Drake contemplated about it "Though your idea sounds plausible I feel that there may be more to this, there are enough means to get food, especially if they can control vines as you have reported, but something the reptile said about a creator feels off"

Once the group reached the path they were surprised to find no vines inside it at all, though some small signs of plant live like specks of green on the walls were visible.
"wha the?" Mech said out loud "Dude there were vines here right?" he asked Aqua who was standing next to him.
"Hai, this is the correct path but it seems the vines have been removed or left, I do not know or understand which or how" she ended up replying.

Drake walked into the path first, examining it.
"you smell anything boss?" Symbio said.
Drake shook his head "due to the sewer stench I am unable to smell anything here"

Looking deeper in the path, even Drake had difficulties seeing anything past the immanent darkness.
"No lights huh" Symbio said to himself though loud enough that everyone can hear it.

David looked into the darkness in fear. He was not extremely brave, he acted more on instinct than anything else and his instincts told him that if you can't see what's in front of you then it's probably not good. As he looked down the corridor he got an idea of how to illuminate the cave. "Any you have metal?" He asked curiously as he began to look around his feet for any scraps of metal laying around.

Mech shook his head " ubless my own body counts"
Symbio however shoved mech aside.
"Why you need metal, I got a gun but I wont give it ubless I know what you want it for"

"One minute," He said for a second as he raised his hand to his chest and began to use his electric ability to super heat his metal armouring and a bit fell off and he quickly lobbed it down the corridor. It wasn't bright but the splatter of molten metal gave a general idea of where the walls and floor were ahead. David turned back to Symbio "That why. Unless can one of you make light?" he asked honestly curious.

As David asked if anyone could make a light, Mech transformed a section next to his eye into a flashlight.
Symbio however was less impressed "your not getting my gun, that charge would only make it explode, further on, we need to be covert, a light will make us stand out"

In the mean time Drake has already moved out while everyone else was still talking about a light...

David looked dumbfounded at symbol. He knew what covert meant but he had never been much for sneaking around. Sure he hid a lot but when he was on the warpath he preferred being able to see what he was fighting rather than literally be in the dark as to what was in front of him. "Thanks for telling me about bullets. But how we supposed to see if we no use light? I cannot see in dark." David said simply.

"Dude, right here" Mech said while he had his flashlight next to his eye.
Symbio just sighed and walked inside the darkness by himself, just as Drake he has a natural ability to see somewhat better in the darkness.

Mech started to follow, guiding the others consisting of Aqua, Janet and David though the tunnel, he mainly aimed forward and followed the footsteps of Symbio ahead of them.

Once they reached a area which had lights they soon found Drake staring over...
It seemed to be a large pile of fur covered rocks with a cracked bear head sticking out of it.

David looked at the pile in confusion "What is this?" he asked curiously as he looked at the thing before them. For the life of David he couldn't figure out what the thing was but he obviously didn't like the sight of it.

"I do not know, but I have an guess" Drake answered.
"and that is?" Janet asked.
"its better if I would keep such to my self till I have some evidence" Drake replied.
He looked up, the path would follow into a large cylinder room breaking off in various paths.
"where to go now?" Mech asked.

David took one last look at the lump of bear and continued on, following the others. When they came to the cylinder room he shuddered at the thought that anything could be down those tunnels from a simple rat to that water monster from before. "Where we go now?" David asked being sure to stay close to the group.

"we split up, I shall follow this path" Drake said, pointing to the path going strait ahead from the one they entered.
"Mech and Aqua can follow that path, Symbio you go into that one, Janet and David, you are both not real members of my group, so I cannot command you truthfully so you can follow who ever you with to follow, but I do ask you to stay with someone as I do not have any communicators for you with me"
When he said not real members it would have to be assumed it should have been followed with an 'yet'

David looked over everyone for a moment and decided that he would stick with Janet whcich he made clear by taking a step to be beside her. He figured she would be the least suspicious of him doing somthing and having a shapeshifter as backup wouldn't be that bad of a thing either.

(You don't have to tell me this if you don't want to but do any of your planned storylines involve members of the group fighting alternate versions of themselves? Like Drake vs future Drake or Mech vs Mech from an alternate dimension?)

