MQB: I would like to say thank you for reviewing my one-shot "The Pay Back" and an extra thanks to 4Evermonkeyfan for figuring out the song Bronze was singing: "Game of Love" by Santana Feat Michelle Branch. You get a cookie. yay.

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Chapter Ten

Escaping and Flying

Without showing mercy or sorrow, Lava grabbed her sharpest dagger that was hanging on the wall and walked over to the past out Haya. All the teenager wanted was the shining gem on the cub's chest. The light blue gem sparkles and shin causing Lava's red eyes to twinkle.

(Kill the cub and take the gem) she thought, (easy as a pineapple pie) (MQB: mmm, pineapple pie)

Lava opened the cage's door only to suck in air when Haya's eyes shot open and started to growl. She didn't have time to react when Haya jumped out of the cage and swatted the teen across the face with her claws.

Lava screamed and clutches onto her face as four thick line appeared across her right eye. "YOU LITTLE BITCH!" she screamed.

"That's the first time someone called me that" Haya said, kicking the cage she was locked in with her back legs. The cage flew into Lava's stomach and she fell on her butt with the dragger sliding a few feet away from her.

Haya landed roughly on the teen's stomach causing the teen to let out a small, choking, "oof." The cub pressed her claws against the teen's throat and looked straight into her eyes.

"Do you honestly think killing me would be that easy" Haya asked, showing her small little fangs.

"Tough talk coming from something so small" Lava said, with a drop of blood running down her cheek.

"People really underestimate me cause I'm only a cub but I'm going to tell you something, you fire-making piece of snot" Haya said, growling, "I'm planning on living my 500-year life span, marry a great, strong, handsome tiger, and raise my cubs to dominate the cosmos so there's no way I'm going to die at four months old on some rotten planet from the likes of you."

Lava grabbed hold of the cub and try to reach for the dragger but Haya struggles by clawing and biting her on the arm. Lava screamed from the pain and threw Haya to a nearby wall. Haya manage to turn herself so she can easily jumped off the wall and landed on the floor without any harm.

They stare at each other for a moment before Haya headed to the nearest exit leaving a gust of wind behind.

"She is not getting away that easily" Lava said, grabbing the dagger and ran after the cub.

Haya found the house she was in rather creepy and disturbing and quite . . . "tacky" the cub said to herself but instead of running out of the house to save her young life she had to find something really quick. She quickly enters a room and seems to have picked a great one when she saw all of Lava's priceless and not to mention stolen valuables. Her smiled when she spotted the thing she was looking for.

On the wall, hanged a long, sliver, staff with a pure sliver metal wheel on the top that shined in the dull light was from coming from the window. Haya could see a small engrave on the metal wheel that read:

To My Priceless Treasure:

Bronze M. Scrapperton

Love: Grandfather Scrapperton

Haya grins, remembering that day back at the Convention when she first met her new owner. She saw Lava taking off with the staff she stole from Bronze and was banned from the Convention after she "accidently" ratted her out. Her guess is if the teen couldn't have her than she would steal something else from Bronze.

(What an idiot) Haya thought as she uses the tip of her nose to push the staff off the wall. She cringes a little when the staff fell to the floor with a loud clang before grabbing it with her mouth. Suddenly the door busted open by a huge fire ball with Lava walking in with flames in her eyes.

"Where do you think you're going, cub" she hissed.

Haya place the staff down so she could speak "well, that's a stupid question, I'm going home, DUH!" She said.

A ball of fire started to form on Lava's hand, "The only place you're going is to your early grave!" she shouted and threw the fireball directly over to Haya.

The cub smirk, quickly grabs hold of the staff and swung it with all her might. A small shield appeared, blocking the fire from making contact with the cub and was thrown back at the teen.

"WHAT!" Lava screamed as she was slammed by her own attack and hit the wall with a crash.

Haya places the staff down, "that's for stealing Bronze's two priceless treasure. (MQB: The staff and herself, of course)

Lava laughs as she sat up and pats the flames out of her hair and shirt, "I have fire powers, little cub, I'm immune to them and can't be burn" She said, laughing even harder til Haya jammed the staff right into Lava's stomach causing her to choke on her laugher.

Lava fell to her knees while clutching onto her stomach and coughing up salvia only to be swatted in the face by the staff again. She fell to the floor and was out cold.

"Snot" Haya said, calmly stepping all over the teen and walk out the room with her tail tightly wrapped around the staff.

She walked past to the room where she was caged up and spotted Sprx's magnets sitting on a table.

(Moron's magnets . . . no doubt he's probably crying like a little sissy girl as he is back on Shuggazoom)

She was about to leave til she looked back at the magnets and kicked herself mentally "curse this niceness in my black heart" she said, walking over to the table and grabbed the magnets with her teeth.

After ruining each room in Lava's home by scratching and punching holes in the wall, breaking everything that had the word "Priceless" or "Rare" on it, smashing all the windows and writing the word "Snot" in big, bold letters on the wall, Haya calmly left the house and found herself in a small, rather ugly, smelly village.

Haya sighs bitterly, "how am I going to get out of here"

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Meanwhile:

Sprx waited impatiently for Otto to get comfortable in the Fist Rocket 3. Otto was use to sitting in a comfy chair with a seatbelt instead of holding on to gears with his feet and hands.

"How on Shuggazoom can you get use to sitting like this" Otto said.

"Otto, we don't have time for your complaining, we only got four days to get Haya and get back here before Bronze gets home." Sprx said.

"Ok, all set, what's the first step"

"Well, we have to disconnect the Fist Rocket from the robot," Sprx said, pointing at the button that will that, "but first we have to-

Otto presses the button causing the Fist Rocket to disconnect and fell to the floor with a low, ground shaking, thump. Now they were in giant hold in the ground. Otto nervously smiles and didn't want to turn around to see the very steamy Sprx.

