The Chronicles of Dragge 2

[Dragge]

Chapter 14- Spadia Island

Dragge woke up with the smell of breakfast in the air. He got up and walked to the dining room where he saw everyone else waiting for Trigger to finish.

"Good morning everyone." Dragge said.

"Hey." Locomotion said in a annoyed tone.

"Where's the next island we have to go to?" Dragge asked since no one else was talking.

"Roll said that it was Spadia Island." Trigger said coming through the doors with a huge platter of food.

Roll came up right behind him with a platter that had coffee mugs on it. "Yes, we'll head there right after breakfast is over."

After a good meal to get everyone started, Roll got the Flutter started and took off to the next island.

Dragge was in his room alone taking one last look at his armor he put it on then went down to the shooting gallery to test out the buster.

The buster wasn't great at first but after shooting for about thirty minutes, it was great. He would blast such large holes in the targets that later they had to be replaced.

Trigger came down after some time to see what Dragge was up to. "What's going on?"

"Since it looks like it worked, Roll and I upgraded my armor to make it better than before. Upgraded the buster, shielding, and claw."

"Impressive." Trigger said with a look of satisfaction on his face.

"How much longer until we reach the island?" Dragge said still shooting the targets in his kneeling position.

"Sometime after lunch we'll arrive."

Dragge stood up and turned around to face Trigger. "Which pirate do you think we'll encounter?"

"Hard to tell, there's Bruticus and Klaymoor."

"Both we faced before." Dragge said as he and Trigger started walking up to the ladder leading up stairs.

"True, but they may have better armor than last time." Trigger said coming out of the hole.

"Well, we'll just see when we get there." Dragge said with a smile on his face.

The rest of the morning went by very slowly. No one did much of anything. By the time they arrived at Spadia Island they wanted to get off the Flutter so quickly that they shot out the door.

They reached the area the pirates were attacking and found out that the pirate they were to fight was Klaymoor.

"I got tired of jail, so I busted out." Klaymoor said laughing a little bit.

[Dragge]

Chapter 15- Old Friends, New Rivals

"Klaymoor, come to our side." Bola said trying to convince him.

"Never. I'll stoop down to your level."

Klaymoor activated his gun and started firing at the group. The diggers ducked and dodged as much as they could. Bola at one point disappeared and came up behind Klaymoor to seize him.

"You guys head to the ruins, I'll take Klaymoor."

"No way are we leaving you Bola." Dragge shouted shooting Klaymoor.

Klaymoor gripped Bola and tossed him like he was nothing. Klaymoor then went back to firing at the diggers.

Omega flew into the air and brought out a laser sword to cut off Klaymoor's buster.

"Ah! It hurts. The pain is worse than my back pain!!!"

"Quick, hit him while he's down!" Drifter shouted pointing his buster at the fallen beast.

Dragge ran up to Drifter and grabbed the sword of his armor then jumped in the air and fell on Klaymoor stabbing him in the back.

"You, should all be ashamed of your self. The first rule of fighting, "Never hit an enemy while down.", you idiots."

"You forget rule two. "If the world is in any danger, the first rule in null and void." Take that." Trigger said.

"I'll be back to get you later. As for you Bola, I'm surprised that you still went to them."

"I had to. I had enough money for me to live the rest of my life out. I told you that a long while back. It was getting harder to break into places then get out quickly."

"Well, when you die, you wish that I was there at your side."

"Like that'll ever happen!" Bola shouted with anger.

Klaymoor said nothing more then disappeared.

"So would we go to the ruins now?" Locomotion asked.

"Yes." Bola said just staring into space. "Let's go. Leave Klaymoor behind."

The diggers regrouped then headed to the next ruin to find the second key to the enormous key. With everyone ready, they opened the elevator and went inside.

[Dragge]

Chapter 16- Where Light is not Your Friend Part 1

The diggers grouped together and started through the ruins noticing that there was more light which was the opposite of the last ruin.

"Locomotion, what way?" Dragge asked.

"We head to the northern most door. The others are all traps that might be too hard to get out of."

They headed to the northern most door with their weapons ready for battle. The diggers came across reaverbots that looked newly discovered.

