ACT TWELVE
An hour later, the Murakamis were nearing Jump city and could see it oncoming ahead, as well as the outback lands behind it. All of them kept in touch with Dick via Vic’s cell-phone on speaker, and Dick used his hands-free phone in his helmet.
“Hey, wait… Look!” cried Kori. She pointed through the windshield, way, way out, everyone could see a small speck flying over the outback and heading for the city.
There was no mistaking it, “It’s Garfield!” cried Dick “He’s heading straight into town.”
They all watched as Garfield and his flying moped soaring over the high-rises of Jump City and settling down.
“Great, how are we supposed to find him now?” asked Raven “He could be anywhere in the whole city.”
Kato thought it over, “We must think as he does then. Go to places only he would likely be at.”
“Oh, that makes it easier.” said Vic.
“I never said it would be.” grumbled Kato.
Terra suggested they start near their school, “I know it’s probably the last place he would have gone, but still…”
“Terra’s right.” agreed Dick “Based on what we read in his diary, Garfield has several places he could’ve gone. We’ll start near the school and then split up.”
Surely enough, Garfield wasn’t at Murakami High, as there was no sign of his moped, or any marks made from its rockets either. So, as agreed, they split up; Dick went his own way and the others traveled their own path.
They checked the public library, the natural history museum where a place people like Garfield would feel at home, they checked the Hardware Store and the Auto-Parts to in case Garfield had to get more parts for his moped, or tools to mine for uranium, but he wasn’t at either one… not even at the grocery stores.
Which left only one place to check; Mega-Meaty-Meat. “Well, at least we can grab some grub, I’m starved.” said Vic. Everyone else couldn’t argue to a bite to eat, as it was almost noon.
Inside the joint was just like your average ordinary type of restaurant, and the place was packed with people gathering for lunch, though you never saw so many meat or meat-based products being devoured.
The smell of the fresh sizzling steaks being cooked, really tantalized Dick and Vic’s taste buds and made their mouths water. They couldn’t wait to eat.
Finally when the gang got to the front there was no one there except for Garfield’s boss, “Bob” which was read on his name-tag. He seemed to be doing all the work alone, and he didn’t mind it a bit.
The first thing Kori asked was, “Is Garfield Logan around?”
“No, I’m sorry he just stepped out to get me some lunch. He should be back soon. Must say though, I’m surprised he actually came here today, I thought he’d be in that new school of his.”
So, the gang decided to have lunch while they waited. Vic pondered over the menu, “Let's see... Eight number 3's, five number 2's, two number 1's, and a diet soda.” he licked his lips lustfully, but Bob informed him, “Sorry, big guy… we don’t have Soda’s here, just meat and bread.”
“Okay, make it a cup of meat-juice.”
Their meals were all set before them almost instantly as they sat at the bar. Steak-sandwiches, roast-beef wraps, meat-fries… the works! “Come to papa!” sighed Vic and he began to stuff himself like crazy “…So good!” he groaned happily.
Raven picked up her sandwich, and noticed the joint’s mascot- a giant cardboard steak with googly eyes and waving arms-- staring at her. “I can't eat until that thing stops looking at me.”
“It's meat-tastic!” said a recorded-voice on the mascot.
As the gang ate, Terra only took a few bites, she didn’t seem too hungry. “You okay?” Dick asked. “I’m just worried, not just about Garfield… how the girls are doing?”
Kori texted Sunset again, “She’s not answering. Maybe they have run into trouble. After all, there’s nothing safe about an obvious kidnapping.”
The others all felt the same. “We must have faith in the girls…” said Kato “They have been though hard situations before, and they had… You-Know-What… to help them if need-be.”
He and his friends had no idea of what was really happening!
The girls were finally beginning to awaken, but were bound to the walls with thick chains, and blindfolded. “What’s going on?” Sunset asked wearily. “If I could actually see, I’d tell you.” replied Rainbow.
Suddenly, they could all hear the sounds of snickering; “Welcome ladies.” said a man, and suddenly the girls’ blindfolds were lifted away by three other people. “What’s going on? Where are we?” Twilight asked.
