My Rebirth as an alien Queen

Episode 29-Taking Barb wrestling.

"How much further?" I questioned Barb after we hit the road heading towards the only park around the area that could get us into New York City. That way we could rest for the night and probably get on a bus and head home to my family, but the problem is...we've got no money, something I haven't had the need to worry about in a very long time.

"Just a few minutes walk and we'll be there. I do remember volunteering to carry you but you immediately turn me down" Barb replied nonchalantly as she kept walking ahead of me, in this situation...I kinda envy her.

"I can't have the passersby looking at us strangely," I told her and she shrugged while she continues walking. We were on the icy road leading away from the forest to the only bus station around and the snow and icy atmosphere wasn't making it any easier for me even though I wasn't carrying anything, Barb was carrying the bag which I think was very helpful, I couldn't imagine myself carrying that bag. We kept walking and after several minutes we finally saw the stand of the station and I felt relief spread over me almost immediately.

"Finally" I breathed and hastened my steps towards the stand but the thing is there wasn't any bus nearby so we probably would have to wait.

"Are you sure we hadn't missed the last bus yet Barb?" I questioned because from her research the last bus in the secluded areas leaves by 77 pm and we had been walking for 3hrs if my calculation was correct, Barb had used several minutes to teach me how to levitate with my powers and I had used that to get us both down the mountain instead of climbing down and we had been walking since but it was starting to get dark now and I guess we lost track of time.

"Actually, there's still some couple of minutes to seven o clock...we should wait" With that, we settled on the only available bench that was under the shade, even though the shade had made a canopy over the bench, it still had snow on them we were left to cleaning it up. I felt really cold and Barb must have noticed that she another jacket from the duffel bag she had been carry and have me wear it.

"Now I'm curious, does Zillion experience winter?" I questioned Barb wanting to satisfy my sudden curiosity.

"Yes, but unlike earth...it lasted a whole year because Zullion is very far from the sun" The news wasn't at all impressive but I was too cold to ask more questions, I started blow breeze into my hands while we wait for the bus to arrive and it took the bus another 45minutes when I was almost frozen though Barb kept doing all she could to keep me warm.

After securing our seats on the bus, we got curious and questioning glances from others in the bus and I started to wonder why they were all suddenly staring at us.

"How will you pay?" The driver finally asked and it skipped my mind that we would have to pay before we settled in but there was a thing I used to avert bus payments sometimes.

"I'm so sorry we'll pay once we reach Central Park, my sister is coming to get us...our ride broke down in the middle of the forest and we were robbed on our way here" I acted as pitiful as I could, I had no idea it'll work but it did. The driver grunted and started the car making me sigh in relief.

"You look cold dear" A grandma across us before suddenly appear in front of me making me flinch as she wrapped a knitted muffler around my neck keeping me warm.

"Thank you so much" I muttered in appreciation as I fixed the piece of clothing properly on my neck, actually...I was expecting my human relationship to turn out horribly but it wasn't that bad, it hadn't been as weird as the first couple of minutes when I found myself sitting in a place full of humans.

"You have a beautiful set of eye,s," The old woman remarked and I smiled glad how beautiful my silver eyes were, well it was better than my former eye colour.

"Thank you" I replied.

"What are you doing here anyway? Only a few workers and tourists are seen around here-

"I'm a student actually, we were here on a research on few forest plants but unfortunately my car broke down...we'll have to come back for it tomorrow" The woman looked surprised at how I talked and I wondered why.

"What about your friend? She looked like she doesn't talk much" The woman noticed and barb slowly turn her head to the woman before flashing her a smile that made me stifle a laugh.

"Actually, I do talk a lot if I want to but I didn't want to barge into your conversation" The woman laughed and kept interrogating us, her questions started to look suspicious when she started to ask about our family and all that but thankfully the car got to our destination and we climbed down.

