Author's Note: Okay so last chapter, possibly for good we'll have to see. For argument's sake, this was a story that I had a clear beginning, middle and end in mind for, but with the end of the flow of reviews the cost benefit ratio has disappeared. So with that in mind please Read, Review, Favorite and Enjoy!


Chapter 24: Snake Hunt

The ghostly abilities of Daniela were extremely useful for construction, intangibility to remove rubble, flight to move heavy objects, precise application of ecto beams to weld back stone and metal, clones that multiplied her labor possession that allowed her to borrow any of the expertise that she already did not posses. Suffice to say thanks to Daniela's expertise it was like Manny never broke the dungeon: when you ignore the fact that both he and the transformed and possessed tiger were both still no where to be found. Dani distinctly remembered giving Manny a tracking device to locate the blasted Nemetrix so that they didn't lose the strongest weapon in the universe or let it wind up in the hands of someone else, like a certain snake faced psychopath running around the dark side of the content digging up super weapons to dump on a otherwise peaceful people. The point ultimately being where the hell was her brother?


Manny had taken Cringor, currently in the form of the terroranchula, and took him hunting through the wilderness of Eternia, the expert ambush predator was lashing various Eternian animals in it's electro nets. Once captured Manny would rip off a meaty chunk of DNA and bag it for Dani to sort through later/something to decorate his room in the portable lab with. Cringor in the mean time was getting use to using the new forms, each one was a new adventure and it usually took him around ten minuets figure out their unique quirks. Most of them were fairly redundant, simply massive oversize monsters only good for stomping around or breaking things. As such there was a increasing path of destruction being carved through the Eternian environment, luckily for all the jungles, forests and swamps though Manny was gravitating towards the dark continent and the plethora of Beast Man's unpleasant pets. Unfortunately though he would end up being distracted by the snake man strike team that dropped the ban hammer on any boarder crossings.

Manny for his part recognized the leonids on the ground, brutalized and beaten as they were with their hands pressed firmly to the back of their heads, as the clan chieftan and his wife. The two Snake men guarding them were eyeing the leaders with hungry eyes but were resisting the urge to indulge in their cravings why not even they were entirely sure. But they really should have been watching the prisoners, or they might've noticed an invisible figure messing around with their prisoners ears.

"Huu. Troll." Quoting the term that he had become familiar with over the course of repeat visits to the Eternian palace the chief covered his ears and his wife followed suit. The Ghostly Wail hit the two snake men like a freight train, complete with leaving ruin in it's wake as chunks of the village and the jungle behind it were blown away by the sound of Manny's voice.

"Yo." Manny finally made himself visible as he helped the lion people to their feet, read picked them up by the scruffs of their necks and put them back on their feet.

"I admit I'm torn between happy to see you again and mortified that you're here. I thought you left already?" The Lionel chieftan questioned cocking a suspicious brow at Manny, and noticed the scar that went across his bare chest. "Did King Hiss do that?"

"No. Why does everyone keep asking about my scar?" Manny asked confused.

"It's just that Hiss is here and you being you..." As chief Lionel was explaining this Hiss came back to the village with some sort of amulet in his hand and took one look at the situation before turning to look at Manny.

"Your doing I take it?" Hiss asked cocking a suspicious brow at Manny.

"UGH!" Kobra Kahn, who was following his liege around filling him in on things that had happened since his long entombment, had a scared look on his face. "Master! This one is dangerous!" Kobra stated as he backed away from Manny.

"Ah the immortal then. Thank you by the way for removing those squatters from my home." King Hiss looked at Manny in the same way a python would a gazelle he had just captured.

"Alright who are you and what are you doing here?" Manny asked sounding like he didn't care one iota for the answer.

"You mean aside from eating our people?" The chieftan stated glaring suspiciously at Manny.

"I know that but I was making him tell me that to distract him." Manny stated turning his attention to the chieftan.

"What?" King Hiss asked shocked that someone would openly discuss this very important bit of information in front of the enemy.

"I said I'm distracting you while I'm waiting for back up to get here you git!" Manny snapped at the serpent King while turning his attention back to the chieftan of the Leonids, prompting both the chief and the serpent king to drop jaws.

"The Eternian army is coming here? Master what are your orders?" Kobra Kahn asked turning to face his king.

"I was planning on testing this on the Leonids anyway, so this will be a good chance. See if you can get a read on how far away they are." At once several snake people climbed up nearby trees to get a better look at the situation. "If you wouldn't mind enlightening us as to where and when the Eternian army is getting here I would greatly appreciate it." As long as Manny was intent on spilling the beans anyway he might as well go all out.

"What you talking about? You guys didn't get here much before me right?" Manny asked looking at the felinid chief who nodded his head in confusion. "Even if we started to come here the moment that you guys invaded it would be at least three more hours until we got here." Manny stated holding up three fingers to emphasize his point.

"That is what I thought." King Hiss stated recalling the response time of the Eternian army during his scouting mission. "Then what are you doing here?"

