Hey my lovely peoples! Back sooner than I thought but I needed to cheer myself up so I decided to start writing!
I do not own beyblade Dr Seuss or Transformers (the disclaimer will make more sense later!)
"I really thought you'd forgotten" Arelam grinned as she looked at the necklace Hiro had given her
"Well you know me!" Hiro smiled nervously as he put his gift around her neck "I like surprises"
Arelam looked suspiscious "Since when?" Luckily for Hiro it was at that moment there was a knock at the door
"That'll be Millie" Hiro quickly opened the door and welcomed the young girl in,
"Hey Hiro, wow Arelam" Millie smiled at Hiro's wife "you look amazing, I love that dress"
"Really thank you, I've been wanting to wear this for ages it's a…"
"OK" Hiro grabbed his wife's arm knowing that if they stayed there much longer the two of them would begin a long drawn out conversation about dresses and fashion "we have to go now"
"Robins already in bed" Arelam called back as Hiro guided her quickly to the door "just read him a story and he'll be fine!"
"Alright" Millie smiled as she watched Hiro and Arelam leave the hotel room, Arelam looked so thrilled to be going out and doing something that didn't involve beyblading. Little Robin would be easy to take care of tonight, and all Millie had to do was read a story to the boy before leaving him to sleep for the night. Walking into the child's room she found that the one year old was lying there giggling and holding onto his favourite Dr Seuss Book.
"Hello Robin" the boy giggled even harder as she sat next him "you want this one huh? Ok There's a wocket in my pocket" she read the title and opened the book leaning down so Robin could see the pictures
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Kendall led his team to Hilary's door, there had been some arguments over whether or not what they were doing was really necessary. They all knew that Boris was the reason they were there but they weren't happy about this. Lando the team captain was in this as deep as Kendall was he had once been a blunette but recently his hair colour had faded and slowly become greyer making him look older than the 23 years he actually was.
Both Bavin and Sanjeev were of Indian descent and had similar looks, they were mainly interested in becoming world champions. Bavin (22) and Sanjeev (19) were brothers and had joined the team after one of the original players left, they were poor and needed the money which meant that no matter how much they questioned something they would do as they were told.
At the door Lando gave Sanjeev a quick nod and the boy quietly dropped to his knees and worked on the lock of Hilary's door. Breaking into Hilary's suite was very easy, team thunderbolt were congratulating themselves on the ease with which they had gotten in when they realised something was wrong, Hilary wasn't there.
"Search the rooms" Kendall hissed, he had been sure that Hilary would be there tonight and he had been sure she would be alone. This was supposed to have been easy a simple job, break into the room, grab the girl while she was sleeping and hand her over to Boris!.
The entire team went on a rough search of the rooms, finally one of them found something useful. Bavin was searching Hilary's room when he found her diary on her dressing table. Against his better judgement he handed the book to Kendall hoping it wouldn't help too much.
Looking through Hilary's diary Kendall found that days date, in big red letters were the words 'Arelams Birthday!!' underneath that message was the word 'Babysitting?' he grinned slyly.
"She'll be in Hiro's suite" Kendall told his team "anyone know where that is?"
Lando nodded "yeah, come on!" and together they left headed for a new destination.
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Turning on the television Millie sat down with a can of coke from the mini bar and flicked from channel to channel, she found a show she wanted to watch and then settled down, soon she found herself dozing off an unusual thing for her and turning off the TV she allowed her eyelids to droop.
Millie only sleep for a few minutes before something woke her, stretching she looked around trying to discover what noise had awoken her. Finally she heard another noise and this time she knew that it came from Robin's room. Walking in she discovered that her charge hadn't gone to sleep as she left, instead he was lying on his bed hugging a Transformers toy to his chest and smiling sunnily.
"You should be asleep, why don't you put Optimus Prime down…" she spoke gently to him earning a wider grin as he sat up shaking his head
"No!"
