I own nothing in this story apart from my horrible plot and awful grammar. (And Mary Sue OCs)
Dot want you to know, btw, that this chapter is entirely hers. This is also the point where shit completely stops making sense, but not because she was dictating it. She came up with the whole plot, more or less. It stops making sense because chunks are missing because I never finished writing it.
Percy's POV
Now that the really weird thing with Ganondorf has been settled, we need something to do. Annabeth suggests capture the flag, and Zola suggest a snowball fight. We're bickering over which one we'll do when Azelf steps in and suggests that we do both at once. There's a general murmur of agreement and then everyone looks at me. "What?"
Azelf rolls her eyes, "Pick the teams dial up!"
"Ok, how about girls versus boys?"
Zola shakes her head, "Too many couples, wouldn't work."
Caty steps up just then, "Why don't we all just be on the same team?"
I can just tell that Annabeth's rolling her eyes as she says, "Hello miss Brain Freeze. You need two teams to play."
Caty looks thoughtful at this, then . /she puts her hand to her ear. "Boo, set up a laser barrier would you?" She nods and a laser fence appears between us and the other snow castle, "Now for some enemies, Boo, send in the villains would you?" There's a poof of green smoke that clears to reveal a rather large crowd of people I don't know, and the Minotaur! I unsheathe my sword and Annabeth vanishes, a moment later she reappears on the other side of the fence with Angel, Terra, Winry and Zelda.
Palm Tree walks out of the crowd, and on my periphery I see BB pick up a large hunk of ice. But my attention is focused on Palm Tree and Annabeth as the crazy dude starts to speak. "Ok, here are the rules. You have to get back these hostages, without letting everyone get knocked out." At 'hostages' he viciously kicks Terra in the ribs and her eyes close, when they don't open again BB hurls the ice he's been holding. It flies straight through the laser grid, right at Palm Tree. But the green haired weirdo simply bats the frozen projectile away, shattering it with a loud crack. The girls are tossed into the arms of winged wolf men and BB starts screaming Terra's name as the crowd heads into their fort.
Terra's POV
A laser grid appears and then there's a poof of green smoke on the other side of it. The smoke clears and Robin tenses up at my side, he must see the Slade Bots too. Then I'm on the ground, trussed up tight with a gag in my mouth, thoroughly disoriented. Then I hear Palm Tree start talking, it sounds like he's right above me. "Ok, here are the rules. You have to get back these hostages, without letting everyone get knocked out." At 'hostages' he kicks me viciously breaking a few ribs. I close my eyes and hear what sounds like ice cracking, then I'm picked up and tossed into a pair of rough, hairy arms. The impact jars my injuries, and I'm near certain that one of my lungs is punctured. It hurts like hell to even breathe, and the last thing I hear as I succumb to the creeping blackness is BB frantically screaming my name.
Am I dead? Maybe, I didn't think death would hurt this much. I'm standing on a road, one way leads to a world of pain and cold and fear. The other points to a pair of gleaming gates, beyond which is a utopia. I take a step towards the gates, towards the beckoning figures of my family, but wait. There's something I need to go the other way for; a person, a boy; a boy whose hair, skin and eyes are green, what was his name? What's my name? Was his name Beast Boy? Yes, it was, I need to stay for him. But I can't remember why.
A memory comes to me, the green boy placing a ring and a note in front of me. I was a statue, was I dead then? No, I wasn't. The note said, "Will you marry me?" I remember feeling warmth through my stone shell, and a small bit of power once more in my veins. Not enough to break the shell, but enough to arrange some pebbles into the word yes on the note. He came back a while later and saw the rocks. He smiled, and I felt more warmth, more power. I couldn't hear him, but he stepped up next to my stone prison and hugged me. Then he put the ring on a chain around my neck and a blue one around his own. I fall back from the memory, filled with determination. I can't abandon the green boy, he loves me, and I love him.
I can't be dead, I won't be dead. I look down towards the gates and suddenly they seem much less inviting. That's not the way for me to go, I turn my back on it and start running towards the pain. As I get closer, an icy cold presses into my back, but I pay it no heed. I continue on, hardly slowing at all when it suddenly feels like one of my ribs is protruding into my left lung. I ignore that pain too and keep walking towards the light. I must reach the green boy, and if I have to endure this, I'll do it. I reach the light and see that it is emanating from the figure of a girl, she has three broken ribs and shackles connect her wrists to her ankles. Her hair is lank and her breathing shallow, is this me? I steel myself, no matter how much it hurts, I have to reach him. I reach out and touch the girl, remembering. My name is Terra.
