~*Part III: Never Say Whatsit*~
The Whatsits were not idling, however, as they made plans to rescue Sailor Obvious. Now gathered around their friend's last known location, they discussed the present options.
"What do we do, what do we do?!" LoOn hopped up and down next to Mamoo. Mamoo was staring into the streetlamp, becoming steadily blind.
"What happened again Crissy?" Triesta asked for the third time.
"Guy, and and pooft!, and and bread!" Crissy whined, tugging at a loose curl in her ponytail.
"Bread?!" Dee's face became dark. "There is only one person who bakes bread!"
"The guy at the bakery?" LoOn asked innocently.
"...Besides him." Dee said.
"King Barrel," Cera finished matter-of-factly.
All the Whatsits gasped in spite of themselves. "What do we do?!" LoOn asked.
Luckily for the Whatsits, and reader's with short attention spans, that's just when Boben (who will from now on will be referred to only as TK, since in the last scene it got awful confusing when he was called by both names, and he really hates it when you call him "Bo-ben") reappeared on the ground, looking dazed.
"Guy!" Crissy wailed. "Him, him!"
"Bwaaa?" TK said.
The Whatsits formed a circled around TK as he stood up, closing him in. A sweatdrop formed on his forehead as he looked down at them all. "Hold on a minute-"
"It's the Teacake King!" LoOn pointed. "You stole Kaliae!"
"Can I get my whip? It's just over on my motorcycle." Cera asked eagerly, making TK back away from her. The fetal position was looking like his only option to survive.
Triesta tapped a finger on her chin. "I think it's best to pump him for information before we kill him, Cera."
"You don't have to do that," TK said, sounding nervous. "I'm here to help you!"
Dee and Triesta looked at each other, apparently not hearing. "We could get the egg beater, but then we'd have to send LoOn home."
"Hey, what's this?!" LoOn pounced TK, grabbing the Evil Transporter Button from him. "It's silly ^.^."
"See? Can we stop planning my painful death for a few seconds so I can explain?" TK asked, beginning to worry more than before about the girls' sanity, and his own for that matter. "Your friend, the kinda cute one with the buns on her head, got locked up by this evil guy dressed in a barrel and I said I'd bring you guys to him to get away. You can use the button to go get your friend! No need to kill me o.o"
All the Whatsits turned in unison and looked at the button. "Why didn't you say so in the first place?" LoOn asked. "That changes everything!" She still looked at him suspiciously.
"Really? That's great. Great." TK said hurriedly. "So if you don't mind, I've really got to be going. Early shift at the Bakery and all-" He gulped back the rest of his excuse as the Whatsits drew closer around him. "-Or, I can go with you. Ladies can't be all alone going after evil bad guys...in.....barrels....." 'Aw crap. What have I gotten myself into?'
"Mamoo! make sure he doesn't escape while we transform!" LoOn ordered Mamoo. He continued to stare into the streetlamp. "....." She placed Mamoo's hand on TK's arm, and nodded in satisfaction.
"Ready Whatsits? Let's
go!"
"Random Butterfly Power,
Make up!" ("Why does Tri always get to go first?" "Because
I'm the oldest :p" "Aww....")
"Cynic Pencil Power, make up!"
"Airhead Blonde Girl power, make up!"
"Contradiction Power Down, make up!"
"Lunatic Flashy Thingy That Makes You Very Dizzy!!!"
TK stared in confusion as the newly transformed Whatsits again surrounded him, Sailor Lunatic holding the Evil Transporter Button, offering it to him. "Okay, take us to Kaliae!"
"But....I don't know how it works."
"I can see all sorts of colourful dots," Mamoo commented.
~*~*~*~
"I've got it!" King Barrel cackled.
"What?" Jay asked around a yawn.
"Don't ask such stupid questions," Barrel snapped back, then turned to JediKnight. "Is the Sailor Whatsit we captured still in her cell?"
"As far as I know," JediKnight replied.
"Excellent, bring her here, she shall be the first of the Whatsit's to fall victim in my latest plot to rule the world!" Waving JediKnight off, King Barrel rose from his dais and strutted importantly across the floor to an adjoining room, a lab, flanked by his other three generals, who were curious to see what there glorious leader had concocted this time.
Kachoonzite coughed slightly.
"Are you choking?" Notbright asked.
"Behold!" King Barrel flung his arms out, gesturing his minions to, well, behold. "My latest creation!" he beamed.
"It........looks like a giant refrigerator." In fact, the new device looked exactly that, except with a clear Plexiglas door and a profusely of cables who's like has never been seen in all of anime history protruding from it. Any electrician would had put it in the Louve.
King Barrel faltered slightly at the stinging comment, but recovered. "It's not just a giant refrigerator!"
There was a pause.
"...........It has the capability to freeze any person put inside it in a cryogenic sleep, during which it can drain all the potassium out of their body!"
Jay rubbed his forehead. "Why do we want potassium again?"
Barrel sputtered. " That's not important right know, but we can take over the world if we get all of it!"
"Oh, whatever. So, what is it called?" Jay asked, tapping the side of the machine.
"Erm..............Giant Refrigerator of Doom."
The Generals looked at each other and sighed.
"Hey, let me go!"
"Ouch, stop kicking me! ." Jediknight yelped, limping/running into the lab, Kaliae close behind, trying to line him up for another hit. A single pink teacake bounced happily behind her. Before she could succeed, however, the other generals came to their comrade's aid and subdued the disgruntled Whatsit.
Kaliae flailed, trying to break free, but it was no use. Three against one weren't good odds. "Hands off!" she cried unhappily.
"Ahh, Sailor Obvious, how nice of you to join us," King Barrel said, turning from his contraption, adjusting his cape for a better effect.
Kaliae stopped her spastic efforts to get free, and glared at him. "Well, it's not nice to be here," she pouted. 'Aiyaa, and where's that Teacake King?! He's the one that betrayed me!' A small tear came to the corner of her eye at the thought.
"And now, we wait for your friends arrival, and then my evil plan can go into effect!" King Barrel cackled, and with orders for the Generals to keep Kaliae subdued in the lab until he returned, bounced out of the room to await TK and his Whatsit captives.
