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Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 3, Chapter 11: Crashing the Party


Meanwhile in the rainforest section, Riku Replica and team Suzukiyama found a two-way forkroad, "Let's head to the left way." said Riku Replica, then he and team Suzukiyama advanced to the left of the forkroad. As they proceed, they see a hidden tomb, "Look! I think it might be his lab! Let's look!" said Hikaru, then he attempts to open the stone doors, grunting. Riku Replica asks Hikaru "Are you sure about this? That isn't his lab. I've seen it from the outside too, you know." "Oh, really? Maybe he just grabbed his souvenirs and hauled his butt off there! Let's GO-O-O-O-O-O!" Hikaru replied with a loud grunt, opening the stone doors whole. "Hmph, I give up." said Riku Replica, then Spyro exclaims in confusion and says "Wait, no chit-chat with him, no discipline? Lame." "And I thought you trusted me. How ironic of you, putting your faith on someone you barely knew." said Riku Replica to Spyro. Spyro gasps while he covers his mouth with claws, then says quietly "I've been eavesdropped!" "Well? Enough with your drama, and let's get going!" shouted Hikaru, then he ran through the tomb without hesitation.
Riku Replica attempts to halt Hikaru, saying "Hey, wait! You don't know what's-" the punch sound emitted aloud from the tomb entrance, then Hikaru flails out the tomb, screams while spinning airborne, lands his head on the dirt while his body spins in front of Team Suzukiyama, he stopped spinning and groans with nausea, "Why is everything wobbly all the sudden?!" he says. The somewhat familiar voice apologizes Hikaru "Oops, sorry! I though you were one of these Magitek-" "CRASH BANDICOOT? Is that you?!" Spyro recalls, unveiling the familiar being's identity as Crash Bandicoot, then asks Spyro "Spyro?! What are you doing here? Who are those people?" "You're the infamous Crash Bandicoot... I'm honored to meet you." formally said Suzukiyama to Crash Bandicoot, Crash exclaims when he saw an 'N' on Suzukiyama's chest, then says "Wait-a-minute... are you one of Dr. Cortex's goons?" "I was, because he enslaves me as soon as I was reborn. I was originally obliterated by my very sinful moment that costed both my body and soul, one century ago." said Suzukiyama as he told Crash his past. Crash comments on Suzukiyama's legend "Whoa... all that hundred-year old story of yours must be really heavy. How old were you?" The mask levitates next to Crash, then talks, saying "Crash, we still have an objective to accomplish!" everyone except Suzukiyama, Felicia, and Riku Replica screamed and braced each other "A TALKING MASK?!" they said, then Crash introduces the mask to team Suzukiyama, "Chill out, his name is Aku Aku, he's been my sidekick for tons of time!" "Crash Bandicoot, are they REALLY trustworthy?' questioned the mask, aliased as Aku Aku. Crash begs Aku Aku by saying "Oh, c'mon, Aku! Spyro's my biggest fan, and he's with these people! Please?" Aku Aku sighs in displeasure, then decisively says "Alright, we'll tag along, JUST ONCE, right, Mr. Bandicoot?" Crash Bandicoot and Aku Aku joins Team Suzukiyama, now totalling eight members, they travel back to the forkroad, then walked through the right path.
Meanwhile in Dr. Cortex's Laboratory Tower, Dr. Neo Cortex desperately walks in circles, saying "Cursed Bandicoot...! Thwarting every brilliant idea of mine...! Stealing all these expensive replica's I've created! I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE! I'M GOING TO-!" "Whoa there, pops! Chill out and I've got something to say for you." said the menancingly familiar voice, Dr. Cortex exclaims in fear and asks "Wha-?! Who said it?! Show yourself!" the corridor of darkness emits, Boxebb walks out the corridor, then tells Dr. Cortex "I brought someone who can make you more than a match against the Bandicoot." Boxebb snaps his finger, then the large, ominous mask emits from the rift, Dr. Cortex gasps aloud in fear, vastly waddled backwards and says "It's...! Master Uka UKA?!" "Neo Cortex! Who and WHY DID THEY SENT ME HERE?! EXPLAIN NOW!!" ferociously said the mask, aliased as Uka Uka. Boxebb calms Uka Uka by offerably saying "That would be me, Uka Uka, is it? Now, now, before you do something horrifying to us, I lent you some of the power you needed. The reason 'why'? I believe our Bandicoot has made a raid of eight people!" "EEK! Young man, do you have any emotions about what you're trying to attempt to do?!" said Dr. Cortex, frightened from Boxebb's encouragement. Uka Uka laughs in satisfaction, then says "I commend you, brave one, for lending me strength as an act of kindness. Join me, Cortex!" Uka Uka uses his power on Dr. Cortex as he gains wicked amounts of strength, his laboratory tower flashes brightly.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 3, Chapter 12: N.Sanity of Cortex


Team Suzukiyama experiences the sharp, bright blink of light, Hikaru exclamationally asks "What was that light?!" "Hey Crash, hold onto me! You might know what it is!" said Spyro. Crash clings onto Spyro's claws, then they fly 5 meters high, they see a tower top glowing in mixture of darkness and light, then Crash says "Hey, isn't that-?" "Oh no...! Uka Uka has arrived, and has grown much stronger! People! Dr. Cortex's laboratory is this way, let's make haste!" said Aku Aku. Suzukiyama clicks his mouth, then says "Just as I thought, he's no average villain to deal with." "I bet that's the Elementary VIII's doing! C'mon!" said Hikaru, then rallies team Suzukiyama to Dr. Cortex's laboratory tower. Team Suzukiyama barged through the laboratory tower entrance, then the team exclaims as they see 20 shift-shapers, then Riku Replica says "Nobodies! Be on guard!" Hikaru exclaims and recalls from Riku Replica's shout "'Nobodies'...? Kaen...!" Spyro questions Hikaru "Who's 'Kaen'? One of your friends?" "Ahh! No time! Let's cut 'em a new cake-hole!" said Hikaru, then shouts as he slays 4 shift-shapers, renouned as Nobodies, then Spyro used fire and frost breaths to defeat 2 Nobodies, Crash uses spin attack to defeat 5 more nobodies, and lastly, Suzukiyama unleashes his replicant fury, firing the guns from his arm that slay the remaining 9 nobodies. Riku Replica sniffs the air, saying "Not yet. There's one more hidden. And it's right THERE!" he casts dark firaga upwards, burning a hidden nobody alive. "Alright, let's get moving! Full-speed MARCH!" said Hikaru, rallying with team Suzukiyama to duel against Dr. Cortex in the top of his Laboratory tower.
As Team Suzukiyama entered the top of the laboratory tower, they exclaim as they feel like they've entered a distorted rift, Hikaru asks while overwhelmed "Wha-?! Where are we?! What's this place supposed to be?!" "It's Dr. Cortex with the power of Uka Uka...! Brace yourselves!" said Aku Aku. Dr. Cortex's laugh emit, then says "Crash, Crash, Crash... It's about time I've put an end to your silly misadventures!" "Well, bring it on, Dr. Shortex! I'll keep on making you eat your words, and spin you out of commission!" Crash taunted Dr. Cortex. Dr. Cortex appears with Uka Uka, he uses magic to trap everyone except Crash, Aku Aku, and Suzukiyama, "We're trapped?! HEY, ARE YOU KIDDING ME!" shouted Hikaru. Dr. Cortex speaks to Suzukiyama "Why, Oh, why do you have to abandon your daddy, little Suzuki?" "I neither do know nor care, but I'll say this: Your days of terrorizing mother nature comes to an end!" said Suzukiyama, then Uka Uka roars and says to Suzukiyama "We'll see about that, little ghost in a shell!" Suzukiyama utilizes his replicant limbs by firing hidden turrets to damage Uka Uka and Dr. Cortex, they both evaded his attack. Dr. Cortex casts a dark magical sphere, Crash spins himself to deflect the sphere, damaging both Uka Uka and Dr. Cortex, "Good timing, Crash!" said Aku Aku to Crash, out of nowhere, the lance-whip enveloped Crash's legs, then throws him at Suzukiyama, having them knocked down from collision. "Looks like you've forgotten someone...!" said Boxebb, swinging his lance-whip, "Boxebb...!! You CHEAPSKATE!" Hikaru yells at Boxebb, then cheers for Crash and Suzukiyama "C'mon you two! Get up!" Both Crash and Suzukiyama grunt as they gradually stand to their feet, "He's right...! We can't let a madman like him win that easily... we're ending his mess, TOGETHER!" says Crash, then Suzukiyama agrees and says "That's right... together, we'll cover each other's weaknesses, and fight together as one!"
"The fallen hast found true resolve, and so the wings of light is now thine to possess!" said the divine, feminine voice, both Crash and Suzukiyama exclaim, then Crash says "Whoa! Who said that?" "That voice... could it be-?" said Suzukiyama, predicting a skylord's appearance. The skylord of light, Phoenix, appears with a blinding rays of light, Uka Uka grunts aloud, and exclaims "What!? What's all this light?!" "A skylord...! This can't be happening!!" shouted Boxebb. Phoenix transforms into a fan with Phoenix's feathers; the Heavenspire Fan. "Crash, use this fan!" said Suzukiyama to Crash, then Crash acknowledged his command and says "Alright! Uka Uka, hope you enjoy your life as a charcoal!" Crash spins himself with a fan, casting a Phoenix Twister, finishing off Dr. Cortex and Uka Uka. The darkness surrounding the top of the tower dissolves along the shackles that trapped Spyro, Hikaru Daichi, Felicia Claus, Riku Replica, and Gill Grunt. "Did you get 'em?!" asked Spyro, Boxebb screams in irritability from defeat, saying "Why?! Why of all these times must lady luck turn me DOWN?! Dammit!! I knew these two were dead-weight against you! If it's the last thing I'll do, I swear it...! One by one...! I'LL ASSASSINATE EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS! YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! ALL OF YOU!!!" Boxebb disappears into the dark corridor. "Well, that went super quick! Where did Dr. Cortex and your brother go, Aku?" Crash asks Aku Aku, then he predictably says "Not far, but I doubt these two will do any harm to us anymore."

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 3, Chapter 13: A Limbless Baby


Meanwhile in castaway islands, where Dr. Cortex and Uka Uka were casted away by Phoenix's Heavenspire Fan, Dr. Cortex shouts aloud "IT'S NOT OVER, YOU REBELLIOUS RUNT OF A BANDICOOT! SOMEDAY AND SOMEHOW, WE'LL HAVE OUR REVENGE!" "Face it, we're lost and defeated. Now, shut up and fetch me some coconuts, OR I'LL EAT YOUR SOUL INSTEAD!" shouted Uka Uka, Dr. Cortex shrieks from Uka Uka's strict tone and he sprints fast to grab coconuts, then the large, orc-like, club wielding Heartless, the Castaway Troll growls at Dr. Cortex, "Hello...?" Dr. Cortex murmured while scared, then the Castaway Troll swings the club at Dr. Cortex, launching him into the sea. Back to the top of the laboratory tower, Spyro, Crash, and Hikaru laughs altogether "I've got a feeling they aren't taking it easy!" said Hikaru, "Right outta my thoughts, kiddo!" said Crash to Hikaru, then Hikaru exclaims from Crash then strictly says "Hey, hey, hey! I'm HIKARU, get it memorized!" "Hmph, that endphrase reminds me of Axel, that shady little speck." said Riku Replica, then he summons a key-shaped sword and points to the direction of the palace, the light glows around the tip of his sword, then emits a beam of light, lastly, opening a gate with a keyhole in center. Team Suzukiyama exclaims from Riku Replica's technique "Whoa! How did you do that, man?" asked Hikaru to Riku Replica, then he answers Hikaru "Well, who knows? It might be the keyblade acted on its own." "A key...blade? What's that?" curiously asks Spyro to Riku Replica. The gate glows with bright light, everyone except Riku Replica grunts from the gate's shine, transporting all into the palace of Horizon.
Meanwhile, in the Horizon Palace, the search group; Sparx, Hanami Mikisa, Kentaro Tetsuchi, Haruka Daichi, Sakuyu Daichi, Cynder, Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Pop Fizz, and Jet Vac search for Spyro and Hikaru around the hallways. "Hikaru-u-u! Spyro-o-o-o! Where are you, guys?!" the group shouts, the bright light emits in front of the search group, they grunt from the blinding shines, "What's that light?!" exclaimed Cynder. As the light's glow disappears, Hikaru Daichi, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Aku Aku, Gill Grunt, Felicia Claus, Suzukiyama Akimura, and Riku Replica appear, "Whoa! We're back at the palace!" exclaimed Hikaru. Sparx buzzed and flew towards Spyro and says "Big bro Spyro! We've been looking everywhere for you!" "Whoa! Your dragonfly can talk... it also called you big brother! I didn't expect THAT from my number one fan!" excitedly said Crash to Spyro. Sakuyu gasps deeply while glaring at Riku Replica, then says "Oh, my, gosh! Is this really a Tsukimura hair on this boy's head?! I WANT 'IM TO MARRY ME~!" "Wha-? What are you looking at? Ah, ahh!" Riku Replica awkwardly exclaims while running from Sakuyu as she chases him. Hanami walked to Hikaru and asks him "Hikaru, you're okay! Where were you?" "Sorry for the worries, princess! We found ourselves another summonite of Skylord!" boasted Hikaru. "Hey, Crash! Show 'em the summonite outta your pocket!" "'Summonite'? You mean this piece of crystal?" asked Crash, then lifts the summonite out of his pants pocket, the gang except Team Suzukiyama gasps with awe, then Stealth Elf says while excited "That's the third Summonite! Look!" she puts out two summonites of Shiva and Alexander from her back pocket, "Oh! Oh! Oh! That's the summonite Kazz and I just got outta nowhere! Wanna hear about what Alex's like?" excitedly said Trigger Happy.
Hikaru exclaims from Trigger Happy's word 'Kazz' then says "Kazama?! As in my stepbro, Kazama!? You totally got my attention right now, let's hear it!" Trigger Happy tells the story to the gang, says "Well, he appeared as soon as both of us got pinned down by that large tamajin creature, he called it 'Antlion' by the looks of it! We've been struggling, struggling, and STRUGGLING to take it down ourselves, but it beat him too soon! Just as soon as I shield him from its finisher, there was a bright light that repelled it, we both saw Alexander, he's a four-legged robot, and turned into some sort of a cannon! I somehow fired this thing, and BOOM! Pop goes the Antlion!" "Awesome! Then let's find more summonites, and dominate these Elementary VIII must-beens!" said Hikaru while motivated, the gang except Suzukiyama Akimura, Felicia Claus, and Riku Replica says "YEAH!" with motivation to Hikaru, then they sprint towards outside the palace to scavenge the summonites of Skylords, but suddenly, Hikaru was hit by a basket onto his head, and collapsed onto the concrete. "Hikaru?!" exclaimed Hanami, then she gasps as she sees the baby without limbs whimpering in its sleep, then she asks the gang "Everyone, look! It's somehow alive and has no limbs!" "Where are you guys going?" questioned Katsushi, then Hanami replies "Big sister Katsushi, look at the baby in the basket!" "Yikes! How does he function like this? Well, let's check it out at your room, Hana!" said Katsushi, then the entire gang escorts both the basketed baby and the unconscious Hikaru to Hanami's princess bedroom.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 3, Chapter 14: Taking Care of A Rayboy


In Hanami Mikisa's Princess bedroom, She, Spyro, Cynder, Sparx, Crash Bandicoot, Aku Aku, Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Jet Vac, Pop Fizz, Trigger Happy, Gill Grunt, Haruka Daichi, Kentaro Tetsuchi, Sakuyu Daichi, and the unconscious Hikaru Daichi glare at the baby without limbs, cooing and giggling in its basket, "Whoa... That thing's alive, yet, has no limbs! How does it even work?!" said Haruka while excited. Sakuyu scratches her hair and groans in excitement and says "I dunno whether I find it scary or just cute!" Sakuyu violently shoves Haruka aside from the baby, then puts her head next to the little baby in the basket and says "Hi~, HI~! How is you, widdle coochy-coochy-" the little baby's levitating hand inserts both its middle and index fingers into Sakuyu's nostrils, then she shrieks and pants vast and aloud "Th-th-th-th-the hand j-j-j-just got onto my nose!" Sakuyu stutters in fear, then Kentaro investigates a baby's hand "Oh? It's just his hand!" said Kentaro, correcting Sakuyu. Hanami investigates the baby's basket, then finds a tag with a word, labled as 'Rayman', then Hanami announces to the gang " Guys? This baby does have a name, and its name is Rayman!" "Huh, 'Rayman'? He's more of a Ray-boy to me!" commented Eruptor while he shrugged. Hikaru grunts as he gradually recovers from unconsciousness, then rubs his forehead and sighs in pain, "What the...? Where am I? What's this smell? Whoa! What's that in the basket?! Is it alive?" asked Hikaru. "Oh! Hikaru, you're awake. Look at the baby, it's name is Rayman and- Huh? Wait, there's more on the other side of the nametag!" said Hanami, then she reads aloud to the gang "It says: 'If you're reading this message, then listen carefully. The little boy, Rayman, is our last hope for our kind, the Raypeople. Please protect Rayman from any harm at all costs, this is our final request to prevent our extinctio-" Katsushi gasps aloud then puts her onto Hanami's mouth, blocking her from further reading out loud, then quietly says "Hana! Watch these words! He might be listening...!" The baby named Rayman, aliased as Rayboy due to his age, wails aloud, shaking the crowd, "Yikes, you weren't kidding! I think little Rayman might've eavesdropped on the princess!" said Stealth Elf to Katsushi while covering ears, "AHHH!! MAKE HIM STOP CRYING!" Hikaru screams while covering ears and running in circles, "Agh, such an unbearable noise to endure!" Jet Vac loudly says while covering both sides of his head.
"Guys, I'll take care of him! I never babysat a kid before, but I'll at least try!" devotedly said Kentaro, then picks up the crying Rayboy, then shakes him vertically, "Whoa, you're killing it! Go Ken, GO!" Eruptor cheers to Kentaro, then Rayboy stops crying and clenched his lips as his face turns green in nausea. Kentaro says to Rayboy"Haha! I did it! Okay, Rayboy, where d'ya wanna-?" Rayboy heaves onto Kentaro's face, causing the crowd to scream "UGH!" in disgust, then Kentaro spits multiply to push baby vomit from his mouth then asks the crowd "Let me guess... bath time?" "Yep... for both of you." said the crowd, pointing at both Kentaro and Rayboy, Katsushi further says to Kentaro "And don't you even think about going to the springs, you'll contaminate it with baby germs." "Aw, man..." groaned Kentaro as he dropped his head. "Ah, well, I'll be taking charge of babysitting lil' Rayboy while Ken's benched out there in a shower." said Eruptor, volunteered to help Kentaro babysit Rayboy. "Wait! Aren't you gonna need a female caretaker?" asked Hanami to Kentaro and Eruptor, Katsushi encourages Hanami "Don't worry about them, they've got it covered. And besides... we lived our lives without our mom, don'cha think?" Hanami sighs slightly in guilt, then says "You're right... I guess."

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 3, Chapter 15: Seismic Terror Scoxhb


In the public washrooms, Eruptor wearing the astronaut suit puts Rayboy in the soap-filled bath tub, and Kentaro bathes in the shower to wipe off remaining vomit from Kentaro's head and hair, "Ugh! These chunks were HUGE! For a few-months-old, he might've got some serious appetite!" Kentaro commented while showering. Kentaro turned the shower waters off, then steps out while wrapped in the dry towel, walks past the corridor where Eruptor and Rayboy rests, "Hey, 'Ruptor! Wanna switch sides? I'm about to- WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?!" Asked Kentaro. "Protection against wetness, what else?" Bluntly answered Eruptor, "Okay, okay, you might want to just take it off-" "Look, Ken, I'm a fire-type Skylander, and I'M WEAK AGAINST WATER STUFF, OKAY?!" Eruptor yells at Kentaro, his boiling rage burnt the astronaut suit, "Uh, oh..." exclaimed Eruptor, then his feet sizzles upon stepping on puddles, while screaming "Ouch, ouch, ouch!" Eruptor leaps after several steps, then Kentaro catches and lifts Eruptor, "Sorry to ask, can you fetch me some burning-hot stuff for my feet? I'm stiffened and all tingly..." asked Eruptor without dignity.
3 minutes after Rayboy's bath time, inside the changing room, Kentaro and Eruptor intervene on Rayboy what he likes to wear for a change, "Alright, since it's a guy, like us, I think he might be cool wearing some superhero beanies on his body, what do you think?" Rayboy peeks at the beanie with superhero elements in Kentaro's grasp, then Rayboy displays displeasure towards the beanie by flapping fingers against it, "A beanie? Is this some kind of a joke, Ken? That's too big for a kid like HIM to wear on as a hat." strictly said Eruptor to Kentaro, "Well, if he want's to be some kick-axe rebel, this vest's gotta be for him!" Eruptor shows Rayboy the hardcore-goth themed vest with patterns of skulls, snakes, and spiders, then Rayboy screams in high pitch, and latched onto Kentaro's belly while whimpering. Kentaro places his palm on his forehead and says "Yeah, I think that's one thing too much: all these creepy crawlers and violent figures and stuff are just... overkill." Eruptor groans irritably and says "Then WHAT fashion does he like? UGH! All this fashion shephardry is driving me off the wall, I can't stand it!" Kentaro sighs in guilt, then says to Rayboy "Well, Rayboy, looks like you'll have to wear what you've got, here you go." Kentaro puts the shirt on Rayboy, then picks him up and tells Eruptor "C'mon, let's ask for help." Eruptor sighs, then says "Smartest, decision, of the day." "However, it is unnecessary." said the mysterious, masculine voice. Both Kentaro and Eruptor gasp in high alert, then they sprint towards the exit of the changing room, then the hooded man fiercely punched Kentaro to his cheek, causing him to flail from the man's fist impact, and dropping the Rayboy upwards, "Ah! Ken!" exclaimed Eruptor, then the hooded man catches the Rayboy, then says "So... this is a rayperson: One of the beings from the lost realm." Eruptor growls at the hooded man and shouts "Let Rayboy go!" Eruptor shoots fireballs at the hooded person, then he stomped on the ground hard to deploy a seismic barrier that deflects fireballs, "WHAT?!" exclaimed Eruptor. The hooded man blinked next to Eruptor, then says "Stand aside." he flickered his fingers onto Eruptor's cheek, then flails and bounces from the wall to the floor, moaning in pain. "Hmph, two powerhouse units are merely inferior to me. Now, to do something with this child..." said the hooded man, preparing to harm Rayboy, "I'm not... letting you do this... Bosch...!" said Kentaro while injured, struggling to stand onto his feet, the hooded man, aliased as Bosch, gasps and then slightly dodges Kentaro's punch with the colossal gauntlet, unveiling Bosch's face, then he lept backwards from Kentaro, and commendably says "You knew my former self... impressive." "Yeah, I said that! How could I ever forget that the person I put ALL my faith on just got fired from the Martial Artisan's Ring? I knew everything about you, as my role model!" shouted Kentaro to Bosch, then he replies to Kentaro "The 'Bosch' you spoke of is but a coward and a weakling. I am called Scoxhb." renamed himself as Scoxhb, then Kentaro replies with frustration "Yeah, you're just like these empty zombies...! A shift-Shaper! A walking corpse!" "Hmph, so be it." Scoxhb conclusively says to Kentaro and puts down Rayboy onto his feet, then Rayboy cries while running towards Kentaro then clings onto his legs. "Wait, what are you doing?" asked Kentaro to Scoxhb "I was originally about to end your suffering with honor, however... I'll let you off the hook once, you're still frail. Grow stronger, and we shall settle the score, in the bastion that is all hollow." said Scoxhb, then walks towards the dark corridor. "Wait! Bosch! Where are you going?! I haven't started to fight back yet!" yelled Kentaro to Scoxhb, but the corridor disappears, then thinks about the last words from Scoxhb, "'In a bastion that is all hollow'...? What could all this even mean?" "Hollow Bastion, the palace where all the emblem heartless were created." said Riku Replica, then Kentaro gasps in high alert and asks Riku Replica "'Hollow Bastion'? Tell me, what else is it like out there?" "My real counterpart, Riku, was abducted and led there by an old man. It was peaceful, fortified, but infested and dangerous at the same time. My other self overheard that there were two Hollow Bastions, one that is completely unknown, and the other that he was standing inside." said Riku Replica, answered Kentaro's question, then Riku Replica sees and points his finger at Rayboy clinging onto Kentaro's legs, "That thing... it isn't a heartless, is it?" "Huh? What's a heartless?" asked Kentaro while confused, "Ugh, Tamajin, I mean." rephrased Riku Replica, then Kentaro exclaims and answers "Oh! Definitely not! He's a rayperson, and also last of its own kind too!" "...I see. Then what about the red guy laying on the floor?" asked Riku Replica, pointing at Eruptor laying on the floor, then Eruptor quickly stands on his feet and answers angrily "I'm ERUPTOR! What else do you think I am?!" Hikaru barged through the door and asks "Ken! Eruptor! What was going on here?! Don't tell me the Elementary VIII barged in again!" "Eeyup, that's the everyday culprit." said Eruptor while stretching his arms, then Kentaro tells Hikaru about Scoxhb "Bosch came at me, renaming himself as Scoxhb, then just left." "Heh! That 'Scoxhb' guy sounds like a wimp, starting a fight then just ran from it!" said Hikaru with a taunting tone in his voice. Eruptor dusts off his body and face "Yeah, believe it or not, he hits like a raging bull! Maybe he got some silver finger thingies that he used for protection... like claws, or some sort. Agh, he really does know how to make my face swell!"

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 3, Chapter 16: Fly Me to Raging Vulture


The earthquake emits, causing a huge panic upon Hikaru, Kentaro, Rayboy, Eruptor, and Riku Replica, "Now, what?!" exclaimed Hikaru, then the speaker announces danger "Warning: One colossal, and multiple medium-small units of Tamajin has appeared amidst the Horizon Palace. All civilians and cadets, please evacuate immediately while the horizoneers will immediately eradicate the Tamajin. I repeat: " One colossal, and multiple medi-" the speaker was torn apart along the ceiling, then the aerial Tech-type Tamajin; Raging Vulture and its miniature counterparts; Vaporflies wreak havoc from above, "Oh great! More small fries with a side of turkey-dinner!" shouted Eruptor, then Riku Replica positions himself to fight, summons his keyblade and says "Now's not the time to make jokes at a matter of crisis! Let's go!" Riku Replica warps to the sky with dark energy. "Ken! Get Rayboy somewhere safe!" shouted Hikaru to Kentaro, then Kentaro acknowledges Hikaru's request and vastly ran to safety with Rayboy. "Alright, time to fly!" said Hikaru aloud, then lets out and presses the button of a controller that summons an equestricycle in front of him. Hikaru hops onto and start the engines, then his equestricycle levitates and Hikaru shouts aloud "Y'know what they say; EVERY SOLDIER FROM THEMSELVES!" "Oh, yeah?! Well, two can play that game!" shouted back Eruptor to Hikaru, then summons his supercharger, then shouts "Go, baby, GO!" while starting his supercharger's engines, and levitates towards the sky to fend off Vaporflies and the Raging Vulture in midair.
Meanwhile at Hikaru's location in the stratosphere, Hikaru slays over 29 Vaporflies, and hundreds of Vaporflies surround Hikaru in his equestricycle "Man, there's no end to them, is there?!" said Hikaru while out of breath. The attacking Vaporflies were slain by both Haruka Daichi and Stealth Elf in her Supercharger, "Need a hand?" they ask Hikaru, then Hikaru shouts out "Haruka! Elf! Good timing!" Hikaru points his index finger to the Raging Vulture "Hey, what about that Vulture thing right there?! Let's take it down!" Hikaru chases the Raging Vulture without second thoughts, Stealth Elf warns Hikaru "Hikaru, wait! We don't know what it does!" Hikaru shoots chakram launchers from the equestricycle wheels to attack the vulture's wings, but the Raging Vulture deflects the chakrams back to Hikaru, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOA!" he panics and uses the equestricycle turrets to shoot down the chakrams, all have missed, Hikaru screams while ducking in his seat with arms wrapped on his head. As Spyro makes it in time, he used his tail to catch two chakrams at once, stopping them from flying at Hikaru's equestricycle. Hikaru gasps and says to Spyro "Dude, I thought I was dead for sure!" "Y'welcome!" says Spyro to Hikaru with a wide grin, then strategizes Raging Vulture's statuses "Looks like we'll have to do more than just throw toys at this big-ol' birdy... Aha! Lightning will do! Looks like I'll have to somehow call out the thunder! Be right back!" Spyro flies upwards to the cloud mass, "Hey, Spyro! Don't overdo yourself!" shouted Hikaru, then he thinks "Alright, now to Take down the small fries!" Hikaru heats up an equestricycle engines to advance towards the flock of Vaporflies.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 3, Chapter 17: Fly Me to Raging Vulture: Part 2

Meanwhile, 11 meters away from Hikaru, The gang; Hanami Mikisa, Shinji Kagaze, Yoshiro Tsukimura, Hatsuya Daichi, Pop Fizz, Trigger Happy, and Gill Grunt fend off against the flock of 728 vaporflies, Hanami violently swings her staff in rocket-hammer form to defeat 10 vaporflies in one swoop, done five times, Hatsuya hops on each vaporfly to cut through 5 vaporflies per leap, repeated 6 times, with her two katana-like swords, Shinji, Gill Grunt, and Trigger Happy respectively use a Bow, Harpoon launcher, and coin-ammunated pistols with a help of Pop Fizz and his supercharger to eliminate 159 vaporflies in total, and Yoshiro operates the horizoneer VTOL gunship to obliterate the remaining Vaporflies with the VTOL cannon, completely clearing the section of the midair battle. The Raging Vulture screams in high pitch, shutting down Yoshiro's VTOL gunship's systems "Damn that Tamajin...! It's jammed!" irritably said Yoshiro, then jumps off the VTOL without the parachute, then lands onto the landing platform on top of Pop Fizz's supercharger, startling Shinji, Trigger Happy, and Gill Grunt. Yoshiro shouts to everyone with his urgent request "Everyone, stop the VTOL from falling! It's gonna destroy the part of the city!" "Leave it to my concoction!" said Pop Fizz, throwing the potion at the falling VTOL gunship, after the potion's explosion impact on the VTOL, the gunship stopped falling, and stood still in midair. Everyone except Pop Fizz gasps in awe "Whoa... it's actually floating! NICE ONE, FIZZ!" says Trigger Happy, then Yoshiro exclaims when he sees the torpedo flying towards the VTOL ship, he lifts his arm and tells the group "Wait! It's still aiming for the gunship! HANAMI, DEFEND IT!" "Okay!" Hanami acknowledges Yoshiro's request, then she swings the rocket-hammer to deflect the torpedo, but explodes, damaging Hanami and causing her to lose altitude, she screams while falling from the great heights, "Princess Hanami!" exclaimed Hatsuya, then dives towards Hanami to catch her in midair, then both Hanami and Hatsuya were forcefully dragged towards Jet Vac's supercharger by the supercharger's vac cannon "Salutations, m'ladies!" says Jet Vac, then both Hanami and Hatsuya exclaim from Jet Vac's stylish greeting "Jet Vac!"
Meanwhile in Hikaru's midair location, he dashes through hundreds of Vaporflies, then thought "C'mon, Spyro! What's taking you!?" The thunder claps loud from the clouds, then Hikaru gasps from the purple colors behind the mass of clouds. Yoshiro's group gasps and Shinji says "Look! What's with the purple color behind these clouds?" Jet Vac, Hanami, and Hatsuya gasps, then Hanami says "Is that...?" "Ah...! It is!" Stealth Elf hopefully says while Haruka laughs in joy, "Now that's divine!" says Eruptor. The Raging Vulture squawks in confusion from seeing the purple cloud glow, "Hey, birdbrain! TIME TO GET ELECTROCUTED!" shouted Spyro, then he roars as he uses electricity through his horns, forming a colossal thunderbolt. The thunderbolt pierces through the Raging Vulture, defeating it, along with the remaining Vaporflies. Spyro heavily exhales and inhales from exhaustion, then faintly says "I... did it...! Ohhh...." Spyro becomes unconscious, falling from great heights, then Hikaru gasps and shouts "SPYRO!!!" in desperation, he jumps off his equestricycle to skydive, trying to catch Spyro. Yoshiro, Shinji, Hanami, Hatsuya, Haruka, Gill Grunt, Pop Fizz, Jet Vac, Trigger Happy, Stealth Elf, and Eruptor exclaim respectively from Hikaru's rash decision of rescuing Spyro, Hikaru shouts while he dives to catch up with Spyro, the light splashes from Hikaru, forming large golden wings onto his back, then he grabbed Spyro and stopped descending with the help of his newly gained wings. Hikaru slowly and steadily opens his eyes after catching Spyro, then he gasps as he sees wings behind him, "Kaen...? You saved us again... didn't you?" he thought aloud. Eruptor with his supercharger passes by Hikaru and Spyro, then shouts out "DUDE! You pull off gutsiest stunts, and all the sudden, you just grown a pair of wings?! How do you have so much luck in your-?" Hikaru sobs silently with his tears dropping from his eyes, Eruptor then exclaims from Hikaru's emotional moment "Whoa... I think you had this one rough. Can I do something to cheer you up, or-?" "No, I'm just... so happy... I hope I'd bring Kaen to reality... for sure." said Hikaru to Eruptor, correcting him.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 3, Epilogue: Adam and Eve's Revisit


"A grown man grieving over his imaginary friend's decline of existence... beyond childish, indeed." said the menacingly familiar voice, emerged from nowhere, the entire group exclaim in high alert. "I know that voice...! ADAM! SHOW YOURSELF!" viciously shouted Eruptor, Jet Vac, Stealth Elf, Gill Grunt, Pop Fizz, and Trigger Happy exclaim from Eruptor's shout. The brother of Harmonic Discord, Adam, Light-type Shift-shaper, emerges from the mass of dim light, and the brother of Monstrous Brawn, Eve, Dark-type Shift-Shaper, emerges from the bloody shadows, "I'm surprised you came this far and remember my name, creature of Skylands." greeted Adam. Spyro steadily wakes while grunting, then gasps quick but deeply when he sees both Adam and Eve. Spyro violently growls and says "It's you...!!" to Eve, "Long time no see to you too." sarcastically greeted Eve to Spyro, then Spyro growls and screams to Eve "SHUT UP, YOU FREAK!! GIVE OUR HOME BACK!!!" he jumps from Hikaru's grasp, "Spyro! WAIT!" warned Hikaru to Spyro. Spyro screams angrily and breathes large amount of fire onto Eve, then Eve deflects Spyro's firebreath with his left hand, redirecting the firebreath's flow back to Spyro, burning him internally. Eve taunts Spyro "How's that for tasting your own medicine, HUH?" "SPYRO!" shouted Jet Vac, Stealth Elf, Pop Fizz, Eruptor, and Hikaru. "YOU SUNOVA-! I'LL KILL YOU!!" vengefully says Hikaru to Eve, then Hikaru points his magic pistol and casts dark firaga at Eve. As the bits of dark firaga close into Eve's skin, Adam casts reflega barrier onto Eve, deflecting the bits back to Hikaru. Hikaru with the help of his wings evaded the deflected dark firaga, then grunts and says "SO, YOU WANNA DIE, RAW?! THEN HOW ABOUT THIS?!" Hikaru summons and violently throws the shift-shaper glaive at Adam. Adam caught the glaive at the split-second with only his right hand, "Is this some level-1 frisbee disk? Pathetic." tauntingly said Adam, then he breaks the glaive with his hand, reverting to a broken apart wooden boomerang. Hikaru quickly and deeply gasps from defeat, "No way...!" he exclaimed. Adam warps in front of Hikaru, then violently grapples his neck, choking him and dispelling Hikaru's wings, reducing to fading feathers. "It is time I'll sentence you as a fallen angel, young man." Adam calmly threatened Hikaru, as he prepares to perform a killing blow, Hikaru's eyes slowly close "Is this how I'll end up...? A fallen angel...?" he hopelessly thought. Hanami loudly whimpers and grasps her forehead, then screams in pain in front of both Hatsuya and Jet Vac in the supercharger. "Princess Hanami! What's-?!" Exclaimed Jet Vac. The light within Hanami's forehead glows brightly, then Hanami angrily glares at Adam, then disappears from Jet Vac's supercharger. Hanami angrily screams while dashes through the sky to assault Adam to rescue Hikaru. "LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!" Hanami angrily threatens Adam, then swings her staff in Rocket-hammer form onto Adam, "Wha-?" exclaimed Adam, then was pushed far away from Hikaru and Hanami by her hammer's force. Hikaru falls below Hanami, blinded by rage, then Spyro recovers midair, then gasps and shouts "HIKARU! I GOT YOUR BACK!" then flies towards the falling Hikaru to catch him, then he caught Hikaru and flew towards the platform from Pop Fizz's Supercharger with Yoshiro, Shinji, Trigger Happy, and Gill Grunt. Eve halted Adam's flight, "Brother, are you alright?" he asked Adam, then he replies "More or less, this girl possesses the crest of Arkus. Perhaps she might be the final key to our completion." "WHY MUST YOU DO ALL THIS?!" Hanami angrily asked Adam and Eve, then he tells her about her symboled forehead "Have you heard about the tales of two legendary mercenaries' clash?The one-armed monk named Arkus... without a doubt, you possess his blood." Hanami gasps in confusion, then suspiciously asks Adam "'Arkus'...? What are you saying?" "You will know soon enough." Adam fares Hanami well, then orders Eve "Let's retreat, Eve." "I gotcha, bro." Eve acknowledges, then they both blink to the overran skylands. Eruptor loudly and angrily growls, then says "These muscular cowards! We're taking them down, right here, right now!" "Wait, Eruptor! We can't. They're still too overpowered for us." Stealth Elf reasonably says to Eruptor, then he exclaims and asks her "Why not?! Hanami just slammed this four-eyed wuss! With her as a leader, we can-" "THAT'S NOT THE POINT! Hanami is the princess of the horizoneers, and WE'RE NOT LETTING HER DIE SO EARLY!! Think about it! What will happen when the only heir of horizoneers no longer lives on?!" says Stealth Elf, reasoning with Eruptor about Hanami's aftermath. "Come on. Let's regroup back in the palace." commanded Yoshiro to everyone, descending from great heights to the ground.

