In a clearing on a planet of heavy forest, landed Ronmin, whos pilot stepped out soon after landing in search of a magical vine covered in thorns and daisies that grew on that planet. The trees resembled a jungle but everything else looked just like a forest, in Summer, and Summer is what the temperature felt like once Luhuklag set foot onto the grass. The rest of the team wasn't tagging along. Luhuklag had heard about a Ridor Ship crash here which had let out beasts and lead to the formation of mechanical monsters.
She took a few steps away, and heard a faint rattling behind her, she quickly turned around with a look of disbelief and found that it was just Ronmin, who replied "Sorry if I scared you, something about this place just makes me nervous.". Luhuklag found that funny, he doesn't know about the planet's accident since she didn't want to make him afraid to land.
Off went Luhuklag into the forest, brushing away leaves from the layer of bushes, uneventful so far other than the odd alien spiderweb she'd pass by every now and then, when suddenly she came upon a chunk of metal just laying there, her immediate thoughts were worries about Ronmin, but she pushed that thought away and checked further... Upon closer inspection, the chunk of metal just couldn't be from Ronmin, she was relieved, and put the metal down before setting off again.
Suddenly, she heard a rustle in a nearby bush, but she continued walking, even though she felt as though she's being watched, and she could have sworn she saw a yellow glow somewhere in the bushes, she kept on walking and soon heard the rustling suddenly moving away from her quickly until the rustling was too far away to hear. She eventually came upon the vines covered in daisies and thorns, and took one, then set off back home, but she had barely taken a few steps homeward before she heard beeping echo through the forest, something had set off Ronmin's alarm, Luhuklag broke into a sprint down the forest which now lacked the tweets of birds, and now lacked any rustling, and when she got there she saw something bolt into the bushes and there was rustling again for a brief moment until it had moved out of earshot, Ronmin's alarm had automatically stopped too. Ronmin explained the situation, "Welcome back, captain. I had just seen some sort of beast that had blue scaly skin, one side of its head was skull, a few legs were skeleton, and it had some other mutations, as well as a few spots where there's been damage. With a bad limp, it walked around me like it was sizing up a target, and then it tried to tamper with me, which set off the alarm, that stopped it but it only ran off when you came. If it finds you menacing, why isn't it scared of a spaceship that's larger than you are?"
"Maybe it isn't after me." Luhuklag replied, then inspected her ship for any damage, there was no damage, but the creature had apparently activated the emergency halt function which had just locked, Ronmin couldn't fly until Ernesto repaired the emergency halt. For now, they had to wait, Luhuklag briefed the situation to herself while she boarded Ronmin for the radio, "So we sighted a strange creature, it trapped us on this planet, and we can't get off until I call for--" and that's when the sound of multiple trees being knocked over at the same time echoed throughout the forest, as she stepped back off of Ronmin's arm and crept closer to the noise, and a familiar speck of brown could be seen. Anvindr had flown through the woods, and Daxter could be heard stepping out saying "I'm sorry, Anvindr, but if I don't find a clearing that isn't occupied then I'll make my own clearing.", and Anvindr assured Daxter that she's fine and perfectly capable of knocking trees down, then Luhuklag ran up to them. "Hello! How did you find us?" Luhuklag asked her teammate, and both got sidetracked counting the rings on one of the felled trees before the reply came, "I detected your radio transmission calling for Ernesto, and I happened to be close by, so I couldn't shake the worry until I went to check on you." Daxter replied. Luhuklag explained what had happened, about the encounter with a strange creature, when suddenly she was interrupted by something flying in from nowhere over Daxter's head and then a loud metallic clang, Daxter still ducked out of instinct, but either the creature aimed wrongly or it wasn't wanting him, as it whooshed right above his standing height. Luhuklag stumbled backward, and when her vision steadied she caught a brief glance at the fleeing creature, it had no wings to perform such a feat with so it must have pounced powerfully, then she looked at Anvindr who had her jaw slightly open in bewilderment. "That thing, that's what messed with Ronmin." Luhuklag stated, as she brushed off her foot. "Are only the spaceships in danger? Or is it going to get us once it gets rid of our method of escape?" Daxter asked, scratching his head, then Luhuklag responded "We don't know how intelligent it is.".
"Anvindr, can you still fly?" Asked her pilot, "Yes, I am completely fine." Anvindr responded, then Daxter added "If you're expecting her to tow Ronmin, she certainly has the endurance to do so, but she wasn't built with a towline, and installing a towline is something Ernesto would handle.". "Hmm... Do we know anything about the creatures released by the Ridor spaceship crash?" Luhuklag asked, "Only the most invincible one, the Shagowylocus, but we don't know if the creature that attacked is it or a part of the local wildlife, or if we're even remotely close to the wreckage." came Daxter's reply.