“More importantly, who are all of you?” added Applejack. That’s when the light sapped on, and the four adults were finally illuminated for everyone to see.
One man was tall and rather handsome looking, with short red hair, and his wife stood next to him, she two had red hair that ran playfully to her shoulders.
The other couple consisted of two black people. The husband was tall and ribbed; while his wife was skinny, and she had very short yet curly brown hair.
“Permit me…” said he first man, “I am Professor Jason Amber, and this my wife Janene.”
His wife nodded at them.
The other man then stepped forth, “Name’s Doctor Joseph Dionne. This here’s my leadin’ lady Jamie.”
His wife nodded at the prisoners.
“Uh… nice to meet you.” Said Pinkie “I’d shake hands, but…” and she hinted that she was all bound and tied up.
Fluttershy pondered and asked, “Amber… Dionne? Are you people… are you related to Jackie and Jillian?”
“Duh, of course they are!” snapped a voice. It was Jackie as she and Jillian came into the room and stood by the adults, whom were revealed to be their respective parents! Which the girls were horrified to learn of!
While outside the room, Twilight’s knapsack was merely thrown to the floor just outside the door. The villains still had no knowledge of Spike’s presence inside, but he softly peeked through the flap opening and listened in on the conversation.
“What is it that you want from us?” Rarity asked fearfully.
Jillian snickered, “We already got what we wanted from you, thanks to them.” She pointed at the other end of the room, and the lights flicked on to reveal Celestia and Flash, both were still tied to their chairs, but gagged with clothes in their mouths instead of blindfolds on their eyes.
The girls were relieved to see they were okay, but didn’t understand!
“I think perhaps we should explain.” said Joseph.
His wife nodded, “Make sure you’re listening. We won’t repeat ourselves.”
They and the colleagues explained how they were all scientists, but as the story progressed, it was revealed how unscrupulous they were; they were all rather obsessed with the thoughts of fame and fortune rather than science or helping the world.
Only much to their chagrins, despite their efforts they always seemed to create or discovered things that were either useless to the world, or already invented before they could claim the rights.
“Yeah… that would be embarrassing.” Rainbow muttered.
“You don’t know the half of it!” snarled Janene “Being laughed at, ridiculed and labeled as public fools!” She sounded and looked ready to break a hole right through the walls, but Jason calmed her down and explained, “Fortunately, we had heard tales of your school, and about the magic that was said to exist. So we sent our girls to investigate.”
The J-girls snickered softly.
“I figured there were something smelly about you two since day one!” sneered Applejack.
“I can’t believe you two would do such things!” added Twilight “Especially to a school.”
“Oh, boo-hoo!” taunted Jackie “Like we care about school anyway.”
“Yeah, I mean, hello! We’re taking over the world here.” added Jillian.
Everyone gasped at such a thought, but the parents assured them it was their true intentions. “We knew you had magic, but we still couldn’t figure out where it was and how it worked.” said Joseph. “So we ordered the girls to capture your Principal and Flash, and they told us everything!”
Flash and Celestia felt shocked and shook their heads mumbling under their gags, trying to say they told them nothing.
“You see…” Jamie explained “We recorded their thought patterns to our computers which revealed everything we needed to know. They never actually had to speak for us to get what we wanted.”
Flash and Celestia were outraged, and so were the girls! “Why you dirty crooks!” snarled Sunset “I ought to…!”
“You ought to what?” chuckled Jason “We already know all your secrets, and I’m afraid there’s nothing you can do about it now. You see, we already have what we wanted from you.”
Jackie and Jillian grinned wickedly and held up their locket-devices.
Twilight’s eyes widened, “No, it can’t be!”
Jackie snickered, “Yes it could, and it is.”
“You’re not the only one who can make things like this.” Jillian said to Twilight “We already used it to suck every ounce of magic out of your friends.”
“Say what?!” snapped Rainbow, and Jillian mother pressed on a small remote, revealing the truth! All the magic had been absorbed from the girls and gateway and were now kept in a large jar somewhere within the zeppelin’s massive engine room.
