Chapter Three: Day's Happening
The storm had subsided by the time Blade and Jester woke up. The dark blue outside indicated that they had slept all night, and that the fire had gone out. Blade sat up and stretched his sore joints to the best he could with a fractured leg and broken ankle, stirring Jester some more who also sat up and stretched his wooden limbs. Jester looked around and saw that the others had fallen asleep on the rest of the pillows but he couldn't see Torch.
"Where's Torch?" Blade asked, also noticing the pyro puppet was missing.
"I'll go look for him." Jester said and stood up, stretched his back and looked around the living room, climbed up on the couch and even in the cupboards in the kitchen but couldn't find his fire loving brother.
"I can't find him." he said, helping Blade scoot closer the pillow they used last night. "You really think you should be moving around with that injury?" he asked.
"The pillow keeps sliding away from me." Blade said and leaned against the leg of the coffee table while Jester moved the pillow to a more stable area.
Pinhead had woken up next and after talking with Blade went to help Jester with the pillow then helped Blade over to it.
"Have you seen Torch anywhere?" Blade asked.
"He stormed off down the hallway last night." Pinhead answered with a shrug.
"(sigh) I wonder what makes him so moody." Blade said mostly to himself then spotted the broken glass piled by the fireplace. "What happened there?" he asked, pointing.
Pinhead turned and spotted the glass as well. "Oh, Torch punched the wall and a picture fell." Pinhead answered and left to get the picture, handing it over to Jester for him and Blade to inspect.
With the sun rising and the cabin getting brighter with each passing minute, Tunneler and Six Shooter were soon up and Blade sent Tunneler and Pinhead with Jester to go down the hall and look for Torch.
"So how many rooms in the cabin?" Blade asked.
"There are four rooms with closed doors and a bathroom." Six answered.
"The bathroom door wasn't closed?" Blade asked, Six just shrugged. "Well, what were in the other rooms?"
"We didn't check, it was just a quick once over." Six said.
Meanwhile, Tunneler and Jester had opened some of the doors to the closed rooms looking for Torch. Two of the rooms were bedrooms, one was a library/study and the one they were currently looking through looked to be a hobby room. There was a shelf that held bottles of liquids, some with glitter settled at the bottom of their containers, others were just different colors, mosty yellow, and beakers around a complete chemistry set were on a table. This room also had a small day bed.
"I don't think he's in any of these rooms Jess, we would've heard a door close." Tunneler said, standing up from looking under the bed and dusting himself.
"Maybe he closed them quietly?" Jester asked, uncertain and jumped down from the bed.
"Don't really think so, but then again we don't know Torch very well, do we?" Tunneler said and they headed to next room.
Pinhead crouched down for Tunneler to climb up on his back and then Jester climbed up Tunneler and stood on his shoulders to reach the door knob. He gave a turn but it didn't open. He jiggled it a few more times. "It's locked." he said and jumped down and tumbled forward.
Tunneler jumped down from Pinhead's back and Pinhead stood up. "That only leaves the bathroom." Pinhead stated.
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Make haste! The Kid said something wicked this way comes!
Send the raptors to find and guard the energy source. Hurry with the harness people, we've got to retrieve it before the sun rises!
Torch stirred from the yelling he was hearing.
We're all set!
Let's move! Move! Move!
"Shut up, I'm trying to sleep." Torch grumbled.
"There he is!" He heard Tunneler say and groaned inwardly.
"What do you guys want? Whatever it is you're going to get, leave me out." Torch said and shifted away from them.
"Kinda hard to do when you're the one we're getting." Jester said with a little humor and tried to get Torch to come out of the little space between the wall and the tub.
Torch was wide awake when he heard a song-like wail.
"What was that?" Pinhead asked, scratching his head.
"I don't know, let's go back to the living room and see if the others heard it too." Jester said and tugged on Torch's boots, trying to get him to come along.
"Let go! I'll get out on my own!" Torch growled, but the truth was he felt rusty having spent the whole night in the cold bathroom and if he moved too fast he knew that his gears would squeak and groan. Plus he felt sore from not having moved at all last night, he felt like his whole body was Charlie horsin'.
"Oh, I see, you're stuck, aren't you?" Tunneler said and helped Jester to pull Torch out from his hiding spot.
"I am not! Now let go of me!" Torch shouted and aimed his flamethrower in their direction to get them to back off. "Just give me five minutes and I'll be right out, ok?"
"Ok, five minutes." Jester said. "And if you're not in the living room in five minutes I'm sending Pinhead and Six after you with a wet towel." he warned and let Torch have his privacy.
