The Return Part 2
[The fic from the Picking on Sid poll!]
By CrystalQuirt
Description - Kong Li thinks he has found a way to infiltrate Wu's Garden and finally get the cookbook.
Warnings - mild language, violence.
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Once they got back to Wu's, Sid and Sandy sat in a booth again to wait until Barney called for the next delivery. Sandy volunteered to go to the kitchen to get them each a soda.
"I want diet soda, you?"
"I want Dr. Pepper." Sid smiled at her and watched her leave. Tobey's blob appeared out of nowhere and jumped up in front of Sid on the table.
"Gross! Get off the table where people are gonna eat!" The blob puckered up a spot on its surface closest to Sid and hissed before it spit on him. "Ahhahg!" Sid took another step back before he yelled at it again.
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In the kitchen Sandy called Kong Li. Without giving her a chance to speak he asked, "Is our little weapon in place?"
"Not yet Kong Li, Sir."
"Why NOT? You better not fail me!"
"Not my fault! It still refuses to attack the one called Tobey. Right now it is alone with the older boy."
"Fine Sandy. I don't mind rearranging the schedule and the order of my little enemy's demise! I will take control now . . . of Sid instead."
"Yes Kong Li, I will make sure no one interferes."
While Sid thought Sandy was gone, she was really peeking around the corner to watch him in secret. She watched as Sid called Tobey and told him that his blob was in the dining room messing up the tables and he had better get his butt back so he could clean up after it, since he sure wasn't going to get stuck with cleaning up after 'the gross thing'.
Sid added, "Which you should have gotten rid of it a long time ago!" before he hung up.
"All right Sid, I just made the delivery, I'm on my way." Tobey realized Sid had already hung up on him and frowned.
Sandy smiled still knowing that it would take a while for Tobey to get back.
Sid angrily hung up and walked away from the blob, planning to sit in a different booth. When he turned his back on it, it glowed for an instant as Kong Li took complete control and it leapt up on Sid's butt!
Sid cursed and swatted at the blob, but it was hanging on tight. A tentacle appeared and pulled Sid's tucked in shirt out from under his belt. It flattened itself more and slid up his back, under his shirt! Sid kept yelling but there was no one near, except for Sandy to hear him and she was standing out of sight giggling.
Sid ran backwards to try smashing it against the wall, but the blob still won't let him go. He felt something sharp, like cactus needles all over his back as it attached itself to his skin. It was high, between his shoulder blades where he could barely reach it.
He slammed himself against the wall again, but it had little effect except to make it dig itself deeper into his skin to hold on. The pain made him scream through his gritted teeth. Sid thought Sandy would have been closest and couldn't understand why she hadn't come to see what was going on.
Maybe Sue was still in the garden! When he ran to try to find someone to help him, the blob stabbed him in the back again and he tripped and fell. While he tried to get up the blob stabbed him again and took him back down. It grew a thin tentacle that went up the back of his neck and buried itself under his skin, just at his hairline on the back of his neck.
"Help!" he screamed hysterically as it wrapped itself around his spinal cord, sending hair thin tentacles up and down. Sid fell flat again, screaming and writhing around on the floor.
Suddenly Sid stopped screaming and fighting. He smiled and got up, calmly and smoothed his hair. In a flash his eyes turned pale blue - just like Kong Li's.
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"Yes, this will work," he said as he looked at his hands. Sandy brought him dark sunglasses and a leather jacket even though it was dark and warm outside, and inside even more so. Sid put the items on and admired the feel of the leather.
"Nice Sandy, thank you." Sid grabbed Sandy almost picking her up by her neck and gave her a passionate kiss. Kong Li could really care less about kissing his little sand doll, but there had to be some excuse why Sid would be letting her hang around Wu's and be so close to the family. Sid's liplock on Sandy was the first thing Tobey saw when he walked in.
"You two are gross . . . and what's with the dark sunglasses, Sid?" Tobey said smiling. "Where's my little buddy?"
