Book 4, Chp 1: Moving Day
3rd POV
Radio announcer: [Good evening, Arcadia Oaks! It's been two weeks since that night. You know the one. The one we never talk about, but I'm talking about it now. Yeah. And everyone has been working hard to finish repairs on our little town. Good job, everybody. Didn't I say Arcadia would never be the same after the Battle of the Bands? (Chuckles.) Gene, dude, you owe me ten bucks, man! (Chuckles.) I'm just kidding. But seriously, am I? Ten bucks, please, seriously. Hopefully, that's the last of the weirdness here in Arcadia. Just remember folks, what really happened that night is our town's little secret.]
We now see Toby and YN are on their bikes and going to the street in the night.
Toby: Eli and Steve said they got something to say at Eli's house. They've been sending me me, like, a thousand texts!
YN: Thousands text, over the last 2 weeks?
Toby: Yeah, its been driving me nuts.
YN: Maybe you should go meet them now, Tobes.
Toby: What about you?
YN: I gotta get back to training with my uncle.
Toby: Seriously? Even after all that Gunmar and the crazy witch?
YN: Sometimes its best to stay sharp, Tobes. Say hi to Eli and Steve for me by the way.
Toby: Okay. See you tomorrow.
YN: Aight.
With that, they part ways and YN got back with his uncle to train at the mountain. Despite that there are no extinction threat anymore, they still had to train. However, it was only a non-bending training where we see YN and UN are covered in bruises and sweating in their training clothes while YNs has bandages on his arms. Soon they taken a break as their sitting down.
UN: You're getting better now, YN.
YN: Thanks uncle. Its been a while since we've last trained like this. Ever since we learn about the trolls, all we've been doing was earthbending training.
UN: Nevertheless, what matters is that we honed our skills.
YN: Okay.
UN: Its gonna get late, I'm gonna go call it a night. There's a lot I need to do.
YN: Okay. I think I'll stay here for a bit. Its a cool night today for stargazing.
UN: Okay, but be back soon.
YN nods before UN left. Afterwards, YN just stargazing for a while until he decided to meditate for the time being. Its been quiet until he senses something from his seismic sense and he quickly earthbend to trap someone who was hiding before he heard a familiar voice.
???: Ow!
YN: Wait, that voice.
YN runs and sees it was Aja and Krel which made him surprised.
YN: Aja and Krel!?
YN quickly release them before asking.
Krel: Is that how you greet someone when they come to meet you?
YN: Hey, bad things happen in the night. (To Aja.) But not everything though.
This made Aja smile before Krel sigh and speaks.
Krel: Ok, enough.
YN: I thought you guys already left after that last battle.
Aja: Well, about that...
YN: What happened?
Krel: The mother ship got damaged and crashed at the forest.
Aja: So we thought we could use your help with your earthbending.
YN: I guess I can help.
Aja: Really?
YN: Got nothing else to do ever since most of the trolls are gone. Besides, anything for my girlfriend.
This made her smile.
YN: But for now, I need to get some rest. Let's meet up here tomorrow morning.
They nod and parted ways to head back home.
Time skip
The next day, they meet up at the same spot and head to the mother ship which is at the middle of the forest as they meet up Stuart with his truck.
YN: Whoa. When I said I can help, I didn't expect the ship to be this big.
Krel: Big and heavy.
YN: How did it crashed all the way here anyway?
Aja: Varvatos vex crashed it with another ship.
YN: Where is he anyway?
Krel: I'd rather not talk about it.
YN: One thing for sure, from the damage you guys mentioned, you might be stuck here for a while.
They wrap the chains around the ship and attached it to Stuart truck.
Krel: Not only are we stuck on Earth, we're stuck in the middle of a stupid forest!
YN: Hey, I like the forest more than the town.
Aja: We only need to move the mothership a few blocks. Then you can fix her. Then we can go home to Akiridion-Five.