"You're a good scout, set out in Anvindr and scout the place. I'll come with you if you want." Luhuklag proposed a plan, and Daxter nodded then set off, while she went to hop aboard Ronmin to wait for the radio signal, it wasn't much of a wait before Daxter radioed that he saw the wreckage close to the clearing in which she had landed her ship, "Oh dear." She replied upon hearing that news, then Daxter landed his ship back in the clearing he had set her in before. "I caught a better glimpse of the creature from afar... It's that thing, the thing from the Ridor ship. You told me that you intercepted a Ridor distress signal on the way to the planet, right?" Daxter explained, and Luhuklag nodded, then he continued "I caught it too, undoubtedly later than you, but it detailed a dangerous creature onboard that was engineered to be invincible, it's called the Shagowylocus, and it was created for use in intergalactic warefare where it would be sent out to space to cripple enemy spaceships." And as crazy as Luhuklag thought the story was as she listened, she figured that the events where Ronmin and Anvindr encountered the creature make sense now. "The creature, the Shagowylocus, was following orders? Are we enemies of the Ridor? I didn't hear nearly enough of the distress signal, all I heard was 'Mayday!' and then the trees blocked the signal, the Ridor ship must be weak if it's even survived." Said Luhuklag. "Did the Ridor ship even have a conscience?" Daxter wondered out loud as he looked around the planet.
"We need to get off this planet right away, while I was scouting Anvindr told me she could hear Ernesto's engine in the distance, help is near." Daxter stated, adamant that they get away from the danger, something is lurking and from what he knows about the creature, it isn't good at all.
"No." Luhuklag stamped her foot. "What chance do we stand against the creature?!" Daxter exclaimed, fearful for the first time in what seemed like ages. "We're heroes, we'll save the planet somehow. After Ernesto un-jams Ronmin's emergency stop, we shall look for the creature and capture it." Luhuklag briefed. Then Ernesto arrived, and couldn't land. "I would have been here sooner, had the radio not acted up!" Sir Inventor yelled from the cockpit of the green ship, "I keep telling you, my radio is fine, you held me back from this mission for too long with just worries about the radio." Ernesto responded to his pilot. "Did you catch the same Ridor distress signal we did?" Luhuklag radioed Ern, "Yes we did, a distress signal from the Ridor." Came the reply over the radio, soon followed by a panel being heard slamming shut and Sir Inventor in the background exclaiming "The radio does work?!".
"Knock down trees!" Daxter called up to the medic ship, who then did just that, knocking down a tree so that he could land, then there was an inhuman screech coming from the fallen tree and he hovered backward a little, there was some creature with blue scales struggling to try to get free from the fallen tree. "I didn't notice that there." Ernesto said. Anvindr zoomed her vision in on the creature, and noticed a speck where the felled tree had damaged it, "That's the Shagowylocus, isn't it supposed to be invincible?" She remarked, and that had Daxter wondering, while Luhuklag chimed in "Maybe the Ridor Ship crash had weakened it? It was meant to survive self-defense protocols of the ships it attacks, but a spaceship crash may have been a little too much for the mutant.". Ernesto landed where he had cleared space for himself, and began un-jamming Ronmin's emergency stop, it took just a few seconds and then Daxter boarded his ship, Luhuklag was already on board her ship, and Sir Inventor was also still aboard Ernesto. They grabbed hold of the creature, ensuring that it couldn't move to cause any damage, and Anvindr scanned it. "The damage the tree had done is worse than first assumed..." The scout ship said, then the creature showed signs of slowing down in its struggles as if it was getting weaker.
As the spaceships found themselves needing less and less force to hold the Shagowylocus still through its struggles, Sir Inventor chimed in "I believe that creature is expiring.", Ernesto was shocked, he's a medic for spaceships but it was hard to hear that he'd killed a lifeform, though nobody was angry at the medic ship. The Shagowylocus had gotten too weak to struggle, and Ernesto gently petted the creature with one of his four arms, trying to comfort the creature in its last moments. "Let's go back home, there's nothing we can do to help the creature." Luhuklag went, and then they all flew off, Ernesto being slow to pick up off of the planet's surface, he cast one last glance at the creature, now dead, as he finally rose to join the other spaceships flying homeward.
