Chapter 2 - A Hotel You Never Leave

BEEP BEEP BEEP

The constant and annoying beeping only woke up Susan, as she groaned in annoyance at the alarm clock.

"Honey, could you hit the snooze?" Susan sighed, but the beeping continued.

"Derek, why would you set the alarm…on our honeymoon-WOAH!"

But just as Susan cracked her eyes open and reluctantly turned over to shut the alarm clock off, she suddenly fell over the edge of the bed. And she was sent into a little panic to find that she was in a large and grey prison cell, she was dressed in dark grey prison clothes, and the beeping came from a little light, which soon stopped and retreated back into the ceiling.

And as soon as the light disappeared, Susan didn't even have a chance to stand up when she felt the whole room suddenly jerk, and it started going down like a falling elevator. Luckily, the room stopped after what seemed like an eternity, and the door opened with a whir, revealing a much larger room, lit with bright white lights, and there was a giant table a chair, just for Susan, in the middle.

Susan didn't want to move, but her wishes went unheard of when the wall suddenly started pushing her out, in which she struggled a bit. But she calmed down when the wall stopped moving, and she could finally stand.

And Susan soon discovered that she wasn't alone in here.

"Hello?" Susan called.

"SUSAN?!" came two familiar voices, and Susan gasped when she looked to her left, and she found her mutated cousins at the far end of the room, dressed in prison clothes like her.

"Sara! Jackie! Oh, thank goodness! What happened?! Where are we?!" Susan asked frantically as her cousins ran up to her.

"We were hoping you knew," Jackie whimpered in reply, as new places usually scared her a lot.

"I don't," Susan added.

"Well, from the looks of it, I think we're in prison," Sara growled.

"A-are you sure? I mean, we didn't do anything wrong…did we?" Susan asked while walking towards the middle of the room, but she soon heard of crunching noise, only to find that she had accidentally stepped on a chair that went with a normal-sized table with four other normal-sized chairs.

And just as Susan picked up the chair as if it were a piece to a Barbie doll set, she and the others soon heard what sounded like…talking? The three of them tracked the voices to another door that was barely cracked open.

"Hello? I-is someone there?" Susan called as she and the others went to investigate.

"We don't want any trouble," Jackie added softly.

"I do!" Sara hissed, flicked her new bright green snake tongue.

But as the women waited for someone to appear, no one did.

As they waited, they heard another strange noise, and it turned out to be a tube that dropped a giant pile of oatmeal on the table meant for Susan, followed by a giant spoon.

"That's weird…" Susan said as she went up to the table and picked up the spoon.

"Not as weird as us. Look at us. We look like somethin' that came out of a mad scientist horror movie," Sara pointed out.

"I-I don't know…it's not all THAT bad," Jackie admitted.

"Are you daft? Watch this! RAAAWRR!" Sara growled, and suddenly brought out her claws and fangs while screaming at the top of her lungs, making Jackie do exactly what she expected: use her new giant rabbit feet to jump back in fear.

In fact, Jackie jumped so high, she landed on Susan's table by accident, skidding on her back across the table.

"Oh, my gosh! Are you ok?" Susan asked with worry, and gently helped Jackie back up.

"I'm fine, I'm fine…it was just an accident," Jackie replied.

"More like an instinct! You're a rabbit with antlers, for crying out loud! Oh, and check this out!" Sara called angrily, and she suddenly got down on all fours, and she started moving as swiftly as a snake. And to make things more surprising, she used her claws and the gripping scales on her stomach and tail to climb up the table and finally stood back up on two feet next to Jackie.

"Don't you get it? That meteorite had somethin' in it, and whatever it was, it mutated us," the fox/snake hybrid hissed, and Susan and Jackie were starting to believe that maybe she was right.

But the echo of Sara's yelling was soon ignored when the girls heard something scurrying near by, but they didn't see anything.

"What was that?" Susan whispered, and Jackie coward into a ball while Sara bared her fangs and claws. But then they heard the scurrying behind them, but the only thing there was the pile of oatmeal.

