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Chapter 15: Helpful Holden
The rain had lasted for two full days which gave Holden ample time to practice hand to hand combat. His sparring partner was mainly Buttercup, and who would, at times, taunt him on occasion to make him mess up and lose concentration. Buttercup was impressed that he was able to keep up with her when she wasn't even using her powers.
Holden wasn't feeling dreadful any more about what had transpired two days previous, but he was determined to set it right. Blossom was able to get him to open up and tell everyone what had happened. Blossom knew that it wasn't his fault and that he had no idea that it would have happened. This is when trouble began.
Holden sits at the window watching the rain come down in a torrent after his last sparing session when, his com starts to violently ring and two windows appear automatically. Edd appears on one window and Frankie appears on the other and both of them look rather frazzled.
In the background on Frankie's end, Holden can hear Mr. Harriman scolding Frankie loudly by calling her Ms. Francis. Edd, on the other hand is hyperventilating. This would happen on a regular basis when he was stressed or when he thinks he was going to be in serious trouble.
"YOU HAVE TO HELP ME! FATHER ACCUSED ME OF DESTORYING HIS EQUIPMENT IN DELIGHTFUL DEVELOPMENT! I'VE BEEN HERE THE ENTIRE TIME WORKING ON A NEW DEVICE!" Edd blurts out quickly before covering his mouth for the rude outburst.
Frankie has an annoyed look and she comments in an irritated angry voice, "Edd, at least you don't have a hopping rule book that is accusing you of four different things! One of them being to feed the Scribble Spawn potato chips and to keep the front door of Foster's unlocked. Now Mr. Harriman is saying he saw me going to the Delightful Development last night when I was asleep!" She screams in frustrated manner.
Holden thinks silently for a moment before he responds with an idea, "Wait, aren't there security cameras in Delightful Development? We can use those to prove that you weren't there."
A third window pops up and Father appears with flames shooting from his back in anger as he speaks, "Do you all think I'm that stupid? I know what I saw and I will administer disciplinary action if you don't stop this destruction."
The three start to bicker in discriminately about it and it was hard for Holden to understand what is being said.
Holden closes his eyes, puts his hand on his forehead and then shouts loudly, "ALL OF YOU SHUT UP! I'm going to get to the bottom of this mess! Father, I will expect that if there is proof that Edd is innocent, you will apologize to him."
Father glowers at Holden and his window closes as he leaves the conversation.
Edd breathes a sigh of relief and replies in a grateful voice, "I owe you big time, Holden. I just don't know how I am going to repay you."
Edd window disappears as he disconnects, leaving only Frankie talking to Holden.
Frankie smiles and replies calmly, "At least you can…"
She is interrupted by a stern firm voice, "Get off your Nancom and do your chores Ms. Francis! You can talk to Master Holden after you're finished." Frankie groans and hangs up.
Holden goes to the kitchen and eats a hasty meal and starts to leave the tree house when a voice interrupts him.
"Where are you off to? I thought we had a meeting planned for this afternoon?" Blossom says coming down the stairs dressed in her workout clothes.
Apparently, she has been training against the KND defense grid. Holden frowns a bit. The meeting is indeed mandatory regarding what supplies they had and what projects had been started to fight Fuse, but he and a few other people hadn't even been invited to it as far as he knew. Holden didn't want to lie to Blossom about where he was going. He knew she would find out somehow that he had lied to her, just like she did when they were kids.
"Something important came up that I need to take care of it over in Peach Creek Estates." He calls over his shoulder as he exits the house.
Blossom pouts and sighs. She wanted to spend the day with Holden and finally tell him how she felt about him.
Fifteen minutes later, Holden reaches Peach Creek Estates and finds Wilt, who has an umbrella hat on, outside the infected zone.
"Sorry, but Edd told me to give you this. It will transmit whatever data you found to him so you can prove he's innocent." Wilt said in his usual apologetic manner.
Holden smiles at the imaginary friend and replies, "Thanks Wilt. You should get back to the Cul-de-Sac or to Foster's."
Wilt nods, beings to walk away, but then stops and adds quickly, "Edd also said that if that device doesn't work, you should find a terminal inside to send it to him. Good luck in there."
And with that, Wilt leaves in the direction of Foster's. Holden enters the infected zone and notices that there wasn't much of a difference from when he was last here in the future, except there is considerably more ground to walk on this time. Holden's com buzzes and finds that Edd had just sent him an email explaining where the security system is, and that the only way over to where it is located was either by transport cannon or by the special platforms that have been designed by Dexlabs.
Holden looks around to contemplate his route. The cannons would most likely send him into infected ground, but before Holden has a chance to make up his mind, he spots a gooby bomb. Holden rushes over to it and defuses it without incident.
The unfinished building to his left has the security control. Holden slowly enters and actives the computer system. The video that plays on it shows both Edd and Frankie, but they are covered in goopy green slime. Holden downloads a copy of the video and tries to use Edd's device, but unfortunately it falls apart in his hand.
