More Thrag guards had appeared armed to the teeth, one of the main guards had his weapon pointed at the young dark mage, and all the helmeted guard said was, "Leave this place at once!"
"Don't anger me!" Starla threatened as she pulled out her wand.
Starla focused her energies on the oak wand with a recently polished black gem, it had turned red and a fireball shot from it as the Thrag ran in terror and for cover, "THE HEATHEN ATTACKED!"
Prunella was nervous as Starla led them down the cold unforgiving corridors it was almost as cold as a meat locker in there, she started to talk, "I used the wand as a scare tactic, and they aren't familiar with magic and run once someone uses it up close."
They continued exploring, seeing jail cells and finally a lab, Starla opened the door, "Ok here we are Buster I hope you know this probably will be a waste of time…"
"Lieutenant T'l'p'g'r will be making his arrival shortly…" A Thrag said as he was looking at some vials while not paying attention to the intruders, "Be sure everything is ready…"
"I don't think so…" Starla stated as she used her wand, causing a fireball to appear the fireball hit some papers on a nearby desk and started a fire, "GET THE CONTAINER!"
Buster ran as fast as he could and he snatched it and ran out along with Prunella, Fern and Starla.
"Sue Ellen will thank us," Buster commented.
"Or possibly kill you for shooting the plan to resurrect April," Prunella joked.
Buster found the jar with a white label stating the persons name on the clear container, "Here it is, bone fragments of April Murphy," under it; it had stated, 'Do not remove from this lab until investigation is complete. Personnel who remove it will be subject to termination.'
Starla pocketed the jar, and they had simply walked out the front door while some more guards came, "Get them! Don't be afraid to shoot!"
Starla used the wand again to scare them off, "RUN!"
The guard inside the building looked in some horror as his desk was burning, he grabbed a fire extinguisher and put the fire out what was left was a charred desktop and ashes of paper, "T'l'p'g'r is not going to be too happy…. Bone fragments are gone, a fire, and four kids as intruders."
Buster and company had run through the country side as Starla caught up with them and they ran to the village breathing heavily, "Ok Buster, you owe me one, I don't even know why I am doing this."
They had walked to the mog village it was tastefully decorated as they were nearing their holiday celebration, the elder approached them, "Welcome, happy Festivus."
"Uhh…?" Fern was confused.
"Offplaneters aren't familiar with the holiday… Festivus is like your version of Christmas, despite there are millions who celebrate it here on Terra," the creature explained as he handed Fern a leather bound dictionary, "English to Kupponian dictionary, she had grasped the language so quickly that she was speaking it fluently after a week of being here… Tell Lazarus the Dark Mage Elder to have a happy Festivus."
"Thanks…" Fern said as she put the book in her knapsack.
"Tell her to have a happy Festivus as well…"
Fern and company had left and walked down the cold foreboding road towards the Dark Mage village.
"Happy Festivus," Fern said as she hugged the Dark Mage leader.
"Thanks," The Elder replied happily as Starla ran up to the elder whom took the jar of bone fragments, "Ok, this is more than enough to revive her and whatnot, perhaps she won't age as she did and lead the life of a normal 12 year old, but I will get started, give me half an hour," he noticed Sue Ellen was absent, "Where is your friend?"
Fern lowered her head, "We had a big fight…"
"That is too bad, the moogles had spoken highly of her, and the elder there was telling me that she spoke their language fluently."
Half an hour later a perfectly healthy 12 year old cat girl who looked like Sue Ellen walked out, she was a few inches taller than the cat girl; Buster looked at her as she smiled at him, "April Murphy I presume…"
"Yes…" She replied; her clothes were of a teal colored blouse and on top of that a dark colored jacket.
"Come with us…" Buster ordered.
"Wait!" The elder yelled, "She does need some sort of ID… She seems perfectly healthy so it worked."
"But…" Buster replied in a small voice.
The elder had taken care of that as well, "Ok, April Murphy, birth place; Earth; place of residence…"
Starla looked at her and at the village elder, "Terra?"
