What's Out There? Part 2

Chapter 4

"Help..." Midnight whimpered before she and Doctor Strike vanished.

"Crap," Maxwell whipped out his ion residue gun and opened a portal to follow them, Blood Ruby and Johnson following close behind. The trio ended up in an old abandoned lab. "WHERE ARE YOU GUYS!?!?" Maxwell shouted. The only voice he got in response was his echo.

"I haven't seen this lab for a long time." Johnson gazed in awe.

"I've never seen this Lab," Ruby observed.

"Yes you have, you just don't remember," Johnson said as he walked over to a wall and started pressing against it. Maxwell pulled out his revolver again.

"I am extremely bored, don't try messing with me!" He shouted to Doctor Strike and again, he only got his echo in response.

"When did I ever come here?!" Ruby barked.

"This is the lab where you became a robot, Dr.Strike's old lab... I thought this place was destroyed!" Johnson laughed in surprise, dragging his hand across the wall.

"Midnight, the one from my universe, if you would shout or make any noise that would be really helpful!" Maxwell waited for his echo in response, but this time, he heard a hard slam against a wall, then he heard Doctor shout at Midnight.

"That worked." Johnson put his ear against the wall. Blood Ruby removed a high-tech-looking pistol from her jacket.

"Let me handle her." Ruby smiled as she dashed the way the noise came from, which wasn't very far.

"I'm not going after her," Johnson looked to Maxwell. The two men watched as she kicked in the door to a room and ran in, only to get thrown out again. Ruby flew through the wall and Midnight exited from the room Ruby was thrown out of. Maxwell ran up to Midnight.

"Are you okay?" Maxwell asked.

"No, I'm not..." She choked. Her hands were shaking like crazy and spotted with blood. "Please help..." She continued to whimper and shake.

"Um... did you kill Doctor Strike?" from what Maxwell knew about Midnight, killing somebody is something that would definitely rattle her. Johnson ran over to the two as Midnight nodded slowly. Johnson's expression was a mixture of happiness and distress.

"You...You just ended a war!" Johnson said breathlessly.

"I didn't mean to! She just... she was too vague on her command..." Midnight wiped the blood from her face.

"What do you mean 'too vague on her command'?" Johnson asked as he found a bandage for Midnight's face. She started to slowly back away from the two, as if in fear. Maxwell and Johnson realized the wire that had been prying her eye open had been ripped out, which had been the cause of her face bleeding.

"Midnight, come on..." Johnson stepped a little closer to her. She stepped further away.

"She..." She paused to wipe more blood from her worried face.

"Who threw the General through the wall?" Johnson wouldn't let Midnight finish.

"I did," she whimpered.

"Was she controlling you?" Maxwell watched as Midnight slowly nodded again.

"But, she can't control me anymore," Midnight said as she pointed to blood dripping down her face.

"What did you do?!" Johnson jumped.

"I didn't do it... Crimson did..."

"Okay, right. Now we just need to swap Crimson with Moon and we're done," Maxwell remembered.

"About time, Moon is driving me crazy," Blood Ruby shouted, finally managing to climb out of the wall. Midnight's face only grew more worried as she started back up into the room she first came out of.

"What are you doing?" Maxwell grew more and more suspicious of Midnight's actions.

"Moon...I know her too well... She acts on her/my thoughts... It would be too dangerous if I had Moon right now," Midnight grabbed the doorframe of the room.

"So does Crimson! We need to get her out of you as soon as possible," Blood Ruby growled.

"No," Midnight said solemnly, her necklace flashing in between black and cyan. "You need to run..."

"Actually, I have a solution, although you probably won't like it. Well, it's not really that bad, it depends on your views, really," Maxwell started digging through his pocket.

"What?"

"This," Maxwell said, pulling the piece of paper out of the gun. Blood Ruby slowly aimed her gun towards Maxwell.

"I didn't really hear what this thing did..."

"Don't worry, this won't hurt you. Midnight, you are a 'Lucky Girl'," When Maxwell said this, Midnight's entire body went limp. She no longer had control over anything, nor could she hear, see, smell or feel anything.

"General, calm down," Johnson shouted, realizing where the gun was aimed.

"Okay, Blood Ruby or Moon, or whichever you are right now, please stop," Maxwell turned his attention to her. But she wouldn't move the gun, so Johnson walked over and slowly pointed the gun towards the ground. Ruby kept eye contact with Maxwell as Johnson slipped the gun out of her hand. "Okay, how about we have some cookies, cookies help everyone calm down," He said, pulling a box of cookies out of his pocket.

"Cookies?! Now?!" Ruby growled.

"When you calm down, I'll give your gun back," Johnson informed Ruby. Maxwell handed Johnson and Blood Ruby a cookie. "Thank you," Johnson looked at Blood Ruby, who was still glaring at Maxwell. "General, do you want your gun back?"

"Yes," She grumbled, keeping her eye on Maxwell.

"Then calm down."

"Okay, for you two to switch Crimson and Moon can you just do that, or is there some weird thing we have to do first?" Maxwell had had enough of getting sidetracked.

"Don't ask me! I don't know how to do it," Ruby barked. Suddenly, she flinched and tightened her fist. The white stripe in her hair slowly grew to the gray color Moon's was. "Blood, darling, Crimson kicked me out. So unless you can get her to kick me out of here, I'm stuck in here forever," Moon's voice laughed from Blood Ruby's lips.

"I thought I told you to shut up like three days ago," Ruby's voice escaped from her own body.

"Yeah, well IT'S MY TURN!"

"Shaddap," Maxwell was already irritated and Moon's presence wasn't making it better.