Amy's p.o.v***
"So, tell me again why we're on a train?"I asked, sitting on a small bed next to the windows in the train car we were in. Beauty sat next to me, Don on a larger bed and Suzu(who showed back up once I woke up from my nap) on the floor on a makeshift bed. Jiggler was tied to the back on the train, and Bobobo and Gasser were in the next room over. Well, they were SUPPOSED to be, but Bobobo was afraid of the dark and Beauty was the only one with a nightlight.
"Well, after you fell asleep, Suzu re-appeared and told us that some evil overlord returned to the Chrome Dome empire and was given the mission of destroying us. So we're going to his amusement park, Holy Guacamole Land, in order to fight him."Gasser explained, and I nodded.
"Hm, well he must have been before my time, because I've never been to that place."
"He's really dangerous,"Suzu pipped up, "So we should all get some sleep, especially you, Amy."
I sighed and looked down, my shoulder patched up and all my cuts with little glitter bandaids. My soreness was all gone, but I had to take it easy on my shoulder for awhile.
"Sure thing, but-" I was cut off by the door to our large car opening, someone saying,
"Hey, got room for one more?" Softon stepped into view, leaning cooly on the doorframe. I gasped and jumped off the bed with Beauty, both of us hugging Softon tightly.
"Softon!"I exclaimed, relieved to see him okay after the Battleship fiasco.
"What are you doing here?"Bobobo demanded, a slight edge to his voice. I stepped back and gave him a curious look, but he was focused on Softon's sudden arrival.
"I heard you guys were heading to Holy Guacamole Land, and thought I'd drop in to give you a hand."He explained, and I smiled. The whole gang was back together now!
"We don't need help."Bobobo pouted, looking away, and I gaped at him, smacking him upside the head.
"Don't be rude Bobobo! If this guy is as strong as Suzu says, then we need all the help we can get."I scolded, and Bobobo huffed, then stomped his feet like a child. I raised an eyebrow. 'What's wrong with him today?' I wondered, not knowing anything that Softon could have done to make him this upset. In fact, I knew he hadn't done anything!
"We're glad you're here, Softon."I said, smiling. He nodded and walked in, Don Patch immediatly running and latching onto his head.
"Softon!"He said in a ridiculously high, cheery voice.
"Hi."Softon said simply, peeling Don off of him and dropping him back onto the bed. I streached and Beauty yawned, the night falling around us.
"Ok, sleepy head, bedtime."I said, ruffling her hair. She nodded and all the guys left so we could switch into our pajamas. Beauty snuggled up in her pink footsie pajamas and pulled the covers up, yawning. Suzu dressed in a nightshirt with hamburgers on it and almost immediatly passed out.
I pulled on a black shirt and night pants, sitting down next to Beauty as she plugged in her nightlight. I pet her head and gave her a quick kiss on the forehead before laying down next to her, looking at the ceiling as the guys loudly made their enterance.
"It's dark the monsters are coming to get me eeeekkk!"Bobobo shouted, jumping in between Beauty and me. Beauty simply rolled over, the heaviest sleeper I knew.
"Ugh, Bobobo it's fine! There's a nightlight right here, no monsters."I soothed as he curled up under the blankets. I rolled over, and my face fell. Don Patch walked in in monster pajamas, Gasser in an exact replica and Softon in his normal clothes.
"Really guys?"I asked, "Really?" They gave me innocent faces, and I facepalmed. "Nevermind, just get some sleep. We'll reach the place in the morning."I muttered, closing my eyes as everyone settled down.
In a few minuets, the only sound to be heard was Don's obnoxious snoring in his way-too-big-for-just-him bed. But that wasn't the only thing keeping me up. As everyone slept, Bobobo in his pasta pajamas and little night cap sucking on his thumb, I was wide awake. Sleep alluded me as my mind reeled, stuck on Over. I tried to get him out of my mind, well aware that I was lingering on him too long, but just couldn't. He was like Don Patch, he wouldn't leave.
"Maybe if I take a walk."I whispered under my breath, sliding quietly out of bed and walking across everyone, making it out of the room as Don Patch shouted out in his sleep,
"No! Don't take my rice cakes Mr. Elephant! They're all I have to practice my basket weaving with!" I shook my head and left, making my way to a window which I opened and crawled out of, pulling myself up to the top of the train as the trees and cold night air blew past me.
