Talos, Maxios, Pyre, Elios, Kai, and Crux belong to Dragon. Of. Chaos97.
Crux awoke with a start and clutched his head as his headache slowly went away. He looked around at his sorroundings and found himself inside a cell. His eyes caught another sight and he jumped back at the sight. In front of him was a very tall person, roughly 20 ft, he had blue eyes, black dreadlocks, an eye and a cheek scar, a red and black "X" thru his left eye, greenish-orange scales and fur...
'WAIT! SCALES AND FUR?!' thought Crux in shock and looked at the person again and noticed him pulling dark crystals from his chest and green chest armor laying to the side.
"See you're awake again." said the person as he removed the last crystal shard from his chest and replaced the armor.
The person then got up and Crux noticed two dragon wings folded against the guy's back along with FIFTEEN tails. He jumped again and noticed something odd...
He looked at his hands and saw the claws of a Xenomorph...he winced at the sight...he realized he had gotten used to being a dragon.
Skyler looked at the cell door and kicked it open with a crash. The nearby guard jumped up, raised his Pulse Rifle, but before he could fire a shot...four claws erupted from his back. He dropped his gun as he was hoisted into the air, he felt his lungs fill up with blood, the giant before him then impaled him again and pulled in opposite directions.
The guard split in two and his entrails along with his blood splattered throughtout the room. Skyler picked up the Pulse Rifle and turned back to Crux and pumped the gun's loading mechanism.
"You coming kid?" said the giant looking at Crux.
"Y-yeah." answered Crux with slight shock and hesistation. Where had he seen this guy before?
"Here." said the man throwing him the gun.
"Wh-what?"
"I got a bigger gun."
The man pulled out a giant mini-gun and advanced towards the door and kicked it down then the gun fired and a beam instead of bullets came out and Crux could here the sounds of soldiers getting killed. The man then walked out the door and he could hear a man struggling to get away.
Suddenly a soldier was thrown into the room and the giant reappeared and advanced on the scared soldier.
[SHING!]
Two wrist-blades came out of the man's right wrist and then Crux felt something familiar about this guy. Suddenly a black metal whip wrapped itself around the soldier's thraot.
"COME HERE!" yelled the giant and the soldier was sent hurtling into the man's grip.
Suddenly four of the tails grabbed the soldier's arms and legs and pinned them to the wall and a fifth tail formed into a buzzsaw.
"Let's see how you like being somebody's science experiment!" said the giant as blackness began to spread over his skin, scales, and fur as the buzzsaw began to get closer.
Then it dawned on Crux.
'This is Skyler?! Last time I saw him in this world, he was taller than one of those hunters!' thought the confused Xeno-human as he saw the buzzsaw rip into the soldier's stomach.
Crux looked away although the Xeno side of him wanted to see the carnage he fought the urge until the screaming went away.
"Stupid Wayland Industries!" yelled Skyler putting his fist thru the wall, "How dare they steal my research! I'll gut all of them!"
"W-what are you talking about?" asked Crux taking a small step closer.
"After the war and well after you 'died', I began studying Zerg and Xenomorph DNA on PRISONERS with a LIFE or a DEATH sentence! I made sure any labs I had built were heavily guarded by local allies or my creations and judging from what this soldier knew, they got my research from my Research Lab on Raptoria. Beautiful place if you don't mind wild dinosaurs after you...Which reminds me...[Whistles]"
Suddenly from out of nowhere came two Utahraptors, one orage with black strips, the other yellow with black stripes. Upon seeing Skyler, they jumped on him and began licking his face and...talking!
"Skyler! Where've you been buddy?!" said the yellow one.
"Yeah! Yeah! What he said!" said the orange one.
"Calm down you two! How long have I been gone to make you miss me this much?" said Skyler getting the two raptors off him.
"Ohhhhh, roughly 5,000 years." said the yellow one.
"5,000 YEARS?!" nearly screamed Crux at this.
"Easy. World travel messes up your understanding of time, each world, or universe for that matter, has its own time protocols. Besides, I'm over the fact with time distortion." said Skyler then a smirk appeared on his face and he turned to the two raptors.
"Who's in charge of this space station?"
"Dr. K's grandson, who despite his grandfather's "untimely" death kept working on his grandfather's "research"." replied the yellow one.
"Good...good...Heh heh, this'll be fun..." said Skyler cloaking.
"Better hurry kid. Skyler doesn't wait for slow pokes." said the yellow before running off.
"What he said." said the orange one before following the yellow one.
Suddenly screeching was heard as was gunshots and screams and Crux shuddered at what those two raptors did and decided to try to follow Skyler despite him being INVISIBLE.
Crux wondered throughout the space station blindly while looking for Skyler. He was still carrying the Pulse Rifle even those his claws didn't let him get a good grip around the trigger, but he managed.
"How do you lose somebody that's 20 feet tall?!" he said to himself as he frantically searched for the giant.
