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Remind Me
Chapter 22
Jerome's POV
Mitch tosses a potion to me.
"MITCH, NO!" Seto yells, eyes widening. I giggle and throw the potion back to Mitch, who catches it with ease. "ACK, JEROME!" Mitch throws the pink potion back toward me, but his aim is a little off, and it ends up hitting a black leather office chair to my right.
Oops.
Seto freaks out. "ARGH, I TOLD YOU, THERE'S A CHANCE THAT THOSE POTIONS ARE ACTIVATED BY CONTACT-" The chair begins to grow in size. "AHH! THEY'RE DEFINITELY ACTIVATED BY CONTACT, TOTALLY ACTIVATED BY CONTACT!"
The chair grows larger and larger until it's breaking through the ceiling, and the ceiling above that. The voices of screaming people fill our ears, and Seto gasps. "Oh, my," he whispers.
"WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED?" someone asks from two floors above us. It sounds like Ian.
"Sorry!" Seto replies. "We spilled a potion!" We? Now, Seto, don't go taking credit for our epic potion spillage.
"Seto?" another person asks, sounding sort of like Ty.
"Yeah, it's me, Jerome, and Mitch," Seto shouts. "Sorry about the chair!"
"Uh, it's okay!" Jason yells. "It kind of just saved our lives."
"Yes!" Mitch cheers. "We did something right for once!" Seto glares at him.
"Did you find Sky?" Seto asks.
"They found me!" Sky confirms. "And I don't hurt anymore!"
"We did that, Sky!" Seto says happily. "Well, technically Jerome did, but then he and Mitch had a button-mashing competition..."
"Were they the ones making the pain go on and off?" Sky asks. "'Cause that hurt."
Seto sighs. "Yeah, that was them."
"So, what's up with the giant chair?" Ty asks.
"Mitch and Jerome were playing catch with the jumbo potions," Seto yells.
"You found them?" Jason asks.
"Yup," Mitch replies. "So now all that's left to do is kill the jumbo squids, right?"
"I still have to disable the buttons to make sure no one re-activates them later," Seto says. "Then we can take care of the jumbo squids."
"Alright, then!" Sky says. "We'll work on helping the armies with the jumbo squids. You guys can do your thing with the buttons. But, please, no more button-pushing contests..."
"Heh, sounds good!" I shout.
Seto glares at Mitch and me. "Don't. Touch. Anything," he growls. I put my paws up in a defensive position and take a step back as Seto begins his work.
Sky's POV
"Erm, guys? I'm still in a cage," I point out. I can't bring myself to be mad at the Recruits anymore, though. I'm just too happy! ETERNAL PAIN IS ETERNALLY GONE! Or, it will be, as soon as Seto disables the buttons.
Ty frowns. "Does anyone have a pickaxe?"
"Uh. I have three daggers and some cake..," Ian says.
"I've got a sword, three apples, and a shovel," Jason says. "No pick."
"Uh, let's see... Oh, idea! Just shoot that fireball thingy at the cage!" I suggest, grinning.
Ty raises an eyebrow. "But you're in the cage."
I shrug. "That hardly matters." They all stare at me blankly. "I mean, the fireball is like a ghast's fireball, right? So it'll blast the Nether brick fence apart, but it won't hit me, because I'll be behind the Nether brick fence."
Ty sighs. "Whatever you say..," he mumbles as he prepares to launch the fireball. "TAKE COVER!"
BANG! Everything is white. And, now we're back to normal again. And... And... YAY! THERE'S A HOLE IN THE CAGE! I'M FREE! I jump out of the cage and start doing a weird little victory dance. Ty laughs as Ian facepalms, and Jason shrugs and dances with me.
"NOW!" I scream a few seconds later. "TO THE JUMBO SQUIDS!" We all run downstairs. In the middle of the first floor is the seat of the giant chair. The top of it is on the second floor, where we were, and the legs are in the basement, where Mitch, Jerome, and Seto are. We run around it and burst through the door. "Woah," I whisper when I see the front yard. One of my Recruits sees me and runs toward us with a Dead Army soldier by her side. "Progress Report?" I ask.
"Well, as you can see, we're all complete idiots," the Recruits says, gesturing towards the many soldiers all panicking by the jumbo squids. "We weren't making any progress with the jumbo squids, so one of the Doods suggested we try to ride the squids, like Ssundee. And so everyone tried to climb on top of the jumbo squids, and two of the Dead Army soldiers actually made it, but then they went all power-hungry and turned on us... So now they're riding the jumbo squids around, and we can't get them down."
"How'd they even get up there?" Ian asks.
"You should know, you got up there first."
"Ugh, I can't remember my Derp moments, okay?"
"Fine. It wasn't really that hard, they just shimmied up the tentacles and then hoisted themselves onto the head. It took us several tries, though, since the squids are so slimy and slippery."
"Thanks," I say to the Recruit. "Now, Ty? Try to get your soldiers off the squid. I'm going to go punch things." Ian and Jason head off to help people, Ty runs toward the two rogue/psycho soldiers, and I sprint toward the nearest squid.
Immediately after coming to a stop in front of a jumbo squid, I punch it. It catches on fire, and a few seconds later, it dies. "Woah! You guys got its health down a lot," I say to the nearby soldiers. "Are they all like that?" They nod. "Oh, cool!" It doesn't take long for me to kill the other jumbo squid. Now the only one left is the one with two Dead Army soldiers riding it.
The one that has Ty pinned to ground.
