Lunar Trench
Celestial Sea
December 23rd, 2022
2230hrs
The underwater base wasn’t a small one. With all their sneaking around and avoiding detection as much as possible, Sparkler and her makeshift team weren’t going as fast as they wanted. Sparkler looked at the map of the base on her watch, which they were easily able to get when inside the base. “Ok, this is where we split up.” She said. “Sundown and Midnight are in the control room. Generator is in another room.” She said in a hushed voice.
“Is alerting the demons really needed?” Twilight asked. “If we play it right we can just walk out off here without them knowing.”
“Whatever they’re using the generator for is powering up. They’ll catch onto us real quick once we move it.” Daydream responded. “Facing them directly will give us the best chance of success.”
“Seconded.” Sparkler said. “Team B, turn right and go straight until you reach the end of the hallway. THat’s where the generator is.”
“Roger that.” Sunset responded. “Good luck you two.”
Clear-Cut roared. Sparkler shook her head. “Clear-Cut, the generator is our number one priority. It has to get out of here, no matter the cost.”
Clear-Cut relented and nodded, seeing that he couldn’t change Sparkler’s mind. So split up they did. Sparkler and Daydream continued on to the control room while the rest went for the generator. “Flappy, be ready to tow hook the generator and punch it up to the surface.” Sparkler said.
“Roger that Sparkler. And all com units are operating at optimal levels.” Flappy responded.
“Good.” Sparkler said.
A short time later, in the control room, Sundown and Midnight were both tapping at a console, charging up their weapon and targeting SMILE HQ. “First we destroy SMILE, THEN we will take over this world.” Sundown said.
“And nothing will stand in our way. Heheh.” Midnight responded.
“Well well well. Ms. Scrooge and the Grinch. So THIS is where you two ended up since October.” Said a voice that genuinely scared the living daylights out of the two demons, who turned to see two girls they didn’t expect. Sparkler and Daydream.
“WHAT?!” Sundown shrieked.
“How did you two get down here?!” Midnight exclaimed.
“You two stole a magic generator. You REALLY think we wouldn’t notice?” Daydream asked, both she and Sparkler in combat stances.
“I gotta hand it to you two. Setting up down here was clever.” Sparkler said. “If only you hadn’t stolen the generator.”
Sundown and Midnight growled as they flared up with magic and charged at Sparkler and Daydream. “WHATEVER YOU’RE PLANNING IT WILL NOT WORK!” THey growled at them.
“Funny. We were gonna tell you the same thing!” Sparkler retorted as the demons crashed into them.
Meanwhile, in the Generator room, Twilight, Sunset, Clear-Cut, and Rudolph stared in disbelief. They had found the generator, but it was not going to be as easy as they thought. It was integrated into what was clearly a weapon. “A weapon. Why is it always a weapon?” Sunset sked.
Twilight glanced around until she found a console. She dashed over to it and started interfacing with it. “I’m attempting to see if I can shut it down from here.” She said.
“I doubt it.” Sunset responded. “If this thing was built by your evil alter ego, She probably thought of that.”
“Well we need to do SOMETHING. I doubt we can move the generator while this thing is charging.” Twilight responded.
“Intruder alert, Intruder alert!” Sunset, Clear-Cut, and Rudolph all jumped when they turned and saw some drones coming right for them.
“Defense drones!” Sunset warned as she raised her loaned blaster and began firing at the incoming drones, while Clear-Cut swooped in and started burning them with his fire breath.
Twilight kept her focus on the console, waging her own little battle against her alter ego’s programming. I’m actually fighting my own brain. She thought, quickly realizing that she needed to think of things she WOULDN’T think of.
Her access did not go unnoticed. While Daydream had Midnight pinned in a sword lock, she heard an alert from the console and glanced at it to see there was a breach in security. Her eyes widened. “They’re not alone!” She exclaimed. “Someone’s in the weapon room!”
Upon hearing that, Sundown smirked at Sparkler, who she was locked in her own sword lock with. “You’re a distraction.” She deduced.
“Security’s understandably light here.” Sparkler remarked as she pushed Sundown back.
Hearing that made Midnight raging furious as she pushed Daydream away, flared her wings and rocketed out of the control room. Sparkler saw this and turned directly to Daydream. “Go after her! I got Sundown!” She called out.
Daydream didn’t need to be told twice as she flared her own wings and raced off after Midnight. Sundown growled as she kept the pressure on Sparkler. “You think you can stop us, think again! Once we take care of SMILE, this world is ours!” She declared.
“Oh I can think of about eight billion people who will gladly disagree with you!” Sparkler responded as she defended herself.
As Daydream chased after Midnight, she commed Team B. “Heads up! Midnight’s gunning it for you guys!” She warned.
“Gah. Our hands are full as it is!” Sunset responded. “Keep her off us!”
“As if I’d do anything else.” Daydream responded as she caught up to Midnight and tackled her to the ground, stopping her in her tracks.
Midnight grunted as she hit the ground hard, the two rolled on the floor before they stopped. They got to their feet, with Daydream blocking Midnight’s path. “You will fall by my hand.” She declared.
“Try it.” Daydream responded as they went at it again.
Back in the control room, Sparkler was holding her own, but it was clear that without her gear, she was at a disadvantage, as Sundown was able to shatter the two combat rods she had made with her ring, before she roundhouse kicked Sparkler back. Sparkler grunted as she was knocked down onto the floor. “Oh. Did you lose your rods?” Sundown taunted. “Looks like without your gear you don’t have a chance.” She said.
Sparkler panted as she started getting up. Sundown had a point, she wasn’t faring as well as she had last time. That’ll teach me to never leave home without my gear. She thought, she briefly wondered how she was gonna keep it up, before it dawned on her that she had something even better. The heck am I doing?! I have all I need on my finger! After mentally kicking herself for not remembering her power ring’s capabilities sooner, Sparkler smirked. “I don’t need my gear to beat you. Just my imagination.” She said. She concentrated hard and her ring glowed.
Sundown saw it and momentarily wondered what was going on, before she shook her head and fired at Sparkler, intending to knock her out so she could take her for herself.
The blast hit Sparkler and there was a puff of smoke, Sundown watched as the smoke cleared, to see something that made her furious, Sparkler was still standing, and suddenly had a round shield which had blocked the fire. “What!” She growled.
Sparkler only gave her a smirk as she took the shield and threw it right at her, while also thinking up another weapon. Sundown blasted the shield out of existence, but from the resulting smoke, Sparkler came out at her with a pair of Tron Identity Discs, which she swung at Sundown. “Surprise!” She exclaimed as she began using her second wind.
Back in the control room, the drones kept on coming, and Sunset, Clear-Cut, and Rudolph were all trying to keep them off Twilight. “How’s it coming Twi?” Sunset asked.
“I’m past the initial access. Attempting to disrupt the charge.” Twilight responded as she continued her hacking. She’s using a similar codebase to my own whenever I program a new invention. She thought. Even though she despised Midnight and woulda preferred if she NEVER existed, she had to give Midnight credit for retaining her smarts.
Speaking of Midnight, Daydream dodged a magical strike as she sent her own right back to Midnight. “You remember what happened during our LAST encounter right?” Daydream asked.
“Oh I remember. And this time will be DIFFERENT!” Midnight growled as she blasted at Daydream with magic.
To Be Continued…