Me: Hey Y'all! I'M BAAACCKK! Did ya know that writer's block is a bitch? Well, it is. It's entirely its fault that I was stuck on this chapter but now, thanks to some friends of mine. It's up.

Nikki: Hey wait a minute! When did this become a story about (I slam my hand over her mouth)

Me: If you reveal anymore about this chapter then I'll kill you off

Nikki: Mmm grahggr mmm!

Me: Hm? What was that?

Nikki: (bites my hand)

Me: OW!

Nikki: I said that you threatened that before and you didn't do it!

Me: You bite hard and I have a pen and notebook right here ready to write about your demise. Do you really wanna do it?

Nikki: (sighs) No

Me: (Pats Nikki on the head) Good girl.

Mandarin: She will be mine. Mine and mine alone! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

Me: Wait! When did he get here? (Nikki shrugs her shoulders) SIC HIM, GIRL!

Nikki: YAY! (Pulls out a bazooka from who knows where and starts firing it at Mandarin)

Mandarin: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

Me: Ah. Life is good. Anyways, read and review if you like. Am I forgetting anything? Oh yeah! The disclaimer! I do not own anything SRMTHFG! related. The songs belong to their artists. The only things I own are Nikki and this plot.

Chapter 10

It had been 3 weeks since Nikki had sent out that silent wish to the team. 3 weeks of hoping that the team would come and rescue her bu,t to no avail. They hadn't come at all. Nikki was starting to think that they didn't care about her at all. What she didn't know was that the Citadel of Bone, now newly reformed, has been flying all over the cosmos in order to keep the HyperForce away from Nikki.

As of lately, all she has been doing is training. Like controlling her powers. Turns out that Mandarin and the old bag of bones were right. Which she didn't exactly like but, still she had powers. Which were pretty cool by themselves. Turns out she can conjure shields in the shape of anything that she could possibly imagine (Like a shield knights had in the Medieval Era or in a giant bubble. More about the bubble later.) along with fireballs. She has to concentrate or be angry in order to use her powers.

Their group have been going after some artifacts which were a part of the Skeleton King. So far they had the Alchemist's robe and the Ice Crystal of Vengence. They still needed the Fire of Hate, the Soul of Evil, the Masters' skull, and some of Nikki's blood. Wait. Scratch the skull. They had that already.

They were curently on their way to retrieve the Fire of Hate. She was just lying there on her bed singing. Mandarin and Valeena had gotten used to her singing by now.

~~Flashback about 2 and a half weeks~~

Nikki was currently scrubbing the floors of the Throne Room. This was her punishment for insulting Mandarin. Apparently she had called him a stupid, fat ass, bozo. As she scrubbed, she sang. She may do this excessively but, it was fun seeing Mandarin's reactions. For some reason though, he never gave his input until the end of the ? Weird. Could it be that he secretly enjoys her singing? Eh. Who knows and who cares!

"I'm going through the same day
Same place
Same way I always do.
Then I saw you from the corner of my eye
And it hit me like a ton of bricks
I can't lie.
Ooh, you got to me
My life was alright
Living in black and white
But you changed my point of view

Show me your colors
(Show me your colors)
Cause without you I'm blue
(Without you I'm ...)

Hurry up and save me
(Hurry up and save me)
Hurry up and save me
(Hurry up and save me)
I just want to feel alive
And I do when I'm with you.
Hurry up and save me
(Hurry up and save me)
Hurry up and save me
(Hurry up and save me)
I just want to feel alive
And I do when I'm with you.

Show me your colors
(Show me your colors)
Save me
Save me
Save me

I have to have control of myself
My thoughts
My mind
Cause the way it's going down in my life
I feel like a prisoner in a lie
Are you feeling me?
Cuz the way you make my
Break my
Shake my walls around
I feel like I'm breaking out.

Show me your colors
(Show me your colors)
Cuz without you I'm blue
(Without you I'm ...)

Hurry up and save me
(Hurry up and save me)
Hurry up and save me
(Hurry up and save me)
I just want to feel alive
And I do when I'm with you.
Hurry! Hurry!
Hurry up and save me
(Hurry up and save me)
I just want to feel alive
And I do when I'm with you.

My windows opened up
Tonight I'm crawling out.
Will you be there?
Are you waiting?
Will you be there?
Will you save me?

Save me
(Save me)
Save me
(Save me)
Close enough to save me
Save me
(Save me)
Close enough to save me
Save me
(Save me)

Hurry up and save me
A no one who can save me
A nobody who could save me
So just
So just save me
Without you, oh!

Hurry up and save me
(Hurry up and save me)
Hurry up and save me
Hurry up and save me
I just want to feel alive
And i do when i'm with you.
Save me
(where are you?)
To save me
Hurry up and save me
Hurry up and save me
Hurry up and save me
Hurry up and save me
I just want to fell alive
And i do when i'm with you

Save me
Save me
Hurry up and save me
Save me
Save me
Hurry up and save me
I just want to feel alive
And i do when I'm with you.
Save me
Save me
No one who can save me
Save me
Save me
Hurry up and save me
Hurry up and save me
I just want to feel alive
And i do when I'm with you.
Save me
Save me."

"Nobody's going to save you, child. If anyone was going to save you, then they would have done it already."

"I think differently. I believe that the HyperForce are working up a plan to save me." Nikki argued as she scrubbed.

"They are never going to save you. They never cared about you." Mandarin raised his voice.