As many hardships as every one of them has had in their lives, this was just another one of them. The reaverbots weren't just ordinary, these things were adapted to a high powered circuitry that has not been used at all by any technology discovered by carbons or Elysians.

The diggers had fights of their lives that if digging was a sport, it would make the high light reels.

"What do these things have in them?" Trigger asked at one point.

"They are enhanced with some sort of artificial chip that must be like steroids to them." Drifter said.

"What chip is it?" Tim asked with a concerned look.

"Not even I would know. This technology has not been discovered by Elysians. This technology is something I heard of that's called the Nemesis Program probably designed by Nemesis himself.

"Well, let's continue our trek, shall we?" Bola said starting ahead.

"We need to get this key. We have only nineteen days left." Dragge said to the others who all agreed with him.

They headed off to the next door to continue what might be the hardest ruin they have ever been in before. This ruin they claimed was even worse than the Elysium War. They claimed that if it wasn't for their determination, they wouldn't have made it to the master reaverbot.

As inside of the next door, the diggers rechecked their armor and made sure it still ran sufficiently.

[Dragge]

Chapter 17- Where Light is not Your Friend Part 2

The diggers all walked through the next door to continue their trek. Now, the ruin split into about seven different paths.

"Locomotion, which is the right way to go?" Drifter asked having total confidence in him.

Locomotion looked back with fear. "I don't know. My GPS system has frozen up and I can't tell which path we take."

"What do you mean it froze up?" Dragge asked.

"It won't respond! It just shows static as if someone is interfering with it to stop us then kill us here on the spot."

"Well. Let's do this the old fashion way. We'll split up by ourselves. There are seven paths and seven of us." Dragge said.

"If one of us hits a dead end, come back here and stay here or travel as far as you can and find any treasures." Juno said.

Dragge took the rightmost path. Walking along he went through many twists and turns as well as many ramps. He ended up in a big room that looked like it contained nothing at first.

As he was about to leave he heard a voice. "He Dragge." Omega said.

There standing in the room was everyone else. "Guys, is this where we were brought to?" Dragge asked.

"It looks like it." Tim said.

"Well, should we backtrack and find another way through the ruin?" Dragge asked.

"No. We should stay here." Juno said.

Dragge didn't see it but Drifter walked up slowly behind Dragge with his sword out of its sheath. Then in one swift movement he stabbed at Dragge.

"What's wrong with you Drifter?" Dragge screamed in pain.

Drifter said nothing as he and the rest of the gang grouped together.

"Nothing may seem as it truly is Dragge." Locomotion said.

"These can't be them." Dragge said to himself. "It's as if the master reaverbot has made dark clones of the guys and wants to put them against me. I have to know their strategies on how they fight or else this is my last chapter."

Dragge started fighting them and at first he got beat hard.

"They know my strategy." Dragge said in a whisper. "I'll have to switch it up on them. I just have to reach Drifter's sword and attack them with melee instead of shot. I could use my claws but that might not work."

Dragge got up from his knees and started jumping and dodging from the attacks of the shadow clones. He finally reached Drifter's sword and pulled it from its sheath.

Dragge then with an upper hand started slicing through the fake diggers. After about thirty minutes Dragge defeated the last of them.

Out of breath, Dragge turned around and walked back through the path in which he came from. Surprisingly he saw all of the others there and out of breath.

"Are you guys real or just an image from my mind?" Dragge said putting the sword up as if ready to attack at any given moment.

"We're us. I think." Trigger said. "Are you Dragge?"

"Yeah."

"What was that?" Bola asked.

"The ruin must've cloned us into shadow clones to put against each other and test our strength. The master reaverbot wanted to know if we would kill our friends if we had to."

"And we did." Tim said.

"We must find the way to the master reaverbot." Juno said starting to get up off of the floor. "We need to find the right path and not just stand here."

"What if that was the reaverbot?" Omega asked with question on his face.

"I doubt it." Drifter said.

"You never know." Bola said.

"Locomotion, is your GPS working?" Dragge asked.

"That's a stupid question." Locomotion said looking down at his GPS. "It's... working again."

"I knew it. The shadow clones jammed your GPS so that we wouldn't find out that they were the wrong paths." Dragge said.

