The Bozonian Stone part 9

Chapter 8:

My bunny lies over the commotion



"Yoohoo, Mr. Raaabiiit; We need to ask you a few..." The lizard went to the room Spaz SHOULD have been. "Huh? Where'd he go?" Spaz, however, was no where to be seen. "What do you mean 'Where'd he go'?" said Devan, still holding the glowing stone. "I thought I told ya to tie him up as best as you know how!" "But I did! And he couldn't have untied it all in that short a time- He must have broken free." "Can't be- that rope was specially designed to be extreamly tough... I created it myself." Devan said proudly. "Besides, if he DID brake himself free, we'd see the remains of the rope. No, he's still tied up, he's just found someway to move without his arms and legs- Still, that means he couldn't have gotten far. I think we'd best signal an alert- we can't let that rabbit escape."

When the two villians ran outside the room to search for the rabbit, nither of them noticed a small tied-up figure jump silently down from one of the corners of the ceiling. The figure then clumbsily stood on its head, and- using its ears as legs, cautiously walked out the, now open, door.



Having had a resonable head start, Lori was already past all the badly programed Laboratory security long before her brother and sister-in-law. The sooner she found Spaz and that stupid rock, the sooner she could leave. Something about that rock made her feel uneasy, and it wasn't just Jazz and her experiances with it, unpleasent as they were.

"ATTENTION ALL GUARDS; BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A LARGE RED DOPEY-LOOKING RABBIT. HE IS CONSIDERED TIED-UP AND EXTREAMLY HELPLESS. SHOOT TO STUN. EVEN A BUNCH OF TWO-BIT TRIGGER-PUMPING MORONS WITH LITTLE PIGGY EYES LIKE YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE THIS GUY."

"Huh... Oh great- now there's a full scale alert on this place... Gotta get to Spaz before anyone else..." Suddenly, she felt a tap on her shoulder.

"Excuse me, ma'am..." she turned and met face to face with a doofyguard. "But you wouldn't have happened to see a large red dopey-looking rabbit who was tied up, would you?" Lori was caught off-guard for a second, but answered. "Naw, I'm looking for him too." "Ok, well, good luck... See you later." the guard turned and started walking away... then paused for about 3 seconds. "HEY! WAIT A SECOND... YOU'RE THAT YELLO..." his brilliant observation was cut short when Lori opened fire.

"Hmm... Maybe I was giving these guys far too much credit." she said, putting her gun back in its holster. Just then, Jazz and Eva caught up with her.

"What kept you so long, you missed out." "Sorry, we had a little trouble with 'Cuddles'. Eva had to destract him with some of her jellybeans." Lori told the others about what she heard.

"Ok, I guess we'll have to spit up; I'll go this way, you two... OOF!!"

Jazz's plan came to a conveniant end when all of a sudden Spaz- who was still tied up and walking on his ears, came around a corner and ran into him. Actually, the only noticable damage the colliding brothers seemed to have caused eachother was the majority of Spaz's right foot being crammed into Jazz's mouth. Spaz mumbled something, but with his gag, his voice was muffled beyond recognition. Strangely enough, so was Jazz's voice.

It only took Eva to remove the gag, but it took the combined strenth of both girls to remove the foot.

"Man... Am I glad to see YOU guys."

"Well, well. If this isn't touching."

All four of them knew who said it, even before they looked. Hovering a few feet above them was a small security veiwer- a machine of Devan's own design- or so he claimed. Jazz and Spaz had always thought it looked like something from an eposode of the Jetsons. It was basically a floating two-way video screen that the evil turtle used to patrol his lab without putting risk to himself. "Oh, sorry- did I interrupt you?" asked Devan through the veiwer. Jazz drew his gun and shot down the veiwer, even though the element of surprise was lost, they could still try to make a break for it before...

Suddenly, every light in the lab was flashing red. "WARNING! WARNING! SUPERHERO HAS ENTERED THE BUILDING! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

The tell-tale sounds of every member of Devans army were filling the halls. "Great!" Jazz groaned "Everytime I come here something new is added."



Meanwhile, up in Devan's self-designated laboratory lookout post, on a platform near the roof of his lab.

"Hmmm..." Devan thought out loud. "You know, maybe this rock is working after all... Uncanny good luck could be considered a superpower if you thought about it hard enough. Ha haaa!" Devan for the first time in a while, put the rock down. It glowed green briefly before returing to it's origional dull color. "Hmm... Rain seems to have stopped."

Just then, the lizard came in. "Hey, Boss; That bunny guy never finnished his cocoa. It's kinda cold now but it's in perfect shape! Ya want some?" "Huh? Oh thanks, just put it on the table and go away, I need to come up with a sutable execution for you-know-who."

Nither Devan, nor his henchlizard noticed that the table- the same table the bozonian stone had been put was seriously uneven. When the lizard put the cocoa on one side, it lowerd the side and the rock and cocoa started sliding down the table; towards the railing, overwhich was a rather large drop.

Both reptiles turned to the sound of the rolling stone...NO NOT THAT ROLLING STONE!

"QUICK!!! CATCH IT!" "DON'T WORRY, BOSS! I GOT IT!" without giving a thought to his own servival, the lizard lunged over the railing for the rock.

The rock landed into the lizards outstreached hand...

And started to glow a bright yellow...

Right before he dropped over the edge.



To be continued... in chapter 9:

One Heck-of-a Fight and One Heck-of-a Fright

Or

The Jackrabbits VS. Das Uber Lizard



Also, so you know: 'Cuddles' is Devans pet giant ameoba whom I wrote about in my first ever War Tavern story: The story of Devan Shell.