CHAPTER 12
The sun arose up in the morning sky of Sydney, as a new day was starting. The Lab Gang knew that the day for Sherman and his men to clean their room was this very day. But they were unware of what was soon to come.
Peach woken up first stretched and yawn from her cot "Morning...It's morning everyone! Today's the day!" she called out with a song in her voice. Getting up and stretched even more "The sun is shining, the room is already clean, and we're getting out of-" Peach stopped in her tracks and gasped. "The room is clean!"
Peach frantically looked around the room, she was shocked to see that the room was indeed spotlessly clean. Not a trace of dirt or filth everywhere.
"THE ROOM IS CLEAN!"
The Lab Gang shot straight up from their cots by her scream. All were as shocked as she was. Even Gurgle was surprised. The room was clean, all their work to make it dirty for nothing!
"But how?" Deb asked, looking around the room twice as everyone wondered the same thing "Gotta be from this contraption!" Gil pointed up to where the vent was.
All looked up to see some sort of weird high-techy machine attached to the vents. To them it looked like some sort of new futuristic air conditioner fan device, or it could be something that Sherman and his men made and wanted to test out their new invention. But whatever it was, it had to be the source to why the room was already spotlessly clean without Sherman lifting a finger to clean the room by hand.
"No doubt about it. Sherman and his goons must've installed it last night, while we were all asleep without even knowing they were in the room" Gil stated, glaring up at the machine. "What're we gonna do?" Nemo asked, taking hold of Gil's hand "What is this thing anyways?" Bloat asked, holding his head as he felt another one of his migraine's coming on.
"Think you can figure this out Peach?" Gil turned to the pink haired woman. Peach, who seemed depressed of this recent morning event, had her whole face to the glass as she muffled something they couldn't understand "Peach Sweetheart, can't hear ya!" Gil yelled to her. "Sorry, what I said was that weird machine is a highly advanced conditioner/purifier called 'AtmosphereScum 2003.' Peach turned to them, telling them what it was.
"How do you-?" "Sherman forgot and left the manual in here" Peach showed them the manual in her hands. Gil shrugged, nodding for that reason.
Peach turned back and began to read "The AtmosphereScum 2003 is an all-purpose, self-cleaning maintenance free fresh air purifier that is guaranteed to even extend the life within your home attached to your household air system." "Stop it!" Bloat cried out, already having a migraine.
"Great, a new air purifier conditioner! An advanced one too!" Gil moaned at what it was and what it can do. "There's more." Peach said, looking back into the manual.
"It says that the AtmosphereScum is programmed to scan and scent your room environment every five minutes?!" Peach looked up with a raised brow. "Scan? What does that mean? And what did they mean by scent?" Gurgle was as confused.
All of a sudden, the AtmosphereScum began to make some sort of humming noise. A red laser light flashed, and began scanning the room and the people. Gurgle felt like he was exposed and covered himself.
Once the scanning was complete, and robotic was was heard "Temperature of the room is normal. No dirt in sight. Now spraying lavender scent" just then the machine then released a spray of scent into the air. Giving the room a scent of lavender.
"Ooh..." everyone awed.
"Nice..." Peach muttered, little bit impressed.
Gurgle couldn't take it, he groaned and fell to his knees, raising his arms in the air to scream out "CURSE YOU ATMOSPHERESCUM!"
"That's it for the escape plan! It's ruined!" Bloat yelled out, trying to get over his migraine. Hearing this Nemo felt a tiny bit panic inside him, moving closer to Gil, still gripping his hand "Then what're we gonna do about-"
They suddenly heard a door opening, making the Lab Gang panic "Darla!"
Gil took Nemo and hid him behind the couch. "Stay down, Kid" he made sure the young boy was not to be seen, before running back to the others.
The Lab Gang paniced as they looked up, only they didn't see Darla at all, it was just a bunch of Sherman's men walking by. "False alarm!" Bloat called out, he and the rest of the gang released a sigh.
Nemo took a peek from his hiding place, seeing if it was safe for him to come out of hiding. He didn't seem to noticed someone sneaking up behind him.
