Hey everyone! So, is down right now, which really sucks cause I can't write on there. So, I'm right now writing on Microsoft Word, meaning that maybe later when I'm able to go onto the site again, I'll copy and paste all this stuff back onto the site, test out whether or not it worked, and then post this chapter. (Let's hope it works in the near future) So, more about me and my personal life, I just went out on a long hike, and I'm sleepy, yet I'm writing now. It's a three day weekend, and I'm hoping to get to write a lot. Um, my cousin graduated last night from this special military training class and right after, my uncle and I got into a long argument about Gravity Falls. He has never seen the show and says it's telling kids to join the conspiracy or whatever. I got mad and told him that Gravity Falls is not all about Illuminati and other stuff, that it's a big fun mystery for kids to solve. And then, he blabbed on about how "Oh, but what about the Illuminati symbol that's always there?" "This show is bad." "Stop watching it." If it were another person who knew more about Gravity Falls, I wouldn't have been so upset, but my uncle has NEVER even seen the show, so how is he supposed to have the right on saying whether or not it's a "bad" show for kids. I mean, I wouldn't recommend the show to younger kids cause it would freak them out, but my two younger sisters and I all watch Gravity Falls and we think it's awesome. I don't think that Disney is a bad company either. I really love Disney stuff, so…yeah. I'm gonna stop now….enjoy.
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"Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning."
-Rosamund Lupton
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As the fight commenced, Baxter Stockman whispered to himself.
"Time for Baxter Stockman to make his timely escape."
No one really noticed at first, but I saw him leaving.
"He's getting away!" I called out, then ducking as Dog Pound brought down his large hand, made for pounding. (Hence, the name)
Dog Pound then knocked us all to one side, all of us gave out a slight groan of pain.
"He's got the Centrifudge!" Mikey called out, running after Stockman.
But he wasn't the only one with the same idea.
"Mikey!" I yelled, as Dog Pound blocked the only exit.
"You're coming with me." Dog Pound said, grabbing Stockman.
"Wait, No!" Stockman desperately called, but he was too late. "Please! Help!"
At the call of help, we all stood up, running towards Dog Pound and Stockman.
Dog Pound punched the ceiling, we stopped in our tracks, looking up at the ceiling that now had huge cracks running through it.
"He's going to trap us in here!" Zoey yelled.
I gasped.
Dog Pound ran down an empty abandoned tunnel. It was the only exit after all.
"He's got the Centrifudge!" Mikey called again.
"Look out!" Leo yelled, pulling Mikey into safety.
Everyone took cover, ducking and holding their heads as the ceiling collapsed and caved in on us.
…
We were probably there for a few minutes as the debris settled.
I lay there, still conscious and awake until the crackling of glass and other objects finally stopped.
I thought I might've passed out, but I didn't think so.
When I opened my eyes again, my lungs hurt and my eyes stung from the dusty air.
I coughed.
The air was dry, and I was suddenly really thirsty.
I sat up, but pain shot throughout my body.
I groaned, coughing more.
When I looked around, the area I was in was unfamiliar.
"Guys?" I asked, my voice echoing.
I coughed more.
Suddenly, I remembered Tokei.
"Oh no!" I said. "Tokei! Guys!"
I coughed harder.
It hurt to speak.
I thought I heard the worried voice of someone else, deep within the tunnel.
I tried to move towards the voice, but there was so much pain.
More coughs.
I tried to stop, but couldn't.
I felt someone moving nearby.
It was Zoey.
I coughed.
"Zoey, you okay?" I asked, and coughed more.
"Yeah." Zoey replied, finding it hard to smile.
The dust in the air formed tears in my eye, and my vision was blurred, so I couldn't see Zoey clearly, but I knew she was fine.
Zoey and I tried standing up together, and found we were successful in moving.
I coughed.
"Guys?" I called again, and coughed.
"Is everyone okay?" Asked Zoey to no one in particular.
We got some grunts in reply.
On the other side of a huge pile of broken objects, we saw Leo, Mikey, and Raph.
I sighed a breath of relief when I saw they were all fine.
I waved my arms.
"Over here guys!" I said, now happiness rang in my voice.
Leo waved back.
"Everyone here?" He asked.
"Mikey?"
"Here."
"Raph?"
"Present."
"Donnie?"
There was a muffled grunt, obviously from Donnie himself.
"Zoey?"
"Cupcakes!"
"Scarlett?"
"Sup?"
"Tokei?"
"Here!" Rang a small voice from another part of the room.
