STAR WARS: HYPERFORCE ALLIANCE Archive 2 by JediKnightJames23, literature
Literature
STAR WARS: HYPERFORCE ALLIANCE Archive 2
Archive 2: The Moonlit Duel over the Shuggazoom Bridge Part 2 Indigo and orange fires flashed against purple as James made contact with the Reaper's katana, wind lashing up to sweep his hair sharply, he re-orientated his posture summoning strength in the force to jump over the Reaper and land a strike from behind, with his azure eyes blazing with the fury of a ill-provoked Wookiee striving to protect it’s young in this case being his apprentice, but even that was easily countered with the Reaper who simply turned precisely blocking with an over the shoulder guard before slamming against the Jedi to break some distance.With that, James t...
In the kingdom of Rohta, it was now midday. Deep in the Viridian Forest, Siegfried chopped some firewood with his elbow blades. He then heard his wife approaching from behind. Starlet, how much more wood do you think we need? The Gardevoir giggled, To be honest, weve had enough to get through winter for several months now! She then looked over her husbands blue colorations. Every now and then, I mistake your blue areas for the sky. The Gallade laughed, You think so? When I see my reflection in water, I sometimes dont see myself for a moment!After gathering up the firewood and placing it in a neat pile near their cottage, Siegfri...
Written by Toolbaz AI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijinomatsubara
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Samurai Legends: The Battle of Nijinomatsubara
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In the lush fields of Nijinomatsubara, where ancient pines intertwined with paradise as the wind carried the faintest scent of salt from the nearby Karatsu coast, peace reigned. This serene atmosphere, however, was far from tranquility for the Samurai Rangers. The vibrant tranquility of their surroundings belied the strategic dark lurking beneath the greenery.
A sudden tremor shook the ground, causing bright leaves to flutter down like confetti in celebration of an unwelcome guest. Emerging from the shadows of the forest, the Green Bean Monster sloshed toward the heart of the town, gobs of putrid, yucky slime trailing behind like an army of uninvited pests. The locals screamed and fled, looking for cover from the monstrous vegetable villain. Yet, the Samurai Rangers, clad in their color-coded armor, quickly gathered in front of the onlooking townsfolk.
"That's one disgusting monster!" exclaimed Jayden, the Red Ranger, his voice steady despite the menace before them.
"I bet he thinks he's the king of the garden," added Kevin, the Blue Ranger, recalibrating his sword in a defensive stance.
"More like the king of slime! Let's take him down!" shouted Mia, the Pink Ranger, her grip on her weapon tightening as she prepared for battle.
The Green Bean Monster, towering ominously above them, roared with laughter, thick, oily green slime dripping from his mouth as he unleashed an onslaught of laser attacks from his beady eyes, streaking like serpents through the air.
"Watch out!" shouted Mike, the Green Ranger, who gracefully somersaulted to the side as one of the laser blasts exploded against a tree, leaving a charred mark on its bark.
The Rangers sprang into action, united in their courage.
"Samurai Strike!" Jayden commanded, leading the charge with his sword shimmering under the sunlight. One by one, the Rangers followed suit, their weapons twirling through the air artistically, merging their technique into a fluid dance of combat.
The Green Bean Monster retaliated by summoning a cascade of slime, aiming to incapacitate the Rangers. The gooey substance splattered against the ground, splashing up and covering the team with a distinctly unflattering green hue.
"We need to clean this up fast before it suffocates us!" shouted Emily, the Yellow Ranger, as she used her agility to dodge the monster's attacks.
As their punches, kicks, and sword strikes met with slimy resistance, the Rangers quickly discovered that traditional tactics would not suffice against this uniquely grotesque foe.
"This isn't working!" Kevin yelled as the Green Bean Monster unleashed yet another wave of laser blasts.
"We need to combine our strength!" shouted Mia, rallying her comrades together. “Rangers, to me!”
With a collective nod, the Samurai Rangers regrouped.
"Brace yourselves!" Jayden bellowed, drawing upon the elemental powers bestowed upon them. "Samurai Sword—release!"
Flashes of elemental energy surged as they drew strength from the earth, sending pulses of power coursing through each Ranger. Holding their weapons high, they created an outage of energy that spiraled and coalesced into a single beam, directed toward the Green Bean Monster. The concentrated power resonated in the air, a symphony of their determination.
However, the Green Bean Monster retaliated with a thick, dripping shield of slime that absorbed their attack, augmenting his form. With a laugh that reverberated through the trees, the monster swelled in size, growing larger than the tallest pine tree in Nijinomatsubara.
"MegaZord time!" shouted Mike, his voice filled with determination.
The Rangers, undeterred by the sheer size of their opponent, activated their transformation sequence. Commands were exchanged in rapid succession as each Ranger hopped into their Zord. The earth trembled beneath the boots of the mighty Samurai MegaZord as it rose to meet the monstrous green threat.
"Let's show him what we’re made of!" Jayden commanded, now seated in the cockpit of the Samurai MegaZord, surveying the towering form of their adversary.
With metallic precision, the Samurai MegaZord charged, its massive sword gleaming like the sunrise. The Green Bean Monster, unfazed, unleashed a frenzy of laser attacks, scoring direct hits on the MegaZord's chest plates.
"Shields up!" called Kevin as he switched the power distribution, redirecting energy to absorb the blasts.
Across the cockpit, the Rangers coordinated their move. “Samurai Rocket!” shouted Emily, as the gargantuan robot shot off a dazzling projectile from its shoulder, rocketing toward the Green Bean Monster, detonating upon impact with a glorious explosion.
Yet, the monster, angry and now slinging bolts of green slime, retaliated, making direct hits against the MegaZord, causing sparks to fly and alarms to blare inside the cockpit.
"Keep pushing!" shouted Mia, adrenaline fueling her resolve. “We have to finish this!”
Jayden maneuvered the MegaZord deftly, dodging attacks while searching for an opportunity.
Finally, as the Green Bean Monster paused, momentarily bewildered by their coordinated attacks, Jayden seized the moment. “Now! Samurai Slash!” he commanded.
The Samurai MegaZord’s sword glowed with raw energy as it swung downward in an arc of brilliant light. The blade struck true, cleaving through the monster's green exterior, the immense force sending shockwaves through the earth.
With a final, resounding screech that echoed through the enchanted Nijinomatsubara forest, the Green Bean Monster imploded in a shower of foul, green slime, rain drenching the earth before dissipating into the air.
Sweeping victory and calm descended onto the lands. The Rangers emerged from the cockpit, victorious smiles plastered on their faces as they surveyed the remnants of their triumph, nuggets of green mush lining the streets.
“Another monster defeated!” Kevin cheered, the sounds of triumphant laughter ringing through the air as they celebrated.
“Let’s not forget to help these people clean up,” Emily chimed, surveying the debris and slime scattered everywhere.
With the peaceful waters of Karatsu twinkling in the distance, the Samurai Rangers embraced their responsibility, unified not just in battle against evil but also in nurturing hope within their community—a legacy fitting for defenders of built on honor, courage, and might.
As the sun sank behind the horizon, painting the sky in shades of orange, the Rangers readied themselves for whatever challenge came next, embedded in the spirit of samurai warriors, forever protecting the realms beyond.
Upside Down Regression 21 by beeserious7, literature
Literature
Upside Down Regression 21
Nancy Wheeler has seen her daddy angry before but this was on a new level. He wasn’t throwing stuff around or yelling loudly even. Just pure seething rage bubbling underneath a facade of control.
“There is one thing I just hate in this life, could you idiots guess it…. No well lemme tell you.” Henry Creel sneered grabbing a hold of Nancy’s ear. She cried out in pain as he slowly pulled on it. “Daddy please…I can explain.”
“You told me they knew nothing…but here they are what explanation? Like the one about you lying to me.
He turned to address the others as well. “She could tell you too that I hate trespassers the most of all but please stay seated till we have an understanding. And how many times do I have to teach you the same thing.” Henry yelled out, sending shivers down the others as well.
“ANSWER ME!!” he back handedly slapped Nancy when she stayed quiet.
The force of the slap threw her to the ground, Nancy held her stinging face trying to say something in fear. “I-I-I ca-ca-can…” rest of her words getting lost in her cries.
Henry forcefully grabbed her chin to halt her stuttering “Stop yammering and give me a straight answer.”
“I am sorry.” Nancy just sobbed out.
“You dare come home with them and not even bring them to me.” he pulled Nancy by her arm to drag her to the centre of the room. There was a lone chair in the middle, where he took a seat making sure Nancy was laid on his lap.
“Remember what I always say, naughty girls gets punished. Well this time I am taking it upon myself to fully instill it personally.” Henry growled.
When he removed her belt, the implication immediately riled up the tied up teens even more trying to free themselves from their bindings. Heather Holloway gotten a hold of Chrissy Cunningham’s hand and even Billy Hargrove’s shirt to lead them out the dining room, knowing whats about to happen would be triggering for them.
“I think you need atleast fifty hits what you say pet.” Henry said as he slowly caressed Nancy’s back with the belt making her shiver in fear “I need a verbal confirmation or your friends will experience my delicate vines first hand.” hearing his threat Nancy immediately yelled out to keep her friends safe from any harm.
“No I deserve it Daddy.”
“Why do you deserve it my little one be specific?” Henry authoritatively asked.
“Didn’t come home…..like a naughty girl.”
Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley witnessing the horrific scene were reminded of all the times, Nancy nearly had an anxiety attack just thinking about disobeying. They always just assumed Nancy was over exaggerating a bit like a kid would do but never imagined physical abuse. Unlike them Eddie Munson was use to a very abusive father, it broke his heart seeing Nancy go through that.
Finally getting the gag off her mouth Robin yelled out. “Nancy wanted to come to you, we didn’t let her please don’t hit her.”
Robin’s sudden confession stopped Henry “Is that true, they didn’t let you come to me.”
Nancy fervently nodded her head, agreeing with the truth. “No lies, I don’t lie to Daddy.”
He clicked his fingers for Cerberus to come running into the dining room. When he stopped in its tracks Henry touched its forehead to get its testimony. “Tell me mutt is she telling the truth?” The demodog let out series of roars meaning of if it were unknown to the rest. But this seemed to kill some of the fire in Henry’s eyes.
“I see apparently you did tell them few times, and even considered riding him here. Daw isn’t that sweet, almost makes me wanna spare you from this. But almost isn’t good enough….what am I gonna do with my still naive little one. This is still not saving you from your spanking so how about just ten only and you count them.”
