Craig of the creek: From beyond the creek

The factory

Sarah opened the door to the pipe room of the factory, her black dress and her short hair flowed with the air escaping the room, which was once used to regulate the liquids that were used throughout the factory,  Jack and Ozzy were behind her, she stared into the room and the door at the end, then back at her friends, they both looked scared "oh don't tell me you're afraid of a little dark" she taunted "no it's just, this place is, odd" answered Jeremy "well glad you find my 'tomb' odd... " she sneered "don't take it like that Sarah, even I'm spooked of this place from time to time, and I'm a ghost in my spare time !" exclaimed Ozzy "oh hush, come on, we still have to make it to the project in the warehouse for this hothead" said Sarah as she hurried through the pipe room, her footsteps echoing through the room, followed by the hurried steps of jack, and the more calm ones of Oswald "so why is it that you want me to make this machine for again ?" asked Sarah "well, it's Will, he is still out there, turns out that either he is half fish, or really lucky" "so you need it to hurt your br-" "no" interrupted Jack "not that extreme, just beat him around a bit you know ?" "yeah, sure, anything else ? do you also want a cup of tea ? maybe a slice of cake?" asked Sarah sarcastically, "Ooh I could go for the cake right now !" Ozzy exclaimed with a wide smile. "Shut up Ozzy" Answered Sarah disgruntled "besides there is no cake, at least not for you two"  Oswald chuckled  and Jack turned a little red of embarrassment "no no, I just want to make sure it can withstand blows from Jeremy, and not get blocked by Rose's shield, I want to make sure they feel sorry for thinking they could betray me" the trio reached the end of the pipe room, this door was different, instead of handles it had two handprint molds, Sarah rubbed her gauntlets together, a small electrical buzzing started coming from them, there were strips of lights on both her gauntlents that went from green, to lime, to yellow, to orange, and finally red, once red, she put her hands in the spaces on the door, a powerful zap was heard, and the door opened by itself. Jack had forgotten how Sarah powered her equipment, most of the things in the factory that needed power had the same hand shaped space in them, along with a color stripe on them, all varying from green to red, or blue, if it was powered already, after tasing the door Sarah shuddered and removed her hands from the holes in the door, which opened with a elongated creak, her right eye began twitching, she just shook her head, stopping the twitch and looked at the room in front of the trio, there it was, her lab, which was more of a workshop, with metal parts and electronics suspended eerily in the air with chains, she flipped a switch and the lights of the room came on, she deliberately stomped on a weird blue algae, but neither Jack or Oswald saw it, they also didn't see it crawl up her rubber boot, and up her dress, once up her dress it was like it was never there, a voice began speaking in her mind "took you long enough" the voice was cold and smooth, but was hateful in nature "hush, I'll take as long as I want,and I would tone it down, I can just get rid of you whenever I want, so let me do my thing" she thought which seemed to annoy the voice in her head "alright but hurry, I'm bored of sitting around, I want to go absorb some poor soul" Sarah grinned at this thought, she was always good at annoying her friends whenever she felt it was needed, but she was also very flirty, specially around Will, it was funny to see the boys of the group get all flustered, and even more hilarious when she let them hanging, annoying them out of their minds, it never got old, something that Rose really didn't like, probably out of jealousy, she then remembered one time that she tricked Will into almost kissing her ! it was hilarious to see him trip and fall, of course she helped him up afterwards, as an apology of course it would be torture not to at that point, but the pleasant memory was cut short by another more horrific memory, the pressure of the machines, the shaking of the earth, the excruciating pain of being crushed alive, and as if that was not enough, seeing Will leave her and ignoring her cries of help and pain, even though he said he was coming back, he never did, she would have met her end right there should Corru (which is the name she gave to the algae) not crawled on her and given her enough strength to lift the debris crushing her and escape to a secluded part of the factory, Corru spoke again "remember who's our enemy, he left you behind, he left you to rot, and here you are remembering him fondly, no, you will have your revenge, and I will help you achieve it, whether you like it or not !" "Be quiet! I told you, you can control everything you want in me, but leave my memories alone, that was our deal wasn't it ?!" Sarah shouted in her mind "Sarah? you alright? you been standing still for a while" asked Ozzy which snapped Sarah out of her trance "I'm fine, look, Ozzy go bring me the prototype"  "which one ? the one that looks like silver ball?" asked Ozzy "no, that one is Gladys, I want the spider weevil prototype"  Oswald nodded and hurried out of the room, with barely any noise he dashed out of the room leaving Jack in the room with Sarah, there was a moment of silence, which was then shattered by Sarah "so what do you want on the machine ? anything in your mind ?" she asked "well I was thinking, what about a flamethrower ?" "didn't you say 'no hurting' ?" "yeah but fire is my signature ! I can't go around without it !" "fine" Twitch walked over to a control panel that was in the back of the lab she pressed  series of buttons and pulled a lever, the room shook, and suddenly one of the chains gave out dropping a weird looking apparatus, close