“UGHHHHH… OHHH… HUH,” DEREK HUFFED WEARILY as he started to regain his consciousness after the bright, blinding explosion of light energies that occurred after he and the others were struck by the six ‘championless’ Guardian Energy Shifters.

  “HOLY FUCK!!!” Jim cried out from off to the side, causing Derek to immediately reawaken as he turned over to see a truly horrifying sight.

  Clad in a suit of bright, golden battle armor was Jim… WHO WAS NOW STANDING AT SIX FEET, FIVE-INCHES-TALL AND WEIGHED CLOSE TO A THOUSAND POUNDS.

  “This… IS SO FUCKING HEAT!!!” the douchey junior excitedly proclaimed through the voice modulator (which doubled as an Oxygen Mask) of his battle helmet (which had a ‘V’ shaped, dark tinted visor shield covering his eyes).

  As Jim admired his new suit of weird looking, badass armor, Derek looked past him to see three more armored individuals, who also stood at the same height and weighed equally.

  There was a Bright Yellow armored one, a Pitch Black armored one, and a Shiny White armored one.

  While Jim and the other three armored beings looked over themselves in utter states of awe, shock, and fear a dark and groggy, but familiar sounding voice called out to Derek from.

  “DUH-DEREK???”

  Looking behind himself, Derek caught sight of an EMERALD GREEN armor-plated ‘being’ towering above him.

  “AHHHHH!!!!!!!” Derek immediately cried in terror as he desperately tried to push himself away from the armored individual.

  “DEREK! DEREK, CHILL, MAN,” the emerald green armored being stressed towards the sixteen year old high school geek, who continued to scream in utter terror at his ‘goliath-like’ visage. “IT’S ME, BRO! KYLE!!!”

  “GET AWAY FROM ME!!! GET AWAY FROM--” Derek cried out before rising to his feet to discover that… HE TOO WAS ENCASED IN A SUIT OF WEIRD LOOKING BATTLE ARMOR.

  “HUH??? Wait a second. What the-- WHAT THE SHIT?!” Derek cried out in his heavily modulated voice to realize that his STUTTER WAS GONE.

  “Derek… CALM DOWN. You NEED to calm down, dude,” Kyle stressed through his battle helmet’s own voice modulator/oxygen mask as he carefully stepped towards his currently ‘freaked the fuck out’ friend. “It’s just me, man. It’s Kyle… KYLER LEE GORDON.”

  “Kuh-Kyle,” Derek nervously stammered, causing his friend to nod his armor-encased head at him.

  “It’s me, dude… THE ONE AND ONLY. I know that it doesn’t like me… BUT TRUST ME, DUDE. It REALLY is.”

  “I FEEL FUCKING AWESOME!!!” Eric erupted as both Derek and Kyle turned to face the bright yellow armored being, who was the sixteen-year-old, drug-dealing stoner.

  “I FEEL LIKE A GOD,” Eric continued to shout as he flexed his armored encased arms up by

  his armored head.

  “Yeah. I feel pretty good too,” the pitch black battle armored being said as he looked over his opened, armored palms.

  Clenching them into tightened fists, the pitch black battle armored being said with John’s voice, “This thing’s UNREAL.”

  “Oh fuck… OH FUCK!!!” Josh frantically cried out through the voice modulator/oxygen mask of the shiny white armored being as he placed over his armor-plate protected ears. “This is not good! THIS IS SO NOT FUCKING GOOD!!! WHAT IN THE FUCK HAPPENED TO US?!?!?!”

  “AYE! CALM THE FRICK DOWN, YO,” Jim said as he stretched arms and swung them from side to side. “It’s not that big of a deal, dude.”

  “Not that big a deal??? NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL?! ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?!” Josh blared, causing Jim to lurch back slightly.

  “Ugh… Hell. Calm your ass down, Russell,” John snapped. “Quit bein’ a fuckin’ drama queen.”

  “I’m not being a ‘drama queen’, J! LOOK AT US!!! WE’RE--”

  “THE GUARDIANS,” Castron thundered from up on the front deck to Cabin.

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  Peeking over the old Guardinian Lord’s right shoulder was the Guardinian Princess Ashanna, who stared at the six armored human teenagers with widened eyes of shock and curiosity.

  “YOU!” Josh shouted at the top of his lungs as he pointed directly towards Lord Lakarias. “What in the hell did you do to us, you old bastard?!”

  “I did nothing… BOY,” Castron replied in a calm tone with his wrinkled, bronze-skinned brow lowered. “‘Twas the Guardian Energy Shifters who chose you six as their new wielders… THEIR CHAMPIONS.”

  “Guardian… ENERGY SHIFTERS???” Derek repeated in a confused tone.