To be Continued.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Prologue: Spyro's True Past


Meanwhile at the Horizoneer's Palace, Eruptor walks in circles while Hanami, Stealth Elf, Spyro, Jet Vac, and Pop Fizz sit silently and Hikaru lies unconscious during moment of silence. Eruptor irritably clicked his mouth, stopped walking in circles, then angrily shouts "So what are we gonna do?! Wait for them to pack and move somewhere else?! FAT CHANCE! I'M GOING TO DEAL WITH THEM MYSELF, IF I HAVE TO!" "Shut up, you super-jerk." strictly said Spyro to Eruptor, everyone gasps from the drama between Spyro and Eruptor, Pop Fizz anxiously warns Spyro from engaging conflict on Eruptor "Spyro, don't do it, man!" "Say what, now?! Oh yeah, as I remember, you called me a normal-jerk! WAS THAT A LIE YOU PLOTTED ON?!" Eruptor angrily recalls on Spyro, then Spyro claws Eruptor's cheek, "DO YOU REALLY WANT TO BEAR ALL THIS BURDEN YOURSELF, YOU PEBBLE-BRAINED HOTHEAD!?" yelled Spyro, "Spyro, please, stop!" says Stealth Elf, attempting to restrain Spyro from fighting Eruptor "You're going too far!" Jet Vac added. Spyro inhales with teary eyes, then shouts out to Eruptor "THEN YOU CAN JUST GO AHEAD, AND DO IT ON YOUR OWN, ALL ALONE!" Spyro emits a massive flash of light that psychologically traps Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Jet Vac, and Pop Fizz into Spyro's illusion that showcases his real origins.
Meanwhile in Spyro's illusion, showcasing the Skylands, forest section at 5 years earlier, Stealth Elf grunts while steadily standing onto her feet, then gasps as she sees the familiar background around her, then thought "We're... back in skylands...? Wait, my clothes are still the same, then... where is-?!"she gasps once again as she sees nobody else beside her, then she shouts out "SPYRO?! ERUPTOR__?! VAC___!" "...KEN__?! VAC__?! ANYONE HERE___?!" Eruptor shouts out while alone in his own illusion, the bushes rattle aloud, alerting Eruptor, "Who's there?!" he exclaimed, then the boy holding the purple egg with white polka-dots emerges from the bushes, sprinting, Eruptor then thought "Hey! Isn't that...?" "...Hikaru?!" said Jet Vac, trapped in the third illusion. The boy, aliased as Hikaru, pants aloud from exhaustion, then suddenly trips on the vine, fallen onto the pavement and dropping the egg, cracking the egg, and the baby purple dragon flails outside the broken eggshell, the baby dragon snarls in pain while standing onto his feet, he slowly opens his eyes, then yelps as he sees three greebles chuckle evilly as they are ready to harm the baby dragon, "Ooh, what do we have here? An itsy-bitsy baby dragon~!" said the Yellow Greeble, "This one's a rare one too! Score!" added the Blue Greeble. The green greeble points his finger at Hikaru, "Hey, what about that kid over here? He might be our full course meal!" Hikaru grunts in pain while he struggles to stand onto his feet, then the greebles exclaim from Hikaru's recovery, "Yikes! He's still alive! What'll we do, boss?!" Green greeble asks the Yellow Greeble, then he answers "You know what to do, make him dead-meat for sure!" "Wha-?! Oh, no, where's the egg?!" anxiously said Hikaru, quickly tapping his hands on the ground to search the egg. The greebles laugh at Hikaru's obliviousness, and the yellow greeble tells him "Oh? I think the egg of yours might have some surprise for you, little boy!" the yellow greeble lifts the purple baby dragon, "Wait! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO WITH THE DEFENSELESS CREATURE OVER HERE?! PUT HIM DOWN, OR ELSE!" Hikaru threatens the greebles, then the greebles sarcastically recall Hikaru "Or else what? Tell your superior on us?" the greebles laugh aloud. Hikaru growls angrily, then roars while sprinting towards the greebles, "YOU PUNKS ASK FOR IT!!!" he shouted. The greebles exclaim in denial from Hikaru's violent act, then he lands his fist on the yellow greeble's face, dropping the baby dragon in midair, then Hikaru jumps and catches the baby dragon in midair, then puts him down. The yellow greeble screams in agony while covering his face, "MY FACE! MY PURDY(Pretty), DURDY(Dirty) FACE!" The blue greeble stutters in fear, then growls vengefully at Hikaru, "YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THIS, LITTLE RUNT! AFTER HIM!!" he screamed, rallied the green greeble to attack Hikaru. Hikaru arms himself with the boomerang to counter attack the greebles with his counterattack stance, then he shouts to perform fifty hits on both greebles with premature grace, Both blue and green greebles were knocked out cold by Hikaru. The yellow greeble whimpers in fear from Hikaru's strength, "M-m-m-monster!! You'll pay for this!!" he anxiously shouted, then grabs both his comrades and runs away into the deeper forest, Hikaru chuckles while rubbing his finger onto his nose tip, "Not bad, huh?" "There you are, young man, now hand over the egg and I won't expel you!" strictly says the bearded teacher, emerged from the bushes, then Hikaru exclaims, then bows deeply and says "I... I'm so sorry, I BROKE IT, Eon Sensei! Please give me one more chance! I'll do anything to make you happy, ANYTHING!" Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Jet Vac, and Pop Fizz gasp from Hikaru's phrase 'Eon'.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 1: Spyro's True Past, Part 2


Eon Sensei exclaims when he sees the small, purple baby dragon defending Hikaru, then asks it "Oh-ho, who might you be, little one?" "Huh? Wait, who are you calling-?" asked Hikaru, then exclaims when he sees the purple baby dragon in front of him, "It's... standing up for me... but, why?" "This little dragon might be thinking of you as a defenseless mother. And it must be very brave, standing up for someone who is its no match. So, Hikaru, give it a name, any kind of name will do good." Eon asks Hikaru to name the purple baby dragon. Hikaru picks up the baby dragon and closes his eyes, then the words form up from his mind, combining it to 'S-P-Y-R-O', "Spyro... its name is Spyro." Hikaru named the baby purple dragon, Spyro. Eruptor, Jet Vac, Pop Fizz, and Stealth Elf gasp in shock when he heard the word 'Spyro' from Hikaru's mouth. Spyro barked happily to and licked Hikaru to his cheek as a kiss, and he laughed. Stealth Elf gasps in awe and says "Hikaru's the one..." "...who's been watching over him..." added Eruptor, "...all this time?" added Pop Fizz, then Jet Vac sighs in awe and thought "Spyro, you sneaky liar!" with a smile. Eon chuckles from joy between Spyro and Hikaru and says "I believe the little one liked it a lot!" "I just... thought of that one up, a more friendlier version of my dad's name... he was a criminal who took my mom's life right in front of my eyes." Hikaru explains his tragic childhood to Eon, then he quickly gasped in guilt and says "Oh, good heavens, I'm so sorry to hear this. It must have driven you rogue, especially losing your mother at first hours of your life." "I wanted to avenge my mom so badly... but I needed more strength... and that's why I'm asking you..." said Hikaru while trembling in sorrow, then inhales and asks Eon "Eon Sensei... will you teach me to become a magic skylander? Please, I must have strength to bring light into this world, and save it from all those fiends from the shadows!" "Say no more, my pupil, I shall give you something special to become a worthy young man. Follow me, Hikaru." Eon orders Hikaru to follow him, then stopped suddenly and says "Oh, and at one condition, watch over Spyro for me, would you?" Hikaru nodded eagerly and says "SURE! I'LL MAKE HIM BIG AND STRONG, JUST FOR YOU!"
Four months fast forwarded in Spyro's illusion, Hikaru chases both Spyro and his empty bottle while he nurses Spyro for Eon's favor. Hikaru shouts out "Hey, cut it out! I can't feed you when you're flying far up and holding the empty bottle! You got to hand this over! C'mon, Spyro! I won't make Eon proud if I can't give you proteins!" Spyro makes a silly face and says "Can't CATCH me!" Hikaru sighs disappointed, then thought aloud "This is not gonna work out..." "I'll be right back, Spyro... I'm just going to shove my face on a pillow, and choke myself to sleep." Hikaru says to Spyro while stressed out. Eon opens the door with the purple star-shaped fruit and says "Hikaru, I have finally prepared the magic training room, just for you!" Eon exclaims as he sees no signs of Spyro, then asks Hikaru "Hikaru? Where is Spyro?" Hikaru raises his head from the pillow and answers Eon "Oh, he's just likes to cause ruckus and trouble..." Hikaru exclaims and jumps onto his feet, then recalls Eon "WAIT, YOU DID IT? AWESOME!" One more month fast forwarded, focusing Hikaru and Spyro at the hours of tragic invasion, started by the sorceress that devour both time and youth. "Come on! In here!" Hikaru says while escorting Spyro to the dorm of masters, then Hikaru encourages Spyro and says "Spyro, this is my last request: You're the only one who can change history of all realms, bring light to every people's hearts and souls, and purge all evil from reality. So I ask you... to forget my existence, cast everything else aside, and trust no one else but yourself! Grow stronger, show the world your resolve, and become our only hope!" As soon Hikaru completes his encouragement on Spyro, Spyro's illusion fractures, fast forwarding back to where Spyro screamed to Eruptor "THEN YOU CAN JUST GO AHEAD, AND DO IT ON YOUR OWN, ALL ALONE!" Eruptor, Jet Vac, Stealth Elf, and Pop Fizz gasps when awake back in time.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 2: Great Mistake with Great Benefits

Jet Vac clicked his mouth in shame and sorrow, then walks to Spyro and says "I can't believe this... Spyro... all this time, you weren't doing this just for yourself, you were TOLD to look down on us, and had everyone to shame you in return! After all this time... your ignorance... your ego was formed from-" "MY EGO?! YEAH, ME ACTING LIKE I'M SUCH A CELEBRITY AND ALL THIS NONSENSE IS WHAT MAKES ME UNATTRACTIVE! WHAT ABOUT MY REEKY-?!" "THAT'S NOT THE POINT, SPYRO! We're saying that you're never alone to begin with!" Stealth Elf pointedly says to Spyro with the cracking voice from sadness, then Spyro continues to self-shame by saying "YOU DON'T GET IT! JUST IN REAL LIFE, I'M A WEAKEST, STUPIDEST, STENCHIEST FIRE-SNORTING SLACKER OF A PURPLE LITTLE SNOTTY LIZARD IN THIS REALM! THERE, I ADMIT IT, I'M WHAT YOU REALLY THINK!" Eruptor, silently sobbing from Spyro's emotional tantrum, Spyro continues to scream "GO ON, ERUPTOR! SAY SOMETHING YOU WANT TO SAY ABOUT ME! DO SOMETHING! ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU-!" "SHUT UP. Just... say no more... I'll say it in my heart; I thought of you as a most selfish peasant that didn't deserve to be a skylander... I doubted you, blamed you, and even TRIED to harm you without second thoughts! But then, you admit your mistakes, your weaknesses, AND NOW, YOU'RE CALLING YOURSELF USELESS?! YOU'RE MUCH MORE THAN ALL THAT, SPYRO! YOU'RE YOURSELF, A UNIQUE, ONE OF THE THOUSANDS, AND YOU'RE OUR FRIEND! GET A GRIP ON REALITY, AND PLEASE! COME BACK TO US!!" Eruptor screamed back at Spyro, then he firmly embraced him afterwards. Spyro gasps when he is embraced by Eruptor, then sobs loudly with teary eyes. Stealth Elf also sobs with sympathy for Spyro, then embraces both Spyro and Eruptor. Later, both Jet Vac and Pop Fizz embraced Spyro's group and sob altogether. Hanami goes speechless with dripping tears, clinging her hands together onto her chest, "What is this...? My heart's thumping... very hard. Is this... true friendship?" she thought.
Hikaru grunts while steadily and slowly opens his eyelids, then says with weakened tone from injuries "Spyro...? What's... a matter...?" Eruptor quickly grunts angrily from Hikaru's whisper, then shrugs off Spyro and others' group hug, then picks Hikaru up and yells "Hikaru...! YOU MONSTER! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SPOIL HIM ROTTEN?! DIDN'T YOU JUST THINK ABOUT WHAT HE'S ABOUT TO GO THROUGH WHEN YOU SAID ALL THIS NARCISSISTIC STUFF YOU JUST SAID TO HIM?! HE COULDN'T BEAR ALL THIS BURDEN YOU JUST GAVE HIM, AND YOU JUST REDUCED HIM TO A SELFISH KLUTZ LIKE YOURSELF! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" "Heh... it's all coming back to me... that sin I blindly committed to a poor, defenseless hatchling... it was really bad, I know." chuckled Hikaru with a weakened voice tone. Eruptor growls violently, then slams Hikaru hard onto the concrete, Hanami screamed quickly and covered her face from Hikaru's hard slam "Eruptor, stop! I'll handle his judgement." said Jet Vac, restraining from Eruptor to further hurt Hikaru. Jet Vac then says to Hikaru "Hikaru... you have made a grave mistake to put Spyro in the lowest tier of Skylanders. Your encouragement just caused him to grow an ego, giving him an early social downfall. However, on a bright side... he managed to break through all these hardships he faced, and gained so much potential in short periods of time!" Stealth Elf happily exclaims, then adds her encouragement to Hikaru "That's right! Spyro never gave up hope, even if it's impossible to beat! He changed my life, entirely, when I first met him!" "Not to mention he's got more positive energy than the rest of us had!" added Pop Fizz, "Now that I think about it, I'm starting to like you for giving him some spirit!" said Eruptor, recovered from anger. Spyro shakes his head, shrugging from his slump, then says to Hikaru, "Hikaru...? You're the one who got me through all this...? You're so cruel, yet... you gave me all the bravery I needed... thanks." "...Anytime, partner." replied Hikaru to Spyro with appreciation. Riku Replica walks in and says to the gang "Enough with the 'happy-ending' drama, boss is waiting for us at her office." Hanami gasps in surprise "Oh, I forgot about this!" then tells the gang "Guys! We have to go! Big sister's got plans for us!" "Wait, 'big-sister'? Does it mean you're also boss's little sister?" asked Riku Replica to Hanami while surprised, then she replies "I know, it's a shocker, families aren't always normal. Anyways, let's head over!"

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 3: To Become Stronger Than Ever


Meanwhile in Katsushi Mikisa's Office Dormitory, she, Magus Wando, and the gang of cadets initiated intervention about Elementary VIII's possible whereabouts, led by Kentaro Tetsuchi, announcing his update to Katsushi "Gladiette, Bosch- No, Scoxhb the Seismic Terror told me that we'll meet again in the place called 'Hollow Bastion'... Maybe it's their hideout!" Katsushi gasps quickly and recalls Kentaro "'Hollow... Bastion?' I know this name of a place." Hikaru gasps then recalled Katsushi with curiosity "You do? What's it like?" "A castle that was once housed our mankind, but then we left there and it was sunken into the deepest depths of Ska'Drin Ocean." Katsushi replied to Hikaru, giving out details about Hollow Bastion to the cadets, then Stealth Elf asks Katsushi a question "Wait... if the Hollow Bastion is really underwater, how can they breathe?" "Beats me, Elf." casually replied Katsushi to Stealth Elf, then looks straight into Hikaru's eyes and says "...but I saw you, fighting two of these white-haired men, Adam and Eve. You were easily outmatched and lost your only melee weapon." Everyone except Hikaru and Katsushi gasped, "Yeah. It's all true." said Hikaru while facially expresses guilt from major sacrifice. Katsushi clicked her mouth, displaying her irritation from Hikaru's reply, then slapped his cheek very hard with a loud slap sound emitted, causing first year cadets, including Shinji and Mibuki Kagaze, Hanami Mikisa, Sparx, and the Skylanders gasp "Moping over a broken toy makes you a disgrace to a Horizoneer! Want to get a second chance on fighting, Hikaru?! THEN STAND TALL ON YOUR FEET AND BRING YOURSELF BACK IN THE WAR!" strictly said Katsushi, displaying encouragement towards Hikaru, then she asks Magus while briefly pointing her finger towards Hikaru "Wando, put him in the VR room, and give him all melee weapons to test out!" Magus replies with loyalty "Yes, ma'am! Please come, Hikaru." Magus escorts Hikaru to the Virtual Reality room, then Spyro flies upwards, raises hand and asks Katsushi "Um, excuse me, what about the rest of us?" "You're all set. What? Do you want to train furthermore too?" answered Katsushi as she asked back to Spyro, then he replies with loyalty "Yes! Anything to make me more useful." "But, Spyro, you're already as useful as it is! Don't strain yourself!" says Stealth Elf to Spyro while worried for his overall health, "Indeed! Your ability to freely fly and breathe more than just fire is just what made you unique to us!" added Jet Vac with encouragement, "C'mon, dude! Believe in us!" added Eruptor. "Thanks for your concern, guys... but I'll have to break a few bones and I'll definitely bring ourselves back home!" says Spyro, showing his resolve to his friends, then Sparx flies to Spyro's horn and says "If you DO break bones, I'll be your source o'recovery!" "Heh, very well said. Hey, Harper! Get Spyro, the purple dragon with orange belly and bones to the VR room!" said Katsushi, shouted to Harper Hood, then he stretches his feathery arms and says "Comin'!" then he picks up Spyro whole "Hey, I'm not a helpless dog! I can walk by myself!" The skylanders laugh, then Stealth Elf says "Well, we wish you luck, Spyro!" while waving, "We're rooting for you!" added cheers from Eruptor, Jet Vac, and Pop Fizz. Katsushi concludes her intervention with her announcement "Alright, while they're both at training, all cadets'll go party on the beach! Except Kazama Daichi, Hatsuya Daichi and Yoshiro Tsukimura for their loyal behavior and progress, these three will be defending the outskirts of the Central City! Dismissed!" Everyone except Felicia Claus and Suzukiyama Akimura cheered aloud and left Katsushi's dormitory. "You've become much like your brother, Yoshiro." says Kazama to Yoshiro, displaying his cheerfulness, "Hmph, leave him out of this." strictly replied Yoshiro. Kazama then looked at Hatsuya to her eyes and says "You must be his bio-sister, right?" "So what if I am?" arrogantly replied Hatsuya, "Whoa! I wouldn't be happy with all that serious look on your face. Anyways, it's nice to see you."
Meanwhile in the VR room, Hikaru and Magus arrived in the controls center, then Magus introduces the VR room to Hikaru, "Welcome to the VR room, where what you see and feel is real! But I promise you this: No casualties were made during the VR room. Now then, choose your melee of choice!" Magus snaps his finger to summon the chest full of melee weapons, featuring swords, scythes, axes, daggers, hammers, cestuses, and much more. "Whoa...! There's so many weapons in there!" Hikaru gasps in awe from looking at the melee weapons, then Magus asks Hikaru once more "I know, right? But, I'll ask you once more: Which one of the melee weapons will you start with?" Harper slammed open the door with Spyro, then says "There we are! VR room, where everything looked and felt real, but aren't hazardous, so feel free to- Oh hey, Wando!" Magus exclaimed from Harper's appearance with Spyro, then Hikaru also exclaim from Spyro's appearance in VR room. "H-Harper?! What are you doing here?! And WHY did you bring Spyro with you?!" questioned Magus to Harper, then Spyro waddles with his two legs, towards Hikaru with both arms hidden behind his back "Oh, hey... um... I thought you might need some, uh... training partner?" nervously said Spyro while his cheeks glow red, then Hikaru smirks and guesses Spyro "Let me guess... you're here to grow stronger, right?" "That'd... be the one. Heh-heh..." said Spyro while nervously giggling with his claws behind his head.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 4: Reunion of Doom


Meanwhile in the VR Room, both Spyro and Hikaru laugh from the awkwardness from their conversation, Hikaru stops laughing with a deep, loud exhale, "Alright, that's enough of chit chat for now. Let me see..." said Hikaru, then picks up a large chakram that resembles a shuriken with its four pointy blades, then Hikaru decidedly says "Alright, how about this? " Magus Wando gasps then reminds Hikaru while worried "Wait, that's a chakram! Are you sure about this? Your shift-shaper glaive you once wielded was easily broken by Adam! You might want to pick another melee weapon if you want to defeat-" "Yeah, my glaive's broken alright, it wasn't entirely a glaive at all, and I know for sure he just banished my shift-shaper powers on my glaive, turning it into a wooden boomerang." replied Hikaru, then further tells his first-person story about how his boomerang transforms into glaive with the power of a shift-shaper. "First time, when I swung my had-been boomerang to fend off these pesky ketsujin, I realized I cut it like it was just butter, I realized I was holding onto a disk-shaped glaive... came out of nowhere! Couple minutes before I start my very first mission, my glaive that I was holding onto transformed back to a regular boomerang! I was disappointed and yet, scared at the same time! Then I just hid it under back of my shirt, and-" "Hikaru, stop storytelling anymore! All I needed to know is your weapon's functions, not an obnoxious slice-of-life situation included, gives me a headache when you say all this garbage!" screamed Magus while clinging his palms onto his forehead, then Hikaru halted his speech, then says to Magus "Yikes, I never knew you got some boiling point." Magus clears his throat and replies to Hikaru with an apology "Apologies, maybe I was beyond intolerant when it comes to people telling their daily basises. Alright, all personal problems aside, is this what you choose?" Hikaru grins with enthusiasm and confidence, then replies with his clenched fist onto his chest "One hundred percent, Maggy! I'm as clear as crystal I'll win and get us all safe and satisfied!" Magus lightly gasps, then smirks and says "Very well, I'll let you off the hook this time. Alright, go through this door, and I'll set up a perfect stage for you two!" "Understood, Magus Sensei!" Spyro and Hikaru both replied enthusiastically to Magus.
Meanwhile, under the depths of the Ska'drin Ocean, a sunken Hollow Bastion inside the colossal bubble, used as a barrier for oxygen, members of Elementary VIII; Xeysk, Boxebb, Homoxide, Xillia, Krioxhos, and Proxys sit in their respective seats, awaiting for Scoxhb's return, Boxebb rants aloud to his group "That so-called tough guy just ran away after he knocked both unconscious... and just TOLD THEM our location! We need a stronger Earth-type, master Prox-!" "Ease your panicking, Boxebb, it was part of my plan." said Proxys, told aloud to her subordinates, then Xeysk, Boxebb, and Homoxide gasp and Homoxide says with strict concern "Hey, hold on... you can't be serious...! These guys are much stronger than us one-by-one, and furthermore, we don't have time to strengthen ourselves!" "Sorry for the wait, boss! Here are the 'Doom Raider' guys you asked me to recruit!" says the hooded member with an air crest holding a pouch of Doom Raiders, then he opens the pouch to let out the nine doom raiders; The Gulper, Chompy Mage, Chef Pepper Jack, Dream Catcher, Dr. Crankcase, Wolfgang, Nightshade, Luminous, and Bomb Shell, all unconscious from the shipwreck. Proxys commends the hooded member "Well done, Kijax. However, you lacked one more raider: the Golden Queen." "Don't fret it, boss! Scoxhb's got this under control!" replied Kijax, unveils his face with split-ponytail on back of his head. The dark corridor emits next to Kijax, Scoxhb walked out the corridor and says "I've found more than just the Golden Queen, we have a volunteer, dubbed himself as High Night." The tall man with a shinobi suit, High Night, walks through the dark corridor alongside the Golden Queen, struggling to open her eyelids, recovering from slumber, then she groans while waking "Where...? Where am I? Kaos... that double-crosser! Where is he?!" "Tread nevermore, your golden highness, the boy you sought, Kaos, is no longer an issue. However..." said Proxys while walking towards the Golden Queen, then she asks Proxys with extreme caution "Who are you?! What are you...?!" Proxys raises her hand, as the bits of dark magic emerge from her finger tips, then she vastly trusts her hand towards the Queen.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 5: Kidnapped Once More Part 1


Hikaru throws the chakram, then fires his magic revolver at the flying chakram's open gap to emerge a beam of magic that pierces through twenty training dummies, then Magus Wando claps his hands to Hikaru then commends him as he says "Very well done, Hikaru!" "Heh! Just getting used to pairing with this weapon here!" said Hikaru, catches the chakram that flew back towards him. Spyro loudly grunts as he swipes his claws, exhales flames, and uses his thorns to cast thunder magic to eliminate surrounding attacking dummies, totaling close to a thousand kills. Spyro heavily pants from exhaustion, then says faintly "Not yet... I'm still...!" then Spyro fainted, Hikaru, Sparx, Magus, and Harper all gasped together, then Hikaru says while concerned "Spyro! Oh, man, I think you had enough for today!" "Hah... yeah... maybe fasting was a bad idea after all..." said Spyro while he admits not eating all day. Sparx exclaims in shock, then says "What!! You mean...?! You didn't eat... all day?!" "Not even a crumb... he-heh..." says Spyro, blushing from his lack of self awareness. Magus concludes his training program and says "I think it's about time we head out for some feast, don't you think, Hikaru?" "Yeah, I guess so. Hey, let's go to the Realm-Tour Restaurant! I bet they're waiting for us here!" answered Hikaru to Magus, then Spyro agrees to Hikaru's answer "Yeah, Wouldn't want to miss an invitation! What do you say, Sparx?" "MM-HMM!" Sparx said while he buzzes in midair happily. Hikaru, Spyro, Sparx, Magus, and Harper walk towards the Realm-Tour Restaurant, then Spyro sees the glimpse of his Skylander friends through the restaurant window, then Spyro says "Hey, whaddya know?! They ARE waiting for us! C'mon guys! Full speed a-!" Spyro exclaims in confusion when he sees Magus, Harper, and Hikaru all examine the mysterious, antique door that stands onto the grass, then Magus says in curiosity "Well this is strange. I never seen a door standing up still." "Yeah, it's really bizarre. Hngh-! Yep, it's definitely stuck. That could mean one more thing..." says Hikaru in suspicion, then he twists and pulls the knob to open the door. Spyro huffs smoke through his nose then angrily says "HEY! WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING HERE?! WHO CARES ABOUT THE STUPID DOOR?! LET'S GET TO-!" The door emits the dragon-sized hand, grasping Hikaru entirely, "AHH! WHAT'S THIS THING HOLDING ONTO ME!?" Hikaru screamed. Magus exclaims in fear "Oh, no! This is the lure portal! HIKARU!!!" Hikaru gets pulled to the portal along the hand, then the portal closes and vanishes into the blink of light, "AH! NOT AGAIN!!" said Spyro, panicking with his claws covering his head around his thorns, then Sparx pops off and panics alongside Spyro. Magus smacks his clenched fist onto the grass and says "CURSES! The portal was gone before we would've analyzed it!" "Guys! What happened there? Where's Hikaru?!" Stealth Elf said while she popped out the smoke, "Elf! This is urgent, we must inform everyone!" said Magus while in distress.
Meanwhile in an ominous realm, Hikaru slowly opens his eyes then the voice says "Welcome, my special guest." said the deep, villainous voice. Hikaru gasps while looking at the dragon through his eyes, then he asks the dragon "Malefor-?! Was that you?! WHERE AM I?!" "Heh heh heh... impressive for a first guess, puny human. Now, tell me where my daughter is, human!" said Malefor, demanding his daughter's whereabouts from Hikaru. Meanwhile back to the Horizon Haven, in the restaurant called Realm Tour, where Haruka, Kentaro, Hanami, Sakuyu, Cynder, Eruptor, Pop Fizz, and Jet Vac awaits the appearance of Spyro, Hikaru and Sparx's arrival, "That's so weird, what's taking them so long?" wondered Haruka, then Eruptor asks Haruka "What? Hungry already?" "No, not that, our friends! Not to mention Stealth Elf just suddenly hauled off the-" "Skylanders, Horizoneers! Hikaru's been kidnapped, once again!" said Magus urgently to the invitation party, the gang gasped "Wait, ya serious?!" exclaimed Haruka. Back to Malefor's realm, Hikaru shouts to Malefor "Your daughter...?! You mean CYNDER?! HAH! LIKE I'd EVER let that happen to her!" Malefor grunts irritably from Hikaru's taunting reply "You dare disrespect your elder, you little insect!? THEN I SHALL REDUCE YOU TO-!" "Hey, hey, she ain't the one who's have my brawn! IT'S HIM." said the foreshadowed version of Hikaru's voice, the dark fog emerges between Malefor and Hikaru, "What?! Who said-?!" exclaimed Hikaru, "Long time no see, TWIN-BRO!" said the dark fog, then it enters Hikaru's chest, as Hikaru heaves painfully, the hand pops out of Hikaru's mouth, "Hngh, HEY, lord geezer! Help me outta here!" said Hikaru's doppelganger inside his mouth. "Damn! No luck! All realm servers checked, but he's nowhere to be found!" said Yoshiro, slammed his fist towards the keyboard, displaying his act of angry concern, Hatsuya palms Yoshiro's shoulder and says "Restrain yourself, Yoshiro, there must be another way to search him." "I'll find him, guys." said Cynder with devotion, the gang gasps towards Cynder, "Cynder, you know what to do?" asked Hanami, then Cynder nodded, and initiates her scanning ability to search Hikaru.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 6: Kidnapped Once More Part 2


Hikaru's scream muffles while his dark self is being pulled out of his mouth by Malefor. Hikaru's dark self, Dark Hikaru fell onto the platform and stands tall onto his feet, covered in Hikaru's saliva, he coughs in pain, "Hey... below you." said Dark Hikaru, informing Hikaru his wherabouts, then Hikaru gasps with his widened eyes, "You're....!!" viciously said Hikaru, then Dark Hikaru tauntingly recalls on Hikaru while posing as he didn't hear clearly "What's that? I can't hear you~!" "Disgusting, now what to do with the good-guy...?" said Malefor, planning to eliminate Hikaru, then the ray of fiery light emits between Hikaru and Malefor, then lands next to Dark Hikaru, emitting a blast of fire, and lept backwards from the blast, then Dark Hikaru says "Whoa! Close one... What's that-?" The caped person enveloped in fire jumps to grab Hikaru, and Malefor says "WHO ARE YOU? EXPLAIN YOURSELF!" The man uncloaks himself, showing the face of a young human with red hair, then asks Malefor "You don't remember me, Malefor?" "Huh?! What are you talking-?!" Malefor grunts as he recognizes the man's voice, "Ignitus...?! You were supposed to perish along with your race! HOW ARE YOU REDUCED TO A PRIMATE LIKE A CHILD-?!" "Not quite, my friend. We are the Fal'Cie." Ignitus snaps his finger, then he and Hikaru vanishes into another realm. Malefor growls aloud and says "CURSES! THEY WENT AWAY!" "Heh, so much for getting a payback from my poser... but I've got a feeling that the fun part's about to happen." said Dark Hikaru with a smirk as he sees the slight tear. Malefor grunts in confusion when he sees Dark Hikaru, slowly transforming his appearance, "You! What are you doing-?!" Dark Hikaru kicked Malefor's cheek hard, then Malefor falls unconscious, and the ground vibrates firmly upon Malefor's head thud, then Dark Hikaru, disguised as the Real Hikaru grins menacingly.
Cynder gasps, then says "There he is! Hikaru's been kidnapped by my father!" Everyone gasps from Cynder, then Spyro grabs and shouts to Cynder "MALEFOR?! ARE YOU NUTS, CYNDER?! WE BARELY ESCAPED FROM HIM TO SAVE YOU!" "I know, it's crazy, Spyro, but Hikaru has a fat chance defeating him alone!" replied Cynder to Spyro, then shoves him away from her, then Eruptor catches Spyro, and says to Cynder "Hate to break it to you, but he's right! We can't lose you again!" "There's no time arguing eachother for their safety! We must reclaim Hikaru, or we lose! Everyone, head through the Portal I opened up! Hurry!" said Magus, informed the gang to run through the portal to rescue Hikaru in Malefor's home Realm. Upon their arrival, Cynder and the Gang gasp at Malefor, lying unconscious, "He's... already defeated?" said Hanami, then Kentaro asks "Then, did he Hikaru just single-handedly defeat him?" "Yeah, and I'm right here!" said Dark Hikaru in disguise as the real Hikaru. He waves his hand towards the gang, standing on top of Malefor's head, "What's up, gang?" Spyro gasps, then flies towards Hikaru and says "Hikaru! You're alive! And Pee-yew, you reek of hot dumpster! Did you just jump into his belly?!" "Heh, just choked him unconscious to the inside!" said 'Hikaru', then Eruptor gives noogies onto 'Hikaru''s head and says "DUDE! THAT WAS BEAST! YOU ACTUALLY JUST KICKED MALEFOR'S BUTT!" "This is strange... Malefor isn't supposed to be defeated that easily. He was supposed to be much stronger than Hikaru is." thought Cynder, then Hatsuya says to Cynder "I have the same feeling as you do, Cynder. However, during all these hardships he faced, Hikaru might be more than ready to rally against the Elementary VIII, don't you think?" Cynder gasps, then nods to Hatsuya's answer.
Meanwhile in the mysterious realm, where the ten Fal'Cie were formed with ten chairs standing on element symbols; Life, Water, Fire, Wind, Earth, Tech, Magic, Undeath, Light, and Darkness, Ignitus and Hikaru arrived in the center of the chairs, "Welcome home, Fal'Cie of Magic." said Ignitus. Hikaru gasps and dashes backwards from Ignitus, "Fal'Cie?! WHOA, WHOA, I'm NOT a Fal'Cie, you crazy man! My name's Hikaru! And besides, what's your name?!" "My name is Ignitus. I was once a dragon and their leader, served to protect Master Eon and the core of light, but then Malefor, comrade of our kind betrayed us and struck me down. As soon as my sights begin to blacken, I see a wanderer with a shard of a red crystal, seemed to have a fetus within the shard, then he shoved the shard into my gaping wound, giving me a brand new form, figuring out that I have a body of a human being, and thus, I acclaimed the fire symbol onto my left hand, dubbing me as the Fal'Cie of fire. I believe you've heard of the urban legends where the dying beings become a humanoid fal'cie by its crystallized fetus." said Ignitus, introduced himself and told his origins to Hikaru, "'A shard with a fetus inside'?" Hikaru recalled Ignitus, then gasps as he envisions himself seven years earlier, seeing the cloaked madame preparing to shove a purple shard into young Hikaru's gaping wound, then saw himself the first time he has his hair completely spiky and straight, "Then, after all this time... giving me not just spiky hair, all this magical strength in my veins... was all the Fal'Cie fetus's doing?!" "That's right. It is an alternative way of Fal'Cie's birth." said Ignitus, answered Hikaru's question. "I don't believe this...! What's gonna happen to me when my Fal'Cie hatches inside me?! I don't want to become a monster that turns my friends into a L'Cie!" Hikaru screams, then Ignitus calms Hikaru down by saying "Calm down, young man, we, the Transplant Fal'Cie don't turn humans into L'Cie, but we eventually will become crystallized when our time has come. We still have millenniums before this happens." "Millenniums?! That means I'm not a human anymore! IS THAT IT?!" angrily said Hikaru, then Ignitus shoves Hikaru away, "I ADVISE YOU TO STOP THE RESISTANCE AND FACE YOUR DESTINY." said Ignitus, "...and yes, I too, also desire to become a dragon I once was. However, no matter the outcome, there's no turning back." Hikaru clicked his mouth of irritation, then the voice emits "Ignitus, have you found another Transplant Fal'Cie?" "Yes, and his name is Hikaru Daichi, introduce yourself to him, Necrosmith." Ignitus replied, then the gothic, muscular man with shaded eyes and lips and long hair, Necrosmith walked from the shadows, "It's a pleasure to meet you, I am Necrosmith, the Foundry of the Undead." "Uh, hi, um... can I call you 'Smith' for short?" said Hikaru, then Necrosmith replied "Whatever name is fine." "I have a question for you, Hikaru; You recently spawned your doppelganger from your mouth, are those people surrounding him your friends?" Ignitus asks Hikaru while he deployed a video of Dark Hikaru disguised as the real one with Hanami, Kentaro, Haruka, Sakuyu, Sparx, and Team Spyro, then Hikaru gasps as he sees himself within the video, then says "Wait a minute! Is that... ME!?"

