The Lost, The Stupid, & The Mummy
By BetterThingsToDo 28
Chapter Three: You Thought It!!
AlexiaGeminiPotter: Of course I gave you a gun silly, what kind of hero would you be without one!
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"Hello, I'm Amber and we just saved your mum." Amber said holding out her hand to Alex, who took it great fully.
"Alex. Thanks a million for rescuing her." Alex said genuinely.
"It was nothing. If it wasn't for Kaylee and her obsession with that place, we never would have met you guys."
Alex frowned, "I'm sorry."
"Why, I didn't mean it in a bad way." Amber waved her hand in the air nonchalantly, "I love a good adventure. It's not your fault."
Alex gave a uneasy glance around. "Right."
"Besides, it wasn't like you caused your mom to get kidnapped and almost toasted like a marshmallow."
"Um...I'm going to see how Uncle Jon's doing." Alex said quickly.
"Okay, bye." Amber said curiously. Then turned to Rick. "He's cute."
"Oh, thanks." Rick said looking out the back of the bus for danger.
"He's very handsome...like his father." Amber said.
"Th-" Rick turned around to stare at Amber. "Thank-you."
Amber blushed and quickly said, "I better go see how Evelyn's doing."
She's cute. Rick thought to himself before Naylor snapped him back to the current situation. "Hey we've got company!" Sure enough, four mummy guards came bursting through the way of the museum and started after the double-decker bus. "I told you they don't use doors Amber!"
"Well, excuse me!" Amber shot up to the second level where Naylor was taking aim at the pursuing mummies.
"You're excused." Naylor snapped back, before shooting at one. The bullet hit it's target with the greatest of ease. "Got him!"
But no sooner then he said those words, did that mummy get back to it's feet and start running again. "I think he's okay!" Amber shot mockingly to Naylor.
And before he could stop him self, "Well, excuse me Ms. Smartypants."
She looked up the staircase at him with a smirk on her face, "You're excused."
"You walked into that one." Rick had to admit.
"Hey, mummy at three o'clock." Naylor yelled.
Rick shot the attacking mummy and left him in pieces. He smiled at Amber, which was weird, cause he meant to smile at Evelyn. Suddenly there was a loud bang from the second level. "Naylor?"
"A little help guys!" Naylor shouted.
Amber rushed fore ward, but Rick caught her by the arm, "Stay here. I'll get him." And with that Rick disappeared upstairs to help out Naylor. Amber blushed as she turned around to face the others.
"Amber, look out!" Kaylee screamed.
The mummy that Rick had shot was just a severed torso now and was trying to drag Amber off the speeding bus. "Get off me!" She shrieked. Ardeth grabbed his machete and tried to slash at it's fleshy fingers without hitting Amber. Which was proving to be more difficult then it seemed. His seemed to have a death grip on Amber's ankle. So Ardeth did the only thing he could think of, with once quick swipe he cute off the mummy's arm. It's screaming body slid off the bus platform and rolled to a stop in the middle of the street.
"Ardeth, get it off me!" Amber begged. The mummy's wrist and hand had her ankle still in it's grasp.
Ardeth pried the fingers off her ankle and held the severed hand in his. "That wasn't so bad." Suddenly the fingers grew extremely long and sharp fingernails and swiped at Ardeth's chest. He screamed in pain as Kaylee ran over and threw the hand out the window.
"That doesn't count, he didn't say it couldn't get any worse!" Amber growled.
"Amber, he's hurt!" Evelyn screamed. "Rick!"
"Amber, go and help with Naylor." Kaylee whispered as she put pressure on his wound.
Amber nodded and dashed up to the second floor, to see the scene that had unfolded. The mummy had broken through the roof and tackled Rick. Naylor was on the mummy's back hitting it repeating with the butt of his gun. "Hey guys? Need a hand?" She shouted over the commotion.
"Nope." Rick grunted.
"We've got it!" Naylor said bashing in the mummy's fleshy skull.
"Are you sure?" Amber asked slightly unconvinced.
"Absolutely." They said together.
Amber nodded and headed back down to the lower level. "They don't need my help."
"Amber? What do you mean?" Kaylee demanded.
"They said they don't need my help." Amber repeated. "They're tuff guys. What could go wrong?"
"No Amber!" Kaylee said pushing down on Ardeth's wound a little harder then necessary.
"Ow..." Ardeth whimpered.
"Sorry!" Kaylee cooed.
"Heads up, Rick!" Jonathan shouted.
Everyone turned to the front of the bus to see a low tunnel approaching. Amber gasped realizing what she had said and dashed back up to the second level. "Naylor, Rick! Get down!"
Naylor was on the ground first, but Amber suddenly got the deer in the headlight look and Rick jumped on her as the roof of the bus was tore off along with the unprepared mummy.
"Oh, my God! Amber!" Kaylee screamed getting to her feet. She rushed to the staircase and looked up to see Amber under Ricks' protective body. "Thank God."
"You're telling me." Amber said breathlessly. "Rick you saved me."
"You're welcome." He said softly.
"I'm okay too, just so you know." Naylor said somewhere from the wreckage.
"I'm glad to hear it Naylor!" Amber said with a giggle. "Um, Rick. You can get off me now."
He blushed, "I wish I could. But I'm pinned under these stupid chairs."
Amber blushed even harder then he did, "Oh, I...see. Um, Kaylee!"
"What?" Kaylee reappeared at the bottom of the staircase. "Hey, Rick. You saved her, good for you. Now get off her."
"I can't." He said rolling his eyes.
"Um, okay. I'll just leave you two..." Kaylee said slowly turning around.
"Kaylee! We're stuck!" Amber clarified.
"Oh, well why didn't you just say so?"
"Hello, I'm stuck too!" Naylor shouted.
"Okay, we're going to stop in a second and we'll get you all unstuck." Kaylee winked.
The bus slowed to a stop on a nearby bridge and everyone assessed the damage. Kaylee and Alex stood outside the bus admiring the battle wounds they received...which was equivalent to a couple scraps and bruises. "How's it going mom?" Alex called.
"You're father's almost unstuck." Evelyn said over her shoulder.
Kaylee sighed and stretched her arms over her head, "Well this has been some vacation."
"I have a feeling we're not out of this yet." Alex whispered.
"Oh come on, Alex. What's the-" Kaylee started.
"DON'T!" Amber screamed.
"Oh yeah, sorry." Kaylee said apologetically. She smiled at the chuckling Alex. "Well you know."
Suddenly someone appeared from out of the shadows and snatched Alex's shoulder. "Let me go! Mom!"
"Alex!" Evelyn screamed.
"Get your hands off him!" Kaylee shouted pulling on one of the worshipers sleeve. "Alex!"
"Kaylee!" Amber yelled when a second worshiper appeared and struck Kaylee over the head. He drug her away with Alex into a near-by car. Amber squirmed under Rick's muscular body as he tried to do the same. But the way the chairs were crumpled, it was going to be nearly impossible for them to get out.
"Alex!" Evelyn shouted as she desperately ran after the car.
"No, Kaylee!" Amber screamed. Her eyes filled with tears as her body went limp with exhaustion. "What now?"
Rick was speechless, for so many reasons other then the sudden kidnapping of Alex and Kaylee.