Tloj: Last one! This was fun... Again, happy birthday, you!
"Ugh..." Well, last one... I never have to go through this again...
"You okay Hero?"
I nod and pull up the blanket. "Yeah, just tired, Chrys."
Wait... what?
She smiles, and leans over to kiss me. I jump when I feel her leg between my legs.
I throw myself out of my bed, landing on my back. "What's going on here?!" I demand.
She crawls to the edge of the bed with an expression of severely suppressed laughter. "Are you okay?"
"About time," Milie's voice calls from the hallway. "Hurry the hell up in there, breakfast is almost ready!"
I pull on my clothes, and checking to be sure I still have my C.E.A., I stand up and look around. "Where am I?"
"Home," Chrys assures me. "I know we got pretty wasted last night, but you seriously think Sarah would let you wake up in a ditch on your birthday?"
"Ugh... Did we have sex last night?" The thought disgusts me, but at the same time thrills me.
"I think so," she giggles, and slips out of the bed... naked!
I barely notice my jaw drop, too busy studying her.
She smiles, and slowly turns in a circle for me, "Maybe I'll do breakfast before my shower."
I shake myself out of it. "Y-yeah, you do that."
She chuckles, and walks out the door.
I slowly follow her down the stairs, attempting to process this.
So I'm at my house... with Chrys alive and in love with me... Sarah and Millie are here as well...
I pause halfway down the stairs.
...This can't be real.
"Hero?" Sarah comes to the bottom of the stairs in an apron. Judging by the twin peaks poking on the chest that's all she's wearing.
I blink and take the next stair, missing it and tripping down the stairs.
"!" I slam into her face first, taking us both to the ground.
"Ow..." I groan.
She looks down to where my face is smushed in her mounds, "Owie... are you okay?"
I quickly nod and get off of her, rubbing the blush from my cheeks.
She smiles, and kisses me. "I'm glad."
"Where's Antonio?" I look around.
"Out on a job," Millie replies, putting plate on the table... in her undergarments.
That is some skimpy underwear, doesn't anyone have clothes here?!
"Huh..." I sit at the table and do my best to not stare at them.
Sarah puts some pancakes in front of me, and pecks my cheek, "Happy Birthday Hero!"
"How old am I now?"
Chrys frowns, and puts a hand to my head, "Just how hard did you hit your head?"
"Pretty hard; I'm surrounded by beautiful angels." I smile.
They giggle, and Millie leans on the table. "Well ready for your present?"
"Present?" I gulp.
Sarah nods, and slips off her apron. As she does I notice she doesn't have that tattoo in her elbow anymore... neither does Millie.
Warning sirens!
"Hey Sarah, remind me... did we remove your chip?" I ask, focusing on her neck.
She frowns, "What chip?"
Wrong thing to say!
I jump to my feet and run, diving out the window with a crash.
"Hey!" Chrys runs to the window.
I run right into Spike who has a huge present in his arms. "OUCH! Dude, what's the deal?"
I eye the present warily. "Who's the gift for, Spike?"
"You dude, jeez." Spike stands, and gives it a shake, "...Good, not broken. Let me guess, the girls?"
"Yeah... they're a bit wild right now." I slowly back away. "What's in it?"
Spike smirks, "Tails helped me come up with this thing, I swear you'll love it."
"Open it for me, would you?" I frown.
He frowns, "...Well it is your birthday."
He balls a fist, and uses his knuckle-spikes to slice it open. Inside the box is a backpack... made of metal.
"What's it do?" I ask curiously
Spike chuckles, and presses a button. It jumps to life, transforming into a motorcycle.
"Wow..."
Don't know what I'd do with it...
"Hey Spike, how's your mother doing?" I tilt my head.
"Cinder? Not sure actually, I haven't been to the dojo in a while. I saw Smoke though, and he told me to say thanks."
"Hm. That's nice. How about Amy?"
Spike snorts, "Her acting career is headed for the toilet, and she hates her agent."
My eyes narrow. "I didn't know she had an acting career."
"What're you talking about dude? You, and Antonio talked her into it after you finished that mission with Smoke."
This dimension is all screwed up!
Spike tosses me the keys, "Great job by the way, who knows what would have happened to Sarah, and Milie if that slavery law had actually gone through."
"Alright, enough of this bullshit."
A sword stabs through Spike.
