Chapter 3
2 hours before lab explosion
In the centre of a stone blood-splattered room, a frame that certainly wasn't made from carpenter's bocks seemingly built itself and glowed blue in a strange swirly pattern. Once the blue light had faded, a man wearing a blood-splattered lab coat with long blonde hair tied back in a ponytail, and a woman who was almost completely covered in purple taint appeared.
"Damn those fuck buddies!" roared the man, "They forced us to use the time-gate before it was completed which has knocked us off course!"
"It could be worse, boss. We could have ended up somewhere random in all of time and space," pointed out Specimen 5.
"I suppose you're right, 5. At least we're back in the lab, and have access to a time gate," He agreed, "Once I change the co-ordinates to somewhere else, we can go get our revenge."
"Ooh! I call dibs on my original!" squealed 5.
"I want to experiment on her first, but once I'm done you can do as you wish with her," said Lalnable.
"Aw!" complained 5, "You ruin all my fun!"
"Enough complaining, 5! Go grab some cable and a tesseract so that we can make that time-gate permanent," commanded Lalnable, "And make sure you aren't seen because you'll mess up the space-time continuum," he added.
"Yeah boss, Sure thing boss," said 5 sarcastically.
"Stupid boss...Ruins all my fun...forces me to do everything..." Grumbled 5 as she strolled through the corridors of Lalnable-labs.
Eventually, Specimen 5 entered the pointlessly large room and then spent 10 minutes looking for the access terminal which been hidden for no other reason than that Lalnable thought that by making everything intricate and complex (His exact words) the labs would look more scientific. By the time Lalnable had realised how awkward it was to get to anything, the room had been built.
Once 5 had found the terminal, she grabbed the three stacks of universal cable and a tesseract.
"I'm not coming back here" she muttered as she pulled out a wireless access terminal.
Back at the time-gate, Lalnable was tinkering with the blocks, achieving nothing.
"If I can just access the co-ordinates history, then I can change its current co-ordinates to one of the practice ones," he mumbled.
"They can't be as bad as your internet history," commented 5.
"Ah, 5. You're back. Do you have everything we need?"
"Yep, plus this!" said 5 holding out the WAT (Wireless access terminal).
"Good job, 5. Now hook the tesseract up to our main power supply, and then connect the cable to the time-gate," ordered Lalnable.
"Why do you always get to give thee orders?" complained 5.
"Because I'm your mother and your father," said Lalnable, "Now do as I say."
Specimen 5 rolled her eyes and groaned as she set to work on making an intricate looking power system that actually did nothing. Lalnable fiddled with the blocks on the time-gate and waited an appropriate amount of time until it seemed that it was okay to continue the story.
"Interesting," he muttered.
"What's up, boss?" asked Specimen 5.
"It seems that when we teleported, we were sent to two locations at once,"
"What does that mean, boss?"
"It means that there is another version of each of us somewhere out there," explained Lalnable.
"There can't be another me!" complained 5, "I'm original and unique and stuff!"
"Well you're a clone, so not really," said Lalnable, "What it does mean though is that we'll be causing twice as much havoc as usual."
"Well I do love havoc," said 5.
"Is the cable all connected?" asked Lalnable.
"Well, conveniently it is," answered 5.
"Well, conveniently it is," answered 5.
"Then I'll recalibrate the time-gate and we'll be off," said Lalnable, unable to contain the excitement in his voice.
"Let's go kill us some Fuck-buddies!" cried Specimen 5.
"Our first target shall be that Moustache-man who helped them defeat our army. But first, I'm going to pick up a few special somethings to take him down faster,"
"Boss, I have an idea! How about we grab our gear? It won't interfere with the space-time thingy because we never grabbed them before," suggested 5.
"Well, that was part of my plan," said Lalnable, "But I'm also going to take my more powerful army this time."
"I'll go get everything while you sort out the time-gate," said 5.
"We're going to get them this time!" exclaimed Lalnable as he broke into his evil laugh.
36 minutes before lab explosion.
