Family
Chapter 466 Tank Interruption
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. This is just a story for fun.
(Author's Note: Happy Anniversary everyone. Sorry for the long wait. Enjoy the chapter.)
Outside Dr. Cranken's lab, Stratos and his forces were meeting up with Luminous, Six, Ruxxtin's staff, Mr. Shine, Mr. Bright, Traitor Lord, Sol Crusher, and several of their bug warriors. They were also accompanied by three of the Doctor's elite forces, Lunar, Tarus, and Merco who had all brought their special battle vehicles. Also with them were three members of Blockner's mercenary group Flame Face, Meduzi, and Pedro and two members from the Castle Lemongrab expedition group Specter Knight and Insecto Knight.
Stratos had informed Luminous about the recent happenings at the lab and the leader of the Legion of Light thought it was the perfect opportunity to attack with the recent damage done to the lab and the Dark Bosses away. Luminous turned to his gathered forces and spoke to them.
"Legion of Light and estimated associates. Today we deliver a critical blow to the forces of darkness and send some wicked beings to the Underworld! Let our light shine and cast out the shadows!"
The assorted forces cheered and charged at the lab using the bridges. Lunar fired missiles from his motorcycle Cerberus Alpha, Tarus fired a tank round from his Sasquatch b tank, and Merco flew around on his Phoenix y in it's bird form and fired several energy blasts and missiles at the lab. All the attacks hit the lab causing several explosions and killing several of Dr. Cranken's troops. More troops raced out of the lab to do battle with the invading forces.
In the lab the building shook as it was hit by the attacks. Dr. Cranken stood with Grodus, Medusa, and Marina looked at a computer monitor that showed them a live video feed of what was going on outside the building. Both Dr. Cranken and Grodus were furious about the attack.
"This is an outrage! First the Legion of Light ambushed me and Cyan on the way here and now they launched a full scale attack on the lab!" Yelled Grodus.
"Do not fret Grodus. They will not breach my defenses. I will do everything in my power to keep the Legion of Light out and destroy them." Said Dr. Cranken.
"For all our sake you better succeed." Said Grodus.
Dr. Cranken focused on the monitor and began shouting instructions to his forces using a intercom as both Medusa and Marina went off to go prepare their own special defenses.
Miles away Finn, Phoebe, Huntress Wizard, Loke, Viper, Endol, and Merak were creeping up on the stretch of shore Mr. Dark, Dark Corvo, Doopliss, and Vivian were awaiting the arrival of Spirit and her forces. The group of hunters eyed their targets and were getting ready to strike, when Beldam and Marilyn flew onto the scene.
"Sisters." Greeted Vivian as she flew over to her siblings as they lowered themselves to the ground.
"Hello Vivian. We just came by to help secure the Crystal Stars for Spirit's arrival. We also came to remind you of your place within the Shadow Sirens." Said Beldam.
"My place?" Asked Vivian.
"Yes. Your place. You are the youngest of us, Vivian. I am the oldest and the leader. Every action any of us take represents us as a whole. Everything we do is for the Shadow Queen and her daughters. As may already know we have suffered a fair deal of bad luck. A Crystal Star was stolen from right under our noses and then Cinder was killed in Snowdin, both of those were failures that makes us look bad and makes us lose face. Now you managed to get two Crystal Stars in your possession. That is good and will help us save face, but I don't want you getting a big head and start thinking you're better then us. That would be bad." Said Beldam.
"I would never do that sister." Said Vivian looking nervous.
"Good. Good. Now we have a clear understanding." Said Beldam with a smile.
Dark Corvo and Doopliss looked at Mr. Dark who just shrugged his shoulders.
"Sheesh. That girl is a control freak to her sister." Whispered Finn to his companions.
