by I'm Not Mister Mxypltk
"Ugh..." Mick Harrison said, coming back to consciousness once again.
He sat, scratching his head, and looked around. He was inside a cave, and there was nobody around. He scratched his head some more.
"Umm..." he said after some minutes. "Grissom? Griss? You there? Hmm... Skipper?"
Then Mick started hearing voices coming from somewhere near. He was about to check out who was there, when his cellphone started ringing.
"Hello?"
"Mick?!" said a female voice on the other side of the line.
"Shirley!"
"Mick! I haven't seen you in so long!"
"What do you mean?"
"M'xy's had the body for a long while now... But I guess you wouldn't notice."
"I keep myself entertained. So... where are you?"
"I'm in some caves..."
"I'm in some caves, too! What a coincidence, we should get married!"
"Mick..."
"What's wrong?"
"I'm worried about my Uncle Otto..."
"Who...?"
She sighed. "About uncle bear..."
"Oh! Why?"
"He's supposed to be in the caves. He lives at the entrance... But he's not there."
"So where do you think he is?"
"I talked to him before over the phone, and the communication broke. I was at the apartment complex at the time. I think he was worried about me and went there! If he's there, he's in danger!"
"Why so?"
"Well, besides the HURRICANE... last thing I knew, there were vampires on the streets!"
"Hurricane? I mean, vampires?! Grissom said something about vampires..."
"See? I'm worried about him, Mick."
"Don't worry, babe! I'll go rescue him."
"You mean you'll get M'xy to rescue him."
"Uh, yeah..."
"Mick? That's what you are gonna do, right? You can't go out there by yourself."
"Yeah, of course I'm gonna get M-- er, him to do it, don't worry."
"Thanks, honey. Good luck. I can't wait to see you."
"Same here."
"Oh, and one more thing..."
"What is it?"
"DON'T CALL ME BABE!"
Mick put the cell phone back in his pocket and started thinking. The last time he woke up, when Grissom Montag was with him, he was lying on the ground with a headache, and Grissom asked him to help, so he called M'xy. When he woke up just know, he was also lying on the floor with a headache. Something told him he couldn't rely on M'xy right now. He had to go rescue Otto by himself.
He walked in the direction the wind was coming and reached the exit of the cave. He looked outside. It didn't look too bad for a hurricane, just a little windy. Then he looked at the wall approaching the coast. Hey, that's a hurricane! he thought to himself.
At that moment he saw something in the sky trying to get deeper in the sea. However, the wind kept pushing it toward the beach. When it got close, he recognized it as the Raptor's pet UFO, and Edulcore Cicciotto himself was standing on top of it, holding a sword.
"ED!" Mick yelled. "DOWN HERE!"
The Raptor made the UFO descend a little, and waved at Mick. "MICK! HOW ARE YOU!"
"GOOD! HOW ARE YOU!"
"GOOD!"
"COOL! HEY, ARE YOU BUSY?!"
"I... INVESTIGATE... SHARKS... SHORE... CAN'T GET THERE... WIND!" were the only words Mick was able to understand from Ed's response because of the sound of the sea, the hurricane approaching, and -- he could have sworn -- also the sound of something like an infernal giant beast that kept getting bigger when they attacked it and something like Blackwulf transformed into a giant wolf growling.
"YEAH!" Mick said, hoping that would suit whatever Ed said to him. "CAN YOU GET ME TO THE APARTMENTS, THEN!"
The Raptor made the UFO descend even more, and said to Mick, "Hop inside."
"THANKS!" Mick yelled at Ed's face.
Once they were both inside the UFO, Ed made it head for the apartment complex.
"What do you need from there?" he asked.
"I have to go rescue Otto," Mick answered.
"Who?"
"Uncle bear..."
"Oh," the Raptor said. "Well, we're here," he said after a few seconds.
Mick looked outside and saw their home, half-destroyed by the hurricane. "Shiiiiit..." he said.
The Raptor landed the UFO. He and Mick split to look for Otto in the ruins. However, seconds after splitting, the Raptor regretted doing it, remembering what happened in horror pictures when the characters did that. The same thing happened to Mick, when he remembered Scooby-Doo cartoons.
When he was checking one of the upper floors, Mick heard something. "Otto?" he said, looking at the darkness the weird sounds were coming from. He heard sounds again. Very slowly, he walked into the darkness, where he found Uncle Otto, naked, with big wings and claws, and several cuts and bruises over his body.
"Oh, man... what happened to you? I'll go get Ed, and we'll..."
"She's..." Otto said, very weakly, "...still here... s-somewhere..."
"What? Who?"
"The girl... who did this to me..."
Meanwhile, Edulcore Cicciotto continued looking for Otto on one of the lower floors. He could see very well in the darkness, but still he didn't notice the red eyes looking at him. Then he heard what sounded like a girl giggling.