Once its chained up completely, YN head to the back of the mother ship.
YN: You guys ready?
Aja: All right, now!
Stuart pulls the chains with his taco truck while YN uses his earthbending to lift it up out of the ground. But it was too heavy that the piece of the taco truck was ripped off.
Stuart: Welp, you're gonna need more horsepower than my taco truck and that rockkid strength.
Krel: (Groans.) Every bounty hunter in the galaxy knows where we are. We're too exposed like this.
Stuart: Well, think of it like camping.
It's a summer tradition here on Earth.
Krel: Well, I have my own tradition. It's called "fixing the mothership", and it's starting to get old.
YN: At least we got it out of the ground. We just need to put something underneath the ship. Something that'll be easy to move the ship.
Krel: Any suggestions?
YN: Before I learn how to earthbend, my uncle and I move something that's heavy, we usually put dolly's underneath it. But we're definitely gonna need a giant one. But even with me and my uncles earthbending, its too heavy to move it.
Krel: Great...
YN: Hey, we'll figure something out. I'll go see if there's anything we can try to use from the town to lift this ship. Maybe snatch one of the bulldozer the workers used.
Aja: That could work.
Krel: If you know how to use it.
YN: Do you?
Krel: Nope.
YN: I'll meet back when I got something that can help.
They all nod and parted ways as the siblings head inside the mother ship where Zadra is trying to communicate Akiridion-Five.
Zadra: Commander Zadra to Akiridion-Five, do you copy?
She failed to contact due to the ship malfunctioning and she angrily hits the control.
Krel: Hey, hey, hey! Be gentle! That's not gonna work.
Zadra: Nothing works in this ship since that blasted Omen tore through it. I've been trying to contact the Resistance, but Mother is-
Mother: (Distorted.) [Rebooting teb-reb-reb-reb-reb.]
Zadra: That.
Just then the controls shows one of Vex recording logs.
Vex: [General Morando has employed-]
Krel: Ugh! (To Aja.) Why do you keep looking at Vex's logs?
Aja: I...miss him.
Krel: Well, I don't.
Aja: Varvatos saved our lives more than once! You should watch-
Krel: No! I don't ever want to see that traitorous face again.
Zadra: Nor do I.
Krel: I have to work on the repairs.
Zadra: Excellent. I'll patrol the perimeter. You and your sister stay aboard the vessel.
Aja: What? We need to see our friends!
Zadra: Friends? Your human friends can't help protect you, especially that earth human who tried to help. I can. You two must stay put.
Both: Kleb!
Zadra: Besides from what I've observed, the local life-forms are rude and lack basic hygiene.
Aja: YN is not rude, Zadra.
Zadra: Well over the last time I spent on this planet, I caught a furry one with a mask going through our garbage.
Krel: Wait. Do you mean raccoons?
Time skip
Nightfall came and Zadra was on the rooftop to keep watch until she spotted something glowing in orange beyond the woods and decided to check it out. Meanwhile Aja sneak out before she whistles softly and waited until she hears a whistler from the woods. She follows the whistle and meet YN who has his gas bike.
Aja: You weren't followed?
YN: Everythings clear, unless you count the deer's. What about you?
Aja: All clear. Unless you want me to get caught?
YN: Wait. Do you want me to want you to get caught?
Aja: (Chuckles.) Seeing as this is a stealth mission, not really. Here, hold this.
She hands YN the device to hold on to it.
YN: What is this?
Aja: Core scanner.
YN: Cool. So, where to?
Aja: To find an old friend.
YN nods and they drive off. In the meantime, Aja was filling him in about Varvatos disappearance.
YN: So let me get this straight. Vex was the traitor this whole time where it nearly cost your parents lives and you banned him put of your home. But now you just want to find him?
Aja: You forgot the part that he saved our lives many times as well as my parents.
YN: Okay that part I knew. What I don't know is why do you want to look for him?