Beldam and Marilyn floated over to the bag with Crystal Stars and stood guard as they had smiles on their faces as if they were the ones who retrieved the Crystal Stars in the first place. Vivian just floated a few feet away as she began to rethink her relationship with both her sisters and masters. Over the years Vivian had loyally fought alongside her sisters and the Shadow Queen and her family, but in all those years neither Vivian's sisters or the Shadow Queen and her family had ever once treated Vivian with respect or kindness. No matter what Vivian did the others looked down on her. Whenever a mission or attacked on a territory failed, Vivian got the blame, even when it wasn't her fault. Even when Vivian had succeeded and done something right, her sisters still chose to look down on her and take credit for her work! It was maddening!
Vivian cast a brief glare at her sisters and began to consider doing something about her situation. Stand up for herself or perhaps just ditch her sisters and faction and find a new less toxic group to hang with.
At that moment a dimensional portal opened up and out gilded Spirit accompanied by a couple X-Nauts and Smithy. Loke, Viper, Endol, and Merak's eyes went wide as they recognized Spirit and Smithy. Finn, Phoebe, and Huntress Wizard took notice of this.
"What's wrong?" Asked Huntress Wizard.
"That's Spirit and Smithy. Two serious powerhouses have shown up to claim the Crystal Stars." Said Endol.
"We encountered Spirit before, but we know nothing about Smithy." Said Phoebe.
"Smithy is a real nasty piece of work. He's one of Spirit's top allies and possibly the most powerful warriors in her faction. Smithy is both a mad builder with a wicked temper as well as a mighty warrior." Said Loke.
"Has anyone actually fought him?" Asked Finn.
"Several monsters and other beings have fought Smithy over the years and have died by his hands. Thankfully he doesn't leave wherever Spirit's lair is very often, so we usually don't have to worry about him going on a rampage often." Said Viper.
"So what exactly is our plan? I don't think we can take all these guys in a head on fight." Said Merak.
"And we risk getting separated if Spirit decides to simply open up some portals and toss us all through them." Said Huntress Wizard.
"Then we focus on distracting them and stealing the Crystal Stars back in the confusion." Said Finn.
"I think I have a good idea how to distract them." Said Phoebe as she began forming a fireball in her hands.
"We will focus on distracting the enemy, when they are good and distracted use your power to give yourself a speed boost and snatch the Crystal Stars." Instructed Huntress Wizard looking at Finn.
"Got it." Said Finn.
The others got ready to spring into action. Phoebe flung her fireball into the air above the gathered villains and Huntress Wizard fired an arrow at it, hitting it, and making it explode in a bright flash of light getting everyone's attention. Phoebe hurled a few more fireballs into the air and so did Viper. Huntress Wizard fired some arrows at the fireballs and Endol shot some lightning at them making them all explode. Loke grabbed a couple of fist size rocks and crept a few yards away from the others before he hurled the rocks and nailed a couple of the X-Nauts in the head knocking them down and causing some confusion and chaos in the ranks. The Shadow Sirens gathered around the backpack containing the Crystal Stars.
"It appears we have some uninvited guests." Said Spirit.
"Come on out and fight you cowards! My hammer is itching to crush some skulls!" Bellowed Smithy as he took some practice swings with his hammer.
Loke cast a look to his allies and then he jumped from his spot for Spirit and her forces to see.
"In the name of King Asgore and the Royal Guard, I'm placing you creeps under arrest!" Said Loke.
Spirit and her forces just looked at Loke and they just burst out laughing.
"Ah what a dumb fool! Don't waste your time on him, Spirit. Allow us to deal with him." Said Mr. Dark as he and Dark Corvo moved towards Loke.
Phoebe and Viper threw more fireballs into the air Huntress Wizard, Endol, and Merak blasted them and they exploded into a flash of light that got the attention of the villains. Loke took advantage of this distraction to punch Mr. Dark in the face and kick Dark Corvo in the chest knocking them to the ground. As that happened Finn activated his powers and raced towards the Shadow Sirens and the backpack that had the Crystal Stars. Finn was a few feet from his targets, when Smithy swung his hammer down towards him forcing the teen to jump back to avoid getting hit. Before Finn could try and race around Smithy, Spirit stretched her claws out and swung them at Finn forcing him to leap further back to avoid getting hit.
"Nice try kid, but you won't fool me that easily." Said Smithy.
