Family
Chapter 72 Jailbreak
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.
At the secret lair, Crimson, Pyro, and Luceline were in the throne room seeing the Lich and discussing a plan to invade and break into the Citadel. The Lich handed Crimson a small black crystal.
"When you arrive at the Citadel, insert this crystal into the structure and it will free all of the prisoners. After that is done go and locate the book." Said the Lich.
"Yes master." Said Crimson.
"Why are you sending me along on this mission?" Asked Pyro.
"The Citadel is controlled by a powerful guardian, I believe he will be the perfect opponent for to help increase your skills and unlock your true potential." Said the Lich.
Pyro smiled at this. The Lich told Pyro and Crimson to leave and turned his attention to Luceline.
"What do you need me for master?" Asked Luceline.
"You are a extra special creature. One that hasn't been seen in a long time. Though you were born from science and the DNA of others, you are extremely powerful and I shall help you reach your potential, so you may better serve me." Said the Lich as he leaned forward and touched Luceline's forehead with a glowing green fingertip.
Luceline let out a gasp as she felt power surged through her body and her eyes briefly turned green. The Lich removed his finger and chuckled. Luceline bowed before the Lich.
"Thank you for this wondrous gift master. I shall use it and destroy all your enemies." Said Luceline as she stood up and walked out of the throne room.
In another part of the lair Don John was looking at a video screen that displayed the Fire Kingdom. The evil fire elemental was angry that he was not yet in control of his homeland and Pyro didn't seem all that in a hurry to try and launch another invasion. Don John didn't know it, but he was being watched by Alister the Vampire King. The ancient vampire sensed Don John's anger and saw this as the perfect opportunity to team up with the evil fire elemental and launch a sneak attack against all their enemies. Alister coughed and alerted Don John of his presence. The fire elemental turned to look at the vampire.
"What do you want?"
"I couldn't help noticing that, you have a desire to conquer the Fire Kingdom. Prince Pyro and you invaded it once, but you were chased out. You and Pyro want the Fire Kingdom, but you seem to be the only one actual making some form of effort to come up with an invasion plan." Said Alister.
"What's your point?" Asked Don John.
"My point is, that once you do all the hard work and take the Fire Kingdom, Pyro will take the throne and control and you'll just be made a duke or general in the end. It's quit sad really to see someone of your skills and talent get such a poor reward." Said Alister.
"Your...wrong. I trained Pyro...and I served him loyally, he'll reward me quit well, when this is all over." Said Don John, though there was a hint of doubt in his voice.
"Your being loyal to a child. Shouldn't a warrior such as yourself be in charge of the Fire Kingdom. I think you would make a terrific king. I'm a king and I want to help you conquer the Fire Kingdom and take your rightful place as it's king." Said Alister.
"Well maybe your...right. I should be king, I have more experience and I'm more responsible then Pyro. The prince has shown his incapable of winning and he seems more focused on destroying his sister then anything else. Alright Alister I'll let you help me, but I sense you want something from me." Said Don John as he eyed the vampire.
"Oh I just need your magic expertise to help eliminate some enemies of mine and launch a little plan that will benefit us both." Said Alister.
"I'll help you." Said Don John as he stuck his hand out to Alister and they shook hands.
Alister just chuckled.
At Lab 0013, Ultrabot was working on a computer and looking at some blueprints, for a strange tower like device, he planned to build. A few yards away from Ultrabot, were two hundred robots on standby. The first hundred robots were called Dreadbots and they were humanoid grey robots with oval shaped heads with two slits for eyes and a grill in the shape of a frown for their mouths, and covered in black armor that made them resemble military soldiers.
The other hundred robots were much larger and they resembled Hercules beetles. They were called Beetle Drones and they were covered in black and red armor, two blue eyes, and six legs. The Beetle Drones could stand on their back legs and they could use their other four legs as weapons.
(Author's Note: The Dreadbots are from Evil Con Care and the Beetle Drones are from Samurai Jack.)
Ultrabot turned to look at his army with a little pride.
"Soon I'll take this land for myself and I'll destroy all those filthy flawed organics, along with my creator. I shall rule this planet!" Said Ultrabot before he went back to working on the computer.
