Chapter 3: visiting the crime scene
The duo finally arrived at the throat, Luke parked the car close behind the yellow police tape.
The throat 9:05 pm
Once parked, Luke turned off the car and spoke to his partner.
"Alright here we are, just follow my-" he turned to see Doc had already exited the vehicle going under the police tape.
"Hey wait for me!" Luke called after him.
Doc was already past the police tape. When he reached the crime scene, there were a dozen firefighters, who were also white blood cells, standing by their fire trucks with their fire hoses in hand and spraying the large inflamed area in Matthew's throat.
One of the firefighters/white blood cells was talking on his radio.
"Quickly it's flaring up again, get me the status on the pain relief." He yelled through the radio.
But he turned around and saw Doc (who observing the scene) standing behind him.
"Hmmm…inflammation and glandular swelling, we meet again." said Doc
He opened up his chest plate, pulled out a small capsule and loaded it in his right arm cannon. Then, he fired a freeze blast over the inflamed regions, in order to cool it down and soothe the irritation.
Meanwhile, Luke walked up to the firechief to greet him.
"Well well...if it isn't my good buddy Jake the fire dog."
"Luke? What are you doing here?" Jake asked "I thought you were supposed to be up at the mouth."
"Not anymore" Luke responded " I'm no longer on probation and officially back on patrol."
"Really?"
"Yup, now what do we got?"
"Just a routine sore throat, looks like a saliva boat went up in flames and crashed."
Jake pointed towards a burned up saliva boat and where it crashed. Afterwards, Jake went back to work, leaving Luke alone to observe the crash.
"A saliva boat? That seems pretty unusual." He pondered
Then he went over to investigate the crash site. He took out a flashlight and went inside to further examined the wreckage.
While looking around, Luke saw that everything was destroyed from the fire, then he stumbled upon a Saliva boat worker's hat, he had already determined that something had happened to the crew that was on this boat, but what really got his attention, were glowing bright red cracks spread across the walls.
"What's this?" He wondered.
Then he heard a sound and realized he wasn't alone, he quickly took out his gun(a.k.a enzyme blaster), he went around the corner and out of nowhere something jumped on his head and made him fall on the floor.
"ARGH" Luke screamed as he struggled to get whatever attacked him off his head. He succeeded and threw his attacker on the floor.
He quickly picked up his gun and aimed it at said attacker.
"NO PLEASE DON'T SHOOT!"
"Wha?" Luke was confused
Before him was a small harmless germ and he looked frightened.
"PLEASE I DON'T WANNA DIE" he screamed
"WHOA WHOA...Calm down nobody's going to hurt you." Luke tried to calm him down as he holstered his weapon, obviously something had spooked him.
"The Red Death is coming man" the frightened germ said.
"It's okay just tell me what happened." Luke said
The germ was about answer, but out of nowhere a blast of ice came at them, Luke managed to dodge it, but the germ wasn't so lucky and ended up frozen solid. Luke then saw Doc freezing up the entire crime scene.
"Excuse me, but what do you think you're doing?" Asked an irritated Luke
"Soothing a sore throat." Doc answered
"Yeah and freezing an eye witness along the way." Luke pointed at the frozen germ.
Doc saw this and realized his mistake.
"Oh uh..don't worry he should thaw out in a few days." He nervously said.
"By then it would already be too late he could've had really important information of what happened here." Luke replied still a little upset.
"Officer nothing happened this is nothing more than a common sore throat. Now if you'll excuse me I more soothing to do." Doc armed his cannon and headed out.
Luke rolled his eyes and walked towards the frozen germ and picked him up, he figured that the germ would eventually thaw out and be able to talk so he decided to take him along for the ride.
"Now that's what I call inflammation relief" Jake said as he walked up behind Luke.
"See ya around Jake" Luke smirked as he left.
"Stay cool Luke."
Outside Matthew's body:
The next day, Matthew and Travis were walking down the hallway heading to class, while discussing how to prepare for the playoffs.
"So I was thinking we should we should round up the guys and coordinate for this season's playbook." Said Travis
"We'll see what to do next after class." Said Matthew
They entered the classroom right before the bell rings and went to their assigned seats. As soon as they sat down, Travis noticed something was wrong with Matthew.
"You feeling ok man?" Travis asked concerned for his friend
"Just feeling a bit woozy, but it's nothing really." Matthew answered
"Okay" said Travis still concerned.
Back Inside Matthew's body:
Somewhere inside Matthew's body, there was an old abandoned warehouse somewhere in a small district under a fingernail.
Underneath a fingernail: 8:04 pm
Inside the warehouse, there were three germs and they seem to be acting as bodyguards/henchman and their leader appears to be a bacterium known as Measles.
"Did the foot fungers pay yet ?" Ask Measles
"No, they seem to be getting flaking on us" one of his henchman answered.
"Well get down there and send them a message-" before he could say anything, he noticed a mysterious figure approaching and it was female it revealed to be Anne Thrax.
"So this is where the scum of Matthew comes and festers" said Anne
"You lost sweetheart?" Measles asked and smirked "now what's a pretty thing like you doing in a place like this?"
"Oh...just passing by looking for some nasty germs that want in on a big score." Anne said while examining her nails(or claws).
"Sorry to break it to you love, but I'm the one who runs the rankets around here."
"Is that so?" Anne asked raising an eyebrow
"That's right, so don't go thinking that you get to call the shots." Measles said in a warning tone "even if you are just another pretty face.
"Oh I'm more than just that sugah and I've got a proposal for you gentlemen."
"Tryin to hustle us ain't gonna work."
"This ain't no hustle honey, I'm talking about an illness in which the likes of have never seen."
"Are you pretending to be the Ebola virus?" Measles mocked, which prompted his henchman to laugh along with him.
Anne frowned and narrowed her eyes and stood within closing distance in front of Measles.
"Don't ever mock me and Ebola is nothing but a case of dandruff compared to me, so I suggest you tread lightly" she threatened.
"Is that a threat?"
"You got that right."
"Big mistake toots" Measles snapped his fingers and three of his henchmen surrounded Anne "OK boys let's take up to the face and bury her in a blackhead."
Anne just stood there completely unfazed while one of the muscular germs came at her with his fist, but Anne caught it and kicked the large germ in the stomach making him fall on the ground. The next one charged at her with a knife,but Anne dodged it and judo flipped him and he crashed into a couple of crates.
The last one tried to grab hold of, but he flipped over him and landed on feet, then knocked him out with a punch in the face. With all three germs defeated, she turned to Measles and grabbed him by the throat.
"I guess nobody taught you how to treat a lady" Anne said as Measles was struggling to get out of her incredibly strong grip.
She lifted up her left claw-like index finger as it glowed and poked Measles in the stomach, then let's go of him and watch as his entire body caught on fire, while he screamed in pain.
"AHHHH SOMEBODY HELP ME"
All his henchmen could do was stand by watch in shock and fear as the now 'former' boss was completely incinerated.
"Well it looks like I'll be calling the shots after all and I hope the rest you don't have a problem with that." Says Anne while addressing the germs.
No one dared spoke in fear for their lives.
"Thought so."
"Who are you?" asked one of the germs
"The names Thrax ...Anne Thrax and as of right now I'd like ya to call me boss."
"So...uh what sickness do you have in mind...boss?" Asked another germ.
A sinister grin formed on Anne's face before answering.
"A very deadly one."
TO BE CONTINUED…...
A/N: Hey everyone I just finished chapter 3 but haven't started chapter 5 yet. Luke and Doc are about to face major threat to Matthew and what diabolical scheme has Anne Thrax cooked ? I hope new chapters are published in order to find out.