw that there was a pretty sturdy looking vine overhead and thought of a plan to be rid of this dinosaur. Azalea waited for the last minute and jumped up high to the vine and swung over the swamp while the dinosaur got trapped within the black mud. The reptilian tried to get out of it, but the more it struggled the deeper that it sunk into the swamp until it was swallowed whole by the ground. It reminded Azalea much like quick sand…except in a swamp. She was so glad that she didn't decide to take a step in there.
"What the hell is wrong with this place?! And why are dinosaurs here?!" She thought about what the Skeleton King said and realized that this might be harder then she thought. It hasn't even been a half hour yet and she was already having problems trying to survive in these such harsh conditions. Azalea had doubts about if she could survive or not. She slapped herself on the forehead. "Duh, Azalea, your on a distant planet galaxies away from Earth. Of course they have dinosaurs here!"
Over the course of the day she had more encounters with nature then she would like to have. She had all kinds of problems like when she was trying to grab a vine, it happened to be a poisonous snake, doing her best to make some shelter for herself before nighttime came, gathering food to eat and finding the nearest fresh water stream. Azalea managed to do all of this, but it was a hard day for her and wondered if she could still handle this when nighttime falls. She got bitten by quite a few insects and had scratches and minor injuries covering her arms legs and torso. She never felt so filthy and disgusting in her entire life.
When nighttime fell the Savage Lands were even crueler. Azalea built a hammock in one of the trees because she didn't want to be on the ground where all of the hostile animals and insects were. Azalea couldn't sleep at all and for the entire night stayed wide awake with only four hours of sleep at the most. The noises of the jungle also freaked her out and startled her, preventing her from getting a good night's sleep.
When morning came and the sun began rising into the sky she got up from her hammock and climbed down the tree. She ate some fruit and berries that she found yesterday for her breakfast and thought that was the most ruthless day and night that she's ever experienced before. Azalea certainly found the Savage Lands to be unpleasant to anything that lives within it. In these lands it survival to the fittest. Azalea surprisingly didn't get any kind of incoming call from the Skeleton King and thought to herself that maybe he changed his mind, because he couldn't have just forgotten. She shrugged and continued to venture through the jungle.
As soon as Azalea arrived to the freshwater stream that she was at she kneeled down beside it and scooped up handfuls of water to drink. She wanted to make sure that she kept her strength up and that she was prepared for any kind of living creature or thing that came her way.
However as she continued to drink handfuls of water from the stream a horde of formless came up from behind her and began merging into one giant formless creature. Azalea wiped the water dripping from the sides of her mouth. Before she could turn around to see what it was the huge formless grabbed her in its hands and squeezed her tightly. The formless was gripping her so hard that she couldn't budge an inch and felt the creature squeezing her like a sponge. Azalea managed to focus on her Powers of Darkness and pushed it out through her hands, until her entire hand turned into a burning malevolent darkness. This badly burned the giant formless creature's hand and he immediately let go of her. Azalea turned her hands back to normal and drew her sword. It lifted up its fists and began to assault her once again. She side stepped its attack and cut its hand off, but saw that in just less than a few seconds that its hand regenerated. She pondered over how to defeat this thing, but instead got smashed with its fists. This pushed her back a great amount and she fell back into the water stream. Azalea didn't pay attention to her soaking wet clothes.
"Looks like the only way to defeat this thing is to do as I fight all the other formless." She put up her right palm to face towards the creature and a dark blast of energy pierced its abdomen. While the creature was trying to recover Azalea didn't hesitate to charge in and slash apart its body until it turned into a giant pile of black ooze. She sheathed her sword at her side and was glad that it was all over.
Soon afterwards the Skeleton King contacted her, saying that she passed the test and was allowed to come back to the hide out within the Savage Lands. She felt proud of herself for surviving such harsh conditions and now was one step closer to achieving her goal.
Once she was back inside of the hide out Azalea was in front of the big high tech computer and was talking to the Skeleton King face to face.
"You've done a good job Azalea. Now that you've passed the test you can now go and achieve your true goal, which is destroying the Hyper Force."
"Yes, I understand Skeleton King, but can I ask you something?"
"Go ahead."
"Why do you want me to destroy this Hyper Force Team? Surly your more powerful than I am, but yet you give me all these powers and resources. Why? Or do you just want me to do the dirty work for you."
"You are more of a match for Chiro then me. You really are quite powerful Azalea, but you just need more time in order to reach your true potential. Since the monkeys are more focused on me and don't know of you yet, I can distract them easier while you can stealthily high jack their plans." His explanation made sense to her, but felt like he was dodging her question and didn't give her a straight out answer. Since the Skeleton King failed in the show so many times it would make sense to bring her into his plans, especially since the team doesn't know her capabilities yet.
"So what's the plan?" Azalea asked.
So hows the story so far? Please tell me if anything doesn't make sense to you or see any kind of errors! I will answer Azalea's questions that I've mentioned so far in the story in future chapters if your wondering. Nobody can judge their own writing, sadly. NO flames please!
