~9~
After Susan escaped from Gallaxhar's barrier, she ran off to find her friends. She glanced behind her once in a while, hoping Gallaxhar wasn't close by. Time was the thing that kept her running faster and faster. 'I've got to the others!' She thought.
As she ran, she thought of the last time she was on a spaceship for a mission. It seemed like a distant memory, but it had only happened recently (about a couple of weeks ago). It was shocking for Susan to think of that; time seemed to accelerate. 'I can't get sidetracked,' Susan thought, 'I've got to focus on saving the others.' She then ran at more speed to retrieve her friends and finish their mission.
Before she could take another step, she saw something pop up in front of her, but then all she could see was black.
As Susan's friends were being taken to the incinerator room, Angela tried lifting her left arm, so she could take the needle out of her left leg. Unfortunately, her arm was so numb and weak, she couldn't feel it at all (even up to her shoulder). She was already laying on her back, so she sat up and stretched her right arm over to her numbed leg.
B.O.B was staring at Angela's arm, which was still bleeding. "Should you get something to stop that?" He asked.
Dr. Cockroach heard his blue friend and looked at Angela's arm. He bit his lip as he looked around to see if he could use anything to bandage the wound.
"Doc, use your lab coat." Link said, lifting the end of the cockroach's coat sleeve.
Dr. Cockroach looked down at his lab coat. He tore off a bit of one of his sleeves and made sure the length was enough to wrap around Angela's arm at least twice. Just to be sure, she tore the other part of his other sleeve and tied two of the ends together; it was long enough to stop the bleeding.
Before Angela could take the needle out of her leg, she noticed from the corner of her eye Dr. Cockroach lifted her red and sticky arm. He wrapped the cloth around the wound and tied it in a knot, so the bandage would stay on. She looked up at him and smiled. "Thanks." She whispered.
"You're welcome, my dear." He smiled.
Angela turned back to her paralyzed leg and quickly took the needle out. She gasped in pain, shutting her eyes tightly and biting her lip. She felt the blood starting to flow out of her leg. She set the needle on the floor of their cage, but as they moved, the needle rolled out of the cage, the pointed part falling first; it stabbed one of the tentacle's on a clone that was carrying the cage.
The alien yelped in pain and dropped his corner of the cage, making that part of the cage slant. The four monsters fell into that corner.
The other three aliens that still had their corner noticed the fourth one had stopped. They dropped the cage slowly and slithered over to him. "What do you think you're doing, stopping and dropping part of the cage?" One of them scolded.
The fourth alien bent down and took the needle out of his tentacle and showed it to the others. They growled and glared at Angela, since she was the only one that had the needles shot in her.
The first alien (who was probably the leader of the other three aliens) went up to the cage and whipped two of his tentacles between the bars, pushing Link, B.O.B, and Dr. Cockroach out of the way. He then went to grab Angela, but she threw a fireball at him with her right arm (which was still able to shoot fire). The alien was hit and fell on the ground.
Angela then looked over at the bars of the cage and grinned; she knew how to get her and the others out of the cage! She placed her right hand by one of the bars and formed fire in her hands. She then noticed the metal starting to melt. Once the first bar was gone, she went over to a couple of other bars and started melting them.
About a few seconds later, Angela melted enough bars for the monsters to get out. Link and B.O.B. got out first and started fighting (or eating) the aliens. Angela attempted to get up on both of her legs, but fell on thr ground.
"Here, I have an idea." Dr. Cockroach said, who was still beside her. He wrapped an arm around her waist and the other around her legs and lifted her up, like a bride at a wedding. Angela blushed lightly, looking up at him.
The two got out of the cage and said to the others (who got rid of the aliens), "Let's go find Susan!"
"Not so fast." A voice said from behind Dr. Cockroach and Angela.
Link and B.O.B stopped what they were doing as the four monsters turned to see Gallaxhar. Their eyes grew wide as they noticed what was behind him; they saw Susan's unconsious body on a floating platform. She had the same outfir she had on when she was first on Gallaxhar's ship.
There was silence for a couple of minutes, taking in what was happening. Then Link stepped up to Gallaxhar and growled at him. "What did you do to her?!"
"Nothing, just knocked her out." Gallaxhar then smirked and took out a needle that seemed similar to the ones that Angela was shot with, but the needle he had was twice as big (Gallaxhar had to hold it with two hands). He went over to Susan's body and placed the tip of the needle on one side of her waist. "I will do this, though." He then stabbed the needle deep in Susan's skin and started draining the Quantonium out of her.
The mosnters gasped in horror; they couldn't believe they just saw. Link then got PO'd and ran over to Gallaxhar and tried pulling him away from Susan. Gallaxhar growled and whipped him away with oen of his tentacles. Link flew a few feet away from the scene and fell on the ground.
"Link!" Angela gasped, seeing her friend in pain. She looked over at Gallaxhar and growled. She lifted her arm and threw a fireball at Gallaxhar.
The fireball hit Gallaxhar's back. He stopped what he was doing and turned around. He looked at the monsters and saw that Angela had fire burning on her hand. "Place all the Quantonium you've taken out of Susan back into her!" She said.
"She doesn't deserve it!" He growled at Angela, "She doesn't know how to use the power of Quantonium properly."
"How do you know how its supposed to be used. You've never used it."
Gallaxhar growled at her again. Suddenly, they heard the main computer system of the spaceship. "Ship will self-destruct in t-minus 9 minutes."
"Hey guys! I figured out the password to something." B.O.B said, appearing beside the others.
