Hello, Marco here with the recap of what happened last chapter. I think I did this before, but whatever.
Star and I decided to make a plan in order to make some progress in the game, since to win it we need the wands of the other players in order to open the door to the endgame. However, after a hile passed, my mom arrived and gave me a suggestion: go after Janna first, since she would most likely be easy to defeat.
Quite honestly, I don't know why she suggested that, but she's my mom and I trust her a lot, so it shouldn't hurt to try it. Right?
As to what happened to Janna and Hope, well, that's what we're going to find out soon enough.
Episode 10: Jail Break
(Near the prison)
Hope took out her wand and used it to summon a fireball and aimed it at the fireworks. However, before she shot it at them, she backed away to a safe distance before shooting the fireworks and watching as they were unleashed into the sky. She then used her wand to add a message reading "Come to the this place!" in huge letters.
Luckily, this also alerted the prison guards, who ran to the area. Hope quickly reacted and sneaked into the prison fortress without being detected by them, but not before using her wand to "shoot" a message into the ground.
(Meanwhile, with Star, Mrs. Diaz and Marco)
Star, Mrs. Diaz and Marco walked through the woods, continuing their search for Janna.
"Okay, first we need to find out where Janna is." Marco uttered. "But where do we look first?"
"Maybe we could look for whoever's shot that message among those fireworks." Star suggested.
The mother and son duo looked up and noticed Hope's fireworks message. Upon seeing that, they exchanged smiles and begun running after the location, with Star following them when she noticed they had left.
When the trio arrived at the prison facility, they were surprised by the imposing atmosphere it had. Then they saw Hope's message, which read "Use a wand to blow up a wall. Quietly and sneakily." in white letters.
Marco turned to his mother, who shrugged, then took out his own wand and was about to use it before Star gave him an excited look. "Okay, Star, but remember, do it quietly and sneakily." Marco reminded.
"Yeah, don't worry, I got this."
Star aimed her wand at a wall and charged her energy. However, what she shot at it was a huge energy ball that not only obliterated the wall, but was loud enough to catch the attention of the nearby guards.
"Oh crap, I did it loudly and quickly!" Star exclaimed.
The guards immediately spotted Star and Marco and got ready to attack them...until Mrs. Diaz suddenly appeared behind them and attacked them, shifting their attention towards her. She made quick work of them with some karate skills that left Star and Marco surprised.
"Huh, I didn't knew you got your skills from your mother." Star remarked.
"To be honest, I didn't knew that either." Marco replied.
"Less chatting, more infiltration!" Mrs. Diaz shouted before punching another guard.
The teenagers obeyed and joined in the brawl, Marco doing so by helping his mother beat up the guards while Star just blasted them with her wand.
(Meanwhile, with Hope)
Hope hid in the shadows as she carefully looked around for the room Janna was in. It didn't take her long before she overheard Andrea and Janna talking on a room nearby, which made her curious as to what was going on.
She saw an open door where the girls were talking, and she quickly went inside and hid behind something before taking a peek at the duo. Janna sat on a chair and rested her arms on the table as Andrea walked back and forth with her arms behind her back.
"Alright, I want you to understand that the reason for this...let's call it interrogation, is to see if you are sorry for the crimes you performed." Andrea explained before stopping and turning to Janna. "That way, I might decide to let you go earlier if you show both remorse and some good behavior, understood?"
"Suck a lemon dry and shove it up your ass." Janna stated.
Andrea remained silent and still for a moment before grabbing Janna and unleashing electrical currents through her body, causing Janna to scream in agony as she felt the horrible pain. Once she finished, Andrea released Janna and the shocked girl caught her breath as Andrea thought about what to do next.
"Alright, those words just scratched your "good behavior" out of the interrogation, how about remorse?"
Janna simply looked away in protest, but Andrea simply grabbed her shirt's neck and pulled her closer while she used the other to turn Janna to her. "Do you feel bad for murdering a supporter?"
Janna remained silent and instead blew a raspberry at Andrea's face. She screamed and released Janna, who laughed as Andrea tried to shake off the spit in her face. After that, Hope went closer and closer to Andrea, and she came out of hiding and got ready to strike her...but the cyborg girl recovered, grabbed Hope and threw her at Janna, who failed to dodge her in time.
As the duo recovered and got up, Andrea walked to them and charged her hands with energy. "Since you won't cooperate willingly, I'll force you to cooperate!"
