Chapter Six…this is passing so quickly. All these chapters are, like, four pages each on Microsoft Word or more, which is a considerable improvement from said previous stories. Next chapter, enjoy!
CHAPTER SIX
In a minute, the train had stopped and the three girls stepped out into a featureless concrete room, saved for a large window which provided vision into a shark-infested tank.
"This is where Kilbur goes every day?" Robin asked in disbelief. "But, it's so…plain. Unless she feeds humans to the sharks, there's nothing to do." She ran her hand along the concrete wall. "It doesn't make sense."
"So…if this is where Kilbur goes all the time and Wilbur followed her…then, where are they?" Lily asked, looking around the room, her gaze lingering slightly at the shark window. "I mean, it's Kilbur. For all we know, she could be on the ceiling and we would never know until it was too late." Upon this statement, all three looked to the ceiling to see a surprising lack of Huck-clad assassins. "Where are they?" Lily repeated.
"My guess…I have no idea," Robin said, her usual genius intellect failing her. "Unless they suddenly became invisible or are somewhere else…well, they can't be somewhere else. We've checked everywhere!" She noticed Sierra wasn't paying attention—she was deep in thought about something. "Sierra?"
"Well, Wilbur was kinda upset about Kilbur not being evil and all…" Sierra noted.
"Duh," Lily remarked.
"And it all started after Kilbur cleaned the attic and found that one DVD…" Robin added.
"Exactly my point! Maybe we should check was Kilbur was watching. It might help," Sierra said and walked over to the glass window. "And if I know my sister, getting to that DVD won't be easy. Perfect reason for a shark tank." She gestured to previously mentioned.
"Ooh!" Lily squealed, suddenly getting it. "You're smart!"
"And you're not," Sierra remarked. "You would have never gotten that on your own."
Robin, already getting annoyed, snapped, "Shut up!" The bickering continued. "I said shut up! If we don't find Wilbur, then Wilbur: T-155 doesn't get to be put to the test!" The bickering yet continued. "Shut up or I will personally feed you both to the sharks and Kilbur will have to clean up her sisters' carcasses!" That shut them up. "Okay. Nobody tell mom about this. She will spazz her head off, make more said casseroles, and force-feed them to us."
"Okay," Lily said simply, obviously not quite comprehending the pure threat and danger of previously mentioned casseroles.
"What about getting through the shark tank and such? This is Kilbur's lair, and I know for a fact that there are many other deadly traps beyond the sharks, and I don't feel like dying today," Robin said.
"Well, all things considered, Kilbur is probably too clever to go through this whole thing each time she comes here," Sierra said, deep in thought. "And a featureless concrete wall…" She pondered for a moment, and then it was as if a light clicked on in her head. "Good ol' Chuck taught me that things are never what they seem."
Robin and Lily watched in amazement and confusion as Sierra felt along literally every inch of the wall. It seemed like years before Sierra felt a crack in the concrete. "I found a crack…" she said to nobody in particular. "Ugh, my fingers are too big. I can't fit them in."
"Let me try!" Lily said brightly.
"No, I have a better idea," Sierra cut her off and pulled a crowbar out of her boot. She quickly pried the hatch off and saw a red button gleaming in the dull light.
"You carry a crowbar in your boot?" Robin raised an eyebrow.
"Well, you know how Kilbur used to have that pocket of wonders? Well, she doesn't wear those jeans anymore. I studied them and made a boot of wonders. It's really handy. I can see why she had it," Sierra said and reached for the button.
"Maybe I need something of wonders…hey, Sierra, don't touch that!" Robin suddenly yelped.
"Ah! Why?" Sierra snapped, clearly startled a bit…and a bit annoyed of being told what to do.
"Remember what happened when Wilbur pulled the weird switch in Queen Lizzy's ant lair?" Robin pointed out, bringing back the ever-so-fun memories of their first family adventure.
"Well, I'm not Wilbur," Sierra said and slammed the button.
"SIERRA!" Robin yelled. She was about to continue and rant off a lecture when a female mechanical voice sounded: security system deactivated. Robin promptly shut up as Sierra smirked.
Sierra started up the metal rungs in the corner by the shark tank, and Lily said, "Don't worry, Robin. It was a good concern." Then she followed her sister up the makeshift ladder. The latter followed behind. When they reached the glass platform that Wilbur had to jump off of, there was a tunnel leading through the shark tank. The sisters walked through it, staring at the sharks that were so close to them. They noted the dent in the metal hatch. As it began to mechanically slide up, the dent jammed it.
With a broken whirring sound, the hatch failed to go any farther up, which led Sierra to kick the hatch off so they could crawl through the tunnel. After a while, the tunnel opened up and they saw the burn marks where the lasers had touched the ground. Noted by the long, ashy lines and charred marks all around, it was a miracle that Wilbur ever got through this alive.