Just a small distance away from where the Flux-Buddies were battling a clone army, a new time-gate appeared with a vibrant blue glow. Once the glow faded, the Flux-Baddies were revealed. Ready with their even more powerful clone army, they waited for the Flux-Buddies to finish talking with Sjin and the vampires before placing the clones down.
"Stay here, 5," said Lalnable as he quickly guzzled down a potion of swiftness and took to the air.
Specimen 5 stood around for a while, watching the fight, before getting bored and deciding to interrupt the fight.
"Boss!" she called, "is it safe now?"
"Yes, Specimen 5," replied Lalnable.
"Can I have an actual name? Specimen 5 or just 'five' is so boring," complained 5 as she flew nearer.
"Whatever, I don't care. Do whatever you want. Just don't expect me to remember it," he sighed.
"Humph," she huffed, "It's boring here. I'm going to play with the dinosaurs. Not that Oberon can stop me now,"
"Why? What did you do to Oberon?" Sjin attempted to shout, but instead it was more of a croak.
"Irrelevant," stated Lalnable, "Five, go do whatever you want, just don't disturb me,"
"Yippee!" Specimen 5 Cheered.
Specimen 5 took to the air and flew towards the DruidZ base.
As she drew nearer, all of the DruidZ dinosaurs came into view.
"Hey guys!" she called. The dinosaurs didn't respond they just stood about, eating from the feeders which Specimen 5 had been filling up as she visited.
"Heya, Scarf," she called.
Scarf moved away, terrified.
"Why are all you guys scared of me?" she asked.
Specimen 5 flew around the Spiney memorial reserve studying all the different dinosaurs.
"I should get boss to use this mod to make an ultra-fighting dinosaur,"
Specimen 5 flew around the DruidZ base, trying to get the dinosaurs attention until she noticed some movement. She landed and found some baby dinosaurs.
"They must have bred!" said Specimen 5 delighted.
She ran to a baby triceratops, picked it up and hugged it.
"You're so cute!" she squealed.
The baby had never seen anything like Specimen 5. Curious about the purple goo that covered his new friend, he licked her face. The moment that the flux touched his tongue, the triceratops began to cough and splutter.
Specimen suddenly descended into hysterics. "Flux tastes awful, doesn't it? I once tried to eat a tainted pig, but he didn't taste so good."
Specimen 5 put the triceratops back down and watched with fascination as it ate, played with the other baby dinosaurs, and just stood about.
Eventually, 5 grew bored and decided to try hitting some of the young dinosaurs with her sword. As expected they all died after one hit.
"You're all so weak," she stated plainly.
Specimen 5 took to the air once again and flew across the world looking for anything even vaguely interesting until she came across a rectangular building. She landed just a little bit away from it. 5 walked closer until she heard voices.
"You call yourselves Time Cops?" snapped the first voice. 5 noticed how similar it sounded to her own.
"We've never taken on major big bad dudes, and most of the time we have to let them go because it causes huge disturbances in time," argued a second voice.
Specimen 5 sneaked as close as she dared. She saw four people: the guy that Specimen 5 had just seen Lalnable fighting, the Fluxed one and two Lalnable clones. They appeared to be placing arms assistants all around the building.
"Jackpot!" she blurted out in a not so subtle manner.
Kim looked straight in Specimen 5's direction. However, 5 had managed to hide behind a tree quickly enough for Kim not to see her.
"Kim?" asked a Duncan.
"I thought I heard something," she replied, straining to see Specimen 5.
"It's probably nothing," said the other Duncan, waving it off.
Specimen 5 shot into the air and gave her loudest evil laugh.
"Oh yeah, it's definitely nothing!" she mocked, "Just little old me!"
"Shit!" cursed Sjin, "And I thought Kim was ugly!"
"I'm right here!" Kim butted in.
"Now that's just insulting to both of us!" retorted 5, now getting closer.
"Take one step closer and these arms assistants will blow you out of the sky!" shouted TC-Duncan.
