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Spider Queen gasped and snapped out of her thoughts. She growled in anger as she thought about the 'little girl', who knocked her away effortlessly. A stray hair falls from her crown and onto her face and she quickly tucked it back in.
She turns to Goliath, who is busy sealing up the sewer entrance. "Seal it! Faster!" She demanded. "I don't want anyone gettin' through!”
"I'm goin' 'bout as fast as I can here!" The giant spider grunts, finally managing to shift the sewer grate into place.
"My Queen," Syntax chimed in, standing from a crouching position. "We can begin collecting the materials, the update is ready," He informed, holding out a wrist, one of his watch-like gadgets casting a small hologram.
The Spider Queen sighs. "Good, good! I'm not gonna let that little girly play me!" She concludes in confidence. "I am the Queen! If she wants a fight, I'll give her one," she growls, walking towards the edge of the ledge that led to a sharp descent downwards. She smiles at the wrecked Spider Mech from New Year's, planning a scheme in her head.
Huntsman, still skeptical from his last encounter with Sandy, looked up at his Queen with hesitation. The Spider Demoness sensed his staring and glanced down at him.
"You got something to share?" The Spider Demoness growled and raised one of her robotic legs threateningly above Huntsman.
Huntsman shouts in surprise. "N-No! It's just- The girl, She's just, uh- maybe we should just?" He trails off, stuttering before sighing.
"Nothing...It's nothing, my Queen," He hums softly. Syntax is stiffened with nervousness, sweat dropping at his colleague.
Spider Queen lowers her leg, the sharp edge partially digging into the stone floor. "Do it!" She orders the hybrid.
Syntax stammers for a moment, nearly falling over. He pinwheels his arms, quickly regaining balance. "Ohh- Right!" He chuckled nervously, quickly pressing a few buttons on a gadget around his forearm.
Spider Bots begin to tear free from their bright green eggs, falling to the ground, and going up to the surface.
Somewhere on the rooftop, MK calls the team for something important. Everyone arrived in their pajamas and tired. "Alright kid, care to explain why you got us here at," Pigsy grumbled as he checked his watch. "3:00 in the morning?" He looked slightly angrily.
“Yeah and where’s Daisy and the twins?” Tang asked, looking around for the vixen and twin demons.
“I’m right here and the twins are asleep back at the mountain after MK dragged them out to help him with this yesterday,” Daisy said from her spot on one of the roof ledges, she was lying down with her head in her paws and eyes closed.
MK stood with his back to them, a look of excitement on his face. "I have gathered you all here because I have unlocked my next mystic monkey power!" He announced.
"Really?! What is it, what is it, what is it!?" Mei begged.
"Teleportation? Cloud summoning? Flying!?" Tang asked excitedly.
“No, can already do that, and no because neither of his parents can fly, they use their shadow magic, cloud summoning powers, or Power Foxes,” Daisy said from her spot, not opening her eyes at all.
"It's better than any of that! I've begun to learn the Monkey King's 72 transformations!" He said.
Tang gasped, his inner fanboy coming out. "You mean the ancient art of transformation, not even the wisest masters, have been able to figure out!?" Tang shouted excitedly, smiling widely. "The ancient art that lets you transform into anything!? Becoming an eagle, a tiger, or a gorilla!? You have to show me this power!" He grabbed him by the shoulders, shaking him excitedly.
Daisy opened one of her eyes and frowned at this.
"Tang stop it!" Pigsy scolded his husband.
"You got it!" MK yelled as Tang let go of him.
There was a poof of yellow smoke, everyone coughed waving the stuff away. When it cleared up everyone looked down at the most cutest thing in the world.
"Squeal!"
Standing there was a red panda version of MK.
"Oh....my...GOSH!" Mei yelled, hearts in her eyes.
"You're so cute!" Mei squealed, picking him up in her arms. "You were right! This is awesome!"
