Chapter 4: Count Veger's (half) Revenge
Please note I will take in any suggestions that I find agreeable and I do not own any of the characters, except Scorpio and Skyler. By the way, Light KG are Veger's forces.
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After recovering the Eco, the four decided to hunt down Veger and arrived at his stronghold at night and only saw ONE measly Light KG guarding the entrance.
'THWIP! THUNK!'"COME HERE!" "AHHH!" 'CHOMP, CRUNCH, SQUISH! GULP! BURRP!'
The three watched, with sick expression on their faces, as Skyler hacked up the guard's skeleton and picked his teeth with one of the guy's bones and then advanced towards the gate and put a hole in it for them to enter with his head and just dusted the debris off his head and shoulders and took out the four guards advancing on them.
The four soon found they had taken a wrong turn somewhere and wound up in the mess hall were about 8,000 Light KG were having dinner and everyone there was shocked until the chef (who apparently was also their commander), ripped off the cook's apron and yelled, "ATTACK!", after which every one began fighting. Daxter went Dark and began throwing Dark Eco Lob Bombs at the Light KG and Naruto was dodging and returning fire and if they got too close ripping their throats open, Jak went Dark and took out about 500 with a Dark Bomb and had to take cover after he changed back due to the massive amount of Light KG in the room. Skyler wasn't hiding behind cover, but breathing Dark Eco fire at them and taking their heads off if they got within melee range of him. After about 4.5 hours of fighting only the commander remained.
"For…the glory…of Light Eco…" he said as he drew a Light Eco sword, but got his head blasted off by Skyler who had brought out a Predator Plasma Shotgun (watch Alien vs. Predator Requiem to see this weapon).
"Aw, shut up!" said Skyler as he fell on his knees from the wounds he had received during the fight and found a massive supply of Green Eco aid in this very room and began to collect as much as he and his three tails could carry and brought it over to them, which took at least an hour to go over every wound and all four found they were hungry and the three saw that during the bloodbath most of the food was alright and they watched as Skyler dragged away some bodies that were in fair condition and went around the corner of the room so they wouldn't get sick watching him, but they still heard the crunching of bones.
After they had digested their meal they had Naruto go check on Skyler. Rounding the corner, Naruto saw 20 corpses eaten to the bone and Skyler breathing regular fire on a skull and polishing it, who upon noticing his friend hid the skull behind his back and gave him a white toothy grin with a small piece of skin hanging out and spit it out.
"Weren't you taught not to play with your food?" asked Naruto jokingly.
"Hey, it's a hobby I learned from the Predators, find a good skull, keep it. Besides do you have any idea what its like to be half dragon?" replied Skyler and put the skull on a sash along with many other freaky looking skulls.
Naruto chuckled softly looking at his friend and motioned for him to follow and the four continued up after Jak scavenged ammo from the dead Light KG.
After arriving in the central sanctum of the stronghold they saw Veger holding a spear and even though he never looked happy after being turned into an Ottsel, he didn't look happy at all today.
"You! You Dark Eco freak! You have corrupted the Fox beyond repair! And now you must die!" said Veger pointing at Jak and then looked towards Daxter, "Since you are a corrupted Ottsel, which is an insult to the might Precursors, you must die also!"
Looking at Naruto, Veger hurled the spear at the red-blond and then prepared to deal with Jak and Daxter.
Seeing the spear Naruto shut his eyes as the spear was flying too fast for him to dodge and waited for the spear to impale.
'THUNK!'
Naruto opened his eyes to see blue armor with the spear coming out the back and instantly his eyes went wide as to who took the spear and as to where it went in. Breaking the spear off from the front Skyler advanced towards Veger, with a strange device that began to countdown with weird symbols beginning to slowly disappear but the beeping getting faster. Naruto at once knew what it was.
"Jak! Daxter! Time to bail!" yelled Naruto running for the nearest window and the two soon followed while Skyler kept heading for Veger.
'BEEP! BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEEEEEEEP!'
Veger's eyes grew wide as Skyler grabbed his mech and…
LOCATION CHANGE: GROUND LEVEL OUTSIDE STRONGHOLD
After landing safely on the ground thanks to Light Jak, the three turned around to see a bright blue light consume the stronghold resulting in an explosion that sent the three flying into Blackout who had arrived at the scene. Suddenly a small gray dot appeared in the morning sun as it landed with a soft 'thud' in front of them.
"Oh, my head…Where am I?" spoke the small gray creature and looked up as he heard three guns cocking and looked up to see one belonged to a huge machine.
"Don't play dumb Veger!" yelled Naruto placing the end of his Scatter gun into Veger's face.
"I'm not kid! I seriously don't know! The last thing I remember is being captured by the Light KG and then having three guns pointed in my face!" replied Veger with fear in his voice.