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 7: Kidnapped Once More Part 3

"No... That's not right...! If I'm in this place I don't even know, then it's...!!" says Hikaru, trying to remember his doppelganger, then Ignitus says to Hikaru "That's right. He's your dark self." Hikaru gasps in confusion and denial, then obliviously corrects Ignitus by saying "No... NO! That's wrong! I'm sure of that! My Dad, Sinferno, must've just made his way outta-!" "Open your eyes, for once!" Ignitus yelled, startling Hikaru to silencing himself, then Ignitus continues to explain to Hikaru about his dark self "That 'Sinferno' you spoke of was no more. Your dark personality took form when Malefor lured you in. However, Malefor wasn't the one who planned to mold your dark doppelganger... it was your darkest reflection." "My...? darkest...? reflection...?" Hikaru slowly recalled from oblivious fear, then he gasps as he quickly visualizes himself in the Realm of Sleep, facing the Mirror of Foreshadowed alongside Kaen Highwind. As Hikaru's flashback progresses, the Mirror shatters upon Hikaru's aura, then the mirror fragments emerge into Hikaru's exact doppelganger, but with slightly darker Skin, shaded eyes, Black Hair and Lips, and an outfit resembling of an appearance of a tamajin. Hikaru's flashback ended, then slams his clenched fist downwards onto the floor "DAMMIT! THAT'S MY EVIL SELF I JUST OUTMATCHED! HOW DID HE EVEN GET TO THE LIVING REALM?! THAT'S JUST A LOAD OF BULL-!!" he yelled, then Ignitus intercepts and explains to Hikaru "As irrational as it sounds, he IS also your nightmare. If you want to rid your nightmare for good, you have no other way than to EMBRACE it, accept your flaws and admit your sins."
Hikaru gasps in clinical confusion, then violently asks "Wait... you want me to ACCEPT HIM?! I'M NOT LIKE HIM, AND I'LL JUST SEND HIM BACK TO WHERE I-!" "You don't get what I'm trying to tell, aren't you? If you keep on fighting the nightmare, you'll tear yourself apart, and the nightmare of yours will grow stronger, and can consume all you have!" Ignitus shouted to Hikaru, then Ignitus says furthermore "What I'm saying is you're not ready to reunite in a condition like this. If you make haste without thinking, your defeat is inevitable! You lacked preparation for your mind. If you wanted to head back with your friends that badly, there will be consequences for your impatience. Please, think about it." Hikaru quickly exhales while teething, he closes his eyes and lips then stands tall onto his feet, "Alright, I'll help reunite your crew. Lead the way, Master... ...Ignitus." says Hikaru with hesitated, but assured loyalty to Ignitus, then he thanked Hikaru, saying "You've made a wise choice, Hikaru, thank you." with a smile, then he snaps his finger, emitting flames around Hikaru. "Agh! Hey,what are you-?!" Hikaru yelped when surrounded by Ignitus's fire cast, then the fire latched onto Hikaru transforms into an expensive, formal suit, then Hikaru gasps in awe, Ignitus explains his intentions to Hikaru by saying "I changed your clothes into a more suitable clothing, blending in as a rich company to a human sight." "Dude... you gave me worse case of stitches than Spyro did!" said Hikaru, palming his forehead. Ignitus gasped as he reacts to the word 'Spyro' from Hikaru's mouth, then he urgently asks Hikaru "Spyro... is alive?! How is he?! Where is he now?!" Hikaru exclaims from Ignitus's sudden excitement within him, then Hikaru further asks Ignitus, saying "Hey, hey, chill out! Wait, you KNOW Spyro? How'd you-?" "...My condolences, Hikaru. Perhaps I'll explain later once we fully brought altogether the Fal'cie. Let me prepare the portal to our nearest destination." replied Ignitus while he summons and operates the portal with fire.
Meanwhile where Dark Hikaru disguised as the real Hikaru, Cynder asks him "Hikaru, that black giant dragon was Malefor, my father... how did you outmatch him that fast?" "Wha-? Malefor's your dad?! Whoa...! Sorry about that! I didn't know!" said dark Hikaru with his hand on back of his head, apologized to Cynder, then she replies "No, it's alright, it WAS his fault for taking you hostage. ...all because of me..." "Huh? Did you say something?" asked Dark Hikaru, then the massive screen showing Katsushi's face emits from the sky and shouts to everyone "Listen up, cadets and veterans! We're taking a Skygalleon to commence attack on Elementary VIII, if you feel plane-sick, then you can go home to your parents for all I care! Head there now, if you're ready!" "If only... I have ever met them..." says Spyro, depressed about himself without his family members, then Stealth Elf gasps, then comforts Spyro alongside her comrades and says "Spyro... we promise we'll bring back your family to the skylands, I know we-" "No, I won't let you bring my family back to the skylands." Says Spyro, declining the promise from Stealth Elf. Everyone except Dark Hikaru gasped, then Eruptor, confused from Spyro's sudden behavior, asks "Wait, why not? They're your-" "Remember what Master Eon said about my dragon bloodline? I did... and I just heard the truth... the hard way." Replied Spyro while reasoning with his teammates with a question, then Jet Vac answers Spyro's question "What 'truth' are you talking-?" Jet Vac exclaims painfully from the headache when he gains flashbacks of Master Eon fending himself against the corrupt dragons, then Stealth Elf gasps and asks Jet Vac with concern "Vac! What's-?" Stealth Elf grunts in pain sharing the same flashback with all the skylanders except Spyro, then collapsed from mental fatigue. "Hey...! The skylanders fainted just now!" says Haruka while caught off-guard from the skylanders' collapse, then Yoshiro picks up and asks Spyro while yelling "Hey! What did you do to them?! Explain yourself!" Meanwhile focusing back to the Fal'Cie meeting room, Ignitus prepares to open the portal to another realm, "Good, the portal's complete. Everyone, we're leaving! Prepare for-" "Wait, Master Ignitus! Hikaru... just collapsed unconscious!" said Necrosmith while he picked up Hikaru, unconscious in his arms. Ignitus gasps then says "Hikaru?! Hey, Hikaru! Open your eyes! HIKARU!"

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 8: The Slumbering Truth

Meanwhile Hikaru lies down in the lightless place, he gasps, quickly stands tall and says aloud "What...?! Where am I...?" "Hikaru?! Is that you?!" says the faint, familiar feminine voice from afar, then Hikaru gasps in surprise and thinks aloud "Is that Stealth Elf?!" assuming it is Stealth Elf's. Hikaru sprints towards her voice, then encounters her, Eruptor, Jet Vac, Pop Fizz, Cynder, Grim Creeper, and the rest of skylanders in person. The skylanders exclaim from Hikaru's presence to them, "Hikaru! How did you get here?!" asked Eruptor to Hikaru, then the black-lightless place suddenly illuminates with brightest light, causing everyone to cover their eyes from becoming blind to the light. As soon as they open their eyes, they see a battlefield in Skylands, a war featuring Master Eon and his Dragon Team against two humanoid shift-shapers; Adam and Eve. Hikaru gasps in as he sees Master Eon, then Eruptor says "Hey, it's Master Eon!" "If that's him... then, what about those dragons who aid him?!" asked Stealth Elf, pointing at the dragon army, then Jet Vac points to two of the humanoid shift-shapers and says "Look! There those who took our stronghold!" "Adam and Eve...!!" Hikaru recalled with vindictive tone.
Master Eon prepares himself and his army of dragons to fight against Adam and Eve "This is the final warning you two! Prepare for your consequences by the wrath of my dragon comrades! Dragons of the Skylands! COMMENCE ATTACK!" Shouted Master Eon, commanded the dragons to attack Adam and Eve. The dragons roared, and breathed fire towards them, then Eve unleashes massive amount of darkness from his left arm to absorb the fire breath from the dragons, "Is this all you got, pops shephard?!" Eve taunts Master Eon, then Adam summons cube-shaped magic to manipulate all the dragons. The crimson-red colored dragon who commands all other dragons, Ignitus, resisted Adam's manipulation, and proceeds to claw Adam, then Adam says aloud "Too slow!" Adam snapped his finger to summon a spike under Ignitus, then he became impaled by Adam's ground spike, "NO! IGNITUS!!" Master Eon cried in fear for Ignitus. "It is time for your retirement, sage of Skylands!" taunted Adam to Master Eon, then a mysterious, robed person prepared a sealing circle around Adam and Eve, they both became held hostage to the hands of the realm of the sealed, they exclaim as they became immobile due to the hands dragging both downwards. Eve shouts to Adam "Brother... I CAN'T MOVE...!!" "It can't be...! YOU'RE ONE OF THE-!", then the sealing circle along Adam and Eve disappeared. Master Eon exclaims from Adam and Eve's sudden disappearance, "They disappeared...?!" he thought. The robed person speaks to Master Eon "Eon, bring those to their new home." then they lent the seal that sealed Adam and Eve to Eon, granting him colossal boost in power. "This power flowing through me...! You there... who-?" asked Master Eon, then the robed man along the dying Ignitus vanished before Master Eon's eyes. "They're... gone...?" Master Eon gasps as he is still being threatened by dragons, manipulated by Adam, then he prepares his transportation powers against the dragons and says "Young one... please forgive me...!" he casts the transportation spell, then Hikaru gasps and shouts to Master Eon "Master! DON'T---!!!" the light from Master Eon's spell whitened the entire area.
Hikaru wakes from Master Eon's memory with a quick, loud gasp, and breathes heavily. "What did I see back there...?! Master Eon and the dragons...!" He looks around himself and sees himself trapped on a tablet with shackles attached to his legs and arms, then says "Rats, I'm stuck! Ignitus?! HEY! IGNIT-!" his arm is stabbed by a long-haired man with a flaming sword, then he screams in agony, "Welcome to the thousand hands, stranger." said the long-haired man, "Master Zhin, stop this! He didn't deserve it! We-!!" Ignitus cried out, shackled on the slavery slab, then Zhin intercepts Ignitus's defensive speech and threatens him while saying "Silence, whelp! You bypassed one of the laws you shouldn't have, and those who break the law will face consequential punishment by my blade!" Zhin flung his flaming sword at Ignitus and the splash of flames flew towards Ignitus and collided near his head. Hikaru winces from the burning wound. Hikaru asks Zhin about his violent actions against Ignitus and others "Why... do you have to do this to us...?!" "'Why?' This is my domain, and I am its ruler. Is there another complaint about this, young one?" replied Zhin, pointing his flaming sword at Hikaru, then Ignitus shouts a warning to Hikaru "Hikaru, you can't win against him! He's more terrifying than any monster you have-!" "You won't know till YOU TRY!!" Hikaru loudly replied to Ignitus, broken through the shackles, then arms himself with his four-bladed chakram to attack Zhin. Hikaru's chakram scarred Zhin's tunic as Zhin slid back from Hikaru's attack range, then says "A spar of honor you say? Very well then, I accept this challenge!"

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 9: Clash

Zhin poses himself to fight against Hikaru, then he war-cries and dashes towards Hikaru. Hikaru grunts as he sees Zhin dashes in a high speed towards him, then he stopped Zhin's first attack with his chakram. "There's more, you fool!" said Zhin, then he swings his sword multiple more times, then Hikaru grunts in surprise and deflects all Zhin's attacks with his chakram. Both Hikaru and Zhin slid away from each other, then they both pant from fatigue from Zhin's assault combo, also known as the Spite, Zhin stopped panting, then he says to Hikaru "You are impressive for an underaged whelp like you. No one has ever escaped my Spite unharmed!" "Heh...! I guess all this self-defense training is paying off my debts of my recklessness!" Hikaru replied, then throws his chakram at Zhin, then he catches Hikaru's chakram with his sword, then Zhin says to Hikaru by saying "Hah! You fool! I have your only weapon, and this means it's futile to fight back now!" "Oh, yeah? Then how about for a change, you CHILL OUT!" Hikaru replied, then armed himself with his magic revolver, then he pulled the flint trigger, gathering cold, frigid energy into his pistol's flint, then he released the flint trigger to emit a beam of frost energy, formed to blizzara towards Zhin's arm. His arm froze upon the blizzara's contact, and Zhin grunts in pain and says "WHAT-?! There's another...?! Cursed pest!" "Hah, you shouldn't have underestimate me for a young whelp!" Hikaru verbally taunted Zhin. Ignitus sighs in awe from Hikaru's flexible counter attack, "What swiftness of his ancestor...! Perhaps he might be the one who will bring Fal'Cie- no, the one who will bring all to justice... is Hikaru Daichi! It is you!" Ignitus thought with hopeful grin.
"You have done well until now... Hikaru, is it?" said Zhin after his panting ended, then continues saying to Hikaru "I suppose you just left me no other choice but to continue this fight the hard way. I need your presence, Flameslinger!" Hikaru grunts in slight surprise, then the robed, green skinned elf, aliased as Flameslinger leapt next to Zhin, then asks him "Is it time, once again, my lord?" "Exactly. With you around me, I shall unleash the formidable beast from its crystallized prison!" said Zhin, picked up a fiery-red summonite from his pocket. Ignitus gasps in high alert, "Oh no...! It's-!" "A summonite?!" Hikaru thought, also in high alert from the summonite in Zhin's grasp "COME FORTH, IFRIT, MY SYMBOL OF PRIDE AND HONOR! SHOW THE DISHONORABLE EXCUSE OF A WARRIOR THE CRUELTY AND SAVAGERY WITHIN YOU!" Zhin shouts, chanted to use the summonite to summon Ifrit, Skylord of blades and inferno. Ifrit lands onto his feet, and stands before Hikaru Daichi, paralyzed with fear, "Ifrit! This is bad...! HIKARU! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!" Ignitus shouted his warning to Hikaru. Hikaru nodded sideways, declining Ignitus's suggestion, then shouts back at Ignitus with resolve "NO! I CAN'T BREAK YOUR PROMISE JUST LIKE THIS! I'LL CERTAINLY GET US OUT ALIVE!" Hikaru's magic symbol from his chest and his shift-shaper symbol from below his right shoulder glow together, summoning a Crossblade of Exius, coated with magical aura from his magic symbol. Zhin grunts from the Crossblade's aura "This invisible power...! What is this?!" Zhin says while overwhelmed, then Flameslinger gasps and says "Could it be... Exius?!" "Let's see how this thing will do to our fellow Skylord!" said Hikaru, then war-cries while dashing towards Ifrit with his Crossblade. "Return to your realm, Ifrit!" shouted Flameslinger to Ifrit, then Ifrit vanishes right before Hikaru's crossblade makes a contact on him, then Hikaru gasps in confusion, "He... disappeared?!" exclaimed Ignitus, then Zhin, furious at Flameslinger's choice, shouts "Flameslinger?! YOU DARE BETRAY-?!" Flameslinger headbutted Zhin, incapacitating him onto the floor, then he says "Now I remembered everything..." Ignitus gasps from Flameslinger's sudden actions against Zhin "Why did you do this, Flameslinger? Weren't you supposed to be Zhin's-?!" "Not anymore. Thanks to Exius's aura, I broke free from Magistrate's mind prison." replied Flameslinger, explained to Ignitus his mental freedom from Magistrate's grasp.
Flameslinger turns his face to Hikaru and says "Hikaru, that sword you just summoned, it belonged to a legendary crusader, known as Exius, the warlord of Horizons." "Exius...? Who is he?" Hikaru asks Flameslinger, then he answers Hikaru's question "One of the first and greatest Horizoneers in history... and a rival of Arkus, also known as the bearer of Master Eon and Kaos's bloodline." Hikaru gasps as he hears the word 'Master Eon' from Flameslinger, then he continues explaining to Hikaru by telling a tale of a war between Arkus and Exius "Eons ago, right before the skylanders became reality, Arkus, the hand of Skylands, and Exius, the warlord clashed one against another to claim territory for their population. After the clash ended, neither has acclaimed victory, leading to stalemate, both Arkus and Exius met their downfall without victory, as their successors called truce, and placed an oath to separate the skylands from the horizons. And that story I had listened to was from Exius himself. Back when I was smaller in my temporary stay at the world where all the dead rest in, I met Exius, much older than I first imagined with his long, dried up beard and face, but with his muscles remain unaltered, he told me the entire story. After my time was already up in the afterliving realm, I returned back to reality seeing myself stranded somewhere far below the skylands, and I met Zhin, the Tyrant of Thousand Hands." "So that's why you ended up in there." said Hikaru, showing remorse for Flameslinger, then he replies to Hikaru by saying "I thank you for releasing me, but showing pity won't make you any more progressive in the future. I must take leave from this retched ruins they call 'domain', and bring the summonite alongside me. I must find my sister, and bring justice to our fallen mother." Flameslinger leapt to exit Zhin's Guild. "That guy looks a lot like Stealth Elf. I wonder what she'll say." Hikaru thought when he sees Flameslinger by appearance, then Hikaru runs towards the imprisonment cages to free both Ignitus and Necrosmith, then Hikaru says to Ignitus and Necrosmith "There, guys! You're set free, now let's get out of this place before Zhin gets back up!" "Affirmative, Hikaru! Everyone, let's haul out of there!" replied Ignitus, preparing his portal to another location, then the portal alongside Ignitus and others vanished.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 10: Childhood Rivalry

Meanwhile where Spyro, the skylanders and the Horizoneers ready to set off into the SkyGalleon to charge into the Elementary VIII's main base, the Skylanders except Spyro fainted, Spyro and the Horizoneers exclaim from their sudden collapse. "Guys...?! GUYS?! What's wrong?! Hey, open your eyes!" says Spyro while panicking and struggling to wake his friends, then Yoshiro one-handedly picks up Spyro and shouts at him while he says "Spyro, what did you just do to them?! Answer me!" "I... I...! I DON'T KNOW!!" Spyro loudly replied with tear-filled eyes, then Hatsuya firmly grasps Yoshiro's arm and says "Yoshiro, stop it! You're pushing too far on him. Think about your sister." Yoshiro gasps with his teeth clenched when Hatsuya mentions Shiroko, Yoshiro's younger sister, then drops Spyro onto the ground. "Bro, are you alright? Why are you crying?" says Sparx while concerned as he flew towards Spyro, "Don't worry, Sparx... I'm alright." says Spyro to Sparx while he wiped tears off his eyes. "Spyro..." Hanami sympathetically thought to Spyro. The Security Patrol of Horizon Palace ran to Horizoneers, specifically to Yoshiro, and announces the dire news "Bad news, Mr. Tsukimura! The Skygalleon... is blown down to a scrap pile!" The Horizoneers, Sparx and Spyro, except Dark Hikaru disguised as his light counterpart gasp discouraged and outraged, "WHAT?! At all those times like this, they sabotaged our upper-hand...!" says Yoshiro while irritated and morally wounded from hearing the dire news from the Patrol "I'll investigate the Skygalleon's destruction myself! The rest of you escort the fallen allies to the Public Recovery Room!" The Horizoneers nodded to Yoshiro's verbal command, They raise and escort fainted Skylanders into the Public Recovery Room.
One dozen minutes later after putting Skylanders onto their respective electric beds and the Horizoneers and Spyro's departure, Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Pop Fizz, and Jet Vac awake from their slumber. "These dragons... could they possibly be connected to Spyro's...?" asks Stealth Elf figuratively, then Eruptor comments in concern about Spyro "If so, then they're total psychos for leaving him behind. What are they thinking, leaving their kid clueless and parentless?!" "Maybe all the dragons' disappearance explains Spyro's negative behavior..." said Jet Vac, then Pop Fizz adds his comment about Spyro "Wait, didn't that serial-killer Sinferno get sealed into Spyro's egg, spoiled rotten by his-?" "That, too, but his parentlessness might be the biggest problem of all for him." Jet Vac replies to Pop Fizz's comment, then the droplets of darkness gather in one place, alerting the Skylanders and forming the dark corridor, then the black-cloaked man walked out of the corridor, and says "Morning, Skylanders! Or should I say... Skydivers?" says the cloaked man while unveils his head, featuring two-in-one ponytail hairstyle, a face of a teen-idol, and a pair of goggles over his eyes. "Who are you?! One of these Elementary VIII's members?!" viciously asked Stealth Elf while pointing her hook swords at the could-be Elementary VIII member, then he replies with his thumb pointing up, "Yep, that's right! Also, my name's Kijax the Tempest Kicker." he aliassed himself as Kijax, then Eruptor smirks and says "Heh, judging your nickname, you must be the Air-type! I'll light your head up like a candle!" "Oh, really?" says Kijax, then warped close to Eruptor, Eruptor gasps and says "How did you-?!" "Let's see how hot you really are!" says Kijax, then he immediately attacked Eruptor with his armored boot coated in high-pressure wind barrier, then Eruptor flails from Kijax's kick onto the wall. "Eruptor!!" Stealth Elf and Pop Fizz cried out for and ran towards Eruptor, Jet Vac gasps while speechless, "Aw, too chicken for helping a fallen friend out?" Kijax verbally taunted at Jet Vac, then Jet Vac growls, points his Vac gun and says "You'll pay for this!" "Sorry, but I'll just cancel the party and make my boss watch you lose your hope in defeating us. Oh, I bet she'll love to see the looks of your faces when your boat to our domain is just reduced to a pile of scraps and junk!" says Kijax, boasting their loss of the Skygalleon, then the Skylanders gasp, outraged from Kijax's mentioning of Skygalleon "Wait...! YOU DIDN'T...!" says Stealth Elf while angered, then Kijax continually says "Yep, your Skygalleon bit the dust... but I DIDN'T come up with an explosive outcome! One of your kind must've-" the Arrow flies towards Kijax, stopping his speech, then the arrow explodes with air pressure, pushing Kijax back, then he says while "That was loud... who-?" "Stop right there, Shift-Shaping-!" says Shinji, pointing his switchbow and arrow at Kijax, then he gasps and lowered his switchbow as soon as he sees Kijax by his face. "Shinji! Great timing!" says Stealth Elf cheerfully from Shinji's pressence, then Shinji asks Kijax "Jaki Usagito...? Is that really you?" Kijax slightly exclaims from Shinji's mentioning 'Jaki Usagito', then says "Who's 'Jaki'? I don't even-" Kijax grunts in pain, palming his forehead and groaning painfully as he sees his human self with Shinji in six years back. "What's going on?" asked Eruptor when he sees Kijax wincing in pain, then Shinji further asks Kijax to remember him "Jaki, it's me! Shinji! Remember back at Green Oak Junior High's Taekwondo Tournament?! You were my sworn rival, and-" "Shinji, what are you doing!? Concentrate on finishing him off! He's not someone you once knew!" Jet Vac shouts to Shinji, reminding him to finish off Kijax.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 11: True Nature

Meanwhile somewhere deep down onto the ocean floor, in the sunken down bastion, Proxys observes Kijax and his surroundings, "Jet Vac is right, Jaki is no longer the person you thought existed, just a daydream from the yesteryears." says Proxys, then uses her darkened eye to control and synchronize with Kijax, "Jaki Usagito... is already perished, and I killed him!" says Kijax, as he sounded like he was possessed. "What...?!" says Shinji while discouraged and upset from Kijax's line, then he drops his switchbow and the arrow onto the ground, Stealth Elf gasps and asks Shinji "Shinji! What's a matter with you?!" "Uh, guys, is it me or is the Kijax guy suddenly turned into a complete person?" says Pop Fizz, pointing his finger at Kijax's facial expression, as he seems to be possessed. "Hah...! You're already A HISTORY!" Kijax roared and rushed toward Shinji to finish him off with his kick, then his kick landed on the cestus, belonging to Kentaro, "I got your back, Shinji! Leave him to me!" says Kentaro, then he roars as he counter attacks Kijax with his other cestus, then Kijax flails from Kentaro's cestus punch to the other side of the room, then Kentaro rushes towards the fallen Kijax, then leaps to finish him off with a downward punch. Jet Vac gasps as he sees the bomb between Kentaro and Kijax then warns Kentaro about the bomb "Kentaro, look out for a bomb!" Kentaro gasps and gets caught in a bomb's instant explosion and suffered an explosive damage, and he landed onto the ground with his rear, then he grunts and says "Ugh, what what was that explosion, just now!?" "Hello, just passing by to get my partner outta the way!" says the turtle with bombs on his back. Stealth Elf, Jet Vac, Eruptor, and Pop Fizz gasps as they see a turtle, then they shout to a turtle "Bomb Shell!!" they aliased it as Bomb Shell, "Well, hello, little cadets of Skylands! Looks like I've joined the ranks with the Doom Raiders... who joined the ranks with another group that's much more stronger!" says Bomb Shell, telling Skylanders about joining the Elementary VIII, then Kentaro gasps and asks Bomb Shell "You don't mean the Elementary VIII, right?!" Bomb Shell nodded to Kentaro's question, then Kentaro assumingly says to Bomb Shell, "Then judging these bombs on top of your shell... YOU'RE the one who blew up our Skygalleon! I'll break your shell with your own bombs, you-!" Bomb Shell threw the smoke bomb at Kentaro, Shinji and the Skylanders, then the smoke bomb immediately explodes, obscuring the entire room with smoke and triggering fire alarms.
Several minutes earlier, meanwhile at the Skygalleon Garage, all there was the remainings of the Skygalleon and its mechanical parts, Yoshiro, Spyro and the Horizoneers become discouraged and hopeless when they see the Skygalleon broken apart, then Yoshiro says to his comrades "The Elementary VIII isn't just for showing off, they're watching our movement. Everyone, split up and search in other rooms for anymore of their doing! I'll dig through the pile and check for clues here." "Yes, sir!" says Spyro and the Horizoneers, except Dark Hikaru in his real self's disguise, then Sakuyu knocks Dark Hikaru to the back of his head, and says while scolding him "Hey, Earth-to-Hikaru? You paying attention?" "Uh, what?" obliviously says Dark Hikaru, then Spyro reminds Dark Hikaru, "A BIG F.Y.I. for you, we're told to check all the rooms for clues, let's start with the training room!" "What Spyro said! Get a grip of yourself and start looking!" says Sakuyu, then she leaves behind Spyro and Dark Hikaru, then Dark Hikaru says "Oh, okay, Sakuyu. Where off to, again?" "I'll go check the Skylanders while you guys are at it!" says Shinji, then he runs to the Public Recovery Room. Couple minutes later, the fire alarms turn off, alerting all the searching group and Yoshiro, then in the training room with Dark Hikaru and Spyro, Dark Hikaru grunts from headache from the fire alarms and he says "Agh, the noise...!" he kneels onto the ground, and Spyro exclaims from Dark Hikaru's kneeling, then Spyro says while walking towards him "Oh, c'mon, you big baby! It's just a fire ala-WHOOAA-AAH-HA-HA-HAAA!!" Spyro screams out loud when he sees Dark Hikaru's entirely blackened hair, lips, and eyelids. Haruka barges through the door to training room, and says "Spyro, Hikaru! What are you lolly-gagging there for?! Let's-" Haruka gasps as he sees Dark Hikaru's real face is revealed, then Dark Hikaru gasps and thought "Dammit, did the disguise wear off already?!" "Hey, guys! You won't believe what happened to his hair and face!" shouted Haruka to attract others about Dark Hikaru's undisguised face, unaware he is not the real Hikaru. Dark Hikaru sighs in relief, then thought "Well, thank the Lady Luck I got away with this." "Y-your hair...! a-and your face!! What happened to you?!" Spyro asks while stuttering in fear from Dark Hikaru's face, then Hikaru answers casually, "Maybe it's... a long story." "'Long story' how?" says the voice from nowhere, then Riku Replica emits from his dark corridor, surprising both Dark Hikaru and Spyro, then Dark Hikaru asks Riku Replica, "Who are you?" "You should know who I am... 'Hikaru'." says Riku Replica with menacing look in his face. Dark Hikaru remained speechless as he couldn't think of his name. Spyro becomes confused by Riku Replica accusing Dark Hikaru as a fake, and asks him "Wait... Riku, what are you-?" "Just as I thought, you're not the Hikaru who we trust. You're a desperate phony who wants to outshine the original." says Riku Replica, then Dark Hikaru shouts at Riku Replica by saying "WILL YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE?! I'M THE REAL ONE RIGHT HERE!" Riku Replica says to Hikaru "If you're the real Hikaru, prove it! Show me what's on your chest!" Dark Hikaru gasps from Riku Replica's response, then he says "What...? No way I'm doing what you just said, you per-!" "Then see for yourself, the Hikaru WE know has a magic symbol on his breast. Do you have one?" says Riku Replica, telling Dark Hikaru about the real Hikaru's details.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 12: One Good, One Evil Part 1

Dark Hikaru gasps and breathes heavily without ease from Riku Replica's dareful request, then he growls and shouts "WHY DON'T YOU LEAVE ME ALONE?!" Dark Hikaru summons and draws his darkened Dream Calibur, then roars and sprints to attack Riku Replica. Riku Replica effortlessly evaded Dark Hikaru's raging attack, then he blasted Dark Hikaru with Dark Firaga as a counter attack. Dark Hikaru screams in pain and flails onto the ground. Dark Hikaru says to Spyro while his voice weakened from injuries "You... don't believe that... do you...?" then he faints in front of Spyro. Riku Replica walks towards Spyro and Dark Hikaru, then he says "You shouldn't pity an impostor, Spyro. He may look like Hikaru and is somehow linked to him, he is NOT who you recognize." "Then... all this time, we were just fooled by the one who belonged in the dark..." says Spyro while depressed about not having the real Hikaru around, then Haruka returned with Sakuyu, Hanami, and Yoshiro. Yoshiro asks Riku Replica by saying "What happened here?! Where did Hikaru go?" "The Hikaru you knew was already gone. This is the 'Hikaru' you just brought yourselves upon." says Riku Replica while lifting unconscious Dark Hikaru up in the air. Hanami doubtfully says to Riku Replica "Wait... you're saying he's...?" "...a fake?" says Sakuyu, then Haruka asks Riku Replica "If the real Hikaru's not here, where is he?!" "I knew there was something different with him from there than here." says Stealth Elf, came in along with Eruptor, Jet Vac, Pop Fizz, Shinji, and Kentaro, then Spyro says "Elf! Guys! You're alright!" "Heh, just got more time of sleep!" says Eruptor, then Jet Vac says "But we also had been assaulted by Elementary VIII... and this time, the Doom Raiders joined their organization." "And look, Shinji hasn't said a word ever since I just protected him from that... guy!" Kentaro says while showing Shinji's lack of emotion from his eyes, then Shinji said "Jaki Usagito... he's now one of them." "Shinji?! Hey, pull yourself together!" says Yoshiro while holding onto and shaking Shinji's shoulders.
Meanwhile in the northern side of the Horizon Palace, the Bazaar of the Wind, Hikaru and the Fal'Cie; Ignitus and Necrosmith venture through the bazaar; the Arabic-styled city made of sandstones and solarites, crystals that absorb sunlight that is used to become source of electricity. Hikaru stops walking and gasps as he felt a sudden, heavy beat occured in his heart, then Ignitus and Necrosmith also stopped, "Hikaru, is something wrong?" asked Ignitus to Hikaru, then he answers while he places his hand onto his chest "It's my dark self... he's already caught red-handed, huh?" Ignitus gasps slightly from Hikaru's response, then he asks Hikaru "Hikaru... are you ready to do this?" "Yeah, I'll be back in a flash." says Hikaru, then he fires his pistol to summon a portal that leads directly to the Horizon Palace, then Ignitus holds Hikaru's hand and says "One more thing, Hikaru. Tell Spyro... I'm his elder brother." Hikaru slowly nodded from Ignitus's , then walks to the portal. Meanwhile back at the training room, Spyro, the Skylanders and the Horizoneers restrain Dark Hikaru with ropes, then Yoshiro slaps Dark Hikaru to wake from unconsciousness, then shouts out the question "Where's Hikaru?! Where did you last see him?!" Dark Hikaru spits at Yoshiro to the cheek, and says "Who knows? Maybe that guy who controls flames took him somewhere else." "Who is the guy you were talking about?! ANSWER ME!" shouted Yoshiro, demanding the name of a person Dark Hikaru mentioned, then he yells back, "HOW SHOULD I KNOW?! I JUST TOLD YOU HE'S SOME PYROMANCER, AND JUST VANISHED WITH HIM! WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!" Hatsuya arms herself with one of her twin swords, points to him and says "If you don't want to co-operate, then you leave me no choice but to-" "Kill me?! YEAH, RIGHT! I'LL NEVER DIE, I'M AN EMPTY SHELL, ALRIGHT! HE STOLE ALL THAT BELONGED TO ME! BUT SOMEDAY, I'LL BE THE ORIGINAL HIKARU! YOU'LL SEE WHEN I ELIMINATE THAT SOON-TO-BE-DEADMAN!" shouted Dark Hikaru, then the familiar voice emits from nowhere, saying "'Everything about me is stolen' you say?" all exclaim from the voice, "That voice...!" says Stealth Elf, then Haruka says with hope "Is it really...?" "...Hikaru?!" says Hanami while her eyes glitter with hope. The real Hikaru, armed with chakram and a magic pistol, walked in the training room, then says "That's my line, poser!"

