Chapter 8: Standing Outside the Fire
Tommy had just found the Command Center, when the computer Billy gave beeped in. Tommy assumed it was just one the guys trying to get him to stop there, so clicked it off without answering it. He found the path leading underground to the former Command Center.
"Sorry guys, I can't talk to you now. I have to do this alone." He walked toward the ship. He didn't see a yellow cab appear in the distance and park next to his black jeep.
"Are you sure you want me to leave you here?"
"Here's your money." A hundred dollar bill was shoved forward before the door was slammed. "Now, get out of here."
"Yes, sir." Tommy used the sequence Billy gave him to open the flap to the ship. The ship was dusky thanks to being buried underground for the past 7 years. He went into the ship. Tommy was able to start up the ship after staring the sequence given to him. It took a few minutes to warm up, as Tommy finally closed up the flap to the ship before he flew it up into space. Tommy was able to find some weapons on his way to the main deck. Once he hits out the atmosphere of Earth, a slight rumble in the back, causing Tommy to lift up his laser gun. Tommy sets the ship to the coordinates of Zedd's fortress thanks to Billy. Tommy raises his gun to fire just as the doors open, when a figure falls to the ground before him.
"What are you doing here?" Tommy pulled the figure to her feet after shaking her a bit. Kimberly stood before him.
"I'm sorry."
"You left the hospital! How could you do that? I told you to stay!" Tommy yelled.
"When do I ever listen to you!" Tommy groaned. "I'm sorry."
"I'm gonna kill you."
"I know." The ship shook.
"What the hell was that?"
"I don't…" The ship shook again. "We're being firing at!" Tommy pulled Kimberly to him before going to the panel to hold her steady as another blast came. "Hold on!" The ship rumbled again.
"We can't take another hit like that!" Kimberly yelled as the computer beeped in. "Why is he firing at us!"
"Shields are down to 45!"
"What do we do?"
"Hang on!" Tommy brought the auto-pilot off the ship and tried to dodge the blasts. Kimberly held his arms as he maneuvered through space. Kimberly slipped, but was able to hold on to Tommy.
"Weapons?" Kimberly looked down at the panel as Tommy was dodging blast. She started pressing some buttons.
"What are you doing?"
"What does it look like? Firing everything we have!" Kimberly fired the weapons at Zedd's fortress. "Damn, his shields! What do we do?" Kimberly yelled.
"I don't know," Tommy said. Kimberly gasped as a white beam was fired at them again. It was a blinding light. Tommy shielded his eyes after turning Kimberly to his chest. The computer beeped in.
"He has a tracking beam on us, he's pulling us in," Tommy said. "Hold on to me." Kimberly nodded and wrapped her arms around him. Tommy tried the thrusters, but the sticks were stuck. "Damn it! Hold on!" Kimberly did tighter, as Tommy tried to force the ship out, but nothing worked. Their ship was pulled into the fortress's opening.
"We're sitting ducks, aren't we?" Kimberly asked looking up at him.
"Load up!" Tommy went over to weapon's panel. Kimberly caught a few laser guns.
"We're going to fight?
"You're damn right, we're gonna fight. And this time, listen to me and stay behind me!" Tommy pulled down more guns into a bag.
"What are these?"
"Looks like bombs." Kimberly packed a few in her pockets. She put a few in Tommy, as he put a bag around his back. "Stay behind me."
"Yes, oh leader."
"I mean it." Tommy grabbed the final bomb ball. Tommy reached down and kissed her on the lips. "I love you."
"I love you too." They went down to the ship flap, holding their guns high. The ship was finally landed and the opening was closed. Kimberly and Tommy took deep breaths as the ship landed. Kimberly nodded to Tommy.
"Come out, come out, Tommy boy." Tommy went to the panel and barely cracked it. Tommy pulled the bomb ring and he tossed out the bomb. It rolled to the feet of a putty, who stupid picked it up. The panel closed back up. Zedd gasped and pulled Carl out the cargo bay in a hurry. Just as the doors were closing the bomb blew.
"1, 2, 3…" Kimberly and Tommy waited a few moments before coming out firing. Zedd has his monster from the courthouse waiting. Kimberly and Tommy stood back-to-back, firing at anything that came towards them, that wasn't destroyed from the bomb.
