"Wow, this factory looks exactly like the one we were trapped in two days ago," Mickey said, as he followed Cy-Cass around the tall, dark, deserted factory. "You don't think they're trying to make it very obvious, do you, Cy-Cass?"
"That's a very good guess, Mickey," Cy-Cass said. "Either that or, you know, they're not magical enough to make their factories different or they don't even have the imagination to do so."
"Don't get me wrong, Cy-Cass," Mickey said. "I do want to rescue Minnie and our pets more than anything in the world, but being in here is giving me the strongest feeling that we could be walking right into a trap."
"Yeah, I know how you feel," Cy-Cass said. "Well, my red eye will spot them if there are any. Daja and the other sorceresses maybe very powerful, but they're not as smart as they like to think they are."
Mickey gasped. "I've found Minnie!"
"Quiet, Mickey!" Cy-Cass whispered. "Where?"
"There!" Mickey did his best to say that as quietly as he could.
Cy-Cass looked ahead to see where he was pointing. There was some activity going on in the nearest lab room. "Okay, follow me."
Mickey followed Cy-Cass and hid next to the dark brown wooden wall panel underneath the big window. Then they sneaked up only enough for them to see inside the room. To Cy-Cass's judgement, it had to be the biggest lab in the factory. It was almost identical to the one she rescued Mickey. There were electricity monsters all over the place working with their leader Lady Daja, the golden dart frog Sorceress, looking at poor Minnie Mouse in some sort of chamber. It was a giant, orange and a glass door, which was how Mickey and Cy-Cass could see how she was chained inside it. The room had plenty of computers and wires all around the room just like the last factory had, but in this one, there some extra computers and wires in front of Minnie's chamber.
Cy-Cass put a brown object on the panel next to her and put her finger on her beak to Mickey. Mickey nodded and put his own finger on his own lips.
"Everything is ready for our new recruit, Lady Daja." That voice came from the brown object Cy-Cass put on the panel. Mickey assumed that object was like a speaker so they could hear from the other room. As they continued to listen, they looked through the window again and saw Daja smiled evilly.
"Good," Daja said to her gerenal. "Give me one minute with her." Then she moved to Minnie.
"What do you want?" Minnie asked. "What are you going to do to me?"
"Shh," Daja said. "Calm down, Minnie. I won't lie to you. What we're going to do to you will hurt, but not for long and it will be good for you in the long term."
"But there's nothing wrong with me," Minnie protested.
Daja smiled evilly again. "Oh, yes, there is. You have flaws and we're going to make you absolutely perfect."
Mickey, who had been hearing that, gasped and started to run for the door, but he was pulled back down by Cy-Cass.
"We mustn't let our friends know we're even here!" she whispered.
"But we can't just let them turn Minnie into one of those monster soldiers!" Mickey argued quietly.
"We won't," Cy-Cass said. "Because I have a plan."
"What is it?" Mickey asked.
Cy-Cass looked around and smiled as she saw something.
"What's your plan?" Mickey asked again.
Cy-Cass turned to her mouse friend. "Here's the plan. Take this Bluetooth earpiece and put it in your ear." Then she walked away as Mickey did as he was told. "Can you hear that?"
"I can," Mickey replied.
"Good. Now, you keep looking at Minnie and the rest of our friends, while I put them and this factory out of business. Let me know what they're doing."
"Got it." Then Mickey didn't really get 'putting Daja, her army and their factory out of business' part, but he understood the rest and trusted her, so he did what he was told. He looked back at the room and listened out for the speaker on the wall panel.
"Begin, General," Daja said to her general.
"Certainly, Ma'am," the general said. Then he turned to the army. "Well, you morons heard her! Get on with it!"
"They're starting up now, Cy-Cass," Mickey told her.
"Excellent! Just the perfect time!"
"The perfect time for what?" The only answer Mickey got was when the whole factory went out of power. He looked at Daja and her confused Electric Army around the area.
"Don't just stand there!" Daja yelled. "Get the main generator back up unless you want me to drain all of you power supplies!"
That scared them enough to get going.
Then Mickey saw Cy-Cass. "Did you shut down the main generator?"
She bent down and crept to him. "No, Mickey. I destroyed it completely. Now, be quiet."
Then they saw the door open and the electricity soldiers charged out. They held torch lights in their hands and their eyes shone like to torch lights as well.
"Right," the Electricity Army General said. "Half of you go to the main generator room and fix the generator while the rest of us look for whoever did it. Now, move!"
They all moved.
"Come on, Mickey," Cy-Cass whispered to him. "And don't get spotted by the lights."
Mickey saw Cy-Cass crept, tip-toed and rolled into the room to avoid the searching lights from the Electricity Army. He was nervous of doing it because he didn't think he could do it. But then he looked again at poor Minnie chained up in that awful chamber. That motivated him enough to try and he succeed into getting into the room without a searchlight spot him.
"Well done, Mickey," Cy-Cass said, as she looked around. "The coast looks clear. But when we approach Minnie, don't say anything to her. Wave to her, if you must, but do not say anything to her under any circumstances. Got it?" She was impressed when he nodded. "Good. Now, keep an eye out while I work out how to free Minnie."
They approached the chamber and the computers around it. Cy-Cass used some of her electricity power from her metal arm to power up the special computers so she could work out how to free Minnie.
Mickey approached the chamber and checked that it was the real Minnie in it and not a magic trick from Daja to fool them and lure him and Cy-Cass into a trap. He knew it was the real Minnie when she was surprised to see Mickey and she waved to him as she smiled with tears coming out of her eyes. Starting to cry himself, Mickey waved back to her. She was alive and so far unhurt, but she looked to be very sad and scared.
"Well, if this isn't so touching."
Both Mickey and Cy-Cass turned to see a figure behind them. It clapped its hands twice and all the lights and the machines came back to life. They saw it was Daja herself.
"I thought you said this place was clear, Cy-Cass," Mickey said.
"It was!" Cy-Cass snapped. "My red eye showed me it was."
Daja chuckled. "I've been taking invisibility lessons from the Great One herself since the last time we met."
"What? In two days?"
"I'm a very fast and bright learner." Then the golden dart frog pointed at Cy-Cass and Mickey and threw them away from Minnie's chamber.
"Nice try, Cy-Cass," she said. "Yes, I know it was you who destroyed the power generator. Except we don't need on because I am the power generator."
"Well, if you're the power generator and you knew I was here, why did you send your army to fix the power generator I destroyed?"
Daja smiled evilly. "Two reasons. The first one is because it's fun to bully people especially the ones below you. And the second one is because I want to see the look on your face when you thought you were so close when, in reality, you were nowhere close, despite your very best efforts." Then she laughed evilly as she pointed to Cy-Cass and Mickey who became trapped by four large electricity poles before they could move.
"Say goodbye to your girlfriend, Mickey," Daja said. "The way you know her, at least."
"NO!" Mickey cried, as he could do was watch Minnie disappear in a dark green gas in the gas chamber followed by electricity. "Can't you do something to get us out of this, Cy-Cass?"
Cy-Cass used one of her metal fingers to fire a red laser at the floor. She drew a circle around her and stamped on it after she finished, but it didn't go down. She tried a few times, but it stayed up all the time. Then she tried to touch the nearest electricity pole with her metal arm but she screamed her head until she released it.
Cy-Cass sighed sadly. "I'm so sorry, Mickey, but I really can't. The electricity is too strong for me and this floor is too hard for me to make a hole for us to escape. I am so truly sorry that I couldn't save Minnie."
Mickey sighed sadly too. "You did your very best, Cy-Cass. And I'll always be grateful for that."