The Wrong Hands.
Chapter Five: Now I Know My ABC's.
"Oh oh!" Booster cried out in worry as his monitor blinked, flashed, and beeped in an urgent warning in red. "I've got a lot of red lights blinking over here!" He motioned his hands in a blinking fashion out of frustration to demonstrate what he was seeing, "We're in trouble!!!!" Booster shouted at Buzz.
"See! I told you going to Planet Z was a bad idea!" XR reiterated himself as a laser blast from a Hornet sunk itself into the ships hull, pulling the paint away from the sheet metal. The little robot held on for dear life to the control panel as the ship was jostled by the impact.
"Booster divert power to the trusters!" Buzz ordered. He gripped the control stick in his right hand, swerving Forty-Two in all directions to evade laser shots. "Come on hold together baby," Buzz spoke to the ship. Forty-Two was his pride and joy. Nobody had better even think of scratching her Terillium Alloy hull without getting a scratch on them as a consequence for it.
"Umm Buzz, wouldn't it be more practical to divert power to the weapons?" Mira asked cautiously. She was a bit reluctant in asking, afraid of getting snapped at by a snide remark from her already agitated Captain.
"Negative Ranger," Buzz grunted as he struggled to control the ship in another torrent of laser fire, "I want to out run these guys back to Planet Z." Buzz told Mira his plan. The Tangean just looked up at Booster and shrugged. They weren't going to argue with him today, that was for sure.
"Booster I could really use that power now!" Buzz scolded as yet another blast hit the Starboard side.
"Uh yes Sir," Booster obeyed his commanding officer and flipped the switch that gave more power to the engines. As soon as the indication flashed on Buzz's control panel at the helm he threw the ship into high gear and blasted off towards the planet's surface, leaving the Hornets to eat his cosmic dust. Within a second they lost sight of the robots who were left behind wondering what had happened to their targeted prey.
"See, I told ya it would work," Buzz smiled confidently at them. The crew smiled at their captain as they thought they were out of the danger zone, but not quite.
"Umm you might just want to hold the celebration there Buzz-a-roo," XR said with wide screen-eyes. He pointed out the windshield in front of them. Buzz turned his head to look too. His jaw gaped open as Warp's Warpship was right there in plain view. Buzz quickly grabbed the throttle and pulled back hard on it, slamming on the breaks to avoid crashing into the Red triangular shaped ship.
"Darkmatter!" Buzz's eyes squinted, his teeth ground in his mouth. He fists clenched so tight that if it wasn't for the fact that he was wearing gloves his fingernails would have dug into the palm of his hand. Nobody had seen Buzz ever make an expression so mean before. It's as if his eyes were going to shine red, or he was going to foam at the mouth like some sort of wild rabid animal. Buzz wanted revenge on Darkmatter, wanted to bring justice, he wanted Lex. This was the foe who had betrayed him and now took his lover from him. He could handle the part about the betrayal, he had gotten over that somewhat, but Buzz wasn't going to let him get away with kidnaping his girl. That was just it, the last straw.
"Well, well, well Lightyear, haha. What brings you here?" Warp asked sarcastically. He sneered through the glass dome of the cockpit. But today the sneer wasn't as ominous with his one black eye. Somehow it made him look silly instead of evil.
"Where's Lex!" Buzz demanded as he picked up the walkie-talkie and yelled through the speakers on the ship to Darkmatter.
"That's for me to know and you to find out," Warp teased. Although Warp didn't have an idea as to where she had run off to either. But, he still found it fun to play with Buzz's mind. Watch him become hot under the color and throw a fit of anger.
"WHERE IS SHE!!!!????" Buzz boomed over the speakers once more. He was getting testy and agitated from not knowing. He didn't know where she was or what had happened to her. It was eating his insides apart. To have a thought of her being injured, or locked up in some cell, or even worse, killed Buzz more then any laser blast ever could.
"Ok Ok, yeesh, you don't have to scream," Warp frowned fingering his ear to adjust his hearing, "She's safe, for the moment, hahaha," Warp outright lied to Buzz. Last time he saw her she was headed off on a Zurg cargo ship, who knows, she may be safe, she may not. And frankly after what she did to him Warp could care less. Although, if he did have his chance again, he would take her prisoner once more.
