Thunder's Storm (Raggedy Ann & Andy Fanfiction)

Chapter 8

"Don't worry princess, I'll save you!" Marcella announced, pretending to be Andy. She had taken Ann, Andy and Thunder over to her friend Amy's house for a play date, much to the dismay of Babette who was usually her first choice for these sort of things. Ann sat atop a tall stack of cardboard boxes that the girls cut and coloured to look like a castle. "Hurry sir Andy," Amy voiced her toy pegasus Brietta, "Get on my back and I'll fly you to the top!" Handing the toy off to Marcella, she placed Andy on Brietta's back, struggling a bit to hold him on since he was clearly much too big for the purple pegasus. Making a whoosh noise Marcella lifted them up as far as her little arms would allow. "Here we come princess!" "Not so fast!" Amy roared, as she pulled out a dragon from behind the crafted castle, raising it in the air, "This is my castle and my princess, if you want her you'll have to go through me!" Amy lunged her pink plush forward, trying to knock Andy off his mighty steed. "You're no match for my attack dog, sick 'em boy!" Marcella called out as she picked the little yellow plush off the floor and held it to the dragon's neck, pretending to bite it. Suddenly Marcella felt something small hit her on the back of her neck, she turned around to see a boy, maybe 2 or 3 years older, running full speed towards them. "Kaboom!" He shouted, shoving over the tower of boxes along with Raggedy Ann. "Kill them all Roboraptor!" He started whacking the girls toys with his robotic dinosaur in his one hand, in the other he held another robotic looking figure with a toy dart shooter attached to its ball jointed hands. Taking aim at Amy this time he shot at her, the dart hitting her square in the forehead. "Brandon get out of here, you're ruining our game!" Amy yelled. "I'm you're brother, its my job to ruin your stupid dumb baby games." He sneered, shooting another dart at his sister. "Mom! Brandon's shooting me and Marcella with his robot again!" Amy called out. "It's not a robot it's a Bionicle dummy!" "I don't care what it's called," Amy's mother told him sternly, "I told you not to shoot that thing at people, you could take someone's eye out." Taking the toy from him she pulled the weapon off it's plastic joints, and handed it back. "Why don't you three come outside for a bit, I think the hot dogs on the grill should be just about ready." They all rushed outside, leaving the toys to themselves. Andy was the first to spring to life, rushing over to the pile of fallen boxes. "Ann? Ann are you ok under there?" He called. Listening closely he heard his sisters muffled reply, "Oh geez, don't worry Annie we'll get you out of there! Whimsy, Thunder, help me get these things off her." The two plushies came bounding over, helping their friend to lift the heavy cardboard enough for Brietta to reach her head under the gap and using her teeth, grab Ann's sleeve and pull her out of the wreckage. "Are you all right?" Whimsy asked, letting Ann lean on her big back for support. "Y-yea, I think so." She stumbled, holding a hand to her head. The group suddenly heard an outburst of laughter behind them, turning their heads, sure enough it was Brandon's toys rolling on the floor. "Hahaha! That was sooo funny!" The Roboraptor cackled, "I can't believe you actually made those shots Gali!" The blue masked figure put her arm around the dino so as to not fall over. "Haha! I know right, did you see the look on those brats faces when we knocked over their junk? Priceless!" Brietta took a step forward, stopping her plastic hoof down. "You bullies! Just because Brandon's a bit older than Amy, doesn't give you the right to push us around!" "Shut it horse head." Gali snapped, making their way over to the group, eyeing up Thunder. "So? Who's your new shrimpy little friend?" Stopping with her arms crossed in front of them. "That's Thunder," Whimsy answered sheepishly, "Ann told us that Marcella brought him here all the way from Canada." "Canada, huh?" Gali bent over to stare at Thunder eye to eye "The loser even speak American?" "You mean English?" Thunder finally spoke out. "No idiot, I mean American! They speak English in that England place or whatever." "God, you really are dumber than you look." Raptor snickered, "Come on, speak some Canadian for us!" "Oh you want Canadian, eh? Là, je suis vraiment en tabarnac!" Thunder growled back at them. "What the hell did you just say?" Raptor took a step forward, his mechanical legs clicking. "We told you to speak Canadian freak, you know," They broke out in a stereotypical voice, "Oh yeah eh, let's play some hockey and drink some maple syrup eh." Gali let out a snort adding in, "Yea eh, boy I sure love living in my igloo eh, a-boot time to ride my moose to work eh." "Who do I look like to you, Bob and Doug McKenzie? Take off!" Thunder snapped. "Lay off you guys!" Andy demanded getting in between the Gelert and the bullies. Ann could hear a low deep growl coming from the back of Thunders throat, she had never seen or heard him so angry before. "You looking for a tilly bud?" Bearing