"Oh brother and here I thought this would be easy" Millie took the boy into her arms and whispered soothingly to him, she had sat there for just over twenty minutes when she finally felt him relax and finally fall asleep.
She was about to lay him down when she heard another noise, frozen with fear she could hear someone else moving around in the room she had just left. Still holding onto Robin she crept to the door and leant against it trying to hear what was going on.
"She's not here either"
"Well that doesn't make any sense"
Millie almost gasped, that was Kendall's voice she knew it was. Looking around she grabbed Robins change bag and tried to think of an escape. She felt calm until she heard more, there was a loud smash and opening the door slightly Millie could see Kendall standing over the glass coffee table. He was panting heavily as he looked at the damage he had done, slipping back into the room Millie closed the door.
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Arriving at Hiro's suite Sanjeev once more let them in, entering the room it was dark and quiet. By this time Kendall was getting impatient, to be honest he didn't really give a damn about helping Boris and his other bosses but he did know that he needed their money. Getting stressed he sat himself down on the sofa and roughly threw his feet down onto the coffee table, he must have hit a weak point on the table because immediately his feet went plunging through the glass and down onto the floor.
He jumped up guiltily and ever so slightly breathless as he hoped no one had heard the accident.
"Nice going" Sanjeev commented enjoying Kendall's unease
"Shut the Fuck up" Kendall hissed
"Chill Kendall, besides she could be in one of those rooms, do you really think smashing the table will help?" Lando grabbed Kendall by the arm and shook him roughly
"It was an accident. Oi you two! Search the rooms" Bavin and Sanjeev went to the rooms nearest them and found that they were empty, Lando headed to the room nearest the door and tried the handle, he turned the handle again, he pulled on it. Nothing.
"Damn it" Lando pulled and cursed a little longer, "Hey Kendall" he beckoned his team mate over "this one's locked"
Kendall's eyes brightened and a sinister smirk crossed his features.
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Locking the door Millie looked around in a panic, this door was the only way out and she couldn't use it. Finally her eyes rested on the window, there was probably a fire escape or something…. No! she couldn't do that not with Robin in tow and she couldn't leave Robin here that was for sure. She pulled out her phone but couldn't think of anyone she could call who could help her in time.
Soon the door handle was moving "Damn it" she could hear cursing on the other side of the door. There was a muffled and angry sounding conversation on the other side of the door and finally a knock
"Hilary?" the voice was Kendall's and filled with angry malice "don't make this hard on yourself. We won't hurt the boy we promise."
Millie knew as soon as she heard him say this that it wasn't true, she looked down at the sleeping child and held him closer. Kendall couldn't be trusted, he could never be trusted and she seriously doubted that either of them would be OK when it was discovered that Hilary was not there. If this boy was working for Boris then he would take her and Robin if her thought it would affect Hilary. Shoving her phone back into her pocket she stared at the only remaining escape route.
"Looks like it's the window kid" Millie whispered and carrying Robin in one arm the girl crossed quickly to the window carefully opening it. Looking out she saw that she had been right, there was a fire escape, carefully placing Robin onto the stairs she climbed out after him. Once out she picked up the sleeping boy and started to make her way down the stairs.
She had only gone a few steps down when she saw that the stairs became a ladder before they reached the anywhere near the bottom, she knew there was no way she could carry Robin down a ladder. Walking quickly back up she began to doubt she could ever escape, as she passed the bedroom window again she could hear team thunderbolt banging at the door, suddenly there was a loud thump and the entire door shook. They were trying to break it down! Slamming the window shut Millie knew she had no choice but to run up, shivering a little in the cold night air she began to run.
Robin seemed to get heavier the higher Millie got, she wasn't really sure how long or high she could keep running. Below her she could here her pursuers climbing out after her it wouldn't be long before one of them spotted her….
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"Well knocking isn't helping" Lando Kendall's captain sniffed derisively as Kendall continued to bang on the door "And it looks like she's not fallen for you're…. charm" he uttered the last word with an amused sniff
"You got a better idea?"
