Dark Dragon's Big Return

Dark Dragon's Big Return is the 34th Episode of Season 3B of SpongeBob and Friends Adventures Chronicles. The reason for Dark Dragon's massive inactivity has been revealed, besides dealing with routine rebellion issues from the Matoran of the Scourge Rebellion, as he had been planning something big, plus his fights against the Scourge Rebellion have allowed him plenty of time to upgrade his Bionicle armies, and even train his own members. Taiku and his brother Haku have come to the Lodgers to tell them that their father, Dark Dragon, has returned to his homeworld with a secret plot to unleash powerful and unstoppable automatons from times when Makuta himself tormented the world's mythical community. They must now team up with Dark Dragon's native enemies, the American Dragon Jake Long, 15 years older, and his family, as well as with the Jungle Crew thanks to Fu Dog being one of them, who have also changed since the obscurity of LionKingRulez, and stop him from awakening a great secret of Makuta himself, and the one thing that got Dark Dragon in the Fang Empire to begin with. They must even bring in Fang and Othello to help, as it's time for him to confront Dark Dragon at last. Dark Dragon has exhausted a lot of absence in this plan, and he views he must come back in style, by unleashing what these new automatons can do. Now it's time to see what both the new Shell Lodge Squad and the until-now-obscured Dark Dragon Scourge can truly do. And with things proven very complicated, they might need an unexpected ace in the hole, in the most unlikely of places: Yan Yan.

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Chapter 1: The Dark Dragon Scourge Empire Returns

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• The Scourge Imperials were seen up to something as they were transporting something into one of their ships.
• Dark Dragon: COME ON, PUT YOUR BACKS INTO IT! IT'S BEEN YEARS SINCE WE ACTUALLY DID ANYTHING OUT THERE FOR ONCE!! AND NO, WE'RE NOT COUNTING CAMEOS OR COLLABORATIONS WITH OTHER VILLAIN TEAMS?!
• Krekka: We doing the best we can, boss!
• Nidhiki: Pfft, you wouldn't know the best we can if it tore off your head and reattached it.
• Chang: WELL DO IT HARDER!!
• Mercurymon: Chang, please, calm yourself.
• Meng Tao: Heh, she's always been this cranky since her redesign.
• Mercurymon: MENG! What did I say about breaking the fourth wall?
• Meng Tao: Hey, we were all thinking it. But, SHE'S RIGHT! YOU ALL BETTER TRY HARDER! THOSE SCOURGE REBELS ARE THE REASON WE NEVER DID ANYTHING ALL THESE YEARS!! THE VILLAIN LEAGUE AND TEAM NEFARIOUS HAVE BEEN HOGGING THE SPOTLIGHT OF EVIL BECAUSE OF THEM!! And as Dark Dragon stated, CAMEOS AND COLLABORATIONS DON'T COUNT?!
• Nidhiki: Well, you know the Toa. For being basically taller Matoran, they are relentless.
• Dark Dragon: ENOUGH EXCUSES! YOU BETTER FIND A WAY TO DO SOMETHING, OR SO HELP ME, I AM GOING TO KILL AND PAINFULLY REASSEMBLE THE FIRST MACHINE I SEE!!!
• Zhou Dan: "Well since you said "Machine", I  suppose that means we organic members can take a break then-"
• Dark Dragon: "ANY ORGANIC MEMBERS GETTING CUTE WILL BE MAULED INTO A MEAT PILE?!"
• Zhou Dan: "EEEK, FIGURES YOU WERE GONNA CORRECT YOURSELF?!"
• Hundun: "Wow, have the years of inactivity been that bad?"
• Flintheart: "Clearly so if the scaly lizard is this irritable."
• Mercurymon: "Then you all would do well to not aggravate it and GET TO WORK?!" (Everyone scattered and did it as Toa were seen ravaging their defenses)
• Dark Dragon: ERRGH!! All these years upgrading our own power, and yet, THESE meddling machines keep us from going any further. The debauchery with the Community Service of Star Butterfly didn't helped much and given that rebellion issue a boost! I can't even LEAVE my own base without leaving my own home vulnerable! The moment I go on a plan outside this world, BAM, they wreck it and we lose everything!
