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Chapter 439 Elsewhere Hotland 3
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. This is just a story for fun.
In Hotland all out war was breaking out between the Doctor's forces and Miss Mecca's assault force. X-Nauts were brawling with Mants, bug warriors, bandits as Lunar rode Cerberus Alpha in it's wolf form alongside Bolban towards Patchy. Bolban and Cerberus Alpha fired upon Patchy with lasers, but Patchy's armor proved to be too strong. Patchy roared as he spun around and swung his tail at the attackers. Lunar made Cerberus Alpha jump out of the way to avoid getting hit, but Bolban wasn't so agile and ended up getting hit and sent skidding across the ground on it's side.
Traitor Lord and Sol Crusher arrived on the scene and soon joined their forces in battle. Sol Crusher floated in the air above and unleashed powerful beam of energy from her body that vaporized several enemy troops and a few unlucky allies that got caught up in the attack. Mirage flew into the air and stretched her arms out to the side as a tornado began to form around her and began picking large rocks and fighters up and tossing them around. Sol Crusher tried to blast the tornado, but she got pulled in and was shot out and smashed into Baruda the giant bird knocking them both to the ground. As all that happened Traitor Lord locked his claws with Spinner's sharp head.
"I'm going to slice you all to pieces!" Laughed Spinner as she knocked Traitor Lord back and chased after him.
The tornado continued on towards the fortress and Mirage's confidence about destroying the enemy grew and grew as she destroyed anyone that came across her path. This mission was going to be easy. As Mirage's tornado ripped through the base's walls and began to wreck serious havoc on the place, several vines shot out of the ground and tried to stab through the tornado to get at Mirage, but the wind proved to be too strong and ripped the vines to bits. Mirage looked for who was responsible for the attack and saw Furi standing among some plants looking absolutely furious.
"Looks like I'm going to need to do a little gardening first." Said Mirage with a chuckle.
Furi summoned bigger and thicker vines with thorns to attack the tornado. The vines now carried large rocks as they tried to smash through the tornado and get at Mirage who just shredded them to bits. Furi kept summoning vines and Mirage just kept shredding them and shredding.
The Doctor stood on a balcony on the main building with Misery and Balrog observing the battle. The villainous leader had a scowl on his face as he watched his forces either get seriously hurt or killed by the enemy. Unbeknownst to the Doctor or his minions Miss Mecca had spotted them on the balcony using a long range camera on her battle mech. Miss Mecca thought this would be a good opportunity to test a new long range smart missile she had developed recently. She took aim and fired. A fairly large missile flew out of the mech's left cannon arm and raced through the air towards the Doctor. The missile swerved and twisted it's way though all the fighting as it made it's way towards the Doctor's location. The Doctor saw the missile coming and quickly gave an order to his minions.
"Stop that missile!"
Misery fired some spells from her staff at the missile, but it dodged all the shots as it continued on it's path and got closer and closer to the Doctor. The Doctor gritted his teeth as he prepared to use the power of the Demon Crown against the oncoming missile, but Balrog leaped off the balcony and collided with the missile! There was a great explosion and a flash of light, followed by a loud thud as Balrog's burnt and blackened body hit the ground.
"Balrog!" Cried Misery in both shock and dismay as she jumped down and landed next to Balrog.
At first Misery feared that Balrog might be dead, but he let out a soft groan showing he still was among the living. Misery let out a sigh of relief as she began to heal Balrog's wounds with magic.
"What are you doing? Stop tending to that idiot and go out there and stop the enemy before they fire another one of those missiles at me!" Said the Doctor glaring down at Misery.
Misery wanted to insult the Doctor and disobey him, but because of the Demon Crown, she had no choice, but to obey. She gave Balrog an apologetic look before she flew off to deal with Miss Mecca.
As all the fighting ragged on, Gideon and the Eliminator had sneaked into the Doctor's lab to retrieve the Crystal Star. They found it lying on a table a few yards away from the cage that held Mom who appeared to be sleeping. Gideon grabbed the Crystal Star and placed it in his bag. He glanced over at the caged Mom and considered freeing her. Now Gideon wasn't thinking about doing this out of the goodness of his heart or for any nobel reason, he just wanted to screw with the Doctor's experiments and get back at the villain for threatening to experimenting earlier. Gideon headed over to the cage with the Eliminator and was fixing to order the robot to break it open, when Mom's eyes shot open and she began screaming and shaking the bars.