"Watch and learn" Kendall watched as Lando took a slight run and threw himself bodily at the door, the door shook but didn't move
"I'm watching, I'm learning" Kendall smirked walking up to the door and testing it with one hand "but it aint very helpful" he moved back to allow Lando to try again but Bavin grabbed his arm not allowing the grey haired Blader to continue
"Look we already broke the table that can be written off as an accident that somneone else made but the door is another matter!"
"Then what do you suggest" Lando snapped rubbing his arm
Bavin grinned and turned to the only team mate who had yet to speak "Sanjeev you're up"
Rolling his eyes Sanjeev dropped to his knees and once again started to fiddle with the lock, "the keys still in" he muttered shoving the key out of the lock. They heard something fall to the floor on the other side and within a few moments the lock clicked and not bothering to get open he twisted the handle and opened the door.
The team entered the room to find it in darkness, they looked around surprised the door had definitely locked from the inside so where….
"The window!" Lando was over to it in a second, pushing it up he looked out "there's a fire escape here"
The entire team crawled though the window and stood on the metal steps, their first thought matched Millie's and they went down a few of the metal steps. Then above them they heard something. Kendall grabbed the railing and leaned dangerously far out, looking up he could see someone running
"Up there!" he yelled and the team spun around beginning to make their way up.
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Millie was running as quickly and quietly as possible until suddenly her foot caught on the next step and she fell forward. For a second she froze Robin hadn't awoken and she was praying they hadn't heard her. It didn't take ehr long to realise that they could split up and follow her so she had better put as much distance between her and them as possible. Pulling herself back up she began to run.
"Up there!"
Millie glanced down the stairwell to see them following, panic gripped her, she needed to get back in but even if she managed to get into the building she didn't know where to go. She had left her key back in Hiro's suite, Tia and Hilary's suite was empty with no one to let her in, she had run up about seven flights of stairs when she finally came to an open window. Practically jumping through it she slammed the window shut behind her, glancing down the corridor she saw the elevator open and someone get out
"Hold that please!" Millie ran towards the lift and was pleasantly surprised that the person she had shouted too had been polite enough to actually do as she asked. "Thank you" she called as he walked away and slammed her thumb urgently onto one of the buttons.
As the doors closed on her Millie saw the window she had come through smash as one of team thunderbolt came crashing through it. Throwing herself back against the wall so they wouldn't see her she prayed they wouldn't notice the moving lift.
Standing in the lift she tried to think of where to go she didn't really no anyone else she could trust apart from the other teams and she had no idea which rooms they were all in. As she stood there for some reason Max popped into her mind 'now is neither the time nor the place' she muttered then stopped "Maybe later? I'm in suite 214 if you want to call around?" Looks like I'm going to take you up on that sooner than expected!
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"It's stopping on floor 2!" Lando announced looking at the screen above the list
"Well what are you waiting for get down there" Kendall yelled running for the nearest stairs
"Kendall there's no point" Lando grabbed the boys arm and held him in place "we could never get there before she got somewhere safe and she's probably headed to friends we can't try kidnap her if there are others around."
"Well are you going to tell Boris that we've failed again?"
"No we tell him the truth" Bavin said "She wasn't in her room."
"Can we go back to bed now?" Sanjeev complained "in case you'd forgotten we still have to play tomorrow" Kendall nodded unenthusiastically and the team quickly made there way back to their room.
Walking away from the elevator and up the stairs Kendall couldn't help wondering if Hilary would have them taken from the competition for this, she now knew that there was definitely more to Kendall than some player who liked to chat up pretty girls but it was also obvious to him that Mr Dickenson wasn't being told everything that happened. No Hilary couldn't tell, not without betraying the truth behind Kai's alleged 24 hour bug that had meant he couldn't play the other day.
There was no way she could have them taken out of the tournament!