"Come out, creep!" Sara shouted.

Eventually, what came out from behind the oatmeal was just a man wearing a white lab coat…but he head a giant cockroach head with beady yellow eyes.

"Hello," the cockroach man greeted calmly.

"Ew!" Susan squealed and suddenly started to try and squash the bug man with her spoon.

"Stop! Careful!" the cockroach pleaded while dodging the spoon, but Susan was soon able to hit him, and he got stuck to the spoon.

"Please, Madame!" the cockroach man begged, but Susan only continued to try and squash him, "Stop…doing…that!"

Soon, the cockroach man fell off the spoon, and his eyes were a little unfocused. But while Jackie and Susan continued to cower away at the bug man, Sara was laughing away at his pain.

"What ever mad scientist made you…he REALLY went all out…" the bug man mumbled while trying to stand up, only to fall back down again.

"Hit 'm again! Hit 'm again!" Sara cheered maniacally.

"How…how can you talk…?" Susan piped up while dropping the spoon and stepping back, only to suddenly slip on something and hit her head pretty hard on the floor.

"Um, Susan…there's something on your shoe," Jackie pointed out in disgust, and Susan lifted her left foot to find a giant gelatinous blue blob on the bottom oh her shoe. She quickly pulled it off, and the gunk clung to her hand…but then the blob stretched a bit, and revealed a single red-ish brown eye.

"Hi there!" the blob greeted happily, only for Susan to quickly throw him at the table in disgust. And when the blob landed on the table, he accidentally swallowed Jackie, consuming her completely.

"Ooh, who are you?" the blob asked with excitement.

"Hey, let my sister go, ya ingrate!" Sara demanded with a hiss, and the blob happily spit Jackie back out through his mouth, and she came out all covered in blue slime.

"W-why…i-i-is it…s-so w-w-warm?" Jackie quivered and her eye twitched, as Sara helped her up, and the two of them jumped down from the table.

"Forgive him, for as you can see, he has no brain," the cockroach man apologized.

"Yeah! Turns out, you don't need one! Totally overrated! In fact, I don't eve…" the blob went on, but then his voice suddenly became strained, "Oh, I forgot how ta breath! Help me, Dr. Cockroach! I don't know how ta breath!"

The blob continued to panic as he grabbed Dr. Cockroach's shoulders and shook them violently.

"Suck in, Bob," Dr. Cockroach sighed, and Bob soon breathed in, saving himself.

"Oh, what a relief. You're a life saver, Doc," Bob sighed in relief and slapped a hand on Dr. Cockroach's back.

But as the boys were talking, Sara and Jackie only stepped back to Susan slowly, sharing confused glances. But then Susan gasped when she saw a weird ape/fish man hybrid drop down in front of her eyes, hanging onto her forehead.

"Wow, look at you," the fish man said in a smooth and deep voice, wearing a smirk, "I know what'cher thinkin'. First day a prison, and thought you'd take down the toughest guy in the yard? Well, I'd like ta see you try."

With that, the fish man, slip down Susan's leg, and he started pea cocking by letting out war cried and performing ninja moves. But when he tried to stand himself up on one hand, he dislocated something, and fell flat on his face.

The girls only watched in disappointed silence. And Dr. Cockroach and Bob soon jumped down beside the Missing Link.

"Oh, gosh…look…" Link began while popping his bones back into place, "I'm so good, I leave the ladies speechless."

"Ladies?" Bob asked with shock.

"Yes, Bob. We are in the presence of the rare female monsters," Dr. Cockroach pointed out.

"What? No way! They're totally boys! Look at their boobies," Bob protested in a hushed voice, and pointed a finger at the girls' chests.

…

"We need ta have a talk," Link muttered with a smirk.

"Gentlemen…I believe we are not making a very good first impression," Dr. Cockroach chuckled nervously.

"At lease I'm talking. First new monsters in years, and at least now, we finally have someone ta play cards with?" Link added.

But Dr. Cockroach only sighed and turned towards the female monsters.

"Might we know your names, Ladies?" Dr. Cockroach asked politely.

