Sorry everyone it took so long to post this, Spring is coming to my corner of the world and I'm SO HAPPY! I finally can work with my horse everyday without snow slicking up the roads and trails. :) So I will not be updating as often as I did in the past. But don't worry, I have never abandoned a story before, and I certainly won't let that happen to this one. Its just that updating will be a little bit farther spread apart while I get my schedule figured out. :D
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Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy this next chapter!
-Shire from CollieandShire
Chapter Four
There is only one way for someone to save a Lego falling from a thousand story building without letting that friend get killed-it's to stand underneath them, resulting in both of your demolitions.
Of course that hadn't really crossed Bad Cop's mind until Emmet was five Lego bricks from falling on top of him, his arms outstretched in hopes of catching the construction worker before it was too late. Oh wait, maybe I should have gotten a ne-BANG!
Red, green and blue bricks circled Bad Cop's head as he dizzily sat up and repositioned his helmet. Emmet lay two feet away from him, flat on his back from bouncing off of Bad Cop and onto the pavement. They sat in a giant crevice, one Bad Cop realized was caused by the collision of the two Minifigures.
"You idiot!" Bad Cop growled, jumping up and grabbing Emmet. "Why can't you just stay out of trouble and make my life easier!"
Emmet was coughing on the dust that had arisen from their earth indenture, his eyes huge as he stared into Bad Cop's face. He managed to wheeze, "But Bad Cop, I didn't let the criminals out!"
"Grr…" he dropped Emmet on the ground and turned to survey what needed to be done.
There were still several outlaws to be rounded up, but it looked like the Master Builders were arriving on the scene to help the Super Heroes. There was the strange Unikitty, turning red in the face and starting to attack some cowboys from the Wild West. There was the spaceman, firing everything he had on his spacecraft while screaming "Spaceship!" over and over again. Does he ever stop doing that? Bad Cop wondered, remembering his interesting ride with Benny when he'd offered to help them defeat Business.
Oh, and there was Emmet's fiancé…who looked like she was about to melt on the spot when she caught sight of Emmet.
"Emmet!" she cried, running towards the hard-hat figure. "Emmet, are you okay? I heard what happened! What are all these criminals doing out?"
"I'm okay Lucy, that weird ram horned guy tried to hold me ransom, but he let me go." Emmet assured the female Lego.
Bad Cop turned his back on the scene, knowing it was about to get mushy. Ick. I hate mush. Besides, he'd done his job and saved Emmet, now it was time to go and kick some villain backsides.
Spotting a likely target, Bad Cop jogged towards the dark figure, grabbing a broken street post lamp to use as a weapon.
Coming up behind the figure, he raised the post-then stopped as Darth Vader turned around and withdrew a lightsaber.
"Oh, you." Bad Cop muttered, hesitating as the lightsaber flicked on, glowing a bright red.
Darth Vader nodded his head in acknowledgement. "'Police' to meet you, Bad-"
"Don't say it." Before Vader had a chance to deflect Bad Cop brought his post full force down on the former Jedi, knocking him to the ground hard. "I am sick and tired of that corny pun!" he roared.
Post in hand, he whirled around and sent it flying into an Orc, taking out the massive Middle Zealand creature. Now this is fun!
"Hey Bad Cop, remember to leave some scoundrels for us to take out, okay?" Indiana Jones raced by him and whipped the Mandarin, tying him firmly before turning around and punching Doc Ock in the face.
"Oh, so you finally decided to show up." The officer snorted, noting someone was trying to sneak up behind him and doing a spiral kick, sending Red Skull flying into the nearest building. "About time, your friends from the Soviet Union have been destroying everything around here."
Bad Cop picked up the gun Red Skull had been carrying and turned to fire it at a skeleton from Ninjago, causing the figure to fall into several pieces.
"Hey, relax. I think most of the Russians have been rounded up." Indy pointed out. "Now all we have to do is take down the rest of these guys and go after Loki."
"That would be my job." Thor landed with a mighty thud next to Bad Cop, his hammer in hand and a determined look on his face.
