Deleted Chapters

Hey, everyone. Here's the next chapter of the alternative story of "Darkness Reborn". And just to let you know Blu being the one injured will not be the only thing that was different. Enjoy the chapter.

Blu took a deep breath as he moved himself at the side of the door, silently hoping this was going to work. He clutched the rope that he was tied up in tightly in his wings. "Okay, I can do this. You can do this, Blu. For Jewel, the kids, and my friends."."

Curling his good wing like a fist, Blu banged his wing against the door as loud as he could, trying to get the guards' (who he remembered was standing outside) attention. After a few times of banging, a voice shouted back from the other side of the iron door. "Hey! Be quiet in there!"

"No!" Blu refused, continuing the bag on the door a few times to get him angry. "I'm not going to stop!"

"Don't make me come in there!" the guard threatened. "Otherwise I'll injure what Lord Nexus missed out!"

"You can't make me stop!" Blu replied, preparing to attack the guard the second he entered his cell.

"That does it!"

Blu grinned for a second, thinking his plan was perfectly so far, but he knew it was over yet. He grabbed both ends of the rope as tight as his wingtips would hold in.

A key began to enter the keyhole, following by the lock clicking. The door opened where the guard entered the room, expecting to see him on the other side of the room. In the quick of a flash, Blu curled his right wing into fist and struck the guard directly in his stomach, knocking him down for a moment.

Before he would have the chance to recover, Blu flipped the rope around his neck and pulled as hard as he could, choking him and keeping him from calling out for help. Despite Blu not being able to walk or fly at this very moment, he could still be useful in different types of various ways and could use his combat skills to his advantage still.

After a couple of struggling moments, the guard had eventually passed out from lack of oxygen. Blu let him go after he was no longer moving, not wanting to kill him in cold blood. Before dropping him, Blu took a key from his belt, knowing it was his ticket out of here.

"Thank you." he grinned, dropping the guard to the ground as he placed the key in his lap. He placed both of hid wings onto the wheels of his wheelchair as he pushed himself out from cell, and into a small empty hallway.

Shutting and locking the cell door behind him, Blu looked towards his left to see all the cells looked the same from the outside, and there was only a brick wall at the end, but as for the other side, the hallway went up for a few feet before it turned to a left direction.

"That's got to be the way out of here." Blu admitted to himself, pushing himself down the hallway while being careful not to make any noise, knowing that guard was not the only one here. "I need to be careful. But the others might be here, too. I have to find them before they know I escaped."

As Blu made his way down the hallway, he got to the small turning where the hallway ended with a wooden door that looked like the way out of this area. He was about to make his way out of here until he heard a familiar voice coming from the inside of the cells.

"You think you're funny, don't you?"

"I don't think, I know."

"Rico!?" Blu thought to himself, recognizing that voice anywhere. He followed the sounds of the voices where he approached a nearby cell that he could tell was already open.

Being as quiet as he could, Blu looked through the small opening of the door where he could see Rico inside the cell, sitting in a wooden chair with rope tied around his body and talons while a guard stood in there with him, armed with a taser stick.

Blu knew had to help Rico and could not leave him like this, but how? He was in no condition for combat at the moment now that he was wheelchair bound, and Rico was tied up to help too. He would have to do this quietly.

Being as quiet as a mouse, Blu opened the iron door enough for Rico to see him. The hawk looked towards his direction for a second and knew he was going to help him. For now, Rico kept the guard busy from looking in his direction. "So, are you even planning on using that taser? Or do you just like stroking it all day?"

"Don't get smart with me, hawk!" the dark macaw warned, lifting his talon up for a moment where he gripped Rico's throat while using his wing to hold the taser only inches from his face.

"Oh, I'm so scared." Rico sarcastically replied. "Why don't you be a man and let me out of these ropes?"

While Rico kept the dark macaw from turning around, Blu placed her wings to the wheelchair wheels where he slowly moved inside the cell, being as quiet as he could, knowing if he made one bit of noise, then it was over.

"You must think I'm that stupid, don't you?" the dark macaw inquired, whacking the taser against the chair for a moment to spark up. "Now, wanna see how shocking this is going to get?"

"You're very funny." Rico frowned, moving his eyeball for a moment where he could see Blu was only a couple of feet away from the dark macaw, and he gave him a signal by nodding his head. "In fact, come closer. I wanna whisper you something."

The dark macaw leaned down towards the hawk's beak, not seeming to be afraid of him since he was pretty much unable to move at this point. He got down where he smirked, expecting Rico to say something stupid that would give him the opportunity to use his taser. "Ye-e-e-e-e-s?"

