I don't own fusionfall. The updated copy.
Chapter 23: Bloo's Juice Box Blues
Holden is sound asleep when his nancom buzzes, waking him up the next morning.
"Who could be calling me at this time of the morning?" He murmurs aloud.
The clock reads five o'clock in the morning, either this person had a death wish or it was urgently important.
He answers the com barely able to keep his eyes open, "What do you want? Do you have any idea what time it is?"
The person on the other end then says, "Sorry mate but Koki and I need you to pick up some supplies from Numbuh 311 out near Dizzy World and deliver them to us here at Mount Blackhead. There isn't even a S.C.A.M.P.E.R. that's coming here today so you have to come on foot."
Holden frowns rubbing his face, "Alright Wally, I'll pick them up but don't call me again at 5 am."
Holden hangs up and prepares to leave. He enters Blossom's room quietly and leaves a note for her so she knows where he is and reluctantly starts for City Point.
After a twenty minute S.C.A.M.P.E.R. ride and leaving Endsville, he finally gets to Dizzy World. The KND operative Holden sees there, is found sleeping under a tree, but next to her sits Bloo, that weird blob that had wanted the juice box when he last passed by sometime ago.
Numbuh 311 stirs restlessly and wakes up, yawns and says, "Um hi. Did Numbuh 4 send you to pick up the supplies I asked him to take?"
Holden had a feeling Numbuh 311 isn't being entirely truthful and responds questionably, "Yeah I am, but is there something you're not telling me?"
Numbuh 311 sighs, realizing she has been discovered. "Well, there's an item that needs to be delivered to Mount Blackhead but I don't have it yet. I need some extra help dealing with this selfish, arrogant imaginary friend." She explains, pointing to Bloo.
Holden then says, "Well who's the person who imagined him up and where are they right now?"
Numbuh 311 then responds, "Mac created him but had to give him up so Bloo is supposed to live at Fosters. Mac is…"
Holden interrupts and says, "I know where he is, but what does Bloo want from you? I already know he wants a juice box from my last encounter with him."
Numbuh 311 shakes her head and responds, "He has a list that he wrote up and half the items are in the infected zone. The place is a nightmare and I nearly got killed by Fusion Ace the last time I went in there."
Holden scoffs, "A fusion of Ace shouldn't be an issue for anyone."
Numbuh 311 responds, "Sir, its mind is more twisted then a normal fusion. It's so demented that he threatened to burn the park down if anyone else entered. And well, Bloo went in the other day and broke a carnival ride handle off."
Numbuh 311 takes a deep breath and continues, "If we don't get it back, Fusion Ace will burn down the park anyway."
Bloo stirs, waking up and says, "Hey, I'm trying to sleep here. If you don't mind keep your voices down."
Holden looks down at the little imaginary friend and then says, "Bloo, get up. You and I need to have a chat."
Bloo rolls his eyes, "AWWW come on man! I'm trying to sleep, so if you…"
Holden interrupts Bloo's whining with a firm voice, "Give me the carnival ride handle you took the other day."
Bloo then appears huffy and says, "NO…but, if you find me some fried dough, then I might give it to you. Oh and then after that, we can talk about my juice boxes."
"Where is the fried dough, Bloo?"
Bloo frowns and responds, "The Destroyusalls took them all from the stands. They should be in a park north of here thought."
Holden sighs and heads back up the road to search for the weird monsters, and upon finding the bunch of clown faced trains, he aims with the new rifle breaking down the clown monsters in no time. Fried dough spills all over the ground but it appears oddly green and disgusting. Holden picks some up and takes it back to let Bloo see.
As he approaches, Bloo looks all excited, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"
Holden gives it to Numbuh 311 and says, "It's contaminated with fusion matter. Do you really want to eat it and die because of this, Bloo?"
Bloo sighs a sigh of defeat, "Fine you win. Take this stupid handle back to the park so you can fix that attraction. I don't need it anymore."
Holden turns and leaves to enter the Dizzy World theme park when Bloo suddenly brightens with an idea, "Hey, wait! While you're in there, can you bring me some popcorn? I want butter and salt on it, AND I want you to find my juice box from those Dynamite Rats so I can keep myself going and be at the top of the Sumo Slammer Online leader board. I want to beat that person named Omimatrix man."
Holden swings around, giving Bloo a disgusted look and then continues on his way. Holden realizes the only way to the telepad find his way onto a jump pad and reach the old rollercoaster tracks.
Inside the zone, Holden jumps down carefully and lands on some uninfected ground. Nearby. are the Dynamite Rats, which he easily dispatches but unfortunately don't drop any juice. Holden figures this would be a waste of time but presses forward, passing by the popcorn machine, which he would come back to later. He goes over to the roller coaster control box and repairs it with the lever.
"I thought I told you morons to stay out of my park! Fusion Billy, sick him!" Fusion Ace commands, as he stands above Holden near a tent with another rabid version of Billy.
The fusion, upon orders, jumps down and charges at Holden. This time, Holden sidesteps and the fusion unexpectedly slams into the wall that is behind him. Holden fires once and liquefies the fusion. He then looks up at Fusion Ace who now has a torch in his hand.
"I said I would burn this park down. I'm giving you three minutes to leave or…"
Holden spies a Fire Hydra floating around near him and takes a quick shot. The water that was stored inside sprays all over Fusion Ace, extinguishing the torch.