"Parents?"
The elder just made up some names.
"Anything else?" April asked curiously.
Prunella was getting impatient, "We are to go, there is someone waiting for you on Earth."
Starla sighed, "I made some new friends… It is so sad to see you all go knowing I probably won't see you all again…"
"Don't worry, I will come back…" April responded as Prunella started to lead the way.
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Mr. Crosswire had found a 1974 Jaguar E-Type down the street from the warehouse, it was on the list, this time Ed had taken the liberty to steal this car he had managed to but he set off the car alarm and drove it quickly to the warehouse before the cops could show up.
He turned off the car alarm and they both went home for the evening.
That evening at the Clarkson's she changed Max to prepare for tomorrow, Max was wearing a diaper and some baby clothes despite he didn't want to wear them, he was put to bed at 8:30.
She sighed as she looked at Reno who was dead tired on the couch sleeping, "Reno… it is time for you to take some responsibility," his wife said quietly.
The next morning, Max of course lost the ability to speak it just came out as baby talk; he was now two years old, Mrs. Clarkson sighed, and sniffed, he smelled awful, she changed his diaper and started to feed him some strained vegetables; she sighed again.
Outside the house Sue Ellen walked to school, she felt much better, but still upset with Fern. It was Monday, she went to class, and leered at Fern.
Fern couldn't bring herself to tell what happened; besides, she only had one day left to… attempt to fix the problem.
"So are you feeling much better?" Arthur asked.
"Not really…" Sue Ellen commented as she was visibly upset.
Arthur had a suggestion, "Come over to my house we can play the DDR game," Sue Ellen sighed sadly, that was the game she and Fern always played, she lowered her head in sadness.
Mrs. Armstrong walked towards her and said, "Perhaps it might be better if you did do something with someone else."
All Sue Ellen said was, "Where is Max?"
Mrs. Armstrong sighed she didn't want to lie but she did, "He caught a cold."
Sue Ellen knew her mother lied; she didn't want to get in any more trouble, so all she said was, "Fine, I will play DDR with Arthur."
Arthur smiled at her, "Thanks, can Buster come and watch?"
If Buster was to say anything about her being an alien, she would surely get upset the last thing she needed was hearing that he said something cruel to her… or did something, "No."
Buster was saddened when he heard her he turned to her, "Why can't I come?"
"You know why."
"No."
Arthur intervened, "Buster, Sue Ellen doesn't want you do or say anything that will upset her."
"When was the last time I had said anything bad about her or did something?"
Fern despite not being much of a friend of Sue Ellen anymore "Come on Buster, a few days ago!"
Those four students just started arguing until Mrs. Armstrong separated them.
Muffy leered at Buster, as and looked at Mrs. Armstrong, "Buster hit me!"
"I did not!" the rabbit boy yelled, "She was strangling me!"
Muffy had stated, "I have a bruise on my arm because of you…"
"Stop being so whiny all the time and-"
Muffy had snapped and she jumped from her chair and tackled Buster, "This is for all the mean things you done to me, and for Sue Ellen, and everyone else who has to deal with you!"
"Oh my god!" Binky yelled as he saw what was happening he was literally shocked, this was never a side of Muffy he didn't want to see.
Mrs. Armstrong separated Muffy the monkey girl was punching him as hard as she could, "That is enough, both of you." She took both kids out of the classroom, Buster of course was crying; Muffy was taken to the office to cool down for a while, Mrs. Armstrong took Buster to the nurse's office, of course there was some soreness.
"Are you ok?" Mrs. Armstrong asked.
"No…" Buster cried.
"Nurse Flynn, can you look over him to see if he has any injuries?"
"Will do…" The nurse responded.
And Mrs. Armstrong walked back to class, "Sorry about that."
Mr. Frensky was at it again that evening, "A red 1980's Corvette is going to be at cruise night at the other diner cross town. The other car will be a Camero both are on the list, the other cars are ones we don't need, any takers?"
Buck and Reno volunteered.
Buck pulled the same stunt with sleeping gas again; they had taken the Camero and Corvette, Cars 22 and 23.
