Author note: Chap 3 up!
The Asteraid was much bigger inside than out. There were sphere-shaped elevators that could lead you to any of the rooms, by going up, down and around, but mostly around. There was a dining room, a bounce room with anything you could bounce on in it, a large sound-proof room for games like truth or dare or spin the bottle, and several small rooms sound-proof rooms for…"other" uses. Almost everyone was in the dance hall. The floor lit up in all different places. There were people dancing from platforms and balconies in the hall. Some girl dancers were even dancing in cages hanging from the ceiling. There were bright lights in every color flashing from a giant Futura Light and strobe lights flashing more than 10 times a second. There was even a VJ playing classic party songs from the 20th and early and current 21st century.
Do-Wah and Debbie were dancing together.
"Man, this so much fun!" said Debbie screaming over the music.
"Yeah it is!" Do-Wah screamed back at her. Then the music stopped.
"A'ight everybody!" shouted the VJ, a Martian inches shorter than any one in the room dressed as a ghetto rapper, "here's the number one classic party song, from the Vengaboys, "We Like to Party! Yes, we do!" The crowd roared as the song began.
We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party
Someone knocked into Debbie and the two presents in her purse fell to the ground.
I've got something to tell ya
I've got news for you
Gonna put some wheels in motion
Get ready 'cause we're coming through
Hey now, hey now, here's what I say now
Happiness is just around the corner
Hey now, hey now, here's what I say now
We'll be there for you
She dove after them and shoved through the crowdget to B.Bop, Bianca and Shaboom up front.
Chorus
The Vengabus is coming
And everybody's jumping
New York to San Francisco
An intercity disco
The wheels of steel are turning
And traffic lights are burning
So if you like to party
Get on and move your body
We like to party
Meanwhile Bianca tried to get B.Bop's attention.
"B.Bop!" she tugged on his sleeve, "we need to talk!"
"Bianca! B.Bop!" Debbie called over the music.
We like, we like to party
They turned in her direction. She handed them the presents. "They're for you!"
We like to party
We like, we like to party
Hey now, hey now, here's what I say now
Happiness is just around the corner
Hey now, hey now, here's what I say now
We'll be there for you…..
The music faded as the two best friends headed out of the dance hall and into a glass elevator. They both but they're gifts on the floor. B.Bop pushed the button for the parking lot and the elevator sphere began moving past many rooms within the tube it was moving in.
"It's the farthest place from the hall," said B.Bop. "Why do we need to talk?"
"Well," Bianca shrugged, "I found out where our first assignments are going to be."
"And?" said B.Bop excitedly, but Bianca didn't answer. "And?" said B.Bop again growing impatient.
"Well, you're heading to, um,"—she paused a moment—"Earth and…….I'm going to a planet I've never even heard of!" Tears grew in Bianca's eyes but she began wiped them quickly away hoping B.Bop wouldn't notice. B.Bop put his hand on her shoulder, turned her around and saw the tears. Bianca noticed tears growingin his eyes too.
"It's okay," he whispered softly.
"No! It isn't fair!" she shouted angrily in a broken voice. "Why do we have to be so far apart?" She began to tremble as her tear rolled down and off her face and her hair stuck to her face near her mouth. B.Bop brushed it away putting his hands on her cheeks and stroked her remaining tears away with his thumbs.
"Bianca……"—she looked up to him—"you're not going to let something like distance……get in the way of our friendship, are you?" Bianca looked down again but looked back up into his eyes and shook her head. The elevator bell dinged and B.Bop and Bianca stepped out taking the gifts as they did. As it moved away, they both walked farther to the edge of the parking lot and admired the scenery. Stars filled the sky in tremendous colors and sizes.
"Look, you can see Saturn from here," said B.Bop with a chuckle while pointing it out and elbowing Bianca softly.
"B.Bop," said Bianca her voice still cracking, "I know distance won't keep us from being friends, but…"—she leaned on his arm and felt the softness of his sleeve—"I couldn't stand being away from you so long."
He put his arms around her and held her close. She felt small and frail in his arms.
"I couldn't either. It would feel like forever." He dropped his present and a small metal disc fell out, faintly glowing red.
"Oops," said B.Bop feeling stupid and picked it up. "What is this?" He asked Bianca while looking closer at it. It shot from his hand like a bullet and stuck into his neck like a small needle and it glowed red again. B.Bop yelled in pain but then he became silenced.
"B.Bop?" said Bianca since B.Bop had been in silence for a long time. "B.Bop?" she said again and B.Bop still didn't answer. She reached for his shoulder and as if sensing her he turned sharply, grabbed Bianca's outstretched hand and hurled her with such a force that she tore through the crystal glass of the Asteraid wall all the way back to the party hall.
The Vengabus is coming
And everybody's jumping
New York to San Francisco
An intercity disco
The wheels of steel are turning
And traffic lights are burning
So if you like to party
Get on and move your body
The Vengabus is coming
Just as the song ended, Bianca came crashing through the wall behind the VJ and all the partygoers began screaming with terror. The speakers from the VJ toppled over and sparked. The Futura Light fell from the ceiling and sent bulb glass across the middle of the floor. The caged dancers open their cages and fled. Everyone was terrified and ran (or flew in the case of saturnals) as though their lives depended on it.
