Protectors of Pandora

Chapter 60 ~Salizar’s reckoning~

Salizar was at his terminal, it was a circular platform with monitors on all sides, he was sitting on a high tech chair, his Barons behind him. “Oh Caesar, Caesar, Caesar.” Salizar said, “he really thinks he can stop me..” He continued. “Salizar, I wouldn’t underestimate him, or his friends.” Oak said. “What would you know about friends Oak.” Salizar said calmly. Oak looked down regretfully. “They’re getting close sir.” Vinestrap said. “Oh they are? Really? I hadn’t noticed..” Salizar said. Vinestrap glared at him behind his back. “Now! You know the plan. Get in position.” Salizar told the barons. They nodded and left the terminal. “It’s time, finally time.” Salizar said almost to himself.

“Where exactly are we going.” Ron asked Caesar. “I’ve got no idea, but if Salizar wants to fight us I’m sure we’ll find him eventually.” Caesar said. “Sso that’ss the plan? Walk right into hiss handss?” Fang said. “You got a better plan?” The chief said. They continued down the halls, never seeming to get anywhere, but then, all the halls around them closed, blast doors blocked their escape. Bones started blasting the door, the others followed suit. “Everyone, HURRY!” Skyla said pointing out a green gas entering the room. “Poisson!” Seascale shouted. “Use the force Caesar.” Salizar’s voice mockingly said. Caesar didn’t understand the reference but it gave him an idea, “everyone stand back!” He said, he held out his bionic arm with his palm relaxed and then clenched it into a fist, a massive blast shot out of the arm, breaking the weakened door. The gas fizzled away, and they saw in the hall ahead, Vinestrap, along with an army of enforcers. “You know, I’ve always wanted to meet a mesopithicus. Who knew they were all so fun!” He said mockingly. “We’ll handle him, you go get Salizar.” Nash said. Him, Skyla and the serpents engaged the threat, the others blasted through another blast door and went the other way. “Come on, quickly!” Caesar shouted to the others they ran through the halls, they ran for another minute, they turned a corner, and saw the King dinopithicus boss arena control room, “We’ve gone in a circle!” Bones shouted angrily. They turned to run in another direction when they heard, “wait, over here.” It was Charr, he exited the arena, followed by Cinder and the other wyverns. “Where are the dinopithicus?” Jaxz asked. “No idea, they’re leader said he needed to find Nash and led his troops in that direction.” Cinder said pointing a claw towards the way they came. “Good, they’ll need reinforcements.” Caesar said. “You will too.” Frozt said.

“You will pay for the death of my son!” Vinestrap yelled. “For the last time! It was a deathmatch!!” Nash shouted. “Need help.” Xu said running to Nash’s aid. “Hunter.” Vinestrap said looking at Xu. “The name is Emperor Xu.” Xu said. He shot a few arrows at Vinestrap, but he deflected them with his whip. “Tomas.” Xu said to a soldier. “Yes emperor.” He replied. “Give me and Vinestrap your swords.” Tomas had an extra katana, so he gave his katana to Xu and threw the spare at Vinestrap, who barely caught it. “I was trained as a samurai you know, all princes have to be.” Vinestrap said. “Pfft, I would’ve never guessed..” Skyla said mockingly.

“Ugh, her again.” Richard said. “Now.. finally it is time! I SHALL FACE MY NEMESIS!!!” Quan shouted, rushing at Frozt with his Mace, the wolves and pengujas engaged Frozt, and like before the others went ahead without them, they had no time to waist. “Captain, he’s separating us.” Ron said as they ran. “I know.” Caesar replied. They continued running, fighting attack drones along the way, they finally reached Salizar’s control room, but there was an exo-mek guarding the way, along with some Defense units. “Oak..” Darrel said. “YOU TRAITOR!” the chief shouted. “You would betray them too if you were offered what I was!” Oak shouted back. The gigantopithicus charged at Oak, roaring battle cries and blasting the defense units, the others Pushed through into the control room.

Frozt picked Charles up by the scruff of the neck and threw him into the other wolves, Trickster threw his smoke bombs at her face, blinding her as The other pengujas used their tek suits to dash into her back, her liquid element tank cracked, “No!!!” She shouted, She angrily lunged at The pengujas, grabbing them up in her four arms, but one was missing, Quan. He was behind her and she didn’t notice him until he shouted, “I VANQUISH THEE!!!” And smashed his tek mace into her element tank, it shattered, spilling element all over the floor. She dropped the other pengujas and they jumped away, they watched as she transformed back into her regular size, Quan walked up to her and put his mace down. “Now, we fight. As equals.” He said. “Let’s…” Frozt said. She rushed at Qaun and he picked back up his mace and hit her in the face, she was out cold. “I thought you were going to fight as equals..” Ping said. “Not my fault she doesn’t have a MIGHTY MACE!” Qaun shouted. “What do we do with her.” Evelyn asked. “After all this running and fighting I am feeling pretty peckish.” Richard said. “I know exactly what we’ll do with her.” Charles said. Frozt woke up a few hours later, in a cryo cube.

