Alex Quest (WORK IN PROGRESS!)

Chapter 3: Male or Female? Nope! It's Mail (part 1)

(Yes this is a 2 parted, this chapter and chapter 4... Also I used google translate because I don't know Italian. I might use it later in the story but so far as of writing, I am unsure.)

Alex entered the CrossOver PentHouse's waiting room, glaring at the flower patterned wallpaper and red carpeting, and she saw sunky, sprinting around the room, zooming around at the speed of sound. A soft and warm smile formed on her pale skinned face 'ah to be youthful again...' she pondered. Sunky ran up to her, "Hello miss Alex!" Sunky barked happily. "Heya Sunky! I got you something!" Alex smiled. Sunky bounced like a rubber ball, "Oooh... What is it?" he inquired curiously. Alex reached into her bag and pulled
out the milk and cereal she bought. Sunky gasped gladly, and pulled Alex into a big bear hug, "Omgosh omgosh omgosh!! Thanks Miss Alex!!" the little blue hedgehog squealed in joy. Alex chuckled, "No problem, Kiddo!". Sunky let go and ran off. Alex simply chuckled at the quick little hedgehog, "Kids will be kids..." she whispered to herself.

Alex waltzed into the mail room, seeing the birch wood walls, and the violet carpeting. As she walked around, she heard a voice, loud, masculine, bit slightly high in pitch. To her, she immediately knew who it was, "Hey hey, lady!" the voice scathed like nails on a chalkboard. Alex turned to see a creature, about half of her height, around 3 or 3"5, with scarlet skin, some sharp teeth, and big eyebrows. It was a fire creature of the Mixels species, apart of the infernite tribe, well known for their fire powers. Alex scoffed, "Damn it, zorch! What the fuck do you want?!", zorch would annoy and prank the short-fused red-head. The creature chuckled, "Oh relax, Allie-pooh, I just-" "Shut the fuck up. I'm running errands and I have to get Majin's mail." Alex hissed sweetly in a supressed yet surprisingly sarcastic sounding voice.

"Jeez, you could have told me when you walked through." Zorch scoffed, trying to discreetly annoy Alex. Alex's fuse was starting to light... "Anyway yes I got Majin's package!" Zorch chuckled. There was a definingly deafening silence between the two. "Well ain't ya gonna hand it over?" Alex questioned, "Are ya gonna say please?" Zorch asked in a slight sing-song tone, like he wanted Alex to get mad. "Please..." Alex growled angrily. Her short-fused temper was not lasting her long. Zorch grinned, "Say, they couldn't let me run around because of the spewing flames from my back! The building inspectors said it was a 'Fire Hazard' and 'An OSHA violation'. Seems lame that people don't account me for a need for speed, ri-"

At that point, Alex snapped, her eyes filled with rage! Smoke was coming of the top of her head, her ears whisked as steam flew and spun out! Alex had flipped her lid! She turned around swiftly, and yelled at Zorch, "I AM FUCKING TIRED OF YOUR SHIT!" Zorch looked peeved, "Well looks like somebody is having a tem-" "NO! I do not give two whole-hearted fucks about how 'uNcOoL' and 'LAmE' you think this shit is. THEY ARE TRYING TO PREVENT OTHER PEOPLE FROM GETTING HURT, OR EVEN FUCKING DYING, FROM YOUR SELFISH, FIRE-THROWING, SPEED-ADDICTED SELF! I am so sick and tired of your narcissistic behaviours and tom-fuckery! NOBODY. GIVES. A FUCK ABOUT IT!" Alex loudly puffed out, her face red, bright like a neon sign, steam still pulsing out of her ears. Zorch looked generally shocked, then his face drooped into a surprisingly sad glare. Even though he was Alex's annoyance, even his expression made her feel exceedingly low.

"I- huh. That was... Kinda harsh, Al. Even for someone like you. Heh... and you're one of the more harsher people I know. Maybe- maybe we truly are enemies." He sighed sadly in a monotone sounding voice, looking downwards at the floor, gloom and doom forming into his voice with every word. Alex's expression went from that of an enraged chihuahua to a sad puppy. She felt remorse for the one who angered her the most. "Damn... I guess that I was a bit too harsh on ya. Sorry, Zorch." She apologized, hugging him. She realized that something was missing. She opened her eyes, and felt the top of her head. "I got your hat, lady! Hahahahaha-!" Zorch laughed. He was about to run away, but he ran into another mixel... It was at this moment that Zorch knew... He messed up.