Hope and Janna got ready to counterattack. However, just as Andrea charged enough energy, she heard the alarms blare across the hallway, alongside the scream of some running guards.
"Someone breached the prison?"
Andrea used her gadget to see Star, Marco and Mrs. Diaz beating up some guards before running deeper into the facility. "Ugh, It's those two again. But who is that woman coming with them?"
Regardless, Andrea turned off her gadget thing and ran off to find the trio. This, of course, gave Hope and Janna the chance to escape.
"Come on, Hope, let's get out of this place!" Janna exclaimed.
However, just as Janna grabbed Hope's arm, the girl asked, "But what about Star and Marco? Shouldn't we help them?"
"They can take care of themselves." Janna complained before dragging Hope outside and to the hallways. "And besides, to my knowledge, they're our enemies!"
Once she heard that, Hope growled, managed to stop and release herself from Janna's grasp. She then got the girl's attention and chided, "If it weren't for them going here, Andrea would've subdued us, and if it wasn't for me, they wouldn't have come at all! The least you could do is go and thank them for their help!"
"Ugh, do I have to?" Janna whined.
Hope just cracked her knuckles while giving Janna a furious glare, scaring her into an agreement. "Fine, let's go help them."
(Meanwhile, with the trio)
Marco continued to chop the guards alongside his mother while Star used her wand to grab some and throw them at the others. Andrea soon arrived and saw the scene, which she tried to fix by blasting the trio alongside the surrounding facility workers.
After that, she separated her arm and the hovering part went to Marco and grabbed his hoodie, pulling him to Andrea shortly afterwards. "What are you doing at the prison facility, Marco?" Andrea questioned. "Do you want to be punished by the law or something?"
Before Marco could even reply, Mrs. Diaz snatched him away and kicked Andrea, who whined in pain as the woman snarled, "Whoa, cool down your advances, cybitch! The only pussy my Marco's going to penetrate is Star's, okay?"
"Yeah-wait what?" Star responded.
Upon hearing that, Andrea waited until she recovered before replying, "What are you talking about? I don't want to "do it" with Marco!"
"Oh, so now you think you're too good for my Marco?" Mrs. Diaz retorted, grabbing Marco and pulling him towards her as she added, "Is his organic dong too much for your cyborgina?"
"No! I just don't dig boys who are dating someone else at the moment!"
"Wait, you think Marco's dating someone?" Star asked.
"Yeah! He's dating that redheaded woman that's smothering him!"
What followed was a complete silence as Star and Marco looked at the girl with "WTF" looks on their faces while Mrs. Diaz tried to hold back her laughter. "That's my mom, Andrea." Marco blurted.
Andrea, shocked by the response, reached the most logical conclusion. "...You're dating your own mother?"
"No! I'm not dating anybody right now!"
"Oh."
Another silence passed before Andrea blushed and nervously asked, "Hey, would you like to go on a date with me when this fiasco is over?"
"Are you fucking serious!?"
Andrea flinched, "W-What? Did I do something wrong?"
"Yeah! You're fucking asking me out for a date after you thought I was dating my own mother!"
"Well excuse me for trying to be an easy-I mean, decent-first date!" Andrea flushed.
"Joke's on you, bitchorg!" Mrs. Diaz mockingly taunted. "He already has a date with Star!"
"That's not true!" Marco yelled. "Look, can we just resume the fighting before this conversation becomes any weirder?"
"That's fine by me!"
With that said, Andrea dashed to Marco and uppercut him out of Mrs. Diaz's grasp, attacking the woman shortly afterwards. However, Mrs. Diaz blocked the attack and counterattacked with a kick to the gut, stunning Andrea for a moment and allowing her to grab and throw her away.
However, Andrea recovered and shot some energy balls at the woman, who dodged them and dashed straight to the girl as Star dodged most of the incoming blasts. With that done, Mrs. Diaz and Andrea engaged in a fight as Marco fell and landed on top of Star, and he immediately got up.
"Sorry Star! I didn't mean to!"
"No, don't worry, Marco, It's okay. Should we help your mother?"
The instant after Star asked that, Andrea flew past them screaming and trying to regain her balance, which was followed by Mrs. Diaz screaming like a fox as she dashed to the cyborg girl.
"I'm pretty sure she can manage Andrea by herself." Marco answered before grabbing Star's hand. "Come on, let's go find Hope and Janna."
