The crawlers were dark and mysterious shadow tribes, whose origins came from deep under the ground, and far out in the outlands. The were made up of tribes of bats, spiders, and scorpions. Now the crawlers were making an assault against Chima, and it was up to alex and the team to hold them back.

The battle was raging in the forests, but alex and his team were at the lion temple, because the lion elders had prepared a special item that would help alex.

"So, what do you have for us" alex said as the team stood next to the chi pool. The lion elders were nearby, as well as some eagles, including eglor.

"Put this on" lagravis said, handing alex a chest plate. It didn't look a normal piece of armor though, this chest plate was almost like an exo suit. With interconnected black rods making up the main structure of the armor, along with wires and other smaller rods running all over the chest plate.

Alex took off his armor and handed it to Toothdee, before donning the armor that Lagravis had given him. Eglor came over and examined the armor before backing away.

"What is this for?" Alex asked as the lion elders came over with a large orb of golden chi. The rarest and most powerful item In Chima.

"It's an... uh... experiment" lagravis said.

The lion elders slammed the orb of golden chi into a massive slot on the front of a,exs armor. As everyone backed away, Alex's eyes began glowing as a massive stream of golden energy flowed from him.

When the energy stopped, alex was glowing with the power of golden chi.

"How do you feel" eglor asked.

Alex looked at his hand, it had a glowing orb of power in its grasp.

"Powerful" alex said.

"Then the experiment is a success" Lagravis said as lion elders came over with a speedor.

"Now go" the lion king said, stop the crawlers.

Alex jumped on the speedor and raced off out of the lion temple, going extremely fast and having golden trail of energy coming off him.

Within no time flat, alex reached the battle zone. Friendly tribes gawked at alex as he walked straight for the crawlers.

Alex charged forward at breakneck speed, punching 2 crawlers into the dirt. Then he grabbed another crawler and threw if forward onto a small spider vehicle. The hostile vehicle began firing at alex, but alex dodged the attacks, ran up to the spider vehicle and flipped it over.

Other crawlers continued to fire and melee alex. Punching the ground, alex sent out a shockwave of energy that knocked the crawlers back.

2 speedorz raced at alex, who stood strong in defense. One of the speedorz crashed into alex and was deflected, like it had hit a rock. Then alex jumped at super speed and knocked the driver off the other speedor.

A bat vehicle began to preform a strafing run on alex. Calculating the position of himself, and the hostile aircraft, alex jumped up, kicked the aircraft and caused it to crash to the ground.

The forces of Chima began to charge forward, with alex at their sides. Coming up over a hill, alex punched another crawler into the dirt, the laid eyes on a small 2 person sized spider vehicle. He raced over to the vehicle, picked it up, and with immense strength, threw it into a larger spider tank, destroying the tank because of the extreme force.

A scorpion vehicle charged at alex, firing its blasters and trying to grab him in its claws. Alex jumped on one of the claws, then jumped on top of the stinger and ripped it clean off. Then alex stabbed the stinger into the cockpit of the vehicle.

More crawlers continued to advance. Alex used the power of the golden chi to conjure grenades in his hand, which he then threw at squads of hostiles. Another group of crawlers flanked alex and shot at him from nearby. Alex erected a wall out of the ground to block the laser blasts, then he pushed the wall towards the hostile crawlers, forcing them back. Laser blasts continued to strike alex, but the golden chi produced a sort of field around alex, and alex himself could create a handheld shield on his arm.

Another bag vehicle attempted a strike at alex, who fired laser blasts from his hands, taking down the enemy aircraft.

Spotting a large group of crawler soldiers and vehicles nearby alex mustered all his power and fired 2 huge laser blasts from his hands, decimating the crawler forces.

Then alex could feel the power leaving him, and the orb of golden chi disappeared, and alex felt normal again.

Toothdee came running over to Alex.

"Man, we just got here" Toothdee said "You were going so fast and we could see your light show from a mile away"

"Well, unfortunately the power has worn off, and we still have a lot of crawler forces out there" alex said pointing to the still raging battle.

"The eight heros are spread throughout the battlefield, but we have another way to handle these crawlers" Toothdee said, handing alex a tablet.

"What's this" alex said as he booted up the device.

"Kinetic rods, AKA rods from god"

Alex saw a small drone fly overhead, then the view from that drone appeared on his tablet. He could see crawlers all over the battlefield, and he also had a large reticle on the screen that took up a massive part of the combat zone. The crawlers were also highlighted, providing easy targets for alex to destroy.

Alex pressed the fire button, and the cloudy sky lit up as a massive glowing object came down from above and slammed into the crawler position, making the entire ground shake.

"WHOA!" Toothdee said as her and alex regained their balance. "They felt that!"

"Is it safe to use these things on a FLOATING ISLAND!" Alex asked.

There was a pause as toothdee thought for a moment.

"I probably should have thought about that" she said. "But, just keep firing"

Alex targeted more groups of crawlers and engaged. Multiple kinetic rods streaked down from the sky and slammed into the crawlers. Massive explosions threw vehicles and debris high into the air as the battlefield lit up from the brightness of the rods coming down. Soon the crawlers were wiped out and the forces of Chima began cheering.

"Well done alex" Toothdee said "well done"