"We can't keep this up" Deb stated "My nerves can't take much more of this!" Gurgle said, all feeling the same way he was. "What are we gonna do when that witch gets here?" Bloat asked, turning to Gil to see if he has a new plan. "I'm thinking, I'm thinking" was all Gil could respond, trying so hard to think of a new plan.
"Gil! Help me!" Gil and the Lab Gang whipped around and gasped "Nemo!" Gil cried seeing the young boy being taken away by Sherman.
"Help me! Help me!" Nemo continue to cry out as Sherman pulled the boy's arm "Now now little fella, don't be like that. Today's the big day for you" Sherman said calmly to the boy but was pulling on him roughly. "Let him go!" Gil ran and grabbed onto the boy, there he and Sherman were having a tug-o-war.
"I got you Kid, we just gotta keep going!" Gil reassured the boy, soon Gil felt hands grabbing his waist, turning to see Peach helping him. No sooner the rest of the Lab Gang came and helped Gil trying to pull Nemo away. "Everybody keep pulling!" "Just keep going!" Bloat and Deb cried out as they continued to pull. Sherman didn't know what was going on with the Lab Gang, but continue to pull the boy with all his might as they tugged back with all their strength.
The Lab Gang pulled with all their might, Gil decided to have a kick to help them. He actually gave Sherman a kick, knocking the man down. Sherman sat on his rear growling at the Lab Gang.
They cheered as they managed to get Nemo back. But however their victory was cut as Sherman once again got him, this time with Dr. Hunter's help. "Gil!" Nemo cried as he was carried away by the men and out the room. "Nemo!" Gil ran to the door, he tried to pull and open the door, only to find it was no use.
He and the Lab Gang ran to the window to see that Sherman tied Nemo's wrists together. Sherman and his men gathered around "Okay patient is here, we just get prepped up before our special doctor arrives" Sherman ordered his men, all nodded as they began prepping for the operation.
Nemo was scared, he froze in his place "Sharkbait!" "Now's your chance Sharkbait, run!" Nemo turned to the window to hear his friends, telling him to run and pounding on the window. "Go Kid, run! Get to the exit and run!" Gil cried out through the window.
Nemo nodded and began to ran away, the rest of the doctors saw him escaping and ran after the boy.
Nemo still with his wrists tied up, ran as fast as he could away from the doctors, dodging them and anything in sight. He looked up and smiled to see he was close to the exit. However he screamed as he felt arms grabbing him. Sherman had caught him once again.
"And where do you think you're going?" Sherman glared at the boy in his arms "Let me go!" Nemo cried, squirming trying to break free. "I don't think so little fella!" Sherman told him, carrying the boy back. Then he pulled up a wheeled medical bed and strapped the boy in. "So you don't think about pulling another escape stunt!" Sherman said, eyeing the bow with a evil smirk.
Nemo squirmed in the bed, trying so hard to try to get out "Gil! Don't let me flat line! Don't let me flat line!" Nemo cried to the window. "We won't let you flat line Nemo!" Gil tried to calm the boy, only to begin to panic himself, trying so hard to think of a plan at this very moment. The only thing Gil did was pressing both his hands to the window and tried to calm both him and the frighten little boy "I promise, you're going to be okay" Gil said through the window.
"I'm here!" a shrill voice rang out.
The Lab Gang were petrified in their places, for they recognized that voice. They regrettably turned to see a not so attractive red haired woman walking into the building. The woman waved to the doctors as she greeted them. They knew who that woman was.
"DARLA!"
Meanwhile somewhere in Sydney.
Marlin and Dory had searched all night at the car impound. Searching every lot to see if they could find the truck.
"Do any of these trucks look familiar?" Dory asked while yawning "No, but the truck has to be here somewhere!" Marlin replied, still looking for the truck "Come on, Dory. We're gonna find it." he continued to look through the lots.
"I'm totally excited. Are you excited?" Dory tried to be peppy but continued to yawn, almost closing her eyes. "Dory, wake up. Come on." Marlin ran to her, trying to get her to wake up.
Dory little bit dozed off before something caught her eyes "Robber!" she shouted pointing. Marlin turned to see a man in black and wearing a ski mask running towards them. "That's not just robber, that's a mugger!" Marlin cried out. "Got it Red!" the mugger said, putting a sack over Marlin's head before doing the same to Dory with quick pace.