"Take him!" Carl was grabbed by a few putties as Zedd went back into the bay. "Move aside!" He blasted his energy strike from his staff at Tommy.
"NO!" Kimberly caught Tommy, as he fell back. Tommy was knocked unconscious from the blast. Kimberly took his gun and stood up. "Where's Carl?"
"Come with me, become my queen and we will raise him together."
"In your dreams!" Kimberly fired at him. Zedd laughed and blocked it with is staff.
"Mom!"
"Carl!" A monster hit her in the back of the head. She fell to her knees. She could see Carl just outside the door looking at her. Her hand came up to him before she fell forward and unconscious.
Zedd was able to teleport Kimberly and Tommy to a holding cell in his dungeon. Tommy woke up with a groan. Kimberly did the same. They found themselves locked in a cage. Kimberly rolled to her back as Tommy sat up quickly. He felt for a weapon, but found everything gone.
"Finally, thought I might have killed you," Zedd said with a smile. Kimberly sat up and turned to Zedd.
"Where is Carl?" Kimberly said standing up quickly. She goes to the bars with Tommy right beside her.
"Here. You two have been out for a while."
"How long?" Tommy asked.
"A good hour," Zedd said.
"Where's Carl!" Kimberly shouted.
"I can't believe you won the court case."
"Of course, we won," Kimberly said. "Good guys always win."
"Oh, and you are just so perfect!" Zedd yelled.
"I have never said I was perfect! But evil never wins out in the end! Now gives us our son back!" Carl appeared from behind Zedd. "Carl!" Kimberly tried to reach for him through the bars, only to have Tommy stop her. Tommy saw the flash of a blue shield outside the cage
"There's a force field." Kimberly reached her hand out slowly and a light blue shield appeared. She gasped as it shocked her a bit.
"Give us our son!"
"Son? Carl, do you know them?" Carl looked at Kimberly and Tommy. He shook his head. "Then I guess he is not your son after all."
"Liar!" Kimberly yelled. "But this time you will not get away with it! Carl, baby, look at me. It's me, son. It's me, Mommy."
"Carl, who has always been your friend?" Zedd asked.
"You, Ed."
"And I have always been there to help you. Guide you." Carl nodded. "I have grown to love you, as my own, my son…"
"He is not your son!" Carl looked at Kimberly, but his eyes looked confused.
"What have you done to him?" Tommy asked.
"None of your concern."
"You did something to him," Kimberly said. "He doesn't even recognize us. Do you, Carl?" Carl looked at Kimberly. "Carl…"
"Look at me, son. Now, I would never lie to you. Let me tell you a story…I know how much you love stories."
"Don't listen to him, Carl," Tommy yelled. "He only tells lies. Lies son."
"Yes, honey. Whatever he says, it's a lie. You can trust us. Trust me."
"Do not listen to her, she is the one lying here. Come on, Carl. Let me tell you a story. My story begins well before you were even born. You see, I was to many people, a great and powerful Lord," Zedd said with his hand on Carl's back.
"Like a King?" Carl asked.
"Higher than a King."
"Did you do bad things?"
"Yes and no. I had…I did many bad things as a Lord yes to benefit my people and my legacy."
"You did it to benefit yourself!" Kimberly yelled.
"Hush! Now, you see, I was a lost and forgotten soul, much like you, but I was raised to be a ruler over the universe."
"The whole universe?"
"Yes. The whole universe. But you see those 2 people there, they opposed me and everything I did."
"Why?"
"Because they didn't want change. They didn't want me to come to their home and rule it," Zedd said.
"Of course not, who would?" Zedd laughed.
"Exactly. You see, we fought and we fought. That lady, I wanted her to be by my side. I would not have taken over if she just was by my side."
"By your side?"
"Yes, as my, well, Queen."
"You wanted her as a queen?"
"Yes, she is very beautiful, don't you think so?" Carl nodded. "Well, she only had eyes for one other person and that was not me."
"What did you do?"
"I was hurt. I loved her." Kimberly shook her head at Zedd.
"You are sick!"
"What happened?"
"You see, she moved on to that person and they had a baby, but they didn't want the baby."
"That's a lie!" Tommy yelled. "You took our baby!" Carl looked at Tommy.
"Honey, look at me. We wanted you, we want you now. Our mistake was not coming sooner."
"No, your mistake was not fighting," Zedd said. "You don't deserve to have Carl in your life. He is my son now, come Carl."
