Chapter 7-An Old Friend And a Change of Plans

DM couldn't believe what he just heard. It was all too much for him. He was sat in a daze, staring at the floor. "Why?..." he thought. "Why did she say those things?...". He balled up his fists and punched the ground hard.

"No...It isn't true! I won't believe it!" he shouted aloud. Still thinking that I was standing in front of him, he stood back up, ready to shout at me...,but of course I left. Realisation clicked inside him as he knew I wasn't coming back.

He broke down again and cried. "I can't do this anymore, first Penfold and now Lil...I mean Danielle! What else could go wrong for me?!".

Professor Squarkencluck entered the room and was about to apologise for shouting, when she saw him crying.

"Danger Mouse are you ok? Why are you crying?" she said softly. Usually she wasn't a kind and comforting person, but she could make an exception this once.

"She hates me! I thought we were getting on well, but she said she wished she'd never met me!" he sobbed.

"Aww...DM I'm so sorry it didn't turn out the way you wanted". She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him.

"But why didn't it?! What did I do wrong Professor?". His sobs were getting louder so she tried to calm him down as much as she could. She suddenly remembered the box and letter I gave her this morning.

"Wait here Danger mouse I have something for you" she said, running to get them.

She came back a few minutes later and showed him the box.

"What's this?" he asked. He stopped crying and took it from her. "Professor what's in here?"

"I don't know because I didn't look. Lily gave it to me at breakfast and said to only give it to you if she left. Go on open it".

Staring at the box for a few seconds, he eventually opened it to find a necklace inside. He was confused. Why of all thing would I give him a necklace?

"Maybe you should read the note attached to it" the Professor informed him.

He put the box down and read the letter. What was written on it came as quite a shock to him.

"To Danger Mouse,

If your reading this then I have left you. Believe me it was not the way I planned to go, but I couldn't think of another way to stop you from following me. I'm so sorry for doing this to you and I hope you understand that I had to go home at some point...I just wished I hadn't grown so attached to you like I did."

He gasped when he read that. He knew I liked him.

"All those things I said to you were terrible and I didn't mean any of it. Attached with this letter is a box with a necklace inside. The people I'm trusting to send me back might end up changing their minds. If that happens I want you to come for me with this necklace, because it will prove to me that you love me...

Just as much as I love you.

Yours forever, Danielle".

After he finished reading, he held the box and letter close to his heart. "I knew you didn't mean what you said" he thought.

The Professor was concerned. "Danger Mouse are you ok? What did the letter say?".

He got up off the ground and faced her with a look of seriousness. "Professor I have to leave. I want you to stay here and cure Penfold, then I want the both of you to come after me". He began walking to his car.

"But Danger Mouse where are you even going?!".

He turned back round and smiled.

"I going to get my girlfriend back!".

Back at the hideout

I was trying to make sense of it all. How can this be happening right now. I was to afraid to speak, but I was forced out of it by a hand touching my face.

"Come now Danielle, you shouldn't be so surprised, I mean what did you think I was dead or something?".

I slapped his hand away.

"Don't touch me! Of course I thought you were dead, you jumped off that bridge and your body was never found!" I yelled at him.

"You must of wondered why!"

"Well yeah, but I didn't expect it to be because you transported somewhere else! I loved you and I was heartbroken because you couldn't see that!". I can't take much more of this!

He hugged and comforted me. "It's ok Danielle, we're together again now and nothing will...". I shoved him off me and got up. I felt sick.

He was angry that I pushed him away. "How dare you Danielle! I thought you loved me!"

"I haven't seen you for 6 years! Did you really think that I would still love you after everything that's happened!". His rage boiled over to the point where he threw a nearby object at Greenback and Stiletto, who were playing video games.

"Ouch! Stiletto you threw something at me!" Greenback yelled.

"No Barone it-a wasn't me!". They then started a fight in the next room.

"Gah! Those two are idiots! You just can't get good help these days" Michael grumbled to himself. I, however was attempting to escape. Noticing this he flew for the machine and checked if the power was restored. The green light was on so obviously it had.

"You know Danielle, I think I've got you all figured out. You don't love me anymore because you found someone else!" He laughed.

Two mechanical hands shot up from the floor and held my arms behind my back. I froze. I was too scared about what he was going to do to me.

"How do you know that?!" I asked.

"Because I've been watching the both of you all this time...". He positioned the machine to face me and turned it on. "..., but let's see how much he loves you in your true form!".

A beam shot out and it hit me. Another white light enveloped me and I started to change again.

"HAHAHAHAHA! It worked!"

The light eventually disappeared and I slowly regained my vison. I was no longer being held in place, so I took a look at myself in the mirror hanging on the wall beside me. What he said was true.

