Travelers Chapter 2
Kanan and Hypatia hurried into the apartment, slamming the door behind them.
"KANAN!" Pilialoha yelled from the other room. "PLEASE, COME AND CONTROL YOUR PET!"
"TAA-MOREZ!" Kanan hurried into her room, followed hesistantly by Hypathia.
Pilialoha was trying to force down the lid of a shoebox, which glowed with a deep purple light. A horrible growling sound came from the shoebox. Kanan shuddered before holding out one hand, making sure not to let go of her teddy bear. "HA-SO A NEKAO TESLA!"
The light shimmered into a fizzle before dissappearing, and the growling subsided. Pilialoha slammed the shoebox lid.
"Why... do you keep.... Taa-morez... as a pet.... Kanan?" Pilialoha, collasped to the floor.
"Because She serves as a watchkleglee," Kanan answered without emotion. "You think some weak Earthling dog could protect us against... I don't know... Ryoko, the space pirate?!"
"YOU ARE NOT TO SPEAK THAT NAME IS THIS HOUSEHOLD, KANAN!" Kanan and Hypatia embraced as Pilialoha towered over them. Her face burned in pure, unmidicated fury.
DING DONG!
"You're father's home!" Pilialoha happily crooned. She trotted to the doorway. "Hello, dearest, how are you?"
"Hedril, that's it!" Kanan turned to her friend. "I- wait- I know, we're supposed to go by our Earth names on this planet, but soon, we're not going to be on this planet! We're going to let out Taa-morez, and she's going to fly us back to our ship! Sure, she can do that, she's a kleglee! Now, hurry, we need to find an open lot to let her loose! Get the box!"
Hedril, formerly Hypatia, shakily grappled the shoebox and sneaked out of the window and down the fire escape.
***
"Mike's in bad shape," Lilly moaned. "He's having trouble breathing! We need to find those girls! Hurry, Martians!"
"We're hurrying!" 2-T griped.
"How do we know where do look?" Angela asked. Cedric tried to keep up, leaning dangerously from side to side as he tried to balance his book in his arms.
Lilly scanned the entire area for the two girls. They stood in a vacent lot the size of the nearby Quantum Burger.
"THEY HAVE A KLEGLEE!" Lilly screeched. She started flying faster. "THEY HAVE A KLEGLEE, HURRY UP!"
"WHAT'S A KLEGLEE!?" Do-Wah yelled.
"SOMETHING I HOPE THEY DON'T LET OUT OF IT'S BOX!"
***
"Time to let out Taa-morez!" Kanan gripped the lid in her fingertips, her teddy bear hurriedly stuffed down into her dress. "I told you, Hedril, call me Kadril now! And this is a good idea! Just hush! Besides, I control Taa- morez. What could go wrong?"
Kadril ripped the lid off of the box!
The purple light could be seen from Los Angeles, legend has it. A large, black form rose out of the shoebox like smoke, slowy solidfying into a huge beast!
It resemble a jet black Belgian sheepdog (look it up) with pure red eyes. It's long fur was ratty and horribly matted, except on it's tail, were it was short-cut. The tail was thick and strong, being the width of an oak tree and the length of one, two. It's mouth seemed to be frozen in a snarl, with saliva dripping from it's massive dagger-fangs. Out of it's shoulders grew two wings, much larger in size than the actual monster, also pitch black. It was the size of 5 African elephants, by rough comparison.
It turned to Kadril, it's face still snarling. It uttered a growl deep within its throat.
"Uh... hehhehheh..." Kadril took a few steps back. Without holding her teddy bear, you could see the two gray-black talons which grew out of the underside of her wrists. Hedril tried to scream, but her throat locked up. She hid behind Kadril, shivering and wimpering like a baby. "Wow... you've... grown."
***
Everyone braked as the purple light flooded the sky.
