"What? Where am I?"
"In the same place you fainted"
"Huh? Who are you?"
"That is unimportant. Who you are is what matters now"
"Who I am? I'm the same person I have been for the past eighteen years."
"Are you satisfied?"
"Satisfied?"
"Do you wish to be part of a bigger plan?"
"A bigger plan? I dunno. I mean, wait, you have got me very confused."
"Do not worry young Flashwing. You will see soon enough."
"FLASHWING?! Am I in a video game? Wait, am I a dragon?"
"Video game? Oh no dear girl. This is most certainly the real world. And you are part of it. See for yourself."
Flashwing remembered the boss confronting her for the first time. She had mysteriously woken up next to a lake in the middle of the night. She was surrounded by forest and the lake sparkled in the moonlight. Only she and the hooded figure she would come to know as her boss stood there. Her reflection had made her scream and jump back. After taking it all in, she thought nothing of it. No questions, no insight on why she was a video game character, she only followed the boss and with no reason why. One minute she had two legs, and then next she was walking on all fours. Not to mention shooting crystal shards from her tail that she didn't even have before.
The word satisfied continued to ring through her head. She thought, Satisfied? Satisfied with what? My life as a human? Granted I haven't thought about this before, and I keep thinking I'm the prettiest creature on the planet. That might take some getting used to. Still, what was I going to do with my life before now?"
"Are you alright Flashwing?" Flip Wreck asked.
Flashwing was startled for a moment. "What? I mean, yeah I guess, just thinking."
"Oh really? What about?" Flip Wreck conversed.
Flashwing almost answered. This was almost the closest she'd gotten to someone talking to her and not Flashwing. She could see genuine concern from Flip Wreck. She wanted to talk to him, but for fear of the boss seeing her weakened with emotion she shrugged it off. "Nothing, we need to focus on the mission anyway"
"Very well" he replied without trying to argue and it made Flashwing feel even more like a jerk.
She and Flip Wreck were walking side by side taking the rear of their group. Trigger Happy and Voodood continuously scanned in front of them for any signs of the five Skylanders the boss wanted. Voodood was quite athletic and at times would quickly climb a tree to scout for anything ahead of them. After six times doing this, they could tell no one was around in the creepy woods they were in. Suddenly Flashwing thought she saw something up ahead. "Hey, I think I recognize this place."
She ran forward to find the same lake she had discovered herself after turning into a Skylander. Nightfall had brought the moon directly overhead making the lake sparkle as before. Flip Wreck placed his two-by-four and steering wheel down and leaped into the lake making a large splash. He rose up and floated along the surface while spewing water from his mouth like a fountain.
"Why are we here?" Trigger Happy wondered out loud.
"Safe place. Make camp here. We keep going in morning" Voodood said.
Flashwing took a seat next to the lake bed and looked up at the moon. She wondered how they were going to beat the five Skylanders in the first place. Only two of them could defeat her and Trigger Happy. That Whirlwind girl was tough and Wind-Up was tricky. If the other three were in fact a ninja, a vampire, and a knight, she was going to be discouraged, even with Voodood and Flip Wreck's help. She was slightly confused though. The boss has many Skylanders at his side, very loyal ones at that, then if these five Skylanders were somehow the biggest threat to his plan why not send all of his warriors? She thought it better not to question the boss though after a Ghost Roaster was roasted into the underworld after questioning a simpler order.
"Your wing is damaged." Flip Wreck said. He popped up from the lake and floated there. Flashwing looked at him and then at her wing. One of the crystals was chipped and another was jagged and cracked. All of her appendages were bent in different directions. Until Flip Wreck had pointed it out, she'd only felt a slight irritation in that area, and now it hurt even more.
"Oh, I guess it- OW SWEET JESUS" Flashwing complained as she fell forward and flopped her face into the water. "Why would you say anything?"
"Oh my, I'm sorry!" Flip Wreck mentioned.
"Just, hold on, if I shoot a crystal near it it'll heal itself." Flashwing said. She fired a crystal into the ground from her tail. Flip Wreck immediately picked it up and pulled it away. "Hey, what are you doing?"
"Your crystals aren't going to heal it, only numb the pain." Flip Wreck explained.
"Yeah, I would hope so!"
"Just trust me!"
Flip Wreck hopped out of the lake and sat beside the injured wing. He put the crystal next to the chipped area. He placed his hand on her wing. Flashwing could feel the water from his hand seep into her skin. She grimaced as a short jolt of pain shot through her body followed by a soothing feeling. She looked at her wing. The crystal she had shot had connected to her wing and molded into what it used to look like.