"He's right. The real path is behind this wall right here." Locomotion said blowing a hole in the wall revealing a door.

"Let's go." Dragge said.

[Dragge]

Chapter 18- Where Light is not Your Friend Part 3

After a terribly hard fight, the diggers walked on to the master reaverbot. They kept fighting the enhanced reaverbots as they went through the ruin.

They finally got to the master reaverbot room. The door opened and they stepped through with battered armor.

The reaverbot came from the ceiling. It was a big wolf.

"What's with the animal themed reaverbots?" Bola asked.

"That's how we made them." Dragge said back.

The giant beast howled and hurled massive icicles from its huge mouth. The ice was as big as an average bus.

"Watch out for the ice. One hit might kill you off." Drifter said.

The reaverbot kept firing for a while until the diggers wore it down. Then it started swiping with its claws.

Barely dodging the claws, some of the diggers jumped on top of the reaverbot to try and find a weak spot. They found a hatch and Omega jumped inside the reaverbot.

About thirty seconds later, the reaverbot dropped with a thud. Omega crawled back out with the second part of the key.

"Two down." Omega said with a smile on his face.

The group started walking back to the surface when an alarm went off.

"Destroy the intruders before they escape." it said.

The group ran as quickly as they could. They reached one room where the door on the other side locked. A press from the ceiling came down to crush them but it didn't.

Out of nowhere Klaymoor appeared holding the press up so that it wouldn't crush anyone.

"You guys have to get out of here!" Klaymoor said struggling with the weight of the press. "Hurry!!!"

"What should we do Drifter?" Trigger asked.

"I don't know. The door's locked and there's no other way out."

Dragge then thought of the sword that he took from the shadow Drifter. He pulled it out and looked at it. "Drifter, give me your sword!" Dragge shouted.

He held the two together and pointed at the door. "Darkness and light combined will create balance between the two." Dragge said to himself.

The swords fused together into a balanced sword with more power than before. He pointed at the door and then the sword shot a laser beam out of the tip and blasted the door open.

Dragge then gave the sword back to Drifter. The guys started running out to the elevator, but Bola stood there.

"Come on Klaymoor!" Bola said concerned.

"I can't. Go without me."

"I won't!"

Trigger came back in. "Come on Bola!" he shouted.

Bola refused but Trigger had to drag him out of there. The last thing Bola saw was Klaymoor being crushed underneath the press.

"Klaymoor." Bola said quietly.

The diggers got back to the surface where it looked as if it were night already.

"Klaymoor sacrificed himself to save us. We won't forget him." Drifter said.

Bola not saying a word walked off to the direction of the Flutter. The others then followed him to get a good night's rest and polish up their armor for the next island.

"Dragge, what happened to my sword?" Drifter asked.

"I fused the power of both light and darkness to create a more powerful version of your sword. It should come in handy sometime." he said.

"I hope you're right." Drifter responded.

[Dragge]

Chapter 19- A Nice Reunion

The diggers were resting that night after a couple of hard fights at the previous ruin. Roll patched up their armor as soon as they got home.

Trigger, Dragge, Drifter, and Juno were sitting around a table playing Monopoly to pass some time by.

"Okay Drifter, you owe me two thousand bucks for landing on Board Walk!" Dragge said.

"Darn it Dragge! That's the fifth time you've won tonight!!." Drifter shouted.

"Well, that's my last game. I've had enough."

Then the Flutter shook violently. "Everyone, get your armor and get to the roof of the Flutter!"

Everyone did just that and got to the top. They all saw a large green ship coming by with the familiar skull symbol on the front. Then two Draches flew from a hanger and landed on the ground next to the Flutter.

Out from the two Draches came the infamous Bonnes, a group of retired pirates that owned a chain of stores for a living. From one of the Draches came Teisel and Tron. The other one opened up and a teen about 15 years old stepped out.

"Roll, lower the ladder. We have company!" Trigger shouted back down into the hatch.

Back in the living room, the diggers and Bonnes gathered to talk and see what's been happening.

"Good to see you again Mega Man." Teisel said shaking Trigger's hand then sitting down to relax.

"Mega Man!" Tron said running up and hugging Trigger.

"It's good to see you guys too." Trigger said trying to push Tron off of him.

