Chapter 3: A Strange, New World
BlueTiger321: So here's the next chapter. First, I want to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the people who read this. It really means a lot to me that you would take the time to see what I've created and that's one of the rewards of being a writer. Anyway, on with the story.
Aerrow and Danny had managed to get themselves through the crevice. They kept going forward in hopes of finding June quickly. The tight area led them down to a narrow cliff edge while the excess water from the pipes was working its way down through the cracks and into the bottom.
Aerrow knew that June was important to Danny, but he was beginning to have second thoughts about this rescue attempt because he felt this area wasn't going to get them anywhere.
"Danny, this is a mistake," said Aerrow. "It's a dead end. Come on, let's turn back."
"Okay, then you turn back," said Danny.
"Danny, please." Aerrow didn't want to abandon his brother, especially after all that has happened.
Danny led the way and saw that he had to keep his back to the rock wall as he began to sidle along the ledge. He held out his hand and said, "C'mon, give me the light." He then tried calling out again, hoping to get lucky. "June!"
The flashlight Aerrow held onto was then passed to Danny, but the eldest brother soon looked down and almost felt like vomiting from the height of the fall. "Danny, you see how deep that is? Get back!" he warned his brother.
Danny did as his brother said and leaned farther back when the flashlight slipped from his fingers and tumbled into the running water.
"The light!" Aerrow shouted.
"Let it go!" said Danny.
The two brothers watched as the flashlight fell all the way to the bottom. Aerrow could see an underground river all the way down and knew a fall from that height would mean certain death.
"Oh God!" Aerrow said, turning his head away as he followed Danny.
"Hold on to me," said Danny.
When Aerrow and Danny had finally reached as far as they could go, they stopped and wondered how anyone could escape from an area this narrow. There wasn't anything – a rope, a ladder or a cable – that could indicate a means of escape.
Danny tried calling out once more. "June! June!"
Aerrow got behind Danny while they stood on the ledge. "Watch it!" he said worriedly.
The two of them remained still until they both heard a cry. It said, "Danny!" and both brothers recognised it as June's voice.
"June?" said Danny as he tried to figure out where he heard the voice.
Just then, both Aerrow and Danny saw something odd coming from the rock on the other side. It looked as if June's face was coming out from the rock.
"You see that?" Danny said disbelievingly.
"Help me!" shouted June before she faded back into the rock.
Danny's eyes opened wide in shock after what he just saw. He then said, "June, is that you?"
June's face appeared once more in the rock, crying, "Danny!" before disappearing again.
In a desperate attempt, Danny tried to jump out and grab June the next time he saw her but was stopped by his brother. "No!" Aerrow shouted, grabbing his brother's shoulders so he wouldn't fall.
A few seconds later, June's upper body appeared out of the rock. "Danny!" she said while holding out her hands. Two other pairs of hands also appeared out of the rock and grabbed June, trying to pull her back.
"June!" Danny shouted as he tried to jump towards her.
"Get off of me!" June cried as the hands brought her back into the rock.
Danny was able to grab June's right arm before she was pulled back, and in doing so, pulled off her bracelet just as she disappeared back into the rock. Danny looked at June's bracelet and saw the gem sparkle in the centre. He then looked back at the rock, along with Aerrow, and saw it ripple like water before it finally appeared solid again.
Both brothers looked with shocked faces after seeing what just happened. Danny broke the silence when he turned to Aerrow and asked, "Did you see that?"
"Yeah," replied Aerrow. "Did you?"
"Yeah."
Aerrow pointed at the other side and said, "That's solid rock."
Danny, on the other hand, saw that June was somehow behind that rock so he would have to go in there and rescue her.
"I've got a good feeling about this," said Danny.
"No, Danny, forget it," said Aerrow, trying to talk his brother out of doing something insane.
"I've gotta go with it."
"No, forget it. It's rock." Aerrow pointed at the bottom and said, "Just look down there..."
Aerrow never got to finish what he said because his brother gave him a quick hug and then broke free of his grip. He then jumped into the rock and disappeared as he went after June.