"What have you done to her!?" Buzz once again demanded Warp tell him what he knew. There was a part of him that maybe didn't want to hear the horrors of Warp's tale, but he just had to!
"I guess you'll just have to ask her yourself, that is if you ever see her again, mwhahaha," Warp loved to play these little mind games with Buzz. It made him delighted to see Buzz get all flustered and maddened. Buzz was easy to push around like that, he was almost predictable at times. Warp thought him an ape they way he screamed and yelled as he hoped around banging his fists the way he did as he threw fits.
"I swear to God if you even harm one hair on her head I'll rip you apart!!" Buzz screamed out in anger shaking his fist at the ex-Ranger across the skyline.
"Oh what's the matter Buzz? Do I detect a hint of protection in your voice?" Warp hissed, "I get it, you love her don't you?" Warp teased him even further, witch wasn't a very smart thing to do. "Aww little Buzzy has a girlfriend," Warp harmonized, "Buzz has a girlfriend, Buzz has a girlfriend, Buzz has a girlfriend," Warp snickered. Buzz was getting red in the face from the humiliation. He looked to his crew members who were staring at him oddly, or at least they were trying not to.
"Buzz and Lex sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Warp sang the all to familiar childish song. It had the same effects on this grown man as it did a child of 10. "Speaking of kissing, she is rather a good kisser, wouldn't you concur, Buzz?" he smiled evilly knowing that the last remark had sparked the raging fire in Lightyear.
And that was it, Buzz snapped. The thought of anyone else's lips on his woman's was the last straw. That was invading his territory, trespassing! She was his and nobody else's. He owned claim to those lips, the first to claim them actually. Without hesitation and warning Buzz armed the lasers and started firing on Warp's ship. He wouldn't let up his thumb from the button on the controls that fired the laser. He kept that button down, causing it the fire every parsec. His eyes flashed cold, he was going to give Warp what Buzz thought he deserved. "ARRRGGHHH!!!!!!!!" Buzz cried out at he fired and fired and fired upon Darkmatter's ship.
"Buzz, Buzz! I think he's had enough," Mira grabbed her Captain's arm and tried to pry it from the button. There was a cloud of dust where Darkmatter's ship was. Surely Buzz had destroyed it in his madness.
Buzz let go of the button and slumped back in his seat. He breathed in and out deeply and fast, as if he had just ran two miles at top speed never slowing down. He was sure he had just given Warp the blasting of his life, but when he looked out of the windshield he got a startling surprise. Darkmatter was still standing!
"Like my new Gamma force field? Yeah, I just had it installed, beauty aint she?" Warp smiled at the Ranger's surprised faces. They weren't expecting him to still be standing. Not after what Buzz just delivered. Buzz had fired enough rounds of plasma to destroy a whole fleet of Imperial Flag ships. "Now allow me to show you my other new toy." he fired a disrupter disc at the ship and it imbedded itself int the starboard side, slicing through alloy past support beams until it was stuck. A surge of electricity surged through the entire ship, knocking out the ship's computer, engines, weapons, and other systems on board. The surge even jolted the Rangers giving them a nasty shock. Mira's hair fried and frizzed up out of control in a puff above her head. XR was offline for a few seconds but soon woke up.
"Wow," The little robot moaned rubbing his domed helmet in pain. "What happened?"
Warp then took the opportunity of the ship being disabled to open fire on it. He grabbed his control joystick and pressed the button that controlled his laser guns on the Warship. With one shot Forty-Two was on a downward spiral towards the planet surface. "Have a nice fall," Warp saluted sarcastically as he watched the Ranger's ship fall towards the building littered surface of Planet Z.
