The Hartman Chronicles Season 2 Chapter 8
"Nice move there Tiramisu," I smiled and walked over to the newest Mew Mew on the team.
"You too!" Tiramisu smiled as she took my hand and I shook it. Momo and Lavender got up from the blow they had suffered in the previous monster fight. As they did, the boxes fell over, revealing their contents, human body parts. I almost lost my lunch, Abbie, and Kyoto shared my reaction.
"What kind of sick person keeps things like this here!" Nashi exclaimed.
"I don't know," Calvin said, "But the boxes might have some delivery information on them."
Calvin walked over to one of the boxes. After a few seconds he found something.
"Here we go! It says, To: Grant, best of luck on artificially creating a human. I hope these body parts help. Signed, Cleaver"
"Cleaver?" Kyoto shivered, "He sounds dangerous!"
"Indeed I am!" a disembodied, male voice laughed. A door on the far end of the room swung open and out stepped two over-muscular girls. "Grant will be pleased to see that the Mew Mew body parts he ordered are going to come to him. Ladies, finish them off and bring them to my lab"
The girls nodded and began to slowly march toward us.
"This should be easy," Calvin laughed as he took out his shotgun. "Nightwolf Scattershot!"
Calvin fired several round, white pellets from his shotgun. The pellets embedded themselves into the skin of the girls; the girls shrugged it off like it was nothing.
"I stand corrected."
Abbie then took the wolf tooth from her necklace, which then turned into a spear. "Ribbon Truffle Strike!" she yelled and threw the spear at one of the girls. The spear struck the girl's legs and then flew back to Abbie. The girl winced for a second and resumed her walk.
"Sour Lemon Howl!" Lisa said as she pulled out her microphone, and howled into it, causing sound waves to shoot out from the mic. The sound waves flew past the over-muscular girls, who cupped their ears for a brief second before resuming their march.
"Face it, these girls can take a lot of pain, nothing you could ever dish out would be able to kill them!" the disembodied voice laughed.
The Mew Mews and I soon found ourselves against a wall. The girls were closing in, grimacing as if they were going to enjoy tearing us limb from limb.
"Fudge," Nashi said.
"Yeah?"
"I want to tell you something."
"What is it?"
"I'm sorry for calling you fat alright! You're kinda cool!"
"Thanks, although you're just trying to make amends with me before we die."
"There's no time like the last minute."
I closed my eyes feeling that the end was upon me, it would take a miracle for us to survive.
"Hey Ladies!" a familiar female voice snapped, "Back off from my friends!"
The over-muscular women turned around.
"Ribbon Shark Riptide!" the voice said. All of a sudden a whirlpool engulfed the two girls. As the girls were sucked up in the whirlpool I saw sharks made of water gnawing on them. When the whirlpool subsided the girls hit the floor, causing it to crack. The over-muscular girls glowed white and both turned into a seven year old girl. A girl with a grey uniform and a shark tale walked past the young girls.
"Umi!" Lavender exclaimed as she ran over to hug her. "Umi, I was so worried!"
The shark-girl hugged her back, "I missed you too Lavender!"
"Wait, so there are more Mew Mews than just us?" Abbie asked.
I nodded, "Yeah, Umi and Aki were part of the team: until they got knocked out in one of our battles."
"I see."
"I was there!" Calvin trumpeted, "And I was awesome!"
"I'm sure you were Calvin," Nashi said and rolled her eyes.
"Aww such a happy reunion!" the disembodied voice cooed "Too bad you're all going to die deeper in Cleaver's lair!"
"I'd rather not," Kyoto said as she ran for the door. Before she got there the doors closed and locked themselves.
"Oh but you have to!" the voice laughed "It is all for the betterment of man kind!"
"Betterment of mankind?" Abbie roared. "Betterment of mankind! You call harvesting body parts something that will better mankind? What kind of sick, twisted man are you?"
"One who sees that the human race is flawed! Grant showed me everything; slavery, poverty, the environment, wars!"
"You cruel monster!" Kyoto yelled
"Squirm all you want!" the voice cackled. "It doesn't change the fact that you have to go deeper into my lair!"
Calvin looked at the others, "If we go deep enough we might have a chance to end this man's life once and for all!"
