Friendship In The Void

It felt like his head was splitting open. Isaac couldn't see. His vision was clouded with the same fog that had accompanied him many times before. But he didn't expect it to hurt so much. Like many times before, the pain was unbearable. But this time it was different; this time, Nicole was nowhere to be found. Isaac found this more strange than anything, but he couldn't complain. His mind was tasked already. You know, with the pain shooting through his head and chest. Not only that, but his entire body felt like it was roasting in an oven.

Isaac rolled onto his stomach and pushed downwards, trying to lift himself up. His entire body was burning like it was on fire... wait...

  All he could hear up to that point was just a high pitched ringing, and his vision was still blurry from what seemed like fog, but now he knew that he was somehow surrounded by fire.

Warning; suit integrity reaching dangerously low levels. Temperatures above two hundred degrees detected. Redirect all remaining coolant towards outer plating?

"Yes." he muttered under his breath as the burning sensation slowly dissipated. The coolant ran through his suit, making his spine tingle from the sensation. The message disappeared, replaced with a new one:

Redirection Completed. Have a nice day!

It suddenly felt as if an entire load of bricks was lifted off of his back. He attempted to push upward once more, this time succeeding in setting himself upright. By that time, his vision was clearing up significantly and he could finally see the carnage around him. Fire stretched across the sky above him and smoke was bellowing into the air. He sat up and swiveled around to see what was behind him. What he saw was mildly surprising; a giant, moving mountain that looked like a pony.

"I will never surrender, human!" the giant suddenly spoke. A loud, pained grunt escaped his maul as lava cascaded down front-right leg.

The fogginess that was obscuring his vision was almost completely cleared away by now, meaning that he could finally see who was causing the giant so much pain. It was Chief.

Meanwhile...

"No, no, no..." Sigma thought aloud as he swirled a multitude of books around him. His voice was more human, and so was his posture. "These aren't right. None of this is right. All of them have different names... different meanings. How confusing does this plane of existence even get?" he suddenly dropped all of the books to the wooden floor. "Oh well. I was still sent here to seek those disturbances. Better keep looking..." the android started to walk casually through the rest of the library looking for information.

"Sigma?" a voice he indicated as Spike came from behind him. Which was strange considering he constantly monitored the heat signatures around the library. He face-palmed before turning to face the purple dragon. "How were you talking normal just a second ago?"

"Negative." the android blared a little too loudly, starting the small reptile before him.

"But you were! I just heard AND saw you." Spike pointed an accusing finger at him.

"Double negative." he shouted even louder, this time causing one of the window panes nearby to crack slightly.

"What does that even mean?"

"Triple negative! I said nothing!" every piece of glass in the room shattered with how loud the robot shouted.

"Ow!" Spike yelped in surprise. Something warm started dripping from his ears and a constant ringing caused him to cover them. "Why did you do that?!" he removed his hands from his ears and was taken aback by the blood on them. Sigma attempted to move forward, but only managed to cause the dragon more pain by doing so.

Sigma sighed before stepping forward and extending an arm towards the now cowering baby dragon.

Meanwhile...

  Back with the three mercenaries, however, things weren't going so well. No matter where they looked, no matter how many stands or rocks they looked behind, they just couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. They finally decided that meeting up back at the town square would be for the best.

"Did you two find anything?" Hunter was the first to speak up.

"Nope. Nothing out of the ordinary." Shady saluted with pride.

"Me neither, boss." Hurts saluted as well, trying as hard as he could to look professional.

"This is very bad. If we don't return with the humans' heads, we'll all be sent to the sun!" the stallion looked down and scoffed from the thought of the punishment, as did his companions. But then, as if all of his prayers were answered all at once, they heard something rang out through the town.

"Triple negative! I said nothing!"

Hunter looked up from his downward gaze to the sky. His scowl was replaced with a look of determination as the foreign voice echoed through the air.

"Well, boys... looks like we got us a lead."

*Sorry that this chapter was so short, guys. I figured I should just finish it early. I mean, it's been a long enough wait, hasn't it? Again, sorry. I'll try and make my next chapter a little longer.*