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Chapter 13: One Good, One Evil Part 2

Dark Hikaru gasps with irritability and fear, then he slowly grins and says "Heya, 'brother'. Didn't expect to see you so soon." "Yeah, looks like I'm bringing you back home." says Hikaru, then Dark Hikaru grunts in confusion, then says "Hey, what are you talking about? Where do you think I live at?" Hikaru points his finger onto his chest and says "Right here, where you were born." "Is that a best joke you got? Well, I'M NOT LAUGHING AT ALL!!" roared Dark Hikaru as he explodes with sphere of dark energy, breaking free from his restraint and pushing back everyone around him while they scream and grunt in pain. Hikaru grunts vengefully without opening his mouth, then Dark Hikaru says "What...? Are you angry? Caring about your friends more than me? GREAT! I'LL KILL YOU, AND TAKE YOUR PLACE IN THIS LIFE!!" he summons the Darkened Dream Calibur, then two Hikarus, good and evil clashed together fiercely, and everyone gasps as they see two Hikarus fight each other at a destructive speed and strength, spraying streams of darkness and magic all over the Training room. Two Hikarus backed up, then the Dark Hikaru fiercely picked up and threw dozens of iron dumbbells at the real Hikaru, then he runs towards Dark Hikaru while evading the dumbbells. Dark Hikaru stopped throwing dumbbells and swings his sword downwards at the real Hikaru, then he deflected the sword with his chakram and magic revolver. Hikaru points his revolver at his dark self, Dark Hikaru quickly placed his hand to cover the revolver's barrel, and the revolver fired one round through the hand, Hikaru gasps from Dark Hikaru's swift counter move, then Dark Hikaru took Hikaru's magic revolver from his hand, then he points the revolver at Hikaru and says "CHECKMATE!" then the revolver backfires at Dark Hikaru, he grunts in pain and confusion from Hikaru's revolver's countermeasure. Hikaru caught the revolver in midair, then he swings his chakram from the sword to Dark Hikaru, then Dark Hikaru backed away from Hikaru's chakram swing, then Hikaru let go his chakram, causing it to fly towards Dark Hikaru, then he ducks to evade the chakram, Hikaru fires his magic revolver at Dark Hikaru, the bullet went away from Dark Hikaru, but instead, the bullet went through the Chakram's circular gap, forming a barrage of magical bolts being fired at Dark Hikaru, then Dark Hikaru screams in pain as he takes damage from the chakram's barrage. Dark Hikaru dropped the Dream Calibur onto the ground as he lost most of his strength from the damage, then Hikaru drops his revolver and sprints towards his dark self to embrace him firmly. "What... are you doing?! KILL ME! I'm already-" asks Dark Hikaru, angry and confused about Hikaru's firm embrace. Dark Hikaru's body resonates with Hikaru's body, he gasps, and further asks while oddly relaxed "H...hey...! What's happening to me? I feel... so drowsy..." "You're going back to where you were. Because... you're me." says Hikaru, telling Dark Hikaru the truth, then Dark Hikaru fades in Hikaru's embrace. Skylanders and Horizoneers grunt and wake from unconsciousness, then they gasp as they see Hikaru, kneeling while his arms enveloped, "Hikaru? Where did he go?! Where did that faker-?!" asks Stealth Elf, then Hikaru answers her question "He's already back where he belonged to. He and I became one." Everyone gasps from Hikaru's sudden saying, then Jet Vac says without ease "Wait a minute, you mean..." "...you just absorbed him?" asks Hanami, then Eruptor adds his concern to Hikaru "Hey, isn't it too risky to do something like that?!" "Yeah, what'll happen when he breaks free outta you again?!" added Pop Fizz, then Hikaru answers "I made sure of that, he'll never bother you again. After all... he IS me." Yoshiro walks towards Hikaru, then he punches Hikaru to his face, grapples his shirt and says "Don't be ridiculous, Hikaru! You can't be THAT dumb to admit you're him and other way around! He's nothing more than just a shadow, and-!" "I wish I was lying... but I'm not!" shouted Hikaru, then Yoshiro continues to disagree with Hikaru, saying "How can you be that sure?!" "Because at the exact moment I was split apart... back when I was before eleven..." says Hikaru.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 4, Epilogue: Departure

The flashback of Hikaru five years back, focusing on Hikaru in his preteen self putting baby Spyro in the safest place from the warzone in Skylands. Hikaru rushes towards Master Eon and Kaos's conflict, and throws his boomerang at Kaos and the boomerang lands onto his hand, he winces from the boomerang's impact and says "Who threw that?!" "Hikaru!" exclaimed Master Eon as he sees Hikaru joined Master Eon's side to the fight, he landed his feet next to Master Eon and caught his flying boomerang, "You're dealing with me, KAOS!" shouted Hikaru, then sprints aggressively towards Kaos, he grins evilly and says "HAH! Got you, now!" the shadowy mist behind Kaos emits, Hikaru gasps off-guard. The mist envelops around Hikaru, overwhelming him and gradually darkening his eyelids, lips, and hair, then he stopped struggling, standing still, "Hikaru?! HIKARU!" Master Eon cries out for Hikaru, then he growls and aggressively asks Kaos "KAOS! What did you do to him?! I DEMAND AN ANSWER AT ONCE!" Hikaru, possessed by a dark shadow blinked and cut Master Eon's part of beard in flash, Master Eon gasps heart-brokenly from Hikaru's sudden betrayal, then he pulls out his magic revolver and casted blizzard magic to freeze half of Master Eon's body, immobilizing him, "Hikaru...?! WHY?!" asked Master Eon while distressed, then the ominous voice around Hikaru says to Eon, "He's no longer your friend, BROTHER. He now obeys my son's commands!" "Strykore...! Give him back, or I'll reduce you to nothing!" says Master Eon, threatening Strykore, the spirit that possesses Hikaru, then the voice says back "Oh, I'm afraid you'll have to sacrifice your own pawn to rid of me for good... if you're really up to it!" Master Eon gasps and thinks "No...! I promised the Skylanders I'd never betray another soul!" "Forget the old man, and just grab what we need, then we'll be unstoppable together!" Kaos recalls possessed Hikaru, then Hikaru immediately sprints towards the secret room, then he suddenly stopped and says "No...! I'm not... letting you have it...!" "WHAT?!" shouted Kaos while outraged from Hikaru's remaining loyalty to Master Eon, then Hikaru shouts to Master Eon, "MASTER!! DESTROY MY BODY, FOR THE FUTURE OF THE LIGHT!!" Master Eon gasps from Hikaru's resolve, then he sobs silently and says "I can't...! If I do that, you will-!" "JUST DO IT!! NOW___!!!!" shouted Hikaru, then Strykore shouts to Hikaru "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND, YOU CLUELESS BRAT?! NO! NO___!!!!" Master Eon grunts and breaks free from Hikaru's blizzard magic, then uses his power of light to disintegrate Hikaru from the living realm, then Hikaru says with eyes closed before being disintegrated by the light "Thank you... master." then the flashback ends when the light from Master Eon's power turns the entire place into a white background. As the flashback ended, Hikaru continues to tell his rest of the memories from the sleeping realm, saying "...and that's how I ended up in a Sleeping Realm and met Kaen... Kaen Highwind and others. I just finally remembered why I just died 'too soon' and came back after almost five years. While I was still here, I also remembered at my last hours with Kaen and others in the Sleeping Realm, I saw Spyro and others through the mirror of desires in the temple of bravery and redemption, where I just faced my own split self and fought each other, then that man while I lost my upperhand against my other self, he died protecting me and gave me the Crossblade of the Exius, his name was Linkoln, our squad master and the last member of the Exius bloodline, then I finished my other self off with the crossblade, then I just fainted and started to fade in Kaen's arms, then I woke up in the pool of glowing water from this cave... then I just met three of you... Sakuyu... Kentaro... Haruka." Haruka, Sakuyu, and Kentaro gasp with tears hanging in their eyes from listening to Hikaru's story. Yoshiro grunts irritably, then he aggressively squeezes Hikaru's arm and says "What doe all this have to do with your shadow you just overcame?!" "Beats me. Maybe I was just telling everything what I remembered after getting back the memories from my dark self." says Hikaru with tears hanging into his eyes. Yoshiro growls furiously at Hikaru then prepares to punch him, saying "DON'T YOU DARE ACT SO CLUELESS WITH THESE PATHETIC PUPPY-EYES OF YOURS ON ME!" "STOP IT! Leave him alone..." Sakuyu cries out, holding and sobbing onto Yoshiro's arm, "Sakuyu, what are you-?!" asks Yoshiro, then gasps as he sees Sakuyu with her tears dropping off her chin, then Spyro, Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Pop Fizz, and Jet Vac also silently sob from Hikaru's emotional storytelling about his memories he regained.
Yoshiro exclaims in pity, shrugs off Sakuyu's grasp on his arm, walks away from Hikaru. "Hikaru... you're coming back to fight with us, right?" asks Sakuyu to Hikaru, then Kentaro adds "Yeah, we still need your strength to kick Elementary VIII's rear, and-!" "I can't." says Hikaru, then everyone gasps from Hikaru's refusal to rejoin the Horizoneers and Skylanders' attack on Elementary VIII, Haruka closes onto Hikaru and says "What do you mean you can't?! Are you saying you're quitting?!" "No, it's just too early." replied Hikaru, then Haruka grunts in anger and says "Too early for what?! ARE YOU PLANNING ON SLACKING OFF FROM THE CRISIS WE'RE ON NOW?!" "Haruka, I-" says Hikaru, attempting to reason with Haruka, then he angrily screams "THIS ISN'T LIKE YOU, HIKARU!! WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE FRIENDS FOREVER, AND NOW YOU JUST SAY THAT YOU'RE TOO COOL FOR ALL OF US?! YOU DOUBLE-CROSSING, SHIFT-SHAPING SON OF A-!" "STOP IT, HARUKA!!" Spyro shouted, causing his horns to spark, and pull Haruka away from Hikaru by the magnetic force. Everyone gasps from Spyro's outburst, then Spyro says to Hikaru "If you plan on doing something else, please make it quick and come back to us." Hikaru remained speechless from Spyro's magnetic powers on Haruka, then Hikaru recovers from speechlessness and replies to Spyro, saying "Spyro... before I go... Have you ever heard of one-of-your-kind dragons named 'Ignitus'?" Spyro exclaims in confusion and recalls from Hikaru "Ignitus...?" "He's your elder brother, and he misses you. He's no longer a dragon like you, but he's still alive and he wants to know how you're hanging." Spyro gasps as he starts realizes one of his family members was alive, then he replies to Hikaru with tears hanging in his eyes "Tell him... I'm alright, and I want him to bring back my family, once it's all over." Hikaru exhales lightly with grin and says "That'll do, thanks." Hikaru waves at everyone and fares them well for a while, saying "Well guys, I'll be back, right before you know it!" "Hikaru!" Hanami shouted before Hikaru stepped into a portal, then Hanami continues her speech to Hikaru "Please take care, and come back soon." "Yeah, that's a promise." says Hikaru with his thumb up, then he walks through the portal, and the portal disappears afterwards.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Prologue: Storming Through Sands, Fal'Cies Gather Further

Hikaru waves at everyone and fares them well for a while, saying "Well guys, I'll be back, right before you know it!" "Hikaru!" Hanami shouted before Hikaru stepped into a portal, then Hanami continues her speech to Hikaru "Please take care, and come back soon." "Yeah, that's a promise." says Hikaru with his thumb up, then he walks through the portal, and the portal disappears afterwards. "Hey, guys! Long time no see!" says the young, feminine voice, then Evie blinked in front of everyone, then asks "Whew! What a mess around here, what happened? And there's more of you than I just remembered!" "Evie?! What are you doing here!?" shouted Eruptor while surprised from Evie's pressence, then Evie asks back "Beats me! What's it to- wait, where's the other guy with spiky hair and some ugly-red colored getup?" "Hikaru just left." says Spyro, then he asks Evie to join as Spyro's ally "I might be not your type of a guy, but... can you join... as a Horizoneer?" Evie exclaims in disgust, steps back from Spyro and says "What?! YOU want ME to be your bodyguard?! No. NO WAY I'm buying that from a liza-!" "DO YOU WANT ME TO MELT YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS, YOUNG LADY?! IF NOT, THEN SHUT UP AND JOIN FORCES WITH US, OR I'LL-!" shouted Eruptor, threatening Evie, then Stealth Elf restrains Eruptor and says "Eruptor, you no-necked numbskull, cool it!" "Nah, just pulled your legs, I'm doing it anyways!" says Evie, causing both Eruptor and Stealth Elf to become speechless from Evie's sudden decision change. "Really...? Thank you, Evie! You're a lifesaver!" says Spyro, thanking Evie with sparkling eyes, then Evie cringes at Spyro with disgust "I'm gonna regret this, am I?"
Meanwhile at the Bazaar of the Wind, the Fal'cie; Ignitus and Necrosmith await Hikaru's return to resume their journey to gather their remaining fellow fal'cie, Necrosmith asks Ignitus, "If he's not coming back to us, what will we do?" "I'm sure he'll come back to us... I hope." replied Ignitus, praying for Hikaru's return. The portal opens near Ignitus and Necrosmith, then Hikaru walks out of the portal and says "Sorry for the wait, guys. Ignitus, about Spyro... he's unharmed, and more dependent than ever." "Hikaru... this is great news!" says Ignitus, then he further asks Hikaru about Spyro "Hey, did Spyro say something else while you were heading back? If so, then what was it?" "He wants to see his family again. If you're really his brother, his family might be yours too. Can you really tell where they ended up?" says Hikaru, theorizing Ignitus's siblingship with Spyro and asking to tell where his family is. Ignitus grunts in mix of disappointment and hurt, then says "I... wanted to see my family again too, but right now, they're beyond my reach." Hikaru gasps and further asks Ignitus "But... why not?" "Ever heard of Master Eon using his power on his own dragon army?" asked Ignitus to Hikaru about Master Eon vanishing Spyro and Ignitus's dragon family, Hikaru gasps, then Ignitus proceedingly says "I have, and I've loathed him for doing such a thing like this. I wanted to give him a taste of my fury for what he did to my family... but I no longer sensed his pressence, as he just vanished. I wanted to shame him for doing such a thing, but he vanished before I could have had a chance..." says Ignitus, answering Hikaru's confusion, then Hikaru interrupts and says "Master Eon did the same thing to me, but him vanishing me was my idea, since I lost control of my body, and told him to eliminate me. I thought I might find your family, but instead... I ended up dead in a sleeping realm, they weren't here." Ignitus gasps from Hikaru's speech and says while he firmly grasp Hikaru's shoulders "You told Master Eon to vanish you from here?! WHY WOULD YOU THROW YOUR LIFE AWAY FOR THAT?!" "I've done it... for both of you, so I thought they might've ended up dead, but they're not there anywhere. They're alive, I'm really certain of this." says Hikaru, telling Ignitus why he risked his life to check for Spyro and Ignitus's family, then Ignitus and Necrosmith sigh in awe and concern, "That bravery of yours must be impossible for other humans to achieve... I'm completely astounded." says Necrosmith telling Hikaru his honest impressions from hearing Hikaru's impossible act of bravery. The mysteriously homeless boy walks towards Hikaru, then steadily attempts to search inside Hikaru's pocket. Hikaru swiftly and aggressively picks up the homeless boy, then shouts to him "You didn't think I'd be dumb enough to be robbed by a desperate brat, huh?!" "Let me go, you brute! Adults like you never understand how much I just got through, you-!!" says the homeless boy, shouting back at Hikaru while the tears hang onto his eyes.
Ignitus tells Hikaru to stop abusing the homeless boy "Hikaru, you're going too far! That's just a-!" Ignitus gasps as he sees an Earth symbol from the boy's throat surface, then the homeless boy screams in anger "I said... LET, ME, GO___!!!" the ground emerges a fist made of stone, launched towards Hikaru's stomach. Hikaru heaves in pain from the impact and flails away from the boy, "HIKARU!!" Necrosmith exclaimed, the boy breathes heavily and angrily, "Wait! That mark on your throat... is that you... Shun Lee?" asked Ignitus, then the homeless boy, aliassed as Shun Lee, gasps and asks Ignitus, "How did you know my name...? I haven't even-" "I can tell, because you're one of us; a Fal'Cie." says Ignitus, answered Shun Lee's question, then Shun Lee obliviously recalls "Fal...'Cie? W-wait, you mean these monstrous-looking things?! I'm not one of these-!" "Calm down, Shun, we're unlike the usual Fal'Cie, we're known as the Transplant Fal'Cie, if you were once human, you still appear as human, but no longer aged once you become one of us. But, as for me... I was once a dragon, but my previous life ended as someone I never recognized gave me a new start, changing my physique as a human, like yours. He did that just to stab me to my chest with a gemstone with some sort of a fetus inside it, my insides were freezing as some sort of threads of ice covering my entire body, feeling like I'm sitting inside a caterpillar's cocoon. These threads are crushing my body, shrinking it, then my wings, my horns, and my tail vanished by the force of these threads, my skeletal structures shrink and alter, the hair grows out of my newly-formed head, then the cocoon-like cell broke apart, and I just changed, appearing as a human being. That person who changed me entirely told me all this before they just vanish in a blink of my eye." says Ignitus, telling the information about the transplant Fal'Cies and how they formed, exampling himself to help Shun Lee understand about Transplant Fal'Cie's transformation details. "Just like back then, when I once was a stagalla, my skin and flesh were hard as a stone. Some humans say we, the Stagalla are also known as the 'Human Golems'. However, with my life as a Stagalla is over, I might still look like my original self, but my insides are more fluid and elastic." says Necrosmith adding details about his past into the conversation, Hikaru sighs in awe from hearing Necrosmith's past life, and says "For real...? You were a stagalla? So that's why you're so built up and big." "I... I didn't know that even existed... n-nor I realized that I'm one of them! So that's why I had a feeling these stones protect me." says Shun Lee, realizing he became one of the transplant Fal'Cie, after listening to Ignitus's story about how the Transplant Fal'Cies are born.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 1: Overheating Showdown

The townsfolk panic and run away as they scream "THE TAMAJIN ARE HERE! SOMEONE, CALL THE HORIZONEERS!" Hikaru and Shun Lee exclaim in high alert when they see tamajin (About a dozen of Desert Bandits and one Fat Bandit) chasing the townsfolk of the Bazaar, Ignitus halted both Hikaru and Shun Lee, saying "Wait, You two! We don't have much time for rescuing others! I know you wanted to keep the people safe, but if we waste anymore time, we'll lose our opportunity to-" "Ignitus, Necrosmith, just go ahead without us! We'll catch up to you after we settle things here!" shouted Hikaru, telling Ignitus and Necrosmith to move ahead to reclaim their kidnapped comrades, then Ignitus nods and says "Once you're done, head out to the fancy bar where they sell expensive drinks and have muscular humans in tuxedos, walk to the restroom section, and you'll see three doors besides the gender-isolation ones, and that third one, the employees only will lead you to the base where they held our comrades hostage in! Be careful of their security measures, they are well-hidden as they never tolerate any intruders into the base. Don't get yourselves detected, or you'll end up becoming slaves like the others!" Ignitus and Necrosmith then immediately sprint towards the base where their comrades are imprisoned, "Got it! We'll meetcha after kicking Tamajin butts!!" says Hikaru, shouting his acknowledgement to Ignitus and Necrosmith, then he turns his eyes to Shun Lee and says "Hey, Shun Lee, is it? Stay back, leave the fighting to me!" Hikaru roars and aggressively sprints towards the army of bandits to attack. Hikaru swings his chakram through one bandit each swing, eliminating them, then Shun Lee grunts and says "I... I can fight too! Just watch!!" he roars and slams his palms downwards onto the ground, summoning stone spikes to impale two of the bandits behind Hikaru. Hikaru gasps from the spikes' emergence, then he asks Shun Lee "Was that you, Shun Lee? You didn't tell me you can do this, but still, you're a natural!" Hikaru swiftly swung his chakram at the bandit as it sneaked to Hikaru's blindside and became eliminated from the chakram's strike, Shun Lee gasps, then blushes and asks Hikaru "Hey... didn't you saw that?" "Huh? What's that?" asks Hikaru in the middle of fighting the surrounding bandits, parrying their swords with his chakram, then Shun Lee sighs while he palms his forehead and says "...Nevermind, I'll join you!" he sprints towards Hikaru and the chunks of stone float towards both of Shun Lee's arms, the chunks merge and form large gloves made of stone, then he leaps and punches one of the bandits down to the ground, squishing their body and reducing to a spray of darkness with the heart-shaped orb floating upwards. Hikaru laughs while entertained and says "You're really full of surprises kiddo!" "I told you I can fight! And stop calling me a KID!!" replied Shun Lee, angered when he hears Hikaru calling him a child and swung his stoneclad fist at Hikaru, then Hikaru quickly vaulted Shun Lee's punch, and aimed and fired his magic revolver at the distant bandit. "Whoa, easy there tiger! I'm on your side, remember?" says Hikaru, telling Shun Lee to calm down, then both Hikaru and Shun Lee turned their faces towards the Fat Bandit, "Now the fatso's all that's left!" says Shun Lee, mentioning the situation to Hikaru, then the Fat Bandit inhales slowly but deeply, causing the Fat Bandit's belly to inflate. Hikaru and Shun Lee gasp menacingly from the Fat Bandit's suspicious gesture, then the Fat Bandit spits a large, speeding fireball at them, "Look out!" exclaimed Hikaru, grabbing Shun Lee and dodging the speeding fireball, then the fireball explodes, destroying one of the sandstone-made buildings. "This fatso's got more tricks up his sleeve...! He's pumped up, be careful!" says Hikaru, warning Shun Lee about Fat Bandit's ranged aggression.
Meanwhile in Ignitus and Necrosmith's location, they found and arrived to the fancy bar, titled as 'Drunk-a-Dunk', then Ignitus and Necrosmith slowed from sprinting to walking. Ignitus says "There it is! Now, let's blend in, Necrosmith." "Right." says Necrosmith while acknowledging Ignitus, then they both arrive to the bathroom section. Ignitus and Necrosmith walked through the employees only door, then they see a calculator-sized computer and entered the password, Ignitus pressed letters respectively that spells 'Wealth4Life', then he pressed the confirm key and the computer made a ding noise, signalling that the password is correct. After a two second delay, the hidden door with a computer latched opens, the secret passage to the secret lair opened, then they both proceed, walking downwards nearing the lair. As they proceed deeper, they hear cries and screams of the imprisoned, begging to be freed and for mercy. "Don't worry, those with innocent souls, someday, we'll set you free from the wrongful prison." says Ignitus, telling all the prisoners to calm down, the cries stopped, and they instead ask questions and show appreciation without patience. The security unit walks by and suspiciously tells Ignitus and Necrosmith "Stop right here, you two. Explain yourselves and give us your badges, or else-" "Move aside." says Ignitus, shoving the security's face away while Ignitus's hand evaporates the security unit's face, then he screams in pain and curls onto the ground as his face became burnt by Ignitus's hand then cries out "My face...! YOU BURNT MY FACE, YOU MONSTER!!" The second unit of Security exclaims from his fellow companion downed with his burnt face, then he picks up his walkie-talkie from his chest pocket and says "We have intruder alert! I repeat, INTRUDER ALERT!" Ignitus and Necrosmith still proceeds, then the security backup arrives in front of them, then Necrosmith asks Ignitus "Is there another way than this, Ignitus?" "I'm afraid not. We'll fight brute force with theirs to pass through. Ready yourself, Necrosmith!" says Ignitus, posed himself to fight along Necrosmith against the security, armed with tonfas, switchblades, gunblades, and SMGs.
Meanwhile at Hikaru and Shun Lee's location, they aggressively sprint and roar towards the Fat Bandit, inhaling with its belly inflating, they both respectively swing one of their stone-cladded fists and a chakram to finish off the Fat Bandit. The Fat Bandit exhales out a large breath of fire, catching both Hikaru and Shun Lee in it, they scream and grunt afterwards in pain as they suffer burns all over, "Gngh... it got us! That burns!" says Shun Lee, then Hikaru adds "Yeah, going frontal was a bad idea. You're gonna have to stay outta this, Lee, I'll flank him back to where he came from." Hikaru sprints and runs for a backstab with his chakram to the Fat Bandit. The Fat Bandit exhales fire to its clenched fist, causing Shun Lee to exclaim puzzled about its behavior "Why's it burning its own hand?" he thought, then Hikaru readies to strike onto Fat Bandit from behind and says "I GOTCHA NOW!" Shun Lee gasps as the Fat Bandit reacts to Hikaru's movement, "HIKARU! WATCH OUT!" he shouted out to Hikaru, then the Fat Bandit lands his flaming fist onto Hikaru's cheek, causing him to flail while screaming in pain until he crash-landed through the abandoned fruit shop stand. "HIKARU___!!!" Shun Lee cries out to Hikaru, then he grunts in slight defeat and slams the side of his clenched fist downwards onto the ground, "No, it isn't over yet...! I'm still here, but Hikaru's in deep trouble...! I've got to do something or else...!" Shun Lee strategically thought, then he gasps and thinks "Wait, if this thing can use fire... then water might work on it!" "HEY, FATTY! I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING WHAT YOU REALLY NEED! COME ON!" Shun Lee shouts at the Fat Bandit.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 2: Slithering Rumble

Meanwhile, several minutes earlier at the Bazaar, Shun Lee fired his water-loaded squirtgun at the Fat Bandit, then the Fat Bandit exhales a small fireball, the line of water from the squirtgun and the fireball evaporated. "YES! ONE MORE TIME!" happily exclaimed Shun Lee, then he fires his squirtgun at the Fat Bandit, the Fat Bandit exhales another fireball, and it pushed through the water and explodes on the squirtgun in Shun Lee's hands. Shun Lee screams in pain and flails from the explosive force, then he lands his fall onto his back and groans in agony, curling himself from the damage he endured. The Fat Bandit closes in Shun Lee, he gasps and says while vocally wounded "Is it... over...?" The Fat Bandit exhales and coats fire onto its raised fist, then the crystal of ice flew and exploded onto the Fat Bandit, freezing it entirely. Shun Lee exclaims when he sees the Fat Bandit become suddenly frozen by the ice crystal's detonation, then Hikaru walks while breathing heavily and pointing his magic revolver, closing in the frozen Fat Bandit. "Hikaru...! You're alive!" says Shun Lee while injured but happy when he sees Hikaru recovered from incapacitation. Hikaru turns his eyes on Shun Lee and says "Lee, you did great at the end. But now, it's my turn to steal the kill!" Hikaru raises his Chakram then aggressively throws the chakram at the Fat Bandit. The chakram slashed through the Fat Bandit's frozen carcass, fracturing it into pieces and dissolving afterwards. Shun Lee sighs in awe from Hikaru's finishing move against the Fat Bandit, then he faints from his injuries from fending off the Fat Bandit, Hikaru eases from breathing heavily, then he picks up Shun Lee, unconscious and injured, seating him onto Hikaru's right shoulder. "Now, let's find that fancy bar Ignitus's talked about." says Hikaru, commencing his advance on Sylvester's hidden lair, then he felt a sharp rumble from the ground, he trembled and lost balance on footing and he exclaims "Whoa! Where's the earthquake coming from?!" Hikaru turns his head back and forth for the source of earthquake, then he sees a fancy bar and says "Found the bar! I bet these earthquakes are from the enemy! I'm heading in-!" Hikaru exclaims as he witnesses large amount of townsfolk and security units panicking while running outside the fancy bar, slowly collapsing from the basemental destruction. "Whatever's going on... that's not good at all! I gotta hurry before they're crushed!" says Hikaru, hurrying to rendezvous with Ignitus and Necrosmith while carrying unconscious Shun Lee lying on his right shoulder.
Ignitus and Necrosmith exclaim from seeing the ceiling's collapse, then Ignitus says "This snake...! It wasn't just to attack us...! You monster in man's body! You wouldn't dare-!!" "I'd do whatever it takes to kill you, even if it means sacrificing an innocent soul or two!" says Sylvester, then he commands the Silviper to finish off Ignitus and Necrosmith "Silviper! RIP THEIR BODIES WITH YOUR FANGS AND MAKE THEM SCREAM TO THEIR LAST BREATH!" Silviper hisses aggressively, jumps and maws at the Necrosmith and Ignitus, "Step aside, Ignitus!" says Necrosmith, pushing Ignitus away from Silviper's maw attack and prepares himself to grab onto Silviper's fangs with two of his hands, then he successfully grabbed Silviper's fangs and struggles to fight it back while holding onto the fangs. Ignitus cries out while concerned "NECROSMITH!!" "You'd really test your bravery on risking your life for others than yourself? Are you really this delusional?" menacingly asks Sylvester, clenching his fists of envy and irritability. Hikaru sprints deeper to the hidden lair, and he sees the woman with an Air symbol glowing on her back, he exclaims and asks her "Are you a Fal'Cie?!" "Yes, and Natasha Ventski is my name." says Natasha, introducing herself to Hikaru, then she asks him "You must be the Fal'Cie of magic, am I right?" "Huh? Yeah, I'm Hikaru! Where's Ignitus and Necrosmith?!" says Hikaru, replied to Natasha, then asks her about Ignitus and Necrosmith's whereabouts. Natasha tells Hikaru about Ignitus and Necrosmith "Head further where you were going, and you'll meet two of them! Hurry! My strength is almost at its limit...!" "Gotcha! Thanks, Natasha, see you then!" says Hikaru, proceeds further to the hidden lair while carrying Shun Lee with him. Shun Lee grunts as he regains consciousness and pushes himself off Hikaru's shoulder, "H-hey! Lee, are you okay?!" asked Hikaru, exclaimed from Shun Lee's sudden wake, then Shun Lee says while slowly standing up "Natasha... Ventski...! I have to help her out!" Shun Lee ran towards Natasha's location, Hikaru gasps and says "Wait, Shun Lee! Where are you-!? Tch! Nevermind!" Hikaru proceeds to move deeper into the lair, and he sees Ignitus and Necrosmith, battling against Sylvester and Silviper. "GUYS! I'M HERE! Let me help you!" shouted Hikaru as he arms himself with magic revolver on one hand and the chakram on the other, joining forces with Ignitus and Necrosmith, "Necrosmith...! He's facing Silviper on his own! Hikaru, lend him a hand! I'll deal with the one who caused all this!" says Ignitus, commanding Hikaru to assist Necrosmith as he struggles while restraining the Silviper by holding onto its fangs. Hikaru quickly nodded and sprinted towards Necrosmith to assist him and pointed his Magic Revolver into Silviper's mouth, then he pulls and holds his flint trigger to gather cold magic to cast blizzaga. Hikaru releases the flint trigger and the Mana Pistol shoots out blizzaga, turning Silviper into a structure of ice from the blizzaga's detonation inside between the Silviper's esophagus and stomach. Sylvester says while distressed for Silviper "Silviper?! NO!!-" "Finish it off, Hikaru!" shouted Ignitus to Hikaru, commanding him to finish off Silviper. Hikaru nods, acknowledging Ignitus's request, then he summons and swings the Crossblade of Exius downwards on Silviper, frozen by the blizzaga magic, then Silviper shatters into a million fragments of ice upon the crossblade's destructive contact.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 3: Venomous Vengeance

Sylvester kneels down and became speechless from Silviper's defeat, then whispers heartbrokenly "Silviper... don't leave me..." "Too easy. Alright, Ignitus and Necrosmith, let's go-" says Hikaru, asking Ignitus and Necrosmith to leave Sylvester's lair, but Ignitus interrupts Hikaru and says "Not yet, Hikaru. First things first, we'll have to negociate with-" "YOU MURDERERS!! YOU KILLED THE LAST OF MY FAMILY!! SILVIPER WAS MY LAST FAMILY MEMBER AND A FRIEND TO ME... AND YOU TOOK HIM AWAY!!!" screamed Sylvester, accusing Ignitus, Necrosmith and Hikaru of defeating Silviper with vengeance. Hikaru says back to Sylvester reasonably, saying "Hey, if that monster was your 'pet', you should've said it sooner and done this yourself!" "SHUT UP!! YOU DON'T KNOW A THING ABOUT ME AND MY HATRED OF THE LIKES OF YOU!!! People have robbed my family, torn their properties and lives apart! You have no idea how lonely... how painful... being parentless and isolate on a place like this!!" replied Sylvester, telling Hikaru and others about his past and why he hated the people. Sylvester continues telling his past by saying "Ten years ago... right even before I was born...! My mother was a commoner of the bazaar, she was invited to a luxury VIP by the handsome aristocrat... turning out to be my father. They both married and live in a luxurious mansion with plenty of butlers and maids... and suddenly, my family was ruined by thieves, murderers, and extremists... and I was the only survivor from this scene. My mind and heart altogether is completely obscured by vengeance and hatred... ALL BECAUSE OF YOU!!!" as Sylvester roared, the facial marks of Outburster emerges and his eyes' whites become golden, turning into an Outburster. Hikaru, Ignitus and Necrosmith gasps in fear and high alert, Ignitus asks while distrubed by Sylvester's malformation "His face... What's happening to him?" "It's that sign again... the form that almost costed the princess's life... an Outburster!" says Hikaru, telling Ignitus about Sylvester becoming an Outburster. As Sylvester's Outburster energy leaks out of his body, he says with the voice becoming distorted "I'll kill you... I'LL KILL YOU ALL!! YOU'RE ALL MINE!!!" Sylvester's entire body transforms into a snake-like figure with a humane upper body, but with completely distorted head and face, showing greed and wrath, the symbol emerges on his belly, confirming him to be an Outburster. "So this is an Outburster you're talking about...? He's no longer human...!" says Ignitus, disturbed from Sylvester's malformed appearance as an outburster, then Hikaru says "Looks like there's no other way but to destroy it! Guys, let's do it!" Hikaru, Ignitus and Necrosmith paced themselves to fight against Sylvester's Outburster; the Naga.
Hikaru, Ignitus and Necrosmith charge to attack on the Naga, then the Naga whips his tail to attack them horizontally. Hikaru and others all jumped over Naga's horizontal tail attack, then Hikaru fires two bullet rounds from his magic pistol on Naga's upper body, the Naga endured the damage and hisses aloud while provoked. The Naga swings his claws with force and shoots out slashwaves from the Naga's fingertips, then Necrosmith blocks the slashwaves using himself to shield Hikaru, he screams in pain as he endured the slashwave's damage to his back, "NECROSMITH!" exclaimed Ignitus while distressed for Necrosmith, then he growls and roars while summoning a large amount of fire to attack Naga. The Naga screeches at the incoming fire from Ignitus, extinguishing the fire and cripple Ignitus and Hikaru from closing in Naga, they close their ears due to the loudness from his screetch. The Naga swiftly leaps and pounces onto Ignitus, then prepares to bite on him, "IGNITUS!" Hikaru cried out for Ignitus. Hikaru growls and says while he swings his chakram fiercely at the Naga "LEAVE MY FRIEND ALONE!!" the Naga catches Hikaru's chakram with his tail through the chakram's circular gap, "AH, SONUVA-!" the Naga forcefully steals and throws the chakram from Hikaru, then the Naga knocks Hikaru away with his tail and bites Ignitus to his chest at the same time, Ignitus screams in agony as he feels the venom is invading his bloodstream. Necrosmith grunts while he struggles to recover from fatigue from his injuries, he picks up his hammer and sickle and sprints towards the Naga, then he struck Naga's neck with his sickle, and afterwards, he slams his hammer on the sickle's flat side, allowing the sickle to pass through the Naga's neck and popping his head off. Despite his head has been cut off, the Naga survived and grew himself a new head, Necrosmith gasps in deep disturbance and fear, then the Naga focuses himself to claw Necrosmith with full power. As Naga's claw starts to move, Necrosmith winces with both his eyes closed, then Hikaru, overflowing with streams of void energy, wakes from unconsciousness and warped to catch Naga's full-powered claw, protecting Necrosmith from certain death. The Naga gasps while overwhelmed with Hikaru's single-handed grab, then the void stream eats away the darkness from the Naga's skin, reverting his claw to a human hand, then the void stream continues to digest Naga, reverting him back to Sylvester McCoin, his regular self. Necrosmith stops wincing, then gasps as he sees Hikaru holding onto Sylvester, unconscious from reversion, he asks Hikaru "Hikaru...! Where did the monster-?" "Worry no more, Necrosmith. Sylvester returned back to a human being." says HIkaru without emotion shown in his face. Necrosmith gasps while surprised from Hikaru's unconscious speech, "Hikaru... is that really you, Hikaru?"

