Sithking Zero: Bass and CL aren’t mine. Yet.
Now, to summarize, Bass was attacked again in the last chapter. As he faded into unconsciousness, XANA moved his Monsters to the real world. As our brave heroes find out, these beasts are none other then Skipazoas. However, will this be the end for our story, since the Skipazoas will wipe Kadic off the map? Or will help come from an unlikely source?
Read on, and see the next installment in our saga…
Chapter 10:
XANA’s Assault
For a great many moments, nobody moved. It was totally silent, except for the gentle padding of the tentacles feeling their way around the foyer. Everyone, even those who had never seen a Skipazoa’s tentacles before, was frozen with fright.
That is, until one grabbed hold of the foot of a young freshman girl, Milly.
Then, the screaming began.
At first, the cries of terror and horror were only because the humans realized that they were the target of the creature’s assault. Then, more came due to the fact that it was drawing poor Milly back towards the creature’s strange, greedy embrace.
Quick as lightning, Ulrich smashed open the nearby glass, which held an anti-fire axe. After ten years of nonuse, it was a little rusty, but it sliced down on the tentacle of the beast like Ulrich’s Lyoko Katana.
Like a worm, what was left of the mangled tentacle slid back out the door.
It was at this precise moment, however, that an ear-splitting shriek was heard.
“SISSI!” Odd cried, and before anyone could stop him, he had dashed back to the classroom he had just left.
Ulrich started back to help his friend, but had no time, due to the arrival of our friend Yumi to the rapidly unfolding drama.
As she slammed the doors behind her, one solitary tentacle got in, wrapping around and completely enveloping her legs.
For one moment, she teetered on two unstable legs, then, like a mighty oak, collapsed to the ground.
Quickly, Ulrich, Jeremie, and Aeilita dashed forwards to help their Japanese friend. Working together, Aeilita and Jeremie managed to pull her out of the deadly embrace, then Ulrich hacked the offending tentacle to pieces.
As one, the four looked at one another, and said the one four-letter name that meant darkness and evil in their lives.
“XANA.”
Offering Yumi his hand, the shorter boy helped her up while simultaneously shouldering his axe.
Swinging it experimentally, Ulrich listened intently as Jeremie outlined the plan to get to the factory without their large, memory-draining friends following them.
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Jim was listening to the latest Green Day CD in his office in the gym when he heard a large crash.
Now, at a school this large, a crash was probably somebody just messing with the ball pile he had stacked in the equipment shed. Still, that meant that he got to put someone in detention, and that gave him a small amount of sadistic pleasure.
Lifting his considerable bulk out of his swivel chair, he opened the door to the equipment shed, which had a two doors, for convienience: one to the office, and one to the gym.
To Jim’s immense surprise, nothing was wrong. Everything was in order.
Scratching his head, Jim turned around, looking straight at where he kept the supplies for Track and Field, where he noticed something that made him mad.
“Aw, come on! I just re-ordered these javelins, and already they’re broken. That’s the last time I let Della Robia help me with teaching the class.”
He sighed dramatically.
“Ah, well, I better show this to the principal.”
Grabbing the first spear, he slammed the door to the equipment shed open.
After walking halfway across the campus, he was about to enter the principal’s office when he heard slight choking sounds.
Being a trained Gym Teacher, Jim was well versed in CPR, and burst into the place, ready to administer it to his boss.
What he found was not even remotely close to a situation that might require CPR.
The entire wall on one side of the room had collapsed, and in it’s place was a… well, Jim didn’t know what it was.
It was gigantic. Easily as big as a Truck Cab, the top was a clear, bubble dome with what looked like a glowing, red bladder in the center.
The rim of the bubble was a golden ring with a sort of target on the creature’s front side. The entire creature’s dome pulsed gently, as some sort of fluid was being transferred from the principal to the thing through the tentacles that held the helpless man in a death grip.
Jim watched, frozen in terror, as the thing stopped draining the principal and turned towards him.
Acting instinctively, Jim threw the Javelin in his hand.
The thing grabbed the projectile with one tentacle, then snapped it in two with another.
Naturally, this scared the crap out of Jim, and also naturally, he tried to run.
He didn’t get far.
It is a little-known fact that Skipazoa tentacles are over seven times longer then the main body is tall.
The last thing that Jim remembered, before the creature began to drain his brain, was cold, greedy tentacles enveloping his legs, and three more pressing themselves to his head…
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Jeremie, Yumi, Ulrich, and Aeilita raced along the hallways of the science building of the Science building of the Kadic Academy school.
The plan to get to the factory was simple in design:
Odd would handle things in the real world, while they would sneak around back to the loading entrance. Once there, it was a short jog to the passage to the factory through the park.
As they rounded a corner, Aeilita lost her balance, and fell to the ground.
Being the gentleman he was, Jeremie immediately turned back and went to help her up, to try to get her back in action ASAP.
However, it was at this precise moment that Murphy’s law decided to interfere, and the section of wall between Jeremie and Aeilita exploded violently.
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With a slight hiss of pressurized gasses escaping, a scanner at the factory opened.
A dark figure calmly, majestically, and most certainly angrily, left the tall cylinder, taking his first tentative steps into the real world.
Suddenly, like a bolt of lightning across his vision, he felt instinct kick into overdrive.
Like a rocket, and leaving a massive hole in the wall, this new being exploded into action.
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Aeilita screamed. Completely blocked from her friends, and with a Skipazoa cornering her, all hope seemed lost.
Tears streaked down her face, and she huddled into the corner of the hall farthest from the Memory-sucking abomination of hell.
She felt a tentacle touch her head…
Then a tendril touched her side…
Then an utterly alien scream of pain, accompanied by a brilliant flash of light, visible through her closed eyes.
She carefully looked up.
There was now a crater where there had been a hall. In the center, remains of a monster lay strewn about on the floor.
In the very middle of it all, and looking REALLY ticked, was a tall, cloaked figure with yellow fins on his head.
“We need to talk.” Growled Bass.
Sithking Zero: I GOT FOURTH PLACE IN A SCIENCE CONTEST! It was a test about glaciers, and me and Robert got fourth place. WE ROCK!
Many events are now set into motion, events that cannot be stopped… and I will update as I see fit! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!
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