BQ stared at Red Son's flying motorcycle that was heading right towards her with a curious look on her face. She really wanted to see what would happen if the vehicle hit her.
Alas, it never happened as Sandy reacted quickly and stopped the vehicle with one punch; leaving only Red Son's head in his grip when the dust settled.
Knowing the next part, BQ decided to stay out of the Red Son shenanigans and enjoy her food while MK and the others talked with the young demon. She pulled one of the spider venom canisters in her pockets and began drinking in the background completely zoned out from the conversation around her. That was until...
"Oh, no you don't!" Exclaimed MK dropkicking the can of venom out of BQ's hand and off the ship into the cold roads of the city.
"Hey!" Exclaimed BQ in surprise before noticing that her pockets were empty. She turned to MK and saw him holding several cans of spider venom.
"I'm confiscating these! No more cursed or dangerous food for you!" He exclaimed in a serious tone as he gave his sister a disappointed parent look. "You need to fix your eating habits, young lady!"
BQ's eyes burst into flames as she glared at MK. "I'M OLDER THAN YOU, YOU IDIOT!" She yelled making MK shrink as he immediately regretted saying anything. "Now give me back my drinks!"
Just as BQ was about to smack MK on the head while Sandy took away the venom cans, Red Son interjected.
"Uhh, I seem to be out of the loop. Who's this?" Asked Red Son raising a brow.
MK, with starry eyes, squished his and BQ's faces together. "This is my older sister, BQ." He said cheerfully. "See the resemblance?"
As if on que, BQ proceeded to push MK off of her with a grumpy expression. Seeing the contrast of expressions, Red Son decided not to answer that question.
"Anyhow, I can make an antidote. However, I'll need supplies and the only place to get them is..." said Red Son in a serious tone before pointing at the sky.
MK stared at the sky in wonder. "Space?"
"No, you Noodle Brain! The Celestial Realm!" Replied Red Son angrily.
"So if you get to spa- uh the Celestial Realm, you can fix all of this?" Asked MK, desperation showing in his expression.
"Kid, you're not really considering this, are you?" Asked Pigsy narrowing his eyes.
"Well..." Said MK dejectedly before Pigsy and Mei yelled and started arguing with Red Son.
MK didn't know what to do. Monkey King got captured and even his older sister ran away from the Spider Queen. Someone who, as far as he knew, was literally invincible; not flinching to even his staff slamming into the side of her head. What else could they do other than help Red Son?
"Let's help him." Said MK in a serious tone causing all his friends to turn to him in shock. "What other choice do we have? Look, Spider Queen won't see this coming. It's the best plan we've got. So I say let's help a demon rob the Celestial Realm."
BQ saw this and decided it was time to leave. Everything would happen the same way as the show so she needn't interfere. She headed to the edge of the ship and got ready to jump.
"Where are you going?" Asked Mei glaring at BQ which got MK's attention.
"Uhh, leaving? You guys look like you're doing good without me." Said BQ with a shrug. "Also, you guys kinda...hate me."
MK's friends immediately agreed except for Sandy. MK, however, gave BQ a pleading look.
"I- I know we don't exactly get along and you have this whole evil energy-sucking demon thing going on, but this is not the time for that. We need-" said MK in a desperate tone before pausing, causing BQ to frown. "- I need you...please."
He didn't. BQ knew that. But the stone bear found it hard to refuse the look on his face. She couldn't destroy him like this.
"Ducking damn it." Muttered BQ with a deep frown. "Fine, FINE! I'm going with you! Just stop looking at me like that before I switch to less family friendly words!"
MK smiled happily as Pigsy smiled at the interaction, prompting Mei to give BQ a mischievous grin. "Looks like someone has a soft spoooot." She said cheerfully as she put her face next to BQ's.
"Remember when you said my presence made the new years unhappy?" Countered BQ calmly. "That was today."
"Whatever you say, Monkey Bear."
