Stronghold: Legends are Made!

Chapter 4:

Ready?...FIGHT!!!

"Thank god, I changed my face back. I couldn't stand looking like someone I'm not." I said as me and Alisa were in the gym. She was using a yoga-ball, while I was doing bench-presses. "Uh huh. I personally thought Pitbull was a snob, so I'm glad, too. Also, thanks for coming with me to the gym. I needed a gym partner in order to take the fitness classes that take place fifteen minutes from now." She said as I moved over to the punching bag. The gym saved that particular one for me, and they taped a picture of Discord's ugly face on it. "yeah, sure. Friends help friends out, right?"

"Yeah." She said as I punched and kicked the Discord-bag. Then she started talking to me about what Discord might do if we fail, which got me so angry my entire arm went on fire and my fist went through the bag all the way to the other end of it. I looked in surprise as the bag burned into ashes. she turned to me and asked "A little overkill, don't you think?" I smiled, looked at her, and said "It worked though, right?" "True. Anyways," she said as she grabbed my burning arm. "Session starts now."

"If you're this excited, I have a feeling it's not because of the results you'll be seeing." I said as she practically dragged me across the floor to the fitness class room. Then, she put me on the mat next to hers as the trainer (a caramel-colored, strongly built guy with Jet Black hair and handsome features) comes in and greets the class with an austallion accent. "Hey, everyone. My name is Garret, and I'll be your fitness teacher. Now, first, before we do anything, I like to know my students and I like them to know me. Gives a feeling of security and friendship. So, who's up first?"

Of course, it seems that I stick out like a sore thumb, because he pointed at me and said, "Hey, how's about you? In the black tank top and sweats. You seem like an interesting person. Come on up." So I got up, and everyone gasped as they looked at my face. "Whoa, mate. Max, right? First of all, your arm's on fire." he said, pointing at my left arm. "Yeah, um, I don't know why it's doing that...still." "Cool. Second, you're already very fit, so why are you here?" He then asked. So I answered with "My friend Alisa said she needed a partner and since she doesn't have many friends, I volunteered to come with her." He was then about to ask me another question, when I heard the noise of a wall crumbling down. He looked past me with a surprised look, then his surprise turned into anger as he said to the class, "USE THE EMERGENCY EXIT, CLASS!!! Max and I got this!"

Wait, I must have gone deaf for a moment, because there's no way he said that. But, amazingly, that opinion changed as he ripped the skin off his arms, revealing arms made of ice. "What are you, Sub-zero?" I said, laughing nervously. He grinned and said "Actually, that's my code name, mate. And Ms. Hooves sent me to talk with you. I secretly tracked you. She told me to look out for a guy with tan skin and light blonde hair. Honor making your aquaintance, Mr. Stronghold." He was going to shake my hand, but then realized he'd probably give my fingers frostbite and took the hand back.

He then smiled awkwardly and said "Yes, well...you get the point, mate. I was given intel that--" I put together the fact that my arm stopped burning the second that noise happened and finished his sentence with "A special task force was sent by Discord to kill me? Just a lucky guess, what with my arm's fire vanishing the second the wall crashed." He stared and whispered "...lucky guess, indeed, mate." Suddenly, a dark object was thrown through some smoke that filled the air and stuck to my chest. It then shocked me, but I laughed and yelled to whoever threw that, "You need to think things through and get your facts straight; I controlled electricity at eighteen!" and I took the thing off my chest, absorbing the electricity and turning it into fire as it ran along my arm.

"You ready, Sub-zero?" I said as I took out my bone-whip. "If you are mate, then of course I am." He said as he took off his shirt and put on a bulletproof vest painted blue. The armor then formed around his face, forming a mask (also painted blue). "Yep, definitely a Mortal Kombat moment." I whispered to myself as a human came in disguised as a Changeling holding a gun came in the room. He grabbed a tazer and tried to taze me, but I just simply absorbed it's energy and yelled "NOT UP IN HERE!!!" as I whipped him with the bone-whip. I gained strength from the tazer, so I used the shape-shift skill and morphed into an my personal favorite--Scorpion.

The Task Force came into the room, aiming their guns at me and Sub-zero. I just simply muttered to Sub-zero, "Get ready, Garret." He understood and a second before they pulled the trigger, I speared the first Human-changelings and yelled, "GET OVER HERE, BITCH!!!" I pulled him to me and ducked as he flew into Garret. Garret then grabbed his head, ripped out his skull and spine, and then threw it at another one of the Human-changelings. I burned the body of the victim of Garret's spine rip. Garret then froze half the Task Force and then broke all of them with his fists. I speared most of them except for one, tied the chains together, and brought them all towards me.

While they tried to regain their senses, I punched all of them in a row, snapping their necks. I then walked up to the last one, who was looking up at me in anger. I let the spear fall onto the floor as I grabbed the chain. I stabbed the kunai into his sternum and brought him up to my face, asking, "Where is Discord?" He spat on my face. I then got ready to rip my face off and burn him, and I said, "Tell me where he is or I'll BURN YOU WHERE YOU STAND!!!" He finally said, "He's in the place your ancestors once lived." I let go of my neck and laughed, saying, "If you think that little info will save you, you're dead wrong." as I formed a portal behind him, wrapping the spear's chain around him, and kicked him into it. Another portal opened up above me as the corpse of the Human-Changeling dangling from it.

"Holy shit, mate! That right there is mutilation as it is execution!...Lucky." I grinned and asked him, "Want to form an alliance, Garret? Fire and Ice working together has been rumored to be quite...deadly." He put his hand out and shook mine, grinning widely as he said, "Count me in, mate."

'Looks like new bonds are being formed, Max. Keep it up. You've made the bond of Brotherhood.' I thought before I heard coughing coming from a pile of rubble in the gym lobby. We ran to it, and I heard Alisa's voice from underneath the rubble. I stared at Garret and he instinctively put on his rubber arm skin. He then grabbed a few large pieces of cement and helped me dig out Alisa from under it.