"Don't mess with a hawk!" Rico yelling, biting the dark macaw's wing that caused him to drop the taser that landed down next to Bl, but the dark macaw seemed to still be unaware of his presence.

"OW!" the dark macaw screamed, jumping away from the hawk while he held his left wing to his right wing where he had been bitten. "I'll kill you for that!"

Now was Blu's chance to attack. He leaned his right wing down as much as he should where he tried to grab the taser to help Rico, but the strap tied around his waist made this difficult. But after a few struggling seconds, Blu finally managed to reach the taser, preparing to use it to end this once and for all.

The dark macaw recovered eventually and pulled out a small knife out from his belt and held it against Rico's throat, threatening to kill him. "You little! That hurt!"

"Must have slipped." Rico grinned, appearing to feel no fear against the macaw as she shrugged his shoulders slightly. "Whoops."

"Glad you got a sense of humor in you." the dark macaw smirked, preparing to cut Rico's throat to make him pay for the trouble and pain he just caused him. "Ya know, Lord Nexus said he only wants the blue macaws kept alive, but he didn't say anything about hurting you. Now I'm going to take my time with-"

The dark macaw was cut off as high voltage shot through his body, causing him to vibrate rapidly as he fell towards the ground, shaking from the effects of the voltage. He eventually passed out from the sudden feeling of thousands of volts being shot through his body.

Rico smirked as tapped the unconscious dark macaw with his tied-together talons to make sure he really was out. "Not so tough now, are ya?"

Blu smiled as he sighed in relief that his plan worked yet again. He leaned down picked up the knife from the dark macaw and made his way over towards Rico to cut him free.

Blu got himself by the side of Rico where he began cutting him free by cutting through the rope knot on his back. "You okay, Rico?" he asked.

"I'm impressed." Rico admitted, smiling as he turned his head to the right where the blue macaw set him free. "Even though you are in a wheelchair, you still managed to take him down."

"I take that as a yes, then?" Blu inquired, not getting an exact answer from the hawk.

"Sure is." he replied, sighing as the rope fell from around his body where he rubbed his wings together, getting the feeling back in his wings. "Oh, that feels good to be free. But now, I would rather get out of here before any more of them show up."

"I know. But we do need to find everyone else first." Blu reminded, setting the taser down to the ground as he folded her wings together. "You have an idea where they could be?"

"I know they brought your Jewel, your kids, and your Rafael and Eva in here, too." Rico answered, untying his talons himself by using his wings. "I also heard your Nico and Pedro were here too by that warden guy, but as for my Blu and Jewel, I heard that Nexus guy took them to his castle. Wow, how I would love to strange him with my bare talons.

"Rico, I know how much you are willing to help, but you must understand that Nexus is not just an ordinary bird." Blu replied, thinking this whole thing over for a moment while trying to explain towards the hawk why Nexus was a danger. "Nexus is smart, powerful, and calm. I may have beaten him once, but now he's back, and as long as I'm in this condition, I can't take him. We need to find everyone else first, and then get out from this prison."

"I respect your opinion." Rico assured, standing up from where he was sitting where he picked up the taser to use as a weapon. "But where will we go? He brought us to this place that he calls "The World of Darkness"."

"I know this place, Rico." Blu assured, rubbing his bad wing nervously for a moment. "I know the way out. We need to get out of here and find the others."

"Alright. We'll go and find them." Rico agreed, although he had no clue where they were going to go next. He knew as long as he stuck with Blu, then he may be able to get out of here in one piece. "But we need to be careful we don't get caught."

"Good. Glad I have your help." Blu replied smiling

Rico nodded and he personally pushed Blu himself to keep him from using up his energy. After all, in his condition, he would need it. He pushed his blue macaw friend out from the cell and made their way towards the wooden door. "Think that's the way out?"

"Yeah, it is." Blu answered, knowing the layout of this place in the back of her mind. He clutched the taser in his wings just in case they were to run into anymore trouble. "Come on. Let's go."

Rico nodded as he pushed Blu towards the wooden door where he attempted to open it by pulling the handle, but it was locked. "Dangit. It's locked."

"That's why they invented keys." Blu sarcastically assured, handing the key over into Rico's talon so they could get out of here now. "It opens all the doors and cells."

"Thanks, Einstein" Rico replied, accepting the key as he placed it into the keyhole, turning it where he heard it click. He handed the key back to Blu and exchanged it for the taser. "Alright, let's go."

The hawk and the blue macaw carefully exited the hallway area where they entered the average sized room, but it was quite big when it was just them two there. In every corner of the room, they discovered there were a total of four wooden doors (including the one they just came from) that all lead into a hallway area with prison cells.