"Well it's about time!" Bad Cop sneered. He didn't know why, but this whole criminal thing had put him in a bad mood. Something was bugging him in the back of his mind and he didn't know what it was.
I could tell you! Good Cop offered cheerfully.
I'm not talking to you right now. You're only going to distract me. Bad Cop grunted.
But-
"I came as soon as I could, I knew from the sounds of those screams my brother was behind this." Thor replied gravely, not seeming to take offense at Bad Cop's jab.
"Well, considering how often your brother does this," shove, punch, bang, "I'm surprised that," kick, slap, wham, "you haven't gotten rid of him permanently. The guy should be serving thirty life sentences by now." Bad Cop finished his sentence with a satisfying whack! Throwing a very beaten up looking Dovchenko into a pile of criminals ready to be taken off to the City Jail.
"He is my brother, honorable or not." Thor replied, hammering Lord Garmadon in the face. "And speaking of Loki, there he is." The mighty Avenger sighed as he looked up at the form of Loki, who was laughing his head off on top of the Octan tour. "Best go take care of him now before we have anymore problems."
Bad Cop watched as Thor flew up to the tour, hearing Loki's reaction plainly.
"Whahahaha, whahaha, whahahaa-no wait, hey! Stop! Stop it!"
Thor had grabbed Loki and flew in the direction of the City Jail, calling below to all the protagonists, "I'll meet you all downtown, from up here it looks like you're all almost finished."
Bad Cop whirled around and kicked Colonel Vogel, flipped him onto his back and into the ever-growing pile of antagonists.
"Well, guess we'd best take these guys to the locker." Indy commented, putting his hands in his pockets and glancing at all of the now rather dejected looking villains. "I wonder who let them out?"
Bad Cop glowered and glanced once more at the Octan tour, where he could make out the figure of someone watching from the top floor. "I know who did."
~oOo~
Business knew he was in trouble. Big trouble.
Before him stood several Master Builders, a bewildered Emmet and a very, very angry Bad Cop.
He couldn't understand why Bad Cop was so infuriated, seeing how all the criminals had been caught and put back in prison, thanks to the Adventurers, Super Heroes and Master Builders. Sure, Emmet fell off the Octan Tour and Bad Cop had to catch him, resulting in a huge divot in the middle of the road caused by the orange construction worker flattening the officer, but that shouldn't make him so angry.
Then again, once Bad Cop was mad there was no reasoning with him, even when you were his former evil overlord boss that used to intimidate him.
"Now everyone," Business chuckled nervously, pushing his swivel chair a couple of steps back, "I can explain."
"You'd better!" Wyldstyle shouted, shaking her claw hand. "I want answers and I want them now!" the fiancé to the Special had left her wedding preparations when she'd heard of the attack on Bricksburg, causing the resulting anger towards Business. Mental note: never get between a girl and her wedding preparations. Business told himself.
"I just wanted to make your jobs more interesting, let you guys have some fun!" Business defended, watching Bad Cop closely from the corner of his eye as the policeman inched towards a stool twenty paces away. Oh dang, not good.
"You nearly killed several people out there, including Emmet!" Princess Unikitty, the strange unicorn cat piped up, her eyes on the verge of turning her into Ragekitty. "Loki let him fall right off of your tour!"
"Look, I didn't mean for this to go so far!" Business exclaimed, leaping out of his chair and backing up against the window as the Master Builders pressed towards him, their eyes betraying their thoughts of ripping him to little Lego pieces. "I told the robots to let a couple of criminals out, not all of them! They made the mistake!"
"But you ordered them in the first place," the 1980 something space guy pointed out, his ever present grin still plastered on his face despite the seriousness of the situation. "They're your robots."
Bad Cop still hadn't said anything, but Business noted he now had the stool clutched in one claw hand. He'd better think up something to save himself.
"I'm sorry." He said abruptly, glancing nervously at his former second in command. He turned towards everyone else. "I'm sorry I made such a mess of things, I'll be sure to have my robots clean it up right away!"
