Jason didn't know why his sleeve tasted like hot sauce. He had been chewing on it the entire time he traveled through Frostfest Mountain. He chews on it nervously every time he traverses the blizzard engulfed hiding place of the Frost Hound. Blast Blade rested frozen on the Portal by Jason's bedside. However on his t.v. screen, the Swap Force Skylander had cut a cyclops in half with his bladed ice skate. It was the last one and Blast Blade lifted the light in the lamp. The level ended and the cutscene began. The Frost Hound smiled as a pair of gloves with purple claws came from behind it and grabbed the Frost Hound. Jason jumped in his bed and covered his eyes. Why am I scared so easily?
"Hey Jason?" Mason pushed the door to their bedroom quickly, startling Jason again.
"YIPES!" Jason cried.
"Just finished Frostfest Mountain?" Mason assumed. Jason nodded which made Mason give a small chuckle. "Co-op Arena?"
"Sure, let's do it!" Jason said enthusiastically. He skipped the cutscene and Blast Blade arrived back in Woodburrow. Jason lifted the Skylander off the Portal and tossed him to Mason who was by the drawer with their massive collection of Skylanders. "We should play with some of the original Skylanders."
Mason caught Blast Blade and put him in the drawer. "Well I was already planning on using Dino-Rang. You?"
Jason thought for a second. "I'll be Boomer."
Mason found the two Skylanders and took them out. He handed Boomer to Jason and he placed him on the Portal, making the tech Skylander appear in the game. Mason pressed START on his controller and put Dino-Rang on the Portal next to Boomer. Jason brought up the menu, picked an arena, and the two started fighting the waves.
The two had become pretty good and cooperating in the game which is more than they could say in the real world. Aside from Skylanders the two twin brothers had practically nothing in common. Jason was a goofball and never took anything seriously. The practical jokester was always wise cracking except when it came to anything remotely scary. The kid was as jumpy as a ten year old after five shots of espresso. Mason on the other hand was a relatively chill person. He took notice of everything but responded to almost nothing. The two disagreed on just about everything, but when Skylanders Spyro's Adventure became a huge franchise, they both loved it.
"You wonder what those medallions are for?" Jason asked after kicking a bomb into an ice geargolem.
"Hmm?" Mason responded, very focused on taking out the cyclopses that surrounded him.
"The ones Mrs. Garner gave us at the library? Kyle's dad gave them to us." Jason responded.
Mason cleared the last cyclops with a boomerang. "What's so special? They just look cool. That is what I assume."
"I mean sure, but it's pretty random don't you think?" Jason said after taking care of the food thief.
Mason paused the game and looked at his brother. "I've been thinking about those things too, but I honestly think it is nothing. It's just a nice gift."
At that moment, Jason's phone buzzed. He picked it from his pocket and looked at the caller ID. "Dude, it's Kyle."
"Well answer it. Kyle never calls people." Mason told him.
Jason answered the phone and lifted it to his ear. "Yo Kyle-"
"Stop everything you are doing and come outside right now." Kyle spoke into the phone.
"Kyle, why do you sound like some old English dude?"
"I will explain it when you get down here!"
"You're outside our house?"
"YES!"
"Oh, alright, we'll be there in a second." Jason said and then hung up.
"What did he want?" Mason asked.
Jason shrugged. "For some reason he's outside, sounds like a British guy, and wants us to meet him."
Mason gave him a puzzled look. "Oh, alright then, I guess let's go down."
The two got up from their beds and headed outside of their house. Their front porch was quiet with only the sound of crickets chirping. Jason looked around. "Kyle? KYYLLEE?" he whispered loudly.
"Over here!" came the same British voice Jason heard on the phone.
Jason turned around and saw a small light coming from the side of their house that lead to the backyard. He and Mason walked towards the light expecting something normal like fireflies or a weird lamp thing that their parents had put out. They were not prepared however to see a real life Skylander standing in front of them. Much less, a seven foot knight made of silver and blue armor and shooting flames out of every possible area.
Mason and Jason's jaws dropped at the same time. "Uhhhh, why is there an Ignitor right in front of us." Jason asked still gaping at the fire knight.
"I wish I knew" Mason responded.
"Guys it's me, Kyle" Ignitor said.
Jason leered at Ignitor. "Oh yeah? How do we know?"
Ignitor pointed at Jason. "You slept with a night light until you were fifteen" he then pointed at Mason. "And you wet your bed seven times in a row."
Mason lowered his head. "Yup, it's him."
"How did this happen though?" Jason asked. "How are you a Skylander?"
Ignitor shrugged his shoulders. "I have no idea. I was at the gas station and this happened completely randomly."
Mason put his hand on his chin. "Well, what if you are another Skylander that's been appearing in the newspaper. What if all the Skylander sightings are really humans?"
