Chapter 10: Fight at Sixtopolis
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Ness, Paula, Jeff, Poo and Moira walked slowly into the huge city. The buildings touched the sky and held it up like support beams. The buildings obscured any line of sight from the ground to the sky, yet not eclipsing the sun with their monstrous height. The buildings were smoothed and carved out of the finest of metal ores. People often walked through the streets with heavy bags and held their children or lovers in their hands as they rushed to their urban homes.
"This place reminds me of Fourside," said Jeff, "except more aesthetically pleasing."
"Well, I like seeing the sun," said Paula as she tried to look up at the sky.
"Keep focused," Moira said, "we have things to do."
"Right," said Ness, "then afterwards, we party."
The group heard a siren wail as a white-and-black police car drove up to the group. The door opened and two police officers go out of the car.
"Stop right there, criminal scum!" One police officer shouted. The group turned around but instantly felt their arms forced behind their backs and handcuffed together.
"You are all under arrest for…for…because I said so! Now get in the car!" The police officer said.
"My rights are being violated!" Cried Ness. But nobody cared.
For the next few hours, the entire group sat in silence as the police car navigated through the streets. The police officers chatted quietly as Moira tried to follow their conversation. She only caught one word: Pokey.
The car pulled into a blue and white building. The car pulled into the garage and stopped in the middle of the garage. The police officers got out and opened the prisoners' doors. The hauled out each person and took them down the halls. Ness, Moira, Paula and Poo couldn't use their PSI for some reason. They felt their minds feel clouded for some unknown reason. The officers opened the door to a cell and placed them in the cell. The door slammed shut, the lock clicking into place. They all sat quietly until reality caught up to them and triggered their emotions. Paula started to sob quietly while Jeff asked: "What just happened?"
Ness took Paula into his arms and hugged her as her tears streamed down her face and onto Ness's clothing. He looked up through the window of the cell. The sky darkened, rain fell through the window in rapid movement, crying with Paula in the cell of the planet Earth.
Moira sighed. "Now we can't stop Pokey and my mother."
"Your mother doesn't need stopping," a voice from the back of the cell said. The entire group looked behind them and saw the outline of a woman in the darkness of the cell. It was Aurelis. She had her hand on her cheek, holding a tissue that looked like it was drying a red liquid. Moira gasped.
"You!" She cried. "Are you hurt?"
"No, I was just crying, and the only tissue I had was used to dry some cherry juice."
"That stuff is sick," said Ness.
Moira stiffened and said coldly: "So why are you here for? I thought you liked being in a tall skyscraper planning to destroy an entire world."
Aurelis looked at her. "You know I don't want to destroy the world…"
"You want to destroy this world."
"I didn't want to destroy this world."
"Yes you did! You only cared about your political life! You wanted to come here so people back home would think you are some kind of hero and-"
"I CAME HERE TO TRY TO GET YOUR LOVE!" Aurelis screamed. Moira grew wide-eyed.
"What?"
"The entire reason I came here and accepted Pokey's offer was not only to save our planet, but because I wanted to make sure everyone and you had a future."
"But I thought…"
"I did what I did because I loved you and I wanted to be the mother you never had. But you don't want me to, do you? I'm some monster to you."
"That's not true. I always loved you."
"But you never wanted to be near me. You always moved to another seat or location."
"Because I thought you wanted me to be gone."
"I never wanted you gone. I always lived in fear of the thought you'd run away, and I would lose both you and dad."
"I would never run away from you."
"Then why didn't you tell me I had it all backward?"
"I…I thought you knew…"
"I never knew."
"I'm so sorry."
"I'm sorry too."
Moira ran into Aurelis's arms and they hugged each other. Moira buried her face and started sobbing. Aurelis cried silently, with only one tear leaving her eye. After a few minutes, Moira became quiet and Aurelis spoke.
"Listen, I promise once Pokey is gone, I'll be that mother you have never had."
Moira looked up at her with a smile. "Yes. I'd like that." She and Aurelis hugged again, wiping the tears from their eyes. Ness stood up. "Wait, you are against Pokey?"
"Yes. He threw me in here when he found out the real reason why I agreed to his plan. And now, it is too late."
"Well, we need to get to wherever Pokey is to stop him."
"There is a secret passageway we can take to get to where he is." Aurelis got up and pressed a brick on the wall. It slid into the wall and the entire wall opened up, revealing a man taking a shower. The man screamed, and Aurelis shut the door. "Sorry, wrong brick." She pressed the brick next tom it and it slid into the wall, revealing a doorway into a building. They all went through the hole in the wall.
Pokey cackled evilly. He quieted after a few seconds when he realized there was no one to hear his evil laugh. Things became quite lonely in the building without Aurelis around. She frightened him, but at least she would hear his evil laugh every now and then. He then rested his cheek on his hand. He became bored until the floor opened up in the office. A few hands crawled up and Ness, Paula, Jeff, Poo, Moira and Aurelis crawled up from the shaft. They all gasped for air. Ness looked forward and saw the ancient man sitting in his pod.
"Pokey!" Ness exclaimed.
"Ness!" Pokey said.
"Ness," Paula said as she lay on the floor.
"Paula," Pokey said.
"Pokey!" said Poo.
"Moira!" Said Moira.
"Enough! I thought I cast you out!" Pokey said to Aurelis.
"No one takes my people and threatens my daughter!" said Aurelis.
"Yeah! Or something…" Jeff said.
"Too bad! I have spent a long…seven minutes thinking up this plan, and soon, I will become the almighty Pokey!"
"You already are Pokey," said Paula.
"Yes, but I'm just the king of Earth and the Durvine and grand pooh-bah of all awesomeness. I'm not almighty." Pokey's bed transformed into a huge spider and charged after them. They all dodged out of the way. Ness and Moira used PSI Rockin Ω on Pokey and it threw Pokey into the wall. Jeff then attacked with a multi-bottle rocket. It exploded and destroyed the mecha.
"Uh, where is he?" Asked Ness. He looked out into the hole in the wall and he saw Pokey hanging onto a pole.
"I'll get you Ness! You and your friends!" He looked down and saw he was hanging over a 1000 foot drop. "Oh my, I'm really high up aren't I? Um, help?"
And then Moira called for the police.