But on the bright side, right at the end of the room was a quite big door that must have been the way out from the prison block area.

"All these doors lead us to different cell hallways." Jewel stated, gesturing his wing towards the big door directly at the end of the room. "And that's the way out of here. We're in cellblock area 3. We got more areas to get out of once we find everyone."

"Alright." Rico agreed. "What's the plan?"

Blu did not respond for a few seconds and shifted his attention over towards the nearest wooden door where it had "Cellblock 3, Hallway A" written above the door. "Let's go and look in that one first."

"You the boss." Rico replied, walking towards the door he pointed his wingtip to. He used the key to open up the door where it revealed the exact same hallways, except that the ending turned left instead of right. "Looks the same to me."

"Yeah, I know. Close that door behind us." Blu requested, pushing himself towards one of the cell doors for a moment where she looked through the keyhole, only to see a deserted cell. "We need to check all of these cells. I think I would be faster if we both checked one different at a time. Just check through the keyholes, and if any of our friends or not in there, we move on. I'll check this side. You check that side."

"Copy that." Rico replied, kneeling down to one of the cell doors where he too began checking the doors, but so far, he could not find anyone they knew.

Meanwhile, back in Rio de Janeiro, Nexus and his army were hunting down their attackers, who silently tried to take down the evil bird, unaware of his healing factor. It was now night time in Rio, giving Nexus to perfect advantage to hunt them down.

He eventually tracked the mysterious shooter down to a nearby tree hollow where his guards aimed their weapons at the tree, but Nexus gave them a signal to stand down.

"Let me handle this. Stand down." he ordered, beckoning for his men to raise their weapons down. "HEY! We know you are in there, so you might as well come on out!"

There was no answer from the hollow. Instead, another arrow was fired from the hollow directly towards Nexus, and this time, it managed to hit him directly in the shoulder.

Nexus had to admit he felt pain, but it did not harm him for long. He chuckled as he easily pulled the arrow out from his shoulder, and in a matter of a second, his wound rapidly healed. "Nice shot! Now it is my turn!"

Using his powers, Nexus extended out his serpent heads and demon arms from out of his back. He commanded the serpent heads to bite into the tree while the demon arms wrapped around the tree tightly.

Nexus used his incredible strength to pull down the tree towards his direction. He had to admit it was quite difficult, but he easily pulled out from the ground and dropped it completely, causing the ground to vibrate on impact.

Nexus then used his telekinesis to roll the tree around until the hollow entrance/exit was in view. He smirked as he used his telekinesis the pull the attack, who was a Great Green macaw from inside the hollow out into the open, where Nexus held him a couple of feet away from his face.

"Hey! What are you doing?! Why am I glowing?" the macaw inquired, commanding his body to move as best as he could, but found he was stuck, and could only move his beak and eyes. "Let me go!"

"You have caused me quite a bit of trouble." Nexus replied, pulling out the macaw's wings in places they should not be, causing his bones to crack slightly.

"Stop! Please!" the macaw begged. "You're going to break my wings!"

"I am willing to be merciful if you answer me some questions." Nexus replied, agreeing to stop pulling out his wings for now. "Now, who are you? And why have you been trying to kill us?"

"My-My name is Anox!" the macaw spat out, trembling in fear slightly. "I was hired to stop you."

"By who?" Nexus inquired, pulling out his wings again slightly, painfully torturing him. "Tell me!"

"My b-boss!" Anox replied, struggling to move the best he could. "His name is Exo. Me and another macaw named Asya work for him! He told us about you! He said we were to make sure you did not find something. He didn't say what!"

"Hmmm, something, ya say?" Nexus said, suspecting this Exo may be the one keeping the important treasure he was looking for. "And where is this Exo, now?"

"No! I said too much!" Anox replied, refusing to corporate anymore than he had. "I'm talking anymore!"

"Bad mistake." Nexus replied, throwing him into a nearby tree at great force that caused some of his bones to break upon impact. He turned back to his dark macaws, who looked at this King in leader in fear. "Men! We are moving out! This Exo may have the scroll I am looking for. Let us be on our way."

The dark macaws nodded as they followed their leader into the sky as he took off into the distance, flying at incredible speed. As they were flying away into the distance, Anox, who was still alive managed to crawl away, but he saw a couple of his ribs were broken, and his wing was fractured.

"I need to warn Exo!..." he said, trying to get back up but ended up falling to the ground, holding his ribs in agonizing pain before passing out from his injuries.

And deleted chapter is completed. Blu and Rico have escaped from their cells, but can they find the others before they are caught? Stay tuned for the next deleted chapter.