CHAPTER 1: THE SLIZERS (PART 6)
Kraazyk thought for a moment.
“Tell me,” Kraazyk finally said to Turbo, “what kind of tech is there you wouldn’t want Blaster to get his hands on?”
“Well,” Turbo said hesitantly, a quick glance passing between him and Ski, “There’s power stations and medical supplies.”
“Your region may have more of those things,” Torch interjected, clearly having missed the look between Ski and Turbo, “but all of us have them.”
“And what exactly does your Fire region have in abundance besides hot air?” Ski taunted.
“It has geothermal power.”
“SCUBA!” Torch shouted angrily. “That information is classified!”
“Well based on the potential end of the world scenario I thought it should be mentioned.”
“Geothermal power?” Turbo asked, his technical mind immediately intrigued. “Please explain.”
“Gah, fine.” Torch said exasperatedly. “A few scientists from the Water Planet had a prototype design for a new power source so they wouldn’t depend on so much on the Energy Planet. However, they realized that their planet offered too little in the way of geothermic power to make sufficient progress. Long story short, they worked it out with the Fire Planet to have the prototype shipped here for testing on the border of the Fire and Water regions.”
“And the reason you feel it so necessary to hide this from us would be what exactly?” Ski inquired.
“Because of how far down we had to drill for it to function properly.” Scuba muttered.
“Och, please tell me ye dinnae dig past the limit.” Millenium said, his voice betraying just how worried this news made him. “Thaere’s a good reason that limit was put thaere.”
“Another question,” Kraazyk finally said to Ski and Turbo after Torch and Scuba awkwardly shuffled their feet and Millenium shook his head in disappointment, “what tech are you hiding in the City that requires a significant amount of power to operate?”
“Um…” Turbo stuttered. “W-we, uh…”
“We have a ‘home made’ Subspace transmitter.” Ski admitted. “It’s not finished, but it has all the necessary parts.”
“Faer the love of- What waere ye thinkin’?” Millenium said harshly. “Did ya at least quantum lock the thing?”
“That’s what we were working on when the meteor impacted.” Turbo said. “We didn’t finish the process.”
“Bloody paerfect.” Millenium grumbled.
“In that case I suggest we split up.” Kraazyk said. “I don’t claim to have an exceptional amount of knowledge on these sciences, but I suspect if we manage to keep them from gaining control of at least one of the two things they won’t be able to use them together.”
“Agreed!” Torch said. “Scuba and I will head to the power plant.”
“As much as I know it will annoy you,” Scuba said, “we both know that Ski’s help would be invaluable in case we need to completely shut it down.”
“Reighty then,” Millenium grunted as he pulled himself to his feet. “Taerbo the Makoota and I will make our way tae the Transmitter. Thaere’s no time tae lose.”
As the groups went their separate ways, tired but determined, not one of them took any note of the crack in the side of the meteor that was slowly making its way up the side. By the time they were all too far away to notice, the crack had reached the top. Then, at the base of the crack the rock face exploded outward, revealing a small door into some sort of vessel inside. The door opened at an awkward angle and an ancient Slizer came tumbling out. Getting to his feet, he dusted himself off and chuckled as he looked at his surroundings.
"Well," the old Slizer whispered to himself as the last rays of sunlight gave in to the night’s shadowy embrace, "it’s about time."
Meanwhile, Kraazyk’s group had made considerable progress with Turbo riding with Millenium on the latter’s motorbike and Kraazyk running along and teleporting to keep up.
“How far is it?” Kraazyk inquired after 3 hours of traveling.
“About another 1200 miles.” Turbo replied. “I’m very impressed with this vehicle’s capabilities. Despite any terrain we’ve managed to maintain a constant speed of-”
The rest of his sentence was cut off by an explosion that knocked the bike off course and sent Turbo hurtling in the other direction. Millenium managed to make it to an off ramp and skid to a halt, however Turbo was not so fortunate and he went tumbling off the side of the bridge.
Kraazyk spun around and saw Blaster on a balcony of a nearby building. Smirking, Blaster tore into a power cable running along side the building and absorbed the energy, duplicating himself. Charging toward them, Kraazyk was caught off guard by a barrage from three other Blasters emerging from an alley behind him.
“Oh good,” Kraazyk grumbled. Teleporting above to the group of three he drew his Blade and dispatched them with swift stroke. Sheathing his blade, he phased through the ground and shapeshifted climbing claws, avoiding several disks thrown by the Blasters on the balcony in the process. Making his way through the pillars beneath the bridge, Kraazyk saw Turbo below, attempting to fend off his own Blaster.
“Turbo!” Kraazyk yelled as he readied a shattering blast. “Duck!”
Turbo threw a disk creating a ramp to launch himself off of and flew over the head of the Blaster attacking him as Kraazyk’s blast toppled one of the support pillars down onto the Blaster, crushing him.
“Not exactly ducking, but perhaps that’s asking to much of a toy car.” Kraazyk said to himself as he phased back through the floor to see how Millenium was doing.
Millenium had merged with his cycle into his larger mode again and was standing above one stunned Blaster and had another in a headlock and as a shield against two more Blasters that were advancing on him.
“Millenium,” Kraazyk said telepathically. “Hit me.”
Dropping the Blaster, Millenium spun around and hit Kraazyk dead on with two Disks. Using Blaster’s power through the Blade of Fate, Kraazyk was split into 3 separate entities, all of them aware of all the knowledge of Kraazyk and all aware of eachother’s knowledge. And all aware of who’s the Alpha. They all wielded a visually identical Blade, but only one wielded it’s power.
“Oh,” One of the Kraazyk duplicates said.
“This will be,” The other duplicate continued.
“Fun.” Kraazyk himself finished.
The Blasters didn’t stand a chance. Three Kraazyks descended upon them and tore them to shreds within moments, until only one remained, broken and battered with both arms and legs missing and held by the neck in the air by Kraazyk, who merged back into one being.
“Where is the original?” Kraazyk hissed.
“You can’t threaten me.” The Blaster growled after several moments of feeble struggling. “I’m not even real.”
“I know.” Kraazyk sighed. “I bet I could squeeze it out of you given time, but there is an easier way.”
Delving into the Blaster’s mind, Kraazyk attempted to seek out where the “Prime” Blaster was, but Kraazyk only got a slight glimpse of the skyline and a hint of several other Blaster dupes before the Blaster twisted his head in a sudden jerk and disintegrated into nonexistence as he ‘died’.
“Well that didn’t accomplish anything.” Kraazyk said, shaking his head in disappointment.
Looking around, Kraazyk noted he was alone on the bridge. Skid marks from Millenium’s cycle lead one way and Turbo was nowhere to be seen.
“Wonderful.”
Alrighty then, what will Kraazyk do?
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Try to identify the skyline in the Blaster’s mind and head there?
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Look around for Turbo?
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Follow Millenium’s tracks?
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Attempt to find Turbo’s lab on his own?
Super secret bonus question: How fast was Millenium’s bike traveling on average if the total distance from the impact site to the lab was 3000 miles?
Again I am sorry this took so long and I hope you like it. Also, any input is welcome with regard to most everything I write. I wanna be a good author and I cannae do that without C&CC 
hopefully I’ll have the next bit up tomorrow.
