Chapter Nineteen: The Lost World of Atlantis!
"Hey Jason tell me more about that girl April, you seem to like her" Max smirked as Jason blushed under the helmet in his armor as they flew in the lanes between.
"W-what makes you think that?" Jason said.
"Well you obviously like her" Max said.
"Well yeah I kinda do" Jason blushed.
"What happened?" Max asked.
"Well-" before Jason could finish he saw something approaching in the distance.
"What is that?" Max asked as they saw a giant machine that looked like a giant crab as the Atlantian Leviathan roared.
"What the heck is that thing!?" Jason yelled as it opened it's mouth and shot a bolt of blue electricity at them.
"WHOA!" Jason yelled stirring them out of the way as it drew closer as Jason saw it massive claws could crush both him and Max ship.
"Dude! How do we fight that?!" Max yelled.
"We don't!" Jason yelled taking off fast as the Leviathan roared and chased after them.
"AHHH!" Max yelled as Jason drove them as fast as he could and to dodged the machine massive claws and electric attacks.
"DAMN! We need to shake this thing off!" Jason growled as he spotted a world coming up fast covered in water as they entered it and end up in the sea with the Leviathan chasing after them.
"Dude look!" Max said on an intercom as they saw a massive ship ahead of them as the Leviathan shot a blast as Jason dodged and it hit the ship.
"Oh no!" Jason yelled as he saw some escape pods heading in one direction and followed the first pod with the Leviathan after them.
"Eat this you overgrown lobster!" Max yelled using the Gummi ship guns and began firing at the beast and saw the blasts hit a blue beam on the machine, "oh you have got to be pulling my leg! Dude that thing got a shield on it!"
Jason then followed them into a large crack in the ocean floor as the Leviathan got caught and blew up a few ships in the process as they entered a narrow sea cave with the blasts still after them as they finally made their way into an undersea air pocket as Jason and Max ships flew out and disappeared as they crashed onto the hard rock as the other ships began to rise out of the water.
"Ow!" Jason said rubbing his head.
"That was close" Max said as the ship hatch opened as a man around forty stepped out and pointed a spot light on them.
"You two got some explaining to do" Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke said.
"Uh-oh" Max and Jason said as they saw the light move to massive ruins of a destroyed city and a cave entrance crafted into a massive beast mouth.
"Whoa" Max and Jason said.
Soon Jason and Max stood off to the side as the survivors of the Atlantis expedition as Dr. Joshua Strongbear Sweet put a dish with a candle on it on the water for the funeral of those who got killed by the Leviathan.
"Seven hours ago we started this expedition with two hundred of the finest men and women I have ever known, we're all that's left" Rourke said as Jason glanced at all the remained people around thirty or less, "I will not sugarcoat it gentlemen we have a crises on our hands but we've been up this particular creek before and we always come through paddle or no paddle I see no reason to change that policy now, from here on in everyone pulls double duty even our two spies" he said pulling the rope tied around Jason and Max hands.
"For the last time were not spies!" Jason growled.
"Everyone drives, everyone works, looks like all our chances of survival rests with you Mr. Thatch, you and that little book" he said as Jason and Max saw the man kind of skinny with rounded glasses, brown hair and held an old strange looking book.
"We're all going to die" Wilhelmina Bertha Packard said dropping her cigarette to the ground as people began to load up in their vehicles and other strange cars and tanks.
"Okay people saddle up, Lieutenant I wanted this convoy moving five minutes ago!"
"So uh what exactly are you people looking for?" Jason asked as they approached Milo.
"So you aren't spies, were looking for Atlantis" Milo said honking a horn on a car.
"Atlantis?" Jason said.
"Yep I'm Milo Thatch."
"I'm Jason and this is Max" he said as Milo honked the horn again as Rourke covered the horn and broke it off.
"Are you sure your checked out on this class of vehicle?" Rourke asked.
"Uh..."
"Can you drive a trunk?"
"Phew! Of course I can drive a trunk" he said to smoothly as Jason and Max glanced at each other, "sure you got your steering and your gas and your break and of course this metal looking thing" he said touching the gear shift as Jason, Max and Rourke raised an eyebrow, "okay it was a bumper car at Conny Island but it's the same basic principle!"
"Ugh!" Rourke said.
"Later that day Jason and Max sat in the back of Milo trunk hopping around and hitting their heads as he kept stalling up and holding up the line as the people behind honked.
"Oh for the love of!" Jason growled hopping out of the back and moving to the front, "move!" he said throwing off the rope and began to drive the truck easily, "watch and learn then you can take the wheel, point me to where we are going Milo" Jason said.
Soon they were driving through the ruins of the destroyed city, going through every possible obstacle they could and stopping for camp every now and then for the night with Jason and Max still accused of being spies and going through every possible thing they can encounter, giant bugs, cold snow weather in an underwater cave, bridgeless paths and then finally reached a dead end.
"Looks like we run into a little road block Vinny what do you think?" Rourke asked.