Through the debris and dust, I could see her perched on top a pile of rubble.
She looked unharmed.
So we were all here.
"They're gone." Leo said. Observing the room. Dog Pound and Stockman were nowhere in sight.
"And they have the Centrifudge!" Mikey wailed.
"Centrifuge." Donnie corrected, in a raspy voice as he sighed and fainted into the junk.
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Mikey walked around in circles, groaning.
We were in the lair now, safe and luckily, unharmed.
Everyone was seated. Resting, except for Mikey.
We had been lucky, there wasn't even a scratch on us, we saw as we walked out into the light.
Luckily, we found a sewer tunnel leading back to the lair.
It had been a close call though.
And I wondered how long it would be until our luck ran out.
Mikey, in the other hand was looking worse.
His pimples were now poking through his shell, getting bigger, and the contents inside sloshed as he walked around.
Raph stood up and punched the bean bag he had been sitting on.
"I can't believe that fleabag beat us!" He yelled in frustration. I could see he was angry. "I want a rematch!"
"Easy Raph." Leo said. "Focus on what's important. We need to get that Centrifuge to cure Mikey."
I couldn't say anything.
I was out of words.
I was silent.
"His zits are getting more unstable." Donnie said, wheeling a dry erase marker board out of his lab.
"If any of them get popped, it could cause a chain reaction." Donnie said. "A la, my 'Zit popping Diagram' Over here." He showed us his board.
We gathered around, as Donnie pointed at each stage with a pencil.
Every drawing of the stage got worse and worse, the zits got bigger and bigger, and us feeling more and more nauseous with each stage.
And at the end of the first few stages, Donnie swung the board around, revealing the last stage of an exploding Mikey.
"What?!" Mikey asked. "So I pop either way!?"
"We just have to keep you safe." Donnie said. "It's too dangerous to leave the lair."
"But I never got to visit a wax museum or learn pig Latin, or open the mummy's tomb and he comes alive and he's so cool that we form our own rock group and travel around the world in a golden UFO!" He took a deep breath. "I wanna do that."
"I'm not gonna lie." Zoey said. "But I wanna do that too."
We stared at her.
"Riiighht." Raph said, walking up to Mikey. "Listen Mikey, we're gonna get that Centrifuge. We're gonna do whatever it takes to fix you!"
"Wow Raph!" Mikey said. He extended his arms to get Raph in a hug. "Thanks!"
Raph backed away as Mikey tried to grab him in a hug. Instead, Mikey fell to the floor.
"Okay." Leo said. "Dog Pound and Boxcar. Where could they be? The old city dump?"
"Nah." Raph said. "They turned it into a retirement home."
"The abandoned nuclear plant?" I asked.
"Now it's a nursery school." Donnie said.
"Oooh!" Mikey said. "What about Baxter's old lab?"
"Why would Dog Pound capture Dexter and take him to his old lab?" Asked Zoey.
"It makes no sense." Raph said.
"See?!" Said Mikey. "You guys never take me seriously!"
A moment of silence.
"Maybe they went to Bradford's Dojo." Leo said.
Everyone except Zoey and I nodded in approval.
I didn't want Mikey to feel as if we didn't care about him, which we did.
The guys kept on talking about possible hideouts, when Zoey tugged at my sleeve.
"Huh?" I asked.
Zoey shushed me. And pointed to the side.
I saw a small, green and orange figure make his way to the sewer tunnel.
'Oh no he wont.' I thought.
And so, giving Zoey a nod, we made our way to the tunnel and followed Mikey.
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"So, a gigantic tank of Mutagen eh?" Asked Dog Pound, walking behind Baxter at his old lair. "Planning on making some mutants?"
The nervous scientist turned around to face his capturer.
"Um...Yes." He said, nervously. "A-a whole army for...US to command, heh. Just me and you."
Dog Pound walked towards Stockman and growled.
"Yeah.." Said Stockman, nervously. "Now not that I'm complaining, but...WHY are you keeping me alive?"
"Karai wants it this way." Dog Pound answered. He faced Stockman, growling.
"So." Said another voice and a fish on legs appeared. "You've beaten me to the punch and found Stockman, yes?"
Xever, also known as Fish Face stared at Stockman. "Why haven't you taken this lump of flesh to Karai?"
"I will." Dog Pound answered. "After he makes me human again."
"What?" Asked Fish Face. "You can turn us human again?"
Stockman was so scared, he pretended to be brave and said, "Uh, Yes, Yes! Of course! My intellect knows no bounds." He lied. "Heh...none."
