The Adventures of the

God Squad

Episode 67 "End of a Great Tradition"

Since Death was now corrupting my students, the rules of the school changed that the students were not allowed to leave the school unless otherwise notified, and they were allowed no outside contact with anyone outside the facility without special permission. Each student would be monitored at every turn that nothing they did would go unnoticed. Enrolling oneself into the school was also completely changed. People weren't allowed to apply, but if we set up normal schools around Slugterra and if a student did well enough, I would send a spy to give them a scholarship opportunity for my school and they reject or accept; whatever they decided. This would be done in complete secrecy because Death could put his own men into the school and get into the school and make matters even worse.

(Theme Song)

The "almost closing" of my school was hard for me since I always liked giving everyone a chance to apply, but now only the best could get in. Also if a student accepted, we created a cyborg that looked and acted like them and we informed the family of the change. The way we were able to do this was stealing the technology from Death and using it ourselves, so Death wouldn't find out what we were up too. The number of new students that accepted reduced by 68%, but it was necessary. Also the school's education's difficulty increased since they needed to be better than Death's men (due to the fact that they were my old students now with the training of Death as well). I also decided that the education would involve 80% combat training and the other 20% all other subjects since they needed to learn quickly and well.

Me and Anna were inspecting a security unit and facility in a city, when my suit alerted me that one of my energy cubes had been pick-pocketed (The energy cubes were experimental cubes that could hold an almost infinite amount of things; no matter what size) (don't ask how it worked, I left that to my lab boys). We chased him through the city, until Anna finally tackled him and relieved him of his weapons. Before I even asked him one word, he took out a concealed blade and killed himself. I inspected the body and it showed that he was one of my students that Death had corrupted to work for him.

I heard a small beeping coming from somewhere, but I didn't know from where. A device on the thief began to flash and beep and my suit told me "Sir, this man's suit is about to explode and the blast will level this building your on!" it told me. "You have 5 seconds to get off before it explodes sir." It said calmly. Me and Anna ran and jumped off the building, and just cleared the blast radius, but the after-blast still carried us a good distance, but I activated my thrusters on my boots, grabbed Anna, and crash landed into a small street fruit market.

The crowd gasped and ran from the cart of fruit. Once we landed, we were on the ground, covered in fruits and people looking over us with concerned eyes. An officer helped me to my feet and another was going to help Anna up, but I insisted that I would. Anna recovered and found my standing above her holding out my hand. She smiled and took it and got up "You think we should get some pineapples while we're at it dear?" she said giggling and I chuckled. Even though we had survived the bomb, it was a major game changer of how Death's troops would go out when they had been beaten. Death sent me a message saying "Like my new fireworks? I designed them especially for you Yvan. I know you like stuff like that." He said with a sleek smile as the message ended.

Death had truly increased his game with this new gadget of his that he had put in his students and I couldn't believe that the students would actually agree to it. If I knew those students I knew that they wouldn't have gone through with something like that, unless they were truly crazy and mad. I needed to stop this as fast as possible, because as much as I wanted to reduce the number of troops that Death had access to, I didn't want to kill or lose any of them. Death had made a good move, and I didn't know what move to make, whatever I would do, he would gain something from it and use it for his own gain.

The game we were playing was similar to chess, and it was the most intense game me and Death had ever played; one wrong move could be devastating to whoever made it. Since I needed some time to think of my next move, I decided to help my best friend plan for his wedding. It was Joseph's wedding that was coming up, so I put my mind to that to distract my mind from Death. Finally on the day of the wedding, I was the best man and Joseph's wife: Serena Brock's maid of honor was my friend Jo-Anne. The wedding was a sight to see and all of Slugterra came to the event; hell even some of Death's troops wished to attend, but they weren't invited. At last everyone was in place and Serena walked down the aisle in her wedding gown, and she was shining like light itself. She was beautiful beyond explaining, with her clear white gown, bright golden hair, rich red lips and beautiful purple eyes. Joseph almost fainted because of her beauty and that he was actually getting married to her.

The two stepped in front of the priest and began to say their vows. As they were about to say there "I do's" then the roof opened, someone jumped through and threw a bomb in between the two and landed on a small hole that was caused from his landing. He shot and stunned everyone, except for us (God Squad members). We all took cover and I called security, but no one answered. The intruder and his associates had taken all of my security and police from here to a mile out! We were alone. The intruder took Serena hostage and pointed a blaster and her head "Follow, and she dies" he said. He took out a grappling hook and zipped back up through the roof and into the hole, like a wasp back into its hive.

Joseph grabbed his grappling hook and aimed it at the hole, but I tackled him and relived him of his weapon. "Joseph, are you crazy!? Did you hear what he said? "Don't follow me", do you really think he was joking? That was one of Death's troops!" I explained. Joseph calmed down and apologized. We couldn't follow him, so we needed to think of a rescue plan. Just as we were trying to figure out to locate her, Death contacted us. Can you guess why? "Hello Joseph. I have a deal for you. Tell Yvan that he has to open his school as a public school again and if he doesn't, then Serena dies." He began. "I can hear you Death." I interrupted. "Well this makes my life easier, anyway, like I said, open the school by next week or she dies. Got it!?" he asked as he turned off the communicator.

"We can't let him kill her! I have to get her out of there, NOW!" Joseph said angrily. "Joseph, your letting your emotions get the better of you. There is more at stake here than just Serena dying." I told Joseph, but he didn't listen and stormed out of the room. "I have an idea!" I started. "We will open the school to the public again, but it won't be real." I continued. "How is that even possible?" The rest asked confused. "We will announce that the school is opening again, but then secretly inform everyone that it's not and our real students and a few new candidates will sign up, publicly and it will look like it's publicly open again. And all of this will give us enough time to think of a plan to save Serena from Death." I concluded. "That's...that's brilliant!" Anna said in disbelief.

The plan worked perfectly and Death was convinced. We began to devise to save Serena, but while doing so we received another message from Death, and I thought "Oh great, now there's something else that's he's demanding for Serena, but it wasn't that at all!