This is one of my shorter stories, only because I wasn't really sure how it was going to play out until now.
Chapter Eleven: The Escape
Tecna had sobbed and vomited into a saddened slumber, only for Timmy to come to right afterward. Looking around the frozen cell, Timmy could see just how much his sweet angels had suffered. He saw dry and fresh puddles of vomit on the ground, and he saw, on the ground, his daughter, frozen and lifeless.
"Teccie, no!" Timmy cried, gathering his daughter in his arms. Tears flooded from his eyes as he pulled her closer to him, then he saw his wife, who had fallen into her deep sad sleep.
"Tecna, please be alive." Timmy pleaded, he knew the convicts had already told him that she had been poisoned to death, but as he felt for a pulse, his heart was slightly mending. Tecna moved a little, and then she turned and opened her eyes. She suddenly sat up and burst into fresh tears of relief mixed with grief for her daughter. Timmy pulled her close to him and let her cry continuously.
"I thought I had lost you, I thought the convicts had poisoned you to death with that Omega trout." Timmy rambled, beginning to caress Tecna's hair as she continued to sob, "I thought I was too late."
"You are... Tecniqa, she's gone." Tecna cried, "I'm so sorry Timmy."
"Ssh, ssh, it wasn't your fault, you tried all you could to stop them." Timmy replied consolingly, still caressing Tecna's hair. Then he went over and picked up Tecniqa from the ground, surprisingly, she still had a pulse.
"Tecna, she's still with us, we just need to get her to the ship." Timmy replied happily, "You take Tecniqa back to the Sparx 3000 and I'll distract the convicts."
"No Timmy, you take Tecniqa, they only wanted me." Tecna replied gravely.
"Tecna, I'm not going to put you at risk again, not after I thought I'd lost you. Go to the Sparx 3000 with Tecniqa, the crew there will take care of you." Timmy insisted. Tecna sighed dreamily, remembering why they had married in the first place, she knew he never forgot her sacrifice, and after her sickness, he just wouldn't let it go. She flew off with Tecniqa into a corner, and used her Speedix wings to transport far away from the cell. Fortunately out of pure coincidence, she had transported herself right where the Sparx 3000 was parked. It was a big luxury ship, but it was on of the few of Sky's loyal ships that were made for long time travel and harsh space debris. Tecna ran inside with Tecniqa, where Eraklyon's royal nurses where expecting them. They recognized Timmy and Tecna from Sky's Red Fountain years, and so they were more then friendly and generous to the two technology fairies. Tecniqa was wrapped in the warmest blankets in the ship, and her scratches were being tended to. Tecna, on the other hand, had to have the left over poison from the Omega trout drained out of her, and afterward, they were both resting in the beds in the infirmary.
Timmy ran for his life to where he knew the Sparx 3000 was, unfortunately the convicts who had captured Tecna and Tecniqa had caught up with him.
"The fairies escaped, and now you must pay for that!" one of them shouted furiously.
"Why do you want my wife killed? She didn't even deserve to be here in the first place!" Timmy shouted back, taking out his laser once again, this time he would not be caught off guard.\
"She trespassed on our territory, and we have dyer punishments for that!" the convict answered.
"She never wanted to be here. Why could you've just let her be?" Timmy shouted, dodging the convicts' weapons.
"She closed the portal, we could finally escape this place!" another convict snapped, there was no sense arguing with criminals on why they should stay in prison, but Timmy was very furious at the moment.
"So you want to kill her just because she ruined your escape plans?" Timmy asked angrily, "If she didn't close it, the whole magical universe could've been destroyed, even you!"
"Stop!" the convict shouted, and all the other convicts halted their attacks on Timmy, "If what you say is true, then she saved the entire magical universe?"
"Yes," Timmy answered, "The Omega Dimension, Tides, every single realm and dimension in the magical universe would've been sucked into a black whole if she didn't close it."
"Well, now the portal's destroyed, so we won't be dealing with her again." The convict replied, now calmer then before, "Go, get out this dimension and don't you let us catch you here again, or we'll finish you off permanently!"
"No problems with that, I'm never letting her set foot near this place! And now that the portal's destroyed, there's no way she'll be here ever again!" Timmy shouted, walking away toward where the Sparx 3000 was parked.
Timmy ran on board the Sparx 3000 to see the Eraklyon loyal nurses waited for him.
"How are my wife and daughter?" Timmy asked.
"Your wife has revived from the poison; unfortunately your daughter is still in recovery." One of the nurses replied. The led him to the ship's infirmary where Tecna was laying restlessly on the bed next to Tecniqa's.
"Tec, are you okay?" Timmy asked her as he ran in the room.
"Timmy, you made it!" Tecna sat up in the bed, relieve to see her husband in one piece, "I'm not sure, what if Tecniqa won't make it."
"She will." Timmy reassured Tecna with a slight smile, "She's strong, like you."
"Mrs. Zenith, you daughter's heart rate has gotten back to normal, she'll wake up shortly, we're sure of it." The nurse told Tecna, and she sighed in great happiness.
Later, Tecna and Timmy watched Tecniqa, waiting, hoping that she would be alright. Timmy pulled Tecna towards him, looking at her longingly and lovingly. He was so relieved that his precious technology angels were safe and sound, and he knew in a way that Tecniqa would survive. Suddenly, Tecniqa opened her eyes, and Tecna's heart beat effortlessly and Timmy smiled with great immeasurable relief.
"Mom, I thought the convicts would've killed you." Tecniqa replied softly.
"Teccie..." Tecna replied, only to have happy tears spring from her eyes. Timmy embraced his wife to try and console her as Tecniqa lay on the bed.
"Mom, if it's alright with you, and you won't get sick again, I would like to do my report on the Omega Dimension after all?" Tecniqa asked her mother.
"Why Tecniqa?" Tecna asked.
"I thought that the experiences I've had there will make the report more true to life. Besides I have all the material I need to cover." Tecniqa explained.
"I thought you said you were done with that place?" Tecna asked.
"Mom, in the past little while, I've learned that you can never truly be done with the events of your past, the convicts obviously haven't forgotten you and I'm sure you'll never forget that place either." Tecniqa replied, "I guess doing a report would mean a bit of closure, knowing there isn't a way I'd go back there."
"Very well, Teccie, but after this, hopefully we can leave the subject be." Timmy replied sternly, thinking that this adventure was too much for both his wife and daughter.
"Okay dad, you won't have to worry about that." Tecniqa smiled up at her parents, who were still gratefully relieved that their daughter had survived, although they thought that the cold had gotten to her head.