He stopped at a three-way intersection and began looking down the halls when clanking was heard coming from the left. He slowly turned and got the weapon into a firing position and was expecting a Marine to come from there, but instead he got a FlameThrower Marine. The Flamer lifted his flamethrower up and pointed it at Crux.
"FRY FREAK!" said the Flamer as a stream of blue (radioactive) fire came barreling at Crux.
Suddenly the flames appeared to strike an invisible barrier stunning both until the barrier decloaked revealing Skyler. Skyler grabbed the flamethrower's nozzle and bent it upwards and changed his left wrist gauntlet into a flamethrower of sorts.
"This burns hotter than 3,000 suns and I have just one word for you..." said Skyler pointing it at the Flamer.
"What?"
"BURN."
A stream of regular fire came out but the Flamer, despite being in a fire-proof suit (otherwise know as being the "Monkey Suit" due to its appearance), screamed in agony and flailed about as the flames began melting the suit. Suddenly a kunai appeared in Skyler's hand and soon a 'thunk' was heard and then the hallway was engulfed in a fiery explosion with Skyler whirling around and putting his wings out.
When the Skyler refolding his wings, Crux saw the charred kneeling corpse of the Flamer and touched it, its entire body turned to ash as its skull hit the metal floor. The two then continued onto the Command Center.
Command Center Door
Two Marines were guarding the doorway, when two, then four, then six, then eight blue Lightsabers went thru the door and made a decent sized circular shape into its frame. When the circle was complete, the sabers disappeared. Suddenly the circle was kicked in crushing the two guards as it flew away and hit a radar generator in the center of room. Suddenly two frags went flying into the room and exploded killing roughly eight new Marines within their blast radius. The remaining twenty then swarmed the door as the smoke failed to clear. Suddenly they all heard the familiar sound of Lightsabers being ignited.
In a blur of light Skyler came flying in, decapitating Marines with each swing and his style made Grievus look like nothing. Each tail held a Lightsaber and each acted in their own way, never stricking each other as Skyler mowed down the first wave, any stragglers were shot as Crux came in firing rounds. Crux barely dodged a pistol shot as a Marine got up. Crux jumped to the ceiling with the soldier still trying to pelt the Xeno-human while slowly making his way towards a window.
The soldier fumbled with a new magazine and Crux jumped at him, shocking the soldier. Crux grabbed him by the shoulders, jumped over the soldier, and tossed him at the window, busting it open, sucking the Marine into the vacuum of space before the emergency door shut. Skyler walked over to the Xeno-human as he put his Lightsabers away.
"That was too easy...something's amiss..." said Skyler looking around as his eyes glazed over blue.
"So, you figured it out." said an old voice causing the two to turn around and they both gaped at the man.
He was well over 4,000 years old judging by the wrinkles and liver spots, a blind eye, and the cane he used to hold himself up.
"I brought you two back to see if anything could be learned, unfortunately the inter-dimensional travel warped both your bodies, so nothing can be found out. You both must be terminated. Don't worry Crux, you'll still benefit science once we dissect you." said the man with a smirk.
Crux was ready to rip the man to shreds right there, but then a dark voice stopped him.
"You make me sick! Experimenting on a sixteen year old is torture! He may have lost everybody he knew, but he could have had a life and you sick pompous science freaks took it away! I'll destroy this entire station and leave you to your creation! Sure I experiment with Xeno DNA, but I DON'T USE CIVILIANS, I USE PRISONERS WITH LIFE OR DEATH SENTENCES!" yelled Skyler his dragon appearance coming out more and heavy black smoke coming from his jaws.
"You won't win." said Dr. Maxwell.
Suddenly 30 Marines surrounded the two and had their Pulse Rifles pointed at the fuming Dragon Hybrid and the stunned Xeno-human hybrid. Suddenly Skyler started laughing darkly, stunning everybody in the room.
"How many of these soldiers were hit with an Infestation Spore when they entered my Lab?" asked Skyler darkly.
"All but five. Why?" asked the old man taking a step back.
"And how long does it take for the Spore to take effect?"
"Thirty minutes."
"[Imitates Buzzer] WRONG! With MY Spores, it's INSTANT! YOU INFESTED THESE MEN!" said Skyler nearly becoming hysterical with his dark laughter.
"Welcome to the end of your life." said Skyler mimicking Malefor's voice as he snapped his fingers.
25 of the soldiers' chest burst open with greenish tentacles flailing out of the gape. Their faces, bodies, and arms mutated until they no longer resembled humans, but Infesteds.
Suddenly a black Xeno with a symbol on his head and ruined blue jeans tackled a Marine and put his tail thru his chest.
"Sorry I'm late Boss." said Seven moving onto another Marine as Infested bullets flew all over the place aiming for any uninfested Marines.
Suddenly two screeches were heard as two scientists were tackled and ripped apart by the two Utahraptors from early.
