Chapter 11: Apollo Returns

	Serenity grumbled, staring down the quails. She noticed that the birds had a shiny red coat of paint on them, and one a coat of green. In black, painted letters on the red quails said "Attack Quails" and on the green one said "Carrier Pigeon Quail."
	"Well, I bet this'll be just the same a-" Slur stopped mid-sentence, seeing a large, light blue quail emerge from the ground. Its beak opened, letting a swarm of button-sized quail bombs fly about and exploding into nearby buildings "Of course. Do you still have your baton Serenity?"
	Serenity looked down to Grant and pulled the shining black baton from his fur. She was met with a look of horror on Grant's face "Well I  have no pockets Grant, do you just want me to just carry it around all the time?" Serenity then shook her head and focused her attention back onto the quails. She got up onto the bench and jumped off of it to bet a better aim with her baton. She brandished her baton forward, smashing one of the red quails into pieces.
	"Good job, you got one. Do the same with the other five thousand." Slur yawned and lied down onto the bench. She turned over, pretending to be asleep while Serenity tried taking care of the swarm.  The green quail flew around Serenity, taking many pictures of her as she took care of the red quails, smashing them into bits one by one. Grant stared at the green quail suspiciously, and as the quail got near him, he jumped into the air to catch the quail in his mouth.
	"Serenity, look! I caught one!" Grant announced proudly, holding the quail in his mouth.
	"What did yo-" Serenity turned around as she smashed her baton into another red quail. At that second of Serenity being distracted, the recently damaged red quail shot a ball of solar energy at Serenity in a last-ditch effort to disable the girl. The shot hit Serenity in the back, knocking her down and leaving a large, severe burn in her clothes and back. From the impact of the shot, Serenity fell down on top of Grant, gasping for air.
	"Oh god that burns..." She grumbled, having a bit of trouble getting up. She stomped the red quail into the ground, grinding it into the dirt as she stared at the remainder of the flock; four red quails and the light blue quail, who seemed to only be sending small bombs into nearby buildings. Serenity would have gotten the large quail first, but it seemed to have a tendency to stay out of her reach.
 Serenity looked back at Slur, she was asleep on the bench, and would most likely wake up by the time the sun is at its highest point in its sky. She then looked to Grant, who was just idly chewing on the green quail.
	"Grant, get the lead out of your pants!" Serenity yelled.
	"What?" Grant yelled back, letting the green quail fly out of his mouth. The quail made an ear piercing screech and shot a series of small, plastic bullets at Grant. The dog didn't react at all from the bullets, but accidentally swallowed one. He went into a coughing fit, sending out stray beams of light with each cough. One of the beams successfully pierced the armor of the light blue quail, disabling its left wing. The usually bombs it sent out didn't detonate, and instead flew under the larger quail to support it. After the coughing fit ended, Grant noticed what he did to the quail. He tried to force a cough, and another beam shot out from his mouth, now more effective against the light blue quail, as Grant aimed directly at it. The beam pierced the quail's "heart," going off with a large explosion. The remaining red quails went with the detonation, leaving no more quails left in the flock.
	Except for the green quail.
	The green quail scanned Grant during his coughing fit. It flew down to meet the dog and sent off a beam of light similar to that of Grant's. The beam hit Grant directly between his eyes. Serenity watched in horror as Grant turned into a large mass of light. The mass split into two forms, one was a small dog and the other form was a much larger dog. Grant diffused.
	"Oh golly, what happened?" Toby, the small dog shouted.
	"I don't know!" Joey yelled, running about in circles. Serenity noticed that, from looking closely, Toby and Joey's teeth seemed to look more like the gem shard they ingested. The green quail dove for Toby. The small dog screamed, small bullets of light flying from his mouth as he was screaming. The quail's "eyes" were disabled from the bullets, and fell down to the ground. Joey walked towards the quail and grabbed it into his mouth, chewing on the quail idly. Slur rolled off of the bench, screaming loudly as she met the ground.
