|| And here we have chapter 3 of Pop Fizz... of DOOM! AKA "the part where I put my favorite character in it because reasons". ||

Chapter Three

"WOO-HOO!" Pop Fizz cheered. "I captured the three best Skylanders! I captured the three best Skylanders!"

"Yes you did!" Kaos cackled. "And I can't begin to tell you how proud I am... of me for turning you to the dark side!"

Fizz laughed. "Yeah, I guess I don't know my own strength!" He flexed his muscles.

"More like the strength of an army of Trolls..." Glumshanks muttered from his seat, where he was sitting with a cup of tea and a newspaper.

"Quiet, fool!" Kaos scolded. "Now, as a reward for this brilliant success, I've decided to expand your army to more than just Trolls..."

"Really?!" Pop Fizz exclaimed. "Show me! Show me! Show me now!"

Kaos chuckled. "Alright, alright! If you insist..." He pulled out a remote control and pressed a big red button. "Behold!" In his Portal, the projection of an army of minions appeared. "Pop Fizz's army of Ultimate Evil DOOM! ...2.0, of course. Now including Cyclops and Greebles."

Pop Fizz stared at the projection with his mouth gaping open, then he did a little dance. "That's... so... awesome!" he exclaimed.

Kaos frowned at his new partner's attitude, then shrugged. "Oh, and you also get your own Free Range Chompy Farm."

Fizz gasped. "My own Free Range Chompy Farm?!" He did the dance again. "This is the best day ever!"

Kaos nodded. "Yes, yes... Now, about this plan of yours..."

"Oh, you looked it over?!" Fizz asked. "Is it the best thing ever, or what?!"

"Well, yes," Kaos replied. "I think it has the brilliant potential to destroy the Skylanders! But, my only question is... do you have the potion?"

Fizz clenched his teeth. "Well, no..." he admitted. "Not yet. But I've been working on it! It's almost ready. In fact, it might as well be ready! And..." He reached into his red jacket and pulled out two potions, one green and one blue. "I've perfected these puppies!"

Kaos smirked. "Excellent."

Camo, Zoo Lou, and Bumble Blast were wandering around Cloudbreak, Lou looking extremely nervous. It was sundown, and Spyro, Gill and Trigg hadn't returned, so Sunburn did as was asked and sent another search party. However, he could have chosen somebody better than Zoo Lou.

"B-B-But what if whatever took Pop Fizz and the others comes for us?!" Lou exclaimed.

"Oh my god, would you calm down?!" Camo cried. "Nothing's going to happen!"

"Right," Bumble concurred. "We're just gonna find Spyro and the others and get back to Woodburrow."

"B-But that's what Spyro said! Oh, we're gonna get eaten by a monster..."

Bumble sighed and Camo rolled his eyes. "There's no monster," Camo assured him. "And we're not gonna get eaten."

"Oh, the latter is true..." a voice boomed. "...but there is a monster!"

The three spun around at the remark, and Zoo Lou started crying. Camo growled. "Who are you?! Where are you, and what did you do with our friends?!"

"You three are even more oblivious than Spyro..." From the shadows, Pop Fizz leaped down with a potion in hand.

"Pop Fizz?" the Life Elements questioned.

"It's nice to see a familiar face!" Bumble exclaimed.

"...even if there's ridiculous make-up on it..." Camo muttered.

Zoo Lou still looked afraid. "Guys, something's not right..."

Fizz scowled. "No dip Sherlock," he growled. He pulled out and orange potion, gave it a good shake, then threw it down to create a big puff of smoke. He pulled out a chain and gave it a good toss into the orange cloud.

"Hey!"

"What the-"

"Not good!"

Fizz smirked as the smoke died down and revealed a tied up Camo, Zoo Lou and Bumble Blast. "Like taking candy from a tied up baby."

"Alright, so the monster was actually Pop Fizz?!" Camo exclaimed.

"Bingo!" Fizz laughed.

Zoo Lou started crying again. "We're all gonna die!" Fizz facepalmed.

"Who's gonna send the search party for us?!" Bumble cried.

Suddenly, a shuriken flew down from seemingly nowhere and landed right next to Fizz's foot. "Ah-Ha!" the gremlin exclaimed, spinning around and looking up into the branches of a tree, to see what he wasn't expecting. "Huh?"

In the tree was a certain leather-clad elf with her arms folded, leaned against the trunk. She held up her hand and flashed three throwing stars. "I know how to throw a shuriken!"

"Stealth Elf!" the Life boys exclaimed.

"Elf girl?" Pop Fizz questioned. "Eh. I was expecting Stink Bomb." He shrugged. "Oh well. You'll make just as excellent an addition to my army." He grinned evilly.

"Uh-huh," Stealth said. "Why don't you just untie them, give back Spyro and the others and we'll all head back to Woodburrow."

Fizz shook his head. "Uh, yeah, how 'bout I don't do that, I capture you, and we all head to Kastle Kaos?"

Stealth leaped down from the tree to confront him. "How about no?"

Fizz grumbled. "Please," he growled. "You can't do anything to stop me. Soon all of Skylands will belong to Lord Kaos, and it will all be thanks to me- Pop Fizz!" He paused. "...of DOOM!"

The other boys gave him a weird look, and Stealth facepalmed. "Pop Fizz sounds like Kaos," she muttered. "It's snowing on Treacherous Beach."

Pop Fizz snarled. "Ha ha," he said. He charged at her, tried to throw a punch at her, but she moved out of the way at the last second.

"Nice try."

