The End; Long Way Down Part 3

The Power Team escorted me to Ford's Theatre, and I anxiously waited at what they called the "drop zone". I was told to get into this teal bag and wait for that little green girl, oh-sorry-I mean Elphaba, to pick me up.











The wait seemed to last forever...but as soon as I heard someone call "15 Minutes" over a loudspeaker, Elphaba started flying down from the 3rd floor, singing that song about gravity that she always seems to be singing...























She picked me up and I started my ascension-back to Danielle, back to my former life. This whole ordeal was finally over.












Meanwhile, at a bar in Arlington, The power Team, Blue, and Beige drown their sorrows of missing Barbie...













And one last thing....
Elphaba stowed away with SGS's knapsack to arrive back in the land that Barbie just so desperately escaped. She was sick of being different than the other Barbies, and could never fit in in their world, so she thought that this parallel universe that Barbie was in sounded much more like home to her...

"God....what happened here?!", she thought. Suddenly, a blueish man appeared from behind a rock...













"Hello little lady! My name is Apocalypse...I understand you to be the one that they call Elphaba...am I correct?"
"Yes, sir."
















"Well, my dear, why don't you walk with me. I have a business proposition for you...I see a little bit of me in you, my dear..."

Barbie: Homecoming

Well, after I cleaned up and put my old clothes back on, The Power Team escorted me to destination knapsack. It was time to say my goodbyes...











Power Team told me that I would be delivered to Ford's Theatre, and that I would await air transport from the second floor to the 3rd. Elphaba would arrange for my pick up. They said that I would be hoisted into the air in the same bag that the Power Team was released in.














It was time to say my goodbyes to Beige and Blue...I felt like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz..."Without you two, I would never be getting to go home. I'll never be able to thank you enough.", I cried.














"Everyone needs a little fairy in their life from time to time...", Beige said.
I kissed them both, and climbed up into destination:knapsack with the Power Team.














I turned to wave goodbye one more time, and now I am off. Danielle, I will see you soon!

The End; Long Way Down Part 2

They arrived at the SLA headquarters to find a scene of desertion. John Doe signs were left everywhere.



"What do you think happened?", Beige said.
"I don't know, but I have a strange feeling that the whole DOE movement is over. Look at this...John Does a Fake...that says it all, huh? He did a fake somehow...", Barbie said.











"Look down there! John Doe posters all in a clump. Guess they gave up on the whole revolution.", Barbie said.






She never would know who previously was left for dead in that stack of posters, who now seemed to be missing.
As she said earlier, toys don't stay dead.








"Well...now that this seems to be all over, I guess I need to find my way home! Power Team, I know that you are now, after spending time with Dolly Parton Barbie, Heidi Blickenstaff Barbie, and Elphaba Barbie, that you are Barbie sympathisers...can you get me back to my Danielle?", Barbie asked.






"Not before you take a bath and we get you back in order, toots!", Beige said.







They took me back to their flat again, and drew me a bubble bath. The Power Team stood guard outside the door. I relaxed for the first time in weeks and thought about my reunion with Danielle and the other Barbies. It has been a long abduction.










I know that I lost myself in fury and anger for awhile, and went to a dark place, but I have found perspective again, thanks to Buddha... and now realize that while Apocalypse's actions were wrong, his motives were valid. It is hard to be a toy that was loved with a passion for a short time, and then put into inactive status in storage. You are left wondering why you are not important anymore, and what you did to warrant this treatment. But you must always keep in mind that your owners never have stopped loving you. They are always fond of your memory, and if you are lucky, will pull you out every once in awhile to relive your former adventures. Apocalypse was being loved by his owner, even as he rebelled, and didn't even realize it.
Even if I go back to Danielle, who is almost off to college, I know that if she doesn't take me with her, I will take a much needed break at home, and will be happy to play with her some other day.
All toys live another day. Storage sucks, but we always come back...we are seldom just thrown away. We are sold, or given away to other children, but we never die.








I sighed a sigh of relief, knowing that I would be with my Danielle in a few hours...

The End; Long Way Down

The Power Team arrived at the tower of Buddha just as Barbie and Blue and Beige were about to climb down...












"EEEE! Get her!", Dick said.
"She's dead, don't worry.", Tom said.








"Don't be so sure...toys don't ever seem to stay dead...", Barbie said.
"BARBIE!!!" Tom and Dick exclaimed...Harry seemed surprised too, but being a mute, just arched his eyebrows to prove it.











