Chapter 8: In the beast of metal!
On the choc, all look to me dark. After a little while, my eyes get used at this darkness, and I arrived now to see what surrounded me. That's looked at a vast desert, without sand. A immense dome did the sky on my head. The floor was one kind of metal I didn't know also bluish than the thing above me. I have scrutinize the horizon, at the research of Penelope.
Then, after two minutes, I have succeed to see a light far away. But that could be a trap of Neyla. I was in her, after all. That's surely her who doing ruler here. I got up from my sitting position I had from the debut of my waking in this strange place, for starting to walk until this light. ...What? I walk? I looked down for seing I was on my feets, my legs be able to bend and unfold. This was impossible! But no, I could jump, leap about, and same dance and more, this was not a dream, after I nicked me three times. The tears came to my eyes.
"Yippee! I have recover the usage of my legs!" I cry out, spoiling of joy.
Suddently, I hear someone call me. That was come from theres lights. I ran to, now than I had legs for. This was Penelope!
"Bentley? You're really here? But.. you..." she murmured, on the choc to see me standing on my feet, her who meet me when I was already in my rolled chair.
"And yes! I think I can walk again because of the fragment of life the robot Neyla took me, he was here! And now I'm here too, this is normal they be combine!" I explained.
"But why are you here?" she cry out.
Oh no! She don't angry again?
"Bof, you know, I talk to myself I would be a excellent lure for make her come to the machine "Annulator magnetic". You see, this machine go..."
"I dont' care of you machine!" cry out Penelope. "You will be jam with me, block here for the rest of your days!
"Or until we destroy the robot!" I reply.
I tell her after that under how much stress I was put during there's last hours. And, without I understand why, she bursted into tears. I tried to comfort her, but repulse me and cry:
"Why? Why do you do that for me? You don't see I don't merit you? (Speech that surprise me a lot, I have always thinking this was the opposite.) What have said Stain, this is true! I'm a chicken and when there's something to do, I count on my cars and helicos!"
"But what are you saying? You are everything except a chicken! You maybe don't remember, but when you be capture by the pirate LeFwee? I was try to save you, but I had fall from my chair and he will kill me, if you don't show off for save me, fight with the sword like a real pro of fencing!"
"But I would never have the guts to fight if you wasn't came for save me!" replied the mouse. "At eatch time I show off courage, it was for protect you!"
"You have to know this isn't everyone who have the courage to fight for the one they love. Me, one day, Sly and Murray had be capture by the Contessa, the possessor of a prison, because of the betrayal of Neyla. Me, during they be bring to prison, I did nothing! I had legs in cotton, I had no teeth, facing at all men of the big spider. It's only after they go away I went for save them. I fell always guilty!"
"No, you don't have too! You save them, this is the most important!" replied Penelope. "You, at lest, you act always after thinking, me, I'm most impulsive. I show off courage, only when the others are in danger and that make me run big risks."
"But this is one of the reason I love you at much!" I explain, before to realise I wasn't should talk about my feelings.
"But how could you love me, Bentley? At more to have many flaws, I'm not so beauty!" she cry out.
"How can you say something like that?" I shouted, considering her for a long time like one of the most wonderful women of my knowing.
"And what again? When we meet for the first time in the flesh, you be really disappointed I didn't looking like the photo I mail you of me!" she explained.
"And what? You was disappointed too of my appearance, but you, on the other hand, you fell back on Sly!" I reply, really annoying by this fact.
"You don't say you always jealous of him? If you want to know...!" started Penelope.
"This is all right! Sly already told me you go out with him only for making me jealous, thing who surprise me, because, me, the miserable little turtle who..." I started, not so gentle with me.
"You will stop to say stupid things?" she cry out, take me hold by the shoulder. From the moment I know you, I never considerate you like that! There's no need to love somebody by his appearance, but for what he is really! Like you you do for y appearance, me, I do it for the prejudice on the turtle! You have to know all species have prejudices. My mother, when I had 16 years old and I didn't have husband, sent me back from the house!"
"What? That's not possible!" I cry out, being taken aback by this story.
"And yes! In the mouse, we were really knowing for bout of babies, always in young age! Don't believe because you, you be rejecting, you are alone in the world! And if you listened everything say, you will never be happy! If everybody knew you intelligence, your bravery and your kindness, nobody would dare do make fun of you! And me, I love you for all these qualities! And I don't want you belittle yourself because of what people say about you, or you think you are! Because me, I know you are the only man with the one I would stay for the rest of my life!"
Speech really disturbing, that let's me without voice. This was like if she realise my secrets wishes in one moment.
"Er... Me too, you are the ma... Er, woman with the one I would pass the rest of my life!" I did, always shake by her declaration.
She took me in her arms and she gripped me really strongly. We cried, in the neck of the other. I was so happy at last, we were together, that everything be clarified between us! I imagine she thinkind the same thing of me. But I make her realise, what she said to me, that was good for her too! There's no need she let somebody belittle her of she belittle herself!
So, after this magic moment, we started to think about something really important: How to get out of here? Because me, I wouldn't to life here, and give at Neyla the power to destroy the world! Penelope had the same opinion. This was her who show me the only way to get out of this desert.
"Look up! That doing long time I look it, and I don't know what it could be, between a light or a crossing!" she said, at pointing a big spot of light, on the arch, with two balls of smock what turn around.
Effectively, this was tuff to say. This was in the middle of the blue sky going to dark. But after having throwing away my helmet in the hole, I realise this was the exit.
I just need to activate the motor of my rolled chair and... But...! My chair! She had disappear! Penelope suggested she could be gone because I don't need her anymore. This was the only possibility.
"As much I will be able to walk on my legs, there no possibility I could have my chair!" I explained to Penelope.
But she don't want to hear my suggestion!
"There's no way you could be again in this rolling chair! At worse, I only have to throw my remote control on MY ball of live, floated up there, and like this...!" she comment, at preparing herself to pitch her remote control.
"No way!" I reply, taking her remote control by force in throw it on my ball.
This was not her who choice to fight Clockwerk! This wasn't to her to suffer the consequence!
The munitions touch the target and immediately, I be back in my rolled chair. I was in the same time a little sad and happy, because finally, it was more profitable to have a multifunction's chair. But Penelope started to cry, thinking I make a big sacrifice for her. I make her realise it was for the two of us, I made that. For trying to make her think about other thing than her grieving, I explained with the chair, I arrived in her level of size, and this wasn't the case at the other time.
I took her in my arm and we took off, going straight ahead in the hole of light. From the moment we went through it, the ball of smoke that representing our life here came back in us.
