Stump Smash Crosses the Bone Dragon is the sixth book in the Mask of Power series. This novel features the Life Skylander, Stump Smash, who will be accompanied by Wrecking Ball, Flameslinger, and Countdown.
Story Summary
The Giggling Forest has been reduced to tears, the Skylanders have been double-crossed and Master Eon has been kidnapped! Step forward Stump Smash to head into battle - against one seriously angry dragon![1]
Plot
Coming right off the heels of the previous book’s ending, Stump Smash is storming around the Eternal Archives in a frustrated fit regarding the dire situation the Skylanders are in, with Squirmgrub not only kidnapping Master Eon, but stealing the Book of Power they were using to locate the Mask of Power’s fragments and the fragments the Skylanders had gathered so far. The Skylanders are trying their best to locate them, but it has been taking much longer than normal as they cannot use portals. While trying to figure out what to do, Flameslinger and Hugo come in to inform the heroes that the Giggling Forest had suddenly started to cry, which catches their attention.
Stump Smash and Flameslinger are sent to investigate alongside Countdown and Wrecking Ball, and upon arriving, learn from the wailing trees that several of their own had been petrified, alongside the group of lumberjacks that attempted to cut them down. While investigating, they hear someone calling for help and follow the voice to find Glumshanks, whose legs had been turned to stone. Sensing an opportunity, the Skylanders bait Glumshanks into coming back to the Eternal Archives and telling them where Master Eon is by claiming that he can undo the petrification, and Glumshanks shares the story. Kaos had arrived at the Giggling Forest to find the Life Segment of the Mask of Power, and had been cutting down all the trees in the forest to find it (and because he hates trees). His troll forces used a giant bomb to blow away the trees, but in the process, awoke the thing that petrified everything from its slumber.
Before Glumshanks can continue, a massive dragon made of bone swoops over and attacks the Skylanders, and turns Flameslinger’s bow to stone—in the process revealing itself to be the culprit behind the petrification incidents. Glumshanks reveals that this dragon is actually the Life Segment of the Mask, but Kaos fled before he could claim it and left Glumshanks behind. With the story told and the dragon ready to attack, the Skylanders try to ward it off by blowing it up with Countdown’s head, but it only reforms and goes back on the attack. So, Flameslinger distracts it while the other Skylanders take Glumshanks back to Flynn’s balloon, and quickly make their escape—however, the dragon petrifies Flynn’s balloon before they can return, forcing Countdown to send out an SOS.
Back at the Eternal Archives, Hugo identifies the beast as a Bone Dragon, a kind of dragon that went extinct centuries ago, and that steam from the creature’s nostrils can undo the petrification. They debate on whether to hunt down the Bone Dragon or find Master Eon at first, but ration that they can do both as Kaos has Master Eon in his clutches and try to pressure Glumshanks to tell them where Kaos is. Though he refuses to relent at first, Spyro tricks Glumshanks into revealing that Kaos is currently at the Troll Bastion, then sends Stump Smash, Wrecking Ball and Countdown to storm the Bastion and rescue Master Eon while Spyro, Flameslinger and the rest of the Skylanders confront the Bone Dragon.
They initially attempt a frontal assault, but the Bastion is too well-armed for it to work, so they feign a retreat and sneak Countdown’s head into the Troll Bastion by having him pretend to be an ordinary bomb. Countdown blows up the Troll Bastion from within, and the Skylanders storm in and begin looking for Master Eon. In the midst of their ambush, the Skylanders are confronted by General Disaster, who attempts to blow Wrecking Ball to bits with his artillery, but Wrecking Ball simply eats it all and gives Stump Smash and Countdown enough time to discover that Kaos, the Book of Power, and Master Eon have all been turned to stone. Despite its petrification, however, the book manages to craft an image of the Bone Dragon returning to the Giggling Forest and crafts a map.
The Skylanders flee the Troll Bastion, and head back to confront the Bone Dragon, who had managed to turn just about all the Skylanders who fought against it to stone. Stump Smash, Countdown, Wrecking Ball and Flameslinger grab the Bone Dragon’s attention, then begin attacking it faster than it can reform and force the Bone Dragon to crash-land. With the upper hand gained, the Skylanders demand that the Bone Dragon reverse the petrification, and the Bone Dragon agrees on the condition that it can go back to sleeping. Everyone is returned to normal, but before they can celebrate, Kaos is revived and reveals that this was all part of his plan to get the Skylanders to trap the Bone Dragon for him so he can get the Life Fragment, and uses a strength-sapping spell to incapacitate the Skylanders while he steals the fragment.
Just before he can, however, Master Eon intervenes, stops Kaos right in his tracks, and retrieves the Book of Power. It is then that Master Eon reveals that the Life Segment is not the Bone Dragon, but the stone heart it kept as a good-luck charm. An explosion from Countdown buries the Bone Dragon, and Master Eon decides to take the Book of Power back to the citadel for safekeeping. As the others celebrate, however, Master Eon ruminates with worry on Kaos’s claims that it won’t be long before he obtains the Mask’s next segment.
The story continues in Eruptor Meets the Nightmare King...
Featured Characters
Skylanders
- Stump Smash
- Spyro
- Lightning Rod (mentioned)
- Zoo Lou (mentioned)
- Scratch (mentioned)
- Flashwing (mentioned)
- Flameslinger
- Countdown
- Wrecking Ball
- Pop Fizz (mentioned)
- Sunburn (mentioned)
- Bumble Blast (mentioned)
- Prism Break (mentioned)
- Smolderdash (cameo)
Characters
- Squirmgrub
- Kaos
- Master Eon
- Wiggleworth
- Hugo
- Flynn
- Glumshanks
- General Disaster
- Cali (mentioned)
- Blastchops
- Boomwhiskers
- General Slackheap
References
Books |
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Comics |
Skylanders: Trap Team |
Novels |
The Machine of Doom |