CHAPTER 28
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This story takes place before the recent events in War of the Guardians involving Rose.
Michelle continued to fight the vampires surrounding her even though she could barely stand. More and more energy from the MirrorVerse continued to pour forth from her hands and destroyed all of them instantly as soon as it touched them. Unfortunately, it was also destroying Michelle.
Dorothy, Ileana, Victoria, and Katherine had been busy up until now trying to free Katherine from the pile of vampires that had assaulted her. Ileana finally succeeded in killing every last one of them now, and Katherine was finally free. Katherine was in terrible shape with multiple bite wounds, deep slashes, and broken bones all over her body. Luckily for her though, Ileana had the power to heal her wounds just as she once had before a long time ago.
Ileana used the energy that she had just absorbed from the destroyed vampires to completely heal Katherine and to mend her bones. Katherine then hugged Ileana tightly in gratitude.
"Thank you so much. It's seems that you're always having to come to my rescue. I really need to learn how to fight better. I'm the weak link in this team," Katherine said sadly.
"No, you're not. You've helped us plenty of times since you joined us. Donna was taken down too, and she's no slouch. Don't beat yourself up so much. Go into the TARDIS and show Amanda that you're okay now. She was going nuts earlier. I saw Elisabeta have to restrain her from wading head first into the middle of the vampires to help you. That little girl of yours has no fear when it comes to protecting you," Ileana said.
"I'd face anyone and anything for her too," Katherine said.
"Go on and talk to her. She needs you. Donna probably does too. It looked like the vampires hurt her pretty badly as well," Ileana said.
Katherine then turned to walk back to Donna's TARDIS, and that was when she and the others noticed that Elisabeta was trapped by Michelle's dirt men. They then saw that Elisabeta was screaming at Michelle, who was fighting all alone against the rest of the vampires. They had been too far away and too caught up in their own fight to notice this before.
They watched in amazement as Michelle tore through the remaining vampires with powers that she had never shown before. Ileana knew immediately that something was wrong with her though from the way she kept trying to fall over.
"What is she doing?" Dorothy asked in concern.
"She's killing herself to stop the other vampires," Ileana guessed correctly.
"Why? Why would she throw her life away like that?" Katherine asked in disbelief.
"She believes that this is all her fault because she let Alina survive, and therefore it is up to her to fix it by herself," Abraham explained.
"That's stupid! None of us wants her to die for making a mistake," Dorothy said.
"She sees it as her duty to die in order to fix the mess that she believes that she created," Abraham said.
"How do you know all of this?" Dorothy asked.
"It's the way that I used to think too. I know Michelle all too well because I had the same mentality that she does when it came to Dracula. I was obsessed with destroying him because he had survived my first attempt to kill him. It felt like whatever that he did from that moment on was my fault, and I would have gladly sacrificed my own life to stop him forever," Abraham explained.
"Yeah and you almost did if it hadn't been for Rose," Ileana said as she looked at him angrily.
"I've learned not to be that reckless anymore because of you and the family. I finally realized that what I was doing would affect you too, and I started to change my behavior. Michelle still hasn't done that yet," Abraham said.
"She's going to have to learn that this is a team and that we fight together," Ileana said.
"I'm going to go stop her before she burns herself out," Dorothy said.
"You'd better hurry then because she looks like she's about had it," Ileana said.
Dorothy raced to help Michelle, but more of Michelle's dirt people suddenly sprang up in front of her to stop her. This didn't even faze her though as she destroyed them with a single gesture by exciting the molecules in the dirt composing them until they exploded into a thousand pieces.
"Don't try to stop me, Michelle. You can't," Dorothy said.
"You'd be very surprised at what I can do at my full power," Michelle said as she turned the air in front of Dorothy into a portal to the Mirror Verse.
Dorothy realized that she couldn't reach her now. If she tried to go any further, she'd just wind up trapped in the Mirror Verse.
"Don't do this! We're a team. None of us has to fight alone," Dorothy shouted.
Victoria had had enough. Michelle had helped her, and she wasn't going to let her die. She started to run faster and faster until finally she achieved her maximum running speed just before she reached the portal in front of Dorothy. She then leaped up and over it with all of the power in her legs. She sailed over the portal and landed on the other side of it.
Michelle looked at her in a mixture of surprise and annoyance as she said, "I should have made that portal higher."
"Don't do this. We've become good friends, and I won't stand by and lose you. Stop this now," Victoria said in a guttural voice without stopping as she had had to in the past. She had gotten much better at speaking in her wolf form now.
"Go back where you were, Vicky. This is my fight not yours," Michelle said.
"I'm making it mine," Victoria said as she started to tear into the vampires surrounding Michelle and started to help her whether she wanted her to or not.
"That's enough, Victoria. You're not doing this for me. I made this mess, and I have to clean it up myself. Go back to the others," Michelle said.
She gestured at Victoria and sent her into the Mirror Verse. Victoria was outraged and screamed at her to bring her back, but she would not listen.
At this point, she was too sick to bring her back anyway. She had used too much power to send her away and was now beyond the point of no return for her body. Michelle started to sway and move back and forth now. She was moments away from passing out forever.
Dorothy then appeared in front of Michelle with Ileana, Katherine, and Abraham standing next to her. The four of them started to finish off the vampires surrounding Michelle as Michelle finally collapsed.
The dirt creatures holding Elisabeta back fell apart as soon as Michelle lost consciousness, and she raced toward her fallen friend. She pulled Michelle away from the remaining vampires and took her into Donna's TARDIS.
Donna looked at her in sadness as Elisabeta brought her inside and said, "Why wouldn't you listen to me, you stupid kid?"