"Rangers!" Buzz spoke as he ran towards the emergency exit, "Evacuate now!" They all ran towards the manual door. It was for emergences and if there had ever been an emergency before it was this one. Buzz slid it open and they jumped out and activated their jet packs. As they floated in the sky with the use of their jet packs they watched as Forty-Two crashed to the ground. They saw the explosion and the smoke as the ship was engulfed in flames. Buzz turned to Warp with a look of aggression spread on his face. Despite the fact that he was small and Warp's ship huge, Buzz went for a front on assault with the Teranian. He fired his wrist laser valiantly but he forgot about the force field.
"No use Lightyear, I'll squish you like a bug," Warp smiled to himself. 'Maybe this isn't such a bad day after all, hehe' he set his cannon to stun and locked on Buzz. He would have liked to terminate him, but Zurg would be more pleased in his work if he brought the Ranger and his team to him alive, or at least unconscious. "Nighty night Lightyear!" Warp laughed with evil in his lungs. Buzz was still in a mode of rage, he did not dodge the shot, instead he was so blinded by his anger that he was hit by the strong laser. Everything went black for Buzz, he felt nothing as he drifted off into darkness and dreams.
In Z Tower Zurg was hounding his lackeys to work harder, work faster, anything to figure out what the inscriptions on the rock said. The computers in the room echoed with the tapping of keys ad tens of Brainpods and Grubs searched every data bank in the Galaxy for the key to unlocking the secretes to this ancient language.
"I want you to work your little fingers to the bone! Do you hear me!" Zurg yelled as he swept by them.
"Yes Evil Emperor!" they all rang out in unison.
"The Galaxy doesn't conquer itself you know," Zurg told them. He walked from one station to the other looking over their shoulders to make sure they were on task and not slacking off. Something beeped on the main overhead screen that Zurg used to look at things. A picture of a clawed hand holding an envelope appeared on the screen, "Ohh I have mail." he whisked off to go collect his E-mail with glee.
"Oh my Evil Emperor Zurg!!" a Grub groveled before the Emperor's robe covered feet.
"What is it Grub?! Can't you see I'm busy checking my E-mail? I might have already won a two week vacation on the Resort Moon of San-DeSolay!" Zurg bellowed through the grill of his helmet. He placed his clawed hands on his hips and looked down upon the Grub. "How do you explain yourself?"
"We have found the language of the LegoEgoans oh Evil One!" the Grub groveled as he shivered in fear before the Emperor.
"What!? Well why didn't you say so grub!? Speak up next time will you!" Zurg made it look as though the Grub had never said a word to him before that. In a swirl of his black and red evil cape he quickly moved off to where the script was being printed out and worked on. He appeared to float across the floor in the evil robe he wore, deathly, silently too. "What do we have?" Zurg asked Brainpod 17.
"Well my Evil Emperor," Brainpd 17 turned around on his wheels to face Zurg's helmeted face. He held a long line of printed papers in his clawed hands witch still was being printed off from the printers, "We have found the alphabet of the LegoEgoans, and although very difficult to translate we did manage to crack the code your Evilness."
Zurg ripped the papers from the Braindpod's hands and ripped them off from the printer. The Emperor squinted his red eyes as he tried to read the gibberish that was the LegoEgoan's language. He turned the paper upside down, sideways, backwards, every witch way trying to make sense of it. "What in the great wide Galaxy does this say!?" Zurg's voice rumbled through the room. "I can't read this gibberish! Translate it to Basic!" he threw the handful of papers back to the Brainpod is disgust to be read to him in simple language.
"Well it reads, 'Halstuch Frucht Haus hellrot dauerhaft garten ich erwarte ein baby. Ich kann nic. Wo haben sie schmerzen. Tomate schon warum. Lichtjahrn." the Brainpod finished reading the inscription that was repeated over and over again all over the crystal to his Emperor.
"Yes, that's Jim-cracking-dandy Brainpob 17," Zurg waved his hands with a sigh, "I'm very glad you can speak gibberish, but what exactly does it mean!" Zurg roared once more in the face of Brainpod 17, his claws glinted in the dim light like fangs on a tiger. He didn't know how to speak LegoEgoan, that was the whole point of looking the language up in the first place!
