We Will Get By
By: Charon
Disclaimer: Blah blah blah. Still dedicated to Becky and MiriahoftheWind. And also to CryingChild for writing Doom?. Good kid, wonderful sense of logical thinking. The only reason we BUM fans don't flame IZ fans is because (louder than she meant it) WE HAVE DIGNITY! (quietly) Sorry. I mean, only IZ fans who flame BUM fans FOR NO REASON have no dignity. The rest of you do have dignity. Sorry if this chapter reads a bit strange, but it's 1:45 in the morning, and I've got a BAD case of insomnia. That, and I have a bad habit of only thinking up parts of my story and not the whole thing the whole way through. 3RD CHAPTER!
Einstien growled at Hacksaw.
"I'm not going down without a fight." He shifted his weight to his haunches, ready to pounce at the first thing to move. "A Yaxier warrior has a right to defend themselves."
"Yes, well," stated Hacksaw casually. "With every right to defend oneself comes a chance to die." He pulled a laser gun out from a pocket holster and started to power it up.
"We'd better surrender," B-Bop moaned. "We're no help to Atreyu if we're all dead."
Atreyu whistled at his name's mention.
"Fine," answered Einstien. He sat down and lowered his head. The kids and Martians slowly raised their hands. Muldoon pressed a button on his MATD, and it fired several energy cuffs that latched themselves onto our heroes wrists. A robot guard soon stood at every person's side.
Angela, however, thought differently. She kept head held high, and around her hovered an auro of authority.
"Angie, what are you doing?!" Mike fiercly whispered.
"Watch," she whispered back. "I can probably get us out of here."
"Raise your hands, Little Girl," pleaded Muldoon. "Or we may take...drastic action."
"You wouldn't dare."
Hacksaw stood still for a moment before saying, "Take her to the Dissection room when you bring the other aliens. I could use a basis for comparison."
"WHAT?!" Angela screamed. She stepped back. Einstien roared while Do-Wah suddenly lunged toward Hacksaw. It took two guards and a well timed phaser shock to get him under control.
"Take them to a holding cell." Hacksaw quickly stepped out of the door, letting Muldoon take care of everything once again.
"Government guniea pig, that's what he is." Muldoon gently took Einstien by a section of quills. "Come along, youngsters. We don't want you getting hurt before Hacksaw guts you open." Muldoon gloomly pulled Einstien down the hall while the others followed. Two guards kept up the rear.
"Nice going, Little Miss You-wouldn't-dare," 2-T managed to sneak in. "What were you thinking?!"
"I thought I could sike him out, just like on TV." Angela knew that was a lame excuse.
"Just like on TV? Ange, this is real life! This is not TV!" yelled 2-T.
"Quiet back there!" Muldoon shouted. "Don't want you getting all riled up before you die." Muldoon seemed to struggle with the words.
Muldoon quickly found them an empty cell and let them in, releasing them from their handcuffs. Angela, however, still wasn't through. Just before she walked into the cell, she tried to make a break for it. A guard picked her up and let the others through.
"Put me down, you tin-butted freak!"
The guard glowed an evil red.
ZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAP!!!!!!!!!!!
"AAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!!!"
Angela's body went rigid as the electricity coursed through her. As soon as it started, it stopped, and she drooped lifelessly.
"NO!" Do-Wah screamed in anguish. They all watched with wide eyes as the guard through the helpless girl full force into the wall.. She grunted in pain as Mike helped her up. Einstien nuzzled her comfortingly.
"Holy Bovine!" Muldoon gasped. "I've got to talk to Hacksaw about his new software. He should know better than to harm these helpless teenagers." His voice faded as he walked down the hallway. "Even if they do associate with these alien scum................."
Einstien whimpered, closing him eyes. Angela was still having trouble moving. Cedric looked out the door, into the hallway. Across from them was another frozen alien.
"A pegasus?"
Everyone turned.
It was sort of a pegasus. It's wing were twice as large as it's body, and were stretched dramatically in front of it. It floated in it's capsule, its face in an eternal stance of terror. A single horn grew out of it's forehead. It was white, but around it glowed an aura of blue that seemed to come from the Unipeg itself (A unipeg is a unicorn/pegasus).
"A dracora," stated Einstien, not looking up. "Another supposedly extinct species. It's from Saturn. These nuts probably have one of every species in this stupid prison." He looked at Angela, who was trying to sit on up her own.
