My Heroes: A Hero's Journey
Chapter 37 - Boom Base, part 4
Meanwhile, in another part of the base, minutes before the sudden alert…
"Mana, if your not going to be useful here, then go away!" Brian yelled at Mana, but she just looked at him with her big puppy dog eyes.
"Oh please can I stay! I do really want to be useful in at least something!" Mana cried as Brian set out an angry sigh.
"You'd probably be more useful in the prison!" Brian joked. "At least then you can annoy the prisoners until they hang themselves and we don't have deal with them anymore!"
"Consider it done!" Mana happily replied as she ran out the lab as Brian watched her go with a blank look on his face, but then that turned into a smile.
"YES! She's gone! I can't believe she actually fell for that!" Brian cheered as he walked up the machine again.
Tea meanwhile looked up from what she was doing as Brian was ordering the others around to keep on working on the machine and then stepped up beside him.
"Looks like it's coming on well," Tea said, still looking up at the machine.
"Yeah, a little of this, a little of that and I think we're just about done," Brian replied as he walked over to the table with the machine plans on it that he got from Kyra's base, and looked down at them. He then jotted down some notes on a separate piece of paper regarding the machine, but suddenly stopped as he noticed something. Tea, sensing Brian's confusion in his mind, went over to him and peered over his shoulder.
"Are you okay?" she asked as Brian placed the piece of paper with his writing on it next to the writing on the plans and kept on looking between them both with a weird look on his face.
"This…this doesn't make sense," Brian mumbled, as Leon and Solomon kept on working on the machine behind them, with Leon pressing a few buttons.
"What doesn't?" Tea worryingly asked.
"There the same…" he mumbled again. Suddenly Tea grabbed her head and screamed in blinding pain, collapsing to her knees. Brian instantly span around to his fallen friend. "Tea!" he yelled as he bent down at her level. But suddenly, Tea stopped screaming and let go of her head, as if nothing had happened. "What was that about?" Brian asked in confusion.
"I…I…I don't know," Tea whispered as she turned her head away from him as Leon and Solomon ran over to them.
"What's going on here?" Solomon asked.
"I don't know, she just started screaming and holding her head," Brian replied. "What were you guys doing?"
"Well, we almost had a mayor break through!" Solomon replied.
"Almost?"
"Well we managed to power up the machine," Leon explained. "But it short circuited and shut down."
"Hmm…that is strange," Brian replied as he turned around back to Tea. "What do you think Tea…Tea?" But she was not there.
Tea walked out of the door, holding her head in confusion of what was going on.
'What is happening to me?' Tea thought to herself.
'What am I suppost to do?' a voice echoed though her head. Tea instantly turned round to see Serenity crouched up against the wall in deep thought.
'Just follow your heart,' Tea said though her mind to herself. Just as Serenity looked up as her voice reached her, Tea walked away again in her own thoughts.
Tea walked on for ages until she heard someone approaching her from behind and spun around to see who it was.
"Hey Tea, going my way?" Mana asked as she ran up to her.
"What way?" Tea asked.
"Back to the lab, silly!" Mana replied.
"Oh…Mana, I don't know."
"Come on! We can go together!" Mana said as she grabbed her arm and dragged Tea along. "Mahado said that if I use my powers, I can help fix the machine! So let's go!" she happily yelled, dragging Tea back to the lab.
Brian continued monitoring the progress of the machine when Mana marched back in dragging Tea along in with her.
"Oh no, not you again!" Brian moaned as he saw her enter.
"Oh that's nice to say about Tea," Mana replied.
"I was referring to you! What are you doing here anyway?"
"I've come to help on the machine, whether you like it or not!" Mana replied.
"WHAT! No way we're letting you anywhere near this thing!" Brian yelled, standing between her and the machine with his arms out, as Leon and Solomon where analysing the machine.
"From the look of it, it short circuited from deep inside," Leon explained.