"The Bonnes. It's been a while." Dragge said.

"Yes it has." Teisel said.

"Who's that there in the yellow mech armor?" Tim said.

"I'm Bon."

"Bon?!" Trigger half way shouted. "I thought you were just a baby."

"I was. Until a few months ago." Bon said.

"What happened?" Drifter asked.

"Tron was checking up on me inside my suit to see if I was okay. I fell out of the mech when she opened it. At that instant, I went from age one to fifteen."

"How's that possible?" Bola asked curiously.

"We think that our parents made the suit so that when someone was put inside, they would age very slowly. That's what it seemed like."

"So, you've been stuck in the form of an infant for fourteen years, huh? Interesting." Omega said. "That sounds like something the Elysians would come up with."

"We don't understand it either." Teisel said. "Our parents were wealthy, but we didn't know that they could access that type of machinery."

"Well, that's amazing and all, but we should get to the real reason why you guys are here. What's been happening since the last meeting." Locomotion said.

The Bonnes discussed how they have at least one store on each island and how their reputations as pirates has diminished.

The diggers then explained how Nemesis has returned and is planning to destroy the world by crashing Elysium into Terra. Also about how they only have seventeen days left to save the world by gathering the keys.

"Do you need any help?" Teisel asked concerned for them.

"We have everything under control." Dragge said. "Thanks though. If we need anyone, we'll send for Bon."

"It's been nice seeing you guys again." Tron said.

They all said good bye to each other and the Bonnes left for the Gesselschaft.

"It was nice seeing them again." Roll said.

"It was." Trigger said.

They all went to their rooms after that to get some well needed rest.

[Dragge]

Chapter 20- Destrosity Island

The next day The Flutter was already high into the sky when everyone woke up. They sat down and got breakfast before going about some usual business.

Dragge decided to go down to the third floor to play on a new pool table that was bought about a month ago. With the whole saving the world thing, he hadn't been able to shoot some pool on it.

Trigger came down and challenged Dragge to a game. The first three games Trigger won, but after that Dragge won the next four making him champ.

The hours passed after the seven games played and the diggers were just sitting around when Dragge came up with an idea.

"We should come up with a name for our digging group."

"How about the autobots!" Bola exclaimed.

"I think I hear crickets chirping." Juno said.

"How about the Elysians?" Trigger suggested.

Everyone decided on the Elysians for their group name. About another two hours later the Flutter arrived at its next destination. Destrosity Island.

The Elysians gathered their armor and walked out the door onto the solid ground. They saw a familiar figure approach them with new armor.

"It's good to be back to destroy." Bruticus said.

"I thought you died when Dragge sent you over Glyde's base." Trigger said with anger on his face.

"Nope. I survived. Nemesis came and brought me in and gave me new armor." Bruticus said looking at his new armor.

"You can't stop us." Omega said. "We've defeated everyone that's stood in our way."

"You'll die at my hands!" Bruticus said laughing.

Bruticus flew up into the air into a battle position. "Are you ready you second rate diggers?" Bruticus insulted them.

[Four]

No matter how long this one seems to get, I can't help but feel that it finishes before I even start reading ^^. Of course, the effort is top notch, since you're still shoveling out patch upon patch of creative juice!

...Delta Trigger is still right, though. You might have made it more descriptive, but only just the slightest bit. There has to be some staying power other than the fact that page 2 is almost full and it's all your posts (meaning, it's gotten pretty long!). Of course, I'm not suggesting that you stop making the story fast-paced... just a little more descriptive than what you have now?

I'm saying this not as a fellow writer (I'm hardly, hardly eligible for a title like that), but a person that's fond of reading. Perhaps you should pick up a novel or two yourself, brush up a bit on your writing ability... not that there's anything wrong with it now--but there's always room for improvement on anything. There's still a lot of untapped potential, you know?

Oh, and I feel that Dragge's a little too overpowered... that's just my opinion of course ^^.

Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to the next installment.

[Dragge]

Thanks for the tips. I do read a lot of books. I read 70 books during my 8th Grade year. I'll see what I can do with the discriptions.