I sat myself up on the top of the train, cross-legged as my shirt blew in the wind and I frowed, wanting desperately to relax and sleep but knowing I couldn't with my faliur still fresh in my mind. Defeating Over wasn't necissairy. We could take down the Chrome Dome without it...but still, it was more of a payback kind of thing. To prove to him that I was strong without him, that him leaving me caused his defeat.
"The top of a speeding locomotive is no place for a lady like you."Bobobo's voice startled me, and I looked up as he sat down next to me, back in his normal clothes. He sat with one knee up, arm resting on it as he stared thoughtfully out at the blurred trees and night sky.
"How'd you know I was up here?"I asked, remembering him sleeping soundly when I'd left.
"Your hair was upset, and it was keeping me awake."Bobobo explained, and I frowned.
"Oh, sorry about that."I mused, looking out.
"Over doesn't deserve to take up this much of your time, you need to tell him to pick up everything he ownes, and that box to the left."Bobobo said seriously, and I wondered for a moment how he knew I was thinking about Over. Then again, it wasn't exactly hard to figure out. I sighed, hands folded in my lap.
"I wish I could stop thinking about it, but...I don't know, I just wanted to...show him that I was stronger. That I didn't need him in the first place."I confessed, feeling stupid.
"We all need family,"Bobobo said, "Even if that family isn't related by blood. Friends can be family, or if not at least meat-shields and weapons for attacks and that's just as good."
"I know, and I'm glad I have all of you. Even Jiggler."I said, thinking of different ways to incorporate him as a weapon. Killing two birds with one jelly. "I just wish I could do something to make Over understand that...he was creul."I blushed, not expecting to pour my heart out to Bobobo. Beauty maybe, even Suzu. But Bobobo? It was just...odd...
"I know how you feel."Bobobo said, and I look up at him, surprised.
"You do?"I asked, and he nodded.
"I have four older siblings," I gasped. I thought Bobobo was the only survivor of the Hair Kingdom! But he had siblings? I would never have guessed! Now, my curiosity peaked, I listened intently. "One of them is the meanest of all. He's a real crooked guy, in need of some serious hair gel and proper conditioner. Anyways, as kids he always bullied me and didn't really care about anyone but himself."Bobobo explained.
"So what did you do?"I asked, and he looked down at me, pointing a thumb at me.
"I got a group of friends who really care about each other, and protect them with everything I've got."He said, and felt a little warmer inside. I smiled up at him and a feeling of ease washed over me. He was right. No, I'd still want to defeat Over, but the mere fact that I had the most amazing collection of friends was already getting back at Over, because I had something he could never have.
I got up on my knee and reached forward, hugging Bobobo around the neck and smiling.
"Thanks, Bobobo."I said, and he unstiffened, hugging me back.
"You got it kiddo. Now let's hit the bed before the bed bugs get hungry, cuz I ran all out of lemonaid." Whatever that meant, I stood up and swooped back into the train, following Bobobo back into our room where I lay down next to Beauty. I looked up, curious as he walked away, and asked,
"Where are you sleeping?"
He turned his head all the way around, directly facing me with his body facing forward. I gaped and thought 'he's a freaking owl now?!'
"I'm nocturnal!"He proclaimed, and I sighed, shaking my head as I lay it down on the pillow. I closed my eyes and yawned, the feeling of sleepiness finally wrapping up around me, taking me down into sleep.
Bobobo's p.o.v***
I leaned against the doorframe, spinning my body forward to match my head. That P90X Yoga Workout really gave some impressive results. It didn't hurt being half owl, either. I looked into the dark back corner and said, knowing,
"You can come out now. I can smell ice cream from a mile away." Softon stepped into the light of the nightlight, hands in his jeans and looking cool as always. He looked at me with those annoyingly cool and knowing eyes for a moment, before looking down at Amy with a compleatly different pair, ones that were narrow and caring.
Ones I'd seen in sappy anime-romance stories. Not that I read those. I don't.
"You care an awful lot about her."Softon pointed out, giving nothing away to how he really felt. I crossed my arms defensively and shot back,
"You're one to talk, mr. knight in shining armor/romance novel hero." He still looked at Amy as she slept, curled up with one arm around Beauty and her ponytail barely reaching the pillow, her breathing moving her body slowly up and down.