Nashi looked at Calvin and nodded, "That sounds like a plan to me!"
"Alright Mew Mews!" Umi yelled, "Move out!"
Umi ran into the next room and we followed. The room we came into was filled with meat hooks. A machine in the back had various body parts on a conveyer belt. The conveyer belt then went into a steel box. Human organs were strewn about the place. Blood spots cover the floor and walls. We took two steps into the room.
"Unauthorized entry detected," A robotic voice said, "Activating defenses."
The conveyer belt began to spin and the body parts went into the steel box. A few seconds later a malformed human came out. The conveyer belt continued its speedy production of these things.
"How are we going to get past this?" Kyoto asked.
"I have an idea," Calvin said as he pointed to one of the gears on the machine. He then took out a grenade. "If I can get close enough to one of those gears I can toss this baby in there and blow it sky high!"
"Or you could just throw the grenade at an eighty-five degree angle, but then again, that doesn't take your velocity into account…Hmm, maybe just stuffing it in there would be a good idea," Fudge contemplated
"Sweet! I'm in the mood for fireworks!" Nashi cheered.
"Well then let's clear the way for Calvin!" I said, "Come on guys, let's do this LEEEEEROOOOOY JJEEEENKKIIINNNS!"
"Not that again," Umi laughed.
I rushed toward the horde of malformed humans and proceeded to punch one in the chest. It was surprisingly squishy and my hand easily made it all the way through the malformed human's body. I pulled my hand out and let the thing fall to the ground. Another "human" came to me and I roundhouse kicked its head off.
"My turn!" Nashi said as she ran up to a "human". She swung her hammer like a baseball bat and knocked the head off of the malformed human, which proceeded to splatter against the wall. "Home run!"
Kyoto was next to jump in. She swung her bamboo staff wildly, killing most of the fragile malformed humans. She then jabbed one in the stomach with her staff. As Kyoto pulled her staff out of the human she cringed.
"Not a fan of blood huh?" Umi asked.
"No ma'am!" Kyoto exclaimed.
A malformed human leapt out of nowhere and pinned Kyoto to the ground.
"Get off her!" Lisa yelled and used her Sour Lemon Howl on the creature, it was sent into a wall by the sound waves. The collision with the wall caused the creature to burst.
"I think I'll call that one Hunter," Lisa chuckled
"Hunter?" Kyoto asked. "Why Hunter?"
"Oh, no reason," Lisa said.
Calvin laughed as a "human" girl with abnormally long fingernails lurched towards him. The girl tried to rip his flesh off but he shot her in the face. The girl's head exploded and she fell to the ground. "And I'll call that one Witch"
Lisa laughed at Calvin's little joke. After more fighting, Calvin finally got to the machine. He took the pin out from his grenade and stuck it into the gears of the machine. Calvin tired to run away from the grenade before it exploded but was tackled by a malformed human.
"Calvin!" Abbie exclaimed, "Grab onto the spear!" She took the wolf tooth off her necklace, which turned into a spear, "Ribbon Truffle Strike!" She exclaimed as she hurled the spear at the ground in front of Calvin. Calvin grabbed the spear and caught a ride toward Abbie. When Calvin, and the spear, reached Abbie, they were knocked to the ground, their lips touching one another. Calvin blushed as he kissed Abbie, who blushed as well before kissing him back. The grenade went off and the machine was blown to bits. We cleaned up the rest of the malformed humans while Calvin and Abbie continued their kiss. When they parted, they were both blushing like mad.
"You're a great kisser" Calvin said, shyly, as he helped her to her feet.
"Thanks…you too" Abbie stumbled over in her words of embarrassment.
"Touching!" the disembodied voice laughed "Too bad you all will become nothing but parts in the machine of change"
"Who says we are!" Calvin snapped
A double door on the far left wall of the room slowly creaked open.
"I see that I have no choice but to finish you off myself! Come, Cleaver must taste your fresh, warm blood."
"Come on!" Umi yelled and ran in the door. We followed her to the next room, which was a steel coliseum. As we all stepped into the area, the middle of the floor opened. A man with pitch black eyes, white skin, and long blonde hair was hoisted onto the center floor. He wore blood red armor and had various spots of blood on his face. He was wielding two huge meat cleavers, one in each hand.