"NO!" Zedd put his hand on Carl's shoulder. He looked at Tommy and Kimberly with a smile before they disappeared.
Tommy looked at Kimberly. He was mad and she knew it. She felt the anger about to boil over him. Kimberly kept her distance in the cell.
"I told you not to come," Tommy said through clenched teeth.
"I couldn't…I couldn't let you go without, if…"
"I told you not to come!" Tommy yelled causing Kimberly to nearly fall back. "Why don't you listen to me!"
"Why don't you see, I am with you through of all this!" Kimberly yelled back.
"I asked you to do one thing! One damn thing! You never listen! I asked for one fucking favor!"
"I know."
"You know? You fucking promise me!"
"You promised me first! You said we would do this together!" Kimberly yelled back.
"This is too dangerous for you!"
"And what about you!"
"What about me! I can take care of myself!"
"And who will save you from yourself? You are reckless and foolish and…I could not let you go alone. If you were to die…"
"What…you know I will die here, so you wanted to die with me?" Tommy was pacing around the cell.
"NO! I wanted you to know that…"
"Know what?" Tommy asked with his back to Kimberly.
"Know that I was pregnant." Tommy turned to her slowly.
"What?"
"I'm pregnant." He stood frozen in place, his mouth slightly open. "Tommy, did you hear me? I said, I'm…"
"You're pregnant?" She nodded. Tommy's mouth turned into a smile as he rushed to her. Cupping her face immediately kissing her passionately. Kimberly gasped, then moaned. "What the hell are you doing here then! When did you find out?"
"About 5 minutes after you left. I knew I had to go with you. I had to tell you. I had to be with you!"
"But…but baby, you're going to have a baby!" Tommy touched her stomach. "A baby. You shouldn't be here!"
"Of course I should! Who else is going to save you?" Tommy held her face and kissed her again.
"You have to promise me something and this time, you must swear by it and keep to it."
"No."
"Kimberly, swear to me, right now."
"No!"
"Promise me!"
"I promise."
"Swear it."
"I swear," Kimberly said softly. "I swear it."
"If anything happens to me, if I get into trouble, and you have Carl, and there is the chance to leave, you will take it and never look back."
"No."
"Promise me!" Kim's eyes filled with tears. Kimberly nodded as the tears rolled down her face. "Say it! Swear it!"
"I swear! I promise if I have the chance to leave with Carl, I will take it and leave you."
"Good girl." He kissed her.
Kimberly groaned, and rubbed her temples to the 5th kick at the gated door. Tommy kicked again.
"Okay, that is enough!" Kimberly jumped up and stood between him and the gated bars. Tommy's leg stayed up at her as he paused. "Sit your ass down!" Tommy's leg slowly went down.
"Sorry, I was just trying to get us out of here," Tommy said.
"This takes brains, not strength."
"Sorry."
"I know baby. Come here." Tommy did. They hugged. "Let's just sit down and rationalize this." Tommy took a sit and pulled Kimberly into his lap.
"Complying to your wife's every command." Zedd appeared outside the cage.
"What do you want Zedd?" Kimberly asked with her arms crossed over her chest as she stood up.
"You, in my bed."
"In your dreams," Tommy huffed. Tommy stood up behind Kim. He put his hands on her shoulders. "Let us go, Zedd."
"Yeah. Don't you realize by now, you can't win this. We won both cases, we defeated you like we always do," Kimberly said.
"So beautiful." Kimberly made a face when he reached to touch her face, but Tommy pulled her back and slapped Zedd's hand away.
"Where's Carl?"
"In training as my heir?"
"For what?" Tommy asked.
"I want to see him."
"Oh, that's fine by me. But first, you must agree to be mine."
"Oh, fuck off," Kimberly said. "What is fucking wrong with you? I have a husband! I have the man I love! We just want our son back, and be a family. I will never want to be with you. No spell, no potions, nothing can change that! I love Tommy, please, just give this up!" Kimberly moved forward and held the bars. "Please, just give us Carl and let us be."
"And why should you be happy!" Zedd yelled. Zedd placed his hands over Kim's hands.
"Don't touch her!" Zedd's hand went up and Tommy was lifted up and flew back into the bars on the other side of the cage.
"Tommy!" Zedd held Kimberly there. Kimberly looked back.
"He is fine."
"Let me go!"
