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Season Three Episode Eleven: "Fullmetal Alchemy" Chapter Two
Watching Alchemy flee, Elyon's heart sank. Before she could give chase her attention was drawn to the sounds of Garix regaining his footing. She turned to him. "So help me, if you've cost me one of my best friends, you will regret it in every way I can think of."
Garix simply laughed. "You'll lose this friend anyway, when I kill her. Don't stay too attached to your parents either."
The young Queen tried to focus. "He wants you angry." she thought to herself. "He's after negative emotions. Shut it down." But though she tried, she couldn't succeed. Alchemy was vulnerable now. And her parents. How had it escaped her realization that they knew and were therefore acceptable targets to Neera? "C'mon girls… Get here fast…" she thought.
Will and Susan hadn't been back on earth ten minutes when Elyon's distress call came through. "Uh-oh. Mom, Gotta go! Elyon's in trouble!"
"Be careful!" Susan shouted after her daughter, but Will was already gone, having teletransported to the park.
Will arrived at the park and sent out a request for updates. All five of the other girls were also here now. Elyon sent them her location. Moments later, they all converged behind the Queen, facing off against Garix. Will held out the Heart. "Guardians, Unite!"
Alchemy ran in a blind panic for several minutes. As her legs grew tired, she slowed, and with a slower pace she was able to think more clearly. Finally she stopped and leaned against a large tree. "What was that?" she wondered. "That monster was horrible. And Elyon… How did she… What is she?"
The poor girl was now on the verge of tears. She had known Elyon her whole life. Considered her to be her best friend. Still felt that way, in point of fact. Yet clearly Elyon had been hiding something huge from her. "What else don't I know?" she wondered. "I've always been her friend. Was she just putting me on while being someone, maybe something, else?"
Another thought occurred to her. "What am I going to do? Even now I don't really think Elyon would hurt me. But that feeling comes from what I thought I knew about her, and that's not true. What if she comes after me? What if that monster comes after me?"
Alchemy decided that she couldn't go home. Hopefully her parents would be safe from Elyon, if the girl really was a danger, without her there. And surely the monster didn't know where she lived. After resting a few more minutes, she got up and continued to put more distance between herself and the park center.
Varthan. A worried Aljax entered the throne room and bowed. Queen Neera emerged from the darkness in the corners, huge and horrible. "Rise and speak Aljax."
Aljax stood. "My Queen, I think we may have a dangerous situation forming. You recall how upset Prince Garix was yesterday, when we discovered we were still short one percent of the data we need?"
"Yes. I thought I had corrected him."
"As did I, Dark Queen. However, I have just discovered that two hours ago the Prince entered the palace armory and never came back out. When the armory guard investigated, the Prince was nowhere to be found and a portable scanner was missing. I fear Prince Garix may be…" Aljax stopped short of saying it.
"May be doing something stupid." Neera finished the sentence. "You could have said it Aljax. I do not punish subordinates for the truth. Come, let us find him and see what transpires." Neera opened a window to find and observe Garix…
Earth. Garix charged again at Elyon, who blinded him with a sharp pulse of light. Will, still not fully recovered from the previous day's battle with Cthulu, tried to shock him with lightning bolts, but couldn't muster the strength. Cornelia and Taranee tried a combination attack. Cornelia made the ground beneath Garix rise up and entomb him, then before he could break free Taranee melted it. Hay Lin stepped in and rapidly cooled the molten mass, creating a solid sphere of iron.
"Nice work." Irma said. "How long you figure it'll hold him?"
As cracks began to spread in the metal, Taranee said "Not long enough."
With a sound of fracturing metal, the iron sphere shattered from around Garix. He confirmed the scanner was online. Charged Taranee. As Garix made his newest attack run, Elyon had a sudden thought. She didn't know where it came from, it just felt like intuition. She charged up a pair of light energy spheres in each hand, but this time she created them out of phase with each other. With a shout she sent both streams of energy at Garix. When they struck, the results were not what anyone expected. Conflicting energy states collided and interacted. The lows cancelled each other out, but the high points of the patterns reinforced each other. Garix suddenly found himself at the center of an explosion comparable to the power of a small fission bomb, though contained within a small radius.
Thrown backwards, Garix was shocked by what Elyon had pulled off. He chose to retreat and reassess how to proceed. Fortunately, his transit crystal had also survived. He hurriedly returned to Varthan.
Elyon found herself surrounded by the other Guardians, congratulating her and asking just what she had done. "I'm not really sure what I did." she confessed. "It just occurred to me. But that doesn't matter, guys, Alchemy saw Garix. Garix and my powers. She got scared and ran away."
"We've got to find her." Cornelia said.
"Yeah, Garix could be going after her right now." Hay Lin agreed.
Will returned the Guardians to normal. "Split up, and call everyone who knows to help search. We'll meet back at my place in two hours and regroup if we don't have her by then."
Cassidy and Miranda were watching 'Vertigo' when Miranda's phone rang. She took the call, and Cass stopped the film when she saw the look on the younger girl's face. "What's wrong?" she asked when Miranda hung up.
"That was Elyon. Garix showed up, Alchemy saw Elyon use her powers. Now Alchemy's running scared from both of them. Cassidy, I'm sorry, I know it's past curfew for me, but I've got to go… She's my friend…"
"We'll both go. C'mon."