Chapter One – Wrecking Crew?

The Dark Dragon, the one power that was sleeping under the Nowhere Islands, waiting for someone to pull the seven needles that sealed it away. After Lucas had pulled the last one and passed his heart to the dragon, the world had been destroyed but only to help create a new one. At first the survivors were lost in the darkness but soon from the darkness emerged a new world to replace it, a peaceful one that many had hoped would last. Everyone started anew again, this time making sure that this new world would not become lost like the last one. However, there were still a few reminders from the last one that still existed, one of them being a small section of the Chimera Laboratory. Dr. Andonuts had found himself by these remains after exploring the land, looking for familiar faces.

“I’m surprised this managed to survive,” he said to himself as he surveyed what was left of it. “Now that I’ve been given a second chance, I’m going to make sure I won’t make the same mistakes again.” After finding the machines and some leftover tools lying around, he promptly began to start working on disassembling them.

After hours of work, he had only completed a small section of it. “Looks like I’ll need a bit of help. I doubt I can do this all by myself.” He thought for a minute and remembered the young boy who he had met here before and his companions. “Perhaps they can lend a hand. The only problem is I have no clue where they are.”

Actually, they weren’t far off. The old residents of Tazmily as well as a few others who had survived had rebuilt their town and were living happily together for quite some time, 6 months at least. Lucas was out for a walk with Boney and was heading over to Duster’s place to see if he was awake. The thief had finally gotten some independence and was on his own but his house was still located by his father’s. Kumatora had her own place too near the ruins of Osohe Castle because she had become attached to the place even though she wasn’t a real princess. She was all ready out and about, looking for something to do when she spotted her friend. “Hey, Lucas. What’s up?” Kumatora greeted.

“Oh. Moring Kumatora.”

“Duster up yet?”

“I’m not sure. I was just heading that way.”

“Then how about we go together?”

“Sounds good.” Boney agreed as well by giving a short bark and wagging his tail.

“Were you guys taking about me?” someone asked from behind them. Lucas and Kumatora turned around and saw that it was Duster. 

“Good, you’re awake. Usually you’re still in bed, asleep,” she told the thief.

“Yeah. I’m not really that tired today for some reason.”

“That’s okay.” Lucas said. 

As Boney walked over to greet Duster, something caught Kumatora’s eye. “Hey, isn’t that that crazy doctor?” she asked, seeing him approach the group.

“You’re right. What’s he doing here?” Duster responded, seeing him as well.

“I don’t know,” the blonde shrugged.

“Hello, all of you,” the doctor greeted as he made his way to the four.

“Hi there,” Lucas responded.

“Hello,” Duster said.
 
“What’s up?” Kumatora asked.

“Actually, I’ve come here to ask all of you a favor.” Dr. Andonuts told them.

“What do you need?” Duster inquired.

“It seems that even after the Seven Needles were pulled, some of the Chimera Lab survived the destruction. However, I don’t want to make any more mistakes, especially in this new world. You think you all could help me out and demolish them?”

“I guess we could help.” Lucas responded. Duster was a bit unsure about lending a hand but their friend was willing to do so.

“I’d be glad to,” Kumatora grinned, cracking her knuckles.

“Thank you. I can’t really do it on my own and that’s why I asked you three."

“Then what are we doing just standing around? Let’s go and trash them.”

“Right. Let’s get going.”

The group ending up getting a bit lost on the way there thanks to Dr. Andonuts but luckily Boney was able to sniff their way to their destination. Everyone got to work as soon as they arrived to the remaining section of the Chimera Lab but even with Lucas, Kumatora, Duster, and Boney’s help, it wasn’t as efficient as Dr. Andounts had hoped.

“This is taking forever.” Kumatora groaned. “I’m going to take all of them out with a PK Starstorm. Stand back, everyone.” 

Everyone backed up, the princess got into position and prepared to turn a device into scrap metal when she ran into one of the machines and accidentally turned it on. Duster was nearby at the other side of that machine when it turned on and the two were quickly jabbed with a needle. 

“Ow,” Duster said to himself as Kumatora quickly turned around to see what had happened and noticed that it was on. “Crap!” Kumatora tried to figure out how to turn the thing off by slamming on the console with her fist but she was jabbed again in her lower abdomen. Frustrated, she ripped off the console with her bare hands and tossed it to the side. Dr. Andounts was busy working in disassembling another when he saw the two standing by it.

“It would be best if you don’t mess with it,” he told the two.

“Don’t blame me. The stupid thing turned on on its own,” Kumatora told him.

“Let me see.” He walked over to the machine and inspected it. “I just remembered that this machine does. It was used to make chimeras by taking the DNA of two separate animals, recombining it and implanting a synthetic zygote with the changed DNA into one of the animals. It was one of the more advanced equipment I was forced to create while working for the Pig Mask army because the chimeras were sterile. Was anyone around beside you when it went off?”

“Just Duster. Why?”

After realizing the position the two were standing by the machine, a feeling of dread filled him. “This is not good.”

“Hmm?”

“I was hoping never to use it again but I guess it’s too late now…”

“What?” Lucas asked.

“Your friend here is expecting,” he responded, pointing to Kumatora. “And he is the father,” he then pointed in Duster’s direction.

“WHAT?!?!” everyone shouted in disbelief. 

Angry, Kumatora grabbed the Doctor by the collar and pulled him towards her face. “What the hell did you do, you quack?!?!” she yelled at him.

“It…it’s not my fault…You see…” he stuttered in fear.

“Kumatora, calm down,” Duster begged. 

“Shut up!” She dropped Dr. Andonuts and elbowed Duster in the stomach. He fell to the ground, almost having the wind knocked out of him. In her rage, she blew up what was left of the machine with a well-aimed PK Thunder. Lucas just stayed out of the way, not wanting to get hurt.

“Wait…wait a moment. I’m not 100 percent sure that you are or not. Sometimes the body will reject the artificial zygote and it’s never been used before on a human being before.”

“I better not be,” she growled. “If I am, I’ll kill you!” Dr. Andonuts swallowed uneasily at Kumatora’s words. After seeing what she did to the machine in one blow, he was afraid of what she might to do him. Duster was able to get back his composure and went over to where Lucas was.

“I think we better leave now…” Lucas said to the thief. He nodded in agreement and the two tried to drag an infuriated Kumatora away.

“Let me go!” she roared as she tried to free herself from their grip. Out of fear, the doctor went to go hide just in case she did go after him. Kumatora almost got away but Duster and Lucas made sure that she couldn’t.

As soon as he saw it was safe to come out, he went back to work on getting rid of the rest of the machines, on his own. “I guess it was a mistake to ask them…” he sighed.

Kumatora had finally calmed down a bit but was still mad.

“Why in the hell did you guys drag me away from there?”

“I was afraid that you would hurt him,” Lucas responded.

“Me too,” Duster added.

“He deserved it for what he did,” she said through her teeth.

“It was an accident, Kumatora. Things happen.”

“I don’t care if it was of not. If I end up being pregnant, he’s going down. I’m out of here.”

“Like he said, we’re not sure yet. We have to wait and see,” the blonde told his friend.

“Whatever,” Kumatora groaned as she went into her house and fell onto the bed. “This is probably just a bad dream,” she grumbled to herself. “It will probably just go away if I ignore it…”