"I scanned his voice. He's telling the truth. The suit probably was controlling, so I think somebody else is behind this." said Blackout as he put the Energy Cannon away and looked towards the smoldering ruins, 'So he did that again? He picked up a lot of weird stuff from the Predators, but I've never known that to kill him.', though Blackout as he suddenly spotted another object flying out and landed in front of them. The three looked at it and Jak and Daxter walked away along with Blackout and Veger. Naruto looked at closely and noticed that it was no longer bright blue, but faded and then something stung his nose. He recognized it, but before he never liked it, but now it smelt strangely good and looked up to see a figure wearing a robe with a hood and gloved hands and the wind was making the figure look foreboding and then saw a toothy grin and a pipe craved from bone sticking out of the guy's mouth.
"See you later, kit." the figure spoke and looked Naruto in the eyes and then he jumped back seeing them and then a small sandstorm came and Naruto had to cover his eyes and face until it was done and the figure was gone. Walking up to the spot he saw two footprints each having three claw marks along with the footprints surrounded by a small amount of fire and then headed back towards his friends.
3 DAYS LATER
An unknown person had captured the three and was trying to get information from and was mostly torturing Naruto for it. Suddenly from the wall came Blackout and Scorpio who instantly put their sights on him.
"Well, if it isn't old blind-loyalty himself." said Blackout.
"Aw, what do you know Blackout?! I never had to deal with death, so I don't care about "Megatron's a backstabber" from you! Besides what are you and your little scorpion gonna do to?" asked the small cyber-human.
"Oh, its not me. You angered somebody who you shouldn't have and he'll be here in…" replied Blackout, but suddenly a loud angry roar could be heard along with doors being busted open.
Suddenly the doors to their location were blown open. The guard nearest the door turned around quickly to face the enemy, but…
'THWIP! THUNK!' "COME HERE!" '*sound of sharp object going through neck*' *Head rolls into view*
A tall figure in a robe with a hood appeared and a pipe stuck from the hood, but nobody could see his face.
"Aw, geez! What's that smell?!" yelled Daxter as he and Jak both winced from the stench and the cyber-human plugged his nose.
"Aw come on! How come I'm the only person to enjoy the scent of burning flesh and smoke it too?! Nobody enjoys it! Everybody goes "Ugh! What's that stench?!" one way or another! Oh, well time to rescue you guys, but first. Blackout?" said the figure as he was gravely hurt at the insult to his favorite scent and seemed to be calm and pointed towards Blackout who sent the cyber-human flying and chased after him.
Approaching the captured three the figure suddenly grew (to be about as big as Onaga) as did his cloak and seemed to walk on his claws while his heels were in the air and jumped up to where they were. The gloves he had on were ripped apart as the fingers turned into serrated claws and he began to rip apart the constraints holding Naruto who fell forward but was stopped by three tails with a mixture of greenish-orange scales and fur and each ended in a liquid-metal tip.
"Why now did you have start smoking that stuff again?" asked Naruto playfully as he regained his balance.
"Got me." said the figure as he handed the pipe to the kid and the other two noticed thick smoke coming out from the hood.
"Daxter, hold still." said the figure as he took a deep breath and breathed acidic greenish-orange fire towards Daxter who closed his eyes and found the restraints holding him up weakened to were he could move his arms and legs to free. The figure then went to Jak and broke every restraint and got a good roundhouse to the face, but the hood still remained on the figure.
"Aw, come on Jak. You know this is worse than the greeting Naruto gave me after ten years." said the figure and pulled the cloak off to reveal a completely armored Skyler, whose armor matched his scales and fur, with two wings that arced lightning off of them along with two spikes jutting out behind the lower jaw that had no affect on the throat and a forked tongue along with dragon-like teeth and smoke raising from his mouth.
"SKYLER?! WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED TO YOU?!" yelled Daxter seeing his friend that looked completely different.
"Even half-dragons shed their skins." was all he gave them and then went over to the control panel and smashed it.
Heading towards Blackout the four found the cyber-human embedded into solid rock and left him.
2 HOURS LATER
Once they arrived at Daxter's bar, Skyler grabbed a bottle and chugged it then looked at it and his face went white.
"3, 2..." said Skyler, but at two his head plopped on the bar counter and the smoke from his mouth wasn't as thick, but still noticeable. Then Naruto went over to the bottle in Skyler's hand and removed it and his eyes went wide at seeing what his friend had drank.
"Heh, this stuff will knock anybody out except Sig." he said and turned around to see Sig enter the bar.
"What are you talking about cherry?" asked Sig and then noticed the giant slopped over the counter and his eye went wide.
"I don't want to know how he got to be that size. But why's he KO'd?" asked Sig and Naruto threw the bottle which he caught and looked at it.
"Well no wonder. I know sake doesn't agree with the guy, but this would knock him out for awhile." Sig said after reading the label.
"Huh?! What?!" yelled Skyler as he shot awake and looked around and then saw Sig and gave a toothy grin to the hunter.
"Well, this is a pleasant surprise. Been a long time Sig." Skyler said as he approached him, "Care for one?", he asked Sig revealing weird looking cigars.
"No thanks on your type." replied Sig.