"I must fulfill my holly mission and kill Isaac! It is the only way to save him! The lord told me it must be done! Isaac must die! Isaac must die! Isaac must die!"
Gideon's eyes went wide in shock as he stepped away from the cage. The woman was clearly insane. The Doctor could have Mom and do whatever, he wanted with her. Gideon and the Eliminator turned to leave, but found themselves facing Miss Marshmallow and Natia the pink cat girl.
"Looks like we have a couple of rats trying to steal from us in all this chaos." Said Natia.
"Activating attack mode." Said Miss Marshmallow as two long appendages exited from her back, one had a metal clamp claw and the other had a drill.
Natia threw some knives at the duo, but the Eliminator stepped in front and sucked them up with his darkness power. Miss Marshmallow struck with her clamp claw grabbing the Eliminator's legs and pulling hard to cause the big robot to fall onto his back. Natia pulled out a whip and struck at Gideon who took off running and screaming for his life, making the cat girl chase after him. Miss Marshmallow stabbed down at the Eliminator with her drill piercing the right side of his chest. The Eliminator sparked and grunted as he grabbed the long limb and pulled it out of his chest. He stood up gripping the limb and then he swung it and Miss Marshmallow into the air and slammed her into the ground a couple of times. Miss Marshmallow sparked and twitched as she struck the Eliminator in the chest with her clamp claw knocking him back and forcing him to release the drill limb. The robot maid tried to attack the Eliminator, but it turned it's righthand into a blaster, but instead of shooting lasers or magic it shot out knives that resembled Natia's knives. The blades stabbed Miss Marshmallow in the chest and shoulders and she collapsed to the ground sparking and sputtering.
"Enemy neutralized." Said the Eliminator before it ran off to find and rescue Gideon from Natia.
In another part of the fortress, Natia was chasing after Gideon. After a few minutes of running Gideon stopped to face Natia with a confident grin on his face.
"You giving up?" Asked Natia.
"No, I'm fixing to wipe the floor with you." Said Gideon as he pointed a hand at Natia.
Natia let out a startled cry as she was flung up and smashed into the celling with incredible force by an unseen force. It was Gideon using his gravity powers. Gideon let out a chuckle as he used his power to slam Natia into the ground then back to the celling and then back to the ground. He did this a couple more times, until Natia was a unconscious bruised heap on the ground.
"That will teach you." Said Gideon with a smirk as he walked away from the defeated enemy.
A few minutes later Gideon encountered the Eliminator.
"Are you ok?" Asked the Eliminator.
"I'm fine. I lost the weird cat girl. Now let's get out of here." Said Gideon.
The two of them began to walk to the exit as they looked for an opportunity to escape in all the chaos.
Far away from the fortress, Miss Mecca sat at her mech controls as Anne-Droid V2.1 flew by overhead scanning for an entrance to the Mant tunnels. Misery arrived on the scene and fired a magic blast from her staff at Miss Mecca. The blast flew at Miss Mecca and slammed into an invisible force field. Miss Mecca looked at Misery and gave her a little smile.
"Hello cousin. I see you're still a slave to the Demon Crown." Said Miss Mecca.
"You know I have no choice." Said Misery as she fired spell blast after spell blast at the force field.
The spells hit, but didn't seem to have any affect on the force field.
"You're heart isn't fully into this. You're stalling your order and are hoping that either I or one of my team take out the Doctor, so you'll be free of him." Said Miss Mecca.
"You seriously hurt Balrog." Growled Misery as her spells became stronger.
"Well I'm sorry for that. Tell you what, why don't I focus all of my attention and attack force on that worthless master of yours and then afterwards you can show me and my sisters where dear old dad is and we can all go pay him a visit. Will get the location of where he sealed my mother and then we can kill him. You and Balrog will be free and we would all have our revenge. Its a win win for everyone." Said Miss Mecca.
