Chapter seven: The chase
Location: OutdoorMall3 Lexistropolis west downtown sector 4
Date: Saturday, December 10th 4337
Time: 3:24 P.M.
Running after Lizzy’s direction, Tess and Zen raced and raced, until they had caught up with Siera, who was a short distance from Lizzy, before she ran off.
“Did আপনি see where they went?!” Tess yelled over to Siera, as the two chameleons approached the কাঠবিড়ালবিশেষ girl.
“Not too far off.” Siera replied, catching her breath. “Your new friend followed the runaway out to the left side of the *Cocsate.” *A general store, similar to Wal-Mart*
“And আপনি didn’t go help her?!” Zen yelled at Siera.
“You try running in heels!!” Siera yelled back.
“ERRRRRRG!!!!! Wait here!” Tess growled. “If the dude circles back around to here, try to stop him অথবা call us!”
Siera nodded just as the two others began running after their surprise guest. Ten সেকেন্ড later Tess got a call on her cellphone.
“Tess, the guy’s at the end of the Cocsate!” Nick informed over the cell. “There’s a car near there, and it looks like he’s going for it!”
“Where’s Lizzy?!” Zen asked.
“She’s still chasing him!” Nick replied. “I’m almost there… OH CRUD!!! He just got into the car!”
“CHASE HIM!!!” Tess demanded.
“I plan to, but he’s turning off road, into a sand-area! Nick paused. “What if your parents look and see some kind of-”
“JUST FOLLOW HIM!!!!” Tess yelled.
Nick slammed on the throttle, going full engine at the slim black car. As he began to edge closer, he heard a large clank coming from the side of the car. He began to ease up, and look over to see the damages, just in time to see and hear Lizzy yelling “WHAT ARE আপনি DOING!?!?!? KEEP GOING!!!!”
Again, Nick began charging after the suspect’s car, with Lizzy edging closer to the front.
Meanwhile…
“Siera!” Tess waved, as her and Zen began running back.
“What happened?!” Siera yelled back.
“Nick… *gasp* just told me… that the guy got into *pant* a car, and started heading off after him. Lizzy *pant* jumped on, and followed.”
“Now what?” Siera asked.
“We should probably go back to the alley, and see if anything is over there.” Zen suggested, as they started back. As they drew nearer, Tess noticed something. Something was off.
“Wait a minute…” Tess pondered. “Where’s Chells?”
“I think I saw him run towards the parking lot.” Siera replied. “Maybe he went to chase after the mystery perso- what is that?”
“What is…what?” Zen inquired.
“That!” Siera pointed something groaning at the শীর্ষ of the DeanGames store ceiling. It was the cop from the দিন before. *Right where Lizzy had placed him. *chapter five*
“WHAT’S HE DOING THERE?!!?” Zen yelled.
“Sleeping?” Tess teased.
“Is someone there?” The officer weakly spoke out.
“Uh… hi *Mr. Thomas!” *name was discovered দ্বারা Tess. Hinted in chapter three* “It’ us. The kids who saved আপনি a while back?”
“… Are আপনি serious?” The cop questioned in disbelief. He turned over on his stomach, to look over and see his rescuers. “Why is it always you?????”
“I really don’t know.” Zen replied, weakly. “How did আপনি get up there?”
“I was heading back প্রথমপাতা for the night,” Mr. Thomas began, “when I got knocked out. পরবর্তি thing I know, I’m being dragged over as a hostage, with both my arms broken, and my head spinning. After that, I heard gunfire. Then I got knocked again. And now I’m up here…. Help.”
“Zen, আপনি get him.” Siera instructed.
“Why me?!” Zen protested.
“I’ve got heels on, and Tess has to listen in for Nick.” Siera answered.
“Errrrrrrrrr… fine.” Zen reluctantly agreed. The first attempt at bringing down the police officer involved Zen slowly climbing up, scraping his hand on a hot pipe, then falling down screaming “FLAGKNOB!!!!!” On his সেকেন্ড attempt, he had almost made it to the শীর্ষ of the roof, when Tess so conveniently yelled up, “ZEN!! I THINK I HEAR SOMEONE!!!!”, followed দ্বারা Zen yelling back, “WHERE!!??”, just before falling on Siera, who shortly after slapped him. Finally, after another ten minutes, Zen had ever so loudly managed to bring the Police officer back down, without harming himself.
Eventually, the three teenagers managed to convince broken Mr. Thomas to not mention seeing them, and shortly after had him in the hands of one of the DeanGames clerks. After their little adventure, Tess Siera and Zen began walking back towards where Lizzy and Nick had disappeared too.
“Nick!” Tess called through her cellphone.
“Yeah!” Nick replied, with screeches following.
“Is Chells with you?” Tess inquired.
“No!” Nick replied again. “I think I saw him go over to the parking lot. I think he’s too late though!”
“Okay then!” Tess finished, closing her phone. “Where is that guy?!”
Back to Lizzy and Nick…
The large mini-van, was still barely keeping up with the slim vehicle in front of it, with Lizzy, who was now holding on to the শীর্ষ of the Mini-van. They continued to chase the perpetrator; swerving and slowing, and speeding up, until finally the mysterious man rolled down his window, and began shooting at Lizzy.
Lizzy immediately ghosted all but her hand, which was still holding on to the শীর্ষ of the car. However, all that the shooter would need to do is shoot her palm, and she would be out. But fortunately for her, he stopped firing in her area. Unfortunately, he began shooting at Nick instead.
The still worried mongoose, in hopes not to damage a car not owned দ্বারা him, swerved to the side, but in doing so, launched Lizzy অগ্রবর্তী into the back of the car. Still following, but at a slower pace, Nick gently directed Lizzy to the front of the perp’s car, going through the blind spots.
After getting to the middle of the escaper’s car, Lizzy noticed that the car was now coming up on a downtown alley-road. The মহাকাশ was too small for her to ghost halfway in, and if she tried to go back, she might fall.
Lizzy slowly attempted to open the middle-seat-door, which was being heavily pressured দ্বারা the wind resistance. She continued to jerk the handle, but simply could not get in in time. Then she noticed something coming at the car from the far left.
Eventually Lizzy made out the shape to be a motorcycle. It rushed at full speed in the direct spot the car would be, until “BLAM!” The car, the motorcycle, the driver, the motorcycle’s driver, and Lizzy all went flying into the alley, while Nick fell back into the desert-like area.
The car crashed into two buildings, on its side, throwing the perpetrator through the window and onto the floor. The মোটরসাইকেলে was flown up, onto one of the buildings roofs, while his ride was wedged between the car and the building. Lizzy quickly ghosted out, causing her to not go face-forward into the wall, but was still flying অগ্রবর্তী extremely fast.
The black cat turned herself to the left, and back into the alley, then materializing her hands and feet one at a time, she cart-wheeled until she had slowed down enough. She braced her still slightly-quick fall, with her palms, causing them to scrape, but ignored the pain as best she could.
Lizzy then ran as quickly as she could to where the runaway had landed, and noticed that he was gone. She walked over to the car, to inspect if he was hiding near there, অথবা running away towards the desert plain, but apparently he wasn’t.
Instead, the perp jumped out from a shadowy part of the alley, and gave her a large fist to the back, which caused Lizzy to go straight into the car. She quickly ghosted out of the way, and landed on the other side, and then, while still ghosting, ran full speed into the attacker. The impact from Lizzy’s head and fists knocked the masked figure to the floor, into the air, and then onto the floor again, causing him to pass out.
She noticed after taking off his mask, that he was an echidna, just like the *previous ones. *Chapter five* She picked up the small spherical object, which was now quite damaged, and started back towards the desert plain. Then she remembered that there was someone else. The Cyclist.
Lizzy looked up to the roofs of the apartments, and sure enough he (or she) was there watching the whole thing. The cyclist, with his/her face covered দ্বারা a শিরস্ত্রাণ so Lizzy couldn’t identify him অথবা her, who was also out of range for Lizzy to chase him, quickly turned around and made a quick departure.
Lizzy dropped the item turned to the side of one of the apartments, and slammed her fist into it yelling. The pain was excruciating, but she didn’t care. All she could think about was how she would get out of the country before her secret was out.
Turning to her side, to see if she was bleeding, Lizzy noticed a small electrical current running from where she had hit her fist. (probably from a TV cable) The down-but-not-out female shoved her entire hand into the path of the static, and began to absorb it.
Soon after, the Cyclist, who was still walking back from the শীর্ষ of the roofs, was quickly surprised দ্বারা a giant electrical circular দেওয়াল coming out of nowhere, and positioning itself around him/her. “Lightning Lizzy”, convinced that she had captured her observer, began saying that they needed to talk. Apparently the Cyclist was in no mood to talk.
The Masked figure crouched downward, then began running frantically in the same বৃত্ত as Lizzy. At first Lizzy thought he/she was trying to counter her miniature cyclone with his/her own, and began running faster, but instead the Cyclist grabbed her arm, then immediately after, let go, causing him অথবা her to go flying to another roof, about seventy-yards away.
The Cyclist braced his fall with his/her long boots, then made a stand in the ground, waiting for Lizzy to make her পরবর্তি move. Again Lizzy charged; this time to grab the mysterious person, but both of them knew that the Cyclist now had the advantage. The figure jumped into the air directly after Lizzy began running, knowing that if done any later would result in a large fist in the stomach, and landed behind her. The মোটরসাইকেলে then pushed hard on the back of Lizzy’s head, causing her to continue running, but now going faster than she had meant too. She was sent another hundred yards farther than she meant to go, and into a chimney.
Lizzy pulled herself out of the smoking spout, and drew her knife. She turned to see that the Cyclist was still there, doing what appeared to be লেখা something… or… setting a bomb. Lizzy charged again, thinking that time was short, when in fact the Cyclist instead turned to the side, grabbed her wrist and brought her to the ground.
The Cyclist then handed her a small piece of paper that ব্যক্ত two things. “I’m not going to tell them, and he’s getting away.”
Lizzy was about to turn and see if the perp had awaken like the note said, but didn’t know if she could trust the mysterious masked figure in front of her, so she grabbed the mysterious rider (now noticing that the figure was not in a female shape), and dragged him back down to the alley, where she saw the perpetrator again trying to escape with the sphere.
Once down, the figure gave her a nudge on her arm, and told her “Throw me.” Lizzy did as instructed, sending the Cyclist directly into the back of the echidna. Once again he had been knocked out. But this time, the Cyclist was right দ্বারা him. The masked ‘dude’ picked up the sphere and the runaway, then turned to another alley pathway. Lizzy followed quickly, using her electrically powered body, but he the echidna, and the sphere had vanished.
Lizzy ran back quickly to where the rest of the ‘team’ was, when finally Chells came slowly out of the Mini-van.
“WHERE HAVE আপনি BEEN!!!?!?!?” Lizzy yelled at the dizzy fox.
“I got into the Mini-van with Nick so I could try and get the… whoever, but I got knocked out when the car turned. That and really nauseous.”
“Where’s the guy, অথবা girl, অথবা whatever?” Siera inquired to Lizzy. “And that thing he was holding.
“Well we all went flying when this মোটরসাইকেলে dude came in a crashed into us!” Lizzy explained.
“So that’s what hit you.” Nick hypothesized.
“Yeah, and then after I finally beat the dude up, then the Cyclist sees me and starts running.” Lizzy continued. “I go after him, get him a bit, then get the echidna guy again, yes he’s an echidna, and the Cyclist disappears… WITH THE THINGY AND ECHIDNA GUY!!!!”
“We are officially in the Twilight Zone… right?” Zen teased.
“SO THIS WAS ALL FOR NOTHING??!!!” Siera yelled.
“I wouldn’t say that.” Chells compared.
“HOW!!!?!?” Everyone yelled at Chells.
“Next time, we’ll be ready.” Chells began. “And we now know who we’re dealing with, plus we passed with A’s when it came to organizing, and the unpredictable.”
“Easy for আপনি to say. আপনি were passed out!” Lizzy commented.
“Well… we did help the cop, and my parent’s car isn’t damaged.” Tess encouraged.
“I guess.” Lizzy groaned. “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m going home.”
“Wait a minute.” Nick asked.
“What?” Lizzy responded.
“What did the Cycle dude look like?” Nick inquired a সেকেন্ড time.
“He had a long bushy tail? That’s all I could see.” Lizzy finished, as she departed.
Everyone walked away, until it was just Tess Zen and Chells.
“See আপনি guys পরবর্তি time.” Chells said, as he two left.
“Since when do Cyclists become ninjas?” Zen asked.
“Let’s just go.” Tess groaned as they both began walking back to their parent’s car.
Later that night… in a dark room… (for lack of a better name)
“Ugh… where… where am I?” The echidna groaned rousing awake.
“Your people are dealing with a force আপনি really shouldn’t.” ব্যক্ত a voice from behind the captive. “Your ‘New Legion’ is going to unleash something that will destroy everything, and while it might side with you, your biggest threat is not only in the hands of teenagers, but also one with very special traits.”
“How do আপনি know about our Legion?” The captive inquired.
“Because I’m not from this world either.” The voice answered. “Now if আপনি want to live, my suggestion would be for আপনি quit, but we both know আপনি won’t. Therefore instead আপনি are going to become an inside man for me, অথবা I can just torture আপনি to the point of which আপনি won’t die but আপনি wish আপনি were dead.”
“A simple pay-roll would do.” The echidna agent teased. The figure tossed a roll of money in front of him on the floor. Three-thousand-dollars.
“That is a miniature amount of what I can pay you, Mr. El-kee.” The voice bribed. “All আপনি need to do is give me info, and lay off the teens.”
“And what should I call you?” The echidna asked. A large light flipped on, revealing that the location currently holding the agent was a broken-down apartment building, where it was, was unknown.
“I’ve had quite a few names for many years, but I guess now the most appropriate for this time would be Cyclist.” A figure ব্যক্ত coming into view, wearing a black leather suit, and a dark grey helmet.
“Theatrical.” The echidna commented. The Cyclist simply walked behind him then gave him a সত্বর hit to the back of his head, knocking him out. When he woke, he was in another apartment; this one clean and new and organized.
The agent assumed he was dreaming the entire time, but saw a small note on the side of his বিছানা saying “betrayal has three strikes”. He turned to his side, and thought over his options, then remembered… he didn’t have the sphere, and neither did Lizzy. It was now in the hands of the one only known as Cyclist.
Chapter Eight: অনুরাগী party
Location: Raventide High, Lexistropolis
Date: Monday December 11th 4337
Time: 11:30 A.M.
…“So it’s a win/lose situation, I guess.” Zen concluded, as he and Tess, who were staying at প্রথমপাতা to do labor, began spending their last মিনিট on the phone with Lizzy, who was at the school.
“And since when is house-work a win?” Lizzy inquired, as she and an extreme amount of other students rushed through the multiple hallways, of Raventide High.
“Because we don’t have to be at the school!” Zen exclaimed.
“But you’re still doing homework, right?” Lizzy asked.
“Yeah.” Tess put in. “But we don’t get attacked দ্বারা Grizzly-arm-pit-breath!”
