Chapter 3:

Fighting Fire with Steam...punk

"AAAAHHH!" Alexa didn't know how long she was falling but the entire time, she was screaming her head off. Before she knew it, however, she fell into a lake and it was freezing cold. Alexa swam towards the surface and gasped for air before swimming to dry land. Once she made it out of the water, she was shivering to death. Alexa looked down and saw that she was wearing different clothes then the ones she wore to Disney World. It looked some kind of outfit from 1960s with purple skirt and long black high-heeled boots. She wore a black corset with a white blouse and purple and black choker around her neck. Alexa then reached from her head and took off a large light brown top hat with gear accessories on it. Alexa became more confused than before.

"What is going on…?" Alexa mumbled. She shook off the water on the hat and put it back on. She was still so confused on how her outfit had changed, but Alex knew that wasn't important right now. What WAS important was finding out where the hell she was...and then maybe getting some better clothes that suit her more. Alexa rubbed the side of her arms with her hands, trying to warm herself up a little. As she continued walking west, she noticed a city in the distance. Alexa sighed with relief and hurried over to the town. However, once she got there, the place was almost deserted and very depressing. Everyone looked so miserable and sad, but what freaked Alexa out the most were the soldiers marching around the area.

The people around her gave stares of confusion and puzzled curiosity, seeing such strange garb on a girl that had just walked into the small town. The soldiers took a similar interest, but no one moved. All they did was question what kind of person wears clothes like that. They whispered among themselves, raising their eyebrows and some of them even giggling at her.

"What kind of robes are those, mother?" A small boy asked his mother, clinging onto the pale tan garb she wore.

"Do not stare!" She guided her child away from the girl, "It is impolite!" Several other adults, however, did not follow this woman's advice, they stared, and some giggled, mostly the beautiful women of this establishment.

Finally, a guard approached her, with a serious gaze and a menacing presence.

"Young lady." He growled, "Would you mind showing me your Identity Bracelet?"

Alex's eyes widened, trying to process the information that was thrown to her all at once. Identity bracelet? Weird clothes? Guards? Garbs and robes?

"U-Umm..." She stuttered, her hands shivering as a strange feeling built up in her stomach. "M-My what?"

The soldier glared at Alexa through his dark red visor before grabbing an item that looked like an old fashioned walkie-talkie. "We have a Code 09-30, I'll need an Identity Bracelet ready." He said. He pointed his blaster gun at the young girl and ordered her to come along with him. Alexa put her hands up and let the guard guide her to a strange building that didn't look like the rest of the buildings at all. It looked more modern than ancient, almost like a smaller version of the Empire State Building. Alexa didn't realizing she stopped walking until the soldier pushed her forward with his gun and told her, "Keep walking."

As they entered the building, Alexa took notice of the strange surroundings in the lobby-like room. The soldier led her to an elevator and pushed the down arrow button.

Alexa looked at the soldier. "What's on the top floor?"

The soldier glared and answered, "It's none of your business, girl." Alexa flinched at his tone. It was awkward silence for the next five minutes as the elevator went down about 4 levels. When the elevator door opened, Alexa gasped and saw millions of citizens of the town sitting in strange chairs and have some blood taken out of them, like they were donating it. However, the blood of each person was put into some kind of red bracelet band and was forced onto each person.

Alexa was scared. No, scared was an understatement. She was downright terrified. She hated needles ever since she was a toddler. She was always frightened because she always heard bad stories about people who do things to their bodies with needles filled with drugs. She never wanted to risk ever doing so she would always stay far away from needles whenever she could. She wanted to dash and run away, but the soldier grabbed her arm and started dragging her towards and vacant chair. She began to scream, trying to pull her arm away from the soldier.

"H-HEY! C-CAN'T WE TALK THIS OUT?!" She nervously stuttered, flailing her legs around in the chair as the guard forced her to sit down. The guard only responded with silence, strapping her down to the chair as she wiggled around, shaking her head violently. "I-I'M DEEEEEATHLY SCARED OF NEEDLES!" Once again, silence. More of the intimidating men walking towards her with a small needle. Alexa began to cry and closed her eyes. Waiting for it to be all over when…

"Whoawhoawhoa! Hey, boys!" Alexa looked up and saw someone approaching the group of soldiers. He was very tall and had fiery blue hair. Literal fire hair. Alexa knew who the man was just by the sound of his voice. The soldiers stopped what they were doing and saluted the tall man.

