Post by monkey on Mar 25, 2007 18:27:12 GMT -5
“POWER AT 12%” it was a computer voice.
“Well now Drake…I must admit, I am impressed at your techniques, and managing to reduce me down to this…for now that is, but I will get my revenge on you and all your so-called friends” the voice laughed , it was coming from the desert “But no worries, I shall be ready soon enough, and when I do…you best be prepared for the worst”
***
“Jenny…just calm down alright? I mean geez, you’re overreacting here”
“Just tell me Slayer is” Jenny glared at Raiden.
“Slayer isn’t around, he headed off with Lita to do their own thing”
“Then where did he go to?” Jenny asked, still persistent to know where he was.
“I don’t think that’s such a good idea to tell you that”
“And why’s that? Cause Slayer, doesn’t know what he wants anymore, and I know that for a fact, so you best tell me where he is”
“Well, you see, the thing with that is I don’t know where he has run off too, he just left with Lita, not telling anyone where he had gone too” Raiden told Jenny, still calmly.
Jenny gave a little grumble before turning around and walking off “That should take care of her for a while”
Raiden then turned and walked off, but was spoken too by someone else “Did she buy it?”
“For now, it looks like it, but seriously, she needs to find someone else and stop chasing Slayer all the time” replied Raiden as he glanced over at the one who spoke to him.
“Yeah, I know, should really find someone else for her, someone who actually likes her back” Drake told Raiden.
***
“POWER AT 25%” it was the computer voice again.
“Soon, very soon Drake…”
***
“Oh yeah, before I forget, did you happen to meet that new fox on the farm? Roxy I believe her name was” he told Drake.
“Actually, no I haven’t, I’ve seen her around, but I didn’t actually get around to meeting her, guess I’ve been kinda tied up at the moment…” replied Drake as he glanced around.
“Hehe, yeah, I guess so, well, anyway, you going to go introduce yourself to her or not? I mean, no point in being a complete and total stranger to her you know?”
“Alright, alright, geez, I’m getting there…” replied Drake with a joking tone as he walked off.
***
Drake entered the barn to have a look around for the fox “Well, if she is a fox, she probably would want to be out stealing stuff…” though, he cut himself off as he glanced over at a figure on the hay “Hmm…”
The figure didn’t seem to be moving, was it asleep? Perhaps, but there was only one way to find out.
Drake approached quietly and saw that it was the fox, and she was sleep, so, he decided to not bother her at all as he turned to leave.
Though, there was then a rustle as the fox had woken up before glancing over at Drake “Can I help you at all?” she spoke up.
Drake then stopped upon hearing her voice “Well, kinda of, but no, I mean, I was only here to introduce myself, but seeing you asleep, I didn’t want to wake you, but now that you’re awake, I guess I best do this, name’s Drake”
“Ah yes, Drake, I’ve heard a little bit about you”
“You have eh? By whom?”
“Star, she was talking about you for a little bit before going on about other stuff” Roxy told Drake “I’m Roxy by the way”
“Yeah, I know, that’s why I came to introduce myself, as I saw you around, but was kinda tied up with other things at the moment”
“Ah, well, that makes more sense then, but still, nice chatting to you Drake”
“Yeah, same here, I guess I’ll see you around or something” Drake told her before turning around again and heading off.
***
“POWER NOW AT 42%”
The voice only gave a chuckle this time.
***
“You know, I bet that Cruella is up to something, I mean, I haven’t seen her try and take the farm from us lately, she must be planning something, but what?” Lucky asked himself mainly.
“Lucky, you should learn, never to jump to conclusions about anything” replied Cadpig.
“Cadpig, this is Cruella we’re talking about”
“Oh yeah, I withdraw my decision”
“Aww man, I’m hungry…is it lunch time yet?” added in Rolly.
“Not yet, besides, we’ve still gotta figure out what Cruella’s up to this time, come on guys” and with that, Lucky took off for Cruella’s mansion, followed closely by Rolly and Cadpig.
***
“But mum, I gotta get going, the pups need me!” Spot told her mother.
“You aren’t going anywhere, we need a babysitter to look after our eggs while we’re out” replied Cornelia.
“Look after them? Do I have to?”
“Now Spot, of course you do, especially if that no good fox comes back again, now we’ll be back in an hour or so, ta” Cornelia and the other chickens then left, leaving Spot all alone.
***
“Alright you two! Since you don’t seem to be taking this more seriously than everyone else, I have asked for you both to come back here, and well, here we are, are you ready for some more training?” Pug gave orders to both Luna and Kasey.
“Well…no…” Luna begun before she was cut off by Pug.
“Well that’s too bad, you should’ve thought about that before you begun slacking off!”
“Slacking off? To a make-believe fantasy about some cat invasion? Right…”
Pug’s eye gave a twitch, but before he could say a thing, he fell back, falling right asleep.
“Idiot…” was all Kasey had muttered to herself before turning to Luna “Come on, let’s get going”
Kasey and Luna then headed off away from Pug.
***
“POWER NOW AT 67%”
“It’s getting there….I can…fell it…”
***
Once inside Cruella’s place, they begun to have a look around “Now where is she?” Lucky asked.
Though, Cadpig had found out first “Found her” she exclaimed.
The three glanced in at Cruella “Now, how should I do it this time? Every other plan I’ve used has failed!” she told both Horace and Jasper.
“What about that Clause fella?” asked Horace.
“Clause Von Jorgen is dead, so we can’t use him anymore” replied Cruella.
Lucky looked at the others “Well now, it seems like she’s run out of ideas so far, which is pretty good if you ask me, let’s head back for now” and with that, Lucky took off.