“True.” Lizzy agreed. “So, apparently we now have The Department, Parent’s, and Cyclist to wor-*SLAM!!!*” Before Lizzy could finish her sentence, a true school veteran apprehended her cellphone, and placed it into a school locker, at high speed. This kind soul was Terry Johnson. A light-blue female cat, with blonde hair as well as a blonde personality.
“You’re trash. আপনি know that right?” The gentle jerk insulted. Ignoring the rude remark, Lizzy swiped her phone back, and continued down the hall. Terry followed.
“What? আপনি think you’re worse than trash? I can curse if আপনি want.” Terry continued to rudely remark.
“Oh please.” Lizzy replied, as she began to walk away from the pop-girl. “You can’t afford to cuss. Let alone buy some grammar.”
“Oh yeah?” Terry pathetically remarked. “We’ll see about that!”
“NO WE WON’T!!!” Lizzy called back, as she continued through the hallway.
The relationship between Lizzy and the Beast was mostly what আপনি just read. It began on Lizzy’s first week at Raventide High.
*COMMENCE FLASHBACK* *flashbacks are shown দ্বারা these signs. { }
{“So we’re gonna go and stalk people…” Tess teased, as she Zen and Lizzy began their first recess.
“You’re hilarious… and kind of disturbing.” Lizzy teased back.
“No, seriously. WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO!?!?” Tess exclaimed.
“Stop hurting my ears!” Lizzy hinted.
“OH THANK GOODNESS!!!” A light-blue feline announced, running over to Lizzy, in hopes of getting a hug. Lizzy stood there confused.
“Ummmm… Nice to be uncomfortable-d দ্বারা you.” Lizzy said.
“And আপনি even have the mouth for it!!” Terry exclaimed in joy.
“Hi!” Tess greeted cheerfully. “I’m Tess, this is my bro Zen, and the teddy-bear you’re hugging is Lizzy.”
“… Y-…you’re pretty.” Zen stuttered, a lifeless facial expression emitting from his awkwardness. He was stopped from continuing দ্বারা Tess’s palm.
“S-so… why are আপনি so friendly with Lizzy?” Tess kindly inquired.
“Cause she’s going to be the new emo-jerk-girl of course!” Terry insulted, attempting to give Lizzy a handshake.
“And আপনি were, before I knocked your I.D. out…?” Lizzy frustratingly asked.
“Oh how আপনি of me!” Terry continued. “I’m Terry Johnson. I’m the school’s outfit designer, and an Excel Student. আপনি have no idea what that means.”
“A student, and I quote,” Lizzy began, “Who continues to progress in at least one class, অথবা extra-curricular projects.”
“And that makes you…?” Terry inquired.
“A *Naturesque Student.” Lizzy replied. *A student who has passed the শীর্ষ student in one অথবা আরো class of a school, in a week. Also includes a large donation of goods and/or money to the school, and participation in school events*
“So আপনি do sell drugs for money.” Terry smirked.
“That and take ক্যান্ডি চকোলেট from babies.” Lizzy fibbed. “But at least I don’t smoke pot.” Lizzy made a small gesture to Terry’s breath. Terry made one last unrepeatable মতামত before departing, while Zen called out “I still think you’re pretty”, which became conflicted with Tess’s knee.
From then on, Terry would tease Lizzy, and ignore Zen. The only one she did not criticize normally was Tess. However she did accuse the chameleon girl of being on steroids from time to time.}
As Lizzy walked out to the cafeteria, she couldn’t help but সেকেন্ড guess what she ব্যক্ত and heard. Terry was bound to finally do something against Lizzy. The only downside to it, would be the detention that Lizzy would receive, if she found herself driving her ever-so-sharp dagger through the হৃদয় of her oppressor.
Back at the Solomon household…
“The schedule for today,” Mrs. Solomon began, “starts with cleaning out the backyard, followed দ্বারা school-work, and ending with all of us reflecting on what আপনি should be doing tomorrow. But before all of that, we’re going to talk about why আপনি are receiving these specific consequences.”
Both Tess and Zen gave a large gulp. This was bad. Only one other time were they in this kind of trouble. But on that occasion it turned out that the culprit was not Tess অথবা Zen, but a neighborhood dog.
“So, who should start explaining.” Mrs. Solomon inquired. Zen knew it would be him. His entire life of “teenager-ness” pointed to it. When he heard his mother call his name, he was so upset that she jumped upward, as if struck দ্বারা lightning.
He gave a large sigh, then spoke. “We left to DeanGames, with people we didn’t know personally, without permission, and without telling either of আপনি where we were going, then stayed there past curfew, and ended up having আপনি pick us up.”
“Now, if this ever happens again, আপনি will both be on radar, and we will not allow any of your friends, especially Lizzy, over for a মাস at the very least.” Mr. Solomon declared. “Now, is this fair?”
“Yes…” Tess and Zen groaned, as they began their hard day’s labor.
Back at the school…
Passing অগ্রবর্তী in time to 2:30 P.M. in the afternoon…
“Hey Lizzy, wait up!” A voice called out to Lizzy, as she attempted to walk away from the nightmare most teens call ‘school’, while some of us call it the ‘s word’. Assuming that the person was Terry, due to the distance between herself and the sound-pattern, Lizzy simply ব্যক্ত “No thanks!” Eventually the voice caught up to her.
It was not Terry. The person now standing in front of Lizzy was a black-haired skunk, appearing to be around the age of sixteen অথবা seventeen.
“What’s the rush?” The skunk asked the feline.
“Oh… Sorry, I thought আপনি were my new best foe.” Lizzy wittingly apologized.
“Uh… sorry to disappoint… I guess.” The confused male paused.
“What’s up?” Lizzy asked.
“Well, I heard আপনি say that আপনি were a Naturesque, and thought আপনি might want in on something.” The skunk boy proposed.
“And that would be…?” Lizzy asked again.
“Well, me, my band, and a bunch of other kids are planning a অনুরাগী club party thing in the gym for tonight.”
“You have a band?” Lizzy perked up.
“Yeah! We’re gonna take requests from different real successes, and do some freeze dancing too.”
“Sounds interesting, but I do have two questions.” Lizzy began. “What else is going to happen, and what am I supposed to help with?”
“We-well… there’s gonna be মুষ্ট্যাঘাত and chips, and-and stuff, and a bunch of stands, where people dress up as their role-models, and give out ক্যুইজ and আরো stuff.”
“Sounds stuffy.” Lizzy teased. “And my part is…?”
“Well I don’t really know, specifically, but they have a sign-up sheet, where আপনি can volunteer, and write what আপনি want to do. It gets আপনি extra credit, and *cough* lowers demerits.” Lizzy gave a blank dissatisfied face, due to the fact that the longest time she had spent at a school was a মাস and three days, and never got to keep any of her credits because of it. The young boy in front of her noticed this.
“Well… that’s what most people do it for,” The nervous wreak continued, “but it also helps because আপনি get to see the উত্তর for a lot of the quizzes, so আপনি can ace it later.”
“I dunno.” Lizzy cautiously replied. “Sounds a bit too L.A.R.P.’Y for me.”
“Well,” The male began, “if আপনি didn’t really mean what আপনি ব্যক্ত about being a Naturesque-“
“Hold on there… guy” Lizzy paused.
“Jack.” The skunk corrected.
“Jack. Lemme think a bit, before the rush.” Lizzy counted her losses and wins. It sounded really boring, but she had nothing else to do. Tess and Zen were on restriction, and she did not want to go home.
“hm… Will a girl named Terry be there?” Lizzy inquired.
“M-maybe?” Jack cringed
“Will a girl named Siera Struthers be there?” Lizzy asked again.
“Her I remember.” Jack began. “She jumped in, saying how exited she was about getting it ready, then checked her make-up.”
“In that case… you’ve got yourself a deal.” Lizzy responded, giving the skunk boy a nice firm handshake.
“Gr-great!” Jack stammered. “We’re going to start decorating in a bit, but আপনি don’t have to come for another hour. See ya then.”
“See ya.” Lizzy waved.
“So what was stutter-man asking আপনি about? “Chells inquired, as he walked up to Lizzy.
“Some party tonight.” Lizzy responded. “Can আপনি hit girls?” Chells’s face was blank.
“I…suppose? What are আপনি up too?” Chells queried.
“Terry something… something,” Lizzy explained, “is probably going to try to do something to get me in trouble tonight, and I need আপনি to make sure she stays at bay.”
“And আপনি can’t beat her up yourself?” Chells questioned.
“That’s probably what she wants me to do, so I need a আরো normal type of student to get her attention.” Lizzy explained.
“And nothing says normal like a blind fox, who wears shades, and beats up people.” Chells teased.
“Exactly. Bye.” Lizzy said, leaving back into the hallways. Chells merely stood there pondering.
Half an ঘন্টা later…
Looking over the positions wanted, Lizzy could find little to nothing half interesting, and decided to go to the gym herself to suggest a position. Once she got there, she was almost blown away দ্বারা the loud banging of Jack’s “Band”.
“JACK!!!!” Lizzy yelled out, trying to get the drumming skunk’s attention. “I NEED TO ASK আপনি SOMETHING!!!!! JACK!!!!!! JACK!!!!!!!!!!!!” Finally Lizzy began making arm gestures, until the members either stopped because the song was over, অথবা because of Lizzy. She couldn’t tell which it was.
Jack hopped down from the stage, and walked over to Lizzy. “Sorry about that.” He began. “We were testing the Equalizer, while playing a blank tone. Not fun. What’cha need?”
“I didn’t see anything I wanted on your suggestions, so I came to ask if I could do something else.” Lizzy proposed.
“Which is?” Jack inquired.
“I wanted to be a secret-stalker.” Lizzy suggested.
“Uhhh…” Jack didn’t say anything, except for “uhh”. Obviously he was not thinking what she was.
“It means I look around, and look for any foul play in the tests, অথবা people messing with the lights, অথবা pouring liquid on each other.” Lizzy reassured.
“Oooooooooooooh. Okay.” Jack finally acknowledged. “Well… I suppose that’s okay. But you’ll have to do something else to get it ready, until it’s… ready… I guess.”
“Joy.” Lizzy sarcastically groaned.
“All আপনি need to do for now, is get the মুষ্ট্যাঘাত ready.” Jack said, attempting to perk up the female.
“I guess that’s doable.” Lizzy agreed. “Where do I get the punch?”
“There’s a back-room পরবর্তি to the teacher’s lounge, where we keep all the supplies.” Jack informed, as he handed Lizzy a key. “This is the key to the room. আপনি know where the Teacher’s Lounge is, right?”
“Yes.” Lizzy replied.
“Good! আপনি can use that কার্ট over there to carry the boxes.” Jack informed. “Good luck.
Lizzy turned to the hallways once again, and walked out towards the storage room.
Back at the Solomon residence…
“I told আপনি so, just doesn’t cut it, does it?” Zen ব্যক্ত to his worn out sister, as they raked up leaves, in the backyard.
“You followed her too!” Tess countered. “You’re the one who started after her in the first place!”
“BECAUSE I WANTED TO STOP HER!!!” Zen exclaimed out of anger. “Can আপনি imagine if Mom অথবা Dad found out about that cloaked guy?”
“That wouldn’t be fun.” Tess sighed.
“And this is?” Zen teased.
“Let’s just get this done, without talking okay?” Tess pleaded, as they continued to work. “I wish Lizzy was here.”
Sadly enough, Lizzy wasn’t there. She was instead, finishing up her part of the school’s অনুরাগী party, just before sitting to rest.
“Lizzy, right?” Siera Struthers greeted, walking up to the teenage cat.
“That’s me.” Lizzy replied, recognizing a friendly face.
“Soooooooo, what are আপনি doing for the party?” Siera inquired.
“Well, I just got finished getting the মুষ্ট্যাঘাত ready,” Lizzy began, “but during the party, I’m going to be making sure that nothing messes up. Y’know, dunking people with Punch, messing with the sound system, sabotage. That sort of thing.”
“I see.” Siera said. “Sounds… interesting.”
“So, what are আপনি doing?” Lizzy asked the কাঠবিড়ালবিশেষ girl.
“I’m helping with the sewing, designing, and décor.” Siera replied. “The sewing is massively boring, but I do what I need to, to get the designer privilege. That is if the Terry girl doesn’t mess it up for me.”
“You’ve had the pleasure as well?” Lizzy asked.
“Unfortunately.” Siera groaned. “Y’know, usually people say that I’m the stuck-up Barbie, but they all kind of forget about me when they hear her. She’s just so obnoxious. I mean, I’m like living proof that fashion people can be a bit full of it sometimes, but she just takes it to a whole new level of pain!”
“Got that right.” Lizzy agreed. “When she heard I was in so many different schools, she started calling me an emo-jerk-girl.”
“That’s a lie… mostly.” Siera agreed… sort of.
“MOSTLY?!” Lizzy exclaimed.
“Sorry, but আপনি don’t exactly scream happy!” Siera defended. “You have a ছুরি up your boot, for Pete’s sake!”
“It’s an Heirloom!!” Lizzy exclaimed.
“People don’t usually keep those kind of things on their feet.” Siera opposed. “They keep them in basements, অথবা glass bottles!”
“Can we please change the subject?” Lizzy pleaded.
“Fine.” Siera said. “See any cute boys?”
“Seriously?” Lizzy questioned, as if the প্রশ্ন was stupid. “I’ve only met like one boy here, and he probably has a girlfriend anyway.”
“Do আপনি know this for a fact???” Siera pushed.
“…No.” Lizzy groaned
“There আপনি go!” Siera comforted “He’s all yours. See ya!”
Siera left Lizzy keeping a blank face, half furious, and half confused. Finally, after another half hour, the party was ready, and students were arriving. Lizzy waited, and watched for her arch nemeses, but alas, she found no one. So she got a cup of punch, pulled out her phone and called Chells.
“You can abort mission now.” Lizzy informed her blind ally over the phone.
“I don’t remember giving আপনি my number.” Chells cautiously informed.
“Zen and Tess told me.” Lizzy informed again.
“I don’t remember giving them my number.” Chells confusedly spoke. “Abort mission means… not… spying on Teresa Johnson?”
“You call her Teresa?” Lizzy inquired.
“That’s not her name?” Chells asked, still confused.
“Never mind… so… where are you?” Lizzy asked again.
“Right in front of you, Chells replied as he hung up, and walked towards Lizzy. “So, now that you’re greatest fear will never come true, what are আপনি planning on doing?”
“I dunno.” Lizzy replied. “I guess I’ll check out the stands?”
“Have fun.” Chells said, walking away.
After a short time of scanning, Lizzy came across a stand that ব্যক্ত ‘Mage’. She walked over, and noticed a bunch of people wearing nerdy medieval outfits, and holding plastic wands. But aside from that, she did see some very authentic-looking sketches of mage symbols. And below them, was a really old book ,with a bunch of strange লেখা on the front.
“What’s all this?” Lizzy inquired to the student in front of the stand, pointing to the book.