I'm back to normal...and just like when I had become a mouse, I screamed again and fainted.

Danger Mouse was flying around in circles. He hadn't a clue where to find me and he was beginning to think that he was on a wild goose chase. He knew he needed help and with Penfold and Squarkencluck busy back home, he had to call on his fellow secret agent.

"Time for reinforcements" he said.

He dialled a number on his eyepatch (don't ask me how) and was connected though to the General in America.

"This is the General speaking, what do you need?" he asked.

"General this is Danger Mouse. I need you to send back up to meet me at Baron Greenback's lair in the next hour or so"

"Roger that! At what co-ordinates is the Baron lair?"

"Um actually...I haven't found it yet myself, but when I do I will send them straight to you"

"Rodger again DM, over and out!".

The General hung up and DM continued his search.

"This would be so much easier if there was a giant sign saying "Greenback's lair this way" or something" he sighed.

Just as he was about to give up, he saw a giant and strangely scary looking castle in the distance.

"Maybe this is his lair..." he thought, then shouted: "Danger Nav find Baron Greenback!"

The Danger Nav responded immediately. "Greenback found inside giant castle 10 miles away" it said.

"Hm, I thought so, better call the General again".

After calling him and giving him the co-ordinates DM headed straight towards it. He hoped that nothing bad had happened to me.

I woke up again to find that I was alone. Seriously I have got to stop fainting. I got off the bed I was lying on and bolted straight for the door..., but it was locked. I searched for a window...there weren't any. I'm trapped in a bedroom with no way out and somehow I guessed they planned this.

"Hey! Let me out of here!" I yelled. Then I heard footsteps approaching the door.

"Ahh, you are awake. Good because-a the Barone's want to talk-a to you". It was Stiletto...again.

"Great! I want to give them a piece of my mind".

He opened the door and I ran to freedom...,but he caught me and threw me over his shoulder.

"How dare you! Put me down Stiletto! Aahhh!" I screamed while repeatedly hitting his back.

He ignored the pain long enough to take me to what seemed to be the main hall. He dropped me on the ground and left in a huff.

"I see your awake" Michael looked over at Greenback. "Leave us, we need to have a little talk" he said, smirking.

"I don't like where this is going" I mumbled to myself.

Greenback glared at him, but did as he was told and went after Stiletto. When it was just us left, Michael sat on a sofa and asked me to join him. With what was going on so far, I was being cautious.

"I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to talk". He sighed when he saw I wasn't moving.

"I don't think I can believe you anymore..." I said, Quietly.

"Give me a chance...please"

I paused. "Ok fine. But you've got a lot of explaining to do"

I went over and sat as far away from him as possible.

"Your acting like a child Danielle..."

"Just get on with it!"

He cringed at my tone of voice. "I guess I'll start from the beginning".

And he told me everything. From how he got here to why he left in the first place. I was shocked listening word for word as all these lies, worse than the ones I told, came out of his mouth.

"And that is pretty much what happened" he said. He turned to look at me and saw that I was crying. I am so angry right now, I want to...I want to... "Danielle are...".

I slapped him. Right across the face, so hard that it made him fall to the floor. He disgusted me and I couldn't hold it in anymore.

"You...YOU ARE ONE SICK, TWISTED, DISGUTING JERK! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME, TO EVERYONE!" I shouted the loudest I ever had before.

"All I did was tell you what you wanted to know! You didn't have to..."

"You deserved it! You pretended to be dead so you could start a new life somewhere else! And on top of that you started that war back home so you'd finally get revenge on the world for treating you badly!"

I was losing it. I wanted to kill him right now for putting me in the middle of all this. Nothing mattered to me except getting away from this piece of scum.

"Why are you doing this Danielle?! We were best friends once..."

"Yes we were once, but not anymore! I couldn't despise you anymore than I do right now if I tried!". I almost forgot what we were fighting about for minute.

"Oh I see what your doing and it's not working! This is the best part about all this, you knew I was on that boat! You blasted me into the ocean just to bring me here with you...because you wanted to marry me!". He nodded his head. "There's a few things I don't get though"

"What's that?"

"Why did you turn me into a mouse and lie that you didn't know it was me when we first met?! And why did you let me get saved, when you could of taken me without anyone knowing?! It would of been so much easier!".

"The answer to your questions are simple...the timing wasn't right".

That did it. I went for him and missed. He punched me in the stomach and I passed out. I should've known it would end like this. He got up and looked down at me.

"Soon Danielle we will be married...I just need one more day". He tilted his head up to stare at the almost full moon. I didn't know what he was planning, but whatever it was...

I'm certain that It doesn't involve me going home anymore.