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Kaos had lost count how many times already, plan after plan. Fail.
Destroy the core of light? Nope!
That conquertron robot? Nu-Uh!
The volcano that spreads magic? That only resulted in a giant humiliation, and being tall for a little bit.
Break open Cloudcracker Prison just to release the Doom Raiders? You guessed it, not only they backstabbed him, he failed in that plan too in the end, with him being sent straight to the newly rebuilt Cloudcracker.
Humiliation after humiliation, what was it that was causing it?! Glumshanks? His idiotic minions? There was no way it could've been him. So, in thought, he gazed at his portal of dark magic for any answers or solutions.
"They'll pay for these humiliations...!!!" growling under his breath, his gaze fixated into the shadow kissed visions.
"Lord Kaos, have you considered actually-"
"SILENCE, FOOL! I'm THINKING!" Kaos snapped at the poor troll as he returned gaze to his portal, scrolling through the many visions only to see something... Unusual.
"Wait a minute! What is THIS?" Kaos' eyes widened the more he gazed into his dark portal of twisted power, purple energy unknown to him taking over the vision. What he saw was.... extremely fast?! It was like he was the speed of sound. And at night it was a powerful beast capable of taking down a phoenix all by himself.
"That speed! And that strength when night falls..." This boy was the key to the brand new scheme that was born into Kaos' deranged mind... He was it! Perhaps he needed... Somebody new; This couldn't be anything the Skylanders had seen before!
"Yes... YES! He's it! With somebody like him, I'll finally be able to take down the Stupidlanders once and for all!"
"Uh.... L-Lord Kaos, are you sure about this...? I mean, he's insanely fast from what I'm seeing or strong enough to break bones and possibly metal!" Glumshanks had the feeling that this was going to end like it always did, in one embarrassing defeat.
"Quiet, Glumshanks!" The ugly fiend hushed his butler up.
Talk about a lack of social skills.
Kaos twirled around and with the same massive ego as usual; marched to summon some of his trolls for the task of snatching this blue blur just for him. If the Skylanders never seen somebody this fast, he'd have a chance this time!
"MINIONS!!!" following his tradition of usually unnecessary shouting. Kaos conjured an image of what he had seen inside his portal, having it simply behind him just like a movie.
"Do you see this blue guy?" Kaos asked, the trolls nodding in response.
"Bring him to me." He commanded, using his portal to transport a handful of gear golems to where his target was.
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The werehog ran across the frosty landscape, the next Gaia Temple had to be around here somewhere... If he got that phoenix to calm down, he could take on whatever was here in Holoska!
He toppled some of those gigantic minions of Dark Gaia, the ones with the wooden club and the kind that spew out the little T-rex things. The weird gecko like monsters were not much of a problem to deal with...
But those bees were the worst! He was grateful he didn't encounter any in this frozen place in the middle of an oceanic nowhere.
To the gear golems, this place seemed like a frozen wasteland, littered with dumb penguins and a stupid amount of snow. One Kaos had sent was icy, and it probably felt at home. And the fire gear golem was there to keep the non-ice golems from freezing up.
The blue beast they were looking for leaped onto the edge of a frozen cliff to their shock and horror his arm stretched like it was an elastic to help himself get on there. There was NOTHING in Skylands that they knew about that had stretchy arms like that! What was this thing?! And not to mention, if he were to land on one of them accident or not, those shoes looked like they could turn a chompy into swiss cheese if he were to step on one.
The werehog took a deep breath, that was one heck of an exercise. Surely, he had to be close. He ran through ice cookies before they could sink into the water with him and landed on much more solid "ground".
A smell of smoke was around, that was odd, he didn't see any campfires besides the one at the Holskan village. And... There was shadows that resembled Egg fighters in the direction of a faint fiery light.
He wondered... Was there a small "party" waiting to ambush him? Was there some kind of new fiery monster or machine he didn't see just yet? It was too big to be a Egg Flame.
He approached to investigate the light, and that was when he saw some sand, which was more strange in a place like this... And that's when he saw them, these weren't badniks, they didn't even look like Eggman built them, but they weren't Dark Gaia's minons either, they didn't have the glowing markings or that. They looked like piles of related garbage held together by ice, flame, sand and the forth one was the only one that looked like something Eggman might've built if he was into steampunk.
And that was when the quartet of... Scrap things attacked! Sonic dodged narrowly avoiding an iron fist to the face.
"I have no idea where you're from, but you're gonna go DOWN!" The werehog returned fists, sending the offending junk pile away. The frozen one fired some icicles at him only for him to duck and send that one flying before grappling it and slamming it down like a wrestler, smushing the steampunk thing below.