his teeth he got in Gali's face. "A what?" They shot back. "Have your friend join in, we'll have a Donnybrook." Thunders lips were pulled back into a snarl. Gali leaned in closer, an inch away from Thunder's snout, speaking in a low seething tone. "Speak properly you friggin eskimo." "Means you're cruisin for a bruisin buddy." "I'm not your buddy, friend." "I'm not your friend, guy." "That's enough!" Andy shouted, pushing the two toys away from each other. "Come on Thunder lets go cool off before they do something they'll regret." He put his arm around his friend and led him away from the confrontation. "What's gotten into you Thunder?" Andy asked once they got far enough away from the others. Thunder sat down, back turned to him and scratched his ear irritably. Andy moved in front of him so he could make eye contact. "Tell me," he pressed, "I've never seen you so angry before." Thunder looked away, "Those ignorant jerks really just ticked me off, ok." He grumbled. Andy let out a hefty sigh and shook his head. "They got on my nerves too believe me, but we can't just go starting fights in front of the girls like that." He tried to reason, putting a comforting hand on Thunders shoulder. "Come on, those guys aren't worth the time of day." Thunder finally looked up at him and smiled. "Yea, I guess you're right. Besides, no point getting in a scrap with them guys anyway. You can't fight with stupid cause they drag you down to their level and then beat ya with experience." Both of them broke out into a light chuckle. All of a sudden they heard a loud thud, looking back over to where the group was they saw Ann on the ground with Raptor and Gali looming over her, Whimsy and Brietta were doing their best to stand between them but quickly starting to back off in fear that they might be next. "Hey! Lay off my sister!" Andy shouted out, bolting towards the bullies at full speed and shoving them hard into each other. Thunder quickly rushed to his side, his growl and curled lip returning. "Hey watch where you're going dick head!" The Bionicle insulted, picking themselves off the floor. "You've officially crossed the line, you can pick on me but leave my sister and her friends out of this!" "Or what?" She gave him an icy cold stare though the slits of her navy blue helmet. "You finally gonna drop the good guy routine and actually throw a punch?" In a split of a second the rag dolls fist collided with Gali's hard plastic, square in the jaw, the force of it sent her stumbling back, stunned. Just as fast Roboraptor lunged forward at Andy, ready to sink his jaws into Andy's fabric but Thunder leaped up, clamping his teeth down on Raptors long backward pointing horns, he yanked him out of the way, crashing them head first onto the floor. Taking the open opportunity Andy tackled Gali while she was still getting her bearings straight, landing backsided with Andy on top he took another swing, but this time she blocked it with her heavily armored forearm and gave him a nasty sucker punch to the gut, throwing him off. The hit left Andy hunched over holding his gut, the wind knocked out of him, he gasped for air trying to ignore the immense amount of pain that was dealt. Seeing his friend in danger, Thunder readied himself to race towards him, but Raptor wasn't about to let him go that easy. He snapped his strong jaws down on Thunders long tail, causing the Neopet to yelp out. Getting back on his feet, Raptor used his flexible neck to drag Thunder back and fling him towards the wall, hitting it with a loud smack! Meanwhile Ann, Whimsy and Brietta hid behind the pile of fallen boxes, watching the brawl helplessly. "This is terrible," Ann whispered, trying not to draw attention to themselves, "We got to do something to stop them." She looked over to her cowering friends. "W-what can we do?" Whimsy whimpered. "We can't get into that fight." Brietta added. "We have to do something." Ann insisted, looking around the room, then out of the corner of her button eye she noticed a glass vase sitting upon a lone table. "I got an idea." Getting back to the fight Thunder was now struggling not to choke as Raptor clamped down his jaw around his neck, the pointed teeth puncturing deep into his fabric. Taking his T-rex arms he began to slash his claws on Thunders side, trying to catch a loose thread and rip him open. Andy was also downed, curled up laying on his side, he used his arms to try and protect the back of his head as Gali continuously kicked him in the back. Seeing his friend in trouble, Thunder struggled to break free from Raptors grip, raising a paw he punched him directly in the eye. Raptors little yelp provided Thunder with just enough wiggle room to slide out of the hold, with no time to lose he bolted over to Raptors long stiff tail, chomping down hard and pulling back with all his might he flung the robotic dino onto his backside. Hearing the sound of cracking plastic Thunder jerked his head and snapped the end of Raptors tail clean off, leaving the beast to writhe in pain. Holding the tail piece in his jaws Thunder raced over towards Gali and plunged the