And dodging another thrown Andrea, Star and Marco went deeper into the facility and begun their search for Janna and Hope.
(Meanwhile, with the mentioned duo)
An explosion occurred and a couple of guards flew as Janna, in her ex morphus form, crashed through the wall and cracked her knuckles. "I'll never known why I didn't abuse this form before I got here."
And then Hope arrived and started to look around. "Okay, let's see if I can find any camera footage to see where Star and Marco are..."
When she eventually found one, she saw the duo were running to her and Janna's location, kicking some of the guards' butts as they did. "Awesome! They're coming to us!"
However, when Hope didn't get a response from Janna, she turned around and saw her relaxing on top of one of the unconscious guards. "Janna, go back to your normal form."
"No way, bitch, I'm staying in this sweet ass form as long as I want!" Janna stated.
Unashamed of what she said, Janna then blew a raspberry at Hope, who immediately appeared in front of Janna's face and cracked her knuckles before saying, "I think It's time to turn your bitchiness down."
A few seconds later, Star and Marco arrived and outside of the guards, they saw Hope spanking Janna like a spoiled child, Janna even whined like one as that happened. After a few more seconds of Hope spanking Janna, she briefly turned around and saw the duo standing there awkwardly, which made her stop and smile.
Hope got up, making Janna hit the ground, and she ran to Marco as Star went to Janna and helped her get up. Hope hugged Marco and moaned in joy as the two went to Star and Janna, the latter blushing and looking away.
"Please tell me you didn't see me whine like a spoiled child." Janna requested.
"Fine, but can I say that I saw Hope spanking you?" Star innocently responded.
"No, don't tell me that either!"
Star blushed and scratched the back of her head as Hope released Marco and the quartet reunited in the middle of the room. "Marco, can you give me some details on what you did a few levels down?" Hope asked.
"Okay, Star and I beat up a good deal of guards but I'm pretty sure there are more out there, and even though my mom's dealing with Andrea, I don't think she'll be able to handle her forever." Marco recapped. "What should we do now?"
"Well, this is my idea: since the guards are no problem to neither you nor us, we can simply beat them up unless they get too numerous." Hope answered. "However, if your mother somehow stopped distracting Andrea for whatever reason, she could do a sneak attack on us and make the fight more difficult."
"Uh huh, so what do we do?" Star asked.
"While your mother distracts Andrea, we're going to jump over the walls or, if they haven't fixed yet, escape through the wall I blew up earlier today." Hope resumed. "Remember, for this plan to work, Mrs. Diaz must distract Andrea long enough so we can escape. If she gets distracted for even a second, the plan could fail."
Nodding in agreement, the quartet left the room and went downstairs, where Mrs. Diaz threw Andrea to a wall and chuckled as she hit it and slid to the floor. However, once Mrs. Diaz turned to see the teams, she smirked at Janna and leapt straight for her, attacking her as Star, Marco and Hope tried to separate the two while Andrea got up.
"Mom, what are you doing!?" Marco chided.
"My little Marco, did you forget that the reason we're here is to get Janna's wand?" Mrs. Diaz responded. "And like the nice child you are, you brought her to me so I can beat her up myself!"
Hope responded, "But Mrs. Diaz, if you don't continue fighting Andrea-"
And then, without warning, they were trapped in a tractor beam, which came from a pissed off Andrea. "Alright, time to end this!" she screamed before turning to her wrist, where she saw some guards standing by somewhere else. "Summon the Sentinel and bring in more guards, the only way Mrs. Diaz, Team Starco and Team Hopanna are getting out of here is dead!"
The guards obeyed and most went to her position as the others went to activate the so called "Sentinel", much to Andrea's pleasure. She then used another tractor beam to separate Marco from the girls and threw the two teams and Mrs. Diaz through a wall, which broke in pieces from the impact just before the girl deactivated the tractor beam, causing the teams and the woman to hit the floor.
After that happened, they got up just as guards fell from the sky and landed in the battlefield, and most of them had their hands replaced with weaponry. To top it all of, the ground started to shake and broke apart close to the team and Mrs. Diaz, and from the hole came the mentioned Sentinel, who looked very much like a giant version of the guards.
Upon seeing this situation, Star and Mrs. Diaz exchanged smiles. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Mrs. Diaz asked.
