A/N: First things first. Yes I changed my username. It is now VictoryX2292. I think for a little while it'll still show up as Vampgirl2292 but eventually it will change. Secondly, thanks for coming this far in reading. As for some of you new comers this is my 5th story of the Killjoys series. I hope you enjoy. Please R&R. Disclaimer: I don't own MCR (iwishthough). These characters are not literal depictions of the band's real personalities. They are just tid bits I've made up and fan-friendly inside jokes. Enjoy :D.
Victory was dreaming. She was sure of it. There was a strange swirl of sounds and images. Suddenly she found herself in the hospital room where she first remembered waking up. The lights were out except for a strange dim blue film as if she were seeing everything through a colored lens.
"Hello?" Her voice echoed. She was standing in in front of the hospital bed where she woke up. More strange pictures flashed through her mind. Colorful images of the desert, the sound of two boys laughing.
"What the hell is going on?" She shouted only to have her echo shout back. Shinu was standing on the other side of the bed. She picked up cord lying on the bed. It looked like something you would hook into a TV. There was a sharp needle sticking out of it.
"It is not time yet to remember, the more you try to access lost memories the harder your brain will try to stop you. The answer is there somewhere, but it is not time to access them. Now it is time to wake up, Victory." Shinu said. She poked her finger on the needle. A drop of Blood fell on the white cotton sheet. "Wake up." Shinu repeated in a sharp whisper.
"Wake up, Victory. Wake up."
"NO! Tell me more!" Victory shouted. She shot up gasping for air. Her hand clung to her heart as it raced fast.
"Victory! It was just a dream." Gerard said hugging her close. She sucked in air trying to catch her breath.
"Shinu!" Victory cried biting her lip. "She was there I saw her." She gripped the material of his shirt tightly.
"She's gone now. Shhh, it's ok. We're home." Gerard hushed her. They were still in the van after a several day trip back from New York. They got little sleep in the bumpy van ride. Any sleep Victory did get was riddled with nightmares and scattered memories forced out of her mind by whatever BL/ind had done to them.
Gerard opened the door to the van letting the sun in. They both squinted as the light blinded them. The van was parked outside of the old diner. Victory stretched before she jumped out. Show Pony was already out of the van stretching himself in awkward positions.
"That's something you hope to see the second you wake up." Victory said sarcastically. Just then Frank pulled up in the Trans-Am. Baby Doll and Mikey hopped out first over the side. Ray and Static Pyro did the same. Frank turned off the car and got out.
"This is why we never do far jobs." Frank said cracking his back. Baby Doll and Mikey held hands as they brushed past him.
"I don't know. I kinda liked the trip." She said with a wink.
"That's because you two never stopped sucking face the whole trip back!" Frank growled. Static Pyro snickered.
"That goes for you too, Giggles!" Frank snapped a finger towards her. This just resulted in more laughter.
"Look at you man, parental figure and fun killer! Who'd a thought it?" Ray teased.
"Go to hell man!" Frank said opening the doors to the diner. "I've been driving for three days and!"
"And! I bet you didn't even bring me anything." Boomer said standing before him.
"GAH!" Frank jumped back. She was standing in the doorway holding Helena's hand. "Devil child!" He pointed. Helena giggled and ran for Victory and Gerard.
Victory scooped her up and hugged her tight. She kissed her on the cheeks repeatedly.
"Oh my baby I missed you!" She said through kisses. Helena giggled and tried to push away.
"Mama 'top !" Helena protested as she laughed. Victory pulled her back and looked at her strangely.
"Did….did she just say 'Mama stop? Did she just….speak?" Victory stammered. Gerard looked at her stunned.
"I….think so." He said taking Helena's hand.
"This is the first time she's said anything other than 'No'." Boomer said raising an eyebrow. "It's all she ever said while you guys were gone….actually it sounded like nob…but we got the meaning."
"Helena can you say 'Dada'?" Gerard asked taking her from Victory. She smiled and kissed him on the cheek.
"Dada!" She said squirming and got on the ground.
"Ugh…." Frank sighed. They all turned to look at him.
"What the hell is your problem?" Victory said putting a hand on her hip. Frank grimaced.
