Chapter10-Sorry
Brainy looked very confused
"What do you mean it's time?" he asked
"I have to go Brainy." She stated and went to leave then stopped, she un-did her necklace and dropped it in his hands "take good care of it for me." She smiled and left then he remembered what she said before
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"If I die, take care of my charm locket, it'll help"
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He looked scared for once in his life. He made a dash for the door and looked around for Roxy then did a scan and found that she wasn't in the tower anymore; he ran to Saturn girl "Saturn girl, I need to know what she told you." He stated urgently
"She's gone isn't she; I'm sorry Brainy she told me not to tell you" she said sadly
"TELL ME!!" he yelled shocking her
"Fine, she told me that she had to die. But I don't know where she's gone I swear." She stated truthfully Bouncing boy had listened to what they were saying and was very concerned
"Do a scan now!" he ordered and Brainy turned round and smiled gratefully
"Ok." She said and her eyes lit up "in an ally way just a few miles away, but we'll never make it in time." She told them
"Wait, doesn't that new girl...what was her name? Fyro, doesn't she have Teleportation skills?" asked Brainy
"Yeah, she does." And he looked at his ring as it lit up
"Fyro, are you there?" he asked
"Read ya loud and clear B5 what's up?" she asked
"We need your teleportation skills, now." He stated
"Be there in a tick" she smirked and appeared before them "see told ya" she smirked
"I need you to teleport us to an ally way a few miles north." He instructed
"Wait, by any chance, are you lookin for Phoenix?" she asked and they nodded. She smirked and they found themselves just behind Roxy who was stood in front of a bright light which seemed to be talking
"It's time my dear." It said
"Yeah I know. Well I did what you said, I spent it the best way I could." She smiled sadly
"You did, you spent it with the guy you love, and that's the best way to spent the last moments of your life."
"Do you have to say that so freely?" she moaned
"Roxy?" asked Brainy and she turned round shocked
"Saturn girl, I told you to keep him away." She stressed
"How could I, it's not like he'd actually listen to me" she shot back
"Roxy it's time for you to come with me," announced the voice in the light
"I know." She sighed and smiled sadly at the teen android
"She can't leave, she has a whole life ahead of her!" he protested
"I'm sorry but a deal is a deal, I can't break it unless she's actually learned a lesson, and so far the only lesson I've seen her learn is the lesson of love and that's it." She stated
"Then what else are you looking for?!" he yelled
"Something else," It said
"There's no point Brainy, I have to. But I have one last gift before I go." She said and walked up to him "this is yours and always will be." She said sadly then kissed him. He began glowing; his robotic arms became human with a tanned colour to them, his legs changed morphing into the humanized ones and his face became more human and less machine. She pulled away and smiled at him
"It's what you always wanted, and this time, you won't change back, unless I change you back." She stated then walked into the light,
"So that's how she did it." Commented Bouncing boy astonished, but then she was carried into the air by the light
"Goodbye Brainy." Were her last words as the life was sucked out of her by an invisible force; the light disappeared as she body fell from the sky and into Brainy's arms.
"Fyro, Take us to the infirmary now!" he ordered
"What's the point? She's gone dude there's nuthin you can do." She shrugged obviously she'd come to terms with death and really didn't care about it anymore but Brainy on the other hand had not
"I SAID NOW!!" he yelled scaring everyone at the tone he was using
"Ok ok, Mr moody" she stated and with a click of her fingers they were in the infirmary with everyone else outside. Brainy hadn't left that room in over three hours until finally the doors opened and with one swift move he ran towards his lab one question was uttered and it was from Lighting lad who hadn't heard the news
"Was he just...Crying?" he asked as Superman ran after him
"Couldn't be, He never cries" stated Phantom girl
"Well you'd cry if the one you love just died wouldn't you?" asked Saturn girl
"What!?" they both asked shocked she opened the door to show them the lifeless body
"We were powerless to stop it, she had no other option." She explained, meanwhile
"WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE LET ME STAY!? YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'VE PUT HIM THOUGH" yelled Roxy at the woman before her
"Because my dear, your lesson is yet to be learned, and I don't think you'll ever learn it," she stated
"That's not the point; I NEVER wanted to hurt anyone and YOU made me hurt the one person that I'd never want to hurt no matter what!" she exclaimed
"I did what I was supposed to" she answered
"I WANT TO GO BACK!" she yelled
"To what point and purpose, your life has ended, going back is out of the question." She stated
"THERE WAS NO QUESTION THERE! Sure I agreed that a few weeks was all that I needed to straighten everything out, but it wasn't, I have a purpose now, I CAN HELP SOMEONE FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE I CAN DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN HARM PEOPLE!!" she yelled in pure anger
"My dear, you may be able to help other people, but you cannot help yourself, you are dead and that's final either you find that you have learned the lesson you were supposed to or you haven't, but I doubt you have" she stated and walked away leaving the poor girl alone. Back on earth Superman was talking to Brainy
"Brainy, there was nothing we could do, she knew that." He told him
"You don't understand, I promised her that I wouldn't let anything happen, the first promise I made, and I broke it." He told him sadly
"Listen Brainy, we all have different roads that we have to take no matter what, her road was short but well lived and nobody will forget her, you have every right to be sad, but it's part of life." He explained as Brainy opened the charm locket looking at the glowing tear shaped orb
"Wait. I remember the first time she told me...she said she didn't want any of it to happen which was why she kept it from me. I know what the lesson was." He said smiling as he got up and ran back to the infirmary and shut the door tightly. He walked over to her body and bean talking "Roxy if you can hear me, I know what that lesson was. I don't think that woman was watching you carefully enough. You did learn the lesson; you saved people, which was your lesson. You put others before yourself instead of putting yourself first. You never wanted anyone to get injured or hurt so you kept it a secret from us, your lesson was to learn how to be selfless." He stated, she looked around after hearing his voice and noticed something he was right the lesson didn't have to be learned, she'd already learnt it. "NARRISA!" she yelled and the ghostly figure appeared before her
"What now?" she asked
"I think I learnt it." She stated
"What is it first?" she asked
"To be selfless, I've never been selfless before and I have now, I put people before myself I sacrificed myself so others could be free. I've learned the lesson." She spoke confidently
"Well it's about time. Your lesson was actually to figure out what the thing you had done that had never done before, things change Roxanne, take you for example, half of you used to be pure evil, incapable of love, but now that has gone leaving you with only good inside, your courage only made you pursue what you thought was right for everyone leaving the lesson learnt, to be capable of selflessness." She explained smiling
"So does that mean I can go back?" she asked hopefully but the woman sighed sadly
"I'm afraid not my dear, you're dead, there's no coming back from that" she stated
"But you said that if I learnt it then I could go back" she protested
"I'm sorry, but it's not up to me, if it was you'd be back there ten minutes ago." She stated apologetically
"Then who's it up to?" she asked and she found herself in a room full of spirits hovering over what looked like a spring in front of a small waterfall
"Them." She stated hiding behind Roxy
"Roxanne Collins, what do you wish of us?" they asked
"I wish for you to bring me back to life, since I've learned that big lesson" she announced
"We will discuss this and come to a verdict at sundown, but until then you stay here." Announced one of the spirits and she was taken back to where she started and one phrase came to mind
"AWWW MAAAN!"