His eyes go wide, and he coughs blood.
Wait, why does this seem familiar... oh shit.
Spike's eyes go blank, and he summons his sword.
Seis yanks the sword out of him and states, "Hello space traveller. You've picked a bad time to be here."
I blink. "The heck are you talking about?"
"The three challenges, saving your wife and kid? Yeah, hurry up and choose, would you? Help me, or stay here."
Spike rounds on him, sword flashing.
Seis deflects easily. "Don't have all day! What's your choice?"
This guy's nuts! Still better than hanging out here with a demon Spike on the loose...
"I accept!" I say.
He grabs me with a smirk. "Chaos Control!"
We vanish a split second before Spike cuts us both in half.
We reappear in a bunker, and Seis lets go and walks up to a fridge, pulling out four beer bottles. "Have a seat."
I do so. "What's going on here?!" I demand.
"You sir, have pretty much entered the Matrix." He states, popping the lid off one of them and downing the contents.
"Ya'll knock that off, yer gonna confuse him." Jane steps inside.
"Oh wow, you actually put some clothes on." Seis deadpans.
"Eat me, Braindead."
"I would, but we have company." Seis grins.
Jane pulls a gun, and blows a hole in his ear.
Seis blinks and shrugs off the wound, drinking his beer. "This is Jane. Jane, you know Hero, right?"
"Damn straight I do," she holsters her weapon, and holds a hand out to me. "Good ta see ya again pardner."
"What's going on here?" I demand, shaking her hand.
Jane leans on the wall, "Long story short, before you started yer dimension jumping we were all mindless drones walk'n 'round in a pretend universe. Now that yer here you done shook everythin' up, and we actually know what's what. Them friends you met earlier are still controlled by somethin', we got no clue what, but until we can free 'em ya can't trust none of 'em."
"Darn straight."
I turn and blink. "Uh... I never met you in my universe."
Kara smirks. "Figures, you know these two but you don't know me."
Seis grins, "Maybe it's because you're so forgettable."
"It must be, you hate me until you're buzzed." Kara counters easily.
Jane waves, "Hey Kara. Now hero, trust me on this, everyone you see now are the only folks ya can trust, okay?"
"How do I know you're telling the truth?" I state, crossing my arms.
"Simple." Seis pulls two more beers from the fridge. "Here's a way I know you'll understand. Take the blue beer if you don't believe us. It's drugged. You know, so we can get you back in you house and this'll be just a dream. You'll never see us again, and you'll live out your life in a fake world with three hot mostly naked women. Which I admit, is a pretty sweet trade-off." He sets the blue beer on the table. "Or, you can take the red beer, and see how far the rabbit hole goes-"
Kara smacks him. "Seriously, you HAD to pull a Matrix sequence?!"
"Shaddap. I like the Matrix sequence." Seis grumbles, drinking a regular beer.
Jane takes one too, but just sips it, "Alright... did ya'll notice anythin' before about them girls? Stuff they tried to explain later on?"
I think. "They said Antonio was out on a job, for starters. Antonio doesn't go out to solve cases, he solves them at the police station, because that's all the information he needs. Next, Chrys said we were wasted, but then she said I was knocked out. Sarah and Millie don't have the tattoos or their chips, even though that's how I got them. And Spike... Not really sure what was off about him, he just was. Oh, and Chrys is madly in love with me, to the point of sleeping naked with me, even though normally she'd never even sleep in the same room as me."
Jane claps her hands, "Well there you go."
"But I barely know you people. Hell, I haven't even properly met Kara in my own dimension!" I frown.
"So what do you want? Sex? Not every girl is willing to give you some like your girlfriends." Kara states.
I growl, "What is WITH this universe and naked women?! Geez!"
Seis shrugs. "They wanted you to stay, so they pulled all the stops."
Jane gives me a teasing look, "Well good luck getting any outa Kara, I've been trying for weeks."
Seis smirks. "Trying and succeeding, what with how often I hear you two going on in the back room."
Kara blushes and looks away.
Not sure if this is an adult sitcom, or if this is really all they have to do around here... Drinking, sex, and talking about drinking and sex.
"Oh shaddup," Jane growls at him. "Well Hero, i suppose yer supposed to save us somehow."
"Exactly how?" I frown. "I start acting like Neo and blowing up helicopters?"