Cadpig and Rolly had just shrugged at each other before they too took off, following Lucky back to the farm.
***
“So then, any luck?” Drake asked them.
“Yeah, Cruella’s still got nothing” replied Lucky.
“Well now, that’s good news” Drake then headed off to go check on some other things.
***
“POWER NOW AT 89%”
“It’s so close now…just some last minute stuff to get online” the voice chuckled “Then…all shall fall before me…”
***
At the mall, on the other hand, Two-Tone, Jewel and Star had headed over to go check out the Jewellery section of the mall “So, what do you think? You think Lucky’ll like it?” asked Two-Tone as she tried on an earring.
“He’d probably like your other earring more than something new” replied Star.
“But what about you then? Shouldn’t you be trying something on for Drake?” Jewel asked Star.
“No, he just likes me for the way I am” answered Star.
They just continued to look through everything, unaware of the danger that was about to come.
***
“POWER UP HAS NOW BEEN COMPLETE”
The eyes then came online as the figure stood up. It was a machine, a deadly machine in fact, its hide, made entirely out of titanium.
It had a variety of weapons within him too, five at max.
Its name you may ask? They call him Diablo.
He glanced around at his surroundings “That’s right, I remember now, Drake had stopped me here, tried to put an end to me…but seems like he had failed to do so” he then chuckled as his wings extended “And now, let’s see him try and stop me all over again”
He then gave a proper laugh and took off into the skies. He was coming.
***
“Yo, Drake” it was Rip, he had come running up “We have some trouble…it’s…Diablo…he’s heading this way right now”
“Diablo? Okay…have your circuits been rewired or something? Diablo is dead, I destroyed him when we fought him and Reaper” replied Drake.
“I know, I know alright!” he yelled at first but then calmed himself down again “I know, but for some odd reason, I can just sense him is all, it’s a faint signal, but very, very slowly getting stronger, I know, I was monitoring it for the last half hour”
Drake seemed to pause for quite some time, not sure to believe Rip or not at the moment until he spoke up at long last “Keep monitoring the signal, and if it gets quite strong, then come get me” he then turned around and headed off.
“Where are you off to?” Rip asked him.
“Gruetly to go check on something” Drake called back “I’ll be back later”
***
Diablo took a detour for the time being as he landed in a military base “Halt right there! You are in restricted territory! Please leave immediately or we will be forced to take evasive action!” the guard from the watch tower called out over his megaphone.
Diablo glanced over at the watch tower but then looked straight ahead; he had no intentions of leaving at the moment as he begun to step forward, heading straight for the gate.
The watch guards hesitated for a few moments until they fired a few warning shots at the ground in front of him “This is your last warning! Stand down or we will be forced to take…” the guard was cut off as he dropped from the tower dead.
Diablo’s gun then retracted as he continued to step forward “Holy…” was all the second guard could say as he started to hesitate with his gun to fire at Diablo.
The shots missed, except for one, which struck Diablo in the face.
Though, it seemed to have no effect on Diablo, he still turned to the guard before extending his wings, flying straight at the guard.
There was only a gasp from the tower guard before he dropped down dead.
***
“Hmm, the signal seems to have vanished…must’ve been a glitch earlier on…” Rip muttered to himself “I wonder where Dixie is…”
***
Drake walked around Gruetly for a bit, he basically had to lie just so he could have a walk around and clear his head. There was far too much going on at the moment, especially with the so-called “reports” that Diablo is still alive.
“What if end up not being able to do this in the end? Keep this all up?” he thought to himself “Especially if I die against something like Diablo…”
Those questions is what had scared him “What if…?” though, he cut himself off, he wasn’t going to talk about them, or even think about them.
He looked in the distance and saw a figure; the figure looked familiar…or did it? But he had to head over and check anyway.
***
She seemed to look a little frantic, but not that much “The military base being left in ruins? Who could do such a thing? I mean seriously, who the hell has enough firepower to take on an entire military base?” she had asked herself as Drake had approached “Drake, you’re not going to believe this, even if I had told you, someone had completely destroyed a military base, leaving it in ruins”
Drake glanced at Dixie “You sure about that? Were they terrorists or something?”
“Doesn’t sound like it, says it’s some kind of machine” replied Dixie.
“A machine? No…” Drake gave a pause before speaking again “Where did you hear that from?”
“I was passing by the police station and they were on about it, all the cops were talking about it, and the President is saying that they’re going to have to put military forces on high alert if they are to stop this “menace” as he would put it”
“d**n it…” was all Drake had said before Dixie spoke again.
“You know him at all?”
Drake gave a bit of a sigh before he spoke “Yes, I had fought him once before, where I thought I had stopped him for good, but now, seems like I was wrong on the matter and now…everyone’s lives are in danger”
There was a pause before Drake spoke some more “Would you mind going to tell Rip about this? I’ve got some other stuff to clear up still…”
“Sure, just be careful alright?” added in Dixie.
“Yeah…sure…” was all Drake had told her as he walked off.
Dixie on the other hand, took off for the farm to go warn Rip.
***
Drake headed off for the mall, as that was where Star, Two-Tone and Jewel were, he had to warn them.
Once inside, there was one place he was to check, the jewellery section.
He saw them there and immediately spoke up “We have to go…now…”
“Hmm?” Two-Tone turned to see Drake there “Oh, Drake, hey there”
“You okay?” Star asked as well.
“There’s…well…something not right and we have to get going…now” replied Drake.
“Like, what is it exactly?” Jewel asked him back.