"THEY LET THE KLEGLEE LOOSE!" Lilly cried. She hid her face in her hands. "This is not supposed to happen! This is not supposed to happen!"
"What is a kleglee, Lilly?' B-Bop flew his OMAB to Lilly's face. "I want to know, NOW!"
"A kleglee is the name for a female Quiff-lesek!" Lilly moaned without removing her hands. "Why am I telling you this? WE'RE WAISTING TIME!"
Lilly zoomed into the distance, her lower beings trudgingly following behind her.
When the Martians and humans finally saw the kleglee, they nearly fell off of there flying machines.
"What the heee- what the heck is that thing?" Cedric had to try hard to keep from swearing.
***
"Taa-morez?" Kadril spoke in her own language. "Let us come onto your back. You will carry us to the ship 'Konaru 18'- Taa-morez?" Kadril tried desperately to gain her pet's attention as its face began to wander. "Taa- morez! Bad girl! Look at me!" Kadril growled. "Taa-morez? HEDRIL! TALK SOME SENSE INTO THIS THING!"
"WHAT THE?"
Kadril and Hedril turned their heads upwards as they heard voices. "NOT THEM AGAIN! HEDRIL!"
"You're not fooling us with those mind tricks again!" 2-T scolded. He screamed as Taa-morez snapped her huge jaws at him. She followed him like a cat would follow a mouse.
"BACK UP, GUYS!" 2-T jumped off of the OMAB just as Taa-morez smashed it with her paw, turning it into blue tin-foil. "I NEED BACK UP!"
Taa-morez let out a mournful howl which echoed through the city.
"AAH!" Kadril screamed. "NO, DON'T! YOU'LL WAKE UP THE HUMANS! HEDRIL!"
Hedil staid behind Kadril, not daring to take her eyes off of the kleglee.
Taa-morez turned her attention to the helpless humans, who stood unprotected on their hoverboards. Angela and Cedric scattered as the BUMs lept to the grounds, preparing to pull out the big guns. Sorta.
"B!"
"K!"
"M!"
Taa-morez stood and stared for a bit, then-
SMACK!
She smacked her paw at the Martians, Stopping the BKM sequence!
"WHAT HAPPENED!?" Do-Wah yelled in shock.
"IT STOPPED BKM!" 2-T gasped in exasperation. "IT STOPPED BKM!"
"HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!" B-Bop cried.
Lilly hovered above the kleglee's head, dodging jaws and teeth. "THINK ABOUT IT! REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YOU EARLIER!"
"Think, think, think, think!" 2-T chanted. He hid behind a nearby car. "Kleglee is a female term... um.. um.. Clawfacles are telepaths! But what does that do?"
"2-T! LET'S TRY IT AGAIN!" B-Bop ordered.
"Roger that, CommanDEEEEEEEEEEERRR!" Taa-morez smashed the car 2-T hid behind, causing him to fly through the air and onto his head.
Cedric scampered to find cover, when he finally dropped his book... on Kadril's head. It knocked off her sunhat, and announced another alien feature; horns. Two little fat horns growing out of her temple and around her ears. They were gray in color, and flashed white on and off as Taa- morez made every footstep.
But, more importantly, Kadril cringed back as the book hit her head. And so did Taa-morez.
2-t took note of this event before he tried the BKM chant again.
"B!"
"K"
CRUSH!
"BOMATOSHIN!" Do-Wah grimaced. "She just doesn't give up, does she?"
"Hey, Lilly!" 2-T ducked underneath a garbage can lid. "Is there any connection between Kadril and the kleglee?"
Lilly apparated on Taa-morez's forehead. "OH, REALLY? HOW'D YOU FIGURE THAT OUT?" The kleglee quickly shook Lilly off. She landed on B-Bop, who blushed before pushing her off.
Cedric decided to make a bold move, very unlike him. He fell to the ground, knocking off his glasses and landing roughly on his knees. He kneeled in pain as his legs went to pins-and-needles. He gasped for breath; he did not often do stuff like this. He stood in the shadows, not on the front lines.