Fizz fumed. "Alright, I'm starting to get sick of you." He threw another orange potion to the ground, which was more effective on Stealth than the boys because her vision was already bad. Fizz pulled out a green potion and gave it a shake. "Here goes nothing..." He gulped it down, then made a face. "Ugh. Note to self, make better tasting soda." He flinched. "Urk!" He crouched down in pain. His fur turned green and his jacket (somehow) turned brown. He opened his eyes, which had also turned green, then slowly stood up.

"Woah," the Life boys gasped.

Stealth looked unamused. "Green fur. I'm so scared."

Fizz cackled. "Oh, it's more than just green fur." He flashed a toothy grin, then completely disappeared.

Stealth's ears drooped. "Oh," she said. "Now I get it." Her ears perked back up and she closed her eyes.

"What's she doing?" Zoo Lou whispered.

"You don't know by now?" Camo questioned.

Stealth stood still for several moments, then her eyes shot open, She turned around and threw a punch, then Pop Fizz reappeared.

"Ow!" Fizz exclaimed when he hit the ground. "Ugh, how'd you know I was there?!"

"I could hear you," Stealth replied. "Did you really think you could defeat me with my own techniques? Knowing ninjitsu doesn't make you a ninja."

Fizz grumbled, then leaped onto his feet. "Yeah, whatever," he growled. He leaped into the air and came crashing down, but Stealth dashed out of the way. She threw another shuriken at him, which he swiftly avoided, then back flipped behind the elf. He dashed at her, at the boys watched their combat.

"Something's seriously wrong with Pop Fizz," Bumble Blast said.

"Go Stealth Elf!" Zoo Lou exclaimed.

Stealth jumped on Fizz's head, knocking him to the ground. "Hey, cut it out!" Pop Fizz swiftly jumped back up and kicked her in the back, making that the first time he had been able to hit her.

"Stealth!" Camo cried.

Stealth had landed on her left arm, a limb of hers that seemed to get hurt a lot. She sat up and examined it, then sighed. "Damn..."

"What's the matter, elf girl?" Fizz taunted. "Broke yer arm again?"

"That's happened before?" Zoo Lou asked.

"Several times," Camo replied. "Always the same arm. I think it's prone to injury."

"Oh..."

Stealth grumbled and, careful of her arm, stood back up and vanished. Pop Fizz looked around, then growled. "Second note to self, include enhanced hearing to soda." Half a second after he said that, a green tiger popped out of nowhere and mauled him. "ARGH!" Fizz shook himself off as the tiger skidded behind him. "Agh, no fair turning into a tiger!" he exclaimed and there was a flash of light and the tiger turned back into Stealth Elf, who was holding her injured arm.

"Pop Fizz can't replicate that ability," Bumble said.

"That doesn't necessarily mean she'll win," Camo said.

"B-But what happens if she doesn't win?!" Lou asked.

Camo swallowed. "I th-think we're about to find out..."

Fizz grabbed Stealth's arm (doing so immobilized her) and tossed her to the ground. She winced. "Pop Fizz..."

Fizz pressed down on a pressure point. "I've never liked you..." he growled. Two seconds later, Stealth was passed out. Fizz smirked as his fur turned back to blue. He picked up the unconscious elf and approached the boys.

"Now, who wants to go on a field trip?"

Four clear, impenetrable capsules is what Pop Fizz brutally threw his four prisoners into. First Bumble and Zoo Lou, then Camo and Stealth Elf. The cages were all lined up in the throne room of Kastle Kaos so Fizz could admire his victory.

"What are you going to do to us?!" Bumble Blast asked.

"Yeah, you can't just leave us in here!" Zoo Lou added.

Fizz snickered. "Oh, you'll see..." he assured them. "Soon." He walked out of the room, presumably to converse with Kaos.

Camo sat impatiently in his capsule. "This is so not good..."

"No kidding..." Lou sniffled.

In her cage, which was between Camo and Zoo Lou, Stealth groaned and started to awake. "Stealth..." Camo said.

"W-What happened?" Stealth asked. "Ow..."

"Pop Fizz knocked you out," Bumble told her.

"Now we're prisoners," Lou added.

Stealth sighed. "That's my fault, huh..."

"Don't blame yourself," Camo said. "Pop Fizz is just out of his freaking mind!"

"Yeah!" Zoo Lou and Bumble Blast concurred.

Camo clenched his teeth. "Your arm..."

"I'm fine, Camo," Stealth told him, even though she obviously wasn't. "We need to get out of here..."

Before anybody could come up with anything, Pop Fizz walked back in with two Trolls and a Cyclops. "Grab the boys," he instructed. "Take them to the testing chamber. I'll deal with elf girl."

Stealth glared at him.

The Trolls grabbed Lou and Bumble, who started flailing and complaining. Camo backed up against the capsule when the Cyclops reached in. "Stealth-!"

"I can't do anything right now," she said. "But I promise we'll get out of here... somehow."

When they were gone, Fizz turned to her and pulled out a potion. "Alright, take off the mask."

Stealth raised an eyebrow, then straightened her face. "No."

Fizz growled. "I said, take off the mask."

"I said no."

Fizz's ears folded back and he shook the capsule. "Take off the mask!"

"Nope."

Fizz twitched, then he drank the potion and turned into his beast form. "I said TAKE OFF THE MASK!"

Stealth shook her head. Pop Fizz roared and threw a tantrum. Stealth's ears drooped again. "I've gotta find a way out..."

|| Stealth Elf is here because she's Stealth Elf. Stealth Elf is best Skylander. ||