Okay... this chapter... well... you'll see... nothing to bad... but a little sad and nail bitting at the end.
Warnings and Headsup!
1) this story does contain mention of abuse, and full out present day abuse. It got a little detailed in one of the chapters and though nothing is stated specifically, for those of you who are smart enough to know what 2+2 is... you'll be able to understand where the train of thought was going. I will mark which chapters are the bad ones... If you skip... you wont really miss anything important, just an awesome rescue attempt!
2) this gets depressing and a little dark... but it comes out cheerful and rainbow and butterflies in the end, I promise!
3) THIS IS NOT A LOVE STORY! Duke does NOT fall in love with the OC and the OC does NOT fall in love with him! Sorry if I've made it sound like it was going in a different direction.
4) its not that good at the end... but like my last story... it gets better as it goes on I promise!
5) It may seem that my OC has a few things to realize before this is all said and done... and there are... I've tried to keep it organized... but if you have trouble basically she needs to gain self-confidence, trust, and a belief that there are heroes out there who wont fail her... kinda ties in with the whole trust thing...
6) THE END NOW READ!
Ch. 7: Sold
"We've got her Boss!" Chameleon exclaimed happily as he hung up Wildwing's communicator.
"And with the messages I sent to her through her subconsious she'll be running to us at this very minute." Wraith stated, unmistakable pride in his slow deep voice.
"Excilent." Dragonis said. "Now that she thinks her dear beloved friends no longer except her, she'll be begging for us to take her away; to make the pain stop."
"Kat!" Duke was yelling into his communicator. Why didn't she answer? He looked around. Phil was fiddling with his tie, a nervous habbit of his whenever he got in over his head.
"Where's the exit to the this hell whole?" he muttered. The big baby was looking around jerkily.
"If I knew that Phil, I would have tossed you through it by now." Duke stated, trying to keep his cool.
"Wildwing! Tanya! Grin!" he was still trying to reach the others. But just like Kathlene, no one answered. Perfect. He thought. Stuck in a dark cellar with no one but Phil for company. Just perfect. I'm going to need a vacation after this one.
Wildwing and Nosedive were looking around. Phil and Mallery had gone down different shoots. The only reason they had remained together was because Wildwing had grabbed Nosedive's ankle as he fell and hadn't let go until they both smashed into the ground.
"Wing, I don't like this man." Nosedive whispered. He raised his communicator. "Yo Mallery!" he said. Nothing.
"Something must be jamming the signal." Wildwing said. "Come on. We can't just stand here. We might as well start trying to find a way out."
Mallery brushed herself off. I love what they've done with the place. She thought as she looked around at the stone interior of the underground fortress. She raised her communicator and tried calling Tanya and Grin. Nothing. She tried Wildwing, Nosedive, Duke. Still nothing. She even called out Kathlene's name. Still nothing.
"Just great." she muttered darkly. "Well, better find away out of here." she started walking. Hopefully I'll run into the others. She thought.
Tanya and Grin had fallen down another shoot when they tried to circle around to the other side of the hall as Kathlene instructed.
"I wish I knew how she knew that was a circular hallway." Tanya said. "I think it's a little suspicious that she knew details of the ship. Don't you?" she turned to Grin who was walking with his eyes closed.
"I do not think she set us up." he said. Tanya pushed the idea out of her mind. Kathlene may not trust them completely, but she wouldn't set them up. Would she?
Tanya raised her communicator, but immideately saw that the signal was being jamed.
"No good reaching the others." she told Grin. "Signal's been..." but before she could finish telling him, three shadows appereared on the wall infront of them. Both of them raised weapons, Tanya her omni-tool and Grin a puck blaster.
I stumbled down the long stone path, using my staff more for support then guidence now. The transmitions I had heard seemed to be on repeat in my head. "This is all HER fault.", "I never thought a girl could be so much trouble, she has to go back.", "I senced no good in her from the start.", "If you know what's good for you, GO HOME!". Duke's words in particular seemed to play over and over again. I had tried covering my ears, but that did nothing. Of course it wouldn't, the voices were in my head!