Nikki stopped scrubbing. "But ... Chiro and Otto ... They - "

"They don't care about you. Didn't you think it odd that your brother, your twin brother, never sent out a search party for his sister? His sister who counted on him. He didn't care about you then so why should he care now?" Mandarin explained

Nikki crawled into a little ball and hid her tear-stricken face from Mandarin.

"I'm different though. Why do you think I went out of my way all those weeks ago to search for you?" Mandarin asked in a caring tone.

"Why?" Nikki choked out as she raised her head an inch above her arms.

"Why? Because I've taken a liking to you/ Since you are Skeleton King's niece, I've started to see you as a sister."

"A ... sister?" she asked as she raised her head up some more.

"Yes. A sister. Now, no more tears we need to get you ready." Mandarin told her as he brought her to her feet.

"Ready? For what?"

"We are going after a few artifacts, a few items of your uncles' that we need to resurrect him with. No doubt that the Hyper Force will be going after them to stop us as well. You still need to train a little more. You haven't quite perfected some of your moves."

"I see. Well then, let's get started. Shall we?" Nikki was eager to get to work on her training.

~~End Flashback~~

Nikki sighed. She wouldn't ever admit it to anyone but herself but, she was still hoping that the HyperForce would come for her. It has been a month, almost 2 months actually, since she was abducted by Mandarin. He was cool in his own slightly creepy way.

She sat up. Mandarin has nothing on Otto! Otto is kind and sweet. He's always there for you and he'll always protect you. Wait a sec! Do I ... like him? No! No! It's impossible. C'est impossible! I'm not in love with Otto! I'm not. I'M NOT! Nikki stood up and started sing. As she was singing, she pacing her room back and forth.

"If there's a prize for rotten judgement
I guess I've already won that.
No man is worth the aggravation.
That's ancient history
Been there
Done that

(Who'd ya think you're kidding?
He's the earth and heaven to ya.
Try to keep it hidden.
Honey, we can see right through ya)

Oh no
Woah

(Girl, you can't conceal it.
We know how you're feeling,
Who you're thinking of.)

No chance
No way
I won't say it
No no

(You swoon
You sigh
Why deny it?
Uh oh)

It's too cliche
I won't say I'm in love

(Ooh)

I thought that my heart
had learned its lesson
It feels so good when you start out
My head is screaming
"Get a grip, girl
Unless you're dying to cry your heart out."
Oh woah.

(You keep on denyin
Who you are and you're feeling.
Baby, we're not buyin.
Honey, we saw ya hit the ceiling.
Face it like a grown up.
When ya gonna own up
That ya got, got, got it bad)

Woah!
No chance
No way
I won't say it
No no

(Give up
Or give in.
Check the grin
You're in love)

This scene won't play
I won't say I'm in love

(You're doin flips.
Read our lips
You're in love)

You're way off base
I won't say it.
Get off my case
I won't say it.

(Girl, don't be proud.
It's okay.
You're in love.)

"Oh.
At least out loud
I won't say I'm in love"

Nikki sighed. He was her only hope. Her only hope outta this at least, in her current position, that's the way things looked.

"There's a song that's inside of my soul
It's the one that I've tried
To write over and over again.
I'm awake in the infinite cold.
Would you sing to me
Over and over and over again?"

Nikki laid back down upon her bed.

"So I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands and pray"

She clasped her hands together as if she was going to pray.

"To be only yours,
I pray to be only yours.
I know now that you're my only hope."

Nikki lowers her hands.

"Sing to me the song of the stars,
Of your galaxy
Dancing and laughing and laughing again.
When it feels like my dreams are so far.
Would you sing to me
Over and over and over again?
So I lay my head back down"

She lifts her hands again like she was going to pray.

"And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours,
I pray to be only yours."

She lowers her hands once more.

"I give you my destiny.
I'm giving you all of me.
I want your symphony
Singing in all that I am
At the top of my lungs.
I'm giving it all back.
So I lay my head back down"

Nikki raises her hands once more like she did before.

"And I lift my hands and pray to be only yours
I pray to be only yours,
I pray to be only yours
I know now that you're my only hope.
Mmmm
Mmmm
Oooh ooh"

She lowers her hands for the last and final time. Otto and the HyperForce may come to her rescue but, what if they couldn't save her? What if they can't save her? What if they were the ones that needed saving? Nikki needed to com eup with a plan and soon. What if she managed to trick her captors into thinking that she was one of them? Nah! That won't work! She'd be found out and possibly be put into a dungeon-like-cell. A cell that she was threatened once to be put in if she didn't behave herself. Anyways, she needed a plan. A real good one if she was ever gonna get out of this hell hole. But what? What was she gonna do?

With those thoughts, she fell asleep dreaming of being reunited with her brother, Otto, and the rest of the Hyper Force. She dreamt of happy times with them.

Me: Good chapter right? Well I'd like it if you'd leave a comment. And ... (Stares at Nikki still attacking Mandarin) Wow. They're still at it. OOH! That's gonna leave a mark. Great now he's crushed her bazooka ... Wait a sec! Where did she get that mallet!When did this turn into Super Smash Brothers Melee or Brawl here? Yeesh!

Mandarin: Now, child. Will you give up? (Mandarin is sitting on Nikki)

Nikki: Never!

Me: (sighs) Looks like I have to break them up ... again. You have no idea how many times they've done this. Anyways, READ AND REVIEW! (Pulls out a steel, rusted pipe) HEY YOU IDIOTS! KNOCK THE FUCK OFF!