Chapter 25
"There were large sets of explosions at the Thundrillium processing plant today. The utility company says that thankfully all the workers escaped the facility thanks to the quick actions of the ThunderCats. Regrettably, the King, Queen, Princesses, and Wizz-Ra are still missing. Communication with the ThunderTank was lost as they attempted to escape the disaster. The ThunderGuard is continuing to search through the rubble now that it is safe to do so with the help of the visiting Evil Chasers. We will keep updating the situation as soon as it develops," the news reporter on the video screen promised. He then sent it back to the studio from his field location outside the blast zone.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to Prince Leo tonight who is still in the hospital, recovering from heart surgery. Doctors installed a pacemaker in the young Prince's heart just hours ago when the medicine they'd been giving him failed to work. With the entire royal family unavailable, Lord Tygra has assumed command of the ThunderCats and ThunderGuard. We must come together now as we never have before as we hope that everyone is alive and safe, just waiting to be rescued," with that the news broadcast that interrupted the evening programming completed. The utility company thankfully had a secondary plant where security was tripled and it was now running twenty-four hours a day to make sure that it could keep up with the demand. Work in the Thundrillium mines had also been stepped up in an effort to get more to the secondary plant.
A doctor walked into Leo's mostly darkened room to check on the litah's condition. The pacemaker had in fact corrected the issue, just as the doctors from Mars had predicted and Doctor Ayla was grateful for their input. At first, the unit had not been seen as a viable option since there were structural issues with the heart but one of the Martian doctors walked her through the procedure to fix those issues and install the pacemaker. Now Leo's heart pumped properly and the blood flowed as it should. It wasn't expected it would take long for him to wake from the anesthesia but his body had been through a lot and everyone just waited and watched.
"I don't remember meeting you when I spoke to Leo's team of doctors. Come to check up on the only remaining royal have you?" Sahara spoke up, startling the doctor who whirled around to face her.
"How can this be?" The "doctor" gave away who he was just by his act of surprise. He was further surprised when Sahara grabbed his throat. It surprised him more when the smaller frame woman lifted him off the floor, her powers on display.
"Thought you could throw everything into chaos with the royal family down for the count huh?" It was a rhetorical question since she was squeezing his throat to the point where he could not speak. Slowly the doctor transformed into a Vulture.
"You have this under control?" Lion-O asked as the lights in the room came up, showing that they were not in Leo's room after all. A dummy was in the bed wired up to look like the Prince and the machines were beeping as steady rhythm, thanks to a life support machine. The ThunderCats and Wizz-Ra had been sitting in chairs in the darkness of the room, with the King near a second set of light switches.
Sahara squeezed the throat of the Mutant and he blacked out. Then she dropped him before slapping enchanted cuffs on him that Wizz-Ra had worked on himself. With their quarry caught, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"So what should we do with him?" Sahara asked as her father, mother, aunt, and Wizz-Ra entered the room.
"Oh I know exactly what to do with him," the Ancient Egyptian smirked. Conjuring up a spell, he cast the still handcuffed Mutant into the seventh circle of Hell where he belonged.
"That wasn't very nice of you," Cheetara commented.
"Seemed fair to me. At any rate, he won't be getting very far with those cuffs on. Plus I'm sure there are some demons who'd like a word with him," the wizard chuckled.
"So is it finally over?" Lea asked.
"The only way to know for sure would be to see if Sahara could reach Bast and see if Osiris kept up his end of the bargain," Wizz-Ra admitted. They were interrupted by a knock on the door and it opened to reveal a nurse.
"Leo is awake," she smiled.
To Be Continued…