"Uh kid, This is more like less of a power and more of you goofing off," Pigsy stated. MK hopped out of Mei's arms and transformed back into a human. "Okay, so I still have a lot to learn but it's good so far."
"Uh, MK...what is on your head?" Sandy asked, squinting his eyes for a closer glance. MK looks confused and feels at the top of his head.
Sure enough, there was something there.
"Eeek! Red panda ears!" MK flailed his arms, panicking.
“That’s not supposed to happen,” Daisy said, now fully awake. Mei tried to get MK to calm down but to no avail.
"Um, I think you need to keep practicing on that," Tang commented with a sweat-dropped expression.
“MK stop panicking and take a deep breath,” Daisy yelled.
The boy did as he was told and the ears disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Suddenly there was the sound of laughter around them. “That was the most pathetic thing I've ever seen!”
“Who's there?” Daisy yelled, standing, her tail sparking.
“Clam down, Sparkly,” the voice called.
Daisy’s tail went out and a look of horror appeared on her face. “No, it can’t be…”
“Daisy, who is it?” MK asked before a lightning bolt struck the roof, laughter filled the air as the dust settled and revealed a fox with neon yellow eyes. His body, head, and the beginning of his tail are a storm gray color while his legs and the end of his tail are dark yellow with rain and lightning-like designs. He had Yellow Roses in front of his ears and was the same size as a normal Power fox.
“The name’s Storm, the Lightning Power Fox,” the fox, now known as Storm, said before looking over at Daisy.
“Hello my pretty sparkle,” Storm said as he started nuzzling her. She growled and stepped back. “I’m not your anything! What are you doing here Storm? My necklace didn’t go off so you shouldn't be here.”
Most of the petals on Daisy’s necklace were dull by now except for four; the yellow, light brown, midnight purple, and whitish-blue ones.
“Well it’s only fair since you got to see Oakley,” Storm said with a smirk.
“What does that have to do with it? The necklace is there to call the Power Foxes when we need them. The only reason Oakley’s petal was used was because he helped Sandy get the flower to cure MK,” Daisy yelled.
Storm scoffed, “Sure whatever, and look sweetie, my petal is now used up.”
They looked at the necklace and saw that the yellow one was now dull.
Daisy growled, “Don’t call me sweetie, you son of a-” She was cut off by the sound of something cutting through metal.
They lean over the edge of the roof, they see spider drones using a laser to cut through the Pigsy's noodles sign on the side of the building and make off with it.
"My sign!" Pigsy cried out, saddened that his restaurant sign was gone. "Come back here!"
"Seriously? Spiders! When will this nightmare end!?" MK whimpered.
Storm scoffed once more at the Monkey Demon’s panic, Daisy glared at him.
MK then snapped out of it and hissed. "Get back here with that!" MK shouted, quickly shrinking himself and following the tiny robots in the sewers.
“Aren't you gonna go with him?” Tang yelled at Storm.
“Why should I?” Storm asked, bored.
“MK, wait for me,” Daisy yelled as she turned to yellow mist and followed him.
“Honey Sparks, wait for me,” Strom yelled as he turned into thunderclouds and followed Daisy.
The others stared in confusion at what just happened.
They silently followed them into the Silken Web Cave. MK stood on top of the pipes with the two foxes, still in mist and cloud form covering him, as they watched multiple drones discard metal and building what looked like a giant spider mech, like from when she took over the city on New Year's.
"No, Spider Queen again!?" MK muttered.
Suddenly she entered the room from the shadows. "What do you mean there's not enough material yet!?" She demanded at Syntax, with Goliath and Huntsman beside him.
"It's just-" Syntax tries to explain, rubbing the back of his head. "Without the venom, there's no way we can build as quickly as the last time!" He tries to reason. "The spider bots, my queen, they just need more time to—"
" I DON'T HAVE MORE TIME! " She hollered, getting into his face. "Don't you understand? This is it. This is the time we've got!"
"Y-yes but..."
