Monsuno: Friendship is Magic

Episode 2: Essence Mistake to Change

When TCT got back from sneaking out they went to Chase's father and told him what happened. He was also shocked by Sarah's pokemon battling skills. "Incredible."

"You should have seen them, dad. They were amazing." Chase praised.

Sarah blushed, "Aww, come on now."

"No, it's true. You guys were incredible." Jinja said.

"Hehe, thank you." Sarah replied. "I'm gonna go a take a short flight with Skystar." Skystar is what she decided to name her Jaguin Monsunoe

Sarah head onto the deck with her pokemon following her. She spun out Skystar. "Okay, girl, you and me are going to have a little fly time together." Skystar roared in glee as Sarah mounted her. "Behave you three while I'm gone." Sarah said to her pokemon. Her pokemon nodded and Skystar took to the skies and flew far out into the sea."YAAAAHOOOO! AWESOME!" Sarah cried in joy. Skystar did many flips in the air and skidding across the ocean surface. Sarah sighed in relief, "Feels nice, huh girl?" Skystar growled in agreement. "Now we have new friends and a new chapter in our lives. I don't think anything could ruin this moment." Sadly, she was wrong.

A blast came and nearly hit Skystar if she hadn't swerved to avoid it. "What was that?!"

More blasts came from above. Sarah looked up and saw Quarx and Dactyl and another mosnuno. It looked like cryborg-like tiger with antlers. Name: X-100

On Quarx was Droog, Trez, Dasha, Petros.

On Dactyl was Explise, Hargrave

And on X-100 was Professor Tallis and four other adults. Two boys and two girls. They were all dressed in rugged outfits with rough expressions on their faces.

"Found you, Sarah." Explise declared. "Now make this easier and surrender yourself to all of us."

"No way!" Skystar and the dragons growled in anger. There was no way she was going to let her best friend fall into the hands of these jerks. "Snowflake, Midnight, go back and get the others. Now." Sarah ordered. The Light and Night Furies nodded and flew back to STORM HQ.

"Fine, then we'll have to take you the hard way." Droog added. "Dasha."

"Quarx, Crushing Vortex!" Dasha ordered. Quarx opened his mouth creating a powerful tunnel of wind around Skystar. Skystar struggled to get out of the vortex while Sarah struggled to stay on her monsuno. "Hang... on... girl." she called. Luckily and amazingly, Skystar broke free from the vortex, turned and blasted Quarx. Dactyl swooped down on Skystar, "Watch out!" but she dodged with ease. "Let's get out of here girl."

Skystar agreed and flew away. "After them." Talis cried.

The three mosnuno's flew after Skystar and fired their attacks at her. Skystar dodged them and Sarah hugged her tightly. "Woah, woah woah!"

"You can't escape us, little girl." Explise stated. Sarah whimpered as more blasts came and Skystar dodged some more. "Skystar can't dodge forever. I've gotta do something and fast!"

At STORM HQ, Chase and his friends were walking down the hall when Rockruff, Sivally and Mareep came running towards them, looking really worried. "Rockruff, Silvally, Mareep, what's wrong?" Chase asked. The pokemon nudged the team to the deck and nodded out to see. "Is something wrong with Sapphire?" Jinja asked. The pokemon nodded. Chase and his friends looked worried. Knowing their enemies were after her, they couldn't take any chances." Let's go find her." Chase stated.

"Evo! Airswitch! Mysticblade! Skyfall! Launch!

The four monsuno's were released and the pokemon came aborad the monsunos and TCT flew out over the ocean searching for their teammate.

"X-100, Drawn Ring!" Drezz called.

"Qurax, Blast it! Dasha called.

The two monsuno's blasted Skystar hitting her in the back and sending her into a spiral downfall. "YYYYAAAAHHHHH!" Sarah screamed as he held on for dear life. At the last second, Skystar straightened out. "Phew, you okay girl?" Skystar nodded. They heard the four monsunos and saw them diving towards them. "Lets get out of here!" Skystar bolted away from the monsuno's until she was over a large jungle. "Quick, hide in there!" Skystar dove down into the trees. With her spotted skin she could easily hide in the thick brush. The villains followed and couldn't find her. "That little brat couldn't have gone far." Petros said.

