After another two days of travelling, Matt, Spitfire and Wild Storm have found Kaos's new lair. "It is foolish of Kaos to leave his path noticeable. Especially when it's glass." Said Wild Storm. Spitfire chuckled a little when hearing this. " Heh heh. I bet the little runt cut himself all over." Spitfire said with a little bit of amusement in his voice. "So what exactly are we doing here? Matt asked, We obviously need some kind of plan especially if we want to get out of here unnoticed." After five minutes of creating a plan, the three of them took their plan into action. Spitfire was their main distraction to alert the guards by stealing a vehicle and doing donuts around the entire lair. Meanwhile, Matt and Wild Storm found their way through the entrance. However since Matt isn't capable of fighting in combat yet, Wild Storm had to silently put any minion they came by to sleep. Eventually, the two found themselves at a split hallway. Matt decided to take the left while Wild Storm took the right. As Matt went down the hall, he noticed several different detention centers. "Yikes. That would suck for me if I was a prisoner." As Matt felt sympathy for the prisoners, he heard faint crying in a small room up ahead. Curious, Matt decided to check it out. Meanwhile, Spitfire was being chased by Kaos's minions. "Woah! There's gotta be about a hundred of em after me! Spitfire said out loud, heh why am I worried? I'm the fastest racer in all of Skylands I can outrun these creeps easy!" Spitfire said with confidence. Things weren't looking too good for Wild Storm either, he ended walking in the wrong room at the wrong time. One of the new rooms Kaos decided to add was a bar for his best minions and of course this bar was V.I.P only so when Kaos's minions saw Wild Storm, a fight immediately broke out especially since they were well aware Wild Storm was a Skylander. As Matt walked up to the room where he heard the faint cries, he hesitated to open the door. "This isn't apart of the plan but still whoever's in there may know about this artifact." Matt said to himself. As he walked inside the room he looked around in the darkness but saw nothing. As he was about to leave, he then heard a faint voice speak. "Who's there?" Someone mysteriously asked. Matt then went over to the area where he heard the voice and to his surprise, in the corner of the dark room was a cage. Matt then pulled his Iphone out of his pocket and turned his flashlight on to get a better look at who was inside the cage. Once shining his light through, he then had a surprised look on his face. "Squigly? Matt whispered, is that you?" Squigly then looked to see who it was and was glad to see it wasn't a guard. "Oh sir please help me! I don't know where on earth I am!" Matt didn't need to think twice about rescuing her. Luckily, Matt knew how to pick locks so it didn't take too long to break the lock on the cage Squigly was being held captive in. Once Matt broke Squigly free, they both introduced themselves. "Thank you for getting me out of that cage sir who may you be?" Asked Squigly. Matt was completely nervous he was actually talking to Squigly. His favourite video game character. So many thoughts were racing through his head. "Is this actually happening? Is this real life right now? What do I say to her? Does she like me now that I saved her?" While Matt was having several different thoughts, Squigly was a bit confused. "Um…. sir?" She asked. Matt then snapped out of his thoughts and immediately answered her. "My name's Matt!" He said in a nervous tone. Squigly smiled, "Matt is a lovely choice for a name! I'm Sienna Contiello but I go by Squigly. Which you knew?" Squigly asked as she introduced herself. "Yeah you're from a game called SkullGirls!" Squigly was a bit confused by what Matt just said. "There's a game based off of me? Interesting." Matt then noticed that there was something missing but what was it? "Wait a minute…..where's Leviathan?" Matt asked. Squigly's smile then turned into a frown as she then remembered that Leviathan was taken away by Kaos's minions and she had no clue where he was or what they were doing to him. Squigly then began to cry. "Oh it's terrible! They took Leviathan and I don't know what they could be doing to him! I can't loose Leviathan he's the only family I have left!" Squigly said while in tears. Squigly then ran up to Matt and hugged him while crying in his shoulders. Matt could not process what the heck was going on. First he comes to the world he's always dreamed about coming to, then he's given a task that determines every universe's fate and now he's met the girl he fell in love with ever since he first played SkullGirls. What a week this was so far for Matt. Hey don't cry I'll help you find Leviathan, Matt said in a caring tone of voice. But first we need to me up with some allies we can't do this alone." Squigly then stopped crying and looked up at Matt and gave him a warm smile. "Really? You'll help me?" Squigly asked in a more optimistic voice. "Of course I will! I mean after all you're my dream gi* UHH I MEAN MAIN WORRY RIGHT NOW HE HE!" Matt said in a nervous tone. Squigly then looked a bit confused with Matt's remark but didn't think too much of it. "Alright then! Let's meet your friends! I'm sure they're quite relaxed and caring as you! Tell me about them!" Squigly asked. Matt knew this wasn't exactly the perfect time so he decided to tell Squigly about Spitfire and Wild Storm while they were searching for them. Meanwhile, Wild Storm ended up being overpowered by more of Kaos's high classes minions. Despite Wild Storm being highly intelligent
and powerful, not even he can take on many enemies on his own at once.
