One Wrong Turn Turned Right
Author's Note: Disclaimer same as the previous 12. And, (Drum roll) here's…
Chapter 13: Meet and Greet and Technical Difficulties…Oh no!
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"Wait, how are you able to breathe underwater?" Cody asked as Blaster breathed in a lung-full of the liquid.
"Better question is why are you guys in mermaid form?" Blaster asked.
"Me," Donald quacked. "Now what about you?!"
"I honestly have no idea," Blaster said as he breathed in again.
"I think I might know," Wendy said as she taped on her wristband. "By the readings I'm getting, you should be dead."
"WHAT?!" Blaster exclaimed, checking his own wristband. Wendy was right. With all that water going into his lungs, he could easily see that every nook and cranny was filled with water, and that no oxygen exchange was taking place.
"I will need to check the blood oxygen levels," Wendy said. Tapping a few buttons, she added, "I guess your blood oxygen levels are perfect, but there are small traces of pure hydrogen in the plasma. I am guessing that your biological structure has complex enzymes that transform the hydrogen hydroxide into pure oxygen and makes two pure hydrogens, which is carried through the plasma and then released with the water vapor and the carbon dioxide you expel when you breathe out."
The entire crew looked at Wendy with a puzzled look on their faces. No one talked for several minutes.
"You know," Blaster said, remembering back in Traverse Town, "oddly, I sorta understood what you said."
"Never mind," Wendy muttered.
"HELP!" a voice yelled in the distance. It sounded male and with an odd, Jamaican accent. Around the corner, a crab, a flounder and a mermaid swam as fast as they could away from a group of pursuing Heartless.
"Crap!" Blaster exclaimed. He swam towards the heartless with Sora and Co. in tow.
Blaster attacked with his version of the Three Wishes, but he found it a bit hard for him to swim like everyone else. Sora had to "save" Blaster on a few occasions during the fight. When the last heartless was defeated, Blaster thanked Sora seconds before the trio came out of hiding. The mermaid had some green fish fins and a purple clamshell bra.
"Thanks for your help," the mermaid said to Sora. Turning to Blaster, her eyes widened to the point where it looked as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.
"Ariel, what are you…" the crab began, in the same Jamaican voice. He noticed Blaster, then the look on the mermaid's face. "Ariel! Your father would have my claws for sure if he caught you hanging out with a HUMAN!"
"I'm sorry," Blaster said, "but…what?"
"What?!" The crab exclaimed. "If you are human, how are you able to breathe down here?"
"I would explain it to you, but you wouldn't understand," Blaster said flatly.
"Now, Sebastian," Ariel said to the crab. "What if daddy was just able to meet this human?"
"ARIEL! WAIT!" Sebastian exclaimed as Ariel swam away. "COME BACK!"
The crab and the flounder quickly followed the quickly retreating mermaid. The whole crew followed them, but Blaster stayed behind with Cody for a few seconds before they followed.
"I'm guessing we can't really let on where exactly we are from," Blaster said.
"I would advise against letting them know where we really live," Cody agreed.
"Well," Char said as she stood up in front of some powerful heart extractor, tied to a pole, with Drackenor at the controls. "That was…impressive."
"SILENCE!" the green alien shouted as he tried to fix his machine, which was currently smoking in a bad way from a vent on the top. The machine was about the size of a car and had a three pronged claw in the center in the shape of a triangle. "I still haven't been able to figure out how not to cause a power overload in the primary capacitor."
"I would think it would work well as a grill instead of a heart extractor," Char pointed out. "If you would let me, I'll make dinner. I mean, I'm not going anywhere anytime soon."
"Sure, as soon as you turn over your friends," Maleficent said as she walked from behind Drackenor. "What is the status on this machine?"
"Still can't figure out how to prevent the primary capacitor from overloading," Char said as if she was bored. "I keep telling him to use a surge protector, but he just keeps blundering on."
"Maybe if I put in a surge protector, then it probably wouldn't cause the power buildup in the capacitor," Drackenor said, not listening to Char. "Then, I could reroute power from the capacitor to the heart storage device because that wasn't getting enough."