Steve got his gag of his mouth to yell. “She didn’t do anything wrong why still spank her?”
His eyes darkened hearing his arrogance. “You incompetent fool can’t even look after her, so I suggest you take some pointers from me.” he yelled addressing the tied up teen. “She needs to understand actions still have consequences which was your fault too so watching it is part of your many tortures tonight.”
“You don’t care about her.” Steve growled in anger; in anger of the inescapable situation they were in; in anger of knowing this monster is the reason for all the tragedies they endured and worst of all in anger of Vecna claiming he was a caring father when he is about to beat up Nancy. His outburst did had the vines tighten around his body cutting out his air supply.
“Daddy stop please…Its my fault.” Nancy begged seeing Steve’s face going alarmingly red.
Henry roughly gotten a hold of her chin, to forcefully make her look into his eyes. “Are you protecting him?!”
“Not..worth….your…effort.” Nancy said the angle making her gasp for air.
After a brief staring contest Henry let out a breathy laugh, loosening the vines. “You are right, he isn’t actually. Sometimes I overthink these, see thats why I need you.”
“Also what did I tell you about pants you are too young for them.” He continued to berate her further, adjusting her on his lap after removing her pants and diaper leaving her bare bottom. Then without any warning Henry brought down his hand to spank her.
“One.” she squeaked out in surprise.
“Good but you need to be louder baby.” Henry said continuing his spanking.
“Two.” Nancy yelled loudly.
Unlike Karen’s, his hits were much more painful and relentless. Making Nancy lose her pain tolerance even faster. By the time she said seven, she was in tears again barely keeping up with the pace. The others helplessly watched as Nancy brutally get smacked by Vecna.
“Seven..no eight.” She fumbled suddenly when Henry hit her again.
“Baby you repeated a number, you know that means.” Henry said in a sing song tone.
“ONE….start over” she yelled out as he hit again, cannot believing she has to go through that again.
By the time she came to number eight, she again slipped up to instead repeat seven.
“Oh I think you repeated the same number, we have to redo this. Good thing that I didn’t want to do thirty if you can’t even go beyond seven.” Henry said in a disappointed tone.
“Not again…not again.” Nancy pleaded, drool running down her chin as she coughed between her sobs.
“Sorry but rules are rules, lets start from number one again.” Henry started his hard spanks again much quicker then last time to ensure she would skip a number.
After Nancy started repeating the sequence again, she no longer just yelled the numbers out she was screaming them.
“Baby you are really fumbling your numbers today, do we need to work on them? Lets start from one again, this time remember eight comes after seven.” Henry fake pouted, internally knowing he is making her repeat them. He raised his hand to bring it down on her now red raw bottom again.
“ONE..!”
“You remember this when you think about disobeying me again.” Henry said as he spanked.
“TWO…yes no more.”
“Tell me little one who do you belong to?”
“THREE…You!”
“Again just for my own amusement.” he pushed bringing down his hand to smack harder.
“FOUR…..You only you.” She chocked out her voice feeling sore from all the yelling.
 
Finally Henry let her finish this session by letting her go beyond seven. "Te- te- ten-" she sobbed finishing after her fourth try, flopping like boneless sack. Her back was littered with red and purple bruises with some bleeding out. Her crying had became even more erratic when Henry started rubbing on them.
“I want you to know this is hurting me more then you, do you think I enjoy seeing you like this?” Henry said “I asked you a question answer me?” he yelled spanking her one last time when she couldn’t get any words out from crying. The sudden pain again had Nancy stammering out. “Yo-Yo-You don’t.”
He lifted her up to cradle her in his lap, making shushing noises till her sobs subsided. “There there its over now.” Henry took out a napkin to clean the drool, and snot of her face. Nancy let out another wail, just crying out till she had no more tears left.
“Are you all better now?” Henry asked after a while once her hiccups turned silent.
“Yes daddy.” Nancy mumbled emotionlessly her thumb going into her mouth reflexively to suck on to soothe herself.
“My poor baby, because of them I gotta punish you constantly.” Henry contemplated giving the teens the side eye.
“Why hurt?” Nancy questioned for once, thinking what Max told her last night her voice sounding very hoarse from all the screaming.
Henry harshly gotten hold her face to look directly into her eyes, making her feel tinier then she already was.
“Who is putting such ideas into your tiny head?” Henry sneered at the implications.
“No one.” Nancy shook her head not wanting to also put Max in trouble.
Henry let out a deep breath, 360 degrees opposite of his attitude before he hugged her closer to his chest. “I do this because I love you very much. You wouldn’t learn otherwise, now you know what not to do.” He sweetly cooed into her ear, kissing her curls making her associate his punishment as part of his loving persona. His plan working as Nancy tried to desperately hold on to his words for comfort to offset the pain radiating of her bottom. Even worse was the sudden urge to pee she’s gotten. Without a diaper, it was a ticking time bomb of her wetting on him which would end with her being punished worse then before.
“Why are you squirming around, does your bottom sting that badly? Use your big voice.” Henry asked innocently acting like he doesn’t know what she needs.
Nancy continued to squirm more on his lap, her cheeks blushing feeling embarrassed about the situation. “Uhm need to go potty.”
“Baby I am so sorry, unfortunately I don’t want to waist a diaper immediately let me bring you something else. Just wait here a bit okay.”
“No no go.” Nancy pulled on his arms as he tried to get up.
Henry was about to yell at her but then he realized she currently has nothing other then a shirt on. “You don’t want the naughty boys to see you naked. Thats on me just hold on I got a solution.” he said clicking his fingers. Vines wrapped around Eddie and Steve’s eyes, only leaving Robin to witness.
“Now wait here and don’t have an accident.” Henry warned as he left the dining room.
Nancy could not even open her eyes in shame and pain, she just hugged her knees to her chest avoiding eye contact with Robin. Even with the sudden silence Robin’s ears were still ringing with Nancy’s constant wails. She just wanted to comfort the still distressed teen, even with the mouth gag, she tried to communicate that it was going be okay. Unfortunately her mumblings were mostly incoherent affirmations but it got Nancy to look into her eyes. Robin could see the tears streaming down Nancy’s cheeks wanting nothing more to just wipe them but instead she could only project its okay wordlessly. Nancy seeing Robin”s efforts tried to give her a smile, but soon after her face scrunched in pain again.
After that Henry came back to the room, with an oversized plastic potty to Nancy’s horror, which he placed it next to chair.
“I was gonna wait for your potty training to use this but I guess its good time as any.” Henry said picking Nancy up to be seated on the hollow plastic.
“Here use this before I change you into new clothes and a diaper.”
Nancy looked petrified sitting on the potty, diapers were one thing but this was having no privacy at all. She didn’t want Robin to see her like this, even though Robin is always so understanding.
After some time Henry walked closer to her, she now was holding on to the handle on the front of the potty tightly in fear. “Go on I am not waiting all day, you know what I can do if you can’t.” Henry implied by holding on to the top of her head, as a reminder of all the times he was able control her continence. Realizing his implications Nancy screwed up her face harder, trying to override her natural reflexes to let it go. Once she heard the first pee splash on the plastic, the rest of the stream steadily follow suit.
“You done” Henry asked condescendingly once the noise stoped, she nodded her head silently as a simple answer.
“Good if you keep this up later you be graduating to pull-ups in less then a year.” He continued. “It was going to be a suprise but what the hell. You did such a good job taking your punishment you can be indulged a bit.”
“Now will you let Daddy take care of you.” Henry asked already laying her down on the ground.
“Yes Daddy.” Nancy said her spirit broken from everything he has done.
Once he taped her into a new big puffy diaper, Henry brought out the special dress he had for her. It looked like an oversized princess Halloween dress for a toddler. He put her the short pink dress, its puffy skirt was barely hiding the fact she was wearing a big diaper. He then slipped on the high knee socks and the mittens, as the final touches in her look.
Once Henry was satisfied with the outfit, he let out a satisfied hum. “You look like a ballerina like you use to be, once you grow up a bit you can show some twirls too.”
Nancy looked like she was on the verge of another breakdown, her cheeks blushing profusely. Feeling embarrassed that her friends are seeing her in this outfit.
“Don’t cry I even got you a lovely pink collar to match the new pink dress.” Henry cooed taking out the new accessory.
“Col-Col-Collar?” Nancy asked confused at the situation.
“Well you’ve been getting lost too much lately so i found a way to keep you safe.”
“N-No-No i don’t wanna!” Nancy shook her head trying crawl away from him.
“Don’t be like that little one, a daddy’s girl wouldn’t wanna disappoint me.” He smirked trying out his newly engraved trigger word from yesterday which would make her submissive without needing constant formula reinforcement.
“No-No you can’t…” Nancy wanted to say before blinking rapidly trying to remember what she actually wanted to say. She suddenly had the need to obey to his demand. “N-N-Never daddy I need it.” she subserviently bowed down her head.
Henry was glad seeing the results were swift putting the collar around her neck. Nancy shook her head a bit trying to adjust to the new feeling of leather. He didn’t tighten it too much, just enough to be a constant reminder for her to remember her place.
“So you know what it says on the tag?”
“My name?”
“Yes look I engraved it myself, also added daddy’s girl behind it so they know who to bring it to.”
Hearing the word again made her mind feeling foggier making everything seem normal. She suddenly felt bubblier and less sad then before, seeing him alone made her smile again.
“Always with me.” Nancy said hopefully not wanting to be away from him.
“Ofcourse, I feel like you been forgetting how much I care with these walking raging hormones around.” Henry gestured towards the tied up teens, who were looking at them with shock and fear.
“Don’t deserve you.” she shook her head feeling remorseful for disobeying today, not even thinking about her friends only him.
Henry seeing the full effects of his experiment smiled widely. “Baby don’t say that I am exactly what you deserve, you just need a very delicate touch. I want them to see the real you now baby and in turn I am helping you see their true nature. You don’t wanna hide it, dont you think they should still accept you like this.
“Tell me in big words.” Henry smirked seeing Nancy nodding her head eagerly.
“Big baby that needs her daddy.” Nancy earnestly chanted scaring the teens with how quickly he made her compliant.
“You do? Show me how much you miss me?”
Nancy widely opened her arms to show.
“This much….I said Daddy keep safe.”
