AH! Sorry for taking so long. I had a lot to do this summer and I was tired so I took a rest. I'm back now, I think. So let's continue the story!
Bland Forest:
Agent B and her agents led the guys into their camp. It was an area surrounded by trees that were slowly being knocked down, and comprised of machinery under tents or a few outside. A few scientists in lab coats were there, as well as other agents working or watching the area. The guys were led passed a large machine that could chomp down trees, and had wheels that were clamped into the ground so that it wouldn't move. Agent B led the guys to a glass dome under a closed tent where they were put into like a cage.
"Make yourselves at home for now. I'm sure the boss will be pleased to see you Vito. It's been so long," Agent B said, as Vito looked at her with furrowed brows and said,
"My aunt is not coming back, and I'm not going to help you either."
Agent B smirked and said, "You don't have a choice, and if you want your friends to see the next sunrise, cooperate."
Vito's eyes widened, as Agent B turned and left the tent.
"What did she say? Vito?" Tommy asked, as Vito didn't turn around but only laid his hand on the glass.
"We can't leave... or she'll kill you guys..." Vito said, as the other guys went completely quiet.
'Aunty. Violet... please, be careful...' Vito thought, his eyes straining a bit to prevent his tears from falling down.
Outside Sasquash forest:
"Are you sure they live here?" Kelly asked Defer.
"Positive. I fly over here occasionally, so I see them. They should be close by," Defer replied, as they passed by a few more trees to see a creek.
Around the creek stood seven fiery horses, and as they noticed the group coming, so did they.
"Lightning!" Violet said with joy, as her fiery horse neighed in delight to see her.
Violet hugged the face of her horse, as the other horses greeted the others.
"We need your help, Lightning. Vito, Paul, Charlie, and Tommy are being help captive. We gotta find them! Will you help us?" Violet asked her noble steed, and Lightning nodded.
Lightning neighed at the other horses to ask them if they were going, and they neighed in agreement to go.
"Thank you Lightning. Let's go save them," Violet said, as she hopped on her horse.
Camp:
The guys were trying to think of a way to escape undetected, but it seemed impossible. The guards were too good. Occasionally poking their heads in to look at them, and then standing back outside of the tent, only to poke their heads in at exactly five minutes later.
"They're like freaking machines! How many people have they captured and locked up like this?" Tommy said, growing agitated.
"Well, they have experience in capturing people for missions and bringing them back alive to jail or court or something. Each mission failed cost them, so they don't intend to fail," Vito said.
"Your Aunt must really have been an asset to them, huh?" Paul asked, and Vito nodded.
"They check on us every five minutes. That means we need to escape from here without alerting them, and already have escaped the base in that time... it's not enough time, and this glass is hard to break through without noise, or if we make a cut it might be seen... but, there is one thing we could do..." Charlie said, gaining the other guys' attentions.
"What do you have in mind?" Paul asked.
"We could just break out, pull in the guards and knock them out, and then just go all out to escape," Charlie replied.
"You want us to fight them off? But there are too many guys, and that woman threatened to put us six feet under if we tried to escape," Tommy said.
"It's either take the risk, or have Vito forcefully trained to be an agent or Ani forced to work for them again. They don't seem like the friendliest bunch, so I'm willing to take the risk. We died once before, so we shouldn't be so worried," Charlie said.
A commotion was heard coming from outside of the tent, and then a body flung inside and hit the dome, cracking it, as the agent guard sank down and was still. The guys were surprised, but they decided to take the opportunity to escape since it looked like something ran into the agents.
"What is going on?" Paul said, as he bashed his metal bat at the crack and made it crackle even more.
"Let's go find out. Looks like the agents are having a good time," Charlie said, as he took out his microphone and made a scream wave to break through the crackled part of the dome.
"Woo hoo! Escape!" Vito cheered as he jumped through the hole.
The guys escaped from the dome and poked their heads out from behind the tent curtain. They were shocked to see an all-out war occurring outside between the agents and what looked to be forest people since they wore clothes that looked like leaves, branches, grass, and bark. The forest people also had weapons crafted from stick and stones, but they had diamonds that looked enchanted attached to them, which made the weapons stronger and shoot out energy.
With the battle still continuing, the guys decided to stay out of it and started sneaking away from the other side of the dome. As they walked, they heard someone say,
"Don't move! Stand where you are!"
