THE SILVER LION LIVES!

You know, for those of you who thought I was dead.

Chapter 13:

Weapon Specialists - Part 4

"This had better be good Leonard." Terren Biostar glared daggers at his scientist, causing the poor man to gulp. Receiving a video transmission from Biostar was one of the most terrifying things in the world, but him actually going someone in person? That was not a good sign. It always meant someone was going to be executed and the biggest candidate at the moment was Leonard.

"Well sir... I have to say this was rather difficult to discover..." He was at a loss for words.

"Just get to the point. I have an urgent meeting in four hours." Leonard nodded.

"Well, you see, there's no doubt that the boy is the King of Hearts." He snapped his fingers causing schematics of a power core to appear on his computer screen. "The damage that the boy inflicted on the power core wasn't like anything we've ever seen. Before he destroyed it, the energy of the power core dropped 35%."

"I am well aware of that..." The tyrant growled. "What I want to know is how did get in such a illogical manner!?" Leonard flinched.

"Actually, that answer was much more easier to discover than I thought... are you familiar with the Wandā?" Terren's eyes widened.

"Are you telling me the boy is an extraterrestrial?"

"Far from it. Wandā is a planet that has been changing for millions of years with thousands of it's inhabitants going to different parts of the universe. His young age proves that he cannot be native to Wandā, but there is a possibility that he may descend from a Wandā who came to earth and he inherited the strange cartoonish abilities, which is a common trait on their native planet." Terren scratched his chin.

"I suppose that would make sense..." He gave Leo another glare. "Alright, you live." Leonard gave a deep sigh in relief. "Now tell me, where's Lucaria?"

"I gave her some time off. She should be coming back by-"

The two were interrupted by an alarm and flashing red lights.

"PRISONER ESCAPE! I REPEAT, PRISONER ESCAPE! SIREN HAS ESCAPED HER PRISON!"

"WHAT!" Biostar yelled as he made his way to the computer. "Display all camera visuals on screen! NOW!" It is never a good thing when Terren Biostar starts yelling. Various images appeared on the screen, but one caught his attention: Siren, Hunter and Lucaria running through the hallways of the base. Terren eyes twitched slightly. He gave a rather loud growl. "It's I shame they just finished cleaning the hallways... BECAUSE BLOOD IS ABOUT TO BE SPILLED!" Leonard stared at his boss. "What? It's the truth."

Deryk had just left the basement when the alarm rang. He had gotten the files he needed. Actually, it was just a CD. But that little disc contained something rather interesting. Anyway, realizing that hunter had already blown his cover, Deryk realized that looking for Biostar would have to wait. He cursed under his breath and started to look for Hunter.

"This is bad!" Hunter yelled as he, Siren and Lucaria ran through the hallways. "Where's the exit?" Lucaria pointed forward.

"The back door is just ahead! But we have to hurry before Biostar's troops assemble!" They ran until they reached a large silver door. "Hold on, just let me type the code."

"Hurry up!" Hunter yelled. "I don't want to be locked in a cell for the rest of my life."

"Knowing Biostar, he'd probably give you death penalty." Siren said as the door opened. Only one slight problem, they were greeted by the sound of guns clicking. Ten soldiers, Terren and Leonard stood ten feet away from them. Lucaria hid behind Hunter, who cursed under his breath. Siren took out a metal device from her gauntlet. which became a crystal sword.

"Well, what do we have here. A bounty hunter, a double agent and a lab rat. This isn't even worth my time." The tyrant did not look amused. At the words 'double agent' Lucaria's eyes widened. "Don't I didn't know about your meeting with GUN." Even Leonard was surprised at what his leader was saying. "Nothing happens in these walls without me knowing." Leonard opened his mouth.

"Then why were you acting so shocked when you fou-" He was interrupted by Terren's death glare. "I mean... Lucaria, you traitor! I trusted you!" Lucaria had a rather sad look on her face.

"As for you boy," Biostar began, turning his attention to Hunter. "I don't know how much your being paid, but I can pay you triple the price if you use that canon on your arm and shoot the scientist cowering behind you." Lucaria looked up to the boy, who was, while not visible due to his helmet, glaring at the tyrant.

"Sorry gramps, I don't roll like that. When I get a new mission, I stick with it. Besides, there's no way I'd want to work for such a cruel guy like you." Hunter said, reading his blaster. Terren smiled.

