A/N: Sorry for the two month wait for this chapter, folks. At least I'm still going on with it and this chapter is one of the lasts. I've been so busy for this past month that I rarely got around to doing my other fics that I didn't have writer's block on. I just love this fic so much it is like I don't want to end the fun. That had to have sound stupid, but oh well. Please forgive me for my huge delay! Please R&R. Thanks!
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Chapter 36
"So the plan is set," Merlander said to Bo and Daxter. They both nodded, and he went on. The three were sitting on the library floor huddling over a map of the prison at around two in the morning, as Bo's guard slept soundly by the door.
"Bo knows were Flash and Rose's room is," Merlander said in a loud whisper. "I know where Roxie and Jak are. Their cells are right next to each other."
"Wait!" Daxter said while putting his hands above his head to stop all talking. "You know where Jak is?" he asked Merlander while pointing a fuzzy finger in his face. "And you never told me?"
"Shh!" Bo hissed to Daxter while whacking him on the back of his head to shut the animal up. "Be quiet or that guard will wake up and all hell will break lose."
"Of course I knew where Jak was!" Merlander whispered down to Daxter with a frown on his face. "But I was busy being held captive here, so I couldn't tell you till now. Think next time before you go yelling randomly, okay?"
"Okay, touchy!" Daxter said quiet and backing up to give the nervous Elf and Human some room to breathe. But Daxter couldn't keep the wide, goofy grin off his face at the thought of seeing Jak again. How he so badly wanted to see him! He was now dying to see his old friend once again.
"Tomorrow night is the night then," Merlander said while tapping his chin in thought. He looked over the map and said, "We know how to get out of the wristband now, and getting out of here will be easy. The hard part is rescuing the others. At exactly eleven you go after the young ones while I go for Roxie and Jak. We will meet up with each other at the Hip Hog Heaven Saloon. Try not to set off any alarms. How does that sound?"
"Can I go with you?" Daxter asked Merlander with a spark of hope shining in his eyes.
"No," Merlander answered firmly. "Bo needs help with the two young ones. She has to carry Rose, and she might need help containing Flash. I can take care of Roxie and Jak by myself."
"Fun sucker," Daxter muttered under his breath. He glared up at Merlander and folded his arms across his chest to sulk about the answer he had gotten from the serious Elf.
"This is serious, Dax," Merlander said. "No screw ups or we all could be dead that night. I don't want more blood on my hands." At the mention of blood it reminded the group of the death of their loved one. They all grew quiet and stared at the floor with their own dark thoughts over the matter. Determination and anger burned in all their eyes. They were ready to get the hell out of there for good.
"Plus," Bo finally said with a small smile coming to her lips. "If desperate times come down to desperate measures I know exactly what to do. You won't have to worry about me, Mer."
"Good," Merlander with a nod. "It's a plan, then."
"Good evening, Merlander," Simon said calmly to the teen Elf. The two stood opposite of each other in the training room. The man stood in his usual stance that was relaxed and almost emotionless. He could feel all the emotions of the other one, though, and at times it was almost overwhelming. A lot of pent of anger and pain was locked up into this teen.
"It is clear what you feel today," Simon said while seeing Merlander's hands burst into yellow flame. He didn't have a wristband on, so everything was flowing out right now. "But that is the emotion I want you to feel tonight, Mer. And you're going to feel a lot of it really soon."
"What do you mean?" Merlander asked him with confusion in his voice. He let out a deep breath and cleared his mind of emotions. The yellow flames were put out as he said to Simon, "Stop speaking in riddles, Simon. I'm getting sick of it."
"Then let me put an end to this puzzlement," Simon said with a small, wicked smile on his lips. Merlander gulped down a wave of dread as the man snapped his fingers for two guards to come in with someone. Simon tried not to flinch as he felt all the emotions of Merlander pore out on him when the boy recognized the captive.
"Roxie!" Merlander shouted while taking a step forward to prevent her from getting hurt. His body burst into blue sparks as he was struck with fear of anything bad happening to her. She looked up at him and both their eyes made instant contact.
"It will be okay, Merlander," Roxie's voice said in his head with a soothing tone to it that made the teen give a small shiver. "I'll be fine," the voice said, and she smiled faintly at him from where she was forced to stand in the room.