"That would be freaking awesome." Seis smirks.
Jane swig the beer, and takes a seat, "Well in yer experience, what the hell could do mind control on this level?"
"Villains of the X-Men." I deadpan. "As far as I know, Fear and Robert can't do this. I don't know anyone who can."
Jane sighs, "Then I guess we're screwed, and don't you dare start Seis."
"Hmph. You're the person who dresses like a stripper." Seis grunts.
"If this universe is under someone's control, then shouldn't we attack multiple targets so that it will weaken that person's control?" Kara asks.
"Sugah, we can't afford to divide ourselves like that, we'd never come out alive. And Sies, if you call me a Stripper one more time I'll shoot yer balls off. You don't use 'em much anyways."
"I'd love to see what your pea shooter does against my earth kinesis." Seis states.
"All right, enough." I state. "We're doing no good sitting here. I think we should go out and see who comes after us."
"I'll get the Warthog," Jane says, putting her beer down.
"I'll get some weapons." Kara walks away.
"I'll pack the beer." Seis stands.
...Sounds like they've done this before.
...
The Warthog as it turns out is the same one from Halo, a jeep with a turret in the back. Also... it's only meant for three people.
"Kara, Sugah, could ya'll drive a little straighter?" She bouncing in Seis' lap while I man the turret.
"Psh, why?" Kara scoffs.
Man, she has as much driving experience as Spike, geez!
She takes a jump and makes the Warthog do a 360, landing with a whoop.
Seis mutters something to himself.
"I don't like this either," Jane grumbles. "But we sure as hell weren't gonna let you drive cuz yer drunk as a skunk."
"Lady, even drunk I'm a better driver than Kara." He slurs. "I'm amazed your top hasn't opened with all of this jostling."
Kara takes another jump and somehow makes the Warthog do a successful backflip. "Whoo! Rank S!" She cheers.
"Better be thankful for that, else Kara'd take her eyes off the road, Numbnuts."
"Cool, then we'd crash and hopefully explode." Seis smirks.
"Geez, get a room you two." I snap. "For a lesbian and an old guy, you banter more than a couple."
"Maybe we are, and you're Optimus Prime." Seis snickers.
Jane elbows Sies in the face, which may or may not have been an accident.
Seis just gives a drunk laugh.
"At least if I was Optimus Prime, I'd be driving." I growl. "As opposed to off-roading."
"Well Kara can't shoot all that well, and I like having my hands free for my pistols."
"I know a few things that I'd like free." Seis drawls.
Uh...
"Mainly vodka. I swear it's so expensive!" He complains.
Okay, this is a screwed up world.
"Anythin' worth shootn' yet, Sugahog?"
"Just buildings. Should I shoot them?" I shrug.
"Should be some grenades by yer feet."
"Sweet." I grab a few of them and pull the pins, tossing them randomly. "I feel bad for causing destruction like this, but hey."
The grenades blow open the front of a building, setting off many alarms.
"That'll get someone's attention." I smirk.
Seis snickers. "Like naked girls?"
"Shaddap." I snap.
Jane draws her guns, "Kara, get ready to go crazy."
"Sex crazy or power crazy?" She blinks.
"Road-rage crazy, they should be sendin' pursuit right 'bout..."
A giant talk bursts through a building, and I start shooting at it.
"Hey Hero, any good at pitching?"
"Depends." I say, finding a second clip of ammo at my feet and pulling out my Uzi, feeding the clip into the Uzi and firing it as well as the minigun.
"Well see if you can stuff its cannon with a grenade!"
"Why not?" I grab a grenade and flick off the pin.
Seis waves his hand at the tank and yells, "Hey! Aim this way so's he can hit you!"
The tank just keeps driving.
I frown and toss the grenade away before it blows up in my hands, grabbing a new one and not pulling the pin.
"My turn," Jane says, and undoes her seatbelt.
"I'd say be careful, but we're four whackos fighting a tank in a jeep." Seis states.
She ignores him, and climbs in the back with me. "Kara, slow down a bit so I can jump on 'em."
"Kay!" She slows down a little bit.
"...There really isn't that much room back here..." I say uncomfortably, Jane's chest inches from my face.
"Pervert," she complains, and jumps onto the tank. She puts away one pistol, and knocks on the top hatch over the main cannon.
I toss her a grenade when no one answers.