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 4: Internal Imprisonment

Meanwhile deep inside Hikaru's mind, Hikaru wakes in an empty place where he is bound in countless chains. Hikaru gasps, struggles to break free from the chains and shouts "Wha-?! WHERE AM I?! GET THESE CHAINS OFF ME!!" "Hikaru... it's been too long." says the mysterious man's voice, emerged out of nowhere. Hikaru gasps and asks the voice "Who's there?! Hey, I can't know if I don't see you showing up! C'mout here!" the man emerges from the dimensional tear, showing the muscular, long-haired middle-aged and bearded man with crossed chains on his face that has a crossblade of Exius on his back, then the man says "It's been too long, Hikaru." "You're... Linkoln!" Hikaru gasps as he recognizes the man, aliased as 'Linkoln', then continues by asking Linkoln "What place is that?!" "This is a place where your personality is locked away by the power of my successor and son, Chrost Exius." says Linkoln, telling Hikaru why he ended up shackled in the empty place. Hikaru gasps and asks Linkoln "Wait, I thought Chrost was supposed to be dead-" "I thought the same thing as you do, but I realized why the crossblade accepted you as its worthy master and my soul resonates with yours. Now I know, without a doubt; you holding the soul of Chrost Exius!" says Linkoln, pointing his finger at Hikaru's chest, then Hikaru gasps extremely delirious and says "WHAT?! He chose me as his reincarnation?! Why did he do that to me?!" "Hikaru... your father, Suzhu Jiangshin was an infant that came from a completely distant realm and saw Chrost, leader of the Exius Clan, in his last minutes of life. Chrost placed his hand on Suzhu's soft, tender forehand, giving him the power to utilize the void power. Then three decades later, after you were given birth by your mother, Suzhu's soul was taken away, causing Chrost's soul to separate from your father's, then was guided right to you, as a father-and-son passing." says Linkoln, telling Hikaru how he obtained Chrost's soul. Hikaru becomes delirious and asks him "Who's that 'Chrost' guy...?! WHAT THE HELL DOES HE LOOK LIKE!?" "Hikaru... I forgot what he once looked like, but... I'm afraid it's about time I take my leave for good, and you'll see my son for yourself before you even know. Farewell, my friend." says Linkoln with his body shining with bright light, "WAIT, LINKOLN! I HAVEN'T-!!" shouted Hikaru, trying to tell Linkoln more until his disappearance, he grunts with his eyes closed due to the blinding light from Linkoln's act of disappearance. The shine dims, and Hikaru's eyes slowly open, then he sees a man with much similar traits from Linkoln, but without facial hair and wrinkles as he is much younger than Linkoln. Hikaru asks while surprised "Are you... Chrost Exius...?!" "Yes, I am Chrost Exius. Unlike my rival, Caela Arkus, I reincarnated, thanks to your father... and to you, Hicarus." says the man, aliased as Chrost Exius, introduced himself to Hikaru. Hikaru asks Chrost about Caela's downfall, "Chrost... before I ask you to set me free: What just happened to your rival?" "It is a dumb question indeed, but I'll answer this for you; Caela sacrificed himself when he broke through my crossblade. I saw Caela dissolve into dust, and everything I see was white, everything I hear, see, and sense were all gone, I opened my eyes, having myself thought I ended up in the afterlife, but I saw a baby out of nowhere. Reaching his hand onto me." says Chrost, answering Hikaru's question. Hikaru gasps as Chrost mentions a 'baby out of nowhere' then he deliriously thought "Father...?" "That's right, that baby was your father, and my soul became your father's right before I came to you." says Chrost, telling Hikaru the baby was his father, then he conclusionally says "Now then, you're set free, Hicarus... or shall I say, Hikaru." As Chrost snaps his finger, the chains that bind Hikaru broke apart and Hikaru screams as he falls down to the bottomless abyss from the empty place.
In reality, Hikaru suddenly screams out loud and dropped Sylvester's hand after few seconds of speechlessness, causing Necrosmith to exclaim in surprise, he says to Hikaru while comforting him "Hikaru! Calm down! It's alright, now! Settle down..." Hikaru breathes heavily, then stops after couple of seconds, and he says "Necrosmith...? Where... was I?" "Hikaru, you're already in the real world, it's alright now. Do you remember what you said when you just hold onto the monster's hand?" says Necrosmith, asking Hikaru about what happened during his fight against the Naga. "Huh...?" exclaimed Hikaru while confused from hearing Necrosmith's question, then says "I remember... after being knocked off by that monster's tail, I was chained up in this completely empty place, no bottom, no structures, nothing." "M-mother... father..." groaned Sylvester, surprising Hikaru and Necrosmith from Sylvester's wake. Sylvester continues to speak while groaning "Can you take me... to that fancy restaurant... you were talking about? I want... to go there too..." "Sylvester McCoin... A hardcore criminal, but a victimized child." said Necrosmith, sympathizing Sylvester to Hikaru, then Hikaru says "He said... his parents are robbed and killed by these people... but, which ones are they, and where are they now?" "It doesn't matter, it happened ten years ago, so these criminals are already caught, at least as they should be." says Necrosmith, answering Hikaru's question. Hikaru gasps as he sees Ignitus unconscious from his chest being bitten by the Naga, "Ignitus! Hey, Ignitus! Wake up, open your eyes! I'll patch you up, hang on!" says Hikaru, palming onto Ignitus's wound, performing a healing magic to close Ignitus's gaping wound, then Ignitus grunts as he slowly wakes from unconsciousness, then says "Hikaru... you really are the person I always hoped to exist." "HEY, BIG-BRO HIKARU!" says Shun Lee, shouting from afar, he sprints alongside Natasha to rendezvous with Hikaru, Ignitus, and Necrosmith, "Shun Lee! What're you doing here with a woman?" asked Hikaru to Shun Lee about bringing Natasha alongside him. Ignitus gasps aloud while he sits up, then says "Aquanna! Tecna!" then Aquanna muffles aloud to Ignitus, then he removes the cloth covering her mouth, Aquanna sighs and gasps, then she says "Thanks so much! I just wanted to give this greedy creep my wrath for doing such a thing to me!" "Fret nevermore, Aquanna, Sylvester's already out of commission. Where's Tecna?" says Ignitus asking Aquanna Tecna's whereabouts. Aquanna gasps then she says "Oh, right! I almost forgot about her! I'll be right back!" Aquanna sprints off to go to Sylvester's computer lab. Meanwhile in Sylvester's computer lab "Ugh... I can't take this anymore... someone, anyone, end my misery right away!" the blonde girl with glasses complained, operating Sylvester's computer for hours. "Tecna! We're free! You can stop now!" says Aquanna, closing in the girl, aliased as Tecna, then she says "For real?! Finally, I can rest now..." Tecna faints, falls off the computer chair, Aquanna gasps and says "TECNA?! Get yourself together, Tecna! Hngh, you're heavy for a small girl!" Aquanna grunts as she drags Tecna to the Fal'Cie crew. Aquanna grunts and pants while dragging Tecna, then says "Alright Ignitus, I got Tecna with us, so this means we're all together, right?!" "Yes, but we're missing one person." says Ignitus, saying one more Fal'Cie is missing, then Hikaru exclaims and asks "Wait, there's one more? Who's that? Where is he?" "Hikaru, let me summarize ourselves, the Fal'Cie, starting with Aquanna: She's the Fal'Cie of Water. Coming after her, I showcase myself, Ignitus the Fal'Cie of Fire. Natasha is the Fal'Cie of Air, Shun Lee's the Fal'Cie of Earth, Tecna's the Fal'Cie of Tech, you're the Fal'Cie of Magic, Necrosmith is the Fal'Cie of the Undead, and we're missing the last of our kind; The Fal'Cie of Life: and his name is Valdimir." replied Ignitus, summarizing the Fal'Cie, including himself to tell Hikaru the Fal'Cies and their elemental types and names, also telling the Fal'Cie of Life's identity is Valdimir.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 5: Trembling Grounds

Meanwhile focusing Spyro, Evie, the Skylanders and Horizoneers, they start their Superchargers and Equestricycles' engines to depart to attack Elementary VIII, "This is it, everyone. Our first step to finish Elementary VIII once and for all... starts here! All units! ADVANCE WITH ME!!" says Katsushi, starting her Equestricycle's engines and rally Skylanders and Horizoneers, then they war-cry for glory, riding their Superchargers and Equestricycles in full speed, traveling to a thousand meters per second. Spyro and Evie buckles up in Kazama's Equestricycle, Kazama asks Spyro about his friendship with Hikaru "Spyro, what do you think of Hikaru? Is he rude? Kind? Brave?" "He's... more of a brother than a friend. And for some reason, right before I joined the skylanders, I completely forgot who he was, and just left me all alone." says Spyro, telling his story between himself and Hikaru from the past, then Kazama says "Is that so? Maybe he did this to you, because I've done the same thing to him. Maybe I'm the one you should blame." "Wait, why?" asked Spyro to Kazama why he should blame him for Hikaru's decision, "Ever since the day I left my family, including Hikaru to survey outside the kingdom, I told him I won't be seeing him for years, he couldn't accept what I said, then I just pushed him away by force... I was utterly ashamed of myself when I've done something like this to him, I almost broke down, but without doubt, I've changed Hikaru... entirely." Spyro gasps lightly and empatheticaly towards Kazama's reasoning, then says "Must be traumatizing for him. Back when I was still in an egg and while he's carrying me, I overheard he's got like an incredibly long hair while he and Master Eon was talking. Wow, I wish I'd still seen that after I got out of this eggshell!" Kazama chuckles from Spyro's hype towards Hikaru's hair length at his younger age, then says "The master wasn't wrong about him, that's for sure. He DOES have a longer hair than most girls do." "Say, what happened to his hair before I came outta an egg to see him myself?" asked Spyro to Kazama about Hikaru's hair after he broke through his egg when seeing Hikaru in person, then Kazama says "I wish I'd know, but I don't, sorry for a letdown, fellow." "No need for apologies, Kazz, I'll ask him myself if I bump to him again!" says Spyro while grinning towards Kazama, then he exclaims as he felt a drop onto his shoulder. The drop turned out to be Evie's drool while snoring asleep, then Kazama chuckles and says "She might've just done a lot of things without sleep." While Hanami rides with Pop Fizz in his supercharger, she says while praying "Hikaru... I hope you're doing alright without us. Please come back as soon as you can." "Uh, sorry, princess, what was that?" asked Pop Fizz from Hanami's praying speech then Hanami replies to Pop Fizz "It's nothing, let's keep going!" As the horizoneers and Skylanders move forward, the earthquake emerges, shaking the ground roughly, the Superchargers, Equestricycles and their drivers flail from the earthquake's force, causing everyone to suddenly halt on their tracks. Stealth Elf grunts in nausea, "What was that, just now?" "Where did an earthquake come from?!" asked Haruka, then Cynder explains the earthquake's coordinates, "It came from the North side of the central kingdom! Can we help out there, first?!" "No worries, Cynder, leave the northern subkingdom to my rescue squad. LET'S MOVE!" says Katsushi, letting Cynder know her rescue squad is deployed to the Bazaar of the Wind for an earthquake event. "Ugh, who ruined my beauty-sleep?! I was about to jump into a good part!" says Evie while rubbing her eyes, then Kazama says to Evie "Don't worry, mother nature has issues." As Kazama restarts his engine after stopping from the earthquake, he lightly grunts and thought "Hikaru... please be alright."
Meanwhile, few minutes earlier at Fal'Cie's meeting in Sylvester's lair, partially destroyed, Hikaru asks Ignitus about Valdimir, saying "If Valdimir's not here, where is he now?" "Judging his elemental type, we should start with Westwoods; The Forest of Elves and Plants in the Horizon Palace's western side. We will need clothes to blend in if we want to ask the civilians about Valdimir." says Ignitus, replying to Hikaru's question, then Shun Lee suspiciously asks Ignitus about Valdimir "Hold on, who's the Valdimir guy? How'd you know about him? That would be too easy for us to pin him down and-" "It's because he sent me a letter with a drawing on the envelope." says Ignitus showing everyone Valdimir's letter with an illustration of a seed with a runic symbol. Hikaru, Shun Lee, Aquanna and Tecna gasps in awe from the letter's illustration, then Shun Lee asks about the illustration "Is that a seed...?" "Not just a seed... it's a runic type of seed that was just invented in the Magistrate stronghold!" says Tecna, telling the details about the runic seeds according to the letter's designed illustration. Hikaru gasps with assumption from the letter's whereabouts and says "Wait, if these seeds are from the stronghold... we should just jump straight to there, and-!" the ground rumbles heavily, as they feel a firm earthquake from their footing, "An earthquake! What's happening?!" asks Aquanna while in high alert, then Shun Lee exclaims and says "Don't blame me! I-I didn't notice a-!" "Look! The Silviper's remains...! They're dissolving!" says Necrosmith, pointing at Silviper's shattered remains, evaporating to smoke of darkness, then Sylvester says with his voice weakened "Silviper...? Thank goodness... you're alive..." the colossal Tech-type Tamajin pops its head through the floor where Sylvester lies down on, then the Tamajin opened its mouth and devours Sylvester whole, causing the Fal'Cie to gasp in fear and high-alert, "SYLVESTER!!!" exclaimed Hikaru, fearing for Sylvester's death. The quicksand slowly covers the brick-made floor, pouring from the tamajin's breach on the floor, closing in the Fal'Cie. "Natasha! Lift us up, HURRY!" says Ignitus commanding Natasha to use her powers to escape quicksand and the tamajin vertically, then Natasha acknowledges Ignitus and pushes her arms downwards to summon a pressurized wind below the floor launch it along the Fal'Cies in midair, escaping from being sunken to quicksand, "That gigantic pest...! I'll KILL IT FOR EATING SYLVESTER!!" shouted Hikaru, sprints and leaps off the flying floor, attacking the sand-shifter arthropod tamajin, Antlion. "HIKARU! DON'T-!" exclaimed Ignitus to Hikaru, failed to stop him from leaping towards Antlion, Hikaru roars to Antlion while aiming and firing his magic revolver five rounds, then swings his chakram downwards to slash vertically onto the Antlion's head, the Antlion screeches at Hikaru, pushing him back and launching him away from the Antlion and its turf of quicksand flowing towards the Antlion. Hikaru landed onto the stiff sand with his back, he heaves in pain from landing his back onto the stiff sand, "HIKARU!!" Ignitus cried out to Hikaru while standing on a falling platform, then he says to Natasha "Natasha! Break the platform's fall! I'll check and treat Hikaru's wounds, if I can." commanding her to reduce the fall speed of the platform, and jumps off the falling platform and slowing his fall speed while throwing flames downwards with his hands. As Ignitus's feet touch the sand, he immediately stopped pouring flames and sprints towards Hikaru to attempt to treat his injuries.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 6: Moment of Darkness

Ignitus picks up Hikaru, and says "Hikaru! Open your eyes! You can't win against this thing alone! I know how to mend human wounds with fire. It might sting a lot, but I assure you, you'll-" Ignitus gasps as he sees Hikaru's hair, his eyes, and his lips blacken, sensing dark energy gathering into Hikaru's body and soul. "Stay... BACK!" roared Hikaru, transformed to Dark Hikaru and threw aside Ignitus, then he summons the dark Dream Calibur and sprints towards Antlion, he swings his sword in frenzy at the Antlion, scratching the Antlion's skin. Dark Hikaru roars as he performs a full-power sword swing to damage Antlion mortally, but the incoming stone cube collided with Dark Hikaru, launching him away from the Antlion as he screams from suffering a concussive damage. Dark Hikaru dunked into quicksand, then he explodes his way out, and roars "THAT'LL TAKE MORE THAN TO JUST DROWN ME DOWN, PEST!!" As Dark Hikaru swings his Dark Dream Calibur, the Antlion rises and flies from the quicksand pit, causing the pit to lose its flow and Dark Hikaru gasps and says "So you can fly? WELL I CAN TOO!" He aggressively jumps high, catching up to the Antlion airborne. Ignitus grunts in pain while standing up, then he gasps and says "Hikaru...! No, he didn't just give in to the darkness...! He wouldn't-" "MR. IGNITUS!!" shouted Shun Lee, sliding down the stone slide along the Fal'Cies, then Shun Lee asks Ignitus, "What just happened there?!" "It's Hikaru... he became a creature of the dark." says Ignitus while frightened by Hikaru's dark transformation. "Wha- What are you talking about, Ignitus?! Hikaru can't abandon us that easily!" Necrosmith exclaimed from Ignitus's fearful speech about Hikaru, then Natasha says "Look, Hikaru's taking on the Tamajin by himself!" pointing her finger at Dark Hikaru attacking Antlion while airborne. Dark Hikaru swings his sword frenzily at the Antlion's metal abdomen, scratching it, "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, C'MON!!!" Dark Hikaru shouted, then swung his sword with full force, scarring Antlion's abdomen, then the Antlion explodes as it dies. The Antlion's explosive death pushes back Dark Hikaru with strong force, launching him downwards and splashing sand from Dark Hikaru's forced landing, incapacitating him and reverting him back to his original, default form as the darkness within Hikaru leaves his body. The Fal'Cies gasp and sprinted towards Hikaru's landing spot, they shouted his name in distress for Hikaru. Hikaru groans in pain as he slowly opens his eyes as he sees Ignitus and the Fal'Cies standing beside him, then he asks while weakened "Where did... the tamajin... go?" "It's gone, thanks to you." says Ignitus letting Hikaru know he defeated an Antlion. Hikaru gasps and asks in hurry "Sylvester! Where is he?! He was inside its belly, and he should be outta here unharmed! Where did he-?" Ignitus and the Fal'Cie crew grunt in guilt and hopelessness, then Hikaru grows delirious and says "Sylvester... didn't make it...?" "I'm sorry, Hikaru... but he's already gone." says Natasha with empathy, then Hikaru gasps while upset from Sylvester's tragic death.
Meanwhile in the southwestern side of the Horizon Central Kingdom, Aico Town, where the Magistrate Stronghold resides, the boy with clothing of a member of House Aico plants runic seeds to grow plants that create crystals to keep both the House Aico and the Magistrate operating, the announcer buzzes and says with the heirloom lady's voice "Valdimir, I need to see you in my throne, I repeat, I need your attendance in my throne, Valdimir." The boy, aliased as Valdimir stopped planting runic seeds and walks towards the throne of House Aico. Valdimir arrives to the throne, then the House Aico's Scion; Lian says to Valdimir "For a rookie and the Runic Sage's son, I might say this: I am beyond impressed you made such progress within a little amount of time to our cause. For that I give you a salary bonus and luxury discount to your account. May the House guide you to your glory." "Thank you, mistress." Valdimir replied, giving his gratitude to Lian with a loyal bow, then Lian conclusionally says "Now then, return to where you left off, and make us, the house Aico, proud." "Will do, your highness." says Valdimir, then walks outside Lian's throne to return to the magistrate greenhouse to continue growing crystal plants. As Valdimir walks towards the greenhouse, he thought "If my letter reaches them, they'll probably- No, they surely will reach me, and set me free from this cycle of abusement." Meanwhile back in the ruined Bazaar, Hikaru, upset from Sylvester's tragic end, says "Wait... you must be joking. That has to be a lie! HE'S STILL ALIVE! HE'S-" Necrosmith firmly grasps Hikaru's wrist, then he says "Hikaru, let it go. Sylvester is dead, and we can't-" "CAN'T DO WHAT?! ARE YOU SAYING WE LET HIM DIE AND NOT GIVE HIM TIME TO ATONE HIS CRIMES FOR DOING WHAT HE CAN TO AVENGE HIS PARENTS?! WHAT ABOUT THAT TIME I SOMEHOW CLEANSED THAT OUTBURSTER FROM TAKING OVER!?" shouted Hikaru while his eyes overflow with tears, then he continues shouting "IS ALL LETTING HIM TAKE PUNISHMENT JUST A JOKE TO YOU?! HOW CAN YOU BE SO DENSE WHEN WE HAD OUR CHANCE TO-?!" "HIKARU, GET OVER YOURSELF, AND FACE REALITY!!" shouted Ignitus to silence Hikaru, then Ignitus encourages Hikaru while he says "You really shouldn't empathize a criminal like he's your relative. If you want to stay strong and keep overcoming any obstacle you possibly can, you must deal with casualties whether it happens to an ally or not, please, Hikaru. You must understand this." Hikaru lightly and slowly gasps while heartbroken from Ignitus's cruel encouragement. "This is too much... Mr. Ignitus. That's something I cannot handle, you know!" shouted Shun Lee with tears springing out his eyes, then Ignitus gasps from Shun Lee's emotional comment. Ignitus says after several seconds of silence while he palms his head "What has gotten into me...?" "You there, tell us your names and- wait... Hikaru Daichi?! What are you doing there? Who are these people you're teaming up with?" says the Horizoneer Officer, recognizes Hikaru by looking at his face. Hikaru stands up and says "I'm sorry, officer, but I have unfinished business to do." Hikaru fires his magic pistol to summon a corridor to transport to another distant location, then the officer says "Wait, Hikaru! We still have a question yet to be-" "You don't want to know. Trust me." says Hikaru, passing through the corridor, then the rest of Fal'Cie crew walks through, and the corridor dissolves, leaving the officers speechless, then one of the officers asked another "What was that all about...? What does he mean we don't want to know?" "Ever heard of the tales of the mythical Fal'Cie?" says the mysterious long-haired school boy, appeared out of nowhere. The officers exclaim in surprise from the school boy's appearance, then one officer asks him "Wha-?! Where did you-? Who are you?" the schoolboy chuckles and aliases himself "Call me Fang."

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 7: Big Babysitting Crisis

Meanwhile in the Western side of Horizon Central Kingdom, the corridor emerges, Hikaru and the Fal'Cies walk out of the corridor, and it disappears. "Once we find Valdimir, I'm going back with my comrades... my REAL comrades." says Hikaru about returning to Skylanders and Horizoneers after recruiting Valdimir to the Fal'Cies. Natasha holds Ignitus's hands and asks "If we actually can pull this off... can we really turn back to our original forms?" "I don't know... but I hope-" says Ignitus, then becomes interrupted from a monster's baby-wailing, the fal'cies exclaim, "WHA- W-was that a MONSTER?!" asked Aquanna, Shun Lee, and Tecna at the same time, then Necrosmith raises his hand and says "Wait, listen..." Necrosmith hears the monster's wail, then points his finger to the direction where the monster's wail emerges and says "It's coming from here! Everyone, follow me!" The Fal'Cies sprint towards the wailing sound, then they see a large, green orc-like creature wearing a diaper, a bonnet, and a bib. "Uh... excuse me, but... WHAT IS THAT?" asked Hikaru, disgusted and pointing at an orc-like creature, then Ignitus tells Hikaru after his light gasp "This is a Gnorc! Gnorcs are supposedly the most aggressive creatures alive... but this one is-" "Y'AAGH!! HE'S GONNA EAT ME!!" screamed Hikaru as the Gnorc sucks his arm like its pacifier, Hikaru panickingly begs the Fal'Cie comrades "HEY!! DON'T JUST STAND HERE, DO SOMETHING!!!" "Alright, alright! Let me start the program." says Tecna, operating her Veracomputer to activate digital-to-physical program. "Tecna?! This aint laptop time! He REALLY needs-" shouts Shun Lee to Tecna, then Aquanna tells Shun Lee after slamming his head "THAT AIN'T JUST A LAPTOP, STUPID! Look at her, and you'll know!" Shun Lee whimpers in pain from Aquanna's slam, then Tecna's veracomputer shines as it spawns a Pacifier suitable for a Gnorc's mouth. "Alright, it's done! Alright, you can put your arm out now!" says Tecna, telling Hikaru to pull out his arm from the Gnorc's mouth, then Hikaru struggles but successifully pulls out his arm, then Tecna inserts the pacifier into the Gnorc's mouth while she says "Here you go!" Gnorc grunts, then sighs with lips closed, satisfied and curls onto the ground as he sleeps. Hikaru vigorously shakes Gnorc saliva off his arm and says "Guh... That drool... it's all slimy and smells bad! YUCK!" he wipes his arm onto the grass to remove Gnorc saliva, "That was surprisingly easy... Now then..." says Tecna, wipes sweat off her forehead, then Necrosmith asks Ignitus about the Gnorc "As disgusted as I am at this Gnorc, I have concerns about their parents... what should we do?" Ignitus grunts as he hesitates to answer about Gnorc being left all alone, then says "I might regret saying this... but we can-" "CAPTURE THE GNORC! " shouted the feminine voice, startling Ignitus, Necrosmith, and the Fal'Cies. As gunshot sound emits, the large net tangles the Gnorc, waking him and he wails while struggling to break free from the net, "WHAT?!" exclaimed Ignitus, then the woman with Light Machine Gun commands the Stagalla, saying "Kill the captured gnorc, Terminus!" Necrosmith gasps, then the Stagalla, aliased as Terminus, says "AS YOU COMMAND, MASTER. TERMINUS, SMA-!!" "FATHER! STOP!!" shouted Necrosmith, sprinting to stop Terminus's attack on Gnorc by catching his Massacre Axe, then he says "Terminus!! Please, remember your son! It's me...! Necrosmith!" Terminus grunts, then he recalls "Necro...smith... I DON'T KNOW SUCH A PERSON! STEP ASIDE, HUMA-!" "PLEASE, FATHER!! THINK OF INARA!!" shouted Necrosmith while his eyes overflow with tears. Terminus gasps as he hears Inara's name, then grunts as he loses grip on his axe, having him suffering headache, then he says "Inara...!! What am I doing...!?" "Tch, Strix! Shoot off Terminus's head!" says the woman with LMG, commanding the hidden sniper, aliased as Strix, to fire his talon rifle to incapacitate Terminus, causing his body to break apart. Necrosmith gasps deeply in fear, then screams and kneels towards Terminus, broken apart. Strix shoots sleeping dart to Necrosmith's neck by blowing the blowgun, then Necrosmith stopped screaming, then collapses. "NECROSMITH!!" Ignitus exclaims, then he growls and roars at Strix "YOU...!!!" The magistrate soldier jumps onto Ignitus, restraining and handcuffing him. Hikaru gasps, then growls and threatens the magistrate soldier while pointing his magic revolver at him, saying "Let Ignitus go, you-!!" The woman fires her LMG at Hikaru's magic revolver, causing the pistol to be launched off Hikaru's grasp, Hikaru gasps as he realizes the woman disarmed him, then he growls and roars while sprinting towards her.
The Woman roundhouse-kicked Hikaru as her act of self-defense, causes Hikaru to fall onto his body, then the woman stomps her heel onto Hikaru's head. "Never underestimate the cunning, little boy. My name is Vivian, remember this." says the woman with LMG, twisting her heel back and forth on Hikaru's head, then Hikaru grunts, muffling as his face is stuck onto the ground. "What was that? Say it one more time!" asks Vivian as she picks up Hikaru's head by pulling his hair, then he repeats his speech "Vivian... is it? Why are you doing this?!" "Nevermind what I asked you. Back to a dirt-nap you go." Vivian replied, slamming Hikaru's head onto the ground. Ignitus gasps and screams at Vivian "YOU ROTTEN WITCH! I'LL INCINERATE YOU!!" "Who are you calling a 'rotten witch'?" says the armored woman with a cannon, carrying Natasha, Aquanna, Tecna, and Shun Lee as hostages in the net. Ignitus gasps as he sees Shun Lee, Natasha, Aquanna and Tecna trapped in the Armored woman's possession, "Natasha! Aquanna! Shun Lee! Tecna!" "I'll blow your head up if you don't tell me who you're referring to." says the armored woman, pointing her cannon at Ignitus's head, then Vivian says "He referred to me, Ash. Since Terminus just went out of commission, what shall we do with the Gnorc and these children?" she asked the armored woman, aliased as Ash about the judgement for Fal'Cies and the Gnorc. Ash clicks her tongue and says "Arrest them all." Vivian chuckles with smirk and says "Then it's settled."

