Chapter 7: Jailhouse Rock
"I feel weird…," Lilo spoke up while we were driving to the town prison. Since Stitch took one of the hovercrafts( and I couldn't fit in the other one), we borrowed Jumba's X-Buggy, which pretty much looks like a normal buggy but with hidden special weaponry and equipment. "…and sticky. You didn't tell me those kind of stuff can make a girl pee."
"Oh sweetie," I couldn't help but snicker, after all, I just had the time of my life. Who knew that I would get lucky enough to…um, do stuff with Lilo. A few hours ago I was barely getting her to like me, let alone kiss her. And yet, I managed to do something that felt good for both of us, and at the same time I loathed myself for doing such things. This must be how child molesters feel, I thought, heaven and hell all in one. "That wasn't pee. That was-"
"WATCH OUT!"
I looked at the road just in time to see a large purple lizard crossing the road. I swerved to the right and slammed on the breaks. Thankfully the X-Buggy has good traction and prevented us from skidding or doing a vehicular summersault. We stopped to a screech the way a full speed vehicle just halts in cartoons.
I stepped out and checked if Lilo was okay. She was fine and had already stepped out as well to look at what we had almost hit.
"Richter!" She shouted as she ran to hug the large,lizard-looking experiment. If I remember correctly, this was either the one that causes tsunamis or the one that generates fissures. But then again, his name was Richter so I thought about the latter.
"The earthquake guy,right?" I asked and the cousin gave me a pitbull-ish smile. And when I say pitbull, I mean the dog breed.
"Doesn't look like he's evolved or back to evilness," Lilo said while patting Richter on the head. His tail was wagging like a dog's and caused mild tremors every time it hit the pavement. "But where were you going?"
Richter,unlike the other experiments, couldn't talk and said nothing.
"If he's not busy," I spoke up and knelt down to befriend Richter(by patting his head as well), "We should bring him along in case Stitch is in trouble."
Lilo agreed, and Richter agreed, so now there's three of us in the X-Buggy. The ride was more or less quiet with Lilo making small talk to Richter the whole way. I didn't bring up a conversation of what transpired 30 minutes ago anymore, worried that Lilo might regret doing the things we did. (Which isn't much, by the way, just a little bit of this and that.)
We finally got to Kokaua Town Prison, and it was a mess. There was a huge hole in the wall like a typical breakout scene, and the escaped prisoners were wreaking havoc against the prison guards.
"Oh no!" Lilo shouted, "The prisoners are escaping! Who did this?!"
"Maybe Bonnie and Clyde dangerously evolved and caused havoc," I replied, scanning the area for Stitch. Cartoon universe or not, escaped convicts are dangerous, and I do not plan on exposing Lilo or myself to that kind of situation. I am not gonna get shanked in a supposedly child friendly universe. "Let's stay away, just try to find Stitch and avoid the prison itself."
"He could be inside!" Lilo answered, starting to run off when I took her wrist to stop her, "Let go! Stitch could be with Bonnie and Clyde!"
"It's dangerous!"
"We've got Richter, we'll be fine." She gave me a confident smile, and for once I actually wasn't afraid.
We cautiously approached the building, taking pains to make sure we won't be seen by the rioting prisoners. As expected, the experiment duo was in the middle of the chaos. Bonnie, the green female criminal genius, and Clyde, her yellowish bear-like partner with a metallic left arm. One look and I could tell they were back to being bad, most probably because of the unknown evolution process again.
"Bonnie! Clyde!" Lilo shouted as she ran towards them. I struggled to run after her while avoiding the prisoners and guards tackling one another. "Have you seen Stitch?"
"Sorry,kid," Bonnie answered, looking at her nails, "Little boy blue ran off after an experiment."
"Yeah," Clyde answered along, "Now get lost."
"No,wait," Bonnie said with a hand up towards her partner, "You know what this prison break we've got is missing?" She started to glare at the little girl in the red dress, and grinned, "Revenge."
"I don't get it," Clyde scratched his head.
"W-what're you talking about?!" Lilo started trembling, as if she had an idea but was playing dumb. I began to move faster and shoved anyone who got in my way. Sadly, I maybe built for sporty stuff but my lifestyle has made me physically weak. I was being pushed around by rioting prisoners and guards doing their best to contain the situation.
"Clyde, you dimwit," Bonnie said,rolling her eyes, "That bitch was the one that put us here in the first place. If it weren't for her and her stupid 626, we would be living like royals!"
"So should I beat her up?"
"Yeah, beat her up. See how much that small body can take."
Clyde punched his fist and cracked his none robotic knuckle, then started walking towards Lilo. The poor girl tried to back away but was prevented by some random prisoner running around. She fell on her knees as Clyde came closer and I couldn't even get near.
Lilo gave Richter a glance, and the lizard-dog-like experiment slammed its tail on the ground. An earthquake roared in strong enough to disorient people and sweep them off their feet. I managed to stand my ground, but so did Clyde.
With everyone else stunned, I sprinted straight at Lilo to protect her, not giving a damn about what could happen next. In my peripherals, I saw Clyde swing his metal hand to strike, and out of instinct I raised a hand to block it.