"I'm so sorry it looks like my sister aren't here yet and I'm not with my phone, do you mind if you could wait a couple of minutes before-

"You don't have to worry about it lady, have a safe trip back home" The man with a bald head and few strands of white hair assured me after I had climbed down from the bus with Barb.

"Thank you so much for the ride" I flashed the man my cutest human-like smile and watched him start the bus and leave before crossing the street we Barb.

"Do you have any idea where you're going?". Barb questioned and I sighed seeing how much have changed since I last visited New York.

"I've been here for years Barb, I studied here...I was a student and I know my way around the place, I was hoping we could lodge at the hotel but we'll need some money, and the thoughts of how to get that money are freaking me out but let's keep walking, there's an underground wrestling ring down that corner behind it is the hotel" I described to Barb and we kept working until we reach the boxing house which many people were rushing in to watch, then a sudden idea occurred to me.

"Barb do you know what wrestling is?" I asked her and she gave me the usual blank face she used to give me when she's surfing something from the internet or looking it up.

"it's a sport where the opponents tried to subdue each other-

"I wasn't asking for a dictionary meaning but glad you got it. You look quite human and you're a machine and a woman at that...we can use you to earn" I sounded a little excited about my idea because I knew it was the best option we've got.

"I don't know what you mean" Barb stated cluelessly but I gave her a cheeky laugh.

"Look up to the rules wrestling and get every information you need to know, we are getting you into the competition down in the ring...no one would want to bet on you of course...they'll underestimate you, that way we can make a lot of money" I draw Barb at the hand and led her down the stairs to the underground which noise blaring was enough to tear the building down but we were stopped by two bouncers who asked us about tickets or buy. Will things ever go our way? I meditated subconsciously trying to come up with a solution until Barb spoke.

"Our names are amongst the VIP names, we have reserved a couple of seats" Barb spoke softly and the other bouncer who was wearing a Mohawk hairstyle and pair of black shades that matched the color of suits raised up his tables and checked our names.

"It only had 45 people on the list, how in the world is it 47" The guy muttered under his breath before glancing at us suspiciously before nodding to the other one.

"Claire and Barb...welcome to Hoho underground ring" He gave us a hard smile and handed us too VIP tickets. I didn't know Barb could manipulate things like that but I was really glad.

"We have to find the person who runs this thing and get you in the rings" I muttered drawing her into the crowd and looking for any administrative nearby.

"His name is Jerry Hawks and he runs the rings, his office is usually down in the hallway opposite the arena" I smiled glad about what I just heard from Barb.

"Let's get you started baby" I smiled mischievously wanting to head down to the office but Barb stopped me.

"But he's always sitting up in the VIP suite upstairs when there's a match and seeing that there's a match going on now, he's probably there watching" I smiled feeling extremely excited about what I just heard and immediately pulled Barb to head towards the stairs...this was going to be so fun.

I was super duper excited for some reason, probably because I was pretty certain that my plan would work. I started to tread the steps with Barb who expression was still blank, she was a robot and hardly show any emotions except when she needed to. After we arrived at the end of the stairs, we meet two other hefty and well-built bouncers whose appearance alone was enough to send me running, but because of Barb’s presence I wasn’t intimidated by their intimidating appearance, they saw the VIP tickets in our hands and immediately let us through.

“Barb, by any chance can you recognise the Jerry guy you mentioned?” I asked Barb who started to look around as if she was actually looking for the guy when in truth she was just running a facial scan or something.

“He’s on the phone seated at the far corner flirting with two girls” Barb immediately reported and I turned sharply to the guy only to give a disgusted look as I slowly walked up to him.

“Hello” I greeted softly and the man frown immediately his eyes fell on us.

“Who are you and what are you doing here?” He looked pissed a little and I’m guessing he knew we shouldn’t be here.

