Chapter Twelve: Take an Arrow to the Knee or Take an Axe to the Side
Chapter Twelve. AKA, the chapter that brings us to 10,000 words! Thanks for all the support. Without you guys, I would have never made it this far!
"If you two don't shut up in the next two seconds, I'm gonna-"
"Calm down, Amy," Penny said as she held Amy back. Tails and Sheldon had been arguing for the past three hours about who was smarter, and Amy was just about to snap.
"But they've been arguing for over three hours!" Amy protested as she tried to escape Penny's grasp. "And I thought they were supposed to be geniuses…"
"You think this is bad? I have to go through it every day," Penny said, thinking of everything she had to deal with back home.
"Well how do you deal with?" Amy inquired.
"Maybe if you ignore them they'll go away," Penny said.
"Does that even work?" Amy asked bluntly.
"Not yet," Penny replied.
A few feet behind them, Tails and Sheldon were still fighting as they walked.
"Okay," Tails said. "You admit that I'm smarter, which the IQ test states, and I won't murder you in your sleep."
"Fine," Sheldon said.
Tails smiled triumphantly. He had finally beat Sheldon. He turned to walk away.
"Bazinga," Sheldon said.
Tails turned around and rolled his eyes. Penny was right- Sheldon was a crazy person. "How much longer do we have to walk, Penny?"
Penny looked at the map. "Um, another couple hours, maybe?"
"Good," Tails said. He sat on the ground to rest. The walk had already been exhausting, and on top of that, the tranquilizer had made him even more tired. He took a moment to look at their surroundings. They were in a large open field covered with tall green grass. The sun shined brightly above them. It reminded him of home. Tails was just about to point this out to Amy, when he felt something hot go flying past his head. "What the-" another fireball just barely missed him as he ducked to the ground.
"What the heck is going on?" Penny started to say, but she didn't get the chance to finish as a large spiny figure grabbed her.
"Bwa ha ha ha ha!" Bowser roared. "That pain in the neck of a fox killed the Princess, so I guess this is the next best thing!" he tightened his grip on Penny.
"Let go of me!" Penny screamed. She struggled to escape Bowser's grip, but she wasn't strong enough.
"We have to do something, guys!" Amy shouted to Tails and Sheldon. But the two of them couldn't do anything. Tails didn't have the strength to fight, and Sheldon was frozen in fear.
"I SAID LET GO!" Penny yelled angrily. She gave the koopa king a swift quick kick to the nuts. Penny took her chance to escape as Bowser yelled in pain.
"Let's move!" Penny yelled as she started to run for the woods. The others followed.
"Fine," Bowser said. "If you won't listen reason, I'll just have to kill you off." He took out an axe from behind him and threw it as far as he could in Penny's direction. It landed square in her side. "Bull's eye," Bowser said in triumph. He then ran off in the other direction.
"PENNY!" Sheldon yelled as he ran to her. Tails and Amy hurried behind him.
Penny had already lost a fatal amount of blood by the time the rest of them reached her. The axe had wounded her badly, digging deep in to her side. She coughed up a little blood.
Sheldon hurried to the ground and kneeled next to Penny. "Penny we have to-"
"No, Sheldon…" Penny said weakly. She coughed a little bit more. "It's time for me to go."
Sheldon sighed. "Penny… I just want to say… that I will miss you. I'm going to miss you trying to sit in my spot, and the way you are always in our apartment. I know I always act like I hate it… but I've gotten used to it. And this is very awkward for me, but Leonard wanted you to have this," then he kissed Penny.
"Sheldon…." Penny coughed a little more. "Tell Leonard I said I love him, okay?"
"Okay," Sheldon said. A cannon went off. Penny was gone.
Amy buried her face in Tails' shoulder as she cried. Tails was trying not to cry.
Sheldon stood up suddenly. "Let's move," he said.
"Wait, already?" Tails asked surprised. "But-"
"Let's go," Sheldon said. "I'm going to find that damn turtle and kill him."
Amy lifted up her head. "Sheldon's right, Tails. We should get going."
"Okay…" Tails said. He picked up his bag and joined Sheldon and Amy.
And that is chapter twelve! I thought this one was really sad, since Penny is one of my favorites on the Big Bang Theory. But I hope you enjoyed it, all the same! See you next time I update!
