Tough Thoughts - Mildcard - We Can Be Heroes the Threequel

Chapter 20 || True Love Can Kill Anything

MISSY MORENO

I woke up with the world a blur. It was painful. It felt like I was back with the aliens. I didn't want to get up. I wanted to lie there and die a peaceful death. It hurt to live. And living was a pointless thing. I closed my eyes again.

WILDCARD

When I saw my Missy suffering because of some stupid Velocrian King, my blood boiled. I saw her open her eyes, look pained, then close them again. And no, I wasn't losing her again this time. I grabbed my bracelet and began to yell in it.

"COME ON MISSY! MISSY GET UP!"

And Missy's eyes opened.

"Wildcard?" she whispered.

"Yes, princess. It's me. Wildcard."

"Wildcard... What... How... Who are you?"

And I felt like my world was done for.

"I'm your boyfriend. Missy... remember? We met each other on that day our parents were captured... fell in love in three hours... waited two years until you had to die for me to finally kiss you... And now I'm not about to lose you again. I love you, Missy Moreno. And you are going to get up and kick some serious Velocrian ass--"

"Wildcard!" Missy began to laugh, "Language!"

"So come on, Missy! You can do it!" I exclaimed.

She slowly nodded before trying to get off the floor. She fell backwards and groaned in frustration.

"I can't!"

"I believe in you, Missy!" I said, "Don't let that line lose its meaning."

She put on a brave face and began to get her way up. She limped over to the wall of the gorge and began to climb. And then, she was out of frame and out to conquer the evil tyrant.

MISSY MORENO

I began to slowly crawl my way up. It was dangerous, rock climbing without a harness, but I had to do it. For my team. I was almost at the top. I had been crawling for three hours by this point and I had started to see the soldiers assembling, ready to take me down. So I braced myself and fought.

I fought for love.

I fought for the useless things Wildcard and I could argue about.

I fought for my friends.

I fought for my family.

I fought for the world.

And I fought because I HATED THE VELOCRIAN KING!

So I took them down, as weak as I was, and claimed myself victorious. Because I had Wildcard to keep my heart beating. And as I swung and punched, I seemed to have gained more strength, as one kick could send them flying over the edge of the mountain. So that's what I did as they all came at me from different angles. When did I suddenly become so strong?

WILDCARD

When did Missy all of a sudden become so strong? She loses to me every single time we arm wrestle! She was now kicking Velocrians off the side of mountains? Now that's what you call badass. She then proceeded to slice through some... just for the pleasure... and began to punch with all her might.

"THIS IS FOR SERVING YOUR EVIL TYRANT!" she yelled, kicking one in the face, "AND HERE'S FOR HURTING MY LOVED ONES!"

She kicked him off the mountain and turned to the last four Velocrians.

"Nowhere to run." She smirked. "Let's do this."

They all piled onto her and she proceeded to slash one in half, judo flip the other off the mountain, then stab through the other one. Just as she kicked the last one off the mountain, it grabbed her foot and sent her falling as well.

"AHHH!" we all screamed from the room.

Back with the Velocrian King...

"Missy Moreno fell off the edge of that mountain again," his assistant informed him, "But she took down all your guards and your whole army."

"Well." The king stood up. "If she survived the gorge fall, there's no reason why she wouldn't survive this fall."

He pressed a remote and the doors opened to his closet, revealing shining armor.

"It's time for me to get back into action," he chuckled, "and take that little girl down. She's powerless anyways."

MISSY MORENO

I was falling through the air again. That's when I hit a piece of rock sticking out of the edge and we fell together. I stared at the floor in fear and wished I could just float off of it, or let the rock catch me, even though it was heading for the same destiny. Death on the floor. But then, a miracle happened.

I was floating on the rock.

I screamed.

"Let me down!"

And the rock set itself down. I stared again and took another look at Ojo's iPad. There were floating objects in the air there with me standing with my hands up. So I cautiously put my hands up and objects began to float as I thought of them.

"OH MY GOSH!" I screamed before they all clattered to the floor.

I stared at my hands. And back to my body. Back to my hands. Back to my surroundings. And there was only one explanation for everything. The reason my name was engraved on that rock. The reason the light surrounded me and shot through me. The reason I didn't die when I fell in that gorge.

I was a superhero after all.

WILDCARD

We watched the royal hallway and saw the king standing there with his armor on and a gleaming sword.

"Why's the king there?" Guppy frowned, sipping the contents of her last water bottle.

"I don't know... but he's in armor."

"Is he getting ready to fight?" Noodles asked, staring at the metal glinting in the sunlight.

"Fight what?" Rewind asked before we all turned to each other.

"Wait... fight Missy?" Facemaker asked again and we all internally groaned.

"No, he's gonna fight his puppy," Fast Forward rolled her eyes, "Duh, he's fighting Missy!"

"No need to be hurtful," Facemaker said before sitting down.