"I remember you." Said Spirit.
Phoebe, Huntress Wizard, Viper, Endol, and Merak decided there was no point in hiding and came out from their cover to confront the villains. Spirit, Beldam, and Marilyn recognized Phoebe immediately as the one that killed Cinder.
"You! You're the one that killed my sister, Cinder!" Yelled Spirit.
"Yeah I put an end to your psycho pyromaniac sister, after she tried to takeover Snowdin with an undead horde." Said Phoebe.
"Mistress please allow me and my sisters to do away with this wretch. We may have failed Mistress Cinder back in Snowdin, but we will not fail you here. We wish to avenge your sister." Said Beldam.
Before Spirit could respond the water near the area began to bubble and out rose Jelly-Chan. The big slime monster was now even bigger due to eating the corpse of Bootcamp. Everyone looked at Jelly-Chan stunned as she just stared back. Spirit looked at her large sister and got a couple of twisted ideas.
"Alright Beldam I will allow you to avenge my sister and destroy this wretch. Once you do that will feed what's left of her and her friends to Jelly-Chan." Said Spirit.
"What about the Crystal Stars?" Asked Vivian.
"I'll put them in a safe spot." Said Spirit as she went over to the backpack and took the Crystal Stars out.
Finn and his allies tensed up thinking Spirit was going to open up one of her portals and toss the Crystal Stars through to a new location, but instead Spirit headed over to Jelly-Chan.
"I need you to keep these safe sister." Instructed Spirit.
Jelly-Chan nodded as she opened her mouth wide and Spirit tossed the Crystal Stars into it. Everyone watched as Jelly-Chan close her mouth and the Crystal Stars just floated to the middle of her transparent body. Spirit then turned her attention to Endol and Merak.
"I'm surprised that a couple of the Doctor's flunkies are helping some heroes out." Said Spirit.
"Wait. You two work for the Doctor?" Asked Finn looking at Endol and Merak.
"Yeah...we work for him." Said Merak.
"It's not that bad. This is the enemy of my enemy is my friend kind of deal. We are working together to take down a common enemy." Said Endol.
"Well your boss is no friend of ours! He stole a ton of Red Flower seeds to make a dangerous army!" Yelled Finn.
"Enough talking! I just want to fight!" Bellowed Smithy slamming his hammer on the ground.
"Yes let's get on with it." Said Spirit.
Smithy charged at Finn with his hammer raised high to smash it down on the hero. Merak opened up a dimensional portal and thrusted one of the metal fists of his chair through it. A portal opened up above Finn opened up and a much larger version of Merak's fist shot out and slammed into Smithy sending him skidding back. Merak retracted his fist back through the portal and closed it. Smithy shook his head from the blow as Finn rushed at him and activated his Olympian power. Finn leaped at Smithy and sliced at him with his sword, but the metal villain blocked it with his hammer and knocked Finn back a few feet. Merak tried to launch a sneak attack with another one of his portals, but a different portal suddenly opened up next to him and Spirit's hand shot out and grabbed him by the throat! The armored teen was yanked out of his chair and through the portal. Next thing Merak knew he was right in front of Spirit.
"We won't be having anymore of your little tricks, so why don't we have a little chat. Tell everything you know about the Doctor and I might consider sparring you." Said Spirit.
Merak struggled in Spirit's grip as he cast a look to his hover chair that was simply hovering in the air. He tried to give it a mental command to come to his aid, but Spirit squeezed tight on his neck and foiled his attempt to communicate with his chair. It seemed like a bleak situation for Merak, until Huntress Wizard fired an arrow that struck Spirit's wrist making her cry out in pain and let Merak go. Merak fell to the ground and began to scramble away from Spirit. A few X-Nauts tried to attack him, but Endol came racing to his aid by firing bolts of electricity at the goons and knocked them away. Merak quickly summoned his chair and hopped on into firing some energy blasts from the chair's robotic arms before flying over to Endol.
"This situation is getting a bit too hairy for my liking." Said Merak.
"I agree. I think we should flee, while we can." Said Endol as he grabbed onto Merak's chair.