"See? Good as new!" Flip Wreck smiled.
"Oh, well, I um, thank you Flip Wreck" Flashwing stuttered from amazement. "How did you do that?"
"All water Skylanders can heal with water. We can help others too. You didn't think Whirlwind wasn't the only Skylander with healing magic powers huh? It's just nice when there's no water around to have a unicorn for an ally. Then again, it's not every day you see a unicorn shooting rainbow bombs and storm clouds everywhere" Flip Wreck spoke.
"You talk a lot. You mind getting the rest of me in tip top shape?" Flashwing interrupted.
"What? Oh yeah, sure thing." Flip Wreck said. He scooped water from the lake and splashed it on her wing. After moving his arms around some more, along with some sharp gasps from Flashwings pain, her wing was repaired completely. "All better" Flip Wreck looked up at the moon for a moment. "We should get some rest. It's getting late."
He hopped back into the water and started floating away. "You sleep in the water?" Flashwing asked.
"Well yeah, I am a bottlenose whale after all." Flip Wreck mentioned.
Flashwing nodded and smiled. He continued to float away. She didn't know what came over her, but a few seconds later she said. "My past, and my purpose. That's what I was thinking about."
Flip Wreck looked up from the middle of the lake. He smiled after realizing what she said. "Goodnight Flashwing."
"Goodnight Flip Wreck" Flashwing responded and then laid her head down and closed her eyes.
"WE'RE GONNA DIE!"
"WE ARE NOT GONNA DIE EDDY!"
"SEE ME RIGHT NOW! I CALL THIS DYING!"
"WOULD YOU SHUT UP!"
Whirlwind sighed. Boys will be boys, no? She could handle the fact that she was a unicorn, the fact that all her friends were Skylanders, that almost every other Skylander in the world was evil; she could even handle her already hyper friend Eddy being put into an even more hyper robot body. What she was not ready for was the coming of Jurassic Park.
Chopper hopped from crate to crate firing missiles everywhere. "EXPLOSION EXPLOSION BOOM BOOM WEEEE!" the small dinosaur cried. Whirlwind reared back and then fired a rainbow bomb. It immediately shot the annoying little lizard out of the air. He collapsed on the ground and passed out.
"Bell? We could really use your help over here!" Ignitor roared from the other side of the warehouse.
Whirlwind looked up in front of her. She had been distracted by Chopper and didn't notice the giant tree smashing towards her.
"GYAAHHH! SORRY KYLE CAN'T HELP YA!" she squealed while running the other direction before being stopped by a…Prism Break?
"Woah there. Need some help kid?" Prism Break said.
"Hey, I'm warning you I have rainbows and I'm not afraid to use them." Whirlwind said and backed up.
"Kid, I'm not the enemy. I'm the one who called. Now if there's anything else you want to make small banter over let's move- LOOK OUT!" Prism Break dove forward, rolled on the ground, got on one knee and blasted a laser beam forward. The beam shot the charging Tree Rex in the foot just as he was about to squish the two into Skylander pancakes. Tree Rex fell backwards, crushing boxes of who knows what behind him. Shrapnel of wood flung all over the place. Fling Kong who was throwing his air discs all over the place cackled maniacally.
"Mw-kwak! I mean, you losers can't beat me!" Fling Kong said from his carpet.
Stink Bomb stopped throwing stars for a second. "Wait, you actually speak monkey?" he was interrupted by a disc straight to the nose. He fell backwards conked out.
"Bahahaha! Stupid skunk!" he laughed before taking a piece of wooden shrapnel to the side of his head. "Youch! What was that?" he asked. Ignitor took this moment to leap onto a multiple crates and jump into Fling Kong, tackling him to the ground.
Tree Rex got back up from the ground and roared. "You shrimps are more annoying than the boss said" He lifted his massive arm and pointed it at Whirlwind and Prism Break.
"Uhh, we should move" she said as Prism Break stood there as if he already won. "Come on!"
Prism Break smiled. "Three. Two. One" At that moment, a green blur sped into Tree Rex's arm as he fired. The plasma blast was shot away from Whirlwind and Prism Break.
Chopper glided in the air. "Eat more rockets!" he noticed the plasma blast from Tree Rex headed directly towards him. "Ahh crud" he said while eating the plasma blast up and collapsing to the floor.