She catches it, and opens the hatch. SHe pulls the ring with her teeth, and drops it inside before running back to the Warthog.
Seis catches her as Kara spins the wheel, turning onto a different road.
BOOM!
Jane sighs, "Shame we couldn't capture it, but it's too slow for us to get back to base unnoticed."
And a jeep with a machine gun is different how?
"I'm sure there are others that are better." Seis shrugs.
Three more tanks burst from buildings, right in our path.
Kara shrieks as Seis' eyes narrow. He shoots his hand forward, and the ground in front of us raises into a ramp, shooting us over them.
"Yee-haw!" Jane holds on to me since she never got the chance to get back in her seat.
Kara lands and whoops. "Thanks Seis!"
"You know how to pay it off later." Seis states, pulling the sword off his back.
"Vodka's on me," Jane laughs.
"Hot." Seis smirks, turning his sword into its shotgun mode and firing at a tank, managing to blow a hole into it.
Jane lobs a live grenade through the hole before we move to the next one.
Seis cocks his gun and fires again, cutting a tread. The cannon swivels around and aims at us, and Seis rolls his eyes. He slams his fist into the barrel of the cannon, and when it fires, the tank's cannon destroys itself. "Like friggin paper mache."
"Next one's Kara's," Jane calls.
Kara smirks and takes off her earrings, handing them to Seis, who closes his hand around them. She jumps out as Seis takes over driving, and starts flying. She lands on the tank and punches a fist into the plating, tearing it apart.
Who is this chick, Supergirl?!
She lifts the tank into the air and throws it away, landing and taking control as Seis moves over.
"Four for four!" She smirks.
"You're stronger than I thought." I blink.
"Thanks!"
Jane leans around, and pecks her on the cheek, "Good work Sugah."
She giggles, "You too."
"Don't celebrate yet, now they're bringing the flying stuff." Seis states, pointing.
Helicopters, great.
BANG!
BOOM!
I watch as one helicopter explodes, and crashes into the other.
"Got 'em," Jane reports.
Alien jets fly in and start shooting lasers at us.
Kara swerves out of the way.
Jane elbows me, "That turrent ain't for style!"
I aim and start firing the minigun as well as my Uzi, shooting the planes.
Seis aims his shotgun and starts firing as well.
Jane takes careful aim, and blasts one of their engines.
It turns and attempts to fly away, but Kara shoots eye laser at it.
"It's like shooting ducks!" Seis chortles.
Jane chuckles, "Think this is enough ruckus to pull out the big guy?"
"Better be, I'm getting bored." Seis drinks more beer.
"I don't think so." Kara says.
I start wheeling the turret around, shooting buildings and stuff.
jane hops back in her seat, "C'mown idjits! We're bored enough here it'd knock a buzzard off a meat truck!"
A huge spaceship appears overhead.
"Think that's it?" Kara blinks.
"I dunno how we'd find out. Wanna flash the thing?" Seis downs another beer as he aims his shotgun at the thing.
"Go right ahead," Jane sighs.
Kara flicks on the high beams, and Seis fires at the thing.
"Hey jerk! We're over here!" Seis calls.
The ship slowly moves closer.
Well, we got their attention, what the hell was step 2?
"Now what do we do?" I ask.
"Dafuq should I know? I'm a drunk old guy!" Seis snaps.
Jane gawks at me, "You telln' us you didn't think this far ahead?!"
"I though some guy would show up, clap sarcastically, and tell us how pointless this is." I state. "Not a spaceship."
A tractor beam hits us, and starts lifting us onto the ship.
"Hero, if we don't live through this Imma kill you," Jane growls.
"I'd point out the flaw in that, but oh well." I state.
"If this is the last time I'm going to get to see you guys again..." Seis drains the last of his beer, dropping it off the side, "Then I want to say dammit Jane, why do you have to be a lesbian."
She slaps him.
Kara smiles at them. "Get ready guys, we're about to enter."
I put my Uzi away, and create my swords.
Jane draws both her pistols, and reloads them.
Seis puts his shotgun on his back and cracks his knuckles.
We land inside the ship, and the tractor beam stops.
I hop out of the Warthog and take a fighting stance.
Jane hops out, and goes back to back with her girlfriend.
Seis drops into a cat stance, palms on the ground.
"Ah, all of the resistance! Wunderbar!"