"Can't you just bash that thing in with your head, our something?" 2-T asked. "You were strong enough to rip the door off."
"There's a certain procedure for that," he chirped with hope. "I haven't really tried it yet." He stood up, walked over to the glass, and turned toward the opposite wall. He narrowed his eyes, concentrating.
"Uh, Einstien, the hallway's that way." B-Bop pointed at the glass.
"Yeah," grunted Einstien. "But the hollow wall's right HERE!" On 'HERE!', he ran at the wall, his quills pushing forward threateningly. He hit the wall with his head, and a ring of spines let themselves loose out of his back. As they cut through the wall, Einstien's brute strength caused the weak section to crumble. Einstien landed in a maze of pipes and wires. He sat down.
"All clear," he yelled, dizzy and disoriented. He finally fell onto his side.
"Why didn't you do that earlier?" asked Mike as he looked through.
"Well, duh," answered Angela (everyone jumped as hearing her voice), "Look at 'im."
"Ange?" Einstien smiled as her heard Do-Wah. "You're okay!"
"OWOWOWOWOWOW! RIBS!"
"Sorry."
Einstien laughed. Hugging didn't work with cracked ribs.
"Come on, guys, we don't have much time!" B-Bop jumped through the hole. "We're off to save the birdie."
Einstien got up and started walking in what he thought was the right direction. Lots of smells, but one caught his nose.
Sleeping gas.
He howled and started running through the pipes and wires like he was born in the place.
Despite the calls from the friends he was leaving behind, he kept running. Sleeping gas=Doctor's office. Doctor's office=Scalpels. Scalpels=Cutting. Cutting=Hacksaw. Hacksaw=Atreyu. Einstien stopped at an iron gate, barking and pawing at the ground.
"HERE!" he screamed. "ATREYU SHOULD BE HERE!" He howled again. Einstien didn't turn his head away from the gate, even after hearing a great many footsteps, a metallic KANG!, and 2-T yelling in pain and anger, using a few words I'd rather not mention. Einstien clawed at the wall, whimpering and barking in aggravation.
"How're we supposed to get through?" Einstien whined.
"Do that thing with your head again!" yelled Cedric. Einstien glared at him.
"No."
Angela suddenly came up to Einstien's back end a pricked him with one of his own quills.
"AIE-YA!" Einstien once again slammed into the gate, firing his quill rings. But, this time, it didn't break all the way through, and Einstien fell unconcious immediately. "Wheel of Morality, turn turn tuuooooh."
"Well, that was a was of Ein," said Mike. Many strange looks. "Ein, Einstien? Waste of time, waste of Ein?" Silence. "Whatever."
"Wait a minute," quipped B-Bop. He aimed his Gauntlet at the divet in the wall, and
BOOM!
Out fell the wall.
"Oh yeah," chuckled Do-Wah. "I forgot about that."
"Completely forgot." 2-T nodded.
It was the Dissection room, with two specimens still in waiting and one already sitting on the table.
IT WAS THE TAILED HUMAN!
She had done her long hair up in a top-knot, and had very visible lilac eyes. She was barefoot, with a charm-ankle bracelet. The charms were all dragons. She was humming a song, bobbing her head and tail to the music.
"Pick me up, love. From the bot-tom. Up to the top, love. Everyday."
"Um...." B-Bop was suddenly taken aback. "Hi, there."
She looked at the group out of the corner of her eye.
Suddenly, she was on all fours, supporting her weight on her knuckles and the balls of her feet. Her smooth tail went bottlebrush. She hissed at them, making notice of her four fangs.
"Hey, wait a minute!" yelled B-Bop, walking towards the table. "We're just trying to hel-BOOF!" As he got close, a force field suddenly shot up, knocking him back. The girl laughed.
"You've gotta turn the forcefield off, stupid!" She pointed at the console. "Turn it off!"
"Well, thanks for telling us after B-Bop nearly got his head knocked off!" snapped Cedric.
"You're welcome!" she chirped. She got out of her battle stance, preferring laying on the table on her back with her head over the side. She watched as 2-T tried to hack into the computer. "You Earthers are funny!"
"Uh, it's human," Mike corrected. "Thank you."
"Then you humans are funny!" she re-said. She slid herself down, so her entire torso was hanging upside down. Her face wasn't the least bit pink. "You don't have tails. You're names are really boring. You have stupid names like Muldoon and Hacksaw. And you climb trees like a 300 year old."
"Oh, and how old are you?" 2-T sarcastically asked.