"I take that as a compliment... And Siren, my favorite little toy." The girl gave the tyrant a glare, but unlike his own, it was filled with anger and rage.

"Don't. You. Dare. Call me that!" Fire was burning in her eyes.

"I was already getting bored of you anyway. In fact I was already planning your execution. But I suppose this will do just fine. Men..." The soldiers around them prepared their weapons, and the three heroes backed up slightly. "F-" A sequence of bullets hit each of the soldiers, making all of them fall dead on the floor. Terren searched for the source of the shots and saw Deryk, in his normal clothes, standing on the roof of the base.

"Fire." He said receiving a glare from Terren. But then, something strange happened. He started to laugh. Everyone stared at the tyrant.

"You really shouldn't have done that boy." With those words, a pair of chains erupted from the bushes and wrapped around Deryk's arms and pulled the walking arsenal down in front of his friends. The chains were then pulled back into the bush. A voice came from the bush. One that made Deryk's eyes widen.

"Hello Deryk." From behind the bush emerged a young man, about 22 years old. Let me explain his appearance like this. He looked like some kind of biker. He didn't have a very muscular build, but he was incredibly menacing. He was wearing a black leather jacket with spikes on the shoulders over his black t-shirt with a skull over it, black pants and a pair of boots. He had black, finger-less gloves That had skulls printed on them. His hair was brown and it went all the way down to his back. His eyes were an awkward orange color. He kept two chains wrapped around his arms. "It's been a while." The man smirked. Deryk got up and gave the man a glare.

"Marcus..." He growled. "I thought you were still stuck in the Himalayas..." The man, now known as Marcus, gave a laugh.

"You really think a little snow is gonna stop me. Come on buddy, you know me better than that."

"I'm not your buddy, pal."

"Whatever. Besides, I got some unfinished business with you to take care of." He let his chains drop to the floor. Deryk released his tonfa-blades.

"Hunter, take Siren and Lucaria away from the base." Deryk commanded causing his comrades to stare at him. Hunter tried talking to him.

"What? You don't want any-"

"Just go!" Deryk's voice sounded a angrier all of a sudden, startling the mercenary. "I'll handle Marcus." A little worried at first, Hunter grabbed Siren and Lucaria and ran away from the current battlefield. Terren, seeing their attempt to flee, sighed.

"Why can't vermin every stay still for once?" The ruthless tyrant said before snapping his fingers, causing a wireframe holding a shotgun to appear behind him. "Capture those three and bring them back on the double." The wireframe saluted before chasing after the three. Terren smirked before he heard the sound of chains rattling. The fight had already started. Deryk was already in the air trying to dodge Marcus' chains, with very little success as one of the latched onto his leg and launched him into a tree. Deryk tried cutting off the chain with his blades, only to once again be flung into the wall of the base.

"What's the matter Deryk?" Marcus laughed at him. "It looks like your getting a little sloppy!" Deryk gave him a death glare before another chain wrapped around his wrist. "I've become a lot faster since the last time you saw!" The boy was flung into the air." Good luck beating me now!" And then back to the ground. Terren was very pleased with what he was seeing.

"I should make some popcorn." He said. Deryk glared at him, only to for his arm to be once again get caught by the chain.

"Something is very wrong here." He thought as he was pulled towards the biker. He tried to attack at the close distance, but Marcus only dodge it and kicked him back. "I know he said he got faster... but it's only been two months and I can barely keep up with his movements!" A smirk appeared on Marcus' face. He lashed his chains at Deryk like a whip, but the young soldier was able to dodge. "I have to find a flaw in his battle strategy, and fast."

"We should go back!" Siren was currently arguing with Hunter as they ran through the forest. "That guy might get hurt!" Hunter sighed.

"Listen Siren." He started. "I might have just met the guy, but I can tell he and one guy have something going on. We should just leave it to him."

"But-"

"No buts Siren." Lucaria said as she stopped to a halt, causing the others to do the same. "Marcus and Deryk have a long history together." Hunter put a hand on his chin.

"You used to work for Biostar right? Care to explain who that biker is?" Lucaria nodded.

"Marcus is Leonard's nephew." Siren eyes widened when she heard that. "He's a dangerous delinquent who wont stop at nothing till he gets what he wants. After he lost to Deryk for the very first time, he became obsessed with beating and has gone through numerous experiments and training exercises in order to accomplish that goal. However, even with all that, he's never been able to defeat Deryk."