The fiery thing tried to spew flames at the beast as he ran out of the way and leapt at him like a ferocious cat, landing on the metal part of it and sending it crashing down. The blazing automaton smacked him away before he could punch him.
The werehog grabbed a nearby Egg Flame and used it to blast a current of fire at his magical and mechanical attackers. Setting the sand filled and ice ones alight as the golems realized that this monster wasn't gonna go down without a fight and wasn't a dummy.
The beast ran at the steampunk thing and slashed the mechanical foe to scrap, if that wasn't evidence the fiends should've left him alone, what would?
The ice gear golem fired even more icicles at the werehog, a few hitting him only to be tackled by the beast.
Before the frozen scrap pile could get himself up, the werehog kicked him back down and delivered a series of rapid punches, finishing the frozen bot off.
"Strike three, tin can! That's enough out of you!" This monster was going to take a while.
Now the only ones that weren't back to scrap metal was fire and earth. They were gonna make sure they wouldn't go down.
"You want some of me, junk heaps?!" the werehog cracked his knuckles, he still had some left! With more flames and rocks, the beast was still standing.
But, just before the werehog could react, the sandy golem like thing have him a good whack over the head!
"Chip, what about your memories...?" and with that, the blue beast fainted. With a gear golem picking him up like a small child.
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"Yes... YES!" a voice unfamiliar to Sonic proudly spoke, despite him still waking up from getting hit over the head. "With this beast, I'll finally take over SKYLANDS! I bet none of those goodie two shoes hadn't seen somebody like him before!" And that smell from him had the sole description of disgusting.
Skylands...? What in the heck?
"As for you, gentlemen... You got a PROMOTION!!!" Sonic finally opened up his eyes, to see somebody wearing what he thought was a black dress looking at... Hey! Those things with him were the fiends that ambushed him!
"You hear Lord Kaos?! It's promotion city for you!" A small ugly green thing smiled. What a stupid name. Whoever came up with that name must've been an edgelord or not sober.
"GLUMSHANKS! Fetch me my chocolate milk of EVIL victory! Also, get somebody to fix up those geargolems he managed to beat up!" The gothic shortstack marched off with his smiling minions. Leaving the werehog alone.
"...Did this guy order them to kidnap me?!" What a horrible night to get kidnapped, especially if the planet is in multiple pieces because of Eggman wanting to build what he assumed to be a amusement part all about himself! He had to get outta here, he still had a job to do.
So... Holding his arm back, Sonic delivered a devastating punch to his cell, breaking a hole in the wall for him to climb out of, that was when he realized he was probably in some castle, in the middle of seemingly nowhere at all!
It was a partly cloudy night, with the full moon peaking out of the gloomy clouds. This would've been a bit easier if it was the day, when he was his usual super fast self. But, an escape at night isn't too hard if that speed mostly becomes muscle, right?
And besides, if anybody were to raise the alarm, perhaps his stretchy elastic like arms can help with any would be snitches.
Shuffling just on the edge of towers, swinging across poles and trashing any traps and turrets, the werehog traversed the sinister castle to escape whatever plans the gothic and obviously evil dwarf had for him, if the twerp ordered those scrap made freaks to kidnap him, who knows what he'd do to him next!
"That guy escaped!! Get him!" A troll in some stupid looking mech spotted him sent some of the guards onto him, Sonic easily mowed down the trolls sent to recapture him like they were ugly bowling pins!
"That's it! Have at me you snarling-" The troll captain soon screamed like a girl when the werehog punched a hole in his mech and sent him into a wall.
"Y-YOU SAVAGE! L-L-LORD KAOS WILL GET YOU AND-" that was interupted when the werehog ran like a vexed dragon, leaving the troll to climb the wall out of fear "B-BAD IDEA!!! THAT WAS A BAD IDEA!" The troll screamed like a princess in distress.
The werehog ran, he had to be close! Perhaps there was an unattended ship or even something to help him escape "Castle Blackthorn 2.0", He dodged cannon fire from the ships above, trashed any troll guards that stood in his way, and that was when he noticed an unattended cannon pointing away from the castle.
Without hesitation he lit the fuse and put himself in, firing himself to freedom.
"...Lord Kaos isn't going to like this one bit." A troll accepted what was to come.
"NOW THAN!" The short brat returned with his chocolate milk... Only to realize the escape that took place. "That blue hairball... Why that little SON OF A-!!!" Kaos went on a full blown tantrum locked and loaded with naughty words, which could be heard a mile away.
"...I told him this wouldn't work.." Glumshanks sighed.