"Get it done!" She ordered.
MK gasps in realization. "Spider Queen is rebuilding her Mech! Oh, no, no, no. This is bad. This is very bad!" He shuffled along the pipe as the demons talked, then he lost his footing and collapsed.
"Ow that hurt," He groaned, rubbing his behind. He looked up to see the Spider Demons glaring menacingly at him, all green eyes glowing.
"Uh, hi...?" He grinned nervously, sweating a bit.
"Monkie Boy! You're the reason I'm in this mess!" Spider Queen yelled at him.
"What the hell did I do!?"
"Everything! I'm gonna tear you apart!" She shouted as she and the other Spider Demons charged towards him.
Yellow mist covered him as Daisy reformed in front of him, turning into her Power Form and growling at the demons.
However golden smoke covered them causing the spiders to stumble back, shocked by this sudden power. "Wha-What is this!?" Spider Queen questioned.
"Haha-haha! Behold the power of 72 transformations!" He cheered. As the smoke cleared, he looked at himself hoping he turned into something useful.
But it didn't.
He looked at himself to see he turned into some kind of Red Panda Demon; with red panda ears again and...literal red panda for hands.
Daisy, over to the side, just sighed and facepalmed but got angry as Strom’s laughter echoed in the cave.
"No! No! No! Come on, change back!" He huffed in frustration, summoning his staff with the red panda hands making it impossible to hold it correctly. "I'm still working out the kinks, how about we fight when I have hands? Kay' byeeeeeee!" He scurried away into one of the sewer tunnels.
Daisy slammed her paws into the ground, causing lighting to shoot up out of the ground before running off after MK. Storm followed, still in his cloud form.
"Catch him and bring him to me!" Spider Queen ordered her minions as the Spider Demons quickly chased after him.
Once they passed, MK grinned and laughed quietly to himself as he had shrunk down into a small spider. "Phew, that was close." He sighed in relief before looking at his spider body, making him gag in disgust.
"Ew ew ew! This is so gross!" He whined as he lowered himself onto the ground to find a place to hide before realizing that Daisy and Strom weren’t with him.
It took a while for Daisy to realize that MK was in fact not in front of her. “MK? MK where are you?”
“Probably shrunk himself and got caught in a spider’s web and is now being eaten by the spider,” Strom said as he turned back into his fox form and landed next to Daisy.
Daisy growled, “Why would you say such a thing? If he dies it’s on both our heads!”
Storm scoffed, “Sparkle why do you care so much about that coward? Isn’t it annoying always having to save his weak ass?”
Daisy then tackled him to the ground and shoved her paw onto his throat, making him cough a bit, “Take that back, you worthless piece of shit! I don’t know why the High Queen still keeps you around but I hope that she soon gets rid of you after this stunt you pulled. I have never once regretted her picking me to watch over her son. How dare you call him a coward, how dare you call him weak! He's braver than you’ll ever be.” Lighting cracked around her.
They then heard a scream. “MK!” Daisy yelled as she jumped off the fox. She then stopped and turned to him, “If you’re gonna help then come on but if you aren't then leave.”
“Hm, fine then,” Storm said before disappearing in a flash of lightning.
Meanwhile, the Lady Bone Demon was using her powers to create her own mech to defeat the Monkie Kid. Her hair briefly turned white and she heard the voice of Spider Queen echoing the room. "Bring her to me...!"
Lady Bone Demon sighed in exasperation, she figured that sorry excuse for a queen would no longer become useful. "It would seem the queen's usefulness is drawing to an end."
The Mayor and the figure with glowing blue eyes and a heavy cloak appears behind her.
"Time to remove the unnecessary pieces from the game."
The Mayor smiled and bowed. "As you wish, my lady." He replied, the Mayor engulfing himself in light blue flames. The other figure nodded before a shadow portal appeared under him and he dropped down into it.
"Blast! There's just not enough material. Not enough time," Syntax says to himself, he then pulls out his watch and starts typing away.