I lost my balance and collapsed on the wall, sobbing. Why even try to whipe the tears away? They were just going to keep falling. How could I have been so stupid as to believe that I actually could belong? I knew now, more then ever, I was to be used. That's all I was good for. That's all I was ever good for. Used as a shield for a baby, a spy for people who used an attractive blind girl to get pitty and trust from their enemies, betray those poor people and get them killed (gangs, I don't recomend them), used as a toy for the very people who used me as an innocent looking killer. A tool, that's all I was. Worth nothing, dependent on everyone, useless to no one but myself; Pollythimus, the cyclopse, used by everyone, loved by no one.
"You are NOT a cyclopse.", "You are more like a hundred.". Duke's and Grin's words came back to me. But if they really thought that, then why had they said those things? Did they change their mind after their team got caught because I didn't turn myself over?
"Why, what's the matter?" the tallest of Dragonis's goons floated up to me, holding a staff, false concern in his voice.
"N-nothing." I sobbed out. I tried to make it sharp and cold, but the effect was ruined by my stammering lips.
"Is there anything I can do?" he now was floatting right infront of me.
"S-send m-me b-back home." I choked out.
"I'm afraid I can't do that. But, I can send you away. If that's what you really want. Fallow me."
I scrambled to my feet, holding on to the long sleave of his robes, and leaving my staff behind.
We walked on a little ways until he looked down on me and told me to hold on a little tighter. I obeyed and we soared up through a trap door. We came out into the same room where I had landed after falling out of the portal thing that brought me here. Dragonis, Chameleon, and Siege, all stood waiting for me.
"Hello again." Dragonis cruned in his horrible voice. "Oh, dear me. What ever is the matter, child?" more faulse concern.
"Forget it!" I had steadied and calmed myself. I knew I would break down again soon, but for the time being, I was able to keep a stone face. "Just get me off this damn rock."
"As you wish." he said and went over to his big computer thing. It looked very similar to Drake 1, I thought. But quickly pushed the memory of Drake 1, The Pond, and all that out of my head. There's no use remembering faulse joy. The voice in my mind said softly.
As Dragonis punched in some keys, the figure of a grey faced... man, I'm assuming, came onto the screen.
"Dragonis, you have my package ready for me?" he said. He sounded like he had a thick mouth full of mud.
"Aww, Captain Gorg." Dragonis said in a pleasent, business like voice. "Yes, I do. And I trust you have my balerium christals."
Captain Gorg stepped to the side and a huge pile of yellow glowing christals was visable for the breefest moment.
"Shall we trade at the same time then?" Dragonis said, still in his light, conversational tone.
"We shall." the slimy, grey, blob said in agreement.
Dragonis dragged me by my upper arm to a teleportation device. "Stand still." he commanded harshly. "We wouldn't want you to loose a limb."
"Oh, I'm going to miss the little brat." Chameleon said in mock sorrow. "Not!" he fallowed his own statement and then laughed.
Uhg, what was the time here, 1995? I thought as Siege punched in the cordinates where I was to be transported.
"See ya 'round girly. Oops... my bad, no we wont." Siege gave me one last taunt.
"Hey spike face! Want a bird?" I asked, fed up with everyone and everything. Thinking I was talking about one of the ducks, all of them nodded. Right before Siege hit the send button, I raised my hand.
A flash of light, a small popping sound, and I was no longer on Dragonis's ship. The huge grey glop looked at me, gave an obvious sound of delight and grabbed me, leading me off to... I could only guess, but I turned out to be right.
"Wow! Hold your fire!" Nosedive said raising his hands to sholder hight.
"Nosedive?" Tanya said in releaf. "Wildwing? Mallery? That you guys?"
"Ah, I'd shoot at him at least once." Mallery said.
"Yeup, that's Mallery." Grin said putting his blaster back in his holster.
"Thank goodness you're all okay!" Tanya exclaimed. "Where are the others?"