"About 1300," she stated. "Although most people think I'm 1600. Do I look that old?" She looked at Cedric, waiting for an answer.
"Eeemmmmmmmm......." He didn't know what to say.
"Oh, I get it!" she yelled. "You're one of those species that goes by one year instead of one century!"
"Yeah," Angela answered. "I didn't know there was one that went by centuries."
"One what?" asked Tailed, flipping so she was lying on her stomach.
"One species."
"Oh. What's your name?"
"Angela. What's yours?"
"You have a pretty name, but mine's better. *My* name's Lilliatai Aretha Cor Tiberius XVIII, but I call myself Lilly for short. I made up my name, you know."
"You did?" asked B-Bop. "Why?"
"Because I didn't like my old name. It was just Lilly Othally Amadues. It was boring. So I ran away and changed my name to Lilliatai Aretha Cor Tiberius XVIII!"
"Wow," Mike sat down next to the force field.
"Yep. I wanted to call myself Edward Aretha Cor Tiberius XVIII, but I found out Edward was already taken, so I changed Lilly around to make Lilliatai Cor Tiber-"
Zhoom!
"Okay," said 2-T. "Force field's down."
Lilly sat up and waved her hand in the air. It didn't hit anything. "Wow!" she jumped off of the table. She ran out of the door. "LATER! Here's a present!" She threw something in the doorway.
Angela went to pick it up, but Do-Wah stopped her. He picked it up with a pick-up beam. "Can never be too careful."
It was a pin. A jewel pin in the shape of a bird. It was covered in large diamonds. The inside of the body was a large amythest. The beak was topaz. The two eyes were obsidian.
"It's beautiful," Angela gasped.
"What is it with you girls and jewelry?" Do-Wah mocked. Angela growled and hit him playfully. "Hey, guys, look what I found!"
"You found?! I found it!" Angela yelled as she ran to catch up with Do-Wah.
"Cool," noted Cedric, after looking the pin over. "Do you know how much this thing could be worth?"
"I'm not sure, but I think there's more to this pin than meets-the-eye." B- Bop turned his head.
"HEY!" he yelled. "IS THIS SOME KIND OF UNKNOWN ALIEN SYMBOL, EINST-" Silence. "Is Einstien still asleep?"
"Oh yeah," breathed Angela.
"We forgot about him," said 2-T, with a little humor and a little guilt. We walked towards where Einstien still lay, completely zonked out. "Ein, you awake yet?"
Einstien opened his eyes.
"24 cans of beer in a pack, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I don't think so!"
"He's okay," remarked Cedric.
"But, Kermit, we lost Bunson and Beaker to Animal's toilet box!" he yelled. He suddenly stood up. "SAVE THE TOILET BOX!"
Angela giggled from the random nonsense that flew out of Einstien's mouth.
B-Bop shook his head. "Come on. Let's try and find Atreyu."
Einstien laughed! "Bonsai, bathtoy, wiseguy, waterboy! Light shines bright in many towns!"
"Okay..............movingon!" 2-T quickly stepped out of the door. Everyone followed, Einstien bringing up the rear.
The troop moved silently moved down the hallway, looking for clues as to where Atreyu might be. They came to three-way split, unable to tell which way to go. Cedric saw something out of the corner of his eye.
It was a flower. A lily of the valley!
"Lilly's corset!" He ran and picked it up. "She must've dropped it!"
"She couldn't have," said B-Bop. "It was pinned to her jumpsuit, remember? It it's here, she must've left it."
"You mean, like, to show us a way out?" Angela asked.
"Exactly!" yelled B-Bop, pointing a finger towards the sky. "Everyone, follow that hallway!"
"LOOK OUT, RINGO, THE MONKEY'S ARE ESCAPING AGAIN!" Einstien galloped ahead, while the other struggled to keep up.
At the next two-way fork-in-the-hall, they found a small piece of purple fabric stuck to the right wall of the right hallway.
"RIGHT!" yelled Do-Wah.
A piece of fabric on the left turn! LEFT!
A piece of fabric in the hall in front of them. FORWARD!
RIGHT! LEFT! FORWARD! RIGHT! RIGHT! FORWARD! LEFT! RIGHT! FORWARD!
STOP!
In front of them was a large metal door. When I say large, I mean large. It stood twenty stories above their heads.
Next to the door was a small control panel and a key ring hook.
On the key ring hook was a dragon-charm bracelet.
To be continued......
