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Chapter 24: Bullet

Holden starts to run and takes his com out, "Blossom, what's going on? Are you and Bubbles alright?"

Blossom appears on the com and replies, "Holden, something has happened…Bubbles should be the one to tell you." She then cuts out.

Holden reaches the area where the explosion had come from and finds Bubbles on the ground crying and Blossom beside her, trying to consol her sobbing sister. Next to them are the remains of a fusion monster that had exploded to bits.

Blossom sees Holden approaching and gently whispers to Bubbles, "Bubbles, you should talk to Holden, maybe he can help."

Holden kneels down beside Bubbles and says, "Bubbles, what's wrong? If you have Blossom with you then, something must've happened."

Bubbles slowly stops crying, sighs, and then responds, "Fuse is using the Vile Cabinets to kidnap the local animal population. They've taken Bullet, Holden. I don't know which one has her." Bubbles starts to cry harder and immediately hugs Holden.

Bullet was one of Bubbles' best friends who was also a squirrel that she had rescued over ten years ago. Bubbles had used some Chemical X on Bullet to make her heal faster but accidentally gave the animal the same powers as herself and her sisters. This event occurred three months before Holden had moved into the Utonium house. It was also weird because Bubbles could talk to Bullet like she would to anyone in another language such as German or Japanese.

"Bubbles, I'll go look for her, just calm down and you and Bullet will be back together in no time."

Bubbles dries her eyes, smiles, and then responds, "Thank you! thank you! thank you, Holden!" Bubbles' grin grew wider as she regained her normal happy spark back.

Holden stands up as Blossom places her hand on his shoulder and realizes he is tense just from her touch. He looks back at her and Blossom then says in a voice only he can hear, "Holden, please let me handle this. I don't want Bubbles to feel even worse if anything more happens to Bullet."

Holden closes his eye briefly and then lightly shakes his head, "Bubbles asked me to find Bullet for her, so I'm going to do what I was asked to do."

Blossom looks at him and with a thoughtful smiles, "Holden, if you find Bullet please bring her to the Mayor's office. We'll wait for you there." She and Bubbles then fly off.

Holden recognizes the Vile Cabinets are a tough group, but he didn't have time to back down. He finds a herd of ten of them and effortlessly picks them off one at a time. He checks each one and finally hears a tiny squeak and sees a drawer partly open. He runs over and opens the drawer the rest of the way to see Bullet crawl out. She lets out a squeak but Holden's translator wasn't able to translate. He picks up Bullet carefully. She was wounded rather badly. Even a nano's healing skill wouldn't be enough.

"I'm going to bring you to Bubbles, she should be able to translate."

Holden takes out his Numbuh 2 nano and runs as fast as it will allow him to City Hall. As soon as he arrives, he runs up the steps to where Bubbles and Blossom are waiting. Bubbles hears the squeaks from Bullet and starts to jump for joy.

She runs over to Holden and takes Bullet from him. "Bullet, are you alright?" She asks as they begin to start squeaking for over ten minutes.

Blossom looks relieved and turns to Holden, "I'm sorry I tried to stop you from helping. I just thought you would hurt Bullet and upset Bubbles."

"It's alright, Blossom. You were worried about Bubbles and that's normal."

He smiles and sits down as Bubbles comes over to them, "Bullet says thank you but I need to ask you another favor Holden."

Bubbles hands Bullet back to Holden, who is helplessly covered in bandages and continues, "I need you to take Bullet to the jungle outpost at Mount Blackhead. Numbuh 3 can give her better treatment there. She's been rescuing many animals lately."

Holden takes Bullet and then says, "I have to go out there anyway, Bubbles. I'll make sure she arrives there safely."

Bubbles nods and says, "Holden, call me when you bring her there so I know Bullet is alright." Holden nods and leaves.

Bubbles looks over at Blossom, "You don't want to go with him?"

