Haziness clouded Ignitor's vision. He could see forward clearly, but the edges of his eyes seemed to contain a strange fog, something he could not determine quite what it was. He turned his head in confusion. No one was with him. Wind-Up, Whirlwind, Stink Bomb, Night Shift, Prism Break, and Stealth Elf were nowhere in sight. Realizing that he was sitting flat on his rear end, he stood and took in his surroundings. After dusting off the dirt from his behind, he noticed mushrooms as tall as trees. A dirt path stretched ahead of him. He assumed it was some sort of grove, but he couldn't quite rationalize where he was or how he got there.

Taking his first step, the fogginess in his vision did not fade away. The footprints he left in the soft soil singed a bit from the hot metal armor of Ignitor's body. Strange, only my fire soul is supposed to burn things Ignitor thought. Taking note of it, he continued forward.

"Hello!?" he called hoping for some sort of answer. Ignitor silenced himself as to hear any response but with no such luck.

The path ended in a small round area with walls too high to climb. There was a small ledge on the furthest end from where Ignitor was standing. On the ledge stood a hovering figure. It was completely made of metal, similar to Ignitor, but instead of a sword strapped to its back, the knight like figure carried bombs in each hand. It had a crown like head gear and was a bold bronze color from the inner heat radiating from the Swap Force Skylander Ignitor immediately recognized.

Ignitor removed his sword from his back ready to fight Blast Zone. He couldn't afford being optimistic when it came to Skylanders. Any of them could be evil, how could this be an exception.

Blast Zone dropped down from the ledge and did a flip as he landed on the lower level. Ignitor stared him down unwilling to ease his stance. Lifted each bomb in the air and the fuses on each ignited at the same time. Ah crud Ignitor thought as he dashed forward and swung at one of Blast Zone's arms. The fire knight simply tossed the bomb in the air, dodged the strike, and caught the bomb. Ignitor saw the fuses getting lower and lower. He kicked Blast Zone's feet out from under him, but the jet boosters allowed Blast Zone to stabilize himself midair. The fuses burned to the center of the bomb and Ignitor closed his eyes.

A loud POP sound along with the hardy laughter of Blast Zone showered the circular area. Ignitor opened his eyes and saw confetti spread throughout the perimeter.

Blast Zone zoomed up and got directly in Ignitor's face. "My fellow warrior! That was quite humorous was it not?" he boomed and laughed hardily again.

Ignitor suddenly got very angry. "Humorous? No, no it was not! I thought you were going to kamikaze this place!"

Blast Zone's eyes squinted in confusion. "Kami-what now?"

Ignitor shook his head. "Never mind. Why are you even here?"

"Is it not obvious?" After seeing the look of confusion on Ignitor's face he continued. "This is a dream. Anything can happen in a dream!"

"Like confetti bombs. Just what I needed"

Blast Zone shrugged. "Well you know dreams. Those darn rascals. But hey, you are on quite the adventure young traveler. And don't you know that when you have a dream on an adventure, the plot unfolds!"

"Plot?"

"You know, the whole reason you're going on your quest?" After realizing his voice was becoming less and less like a knight from yee olden days, Blast Zone grunted. "Regardless, you have an amazing quest ahead of you young hero! So I tell you this. You must know where the real evil lies. Search deep within you and find the hero inside. I am certain you will take on the right path"

Ignitor grunted in confusion. "What path? Hero inside?"

Blast Zone sighed and his voice turned into the voice of Wind-Up. "Just, wake up man. We're here"

Ignitor opened his eyes taking in the scene. "Uhhh, where are we?" He sat up to see a small super market. "And why am I on the ground?"

Night Shift offered his fire knight friend his glove. He took it and got up. "You are like a dead stone when you are asleep. We kicked you out of the car and Stealth Elf is parking it while we get supplies"

Ignitor saw Stink Bomb and Prism Break head towards the door. Wind-Up and Whirlwind were playing I Spy behind the car where Stealth Elf had parked. The poor elf girl was fast asleep on the top of it. "She has been driving for over twelve hours" Night Shift mentioned.

"Yeah, I wonder what she was like as a human" Ignitor spoke. "I'll go wait with the others"

Night Shift nodded and then headed inside the store. He made his ghostly mist form legs so he could pull off coming from a costume party. He went inside and searched for drinks for all of them. Stink Bomb and Prism Break followed him not knowing where to go in the store (usually food just appeared when they needed it) Poor souls are so dependent Night Shift thought. He grabbed a jug of apple juice and then headed off to the cereal aisle. Prism Break carried the jug in his arms behind him.

As they turned the corner, the three of them froze. Picking out a box of Trix cereal was none other than the green orc Voodood. With him were a blue bottlenose and a small red gremlin that the three of them knew as Flip Wreck and Trigger Happy. Prism Break dropped the jug and pulled the two other's behind the corner.

"Ahh geez not these two" Prism Break muttered.

