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Chapter 4

Tiger Reibeck, a silver furred rabbit, with black stripes, brought Skyrider to the infirmary-place, and put him into a machine. a green glass tube came up, swallowing up Skyrider, so that he floated inside, in stasis. Tiger started the scan, and then left to train some.

An excerpt from Skyrider's journal:

3/6/19XX (Writing is smeared, and is unreadable)
I woke up in a tube thing after the training. I managed to attract the attention of a passing worker, and he let me out.
Right now the airship is nearing a large forest with patches of field. these patches together form a wiggly X in the forest, only viewable at about 500 feet up in the air. At this time, Ninja is piloting. He is carefully flying down into the very center of the X. As I speak, we should be landing. (After this, the writing's rough, and not very good) I wonder what happened to me during training? I have no bruises. I must stop now, as I am wanted on deck.

The reason why Skyrider was wanted on deck, was because some hedgehog/human thing just went hurtling down from space, wearing huge mechanical boots, and crashlanded near them. Since they didn't want to reveal the lab's place, they decided to teleport in. Grath took the controls, and pressed the green button labeled 'Do not touch', and the ship started hurtling along at speeds of over 300 miles per hour. Grath then turned all power to the engines, speeding the ship up to insane speeds until suddenly the landscape became just swirling colors. After ten minutes, a loud, sharp, 'Crack' was heard, and the swirly colors dissapeared, and the ship was in a large metal room. People unstrapped themselves from the seats, and shakily got out. At this time, the hedgehog/human creature came out, suprisingly, of the lower decks.
Grath says 'A stowaway? Acid. Him. Fire.' And Acid went off to a portion of the lab with ultra-strong walls for sparring (It would take quite a few atom bombs to CRACK the wall. Unfortuanatly, this material is unmoldable, as it would take a constant stream of atom bombs to forge it.), locked him in, and then set off his Atom-bomb strength fire in the room. The hedgehog somehow didn't get scratched even, and burst through the door. Then, a black swirl appeared out of the air. A dark figure, human, with brown hair, did some kind of spell, and banished the cheater, then disspearing.
Grath took everybody to the main hall, where Sherry was waiting. 'May I suggest we all train a bit? Afterwards, it's time to head toward Devan's base!'
'What training do you want?' asked Grath. The answers were:
Sherry said 'Magic training!',
Ninja said 'Target practice!',
Blacksheep said 'Target practice' aswell,
Skyrider chose 'Unarmed combat',
Tiger Reibeck chose not to train,
Gasp, and Acid, chose 'All around training'.
Grath set up the machines for each person.
Sherry was forced to watch turtles 'killing' some simulated animals, which REALLY got her angry.
Sherry's eyes started to glow blue, her hair blew as if in high wind, and the cross necklace started floating. Then, she made a throwing motion at the turtles, and immediatly a large wave shot away from her, smashing the turtles against the wall, breaking the backs and shattering their shells. Then, Sherry's rage-based power faded away. She was amazed at the wreckage she had managed to cause. Grath's voice came to her: Focus your face. Think of the innocents killed by the turtles. Concentrate the anger, then release it in full! That's the secret to magic! CONCENTRATE YOUR ANGER. Again, she saw some turtles. This time, she needed no extra pushing, and slammed her hand to the ground, then, as if a river flowing up from underground, water blasted out at insane force, slamming the entire group into the ceiling. Sherry's rage had unlocked to her the secret of magic.
Ninja and Blacksheep started target practice. Ninja was pegging bullseyes right away with ninja stars, then Blacksheep would shoot out the entire center hole cleanly with one shot. They obviously needed no training.
Skyrider was kicking and punching, killing on first hit. He too needed no training.
Spaztic, A.k.A Gasp, and Acid, were also not needing much training.
Everyone but Spaztic/Acid came out, then they heard maniacal laughter from Acid, unconsious (Conciousness being the part training) and Grath yelled 'HIT THE DECK!' and they all dived down. Then, Acid blew up his training simulator. 'Huhwha?' said acid as he woke up in the smoking wreckage. Spaztic saw acid's smoking 'corpse' hit the ground after he blew up the bomb, and quickly got out to see how Acid was doing. Fortuanatly, Acid was fine, just a bit burnt. Acid said 'Anyone up for some coffee?' and everyone laughed, recalling the episode with Acid's exploding coffee maker before.