But, he gulped, gathered his resolve, and groped around for his book. He found his glasses first, and put them on. He found his book easily. Cedric sneaked quietly up behind Kadril, holding his book at the ready. He yelped in surprise as Hedril grabbed his shoulders, keeping him from hitting Kadril. Kadril turned, gasped, and started to run. Hedril had a good hold around his neck, but the grip suddenly got pulled off as Angela yanked her back.
"GET GOING, NOW!" Angela screamed through her helmet. She pinned down Hedril's arms so she couldn't punch her.
"RIGHT!" Cedric ran after Kadril. "GUYS! TRY BKM AGAIN!"
"One more try!" B-Bop tripped over his feet, picked himself up, and threw his arm into the air.
"B!"
"K!"
"M!"
Finally, the BKM sequence was going without interruption. But, it was because Taa-morez was now going after Cedric and Kadril!
Cedric wheezed for breath. He could not keep this up, he would die, he would trip-
But not if Kadril tripped first. Cedric had a brilliant, if evil, idea.
"ANGELA!" Cedric called, keeping his eyes on Kadril. "LOOK OUT! THE KLEGLEE'S HEADING RIGHT FOR YOU!"
"HEDRIL!" Kadril turned to save her sister, but met with-
"Surprise!"
SMACK!
Kadril fell to the ground, knocked unconscious. Taa-morez roared in pain as Kadril collasped. Cedric suddenly froze, a chill going up his spine.
"What'd I do?" Cedric stuttered. "What'd-d I do? What'-d-d I d-do?" He ran for cover, dropping his book to the ground.
"Finally!" B-Bop cheered. "Let's get this doggy back in her crate!"
Do-Wah rushed Taa-morez's head, landing a hard punch on her jaw. 2-T lashed her neck with an energy rope, wrapping it around her neck and tightening it. The kleglee lashed around inside of her leash. B-Bop fired one energy blast at her chest, and-
Down she fell. ONTO ANGELA AND HEDRIL! Angela and Hedril braced themselves for impact, but the impact never came.
Angela looked up into Lilly's face. She had flown in, picked up the girls, and had carried them to safety high above the battlefield.
"Are you always going to come to my rescue?" Angela smiled.
"Probably," Lilly shrugged. "You're welcome, Hedril."
Hedril smiled as well.
As Lilly handed Angela over to Do-Wah, two sets of footsteps trotted into the battlefield. One was Miss Pilialoha Nena. The other was a blonde- haired, portly man wearing a brown business suit (with flair bottoms), probably Kadril's father.
"MY BABY!" Pilialoha screamed. She ran to B-Bop, and began pounding on the suit's chest with her black talons. "WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY BABY!?"
"Miss!" B-Bop held up his hands in surrender. "Ma'am! Miss! They're fine! No one's dead! Well, except maybe the dog- nope, the dog's still alive!"
"Um, Miss Nena?" Lilly fell down to the ground, resting her weight on her tiptoes. She held Hedril and Kadril (one girl in each arm). "Kadril had... a bit of an accident."
"MY BABY!" Nena gathered the knocked-out Kadril in her arms. "MY BABY! My precious baby!"
"Thanks a lot," B-Bop snarled.
"What else was I supposed to do?"
2-T and Do-Wah landed, Do-Wah holding Angela tightly in his hands.
"Let's not go off topic," Lilly lifted herself to eye level with Miss Nena. "Your daughter poisoned one of our friends, and we need an antivenom."
"You've given my daughter a concusion!" Pilialoha grasped her daughter tightly. "Why should I help you?"
"Because the other girl's still a hostage!"
Cedric suddenly burst onto the scene, holding his Ripley's book directly in front of Hedril's head. "I can do the same thing to her..."
"NO!" Nena gasped. "NO! We'll help!"
