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Chapter 45: Forgotten Falls

"What do you mean Blossom and I are being temporarily reassigned to another area? Who's going to be in charge of protecting Sector V and the Pokey Oaks area with Hoagie?" Holden replies as he raises his voice while looking down at the small figure of Dexter on his com.

He is outside the tree house, three days later after the news of Tessa's escape was made known. Holden, Blossom, and Hoagie had been discussing their recent encounter with Fusion Numbuh 362 at the school, when Dexter had called.

Dexter takes off his glasses and gingerly rubs his temples looking rather groggy. Blossom floats over to Holden, while Hoagie walks over and stand behind Holden and Blossom as Dexter explains the situation, "I know neither of you will like this idea since you both feel that you're needed over there, but there is no other options right now. Tessa knows that you both work out of the KND tree house and she will hurt anyone who gets in her way to get at the two of you. Mount Blackhead is the safest place for both of you to be now. Tessa wouldn't think to look there and neither would Brick."

Hoagie takes off his flight goggles, his eyes open wide and then replies, "So, who's going to be here to take Blossom's and Holden's place?"

Dexter smiles and says sharply in his accent, "Koki and Wally volunteered to come back while they go out there."

Blossom and Holden look at each other and they nod, knowing what they had to do.

Blossom replies with a smile on her face, "We both understand. We don't want to put anyone else in danger because of Tessa. How long do you want us to stay out there?"

Dexter gives an uncontrollable yawn and then replies, "For now, just for a week. There hasn't been any fusions sighted in the area since Numbuh 362 took out a copy of Fusion Numbuh 86 sometime last week. We will tell you when you can return."

Holden closes his eyes and replies, "If any situations come up out there, Blossom and I will deal with it Dex."

Dexter yawns again, when the door behind him opens and a voice is heard, "DEXTER ARE YOU HERE?"

Dexter shouts over his shoulder, "DEEDEE, GET OUT OF MY LAB THIS…"

Deedee then replies in a worried voice, "Dexter, you haven't slept in three days since the news. Come on, I'll help you to your room so you can sleep."

Dexter gives her a reluctant look, then looks back at the com and says, "There aren't any S.C.A.M.P.E.R.S. that can pick you up right now. You both have to walk, since we want to keep any information on where you're going off the com network. You both better get your things together." Dexter hangs up.

Hoagie starts to pace, frowns and states, "Dexter had better have a back up plan incase she or Brick find you."

Blossom folds her arms across her chest and gazes at the ground and says, "I've been think of every plan of attack I can use against her and I'm drawing a blank."

Holden closes his eyes in thought and replies reluctantly, "We could try using a nano against her. It worked on Brick, Boomer, and Butch, so it will probably work on her."

Blossom frowns and replies in a downcast voice, "I really don't want to try that unless we have to. There's too much risk involved."

Holden nods vigorously and responds, "Agreed, there is no sense in putting someone at risk to use a nano like that."

Hoagie clears his throat and comments, "You guys better get everything you need together. I just got an email from Koki saying that she and Wally just left."

Blossom and Holden run into the house to gather up their belongings.

Two and half hours later, Blossom and Holden walk up the hill and into the Mount Blackhead base.

Mac runs up to them excitedly and says, "Finally, what took you so long? Koki told me to show you two where you are going to be staying while you're here. It's gonna be a lot of fun having you two here for the next week."

Mac waves his arm at them to follow him and he leads them to a medium sized two story building like those used for Numbuh 3 and 4's living quarters. Mac opens the door for them to reveal a small living area with a TV and a small kitchen connected to it.

"The bedroom is upstairs along with the bathroom. You actually have a really nice view of the base. Well, I'm off to talk to Ed. See you later." Mac says just as he exit's the house.

Holden and Blossom go upstairs to look it over. Holden flicks the light switch to the room to reveal two bureaus, a nightstand with a mirror and a queen sized bed with the sheets already on it. Blossoms face flushes and she puts her hands in front of her chest and runs quickly to sit on the bed. It is apparent she is feeling flustered given the current situation.

Holden sits down next to her and replies, "I can always find another place to sleep…"

Blossom quickly responds in a soft voice, "NO! You don't have to. It's just that I'm nervous about this."

Holden chuckles but says quietly, "You slept with Bubbles and Buttercup in the same bed until you three were seven."

Blossom looks at the floor and replies in a nervous tone, "It's not the same. I'll be sleeping with you in the same bed. It's supposed to be special and I know we're ready for this." Her face turns bright red from embarrassment.

Holden smiles, puts his arm around her shoulders to calm her down and responds, "There's something else isn't there?"