“Caesar! I knew you’d make it!” Salizar said exitedly. He was wearing tek armor, with a dramatic cloak and no helmet, his bionic eye, and armor both glowed the same green light as the rest of his starlit sanctuary. Caesar looked at him and said, “Salizar, you can end this now-” “surrender? No, no I don’t think I’ll be doing that today.” Salizar said. “Then I guess we’ll have to put a stop to you.” Bones said threateningly. “Oh no! Big bad Bones is angry!” Salizar said mock-fearfully, “you know, you’ve waisted a long time, there’s only 10 minutes left..” Salizar said. “It hasn’t been 12 hours!” Ron shouted. “Your right.. I got bored and reduced the countdown a bit.” Salizar said. “You can’t kill the entire human race!” Stainly said. “SILENCE HUMAN!” Salizar said, he pointed a tek pistol at him and then noticed the wyverns, seemingly for the first time. “Cinder, Charr! I’m a big fan of you two, how would you like to be Barons? I’ll even let you rule over your home ark.” He said. “Never, I’ll rule Wyveria by right of the crown! Not by some overlords rule!” Cinder said. “Fine, then you’ll die with them.” Salizar said. “Enough of this talk, it’s time to fight!” Bones shouted, he roared and charged at Salizar.

“We were your troop! Your brothers in arms! YOUR FAMILY!!” The chief shouted, “how could you!” Birch yelled. “Salizar is giving me something none of you could!” Oak yelled. “And that is?!” The chief yelled wile tackling a defense unit. “I get to rule a whole ark! That’s something I could never get being a gigantopithicus!” Oak said. “Your just selfish!” Darrel said. “Your parents would be ashamed of you!” Birch yelled. “So would yours cousin!” Oak yelled. “Enough!” The chief yelled, he blasted the glass of the eco-mek and it shattered he jumped up and knocked it down, pulling Oak out of it. “TRAITOR!” The chief yelled pointing his blaster at Oak. “Chief wait!” Darrel said. “He betrayed us! And not just that, he left us for the guy who destroyed our home!” The chief yelled. “Chief- Joey, please, don’t let your rage blind you, look around, we beat him. let him rot in a cell somewhere.” Darrel said. The chief looked at the cowering Oak he was lifting in the air, he pushed the blaster against his head, but he couldn’t pull the trigger, he dropped the gun “AAGGGHH!” He shouted, throwing Oak to the ground.

“The two dinopithicus fought, they were equally matched with katanas, neither were very good to be honest, They clashed and clashed, Xu parried a swipe and pushed Vinestrap away with his other arm, they looked at each other ferociously, they both charged, and tan passed each other. Xu stood up and handed Tomas’s blade back to him, Vinestrap collapsed, a pool of blood spilled out of a wound on his side. “It’s over.” Nash said. “Come, we musst get to Caessar and help!” Seascale said.

Bones charged at Salizar, Salizar just stood at his terminal looking at Bones, a dozen overseer hexagons flew off of Salizar’s armor, they created a force field, Bones bashed into it headfirst, knocking himself unconscious, Cinder’s wyverns Leapt up into the air and flew towards him but Salizar pressed a button on his wrist and multiple voidwyrms fell from the ceiling, they engaged Cinder’s wyverns. “You’ll find, Queen Cinder, that these voidwyrms don’t have nearly as much free will as those from Wyveria.” Salizar said.

“Ping! Over here!” Nash said, running towards the wolves and kairukus, they had just finished putting Frozt in her cube. “Come we have no time to lose!” Seascale said. They ran through the halls, following the claw steps of the wyverns and Bones.