"Not until I have my say."
"You have had your say! You said enough! I am so tired of listening to your foolish talks of love!"
"I love you."
"You don't know love! Love is what Tommy and I have. Love is what we have for Carl. You don't know love!"
"I can! If you show me."
"I will never love you!" Zedd let her go harshly, causing Kimberly to fall back slightly. She rushed to Tommy and held his head against her chest, as she rubbed his face.
"My sensors show that you are pregnant." Kimberly looked up to Zedd. "If you want that baby to survive, leave him and be with me. Because I will kill Tommy, and if I have to, I will destroy you and your baby." Kimberly gasped. "And Carl will reign this universe with an eviler hand than I ever did." Zedd disappeared. Kimberly looked down at Tommy, rubbing his face.
Tommy woke up to hear a constant kick and groan. Tommy sat up, rubbing his head.
"Kimberly…?" She kicked at the gate door again. "I thought this took brains?"
"Are you just going to sit there?"
"Right." Tommy stood up. "There has to be a weak spot, we have to hit together."
"Hiyah!" Kimberly kicked with Tommy. "Hiyah!"
"Wait…together." Tommy took her hand. "One, 2, 3…hiyah!" The gate popped open.
"Yes!" Kimberly jumped and hugged Tommy. "We did it!"
"Now, let's go rescue Carl."
"Right."
Tommy and Kimberly found a group of putties going through their bags. Tommy motioned for Kimberly to go to the other side. Kimberly nodded. Tommy sneaked into the room with Kimberly. A putty shook a laser gun. Kimberly tapped his shoulder.
"Excuse me, didn't Zedd teach you not to go through other people's things?" She punched it in the chest. Kimberly caught the gun and fired at other putties. Tommy fought the putties as well.
"Everything is here," Tommy said. "We should plant these bombs as we go."
"Yeah."
"Stay behind me."
"Fine," Kimberly sighed, rolling her eyes a bit.
"I mean it!"
"Fine!"
"Let's go."
Kimberly and Tommy found Zedd's throne room, a warrior in black kneeling before him. Once his mask was removed, both Kimberly and Tommy gasped.
"No…Carl…"
"Kimberly…!" Tommy couldn't stop her as she rushed inside.
"Carl!" Carl turned around.
"Aww…time to test my warrior."
"Carl?" Tommy fired his gun as some putties rushed toward Kimberly.
"What have you done to him?" Kimberly asked.
"My job," Zedd said.
"No."
Tommy had knocked Carl out, when he was attacked. Tommy hated to have to hit his son, but he was aiming to shot Kimberly. Some monster tackled Tommy, and Kimberly fought putties and Zedd. Zedd was toying with her. Carl woke up. His hand on his bow. Zedd pushed Kimberly aside.
"Kill her son." Carl stood up slowly with his bow. He drew a long arrow from his pack and aimed a shot. Kimberly had her back to Carl as he fired his arrow at her. Tommy looked up just as Kimberly was pierced in the back of her right shoulder.
"Kimberly!" She gasped. Tommy caught Kimberly as she fell to her knees. "Kim?" He touched her face.
"My, my, my…what a dilemma you have there." Tommy sat Kimberly up, as he looked at the arrow. When his hand went to pull it, Zedd laughed. "I wouldn't do that. If you pull that arrow out, not only will she probably bleed to death, but I believe those were the poisoned arrows. Then again, leaving the arrow in, she will die sooner." Kimberly had tears in her eyes. Tommy rubbed her face with a smile.
"Hi," Kimberly whispered.
"Hi."
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay, baby. You're going to okay."
"No, you asked me to stay behind you and I didn'listen to you."
"Yeah, well, when do you ever listen to me?" Kim smiled.
"Promise me, you will save Carl."
"We will." Tommy hugged her. Zedd raised his staff. Tommy covered Kimberly as they were fired out. Tommy opened his eyes to find them back in their cell.
Tommy lifted Kimberly to sit up better in his arms, but she only seem to want to close her eyes.
"Beautiful, no. You can't sleep."
"I want to sleep."
"I know baby, but you can't."
"Tommy…promise me, promise me…"
"No. I won't hear any final speeches from you. Not here, not now."
"Please, listen to me."
"Kimberly, no.."