"Talking your ear off?" Manny asked not quite understanding the question.

"I meant how did you get here so quickly?" King Hiss asked as his men continued to fail to find the reinforcements.

"I was in the neighborhood." Manny stated holding up what distinctly looked like a bag of slime.

"Well that's good to know." Finally King Hiss's amulet started glowing.

"Ah good this is finally done." King Hiss was also stalling for time, after all it had been centuries since the Amulet of Echidna was used and as such it was slow to reawaken, taking the King's DNA and using that as the base for what it would unleash. Looking up the King saw his men getting down, having confirmed that the reinforcements Manny was talking about were not coming. "Now than immortal, it is time that you..." The ground started shaking, the Snake men and the Felinids desperately clung to anything nailed down to stabilize themselves.

"Ah about time."

Suddenly the ground gave way beneath the King's feet. A massive beak rose up to either side of him and the King only narrowly dived out of the way in time for the beak to snap shut and give way to a huge tiger striped worm monster, it's head covered in familiar armor plating and it's back a armored saddle, and lodged between the two was a spiky red collar with the symbol resembling the gaping jaws of a monster.

"Grey-Skull's lion?" King Hiss was stunned senseless, much like what he was with Manny earlier as he explained what he was doing to the serpentine leader of the snake people. "How long were we asleep exactly?"

Hiss's gorgon acted fast, intercepting the beast with his petrification stare and causing him to turn to stone. Having not learned his lesson from the last time the stone promptly collapsed and spat out a familiar giant spider monster. Cringor as Terroranchula produced a web of electro netting to try and break his fall, but instead ended up covering himself in a armor of the stuff. Cringor, seeing as how he was possessed by the ancient spirit of a battle hardened warrior monster, wasted no time and used his new electro armor to send the snakes flying every attack repulsed in a arch of electricity and every foe going down like they were hit by a taser. Still it mattered little to the one with a gorgon head as he simply moved into position to freeze Cringor in a stony prison again.

"Nope. Not happening." And for that reason Manny grabbed the poor bugger's head from behind and twisted it off with a snap. "Hey snake face!" Manny drew the attention of the leader of the snake people by holding the severed head up by it's hair snakes. "'Look I'm Stony McStone face and I try to make statues out of people!'" Manny mocked bouncing the head up and down like a puppet.

"You will pay for that fool!" King Hiss's face twisted in rage before it started to change form along with the rest of his body, turning into a pair of legs with a mass of snakes coming out the top.

"Ah did I make you mad?" All the snakes let out a not even remotely snake like roar as they charged forward. "Yeah I'd say so."

Manny did not even react when unhinged jaws bit down and swallowed him in one gulp, his impressive amount of bulk seemed to disappear in a instant in the gullet of Hiss's belly. Immediately the Hydra with legs returned to the form of the relatively humanoid Hiss, unmoving.

"Master...?" Kobra Kahn approached hopefully, turned to the King's front to address him face to face. "Are you okay?" Only to bare witness to a twisted demented grin that did not suit the king of the snakes at all.

"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Saying that Hiss suddenly shot into the air miles above the surface of the planet before Manny promptly de-possessed him, grabbing him by the neck, slammed him down into the earth like a meteor. The explosion of force was enough to scatter the fighting snakes and lions and force another transformation by Cringor this time into a giant stony beetle.


"Keeping a eye on the seismographs was a good idea." Dani admitted as she looked as a section of the map that was indicating multiple magnitude earthquakes in a place that had absolutely nothing to do with fault lines.

"Credit where it's due. It's not like your brother is hard to find." Man at Arms stated leaning back in his chair. "According to your scanner this Nemetrix thing is there too."

"Two birds one stone." Daniela stated as she prepared to leave.

"But if your brother's causing this much ruckus..." Man At Arms stated as he looked up at the map concerned.

"Then it most likely means that he's found something to fight yes I'm aware, luckily Adam mentioned that he wants his cat back."


The snakes were thoroughly enraged. The Captive Felinids. The amulet that Hiss had come here in the first place to retrieve, the huge stone faced cockroach that was plowing them over. All of it was irrelevant compared to the goal of getting their king to safety, and avenging his honor. Thus the snakes rampaged dog piling on Manny as they twisted their bodies around to try to crush him.

"Wow you guys are really upset about this aren't you?" To the snakes eternal frustration they discovered that Manny's body was nigh invulnerable, their attempts to pierce his flesh bouncing off of rubbery muscles and their efforts to constrict him failing miserably as he just walks through their puny efforts to restrain him leaving a pile of broken bodies in his wake.

"Now where do you think you are going?" Manny asked singling out Kobra Kahn who was attempting to dig King Hiss out of the crater.

"RRRAAAGGGHHH!" Kobra Kahn gave a frustrated snarl to Manny for the destruction that he caused here and the devastation to his people that he's responsible for. Then as was usual for Manny, a explosion went off in his face.