Quest For Yzerchuk 3: The YIPs

11 - Thwarting Detroit (and Montreal)

Vladdy flicks Yzerchuk out to his side, standing in the middle of the group, while Dani hugs Steven and Stralman stands by Ondrej. He eyes Pavel, who steps forward, gesturing to his friends. Nikita and TJ struggle and fight the tight grips on their arms as they are forced forward.

"Kuch! Johnny!" Ondrej gasps, before he feels two pairs of hands grab either of his arms and drag him toward his friends. "What the--let me go!" He jerks at the holds and finds Dekeyser and Smith holding him.

"Ah, Triplets, now the fun can officially begin!" Pavel growls as Ondrej's wrists are re-tied together by rope and he is gagged. "I think Montreal was rather correct...you all are cheaters, how else can you win tonight?"

"Uh, I don't know by skill?" Dani remarks. "Sorry if you're too stubborn and blind to see that! Tampa doesn't cheat, it's all you jerks from other teams who do! You're just jealous that Tampa is good, so you have to go and look for a way to stop us and the only way to is by cheating...being dirty. You kept sending Justin frickin' Abdelkader after poor Kuch and what are you doing now, holding our players hostage! Do we do that to you?"

Pavel spits on the ground. "You're lucky I don't do away with the Triplets right now mouthy girl!"

"She speaks the truth Pavel!" Vladdy growls, tapping the ground with Yzerchuk's blade three times. "We don't cheat to win. If you think we are cheating, you're dead wrong. Because if having Yzerchuk to help us battle against Montreal and your team - because you are cheating - is cheating? Then I don't know what the hell cheating is. The way I see it, we're not cheating, we're just standing up for ourselves and fighting back."

Pavel narrows his eyes and opens his mouth ready to say something, before another voice cuts him off.

"PAVEL!" the new voice calls out.

Pavel rolls his eyes and spins around to see Larkin standing with Evelyna and the rest of the Bolts team. Boyle cracks his neck and punches a fist into the palm of his hand. "Larkin... what a pleasant surprise to see you here!"

"Not really! After you left the ice and the Bolts saluted the home crowd, I KNEW you'd do something like this! I figured you'd order Abdelkader and Kronwall to grab and kidnap TJ and Kuch and I was right! I watched as you did and immediately gathered the Bolts together! You're finished! Just let them go and stop this!" Larkin demands, stomping his foot in anger. "It's utter madness!"

Pavel blinks, looking at him.

"Listen to him Pavel, I really don't wanna use Yzerchuk on you, like I did on Carle!" Vladdy growls.

"Are you really going to sink to Gallagher's level? To Carle's level? Because you can totally join him in the Mental hospital in Montreal...that is if you survive to be put there!" Steven remarks.

Pavel snorts and rolls his eyes. He glances back and forth between both groups and then says, "I...don't....care! KILL THEM! KILL THE TRIPLETS!"

"NO!" Vladdy shouts and whips Yzerchuk up at once as Nikita, Ondrej and TJ are shoved to the ground. "In Yzerchuk we trust! Get 'em Yzerchuk!" The stick glows and transforms at once and then Vladdy screams a battle cry and throws the stick out before him, sending bolts of electricity over the poor Triplets' heads right at the laughing Pavel.

Pavel is hit by the lightning and sent flying backward, where he slams against the wall to the side of the garage door's opening. He slumps over, but not dead. Vladdy spins in a circle like a ballerina and whips the magical lightning bolt around, striking down Abdelkader, Kronwall, Dekeyser and Smith before they can harm the terrified Triplets.

He stops himself skillfully and lowers the bolt to see the damage, finding the slumped-over drunken-laughing Pavel Datsyuk and all the Red Wings on the ground. He storms toward Pavel and points the bolt, just as it transforms back into the hockey stick, right at Pavel's face. "I warned you!"