They were pushing their luck now, as both cars sped off in different routes to throw off the police, Reno was driving through a river bed, while Buck was taking one way streets, going the wrong way.
Did Buck want to destroy the car? No. He wanted to see some other cars destroyed.
He sped through the streets in the Camero, as the police could hardly catch up but were gaining speed, "This is too dangerous…"
Freeman had crashed and flipped his cruiser. And Ryder crashed his car into the flipped cruiser. Buck had sped off towards the county line.
Reno on the other hand was flying through the riverbed as cops started driving through it; he weaved towards the side to the road level and turned onto the road towards Rockwood.
Cars 22 and 23 were successfully delivered to the warehouse. They had 37 cars left, the stakes were growing with every new car stolen, and the risks associated with this were climbing as well as well as the new forms of near death experiences.
They hadn't expected pit bulls and poisonous snakes in two cars from earlier on in.
That evening Arthur and Sue Ellen started dancing to the beat in the game; this was some of the best fun they both had in a while.
"You are pretty good," Arthur said as he was taking a breather.
She smiled, "You too…"
Outside the house, Prunella, April and Buster looked on, "See?"
"Sue Ellen?" April asked.
"Yes, her aren't you going to talk to her?"
"What am I going to say?"
"Just talk to her…"
"Once Sue Ellen hears of this she… or Muffy will possibly kill you," Prunella suggested to Buster who was still well sore from this morning.
April took a deep breath, she was a bit nervous about doing this, she had knocked on the door and Sue Ellen had answered, "Hello?" she saw it was April, "Oh it's you…"
April chuckled, "Sue Ellen, I would figure you would greet me a bit better…"
"I am sorry; I am worried about Max…"
"Stop worrying so much, I should be dead but Buster brought me back, he noticed that you were upset…"
Sue Ellen saw Buster in the bushes and she leered at him, but of course there was no denying it she was saddened by seeing her as she felt tears well up in her eyes, "Why did you die?"
"It was a 'time imbalance' to keep it simple, I am sorry for what happened, but I can't stay here long, they all think I am dead if I go back to Yordil, they will hunt me down, your friends did this to reassure you that everything is ok. I am going back to Terra to stay there; some people there are going to look after me…" She then smiled, "Some Yordilians…"
Sue Ellen replied in a voice of sorrow as she knew she was going to either beat Buster to a pulp or cry, "Please stay here… you were like a sister to me…"
"I don't want to endanger you or your friends; from what I understand, Fern, Prunella, Buster and Dark Mage Starla risked their lives to resurrect me, I don't want any Thrag interfering with anyone here."
Sue Ellen didn't say anything except, "Goodbye I guess, I am glad to know that you didn't die in vain…"
April smiled at her as both cat girls hugged each other tightly, "I got to go…" and the older cat girl left.
"Wait… you probably want to meet Max…"
April concluded, "I will come when I know the time is appropriate."
She had walked down the cold street and all Sue Ellen said was, "Bye April…"
She put on her jacket, and went up to Prunella and Buster; the rat girl looked at her, "Well?"
Sue Ellen sighed, "I am glad you both have done this for me…"
"Fern had some help with this as well…" Buster admitted.
The next day had come, he was one year old, his mother got a baby carriage off of Mrs. Read, Mrs. Clarkson bought some blue baby clothes, and he was wearing them, she was pushing him down the street in the carriage, as a blanket was covering his body.
When Sue Ellen had saw him in the carriage as she walked to school, she saw the baby tiger boy and tickled his chin, "What a cute baby; I didn't know you were pregnant."
Mrs. Clarkson lowered her head, "It is Max…"
Sue Ellen she was shocked, her eyes had lost focus, nothing more had come out of her mouth expect for what she had just said; her eyes gazed over with a blank expression; Mrs. Clarkson looked at her, she was oblivious to the tiger woman and a fly that buzzed across the cat girls head, she tried to bring her back but Sue Ellen didn't take notice, "Oh dear…"
TBC
