AN: HELLO! Who missed me? This chapter isnt very long- im so sorry! but this is an update so i hope your happy ^^ i missed you guys so much! i am gonna apologize to mystery dreamer and rioting rabbit (kent)- i didnt include you guys in this chapter D: im so sorry! Oh, and i hope Thorn Bullet got an account! If you did, please review so i can have a link and so i can favorite you ^^
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HERE'S CHAPTER 14! :D
The roaring of a car's eager engine pulled me from a dark sleep. My body still quaked with fear from the terrifying nightmare I had just experienced. A voice in my head reassured me that it was just a bad dream, that those even could not occur. But still, a quieter voice countered my hope, telling me to share with the others what the dream had held to fill me with such fear. I stood on shaky legs and made my way cautiously to the others while repressing that smaller voice, which only caused it to grow louder.
"You're finally awake!" C.C. said as I walked over to her. "Thanks for that talk last night, I really needed that reassurance." "No trouble," I replied. "I actually gotta tell you guys something… Can you help me get them to come over here and listen?" "Yeah, sure," she said before running off to catch everyone's attention.
Within 10 minutes, C.C. had managed to gather everyone up. "Rose? What's wrong?" Poison asked, pulling me into an embrace. With a sigh, I began telling them the horrors of my dream. "Well, it started out normal enough: we woke up and started off for Battery City. But once we were halfway through the tunnel, hundreds, hell maybe even a thousand, dracs and scarecrows swarmed us.
"We fought them off the best we could and continued down the tunnel in one piece. Once we reached the end, even more dracs and scarecrows appeared! Everyone fired and blasted them, making a path straight to BL/ind HQ. Without hesitation, we took off into the building. In the lobby was-was Missile Kid, b-but she, she was…" I stopped, trying to make myself say the words I dreaded the most.
"You can say it, baby." Poison encouraged me. I nodded and continued when I was sure my voice would be steady, "She was dead! And then everything h-happened s-so fast! Before I could even realize what was going on, you-you were all d-d-dead!" I exclaimed, tears pouring down my face. I could feel Poison's arms wrapping around me, securely cradling me to his chest. I wept into his shoulder until the tears ran dry, leaving stains on my cheeks. "Rose, it'll be ok. We'll all be fine, we'll be fine," Poison whispered. But to be honest, it sounded like he was trying to convince himself.
"I hate to sound rude, but don't you think we should go? We're sitting ducks if we stay here," Ghost pointed out. Sniffling, I nodded, "She's right. I'm good to go if you guys are." Poison and everyone else nodded. "Alright then, let's do this!" Ghoul exclaimed, throwing his fist in the air. I smiled and began running towards our car. Thorn, Ghost, and Threat all started their own cars and bike. Poison took his place at the drivers seat once more, and I thankfully got to sit shotgun. We all drove off and I couldn't help but smile; we would be ok. We would get Missile back. We would end BL/ind.
We pushed the speed of the car up even faster and I gasped as the tunnel to Battery City showed up in the horizon. Poison reached into his back pocket and pulled out a folded piece of paper. Delicately unfolding it, he kissed the paper then placed it in the center of the dashboard, revealing what it was: a picture of Missile Kid. I felt a single tear slip down my cheek at how sweet the gesture was but quickly wiped it away, this was no longer a time for tears. I changed the battery in my raygun and sat anxiously in my seat, trying not to show any fear.
I glanced at Poison and noticed his face was determined and full of anger at the same time. I stole a quick kiss on his cheek and could see the edges of his lips turn upwards. I remained my composure and stared straight ahead. About a quarter of the way down the tunnel, I noticed a type of toll booth that was not there the last time; they must have done that to stop things like our invasion from happening. A scarecrow unit seated outside the toll booth looked up from Battery City's newspaper and noticed how fast we were tearing down the tunnel.
He picked up his gun at the same time that a drac rushed out of the booth, white raygun armed and ready to fire. They both took aim at us, but they only managed to fire a few shots before we broke past the toll and took out the two in the process. I turned around and looked at the accident we had just created, and saw that the scarecrow was crawling back to the booth. I stared in shock that he had survived such a fatal hit, but I was to enveloped in watching him to tell the others. He got to his knees when he was at the side of the booth, and pressed a lone button- I knew this could not be good.
"G-Guys? We need to hurry." I said as loudly as I could muster. We sped up even more and soon reached the end of the tunnel, being met by white skyscrapers. We stopped in front of the biggest building and I didn't have to be told to know which it was- BL/ind HQ. We all took a breath before calmly walking out of the car and heading over to the building. Walking across a bridge that linked us with the HQ, we managed to make it half way across before we began to undergo fire.
We took out two scarecrows that were closest to the front and continued at our non-stop firing pace. We made it into the lobby without anybody getting hit on our team. "The control room is over there!" Kobra yelled over the gunfire, gesturing to the next door on the left. I thought I saw a lady wearing business attire walk out of the room, but it could have just been my eyes playing tricks on me. We burst into the room and there, sitting on the floor playing with a ball, was Missile.
"MISSILE KID!" we all exclaimed at the same time. Poison was the first to make it to her and he kneeled down on the floor before hugging her close. Missile hadn't said a word the entire time, but the wide smile on her face and the tears rolling down her cheeks explained just how she felt. I wanted to hug her tight and never let her go, but we had more important things to do- like saving the world. "We'll take Missile back to the car and send a transmission to Dr. D. You guys have to go find the BOOM box and bring it back to me. Got it?" Poison ordered.
I looked at the others and nodded. "Good, now go." I turned to follow the other but someone grabbed my arm; I tensed up at expected to have my brains blown out but it never happened. I opened my eyes and saw Poison holding my arm. "Poison, shit! You scared me!" I said. He said nothing as he leaned in and placed a gentle kiss on my lips.
"Party Poison, I love you…" I whispered into his ear. "I love you to, Marvelous Cyanide Rose." With that we walked away from each other, and went off on our separate missions. I caught up with the others and saw C.C. was crying. "What's wrong?" I asked her. "Ghoul," was all she said.
I nodded in acknowledgement, "I know how you feel, but it'll be ok." She seemed satisfied with this answer and nodded. We walked faster down the hall until we ran into a group of dracs and scarecrows. We rushed forward to take them down, but they some how managed to overpower us. A scarecrow I didn't see coming pushed me forward into the wall, making me drop my raygun.
I thought, 'this is it- I'm done. I love you Poison…' "Rose!" I heard Street yell to me. I opened my eyes and watched as he reached into his backpack and pulled out a raygun. He threw it to me and I ducked and rolled away from the scarecrow so I could catch it. Once in my hands I could tell that this raygun wasn't like others, but since I didn't have my gun, I decided to use what I had.
I pulled the trigger and huge laser beam tore out of the barrel of my gun. It blasted two scarecrows and a drac, killing them instantly. "Whoa!" I couldn't stop myself from saying that. Street chuckled and we soon managed to take down the last of enemies. "What did you do to that raygun?" I managed to ask him once the buzz of the fight had died down. "Upgraded it," he said with a proud smile.
We burst into the last room available in this hall- and that was when we saw what we had came for.