I blink.
Smirking back at me is a green echidna with purple eyes and white and brown highlights.
"The hell're you?" Jane raises an eyebrow.
"I am a scientist, schone. My name is Bios Dragoon." He gives a bow. "A pleasure to meet you in person."
"All yours, Pardner," she says dryly.
He turns and looks at me. "Nothing to say for yourself?"
"First off... what's with the fake-ass German accent?" I state.
He laughs. "I got it from my father."
"What do you plan to do with us?" I ask.
"For those three, I'll make them mindless slaves again. As for you, I need to kill you so that you can't return to the other world." He smirks.
I blink. "Wait... you're from my dimension?!"
"Da, of course! Robert sent me here to dispose of you." He states.
"But if I die here, I'll still be alive!" I point out.
"Ah, but the loss of Sarah will just kill you, won't it?" He sneers. "All this way, and she still dies right in front of you!"
Jane puts a bullet between his eyes, "Don't ya ever stop talkn'?"
He smirks and regenerates, his eyes narrowing. "For you, it's better than the alternative."
Vines come from nowhere and grab us, and Kara shrieks.
Jane screams, and tries to get Kara's hand.
Seis and I cut our vines, and Seis slices through Kara's and Jane's as I charge at Bios.
Bios smirks and snaps his fingers, and I run through a portal.
I blink and land on my feet, looking around.
Shit, back at my house!
Someone throws a blanket over my head, and yanks me back on the bed.
How did I not see this coming?
I cut the blanket off, and I jump away, landing in a fighting stance.
Sarah pouts at me, "Hero? I'm sorry, did I scare you?"
I frown. "Sorry Sarah, I need to go!" I run out the door and down the stairs.
And right into Millie's fist.
Ow, my face!
I cringe and back up, taking a fighting stance.
Then Chrys drop-kicks me in the back of the head.
I take it in stride, tucking and rolling back to my feet. "Fighting naked girls. Of course, why not?" I sigh, taking a fighting stance.
Chrys lunges at me while Millie breaks a chair to use the legs like clubs.
I turn my swords back into rings. Like it or not, I'm not gonna kill them.
I sidestep and kick Chrys aside.
Millie breaks one of her clubs over my head.
I slam into the ground with a groan. I dodge another smash and raise my hand up, running a finger between her legs.
They penetrate, and she screams as she drops, clutching her crotch.
Chrys pulls a gun out of the couch cushions, and starts shooting at me.
I smirk. "Sorry girls, but as much as I don't want to hurt you, there's no way I'm missing a chance like this."
I grab Millie and help her dodge the bullets, letting her go in a safe location. I rush back at Chrys and dodge the bullets, coming up behind her and grabbing her chest, pinning her arms to her sides as I start squeezing her breasts.
She squirms in my grip, and kicks up a foot that catches me right in the crotch.
"Gah!" I let go and drop to a knee, wincing.
She whirls, and puts the gun to my head.
BANG!
...I watch as she slumps, and over her stands Sarah with a frying pan.
I sigh with relief. "Thanks Sarah."
She looks up at the pan, and drops it. "I... I..." She clutches her head, and groans in pain.
I dash over and hold her. "Sit down. What's wrong?" I shouldn't be sticking around...
She whimpers, "I couldn't let them hurt you... Oh Chaos, Hero... I remember dying... why do I remember dying?"
"Shh... It's okay..." I whisper, cradling her.
She sobs into my chest, "I'm so confused Hero... Just a second ago I knew a completely different life, but now..."
She looks down at her elbow where the chip, and tattoo should be.
I frown. "Sarah... I know this is a lot to swallow, but I need you to stay here and trust me. There's a bad guy that's destroying the world."
"I know... I know now..."
How though? She was the same as them a second ago...
Until Chrys tried to kill me, something Sarah would have never allowed.
I let Sarah go. "Just think about us. Think about us and our child." I kiss her and run out the door.
She watches me go, and then starts crying into a pillow.
I turn Tails Doll, and crash back onto the ship. "BIIIIOOOS!" I roar.
Bios turns around and smirks.
"Where are my friends?" I demand.
He pulls out a remote, and presses a button. A screen turns on, showing them wrapped by vines.
Seis roars, attempting to rip out of the vines, his sword out of his grasp.
Not good-WHAT THE HELL?!
