Chapter 3- For whom the bell tolls...
It was a beautiful new day and the citizens of Fair city were enjoying it, going outside and having picnics and sunbathing. Going to the beach and swimming in the perfect temperature waters.
Meanwhile the Villains were huddled in their homes praying for night so that they could go find food.
WordGirl wished that she could help beyond trying to find Smallwood, but she didn't want the Mayor to convince people that she was evil and on their sides.
She could help no one if she was shot...
"Do you think I'm bullet proof?" she asked suddenly to her Monkey companion as he watched videos of Rowan Smallwood's old commercials.
He squeaked a few times then turned back, transfixed by the commercial, his mouth hanging open a little.
Becky sighed, "You're right, I'm not sure I want to find out anyways," she said as she pulled on her gloves.
The two had spent the night at the spaceship and had most likely scared the wits out of Becky's parents. She didn't care, this was too much.
"Hey Huggy is there anything new today?" the young girl asked softly.
The monkey didn't reply.
"Huggy!"
A few moments passed before he blinked at turned around, coming free from some sort of daze.
"Is there anything new on the morning news," repeated WordGirl. Huggy shrugged then pressed a button on the control panel.
"And that bat continued to fly in circles for the rest of the day... And now on to less hard hitting news."
The screen switched over to a picture of one of Tobey McCallistar's robots.
"Last night Theodore McCallistar created total destruction last night when one of his robots lost control. The young boy had been on its shoulder at the time holding on for dear life as it stormed through the town creating total destruction."
Pictures of the incident in question popped up next to the man.
"WordGirl was nowhere to be seen and so the Police were forced to shoot the robot until it collapsed, unfortunately the young boy did not survive the fall..."
The screen went black as Huggy turned it off, he looked infuriated.
Becky was staggering backwards, so now Tobey was dead? How...? How could she have not come?!
"How could I not hear that?!" she shouted to her Monkey companion.
Huggy shook his head, unsure of the answer. "It happened last night? What were we doing last..." she paused, then looked up at the screen with big eyes, "We were watching interviews of Smallwood!"
Huggy blinked at her then squeaked a few times.
"Huggy there is something wrong with this," WordGirl said, emotion filling her voice, "Smallwood had me completely tranced I couldn't even hear the Crime detector," she pointed to the large machine that sat on the far side of the room.
More squeaks.
"I don't know what we're going to do, but at least now I know that there's something wrong with Smallwood."
Huggy spoke again with humor in his voice in distinct contrast with the gloom that had settled on them. "True, we always knew that there was something off with him but this is different!"
Anger coursed through Becky, anger at Rowan Smallwood, anger at his followers and anger at herself. She let this happen, she should have stopped Tobey's Robot and she should have saved Lady Redundant Woman!
She clenched her teeth as she tried to process her emotions; she needed to do something now! But what? She couldn't attack Smallwood and she couldn't help the villains without losing her control over the public.
What could she do? Suddenly it hit her! "Huggy I think I know what's going on!" she said, "Mind control!"
Huggy cocked his head slightly as he considered it, then he nodded.
It made sense!
And yet it also didn't, none of the people were behaving differently, their eyes didn't change and when they spoke it still held its usual emotion.
"I could be wrong," WordGirl said hesitantly, "But I could also be right, and this is all I have so what should we do?" she asked her sidekick.
Huggy rubbed his chin thoughtfully then answered her with a clipped tone. WordGirl felt a shudder run down her spine, "You're right Huggy…We have to go back to Rowan Smallwood's office."
Sorry about the wait…I need to stop apologizing and just put these up more often. While I'm apologizing though, sorry about the length. The next chapter will be much longer I promise!
I'm sorry I killed Tobey, it was originally going to be The Birthday Girl\Eileen but I changed my mind at the last minute.
Again…Sorry!
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