The four muscle dragons - amber, azure, scarlet, and now rose - hovered above the battle field, with the established heroes as nude as the rookie at the end of this fight.
"Mission over?" Azure Catfish asked.
"Not yet," Amber Lion said and dove down.
The others followed to land by a response vehicle of the Neo Aurora Defense Force.
A man in an off-white uniform came up to them. "Congrats, dragons. We think we have it from here."
"Good to hear, Sergeant Yang," the leader said. "Word from General
Akira?"
The sergeant waved for a guy with a tablet to step in front. On the screen was a strict looking woman everybody in the city knew.
"Your friends are in trouble," Akira said through the screen. "At Zhuzi Gate. Take the Peakview rift. Serpent and needle class threats, area is evacuated."
"On it," Amber Lion said.
"Wardrobe?" Azure Catfish suggested.
A soldier brought three belts, yellow, red and blue.
The corresponding muscle dragons clicked the belts shut around them and new uniforms grew across their skin.
"We'll get you one of those soon," Amber Lion said with a wink at the naked Rose Wolf. "Ready for more?"
"Absolutely," Yazi said and hit a relaxed pose.
Amber Lion saluted on-screen General Akira and the sergeant and few off.
The muscle dragons flew at top speed, beams of plasma pushing them from behind, well ahead of the Defense Force helicopters. Top speed wasn't sustainable, though, and even then, crossing the entire city's territory would have taken a good hour.
Luckily, there were dragon rifts.
The three dressed hunks and one in pink boxers slowed down for the rift. It was visible to Yazi as a sliver of white, cutting through the air.
"Rose Wolf," muscle dragon #1 said. "I'd love to give you better introductions to all of this but not like *we* got a calm start either. Hop in after me."
The rift was a blinding tunnel of rushing through nothingness, spitting them out one by one in a windowless room. There were dozens such rifts all over, each marked with a sign on the floor.
"Peakview. There," Scarlet Phoenix said. "Hop on in."
One rift later the muscle dragons emerged in the air above a hillside, populated by organically shaped houses with gardens on the roofs.
Three minutes of flight brought them into view of the remaining heroes behind the Zhuzi Gate structure.
Jade Turtle and Silver Tiger were trapped in a cage of- No, obviously *the two of them* had built that barrier around the place. Metal struts and concrete blocks kept the Nyx contained together with the huge men.
Jade Turtle threw rocks and lobbed green orbs while the other dragon hunted Umbrath with a spear bigger than himself. The creatures here were snakelike, if snakes were as long as busses and covered in porcupine spikes.
The fighting muscle dragons had been shot by many of the spikes, their uniforms riddled with holes.
The four late arrivals came down with plasma beams ahead of them.
"Well fucking timed," Jade Turtle, the beefiest dragon, shouted. "You know how hard it is to herd snakes? And people think cats are trouble."
"What took you-" Silver Tiger started until he saw the naked, pink addition. Muscle dragon #2 let his feline-draconic mouth hang open. "Uh?"
"Rose Wolf," Amber Lion said. "Wouldn't have made it without him. Biggest Umbrath we've ever handled without the full team."
Yazi hammered a Nyx with rose orbs and flexed. "At your service."
"Welcome on board," Jade Turtle said. "What's your deal?"
Amber Lion gave Yazi a smack on the ass. "Show off a bit."
Yazi nodded, overjoyed, and flexed harder. Void manifested. He directed it right at the biggest serpent he could find.
The dark, misshapen creature shot spikes at him. About a quarter were absorbed by the void, many more pushed off course. The ones that hit were only a minor poke on Yazi's skin.
The void reached the snake's head and sucked it in. Spitting out half as much biomass as it swallowed, the void ran through the length of the Nyx, making it collapse in death spasms.
"Nice!" Jade Turtle said with emphasis and flexed.
"Introductions done?" Silver Tiger asked. "Because we have lives to save."
With enough manpower to spare, some dragons shot the incursion portal to ribbons, while Amber Lion and Rose Wolf kept the snakes within the cage zone and killed them one by one.
As the last Nyx fell, the group converged and Amber Lion raised a fist into their midst.
All fists met, sparkling with plasma. Yazi had seen this victory pose so many times it didn't feel real to be part of it -- to see pink sparks in the muscle dragon rainbow.
Six musclemen shouted. "Massive muscle dragon power!"
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"Welcome," Amber Lion said with arms wide, "to your new home."
Three people waited for them in the rift room, looking puny before the muscle dragons.
A brunet white woman with a tablet in hand stepped forward. Her office clothes were tight around big boobs, open to show cleavage. Bright red lipstick.
"Carabelle Smith," she said. "Director and overseer of the dragon tower. You'll have heard of my family. We supply gear and material to the Defense Force. Pleasure to meet, Rose Wolf."
Scarlet Phoenix leaned in to whisper to Rose Wolf. "Like the look of this slut? Carabelle will suck your dick anytime. Human or dragon form."
"I..." Rose Wolf started.
"This here," Director Carabelle continued, "is Doctor Hao Wang."
The thin man in office clothes was probably human-Yazi's size, now feeling tiny.
"Wow," Rose Wolf said. "I'm honored Doctor Wang. You've practically founded the muscle dragon project."
"Call me Hao, I'm not that old yet. And I was just in the right place at the right time."
"And this one," Carabelle said, "is the head quarter's steward Mei. For any material concerns."
The woman with in slutty office attire nodded demurely.
Scarlet Pheonix leaned in again. "One of our many sluts-on-call. Don't be misled by the fancy job title."