Hey guys! It's been a while (and the original file with all of the chapters of the story was accidentally deleted from my computer) so here's the new chapter!

(Disclaimer - see Chapter 1)

Chapter 10:

Let's Go With That

Where is the Special?

The Special and the Piece of Resistance are at the bottom of the ocean.

Wait, are you telling me you don't have him?

Sir, my scuba team is looking for his remains as we speak.

Bad Cop, he could still be alive! The Piece could still be out there!

The only remnant of the Special was a double-decker couch.

Wait, hold up. A double-decker couch?

Yes, sir.

Really? So it's like a bunk bed couch? Is that what it's like? That's weird. If you're sitting in the top middle, how are you gonna get down without climbing over someone? If you're sitting on the bottom, and you're watching TV, are you gonna have to watch through a bunch of dangling legs? Who's gonna want to sit on the bottom? It is literally the most useless idea I have ever heard.

Once I could no longer hear the rush of water above me, I opened the seat a crack - and air rushed in, greeting me with a warm welcome above water. I opened the seat completely and looked around.

We were stranded - there was absolutely nowhere to go.

"CLEAR!" I shouted.

The others opened up their seats and poked their heads out.

"Well, we're alive," Vitruvius said, picking up one of the cups on the side and drinking from it. (I'm still not sure what was in it.)

"I guess the double-decker couch wasn't pointless after all," I said, even though I knew it had never been pointless in the first place.

"Uh…" Batman interrupted. "I don't mean to spoil the party, but we're kinda stranded in the middle of nowhere."

I looked around. He was right.

"I mean, it's not like we're able to just Accio a humongous ship out of nowhere - OH MY GOD!"

He said this in response to a humongous ship - which came out of nowhere - that was heading directly towards us.

"Grab hold, me hearties!" someone yelled from the deck - Metalbeard, I thought.

His metal hand, decorated with a shark, swept down and grabbed the couch - and it was a bit of a wild ride. I held on for dear life until we touched down on deck, the couch somehow staying completely intact.

"Metalbeard!" Benny cried, relieved. "I thought you said we were a lost cause!"

"Ye are," Metalbeard said. "Did ye not hear me whole story regarding the folly of this here enterprise?"

"It's kinda hard to not hear when you're always yelling everything," Batman said under his breath.

"So why did you come back?" Unikitty asked, voicing the opinions of all of us.

"This bedoubled land couch," he said.

We all looked over at the couch, which Emmet was standing next to, astounded. As soon as he saw our gazes, he darted over to the other side of the couch, a proud expression on his face.

"I saw the forces of Lord Business completely overlook it - which means we need more ideas like it."

"Really?" Emmet said.

Metalbeard nodded. "Ideas so dumb and bad that nobody would ever think they could possibly be useful.

"Oh," Emmet said, dejected. "Uh, thanks…"

"What can I say except you're welcome?" Unikitty sang, darting over to Emmet.

"Not now, Unikitty," Vitruvius said. "So, Emmet...what do we do?"

An abrupt silence fell, mingling with the tension already hanging heavy in the air.

"Uh...well," Emmet said, "we need to think like smart, rational people - and smart, rational people would try to catch President Business off guard - doing something he wouldn't expect us to do."

I couldn't help but notice that Emmet was still calling Lord Business President Business, as if he was still potentially a good guy.

"So what would he not expect any of us to do?"

We came up with a bunch of ideas, but Emmet shot them down before coming up with his own.

"We need to follow the instructions."

"WHAT!?" I screamed, and many of the other people followed my lead.

"I know, I know," Emmet said. "You guys' innate natures are to go against the grain - that's what gives life its spontaneity. But sometimes, following the instructions helps us branch off and come up with our own recipes to make life fun. And even just following the instructions is making it so that we don't follow the instructions of Business's plan to get us all killed. The last time we tried to do our own thing, it didn't work, and the only thing that saved us was a plan that was branched off of - have you guessed? - the instructions."