“It’s…Diablo, he’s back again”
Jewel and Two-Tone gave a gasp, but as for Star, she had no idea on who Diablo was “Could you…explain who Diablo is?”
“I’ll put this short; Diablo is a machine that wants to kill Drake…” Jewel told Star.
“Oh…” Star lowered her head.
Drake glanced over at Star and walked over “Hey relax…I’ll be fine…alright?” he told Star confidently.
Though, the tone of his voice seemed confident, inside, he wasn’t as confident at the moment, but yet, he still spoke to her “So do me a favour…all of you, get back to the farm…I’ll meet you there later”
Though, there was some silence at first, one of them finally spoke up “You can count on us” Two-Tone added in before the three had finally left.
***
Upon leaving the army base, he had given a chuckle at the new weapons he had obtained from there “Yes, these will do quite nicely indeed”
He glanced up in the sky as he extended his wings again and took off, not for the farm just yet, he still had other stuff he were to do first.
***
As Dixie ran onto the farm, she found Rip straight away “Rip…I need to talk to you”
“Oh, hey Dixie…is something wrong?”
“Well, it’s more or less a message from Drake…it is Diablo after all, and I should know, the police were talking about him from inside the police station”
“Are you serious?” Rip asked back.
Dixie gave a nod “Yeah, he had apparently left a military base in ruins”
“So then…where’s Drake now?”
“Still doing other stuff at the moment, he said he’ll be back later or something like that”
“d**nit…alright, we’re going to have to be on high alert with this, I mean, we’ve faced him before, and he’s dangerous”
***
“This is the United States Army! Please cease and desist what you are doing!”
They were waiting outside a laboratory as Diablo was exiting it. The whole laboratory was in a wreck and on fire. Diablo only glanced at the army officers before extending his wings, he had no intention on wasting his time here.
“Hmph” was all Diablo had even said as he rose up into the sky.
“Sir, it doesn’t look like it’s listening to us” one of the cadets told the army officer.
“Hmm…” the officer glanced up at Diablo.
“I guess I shall test out one of my newest weapons…” Diablo had muttered to himself as instead of his old machine gun, he had replaced it with something deadlier, a gatling gun.
“Oh God…” but at that point, they were cut off as Diablo begun to fire on them and the vehicles.
Though, it wasn’t long till he had wiped out the small army group that had come to stop him “Hmph…pitiful…” and with that, he retracted his gatling gun and took off, seeming to turn invisible in the process.
***
“We will return to our Thunderbolt special right after this breaking news report” the voice on TV begun before a female’s voice was heard.
“Good afternoon, we have had reports of a break-in at one of the laboratories where two things so far, have been stolen from there, police, however, are still unsure of what exactly has been taken, but they do have a clear idea on who, or more, what it is, as the same sort of thing had happened not that long ago at one of the military bases, where a few weapons had been stolen” the news caster explained as some fuzzy type of photos were shown “As you can sort of see here, it was a machine that has been causing havoc and are now putting the army on high alert to stop this creature, by orders of the President”
At that point, the TV was turned off.
Star placed the remote down “This is so not our day…”she had muttered “Drake…where are you?”
Part 3
Drake had lied, he wasn’t going to go back to the farm and endanger the lives of everyone else, and instead, he was going to wait in Gruetly for Diablo.
***
“So, where the hell is Drake at?” Dixie asked around after hearing from Star that he wasn’t even back on the farm.
“My best guess is that he had lied, much like him in times like these, I mean seriously, why would he tell us to come here and wait for him? He won’t put any lives in danger, he’s like that” Kasey had spoken up.
“So then…where is he?” Star asked.
“Hold up, I’m getting a signal on him…in Gruetly…but still no sign of Diablo…” replied Rip.
“So then…Drake’s waiting for him?” asked Star.
“Must be it” answered Rip, quite confused still on why he couldn’t get Diablo’s signal anymore.
***
He continued to wait for Diablo, but so far, no sign of him “Waiting for me…aren’t you Drake?”
It was his voice, but where was it coming from? He looked all over, but so far, nothing.
“I knew you couldn’t resist me, knowing that I have returned” he chuckled to Drake.
“Show yourself you coward” Drake answered as he continued to search around.
“And now, where would the fun be in that hmm?” he chuckled even more, the voice still acting as though it were coming from all around him.
Drake let off a low growl “What do you want this time?”
“And here I thought that you’d know…” but he wasn’t going to tell Drake his exact plans.
Drake still couldn’t seem to understand what it was, why he could hear him, but no see him.
“Oh, you would love to know, now wouldn’t you Drake?” the voice chuckled as it came directly from behind Drake.
Drake though, quickly spun around, but still saw nothing “Hmm…camouflage…has to be it…” he thought to himself.
“Oh, and if you’re thinking on why Rip hasn’t come to help you out, it’s quite simple actually, he can no longer detect me, whether I’m visible or not”
“Then I needn’t worry then, I wasn’t even expecting them to come and help me this time, for this time…I’m doing this alone”
“Then that shall make my job so much easier” he chuckled to Drake as the voice now came from one direction only.
Drake turned to the direction of the voice and just gave a quick grin before he slowly bent down and picked up a pipe.
Though, Drake was sure that that’s where Diablo was standing, threw the pipe much like a spear at Diablo.
The pipe though, didn’t even strike anything as it landed on the ground, but before Drake could even speak, he was kicked away into a nearby wall “You missed Drake”
As Drake slowly got back up, he glanced around as Diablo decided to show himself, taking off the camouflage to become visible again.
Diablo stood there with his arms folded and his tail swishing back and fourth.