To be continued some more a little later...
Kanan and Hypatia hurried into the apartment, slamming the door behind them.
"KANAN!" Pilialoha yelled from the other room. "PLEASE, COME AND CONTROL YOUR PET!"
"TAA-MOREZ!" Kanan hurried into her room, followed hesistantly by Hypathia.
Pilialoha was trying to force down the lid of a shoebox, which glowed with a deep purple light. A horrible growling sound came from the shoebox. Kanan shuddered before holding out one hand, making sure not to let go of her teddy bear. "HA-SO A NEKAO TESLA!"
The light shimmered into a fizzle before dissappearing, and the growling subsided. Pilialoha slammed the shoebox lid.
"Why... do you keep.... Taa-morez... as a pet.... Kanan?" Pilialoha, collasped to the floor.
"Because She serves as a watchkleglee," Kanan answered without emotion. "You think some weak Earthling dog could protect us against... I don't know... Ryoko, the space pirate?!"
"YOU ARE NOT TO SPEAK THAT NAME IS THIS HOUSEHOLD, KANAN!" Kanan and Hypatia embraced as Pilialoha towered over them. Her face burned in pure, unmidicated fury.
DING DONG!
"You're father's home!" Pilialoha happily crooned. She trotted to the doorway. "Hello, dearest, how are you?"
"Hedril, that's it!" Kanan turned to her friend. "I- wait- I know, we're supposed to go by our Earth names on this planet, but soon, we're not going to be on this planet! We're going to let out Taa-morez, and she's going to fly us back to our ship! Sure, she can do that, she's a kleglee! Now, hurry, we need to find an open lot to let her loose! Get the box!"
Hedril, formerly Hypatia, shakily grappled the shoebox and sneaked out of the window and down the fire escape.
***
"Mike's in bad shape," Lilly moaned. "He's having trouble breathing! We need to find those girls! Hurry, Martians!"
"We're hurrying!" 2-T griped.
"How do we know where do look?" Angela asked. Cedric tried to keep up, leaning dangerously from side to side as he tried to balance his book in his arms.
Lilly scanned the entire area for the two girls. They stood in a vacent lot the size of the nearby Quantum Burger.
"THEY HAVE A KLEGLEE!" Lilly screeched. She started flying faster. "THEY HAVE A KLEGLEE, HURRY UP!"
"WHAT'S A KLEGLEE!?" Do-Wah yelled.
"SOMETHING I HOPE THEY DON'T LET OUT OF IT'S BOX!"
***
"Time to let out Taa-morez!" Kanan gripped the lid in her fingertips, her teddy bear hurriedly stuffed down into her dress. "I told you, Hedril, call me Kadril now! And this is a good idea! Just hush! Besides, I control Taa- morez. What could go wrong?"
Kadril ripped the lid off of the box!
The purple light could be seen from Los Angeles, legend has it. A large, black form rose out of the shoebox like smoke, slowy solidfying into a huge beast!
It resemble a jet black Belgian sheepdog (look it up) with pure red eyes. It's long fur was ratty and horribly matted, except on it's tail, were it was short-cut. The tail was thick and strong, being the width of an oak tree and the length of one, two. It's mouth seemed to be frozen in a snarl, with saliva dripping from it's massive dagger-fangs. Out of it's shoulders grew two wings, much larger in size than the actual monster, also pitch black. It was the size of 5 African elephants, by rough comparison.
It turned to Kadril, it's face still snarling. It uttered a growl deep within its throat.
"Uh... hehhehheh..." Kadril took a few steps back. Without holding her teddy bear, you could see the two gray-black talons which grew out of the underside of her wrists. Hedril tried to scream, but her throat locked up. She hid behind Kadril, shivering and wimpering like a baby. "Wow... you've... grown."
***
Everyone braked as the purple light flooded the sky.
"THEY LET THE KLEGLEE LOOSE!" Lilly cried. She hid her face in her hands. "This is not supposed to happen! This is not supposed to happen!"