By: Charon
Disclaimer: Blah blah blah. Still dedicated to Becky and MiriahoftheWind. And also to CryingChild for writing Doom?. Good kid, wonderful sense of logical thinking. The only reason we BUM fans don't flame IZ fans is because (louder than she meant it) WE HAVE DIGNITY! (quietly) Sorry. I mean, only IZ fans who flame BUM fans FOR NO REASON have no dignity. The rest of you do have dignity. Sorry if this chapter reads a bit strange, but it's 1:45 in the morning, and I've got a BAD case of insomnia. That, and I have a bad habit of only thinking up parts of my story and not the whole thing the whole way through. 3RD CHAPTER!
Einstien growled at Hacksaw.
"I'm not going down without a fight." He shifted his weight to his haunches, ready to pounce at the first thing to move. "A Yaxier warrior has a right to defend themselves."
"Yes, well," stated Hacksaw casually. "With every right to defend oneself comes a chance to die." He pulled a laser gun out from a pocket holster and started to power it up.
"We'd better surrender," B-Bop moaned. "We're no help to Atreyu if we're all dead."
Atreyu whistled at his name's mention.
"Fine," answered Einstien. He sat down and lowered his head. The kids and Martians slowly raised their hands. Muldoon pressed a button on his MATD, and it fired several energy cuffs that latched themselves onto our heroes wrists. A robot guard soon stood at every person's side.
Angela, however, thought differently. She kept head held high, and around her hovered an auro of authority.
"Angie, what are you doing?!" Mike fiercly whispered.
"Watch," she whispered back. "I can probably get us out of here."
"Raise your hands, Little Girl," pleaded Muldoon. "Or we may take...drastic action."
"You wouldn't dare."
Hacksaw stood still for a moment before saying, "Take her to the Dissection room when you bring the other aliens. I could use a basis for comparison."
"WHAT?!" Angela screamed. She stepped back. Einstien roared while Do-Wah suddenly lunged toward Hacksaw. It took two guards and a well timed phaser shock to get him under control.
"Take them to a holding cell." Hacksaw quickly stepped out of the door, letting Muldoon take care of everything once again.
"Government guniea pig, that's what he is." Muldoon gently took Einstien by a section of quills. "Come along, youngsters. We don't want you getting hurt before Hacksaw guts you open." Muldoon gloomly pulled Einstien down the hall while the others followed. Two guards kept up the rear.
"Nice going, Little Miss You-wouldn't-dare," 2-T managed to sneak in. "What were you thinking?!"
"I thought I could sike him out, just like on TV." Angela knew that was a lame excuse.
"Just like on TV? Ange, this is real life! This is not TV!" yelled 2-T.
"Quiet back there!" Muldoon shouted. "Don't want you getting all riled up before you die." Muldoon seemed to struggle with the words.
Muldoon quickly found them an empty cell and let them in, releasing them from their handcuffs. Angela, however, still wasn't through. Just before she walked into the cell, she tried to make a break for it. A guard picked her up and let the others through.
"Put me down, you tin-butted freak!"
The guard glowed an evil red.
ZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAPZRAP!!!!!!!!!!!
"AAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!!!"
Angela's body went rigid as the electricity coursed through her. As soon as it started, it stopped, and she drooped lifelessly.
"NO!" Do-Wah screamed in anguish. They all watched with wide eyes as the guard through the helpless girl full force into the wall.. She grunted in pain as Mike helped her up. Einstien nuzzled her comfortingly.
"Holy Bovine!" Muldoon gasped. "I've got to talk to Hacksaw about his new software. He should know better than to harm these helpless teenagers." His voice faded as he walked down the hallway. "Even if they do associate with these alien scum................."
Einstien whimpered, closing him eyes. Angela was still having trouble moving. Cedric looked out the door, into the hallway. Across from them was another frozen alien.
"A pegasus?"
Everyone turned.
It was sort of a pegasus. It's wing were twice as large as it's body, and were stretched dramatically in front of it. It floated in it's capsule, its face in an eternal stance of terror. A single horn grew out of it's forehead. It was white, but around it glowed an aura of blue that seemed to come from the Unipeg itself (A unipeg is a unicorn/pegasus).
"A dracora," stated Einstien, not looking up. "Another supposedly extinct species. It's from Saturn. These nuts probably have one of every species in this stupid prison." He looked at Angela, who was trying to sit on up her own.