"Raise him not to be so damn stubborn like you. I know…know how hard that is, especially for you to..." Kimberly coughed. Tommy gasped, and held her face toward him. "I'm sorry that I…."
"No, look, I'm gonna pull the arrow out, okay. Just bear with me." Tommy ripped down the sleeve to his shirt. "It might hurt a bit."
"No, leave it, I'll die either way."
"Don't! Don't talk like that! You are not gonna die! Not here, not like this!" Tommy sat her up better. "Hold my arm." Kimberly did. "On 3, baby. 1,2…3." Tommy pulled the arrow out with a slight gasped scream from Kimberly. Tommy pressed his shirt to the opening, as blood came from it. "I have to stop this bleeding." Tommy applied pressure before he wrapping it. Tommy looked at the arrow, which turned to the crisp as he picked it up. Tommy groaned and tossed the stick aside. Kim's eyes closed. "No!" He shook her. "Stay awake!" Kimberly groaned as her eyes shot opened. "Good girl. Good girl, stay with me."
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay. Just stay awake."
"I'll try, but I'm…I'm cold. So cold."
"Well, I'll just have to keep my babies warm." Tommy rubbed her arms first, before pressing her against his chest. His shirt was opened around her, as he kept her close. She hugged him with a smile. "I can't lose you now, Beautiful. I just can't."
"I love you."
"Oh, Beautiful, I love you so much." He kissed her head. "We're going to get Carl back, I'm gonna get him for you." Tommy kissed her head as he rocked her.
Zedd appeared again with Carl. Tommy looked up at them as he was stroking Kim's face. Try as he might, she eventually closed her eyes. Tommy felt her slipping away with each breath.
"You know, I can save her. With one snap of my fingers, I can save her. And all you have to do is go back to Earth and leave us to be a family."
"Burn in hell!"
"Fine, then watch her die." Carl and Zedd disappeared.
Before the doors to the dungeon opened, Tommy looked up to see the blue shield flicker and disappear. Tommy looked up from rubbing Kim's face to see Carl standing before them.
"What do you want, Carl?"
"How do you know my name?" Tommy looked at Carl.
"Because I know you."
"Who are you?"
"You know who I am, Carl. I'm your father."
"Zedd says he's my father," Carl said walking along the cage to get a better look of Tommy and Kimberly.
"Well, do you believe him?" Tommy asked.
"I don't know. Everything seems a daze. Like I am in a dream here."
"More like a nightmare."
"Who are you?" Carl asked again.
"I am your father, Carl. And this is your mother. We came here to save you."
"Save me from what?"
"Zedd," Kimberly said weakly opening her eyes.
"No, baby…" Tommy tried to keep her down, as she tried to sit up.
"I am fine." Tommy helped her sit up. Kimberly looked at Carl as she slowly stood up with help from Tommy. "Carl, baby, you gotta listen to me. Zedd is a monster. And he only wishes to hurt us, by taking you from us. He is not your friend. He has no friends. He is only out for himself. He doesn't care about you. He only cares about hurting others." Carl watched Kimberly fall to one knee before him after she gasped.
"Kim!" Tommy caught her. "You're pushing yourself."
"I shot you. I did it because he told me to."
"It's okay."
"Mommy, I didn't mean to. I just, I wasn't myself."
"I know, baby."
"I'm sorry, Mommy." Carl went to the cage door and opened it. Kimberly smiled as he hugged her.
"Oh, baby!" Kimberly hugged him tight. Tommy smiled. Carl pulled out a small vial with blue liquid inside.
"What is that, son?" Tommy asked.
"Put this on her." Tommy took it.
"What is it?"
"Zedd said it was the cure for the arrows. I took it."
"Why?"
"Because, because…"
"You know the truth." Carl nodded.
"I see you both, a lot. I hear you singing to me, and you just talking to me, even when I never saw your faces. I feel your presences, your undying love for me." Kimberly smiled and rubbed his head.
"Because we do love you, so much." Carl smiled and hugged Kim again.
"Okay, I better do this," Tommy said. He pulled the wrapped cloth from her wound and poured the liquid over Kim's pierced shoulder. He watched the green veins slowly disappear as they were spreading out from her cut, some going up her neck and down her back. The opening sealed up within moments. Kimberly lifted her arm without pain.
"It's gone!"
"The pain, the coldness is gone." Kimberly looked at Tommy. He kissed her shoulder before kissing her on the lips.
