Nope, it's based on the Transformers line Beast Wars, where they go from beast modes to robot modes.
Anyway, on-topic, I'm not sure if I can post another chapter today. For some reason, my energy's really been drained. Don't ask me why, it happens sometimes.
EDIT: I managed to find some energy to write one chapter, but don't hold me to that. I may be able to post another -- depending on how I'm feeling.
CHAPTER SEVEN:
The Dendrosapients
Back at RAF, the next day, everything was finally starting to calm down. Only the veterans and the yearlings seemed to resist the effects of the hate waves. The newbies succumbed after a mild resistance whilst the lurkers fell to it easily. The veterans had their hands full just trying to maintain peace.
"I hope this means they've found the source," Terenia breathed.
"Can't say if they did or didn't," Blue commented, looking a bit frazzled. "Communications are still down. Genies is still working on it."
Dino reared to her full height, looking around. "Well, it could have been far worse that what it was."
"But it was bad enough as is," Sakki said, carrying some damaged wood, carrying it in a way that was similar to a Timburr. "But, I suppose we can be thankful for small favors."
Ash and Broken were seen helping put RAF back together, but they were curiously silent. Had the red waves and seeing the hatred spread spooked them? It would be understandable, although nothing before seemed to spook them. Perhaps it affected them in a very different way? Or were they simply focused at the task at hand?
Turned out to be the latter.
"Well, that's done." Broken said, wiping his brow.
"Fortunately RAF survived this." Ash said. "It's such a resilient forum."
"A forum's power, its strength, comes from it's users." Broken said, deciding to wax philosophical.
Goom came strolling out peacefully, saw Broken and Ash, and approached them.
"Hi, Goom." Ash replied brightly. "How are Kern, FuBar, and Bladeh!"
"They started coming 'round at dawn," Goom replied. "They're a bit groggy, but, after a bit of breakfast, they're free to go."
"That's excellent, Goom." Broken remarked.
Suddenly, the shadows on the ground seemed to be alive! They pooled into nearly circular pools on the earth, and swirled their momentarily. Then, with Blue uttering the exclaimation "What the deuce?!", monstrously twisted forms erupted from the ground! They bore a slight resemblance to various kinds of trees, each bearing an evilly, sinister face with bulging eyes on their trunks, just above their lowest branches that turned out to be arms with hands that ended five clawed fingers.
"Oh, come and get some, Woody!" Sakki snarled as one attempted to strike her. She was gonna make him regret that! She snapped off one of the arms . . . only to have it grow back. No . . . THREE took its place!
"Well," Terenia said, "THAT'S not a good sign!"
"Thanks for the assessment, Teach, now, let's rip 'em to shreds!" Sakki said. This living tree was really starting to tick her off.
One of the trees was giving Dino one of those hugs that would cause the Nostalgia Critic to scream "Bad touch!"
"LET GO OF ME, YOU MALEVOLENT MAPLE!" Dino roared, but the tree's strength was surprising, and it's grip could not, would not, break. So Dino ripped it from the ground, and wriggled out of it's loosened hold. But then its roots stabbed back down in the earth and it righted itself! But another one did not grow from it's initial rooting spot.
Goom had easily dodged every strike against him by the possessed wood, with far more agility and skill than the layman would think of his goomba body. Ash was demonstrating the same level of evasive skill. Broken, however . . .
"What, in the name of the old site, ARE these things?!" Broken shouted as he stood up again, only to narrowly dodge a swinging branch arm. That's when a sound, like a muffled ringtone, sounded. Broken, dodging these things, saw it was the RAFian species index. He vaguely remembered Cloak deciding to update it.
"
Dendrosapient(s). (DEN-droh-say-pee-ent/ents) As myth would hold, they are trees that have been animated by the demirevenants, servants of the ancient and evil Phaetos. They cannot be slain with brute force, as their strength and grip are unsurmountable by such means. They must be tricked into tying up all their branch arms, usually by a super-speeder. Of course, they are myth and, in all honesty, probably don't exist. See the entry for '
DEMIREVENANTS' for more information on the spirits possessing these trees."
"Oh, they exist alright!" Broken said, loudly. Then he flicked on his communicator, unaware that the Mark on all the RAFians was starting to grow brighter. "Cerulean, we need your assistance here . . . GET YOUR BUTT OVER HERE NOW!"
Cerulean speeded over to their direction the minute he got their message, and he easily tied up the dendrosapients so they could no longer move their arms. Then the demirevenants abandoned their hosts, which collapsed into piles of wood -- not clean wood either, but the rotted-away kind. Broken was prepared to look up the demirevenants on the database, the index, of species. But what he was not prepared for -- the demirevenants running away like a bully who couldn't pick on kids anymore because they stood up to him and stood their ground.
"Cowards!" Sakki snarled.
They kept flying away. Broken looked up the entry anyway.
"
Demirevenants: (deh-me-rev-en-nant/nants). Strange, mythically-spectral creatures under the service of Phaetos. They have no mind, no will of their own. Their sole purpose, their sole reason for being is the service of Phaetos. They are able to shapeshift into an aquilan form or possess wood to become dendrosapients. (See '
DENDROSAPIENTS' for more information.) They can only be slain with a Unity Pulse."
"Unity Pulse? What on earth's a Unity Pulse?" Ash said aloud.
Goom shifted his feet slightly.
"You know what it is?" Broken said shrewdly.
Goom sighed, "Yes, we must gather everyone. It's time -- time for you to know."