"Danny!" Aerrow shouted when his brother was gone. He then arched himself forward to go after his brother, crying, "Danny!" but then stopped at the edge of the cliff. A rock tumbled down where Aerrow stopped and into the underground river.
"I don't believe this!" said Aerrow after witnessing his brother disappearing.
But now was not the time to worry; Aerrow had to go after his brother, but he was nervous about jumping into the rock. He decided to do it the safe way by extending only one hand to the other side. On the first try he pulled his hand back after only going a few inches, and on the second try he almost lost his balance. Then Aerrow kept his other hand to wall behind him and leaned forward, but this time he lost his balance and went into the rock backside first as he screamed.
The next thing Aerrow knew he was falling through an otherworldly place and screaming at the top of his lungs. Everything around him didn't look normal, and he appeared to be falling into what look like a large rock formation. His screaming ended when he came out the other side of a rock wall and landed on his rear. Standing next to him was Danny who helped his brother to his feet.
"Aerrow," Danny said, glad to see that his brother decided to join him.
Aerrow looked himself over to make sure no body parts were missing. "I disintegrated," he said. "Am I still here?"
The two brothers had landed in a large, stone room and a large round object was in the centre. A purple light could be seen glowing around it and there was an entryway along the wall.
After Aerrow collected his bearings, he and Danny heard a shout from the entryway. It was June saying, "Where are you taking me?"
"Back where you belong," replied Travis.
June tried to fight back but Travis and Jack were too strong for her. "You're hurting me!" she cried.
"There she goes!" said Danny.
The two brothers then ran to the entryway to follow after June and her kidnappers. They could then see that a tunnel was in the entryway and June's kidnappers already had a head start.
Danny ran through the tunnel, shouting angrily, "I'm gonna kill 'em!"
"No, you're not gonna kill 'em," Aerrow replied, sharing his brother's anger. "Not if I get there first. I'm gonna break every bone in their bodies, and then I'm gonna kill 'em! I'm really gonna kill 'em!"
The end of the tunnel contained a small metal door. Aerrow pushed it open and went through as Danny followed. They looked out to see a huge crowd of people forming around them. It appeared as if they were inside a subway station, but it was one they didn't recognise and there was also this weird yellow substance that nearly covered the walls.
Danny looked at a chain-link fence and saw June with her captors on the other side. "There she is!" he shouted, pointing in that direction.
"Get off of me!" June shouted in an angry tone.
"You better not hurt her!" Danny shouted to Travis and Jack.
Aerrow and Danny ran over to the fence to see June screaming as Travis and Jack dragged her away. The two of them had to work fast so they ran over to the exit of the station and accidentally running into people along the way. Both brothers each said, "Excuse me," as they made their way to the turnstile, not seeing a sign that had the words Dark Ace Square written on it.
After finally leaving the station, Aerrow and Danny went out into the street and saw something odd about where they were. It was a large city that didn't look like any familiar part of New York. The streets were raised above the roads and there were buildings covered in the same yellow substance as the station. The cars were powered by electricity instead of gasoline, and they had conduits on top of them to keep them charged when they passed under metal grating. The billboards also had the face of someone they didn't know and some had slogans, including Vote Dark Ace written on them. The face of the same person on the billboards was also in neon lights at the top of the city's tallest building.
(A/N: If you think about it, the cars have to be powered by electricity because they don't have fossil fuels.)
Aerrow looked around with his mouth wide open as he took in the scenes of this unfamiliar city. A man named Yuri Lowell (Tales of Vesperia) was seen trying to get a pair of boots off a street lamp.
"Where the hell are we?" said Aerrow. "This is crazy. We went under the river but this can't be Manhattan."
"I don't know," said Danny. "I haven't been to Manhattan in a couple of weeks."
"Must've been a bad couple of weeks."
Just then, Danny looked down at the road and spotted three people getting into a taxi after pushing away the original person who was about to use it. The youngest brother leaned forward over the railing to get a better view and immediately recognised who they were.
"June?" cried Danny.
