A/N wow an update so soon! Ha! I'm awesome! *punches the air*
Terradoll: *sweatdrops* um Jet you're acting weird
Jetravenex: so? I'm sleep deprived and I'm already crazy enough as it is. *grins*
Viki boom: *groans* Jet...
Jetravenex: now somebody do the disclaimer thing.
WhateverMyNameIsXD: Oh I will! jetravenex does not own bakugan!
Jetravenex: *claps her hands* Thank you!
Chapter 24
Skylord slipped back down to join the other bakugan who were waiting for her to tell them what she'd seen.
"Well, here's the good news, the people firing their shots haven't found us yet nor are they looking towards our direction." Skylord said tail twitching uneasily.
"And the bad news?" Reaper asked leaning forward his yellow eyes narrowing into slits.
"Weeeelll, it seems we're going to have a bit of a reunion with Masky and Hydranoid."
Fireblick blanched. "You're kidding me right? Why would he even bother coming to the doom dimension?" He glanced at Reaper. "Do you think he came for you?"
"Never," Reaper said bitterly. "His new partner Hydranoid suits him just fine, in his eyes I was always only a pawn to be sacrificed. There must be something else they seek."
"I did get the impression they were looking for something."
"They? Wait there's more of them? Why should scum like them who send us down here, want to be here?"
"I hope they're expecting a royal welcome." Preyas growled cracking his knuckles. "I'm more than happy to give it."
"Easier said then done, Masquerade and his goons didn't come alone, they've got their bakugan, Hydranoid, a weird eyeball like thing, and a fish crossed with a lady." Skylord growled.
"Sirenoid and Tentaclear." Reaper murmured. "The odds are against us."
"Says who? You? I say we take 'em, we outnumber them 3 to 4."
"I have an idea." Preyas said waving his arm wildly in the air. "How 'bout we split?"
Reaper ignored him and turned to Skylord. "This might be our only opportunity to get out."
"How so?" Skylord asked glancing up checking for any blasts that would signal their enemies approach.
"Each one of Masquerade's goon has a dimensional transport." Reaper exclaimed. "We distract the bakugan and one of us steals on from the humans,"
Fireblick's eyes widened. "And then we bust out of here, its brilliant!"
"But difficult." Skylord stated mildly. "None of those bakugan are pushovers."
"So we've got to make the distraction good or else-" They were cut off by the sounds of explosions hitting the rock they were hiding behind.
"Times up." Skylord growled. "we go now or we run for it."
"We have the element of surprise. Or at least, I hope we do." Fireblick said.
Skylord jumped onto a low rock ledge and spread her wings. "I'll go first and hit 'em hard, Fireblick Reaper, back me up. Preyas, I don't care what you do but get us one of those transport cards."
They nodded and Skylord turned her head to the sky. She crouched down and then with a powerful down stroke from her wings she rocketed up into the air. Shouting off a few chaos dragons at her opponents, a smirk of satisfaction crossed her lips as some of them hit their marks while other wayward shots forced the humans to duck for cover.
"Well we found one bakugan but, not the right one!" Julio muttered peering out from behind the rock the humans had ducked behind.
Skylord surveyed the field, Sirenoid and tentaclear stood directly behind a very pissed of Hydranoid. Her lips pulled back in a devious grin.
"Aww, did wittle Hydranoid brave the doom dimension for wittle old me?" Skylord taunted letting loose another barrage forcing the bakugan to back off.
"Silence!" Hydranoid snarled responding to her attacks with a few of his own which Skylord easily dodged. "Now tell me where the bakugan Aquos Preyas is and I may let you escape alive."
Skylord put on a thoughtful expression. "Hmm Aquos Preyas? Yeah, never heard of 'im." She pulled another goofy grin. "Stop making up bakugan that don't exist and just admit it Hydranoid. You like me."
Hydranoid bellowed in rage and began firing shot after shot at Skylord missing every time however by putting Skylord on the defense it got Tentaclear and Sirenoid time to recover.