Aja: (Sigh.) Not because of the bounty hunter, but because he's family and he's been watching after us ever since.
YN: I see...that noble coming from you Aja.
Aja: Really? I mean sometimes it feels wrong but right at the same time.
YN: Aja, you're not just looking for him. You're looking for something you need to find, forgiveness. That's the life's struggle journey that even the strongest warrior try their best.
Aja: (Smiles.) Thanks, YN.
YN: Now let's go find the big blue.
They soon arrives at another crash site where Vex was last seen.
Aja: This is where Varvatos crashed. No cores detected. But he's gotta be out there somewhere.
YN stomp his feet to see if he's near with his seismic senses.
YN: I got nothing from my seismic range. He must've moved somewhere away from the crashed site. We'll try the Arcadia town. There's a lot of hidden places where trolls use to hide.
Aja: (Nods.) I'll find you, Varvatos.
They head to the town and driving at the streets until Aja picked up something from her phone.
Aja: It's a core! It might be Varvatos! Go back!
YN steered right and goes back. Only to end up crashing by Krel.
Aja: Krel? You snuck out of the house?
Krel: Honestly, Aja, it's not that hard. I just copied you.
YN: Why am I not surprised?
Krel then snatches the phone from Aja.
Krel: I see. Looking for the traitor?
Aja: What are you- Are you following me?
YN: Um...
Aja: I mean us.
Krel: Yes! Because you know who's in trouble? Our entire planet! We need to focus on contacting the Resistance and getting back to Akiridion.
YN: Resistance? As in freedom fighters? Cool.
Aja: Varvatos saved our lives. He stopped Omen from taking Mama and Papa!
Krel: (Scoffs.) Enough! As the human girls say, "speak to my fingers".
Aja: Kleb! Our transductions are fading.
Krel: Good! Then we have to go home.
YN: Better yet, maybe you should come up with something that your disguises can last longer.
Suddenly they hear a stomach growling near.
Krel: Did you hear that?
YN: (Sigh.) Can you two step back?
The siblings step back, only to have YN stomp his feet to launch three people out of the hiding and landed in front of them. Revealing its Toby, Eli, and Steve.
YN: You do know I can detect you guys, right?
Eli: Well we're here to save you, bro.
Steve: Pepperjack, don't use "bro". You're not cool enough, bro.
Eli: Sorry, bro. I mean, Steve. (To siblings.) Stay away from our friend you darn, dirty aliens!
Krel: What? We're not dirty.
Aja: And we're definitely not aliens!
Just then their disguise wears off.
Aja: Okay, yes, we're aliens.
Toby: There really are aliens in Arcadia!
Eli: For Arcadia!
Before they could do anything, YN just stomp his feet to have a wall blocking them.
YN: Okay, can we just take a moment tk explain? They're good aliens. Well, "Akiridions".
Toby: Wait, you knew it?
YN: well, yeah.
Toby: And you didn't tell me or even Jim and Claire?
YN: If I told you, you'd be freaking out. Plus we were focusing on trolls and I thought they already left.
Krel: Incoming!
Something big was thrown at them and they quickly get down to avoid it.
Toby: What was that?
The weapon was then caught by a massive gollem standing on the rooftop.
Magma-tron: Hand over the royal cores before I break your bones!
YN: That's something we should definitely run from.
Krel: Run!
Magma-tron: Take some of this!
He throws the hammer again YN tries to block it with his wall but it was then destroyed.
YN: Okay, definitely run!
Magma-tron: (Laughs.) Running will only make your death more fun.
Toby: Who the heck is this guy?
Aja: No idea!
Eli: How do you not know him? All aliens know each other!
Krel: That is completely offensive, and complimentary, that you think we would know all 50 trillion life-forms in the universe.
Eli: Fifty trillion?
YN: How bout less talk and more running?
Toby: I thought my running days were over!
Magma-tron: I will crush you!