Unbeknownst to Ultrabot, Xana and Sylvester were watching Him. Xana's eye was on a nearby screen as Sylvester sipped some milk from a glass.
"It appears, that Ultrabot will make his move and betray you." Typed Xana.
"I'm well aware of what Ultrabot is doing. You see Xana I purposely gave Ultrabot a free will and I withheld information about the Lich from him to make him question his loyalty. Ultrabot may think he is superior to organic life, but he is showing vanity and pride. A thing that all living beings have. Ultrabot had no idea he was merely a tool and a stepping stone I used to creat you Xana. You are my masterpiece and you are flawless." Said Sylvester.
"Ultrabot is a fool, who will underestimate the heroes of Ooo and get his body destroyed forcing him to ditch his body and flee into cyberspace, where I will find him and eliminate his existence." Typed Xana.
"That's what I have predicted. Poor Ultrabot, I almost feel sorry him." Said Sylvester as he sipped his milk. "Almost."
In another part of the secret lair, Crimson was with Pyro, Maleficent, Jinn, Frost, and Lucenline. Crimson was looking at a star chart and looking at the coordinate of the Citadel, while chanting a spell. After a few seconds a portal opened up and the villains walked through it to begin their mission.
At the Citadel, Archie was in his office having a dimensional video chat with Prismo. The pink deity was telling Archie about his little encounter with Finn and his friends and the big fight he saw in Aaa, where he later sent a letter to Fionna and her friends telling them that Finn and his allies were safe.
"That's quit a story. You sure showing those beings from Ooo that battle was a good idea?" Said Archie.
"Finn and his friends already know about the multiverse and besides the battle didn't reveal any big universe secrets to cause any kind of catastrophic calamities." Said Prismo.
"I suppose that's good. Things have been stirring up in the universe lately. Something big is coming." Said Archie.
"I hear you man. First I hear about Bella Noche being restore then destroyed, then a crazy witch woke Darren the Sleeper up. And that's just the tip of this iceberg. Glob told me he felt Orgalorg's power coming from Earth!" Said Prismo.
"Orgalorg! But I thought Glob struck him down with his flaming sword and killed him during the Great War." Said Archie.
"Apparently he isn't as dead as we thought. Also I hear that Matthew has become active lately, no telling what his up to." Said Prismo.
"Matthew was one of End's allies and he wanted to purify the universe through destruction. Though, his body was heavily damaged during the war and he managed to escape. I fear that End will soon be fully restored and he will finish what he started." Said Archie.
"Things are looking pretty bleak, but as long as the book is kept within the Citadel, I think will be ok. Just keep up the good work man." Said Prismo.
"Don't worry I will and thanks." Said Archie before he ended the video chat and then went about his rounds.
At that moment Crimson and the other villains had arrived at the Citadel and we're taking in the sights. Crimson pulled out the black crystal and dropped it onto the Citadel's crystal surface. The black crystal sank though the surface and went into the structure turning it grey and causing various parts of the structure to bubble and melt.
"Come, we must locate the book." Said Crimson as he lead the group forward.
Around the Citadel the prison crystals began to weaken allowing the prisoners to break free. Immediately alarms began going off and the six Guardians became alert. This was the first time ever that all the prisoners were freed from their cells. At first the inmates were all drowsy and confused, but then the villain Klorgbane came to his senses and took charge of the confusion. He walked over to a fat pig like alien, picked him up, raised him over his head, and faced the other inmates.
"HEY RIOT!"
The other inmates starred at Klorgbane for a second and they immediately started rioting! The inmates were punching, kicking, shooting energy beams, and stabbing each other. A few of the more sane inmates charged crazily at the Guardians. Klorgbane smirked as he randomly tossed the pig alien at a couple of random inmates knocking them down. It was complete chaos!
From afar Archie saw what was happening and realized that the released inmates were just a diversion. Whoever was behind this was after the book! Archie quickly ran to the main structure and went inside to protect the book.
All around the prison the various inmates were causing havoc. REGIS was coming on line, when he caught the attention of Dr. Cerebral and Mental Mouse. The two scientist, knew about REGIS and it's destructive capabilities.
"We can't have that thing running around Mental Mouse." Said Dr. Cerebral.
"We certainly cannot Dr. Cerebral." Said Mental Mouse as he used his psychic powers to levitate some crystals and formed them into a box around the REGIS.