Donna could feel Ileana tugging at her mind through the rudimentary link that she had established with her. Donna opened the link between them all of the way.
Is she going to be alright? Ileana asked Donna telepathically.
I don't know. She looks like she's about had it. Donna told her.
Keep me updated on her condition. Ileana requested.
Of course. Donna answered back.
I'm sorry I didn't stop her. Ileana apologized with guilt in her mental voice.
It wasn't your fault. I couldn't stop her either. She just wouldn't listen. Donna replied sympathetically.
Ileana cut off contact and was suddenly overcome with grief. Abraham knew the warning signs of what was coming next by the look on her face. Ileana was about to fully unleash the vampire inside of her that she kept under careful control most of the time. Ileana was about to show them her true power.
"What's wrong with her?" Dorothy asked as she noticed that Ileana was acting oddly.
"Get back from her. She's about to take her anger about what happened to Michelle out on the vampires," Abraham warned.
Katherine went to the TARDIS to be with Amanda while she still had a chance. Dorothy and Abraham meanwhile moved far away from Ileana. Ileana was left all alone with the remaining vampires, and she fought with them as she normally would at first. Then she started to lose all control of herself. She started to tear them all apart in a savage frenzy. Even as she did so, she began to rapidly drain the blood out of each and every one of them.
Their screams could be heard even in the TARDIS, and Donna shuddered as she realized what was going on. She knew that Ileana would be very upset about this later. She hated to lose control for any reason. It happened sometimes though when she was in a massive state of grief according to Abraham. Michelle was like a sister to both of them now so Donna knew how she felt.
Alina watched her vampires being torn apart with no real interest aside from registering the fact that they were good fighters but still no match for a vengeful Ileana. She had lost interest in the Vampire Cheetahs now. She was much more interested in bringing Michelle over to her side if she survived that is. Even Alina knew that Michelle had been burning her body up to stop the vampires. She had been tempted to call the vampires off, but she had wanted to see what Michelle's limits were just out of curiosity.
Ileana finished off the last of the vampires and now looked at Alina, her sisters, the Great Vampire, and the Daemon with hunger filled eyes. She launched herself at them still in the throes of her frenzy. Dorothy moved in closer now to help her if she needed it but decided to stay out of it unless Ileana needed her.
As Ileana prepared to do battle with Alina and her group, Michelle was slowly dying in Donna's TARDIS. She was close to being in a coma now.
She could still dream though, and she was having the nicest dream about her boyfriend, Mark. They were on a picnic together, and it was a nice spring day with the breeze blowing through the trees. Then she realized that it wasn't real, and even then she still couldn't wake up no matter how hard she tried.
It was at that moment that she realized exactly what she had done. She had just thrown her life away. Her dream self now began to cry because her real self no longer could.
"Why are you crying? This is what you wanted, isn't it?" Rose's voice asked.
"I was wrong. I wish that I could take it back. It's too late now though. I'm dying," Michelle said mournfully.
Rose fully appeared in her dream now and walked up to her. She put her hand on her face and wiped away her tears.
"You're not going to die, Michelle. I can help you. You're going to have to change though," Rose said.
"What do you mean?" Michelle asked confused.
"Tell me, Michelle, have you ever heard of regeneration?" Rose asked.
Back in the real world, Donna looked at Michelle in shock as the girl started glowing all over. If Donna didn't know better, she'd swear that it looked like Michelle was about to regenerate!
Back in space, the pirates had started attacking Iceworld when their demands were not met only to find that their weapons were ineffectual against it. A force field that used to be on K'anpo's TARDIS sprang into action and now fully protected the ship.
Alexander Roberts appeared on Iceworld's monitors and began to rant as he said, "So you have chosen to fight. That's too bad for you. I will now have to destroy you. Say goodbye, Glitz."
"I wouldn't be counting us out just yet. Watch," Glitz said with a huge grin.
A torpedo popped out of a hidden tube on Iceworld and launched itself towards some of the pirate ships. They instantly disappeared from view as soon as it hit them.
"That's what they call one of those time loopy things. Isn't that right, K'anpo?" Glitz asked.
"It's called a time loop, Glitz," K'anpo said with irritation.
"I was close enough," Glitz said.
Another missile fired now, and it caused every system on the ship that it hit but life support to be permanently shorted out.
"Now that one I like. It's gone and shorted out everything but life support on that ship. I think I might use more of those. It'll leave all of you floating helplessly in space. Then we'll see who's threatening who then," Glitz boasted.
"You're enjoying this too much, Glitz," Mel said.
"Why shouldn't I then? It's fun. I'm showing these pompous pirates what for," Glitz said with a grin.
As Iceworld continued to make fools out of the pirates, Mel noticed that Rose was staring off into space and wondered if something was wrong with her.
"Are you okay, Rose?" Mel asked.
"I'm fine. I'm just helping out a friend," Rose said absentmindedly.
"Huh?" Mel asked confused.
"I'm projecting part of myself into Michelle's dreams. She needs my help. She's in bad shape," Rose said.
"What? What happened?" Mel asked as she was filled with concern for Dorothy.
"An enemy of the Wolves has attacked them. Michelle was dying after fighting with her flunkies. Dorothy's fine by the way," Rose said.
"Why don't you go and help them?" Mel asked.
"I am helping them from here. Believe me, Mel, I am. I'm about to give them all of the help that they need," Rose said with a mysterious smile on her face.
Next: Michelle's back, and Alina is going to wish she wasn't! Also Glitz vs. the Pirates continues as the battle between them suddenly stops being so fun.