WHAM!
"Fuck!" I screamed in pain as I felt the bones in my arm tremble so close to breaking. I heard a whimper from the girl I was protecting as I put her down and faced the evolved Clyde. I struggled to raise my injured arm, and cringed from the intense pain. I let my injury rest, and raised my other arm to fight. I had no experience in fighting, but I've seen enough movies, played enough video games, and read enough books to fight theoretically. I looked back to a scared Lilo and told her to, "Stay back, and get Richter ready if I fail. Worst case scenario, run away."
Richter looked at me with an agreeing smile; he was ready to protect Lilo as well. Problem was, a greenish net shot off from behind me and ensnared Richter in the blink of an eye.
"Sorry quakey-makey," Bonnie said blowing on the smoking barrel of her blaster. "Good thing I stole this from Gantu before."
Great, I thought, now it was just up to me. Clyde made his advance and so did I. I've read before that hitting someone on the solar plexus can incapacitate them instantly, let's hope it works on aliens.
He started to run towards me, and I sprinted to catch him off guard. I can only hope that my reflexes and hand-eye coordination was good enough.
I tried to get my brain into a tactical fighting mode and kept my eye on my target.
Possible left hook incoming. Duck and counter attack.
I managed to dodge a swing of Clyde's robo-arm, and countered with a left straight punch aimed at his chest, where I assumed his solar plexus was.
THUD!
I winced as I felt my fist hit something that resembled a brick wall. I forgot that all experiments have a form of invulnerability. "Well, shi-"
"UGH!" I reeled down as he punched me in the gut, trying to catch my breath and coping with the pain. Before I knew what was happening, Clyde had me pinned to the ground.
"And who are you supposed to be?" Bonnie asked with evil intent written all over her face.
"Let him go!" Lilo said, trying to push Clyde off of me, the experiment just picked her up with one hand and threw her beside Bonnie.
"Woah, don't tell me you've already got a boyfriend, hula girl," Bonnie took Lilo's arm and pointed a blaster at her face. "I say we make this game a little more fun. Ms. Experiment Rehabilitator, I give you two choices for your punishment …"
She gave Clyde a sly look and her partner used his robo-hand to push my head to the ground. I could feel the pressure building in my head and I knew right then that he was going to crush my skull, all it would take is a little more push.
"You can either watch Clyde make your boyfriend's head go splat..."
Bonnie then forcefully pulled Lilo's hair back, causing to her to painfully and forcefully have to look at me. I could see tears building by her eyes, honestly I feel like crying as well. I couldn't believe that things would become like this.
"…or you could let him watch me shoot you dead."
"Don't do this…" Lilo was beginning to cry, and I was beginning to lose my sanity. Here I was, so close to the girl of my dreams. I finally had some alone time with her, finally had some fun with her, and then what? Afterwards we would just be mercilessly killed by bad-turned-good-turned-psycho experiments? "…please. You're good, I know you both are."
I needed to fight for her, besides myself.
I needed to save her. This time around, only I could do it.
I have never felt so helpless in my life, and so…so angry.
The pressure increased on my head and I could feel my impending doom.
"Come on,girl, make your choice."
I struggled to get off Clyde, but he was too heavy. I could feel the rage inside of welling up, a strange feeling I wasn't accustomed too. All I needed was to let my rage flow, to stop thinking and let my instinct take over. Maybe,just maybe, an adrenaline rush could save us. I thought of all the things for me to fight for, to stand up for…
"LET…"
Come on, you can do this.
"…HER…"
Don't you want to be with her, prove to people that there's nothing wrong with your love for her?
"…GO!"
There was some kind of volcano inside of me that wanted to explode, that wanted to engulf me in flames. I've never felt it until now, and at the back of my head I know it was dangerous, but I let it explode. Burn baby burn, set me on fire, I don't care; just give me the strength to protect the one I love.
I couldn't help but cry as Bonnie threatened to shoot me with her gun, as well as make Clyde kill Oscar. But just when all hope was lost, something weird—no, weirder…happened.
A strong and bright light erupted from Oscar, like a bomb exploding. The flash was so strong Bonnie lost her grip to cover her eyes, and I ran from her as soon as I could. I tripped and fell on my butt because I couldn't see a thing, but when the light faded away I saw that I was a few feet from Bonnie, and Clyde was nowhere to be found.
Oscar was standing right there, but he seemed… different. He still looked the same as I remember; hair shaved so thin he's almost bald, a white shirt with a weird-looking face designed on it, and shorts with lots of pockets that reached past his knees. But besides that, his eyes were glowing white, the same as the flash bang a while ago. His left shoulder and arm was replaced by a robotic looking limb, so sleek and thin but so metallic that he looks like an android. His veins glowed a light green, pulsing like fireflies at night.
What happened to him, it' almost like he and Clyde were-
"What the hell'd you do with Clyde?" Bonnie asked,enraged. She completely forgot about me and was pointing her blaster at Oscar. Without thinking she started shooting at Oscar, but he dodged each shot with minimum effort and didn't even look like he was trying.