"I'm actually finding this all to be…cute…ugh!" He gagged and shook himself like there was a spider on him. "God damn, where's Cherri?" He ripped open the door and went inside.
Ray picked up Helena and they all went into the diner.
"Can you say Ray-ray?" Static Pyro said letting Helena grip her index finger.
"Way-way poof!" Helena smiled and grabbed a hand full of Ray's hair. "Poof-poof."
"Thanks…." Ray sighed. "I am now Poof-poof."
They met with Dr. Death inside. He was sitting by the old record player setting up some old speakers. Dr. Death turned.
"Now who are these two little hot tamales?" Dr. Death asked eyeing up Baby Doll and Static Pyro.
"Doc, this is Baby Doll, and Static Pyro. We met them in New York. Ladies this is Dr. Death Defy. Dr. Death or Doc for short." Ray said.
"Try to keep away from his hands. He's known for ass grabbing." Mikey whispered. Dr. Death smacked him with his cane.
"I heard that you punk! Jus' cause I'mma cripple don' mean I can' kick yo ass!" Mikey defended himself as Dr. Death wacked him with the cane.
"Now…." Dr. Death sighed putting his cane down. "What do I owe the pleasure of these…fine ladies company?" He eyed them up again.
"That's what we need to talk to you about." Gerard said. He started explaining their adventures in New York and about the man, Dr. Zulo who was behind BL/ind this whole time. He told him in great detail everything that had happened.
Meanwhile:
Frank ripped open the door to the diner and ran to the back where the old shacks were.
"Cherri?" He shouted. The wind made the sheets covering the shack doors billow.
"Frank?" He could hear her in the one that used to be his. He pulled back the curtain.
"Cherri! Oh my god I've missed you!" He smiled running in. She quickly pulled a blanket over her.
"No don't look at me!" She cried.
"What the hell!" Frank stopped.
"Stop right there Frank Iero! I don't want you to see me like this, especially after the way I told you how…I was…" Cherri started crying.
"What? Cherri. It's fine. Really I'm ok with you being pregnant. I've grown up a lot since I've left." Frank pried the blanket back.
"But…I'm….I'm…..FAAATTT!" She sobbed covering up her stomach. There was a sigh. Frank turned to find Boomer standing at the frame of the door holding Helena's hand.
"She's been like this for about two weeks." Boomer rolled her eyes. "She found out she's having twins so she keeps saying she's big."
Cherri sat up. Tears streamed her cheeks.
"She's also like, super hormonal. Any time we brought up your name she'd start sobbing." Boomer said annoyed.
"….twins….t-twins….We're having….t-twins?" Frank stuttered.
"WEENS!" Helena shouted and put her arms in the air and then clapped her hands.
Cherri started crying again. Frank looked down at her stomach. It was about the size of a small ball. Frank thought back to the twins he'd met in New York. He wrapped his arms around Cherri.
"This is WONDERFUL!" Frank shouted.
"R-really?" She sniffled. Frank pulled her back and kissed her.
"Yes!" He smiled. "I have to tell you about our trip. You'd love these kids I worked with. Oh I'm so excited! I have so much to tell you!" He jumped up and down. Helena ran and jumped on his lap.
"You worked with kids?" Cherri asked tilting her head.
"Yeah it was great! They were amazing little killjoys! I think I can handle having children. Our kids will be two amazing babies a little smaller than Helena. How hard can that be?" As he said that Helena gripped his long hair and pulled as she jumped right on his crotch. He let out a grunt and went stiff.
"Oooh….looks like those will be the only kids you're having, Cherri." Boomer said wincing.
Later everyone met in the main part of the diner. Gerard was going over the plans to go for the Hospital Victory had woken up in.
"We just need Baby Doll and Static to help out in case of an attack. We know Dr. Zulo doesn't want to kill us, but he plans on trying to do something to the children. Cherri is the most vulnerable right now. Baby Doll and Static will help guard while we are away. I'm not sure how long this will take but we will be back as soon as we can. For now you all should stay here and away from the housing complexes. Dr. Death has set up a monitoring system in several zones. In the event of an attack you will go in the fallout until we return." Gerard finished and crossed his arms. The group nodded together. "We'll get some rest tonight and head out in the morning."