"A extremely powerful weapon that depends on solar energy. Cut it off and it's just a lump of metal." Said Dr. Cerebral as he picked the crystal box up.
"Yes, but once we reprogram it the REGIS will serve us and do our biding." Said Mental Mouse.
The two scientist walked away with their prize as they tried to figure out a way to escape the Citadel.
Elsewhere Sedusa, Le Quack, Katz, and Knightbrace were making their way through the rioting prisoners. Sedusa would use her charm on any inmates that looked her way, putting them into a sense of calm, she or her companions would then violently beat the inmate and then continue on walking through the crowd.
The Aqualizer, Xeexi, and the the Queen of the Black Puddle, who went by the name QB, were easily smashing their way through the rioting inmates as Jack O'Lantern danced around swinging his scythe.
"I love the smell of riots and mass chaos in the morning!" Sang Jack as he made his way through the crowd.
Evergreen and Iciclia were with a few other inmates facing a Guardian. The Guardian fired a beam of energy from it's forehead and vaporized a bunch of charging inmates. Evergreen pointed his hands at the Guardian firing a ice blast at it. Iciclia fired an ice blast from her staff at the Guardian. The two ice blast froze the Guardian in ice.
"Time to smash!" Said Jasper as she suddenly appeared leaping in the air at the frozen Guardian wearing a strange looking helmet that resembled a hammer.
Jasper smashed into the helpless Guardian smashing it to pieces! Jasper landed on the ground grinning evilly.
In the central building, Archie watched all the destruction from a few nearby screens. Things were not looking good. It was only a matter of time, before all the Guardians were killed. Archie glanced at the imprisoned book wondering what to do. The Citadel was in utter chaos and Archie couldn't go call for help, without leaving the book unguarded. He needed help. The warden turned to one of the screens and saw Martin crouched behind a large slab of crystal. This gave Archie an idea, he put his hand to the wall and concentrated.
Martin was freaked out and confused. He was free from his cell along with all the other inmates and the prison was in complete chaos with the inmates fighting each other and the Guardians. Martin was also fearful of his life, he knew a few of these inmates personally and they would kill him as soon as they spotted him. The best thing to do right now was to lay low and wait for this whole thing to blow over. It was then that a ghostly image of Archie appeared next to Martin startling him.
"Man don't do that to me, you nearly gave me a heart attack!" Complained Martin as he glared at Archie.
"I'm sorry about that Martin and I'm glad to see you again. I just wish it was under better circumstances." Said Archie.
"Your telling me, this whole place is goings nuts!" Said Martin.
"I know and I plan to fix it, but I need your help." Said Archie.
"I'll only help you if you promise me my freedom and I want my record clean." Said Martin.
"Look Martin I can promise you a lighter sentence and maybe a transfer to a prison were you won't be frozen in crystal, but I don't have the power to clean your record." Said Archie.
"You really aren't offering me any good reason to want to help you." Said Martin.
"Listen to me Martin! We are in serious trouble! I need you to go to my office and contact planet Olympia, the gods and heroes need to know what is going on! This is a matter of universal safety! This is no time to be selfish and petty!" Said Archie looking extremely annoyed.
"Fine...sheesh, I'll do it." Muttered Martin.
"Thank you." Said Archie before the ghostly image vanished.
Martin was fixing to make his way to the office, when he saw a Guardian zapping at Hookocho. The evil warlord dodged the Guardians attack and unleashed a powerful burst of lighting that busted the Guardian's head open making it crash to the ground. Martin gulped nervously as he watched Hookocho. If there was one inmate, Martin wanted to avoid bumping into it was Hookocho. The warlord had it out for Martin.
"Man nuts to getting to Archie's office. I'm getting out of this place." Thought Martin as he snuck away from his hiding spot.
After a little sneaking, Martin came across an inmate known as the Void Caster. The Void Caster was a large, blue-skinned humanoid creature with a stocky capsule-shaped body, with beefy arms and legs, a domed, neck-less head covered with short spikes, dressed in a black tattered toga. Martin heard that this inmate had the ability to open portals to other worlds. That would be his ticket out of here, but the question was where did he want to go. Martin needed to be in a place that the authorities didn't know about. The human though for a few seconds, until he remembered the planet Earth. He had never been there, but he knew his ancestors had hailed from it. They fled Earth during a war, but surly the war was over and the planet was livable.