"Now, let me give you a taste of my power." Sirenoid said twirling her staff/harp when she had to jerk back and a black scythe had come down on the spot she had just vacated. She looked up to focus on Reaper.
"Sorry, you'll have to get in line for that." The darkus bakugan said pulling his scythe free and spinning it over his head. "Let's dance."
Tentaclear moved to aide Sirenoid when a red fist collided with the center of the flying eyeball.
"Sorry, but you'll have to get through me first." Fireblick said delivering another fierce punch.
Hydranoid snarled as he continued to fire and miss Skylord who now had her arms crossed her chest and was simply moving from side to side to avoid his blasts. "Hold still!" he roared letting loose a massive discharge of lightning. Skylord blinked and then quickly dove under the lightning managing to avoid the majority of it with only hitting a few shocks.
"Hmm, nice Hydranoid you almost hit me there." Skylord mocked. She uncrossed her arms. "Here let me show you a real-" She was cut off by another blast slamming into her. "Damn his anger's making him faster." Skylord thought shaking off the hit just fast enough to move away from his follow up attack. "Come on Preyas get that stupid card already."
Preyas however was finding it harder to do so than they'd originally thought he had to avoid all of the attacks in order to keep his blue stealth activated and he also had to grab one of the humans and steal the card, how was he going to do that?
"I'll just grab the first one I see."
"Damn it, those bakugan have got ours on the ropes." Julio growled clenching his fists. He glared at Masquerade. "Do something."
"Gladly." The darkus brawler said with a smirk. "Ability activate Auragano Revenge. This'll cut our enemies down to size."
Hydranoid roared as he fired a shot that collided with Skylord.
The darkus bakugan let out a screech of surprise before her wings folded and she crashed into the ground.
She groaned as she moved her wings back to see Hydranoid charging at her. Skylord bared her teeth and leapt at Hydranoid with a snarl.
Hydranoid tried to whip his tail at her, but Skylord grabbed it and leapt at Hydranoid. Her claws reaching for his face, but Hydranoid managed to duck at the last second and Skylord sailed over his head. She glared at him over her shoulder as she opened her wings and took off into the air once more.
"I grow weary of you constantly interfering with our affairs!" Hydranoid snarled as he shot another attack after Skylord.
The darkus bakugan laughed as she ducked under the shot. "Oh come on Hydranoid, two seconds ago you seemed to finally be getting serious, where'd it go?"
Hydranoid bared his teeth and hissed.
Preyas crept towards the brawlers that had their attention directed towards the fighting bakugan, he reached towards the nearest human, "God this is like one of those King Kong movies Marucho showed me." He thought to himself.
Fireblick was feeling great all this stupid eyeball could do was shoot out light, granted, after facing it the first time he'd been momentarily blinded.
But he'd found that being blinded was the only problem he really faced. He opened his mouth and let out a Dragonic Blaze at it, he was pleased that as soon as it hit, the stupid light up eyeball switched off.
"Heh, let's dance." Fireblick laughed as he delivered an uppercut right to it.
Reaper however was finding his fight to be a bit more difficult. Sirenoid was no doubt as powerful as he heard, he hadn't managed to land a hit, but he had been able to avoid being severely hurt. He also had so far prevented Sirenoid from using her hypnotizing song, by locking her in close combat.
"Your strategy will only get you so far." Sirenoid snarled as her staff locked with his scythe once more. "You are ultimately doomed to fail, and I will gladly deliver you to my master to add to his collection."
"Sorry," Reaper retorted straining to hold her back. "But I'm no ones collectible."
"Perhaps," Sirenoid said throwing him backwards and then twirling her staff and hitting him with a wave of water. "Perhaps my master shall be your first." She laughed wickedly as she began to play an enticing melody on her harp.
Reaper charged, but halted as the music began to work its magic, Fireblick paused in his fighting to stare at Sirenoid in alarm and his body unwillingly began to move towards the mermaid like bakugan.
