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Chapter 476 Treasure Theft

By: Major144

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. This is just a story for fun.

As some of the heroes were reunited and trading tales of their adventures, two teams of villains were making their way through Vault of Valefar to help themselves to some special treasure. One team was made up of Magica, Morbidia, Gateaux, Natasha, General Sheep, General Pig, and Treasure Knight. The second group was made of Crump in his Magnus von Grapple mech suit and a few dozen X-Nauts.

Each group was after a particular item in Valefar's treasure horde. Magica's group was after a map Valefar had that gave the location of several powerful items buried or hidden in the Underground, including Horror's Hand. Crump and his group were after a Crystal Star that was believed to be in the treasure horde. Both groups had faced off against a elemental golem and defeated it before heading deeper into the vault.

Valefar watched the progress of the two groups through a crystal ball and smirked a little before he waved his hand over the crystal ball to cast a spell.

"Let's see how you like this payday, when the money attacks you!" Laughed Valefar.

All throughout the vault various treasures were struck by magic and transformed into monsters. Hundreds of pennies grew to the size of bowling balls as they grew a pair of fleshy bat wings with fang filled mouths with a singular eye in the center. These creatures were called Penny Bats. A few dozen gems were zapped and they turned into human sized green Orc-like creatures called Gnorcs. The Gnorcs wore brown pants and helmets and carried swords and shields. Piles of gold were struck by magic and turned into large golden humanoids called Golden Golems.

(Author's Note: Penny Bats are from Suits Absolute Power and Gnorcs are from Spyro.)

The Penny Bats, Gnorcs, and Golden Golems went after the intruders. General Sheep fired his pistol at the onrushing swarm of Penny Bats taking several of them out and General Pig swung his sword taking more of them out, before Magica used her magic to conjure a dome shield around her and the rest of the group. The Gnorcs and the Golden Golems then arrived on the scene and began to make their way towards Magica and her group.

"Ignore the chump change, here comes the big money!" Said Treasure Knight as he pointed his cannon at the advancing enemies.

Magica lifted a part of the shield up allowing Treasure Knight to fire his cannon and anchor. The anchor flew through the air and plowed through a group of Gnorcs and scattered them to the ground before slamming into a Golden Golem making it stumble back. General Sheep shot a few of the downed Gnorcs with his pistol and Morbidia and Gateaux shot a few other Gnorcs with some magic blasts. The Gnorcs exploded into light and turned back into gems. General Sheep helped himself to the gems as General Pig charged forward deflecting some sword swings from some Gnorcs, before he stabbed the creatures, killing them, and turned them back into gems.

"Now this is my kind of adventure!" Cheered General Pig as he pocketed the gems.

Magica summoned a swarm of shadows to attack the Penny Bats, killing several of the creatures and turned them back into pennies. Treasure Knight was using his anchor and chain as a flail on a Golden Golem. The anchor slammed into the Golden Golem chipping a bit of gold off and making the monster stumble back. The Golden Golem swung a fist at Treasure Knight making him jump back. Treasure Knight picked up a bit of gold and loaded it into his cannon and pointed at the Golden Golem.

"Return to sender!" Shouted Treasure Knight as he fired the gold.

The gold flew through the air and destroyed the head of the Golden Golem. The Golden Golem collapsed to the ground in a pile of gold. Treasure Knight loaded up some more gold into his cannon and shot a couple of Golden Golems and destroyed them.

"Keep going. We're getting closer to the main treasure horde." Said Magica to the others in her group.

Treasure Knight, General Sheep, and General Pig helped themselves to some gold and gems before they moved on with the rest of their group.

Elsewhere, Crump and his troops were fighting against the same monsters. Crump smashed his way through the monsters with his mech with some ease, though the monsters did prove to be a bit more trouble for the X-Naut troops. A couple were swarmed and completely devoured by Penny Bats, another two were stabbed by Gnorcs, and two were crushed by a Golden Golem. Crump smashed through the monsters and urged his forces onwards.

After some more fighting both groups eventually made it to the main treasure chamber. Mounds of treasure covered the room and in the center of it all was Valefar sitting on a golden throne looking pleased and confident.