Blossom nods, puts her hands in her lap and responds, "What if one of us gets…well you know and we want to have sex?"

Holden puts his forehead on hers and comments, "We have to be responsible and control our hormones and our urges. Blossom, you decided when you're ready."

Blossom smiles broadly and replies, "Well, if you think you can control yourself, then I can control myself also. Maybe sometime in the near future we can do it." Blossom then blushes a deep crimson.

"I can live with that." Holden replies before his lips slowly interlock with Blossom's in a passionate kiss.

Six days later, Blossom stands in front of the full length mirror in the bathroom looking at herself in her pink strap, two piece bathing suit and sandals. She really wanted to go swimming and the only place she could really go is Forgotten Falls, because there wasn't a swimming area at the base. The Falls are a beautiful place and were almost like a natural hot spring and perfect for swimming at this time of year.

Blossom sighs and thinks, it's just too dangerous out there right now and I was really looking forward to swimming with Holden. There will always be another time.

Blossom goes out into the main bedroom picks up her clothes and goes back into the bathroom and shuts the door.

Meanwhile outside the house, Holden has just come back to the base from having to deal with a rather stupid request from Fuzzy. He passes by Ed, who is banging his head on a tree, apparently looking for a lost jawbreaker. Holden continues past him and towards Mac and Coco who are talking rapidly about the ice charades. Even after being here for nearly a week, Holden still couldn't figure out what the weird imaginary friend is saying.

He enters the small living quarters, goes into the kitchen and fills a pot with water and starts to cook some corn on the cob.

"You have better made enough for me to have some." Blossom says, placing her head on his shoulder and draping her arms around his neck. She has big smile on her face.

"I wouldn't forget to make you some. I know you love corn on the cob" Holden says looking back over his shoulder at her with a smile on his face.

Blossom gathers up two plates and the condiments they need for their meal. Holden drains the pot and serves their meal of two ears of corn each. They hadn't even neared finishing off their first ear when the door bursts open. Coco runs into the kitchen with Mac following close behind her.

"Coco coco co cococo co co. Co coco co co CO."

Mac pants and quickly translates, "We got some weird message on our coms from a fusion I think. They said something about my backpack near Forgotten Falls. The rest of the message was garbled. Why would a fusion tell us about the backpack? It doesn't make any sense."

Blossom stands up, smiles, and replies, "Holden, we should go check this out. Let's go."

Holden takes from his com the upgraded Static Edge rifle and he and Blossom head to the door and start to leave the base.

Mac runs out of the house and cries out, "I want to come along so I can help out too."

Blossom bends down to look him in the eyes and replies quietly, "Mac, it's too dangerous. You could get hurt."

Mac then replies in a hurt tone, "Blossom, that's not fair. I helped you, Dexter, Numbuh 5 and Ben when the first Terrafusers showed up. I fought with Deedee and Mandark to even bring one down."

Blossom closes her eyes and responds in a motherly tone, "I know Mac, but this time you can't come with us."

Mac looks over at Holden as if he wanted his help in try to pursued Blossom and then replies, "Holden has been in more dangerous situation than this when he was my age."

Holden shakes his head, bends down to look Mac in the eye and replies, "Mac, I wasn't given a choice when it came to some of those dangerous situations."

"Co co coco coco co co."

Mac looks at Coco, nods and replies, "You're right Coco. Holden and Blossom are looking out for my well being. Alright, I'll stay here. Good luck finding my backpack."

Blossom grabs Holden's wrist and they fly off towards Forgotten Falls.

Fifteen minutes later, they land near the entrance to the Really Twisted Forest infected zone. The waterfall can be heard in the background as loud as ever.

Blossom closes her eyes for a brief moment to listen to her surroundings and comments, "Holden, do you hear that?"

Holden nods, frowns and then answers, "Besides the waterfall, its way to quiet. I don't like this Blossom. It feels like a trap."

Then an audio only message pops up on Holden's com. "Backpack…trap, not…time…imaginary…good act…" The message cuts out.

Blossom frowns and comments; "Now we know it's a trap, but what was it talking about? Imaginary?" Blossom closes her eyes to think, opens them wide after a moment, smiles and then shouts in understanding, "OH! Maybe they were infused with Imaginary Energy and it turned them good and they ran out of time so this was their last act to help us. I wonder where the backpack is."

Holden smiles and replies, "Well them being affected by Imaginary Energy makes the most senses. Let's look around; it might be just lying on the ground some place."

Blossom nods and they slowly make their way past the edge of the infected zone and towards the waterfall, carefully looking for the item. As they walk, Holden suddenly notices a green patch appear under Blossom. He grabs her arm and quickly pulls her towards him before the Eruption attack goes off.