Blossom just smiles and says, "I would Bubbles, but we still have a job to do here of rescuing the other animals." Bubbles nods and they walk down the stairs.

Holden arrives in the Cul-De-Sac forty-five minutes later and heads towards Fosters. As he continues on, he sees a path that leads into the woods and then notices that the route was the only way to arrive at Camp Kidney and Mount Blackhead. He passes by Fosters to find Frankie out front. She was in a heated argument with Mandark over some building project called the Imaginasium that was going to be used to study the imaginary friends. Holden quietly continues on, thankful that they didn't spot him or he might have been dragged into the argument.

The entrance to the woods stood nearby and there didn't seem to be any sounds coming out of it. The trails seemed over grown and there were no signs to show where Holden is going. After an hour's walk, he arrives at a small town called Prickly Pines. The town's residents all turned out to be weird animals that were talking like humans. Many young animals near the exit of the town are dressed in uniforms that made them look like they belong to two different camps. Their camp leaders, a moose and what looks like a warthog were arguing also and on the edge of breaking out into a heated fight.

Just outside of town, Holden finds a sign that says, "Camp Kidney. Five miles northeast." Holden frowns, there's a lot of fusion activity in that direction.

There was nothing more he could do, except go the long way around.

Three hours later, Holden arrives at Camp Kidney to find May Kanker looking rather forlorn.

She looks up and says with her usual lisp, "Holden please find my Ed for me."

Holden gives her a weak smile and states, "Where is he, May?"

May shrugs saying, "I don't know. He ran deep into the woods toward Leaky Lake."

Holden nods and before he could even move an inch, Toiletnator bounds up to him.

"Wait, can you please go pick up my Plunger of Doom from Numbuh 4? He borrowed it and hasn't returned it yet."

Holden nods to the request and replies, "Alright Lou, I'll get it for you."

Holden finally leaves the camp and follows the trail to the lake. When it is finally in sight, he sees nothing but green water and barriers of an infected zone. There, on the outer edge of the lake, is a large device that purified the toxic water into drinkable liquid. The telepad into the zone stood nearby but Holden ignores it and decides to take the path to the right that appeared in the road. The path turns out to be quite narrow and Holden takes his time until he sees a small fork in the path that then leads to a small shake and near that, a zip line. He ponders on using the zip line but suddenly a fuzzy pink beast wobbles into view.

"Git off mey properte!"

Holden frowns. The pink beast moves closer to reveal himself as Fuzzy Lumpkins, who had apparently become more of a hillbilly now.

Holden then asks, "Um Fuzzy, I'm not even on your property yet. Can I please use the zip line?"

Fuzzy draws a gun and then says, "If yew giv me thad squwwrel, yew can."

Holden turns and goes up the path and then glances back and says, "Sorry, but Bullet is no one's meal."

Holden then heads up the hill, leaving the unsatisfied hungry beast behind.

After about thirty minutes, the base comes into view and Holden walks up the hill into the walled area. He finds Numbuh 4 and 3 sitting outside a building that obviously belonged to Wally. Near them, is a kid with a strange club and beside him, was some kind of beast that only communicates with him because of his understanding. Holden sees Mac and Coco near a huge tree, and on a small hill is Ed.

Numbuh 3 stands up and walks over to Holden, "What do you have there, Holden? Is it something adorable?"

Holden frowns and responds, "Its Bubbles' friend Bullet, Koki. She's hurt and Bubbles asked me to bring her here so you can take care of her."

Koki eyes widen and she takes Bullet from his arms carefully. "She's in good hands now, so don't worry." She smiles and then Numbuh 4 comes over looking agitated.

"Oi! Where are those supplies I asked you to bring me?" Holden hands him the package and as Wally becomes relieved.

"Oh, Holden! Bubbles told me that animals are being taken by some Vile Cabinets. I saw some going into the jungle training facility this morning." She sadly looks down at the ground and then continues, "I thought I saw a Fusion Bubbles with them."