"Shit, I don't know. Don't bother us." Sid smiled at Sandy and went back to chewing on her lip, which she gladly let him do.
"You're the one that called me and said it was making a mess or something . . . Sid?" Tobey gently touched Sid's shoulder since he was ignoring him. Sid made a fist, spun away from Sandy, and punched Tobey in the face!
Tobey fell flat and brought his hand to his throbbing cheek, not even knowing for sure what happened let alone believing that Sid just hit him so hard!
"Sid?" Tobey whined a little, "What was that for?" The bell over the door rang, it was Sue coming back.
"What's going on guys?" Sue put a bag she was carrying down and ran to Tobey, on the floor, holding his face. A drop of blood ran from the corner of his mouth from where he bit his lip.
Sid put his arm around Sandy and walked her toward the garden. "Come on Sandy, let's find someplace quieter."
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"Sucker punching that little reject was more satisfying than I ever could have hoped for!" Kong Li grinned and stared into the crystal ball, watching the action from Sid's point of view.
"Ha! Now I can control that boy's every thought, every action and create such havoc Nana will have no choice, but to go for the cookbook to save him!" He stopped laughing, and scratched his chin.
"Too bad I couldn't get that blob to attack Tobey. That means I might not have complete control after all, but my Sandy is there to ensure things go my way."
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"Tobey! What happened?"
"Isn't it obvious? Sid punched me! . . . in the face!" Sue helped Tobey get back to his feet. "And where is my blob! If Sid did something to it, I'm gonna punch him back!"
"Take it easy Tobey, you will find it, Sid wouldn't hurt it, he knows you like it."
"Are you kidding? He just punched me in the face, and he knows I kinda like my face too!" Tobey ran upstairs to check his room, Sue followed.
While they were upstairs, Mr. Wu went looking for someone who worked for him for a delivery and only found Sid. "Sid! Deliveries!"
"Forget it old man, I'm with my girl."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME? There are deliveries! NOW!"
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Tobey and Sue came down just in time to hear 'deliveries,' so Tobey volunteered not knowing he had just saved Sid from Mr. Wu's wrath. He got the sack and the delivery address and left through the garden. On his way past Sid and Sandy, he threatened, "Where is my buddy! You better not have done anything to it!"
Sid laughed evilly and got up with his fists clenched like he would hit Tobey again. Sue pointed for Tobey to keep riding and turned to yell at her brother. "What IS wrong with you?"
Sid was already on his bike, in his leather jacket and sunglasses at night, going after Tobey again. On his way out of the garden, Sid grabbed a piece of garden decoration that was made out of iron rebar with a four inch painted metal ladybug welded on one end. Sandy stayed on the bench, just smiling as she watched the turmoil.
"Shit." Sue mumbled, glared at Sandy and went out front to get her bike to follow them. "I don't know what's going on - but Sid better watch it. I will take my brother down myself if he hurts Tobey again."
Tobey, not knowing he was being followed by Sid . . . who was being controlled by Kong Li . . . was pedaling along in no hurry to get where he was going. He didn't want to even look at Sid right then, not until he found his blob. At the top of a gradual hill, Tobey leaned back and put his legs crossed through the handlebars. He set the sack of food to be delivered on his stomach and put his hand in looking to steal a piece of shrimp from the fried rice.
Sid was catching up to him fast and was nearly behind Tobey as the downhill got a little steeper. Tobey started to pick up speed. He said, "Yippee" and went into the sack after another shrimp.
Tobey heard another bike and looked over, just as Sid got next to him. Tobey frowned at him. With not a word, Sid raised the metal ladybug and brought it down toward Tobey's head. Tobey dropped the order and lay off the side. The metal ladybug hit and ripped open the seat on Tobey's bike instead of his head. Sid cussed as Tobey got back up to sit on his torn seat.
"Sid! Are you trying to kill me?"