"How sweet," Simon said sardonically to them both. He smiled again while putting his hands behind his back and glancing between the two. "You two must really like each other."
"What are you going to do to her?" Merlander asked Simon while trying hard to hold back his fury.
"Oh, you have it all wrong, my boy!" Simon said while revealing another wristband that he had been holding behind his back. He stared at it for a few seconds while thinking about something unknown to the two Elves. His eyes then pinned on Merlander as he said, "I'm going to do nothing to this innocent girl. You're going to be the one."
"Huh?"
"Are you sure that you know what you're doing, Bo?" Daxter asked the Human girl while standing on her small shoulder that could barely hold him up.
"The first law of Alchemy is that you have to give something up of equal value before changing something by using Alchemy," Bo said. She took out a knife that she had stolen from the dinner table that night. She stared at her refection in the cold silver of the weapon before giving a small nod.
"Whoa! What the heck are you doing?" Daxter yelled at Bo as he saw her let out a deep breathe before slightly slicing some of her palm open a little. It was just enough for blood to come out. "Humans are crazy!" Daxter yelled as he watched the girl in horror, yet he was very curious as to what she would do next.
"This much blood from my own body I think is of equal value as to burning this metal of my wristband," Bo said with a wince as she rubbed the blood around her hand.
"You've never done this before, have you?" Daxter asked her with some fear in his voice.
"Never before in my life!" Bo said with a wicked smile on her face. "Here goes nothing, Dax!"
"Humans are crazy," Daxter said again as he watched her closely. Bo grabbed her wristband with her bloody hand and closed her eyes tight to concentrate on whatever she needed to do. He had no idea what to expect of this. Would it even work? He was very doubtful at this point.
Nothing happened for a few seconds. "Come on!" Bo muttered then finally gave a short yell as her wristband suddenly lit up in a red light that made Daxter cry out as his eyes hurt. When he looked back, the wristband looked like it had been melted all around. A few small burned marks were on the Human's arm, but besides that she was fine and happy as ever.
"I knew it would work!" Bo said more to herself than the fuzzy animal on her shoulder. She ripped the wristband off her arm and ran to the door of the lab room that was guarded by the same guard as before. The two then looked up to the clock on the wall and only had to wait four seconds for it to turn eleven.
"I'm way ahead of you, crazy girl!" Daxter said to Bo while jumping off her shoulder. He gave her a two finger salute and went right to work with their plan. He jumped onto a table and started to push glass bowls and beakers off. Various smashes and crashes started to sound around the room, as Bo stood by the door yelling random things as if Daxter had been let lose and making a mess.
"Get back here you stupid fuzz butt!" Bo yelled right as the guard came in to see what the entire ruckus was. He barely had time to spot Daxter before he blacked out from the blow he got to the back of his head by a swing of Bo's Staff.
"Nice shot!" Daxter said while jumping off a table. He sniffed the Elf and smiled to himself.
"Well, thanks, fuzz butt," Bo said sweetly to Daxter.
Daxter jumped to her shoulder with a frown on his face. "Don't call me that," he said to her with annoyance in his voice.
"Then stop calling me crazy girl," Bo said slyly.
"You win," Daxter muttered to her as she ran out of the room on her way to rescue her friends.
"What do you mean?" Merlander asked Simon. Another wave of confusion swept over his face.
Simon walked over to Merlander with that evil smile still planted on his face. "This," he said while quickly clipping the wristband onto the teen's arm before he could get his head on straight. The man backed up as the effects of the new band took over the Elf's body quickly.
Merlander cried out a little as he felt his body take in the effects of the band. He winced as his hands burned with that yellow fire. The fire kept getting stronger, and in seconds, Merlander couldn't control it anymore, and he watched in horror as his body started to slowly take on the yellow eco.
"That wristband is like the one they put on you to make you fight others," Simon explained to Merlander. "This one is ten times stronger than that one," Simon said, and his smile got bigger when he saw Merlander's face contort into anger.
"What are you doing to me?" Merlander yelled at Simon while throwing a punch at the man. Simon caught his fist and quickly released him with a small wince as the fire burned his skin slightly.
"I see that the effects are already taking hold onto your body," Simon said. "After a few minutes it will make you so angry and blood thirsty that you will kill anything in your path. I wonder what will happen if you kill the one you love most." As he said this, he pointed to Roxie who was standing there in complete horror of what was going on.
