“Huh?” Angelina was spurred awake by the lingering vibrations that echoed throughout the air. “What was that sound.” She glanced around her enclosed environment to check if others heard it too.

“An I the only one who heard it? It seems so. Everyone is still asleep.” Angelina took her time standing up. “This might be the perfect opportunity for me to go search for my father. I doubt anyone would notice that I left.”

Thinking about leaving the secured base to go look for her missing sperm donor, Angelina secretly packed up her belongings then motioned her swaying hips towards the exit. Unexpectedly, she was discovered by someone of similar sex.

“Can’t sleep either?”

“Huh?” The person whose voice startled Angelina was the famed captain, Water Lilly. She didn’t carelessly fell asleep like the others, not when she was in enemy territory.

“You’re awake?” Angelina took a glance at Water Lilly before continuing to the exit.

Water Lilly was curious about what Angelina was up to, so she asked: “Are you going somewhere?”

“I’m just going to take a look outside. I don’t feel comfortable here.” Angelina wasn’t in the long drawn out conversation with others. ‘I have to locate the whereabouts of my dad before the gate reopens.’

“Hey, wait up. I’ll accompany you to take a look.” Water Lilly was also feeling anxious. She decided to take a breather outside with Angelina. “Both of us could scout ahead and see if the storm has settled.”

“Suit yourself.” Angelina was a bit peeved by Water Lilly tagging along with her. Before she opened the door, she took one last look at Fluffy Tanya who was still sleeping like a baby. ‘Take care of yourself. Hopefully, we meet again.’

After the door opened, Angelina stepped outside. She didn’t wait around for Water Lilly to catch up.

“That girl has a rude side to her.” Water Lilly pondered as she hastened to catch up with Angelina. She didn’t travel with all her gears because her intention was to only scout the area. She had never expected that Angelina wanted to travel the eerie Ghoul Graveyard by her lonesome.

Due to the depth of the cave where the facility was based, Angelina and Water Lilly had to utilize the velocity of their motors to reach the cave’s exit. When they arrived there, a shocking scenery splashed into their girly faces.

“What the hell?” Angelina’s mind almost exploded when her observatory eyes ascertained the unrecognizable environment.

“Huh? How is this possible?” Water Lilly came along just after and joined her in her seismic bewilderment. “When did all of this happen? Everything is on fire…?”

The frightening scenery which presented itself before the 2 astonishing Tomb Riders was one of dystopic proportions. The once frozen slope that they struggled to ascend was being engulfed in blazing magma! They spotted some far away beasts fleeing to safety from the fast spread heat, only to be consumed by increasing numbers of Magma Ghouls!

The most shocking sight that almost destroyed their cognitive complex, was when they laid eyes on an imposing presence lurking in the distance. There was a towering Ghoul comprised of otherworldly flames that could scorch the earth to cinders. It had a face of extreme evil; dark and sinister as the frightening abyss. Moreover, what oscillated its overbearing presence was approximately 24 devastatingly overpowered halos!

“Unbelievable! I must be dreaming!” Angelina tried pinching herself awake. For more clarification on reality, she even looked towards Water Lilly and asked: “Are you also seeing this?”

“Hm…” Water Lilly nodded stiffly. Her neck was too scared to bend fluidly. “I can’t believe my eyes.”

Both Tomb Riders did a mental calculation of the Fire Lord’s imposing halos. It had 4-black, 4-gold, 6-green, 9-red, and 1-rainbow coloured halo! This classification of halos was mightier than that of the Cloud Ghoul’s and the Golden Entity’s combined!

“We have to go warn the others about this right away!” Water Lilly set her motor in gear as she prepared to go back and informed the other Tomb Riders of the existing threat. “Hey, aren’t you coming with?”

“You go ahead. I’ll stay here and observe the situation.”

“Alright. I’ll hurry back with the others.” Water Lilly sprinted her motor back to base.

“I can’t believe a Ghoul like that exists.” Angelina’s mind was still blank as she fixedly stared at the Fire Lord Ghoul. “Could father have survived with such a thing lurking around in this Ghoul Graveyard?” She started to doubt the objective of her mission ever coming to pass. “What am I thinking? I can’t afford to be discouraged now.”

Angelina slapped her face to regain her determined composure. “That’s more like it.” As she continued to observe the Fire Lord Ghoul afield, she noticed something peculiar.

“What is that golden thing..?” What she saw was the Golden Entity trying to halt the Fire Lord’s movement while dodging multiple chain attacks from the Cloud Ghoul.

“Are they fighting against each other? And what is that cloud thingy? Is it also a Ghoul? This place is filled with inexplicable wonders.” Angelina coincidentally glanced below. There she noticed that the lava was quickly climbing higher.

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“It’s already this far up? Seems like that big flame monster is the reason behind the spread of this blazing lava. I don’t understand though. Why is it engulfing everything in flames? Huh!” Angelina heard the sound of multiple motors approaching from within the cave and dashed back into her Muscle Thron.

“What the hell is so important for you to call us all out here, Water Lilly?”

“Yeah, I was just about to doze off.”

“This better be urgent. I need my strength if I am to kick those Ghouls’ ass.”

“Hurry, all of you. Come see for yourselves.” Water Lilly led the gang outside the cave. When they all got a good view of the drastic change in topography, moreover, felt the hot temperature slapping their faces, many of them cursed expletives, some even wet their pants, others falter to their knees.

“What the f*ck???”

“Did we all get tossed into hell without knowing it? How come this frigging mountain that is supposed to be filled with snow transformed into a blasted volcano so quickly?”

A Tomb Rider who was scared shitless vomited his stomach all over his motor. “Dammit! I don’t understand how this all happened so suddenly, but aren’t we all screwed?”