pointed plastic into one of the many holes in their arm, twisting it hard until he heard a crackle and the ball joint gave way, breaking off their forearm. "GAAAH!!!" Gali wailed out, stumbling away from Andy, giving him a chance to get back on his feet. "And here I thought you'd be tough," Thunder taunted, "Turns out you're ten ply!" Fueled by rage Gali charged at the Neopet, punching him with her remaining arm. Already weak from his previous battle the impact sends Thunder down hard, nearly knocking him out and unable to defend himself. Before she could land another blow Andy grabbed her from behind and restrained her, "Get up Thunder, I can't hold her forever." He grunted, desperately trying to protect his friend. Thunder barely heard Andy's words as he struggled to push himself up, dizzy from the hit. Once his eyes were back in focus he saw his target in front of him and any pain he felt was quickly replaced with rage. Running up to his opponent he jumped on top of her and yanked her navy blue mask off and tossed it over his shoulder, revealing Gali's true grey face and highlighter yellow eyes. Without a second thought Thunder clamped his jaw down around Gali's neck joint, hard enough that his canines started to make indents into her plastic, it soon began to crackle under the force. "Wait, Thunder, stop!" Andy shouted out, "That'll kill her!" SMASH!!! Abruptly a loud shattering noise stopped the fight dead in its tracks, Thunder releasing his iron grip to look up and see what had happened. On the floor was what used to be a very expensive vase, broken apart into a jigsaw of a million glass shards, and standing on the table above was none other than Raggedy Ann. Excited by the commotion, Amy's family dog came rushing into the room, barking loudly, and the humans came in not long after. "What in the world has happened here?" Amy's mother questioned looking around the room at the mess. She saw her broken vase and then looked at the dog, putting two and two together. "Bad dog!" she scolded, grabbing him by the collar, "You're sleeping outside tonight!" She dragged off the poor pouch to the yard and Amy, Marcella, and Brandon came into the room, curious of what happened. "Aw man!" Brandon whined, "The stupid dog broke Roboraptors tail and chewed up my Bionicle!" Amy picked up Thunder and Andy and handed them to her friend, "I'm sorry Marcella, it looks like the dog got at your toys too." Marcella frowned as she looked at all the little rips and tares her toys had received. "It's ok Amy, my mama will sew them back up for me, she always does." Amy's mother returned and ushered the kids out of the room, "Sorry girls but it looks like your play date will have to be cut short today. Marcella, I've already called your parents and they're on their way to pick you up." "Ok, Thank you Mrs. Rose." She answered politely grabbing her last dolly and walking away. It wasn't long before Marcella was back home, like usual she went straight up to her playroom. Placing her toys on the little rocking chair she took a good look at Thunder and Andy, they were both battered and beaten pretty bad. "That dog really did a number on both of you, huh." She said to herself as she examined each one closer. The little yellow plush had many little holes around its neck, and its front leg had a gash down the side of it, some of the stuffing was even poking out. Andy didn't look quite as bad but the back of his shirt was torn up real bad and he had a few scuff marks on his face and hands. "I'm sure glad you didn't get hurt, Raggedy Ann." She said looking her over once to reveal a clean bill of health. Marcella stood up and headed for the door, "I'll make sure mama has you all fixed up by the morning." She promised as she left the room, closing the door behind her. "Oh my goodness, are you two ok?" They heard Babette call from her doll house. "Maybe it was for the best that I stayed here." "It sure was." Andy answered, jumping down from the chair then helping his sister get down as well. "Thunder and Andy got into a big fight with some of Amy's brothers toys." Ann told the French doll as she gave her a big hug, relieved to be back home. "I'm sorry you had to see that Annie." Andy apologized, looking down at the ground, disappointed with himself. "I just couldn't stand to see the sight of them picking on you." Ann put her hand in his, "It's ok Andy, I know you were just trying to protect me, and for that I should say thank you." She pulled him in close for a hug but made sure not to squeeze too tight so as to not pop anymore seams than he already has. "And thank you too Thunder." She added, picking him up from the rocking chair and hugging him as well. "Don't sweat it." He replied. "Oh that reminds me," Ann remembered putting Thunder down, "Babette dearest, could you tell me what this means?" She leaned in and whispered into her ear, leaving a confused look on Babette's face. "Where did you hear such ridiculous French as that?" She demanded to know. Turning their heads to Thunder he lowered his ears, giving a nervous smile and shrugged, "Heh heh, its a Canadian thing."