"What's all the commotion about?"

"Lord Hades, sir! This strange woman was resisting to get her blood drawn!" The soldier from before answered. Hades looked at Alexa, with her eyes still filled with tears. He moved the soldiers out the way and got a better look at Alexa. Hades didn't like the tears in her eyes so he sighed in annoyance and snapped his fingers, releasing Alexa from her binds so she could wipe her eyes.

"Kid, it's just a little needle. It's not-" Hades interrupted when Alexa hugged him around his waist, yelling, "THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU! I HATE NEEDLES SO MUCH, YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND! I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR SAVING MY LIFE! I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE A VILLAIN AND HAVE OTHER INTENTIONS! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!" All the soldiers and other employees looked at each other and at the scene before them. Hades removed Alexa from him and turned around and flared up in red fire, shouting, "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?! GET BACK TO WORK!" Everyone then went back to what they were doing. Alexa flinched a little but when Hades turned back to blue, she relaxed, but only slightly. Hades turned his attention back to Alexa.

"So let's cut straight to introductions. Name's Hades, God of the Underworld-"

"-Lord of the Dead and all that, yadda yadda yadda. Hi, how ya doing-Trust me, I've heard that only, uh, billion times, dude." Alexa told the fiery god. Hades stood there, dumbfounded. How did Alexa know all of that?

Hades shook it off and then asked, "Alright then, that saves a bit of time."

"What are you doing here?" Alexa then asked.

"Well, I couldn't exactly ignore your screaming and crying from all the way across the lab." Hades informed her.

Alexa blushed, clearly embarrassed by that. "Oh I'm sorry...Wait a minute…" Alexa then realized something and glared at Hades. "Why am I the one apologizing? What is going on here? What are you doing to these people?!" Alexa questioned.

Hades was surprised by her sudden mood swing and outburst. Not many mortals, especially women, stood up to him like that. He slightly glared at Alexa before answering, "It's the law in this place, sweetheart. Everyone who's not a villain or a Crimson Soldier wears an Identity Bracelet to keep themselves in line." Alexa wasn't sure what that meant but it didn't sound like a good thing, and it didn't feel right to her either.

"I don't get it though." Alexa said.

"Well of course as kid like you wouldn't understand." Hades replied. That ticked Alexa off; calling her a kid.

"I'm not-" Suddenly, loud sirens sounded and red lights flashed around the area, letting the employees know something was wrong.

A voice over the intercom shouted, "We have a Code 05-16! Code 05-16! Prisoner 009 has escaped! I repeat, Prisoner 009 has escaped!" Soldiers around the area who weren't doing anything important grabbed their blaster guns and dashed to the stairwell. Alexa was beyond confused now and then something sounded like it was crashing through the floors above before the ceiling above Alexa and Hades started crumbling and falling apart. Alexa jumped out of the way of the falling debris. Hades simply teleported out of the way. Alexa shook herself off before looking to see someone emerging from the smoke.

A young woman stood up and revealed herself. She was wearing a pure white jumpsuit with a golden ringlet on her right forearm and a golden choker around her neck. She had a brown belt around her waist with a light pink skirt. She had one sleeve covering her left arm, and dark boots. She wore pink earrings and her long hair was a lighter shade of pink with some magenta lowlights. She had light pink-colored eyes that showed as she looked around the area she was now in. Alexa looked at saw scar over her left eye. But soon, Alexa and the strange girl made eye contact and the younger girl gasped when she saw two white horns with magenta tint on the older girl's forehead. The two of them stared at each other for a while.

"Open fire!" A soldier shouted and the others followed his orders as they fired their guns. Alexa saw this and wondered if these soldiers had Stormtrooper training, because their marksmanship wasn't exactly the best. The pink-haired girl immediately turned in the soldier's direction. She growled and jumped down on top of one of them and sprung up again and roundhouse kicked another in the face. She threw a powerful punch towards the soldier to her left before going on a combo streak like Alexa had seen in video games.

Alexa was speechless as she watched the stranger take out all the soldiers with such brute strength. "…Holy crap…" Was all she could say. Alexa then noticed one of the soldiers was hiding from behind the debris from early and was about to throw a grenade from his spot.