“This is why I am telling they are very bad influence on you. Glad to see your little punishment set you straight again.” He said cupping her cheek. Nancy nuzzled against his hand closing her eyes trying to find comfort from the excruciating pain thats at the back of her mind still. She opened her eyes when she heard the sound of a distinct click behind her. Opening them she saw daddy had attached a leash to the collar.
“You like it? Who am I kidding ofcourse you do, lets test it out shall we.”
Nancy couldn’t even protest before she felt a yank on her throat, forcing her to crawl behind him to avoid being choked.
“See you are a natural now I will not lose my baby.” Henry boasted, Nancy stopped behind him and hugged his knees. “Well aren’t you adorable do they think about your wellbeing as much as I do, look how you were lost yesterday and got beat up. I am just trying to keep you safe.”
“Daddy knows best.”
“Don’t I always so today you are not allowed to crawl around if no one is holding your leash understood. You need to learn not to wonder out without a responsible adult.”
“Follow like good girl!” Nancy chanted.
Satisfied Henry turned around to summon his servants back again. Pointing at Billy he ordered. “Now back to business Billy deal with these pests till I decide what to do with their feeble selfs and take her with you she can be your little helper a bit I got work to do.”
Henry turned around to address Nancy again. “Right my mini Creel, you gonna be a big girl and assist with torturing again.” He gave the leash to Billy saying. “She was such a eager beaver last time, so I expect the same again.”
Hearing the muffled screams again had Henry looking at the teens. “Ohh you don’t know she is a prodigy, haven’t you wondered why those jocks are in a coma.” Henry smiled like a shark, enjoying seeing their shocked faces.
“Pop quiz little one, what protects the body’s vital organs.” Henry said.
“Uhmmm skin and bones.” Nancy thought out loud.
“Correct, hypothetically what is a way to aggregate a wound’s pain even more.”
“Salt!” Nancy confidently confirmed.
“Correct yet again, aren’t you a teacher’s pet.” Henry boasted showing off his influence on her.
“Whats your favorite torture method from last time?” He sinisterly asked finally wanting the idiots to know this version of Nancy wasn’t afraid to get her hands dirty.
“Hooks in skin!” Nancy smiled eagerly remembering last night fondly unlike what actually felt like.
“Flashy stuff of course the youth these days what you gonna do.” He rolled his eyes, putting her on the ground to leave the house.
As he fixed his attire, Heather timidly approached him. “Master if we may be permitted too make a request, can be we be allowed to play with her?”
Chrissy was sitting on Robin’s lap taunting her by slowly rubbing herself. The taller teen’s face was red as a tomato, alarmingly getting worse.
Henry seeing the potential in their torment techniques smirked feeling generous for the day. “Fine you can take her, you been doing an good job around lately.”
“Thank you master.” They simultaneously chanted to Robin’s horror.
“Look Buckley you getting two girls, isn’t this like one of your dyke dreams?” Heather said.
“Haven’t you imagined me with you Robin, a cheerleader and band geek having a scandalous secret affair. Chrissy giggled playing up their act.
“Lets move to somewhere with less aggression just us girls.” Heather said as she took a hold of the chair to carry upstairs with Chrissy.
“Come princess lets have fun ourselves.” Billy wrapped the leash around his hand and easily lifted the other chairs with his arms to upstairs. Nancy slowly crawled behind him, luckily he kept a slow pace so the leash didn’t pull on her throat the whole time.
“Alright princess, welcome to my humble a-boat.” Billy smirked hearing the boys struggling, placing them in the middle of the room.
When Nancy tried to sit directly on the floor, she let out loud yelp, and involuntarily started to cry out remembering her pain again.
Billy wordlessly grabbed a large cushion for her to lay sideways, he looked conflicted at what he can do. Unfortunately he knew from personal experience how doing nothing was not going to help with her emotional distress. So in a moment of kindness, he held her hand till her crying session was over, wiping her cheeks dry. “Thank you.” Nancy whispered keeping his scary persona intact for the boys.
“You aren’t so bad to care for I guess.” Billy grumbled acting seriously. “Okay so what I like to do is to punch their weak points which is the face and the stomach or other body parts that bit to advanced for you.” he gave a little crash course enjoying making the boys watch him teaching their little friend his violent methods.
“Face and stomach got it.” Nancy nodded seriously.
However the eager Nancy went away the moment Billy punched Steve, she shielded her eyes with her hands. The fog finally cleared up in her mind, realizing she needs to get them out of here. She tried to come up with a quick plan to save them from Billy’s wrath.
“Billy…Billy i got an idea too” she yelled out.
“My punching bag method is good enough, I don’t need more ideas.”
“Pleaseee!!!” She whined annoyingly, kicking her legs in frustration.
“Fine tell me then if it will stop your whining.”
“Play with me.”
“What?”
“Billy shows he better.”
“I guess he can see how much of a better job I can do which will hurt him more.” Billy thought out loudly, he walked over towards a night stand to grab a hairbrush and some hair ties.
Coming back he sat down in-front of Steve crisscross style. Billy grabbed the leash to signal Nancy to crawl next to him, once she was close he lifted her of the ground so she can sit in the hollow of his crossed legs, avoiding any flare up to her injuries.
Billy started brush her hair gently, thanks to his own routine he knows how to handle a permed hair. “Lets put your hair into pigtails I guess thats what twerp had occasionally.
Nancy hadn’t considered that option before but she always liked trying out new styles.
“Sounds nice.”
Billy quietly sectioned her curls to put them in pig tails when he was done, brought a mirror to show off his skills.
“Thank you Billy.” Nancy said turning around to genuinely hug him. Felt nice to have someone do something actually nice for her after her daddy’s punishment.
“Look at that Harrington she prefers me as her big brother right princess?” Billy smirked hearing Steve’s screams “Yes give me a little kiss too” he pushed for his own amusement. Nancy gave him a quick peck on the cheek, prompting even more angry muffles from the teen.
“Stop lying her!” Steve yelled out spitting out the gag.
“Are you sad? King Steve lost his princess twice now. This time it’s definitely the superior option.” Billy mocked him.
“Nance don’t listen him, he is a very evil person.” Steve shouted at her without meaning to.
“He yelling at me again.” Nancy said fake whimpering.
“Again?” Billy asked excitedly.
“Yelled at me yesterday.” Nancy pouted, hiding her face in his chest.
“He did my god, Harrington you been very naughty lately. Finally the King Steve I heard so much about too bad I gotta beat the crap out of you.” said Billy.
“You are a heartless bully, that nearly killed the kids more then once. Don’t act like you are a saint now.” Steve sneered.
“Hmm I don’t know what you think princess?” Billy playfully questioned.
“Billy nicer.”
“Oh this reminds me, I been a bad host lemme get you big boys a drink.” Remembering the prop he had gotten ready for them. Nancy pulled on his shirt to mime a drinking gesture as well.
“You are also thirsty too lemme grab something and dont you dare follow me I will know.” He warned as he tied leash to the bed post. “Stay here understood” Billy pointed at her authoritatively but Nancy playfully just bit on his pointing finger.
Billy closed his eyes to countdown to ten to avoid doing anything he will regret. “I will not lose my temper”
Steve while longingly watched the duo, he felt Eddie’s curls tickling his shoulder. “Hey Steve, you with me?” Eddie asked.
“I thought you passed out.” Steve whispered back.
“Nahh man I was strategically pretending to be passed out so I would be hit less. You okay you got intense there for a moment.”
“I thought me and Nance were good but she still resents me, look she prefers Hargrove.”
Eddie scoffed a bit. “Thats not true, when you were dragged down she was the one yelling behind your back and jumped in first.” he continued after adjusting himself to sit more upright. “Before that when you took a while to come up she begged me to go after her bubba because she couldn’t bear you being gone. The girl who who couldn’t talk all day talked because she wanted you safe. Thats unambiguous sign of true love if I ever seen one so don’t believe what douchebag says. You seen how it tore her inside to see you be punched. Why you think she asked for him to play, to keep you not be beat up.”
Steve couldn’t believe his ears after Eddie’s eloquent remarks. He wished he could have looked into his big brown eyes when he confessed to this. “I am sorry, I punched you last night you were right. I didn’t really thought how you and her bonded. In reality, I was bit jealous she chose you over me.”
“Stevie boy don’t go mushy on me now, I need the bat wielding version of you. But you have a single child syndrome, should learn to share more with others.” Eddie deflected the sincerity a bit.
“You think she likes him more?” Steve still asked in a moment of lack of confidence.
“Look after Vecna beat her up, he said something that switched something in her. I can tell her eyes seem foggier, making her obedient to his whims like genuine naive kid and when Billy hit you her eyes regained color again. Don’t you see as much as he tries to make her complacent you, Robin and the kids bring her back. She definitely is pretending, I know an act when I see one.” Eddie tried to reassure him.
Steve threw his head a little trying to be in Eddie’s eye sight. “You are wrong. You also are the reason she comes back, I know Nance and she doesn’t get attached to easy.”
“Then we found a way out of here as soon a possible for all of sakes.” Eddie tried to comfort him.
“Let go of my finger now!” Billy gritted through his teeth.
“I didn’t bit hard” Nancy let go thinking she bought some more time.
Eddie smiled a bit seeing Nancy trying to undo the knot clumsily as soon as Billy left.
“Told ya big boy”
Nancy climbed on to Steve’s lap to touch his face gently as she could. “Bubba bubba are you okay?” she asked hurriedly in a hushed voice.
“I am okay honey, my head got hit worse. More importantly are you okay, he hit you very hard.” Steve asked instinctively trying to hug her but his tied up arms inhibited him.
“But you have more bad boo-boos.” Nancy sadly looked at him gently touching his bruised face.
“It doesn’t matter, I got hit worse.”
“Buba i am sorry…Nancy loves bubba Stevie the most.” she broke down finally.
“Nance hey its okay, I know it was an act because you are one smart cookie.”
“No I hurt you too.”
“Oh you mean last night. You didn’t do quarter of a damage Jonathan did in that alley. You just lost control just like me.”
“You not angry.”
“I love you honey, and I am sorry too I reacted very badly yesterday, should have listened to you and Eddie.”
“Ohh no Etrigan you okay?” Nancy looked behind him to check on Eddie.
“Yeah this aint my first rodeo sweet Lois, also don’t worry he isn’t making us think any less of you with what he has done.” Eddie reassured her.
“Don’t think its funny.” Nancy looked down feeling embarrassed.