Then, Grath headed towards the hangar bay, with the rest following after him.
As they reached the hangar bay, he stopped... 'Wait, Didn't devan look a bit... strange?' said Grath. 'Yes, he did.' said Ninja. Grath brought up an image of the old devan on the computer, and then said 'Oh. My. God. He's got IT. Quick! we must head to tubeelectric!' They all went into the hangar bay, and headed towards the battleship. 'Okay. Ninja, Tiger, Acid, and Blacksheep, you man the guns. Sherry, you keep an eye on the radar for enemies. Skyrider, you get co-pilot. Gasp, you prepare the sub-ships.' said Grath. They all went to their positions. Gasp returned to the cockpit after preparing the fighter ships. 'Okay. Let's go!' said Grath, and took off. (The battleship looks like a cross between the millenium falcon and a X-wing, FYI.) They headed for Tubeelectric, finding a few un-manned fighters, not much trouble since the CMP beam(Concentrated EMP.) shot them out of the sky with ease, then zapped with machinegun turrets, or blown up by the missile racks. (Acid manning the CMP, Blacksheep with the machinegun, and Ninja/Tiger with the missile racks.)
They made it to Tubeelectric, and headed into the planet through a very hidden airvent, using the fighter ships that Gasp readied. These are one-man flyers, green, grey, and brown, with six guns (a pair of each: Lazer cannon, flamethrower (Flame about 30X the heat and size of a blowtorch flame, little ammo) and missile launcher) and found a large vault, with a locked door. Grath was in the lead, and blowtorched the door open.
Behind the door was an airlock. Everyone flew into the airlock, it filled with air, and they got out of the ships. Then, they went in. Inside, on a pedestal, a black pistol lay.
As they approached, a voice came out of nowhere: 'You try to obtain Thanatos, the onyx pistol? Your bodies will rest in pieces when I am done with you.' Then, a black figure appeared, holding a katana in each of it's 6 arms. The creature also had four legs. Ninja pulled his energy sword from the air, Grath formed an energy sword, Gasp pulled out his circular saw blade, and formed a katana from leaves. Sherry started preparing some water magic, Blacksheep pulled out her raspberry jello gun, Acid prepared some fire spells, Tiger pulled out his katana, and Skyrider began teleporting around the room. the creature, Thanatos, started spinning around, whirling his blades. Ninja leapt to attack, slashing from the side. Grath performed an uppercut, though both slashes were deflected.
Acid cast Fire on Gasp's sawblade, which he hurled like a boomerang at Thanatos. The sawblade sliced one swordblade off, Thanatos discarding the hilt. Blacksheep shot at Thanatos' 2nd arm down on the left, encasing it in jello, immobilizing it. Tiger waited, then slashed at Thanatos, taking off an arm, though it didn't bleed. Skyrider kicked Thanatos in the back, distracting him long enough for Grath and Ninja to get in some slashes, both of them managing to hack off a single arm. (Two arms off so far.) Gasp sliced at Thanatos with his katana, slicing off another swordblade. (3 swords, four arms, left.) Now, Ninja put away his sword, and pinned one of Thanatos' arms to the wall using shurikens. (Ninja throwing star, four points.) Thanatos yelled: 'NOW YOU DIE.' and ripped away from the wall. Grath said 'Everyone back off!' and dematerialized his sword. Then he formed a katana in each hand, and said 'You. Duel.' pointing at Thanatos.
Thanatos said 'We shall go all-out. Your Caroc cards, I get to use my full power.' 'Allright.' said Grath. Thanatos began changing, turning from a black monster with six arms, into a cloaked figure. He pulled the hood back, revealing a skull, with blue eyes. (Skeletal body) Then formed a scythe, the blade looking a bit blue. 'So it is you, Death.' 'Yes. It is me' said Death.

Next chapter: THE DRAMATIC FIGHTSCENE!