Revamped!
Chapter 15: MojoWorld Part Six
MojoWorld - Time Unknown
After James made that announcement and worked Mojo's technology to make Merida and Daniel disappear, he shrank to avoid Mojo's attacks as he goes to destroy the show the best he can.
Angela and Xavier keep firing at Mojo non-stop to keep him distracted from James. They flip over the clawed wires being shot at them at alarming rates, some grazing their arms and legs. It wasn't enough to send them down since they took it as minor paper cuts.
"Hurry!" Angela yells.
In his small form, James places a USB in the port that seems like it could hold that storage system and starts an immediate download. He also flies into the command system, finding himself surrounded by wiring he doesn't understand. He flutters around for a bit, searching for the perfect wire. Once he spots one with no coating in one section, he flies over. James spits on his hands and rubs them together before lighting them up. At once, he places his electrified hands on the wires and screams as sparks fly all around him.
Angela and Xavier watch as Mojo's systems shut down all around. And because Mojo was connected to the systems, the alien falls to the ground, deflating like a balloon. The twins hold their guns for a few more slow breaths before holstering them again.
James flies out of the systems and grows back to his normal size. He huffs before coughing out smoke but gives a thumbs up to his teammates, saying that the system is fried.
"Sorry we can't stay for the season finale," Angela says as James snags his USB, "but we must leave you on this cliffhanger."
James pushes some buttons on his makeshift device and the three of them teleport out of MojoWorld.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 14:01 PM
"- bastard!" Merida screams as she reappears somewhere new.
No, this place isn't brand new. She recognizes the side of the building from earlier that she and Daniel jumped out of before appearing in MojoWorld. How long has it been? She's back in the same position she was when she jumped out of the building the first time. That's when she realizes she's falling from the building.
Merida's brain clicks.
She pulls out her grappling hook arrow and fires it at the building side, the rope winding from her bow. She turns over to Daniel and sees him falling alongside her, still unconscious.
"Daniel!" She exclaims.
When she feels the arrow snag onto something, she cranes her arm out for Daniel but he's too far. Seeing as she doesn't have that much altitude left until she and Daniel hit the ground. Merida swings over and snags Daniel's bicep before wrapping that free arm underneath his shoulders. She pushes a button in her bow that stops the rope from winding.
The rope stops just mere feet from the ground, their feet dangling. Merida hops on the ground, still holding Daniel in her arm. She unclips the rope from her bow before throwing it on the ground. She places Daniel on the ground gently and watches his chest move up and down, relieved that he's alive.
"Merida!"
She turns around and sees the others running up to her from the street corner. She charges over to them.
"Check Daniel," Merida orders the twins. When she sees James, she decks him across the face.
"Ow!" James exclaims, holding his cheek. "What the hell, Merida?!"
"You could've given me a better warning than 'grab Daniel!'"
"Well, you could've given me a thank you instead of a broken jaw. I saved your damn life and his not-so-damned life!"
"I saved my own life!"
"If it weren't for me, we would've never found you! You would've still been in whatever the hell MojoWorld is!"
Merida stares at James as he rubs the spot where she hit him. She didn't use all her strength so his jaw was still in one piece. Feeling ungrateful and guilty for her outburst (since it was just a spur-of-the-moment reaction), she rolls her eyes and crosses her arms. She looks down at her boots and mumbles something inaudible.
"What was that?" James asks with a grin approaching his face. "Did Merida Barton just thank me? I don't think I heard that. Why don't you give me a hug?"
He opens his arms for her and Merida sighs, annoyed.
"Offer a hug one more time and I will knock you out and drag you to the quinjet on my back."
"Noted."
Merida smiles a little. "But thank you."
"Are you good?"
"I'm fine now."
They run over to the twins and Daniel. Daniel is now awake and sitting up. He's rocking back and forth with his knees huddled up to his chest all while staring out into the open. Angela is kneeling beside him, whispering to comfort him or break him free from the trance he's in. Xavier does the same from standing above him.
"Daniel," Angela says, "we're okay. We're back on Earth."
Daniel doesn't respond with anything more than a blink. The others look at each other. Xavier takes off his windbreaker and throws it over Daniel's shoulders to warm him up. Still no response.
"Daniel…" Merida says, stepping in front of him. "Hey, look, I'm fine. We're fine. There's no more Mojo or his shitty survival show. We're free."
Nothing.
Merida begins snapping her fingers in his face before getting scolded by Angela. Merida rolls her eyes and resorts to waving instead. Finally, Daniel's brown eyes look up at his friends. He puts his head in his hands and holds himself from breaking down crying. Even with Xavier's jacket, he's still shivering from shock and not the draft.
"I think I need a break…" Daniel mutters.
"A break sounds good," Merida agrees, picking up her bow.
Xavier's phone starts ringing. He only has to look at the screen before sighing in stress.
"Our break will have to wait," Xavier says, showing the call coming from Agent Tapper, the head debriefing officer for field missions.
"How the hell do they know we got back?" James asks. "How did they even know we left? I wasn't even sure where we were when we got there!"
Xavier shrugs. "They know everything."