"Fresh, Warm blood," the man laughed, "Cleaver has not tasted that in so long!"
Cleaver let out a howl of laughter and charged at us. We scattered and Tiramisu took out her violin.
"Ribbon Tiramisu Rebound!" she said as she played a long, consistent high pitched-note. Cleaver covered his ears and we heard something pop.
"There go my audio receptors!" Cleaver grinned, "I didn't need them anyways!"
Cleaver ran up to Tiramisu and tried to slice her head off. She ducked and kicked him in the ribs.
"Yes! Fight more! It makes the blood pump faster!" Cleaver cackled manically.
Cleaver tried to chop Tiramisu's arm off, and would have succeeded if it had not been for Lavender.
"Ribbon Lavender Shot!" Lavender said as she shot a heart shaped pellet at Cleaver. The pellet whacked Cleaver in the head. Cleaver stumbled a bit and gave Tiramisu time to get away.
"Ribbon Peach Blossom!" Momo exclaimed as she shot an orange, flower shaped, fireball at Cleaver. Cleaver used one of his weapons to block the blow. Unfortunately for him, this caused the weapon to melt.
"How dare you destroy one of my pretties!" Cleaver roared in anger. He bull rushed Momo and knocked her to the ground. He was about to drive his cleaver into her chest when a cold wind swarmed around my fist. I ran up him.
"Siberian," I said and punched him in the stomach and followed with an uppercut to his jaw; the sound of cracking molars echo throughout the coliseum. "Uppercut!" I yelled as I rose into the air, a cold wind enveloping me. Cleaver flew a few feet into the air before hitting the ground. I landed next to him. "Don't you even DARE think about killing my girlfriend!"
Cleaver got up "Oh she's your girlfriend huh?" he laughed and then grabbed me by the neck "Then she won't mind if I make her single again, will she?" Cleaver readied his weapon and laughed with glee at the thought of slicing me in two.
"Get away from him!" I heard another familiar voice say, and looked up to see a girl with a yellow dress and dragonfly wings say, "Ribbon Lemonade Upper!" The girl did and uppercut. As she did, a tornado appeared in front of her and sucked Cleaver into it. The tornado launched Cleaver into the air.
"Sweet!" Nashi said. "Time for me to work my magic!" She then pulled out her hammer. "Ribbon Nashi Slam!" she said as she landed a blow to Cleaver's stomach, causing his armor to split open, revealing that his insides were composed of both organic and robotic parts. "Oh my gosh…it's the Terminator!"
"How would you know what that is?" Calvin asked
"I saw the movie on a T.V. in a store window"
"Ah."
"Yeah."
Cleaver laughed, "Why thank you for putting me in the same league as an Austrian bodybuilder." Cleaver got up and ran towards Nashi, who smacked him upside the head.
"Care to do anything Fudge?" Nashi said
Fudge held her egg shakers above her head. "Ribbon Fudge Quake!" she said as her egg shakers began to vibrate, slowly as first, but they soon picked up speed and pink sparks began to fly out from them. A flash of light engulfed the room. We heard a popping noise.
"Ah my eyes!" Cleaver screamed
"Alright you all, time to finish him off!" I said, "Everyone who can launch a projectile, do so, on the count of three." I ordered and then counted, "One, Two, Three! Siberian Cannon!"
I launched a blue fireball at the Cleaver, Momo, Lavender, Umi, Calvin, Abbie, and Lisa joined in. Our attacks melded together and became one multicolored energy ball.
"No! I was supposed to be invincible!" Cleaver screamed as the energy ball engulfed him. When the attack cleared, nothing but a pile of ash was left of Cleaver. A door in the back of the coliseum opened, letting non-artificial light shine in.
"We did it!" Kyoto cheered.
"Oh yeah!" Calvin said with a victory fist pump "Adrian, give me a bro fist!"
Calvin and I bumped knuckles. The girl with the yellow dress and dragonfly wings ran up and hugged me.
"Adrian! I missed you!" she said.
"I missed you too Aki," I laughed "How did you get in here though?"
"I came in here with Umi, I just didn't want to make my presence known yet."
"Fair enough," I said. "Now let's all go get ice cream to celebrate the return of Aki and Umi!"