Chapter 11
"Tell me again why are we sitting in a bus?"
"None of us know how to drive. Kevin's not here either. Do you expect me to tell my mum to take us?" Gwen replied. She pretended she was talking to a phone. "'Oh hi, mum, Ben and I were wondering, could you take us around the city to find a huge orange airship so that we can save our friend form our archenemies?'"
Ben sighed. "Well, at least we can the cab or something. This bus only takes us to the south area of the city."
"We can take interchanges."
"Yeah, a bus could take some time to reach every bus station as usual. By the time we found Sarah, she's turned into bacon."
"Relax, Ben, she's going to be fine. She's not an innocent girl. She makes force fields."
The bus stopped at the final stop, Beverly Hills mall. They walked down the bus to see a huge mall right in front of them. "Let's go take the next bus to North. I bet we'll find them soon," Gwen suggested.
"Maybe they have already went back to their home at... I don't know! We can't count on them entirely, you know," Ben said.
"Umm... Ben," said Gwen as she pointed behind him.
"I have the universe's most powerful object, the Omnitrix on my wrist and I can't use it to find Sarah?"
"Ben,"
"What?"
Gwen pointed behind him. He turned around and there was the huge orange Saturdays' airship, stopping at mid-air. They walked towards it. "And you said taking a bus is lame and useless," Gwen said sarcastically.
They walked towards the airship to see that the Saturday boy and his brother, the 7-feet gorilla-cat were chatting something.
"Fisk, I can't believe that mum and dad gets to go shopping for food and we don't," Zak complained. "I bet they'll say 'Oh sorry honey I forgot to buy your chocolate, 100% sugar cereal', again!"
"Bwarayisha (you're right),"
Komodo growled beside him. He pointed to the cousins that were walking towards them.
"Not now, Komodo, I'm thinking a plan how to get our cereal,"
Komodo growled again. "What?" he turned to Ben and Gwen that were standing just beside him. "Fancy meeting you here, again,"
"This is our—" Ben was punched by Gwen.
"Sorry, my cousin is acting a little—crazy,"
"You bet he is."
"We have a request to ask. It's about Sarah."
"What happened to her?"
"She's kidnapped."
"Kidnapped? By who?
"We suspect it was our archenemies but we couldn't find her."
"I used my mana to scan hers but someone blocked it."
"So, you want me to use my equipment to scan her? I don't know, my mum and dad would totally—"
"I'll give you 2 cups of smoothies,"
Zak coughed for a while. "And for the big fur ball here too." Ben corrected.
"Deal."
Sarah walked for a very long time at the dessert. She knew that she was already very far from the villains' lair but she still have no idea where is she heading. The sun was shining cruelly upon her with its hot rays that were killing her. She was exhausted; her legs were killing; her soft skin was being fried like in a saucepan; she was totally dehydrated that she felt like she was going to faint. She might have a sun stroke. She sat on the hot, burning sand, under a coconut tree that only provided very less shade. She plucked a coconut from the tree with her powers and opened it and drank it. She instantly felt refreshed but still tired and she was still having sun stroke.
Sweat had covered her whole body. She wanted to sleep but she knew if she did she might never awake, ever. This is a chance she is not going to take. She continued to walk and walk, until her eye lids were getting heavier. She wanted to sleep. She wanted to! She was suffering. She wanted to end her suffering. The spell that Charmcaster cast on her actually did its job by blocking her powers but back there she forced the powers out to save her life. That caused a headache and a very great power drain.
The suffering was driving her crazy: the burning, the heat, the dehydration, the sunstroke, the power drain, the pain in her head and the eagerness of sleeping and never wake up. She finally surrendered to her suffering. She lied on the burning sand, pretending it was her comfy bed back at home. She will die. And she intended to so she could end her damn suffering.
"I'm sorry I'm giving up so soon..." she murmured. She wanted her friends to hear that. "Goodbye, world; goodbye, mum; goodbye Gwen; goodbye Ben; goodbye everyone..." She slowly closed her eyes and fell into a very deep sleep.
"Mum and dad would pop in vain if we took the airship without their permission." Zak said. He was at the controls, driving the airship.
"Bright (right)." Fisk replied.
"I bet they would forgive you." Gwen said, as she continued scanning for Sarah's mana.
"You don't know the half of it. When they say you're grounded, they mean literally. When they say I can't see TV anymore, the TV was thrown out of the airship."
"Tough parents." Ben murmured as he looked around.
"They're secret scientists and geniuses. They are pretty strict to us."
Ben's phone suddenly rang. He took it and all he heard was yelling. "BEN TENNYSON! WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOU AND GWEN? I THOUGHT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO MEET AT THE BEACH NEAR YOUR HOUSE!" it was Kevin. The others had covered their ears.
"Dang. I forgot about Kevin!" Ben said.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAID?!"
"Nothing!" he turned to Gwen. Gwen stopped her scanning and took the phone. "Hi Kevin. I know we are not there but we have important business. What? Not homework. Our friend is missing. You're not our only friend you know."
"Who in the world is that?" Zak whispered.
"Kevin Levin, our friend who's a little bit cranky and Gwen's boyfriend." Ben replied.
"Now you have a tough friend there."
"I know, I know. I'm sorry we couldn't come. I'll make it up for you. Pick us up? I don't think it's even available. I know we don't have a car but—we are not taking the LRV or cab or bus—"
"Then what are you taking? A jet?"
"A little bit similar to that. Slightly bigger than a jet. An—airship."
"A what? Airship? Where in the world you get that?"
"It's complicated so I'll tell you later. Bye." Gwen shut the phone. "I'm sorry for Kevin. He came all the way from Bellwood to Beverly and couldn't have a chance to see us."
"Mostly is 'you'." Ben murmured.
"Whatever. Any news?"
"Nope." Zak replied.
"Where's the girls' washroom on this thing?"
"The third room on the left."
Gwen left. She walked until she found the girls' washroom. But before she enters the room, she felt a presence. It was Charmcaster. "Hi, Gwen."
Gwen gasped. She wanted to yell but Charmcaster had already covered her mouth with mana. "No yelling allowed." Charmcaster tied her hands and caught Gwen. "You're dead this time." Then they disappeared, without anyone's knowing.
