Teletubbies: Escape From Darkness

Chapter 7: Fire

Dipsy watched in horror as the sun baby morphed into a monster. His eyes became demonic and his body became fiery.
The sun baby let out a guttural scream and a fire ball shot from his mouth. It launched towards Laa-Laa.
"Laa-Laa!" screamed Dipsy, he tackled her, knocking her from the line of fire. Dipsy felt the heat from the fire soar above his head.
"Are you okay?" gasped Dipsy.
"Yeah, thanks," breathed Laa-Laa. Dipsy helped her up.
"We have to leave teletubby land," said Dipsy firmly.
"Leave teletubby land?" gasped Po, "What else is out there?"
"I don't know, but we can't stay here or we'll be killed," Dipsy said sternly.
"Dipsy's right, we can only bring one thing each, we're running away," remarked Tinky-Winky melancholily.
"Hurry, back to the Tubbytronic Superdome! Then we have to go!" urged Laa-Laa.
The teletubbies sped off towards the direction of the Tubbytronic Superdome as fireballs were launched after them.
"You can run but you can't hide," chuckled the sun baby.
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The teletubbies screeched to a halt at the Tubbytronic Superdome, looking behind to see the sun baby streaking across the sky, a ball of fire and doom.
"Hurry! He's coming!" screeched Dipsy, urging the teletubbies inside the broken window. A second after everyone was inside, the fire smashed into the window, sending smoldering glass remnants everywhere.
"Move! Hurry!" cried out Tinky-Winky as the four sprinted to snatch their most important belonging.
Dipsy found himself running to the teletubbies' main bedroom, and snatching up his hat. Tinky-Winky grabbed his bag, and Po hopped on her scooter. But where was Laa-Laa?
"Laa-Laa?!" called out Dipsy frantically as he raced through the hallways to find her, the other teletubbies not far behind.
"Help!" Laa-Laa's voice rang out from outside the Tubbytronic Superdome.
Dipsy's heart stopped and he sprinted to the front door. He tried to open it but remembered it was locked.
"No!" he cried out, desperate to save Laa-Laa. He snatched Po's scooter from her hands and smashed it through the window of the Tubbytronic Superdome, glass flying everywhere. Dipsy leaped outside to find Laa-Laa holding her yellow bouncy ball surrounded by flames, the fireballs had set the entire field on fire!
Instinctively, Dipsy hopped onto Po's scooter. "Get on!" he called to Tinky-Winky and Po. They squeezed aboard the scooter and Dipsy pushed the scooter as fast as he could into the flames. The intense heat blasted his face as they scorched his sides. He ignored it.
"Laa-Laa!" he exclaimed, grabbing her from the flames before she was engulfed and helped her onto the scooter.
"You okay?" Dipsy asked.
"I'm fine," she coughed in reply.
"That's the second time I've saved your life today," teased Dipsy.
Laa-Laa rolled her eyes.
Dipsy sped off out of the flames sucking in air as they reached a spot of the teletubby field that wasn't burning.
The teletubbies sucked in a breath of relief but a boom sounded behind them. They whipped around to see the looming form of the baby sun, trapping them.
"Goodbye teletubbies," sneered the baby sun, a fireball forming in its mouth.
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Dipsy felt all hope leave him. He and his friends were going to die. There was nothing he could do. No way to escape the fiery demise before him.
He felt tears form in his eyes and looked over at all the other teletubbies.
The hopelessness in their eyes broke his heart.
"Teletubbies," said Dipsy quietly.
"Eh oh," he whispered in farewell.
Then he prepared for impact.
"How sweet," simpered the sun baby, "The great and powerful teletubbies, reduced to nothing."
All of a sudden, Dipsy felt something inside him light up. Like a torch he didn't know he held. He held out his hat.
A swirling, swiveling portal opened up in front of them, black as night.
"No," whispered the sun baby, dread in his voice, "No it can't be."
Shocked, at the portal that had suddenly come out of his hat, Dipsy gaped at it for a moment before ushering the teletubbies inside. He didn't know where it would lead them, but it was their only option.
He turned back around as he felt himself fading into the portal, to see one last glimpse of the place they had called home for all their lives.
It was going down in flames, he watched, heartbroken, as the flaming Tubbytronic Superdome collapsed. The sun baby watched the teletubbies disappear into the portal and before they did he called out to them.
"You think you've won. But there is no dimension you can hide from me, I will destroy you teletubbies. Every last one of you," he snarled. Then the portal closed, sealing the teletubbies in darkness.