"Yes, that's it, surrender to my power."
"Guys no!" Skylord shouted, but let out a cry of pain as she was hit by Hydranoid. She groaned as she was painfully reunited with the ground once more. Her eyes opened weakly to see Hydranoid standing over her one of his claws on her chest pinning her to the ground.
"You will interfere no more."
Skylord hissed back at him as she struggled violently against him. But to no avail, she was too weak and he was too heavy.
"Jeez, damn you are either fat or you eat rocks." Skylord snarled.
"Your useless comments have no effect on me." Hydranoid said a smug grin appearing on his face. "This time my master will take you back and you will obey us."
"Nah, I think I'll pass." Skylord snarled back spitting at him.
"Pathetic."
It was then one of the brawlers shouted in surprise.
"Oh no," Skylord looked up to see that Preyas had dropped his cloak and was staggering drunkenly towards Sirenoid.
"So there's that blasted Aquos bakugan!"
"Funny, I thought sneak attack were my thing." Masquerade said a smirk on his face.
"No," Skylord thought as she renewed her struggle against Hydranoid. "No! WE cannot lose!" Skylord let out a roar of rage and the gem on her chest flashed and began to glow.
Hydranoid staggered back in surprise and Skylord leapt back into the air. Her strength magically restored. Sirenoid paused in her playing to stare at the darkus bakugan, and Tentaclear focused its attention on her as well.
"What's this?" Masquerade wondered.
The glow in her gem began to spread from her chest until Skylord was surrounded by a light purple aura.
"Take this! Shadow ability activate! Shadow Chaos Storm!" Skylord roared as a beam of light erupted from her body into the sky. Dark purple lightning blasted down from the heavens and Hydranoid let out a cry of surprise as he moved to avoid these attacks. Then he looked up just in time to see three lightning bolts coming right at him.
"Oh crap." Hydranoid groaned and tried to get away. But the bolts zigzagged and collided with his back. The darkus bakugan threw back his head and let out a roar of pain before he disappeared in a flash of purple light and was sent back towards Masquerade.
The 3 villains watched in shock as Skylord continued to glow until suddenly the bakugan keeled over in midflight. The lightning intensified and one bolt struck just a foot away from them sending the 3 flying backwards.
Klaus and Julio landed hard on the hard ground while Masquerade was thrown into a rock.
Tentaclear and Sirenoid moved to check their brawlers. Tentaclear reached them first and turned to protect them from harm.
Sirenoid raised her staff to attack Skylord.
But the Darkus bakugan appeared to be in pain. She screamed and the lightning intensified again.
"Skylord!" Fireblick cried as he watched helplessly as his friend suffered.
"Nows our chance!" Preyas said suddenly running past Fireblick towards the only brawler left undefended.
"Yes!" Reaper agreed chasing after Preyas.
"Wait! Skylord-" But neither of the two bakugan were paying him any heed.
Sirenoid saw the two bakugan charging towards the brawlers. "You will not get past me-" She was cut off as a fury of lightning crashed into her. "No!" She shrieked as she disappeared in a flash of blue and was sent back towards Klaus.
"Get Tentaclear!" Reaper snarled as he drew his scythe. "I'll get the card." He growled as he advanced towards the unconscious blond.
"Wait Reaper what are you-"
"Exacting my revenge." Reaper replied calmly as he stood over his former master who seemed to be slowly coming to and raised his scythe.
"Goodbye, Masquerade!"
A/N NOOO don't kill Masky Reaper!
Reaper - but I'm a reaper, I reap the dead.
jetravenex- ...? Okay?
Skylord- Do you people see why power is bad?
Preyas: Naw I just saw you become a massive light show.
Jetravenex: this was wayy too rushed. So I apologize to you peeps.
Skylord- Yay! You're listening to "My Immortal" By evanescence! It's really nice/pretty
Jetravenex: agreed.
Fireblick- too slow for me, anyways, won't you guys pity us and please review?