“Oh that? That’s something my Grandma found about fifty years পূর্বে at some যেভাবে খুশী someplace thing.” He explained. “It’s got a lot of old writing, and I think some kind of decoder, but I can’t seem to figure it out. I ‘m actually having a contest for it. Whoever cracks it can have it.” The teenage শিয়াল handed the book over to Lizzy, who began scanning through it until finding the page with the decoder on it.
“What do those letters in blue mean?” Lizzy inquired.
“Oh those.” The student acknowledged. “My Grandma put those there to signify which was old, and which were new. The শীর্ষ stands for ‘Recent’. Obviously, it wasn’t সাম্প্রতিক enough. The সেকেন্ড means ‘Less Recent’. The O stands for ‘Older’. The A stands for ‘Ancient’, and the M for ‘Myth’. She probably ব্যক্ত myth, seeing how it was the same লেখা from that book, back in the 2000’s. So, what did আপনি come up with?”
“Hmmm… আপনি got any paper?” Lizzy inquired.
“Right here!” The student offered, handing Lizzy a large sheet of paper. It was a bit too large, but she gave it little thought, as she sat down with the book, and began trying to match the different symbols.
First, she copied the cypher, then she began matching the different words in the book, with the ones in the decoder. The first one seemed to appear a lot, so she chose to make that one “E”. She looked over to the সেকেন্ড one, and noticed that the arches in the সাম্প্রতিক structure, and the middle of the Less Recent, made it look like an “A”. The পরবর্তি ones were easy. She was going on to the fourth letter when “BLOOSH!” All the মুষ্ট্যাঘাত went flying on to her, and the book.
Lizzy looked upward, to see who had dunked her, and not to her surprise, she saw Terry running away from her direction. She then noticed that Terry was now running to the stands… to the mage stand. Lizzy could hear Terry’s immense screeching from all the way across the gym. She kept yelling and yelling out “Lizzy dunked herself, and got the book all wet!!!”
The student, who was lending her the book was furious. He stormed over to Lizzy, and swiped the book out of her hands. “DO আপনি KNOW HOW OLD THIS IS?!!?!?” He yelled at the soaked cat.
“TERRY DUNKED ME!!!!” Lizzy protested, pointing to her accuser. “I WASN’T EVEN UNDER THE PUNCH!!! PLUS I SAW HER RUNNING AWAY THE MOMENT I GOT DUNKED!!!”
“I was going to tell him what আপনি did to yourself, আপনি little Fib!!” Terry yelled at Lizzy, trying to sound sincere, and hurt.
The three of them argued for another fifteen minutes, until the Principal had finally come over, and broke it up. Lizzy explained that she was there to prevent things like that from happening, and was only trying to help the guy decipher the codes, but they all just ignored her. They turned around to leave, but they were blocked দ্বারা someone in their way.
“You better not THINK about leaving like this.” Chells growled, at Terry, standing পরবর্তি to Siera.
“You just accuse the new girl, and believe someone we all know to be a piece of crud?!” Siera questioned.
“And how long have আপনি two been here?” Terry questioned.
“… As long as Lizzy…” Siera groaned.
“Then how would আপনি know anything about me maggots!?” Terry angrily questioned.
“Because of what আপনি just said.” Chells pointed out. “Didn’t আপনি even take in account that Lizzy was out of range of the punch, and had no reason to dunk herself? Not to mention that Terry had already threatened her multiple times, just today!”
“Is this true, Terry?” Principal Sanchez inquired.
“I haven’t been around her all day!!” Terry fibbed.
“I think these will say otherwise.” Chells said, pressing on a small part of his shades, unlocking a memory stick. He handed the card to the Principal, making sure it was out of Terry’s reach.
“…*sigh*… Terry, Lizzy, I think it would be best if আপনি two would go home.” The Older lady suggested.
“BU-“
“I don’t want to hear it!” She interrupted. “I can’t even begin to understand why this student had a camera in his glasses, let alone who dunked who. I need আপনি two to go home, and think about what had happened.”
“…Fine.” Lizzy growled.
“Well that sissy can leave, but I’m not!!!” Terry protested. “I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING!!!! I’M STAYING RIGHT HE-“
Before she could finish, Siera covered her mouth, then her and Chells began pushing her out of the school. “We’ll call her parents.” Siera said, as they all left the school.
Once they had all gotten outside…
“LET GO OF ME YOU-“
“Listen! Don’t talk listen!” Chells demanded.
“You have no idea who আপনি are dealing with, and আপনি will pay if আপনি don’t knock it off!” Siera threatened.
“Go প্রথমপাতা now, and maybe we’ll give আপনি a head start before setting the girl আপনি dunked after আপনি with her dagger!” Chells added.
“…Fine!” Terry said. “This party sucked anyway! Have fun trying to fix that book Trash!”
Lizzy pulled out her knife, and tried to go after her, but was stopped দ্বারা Chells and Siera. “It’s what she wants Liz.” Siera cautioned.
“Yeah, I guess.” Lizzy admitted, putting her ছুরি back in her boot.
“LIZZY!!!” Jack yelled out, trying to catch up.
“Oh, নমস্কার Jack.” Lizzy greeted, lowly. “Lemme guess. You’re going to accuse me too?”
“N-no!” Jack stammered. “I was wondering if আপনি still wanted to enjoy the party. I know আপনি got all soaked, but at least আপনি should get to make sure that my band gets some tomatoes thrown at our lack of talent. Plus, আপনি really do deserve to have a good time. I know Terry isn’t the best of people, but আপনি can’t let her ruin it for you. Plus, the principal, and the guy from the stand aren’t here now, so no one can tell আপনি to stay out anymore”
“Thanks Jack.” Lizzy acknowledged. “I might just take আপনি up on that offer, but first I’ve got to change. Wet অথবা not, I am FRIGED!”
“O-okay!” Jack noticed. “Then I’ll see আপনি in about… half an hour.”
“If the party isn’t over দ্বারা then.” Lizzy added, as she started off.
“Don’t worry about the party!” Jack yelled out, as Lizzy walked back প্রথমপাতা to make a quick change. “It’s not gonna be over till like eleven. It’s only nine!”
Chells and Siera just stood there for a while, trying to breath in what just happened. Mostly about Chell’s shades.
“Since when do আপনি have a camera in your glasses?” Siera inquired.
“Well আপনি can’t have shades without something cool on them.” Chells teased.
“I suppose.” Siera agreed. After a little longer, Chells started humming a tune to himself, which began to unnerve Siera, so finally she yelled out, “WOULD আপনি STOP IT!?!?”
“Sorry.” Chells apologized, as he quickly ceased.
“What kind of song was that anyway?” Siera asked.
“The one about Jack, Lizzy, and the baby carriage.” Chells teased, just before getting elbowed দ্বারা Siera. “Well, I think I’m done for tonight. See ya.”
Chells walked away, while Siera walked inside again. As the blind শিয়াল walked back to his house, he pulled out a picture from his pocket. He then gave a large sigh, put it back, then continued walking.
Chapter nine: Location Investigation
Location: 66 Jazon Ave, Lexistropolis
Wednesday, December 13th, 4337
Time: 2:42 P.M.
Lizzy walked over to the Solomon household, carrying a shovel, for the snow that had finally arrived. She was going there for this special occasion, for it was the দিন that Tess and Zen were off restriction.
“FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!” Tess exclaimed, as she and Zen rushed out of their house, and into the snow. “AND IT’S FINALLY SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!! I’M SO HAPPY I’M GONNA CRY!!!!!”
“Please don’t.” Lizzy teased. “Yeah, I guess it is pretty cool, that it’s snowing finally. I almost thought it was gonna be dry past Christmas.”
For a very odd reason, the entire state of Lexistropolis had a very strange whether change. For two weeks at the end of September, it was snowing heavily, then without reason, it stopped. The snow dried up, and the weather became আরো like Summer, than Fall অথবা Winter. Zen was convinced that it was being done দ্বারা some evil scientist, while Tess was convinced it was a drought. No one knew, and they still didn’t, but it was snowing now, and almost everyone was excited.
“SNOW BALL FIGHT!!!!!!!” Zen yelled out, throwing a snowball at Lizzy’s back. The freezing catapult went on to her scarf, then down her shirt, and onto her back.
“COOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!!!!!!!” Lizzy yelled, shaking the snow out.
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!” Tess laughed. “YOUR FACE- AHAHHAHAAA-WAS JUST SO FUNNY!!!!!”
“You want to see funny, do you?” Lizzy ব্যক্ত grinning. She pulled out a shovel from behind her back, and scooped a pile of snow onto Tess.
“Hey! I’m the one who dunked you!” Zen defended.
“You’re absolutely right!” Lizzy agreed, turning to Zen.
“Oh poop.” Zen groaned, just before getting dunked. The three of them chased each other around the front-lawn, until finally, Tess yelled out “WAIT!!!!!”, just before Lizzy dunked her a সেকেন্ড time, which instead of her explain why she wished for them to stop, she yelled out “COLD” over and over and over, as she frantically ran in circles.
“Why wait?” Lizzy asked. Tess didn’t respond. She just kept running, and screaming “COLD COLD COLD”. After much waiting, Lizzy and Zen grabbed Tess’s jacket, and pulled it off, letting all the snow off.
“Th-th-thanks.” Tess gratefully shivered.
“You’re welcome.” Lizzy responded, handing Tess her jacket. “Now why did we stop?”
“Why’d আপনি come over here?” Tess asked.
“To see আপনি guys… kinda obvious.” Lizzy responded, feeling a bit hurt. “It’s been so boring without আপনি two to keep me on edge, so I thought that since you’re back, আপনি might want to do আরো Phantis file whatever stuff.”
“Oh yeah.” Tess remembered. “We haven’t watched any of the video-thingamajigs lately.”
“Not to mention, visit the location the girl in the video was talking about.” Zen added. “Where did it say she lived?”
“I don’t remember.” Tess shrugged. “I’ll go check it again.” Tess went back into the house, and two মিনিট later, Zen shoved into the snow, দ্বারা a snow-ball almost as big as him.
“Sorry!!” Chells called out, walking over to the two friends. “It was supposed to miss you.”
“I hear Chells, but all I see is white, and stars.” Zen groaned. “In other words… I’M STUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Chells and Lizzy slowly pulled Zen out from underneath the giant pile of snow, and brushed him off.
“How did আপনি throw that anyway?!” Zen exclaimed.
“Sweat, stress, and cussing.” Chells teased. “Well, stress at least. What are আপনি three up two?”
“We’re gonna go check out a lead from the Phantis file drive.” Zen informed.
“ZEN!!!” Lizzy scolded.
“WHAT!??” Zen exclaimed. “He’s part of our team too!!”
“Fine…” Lizzy groaned, “but don’t think this means you’re coming.”
“Oooooookay.” Chells confusedly spoke. “Not that I really care if I come অথবা not, but… why?”
“Because we can handle it ourselves.” Lizzy coldly informed. “Any more, and it’ll just slow us down.”
“Chells won’t slow us down!” Zen defended.
“He was asleep, while I was battling some wak-job with a helmet!” Lizzy added.
“I’m still here আপনি know.” Chells said, trying not to be bothered দ্বারা Lizzy’s insults. “If আপনি don’t want me to come, just say it. I really don’t care either way.”
Chells started back up the street, just as Tess came out. “Hi Chells!” Tess yelled out. Chells waved back, and continued to press on. “What were আপনি talking to him about?”
“How to insult people coldly.” Zen growled.
“We don’t need any help!!” Lizzy yelled again. “I can beat up anyone that comes along, and আপনি too can do…whatever আপনি do.”
“Lizzy, the Phantis File doesn’t just have us.” Tess put in. “Chells has a right to come, just like me অথবা Zen, অথবা even you.”
“… OH WHATEVER!!!!” Lizzy exclaimed, defeated. “CHELLS!!!!!! আপনি CAN COME!!!!”
“… THANKS… I GUESS!!!!” Chells yelled back, as he started walking towards them again.
“So Tess, where are we heading?” Lizzy inquired.
“W-well… there’s good and bad news about that.” Tess stammered. “The good news is that it shouldn’t be hard to get there. The bad news is… *sigh*… It’s in Triff City.”
“THAT’S ALMOST A-HUNDRED MILES FROM HERE!!!!” Zen yelled.
“ZEN!!!!! EARS!!!!!!!” Lizzy and Chells angrily yelled back.
“”How on Hybria are we going to get permission to go there?!” Zen said.
“A lot of begging?” Tess nervously teased.
“Or something else.” Chells added, blankly.
“Really!?” Lizzy exclaimed. “I had no idea! Care to explain what that might be?”
“Zen and Tess could tell their parents that we’re all going to some special activity we supposedly saw in a school flyer, and say that we won’t be back until maybe later tonight. আপনি might want to add that there’s a campout for some of the people, and that we still haven’t decided if we’re staying for the night অথবা not, so we can get supplies, in case we do. And, if they ask about it, আপনি tell them that ‘we couldn’t find anyone, and didn’t want to waste the gas and supplies, so we stayed out there for a while.’ No suspicion. No downside. Ta, Dah.”
“…You’re good.” Tess complimented.
“Thanks.” Chells accepted.
“I’ll go tell Mom and Dad.” Zen announced, leaving into the house.
“Slow us down huh?” Tess teased. “Why are আপনি really upset with Chells?”
“I’m not mad at Chells, okay?!” Lizzy exclaimed. “I’m just having a confused and stressed moment.”
“Like…?” Zen urged.
“One, Terry… enough said.” Lizzy wise-cracked. “and Two, I found this book that had a bunch of writing, including stuff about the weird language, but then it got dunked with party punch. Chells Siera and Jack got me back inside the party, but now we don’t have the stinking book!!”
“Who’s Jack, what party, and how did it get dunked?” Zen asked.
“Jack’s just the guy that told me about the party.” Lizzy informed. “The party was a অনুরাগী fiesta thingamajig wher-“
“I MISSED I!?!?!” Zen exclaimed.
“Uh… yeah.” Lizzy answered. “Sorry, but আপনি were on restriction, and I only found out about it like an ঘন্টা before it was on.”
“You two do realize that I’m still right here, standing in front of you, right?” Chells informed, waving slightly.
Later…
“… And here we are!” Zen announced, as the three Hybrids approached their desired location.
“This is Umbrage Ave?” Tess remarked. “It looks nothing like the picture.”
“And what did the picture look like?” Lizzy asked.
“Not this.” Tess replied.
The area in front of the four allies was not what any of them had expected. Tess expected a normal neighborhood, with normal neighborhood things, such as pets, trees, garages, hoses, and so on. Zen expected some kind of witch-house, অথবা secret base. Lizzy expected something old. Broken down maybe. Chells didn’t care.
It was like an acid had exploded. There was a circular barrier surrounded whatever was inside it, and at least ten stations around it, poking out from its sides. The stations were tall, and thin, holding inside them, one অথবা two people, wearing black masks, and holding either rifles, অথবা telescopes.
“Well that plan is over-with.” Tess commented.
“Are আপনি kidding?!” Lizzy questioned, her face lighting up. “This is perfect!!”
“It’s amazing how quickly definitions change.” Chells remarked. “Take for example perfect. Now usually it would mean good, easy, অথবা flawless. Now it means deadly, off-limits, an-“
“It’s perfect because we know that they’re hiding something!!!” Lizzy interrupted. “There’s definitely something inside there that we want, and I doubt that those guys are using it for the best of purposes.”