Matt and Squigly just excited the hall they were in earlier and went to the hall Wild Storm went through. "So tell me about this 'Wild Storm' person you know. Is he brave?" Asked Squigly. "Yeah that's one way of describing him. When he was younger, he was tricked by Kaos to do his requests by doing heists. Wild Storm's past was a mystery and he really wanted answers. Of course Kaos stabbed him in the back by abandoning him at sky highlands and that was when Wild Storm realized Kaos's true intentions" Matt explained. Squigly was in shock that Wild Storm was treated in a selfish way. "Oh my that's terrible! How did he escape? Asked Squigly. "I actually don't remember. I'll need to ask him about that" responded Matt. After a few moments of silence Squigly decided to ask about Spitfire. "So who is your other friend like? Spitfire I believe you said? Is he also calm and polite?" Matt raised his eye brows for a slight moment when Squigly said that. "Weeeeeeellllll." Meanwhile, Spitfire was in hot water. He was finally caught by the guards. Spitfire needed to think of something and quick he knew that if he surrendered then Matt and Wild Storm would have no way to escape. All the guards would immediately take Spitifre in the fortress, take him to the detention center and would immediately begin searching for Matt and Wild Storm since they'll be completely aware that Spitfire didn't come here on his own. "What to do what to do?..." Then out of nowhere Spitifre unleashed a flamenado, giving Spitfire a chance to fight and so the battle began. "So yeah Spitfire isn't exactly uuuuuh calm…." Said Matt. As Matt and Sauigly were still searching for Wild Storm, they heard a loud thud. Both of them jumped a little as they were surprised by the noise. As they continued to walk, Someone in that room then yelled in agony while ranting to the minions. "Aaaghhh! Cmon guys take this Skylander down! It isn't that hard!" Matt and Squigly then looked at eachother for a brief moment and immediately opened the door to the room of where all this noise was coming from. When Matt opened the door, first thing saw was a all out brawl in some sort of bar. Drinks were spilled, bottles were shattered, tables were broken, chairs were in pieces and chair legs and table legs were being used in this brawl. "Ooooh boy. This is NOT good. Alright Squigly let's find Wild Storm." After quickly looking around the bar, Matt found Wild Storm however things weren't looking too good. Wild Storm was being handled by almost every single minion in the bar. Matt came rushing to his side and fought some of the minions to gain their attention. This gave Wild Storm a fighting chance and aided Matt as they fought side by side. Squigly then decided to also help them out and after 5 minutes of brawling the three standing victorious. "You have my thanks Matt and you to miss. Who may you be?" Asked Wild Storm. "I am Sienna Contiellio but you can call me Squigly" said Squigly as she bowed. "Wild Storm she isn't from here. Kaos captured her from her world and we need to find her friend Leviathan. We're gonna have to hold off the mission from finding the Skull artifact" Matt explained. After a few moments of thinking it through, Wild Storm agreed in aborting the main objective. "I see...Afterall this is much more important right now" Wild Storm said agreeing. Matt then turned to Squigly "Since we're on this topic why did Kaos capture you in the first place?" Asked Matt. "He sent a puppeteer to capture someone by the name of Roller Brawl and for some reason thought that I was her" Squigly explained. Matt and Wikd Storm had confused glances on their faces when hearing this. "Kaos thought you were Roller Brawl? Strange" said Wild Storm. Matt decided to give his two cents on this as well. "Hmn that's suspicious of him and you said that he sent a puppeteer?" Squigly then nodded. "Mesmerelda's helping out Kaos again huh?" "Yes! That's her name! That's what her puppets kept saying!" Squigly remarked. Wild Storm then walked out of the room. "Well let's go and find this Leviathan person you speak of. Let's not waste our time in this bar" said Wild Storm. As the three left the bar, they noticed that there was a emergency lock down button in the room so to keep the minions locked in the bar, that's what they did. After