Star took out her wand and shouted "Diaz Hammer Ultimatum!", which caused he and Mrs. Diaz to be engulfed in light and "unite" into one. Once the union finished, Mrs. Diaz was now wearing a...mark-hat that made he head look like a hammer, and Star was holding her.
After that, Star immediately started smashing the guards in the head with Mrs. Diaz as Janna and Hope looked at them. They then exchanged looks, shrugged and smiled before helping the girls with the other guards.
Meanwhile, back with Marco and Andrea, the girl moved him closer to her and then slowly put him on the ground before deactivating the tractor beam. "Marco, I know that of all the players in this little game, you... probably."
"You say that you know, yet "probably" is part of the sentence?" Marco inquired.
"See? You can make sense out of stuff! That means you're sane!" Andrea gleefully exclaimed, giggling a little before adding, "Look, you're the Safe Kid, right?"
Marco flinched and blushed in shock, and he looked away and avoided eye contact before answering, "Yeah, but they're wrong! Look, whatever they told you, I'm not a guy who is obsessed with safety."
"You have nothing to worry about, I don't find guys obsessed with safety lame. In fact, I find them cool." Andrea stated, surprising Marco. "It means you know how to make sure everyone's... well, safe, which is the primary job of a police officer."
With that said, Marco turned back to Andrea, who smiled and blushed before pulling the boy closer to her. "Uh, what are you trying to do?"
"Marco, let me give you an offer: join me and become my partner, maybe even my superior, in the game police." Andrea stated. "If you accept it, then I'll consider to let you, Star and your mother go. Otherwise, I'll beat you up like usual."
Before he even replied, Marco backed a way a little before saying, "Wait, what about Janna and Hope?"
"Oh no, I'm afraid they're going to be punished regardless of what you do." Andrea answered. "Janna has been an extremely bad girl lately, after all, and with, I'm afraid she'll be punished as well."
"Sorry, Andrea, but as much as I would like to be in a place where being called the Safe Kid isn't an insult or a mockery, I'm not willing to betray my partners." Marco answered, earning a furious glare from the girl in response, "And yes, as much as I hate to say it, Janna and Hope are my partners right now."
Andrea released Marco, gave him an angry stare for a while... and then spent a good deal of time exchanging a kiss with him, so long that Marco eventually decided to go with the flow. Once they stopped kissing and separated their mouths, Marco slapped himself back to reality.
"Why did you do that!?"
"'Cause I'll soon beat the shit out of you."
And before he could even reply, Marco was punched by Andrea so hard he was sent flying to a wall, which broke upon collision. Marco grabbed his head and groaned in pain as Andrea turned on her rocket boots and dashed to the boy, who managed to avoid the girl just before she hit him. After that, Andrea shot many energy balls at Marco, most which hit him and sent him flying even further back.
However, once he hit the ground, Marco remembered something important and he laughed a bit as he got up and gave Andrea a serious stare. "I know what I need to do."
Andrea raised an eyebrow and tilted her head in confusion before Marco shouted "EX MORPHUS!", which made him get showered in a white light so intense that Andrea covered her eyes. Inside the shower, Marco's clothing transformed into a white armor with black rings around his wrists, waist, knees and neck, and he also got a helmet with long, flowing brown hair materializing from it.
Afterwards, the shower finished and Marco opened his eyes, which had turned golden for some reason, and he posed for a moment before Andrea finally opened her eyes and spotted the transformed Marco. "Uh, who are you and where did Marco go?"
"Ha ha! You are seeing Marco, but he is no longer the normal player you know!" Marco responded, posing some more as he added, "He has become the milk bottle for the baby of justice! He has become the babysitter of the spoiled children of evil! He has become someone who can't control the volume of his voice! He has become..."
With one last pose, the armored Marco grinned smugly and shouted, "Marcoman!"
Andrea was entirely unfazed by his answer.
"It doesn't matter if you look like something out of an anime, I can still kick your ass!" Andrea stated as she cracked her knuckles.
"Let's put that to test!"
Andrea nodded and shot an energy ball at Marco, who simply deflected it without problem. She was surprised for a moment, but quickly started to shoot as much energy balls as she could at Marco, who continued to deflect them like it was nothing. Eventually, she got tired of throwing energy balls and dashed after the boy, who laughed as he dashed to Andrea and got ready for a face-to-face combat.
(Meanwhile, with the girls)
Star, Mrs. Diaz and Hope continued to deal with the lesser guards as Janna tried to find a way to deal with the sentinel, who changed one of his hands for a hammer and tried to squash the girl with it. However, Janna dodged it and tried to slice his arms with her claws, which barely did any damage at all.