“We made late reservations…we need to talk business” I voiced sounding pretty confident as our eyes met. The man was probably in his early 40’s, he looked scrawny despite the expensive suit and adornments he had on, he had a tattoo on his neck that looked like the shape of an eagle or it was the shape of a flying eagle…there was also few tattoos on the hands he was holding the champagne flute he was drinking from, he had black shades trapped unto the vest he was wearing under his expensive suit, he had earrings on and looked pretty much like a gangster despite his well-styled raven hair, he was staring at me in bewilderment until he finally found his voice.

“What?!” He asked somewhat shocked by how I just talked.

“We want to talk business, apparently my…” I turned to Barb not knowing what to acknowledge her as but later settled for something that fit everything she does.

“My assistant would like to be in the ring” The man scoffed almost immediately then directed his eyes to the big guys behind us and they walked towards us startling me by their sudden appearance behind us. One of them held my hands intending to carry me up and I guess their boss instructed them to throw us out but Barb was a little outraged by their actions and immediately grabbed the hand that held her and twisted it swiftly to the back earning a cry of pain from the guy. Then Barb landed him a punch in the middle of the face breaking his nose…ow, I thought scrunching my nose up a little as if I was the one that felt the impact.

“Take your hands off her” Barb gritted grabbing the guy's hands that were placed on me and hitting it by the joint, I think I heard a bone breaking. The hefty man in black vest and shade let out an extremely loud scream that kinda startled me because I must admit, that was a pretty loud scream. Then we turned back to Jerry who was shocked by Barb’s performance but still scoffed then smirk.

“Pretty confident huh?” He laughed maniacally and grabbed the speaker from behind him.

“Attention everyone…the ring has just been earned…we would now have a new member in the ring with one of my best fighters, scorpion…he will be facing the fighter named…”

“What’s your name, baby girl?” Jerry questioned with a mischievous smile on his lips.

“Barb” Barb simply replied with her face giving off no emotion at all, I wonder how her blank face could be maintained like that.

“With a fighter name Barb, lets the bets begin” Murmurs rose into the air and everyone practically started screaming.

“Don’t you think you need to change young lady” The man eyed Barb with excitement which looked pretty vulgar to me, might be because I knew better than anyone that Barb was a robot and the lustful glances Jerry was giving her kinda nauseate me, Barb stared at the Zullion short dress and tight pants she had changed to before we started our journey to New York wondering what was wrong with it before turning to me for decision.

“She will fight like that, thank you for your concern” I replied and Barb turned back to Jerry who scoffed and shove us off, take these stairs down to get introduced into the arena, you can cheer her death at the back of the stage” Jerry laughed devilishly and I rolled my eyes at him while I slowly lead Barb down the stairs where we arrived where most of the fighters were, there were few injured ones and they were men built like gladiators chatting merrily until their eyes fell on us and I knew they were wondering what our presence was in the place, it looked like a locker room since there were so many lockers fixed to the wall.

“The scorpion everybody” The announcer in the ring seems to be introducing Barb’s opponent and that was the only time I started to panic.

“Are you gonna be okay? Are you fully charged? You sure you can do this?” I rained questions on Barb completely nervous about my decision.

“You don’t have to worry about me, right now I have 95% battery left, you have nothing to worry about, I have learnt all the vital points on humans and I can quickly take them out. Besides I’m a machine and I have the hardest steel on Zullion as bones, you have no need to be worried, I know you have to do this so you can get back to your parents and my duty is to do whatever you want, that is my main purpose Claire, you have nothing to worry about” Barb assured me with her expression still blank, even though she was a machine and would hardly feel any pain, I still feel very bad.

“Barb, you’re up!” The announcer announced and Barb immediately headed towards the exit door moving out and climbing down few steps before stepping into the arena which was surrounded by dozens of people who had come to watch the show. The fighting arena was circular and raised above the audience floor, it was demarcated by the metal net which I guess was probably to keep any of the fighters from falling out. I heaved a heavy sigh and watched as Barb rose confidently into the arena…I hope it wasn’t a terrible idea to make her do this.

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