June heard Danny's voice and looked up to see if he was there. "Danny?" she said.
"June!" Danny shouted.
"Danny! Aerrow!" June cried, but then Jack forced her into the taxi.
"June, we're coming!" Danny said. His attention was focused on June's captors while his eyes were narrowed with rage. "You better not hurt her! C'mon, somebody do something!"
A man in red and dark green clothing while wearing a gray helmet and red goggles over his eyes soon came up to the two brothers. He was a cop and he pushed them aside saying, "Move it, let's go!"
(A/N: The cops in this story are the random Talons from Storm Hawks.)
Danny turned to the cop and said, "But that girl is being kidnapped."
The cop wouldn't listen to Danny and said, "Move it!" At that time, the taxi with June, Travis and Jack had already left.
"Hey!" said Aerrow as he was forcibly moved. "Are you a cop or what?"
Aerrow and Danny then ran over to another railing to see where the taxi was headed, but it couldn't support both their weight as it fell apart. The two of them held on and screamed as it broke, but fortunately it was attached to the yellow substance. They both fell as the railing slipped out of their grips and landed on their rears on the lower part of the raised sidewalk. Pieces of the yellow substance also landed on top of them.
"Are you okay?" asked Danny.
"I'm okay," replied Aerrow. "You're the one without the padding."
"Yeah, well you're the old one."
Aerrow and Danny both looked on the ground in front of them. There, two lizard-like creatures called Charmanders were eating the yellow substance.
"Oh my God, look at that!" Aerrow said, disgusted at the scene.
Danny was also disgusted as both he and Aerrow stood up and wiped off the yellow substance from their bodies. What really made the two brothers uncomfortable were some of the citizens in this city.
In one place, a big lizard named Chase Young was sniffing what looked to be a snake called an Ekans. In another place, a one-eyed woman named Leela was pushing a baby carriage with an egg in the seat. Just then, two guys named Coop and Jamie (Megas XLR) came up and started touching the egg in a rude manner.
"No, get away from my baby! Get away from my baby!" Leela shouted, shooing the two men away.
Aerrow looked around and thought this wasn't a normal place. He was dismayed to see people both looking and acting the way they did.
"What is this place?" said Aerrow, trying to make sense of this city. "This is crazy." He led Danny over to a pillar of a nearby building. Once there, he asked Danny, "Where are we?"
Danny looked over to see a man on a bicycle named Ikkaku Madarame (Bleach) suddenly ride his bicycle toward the railing and fall onto the road. "I don't know," he said. "Maybe we got knocked unconscious for a hundred years and woke up in Manhattan in the future."
"Maybe the Bronx of today. No wonder they never tell you to come up here."
(A/N: I mean no offense to any people out there who live in the Bronx. This is just a part of the movie.)
Danny looked out again and saw an adult movie theatre and the main film was called I Was a Teenage Mammal. He had a determined look in his eyes as he said, "Hey, Aerrow, I've got a feeling..."
"What?" Aerrow wondered.
"I've got a feeling we're not in Brooklyn anymore." Danny then went back out onto the streets in hopes of finding June or at least finding out where he was.
Aerrow looked out after him and said, "Hey, where are you going?"
After Aerrow left, a figure crept out of the shadows from the building. It appeared to be human in shape except that it had red skin and its eyes were coloured a piercing yellow. Its mouth also had sharp, pointed teeth and was permanently formed into a smile. It also wore a brown overcoat that had spiked shoulder pads along with metal boots and leather gloves. This being was known as a Heaven Smile (Killer7) and it laughed as soon as the brothers were gone.
(A/N: Just so you know, the Heaven Smiles in the game don't wear anything. I only described the clothes in this story because that's what the Goombas wore in the movie.)
The largest building in the city was the home to the one who ruled over it. For the last twenty years, this individual had taken over the world from its rightful ruler and made it into what it is today. This ruler was appalled by what he made the city into, but he still felt comfort in knowing that he lived a life of luxury. The man was none other than Dark Ace.