The two of them flew off, but as they flew away Huntress Wizard pulled out a tiny enchanted arrow the size of a toothpick and hurled it at the fleeing duo. The arrow struck the back of Merak's chair and became stuck. The little arrow was an enchanted with a tracking spell and it would allow Huntress Wizard to track Merak.
"All those years of playing darts finally paid off." Said Huntress Wizard as she rejoined the battle and took down some X-Nauts.
As all this was going on Mr. Dark and Dark Corvo had gotten back to their feet and were fighting Loke. Mr. Dark stood to the side as Dark Corvo rushed at Loke swinging his spear. Loke managed to avoid the attacks though his jacket did get a few rips and tears in it. Viper rushed in and fired some fireballs at the two villains forcing them to leap back. Loke looked at Viper.
"I can deal with these two. You focus on helping Finn deal with Smithy." Said Loke.
"Alright." Said Viper as he raced off to help Finn.
"That was nobel of you. Though you've only prolonged your little friend's life by a few minutes. Once we finish you off, we will go end his life, unless Smithy kills him before we do." Said Mr. Dark.
"Don't underestimate me or Viper. It's you who's about to bite it." Said Loke.
"Very doubtful. We know you're not a normal living being and that you run on a special kind of magic. You're not as fast and agile as you to be in our past battles so that means, your magic is almost out, which means you're living on borrowed time. We can easily wait you out or just simply wait, until you're slow enough to deal a deadly blow to." Said Mr. Dark.
"So you think you have me figured out? You're mostly right, but I have a trick or two up my sleeve." Said Loke.
"Oh please! You're bluffing! I'm just going to finish you off here and now!" Said Dark Corvo as he charged forward with his spear.
"Twister." Said Loke as he touched a silver ring on his lefthand.
There was a flash of light light from the ring as a tornado of wind shot out and struck a very shocked Dark Corvo. The bird villain was sent spinning and flying into the air before crashing into the water nearby. Mr Dark watched as his underling crashed into the water and while he was distracted, Loke activated a magic called Regulus that bathed his righthand in golden light. Loke launched himself at Mr. Dark and punched him in the chest with his golden fist! Mr. Dark was sent flying back and crashed to the ground as Loke's hand stopped glowing and he collapsed to his hands and knees.
"Dang...that took a lot out of me. At least I took those creeps out of the picture." Said Loke breathing hard.
"You...wretched...creature! How dare you hit me like that!" Growled Mr. Dark as he pushed himself up and glared at Loke.
"Darn. Looks like I have lost my edge. Guess my luck finally ran out." Mumbled Loke.
Mr. Dark fired bolts of lightning from his hands that struck Loke making him scream in pain.
Meanwhile, Beldam was firing icicles and Marilyn fired burst of lightning at Phoebe who flew around to avoid getting hit. Vivian stood on the sidelines watching the fight. She knew her fire magic wouldn't do any good against Phoebe, so she thought it was best to stay out of the way. Doopliss also stood on the sidelines watching all the fighting go down as he began to realize he was way out of his league.
Phoebe dodged some more attacks thrown by the Shadow Sirens and threw a few fireballs at the duo. Beldam quickly raised a ice shield in front of herself and her sister and it exploded to bits. In that moment Phoebe raced forward and punched Beldam in the face sending her crashing into Marilyn before the two of them crashed to the ground.
"Give it up you two. You can't beat me." Said Phoebe.
"Don't underestimate the Shadow Sirens!" Yelled Beldam as she and Marilyn got back up.
Beldam fired some more icicles, but instead of going for Phoebe they became imbedded in the ground around her. Phoebe looked at the icicles in confusion as Marilyn fired some more lightning bolts. The bolts were drawn to the icicles like makeshift lightning rods and they struck them and let out electric shockwaves that shocked Phoebe causing her to scream in pain and fall to her knees. Beldam cackled as she fired some icicles that struck Phoebe in the face and head knocking her to the ground.
"Yes! Victory is ours!" Cheered Beldam.
