Chapter Ten
"How'd you get up there?!" screamed Bubbles. She was so overjoyed to see her sister, but still they were so far apart.
"And… who's dat?" asked Boomer, showing his more dense side.
"That's my sister, Blossom! And your brother!"
Boomer smiled. "How did they get up that place?"
Bubbles sighed at Boomer's stupidity and looked back up at Blossom. "How'd you get down there?!" Blossom replied, her voice echoing through the canyon-like beach.
"How did we get down here?" asked Bubbles.
"Uh… we fell?"
"We fell!" yelled Bubbles back up. "And like I said, how did you get up there?!"
No answer from Blossom. "Do you have your superpowers, Boomer?" Brick called from the top of the rocks.
"No! Do you?!"
"No!"
"Well, how are you going to get down here?!" called Bubbles.
After a few minutes, they saw a red figure stepped over the side of the cliff. "Brick!" Boomer gasped. "He's gonna kill himself!"
Bubbles was speechless.
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"Well, how are you going to get down here?!" her sister called from the sand down below. Blossom turned to face Brick.
"You have any great ideas? It would be suicide to try climbing down that…" Blossom took another look at the slippery wall of boulders, which were almost forming a straight-down line to the ground. "… that thing."
Brick held Blossom's hands for a moment and looked into her eyes. "You said it would be suicide if we jumped off the plane. Are we dead?"
"Pretty close," Blossom replied smartly.
"No. We're not dead. And this is suicide too? We've finally found Boomer and… Bubbles, and now we're not gonna take a chance to be with them? It's either we go down there, or we don't go at all. It's impossible for them to come up here, isn't it?"
Blossom nodded.
"I'm going, just to make sure it's safe before you come down." Brick said solemnly. His mind was made up. "I need to make sure it's possible before we both take the risk."
"No, I won't let you! Technically, I'm older than you. I should go first," Blossom argued, tears forming in her eyes.
"But you're a superhero. Townsville needs you. If you die, so will everyone who depends on you. If I die, who will need me?"
Blossom looked at the ground and began to cry. "I will."
Brick sighed and drew closer to Blossom. "Promise you'll be mine when I get down?"
Blossom hid her tears for a moment and kissed Brick. "I promise."
Brick smiled and walked towards the cliffs. He found the first place to put his foot and began to slowly climb his way down. "B-Be careful… please…" Blossom looked so upset, and so helpless standing there near the forest.
Brick moved his feet in a pattern on the rock. Thanks to many years of erosion, there was a simple pattern that could be easy to get down if stood on just right.
He slipped a bit, and Blossom gasped, but Brick got his grip back. "I'm okay, I'm okay."
Slowly, he was out of Blossom's sight. She leaned over the side and saw him sweating, panting, determined to find a way for Blossom to get down safely. It was a very very long way down if he made one wrong move, and there were many many pointy blades of rock below him as well.
She smiled, closed her eyes, and said to herself, "I promise…"
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They had been searching the laboratory for hours now, and it was getting later and later in the day. Buttercup had almost lost patience quite a few times, and was very tempted to begin throwing things and kicking walls. But one look into Butch's serious eyes got her back down on her hands and knees searching for the paper.
After quite awhile, Buttercup said, "Can't we move any faster, Butch? Our sisters and brothers might be dying out there! Every second means that they're losing their lives! Besides" – Buttercup said, picking up a sheet of notes – "when searching, I've seen this stupid paper five times already!"
Butch nodded, and grinned evilly. "Let's do this."
Buttercup smiled back and said, "Ladies first."
She began running around the laboratory, taking one quick look at each paper she came across and then ripping it to shreds if it wasn't the right one.
Butch following, doing the same, only on the ground.
"YES!" Buttercup screamed, jumping up and down in excitement. "Look! Look! Look!" She waved the prized sheet of paper in the air. "It's here! This is it! Look! It's the code!"
Butch took a peek at it and joined in the screaming. "YEAAAAAH!"
They high-fived (or high-oned) and got to work.
Well, that's chapter ten. Thanks for reading! Please review, every time I see a review it makes me write faster ;) !!!