Ignoring the nickname Mei gave her, BQ walked away as Red Son prepared the trip to...the celestial realm.
xxXxx
At the celestial realm.
BQ didn't comment on anything Red Son did, she already knew he knew what he was doing. All she did was turn off her passive absorption, and by extension her invulnerability, as to not mess up the transportation and waited silently.
Soon enough, they made it safely and BQ deemed it safe to reactivate her passive powers. BQ admired the scenery. The celestial realm was much more majestic looking in person than on a screen "Woah." She said in admiration.
"So, some special pills, a fancy peach and a furnace." Pigsy recited the things they needed. "Where are we gonna find these things?"
Everyone turned to Red Son who BQ knew didn't know where they were, but thankfully Tang was there for the rescue. After that, it was decided. Mei and Red Son would get the peach, Tang and Pigsy would get the immortality pills and...
"We'll get the furnace!" Exclaimed MK as he pulled BQ to his side.
"Alone? With her?" Asked Pigsy whispering the last part. "I don't know if that's a good idea."
Without answering, MK used his staff to propel himself into the celestial realm causing BQ to sigh and focus her energy onto her legs.
"He'll be fine." She reassured Pigsy before leaping right behind MK.
Little did she know of the danger ahead.
xxXxx
At the palace.
BQ admired the palace silently as MK walked inside. The Stone Bear noticed the lion statues guarding the place and stopped as she noticed their eyes glow as they detected an intruder.
"Maybe I should tussle with one of these?" She muttered calmly as she sniffed their chi. "Act like I'm- what?"
BQ flinched. Something wasn't right. Currently in the celestial realm, she should've been able to smell the chi of two of spider queen's henchmen. Huntsman and the buff spider guy. It what happened in the canon.
So why did she smell three? One of which was very close by. BQ ignored the lion statues as they followed MK into the palace and turned around to this new henchman as it jumped in the air and landed in front of her. It was a spider robot. A giant one that seemed to be built for combat.
BQ raised a brow as it stared the robot down. "First adventure and something's already changed. Fan-flippin-tastic." She muttered as she got ready to fight the robot. "Maybe I should test one of the 'techniques' I prepared."
If everyone has chi and she has the power to absorb chi, can she somehow pull someone towards her using her absorption without touching them? It was worth a try.
And that thought was a giant mistake.
The robot spider quickly fired a web all too familiar to BQ, forcing her to jump into the air to dodge only for the spider to fire another web to catch her in the air.
"No no no NO!" Exclaimed BQ in fear and panic as the webs wrapped around her before pinning her to the ground.
BQ visibly panicked. She instinctively tried to use her energy to break out of the web only to be met with the worst feeling she has ever felt as the webs started sapping out her energy. BQ screamed under the immense pain as her body rapidly started turning to stone.
Even the normal pain of petrification wasn't this intense for BQ. There, the pain was slow and bearable. Here, it all flooded her quickly like a rain of knives. She could feel every part of her body scream in pain as it started to die, as life was sucked completely out of it and turned to stone or as the petrified parts violently tore through her still living tissue due to the high speed of the petrification. And all BQ could do was scream. But no one answered.
Tears quickly fell from her eyes and down her cheeks. Whether it was from the torturous pain or the rapid approach of her death, she didn't know. She could barely think. She just wanted out.
BQ had no way to break out of the webs as is. Her arms were stone, legs were stone, everything below her chin had already turned to stone. But there was one last thing she could do.
With wild desperation, BQ opened her mouth and started to suck in all of the spider robot's energy to save herself. Which only worked until the spider robot started taking that energy back forcing BQ to take short pause from the stab of pain before starting at absorb once again. The two were locked in a battle of absorption and it seemed that the spider robot's early lead was going to give it the win, but BQ wasn't only focusing on chi.
