Family
Chapter 464 Ambushed
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. This is just a story for fun.
(Author's Note: Back to the Underground for a few chapters then it's back to the future saga.)
In the Underground, Mr. Dark, Dark Corvo, Doopliss, and Vivian were making their way through Waterfall with the backpack that contained the two Crystal Stars they had stolen from Finn's group. After several more minutes of traveling the group stopped for a break and Mr. Dark pulled out a magic crystal ball to contact Spirit. The featureless face of Spirit appeared in the crystal ball.
"What news do you have for me, Mr. Dark?" Asked Spirit.
"I have very good news. We have two Crystal Stars in our possession." Said Mr. Dark opening the backpack and showing the treasure inside.
"Wonderful! You have proven your worth Mr. Dark. I am very pleased. My mother will be very grateful for what you have done. Stay where you are and I shall head to your location with reinforcements to pick you up." Said Spirit before she vanished from the crystal ball.
"Everything is working out nicely for use." Said Mr. Dark putting the crystal ball away.
"You're brilliant master." Said Dark Corvo.
Vivian was still feeling a bit guilty about the role she played in stealing the Crystal Stars and for getting Dipper hurt, so she decided to give her sisters, Beldam and Marilyn a call to inform them about the great news in an attempt to cheer herself up. She pulled out a crystal ball of her and the faces of Beldam and Marilyn appeared in it.
"What do you want?" Asked Beldam looking annoyed.
"Hello too you sister. I'm just calling to give you some good news. I helped obtained two Crystal Stars." Said Vivian.
"Ha! You got two Crystal Stars. That's a good one!" Said Beldam with a laugh.
Vivian just scowled as she went over to the backpack and opened it up showing the Crystal Stars. Both Beldam and Marilyn were stunned by the reveal.
"You...actually have them. I'm...impressed Vivian. Perhaps...you're not useless after all." Said Beldam.
"Thank you sister." Said Vivian with a slight smile as the faces vanished from the crystal ball.
Vivian felt a little better, but she still felt guilty about what she did to Dipper and his group. Mr. Dark took notice of this.
"Are you feeling guilty about that little friend of yours?" Asked Mr. Dark.
Vivian nodded her head.
"You shouldn't be. That boy was nothing more then an obstacle between us and our mission. Your main concern should be about collecting the Crystal Stars and freeing our master. Nothing else matters. Understood?" Said Mr. Dark.
"Yes." Said Vivian.
"Good." Said Mr. Dark.
At Dr. Cranken's lair, Beldam was furiously pacing back and forth as Marilyn watched her. Beldam was angry that Vivian had greatly succeeded in acquiring two Crystal Stars. Vivian's success was going to make the other Shadow Sirens look like fools to Spirit and Shadow Queen. First there had been that failure to get a Crystal Star in Snowdin and then there was Cinder's death. Vivian had just saved face by getting two Crystal Stars and the thought of her younger sister doing better and succeeding, where Beldam had failed anger her. Beldam needed to take control of this situation and prove hers and Marilyn's worth before they ended up being treated like failures like Crump.
"Come Marilyn. We need to find Vivian, to help secure the Crystal Stars and remind our sister, where her place is." Said Beldam.
Marilyn simply nodded her head and the two Shadow Sirens flew out of the lair and used their powers to locate Vivian and flew towards her location.
At about the same time a small convoy of hovering saucers piloted by X-Nauts were using the bridge connections to get to the lair. In one of the saucers was Grodus and Cyan. The saucers could have easily flown over the water, but Grodus felt like using the bridges.
The convoy got the attention of Stratos and his Legion of Light troops as well as Resourceful Rat and his gang. Both groups had been spying on Dr. Cranken's lair. Stratos and his troops had spying on the lair waiting for the arrival of the rest of the Legion of Light to arrive with some backup to launch a full scale attack on the lab, but the arrival of Grodus and Cyan gave Stratos and his forces a golden opportunity to strike a hefty blow to Spirit and her forces. They could kill the leader of the X-Nauts and one of the sisters. Stratos couldn't let this opportunity slip away.
"Troops get ready to attack the convoy." Said Stratos as he changed into his armored form.
The Legion of Light troops were all on tiny boats with motors disguised as trash and they were ready to spring into action.