BB's POV
Terra suddenly appears in front of the Slade Bots, and Palm Tree steps forward as I pick up a piece of ice. I'm so focused on Terra's terrified eyes that I don't even hear what he says. But I do see it when he kicks her in the ribs; when her eyes don't open again, I hurl the ice straight through the red beams and right at his face. He just bats it aside, shattering it with a loud crack. Then she's tossed into the arms of one of the wolf men like a sack of potatoes. I lose it then and start to run at the barrier, I don't care if I'll be cut to pieces; Terra might be dying over there! Cyborg and Starfire grab me, keeping me from her. I completely lose my head then and start screaming her name. By her complete and total lack of response, she could very well be dead.
The other team turns and enters their castle, and I go limp. My friends let go of me and I collapse, but after a second I get back on my feet. Terra isn't dead, I would know if she was. As Robin leads us inside I glance over my shoulder. She's alive in there somewhere, I just know it.
We congregate in a large room; The Monday girls are over on one side of the room with almost everyone, obviously demonstrating something. I glance around and see Percy, Link, Ed and Jacob sitting around something. Percy beckons me over and says, "Here's the plan for the rescue mission. The Monday girls want to play defense, taking down as many enemies as possible without actually leaving the fort. We don't think that Terra and the others will survive long enough for that to be a legit strategy. They're all going to be on top, shooting, this should give us a decent chance to get inside their fort through this entrance and find the girls." At the word 'this' he points to a small side door.
I'm listening so intently to his plan that when Gazzy whispers, "What're talking about?" in my ear, I jump about an inch. Gazzy spots the marked up map and looks Percy in the eye, "When can we leave?"
Ten minutes later we're in the trees, waiting for the fence to come down. Percy and Link are gripping their swords so tightly that their knuckles are white, Gazzy and Jake are fiddling with twigs and Ed is scratching circles in the snow. I'm sitting and waiting, watching for a change in the laser grid. When it starts to go down we all stand up, and as soon as it's low enough we jump over and run for the other side of the field, keeping in the trees until we're behind the other fort. We head for the side door that Percy had pointed out, only realizing once we're there that there are three doors.
I swear loudly and suddenly two floating unicorns appear above our heads, waving their legs like they have no bones. In unison they squeal out, "We gotta be schneaky Percy! Yeah! Schneaky!"
"WTF? Shut up! Go back to your YouTube videos! And there's no way I can do that with my legs!" The accursed creatures whinny again and then disappear. "Come on, let's go get the girls."
We all nod and then Link says, "Which one do I open?"
"Try the one on the left." Gazzy looks intently at the doors and then nods, "Yep, definitely the one on the left." Link grabs the handle of that one and pulls with all his might, it swings open and the air is filled with the savage barking of rabid dog/lizard hybrids. We all get behind the door and push, forcing it to close. "Ok, maybe not the left." Link the grabs the handle of the middle one and pulls, when nothing happens Gazzy says, "Try pushing it." Link does, and the door swings open on a common room filled with Erasers and Slade Bots.
The near normalcy of the scene is both frightening and hilarious. A bunch of them are playing games, some are watching TV and a few are reading. They all look at us blankly and Link slams the door, "Ok, that was weird and scary. This door better be the right one." With some hesitation, he pulls on the door, when nothing happens he pushes on it. Still nothing happens, so he whips out a bomb and sets it down by the door. We all know the destructive power of bombs, so we follow Link to what must be a safe distance. The bombs go off and we go back, the door is still standing!
Fortunately, the frame was made of ice, so while the door still stands; it can be knocked over easily. I shoulder the door and it falls over, revealing a short corridor that turns right almost immediately. We all look at each other, here goes nothing. As we enter I think to myself, I'm coming Terra, I'm coming.
Annabeth's POV
Our captors bring us inside and Angel begins to scream. The wolf man holding her snarls savagely and when she fails to shut up he slams her head against the wall. I hear a sickening crack and she abruptly stops screaming, in my experience, that's never a good thing. They throw us into a room with a woman that has a funny looking tattoo and an evil smile. "Ladies, we can't have you bringing weapons in, now can we?" Her smile grows and she extends her nails into daggers, they stab through my shirt and it falls apart. Damn, she's dangerous! She tears all of our clothes to shreds and I wind up being the one supporting Terra. She's the only one allowed to keep anything, and that one thing is a delicate green ring on a fine chain around her neck.