Janet turned to face David as he stepped next to her, giving her the feel that he wants to join with her.
"So, who will we follow?"

(not going to details but yes)

David contemplated for a moment all the benefits of each person. Symbio seemed to be able to handle his own pretty well down here but he would likely want to stay alone plus he and David hadn't started off on the greatest note, Drake seemed kind enough and likely could hold his own in a fight more than enough but he figured heading off with Mech and Aqua might be the best way to go considering Mech seemed to be genuinely enthusiastic about David being there and the two of them had a pretty diverse power set between them from what he had seen so far. David looked over at Aqua and Mech "can come with you fellas?" he asked in his broken speech.

"Sure" Mech replied to the cyborg man "and you miss shift?" he asked Janet.

Janet complemented about it for a second before replying.
"Actually I think I rather go with the black guy" she ended up replying about Symbio.
"Sorry David, guess I see you later" with that she morphed into a bird and started to fly after the Symbio.

David nodded, he realized it was her decision to go with whom she chose but he was still a little disappointed that he wasn't heading out with her anymore but on the bright side he was going with two more than competent mutants. "Alrighty-o let go" David said with a slight clap of his hands.

As Drake was able to hear the conversation and knew the 2 additional figures decided to follow others he sped up, using his fullest speed and jumping on walls in order to turn.
After a period of time he stopped and began to walk normally as he entered a rather large room.
Inside the room was pretty much nothing and it seemed to lack any other entrance, but there was one thing further...

A large humanoid reptile like person was standing in the room, eying Drake.
"You ssssshhhhauld neverrrrr hhhhafe come hherrrre" the creature said.
"I was left with little choice, the kidnapping of humans has drawn to much attention to the mutants" Drake simply replied the mutant.
"If this continue there will be a man hunt to all mutants, bringing danger to all of us" He continued.

The reptilian man seemed to complement what he was told but shook his head.
"I canthhh sstop, I hhhafe no choihhhce" he replied.
"Why?" Drake asked curious.
"Due tho the masssterrrr, I hhafe to...." The reptilian man stopped mid sentence while his eyes seemed to glaze over for a second, it almost seemed to Drake as if he was struggling to something similar as he himself has done so often.
"What is your name" Drake asked, hoping to pull out some more sanity and all.
"Rrrrepthile, thhat isss thhe name thhhe massterr gafe me" Reptile replied, Drake's attempt to draw him back seemed to work.

Drake sighed, thinking of what to do.
"You musst go now" Reptile suddenly spoke.
"Same as you, I cannot unless I know the kidnapping stops and those you have already are returned safely" Drake replied, it seemed the conversation would end soon.
"No, you mussst, orr elssse" Reptile continued without saying what exactly.
"Or else what?"
"Thhe massterrss orrrderrrs"
"what orders?" Drake asked, he needed to know what was going on.
"Thhe orrderrss......" As he thought about it his eyes glazed over completely and just as suddenly he jumped to Drake.

However, during the entire conversation Drake has been charging up his electricity just in case.
So as Reptile jumped Drake released the blast forward.

Reptile tried to avoid but the end of his tail got hit by the side of the blast, conducting a portion of it throughout his body.
The rest of the blast continued and hit the wall, causing the wall to collapse and a large wall dust to rise, making it impossible to know what is happening...



After an surprising amount of flying and time Janet finally reached Symbio who was moving at an high speed prior before he stopped to speak to her.
"Why did you follow me?"
"Figured my best chances are with you, Drake can handle himself, Mech is with Aqua and David, so.."
"Whatever"

After a while of walking past some waterway's Janet suddenly stopped.
"What is that" She said, pointing to some kind of box at the edge of the sewer waters.
Symbio grabbed the box and looked at it, holding it between two fingers.
"Maybe this is what caused that wall of water?" Janet continued as he said nothing.
"Not unless its adjusted from its normal functions, its a music player" Symbio explained as she used his claws to break open the special and unique protective case that prevented water from getting to the music player.