Wally then says in an exasperated tone, "Koki, why didn't you say something sooner? I would have gone and…"

Koki interrupts, "Wally, I didn't want you to get hurt. You risked your life to save me before. I don't want…" She starts to cry at the thought stopping herself from further description.

Wally sighs hugging her, "It's ok Koki. I should have thought about you first. Can you go and deal with the fusion for us, mate?"

Holden silently nods and walks to the back of the base and to the telepad that is now below him at the training facility.

The inside of facility is badly infected and most of the ground is covered in toxic sludge. The fusion lair though is luckily in sight of the telepad, but Holden decides to go up and around and come at it from the north. The platforms were slow to move back and forth taking him ten minutes to get to the lair. Inside, he hears the clanging of metal doors and possibly a few squeaks from animals, as he thinks.

Holden slowly makes his way through, nearly getting hit by an eruption attack from a cabinet that surprised him. All the animals that were freed from the monsters immediately fled to the lair entrance.

As the last cabinet falls, and Holden listens to his surroundings, and hearing a malicious laugh from deeper inside, he follows it.

Holden enters the small chamber to find Fusion Bubbles looking furious, "You! You ruined my plans to destroy all those animals! I'll destroy you!"

The fusion then uses its eye beams and hits Holden in the shoulder just as he was moves. The wound turns out to be fairly deep and he has his Eddy nano heal him as he continues moving. Then the fusion starts to use sonic screams, which Holden barely avoids. Holden suddenly gets an idea and he throws the Apex rifle at the fusion. The fusion targets it with the eye beams, melting it into slag. Holden lets off a slew of shots at the fusion. The fusion falls to the ground, screams and then dissipates into a puddle with a small toy in it. Holden picks it up and discovers it's Bubbles' stuffed toy Mr. Octi. It glows for a moment and a Bubbles nano appears twirling around happily. It disappears and Holden leaves the lair.

Wally watches the infected zone telepad when Holden appears and makes his way up the back entrances elevators.

"Hey mate! How did everything go in there?"

Holden looks up, "I took out the fusion of Bubbles. Wally, Toiletnator requested that you give him back his Plunger of Doom."

Wally laughs, "That stupid adult. Here, you take it back to him. Use the skyway service. You'll be back there in no time." Wally hands him the Plunger as Koki skips over to them.

"You're not going to stay the night? That's rather rude."

Holden shakes his head and then says, "I can't Koki. How's Bullet now, thought?"

Koki smiles and says, "She's resting comfortable. No need to worry, I already called Bubbles and Blossom. Have a good trip back to Sector V. Say hi to Numbuh 2 and my rainbow monkeys for me."

Holden takes the flying service back to Camp Kidney and hands the Plunger to Lou.

May then came up to him asking, "Have you found my sweetest Ed?"

Holden frowns and the answers, "Yeah I saw him. He's just over the ridge at Mount Blackhead."

With that said, Holden says his good-byes and he starts the long journey back to Sector V.

It's past eight in the evening when Holden arrives back in Sector V. Bubbles and Blossom were both waiting for him out front.

"What took you so long to get back here? Koki called me hours ago to say that Bullet was fine." Blossom says looking impatient.

"Well, I had to find a way to get Mr. Octi clean, so I was at home washing it. That's the reason why I'm so late."

Bubbles' eyes widen as Holden hands her the stuff animal. She takes off yelling with happiness and disappears into the distance towards Pokey Oaks South.

Blossom stands still, giving him a stern look, "You could have called to tell me what you were doing. I was worried about you." Her harsh expression disappears, replacing it with a warm smile.

"I know I should have called. I'm sorry Blossom."

She lightly flicks his forehead with her index finger in a playful manner. She laughs and says jokingly, "What have you done with my boyfriend? He would never apologize for something as silly as that!"

Holden laughs, placing his arm around her shoulders as they go inside to eat a late dinner.

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