"Let's go home."
"Zedd still has your ship in the cargo bay."
"Good," Tommy said standing up. He helped Kimberly up. She still felt a bit woozy. "I got you baby." Tommy lifted her into his arms.
"I can walk."
"I like to carry you, Beautiful. Carl, which way?"
"To the left." They rushed out only to run right into Zedd and his army of putties and monsters.
"Bad, bad boy. How dare you turn against me, son," Zedd said.
"He is not your son!"
"No one is leaving here alive."
"We'll see about that," Tommy said putting Kimberly down. "Stay behind me." He pulled Carl behind him as well.
"I can fight," Carl and Kimberly said together.
"Stay behind me, both of you!" They all battled against Zedd and his army. They raced down the halls toward the bay.
Kimberly placed her arm around Carl as he held her by the waist. She stopped in the doorway and turned back as putties were taking down Tommy.
"After them!"
"Kimberly go!" Tommy yelled. She had tears in her eyes, holding her son. "You promised me! Go!" Kimberly shook her head. "GO!" Kimberly picked up Carl and slammed her hand against the panel to close barrier to that corridor. The other barrier begins to go down as well.
"Go!" Kimberly yelled to Carl. Kimberly rushed with Carl and they got pass the second barrier. Tommy kept his eyes on her as she went through, her eyes on him until she was gone from his view. Tommy went back to fighting, he wasn't going to die without a fight that was the least he could do for Kimberly and his son.
Kimberly rushed toward the cargo bay panel. She set the bay to open for the ship to exit through. She rushed to the ship. The panel to the spacecraft opened as Kimberly rushed inside carrying her son. The cargo bay started to open.
"Put on a seatbelt!"
"There aren't any seats!"
"Then hold on to something!"
"Mom! Are we leaving Daddy?" Kimberly went to the computer and started up the ship. She typed up a sequence into the computer. "Are we just going to leave him!" Kimberly pushed the throttle forward causing the ship to rise. "We can't leave him!"
"Shut up!" Kimberly clicked on the weapons to fire up. She checked the shield capacity. It was still low, down to 30 percent, but that was better than nothing.
"We can't leave him back there!"
"Stay back!" Kimberly fired a hole to escape through for the ship.
"Mom! Mommy, I'm sorry. Mommmy, please…. I'm sorry! Please, Mommy!" Kimberly looked at her son. "Mommy please, don't leave him!"
"I swore it. I swore we would leave him."
"Un-swear it!" The ship flew toward the hole. "That's my father you are leaving back there! That's my father!"
"Come here."
"What?"
"Come here!" Carl walked to her. "Hold this level, these are the weapons."
"You want me to fly the ship!"
"You are a smart kid, I'm pretty sure you can handle this." Kimberly pulled out a microphone and placed it on his head. "We will be in contact the whole time. I need to you do this for me."
"But I don't know…"
"Yes you do! You have your father's keen sense of survival and my ability to dodge well...death. Just keep the ship level, son. I will be back soon."
"But what if…"
"If something does happen, the ship is set to return to Earth. You will find all our friends waiting at the ruins of our old Command Center. My best friend, Aisha, oh if you think I will spoil you, boy, you don't know your auntie Sha. She'll take good care of you."
"But I want you and Dad, Mom."
"I know baby, but if something does happen, and I tell you to go, push that button immediately and don't think twice. This ship will go to them if you hit auto-pilot."
"Mom! No!" Kimberly checked her gun. "Wait! Please, don't leave me too!"
"I have to. I have to go, son. I won't leave him behind alone, we promised each other we would be together forever. I promised Tommy that on our wedding day. Keep the ship leveled, son." Kimberly brought out a space helmet. She kissed his head before she grabbed 2 more laser guns and put them at her waist. "I'll be back. I love you."
"I love you too." Kimberly kissed his head again.
"I love you so much." Kimberly went to a smaller pod craft to go back to the palace.
Tommy was made to kneel before Zedd after he was awaken by a kick in the stomach. It took several monsters to take him down after Kimberly left, but eventually he was carried back to the ruin throne room. Zedd wanted to put together a small craft to go after them, but with the explosions going off around the ship, everything was hectic.
"They can't be far, aim the tracking beam at the ship!"
"Sire, the bombs have disabled our tracking beam." Another explosion came as the pod blasted into the fortress before landing.