"Split up and find her, no matter what it takes." Explise ordered. The villains nodded and went in separate directions, searching for Skystar and Sarah.

The two were hiding deep in a large cave. Sarah was lying against Skystar's stomach, catching her breath. "Well this isn't how I wanted to spend our outing. Being chased by my friends enemies. Well it can't get any worse."

Just after she said that, she heard and felt her stomach growling. "Uhhh, why do I even say that?" she groaned.

Skystar nuzzled her controller. "It's okay, Skystar, I'm just regretting going out before lunch." she stomach growled again, empathizing her point. "I'm starving." Skystar knew she had to get her owner some food. She stood up and began to head towards the mouth of the cave. Sarah immediately stood up and ran in front of her. "Skystar, wait! We can't go out there, those bad guys might find us."

Skystar growled. "I know you want to get some food for me, but it's just too risky now. Who knows when they'll find us."

"How about now?" Droog stated.

Sarah gasped and turned, to be greeted by Droog and his minions on Quarx. Skystar snarled and stood over to controller. "Your cat can't save you. Quarx, Attack!" Dasha ordered. Quarx prepared to blast the two at point blank ranger, but Skystar grabbed Sarah with her teeth and burst through the cave roof... only to be surrounded by Explise and Talis.

"Now Tallis!" Explise exclaimed.

Tallis held a large gun and fired out a really, really, large net. The net captured Skystar and Sarah sending Skystar crashing to the ground. "Uuuuhh... Skystar are you okay?" Sarah groaned.

Skystar roared softly. All the villains laughed. "Now lets get you somewhere where your little f-f-f-friends can't find you." Tallis said.

X-100 grabbed the net with his claws and the three flew off. "Chase, guys, where are you?"

Meanwhile, TCT was still flying over the ocean.

"No blizin sign of them anywhere." Dax said.

Now the friends were getting really worried about Sarah. "We've gotta keep searching for her." Chase replied.

"But at this rate, we'll never find her. We need something, anything to let us know what happened." Bren stated.

"Rarr!" Silvally roared and he spotted something in the water below. Evo flew down to the surface of the water. There in the water was a feather with pink hihlights with dark blue shading. "That's Skystar's feather!" Jinja realized.

"Good, but where's Skystar and Sarah?" Dax asked.

Beyal grabbed the feather, "Perhaps my meditation can help us."

Beyal sat crossed-legged on his monsuno and closed his eyes. Concentrating the feather glowed blue and Beyal could see Skystar and Sarah trapped in a net being carried by X-100. They were heading to Explise's underground base in the lowlands.

He opened his eyes "I know where they are. We must hurry." Mysticblade flew off at great speed with the team following close behind.

"Please be okay, Sarah." Chase thought to herself.

At Explise's underground lair, Sarah was bounded to a table by strong manacles while Skystar was locked away in a see through cage.

Hargrave and Don Pyro pushed a large laser with a tube of monsuno essence attached to it.

"Wh-What are you going to do with me?" Sarah asked with fear.

"Why little girl, we're going to make you the next monsuno-human hybrid. One of the many we shall create." Explise replied. "Hargrave start the timer."

"Oh happily sir."

Hargrave typed on the keyboard and a timer showed up counting down from five minute, at the same time, the laser's tip began to glow. "Once this timer hit zero, the laser will fire and turn you into a monsuno-human hybrid. HAHAHA!" Explise explained.

Sarah gulped nervously. Suddenly, the roof burst open and the villains looked up. "It's over, Explise, now let go Sarah!" Chase Suno demanded. Sarah's pokemon snarled at the villains. Sarah smiled at her friends, "Guys!"

"We'll get you out of here, Sarah." Jinja said.

