Chapter Seventeen

~Chase's POV~

Rhys began to slowly peel off Vasquez's face.

"Uffff, nnmm... Okay. Just peelin' it off...peeling off a face, not going to barf...into his mouth-buk! With your mouth-huffff...!" Rhys kept making gagging noises.

"That's it, go on, peel off that face like a serial killer. You're sick," Jack laughed.

"Almost done," I said. Rhys was almost done peeling until it stopped.

Oh, no no no no no no. Oh, it's stuck! Mmnn..." Rhys muttered.

"Gross! That's just....gross," Jack commented. Rhys gave the face one more tug and it came off. In the end, we ended up waking up the psycho.

"Run!!" Rhys yelled and ran.

"You're the only one running. Princess and I can flyyy!!" Jack said while laughing and flew off. I mentally slap myself and flew after Rhys. We reached the entrance where Kroger and Finch were waiting.

"Psycho....with....chest bomb...boom..." Rhys said through heavy breathing.

"What did he say? Something about a bomber psycho?" Finch asked.

"Oh....yeah..." Rhys pointed to the fast approaching psycho.

There..." Rhys finished his sentence. Finch shot at the psycho and he exploded along with Vasquez's body.

"Oh...we were...supposed to bring back the body," Rhys mentioned.

"Oh, we are still brining it back, baby. It's just going to take a little longer to collect," Kroger said. It took awhile, but we finally collected all of Vasquez.

"Finally, we can leave," I sigh. Finch tied up Rhys and Kroger approached me with rope. He tried to grab me but his hand went through me.

"Huh, I thought you would get a little smarter by the time we got back."

Kroger growled and threw the rope away.

"Just get on the truck," he ordered. I flew to the back and stood next to Rhys.

"No fair," he mumbled. I giggled at him and decided to sit next to him. Our next stop was Hollow Point.

-Hollow Point-

We reached Scooter's and Finch untied Rhys. He grabbed Vasquez's face and took it inside.

"Could you burn that after we're done?" I ask.

"With pleasure," he said and grinned. Sasha changed into something different. Fiona decided her clothes were good enough. Now they will fit in on Helios. Rhys went to the machine and it scanned Vasquez's face.

"Oh, it looks worse from this side." Rhys said and turned away from the skin. He changed into Vasquez and put a voice changer on his neck.

"How do I look?" He asked me.

"Like an asshole and a douchbag," I said with a smile.

"Excellent...just the way I wanted to look," he said and fixed the tie.

"Are you two ready to go?" Fiona asked.

"Ready as we'll ever be," I answered. We headed to the back and saw that the caravan was now a rocket. Also, I saw that Gortys has legs now and LB was missing his.

"Man, I missed a lot when I was knocked out," I said under my breath. We all climbed the ladder up to the rocket ship. LB and Gortys sat on top. Everyone else was inside. We took off minutes later. Once we broke through the atmosphere, we all calmed down. I stood up the whole time.

"How can you stand up?" August asked me.

"I'm a hologram. Pressure or force doesn't affect me unless I let it," I replied.

"You're one lucky girl," Finch stated.

"No, I just have an excellent creator who has his moments of glory."

"Who created you?" Scooter asked. I shot my eyes at Rhys. I saw that his face was red.

"So, that idiot over there made you?" August asked. I floated to Rhys.

"He may be an idiot, but he's my idiot," I said and giggled. I kissed him on the cheek and he blushed even more.

"I know Rhys can be weird sometimes, but you two are so cute together," Sasha said. Rhys hid his face from everyone. We all laughed, even Kroger and August joined in.
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We were near Helios now.

"Warning: debris approaching," LB warned us.

"Is that a...person?" Sasha saw the so called debris. Rhys and I recognized it right away.

"Henderson," we said in unison. We couldn't avoid it and Henderson was sucked into our engines, causing the rockets to malfunction.

"Rockets are in critical condition," LB informed us.

"All right, we can't do step two without step one," Scooter said. Him and Fiona went up to get rid of the rockets. I was listening to them the whole time.

"No..." I heard Fiona mutter a few minutes later.

"Fi, what's wrong?" Sasha asked. We didn't get a response.

"I'm going up to check on them." I was about to head out when Rhys grabbed my arm. He was still in his Vasquez disguise. His eyes were telling me to stay here.

"Rhys, I'll be fine. I'm just going to check up on them," I reassured him.

"All right, but if you're not back in five minutes, I'm dragging you back in here." He let me go and I went through the roof. Scooter and Fiona were on the remaining rocket.

"Fiona. Scooter." I flew over to them.

"What's wrong?" I saw what Fiona was looking at. Scooter's hand was stuck in the rocket hatch.

"Maybe I can help." I was about to change but Scooter stopped me.

"There's nothing you two can do that I've already tried." He looked at us with a sad smile. A long silence carried out between the three of us. Then, Fiona took off Scooter's hat and exchanged it with hers.

"Now, I want you to disconnect this rocket," he said and smiled at Fiona. She headed to the handle without another word.

"Scooter, you're a hero. Remember that." I smile at the man.

"Wow, I'm a super hero! Fiona said the same thing. I'll miss you both," he said.

"We'll miss you too, Scooter," Fiona said. She pulled the handle and the rocket disconnected.

"Catch-a-riiiiddddeeee!" Scooter yelled. We watch as he falls into Pandora's atmosphere and crash.

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