[Dragge]

Chapter 21- Stayin' Alive

Bruticus looked on at the Elysians with a cool relaxed look. "I've also upgraded my weapons. Now, I have a more powerful buster than what I used to own." Bruticus said with a sly smile on his face.

Trigger looked at him with fire in his eyes hating the thought that another of their many enemies has come back to try and destroy them finally.

"You can't win Bruticus!" Drifter shouted ready for a good fight.

"You want to bet?" Bruticus asked with a questioning face.

Dragge looked at everyone as if they knew his battle plan to take down this guy. He put a smile on his face and hit a button on his armor.

Bruticus looked at Dragge with a worried face wondering what Dragge just hit. Music started playing from some sort of music device inside of his suit.

"What is that?" Bruticus asked?

"Battle music." Juno said.

With their hopes highered, the Elysians started on the offensive and hit hard. Bruticus however found the strength inside of him and fought back a lot harder.

Both the Elysians and Bruticus fought hard without end with sweat flying everywhere in the hot sun.

Omega found the perfect time to strike when Bruticus's back was turned to him. Omega activated a huge bazzoka inside of his armor and fired a clear cut shot at Bruticus's back.

At the last second however, Bruitcus side stepped it and the blast hit Locomotion straight in the face. Bruticus laughed as he floated back a few feet to make sure no one was behind him.

"You guys are pathetic this time around. I'm surprised at how weak you all are. There are eight of you and only one of me." he said with victory in him.

"We won't go down." Bola said getting back up from a hard strike to his back.

"So be it then." Bruticus stated. He then started attacking again. Neither side gave up but the battle waged on for hours. Finally Tim got a perfect hit in and stunned Bruticus.

The others fired before he could get back up to end the fight quickly. After a few minutes of punishment they quit attacking.

Bruticus's armor was spewing black smoke from almost everywhere.

"I'll be baaaack." the words slowly coming out of his mouth. He couldn't get out of there though because an old enemy died right there on the spot.

"No you won't ." Dragge said kicking his armor to make sure the foe was dead.

"He put up a good fight." Trigger said.

"Yes, but we have an even greater fight ahead of us." Drifter said. "The ruins have been getting harder as we go along."

"Very true." Juno said from out of the blue.

"We should get our armor repaired first before we go anywhere." Locomotion said looking at his armor inspecting for scratches.

"Let's." Bola said.

[Dragge]

Chapter 22- Stone Cold Part 1

The Elysians gathered in the main room of the ruins and noticed how cold it was. They were about four-hundred feet underground in a stone ruin where it should be blazing hot.

"Why is it so cold down here?" Trigger asked immediately seeing if he could see his own breath.

"Don't know. We're four-hundred feet underground." Locomotion said looking at the walls. "Outside was perfectly fine."

"Well, we should get going to find the master reaverbot." Drifter said shivering as he walked along to the first door.

The Elysians followed suit and went to the first door. They went through to start the third adventure within fifteen days. They got their first look at the reaverbots inhabiting this ruin.

The reaverbots here were rock and ice elements combined. The Elysians had a hard time defeating each one because of the two elements combined.

Their busters at first had very little effect on them but the diggers found that if they turned up the heat on them they could battle a lot easier.

After destroying the first few reaverbots, the diggers found a spot to take it easy for a few minutes.

"Is it just me, or is getting colder in here?" Juno asked shivering just as hard as the others.

"It is." Omega said with his tongue chattering.

"What should we do?" Tim asked trying to stay warm like everyone else.

"Dragge, do you still have that fire armor from about a year ago?" Trigger asked.

"No. I got rid of it almost right after that fight with Bruticus. If I would've known that we might have needed it I would've kept it."

"Locomotion, how much farther?" Tim asked looking on at Locomotion waiting for an answer.

"The freezing cold has shorted it out. If we had some warmth, I could possibly find the route but otherwise there's nothing I can do."

The group got back up and started walking back through the ruins as they were earlier. As they kept going along, they thought they would die from the reaverbots because it kept getting colder.

The fact that they were wearing armor didn't help them out either. The metal got so cold at times that it made them colder.

The reaverbots seemed tougher only because the cold seemed to give them more strength. At one point about half way through the ruin, Bola fell to the ground.

"Bola, are you alright?" Dragge asked being the first to see him on the ground.