"Oh ahh yes, my Evil Emperor," the Brainpod quivered in fear before the menacing presence of the Evil Emperor Zurg, he fiddled with the papers as the Emperor stared down at him waiting impatiently, "Well translated to Basic it means 'To defeat the enemy, line the Light with the rays of Noon. The rays must come through the side opposite the target Only then will it fire." the Brainpod looked up at his Evil Emperor awaiting his acceptance.
"Noon? But it's past noon! Besides! The Sun never rises on this Planet! I like it that way!" Zurg bellowed. If he could not somehow get the rays of a Noon days sun to shine from opposite the side of the target, then the Light of Orion is nothing more then merely a lawn ornament, that being said Zurg also doesn't have a lawn to put it on. "And I was so close," Zurg sighed. He hunched over with a heavy sigh, yet another of his perfectly evil plans was spoiled, and this time Buzz Lightyear had, surprisingly, nothing to do with it.
"My Evil Emperor," The Brainpod piped up to make a helpful suggestion, "May I suggest we line it up on top of Z Tower? We have those flood lights that light the dark alleyways of Planet Z my Lord. If we set them at a precise position then.." Brainpod17 was cut off short by Zurg sudden jump back into happiness.
"Ah that's it!!" Zurg yelled as he pointed a finger to the air to emphasize his thought, "We line up the big flood lights on top of Z Tower to mimic the sun's rays! That's brilliant! Superb!" he rubbed his clawed hands together and an evil grimace spread from side to side of his helmet, "Muwahahah! I'm so evil!! I'm a genius!" Zurg spun around "Grubs! Set up the Light of Orion! Bring the lights! I want to destroy the Galaxy as soon as I can, MUWAHAHAHAHA!!" he was about to make a dramatic exit when he ran into Warp. "Darkmatter! How dare you disrupt my exit! That's just rude!" Zurg scowled, "You better have a good explanation for this!" Zurg crossed his arms over the chest plate and awaited Darkmatter's excuse.
"Sir!" Warp began with a happy grin, "I've captured Team Lightyear." Darkmatter was proud of himself. He had defeated the whole team, and brought their leader, Buzz, to his Evil Emperor as proof while the rest lay in the dungeon of Z Tower.
"Yes yes, Darkmatter you are just full of excuses aren't you!? Captured Team Lightyear, now I've heard everything," Zurg stopped for a minuet, this wasn't Warp's normal excuses, he did seem pretty proud of himself too. "Did you just say you captured Lightyear?" Zurg questioned his agent. He thought he wasn't hearing correctly. Warp hardly ever completes a task right. How is it he could capture Lightyear?
"Yes, my Evil Emperor," Warp bowed to put icing on the cake for the Evil Emperor's Ego, "Hornets!" Warp motioned for the robot lackeys and they brought the motionless body of Buzz to Zurg. They threw the knocked out Ranger at his feet. He fell with a loud THUD on the hard cold steal floor before Zurg. A faint moan slipped from Buzz's lips but he did not wake up, or stir.
"Oh happy day! Happy day!" Zurg clapped his hands together in excitement, "The defeat of Star Command, AND Buzz Lightyear all in one day! Why it's what we call in the trade a double dilly!" Zurg explained his joy to Warp. "Oh this is fun! Bring Lightyear to the top of Z Tower, I want him to watch as I destroy his precious Galaxy, Muwahahaha!!' Zurg Bellowed. Warp smiled and the Hornets scooped Buzz up once more to take him along with the Light of Orion to the top of Z Tower. The unconscious Space Ranger had no say in what was going to happen to him as he was chained to the wall on the upper-deck of Z Tower. The Hornets placed he wrists and ankles in shackles bound to the wall. He hung there suspended still recovering from the blow of a laser. His head spun, his body ached, but all he could see were the dreams and darkness in his mind.
As Darkmatter had said, Lex wasn't safe. She was on Planet Z. Lex landed the cargo ship as close as she could to Z Tower without being noticed.
