We monsters stared at our three captive friends. I bet everyone was thinking the same thing. It was all over. Okay, everyone except for Monger.
"What are you looking at?" Phyllis yelled. "We're the ones they really want; not you!" She paused. "For crud's sake, get out of here!"
"No, Electrill," Monger said strongly. "If y'all are going no where, neither are we. Ginormica."
"I've tried, General." The giantess told us. "I can't break through them."
It was truly over.
Susan, Doc, B.O.B., and I stood in between Elijah and Phyllis. The coyote boy had his hand against the glass. Knowing it was hopeless, in the midst of it all he managed a smile.
"If there's a Heaven, which I'm sure there is, I'll see you there." He told us. B.O.B.'s lower lip was trembling, and he finally wrapped his arms around the cage.
"Don't forget about us!" He wailed. "'Cause I won't! Never ever ever!"
"I'm really gonna miss you." I said. Before Susan and Doc could give their farewells, I added, "We all will," just for the sake of time.
Monger's POV
While the other monsters were giving Electrill and Coyosapien their goodbyes, Link and I stood by Olivia's cage. She smiled sadly, looking at both of us.
"I'm sorry we couldn't save you, Faytale." I told her.
"Yeah, sorry, Fay." Link added. "It's been real nice knowing you."
Before anymore could be spoken or leave, she spoke up. "Gentlemen," We walked closer to her.
"I love you...
"Both of you."
The sea monkey, as Electrill often refers to Link, and I looked at each other before looking at her. My heart rose into my throat. If this was good-bye, it would've been the best thing to tell us.
"Save yourself, please." She pleaded. "Take care of each other for me."
Jenny's POV
We all turned to Phyllis. She wasn't very happy that we weren't gone by now.
"Seriously, you gotta get out of here; the world needs you." She demanded. "Go. If you make it and we don't, just act like nothing happened. Like you've never met us. Like we never existed."
"Phil, the world doesn't work like that." Susan corrected. "Besides, you three changed things around in our world."
Phyllis smiled. "I guess you guys aren't too bad."
"'Parting is such sweet sorrow!'" B.O.B. quoted dramatically. "As spoken by-" Doc shushed him.
A thundering set of tentacles was heard down the way and it was coming closer. Phyllis gave us a look that meant business. Not her usual misanthrope look but like one that showed she really cared about us.
"Run!" She said in a hushed. "Now!"
Monger nodded and held his head high once again. "Let's move out, monsters." He commanded. "No backin' out and no lookin' back." Holy, he was good at keeping a poker face. He could watch the funniest or the saddest movie and keep a straight face.
We followed him down toward the exits. Or at least where we heard it was. No backing out. No looking back.
Elijah's POV
I stared at the gate where I last saw our friends. That was only five minutes ago.
Phyllis took turns looking at the gate and the way toward our former prison. Despite her usual brooding look, you could easily tell she was scared. I wouldn't even bother asking her if she was 'cause she'd lie about it. Liv sat down on the floor of her cage, her legs drawn up to her chest. She held herself and looked over at me.
"You really loved both of them, didn't you?" I asked.
"Yes, I did." She said quickly. "Both were nothing like any of my suitors besides Walter. Both looked out for me and would've given up everything for my sake."
"Which one would you have picked?"
Before she could reply, the same alien overlord approached us again. "It's a real pity that you lied to your friends." He frowned yet smiled. "I wanted more than just you."
"What would you do with them?" I asked coldly.
"Well, with the giantess, our sensors have detected her body being filled with this element of strength called quantonium. As our colleague Gallaxhar chased after it, caught it, and died in the explosion of his ship, we took in consideration of using her as a training tool for our best warriors. Being as I don't have them anymore here, I can still take the two Earth months-I mean, years, of going back to headquarters and getting some more. Curse that hyperdrive."
"Warriors don't come that easy like apples on trees, numbskull." Phyllis grumbled. "If-"
"I wasn't finished yet." The alien interrupted. "The blob thing we would've torn apart to take samples, clone them, and create indestructable warriors. The invisible girl we would take her invisibility substance to make our best warriors invisible. The fish ape we would've used for training. The cockroach man, well, we'd test his sturdiness and intelligence. The old man...speak of the devil," He turned to me. "He'd have the same fate as your father."
