A/N: Well I'm thinking only 2 chapters left, possibly three at most. Hope you enjoy this chapter and let me know what you think.
Chapter 21
Mrs. Mazzi awoke to find herself handcuffed to her hospital bed. The hours in surgery had taken their toll on her body and mind but she refused to let that stop her. She had to get out of there before the police came back asking any questions. Reaching with her free hand, Margaret put her fingers through her hair, looking for her bobby pins. Fortunately, they were still there and she quickly grabbed one. Her next move was to attempt to pick the lock that held her to the bed but before she could she heard footsteps coming down the hallway. With the door open she couldn't take the risk of being seen.
"Good morning. Here is your breakfast." An all too pleasant nurse smiled and set the tray down on the table that swung over the bed.
"How am I supposed to eat with my right hand chained to the bed?" Mazzi asked hoping that she could get someone would take the cuffs off for her.
"Well I guess you'd better learn leftie." The nurse continued to smile before leaving the room. Margaret shrugged her shoulders.
"Of course it wouldn't be that easy. Let's see what we have here." She said to herself. It appeared that the nurse had thought of everything and the only instrument that could have been of any use, the knife, was plastic. Muttering to herself, the evil woman continued to attempt the bobby pin trick.
Meanwhile down a different hospital hallway, Stephanie awoke from her position on Sportacus' lap where she had fallen asleep the night before. She quickly stood up, hoping she hadn't cut the circulation in the above average hero's lap off. This made the blue suited man wake up however. He smiled at her and put his hands up to rub his eyes, forgetting for a minute that all his fingers were coated in plaster.
"Ow." He said. Stephanie shook her head and lightly tried to brush the sleep from his eyes with her available hand. Sportacus smiled and nodded in thanks before standing up and heading out into the hallway. His muscles ached to move and it was killing him to sit down. A few moments later, the pink haired girl joined him.
"Well he's still not awake. Now what should we do?" She asked.
"I think we should get you back to LazyTown. Meantime, I'll go check on our other villain." He told her.
"I suppose I should go home to be with Uncle Milford. You don't need me?" Stephanie wondered, hoping he'd say yes.
"I always need you but right now, I have to handle this by myself. Besides the less Margaret Mazzi knows about what that android did the better." He smiled.
"Ok, well I'll go make a phone call. Come home soon." She smiled back and then used her toes to push herself up to kiss the hero on the cheek. Then she turned and walked back toward the nurses' station. Sportacus headed toward the other desk to see if he could pull information out of the same nurse he'd asked earlier but when he got down to the desk it was empty and the sounds of alarms could be heard. There was some shouting and quickly the above average hero headed over to it.
"How did this happen?" The doctor screamed at the nurse.
"I don't know." Came the reply.
"What is going on in here?" Sportacus interrupted them.
"The patient chained to this bed is gone." The doctor continued to glare at the nurse.
"Call the FunTown police, I'll go look for her." Sportacus said. As quick as he could, he left the two to find the escapee.
To Be Continued…