Chapter 37—Rescue
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"Where is everyone?" Emma asked as we arrived in the cavern. It looked abandoned.
"This does not look good," Pronto stated as we passed a few RoboSlugs.
"I thought Quentin was in Stalagmite 17," I commented, referring to the infamous inventor of the RoboSlug.
"The new Doctor Blakk helped me out," Quentin announced from atop a statue.
"Where are our friends?" Emma demanded.
"Oh, they're hiding somewhere," he replied dismissively. "Now that I have no weaknesses, I am unstoppable!"
"Not quite," Kord said, emerging from a building with Trixie and Luke, blasters loaded.
"You couldn't beat me with slugs before. What makes you think you can win now?" Quentin demanded with a crazed laugh.
"We've gotten better these past 25 years while you've sat in prison," Eli snapped. We all loaded a slug and fired at once.
Quentin jumped over Bludgeon and managed to avoid every slug except for Burpy, whom was taken down by a RoboSlug.
"You still can't beat me! I love it!" Quentin screamed as he loaded another Slug and fired it at me.
I dove away and launched Speed, but he missed Quentin and wasn't given another though as he ricocheted around the cavern.
"Is that really all you've got?" Quentin demanded. "That was the worst excuse for a shot I've ever seen!"
"Don't be so sure about that," I replied as I caught Speedy and got ready. Ever since I discovered my powers I had wanted to try this. I wasn't sure if it would work or not, but it was the only way for me to surprise him.
The grin on Quentin's face soon vanished as my eyes turned blue and I threw Speedy as hard as I could. I almost threw my arm out of its socket, but Speedy immediately velocimorphed, knocking Quentin out cold.
"How did you do that?" Eli asked me. "I didn't think you would be strong enough."
I shrugged. "I've got the gift of strength," I told them. "It's what I do."
"Guys?" Emma asked us. "Where's Mark?"
"Right here," Mark said, emerging from a locked building. Citizens soon appeared from their homes and tied up Quentin.
"We'll make sure he going back to Stalagmite 17," one of the citizens told us.
We nodded and made sure Mark was okay.
"Yeah, I'm fine," he assured us after we asked him several times. A long cut along his leg spoke otherwise.
"At least let Medic do something about your leg," I told him, gesturing to the cut.
"Fine," he grumbled.
I loaded Medic and gave her as much energy as she could handle before launching her at his leg. There was a bright light, but when it faded all that remained of the cut was a pink scar, which was rapidly fading.
"Thanks, man," Mark told us.
"What are you going to do after this?" Emma asked him.
"Probably go back to the University and finish my project," he replied. "I just went home to visit family."
He introduced us to his parents before we had to leave.
"What are you going to do next?" I asked Emma as we went back to Quiet Lawn Cavern to drop her off.
"I don't know," she replied. "My parents were visiting family several caverns north of here, so there probably won't be home at all this weekend."
"You can stay with us," Trixie offered. "We have plenty of rooms you can stay in."
"Oh, I don't want to be a burden," she replied. "I can just hand around my house."
"Oh, don't worry about it," Eli told her. "It'll be fun!"
After a few more minutes we convinced her to stay at the Hideout, so we left the Cavern.
"Here's your helmet," Emma told me, tossing me my helmet.
"Why did you have that helmet?" Trixie asked me.
"Um…" I chose the less dangerous path for me. "Eli unlocked our extra mods so that we could reach Futuria faster," I said rapidly.
"Thanks for not telling your mother about this," Eli said sarcastically as she glared at him.
"Hey, I don't wanna go down for something you did," I replied. It was a horrible excuse, but I didn't want to be the one getting yelled at.
"You can only use the vehicle mode for emergencies, okay?" Trixie asked me.
"Okay," I replied. We rode the rest of the way to the Hideout, where Kord insisted we have a barbecue.