His suite was filled with everything a leader would want. It was decorated with a large sofa, a king-sized bed, a mud bath and even a desk. The walls were decorated a deep purple with hints of black scattered everywhere.
Dark Ace looked down at his city and said, "Would you look at this place? Pathetic. It gets worse every day."
"It's disgusting," said another person in the suite. The one joining Dark Ace was a woman in her early twenties. Her yellow eyes looked menacing and part of her black hair was tied to a small bun held up by a pin shaped like a flame while her bangs fell down to the sides of her face. Her clothing consisted of a light red, long-sleeved shirt and light red pants that were underneath a darker red vest with gold trim around the collar as well as black boots with the tips curved upward and wristbands that matched her vest. This woman was called Azula. She was Dark Ace's advisor and most loyal follower.
"The human's on the other side have a world full of resources ready for the taking." As Dark Ace spoke, he dunked his bare hands into two individuals tubs filled with clear liquid.
"Yes, I know," said Azula. She was sitting by the bed and helped herself to a piece of food on a plate.
"Imagine an endless supply of food, clean air, water, and what are we stuck with?" Dark Ace then took his hands out of the tubs and they were now covered with wax. His face changed to one of disappointment as he said, "This... pit hole with germs everywhere and fungus!"
Azula went to Dark Ace's side and blowed on his hands to cool the wax.
Dark Ace then walked away with Azula following as he said, "For sixty-five million years, we've been exiled here after the meteorite struck"—he stopped and made a gesture with his hands as referencing something big—"while mammals roam free in the other dimension! Well, not for long."
Azula followed Dark Ace to a lower part of his suite. She said to him, "When you get the rock."
"When I get the princess," Dark Ace corrected.
"The princess?" Azula snapped. She then shook her head in disgust. She wanted to be the one at Dark Ace's side when he completes his goal, and hearing that he needed the princess made her skin crawl. For now, she would go with Dark Ace's intentions.
Dark Ace sat down at his desk and said with high hopes, "I need Princess Juniper and the rock, then I'll finally merge our dimension with theirs and get rid of the mammals!"
Azula began to peel the wax off Dark Ace's hands and said, "It's everything you've hoped for, everything you've worked for."
Travis and Jack then entered the suite. This time they would have good news for their master. Jack raised his hand and said to Dark Ace, "Excuse me, cousin?" Their master was also their cousin as well, and that was the only reason why Dark Ace used them in his legions.
"Hello, morons," said Azula in a dissatisfied tone.
"Hello," Travis and Jack said in unison.
"I captured the princess," said Travis. Dark Ace was so relieved to hear the news that he awed in joy. Travis continued saying, "She's been de-fungused." This made Dark Ace awe once again.
Jack stepped forward, saying, "I took her through the gateway." He didn't want Travis to take all the credit.
Travis one-upped Jack by saying, "I recognised her. He couldn't tell one mammal from the next."
"Great," said Dark Ace. He held out his hands as if expected something from them. "Now... where's the rock?"
His cousins looked confused. They didn't remember anything about bringing back a rock to their master.
"Rock?" asked Jack.
"Rock, sir?" asked Travis.
Dark Ace's face changed to one of anger as he said, "The meteorite piece that she wears on her wrist and I told you not to forget it!"
Jack snapped his fingers and said, "That rock."
Travis grabbed Jack by the collar and said with his teeth clenched, "I told you not to forget it!" He thought Dark Ace wouldn't notice that he forgot, too.
Dark Ace stood up and shouted to Travis, "And I told you to remind him!" He calmed down and explained to his cousins why the rock was important. "Without that piece, the meteorite lays dormant. I'll not be able to merge the dimensions! Where is it?"
Travis and Jack looked at each other and realised who were the ones who must have it. With embarrassed looks on their faces, they turned to Dark Ace and said in unison, "The plumbers took it."
"Plumbers?" said Dark Ace. He turned to Azula and said, "Plumber alert!"
Azula was quickly on the phone. She spoke with the head of the police and said, "Plumber alert." Within minutes, the call would go out to the other police officers to find the plumbers.