He throws the hammer again, but this time Aja blocks it where it diverted to hit the fire hydrant and the water splashes at the gollems face as he yells.
Toby: (Laughs.) Yeah! Bath time!
The gollem retaliates and Toby grabs his hammer.
Toby: All right, you guys. We got this. You know what time it is?
Magma-tron: It's hammer time!
Toby: Hey, that was my line! Okay, guys, let's show him who's... Guys? Guys?
Toby notice they were running away.
Toby: Oh, no.
Eli: Tobias!
Magma-tron: I love to crush!
Toby follows them and they head to the shortcut which Toby tries to fit through.
Toby: I hate this shortcut!
Magma-tron: Hammer in your face!
He throws the hammer at Toby until Toby was chained and pulled through the gap by YN metal bending before Aja deflected the hammer. Only to have Magma-tron get his hammer back.
Magma-tron: You cannot escape Magma-Tron! You-
He then realize they were gone.
Magma-tron: Oh.
Time skip
They all head back to the mother ship that's still in the middle of the forest.
Toby: Wha? There's a spaceship growing out of your house? You have a space-house?
Krel: Shh! That bounty hunter could have followed us.
YN: He's not in my range. We're safe for the time being.
Krel: Also our "spaceship" prefers to be called "Mother".
Aja: Let's hope she knows how to stop whatever that life-form was.
YN: If she still function.
Aja and Krel checks inside to see the coast is clear.
Aja: Hello? Coast is clear. No bounty hunter.
Krel: Even better, Zadra doesn't know we're back.
YN uses his earthbending for the rest to get up and head inside to the mother ship at the controls where they were all amazed.
Toby: Whoa! So cool, so cool! So cool, so cool, so cool!
YN: You'll get use to it once you visit couple times.
Toby: Awesome-sauce! This is so cool!
YN: Just remember not to touch any buttons-
Toby then pushes random which causes the system to turn red.
Mother: [Self-destruct activated.]
Toby: Oh, no.
YN: I told you not to touch any buttons!
Mother: [You will all die in five sectons. Four, three, two, one-]
Krel calmly deactivated the self destruct.
Mother: [Deactivated.]
Krel: I can manually access Mother's database here. Just takes a couple sectons to unlock.
Mother: ["Log". Pulling up Commander Vex's logs.]
Krel: No, not "logs".
One of the log then reveals Varvatos vex.
Vex: Delson one. Commander Vex reporting. Or should Varvatos say "Nanny Vex"?
Krel: Mother, get him off the screen!
Mother: [Next screen.]
Krel: (Groans.) No.
The ship then shows another log.
Vex: [Delson 17. Varvatos met Nancy Domzalski.]
Toby: My nana?
YN: Toby's Nana?
Vex: [She captured my rook, my queen, and my core. She is how the hoomans would say, "hot".]
Toby: Hot? Ew! No, no, no!
Toby tries to change the logs.
Toby: She's not hot, she's Nana!
Soon it shows another where Vex is training with his weapon.
Eli: Oh, man, he's a really good fighter.
Steve: Who is that?
Krel: Nobody.
Aja: It's a long story...
YN comforts her before Aja focus on the main problem.
Aja: Mother, any information on a bounty hunter with a giant hammer-thing?
Mother: [Searching, searching, searching, searching...]
Krel: (Groans.) She's still rebooting.
Mother: [Your order for red boots has been shipped and will arrive in two to five business delsons.]
Krel: No!
YN: Who ordered for red boots?
Aja: Don't look at me.
Mother: [Bounty hunter identified.]
Mother: [Magma-Tron hails from the planet Cindor. Cindorites are an almost indestructible, violent race of mechanized beings known for their wanton disregard for life. They are prone to quips, ruthless cruelty, and what humans refer to as "trash talking".
YN: (Scoffs.) Reminds me of Bular.
Toby: No kidding.
Aja: Mother, any information on how to defeat this guy?