The mixel was taller than Zorch, taller than Alex, in fact. They were different shades of green, and had a green slime on his legs. His expression was not impressed, he looked angrier than an enraged lion. "Oh... H-hey Gurggle. How ya doin'?" Zorch asked. Gurggle was a good friend of alex, and was apart of the Glorp Corp tribe, who's powers were slime based. "Don't 'How ya doin'?' me! I know what you tried to pull, I've seen it before." Gurggle reckoned, his eyes piercing into Zorch's soul like cold daggers piercing into one's chest. "What'cha talkin' about? I wasn't doin' anything!" Zorch lied confidently. His voice was shaking in his throat. His own fear had ratted him out. Gurggle face-palmed and sighed in a mildly furrowing frustration "Per l'amor del cazzo (for fuck's sake)... Listen, that hat is like an heirloom to her." Gurggle explained, the anger in his voice, rising like the mercury in a thermometer. Zorch blinked, stared at the hat, then laughed. His laughter flew across the room, in different directions. Alex over heard this and looked at him with a slight scrunched look to her face. "This stupid hat?! An heirloom?! Hah! You're joking!" Zorch laughed, still having the hat within his hands. Gurggle looked slightly mad. To see his friends angry sparked an entire bomb of emotions for him.

"Damn it you idiot! She kept that hat ever since she worked at Freddy's Pizza in 87! There were multiple complaints of people dying and one guy lost his frontal lobe! Do you know the possibilities that she could have died?!" Gurggle scolded, his tone at a rise like yeast. Zorch looked shocked. "Wow. I never knew... You were friends with an old hag! Hah! This is hilarious! Shouldn't she be in a retirement home by now? I can not believe she worked at the same pizza company for more than a week! She really is stupid!" Zorch laughed in a mildly mean-spirited manner. Gurggle turned to Alex. Alex looked like she was at the verge of tears, her eyes watering like a fountain. She tried to hide it, but the pipes were already flowing out. As zorch continued to laugh, crystal clear tears streamed from Alex's emerald eyes, which were now darker than the night sky. Her tears continued to run down her face, as she softly whimpered and sobbed.

This made Gurggle upset. His friends were like family, he cared for his friends and family equally, "Nessuno scherza con la mia famiglia! (Nobody messes with my family!)" Gurggle screamed, and picked up Zorch and took the hat back, "You hurt my friend's feelings! My friends are like family to me! And nobody messes with my family!" He yelled in a fury. Alex saw this, and was starting to have the rain cloud from her emotions clear up. Zorch was nervously shaken, "Hey hey, can we ta-" Before Zorch could say anything else, Gurggle threw him into one of the postal empty bins. "Ow..." Zorch groaned.

"He shootz, he scorez! TEN POINTZZZZZ!" Yelled a yellow mixel, purple finger tips, and yellow frizzy hair, electric sparks flew from him. "Talk about a score, eh Volectro? Hehe." Another mixel nudged, it was another infernite, but with slight horns, yellow cat shaped ears, "You sure said it, Burnard!" Volectro remarked, "I thought it was ✨Fabulous~✨" Sung a cycloptic bat mixel, with a sparkle in his eye. "That's good to hear, Globert, hehe" chuckled burnard. "Well are ya gonna help me?! This hurts..." Zorch groaned, still in pain, "Nope! Sorry, that'zzz none of my business" "Hehe, nah" "Hmm... Sorry but my schedule is booked, can't help ya!". Zorch sighed out, as he slightly welled up from the slightly unbearable pain, "God damnit".

Gurggle handed Alex her hat, a somber yet concerned smile formed onto his face, and he wiped her tears of, "You alright?" He questioned in a gentle whisper whilst caressing the crimson stands of hair that bounced as he played with them. Alex nodded boldly yet soft, "Yeah, I'm fine," "Good. I don't like it when people are mean to my friends. I care for my friends much like I care for my family, so that is why I am protective of you. I see you more than just a friend... I see you as family." Gurggle smiled softly, hugging Alex. Alex hugged back, as her somber smile slowly creeped into joy. "Thanks, Gurgg, I don't know where I would be without a kind soul like you." Alex spoke softly. Alex stopped hugging, "Welp, I better get on going! These errands ain't gonna do themselves!" Alex giggled. She waved goodbye, "Stay safe, Al!" Gurggle beamed, waving goodbye as well, as Alex rushed to the elevator to head to her next task...