The terminal that Holden needed to use to send Double D the video is located in a building to the west, but as he approaches it, there happens to be a large gooby trap out front of the building. After several minutes, Holden manages to shut the trap off.
Holden carefully enters the building and finds the room. Holden turns the terminal on and sends everything he found to Edd.
Almost immediately his com rings and Edd appears saying excitedly, "This proves Frankie's and my innocents. I better show this data to Father right away!"
Father's image appears in a window and interrupts saying in a nasty voice, "Fine, you snots were right, but that doesn't mean anything if you don't defuse that last gooby trap, you brat!"
Father hangs up his com abruptly.
Edd frowns and says with a grim look, "Well now you just have to find the lairs of those fusions." Edd hangs up
Holden walks onto the roof of the terminal building to get a better vantage point of the area. He immediately spots one of the fusion lairs, but also spots the last remaining gooby trap on top of a building not to far from his position. Holden uses the building materials around him to the reach the last gooby, which he dismantles quickly and brings to the nearby SCAT agent's decontaminate device.
He turns around and spots a second fusion lair near the infected pool of the house he was near. Holden enters the lair, but as he proceeds he finds the lair strangely empty. Holden exits, climbs back to the top of the house that the gooby had been on so he can look around the infected zone. There is only one more fusion lair and Holden groans because he suddenly has a feeling he was going to be outnumbered by fusions.
Holden mentally kicks himself, because he suddenly realizes he had left his shattergun back at the tree house. Holden jumps down the embankment and down to the entrance.
Once inside, Holden can hear the faint laughs of evil. As he walks down the corridor, both fusions come into view and they are out in the open. Unfortunately, there is little cover around for Holden to use, which gives the two fusions a huge advantage over him. Holden sighs and knew this is going to be a problem, but he would figure something out.
The fusion of Edd looks up as he hears Holden's footsteps and replies, "It seems like the little hero has come to pay us a visit."
Fusion Frankie scoffs, "He's just lucky he didn't have to face that other fusion. She was reassigned to another location."
They suddenly attack and throw fists of fusion matter at Holden. Fusion matter grazes his face and hits his arms and legs as he backs away. A small trickle of blood starts to run down his cheek as the fusions intensify their attack.
Maybe if I use a grenade like I did with Fusion Princess that might help beat them, Holden thinks quickly as takes a grenade from his belt.
He immediately throws it into the room where the fusions are. A second later, dust and dirt fill the air and Fusion Frankie stumbles out of the cloud of dust. Holden sweep kicks the fusion to the floor and quickly fires four shots into Fusion Frankie's torso and it helplessly collapses into a fusion puddle.
Fusion Edd exits the cloud, throwing more fusion matter and at Holden. Holden raises his rifle and counters with a well places shot to the Fusion's neck, which causes it to collapse back into pure fusion matter. Then the matter from both fusions coalesces into nanos of Edd and Frankie.
"WHY DO I HAVE TO CLEAN UP YOUR MESS EDD?" Shouts nano Frankie
"MY MESS? I DIDN'T DO THIS!" Nano Edd replies and then they started to fight. They soon stop having sheepish looks on their faces and then suddenly disappear.
Holden slowly walks out of the lair and Delightful Development and heads back to the tree house.
At home, Blossom is waiting outside the tree house for Holden to return. The rain has stopped and the air smelt more refreshing than it did in months. In the distance, Blossom spots Holden, but she gasps in shock. His arms are black and blue, and there are a few cuts on his face, showing that at some point, he had been bleeding. Blossom even thought for a second that he was limping.
She quickly flies down to him and asks, "What happened to you? Are you alright? It looks like you were attacked by the Dynamo." She tries not to laugh at what she said.
Holden sighs and warily responds, "I had really bad positioning in the fusion lair at Delightful Development. They pummeled me a bit, but I'm fine now. Some food and good nights rest is all I need."
He starts to walk towards the tree house, but Blossom puts her hand on his chest. She closes her eyes and replies in a soft kind voice, "Have you even been keeping track of the C.R.A.T.E.S. you've been getting?"
She takes his com from his pocket and checks his inventory. There had to be over 30 of them.
Blossom lets out a sigh and replies in an urgent tone, "You need to check these. I hate telling you how to do things. I feel like your mother…"
she stops mid-sentence because she knows she had stepped on a landmine. Blossom turns away biting her lip. His parents were always in the field doing work on animals and plants. It is something to do with genetics. She only remembered seeing them once, and that was at a science talk in Downtown Townsville when they were ten years old, but his parents eyes were as cold as ice when they saw Holden.
"I'm sorry Holden; I didn't mean to go that far." Blossom says apologetically, feeling guilty bringing it up since it always seemed to upset him. Over the years, Holden has come to hate both his parents.
Holden walks past her a bit, "I'm over it so don't beat yourself up about it."
She heaves a sigh of relief and they continue to head back to the tree house.
Well that's the updated chapter 15. Tell me what you think