"Come to think of it, the gas station was getting robbed, and the robber turned into a Trigger Happy at the same time." Ignitor told them. He seemed to suddenly be looking behind the two towards the street. "Umm, guys?"
Jason and Mason turned around. "What?"
Directly behind them was Trigger Happy. "YOU!" the gremlin squealed. "Step aside chumps! The weird guy on fire is going down!" Trigger Happy said to the twins.
Ignitor didn't wait for them to get out of the way and thrust towards the gremlin. Trigger Happy ducked while the twins rolled out of the way. Jason tumbled into a bush and Mason dashed behind the house into one of the unlit places.
Trigger Happy fired his golden guns at Ignitor who somehow blocked every shot with his sword. After a couple hundred rounds, his guns jammed and Ignitor took the opportunity to shoot out a ball of flame from his inside. He missed by a hair, and that hair caught on fire. Trigger Happy tossed his guns away and started running around franticly while patting his behind. "YOWEE YOWEE HOT HOT HOT!" he cried. He hopped on his butt and the fire extinguished. Ignitor returned the ball of flame to his body and lifted his sword ready to strike. Before he could, Trigger Happy out of nowhere pulled out a mini machine gun and fired at Ignitor. The flame knight withdrew his sword and turned around, allowing the shield on his back to take each hit. Although it blocked all the bullets, Jason could here Ignitor grunting from the pressure of each hit.
Jason slowly got up and groaned. "Ow, stupid rose bushes with thorns." He got to his knees and took in a big whiff of the air. "What is that smell." Something also felt off about his behind. He took his hand and waved it behind him which was interrupted by a furry length. "What the?!" He shot up and looked behind him. Extended from his buttocks was a green tail with a white stripe running down the middle. He looked at his hands which were green and three claws extended from his nubby fingers. Running down the middle of his chest was a strap that held individual ninja shurikens. Before Jason could feel the shock of becoming a green ninja skunk, he looked back at Trigger Happy who was still firing away with his machine gun.
Jason snuck around the bush and felt and saw his skin go invisible leaving only green stench lines in the air. He tiptoed around Trigger Happy who was too busy shooting Ignitor to notice Jason at all. When he got close enough, Jason rushed forward and struck Trigger Happy with an open palm, making the gremlin flop onto his side and the golden machine gun to disappear. Trigger Happy got up and glared at Jason. He pulled out his golden pistols and fired at Jason. Without flinching, Jason grabbed a handful of shurikens and threw them towards Trigger Happy. Each shuriken blocked a bullet and Jason seemed to never run out.
"Ugh! That is it!" Trigger Happy yelped with his temper rising. He lifted his nubby arms and a giant golden pot of gold coins appeared. "I'll crush you if it's the last thing-!" He was interrupted by a fist-more like a boxing glove- ramming into him. Trigger Happy was flew into a tree and then flopped on his face.
From out of the shadows where Mason had gone appeared a dark figure. It had pale skin, two fangs shooting from its mouth, white combed hair and what seemed to be a black and red boxers robe. From the sleeves, came a bluish gray mist that entered into the black boxing glove that had the image of a skull on them. From the bottom where the legs should be was only mist.
The vampire boxer stared at Jason. Ignitor turned around and was shocked at what he was seeing as well.
Jason looked at Ignitor, then the figure in front of him. "Mason?" The vampire nodded. "You're a-"
"Night Shift? Yeah, and you're a-"
"Stink Bomb…" His voice seemed a bit different from before, but Mason sounded more Russian than anything."
"Okay, so now you two are Skylanders?" Ignitor asked. Stink Bomb and Night Shift turned to him and shrugged in unison. "Something tells me this wasn't a coincidence."
Night Shift lowered his eyes in thought and then they widened instantly. "The medallions! The ones your father gave us. They might be why."
"Well if that's true then what about-" Stink Bomb entered but then stopped as Night Shift and Ignitor looked at him.
"Eddy and Bell!"
The three of them started running away, all of them knowing they had to find the other two. Stink Bomb took a moment to look behind him and saw Trigger Happy being lifted onto a Voodood's shoulders and taken away.
Trigger Happy slumped over on the ground. He woke up and looked up hazily. "Huh? What? Where? Who?"
"Quiet, small one!" Voodood grunted and slammed the butt of his axe on the ground next to him. Trigger Happy jumped up, startled and weary of his surroundings. His eyes were wide and his tongue remained motionless in his mouth.
Through the darkness came a voice. "I told you that you would have great powers in time, and what do you do? You make the naïve and reckless decision to rob a convenience store!"
"Umm, actually it was a gas station." Trigger Happy corrected.
"I DO NOT CARE!" the voice said. Trigger Happy jumped, but then heard the mysterious voice take a deep breath in. "Now these other Skylanders know who you are. We cannot allow this. The masters plan will not work with stupid actions such as the ones you've done. Flashwing!"