Travis looked at Jack angrily for his stupidity and so the two walked out of the suite, hoping not to anger their master any further.
Aerrow and Danny continued their trek through the city. They still didn't know exactly where they were, nor did they have any clue of where to find June. They were so intent on finding their way that they didn't notice a broadcast being heard on the radio.
The radio station's disc jockey, a man named Seto Kaiba, said, "That's right; the big man himself, Lord Dark Ace, is looking for a couple of plumbers. And there's a big coin reward – two thousand gold Dark Ace coins. Guess he must have a serious plumbing problem."
The two brothers walked by a vendor, a green creature named Stork, who was selling cabbage to anyone interested. "Hey," he said, "this is only twenty Dark Ace coins. You'll never find a better, tasting Merb cabbage."
Aerrow looked at the cabbage with disgust. It smelled awful and flies were buzzing all around it. That can't be good for anyone, he thought.
As Aerrow and Danny passed the vendor, Aerrow said, "Hey, listen. If we're ever gonna eat in this place, then we're gonna have to be very, very hungry."
Danny then approached a pink-haired woman named Ravess (Storm Hawks) and asked her, "Excuse me, Miss. Could you tell me where I am?"
"Yeah, you're in my way!" said Ravess. She then pushed past Aerrow and Danny. She turned back to them and said, "Egg suckers!" and then walked away.
"What's with these people?" Aerrow wondered.
Aerrow and Danny approached a railing where an old woman named Hama (Avatar) was standing. She looked at the two brothers and said, "Are you boys new here in town?"
"Ma'am," replied Aerrow, "we're looking for someone and we're from Brooklyn."
"You know, boys," said Hama, "it's very dangerous in this neighbourhood so you really shouldn't walk around without a weapon."
"Yeah," Aerrow said while nodding his head.
"You got one?" asked Hama.
Danny simply shook his head and said, "No."
"All right," said Hama. She then pulled out a cattle prod from her sleeves and shouted, "Get 'em up, suckers!"
To show she was serious, she nudged Aerrow with her weapon and he immediately felt an electric shock. Aerrow yelped in pain as the shock sent pain throughout his body. Danny stood in disbelief to see an old woman mugging him and his brother.
"Dark Ace coins!" Hama demanded. "I need Dark Ace coins, you lamoes!" She then noticed that June's bracelet was sticking out of Danny's pocket. "Well, what have we here?" she said. Hama then reached out and grabbed June's bracelet.
"No, you can't take that," said Danny.
"This'll do just fine," said Hama with a wicked smile on her face.
"That's not even ours!" shouted Danny.
Just then, another person standing at the railing picked up Hama. It was a woman with long, strawberry blonde hair, light blue eyes and a mole beneath her lower right lip. She was dressed in a black robe with a white sash on her waist that had an emblem with the Japanese number ten, a pink sash over her shoulders, and metal boots. She accessorized herself with a sword hanging from her lower back and a metal necklace, but her most notable feature was her large chest. This woman was named Rangiku Matsumoto.
As Rangiku picked up Hama, she thrashed her arms and shouted, "Hey, what are you doing? Put me down!"
Rangiku then threw Hama over the railing and down onto the road. Hama then landed in a car that two men named Snake and Otacon (Metal Gear Solid) were using. Hama pointed her cattle prod at Otacon and shocked him, forcing the car to crash into another one since he was the one driving. All the other cars on the road ended up crashing one by one. Hama then walked away from the ordeal.
Rangiku looked back at Aerrow and Danny with June's bracelet in her hand. She had managed to take it before getting rid of Hama, and now she looked at them with a smirk on her face.
Aerrow said with a sheepish smile, "You want to, uh, give us the bracelet back, lady?"
Rangiku then clicked the heels of her boots together. The boots made beeping sounds and red lights were flashing from the tips.
"Come and get it, big boy," Rangiku said seductively as she applied June's bracelet to her own wrist.