“Or they’re soldiers for the government.” Zen added.
“It would explain why we didn’t know about the Phantis file for so long.” Tess pondered.
“That could be.” Lizzy tilted. “Then that would make this place some kind of area 51!! Perfect!”
“Again with the perfect.” Chells groaned.
“All for trying to get in…?” Lizzy proposed.
“NEY” Tess and Zen revoked.
“Chells?” Lizzy asked hopefully.
“I’m all for it.” Chells responded.
“You’re funny.” Tess sarcastically noted. “If we get caught, forget restriction, we’re gonna be in Juvenile-Hall, অথবা worse! And if they aren’t from the government, they might even try to kill us!!!”
“Fine!” Lizzy said. “You guys stay here and Chells and I go.”
“ARE আপনি INSANE!?!?!?!” Tess screamed. “You’ll be killed!!!”
“And just when she found a boy she liked.” Chells teased. Lizzy gave him a cold stare, then turned back to Tess.
“A boy!? YOU?!?!” Tess ব্যক্ত in shock, as if saying (Lizzy getting… a boyfriend?).
“Is it really that hard to imagine???” Lizzy growled under her teeth.
“Uh, n-n-no!!” Zen intervened. “It’s just tha-“
“Can we go now?” Chells interrupted. Lizzy and Chells hopped out of the car, and started towards the giant wall.
“WAIT!!!!” Tess called out. “WHAT DO WE DO!?!?”
“You stay there and keep watch on the outside!” Lizzy called back. “We’ll send আপনি an text if we get anything good!”
Tess continued to protest the entire idea, but Lizzy and Chells were out of ear-shot now, and she did not want to be overheard দ্বারা the guards.
“So ‘Dagger-Woman’, what is your plan?” Chells inquired, as he and Lizzy approached the range of the wall.
“You distract them, while I sneak inside.” Lizzy informed.
“And what am I going to do to distract them?” Chells asked.
“You’ll figure it out.” Lizzy replied. “We’re here. There’s not a lot of snow, so you’re gonna have to make sure they look in only your direction
“Happiness and rainbows.” Chells sarcastically groaned. Lizzy turned to the left, running as quickly as she could under the stations, while Chells started walking to the right. He pulled off his jacket, and began stuffing snow inside of it. পরবর্তি he began swinging his জ্যাকেট around and around, then jerked it forward, causing the snow to go directly into one the guard’s faces.
“We’ve got something over here!” the guard yelled out to the others. All the guards turned to Chells, and aimed their weapons.
Lizzy made her way under one of the stations undetected. She absorbed a part of the wall, causing a hole to emerge from it. She then jumped upward and made another hole. She continued to climb upward, until she had absorbed to much of the material, and was now too heavy.
Lizzy put her hand into the দেওয়াল again, and surged her material into the দেওয়াল again, filling her পূর্ববর্তি holes. Once light enough, Lizzy continued to press upward.
Meanwhile, Chells was now being shot at দ্বারা four snipers. He quickly abandoned his offense strategy, and began to run, scuffling snow around him. He flew the snow upward in such a way that the snipers could barely see him. After another মিনিট of firing, the snipers হারিয়ে গেছে sight of Chells completely.
“This is E.E. four to E.E. six, and five. What was that thing?” One of the guards spoke, through his walkie-talkie.
“I dunno.” One of the other guards responded. “Maybe it- ugh!”
“… E.E. six?” The guard called. “E.E. six please respond.
“… … … E.E. s-six here.” The other guard responded.
“What happened?” the first guard inquired.
“I… slipped on some of the ice that was flown at me. N-nothing else to report.” E.E. six stuttered. “O-over and-d out.”
The sixth guard turned off his com, then turned to his side. “Good work.” Lizzy complimented, holding her dagger to the guard’s neck. “Now if আপনি would be so kind to tell me how many guards are on the other side, I’ll be off.”
“There’s t-t-ten guards on the other side.” The guard nervously responded. “They h-have a standard circular round. Each intercepts within eye shot of the two to his side. They’ll see আপনি coming.”
“Let me worry about eyesight.” Lizzy corrected. “Now, which one was housed under the name Evens?”
“I don’t know!” The guard whined. “I swear, I have no i-Agh!”
“Where is it?!” Lizzy sternly pressed, pushing her dagger harder against the guard.
“It- MIGHT BE one of the ones in the middle!” The guard pained. “On the left!”
You’ve been very helpful. Bye now.” Lizzy finished, ghosting through the wall, leading to the inside of the barrier.
The guard looked behind him, to make sure Lizzy was gone, then reached for his com, but was knocked out, before he could grab it
“Did I mention, don’t try to contact anyone?” Lizzy said, going back into the wall. She ghosted downward, until landing on the inside of the barrier. The area that she had entered was a worn down neighborhood. It was almost completely destroyed, with maybe six houses still intact. Those houses has special energy fields, which had small posts, with keypads on them.
Lizzy also noticed that all ten guards were in eyesight of her, and could easily notice her. Just as the guard said, the other guards did spot her. They were each carrying machine guns, which were all pointed at Lizzy.
“Stop!” One of the guards ordered. But of course, Lizzy did the opposite. She began running towards one of the guards, just as they all began to আগুন at her. Lizzy ghosted out, causing them to miss, then slid a guard, and knocked him out from behind. She then picked up his gun, and began to আগুন blindly at her enemies feet.
Lizzy quickly ran towards the middle left houses. The guards followed. She ignored them, and quickly made it to what she thought was the Even’s household. She assumed it was because this one had an extra field around it.
The snipers were still firing at her, and she didn’t want the house destroyed when she got through, so she turned around to continue firing at them, but instead they were already running away. “Uh… good riddance?” Lizzy ব্যক্ত in a confused tone. Attempting to forget what had just happened, Lizzy turned back to the field.
Lizzy looked at the keypad, and begin pressing the numbers at random, but to no avail. She tried ghosting into the field, but she couldn’t. “It must be a-non electric energy.” She thought to herself. Finally Lizzy pointed her gun at the keypad, and began shooting rapidly.
The keypad broke, and the field died down She continued onward to the পরবর্তি field, and shot down its keypad, but instead of dying down, it made a loud alarm go off.
She began to shoot at the field frantically, trying to stop it from blaring, but nothing worked. Guards would now be coming out, and she had no way of getting in. Lizzy turned to the opposing side, waiting for anyone to try and attack her, when without warning, the alarm stopped.
Lizzy turned around to see Chells pulling his sleeve down over his wrist, and walking towards the house, which was now completely of-guard, with no field at all. “HOW DID আপনি DO THAT?!!?” Lizzy exclaimed.
“You have your secrets, and I have mine.” Chells responded.
The two allies walked inside to the house, but while Chells did disable the alarm, every guard in the area was now aware that there were intruders in the base.
As the two Hybrids walked into the house, they noticed immediately that instead of it being destroyed, the inside of the house was almost completely untouched. The only things out of place were a door upstairs, which had another field surrounding it, and a bookshelf, which seemed to be ransacked
“I’ll check these books.” Lizzy said. “You go see if আপনি can open that door up there.”
Chells walked up the stairs, as Lizzy walked over to the bookshelf. She began to খুঁজুন through them, then noticed that they all had strange lines on them. Not symbols exactly, but little streaks, and swerves across the spines.
“I got the door open!” Chells called. Lizzy walked up, and into the room. It was a bedroom. There was a bed, and a window, and another bookshelf, but আরো importantly, there was a computer.
“Does it still work?” Lizzy asked.
“I doubt it,” Chells replied “but we can check.”
Lizzy reached down, and turned on the base, which in turn, turned on the monitor. “Well at least it works.” Chells said, pointing out the obvious. “And it wants a password.”
“Oh joy.” Lizzy sighed. “Let’s look around for anything that could hel-“
“Got it!” Chells announced.
“How did আপনি get it so quickly?!” Lizzy exclaimed.
“Easy.” Chells replied. “The গুপ্তশব্দ was ‘Phantis’.”
They skimmed through the files, until finding a file listed as ‘videos’. They opened it up, and found আরো home-videos than they could handle. The তালিকা just kept growing. Finally, it stopped loading, and they began watching through them.
After five মিনিট of watching a two-year-old in a bathtub, Chells finally হারিয়ে গেছে his patience. “Alright, let’s just download it all onto a flash drive.”
“What flash-drive?” Lizzy inquired. “Let me guess, আপনি have that too?”
“No, but there’s probably some around here.” Chells corrected. “I’ll look for a flash drive, and আপনি can… uh…”
“continue looking through the books?” Lizzy helped.
“Uh, yeah.” Chells replied, turning to the shelves in the room.
Lizzy walked back to the bookshelf, and began putting them back on the shelves. Once she had finished, she waited for something to happen, but nothing did. “Well that was a fail.” Lizzy sighed. “Maybe it has to make a picture.”
She then began rearranging the books, trying to figure out how they should be placed. As she continued attempting to fix the puzzle, she heard a large booming sound. She walked over to a front window, just in time to see a giant mob of guards, all carrying machine guns. And behind them were four giant robotic-machines.
“They’re gonna destroy the house!” Lizzy gasped. “Chells, I need your distracting abilities again!!”
“Did the guards come back!?” Chells responded, walking down the stairs.
“Have fun.” Lizzy encouraged. “Oh, and please don’t die.”
Chells slowly walked out of the house, and in front of the guards. Lizzy could hear the বন্দুক cocking, but couldn’t waste time with sentiment. She started getting closer to finishing the picture, and then she heard gunfire.
It continued for ten minutes, some she could just hear, and some that went into the house. And still, she had not figured out what the picture was to be. She went faster and faster, trying desperately to finish before the house came down, and then… the firing stopped.
Lizzy froze. Why did it stop? Was Chells killed? Why else would they had stopped firing, unless he wasn’t a threat anymore. Lizzy couldn’t help it anymore. She ran out of the house, have confused, and half terrified that something had happened.
“CHELL-“ Lizzy stopped. Chells wasn’t eliminated. Instead everything else was. All the guards were either shot, অথবা passed out, the machines were destroyed, and the দেওয়াল even had some damage. Standing in the middle, with only a hole through one of his sleeves, was Chells.
“You have your secrets,” Chells quoted, walking back into the house, “and I have mine.”
Lizzy slowly walked back into the house. How did Chells do all that? Who was he really? They both walked into the house, and continued trying to fix the picture. Lizzy was to shocked to ask anything… for a while.
After a couple of minutes, Lizzy finally blurted out “HOW DID আপনি DO THAT?!?!!”
“Took their guns, shot at them, hid behind houses, stealth mode.” Chells informed. “Yada-yada.”
“You expect me to believe that আপনি just happened to be able to disarm and overtake them that easily?!” Lizzy exclaimed.
“Yes.” Chells responded. “Or would আপনি like to explain how আপনি got over the wall, and past all ten guards, holding machine guns, then know exactly which house to look for?”
“…Fine… for now.” Lizzy grumbled. “Let’s just finish this stupid puzzle.”
For the পরবর্তি seventeen minutes, Lizzy and Chells ব্যক্ত nothing. They simply continued to work on finishing the puzzle, with no questioning অথবা gestures of any kind. At the end of these seventeen minutes, they had finally finished the picture.
The symbol in front of them was streaky, and all right angles. Each one seemed to be overlapping another, দ্বারা being above, অথবা পরবর্তি to it.
Once finished, the black area of the symbols lit up light green.
“Tess! Zen!” Lizzy called through her cellphone. “We found something here! We’ll be back soon.”
“Okay Lizzy.” Tess responded. “You might want to hurry. Another অগ্রদূত just pulled up here, and some of those guards are coming out of the base. And if they see us…”
“I get it.” Lizzy confirmed. “We’ll be quick.”
Lizzy hung up, just as Chells touched the symbol. It caused it to glow even আরো than before, until a large flash of light flew out of it, and blinded Lizzy and Chells. When it had left, they were in a dark misty hallway. In front of them, was a dream.
Location: OutdoorMall3 Lexistropolis west downtown sector 4
Date: Saturday, December 10th 4337
Time: 3:24 P.M.
Running after Lizzy’s direction, Tess and Zen raced and raced, until they had caught up with Siera, who was a short distance from Lizzy, before she ran off.
“Did আপনি see where they went?!” Tess yelled over to Siera, as the two chameleons approached the কাঠবিড়ালবিশেষ girl.
“Not too far off.” Siera replied, catching her breath. “Your new friend followed the runaway out to the left side of the *Cocsate.” *A general store, similar to Wal-Mart*
“And আপনি didn’t go help her?!” Zen yelled at Siera.
“You try running in heels!!” Siera yelled back.
“ERRRRRRG!!!!! Wait here!” Tess growled. “If the dude circles back around to here, try to stop him অথবা call us!”
Siera nodded just as the two others began running after their surprise guest. Ten সেকেন্ড later Tess got a call on her cellphone.
“Tess, the guy’s at the end of the Cocsate!” Nick informed over the cell. “There’s a car near there, and it looks like he’s going for it!”
“Where’s Lizzy?!” Zen asked.
“She’s still chasing him!” Nick replied. “I’m almost there… OH CRUD!!! He just got into the car!”
“CHASE HIM!!!” Tess demanded.
“I plan to, but he’s turning off road, into a sand-area! Nick paused. “What if your parents look and see some kind of-”
“JUST FOLLOW HIM!!!!” Tess yelled.
Nick slammed on the throttle, going full engine at the slim black car. As he began to edge closer, he heard a large clank coming from the side of the car. He began to ease up, and look over to see the damages, just in time to see and hear Lizzy yelling “WHAT ARE আপনি DOING!?!?!? KEEP GOING!!!!”
Again, Nick began charging after the suspect’s car, with Lizzy edging closer to the front.
Meanwhile…
“Siera!” Tess waved, as her and Zen began running back.
“What happened?!” Siera yelled back.
“Nick… *gasp* just told me… that the guy got into *pant* a car, and started heading off after him. Lizzy *pant* jumped on, and followed.”
“Now what?” Siera asked.
“We should probably go back to the alley, and see if anything is over there.” Zen suggested, as they started back. As they drew nearer, Tess noticed something. Something was off.
“Wait a minute…” Tess pondered. “Where’s Chells?”
“I think I saw him run towards the parking lot.” Siera replied. “Maybe he went to chase after the mystery perso- what is that?”
“What is…what?” Zen inquired.
“That!” Siera pointed something groaning at the শীর্ষ of the DeanGames store ceiling. It was the cop from the দিন before. *Right where Lizzy had placed him. *chapter five*
“WHAT’S HE DOING THERE?!!?” Zen yelled.
“Sleeping?” Tess teased.
“Is someone there?” The officer weakly spoke out.
“Uh… hi *Mr. Thomas!” *name was discovered দ্বারা Tess. Hinted in chapter three* “It’ us. The kids who saved আপনি a while back?”
“… Are আপনি serious?” The cop questioned in disbelief. He turned over on his stomach, to look over and see his rescuers. “Why is it always you?????”