Both Marlin and Dory screamed as the mugger was leading them somewhere. He held them down as he held up his knife.
"Now, I don't want to repeat anything, just hand over all your money right now! Or else!" the mugger warned them, holding his knife to them. "What do we do?" Dory asked, still with the sack over her head.
However something came into Marlin, seeing as he have had enough obstacles blocking his way on this adventure. "No! I didn't come all this way just to be mugged!" Marlin then rammed the mugger, pinning him to the ground. "Whoa man! I mean no harm!" the mugger began to cower, seeing that he picked the wrong man to mug. Dory helped Marlin as they pinned the mugger "Hey! I'm trying to make a living! You don't know what it's like here in Sydney!" the mugger continued to cower in fear, trying as much to escape these two people.
Meanwhile not to off, just right near the pub, Nigel and his buddies were just hanging out. Then they noticed the mugger getting pinned and struggled by two strangers wearing sacks over their heads.
Nigel shook his head in disappointment "Looks like Gerald's at it again, boys!" he turned to his buddies, all groaned and shook their heads. "Back to mugging, what is that boy's problem?" "Who knows, been like this since he got laid off" two men just watched the mugger, Gerald, on the ground.
"Sun's barely up, and already Gerald's had more than he can handle. And it seems he messed with the wrong sorts of people" Seamus the bartender said, he to watching the scene from afar. Nigel still frowned "Reckon somebody oughta help the poor guy" feeling that something should be done. Nigel turned to his buddies as they mumbled "Yeah right..." he just frowned and eyed them "Oh sure, don't everybody go off at once" getting the hint.
Nigel just sighed and sat up, deciding he will set Gerald straight.
"Alright Gerald, what did you do this time? What's wrong, cat got your tongue?" Nigel walked over asking the man "Help!" Dory cried out as she and Marlin were still tussling Gerald "Blimey!" Nigel jumped, hearing the voice of a woman.
He slapped the knife out of Gerald's hand, grabbed the two strangers and helped get the sacks off their heads. "Sorry about Gerald, he's just going through some hard times and doesn't know not to mess with certain people" Nigel apologized on Gerald's behave, before shooting the man a glare making Gerald wince in fright.
"I don't care about his problems right now! I gotta find my son Nemo!" Marlin told the man that helped. Nigel perked up at the name "Nemo?" he turned to the red haired man, looking at him carefully. Until it suddenly clicked!
"Hey! He's that guy!" Nigel cheerfully exclaimed "Y'know, the one we were talking about! The one that's been fighting the whole world!" Nigel helped a still scared Gerald up, telling him that Marlin was the same in the gossip story that was around. "Hey, I know where your son-" Nigel turned back, only to find Marlin and Dory had took off in a run. "Wait! Come back! Stop!" he called out to them and ran after them.
"But he seemed friendly?" Dory said, looking up as Marlin pulled on her arm as they ran "Keep going, he's crazy!" Marlin didn't have time and kept on running. Nigel followed behind them and chased after them as they ran behind a corner of a large alleyway. "Hey! I got something to tell ya!" Nigel called out to them.
Suddenly the 3 froze as they heard a sound, a sound coming from a squeak toy. The 3 looked up very slowly and saw there were a bunch of Crazy Dog Hobos all around them with their dogs. That's when the 3 realized they had stumbled into the Crazy Dog Hobo's territory, a type of home where they were living.
The Crazy Dog Hobos stared at the 3 strangers as their dogs took their grounds, some of them just sat while others growled.
Nigel, Marlin and Dory slowly backed away until the 3 were back to back with eachother. "Okay...don't make any sudden moves" Nigel said through his teeth leaning towards Marlin "Come with me...if you want to live" he told him. "Go with you? And how will that make me live? Not after what your buddy did by trying to mug us!" Marlin glared at this strange man. He looked to see a Crazy Dog Hobo stepping forward with his dog.
"Because...I can take you to your son" Nigel said, trying to let Marlin see he can be trusted "Yeah right, and why should I believe you?" Marlin still wasn't convinced. "No, I know your son!" Nigel knew if he was going to let Marlin believe him he had to convince him, he was telling the truth and began to list off a few details in a whisper.