"I never thought Leonard had a nephew like that..." Siren said worriedly. "Even though he did all those experiments on me, he seemed like a nice guy."

"He is, but Marcus doesn't care about his uncle at all. He just wants to take care of Deryk. In fact, Leonard protested against the experiments on him, which almost cost him his life."

"Gosh." Hunter said. "Well, we better get on our way." He took two steps before he heard something.

"What wrong?" Siren asked him. He didn't respond. He took off his helmet and started to... sniff. Like a dog. "What are you do-" She was interrupted by a large sensation of pain in the back of her neck. Hunter's eyes widened as he noticed what was there. A a sleeping dart. "...ing..." She said before falling unconscious. Hunter tried to call Lucaria, but noticed that she was on the floor too. He tried to put his helmet back on, but he felt something hit his neck.

"Crap..." He said before falling unconscious as well. A wireframe emerged from behind the trees and proceeded to pick Lucaria up, but it didn't notice the feather falling from the treetops. As the wireframe turned to get the other two, an arrow made out of lightning landed right in front of him. A six winged angel landed behind him. The wireframe turned, only for him to have his shotgun yanked from his hands and to be kicked back. The wireframe got a closer look at his assaulter. Standing there was Tip. It immediately took Lucaria and ran away. Tip smirked at the sight.

"Run you coward!" He shouted before looking at Hunter and Siren. "The wireframe must have caught them off guard." He walked over to Siren and put her laying on of the trees. He proceeded to do the same with Hunter. "Don't worry you two. I know who you guys really are." He said to the unconscious corpses. "Matthew mentioned something about a guy named Deryk when he was trying to explain himself... If these two are here, then he should be at that base I saw." He knelled down before the two. "I'll be back in a few minutes." Instantly, an image filled his head. Actually, it wasn't different then what was happening right now. Let tell you what he saw. An unconscious Link and Samus laying at the base of a tree with Pit right in front of them. When the image ended, Tip smiled. "Don't worry dad, I'm not gonna let you down again.

Deryk panted heavily as blood dripped down his cheeks. Marcus proved himself to much stronger than he thought he would be. The two were already far from the base and somewhere within the jungle. Marcus twirled his chains around.

"Aw... what's the matter? Is the little boy gonna cry?" He said teasingly. Deryk gave him his famous death glare.

"Damn." He cursed under his breath.

"Let's face it Deryk. I win. You lose. That's how it always should have been." Hearing those words, Deryk chuckled a bit, making Marcus confused. "What's so funny?"

"Three hundred seventy two."

"What?"

"I've beaten you three hundred and seventy two times since we've known each other." A smirk appeared on Deryk's bruised face. "And it's about to be three hundred seventy three." Marcus gave a loud growl.

"Yeah right. This fight's already been decided." He launched his chain in Deryk's direction, wrapping them around his neck, tightening them as much as he could. "Any last words?" Oddly enough, Deryk's smirk hadn't left his face.

"Can you... hear it?" He said. Marcus raised an eyebrow. "The sound... of a... sword... being unsheathed." Marcus looked at him confused before a lightning bolt pierced through his chain, cutting it to half it's size. Marcus brought his chain back as Deryk removed the remaining half of it off his neck. Marcus looked to see where the blast came from and Tip was standing there. Deryk's smirk remained. "You must be Tip." Tip nodded before coming to his side. "Matthew told me about you." Tip's eyes widened as he looked at the living arsenal.

"He did?" He asked.

"Don't be so happy. It wasn't all good." Tip hung his head depressed.

"An angel!?" The two turned there head towards the mad biker. "What the hell is angel doing here!? This is supposed to be a one-on-one match! Get out of here you freak of nature!" Tip turned his head to Deryk.

"Is he always like this?" Deryk shook his head.

"It's worse when he has his motorcycle."

"Hey, it's no my fault that we're in the middle of a jungle. But you really think you can beat me know. That angel changes nothing. I'll still beat you to a pulp you little-" One of Tip's arrows went flying by his head.