Torch eased his way out from his spot slowly until he was able to extend his arms properly and stretched them. Then he crawled out on all fours, which he didn't want any of them to see, and then stretched his legs one at a time. Then he laid down on his stomach and stretched his aching limbs in every direction, this time getting a little creak from them and then stood up and turned his back both way. Hearing a gear snap back in place he shook himself and left the bathroom.
When he entered the living space he could hear Blade arguing with Six Shooter.
"You're not physically fit to look after yourself and Jester was the leader before you were even born." said Six.
"Then I'll have Pinhead carry me on his back if I have to! No one is to go outside for any investigation unless I'M going!" replied Blade.
"Blade, maybe we could send Torch?" Jester suggested.
Torch stopped in his tracks and looked at the little puppet.
"And start another forest fire? Are you nuts?" Tunneler said.
"Jess, just because Torch can scare anything off with his menacing growl doesn't mean we leave him without backup." Blade said.
"What are you guys on about?" Torch asked and leaned against the fireplace with his arms crossed and one leg over the other.
"Guys, that thing is coming back." Pinhead said, looking out the window.
"What thing?" Torch asked and headed over to the window to see what Pinhead was staring at. He climbed up on a window seat and saw without moving the thin curtains that something large was heading their way.
"What the fuck is that?" he asked in a whisper.
"It came out of the garage about five minutes ago." Pinhead answered.
"What? Let me see." piped Jester and climbed up and stood next to Torch. But unlike Torch he couldn't see through the curtain very well, but he could sneak a peek. And he gasped. "What is that?"
Then Six and Tunneler came up and looked out the window as well.
Blade felt a little left out, not being able to move, so he sat there and pouted. "What does it look like?" he asked after a few seconds.
"It has a long neck, about maybe four feet tall . . ." said Jester. "four legs, and . . . is that our trunk?!"
Careful, gently now, we don't want to spook the man.
Torch turned around and saw two large very, VERY large spiders descending on Blade.
"Watch out!" he shouted and threw flames at them. Blade ducked just in time before his face burned off.
Whoa!
Quick, hide!
He saw the spiders quickly scurry towards the kitchen and he followed after them but the sound of loud, high-pitched beeping stopped him and then there was nothing but white, cold fog spraying down from the ceiling.
When it stopped the whole living room and kitchen and the puppets were covered in the white substance. The only places that weren't were the underside of the coffee table, kitchen table, couch and chairs.
"Torch! What the hell?! You almost burned my face off!" Blade shouted, waving his arms around. "Now I'm covered in this . . . this - this - stuff! Blech!"
"You think you've got it bad? This stuff got under my drill!"
"I can't get my guns out!"
". . . I-I'm cold." mumbled Jester, shivering and hugging himself.
Pinhead looked back at his brothers, his head, front and forearms the only place that were clean and dry. "What happened?" he asked.
Torch, meanwhile, was searching the kitchen looking for any possible escape routes for the spiders to crawl through. He knew some spiders were big, but these two seemed impossibly huge. There was no way they could actually grow to that size naturally, could there?
Finding no space for two gigantic spiders to hide, he kicked the stove and stormed back to the fireplace, shook himself free from most of the flame retardant and sat down with a 'humph!' and crossed his arms.
"Torch, care to explain why you decided to fry my face?" Blade called from the couch, his faded black coat and hat now as snow white as his face. He practically disappeared into the couch now and would have been completely invisible if it weren't for the black empty eye sockets.
"There were spiders behind you." Torch growled in answer.
"Spiders?!" squeaked Jester and he scrambled up the couch to be near Blade.
"Spiders? You nearly burn the place down for spiders?" Blade nearly shouted.
"They were huge! Bigger than Six Shooter!" Torch snarled. "And apparently this cabin has a built-in fire alarm system so don't get your threads in a twist."
"Oh don't exaggerate! Spiders don't grow two feet tall!"
Blade and Torch continued to argue while Jester, Tunneler and Six watched them, Pinhead went back to looking outside and noticed a silver car driving up a dirt road, then slowed down and turned towards the cabin!
"Car!" he shouted and jumped off the window seat. Blade and Torch went quiet and panicked as they heard the car engine approaching. Jester and Tunneler helped Blade down from the couch and hid under it, Six Shooter ran towards the potted plant, Pinhead turned his back and crouched low near a window and Torch ran down the hallway and towards the bathroom.
The door knob jiggled and the door opened.
