Chapter 85 - Level B2 By the time my beautiful butterfly wardrobe was finished, the sun was setting and Daddy had challenged Mama to a game of juice pong. Mama was winning, and telling Daddy all about the physics of bouncing ping pong balls between rounds.
Grandpa started sculpting me right away. I like being sculpted, because the chainsaw hitting ice makes sharp little blue pops, and the chips flying everywhere are very cold and I like cold things.
Even though I love being sculpted, I ran off as soon as I could to enlist in the military. They told me I still wasn't old enough. I drew a mustache on my face and tried again, but they still wouldn't let me join so I took a class instead.
Now, the most important thing was to complete all the skill challenges so I could accelerate in the military and not get electrocuted and ruin the dynasty. The only problem was that there were no broken options in the
whole, entire, huge house! Granny Serena enchanted everything to be unbreakable ages ago, and my Daddy fixed anything that broke anyway.
I think there's a big, big vault in the middle of the earth where all the broken objects go for me to fix. That's my other job, besides protecting people--fixing things. Physical things, like radios and sinks, and mental things, like Jerry Hart. That's why I went to check out the little shack next to the trash can and LLAMA that Mama calls a TARDIS.
I jumped in the elevator and hit the lowest button, B2. The elevator was lit with bright orange lights, but they were more gold than orange and I was oranger.
For ages, I had wondered where I would live when I was older. There was nowhere on the surface that could be built on, with the rain problem and my parents taking the only buildable place on the lot. The entire basement level was taken up by the museum.
But there's a basement below a basement, with steam rising from computers and the trickling soft pink sound of water running down onto the wooden floor. And it's wallpapered with butterflies.
I spent hours down in my Vault of Broken Objects (VOBO) for hours, until Mama finally called my cell phone trying to find out where I was. Even when I had to go to bed, the butterflies entered my dreams and showed me what to do next.
The aliens
knew what I had discovered.
Yeah. You can try to fool me, ALIEN. But it's not going to work.
After school, Mama got really mad at me for having bad grades, especially since she made the honor roll on her first day and I still have a C. She was all worried that I would fail school, get a bad trait, and ruin it all for everyone. I felt so sad, especially since her purple turned dark purple and was slashing apart my orange!
To make up for it, she took me out to the Bistro, but then the aliens came in their invisibleness and started choking some fairy guy! Mama rushed over and helped him, while I shouted at the aliens and drove them off.
With everything fixed, Mama started tutoring me so I could make Valedictorian. I don't really care about that, but she told me that the aliens probably didn't want me to be a Valedictorian, which is completely true!
That night, an alien came down with a beanie and mask, wearing stripes of black and white and black and black. She was trying to sabotage the museum by stealing portraits! Grandma Bree heard a noise and got up in the middle of the night, then beat her up and threw her off the property. Grandma Bree is so cool, because she's fiery red and red is close to orange.
I spent the entire weekend on Level B2, which stands for Butterfly 2, which stands for 2 Butterflies, which is me-Butterfly 1 and my someday-husband Butterfly 2.
Mama celebrated her elder birthday across the road at the park, with Daddy.
She's a very pretty elder, but the gray is already closing in on the lilac. No, gray! Stop it! That's my mother you're trying to take!
I got her to dress all in white and lilac, without any gray so that the gray would slow down and the rainbow would stop the gray and turn to more lilac, like with the others!
She and Daddy didn't get started on portraits right away. Instead, Daddy reassured her that she was still the most beautiful woman in the world, and they headed back to their "chambers" for a while. Hehe. "Chambers." Am I right?
She might no longer have access to lingerie, but Daddy joked that they've been married long enough that the flirtiness has been processed out of his system.
Meanwhile, with the Plumbing and Electrician challenges complete, I jumped right into the 10 unique upgrades challenge. With all 10 to be easily completed, I'm shooting for 100% unique upgrades instead!
