A few hours later Max sighed as he ate dinner, "What is going to happen to me?"
Mrs. Armstrong looked at him sympathetically, "I would love to take care of you, but I can't right now, I do know someone who may be interested," Max didn't want to leave the care of Mrs. Armstrong, she had reminded him of his own mother, and he didn't want to live with a complete stranger, "The Crosswires," she said out of the blue as everyone didn't expect that.
Max didn't expect nor wanted to live temporarily with Muffy's parents, all he knew was that they were a bunch of rich snobs, and he knew many people never spoke highly of them. He didn't really want to live with them for the time being, but they were the only ones.
Sue Ellen swallowed nervously, "If you feel uncomfortable, you can spend the night here."
And that was what he did, Mrs. Armstrong checked on him; he was calm, cool and collected didn't have any problems sleeping whatsoever.
The next day after school Max got the rest of his clothes from his house, and Mrs. Armstrong drove him to the mansion, she had made some small talk, "I know how you feel…"
"No you don't my life has always been a mess, I haven't been able to adjust to life on different planets, I didn't make many friends…"
"Yea you are upset that you lost people dear to you, I can feel it; so if you need someone to talk to I am always there for you," She said as she pulled in front of the imposing mansion.
They had both got out; Max was a bit intimidated by the structure. Bailey had led him inside the mansion. Max was nervous but Mrs. Armstrong walked towards the newly fixed up doors with him.
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On Kubăz Muffy was starving for food her clothes were dirty, Buck and Reno were planning on how to escape, Reno wasn't as confident, "We will most likely be killed, the heresy is starting to turn soft after Cyrax has gotten in charge…"
Mrs., Clarkson looked dreadful, but Muffy was starving and was having trouble stomaching the strange food that she had got sick a few times. She had looked after Muffy as the monkey girl needed something to soothe her stomach.
Buck continued to plan an escape, "Look, all we do is start a prison riot, kill some guards take their weapons, and kill anyone who gets in our way."
"We have 45 minutes to do so." Reno argued.
A guard was walking down the hallway with an imposing aardvark man wearing black and yellow armor, it was Cyrax the Mighty, he had turned to the guard, "Go," and turned to the occupants of the jail cell, "It seems to me that you all have done something that affects me."
Buck sighed, "You are pretty stupid for thinking we killed them which we didn't."
"SILENCE!" He yelled as he gripped his hand choking the life out of him.
"Let him go!" Muffy yelled, "If it is me who you want I will train with you!"
"Forget it, Tyrannous made the same mistake… I won't; you are all lucky I don't destroy you all now; you ruined my plans, you belong in this… this urine soaked hell hole… If you were out I will show you all true pain and suffering!"
The warden had come in wearing black he was a few inches shorter than Cyrax, with a blood stained scythe in his hand, it had seemed that he had just executed someone, "We object the term urine soaked hell hole when you could have said 'pee-pee soaked heck hole' I don't go to Shadonia and say how much of a crap hole your planet of residence is with its ancient temples and catacombs."
They had both walked out onto the dusty plains of the extremely arid planet, "They are slated for execution."
"NO, they are mine!" Cyrax yelled crazily, "I will send all heresy lords here and release those under arrest here, I will train that girl, and I will get my revenge… I will destroy them all!"
Back in the cell they were let out for an hour, Buck started, "Ok, we have 15 minutes, I still have my pistol, Reno has his fists and cat like agility, Maria and Muffy, and you both need to find weapons, or kill some guards or... well do something, start fights."
They were both close together when sent out to the arid fields, Buck and Reno had started to pick fights, and soon everyone was fighting, Buck pulled out his gun and started shooting.
"He has a gun!" one of the guards yelled as inmates and guards were shot at. Reno tackled him and took the guards weapon. It was a strange shock stick, he hit the guard with it and he was knocked unconscious.
Reno protected Buck as he took out a few more guards, there were enough weapons even some strange looking pistols, those would prove to be more useful, they could take enemies out quickly. They picked up the pistols and started shooting until they got to the landing pad.
As they had walked down the corridor, guards had followed as Reno and Buck shot them dead, and Maria and Muffy shot the corridor guards in fear.
This proved to be a good offensive, until when they had got to a ship that was leaving, the warden and Cyrax were still standing there, "YOU!" he yelled as he pulled out his weapon and a blood red beam appeared from the hilt, "Join me and I will forget about Sue Ellen and Fern."
The warden pulled out the scythe, "Not your jurisdiction, I will deal with them, we don't condone the actions of the heresy as several members of your precious cult are going to be executed today…"
And about 20 guards had appeared fully armed to the teeth. They all dropped their weapons and were sent back to their cells.
"Great plan," Reno commented sarcastically.
Buck seemed satisfied, "We killed some guards and inmates."
"There are literally thousands of guards here because of this, we are marked, and we could get attacked by inmates at any time, some of what we killed were prison gang members, members of the heresy and other high profile offenders, to them this is an act of war, an insult. We need to go covert or it is going to be worse."
"Well we could kill a guard once he walks by here, take his uniform one of us dresses up like him and I tell the guard at the gate that I am taking you to a different prison."
"...and you actually expect that to work, it is just like a prison riot and you expect to walk out the front door unscathed, very asinine." Mr. Clarkson joked.
"What do you have planned?" Buck asked curiously.
"I use Muffy and she slips some rat poison in a few of the guard's drinks, then we take the uniforms and walk out..." Reno explained but was interrupted.
"That won't work, we would dress up like them, make up a lie that we are all dead in a jail cell because Muffy snapped and killed us, and we are to take her off planet to be institutionalized."
Muffy sighed, "That is a really dumb plan, how about I try sweet talking the guard to letting us go?"
"And get killed by other inmates?" Reno asked curiously; it was a dumb idea, "Seriously, there are people here who will kill someone who is weak or defenseless, and you my friend are both."
Muffy shot him a dirty look.
"I got an idea," Mrs. Clarkson stated.
"Oh god..." Buck commented knowing it was going to be worse.
"Since I am young, 28 years old; I could do a strip tease for the guards and..."
"YEA!" Buck exclaimed as he secretly wanted her to do that.
Reno was annoyed, "My wife is not going to do that, especially here, because for one reason and one reason only, I don't want anyone here to rape her or kill her over something stupid, and besides there won't be any nudity. And no offence you and Muffy are vulnerable, one wrong move Muffy could get hurt or killed and you could get raped."
"How about sex?"
"Nope?"
"How about a story where Mrs. Read cheats on Mr. Read with Carlos?" Buck joked.
"We'll see..." Reno stated, "We already have one where Mr. Read and Mr. Ratburn have a thing going on."
TBC
