Part 4: But If You Close Your Eyes

A/N: To all of those asking that I update "Bleeding Out", I would like to inform you that was a one-shot. Meaning its done. Anyways, enjoy this chapter.

The fox-girl led the quartet of Part-Time heroes to a giant, metal building, with storm grey doors that showed the five teens' reflections in an eerie, distorted, uncanny way. Penn gulped.

The sheer size of the doors themselves was almost incomprehensible to Penn, and he gulped. He knew what was behind them.

Corona, as well, could sense this looming feeling of doom. "Penn, maybe you, Boone, and Sashi should just stay here...j-just to be safe." Corona feared more than anything that the events that had happened in the Submarine universe would repeat themselves. She couldn't go through that. She wouldn't let her fears become a reality again.

Penn, however, protested. "Corona, you can't do this alone!" He got closer to her, and took her hand. His tone of voice was full of fear, and deep down, he knew Jane would do anything to just hurt Corona.

Part of him preferred he went through pain, so that Corona wouldn't have to. Another part of him knew, however, that going through pain would cause Corona more pain. At this point in their relationship, his pain was her pain. And him being tortured wouldn't help her at all.

"Penn..." Corona sighed, looking at him.

He could sense exactly what she was feeling, just from the look in her eyes. The pained look she gave him was more painful, than even a white hot iron to the genitals. And that was saying something.

"Alright...But dammit, if she gives you even a slight amount of trouble, and touches even one purple hair on your head, she will pay for it." He said "And in the event she does, scream. Scream as loud as you can, and I will be there. I promise. I won't let Jane or Rippen hurt you.

Corona took a deep breath, and tried not to let the burning feeling of anxiety in her gut gnaw away at her, like a chocolate addict to a candy bar. She pulled the large, silvery, metallic door open, and entered the cavernous front corridor of the metal fortress. She slowly walked down the corridor, her steps reverberating on the metal walls, creating slightly annoying echoes of the clicking of her shoes on the metal floor.

Jane, in robotic form, sat on a metal throne, practically lying in it, with her legs crossed. "I see you finally show your face, sunny" Her voice was a robotic drone.

It fit her, in an eerie way.

"Jane, this isn't-"

"Come to disgrace our parents' memory more, my dearest little sister?" She sat up right, and leaned towards Corona, narrowing her glowing red eyes.

"Whoa, whoa...hold up? I'm disgracing our parents' memory? Says the Part-Time Villain daughter of two Part-Time Heroes?" Corona leaned her head towards Jane, with a look of pure done-ness. "You're literally acting like an immature baby!"

"I did it for my parents, CoCo—after all, why would you just willingly spend time with a mudere-" Jane didn't get to finish her sentence before Corona cut her off.

"Jane! Penn didn't kill our parents!" Corona crossed her arms, narrowing her eyes.

"He might as well have!" Jane whined, in a babyish tone of voice.

"Uh...no...incorrect..." Corona trailed off

"Yes he did!"

"Jane...stop..."

"Yes he DID!" Jane began to throw a fit, kicking her legs and screaming like a toddler that had a diaper rash. "YES HE DID! YES HE DID! YES HE DID!"

The last time Corona had seen Jane throw a tantrum this big, was when Jane had lost a game tournament, 6 years before. Jane rarely threw fits, but gosh, when she did, you better be out of her way. Best for your safety.

"Jane...you are a grown ass woman...Stop throwing a fit like a baby!"

"I AM NOT ACTING LIKE A BABY!" she whined, again in a babyish tone.

"Uh...yes you are...you're insisting that a lie is true, and throwing a fit when I don't agree with your bullshit!" Corona said, frustratedly, touching her fingers to the temple of her forehead, and lightly massaging there. If Jane kept this up, Corona would surely get a migraine.

"BUT IT'S NOT A-"

"Jane, seriously...you might want to be a bit careful, you might blow yourself up if your anger gets...out of control..." Corona said, a teeny bit of concern for her older sister showed.

"BLOW UP? THAT'S REALLY FU-" Jane literally blew up, just like Corona said she would.

Corona sighed, and rolled her eyes slightly. "Knew it would happen."

Penn, having heard the explosion, ran in. "Whoa...what happened here? Why are your sister's robotic body parts everywhere?"

"She blew herself up having a hissy-fit." Corona said in a deadpan tone.

Rippen and Larry ran in. Rippen, seeing his robotic fiancee's body parts strewn across the ground cause Rippen to cringe in both discomfort, and anger that he once again lost. He grumbled curses under his breath, unable to do anything, as he had already lost.

~u~

Penn, Corona, Sashi, and Boone were all zapped back.

Penn picked up Corona, and spun her around, then gently set her down, leaning close to her face, and giving her a nice smooch on the mouth. Corona giggled.

Boone looked at Sashi.

"Don't you dare pick me up." was all she said in reply to his glance.

Boone laughed a bit. "I wasn't gonna pick you up..." he awkwardly rubbed the back of his head.