"Exactly." Sid aimed the rebar end of the ladybug garden decoration at Tobey's front wheel this time and threw it like a spear. It went right between the spokes and jammed his tire. The bike flipped, launching Tobey into the air.
Sue came around the corner and saw Tobey in the air. She screamed his name as she picked up speed. Sid heard her and nonchalantly turned down a side-street to get back to Wu's, and Sandy.
Sue watched Tobey land on the pavement and roll over and over until he came to rest on his stomach at the curb. She jumped off her bike while it was still rolling and ran to him.
"Tobey what the hell happened? And when you crashed, why did Sid just ride off like he didn't care?"
"I guess 'cause he was done with me! He doesn't care - he tried to kill me Sue!"
"No way! Sid wouldn't try to hurt you on purpose - you or anyone else!"
"He did! Didn't you see him?" Sue helped Tobey limp back over to his bike. The metal ladybug was still sticking though the destroyed front wheel. "There is something wrong with Sid and I think it has to do with Sandy."
"Yeah, it's like she is turning him to the 'dark' side. Like, what's with the sunglasses at night?"
"I don't know." Tobey took the ladybug out of his wheel and saw it had peeled most of the spokes out. He started limping back, pushing his bike. "Hey Tobey wait up. Get on my bike with me, and pull your bike along side."
"Thanks Sue!"
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Kong Li, controlling Sid's every move and thought all the way back to Wu's, noticed his control started to feel a little weak after Sid made Tobey crash. It was because the blob saw Tobey get hurt and resisted Kong Li's control even harder. There was no one in the dining room when Sid walked through, looking for Sandy. He was just passing the front counter when the blob won its battle for control!
The blob retracted its tentacles from Sid's spine and released his hold in the skin on Sid's back. The blinding pain made Sid fall and scream again. This time Nana heard him and ran from the kitchen to see what was going on. By the time she got there, the blob had already oozed away and was hiding in a crack under the counter.
Sid lie screaming on the floor still trying to reach the stinging pain in his back and neck and Nana kneeled next to him. "Sid! What's happening?" he calmed himself a little and let Nana help him roll over on his stomach. She lifted his shirt and saw the red marks, scratches and two deep puncture wounds. He screamed again when he felt the burning of Nana's finger exploring one of the puncture wounds.
"Sorry Sid, it is deep. What happened?"
"I don't know, maybe I crashed on my bike? I don't remember anything."
"you were on your bike? no helmet, with sunglasses on at night, and where did you get a leather coat?"
"I don't rmember Nana."
Tobey and Sue came in and saw Sid on the floor. Tobey yelled. "What is wrong with you?"
"Hey Tobey, I don't know, it hurt, Nana found me on the floor."
"No you - you jerk! You tried to kill me."
Tobey pointed his finger at Sid and Sid got up slowly. Sandy came in from the garden when she heard Sid was back. She could tell right away, without the sunglasses on, Sid's eyes were back to their dark chocolate brown and Kong Li was no longer in control.
"I don't know what you're talking about Tobey. I would never hurt you."
"No you tried to kill me with that stunt! And where is my blob! You did something to it didn't you?"
The blob came out from the crack and hopped up on Tobey's shoulder. Sid took a few steps toward Tobey to try and talk to him and the blob cringed when he got close. "Why is he afraid of you? I don't know what's going on with you, but you are not the Sid who is my friend! I don't know who you are."
Tobey ran upstairs to pack some things. There was no way he was going to sleep in the same room with Sid. It was a nice night he planned to take his comforter and pillow out in the garden. He even got his toothbrush and took it with him.
"Sue, what happened out there?" Nana asked. Sid was very quiet.
"Sid rammed a piece of metal in Tobey's wheel and made him flip down a hill. Tobey was limping, I'm gonna go see if he really is ok." She turned her nose up at her brother and stomped away.
"Sid?"
"I told you Nana, I don't remember anything!"
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Tobey continued . . .