“I really don’t know.” Zen replied, weakly. “How did আপনি get up there?”
“I was heading back প্রথমপাতা for the night,” Mr. Thomas began, “when I got knocked out. পরবর্তি thing I know, I’m being dragged over as a hostage, with both my arms broken, and my head spinning. After that, I heard gunfire. Then I got knocked again. And now I’m up here…. Help.”
“Zen, আপনি get him.” Siera instructed.
“Why me?!” Zen protested.
“I’ve got heels on, and Tess has to listen in for Nick.” Siera answered.
“Errrrrrrrrr… fine.” Zen reluctantly agreed. The first attempt at bringing down the police officer involved Zen slowly climbing up, scraping his hand on a hot pipe, then falling down screaming “FLAGKNOB!!!!!” On his সেকেন্ড attempt, he had almost made it to the শীর্ষ of the roof, when Tess so conveniently yelled up, “ZEN!! I THINK I HEAR SOMEONE!!!!”, followed দ্বারা Zen yelling back, “WHERE!!??”, just before falling on Siera, who shortly after slapped him. Finally, after another ten minutes, Zen had ever so loudly managed to bring the Police officer back down, without harming himself.
Eventually, the three teenagers managed to convince broken Mr. Thomas to not mention seeing them, and shortly after had him in the hands of one of the DeanGames clerks. After their little adventure, Tess Siera and Zen began walking back towards where Lizzy and Nick had disappeared too.
“Nick!” Tess called through her cellphone.
“Yeah!” Nick replied, with screeches following.
“Is Chells with you?” Tess inquired.
“No!” Nick replied again. “I think I saw him go over to the parking lot. I think he’s too late though!”
“Okay then!” Tess finished, closing her phone. “Where is that guy?!”
Back to Lizzy and Nick…
The large mini-van, was still barely keeping up with the slim vehicle in front of it, with Lizzy, who was now holding on to the শীর্ষ of the Mini-van. They continued to chase the perpetrator; swerving and slowing, and speeding up, until finally the mysterious man rolled down his window, and began shooting at Lizzy.
Lizzy immediately ghosted all but her hand, which was still holding on to the শীর্ষ of the car. However, all that the shooter would need to do is shoot her palm, and she would be out. But fortunately for her, he stopped firing in her area. Unfortunately, he began shooting at Nick instead.
The still worried mongoose, in hopes not to damage a car not owned দ্বারা him, swerved to the side, but in doing so, launched Lizzy অগ্রবর্তী into the back of the car. Still following, but at a slower pace, Nick gently directed Lizzy to the front of the perp’s car, going through the blind spots.
After getting to the middle of the escaper’s car, Lizzy noticed that the car was now coming up on a downtown alley-road. The মহাকাশ was too small for her to ghost halfway in, and if she tried to go back, she might fall.
Lizzy slowly attempted to open the middle-seat-door, which was being heavily pressured দ্বারা the wind resistance. She continued to jerk the handle, but simply could not get in in time. Then she noticed something coming at the car from the far left.
Eventually Lizzy made out the shape to be a motorcycle. It rushed at full speed in the direct spot the car would be, until “BLAM!” The car, the motorcycle, the driver, the motorcycle’s driver, and Lizzy all went flying into the alley, while Nick fell back into the desert-like area.
The car crashed into two buildings, on its side, throwing the perpetrator through the window and onto the floor. The মোটরসাইকেলে was flown up, onto one of the buildings roofs, while his ride was wedged between the car and the building. Lizzy quickly ghosted out, causing her to not go face-forward into the wall, but was still flying অগ্রবর্তী extremely fast.
The black cat turned herself to the left, and back into the alley, then materializing her hands and feet one at a time, she cart-wheeled until she had slowed down enough. She braced her still slightly-quick fall, with her palms, causing them to scrape, but ignored the pain as best she could.
Lizzy then ran as quickly as she could to where the runaway had landed, and noticed that he was gone. She walked over to the car, to inspect if he was hiding near there, অথবা running away towards the desert plain, but apparently he wasn’t.
Instead, the perp jumped out from a shadowy part of the alley, and gave her a large fist to the back, which caused Lizzy to go straight into the car. She quickly ghosted out of the way, and landed on the other side, and then, while still ghosting, ran full speed into the attacker. The impact from Lizzy’s head and fists knocked the masked figure to the floor, into the air, and then onto the floor again, causing him to pass out.
She noticed after taking off his mask, that he was an echidna, just like the *previous ones. *Chapter five* She picked up the small spherical object, which was now quite damaged, and started back towards the desert plain. Then she remembered that there was someone else. The Cyclist.
Lizzy looked up to the roofs of the apartments, and sure enough he (or she) was there watching the whole thing. The cyclist, with his/her face covered দ্বারা a শিরস্ত্রাণ so Lizzy couldn’t identify him অথবা her, who was also out of range for Lizzy to chase him, quickly turned around and made a quick departure.
Lizzy dropped the item turned to the side of one of the apartments, and slammed her fist into it yelling. The pain was excruciating, but she didn’t care. All she could think about was how she would get out of the country before her secret was out.
Turning to her side, to see if she was bleeding, Lizzy noticed a small electrical current running from where she had hit her fist. (probably from a TV cable) The down-but-not-out female shoved her entire hand into the path of the static, and began to absorb it.
Soon after, the Cyclist, who was still walking back from the শীর্ষ of the roofs, was quickly surprised দ্বারা a giant electrical circular দেওয়াল coming out of nowhere, and positioning itself around him/her. “Lightning Lizzy”, convinced that she had captured her observer, began saying that they needed to talk. Apparently the Cyclist was in no mood to talk.
The Masked figure crouched downward, then began running frantically in the same বৃত্ত as Lizzy. At first Lizzy thought he/she was trying to counter her miniature cyclone with his/her own, and began running faster, but instead the Cyclist grabbed her arm, then immediately after, let go, causing him অথবা her to go flying to another roof, about seventy-yards away.
The Cyclist braced his fall with his/her long boots, then made a stand in the ground, waiting for Lizzy to make her পরবর্তি move. Again Lizzy charged; this time to grab the mysterious person, but both of them knew that the Cyclist now had the advantage. The figure jumped into the air directly after Lizzy began running, knowing that if done any later would result in a large fist in the stomach, and landed behind her. The মোটরসাইকেলে then pushed hard on the back of Lizzy’s head, causing her to continue running, but now going faster than she had meant too. She was sent another hundred yards farther than she meant to go, and into a chimney.
Lizzy pulled herself out of the smoking spout, and drew her knife. She turned to see that the Cyclist was still there, doing what appeared to be লেখা something… or… setting a bomb. Lizzy charged again, thinking that time was short, when in fact the Cyclist instead turned to the side, grabbed her wrist and brought her to the ground.
The Cyclist then handed her a small piece of paper that ব্যক্ত two things. “I’m not going to tell them, and he’s getting away.”
Lizzy was about to turn and see if the perp had awaken like the note said, but didn’t know if she could trust the mysterious masked figure in front of her, so she grabbed the mysterious rider (now noticing that the figure was not in a female shape), and dragged him back down to the alley, where she saw the perpetrator again trying to escape with the sphere.
Once down, the figure gave her a nudge on her arm, and told her “Throw me.” Lizzy did as instructed, sending the Cyclist directly into the back of the echidna. Once again he had been knocked out. But this time, the Cyclist was right দ্বারা him. The masked ‘dude’ picked up the sphere and the runaway, then turned to another alley pathway. Lizzy followed quickly, using her electrically powered body, but he the echidna, and the sphere had vanished.
Lizzy ran back quickly to where the rest of the ‘team’ was, when finally Chells came slowly out of the Mini-van.
“WHERE HAVE আপনি BEEN!!!?!?!?” Lizzy yelled at the dizzy fox.
“I got into the Mini-van with Nick so I could try and get the… whoever, but I got knocked out when the car turned. That and really nauseous.”
“Where’s the guy, অথবা girl, অথবা whatever?” Siera inquired to Lizzy. “And that thing he was holding.
“Well we all went flying when this মোটরসাইকেলে dude came in a crashed into us!” Lizzy explained.
“So that’s what hit you.” Nick hypothesized.
“Yeah, and then after I finally beat the dude up, then the Cyclist sees me and starts running.” Lizzy continued. “I go after him, get him a bit, then get the echidna guy again, yes he’s an echidna, and the Cyclist disappears… WITH THE THINGY AND ECHIDNA GUY!!!!”
“We are officially in the Twilight Zone… right?” Zen teased.
“SO THIS WAS ALL FOR NOTHING??!!!” Siera yelled.
“I wouldn’t say that.” Chells compared.
“HOW!!!?!?” Everyone yelled at Chells.
“Next time, we’ll be ready.” Chells began. “And we now know who we’re dealing with, plus we passed with A’s when it came to organizing, and the unpredictable.”
“Easy for আপনি to say. আপনি were passed out!” Lizzy commented.
“Well… we did help the cop, and my parent’s car isn’t damaged.” Tess encouraged.
“I guess.” Lizzy groaned. “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m going home.”
“Wait a minute.” Nick asked.
“What?” Lizzy responded.
“What did the Cycle dude look like?” Nick inquired a সেকেন্ড time.
“He had a long bushy tail? That’s all I could see.” Lizzy finished, as she departed.
Everyone walked away, until it was just Tess Zen and Chells.
“See আপনি guys পরবর্তি time.” Chells said, as he two left.
“Since when do Cyclists become ninjas?” Zen asked.
“Let’s just go.” Tess groaned as they both began walking back to their parent’s car.
Later that night… in a dark room… (for lack of a better name)
“Ugh… where… where am I?” The echidna groaned rousing awake.
“Your people are dealing with a force আপনি really shouldn’t.” ব্যক্ত a voice from behind the captive. “Your ‘New Legion’ is going to unleash something that will destroy everything, and while it might side with you, your biggest threat is not only in the hands of teenagers, but also one with very special traits.”
“How do আপনি know about our Legion?” The captive inquired.
“Because I’m not from this world either.” The voice answered. “Now if আপনি want to live, my suggestion would be for আপনি quit, but we both know আপনি won’t. Therefore instead আপনি are going to become an inside man for me, অথবা I can just torture আপনি to the point of which আপনি won’t die but আপনি wish আপনি were dead.”
“A simple pay-roll would do.” The echidna agent teased. The figure tossed a roll of money in front of him on the floor. Three-thousand-dollars.
“That is a miniature amount of what I can pay you, Mr. El-kee.” The voice bribed. “All আপনি need to do is give me info, and lay off the teens.”
“And what should I call you?” The echidna asked. A large light flipped on, revealing that the location currently holding the agent was a broken-down apartment building, where it was, was unknown.
“I’ve had quite a few names for many years, but I guess now the most appropriate for this time would be Cyclist.” A figure ব্যক্ত coming into view, wearing a black leather suit, and a dark grey helmet.
“Theatrical.” The echidna commented. The Cyclist simply walked behind him then gave him a সত্বর hit to the back of his head, knocking him out. When he woke, he was in another apartment; this one clean and new and organized.
The agent assumed he was dreaming the entire time, but saw a small note on the side of his বিছানা saying “betrayal has three strikes”. He turned to his side, and thought over his options, then remembered… he didn’t have the sphere, and neither did Lizzy. It was now in the hands of the one only known as Cyclist.
Chapter Eight: অনুরাগী party
Location: Raventide High, Lexistropolis
Date: Monday December 11th 4337
Time: 11:30 A.M.
…“So it’s a win/lose situation, I guess.” Zen concluded, as he and Tess, who were staying at প্রথমপাতা to do labor, began spending their last মিনিট on the phone with Lizzy, who was at the school.
“And since when is house-work a win?” Lizzy inquired, as she and an extreme amount of other students rushed through the multiple hallways, of Raventide High.
“Because we don’t have to be at the school!” Zen exclaimed.
“But you’re still doing homework, right?” Lizzy asked.
“Yeah.” Tess put in. “But we don’t get attacked দ্বারা Grizzly-arm-pit-breath!”
“True.” Lizzy agreed. “So, apparently we now have The Department, Parent’s, and Cyclist to wor-*SLAM!!!*” Before Lizzy could finish her sentence, a true school veteran apprehended her cellphone, and placed it into a school locker, at high speed. This kind soul was Terry Johnson. A light-blue female cat, with blonde hair as well as a blonde personality.
“You’re trash. আপনি know that right?” The gentle jerk insulted. Ignoring the rude remark, Lizzy swiped her phone back, and continued down the hall. Terry followed.
“What? আপনি think you’re worse than trash? I can curse if আপনি want.” Terry continued to rudely remark.
“Oh please.” Lizzy replied, as she began to walk away from the pop-girl. “You can’t afford to cuss. Let alone buy some grammar.”
“Oh yeah?” Terry pathetically remarked. “We’ll see about that!”
“NO WE WON’T!!!” Lizzy called back, as she continued through the hallway.
The relationship between Lizzy and the Beast was mostly what আপনি just read. It began on Lizzy’s first week at Raventide High.
*COMMENCE FLASHBACK* *flashbacks are shown দ্বারা these signs. { }
{“So we’re gonna go and stalk people…” Tess teased, as she Zen and Lizzy began their first recess.
“You’re hilarious… and kind of disturbing.” Lizzy teased back.
“No, seriously. WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO!?!?” Tess exclaimed.
“Stop hurting my ears!” Lizzy hinted.
“OH THANK GOODNESS!!!” A light-blue feline announced, running over to Lizzy, in hopes of getting a hug. Lizzy stood there confused.
“Ummmm… Nice to be uncomfortable-d দ্বারা you.” Lizzy said.
“And আপনি even have the mouth for it!!” Terry exclaimed in joy.
“Hi!” Tess greeted cheerfully. “I’m Tess, this is my bro Zen, and the teddy-bear you’re hugging is Lizzy.”
“… Y-…you’re pretty.” Zen stuttered, a lifeless facial expression emitting from his awkwardness. He was stopped from continuing দ্বারা Tess’s palm.
“S-so… why are আপনি so friendly with Lizzy?” Tess kindly inquired.
“Cause she’s going to be the new emo-jerk-girl of course!” Terry insulted, attempting to give Lizzy a handshake.
“And আপনি were, before I knocked your I.D. out…?” Lizzy frustratingly asked.
“Oh how আপনি of me!” Terry continued. “I’m Terry Johnson. I’m the school’s outfit designer, and an Excel Student. আপনি have no idea what that means.”
“A student, and I quote,” Lizzy began, “Who continues to progress in at least one class, অথবা extra-curricular projects.”
“And that makes you…?” Terry inquired.
“A *Naturesque Student.” Lizzy replied. *A student who has passed the শীর্ষ student in one অথবা আরো class of a school, in a week. Also includes a large donation of goods and/or money to the school, and participation in school events*
“So আপনি do sell drugs for money.” Terry smirked.
“That and take ক্যান্ডি চকোলেট from babies.” Lizzy fibbed. “But at least I don’t smoke pot.” Lizzy made a small gesture to Terry’s breath. Terry made one last unrepeatable মতামত before departing, while Zen called out “I still think you’re pretty”, which became conflicted with Tess’s knee.