"I could un-roadblock that if I had two hundred of theses" he said holding a stick of dynamite, "it would be easy but I got only about ten and five of my own, couple of cherry bombs, road flare hey too bad we don't have any nitroglistiren eh Milo?" Vinny said as Mole laughed from their prank a few days back.
"Shut it you little bug eye freak!" Jason growled at Mole.
"Looks like we're going to have to dig" Rourke said as Mole smiled eagerly.
"It will be my pleasure!" Mole said.
"Ugh that guy needs a damn bath" Max said fanning his nose.
Later that day Mole road his drill to the wall as he began to dig in a the drill malfunction and smoke and spark came off the drill as Mole control exploded as he coughed from the smoke around him.
"Ha! Serves you right!" Jason said.
"I don't understand it" Audrey said opening the hatch to the drill pipes, "I just tune this thing up this morning."
"Um" Milo said.
"It looks like the roader shot, I'm going to have to pull one of the spares from one of the tucks."
"Can I?"
"No toque nada! I will be right back" Audrey said walking away as Milo and Jason looked at the controls.
Milo then turned a few wheels as he picked up a wrench and hit it as the drill came back on.
"She lives!" Mole said.
"Nicely done" Jason said clapping as Audrey came back.
"Hey! What you do?" she asked.
"Well-" Milo said but before he could show off Jason but in.
"He knew how to fix it so he did, to save you the time of installing a new roader which would have taken at least an hour and that's if it would work, he save us an hour wait" Jason said.
"Yeah thank you very much" she said closing the hatch.
Soon after drilling to the other side they found themselves in a new area where a massive glowing lantern above them glowed and a narrow bridge lead to a new area.
"This has got to be it" Milo said reading the book.
"We'll make camp here" Rourke said.
"Why is it glowing?" Audrey asked.
"It is a natural source of resource" Mole said.
"That thing is going to keep me up all night I just know it" Vinny said.
"Quit your complain Vinny" Jason said as soon Cookie made dinner.
"Come and get it! For the appetizer Cesar salad!" he said dumping gruel and Sweet tray, "escargot!" he said adding some on Audrey tray, "and oriental fried roll!" he said putting some on Mole tray.
"Yuck!" Audrey said.
"Here you go boys!" Cookie said giving Milo, Jason and Max and tray, "put some meat on them bones!" he said dumping the gruel on their trays.
"Is there even meat in it?" Jason said pocking it with his fork.
"Eh! I saw something blink!" Max said setting his tray away.
"Thanks it looks greasier than usual" Milo said.
"Like it well have some more!" he said putting more gruel on Milo tray.
"If I have to eat this another night I will kill myself" Jason said.
"Why do we have to be the ones to be exclude from the group?" Max asked as the three glanced at the others by camp fires.
"Because we choose Milo for company and they've been hassling the poor guy" Jason said taking a bit of the gruel and almost heaved over, "that is it! I did not learn the best French cuisine from the best chef of all of Paris just to eat this! Cookie get out of the kitchen I am taking over!" Jason yelled storming over to the kitchen.
"Oh there he goes" Max said rolling his eyes as he watched Cookie and Jason fighting over a ladle.
"Hey Milo why don't you come sit with us" Aubrey said.
"Really? You don't mind?" Milo asked.
"Nah park it here, you too Max" Aubrey said.
"Gee this is great it's an honor to be included in your-" Milo said as he sat on a whoopee cousin planted by Mole as it made the farting noise as Mole fell over laughing.
"Mole!" the other all yelled.
"Forgive me, I could not resist!" Mole said as Max whacked him in the head with his sword hilt, "ow!"
"Oh I'm sorry I could not resist" Max said rolling his eyes.
"Hey Milo don't you ever close that book?" Aubrey asked.
"Yeah you must have read it a dozen times by now" Sweet said.
"I know but this just doesn't make any sense see in this passage here the shepherd has been leading up to something called the Heart of Atlantis it could be the power source the legends referred to but then it cuts off almost like there is a missing page" Milo said.
"Kid relax, we don't get paid over time" Vinny said.
"I know I know sometimes I get a little carried away but hey this is what this is all about right? Discovery, team work, adventure then unless your just in it for the money" Milo said.
"I'm not getting paid at all!" Max pouted.
"Money" Aubrey said.
"Money" Packard said.
"Money" Sweet said.
"Money" Mole said.
"I'm going to say Money" Vinny said.
"Well I guess I set myself up for that one" Milo said rubbing his neck as Sweet came up behind him.
"Something wrong with your neck?" Sweet asked.
"Yeah I must have hurt it" Milo said as Sweet grabbed his neck and turned his head left and right with two loud crack, "AH! GAH!"
"Better?" Sweet asked.
"Yeah! Hey where you learn to do that?" Milo asked.
"Main course!" Cookie said.
"Uh no!" Vinny said.
"Trying to watch my weight" Aubrey said.
"No thanks!" Max said.
"Oh don't you worry it will keep and keep and keep" Cookie said.
"Thank god I lost my sense of taste years ago" Packard said as they all dropped the gruel in the fire.
"Don't worry guys! I will save our taste buds as soon as he gives me that ladle!" Jason yelled.
