A/N: I don't own any Puppet Master characters, they belong to Full Moon Features and Charles Band. I do however own Archer, Elizabeth and Wildcard and as normal when the puppets speak it will be in italics.
Also thank you Cryptic for letting me use Jinkx and Irya in this story.
Jinkx looked in the room where the puppets were resting.
By now the darkness of the night had descended upon them, she'd recently received word that Elizabeth would make a full recovery so that was one less thing to worry about.
Most of the puppets were scattered around on the sofa and on various pillows they were able to find.
The only exceptions were Six and Wildcard who were cuddled up together and Torch who was sleeping by the fireplace.
She decided it was best not to wake them and returned to Irya in the other room.
"Looks like they're finally asleep."
Irya nodded.
"I'm not surprised, they were really worked up about what happened. You going to make the call now?"
Jinkx nodded, ordinarily she would have made the call straight away but had to be sure the puppets were resting.
There were still things she didn't need them knowing for now.
…..
The next morning Jinkx was up early examining how much if the elixir she had left.
She shook her head.
There was hardly enough to go around.
Even with how much Elizabeth had left she'd be lucky if she was able to make it last between the puppets.
She looked down at the piece of paper with the puppets names on them.
She really had to choose who to keep active.
So far the only names circled were Pinhead and Six Shooter.
She knew she would be getting Wildcard, Khan and Archer to rest soon.
That just left what to do with Tunneler, Torch, Jester and Lucy.
She sighed deeply.
Her thoughts were interrupted hearing Archer having another night terror.
Though by now most of the puppets were either sleeping through it or had too little energy to acknowledge it.
Jinkx gently picked Archer up and held her close, Archer soon calming down.
Within a few hours the others had all woken up.
Though it was clear most of them were lacking energy.
She waited until she was sure they were awake before speaking.
"I have some news, I've spoken to the people caring for Elizabeth and she's going to be fine. We also have a lead on where Decapitron and Leech Woman have been taken."
That got everyone's attention.
Wildcard looked the most relieved about Elizabeth, Six giving her a pat on the back.
"When can we kill the bastard's that took them?" Torch asked briefly igniting his flamethrower.
"You're not." Irya stated stepping into the doorway.
"Ordinarily I'd agree but I have to side with Torch on this one. This is personal and we need our payback after everything he did to us." Jester said, each of the others nodding in agreement.
Iyra draws a Russian Military standard revolver from her pocket and holds it.
"Sorry, this time you can't get involved, this operation has to be done in secrecy, you can't do quiet."
There was audible disagreement from the puppets.
"Hell no, we've been through too much because of them to just do nothing." Six protested.
Even Archer had to agree.
However it was clear no matter how much they protested their case that they were going to be able to do nothing.
"At least let one of us come with you as a distraction." Jester said in a last ditch effort.
"I'd be happy to go." Torch volunteered.
What Jinkx and Irya didn't know was it wasn't the first time the puppets had failed to avenge someone who had been hurt by humans after them.
Not only were they worried about the safety of Decapitron and Leech Woman but they were scared Jinkx would suffer the same fate as others before her.
Jinkx looked at them and scribbled down on a piece of paper "sorry guys, this operation is being put down as classified, the less who know about it the better" before checking her gun was loaded and putting on a long black coat.
Of course they tried to follow but we're stopped by the door closing.
They pounded against the door trying to get it open but were dismayed hearing the front door close.
"This is Rick all over again." Jester said disheartened.
"Well now what?" Torch asked.
"The same thing we always do in this situation..rest and pray the master returns safely." Tunneler replied before heading towards the trunk.
It was clear by his tone of voice he wasn't getting his hopes up for Jinkx to return.
Not that he doubted her ability to survive but because of how often it had happened.
One by one the others reluctantly returned to the trunk.
Apart from Khan who volunteered to keep watch for when they returned.
Pinhead looked at Jester concerned.
"She'll come back."
Jester looked at his friend disheartened.
"We said the same thing about Rick." He said quietly.
Lucy could only watch on at the others not feeling like she belonged.
"You're free to keep watch with me if you want." Khan offered.
Lucy nodded hurrying over.
I also own Matthew Gallagher and Richard Kraus and Lucy