Ch27: Clockla's Boss Battle Redux

Once we finally got to terms with ourselves, Bentley sent Sly and me over to Arpeggio's headquarters, which was where Clockwerk was being rebuilt. "Do you really think those fake eyes will fool Arpeggio?" Sly asked. "Of course," I smirked. "I outfitted them to be yellow at first but turn red when exposed to change in magnetism... you'll understand when we're in there."

We entered the ship from a duct that was out of place and we noticed that Clockwerk was already completely rebuilt, which worried Bentley to no end. "Don't worry Bentley," I frowned. "You forgot that Clockwerk's original identity died when we beheaded him? Why else would Arpeggio want to reassemble Clockwerk?... also, take note that Arpeggio and Neyla are in the back talking away."

Sly's frown grew when he heard me say that. "How do you kn-" he was about to ask. "Oh... right. Forgot you knew everything about this world..." he frowned. "Yeah... well, I already know what we need to do here..." "Yeah? What's that?" "See those guards down there?" I asked, pointing to them. "We need to get their keys and use them on that machine to slow down these rotating magnets. Then we reverse the polarity of said magnets." "What happens after that?" "Not telling. Don't want to spoil everything now do I?"

Sly didn't question it as both of us got the keys and knocked out the guards, getting the magnets slowed down and reversed as well. Then Clockwerk's body fell. It was still intact and the loud booming noise made Arpeggio and Neyla come out of hiding. "What's going on? The magnets have been reversed! But... it seems to have locked the parts into place! Excellent!" Arpeggio smiled.

"Why didn't you tell me that Clockwerk would be restored?" Sly glared at me. "Who's the one wanting the story to end happy?" I frowned back at him. He frowned as I pushed him out, having him talk to them and witnessing Neyla's biggest betrayal yet. "Stupid Arpeggio! I double-crossed the Cooper Gang, and Interpol, and Carmelita... what made you think I wouldn't do the same to you?!" she asked angrily, jumping into Clockwerk's mouth and therefore creating Clockla. "I demand you exit the Clockwerk frame or... or..."

Those were Arpeggio's last words as Neyla crushed him with her metallic beak, his monocle rolling over to Sly's feet. "Behold! Clockla is born!" she exclaimed, flying out the window. "She can see?! What the hell?" Sly exclaimed. "Just wait. Let me press this little button here and..." I smirked as I pressed the self-destruct switch for the fake eyes, Clockla's screeching obvious outside. I didn't waste any time grabbing Sly and getting out of the headquarter blimp as we witnessed Clockla colliding with the blades that kept the airship afloat. No matter how you looked at it, THAT wasn't part of the story... at least not yet.

"Um... guys?!" Bentley exclaimed as Clockla surprisingly took their battery prison in her talons and flew away. "Oh no you don't, you bitch!" I exclaimed, grabbing hold of Sly and using time stopper again. I then made a desperate leap from the edge of the aircraft to the wings of Clockla. I was stunned beyond all comparison that I actually made it.

"Wanna piece of this?" Neyla asked angrily, looking at us with her eyes demolished. It looked kinda gross to be honest. "Don't worry, there's plenty to go around!" "You may have a new body, Neyla, but you're just the same coward we sent packing time and time again!" Sly exclaimed at her. I didn't dare reveal myself. I had used invisibility to sneak my way onto her head. She was made of metal so she couldn't feel me at all! At least, not if her eyes were still on my person.

"I may not have the immortality that I craved, Sly, but I do feel something... some power growing within me! And I will use it to kill you all!" she screeched out. "Um... you're forgetting one thing, kitty!" I smirked, slashing away at her head as I finished saying that, making her curse profanities no one would have said out loud in society to the point where I sliced her beak with my cane in an attempt to make her stop.

That was the mark as we were sent hurtling towards the ground, making it to the ground... which happened to be Paris. 'How the heck did we travel so far so freakin' fast?!' I thought in my head. I cut this thought out, however, as I activated the time stopper move just as we would've collided with the ground if I didn't. I quickly grabbed Sly, Bentley, and Murray from the battery and Clockla's back and I jumped off her back, landing on the ground just as Clockla collided with earth and her wings folded into scrap, now useless for flight.