"Don't count...me out just yet." Said Phoebe as she stood up and conjured a flame sword.
Beldam fired several more icicles at Phoebe, who destroyed them with her sword. Marilyn fired some lightning at Phoebe only to have it deflected to the side. The two Shadow Sirens tried to do their little combo move, but Phoebe was ready this time. Phoebe destroyed the icicles before they hit the ground and she flung a wave of fire at the two villains knocking them to the ground.
"Vivian get over here and help you useless idiot!" Yelled Beldam glaring at her.
"But my powers wouldn't be useful in this fight." Said Vivian.
"You can still be a useful shield. Now assist us!" Said Beldam.
Vivian flew to the others and then she hurled a fireball at Beldam and Marilyn forcing the two of them to back away in alarm to avoid being hit.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Yelled Beldam.
"I quiet! I'm sick of you insulting and bullying me! Even when I accomplish something good you put me down! Enough is enough! Dipper, Mabel, Pacifica, and Wendy treated me well and way better then you ever did. I hated myself, when I helped take the Crystal Stars from them, so I'm going to make amends by helping their friends get them back." Said Vivian as she flew over to Phoebe and hovered next to her.
"You traitor!" Yelled Beldam as she and Marilyn began to hurl spells at them.
Finn was dodging hammer swings from Smithy and striking at the big villain with his sword, but despite hitting Smithy several times with the blade it did little damage to the villain's body. Viper charged onto the scene and fired several fireballs at Smithy striking him with explosions and covering Smithy in smoke. Smithy whirled through the smoke and snaked Viper with his free hand sending him flying back and made him skid a few yards back before he stopped. Viper was stunned to see that Smithy appeared to be undamaged from his attack.
"You'll have to do better then that! The flames of my forge and factory are much stronger then your little flames!" Said Smithy with a twisted grin.
Finn jumped in and delivered a powered up kick to Smithy's face making him reel back. The teen ran over to Viper and stood by his side.
"You weren't kidding. This guy is tough." Said Finn.
"Yeah looks like we're going to have to give it our all if we want to take him down." Said Viper.
"Bring it on!" Yelled Smithy.
The two teens charged at the big metal villain.
As all this fighting was going on the Typhoon was getting closer to shore. Resourceful Rat was using a scope to see the fighting going and took notice of the Crystal Stars inside Jelly-Chan. The vile rodent felt his heart beat in excitement as he pressed some buttons and the Typhoon fired several missiles at Jelly-Chan and the area everyone was fighting on. Both heroes and villains looked up in surprise at the missiles as they slammed into the area around them. Several of X-Nauts were killed and Jelly-Chan bellowed in pain as she was gravely wounded.
"Pluto. Retrieve the Crystal Stars from that blob." Ordered Resourceful Rat on a intercom.
Pluto punched Midbus away and used his powerful muscular legs to leap off the tank and onto Jelly-Chan. He then used his arms to tear into Jelly-Chan and rip the Crystal Stars out of her making the slime monster cry in pain. Pluto leaped back to the Typhoon. All the heroes and villains had sustained some damage from the missile attack and had witnessed Pluto steal the Crystal Stars. Spirit was absolutely furious by this.
"No! I will not allow this to happen! Mr. Dark. Smithy. With me. Shadow Sirens you finish off these fools." Said Spirit before she used her powers to open up some portals and she and her minions went through them to get to the Typhoon.
Jelly-Chan groaned as she oozed her way back into the water and vanished. Dark Corvo flapped out of the water and flew after the Typhoon.
Finn, Huntress Wizard, Loke, Viper, and Viper faced the Shadow Sirens, Doopliss, and the remaining X-Nauts. They all cast a look at the retreating tank. Then a portal opened up next to Finn and Gata stepped out.
"Gata?" Said Finn.
"Finn! We need your help to stop that tank! It's powered by one Crystal Star and they're about to put more into it!" Said Gata.
Finn glanced at his allies.
"Go we will handle this." Said Huntress Wizard.
Finn nodded in thanks and he and Gata went through the portal and vanished.
To be continued.