Drake stood straight up glaring straight at Diablo, but still not saying anything at first a helicopter flew overhead, but it was no ordinary helicopter, no, it was a news chopper.
***
“We have reports that the machine that has been terrorizing the country lately, has been spotted in Gruetly, we have one of our news reporters on the line from the news chopper” the female reporter stated before the male reporter from the news chopper spoke up, the camera showing Diablo and Drake.
“Yes, we have found the machine menace, standing there, terrorizing, what seems to be a Dalmatian, the army has been called in to deal with this creature as we speak”
***
“That’s Drake!” Star spoke up as they were watching the news on TV.
“Yeah, and he’s up against Diablo…” added in Rip “But yet, I still can’t seem to get his signal anymore, he must’ve jammed the device, making himself undetectable…but how?”
***
Diablo glanced up at the news chopper then back at Drake “Let’s give these people a show, shall we?” he gave a chuckle and with that, he pulled out his two swords and grinned.
Drake had a quick glance around and picked up whatever he was able to grab that was nearby, it was just another pole.
Though, the moment Drake had picked up the pole, he quickly blocked the very first attack of Diablo’s, just in time.
Though, Diablo had followed up that attack quite simply with a backwards somersault kick, knocking Drake back, his tail cutting Drake along the chest in the process.
As Drake landed properly, the cut then begun to seep only a little bit of blood. He looked down at the cut briefly before back at Diablo again.
Diablo’s tail flashed in front of him, the whole tail seemed to have merged with diamonds, covering his whole tail in spiky diamonds “Ah, I bet you’re wondering about this, well, I guess there would be no harm in telling you anyway…it’s simple actually, one item I just couldn’t resist in taking for my own use actually, allowing machines to merge with diamonds…creating an even more deadlier machine than before” he then gave a chuckle.
“So…you stole it then?” Drake asked back.
“Heh, I see you actually listen for once…no matter, it wont make any difference anyway…” though, he then cut himself off as he heard tanks approaching and other vehicles “So…the army wants to play eh?” he gave a bit of a chuckle “Very well then…we shall play”
Diablo glanced over at Drake as the army approached the scene “It’s show time…”
As the tanks approached, out of one tank appeared a black guy “So, you must be the so called “menace” that has been terrorizing the army eh? You don’t look so tough” he chuckled.
“Sir, we’re awaiting orders” one cadet spoke directly to the General.
Diablo gave a rather quick chuckle as his tail had wrapped around Drake’s throat, before pulling him in front to use as some sort of shield.
Drake started to struggle in the grip, the edge of the diamonds, starting to dig into his throat, slowly but surely.
“We can’t fire, with that creature holding a hostage” the General told the cadet “But stay on standby”
After a small stand-off, Diablo makes his next move, throwing Drake right towards the army, being caught by the General in the process.
Though, before anyone could react, Diablo opened fire on them, using his Gatling gun again, barraging the bullets onto the vehicles. However, there something different about the bullets this time, they were part diamond, making them much more dangerous and damaging.
The tanks and the other vehicles were struck and become unmoveable, rendering them useless and most of the cadets, killed in the process.
There were only two cadets remaining as well as the General; however, Diablo had his own plans for them as he saw Drake on the ground, unconscious now.
“Stand down you two, I’ll handle this fool” the General stepped forward, cricking his knuckles, ready to battle Diablo himself, barehanded.
***
Back on the farm, the others were still watching the battle, as the news chopper continued to remain above, catching everything on camera “Man, something does not seem right here, Diablo seems far more deadlier than before…” Rip had muttered to himself as he was watching the television.
“You think Drake will be alright?” Star asked Rip.
Rip however, remained silent on the matter, he had no answer to that, though, Star spoke again, but sadder than before “I asked you a question…is he going to be alright?”
“I don’t know Star, I’m sorry alright?” Rip told her, and he was right too, he had no idea if Drake were to even survive against Diablo or not.
***
As the Army General stood a few inches in front of Diablo, he spoke straight to him “So, you’re the menace that has been terrorizing everyone around you…you don’t look so tough…”
“You should never judge a book by its cover…” though, before the General could react, Diablo’s tail had impaled him straight through the throat “Especially one that that is willing to fight back…”
“Is…is this the…best you…can do?” the General told Diablo, his speech effected by his impaled throat.
Diablo only gave a chuckle at the comment made to him before impaling the General in the stomach with his sword.
The General then seemed to die almost instantly, his stomach acid, spilling onto the ground.
Diablo removed his tail and dropped the body to the ground before glancing up at the news chopper “Seems like you’ve got your story now…” he muttered to himself.
***
“Is he…is he looking at us? Oh sh*t…d**n it, get us out of here!” the news reporter called the chopper pilot.
The pilot gave a nod and begun to move off, but didn’t get very far as they were then hit in the tail “I can’t control it…we’re…we’re going down…”
***
Diablo glanced at the chopper again as he watched it go down, crashing not too far from where he was too.
***
As the news reporter came through, he was injured, but managed to stand still as his cameraman was also fairly fine too, but the pilot “He didn’t make it…sh*t…” the reporter had added in when he saw the pilot.
The cameraman motioned to behind the reporter, it was Diablo approaching them.
But before they could get out of the way, Diablo landed on the ground and stepped forward “W-w-w-what d-d-d-do you w-w-w-want?” asked the reporter, as he hasn’t been in a situation like this before.
“To speak to America if you may…” replied Diablo glaring at the cameraman.
The cameraman hesitated to get the camera going, fumbling around in the process until he finally had.