"Can't you just bash that thing in with your head, our something?" 2-T asked. "You were strong enough to rip the door off."
"There's a certain procedure for that," he chirped with hope. "I haven't really tried it yet." He stood up, walked over to the glass, and turned toward the opposite wall. He narrowed his eyes, concentrating.
"Uh, Einstien, the hallway's that way." B-Bop pointed at the glass.
"Yeah," grunted Einstien. "But the hollow wall's right HERE!" On 'HERE!', he ran at the wall, his quills pushing forward threateningly. He hit the wall with his head, and a ring of spines let themselves loose out of his back. As they cut through the wall, Einstien's brute strength caused the weak section to crumble. Einstien landed in a maze of pipes and wires. He sat down.
"All clear," he yelled, dizzy and disoriented. He finally fell onto his side.
"Why didn't you do that earlier?" asked Mike as he looked through.
"Well, duh," answered Angela (everyone jumped as hearing her voice), "Look at 'im."
"Ange?" Einstien smiled as her heard Do-Wah. "You're okay!"
"OWOWOWOWOWOW! RIBS!"
"Sorry."
Einstien laughed. Hugging didn't work with cracked ribs.
"Come on, guys, we don't have much time!" B-Bop jumped through the hole. "We're off to save the birdie."
Einstien got up and started walking in what he thought was the right direction. Lots of smells, but one caught his nose.
Sleeping gas.
He howled and started running through the pipes and wires like he was born in the place.
Despite the calls from the friends he was leaving behind, he kept running. Sleeping gas=Doctor's office. Doctor's office=Scalpels. Scalpels=Cutting. Cutting=Hacksaw. Hacksaw=Atreyu. Einstien stopped at an iron gate, barking and pawing at the ground.
"HERE!" he screamed. "ATREYU SHOULD BE HERE!" He howled again. Einstien didn't turn his head away from the gate, even after hearing a great many footsteps, a metallic KANG!, and 2-T yelling in pain and anger, using a few words I'd rather not mention. Einstien clawed at the wall, whimpering and barking in aggravation.
"How're we supposed to get through?" Einstien whined.
"Do that thing with your head again!" yelled Cedric. Einstien glared at him.
"No."
Angela suddenly came up to Einstien's back end a pricked him with one of his own quills.
"AIE-YA!" Einstien once again slammed into the gate, firing his quill rings. But, this time, it didn't break all the way through, and Einstien fell unconcious immediately. "Wheel of Morality, turn turn tuuooooh."
"Well, that was a was of Ein," said Mike. Many strange looks. "Ein, Einstien? Waste of time, waste of Ein?" Silence. "Whatever."
"Wait a minute," quipped B-Bop. He aimed his Gauntlet at the divet in the wall, and
BOOM!
Out fell the wall.
"Oh yeah," chuckled Do-Wah. "I forgot about that."
"Completely forgot." 2-T nodded.
It was the Dissection room, with two specimens still in waiting and one already sitting on the table.
IT WAS THE TAILED HUMAN!
She had done her long hair up in a top-knot, and had very visible lilac eyes. She was barefoot, with a charm-ankle bracelet. The charms were all dragons. She was humming a song, bobbing her head and tail to the music.
"Pick me up, love. From the bot-tom. Up to the top, love. Everyday."
"Um...." B-Bop was suddenly taken aback. "Hi, there."
She looked at the group out of the corner of her eye.
Suddenly, she was on all fours, supporting her weight on her knuckles and the balls of her feet. Her smooth tail went bottlebrush. She hissed at them, making notice of her four fangs.
"Hey, wait a minute!" yelled B-Bop, walking towards the table. "We're just trying to hel-BOOF!" As he got close, a force field suddenly shot up, knocking him back. The girl laughed.
"You've gotta turn the forcefield off, stupid!" She pointed at the console. "Turn it off!"
"Well, thanks for telling us after B-Bop nearly got his head knocked off!" snapped Cedric.
"You're welcome!" she chirped. She got out of her battle stance, preferring laying on the table on her back with her head over the side. She watched as 2-T tried to hack into the computer. "You Earthers are funny!"
"Uh, it's human," Mike corrected. "Thank you."
"Then you humans are funny!" she re-said. She slid herself down, so her entire torso was hanging upside down. Her face wasn't the least bit pink. "You don't have tails. You're names are really boring. You have stupid names like Muldoon and Hacksaw. And you climb trees like a 300 year old."
"Oh, and how old are you?" 2-T sarcastically asked.
