//-------------------------------------------------------// Humdinger Strikes Back: The Battle -by Robert Emerald Fountain- //-------------------------------------------------------// //-------------------------------------------------------// The Battle Begins //-------------------------------------------------------// The Battle Begins When the ships began appearing on Humdinger's radar, he began to get very upset. "Oh no you don't.", he said to himself as Harold powered up the defenses. "Lock S-Foils in attack position.", said Twilight as she opened her wings. Everyone followed suit and began opening their wings as well as raising their shields. Once they had accelerated to attack speed, all of the defense turrets began firing at them. "SPLIT UP!", yelled Mickey. Everyone broke out of formation and began firing back. They were quick to take out a lot of the turrets. Flurry Heart scanned the station to locate the hangar where Ryder's ship was and quickly found it. The hangar was located above the brim at the bottom of the station. The turrets were all on the brim, except for one. The only turret that wasn't on the brim was the one that fired the Electromagnetic Pulses. That one was underneath the station because Ryder's report indicated that the turret was lowered down. When Millie spotted the turret being lowered down to shoot at them, she had other ideas. "You're not going to disable us!", she said as she readied a missile. When the missile was launched, her ship was pushed back. Regardless, the missile struck the turret and destroyed it as Harold was starting to charge it up. "Uncle, I think these allies are trained in the same way Ryder and the PAW Patrol are. They just shot down the E M P turret and are taking out the other turrets with ease.", Harold said worriedly. Humdinger began to get worried that his nephew was right. "Raise shields.", he finally said. He didn't know that Flurry Heart had shot a tap onto the station in order to listen in. She began to scan the ship in order to find the main shield generator. She readied a missile equipped with a drill once she found the generator. Firing the missile, it began to penetrate deep into the bowels of the space station. It detonated upon reaching the shield generator and took it out. The explosion rattled the entire structure, throwing Humdinger and Harold off of their feet. "UNCLE, RED ALERT! WE'VE LOST OUR SHIELD GENERATOR!", Harold cried. Humdinger banged on the console in rage, accidentally arming the most powerful turret on the entire station. "DANGER! VAPORIZER ONLINE!", said a mechanical voice from the computer. This was a massive laser that could vaporize multiple space ships in one single blow. When he realized the turret was powering up, he tried to shut it off, but he had banged so hard that the controls for it were broken. "Aunt Minnie, look. There's a turret emerging from the top of the station. My analysis says it is designed to vaporize all of our ships in a single blast. We need to take it out.", shrieked Melody. "Affirmative, Melody.", replied Minnie. She radioed the information to Twilight who immediately flew up to the turret and aimed a special weapon at it. When the weapon was deployed, it acted as a saw and cut the turret off, sending it into the atmosphere where it burned up and exploded. "All wings, prepare to board. I'm about to open the hangar where Ryder's ship is being held.", Flurry reported. At this point, all of the defense turrets had been destroyed, so everyone grouped back up around her and they began flying towards the station. //-------------------------------------------------------// Prologue //-------------------------------------------------------// Prologue Three years after being trained for solo space piloting and for war, Ryder and the PAW Patrol have responded to a breach on a recently constructed space station. However, after repairing the hull, they realized too late that the mission was a lure to trap them. Former Mayor Humdinger has built his own space station and he and his nephew, Harold, have captured them. Luckily, Ryder managed to get a call for help to Equus where the Disney Fleet was on vacation while keeping their new skills in check with the Equestrian Fleet. The allies have blasted off and are now arriving in the area. Can they board Humdinger's space station without being shot down, or are they too late? //-------------------------------------------------------// Boarding //-------------------------------------------------------// Boarding As everyone began closing in on the hangar, Mickey noticed what looked like a shield over the opening in the hangar. "Flurry, this is Mickey. I see a shield covering the hangar. My analysis indicates that we cannot get through it. However, I have spotted the generator for the shield. I am going to shoot it out. Once it's open, we will not have long to get inside. I have a feeling there will be an emergency hatch that will close up when the shield is breached.", he said over radio. "Go for it.", Flurry replied. Mickey opened fire and took out the generator to disable the shield. Once the shield was opened, everyone accelerated to get inside before the hatches closed. Once they had landed, they grabbed their handheld weapons and rushed to get off their ships. Harold ran into the hangar to confront them, but Twilight fired a stun blast from her horn to knock him out. Once he was unconscious, Millie ran over to get him restrained. After tying a blindfold over his eyes, covering his mouth with tape, and tying his hands behind his back with rope, she smashed his headset to cut off communication between him and his uncle. Remembering that Humdinger had used sleeping gas to stop Ryder in his tracks, they kept their helmets closed and set their air supply to recycle the carbon dioxide into oxygen. This way, they would not run out of air and suffocate. "Let's find the ship that he and his uncle used to get up here. We can put him there.", suggested Donald. Twilight and Flurry agreed and they found the ship in only minutes. They encountered Humdinger's kittens along the way and stunned them as well. After strapping him in one of the seats and putting the kittens in a cage, they knew it was time to save Ryder, his pups, and the cats. "Let's go. We don't have much time.", Flurry said after she and Twilight had returned to the hangar. Everyone agreed and they began their mission to save the PAW Patrol.