Mother: [Searching my database. The only known weakness is- (Distorting.) wa wa wa- System rebooting.
YN: Hate to ask this, but how long does it take for this ship to reboot?
Krel: At the damage the ship took? Could take forever.
Aja: (Groans.) This is going to take forever!
Just then Eli's phone rings and he checks to see what it is.
Eli: One of the alien traps went off! It caught something in the sewers!
Krel: It could be Magma-Tron! Wait! Were you trying to trap us?
Toby: Yeah, but only because someone never told me you guys were cool.
YN: If I told you, would you guys kept a secret?
Eli: Uh...
Aja: We must stop Magma-Tron before he hurts someone.
Krel: Or us.
Aja: Still happy Vex is gone? Eli the Pepperjack, take us to the sewers.
YN: Gear up and let's find him.
Time skip
After gearing up, they went into the sewers guiding by Eli who's tracking on of the traps from his phone.
Eli: The trap is just around this corner.
We'll take it from here.
Aja: We'll take it from here.
They all charge ahead and only saw it was Zadra who was caught in the trapped.
Krel: Zadra? What are you doing here?
Toby: You know her?
Zadra: None of my battlefield training prepared me for the temptations of these delicious confections.
YN: Huh, first cows and now snack bar?
Steve: They actually have a cow?
YN: The last bounty hunters did.
Eli: Yeah! The Nougat Nummies, they worked!
Zadra: I ordered you not to leave the ship for your own protection.
Toby: Wait. Is there some cheat sheet we could get? Like, how do we tell who's a good alien or a bad alien?
Just then, a hammer swing at them and they quickly get down before it fly back for Magma-tron to catch it.
Magma-tron: Give up your cores, Tarrons, before I rip them from your bodies.
YN: There's your answer!
Zadra: A Cindorite? My royals, run!
Magma-tron: With Varvatos Vex off-planet, no one can save you now.
Aja: "Off-planet"? You know where Varvatos is. Where is he?
Magma-tron: Not here to protect you.
Krel: We don't need that traitor to protect us!
Toby charges at Magma-tron and hits him with the hammer but ends up with a massive ringing.
Toby: Eeh, everything hurts...
Magma-tron: Say good-bye to your teeth.
YN pulls Toby away with his metal bending.
YN: You okay?
Toby: A little rusty since Jimbo left, huh?
YN: That's what you get for not training a lot.
Zadra: Get me down, now!
Eli: Yes, ma'am!
Magma-tron: You cannot outrun my wrath! Making me work for my nine billion crestons? Good thing you're wanted alive or dead!
Eli and Steve release Zadra from the trap and she gets an idea.
Zadra: I have a plan. Reset the trap.
YN uses his earthbending to sink the golem down. But the golem just crushed the ground with his hammer to free himself. He was about to swing his hammer until Aja manage to slice it in half.
Aja: You've seen Varvatos. Where is he?
Magma-tron just laughing as his hammers return to him. Now using duel hammers which makes it worst.
Aja: Our serrators have no effect on him!
Zadra: Because Cindorites are indestructible! (To Eli.) Ready?
The humans except for YN nods as their trap is ready. Others are still fighting the golem until it knock Krel away.
Aja: Krel!
Aja quickly created a shield before she was pinned by the hammer.
Magma-tron: Say your final good-byes, Princess.
YN: Get your scrappy hands off her!
YN tries to slice the golems arm off but it didn't cut completely. However, it did force Magma-tron to back away from Aja. This made Magma-tron angry as he was about to finished them off until Zadra got his attention.
Zadra: Cindorite! That's right, over here, you craz-nut soolian.
Magma-tron: What did you dare call me?
He charges at her with his hammers swinging.
Magma-tron: I will knock the skulls from your bodies.
Zadra: Now!
They successfully trapped the golem.
Steve Creep-
Eli: -Slayerz!
Toby: And Trollhunters!
Aja: I'll ask you one more time. Where is Varvatos?