Bianca lay on the ground and couldn't get up. She was in terrible pain and shock. B.Bop came running through the hole at that instant and punched Bianca straight in the jaw. He sent her flying from the impact of his fist into a strobe light.
She screamedthen groanedas it gave her an electric shock that left her unconscious. He was going to finish her off, when Debbie, Teresa and Shaboom blocked the way.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, B.BOP!" shouted Debbie.
"Debbie!" said Teresa in awe.
"What?" said Debbie, "He's acting crazy!" She turned to B.Bop ready to yell again, but he had vanished.
In about three hours, Bianca awakened in a small room. It was blindingly white with gray tiles and a window showing the outside of space. Her bed had white sheets but they had been stained with spots of blood. There was a white wooden chair next to the bed, two cushioned chairs near the window and a TV perched near the ceiling. There was a glass door with a blind over it and Bianca's dress in shreds was hanging near the door and a metal hook. There was a light shining over Bianca's head and she had bandages on her face and most of her upper body. She slowly rose from the bed, feeling extremely weak. She had a severe pain beneath the area where the bandages covered, causing her to clasp her arms around it and fall back down, her eyes closed tightly in pain. She moaned softly in the bed and noticed she was in a hospital gown; it had a rough feeling against her skin. She opened her eyes again once the pain softened, on her stomach that is, nothing could soften the pain in her heart.
'Why did he do that?' The memory of B.Bop slamming her through the wall played through her mind. 'Is he angry at me?' She remembered the expression on his face. 'What's happened to you B.Bop?' She remembered him standing motionless in front of her before she collapsed. She felt tears come to her eyes again but held them back. She had to be strong…. for him. 'He needs me…..' She rose from the bed again, being careful this time. She stood, her feet cold on the floor, and said aloud, "….Now, more than ever." She went toward the door, threw off her hospital gown, put on her torn dress and headed out of the hospital to home.
At home, Gabriella was still sleeping. She was clenching the pillow so tightly she almost tore the case. She was having a vision of what would happen tonight. The scene was what looked like a deserted asteroid. What she saw was draped in a red light. B.Bop and Bianca were both in their commander uniforms but Bianca's was seriously damaged. She was wounded and looked like she was trying as hard as she could to stay on her feet.
"BIANCA!" yelled B.Bop.
"B.BOP! What's going on?" cried Bianca.
"IT'S OVER BIANCA! THE FRIENDSHIP YOU THOUGHT EXSISTED IS GONE!" roared B.Bop.
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" yelled Bianca back to him.
"He's finally chosen the right path, against you!" shouted another voice.
"NO! HE'D NEVER TURN ON ME!" yelled Bianca but her voice was becoming weaker.
"B.Bop!" said the other voice, "FINISH HER!"
B.Bop sped towards a mid-fainting Bianca and knocked her off her feet by giving a powerful strike to her chest and an elbow shot to the jaw. They both crashed into a rock wall and a thunderous explosion sounded. Smoke from the explosion filled the air on the asteroid. When the smoke cleared, Gabi heard a horrible laugh and saw a horrific sight. Both Bianca and B.Bop lie motionless on the stone ground.
'No……' she thought viewing they're lifeless bodies, 'they……THEY CAN'T BE!"
"They are!" shouted the voice and Gabi saw who it came from...HERSELF! "Just like you wanted!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" wailed Gabi and she woke with a start.
She gasped for air like she'd really been screaming. She heard a bang from outside her room and jumped out of bed. She gasped as she saw her sister looking like she been hurt, badly. She ran towards her and stopped her from falling.
"Bianca! What happened?" she asked but Bianca ignored her limped up to her room. Bianca headed to her closet and pushed all the clothes to either side of her. She saw a special suit in the back and a sign over it that said "Only Use in State of Crisis" She snatched it and put it on.
"This is more than enough crisis for me," she said zipping her boots. She flew out of her room and hovered near the door. "Gabi, stay in the house. It dangerous," said Bianca. Gabi nodded and Bianca flew like lightning to find B.Bop.
'Be careful,' thought Gabi watching her fly off.
"Gabi," said a voice from behind her. It was Marc again. "It's starting," he said.
"What?" asked Gabi.
"The present," he said. "B.Bop opened his first, I see."
"You knew this going to happen?" asked Gabi growing rapidly angry.
"Of course! You didn't think I, Marc, the prince of Saturn, would let our planets go to peace do you? It isn't right!" said Marc.
Gabi was furious, "You tricked me," started Gabi, "you—" but Marc cut her off, "I know that's how you feel too."
"NOT ANYMORE!" shouted Gabi, "I'm not going to stand by and watch you ruin the only hope of peace between our planets! I'm going to tell Bianca the truth, and there's nothing you can say or do to stop me!" She began flying after Bianca but Marc grabbed her by the ankle and nearly crushed it.
"YOU WANNA BET?" he screamed and Gabi felt and strange numbness in her ankle that spread to her entire body. She felt weak and couldn't hold up her body. She fell into Marc's arms and Marc chuckled sinisterly.
Bianca was flying as fast as her body with the suit could carry her. She wouldn't slow down or stop for anything. Her best friend was in danger and she wasn't to lay in a hospital bed when he was in danger. She was going to help him no matter what it took. No matter what it took...
Author note: Chap 4 done!