Buck and Company had walked towards the landing pad, a guard stopped them he looked like he was wearing a high ranking uniform of the military, the aardvark man looked at Buck and company through and through, "Halt," he had inspected them much more close up, Muffy looked bony, her skin was covered with dirt and there were bags under her eyes, she was still sick with some sort of food borne illness, Buck, Reno and Maria looked hungry, they had given the food to Muffy, they had soon stopped because it was the food making her sick, he started to talk, "Where are you taking these prisoners?"
Buck had lied, he hoped this was going to work, "The warden wants them transported off of this planet and sent to solitary confinement on Exodus for the riot that happened."
"I see, Doom Prison, they will have a hell of a time there, using 18th century Earthling tactics of torture, my regards to the warden, and good riddance to some bad rubbish," The guard surprisingly let them through and they had boarded the ship.
Cyrax and the warden ran out as the transport had closed its doors, "STOP THEM!" Cyrax yelled, "GET BACK HERE AND FIGHT!" Cyrax was really angry, he was throwing containers around, and he destroying stuff, "I will kill them!"
The Warden was angry too, "They are your problem now, if you attack me your precious heresy will be executed instantly we have shock collars wrapped around their necks and you kill me, it sends an alert to the guard under me to flip the switch and 10000 volts will go through your cult…"
Cyrax turned around and sliced the warden's head off. He had said nothing and went back to Shadonia. Meanwhile hundreds of heresy lords were electrocuted.
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"We are almost home," Reno said happily as he was flying the transport, he flew the transport as fast as he could and he had landed it at D-34.
"We need some clothes!" Muffy exclaimed as she looked at her dingy colored clothes that had rips in them.
Mrs. Clarkson sighed, "Food is more important, you've been sick for the past few days... In second thought you do need some medical attention, you were sick like everyday in the jail cell and I fear without proper treatment you may get worse..."
Muffy was awful looking, the pain she had endured, the strange alien threats she contended with, she was starving as she lost a considerable amount of weight the food was sometimes making her sick it had seemed that she had lost about 15 to 20 pounds, she knew very well there were going to be severe consequences. She looked like she couldn't stomach any food due to the weight loss; it would be a problem that would stick to her for a few days.
They had escorted her to a doctor's office, a green alien with four arms and four eyes looked at them from behind the desk, "Goo-goo gajub..."
Muffy and Buck didn't know what the alien said.
"She said 'how may I help you?'" Reno stated and talked to her, he turned back to Muffy, "Ok, you can go in."
The doctor looked at her, a red skinned alien who looked almost like Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama looked at them, Muffy was afraid that she would get her fingers sliced off by the doctor, in a thick voice he spoke, "How may I help you?"
Mrs. Clarkson offered her explanation, "She has been sick for the past few days."
The doctor had checked her tempurature, "She has caught a moderate case of food poisoning, be sure to give her some fluids, I will provide the anti-biotic."
Muffy had looked at the oversized pill that the doctor had given her, "Uh no..."
"You need to swallow it."
"That thing is as big as a quarter, I'll choke!"
"It'll dissolve, my young friend," The doctor replied.
Muffy soon took the pill and she had swallowed it.
"Be sure she has a good nights rest, there is a hotel nearby, if you are planning on traveling, don't! There is a meteor shower along the Orion Route towards Alpha Centauri and Earth."
They had left and went to a nearby hotel; Carson the older tiger man had seen his flesh and blood, "Son?"
It was Mr. Clarkson's father, "What are you doing here?"
"Some bad things have happened..." Reno replied sadly, as he looked at Muffy who was all drugged up, "She has been sick for the past few days..."
"I see where are you all headed?"
"Back to Earth, I know you guys are going there as well..."
Mr. Clarkson's mother looked at Reno, "Thank Sue Ellen and Fern for helping us leave Tigris."
"I guess some formal introductions are in order," he turned to Buck, "This is Buck and Muffy, both from Earth, they were accused of killing Fern and Sue Ellen along with us and we were both in trouble because of Tyrannous' death despite that we weren't even there."
"I am going to get a suite so Muffy can get some rest," Mrs. Clarkson stated as she went to front desk.
In a few minutes she and Buck had escorted Muffy to a room several floors up from the lobby, and Mrs. .Clarkson came back down as Buck stayed to keep an eye on Muffy.
"We need new clothes..." Mrs. Clarkson stated as she looked at her black shirt and blue jeans, and Mr. Clarkson's blue button down shirt and black Dockers their clothes were covered in filth.
After an hour of clothes shopping, they had managed to purchase some new clothes, all white, Mrs. Clarkson's mother looked at her, she was wearing a nice casual outfit, "They will get dirty in an hour..."
Mrs. Clarkson sighed, "Mom..."
"Remember when you were younger and you had pasta for the first time? It was on you more than in your mouth."
Mrs. Clarkson's face turned red with embarrassment, "Reno is wearing a suit, I just wanted something refreshingly simple, while Buck is wearing a black button down shirt and jeans."
Buck delivered Muffy the clothes, he left the room and she changed, she was wearing all white, and she seemed to enjoy the clothes they looked fashionable on her after she had changed she had fallen asleep.
The next day Muffy and company had gone home the meteor shower had passed, not much had changed, it was mid-day, and everyone should have been in school.
At the classroom, Mrs. Armstrong saw how upset Max was; it was the afternoon, "Max, I can give you a ride home if you like."
