...and land about five feet closer to Sunlight's group.

Centurian: So, RM, what's the plan?

Registered Member 552: Well, it's pretty much a "beat 'em up and rescue your mom" kinda plan.

Centurian: What???

Registered Member 552: It was either that or surrender and hope they don't kill your mom. I figured it was better to fight.

Centurian: WHAT ?!?

Registered Member 552: What?

Ace: See, that's why Brit's the leader.

Registered Member 552:

Fused: Any ideas, Brit?

Britannica: We could surrender--

That's when Centurian realized he and Brit think a lot alike...

Britannica: --but we're better off fighting.

That's when Centurian realized Brit thinks too much.

Britannica: We can't be sure they'll set her free if we surrender. Plus, they're bad guys, and bad guys usually lie about this sort of thing.

Registered Member 552 (to Ace):

Britannica: Ace, use your smokescreen card on Starlight's team. Fused, TTT, RM, Midnight, Statika, and myself will do what we can to keep the bad guys down. Hybrid, use your animal senses to find Centurian's mum in the smoke. Wednesday, back him up.

JLR: Right!

The team moved like clockwork and everything went fine until...

The Time Trust: Ace, the smoke is clearing and we still don't have Mrs. Henderson.

Ace: I'm on it.

Ace pulled the Jack of Hearts card from his deck and prepared to throw.

Registered Member: ACE, WAIT !

Too late, RM. Ace threw the card and it hit the tunnel ceiling with a loud BOOOOM!!!

Registered Member 552 (as the ceiling begins to cave in): That's your new sonic bomb card.

Ace: What? That was supposed to be my flare card!

Registered Member 552 (with the ceiling still caving in): Didn't you read the instruction manual I gave you with the new deck?

Ace: Ummm.... yes ?

Registered Member 552:

Centurian: Mom!

Centurian dropped his dice as he leaped for his mother, but Wednesday reached her first. He jumped on top of her (it's not what you think... really), covered her, and steeled his body just before the first boulder came crashing down on them. Within seconds, everyone in the tunnel was buried. Then...

BOOOOM!!! (again)

Rocks flew in the air in every direction as The Golden Dragon emerged from the cave-in below. Luckily, the dragon half understood the screaming human half of its mind, and began to dig the rest of the JLR out.

Britannica was the last to wake up (he WAS always kind of a pansy), his head pelted by the rain.

Britannica: <Kaff!!> Is everyone okay?

Hybrid walked over from the group of heroes who were still trying to shake the post-cave in jitters.

Hybrid: Everyone's accounted for.

Britannica: What about the CSF... and Sunlight's group?

Hybrid: The Golden Dragon dug some more but they're gone, apparently.

Britannica: Golden what?

Hybrid nonchalantly pointed in the direction of the huge dragon. The rain drops shimmered as they bounced off its golden form.

Britannica: Wow! Now we're cooking with gas!

Hybrid: I thought Centurian already said that.

Britannica: No he didn't.

Hybrid (after thinking about it for a while): Oh yeah.

When Mrs. Henderson woke up, the first thing she thought about was her brave little boy. She'd seen him down there, attacking those monsters that had kidnapped her.

Mrs. Henderson: Where's my son?! My son was in that tunnel!!

Midnight Spectre 2.0: Mrs. Henderson, ma'am, we can explain.

Mrs. Henderson: ALEX IS DOWN THERE!

Ace: I think we should tell her.

Mrs. Henderson: WHERE IS HE?!

Ace: Well, funny you should ask, Mrs. Henderson. You see, well... he's behind you.

She turned and looked up to see two bright, hollow blue dragon eyes staring back. A statue? Her son was in that tunnel. It caved in. She'd lost conciousness. She was so confused. Now it hit her, her son was gone. She was standing in the pouring rain with crazy people, and her son was really gone. Mrs. Henderson could feel her legs begin to buckle.

Then the miracle. Two bright, hollow dragon eyes blinked, scaring the bejeezes out of her. She was still too scared to scream when the hot dragon breath lifted her hair straight back. She was too scared to scream, BUT DAMNED IF SHE WASN'T GOING TO SCREAM ANYWAY.

Then she remembered Alex, and she was mad. Somehow she knew it was this monster's fault. This thing had taken away her only son, AND DAMNED IF SHE WASN'T GOING TO MAKE IT PAY SOMEHOW. She looked defiantly into his bright, hollow eyes. Those bright blue eyes just like her son's. It's expression was sad, the kind of sad Alex's was when he knew he had done wrong.

Wait...

Mrs. Henderson: Alex??

Mrs. Henderson knew. She recognized her boy. It was one of those sweet and tender moments... weird, but sweet and tender. Tears of joy rolling down her face, a very confused but very relieved mother reached out tentatively to touch her boy's humongous, scaly, smiling face. She really would have reached out and touched him too, if Spandex's broken body hadn't come crashing down between them from a five hundred and seventy-two foot fall.

So ONCE AGAIN SpandexMonkeyMan ruined a perfectly good "mother finds out her little boy isn't a little boy anymore, and has grown up and become a hero with amazing powers" scene .

And Mrs. Henderson, who had been kidnapped by monsters, villains, and a magic man, survived an underground cave-in, thought she'd lost her only son then discovered that he'd been turned into a one hundred foot tall mystical dragon, and just witnessed a man fall out of the sky and land with a loud crunch on the wet pavement in front of her, had finally seen enough... and fainted.

Islington peered down from above at the fallen rebel prince and the team of heroes below.

Islington: Weak.

A quarter of a mile away, Chessmaster, Nuriko, Tommy, Stupid Dogg, The Time Trust, and an army of Agent Smiths all looked up and watched the Angel of Death draw the biggest sword any of them had ever seen.

Islington: Every one of you will die. Please be sure to scream.

His blade burst into flame.

Nuriko: I'm never gonna get to the mall.