Nightriders: The Battle Continues

Title card of the Battle Continues

***Nightriders: The Battle Continues*** is a 63-chapter story in the Nightriders series published on March 26, 2015 through December 11, 2015, written by series creator AxlReigns. This is a second story of the main trilogy series and is a direct-sequel continuation to Nightriders: Battle of the Bands. This would be followed by another sequel, Nightriders: The Kidnappings. British artist Bluepieces97 returns to do the illustrations. But however in chronological order, Nightriders: The Reluctant Marching Band would actually be the next story after this one as some of the prominent characters in the series would not be introduced until after that. But if one was to only count the three stories of the trilogy, then The Kidnappings would be next.

Despite that this is the second story in the series, this was actually the first in the entire series to be officially illustrated by BluePisces97, before the first story got this treatment. This may lead to confusion in regards to publication dates.

## Plot

The story starts off with the nightriders performing at the metro stadium, Foxville. However, their performance is cut short due to the audiance rioting, demanding the presnece of the Backstreet Boys. Upon exiting the stadium and having a heated standoff with said Backstreet Boys over a song lawsuit, the latter of which ends up with the three being pummled by the bands new bodyguard Monty, the nightriders recieve a message from the Sharps Professor Grant Instructing them to come on behalf of their friend Mac Manson, and Flame heart member Lucinda Heart . Upon arrival, Mac breaks down the mission . Venture to Forbidden Island, and retrieve the Zendaar Tablet located there. Both Lucinda and Axl agree to travel to the island while rolf and company lawsuit the backstreet boys for copyrighting their song.

On their way to Forbidden island, the pilots of the plane are revealed to be imposters working for the falattseos, a scuffle between them and Axl causes the plane to crash land on the island , where the two have to venture around for survival .They eventualy run into Dr Bryan, a loony badger who has been residing on the island for a unknown period of time. The next morning, the group travese through the jungle once more until they make contact with their former pilots, another brawl accross a waterfall ends with Axl throwing the pilots off the edge, along with himself.

Waking up, Axl is greeted by Iggy Styles and Brutus Crocker, two reptiles who have been stranded on the island after Iggy's former Band, " The one Eyed Cyclops" Signed a contract with the falatsseos .

## Names in other languages

Below are translations towards the title of this story.

 Korean
 Thai
 Chinese (Simplified)
 Chinese (Traditional)
 Indonesian
 Malay
 Tagalog (Filipino)
 Vietnamese

## Trivia

* This was the first story to be officially worked on. But it serves as the very second story in the series.
* Some of the earlier illustrations of the stories were actually re-drawn entirely from scratch by BluePisces97 herself as the creator himself commissioned her to do so. This was done in order to better reflect improvements towards her art style over the years as being illustrator for the series as it was done to keep in a line consistency towards the newer artwork that was made towards the art seen in later chapters and stories of the series, as it has shown with mass improvements overtime.
* With this being at 63 chapters long; this is not only the longest story in the main trilogy, but also the longest in the *entire series.*
* New major characters such as Iggy Stiles and Brutus Crocker make their debut in this story and would go onto become main protagonists and join the primary cast alongside with Axl Reigns, Lonnie Leo, Rolf Steiner, Mac Manson and the others for the rest of the series to come.