I notice that the girls are in little more than tattered rags, leaving nothing to the imagination.
"Figures you Chaos-damned pervert..."
He just laughs. "Words will never hurt me, like sticks and stones. You have to admit though, those two are smoking."
Kara scowls and tries to break free, growling, "How did he take my powers?!"
Jane sighs, and blows a lock of hair out of her eyes, "Damn Hero'd better hurry up, my entire body is goin' ta sleep on me."
"Better than being ravaged by vines." Seis growls, pausing to catch his breath.
"Ew, TMI pardner."
"I've read a few fanfictions." He states.
"I'll kill you, then free them. I don't know how you managed to enslave the world, but I'll free them from you as well!" I growl.
Bios snickers. "I'd love to see you try!"
He has power over plants... fine by me, plants can burn.
I charge forward and turn into Fire Hero, shooting a fireball at him.
He rolls his eyes and bats it away, punching me away.
I land on my feet and growl, shooting fire at him.
He walks right through it and shoots vines at me.
Correction: The hell aren't these plants burning?!
I shift into Ice Hero and freeze the vines, shattering them.
That's better, but supervillains like to cheat...
Bios throws a poisoned dagger at me, and I barely dodge it. If it's dipped in the same poison I bought, that might've killed me right there.
I skate at him and shoot ice at him, freezing and shattering him.
He regenerates and laughs, punching me in the stomach.
I back away and change into Darkmatter, punching him across the room.
He lands on the wall and smirks. "Done yet?"
"Never!" I shout, creating my swords. They become encased in Darkmatter, and I charge again.
How do I kill this guy? Everyone has one exploitable weakness...
Bios dodges my swords and land, punching me through the wall.
I almost fall off the ship, but I change into Tails Doll and fly back in, punching him away.
Bios frowns. "This isn't fun anymore. Show me what you've got already so I can kill you so I can have fun with the two frauleins."
I roar and change back into Darkmatter, shooting dark energy at him.
He knocks it away and grabs another poison dagger.
Think... HOW is he controlling the plants? Is he a plant himself, or what?
I look at him closely. No vines attached to him... psychic link or something? If so, how come he feels no pain from them?
He charges at me, and I switch abilities.
Psychic!
I turn a regular purple with yellow highlights, like Chrys. I throw him up and through the roof, jumping after him.
I land in a treasure room, and take a fighting stance.
He frowns and charges at me, and I pick him up and throw him up a floor again.
Vines sprout from his back, and he lands like Doc Ock. "You can't defeat me, I'm invincible!" He growls.
"Yeah... I'm gonna call bullshit."
He growls and shoots one of the vines at me, and I catch it with my powers. I pick him up and throw him through another wall.
If I can't defeat him, I'm at least going to get Seis, Jane, and Kara out of here, even if I have to use him to break open every room to find them!
I jump after him, and land in the engine room.
He stands and hisses, "Keep trying, I dare you!"
I growl and pick him up, throwing him into the engine.
To my surprise, he actually cries out in pain and scurries out of the engine, jumping through another wall.
...Plant shredder?
I shrug. Looks like I'm throwing him in there until he dies!
I chase after him, and he throws daggers at me. I catch them and toss them aside, taking hold of him when I got close enough and throwing him across the room and back into the engine.
He screams, the tentacles on his body disintegrating. He presses a button on the device in his hand, and disappears, screaming, "I'LL KILL YOU NEXT TIME!"
"Whatever, weirdo." I roll my eyes. That was easier than I thought. I tear open wall after wall, looking for the three.
I kick the floor and drop through it, landing in their room.
Seis pauses his struggle again. "Hey, you're alive!"
"Yeah. Bios ran away." I create a sword and cut Seis loose.
He lands and picks up his sword, hugging it. "I never thought I'd see you again!" He gives it a kiss.
Jane walks up to me while covering her cleavage, and kisses me on the lips. When she pulls away she says, "Best reward I can give right now."
"Thanks then." I blush and smile. "Let's get you guys home!"
Seis cuts down Kara, and she hugs him.
He coughs with a blush, "So do we find a vehicle, or just figure out how to pilot this thing?"
Jane picks up her gun belts, and puts them on, "So long as we get the flock outta dodge I really don't care."
"Space ship it is then." Seis walks up to the hole and looks up at it. "Kara, lift me out."