A white dragon appeared next to Trigger Happy. It had a blue underbelly and purple crystals extending from her head and wings. "Yes sir?" Flashwing asked with confidence.
"Go with Trigger Happy to ensure he does not fail this time." Flashwing nodded, gave a small bow, and then turned to leave. Trigger Happy turned around beside her and hopped on her back. Flashwing stopped.
"Get off me, idiot!" she grunted and then bucked Trigger Happy off her back. Trigger Happy shuffled back onto his feet and then walked out the doors by her side.
A tall bruting man with bright red skin and goggles resting on his forehead stood next to the mysterious figure. "You think they can handle this?" he said with a brooklyn accent.
"I do not know Kaboom. Keep them monitored" the leader said.
"What Voodood do?" the orc asked.
"Keep training. We will need your skills if we are to stop them."
Eddy's mouth was gaped open. As a GameStop regular, they had called him saying the latest Skylander haul had just arrived. After begging his mom to take him he arrived with one hundred dollars that he had been saving up to make another spending binge. Isabella stood next to him as she had also received the call.
"I just don't know which one to get!" Eddy said. "There are so many!"
Isabella scanned the wall of Skylanders. Finally her eyes popped open and she smiled. "There you are!" She got on her tiptoes and grabbed a Tuff Luck Trap Master from the top shelf.
Eddy couldn't choose. Finally, he saw a package of a Spy Rise which he had been looking for since they came out. He bent over to grab it when he made the mistake of looking up. In a purple package was a hooded figure in a red robe with a purple translucent staff.
"Gyahh!" he said as he flopped on his back. Isabella doubled over laughing.
"Oh come on Eddy. Enigma is not that scary. He's a good guy!" Isabella got out between breaths. Eddy sat up and glared at Isabella.
"He looks like a villain, Bell! He's creepier than Golden Queen. He should be the leader of the Doom Raiders. Yeesh!" Eddy commented.
Isabella picked up a Flip Wreck and a Series 3 Full Blast Jet-Vac along with her Tuff Luck and stood in line for the counter. Eddy picked out a Lob-Star, Fling Kong, Funny Bone, and a Sidekick pack with Small Fry and Weeruptor.
After getting their new Skylanders to add to their collection, the two walked out together. The parking lot was empty and dark. Neither of them could see their parents.
"Huh, where did they go?" Eddy asked out loud.
"I have no idea." Isabella said and then her eyes jerked forward. "Hey I think someone is trying to break into your car."
Eddy looked forward too and saw a guy in a grey hoodie with a crowbar standing next to his mom's yellow Volkswagen Beatle. He rushed forward without even thinking. "Hey you! Stop messing with my car!"
"Wait, Eddy!" Isabella tried to stop him.
The man in the hoodie turned around. He looked at Eddy, and by looked I mean he lowered his head so he could find Eddy's eyes. "Woah there short stuff. Is this your car?"
Eddy clenched his fist. "Who're you calling short stuff!? I'll claw your eyes out and then feed it to my goldfish!"
The guy raised his hands in surrender. "Alright kid, nothing good in here anyway." He walked away without saying another word.
Isabella looked astonished. "Wow, I can't believe that worked. You just scared someone with your crazy, Eddy" she said.
"You bet I just did!" Eddy said, smiling proudly. Suddenly they both heard a chink! Eddy turned back toward the yellow car. Stuck in the side was a blue crystal. Eddy got closer to it curiously. "What is that?" It suddenly flashed a light three times and the car exploded making Eddy and Isabella fly backwards. Eddy landed on his back and hit his head on the concrete. He got dizzy and his arms and legs ached from the force. He could faintly hear Isabella shouting his name.
Just as Eddy was about to pass out, a rainbow engulfed his body. "So this is how I die. Is this the light everyone isn't supposed to go into? Because I want to go into it."
Eddy realized however that the pain in his arms and dizziness were relieved, although his arms and legs felt ten times shorter.
He got up and looked at Isabella to make sure she was alright. But instead of Isabella, there stood a blue unicorn. She looked concerned. "Eddy, you're okay… I think."
"You think I'm okay? You're Whirlwind!" Eddy cried.
Whirlwind looked shocked. "Well it's better than being Wind-Up!" she cried.
Eddy looked at his arms which were now replaced with metal nubs with three pronged claws at the end. He felt a small gear twisting continuously on the top of his head.
"Oh crap!" Wind-Up muttered.
"Look, we need to find the others. They probably know what-" Whirlwind was interrupted by getting rammed into the side by a dragon with very prominent crystal features. Next to Flashwing, Trigger Happy brought out his guns ready to fight.
Flashwing smiled. "Nothing personal you two, I just can't let you go"