"We were hopping they were with you." Wildwing said sounding worried.
Tanya shook her head.
"Yo guys! Over here!" A farmilar voice ran out as a fat figure of a man came around the opposite corner.
"Yeah, That's it. Just shout out our possition. Cause we can totally tell who's shadows those are." Another voice answered.
"Phil." all of the ducks said together.
"Okay, is that everyone?" Wildwing asked as Duke and Phil came up to them.
"Where's Kat?" Duke asked searching for her.
"She's not with you?" Tanya asked.
"No, she went down a different shoot. Why were we shot down here anyways? There's no traps or anything that's tried to get us." Duke said.
"I don't know." Wildwing said thoughtfully. "But first things first, find Kat."
"Well, I hate to break it to you guys, but I think they've got her." Nosedive said. He had walked away from the group and now was walking back, holding something thin and long in his hands.
"That's the staff I bought her today." Mallery said.
"She really kicked tail with that thing." Duke said. "I bet she was using it to help guide her around down here."
"Time to find out where the exit is." Wildwing said. One of his team mates was in danger, now he was pissed.
After walking, more like running, down the passage a few minutes, they saw a patch of light. Wraith had forgotten to close the trap door.
"Up there!" barked Wildwing.
They all jumped up and pulled themselves through, all except Phil who muttered something about it not being so bad in the stone passage and that he thought he would just wait for them there. But Grin leaned down after hoasting himself through the door and yanked Phil up after him.
"Dragonis!" Wildwing shouted feriously. "Where is she!"
"Oh, do you mean your ex-team mate?" Dragonis asked slighly.
"Ex-team mate?" Wildwing said, puzzled.
"She heard you guys say she needed to go home and agreed to go." Chameleon laughed.
"What are you talking about you slimy weazle!" Duke shouted, his heart thudding hard in fear.
Chameleon morphed into each one of them and repeated a line of his monolouge.
"This is all her fault."
"I can't believe a girl can be so much trouble, she has to go."
"I sensed nothing good in her from the start."
"If you know what's good for you, GO HOME!"
Duke stared at the morphed image of himself, laughing madly. He felt his blood boil as Siege laughed along. "Yeah, and there's nothing you bird brains can do. We have the christals now."
Duke grabbed his saber from his arm and charged, grabbing Chameleon who had morphed back into his original form and driving him into another room.
"Seize him!" Dragonis ordered but the other ducks blocked Siege and Wraith's path.
"I'd stay right there if I were you." Mallery said in a deadly whisper, pointing her blaster at Dragonis. Grin had come up behind him and pinned his arms at his side.
"Do as they say!" Dragonis shouted.
"Coward." muttered Wildwing.
"What's he doing in there?" Nosedive asked, looking at the door where Duke and Chameleon just passed.
"I'm, not sure." Wildwing said, walking over to the counter and retreiving his communicator. "Tanya, go shut down the christals, and take Noisedive with you."
Five minutes later, Duke walked out with furry etched all over his face, his eyepatch had that little read glow it got when he was most dangerous. He was also a tad pale. "You sold her to the Mulkers!" he roared at Dragonis as Chameleon scrambled back into the room in the form of a chicken, shaking madly and trying to apologize and explian that that duck had methods of making you talk. "Don't you know what they'll do to her? They'll shred her to pieces!" He walked over to the transporter. "Grin! Let him go! We have to get her back, NOW!"
Just then Noisedive and Tanya came in. "Tanya, I had no idea what you were talking about. Besides, I still destroyed them, didn't I?" Nosedive was saying.
"Destroyed them?" Tanya said. "Nosedive you disintergratted them!"
"Who are the Mulkers?" Wildwing asked, ignoring the other two.
"I did a couple of highsts for them before. You don't want to know what they do to women." Duke was shaking. They all piled immideately into the transporter, Duke just making it as the door closed.
Yes, Mulkers are no race to mess with... especially if you're femine... just... bad things... Will they manage to save her in time? Will she except their help? Keep reading and find out! oh... and R&R!