"Are you alright Blossom?" Holden says concernedly.

Blossom lets out a sigh of relief, smiles and responds, "I'll be fine. I should have noticed the Eruption attack."

Holden looks around and finds Fusion Coco on a small incline about twenty feet away. It does a back flip and lobs five green fusion matter eggs at them. Blossom zooms upwards above the tree tops, while Holden slides behind a tree to avoid the attacks. After a few moments, the attack stops and Blossom lands in the tree above Holden, and jumps down through the leave and lands next to him.

She then replies with a smile and a strange gleam in her eyes, "I have an idea. Throw a grenade into the bushes near the fusion, but don't take the pin out of it. The noise of the grenade hitting the bushes should distract it long enough for us to close in to attack it. We can use my super breath for a duel purpose."

Holden takes a grape grenade from his belt and pitches it into a nearby bush close to the fusion. The fusion looks for the source of the sound and lobs a fusion egg at the location. Blossom flies out from behind the tree and blows the fusion off its feet with her super breath. Holden runs out from behind the tree and using the force of the wind that is generated by Blossom's super breath, he propels himself towards the fusion.

Holden shoots it twice before grabbing a tree branch and swings around it, and then drops to ground. Fusion Coco stands up on its wobbly legs and faces Holden. Blossom uses a sonic scream to force the fusion's attention back to her. The fusion starts to back flip and send an egg at Blossom when, Holden uses the opportunity to counter attack the distracted fusion with his Epée, confusing the fusion even more into who it should attack.

Blossom uses her eyes beams and Holden again stabs the fusion and the combined attacks reduce the fusion to a gelatinous green puddle of goop. A nano Coco springs up from a yellow glowing plastic egg on the ground, back flips twice and then disappears.

Blossom floats over to Holden and replies, "That fusion must be guarding the backpack. It can't be that far from here."

They both start to look around and eventually spot the backpack a few meters away on top of the hill.

As they approach the backpack, Holden stops and puts his hand on Blossom's arm. Blossom nods, understanding what the touch meant and she uses her X-ray vision on the backpack and finds a Gooby trap inside of it. The timer is at three minutes.

Blossom grits her teeth and replies in alarm, "There's no way to disarm this bomb. What are we going to do?"

Holden picks up the backpack and replies quickly with an idea, "We throw it over the waterfall and freeze it so when it goes off the fusion matter can't do anything."

Blossom nods and then responds, "I hope this plan of your's works."

Holden runs as fast as he can back to the highest point near the falls and with all his might, throws it over the side. Blossom uses her Ice Breath to freeze the backpack solid. A few moments later, a dull thud can be heard from the exploding bag. Blossom flies above the falls and spots the exploded bag fluttering down into the water below. The explosion didn't hit anything and from the looks of it, the fusion matter had safely dispersed along with the ice.

Then, Blossom's com buzzes and an audio only message is heard, saying, "Island…lair…des…me…please! No…I…destroy…both." The com then turns off suddenly.

Blossom flies back towards Holden, grabs his outstretched hand and they glide down to the little island below the falls to find a fusion lair near the water and they enter cautiously.

Inside the small cavern, Blossom and Holden walk into the small chamber and see Fusion Mac standing against the far wall clutching its head, before it stands up straight and throws a fist full of fusion matter at them. Holden dodges and rolls to his right. Blossom sidesteps quickly to her left and uses her eye beams as a counter and hits the fusion's left leg.

Holden fires four times, while summoning nano Mojo to use its skill Freeze Ray to drain some of the fusion's energy. Blossom flies around behind the fusion and uppercuts it in the chin and it flies into the air straight into a stalactite. The fusion drops to the floor with a gapping hole in the center of its chest.

The fusion then stands back up, but before it can do anything, it slowly falls back to the ground, leaving only the nano of Mac sitting on top of the backpack. It disappears when Holden picks up the backpack. Blossom exits the lair followed shortly after by Holden.

Outside the lair, Holden sits down next to the small tree that is nearby. Blossom sits down next to him, and places her head on his shoulder, puts her arm around his arm, and closes her eyes.

Holden smiles, kisses the top of her head and replies, "Do you want to go swimming?"

Blossom opens her eyes, shakes her head and replies, "I wanted to earlier, but now, I just want to sit here with you and enjoy the sight of the waterfall for a little while."

Blossom looks into Holden's eyes and then kisses him while the mist of the waterfall produces rainbows all around them.

Well i hope u enjoyed this chapter. I know there was a more mature part but it was necessary for relationship development. I'm doing my best to keep characters inline with their personalities. If i screwed up please Tell me with a P/M I'm researching like crazy here lol.