"He's small, roughly around seven years old. Has reddish orange hair, bright orange eyes. Wears a orange and white stripped hoodie. And he also has this special prosthetic hand glove with two stainless steel fingers..."
"THAT'S NEMO!" Marlin cried out.
However because he made a sudden move, the Crazy Dog Hobos were all yelling in their gibberish as their dogs barked and yapped and started to attack.
Marlin jumped on a garbage can to try getting away from the dogs, until he felt his arm being grabbed and pulled by Nigel. Dory screamed as she was surround by the hobos and their dogs trying to chew at her and pull her arms, until she was being pulled back up and ran with Nigel and Marlin.
"Run for you lives!" Nigel cried out as the 3 ran for it. The Crazy Dog Hobos and their dogs ran and started to chase after them.
Marlin, Dory and Nigel turned to see they were being chased by the hobos and their dogs. As they heard crazy gibberish yelling and dogs barking after them. The 3 continued to run block after block, many people passing by saw this chase and moved out of the way. Some even diving out of the way just not to get run over or trampled.
Nigel looked up and smiled seeing where they had ran to "I got an idea you two!" he grabbed their hands and ran around the corner. The 3 looked up to see a sporting store, however something caught their eyes as a sale's person was selling hang gliders. Nigel somehow managed to snag one and payed the man in a flash before the sale's man could realize what just happened.
Not liking the idea of this "How's this gonna help us?" "Easy way to fly mate!" was all Nigel could say. The 3 turned to see the Crazy Dog Hobos and their dogs had spotted them and continued to chase after them.
Nigel, Marlin and Dory ran up the fire escape of a nearby building with hang glider in hand. Once they got to the very top roof, Nigel looked and checked the wind "It's our best way to escape you two!" Nigel told the pair, Marlin and Dory gathered around.
"Okay, just hold on tight with all your might!" Nigel instructed them "You done this before?" Marlin asked, he gulped to see how high they were up. Nigel just laughed "I may be an old pilot, but I also know how to hang glide!" Nigel gave Marlin a wink for him to trust him.
They heard the sounds crazy gibberish yelling and dog barking coming up "Okay, here we go! Everybody hold on!" Nigel shouted, and the 3 began to run to start. By the time they got close to the edge of the building, they jumped off and began to fly into the air.
During which Nigel took the stirring of the glider as they flew through the air. Dory was whooping at how fun it was while Marlin screamed as it was a bit terrifying.
They all looked back to see the hobos were shaking their fists into the air, yelling in their gibberish tongue. Their dogs jumped and bark at them trying to get at them in some ways.
The 3 turned back and all began to laugh at their escape from those crazy people and their annoying yapping dogs.
"This is actually...fun!" Marlin laughed and began to join Dory cheering and whooping in the sky. "Glad you think so!" Nigel told him "Name's Nigel! And I've heard all about you from your adventures and from your boy" Nigel added as he payed attention to what he was doing and having a conversation.
"You said you know where Nemo is?" Marlin looked at Nigel "Of course! I know where he's hiding, Sherman has him at an old mental hospital he's using as his own base" Nigel explained everything. Marlin heard this and couldn't believe it "Nigel, why are you helping me?" "Listen, you want your boy back! And I want to help some friends of mine that are trapped in there!" Nigel told Marlin his reasons.
"And we're just gonna keep gliding there?" Marlin said, trying to not look down below "Told ya, easy way to fly, and we'll be there before you know it" Nigel said, directing the glider to one side and continued to glide into the air. "Now where we're going it's gonna be a bit dangerous!" Nigel turned to Marlin for a moment. "I don't care, I've come a long way to get my son back!" Marlin shook his head and stared at the pilot.
Nigel just smiled and laugh "You are crazy, but you do it for your boy. You really are one dedicated father!" Marlin smiled at the compliment. Marlin looked ahead and wore a serious look on his face "Take me to where my son is Nigel!" "Okay! Keep holding on!" Nigel told the two.
Marlin kept looking ahead, knowing that just before them he will be reunited with his son in no time.
'Hold on Nemo, I'm almost there!'
To Be Continued...