After a while of dodging more and more attacks and when Star, and Hope knocked out the lesser guards, Hope took a closer look and threw her ax at the sentinel, who screamed in pain as Star followed by throwing Mrs. Diaz at it and the woman made it go down, further opening a wound in the thing. With that done, Janna gave them a thumbs up and went inside through the wound as Hope and Star caught the sentinel with energy ropes.
Once inside, the first thing Janna noticed was the entrails of the sentinel. His robotic entrails, to be exact.
However, she had no time to think about it, since many weapons started to tear through the sentinel's skin in order to reach the girl. Luckily, she managed to dodge this and got them to hurt the entrails as more and more weapons came, culminating in a giant spear piercing from the ground and hitting the cpu, causing the sentinel intense pain.
After that, Janna jumped out of the sentinel's body and helped the girls drag it down. Hope used her wand to give everybody earmuffs that blocked sound just as it hit the ground, which was followed by an explosion that completely obliterated a wall near the robot.
"Well, that takes care of the guards." Star remarked as the earmuffs disappeared. "But I can't help but feel we're forgetting someone..."
With that said, the rest of the girls joined Star in trying to remember the someone they forgot. It didn't take them long before they remembered a certain cyborg girl. "Andrea!"
"Damn it, we forgot about that jerk!" Janna stated. "What are we going to do about her?"
Then suddenly, Andrea broke through the window and tried to gain her balance before Marco jumped out and hit her, causing her to fall to the ground. Once she landed, Marco hit the floor and went back to his normal form as Star noticed something in one of the guards and the rest went to Marco.
"Heh, looks like somebody already took care of her for us." Mrs. Diaz uttered.
"Wow, what was that white armor all about, Marco?" Hope asked in amazement.
"That was my ex morphus form." Marco proudly answered. "Pretty cool, huh?"
As the girls continued to talk with Marco, Star went to one of the guards, ripped him open and took out his robotic entrails. "Wait, this guard's a robot?"
"Yeah, all the guards are robots commissioned from somewhere called St. Olga's Reform School, or something like that." Andrea answered as she got up and dusted herself.
The instant she heard that, Star frowned and shouted "Anger-Fueled Pickle Barrage!" which shot hundreds of pickles with angry faces at Andrea, who blocked them but was unable to stop Star from grabbing her pinning her against a wall. "What is your relationship with St. Olga's!"
Andrea unleashed an electrical current at Star, who released the girl and backed away to catch her breath. "Look, Star, I just work for them, I have no malicious intent nor do I care about the place. I'm just doing my best to deal with you for now and get prepared for when you go to St. Olga's for the next level."
Realizing what she just said, Andrea covered her mouth with her hand and looked around as the rest stare at her in shock. "Wait, the next stage is St. Olga's?" Marco blurted.
The girl remove her hand from her mouth and looked around for a while before uttering, "I've said too much," upon which she ran back inside the prison as fast as she could.
However, just as Star chased after her, Marco stopped her. "Don't bother, we know the next stage is the reform school, we made that much progress. Let's see if we can some more progress together."
"Wait, together?" Janna repeated in disbelief. "You expect us to join forces with you? No way!"
Janna flipped off the trio and left the facility. Seeing that, Hope nervously smiled and waved goodbye before chasing after the girl. "Janna, wait! At least hear their proposition first before deciding!"
And before Marco could go after her, his mother stopped him. "Let them go, they'll need us again."
"What makes you think that?"
Mrs. Diaz took out a pair of keys and waved them with a mischievous smile. Realizing what they were, Marco and Star smiled and laughed with the woman as they left the prison. After that, Andrea came out of hiding and, upon registering the scenery, sighed and reached for her pockets.
"I need to report this to Miss Heinous."
With that said, Andrea took out a pair of interdimensional scissors out of her pockets and used it to cut open a portal while using her free hand to use a tractor beam on the remaining robot corpses. Then, after she went through the portal with the robot remains, the portal closed out of existence as a figure up in the facility's rooftop smiled.
This figure was Jackie, who jumped off the roof and landed on the ground with no problem. "Well, that was an interesting show." Jackie remarked.
With that said, Jackie walked back to her lake and thought, "I guess It's time I summon "him" and get a new slave under my command," with a malicious smile.