Specimen 5 stopped in her tracks.
"Oh, really?" she taunted.
"Yeah, really," confirmed F-Duncan.
"Well let's put that to the test," joked 5, continuing in her path towards them.
Once she was in range, the first few arms assistants reacted to her presence and began to fire. However, Specimen 5 quickly moved out of their line of fire.
"So you weren't kidding," she noted, "Enjoy life until I come back with boss." Specimen 5 flew away cackling in such a blood-curdling manner that even a coven of witches would be scared.
Specimen 5 flew away from the Time Cops base at top speed. The thought of finally getting to kill got so much adrenalin rushing through her that she might as well have been high. 5 was so excited that she kept slamming into trees. Despite this, she felt no pain. This was how Lalnable had intended her to be: Ruthless, sadistic, and above all she was to be evil.
Eventually, Specimen saw two figures in the sky: The moustache-man and her boss: Lalnable Hector. They appeared to be in mid-fight again. 5 knew that Lalnable wouldn't be happy to have been interrupted twice. However, she also knew that Lalnable would quickly forget about the fight once she told him that she knew the location of the fuck buddies.
"Hey, boss!" greeted Specimen 5.
"What is it now, 5?" asked demanded Hector, clearly irritated at being interrupted again.
"I know where the Flux buddies are!" she exclaimed proudly.
"Perfect! Good job 5," complimented Lalnable, "Let's get our stuff and prepare for the slaughter,"
Specimen 5 childishly clapped her hands and giggled, "I can't wait! I hope they put up a nice fight, killing villagers does get boring after a while!"
Lalnable turned from Specimen 5 to face Sjin and said: "Well, you disappointed me, Sjin. I hoped buttering you up with bullshit comments about Ancient Warfare would persuade you to help me. 5 do whatever you want with him, and then meet me back at the base."
"Hey! Come back!" yelled Sjin, as Lalnable flew away.
"Ooh! I can't wait to have fun with you!" giggled Specimen 5, "I won't need to use my good weapon, so I'll use my soy sword."
Before Sjin could react, Specimen 5 pulled out a sword and lunged at Sjin. Luckily, he managed to block with his own sword before she could hit him.
"Play fair!" grumbled 5.
"You're trying to kill me! Why would I let you hit me?" argued Sjin.
"STAB!" screamed Specimen 5, as she stabbed Sjin with her sword.
Sjin gasped and heaved as he fought for breath. Specimen 5 felt his entire weight suddenly press against her blade as Sjin's wings failed and gravity once again had its hold on him. Specimen 5 didn't want to hold his weight in the air, so she pulled the translucent blade out of his chest. Sjin fell to the ground. As he bled, Sjin was quickly laying in a pool of his own blood. He continued to cough and spit up blood as Specimen 5 watched and laughed at his agony.
"Oh, wow! You bleed a lot!" she noted as she descended to the ground, "Boss will love this."
Specimen 5 knelt down and filled some glass bottles with Sjin's blood.
"Mmm...Tasty!" Specimen 5 said as she licked the blood off her hand.
"You...Bitch..." croaked Sjin.
Specimen 5 laughed at him and just flew away to join Lalnable.
"Is he dead?" asked Lalnable.
"I left him dying in a pool of his own blood," giggled 5, "Speaking of which, look at these!" Specimen 5 produced 3 glass bottles of Sjin's blood.
"I'll be able to make another good quality clone with that," said Lalnable taking the samples and stashing them in his inventory, "Good job, 5."
"But you already have me," said 5.
"Two clones are better than one," said Lalnable, "Now, show me where the flux buddies are," he demanded.
"Sure thing, boss," complied Specimen 5.
5 checked her minimap, and flew back towards where she had found the flux buddies.
"Oh yeah, I forgot. One more thing, boss," said 5, "There was another you, and another version of that guy we just killed."
"That's some good news," said Lalnable, "It means that there's more to kill!"
The flux baddies broke into another evil laugh.
"We're not killing the evil laugh, are we?" asked 5.