"Business, the point is you need to stop making things 'interesting' for the people of Bricksburg and start living up to your word!" Emmet explained. Of everyone in the room, he seemed the only one ready to forgive Business. Besides Benny, of course. "You promised you'd be good, now you need to live up to that promise."
"I know, I know!" Business wailed, turning in a circle and staring out the window. "It's just, it's just being good isn't so much fun as being bad."
"That's because you're not putting enough effort into being good." Emmet walked up to the President and put his hand on his shoulder. "You have to try harder. Sometimes when you're not doing anything wrong but are not doing anything for anyone else it makes you feel like you have no purpose. You're bored! You have nothing to do all day and all day to do it in. As they say, 'idle Legos are the devil's playground."
"So what are you suggesting?" Business turned to Emmet, ever wary of the fact Bad Cop was inching closer and closer with his stool.
The other Master Builders seemed to be content watching Emmet explain things and stood back a little in a sullen silence. At least I don't have to worry about them coming after me anymore. He thought. That just leaves Bad Cop.
"I'm thinking you need to start getting more involved in helping others. If you don't have a purpose then your old life will just come creeping back in, even if you don't want it to. You have to do things for others, to get your mind off yourself and do things that help other people out. Believe me, it makes you feel really good inside." Emmet told him, his yellow face breaking into a smile. "Come on Business, try it. I promise you won't regret it."
"Yeah, just like that promise you made to me!" Bad Cop called from behind, his stool ready and aimed at Business. "Which we're going to discuss right after this."
"Promise accepted. I'll do what you said." Business yelped, leaping up and shoving past the Master Builders and running out of his office. He wasn't about to give Bad Cop a chance to fire that stool. If there was one thing he'd learned from his days having Bad Cop working for him, one didn't usually survive the stool treatment.
~oOo~
With everyone returned to their rightful places, the heroes of the day slowly made their way back to their homelands, pausing to talk with fellow adventurers about the crazy events of the day.
Lucy announced she was going to return to Cloud Cookoo Land to finish up the preparations for the wedding, making Emmet promise once more he wouldn't come by her apartment when she and the other girls worked on the wedding dress. "I can't wait until our wedding, when you get to see it. I hope you like it." She told him.
"I'm sure you'll be beautiful." Emmet smiled.
Lucy then gestured to Bad Cop, who was standing ten feet away from Emmet with a scowl on his face, tapping his foot impatiently. "So, I'm curious, what have you and Bad Cop been doing? I heard you were with him before this whole mess erupted."
Emmet glanced over his shoulder and chuckled nervously. "Yeah, about that. I'm trying to help Good Cop get a girlfriend. But I think Bad Cop has a couple of words he'd like to share with me first."
Lucy frowned. "Don't let him beat you up Emmet, you show him that you're not afraid of him." She let a small smile cross her mouth. "I didn't know Good Cop was interested in anyone. Who's the girl?"
"No one I know, but hopefully we'll get them to mark their calendars for a date soon. Otherwise I'm in serious trouble with Bad Cop." Emmet once more glanced at the officer, who was now making 'I've got my eye on you' motions with his claw hands.
"Okay, you take care. I'll call you when we're done with the preparations." She put her hand in Emmet's and smiled. "Take care and remember what I said, don't let him push you around."
"Bye, Lucy."
Emmet watched as his beautiful fiancé left, a sigh escaping from his lips as he smiled from ear to ear. He was the luckiest guy in the world.
"Time for a pounding!" Bad Cop roared in his ear. "Your promise failed!"
Correction-he was not the luckiest guy in the world.
Oh, and as a FYI, I have created a Google+ page for my sister and I called CollieandShire, and though I'm still working on setting it up, I'm going to start posting pictures that go with this story. So if anyone is interested in seeing the pictures that illustrate some of the happenings in this, you can check out the link on our profile page here on fanfiction. Our Google+ page is just a fun thing we decided to create. :)
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-Shire