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 8: Freedom of Breakthrough

Meanwhile in the Magistrate dungeon hall, Hikaru, the fal'cies, and the infantlized Gnorc sit in the rusty, uncomfortable cell with four beds, "Great... we're jailed... again! And now... there's more people, and worst of all... HE'S here babbling like a literal baby!" says Hikaru, complaining about being arrested in the magistrate cells, then he groans and jumps onto the rusty bed. Ignitus palms Necrosmith's shoulder and says while encouraging him "Necrosmith, that person, Terminus, is no longer the father you recognized." "He's still in here. I know he is." says Necrosmith, clenching his fists between his thighs. "Hello... um, Gnorc. My name is Aquanna, do you have a name?" says Aquanna, introducing herself to the Gnorc and asking him for his name. The Gnorc babbles ilegibly to Aquanna, trying to communicate with her, then Aquanna replies to Gnorc understandably "I see, maybe I'll give you something to play with. Be right back." Aquanna walks towards the barred gate, then her water symbol on her cheek glows as she uses her water powers to expand the puddle from the floor, then she jumps into an expanded puddle, warping to outside the dungeon cell. The Fal'Cies except Hikaru and Necrosmith gasp from Aquanna's ability to warp outside the cell, then Ignitus asks Aquanna "Aquanna...! How did you-?" "There was a leak under the bars. The water's little dirty, but it's still fresh to walk through! I'm sorry to say this, my ability won't let you out here without alarming, but I'll come back with the keys!" answers Aquanna about escaping the cell alone, then she runs off to sneak her way grabbing the keys. As Aquanna approaches to the dungeon entrance, she encounters a huge mace residing the dungeon keys, then she snatched the key, and the mace resonated with Aquanna, corrupting her sights, "Wha-? What's happening to me? My body...! I can't... move!" exclaimed Aquanna, as she's somewhat held under control and one-handedly grasps the mace. As Aquanna sprints with the mace, the Magistrate soldier exclaim as he detected Aquanna running with the mace, then he hides and uses his walky-talky, saying "Breacher alert! She ran off with a cursed Mace! I repeat!" The alarm sirens wail, alerting the Fal'Cies and Hikaru, "Wha- What?! Is there a fire going on?!" exclaimed Hikaru while he panics, then Ignitus gasps and says "Oh, no... she's been seen! Aquanna! Hurry and unlock the-!" as Aquanna arrived with the mace, she uses the mace to destroy the barred gate, having everyone exclaim in fear and surprise. The Gnorc wails with his cheeks going red, then Ignitus asks while surprised and confused "Aquanna!? What happened to you?!" "So there's where my body's left off!" says Aquanna with the possessed voice, then she hand the mace to the crying Gnorc and shouts to him "Shut your blubbering, and get outta my body!!" The lightning sparkles from the Mace as it resonates between Aquanna and the Gnorc, the lightning's sparkle terrifies the Fal'Cies. As the lightning stopped sparkling, Aquanna fainted as she lost her grip on the mace, then Ignitus and Necrosmith catched Aquanna from the fall, "Aquanna! Hang on! Are you alright?!" exclaimed Ignitus, then the Gnorc grunts and stretches his arms, legs, and neck, then he jumped onto his feet and shouts "YES! AFTER ALL THIS TIME WITHOUT FREEDOM, I, GNASTY GNORC, HAVE FINALLY GOT MY BODY BACK!!" "WHAAAA-?! Th-th-that Gnorc...!! HE CAN TALK!!" exclaimed Hikaru while pointing his finger at the Gnorc, aliased himself as Gnasty Gnorc, while frightened from the Gnasty's speech. Gnasty Gnorc growls at Hikaru, then threatens him "You dare underestimate me, little BRAT!? I'LL-!!" as he sniffled, he smelled a foul odor from himself, then he sees himself wearing a diaper, he gasps and shrieks in anxiety, "WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO ME?! MY PRIDE!! MY KINGLINESS!! IT'S ALL RUINED!!" Gnasty Gnorc growls in fury with steam emerging from his head, he shouts in anger "That puny geezer Dredge and his blindfolded woman, Seris...! THEY'LL PAY FOR RIDICULING MY REPUTATION!!" Hikaru gasps as Gnasty Gnorc mentions the name 'Seris', then thought "Wait... Seris...? Cynder's human mother did this to him?!" Hikaru stands tall to his feet then asks Gnasty Gnorc "Lord Gnasty, is it? Where did you meet Seris? Where is she now?!" "SHUT UP, SQUIRT! Don't ask me anything that I don't know of!" shouted Gnasty Gnorc, refusing to answer Hikaru's question about Seris's whereabouts.
The army of Magistrate soldiers with guns appear, then one of the soldiers says "There they are! Still in their cell, but broken the gate! FIRE AT WILL!!" the Soldiers fire their guns at Gnasty Gnorc and the Fal'Cies, then Gnasty Gnorc roars as he swings his Mace to push away the bullets and soldiers with strong force, "MORE SMALL FRIES MAKE ME STRONGER AS I KILL THEM! OUTTA MY WAY!" said Gnasty Gnorc, then charges through the incoming magistrate squads to head into the armory vault. "Look! The coast's clear! LET'S GET OUTTA HERE, NOW!!" shouted Hikaru as he tries to run outside the dungeon cell, but Necrosmith halted Hikaru, saying "Wait! Are you really going to fight them without your weapon?!" Hikaru gasps from Necrosmith's reminder about their weapons, "I knew it. Our weapons were stolen and stached somewhere while we were imprisoned!" says Necrosmith. Ignitus clicks his tongue and tells Hikaru and Necrosmith, "Hikaru! Necrosmith! Follow the Gnorc, he might know where your weapons are stached! The rest of us will go ahead, try not to be seen and taken by the single soldier!" "Right!" said both Hikaru and Necrosmith, acknowledging Ignitus's command, then Hikaru and Necrosmith sprint, following Gnasty Gnorc's trail to the armory, and Ignitus escorts Shun Lee, Aquanna, Tecna, and Natasha to exit the stronghold. As Hikaru and Necrosmith approach the armory, Hikaru asks Necrosmith about Ignitus and the fal'cies' safety, "Hey, Smith! Is Ignitus gonna be alright all his own?" "I've known him for couple years, he can handle a dozen or two." replied Necrosmith, answering Hikaru's concern for Ignitus, then Hikaru says "Sounds about right. Look! We're closing in the door!" he exclaims when he sees the door, Necrosmith stopped in his tracks while Hikaru keeps on running. Gnasty Gnorc slams the door open, as Hikaru gets caught in the door slam, "Finally! The Gnasty Gnorc has returned once more!" says Gnasty Gnorc, boasting himself in front of Necrosmith as he wears the set of Golden Armor, then he aggressively asks Necrosmith as he became speechless "What're you staring at? Move it or lose it, little man!" Gnasty Gnorc shoves Necrosmith aside, running towards to breach out the Magistrate Stronghold. Hikaru, covered in bruises from being trapped from an opened door, groans in pain and says "Ugh... that water-using girl shouldn't have grabbed this mace and handed to her." "Hikaru! Now's not the time to complain! Here's your weapons and use them!" says Necrosmith, handing Hikaru's weapons to him and reminding him to rendezvois with Ignitus and others, then Hikaru acknowledges Necrosmith and summons a corridor to warp ahead to the Entrance hall. Meanwhile in the greenhouse, where Valdimir plants his seeds to make crystal plants, he gasps as he hears a conflict, coming from the entrance hall, then he puts his runeseeds into his pocket and sprints out the greenhouse to join the battle. While Valdimir closes in the conflict at the entrance hall, "This fight... there's no doubt, the Fal'Cies are here!" he thought optimistically.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 9: Rage of the Past

Couple minutes earlier during the fight between Ignitus and the Fal'Cies against the Magistrate troops, Natasha summons an orb of pressurized wind and Ignitus lends his flames to the wind orb, engulfing it to flames, then Natasha released the flaming wind orb at the army of Magistrate troops, then they scream in pain and fear as the flaming wind orb explodes with fire, spreading throughout the hall. "Alright, that's the last of these soldiers! Natasha, lead the way, and-!" says Ignitus, but get interrupted by Ash's warcry and placed her rally flag onto the ground, then she threatens the Fal'Cies, saying "You're not getting away that easy, prisoners!" "It's Ash... the magistrate's war machine. What should we do, Ignitus?" asks Natasha to Ignitus, then he answers "If she won't let us out... she left us no other choice. Let's break her circuits, and put her out of order! Natasha, fight with me! Shun Lee, escort both Aquanna and Tecna out of the stronghold! We'll finish things, here and now!" "Wait... I can fight too!" Aquanna objects while she coughs from the fire, then Shun Lee acknowledges Ignitus and says "Alright! We'll leave her to you, Mr. Ignitus!" then Shun Lee picks up both Aquanna and Tecna to leave the Magistrate Stronghold. Ash crouches then says "Where do you think... YOU'RE GOING?!" she roars as she charges towards Shun Lee, he gasps from Ash's fast approach, then the flames separate Ash from closing in Shun Lee, burning Ash in her track, "GNGH!! Damn you...!" Ash growls at Ignitus, then he says "You're facing two of us, alone!" "Don't forget about us!" says Hikaru, he and Necrosmith jumps out of the summoned Corridor, "Hikaru, Necrosmith! You're just in time!" exclaimed Ignitus from Hikaru and Necrosmith's well-timed appearance. Necrosmith, enraged at Ash for some reason, he aggressively sprints towards Ash, then shouts "ASH___!!!" "N-Necrosmith?! Wait!" exclaimed Hikaru from Necrosmith's furious and rash movement. Ash loads and fires her cannon at Necrosmith, he evades the incoming cannonball from Ash's cannon, then throws his sickle at Ash. Ash evades Necrosmith's chained sickle attack, then Necrosmith pulls himself towards Ash with the help of his sickle's chain, then he swings his hammer downwards at Ash, she steps back from Necrosmith's hammer attack, Necrosmith clicked his tongue in irritation, then he continues to assault Ash with his sickle and hammer attacks as Ash continues to evade Necrosmith's continuous swings of his hammer and sickle. As the battle between Ash and Necrosmith rages on, Ignitus, Necrosmith, and Hikaru gasps softly from experiencing Necrosmith's rage, "I... never had seen him this angry, ever since he and I heard about his father's death." says Ignitus. As Ash trips backwards, she drops her cannon, and she catches Necrosmith's sickle with her hands, then Necrosmith attempts to finish Ash off to charge his hammer swing to cut through her grasp. As Necrosmith prepares to slam his hammer onto his sickle and cut through Ash's grip, thus finishing her off, Hikaru gasps in concern, then runs towards Necrosmith to stop the fight, "HIKARU!" exclaimed Ignitus from Hikaru's reckless act to restrain Necrosmith. "NECROSMITH!! STOP___!!!" shouted Hikaru to Necrosmith while running towards him, as Necrosmith hears Hikaru's shout, he gasps as he hesitated from slamming his hammer on his sickle, then he imagines Ash as his own mother, Inara, his breathing stutters heavily while his eyes overflow with and leak out tears onto Ash's cheek. Ash gasps in confusion from Necrosmith's sudden hesitation, then she asks Necrosmith "What are you waiting for...? Finish me off! I'm prepared to-!" "I... I can't... I'll end up becoming a murderer... or worse." says Necrosmith, then he silently sobs as he drops both his sickle and his hammer, Hikaru stopped running, then gasps with empathy from Necrosmith's emotional breakdown. Ignitus and Natasha sighs lightly from Necrosmith's emotional moment, then they gasp as they sense the ground tumbling as something or someone big sprints closer to the exit, "OUTTA MY WAY_____!!!" shouted Gnasty Gnorc, charging towards the entrance, both Natasha and Ignitus sidestepped away from Gnasty Gnorc's charge, then Hikaru exclaims and shouts to Necrosmith, "SMITH, RUN!!!" he dives and grabs Necrosmith away from Gnasty Gnorc's charge projectile, then Gnasty sprints through the gate of fire, dispersing it with wind from his speed.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 10: A Brand New Beginning

As Gnasty Gnorc continues running, he shouts out "YES! I'M FREE!! TOTALLY FREE!!!" Shun Lee, Tecna and Aquanna gasps as they sidestepped aside from Gnasty Gnorc, running away from the Stronghold, then Shun Lee says "Was that..." "...a Gnorc?" continued Tecna after Shun Lee. Aquanna gasps as she sees smoke from the Magistrate Stronghold entrance, "The stronghold's on fire... and the others are still in here! We have to hurry back!" says Aquanna, then Shun Lee complains "What?! We went through all this hell, getting outta this place!?" "JUST COME ON AND LET'S HELP THEM!!" shouted Aquanna to Shun Lee, then both Shun Lee and Tecna follow Aquanna and they sprint towards the entrance to rescue Hikaru, Necrosmith, Ignitus, and Natasha. "FREEZE, breachers! You've just committed a crime that costs your entire life!" says the magistrate soldier, pointing guns at the Fal'Cies with their army, then Ignitus and Natasha gasp from the backup soldiers' appearance, Ignitus exclaims "There's still more...?!" "I'm afraid the worst is about to happen." says Natasha, warning Ignitus about their worsening situation. The soldiers make path for Vivian with her SMG as she walks through, one of the soldiers asks Vivian "Lieutenant Vivian! These breachers are surrounded! Shall we blow their heads off, or-?!" "Hold your fire soldiers, I'll talk them out, myself." says Vivian, halting the soldiers from firing their guns at the Fal'Cies, then grasps Ignitus's chin and asks him "You have plenty ways of saying your last words, pretty-boy. What is your best act?" "Go to hell... demon in a woman's body." says Ignitus, then spits at her face afterwards. As Vivian get her face spit from Ignitus, she stays still, then she says "A hypocrite's choice." Ignitus grunts while Vivian's fingers squeezes his cheecks while being grasped by the chin, then Vivian slaps Ignitus to the side of his face, then she walks back to the army of soldiers, raising her hand as a signal for the soldiers to ready and aim at Ignitus and Natasha. Shun Lee, Tecna, and Aquanna gasp altogether in fear, as they fear they were too late to save Ignitus and Natasha. "Fire." says Vivian, commanding the soldiers to fire their guns, as the soldiers' fingers pull each gun's trigger, the vines with runic patterns grab and dissect guns from each soldier's hands, causing panic to the Soldiers, then Vivian exclaims "Those plants...!" she turns her head behind her, then she gasps as she sees Valdimir, holding his runeseeds in his hand, "Valdimir...!? What is the meaning of this?!" asked Vivian while outraged from Valdimir's betrayal act. "Vivian... I'm sorry for not telling you the truth all this time, after this incident that claimed my previous life, I was reborn..." says Valdimir, telling Vivian his true nature, then he pulls his sleeve, and shows his Life element Mark on his arm, then Valdimir finishes his sentence. "...as a Fal'Cie." Vivian gasps in outrage, then her breathing stutters in anger, "Valdimir... you betrayed us...! You're nothing more than the rest of the futile resistance!!" Vivian roars as she sprints and fires her LMG at Valdimir. All shots from Vivian's LMG at Valdimir miss, then he says "Forgive me... Vivian..." Valdimir stopped speaking, and punched Vivian to her stomach, causing Vivian to collapse unconscious onto the ground, then Valdimir continues his speech "...but I must do what my soul has told me to do." "H-he knocked Lieutenant Vivian down! RETREAT! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!" shouted the soldier while panicking, then the soldiers scream and run in fear. "Finally... we're all together, Ignitus." says Valdimir, lending his hand to Ignitus, downed and injured, then he grunts while standing to his feet and says "Valdimir... thank you." Hikaru gasps happily as he sees Valdimir shaking hands with Ignitus, then Shun Lee, Aquanna and Tecna run towards the Fal'Cie crew "GUYS! What happened there?!" shouted Shun Lee, asking the Fal'Cies about the previous events, "Shun Lee... Everyone... we finally did it. Now we can revert to our original forms... once and for all." says Ignitus, smiling with his tear in his eye.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 11: Grave Mistake

Meanwhile in a charred Entrance Hall in the Magistrate Stronghold, the Fal'Cies rejoice after finding and recruiting their last Fal'Cie; Valdimir, the Fal'Cie of Life, Hikaru stopped rejoicing and asked Ignitus "Wait, what'll we do now to get our original forms back?" "Hikaru... send us to the place where we all must be gathered... the Sanctum of Skies and Lands." says Ignitus, telling Hikaru the name of the place, then Hikaru nodded and points his Magic Revolver to summon a corridor, then the Corridor emerges in front of Hikaru. "It's open. Let's go, guys." says Hikaru, then all the Fal'Cies walk towards the corridor. As they walked through the corridor, they see a stand where all the eleven summonites were once stored, and the Skylords' statues face the center. The Fal'Cies gather on the Void Symbol, then Ignitus pleads "We've finally gathered altogether. Now bring our previous forms and lives back!" The silence occurs after Ignitus's plead, then he exclaims and asks "What just happened? Why can't it hear my call?!" "You were deceived, 'Fal'Cie'." the mysterious boyish voice emerged, causing the gathered Fal'Cies to exclaim in surprise, then the Corridor behind the gathered Fal'Cies opened, and the mysterious long-haired schoolboy, Fang, emerged from the corridor as it closed after his appearance. Ignitus gasps then suspiciously asks Fang, "Who are you, young man?!" then Fang pulls off his outfit, revealing himself as a woman in a tribal outfit, then the Fal'Cies gasps from Fang's reveal, "A woman?!" exclaimed Ignitus, then Fang introduces herself to Fal'Cies and telling them the truth, "My name is Oerba Yeun Fang. I'm a 'Fal'Cie' of Dark, but in reality, including all of you, we are far more inferior than the Fal'Cie." "What do you mean about that?!" shouted Ignitus, then Fang continues telling them the truth while pointing her finger at the Fal'Cies, "What I meant is you're all transformed into a L'Cie, just like the two of us." Hikaru gasps in deep delirium from Fang's speech, then he recalls "L'Cie...?!" "That's right. A L'Cie: A victim who decides to crystallize by finishing the focus given by the Fal'Cie, or become a mindless monster; A Cie'th." says Fang, telling the L'Cie gang, formerly aliased as Transplant Fal'Cie, their fates as a L'Cie.
Ignitus grunts and says "But... he promised me...! HE PROMISED WE'D TURN BACK TO NORMAL ONCE WE GROUPED UP IN THIS SANCTUM!!" "Then tell me his name. Who's 'he' you're preferring to? Who turned you into a L'Cie, and told you to gather all these L'Cie around?" asked Fang to Ignitus, he gasps and goes silent as he tries to think of who turned him from Dragon to a Humanoid L'Cie, but he can't see his face, then he palms his forehead in shame and says "I... couldn't see his face... he's remained in a cloak." "That's exactly the point! He hid his own face so we can't know who he is nor what he looks like! If he just did it just to keep you alive, then THINK AGAIN!" shouted Fang while she armed herself with a Bladed Lance and pointing it towards Ignitus, Hikaru and others. Ignitus growls and prepares to attack Fang, but Hikaru halts Ignitus and says "Wait, Ignitus! I'll talk her outta this fight." Hikaru walks towards Fang and then asks her "Then if 'gathering the Fal'Cies to bring our previous lives back' was a mistake, what should we have done instead?" Fang lowers her bladed Lance and answers his question "It may be an impossible task, but find all eleven summonites and place them in a stand where these rest in, then hopefully, they'll make a miracle to revert you back to your original forms. The rarest of all the summonites, the summonite of Bahamut is nowhere in this realm, but it rests deep inside a connection between the beings of the sky and a land." Hikaru, Ignitus and others gasp from Fang's speech, "So we gathered all these people... for nothing?" asked Shun Lee, then Fang answers "I'm afraid so, kiddo. But for now, most you have to protect this sanctum from any incoming enemies, no matter how weak or strong they are, or the miracles won't happen when it's destroyed." Hikaru gasps from Fang's reply to Shun Lee, then he says "Wait, we're not... finished? What about-" "Hikaru, don't worry. Some of us may not defend a shrine." says Ignitus, comforting Hikaru, then he tells his fellow L'Cie partners besides Fang "Everyone, you're going to defend the shrine from any harm, or we'll never turn back to our original selves! As for me and Hikaru, we're going to regroup with his partners. Consider this as your longest and the most important mission of your lives." All the L'Cie besides Hikaru and Fang nod, then they position themselves outside the shrine to defend it. "Ignitus... good luck, and take care for your brother." says Necrosmith, faring Ignitus well, then Ignitus replies "Thanks, I needed that." then Ignitus tells Hikaru his resolve "I'm ready, lead the way." "Right." said Hikaru as he acknowledged to Ignitus's resolve, then he points his magic pistol and opens the Corridor, "I'm coming back, guys." thought Hikaru, then he and Ignitus both walk through the corridor, they vanish alongside the corridor.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 12: Beastmaker's Marsh

Meanwhile at the far west of the Horizon Cross Kingdom, the Horizoneers and Skylanders reach into the forest full of swamps and beasts. As Evie sniffs in the air, she gasps awake, covers her nose, and says "Eugh, this place reeks like some sort of a dumpster! What is this place?!" "Welcome to the Beastmaker's Marsh, adventurers." says the village headmaster, walking in front of the band of Horizoneers and Skylanders in Superchargers and Equestricycles. Katsushi asks the village headmaster for directions to the Ska'Drin Ocean, "Are you the headmaster here? If so, can you tell where the Ska'Drin Ocean is? We're here to finish off the threat, known as the Elementary VIII, and we're in a hurry." the Village Headmaster hums with his hand palming his chin, then he answers Katsushi "If you want the directions to the Ska'Drin Ocean, I would like to declare a bargain for you: My villagers have suffered casualties, and our trained fenders are reduced to almost nothing. And these casualties are from the monstrous beings of the dark realm, who seek to eat souls of the weak and strong alike." "The Heartless, we called them as either Tamajin for the emblem variant, and the Ketsujin for the pureblood. Is that right, headmaster?" says Katsushi, then the headmaster nods and says "Ah, yes, the Heartless. They're the most aggressive and frightening bunch." "Then it's settled, we'll protect your villagers until all these threats are wiped out." declared Katsushi to Villager, devoting herself, the Horizoneers and the Skylanders to protect the villagers of the Beastmaker's Village, then the headmaster says "Thank you, young ones. I'm in your debt, I'm afraid paying you money is out of question, what else can I repay you?" "Don't worry about the money, all we need's the directions, and that'll do." says Katsushi, then she tells Horizoneers and Skylanders "Everyone, let's call this stop till we cleaned off the heartless from wrecking their Village, is that clear?" "Yes Ma'am!" everyone besides Katsushi acknowledges with salution to her, then they dismount themselves from Equestricycles and Superchargers to keep the village unharmed from the Heartless. As Felicia Claus walks alongside Shinji, Mibuki and Jet Vac, the headmaster speaks to Felicia, saying "Felicia, my granddaughter... you've grown much taller and stronger in a short time." "Grandfather... Ahmed?" exclaimed Felicia as she stopped walking along others, then the Headmaster, known as Ahmed firmly embraces Felicia and he whispers heartfully "It's been too much of a while... without seeing you, my granddaughter." Felicia gasps lightly as her eyes begin to leak out tears. "Felicia? You coming?" shouted Shinji from afar, then Felicia gasps and politely asks Ahmed "Grandfather... let me go, I'll set up a tent for ourselves." Ahmed slowly undoes his embrace on Felicia as he heard her request, then Felicia walks towards Shinji and others.
Meanwhile somewhere in the Beastmaker's Marsh, Hikaru and Ignitus wanders around in a place surrounded by muck, "It smells as bad as it looks... Hikaru, are you certain they're in a rotten place like this?" asked Ignitus as he holds his nose from the Bog's strong odor, then Hikaru says while he also holds his nose "Yeah, I'm sure they're here somewhere! I dunno why, so don't ask!" as his foot steps onto something lumpy and fragile he steps onto a passive life-type Tamajin, 'Creepworm', it decays with its soul rising after its abdomen being crushed by Hikaru's foot, he exclaims as he trips and lands his face onto the wet part of the ground, then Ignitus exclaims and says "Was that... a Tamajin? For a horrifying creature like this, this one didn't attack and just dies by just being stepped on... Why?" Hikaru plucks his face off the muddy ground, spits and coughs off mud, then asks "What Tamajin? Where?" The loud buzzing sound emits, alerting Ignitus and Hikaru, then they look up in the sky and see a swarm of Air-type tamajin, 'Rapid Thrusters' commence aerial assault. "So that's why it sacrificed itself, just to surround us with backup." says Ignitus, then Hikaru stands to his feet and says "If that's making harder on us, then that's totally the opposite!" he points his magic revolver at the swarm of Rapid Thrusters. Ignitus gasps and asks Hikaru his intentions "Hikaru! Using pistol alone won't kill all of them! What are you doing?!" Hikaru chuckles and says to Ignitus "Stand back, Ignitus. I'm about to perform something explosive!" "What do you mean by-?" asked Ignitus then stopped with a gasp and fearfully says while Hikaru pulls and holds the flint trigger to gather fire energy " Wait...! You don't mean...!!" "That's right! ZETAFLARE!!" Hikaru shouts as he simultaneously releases the flint trigger to cast Zetaflare: A high-end fire magic used to eliminate surrounding enemies with a massive explosion, but can gravely damage its user once casted.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 13: Skylanders and Horizoneers Re-Unite!

Several minutes before the Zettaflare explosion, Shinji, Mibuki, the Skylanders and Horizoneers except Hatsuya and Yoshiro exclaim from Felicia's relationship with Ahmed as her grandfather, "HE'S... YOUR GRAND-WHAT?!" everyone shouted while surprised, then Mibuki, also surprised, asks Felicia "Why didn't you tell us before?" Felicia sighs to take time before telling everyone her childhood story, then she says "To be honest with you all, when I was a kindergartner, my mother, the headmaster's daughter mentioned and shown me what he used to look like in this picture of herself and him, then I-" "MY SKYLANDER FRIENDS! I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU EVERYWHERE!!" happily shouted the glasses-wearing rodent, hugging both Spyro and Stealth Elf. "HUGO?!" the Skylanders exclaimed from the rodent, aliased as Hugo, appears between Spyro and Stealth Elf, "You guys know Hugo?" asked Kazama while curious, then Stealth Elf explains Kazama about Hugo "He's not as strong as we are, but he's also our instructor besides Master Eon!" "Oh, he's pretty special." says Kazama, complimenting Hugo's specialty. Meanwhile outside the tent where Skylanders and Horizoneers rest and communicate each other, Yoshiro and Hatsuya stand outside, then Hatsuya asks Yoshiro "When we defeat the Elementary VIII and their Doom Raiders altogether, what should we do with the Skylanders?" "Who knows? And what about us? Are we going to be keep on slaying the heartless for the rest of our lives?" says Yoshiro, asking Hatsuya about their future as horizoneers, then Hatsuya sighs and says while changing the subject "As an eldest sister to Hikaru, I wonder how he feels when I get to tell him how I feel. You would relate to that when it comes to telling your younger sister how you feel." Yoshiro grunts while clenching his fist firmly, then he says while emotionally frustrated "My sister's already dead. What makes you think she would've survive?!" Hanami pops out the tent and asks "Are you two alright staying outside like this? You're welcome in the tent anytime-" the loud, massive explosion emerges from afar, causing the ground to shake, Hanami exclaims as she loses balance and Hatsuya catches her from falling, the Skylanders and Horizoneers exclaim and fall onto their backs from the shaken ground, Hugo shrieks in freight and says "OH NO! THE MONSTERS ARE BACK AT IT, AGAIN! RUN, RUN, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, VILLAGERS!" "Wait, Hugo! The explosion's somewhere else." says Kazama, calming Hugo with his hand raised. Spyro gasps for air from being trapped under fallen horizoneers and Skylanders, then says "Who's bright idea... is this... to suffocate ME?! WAS IT YOU, ERUPTOR?!" Eruptor groans awake then he exclaims from Spyro's accusation "Hey, hey! Don't play blame-games on me! The earthquake over there got us all worked up!" Eruptor points his fingerless hand facing the tent entrance, "That's more of an explosion than an earthquake." says Jet Vac, then Hanami gasps as she felt Hikaru's presence spiked up to her veins, then whispers "It's Hikaru...! Guys, that explosion was Hikaru, he's here!" she shouts to Skylanders and Horizoneers, then Spyro gasps from Hanami's explanation, then flies ahead to Hikaru's location where the smoke from an explosion rises. Hanami stands up and follows Spyro while sprinting, then Yoshiro exclaims "Wait, Hanami! Where are you-?!" "Hikaru returned. Yoshiro, let's go!" says Hatsuya, sprinting to follow Hanami's footsteps.
During Spyro's flight to find Hikaru, he encounters hundreds of shining souls floating upwards, then he inspect the souls flying upwards "These souls... are they from the tamajin?" Spyro thought, then he gasps as he sees each shining soul fade into a dark flames, then he says while stunned in fear "Where did... where did they go?" "Spyro! Hikaru's hurt!" shouted Hanami while holding Hikaru, fallen unconscious from the heavy recoil upon casting the Zettaflare spell, then Spyro exclaims "Right, I'll be there!" he descends towards Hanami. Ignitus walk towards both Spyro and Hanami, and asks him "Is that really you... Spyro?" Spyro gasps from Ignitus's speech, then Hanami gasps and asks Ignitus "Are you... Ignitus?" "Yeah... you're Hanami Mikisa, right?" asked Ignitus back to Hanami, then she nodded. Sparx flies from behind Spyro's head and sprinkles his life force to heal Hikaru. Hikaru coughs out smoke, gasps for respiration and says "Nice timing, Spyro! I would've been gone if it weren't for your dragonfly!" Sparx pants heavily as his glowing color turned from gold to blue, "Get some rest, Sparx! You've earned it." says Spyro, commending Sparx from healing Hikaru with his life force. Sparx grins at Spyro, then Ignitus looks at Sparx, flabbergasted as he asks Spyro about Sparx "Spyro... before I tell you everything about myself... how did a dragonfly- I mean, Sparx, bring Hikaru back to life?" Spyro hesitates to answer Ignitus's question, but Hikaru answers Ignitus's question in Spyro's stead "Seriously, Ignitus? Sparx just gave away his own life force to-!" "Hikaru... let him talk." says Hanami, asking Hikaru to let Spyro talk, due to Hikaru's details however, Ignitus nods sideways and says "It's alright, Hanami." "Ignitus... since we're all gathered... I want you to tell everything about yourself, not just to me... but to all of us." says Spyro, demanding Ignitus to tell everything to the Skylanders and Horizoneers, then Ignitus acknowledges Spyro's demand and says "Alright. Without regrets or doubts, I'll do it." Hatsuya and Yoshiro catches up to Hanami and Spyro, she gasped lightly when she sees Hikaru, then she palms Hikaru's shoulder and says "Hikaru... I'm so glad you're alive." Hikaru exclaims then awkwardly asks "Wha-...? Hatsuya... do you mind telling me what you're-" "I'll tell you everything that's happened to me, as your elder sister." says Hatsuya, devoting herself to explain all about her past to everyone, then Ignitus exclaims and says "You too, huh? You said you're Hikaru's elder sister. That's quite a coincidence, since I'm Spyro's elder brother. My name is Ignitus, pleasure to meet you." "I'm Hatsuya Daichi, don't forget it." says Hatsuya, introducing herself to Ignitus and shaking hands with him, then Hikaru and Spyro both gasp in utter surprise from the handshake between Hatsuya and Ignitus.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 14: Brightest Light VS. Darkest Shadow

Several Minutes after arriving to the Tent in the Village, the Skylanders and Horizoneers exclaim and cheer for Hikaru's return, "Hikaru! Welcome back!" says Pop Fizz, blowing his party horn and using party poppers on Hikaru's hair, then Hikaru exclaims from Pop Fizz's party-going behavior "Hey, hey, hey, what's with the party? Did you bring pizza slices?" "No, Hikaru! Forget what Pop Fizz says and thinks, first of all, I want you to meet Hugo! Hugo, this is Hikaru Daichi from deep below the skylands!" says Stealth Elf, introducing Hugo to Hikaru and other way around. "Oh... a four-eyed mole named Hugo? Nice to meet you!" says Hikaru, greeted Hugo while he unconsciously mocked him by the appearance, the Skylanders and Hugo gasp from Hikaru's offensive speech. Hugo whimpers with his eyes leaking with tears, then he sobs onto Sakuyu's leg, Hikaru exclaims from Hugo's state of crying "Wha-? Was there something I said?" "You just said TWO bad words." says Stealth Elf while thumping her foot onto the ground, then Eruptor closes in on Hikaru while enraged, then says "Who raised you, Mr. Nice Guy?" "Hey, cool down a bit, hot-head!" says Hikaru to Eruptor while walking backwards from Eruptor, then Jet Vac threatens Hikaru "You need to take back those words what you said to Hugo, right now!" "Or else we'll make your life worse than we did to Spyro!" added Pop Fizz, threatening Hikaru, then Katsushi pops off blindfolded with each cucumber slice, threatens everyone who make verbal noise "You guys better shut up, or take it outside, because I can do either way on you with my own fists!" Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Hikaru, Pop Fizz, and Jet Vac shudder in fear from Katsushi's legit anger, then everyone says "Understood. We'll take it outside for you, boss." Everyone except Katsushi leaves the tent to communicate outside, and Katsushi says "Good, now make it quiet for others too, got it?" "Yes!" says everyone who left the tent. "Y'know... maybe I just fed him more than he can chew on, so Hugo... I'm sorry for calling you bad names." says Hikaru, apologizing to Hugo out of blues, Hugo, saddened from being insulted, sniffles with his stuffed nose and asks "You really... mean it?" "Yeah, I really did regret what I just said, so... truce?" Hikaru opens his hand for Hugo, then he wipes his eyes while lifting his glasses, then he grunts and slaps Hikaru's hand downwards and says "Yeah... truce! Thank you, Hikaru!" "Wow... I've seen him doing heroic decisions in action... but I never expect him to admit his faults so fast." says Jet Vac, commendably commenting Hikaru's drastic measures on his manners, then Stealth Elf sighs happily and says "I'm starting to think... his mind's growing faster than I thought!" "Whoa-hoa, now that's what you don't experience everyday!" says Eruptor, grinning at Hikaru.
Hikaru exclaims as he realizes he forgot to let Ignitus and Hatsuya explain their pasts, "Oh, I almost forgot! Ignitus, Hatsuya! You've got explaining to do there!" "You don't think I'd remember that?" says Hatsuya, then Ignitus also says "Spot on, Hikaru, I'd fear I forgot what I was about to say. Thanks for the reminder." "No prob, now then! Explain yourselves to us!" says Hikaru, demanding Ignitus and Hatsuya explain their past. One hour later, after both has told their pasts about themselves, Spyro gasps as he learned from Ignitus's past, he should've put blame on both Eve and Adam instead of Master Eon, saying "So it wasn't Master's fault after all... It was those Shift-Shaping fiends who took our- no... the Skylanders' home!" "Spyro, isn't the Skylands your home too? We're friends, remember?" asked Stealth Elf to Spyro, reminding him as her friendship between him and skylanders, then Spyro nods sideways and says "Of course we're friends... but still... like Mastser Eon said, I wasn't ready at the start. Maybe I should've joined my family instead of being abandoned here." "Spyro, don't give us that! You're more than just a Skylander, you've proven him you're more than just a cadet! You're a dragon, so become a dragon, and show them no mercy! Back then, I told you you were jealous of me, but in reality... I ENVY you!" says Eruptor, encouraging Spyro to move on, then Jet Vac adds his encouragement, "Remember our Master's lessons back then!" "No matter how hard things get, you must never give up and show your pride is more than just for show!" says Pop Fizz, adding his encouragement to Spyro, then Crash Bandicoot adds "Spyro, you should know you have my approval, and I'm always letting you keep it!" "Skylander or not, a dragon with a brightest heart can outmatch a darkest, deepest despair you'll ever imagine!" says Cynder, adding her encouragement to Spyro, "Spyro... at first I thought of you as a frail little brat, but now... you just surpassed me!" says Hikaru, encouraging Spyro, then Spyro gasps lightly as his eyes begin to leak with tears and says "You guys...! I... I don't know what I'd ever do without you all! Thank you... so-" the colors from his irises and his body began to change as his body glows with blinding light, then Stealth Elf exclaims "Spyro?! Your body... it's...!" "Pest of the light realm...! BE EXTINGUISHED!" shouted the feminine humanoid Tamajin, Cloud of Darkness, appeared behind Spyro. Hikaru gasps and warns Spyro aloud "SPYRO, BEHIND YOU!" Spyro gags as his throat is being grappled by the Cloud of Darkness, as she drain Spyro's glowing light, reverting his body to normal. Stealth Elf gasps in fear, then growls with dark fury, becoming Dark Stealth Elf and assaults Cloud of Darkness and says "YOU WITCH! I'M GONNA KILL-!" "That's right! Show me your hate! Your rage! Your Darkness!" says Cloud of Darkness, then she grabs Dark Stealth Elf's neck, sucking the darkness from her as she slowly reverts to her default state while losing consciousness "Elf! NO!" exclaimed Hikaru. Eruptor growls and roars as the lava spews through his head and shoulders, then threatens Cloud of Darkness and says "NOBODY MESSES WITH MY FRIENDS!!" he roars as he heaves lava at the Cloud of Darkness. As the Cloud of Darkness became covered in Eruptor's lava, she screams while her voice distorts, dropping both Stealth Elf and Spyro away from the Cloud of Darkness, "That did it! Take that, you pervy hag!" taunted Eruptor, then he exclaims as the Cloud of Darkness's body grows bigger and blackens further, then Eruptor exclaims "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Is it me or is that hag growing larger than ever!?" "That 'hag' was a decoy... and it's showing its true colors! Cynder, Haruka, evacuate Spyro and Elf!" shouted Hatsuya, commanding Cynder to pick up Spyro, and Haruka to pick up Stealth Elf. "Oh no... the Village!" exclaimed Hanami, fearing for the Village's danger as the Cloud of Darkness's decoy slowly becomes a colossal, humanoid Ketsujin; The Darkside, spawning in the middle of the village.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Chapter 15: Falling, Falling Into The Darkness