We're given clothes, pale blue jumpsuits that cling to our skin unpleasantly. Once we're dressed, the door that we were thrown in through opens to admit four wolf men. They shackle our wrists and ankles before throwing us over their shoulders and heading for a cage. Terra and Angel's carrier is being extra rough with them, jostling their injuries as much as possible. By the time we've reached the cage I've heard two more of Terra's ribs break, as well as Angel's arm and possibly one of her wings.
The wolves toss us into our cage and lock the door, and then one of the Halloween bots keys in a password and a lever comes out of the wall. He pulls it to the right and pushes it back into the wall, then another keypad comes out and he inputs another password. As soon as he finishes our cage shoots up to the top of the hollow tower, where there are only four slim poles supporting the roof. They leave and before shutting the door he does something that makes spikes of ice come up to cover the floor. Looks like they really don't want us to leave; I try to get to my feet and the cage sways crazily from side to side, forcing me back to my knees.
We sit there in silence for a while before Zelda speaks up, "This isn't normal."
Nessie snorts, "Yeah, nothing about this is exactly normal. I mean, who goes around getting thrown into Plexiglas cages every day?"
"No, I mean the length of time that we've been here. Link should have come for me by now."
I look out of the tower and my gaze falls to the covered maze below. "I think they're here, look."
Winry looks around and focuses on the maze as well, "Maybe, think of how hard it would be to find your way through that maze if you couldn't see out."
"Hhhmm, you're right. Jake wouldn't think to try breaking down the walls."
"Ed wouldn't either."
"I highly doubt that Link would think of it."
"There's no chance at all that Seaweed Brain would think to try it, and BB doesn't seem to be exactly clever. Our only chance is that one of Angel's siblings thinks of it." I sigh, it's such a slim chance that it's not even worth betting on it. "Hey, Zelda."
"Yes?"
"That healing thing, can you use it on Terra and Angel?"
"I can try." She scoots over to the unconscious girls and tentatively puts her hand on Angel's head. She waits for a second, but nothing happens. "It would appear that there is something here which prevents me from using my powers. We can only wait and pray that they will be alright."
BB's POV
We reach yet another junction and I groan, how are we supposed to find our way to the girls if we can't even navigate the hallways? Percy turns right without hesitation, keeping his hand on the wall and muttering to himself. I glance at the almost oppressively low ceiling and then face forward again. Percy takes another right and lets out a wordless shout. He immediately backs around the corner, sword drawn, slicing at a bunch of the things that Gazzy called Erasers. I shift to a wolf and leap at the things, ripping their heads off, letting my inner beast rage out at them. I tear one to shreds and leap to the next one; his head comes off easily and hot blood begins to pool on the floor.
Jacob goes wolf too, and Percy falls back, letting us do the job. There doesn't seem to be an end to them, but right now, I don't really care. Right now it feels good to sink my pointed teeth into their muscled legs, to snap their bones in my strong jaws. I'm dripping with blood, all theirs. We reach another junction and turn right, into another hoard of Erasers. These ones have guns, but only one of them actually manages to shoot before we attack. The bullets whip past my ear and bury themselves in Jacob's shoulder, forcing him to the ground. Percy leaps over him, and we begin to rip our way through.
Before long though, he's taken four bullets to his right shoulder and another five in his legs. A bullet from the last remaining Eraser whistles past my ear and finds purchase in Percy's hand. He screams in pain and his sword clatters to the floor, his hand no longer able to grasp it. I lunge at the creature and pin him with my paws, feeling a few ribs snap when he hits the ground. He smiles maniacally up at me as he puts the barrel of his gun to my chest, and pulls the trigger.
Annabeth's POV
I hear the approaching hum of a small vehicle and open my eyes to see. A man dressed similarly to the Halloween bots heading towards us on a floating bike. Winry is humming a song to herself and I hear the sound of metal clanking on Plexiglas in time to the beat. The man pulls up next to the cage and glares at Winry, "How do you have a wrench?"
"None of your business, but I'll tell you if you let me check out your fancy bike!" I look at her, confused. She wants to take apart his, whatever it is? The man says nothing, just comes closer, inspecting Winry to see if he can figure out how she kept her wrench through a strip search. His curiosity brings him into the cage, his vehicle tethered to the wall. Winry stands up and looks the man in the one eye visible through his mask. Without breaking eye contact, she swings the wrench at his head and hits with enough force that he flies into the wall and slumps to the floor, unconscious.