Mitch's POV
As Seto works on disabling the last button, he comments casually, "Sky's freaking out about something."
"What? How can you tell?" I ask.
"He's just so loud and happy all the time. When he's extremely sad, scared, or panicked, I can sense it. I can sense a lot of things that other people can't," Seto replies.
"Why couldn't you sense Sky's panic when the evil Recruits carried him off?" Jerome asks.
"Well, I couldn't really sense any of his emotions after the poison had been activated. I'm not sure why." He nods to himself. "Mmkay, all the buttons are disabled. I'm gonna go check on Sky." He walks toward the door, and Jerome follows. Seto suddenly pauses and turns to give me a quizzical look. "You coming, Mitch?"
I shake my head as I reach forward and grab Jerome's arm, pulling him back to stand by me. "We're gonna stay here a bit longer, actually," I say.
Seto narrows his eyes. "Well... Okay. Don't do anything stupid."
I nod. After Seto leaves, Jerome turns to me and asks, "Why are we staying behind?'"
"I need to show you something, Biggums."
Ty's POV
I squirm beneath the squid's tentacle. Only my head and left arm are free. "Surrender yet, Ty?" one of the psycho squid-riding soldiers asks.
I huff in exasperation. "What do you want?"
"Kiss me!" she says.
Her friend, who is next to her on the squid, rolls his eyes. "She means 'world domination,'" he says. She glares at him.
"What!? Okay, one: I'm not going to kiss you. And two: How could I give you control of the world if control of the world is not something I currently have?" I ask, still struggling to get out from under the squid's tentacle. A large crowd of Recruits and Doods has gathered around us now, but none of them really know what to do. The majority of the Dead Army is either having a panic attack of trying to knock the psychos off the jumbo squid with their bows and arrows.
"HEY!" the boy psycho shouts. "NEXT PERSON WHO SHOOTS AT US GETS TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR TY'S DEATH!" I gulp nervously. "Now, Ty. I suggest you come up with some way to get us what we want, and soon."
Well, I think I can handle the kiss thing, but world domination? I glance around, trying to think of anything that could possibly get me out of this situation.
My eyes land on Sky.
He's fidgeting anxiously at the front of the crowd, like he seriously wants to punch something. He probably would be punching something if not for my soldier's threats. OK, Sky, don't be mad at me for what I'm about to do.
"Well, I still can't give you the world, but I know someone who can!" I say.
"Oh?" the power-hungry psycho boy asks, not quite believing me. "Who?"
"Sky!" I tell him. I watch Sky's reaction out of the corner of my eye, and surprisingly, he only looks relieved that the squid has loosened its hold on me. "Sky can easily get control of the world, he's already in charge of half of it."
"Sky?" the boy asks. "Would you really be willing to hand over control of the world?"
Sky nods nervously. "Ty's life outranks the world's freedom in my book," he says honestly. Half the Recruits "aww" loudly while some of them snicker. Sky huffs. "Hey! Chill out, okay? I'd do the same for Jason." Most of the Recruits squeal happily, while the rest of them burst out laughing, amused at Sky's mistake. Sky groans. "And Ian, and Mitch and Jerome, and Seto, and Quentin! Geez. Crazy shippers."
"And you'll kiss me?" Crazy-psycho-girl asks, looking down at me.
"Not necessary!" Sky screeches. I facepalm as the majority of the crowd shouts "Skylox" at the top of their lungs. "OH MY NOTCH, CALM DOWN! I JUST DON'T WANT MY BEST FRIEND TO BE FORCED TO KISS SOME RANDOM GIRL! GEEZ!"
"Ooh, Ty just got friend-zoned. Remind me to buy him some ice cream when this is over," one of my soldiers whispers to her friend. Sky groans again.
"I'm fine with it, Sky," I assure him. He just sighs. "Alright, you guys can come down now. I'll give you your kiss, and Sky will work on getting you world domination."
The girl and boy smirk triumphantly and slide off the jumbo squid. The squid reels back, releasing me and trying to get as far from the psychos as possible. I exhale slowly, relieved to be free of that stupid squid's heavy tentacle.
The girl strides toward me, lips puckered, while the boy stares expectantly at Sky. I push the girl away, and Sky snorts. "What, you actually thought we were serious?" he asks, feigning innocence. "Sorry about that."
One of my soldiers pins the psycho boy to the ground, and ten female Recruits all tackle the girl at one time. "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?" they scream. "YOU COULD HAVE RUINED THE SKYLOX!"
Mitch's POV
"Well, what is it?" Jerome asks.
I lead him back to the table with the buttons on it. "Over here," I say, pointing toward a small black box that seems to have risen out of the table. "This popped out when Seto disabled the last button."
"Why didn't you tell Seto about it?" Jerome asks. I shrug, and he sighs. "Hmph. Well, what's it do?"
"Let's open it and find out," I suggest. I reach over to the box. "Oh, the top flips open," I mumble to myself as I mess with it. There's a big red button inside the box, and, just like the other buttons, it has a label. "Emergency Kill Switch," I read aloud. "What do you think it does?"
Jerome scoffs. "It's a kill switch, Mitch. It shuts down the machine with all the buttons on it, obviously."
"Well, Seto already disabled all the buttons... But-"
"But what if he didn't? What if he missed a few?"
"We should probably push it, just to be safe."
"Better safe than sorry."
"Together?"
"Together. On three?"
"On three. One."
"Two."
"Three!"
By now you should all just assume that anything Mitch and Jerome do will end badly.