They froze with their hands halfway up, and turned to see a forest woman standing before them with an enchanted spear. Her hair was dark brown and reached her shoulder along with bangs that covered over one of her green eyes, and a flower crown on her head with leaves sticking up from the back. Her skin was a dark shade of tan, and she wore a grass skirt that reached her knees with brown shorts underneath, and a beige t-shirt with a mess of green leaves on it.
"… You guys don't look like one of them, and you came from in the tent. You were captured, yes?" The forest woman asked, and the guys nodded.
"Okay. Follow me then, if you want to live," the forest woman said, as she gestured with her spear for them to follow her.
As they did so, Paul asked, "What is going on here? We just came to explore the forest, what is all of this?"
"We will explain when it's over. Come on," the forest woman said.
She led them to a truck where a forest man was sitting at the driver's side. After getting them in the back of the pickup truck, she looked around to make sure that they were safe. Then a howl was heard, as they all looked and saw the head forest man lifting up Agent B into the air with both hands as she was tied up.
"Put me down! Put me down! I will not fail!" Agent B yelled out, as the forest leader, with his brown hair and thorn crown with five leaves sprouting from the front, howled again triumphantly.
The Forest leader spoke, "We have conquered, my people! We have conquered! This land belongs to the forest once again! No more plundering resources and looting the innocent forest creatures! We have won! And to ensure our victory over these mechanical monstrosities..."
He placed Agent B down on her knees with her chin laying on a stump that one of people set before him. Then the Forest leader brought forth his battle axe and lifted it up with both hands.
"W-Wait, but she's a person," Vito said, as the forest woman looked at him with her eyebrow arched.
Then the Forest leader brought down his axe on Agent B's neck, and her head rolled along the ground.
"Dang..." Tommy said, as the guys were surprised.
"You... Y-Y-You will-l-l not..." the head of Agent B said as it sparked and then the eyes closed as oil leaked from the mouth.
The guys had their mouths agape as they looked and saw that the neck on the body of Agent B was purely mechanical and sparked occasionally.
"This land is free of Robo-agent tyranny!" The Forest leader shouted, as the forest people cheered.
"Vito. Did you know about these people? Or the fact that the agents are robots?" Charlie asked, and Vito replied,
"No clue."
"Okay gentlemen. Sit down and buckle up. We'll be heading out shortly," the forest woman said.
"Where, exactly?" Vito asked, as the guys sat down.
"To our village. We want to make sure the robots didn't insert chips in your brains or something, and I'm sure you guys must be hungry. Those robots don't seem to realize that people need food to live, you know," the forest woman said, and the guys decided to stay with them since the people seemed hospitable.
When the forest people were getting ready, the Forest leader approach the forest woman and asked,
"My daughter, who are those men in the pickup truck?"
"They were captives of the Robo-agents. I was hoping we could bring them to the village to make sure the robots didn't experiment on them or something," the forest woman replied.
"Hmm. Okay. You will take charge to watch over them then?" The Forest leader asked his daughter, and she nodded.
"Very well. Let's head home," he said, and the forest people began their trek to their village.
Bland Forest beach:
Violet's group landed on the beach where the guys first arrived at the forest. They hopped off of their horses, as Defer landed since he could fly.
"Okay everyone. Let's go find them," Violet said.
"We should make a plan first. It's better to be prepared," Kelly said.
"I agree. We should split up first to cover more ground, and when we find them, we'll regroup. No engaging in combat unless they found you," Ani said, and the others nodded.
Ani turned to Defer and asked, "Defer, may you fly up as high as you can and keep watch from the skies? Just in case we may need back up, or to alert us of any danger."
"Of course, Ani. Call me if you need me," Defer said, and then he flew up.
"Thank you, darling," Ani said.
"How should we split?" Rex asked.
"I'll take the right side," Violet said, since she was standing more towards the right.
"I'll go left," Lester said, since he was standing more to the left.
"I'll go with you, my child," Ani said to her daughter.
"I'll go left too. It's better if we don't split up too much," Kelly said to Lester and he nodded.
"Then I got the middle. Let's do this thing!" Rex said, as he charged straight ahead into the forest.
"Wait... nah he's gone," Kelly said.
"He'll be alright. He's a tank after all, so it's not like anyone could take him down," Lester said.
The groups split up and entered the forest, taking the danger head on, as their steads stood behind, awaiting their call or return.