“Never going to show you my buzzed head pictures one day those are hilarious.” Eddie said.
“You joking?” Even Steve finding that fascinating.
“Not one bit Stevo, young Eddie had some bad haircut phases.”
“You see sweetie, we don’t think any less of you like we don’t undermine him knowing his hairless metalhead years.” Steve encouragingly said.
“Silly Bubba, Eddy has a copper head” Nancy lightheartedly said.
“Look she thinks being a metalhead is a literal thing what can I do about it. All you guys have are Madonna and ABBA.” Eddie defended their in joke feeling Steve adorable confused face even from the behind.
“Check on Robbie for me honey, we gonna be fine alone.” Steve asked of Nancy, not knowing where his best friend was hurting worse then his face. He could see the metaphorical wheels in Nancy’s head were turning.
“Go back okay before he catches you, I promise when we get out I will keep you safe from the evil wizard.” Steve touched their foreheads as the closest thing to hugging.
Nancy gave him a bitter smile knowing he really can’t but the sentiment was enough. “Love you both.” she said before crawling back.
“It’s number two knot like I showed you.” Eddie helped from afar, when he realized she tried to retie the knot.
Nancy quickly retied it like Eddie has taught her. “You did great job Wheels.” Eddie still cheered her own regardless of his own imprisonment. Nancy felt terrible for thinking they weren’t good enough again while with her daddy. Why is she having these mood swings all of a sudden she thought to herself. But her concentration was easily misdirected when Billy reentered the room. She put her thumb in her mouth to seem busy to not arose suspicion.
Billy lowered himself to hand her the sippy cup, replacing her thumb with it helping her drink from it a bit.
“Here you go some water for you, and a bucket of ice water for them, see I can be accommodating. Since we done your thing, its my turn to continue with my methods.”
“Okay Billy, I watch.” Nancy nodded her head as she clumsily held the plastic bottle.
“Aren’t you cooperative now good you gonna watch a professional in action.” Billy patted her head.
“Ohh thats gotta be cold right, wake up Freak don’t want you to feel left out.” Billy said as he dumped the ice water on them. The freezing cold got both boys more alert and feel even more numb from the cold.
Whilst they weren’t looking Nancy poured the remaining water into her diaper. She tried to keep her squeal silent as possible when she dumped the cold water.
“Uhmmm Billy I am wet, can you change?” Nancy piped up after a while to sound realistic.
Billy let out a groan but was glad to have an excuse to get rid of her. “Really fine atleast i don’t have to censor myself now. So how about I will take you to Heather and Chrissy for change, then you can nap in your crib.”
“Billy has best ideas!” she cheered happily clapping for effect.
“You hear that Harrington, I got the best one ideas too.” Billy gloated as he picked up Nancy to leave the room.
Steve growled as best as he can behind him, but Eddie beat him to the punch to say what he was thinking. “Man what a weirdo but atleast Nancy could easily exploit his weird obsession.”
“Lets just hope Robin is doing better then us.” Steve spit up blood hoping this nightmare be over soon.
Robin was currently being held down by the two girls as they tried to tie her up. Cerberus was keeping guard near the doorway incase she made a run for it.
Chrissy whispered in Robin’s ear trying to calm her down “Don’t fight, it will get worse please we won’t hurt you.” however Robin didn’t listen to her instead kicking her leg to make a run for it.
“Awoie thats not nice” Chrissy yelped in pain which got Cerberus to snarl at Robin threateningly forcing her sit back down in fear.
“Get that rabbie infested away from me.” She squealed.
“Stand down Cerb I am okay.” Chrissy said bending down to pet the demodog.
Heather seeing her being hit got furious grabbing Robin’s hair in anger pulling it down. “Hey don’t you dare hurt her Buckley, she is actually the nice one unlike me”
“Oh what you been doing huh torturing poor Nance here and you asking me to be nice.” Robin gritted through her teeth as Heather pulled on her hair.
“You bitch we been looking after her to make her feel comfortable and we just saved your sorry ass from Billy, so you are welcome” Heather said exasperatedly, letting go of the hair.
“Stop fighting. We all care about her.” Chrissy tried to diffuse the tension.
“You expect me to believe Holloway ‘Calling me dyke” here is being nice. Even on a good day, she was a major bitch at school.” Robin scoffed.
“I resent that accusation, I prefer socially picky person.” Heather shrugged off Robin’s accusations.
Chrissy putting her hand on the her hips, defended her friend. “Yes she has been very caring, and stop acting like you are better then us you didn’t even talk to Nancy till few days ago.”
“Big whoops just for less then a hour I assume, I been looking after her day and night none stop.”
“Hey I am on your side, why do you make out like you are more special.” Chrissy stomped her foot in frustration.
Heather seeing Chrissy disheveled state over this couldn’t help but snicker a bit. “You broke Cunningham hope you are happy Buckley. Come on Chriss band geek isn’t worth it.”
“She calls our bond trivial, can you believe that. I have you know Robin, she sees me as her best friend.” Chrissy huffed in anger.
“I am her big sister.” Robin argued back.
“You know I am excited to see where this leads too.” Heather said enjoying the show. However a sudden knock broke her out of her thoughts.
“Ohh Heather someone here needs a change.” Billy grumbled from outside.
“Great timing go on Chriss, you take her and I make she sure she doesn’t try to jailbreak.” Heather suggested, Chrissy happily obliging to open the door to greet them.
“Hey cutie, did someone have an accident while keeping an eye on the big bad Billy.” she coed at Nancy.
“You being too cheeky now Cunningham, but I got some fun to get to actually retaliate. She drank some water so just make sure she gets to have a nap time in the crib after the change.” Billy all but threw Nancy into the arms of the cheerleader.
“Under all that muscle you do have a tiny heart , look at her hair I doubt she had those adorable pigtails before you.” Chrissy smiled, as she adjusted Nancy in her arms.
“Don’t push it! It was part of our torture act if you must know.” Billy said seriously.
Contrasting his tone, Nancy happily chirped. “Yeah me and Billy played.”
“Uuu such a scary act, I can see those pigtails being very dangerous.” Chrissy teased brushing her nose against Nancy’s, making her giggle.
“Don’t encourage the cheerleader princess, she already is too mouthy for her own good.”
“Chrissy stop antagonizing him, you know he grumpy he gets.” Heather warned from behind.
“Hey Heather, enjoying yourself with the band geek.” Billy smirked seeing Heather holding Robin down forcefully.
“Not as much as you are with Harrington, don’t forget to use protection.” Heather bit back easily.
“Fuck off.” He yelled as turned back to leave.
“Love you to Billy.” Heather laughed enjoying pissing him off.
“Love you Billy!” Nancy parroted it in a sincere tone instead which had Billy momentarily frozen in place before angrily walking back to his room.
“You are very sneaky aren’t you making him blush like that.” Chrissy said.
“He needs nice.”
“Aren’t you are a sweetheart, I think you are very right that people, who ever they are need to hear kind words.”
Taking this as a cue, Nancy wrapped her arms around Chrissy’s neck to hug her tightly. “Miss you Auntie Chrissy.”
“Miss you to cutie.” Chrissy smiled.
“Sissy!!” Nancy yelled happily seeing her. “Her and Aunty Heather playing?” she asked.
Not understanding what she meant Chrissy turned around to see Heather trying to hold off Robin who threw herself to ground. “More like wrestling seems like it.”
“Me and Mikey did for cookies.”
Chrissy laughed at her innocence “This is something like that but not for a cookies.”
“Nance sweetie come to big sis.” Robin yelled as Heather forced her on to the chair to tie up her torso.
“No come to me Wheels I got your teether.” Heather bribed once she successfully handled Robin.
“What are they doing?” Nancy asked confused.
“A female version of a groin measuring contest don’t pay attention.” Chrissy shrugged walking towards the makeshift change area.
“Can i still have teddy?” Nancy asked as she was laid down.
“Teddy?”
“The green bear.” Nancy clarified. “Ohh thats its the name awe that is cute… Heather throw that thing to me.” Chrissy asked the other teen, who expertly threw back.
She gave it to Nancy to happily start chew on its head. Chrissy’s got to changing which was made easy with just needing to remove the diaper.
“This is just water well isn’t that strange” she mused realizing the soaked pamper was just wet with regular water.
“To see Sissy.” Nancy whispered conspiratorially.
“Aren’t you the sneakest thing today!” Chrissy matched her tone as she worked to tap on a dry one. Her smile dropped seeing the teen’s heavily bruised bottom, she tried to touch them gently but Nancy whimpered loudly the moment she made any contact.
“Don’t cry I will put on some cream for your boo-boos, just bite on teddy while I do that.” Chrissy tried to comfort as she gently applied cream to them. Nancy bit on the plastic as hard as she can to not scream out every time Chrissy touched her sore skin.
“Its over now, you were a very brave girl.” Chrissy shushed Nancy’s whimpers once the dry diaper was tapped.
Nancy got upright testing out the new feeling, the cream really helping with the pain. “Thank you Auntie Chrissy…..could you help Bubba and Eddy too?” she asked.
“With what?”
“Billy played really rough.”
Chrissy couldn’t help but chuckle, she probably won’t be able even see them but Nancy doesn’t need to know that. “Sure cutie I will also deal with their boo boos, till then come let’s spend time with Robin, she was very worried about you too.”
“Piggyback ride?” Nancy shyly asked.
“Ofcourse you are my favorite passenger, wrap your leg tightly.” Chrissy helped the girl to hold on to her back. Once she successfully had her on it, Chrissy hopped Nancy around a bit before making their way towards the others.
“How the hell is she managing to carry her like?” Robin asked trying to decipher how the shorter girl carried Nancy with no struggle.
“Buckley your guess is good as mine.” Heather replied trying catch her breath after their struggle.
Chrissy gently dropped Nancy on to Robin lap, Nancy immediately hugged Robin tightly crying into her shoulder.
“I am sorry….must hate me.” she sobbed out finally able to to feel her actual emotions.
Robin seeing her cry couldn’t help but start crying as well. “Never sweetie, we gonna get out of here okay. I am sorry for not taking you seriously. I just thought you were over reacting but I understand why you were secretive, because knowing this can happen I would be lip tight to.”
“If we go, can they come?” Nancy asked in a hopeful tone.
Robin didn’t need to think who she meant, the duo was pretending to not try to eavesdrop on their conversation. “Ohh you sentimental Lois Lane I think we can’t really get them out.”
