t's Halloween and I'm in my Miranda Rotto costume. My friends invited me to go trick-or-treating with them. All I need is my black eye shadow. I grab the brush and freeze. Something's not right. Something is horribly wrong. My cat jumps on my desk and looks up to me. She opens her mouth and yells, "BLUE MEANIES!" I lose my footing and fall into a strangely placed pool.
I woke to wet hair and an insane doctor. Not something that happens everyday.
"Now that you're up, why don't you tell me what I want to know," he said calmly.
"Look, Wily, I have no clue what you're going on about," I said.
"Yes, you do!" Wily shouted. "Perhaps you don't remember the day I gave you the data."
"What data? I don't have no data," I responded. "Look can't you just let me go? I won't tell anyone that you kidnapped a random girl."
"Not until you hand over the data, Rachel."
Rachel? My name isn't Rachel. But that would mean he thinks I'm-
"Sir, there seems to be a problem."
"AAAAAHHHHHHH! Shademan, don't do that!" Wily girlishly screamed. I was holding my breath, trying not to laugh.
"Yes, sir. You see, when a man and a woman lov-
"I don't have time for this, get on with it."
"We have the wrong woman."
"What!?"
"This 'woman' has a name, ya know!" I said, annoyed.
"Yes, she does. Lord Wily, may I introduce you to Marion Zalkin."
"Nice to know someone has manners on this boat," I grumbled.
"You see, Master," Shademan went on. "While she may have many resemblances to your sister, she is one inch taller."
Wily gave me a long, hard look. I could hear the gears in his head spinning.
"Damn it, Bass! You caught the wrong one!" he shouted at the wall.
"That's nice. Now can you do us all a favor and let me go home?" I asked.
"Not until you tell me where your mother is!" he replied.
"Beats me. She might have said something about a trip to Canada with everyone else or something," I lied.
"When is she going to be back?" he spat.
"You looking at the wrong person, sir," I replied sarcastically.
"Well fine then! You'll stay here until you hear word she's back!" he said angrily.
"You little-," I started to say but bit it back. It might not be in my best interest to insult a mad scientist with an army of killer robots. Seeing I had no more to say, he shoved my stuff into Shademan's hands and ordered him to show me to one of the spare rooms. Shademan grumbled something about being a butler and left, with me following him. A silence filled the steel gray hallways.
"Soooooooo, what's it like working for Mr. Wily?" I asked. Might as well get know some of the bots since I'm going to be here awhile.
Shademan gave me a bewildered look before replying with," It's not the best." After walking some more in silence, I felt the hair on my neck stand. I abruptly stopped and looked at my surroundings.
"What's wrong?" Shademan asked.
"I think something or someone is watching us," I said nervously.
Shademan smiled, showing with fangs, and said, "Most likely."
I mentally sweatdropped at how casually he said that. As we continued with our walk, I still felt uneasy. I noticed a strange shadow in the corner of my eye, but it disappeared.
"GGGGGAAAAAAAHHAHAHH!"
I came back to reality to see a robot snake on Shademan's shoulder. I ran up and ripped it off. It seemed like Shademan was shutting down or something, I tried to help him stand up, but he was too heavy. Darn my soft spot for robots. Ever since that Terminator movieā¦
"What is the meaning of this, Snakeman!" Shademan shouted.
"Oh nothing. I was just bored," said a voice from the across the hallway. A robot with a snake hat strutted up to us.
"What do we have here? A female human? Master must be desperate," he said with a chuckle.
"Ummm yuck," I said with disgust. I grabbed the dead robot snake and threw it at him. Not surprisingly, all it did was make him mad.
"You bitch!" he yelled. He aimed his cannon at my chest and shot another robot snake. I covered my chest to minimize the damage. The snake latched itself on my arm and started to numb it. I gasped and tried to remove the snake.
"Surprised? Those were specially made to take care of humans," he laughed. He started to charge up another snake and aimed for Shademan this time.
"Let me get rid of this sad excuse for a robot master," he fired.
I don't know why I did what I did at the moment. I sprang in front of Shademan and faced the missile coming our way.