"Huh, what even was that" Whirlwind said. She hadn't noticed that Prism Break had lifted her up from the ground. "Woah, what are you doing?"
"Just lower your head" he said.
"Lower my-?" she was cut off by Prism Break throwing her directly towards the life giant. "AHHHHH" she screamed and then closed her eyes in fear. She felt herself collide into the giant with such force, he flew backwards and crashed through the wall into an open field.
"Uhhh, this is hopeless. The boss is going to kill us!" Tree Rex said. "Chopper! Fling Kong! We're leaving."
The dinosaur and the monkey followed in defeat. "I could handle two of them. Not seven. Where did they even come from?" Fling Kong screeched while running away.
Chopper headed to the hole in the wall. He glided upwards and then turned around. His tongue stuck out as he said "KABOOM! Bye bye weird fire man!" His twin rockets lowered to his under belly and fused together into one huge missile launcher. Before he could fire, Night Shift teleported to him and slapped the flying dinosaur. The force made him turn around and fire at Fling Kong and Tree Rex. The missile exploded and the two evil Skylanders were blown away.
"Dah crud" Chopper whined as Night Shift pulled back and then punched the dinosaur towards his friends.
"Now that is a knockout punch" he said. "Oh no, I'm starting to say puns now"
"I think Eddy has it worse bro" Stink Bomb said. "His new brain is making him do math"
Wind-Up was sitting on the floor twitching. "So, many, numbers" he sighed while staring forcefully at the ground.
Ignitor regrouped with Whirlwind and Prism Break. "So I'm assuming you're the one who called us?"
Prism Break nodded. "And I'm sure you have a lot of questions"
"Yeah, like who is the second Skylander Fling Kong rambled about" Whirlwind asked.
As if on que, Prism Break's partner landed next to him. "Ahh, Stealth Elf, perfect timing."
"For the last time, it's Hannah. My name is HANNAH!" Stealth Elf said.
"Yeah sure, Stealth Elf is easier to remember" Prism Break said.
"Stupid video game" Stealth Elf grumbled. She finally took notice of Ignitor and Whirlwind standing in front of her. "Right, lemme start off by saying sorry for the confusion. We're here to help. We were on our way to find you five when those three showed up and started attacking us."
"I don't remember a giant being spotted in the newspaper Eddy showed me" Ignitor wondered out loud.
"Oh yeah, all eight of them are on Earth. Not just Tree Rex. I'd bet you every single Skylander is on Earth somewhere. Trap Team, Swap Force, Giants, Sidekicks, the whole lot of them are here somewhere. From what we know, us seven are the only ones that aren't brainwashed by this 'boss' of theirs." Prism Break explained. "We think that the way to fix this is at Toys for Bob in California. Stealth Elf here saw you guys fighting a Flashwing and Trigger Happy was it? We want to help you get there"
"To California from here in Ohio?" Whirlwind asked.
"That's the plan" Prism Break said.
"Well if you haven't noticed, we don't exactly have a car some sort of transportation." Ignitor reminded them.
"Yeah, but we have our feet." Prism Break said.
"We're going on foot?!" Ignitor questioned. He only got a head nod from the both of them.
"It won't be that bad. And I am an excellent scout. We can avoid any kind of trouble on the way there" Stealth Elf assured. "I even told that Flashwing and that Trigger Happy to back off. I told em' this nonsense about how you five are the 'chosen ones' and that you can't lose."
"You told them that!?" Whirlwind bursted.
"Well yeah. I mean, you guys probably can be defeated. But hey, fear is the worst enemy and if my appearance wasn't scary then I don't know what is." Stealth Elf said.
"But hey, two for two on fight wins so not bad so far." Prism Break said.
"Oh joy. More fighting. We barely know how to use our powers yet!" Ignitor argued.
Night Shift, Stink Bomb, and Wind-Up joined the four Skylanders. "So Kyle, what's the plan?"
Ignitor sighed. What else are we supposed to do? "We're going to Toys For Bob"
Night Shift scoffed, "Toys For Bob? That's all the way in California!"
"And we don't exactly have a car or any form of transportation at the moment" Stink Bomb said.
"That's what he said" Whirlwind told him.
"We're going on foot" Ignitor told his friends.
Wind-Up hopped up and down. "On foot?!" he stopped hopping and began to tremble.
Ignitor looked at him confused. "Uhh, Eddy, you alright there bud?"
Wind-Up popped allowing gears to fly everywhere. "We're going on an adventure!"