"NOW he realizes," Char exclaimed as Drackenor started tinkering. "Are you sure you want to side with the guy who can't take helpful advice?" Char added to Maleficent.
"I heard that!" Drackenor shouted from inside his magnificent machine, which was followed by a loud bang and a resulting yelp in pain.
"Seriously," Maleficent said, as she stood next to Char, looking at the machine, "I really don't know. If you tried to kill him, how did he escape?"
"Beamed out at the last second," Char whispered. "It seems as if he's not really one to give up. I mean, he's attacked the same world on numerous occasions with the same result: Utter Failure."
"And I let him join me?" Maleficent whispered back. "Oh boy am I in trouble!"
"OKAY! I THINK I GOT IT!" Drackenor yelled as he closed the "hood" off the machine. This caused Char to squirm in a way that only meant that she was trying to escape.
"If you were trying to escape," Maleficent asked, "then why didn't you try to resist earlier?"
"At that time," Char replied, "I knew he wouldn't get the thing to work. Now that it's working, I want to really get out of here."
But it was too late to escape because the machine was already started and the tips of the "claws" were beginning to glow an ominous purple. Within a matter of seconds, purple lightning shot out of each tip, meeting at the center of a perfect tetrahedron (3 sided pyramid). A larger bolt shot out of where the smaller bolts met and put a scorch mark on the wall 80 feet away and just about a foot to Char's right. Quickly, the engine of the machine died down and Char sighed in relief, now not trying to escape.
"Whew!" Char said. "That was really close, so now, I can spend about an hour relaxing. I just have to…WOAH!"
Char had turned her head to see Maleficent, who seemed to have been much closer to the initial blast than Char, and ended up with a sooty face, crazy black hair that was blown to one side as part of her horned headdress was blown away, and the right side horn was smoldering. Comically, she coughed once and fell to the ground backwards.
"Now, where did I put my sights?" Drackenor muttered, not noticing his "friend" on the floor.
"Uh, clean-up on isle 7," Char said comically as Drackenor began to tinker with what he thought were the sights on his machine. "Come on! Someone pick her up and move her out of here! Medic! Help! Fire! Barbeque! ANYTHING!" (uh…screenplay states that this scene cuts to black for comedic purposes...sorry folks)
"Ariel, what are you…?" a merman with a golden crown and trident began as Ariel swam towards him. Behind her swam the whole crew of undersea individuals followed finally by Blaster. The king, sitting on his large Clamshell throne, got angry and aimed the point of the trident at Blaster and fired a bolt of golden lightning.
"WOAH!" Blaster exclaimed as he barely dodged the bolt. "You could hurt someone with that!"
"You, human, are not allowed to be here!" The king shouted.
"Your majesty, if I may…" Blaster began, getting cut off by the king.
"(gasp) He speakes!" The king said, becoming wide-eyed. "Never in my 30 years of service have I ever been able to meet a person from up there that could speak down here, and address me!"
"Well, I'm unlike the humans you may know," Blaster said.
"I suppose you are from up there," the king said, pointing towards the water's surface.
"You could say that," Blaster said, becoming slightly nervous. "I am Blastbone Clarkson, and these two are my friends, Wendy and Cody. They are about as new to these waters as I am."
"I'm Sora," Sora said (obviously), "and these are my friends Donald and Goofy."
"I am King Triton," the king said. "I rule these waters. I believe you have met my daughter, Ariel, her little friend, Flounder," he added, pointing to the flounder (how fitting…course some of you already knew that), "and my trusted assistant, Sebastian."
"Pleasure to meet you, King Triton," Blaster said, bowing. "We are here bec-……"
Blaster was cut short as a large explosion occurred far outside the palace gates.
"Here we go again," Blaster exclaimed, following Sora and company with Ariel right behind, promising her father she'd be back.
What caused that explosion? Where is the sea witch? And what will happen to Char? The answers to this and more to come…plz R&R…the crew is currently still filming the next chapter. Also, sorry for this being longer than the others, and the crappy ending.