Somehow, his plan was making sense.

"All of the previous plans to get inside were - from what I can tell - not really plans, just the infiltrators trying their hardest to get in and find a way to get the Kragle back. But when I was a construction worker - even when we had a plan, we could build skyscrapers. Now, you're all Master Builders - imagine what could happen if you had a plan! You could save the universe! So...who's with me?"

The silence returned, but for only a second before I raised my hand in agreement. So did Metalbeard. Then Batman, then Unikitty (using her paw), then Benny.

There was only one other person on board - Vitruvius. We all looked towards him.

And slowly, he raised his hand.

I looked back at Emmet, blushing a tiny bit. His face was flushed with gratitude, and I could tell that he appreciated this.

A smile on his face, he cried out, "Somebody get me some markers...some construction paper...and some GLITTER GLUE!"

Standing in the ship's control room, we looked at Emmet, who was standing around with the plans that he had drawn.

"Now, as tall as the Octan Tower is, it's still a skyscraper," he explained. "I've built hundreds - no, thousands of these back home. I know where all the air ducts and hidden passageways are - we could definitely sneak in."

"But how will we get up there?" Vitruvius asked.

"In a spaceship," he said. Before Benny could start going crazy, he continued, "But not a spaceship spaceship or a bat-spaceship or a rainbow spaceship - a regular, generic spaceship, just like all the other Octan delivery ships. And that's where the instructions come in -"

"And that's where we're in trouble," Batman interjected. "Your precious instructions say that the ship needs a hyperdrive - we don't have that."

"Maybe we could find one!" Benny said, always the optimist. Seriously, if his leg was bitten off by a crocodile, or crushed by a giant stamping machine, he'd probably just shake it off and joke that he'd have half-off pedicures for life.

"We can't find one," Batman said, mocking Benny. "We can't just Accio ourselves a hyperdrive - or a spaceship with one - out of nowhere - OH MY GOD, THE SAME BIT!?"

A circular spaceship was hovering outside the boat.

"Ya need to stop Accio-ing everything," I said sarcastically.

"That ship...it looks...familiar," Emmet said, his face squinting in thought. I felt bad that he couldn't remember where he knew the ship (which was obviously the Millennium Falcon) from - and I felt bad that I knew why he couldn't remember.

The entire crew rushed outside to see who was in the ship - and we could see what looked like Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, and C-3PO (I think - I'm not a big Star Wars fan).

"I thought Han was dead," I whispered to Benny.

He gasped. "HEY! Spoiler alert here!"

"Wait," Lando said from the ship. "Who's that?"

He was pointing at me.

"I think we might be in the right galaxy," he continued. "Cause I see a heavenly body."

"Who are you, Ron Weasley in Transfiguration?" I shot back. (I'm good with my Harry Potter references.) "I have a boyfriend, you know."

"Yeah," Batman said. "Hey, you got room for one?"

My eyes widened. "Wait, what? Are you trying to bail on us?"

"Look," Batman said. "If this relationship is ever going to work out, I need to have the right to party with a bunch of strangers whenever I feel like it. It's in the Constitution."

"It's not -" I tried to say, but he used his grappling hook to soar onto the ship.

"I will text you," he called - and then he was gone.

I gaped. "YOU - COMPLETE - uh, BUTT - BRUCE - WAYNE!"

I have a feeling he didn't hear me.

Emmet looked over at me and put his hand on my shoulder.

"Hey," he said. "Are you alright?"

I shrugged. "I guess."

"You know," Emmet said, "you're an amazing person."

I looked over at him.

"And if Batman can't see that, then he's as blind as -"

His voice faltered as he realized that as blind as a bat was not the best comparison.

"I know," I cut in.

He smiled. Suddenly, I saw a little something behind him.

"Batman?" I said. Emmet turned - and sure enough, Batman was there, holding the Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive.