YN: Or I'll turn you into scraps of metals!
Magma-tron: (Laughs.) He's on Earth's moon, rotting away in some prison cell.
Aja: Varvatos was captured?
Krel: He didn't leave us. He was taken.
Aja: By whom?
Magma-tron: Zeron Alpha. Commander Vex is heading home to Akiridion-Five for his execution.
Krel: Execution?
Magma-tron: You'll be reunited with Varvatos in death.
The golem manage to free himself from the trap and goes for Krel until YN sinks the golems lower body down to the ground once again. Only that the golem throws the hammer and they evades them.
Magma-tron: It will all be over soon, Princess.
Zadra: Grab the hammer! Don't let him get his weapon!
Aja, YN, and Krel grabs the hammer while the rest grabs the other and they both try to keep it away from the golem.
Krel: We could really use mothers help for learning his weakness!
YN: All she said was something about wa....(Gasp.) Water. Guys, Magma-Tron's weakness is water!
Toby sees one of the pipes dripping water and uses it by crushing the pipe with his hammer to let the water splash at the golem. It started to weakening him and begins to malfunction.
Aja: Zadra, let go of the hammer now!
They all let go of the hammer to let it crush the golem as he melt down into a molten metal liquid.
Toby: That was awesome-sauce!
YN: Yep! That's my girlfriend. And thanks for helping you guys. You too CSs. (Short for Creepslayerz)
Steve: No problem.
Krel: (To Zadra.) Sorry we snuck out. And were nearly killed. Again. You were right.
Zadra: You were right as well. If you hadn't left the ship, I might have been killed. And I see now there aren't just enemies out there. These humans can be our allies, our friends.
YN picks up the golems hammer.
YN: This looks awesome. Hey Tobes, bet this can be your new upgraded weapon.
Toby: No way, I'm sticking with this hammer here.
YN: Oh come on, you never know when you might need it.
Krel: Hmm...these have a lightweight thruster. I can put these to good use.
YN: Fine. But I'm keeping the motlen metal over there. Might be useful for metal bending.
Time skip
With the hammers, they used them to lift the mother ship to move it back to where it was as they all worked together to keep everything back to how it was. Since that day, everything is back to normal as we see a delivery guy arriving with a package. Lucy answers the doors with her knife on her hand and retrieves a package before Zadra asks.
Zadra: Who was that? And what's in that chamber?
Lucy opens it to reveal red boots.
Mother: [Red-red-red boots you ordered.
Red boots.]
Zadra is amazed of the design before snatching it from Lucy.
Zadra: I will keep these. I mean, confiscate them for further inspection.
Back in the ship, Krel finish up rebooting the mother ship.
Krel: This better work. Your glitching is starting to get more annoying than the Blanks. And that is saying something.
Mother: Security protocols disabled.
The controls shuts down
Krel: Uh Mother?
Soon the system now rebooted.
Mother: Good evening, my royal.
Krel: Aha! It worked! How do you feel, Mother?
Mother: I feel Well, I feel almost alive.
Krel: Would you perhaps feel like accessing Varvatos' personal logs?
Mother: Are you sure you want to view them, my royal?
Krel: Yes, I am sure.
Mother access Vex logs and listens to everything in time, he started to enjoy the jokes, the stories, and personal life Vex is sharing. Soon Aja peeks and saw Krel listening to one of Vex recording logs.
Vex: Varvatos is trying his best, Mother, but he swears battling larvoxen is easier than raising teenagers. Varvatos does not feel like this is babysitting anymore.
Aja and Krel, they are like family now.
Krel covers his face before gesturing aja to come and she does.
Aja: Spending time with Varvatos?
Krel: I want to hate him, Aja. I want to hate him so much. But he really loved us.
Aja: (Sighs.) I know he did. Varvatos would be here if he could.
Krel: We'll get him back. We're going on a rescue mission to the moon.
Aja: Then we're gonna need some help.
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