Dragge rushed to his side picking up his head to make sure he was alive.

"Not really." Bola said stuttering. He tried lifting his head but couldn't at all.

"Bola, teleport yourself out of here." Drifter said with a concerned voice. "We can handle ourselves."

"I don't think I can teleport out of here." Bola said with a weakening voice.

"Do it." Trigger said staring at him straight in the face.

"Alright." he said standing up very slowly.

"If you come back, bring some insulation of some sort." Dragge said to Bola.

Bola nodded then disappeared in an instant. "We need to move on." Omega said looking as if he were about ready to hit the ground as well.

"Yes, we should be half way through." Tim said looking at everyone else.

They all agreed then, still shivering, headed through the next door.

[Dragge]

Chapter 23- Stone Cold Part 2

Bola had just previously left the group from collapsing from the unbearable temperatures. The rest of the group decided to go on to get the third part of the key.

As they traveled through, the temperature got colder and colder, the guys all wished that they had Bola's ability to come and go at will.

They finally got to a large room that had crystals all over the walls. They walked around the room looking in awe. They also noticed that the room was the coldest room they had been in.

Even though it was cold in there they stared at the crystals not noticing that crystals on one of the walls were not what they were. A giant rock crystal reaverbot broke free from the wall.

"Darn, just when you think there isn't a reaverbot, there is." Dragge said in anger.

Bola came back in to help in the fight. "Here guys. I got insulation in a can. It'll help like a charm. Already put some on my armor."

They did as Bola said and noticed that they were warming back up by the second. By the time they were at normal temperature, they were ready to fight the best fight they ever would.

The Elysians started attacking when the temperature for them was back to normal and noticed that no matter how much they peppered the reaverbot with shots, they could not get past its hard outer shell.

"This thing is using the crystals as a hard armor that seems impossible to penetrate." Tim said blasting the bot with all his energy.

Dragge jumped on top of the reaverbot to try and find a weak spot. He go this claws activated and started slashing away at it. "Drifter, use your sword to slice through its outer shell." Dragge shouted.

It took a while but after about a couple of hours of slicing, they got down to the inner reaverbot inside the crystals. That's when they started hitting it with everything.

The reaverbot had no attacks except for to try and smash his opponents with his fist which was too slow anyway.

After another few minutes they brought the beast to its knees. After falling fully to the ground, it spit out the third peace of the key. Locomotion went over and picked it up.

"That's three." Omega said looking at the key Locomotion held in his hand.

"We may have three, but we still only have sixteen days to get the fourth part and getting to the true core of Elysium." Drifter said ready to walk out of the room.

The Elysians nodded in agreement as they started their journey back to the surface. They also noticed that it was starting to get warm as soon as they exited the room.

"Seems as if the reaverbot controlled the temperature in the building." Juno said. "Hey Bola, did they have any un-insulation at the store?"

"I didn't check, but I will when we get back." Bola joked with the others.

They laughed at Bola's remark as they left the ruin heading back to the Flutter to rest up for the final adventure for the final part of the key.

They left the ruin and noticed that they must have taken longer to get out than they thought and noticed that it was dark outside.

They got to the Flutter where Roll was waiting for them in the living room. "Are you alright guys? You were gone for two days!" Roll exclaimed with fear and happiness at the same time. "I thought you were all dead."

"Don't worry, we can handle anything." Trigger said.

The rest of the group agreed and headed off for bed so they can rest up for the night.

[Dragge]

Chapter 24- Relaxation Time

The group of Diggers had only fifteen days left but who says they couldn't get a little rest? The next morning everyone woke up to a buffet for breakfast.

They hadn't had a bite to eat in two days so Roll wasn't surprised to see them chow down about three servings each. She even needed Data to help her make more.

After breakfast Dragge went back to sleep since he felt very weak. Trigger, Drifter, Omega, and Tim decided to play some video games for the time being.

Locomotion helped Roll locate the island where the next part of the key was located. Juno got his armor out and started to do some repairs on it and then decided to do everyone else's.

Bola looked through a catalog of melee weapons that he might like to buy so he could upgrade his arsenal.

Everyone went to lunch around noon to see how the others were doing.