The spider robot was lost its balance as BQ absorption pulled its body towards her. The robot tried to regain its grip on the ground, but it failed as BQ's absorption power grew as chi began flying into her body through her eyes. Its body dashed through the air towards BQ's face until the stone bear shut her mouth and pulled her head back before using all her remaining power to headbutt the spider robot with enough strength to crush it like a soda can. Without the spider to power, the webs lost their purpose and stopped absorbing, letting BQ escape and take back all her chi and undo her petrification.
And just in time for MK to notice some of the petrification while it was being undone as he escaped the palace with the furnace being charioted by a red quadrupedal lion mech. Without hesitation, the Monkie kid grabbed his sister and threw her behind him on the back of the mech as the lion statues started chasing them.
"Uhh, BQ? Don't wanna seem needy, but can you, like, take away their powers? Like, right now!?" Asked MK in a panic as he drove the mech towards Sandy's ship.
BQ shook her head dizzily, trying to shake herself awake. She could barely think, so she did what MK asked. But as she opened her mouth all she could find herself doing was coughing as her throat started to hurt. The Stone Bear held her neck in exhaustion as MK hurried towards the ship.
All BQ did was shut her eyes and ignore everything until she was on the ship a minute later when MK got them there.
BQ silent sat in a corner and tightly curled up into a ball as she remembered getting caught in that web. She vigorously brushed her arms with her hands unable to shake the awful feeling out of her skin.
"Hey! BQ! What do you think of my new power?" Asked MK with a bright smile.
BQ raised a brow before remembering what he meant. "Oh, you mean the self reflection thing." She said in a slightly hoarse with a frown as she stared at the ground while brushing her arms. "It's great."
MK noticed something wrong and sat next to his sister. "Are...you okay? You've been on edge every since you fought that spider thing." He asked softly. "Does it have anything to do with your voice being all sick or was it that stone that was growing on you-"
BQ immediately went tense upon hearing the word stone before grabbing MK by the mouth. "I'm FINE!" She growled angrily. "You understand!?"
Since his mouth was in his sister's clutch, all MK could do was do his best to nod in a panic prompting BQ to let him go and go back to her arm brushing.
MK saw this and put a hand on her back. "Hey, I don't know what happened with that spider robot. But believe me when I say that whatever you're going through, you can tell me. I won't judge."
Seeing the sincere look on MK's face as he said those words made BQ chuckle before giggling.
"I think I'm good." She replied in a hoarse voice with a smile
"Sure thing, Monkey Bear." Replied MK cheerfully.
"That nickname." Said BQ in a hoarse tone in surprise as she started to forget the pain. "You too?"
"Hehe, I couldn't resist." Replied MK cheerfully, causing BQ to snicker.
And so, the two stone beings talked, or at least BQ listened to MK, until the ship made it to flower fruit mountain where they made the antidote.
xxXxx
Making the antidote was quick like in the show and the plan to fire the antidote into the city using water cannons didn't much time either. It was all quick and done. What mattered now was fighting the spider queen herself.
And so, everyone now stood on the ship head to head with Spider Queen and her giant mech.
"If it isn't the spider queen, throwing herself a party." Said MK with a grin. "Prepare to meet your doom! HAHAHAHAHA!"
"Now THAT'S a hero speech!" Exclaimed Red Son with a satisfied grin.
"Wow, MK. You're handling your spider phobia really well." Remarked Mei cheerfully.
"YEAH! PRISSY SPIDEY PRINCESS MUST BE QUIVERING IN HER LITTLE SPIDEY BOOTS!" Added BQ loudly enough for the spider queen to hear.
"I'm internalizing a lot of stuff right now." Replied MK as he quaked in fear. "RELEASE THE ANTIDOTE!"
And without hesitation, the whole group activated the water cannons and rained antidote onto the city, curing all the humans of their spidery mind control.
"It's working!" Exclaimed Mei excitedly as she saw the antidote working. "Let's finish this!"
Following her words, the whole group jumped out of the flying ship and landed in front of the spider queen ready to fight.