• Bananas B: Maybe, it wasn't very smart to make our headquarters here.
• Dark Dragon: Blame Fang back when he was in charge, he had to pick the most obvious basis for this group ever!
• Bananas B: Can't you just make the headquarters mobile? I mean, we DO have a Darkspawn of machinery's power in our grasp.
• Dark Dragon: I tried, but every attempt, the Toa just keep destroying it. These machines are like a PESTILENCE! One so bad, we haven't DONE anything evil since Equestria, AND NO, I AM NOT COUNTING CAMEOS OR COLLABORATIONS WITH THE OTHER TWO VILLAIN TEAMS OR WHAT HAVE YOU!! I MEANT LIKE, THE CLASSIC ACTS THAT MADE US UNIQUE, AND, NOT JUST A BUNCH OF EXTRAS!! WE'RE ONE OF THE BIG FIVE-
• Anti-Wanda: "But I only know of three villain teams, us, The Leaguers, and Nefarious and friends."
• Dark Dragon: "Well technically around this part of the Chronicles series, there's also the Dark Radicals and the Mafia Alliance as of this arc."
• Anti-Wanda: "Ohhhhh, okay-"
• Dark Dragon: NOW LET ME FINISH?! AND WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING SERIOUSLY HARDCORE!! SO, IF ANYONE HAS AN IDEA TO FINALLY GET US BACK IN VILLAINOUS SHAPE AGAIN, I'D LIKE TO HEAR IT!!
• Anti-Cosmo: "You know, D.D., at least count your blessings it's just those glorified biomechanical super-heroes you have to worry about and not your old nemesis in your native world! (Dark Dragon looked as if he got an epiphany) I mean like, the worse hero that came out of that world was like the dog sidekick he had, but it was for a different group not even connected to the Lodgers directly! So really, you're just having a bad attitude for no real reason-"
• Dark Dragon: "Jake Long, has never left my old homeworld......"
• Anti-Cosmo: ".... Well, yes, that's what I litterally said about a few moments ago."
• Dark Dragon:...
• Anti-Cosmo:... Did I say something wrong? Please tell me I didn't say something wro-
• Dark Dragon: ANTI-COSMO, YOU ARE A GENIUUUUS!!!!
• Anti-Cosmo: Uh... I am? Well I mean, considering my counterpart's an utter buffoon, by default I'm smarter, so-
• Dark Dragon: NOBODY would EVER suspect that I go back to my homeworld. I MEAN, WHO WOULD?!? At this point, everyone assumed I have BETTER things to do. But, I just got a glorious idea! We have upgraded our forces GREATLY! So, what better way to test it out, with little suspecting us, even the Rebellion, THAN BY REIGNITING MY ORIGINAL PLANS?!?
• Chang: You mean, you want to have our homeworld's mythological community take it all over again, even when that Jake kid beat you three times?
• Mercurymon: You know, you never actually told us how you got out of your third and supposedly final defeat. Last time we checked, you were stuck in some Hong Kong Dragon Temple for a thousand years because Jake, his family, including his human father who JUST found out about his wife's secret dragon heritage, his friends, his girlfriend whom he tried and failed miserably to get memories back after some, unrelated mission involving the destruction of the Huntsclan... AND the ENTIRE Dragon Council, got you stuck there. How exactly did you escape?
• Meng Tao: Yeah, that's a good question. Fang didn't really seem to have the ability to resurrect... Did he? I mean, is there ANYONE in our ranks who were dead before Fang got us together?
• Negaduck: "Oh, that was back when we had that Malock guy around. Ya know, green snake dude that looked like the Louger's goony snake louger from Jungle Book?"
• Dark Dragon: "Oh yeah, he basically disappeared around the time I had turned on Fang. I seldom wonder what that deserter's been up too now..... I remember this all too well now....."