I turned, done with his cheesy romantical guardian spiel, when he said,
"At least I can admit my feelings for her." I stopped, body tensing up. I knew I shouldn't have had that burrito before we left. I looked straight forward, not wanting to see him, as I said,
"I have feelings for her. Like amusement when she gets angry, and fear when she gets really angry with that scary look in her eyes. And friendship."
I heard him laugh, and he said,
"Someday you're gonna have to stop lying to yourself, or you might just lose her." I left, ruffled by that conversation with the swirly-head. I leaned on the window I'd just come through with Amy, setting her mind at ease. I did that because she was my friend, and that's what friends do. They don't creepily stand in the unlit corner of a room watching you sleep, or brood over their unresolved feelings for you since one childhood meeting.
But I was her friend, so I didn't do any of those things.
"Hahaha, Bobobo I've finally found you! It's time to extract my revenge-" I punched the blonde-haired man in the face and sent him flying into the forest, chin in my hand and a grumpy feeling in my chest.
"I think I'm lactose intolerant."I grumbled, watching as the sun came up.
Amy's p.o.v***
I went flying, landing in someone's lap as the train lurched.
"What the-"I shouted, looking around.
"You okay?"Softon asked, and I looked up, realizing it was his lap I fell in. I smiled and nodded, feeling his hand on my back and setting me at ease.
"I'm fine, what's going on?"I asked, Softon and I locking eyes for a second before Don Patch kicked me, sending me rolling over to where Beauty sat, fallen out of bed.
"HEY!"Don Patch screamed in too much makeup, "I'm the only one allowed to romantically fall in the cool guy's lap!" I ignored him as the train stopped, helping Suzu and Beauty up.
"What's going on?"Suzu asked, fixing her hair.
"I don't know, but it's got something to do with Bobobo..."I grumbled, turning and opening up the back door to our car and jumping out, looking around.
From what I could see, we were in Holy Guacamole Land. There was a compleatly destroyed amusement ride behind us, small aliens plastered to the sides of the car, and an unconcious Hair Hunter on the ground. I looked up to see Bobobo and Jiggler walking towards us, Bobobo with a silk sash and Jiggler with an iced mocha.
"Do I even want to know what happened?"I asked.
"Nu-uh."Bobobo said like a child, shaking his head.
"Woah!"Beauty exclaimed, her and Suzu jumping out behind me and looking around. The park was massive, with towering rides and buildings of all sorts of shapes and themes and colors.
"This is way cooler than A-Blocks place!"Gasser exclaimed, walking up to us with Softon and a 'mysteriously injured' Don Patch in a gurney. Jiggler paused, then burst into tears, whiping them with his hankie.
"Aren't you glad we're here?"Suzu asked, smiling. I had to admit, even though there was some sadistic overlord of darkness and pain waiting for us somewhere, this place was pretty cool!
"Yeah!"I exclaimed, and we high-fived eachother.
"Mommy Mommy!"Bobobo exclaimed, jumping up and down in front of me.
"Yes?"I asked, playing along.
"I wanna go on the hairy-go-round! Can I can I can I?!"He begged, shaking his butt and leaning down towards me. I sighed. Sometimes he was too adorable in a creepy way for me to say no.
"Okay, let's go guys!"I exclaimed, and Bobobo cheered.
Softon walked up behind me and hoisted me up onto his shoulders, me laughing in surprise and awesomeness. I could see really far from up where I was, and I looked down at Softon,
"Wo-ho!"I cheered, Beauty and Gasser walking up ahead of us.
"Let's go on some rides."Softon said in his cool voice. If I'd looked down, I would have caught the heated stare between him and Bobobo, full of anger and, on Bobobo's part, annoyance. If this were on television, one of those lightning bolts would have shot out of their eyes and met in the center, showing the tension.
But I didn't, instead I focused forward on the huge expanse of land we'd have to cover, no doubt full of Hair Hunters waiting to face us. Suzu, Don, and Jiggler all skipped behind Beauty and Gasser, singing 'Beauty and Gasser, sittin' in a tree', which made me chuckle and them blush. Bobobo and Softon walked far away from eachother as we entered our next adventure, this one a little more pricey than the last...