"Oh well. Suite yourself." and put the cigar in his mouth a light it from the tip in his mouth.
Sig, Jak, and Daxter started choking on the smell and Skyler walked towards the door grumbling about how people have no taste and walked into the door's top.
'CLANGGGGGGGG!'
"AH! STUPID MOTHERF#$%ING PIECE OF SLAG!" yelled Skyler as he clutched his head in pain and then put the cloak back on and covered his face with the hood and ducked under the doorway with Naruto close behind.
"Did you know he could get that mad over something like that?" asked Daxter looking towards Sig.
"Honestly, I thought 10 years in the Wasteland would've cooled him off a little. But that's not why I came here…"
LOCATION CHANGE: FOLLOWING SKYLER AND NARUTO
Skyler had his head down in thought, but Naruto couldn't really tell because of the hood, but the kid knew that something was troubling his friend but soon found himself in a headlock with a Eco pistol put to his head.
"Where you going kid? The boss will fetch a good price for you." said a creepy and somewhat childish voice said.
"Leave him alone or you'll regret it." said Skyler still in his cloak and hood.
"Aw, go smoke that stuff somewhere else gramps!" said the stranger and took a shot at Skyler but missed but cut the cigar in two.
"*GULP!* Uh, Oh…" said Naruto as he knew his friend never liked any of his cigars being ruined until he was done with it.
"You little brat! Nobody ruins my perfectly good cigars or hurts my little buddy and lives to tell about!" yelled Skyler as he removed the cloak.
"Alright boys take him out!" yelled the stranger who started to drag Naruto away as his goons went for Skyler and turned around to see the last of his men being swallowed whole and the skeleton being hacked up.
"Aw, that's just sick dude!" said the stranger and then felt his arm around the red-blond's throat suddenly feel warm and looked to see the kid had put his teeth into his arm.
"AH! Let go you fox-eared brat!" yelled the would-be kidnapper but soon found his head in a vice-like grip and being pulled into the air.
"So you like to kidnap people huh? Well hope you enjoy this!" said Skyler as he slammed the guy head first into the ground. Lifting his hand away from the guy's face he saw that the guy's skull was splattered all around the crater and wiped his hand on the dead guy's sleeve then got out his pipe and pulled some flesh off the guy's arm and put it into the pipe and lit it. After lighting the pipe he went over to Naruto.
"You alright kit?" asked Skyler helping his friend up with a now gloved hand.
"Yeah, but how are you able to return to looking "human" when you're more half-dragon than before?" asked Naruto after getting up and found the smell from the pipe good.
"Abilities I learned. Don't worry just because you now like the smell of this stuff doesn't mean you'll go eating people like me. That's my job." responded Skyler with a big toothy grin and the forked tongue shooting out a little bit.
After a walk the two came to the forest and Skyler removed the cloak and spread his wings and took off and dived bombed into the shallow lake, Naruto was close to the explosion of water and got drenched.
"Hey how about warning me the next time you decide to dive bomb water huh?" asked Naruto jokingly and started to wring the water out of his tails.
Skyler than climbed out and shook like a dog and then the fur that was visible puffed up and Naruto fell back laughing.
"Oh, so you think its funny to have fur poof up, hmm? Enjoy." said Skyler as he grabbed Naruto by all nine tails in one hand and began to twirl him and after 30 seconds he put Naruto down and watched as his hair and tails' fur poofed up and Skyler fell back into the water laughing and even under water Naruto could hear Skyler's laughter gurgling up. Suddenly Naruto's ears twitched and turned around to see a clawed robotic fist flying at him and blinked to find Skyler with water still falling off him with the clawed hand in his hand and then Skyler sliced the hand off and threw it back at the machine.
"Return to sender!" yelled Skyler as he hurled the hand back at the machine instantly taking its head off upon contact.
"My turn!" said Skyler as he saw a enemy soldier approach.
'THWIP! THUNK!' "COME HERE!" *fist goes thru chest*
Dropping the now dead soldier he found that they were surrounded and grabbed Naruto before the kid did something reckless.
"Hang on kit! DEATH STRIKE: FOX DRAGON BLAST!" yelled Skyler as he activated the symbol still on his hand and neck, which resulted in a huge bright blue explosion resulting in every enemy turned to smoldering piles of ash. Approaching the body of the soldier he put his fist thru he looked at the armor and fear entered his eyes.
"No…" was all he spoke before their communicators went off.
"Guys, we need support! Soldiers in stark white armor are advancing towards the city! We can't hold them…*static*" came Jak's voice.
"Skyler what's going on?!" asked Naruto who was both confused and frightened at what just happened.
"My past…Has come to your world…" said Skyler as he looked at Naruto with eyes that seemed to have lost their freakiness and his voice sounded defeated.
END CHAPTER
Sorry about this Chapter if it was dull and long, but next up you get to see (read) a really huge battle with tons of blood and gore caused by the Skyler during the battle and who's leading the "stark white armor clad soldiers". Give you one guess who they are. By the way, I own no characters except Skyler and Scorpio's design.