So You Wanna Take Over The World
Chapter 7
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Much as I wanted to scream. I didn't. Couldn't, really. I'd been inside a creature before… namely Buu. But that was something all together different than this little predicament. This… thing… that I was in, seemed not to be alive, yet it… pulsed. Once I had managed to calm myself enough to take in the surroundings, I could feel the walls around me pulsing in erratic waves. Breathing had to be kept to a minimum, the slimy mini creatures would creep up my body and try to get in my mouth and nose if I so much as exhaled a little too strongly.
Other than that, I had made no leeway in finding out where the hell I was. There was no light. I could not generate any either. I figured that much out very quickly. The walls seemed to contract in on me when I raised my ki level at all. In fact, I had to force my energy down as far as I could manage.
There was one other problem. A thin membrane started to grow around me whenever I sat still too long. It was like spider silk. I had to change positions every now and then to avoid this, but it was happening more frequently. Needless to say, a way out is what I needed.
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An hour must've passed. Had to have been at least that long. I was starting to get claustrophobic now. An old problem. Not a phobia… but enough of a problem to make me sweat and breathe more heavily than I could afford. I closed my eyes, tried to think.
Well, if I could be sucked into this… whatever the hell I was in, then maybe I could throw all my energy into a last ditch effort to force my way out. It was the only solution I could come up with, and if I didn't do something soon I'd probably be wrapped up in that nasty membrane like a cocoon and die anyway. I felt around the pulsing prison and tried to find a spot that seemed thinner than the rest of the walls. No luck. It felt the same throughout. Like a slick coating of snot…
I took one well deserved , long breath and began to raise my energy level. The disgusting little slug creatures immediately started slithering toward me. It was too dark to see them, but I could hear them. Slimy little parasites sliding along an equally slimy floor. It made my stomach churn just listening to that sound. One of them slid upward onto my leg, squiggled like a worm trapped on pavement during a rainstorm. I ignored it and continued bringing my power level up. More grabbed onto my hands, found their way up my arms and onto my neck. They were piling on now, I felt them everywhere… under my clothes, squirming around on my back, on the top of my head. Still, I kept going. Finally one found my mouth, which I immediately closed then pressed my lips tightly together. My power level rocketed to near suicidal levels. I leveled my energy out and pulled my hand back, ready to punch a whole through the wall of goo. I was stopped by a thick ropy… thing… that felt much like the creatures who were now swarming onto my face and easing into my nose. I yanked my hand forward and the rope snapped, much to my relief. The tiny slugs had covered my nose, suffocating me. I drew a quick breath through my mouth… just enough for one to crawl in. I choked, coughed… tried to spit it out. But to no avail. I felt it wiggle across my tongue and slither down my throat.
I stopped struggling and released a ball of energy from inside of me. The energy basted through my throat frying the little bastard before he could get any further. Now, if I only I could do that through my nose… I held my breath, pulled my hand back and was not stopped this time as I punched through the membranous wall. My hand went straight through and I felt cool air on the other side. Celebrating would have to wait until later, because the little slugs had realized that I was trying to escape. They gripped onto me with power I hadn't realized they possessed and pulled at me. Trying to bring me back in. I fought away, placed both hands on either side of the hole my fist had made, and yanked in opposite directions as hard and as brutally as I could manage. A high pitched screech ripped through my ears, and the slugs fell away from my body. I kept stretching and the scream went on and on until I was sure I would be deaf by the time I finally managed to get out of here. Cool air hit my face and I was about to climb out, when I was pushed from behind and tumbled unceremoniously into the outside world. I waited to hit solid ground… but none came.
…I looked down and realized I was hundreds of feet in the air. I sucked in a quick breath of air and pushed my energy downward, allowing me to levitate easily in the air.
"I… I made it…" I said aloud to myself and looked back up. The thing I had been in was still up there, squirming and crying out. It was a large gray blob, but I could see through it, much like I saw through Lien. I saw the hole I had ripped in its side and smiled. "Thought you had me, didn't you?" I called up to it. Forming a ball of energy in my hand, I prepared to blast that bastard back to the hell it had crawled from… when it screeched one last time… and was gone.
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Gone. Vanished. I looked toward the east… the west… behind me… it had disappeared. I let the energy ball dissipate and tired to think. What had that thing been? Why was it after me? Too many questions and no one to answer them. Floating there in midair, I suddenly felt something wiggle inside my shoe. With an agitated growl, I ripped off my shoe and found one of the slug creatures. My stomach rolled over several times at the sight of it. Looking nothing like the gray blob I had been trapped in, this smaller creature was pink and white. It had a tiny gaping mouth that seemed full of tiny little suckers, like the ones on the bottom of a starfish. It had no eyes that I could see, and no legs. It squirmed endlessly around my toes, leaving a trail of sticky, bubbling goo. I reached down, plucked it off my foot and held it firmly in my hand. As sick as this thing made me, it might be useful in finding out just what I was dealing with here. I slipped my shoe back on, feeling resistance when it came in contact with the sticky slime on my toes, but I managed to get it on.
"Now… Lien…" I murmured, stretching out my mind, trying not to be distracted by the wiggling creature in my hand. I could feel nothing at first, a side effect of being inside that monster, perhaps. But soon energy signals began popping up here and there. And I felt a large gathering of them up and to the east. Strong energy signals. Goku… the rest of the group and… Lien. They were all on the lookout. I gave the pulsing creature a harsh squeeze, taking pleasure in its pain and took off for the lookout.
Maybe together we can work out some answers…
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A/N- I actually finished another chapter! I'm so special. Um, I admit this chapter left much to be desired, but once again I'm trying to work off whatever seems to be blocking me from writing. This helped some, so I hope you don't find it too awful. Anyway, lemme know what you thought.
~~Uzume