Forgot to say that this story was a joint venture between my friend Sarah and I. Sorry to leave my co-author out. So, I'm giving her credit now.
However, neither she nor I own Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space. Hanna Barbera owns them or someone else bought them, like a big company, then they would. Big companies seem to buy everything, don't they? But anyway, that's all. Now the next chapter.
The ones remaining in the cell were unsure of what to do. What was happening to Alexandra right now and would her stubbornness have bad consequences for the rest of them?
"We need to find a way out of here", Alan stated.
"Is that possible?" Josie asked.
No one knew. They were all scared and there was a feeling of doom that hung in the cold, damp air. Everyone was absorbed in his or her own thoughts.
No one paid any attention to Melody, who was sitting in a corner.
Bleep was with her, of course. "It's not very nice here, Bleep. I think we should leave."
"Bleep. Bleep."
"You have an idea. That's wonderful. I knew we could count on you." She hugged him and for a few minutes they both snuggled together. Then Melody finally thought to ask, "What's your plan?".
He told her.
"Ooh, that's good. You'd better do it now." She looked over at everybody. "They're all getting sadder and sadder. I don't like to see that. You'll have to save the day, Bleep."
"Bleep. Bleep."
"I know you will. Come on." She got up and went over to the others. "Bleep's going to save us all."
She told them.
Everybody stopped talking and looked at her. "How can he manage to save us? He's just a furball," Alexander wailed. "We're doomed."
Melody just smiled. "There's nothing to worry about, Alex.
Everything's going to be all right." She looked at Bleep, still held in her arms. "Go Bleep."
He flew from her arms and managed to get himself through the bars of the cell door. Then he disappeared from sight.
"Where's he going, Melody?" Alan asked.
"Oh, I'll let it be a surprise." Melody giggled. Everybody would be so happy when Bleep got back. It would be wonderful.
In the meantime Bleep was flying off through the castle in search of-well when he found it-then it would be revealed. He was careful in his flight; unwanted attention would be bad. But he knew what he was looking for and when he found it things would be good.
And he did. Grabbing it, he flew back to the gang in the cell.
"Looks like Bleep has the keys," Josie exclaimed.
Sure enough he had an iron ring with keys on it. He squeezed through and gave the keys to Alan who promptly tried them all until he got the right one. Then they escaped.