"I didn't know I could do this," Oscar said, his voice sounding a little…ghostly? He sounded like he was in a trance, and started looking at his mechanical limb like it was a strange toy. He had a grin on his face as if he just realized he did something cool. "Some people say, if you can't beat them join them. But in this case, if you can't beat him, make him join you. Literally." He pointed his robotic hand at Bonnie, and it transformed into something that resembles a small cannon barrel. "Clyde is with me now,I think. Eitherway, I've got a buster cannon aimed at you and you should surrender before I make you splat!"
"Damn it," Bonnie said, looking mad, and then shouted ,"Boys! Take care of this chump!"
The other prisoners who were busy watching us a while ago suddenly started taking pipes and chairs, and then rushed to attack Oscar. I wanted to run up to him and retreat, but something tells me he can handle it. I decided to try to free Richter from his net.
BLAM!
BOOM!
ZAP!
That's all I heard as I ran to Richter, having to duck occasionally to avoid the people being blasted away or thrown away by Oscar. He's got a lot of explaining to do again, I thought, but something tells me he didn't know about this as well.
I took a glimpse to see him fighting three people at once, avoiding and counter-attacking simultaneously. His arm rapidly transforms into different weapons, from metallic fists to maces.
"Come on Richter, let's get you out of there," I said, picking up a random knife I found on the ground. I thought it was stained with blood, but apparently it was a bread knife and literally had ketchup.
The bread knife, was…worthless and couldn't even cut away the net.
"Let me help," I heard a voice behind me and looked behind to see Oscar with his metallic hand transformed to a laser cutter. Behind him was a heap of the people he's beaten up. As he was busy cutting away at Richter's net, I saw the guards recover and started tying prisoners together and figuring out a way to clean up this mess.
The net was finally cut and Richter walked out unharmed. He looked confused to see the new Oscar at first but smiled at both of us anyway.
"I can explain, I think…" Oscar said as we ran after Bonnie. Richter was left outside to make sure she wouldn't escape through some kind of back door. The prison was a lot bigger inside than it looks outside,and most of the cells were empty. "Alright, I'll level with you. I can't explain, I have no idea what's going on with me."
"Looks like Jumba's got a lot to study about," was all I said. We continued running until I noticed that we were getting close to Launch's vault. I hoped that he was not yet activated,but now that I think about it, Jumba said that only Launch can cause universes to collide.
The vault was open, and inside we saw that Launch was still in his experiment pod. Unfortunately, the blue 607 pod was in Bonnie's hands. She had a wicked grin as she looked at us, holding the pod above a puddle of liquid on the floor.
"Make a move and we're all fucked," Bonnie said, "Give Clyde back you mutating piece of-"
BLAM!
The pod was blasted out of Bonnie's hands and fell on the floor,far away from the puddle. A look of horror and defeat was on Bonnie's face as she couldn't seem to believe that Oscar managed to use Clyde's blaster and shoot the pod out of her hand without hurting her.
BLAM!
I ran towards the pod as I saw Oscar shoot Bonnie with a blaster, hoping that it wasn't too strong to kill her or anything like that. I held Launch's pod with care as I looked for a container to hold it safely. Afterwards, I ran towards Bonnie to check if she was still alive.
"Don't worry, I set my phasers to stun," Oscar snickered as he blew the smoke off his blaster hand. "She should be fine. Let's go back-WOAH!"
All of a sudden Oscar started glowing again, and I had to cover my eyes because of the intense flash that emitted from him. When the strong light settled down, Oscar was back to his old self again, with Clyde standing beside him looking dazed.
"What just happened?" Clyde groaned, and then he passed out.
"Dang it," Oscar winced and fell to his knee, "looks like there's a time limit to this thing. And it's tiring too, I feel like I just competed in a triathlon and gave up half way."
"Let's worry about that later, we've got two experiments to bring back to Jumba," I said,then remembered Launch, "Well… make that three."
"Ah, shit," he replied as he started to get up and began dragging Clyde outside. Bonnie was on his shoulders and I tried to help him carry the bigger experiment. "Will they even fit in the buggy?"
"I hope so…" And then I remembered, "Hey! We still need to look for Stitch!"
We managed to get the partners in crime outside and put both of them in a container, after all the buggy was specifically made for catching experiments. Oscar sighed and sat on the ground as I call Jumba to let him know about everything that just happened.
"How interesting," The evil genius said while rubbing his double chin, "Little girl, please to be looking for 626. Buggy has 'return home' feature and can be used to deliver experiments to me. You must look for 626, evil genius fears the experiment he is chasing is the cause of dangerous evolutions! If 626 makes contact with this…"
"He might go bad again!" I exclaimed, hoping Stitch hasn't met this new 'cousin' that could be the reason for the evolutions. I looked for the return home feature, got off after pressing it, and watched the buggy teleport home. I looked at Oscar as he realized we still had to look for Stitch, "Are you rested, 'cause we're not done yet."
"That's what I'm afraid of," he replied, stretching, "Looks like this long day ain't over yet, let's go."