"You think you're so smart! I dare you to come up here into my lair and face me…but if you're too chicken, I'll understand!" With this taunt the fusion disappears.
Holden rolls his eyes noting that the fusion was acting like what the real Ace used to be like, and that meant that this could get ugly fast. He quickly finishes his repairs and then finds the nearest platform that has a zip line taking him to the top of the tent and consecutively, he enters the lair.
The inside of it looks similar to a side show attraction. There are Destroyusalls inside along with Fire Hydras and Dynamite Rats grouped tightly together, forcing Holden to use his shattergun. As he was beating the fusion beasts, the Apex didn't seem to be the damage it used to. He decided he would check his C.R.E.A.T.S. from the ones he found today after he was situated back home.
Holden switches back to the Urban Recon Rifle and is forced to slowly progress. And as he finally reaches the end of the lair, Holden is surprised to find Fusion Ace waiting accompanied by Fusion Buttercup. Seeing this, Holden now well realizes why the fusion lair in Marquee row sat empty.
"I'll see you later loser. Have fun with him Ace." Fusion Buttercup laughs and starts to leave when Holden opens fire, but Fusion Ace blocks his path and helpfully allows his fusion partner to leave. Fusion Ace though, doesn't seem damaged by the attack. It had used a piece of metal to block the shot. Holden's assumption that the fusions were getting smarter was right.
Fusion Ace gives a sickly smile and attacks Holden. Holden backpedals and nearly falls over a bag of salt allowing the fusion of Ace to attacks with bared claws. Holden rolls to avoid the attack, making the fusion leave a small indent in the floor. Holden picks himself up and switches to his sword and runs at the fusion as their attacks meet. The sword rips through the hand of the fusion and down to the forearm. Holden pulls out the blade and the fusion howls in pain. Without a moment's hesitation, Holden attacks the central torso and the Fusion Ace melts into goop, leaving only a pair of sunglasses behind. The glasses glow and a nano Ace and his gang appear. They start to rock out and then disappear. Holden goes back to near where he tripped and picks up the bag of salt and leaves the lair.
Outside, Holden looks around to see if Fusion Buttercup was still there. He examines the sky to see a speck flying towards the northwest. Holden frowns since the fusion is headed way past the Endsville power plant. The only place he could think of that was in that, direction was Bellwood. His frown deepens but nothing could be done, so he concentrates on finding Bloo's juice, butter, and popcorn. From his vantage point, Holden spots a place that sells cookies to the east. They probably would have butter, but not the kind Bloo specifically wants. Holden uses another zip line and lands near the dilapidated roller coaster cars.
The ground from there to the building wasn't infected but he would have to cross some if he wanted to get back to the popcorn machine near the entrance. Holden hops the counter and finds a tub of butter but then hears something from the back room. Inside, he finds a huge green version of Bloo eating what appears to be stale cookies and also drinking a few juice boxes. It turns around, growls at Holden, and then makes a break for the opposite door. It happens to have stolen a full carton of juice. Without thinking, Holden runs after it onto infected ground. He starts to feel the effects of it after a few steps, but luckily nano Blossom pops out of his com to protect him.
Fusion Bloo bounces off a jump pad on to a set of balloons and then onto a roof leading into a fusion lair. Holden follows after it and lands outside the lair as well. He enters with caution and finds that it was a fun house of mirrors. There aren't any fusion monsters, but he can hear the laughter of the fusion echoing from up ahead. An idea strikes Holden but he quickly decides against it since the likelihood that his shot would reflect off and hit the target was low.
The mirrors slowly disappear and turn into a cavernous room with a chandler hanging from the ceiling. The Fusion Bloo appears under it waiting for him and charges right when Holden enters. Holden rams into the wall a few times before completely being able to push himself away from the wall and into open ground. The fusion then laughs with his mouth open wide like a luring black hole. Holden throws a grenade into its mouth giving the fusion a moment of confusion before it is blown apart, and making fusion matter sprays everywhere. The Fusion Bloo drops a juice box, As the box's contents are being drunk by a nano Bloo.
"What? I was thirsty."
It burps and then disappears. The carton of juice turns out to be in a stolen refrigerator near the back of the room. Holden takes them and leaves the lair and finds himself on the other side of the park near the roller coaster controls he had repaired. He jumps down and finds the popcorn stand but sees that it only carries.
Holden decides to take them back to Bloo only because it would be easier than having to wait another hour for the stand to warm up. He leaves the park and dumps the items at Bloo's feet once he arrives.
"Why are you so huffy? Hey wait, is this my popcorn? It doesn't even look like it was cooked!"
Holden then says, "Well that's all there was, Bloo. You just have to find another way to cook it up."
Numbuh 311 walks over to Holden and gives him a package. "Here's the supplies for the base and a new rainbow monkey shirt of Numbuh 3."
"Thanks, 311. Good luck with Bloo." Holden responds before leaving.
He turns around and spots Bubbles and Blossom flying slowly in the distance. As they fly overhead Blossom looks down and gives Holden a semi-smile and frown. Something is definitely wrong if she is giving him that look and soon enough, the girls fly out of sight. A sudden explosion a few blocks away then catches Holden's attention as he looks in the direction of the resounding noise.
Well that's the updated version. I hope you like and if you see mistakes or anything as in the characters personalities are wrong or anything please let me know