"Of course not," said Lalnable.
The Time Cops HQ came into view, along with the arms assistants.
"How cute; they think that arms assistants will stop us," chuckled Lalnable.
"Oh, what ever will we do?" asked Specimen 5 sarcastically.
Lalnable pulled out his draconic evolution bow, set it to explosive mode and knocked an arrow.
"Ooh! I like big boom!" giggled 5.
Lalnable fired multiple arrows. As soon as they hit their targets, they exploded, taking out the front of the Time Cops base and the surrounding landscape.
Lalnable and Specimen 5 flew towards the start of their trail of destruction. The arrows had taken out the front of the base, but hadn't really done much damage elsewhere.
Kim, Sjin, and the two Duncans were inside the HQ at the time Lalnable fired his arrows.
"They're here!" shouted F-Duncan.
"Well, no shit!" retorted Kim.
"What do we do?" asked Sjin.
"We hide in your storage room and let the do their job. Once Lalnable destroys them, we rush out and take them by surprise," said Kim.
"That's a shit plan," said F-Duncan.
"You got a better plan?" asked Kim.
F-Duncan went quiet.
"Yeah, I thought so,"
The four ran into the storage room and pulled out their weapons to be ready for the inevitable battle.
Sjin turned to TC-Duncan.
"You got the you-know-what?" he asked.
"The what?" asked TC-Duncan.
"The Mine carts!" hissed Sjin.
"Yeah," whispered TC-Duncan.
"Shush!" hushed Kim, who was unaware of what the Time Cops had just said.
Back outside, the flux baddies were just entering the Time Cops HQ.
"Not a bad place," commented Lalnable as he entered through the hole he had just created.
Almost the second that Lalnable and Specimen 5 had set foot in the base, the arms assistants inside began firing at them.
"So sad," he said, raising his bow once more and firing five arrows, taking out the arms assistants.
"Your efforts were puny and in vain," he added.
"Like Hell they were!" shouted Kim as she ran out of the storage room and towards Lalnable. She swung her soy-sword at him, but was blocked by Specimen 5 with a soy-sword of her own.
"Nu-uh! You're mine!" she said.
During the commotion, F-Duncan had positioned himself just next to the time-gate with his bow. Kim pushed Specimen 5 away from Lalnable, giving Duncan a clear shot of Lalnable. He fired. The arrow whistled through the air and hit Lalnable square in the chest.
Lalnable stumbled back, growled, pulled out his staff and lunged at Duncan. The staff hit, causing Duncan to be pushed back a few blocks. Fortunately, His armour had stopped most of the damage.
Kim and Specimen 5's fight was still going strong. They slashed, parried, and blocked.
"I can't wait to kill you!" laughed 5, "Boss wants to capture you and do his crazy experiments on you first, but once he's finished I'll have you all to myself!"
If anything could have been seen in Specimen 5's tainted eyes, it would have been madness.
"You're crazy!" shouted Kim.
"Maybe I am. But I'm a clone of you, so by that logic you're insane as well!" howled Specimen 5.
"I'm sane! I'm amazed that I am despite spending so much time around Duncan, but I'm sane!" argued Kim.
"I'm not so sure," taunted 5.
"Why not?" asked Kim, blocking another of 5's attacks.
"Because you put your faith in those two!" shouted 5 pointing at the other side of the Time gate.
Sjin and TC-Duncan were in mine carts, and had just activated the portal. The Time Cops disappeared in a blue glow.
"Sjin, you coward!" screamed Kim.
"Yep, that's me!" shouted Sjin in response over the clickity-clack of the mine carts on the blaze-rod tracks.
The Time Cops had fled through time and space. The blue glow of the portal disappeared, leaving Kim staring at the tracks where the cowards had made their escape. She forgot about her duel with Specimen 5 until a purple hand punched her in the face, knocking her of her feet.
"Whoops!" laughed 5, "They're not very good friends are they?"
"Sorry, Kim," apologised SQUIB, "Sjin learned how to manually input co-ordinates."