"I slept easily." Dragge said yawning as he stretched his arms out wide.

"Roll and I discovered the next island to go to. We need to go to Martach Island. It's about three hundred miles due south of our current location. We should be able to reach there by tomorrow morning of Roll drives through the entire night." Locomotion said looking at a map.

Trigger announced that they had all beat Mega Man Legends 3 about twenty-five times one hundred percent, then beat extra hard mode in under thirty minutes.

Bola said that he had ordered some new weapons to the Flutter.

The rest of the day was pretty much the same as morning. The day wore on and night came incredibly quickly. By the time everyone woke up, they were indeed at Martach Island. With only fourteen days left to save the world.

[Dragge]

Chapter 25- Martach Island Part 1

As the Flutter slowly approached the island, the group went to their quarters and gathered their gear and armor for whatever pirate was waiting for them.

They each wondered if there even was a pirate on this island at all and if they would just go straight to the ruin to get the fourth key part.

The Flutter docked carefully at the island and the ladder dropped down from its spot on the Flutter. One by one the diggers climbed carefully down the ladder just in case something should hit the Flutter and rock it back and forth.

All of them gathered back at the bottom and started to walk cautiously towards the city were the ruin was located. At first they saw nothing at all.

Then, a slow thud became louder and louder. They saw an army of massive robots, and leading them was Dagger. Wearing an evil grin, he looked the same last time the group fought this challenging foe.

Dagger signaled to the robots to order them to stop marching. He walked right up to Trigger looking him square in the eyes. "I'll give you one chance to give up Trigger." he said not taking his eyes off of Trigger.

"We won't give up. We need to stop Nemesis and save the world. We won't let you or your army stand in our way." Trigger said looking only at him.

"So be it. Don't say I didn't warn you because I did." After that Dagger turned around and walked back to his robots. "Fire." he said quietly once he got to them.

He walked through the center of the robots and as he went by, the robots obeyed his command and raised their weapons. The diggers almost caught by surprise raised theirs at the same time.

Dragge ran through the oncoming fire so he could get to Dagger. When he came close to the robots, he did a daring leap over them. Not knowing how far he could jump, he put one-hundred percent into the jump.

It was perfect because he landed right in front of Dagger himself. Dragge landed and turned around to face the clone of him. "You won't escape this time Dagger." Dragge said pointing his buster at Dagger's face. I won't hesitate to pull the Trigger and blow your head clean off."

"You amuse me Dragge. The last time we fought, you won. That was nothing more than a mere fluke is all. This time you will lose. You and your friends." Dagger said while just standing in the way of Dragge's buster gun.

Dragge fired a shot and before it could connect, Dagger jumped up and over Dragge and landed behind him. He spun around and kicked Dragge's feet out from underneath him. Dagger then pulled out a beam saber and tried to slice Dragge in half.

Dragge being a quick as he was moved out of the way easily. He than pulled out his beam claws and started fighting melee style.

The two of them battled back and forth dealing heavy blows to the other. After a period of time they both turned to their busters. Dragge even started using his auto-fire after finding out that his buster wasn't working out very well.

More time passed and the two clones were basically at a stand still. Both were breathing heavily as they resorted back to melee fighting. Instead of using swords and such they decided to let their fists do all the talking.

Blow after blow came to them each exhausting more of their energy. Dagger however found the perfect time and struck Dragge down hard. Dragge thought that he would die from that fight.

"So, you see what Trigger's decision came to?" Dagger asked looking at the flames everywhere.

Dragge looked himself and saw that Dagger was right. Everyone was on the ground just trying to keep themselves going. The robots were peppering everyone with shots and they couldn't do anything. They just laid there trying to shield themselves.

Dragge stood up looking at Dagger with fire in his eyes.

"I know how exhausted your team is. Now it's time to finish this." Dagger said to Dragge. Dagger raised a hand to stop the robots. He then put up one of his hands that made it look like a laser would shoot from it.

A whirling noise started up and the group knew that it was a laser powering up. "Dragge, do something!" Bola shouted.

Dragge looked on in horror replaying how he could have died from that previous battle. He stood there like a statue not moving.