Misery's attack lessened at the sound of this. She was really liking what Miss Mecca was saying especially the parts of the Doctor being dead, killing Ballos, and being free of the Demon Crown. Misery was about to give a response, when Miss Mecca's controls beeped.
"Oh excuse me, I just got a alert from Anne-Droid V2.1. Just need to send out a little present." Said Miss Mecca as she pushed a button on her controls.
The mech pointed it's left cannon arm forward and fired another one of the smart missiles. The missile charged at the fortress and then it veered to the right and headed towards a large hole that lead into the Mant tunnels.
In the Queen Womant's chamber Hunter Wizard was firing arrows at Merco, who blocked it with shield, before he flew forward to strike with his lance, only to have a Rock Wizard raise a rock wall to block his attack. Serpentine fired his guns at Ser Manuel, who dodge rolled out of the way and returned firing forcing the snake to dodge out of the way. The Queen Womant sat on her throne watching the fights. It was then that the air was filled with a loud whistling sound as Miss Mecca's missile raced into the chamber.
"What the heck is that?!" Yelled Hunter Wizard.
The missile raced towards the surprised Queen Womant and struck her before she had a chance to summon any Mants to defend herself. There was a loud explosion as the Queen Womant exploded to bits and splattered around the chamber. All the Mants present in the chamber fell to the ground and screamed in despair.
"It looks like we weren't the only ones gunning for the Queen Womant." Muttered Rock Wizard.
"Thissss isss bad!" Hissed Serpentine.
"We need to return to base and alert the Doctor." Said Merco.
The two of them jumped onto Phoenix gamma and it shot up through the hole they had originally entered.
"After them!" Said Hunter Wizard.
Rock Wizard used his powers to create a rock platform and the trio of heroes jumped on and chased after the villains.
On the surface, Gideon and Eliminator were trying to sneak out from the base and into the open desert to escape, but they were finding it a bit challenging due to all the fighting going on. After a few miss trials the duo were starting to make some real progress, when they suddenly came face to face with Bolban. The sphinx monster roared as he pounced at the two forcing Gideon and the Eliminator to jump to the side to avoid being crushed. The duo were unharmed, but unfortunately the Crystal Star fell out of Gideon's backpack and at that moment Anne-Droid V2.1 was flying overhead surveying the battle, spotted the magical item, and alerted Miss Mecca.
Miss Mecca sat at her mech's controls, when she got her sister's message. Misery was still attacking Miss Mecca's force shield, but she was using weak spells. Miss Mecca looked up at Misery.
"Apologies Misery, but we're going have to delay killing your master and dad for a little bit. I just got news for a new objective that requires my focus, don't worry I fully intend to do away with both the Doctor and dad soon." Said Miss Mecca before she took her controls and made the mech charge towards the base.
Misery blinked her eyes not sure what to do and decided to just hover and chill.
Gideon hid behind the Eliminator as he fired his lasers at Bolban. The sphinx roared as the lasers pelted him and was about to attack the duo, when he was struck by exploding arrows, rocks, and bullets that made him reel back. Gideon and the Eliminator looked to see Hunter Wizard, Rock Wizard, and Ser Manuel coming their way.
"There you two are. I'm glad you're safe. Come on let's get out of here." Said Hunter Wizard.
The group began to run and Gideon cast a glance at the Crystal Star still lying on the ground close to Bolban and considered getting it, but decided it wasn't worth the risk and ran with the others into the desert.
Bolban had just recovered from the group's attack, when Miss Mecca arrived on the scene and began firing blasts of energy at the monster and struck him over and over again, until he exploded into bits. Miss Mecca turned her attention to the Crystal Star and used a vacuum on her mech to pick it up. She held up the magical item and smiled, before she sent out a message to her forces using the mech's speakers.
"Attention everyone, stop attacking, we are returning to our headquarters."
Most of the fighting stopped as the X-Nauts stopped attacking along with the sisters and Patchy and they began to leave the area. Mirage created a small sandstorm to prevent the enemy from following them.
The Doctor continued to stand on his balcony as he looked down as his base a good chunk of it was in ruins and he lost a good chunk of his foot soldiers in the battle.
"This is far from over. Savory your victory Spirit, I'm coming for you now." Vowed the Doctor.
To be continued.