to Jack, who jumped as he was almost crushed by this... thing "what in the ever loving fire of heck  is that !!!" shouted Jack "it's your flame cannon, you got three more things to put on your mech" answered Sarah coldly "but how does it work ?" asked Jack "I don't see any fuel tanks, or a torch" "it's a special design, it absorbs air from it's surroundings and superheats it electrically, simulating a flame, and stores it in an internal tank, which takes time to fill, and it can't ignite other things, in short, super hot air that looks like fire but isn't fire, it won't hurt so badly... but that doesn't mean it's painless" "in English ?" asked Jack snarkily, Sara sighed with annoyance, rubbed her hands charging her gauntlets, and zapped the cannon, which spat out a flame that licked the ceiling, which was meters tall, Sarah removed her hands and the flame went out immediately "OK... how about a water cannon ?" "why? what's the point of having a flame cannon if you are going to put out the fire anyway ?!" asked Sarah genuinely confused about her friend's choices "what if I set myself on fire ?" "I told you it's not ! it's just hot air disguised as fire you dimwit !" shouted twitch "I don't care I want water cannons !" shouted  back Jack  " ugh ! fine, man I wish you had your brother's manners, or at least his intelligence" with that Sarah went to the control panel and pressed a different set of buttons and pulled the lever, this time another apparatus dropped from above with a clang "this works like the 'fire' cannon, except it cools the air and condenses the water, it shoots it at a high pressure, it can stun the target if used correctly" "and how about electric attacks ?" asked Jack getting excited to see everything come toghether, Sarah pressed another set of buttons and pulled the lever again, this time another device was gently laid down, it resembled a tesla coil, "this one a string shoots balls of copper and iron that it can arc electricity out of, around 15 volts,  one hit with this and you're out, it's my favorite out of them all" Sarah said with a smile "and poison ? non-deadly poison?" asked Jack "purple smoke, take it or leave it" remarked Sarah  plainly "does it do anything else other than be smoke ?" asked Jack "it can create cover, and cause dizziness if you breathe it in for too long" answered Sarah with a slight smile, before walking over to the control panel again, she pressed yet another series of buttons and pulled the lever, this time the big monitor behind the control panel springed to life, and a compartment with a microphone opened up,  in the monitors were camera feeds from the factory. She cycled through every one of them until she found Ozzy, leaning on a big machine nearby a conveyor belt. Twitch spoke through the microphone "Ozzy, we're ready, i'm sending the components over to you, start welding them on, Jack will go as well, to make sure everything goes smoothly" "wait, what?" asked Jack, not quite paying attention to what Sarah was speaking "you heard me, get on the conveyor belt with the 'weapons' ,come on, we don't have all night" "is it safe ?" "of course it's safe, everything I design is always safe for the user ! has that fancy crossbow of yours ever backfired? no? that's what I thought, now get on the conveyor belt, and stand still" "OK, OK, geez, I don't know what Will ever saw in you" Sarah froze in place, before turning slowly towards Jack with a fiery gaze, and if the room was darker, Jack would have seen that her eyes were glowing an icy blue but it was so dim, he would have needed to get closer to see it, something that he didn't want to do at this moment  "say that again, and I will make that an 'accident' does happen." this scared Jack, and he quickly got on the conveyor velt, and waited for Sarah to start it, which she did, after he was out of the room she placed the pieces in the following order: fire, water, electricity, and smoke. Once she was  alone, Corru began speaking again "I don't think that moron will do a good work getting rid of our 'problem' " it said "I know he won't, but let's see him try, it ought to be fun" she answered "also, I'm hungry, should we order Chinese? or tex-mex?" "how about you get off my body and find something to eat you bum" "geez, and I'm supposed to be one with no manners... alright, don't have any revenge until I get back !" Corru finished and crawled off  into the darkness, now Sarah was truly alone, she looked around to make sure her algae 'friend' was truly gone and inputted one last series of button presses on the control panel, and pulled the lever, the camera feed changed to a map of Herkleton industrial lane, the place where the Gulch resided, Herkelton mills, the place where the king Xavier's domain resided, and lastly Herkleton farms, were the creek was, it also showed the locations of every friend of hers, or at least, their weapons. she had placed a locating device on every weapon she had designed and created, she then began cycling trough all of the weapons, "quake_rod, shield_of _life, Pyromancer, Illusion, Electra, Wind_breaker, Eye_of_the_beholder, there, Water_Weaver" Sarah now saw the location of Will... hopefully. she sighed, and once again remembered the good times they spent, and couldn't help but feel sadness, he had been there for her especially on her darkest days, and now she was plotting to finish him, but then an anger flowed over her, if he really cared he would have come back, so why didn't he ! She shut off the monitor and went to turn off the lights, it was time for her to rest, Ozzy will have the machine ready for action soon.

however, as she walked back through the pipe room, that last thought kept bouncing around her head "why didn't he come back ?" she whispered to herself... before shutting off the lights and leaving the room in darkness once again. 

Tomorrow is another day...