"Hurry. Before this laser zaps me."

Skyfall swooped down to destroy the laser but was blocked by X-100, who fired Drawn Rings at it. Skyfall flew high into the air followed by X-100.

Only two minutes remained on the timer now.

Skystar was busy trying to break the cage to get to her best friend. That's when Airswitch came by, "Airswitch, break the cage!" Dax ordered.

Airswitch squawked and used his claws at slash the cage in half, freeing Skystar.

"Evo, Shockwing!" Chase called.

Evo squawked and flapped his wings creating large gusts of wind, sending the monsuno's skidding back. Silvally and Rockruff blasted X-100 with Metal Claw and Rock Throw, sending the monsuno flying. X-100 crashed on the ground and returned to it's core.

Now only two seconds remained on the timer!

The laser activated and it sent a beam of monsuno essence at Sarah. "GAAAHHHH!"

"Sarah!" TCT cried.

Sarah roared in pain as the essences fused with her boy. "Help!" Sarah cried. Hearing her controller's cry, Skystar roared and flew over to the laser, slashing it with her claws. The pain stopped for Sarah and she weakly opened her eys "Skystar!" Skystar broke the chains holding Sarah and Skystar nuzzled her beloved controller, "Thanks Skystar." Skystar licked her, happy she was okay. Explise and the other villains were not happy. "We will have our revenge Chase Suno and that little girl will be ours!" he declared as he and the others ran away.

Back at STORM HQ, TCT was in the cafeteria having dinner. For Sarah it was a relief, escaping villains and being captured really worked up an appetite. "Thanks for saving me guys." Sarah stated.

"No problem, Sarah." Jinja replied.

"Yeah, we're always there for each other. We're a family." Chase added. Sarah smiled.

"And don't worry about Explise, Tallis and Droog, we won't let them get you for whatever reason they have." Dax added.

Sarah nodded, "Okay."

With that, the six friends ate in peace.

It's been a week since Sarah was captured by Explise, Talis and their allies and rescued by Chase and his friends. Since then the team has been helping her become a good monsuno controller like them.

They were in an open field now for a practice battle. It was Sarah vs Dax.

"Ready?" Dax called.

"Yes."

"Clubber, Launch!"

"Stormswift, Launch!"

The cores spun out and 'clinked' sending out the monsunos. Clubber resembled an anklyosaurus and bull.

Jerdy gave her another monusno. Stormswift resembled a hippogriff; a mythical creature with the wings, beak and claws of an eagle and the back legs and tail of a horse.

"Clubber, Attack!"

Clubber roared and charged Stormswift. "Stormswift, Aerial Ace!" Stormswift squawked and took to the sky, just as Clubber came in. She dove towards him at blinding speed and slashed him. Clubber roared in pain. "Now, Brave Bird!"

Stormswift flew towards Clubber, tucking her wings in and charging at a low altitude. "Clubber, Fire Spear!" Cubber's horns erupted in fire and he fired the flames at Stormswift. "Stormswift, Up!"

Stormswift flew up and out of the way of the attack, stopping his own attack.

"Now, Steel Wing!"

Stormswift squawked and flew towards Clubber with his wings glowing white. "Clubber, Missle Barrage!" The crystals on CLubber glowed red and launched out and towards Stormswift. Stormswift dodged all of the missiles and made direct contact with Clubber. Clubber's health was in the yellow while Stormswift's was still in the green.

"She's not doing half bad." Bren commented.

"Yeah, she's good already." Jinja added.

"Now use, Hurricane!"

Stormswift flapped his wings, creating a large tornado of wind. Clubber tried to hang on but he was lifted into the air, "Now girl, use Aerial Ace!" Stormswift charged Clubber and in the air and struck him hard. Clubber crashed to the ground and he returned to his core. "And Stormswift and Sarah win the match!" Chase announced. Stormswift landed and squawked in victory.

"Stormswift, return!" The monsuno returned to his core. "Not bad, newbie." Dax said.