He looked at the tile flooring, "Sure…"
They had boarded the minivan Max was riding shotgun while Sue Ellen sat in the back seat, this was far from magical, "I know a lot of bad things had happened in a few days…"
Max sighed sadly, "I don't know what to do; Mr. Crosswire bailed me out," As they had drove down the street past his house, Max turned wide eyed, "My parents! Their family?"
Mrs. Armstrong pulled into the driveway, and Max got out, "What happened?"
"Max!" Mr. Clarkson exclaimed as the tiger boy hugged him.
"Grandma, grandpa!" Max yelled happily.
Max's grandfather was smoking a cigar... a Cuban when Mr. Clarkson saw him, "You do know those are illegal here..."
"Mr. Crosswire gave it to me..." Reno smiled glibly, "I told him I don't smoke, but my father likes the finer things in life..."
Mrs. Armstrong saw that Reno and Maria's parents were only about 65 years old, and Reno and Maria were about 28-29, she walked up to them, she went to Reno's parents, "You and your wife are about 65 I take..."
"Yea," the elderly tiger man asked, "We been married for about 33 years, on Tigris it is common to marry from 20-35, due to good fertility we were both blessed, to having a healthy son my wife gave birth to Reno when she was about 35 years old."
Mrs. Armstrong turned to Maria's parents, her mother talked, "Same here, we were blessed with a healthy daughter, though her father and I were about 37 years old when I gave birth to her."
"I am planning a lesson for class when everything clears up it would be interesting to see what Max's grandparent's has to say about her life and her experiences..."
"I'd be honored to speak in front of your class," Maria's mother replied happily.
Max swallowed nervously as she pinched his cheek, "Grandma... please I am not a little kid anymore, why don't you bother Amy?"
She smiled at him, "Because I hadn't seen you in a long time..."
"Where is Muffy?" Mrs. Armstrong asked.
"If you are looking for Muffy… well she is in the tub right now, all she said was, 'No matter how much I will bathe I won't be clean…'
Mrs. Clarkson started to talk, "But we have enraged the heresy lord, he and his members will be here in a few hours, we need to get ready."
It was true Cyrax would get everyone and send them to Elwood City. They only had a few hours before things would turn from bad to worse.
Everyone had met at Buck's warehouse… well anyone who could fight or had a weapon of some sort. Fern had her oak staff with a polished gem at the end of it that the dark mages had given her. Sue Ellen had a slingshot she made on Terra when she was in the strange village.
"This is critical, Pierre and a few of my men had died in the drive by Lazlo luckily survived because he wasn't here, said he was moving to Los Santos with his family," Buck commented, "We have these beings of unbelievable evil after us."
Buck had a few weapons of his own, a golden gun, a few bullets used to shatter the beams of the weapons these heresy lords used, he picked up a strange weapon, "The plasma gun."
The mysterious cat man warned, "Don't take it, it'll malfunction and almost everyone will die of radiation poisoning including the heresy lords."
"What do you suggest?" Rex asked, as Buck disassembled the very advanced weapon, "I mean I worked with these guys."
The mysterious cat man in black and red looked at him he carried his long sword over his shoulder, "WE will end them."
Muffy grumbled as she had a few stones in hand, a sword in casing just in case, "I almost was going to get trained, Tyrannous used mind control on me I dragged Sue Ellen and Fern here because of the mess they had gotten us into."
"We can't fight." Fern commented looking at the oak staff nervously.
"This is called responsibility." Muffy explained, "You got all of us involved and we are going to save your skins."
Sue Ellen had it planned, it was a plan sure to fail, "I will find a few rocks and load the slingshot and shoot them with it."
Fern turned to Sue Ellen, "How asinine…"
Moss had his fists, he also had a brown paper bag in his back pocket, and Reno had his sword ready.
They had all walked down the street towards the park it was an ominous evening, about twenty heresy lords and mercenaries waiting in the park.
Sue Ellen's and Fern's parents were being held captive by four heresy lords, their blades close to the girl's parents necks.
"This ends now," Cyrax yelled angrily as his men were ready.
"Let go of our parents!" Screamed Sue Ellen.
"Join me and I will spare them..." Cyrax sneered.
"Never!"
The heresy lords moved their blades an inch closer to their captive's necks.
"One word about not joining and your parents are dead!"
Tony, Salvatore, Giorgio and Sonny had seen what was going on, armed to the teeth with shotguns, pistols and machine guns, all Tony said was "There!"
The four Bennedittos snuck up behind the four heresy lords, they pulled out their shotguns behind the heads of their enemy and pulled the trigger.
(Graphic death scene censored)
"Those filthy animals are dead!" Tony yelled, "Now to take care of the rest and leave before the police show up!"
With catlike agility, the mysterious cat man had taken out two of his enemies. Sue Ellen shot a rock at one of the heresy lords, this burly heresy lord walked up to her, weapon ready, she was scared found her back against a wall, the mysterious cat man in red and black snuck up behind him. Within moments, blood started pouring out of the heresy lords mouth and he collapsed he was dead; Sue Ellen shrieked and ran home with her parents and Fern's parents.
Fern sighed, "So much for brave Sue Ellen… at least her parents, and my parents are safe."
The Armstrong's, Walter's and Sue Ellen were holed up in the house, Sue Ellen locked the door, "We are safe..."
While the fighting was going on though, Louis saw what was going on from the sidewalk, he got some barbed wire wrapped around a baseball bat, this was the worse plan yet, the heresy lords surrounded Louis and the mysterious cat man, and they met back to back, and had turned around facing each other.
Giorgio looked at him, "You made it, you will someday become a made man…"
To Be Continued.
