Ch43: Flying Into Danger
After Opal successfully grabbed Sly's cane back with her magic (no sharks or underwater mission...) and Penelope had completed destroying the radar towers, it all came down to one final mission to defeat Dr. M's security systems. The choice was obvious, as Sly was already up and ready for action and I was NOT going to leave him again. "We need to destroy the missile launchers surrounding the area, Sly," I smiled, my wings flapping in preparation for flight. "I'll go invisible and shoot with my wings while you fly in the plane to shoot with your turrets."
"Are you sure you don't want me to come with you guys?" asked Carmelita, who had actually come to Kaine Island BY HERSELF and decided to help us because... her boss told her to. "I have a jet pack, you know?" "You don't have any way to protect yourself, Carmelita," I frowned, seeing that she had on her police outfit and that was it. "Still! If I were here any sooner, I'd have saved Sly myself!" "I saved him first, so I get to fly," I frowned, flapping the wings again. "Besides... I also have a new power thanks to Opal... should come in handy against anything that comes at us that is... alive."
"OH... Fine! Just... just don't get hurt, Sylvia," she groaned, sitting down on the bench with Penelope and Opal by her side. Dimitri was there as well, but he was forbidden to talk to the girls because Opal told him not to come close or she'd make him do the chicken dance. He DID NOT want that at ALL obviously. "We will be fine, Fox. If I survived this long, I think I can handle a few missiles," I smirked, going invisible and flapping my wings. "Come on, Sly!" I smiled as Sly rushed down to the plane and took off in it.
Soon we were shooting at the missile launchers surrounding Dr. M's fortress, my bullets raining hell fire on the machines as Sly's turrets did the same but less stellar. After we destroyed all the turrets, then the flying monkeys came from the ground. They were also easy, our firing speed outclassing theirs as we destroyed them all in record time.
"You really think you have a chance of beating me?!" said a voice I really was starting to hate right now. It was Dr. M on a speaker from inside a Whalefly that he just sent out of the water to attack us with. "Whoa... it looked a lot smaller in the game..." I gulped, noticing how Sly and myself paled in size to Dr. M's Whalefly. "O-Okay... you get the back of him while I go on it and try and sneak my way to him," I said to Sly in the Binocucom. "Okay. Sounds like a plan. Are you sure you can do it, though?" he asked. "Of course! I destroyed his giant lizard and I can destroy a giant flying whale. I'm goin' for it!"
And with that we began our assault. While Sly aimed for Dr. M in the back of the monster, I went up front and landed on the giant's face, making myself visible to see that it was in fact alive. The monster eyed me angrily as he shook his head back and forth, trying to knock me off. I actually didn't expect what would happen next. The mouth of the whale opened up while I was hanging off the edge of his snout. "No! Not this!" I exclaimed, the beast actually slamming his jaw shut with my body barely hanging onto its lips now.
"You'll make a tasty treat for my Whalefly, Sylvia!" Dr. M laughed as the beast opened its mouth and tried to pull me in with his tongue. I wouldn't have ANY of that, though. I folded my wings over my head and let out a flurry of bullets into his throat, some of them embedding in the giant tongue as it retreated back after taking damage.
A loud rumble was heard from within the giant mammalian dragonfly and I took the opportunity to fly off and away, only to be caught off guard by the beast's tongue. I looked back and realized that the Whalefly was actually retracting his tongue into his mouth with me still on it! I shot more bullets at him, but they just bounced off inside it's mouth and even simply slid off his tongue. "NO!" I exclaimed, just as Neyla looked into the eyes with a beam of red light.
"Neyla?" I asked, noticing that the Whalefly stopped trying to pull me into its mouth and actually let go. "Don't just do nothing! Start flying away, dummy!" Neyla growled as I fell. I barely made it to the ground without any injury, using my wings as a parachute as I fell, just lifting myself up so I wouldn't collide with the earth. "You bitch!" Dr. M yelled as the beast went into a spiral into the earth by a nearby island that wasn't the one we were on. It got skewered and that was that.
"Phew... thanks Neyla... you saved me..." I gasped, the realization hitting me that I would've been like Jonah in the Bible, except the whale had wings. "No problem... I didn't feel like dying in a stomach either..." she panted as well. "What'd you do to that thing anyway?" I asked her. "I hypnotized it so that it thought it was a Kamikaze Pilot and that you were its boss." "So you CAN still hypnotize people!" "Yeah... but I don't like to do it much... simply because it reminds me of the bad times..." "Yeah... I got it..."