3/17/16 All chapters are being revised and edited. Expect new chapters by next week!

Careful Blues

The hostess stared on at the actions of Princess Morbucks, "Sara..., what is she doing?"

Miss Bellum paused, attentive to Princess' every move and addressed the guards behind her, "Boys, now is the time to be prepared,"

"Oh, boys, you better prepare yourselves," Princess grinned, "Because this is a little weapon I won't be afraid to use to the fullest,"

"There's no need for this, Princess,"

Princess eyed Miss Bellum from head to toe, "How about I give you one last try? Where is the Mayor?"

The hostess, now gripping onto the flesh of a guard's arm beneath his sleeve, shook at the menacing expression of Princess Morbucks. She switched to Princess and Sara, realizing that Sara had no plans on changing her mind to reveal the Mayor's location. The guards, upon hearing the refusal, steadied their hands over their guns. Princess was more than ready for their triggering reactions.

"If you don't want to give me what I want, I'll just have to return the favor," Princess' arm shot up, her finger pressing with force on the trigger.

A guard jumped forward, snaking his arm around Miss Bellum's waist to pull her out of death's way. The sound of a bullet came flying toward Princess' laser, disintegrating once it connected. With Miss Bellum shielded behind the guard's body, the laser tore through his tie, dress shirt, and into his chest. Miss Bellum felt the rough hold of his protecting arm loosen as he fell to the ground.

By now, the guards withdrew their guns to stand in brave positions before Miss Bellum and the hostess. Princess snickered at their dedication to hide the Mayor. They were now participating in playing it the hard way, and for Princess the hard way was always the better choice.

"Must you risk your lives for such a pathetic politician?" she paced from left to right, "And what are your inferior weapons going to do against my superior laser gun? I mean, you did just witness the power of your bullets versus the fatality of my laser,"

"You!" the hostess shot forward, a shaky finger pointing deadly to Princess' outline, "You are the reason our Mayor is in such a threatening situation! You must be working for those men!"

"Men?" Princess had needed not one second to comprehend the identities of the men. She smirked widely, now more interested in Mojo's orders and plans rather than the drive to save her father. She wasn't about to give reason for the hostess to think otherwise, "They want to end this little war and in order to do so, they sent me to talk with the Mayor,"

"They...did?"

"Yes, and if you want to save Townsville—our home—you'd do the right thing and tell me where he is,"

"Mary, don't," Miss Bellum spoke to the hostess, "She's lying, she's manipulating you for the information she needs! Those boys attacked the girls!"

"Sara—"

Princess spoke with hissing sincerety, "They attacked the girls because they immediately took them for threats instead of possible allies! They've changed, Mary, and they just want peace!"

"Mary, those boys would never want peace! They would never want anything other than to destroy this city!"

Mary, the torn hostess, turned to Miss Bellum with sparkling orbs. Miss Bellum stared on sternly with an expression obscured to Princess, but before Miss Bellum could believe Mary had come to the right choice, she turned to allow a faithful glance to Princess, "The Mayor is in the underground—"

"No!"

"Quiet!" Princess snapped, jolting her laser gun to Miss Bellum's direction.

The out lash started the standing guards into action. Two aimed at Princess while the last two risked their lives for Miss Bellum's safety. The laser proved to be quicker than the two guards, but Princess' laser had missed a clean hit at Miss Bellum as it sliced past the skin of her arm. She yelled in pain at the deep wound as two bullets struck Princess' arm and shoulder.

Their force managed to knock her off balance and send her to the ground. Rushing to Miss Bellum's side, Mary cried on her knees. She hadn't been a citizen of Townsville long enough to know of the true reputation of Princess Morbucks: manipulating and greedy. The tiny, crucial information she had the time to reveal to Princess would now threaten the Mayor even more than the presence of the matured Rowdyruff Boys.

Mary's cries caused Princess to throw a tantrum on the floor, "You worthless hag!"

Under the impression that Princess was subdued, the guards turned their backs to assist Miss Bellum, only to be awed shortly after at the painful inhalation of Mary's last breath. Princess had lifted her head to fire a laser to Mary's sobbing back. This time, she made a clean hit and the laser buried into her back, heating up to a deadly temperature, burning her insides. Her cries suddenly silenced and her dead body weight fell forward.

Each guard shot up to their feet but would be no match to the infuriated Princess. Having taken out her flying boots and strapped them on, Princess now flew about in the air, releasing her tantrum with a deadly weapon in her hand. She never lifted her finger off the trigger as she fired at her suited targets. Not receiving the information she needed had finally given her the stress to rage. Her father, her gifting daddy who's death would mean the end to her spoiled riches, was going to be saved to whatever extent Princess would face.

"Miss Bellum—watch out!"

The guard protected Miss Bellum from the laser's pathway by jumping off his feet to use himself as a human shield. The loyal guard arched his back upon contact with the laser. Shocked, Miss Bellum witnessed the guard fall to his death protecting her. She crawled to his side and reached out a hand over his. Just days before, the man, who belonged to a wife and two children, was employed to ensure of the Mayor's secret hide out. His heroics would forever be remembered in Miss Bellum's memory.

Princess landed near Miss Bellum, yielding her laser gun as she chuckled darkly at the scene. More guards would have jumped to separate Miss Bellum from the deadly Morbucks heiress if they hadn't already died doing so. Around the two females lay the lifeless bodies of the guards and the hostess. They had all willingly sacrificed themselves to protect the beautiful secretary who's beauty became deformed with fear of defeat.

"Is this enough to let you know how important my business affairs are?"

"How..How could you do this to innocent people?"

"Innocent?" Princess suddenly pressed the tip of the laser gun beneath Miss Bellum's chin, "Now you listen to me. You will tell me where, exactly, underground the Mayor is or I will blast your head clean off your perfect body."

Miss Bellum, in the face of the one whose action deciphered the fate to her own life, responded with a brave tongue, "Never."

The Professor's smile, a smile she felt special laying eyes upon, faded into her mind. His accidental creations grew into gorgeous blessings to not only his lonesome self, but to every citizen in Townsville. Miss Bellum, the beautiful secretary, had no regrets for the choices she made in meeting, loving, and dying for the scientist and his beloved daughters. Not even the heat of the laser piercing through her skin could force upon unbearable pain as a last smile graced her returning beauty.

Will Princess find the Mayor?