"Susan."

"Name's Sara."

"I'm Jackie."

"No, no, no, we mean, like, your monster name. What do people scream when they see you coming? Ya know, like…'look out, here comes…'" Bob corrected and expected a different answer.

…

"Susan."

"Sara."

"Jackie."

"Really?" Dr. Cockroach asked with disappointment, and pulled out a notepad and pen and started jotting something down.

"Suuuusan…Saaarrrra…Jackiiiiee…ooh, I just scared myself, those ARE scary names," Bob pointed out while stating each name in a spooky tone. But suddenly, an alarm went off, and the boys all got excited.

"Yes, eat time!" Link cheered as he and the others sprinted to the smaller table. A tube dropped down and dumped a pile of cold dead fish in front of Link, and he dove in like a pig. But Link had to slap Bob's hand away when the hungry blob tried to steal one of his fish.

"Oh, that is repulsing!" Dr. Cockroach said in disgust, only to become ironic when another tube came down and dropped a pile of garbage in front of him.

"Ooh, an old slipper!" Dr. Cockroach said with hunger, and he slapped Bob's hand away with the fuzzy pink slipper when the blob tried to steal his food too. But Bob was soon satisfied when a whole ham came flying out of nowhere, and it landed right inside his head, where he began to consume and dissolve it.

And then Sara and Jackie's food came down next when two more tubes dropped a pile of fruit for Sara and a pile of carrots for Jackie. But they didn't dig in like the boys. No, the girls all stared in shock, and started to back away slowly.

"Oh please, God, please tell me this isn't real. Please tell me I fainted at the wedding, and now I'm in the hospital, and the medicine is just giving me hallucinations," Susan begged quietly, but she and the other girls suddenly backed up into something large and fuzzy.

The creature started to growl as the girls looked up to find that they had bumped into what was literally a three hundred and fifty foot tall insect monster with four pincers, a horned nose, beady brown eyes, and spikes that ran down his back and tail.

And once the giant bug creature saw the girls, he roared out of fear, making them all shriek and run away.

"Don't scare Insectosaurus, or he's gonna pee himself, and then we'll ALL be in trouble!" Link shouted angrily, and ran up to the giant bug to calm him down.

"It's ok, Buddy. Don't worry about it. Hey, who's a handsome fella, huh? Do ya like it when I rub your tummy?" Link asked in baby talk while climbing the fur on Insectosaurus' belly, and he started rubbing it, making the giant bug tap his foot in delight like a dog.

"Where the heck is the door already?!" Sara demanded as she and Susan ran around the room looking for a way out, but Jackie stayed to cower under the table.

"Please! We don't belong here! Let us out!" Susan begged.

"Hey, that is NOT a good idea!" Link pointed out.

"Well, if you have any ideas, I'd love ta hear 'm!" Sara shouted sarcastically.

"Let me oooouuut!" Susan demanded while banging on a wall, only for it to suddenly open, revealing another monster with glowing red eyes that made growling noises.

But it turns out that the glowing red eyed beast was just the lights of an old and buff man with a jetpack, as he flew out into the light.

"Monsters, get back in yer cells!" the man demanded, and the boys all rolled their eyes and retreated back to their cells…but not before Bob could consume the rest of Link and Dr. Cockroach's food. And a military helicopter came flying down with a giant light panel, catching Insectosaurus' attention, and leading him into his cell.

"Oh, thank goodness, a real person…you are a real person, right? Not one of those…half man, half machine things?" Susan asked with worry, as Sara approached after convincing Jackie to come out from under the table.

"A cyborg?" the man asked with a cocked eyebrow.

"Oh, no! You're a cyborg?!" Susan screamed.

"Are you blind, Susan? He's NOT a cyborg," Sara corrected grimly.

"That's right! The name's General W.R. Monger, an' I'm in charge a' this facility. Now, follow me, girls! It's time fer yer orientation!" General Monger said firmly, turning around and flying in the opposite direction.

