Chapter 10

Kickme turned off his jetpack as he reached a random patch of ground (which for some strange reason happened to be right outside the location of SAPLING), touching down lightly. He did not hear the crazy bat flying straight at him like a cannonball, until it hit him, at least.

Both Kickme and Batty were blown away from each other from the force of the impact. Batty took no visible injury, and got back up again. "So, any reason why you're evil?"

Kickme got to the ground, although visibly aching. "Um..not really. It was a good idea at the time."

Batty nodded. "Yeah, that happens to a lot of people I know. So, if you don't mind, I'd like you to give back my batpack."

"NONSENSE! I sacrificed my sense of humour to become evil and steal this batpack!"

Batty was taken aback. "So..um, fight you for it?"

"Yeah, I guess that's the standard path of action when you find a character who has a big health bar flying above his head."

Batty looked above Kickme's head. "Huh, I didn't notice. Are you a boss or something?"

Kickme shook his head. "Nah, I pulled it out of your batpack. It's pretty useless."

Batty sighed. "Same with a lot of the things in there. Can we fight now?"

"Sure!"

Batty took off one of his eyebrows, and twisted it into a paintbrush. As Kickme rushed towards him in a beserker rage, Batty flew up, and painted a hole in a wall that just happened to be the wall between them and the SAPLING project. COMPLETE QUINKYDINK!!

Kickme skidded to a halt, turned around, and rushed back at Batty, who jumped through the hole. Kickme slammed into the wall, and flew backwards, also causing the wall, painted hole and all, to fall in. Batty shielded himself by pushing himself flat against the side wall, the falling in wall missing him, due to the low density of his animated body. Kickme got back up angrily, and, as Batty walked over the debris of the fallen wall, ran straight at Batty, who flew into the air as Kickme approached. Kickme slammed into the SAPLING (still a quinkydink that it's there), and blew it to pieces. The diamond flew out of the machine, and into Batty's hands. Batty shrugged, and walked through the hole, taking into the skies, in that dramatic way of vanishing into the sunset that always happens in movies.

An hour later, Batty wasn't doing too well. The diamond was weighing him down, and he had absolutely no idea where he was going. Batting his wings one final time, he ran out of energy, and glided downward, aiming for what looked like a friendly village.

The wind was blowing paticularly hard that day, and Batty was thrown off track, towards Carrotus Castle. Batty smiled, knowing this was the proper place to return the gem to.

Fifteen minutes later, Batty landed on the ground, almost out of energy. With his last bit of energy, he stumbled over to the entrance, and knocked on the door. It was promptly opened by the queen, who screamed in her own personal super-sonic way.

"He's got my daughter's 24-caret gem! GUARDS!! ARREST HIM!!"

Batty was thrown in chains, and taken to the dungeon, the diamond confiscated to be scanned for curses, then returned to Eva. As he collapsed within the cell doors, he had only one thought. "This is sure one crazy day.." before he fell asleep.

The End..?

I totally forgot every plot point I wanted to happen a few years ago. I remember there was something with SAPLING succeeding, and the party going back in time with the assistance of Rumbo, who was paid something that I forgot what, and probably some other stuff, but all that has been forgotten, so I just did random stuff. It only turned out half-bad, strangely enough.