	"Oh my god the quails got me!" Slur looked around the area and sighed in relief to see no quails in sigh, but two dogs standing in front of her instead of one "But who are those two?"
	"Well, I am Toby!" Toby shouted proudly.
	"And I am Joey!" Joey struck a pose, winking at Slur.
	"But together we're Joby! But Serenity decided to be mean and call us Grant instead." Toby announced, wagging his tail violently.
	"Oh that sounds fun," Slur mumbled, looking up into the sky "Wasn't Apollo supposed to be here soon?"
	"Who's Apollo?" Serenity asked, sitting down next to Slur to observe the sky. Slur sighed and turned to Serenity.
	"Well, when the Chosen Children were still fighting to save the planet, they met a Figure named Apollo. He was the type of Figure that worked with technology before he landed on Earth. He knows how to turn on a computer, which is very, very impressive." Slur lied back down on the bench, staring into the sky.
	"Ah, so they met with him when they were trying to save the world? Did they meet other people too?"
	"Yeah. I've only met the Figures they talked with, but according to Alex, they had so many more humans that accompanied them on their journeys. N was one of those humans."
	"But why is he against them now if he used to work with them?"
	"Oh, Serenity. N isn't against, he just wants to take over this country, and we're here to stop him."
	Serenity stared into the sky without replying. She was with her own thoughts, wondering what was in store for the three (four now). She touched her back, rubbing at the large burn mark and gasping in pain.
	"God I hope Apollo has something for a burn, I can't stand the pain." Serenity stared up into the sky, freezing as she heard a loud whirring sound. She saw a giant, hand-shaped ship land in front of them. A door opened up on the palm, and the human-like Figure emerged from it.
	"Hello Slur! Did you miss me?"
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	N observed the street. He saw the quail on the street, and wondered if he could find the one in Mikey's lab. N walked over to the quail and grabbed it, tampering at the camera in it. He pulled out its controller and started moving it about. From the small screen on the controller, N saw that the same "Potential threat located" message was displayed, along with "500 meters away" below the message.
	"Perfect, I can walk half a kilometer." N grinned and started walking in the direction that the screen pointed at. He watched the number go down as he walked, heart pounding as he saw "99 meters away" on the screen. At 20 meters, N approached a small, white house.
	"Now I just have to get in..." N grumbled. He opened up the door to the house slowly, controlling the quail behind him as he walked closer to his destination. His heart seemed to stop when he heard Mikey's voice.
	"I know that it's like 6 right no, but I need some sleep." Mikey walked out of the lab. N stood right at the exit of it, and swiftly got behind a potted plant as Mikey walked by. Mikey went upstairs, and as he heard a door closing upstairs, N got up and looked into the lab.
	"I can just smell the Stone Boiler right now." N walked over to the Stone Boiler, stopping as he saw the girl that smashed the camera right next to him.
	"Who are you?" The girl whispered to N.
	"Well, who are you?" N replied, staring at the Stone Boiler.
	"I don't know, I don't have a name."
	"Well, you look like a..." N noticed the percentage-sign pattern on her skirt "You look like a Percentalina."
	The girl thought about the name for a moment, then nodded "Yes, my name is Percentalina now!"
	"Good for you." N tried picking up the Stone Boiler, immediately failing and setting the boiler back down "Hey, could you help me carrying this?"
	"Su-" Percentalina was immediately interrupted by N.
	"Wait, no! Just show me a current image of the United States!" N watched as Percentalina displayed the current US on the table. N looked at the small, purple mass named "Bakajio" and immediately pressed it, hugging tight to the Stone Boiler "I hope this works."
	N watched as the room turned black again, and started flashing bright lights again. N wasn't phased at the slightest, and grinned as he noticed the Stone Boiler with him as well. However, N also noticed that Percentalina was standing in the same room, not phased by the room either.
	N was rather pleased as the lights stopped flashing and sent him to the room in the castle with C2 and J.
	"Congrats, N. You actually got the thing!" C2 cheered, but stopped as she lied her eyes on Percentalina "And you have that math girl too, congrats?"