Talos, Maxios, Pyre, Elios, Crux, and Elika belong to Dragon Of Chaos97.
When Skyler was done forging the armor, each of them, except Maxios due to trust issues, had a different kind of armor on.
Skyler glanced at Talos and Crux while Spyro and Cynder went to try on their armor.
What's the matter, do you want armor or not?" he asked them. Talos chuckled while Crux closed his eyes as though he was concentrating on something. "I have a force field around me, skin tight, few things can get through it, I prefer to do things myself and it doesn't take much effort to create so...there you go."
Skyler nodded and turned to Crux who still had a mask of concentration on his face.
"Well, you want armor you can get it." Skyler offered. As if those words were somehow a catalyst Crux's body began to change, his scales molded and became harder than diamonds, bony ridges and spikes grew from his body. But the most noticable thing was the huge black carapace jutted out of his body, the bony frills overlapped each other to form extra protection that covered his wings as well and a mask of black bone covered most of his face. Skyler and Talos watched in amazement as Crux stretched his body like a cat, popping joints and jerked his head twice, [crack, crack!] Crux stared at the dumbstruck dragons through his head guard that covered his eyes that gave him a fairly impassive expression.
"It's called the armor gene, when I activate the gene my body adapts and reforms so I can handle more punishment, not as strong as your armor Skyler, but like Talos, I have and prefer my own way of protecting myself, its more familiar, so I don't mean any offense to you or your skills." Skyler was still dumbstruck. When he finally regained the composure to speak he barely kept himself from stuttering. "Seven is a hybrid like you and he can't do that." Crux shrugged and did a few exercises and flips to test his mobility. "Well," He said as he walked up the wall and flipped off in a few seconds. "I was a special case, even before I became a hybrid my biology was rare, it rejected the embryo when I got taken and cocooned like my colony. I was possibly the only human in the galaxy that could do that, so as you would think, that sparked a lot of interest among the scientists, particularly the bio-weapons department, they tested me and used all sorts of alien genes and powers they sampled, they tried to do the same thing with other test subjects, hundreds, but many were torn apart by the mutations, only two survived."
"But Seven wasn't there." Skyler cut in. For a brief moment Skyler thought Crux had shivered.
"I wasn't talking about Seven. I was talking about...Elika." He turned to Skyler. "I'm not telling you what happened to her. It's my secret and mine only." Crux stalked away. As Spyro and Cynder walked out of the armory, the former wearing heavy plate armor, the latter wearing chain mail and a simple iron helmet, Talos walked over to Maxios.
"Well, I guess this is it." Maxios knew that it washis que to leave but despite Skyler's hard gaze of scorn, he stayed put.
"Armor, or no armor, I'm coming with you." Skyler growled, to his surprise, Maxios stayed put. "I'm coming with my brother, I owe him a debt and I intend to pay it in full." Skyler sighed, "Fine, but don't come crying to me if you get killed."
The group arrives near the gates to the Bio-mech War Factory and Skyler scouts ahead while cloaked, but after three minutes returns.
"First gate is easy, second I couldn't scout due to motion sensors...but I know somebody who would love a good seige." said Skyler.
"Who?" asked Spyro.
"My uncle. You may want to cover your ears because when I call him, anybody nearby gets sore ears unless they're a Hybrid like me."
"Listen to him. It hurts really bad." said Seven.
The others cover their ears as a monsterous roar escapes Skyler shaking the entire region of Munitions Forge. Suddenly a portal appears and a 30 foot man steps out.
"Skyler! Ah been lookin' all ova for ya!" said the giant.
"Sorry Crush, but I have a job for you." said Skyler looking up at his uncle leaving everybody shocked.
"What is it?"
"Siege Warfare. Gates, that way."
"Haven't had me a good siege since the Crusades. Let me at 'em!"
Crush charged forward with his Titanium Steel War Hammer/Mace combo in hand and within thirty seconds, both gates were destroyed.
"Ah'll be leavin' now. Stay alive nephew, ya hear me?!" said Crush before going back to where he was thru his own portal.
"Now that's taken care of, let's destroy this place." said Skyler going forward as did the others but a huge Bio-mech that was about as big as Goro and at least as heavily muscled appeared before them.
"You guys go. I'll take care of this guy." said Skyler morphing into Johnny Cage.
"Show me what you got tough guy." said Cage/Skyler.
The Bio-mech grabbed Cage/Skyler's sunglasses and crashed them before throwing them to the ground and laughing in his face.
"I may not be Cage, but I liked those sunglasses!" said Cage/Skyler.
The Bio-mech swung, but missed because Cage/Skyler did the splits and uppercutted the Bio-mech in the balls.
The Bio-mech's eyes bulged in pain as he clutched his abused crotch.
Cage/Skyler delivered a Flash Kick to the mech's stomach sending him reeling backwards. Cage/Skyler then fired a green ball of energy that sent the mech closer to the edge until he was struggling to keep his balance.
"You just got caged." said Cage/Skyler as he poked the mech in the chest sending him plummeting into the river of lava below.
Skyler returned to normal and saw that none of the others had moved once the fight began.
"What?" he asked shrugging.
With that taken care of they continued onto the main facility and Skyler handed them 80 kilo explosives to place throughout the Factory. Skyler soon found the remains of Vasudan Research Frieghter and went inside to see five dead Terrans and saw a hologram recording disc and played it. The figure who appeared shocked him.
"One-Eye..." he whispered.
"{Skyler, if you ever find this transmission it means I have died or I have been lost. I cannot tell you where I am, but when we touched down on this planet we were attacked by a black, as you Terrans call them, dragon. My comrades were killed, but I managed to fight off the dragoness and I saw deep into her eyes that she did not enjoy it. If you know who she is, play this for her. I hope you show no grudge for I do not. May we meet again old friend.}" said the Vasudan with a cybernetic eye.
Keeping a hold on the disc, he left the transport and went to the entrance after he placed his explosives on a vat of Acetone and natural gas.
When the others arrived he said to make a run for it. They did and once they were at least 50 ft away, Skyler detonated the explosives. The Factory went up in a fiery inferno with sharpnel flying everywhere.
"Okay...I suggest we head back to WarFang and get new supplies before we go to Dante's Freezer." said Skyler and everybody agreed.
Guardians' Chambers:
Cynder entered the chamber to see Skyler talking to the Guardians when he noticed her.
"Cynder...I have something to show you." said Skyler hesistantly.
[Plays back holo-recording]
Cynder was wide eyed. She couldn't believe that whoever, or whatever, this person was he had forgiven her and had know that deep inside her when she was under Malefor's influence, she didn't do those things on purpose. She actually began to cry.
"Sorry, Cynder if it's a painful memory." said Skyler quietly.
"No...it's alright. I've always wondered what happened to him after he managed to chase me off, so he may still be alive." she said still crying.
"Yeah, One-Eye could survive a lot of punishment. I don't hold a grudge against you Cynder, never will. The old evil Cynder did that, not you, remember that." with that Skyler left the chamber and disappeared into the night.
"Cyny go home now." said Terrador and Cynder nodded and left.
END CHAPTER
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