As the colossal humanoid Ketsujin, the Darkside wreaks havoc around the village in the Beastmaker's Marsh, Hikaru growls and warcries to slice the Darkside's ankles with his chakram, he exclaims in doubt as the wounds from the Darkside's ankles recover in a couple of heartbeats, "Son of a...! These scratches didn't last a second!" "Hikaru...! RUN!!!" shouted Ignitus, warning Hikaru to evade the Darkside's incoming attack with plenty of dark energy gathered in its attacking hand. Hikaru gasps and gets caught in the Darkside's energy slam attack. Hanami, the Horizoneers and Skylanders gasp in grief from Hikaru's perishment by the Darkside's attack, then Hanami shrieks aloud "NO___!!!" Spyro grunts as he slowly recovers from the loss of the energy of light, "Hik...karu...!" he mumbled while weakened. Meanwhile where Hikaru drifts deep into darkness, he says "Spyro... guys... I'm... sorry." "Hey, Hicarus! You can't die yet, YOU PROMISED TO LIVE ON, REMEMBER?!" says the familiar middle-aged man's voice, calling out to bring Hikaru back to life, Hikaru gasps in slight surprise and confusion as he sees Suzhu Jiangshin, Hikaru's biological father, closing in him, then Suzhu tells Hikaru "Hicarus, my treasured son... listen. It might be the very last time we'll ever meet each other, I forgot to tell you the most important thing that came to my mind. It's about-" "The Crossblade of Exius... Chrost Exius gave me that weapon." says Hikaru with weakened voice. Suzhu gasps from Hikaru's silent, but clear speech, then he understandably grins and says "That's exactly what I was about to tell you. But listen to me, Hicarus, it might be my very first and last lesson to teach you, as your father: Close both your eyes and heart, and let your inner monster flow through your body! Now, ascend, Hicarus the Gunglaive!" Suzhu throws Hikaru upwards, and the chains envelope around Hikaru's limbs pull him upwards, as for Suzhu's descending disappearance, he says with his eyes closing slowly with tears dropping upwards "I beg you... to keep my son unscathed... for both of us, Chrost Exius." he slowly disappears into the darkness's depths along his echoes. Meanwhile during Hikaru's absence of existence, Hanami kneels while speechless with her eyes overflowing with tears, Felicia's gasps stutter, and thought "Hikaru... you can't die on us...! NOT AGAIN!" she shouted with anger as her fingernails lengthen and harden, Felicia screams vengefully while aggressively sprinting towards the Darkside with her fingernail claws, Hatsuya gasps and verbally warns Felicia "Felicia, DON'T!" Felicia leaps towards the Darkside's tangled head, then she swiftly and ferociously swipes her fingernail claws to continuously scratch the Darkside's face, causing it to flinch from damage, then the Darkside swats airborne Felicia downwards, injuring and incapacitating her. "FELICIA!" exclaimed Suzukiyama, sprinting towards and picking up downed Felicia with his prosthetic arms. Suzukiyama gasps as he realizes he's in Darkside's range of the dark energy slam, then he leapt backwards from the Darkside to evade its slam. As Darkside's dark energy sphere explodes downwards onto the ground, a dozen of Darkside's miniature Ketsujin variants, the Shadows emerge from the ground covered in darkness. "More of them!?" exclaimed Yoshiro as he grunts irritably and draws his Moonlord's Sayakatana, slaying one to two shadows per swing, the Shadows continue spawn from the darkness covered-area, then Yoshiro grunts as he spun his body one time to slash through the surrounding Shadows, but they still continue to spawn. "Yoshiro! It's no use! We must focus on taking the Ketsujin down!" shouted Hatsuya while she crouches and palms on Hanami's shoulder, then Hatsuya says to Hanami "Hanami, please get a hold of yourself! We'll avenge Hikaru together, I-" "No... he's still alive." silently says Hanami, then Hatsuya exclaims "Hanami?!" "HIKARU ISN'T DEAD YET...! HE'S DEFINITELY STILL AROUND HERE!!" shouted Hanami as she explodes with blinding light emerging from her symbol on her forehead, Hatsuya gasps as she experiences Hanami's raging resolve to rescue Hikaru, "Hanami lost her mind... she became berserk!" Hatsuya thought.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 5, Epilogue: Taming the Untamed

As the Darkside prepares to perform its next attack, the grenade exploded behind Darkside, flinching from an explosive force, cancelling the attack performance. "I don't know nor care where'd you come from nor whoever invited you... you mess with us, your time'll come!" says Katsushi, pointing her nade launcher with smoke emerging from the barrel. As Darkside walks towards Katsushi with its arm pointing towards her, Hanami, overflowing with light energy, blinked behind Darkside and cuts off the Darkside's arm with her Jigsaw Staff, transformed into a sharp double-edged scythe. Katsushi gasps as she sees Hanami, angered with the symbol on her forehead exposed, "Hana?!" she exclaimed, then the Darkside's arm falls onto the ground and slowly vaporizes afterwards, emitting a dark mist. As the Darkside's arm decayed, Hanami transforms her Jigsaw Staff from scythe to a Battle-axe, then she growls as she dashed towards Darkside in damaged state, she lands on and relentlessly cleaves on top of Darkside's head, screaming verbally "DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE-!" she continues repeating herself while cleaving on Darkside's head, then Katsushi gasps in deep fear from Hanami's berserk state, "Hanami...! What's going on with you...?! What are you trying to accomplish?!" she murmured in fear while her eyes glitter and leak with tears. Hatsuya grunts while clenching her face in guilt, then leaps up and shouts at Hanami with her arm reaching Hanami "STOP______!!!" Hanami gasped and stopped cleaving downwards from hearing Hatsuya's cry. Hanami envisions her father; Mamoru Mikisa, from the flashbacks, then the Darkside one-handedly grapples Hanami, squeezing her body as she screams in agony. Hatsuya and Katsushi gasp in fear from Hanami being grabbed and crushed by Darkside. Hatsuya also became grappled, and becoming crushed by the Darkside's other hand, quickly healed after Hanami's scythe strike. Hanami and Hatsuya grunt in suffocation as their life forces are being sucked into Darkside's grasps "Hatsuya! Hanami!" exclaimed Yoshiro, cried out to Hanami and Hatsuya. Yoshiro gasps as he felt something fast passed by, then swiftly turned his head and murmurs "What was-?!" The wind whirs aloud, Yoshiro grunts as he becomes pushed by the strong winds, then he gasps as he sees Spyro, levitating in whirlwind in front of the Darkside with Hatsuya and Hanami as its hostages "LET MY FRIENDS GO!!" shouted Spyro, summoning winds that cut through Darkside's wrists, freeing Hanami and Hatsuya from Darkside's grasps. Spyro flies out of the whirlwind and catches Hanami from the fall, "SPYRO!" happily exclaimed Eruptor, then Spyro lends fainted Hanami to Katsushi "Gladiette, keep her safe, please." says Spyro, then Katsushi gasps and acknowledges Spyro with her nod. "Spyro, these strong winds... were they from you?!" says Jet Vac as he closed in and asked Spyro about the air pressure.
Eruptor joins and commends Spyro about the skill "That was AWESOME! You just cut off the heartless's hands like they're wieners!" "Compliment me later! This one's still up for a fight, and we gotta- Where did Hikaru go?" says Spyro, reminding Eruptor and Jet Vac to not waste time, but suddenly asked them Hikaru's whereabouts. Jet Vac and Eruptor grunt and became speechless and ashamed, then Spyro gasps in fear and says "No... he can't be... Hikaru can't-!" The tear opens with chains nearby the Darkside, alerting everybody from its appearance, then Hikaru emerges from the opened tear with the help of the chains, "Hikaru...! YOU'RE ALIVE!!" happily exclaimed Jet Vac, then Spyro, Eruptor and everyone else gasp happily from Hikaru's return. "So that's why I didn't see you around there!" says Katsushi, happy to see Hikaru returned to the living realm, then Hikaru stretches his arm and summons the Crossblade of Exius, pointing it at the Darkside. The Darkside begins to assault on Hikaru by gathering dark energy inside the heart-shaped gap in its chest, preparing to shoot dark projectiles at Hikaru, then he blinks and slashes off all the Darkside's limbs with his Crossblade in a heartbeat, stopping Darkside's projectile attack and crippling it for a short while. Hikaru hops inside the heart-shaped gap from Darkside's chest, then he points and opens his palm, "So that's where you're at." unconsciously said Hikaru, then he slowly yanks out a hand from the Darkside's gapped chest. The Darkside roars in agony as Hikaru progressively pulls out a blond, mid-aged woman, entirely nude, but covered with tribal cheek paintings and body scars, known to be as the huntswoman. After the huntswoman's emergence from the Darkside, the Darkside decays into a shadowy mist, Horizoneers and Skylanders gasp from Hikaru's mysterious but heroic action to pull out a huntswoman's body from the Darkside. "Is that... a woman?" says Haruka while stunned by looking at the huntswoman, laying unconscious onto Hikaru's embrace, then Hikaru gasps aloud as he reawakened his usual personality, "Guys...? What happened-?" asked Hikaru, then he silenced when he sees the huntswoman, entirely nude and lounging unconscious. Hikaru yelped and says while extremely embarrassed "A naked woman...?! SLEEPING ON ME?!" "Hey, I recognize that lady!" says Evie, walking towards Hikaru and the nude huntswoman, then she aliases the huntswoman and says "It's Tyra! The Tyra who hunted down a gorlock, ALONE!" "WHA-?! THAT'S THE UNTAMED TYRA?!?!" Sakuyu, Mibuki, Shinji, Kentaro, Haruka, and Felicia exclaimed aloud from Evie's comfirmation of the huntswoman, Tyra the Untamed.

To Be Continued

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 6, Prologue: Itsy Bitsy Bestial Spider

"Gngh... shut up... just let me rest in peace, already." murmured Tyra while asleep, she groans awake, then she gasps, stands onto her feet and exclaims "Where did the scale-wearing bastards go?! What did they-?!" "Tyra! It's alright, now! It's gone." says Felicia, calming down Tyra, then Spyro exclaims while he asks Felicia "F-Felicia?! You knew that lady before?" "I've only heard of her as an urban legend from my mother, but the legend's finally over." says Felicia, telling Spyro about knowing Tyra, then she introduces herself to Tyra "My name is Felicia Claus. I've heard you were missing for all this time until now. Do you remember what date it was when you confronted and were abducted by the scale-wearers?" "Fifth day of February, 383 years after this Realm's birth." says Tyra, telling Felicia the time they last fought two of the 'scale-wearers' then Felicia tells Tyra the today's date and how long she was transformed into a Heartless after hearing Tyra's reply "I see... they turned you into a Heartless until today... Twelfth Day of October, 399 years After Creation." Tyra gasps in delirium, then clenches her hands on Felicia's shoulders and says "What?! Are you saying... for sixteen years and eight months... they turned me into a monster of the dark Realm?! And here I am, no clothes, no decency at a crowd I never knew in a middle of this Marsh. Unbelievable..." "Sixteen years... That's the same amount of time passed since I saw my mother's death in my father's hands... Wait, my father even mentioned a robed guy who completely emptied his soul and transformed him into a mindless murderer!" said Hikaru, recalling the amount of time Tyra mentioned as he tells everyone the event that happened to himself Sixteen years ago, including Suzhu Jiangshin's internal transformation. "Strange... that's more of a coincidence than it's just unexpected. Perhaps your event and mine might be linking to something... but what is it?" says Tyra, summarizing with Hikaru about their events being linked to a similar culprit. The faint muffled scream emerges, alerting Sparx besides Spyro, then Sparx asks "Uh... Spyro? I'm hearing screams somewhere!" "What screams, Sparx?" says Spyro, then Sparx rushes ahead to the screams, "Sparx?! Wait, where are you going?!" exclaimed Spyro, flying to follow Sparx to where the scream emitted, then Hikaru exclaims and follows Spyro while running "Hey, Spyro! Wait for me!" says Hikaru, then Tyra grunts while alerted, "I sense a heartless nearby. You got my gears and gun, Evie?" says Tyra, asked Evie to bring her outfit, her gadgets, and her weapon of choice, the Auto Rifle, then Evie scoffs and says "Wow, you just remembered me after one and a half decade? Anyways, here's your outfit I held onto! Now, go get 'em girl!" "With pleasure, I'll give them hell." says Tyra while she finishes equipping her gear, then she roars while sprinting torwards the path where Hikaru, Spyro and Sparx walked through. After couple seconds of silence, Pop Fizz asks his fellow teammates "Uh, guys... can we follow the nakey wom-A-OUCH!" "It's Tyra, you bubble-brain! TAI, RAH!" says Jet Vac, shouted at and slammed Pop Fizz to his head with Jet Vac's Vac Gun, then Stealth Elf groans awake from unconsciousness and asks "What... happened? Where's Sp-" "STEALTH! It's about time you woke up! C'mon, sleepy b'yoot and slackers! Let's follow Spyro and others!" says Eruptor, picking up Stealth Elf and rallying Jet Vac and Pop Fizz to rendezvous with Spyro, Hikaru, Sparx, and Tyra somewhere in the Beastmaker's Marsh.
Meanwhile during Spyro's flight on following Sparx from looking for the source of scream, then Spyro encounters Sparx in front of a massive cobweb with a squirming hostage swaddled in spider's web, then Spyro says "Eugh... so that's where you heard it from. Don't worry, uh... human? Fellow villager? Whatever... I'LL SAVE YOU FROM-!" the flint clack sound emitted nearby, the small bit of Fire magic passed nearby Spyro through the cobweb, igniting it and causing the hostage to drop from the cobwebs. "So that's where you and your dragonfly went off." says Hikaru, holstering his magic revolver under his jacket, Spyro struggles to let out words due to awkwardness from Hikaru's sudden appearance, then yells at Hikaru "THAT WASN'T NECESSARY, YOU DORK!" "You're the dork for not acting up sooner!" says Hikaru, talked back at Spyro. As the swaddled hostage squirms and screams while muffled, "I'll help out!" said Spyro and Hikaru simultaneously, then they growl at each other, "I got here first, dorkwad!" shouted Spyro, then Hikaru says back "So what? You just stand here and do nothing to help out a soul? I'm worthier than you are!" "Oh yeah, MR. KNIGHTY-KNIGHT?!" said Spyro back at Hikaru, then Hikaru further shouts out "'Oh yeah' YEAH, FIRESNOT!" "WILL YOU TWO SHUT YOUR TRAPS AND LOOK UP?!" shouted Tyra as she fired a nade launcher within her auto rifle to launch an explosive on an incoming Arachnid-like Life-type Tamajin, the Bestial Spider, the largest of Tamajin Spiders in the realm, then the Bestial Spider suffered an explosive damage, falling onto both Spyro and Hikaru, arguing among themselves. As Hikaru glanced above, he gasps and shouts "LOOK OUT!" while grabbing Spyro and diving away from Bestial Spider's landing point. The Bestial Spider lands its legs on the ground from the fall, screeches aloud at Spyro, Tyra, and Hikaru, they all winced while blocking their ears from the Bestial Spider's deafening screech, then Tyra asks and requests Hikaru "You think... that one's also transformed from a human being? If that's the case, instead of killing it, we'll have to restrain it by firepower! When that Heartless's knocked down, look around for a hostage's soul, and grab whoever's hand out of this monster!" Hikaru flounders from Tyra's impossible request, then he gasps as he remembers Suzhu's fatherly lesson, "Close both your eyes and Heart, and let the inner monster within you flow through your body!" Hikaru grunts in resolve, then says "Alright, I'll try it out! But first things FIRST!" "Yeah, GIVE THEM HELL, BOYS!" says Tyra while inserted a million-round magazine into her auto rifle, then the auto rifle's looping flint trigger whirs aloud, then Spyro and Hikaru war-cries alongside Tyra to commence attack on Bestial Spider.

Skylanders: Hoirzon, Volume 6, Chapter 1: Itsy Bitsy Bestial Spider Part 2

Both Spyro and Hikaru leapt and attacked above Bestial Spider with Spyro's spitfire and Hikaru's Chakram slash on the Bestial Spider's abdomen, critically damaging it, then Hikaru rushes with his chakram to amputate the Bestial Spider's leg, but the leg struck Hikaru to his stomach before he used his chakram. Hikaru heaves in pain and flailed away from the Bestial Spider. "HIKARU!" exclaimed Spyro and Tyra simultaneously, Hikaru groans and croaks in pain and nausea from his bruised stomach, and says while curling into the ground "Right into a barfing point! Nevermind me, just take the legs off this stupid monster, and I'll be fine...!" Hikaru heaves out bloodied vomit and colapses onto the ground, causing Spyro to grow concerned for him, then he shrugs off and screams as he summons the wind currents to cut off the Bestial Spider's Legs. The Bestial Spider vertically dodges the wind currents by leaping over the currents, then Spyro exclaims "IT JUMPED?!" the Bestial Spider screeches as it goes for pouncing Spyro as its aerial counter attack. Spyro escalatingly gasps in fear, then Tyra pushes Spyro away from the Bestial Spider's pounce area, then the Bestial Spider pounced onto Tyra. Spyro grunts as he fell onto the ground from Tyra's push, then Spyro exclaims "T-Tyra?!" "No need to worry about me, little one! I've seen and slain a gorlock on my own! This one's... guh! ...won't be a problem! I have my ancestors watching over me! Grab the young man's ring-like sword and cut off its legs! I'll keep this monster as busy as I can... EVEN if it's the last thing I'll ever do!" says Tyra, reminding Spyro about her strengths and grabbing Hikaru's chakram while she restrains the Bestial Spider. Spyro grunts as he acknowledges Tyra and picks up Hikaru's Chakram with two claws while standing tall on two of his feet, Spyro breathes while concentrating his wind magic to wield and sharpen Hikaru's chakram, then Spyro screams aggressively while sprinting on two of his feet with Hikaru's Chakram to cut off the Bestial Spider's legs. As Tyra and the Bestial Spider wrestle for their lives while Spyro sprints with Hikaru's chakram, the Bestial Spider's spinneret shoots out a string of web at Spyro, stopping and tangling him in a cobweb, "Ah, I can't... move! HIKARU...!! HELP____!!!!" screamed Spyro, crying out to Hikaru, lying onto the ground unconscious.
Meanwhile deep inside Hikaru's mind, Hikaru opens his eyes in the empty place while bound in chains, then he gasps as he sees Chrost Exius, bound in chains and asleep in front of him, "CHROST! Hey, Chrost, wake up! I need your strength! Not just to kill a monster... but to turn it back who it once was!" shouted Hikaru to awaken Chrost, Chrost remains asleep after Hikaru's request, then Hikaru grunts in hopelessness and further shouts out to Chrost "PLEASE, CHROST! I NEED YOU, SO I CAN RISK MY LIFE TO SAVE MY FRIENDS'!!" Chrost opens his eyes with his body blooming with light and chains decaying, changing the place's emptiness into a sunny sky with drifting clouds. Meanwhile outside Hikaru's mind, he opens his eyes with chains emerging onto the ground surrounding him, then he stands up to his feet and warped towards the Bestial Spider, binding it with chains manipulated by Hikaru one hand, then thrusts his other hand into the Bestial Spider's mouth, searching for a trapped human body within Bestial Spider, then he touched and grabbed the hostage's hand and yanks the hostage out the Bestial Spider's mouth, causing the Bestial Spider to decay into a shadowy mist. The male hostage, unconscious and covered in saliva, appeared as a white-haired masked man in a thousand hands outfit with set of fiery claws and SMGs. The cobweb trapping Spyro decayed, he dropped Hikaru's chakram while he fallen onto the ground as he heavily breathes "Just in time... Thanks again, Hikaru...!" says Spyro, relieved while laying down. Tyra gasps and exclaims "KOGA!" she ran towards to the hostage aliased as 'Koga', she palms Koga's wrist for pulse, Tyra sighs in relief and says "What a miracle... he's still alive. My thanks, Hikaru." Hikaru remained emotionless and silent after Tyra's speech, causing Tyra to become concerned from Hikaru's moment of emotionless silence, "Hikaru? Hikaru, what's wrong? Wake up!" says Tyra, jiggling Hikaru's body to break his moment of silence. Hikaru gasps out of blue, startling Tyra, then he breathes while he touched his forehead with three of his fingers, "Sorry, maybe I've got some sort of a double-personality syndrome." says Hikaru while telling Tyra about his duplex-persona syndrome. Hikaru gasps as he sees Spyro exausted and downed next to Hikaru's chakram, then Hikaru says while he rushes towards Spyro "Spyro! Are you alright there, bud?" Spyro grunts while waking from unconsciousness, then says "That... was epic..." "Damn right, it was." replied Hikaru while pulling Spyro's cheek lightly. "SPYRO!!" simultaneously shouted Jet Vac, Pop Fizz, Eruptor, and Stealth Elf, rushing towards Spyro, Sparx and Hikaru, "You four! What brought you here?" says Hikaru, asking Stealth Elf and co. about visiting where Hikaru, Spyro, Sparx, and Tyra left off.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 6, Chapter 2: Two Kisaragis

Koga grunts while waking from coma, then murmurs "What... what was this insanely long dream all about? It must be a freakiest roller-coaster of a dream I've ever been to. It feels... so made up, yet it's all real at the same time." "Koga, welcome back." says Tyra, welcoming Koga back to the living realm, "Who's Koga?" asked Hikaru and Team Spyro, oblivious from Tyra's speech, then Koga scoffs, slaps Tyra's hand, jumped onto his feet and says "Hey, isn't it obvious? I AM Koga! What else don't you-" "Hey, be nice, he's gotten multi-personality issues, besides, his name is Hikaru." says Tyra while she tells Koga to settle down. Koga sighs irritably and says "Whatever, it's not like I want to be part of the public. Here, I don't need these anymore." Koga tosses a pouch to Hikaru, then he single-handedly catches a pouch and asks "What's inside there?" Hikaru opens the pouch, he sees Summonites of Odin(Undead), Ramuh(Air), Titan(Earth), and Sylph(Life), totaling to four summonites, then Hikaru gasps and says "Those are summonites! Hey, 'Ruptor! Hold onto this one." Hikaru hands Titan's summonite to Eruptor, then Hikaru gives Ramuh's Summonite to Jet Vac, Hikaru picks up the remaining summonites and says "I'll hold onto this black stone, so Elf-" "I get it, hand me the green one!" says Stealth Elf, snatched Sylph's summonite from Hikaru's hand. As Stealth Elf touched Sylph's summonite, she gasps as she regains memories of her past. Meanwhile in Stealth Elf's memories, two newborn elves, one boy and one girl, and their green-skinned elven mother spectate the colossal Elven Goddess; Sylph, as the two young elves sigh softly in awe from seeing Sylph dance with colorful flowers and fruitplants growing rapidly around her. As Stealth Elf's memories end, Stealth Elf whimpers with her mouth closed while her eyes begin to overflow with tears, causing Hikaru and Team Spyro gasps from Stealth Elf's sentimental moment, then Eruptor asks her "Elf? What's-?" "I remembered everything now... I used to live in the forest in the Horizon realm, my name... is Kitana Kisaragi." says Stealth Elf, telling her past and legal name to everyone, then Hikaru and team Spyro gasps from Stealth Elf's confirmation of past and legal name. Stealth Elf continues to tell everyone her further childhood memories "My blind, human father; Korosuke Kisaragi the High Night, took my mother's life with his own hands... the two of us were just toddlers when we saw her die, and Korosuke just ruthlessly trained on us right after killing our mother, molding us his miniature versions... a mass-murdering assassins." "Mass-murderers?! Elf, why didn't you just-?" objected Eruptor, concerned about Stealth Elf's speech, then becomes interrupted with a mysterious man's voice "It's because the two of us experienced hell by our father, and thus, has overwritten our minds for himself." Hikaru and team Spyro gasps from a mysterious man's voice, "That voice...!" says Hikaru, recalling the mysterious man's voice, then the blindfolded elven man, Flameslinger emerges from the sky, Hikaru exclaims "It's Zhin's sidekick!" "No, my name is Hiyari Kisaragi." says Flameslinger, telling Hikaru and team Spyro his legal name, 'Hiyari Kisaragi'. Stealth Elf gasps deeply from Flameslinger's approach, she whimpers with flowing tears in her eyes, then leapt and embraced Flameslinger's torso and says "Hiyari...! I missed you!" she sobs while Flameslinger embraces back to her "I know, sister... It's been four years." whispered Flameslinger while he tightens his embrace. Hikaru and Skylanders lightly gasp from heartfelt reunion between Stealth Elf and Flameslinger, Hikaru gasps again as he remembers about Ifrit's summonite in Flameslinger's possession, then he asks "Hey, do you still have Ifrit's summonite?!" Stealth Elf, Spyro and the Skylanders gasp from Hikaru's question about the summonite of Ifrit, the Skylord of Fire in Flameslinger's possesion. "Yeah, I still have it, right here." says Flameslinger, confirming his possession on Ifrit, then Stealth Elf asks "Hiyari- no, Flameslinger... what just happened to your body, and where did you get Ifrit from?" Flameslinger gasps surprised from sensing Spyro while blindfolded, then Stealth Elf pouts and says "Flameslinger! Tell us already! Wha-" "Spyro... have you finally conquered your flaws while being held back?" says Flameslinger out of blue, telling Spyro about himself being held back from becoming a Skylander. Stealth Elf, Spyro, Hikaru, and the Skylanders gasp while surprised from Flameslinger's sudden speech to Spyro, then Eruptor shouts at Flameslinger "YOU IDIOT! YOU JUST SAID SOMETHING DEPRESSIVE AT HIS FACE, NOW HE'LL BEAT HIMSELF UP OVER-" "Yup! I'm totally over myself now! And this time, I'm going all-the-way serious!" says Spyro, answered Flameslinger with sudden spike of enthusiasm, then Eruptor collapses in front of both while overwhelmed by Spyro's sudden enthusiasm. Stealth Elf gasps from Eruptor's collapse "Eruptor, are you alright?" "Y-yeah... I got worked up over nothing, after all." muffled Eruptor while laying onto the ground. Flameslinger chuckles from Eruptor's overreaction, then he further asks Spyro "What brought you and your comrades to the realm of Horizons?" Spyro grunts in shame from Flameslinger's question why Spyro and the Skylanders are in the horizoneer's realm, then he says "Two of these men wearing scaley leggings banished us and stole our home as their Territory." "What?! The Skylands was stolen?!" exclaimed Flameslinger, then Tyra gasps as she hears the phrase 'men wearing scaley leggings', then she asks Spyro "Hang on a second! These scale-wearers invaded you too?! If you know their names Spyro, spit it out! Who are they!?" "...Adam and Eve, they're twin Shift-Shapers who turned out to be two humans with white hair." says Spyro, answers Tyra's distressed question and telling details about Adam and Eve. Tyra trembles in rage and fear mixed, then murmurs "Adam... Eve... those are the bastards who turned me, and Koga into heartless. It all makes sense now; Including all that and corrupting Hikaru's father, they're the ones to blame...!" Tyra puts one of her clenched fists onto her chest and the other fist on her back as her salute, begging Hikaru to join the raid with Horizoneers and Skylanders to achieve vengeance against Adam and Eve and says "Take me with your army, and I'll assure everyone who's ever lived and died that justice will be served!" Hikaru exclaims from Tyra's way of request "Huh?! I'm not exactly in charge of the-" "Please, Hikaru. Koga and I have suffered for too long, and now it's our turn to give these bastards hell!" says Tyra, pleading Hikaru for her and Koga to join the army, then Koga scoffs and says to Tyra, "Yeah, and risk ourselves turning into these creeps again? Well screw this, I'd rather-" "You're welcome to join us, you two." says Katsushi while marching alongside the Horizoneers, the Skylanders, Ignitus, and Hugo.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 6, Chapter 3: Two Kisaragis Part 2

"Commander, guys!" exclaimed Hikaru when he saw Katsushi and Hikaru's friends and partners, then Tyra asks and thanks Katsushi with a bow "Are you the leader of this army? If you are and have recruited us, you have our gratitude." "No need to thank me, I mean, we do need plenty of man-power and avoid as many casualties from a final fight against the Elementary VIII and their suborganization; the Doom Raiders." says Katsushi, reasoning with Tyra about requesting manpower for avoiding casualties during their raid against Elementary VIII and Doom Raiders. The Villagers walk with Felicia and her grandfather as the headmaster, Ahmed, then Ahmed says to the Horizoneers and Skylanders "Our village is reduced to debris, but our villagers are safe, and we must thank you for guiding us to our future." "Looks Like we're going to walk'em somewhere else by our feet, boys and girls. For those who drive a supercharger, here's the trailer!" says Katsushi, commanding the Skylanders to use their superchargers to escort the Beastmaker's Marsh villagers to their new home while she presses the button to summon a cargo to carry over one hundred people, then Skylanders and Horizoneers salute to Katsushi, acknowledging her command. Jet Vac, Eruptor, and Pop Fizz groan and complain from Katsushi's Villager escortion quest, then Stealth Elf growls while her eyes roll and shouts "What's wrong with you three?! There are children from here too, y'know!" "Fine..." groaned Pop Fizz, Eruptor, and Jet Vac. Flameslinger walks towards Stealth Elf, then says "Kitana... while we escort those people, I'll tell you everything that happened to me after I've fallen from the Skylands." Stealth Elf gasps in concern and confusion from Flameslinger's admission about falling from the Skylands. The hostage swaddled in webs roll around and its screams muffle through the web, both Stealth Elf and Flameslinger gasp as they noticed the hostage swaddled in cobweb is alive. As Stealth Elf draws her dagger and liberates the hostage from the cobweb, the green goblin gasps aloud and breathes heavily, then says "THANK YOU DWELLERS OF THE BOTTOM, FOR RELEASING-" "GLUMSHANKS?!" exclaimed Stealth Elf, recognizing the green Goblin as Glumshanks, Kaos's sidekick, then Glumshanks also exclaim "S-Stealth Elf?! What brought you there?!" "That's what I- wait, weren't you arrested alongside Kaos? Where is he now?" says Stealth Elf, asking Glumshanks about Kaos, then Glumshanks sobs with tears flowing out from his eyes and says "Kaos was abducted by these two white-haired youngsters...! They're scary, muscular... and HANDSOME!" Stealth Elf gasps and thought "Adam and Eve?!" "One of these fiendish youth with glasses just grabbed Kaos with one hand, I wasted time thinking whether I risk myself to save Kaos or just wait for the security guards to make it in time... I chose to scream my fears out and charged at a four-eyed boy-girl, or so I thought. The other one with scaley legs and a tattoo grabbed me and threw me through the window, and that's how I ended up tangled and strangled by a monster of this place I never knew nor hoped to visit! OH THE HUMANITY!" says Glumshanks telling his traumatic experience as he fell from the Skylands to the Horizon realm, bawling in fear and shame afterwards. Stealth Elf pats Glumshanks's shoulders and says "I never thought I'd say this, you really had it rough, being attacked by such monsters in human flesh. Now, now, don't cry, breathe in and out... hey, Speaking of 'the humanity', I'll let you in our team, and-" "Kitana, leave Glumshanks to me, then I'll tell you about what happened to me and my body during these four years." says Flameslinger, telling Stealth Elf his past event before escorting Glumshanks to the villagers gathered in the Wagon, then Stealth Elf nods with acknowledgement and says "Yeah, I'm looking forward for this." Two dozens of minutes after Flameslinger told Stealth Elf his story, her eyes enlarged at their maximum from hearing Flameslinger's tragic but mysterious story that changed his appearance, "That white-haired boy with clock-like accents and sword... Aeon turned you decades older... than you're supposed to be?!" says Stealth Elf, recalling about Aeon, the Time traveler who casted aging magic on Flameslinger, transformed him from originally a childlike elf into a full-grown adult. Flameslinger clenches his fist in shame and says "If I hadn't just underestimated Kaos and his army... I wouldn't-" "Kaos is no longer gonna bother us, brother, I know you wanted to smite him with vengeance, but he's all under control now. And now the Doom Raiders have betrayed Kaos and joined forces with Elementary VIII, they're much more threatening than Kaos, and even Strykore ever was to us." says Stealth Elf while she holds Flameslinger's clenched fist with her two hands. Meanwhile Spyro and Cynder sit on top of the wagon, Spyro asks Cynder "So, your mother, 'Seris', what's she look like?" "Unlike my father and me, she's more of a human than a dragon. Her skin is pale as a corpse with some sort of a fortune-teller's getup. She's blindfolded, carries some sort of a lantern, and keeps talking about this place called 'The Abyss', 'other side', or 'twilight' while we're nowhere near her. And that time before I saw my mother depart for a while, another human that looks like a pirate captain with a squid-like creature sitting on a gun in one of his hands took her to somewhere completely darker, crueler, and scarier than my father's realm." says Cynder telling Spyro her mother's details and traits, then Spyro shudders from slight fear and says "Oh, wow, tell me about daddies not as scary as mommies are." Cynder giggles from Spyro's reaction. As Spyro begins to laugh alongside Cynder, he sees a Magenta-haired girl praying in front of statue of Leviathan, the goddess of Ska'Drin and seas, then Spyro gasps and flies towards the girl, then Cynder exclaims, "Spyro? Wait! Where are you going?" "You kidding me, again?!" exclaimed Hikaru, hopping off Kazama's equestricycle and running towards Spyro. "Hikaru, wait up!" exclaimed Ignitus, sprinting to follow both Hikaru and Spyro towards the magenta-haired girl praying in Leviathan's statue's front.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 6, Chapter 4: Oerba of Gran Pulse