The girls knew they didn't really have a choice, so the slowly followed the flying man out into another huge room that was filled many people dressed in clean white lab clothes, and a couple helicopters hovered around Susan's head.

And before they knew it, the panel they were standing on suddenly started moving slowly, making it easier for them to follow General Monger.

"In 1950, it was decided that the world could not handle the truth about monsters, and should focus on more important things, like payin' taxes. So, the government convinced the world that monsters were just stuff a' myth an' legend, and then locked em' away in this here facility," General Monger explained as the panel kept moving.

"But we're not monsters!" Sara protested.

"We're just regular people!" Jackie added.

"And we're not a danger to anyone or anything!" Susan tried to prove her point, but she accidentally side swiped a helicopter, making it plummet onto the platform in a smoky crash.

"Sorry," Susan whimpered.

"How long will we be here, anyway?" Sara questioned.

"Inevitably!" General Monger replied.

"C-can we contact our parents?" Jackie pleaded.

"No."

"Derek?" Susan tried.

"Negative."

"Do they even know where we are?" Sara urged with worry.

"No, and they never will! This place is in the X Files, wrapped in a cover up, and deep-fried in a paranoid conspiracy! There will be ZERO contact with the outside world!" General Monger snapped.

That's when the panel moved out into a much larger room, and the girls could see inside the cells of their cellmates, in which the panel slowly passed by each one.

The first cell they passed was Insectosaurus' as he roared and licked the glass in excitement at the sight of the girls, in which they stepped back a bit in disgust. But the next cell was Link's as he was lifting weights, and when he saw the girls, he was only at the seventh lift, so he thought he'd impress them.

"Nine hundred and ninety eight…nine hundred and ninety nine…one thousand! Whoo! I'm pumped!" Link cheered and threw the lifts away, only for them to gently float away since Link's cell was filled with water.

The next cell was Bob's, and the said gelatinous mass was leisurely bouncing a red bouncy ball of the wall and back to him, but by the third bounce, the ball knocked his eye out, and he bounced his eye. And when his came bouncing back into his socket and knocked the ball out, he just laughed away.

The last cell was Doctor Cockroach's, as he appeared to be building a life-sized missile out of Lego pieces.

"Ah, hello, Ladies! Say, you wouldn't happen to have any uranium on you? Even just a smidge?" Dr. Cockroach asked with hope.

"Rescind Dr. Cockroach's toy box privileges, immediately," General Monger demanded whoever was at the other end of his walkie talkie, and then he and the girls soon arrived at their cell, which was large and grey.

"Our prison psychologist thought it'd be nice fer you girls ta share a cell; family support, and all. Also said we should redecorate yer cell ta keep ya'll calm," General Monger added softly when the girls noticed the tiny poster with a kitten hanging from a tree reading 'Hang in there'.

"But we don't want a poster…we want a real kitten, hanging from a real tree…we wanna go home," Susan sniffled as her eyes filled with tears and her lips quivered; Jackie was already shedding a bunch of tears, and even Sara was trying to fight back some tears.

"Aw, c'mon, girls, don't cry, it makes mah knees hurt. Don't think a' this as a prison…think of it as hotel ya never leave 'cause it's locked from the outside," General Monger tried to reassure, as the panel slowly moved back into their cell, and the door started to close.

"Oh, and one other thing, the government has changed your names. You're now Ginormica, Snox, and Jackielope," the general added just before the door closed shut.

And is was obvious as to which name belonged to which one of them…but they didn't want to believe it. All because of some dumb luck with a meteor, they were thrown in prison for something they had no control of.

What were they going to do now?

Ok, we get it, Sara! You like ta throw hissy-fits! Calm down!

Anyway yeah, if it wasn't already obvious, Sara and Jackie are love interests for Bob and Dr. Cockroach...that being said, I'm sorry to say that there is no OC for Link. I truly am sorry. But don't get me wrong! I still like Link, he's a pretty cool character. What character voiced by Will Arnett isn't cool, anyway? Am I right?

Yeah, you're right. I've babbled on for too long for this chapter.

Until the next chapter, I'm TRikiD, bye-bye!