"Then send a craft! Go after that ship now!" A monster bowed and left. "She left you. She actually left you! That bitch!"
"Of course, she did. I told her too." Zedd punched Tommy. He smiled at Zedd before spitting the blood at his feet.
"Don't think that stunt you pulled will be enough. I will bring your wife, your son and your new baby back here, and we will be a family after I kill you." Tommy gasped. He knew about the pregnancy. Tommy smiled.
"You wish, Zedd. Kimberly is gone, as is Carl. I did what I had to do to keep my wife, our son and our baby safe. They are gone now; do to me whatever you want. But I have the satisfaction of knowing, they are safe. She left just like I asked her to."
"Oh, so she listens to you now?"
"Not usually," Tommy said.
"More like not ever." Tommy looked up as Kimberly stood there after removing her helmet. She held her lasers up.
"I told you to go!"
"And I did!" Kimberly shot at a putty holding him. Tommy fought the putties holding him down. "But you never said I couldn't come back." Kimberly fired at all the putties holding him. She pulled out her bow and arrow.
"Attack her!" Kimberly fired arrows against all Zedd's monster.
Zedd shocked Tommy with his staff after Tommy defeated another one of his monsters. Kimberly gasped at that. She pulled out a bomb from her bag. Tommy fell to his knees after being sliced in the back by Zedd with the end of his staff. Zedd held his staff high about to cut off Tommy's head.
"Tommy! Duck!" Kimberly was holding a live bomb. She tossed it behind Zedd. Tommy fell to the ground just as the explosion went off. Zedd flew forward thanks to the bomb going off behind him. Kimberly rushed over to Tommy and helped him up to his feet. Tommy was injured badly. Kimberly and him limped out. Zedd threw a line at Kim's foot causing her and Tommy to fall to the ground. Kimberly looked back at Zedd. She stood up slowly and went to draw another arrow but found her bag empty. Kimberly pulled out her last laser gun. Zedd stood up slowly with her. His skull cracked and bent down.
"You can't destroy me, Kimberly."
"Well, your fortress will soon be completely destroyed," Kimberly said kicking him back.
"You can't kill me, Kimmy. And because of that, I will always be there to strike you down whenever I choose." Kimberly kicked his staff away and knocked Zedd to the ground. "You're weak, just like Tommy! He couldn't kill me! And I know you won't." They fought, Kimberly punching him one last time, causing Zedd to stay on the ground.
"You know nothing about me." Kimberly kicked him in the face as she walked away. She rushed over to Tommy. He groaned as she helped him up.
"Get back here! We are not finished!"
"I am done with you, Zedd! Just die like the monster you are, just die."
"Get back here! I will always be there to take Carl when you least expect it!"
Tommy and Kimberly raced out the throne room.
"Where's the ship!" Tommy asked. Kimberly pointed to the floating craft outside in the distance as they made down to where she crashed the pod. "Who's flying the ship!" Kimberly was holding up Tommy as they ran. "You left Carl flying my ship!"
"Well, I didn't have another other options," Kimberly shouted back at him.
"I told you to go!"
"And I did, just as I promised! I left you, but you never said I couldn't come back!" Kimberly put the helmet over Tommy's head and held her breath, as they went to the pod Tommy groaned as Kimberly helped him into the pod. She closed the door and gasped out the breath she was holding in. Kimberly froze and looked down at Tommy.
"What?" Tommy asked pulling off the helmet.
"This is not done."
"What?"
"This isn't done."
"No, Kim….baby, don't.."
"I have to finish this."
"Kimberly, we'll defeat him another time. Let's just get home."
"I won't allow that monster to attack our family anymore. I won't lost another baby to him."
"Don't…let it go, Kim. He's done. His fortress will blow any minute."
"He will build another."
"No, Beautiful, let's go."
"No, he's right. If we go now, he will find a way to always haunt us. I won't live like that. I won't raise this baby like that."
"Kim, no!" Tommy tried to get up and stop her.
"I have to finish this." Kimberly pulled on the helmet. "Start the pod. I'll be back." She ran out the ship.
"Kimberly!" Tommy gasped and closed up the pod.
AN: Just 2 more installments left to come...coming to another end. Will Kimberly or Zedd survive? Find out next time. I know, sad, sad, but be happy, because I got more T/K romances to come. Keep up the reviews, you guys rock!