“Are we on?” asked Diablo.
The cameraman nodded back to Diablo.
“Well now Drake…I must admit, I am impressed at your techniques, and managing to reduce me down to this…for now that is, but I will get my revenge on you and all your so-called friends” the voice laughed , it was coming from the desert “But no worries, I shall be ready soon enough, and when I do…you best be prepared for the worst”
***
“Jenny…just calm down alright? I mean geez, you’re overreacting here”
“Just tell me Slayer is” Jenny glared at Raiden.
“Slayer isn’t around, he headed off with Lita to do their own thing”
“Then where did he go to?” Jenny asked, still persistent to know where he was.
“I don’t think that’s such a good idea to tell you that”
“And why’s that? Cause Slayer, doesn’t know what he wants anymore, and I know that for a fact, so you best tell me where he is”
“Well, you see, the thing with that is I don’t know where he has run off too, he just left with Lita, not telling anyone where he had gone too” Raiden told Jenny, still calmly.
Jenny gave a little grumble before turning around and walking off “That should take care of her for a while”
Raiden then turned and walked off, but was spoken too by someone else “Did she buy it?”
“For now, it looks like it, but seriously, she needs to find someone else and stop chasing Slayer all the time” replied Raiden as he glanced over at the one who spoke to him.
“Yeah, I know, should really find someone else for her, someone who actually likes her back” Drake told Raiden.
***
“POWER AT 25%” it was the computer voice again.
“Soon, very soon Drake…”
***
“Oh yeah, before I forget, did you happen to meet that new fox on the farm? Roxy I believe her name was” he told Drake.
“Actually, no I haven’t, I’ve seen her around, but I didn’t actually get around to meeting her, guess I’ve been kinda tied up at the moment…” replied Drake as he glanced around.
“Hehe, yeah, I guess so, well, anyway, you going to go introduce yourself to her or not? I mean, no point in being a complete and total stranger to her you know?”
“Alright, alright, geez, I’m getting there…” replied Drake with a joking tone as he walked off.
***
Drake entered the barn to have a look around for the fox “Well, if she is a fox, she probably would want to be out stealing stuff…” though, he cut himself off as he glanced over at a figure on the hay “Hmm…”
The figure didn’t seem to be moving, was it asleep? Perhaps, but there was only one way to find out.
Drake approached quietly and saw that it was the fox, and she was sleep, so, he decided to not bother her at all as he turned to leave.
Though, there was then a rustle as the fox had woken up before glancing over at Drake “Can I help you at all?” she spoke up.
Drake then stopped upon hearing her voice “Well, kinda of, but no, I mean, I was only here to introduce myself, but seeing you asleep, I didn’t want to wake you, but now that you’re awake, I guess I best do this, name’s Drake”
“Ah yes, Drake, I’ve heard a little bit about you”
“You have eh? By whom?”
“Star, she was talking about you for a little bit before going on about other stuff” Roxy told Drake “I’m Roxy by the way”
“Yeah, I know, that’s why I came to introduce myself, as I saw you around, but was kinda tied up with other things at the moment”
“Ah, well, that makes more sense then, but still, nice chatting to you Drake”
“Yeah, same here, I guess I’ll see you around or something” Drake told her before turning around again and heading off.
***
“POWER NOW AT 42%”
The voice only gave a chuckle this time.
***
“You know, I bet that Cruella is up to something, I mean, I haven’t seen her try and take the farm from us lately, she must be planning something, but what?” Lucky asked himself mainly.
“Lucky, you should learn, never to jump to conclusions about anything” replied Cadpig.
“Cadpig, this is Cruella we’re talking about”
“Oh yeah, I withdraw my decision”
“Aww man, I’m hungry…is it lunch time yet?” added in Rolly.
“Not yet, besides, we’ve still gotta figure out what Cruella’s up to this time, come on guys” and with that, Lucky took off for Cruella’s mansion, followed closely by Rolly and Cadpig.
***
“But mum, I gotta get going, the pups need me!” Spot told her mother.
“You aren’t going anywhere, we need a babysitter to look after our eggs while we’re out” replied Cornelia.
“Look after them? Do I have to?”
“Now Spot, of course you do, especially if that no good fox comes back again, now we’ll be back in an hour or so, ta” Cornelia and the other chickens then left, leaving Spot all alone.
***
“Alright you two! Since you don’t seem to be taking this more seriously than everyone else, I have asked for you both to come back here, and well, here we are, are you ready for some more training?” Pug gave orders to both Luna and Kasey.
“Well…no…” Luna begun before she was cut off by Pug.
“Well that’s too bad, you should’ve thought about that before you begun slacking off!”
“Slacking off? To a make-believe fantasy about some cat invasion? Right…”
Pug’s eye gave a twitch, but before he could say a thing, he fell back, falling right asleep.
“Idiot…” was all Kasey had muttered to herself before turning to Luna “Come on, let’s get going”
Kasey and Luna then headed off away from Pug.
***
“POWER NOW AT 67%”
“It’s getting there….I can…fell it…”
***
Once inside Cruella’s place, they begun to have a look around “Now where is she?” Lucky asked.
Though, Cadpig had found out first “Found her” she exclaimed.
The three glanced in at Cruella “Now, how should I do it this time? Every other plan I’ve used has failed!” she told both Horace and Jasper.
“What about that Clause fella?” asked Horace.
“Clause Von Jorgen is dead, so we can’t use him anymore” replied Cruella.
Lucky looked at the others “Well now, it seems like she’s run out of ideas so far, which is pretty good if you ask me, let’s head back for now” and with that, Lucky took off.
