Battle of the Worlds

Ch. 3

By: Cutegirlmayra (trying to pop out more story chapters and finish some up. This story isn't too long, so I thought making the next chapter would be good enough for today.)

Myrna summoned her meteors and knocked a few Armada blokes out cold, as Roslyn looked a bit afraid, since this was her first world outside of Wizard City.

However, she did what she could and was able to take out two or so.

Beside the young wizards, our pirates also were fighting with vigor and smiles on there faces.

Jewels summoned her ghostly rat friends and they took out some unwanted company that was closing in on her, while nearby, Maya had shot and sliced some Armada's quite brutally.

They're crew following after each pirates orders orders, and every now again, during the turn phase, the wizards would look over and watch, amazed at what they were seeing.

"We're definitely not in the wizarding world anymore…" Roslyn gulped, almost seeming like Dorothy, stepping out into Oz.

Once the Armada found that they were completely outmatched, the remaining survivors began to retreat on command, and their leader stood straight and tall.

Letting his men all run by him, he gave his last speech to the enemy, looking noble and refined, but being a destroyer at his gear-ticking core.

"How very brave of you to take on the elite Armada forces… However, you will find that we aren't nearly at our full strength this day. You,-!" he pointed directly to the wizards.

"Other worldly travelers,… Surrender your teleport device and we shall spare your lives and let you carry them out in prison. Otherwise, we shall pursue you and acquire the device in any means necessary." He withdrew his hand, in a weird robotic way, and positioned it behind his back. "You have been warned."

"Prison!? Well, there's no way out then, is there?" Jewels concluded, almost humorously. "We have already been given a strict warning, even though we're the ones winning and intimidating, not them!"

"We'll fight." Myrna said, very straightforwardly, making poor Roslyn whimper slightly at her conviction, just seeming to want to go back to Wizard City.

"Very well, you have made your declaration of war very prominent. I do hope we'll meet again, which we certainly will, as I presumably, assume." the Armada flung around, his cape following after him in a sweeping motion as he retreated with his army.

"….So, bad guys?" Myrna looked to Jewels at the corner of her eyes.

"Bad, bad, bad." Jewels shook her head and smiled to her, they both shared comical grins.

"I don't get what's so funny!" Roslyn blurted out, thrusting her arms that held her wand in them down angrily.

"This is all your fault, Myrna! You had to try and hack the system!"

"I wasn't hacking it." Myrna explained, turning to Roslyn. "I was simply curious to see if I could be a beta tester…"

"Without permission!?"

"Griffen never said the portal was a hack. I figured he'd had gotten the blue prints to make it from some higher leveled quest I haven't gotten yet." Myrna shrugged her shoulders. "But we really should contact Avery."

"Ohh~ We're criminals! Already, I'm typed and printed as an outlaw!" Roslyn moaned and placed a hand on her face, leaning down in anguish.

"Exciting, isn't it?" Jewels grinned, her head up high, looking down to her with a wicked sense of pleasure in her turmoil over that fact.

"Agreed, Shall we proceed on then?" Maya had just stabbed a downed Armada trooper, she looked to the three girls with a seriously blood-thirsty look in her face.

"Calm down, Crazy. You have all your life to take them down, let's just take it one day at a time." Jewels took a cartoony leg and thrust it up as if to step, moving her arm up to as to walk. She slowly, but forcefully, placed the foot down for a step after commenting about 'one day at a time'. She wished a hand to her friend and wizards to follow her, then patted her friend's shoulder as she walked passed her, laughing, "Let's go talk to the old, 'retired' man then, shall we?"

'''''''''''AVERY'S COURT'''''''''''''

"Yellow?!" Maya had calmed down and turned back into her cheery self again, looking through the door way and sticking her head out to see if Avery was home.

"Oh, love. Nice to see-" Avery turned around, his bird to the side of his shoulder squawked as he and his master saw Jewels walk in through the door with the oddly dressed girls.

He dashed over and immediately wrapped an arm around Jewel's shoulders.

"Jewels! What a pleasant surprise-!"

"I don't have the full map yet…" Jewels stated with her eyelids drooped, showing she wasn't going to put up with that fake act today.

Her face showed her uncaring attitude toward him, as the wizards looked to each other, confused.

They were very close with their headmaster…

But these girls seemed like hirelings.