"What is a kleglee, Lilly?' B-Bop flew his OMAB to Lilly's face. "I want to know, NOW!"
"A kleglee is the name for a female Quiff-lesek!" Lilly moaned without removing her hands. "Why am I telling you this? WE'RE WAISTING TIME!"
Lilly zoomed into the distance, her lower beings trudgingly following behind her.
When the Martians and humans finally saw the kleglee, they nearly fell off of there flying machines.
"What the heee- what the heck is that thing?" Cedric had to try hard to keep from swearing.
***
"Taa-morez?" Kadril spoke in her own language. "Let us come onto your back. You will carry us to the ship 'Konaru 18'- Taa-morez?" Kadril tried desperately to gain her pet's attention as its face began to wander. "Taa- morez! Bad girl! Look at me!" Kadril growled. "Taa-morez? HEDRIL! TALK SOME SENSE INTO THIS THING!"
"WHAT THE?"
Kadril and Hedril turned their heads upwards as they heard voices. "NOT THEM AGAIN! HEDRIL!"
"You're not fooling us with those mind tricks again!" 2-T scolded. He screamed as Taa-morez snapped her huge jaws at him. She followed him like a cat would follow a mouse.
"BACK UP, GUYS!" 2-T jumped off of the OMAB just as Taa-morez smashed it with her paw, turning it into blue tin-foil. "I NEED BACK UP!"
Taa-morez let out a mournful howl which echoed through the city.
"AAH!" Kadril screamed. "NO, DON'T! YOU'LL WAKE UP THE HUMANS! HEDRIL!"
Hedil staid behind Kadril, not daring to take her eyes off of the kleglee.
Taa-morez turned her attention to the helpless humans, who stood unprotected on their hoverboards. Angela and Cedric scattered as the BUMs lept to the grounds, preparing to pull out the big guns. Sorta.
"B!"
"K!"
"M!"
Taa-morez stood and stared for a bit, then-
SMACK!
She smacked her paw at the Martians, Stopping the BKM sequence!
"WHAT HAPPENED!?" Do-Wah yelled in shock.
"IT STOPPED BKM!" 2-T gasped in exasperation. "IT STOPPED BKM!"
"HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!" B-Bop cried.
Lilly hovered above the kleglee's head, dodging jaws and teeth. "THINK ABOUT IT! REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YOU EARLIER!"
"Think, think, think, think!" 2-T chanted. He hid behind a nearby car. "Kleglee is a female term... um.. um.. Clawfacles are telepaths! But what does that do?"
"2-T! LET'S TRY IT AGAIN!" B-Bop ordered.
"Roger that, CommanDEEEEEEEEEEERRR!" Taa-morez smashed the car 2-T hid behind, causing him to fly through the air and onto his head.
Cedric scampered to find cover, when he finally dropped his book... on Kadril's head. It knocked off her sunhat, and announced another alien feature; horns. Two little fat horns growing out of her temple and around her ears. They were gray in color, and flashed white on and off as Taa- morez made every footstep.
But, more importantly, Kadril cringed back as the book hit her head. And so did Taa-morez.
2-t took note of this event before he tried the BKM chant again.
"B!"
"K"
CRUSH!
"BOMATOSHIN!" Do-Wah grimaced. "She just doesn't give up, does she?"
"Hey, Lilly!" 2-T ducked underneath a garbage can lid. "Is there any connection between Kadril and the kleglee?"
Lilly apparated on Taa-morez's forehead. "OH, REALLY? HOW'D YOU FIGURE THAT OUT?" The kleglee quickly shook Lilly off. She landed on B-Bop, who blushed before pushing her off.
Cedric decided to make a bold move, very unlike him. He fell to the ground, knocking off his glasses and landing roughly on his knees. He kneeled in pain as his legs went to pins-and-needles. He gasped for breath; he did not often do stuff like this. He stood in the shadows, not on the front lines.