10 minutes of searching the halls, Squigly noticed a room called 'animal control room' Squigly immediately ran to the door and swing it open. "Leviathan?! Are you in here?!" Squigly looked around until she saw a cage named 'weird worm thing' remembering that was what Kaos reffered to Leviathan as, Squigly ran over to the cage and pulled the drape off seeing that Leviathan was indeed there but sulking in the corner. "Oh what have I done? Because of me, Squigly is more then likely gone. I shouldn't have let her watch that puppet show! I'm such a failure to the Contiellio family. Forgive me Roberto as I have failed your final wish…" Squigly then softly spoke, "You aren't a failure Leviathan." Squigly said in a soft voice with a warm smile. Leviathan then quickly turned around to see if he was just imagining hearing Squigly's voice but luckily he wasn't. "Squigly! You're alive! Oh thank heavens!" Said Leviathan as he quickly slithered over to Squigly wrapping around her in a tight hug. "I'm glad to see you too Leviathan! But I have one question. How am I still myself? Wouldn't the Skull Heart taken control of me?" Asked Squigly. "That I do not know…. But there isn't much time we need to get out of here." Leviathan said in a hurry. "Squigly where did you go? Oh hey there you are!" Matt said in a reliving voice. Leviathan yen looked a bit puzzled upon Matt. "Squigly who is this?" Asked Leviathan. "This is Matt! He saved me from the detention center! He's going to get us out of here!" Squigly said in optimism. "And who may this be?" Asked Leviathan looking at Wild Storm. "He's Wild Storm me and Matt saved him from a bunch of guards in a bar." Said Squigly. "Well then I take it that the both of you aren't with this Kaos creep correct?" Asked Leviathan. Matt and Wild Storm then nodded. "Definitely not with Kaos. We originally came here to find this weird Skull artifact that mysteriously ended up in Skylands. However, Kaos managed to beat us to it and we really need to get this thing back since according to Eon in the wrong hands, disastrous things could happen. Leviathan then remembered his encounter with Kaos with a worried look on his face. "That artifact isn't an artifact…..it's the Skull Heart…." Said Leviathan in worry. Matt and Squigly ten gasped in shock while Wild Storm had a puzzled look on his face. "Kaos has the Skull Heart?! Okay now we REALLY need to get this back and destroy it!" Matt said. Squigly then quickly nodded in agreement. "Agreed! Who knows what that creep will do with it!" Leviathan also agreed with the two. "Precisely. However, the four of us can't do it alone. We are going to need help of we are going to take on Kaos and his army. "Excuse me for my lack of knowledge of the Skull Heart but what exactly is it?" Asked Wild Storm. "There isn't really any time to explain right now what we need to do is get out of here and find Spitfire. He's distracting the guards remember?" Matt said. "Right! Let's go!" Squigly said in a serious tone. As the four excited the room they heard an explosion just outside the fortress. "Uh oh…." Said Matt in worry. Meanwhile Kaos was in rage that his new fortress was under attack already and he certainly wasn't happen with the fact that only three Skylanders were causing all of this. "Oooooooh that's it! I've had enough of this nonsense! GLUMSHANKS!" Glumshanks jumped out the loud yell of his name and immediately asked Kaos what he needed. "Yes Lord Kaos?" Glumshanks asked nervously. "Bring me the Skuuuuuulllllll!" Glumshanks brought Kaos the Skull that they stole from Motleyville and wasn't comfortable with the Skull being in his hands. "You know Lord Kaos, I don't think