Suddenly, Rangiku's boots lifted her into the air with a huge amount of air pressure. She then landed safely onto the lower part of the raised sidewalk. Aerrow and Danny looked down, and saw Rangiku rise again and fly over to the other side of the street. The air pressure from the boots startled a pair of Charmanders as they were standing by the railing. Rangiku looked behind her to see Aerrow and Danny on the other side staring at her in disbelief. She then walked off with June's bracelet in her possession.
Aerrow and Danny walked until they sat down by the side of the road. They felt terrible because they had just been mugged and they also lost June's most treasured possession.
A man near Aerrow and Danny noticed them and saw their expressions. This man was twenty-four years old with short, red hair and brown eyes. The man was bare-chested and only wore red pants with a green sash and a blue belt, black shoes with a gold stripe down the middle, and a green headband. He had many accessories, which included two earrings on each ear, a gold medallion with a ruby in the centre, white cloth strips on his wrists, a hair bead on the right side of his head, a golden band on his left wrist and tattoos on his shoulders and forearms. He was also carrying a guitar with him. This man's name was Yun-seong (as he looks in Soul Calibur IV). Upon seeing Aerrow and Danny, he decided to lift their spirits.
"Hey," said Yun-seong, "cheer up, guys. Things could get worse." Yun-seong then started to play on his guitar and sing.
Yun-seong: Ain't got no water
Anywhere
The food is bad
And so is the air
Aerrow and Danny were only getting annoyed from having to hear Yun-seong's song, but he didn't notice their disapproval so he kept singing.
Yun-seong: Ain't got resources
We're in a real bad place
All because of the evil Dark Ace
A police cruiser passed by the street and it stopped in front of Yun-seong as he kept playing on his guitar. The cops got out and one of them grabbed Yun-seong, making him stop playing.
"Okay, Yun-seong," said the cop, "you know the law!"
Aerrow and Danny stood up in protest to what was happening. As far as Aerrow was concerned, he thought Yun-seong didn't do anything wrong.
"Hey, wait a minute!" said Aerrow. "You can't arrest a guy for just singing a song!"
"For anti-Dark Ace songs we can," retorted the cop. He looked down and spotted Aerrow's tool belt. "Aha! Plumbers!"
"No, he is," said Danny while pointing to Aerrow. "I'm just apprenticing."
"Get in the car!" the cop ordered.
"But I didn't do anything!" said Danny.
The cop was getting impatient. He shouted in a louder voice, "Get in the car, now!"
Aerrow couldn't believe this most of all. Being arrested for his profession had to be the strangest of all things he's seen here.
"Are you telling us you can arrest a guy for being a plumber?" said Aerrow.
Now the cop was forced to place handcuffs on both Aerrow and Danny. "Get in there, plumber! Now!"
Aerrow and Danny both had handcuffs put on them and they were forced into the police cruiser with Yun-seong who also had handcuffs on him.
"What did we do?" Danny wondered.
"I'm getting arrested for being a plumber!" Aerrow shouted in anger.
The police cruiser then drove off with Aerrow, Danny and Yun-seong all under arrest. The two brothers just couldn't account for all the weird things that happened to them ever since they arrived here but being arrested had to have been the worst.
June had now been taken into Dark Ace's tower. She was forcefully being pulled by two white Heaven Smiles as she was led to two giant doors. The Heaven Smiles laughed as they opened one of the doors and pushed June into the room, closing the door behind her.
"Stop pushing me!" said June.
June looked to see the room and saw it was a big room that contained stone pillars and a large air vent in the wall. Several cots lined the floor with a mattress on each one. A green catwalk was on the upper level and lights hung from the bottom of it. What surprised June the most was that she wasn't alone in the room. Five other women were held captive along with her, and one of them ran up as she saw June.
"Hey, is that June?" said Piper.
"Piper?" June wondered, happy to see a familiar face.
Piper embraced June in a hug and said, "Oh, June."
When Piper let go, June said to her, "You, too?"
The other four girls then walked up to greet June. The first girl was short and had purple eyes and short, black hair with a single strand dangling in front of her face. She was dressed in a gray school girl's uniform with a white shirt underneath, a red bow tied in the front, long black socks and brown shoes. Her name was Rukia Kuchiki.