"You talk to much." He said. Marcus growled before launching his other chain at the angel, but he dodged by flying into the air and launching another bolt at him. Marcus dodged and continued his assault, failing each time. When he least expected it, Deryk ran up to him with his blades out and gave him a large slash down his chest. Deryk noticed that he got hurt when he did that, but oddly enough, there was no blood coming out of the wound. Correction, there was no wound. However, his skin had become very pale all of a sudden. Deryk noticed the and backed up to dodge a punch from the biker. Tip came flying down while he was distracted and gave him a slash with his sword. Once again, no blood. Marcus started to look extremely exhausted and his skin was as white as snow.

"I'm gonna *pant* get you *pant* runts..." Marcus dropped to his knees. Terren, who had actually made popcorn to watch the slaughter, sighed.

"Another subject failed." He said before re-entering his fortress. Deryk and Tip ran up to the tired biker, only for him to lose consciousness a few seconds after.

"What happened to him?" Tip asked. Deryk carefully examined Marcus' unconscious body before grabbing something from within one of the biker's pockets. It was a small vile with the smash symbol on it.

"Apparently, this is what happened." Deryk looked at the angel. "Marcus has done various experiments on himself so he could get strong enough to defeat me... but this one backfired on him."

"Big time." Tip scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "So... how's Matthew?" A small smile appeared on Deryk's face.

"You'll have to ask him yourself. That is why you came here, right?" Tip slowly nodded. "Good. Now let's get the others." Tip told Deryk where they were and the two went off.

Back within the base, two wireframes came in carrying Marcus' almost lifeless body. His skin was as whit as snow, his eyes were completely blank and he wouldn't stop drooling. Thankfully he still had a pulse. The two laid him on a table in a laboratory where Terren and Leonard waited patiently. At the sight of his nephew Leonard ran up to the unconscious biker, a look of horror on his face.

"Marcus..." He said, tears beginning to form in his eyes. "I warned you not to do that experiment... it was still being tested and now look at yourself." Terren sighed.

"I thought he would've met the requirements. Apparently I was wrong." Leonard looked over to his leader. "While the smash serum did make his body virtually indestructible, it made it become highly unstable. A simple touch would be enough to put him in a coma, let alone two sword swings. As for Marcus, he should be fine in about a week." Leonard the tears from his eyes.

"T-thank you... Ter-"

"Thank me? For what?" Leonard stared at the tyrant. "This isn't the first time this has happened. Besides, it was our nephew's own stupidity that got him in this mess." Leonard looked at the floor ashamed.

"Master Biostar!" A guard called out, gaining the tyrants attention. "The wireframe managed to capture one of the three escapees."

"Only one!?" The guard flinched slightly.

"Yes my lord." Terren gave a very audible growl.

"Bring whoever it is here." He commanded. Moments later the wire frame came in carrying an unconscious Lucaria in his arms. Terren stared at the female scientist for a few second before a smirk appeared on his face. "I have an idea." He thought.

Back in his laboratory, , was once again tinkering with a machine underneath a white cloth when he heard a strange sound coming from the transporter room.

"He's back already?" He asked himself. When it came to stealth missions, Deryk would take much longer than that. Rushing over to the room, he was surprised to see Deryk and Tip carrying the unconscious bodies of Hunter and Siren. And Deryk did not look very happy.

"I can't believe you let Lucaria get kidnapped!" Deryk snapped at the angel.

"I thought she was one of Biostar's!" Deryk sighed.

"It's complicated to explain... She was our eyes and ears in Biostar's fortress. Who knows what will happen to her now."

"Deryk?" Octavio questioned. "Wha-what happened to you?" Noticing the bruises covering Deryk's body. I thought there was only one smasher... and is that Tip?" Deryk smirked.

"It's complicated for me to explain Prof. Let's just say, I've met a few weapon specialists."

"Hunter Aran, mercenary extraordinaire, joins the fight for earth!"

"Siren Kario, hyrulian warrior, joins the fight for earth!"

"Tip, captain of Palutena's guard joins the fight for earth!"

"Marcus Appears!"

What will happen now? How will Matthew coup when he discovers the Tip joined his team? What will Siren say when she finds out Lucaria was taken? What is that Terren plans on doing with her? What is the mysterious vile Deryk didn't show the Professor? What is the Professor working on? What will Hunter do when he wakes up? SO MANY QUESTIONS AND SO MANY ANSWERS TO COME IN THE NEXT CHAPTER: MDX-00001-"MECHA"