The Adventures of the

God Squad

Episode 62 "You Gotta Be Kidding Me!"

At last I was able to break Thomas' shell, and get through to him. Once we converted him, things definitely quieted down without any more of his schemes. Now that we weren't busy trying to stop, I wanted to find out more about Thomas, his family, and his past to see if I could help him any other way. I did some research, but I couldn't find any more information than what we found in his computer. I knew that the only place to look was in the person who knew everything that I needed to know: Thomas. I needed to know his past if I wanted to help him, but I didn't know if he would give me what I wanted. I entered his room "Oh...uh Yvan. What do I owe the pleasure?" he said bowing. "I've already told you not to bow to me and call me dad or father, but we'll worry about that later. I have something important to ask you: I need to know your past." I said, but at these words, he turned pail and uncomfortable.

(Theme Song)

"You...you want to know who I was before I started my evil career? I don't know if I can tell you. But if I'm to make up for my mistakes, then I guess that I should start with you." He said sadly. "I've held back a secret from all of you about why I did all those horrible things, but you have to promise me that you won't tell anyone, not even mother." He began. "I promise. Whatever I hear here, won't leave this room. You have my word." I promised. "Well, here we go. I wasn't the one who thought of all those plans and I'm not the one who thought of myself as a God. It was someone else." He said. "My didn't like my family because they despised me and beat me often. My uncle was the only one in my family who truly loved me and he said that could give me the love that I didn't have from my family. He said that there would some things that I wouldn't like to see, so he told me to stay out of it and that he would take care of it. I promised not to tell anyone about this as part of the agreement. The years that I was "kidnapped", my uncle stole me and brainwashed me to think in the ways of a villain and a king, plus he taught me to hate my family and everyone instead of loving them. All I wanted at that point was to be a king and to be loved by someone and he gave me both those things." He told me.

"Once he told me that I would king in a matter of about 5 years and that he would the father I never had, my joy shot through the roof! After a few weeks, my parents disowned me and I joined my uncle in his facilities to someday be king of Slugterra. Now I know that he probably forced them to disown me just to make me hate them even more. Once he began to tell me the things I needed to do, I objected, but he convinced me to do them, telling me that It would lead to greater things. Once I began to fight you and create all this pain, you began to speak to my heart, but I tried to push it down, but it somehow got out. You, with the help of God, saved me from the clutches of my uncle and the devil and have saved my soul from hell. I thank you to the very bottom of my heart for saving me and showing me how to love again. I promised him that I wouldn't tell anyone about this little agreement between us, but know I know that I had to tell you because I can't stand anyone else getting hurt because of the mistakes that I made. I don't where he is, but what I know is that he has also lied to the people that you trade with and soon they won't even trade anymore, but they will only come here to steal instead! We must act quickly to make sure that he doesn't take over that kingdom because he knows that you are too tough an opponent to beat so he'll go for the weaker prey." He concluded.

I contacted the Mahkas and asked if what Thomas said was true, but they denied everything that I asked, but I knew they were lying. I sent spies to see if we could find proof of their guilt. They came back with a recording of the king of the Mahkas speaking with Thomas' uncle (we didn't know what he looked like because it was a hologram message and his face was cloaked). I traveled to their island and asked to see the king, but they told me that I wasn't allowed to see him. "I demand to see your king! Do you know who your speaking to?" I asked. "Your Yvan Choly, sole protector and advisor of Slugterra, but you have no power here, only our king: Tolo has power here." They replied. "I don't care if I have power here. I could knock you both 50 yards away with a single punch, dislocate your shoulder and break all your ribs and that's just to start. Now will you let me go by? And if you think that your king will start a war, he won't. Your army is small and weak and will never match mine. Now let me see him!" I demanded. The guards hesitated, then let us into the palace. "What are you doing here? Guards, why did you let them here?" The king said angrily. "Well there was no real way that we could keep them out. They are the key to our survival with our trade deal, there was no way that we could beat him, since no one has ever beaten him in combat, and we can't declare war on them, then we would lose in 2 days. So what could we do?" they explained. The king thought and said "A fair point. State your business her Yvan." He told me. "You don't tell me what to do, I take orders from no man. I came here for an explanation." I said as I showed the evidence. The king was shocked at what we showed him. He was speechless! "My spies caught talking this Thomas' uncle, "Death" and I want to know why you have anything to do with him!" I demanded.

The king slowly managed to say "I don't have to answer to these charges. You are in my kingdom and I don't have to listen to you! After all you are just a greedy, merciless dictator who cares nothing for you people!" he said in disgust as he spit on the ground. "How dare you insult me?" I replied. "Leave! I don't want to hear anything further from you. Guards, take him away!" He shouted. 4 guards walked toward me and tried to cuff, but I took them all out in 2 moves! The rest charged, but I easily defeated them. I jumped toward the king's throne and took by the front of his cloak "Why are you working with Death?" I asked. "I don't answer to you. First you march into my kingdom without permission. Then you insult and accuse me of crime, and finally you attack my guards and threaten me? I will say nothing!" he said.

Just as he finished, something blasted through the door and caused us both to go flying into the wall. I got up and found a small passenger scooter with what looked like Death with them. "Tolo! You have failed to keep me a secret. I have no more use for you." He said as he threw a small knife through Tolo's neck and killed him. "So you Death. The uncle of Thomas. I've been wanting an audience with you for some time." I said. "Have you now? And who told you that I was Thomas' uncle?" He asked. "Thomas told me and now I will stop you from causing anymore mayhem!" I said as I shot a slug at him, but he jumped up and dodged it, but it took our his troops.

We began to fight, but soon, he was at my mercy. "What it's going to be Death? Are you gonna come nicely, or am I going to have to convince you to come?". "You don't have to do either because I'm not going with you. No matter what!" he said as he knocked away my staff and began to run away. I chased him on the rooftops "This guy is good, but not good enough!" I told myself as I gained on my target. The chase continued, but it led to the sea where he into a boat and began to sail away. I tried shooting it, but it did nothing. I got into another boat, but his was faster than mine, so he got away. I knew from then on that Death was going to be a challenging opponent, but nothing had been able to stop us before besides Omega. I went back to the castle to see if I could find anything about Thomas' uncle. I couldn't find much, but the furthest known relative that Death and Thomas had, I couldn't believe!