Trigger had noticed that the laser was pointing to him. He got up and tried to move out of the way. It was too late though. The laser fired off and hit Trigger hard. After the laser hit his armor for a few seconds, a huge explosion occurred that sent Trigger flying fifty feet through the air.

Dragge looked on at Trigger knowing that if he could have knocked Dagger down he could have prevented that. Dagger signaled to the robots to escape. Before Dagger could escape, Dragge through a homing beacon on Dagger.

"Bon." Dragge said into his com-link device. "I want you to track a guy named Dagger. I'll give you the ID of the com-link so you can track him without any hardships."

Dragge and the rest of the group limped over to Trigger staring at his almost dead body.

"You guys get to the Flutter and get Roll. Tell her to get to Martach Island's Hospital." Dragge said.

"What about you?" Drifter asked.

"I'll carry Trigger there myself. If we waste time going to the Flutter then getting him or calling for an ambulance it might be too late."

"You're too weak to do it." Omega said looking at Dragge then down at Trigger's body.

"I'm the only one that has the speed to get there quickly though. You guys get to the Flutter."

Dragge said no more as he picked up Trigger on his back and started running off to the large white hospital towering in the sky. The only thing Dragge thought of as he ran with Trigger was not about his health, but whether or not Trigger would die or not.

[Dragge]

Chapter 26- Martach Island Part 2

Dragge arrived at the hospital running straight into the emergency section. The doctors laid Trigger on a stretcher and took him through huge double doors.

Dragge was sitting in the waiting room waiting for anyone to tell him about how Trigger was doing. Every time a doctor came through the doors, he asked them but it wasn't the right doctor.

Dragge then saw Roll coming in the doors out of the corner of his eye.

"Have they said anything about him yet?" Roll said worriedly wearing her usual red clothing.

"Nothing. Where are the guys all at?" Dragge said out of curiosity.

"They're all cleaning up. You should too." Roll said sitting down next to him.

"No. Not until they let us in to see Trigger and tell us how he's doing." Dragge said looking at his hands.

It was still a while before the Doctor came through the door. "Dragge?" he said looking at his clipboard.

"Yeah?" Dragge said walking over to the doctor. "How is he?"

"Not good. He took huge damage from that laser you mentioned to us earlier. He wants to see only you and a person named Roll."

"That's me." Roll said standing up as well.

"Follow me." the doctor said leading them through the doors. They walked down some hallways and go to Trigger's room where they saw him in a bed with machines hooked up to him monitoring his pulse and such. The other thing they saw was his armor laying in a battered heap in one of the chairs with many scratches in it.

Roll pulled up the other chair close to Trigger's bead with tears swelling up in her eyes. "Mega Man." she said quietly.

Trigger didn't open his eyes but calmly spoke. "Roll? Is that you?"

"Yes Mega Man. Dragge and I are both here."

Trigger finally opened his eyes and looked at the both of them. He smiled as much as he could. "Thanks for coming, both of you."

"How are you feeling?" Dragge asked.

"Terrible. The doc said he wasn't sure if I'd make it more than a day."

Roll sat there holding Trigger's hand as more tears came to her eyes.

"This is my fault Trigger. I stood there doing nothing while Dagger pummeled you with that death laser. I should be there in that bed." Dragge said with anger in his face.

"Nonsense! There's nothing you could have done to prevent that attack." Trigger said looking at him. "Where are the others?"

"At the Flutter freshening up after from after the fight." Roll said holding Trigger's hand.

"Look, Dragge. You and the guys have to get to the ruin to get the key. Otherwise you guys might all die too." Trigger said his voice weakening.

"I can't leave you Trigger." Dragge said looking at Trigger.

"Don't worry about me. I've got Roll here to keep me some company." Trigger said pointing his finger at Roll.

"Okay, I'll lead the guys into the ruins. Don't die while we're gone." Dragge said.

"I won't. Don't forget, you guys still have only thirteen days left." Trigger said.

"I didn't forget." Dragge said leaving the room behind. He walked down the hall and saw the guys in their armor all polished up standing around. He told them everything and said that Trigger told him to lead them into the ruins.

They all agreed with Trigger and left the hospital with Dragge leading the way. "Only thirteen days left." Dragge thought. "Can we make it in time?"