"Hey, babe," he said, winking at me. "Those guys were really lame - I thought there would be at least one girl there, but they were all...dudes. Even the robot and the furry guy. All dudes. And they just insisted on playing space checkers and talking about this guy who wears all black and has a mask and I think is their friend's dad or something like that - it just was so boring."

"But won't they notice their hyperdrive is missing?" Benny asked.

"Nah," Batman said. "They'll be fine. Let's go back inside and hear the rest of Emmet's plan."

We began to walk back into the room, Benny whispering to Batman, "You know, space checkers is actually a fun game. You have to always remember where all the pieces are, cause as soon as you get out of the gravitational pull, the pieces keep floating away!"

"Okay, that actually sounds kinda fun," Batman said. "Although it should be called bat-checkers."

"Alright," Emmet said. "Step 1 - LET'S BUILD A SPACESHIP!"

Alright, we need a red four piece unit over at the...Unikitty, you're supposed to follow the instructions, remember?

Sorry!

Oh, this give me the heebie jeebies!

What do I even...? I can't...!

"Step 2 - we pilot the ship to the Octan Tower and get past the dangerous - but also kinda cool - laser gate."

Space ID?

I have a drive-on.

Who are you here to see?

I'm here to see your butt.

Is that last name Butt, first name Your, or - OH MY GOSH!

Pew - pew - pew - first try!

"Step 3 - we break into President Business's collection of relics and steal some for disguises. Step 4 - Metalbeard and Benny will sneak into the fancy computer room and disable the shield systems."

Motion sensors triggered in Sector 12.

Ten-four.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Do it!

Metalbeard, that was awesome!

First law of the sea: "Never place your rear end on a pirate's face."

I am the computer.

Cool! A talking computer! Please disable the shield systems.

Of course. There are no movies in your area with that title.

AGH!

"Step 5 - Vitruvius will provide lookout. Step 6 - Batman and Unikitty will go and convince President Business to add one more thing to the Kragle machine - under the disguises of Bruce Wayne and Business Kitty."

"Bruce Wayne? Who's that? Sounds like a cool guy!"

I move that we freeze the universe. Could I get a second on that?

I second. Bruce Wayne, CEO of Wayne Enterprises.

We'd like to invest in your company. Your weapon to control the universe sounds super sweet, I must say.

It is indeed super sweet.

Cool! What kind of sound system does it have?

Uh...sound system? Well, I mean, we have an iPod shuffle.

Wait a second. You're telling me that you have a machine to control the universe and you can't listen to tunes and surround sound?

Embarrassing!

Well, we...I mean, we...we need to get that done. I want eight foot speakers.

Great call.

"Then, once the instructions are printed, Wyldstyle and I will enter the Kragle room and install the speakers. Then I'll put the Piece of Resistance on the Kragle and save the - hold on, I didn't draw that. Is that...me exploding?"

"Oh...did I not mention that before? That when you put the Piece on the Kragle, it might explode?"

"But it might not, right?"

"Sure, sure. Let's go with that."

Attention everybody, incoming speaker delivery.

Ow!

Who are you two?

We are transfers from downstairs.

What? Excuse me?

Your robot voice sounds an awful lot like a human voice...

Give me a break. I've never been a robot before.

What do you mean? You have always been a robot! No, no, no. Do not listen to her.

What are your robot serial numbers?

...Everything is awesome!

No way! This is my jam.

This is also my jam.

Everything is awesome. Everything is cool...

I don't want to sing the song - Everything is awesome! Everything is cool when you're part of a team! Everything is awesome when you're living a dream!

Quick, let's go.

Thanks for reading the chapter! Fun fact about this one - the chapter was originally supposed to be narrated by Batman - and only involve the Hyperdrive incident - but then I realized that Wyldstyle's narration would allow me a chance to show the other parts of the story - the plan going into action.

Feel free to review, but please no negative reviews or cursing. (And please, NOTHING POLITICAL!) Thanks!