"Welcome travelers to my vault. I am Valefar and I must say I'm impressed with your skills. Not many people ever find where my vault is and even fewer reach my treasure chamber. Take it all in, because the price of seeing my horde will be your lives!" Said Valefar.

Crump and his forces exchanged looks before he glanced over at Magica's group, who looked back at him. He had no idea what the other group was after and he didn't care. Crump's main focus was locating and getting the Crystal Star. He searched the room and saw a silver Crystal Star sitting on a pedestal near the throne. Crump eyed the demon and decided to try a bit of diplomacy with him.

"I am Lord Crump of the X-Nauts and a ally of the Shadow Queen's daughters. I wish for the Crystal Star in your possession, so it can be used to free the Shadow Queen. The people I represent will gladly pay you whatever you want for the Crystal Star."

Valefar looked at Crump and then he spoke.

"I know who you are and who you represent. I also know about the Shadow Queen and though your offer sounds good, I'm going to have to decline."

"Why?" Demanded Crump.

"Because the Shadow Queen is a destructive being who will just destroy everything in the multiverse including the treasure. Treasure I wish to one day obtain and add to my horde, so you see the return of the Shadow Queen is just bad for business." Said Valefar as he stood up.

"Then I guess we'll use force then!" Yelled Crump as he fired one of his mech's rocket fist at Valefar.

Valefar flew out of the way and shot out some spells to create some Penny Bats, Gnorcs, and Golden Golems to attack the intruders. The demon hovered in the air as his underlings fought both Crump and Magica's groups. As everyone one was fighting Natasha the tiny spider snuck around unnoticed looking for the map. Natasha crept over to one side of the chamber that seemed to be reserved for works of art and took notice of a scroll sitting on a table. She climbed onto the table and opened up the scroll to look at it. It appeared to be a map of the Underground with various pictures and inscriptions on. Exactly what Magica and the others were looking for!

Natasha rolled the scroll up, picked it up, and went racing over to Morbidia. The witch saw her pet spider racing over to her and picked her up.

"Good girl Natasha." Said Morbidia.

Valefar took notice of this and immediately became enraged.

"That's my map!" Roared Valefar as he grew to thirty feet tall and rushed at Morbidia and Natasha and reached out towards them.

Magica quickly got in front of her allies and conjured up a shield to block Valefar's hands. Gateaux fired magic bolts, General Sheep fired his pistol, and Treasure Knight fired some gold at Valefar striking the demon making him stumble back and some coins to drop from his rib cage. As all this was happening Crump shot a rocket fist at the Crystal Star and grabbed it. The fist returned to Crump and he and his remaining troops took off running with Penny Bats and Gnorcs chasing after them.

"Don't let them escape!" Yelled Valefar to his underlings as they chased after the thieves.

The demon turned his attention back to Magica, but as he did this, General Pig leaped in the air off a high pile of treasure and sliced the demon across his right cheek making him yell in pain and stumble back. Magica, Morbidia, and Gateaux fired a combined magical blast that slammed into Valefar and knocked him to the ground. Magica then summoned a hundred shadows to come in, pick up some treasure, and then drop it on Valefar!

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Yelled Valefar as he was buried underneath his own treasure.

"Come. We got what we came for. That won't hold him for too long." Said Magica to her allies.

Treasure Knight, General Sheep, and General Pig grabbed some more gold and gems before they and the others took off running back to their raft.

Crump and his troops reached the X-Ship and quickly took off with the Crystal Star.

Magica and her team reached the raft and they quickly took off as well. Magica took the map and examined.

"There appear to be some protection hexes placed on the map to keep people from properly from reading it and finding the location of all the treasures. It'll take a bit of time, but I can remove all the hexes." Said Magica to her allies.

"We should regroup with Jordan and the others." Said Treasure Knight.

The others agreed and they made their way to the mainland.

Back in the vault, a furious Valefar burst from the treasure that had buried him as he shrank back to his normal size. Valefar was both embarrassed and angry at the theft. He had been too confident and he lost both the Crystal Star and the map.

"No one steals from me and lives long enough to tell the tale! I will hunt those thieves down and make them pay!" Vowed Valefar as he clenched his fists in rage.

To be continued.