"….Oh…" Captain Avery quickly removed his grin and his arm from around her shoulders, the act dropped, and moved back to his position beside his desk.

He looked rather disappointed and upset at that.

"Well, then. What's the big news now?" he asked, back still turned to the girls as he stroked his bird's belly, whose wings had flung down and sighed at Jewel's words as well.

"Um… hello? We're not pirates, are appearances should have been top priority to your eyes." Roslyn spat out, folding her arms and pouting at the old man after gesturing to her outfit.

"Oh, now she admits it." Maya rolled her eyes, as Roslyn glared.

"I'll have you know this is the height of fashion in my world!"

"That's a pretty low hill."

Jewels couldn't help but slap her knee and laugh her head off, clenching her stomach.

"He's an old pirate, Roslyn. Why would he care? It's not like we offered him treasure when we strode in." Myrna explained the previous statement from Rosyln, ignoring the rest, but clearly trying to hold in the laughter for her friend's sake as well.

She put a hand up on her friend's shoulder, trying to relax her.

"Not… Pirates?" The old Captain turned around, "Then… what are ye? Ye simple couldn't be…" Avery dashed to the girls again, having his eye look them over, his bird squawked in shock and flapped his wings to hold on to his leaning master's shoulder.

"We're Wizards. Could you help us get back to the right end of the spiral? It seems we must have come to a…. uh… uncompleted world or something." Myrna explained.

"By accident!" Roslyn tried to smuggle in, stepping into his frame of vision, holding a pointer finger up as 'a matter of fact'.

"Of course." Jewels teased, having the sarcasm in her voice be very obvious, making Roslyn glare at her once again.

"I'm starting to not like pirates…" she folded her arms and 'huff'd as she looked away.

"Did she ever 'start'?"

"WIZARDS?! No, no, no. you couldn't possible have come from Ambrose's wizard school, have you?" Avery looked shocked and terrified, which, if an old and well respected pirate like HIM was scared, so were the pirates who were recruited by him.

"Well… that's the thing. This guy, named Griffen, my friend, gave me this portal driver to get what he calls, 'The best experience ever.' so… here we are." she took out her portal driver, a stone that glowed slightly. "Thought it was a quest item but-.."

Avery's eyes lit up, he seemed to giggle in weird rhythms as he licked his lips and rubbed his hands together, leaning in to get a better look at the stone.

Upon closer look, he giddly did a small circled dance, lifting his legs up and down rapidly and moving his arms, before turning around and wiggling his fingers over his mustache.

"Hehe…hehe…heheheh…Ohhh~ Why yes, what a predicament..-" he reached for the stone, but Myrna moved it away from him.

"…-your in." he frowned at her distrust, his bird lowering his head and wings that were once raised up in excitement.

"Good instincts." whispered Maya, "If Avery's interested in it, it must be valuable."

"I've made careless decisions before,… based on being to trusting and kind hearted. You'll learn the same soon, too. No matter what world you're in, the lessons are the same." Myrna explained and put the stone away.

"Hmm, you'd make a good pirate." Avery dusted his shirt off, and stood up straighter, seeing he wasn't going to swipe this rare stone that easily from her.

"Hmph, well." He twitched his nose slightly, as if offended she didn't trust him, but her instincts weren't bad at all…

"I should have you know that that Stone could kill us all." muttered the Captain as he dusted off his arms next and tugged his pirate coat forward and then down to straighten it up and look more proper for this topic.

Plus, he was just very excited over the little trinket in his office, and tried to calm himself down.

"It's not a 'Portal driver'… it's a 'Spiral Stone'. Dang Ambrose never let me touch the darn thing either…" he muttered off to the side to himself for a moment, before returning to acquire the attention of the girls again.

"It has special properties… Can take you anywhere and every where the spiral can offer, however…" his voice grew grave as he stood himself tall and walked in front of the four girls, almost frightening them at his stature.

"If the Armada ever found out you have it… this could get… difficult…. For anyone living in the spiral." He stated this with such a dark tone… looming over them, they slightly leaned back and more closer to one another, looking in each other's eyes, knowing…

"…..Hehe, funny you should mention that…." Jewels looked nervous as she had a sweat drop drip down the side of her face.

She moved her head to the side, and her hand held her neck as she tried to make the truth come out as simple as possible. "You see…" she moved her arm down.