Cadpig and Rolly had just shrugged at each other before they too took off, following Lucky back to the farm.
***
“So then, any luck?” Drake asked them.
“Yeah, Cruella’s still got nothing” replied Lucky.
“Well now, that’s good news” Drake then headed off to go check on some other things.
***
“POWER NOW AT 89%”
“It’s so close now…just some last minute stuff to get online” the voice chuckled “Then…all shall fall before me…”
***
At the mall, on the other hand, Two-Tone, Jewel and Star had headed over to go check out the Jewellery section of the mall “So, what do you think? You think Lucky’ll like it?” asked Two-Tone as she tried on an earring.
“He’d probably like your other earring more than something new” replied Star.
“But what about you then? Shouldn’t you be trying something on for Drake?” Jewel asked Star.
“No, he just likes me for the way I am” answered Star.
They just continued to look through everything, unaware of the danger that was about to come.
***
“POWER UP HAS NOW BEEN COMPLETE”
The eyes then came online as the figure stood up. It was a machine, a deadly machine in fact, its hide, made entirely out of titanium.
It had a variety of weapons within him too, five at max.
Its name you may ask? They call him Diablo.
He glanced around at his surroundings “That’s right, I remember now, Drake had stopped me here, tried to put an end to me…but seems like he had failed to do so” he then chuckled as his wings extended “And now, let’s see him try and stop me all over again”
He then gave a proper laugh and took off into the skies. He was coming.
***
“Yo, Drake” it was Rip, he had come running up “We have some trouble…it’s…Diablo…he’s heading this way right now”
“Diablo? Okay…have your circuits been rewired or something? Diablo is dead, I destroyed him when we fought him and Reaper” replied Drake.
“I know, I know alright!” he yelled at first but then calmed himself down again “I know, but for some odd reason, I can just sense him is all, it’s a faint signal, but very, very slowly getting stronger, I know, I was monitoring it for the last half hour”
Drake seemed to pause for quite some time, not sure to believe Rip or not at the moment until he spoke up at long last “Keep monitoring the signal, and if it gets quite strong, then come get me” he then turned around and headed off.
“Where are you off to?” Rip asked him.
“Gruetly to go check on something” Drake called back “I’ll be back later”
***
Diablo took a detour for the time being as he landed in a military base “Halt right there! You are in restricted territory! Please leave immediately or we will be forced to take evasive action!” the guard from the watch tower called out over his megaphone.
Diablo glanced over at the watch tower but then looked straight ahead; he had no intentions of leaving at the moment as he begun to step forward, heading straight for the gate.
The watch guards hesitated for a few moments until they fired a few warning shots at the ground in front of him “This is your last warning! Stand down or we will be forced to take…” the guard was cut off as he dropped from the tower dead.
Diablo’s gun then retracted as he continued to step forward “Holy…” was all the second guard could say as he started to hesitate with his gun to fire at Diablo.
The shots missed, except for one, which struck Diablo in the face.
Though, it seemed to have no effect on Diablo, he still turned to the guard before extending his wings, flying straight at the guard.
There was only a gasp from the tower guard before he dropped down dead.
***
“Hmm, the signal seems to have vanished…must’ve been a glitch earlier on…” Rip muttered to himself “I wonder where Dixie is…”
***
Drake walked around Gruetly for a bit, he basically had to lie just so he could have a walk around and clear his head. There was far too much going on at the moment, especially with the so-called “reports” that Diablo is still alive.
“What if end up not being able to do this in the end? Keep this all up?” he thought to himself “Especially if I die against something like Diablo…”
Those questions is what had scared him “What if…?” though, he cut himself off, he wasn’t going to talk about them, or even think about them.
He looked in the distance and saw a figure; the figure looked familiar…or did it? But he had to head over and check anyway.
***
She seemed to look a little frantic, but not that much “The military base being left in ruins? Who could do such a thing? I mean seriously, who the hell has enough firepower to take on an entire military base?” she had asked herself as Drake had approached “Drake, you’re not going to believe this, even if I had told you, someone had completely destroyed a military base, leaving it in ruins”
Drake glanced at Dixie “You sure about that? Were they terrorists or something?”
“Doesn’t sound like it, says it’s some kind of machine” replied Dixie.
“A machine? No…” Drake gave a pause before speaking again “Where did you hear that from?”
“I was passing by the police station and they were on about it, all the cops were talking about it, and the President is saying that they’re going to have to put military forces on high alert if they are to stop this “menace” as he would put it”
“d**n it…” was all Drake had said before Dixie spoke again.
“You know him at all?”
Drake gave a bit of a sigh before he spoke “Yes, I had fought him once before, where I thought I had stopped him for good, but now, seems like I was wrong on the matter and now…everyone’s lives are in danger”
There was a pause before Drake spoke some more “Would you mind going to tell Rip about this? I’ve got some other stuff to clear up still…”
“Sure, just be careful alright?” added in Dixie.
“Yeah…sure…” was all Drake had told her as he walked off.
Dixie on the other hand, took off for the farm to go warn Rip.
***
Drake headed off for the mall, as that was where Star, Two-Tone and Jewel were, he had to warn them.
Once inside, there was one place he was to check, the jewellery section.
He saw them there and immediately spoke up “We have to go…now…”
“Hmm?” Two-Tone turned to see Drake there “Oh, Drake, hey there”
“You okay?” Star asked as well.
“There’s…well…something not right and we have to get going…now” replied Drake.
“Like, what is it exactly?” Jewel asked him back.