"Oooh, what a lovely contraption you're building!"
Syntax gasped and slowly turned. He couldn't see the mayor behind him since he was right in front of him.
"But unfortunately you're quite correct," An icy cold hand crushing the other's windpipe. Syntax gagged, trying to free himself.
"There is no time," The Mayor beamed his blinding smile.
Syntax’s screams can be heard echoing through the tunnels. Goliath and Huntsman heard it.
"What was that!?" Goliath asked, terrified.
"I don't know big guy," Huntsman gulped in fear. "But it didn't sound good."
Behind them a shadow portal opened up and the cloaked figure stepped out. He smirked, his eyes glowing brightly.
Back in the cave, MK lowered himself back onto the ground seeing that the coast was clear for now. He changed back to normal and landed on his feet. "Okay, new rule. I'm never turning into a spider ever again," He shivered.
He shook his head, patting his cheeks. "Okay, time to destroy the spider mech." He summoned his staff from his ear and stood in front of the mech, he lifted it above his head.
Just then the arachnid ruler entered the lair, witnessing the mortal about to destroy the mech. "Wait, No!" The Spider Queen cried.
But it was too late as MK smashed the mech in half, roaring in anger, she pinned him by the neck against a rock as the smoke and dust cleared to reveal the destroyed spider mech.
Tears formed in her venomous green eyes before it turned to rage. She glared at the teenager, "You... ruined everything! It's all over because of..."
"Her," MK finished, his brown eyes widening in realization. "You were making that to fight her, weren't you? The Lady Bone Demon."
"The Lady Bone Demon? So it is her," She mumbled to herself, looking away mad yet terrified. She let go of MK, letting him fall to the ground. "Well if she wants to-"
"Yeah I know, she scares me too," MK cut in, grasping his throat.
"I ain't scared!" Spider Queen looked surprised before shaking it off, glaring at the mortal. "I'm the queen!"
"Please wait, I can help. M-Maybe If we work together we can-" MK tried to reason with her however Spider Queen laughed coldly.
"Hahahaha, I don't need help from a child! I will rule this world. And no ancient bone witch is going to stop me!" She aims her robotic leg at MK. He shields himself out of instinct. Then all of a sudden gold smoke surrounded him. As the smoke cleared, a large gorilla hand stopped the leg in its tracks.
"What is this!?"
"Yes! I'm finally getting the hang of this!" MK cheered, pulling the leg and sending her flying far away before charging at her, though he stopped when he saw the fear and sadness in the Queen's eyes.
Spider Queen coughs up dust and collects herself before angrily shouting, "This...ain't over. I will rule, I am the-"
“Enough with that already!" A voice called. They looked over to see Daisy walking into the room. "Look, I don't know exactly how you lost your throne, and frankly I don't give a damn! You talk about how you want to be respected but this clearly ain't it!!" Daisy yelled angrily towards the Spider Demoness.
"I was meant to rule. I...I would have been a good queen," Spider Queen whimpered as she slowly tried to push herself up. "I was just a pawn in the game. Like you."
MK sighed as he finally calmed down, turning back to normal and kneeling down in front of her. "We all were...but it's not too late," he told her.
She scoffed, shaking her head. "Haven't you figured it out yet boy? There's no running from what she is."
Suddenly they all heard whispering from the closed grate. They all looked over at it in fear. A large blast of wind blew into the room as ice destroyed the grate. Daisy covered MK with her body.
"I'm afraid that Spider Queen is right."
The two turned as the wind stopped, Lady Bone Demon grinning widely as her hair glowed white and blew as if the wind hadn’t stopped blowing before quickly falling and fading back to black.
"Destiny will always catch up to us."
"You! I should have taken you out the second you walked into my lair!" The Spider Queen growls at her. She looked over her shoulder at MK and Daisy. "Fox, take the boy and run. NOW!"