The fleeing of the Time Cops hadn't distracted F-Duncan; the one who was (sort of) loyal to Kim. He was still fighting Lalnable, and had him pinned against the front of the Time gate. Duncan was trying to hit Lalnable with his staff, but Lalnable was pushing back with his own.
Just as Lalnable was about to break free, the Time gate began to glow.
"Now, Duncan!" shouted SQUIB.
Duncan pulled back in his struggle against Lalnable, and hit the evil scientist on the shoulder. Lalnable lost his footing. Duncan took his window of opportunity and shoved Lalnable into the portal. Just before Duncan could relax, Lalnable's hand grabbed Duncan by the collar of his lab coat. Lalnable pulled Duncan into the portal. Duncan couldn't do anything to stop him.
"Kim!" he pleaded.
Kim punched Specimen 5 just below the ribcage, knocking the wind out of her. While 5 was staggering, Kim ran over to Duncan and used her sword to cut off Lalnable's hand.
"Oh my God, Duncan!" gasped Kim.
"Cool! Severed hand!" said Duncan picking up the severed hand of Lalnable Hector.
"I'm not even going to ask what you're keeping that for," said Kim.
"Forget about someone?" said a voice.
"No, Kim. I didn't forget about you," said Duncan.
Specimen 5 lifted her sword over her head and tried to bring it down on Kim, but Duncan pushed Kim out of the way and took the hit. Specimen 5 continued to swing at Duncan, but her hits had no effect due to his armour. Once she finally realised that her hits were doing nothing, she pulled out the lightning red that she had retrieved from an arms assistant and fired it at Duncan. The hit did no damage, but the knockback was enough to push him into the portal.
Kim came from behind and stabbed Specimen 5 through the stomach.
"Hee…hee!" 5 gasped, as she fell to the floor.
"SQUIB, where did Duncan go?" asked Kim.
"To the end of the server's life," answered SQUIB.
Specimen 5 continued to laugh in between wheezing.
"What's so funny?" demanded Kim.
Specimen 5 gave no answer, but just continued to wheeze and giggle.
"You're about to die, and yet you're still giggling like a madwoman," said Kim.
"But I have won…" taunted 5, "I caused destruction and mayhem." She tried to break into an evil laugh, but instead broke into a coughing fit.
"I was going to die anyway," she added holding up her left hand. The purple goo that surrounded it had dried out, and was crumbling away. It turned out that there was no underneath of the flux; her entire hand was flux.
Just before the flux baddies had left the lab to kill Sjin.
"5, I have some bad news," said Lalnable.
"What is it boss? Can we not kill the flux buddies?" she asked panicked.
"No, it's not that. The Time gate couldn't differentiate between you and the flux taint. So most of your body parts have been completely replaced with flux," explained Lalnable.
"I feel fine, so what's the problem?" asked 5.
"Being a clone that was born with the flux, your body is completely reliant on it. I mentioned before that there may be negative side effects if you are exposed to the radiation of the Time gate,"
"Something like that," butted in 5.
"If you are exposed to that radiation frequently or for an extended period of time, your flux will die and by extension, you will die also," said Lalnable.
"Then let's not use the Time-gate before we kill the fuck buddies," said 5.
"See, Kim. The extended exposure to the radiation is going to kill us both," cackled 5 taking one last shot at Kim.
Specimen 5 continued to laugh and cough until she was nothing more than a pile of dried of flux and skin.
Kim stared at the blue portal.
"You can still go in and rescue him. There's still time," said SQUIB.
"Then I'm going in," said Kim, "When the two cowards get back, tell them that Lalnable and 5 are alive and are coming for them."
"Hurry, there isn't much energy left," Squib urged.
Kim stepped into the portal, to the end of the server…
I only plan to write on more chapter after this one. I think I've done a pretty good job on this chapter. I'd love some feedback to improve my writing for the next chapter and future stories. I have a few ideas for stories in the future, such as a few inspired by Nintendo games.