“It’s…Diablo, he’s back again”
Jewel and Two-Tone gave a gasp, but as for Star, she had no idea on who Diablo was “Could you…explain who Diablo is?”
“I’ll put this short; Diablo is a machine that wants to kill Drake…” Jewel told Star.
“Oh…” Star lowered her head.
Drake glanced over at Star and walked over “Hey relax…I’ll be fine…alright?” he told Star confidently.
Though, the tone of his voice seemed confident, inside, he wasn’t as confident at the moment, but yet, he still spoke to her “So do me a favour…all of you, get back to the farm…I’ll meet you there later”
Though, there was some silence at first, one of them finally spoke up “You can count on us” Two-Tone added in before the three had finally left.
***
Upon leaving the army base, he had given a chuckle at the new weapons he had obtained from there “Yes, these will do quite nicely indeed”
He glanced up in the sky as he extended his wings again and took off, not for the farm just yet, he still had other stuff he were to do first.
***
As Dixie ran onto the farm, she found Rip straight away “Rip…I need to talk to you”
“Oh, hey Dixie…is something wrong?”
“Well, it’s more or less a message from Drake…it is Diablo after all, and I should know, the police were talking about him from inside the police station”
“Are you serious?” Rip asked back.
Dixie gave a nod “Yeah, he had apparently left a military base in ruins”
“So then…where’s Drake now?”
“Still doing other stuff at the moment, he said he’ll be back later or something like that”
“d**nit…alright, we’re going to have to be on high alert with this, I mean, we’ve faced him before, and he’s dangerous”
***
“This is the United States Army! Please cease and desist what you are doing!”
They were waiting outside a laboratory as Diablo was exiting it. The whole laboratory was in a wreck and on fire. Diablo only glanced at the army officers before extending his wings, he had no intention on wasting his time here.
“Hmph” was all Diablo had even said as he rose up into the sky.
“Sir, it doesn’t look like it’s listening to us” one of the cadets told the army officer.
“Hmm…” the officer glanced up at Diablo.
“I guess I shall test out one of my newest weapons…” Diablo had muttered to himself as instead of his old machine gun, he had replaced it with something deadlier, a gatling gun.
“Oh God…” but at that point, they were cut off as Diablo begun to fire on them and the vehicles.
Though, it wasn’t long till he had wiped out the small army group that had come to stop him “Hmph…pitiful…” and with that, he retracted his gatling gun and took off, seeming to turn invisible in the process.
***
“We will return to our Thunderbolt special right after this breaking news report” the voice on TV begun before a female’s voice was heard.
“Good afternoon, we have had reports of a break-in at one of the laboratories where two things so far, have been stolen from there, police, however, are still unsure of what exactly has been taken, but they do have a clear idea on who, or more, what it is, as the same sort of thing had happened not that long ago at one of the military bases, where a few weapons had been stolen” the news caster explained as some fuzzy type of photos were shown “As you can sort of see here, it was a machine that has been causing havoc and are now putting the army on high alert to stop this creature, by orders of the President”
At that point, the TV was turned off.
Star placed the remote down “This is so not our day…”she had muttered “Drake…where are you?”
Part 3
Drake had lied, he wasn’t going to go back to the farm and endanger the lives of everyone else, and instead, he was going to wait in Gruetly for Diablo.
***
“So, where the hell is Drake at?” Dixie asked around after hearing from Star that he wasn’t even back on the farm.
“My best guess is that he had lied, much like him in times like these, I mean seriously, why would he tell us to come here and wait for him? He won’t put any lives in danger, he’s like that” Kasey had spoken up.
“So then…where is he?” Star asked.
“Hold up, I’m getting a signal on him…in Gruetly…but still no sign of Diablo…” replied Rip.
“So then…Drake’s waiting for him?” asked Star.
“Must be it” answered Rip, quite confused still on why he couldn’t get Diablo’s signal anymore.
***
He continued to wait for Diablo, but so far, no sign of him “Waiting for me…aren’t you Drake?”
It was his voice, but where was it coming from? He looked all over, but so far, nothing.
“I knew you couldn’t resist me, knowing that I have returned” he chuckled to Drake.
“Show yourself you coward” Drake answered as he continued to search around.
“And now, where would the fun be in that hmm?” he chuckled even more, the voice still acting as though it were coming from all around him.
Drake let off a low growl “What do you want this time?”
“And here I thought that you’d know…” but he wasn’t going to tell Drake his exact plans.
Drake still couldn’t seem to understand what it was, why he could hear him, but no see him.
“Oh, you would love to know, now wouldn’t you Drake?” the voice chuckled as it came directly from behind Drake.
Drake though, quickly spun around, but still saw nothing “Hmm…camouflage…has to be it…” he thought to himself.
“Oh, and if you’re thinking on why Rip hasn’t come to help you out, it’s quite simple actually, he can no longer detect me, whether I’m visible or not”
“Then I needn’t worry then, I wasn’t even expecting them to come and help me this time, for this time…I’m doing this alone”
“Then that shall make my job so much easier” he chuckled to Drake as the voice now came from one direction only.
Drake turned to the direction of the voice and just gave a quick grin before he slowly bent down and picked up a pipe.
Though, Drake was sure that that’s where Diablo was standing, threw the pipe much like a spear at Diablo.
The pipe though, didn’t even strike anything as it landed on the ground, but before Drake could even speak, he was kicked away into a nearby wall “You missed Drake”
As Drake slowly got back up, he glanced around as Diablo decided to show himself, taking off the camouflage to become visible again.
Diablo stood there with his arms folded and his tail swishing back and fourth.