Spyro landed his feet and arms onto the ground from his flight, then asks the magenta-haired girl "So... what are you doing in the middle of a Marsh like this?" the girl gasps and looked behind her, then as she sees Spyro, she asks him "Ah, a dragon! Did you... just talk by now? My name is Vanille. If you can talk, do you have a name?" says Magenta-haired girl, named as Vanille, and asks Spyro his name. Spyro winces and blushes from Vanille's speech, then says "M...my name is-" "SPYRO! Explain what you're doing..." says Hikaru while he firmly pulls his cheeks from inside his mouth, then Spyro says while Hikaru's fingers push Spyro's cheeks from the inside, "WEGGO OF MAH MOUPH, YOU YERGH(LET GO OF MY MOUTH, YOU JERK)!!" "Spyro...?" says Vanille while she recalled Hikaru's mentioning of Spyro's name, then she gasps and exclaims "Wait, sir! Are you his owner?" "Close, but not close enough. Sorry, young lady for bothering you, that dragon, Spyro, he's too curious for his own good, and I, Hikaru Daichi, his horizoneer partner, am just doing my job to keep him occupied until the deed's done!" says Hikaru while restraining Spyro by pushing his cheeks with Hikaru's fingers inside Spyro's mouth. "Will you two, cut it out? We're not here to goof off in front of-" says Ignitus, then he gasps as he glanced at Vanille's thigh, resembling the symbol of Light. Vanille gasps as she sees Ignitus looking at her thigh, then covers the symbol "Th-there's nothing to look at, here!" Both Spyro and Hikaru gasp from Vanille's verbal self-defense, then Ignitus confirms on Vanille and says "This symbol on your thigh... it can't be... you're the L'Cie of-" The bladed lance landed in front of Ignitus's feet, causing inconvenience to everyone around the Spear. "You should keep your so-called dragon's mouth shut!" says Fang, descended in front of Vanille, then Vanille exclaims "Fang!?" "'Fang'? You're the girl's must-be guardian, Fang!?" exclaimed Spyro, then Fang grabs and points her bladed lance at Spyro and says "And you must be Ignitus's purple hatchling brother. Listen, you three, nobody- and I mean NO ONE can harass my childhood friend; Oerba Dia Vanille!" "'Oerba'...? Now you've mentioned that girl's surname is also Oerba, you must be Oerba sisters, isn't that right?!" says Hikaru, assuming Fang's surname as Oerba, then Fang replies "Not just the surname, it's also the name of our home from the place called Gran Pulse!" "Please, Fang! Don't make things worse!" says Vanille begging Fang to not fight against Spyro, Hikaru, and Ignitus. Spyro shakes his head and says to halt both Hikaru and Ignitus from escalating the conflict against Fang, "Hey, you two should stop too! We're not here to kill each other!" "Y'know what, forget it all." says Fang, holstering her bladed Lance, then verbally declares to Spyro, Ignitus and Hikaru "Next time... never show your wretched faces to me nor Vanille again!" Both Spyro and Vanille gasp in anguish from Fang's speech, then Vanilla argues with Fang and says "Fang, this is too much! We just met and haven't-" "If that's the best for all us, so be it." says Ignitus, agreed with Fang's declaration of separation, Vanille gasps from Ignitus's agreement and becomes depressed. As Ignitus and Hikaru took off without speech, Spyro says to Vanille, "Vanille... sorry for causing you trouble." then Spyro flies off towards Hikaru and Ignitus. Fang pats Vanille's shoulder and says "It's for your own safety." "I know that, Fang." says Vanille while she pushes Fang's hand away from Vanille, then they both walk away from the Leviathan's Statue.
As Hikaru, Spyro, and Ignitus return to the wagon with Skylanders and Horizoneers escorting villagers to their new home, leaving them facially shadowed, "Hey, where have you three been?! You just got us worried for nothing!" shouted Eruptor, then his eyes gapen from looking at Spyro, Ignitus, and Hikaru's faces gone blank, and asks "Are you three... alright? Did something-" "Eruptor, I think it's best to leave them be." says Kentaro while palms Eruptor's shoulder, preventing him from asking Hikaru, Spyro, and Ignitus, then Eruptor says "But- oh, alright." he sighs while worried, then starts his Supercharger's engines and begins to move the Wagon alongside Pop Fizz and Jet Vac, escorting the wagon of villagers while Hikaru Daichi, Yoshiro Tsukimura, Kazama Daichi, Ignitus, Haruka Daichi, and other members of the Horizoneer regiment defend the wagon from its blindspots while riding their respective Equestricycles. "Hey, are you alright, Hikaru?" asked Sakuyu, concerned for Hikaru, then Hikaru remained silent after hearing Sakuyu's question. Sakuyu scoffs and shouts "Hey, I'm worried about you, so answer me!" "Incoming tamajin horde! Totalling three dozen of a unicycle-like types!" shouted the Horizoneer watchman, warning everyone about the Tamajin horde appearance, closing into a Wagon with Skylanders and Horizoneers defending it. The horde of thirty Unicycle-limbed tech-type tamajin, Magnum Roaders charge towards the wagon and one of the Magnum Roaders charged towards the watchman and bumps off the wagon from the loss of balance, then the watchman screams in agony and horror as five of the Magnum Roaders devour him. Sakuyu gasps and trembles in deep fear from seeing the watchman becoming devoured by the Magnum Roaders, then Haruka shouts at Sakuyu "Hey, snap outta it! Staring at them and doing NOTHING won't make them go away!" Haruka grunts as he threw two handfuls of Kunai at the Magnum Roader crew, hitting and eliminating seven of the Magnum Roaders. Sakuyu gasps and shrugs off her fears and says to Haruka "Sorry, couldn't really help when it comes to see our teammates being eaten alive. I'll give everything I got! Inspira!" Sakuyu casts her second-stage buff magic, Inspira, to boost both strength and wisdom to all her allies. "WHOO! Thanks for the booster, sis!" says Haruka, thanking Sakuyu for the status boost from Sakuyu, then asks Hikaru "Hey, Hikaru! How're you hanging?!" Hikaru remained silent while focused on firing his magic revolver to damage and eliminate the Magnum Roader horde. Haruka becomes speechless from Hikaru's silence, then his face lengthened and shadowed, causing him to become disgusted to Hikaru by his emotionlessness, then he continues to throw handfuls of knives at the Magnum Roader horde, eliminating the remaining Magnum Roaders from chasing the wagon, the Skylanders and Horizoneers. Meanwhile in the bushes in between the Ska'Drin city and Beastmaker's Marsh, Wolfgang, Dr. Krankcase, Night Shade, and Dream Catcher rendezvous for the wagon's arrival, then Night Shade says before opening the briefcase, "Here it comes, the Skylanders and these primates of the bottom realm. Ready for this, Doc?" "Ooh, I'm so excited to see what's inside this bag you're carrying!" says Dream Catcher, overly motivated to looking what rests inside Dr. Krankcase's briefcase, then Wolfgang restrains Dream Catcher and says "Settle yourself, Dreamer... it's about to become a VIOLENT surprise... for them!" "COME ON OUT, TERMINATOR!" shouted Dr. Krankcase, summoning a large, tech-type emblem heartless, 'Terminator', to assault on the villager-packed wagon with Skylanders and Horzioneers.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 6, Chapter 5: Terminate or be Terminated

Couple minutes earlier, Haruka pants and says "Whew, I think that's the last of them! Hey, Hikaru! What's your problem, keeping your mouth shut?!" "Haruka, it's none of your business to talk to him." says Yoshiro to Haruka, telling him not to bother Hikaru, then Sakuyu grunts irritably from Yoshiro's arrogant speech to Haruka and says "How can you say that to his face?! Hikaru's part of his family too, you-!" "Can it, sis... he's right." says Haruka, stopping Sakuyu from defending Haruka from Yoshiro. Sakuyu gasps in remorse for Haruka and says "But..." then she slowly turns her face away from Haruka, guilty for not trying to keep Haruka and Hikaru together. Spyro looked at the moment between Hikaru, Yoshiro, Haruka, and Sakuyu, sighs in guilt for not chinning up Hikaru from that moment between the Oerba girls, Spyro, Hikaru and Ignitus. Cynder asks Spyro "Spyro... you can tell me what happened. I'll keep it secret for you after-" "Out of all three of us, Hikaru was hit the hardest. I should've cheered him up sooner." says Spyro, telling Cynder about Hikaru not going over the moment he experienced, then Cynder asks Spyro again from not clearly understanding his answer, saying "Huh? Hold on, what happened?" Cynder screamed in pain as she get hit by an incoming plasma sphere, damaging her and causing her to fall onto the road behind the Wagon and Spyro exclaims in fear and concern "CYNDER!!" Spyro tried to fly towards Cynder to recover her, but Ignitus instead jumped off to rescue her, keeping Spyro in his position to defend the top of the Wagon from enemies attacks, then Spyro gasps as he sees the Terminator floating beside Spyro, then he threatens the Terminator, saying "Are you the one who hurt her?! I'LL END YOU!" Spyro roars and attempts to claw Terminator, then it counters Spyro's claw attack by spinning its hovering legs, hitting Spyro consecutively while he grunts from enduring the damage, then he catches the last hovering leg as his counter. As Kentaro spectates Spyro's fight against a Tamajin, then says "Whoa... even though he's clumsy at start, Spyro's syncing up a rhythm to overcome an enemy! It's almost like he's showing off in a live-action movie, but with a LIVE DRAGON!" "Uh, yeah, except IT ISN'T FOR SHOW! HE'S TRYING HARD TO TAKE IT DOWN!! ARE YOU FOR REAL, USING HIS POISON AT HIMSELF?!" shouted Eruptor, scolding Kentaro for mocking Spyro, then Kentaro panics and asks "Wait, Spyro's 'poison' as in his everyday jokes?! I-I wasn't joking!" "No time for crude-humor comparison, we must somewhat help Spyro!" shouted Jet Vac, then Eruptor says back to Eruptor "Huh?! 'WE?!' My only projectiles are lava, and they'll burn off the villagers' only hope of traveling! Count me out on that one!" "I know, Eruptor, and by 'we', I meant me, myself... ...and Shinji." says Jet Vac, pointing his finger at Shinji, then Shinji gasps and exclaims "Me... and you? I know one of us can take down the Tamajin, but for both of us... why?" Jet vac palms both Shinji's shoulders and asks him in all seriousness "Shinji, I know it is an embarassing question for you to answer, but you must tell me this: Are you afraid of heights, or not?" Shinji gasps from Jet Vac's serious question, then gasps again as he begins to visualizes himself in a decade ago, as a 7 year old boy with glasses clinging onto a high branch of the tall tree next to both Yoshiro and Hatsuya, respectively 8 years old and 11 years old. Shinji whimpers while firmly clinging onto the branch and says "I CAN'T...!! I'm scared of dying! I-I Don't wanna jump-" "Who sent you all the way up there? Those delinquents again?" says Hatsuya, asking Shinji who forced Shinji to climb on top of the tree, then Yoshiro sighs and says "Looks like you left me no other choice..." he walks towards to pick up an axe lying on the grassy ground, then Hatsuya gasps and asks Yoshiro "Wait, are you trying to get yourself in trouble again? We're not in summer-" "Hold on tight!" shouted Yoshiro as he swung an axe with monstrous strength, slicing through the tree and causing it to fall. As the tree tips down along Shinji clinging on the branch, Shinji whimpers and screams progressively "TIMBER____!!!" Shinji's flashback ends before the Tree tipped, then Shinji says to Jet Vac, "Yeah... I once was. I can't believe it's been a decade since that day I've climbed up a tree. Haha, good times it was." "I see... even you admit you're afraid of heights, will you still do it?" asked Jet Vac, then Shinji stands up to his feet and says "Yeah. I'm over it a long time ago. Lead the way!" "That's the spirit! Now, put both your feet onto my gun, and ready for a lift off!" says Jet Vac, preparing for Shinji to attack the Tamajin in midair without damaging the Wagon, then Shinji nods and steps onto Vac's gun, then Jet Vac fires his Vac Gun, launching Shinji midair. Shinji readies his switchbow with the kinetic arrow and shouts at Spyro "HEADS UP!" Spyro gasps and flew away from the Terminator. Shinji launches the kinetic arrow through the Terminator, then the Terminator's body dissolves and its sparkling soul rises upwards, confirming the Terminator's death. Spyro gasps happily in relief, then announces to everyone "It's all clear now! No more heartless are around!" "Alright! Attaboy, Spyro!" says Haruka, cheering towards Spyro, then Hikaru tells Haruka and Sakuyu his condolences out of blue "Haruka, Sakuyu... I'm sorry... for shutting you both down." Both Sakuyu and Haruka gasp in surprise, then Haruka says to Hikaru "W-well, it's about time you talked to us for a change." "I see the rays of light in the path! We're closing in the Ska'Drin City!" shouted Kazama, announcing his point of view of Ska'Drin city to Skylanders, Horizoneers, and the Villagers of Beastmaker's Marsh, nearing their destined location.

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 6, Chapter 6: Shackled in Shadows

"GRR!! WRETCHED SKYLANDERS AND THESE SKINNY MONKEYS! THWARTING ONE PLAN AFTER ANOTHER!" shouted Dr. Krankcase, having a temper tantrum after seeing his summoned Tamajin defeated by Skylanders and Horizoneers, then Wolfgang comforts Dr. Krankcase with words "It's all in the past, now. We've bought plenty of time for our preparations for settling once and for all." "Ooh, I'm lookin' forward to see their faces full of hopelessness and such!" says Dream Catcher while eager for Skylanders and Horizoneers' downfall, specifically aiming for their negative emotions. The shining villian, Luminous emerges from the bushes and says "The ambush meeting is finally ready, my fellow raiders." "So it's ready... huh." says Nightshade. Meanwhile in the Ska'Drin city, a town where the Paladins, the Resistance of Magistrate gather, the Ska'Drin frontier, Talus, announces the incoming visitors, Skylanders and Horizoneers to the ancient Tortoise with runic Shell, Makoa, then Talus says "We have visitors with three race-cars and a wagon! What shall we do with them?" Makoa meditates while concentrating his mind onto , then says "Let them in." Talus exclaims from Makoa's suddenly vast answer "Wait! Just let them in?! Are you really sure about that?" "Their souls are mostly innocent and tame, I assure you. Now, let them make themselves a home." says Makoa, reasoning Talus why he vastly answered to let the visitors in, then Talus sighs and says "Alright, I'll welcome them." "Well said, my child. And one more thing-" says Makoa, then gasps from Talus's vast disappearance. As Skylanders and Horizoneers progress towards the Ska'Drin city, Haruka asks Hikaru "What's gotten into you lately? You really shouldn't just act like you don't trust us at all!" "Yeah, it's just that my mind's stuck in that moment about two of these girls of Oerba." says Hikaru, answering Haruka's question, then Haruka and Sakuyu exclaim "Oerba?" "Yeah, that place in a far-away realm called 'Gran Pulse'." says Hikaru, giving away details about the Oerba and Gran Pulse, then Sakuyu asks "It's sounded like you've been keeping that a secret until now. Why's that?" "You scoundrel!" shouted the feminine, tribal voice. The bladed lance pierced onto Hikaru's equestricycle, causing his equestricycle to malfunction and Hikaru to fall behind from the Wagon, then both Sakuyu and Haruka exclaim "HIKARU!" then they jumped off their equestricycles to rescue Hikaru. Yoshiro exclaims from Hikaru's malfunction and Haruka and Sakuyu's action to rescue "Hikaru! You two! Come back here!" "It'll be fine. I know Hikaru and two others very well." says Kazama, halting Yoshiro from following Hikaru, Haruka and Sakuyu. Hikaru grunts while standing up from the crash landing with his equestricycle, pierced by the lance, then both Haruka and Sakuyu shout "HIKARU!" "I'm alright, no problem!" says Hikaru, then Hikaru exclaims at Sakuyu and Haruka "HEY! Where are your rides?!" "Who cares about-" said both Sakuyu and Haruka simultaneously, then they gasp nervously and say "Uh, oh..." Meanwhile back at the wagons, Yoshiro shouts to Spyro, "Spyro, stop their equestricycles! They're not like motorcycles, you know!" Spyro exclaims then acknowledges Yoshiro and flew ahead to halt Haruka and Sakuyu's equestricycles by pulling and holding their posteriors. Spyro grunts while struggling, then Yoshiro shouts "Hey! What are you doing?! Do you not know what stopping means?!" "Gimme a break, Mr. mophead, and besides... I dunno how to operate these bikes!" says Spyro while grunting as he holds onto both equestricycles. Yoshiro gasps in irritability from Spyro and says "Why you little-" Spyro's horns sparkle with thunder as the thunder from his horns manipulate the equestricycle's operating systems and forced both equestricycles to shut down, then Spyro trips backwards along the equestricycles, then breathes heavily and says "Oh yeah... I forgot I can control whatever machine I touch or grab onto." Spyro giggles while he bumped his head with his fist while sticking out his tongue. Meanwhile Haruka, Hikaru, and Sakuyu sprint to rendezvous with the Skylanders, Horizoneers, and the wagon, the bladed lance pierced downwards in front of Hikaru and others, stopping them in their tracks. The tribal spear meisteress, Oerba Yun Fang descended next to the bladed lance and says "Going somewhere?" "Fang! I thought you said we're never supposed to see each other again! What do you want from us?!" says Hikaru, reminding Fang her declaration, then Fang spits onto the ground and says "You've shouldn't have told your friends our home... I'll eliminate all of you!" Hikaru, Haruka and Sakuyu grunt as they become provoked from Fang's threatening speech.
As Oerba Yun Fang prepares to attack Hikaru Daichi, Haruka Daichi, and Sakuyu Daichi with her spear, she gasps and hears an incoming chinging sound emerging through the bushes behind her, then jumps above and the chains from the dark realm grasp and squeeze Hikaru's body, "WHA-?! THESE CHAINS-!!" Hikaru exclaim while bound by the chains, then Hikaru is forcefully pulled through the door with dark matter spikes as Hikaru screams during the forceful escort by the chains attached to the door's other side. Sakuyu and Haruka shout in concern and high alert "HIKARU!" "Stop! Don't follow him, you two will also be dragged into a darkest place without parole!" shouted Fang, restraining both Haruka and Sakuyu. "SHUT UP, HAG! HE'S THE PART OF US TOO!" shouted Haruka, then Sakuyu adds her remark to Fang and says "He's right! Besides all that, you just said you were going to eliminate all three of us, wasn't it true?!" Fang grunts as she threw both Sakuyu and Haruka backwards from the door, Haruka and Sakuyu respectively yelped when landed onto the ground, then Fang says "Yes, I swore I eliminate your friend, including both of you, but..." "But, what?! You're gonna pity us like defenseless toddlers sitting their asses on a ground?!" shouted Haruka, angered from Fang's protective action for both Haruka and Sakuyu, then Fang proceeds and says "...my childhood friend Vanille wouldn't ever wanted me to do that." Fang clenches her fist, then Haruka and Sakuyu exclaim from Fang's hesitation for Vanille, then Sakuyu asks Fang about Vanille "Vanille? Who is-?" "Nevermind what I mentioned. I'm afraid your dearest friend, Hikaru met his fate worse than death: Becoming sucked into an Underrealm and staying in there... eternally." said Fang, told both Haruka and Sakuyu Hikaru's grim fate in the forgotten side of the realm: the Underrealm. Both Haruka and Sakuyu gasp in despair and guilt for Hikaru, Sakuyu murmurs "No... no! He can't be...!" "Dammit...!! DAMMIT!!" howled Haruka as he punched the ground downwards with his clenched fist. As the bushes rustle, Ignitus sprints while carrying Cynder on his shoulder, he gasps as he sees Sakuyu, Haruka and Fang standing together, then stops and asks Fang "Why are you here, after what you've told us?!" "Oh, great... you again. About Hikaru... he's abducted into an Underrealm." says Fang, telling Ignitus about Hikaru's fate, Ignitus gasps dreadfully from Fang's speech about Hikaru, and says "What...?!"

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 6, Chapter 7: Underrealm Part 1

Meanwhile back at the entrance to Ska'Drin City, Spyro groans in discomfort for Hikaru and asks Eruptor, Jet Vac, and Pop Fizz "Guys...? How can you be so calm when Hikaru's in big trouble?" "Have faith in him, Spyro. He's a formiddable friend." says Jet Vac, encouraging Spyro about Hikaru's strengths, then Eruptor objects Jet Vac and says "I dunno, Vac... He's stronger than all of us, but still... his attitude and awareness need to be adjusted badly-" "You know what?! Forget it! I'm going to find Hikaru and bring him back!" shouted Spyro, then flew away from the group. "SPYRO, WAIT!" exclaimed Pop Fizz, Jet Vac, and Eruptor, then Kazama Daichi says "Guys! If he wanted to be alone, let him be. He's more than prepared for anything." "Are you crazy? No one else's backing him up! He'll get killed, or worse!" says Eruptor, concerned for Spyro, then Kazama further says "Do you really call yourselves his friends when you deny what he says? If so, then he'll reconsider all of you." Eruptor exclaims from Kazama's remark, but remains silent then Jet Vac says "I'm afraid he has the point, Eruptor... all we have to do is just believe in him." Eruptor grunts in defeat and concern.
Meanwhile in a lightless place where Hikaru lies down unconscious, he grunts as he slowly stands up and palming back of his head, then says "Where am I...? Oh, great, I can't see anything without lights on. I guess this leaves me no other choice then..." Hikaru closes his eyes and channels dark energy towards himself, darkening his hair, eyes and lips, turning Hikaru into Dark Hikaru. As Dark Hikaru opened his eyes, he gasps in fright and stepped backwards as he sees a nearly destroyed door with a word that says 'Blacksap Elementary' "What the hell!? Blacksap Elementary?! That's the name of a school that suddenly vanished along Teachers and the kids! Oh, man... If I'm in here... CRAP! I'm trapped in a dark realm!" says Dark Hikaru, scratching his hair from fear and stress. The baby's cry echoes from the hallway, as Dark Hikaru hears the baby's cry, he yelps in fear and almost draws his Magic Revolver, then he hesitates and says "Wait, that scent... is that...?" he sprints towards the pouring from his eyes, "Rayboy!? What are you doing here?!" says Dark Hikaru, then picks up Rayboy and comforts him. As Rayboy sees Dark Hikaru's face, he screams in fear and struggles to hop off Dark Hikaru's grip, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! It's me, Uncle Hikaru!" says Dark Hikaru, attempting to calm Rayboy, then he thought "Oh, yeah... now he thinks about it... Dammit, I guess I'll have to shed off my dark skin." Dark Hikaru releases streams of darkness from his body, returning to his normal form, then says to Rayboy, "It's okay now, Rayboy! I'm right here! See? Uncle Hikaru's here for you." Rayboy's panicking screams stopped, then he sniffles and hugs Hikaru by his neck, choking him, then Hikaru says while choking "Wow, you're strong! Too strong...!" Hikaru gasps as he sees the faint shine of light illuminating around both Rayboy and Hikaru, then he says "Light? Wow... who'd have thought... Alright, kiddo, let's get out of this place!" Hikaru sprints ahead along Rayboy to find the path out of the Underrealm, "I can feel it... the light between us is guiding us out of this place... we can get out of there alive!" Hikaru thought. As Hikaru and Rayboy progress through the hallways of the banished gradeschool, Blacksap Elementary, the serpent-like Outbursters, Flowersnakes emerge out of the plant pots, slithering towards Rayboy and Hikaru. Hikaru exclaims "Damn!" then pulls out and fires his Magic Revolver at Flowersnakes, eliminating two out of six flowersnakes, Hikaru gasps in fright and thought "C'mon Hikaru! Don't let fear block your only way out! Ignore these things, and we'll-" As Hikaru sprints while carrying Rayboy, he sees a long-haired girl, standing behind a closed door, "A girl?!" Hikaru thought in suprise, then the girl slowly goes through the door, showing an emblem of outbursters, Hikaru gasps then barges through the door and sees a main hallway, ambushed by countless numbers of Flowersnakes, slithering out the plant pots, including mid-sized earth-type outbursters, Turtletoads, marching towards Hikaru and Rayboy. "More of them?!" Hikaru exclaimed and grunts in irritability, then puts down Rayboy, and says "Stay back, little fellow, leave these bullies to me. Stay out of harm's way while I'm busy!" Hikaru arms himself with his magic revolver on his right hand, and summons his chakram to his left hand, then he roars and charges towards Turtletoads and Flowersnakes. Hikaru swings his chakram fiercely through few flowersnakes, eliminating them, then Hikaru fires his magic revolver rounds at one of the turtletoads, not eliminating them, but damaging them. Hikaru gasps while overwhelmed from Turtletoads' endurance and says "A sturdy bunch, huh? Well, not for long!" Hikaru roars and charges towards turtletoads, then the girl with long hair blocking her face appears between two Turtletoads. Hikaru gasps in surprise, stopping himself from charging and says "You again...?! What are you doing here?! These things behind you are dangerous! Stay out of the way if you don't want to get hurt, or worse!" The girl flips her hair, revealing her face, also a humanoid undead-type outburster; Virgin Stalker. Hikaru gasps in fear, then says "What...?! Her too?!"

Skylanders: Horizon, Volume 6, Chapter 8: Underrealm Part 2

Meanwhile at the Realm of Light between Haruka, Sakuyu, Ignitus, Cynder, and Fang during Hikaru's abduction into the underrealm, Spyro moves through the bushes and says "Ah, Guys! What happened there?! Where's-?" "Hikaru... is gone... forever." says Haruka with his morale completely emptied. Spyro gasps from Haruka's speech, then asks him "Wait... what do you mean Hikaru's gone forever...?? You don't mean he died in front of you, or-!" "He is still alive, but won't ever come back to the light realm again." says Fang, telling Spyro about Hikaru's disappearance details, Spyro gasps in confusion when he sees Fang, then growls and accuses Fang, saying "You...! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO DID THIS TO HIM! WHY DID YOU DO THIS, YOU HAG!? WHY WOULD YOU EVEN BOTHER AFTER BREAKING YOUR OWN PROMISE LIKE THAT?!" "If you just keep your mouth shut and sit down, I'll otherwise refuse to give answers and instead, beat you to a bloody pulp." says Fang, threatening Spyro to remain silent and proceeds to tell Spyro Hikaru's whereabouts. "Your friend, Hikaru, was trapped and doomed into an utterly dark and twisted side of this realm; The Underrealm, where there's no hope of returning to light of day. Not even you can even try opening the gate to the Underrealm to save a poor soul or two." "The Underrealm...? Are you... saying we have no way of letting him out?!" saysa Spyro, emotionally shouting at Fang about unable to save Hikaru from the Underrealm. Fang grunts in shame while grasping her shoulder, then tells Spyro the reason for an early reunion after a recent argument between herself, Spyro, Hikaru, Vanille, and Ignitus, saying "You want to know why I came back? Vanille ran away from me and made me regret what I said to you, about never seeing you again. I'd figure she hated me for refusing her from talking to you bunch. Maybe she was right; Maybe I was too overprotective to her, and forced my grudge against you on her." Spyro gasps sentimentally from Fang's regretful speech, then Ignitus says "What did Vanille say to you? Where is she now?" Meanwhile in the Underrealm, Hikaru struggles while thinking whether to fight against the Virgin Stalker or leave it alone, due to a fact it's still a girl, "Come on... What should I do?! If I don't act up, Rayboy and I will be outburster fodder!" thought Hikaru while biting his fingernail, then he throws his chakram at the Virgin Stalker. As Hikaru's chakram flies fast towards the Virgin Stalker, it evades the chakram's range by vaulting over, and Hikaru gasps while overwhelmed. Hikaru fires all six rounds from his Magic Revolver to damage the Virgin Stalker, but all rounds missed his mark on the Virgin Stalker, then Hikaru panics and says "Dammit! It's hopeless, after all!" As Hikaru runs towards Rayboy, he stepped on a black liquid substance, and the hand emerges around Hikaru's leg, causing him to trip down and the black liquid splashes around Hikaru upon his fall. Hikaru grunts in pain while struggling to stand back up while covered in black liquid, "Eugh, oil spills... ACK! Something's crushing my leg...!" says Hikaru, then yelps in pain from the strength of the black liquid's hand, then the black liquid forms into a monstrous black liquid pile with scarlet face, identifying as an undead-type large-sized outburster, Lump of Horrors. Hikaru says "You've gotta be kidding...! Another after another-! Oh, I see, now...! YOU'RE THE CORE OF ALL OUR PROBLEMS, AREN'T YOU?!" "Help!" shouted the feminine voice to Hikaru, then he exclaims to the voice, mistaking it as Rayboy's voice, "Rayboy!? Was that you?!" Hikaru gasps as he recognizes a magenta colored aura, then says "Wait... that scent... I know that girl...! VANILLE! Vanille, where are you?!" Hikaru looks around to find the source of Vanille's aura, then he looks at the canister within Lump of Horror's slimy forehead, showing Vanille's body trapped inside the canister. "Ah, VANILLE! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!" Hikaru exclaims, then Vanille says "Who are you? How did you know my name?" "Wha- You don't remember me?! It's me, Hikaru Daichi! I'm the one who accompanied Spyro, y'know, the purple dragon with golden horns and spikes?!" says Hikaru, explaining Vanille his name and details, then Vanille says "Who... who's Spyro?! I don't know what you're plotting, but please, let me out of here!" Hikaru gasps from Vanille's oblivious speech, then arms himself with his Magic Revolver to shoot at the glass from the Lump of Horror's canister to free Vanille. Before Hikaru touched the revolver's trigger after aiming to the canister, the Lump of Horror lifts Hikaru and slams him onto the ground, then Hikaru drops his revolver from his grasp, bouncing it next to Rayboy, trembling in fear. As Rayboy felt a revolver bumped onto his foot, he stopped wincing in fear and picked the revolver up, familiarizing himself with the revolver by firing the remaining rounds. When Rayboy fired the revolver uncontrollably with the bullets hitting the Lump of Horror's body, inflicting minimal damage, after firing all six rounds, he landed onto his rear after losing footing balance, then whimpers with tears flowing into his eyes, "Don't... mind me. Please... head back... to the realm of light." says Hikaru, telling Rayboy to exit the Underrealm before he passes out. As Rayboy listened to Hikaru, he gasps and gains memories of himself and his mother in his original realm, where all the raypeople live in harmony, loyalty, and freedom. Rayboy's mother, Queen Raydiant tells Rayboy during their realm's last moments before devoured by darkness "Rayboy, my dearest prince... for the sake of both our race and ancestors, live on, and the power of light will sparkle upon our future!" Rayboy's memories end and he begins to clench his fist, then aims it to the Lump's canister and launches his punch as a projectile, breaking through the glass and pouring out Vanille from the broken canister, causing the Lump of Horror to decay while screaming and dying. As Lump of Horror faded away, the other outbursters vanished afterwards, then the area around the building glitters with lukewarm light, Hikaru, Rayboy, and Vanille return to the realm of light along the building.

Skylanders: Horizon Volume 6, Chapter 9: Forceful Rescue

As the light inside the abandoned building dims, Hikaru opens his eyes slowly, arousing from concussion, then Rayboy slowly waddles towards Hikaru and lends him his hand and Hikaru grunts and grasps Rayboy's hand, slowly standing tall onto his feet. Hikaru rubs his face and eyes, then he confoundedly gasps as he notices the light outside the abandoned building emerges through the windows and building cracks, having him curious to open and see through the window, seeing a view in the middle of a forest filled with tall grass and tall trees. Hikaru gasps and says to himself "No way... We're back...? When did we-?" Hikaru turns around and gasps as he sees Vanille without clothes, lying on the floor beside Rayboy, "Ah, Vanille! You're alright... and naked. Hold on, here's some clothes." says Hikaru as he takes off his pants and jacket, giving her decency. After giving Vanille Hikaru's pants and jacket, Hikaru proceeds to pick up Vanille onto his shoulder and opens two corridors of light; the left corridor that leads to regrouping to Fang, Haruka and Sakuyu, and the right corridor that leads back to the inside the daycare sector of the Horizon Central castle. Hikaru picks up Rayboy, then Hikaru says to Rayboy, "Sorry, Rayboy... but this adventure's for big kids like me... I'll repay you once I'm done! ALLEY-OOP!" Hikaru throws Rayboy into the right corridor, sending him back into the daycare from the Horizon Central Castle. Hikaru grins in slight shame and thinks "Maybe I should've been gentler than that... oh well. All I can do now is pray for soft landing." Hikaru escorts Vanille into the left corridor, leading back to the endpart of Beastmaker's Marsh with Haruka, Sakuyu, Fang, and others. Meanwhile in the daycare sector from the Central Castle of Horizon, featuring both the dread-headed 19-year old boy, Sort'Lu, the boy with tentacle-like aura and powers, and his 18-year old partner with afro, Afro Fragthrow, equipped with grenade-summoning gloves and hyperactive personality. Afro panics while in search for Rayboy, missing without trace, lifting and throwing objects for searching Rayboy, attempting to avoid unemployment. "Oh, damn... if this brat- ahem, Rayboy don't show up sooner or later... we're both FIRED! LU!! Aren't you TOO RELAXED?! GET MOVING!" shouted Fragthrow, continuing to lift and throw objects aimlessly, creating a mess in the daycare room, then Sort'Lu says "You really need to calm yourself. You know it wasn't our fault the baby vanished too suddenly. It must be an unnatural incident or a child abduction." "Y'mean, KID-napping?! Then why didn't you just say so sooner?! Call the cops, or... OUR co-workers in duty for Kraken's sake!" says Fragthrow, asking Sort'Lu to call backup to rescue Rayboy. The corridor of light emerges with thunder-like energy, Rayboy screams as he becomes launched through the corridor, then Rayboy crashed onto Fragthrow's head, causing both to crash-land onto a tea party table. "Oh, well look at that, here's the baby. Feeling any better, Fragthrow?" says Sort'Lu, teasing Afro Fragthrow, downed while his head sits onto a broken down tea party table, he grunts, then snarls and says "Oh, bite me, squidwad!" Rayboy sobs silently while sitting onto Fragthrow's afro-haired head, then Rayboy screams and bawls with flowing tears outside his eyes, then says "Unca Hicky's a BIG BAD MEANIE!!" as his first words, then continues to cry aloud. Both Sort'Lu and Fragthrow grow silent after Rayboy's first speech, then they both say "Huh?"
Meanwhile in the Beastmaker's Marsh, Fang gasps from sensing an incoming burst of energy, then shouts to Haruka, Sakuyu, Ignitus and Spyro "The lot of you, move! Another of these gates is about to open!" Haruka, Sakuyu, Ignitus and Spyro all gasp and grouped behind Fang, then the corridor of light emerges. Fang gasps as the corridor's appearance flabbergasts her and others by appearence and says "Wait, is that-?" "A corridor?!" Spyro exclaims, then Hikaru walks out along Vanille on his shoulder. Hikaru pants, then smiles, waves his hand and says "Hey, guys!" Haruka, Sakuyu, Ignitus, and Spyro gasp happily for Hikaru's appearance, then Fang runs towards Hikaru and Vanille and screams "VANILLE!!" Fang hurls Hikaru off Vanille, then firmly embraces her and says "Vanille, I'm so glad you're unharmed, and I'm so sorry for-" Vanille grunts while waking, then interrupts and says "Fang...? FANG! I've finally found you!" she sobs and firmly embraced Fang back. Spyro gasps in confusion from Vanille's speech, then Hikaru grunts in pain and says "Where's your apology, you crazy woman?! You just pushed me off-" "SPYRO__!!" the voice shouts behind the bushes, calling for Spyro. Hikaru, Haruka, Sakuyu, and Spyro gasp from the familiar voice, then Spyro gasps and says, "Elf...! GUYS, YOU'RE JUST IN TIME!" Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Jet Vac, and Pop Fizz leaps and hugs Spyro together, then laugh and chatter. Hikaru grins as he sees Spyro, Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Jet Vac, and Pop Fizz bond together, then he sees Yoshiro walking towards him and says "Hey specs... nice to see you here." "Hmph, nice inner-armor you've got." says Yoshiro, pointing his finger at Hikaru's underwear. Hikaru blushes from Yoshiro's speech, then says "Shut your mop-hole, mop-head." Yoshiro grunts in irritability, then unsheathes his katana and says "You know I'll cut your guts and bones easily when I get angry." "Alright you two, cut it out!" shouted Stealth Elf, restraining Yoshiro and Hikaru from fighting each other. Stealth Elf chuckles and says "Speaking of 'Angry', chief Tsukimura, that moment between you two, I think that reminds me of somebody..." "And WHO would that be?" Eruptor says while aggrivated, thumping his left foot, then Fang bursts out laughing from humor, then Eruptor shouts at Fang "Wha- What's so finny- RRGH, Funny, old woma-TCH, young hag-UUGHH!!! TYPOS AIN'T HELPI-PI-PI-PI-PI-PI- AAAAAAAUGH_____!!! WHY AM I STUTTERING!?!?!?"