From then on, Terry would tease Lizzy, and ignore Zen. The only one she did not criticize normally was Tess. However she did accuse the chameleon girl of being on steroids from time to time.}
As Lizzy walked out to the cafeteria, she couldn’t help but সেকেন্ড guess what she ব্যক্ত and heard. Terry was bound to finally do something against Lizzy. The only downside to it, would be the detention that Lizzy would receive, if she found herself driving her ever-so-sharp dagger through the হৃদয় of her oppressor.
Back at the Solomon household…
“The schedule for today,” Mrs. Solomon began, “starts with cleaning out the backyard, followed দ্বারা school-work, and ending with all of us reflecting on what আপনি should be doing tomorrow. But before all of that, we’re going to talk about why আপনি are receiving these specific consequences.”
Both Tess and Zen gave a large gulp. This was bad. Only one other time were they in this kind of trouble. But on that occasion it turned out that the culprit was not Tess অথবা Zen, but a neighborhood dog.
“So, who should start explaining.” Mrs. Solomon inquired. Zen knew it would be him. His entire life of “teenager-ness” pointed to it. When he heard his mother call his name, he was so upset that she jumped upward, as if struck দ্বারা lightning.
He gave a large sigh, then spoke. “We left to DeanGames, with people we didn’t know personally, without permission, and without telling either of আপনি where we were going, then stayed there past curfew, and ended up having আপনি pick us up.”
“Now, if this ever happens again, আপনি will both be on radar, and we will not allow any of your friends, especially Lizzy, over for a মাস at the very least.” Mr. Solomon declared. “Now, is this fair?”
“Yes…” Tess and Zen groaned, as they began their hard day’s labor.
Back at the school…
Passing অগ্রবর্তী in time to 2:30 P.M. in the afternoon…
“Hey Lizzy, wait up!” A voice called out to Lizzy, as she attempted to walk away from the nightmare most teens call ‘school’, while some of us call it the ‘s word’. Assuming that the person was Terry, due to the distance between herself and the sound-pattern, Lizzy simply ব্যক্ত “No thanks!” Eventually the voice caught up to her.
It was not Terry. The person now standing in front of Lizzy was a black-haired skunk, appearing to be around the age of sixteen অথবা seventeen.
“What’s the rush?” The skunk asked the feline.
“Oh… Sorry, I thought আপনি were my new best foe.” Lizzy wittingly apologized.
“Uh… sorry to disappoint… I guess.” The confused male paused.
“What’s up?” Lizzy asked.
“Well, I heard আপনি say that আপনি were a Naturesque, and thought আপনি might want in on something.” The skunk boy proposed.
“And that would be…?” Lizzy asked again.
“Well, me, my band, and a bunch of other kids are planning a অনুরাগী club party thing in the gym for tonight.”
“You have a band?” Lizzy perked up.
“Yeah! We’re gonna take requests from different real successes, and do some freeze dancing too.”
“Sounds interesting, but I do have two questions.” Lizzy began. “What else is going to happen, and what am I supposed to help with?”
“We-well… there’s gonna be মুষ্ট্যাঘাত and chips, and-and stuff, and a bunch of stands, where people dress up as their role-models, and give out ক্যুইজ and আরো stuff.”
“Sounds stuffy.” Lizzy teased. “And my part is…?”
“Well I don’t really know, specifically, but they have a sign-up sheet, where আপনি can volunteer, and write what আপনি want to do. It gets আপনি extra credit, and *cough* lowers demerits.” Lizzy gave a blank dissatisfied face, due to the fact that the longest time she had spent at a school was a মাস and three days, and never got to keep any of her credits because of it. The young boy in front of her noticed this.
“Well… that’s what most people do it for,” The nervous wreak continued, “but it also helps because আপনি get to see the উত্তর for a lot of the quizzes, so আপনি can ace it later.”
“I dunno.” Lizzy cautiously replied. “Sounds a bit too L.A.R.P.’Y for me.”
“Well,” The male began, “if আপনি didn’t really mean what আপনি ব্যক্ত about being a Naturesque-“
“Hold on there… guy” Lizzy paused.
“Jack.” The skunk corrected.
“Jack. Lemme think a bit, before the rush.” Lizzy counted her losses and wins. It sounded really boring, but she had nothing else to do. Tess and Zen were on restriction, and she did not want to go home.
“hm… Will a girl named Terry be there?” Lizzy inquired.
“M-maybe?” Jack cringed
“Will a girl named Siera Struthers be there?” Lizzy asked again.
“Her I remember.” Jack began. “She jumped in, saying how exited she was about getting it ready, then checked her make-up.”
“In that case… you’ve got yourself a deal.” Lizzy responded, giving the skunk boy a nice firm handshake.
“Gr-great!” Jack stammered. “We’re going to start decorating in a bit, but আপনি don’t have to come for another hour. See ya then.”
“See ya.” Lizzy waved.
“So what was stutter-man asking আপনি about? “Chells inquired, as he walked up to Lizzy.
“Some party tonight.” Lizzy responded. “Can আপনি hit girls?” Chells’s face was blank.
“I…suppose? What are আপনি up too?” Chells queried.
“Terry something… something,” Lizzy explained, “is probably going to try to do something to get me in trouble tonight, and I need আপনি to make sure she stays at bay.”
“And আপনি can’t beat her up yourself?” Chells questioned.
“That’s probably what she wants me to do, so I need a আরো normal type of student to get her attention.” Lizzy explained.
“And nothing says normal like a blind fox, who wears shades, and beats up people.” Chells teased.
“Exactly. Bye.” Lizzy said, leaving back into the hallways. Chells merely stood there pondering.
Half an ঘন্টা later…
Looking over the positions wanted, Lizzy could find little to nothing half interesting, and decided to go to the gym herself to suggest a position. Once she got there, she was almost blown away দ্বারা the loud banging of Jack’s “Band”.
“JACK!!!!” Lizzy yelled out, trying to get the drumming skunk’s attention. “I NEED TO ASK আপনি SOMETHING!!!!! JACK!!!!!! JACK!!!!!!!!!!!!” Finally Lizzy began making arm gestures, until the members either stopped because the song was over, অথবা because of Lizzy. She couldn’t tell which it was.
Jack hopped down from the stage, and walked over to Lizzy. “Sorry about that.” He began. “We were testing the Equalizer, while playing a blank tone. Not fun. What’cha need?”
“I didn’t see anything I wanted on your suggestions, so I came to ask if I could do something else.” Lizzy proposed.
“Which is?” Jack inquired.
“I wanted to be a secret-stalker.” Lizzy suggested.
“Uhhh…” Jack didn’t say anything, except for “uhh”. Obviously he was not thinking what she was.
“It means I look around, and look for any foul play in the tests, অথবা people messing with the lights, অথবা pouring liquid on each other.” Lizzy reassured.
“Oooooooooooooh. Okay.” Jack finally acknowledged. “Well… I suppose that’s okay. But you’ll have to do something else to get it ready, until it’s… ready… I guess.”
“Joy.” Lizzy sarcastically groaned.
“All আপনি need to do for now, is get the মুষ্ট্যাঘাত ready.” Jack said, attempting to perk up the female.
“I guess that’s doable.” Lizzy agreed. “Where do I get the punch?”
“There’s a back-room পরবর্তি to the teacher’s lounge, where we keep all the supplies.” Jack informed, as he handed Lizzy a key. “This is the key to the room. আপনি know where the Teacher’s Lounge is, right?”
“Yes.” Lizzy replied.
“Good! আপনি can use that কার্ট over there to carry the boxes.” Jack informed. “Good luck.
Lizzy turned to the hallways once again, and walked out towards the storage room.
Back at the Solomon residence…
“I told আপনি so, just doesn’t cut it, does it?” Zen ব্যক্ত to his worn out sister, as they raked up leaves, in the backyard.
“You followed her too!” Tess countered. “You’re the one who started after her in the first place!”
“BECAUSE I WANTED TO STOP HER!!!” Zen exclaimed out of anger. “Can আপনি imagine if Mom অথবা Dad found out about that cloaked guy?”
“That wouldn’t be fun.” Tess sighed.
“And this is?” Zen teased.
“Let’s just get this done, without talking okay?” Tess pleaded, as they continued to work. “I wish Lizzy was here.”
Sadly enough, Lizzy wasn’t there. She was instead, finishing up her part of the school’s অনুরাগী party, just before sitting to rest.
“Lizzy, right?” Siera Struthers greeted, walking up to the teenage cat.
“That’s me.” Lizzy replied, recognizing a friendly face.
“Soooooooo, what are আপনি doing for the party?” Siera inquired.
“Well, I just got finished getting the মুষ্ট্যাঘাত ready,” Lizzy began, “but during the party, I’m going to be making sure that nothing messes up. Y’know, dunking people with Punch, messing with the sound system, sabotage. That sort of thing.”
“I see.” Siera said. “Sounds… interesting.”
“So, what are আপনি doing?” Lizzy asked the কাঠবিড়ালবিশেষ girl.
“I’m helping with the sewing, designing, and décor.” Siera replied. “The sewing is massively boring, but I do what I need to, to get the designer privilege. That is if the Terry girl doesn’t mess it up for me.”
“You’ve had the pleasure as well?” Lizzy asked.
“Unfortunately.” Siera groaned. “Y’know, usually people say that I’m the stuck-up Barbie, but they all kind of forget about me when they hear her. She’s just so obnoxious. I mean, I’m like living proof that fashion people can be a bit full of it sometimes, but she just takes it to a whole new level of pain!”
“Got that right.” Lizzy agreed. “When she heard I was in so many different schools, she started calling me an emo-jerk-girl.”
“That’s a lie… mostly.” Siera agreed… sort of.
“MOSTLY?!” Lizzy exclaimed.
“Sorry, but আপনি don’t exactly scream happy!” Siera defended. “You have a ছুরি up your boot, for Pete’s sake!”
“It’s an Heirloom!!” Lizzy exclaimed.
“People don’t usually keep those kind of things on their feet.” Siera opposed. “They keep them in basements, অথবা glass bottles!”
“Can we please change the subject?” Lizzy pleaded.
“Fine.” Siera said. “See any cute boys?”
“Seriously?” Lizzy questioned, as if the প্রশ্ন was stupid. “I’ve only met like one boy here, and he probably has a girlfriend anyway.”
“Do আপনি know this for a fact???” Siera pushed.
“…No.” Lizzy groaned
“There আপনি go!” Siera comforted “He’s all yours. See ya!”
Siera left Lizzy keeping a blank face, half furious, and half confused. Finally, after another half hour, the party was ready, and students were arriving. Lizzy waited, and watched for her arch nemeses, but alas, she found no one. So she got a cup of punch, pulled out her phone and called Chells.
“You can abort mission now.” Lizzy informed her blind ally over the phone.
“I don’t remember giving আপনি my number.” Chells cautiously informed.
“Zen and Tess told me.” Lizzy informed again.
“I don’t remember giving them my number.” Chells confusedly spoke. “Abort mission means… not… spying on Teresa Johnson?”
“You call her Teresa?” Lizzy inquired.
“That’s not her name?” Chells asked, still confused.
“Never mind… so… where are you?” Lizzy asked again.
“Right in front of you, Chells replied as he hung up, and walked towards Lizzy. “So, now that you’re greatest fear will never come true, what are আপনি planning on doing?”
“I dunno.” Lizzy replied. “I guess I’ll check out the stands?”
“Have fun.” Chells said, walking away.
After a short time of scanning, Lizzy came across a stand that ব্যক্ত ‘Mage’. She walked over, and noticed a bunch of people wearing nerdy medieval outfits, and holding plastic wands. But aside from that, she did see some very authentic-looking sketches of mage symbols. And below them, was a really old book ,with a bunch of strange লেখা on the front.
“What’s all this?” Lizzy inquired to the student in front of the stand, pointing to the book.
“Oh that? That’s something my Grandma found about fifty years পূর্বে at some যেভাবে খুশী someplace thing.” He explained. “It’s got a lot of old writing, and I think some kind of decoder, but I can’t seem to figure it out. I ‘m actually having a contest for it. Whoever cracks it can have it.” The teenage শিয়াল handed the book over to Lizzy, who began scanning through it until finding the page with the decoder on it.
“What do those letters in blue mean?” Lizzy inquired.
“Oh those.” The student acknowledged. “My Grandma put those there to signify which was old, and which were new. The শীর্ষ stands for ‘Recent’. Obviously, it wasn’t সাম্প্রতিক enough. The সেকেন্ড means ‘Less Recent’. The O stands for ‘Older’. The A stands for ‘Ancient’, and the M for ‘Myth’. She probably ব্যক্ত myth, seeing how it was the same লেখা from that book, back in the 2000’s. So, what did আপনি come up with?”
“Hmmm… আপনি got any paper?” Lizzy inquired.
“Right here!” The student offered, handing Lizzy a large sheet of paper. It was a bit too large, but she gave it little thought, as she sat down with the book, and began trying to match the different symbols.
First, she copied the cypher, then she began matching the different words in the book, with the ones in the decoder. The first one seemed to appear a lot, so she chose to make that one “E”. She looked over to the সেকেন্ড one, and noticed that the arches in the সাম্প্রতিক structure, and the middle of the Less Recent, made it look like an “A”. The পরবর্তি ones were easy. She was going on to the fourth letter when “BLOOSH!” All the মুষ্ট্যাঘাত went flying on to her, and the book.
Lizzy looked upward, to see who had dunked her, and not to her surprise, she saw Terry running away from her direction. She then noticed that Terry was now running to the stands… to the mage stand. Lizzy could hear Terry’s immense screeching from all the way across the gym. She kept yelling and yelling out “Lizzy dunked herself, and got the book all wet!!!”
The student, who was lending her the book was furious. He stormed over to Lizzy, and swiped the book out of her hands. “DO আপনি KNOW HOW OLD THIS IS?!!?!?” He yelled at the soaked cat.
“TERRY DUNKED ME!!!!” Lizzy protested, pointing to her accuser. “I WASN’T EVEN UNDER THE PUNCH!!! PLUS I SAW HER RUNNING AWAY THE MOMENT I GOT DUNKED!!!”
“I was going to tell him what আপনি did to yourself, আপনি little Fib!!” Terry yelled at Lizzy, trying to sound sincere, and hurt.
The three of them argued for another fifteen minutes, until the Principal had finally come over, and broke it up. Lizzy explained that she was there to prevent things like that from happening, and was only trying to help the guy decipher the codes, but they all just ignored her. They turned around to leave, but they were blocked দ্বারা someone in their way.
“You better not THINK about leaving like this.” Chells growled, at Terry, standing পরবর্তি to Siera.
“You just accuse the new girl, and believe someone we all know to be a piece of crud?!” Siera questioned.
“And how long have আপনি two been here?” Terry questioned.
“… As long as Lizzy…” Siera groaned.
“Then how would আপনি know anything about me maggots!?” Terry angrily questioned.
“Because of what আপনি just said.” Chells pointed out. “Didn’t আপনি even take in account that Lizzy was out of range of the punch, and had no reason to dunk herself? Not to mention that Terry had already threatened her multiple times, just today!”