“But can’t we try? He..he..he hur…hurts them too.”
Robin’s eye flickered at them again, not realizing before that they were also prisoners forced to do Vecna’s bidding. “We will think of a plan then, now lemme check on you.”
“How is your cheek?” Robin asked inspecting Nancy’s now bruised face.
“Stings a lot.” Nancy said touching her puffy cheek.
“Are you okay?” Robin asked quietly wanting to understand what happened beforehand to change her attitude so drastically with him.
“I don’t know.” Nancy confessed trying to reconcile her actual feelings with the fogginess thats clouding her judgement occasionally.
Robin pulled the teen into another tight hug trying to provide some comfort, whispering sweet words hoping they would reach to the part of her that needs to hear it. Her hands massaged Nancy’s scalp while she listened to the the two girls bickering.
“No you can’t join them Chriss.” Heather grumbled.
“But she seems like she gives nice hugs.” Chrissy pouted a bit.
“Look I will hug you later or something just try to act more intimidating.”
“Awee you would?!” Chrissy said cheerfully giving the opposite energy her partner wants.
Before Robin can hear the rest Nancy looked up to her asking. “Sissy not hurt?”
“Yeah don’t worry Wheels we kept her safe, see I am very nice Buckley.”
“Unlike you sweetie, I am fine look at your neck its all red from the damn collar.” Robin growled in anger. “I will rip this thing off.” she said.
“Don’t touch h-he-he knows if.” Nancy stopped her scared of the consequences.
“She never gets severely hurt, I promise Robin just this time he is really making a point.” Chrissy said from the sidelines.
“I just thought it was maybe bad visions only, I read her notes they never even mentioned the spankings to this degree.” Robin looked helplessly not knowing what do anymore.
“Thats what he uses on her most of the time as the most severe type.” Heather explained omitting the more embarrassing stuff for Nancy’s sake incase she didn’t want her to know.
“Also Robin you liking girls isn’t dirty or anything it was bit of an act. I think its great that you know who you are.” Chrissy apologized for her behavior before, she really didn’t mean any of the mean stuff she said. She then pushed Heather from behind to also apologize who reluctantly caved in.
“I am also sorry that I called you a very bad word, it was an act as well. I mean I like both genders so what would that make a light dyke.” she tried to joke for Robin’s sake.
Robin’s eyes widened at her implications, thinking how people are not what they seem.“Ohhh…thanks you guys and Chrissy I am sorry about what I said and the kick by the way.”
“Kick?” Nancy question her eyebrows scrunching.
“I overreacted a bit and hit her ….aow sweetie hey I was apologizing you dont need to hit me.” Robin tried to shield herself from Nancy’s light swats.
“For meanness, she is super nice.” Nancy huffed disappointed in her behavior.
“Its okay cutie we made up, but thank you for protecting my honor. Did someone taught you to be this chivalrous?” Chrissy asked light heartedly.
“I think her crush on Eddie made her dramatic, they both been making over the top declarations around each other.” Robin absentmindedly suggested as she fixed Nancy’s pigtails who was shaking her head to play with them.
“Crush on Eddy, eww Sissy thats gross.” Nancy’s face scrunched up at the implication.
“Could have fooled me, you are always finding ways to spend time with him.”
“Sissy has a crush not me” Nancy argued back, but immediately slapped her hand on her mouth remembering it was supposed to be a secret.
“Nance!!” Robin chastised looking fearful because of old habits.
Hearing potential gossip Heather got excited.“Ah who we gonna tell Buckley the mutt please so who is it? Tell me just it better be not Janis? My bet was she was also playing for the other team but she is the worst.”
“Vickie Pollard”
“Oh from the band isn’t it that so romantic.” Christie swooned a bit.
“The red head from Chem 102, definitely lesbian i seen how she looked at Becky when she had that push up bra phase.” Heather thought hard to remember her old classmates.
“Wait really?” Robin asked hopefully.
“Hell yeah Buckley, now what you gonna do with that information. Have you even popped your cherry yet?” Heather raised her eyebrow suggestively.
Nancy completely misunderstanding the implication accidentally saved the tongue tied Robin. “She can’t….not cherry season yet”
Heather opened her mouth for a moment and the closed again not knowing how to react. Meanwhile while Chrissy was holding back her own laughter, snickering behind her hand.
“Well Wheels I been meaning to ask which season is it now?” Heather asked giving up on trying to actually explain the context.
“Oh oh its spring! Cuz pretty flowers are blooming!” Nancy explained excitedly.
“Thank you for clarifying good job” Heather patted the teen’s head while rolling her eyes
Chrissy kissed her check as a reward as well, finding her mistake very amusing. “Thats our bright one for you Heather, even if she takes things literally.”
Robin looked at the trio at awe of their dynamic, it was clear now that Heather under all her prickliness cared for the two girls and well Chrissy was just an angel, she sees why Jason can’t get over her.
Cerberus appeared next Robin scaring the crap out of her wanting play time with his owner. Chrissy understanding what the creature wanted picked Nancy up to sit farther away from Robin to ease her mind.
Nancy happily reached out to her demodog, to give him scratches. “Cerb!! Still good boy?”
“Ohh he has been the best company, right we play catch and cuddle.” Chrissy happily told her about their day.
“Cuddle time? Want too.” Nancy whined, pulling Cerberus into her arms.
Robin still bewildered by their attitude, addressed Heather, amused at her obvious disdain of the creature too. “Nancy would sell us all out for that rabies infected thing wouldn’t she.”
“Right how is she relax about that beast?”
“Chrissy is also into this whole domestic pet thing?” Robin asked seeing her also play with the demodog.
“Big time she plays fetch with him, I tell her to stop getting that thing too excited.” Heather rolled her eyes.
“Glad to see you two are getting along.” Chrissy observed from afar.
“We are not getting along!” Both yelled at the same time.
“Uhmm you said you like both genders is that a thing.” Robin reluctantly asked Heather changing the subject.
“So uncultured for a lesbian babes, look up about it outside Hawkins if you survive this. It’s called bisexuality, Wheels over there might like to learn about it.”
“What do you mean?”
“Just observe Buckley, Nancy looks at her like an excitable puppy.”
“Chrissy really is good with her.” Robin had to admit reluctantly, she never seen Nancy this enamored before.
“She is annoyingly nice for a popular cheerleader, but I have to reluctantly admit its been nice even if means she is dead.” Heather explained shrugging of what it would be an existential dread.
Before Robin can ask further about the grim implications, she heard Cunningham asking. “Hey what you doing cutie, there is something on my blouse?”
Nancy was pulling on the girls shirt like she does with her in the mornings when she wants her baba.
“She does that to signal when she wants milk basically.” Robin explained for Chrissy.
“Where is mommy?” Nancy asked.
“Sorry we can’t take you to her uhm..” Chrissy fumbled not knowing what to say.
“She is sleeping Wheels but don’t worry she told us to tell you she loves you very much.” Heather saved the moment.
“Ohh okay.” Nancy looked down disappointed, she started biting on her fingers again from stress of not knowing where her mom is.
“No bitting our fingers sweetie.” Robin said reflexively.
Chrissy thinking the same said. “Come on lets not bite our fingers off.” she got up to take Nancy back to Robin. “Is someone hungry because I am hungry for some sweet pie. Hmm I know, I will eat this adorable one.” Chrissy baby talked to get Nancy mind of her mom. She playfully bit on her shoulder, making Nancy giggle.
“Hey Chriss come on you can’t just hog her all to yourself.” Heather joined in tickling Nancy’s tummy.
Robin seeing Nancy’s face go red from their constant tickling, scooted with the chair to stop them. “Hey shining girls stop it, I can still kick with my legs.”
“Sissy get them off!” Nancy wheezed out.
“No we going to eat you Wheels its decided.” Heather teased her.
“Aunty Heather stop it.” Nancy said in between her giggles.
Heather’s eyes widened knowing Robin’s going to make fun of the nickname.
“Aunty!!! That is the hilarious.” Robin let out a laugh.
“If can’t kill Chrissy, I will kill you Buckley I dare you to make one more comment.” Heather sneered towards her.
“What you going to do huh hit me with your middle aged wine bottle thats hidden somewhere.”
“Okay thats it.” Heather yelled grabbing a pillow from the side to hit her with it.
“I think we needed popcorn for the entertainment” Chrissy whispered to Nancy who nodded in agreement.
“You call that a hit, you really are showing your age.” Robin stuck her tongue out.
“Sissy you being meanie again.” Nancy warned not liking her demeaning Heather.
“She is being a meanie isn’t she Wheels.” Heather fake pouted to get Nancy’s sympathy. Which easily worked as Nancy extended her arms towards Heather for her to pickup.
“Why are you protective over her Nance?” Robin huffed not understanding what she sees in her.
“Because being her aunty over rules over sister.” Heather stuck her tongue towards Robin to piss her off as she hopped Nancy around “Right Wheels aren’t I part of your life as much as her.”
“Auntie Heather so silly…you important.” Nancy reassured her.
“Uhhhh you are so frustrating.” Robin growled, addressing Chrissy she asked. “Are you not gonna say anything?”
She just helplessly shrugged. “I am just enjoying the show, this the closest thing to tv entertainment I had in a while.” “Look if it helps Heather really did improved in the last few days. I think she likes that Nancy wants her around, it melted her ice heart a bit. And the nickname was my idea, thought it be easier for Nancy to feel comfortable with us with more with familial nicknames.”
“Well uhhm she is still annoying as hell though.” Robin tried to argue back.
“Well I can’t work miracles Robin.” Chrissy threw her arms up, cracking a smile when Robin started to laugh.
Their peaceful atmosphere was cut short with Cerberus running into the room roaring warning the girls.
“He is back in the house, we need to make sure Robin looks ruffed up like the boys are to not rouse suspicion.” Chrissy panicked.
“Take her, I will handle the band geek.” Heather immediately transferred Nancy into Chrissy’s arms.
“Wait wha—“ Robin was speechless as soon as the teen was on her thighs straddling.
“Well Buckley I have an idea, but you gonna force yourself to hate this one.” Heather said as she messed Robin’s hair and ripped her
shirt a bit.
Nancy without understanding much looked at the unfolding scene confusingly.
“No no no you can’t see this” Chrissy hurriedly placed her in the crib, making sure to put on a blindfold so she couldn’t see. “Don’t remove this okay.”