"Yeah, what are we going to do?" Night Shift asked.

"Heehee, yeah, what are you going to do?" Trigger Happy asked while popping in front of them. Voodood and Flip Wreck followed behind him.

Night Shit groaned and slapped Trigger Happy in the face. "Are you crazy? We can't fight here! Not with all these humans around!" he whispered angrily. He noticed a young teen in a blue hoodie with yellow stripes and cargo shorts staring at the six of them. "Hehe, costume party" the teen shrugged and walked over to his group of friends.

Now Night Shift was the observant type, but only with things that could possibly concern him. Sort of how when they first got the car in the forest, he noticed a wallet in the back seat. He put that wallet in the tufts of his boxer's robe. That's how he paid for stuff and no one questioned him. However, this kid should have had no concern to him at all. No human should except for maybe an employee of Toys For Bob, and this teen couldn't possibly have been. But there was a connection when he saw him and his group of friends. There was a short nerdy kid, a punk looking girl with pink hair, a pale guy with turquoise all over his clothes and jet black hair, and a darker skin guy with brown hair, a red t-shirt under a dark green button up, and plain jeans. He couldn't lay his finger on it, but he recognized them somehow. Could he have possibly have seen them at school when he was a human? But then why would they be way out here really far from their quaint Ohio town.

" – it not matter, we kick butt now!" Voodood finished. Apparently the other five had been arguing quietly while Night Shift stared. And before Night Shift could stop him, Voodood took a massive swing with his axe, knocking over boxes and bags of chips and crackers. Snack food littered the floor as the general vicinity moved out of the way. Night Shift, Prism Break, and Stink Bomb dove out of the way. The ninja skunk went invisible as Night Shift teleported to a nearby aisle leaving Prism Break in the line of sight for the three evil Skylanders.

"Ahh crud" he moaned as he summoned a barrier of crystals out from under the tiled floors of the supermarket. Hundreds of golden bullets as well as the blade of Voodood's massive axe rammed into the crystal shield. Prism Break noticed Flip Wreck leap over his barrier with his sea saw crashing down. Prism Break fired a laser beam in the air, causing the bottlenose to pull out his shield and propel himself out of the way, inadvertently letting the laser beam fire a huge hole in the ceiling.

Flip Wreck tumbled and rolled back onto his feet, but before he could strike at Prism Break again, he was jabbed in the back of the head. When he turned no one was there. Before he could try to figure out who hit him, his legs were swept from under him and he fell on his back. Stink Bomb appeared above him and he punched him right in the nose, knocking Flip Wreck out cold.

Prism Break summoned a single crystal between him and the remaining two evil Skylanders. He fired a laser beam at the crystal and it split, aiming towards Trigger Happy and Voodood. The orc was agile enough to flip out of the way, but poor Trigger Happy could only move his stubby legs a few inches before a beam smacked him in the back of the head and he face planted on the floor.

Night Shift had not yet entered the fight. He remained in the aisle, glaring at the five teens. They had not moved since the outbreak had started. They watched the fight in awe, but in a way that seemed…normal to them. The one with the blue hoodie with yellow stripes stared eagerly and smirked a bit. He followed his gaze to Voodood attacking Prism Break and Night Shift snapped back into focus.

Voodood came down hard with his axe and Night Shift realized even he couldn't teleport to his aide. He jerked forward and outstretched his hand wondering if it would do something. But as soon as Night Shift was sure Voodood would shatter Prism Break's arms, a bluish figure tackled him to the ground. It was not a Skylander though, it was the kid. Voodood was quick to shake himself off from the teen, but the rest of his friends ran over and grappled his limbs. The orc was immobilized by humans. The teen hopped up and nodded to Night Shift.

"Who are you?" the vampire asked.

The kid grinned a bit. "Are you really going to ask that? Have you seen yourself?" Voodood grunted behind him trying to get free. The kid didn't even hesitate in turning around, winding back, and punching the orc straight to the green nose. Voodood stopped moving instantly. He turned back around and winced. "But you can call me Chandler I guess" he said while waving his hand in pain from the punch. The other four stood up. The smaller nerdy one spoke up.

"Why are you Skylanders fighting?" he said.

Night Shift almost took shock from the question but then remembered that the Skylanders were well known on Earth. "Umm, well, we are trying to turn back into humans, I still don't know why they keep attacking us but apparently we are a threat to some 'evil overlord' at least that's what I think it is."

Chandler stopped moving and looked at Night Shift. "So what you're saying is you guys are like, chosen ones?"

Night Shift thought about it. "Well, we have thought it to be oddly coincidental that only seven of us aren't going around terrorizing towns"

Chandler seemed to look disappointed as well as the other four. "Seven of you huh?"

Confused by the question Night Shift responded, "Well, originally there were five of us. We met Prism Break and Stealth Elf after we had transformed and – " he stopped to think. Why was he talking to these people? He had a mission to complete. "Sorry, we need to get a move on. Thank you for the assistance"

Before he could leave, the five teens spoke in unison, almost prophetic like.

