Okay, I'm bored. I'm writing this now. I'm trying to find another fandom to write for, just to explore my genres. Tell you what. You guys PM me or leave it in your reviews what you'd like to see me write, or if I should just shut up & stick to my current story. The reason I ask? This story won't last forever. In fact, we're right here at the climax. That said...I'll get to writing.

Disclaimer: If I owned this movie, there'd be a sequel out now so that I could see more of B.O.B.'s craziness.

Chapter Ten-The Plan & Execution Part Two

I don't resist being pushed behind Dr. C. I'm scared. What does Nebleon want with me? I have nothing to do with him! I never even knew he existed until now!

"You'll have to go through us to get to her," Dr. C says.

"Eh, I could do that. Sure would be exhausting, though. It'd be better for the both of us if you just give her up now, while you've still got a chance to live." Nebleon sure isn't afraid to swing that gun around.

"I'd rather die than give anything to you," Dr. C replies. The rest of us look at him like he's grown a second head. "Well I would!"

"Soon you'll have to do both," Nebleon says. He points the gun directly at Dr. C's gut and tightens his hand on the trigger.

"Wait!" Link shouts. Nebleon shifts his focus to Link. "Just take her." He takes me by the arm, and before I have a chance to stop him, he hands me right over to him. What are you doing, you buffoon?!

Dr. C barges in. "Over my dead body! Link, what are you doing?"

Link says, "Take the girl. There's nothing we can do to protect her." I glare daggers at him. He gives me an ashamed and defeated look.

"Jessica, no!" Aunt Susan exclaims, reaching out to grab me. Nebleon zaps her hand. Her grief and his weapon have made her weak.

"Finally, someone who knows how to play the game by my rules. Take our dear Jessica Grace to her prison cell and future deathbed!" The guards on both sides of him each grab one of my arms and drag me through a hatch on the roof. That's probably what Link and Aunt Susan escaped through. Link. I didn't think he hated me this much. What is wrong with him? I know that no one else would've done that. I'd like to slap him. I struggle to fight off the guards. Once, I get a goot shot, and I bring my foot around to the back of his knee, which makes him fall flat on his face. I have the urge to laugh. I've never felt so evil in my life, but I have to do what I can to get out of here. They'll kill me. I try to remember where I'm headed and the way out in case I ever escape, but all the halls look the same. Finally, after fighting and giving up, I am tossed into a cell and sneered at as the guards stalk away. I finally give up and start to cry. I can't hold in my tears anymore. They tried to protect me, and if it wasn't for that devil Link, we could've made it. Now I'll die before I turn thirteen, and it's all his fault. They tried to stop him. They protested and tried to get me away from him. I press my head into the metal bars seperating me from my family. My tears stream down my face silently. I give up.

(Link, you twit! Who hates Link? Chill for a minute. Let him explain.)

I look at Doc, who probably hates me right now. He's glaring at me. This is the angriest I've ever seen him. I've never seen him this angry. He looks like he wants to rip my head off. I bet he's breathing steam.

"Link, why did you do that?" B.O.B. asks. "I didn't think we were supposed to give her to him. Or am I just confused again?" Susan's head is lowered in defeat. No one answers B.O.B. Everyone grieves silently. "Uh, guys? Guys?"

"Now leave," Nebleon says viciously, "before I change my mind and kill you all."

They don't even try to fight him off. They just get on Insecto and prepare to leave. "Guys, aren't you going to try and get her back?" I ask.

Doc spits at me, "Oh, so now you're a wishy-washy Benedict Arnold, are you? Get on!"

I accept because I'm a little scared of him right now. We'll just let him cool off. I get on behind him, and Insecto flies off with a low roar. "Why did you do that, Link?" Susan asks.

"It's the new plan," I say. "I had to add a phase two because we almost got killed." This captures everyone's attention, so I continue. "Well, I thought that if we just give her to him, he'd loosen up, and then he'd be weaker. We could get back into the ship, save Jessica, set it to self-destruct, and get out of there before we're Nebleon's lunch."

They all look at me. They're probably not sure what to think. "Let's go back," Susan says, a sudden fire lighting behind her eyes.

"What?" Doc asks.

"He'll never expect us to be back right after we left in defeat. It's the perfect time."

I nod. "Now that is strategy," I say.

"How would you know strategy?" Doc asks, still hyped up.

"Let's just go," I say. "Insecto, turn us back around!"

He roars in understanding and whirls around in mid-air. It's a bit nauseating, but I feel a sense of pride overcome me. We're going back to get her. My plan is working.

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Insectosaurus flies to the edge of the ship. Nebleon isn't there, but he left the hatch open. Sucker. "Okay, here's the plan. Doc, you-"

"Here's the plan," Doc says, interrupting me. "Someone's going to get Jessica. I'd do it myself, but I'm going to find the self-destruct modifier and take care of business. B.O.B., you eat the guards that block our way. Susan, why don't you go get Jessica? Link, you help her. If you're such a pro, take out everyone that gets in your way. Now everybody go!"

Susan and I take off down the first corridor to our left. There's no sight of any guards or Nebleon himself anywhere. So far so good. I'm not sure if we're going the right way until there's a break in the uniform plaster wall coating and there are cells.

"Hurry. She could be anywhere." Susan rushes around, finding an empty cell at every glance.

"Susan, let's try down the stairs." She nods, and we both hurry down the stairs. We go down two more levels, but there's no sign of Jessica anywhere.