WAAAAAY back in the olden lore of the Series.

• Fang, Othello, and a new silhouetted figure came forth....
• Othello: "..... Sire, are you sure this is the right place?"
• Emperor Fang: "Oh don't be a spoilsport, Othello! This is EXACTLY what the Mighty Makuta told us to go to! A Hong Kong Temple location that vanishes and reappears every 1 thousand years where PRECISELY is where we can obtain the Dark Dragon!"
• Othello: "But you already have Darkspawnian biomechanicals, what good would a dragon be?!"
• Emperor Fang: "Hey now, it's what Makuta wants! Besides, I hear, impressive things about the Dark Dragon. He doesn't sound like someone to mess around with!"
• Othello: "And yet, he lost to a teenager?"
• Emperor Fang: "Better villains have lost to worse, Othello.... Hence why my empire will correct this someday."
• ???: "My lord, are you sure you desire to free this creature? (Reveals himself as a green Kaa Recolor in a wizard outfit) I caution that an entity of his magnitude might be, problematic."
• Emperor Fang: "You worry as badly as Othello, Malock. Sure, under normal circumstances, this brute probably would just think we're lunch. (Othello winced at that) But, with the power of Makuta, (Eyes glow in power) It may as well be like the Dark Dragon, is an over-sized gecko!"
• Malock: "(Sees a current statue of Dark Dragon in redesign form)..... Well, over-sized is right. A size like that would be difficult for us to reign in truly, for I suspect he is also of great power! I would recommend reducing BOTH for, controllability."
• Emperor Fang: "Hmmm, perhaps that would, help in keeping this guy in line and a FIRM example of our power. On three, Malock, 1, 2, ZAP?!"
• Emperor Fang fired dark beam eyes as Malock used his staff as both beams hit the statue as Othello got anxious, as the statue began to shrink, break and change. This continued until Dark Dragon was shrunk down back to his original design and less great size, and through a bizarre magic ritual, he was pulled out of the Hong Kong Temple ether.
• Dark Dragon: "What, what, wha- (Saw Fang, Malock and Othello)....... WHERE IS THE AMERICAN DRAGON?!"
• Othello: "As opposed to the Chinese or European Dragon-"
• Dark Dragon: "ANSWER ME!!!"
• Othello: "(WELPS AND HIDES BEHIND FANG)?!"
• Emperor Fang: "(Quietly) Can you NOT embarrise your Emperor in front of the new potaintional!"
• Dark Dragon: "Listen well you pests, I- (Saw a mirror and saw that he wasn't his previous form anymore)...... WHA?! WHA?! I'm..... I'm..... I'M DEPOWERED?! I AM BACK IN MY LESSER STAGE?! (Back to the trio) WHAT DID YOU THREE DO TO ME?!"
• Emperor Fang: "Well, that's hardly a proper thank you for freeing you, and to your future Emperor no less."
• Dark Dragon: "EMPEROR?! YOU?!"
• Emperor Fang: "Well yes ME! And these are my best right and left hands! Othello, my financial and trusted adviser, and Malock, my best magic hands, erm, figuratively, admittingly."
• Dark Dragon: "..... Did Chang put you clowns up to this? And, do you, happen to be familiar with a rapping monkey who ducked out on me for being a pacifist?"
• Emperor Fang: "..... Malock, I think shrinking and depowering him has side-effects. He sounds delirious!"
• Dark Dragon: "So that's a no then. (Cracks fists). Then a perfect excuse to dispose of you annoying pests and-"
• Emperor Fang acted quicky and summoned eye-beam hands with scary long fingers that grabbed and pinned Dark Dragon down!
• Emperor Fang: "I'll repeat myself in case you lost your place, you over-sized lizard?! I, am Emperor Fang! Your freer! Your Master! YOUR, EMPEROR?! (Hands began to zap and hurt Dark Dragon)?! I, WAS CHOSEN BY THE MAKUTA HIMSELF TO LEAD A MIGHTY EMPIRE IN HIS NAME, AND YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN IN ON THAT! BUT IN RETURN FOR LETTING YOU BATHE IN MY GLORY, YOU MUST SERVE ME!! UNDERSTAND?! (Beam Eyes stop as the Dark Dragon plopped down humiliatingly)...."
• Dark Dragon: "..... What, kind of cosmic joke is this, that I was close to having the entire mythical community take over the world, to suddenly being beaten up by a snake in a stupid cape?!"
• Emperor Fang: "(Does the beam-eye hands again to start smacking Dark Dragon around) ONCE MORE, I, AM YOUR EMPEROR, AND YOU, WILL TREAT ME, AS SUCH?! (Stops after awhile)......"
• Othello: "DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF IN SUCH A MANNER OF BEATING UP NEW MEMBERS LIKE THIS?!"
• Emperor Fang: "It helps them learn, Othello. It, helps, them, learn."
• Othello: Sire, you were TOLD that this guy would likely turn on you, so why are you GIVING him the motivation to do that?!
• Fang: It's called discipline, Othello! Now then, Dark Dragon, I can promise you that what I'm promising, is worth more than what you could ever wish. Join me, and I can promise you that I'll give you more!
• Dark Dragon:... (He smiled)

Present

• Dark Dragon: If you ask me, Fang should've listened to his pet cheapskate parrot on that one, because he just doomed himself by handing this power OVER to me. Now, when I think about it more, I have ALWAYS had the power to resume my plans to help the mythological community take over my world.
• Mercurymon: Well, in your defense, I would chalk that up to you having a position BEYOND that now.
• Dark Dragon: True indeed, but, this has gone unanswered for too long. The American Dragon and his precious girl are both likely grown up and married at this point.
• Meng Tao: yes, that's true. And alchourse, it's ALSO true that they wouldn't expect you to come back THIS early. As far as THEY'RE concerned, you're STILL stuck in that temple-ether.
• Dark Dragon: Again, true indeed. And THAT gives me, an advantage! Pack your bags everyone, we're going back home!
• Chang:... But what about the Rebellion? They'll likely follow us there. They're STILL out there laying siege upon us. Plus, I must also remind you that Nivawk, our once-great spy, has turned away from us not too long after you took over the Fang Empire. He would likely be watching us plan this as we speak.
• Dark Dragon: "That can't be helped, Chang. IF we tried anything, it would get their attention anyway. Besides, what I have in store, even THEY would not be able to trounce!"