Unknown forces in death's den

Will separate the chosen ten

The final choice from the warrior of night

Collide the blades of dark and light

Failure comes to the outsider

If too much he cares for her

Core, Giant, Swap Force, and Trap Team

Will save the worlds or wipe it clean

Night Shift stared in confusion. Chandler winked. "Don't worry, it'll make sense later."

"Uh huh, yeah, okay, I'm gonna leave now"

Enigma slammed on his chair. "Gyahh! Can't those buffoons do anything right?"

Ka-Boom stood by his side. "They're doing their best boss, those five are really strong"

"Voodood was tackled by humans! Ordinary stupid humans!"

Ka-Boom lifted a finger and then put it back down. "Ahh, well, uhh"

Enigma put his fingers to his nose. "You know what, just go check on the prisoners, get out of my sight! Every Skylander is useless right now!"

Ka-Boom, offended and shocked at the boss's outburst, went down stairs from his viewing chamber to check on the Toys for Bob employees.

Enigma stared at the tray of colored crystals to his side. He looked at the screen of unconscious Skylanders in a super market and then rose. He pushed a button and Flashwing appeared on the screen. "You, you and your team have failed me for the last time! I am taking care of my own business now. You are coming back"

Flashwing confused and taken by surprise tried to murmur something to Enigma but he pushed another button and she disappeared from his screen. "Never send simpletons to do a geniuses job"

Ka-Boom meanwhile continued down the steps to the prison cells. He mumbled to himself angry with the boss. "I've been nothing but helpful. And then he yells at me, and for what? Nothing! Why I outta pound his puny skull into the ground. Useless he says? Well why doesn't he use that talkative mouth to kiss my – " The demolition expert entered the prison and saw Paul Richie lying against the walls of his cell.

Before he could say anything to him though, Flashwing appeared in the cell next to him. She was accompanied by an unconscious Flip Wreck, Voodood, and Trigger Happy. "What the - ?" Flashwing mumbled. "Did the boss just send us to prison?"

Ka-Boom was too shocked to say anything. Paul seemed to notice and snickered silently. "Don't you get it? Enigma won't stop until all the Skylanders are under his rule" he laughed a bit more along with a small cough. "Funny, I knew about the Skylanders, about Skylands, and I brought it to Earth in a video game for kids to enjoy. Now they're taking over the world. Skylanders are heroes, not villains. I never saw this coming."

Ka-Boom looked at Paul Richie and glared. Is this who I am? A villain? I had a pretty good life as a human but I just let Enigma boss me around like that?

Paul coughed a bit more as he heard a creaking sound. The gate to his cell moved open. Ka-Boom grabbed him and lifted him by the shirt. "Can you fix this bub? Turn us back into humans?"

Paul's eyes widened in fear and nodded. Ka-Boom let go. "Then get out of here. Get Earth outta this mess."

Paul and the rest of the employees escaped the prison cell in excitement that they were free. Ka-Boom looked at Flashwing and the others. "As for us, you think the boss cares enough for you to through you in a cell?" he unlocked the cell and the door swung open. "I don't think so. I'm going back home and waiting for this to blow over. It's time you four figure out what side you're on."

And with that, he exited the prison and the headquarters to walk home.

Flashwing sat there attempting to assess the events that had just happened. Her three friends apparently had failed at the supermarket, the boss sent her to prison, and his right hand man set them and the Toys for Bob employees free. She was scared of the boss, he did just send her to prison, but these five Skylanders. Ignitor, Wind-Up, Stink Bomb, Whirlwind, and Night Shift, they can beat him and in the end what side did she want to be on?

Flip Wreck slowly got up. He saw Flashwing thinking hard and he noticed the open cell door. He somehow understood everything despite being unconscious. "You think you can handle another surprise?"

Flashwing turned and looked at him. She nodded as if the day couldn't get any weirder.

Stealth Elf drove on and turned on a large road. Ignitor noticed the heat from outside had risen from when he last observed it. "California"

"Not just California" Stealth Elf said. She nodded forward and a large building had a large sign. It read, TOYS FOR BOB. Stealth Elf attempted her best impression of Siri, "You have reached your destination"

Everyone leapt out of the car and frowned. In front of their car was Flashwing and Flip Wreck. Whirlwind groaned. "Oh come on, we just fought!"

Prism Break and Stealth Elf saw Flip Wreck smile and then walked forward with no intention of fighting.

Wind-Up leered, "Wait wait wait wait hold on hold on hold on hold on. What?"

Stealth Elf gave Flip Wreck a quick hug and then turned. "Well, guys, meet our double agent, Flip Wreck"

I AM SO SORRY FOR THE WAIT! Writers block sucks not to mention the start of school. But I now know where I am going and I prooooomise I will try to get these out more frequently. I'll leave a more detailed author's note next chapter. Otherwise thank you for being patient and read on!