"No!" Merlander yelled while coming at Simon again. "Take the damn thing off me right now, Simon!" The man simply moved away. As Merlander regained his balance, the man and the two guards escaped through the metal door. Simon reappeared a few stories above them in room with a big window looking down at the training room so that person could observe everything.
"Merlander?" Roxie asked the teen with her voice having fear in it. "Please don't do this. Please fight it. I might not know what's going on between you and Simon, but I do know that he wants you to kill me for some reason."
Merlander tried to hold onto sanity as he dropped to his hands and knees. Roxie came a little closer to her friend and saw that tears were streaming down his face. He looked up to her and said softly, "I don't want to hurt you, Roxie."
"I know," Roxie said quickly. "But can't you fight it?"
"No," Merlander said while shaking his head. He gave a quiet sob and said, "I love you, Roxie." He paused. "I didn't want to tell you this before because…I guess…I was just too scared." He looked back up at her and then said, "But if everything goes the way Simon plans it, I wanted to tell you that. I'm sorry."
Roxie was quiet for a few seconds. Tears started to form in her own eyes as she realized that she might not make it out of this room alive, and that it would be her best friend that would kill her. But she was going to try to hold onto a bit of hope that someone or something could rescue her and Merlander if she hung in there.
Roxie let the tears flow as she whispered back to Merlander, "I love you too, Mer."
But Merlander had not heard her. The anger and blood lust had finally taken complete control of his body right before she was able to get those words out of her mouth. He looked up to the girl, and all he could think about was ripping her apart and beating her to a pulp. He wanted to see her blood spill and splatter all around these tight walls and floor that were his prison. He wanted to kill.
"So," Daxter said as Bo sprinted down the hallway of the prison. He bounced up and down from her running, and he was having a hard time staying on her shoulder. "What if you want to make something different than just melting metal?"
"I would need more equal payment," Bo said. "But to change something else I would have to get more research on that element," she said with a nod. "This is an old science that didn't work very well on Earth and for Humans. But on this world it works better, and I can perform it just as well as Elves."
"Okay," Daxter said with confusion. He watched as Bo slowed down and ripped off some of her shirt to wrap around her hand to stop it from bleeding anymore. They ran for a few more minutes till they finally got to the room that Flash and Rose was being held in. It was guarded by three Krimson Guards that looked bored out of their wits.
Bo silently took out her Bo Staff with a quick twirl of her hand as she flattened her back against the wall. The animal and Human nodded to each other right before Bo flung herself out of her hiding place. She swung the staff down vertically onto one of the guy's head. He was out before he hit the floor.
"Riddle for you," Bo said to the two other guards while resting the Staff on one of her shoulders. The two guards got into a fighting stance while holding up their guns. Bo smiled before saying, "Who's next?"
At this, the two came at her. The small Human flipped up into the air and landed behind them. She tripped one with her Staff. While that guy was down, the girl used her staff as a baseball bat to knockout the other dude. She then came down at the last Krimson Guard with no mercy in her deadly attack. She then stood back to admire her beautiful handy work.
Bo took out a set of keys from one of the guards pockets and tried a few before getting the right one to unlock the door. She swung the door open and saw baby Rose crying softly in a bed as Flash paced the room as lighting speed. When he saw Bo and Daxter in the doorway, his eyes lit up as a smile spread across his face.
"Hey, kid!" Daxter said while jumping onto the boy's head. "Miss me?"
"You bet I did!" Flash said while jumping up and down with excitement.
Bo picked up Rose carefully and kissed her lightly on the forehead. Rose knew exactly who Bo was and giggled with happiness to get out of the place. "We need to pick up the pace, Dax," Bo said down to Daxter. Worry was on her face as she quickly walked over to the door. "I have a bad feeling that someone could have heard me take down all those guards."
"Then let's get out of here!" Daxter said while hopping off Flash's head.
"What are we doing?" Flash asked his fuzzy friend.
"Escaping!" Daxter said while winking to the kid.
A/N: I want to end this chapter here. Don't worry, I have lot of plans for ending this, and my next update will be VERY soon. Don't think that it will be another month. I swear that it won't be! But please tell me how you think of it so far in a review. Thank you for the other reviews. I'm sorry that I won't be able to answer them. I'll leave you readers here for now. Please review. Thanks!