"You're reign of horror is-" said MK confidently before the Spider Queen slammed her leg into the ground, spooking him. "O~ver."
Spider Queen burst into laughter. "Oh, monkey boy. You're nothing without your master!" She exclaimed with a grin as green energy coursed through her body. "There's nothing that can stop me! Nothing!"
Quickly, MK dashed towards the Spider Queen with his staff in hand ready to strike before the spider queen's mech send a surge of energy to Spider Queen allowing her to block MK's attack with ease and counterattack with enough power to cause a massive shockwave.
But that shockwave didn't touch MK. BQ had dashed to then blocked the attack with her left forearm as she flashed a grin for the Spider Queen.
"Still...a butter knife." Replied BQ as her arm pushed back against the Spider Queen's increased strength.
Spider Queen's face twisted with anger as she attacked BQ with all her strength only for the stone bear to take the hit with a grin once again.
"About what I expected from a prissy princess." BQ mocked the spider demoness before MK took this chance to attack.
Spider Queen saw MK's attempt and flung him away with minimal effort. The rest of the group, including Red Son, tried to do the same but were quickly webbed up by the Spider Queen.
Now that everyone else was out of the way, Spider Queen saw that BQ was trying to land a punch. But Spider Queen easily dodged and counterattacked with a blow that released a powerful shockwave that BQ blocked with her left forearm.
This time the Spider Queen didn't stop. She started wailing down on BQ. Unleashing powerful blow after powerful blow that BQ could only block.
And all MK could do was watch as BQ took the brunt of all those attacks.
"After all I've won and lost and won, you think I'm gonna let some boy and a dumb girl stop me!" Exclaimed The Spider Queen angrily as she unleashed another earth shaking attack.
Before the Spider Queen could let out another attack, the energy that made her a threat disappeared as the Demon Bull King came down like a comet trying to end the Spider Queen. The shockwave was powerful enough to free nearly everyone webbed up by the spider queen.
And with his appearance, BQ knew it was already over. Because soon enough, The Monkey King appeared and with his and MK's powers combined the spider queen's titanic mech was destroyed.
BQ sighed with a smile. She wanted to go home and rest. But before she could, MK dragged her back to meet a certain someone. A certain monkey king.
"So, Monkey King. This is my older sister BQ." Said MK with the happiest smile on his face. "BQ, this is my mentor Monkey King."
Monkey King looked confused, shocked and suspicious all at once as he stared at a tired BQ. Obviously, he decided to use his golden eyes of truth to see if BQ was a demon or something.
She was something worse.
Noticing the surprised look on Monkey King's face, BQ immediately held the primate by the mouth and turned to MK. "MK, I need to talk to your mentor for a sec. Can you give us some privacy?"
"Oh, uh, sure!" Exclaimed MK cheerfully before leaving the area.
Seeing that MK was gone, BQ turned to the Monkey King. "Look, I wasn't lying about being MK's older sister. So I need you to hide what you saw from him."
"Hide that you're essentially a living corpse living on the chi of others?" Asked Wukong narrowing his eyes. "You know he has gold vision too, right?"
"I do, but he won't use it on me." Countered BQ calmly. "Just hear me out. I don't want anyone to know about my... condition-"
"Is it a pride thing?"
"Kinda. I'm doing this whole evil energy sucking demon thing to hide it. MK tried to deprive me of chi once because he thought it made me evil."
Wukong's eyes widened in horror, prompting BQ to continue.
"Yeah! If he learns about this, he'll be devastated! So be the shady mentor you are and shush!"
Wukong could only sigh before nodding, agreeing to BQ's proposal before the stone bear could finally rest.
xxXxx
I just wanna say that MK sees himself as the "older sibling" to BQ or more accurately the responsible sibling. And thinks it's his responsibility to guide BQ in the right direction and help her like a good older brother. He really wants them to be family.
Also, BQ didn't use her bear form against the spider because it takes more chi to keep alive than her regular form. It could've killed her.
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Toodles.