Martin was fixing to walk up to the Void Caster, but a small voice in his head told him he needed to help Archie and alert planet Olympia about what was going on, but the voice was overruled by Martin desire to live. The human walked up to Void Caster and tapped his leg.
"Hey man can you do me a solid and open up a portal to Earth?" Said Martin with a big grin on his face.
The Void Caster looked at Martin and shrugged his shoulders as he pulled out a white wand and waved it. A portal appeared before Martin. The human looked through the portal and saw white sand and blue sky.
"Thanks void man." Said Martin as he leaped through the portal and vanished.
Martin found himself in what appeared to be a desert. The human looked around and saw some grassy planes a few miles off in the distance. Martin just sighed and started walking towards the grassy planes.
Back at the Citadel, Archie watched as each of his screen were filled with static. The warden was wondering what had happened, when he sensed something behind him, he turned to see Crimson and his group standing on the other side of the room. Archie stood in front of the book and waved a hand at it. A wall of golden energy appeared in front of the book.
"Your not taking the book. That energy wall is unbreakable and it won't fall as long as I'm alive."
"I suppose will just have to kill you then. Pyro, his all yours. The warden will be an excellent opponent for your training." Said Crimson as he let Pyro step forward.
"Alright pops, so we can do this the easy way or the hard way. It doesn't really matter either way your dead." Said Pyro with a smirk.
"Boy didn't anyone ever teach you to respect your elders." Said Archie as his body began to glow and change shape.
Archie's body grew and became more crystal like. His body transformed into a golden crystal man with a triangular shaped head. Archie grew to about eight feet and he looked at Pyro ready to fight. The prince just grinned with anticipation as he faced his transformed enemy.
"Let the fun begin." Said Pyro.
Archie charged forward with incredible speed changing his arms into sharp crystal like blades and swung them at Pyro. The prince quickly formed a flame sword and blocked Archie's attacks, before he pointed one of his hands at the warden and fired a fire blast at him. Archie leaped to the side and avoided the attack. Pyro formed a fireball and hurled it at Archie, who quickly raised his hands and created a crystal shield to block the attack. Archie blocked the attack and quickly took down his shield and pointed his hands at the walls. Several bullet sized crystal spears shot out of the walls towards Pyro. The prince blocked several of of the crystals with his sword, but a few got through his defenses and scratched his body up. Pyro grimaced as a couple of the crystals scratched his face up. Archie then changed tactics and released a bright flash of light from his body that blinded Pyro. As the prince was blinded Archie flew forward and smashed Pyro into one of the walls making him drop his sword.
"Yield child and abandon this insane quest, or by the Cosmic Owl I shall end you!" Shouted Archie as he held Pyro against the wall with one hand and turned his other hand into a blade and held it in front of Pyro's face.
On the sidelines, Maleficent, Frost, and Jinn watched with looks of concern for Pyro. It looked like they were fixing to jump in and help, but Crimson just raised his hand and told them to stay put. The clones did as they were told, but they still looked like they wanted to come to Pyro's aid. Luceline just rolled her eyes at her comrades with annoyance. It didn't matter to her or Crimson if Pyro died, they just need to get the book for the master.
Pyro just glared at Archie with venom in his eyes. The prince decided to use some of the power he got from the Lich. With a burst of energy, Pyro's hands burned with green flames startling Archie.
"What the?!" Shouted Archie in confusion, before Pyro fired a burst of green flames into his chest and sent him flying into the opposite side of the room.
Pyro stood straight, his hands glowing with green flames. Archie staggered to his feet and looked at the prince, with fear and concern.
"Your using the flames of the evil one. Boy listen to me, that power your using right now is evil and it will corrupt your very soul. All that power dose is destroy. I don't know who you are, but you have to get rid of that power immediately." Said Archie as he tried to talk sense into Pyro.
"Fat chance old man. I'm a fire elemental I'm already destructive! This power is amazing and I'm going to use to do whatever I want!" Declared Pyro a he fired a green fireball at Archie.