“Is this true, Terry?” Principal Sanchez inquired.
“I haven’t been around her all day!!” Terry fibbed.
“I think these will say otherwise.” Chells said, pressing on a small part of his shades, unlocking a memory stick. He handed the card to the Principal, making sure it was out of Terry’s reach.
“…*sigh*… Terry, Lizzy, I think it would be best if আপনি two would go home.” The Older lady suggested.
“BU-“
“I don’t want to hear it!” She interrupted. “I can’t even begin to understand why this student had a camera in his glasses, let alone who dunked who. I need আপনি two to go home, and think about what had happened.”
“…Fine.” Lizzy growled.
“Well that sissy can leave, but I’m not!!!” Terry protested. “I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING!!!! I’M STAYING RIGHT HE-“
Before she could finish, Siera covered her mouth, then her and Chells began pushing her out of the school. “We’ll call her parents.” Siera said, as they all left the school.
Once they had all gotten outside…
“LET GO OF ME YOU-“
“Listen! Don’t talk listen!” Chells demanded.
“You have no idea who আপনি are dealing with, and আপনি will pay if আপনি don’t knock it off!” Siera threatened.
“Go প্রথমপাতা now, and maybe we’ll give আপনি a head start before setting the girl আপনি dunked after আপনি with her dagger!” Chells added.
“…Fine!” Terry said. “This party sucked anyway! Have fun trying to fix that book Trash!”
Lizzy pulled out her knife, and tried to go after her, but was stopped দ্বারা Chells and Siera. “It’s what she wants Liz.” Siera cautioned.
“Yeah, I guess.” Lizzy admitted, putting her ছুরি back in her boot.
“LIZZY!!!” Jack yelled out, trying to catch up.
“Oh, নমস্কার Jack.” Lizzy greeted, lowly. “Lemme guess. You’re going to accuse me too?”
“N-no!” Jack stammered. “I was wondering if আপনি still wanted to enjoy the party. I know আপনি got all soaked, but at least আপনি should get to make sure that my band gets some tomatoes thrown at our lack of talent. Plus, আপনি really do deserve to have a good time. I know Terry isn’t the best of people, but আপনি can’t let her ruin it for you. Plus, the principal, and the guy from the stand aren’t here now, so no one can tell আপনি to stay out anymore”
“Thanks Jack.” Lizzy acknowledged. “I might just take আপনি up on that offer, but first I’ve got to change. Wet অথবা not, I am FRIGED!”
“O-okay!” Jack noticed. “Then I’ll see আপনি in about… half an hour.”
“If the party isn’t over দ্বারা then.” Lizzy added, as she started off.
“Don’t worry about the party!” Jack yelled out, as Lizzy walked back প্রথমপাতা to make a quick change. “It’s not gonna be over till like eleven. It’s only nine!”
Chells and Siera just stood there for a while, trying to breath in what just happened. Mostly about Chell’s shades.
“Since when do আপনি have a camera in your glasses?” Siera inquired.
“Well আপনি can’t have shades without something cool on them.” Chells teased.
“I suppose.” Siera agreed. After a little longer, Chells started humming a tune to himself, which began to unnerve Siera, so finally she yelled out, “WOULD আপনি STOP IT!?!?”
“Sorry.” Chells apologized, as he quickly ceased.
“What kind of song was that anyway?” Siera asked.
“The one about Jack, Lizzy, and the baby carriage.” Chells teased, just before getting elbowed দ্বারা Siera. “Well, I think I’m done for tonight. See ya.”
Chells walked away, while Siera walked inside again. As the blind শিয়াল walked back to his house, he pulled out a picture from his pocket. He then gave a large sigh, put it back, then continued walking.
Chapter nine: Location Investigation
Location: 66 Jazon Ave, Lexistropolis
Wednesday, December 13th, 4337
Time: 2:42 P.M.
Lizzy walked over to the Solomon household, carrying a shovel, for the snow that had finally arrived. She was going there for this special occasion, for it was the দিন that Tess and Zen were off restriction.
“FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!” Tess exclaimed, as she and Zen rushed out of their house, and into the snow. “AND IT’S FINALLY SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!! I’M SO HAPPY I’M GONNA CRY!!!!!”
“Please don’t.” Lizzy teased. “Yeah, I guess it is pretty cool, that it’s snowing finally. I almost thought it was gonna be dry past Christmas.”
For a very odd reason, the entire state of Lexistropolis had a very strange whether change. For two weeks at the end of September, it was snowing heavily, then without reason, it stopped. The snow dried up, and the weather became আরো like Summer, than Fall অথবা Winter. Zen was convinced that it was being done দ্বারা some evil scientist, while Tess was convinced it was a drought. No one knew, and they still didn’t, but it was snowing now, and almost everyone was excited.
“SNOW BALL FIGHT!!!!!!!” Zen yelled out, throwing a snowball at Lizzy’s back. The freezing catapult went on to her scarf, then down her shirt, and onto her back.
“COOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!!!!!!!” Lizzy yelled, shaking the snow out.
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!” Tess laughed. “YOUR FACE- AHAHHAHAAA-WAS JUST SO FUNNY!!!!!”
“You want to see funny, do you?” Lizzy ব্যক্ত grinning. She pulled out a shovel from behind her back, and scooped a pile of snow onto Tess.
“Hey! I’m the one who dunked you!” Zen defended.
“You’re absolutely right!” Lizzy agreed, turning to Zen.
“Oh poop.” Zen groaned, just before getting dunked. The three of them chased each other around the front-lawn, until finally, Tess yelled out “WAIT!!!!!”, just before Lizzy dunked her a সেকেন্ড time, which instead of her explain why she wished for them to stop, she yelled out “COLD” over and over and over, as she frantically ran in circles.
“Why wait?” Lizzy asked. Tess didn’t respond. She just kept running, and screaming “COLD COLD COLD”. After much waiting, Lizzy and Zen grabbed Tess’s jacket, and pulled it off, letting all the snow off.
“Th-th-thanks.” Tess gratefully shivered.
“You’re welcome.” Lizzy responded, handing Tess her jacket. “Now why did we stop?”
“Why’d আপনি come over here?” Tess asked.
“To see আপনি guys… kinda obvious.” Lizzy responded, feeling a bit hurt. “It’s been so boring without আপনি two to keep me on edge, so I thought that since you’re back, আপনি might want to do আরো Phantis file whatever stuff.”
“Oh yeah.” Tess remembered. “We haven’t watched any of the video-thingamajigs lately.”
“Not to mention, visit the location the girl in the video was talking about.” Zen added. “Where did it say she lived?”
“I don’t remember.” Tess shrugged. “I’ll go check it again.” Tess went back into the house, and two মিনিট later, Zen shoved into the snow, দ্বারা a snow-ball almost as big as him.
“Sorry!!” Chells called out, walking over to the two friends. “It was supposed to miss you.”
“I hear Chells, but all I see is white, and stars.” Zen groaned. “In other words… I’M STUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Chells and Lizzy slowly pulled Zen out from underneath the giant pile of snow, and brushed him off.
“How did আপনি throw that anyway?!” Zen exclaimed.
“Sweat, stress, and cussing.” Chells teased. “Well, stress at least. What are আপনি three up two?”
“We’re gonna go check out a lead from the Phantis file drive.” Zen informed.
“ZEN!!!” Lizzy scolded.
“WHAT!??” Zen exclaimed. “He’s part of our team too!!”
“Fine…” Lizzy groaned, “but don’t think this means you’re coming.”
“Oooooookay.” Chells confusedly spoke. “Not that I really care if I come অথবা not, but… why?”
“Because we can handle it ourselves.” Lizzy coldly informed. “Any more, and it’ll just slow us down.”
“Chells won’t slow us down!” Zen defended.
“He was asleep, while I was battling some wak-job with a helmet!” Lizzy added.
“I’m still here আপনি know.” Chells said, trying not to be bothered দ্বারা Lizzy’s insults. “If আপনি don’t want me to come, just say it. I really don’t care either way.”
Chells started back up the street, just as Tess came out. “Hi Chells!” Tess yelled out. Chells waved back, and continued to press on. “What were আপনি talking to him about?”
“How to insult people coldly.” Zen growled.
“We don’t need any help!!” Lizzy yelled again. “I can beat up anyone that comes along, and আপনি too can do…whatever আপনি do.”
“Lizzy, the Phantis File doesn’t just have us.” Tess put in. “Chells has a right to come, just like me অথবা Zen, অথবা even you.”
“… OH WHATEVER!!!!” Lizzy exclaimed, defeated. “CHELLS!!!!!! আপনি CAN COME!!!!”
“… THANKS… I GUESS!!!!” Chells yelled back, as he started walking towards them again.
“So Tess, where are we heading?” Lizzy inquired.
“W-well… there’s good and bad news about that.” Tess stammered. “The good news is that it shouldn’t be hard to get there. The bad news is… *sigh*… It’s in Triff City.”
“THAT’S ALMOST A-HUNDRED MILES FROM HERE!!!!” Zen yelled.
“ZEN!!!!! EARS!!!!!!!” Lizzy and Chells angrily yelled back.
“”How on Hybria are we going to get permission to go there?!” Zen said.
“A lot of begging?” Tess nervously teased.
“Or something else.” Chells added, blankly.
“Really!?” Lizzy exclaimed. “I had no idea! Care to explain what that might be?”
“Zen and Tess could tell their parents that we’re all going to some special activity we supposedly saw in a school flyer, and say that we won’t be back until maybe later tonight. আপনি might want to add that there’s a campout for some of the people, and that we still haven’t decided if we’re staying for the night অথবা not, so we can get supplies, in case we do. And, if they ask about it, আপনি tell them that ‘we couldn’t find anyone, and didn’t want to waste the gas and supplies, so we stayed out there for a while.’ No suspicion. No downside. Ta, Dah.”
“…You’re good.” Tess complimented.
“Thanks.” Chells accepted.
“I’ll go tell Mom and Dad.” Zen announced, leaving into the house.
“Slow us down huh?” Tess teased. “Why are আপনি really upset with Chells?”
“I’m not mad at Chells, okay?!” Lizzy exclaimed. “I’m just having a confused and stressed moment.”
“Like…?” Zen urged.
“One, Terry… enough said.” Lizzy wise-cracked. “and Two, I found this book that had a bunch of writing, including stuff about the weird language, but then it got dunked with party punch. Chells Siera and Jack got me back inside the party, but now we don’t have the stinking book!!”
“Who’s Jack, what party, and how did it get dunked?” Zen asked.
“Jack’s just the guy that told me about the party.” Lizzy informed. “The party was a অনুরাগী fiesta thingamajig wher-“
“I MISSED I!?!?!” Zen exclaimed.
“Uh… yeah.” Lizzy answered. “Sorry, but আপনি were on restriction, and I only found out about it like an ঘন্টা before it was on.”
“You two do realize that I’m still right here, standing in front of you, right?” Chells informed, waving slightly.
Later…
“… And here we are!” Zen announced, as the three Hybrids approached their desired location.
“This is Umbrage Ave?” Tess remarked. “It looks nothing like the picture.”
“And what did the picture look like?” Lizzy asked.
“Not this.” Tess replied.
The area in front of the four allies was not what any of them had expected. Tess expected a normal neighborhood, with normal neighborhood things, such as pets, trees, garages, hoses, and so on. Zen expected some kind of witch-house, অথবা secret base. Lizzy expected something old. Broken down maybe. Chells didn’t care.
It was like an acid had exploded. There was a circular barrier surrounded whatever was inside it, and at least ten stations around it, poking out from its sides. The stations were tall, and thin, holding inside them, one অথবা two people, wearing black masks, and holding either rifles, অথবা telescopes.
“Well that plan is over-with.” Tess commented.
“Are আপনি kidding?!” Lizzy questioned, her face lighting up. “This is perfect!!”
“It’s amazing how quickly definitions change.” Chells remarked. “Take for example perfect. Now usually it would mean good, easy, অথবা flawless. Now it means deadly, off-limits, an-“
“It’s perfect because we know that they’re hiding something!!!” Lizzy interrupted. “There’s definitely something inside there that we want, and I doubt that those guys are using it for the best of purposes.”
“Or they’re soldiers for the government.” Zen added.
“It would explain why we didn’t know about the Phantis file for so long.” Tess pondered.
“That could be.” Lizzy tilted. “Then that would make this place some kind of area 51!! Perfect!”
“Again with the perfect.” Chells groaned.
“All for trying to get in…?” Lizzy proposed.
“NEY” Tess and Zen revoked.
“Chells?” Lizzy asked hopefully.
“I’m all for it.” Chells responded.
“You’re funny.” Tess sarcastically noted. “If we get caught, forget restriction, we’re gonna be in Juvenile-Hall, অথবা worse! And if they aren’t from the government, they might even try to kill us!!!”
“Fine!” Lizzy said. “You guys stay here and Chells and I go.”
“ARE আপনি INSANE!?!?!?!” Tess screamed. “You’ll be killed!!!”
“And just when she found a boy she liked.” Chells teased. Lizzy gave him a cold stare, then turned back to Tess.
“A boy!? YOU?!?!” Tess ব্যক্ত in shock, as if saying (Lizzy getting… a boyfriend?).
“Is it really that hard to imagine???” Lizzy growled under her teeth.
“Uh, n-n-no!!” Zen intervened. “It’s just tha-“
“Can we go now?” Chells interrupted. Lizzy and Chells hopped out of the car, and started towards the giant wall.
“WAIT!!!!” Tess called out. “WHAT DO WE DO!?!?”
“You stay there and keep watch on the outside!” Lizzy called back. “We’ll send আপনি an text if we get anything good!”
Tess continued to protest the entire idea, but Lizzy and Chells were out of ear-shot now, and she did not want to be overheard দ্বারা the guards.
“So ‘Dagger-Woman’, what is your plan?” Chells inquired, as he and Lizzy approached the range of the wall.
“You distract them, while I sneak inside.” Lizzy informed.
“And what am I going to do to distract them?” Chells asked.
“You’ll figure it out.” Lizzy replied. “We’re here. There’s not a lot of snow, so you’re gonna have to make sure they look in only your direction
“Happiness and rainbows.” Chells sarcastically groaned. Lizzy turned to the left, running as quickly as she could under the stations, while Chells started walking to the right. He pulled off his jacket, and began stuffing snow inside of it. পরবর্তি he began swinging his জ্যাকেট around and around, then jerked it forward, causing the snow to go directly into one the guard’s faces.
“We’ve got something over here!” the guard yelled out to the others. All the guards turned to Chells, and aimed their weapons.
Lizzy made her way under one of the stations undetected. She absorbed a part of the wall, causing a hole to emerge from it. She then jumped upward and made another hole. She continued to climb upward, until she had absorbed to much of the material, and was now too heavy.
Lizzy put her hand into the দেওয়াল again, and surged her material into the দেওয়াল again, filling her পূর্ববর্তি holes. Once light enough, Lizzy continued to press upward.
Meanwhile, Chells was now being shot at দ্বারা four snipers. He quickly abandoned his offense strategy, and began to run, scuffling snow around him. He flew the snow upward in such a way that the snipers could barely see him. After another মিনিট of firing, the snipers হারিয়ে গেছে sight of Chells completely.