"Wait! I can help you-" MK yelled before Daisy tossed him up and he landed on her back. She then took off running.
“Wait, Daisy! Stop we can-” MK said trying to get the vixen to stop but stopped himself as he saw her face. She was crying, she was crying for Spider Queen.
The queen's screams echoed through the caverns followed by blue light as the two were blown out of the sweater.
The explosion woke up the gang who was fast asleep on the roof, waiting for MK and Daisy. They looked over the side of the building to see the two laid out in the street.
“MK what happened?” Pigsy yelled down to them.
MK got up and turned to them with a saddened expression, tears in his eyes. “The Spider Queen sacrificed herself to save us.”
In Lilith’s prison, she stood watching Storm's interactions with her son and his fight with Daisy on repeat. The other Power Foxes stood behind her with the green fox, all watching with worried looks.
Behind her, there was a bright light as Storm took shape. He trotted with his head held high, towards the others. “Alright, I’m here, what is it that we all need to be here for?”
The others shot him either an angered look or a worried look.
“First,” Lilith started in a cold but calm voice, “I want you to explain this.”
Lilith moved her hand to the side and the screen in front of her moved with it and showed what she had been watching, it ending on the part where he left.
Strom scoffed, “It’s just me doing the job you sent me on plus some more.”
Oakley growled at him, knowing he was referring to him trying to woo Daisy.
“Is that so?” Lilith asked. “Well out of all the Power Foxes I’ve sent you did the worst job I’ve seen so far and I only have three Power Foxes left to send out and one of them isn’t even leaving the island.”
“It’s not my fault that the prince is so weak he needs his mommy to protect him,” Storm said with an eye roll.
The other foxes looked at him in shock and anger.
“What did you just say?” Lilith asked in a cold and dark voice, the screen disappearing.
“It is true, if he wasn’t so weak you wouldn’t have to send us to prot-Ahh!” Strom started before being tackled to the ground by a large goldish-white fox twice his size, its golden eyes glowing dangerously.
“You should have stopped when you had the chance,” Lilith growled. “How dare you say that about my son, your Prince! Daisy was right, I should have destroyed you years ago and replaced you!”
Storm was shaking in fear as the powerful queen stood over him, her teeth bared and fur fluffed out.
Lilith then stopped and stepped back, turning back into her demon form, “You’re not even worth it.” She snapped her fan open and walked away to the other Power Foxes.
“Rainstorm, Umbra, Jet, Oakley, how goes your pack’s recovery?”
“Thanks to shadow magic around the island my pack is fully recovered, my Queen,” Umbra declared with pride.
“Mine and Jet’s pack are still recovering but are getting better,” Rainstorm said before looking over at Oakley with a sad smile.
“Mine still needs time,” Oakley said, his tail hanging low.
Storm scoffed at that. Lilith whipped her head at him and glared at him. He fell into a submissive position on the floor.
“This is all good news and Oakley, of course, your pack may have more time, if you would like they may come and recover in this room since my nature magic is flowing around the room.”
Oakley smiled and nodded.
“Rainstorm, Jet, keep up the recovery. Umbra gather your pack and watch over my son and when the Bone Bitch shows her face, help them get away. Rockslide, once she has done her part, follow them and make sure they get here safely.”
“Right I’ll gather my pack and-”
“No, only you,” Lilith said, cutting him off.
“What? Why?”
“Umbra’s pack will be able to stay out of sight because they can hide in shadows but your pack can only do that with rocks and we don’t know how they will get here so it’s better if you just follow them. Do you understand?”
Rickslide nodded, hanging his head.
“The rest of you, make sure your pack is ready.”
The foxes nodded and started to walk away.
“Oh and Storm?” Lilith called, her eyes glowing gold.
Storm’s ear fell flat, “Um yes, my Lady?”
“If you ever pull a stunt like that again or say anything like that again I will follow through with my promise and I’ll let Daisy be the one to get rid of you, seeing as she’s the one that wants you gone the most.”