Key To My Heart || Slugterra

30| Missing Slugs

"We have to find them. They can't be far away."

"That's it? Just to search for them? Are you kidding me? That's not a plan! Please! I can't afford to lose them!" I screamed as tears were starting to form at the corners of my eyes.

"We were in a rush! We didn't have time to plan for anything! Eli and Pronto even left the house without their earpieces!" Mia yelled.

I furrowed my brows as I pulled on Dalinda's handles, driving Dalinda to an even higher altitude. My eyes scanned the cavern from above, trying to search for anything that's near to orange, or anything suspicious.

"Don't worry, Ales! Everything will be fine!" Trixie comforted.

"We will find them!" Kord said as I heard their mechas running at an incredible speed in the background.

"How is this even possible? Our hideout is guarded with so many slugs at night!" Trixie exclaimed.

"Exactly! And they wouldn't just... left without saying a word!" Mia added as she sighed.

"Wait! I saw something! Over there!" Mia said at the same time I spotted a row of trees shook at the corner of my eye.

Without a second thought, Dalinda dived down towards it, full speed. Soaring through the branches and landed on the muddy road, Dalinda sprinted forward towards a dashing shadow. We were chasing down a rider, but we were still very far behind.

"Come on Dalinda! Just a little more!" I said and she groaned with her body lowered and her wings curved. We took a sharp turn, and I spotted a hooded man with a mask on, riding a Mecha Wolf.

"I'm right at his tail!" I yelled as the trio soon came to sight behind me. I pulled out my blaster and fired Slime, but the rider dodged with ease.

"I'll chase him down from another path!" Mia said and I heard her mecha swerved away behind me. The chase went on for more than an hour, with the three of us firing countless slugs at the rider, but he dodged all of them skilfully.

"Who is that guy? How is he so good?" Kord questioned as he fired his Aquabeek, but the slug was knocked down by the rider's Rammstone.

"Whoever he is, he's not going anywhere with our slugs," I growled.

"Trix, Kord, I need him to stay on this road," I said as I released my grip on Dalinda to spin my blaster. "I'm gonna take him down with a fusion shot."

"Got it!" Trixie replied, before I heard two gunfire and two Lavalynx flew past me. They megamorphed and travelled on both sides of the road, pouring down lava to force the rider to stay on the road.

Funnel and Taser hopped into the vacant canisters inserted in the blaster and I spun it into a higher speed, allowing it to accelerate around my body before I detached them, aimed at the rider, and fired.

They megamorphed and fused into one megamorphed slug. With their powers, they knitted a spiderweb with electricity running through each string, and shot it at the rider.

He turned around and saw the incoming giant net. The electricity travelling along the web gave his face a pale yellow glow. He was wearing a plain black mask, with red lines around where his eyes were meant to be.

He climbed onto his mecha's seat and jumped full force, doing a backflip, before he landed with a hand on the ground and his blaster in his other hand. The web captured the Mecha Wolf and brought it down, temporarily disabling it.

Funnel and Taser returned to photoform and perched on my shoulders, looking curiously at the rider in front of us. The three of us came to a halt a few feet in front of him, with our blasters pointing at him.