by T5 and I'm Not Mister Mxypltk
At the star-shaped PSI-Unit building in Puerta Mibela, La Perdita, Marc looked at Tanya with concern in his eyes.
"I feel an enormous power coming to the island in two minutes. It's evil... and it's focused on those weird MBL Consulting operatives. Maybe it's time we had an agent there. One of the youngsters, perhaps?"
Naecken's mind was slowly waking up. The gaping wound in his chest was starting to glow with a red fiery energy. He needed to get out of the house for the others' safety.
Slowly he crawled out of the door and onto the street. His thoughts circulated around his friends, and then he felt it -- the dark force that had plagued him with such pain in the last months, and it was heading here... now!
Where was his friend Eurostar? They needed him. He closed his eyes. "Friend Eurostar, we need you!"
The car lay upside down in the ditch, and Biggins was just starting to make sense of what happened. He was on his way to warn MBL Consulting about the swarm, when suddenly his car had been flung across the road and into this ditch.
A few detection incantations later, and he knew the answer: Ma Kalunga, his old ally and adversary. He looked at his watch. Too late, they were probably all over the place now. But he never had a doubt that they would hurt the MBL guys. They seemed like resourceful fellows.
He started walking toward the town. After a while, he found a gas station and asked for a bottle of water and a cup.
After making sure that the bathroom door was locked, he poured the water into the cup and began his scrying spell. The mirror would be small but nonetheless functional.
He saw the beast being turned into scarves and the burning Naecken. "Eww... now that can't be good."
Suddenly, the face of Kalunga appeared in the mirror. "Hello, Biggins. If I were you, I would stay out of this." And with that, the cup full of water exploded in his face.
"Shit!"
He ran out of the bathroom and continued down the road. This wasn't good at all. If Kalunga won, the island would never be the same again.
The van moved at its maximum speed.
"C'mon, c'mon," said Tobias Christopher behind the wheel. "Move faster, you damn thing..."
Inside the van was the whole team, prepared for a big fight, and a drunken Pete Glover, begging for more alcohol.
"Let's hope M'xy and Turkish are not hurt," Lance Lorenzo said. "With them out of the picture and Naecken unconscious back home, it'd be almost impossible to take out that... thing."
"Yeah... we could really use Naecken right now," Sam Dawson added.
"Okay, is everyone ready? We're almost there," Tobias said.
The van stopped in the crater caused by M'xy's and Turkish's rough landing. The door opened, and Dirk Bell jumped outside with guns in both hands.
"TAKE THIS, FUCKER!" Dirk yelled as he shot into the air. Then he landed on the ground and awkwardly realized the monster was no longer there.
Instead, he saw Turkish Stringfellow and M'xy just sitting there.
"What the--? Where's the--?" Dirk asked.
"Living in Las Vegas, Nevada, since the seventies. That thing about him being in Mars or Jupiter is just a rumour," M'xy answered.
"What?" Dirk asked.
"He's talking about the monster, M'xy," Turkish clarified. "We took care of him."
"You took care of him?" Lance said with relief as he came out of the car with everyone else. "You left all the fun for yourselves! You could have left us something!"
"Shut up, Lance," Sam said. "The best thing we could do now is go back home and rest. We're all tired by the fights."
"Les' stop in a bar -- hiccup! -- Beer's on me!" Pete added from inside the van.
Suddenly, the van exploded.
"PEEEEEETE!" M'xy screamed.
"I'm okay! I'm okay!" Pete said, getting up from a soft, moss-covered patch of ground several feet away.
"Oh."
The team looked up to the source of the blast that caused the explosion and saw two warriors, one red and one blue, floating above the destroyed van.
"The Scorpion brothers?" Lance said.
"Whoever they are, they got a nice gang there. Look," Grimm said, pointing at Ma Kalunga and Aurochs coming from the left.
"Boo," said a voice from the right when everyone was looking the opposite way. The team looked and saw K'tl beside a monstrous Dr. Zachary Knell.
The team was shocked.
"I see you recognize my friends," said the voice of Mr. Smith, coming from behind the others.