"Thanks, but it'll be a while to catch up with you guys." Sarah said.

"No way, you'll already getting the hang of it." Bren said.

"Indeed." Beyal added. Sarah smiled at her friends.

"Alright team, let's head back to STORM." Chase said. The others piled into the Core Tech Hopper and headed back to STORM.

Once they were back, Sarah went to check in on her pokemon The poor creatures were victims to Chases' dad's constant studying an analyzing. She saw them in the containment field, lying exhaustively on the floor. "Hey Snowflake and Midnight, how are you?" The dragons roared softly saying 'Help me'.

Sarah giggled, "Easy you two, I'm sure Jerdy will be done soon." she reassured.

The pokemon slumped as if saying 'Yeah right.' That's when Jerdy walked in, "Oh Sarah, I wasn't expecting you."

"Just checking on my friend here. How's your studying going?"

"Wonderfully."

"Well maybe you could give them both some free time?"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, everyone needs some fresh air, even dragons." Jerdy looked at the pokemon whom looked a little tired of bring in confinement. "Alright, you can take them ." Sarah smiled as Jerdy deactivated the containment field and the pokemons' attitudes shot up and they pounced on Sarah, making her laugh, "Thanks."

"Your welcome."

Sarah exited the room and went to find her friends. She found Commandant Marshall Jon Ace. "Umm... Mr. Ace?"

"Yes Sarah?"

"Do you know where my friends are?"

"They are at the docks, loading off some cargo containers."

"Okay, thank you."

Sarah went off to catch up with her friends.

At the docks, Airswitch and Charger roared. "Airswitch, now." Dax called.

"Charger come on, get moving let do this." Jinja added. Charger pushed a cargo container while Airswitch lifted one up. Charger pushed it against other containers and Airswitch placed it on top. Neo-Quickforce and Mysticblade were moving on together. Mysticblade wrapped his long tail around it while Neo-Quickforce lifted it up with his head. "That's it. Neo-Quickforce, get it done!" Bren called.

"Mysticblade, lower it into place." Beyal stated. Mysticblade lowered the container onto the other ones. Bren sighed, "All this manual labor sees kinds silly and really exhausting."

"Glasses is right. How is this suppose to be helping with the worlds' monsuno problem?" Dax questioned.

"If Lieutenant Try said this was useful then I fully believe it to be so." Beyal said.

He got straight looks from Dax, Bren and Jinja. "Uh... we must follow orders, yes?"

"Yes, even if they don't always make sense, right?" Jinja replied, tossing her core in the air. "Hey!"a voice came.

The team looked and saw Sarah running towards them with Skystar and the pokemon at her side. "Hey, Sarah." Jinja greeted.

"Anyway, orders or no orders maybe we can have some fun offloading these cargo containers." Chase suggested.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Sarah asked, sensing something was about to go wrong.

"Race ya! Lock, get's the next one!"

"Ha! Not if Airswitch gets it first." Dax said.

"You boys are too slow for Charger." Jinja said.

"Ha! Neo-Quickforce is the fastest." Bren bragged.

"I am excited." Beyal said. Skystar and Sarah backed up a bit as Lock grabbed the next cargo container. Neo-Quickforce and Charger surrounded him as Mysticblade and Airswitch both grabbed the container. Lock lost his grip and Airswitch and Mysticblade took it into the air. The container slipped through Mysticblade's coil and began to fall towards the cargo ship. The team, except for Sarah gasped.

"I knew it." she thought.

"Aw Kragg, this can't be good!" Chase cried. Sarah mounted Skystar. "Let's go, girl!" Skystar flew up towards the cargo container. She caught it but the momentum of the container sent Skystar and Sarah crashing into the other containers on the ship. "Sarah!" the team cried.

One-by-one, the containers fell into the ocean. One almost hit Bren and Jinja if they haven't ran away. The ship tilted onto it's side and began sinking into the ocean. "The universe is out to get me!" Bren cried.