"About 1300," she stated. "Although most people think I'm 1600. Do I look that old?" She looked at Cedric, waiting for an answer.
"Eeemmmmmmmm......." He didn't know what to say.
"Oh, I get it!" she yelled. "You're one of those species that goes by one year instead of one century!"
"Yeah," Angela answered. "I didn't know there was one that went by centuries."
"One what?" asked Tailed, flipping so she was lying on her stomach.
"One species."
"Oh. What's your name?"
"Angela. What's yours?"
"You have a pretty name, but mine's better. *My* name's Lilliatai Aretha Cor Tiberius XVIII, but I call myself Lilly for short. I made up my name, you know."
"You did?" asked B-Bop. "Why?"
"Because I didn't like my old name. It was just Lilly Othally Amadues. It was boring. So I ran away and changed my name to Lilliatai Aretha Cor Tiberius XVIII!"
"Wow," Mike sat down next to the force field.
"Yep. I wanted to call myself Edward Aretha Cor Tiberius XVIII, but I found out Edward was already taken, so I changed Lilly around to make Lilliatai Cor Tiber-"
Zhoom!
"Okay," said 2-T. "Force field's down."
Lilly sat up and waved her hand in the air. It didn't hit anything. "Wow!" she jumped off of the table. She ran out of the door. "LATER! Here's a present!" She threw something in the doorway.
Angela went to pick it up, but Do-Wah stopped her. He picked it up with a pick-up beam. "Can never be too careful."
It was a pin. A jewel pin in the shape of a bird. It was covered in large diamonds. The inside of the body was a large amythest. The beak was topaz. The two eyes were obsidian.
"It's beautiful," Angela gasped.
"What is it with you girls and jewelry?" Do-Wah mocked. Angela growled and hit him playfully. "Hey, guys, look what I found!"
"You found?! I found it!" Angela yelled as she ran to catch up with Do-Wah.
"Cool," noted Cedric, after looking the pin over. "Do you know how much this thing could be worth?"
"I'm not sure, but I think there's more to this pin than meets-the-eye." B- Bop turned his head.
"HEY!" he yelled. "IS THIS SOME KIND OF UNKNOWN ALIEN SYMBOL, EINST-" Silence. "Is Einstien still asleep?"
"Oh yeah," breathed Angela.
"We forgot about him," said 2-T, with a little humor and a little guilt. We walked towards where Einstien still lay, completely zonked out. "Ein, you awake yet?"
Einstien opened his eyes.
"24 cans of beer in a pack, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I don't think so!"
"He's okay," remarked Cedric.
"But, Kermit, we lost Bunson and Beaker to Animal's toilet box!" he yelled. He suddenly stood up. "SAVE THE TOILET BOX!"
Angela giggled from the random nonsense that flew out of Einstien's mouth.
B-Bop shook his head. "Come on. Let's try and find Atreyu."
Einstien laughed! "Bonsai, bathtoy, wiseguy, waterboy! Light shines bright in many towns!"
"Okay..............movingon!" 2-T quickly stepped out of the door. Everyone followed, Einstien bringing up the rear.
The troop moved silently moved down the hallway, looking for clues as to where Atreyu might be. They came to three-way split, unable to tell which way to go. Cedric saw something out of the corner of his eye.
It was a flower. A lily of the valley!
"Lilly's corset!" He ran and picked it up. "She must've dropped it!"
"She couldn't have," said B-Bop. "It was pinned to her jumpsuit, remember? It it's here, she must've left it."
"You mean, like, to show us a way out?" Angela asked.
"Exactly!" yelled B-Bop, pointing a finger towards the sky. "Everyone, follow that hallway!"
"LOOK OUT, RINGO, THE MONKEY'S ARE ESCAPING AGAIN!" Einstien galloped ahead, while the other struggled to keep up.
At the next two-way fork-in-the-hall, they found a small piece of purple fabric stuck to the right wall of the right hallway.
"RIGHT!" yelled Do-Wah.
A piece of fabric on the left turn! LEFT!
A piece of fabric in the hall in front of them. FORWARD!
RIGHT! LEFT! FORWARD! RIGHT! RIGHT! FORWARD! LEFT! RIGHT! FORWARD!
STOP!
In front of them was a large metal door. When I say large, I mean large. It stood twenty stories above their heads.
Next to the door was a small control panel and a key ring hook.
On the key ring hook was a dragon-charm bracelet.
To be continued......