"Just like old times, huh Riptor?" said the yellow one as he ripped a Marine in half.
"Yeah! Old times, Raptor!" said Riptor as he tackled another Marine.
"Hey Skyler! We brought a friend." said Raptor turning towards the doorway.
[Monstrous Roar]
A fairly large teenaged Rex burst thru the remains of the doorway and chomped a Marine in half. Turning towards Skyler, the rex gave a nod and went charging further into the carnage.
"Maxwell is mine!" said Crux charging after the fleeing old man.
Maxwell was stumbling thru the hallways of the station as more and more of the soldiers onboard became Infested and began shooting at him, suddenly they stopped and the sounds of something crawling on the ceiling reached his ears. Turning around, he pulled a small syringe with a green liquid in it out of his trench coat, but suddenly had it pulled out of his hands.
"Sorry, no weapons for you." said the black mist sorrounding him, "I'll leave you to Crux."
Crux dropped down from the ceiling behind Maxwell and poised his tail for the fatal strike...
Skyler back at the Command Center awaited his shadow's return with the syringe.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-" came a piercing scream as the shadow returned.
"Here's the Eperimental Xeno Posion, sir." said the mist as he handed him the syringe and returned to Skyler's feet as a shadow.
"Why'd I even make this stuff?" said Skyler as he crushed it in his hand.
Crux walked back into the room, bloodied and distraught.
"Revenge without a just cause, is bitter-sweet." said Skyler as he activated the portal.
"Why do you say that?" asked Crux.
"Your revenge against Wayland Industries is understandable, after all, Scarface hates both companies about as much as you."
"Wait. Both?"
"Borgia Industries stole Predator tech in 1930 when he...broke some laws, he comes back in 2030 to reclaim his honor and revenge and succeeds. I hate both companies for their way of experimenting, especially on a kid with a special gene. They'll lose everything here when I'm done."
A Marine raised his pistol and aimed for the back of Crux's head, squeezing the trigger and Seven saw this.
"Look out!" yelled Seven pushing Crux out the way as the bullet went thru Seven's back and out the chest and fell limply to the ground.
"NO!" yelled Skyler and fired a stream of fire from his gauntlet at the Marine roasting him.
Skyler walked over to Seven who was trying to get up, but failing.
"Rick...I remember...who I...was..." said Seven as he tried to get up.
"I'm sorry...Harbison..." said Skyler tears filling his eyes.
"Its...okay...grief makes people do weird things...I actually want to thank you buddy..."
"Why?"
"...You always liked adventures...I've been with you in this form not remembering who I was...until now and I alway enjoyed fighting by your side...both when I was a pilot alongside you in the war...and now...give me a Void grenade and head back to Spyro's world...my time is up...pal..." pieces of Xeno skin began to fall off Seven as he was handed the grenade and put his finger to the activation mechanism.
Both Crux and Skyler went thru the portal as Harbison closed it...
"Alright...lets see how well they last before they take me..." said the HumanAlien as he picked up a Pulse Rifle, pumped the loading mechanism as Infested Marines began lining up side by side to him.
"Glad...I...stayed with you old friend..." whispered Harbison as he began firing at the oncoming wave of desperate Marines, "I enjoyed the new form anyway."
Those were his last words as the grenade exploded creating a purple vortex that sucked the station and its occupants into the Void.
Skyler and Crux exited the portal to find themselves 1,200 feet above the Acdemy and began falling. Crux looked at his paws and saw dragon scales instead of Xeno skin and sighed, but then realize...HE WAS PLUMMETING TO HIS DEATH! He felt a cold hand grab him and he latched onto the person't back and then realized...Skyler shape-shifted...again!
"This'll be fun." said Sub-Zero/Skyler as he began creating an ice slide in multiple loops and angles as he slid down the pathway with Crux latched to his back.
"Are you crazy?!" yelled the xeno dragon.
"Maybe." was Sub-Zero/Skyler's reply as they slid along the ice slide coming closer and closer to the Acdemy's entrance.
Sub-Zero/Skyler then jumped off the slide and landed twenty feet in front of the Acdemy inside a giant ice lake while still apearing as Sub-Zero.
"Ten point landing, nice." he said returning to normal and Crux got off dizzily.
"Never again..." he mumbled before running off and losing his lunch.
2 Hours Later
Skyler and Spyro went into the sparring ring and Skyler snapped his neck causing everybody to flinch and then took his stance on all fours.
"Rules?" asked Spyro.
"Everything permitted, no killing though, sparring match is over until one or both of us is unable to continue or you get a death grip on your oppenent." said Skyler, "Now then...let's bring Dark Spyro out."
Spyro froze as Skyler was on top of him and activated his Shattered Eye pulling both into an illusion...
END CHAPTER
NOTE: Spyro is current, Legendary is the old 35-year old Spyro from when Sgt. Byrd was around.
Also for those wondering, Riptor, Raptor, and the rex got out safely.