“Why not?” She whined trying to sneak a peek.
“Just trust me please, we need to act like your Sis Robbie is being tortured.”
“Ohh use red crayon for bruise.” Nancy suggested understanding the game.
“Thats my smart cutie.”
“Also!”
“One more thing?” Chrissy checked as she tucked Nancy in.
“Keep her safe.” Nancy pleaded with a small voice, Chrissy leaned forward to kiss her forehead before giving her pacifier to suckle on.
When Henry Creel barged into the room, he found the tied up girl, yelling and crying as his servants were teased her relentlessly. They seemed to have played rough evidenced by her disheveled state.
“Hello master, didn’t hear you come in.” They stopped to bow down their heads.
He waved his hand dismissively looking around. “It’s acceptable you were busy, Billy told me mini Creel was napping here.”
“Oh there she is with her blinds dead to the rest of the world.” Henry smirked walking towards the crib, Nancy seemed to be in deep sleep slowly sucking on her pacifier. He slowly shook Nancy to wake her up.
“Did your babysitters put on your blindfold on because they were playing their big girl games?” Henry asked removing it off her face.
“Yeah, unfair wanted to help.” Nancy fake whined, rubbing her eyes till it got use to the light again.
“You are too young for those games my little one, that was the right call.”
“When will i grow up?”
“When you don’t have to use your pampers for potty.” Henry said lifting Nancy from the crib to put her down on the floor.
“Ohh okay.” Nancy disappointedly looked on the floor.
“Don’t be sad I was impressed by your psychological games with Billy. Using him to exploit the jock’s insecurities, don’t know if thats the writer in you but poetic irony is your strong suite.”
“Tried make you proud.” Nancy played into his ego.
“Good job, come on lets go we got work to do baby.” Henry announced as he walked towards the door. He turned around when Nancy wasn’t following him. “Why aren’t you coming?”
“You not holding Daddy.” She pointed out holding out the leash towards him.
He smirked seeing her remembering his order. “Oh pet I knew you wouldn’t forget it, just had to check, you know how daddy likes to make sure everything is alright.”
“Don’t disobey.” she shook her said.
Henry smirked as he pulled on the leash to lead her out. “I will take her from here, and you two can get back to your fun.” he chuckled seeing the tied up girl looking even more terrified hearing that.
“Thank you master.” They chorused simultaneously.
Once they were gone, the girls let out a big sigh of relief. “What do you say wanna go for seconds Buckley?” Heather smirked sitting in her lap.
“Fuck off.“ Robin leaned to the side to throw her off.
“I mean I can do that too trying to help you here.” Heather still teased from the floor, dusting herself off.
“Heather stop it, you don’t need to push that much.” Chrissy chastised her.
“Listen to your cheerleader sidekick Holloway.” Robin tried to argue but realized she screwed up a bit seeing the fire lit in cheerleader’s eyes.
Hearing that hit Chrissy’s own vengeful nerve. “On the other hand we can try to show you some other moves to impress Vicky.” She seductively whispered into her ear.
“Hah you shouldn’t have pissed her nice ones are always more devious.” Heather joined Robin’s other side snickering.
“I am so fucked.” Robin thought internally as she tried ramble her way out of the situation.
Meanwhile Henry instead of pulling on the leash the whole way, he hoisted Nancy up to carry on his hip towards the living room. He sat down on the rocking chair, gently seating her in his lap. Henry rocked on the chair, letting Nancy get comfortable with his presence once again.
“Hows your poor bottom?” Henry asked as he patted it gently.
“Better.” Nancy answered truthfully, the cream taking most of the sting away.
Henry traced her chin with his finger as he thought out loud. “What did I do wrong baby, why do you keep disobeying me. I thought you wanted us to be together” he asked trying to come off as understanding.
“Yeah Daddy I-I-I k-k-kno-now.” Nancy trailed off not knowing how to explain it herself.
He let out a faux exasperated sigh. “You really care about them don’t you. Be honest little one, I will not get angry at you promise.” Henry put on a kind smile for his facade.
His sweet tone successfully got her to tell what she actually wants thinking he will understand her. “Just wanna keep them.”
Henry thought about her statement a bit, even if he tried as hard as he can she has a bond with them unfortunately. He has always been an opportunist, why couldn’t he exploit that to finally get a hold of her before the finale gate.
“How about I make you a little offer?” Henry said lifting her chin up, before whispering his idea into her ear.
When the three teens came to their senses, after their torture sessions were over, they were back in the dining hall. Henry aka Vecna was standing infront of them pacing slowly. Occasionally leaning into them to scare them even more, his monstrous appearance doing most of the work.
Nancy was in the background looking down, watching helplessly knowing she can’t do anything.
“You three meddling kids thought you can sneak around without me knowing, luckily I can’t get to you physically anymore but she I can do whatever I want.” he said roughly getting a hold of the Nancy’s collar to drag her behind him.
“Don’t you dare hurt her.” Steve piped up unlike the other two he wasn’t going to let be intimidated by him. He dealt with the Russians, some evil wizard can’t be that different.
“You insolent child!” Henry yelled taking a swipe with his claw to scratch his chest.
With Steve screams in the background he continued with his narration. “Now its your turn to be all stuck in your worse nightmares for an eternity.”
Suddenly Nancy hurriedly crawled into the middle holding her hands up. “No Daddy please no hurt them.”
“Stand back my little one, this trick takes a lot of power daddy needs his focus.”
“I wanna keep them Daddy.” Nancy begged to make him stop.
“Baby you already have a pet why you would need them.” he chided holding his nose like a tired parent.
“Need servants above.” Nancy tried to reason.
“Hmm” Henry thought about it.
“Please please I….I…I…will train them be good” she crawled forward to hug his knees as she begged.
“This not like having a creature, its gonna take a lot of time breaking their minds when the time comes baby.”
“You said I train Cerb well….can do again.”
“As you grow up you gonna have to take care of their needs and clean their messes too.”
“Can handle it.” Nancy confidently said.
“Show me your control right now” Henry waved his hand to release the teens free from their binds.
Nancy looked conflicted at the them, Robin realizing her play winked at her to signal they are on the same page.
“Sit!” Nancy yelled all there complying with her command.
Henry looked at her expectedly so Nancy continued. “Play dead!” she said pointing at Eddie, who dramatically acted like shot and fell to the ground.
Knowing Steve was in fresh pain she asked him to just give hand to not overwhelm him.
“Speak girl!” She asked of Robin, who assumed it be more canine based then human so she barked out of desperation for Nancy’s plan to work.
Seeing their demonstration he said. “You want them alive that much?” he raised his eyebrow exasperated. “Fine I guess this is acceptable.”
“Really” Nancy asked hopefully.
“Really yeah I will not harm your pets and the kids too if you promise me something.”
“Anything Daddy.”
“You willingly will come home to me tomorrow, I will actively try not hurt them anymore and find a new victim.”
“Promise let them go, l stay.” Nancy said in relief.
He lifted Nancy into his arms to address the teens. “You are lucky my daughter is merciful for now, if she is not back in my clutches tomorrow midnight her and Max Mayfield will both be taken forcefully. Also please send my regards to subject Eleven, tell her subject One remembers what she done to him and is coming for revenge.” Henry let out a maniacal laughter as the last thing they heard before waking up in their bodies again.
The kids were around them trying to wake them, once they came to their senses.
“Steve are you okay?” Robin pulled her best friend into a tight hug.
“Robin are you okay, did they hurt you?”Steve hugged her back in relief.
“I am fine dingus, your chest had a literal gaping wound a minute ago let me do the worrying.” Robin sobbed out.
“Eddie is fine to if anyone wants to check.” Eddie grumbled into the mattress.
“Ohh Eddie so glad you are okay too.” Steve said in relief.
“What happened to you guys?” Lucas Sinclair asked confused at their reactions.
“Well so we meet Vecna…wait where is Nancy?” Robin looked around panicking not hearing Nancy’s soft voice.
They all turned to see Nancy’s eyes were still rolled back looking catatonic.
“Why is she not back?” Dustin Henderson asked.
“No no that bastard still has her. Not again I promised to keep her safe.” Steve muttered as he pulled her into his arms, shaking her to wake up.
“We need to find her song now.” Lucas voiced what everyone was thinking. Eddie pulled them towards his room where his tape collection was.
“Steve nothing will change if we stay with her, you know her the most come on lets find her tape.” Robin tried to get him to move.
“Steve I got her go help them.” Max Mayfield reassured him.
Steve reluctantly got up to check Eddie’s tape pile with the others. Meanwhile Max silently sat on the floor pulling Nancys’s head into her lap. She took out the headphones of her cassette player for Kate Bush’s melodic voice to fill the empty space. She knows this isn’t her favorite song but maybe it can still be life line for her to know they are coming for her.
“Nance please wake up.” she cried out quietly as everyone around her descended into chaos.
TheZapper Act 4 [No Sleep] by TheZapperOrt, literature
Literature
TheZapper Act 4 [No Sleep]
Cody’s new superhero lifestyle had been going quite well. He wasn’t fighting any crazy villains as of recent, as he only had a few run-ins with Oak every now and then, but mostly just normal lowly criminals like thieves or sometimes muggers. He also had a very good balance with his normal teen life as well, as he had been doing decent in school, and his superheroing wasn’t messing with his day to day life. He even befriended another kid named Noah, who happened to also have powers of his own, after nearly drowning, which the group thoroughly laughed about already. James, who had named himself Hothead due to his powers couldn’t really hide himself due to him being constantly on fire and burnt, but the rest of the team was for the most part secretive about their personal lives. After a long day of school and fighting off a few convenience store robberies Cody went home to get some well needed rest. After doing all of his nightly routines he got ready for bed, hiding his suit and TheShocker in a box under his bed, before getting in bed. He later managed to fall asleep after a bit of resting, and woke up in a dream. As he sat up in the dream though, he was soon able to figure out that he was actually in a dream, and was excited.
Cody: “Oh sick! I’m having a lucid dream! This is awesome!”
