A/N: long time no see! sorry! :(
wow, we're already on chapter 27? WHAT IS THIS SORCERY? I was listening to the song "Let your heart hold fast" by Fort Atlantic while writing this chapter; if you have spare time and your bored I suggest go listen to it because it just reminds me of the two of them :)
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GuiltyBystanders: ...oops XD
"COME AND GET ME JOU STOOPID BUGS!" I yelled. Tears were streaming down my face - I knew this would be the end. I didn't have a reason to try and stay anymore. Up - the old Up that is - he's gone. That new Up may have said he loved me, but i couldn't feel it. I loved the old Up. "See me here? SEE ME HERE? ITS FOLLOW DE LEADER!" I yowled as I plunged into an opening in the corridor.
I heard their buzzing and then I felt their points plunge into my chest. "What da?!" I nearly sobbed. They were... laughing? I felt it happen again twice before I crumbled to the ground in a mess, a dying lump of flesh and clothes.
"RRRGGGAAAAAAHHHHHH! TAZ!" I heard Up's voice vibrate through the corridor and his boots slamming against the floor. "NOOOO!" he cried as he rounded the corner and saw me. He panted, before he pulled one of the bugs off of me... "GET OFF HER!" I felt all the points leave, and I lay there, shocked.
"You want blood?" he coughed. "WELL TAKE IT!" he ripped off his vest. "C'MON! I SAID TAKE SOME." One of the bugs latched onto him.
"No!" I yelled. His eyes were wild.
"That all you got?" He held his stance as the second one joined its brother.
"Up don't do dis!"
"C'mon big guy, its all you can eat." Up teased the last one, who flew over and began to drain him from his shoulder blade. "You damn bugs..." he muttered, before slumping on the ground.
"N-no!" Up was spread eagle on the floor. His face was pale, but he was still breathing... just. "Up!" I closed my eyes from the scene in front of me. "Damn jou." I opened them again to search his face for the last time. "DAMN JOU, JOU DAMN FOOL." I looked at my boots. "Damn jou and jour big, damn heart."
"You...want...blood?" a sickening voice coughed. It was Up. He was standing up... his robot half was forcing him into a sitting position. His eyes were open. He looked... alive! "Then take it." he tore one of the Bugs off himself and pointed it into his one heart. Take it... ALL!" he yelled. Suddenly all three of the mosquitoes burst. Up was half crouched on the ground but staring straight at me, unaware of the puny bugs exploding. I stared straight back.
"Up..." I stood up. "How did jou...?"
"Make them violently explode?" he calmly finished my sentence. "I raised my heartbeat, using breathing exercises. "Their puny bodies must not've been able to handle all that blood! Bug was right! I just needed to learn how to kill with my heart!" he looked at me with his arms outstretched. "I KILLED THEM ALL TAZ! I KILLED THEM ALL!" he sounded like an excited ten year old. "I'M STILL A KILLER! OAH I'M STILL A KILLER!"
"THAT'S GREAT!" I yelled and he pulled me into a hug. It was just like before; Up and me. He was tough again. "Jou know... I used to think that I was de proof jou didn't need de balls to be tough. Now I know - Jou are de proof! Dat jou dont need a skin sack and testicles to be one tough son of a bitch!"
"Thanks Taz!" he grinned. "Now c'mon. Lets go help out the rest of them." I nodded. "Quick! Hop on my back - I can run faster than the two of us combined!" he held out his hand and I took it, before he lifted me over his shoulders and I sat piggy-backed like I was a child.
We ran towards the battle, and I was sure that either of us could take down the world now.