I don`t own the characters, not the many details of this fanfic. I make no money off it. Why would I anyway?
Chapter 2: Killer Heat
-Master Mantis, what do you see in your crystal ball about the giant wall?
-I don`t know, the barrier formed by bricks blocks all spiritual messages from coming and entering my ball. In other terms, it doesn`t work because of that wall.
-Do you think I can climb it? Young Cricket asked.
-Not at all, it is covered with a fluid sticky but which also prevents anyone from climbing. Try it.
Young Cricket put his fingers on the crack between two blocks, and tried climbing. At a few meters only, he fell down on the head. A mega bruise appeared on his head, and tears rolled down his cheeks.
-Bobo…
-That is exactly what I meant, Young Cricket. Even if you get weapons, you will be unable of climbing the wall. However, I really fear the worse is coming… See? It`s sunlight. Did you notice it was hotter than usual, since it is only 10 in the morning?
-Yes, it`s hot like at noon… that`s really weird, sensei.
-It`s because the people who trapped us here have also put a large glass circle on top of the block-made tower. Even if you found a way to climb the wall, you would get stuck on top, with the glass which blocks our way to freedom. However, our enemies are certainly smarter than that: if they want to make us suffer, we`ll pass through a lot of problems…
***
Mike was in a dark room. He was not in the laboratory anymore. He was in... A helicopter. Yes, that was it. A helicopter. Someone had robot-napped him. And there was a dark figure sitting on a chair in front of him.
-Hello, robot, the man said.
-Who are you? Mike asked.
-Oh, I`m your enemy… for now. Join our group and you`ll get part of the reward.
-Wait a second… first, tell me who you are.
-I`m nobody important. I`m just here for a little affair.
The voice was dark, monotone, like if it was not really alive.
-I know Wario very well, I know he hates his employees, and you`re one of them. Thus, he never paid you. Well, the goal here is to force him. Anyway, whatever choice you make, you`ll join.
-Then, no. My only master is Dr. Crygor.
When Mike finished his sentence, a large machine took him by the head and brought him on another chair, with quite a strange helmet attached on top.
-This special chair will change your circuits so you will only obey me. You`ll become my metal soldier…
Mike tried to resist, however all his memory got erased and replaced by a new one.
***
Mona was looking at the Mona Pizza building, burning to ashes because of the sun.
-We gotta do something! Call the firemen!
-I already did that, Joe said. But they`re not really far, and the casern too is burning. We must do everything by ourselves.
Mona evaluated he situation.
-If our building burns, we`ll lose everything! Well, at least it`s got advantages…
The Pizza Dinosaur building too was burning. The Dino Guys were outside, looking at their lifetime work, which was disappearing in a trail of black smoke. The Dino Leader approached Mona and Joe.
-Listen. I don`t know what you have been doing, but you gotta help us!
-Why? You tried stealing my job with your giant dino machine, you took my friends hostage with your giga chicken, now you are planning to use us as helpers and then leave us by ourselves later? Mona deducted.
-Not really, I just thought that we could help each other for once. The situation is critical. For our two establishments.
-Then, help finding a hose, we`ll branch it to a water sport and wipe out the fire. I don`t know, be more creative! Things can`t always be arranged with robots!
***
Every place was burning at noon. It was a terribly hot temperature. The park was turned into a large field of ashes. It was terrible. Orbulon, who was sleeping in a hotel when the walls got placed, was stuck there too. Sure, he was an alien, but he could not help them with his piggy ship. It was blocked in the cylinder too, after a far-from-successful landing. And it would be unable to break the glass as well. Orbulon had understood everything as soon as he noticed. He guessed, by deduction, who the enemy was. However, nobody would let him say it. Why? Simply because everyone was busy refreshing the burning town with water. Orbulon had even guessed a way to get out, but once again, people were too busy.
With an IQ of 300, Orbulon was able to take everything he knew about his friends, including their enemies. Of course, since everyone was trapped in town, it couldn`t have been any of them. Also, by calculating the large amount of material needed to build this cylindrical structure, it couldn`t have been any little enemy from an unknown game. The use of earthly materiel (glass, bricks) also proved that the enemy was not an extraterrestrial, or else the structure would be made in metal and the glass would be replaced by any matter unknown to humans but which serves the same purpose as glass, only for aliens. Finally, he ran through his friends` enemies and deleted the ones who couldn`t accomplish any upper task. He ended up with only three culprits, and from these, and because he had learned about them, he guessed which one it was. But even if he would say it, nobody would believe him. After all, that guy has other things to do…
But the fact was there. There is no way someone would listen to him… Orbulon looked through his hotel room, cooling down his bldy temperature like a salamander to be able to live despite the fire.
***
Penny Crygor had difficulties believing everything that was happening. She was trapped in town. The night these giant walls appeared, she was working in the school`s laboratory. She was creating a new kind of helmet. However, she once needed to go get some stuff at her grandpa`s lab, but the path was blocked everywhere.
To cope with this, she was creating a backpack with integrated reactor. She would then try and break the glass with a tiny but powerful laser. She sure would try it, but it was too dangerous during sunlight. Metal is quite dangerous when heated. And she didn`t want to get her back burned by the reactor. Plus, overheat of a reactor might make it explode. It was better to try it at night. The glass covering the cylinder would have cooled off then.
To relax, Penny looked around the city with a telescope. Nothing was relaxing in this however, because the city was burning. She was working on her mini-laser, when three girls entered the laboratory: Mona, Ashley and Kat.
-Penny, you gotta help us! Mona cried.
-We`re in really big trouble, and only you can help us with your big brain, Kat continued.
-Yeah, not that I dislike seeing such chaos, the witch continued, but when it also touches my mansion it`s purely terrible. Come on, help us.
-I`m sorry, friends, Penny said, but I can`t. I`m preparing a little something, but I don`t know if it will be okay… We would need someone to have the guts to wear a reactor in a backpack and to go cut out a piece of glass with a laser, then bring this piece to the ground, and redo that as much as necessary…
-I know who can help us! Mona shouted.
To be continued: The unknown enemy makes more victims, taking control of them. The crazy plan made up by the four girls begins, however it proves to be useless. Finally, Wario laments in his room, trying to find a solution to all his problems – the main one being: TRACKING AND KILLING THE GUY WHO`S DESTROYING HIS CITY! `Cause it can`t be a girl… or is it?
Author`s note: I`m from Quebec, and I know many words you will probably never hear anywhere else. "Bobo" means "bruise", and it`s what young kids say. Also, our huge number of swears had better not be heard by anyone. However, since Cricket knows many languages and traveled around the world with his sensei, he might have heard them.