we should have this thing we don't even know what it can do especially since it's not from Skyla*" "JUST GIVE IT TO ME FOOL!" Kaos yelled in anger. Glumshanks then sighed and gave him the skull. "Now what do you do skull? Just work already you stupid thing!" Then the skull lit up in a blue flame. "K…..k….k….a…..o….s…." Kaos then jumped up in excitement. "Glumshanks! It said my name! See? That's how you make beings obey you! Bring fear to them!" Kaos then decided to listen closely to what the skull had to say. "I am the Skull Heart. I can only grant one wish*" "A wish huh?! Well then I wish to conquer all of Skylands AND THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" After a few moments of silence nothing happened which irritated Kaos. "Um hellooooooo? Did you hear me?!" Kaos yelled in anger. "I can only grant a woman's wish. You clearly are not. However, I do see darkness and eve within you so maybe this can be an acceptance…..very well Kaos consider your wish….granted." The Skull Heart and Kaos then levitated into the air as the Skull Hesrt proceeded to go inside Kaos. "Hey hey hey hey hey! What do you think you're do*" Glumshanks then began to walk backwards to exit the room as Kaos began to laugh while changing. Once the four got to the main entrance of the fortress, they noticed that Spitfire was fighting off the gaurds all on his own. The four then began to aid him in battle. After 15 minutes of fighting off the guards, the five then began to make their escape however, it didn't take long for Kaos to find them. "FoOlS! DiD YoU ReAlLy ThInK tHaT yOu CaN rUn FrOm KaOoOoOoOsS?!" The five looked at Kaos in shock seeing how he completely changed. "What the heck?!" Spitfire said in shock. "It's the Skull Heart! Said Leviathan, He's under its control!" Kaos's arms were replaced with gigantic bone arms, his skin much more pale and despite Kaos already having red eyes, they were much darker and were glowing. Wild Storm then ran up to Kaos to take him on. Unfortunately, that was a huge mistake. As soon as Wild Storm's sword touched Kaos, the Skull Heart froze Wild Storm in place. "Such persistent. Such lack of intelligence. However….you can be a perfect slave." Said the Skull Heart. Kaos and the Skull Heart then turned Wild Storm into an undead slave. "Oh no…." Leviathan whispered. "We gotta take down that Skull thing and fast! Cmon guys!" Said Spitfire. "Spitfire no! This isn't a fight we can't win! At least not yet." Matt urged. The four then ran off from the fortress. Luckily, the Hot Streak was nearby and the four hopped in and escaped. While on the road Spitfire was ranting about what just happened, Leviathan was looking in the horizon thinking about what to do, Matt was trying to process what they all just witnessed and Squigly curled herself up with her face in her legs. Matt then heard sniffling and decided to go talk to her. "Hey is it ok if I sit here?" Asked Matt. Squigly then looked up to Matt and gave him a gesture telling him he could sit beside her. "What's the matter?" "I just feel as this is all my fault…because of me being here, Wild Storm is under the Skull Heart's control.." Squigly said about to cry. Matt then hugged Squigly. "Hey hey don't say that. It's not your fault if it's anyone's fault it's mine. I didn't stop Wild Storm from trying to take on Kaos and the Skull Heart. You aren't to blame for this at all." Matt said with a reassuring smile. Squigly felt a lot better and gave Matt a warm smile. Spitfire and Leviathan overheard Matt and Squigly talking. "Heh I can see those two being together." Said Spitfire. Leviathan then looked upon the two and smiled. "I do sense a bond growing within the two." "You think that they'll be the key to stoppin that Skull?" "I do hope so. Their bond will be more than just allies." Spitfire chuckled a little. "I think they're supercharged with love." As the Academy was just over the horizon, little did they all know that the adventure of a life time was awaiting them.