"Never!" Cookie yelled.
Later that night they were all pitching up their tents as Jason noticed Milo still trying to put up his.
"Aren't you going to put up your tent?" Vinny asked.
"I did" Milo said as Vinny stepped in, "I guess I'm a little rusty at this, I haven't gone camping since the last time my grandpa took me."
"I never got to meet your grandfather, what was he like?" Aubrey asked.
"He was like a father to me really my parents died when I was a little kid and he took me in" Milo said as Jason froze as he finished unrolling his sleeping bag as Milo began to laugh.
"What?" Aubrey asked.
"Just thinking, one time when I was eight we were hiking along this stream and I saw something shinning in the water, it was a genuine arrow head you'd think I found a lost civilization the way grandpa carried on about it, it wasn't until I was older that I realized that the arrow head a rock that formed into a triangular."
"That is so cute" Mole said walking off holding a teddy bear.
"Say Aubrey no offence but how did a teenager become the chief mechanic of a multimillion dollar expedition?" Milo asked.
"I took this job when my dad retired funny thing was he always wanted sons one to run his machine shop and the other to be middle weight boxing champion but he got my sister and me instead."
"So what happened to your sister?"
"She twenty four and going for the shot at the title next month anyway I'm saving up so my Papi and I can open another shop."
"Getting in your jammies Mrs. Packard?" Milo asked as the woman walked past them.
"I sleep in the nude" she said.
"Ew" Max said.
"You're going to want a pair of theses!" Sweet said tossing night masks to Max, Jason and Milo, "see sleep walks."
"Hello nightmares" Max said.
"As far as I go, I like to blow things up" Vinny said lying on his sleeping bag with his night mask on.
"Come on Vinny tell the kid the truth" Sweet said pulling on the mask and let go as it hit Vinny face.
"My family owned a flower shop we would sell roses carination's baby breath you name it one day I am making about three thousand corsages for this prom you know the one they put on their wrists and everyone comes in 'where is it?' 'it doesn't match my dress' it's a nightmare, anyway I guess there was the leak next door, this gas and then boom! No more Chinese laundry blew me right through the front window it was like a sign from god I found myself from the boom" Vinny said as they all saw Mole digging into a hole as his head light went out.
"What's Mole story?" Milo asked.
"Trust me on this one you don't want to know! Aubrey don't tell him! You shouldn't have told me but you did and now I'm telling you, you don't want to know" Sweet said.
"What about you Jason? What's your story?" Milo asked as Jason turned his back to them.
"I used live in a very faraway place one this this storm came next thing I know fire breaking out everywhere is flooding, I was five and I that day went to camp in a cave with some friends next morning found out that my whole home was gone, parents dead and I was all alone and then one day he came my Master well former master, Master Eraqus he was like a father to me thought me and my friends everything we know and thought me how to use these" Jason said summoning one of his keyblades.
"Wow how did you do that?" Milo asked.
"It just comes when I want it to then disappears went I don't need it" Jason said making it disappear, "I also learned that they also had a power to connect me to others hearts, my best friend Terra Master was worried about him and so was I the darkness in his hear was growing and we couldn't stop it so he had me step in and share my heart with his, it worked Terra darkness disputed but it was still there for Terra to keep in control my friends and I all shared the same dream but now that I already got my dream done I guess I have a new dream."
"What's that?" Max asked as Jason blushed a little.
"I want to see April again and maybe start something that I always wanted to with her" he smiled.
"Ah" Aubrey said.
"What about you Max?" Milo said.
"Ran away from home to prove to my dad that I can take care of myself only to end up on this incredible journey with Jason here" Max said.
"What will you two do after this?" Milo asked.
"Go to the next place we need to I guess" Jason yawned as Sweet blew out the lights.
Later that knight three masked people entered the camp in the middle of the night and began to search their camp as Milo awoke and stepped out his tent with a yawn as the Atlantians hid and Milo flipped on his flash light and headed out to use the bathroom holding a roll of toilet paper and a small shovel and as he was trying to get his belt lose his flashlight it the massive lantern above as it glowed and fireflies began to fly out.
They then began to buzz around Milo as he tried to swat them away as he used the shovel with the toilet paper roll to hit one as the toilet paper burst into flames.
"Whoa!" Milo yelled as the fireflies began to lite the tents on fire as he looked to see a swarm coming from the lantern.
"FIRE! FIRE!"
"Huh? Milo what the hell are you-WHOA!" Jason yelled stepping out of the tent to see the fire.
"Get some water on the fire!" Helga yelled.
"No time! Get us into those caves! Move it!" Rourke yelled.
"Blizara!" Jason yelled launching an ice spell at the swarm as the vehicles and people on foot began to run towards the cave.
"Milo jump!" Aubrey yelled as Milo, Jason and Max jumped into the back of the truck she was in a the truck behind them exploded.
The bridge then began to break after the lantern above hit the bridge as the vehicles began to fall into the dark bit below.
"AHHHHHHH!"
After all the vehicles crashed into the darkness below nothing but silence was then heard.
A.N. Please Review.