“Salizar!” Caesar shouted, he held up his arm, and blasted element at Salizar, he deflected it all with his hexagons. “Ron, Jaxz, distract him for a second!” Caesar said. “Stainly, you have to get in his terminal and stop the countdown.” Caesar said. “I can try, but-” Stainly said. “But nothing, you broke his hack before, you can do it again. We’ll distract him.” Caesar said. Bones Got up, moaning sorely. He shook his head and roared, his eyes glowed orange. “Everyone get out of the way!” Ron shouted. “They backed away from Bones, Bones charged at Salizar again, but this time he used his lasers, he broke the shield and grabbed Salizar, throwing him away, Jaxz, Caesar, and Ron started blasting him, he got up and grabbed they're throats with his hexagons, but his focus was broken when he was hit in the back by a mace. “Ha! You are the Salizar they fear, puny!!” Qaun shouted. “Oh really, Salizar said recovering from the blow, he shot a hexagon at Quan, it shocked him and the kairuku went unconscious, the other pengujas threw smokebombs at him and the wolves leapt at Salizar through the smoke, but he deflected everything with his hexagons. “We need to get rid of those hexagons!” Caesar said. “I did it!” Stainly said. The countdown stopped, only 26 seconds left. “NOOO!” Salizar shouted, he made the hexagons blast out around him clearing the smoke and knocking the attackers back, everyone started firing they’re lasers at him, he blocked everything with his forcefield, Cinder and her wyverns finished off the voidwyrms in the air and she flew down to Salizar, she landed in front of him and started blasting fire, it heated and heated, in actually fried a few hexagons, but Salizar shot a few at her, tasing her. She stopped fighting, the rest of the hexagons shot out from Salizar’s and shocked everyone, even Stainly. Nobody could move, Caesar fought through it and slowly moved his left arm to the hexagon and crushed it. “SALIZAR! LETS END THIS NOW!” He shouted. “So be it.” Salizar said, he ran at Caesar a tek spear manifested in his arm, he tried to strike at Caesar but he blocked it with his arm, Caesar knocked him back and blasted him, Salizar recovered and grabbed Caesar, he flew into the wall behind the terminal, he tried to choke Caesar with his spear, shoving it against his throat sideways, Caesar kneed him in the stomach, and Salizar faltered, Caesar grabbed the spear and stabbed Salizar through the chest, he stopped using his tek jetpack, and Caesar used his, they crashed into Salizar’s monitor, Caesar holding the spear through Salizar’s body and into the terminal. Salizar lost control of his hexagons and the others were freed. “STAINLY QUICKLY! Get them out of here!” Caesar shouted struggling to hold Salizar down, Stainly rushed to open Salizar’s personal portal. “The portal is open to the jungle ark.” Stainly said. “This is where we leave you Nash-San.” Xu said, he bowed to Nash and Nash bowed back, Xu and his troops ran through the portal, Skyla stayed. “I’m staying with you.” She said. “the portal is open to Tundra!” Stainly said. “Hurry!” Caesar said. “NoOOoo” Salizar spat out. “I bid you farewell Ron, Kairukus, I hope you find Pandora, but we must go find our friend, and stop Khar.” Charles said. “I hope we meet again, friend.” Ron said. The wolves ran through the portal, Ron swore he saw a tear on Richard’s face. “Alright, now for Wyveria!” Stainly said. “Home.” Charr said to his wife, she had the eggs in her claws. “Come my people, we must leave this place!” Cinder said. The wyverns flew into the portal. “Where do I send us? Pandora isn’t an option!” Stainly said. “Enough!” Salizar said, he threw a knife at the terminal, it sparked and glitched. “What now?!” Ron said. “The portal.. GO!” Caesar said struggling. “But it could go anywhere!” Nash said. “Just go!! Anywhere’s better than here!” Caesar said. They ran to the portal but A few stopped, “what about you?” Seascale asked. “I have to hold Salizar!” Caesar said. “If I’m going to lose, your going with me!” Salizar said. He pressed a button on his wrist. “Checkmate protocols activated, scanning terminal, scan complete, self destruct activated.” A voice said. Red lights started to flash, the room sparked and tumbled, “EVERYONE GO!” Caesar yelled. “We can’t leave without him!” Ping shouted. “We have too! Otherwise we all die!” The chief said, he picked up Ping. Jaxz, Seascale, and the chief went through the portal looking at Caesar as they left, Bones roared and went to charge at Caesar and Salizar. “No! You gotta go!! Run!!!” Caesar shouted. “Self destruct in ten seconds.” “We can’t leave you!” Ron said. “This isn’t how the story ends!” Nash shouted. “Just go! I have to know your safe!” Caesar shouted. Self destruct in 5..4…” “Capt- Caesar.. no…” Ron said. “Let’s get out of here!” Bones said running through the portal. “Let me go!!!” Salizar struggled. “3..2..1” Nash and Ron jumped through taking one last look at Caesar. the room exploded.