The energy was shown as a spectrum swirling light that glowed very brightly, and Jamie explained, “We now have your magic which can use to power this ship and the weapons we built onto it. We’ll fire magical waves of energy all across the globe… who knows what it’ll cause.”
The prisoners all felt completely livid and worried of such consequences that could befall by just randomly abusing the magic! “You can’t! You wouldn’t!” snapped Sunset!
“We can, and we will!” sneered Jason! His wife agreed, “This world belongs to us now! It serves them all right for getting in the way of things that were rightfully ours!”
“Okay, it is officially…!” snapped Rainbow “…You folks are way-beyond crazy!”
All six villains snickered wickedly, thus proving her point. “We’ll attend to you all later…” said Janene “We have magic to test and a world to conquer.
Oh! And one last thing… girls…”
The girls nodded and dropped their lockets to the floor, and stomped on them hard.
“No!!” cried Twilight. Now even if they broke free, they couldn’t use the devices to get the magic back.
The villains all snickered. “Make yourselves comfortable.” said Jason to the prisoners, and he and his team headed off.
“You’re just going to leave us?!” snapped Applejack “Wouldn’t it be smarter just to do us in right here?”
“Applejack!” snapped Rarity.
“Are you crazy?!” added Rainbow.
“Yes, she is apparently.” said Joseph “We need to keep you alive in case we don’t understand the magic.”
“That’s where you all come in…” added Jamie “You will cooperate with us, just as easily as your two friends over there did.”
Celestia and Flash struggled and fussed, but still couldn’t break free from their ropes.
The villains then left the brig, foolishly leaving the keys to the chains on the table at the center of the room.
As the villains walked off, they shut the door to the brig and locked it electronically. “There’s no stopping us now.” chuckled Jason “This world is now ours…”
Spike poked his head out of Twilight’s knapsack and grumbled, “Not if I can help it. I’ve got to try and get the girls out of here!”
Meanwhile, the Murakami students, completely unaware of what was happening to their friends, had finished their mega-meaty lunch. Vic let out a huge belch and rubbed his full stomach “Mmm… only meals I’ve known better than this is the one’s mama used to make.”
Dick sighed as he leaned forth in comfort, “I’ll say. I’ve never tasted meat this good.”
Just then, the front bell rang as someone entered the joint; Garfield, back with a back of takeout for Bob. “Hey, welcome back, Gar!” Bob called, and gang turned and saw him.
He gasped softly.
“Garfield!” cried Terra.
Garfield turned on his heel and dashed back for the door, dropping Bob’s food along the way. “Wait!” called Kori!
The gang jumped from their stools and chased after him, much to the shock and confusion of everyone else.
Garfield quickly dashed out the door and ran into a garbage can, falling to the ground, but he quickly spring to his feet and dashed just as the others came out and chased after him. “Garfield!” shouted Dick. “Somebody, stop that guy!” cried Terra, but no one bothered to stop Garfield as he dashed for his moped.
He jumped into the seat, not bothering to grab his helmet or goggles! “Emergency charge, both engines!” he cried as he started up the engines, but he was only able to reach 5000 RPMs! Not enough power for flight, but just enough to take to the streets!
And he took off just zooming past the gang and heading for the streets. “GARFIELD!!” Terra called to him.
“Let’s go after him!” shouted Vic, and they all made breaks for their vehicles.
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Soon there was a mighty chase through the city.
Garfield zoomed along the roads. It was rather difficult for him to steer as his moped was better suited for flight than road-travel.
Worse than that, the flight engines charged much slower when the moped was already in motion. “Come on, charge!” groaned Garfield “I’ve got to rework the design on this!”
Suddenly, he heard the sound of a familiar car-horn honking at him from far back. He looked behind and saw Vic’s car, and Dick riding alongside it on his motor-cycle. “Can’t they take a hint!” he growled and sped up down the road, just barely missing a red light.
“He’s getting away!” cried Kato.
“Take a right and come around.” suggested Raven.
