The Invention: Chapter 4

Jazz slowly came to. Everything was blurry, but he could tell that he was in the hospital. Also, something blue with brown hair was looking at him. Jazz smiled as his view of the blue bunny got clearer. "Hey Eva," he mumbled , smiling.
"What are you talking about?" said the bunny. Then Jazz realized it was a nurse, not Eva.
"Silly, I’m right here," said an all-too-familiar voice. Jazz looked beyond the nurse and saw the real Eva smiling at him. Jazz smiled back, then asked, "How long have I been out?"
"A few hours since you came in here," said the nurse.
Jazz thought about replying with a sarcastic remark, then decided against it . Instead, he changed the subject.
"Where’s Spaz?" asked Jazz.
"Right next to you," said a male voice. Jazz tweaked his head to his left and saw Spaz, looking all right.
"Hi bro. Feel better?" said Spaz.
"I dunno," said Jazz. "You didn’t get hurt?"
"Oh, I got hurt," said Spaz. He turned around to reveal a mass of bandages on his back and tail. "Ya see, you knock your head on a lump in the smooth part of that big rock. I hit rough part. But I managed to stop an ambulance. You proud of me, bro?"
Jazz just nodded. "So, I just got a—" suddenly, he felt pain in his head. " Never mind, I do have a headache."
"What happened, anyway?" asked Eva.
Spaz lifted his head up. His face grew deadly serious—or as serious as it ever got, anyway. "A lizard grabbed my girlfriend and bombed us. But we live. Right, bro?"
"Right," said Jazz.
"Oh dear," said Eva. "What would he want with her?"
"It probably has something to do with Devan’s scanning of me a week ago,” Jazz groaned. “He probably needed a test subject or something."
"WHAT? OH NO!" Spaz attempted to run off to save his girlfriend, but the nurse grabbed him.
"I don’t think so, buster!" she said. "You still need a day to recover from your,er,um,ouchies."
"Tomorrow I can go then?" asked Spaz.
"Yes," said the nurse. Tomorrow, I promise."
To be continued...


The Invention: Chapter 5

Sure enough, the next day Jazz and Spaz were well enough to start searching for Devan and Spaz’s girlfriend. The two decided to check out Devan’s old lab first. When they got there, they saw a few turtles walking around aimlessly in front of the entrance.
"So, now what?" said Spaz. "Do you think Devan’s in there?" Jazz shrugged. "I’m thinking not. If he was, he’d probably have schwartzenguards patrolling the door, not ordinary turtles."
"Trying to throw us off track?" asked Spaz.
"Yeah, probably," said Jazz.
"Why don’t we ask them, then?" said Spaz.
Jazz turned to look at his brother, and grinned mischievously. "You just gave me an idea, Spaz..."
The turtles weren’t expecting much to happen today. They had this boring job of guarding a lab that wasn’t even occupied. But the monotony would soon be broken...
"CHARGE!" yelled Spaz, leaping out of the bushes; Jazz following suit. Most of the turtles panicked and ran, but one leapt forward, foolishly trying to be a hero.
Spaz grabbed him easily and turned him upside down, holding him by his legs. "Help..." said the turtle. Jazz leapt in front of him. He cocked his gun and pointed it at the turtle.
"Alright, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way," said Jazz. "Where’s your boss?"
"I don’t know," said the turtle.
Jazz’s eyes narrowed. He switched to his toaster and fired it, aiming at the side of the turtle’s face.
"YYEEEOOOWW!" yelled the turtle.
"The hard way, then...every time you lie, I’ll burn you," said Jazz simply. "Now where’s Devan?"
"Um, he’s in the lab. EEEYYOOOOWWWW!"
"Care to try again?" said Jazz.
The turtle named several other places, but Jazz saw through each and every one. Finally, the turtle couldn’t stand the burning anymore. "ALL RIGHT! ALL RIGHT!" yelled the turtle. "He’s in the deep inferno, where you fought him the last time!"
Jazz nodded. "Spaz, release," he said. Spaz dropped the turtle, who immediately ran off to douse his third degree burns.
"So, the hot heck place?" asked Spaz.
"Yep," said Jazz. "We’d better get going, so we can save your girlfriend fro m Devan’s latest scheme." Spaz gulped at the thought of it. And so off to the deep inferno they went, at a fairly fast pace.
To be continued...