Teletubbies: Escape From Darkness

Chapter 18: A Special Visit

The teletubbies had been traversing the bleak path for an indefinite amount of time, none of them had brought anything to tell the time with. There was no sun here so they had no way of telling how long they'd been trapped in this wasteland. The teletubbies yearned to be back in their comfortable home with their organized schedule. Laa-Laa felt her stomach toss and turn. It was her fault they weren't there right now. She couldn't decide, was it better to be blissfully ignorant or know the truth but be in pain? She looked around at her comrades. All of them were beaten, scratched, burned and exhausted. They were no longer plump, their ribs had begun sticking out. They had found some dry leaves to eat earlier but they weren't exactly a meal. I guess she should have been thankful, it was a miracle she had found any plant life, alive or dead, in this barren wasteland. The gaping wounds on Tinky Winky's legs were looking worse and worse and Dipsy's head wasn't healing properly. What were they going to do?
"Did you guys hear that?" Tinky-Winky rasped, his mouth dry from not drinking water.
"Hear what?" Laa-Laa asked, listening hard.
"I'm not sure, it sounds... familiar though..." he looked off in the distance, a cloudy look in his eyes.
"Familiar? Familiar how?" Dipsy asked.
"It sounds like... Noo Noo?" Tinky-Winky smiled wistfully.
"Noo-Noo? That's impossible he's in Teletubby land, probably burnt to a crisp," Dipsy frowned, "you're either hearing things or it's another trick designed by the sun baby, we have to keep moving."
Tinky-Winky looked mournfully off in the distance behind him.
.
Hours later, the teletubbies were about to crash into the hard ground in fatigue. No energy to function, limbs sorer than they'd every been, teletummies emptier than their spirits. Tinky-Winky sighed, still nostalgic from memories of his old friend.
"What's that?" Po asked, pointing a shaky finger at the horizon.
In the distance something shiny stood out against the otherwise bleak landscape.
"Is that...?" Laa-Laa trailed off in disbelief.
"Noo-Noo!" Tinky-Winky called out in excitement. The four teletubbies felt a sudden surge of joy and hope as they ran as fast as their weakened bodies could go. They stumbled and tripped as they raced, their weary bodies refusing to cooperate, but the teletubbies ignored their fatigue in the face of meeting their friend.
"I can't believe it's really them," Laa-Laa grinned, tears of happiness, streaming down her face.
"How did they find us?" Po asked in joy, stumbling on a rock. She didn't care, she kept running.
"Who cares!" Dipsy laughed gleefully, "They're here!"
Finally they came to a halt, wheezing in front of their old friend.
"Noo-Noo," Tinky-Winky huffed, his breathing ragged, "You came to find us!"
Noo-Noo didn't answer just stared at them and began to shake.
"I'm sorry... I have to..." Noo-Noo creaked out in its strained robot voice.
"Have to what?" Laa-Laa asked, a hint of suspicious concern in her voice.
Noo-Noo blinked slowly and when their eyes opened their pupils were gone.
"I-I'm sorry teletubbies if I don't do it he'll kill me," Noo-Noo began to shudder more violently and their metallic body began to open up and sprout mechanical legs and another vacuum came from its back. Soon it was towering over the four cowering teletubbies.
"Bye bye teletubbies," Noo-Noo said in a voice both theirs and not. The sun baby's voice melted together with Noo-Noo's, his gleeful, Noo-Noo's distraught.
And as the only hope they'd seen in days descended upon them, the teletubbies felt themselves lose any faith they'd had leave. This was the end. It seemed the teletubbies were destined for death.

A/N: There's not much left of the book! It's so crazy to me that this book has gotten that far. It's almost the one year anniversary of starting this book. I'll have another chapter up shortly!