Sierra noted where it looked like a cage of lasers had been, and that's where Wilbur must've gotten hurt. After all, he had come out of his room clutching his shoulder like a baby. The metal doors slid aside and the girls walked into where the motion detector hallway was. They took one look at the cameras posed in bizarre directions and saw the multiple arrows either sticking in the wall or broken on the floor. Then, they saw the charred marks on the ceiling, walls, and floor where fireballs had dissolved into the material. Sierra grinned as she picked up an arrowhead.
"See the red on the tip?" she said, holding out the arrowhead as if it was an incredible gold coin at a museum. "That's Wilbur's blood. I can tell." She grinned as multiple images passed through her mind of Wilbur desperately attempting to make it through alive.
"Ew! Sierra, that's gross!" Lily cringed and staggered backward. She stared at the blood as if it was a tendon covered with tartar sauce covered in ticks with their heads cut off. Sierra, who knew this was the image in Lily's mind, burst out in hysterics.
Robin rolled her eyes and walked in front of them, then froze in her tracks.
"Robin? What's wrong?" Lily walked up to her and her jaw dropped at what she saw. She froze and gaped.
"Ugh!" Sierra threw her arms into the air. "What the heck are you guys looking at?" She stomped behind them and stared, impressed, at what she saw. All the death traps were frozen in mid-swing, crush, or whatever. "Ok, how the heck did Kilbur afford all this?"
"I'm just in shock that Wilbur made it through this," Robin remarked as they walked through the death show. They paused momentarily to stare at the show of paint at the end and saw a human outline on the floor, undoubtedly where Wilbur fell on the floor in pain. They cracked up and walked through the door to the theater.
"Impressive," Lily remarked at the large theater, complete with candy and stuff.
Sierra walked over to the candy counter.
"Sierra, where are you going?" Robin asked.
"To get some Sour Patch Kids. I'm starving!" Sierra said over her shoulder and grabbed a pack.
"Oooh! I want some Kit Kats!" Lily ran over the candy counter to grab her candy.
Robin rolled her eyes and went to scour the seats. She saw nothing until she got to the middle row. A white DVD case with blue and red words sat under the seat. She picked it up and stared at it, then said, "Tom and Huck?"
"What?" Lily asked, spraying Kit Kat crumbs from her mouth. She and Sierra walked over to Robin to look at the DVD case.
"Tom and Huck. It's the name of the DVD," Robin pointed out, reading the red letters on the top of the case. Sierra screamed and staggered backward. She slapped her forehead and groaned. "What?" Robin asked.
"Ohh, crap, I know that movie! That can only mean one thing!" Sierra sighed and sat in a brown-leather-covered chair.
"And what's that?" Robin asked, sitting next to Sierra, clearly interested in what Sierra had to say.
"Oh my God!" Lily squealed. "I totally knew it, didn't I know it, I totally knew it!"
"What?!" the latter said in unison.
"Kilbur got abducted by aliens with sponge brains!"
Robin slapped her head and groaned while, with a sigh, Sierra snapped, "You're a sponge brain. Anyway…" She dug her hand behind the seat and pulled out a piece of paper.
"What's that?" Lily asked, still feeling dejected because of her failed sponge brain theory.
"I knew it!" Sierra stared at the paper and her words came out as more of a gush than actual words. She should've saw this coming. She should have.
"What?!" Robin and Lily screamed in unison, startling Sierra back into the real world.
"Oh, right. Well it seems that Kilbur has changed her name to Huck and now she's in Hannibal in 1840 with Huckleberry Finn. And that's not good. At all," Sierra sighed, replacing the paper in the seat cushion.
"And how, may I ask, do you know this?" Lily asked skeptically.
Sierra looked Lily right in the eye with dead seriousness and said, "I know my sister very well."
"Wait—I've read the Adventures of Tom Sawyer," Robin said slowly, growing more worried by the minute. "What if Kil—er…Huck runs into Injun Joe or gets lost in the woods or something?"
Sierra rolled her eyes and a smiled played at the edge of her lips. "Oh believe me," she said with a hint of certainty. "We lived in the woods for ten years, on our own, and she survived most fine. And since she's obsessed with Huck, and he threw knives in the movie, my guess is that our sister taught herself to throw knives. And if she can throw knives, she's scarier and more dangerous than me, Chuck Norris, and the hockey-mask psycho killer with a chainsaw and a hook all combined. So it's likely that Injun Joe is so screwed."
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Comment? Yes please do! The next chapter I post is going to be back in 1840—just a sneak peek. And one of my trusted friends came up with a brilliant idea that I cannot believe I didn't come up with! HHR. I'll reveal what it means later. Hehehe……