'This place gives me the creeps,' Lex cringed as she stepped out of the cargo ship. She looked around at the murky, dark, dingy, planet. There were nasty smells everywhere. Fungus grew in ever corner, shadows danced on the floor where there was nothing stirring. Lex looked around at her surroundings, always aware of where she was at all times. Her guard up and cautious. All of a sudden a bright light blinded her. Lex threw her hands up to shield her eyes from the glare. Had Zurg launched the Light of Orion already!? She looked up where it was emitting from, the top of Z Tower. She squinted her yellow eyes through the bright lights to see Zurg and a big triangular rock on top. The Light of Orion! Zurg had cracked the code! It was only a matter of minuets before he would use it to destroy everything in the Galaxy. She had to hurry. She raced through the streets as fast as her legs could carry her. She had to stop Zurg, even if she had to destroy her so sought after find to stop him, even if she were to die for it. It had to be done. She ran, she ran full speed, not stopping for anything, dodging Hornet patrols ever couple nanoseconds. She had to race through the stairs of the Tower too, to get to the top. 'It's a good thing I'm fit for this,' she thought as she huffed, her lungs breathing short deep breaths through exhaustion. Her calf muscles ached, and a pain was in her chest, but she kept going. Straight up the stairs on Z Tower. Sure there were massive freight elevators she could have traveled, but the elevators would be a high traffic area. It would be best to take the road less traveled to stay hidden. "Klendathu, give me strength." she asked of help from an ancient God as she climbed up the hundreds of flights of stairs. It was tedious but well worth the challenge and pain.
Dark, it was dark. No light was shining. Buzz Lightyear stood alone in a filed of cold, and black. The only sound heard was the echoing of his foot steps on the hard floor. He walked on slowly. His head spinning on his neck as he looked from one side to the other. Checking out his surroundings Where was he? The only thing he could see in the black was himself. The only sound he heard were his own sounds of breathing, heart beats, and his boots clanging on the metal ground as he walked. Then a sound struck his ears.
"Buzz," the feminine voice called his name through the dark. Buzz stopped dead in his tracks and spun around looking everywhere for the source of the voice. The voice was quiet, almost a faint whisper in the dark. "Buzz," it called once more. The voice was sweet and inviting to his ears. "Buzz," it called again a bit louder now.
"Who are you!? Where are you?" Buzz asked aloud. He turned around and around trying to catch a glimpse of the girl behind the voice.
"Buzz," it called him louder still. This time he got a chance to recognize the voice. It was Lex's. She was calling him! She was here! His heart filled with joy of hearing that soft voice call his name to her, but where was she?
"Lex! Where are you!" he called out. He ran in all directions searching for her. Then he saw a faint light before his eyes, the light was a pure white color, in the middle of the light there was the shadowy outline of a tall, female, figure. Buzz knew that shape anywhere, it was Lex! He found her at last. "Stay right there I'm coming!" he shouted as he ran towards the light. But no matter how much he ran he didn't seem to get any closer, her voice still echoed, 'Buzz' beckoning him. "Lex! I'm coming!" he ran faster, his heart matching his pace along with his breath. Then all of a sudden the voice of sweetness turned to one of horror.
"Buzz!!!" she screeched a blood curdling scream. "Aghhhhhh!!!!!!!!" she yelled out in sheer terrifying panic.
"Lex!!!" Buzz screamed back. He watched the shape of her be taken away into the blinding light. The white light seemed to engulf her as it got bigger and brighter. It swallowed her up and as soon as the screams stopped the light quickly went out leaving it pure black again, cold, motionless, alone. It was once again silent. "NOOO!!!!" Buzz cursed to the sky as he dropped to his knees. He hunched over on the ground with his fists on the floor. He felt alone, singly and utterly, alone. That is until the ominous evil laughter filled the space.
"Muwahahahah," it started soft then grew and grew louder and louder! Until the laughter even echoed in Buzz's brain. He cringed as he kneeled there and held his head with his hands.
"GET OUT OF MY BRAIN!" he screamed out in pain, "What do you want from me!"
But the laughter didn't answer, it grew to two voices now, two voices he could distinguish as Zurg and Warp's. The light grew again and this time it was coming for him. "Nooo!!" Buzz yelled out as he was suddenly engulfed in the same field of light that took his beloved Lex.