"So to fix that, we're going to have to get in there," Solomon said. "How are we going to do that?"
"I CAN DO IT!" Mana happily yelled as she immediately ran straight through Brian and fazed through into the machine, making Brian clutched his chest and fell to his knees.
"Well, that felt…weird," he replied, as he quickly recovered and stood back up to see Tea looking extremely worried about something.
"I shouldn't be here," she sadly whispered as Brian noticed she was crying a little.
"Tea? What's up?" Brain asked.
"I can't let this happen!" Tea cried as she went to run out of the lab, but Brian caught her hand and pulled her back to him, placing his hands on her shoulders.
"Tea? Can't let what happen? What is going on?" Brian yelled, shaking her a little.
"Brian, you've got to let me go!" Tea whispered
"No! I'm not letting you go again!" Brian yelled as Mana jumped out of the machine again.
"It's all fixed! Fire it up!" she said as Leon went to turn the machine on. Suddenly, Brian realised something as turned his head towards them, while still holding on to Tea.
"NO!" He yelled at them, but it was to late Leon had all ready activated it as the machine lit up for the first time and all the screens and controls turned on.
"It's working!" Solomon cheered, as Brian turned his head back to Tea, who was now glowing a dark red colour with her once blue eyes turned a fiery red. She was glowing so much, that Brian couldn't hold on anymore and was flung back, over to where Mana, Leon and Solomon were standing.
"What is going on!" Mana screamed as Tea started to raise her arms up slowly outwards.
"We've gotta turn this thing off, now!" Brian yelled as Leon nodded and turned back to the controls.
"No," Tea whispered in an slightly more angrier voice. But just as Leon hit the off button on the machine, Tea's had her arms up now beside her and suddenly sent out a huge dark red energy blast from her glow, shaking the whole room, or better yet, the whole building violently. Everyone in the base felt it…
The floor shook beneath Serenity's feet, knocking her off balance but was caught by Yami before she could hit the floor.
Meanwhile, not to far away in a near by corridor, the floor also suddenly shook violently knocking Niri over, but before she could reach the floor, Bakura leaped and caught her. "Whoa, thanks."
"Don't mention it," Bakura replied. "Ever!"
Finally in another room in the base with also shook violently from the shock, which knocked Kirsty and Kaiba off balance and falling to the floor. Kirsty hit the floor first and then Kaiba fell on towards of her, but he just managed to stop himself by putting his hands on the floor to stop himself from falling on top of Kirsty who was underneath him.
"Are you okay?" Kaiba asked, looking at her.
"Oh…I'm just fine…" Kirsty replied with her face being a little red.
"What was that?" they both wondered out loud, as a loud alarm ringing through out the entire base. Kirsty then jumped up as the alarm rang.
"What's that alarm?" Kaiba asked.
"This base has a high tech serenity, the base thinks we're under attack and it's sending out an alert!" Kirsty explained.
"It's a little loud isn't it?" Kaiba asked, covering his ears a little.
"You have no idea," Kirsty mumbled as she and Kaiba both ran out the room to investigate on what happened.
Kairi, Kyra's black haired with red highlighted minion, flew over through the skies with her large grey/blue wings sticking out her back, and also her skin was the same colour as well. Her eyes constantly fixed on the ground, searching for the enemy. Suddenly, she stopped and floated in the air as a sound of an alarm reached her ears, that was coming form not to far away. She then smirked and tapped the commutation device on her ear.
"I found them…" she said into it.
Meanwhile, in Kyra's secret base, Pegasus listened over the radio as the other villain gave out the message.
"Well, looks like Kairi-girl did it," he said to Kyra who was standing not far behind him. He then went over to huge world map that was laid across the large round table in the middle of the lab and stick a red pin into a island on the map. "We have them!"
"Excellent," Kyra replied smirking at the pin on the map, symbolising the where the location of the hero base was. "Got ya!"
Authors notes: dun, dun, dun! I hope you like, please review!