"…..No…." Avery shook his head slowly.

"….Yes?…"

"No, I mean… No…" he said the same dreadful expression of the word again, emphasizing how he really didn't want to hear that.

Maya gulped and looked to Jewel.

"….but the yes still resides…captain." she smiled a scared and sorry smile that made the whole room fill with awkward silence.

"THE ARMADA KNOWS?!"

"Maybe..?!" Jewel was blown back by the Captain's oversize head screaming at her as the girls all moved behind the door, their eyes shut and letting the gust of wind move their hair back, making it messy for a moment.

"Oh, this is bad. This is awful! If the Armada get their hands on the Spiral stone…. Ohhhh, the inhumanity… no pun intended." he put his hand to his face and walked solemnly back to his desk, placing a disturbed hand on it and leaning on it in disbelief.

He was being quite dramatic, actually, and Jewels pictured him in her head with a spotlight on him and him and his bird holding an arm over their eyes, in complete despair.

She chuckled slightly at her mind's image, as Maya nudged her to quit it, and that this looked serious enough to not make fun of.

Which… was her usual style.

"W-what… what would they do?" Roslyn spoke up, moving back into the room.

"What….would they do?" Avery turned around, his face grave with deep hatred.

"They've already destroyed countless numbers of our realms. What do you think… they'd do if they could get their clocky hands on yours?"

The girls all panicked within themselves, picturing the whole spiral and the clock work fiends hanging over it with their guns ready to fire down on it's beautiful masterpiece of a full-on universe…

"What do we do!? We have to save the spiral! We have to contact Ambrose!" Roslyn began to freak out.

"Calm down, the one lesson you need to learn to be a higher level is to think things through. There has to be a way to warn everyone and fight against them." Myrna spoke calmly, but you could see her hands slightly shake, due to her staff being so large as she held it out horizontally towards her.

"Calm down? Ha! What a luxury…." Captain Avery turned around and then adjusted his hat, "No… we need a miracle. More than magic can conjure and more than stealing can obtain…. We need a battle of the worlds." Avery concluded.

"Wizards, you said you had a friend who acquired this?"

"Y-yes?"

"WHERE?"

"How should we know?"

"Find your friend…he may be the clue we need to prevent this Armageddon."

"Haha… Armageddon… ARMADAgeddon! Hahahahaha!…whooo!…haha…ha…eh-hem." Jewels usual humor didn't hit its mark today.

Myrna began to phone her friend, who was apparently still within reach.

Roslyn contacted Ambrose while Myrna gasped and made the whole room shake for a moment.

"W-what?! What is it? What's wrong?" asked Maya, turning around with a fearful look on her face towards the girl.

"Is he dead?!" feared Roslyn her hands coming straight up to the sides of her face.

"No, No! He's not dead! He's… He's…" Myrna showed the gang the picture as they all then let out a gasp at his profile page.

"He's a Pirate too!"

The picture had a boy with pirate clothing in the stopped motion of waving.

"But he was a wizard the last time I saw him! What does this mean?" Myrna's eyes shook in utter confusion, not able to grasp what was happening here.

She turned her head back and forth, unsure of herself and her reality now.

"And once upon a time you told your friend thereto calm down in the face of utter oblivion." Jewels pointed to Roslyn.

"Shut up, Jewels! Stop trying so hard!" Maya finally snapped and then looked back to the screen.

"….Humph." Jewels rolled her eyes and then folded her arms with a pout of defeat. "If the world can't laugh anymore, then it really is the end."

"Could it be… he's jumped sides?" pondered Avery, leaning up from staring at the picture and then stroking his beardy chin.

"….I do remember him.. as I usually remember all the pirates that I recruit for my cause- I mean the spiral's…ha… cause." he quickly tried to clear up his mishap, hoping the group wouldn't realize he wanted the Armada out of the skies so he could plunder it again if he felt like it.

Retirement was such a loose and vague concept…

"Ehm-hm. Well, let's find you're… Friend then… and see what other sorts of knowledge.. He may know…"

(What will our friends do!? The Armada is planning to take over the spiral with their theory of 'peace' which is Clock work fiend for - DESTRUCTION! And who is this mysterious Griffen? The pirate AND wizard? Stay tuned! For more, Wizard/Pirate101 battle of the worlds!)