"Myka. Myka." I started to come to as Pete was shaking me. I was still on the floor.
"What?" I rubbed my head and tried to sit up. The bump on my head hurt like hell.
"She's gone. H.G…she's gone. She played us Mikes." I got to my feet slowly.
"What's that noise?" My head was still foggy as I tried to gather myself.
"The place is filling with sand. We need to get out." Suddenly my mind caught up with my body and I was pissed.
"I'm gonna kill her. I'm gonna kill her!" Pete took me by the shoulders.
"You can but later. We need to get out of here." We combed the shelves looking for something to help us get out. "Look! There's a hatch. Now we just need to get up there." A few minutes later we found a set of wings. Pete put them on and we started to fly upwards. Before we got to the top of the warehouse Pete's Farnsworth started to ring. I opened it and it was Artie. We explained to him what happened and he said to close our eyes.
A moment later, the hatch opened and we were greeted by the brightness of the sun. "Come on out." Pete flapped the wings a few more times and we were out of the warehouse. We landed on the sand and he took the wings off. "H.G.'s a bad guy. When I couldn't get a hold of you with the Farnsworth I figured she blocked the signal somehow." I felt horrible. The woman I trusted, who I apparently had feelings for, betrayed me. Artie and Pete were right; she was bad and she played us all. The whole ride back to South Dakota I couldn't stop beating myself up about trusting H.G. when everyone around me said not to.
"You had a lot of vibes about H.G. didn't you?" Pete and I got out of the car and he hesitated.
"No." I slammed the door and started to walk away.
"You're a horrible liar." Pete jogged to keep up with me as I stormed towards the warehouse.
"Mikes, come on. You're my partner so I trusted your judgment. She has something we don't. She's willing to lie and kill to get what she wants and we don't." I listened to him but it didn't matter. I had put everyone in danger and she betrayed me. I never did do well with betrayal. As I walked in the door I heard Pete's phone ring.
"Lattimer." He stayed outside but snapped to get my attention when he heard H.G.'s voice. I nodded and ran into Artie's office.
"Run a trace on Pete's phone!" Claudia started typing and running the trace. Pete walked in a few minutes later. "Did we get her location?"
"Yes but she's mobile. She's heading…where is that?" Claudia moved so Artie could look. He saw the screen and then pulled out some maps.
"That doesn't make sense. Why is she heading to the middle of nowhere? Unless…Yellowstone!" Artie explained a to us that that's where the hottest volcano is and that Helena was going to use the trident to start the next ice age and kill almost everyone on the planet. Pete had to go check on Kelly and Claudia went to back him up. Artie and I went to track down Helena and stop her.
It only took us two hours to get to where we thought she'd go. "Yes this is definitely where she's going to be."
"And here she is." Artie and I turned around to see Helena standing there with the trident. Even if I was royally pissed off at her I couldn't help but notice how good she looked in the black pantsuit. Her hair looked better when it wasn't in a ponytail. "I'm not surprised that you found me. But I am surprised you think you can do anything about it."
"And what could you possibly want? Money? Power?" I kept my eyes on H.G. and the trident. The little voice in the back of my head kept screaming oh my God she's hot when she looks so powerful.
"Nothing! I want nothing." Artie chuckled sarcastically.
"Nothing? You obviously know what you're holding." She started to move and turn the trident.
"Why do you want to do this? Kill millions of innocent people."
"Innocent? Open your eyes Myka. Have you not seen the world in which you live?" Each time she raised her voice power would surge through the trident.
"So just because Christina died and you're angry…"
"Oh don't even start! This may have started with Christina's death but the world hasn't gotten any better. It's gotten worse! The line between rich and poor; hunger and famine have grown bigger. Men have found new ways to kill each other. Ways that weren't imaginable even by fiction writers! This is no place for a child."
"Oh my God. You really intend to start another ice age."
"The only way to help this world is give it a rest. Give it time to repair itself." Helena raised the trident and started to thrust it into the ground when she was stopped.
"I don't normally do this but…" Artie pulled out a gun and shot her in the shoulder. It stopped her for a second but then she looked at him with an evil look in her eye.
"You're going to wish you hadn't." Artie hesitated and then groaned. His shoulder started to bleed.
"Artie what happened?" He fell to the ground and I had to keep an eye on both of them.
"The Corsogen Vest. The Corsogen brothers were magicians when one of them got hurt the other felt it." He put his hand over the bullet wound and tried to stop the bleeding.
"You did that to yourself." She turned the trident and struck it into the dirt. The ground shook and I fell. The earth split all the way to the water.
"Helena, don't do this. It's not who you are." I eased my way towards her. I couldn't let her use the trident again. "I know you don't want to do this. The part of you that wants us to stop you is in there." She just looked at me and stabbed it into the ground again. The sky started to cloud up. I looked from H.G. to the sky, to Artie. I tried to reach for her but she grabbed my wrist.
"Don't touch me!" We never lost eye contact. I knew I was getting through to her. I just needed one last thing to close that gap. I knew exactly what I had to say.
"Helena…" I took in a deep breath. I couldn't believe I was about to do this. "You're my happiest place!" My eyes were closed because I didn't want to see the horrified look on her face. When she didn't say anything, I opened my eyes. There wasn't horror in her eyes; just shock. "Back in warehouse 2," I took in a shaky breath. "During the soul test…my happiest place was with you. We were at Lena's and you came in and asked to talk to me. You told me that you loved me. That you always were attracted to me ever since we first met. Knowing that the Medusa sends you to a place where you're most vulnerable that means that I truly do…love you. Please, Helena…don't do this. It's not too late." She just stared at me.
"Myka…" H.G. loosened her grip on the trident and I grabbed it. She fell to her knees and bowed her head. She was upset and she knew I was right. She didn't want to kill everyone; she just needed me to stop her.