Faded Grove
After the heroes witnessed the kidnapping of their friend they took a break to calm down, at least they didn’t have to deal with the plant monster thing, but it was horrifying to witness such a thing, the Doctor’s never acted like this, she was so friendly and never really meant harm, it was best not to think of what they would do to her, but they hoped it wasn’t too bad.
They decided to stop dwelling on it, what would the doctor really do to her? She would probably forgive her and... hopefully not do anything... The heroes began to walk through the tree some more, where was the artifact? They’d been searching for a while now, after a little bit more searching, they found a sign that said “faded grove” in beautiful cursive letters, a long hallway with statues of a woman holding bouquets of roses, walking through the path the leaves that covered the floor grew crunchier and shone a brighter silver as it went deeper in, entering a big room, a large crystal flower stood tall in the center, the leaves almost looked like glass, the light was blinding all around, the heroes went up to it, and found a necklace on a stem, at the bottom of the necklace was a flower much like the one above, it shone a rainbow color in the light, Alex donned it, and felt the power rush through his body, vines ripped through the glassy leaves on the floor to his control, he could summon a glassy sunflower shaped shield, it was absolutely beautiful!
The leaves in the back revealed a beautiful crystal like waterfall... this lady sure did like that style, the heroes ventured back through the tree to head home, they reached the entrance where all the flowers gathered up, they were congregated again and shaking, the same annoying flower came up from earlier... most likely to complain we didn’t do her stupid side quest, “you! Explain why there’s a giant piece of junk outside of our tree!” She said with fear, “piece of junk?” The pair walked outside to see what the commotion was about, and they walked out to see a giant robot made out of recycled tissue boxes... this was the work of- “Hold on! Is that a dog with shades?! Where’d you get him!?” Said the Doctor loaded into the giant robotic machine, “uh... found him in the woods” Alex said, Dawg said “uh no actually, I found YOU in the woods, don’t take credit for MY work, so like what’d you do to the girl you psycho?” Dawg asked, “well... that doesn’t matter, she’s getting what she deserves! And now I’m here to crush you! Not talk about some worthless brat! Also uh I have to say this line I wrote down to break the 4th wall... uh I made this recycled robot out of tissue paper... no it was ’I’m going green to keep the world clean? Whatever, just fight me!” Her machine began to bounce to a song that she was playing in her robot, a glass dome protected her, Dawg blasted sound waves at her, this caused her to fall over, but she caught herself and jumped back up in a drilling motion towards Alex, he blocked it with the flower shield and the shield broke and deflected her attack, “how strong, X-bot is simply stronger though!” As she said this many water orbs were shot into her chest, it caused her to be knocked into the tree, she got back up and rose her hand, a grenade launching canon was now on her hand, it shot the grenades from before, they had a nice kitten design and exploded with a “meowch” just like before, it was almost triggering to hear that so soon after witnessing Lucy’s kidnapping after hearing this sound, they tried not to think about it, Alex used this pain and grew vines from the ground, he pulled the arm cannon towards the robot while she was firing many off, it blew a big chunk off, it was surprisingly resistant to the explosions, but it caused the machine to wobble in its soggy and unstable stance, this was nothing to her though, she was still determined to win this fight, she armed herself again with her cannon, this time it was a tear blaster, “with this weapon you’ll feel the pain and misery that we’ve endured! For what we’ve survived our entire lives with!” She shot a powerful stream of the salty tears, being hit by it launched the heroes down, Alex threw his new shield at her and sliced the arm cannon off, “how! What? You just get more and more annoying!”
The vines from before began to break the glass on the dome, she finally jumped out of the machine as it was destroyed before her eyes, “no! My beautiful X-bot! Destroyed... you think you can get away with this?! Destroying my beautiful machine? Well, no matter, I have something MUCH better lined up for you later! Just you wait and see! The true potential of X!” As she laughed she received a ball of water to the face along with a supersonic bark, “wow... I was always a cat person anyway... at least they don’t beat me up! Well since you beat me it’s only fair that I leave something behind for no apparent reason... uh did you eat that cake? Like I can give you some more lemonades or something like that, maybe some heels to go with those... Tear-rings? Well I just gave you a cool name for your earrings so like, good enough right? I gotta get going now” said the awkward doctor, Dawg said “well I’m not a doctor person!” In a petty voice, jealous much?
After beating the Doctor she jumped away... as per usual, she had a way of doing everything really dramatic, probably because she was so pathetic. “Hey, that’s just rude man” Dawg said, well I mean, we all know it, “can we get a new narrator, this is like the 5th time he’s broken the fourth wall and other stupid things, like really fire this guy” Jeez, fine! I quit! I can’t take this job anymore, good luck finding a new narrator... “wow that was easy” uh hey, I’m the new narrator, is this gag over yet? Okay well anyway back, uh where were we, oh yes. The heroes left the forest and made their way back to town, this sure was a long eventful trip, Alex’s mom was preparing for the championship and she noticed the lack of Lucy, “she didn’t work out huh? Oh well I expected it anyway, you guys coming to the fight tomorrow?!” Dawg said “sho’ thang sweet thang” Alex’s mom stared at Dawg with her blank stare, she began to violently shake as if she was about to explode, “great, can’t wait to see you both there!” His mom was a very open minded and lovely woman, according to Dawg at least, we all knew that she was actually just crazy.
In the morning they had to go to reveal the next artifact at the seal, going to the stage as usual he opened the next spot with a very similar process, glowing, explosions, stuff, and the new spot was revealed... it was the SCFA! The super cool fighting arena were Alex’s mom was fighting today! The heroes ran home to catch her before she left they made it just in time, “Mom! Wait! We have to explain something to you!” She opened the car doors and said “chat in the car I’ve gotta kick her butt today!” They got in the car as she requested, “so mom... you should know that we’ve been searching for artifacts to get an ancient treasure-” this caused her to bust out laughing, “oh you still have that imagination!” She interrupted, “well... no we’ve really been finding them, these Tear-rings, this necklace, and at the SCFA there’s another! Her face grew more serious, almost concerned, “really now? What do these artifacts do exactly?” Alex answered her confused by her sudden interest, “well they each have different powers, this necklace is nature, tear-rings are like water based” she looked more confused “what does this one do?” She asked, Alex said with uncertainty “we don’t know until we get it, I’m sorry, why do you want to know?” She hesitated for a moment, “some fighters have gone... missing, some have really changed, it’s weird, you don’t think it was that artifact right?” She said almost scared, “I don’t know, I don’t think they’ll hurt us...” she became silent and then said “well then you need an adult to go with you, you can’t just go out there alone, and you need a good fighter to teach you a thing or two!” She said excited to go on the journey, “I guess you can come, but you should know that it’s actually kind of dangerous, Lucy... Lucy was kidnapped actually, there’s a whole other group looking for it, this woman calls herself Doctor X, there’s a Captain too, it’s weird mom. But it would only get more weird, there was another log to listen to, Alex played it in the car.
“Data log A-1, it’s been one hell of a day... first day back with other people and it goes like this, this isn’t at all what I expected... Lord Icarus ordered me to go to the desert to find the first artifact, I was given a bunch of stupid trainees to come with, they’d better not screw this up for me... everyone’s counting on me right now and I can’t fail them, I just can’t afford to do that anymore, I don’t even know why I’m recording this, it’s not like I’m gonna care about these stupid records in the next world, boss says we should all do them so we can remember what we fought for, I say we should just leave the past behind, today was one of my reasons to let go of the past... Data log A-1 out”