“This is E.E. four to E.E. six, and five. What was that thing?” One of the guards spoke, through his walkie-talkie.
“I dunno.” One of the other guards responded. “Maybe it- ugh!”
“… E.E. six?” The guard called. “E.E. six please respond.
“… … … E.E. s-six here.” The other guard responded.
“What happened?” the first guard inquired.
“I… slipped on some of the ice that was flown at me. N-nothing else to report.” E.E. six stuttered. “O-over and-d out.”
The sixth guard turned off his com, then turned to his side. “Good work.” Lizzy complimented, holding her dagger to the guard’s neck. “Now if আপনি would be so kind to tell me how many guards are on the other side, I’ll be off.”
“There’s t-t-ten guards on the other side.” The guard nervously responded. “They h-have a standard circular round. Each intercepts within eye shot of the two to his side. They’ll see আপনি coming.”
“Let me worry about eyesight.” Lizzy corrected. “Now, which one was housed under the name Evens?”
“I don’t know!” The guard whined. “I swear, I have no i-Agh!”
“Where is it?!” Lizzy sternly pressed, pushing her dagger harder against the guard.
“It- MIGHT BE one of the ones in the middle!” The guard pained. “On the left!”
You’ve been very helpful. Bye now.” Lizzy finished, ghosting through the wall, leading to the inside of the barrier.
The guard looked behind him, to make sure Lizzy was gone, then reached for his com, but was knocked out, before he could grab it
“Did I mention, don’t try to contact anyone?” Lizzy said, going back into the wall. She ghosted downward, until landing on the inside of the barrier. The area that she had entered was a worn down neighborhood. It was almost completely destroyed, with maybe six houses still intact. Those houses has special energy fields, which had small posts, with keypads on them.
Lizzy also noticed that all ten guards were in eyesight of her, and could easily notice her. Just as the guard said, the other guards did spot her. They were each carrying machine guns, which were all pointed at Lizzy.
“Stop!” One of the guards ordered. But of course, Lizzy did the opposite. She began running towards one of the guards, just as they all began to আগুন at her. Lizzy ghosted out, causing them to miss, then slid a guard, and knocked him out from behind. She then picked up his gun, and began to আগুন blindly at her enemies feet.
Lizzy quickly ran towards the middle left houses. The guards followed. She ignored them, and quickly made it to what she thought was the Even’s household. She assumed it was because this one had an extra field around it.
The snipers were still firing at her, and she didn’t want the house destroyed when she got through, so she turned around to continue firing at them, but instead they were already running away. “Uh… good riddance?” Lizzy ব্যক্ত in a confused tone. Attempting to forget what had just happened, Lizzy turned back to the field.
Lizzy looked at the keypad, and begin pressing the numbers at random, but to no avail. She tried ghosting into the field, but she couldn’t. “It must be a-non electric energy.” She thought to herself. Finally Lizzy pointed her gun at the keypad, and began shooting rapidly.
The keypad broke, and the field died down She continued onward to the পরবর্তি field, and shot down its keypad, but instead of dying down, it made a loud alarm go off.
She began to shoot at the field frantically, trying to stop it from blaring, but nothing worked. Guards would now be coming out, and she had no way of getting in. Lizzy turned to the opposing side, waiting for anyone to try and attack her, when without warning, the alarm stopped.
Lizzy turned around to see Chells pulling his sleeve down over his wrist, and walking towards the house, which was now completely of-guard, with no field at all. “HOW DID আপনি DO THAT?!!?” Lizzy exclaimed.
“You have your secrets, and I have mine.” Chells responded.
The two allies walked inside to the house, but while Chells did disable the alarm, every guard in the area was now aware that there were intruders in the base.
As the two Hybrids walked into the house, they noticed immediately that instead of it being destroyed, the inside of the house was almost completely untouched. The only things out of place were a door upstairs, which had another field surrounding it, and a bookshelf, which seemed to be ransacked
“I’ll check these books.” Lizzy said. “You go see if আপনি can open that door up there.”
Chells walked up the stairs, as Lizzy walked over to the bookshelf. She began to খুঁজুন through them, then noticed that they all had strange lines on them. Not symbols exactly, but little streaks, and swerves across the spines.
“I got the door open!” Chells called. Lizzy walked up, and into the room. It was a bedroom. There was a bed, and a window, and another bookshelf, but আরো importantly, there was a computer.
“Does it still work?” Lizzy asked.
“I doubt it,” Chells replied “but we can check.”
Lizzy reached down, and turned on the base, which in turn, turned on the monitor. “Well at least it works.” Chells said, pointing out the obvious. “And it wants a password.”
“Oh joy.” Lizzy sighed. “Let’s look around for anything that could hel-“
“Got it!” Chells announced.
“How did আপনি get it so quickly?!” Lizzy exclaimed.
“Easy.” Chells replied. “The গুপ্তশব্দ was ‘Phantis’.”
They skimmed through the files, until finding a file listed as ‘videos’. They opened it up, and found আরো home-videos than they could handle. The তালিকা just kept growing. Finally, it stopped loading, and they began watching through them.
After five মিনিট of watching a two-year-old in a bathtub, Chells finally হারিয়ে গেছে his patience. “Alright, let’s just download it all onto a flash drive.”
“What flash-drive?” Lizzy inquired. “Let me guess, আপনি have that too?”
“No, but there’s probably some around here.” Chells corrected. “I’ll look for a flash drive, and আপনি can… uh…”
“continue looking through the books?” Lizzy helped.
“Uh, yeah.” Chells replied, turning to the shelves in the room.
Lizzy walked back to the bookshelf, and began putting them back on the shelves. Once she had finished, she waited for something to happen, but nothing did. “Well that was a fail.” Lizzy sighed. “Maybe it has to make a picture.”
She then began rearranging the books, trying to figure out how they should be placed. As she continued attempting to fix the puzzle, she heard a large booming sound. She walked over to a front window, just in time to see a giant mob of guards, all carrying machine guns. And behind them were four giant robotic-machines.
“They’re gonna destroy the house!” Lizzy gasped. “Chells, I need your distracting abilities again!!”
“Did the guards come back!?” Chells responded, walking down the stairs.
“Have fun.” Lizzy encouraged. “Oh, and please don’t die.”
Chells slowly walked out of the house, and in front of the guards. Lizzy could hear the বন্দুক cocking, but couldn’t waste time with sentiment. She started getting closer to finishing the picture, and then she heard gunfire.
It continued for ten minutes, some she could just hear, and some that went into the house. And still, she had not figured out what the picture was to be. She went faster and faster, trying desperately to finish before the house came down, and then… the firing stopped.
Lizzy froze. Why did it stop? Was Chells killed? Why else would they had stopped firing, unless he wasn’t a threat anymore. Lizzy couldn’t help it anymore. She ran out of the house, have confused, and half terrified that something had happened.
“CHELL-“ Lizzy stopped. Chells wasn’t eliminated. Instead everything else was. All the guards were either shot, অথবা passed out, the machines were destroyed, and the দেওয়াল even had some damage. Standing in the middle, with only a hole through one of his sleeves, was Chells.
“You have your secrets,” Chells quoted, walking back into the house, “and I have mine.”
Lizzy slowly walked back into the house. How did Chells do all that? Who was he really? They both walked into the house, and continued trying to fix the picture. Lizzy was to shocked to ask anything… for a while.
After a couple of minutes, Lizzy finally blurted out “HOW DID আপনি DO THAT?!?!!”
“Took their guns, shot at them, hid behind houses, stealth mode.” Chells informed. “Yada-yada.”
“You expect me to believe that আপনি just happened to be able to disarm and overtake them that easily?!” Lizzy exclaimed.
“Yes.” Chells responded. “Or would আপনি like to explain how আপনি got over the wall, and past all ten guards, holding machine guns, then know exactly which house to look for?”
“…Fine… for now.” Lizzy grumbled. “Let’s just finish this stupid puzzle.”
For the পরবর্তি seventeen minutes, Lizzy and Chells ব্যক্ত nothing. They simply continued to work on finishing the puzzle, with no questioning অথবা gestures of any kind. At the end of these seventeen minutes, they had finally finished the picture.
The symbol in front of them was streaky, and all right angles. Each one seemed to be overlapping another, দ্বারা being above, অথবা পরবর্তি to it.
Once finished, the black area of the symbols lit up light green.
“Tess! Zen!” Lizzy called through her cellphone. “We found something here! We’ll be back soon.”
“Okay Lizzy.” Tess responded. “You might want to hurry. Another অগ্রদূত just pulled up here, and some of those guards are coming out of the base. And if they see us…”
“I get it.” Lizzy confirmed. “We’ll be quick.”
Lizzy hung up, just as Chells touched the symbol. It caused it to glow even আরো than before, until a large flash of light flew out of it, and blinded Lizzy and Chells. When it had left, they were in a dark misty hallway. In front of them, was a dream.
Memorandum: Re: St. Christoph's Square
To: Achio Noch
From: Gallancy Torren Oceanius
>But why not?
>
>Well......
>Diabo? He'd kill me for not being Nimean.
>Arty? She'd probably just throw paint at me.
>Nate would send bees at me.
>Tydus would hold me for ransom.
>Estill is the personality of a *SPOILERS FOR ANYONE পাঠ করা DOES NOT COMPUTE*
>Do আপনি REALLY expect me to SURVIVE? Even in Taetoro?
>
>..... Maybe not for LOOONG....
>
>Exactly.
>
>So, you're NOT coming?
>
> *facepalm*
To: Achio Noch
From: Gallancy Torren Oceanius
>But why not?
>
>Well......
>Diabo? He'd kill me for not being Nimean.
>Arty? She'd probably just throw paint at me.
>Nate would send bees at me.
>Tydus would hold me for ransom.
>Estill is the personality of a *SPOILERS FOR ANYONE পাঠ করা DOES NOT COMPUTE*
>Do আপনি REALLY expect me to SURVIVE? Even in Taetoro?
>
>..... Maybe not for LOOONG....
>
>Exactly.
>
>So, you're NOT coming?
>
> *facepalm*
My first story, so, if আপনি wanna make suggestions, post of a ফোরাম ill make in a bit.
The old streets eminated of fossil fuels burning, roadkill and sadness. The ally was scattered with boxes, empty glass bottles and pieces of old news paper. In the distance, a siren went off and সারমেয় yipped to eachother in thier own language. The streets felt cold and filled with the sorrow of the people around.
My body felt cold as ice. I longed to be warm and safe. I wished I had some money to get something to eat, but who would listen to a stray? No one. I curled up in a ball, attempting to get warm, as I drifted into a small rest.
I worried if the wrong person would find me here in this ally, alone in this cold, dark allyway. I dismissed this worry and held the arms of false hope, whispering false facts into my freezing ears.
I believed the false hope's bitterly cold arms were a sign I was alive.
The old streets eminated of fossil fuels burning, roadkill and sadness. The ally was scattered with boxes, empty glass bottles and pieces of old news paper. In the distance, a siren went off and সারমেয় yipped to eachother in thier own language. The streets felt cold and filled with the sorrow of the people around.
My body felt cold as ice. I longed to be warm and safe. I wished I had some money to get something to eat, but who would listen to a stray? No one. I curled up in a ball, attempting to get warm, as I drifted into a small rest.
I worried if the wrong person would find me here in this ally, alone in this cold, dark allyway. I dismissed this worry and held the arms of false hope, whispering false facts into my freezing ears.
I believed the false hope's bitterly cold arms were a sign I was alive.
Once upon a time, Tydus, Torren, Mef and Zanehorn were in the magical land of চিনাবাদাম মাখন when Zanehorn had an idea.
'LETS ALL WEAR চিনাবাদাম মাখন =D' he yelled.
Torren jumped into the চিনাবাদাম মাখন and hugged Tydus tightly, eventually asphixiatining him and causing his demise.
Then Zanehhorn ran around with only চিনাবাদাম মাখন on while Torren and Mef threw চকোলেট at each other.
Tydus' dead body was re-animated দ্বারা a চিনাবাদাম demon and he attacked everyone yelling 'TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLORAEG!!!!!!!!!!'
Mef ate Tydus and resumed throwing things at Torren and Zanehorn remained covered while making out with Seuris in a corner.
And Tydus was watching down from Heaven, talking to St. Micheal.
Tydus pointed to Torren. 'He's my brother (3' he said.
'And you're proud of that?' Micheal asked.
'Not really,' ব্যক্ত Tydus going back to eat some andy clouds'
'LETS ALL WEAR চিনাবাদাম মাখন =D' he yelled.
Torren jumped into the চিনাবাদাম মাখন and hugged Tydus tightly, eventually asphixiatining him and causing his demise.
Then Zanehhorn ran around with only চিনাবাদাম মাখন on while Torren and Mef threw চকোলেট at each other.
Tydus' dead body was re-animated দ্বারা a চিনাবাদাম demon and he attacked everyone yelling 'TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLORAEG!!!!!!!!!!'
Mef ate Tydus and resumed throwing things at Torren and Zanehorn remained covered while making out with Seuris in a corner.
And Tydus was watching down from Heaven, talking to St. Micheal.
Tydus pointed to Torren. 'He's my brother (3' he said.
'And you're proud of that?' Micheal asked.
'Not really,' ব্যক্ত Tydus going back to eat some andy clouds'
Neptun frowned at the bottom of the sea, hating the Old One.
He was cursed to be confined to the sea, all because the Old One was afraid.
Neptun was at the bottom of the sea because he was in প্রণয় with his sister Siria. The Old One knew it was mutual, and knew of a prophecy saying a newborn from the Few would overthrow him, and seperated the two.
"SIRIA! WE SHALL BE TOGETHER!"
He received no news at the bottom of the sea, and had no knowledge that his Mother was with child.
So he was determined that the child that overthrew the Old One would be his and Siria's.
Neptun was near ready for bed, when he saw a sword appear before him. Followed দ্বারা a vision.
(pretend this is italics) Neptun drove the sword victoriously through the Pyramis of the Old One.
He saw his life as he desired it.
With Siria.
(nu longer italics)
"Yes," ব্যক্ত Neptun. "This is what I desire."
Neptun grabbed the sword and swam to his দুর্গ to prepare.
He was cursed to be confined to the sea, all because the Old One was afraid.
Neptun was at the bottom of the sea because he was in প্রণয় with his sister Siria. The Old One knew it was mutual, and knew of a prophecy saying a newborn from the Few would overthrow him, and seperated the two.
"SIRIA! WE SHALL BE TOGETHER!"
He received no news at the bottom of the sea, and had no knowledge that his Mother was with child.
So he was determined that the child that overthrew the Old One would be his and Siria's.
Neptun was near ready for bed, when he saw a sword appear before him. Followed দ্বারা a vision.
(pretend this is italics) Neptun drove the sword victoriously through the Pyramis of the Old One.
He saw his life as he desired it.
With Siria.
(nu longer italics)
"Yes," ব্যক্ত Neptun. "This is what I desire."
Neptun grabbed the sword and swam to his দুর্গ to prepare.