“No shit, dumbass! We’re f*cked! F*cked! F*cked!”

“Look at that huge monster over there! Its huge flaming dick is f*cking the environment into hellish oblivion!”

“This can’t be happening! This can’t be f*cking happening! I didn’t sign up for this shit.”

“By the rate of how the environment is being consumed, soon there will be nowhere left for us to seek shelter.”

In the midst of circulating worry and confusion. Armoured Hero sounded his voice. “Calm down, everyone.” Though he was distressed, Armoured Hero tried his best to keep everyone in check. He surveyed the area around him and noticed that many creatures were fleeing further up the mountain. This was in the opposite direction of the looming Fire Lord Ghoul. “There is still a way to survive this.”

“Armoured Hero what are you talking about, man? Look around, there is no escape. This mountain has already melted halfway. Even those hills in the distance have already become a flat land! How is there still a f*cking way for us to survive this???”

Others eagerly listened for Armoured Hero’s opinion. “I don’t know how long we might be able to last, but we can still survive a while longer if we climb higher like those Ghouls over there are currently doing. There isn’t much time to debate the matter. If you all want to live a while longer follow my lead!”

Armoured Hero didn’t wait around for the Tomb Riders’ approval. He hurriedly set his motor in gear by dashing over the large tree trunks from which they came.

“Who gave you the right to order me around!?” Perceiving the distance forming between him and Armoured Hero, Ghost Rider donned his Skullmet and chased after him.

“Don’t leave us behind!” The remaining Tomb Riders also started rushing across the expansive tree trunks. The lava had already climbed so high, it was practically melting the underside of the flatten tree base.

“Hurry across! This bridge won’t last much longer!” Shouted Water Lilly. She tried her best to stall the rapid spread of the climbing lava by making good use of her water form Ghoul Trigger. Unlike her, Ghost Rider could stand the heat to some extent. He madly rode his flaming motor across the tree paths.

Angelina was positioned in the middle of the fearful crowd. She skilfully operated her motor to not fall into the fiery pit below.

“Watch out! Something is rising out of there!” Due to Angelina getting more time to process their current predicament, she was the first to notice the appearing presence of the Magma Ghouls bursting out of the blistering lava.

“Kyhaah!” A handful of Tomb Riders lost their lives to the surprised attack of the Magma Ghouls.

“You bastards! Piss the hell off.” Unruly Ban almost fell into the fiery pit. Luckily, he activated his aeronautical Ghoul engine in time. He hovered higher where he could get a better aim at the swarming Magma Ghouls.

“Everyone be careful not to get contaminated by their bodily temperature.” From what he just observed from the fallen Tomb Riders, Armoured Hero noticed that their motors vaporized with a touch of the Magma Ghouls’ heat. “Tread carefully!”

As Armoured Hero finished notifying the others behind him, a monstrous Magma Ghoul burst forth before him; causing the tree paths to shatter. Many Tomb Riders got jerked into the increasing ocean of flame.

“The path of ground retreat has been compromised! Quickly make use of your aeronautical drives!” As he spoke, Armoured Hero activated the flight mechanism on his sapphire steed. Just in time, he was able to avoid getting smashed by the large Magma Ghoul. Others weren’t that lucky though.

“Kyaah!” Another handful of Tomb Riders met their ruin by the truculent efforts of the Magma Ghouls!

“RAKASHAAAH!” The Magma Ghouls went insane on trampling everything in their path. They didn’t discriminate humans from regular Ghouls. Any creature that wasn’t of their element was seen as hostile. This was one of the reasons why Ghost Rider suffered fewer damages as he rode to safety over the flaming ocean currents.

“No! I don’t want to die! I have a little girl back home!”

“Probably you should have thought of that before you came here you dumbass!” A fellow Tomb Rider kicked another person into the jaws of flaming death just so he could buy himself more time to get to safety. “Be useful and act as a decoy. I’ll take care of your little girl for you when I get back.”

“You bastard! How could you do this to…” This person was consumed by lustful flames before he could finish cursing the Tomb Rider who kicked his ass into the jaws of death.

“Everyone is losing their freaking minds!” Angelina thought as she swerved out of a Magma Ghoul’s range of attack. Because of the model of her Muscle Thron motor, she couldn’t operate as freely as she wished. Moreover, that particular motor didn’t possess a functional aeronautical drive.

“The situation is getting dicey. Soon I will have to switch motors.” Angelina swiftly arrived at a dead-end where the big Magma Ghoul had intercepted Armoured Hero earlier. Her only path of escape was to fly or die!

“Shit! Shit! Shit!” In midst of her frustration, Angelina heard a familiar voice calling out to her.

“A.J! Over here!” Fluffy Tanya came along to offer Angelina a lift inside her hovering motor. “Hurry and get in! The monsters are… huh?”

“Tanya!” Angelina had to sacrifice the body of her motor to rescue Fluffy Tanya from being burnt to a crisp by unexpected fireballs spat out by the oversize Magma Ghoul. “Are you ok?”

“A.J, your motor… it’s…” Fluffy Tanya recognized Angelina’s Muscle Thron being melted by the fireball that crashed into it earlier.

“Don’t worry about it. Just as long as you’re safe this is a small price to pay.”

“But how will you manage from here? My motor is barely able to accommodate 2 of us?” Said Fluffy Tanya with great concern in her gaze.

“For now just focus on getting us across this flaming ocean alive. Armoured Hero and the others are way ahead of us!”

“Right!” Fluffy Tanya shifted her motor in gear. She began riding the air currents to safety.

As for the unfortunate Tomb Riders who couldn’t activate their aerial drives in time. Well, let’s just say they were eventually consumed in violent waves of fire. “Kyaaaaah!”