CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH:Hit and Run

Lucy looked in horror at her dead mother. She lay there, a bullet through her head. Lucy cried out, tears running down her cheeks. Why did she die? What was she doing here? She wiped the tears from her cheeks and turned around.
"I'LL KILL YOU, DOCTOR!" she yelled, tearing up the stairs and bursting into his bedroom.

Malum looked up in shock. He was still in bed, bags hanging from his eyes.
"What?" The doctor asked wearily.
Lucy leapt on top of Malum and hit him across the face. The doctor attempted to dodge, but Lucy held his head in place. She struck again, punching hi even harder.
"Ugh! What's going on here?"
"YOU KILLED MY MOTHER!"

Malum looked on, then smiled.
"So I did. You know how i did it? I shot her. And now you're gonna die the same way you filthy little brat!"
Malum lashed out and Lucy fell off the bed. The doctor opened a drawer and drew a pistol. He fired behind her, but Lucy had disappeared. Confused, Malum looked to see whether she was hiding on the other side. Nope. She had disappeared!

"Take this!" Lucy screamed, tackling him from under the bed.
She grabbed his legs and brought him to the floor. Malum cried out, holding his bleeding nose. He released the gun from his grip and it bounced into the opposite corner. Lucy punched Malum again, then crawled after the pistol. She grabbed it, stood up, then aimed it at Malum. She fired.

But nothing happened. There was no ammo! Lucy groaned, then chucked the gun as hard as she could at Malum. it hit him on the head, knocking him out. He lay down, unconscious, blood running from his nose.

Gus came in through the door and saw Malum and Lucy.
"Woah..." Gus breathed.
"Who said girls can't beat someone up eh? C'mon, we gotta get to the portal!" Lucy hurried.
"Yeah, they're all in the car, ready to go. Let's join them.

They arrived at the car, to find everyone in quite an argument. The skylanders seemed to have forced Max into the driver's seat, as he was the only human in the car.
"I've told you! I don't know how to drive! We don't use cars anymore, we use Hovermobiles, Time Transporters, Jetcrafts, that kind of stuff," Max complained.
"Well, you'd be better at it than us! C'mon, you can try it..." Slam Bam persuaded.
"Don't worry Max, I'll do it. My dad taught me how to," Gus sighed.
Max thanked him, then moved over to the middle seat. It was a nine-seater, with 3 rows of 3 seats. Max, Gus and Lucy sat in the front, Flameslinger, Zap and Drobot sat in the second row and Slam Bam, Hex and Flynn sat in the third row. For some of them, it was a quite awkward a dog trying to sit in a car chair in the same way we would. That's how Drobot felt.

Gus drove the car through the country until they reached Land's End, at the tip of the United Kingdom. Slam Bam created an Iceberg and they all hopped on. they all took it in turns to make the berg go was quite difficult to stay on track, so they ended up going slightly north-west.
"Ugh, this is tiring..." Zap complained.
"Yeah, I hope we get there soon," Flameslinger said.
"I need to keep my strength up if I'm gonna make all of these collars!" Drobot exclaimed.
They all sighed, and kept pushing the berg.

The sun was just setting, when at last, they reached a bay. They had reached the wrong place, but they were exhausted, so they all agreed to take a break, then carry on in the morning. They left their iceberg and fell asleep on the beach.