Janet felt pretty stupid for not having recognized something so common, though when he teared open the case she did recognized it a little, not a brand she knew though.
"Dude, its not cool to steal stuff man" an unknown voice spoke from, well no where they could figure out.
"what the?" Symbio said as the voice spoke.
Suddenly the water started to rise and a head shaped together with two tendrils where the arms would be.
A large tower of water with water made tendrils and a normal sized water made head was towering above them.
"Give it back man" the voice spoke from the water's head.
Symbio looked at the water man, a grin showed on his mask as the symbiote copied Rain's face.
"Sure" he said as she threw the device inside the mutants body.
"Why did you do that?" Janet said as she watched the device give a spark when it hit the water and short circuited.
"Dude, you should not have done that man, you should not have done it, I'll wash away that bad skin of your man, your going to drown now man"
Just as that the water mutant rose higher.
Janet watched in fright only to suddenly have to dive down as en explosion behind her destroyed the wall, sending rocks flying though the air.

it took quite a while before the dust settled, surprisingly the water-hippy man did not attack during it.
There was a sound of a large splash but with the flying rocks who knew what it was.
As the dust descended A figure walked out of the wall.
"Report" Drake said as he looked at Symbio.
"Not much, found a music player in casing, its owner a water made mutant wanted it back, did what he wanted, though I ripped off the case and damaged the battery so it got fried, it got mad and, well you broke the wall"
Drake looked at Janet who nodded to confirm.
"Dont let up, I was fighting the reptilian one just a sec ago, they both seemed to have left but" and Drake was correct, in the waters you could see a face in the waters surface, the face seemed to be unconscious and underneath it was a rock that likely had hit the man when the rocks were blown out of the wall.
"Ugh, man rocks hurt man" a voice spoke, Instantly Janet shifter her arms to bear claws.
Quickly the water mutant rose again.
"Who are you man" it spoke once it noticed Drake, seemed he had forgotten the other two.
"You can call me Drake, and you are?" he replied.
"Master called me Hydro" He spoke.
"Again this master, care to tel me who he is?"
"He's my master man, of yeah thats right, master told me to drown all those down here" Just as that the hippy mutant attacked.
Drake released a second electric wave he had charged up a little, and once it hit Hydro he screamed a death scream and his entire body fall to pieces.
"did he just die?" Janet asked stunned.
"Seems I used to much power" Drake said calmly, though he kept unmoving for a long while.



As the three were walking though the tunnel they ended up, at a dead end.
"Odd, a tunnel to nothing?" Mech said.
"Perhaps there is more then we can see?" Aqua asked Mech.
"Guess" He said "one way to find out" Just as that he transformed his arm to an other energy cannon.
"Mech-san, please refrain from using that, if the tunnel collapsed, then we all may become buried" Aqua spoke to stop him.
Mech sighed and transformed his arm back to normal "then what?"
Aqua thought about it for a second "Unless David-san knows of a way, I think we could best report to Drake-sama"

David stepped forwards and looked over the dead end for a moment. He didn't know what he was looking for but he figured looking for anything might be useful. After a bit of examination David tried banging his wrist spikes on the wall, hoping to hear something out of the ordinary. If this did not work he would agree to leaving and going back to Drake.

Though there was no sound then then the metal spikes hitting the black granite stones that made up the wall, there was something off on the feel of the wall's sturdiness.
Still nothing could be noticed on it....

"Guess were better go back to the main room and wait" Mech said disappointed.
The 3 then followed back to the end of that tunnel and entered the room where they all had split up a while ago.
It was about 10 minutes of having to listen to Mech's rambling on the jeep to David, trying to see what a Cyborg thought about his customizations on it before the rest of the group returned from the same tunnel Symbio had left in.
"Report" was all Drake said.
"Dead end but something seemed off, David checked the wall but we did not find anything that was a clear sign" Mech replied, bummed that his talk with the Cyborg was over with (even though David may not have been able to follow him at all)
Drake looked at David then.

David listened intently to Mech the whole way back, he didn't know a whole lot about technology as his experiences with it was mostly limited to watching televisions and automatic opening doors but he had a fascination for it none the less.
Once the group got back and Mech and Drake spoke, Drake looked at David "Yes, wall seems off. Something weird. Mech was going to blow it up. Thought it was good idea. Aqua said not to. It would bring down tunnel. Still think there is something behind it." David said in his broken english. David was already getting somewhat better at speaking but he still had a little ways to go before he could pass for a normal human better.