Buzz Lightyear woke with a start, his blue eyes quickly shot open. Cold sweat was running down his neck. His heart pounded in his chest as he regained his senses. He took a double, even triple takes of his surroundings. He found himself standing on the roof of Z Tower. The Light of Orion before him and the lights in his dream the giant lights that Zurg was setting up on the roof. Buzz went to lunge out of where he was but was yanked back by the restraints that held him tight.
Zurg turned around from his ordering of the Grubs when he heard the sound of Lightyear struggling to face his foe, "Ahh, awake are we?" Zurg smiled walking over to meat the Ranger face to helmet. "Have a good nap Buzzy?" Zurg laughed in Buzz's face.
"I wouldn't be laughing if I were you Zurg," Buzz hissed back. His fists clenched it his cuffs.
"Oh shouldn't I be?" Zurg bent down to Buzz's face, "You're defeated Lightyear! And I am moments away from destroying the Galaxy with the Light of Orion," Zurg hissed triumphantly. "You have a front row seat Lightyear, I hope you enjoy the show, muwahahaha," Zurg threw his head back and laughed at the joy of torturing Buzz Lightyear.
"If I have any say in it there wont be a show!" Buzz growled as Zurg walked away from him to command his lackeys once more. Buzz yanked and pulled at the shackles that held him to the wall tight. He had no movement in his arms or legs at all. He could only strain his muscles and wear himself out aimlessly. Was he about to witness the destruction of his entire Galaxy? His home? His friends? Well if he was going to watch the universe ripped apart at least when it was over Zurg would kill him. Buzz would rather be dead then live in a world without anyone. He had finally found another to share his life with, but obviously it was for no reason, that didn't matter now, they would all be dead. 'I never even got a chance to say good bye,' he thought sadly. He slumped down in his chains and let himself hang there by his arms freely. His eyes moved to the floor, he didn't wish to view what Zurg was about to do. 'This marks the end of my journey, the end of my struggles for the fight of good, here ends everything.' Buzz was usually a positive thinker, but he couldn't argue with the facts. He didn't even know if his crew was alive to help him this time. He would have summonsed Star Command, but he could not reach his wrist-communicator. Today marked the day Hell took over.
Zurg had his back to Buzz, he was more preoccupied in what was going on with his plans of evil. He scolded the Grubs to work harder. They were busy setting the giant lamps in the right position. "Line the Light of Orion up with Star Command!" Zurg bellowed. The Grubs started to drag the giant rock across the ground, inch by inch it crept slowly.
While Zurg and his armies of darkness concentrated on the task at hand, not one of them payed attention to Buzz Lightyear, or to Lex for that matter. The girl had finally found her way to the top of Z Tower. She stood in the doorframe of the stairs for a bit catching her breath, her hands on her knees for support. She breathed deep and quick replacing vital oxygen back into her blood. Her muscles were tight and cramped from the long run, but she couldn't stop there, she had to stop Zurg, had to save the Galaxy.
When she caught her breath she looked up and saw an inspiring site that brought tears to her eyes. Buzz. After what she had to go through with Warp, she was very happy and overcome to see him here. But he was chained to a wall, he had been, she couldn't think he was dead. No! He couldn't be. She ran to him. Buzz didn't even see her coming he was so preoccupied with his own sorrow until she wrapped her arms around his neck tightly.
"Lex," he whispered with excitement but quiet enough not to draw attention to them. Lex didn't answer him, she lied her head on his shoulder and just felt the warmth of his body. She had missed that while in the clutches of Darkmatter, she let herself become one with Buzz now.
Buzz went to embrace her, but his hands were still tied. He nuzzled her cheek with his, brushing his chin up against her cheek in a loving manner. "I thought you were dead," he whispered to her. "I thought I'd never see you again."
