My Bad

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The Angel himself was kneeling before the plant remains, holding the tendril which passed for a hand, and praying. A fat, golden, tear made its way from his warm-again eyes, and rolled down his cheek, till it fell off and… Watered the plant.
The plant twitched a little.
The Angel was pained to see anybody hurt, let alone one of his crewmates, especially one who he happened to be rather fond of.
Another tear fell, plopping onto the other half.
That twitched too.
“Well make her better, then.” The Ubermensch had walked over to examine the remains.
“I am afraid I’m not sure how, Brother Artemis…”
“You fixed that little creature, dude” Shark Boy pointed out, his tone softer than The Angel could recall ever having heard it.
“But, that was a tiny mollusc…”
Plisken put a grandfatherly hand on The Angel’s shoulder, glad to see Alex had softened again, and relieved to note the brown portion of hair had regained its golden hue.
“Come on lad, now is not the time to lose your confidence.”
The Angel looked up into Plisken’s wizened face, searching it for some kind of answer. The wizard nodded. “You can do it.”
“Okay.”
He turned back to the Jade remains and passed his hands over them. Then he closed his eyes. He was not aware of the golden glow which sprung up around the floppy leaves and tendrils, flesh and bone. But the others looked on in interest. Concentrating as he was, he was also only partially aware of the gospel choir Tregaurd had summoned, who were now singing 'Amazing Grace' behind the little group.
Eventually he put his hands together in another gentle prayer, then laid one on each section.
Gradually the mangled remains began to squidge together and reassemble themselves. Nobody hardly dared breathe. They were all trying to push away the thought of Treguard mentioning the unpleasant possibility of injuries outside the game.
Then, the two halves, instead of knitting back together, rose up into two independent pieces and kept forming.
The Angel murmured on, seemingly oblivious.
“Uh… Solvay…” Jay began, the normal surname seeming bizarre in this new world. “Shh!” Someone hushed him. It was Plisken - which was lucky, because if anyone else had done it, it would’ve been disrespectful, and The Hulk would’ve likely re-emerged and interrupted proceedings.
“Amen.”
The still kneeling Angel opened his eyes to see....
... Two Jades standing before him!
“Unexpected!” He gasped, before getting to his feet and hugging them, wrapping each in a wing.
“I am glad you are healed, precious sister!"
He thought about this for a moment.
"... s” he added.
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Shark Boy and Mech Girl watched in silence and awe as Black Jade was resurrected from the dead. After Black Jade hugged Angel Alex, Eve noticed young Jaxx was leaking something on the floor. After she looked at the floor and saw the liquid had drained all the way under the Angel Alex and the plant lady Black Jade. Young Eve then looked behind young Jaxx to see he had a small watering can attached to his belt and it was spilling on the floor. Eve tapped young Jaxx on the shoulder and whispered in his ear, “Hey Gummy your water can is leaking.” Young Jaxx looked puzzled and then reached behind to fix the tilted watering can as he replied, “Oh my bad Eve babe. I hope they don’t get mad I got them wet.” Young Eve replied, “We will keep this our secret then.” Young Eve then gave young Jaxx a small kiss on the cheek and left him a bit loopy from her affection.

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Across the pit, in a massive, overly ornate, throne, sat an almost spherical man clad in a tight red top. One spindly black-trousered leg hung over the throne's arm. A bushy moustache lined the man's upper lip. It was Robotnik himself.
He threw his head back at the sight of the Dwarfers and laughed. "Ahahaha!"
Without another word he leapt into an equally round craft and flew across the room, swinging a sturdy looking chain and wrecking ball towards them.
"Good Science!" Declared the Ubermensch.
"Heavens above." Muttered The Angel.
"Raaargh!" Raged Jay-Hulk.
"Crkkk." Said Black Jade.
"I was expecting something more impressive." Claimed King Kong.
"Watch where you're waving that thing!" Complained the Iron Man, dodging, as the ball swung towards him.
"Duude, that's a sweet piece of candy-" began Shark Boy.
"I uh, I don't think that's a gobstopper, Jaxx" responded Mech Girl.
The 'gobstopper' wrecking ball smashed into ground's edge, below the gang. The floor began to crumble.
"To the first platform!" Ordered Plisken, taking the lead as Jay was currently swatting at the wrecking ball and in Hulk form.
The Dwarfers began their journey across the room.
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Shark Boy giggled as he saw the Hulk trying to hit the out of reach giant jawbreaker then he made a naughty grin. Mech Girl looked nervously at Shark Boy and asked, “Are you about to do something dumb again?” Shark Boy Grinned at Mech Girl and replied, “You know me so well Eve babe.” But before Mech Girl could stop him Shark Boy bolted for the jawbreaker-wrecking ball and used his chain snakes to clamp onto the chain holding the jawbreaker-wrecking ball. After the snake chains had a good grip, Shark Boy retracted his snake chains to quickly pull himself up and on top of the jawbreaker-wrecking ball. Shark Boy made sure to giggle as he passed the helpless Hulk who couldn’t reach the jawbreaker-wrecking ball.

After Shark Boy was on top of the jawbreaker-wrecking ball he waited till it was flying near the throne where Robotnik was waiting before he bit through the chain. At that moment the huge jawbreaker-wrecking ball flew close to Robotnik and smashed into the wall behind him. Robotnik was scared at first as he realized he soiled his pants, but regrouped and hit a panic button as the room was quickly changed into a danger room like the one used by the X-Men. Several traps were activated and many robots armed with various gadgets began attacking everyone as they tried to cross the platforms. Shark Boy got dirty looks from everyone as he shrugged and replied, “My Bad.”

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