“Hang on!” said Vic as he veered right, and Dick followed him. Soon, they were on Garfield’s trail again, much to Garfield’s anger. He continued to charge the engines for flight, “Only 8000 RPMs, that’s not enough! I’ve gotta ditch these losers!”
He zoomed on ahead ignoring speed-limits and traffic as well, causing other drivers to swerve and break violently to avoid an accident.
“He’s gone crazy!” cried Dick “He’s going to attract the attention of the police!”
“Too late, here they come!” cried Kori, and three police cruisers came swerving round a bend and chased off after Garfield.
Terra was really worried now. What if the cops caught him? He was recklessly driving a rocket-powered moped… without a license or permit… and causing near accidents to other drivers and pedestrians! That and all coupled with his obvious rage, he would be in serious trouble, and she feared it would seriously add to his already extreme hatred of humanity!
“Go faster!” she cried “We have to catch him before the police do!”
“I can’t go over the speed-limit.” said Vic “Then we’ll get in trouble.”
Suddenly, Dick looked up ahead and saw the chase was leading them straight to a big bay bridge, and h could see in the waters a huge boat coming near. “I’ve got an idea, follow me!” and he veered right with Vic following him.
Garfield’s engines had reached 9000 RPMs, but still not enough for takeoff, and the police were still on his tail! Fortunately, he looked up a head and saw a huge alley entrance, just big enough for himself to fit through, but not the cruisers!
He roared loudly as he made such a huge left veer and squeezed through the alley. The police tried to follow him, but all three cars skidded softly to a halt before crashing into the narrow entrance!
Garfield emerged out the other end of the alley felling very pleased. “Genius: 1, Cops: Ziltch!” but his boasting was cut short, “OH, NO!!
Dick and Vic suddenly emerged from around the bend, blocking one route, forcing him to very off and steer directly towards the bridge, which sounded its alert that the drawbridge was about to open to let the oncoming big boat pass through, forcing him to stop right by the barrier.
“It worked! We’ve got him trapped!” cried Dick.
“Let’s get him!” said Vic, and the two vehicles began rush at him just as the bridge began to open like a huge upscale ramp.
Garfield checked the engine dial; 10,000 RPMs! Not enough for flight, but he decided to take a huge risk anyway to avoid the others, and he drove right under the barrier bar!
“What’s he doing?!” cried Kori.
“He wouldn’t…!” said Raven.
“He is!” said Kato.
Garfield revved the engines harder than ever as his moped scaled up the ramp, which was still rising and getting steeper. “I’ve only got one chance!” he shouted to himself, “I’ve got to fire the rocket thrusts at the right moment. That should help me jump it!”
Everyone… bystanders, other drivers stopped by the barrier, and the Murakamis, watched in horrors at the lone daredevil attempting to jump the huge gap!
“This is it!” Garfield cried “Fire at fifty feet…
Five, Four, Three, Two, One…
…FIRE!!!!”
POW!! The thrusters fired ever so fiercely as the moped sped up and soared off the brink in an astonishing feat!
*Slow motion*
What a sight it was for everyone to see as the moped soaring across the huge gap, and then watched as Garfield extended the wings to give him lift and glide from the air currents.
HE MADE IT!! across and was now soaring over the other ramp, but didn’t descend, and rather gained more and more height.
*Regular speed*
(7:17 to 7:31 and STOP)
Thanks to that little boost and jump, the engines had gained enough power to give him flight. “YEH-HAA!! ALRIGHT!!” he shouted as he flew up higher and higher than ever before.
He knew he couldn’t head home to the Dark Lands; they would surely find him there. So he flew off to the North.
“Where’s he going now?” asked Kori.
“I don’t think it matters now.” said Dick, and the others agreed. They just couldn’t catch him; not like this.
Terra looked as if she wanted to cry. She didn’t, but she felt hurt by Garfield’s stubbornness, as well as Garfield’s own inner pain which created the stubbornness. She honestly didn’t know whether to feel sorry or upset with him!
“We may as well as just head back to Canterlot.” suggested Kori. The other reluctantly agreed, and they all wondered how the girls were making with their problem.
Sunset still hadn’t texted back yet.