Kara nods and takes his hand, jumping up.
I turn Tails Doll and offer a hand to Jane.
She takes it with a smile, and grins up at her girlfriend.
I lift her out and set her down, looking around for Seis.
Seis slashes through a wall and walks through it. "Now, which of these damned buttons helps me steer this thing?"
Please tell me he didn't fly this thing with his mind...
"Oh wait, here's the steering stick."
Oh thank goodness.
"Now, where's the friggin gas pedal? Why don't you people help me, hm?" Seis states.
I walk into the next room and look around. "That's... a lot of buttons."
"It'll be a field day when we figure out how to work this thing." He smirks.
Jane smirks, "Ya'll figure out how to steer this over water, or at least crash it. We'll work at blowing the engines. That should shake whatever freakshow Bios had goin' on here."
"Okay." I nod.
When the two girls were gone, Seis sighs, "Dammit, I wanted to watch them push buttons!"
I snicker and start pressing buttons.
How about this nice big red one?
I reconsider. Big red ones usually start a self destruct. I go around it. I press a few more before Seis says, "That button! Press that button again."
I do so, and feel the movement this time.
"Awesome, thanks." He steers us the way of their base.
The girls come back a minute later. "We rigged it with C-4, ready whe ya'll are!"
"All righty then." Seis reaches into his hair and pulls out a generic sword, stabbing it into the controls. He stands. "Let's blow this popsicle stand!"
"Hell yeah," Jane whoops, and we make our way for the Warthog.
Kara hops in the driver's seat as I hop on the turret again. Seis takes his seat, and rummages around for a beer.
Jane passes him an open one as she buckles up in his lap again.
"Thanks!" He smirks.
I blast a hole in the ship, and Kara steps on the gas, launching us out of the ship with a whoop.
Jane clutches to the seat, which Sies seems to enjoy too much.
We hit the ground with a bounce, but otherwise okay. Of course, we sit there a few seconds frozen, Kara glued to the wheel frozen, me crouched on the gun platform, and somewhere during the air and the bounce, Seis' hands had managed to be clutching Jane's chest to be sure she didn't fall off or something, whatever his excuse would be.
Kara blinks before slowly pressing on the gas pedal, moving forward again as I slowly stand.
Jane removes Sies's hands with wide eyes, and deep breaths. She turns around as the ship crashes in a nearby lake... and presses a detonator.
BA-BOOM!
Kara cheers as Seis whoops, giving each other a high five before they both give Jane a kiss on the cheek.
Jane laughs, and off to the side I can see a portal opening.
"Well, there's my ride. See you guys!" I smirk and hop out, waving.
A car drives up... my "girlfriends" getting out, finally in some clothes.
I pause and walk over.
Chrys gives me a hug, and so does Milie. Sarah sniffles, and wipes her eyes.
"Sorry for the... attack, Millie." I apologize.
"Our fault," she says. "As soon as the ship went down we came to... Looks like you've kept your promise so far."
Sarah looks up at me, "How are you going to save me?"
"I'll gain a day of time for completing these challenges. I'll use it to go back in time and save you." I explain.
"How though... what can you change? What is no matter what you try I die anyways?"
Chrys rubs her back, "He'll pull through."
I hug her. "I'll pull through, because I need you."
She smiles, and purrs quietly.
Way off behind them the world slowly starts to dissolve. Chrys smiles, "You better get going Hero."
I nod. "Good bye for the last time, Chrys." I turn, and dive through the portal.
Tloj: Good bye, Chrys. Unless we do flashbacks. ^^ I'm thinking this chapter will raise the rating to M, so I'm changing this story to M for this, just in case. If you think it doesn't, let me know. I had fun writing this one :3 Anyways, this one is based off of the Matrix or something. Of course, the three challenges are actual challenges. What are they? If you guess correctly... maybe I can squeeze one of your characters into a cameo, or maybe even main backup cast! HTK owns Jane M. Fox, Sarah, Millie, and half the plot. Reagan owns Seis. Half-Angel Writer owns Chrysos Dawn. Microsoft owns the Warthog. I own everyone else, including Bios Dragoon. I'm afraid I'm going on hiatus until I get my computer at MTS, and time to post. Still, please R&R, F&F, please. Until then... Bless your face. If you sneezed while reading this story, bless you. Peace off! BOOP!