Of course, if this had been true, Stockman wouldn't have been in this situation in the first place.
"Good." Said Dog Pound. He held up a funny-looking collar. "First order of business." He said and put the collar on Stockman's neck.
Close up, Stockman could see that there were small glass containers which were all filled to the brim with Mutagen.
He shivered as the ooze glowed.
"Is this..." He gulped. "Mutagen?"
His voice was squeaky.
'Of course it's Mutagen!' He thought. 'Quit being so stupid!'
Stockman knew of the effects of Mutagen all too well.
"I call it, insurance." Dog Pound said. "Double cross us, and 'Boom!' We get to see what you turn into!"
...
Zoey and I followed Mikey all the way to Stockman's old lab. Which was no surprise, I guess.
Mikey was on the rafters, staring at Dog Pound, Stockman, and Fish Face.
Zoey and I watched as he lowered his nunchuck to act like a fishing pole and grab the Centrifuge, which was on a metal table.
"Mikey!" I whispered to him.
Zoey and I tried our best to balance ourselves on the rafters.
"Scarlett? Zoey?" Asked Mikey. "What are you two doing here?"
"We came to help you!" Zoey whispered.
The rafters creaked with every move we made, and we tried to be still in fear of them hearing us.
"I don't think you're gonna be able to get the Centrifuge with your nunchuck Mikey." I said.
I looked to Zoey, she stared back at me. "What?"
"You know." I said. And nodded towards her.
"Oh yeah!" Zoey said, pulling out a fishing pole. "This'll work so much better than whatever you've got!"
"Ooh!" Mikey said, eyeing the pole like it was a new toy.
He put away his nunchuck and grabbed the pole.
He stared at it for a second.
"What if it still falls?" Mikey asked.
Zoey and I both pulled out nets.
"Sweet!" Mikey said. "You guys are so awesome! I could just hug you!"
Mikey extended his arms.
"No need." I said, quickly and nervously. "I'll pass."
"You can thank us when you're cured." Zoey smiled.
So, Mikey lowered the line.
Fish Face rambled on about how he wanted to be a man.
Everyone in the rafters went silent when Mikey poked Dog Pound by accident, but he just rubbed his shoulder without turning around and joined the conversation.
"That was close." I said. "Be careful."
Mikey nodded and tried again, lowering the line oh so carefully. He got hold and then...
Dog Pound swirled around and grabbed the line. He pulled Mikey down, and we all fell.
Mikey screamed and turned upside down, landing on his feet.
I rubbed my head and groaned.
Zoey and I didn't have quite a sophisticated landing like Mikey.
"Fools!" Dog Pound said to us.
"Don't touch me!" Mikey said. "I'm highly contagious!" He faked a cough.
He signaled for Zoey and I to help him out with the fib, so we stood up.
"Oh yeah." Zoey said. "He's got a bad case of Shellacne! I wouldn't touch him if I were you!"
"In fact." I lied. "I'm feeling a bit sick myself." I coughed too.
"See?" Mikey said, and walked toward the Centrifuge. "So why don't I take that gadget and go home?"
Dog Pound pounded the table. "I'd rather you all stay."
He laughed. "And people say I'm ugly!"
"Mikey's still cuter than you!" I yelled.
"I'm gonna rip you all apart!" Dog Pound threatened and came at us.
Mikey screamed an tried not to pop any of his pimples. Zoey and I tried to help him, but it was hard considering the circumstances.
Eventually, Mikey and Dog Pound made their way to the rafters.
"Easy D-Pound!" Mikey said, defending himself from the mutant.
"Mikey!" I yelled.
"We're gonna need help!" Zoey said. "Should I text the guys?"
"They'll never make it in time!" I yelled back.
I was frustrated and confused.
Then, the rafters broke.
Cracked under the weight of both Mikey and Dog Pound.
Zoey and I stood in horror.
Mikey had luckily grabbed another sturdy rafter, but Dog Pound wasn't nearly as lucky.
And fell into the ooze.
Mikey jumped down, everyone stared at the Mutagen.
Muffled screams escaped.
It sounded painful.
Then, out of the ooze appeared Dog Pound, or at least...it HAD been Dog Pound.
The mutant who stood in front of us know had black fur, and bone armor on top.
It roared at us.
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Sadly, I've got to end it there. It's a personal thing. Anyway, please review! Tell me how you feel about this chapter!
The next part will include the ending of the episode and the beginning of the next episode. Hopefully we'll get to the Slash episode this weekend! Bye!