The second girl had long, brown hair tied in a braid and brown eyes. She wore a pink, short-sleeved belly shirt along with pink pants and red shoes. A red collar was worn over her shirt and a red skirt was around her waist, and her wrists were covered with red bands. This girl's name was Ty Lee.
The third girl had blue eyes and long, blonde hair. Her clothing consisted of a white, sleeveless shirt, pink jeans that were short enough to reveal her navel, and brown sandals. She accessorised herself with a necklace with a blue flower dangling from the centre and a blue stud earring on each ear. On her right wrist was a birthmark that looked like an Asian dragon. The girl's name was Rose.
The fourth girl appeared to be the youngest. Her short orangey-red hair had a blue clip that kept it to the right side of her face, and it was complimented with her green eyes. She wore a light blue shirt with dark blue sleeves that had a dark blue cat symbol in the centre, white pants and shoes, and also had a blue stud earring on each ear. Her name was Gwen Tennyson.
"What's going on here?" asked June.
"Well, I'm not really sure," replied Piper. "There's this guy here. His name is Dark Ace and he's looking for this princess. I guess none of us here fit the bill."
All the other girls laughed at Piper's comment, and then each of them shared their own personal story of how they ended up here. Rukia started by saying, "I was just walking on my way to school when these two guys come out of nowhere and snatch me."
"I was doing my stretches while at the circus," said Ty Lee, "but then those creeps came up and dragged me all the way here."
"I was taking a taxi to see my boyfriend, Jake," said Rose, "but it turned out those guys just lured me in there so they could capture me."
"I was off to the library to do some studying when all of a sudden those jerks grabbed a hold of me and they force me to come here," said Gwen. "Well, anywhere is better than being stuck with my dweeb of a cousin."
All these stories seemed familiar to June, and that's when she found out these were the missing girls from Brooklyn she'd heard about in the news. Now she and Piper were the next victims, but for what she still didn't know.
The police cruiser that contained Aerrow, Danny and Yun-seong was still driving but was getting close to the police station. The two brothers both had aggravated looks on their faces, but Yun-seong was looking happy as ever.
"You boys ain't from around here, are ya?" Yun-seong asked.
Aerrow and Danny turned to face him and said in unison, "Brooklyn!"
The police cruiser then turned a sharp corner as it entered the police station's garage, making Aerrow and Danny scream. Their screaming continued as they saw they weren't slowing down and were headed straight towards a wall, but Yun-seong looked calm as if he knew what was about to happen. What Aerrow and Danny didn't know was that two hooks had been deployed from the ground and caught the police cruiser before it hit the wall. Aerrow, Danny and Yun-seong then hit the window separating them from the cops as the cruiser came to a sudden stop.
Now Aerrow and Danny were being forced to enter the police station while they were still in handcuffs. Aerrow shouted in rage as he was moved while Danny kept silent. A cop had confiscated their tool belts and had given them to a cop behind a window.
"Hey, that's mine!" shouted Aerrow as his tool belt was taken from him.
The two brothers were then brought up to a cop sitting behind a tall desk with another cop standing next to him. This cop was dressed differently from the others. His clothing was orange and dark green, and he didn't wear the red goggles like the other cops so his blue eyes could be seen. He wore the same helmet like the rest of them, but dirty blonde hair stuck out from it. Three scars were also on his face – one on his left side and two on his right. This officer's name was Scarface (from the Storm Hawks episode, Radarr Love).
Scarface had a book in front of him so he could sign in the prisoners. "Name?" he asked Aerrow.
"Aerrow," he replied.
"Last name?"
"Aerrow."
(A/N: I'm not sure of what Aerrow's last name really is, which is one of the reasons why I chose him for this story.)
"Okay, what's your name?" Scarface asked Danny.
"Danny," he replied.
Scarface was about to write down his name when he brought up his head and asked, "Danny Danny?"
