The ringing of the bell, the final toll of the day, students pouring out of the main doors laughing and shouting along the sidewalks. Off to the left, a big tree, it being here where Derrick stood with his back against the tree and his arms crossed. Soon to walk up, Dilan and Sam.
“Hey Derrick!”
“Oh, Sam, Dilan, hey.”
“You ready for this man?”
“Of course Dilan, of course.”
“Good to hear that broseph!”
Approaching behind Monte and Amber, stopping behind with the others turning around.
“So we all know the plan then right?”
“Yeah, I already told Flavo what we were planning so he should have his informants pass off the information. I also reserved the gym for after school today so we could prepare.”
“Excellent. Then we’re about ready to begin this then. The Gremlin King will probably catch wind and come to sabotage our work After that we can capture him and put this to an end.”
“We need to be careful though don’t forget. The Gremlin King is a dangerous trickster that nearly severely injured Sam and myself.”
“Don’t worry, we’ve got precautions in place for that. You’ll see.”
“Hmm… alright. So we move tonight then.”
“Right.”
“So how many more of these guys are there that work for Zaraka?”
“According to Ms. Galakin, there are about three more that slipped out of the portal with him including the Gremlin King. So after tonight there will only be three major threats left.”
“Well then see you guys later.”
“Right.”
“Mmm.”
The five, nodding to each other, their steps echoing apart from one another going in separate directions heading home though unknown to them the fact that they were not the only ones present as two in suits stepped out of some bushes, “Did you hear that?”
“Yeah, those kids are up to something.”
“I wonder what.”
“Well then we just have to wait and see, heh heh. I can smell that promotion already!”
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The clock spinning, the hours flying: four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,eleven, eleven fifty-five. The gym, dark with lights off, not a soul to be seen though five would be present, five behind the bleachers.
“Hey, isn’t it about time?”
“Yeah, don’t worry about it Amber. Flavo did his job now we have to do ours.”
“I’m just asking because I hate this boring waiting around thing.”
“No need to worry… he’ll be here.”
A metal door clanging, creaking open, then footsteps, all five turning their heads, “It’s time, get ready!”
Ducking down, looking at the main doors, now they await… and wait… and wait… seconds to minutes going by. Four after twelve and nothing, sweat forming on Derrick’s head from the stress of waiting, Dilan’s eyes shaking with sleep deprivation, Amber’s bored gaze, Monte and Sam looking serious forward… and then, the door handles would crack and turn visibly, all five now on guard with them flying open.
Inside walked a figure… though a rather small one about two feet tall, its ears long and pointed, eyes taking half the face, scales covering all but its white underbelly and then snake eyes glimmering in the dark with a crown atop its head.
“Hyuck hyuck hyuck, this is it, this is where I’ll finally make my mark!”
Stepping in the little guy would look around, eyes glowing though shock quick to flood them, “What the what, where’s the stupid device!?”
The lights popping on, an audible bang, his head snapping right to then see the five DreamScapers.
“So we finally meet, Gremlin King.”
“Gah, you’re those rats I tried to get rid of!”
“That’s right, friends of the girl here whom you put in the hospital. It’s over Gremlin King, for you and your master!”
“Master? What you talking about fool? I am my own master!”
“You don’t work for Zaraka?”
“Lordy lordy no sir no, that guy has a donut for a brain, why would I work for him? I just want to sabotage you ONUS guys cuz I want the bounty for it.”
“Hmph… then you aren’t worth our time.”
“What’s that!?”
“FREEZE!!!”
The doors slamming open, two men in suits rushing in quickly, “You’re all under arrest for- wha?”
Both looking forward, seeing Gremlin King as he whipped around, gasping, “GAH, what the what!?”
“Is that… a Gremlin?”
“Don’t know?”
“Oh great, those FBI guys again.”
“GAH!!!”
“HRGH-”
Both then dropping to their knees and collapsing forward, grunting, the third agent standing behind with his shades exhibiting a red glow looking forward, black aura exploding around him.
“Hey hey hey who are these dipsticks!? Who is that guy!? What’s going on!?!??!?!”
The five DreamScapers quickly standing ready, now looking forward, Monte and Dilan grunting with anticipation, the rest sighing.
“Looks like we found Zaraka’s minion.”
A high pitched roar leaving the mouth of the bald agent and then a blinding flash of orange electricity surging out, followed swiftly by an explosion of compressed air and then the collapse of several ceiling panels.
“Whoa, this guy has some serious power!”
“I don’t know what ya’ll and he are but imma have my dream realized. Come at me bro!”
“Sam, you take that Gremlin guy, your powers are better suited for it. We’ll handle this other guy. Let’s move!” Derrick quickly barked, rushing left and curving around going towards the agent, followed swiftly by the others, leaving Sam to turn and face the Gremlin King.
“What I get one and he gets four?! Boy how does that work!?”
“Because I’m all it’ll take to take you down.”
“I like your spunk kiddo, let’s go, I’ll cause you so much bad luck they’ll put ya back in for another week!”
“I need to get you back for that don’t I? Come on then!”