The cage is surprisingly stable, maybe due to his bike thing. I pick up Angel and walk to the open door, where his bike is idling. I gently lay Angel down on the back and get in the driver's seat. The other girls file after me and as they climb on I unhook the tether. Zelda carefully arranges Terra on the floor of the cage and climbs on last. As soon as we're all safely on the ground, I'll send Winry up to get her.
But Zelda's weight causes the bike, which was sinking already, to drop swiftly to the floor. I pull the handlebars to the left and we crash through the wall, skidding along the floor and through two more walls before coming to a complete halt. I fall off and then get to my feet; unfortunately, it would seem that the bike has been fully demolished. This means that Winry won't be able to get Terra. I help the others to their feet and then spot a feminine figure heading towards us through the fog of snow.
Caty's POV
As soon as the laser grid went down, BB, Jacob, Percy, Ed, and Link charge the snow palace. I can see them from my perch atop the tower, b
BB's POV
I flinch, expecting death to come in the swift form of a bullet. But all that happens is a small click, the thing starts swearing and I rip its head off. As the gun falls to the floor I see a small irregularity in the barrel, a small piece of bullet is showing where it shouldn't. I look a bit closer and see what saved my life, a jammed bullet. A shot flies right over my head and I leap back into the fray, before long we've removed the threat. I shift back to human; my hair is soaked with blood, as are my clothes. I punch the wall and my fist goes right through.
Curiosity shakes me out of my blood-thirsty rage and I punch the wall a few more times, widening the hole. I say to the others, "Go on, I'll catch up" and climb through the hole. I hear their footsteps fade and look around. I see a tall tower off to my right, the very top is supported only a few slim poles, so I can easily see the cage hanging there. There are only two people in there, and Terra must be one of them! I shift into a bird, but I'm too soaked with blood to fly, so I shift into a monkey instead. Looks like I won't be following after the others after all!
I climb up one of the walls and turn back into myself before starting towards the tower. After a while I reach the base and am presented with a problem, how do I get up there if I can't fly? I'm standing there, thinking, when I hear the sound of gunfire behind me. I turn and see the wall of a tunnel; I hear a yelp and turn T-Rex to break down the wall. I stomp on quite a few Slade Bots before they're all gone and it's safe to turn back into myself. I shrink down and Percy limps over to me, holding his shoulder. "Thanks BB; we would've been dead for sure."
"No problem, hey, do you have any idea how I can get up there?"
Ed snorts, "Hello genius. I'm an Alchemist. I'll just make a door to the inside." He claps his hands and touches the wall of the tower, a fancy looking door appears and Ed yanks it open. I look in, but can't see anything past the forest of icy stalactites, or are they stalagmites? He claps his hands again and pulls down the spikes, revealing the perfectly smooth inside of the tower. I back up a few steps and turn into a hawk to see who exactly is in the cage. One of them is Terra, but she doesn't look to good, her face is pale and I can clearly see two ribs protruding from her chest. I briefly glance at the other person and my blood turns to ice, not him. He took her away from me once already, he won't take her again.
He pulls a staff from his belt and extends it, not bothering to hurry. I turn back into myself and run over to the bots, where it doesn't take long to locate an intact gun. I whirl around and see him preparing to bring the staff down on her head. My vision clouds over red and I pull the trigger, sending a storm of bullets at Slade. Not one of them hits him, but a moment after the gun runs out of bullets, his staff breaks. He looks at his now empty hand, and then the cage splits cleanly in two, sending him plummeting to the floor. I see Ed clap his hands and slam them down, and then I hear the alchemic crackle and a loud thud.
I walk into the tower and look up; Terra is lying exactly where she was before. I glare at Ed, "Make me some stairs, now." He blinks and I growl, that makes him clap his hands together and transmute stairs all around the tower, spiraling up to the top before branching out to form a second floor.
I run up the stairs, morphing into a cheetah to go as fast as I can.
Do the Saturdays just vanish in this chapter? I think they do...
Wait, where's the rest of the chapter? Oh. I think I started writing it on here, and it vanished when I destroyed the original. Oh wow, how is it so long when it's only 2/3rds of the chapter?
Pretty much what happens is that BB beats the shit out of Slade, rescues Terra, there's shitty fluff. Zola gets the girls playing Parcheesi while they wait for the boys, and assures them that everything will be fine. Then the bad guys win, and FMA takes over the fic.
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