About an hour after the last chapter, the Soul eater cast hung in shackles from a futuristic chrome wall, side by side. Their ankles were secured by long shackles, and hung just an inch above the floor. Shorter shackles held their wrists in place.
In front of them, to taunt them, J had mounted the orb containing Z's soul in a mock pedestal.
J teased before she left, "I think I'm just going to let you rot here for the rest of your miserable lives. In about two days, You will lose control of your bowels. Maybe that's when I will unleash the hungry flies." She grinned evilly. "toodles!" she cried as she strolled out the door, waving a hand.
"Liz. Patty." Kid said in a hoarse voice to his weapons. "can you transform into weapon form in order to escape the chains."
"we can't. don't you remember?" said Liz.
"J mentioned that these cuffs prevent full transformations." Said Patty, unusually sober.
"full transformations, huh?" said Soul, further down the line of captives. "I think I can bypass that."
Soul transformed his right arm into a scythe blade, then with some slight maneuvering, when he returned it to normal, it was out of its shackle. He did the same with the other, and fell to the ground. Then he took a minute or two to pick the automatic locks on his ankle shackles, by just transforming his hand into a smaller blade.
"Soul, if I ever complain about you doing that to cut the bread again, maka-chop me." Said Maka as she watched Soul head over to the control panel.
"Eenie, meenie, meister… mo!" said Soul, pressing a red button on the console. A laser dropped form the ceiling, and almost cut patty in half. "Oops, sorry pat!" said Soul, pressing the button again to retract the laser. Then he pressed a green button, and the rest of the gang's shackles opened.
"Thanks a bunch, man! Lets get out of here!" said Black*Star, as the gang ran out the door.
Kid ran a couple steps out the door before he realized Liz was not following him. He looked back, then walked over to the room. "Liz, you ok?" he said.
"Look at him. We can't just leave him." Said Liz, pointing to Z's soul, still trapped in the glass bubble, looking positively miserable.
"well, we can't take him home, either!" said Kid.
"Lets help him get back to his body."
This came from Soul.
"he did help us get out of the sewers, y'know. We kind of owe him." Said Black*Star.
Patty banged her hands on the bubble. "don't worry, Z! we'll get you out of there!" she cried, smiling. Z's soul smiled a weak smile.
"…Fine." Said Kid. "but how are we going to get him out at all? We can't carry that big bubble."
"I'll take this one." Said Black*Star. "Tsubaki, enchanted sword mode."
"roger!" said Tsubaki, transforming into enchanted sword and leaping into Black*Star's hand. Black star yelled, and slashed the bubble clean in half.
"way to go, B*S!" said Patty as she cradled Z's soul in her hands.
"I don't think he can move like that. Patty, carry him, if you please." Said Liz.
"isn't he cute! He's so soft!" said Patty, hugging Z-soul. Z blushed, his green cheeks turning a shade of white.
"Lets get this over with." Said Kid, leading the way down the hall, to return Z's soul to its rightful place..