-
Rushing ahead and with a leap up, Derrick’s eyes glistening with courage, he’d launch himself down through the air spin kicking vertically, “Hyaaaa!!!!!!” The Agent’s hand going up and then a clap, the foot slamming atop the hand which then gripped hard. A swing back and a toss forward, Derrick being launched right at Dilan crashing into him, Amber moving up in front, her scream flying out super sonic level at the Agent.
Monte with a kick off the ground sent soaring into the air, spinning towards the ceiling, a small clang and his form bolting down at the Agent, doing the same spin kick as Derrick while Amber’s scream would impact as a diversion. Much to his surprise, the sound of another clap, the Agent’s left fist shot into his gut, Monte flying off and crashing into the bleachers.
“Hmph...”
Derrick standing, Dilan beside holding his side.
“Man, this guy is strong. He took a kick from me and withstood Amber’s scream!”
“Yes but that’s not all, HAVE IT, HRRRRRRGHYAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Orange lightning blasting from the Agent’s palms would slam into Dilan, Amber, and Derrick, sparks flying followed by smaller scale explosions, the three being flung back by the blasts, “GYAH!!!” “NUAAAA-” “AEYIII!!” all crashing down back behind where they originally stood, laying to then stand, their eyes all wide and a pained expression on all of them.
“Man, this guy is something else!”
In a single blink, sparks would fly from the Agent’s palm and then blow outward, the Agent flying back and crashing right into a wall, groaning, Derrick’s eyes narrowing, “Hey, what just happened Derrick?!”
“I-I don’t know. That’s where I kicked him.”
“Hey, maybe he has a power to negate kinetic force though maybe it isn’t perfect!”
“Hmm… Dilan might be right actually the more I think about it. Which means… just keep hammering away at him guys, let’s go!!”
Charging forward, they’d quickly reenter the battle, Amber firing off yet another scream.
-
A collapsing floor panel, then a ceiling panel, benches picked up and flung only to be shot down by the panels, Sam bolting away from the bleachers as they in turn came crumbling down, clanging along the ground with the Gremlin King leaping high into the air, landing on his feet laughing, hand waving with another set of panels dropping over Sam’s head.
“Come now young one, is that the best you can do!?”
“Far from creep!”
Her eyes glowing red, the ceiling panels above her head glowing red, stopped in place without a single bit of movement, leaving the Gremlin King standing dumbfounded, “How even!?”
“It’s your turn to scream buddy!”
“I think not.”
With the snap of his fingers, a blast blew right below Sam, sending panel flying everywhere, a gas line far below in the basement having just ruptured with fire flying up.
“Sam!” came the shout of Derrick, locked in combat yet with the Agent, Gremlin King slowly walking up to Sam, pinned below rubble, surprised with a gasp.
“My game child, now take thi-”
SLAP!!!
“NYAR-”
A poof of purple dust, a book slamming shut right where the Gremlin King stood, the dust clearing with sparkles to quickly show standing in place, Stark.
“Stark?!”
“Sam… you looked like you needed a hand there.”
Her eyes widening a bit then a smile forming, her head shaking, “Heh… I had that actually, just wanted to wait for him to get closer,” she in turn murmured, the rubble flying off of her quickly with a light blue glow, Stark holding a hand out and quick to help her up.
“So… this is what you’ve been up to then.”
“Yeah, I-I couldn’t-”
“It’s fine Sam.”
CRASH!!
Crashing through the bleachers and into the wall, the Agent groaning slopping down with his head hanging out cold, breathing a touch heavily Monte, coughing, “How’s that!?”
A smile from Sam with her glance to Stark, nodding, “It’s done then… thank you Stark. I have a lot to tell you.”
-
Sirens blaring, men in yellow suits with hard hats running all over dragging hoses, shooting water into the fires. Standing off to the side as fire fighters continued to enter, men in suits dragging the Agent away and another carrying the book found where Gremlin King last was, Damerick standing with the DreamScapers, “I must say that was a reckless plan to lure Gremlin King out here of all places, it’ll cost us a fortune to keep the emergency service people quiet. Though I will say, trapping him in that book was genius.”
“Thanks but it wasn’t us, it was Stark. I guess he just knew that Gremlins could be trapped in them.”
“So what’s going to happen to Stark?”
“We’ve already taken him to have his memory wiped, he won’t remember any of this. As for those two FBI agents you found, we delivered them to a hospital. They don’t remember a thing I guess so, we’ll leave that alone for now. Great work taking down Slayer Master though, who knew Zaraka would send him as an extra FBI agent.”
“Slayer Master?”
“One of Zaraka’s stealth guys. He is able to absorb impacts though can be overloaded as you discovered.”
“So… what’s next Damerick? Like, what comes next?”
“Well… Zaraka is clearly interested in taking you guys out and now he has just three cards to play. Two of his own and or finding a new helper.”
“Any idea who his last two players are or where he could get help?”
“No, I am not aware Sam but I’m sure in time you kids will find out. You should all run home, you’ve had a long night. Leave the cleanup work to us.”
With nods, the five would turn, walking out of the building beyond the doors, continuing towards the sidewalk, all relieved that it was done, all but one, Sam’s eyes gazing upon the moon, glistening, wondering, sighing…
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