Drake stood straight up glaring straight at Diablo, but still not saying anything at first a helicopter flew overhead, but it was no ordinary helicopter, no, it was a news chopper.
***
“We have reports that the machine that has been terrorizing the country lately, has been spotted in Gruetly, we have one of our news reporters on the line from the news chopper” the female reporter stated before the male reporter from the news chopper spoke up, the camera showing Diablo and Drake.
“Yes, we have found the machine menace, standing there, terrorizing, what seems to be a Dalmatian, the army has been called in to deal with this creature as we speak”
***
“That’s Drake!” Star spoke up as they were watching the news on TV.
“Yeah, and he’s up against Diablo…” added in Rip “But yet, I still can’t seem to get his signal anymore, he must’ve jammed the device, making himself undetectable…but how?”
***
Diablo glanced up at the news chopper then back at Drake “Let’s give these people a show, shall we?” he gave a chuckle and with that, he pulled out his two swords and grinned.
Drake had a quick glance around and picked up whatever he was able to grab that was nearby, it was just another pole.
Though, the moment Drake had picked up the pole, he quickly blocked the very first attack of Diablo’s, just in time.
Though, Diablo had followed up that attack quite simply with a backwards somersault kick, knocking Drake back, his tail cutting Drake along the chest in the process.
As Drake landed properly, the cut then begun to seep only a little bit of blood. He looked down at the cut briefly before back at Diablo again.
Diablo’s tail flashed in front of him, the whole tail seemed to have merged with diamonds, covering his whole tail in spiky diamonds “Ah, I bet you’re wondering about this, well, I guess there would be no harm in telling you anyway…it’s simple actually, one item I just couldn’t resist in taking for my own use actually, allowing machines to merge with diamonds…creating an even more deadlier machine than before” he then gave a chuckle.
“So…you stole it then?” Drake asked back.
“Heh, I see you actually listen for once…no matter, it wont make any difference anyway…” though, he then cut himself off as he heard tanks approaching and other vehicles “So…the army wants to play eh?” he gave a bit of a chuckle “Very well then…we shall play”
Diablo glanced over at Drake as the army approached the scene “It’s show time…”
As the tanks approached, out of one tank appeared a black guy “So, you must be the so called “menace” that has been terrorizing the army eh? You don’t look so tough” he chuckled.
“Sir, we’re awaiting orders” one cadet spoke directly to the General.
Diablo gave a rather quick chuckle as his tail had wrapped around Drake’s throat, before pulling him in front to use as some sort of shield.
Drake started to struggle in the grip, the edge of the diamonds, starting to dig into his throat, slowly but surely.
“We can’t fire, with that creature holding a hostage” the General told the cadet “But stay on standby”
After a small stand-off, Diablo makes his next move, throwing Drake right towards the army, being caught by the General in the process.
Though, before anyone could react, Diablo opened fire on them, using his Gatling gun again, barraging the bullets onto the vehicles. However, there something different about the bullets this time, they were part diamond, making them much more dangerous and damaging.
The tanks and the other vehicles were struck and become unmoveable, rendering them useless and most of the cadets, killed in the process.
There were only two cadets remaining as well as the General; however, Diablo had his own plans for them as he saw Drake on the ground, unconscious now.
“Stand down you two, I’ll handle this fool” the General stepped forward, cricking his knuckles, ready to battle Diablo himself, barehanded.
***
Back on the farm, the others were still watching the battle, as the news chopper continued to remain above, catching everything on camera “Man, something does not seem right here, Diablo seems far more deadlier than before…” Rip had muttered to himself as he was watching the television.
“You think Drake will be alright?” Star asked Rip.
Rip however, remained silent on the matter, he had no answer to that, though, Star spoke again, but sadder than before “I asked you a question…is he going to be alright?”
“I don’t know Star, I’m sorry alright?” Rip told her, and he was right too, he had no idea if Drake were to even survive against Diablo or not.
***
As the Army General stood a few inches in front of Diablo, he spoke straight to him “So, you’re the menace that has been terrorizing everyone around you…you don’t look so tough…”
“You should never judge a book by its cover…” though, before the General could react, Diablo’s tail had impaled him straight through the throat “Especially one that that is willing to fight back…”
“Is…is this the…best you…can do?” the General told Diablo, his speech effected by his impaled throat.
Diablo only gave a chuckle at the comment made to him before impaling the General in the stomach with his sword.
The General then seemed to die almost instantly, his stomach acid, spilling onto the ground.
Diablo removed his tail and dropped the body to the ground before glancing up at the news chopper “Seems like you’ve got your story now…” he muttered to himself.
***
“Is he…is he looking at us? Oh sh*t…d**n it, get us out of here!” the news reporter called the chopper pilot.
The pilot gave a nod and begun to move off, but didn’t get very far as they were then hit in the tail “I can’t control it…we’re…we’re going down…”
***
Diablo glanced at the chopper again as he watched it go down, crashing not too far from where he was too.
***
As the news reporter came through, he was injured, but managed to stand still as his cameraman was also fairly fine too, but the pilot “He didn’t make it…sh*t…” the reporter had added in when he saw the pilot.
The cameraman motioned to behind the reporter, it was Diablo approaching them.
But before they could get out of the way, Diablo landed on the ground and stepped forward “W-w-w-what d-d-d-do you w-w-w-want?” asked the reporter, as he hasn’t been in a situation like this before.
“To speak to America if you may…” replied Diablo glaring at the cameraman.
The cameraman hesitated to get the camera going, fumbling around in the process until he finally had.
“Are we on?” asked Diablo.
The cameraman nodded back to Diablo.