Chapter 5 The Consumer
Spyro and Cynder follow behind the Consumer named Harbinger as he guides them to the room where he came from. Valavadorog and Spaxr follow behind Spyro and Cynder. They were all curious they had never seen anything like Harbinger before and yet it knew who they were. The machine checks all around to make sure that nothing was hiding.
"Why are you saving us? I thought that you were supposed to be some huge worm that would destroy everything?" Spyro asks.
"You are wrong little Dragon. I am a Consumer. My people have been hiding on your world since the rise of Malefor. We were a highly advanced civilization once. But we got corrupt. We destroyed one another that scarred the landscape. A few others and I are all that remain of my people." Harbinger says to Spyro.
"But how did you reactivate? did we hit a lever or something?" Spyro asks.
"My recharge pod reactivated me. I guess tha someone must be nearing the Overlord project site." Harbinger says turning the corner coming up to a door.
"Recharge pod? So wait you're a machine?" Cynder asks.
"Yes. There were origin ally five of us that were assigned to guard the creation your kind calls the Consumer. Which the vision you have of it is incorrect." Harbinger says activating his gauntlet to open the door.
"Five? What happened to the others and how many of you are left?" Spyro asks.
"Three including myself. We were created to safe guard the Overlord project from any threats to this world. Our creators did this to make sure they didn't create anymore harm with their doomsday machine that they used to end the war years ago." Harbinger says to Spyro as he opens up the door.
Inside there was a large room. On the wall there were five pods all lined up side by side leading to each end of the back wall. There were two others that looked like Harbinger still insid their pods deactivated. One of them had a red stripe on it's shoudler and the other one had a pink stripe on it's shoulder. Harbinger walks over to the pods and access a terminal that sat in front of the pods. He types on a few keys that unlock the pods and they slowly open. Spyro and Cynder watch as the other two Consumers come out of the pod and look at Harbinger as if he was their leader.
"Commander!" Both of the Consumers says to Harbinger and kneel before him.
"Okay can someone tell me who these two are. Seriously we're adding new team members everywhere we go." Sparx burst out.
"The one with the pink stripes is Lonora my medic and the one with the red sripe is Hendrix my second in command." Harbinger says point at the Consumers as he says their names.
"Who created you?" Spyro asks.
"Why the Ancients of course." Lonora says with a women's voice.
"Yes we were created to be your protectors from the Overlord." Hendrix says with a strong sounding voice.
"What is the Overlord?" Valavadorog asks.
Then Harbinger activates his gaunlet and pushes a few buttons and out comes a hologram of what seemed like a huge robotic worm. It was made of hundreds of sections and it's mouth was large enough to consume an entire building in one bite. It's entire body looked as if it was all latched together by a system of large bolts and rods that were supported up by a skeleton of pure titanium. The worms mouth glowed as if a fire was burning in it's mouth.
"It is a super weapon of mass destruction created by the ancients if the robotic armies that they were building ever turned on them." Harbinger says to Spyro.
"That's not right the Ancients never had machines." Valavadorog says.
"Your Ancients but we are not from this world. Our ancients built and tested the weapon here to see if it could stop the rebeling robot troopers that they called the Legion. But the facility was overrun and our masters were slain by their very creations. The machine was lost since then but now we have located the weapon." Harbinger says accessing his gauntlet.
Then above the hologram of the worm appeared a hologram of Warfang and the land surrounding it. Spyro and the others are shocked to see the sheer size of the machine. The machine was almost three times larger then the city of Warfang.
"That thing's bigger then the Destroyer." Sparx says out loud.
"We know. But only problem is how did it get down there?" Spyro asks.
"As the facility decayed away the Legion troopers took control of the Overlord project and buried it underground. They wanted something beneath the surface but befroe they could get there they were stopped like it ran out of energy. We are still trying to figure out what happened to it." Harbinger says deactivating the gauntlet.
"What wre they after?" Spyro asked.
"We are not certain of it yet but we will get back to you when we are ready." Harbinger says to Spyro.
"Harbinger the ship is active. We must get to the Overlord before Frederick and his followers do." Lonora says to Harbinger.
"You are correct Lonora. We need to get into the ruins of Warfang. But I don't think our ship will get us there without making harm to the city of Warfang." Harbinger says to Lonora.
"Actually I know another way." Spyro says to Harbinger.
"Excellent. Lead the way Spyro the Dragon and my team and I will lead the way." Harbinger says to Spyro.
"But that will be a problem. We're going to need to go through the cannon fire." Cynder says.
"We got a way around that." Harbinger says accessing his gauntlet.
Then behind Harbinger there opens a door to a wide open area. Inside the room there was a sleek looking ship that could fit everyone onboard. Harbinger jumps inside the cockpit and opens up the door to the cargo hold where the Dragons and Sparx get in, He closes the door behind them and looks over at Lonora who sat to his right. She knods her head and flips a switch. The engines to the ship fired up and Hendrix flips a switch and a huge door opens up beneatht the ship. The ship falls through the opening and Lonora flips another switch and the engines started up again and the entire ship flies downwards to the city of Warfang that was being seiged by Frederick's cannon fire.