"I should go over there and finish her off...might as well kill her while I have the chance..", Barbie said, almost shivering with anger.
"I think you should calm down, sweets.", Blue said...
"Do you want a muscle relaxer?", Beige offered.
Buddha manifested himself at the bottom of his own tower again in the form of a pug dog...
"Barbie...you have gone too far into the dark side. You must pull out and reclaim your innocence again. You have found your inner strength, yes, but at costs that exceeded my expectations...no, these toys are not truly dead, but they will be for a period of time, and your wanton massacre of them with glee is a bit disturbing. I am a peaceful deity, and feel responsible for giving you the magic club to murder. I thought that you would just knock them out with it, not impale and deliver deadly head blows!"












"I am so sorry, Buddha...you are right...I never should have killed as many toys as I have...I just knew that they would kill me if I didn't, and more than anything, I just want to leave this strange land and get back home to Danielle before she goes off to college. I'm sure that she misses me. Nothing but death can keep me from her...", Barbie sobbed.








Buddha gave Barbie a kiss.
"I know, little lady. I understand your pain. But it is all over now, as you soon will see. The Power Team will get you back to your beloved owner, and I am just saying that you have been through a lot, and I want you to cling to the remains of that old innocent Barbie that you were when you first arrived here. I know that it is hard, but you have to find the old "Dance and Flex" Barbie again, instead of the "Kill and Impale" Barbie that you have become in the past 24 hours. And, I think I'll take this back now...", Buddha said.












Buddha took back the magic club chew stick, and then turned back into the statue of his Deity origin. Barbie, Beige, Blue, and the Power Team all headed back to SLA Headquarters.

Battle Ground: Part 5; Tools and Talent

Beige and Blue managed to shake the Queen off by giving her the cold shoulder, a trick they found always worked well when battling Queens. They climbed the tower to the bloody battle ground, and noticed all of the hammers, hatchets and shovels...
"Look at all the tools!", Blue said. And with that, they collected them and headed back to the Tower of Buddha...

















They reached the other side and laid the tools out neatly. Biege yelled, "Barbie-we brought you some tools










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"You two are super sweet! Also just in the nick of time...this magic stick seems to have lost it's powers...maybe I killed too many people with it?!"
"Has he hurt you?", Blue asked.
"Oh no, we have just been staring at each other defiantly for the past 5 minutes."













"Oh, Blondie....care to bury the hatchet???"





















It was a direct hit! She began throwing tools in a frenzy!


















She reached for the shovel and finished him off...





















She heaved her breath and stood upright.










She was a vindicated and free woman. She would be no one's toy.














"Boys...let's get out of here. It's time we paid a visit to the SLA headquarters..."

Meanwhile, somewhere else in the Forrest...

The power team was released from captivity in the hands of Elphaba, and were rushing back from Ford's to SGS's house by stowing away in his knapsack. They had finally arrived in the back yard, and were in hot pursuit of Barbie...








"I think we should go this way", Tom said...














"Sounds good to me!" Dick said...












Harry is a mute, and therefore said nothing...
and so they were off towards the distant tower of Buddha...

The Final Rally...Part Two

The SLA meeting had fallen to pieces. There was indignation permeating the crowd, as all of them wondered if the revolution that they had planned was based off of anything more than a lie...
Apocalypse was beside himself...He told his men that there were two John Doe's now. One that had to stay, and one that had to go. The poster in your hand, you must leave behind, and follow me. I'm going to commit suicide by jumping off of a glass yard table...a tall one.



He neared the ledge and all of a sudden, there seemed to be bright light from below. Wind sounds pervaded the air, although it had not been windy a minute before...






"Don't do this! This is stupid!" the Red Headed Skeletor said to Apocalypse...

"If I don't then this would all have been for nothing. I can make it all come true..."










He took the first step...



And plunged to his death...



The rest of them neared the edge in silence, John Doe sign held tight in their hands...


Mumbles fainted, but what do you expect from a man wearing a pink suit
Suddenly Red Headed Skeletor broke the silence...

"This is really stupid, folks. Can't we just go grab a few beers and get a pizza?"










They all agreed and threw their John Doe signs down to join the other John Doe who felt like he had to go...











Red Headed Skeletor said, "This whole thing was pretty gay to begin with...I mean...not that there's anything wrong with that...but it was a revolution based on a few songs we heard from a musical...what's up with that?"


With that, he hefted his sign over the edge as well.





















"What's the next evil scheme, Skeletor?", Magneto asked...












"Dunno, Maggie. But now that all of this is over, we got a whole summer to think about it...for now, let's just go grab a cold one."