Boboiboy Heroes: The End is Near (BOOK 4)

Welcome to Thunderis: Land of Thunder

They were in skies, flying in Astor's metal jet. He, Fang, Ochobot and Alxebot had explained about the Elemental Rings and the Black Pearl on the journey. Fang had put it down into simple points, since it was a long explanation they have given.

Elemental Rings were tiny rings that could bond with the Black Pearl. When they are put together, the ring would go spinning around the pearl and will look something like an atom, just without the electrons. They were seven of them. Together the Black Pearl would be able to identify which energy it's suppose to absorb and store the energy within itself. It was also created by Boboiboy, unconsciously, of course. When he made those disastrous events on Earth, another form of his powers gathered to form a ring.

Ochobot had shown them the latest map of the world through his holographic screen. The islands had now became eight continents. One was at the middle while the others surrounded it, as if it was protecting the center one. Ochobot's data had also give the continents their own names already. The center one was Lonuziq, and the other continents around it each had these names: Thunderis, Cycloneland, Quakeland, Blazeland, Iceland, Thornis and Solaris. According to the weather there, Ochobot explained. The weather on one island was either having earthquakes, total forest, burning hot, covered with ice and so on. Each of the continent has one Elemental Ring and Ochobot had managed to get the exact location of it. Which was good news.

Astor had planned it all, he said later. They were heading for Thunderis today. Then Cycloneland, Quakeland, Blazeland, Iceland, Thornis and Solaris. Better than not having a plan.

On the trip there, Yaya thought of Boboiboy over and over. She took out her love-shaped charm which was connected to her necklace from her shirt and opened it. She observed the picture of her and Boboiboy. It would be perfect to have him by her side now. But she wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. She closed her charm and slipped it in her long-sleeved shirt.

Ying could see a swarm of angry clouds ahead of them. Below the clouds, the land was glowing red. She couldn't see much of it besides the colour of it.

"Is that Thunderis?" Ying asked, still keeping her gaze on the land ahead of them.

"Yes. It is. Welcome to Thunderis," Astor said.

Astor still drove through the thunderstorms even if it looked as dangerous as it seems. They went into the swarm of clouds and now surrounding them was nothing other than a wave of grey clouds. Thunder was roaring in every direction, and sometimes a flash of red would blind their view.

"Eh, why are we going into the clouds?! It's dangerous here!" Yaya exclaimed.

"It's the only way to get on land, now everyone, help me sustain the ship till I get it down!"

Everyone gulped, nodded at each other and unbuckled their seat belts one by one.

"Lightning insulator..." Gopal gathered a sphere of energy in between his palms but a streak of red lightning struck the jet interrupted him.

He whimpered as the energy sphere he had disappeared. The jet shook as it fell down in a incredibly fast speed. Everyone screamed and panicked until it suddenly stopped. Yaya's palms were glowing pink and so was the ship. She was struggling as the ship was lifted back upwards into the clouds but flew slower than it was before.

"Hurry up and fix the ship!" Yaya commanded as she was still straining.

"Shadow...patch holes," Fang said.

The shadow strings traveled out from the jet and patched up the parts which was blown open and burning with fire. The fire went out as soon as there was no more oxygen for it to burn with.

"Lightning insulator transformation!" Gopal put one of his palm on the jet as an energy spread out through his palm

The jet, along with the shadow patches, transformed into a white, lightning insulator jet. Yaya gave the control back to Astor as they zoomed across the air.

Another streak of red lightning hit the jet and it shook, but was back in flight once again.

"This jet can't stand for long," Astor said, still focusing on driving.

The jet turned a 360 degrees as it dodged two streaks of red lightning and got back on track. It got struck by lightning a few times but nothing happened.

"Buckle your seat belt guys, we're going down," Astor said.

Everyone buckled their seat belts and sat silently despite the sounds of thunder.

"Going down?" Gopal said out of the silence and whimpered as a louder thunder was heard somewhere near them.

Suddenly, a powerful slash of red lightning struck the entire jet as it stopped mid-air and flashed white. Everyone screamed when they got electrocuted too and went temporary unconscious. 

Ying felt weak. She couldn't open her eyes and her body. She needed a moment. Not until she felt a intense feeling of dropping frontwards. Wait, dropping? Her eyes immediately open, but slowly since she was still weak. The jet was ruined, everyone was scattered at random places, some part were even burning. The ground was getting closer, and fast. Her body hopped up and she was back online. She unbuckled her seat belt and went to everyone to shake them, shouting at them a warning that they were going down, but all of them were out cold. Seeing that no one could help her, she knew she could only depend on herself. She closed her eyes as her eyebrows furrowed. Then she opened her eyes just as the jet's tip nearly touched the ground.

"Time pause!" 

She released a wave of yellow energy and made everything pause. The only thing that was moving now was she herself. She heard Yaya grunting. Yaya was on the ground, getting up slowly with all her energy. Ying went over to her to check how she was.

"What happened..?" Yaya sat up and held her head with one of her hand, probably having a slight headache.

"Nothing much, we need to wake the others up though." Ying bent down to her so that she could hear her voice.

Yaya forced a smile to her lips but disappeared as soon as the pain kicked in again.

"Are you OK?" Ying took her other free hand and put it over her shoulder to lift Yaya up back to her feet.

Yaya pushed the pain down temporary to speak to Ying. "I'm...I'm OK...just a little headache."

Ying nodded and brought her to an empty seat and let her collapse in it. Ying sat on the seat beside her and gazed outside as she waited for Yaya to cool herself down. Not long later, she felt someone poking her back and she turned to see Yaya grinning and back on her feet. 

"Let's go and wake the others up," Yaya said.

Ying grinned and got up from sitting. She and Yaya spent the next two minutes waking the others up. Everyone was up now, except for Alxebot and Ochobot. Astor explained that they needed their own time, and so they didn't bother to wake them up anymore. 

Yaya controlled the ship to back to horizontal position above the ground and Ying unpaused the time. Around them, the lightning was wild, it struck everywhere, not even missing a single area. Astor looked around for shelter. He saw a slanting building, few metres away from them, it probably have another half of it underground. Underground. He turned to face the gang. Alxebot was in Gopal's arms and Ochobot was in Fang's.

"On the count of three, run to that shelter." Astor pointed to the slanting building. "Ready?"

Everyone looked at each other determinedly. Astor took that as a yes. He landed a fist at the glass cover as it shattered into pieces and rain on them. 

"Now!" Astor yelled.

All of them scrambled out from the jet and raced to the abandoned building as running struck all around them. Ying manipulated time while running to speed up her run. Fang was using his shadow cheetah legs, and one of his hand closed around Ochobot. Yaya flew through the air as she shifted the gravity behind her to push her frontwards faster. Gopal changed his path to margarine and slid on the slippery floor on his stomach, his legs and arms lifted up with Alxebot on his back. Astor was running, the old casual way, his powers could do no good in helping him run. They've dodged a few streaks of lightning before they arrived. All of them were panting and collapsing in the first room they stumbled into. Worth the exercise.