The cop standing next to Scarface saw a fight break out between another cop and a prisoner. He then grabbed a glass on the desk and broke it to try and stop the fight.
Aerrow sidestepped as a piece of glass almost hit him while Danny replied, "No, Danny Aerrow. Well, it used to be Danny Fenton, but now it's Danny Aerrow."
Scarface was getting fed up with learning their names as the cop standing next to him was pulled down from the desk by the prisoner. "Okay, look," said Scarface, "how many Aerrows are there between the two of you?"
Danny held up three fingers and said, "There's three." He counted them off as he said, "There's Aerrow Aerrow, and Danny Aerrow."
Scarface then called out to another cop, saying, "Mike! Mike! Help these Aerrows around to the side."
Aerrow and Danny were then brought to a separate room.
"Stop pushing me," Aerrow said to Scarface, who was directly behind the two brothers.
Just then, two men in white hazmat suits and black gas masks (Professor Chang's henchmen from Teen Titans) came up to the brothers. They held long hoses and said, "Prepare to be de-fungused."
"You're not doing anything to me," said Aerrow.
Scarface was soon behind Aerrow and shocked him with a cattle prod. Aerrow yelled in pain as he was shocked and was forced to do as he was told. The men in hazmat suits then opened up Aerrow and Danny's pants and sprayed a gas in them. Aerrow and Danny's eyes opened wide as they felt the gas against their skin.
"Oh, that's cold!" cried Danny.
"Get movin'!" ordered Scarface.
Aerrow and Danny kept walking until they stopped at a bar in their way. A third man in a hazmat suit then pulled a chain and a vat in the ceiling was tipped over, spilling a fungicide onto Aerrow and Danny. The two brothers then shook their heads and spat out the fungicide in their mouths.
The bar was then opened as Scarface yelled, "Okay, now let's go!"
"What was that?" Aerrow said.
Scarface shocked Aerrow again thrice to keep them moving. Yun-seong was off to the side as police held him face down on a desk as they searched him. He spotted Aerrow and said to him, "The fungus unit! The fungus is choking the city!"
Scarface brought Aerrow in front of a turnstile and he shouted, "Now through the gate! Let's go, let's go!"
Aerrow went through the turnstile normally while Danny hoped on the bars as Aerrow turned it around so Danny could have a ride.
The next thing Aerrow knew, he and Danny were then in a room where a height chart was behind them. Their hands were bound with shackles hanging from the ceiling and I.D. tags hung around their necks.
Danny looked behind him to see the chart and he said, "Hey, Aerrow, look. I grew an inch."
Aerrow scoffed at Danny's comment. At least he's having fun, he thought.
Suddenly, two cops behind the front wall activated some odd, looking machines in front of the two brothers. Aerrow could see two red dots coming into the room. "Hey, what is that?" he wondered.
The red dots then moved. One went for Aerrow's forehead while the other landed on Danny's forehead. They were targeting lasers and the two brothers must've thought they were for guns.
Aerrow's eyes opened wide in fear as he said, "Oh my God! Oh no!"
Danny did the same as his brother as he stood still in panic. The machines the cops were using then extended something out, and the two brothers thought they were getting ready to fire.
"Oh no!" Aerrow said again.
The cops then each pressed a button, and flashes were made as they did so. Aerrow and Danny made slight whimpers and momentarily closed their eyes as they saw the flashes, but nothing really bad happened to them. It was then revealed that the machines were cameras and the cops were taking their mug shots. The photos of Aerrow and Danny came out from the cameras, and they both had frightened faces, which made them look silly.
Aerrow was confused at what just happened. When the targeting lasers disappeared, he shifted his eyes and said, "Are we dead?"
BlueTiger321: Oh no! June's been taken captive, and Aerrow and Danny have been arrested! Can things possibly get any worse?
Aerrow: Hey, don't jinx it! And another thing: how come I was the only one who kept getting shocked?
Danny: Because you're a big dork! Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Aerrow: Why you little...!
Danny: *bonk* Ow!
BlueTiger321: Well anyway, stay tuned for the next chapter. So please, read and review!