I growled in rage and stretched out my fingers. Finding out my real father was a human who had been murdered as soon as he was captured was the biggest shocker of my life.
"Now don't be frustrated." He sarcastically comforted. "You're going home."
"You took us from what was our home." Liv snapped. "Elijah may have been born here, but this place wasn't meant to be his home."
"Is that so, step-mama? Think things can't get any worse? We're all gonna die. At least you are." He pushed a button, and our cages became cramped, giving us very little room to move. The tops were two inches above our heads as my coyote ears grazed the ridge. There was no room to kneel, and you could only lift your arms if your kept them close to your body.
Speaking of arms, Phyllis quickly and uncomfortably slid hers and touched the top of her cage. The whole thing fell apart, and she fired a stream of electricity at the alien. It made him freeze for a few seconds and gave her time to free the rest of us.
He got up and had us chasing us toward a not so familiar portal. "'Scape pod!" We hearding him repeatedly hissing. "Gotta get there!"
Jenny's POV
Monger said no looking back, but I couldn't get our three friends off my mind. We knew we were somewhere near the exit yet we didn't have a clue where we were exactly. The ship starting shaking more violently.
"It's the effects of the self-destruct." Doc explained. "We don't have much time."
Why, Bennett, oh why? I thought, doing the face palm. We heard a large bang.
"Guys, I think I found an escape." Susan announced. She showed us where she had barged her way through a metal wall. Hearing the sound of wind, Monger's face lit up a bit. She was right. "Careful, you've got about three feet from falling to your death." Link wandered over to the side.
"I wonder if B knows what happened to us." He said out loud. "Even though she-" The ship shook again, and he fell over off the side.
The next thing we heard was this hovering. Everyone lit up at the sight of Link hanging onto the legs of Elijah who happened to be hanging from a hover craft.
"In case you're wondering," The coyote boy began. "The atmosphere for the next seventy-five feet is surrounded by thick glass. Now climb on in." Everyone except Susan crawled inside the hover craft where Phyllis sat in the pilot's chair.
"How did you do it?" I gaped.
"We beat Lord High King Tyrant to his escape pod after breaking free." Elijah laughed.
"Now to only find the real escape." Liv added, smiling and wrapping her arms around Link and Monger's necks. Phyllis drove the aircraft back into the ship and began a frantic search for the real exit. So far, there was a fraud exit and a storage portal left. The engine inside slowly died.
"Stink! We're out of gas." Phyllis grunted. The hover craft began a quick descent, but Susan caught it time and pulled us out. "Hey, Long-time-no-see?" She called to me. "C'mon and help me out; you're good at finding things."
Noticing a large set of apparatus sticking out of a door in the corner, I believed I found a solution. "Hey, Phil!" I waved my arm. She came over and pulled on one of the pieces. A piece of the floor fell under her like a trap door, and she screamed. It freaked me out as I fell with her. She grabbed my wrist, and I linked my hand tightly around hers.
"Phil?" I whimpered nervously. "I think that's the first time I've heard you scream." Susan with an armful of monsters and a Monger fell through the floor, making an even bigger whole. The whole foundation of the floor collapsed, and we were falling towards the Californian ocean below. Susan quickly grabbed me and Phyllis, and we braced ourselves for our big plummet.
We hit the water and plunged into it like a boulder falling from a couple miles, only we came back up. Some were downright shocked, scared, and a little frazzled. Some were hugging and kissing (at least B.O.B. was). Monger pulled his water-proof walkie-talkie from his drenched pocket.
"Lemonade Tweezers, this is Fishmonger-Nineteen." He spoke. "We are located off the west coast of southern California. Repeat: we are located off the west coast of southern California. Over."
One more chapter! Chapter one of my next MvA fanfic, A Lifetime, should be up pretty soon! Can't wait and excited. Hope you are too.