He smirked and started running around in the dream, doing random things because he could pretty much do whatever he wanted, creating cool stuff that he could never even think of seeing in real life. As he continued to go through the dreamworld though, he realized something was off. He could feel like he was starting to lose control of it, and the world was becoming increasingly darker and even having a bit of a reddish tint to it. Soon enough he had completely lost control of the lucid dream he was having. He still knew he was inside of a dream, but he wasn’t able to do anything but wander around the world or do anything that a normal person couldn’t. He couldn’t even use his lightning powers from real life so he felt even more weak. He kept timidly walking around the dark barren void of a world, until suddenly a smoky, dark, black smog appeared in front of him, before dissipating into a large intimidating figure in front of him. The creature was made of the same smoky dark material, though in the form of a tall, broad, monster. It had dark red glowing eyes, with a dark, maybe even empty, black sclera. It also had sharp white jagged teeth, claws, and two horns on the side of its head. It even had a hole in its chest that showed off some strange portal looking thing in its chest that had small souls or ghosts floating around in it.
Kabus: “*You wake up in a nightmare. It is very dark. You feel a sense of dread and terror, but you can’t quite figure out why. That is until you hear the deep distorted voice behind you.*
Kabus: “Huhuhuhu… well look what we have here… another lost soul in my nightmare realm? Excellent. I’ve been looking for someone to torment for a while… Hello there Cody. Welcome to my world. I am Kabus.”
His voice seems to be made up of multiple quieter, distorted voices, though with one main much louder voice, being deep and gravely. Cody stepped back a bit from the intimidating figure as he looked up at him.
Cody: “What the hell do you want from me?”
Cody asks angrily, with a hint of fear in his voice as he stares up at Kabus.
Kabus’ red eyes narrow as a twisted, devilish smile plays across his face.
Kabus: “I want to torment you. I want to make you suffer.”
He spreads his arms wide, his claws and teeth baring as he lets out a long, demonic laugh.
Cody: “Hmm? How so?”
Cody asks glaring at Kabus, his eyes narrowing with a raised eyebrow. Kabus’ voice changes to a lower, deep and sinister tone. Some sort of black smoke swirls around him as he takes a few steps closer, a twisted smile still visible on his face.
Kabus: “I will trap you in your own nightmares. I will torment you with your greatest fears.”
His presence fills the room as he stands just inches from Cody. His red eyes narrow as he holds Cody’s gaze. He seems to be feeding off of his fear.
Cody: “My greatest fears? You don’t know what I fear! Try me dumby!”
Cody says with a confident smirk and crossing his arms, but Kabus then immediately creates some kind of portal and pushes Cody through it. Cody gasps and looks around, getting up and wiping some kind of red dust off of himself, he looks around and notices it was some kind of twisted reflection of his own town. He walked around it a bit before eventually finding his own house. It was old and abandoned, having many holes and other damage on its exterior. It had fire running throughout it, and the dark red glow made everything look even more ominous. Even though Cody knew it was a dream, he still felt this sense of dread from seeing it. He decided to walk inside to see if anything was inside. The interior was ruined and ashy, floorboards scattered around the place and glass shattered, and much more damage to his house. There was a lot of dirt and ash on the ground, making things buried, but he saw something in the dirt that he decided to try to pick up. It was a round dirty white object hidden under the ash. He picked it up before immediately gasping and dropping it, and stumbling backwards. It was a skull. But not just a normal skull. It was a cat skull. He still knew everything was all a dream, but he still couldn’t bear the thought of his cats being dead. He tried to cover up his heavy breathing and whimpering and continued walking through the house. He was walking through the hallway to his bedroom, before he heard a sound coming from his broken parents room. He decided to check out what it was, and so he had to push some heavy wood and a dresser out of the way. Once he finally did, he looked around, only to find nothing, but heard the sound again in his bathroom. He peeked inside and soon got attacked by his own father, though it didn’t look completely normal. He looked almost zombie-like, bits of flesh taken out of his body, his clothes ripped and torn, and his body bloody. Cody yelped and pushed him off making him fall to the ground, causing him to turn to dust and disappear into the mess. Cody stepped back in disgust and fear of what he had seen. He wanted to get out of the room, but just before he could, the closet door slammed open and his mom came out, jumping on him and making Cody fall to the floor. She was similar to Cody’s dad, still zombie-like, and her body and clothes ripped up a lot. Cody tried to push her off but not before she scratched him in the chest, making him yelp in pain, before throwing her off and running out of the room. Slamming the door in her face. He was panting and coughing, looking down at his chest which had a hole ripped in it, and a bit of blood coming out. Even with him knowing this was most definitely just a dream, that all felt very real to him. He decided to go to his own room to see what was in there, and when he opened his door, to his surprise it was for the most part intact, if not just a bit dirty. With this newfound safe space he decided to sit in his bed to rest a bit. He sat on the bed and breathed heavily, trying to do all of the techniques to get out of dreams. He pinched himself, but it didn’t work. He tried to think about his real body sleeping but that didn’t work either. He even tried the method he’s used all the time, shutting his eyes tight and opening them, but even that didn’t work. He just sat there, hoping his alarm or something would go off so he could get out of this literal nightmare. Soon enough though, a shadow flowed out from under his bed to soon form back into Kabus.
Kabus: “Oh? Is the little boy sad? How adorable.. I’m glad you’re taking me seriously.. from what I’ve seen, you seem to like making fun of your enemies..”
Cody glares at him, now extremely angry at this monster, but with his anger he also feels a strange feeling of power again, like he was back in control of the dream again.
Cody: “You might be able to scare me a little.. but just remember: you’re in my dream. I’m not stuck in here with you.. you’re stuck in here with me!”
Cody creates a large sword from thin air, but before he manages to hit Kabus, he says,
Kabus: “Then I’m afraid I’ll have to come back when you’re weaker…”
Before he disappears without a trace, leaving Cody before Cody wakes up to his alarm. He was in a cold sweat and he was breathing heavily, his heart pounding from the horrible nightmare. He got up from the bed and got ready for the rest of his day, the fear going away as he told himself it was just a dream, and “Kabus” wasn’t real.
Later that day Cody was in another fight, all dressed up in his suit and he was stopping a criminal in a car chase. Cody was jumping from car roofs to reach it, before jumping off the top of a shipping truck, and landing on top of the criminal's stolen car. He peeked his head down to see the man through the side window.
Cody: “Hey buddy! It’s me, TheZapper! Ya know theft is pretty bad! I’ll have to take care of you!”
The criminal looked over at him angrily, trying to punch Cody from the window, but Cody quickly dodges.
Cody: “Hey that wasn’t so nice! Now if you don’t mind could you stop swerving everywhere so I can stop you?”
This only makes the criminal swerve even more, which Cody did already expect, so he went to the back of the car, planning on popping the tires, but while he crawled to the back, he noticed something in his peripheral vision that made him gasp. He saw in the woods next to the road the figure of Kabus, making Cody accidentally let go of the car and falling off into the middle of the road. He comes to his senses when he hits the ground, but he already lost the car because of that screw up. He got up and started running through the highway, trying to find the car, and once he did he shot a lightning bolt at the bottom of the car, causing it to fly upwards and crashing into multiple others, causing a crash. Cody gasped as he accidentally caused this, but he got the people out of the crashed cars, and got the criminal out, and forced him to stay there, while he called the police with the man’s phone.
Cody: “Hey guys it’s TheZapper I just got a criminal for you so if you don’t mind picking him up on the main highway that would be great.”
Cody hangs up and leaves the guy stuck there, but when he gets home after that, he thinks to himself about what has happened and how he saw Kabus in real life. Just the thought of him made Cody’s heart pound in fear. He noticed his breathing got shakier as well. He kept thinking to himself. He knew it was fake. Right? It had to be. Kabus was just some random monster guy from his dreams. But even when he tried to convince himself everything still felt so real. The dream was so vivid and so was seeing Kabus on the road. While he was home he couldn’t help but shake this overwhelming feeling of dread. He constantly felt like he was being watched. Luckily that night he didn’t have another nightmare, but he still felt paranoid and anxious the whole night. The next day he went to school and was feeling a bit better. He felt safer as he hadn’t seen Kabus again after the first appearances. During class he would try to draw Kabus in his sketchbook to remember what he looked like, and to make sure if he did see anything, he would be able to know if it was truly Kabus or not. After his first few classes he managed to meet up with Jack and Noah, and told them the story about what happened while they walked through the halls of the school. Luckily in their next class the three had study hall together so they could talk more.
Jack: “Jeez man I’m sorry you had to go through all that!”
Noah: “Yeah that sounds.. pretty freaky eheh..”
Jack: “You’re sure you saw him in real life?”
Cody: “Yeah well I don’t know what else it would’ve been.. unless it was just my mind playing tricks on me. But still..”
Cody sighed, still shuddering at the thought of Kabus.
Cody: “Do you guys want to see what he looked like? I drew him from memory in my sketchbook.”
The two nodded and Cody took out the book, showing them the drawing he did. The drawing sent chills down both of their spines. Even though it was just a drawing, and they didn’t even have any history with Kabus, the look of him just made the two unsettled.
Jack: “Woah..”
While they looked at, soon the window of the room opened up, and James stepped inside.
James: “Hey guys! What’s up?”
He wasn’t really going to school anymore because people thought he was a bit of a hazard, and he also knew it would be hard for him to go to school with him not only being a superhero, but also him obviously having a flame on his head. Luckily it didn’t make much smoke and what it did didn’t make any fire alarms go off.
Cody: “We’re talking about this weird nightmare I had recently.”
James: “Oh? What was it about?”
Cody explained the appearances of Kabus to James.
James: “Oh damn. So you think he’s real?”
Cody: “That’s the thing.. I don’t know. It wouldn’t be the craziest thing we’ve experienced. But it was also only two times. I don’t know if it’s just my mind playing tricks on me..”
The four boys kept talking about it a bit more when suddenly a voice was heard in Cody’s ears.
“IM HERE”
Cody winced and covered his ears, as the others looked at him in confusion.
Noah: “W-woah Cody what just happened?”
Jack: “Are you okay?”
James: “What the?”
Cody started breathing heavily again, his heart pounding, his eyes nearly tearing up.
Cody: “I-I just heard something! O-oh god please no..”
James: “It’s okay man there’s no one here! Deep breaths!”
Cody’s breathing started to slow down and his body stopped shaking, his breathing still shaky, but he started to calm down.
Cody: “A-Ah.. s-sorry.. I-I thought I heard something… m-must be hearing things…”
Cody smiles nervously, as the others look at him concerned.
Jack: “I think you should wait a few days and if this keeps going you should get it checked out.”
Cody: “Y-yeah.. alright.. I’ll try that..”