"Otto, next time let me finish my sentence before you do anything" Sprx said.

Otto laughed as Sprx use his tail to power up the fist rocket. The rocket made a low purring sound, "Ok, now just slightly pull the handles up to get us into the air"

Otto pulled the handle up with all his might causing the fist rocket to shoot up into the air while spinning out of control.

"I SAID SLIGHTLY!" Sprx shouted as they left the city's atmosphere

"WEEEEEE, THIS IS AWESOME" Otto shouted, as they continue to spin out of control.

"OTTO! STOP BEFORE YOU HIT-"Sprx noticed they were about to crash into a meteor. "AHHHHHHGGGGGHHHH, OTTO, PULL UP, PULL UP, YOU'RE IN THE METEOR'S PATH!"

Sprx clutches onto Otto's head with his arms blinding the green monkey's site. "SPRX, I CAN'T SEE" Otto shouted.

Sprx sharply pulls Otto to the left causing Otto to steer the Fist Rocket to the left as well nearly missing the meteor by a few inches. They both scream as they spin faster and faster and faster til finally Sprx's tail push the brake button. They Rocket made a hard brake sending to two crashing into the front.

The red monkey got up and rubbed his head only to be hit in the face when Otto swung his arms in the air shouting "THAT WAS AWESOME!"

Otto turned around to see Sprx getting off the floor again while rubbing his nose with his arm. "You hit me in the nose" Sprx said, bitterly.

Instead of saying sorry like Otto would normally do, he just smiles, "wasn't that awesome, couldn't you feel the danger of a near death experience"

Sprx looked at him weirdly "Are you ok" he asked.

"No!" Otto said, cheerfully, "I think this is a side effect from those sleeping pills"

"Great" Sprx said, walking over to controls and look up at the screen that had the map and routines to take to get to Planet Thieves. "Hmm, if we go into hyper boost mode we can get to the planet in less than a day"

"But doing that will use up a lot of power and we won't be able to use it again to get back home" Otto said, jumping around and acting really silly.

"hmm, unless that planet has fuel to get us back home"

"Enough talk, Sparky" Otto said, pushing the red monkey away from the controls, "let's put this in Hyper boost mode" pressing a large red button with the word "Hyper boost" on it.

Otto held on tight as the Rocket went into hyper boost mode while Sprx flew to the end of the machine, slammed into the wall and just hang there as if he was tape to the wall.

"OTTO!" He screamed while Otto laughed like a madman.

Sprx made a note to himself to ask Gibson what is in those sleeping pills. "OTTO, TURN OFF THE HYPER BOOST" Sprx shouted.

Otto suddenly darkens as he turns off the hyper boost mode making Sprx fly past him and hit the front of the Rocket again. Sprx got up only to have a finger pointing at him.

"STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO AND LET ME DRIVE THIS DAMN THING" Otto shouted, in shaking fury.

"WELL, HOW ELSE AM I GOING TO TEACH YOU HOW TO DRIVE THE FIST ROCKET" Sprx screamed.

"BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO YELL AT ME"

"YOU STARTED YELLING AT ME FIRST"

"I'M SORRY BUT THAT'S JUST ANOTHER SIDE EFFECT FROM THOSE SLEEPING PILLS, I HAVEN'T BEEN FEELING LIKE MYSELF SINCE WE LEFT"

"OK, I UNDERSTAND NOW WILL YOU STOP YELLING"

"I'LL STOP WHEN YOU DO"

"OK, WE'LL STOP ON THREE"

"ONE . . . TWO . . . THREE . . . " they both shouted, took a deep breath and calm down.

"Tell me again why we're out here in the middle of no where fighting with each other" Otto asked.

"So we can get the Devil's spawn back in order to save our butts from Bronze and to get Nova's present" Sprx said then muttered something to himself.

"What was that" Otto asked.

"Nothing" Sprx said, (there's no way on Shuggazoom I'm sharing Nova's gift with him.)

Otto raised an eyebrow (man, he's creepy me out, there's no way on Shuggazoom I'm sharing Nova's present with a monkey who suddenly turned himself into a large red strawberry) Otto thought with a very fogging and drugged up mind.

(The minute Nova gets her present–" Sprx thought.

(--I'm going tell her it was from me–) Otto thought.

(--And that idiot won't get any credit) they both thought at the same time.

(I just have to pretend we're great pals–) Sprx thought.

(--So he won't get any idea what I'm really planning) Otto thought

They both smile and laugh nervously, "so, do you think you can get us over to Planet Thieves, my drugged up friend"

"Of course I can, you large strawberry" Otto said, returning to the controls.

"Strawberry?" Sprx questioned as Otto put the Fist Rocket into hyper boost and made Sprx fly to the back again

Otto laughed.

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Haya managed to escape from the village but before snatching some food here and there off of peoples' plate as well as a pillow and a blanket. Using the blanket, Haya place the magnets, the staff, the pillow and food on it and tug on the corner so she wouldn't have to carry all the stuff with her tail and teeth. She found a grass field with a couple of trees and bushes and looked back to see if Lava was following her or not. Her bitter mood worsens when she noticed the sun was going down.

When the coast was clear. she hid underneath a bush for safety and settles in for the night. She shook her head as she took a bite of a piece of fruit she stole.

"It's going to be a long night"

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Chapter Eleven: Reunited, Tug-a-War, and True Power: Otto and Sprx comes to the rescue, Lava's not giving up without a fight and a little game tug-a-war got on Haya's last nerve and reveals her ultimate power.