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"Who the Hell could that be?" Rick grumbled as he rolled over
"I dunno" Max sat up in bed sleepily rubbing the back of his neck, the knocking at the door had awoken them both a few minutes ago but as yet neither boy wanted to bother getting up. The knocking became louder, more urgent and finally Max pushed himself off the bed and made his way out of his and Rick's room and to the door of his suite.
"Whoever it is tell them to fuck off!" Michael moaned through his closed door
"You fuck off" Max hissed quietly feeling annoyed with himself that he never had the guts or hard heartedness to say stuff like that aloud. But it was actually more of a reflex reaction now, he had stopped hating Michael recently and the sight of Michael and Emily together no longer hurt him. Stretching a little Max switched on the lights and opened the door he was shocked by what happened next. Millie shot into the room Robin in her arms and tears rolling down her face
"Close the door" she begged and Max did so making sure it locked behind her.
Turning back to face the girl he noticed that there was real fear in her eyes "Millie what's wrong?" no longer feeling tired Max came forward and put an arm around the trembling girl
"Kendall he was…. He was…." she looked around distractedly and didn't seem able to say anymore so Max led her to the sofa and took Robin out of her arms
"Ok calm down" he lay the sleeping boy down on a chair and took Millie's hand, kneeling in front of her and looking into her eyes he asked "what happened?"
Millie told him what had occurred and about how she had left her key behind and that she couldn't wake her cousins because they didn't know about what had happened with Kendall "and then I thought of you" she finished off "You told me your suite number earlier and you knew what had happened you know we think he's working for…."
"Yeah I know" Max cut in scratching his head "I can't believe they were trying to kidnap Hilary again"
"You were the only person I could think of to trust apart from the White Tigers and the Blade breakers and I don't know what rooms they are in. If it hadn't been for what you said earlier I wouldn't have had anywhere to go."
"Ok we need to warn Renaldo about all this" Max told her still holding her hand and stroking it soothingly "but you did the right thing coming here. I promise everything will be fine, Millie I..."
"Hey Max?" Max was annoyed to see his entire team staring at him confusedly,
"What Emily?" he stared at the redhead extremely annoyed
"What is she doing here?" Emily gave Millie a dirty look as she slipped an arm around Michael
Max sighed with relief they obviously hasn't heard enough to have any sense of what was really going on.
"Um…" Max tried to think up an excuse "Millie and I just…. We were talking about…"
"I'm baby sitting Robin and he's coughing I thought maybe there was something wrong. I knew Max had looked after him and thought I'd ask" Millie knew it was a lame excuse but she thought it was good enough until Rick said something that made her so on edge she couldn't even respond to it
"Look Max if you and your new girlfriend want to have a night-time rendezvous do it in her room or just be quiet about it and I know you're new at this but try to do it without the baby! And get up you look like you're proposing" Rick ran a hand through his hair and went back into his room where he could be heard collapsing onto the bed.
The rest of the PPB All Starz slowly shuffled back to bed and Max smiled at the flushing blonde in front of him.
"I'm so sorry" Millie gasped out, "I can explain to them in the morning… tell them what's really going on!"
"I wouldn't worry about it really" Max shrugged carelessly
"But they think we're" she could barely say the next word "…dating"
"I don't mind"
"But…surely…, I mean you and Emily were…. how can you not mind?"
Millie was clearly embarrassed so Max smiled and holding a hand out placed it on her cheek. "Why would I mind that people think I'm lucky enough to date the prettiest girl in the competition?"
Millie couldn't think of anything to say she just sat there opening and closing her mouth looking shocked.
"You call Renaldo" Max told her amused at the girls reaction to his compliment he then picked up the still sleeping boy and took him into his room "I'll put Robin in my bed"
"Uh…Yeah" Millie pulled out her phone and dialled Renaldo, again she gave him a quick rundown on what had happened.
"Are you ok?" Renaldo was concerned but Millie quickly allayed his fears
"I'm fine, it's Hilary I'm worried about, do you know where she is?"