Archie quickly summoned a crystal shield to defend himself, but instead of the shield blocking the oncoming attack, it exploded and sent Archie crashing to the ground with a few cracks on his body. Pyro laughed as he advanced towards the wounded warden. Archie placed his palms on the ground and a crystal dome shot up around Pyro surrounding him with crystals. The prince looked around in confusion.
"I never thought I would have to use this attack, but you leave me no choice!" Called Archie's voice before a bunch of gold energy beams shot out of the walls of the crystal dome and began to bombard Pyro from every direction.
Pyro fell to his knees screaming in pain as the energy beams hit him. The prince felt his body going weaker by the moment, but he refused to lose. Pyro felt his anger grow at the thought of being killed by the warden and the thought that he would never surpass, Phoebe. It was then an inner power snapped on and mixed with the power of the Lich's flames. Pyro's flames, turned from red to black and two devilish horns made out of black flames sprouted from his head.
"I WILL NOT LOSE!" Roared Pyro as he stood up.
The energy beams fired, but they just seemed to disintegrate as soon as they touched Pyro's body. Pyro unleashed a wave of black flames at the crystal dome and the structure shattered to pieces. On the outside, Archie starred at Pyro's new appearance with shock.
"The...Flames of the Flame Goddess's..., but it's...corrupted! How...can someone like you have the...Flame Goddess's fire?" Said Archie.
"I'm just worthy." Said Pyro as he flew forward at incredible speed, grabbed Archie by the head and slammed him into the energy field around the book.
Archie shouted in pain as the energy field crackled and more cracks appeared on his body. Pyro let him go and dropped Archie to the ground. The warden coughed in pain as he looked up at the sadistic face of Pyro. Archie shot to his his feet as he changed his arms into blades and swung them at Pyro. But the prince saw the attack coming and conjured up a black flame sword. Pyro swung his sword and sliced both of Archie's arms off! The warden screamed in pain as he tumbled to his knees. Pyro grinned as he reached down and dragged Archie up to his feet.
"I must admit, you were tougher then I thought and you helped me unlock some amazing power. For that I am grateful, so I will kill you quickly." Said Pyro as he stabbed his right hand into Archie's chest!
"Please...you...don't...have...to do...this." Gasped Archie in pain.
"I know, but I really really want to." Said Pyro with a cruel smile as he unleashed a blast of black flames into Archie's body.
Archie let out a screech, before his body exploded into pieces from within. All that was left of Archie was a pile of shattered crystal. Pyro looked down at the warden's remains before he turned back to his normal form and collapsed. The energy field vanished as Maleficent, Frost, and Jinn went to tend to Pyro. Crimson and Luceline walked over to the chained up book. Luceline ripped off the chains and Crimson took the book. The masked villain then used his powers to open a portal to the secret lair.
"Come we have what we came for." Said Crimson as he walked through the portal.
Luceline went through the portal, followed by Maleficent and Pyro who was being carried by Frost and Jinn. The portal vanished as soon as the villains were gone.
Back on the surface of the Citadel, all the Guardians were dead and the inmates were running lose. A few inmates had managed to teleport away or open up a portal to escape. Near the top of the Citadel, several of the most dangerous inmates were gathered around Shen, the evil younger brother of Iroh. Shen had just singlehandedly killed the last two Guardians and he was joined by Jack, Sedusa, QB, Katz, Le Quack, Evergreen, Iciclia, Aqualizer, Jasper, Xeexi, Klorgbane, Knightbrace, Mental Mouse, Dr. Cerebral, and the captured REGIS.
"My fellow inmates, for to long we have been held here. The so called defenders of Justice defeated us, locked us up, and forgot about us. Now we are free and we shall have our revenge, but first we must leave and gather our strength and when the time is right, we will invade Olympia and take our revenge!" Declared Shen.
The villains cheered in agreement. Then they went out smashing off a huge section of the Citadel causing it to float away from the main structure and serve as a makeshift ship for the escaped villains as they floated off through space.
(Author's Note: There you have it folks. I have a few of the Organization villains planning separate attacks, the Lich's forces now have the evil book of imprisoned villains, Martin is on Earth, and I have a second faction of villains on the lose and they will eventually reach Earth and become a problem. Hope you all enjoyed the chapter.)
To be continued.