Beyal, Chase and Dax scanned the waters for their friend. "Where's Sarah and Skystar?" Chase asked. Silvally and Mareep leaped into the waters while Airswitch and Mysticblade scanned the sea from the air. Airswitch spotted the Normal and Electric type pokemon calling to them as well as a large blue figure. He dove towards the figure along with Mysticblade. They both grabbed the figure which turned out to be Skystar. Sarah was unconscious on her monsuno's back. Silvally grabbed Sarah while Airswitch and Mysticblade brought Skystar to the docks and set them down gently. Skystar was conscious, but a little shaken from the crash. "Sarah!" Jinja cried. "Sarah, wake up!"

Sarah eyes moved and she opened them. "Ugghhh... guys?"

The team and pokemon gave a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness you're alright." Jinja said. Sarah started to shiver a little. Skystar placed a wing over her controller as Mareep and Rockurff cuddled against her, "Come on, let's get you back to STORM." Chase said.

The others agreed and went back to STORM where they found Jon and Jerdy waiting for them... and they were not happy.

Sarah was examined by the doctors. She didn't have any major injuries from the crash, but they advised her to take it easy for a few days. When she was done, she went to mission control to see her friends. "Why can't you follow simply orders?" Jon asked.

"Oh, oh,oh I can sir." Bren said. "But these guys, they find it kinds difficult."

All the others agreed with that statement. Jon sighed.

That's when Sarah entered the room, "Sarah, are you okay?" Chase asked.

"I'm good, the doctors said I'll just have a headache for a few days."

Jon cleared his throat and continued, "Look Strike Squad is out with most of my elites. I have intel on an illegal shipment of monsuno essence."

"Sweet." Chase said.

Sarah gave his a straight look while Jon narrowed his eyes. "I mean, that's terrible news."

"Your mission is to secure that essence and bring it back here. Be careful. You may encounter strong resistance."

"I sure hope so." Chase said.

"No screw ups, if you encounter resistance call it in." Jon said. "I want to track your movements at all times."

"Uh yeah, you got it sir." Chase said. He turned to his friends. "Guys grab your cores, let's roll."

The friends went to get their cores but Chase's dad called to him. He came to him and placed his hands on his shoulders. "Listen to your orders son, remember your part of STORM now." he said.

"I'll try dad, I really will." Chase went off. Leaving his dad and Jon. They didn't not see this working out how they want to. "I'll keep an eye on them." Sarah said as she went to get her cores. "Please do." Jerdy and Jon pleaded at the same time.

Sarah laughed and exited the room.

The team dove their vehicle through a large area filled with power lines and cables. This was the continental power grid. It powers electricity all around the country. Sarah was riding on Skystar while her friends were riding in the vehicle with Chase driving. She decided to leave Snowflake and Midnight at home, so they could continue to rest.

Meanwhile, Grandma Future and Mr. Black, some of TCT's previous enemies were by an electrical grid. Mr. Black had a case of monsuno essence. "My last of my monsuno essence and I an forced to sell it. All gone."

"Look on the bright side mother, at least we still have our monsunos."

"We'll have to take those off you as well." a voice said.

Grandma Future and Mr. Black looked and saw Chase and his friends. Blitz was still in his battle mode with Sarah on top of him. "Chase Suno and Team Core-Tech!" Grandma Future cried.

"In the flesh, Grandmom." Dax said.

Grandma Future and Mr. Black growled. "Just one question, who are you selling this stuff to anyway?" Jinja asked.

"She is selling it to me?" a familar voice said. The team turned and saw Droog with Trez, Dasha and Petros. "Droog!" Chase said.

Sarah squeaked in fear and his behind Blitz's frill while he growled at them. "Ah, Droog, just in time." Grandma Future said.

"Actually you're a bit early, how about coming back in.. never!" Bren said. Dax covered his mouth while Chase stepped forth, "No don't listen to him, we are really glad your here cause now we've got a real battle."