"Yeah she's here" Renaldo grinned "Mariah locked her in one of the bedrooms"
"OK?" Millie was amused by this answer but too tired to actually ask why Mariah had locked Hilary up. Instead she yawned "I'll see you tomorrow and get an explanation about that!"
"Alright" Renaldo teased her "Wish Max sweet dreams for me"
"Get lost!" Millie flipped her phone shut hanging up on him with a frustrated sigh.
"No Hiro everything's fine" Max was speaking on his phone carrying two blankets "when the table broke she needed to go somewhere else…. Robin fell asleep here so he and Millie are just going to stay the night….. Ok see you tomorrow"
"I um…I take it you didn't tell Hiro th-the whole truth" Millie flushed red as Max sat next to her on the couch, it was as if she had only just realised that he was only wearing a pair of dark blue boxers!
"Nah" Max handed her a blanket and settled into his seat "just told him you were having trouble with Robin and he threw a toy and broke the table. Bit of a pathetic excuse I know but I couldn't think of anything else."
"Thanks. Um...Max?"
"Yeah Millie?"
"Um…" Millie bit her lip nervously she couldn't help but think now might be a good time to talk to Max, unfortunately she had no clue what she ought to say. Instead she just whispered "We-We ought to get some sleep, can you turn the light out?"
"I thought you were the insomniac" he teased
"I am but I got no sleep last night and all the running really tired me out"
"OK no problem" Max stood up and switched out the light plunging them into darkness, Millie could hear Max settle himself in one of the chairs so she lay down. They were both quiet for a while but she could hear him shifting around.
"Are you OK?"
"Just trying to get comfortable" he told her, Millie looked over at him, in the dark she could see how uncomfortable the chair would be, looking at her own sleeping area she had plenty of space. This was something Mariah would have called a 'golden opportunity' Millie blushing pushed the idea from her mind but as she heard Max move again she blurted out
"There's plenty of room here, want to share?" Immediately she regretted it, she wondered if she could possibly call superman and ask him to fly around the earth really fast causing time to rewind. Then she realised that was stupid, she'd lost superman's number weeks ago!
"Are you sure?" Max was surprised but pleased at the offer
"I… I'm sure" Millie could hear Max stand and move toward her, she shifted back further into the sofa so that he would have more room. Max lay down next to her and the two of them feeling a little embarrassed wished each other goodnight.
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Hilary had to admit that the eleven hours of sleep she had managed to get were the best hours of sleep she had ever had. Part of her knew that there was plenty she could have done during the time she had spent in the room but another part of her was deeply grateful to Mariah. She had awoken in the middle of the night to find the door to her room unlocked and a pile of fresh clothes ready for her. After a quick shower she had dressed and for some reason felt a lot better and even slightly more hopeful that they would beat this thing. Walking into Kai's room she discovered that someone was already there,
"Oh sorry" she immediately apologised, the nurse had an empty needle in her hand and was leaning over the sleeping Kai. Hilary moved forward and took Kai's hand in her own, the room was just like a standard hospital room. One bed, a bedside table, a wardrobe, a chair for visitors and a window with those cheap pointless blinds that never made any difference to the light or lack of light in the room. It was cold and clinical but it made her feel a bit better about leaving them here, it was clean, hospital like and more importantly it gave her a feeling of hope.
"Don't worry" the nurse whispered "I'm just finished here." as the nurse began to tidy up Hilary smiled and looked down at Kai, gently rubbing the back of his hand with her fingers.
Suddenly the hand in hers jerked and Kai's whole body began to convulse violently, Hilary felt panic grip her and she immediately tried to hold him down. The nurse dropped what she was doing and ran forward to join her.
"What's wrong?" Hilary yelled as the looked at the machines Kai was hooked up to trying to understand what was going on, suddenly the shaking and fitting finished and Kai stopped moving entirely.
Ok this was quickly typed and I haven't even started the next one, hope you all liked, love ya all!
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