Cody sighs as they all calm down, and the rest of the day goes smoothly, without any problems. A week goes by though, and things continue to happen. Cody still can’t shake the feeling of being watched, he’s seen shadowy figures and eyes in the corner of his eye, and he sometimes hears voices in his head. Because of this Cody decides to go to a therapist to see what was going on. He went to the place where he was told to go, and sat down in a chair. A woman walked in and sat down on the other side of the room. She started asking Cody questions about what was happening. Cody explained his situation to the therapist.
Therapist: “So you have been having some nightmares?”
Cody: “No it’s not just nightmares. I’ve been seeing that guy pop up in real life too.. I’ve even heard his voice in my head sometimes..”
Therapist: “Hmm you must be experiencing some sort of lucid nightmares, as well as auditory and visual hallucinations.”
Cody: “Is there any way to stop them?”
Therapist: “Yes we could probably hook you up to some medicine and get rid of this Kabus guy within a week!”
Cody: “Alright thanks… wait a minute I never told you he was named Kabus?”
Immediately after he says this the room goes dark, and Cody’s mind starts getting bombarded by traumatic memories. His old cats deaths. His old friend breaking his arm right in front of him. The weird encounter with that one person “Kay”. The visions of him beating up Darkro which he now regretted knowing that was Jack. And of course the nightmare. Cody groaned loudly trying to cover his eyes but it was not working, as his heart started pounding, and it became hard for him to breathe. Cody couldn’t take it anymore so he screamed loudly into a shriek, and soon the visions started to stop, the world changing back to its normal colors being fully black, and he was still on the therapist's couch, His heart pounding, and breathing still heavy, as the therapist looked at him in concern.
Therapist: “This must be more serious than I thought.. did you have one of those visions just now?”
Cody: “Y-yeah.. w-wait how do I know you’re not just Kabus?”
Therapist: “Kabus? Who’s that?”
Cody: “O-oh.. n-never mind..”
Cody finishes calming down and thanks the therapist, before leaving disappointed, not thinking it has done anything to help him. The next day he begrudgingly went to school, and met up with his friends. They noticed by now Cody seemed sleep deprived, dark circles and bags around his eyes, and he was barely talking which was strange for Cody.
Jack: “Hey Cody you okay?”
Cody: “Y-yeah.. just.. tired…”
Noah; “Are you sure? I mean you definitely look tired but it seems like.. more than that..”
Cody: “W-well.. ugh… it keeps happening.. Kab-”
Before he can finish James pops through another again, and finds them, luckily with not many people noticing him.
James: “Yo what’s up guys! Oh jeez Cody.. you look pretty bad.. no offense or anything..”
Cody: “Nah no worries. It’s just.. the Kabus thing keeps happening.. I’m starting to think he might be.. r-real.”
Jack: “Well c'mon be rational. I bet you’re just really stressed and the reason it’s not going away is you’re stressed out from him, making it some endless loop. You just have to stop caring or paying attention to it!”
“Oh no… I can assure you that I am very real…”
Cody: “O-oh god it’s back..”
Jack: “W-wait no.. I-I.. I heard that too?!”
James: “So did me and Noah!”
They all look at each other in fear, Cody’s breath starting to shake and Noah whimpering in fear. They all look around to where they see a crowd of students running in their direction screaming, and once it clears, they see Kabus on the far end of the hall, starting to walk towards them. Cody quickly changes into his suit that was in his bag and stuffing the bag into a locker, and grabbing The Shocker, as Jack did the same, changing into his revamped Darkro suit, while James’ flame glowed brighter and his hands balled into fists, while Noah changed to his water form. Cody retracted The Shocker, and held it in front of him, glaring up at Kabus, the rest of the group standing their ground behind him in preparation, as Kabus walked closer towards them.
Kabus: “Hello Cody.. Fancy seeing you here.”
Kabus chuckled as he towered over Cody, looking down at him in amusement.
Cody: “Shut up. I’m not here for small talk..”
Cody snapped, glaring up at Kabus, the fear in his eyes now replaced with unrequited anger.
Kabus: “Oh feisty now are we? I’ll just have to fix that… by ending you!”
Kabus laughs, his red eyes glowing with an evil sense of joy.
Cody: “I’d like to see you try you smokey bastard! At least I don’t look like the cause of lung cancer!”
Kabus: “Oh? Down to lowly insults to defend yourself? How amusing. Now you’ll soon watch as everything you know and breaks down..”
Cody: “Shut up carbon guy! You seem to ruin the planet as much as CO2 does!”
Kabus growls angrily, starting to grow tired of Cody’s insults.
Kabus: “Shut it boy! You really need to know your place!”
Kabus swipes one of his claws at Cody, but he quickly retracts his hand back as James shoots a small flame at him, burning his hand.
Kabus: “Gah! You little! Fine! I’ll eat you like the barbecued meat you are!”
Kabus grows a sharp dark tentacle, the same from Jack, but much bigger, and he tries to stab James with it, but Jack uses his own tentacles to stop it, before Noah sprays him in the face with a blast of water, knocking Kabus back. Kabus yells in anger, before swiping Cody, knocking him into the lockers, and kicking Jack to the floor. James helps Cody and Jack up, while Noah shoots more water into Kabus’ eyes. Kabus continues to yell, and slaps Noah, splashing the water he was made out of and causing him to go back to his human state, letting Kabus punch him, knocking him back into the wall.
Kabus: “Weak! You are all so weak!! You can’t kill a god! I will end you all!!!”
Cody: “Oh shut up Mr Boogeyman!”
Kabus: “Raaaah! I’m going to- wait, what did you just call me?”
Cody: “I called you boogeyman, man!”
Kabus grabs Cody by the throat and slams him against the wall, causing Cody to strain in a bit of pain.
Kabus: “NEVER call me that again.”
Cody: “B-Boogeyman..”
Cody smirks but Kabus immediately throws him upward into the ceiling, smashing the fragile material, as well as one of the lights, making the hallway dimmer, before Cody falls to the floor. The others start running at Kabus, but he easily overpowers them. He starts changing into multiple different forms, firstly an extremely skinny body with no legs, and the body protruding from the floor, making him extremely hard to hit, aside from his bulbous head. He grabs Noah, as he tries to change back to water to get away, but his fear stops him from using it, and Kabus is about to bite into him with his sharp jagged teeth, but James jumps up, hitting him right in the head with one of his flaming fists, making Kabus drop Noah, and changing into a different form, this time with no mouth, with a lanky, slim body, horns shaped like a crescent moon, and multiple eyes on his face. He sprouts out multiple tentacles to fight off the team, but Cody sneaks up on him from behind and jumps on his back, trying to pull him down.
Cody: “These eyes have a blind spot eh boogey?”
This form of Kabus stretches its face and ends up ripping and tearing a mouth, with grotesque bits of skin still attached, and it shrieks, causing the other three to fall over from shock, and he makes a dark spike shoot out of his back, into Cody’s stomach.
Cody: “A-Ah! God dammit, every time!”
The spike retracts, and Cody falls to the floor, bleeding out as Kabus changes back to his first form, standing over Cody, giving him a crazed terrifying smile as he looks down at Cody.
Kabus: “Ah. You know it’s quite the shame that it’s always the brave fools who have to die..”
Kabus creates a dark blade that replaces his hand, preparing to end Cody with it, but he feels a sharp pain coming from his own back, making him shriek, looking back and seeing Jack had stabbed through him. Kabus grabbed him and threw him to the floor like Cody.
Kabus: “Oh silly Jacky… and that was the second time you’ve backstabbed someone..”
Cody: “Shut up!!!”
Cody shoots a bolt of lightning at Kabus, but Kabus blocks it with an arm, barely feeling anything. He smirks at the two downed boys and starts going for the other two, going for Noah and James, while Jack and Cody try to get their composure. Jack created a sort of cloth or cast like thing from his darkness and wrapped it around Cody’s stab wound, and soon helped him up.
Cody: “Hey boogeyman down here!”
Cody yells, making Kabus enraged, turning around to swipe at him, but Cody slides under his legs, and James, Noah, and Cody beat him down in the back, while Jack goes for the front. Kabus shrieks and throws them off of him, but even when far away, they keep hitting him with their respective powers. Kabus screams and grabs Cody by the collar, staring into his eyes angrily, as Cody stares at him with a smug grin.
Kabus: “Fine. You win for now you pest. But one day I WILL be back. Oh and soon… HE will come… you haven’t seen the last of me…”
Cody: “That was a pretty generic evil villain speech.”
Kabus growls and throws him to the floor, before the smoke he was made out of dissipates and he is gone. The team tried to get to their feet, still disoriented from the battle, but they quickly went to the locker room, and changed out of their suits. They got to leave school early because of the panic, and so they all met up at Cody’s house to hang out for the rest of the day. That night though when Cody was finally able to sleep, he had the best sleep of his life, and he didn’t even have a thought about Kabus.
The Heterodontist -- 4 of 7: Schism by Charlie-0186, literature
Literature
The Heterodontist -- 4 of 7: Schism
Schism
"I argue that it's a bit like the ancient Chinese practice of foot-binding," Jimmy continued. "The price for a debutante's beautiful smile could end up being a lifetime of pain and debilitation. You're not the only one with sleeping problems. What keeps me awake at night is wondering how many of them were my patients as children. And how often I might have made things worse. And why I treated them the way I did despite having all the information I needed to make better decisions. I remember reading an excellent paper in the early eighties that raised the alarm, but I ignored it because I wasn't ready to listen. Nobody was. That's the problem with a paradigm. Most subsequent studies have concluded that standard techniques are safe and effective. Reading them more carefully now, the obvious shortcoming is that very few consider long-term effects. The magnitude of the problem is becoming apparent only now that large numbers of patients are maturing."
"It must have made
Chapter 30. Modus Operandi by bringerofdeathDBZ, literature
Literature
Chapter 30. Modus Operandi
(Previous Chapter) (Next Chapter) Android Saga - Part 4: Modus Operandi His arms stretched straight forward, Krillin flew in the rear next to Trunks, whose presence was overshadowed by Goku and Vegeta and allowed him to slip into the background. Despite being one of the weakest Z fighters, he still took the threat of the androids seriously. He intended to use the opportunity flying to Bulma's to be the first to individually discuss things with the time traveling half Saiyan."So, Trunks, do you really think that if you team up with Goku and Vegeta that the three of you will be able to take on these androids? Not that I'm doubting y...