"Sorry to disappoint you Chase Suno, but I am not here to fight, I came for the monsuno essence." Droog replied.

"Uh, you do know we're not gonna let you take it right?" Jinja asked.

"Then perhaps we shall do both. Petros take the essence. Dasha, Trez, prepare to spin out. And remember Dasha, let them follow you."

"Done Master Droog." she replied.

Petros leaped high and over the team and grabbed the essence. "I will be taking this, you will get your pay later." he said and he ran off with the essence. "Petros is getting away!" Chase cried. "Team Core-Tech, spin out. Blitz, get Sarah out of here to be safe." Blitz nodded and ran away with Sarah. "Woah!"

Skystar moved a few yards away from the battlefield and Sarah dismounted him. He layed down next to Sarah, breathing a little heavy. "Skystar? Are you alright?" she asked.

Skystar nodded, but his large stomach growled in response. Sarah rubbed his large stomach, "Oooh, Skystar, you're starving." Sarah dug into her pocket and pulled out a granola bar. This one had some berries and fruit in it. "Here Skystar, this should help." Skystar took the granola bar and ate it. Blitz licked his lips and nuzzled Sarah. "Hehe. Your welcome, Skystar."

That's when Skystar spotted something out the corner of his eye and growled softly. "Skystar, what is it?" Sarah asked. Blitz stood up and walked over to the spot. "Is there something under here?" Skystar started digging in the spot and Sarah joined in. When most of the dirt was dug away, Sarah pulled out the item. "Woah."

The item turned out to be a tube of monsuno essence!

"Looks like there were two illegal shipment, huh boy?" Skystar nodded in agreement. "I can't wait to show this to Chase and the others."

That's just a loud crash sounded in the distance. Skystar and Sarah turned around to see a large green beam shooting out into the sky. "Looks like trouble, let's go!" Sarah mounted Blitz and they both rushed over to the scene.

Arriving onto the scene, Skystar and Sarah were greeted by TCT fighting Droog and his alien monsunos, but something was wrong. TCT's monsuno had purple lights instead of blue for some reason. "Okay, so that's weird."

Sarah heard Jinja talking, "Droog must be transmitting the frequency somehow."

The team looked around and saw purple sparks coming from the electricity lines. "The electricity lines, he's using the power cables as aerials."

"We gotta take them out." Chase said.

"Oh, but Jon Ace is gonna be mad." Bren whimpered.

"Don't sweat it B, he'll forgive us. In a about a hundred years."

Chase went to his monsuno. "Lock, his is a direct order." he pointed to one of the substations. "Slam Ram."

Lock looked at the substation and rammed it with his body, making the substation fall over. "Timber." The team scattered and the substation crashed to the ground. "Charger, ram it!" Jinja ordered. Charger rammed the other substations sending them crashing to the ground.

At STORM, power was going out in a control room.

"Huh?" Jon said. Jerdy sighed in disappointment, knowing this had something to do with his son. "What going on here?"

"Chase." he grumbled.

"Sorry Droog looks like you can put this experiment into the big old fail column." Chase said.

"On the contrary, the results have been most satisfactory." Droog said. "I am well on my way to having revenge on all monsuno essence." With that said he, his minions and monsunos walked away.

Jinja sighed looking at the mess they made. "We disobeyed orders, lost the essence and destroyed the continental power grid."

"Blezin Commandant Marshall Ace is going to have us doing chores till we're thousand years old." Dax said. That's when Blitz came over and Sarah leaped off. "It's not a total lost." she said showing them the essence tube. The team gasped. "Sarah, where did you find that?!" Bren asked.

"Actually Skystar found it, hidden in the dirt and few yards from you guys." Sarah handed the tube to Chase. "Sweet, now we return to STORM with a completed assignment. Thanks Sarah."

Sarah smiled at her friends. "Time to give you a long rest, Skystar." Sarah returned Skystar to his core, "Now, let's go home."

Chase nodded and launched Evo and they all flew back to STORM.