Chapter Twenty-Four: Back at Bodega Bay
"Helm, park her behind the moon and make sure she stays out of sight. Kid, we're here. What do your scanners say about the Inn?" Kokiri asked.
"So far everything's quiet. But all guards have been notified and the aerial patrol haven't spotted anything unusual yet." Chug answered over the comm link.
"Gather the Toulons, we've got a bit of traveling to do before we reach the hotel. See you down below." Kokiri said and left the bridge.
Chug gathered all the puppets and put them in the megalograptus ride, having given them all some extra juice, and headed over to the transport room.
"We're not exactly over Bodega Bay so we can't just beam right on down. We're nearly halfway across the world from it so we're gonna have to do some flying when we transport." Chug said, trotting down the hallway.
"We're not gonna fly in another car, are we?" Blade asked.
"Just Kegs, we'll be in my hat." Chug said and entered the transporter room. Once there he placed all the puppets in his hat and told them not to touch anything until he gets there, stepped on the transport, grabbed a tight hold on his hat and beamed away in a flash of light.
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Kokiri ran down to the cargo bay that held his cars. He had selected a blue 2015 blue velvet metallic Chevy Camero and started its engine and drove onto the runway and then shut it back off. The car was encased into a meteorite shell and then catapulted into space. He steered the meteorite towards Earth and started its descent. Soon the car was shaking from the gravitational pull and outside temperatures read that the meteor was burning up and dissolving. A loud cracking boom signified that he had entered the atmosphere and then a timer started counting down from twenty seconds. Once it reached zero he started the engine again, pressed a few buttons and the car was transformed into a small private plane and flew towards California.
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Chug was transported right in the middle of a night sky and was free falling. He gripped his hat tighter and pulled himself through, now the hat was doing the free falling.
"Alright, one side gentlemen, I need control." he said and sat down in a chair and started typing away on his six different keyboards. Each keyboard was for the six screens he had paneled in two rows of threes.
One screen was reading the horizon level that was, at the moment, all over the place, another was the speedometer, one was doubled-screened that had the altimeter and fuel readings, another was reading weather control. The fifth screen had a picture of the world map and was tracking them and the last screen was focused on Bodega Bay.
The horizon level stabilized and the altimeter numbers were going into normal air space for planes, the fuel readings was a single green level that at the moment stayed green but was starting to get a slightly yellow tinge to it. Weather in their current area was reading O.K. and the puppets could only guess that the second dot on the tracker screen was the brother.
"Ok, we're stable enough. Now, let's hit the gas." Chug said and turned on another screen for the puppets to watch.
The screen was of the outside and at first they slumped back in their chairs not wanting to watch nothing but sky and clouds zoom by.
"Engaging safety belts for your safety needs." Chug said, pressing a few buttons and then grabbed the steering handles and pushed them all the way down into a full descent.
The screen the puppets were watching showed that they were descending onto a major city and they screamed.
The red dot that was them on the world map was blipping across Asia and Europe at a fast pace, then suddenly made a U-turn and started blipping the other way. The puppets flight view was intense to say the least. Chug was a maniac flyer in Blade's opinion. They zoomed through tightly packed cities, alleyways, traffic and and even did a last minute upturn when they closed in on a skyscraper.
They flew into a fast rising sun as they were entering the western hemisphere from the east and soon Bodega Bay was within their sights and coming up fast. They flew past it and Chug flew straight up into he air and slowed down then flew back to the Inn at a more leisurely pace.
"Alright boys, we'll be landing soon so you can relax." Chug said, descending into the driveway close to the front door.
Blade's hook had punctured the arm-rest of his chair from gripping so hard, his dagger eyes had popped out, his hissing was coming in short spurts and he was pressed back in his chair as far as he could. Tunneler, Pinhead and Six Shooter were the same. Six's middle arms were gripping the arm rests, the third pair gripped below the armsrests and the top arms had the sides of his chair. Jester and Torch were the only ones who enjoyed the ride, laughing their heads off in glee.
"Let's go again!" Jester shouted, snapping Blade into action when the seat belts were removed. He immediately hopped out of his chair, wounded leg or not, and demanded to be let out at once.
"AT ONCE, I TELL YOU! AT ONCE!" he shouted, shaking his hook at Chug. "I'd stomp my foot if I had a spare leg to stand on!"
"Alright, alright, hold your horses." Chug smirked and landed his hat on the ground in front of the doors. He unbuckled himself and exited, Blade immediately following and jumping out of the hat and straight up into the air. Chug caught him midair so he would go splat on the concrete porch.
"Easy there tiger, you wouldn't want to be put into a full body cast now, would you?" he asked, mischievous smirk on his face.
Blade shook his head vigorously and allowed himself to be carried inside.
Once inside, Chug set him on the coffee table in the lounge lobby and removed the rest of the puppets from his hat and set them next to Blade.
"Alrighty, get your land legs back, take a nap and I'll be right back. Torch, you stay with your brothers, and if Six gives you any trouble I have his new silk outfit in powder blue." Chug said, smirking when Six Shooter shuddered, then left the room.
Six looked at Torch who looked back and they went their separate ways, Torch going over to the fireplace and Six headed for the piano. Pinhead went over to the doorway and stood by on watch. Jester helped Blade sit up and down off the coffee table.
"So, we're finally back home." he said to the quiet room.
