Key To My Heart || Slugterra

40| Mission Impossible

"That's a bold statement," Twist commented.

"You'll get use to it," Trixie smirked at him.

All of a sudden, the ground shook violently below us like an earthquake just erupted, so vigorous that we almost fell to the ground from it.

"What was that?" Kord asked hurriedly.

A bright ray of red light penetrated through the dark sky from the top of the citadel, forming a gradually enlarging ball of floating pure dark energy. Our faces went pale and jaws dropped.

"It's happening! We have to go now!" Twist yelled in fear and we wasted no time to mount our mechas. Eli gave me a hand and I hopped onto Lucky, before we sped towards the citadel in terminal speed.

The distant, ear-piercing cries of the Deep Cavern Eels, known as the High Plains' Monsters to some people, echoed through the deceased cavern. I spun my blaster over my head, and Cobra and Phoenix loaded themselves up in preparation.

"Get the Elementals ready," Eli instructed Burpy and the slug nodded before hopping into Eli's backpack to assemble the team.

"Ghouls!" Pronto screamed at the top of his lungs. Through the dusty air, an army of ghouls emerged through the smoke, screeching and glaring down at us. I spun my blaster and fired Cobra at them. She megamorphed, emitted strong waves and turned the ghouls away to rain on their own slingers, completely knocked half of them out.

I smirked playfully at the scene before me.

Maybe I was overthinking it.

This will be easy.

Cobra flew back to me, returned to photoform before she landed on my shoulder. More ghouls charged at us from the rest of the goons' gattlers as we were closer to the citadel, but it was nothing to Eli. He swerved Lucky around skillfully, dodging their shots without needing to fire a single slug.

I aimed my blaster at the gattlers and fired Phoenix. She megamorphed and set a row of gattlers on fire, melting their weapons. The rest of the gang fired their shots until all the gattlers were down. The goons stood no chance against us.

The entrance was only a few feet away, when our nightmares evolved.

Darkbanes.

They emerged from the entrance, each with gattlers in both hands, aiming them straight at us.

"We're taking cover!" Kord spoke through his earpiece as one by one our friends hid in trenches and rubbles, firing their shots at the Darkbanes continuously. Eli dodged each ghoul with ease, but to get through the line of Darkbanes in front of the citadel would be close to impossible.

"We'll need a fusion shot to get rid of those Darkbanes," Eli said, his eyes never left his devilish enemies.

"I'm on it! I may need to borrow Banger," I said and Banger hopped out of the backpack at the mention of his name. He smirked at me, before he loaded himself up. On the other end of the blaster I loaded up Ram.

The ride was unstable. Ghouls were raining down on us left and right.

Once I got my balance, I spun my blaster at a slow pace, before accelerating it until it could no longer spin any faster, detached the blasters, and fired them in sync. Both slugs megamorphed and fused into one giant fusion slug. It knocked away all the ghouls in its way and was soaring towards the line of Darkbanes. They did not get out of the way in time and the fusion shot went crashing through them, and into the sealed up entrance door, causing it to tumble down.

Eli revved up his engine and we ran up the stairs. Before the Darkbanes recover from the attack, we flew past them and the rubbles of the door, and landed into the main hallway of the citadel.