"I'm not stopping until I find her," Susan says. Then, as we walk down the fourth staircase, I can faintly hear sobbing. "Listen," Susan says. Her heart breaks when she hears it; I can tell by the way her eyes dull. She hurries to the sound, and I follow her. If this ship is big enough for Ginormica to stand up straight in, it's big enough to lose anyone.

Then we see her. She's leaning up against the bars and crying quietly. I hurt her. I know I shouldn't have done that, but I didn't see any other way. I have to tell her that when I explain. She looks up at us, and she's astonished when she sees that it's us, her friends, and not some vicious aliens. Her face floods with relief, and she tries to wipe away her tears. I know she doesn't like to show weakness. I've noticed it about her lately.

"Aunt Susan," she says. Susan punches the bars on Jessica's right, and Jessica runs into her hand. Susan brings her to her cheek and hugs her with her hand.

"It's okay. You're okay."

"You came back," she says, sniffling.

"Of course we came back," I say. "It was all part of the plan."

She looks at me with a confused expression. "What's he doing here?" she asks coldly.

"He came up with the plan to give you to Nebleon so that he'd be weaker and we could come get you back," Susan explains with warmth in her voice.

"Is that true?" Jess asks me.

"Yeah," I say. "I didn't mean to hurt you, I just-" We all turn our heads at the sound of approaching guards. Two of them, probably for Jessica's first torture session.

"I'm afraid this heartwarming moment will have to be postponedfor a minute," Jessica says, running down Susan's arm and landing on her feet in front of the guards. Susan is so pumped right now that she actually steps on one of them. I knock the other one unconscious. We run, and a mild feeling of success courses through me.

(switching to Doc's POV)

B.O.B. and I have to find the main controls so we can take out the ship. I have no idea where they'd be, as I never saw Nebleon operate them...but I'll have to find them. Each time we approach a guard, B.O.B. eats them. It comes in handy to have a fellow like him around. I hope Link and Susan have found Jess. It's the strangest thing. I can't focus on anything but Jess. Maybe I have creepy fatherly instincts. I shake off the thought. That's ridiculous. Link isn't right about that one. He's told me I did before, when we had to watch a young monster for a few days. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, and he had to pick on me for it.

"Doc, where's the giant button that blows everything up?" B.O.B. asks me.

"I don't know, B.O.B.," I reply. "Perhaps you could help me look for it?"

"Oh goody, another game! I'm going to win this one and Link isn't!"

"Um, yes...a game. Whoever finds the control room first gets..." I fumble in my pocket for a reasonable reward. "A-ha! This lucky penny."

"Ooh! That penny's mine!" He scoots off to the other side of the ship and searches excitedly. I shake my head, laughing quietly to myself. I walk down a hallway that seems to be empty. When I reach the end, I discover why it is. A room is crowded with aliens. I don't mean crowded, I mean absolutely FILLED. They press up against the walls and block the other doorway. Nebleon stands in the center of the room, talking about war on the humans and monsters. Then, he starts to talk about Jess.

"Yes, and the little one, Jessica Grace. She's a monster too. I've seen her before, when she first became a monster. She has the ability to conjure up memories from the darkest depths of her mind, even if she doesn't remember them happening in the first place. She can generate light and heat. She can move earth and water. She can turn into anything she wants to and do anything that her new form can do. She is what earthlings call a witch."

I gasp, but I cover my mouth quickly. I hope no one heard me. Jess is a witch? Does that even count as a monster? It's mostly about appearance, or at least that's what I've seen people judge us on all these years. I would've never thought that she had powers of any sort. The aliens continue to talk.

"I'll say! What a witch!" one of them says. They all laugh, but Nebleon seems to be growing impatient with them.

"No, you fools! A warlock! She holds magic!" They all quiet down. "She can rouse the memory of the time when aliens were defeated before and take us out the same way again! One more blow and our alien race never shall exist again!" Hushed whispers break out again. "We have to dispose of her. First she knows all, and now she's with the same monsters that brought us to our downfall before! If we don't stop her, she'll destroy us for good!"

I step out of earshot and hurry to find B.O.B. Now I know why he needs her. All we have to do is destroy them and she'll be safe. If Link and Susan don't have her now, they had better find her fast.

"Doc!" I hear B.O.B. call. I look around for him, and I see him down another hallway just across from me, struggling with a doorknob. I rush toward him. "I think this is it, but I'm not sure." He points up at the door, which has stamped in giant red letters: CONTROL ROOM.

"B.O.B., my friend, you're a genius," I say, and I hand him the penny from my pocket.

"All right! Now if I can just get the door to open..." He struggles with th doorknob.

"Uh, B.O.B., you're supposed to twist, not pull," I say, twisting the knob and watching the door swing open. Everything is exactly where it should be inside the room. "Excellent," I say, and I let out an evil laugh.

BAM! There's Jessica's secret! I definitely crossed some serious boundaries and took some big risks while writing this, but I hope I did it write. Get it? Ah, puns. I love 'em! Anyway, now that things have gotten this far, I'm getting excited! Now there's just two more things you need to know: can they do it, and what is Derek's little secret? Looks like the odds are in their favor now, but that could change! Thank you so much for reading and reviewing, and if you want to leave more, you know I love 'em! Heck, more than puns! I'll see you people next chapter! Stay awesome! ~Slayer