"We... we did it!" Sly exclaimed. "RIGHT ON!" Murray boomed. "It's an enjoyable moment," Bentley beamed. "Yeah... run." I frowned, grabbing onto their hands as Clockla screamed, "DIE INSECTS, DIE! I'LL KILL YOU RIGHT NOW!" "Clockla won't die? What do we do?!" Bentley exclaimed. "Destroy her source of power: the hate chip. You'll need to pry open her mouth, Murray. Do it!" I gleamed, pushing him forward. "I'm on it!" he exclaimed.

Once he exclaimed this, I was met with a VERY creepy visage of an electronic projection of Neyla's head. "I HATE you Cooper Gang! I will find you in your sleep and I will destroy you! And you, Sylvia Martin! I will have a pleasurable time torturing the hell out of you before your demise! I am the Alpha and the Omega, CLOCKLA!" She exclaimed as Bentley bombed her laser grids, which powered the hologram. "I still have my hate chip, Cooper Gang! I will NEVER DIE! EVER!" Those would be her last words as Bentley grabbed the chip... and then it happened.

Bentley got crippled by Clockla. I had to shield my eyes when that happened. I stifled a sob as Murray saved him and Clockla exploded and her metal body parts flew all over the water, completely okay and not hurt. They never would be... "Yo! Thought I'd drop by to fight a giant owl and what do I find? Some cat from another world beating her and screwing up the story line. AGAIN!" Carmelita growled as she exited a chopper she got from who knows where.

Then she destroyed it. The hate chip was no more. Clockwerk's body parts started to age in front of our eyes, turning into dust as if time finally caught up with him. "Wait..." I gasped, feeling a small bump in my pocket still. I pulled out the part that I thought should've been destroyed by the hate chip's destruction: one single eye. The right eye of Clockwerk. "I-I don't understand! I thought he was supposed to be all go-"

Before I could finish my sentence, the eye suddenly jumped from my hand's grasp and clamped onto my right eye. The pain was excruciating. It felt like getting your hand caught in a wood chipper. Now imagine that pain in your eyeball. Yeah. That bad. "AAUUGHGHHH!" I yelled in the worst agony I'd ever experienced in my life. I then heard a voice. A voice that should have died along with Clockwerk's body. But it wasn't the bird. It had fur, not feathers.

"HAH! NOW I WILL CONTROL YOU, PRISSY FELINE!" it yelled in my head as the pain became near-intolerable. "GET OUTTA MY HEAD, YOU BITCH!" I growled, punching the mechanical eye, which added onto the pain. "IF YOU KILL ME, YOU KILL YOURSELF! I'LL HAVE CARMELITA COME OVER HERE AND KILL MY BODY IF YOU TAKE IT OVER! SO YOU BETTER GIVE UP, CUNT!"

Those words seemed to make the pain stop as instant as it happened. It left me drained beyond comparison. "Y-You're serious..." Neyla said in my head. "Bet your ass... besides, now that your in me, you now know why I always got the upper hand... don't you?" I frowned. 'Was I actually conversing with this backstabber? What has my life just become?'

"Are you okay, Syl?" Sly asked, walking up to and holding me. I covered the eye up, since Neyla told me she did NOT want to see Sly's face. "I've screwed up... Haven't I?" I sighed, my left eye starting to tear up. "Shut up..." Neyla groaned in the eye. "I don't like this any more than you guys... And as much as I want to just kill you right now... I'll just say it, Sylvia... you're WAY too strong..." "A compliment? Wow." I frowned. "I don't like sarcasm." "Whatever..." And now my life was going to go downhill REALLY fast.

OH MY GOD! Bet you didn't see THAT coming! Sylvia having Clockwerk's remaining eye from game 4 attach to her face?! AND it has Neyla still in it?! How can this get any more hectic?! Guess you'll need to wait until tomorrow when I make more chapters... it's bedtime in PA now. See ya!