"And I the same of you when I saw you hanging here," she said as a tear fell onto Buzz's shoulder. He could just move his wrist just enough to wipe her eyes with his finger. She lifted her head up and placed her head into the palm of his hand. "I love you," she quietly told him as another tear fell. They weren't so much tears of sorrow, but tears of joy. The joy of being reunited with him, back in the safety of his arms. When he heard those words he quickly shifted his weight on his arms and brought her closer to him, so he could kiss her. She fell into his lip's embrace, and let him kiss her gently as the first time they met that way. But instead of putting her hands up in defense as the first time, she found a comfortable position to place them, around his neck. He went to wrap his arms around her body again, to hold her close on his chest, but he once again forgot the bonds of imprisonment. To not be able to hold her was driving him insane, but, at least, at least she was safe, she was there holding him for chance. But as magical as the moment was Lex had to let go, there was an evil plot to foil.
"I have to get the Light of Orion back Buzz," she whispered as she backed off of him, looking him straight in the eyes. He didn't want her to go, he didn't want her to risk being killed. They had just found each other, he couldn't loose her again. It should have been him going, not her. But he also knew that wasn't possible at the moment, not with him stuck to a wall. She had to go, he couldn't stop her.
"Be careful," were his words to her. With that she let him go and gave Buzz a last kiss on the cheek before slipping off behind enemy lines. He watched her go, keeping low to the ground, silently, stealthy. Zurg never noticed the girl creeping up on them.
In Zurg's dungeon, the rest of Team Lightyear was being held captive by thick Terrilium Alloy bars. Water dripped somewhere in the murky darkness of the land beneath Zurg Tower. The air was musky with the smell or rotting decay. It was not the nicest place in the universe to be.
Team Lightyear was frantically looking for a way out of their cell. They needed to get up to Zurg Tower, to stop Zurg and help their Captain. Their Captain whom they had no idea was alive or not.
"We're dooommmeed!" Booster rang out through the cells. "Buzz has been killed! Zurg's going to kill us!" Booster shoved his thumb into his mouth like a little baby. He twirled his ear around and dropped to the floor in the fettle position. The big fella couldn't handle it all.
"WAAAAA!!" XR cried, tears 9I don't know how but I've seen him cry water on TV) streamed into his helmet as he ran around in circles in their holding cell, "We're deaa-ed!" he almost spun himself dizzy.
Mira was getting irritated by her team's lack of confidence, and optimism. An especially XR's running in constant circles. Mira grabbed XR by the helmet and shook him violently. "XR! STOP! You're making me dizzy just looking at you!!" the Tangean Princess screamed, mostly out of frustration.
"Hey, I'm a little edgy I've never been locked in a dungeon before while my Commanding officer might be dead," XR crossed his arms and spat back at Mira.
"Yeah, well, whatever. What we need to do now is to figure a way out of here," she walked around there cell looking about for any holes or weak points in the walls. A hidden trigger mechanizim maybe? "XR, what do you have in your 'tool box'?" Mira asked. There had to be something among the millions of other gizmos and gadgets inside his metal innards.
"Well let's see here," XR opened the tray on his canister body and started rooting through his collection of tools and other junk. "We got roller skates, bubbles, dog toys, Gum, wait? What Am I doing with gum? Anyways, sledge hammer, jack hammer, Cookies, here Booster," XR tossed a plate full of cookies witch he found inside him to the cowering Booster. The Jo Adian who always ate when he was nervous gladly took the snack from his friend.
"Thanks pal," Booster thanked the robot with a mouth full of cookies as he continued to munch.
"Great XR, Cookies! Witch will not even help us in the slightest way!" Mira yelled out. She was getting impatient too. "Anything useful in there?"
"Just this get out of jail card from a Monopoly game," XR held it up smiling innocently. He knew it wasn't what they were looking for, but it was a funny gag. To lighten up the mood a bit.
"Great!" Mira took the card from her robot companion and stuck it into the magna lock on the cell door. She slid it along and the door clicked open. "Well done XR." Mira congratulated her partner. She swung the door open and the Rangers walked out.
"Wow," XR said scratching his helmet,, "I didn't expect that to work." he opened his his tray again, "Hmm I wonder if I got a go to Go and collect 200 uni-bucks card in there somewhere." he began to rummage through his collection of junk once again as they raced to help their Captain in time.
To Be Continued.........