"Look out!" Alexa cried out to the girl. The minute she shouted that, the soldier threw the grenade and the stranger turned to see it coming towards her. Alexa wasn't thinking of what to do but she closed her eyes and prayed that were wouldn't be a huge explosion. The gears turned in her head and before everyone's eyes, except Alexa's, the grenade began to dismantle itself and fall to the ground in pieces. It didn't exploded, it didn't even beep anymore. Alexa peeked and looked to see what had happened to the grenade. The stranger looked at Alexa and muttered, "How did she...do that…?" All this time, Hades was just watching the commotion and action and was hoping for an explosion but wa shocked when he too saw the grenade dismantle itself midair.

"What the…?!" Hades turned his attention towards Alexa and growled in anger. He knew what this meant. He now knew Alexa was one of THEM. He summoned a ball of fire and threw it Alexa, hoping it would burn her to ashes. The pink haired stranger saw Hades doing this and hurried and tackled Alexa, pushing her down on the ground and out of the way. Alexa felt herself being pushed to the ground and the stranger helped her back up to her feet.

"We have to go, now!" The stranger told her. Before anything else was done, the stranger grabbed Alexa's hand and ran towards the nearest exit, which was the garage launchpad for the soldiers hoverbikes. Hades was bursting into flames and yelled at the soldiers to go after the two females. Alexa and the escaped prisoner looked around until the stranger found a hoverbike that could carry two people. The duo hurried over and Alexa got on the back of the vehicle while the pink haired girl was sitting in the front, ready to drive.

"Do you know how to drive one of these?" Alexa asked quickly.

"Of course not! But we can't just run out!" The stranger answered. She revved up the bike and went straight ahead towards the open launch tunnel where the bikes could get out. Alexa held onto the girl for dear life as the two of them sped out of the room and through the tunnel, leading outside into the outskirts of the town Alexa had arrived in. Alexa closed her eyes tight as the bike was going even faster than before. She was just praying for the ride to be over. Suddenly, Alexa felt arms grab her waist and pull her off the bike. The stranger had grabbed Alexa and jumped off the bike and they tumbled to ground as the bike crashed into a giant tree and exploded. Alexa shot open her eyes and breathed as she looked back at the debris. The stranger did the same and looked back at Alexa.

"Are you alright?" She asked putting a hand on Alexa's shoulder. Alexa smacked the hand off her shoulder and backed away from the stranger, scared. The stranger sighed. "Look, I know that may have startled you, but…"

"Startled me? No. Scare the living daylights out of me? Uh, yes!" Alexa stood up and dusted herself off before glaring at the stranger. "What's going on?! Who are you?! Why was that...Hades guy real with the James Wood voice and everything?!" Alexa was screaming these questions until the stranger put her hand over her mouth to shut Alexa up.

"Do you WANT those Crimson Soldiers to find us?" She asked Alexa. Alexa shook her head, saying no. "Then shut up, and let me talk, OK?" The stranger removed her hand from Alexa's mouth. The stranger began to explain, "Those Crimson Soldiers in the area work for Hades; the Blue Devil as I call him. He's basically doing this to put everyone in line during this Disney War."

"Disney War…?" Alexa repeated.

"Yeah. 75% of the Disney World's population and land belong to the Villains of Disney. Normally, the heroes would arrive on the scene and take of everything, but for some reason not this time. This problem got even my people involved."

"Who...ARE your people?" Alexa asked the pink haired stranger.

The stranger looked directly into Alexa's eyes and answered the question. "My name is Sarah Sakura. I'm the Princess of the Northern Oni Tribe in the Hidden Lands of Disney." All this information was new and confusing to Alexa. Northern Oni Tribe? Hidden Lands of Disney?

"...What…?" That's all Alexa could say. Sarah sighed and put the palm of her hand to her face.

"Look, we can't talk about this out in the open. I can get us back to the resistance camp in about an hour or two, but it's gonna be bumpy." Sarah then picked up Alexa, bridal style. Alexa was shocked a for a second before looking at Sarah again. "Can you hang on tight?" Sarah asked. Alexa was hesitant but nodded her head.

"Good. And later on, you can tell me who this 'James Wood' guy is." Sarah then started running really fast, but not as fast as the bike before. Their destination was the Disney Resistance Campgrounds.

What did you guys think?

Will Sarah and Alexa make it the campgrounds of the Disney Resistance? Will all the girls meet up again after being seperated?

Stay toon for more chapters!

Disclaimer:

I do NOT own anything in Disney.

Hades © Disney

Crimson Soldiers, Sarah, Alexa © GodWriting(Me)