Resourceful Rat and his gang were further away in a slightly larger boat watching the bridges as the convoy traveled along. The gang intended to break into the lab, when the Legion of Light launched their big attack and steal one of Dr. Cranken's weapons and power it up with the Crystal Star they stole in Snowdin, but the arrival of Grodus and Cyan made Resourceful Rat and the gang nervous, since that meant they had to deal with more security at the lab.
Stratos used his armor to fly forward and transform it into a giant pair of jaws that flew at the saucer Grodus and Cyan were in and bite into it hard. Both Grodus and Cyan cried out in alarm as Stratos shook them around before flinging them into the side of the bridge with a crash. Chaos soon engulfed the bridge as the Legion of Light bug warriors jumped from their boats and began to swarm the bridge and do battle with the X-Nauts that had accompanied Grodus and Cyan. Sligs and drophyds raced from the lair to aid the X-Nauts. Stratos ignored all the fighting going on around him as he changed into his normal armored form and focused on Grodus and Cyan.
Grodus and Cyan groaned as they pulled themselves out of the wreckage of the saucer.
"It's over for you two." Said Stratos as he approached the two.
"You have some nerve sneak attacking us." Growled Grodus as he clenched his staff.
"The Legion of Light will suffer greatly for this! You have my word!" Said Cyan as she glared at Stratos and her four hands began to glow red.
Cyan fired four beams of energy at Stratos, who dodged to the side to avoid getting hit. Grodus swung his staff and a bolt of lightning flew out and struck Stratos knocking him onto the ground. Cyan fired some more beams of energy at Stratos that struck him as he got back to his feet and was knocked to the ground agin. Grodus and Cyan closed in on Stratos to finish him off, but Stratos shoot to his feet and fired a glowing ball of energy that landed between his two enemies and exploded sending them both flying back and crashing to the ground. Stratos smirked as he made his way to his downed enemies.
"How...are you still able to move about? Our attacks hit you! You shouldn't have been able to get up so quickly and retaliated!" Yelled Grodus.
"It's true your attacks did hit me pretty hard, but my armor is strong and I'm pretty durable and tough. I thought it would be best to play dead and let the two of you think you had me, so you would become overconfident and drop your guard. And boy did my plan work." Said Stratos with a grin.
"You dirty trickster!" Snarled Cyan as she tried to fire more beams at Stratos.
Stratos's armor changed back into the giant metal mouth and grabbed Cyan, before she could fire her attack. Cyan cried out in pain as the jaws clamped down on her and then they opened to chomp down on her a couple more times before tossing her to the side. Stratos changed back into his normal armored form and closed in on the gravely wounded Cyan. He was going to finish Cyan off, when one of the bug warriors yelled out to him.
"Sir! Enemy reinforcements are heading our way fast!"
Stratos turned to see Dark Rabbit leading the other Dark Bosses and a large number of sligs and drophyds towards them. They would join the battle in a few seconds. Stratos wanted to finish Cyan off, but he knew if he didn't get himself and his troops out of there, they would be killed by the reinforcements.
"Retreat!" Ordered Stratos.
The Legion of Light forces jumped onto their boats and quickly fled the scene. Dark Rabbit and the backup arrived on the scene and Cyan and all the wounded were loaded onto stretchers and taken to the lair to get patched up and healed.
During all the fighting and confusion Resourceful Rat and his crew of thieves had snuck into the lair using some explosives and Pluto's great strength to bust in and made their way to the vehicle lab and began to look around at all the vehicles, until they found a big one that looked like a cross between a hovercraft and a tank with several guns on it.
"This is the one." Said Resourceful Rat.
They loaded up into the vehicle and Resourceful Rat jumped into the pilot's chair and plugged the Crystal Star into a slot to power the machine up.
"How are we going to get out of here?" Asked Popple.
"We're going to blast our way out." Said Resourceful Rat as he worked the controls.
The main cannon of the machine pointed at a wall and fired. The wall was completely destroyed leaving nothing, but a big hole in it's place. Alarms started going off as Resourceful Rat drove the machine out of the lair.
"Wait and until the Underground sees us now!" Laughed Resourceful Rat with glee.
To be continued.