  “What are you talking about, Mister Lucas?” Kyle asked.

  “My name is NOT ‘Castor Lucas’,” Castron revealed.

  “It’s not?” Kyle replied.

  Castron shook his head as Jim asked, “What is then, old dude? Like, ‘PHIL’ or somethin’?”

  “Phil???” Eric repeated as he turned his armored head towards Jim. “Where the hell did you get that RANDOM-ASS name from, Dingus?”

  “I dunno, dawg,” Jim shrugged. “It just sounded like an old guy’s name.”

  Eric rolled eyes and sighed beneath his battle helmet as the old hermit continued, “My name is Castron Lakarias… LORD CASTRON LAKARIAS.”

  “WHO???” Josh uttered aloud in total confusion.

  “I ‘second’ the jockstrap,” Eric crudely followed.

  “Lord Castron Lakarias, huh? Sounds Swedish,” John remarked as he crossed his armored arms over his armor plated chest.

  “Are you messing with us, uh… Sir?” Derek asked curiously.

  “Yeah. What’s your game here?” Kyle inquisitively pressed towards Castron.

  “I play no ‘games’, Green Guardian,” Lord Lakarias stated with firm intent, causing Kyle to lurch back slightly.

  “Green Guardian?” Kyle repeated in confusion.

  “What is that? You called us ‘the Guardians’ earlier,” Derek stated. “What are they?”

  “They are you, Red Guardian,” Castron answered, confusing Derek and the others even more than they already were. “What you ALL are… From this day-cycle until your very last, you ‘chosen six’ shall be forever known as ‘THE GUARDIANS’…”

  “OF THE GALAXY???” Jim stupidly asked, cutting Castron off from finishing his sentence.

  Whilst his peers shook their heads at the hapless teen, Castron stated with his glowing eyes narrowed, “No. You are now known as ‘THE GUARDIANS OF THE PYRAMID OF POWER’.”

  “Ohhh. I see,” Jim nodded. “No offense, bruh, but that name sounds WAY FUCKIN’ LAMER.”

  “Urgh… God! FUCK THIS SHIT!” Josh cried out as he desperately tried to pull his armor off. “Urgh… How… In the Hell… Did you get us in these… these…”

  “GUARDIAN BATTLESUITS,” Lord Lakarias informed as Josh stopped trying to pull off his armor and looked back up at him. “When the Energy Shifters bonded with you they encased you all in ‘protective armored shells’, which are impervious to most, if not ALL FORMS of physical harm.”

  “Wait, wait, WAIT. Hold up a sec, bro-cheesus,” Jim said as he held his hands up in the air. “You mean to tell me that these DANK-ASS suits of armor that we’re all currently ‘reppin’ makes us, like, INVINCIBLE???”

  “Mostly, Gold Guardian… Yes,” Castron confirmed, which is all Jim needed to hear.

  “OH, SHIT! I’m the ‘Gold One’??? FUCKIN’ SICK, DAWG!!! So, since we’re, like, ‘unkillable’ while we’re in these TOTALLY BADASS ‘IRON MAN’ SUITS, we could take SHOTGUN BLASTS to the face and survive it like its nothin’???”

  “Yes… In theory. You most likely could.”

  “FUCKIN’ SUH-WEET! THAT SETTLES IT! KY-KY! LISTEN UP, FAM! Tomorrow, we RAID your Dad’s Gun Safe and try this shit out fo realz!”

  “Hell yeah,” Eric shockingly agreed, causing Jim to turn towards him. “Even better, let’s try it WITHOUT the armor.”

  “YEA-- Wait. Huh?” Jim huffed in confusion.

  “I’ll even let you go first, Dingus,” Eric sinisterly smirked, causing Jim to give him a narrow eyed glare.

  “WILL EVERYONE SHUT THE HELL UP FOR A DAMN MINUTE?!?!” Josh suddenly shouted, causing everyone to divert their attentions towards him again.

  “HEY,” John blurted towards the ‘White Guardian’, who heavily breathed in anger. “Don’t fuckin’--”

  “EVERYONE,” Josh thundered again, making the ‘Black Guardian’ angrily seal his lips.

  Setting his sights back on Castron, Josh furiously seared, “URGH… NOW LOOK, WHOEVER IN THE HELL YOU ARE! I want you to tell us everything about how… this happened to us! EVERYTHING!!!”

  Turning his head towards Princess Ashanna, Castron waited as she nodded her head to him.

  “Very well,” Lord Lakarias nodded as he set his attention back on the six new ‘chosen champions’ of the Guardian Energy Shifters. “If you wish to know everything, then lend me your ears… AND ALLOW ME TO TELL YOU THE GRAND AND LEGENDARY TALE OF THE GUARDIANS!!!!!!!”