But, he gulped, gathered his resolve, and groped around for his book. He found his glasses first, and put them on. He found his book easily. Cedric sneaked quietly up behind Kadril, holding his book at the ready. He yelped in surprise as Hedril grabbed his shoulders, keeping him from hitting Kadril. Kadril turned, gasped, and started to run. Hedril had a good hold around his neck, but the grip suddenly got pulled off as Angela yanked her back.
"GET GOING, NOW!" Angela screamed through her helmet. She pinned down Hedril's arms so she couldn't punch her.
"RIGHT!" Cedric ran after Kadril. "GUYS! TRY BKM AGAIN!"
"One more try!" B-Bop tripped over his feet, picked himself up, and threw his arm into the air.
"B!"
"K!"
"M!"
Finally, the BKM sequence was going without interruption. But, it was because Taa-morez was now going after Cedric and Kadril!
Cedric wheezed for breath. He could not keep this up, he would die, he would trip-
But not if Kadril tripped first. Cedric had a brilliant, if evil, idea.
"ANGELA!" Cedric called, keeping his eyes on Kadril. "LOOK OUT! THE KLEGLEE'S HEADING RIGHT FOR YOU!"
"HEDRIL!" Kadril turned to save her sister, but met with-
"Surprise!"
SMACK!
Kadril fell to the ground, knocked unconscious. Taa-morez roared in pain as Kadril collasped. Cedric suddenly froze, a chill going up his spine.
"What'd I do?" Cedric stuttered. "What'd-d I do? What'-d-d I d-do?" He ran for cover, dropping his book to the ground.
"Finally!" B-Bop cheered. "Let's get this doggy back in her crate!"
Do-Wah rushed Taa-morez's head, landing a hard punch on her jaw. 2-T lashed her neck with an energy rope, wrapping it around her neck and tightening it. The kleglee lashed around inside of her leash. B-Bop fired one energy blast at her chest, and-
Down she fell. ONTO ANGELA AND HEDRIL! Angela and Hedril braced themselves for impact, but the impact never came.
Angela looked up into Lilly's face. She had flown in, picked up the girls, and had carried them to safety high above the battlefield.
"Are you always going to come to my rescue?" Angela smiled.
"Probably," Lilly shrugged. "You're welcome, Hedril."
Hedril smiled as well.
As Lilly handed Angela over to Do-Wah, two sets of footsteps trotted into the battlefield. One was Miss Pilialoha Nena. The other was a blonde- haired, portly man wearing a brown business suit (with flair bottoms), probably Kadril's father.
"MY BABY!" Pilialoha screamed. She ran to B-Bop, and began pounding on the suit's chest with her black talons. "WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY BABY!?"
"Miss!" B-Bop held up his hands in surrender. "Ma'am! Miss! They're fine! No one's dead! Well, except maybe the dog- nope, the dog's still alive!"
"Um, Miss Nena?" Lilly fell down to the ground, resting her weight on her tiptoes. She held Hedril and Kadril (one girl in each arm). "Kadril had... a bit of an accident."
"MY BABY!" Nena gathered the knocked-out Kadril in her arms. "MY BABY! My precious baby!"
"Thanks a lot," B-Bop snarled.
"What else was I supposed to do?"
2-T and Do-Wah landed, Do-Wah holding Angela tightly in his hands.
"Let's not go off topic," Lilly lifted herself to eye level with Miss Nena. "Your daughter poisoned one of our friends, and we need an antivenom."
"You've given my daughter a concusion!" Pilialoha grasped her daughter tightly. "Why should I help you?"
"Because the other girl's still a hostage!"
Cedric suddenly burst onto the scene, holding his Ripley's book directly in front of Hedril's head. "I can do the same thing to her..."
"NO!" Nena gasped. "NO! We'll help!"
To be continued some more a little later...