That Night:
Dr. Death kept watch over the screens while the others slept. All the couples were in their own shacks while Boomer slept in Victory's old shack. Show Pony slept on the floor while he waited for Dr. Death to wake him up for his shift to watch the screens. Everyone except Victory and Gerard were asleep. Cherri and Boomer had made a small crib for Helena while they were gone. Victory could hear Helena breathing while she slept. Gerard had an arm around her while she rested on his chest.
"You need to sleep." He whispered.
"I can't." She whispered back. "I keep trying to remember. The memories are there. I know they are. I just can't get anything solid."
"I know. We all have been trying. Just as I think I start to remember something it's like its cut from my mind and replaced by something false. The only thing I can tell that makes them false is the strange feel about them. It's like I'm watching through someone else's eyes." She couldn't see it but he was staring perplexed at the tin roof. "They took our memories for a reason and I plan to find out why."
The next morning they said their goodbyes and headed off into the forgotten parts of Battery City. Victory remembered very well where the Hospital was. She remembered waking up and having hundreds of wires stuck to her. She remembered ripping them off, trying to know where she was, or even what her name was.
Her mouth was dry. The light was bright. Her skin burned as she pulled off the wires stuck to her. She tried to cry for help but her throat was as if she hadn't had a drink in days. The room was entirely white. Several beds lined beside her with a large black cord laying on each of them. The room had no windows, only a large door with a strange key pad on it. It looked like you had to slide a key through it. She took one of the wires sticking out from the chair and bent it in half. She slid it through and the light turned green. FINGER PRINT. The keypad demanded. Slowly she put her finger up and to her surprise the door clicked open. She looked down the halls and saw two guards in white. They had strange masks on. The second one of them fired she took off and ran as fast as she could. She made it up the stairs and ran out of the hospital doors. It looked like she was in a small city. It gave her chills to see how empty it was. Suddenly she heard more shots fired ran. One of the masked men in white came out from behind her but she twirled around and rolled out of the way. Instinctively she kicked low and knocked it to the ground. Then she should have known something was up. No normal person reacts that fast. But she wasn't thinking about that. All she cared about was getting away. So she ran, fast, and hard. Finally she made it to the desert and collapsed from exhaustion, and well…she knew the rest from there.
"We're here." Gerard said shutting off the car. This part of the city had been shut down after the bombings. Its location was hidden by fallen skyscrapers and fallen ruins. The rebels had bombed the hospitals after BL/ind used them to start making their "Patients" into Draculoids. But this place was overlooked from the bomber planes. It was a small hospital that looked like it was only one level high, when in reality it had several floors underground in the event of a bombing.
Victory held her breath as she stepped inside. The flashbacks hit her with every step. The group was behind her as she led them down the stairs and into the dark hospital room where she had woken up. Ray flicked the light on.
"I'll be damned." He whispered as their eyes fell on the five white gurneys. It was just as she had left it. "It's a Memory Chamber."
"A what?" Gerard asked taking Victory's hand. She couldn't take her eyes off of the gurneys.
"A Memory Chamber, it's a room where you are set up and a person can have full access to your mind. Here they can change anything they want. I mean brain washing is one thing. You can wake up from that but this…it takes a machine to undo this kind of work. That's why Sunshine was able to snap out of it the first time after you kissed her." He said to Gerard. Victory blushed remembering the kiss in the lobby.
"This they hook up a machine to your brain and can do whatever they want. Then you hook up to it again to gain access to old memories. This is the answer. This is how we get our memories back!" Ray said running to a large machine.
"Wait!" Frank shouted. "You want us to hook up this wire to our brains! That's fucking crazy!" Frank picked up the wire. A large needle stuck out of it.
"It's completely safe trust me." Ray assured him.
"Yeah it's just a giant ass needle in our brains. No biggie." Mikey said picking one up and poking it.
"This will help us remember?" Victory said running her fingers along the bed. Ray turned on the machine. It buzzed loudly. Soon the wires lit up and buzzed with the machine. Mikey jumped and dropped the wire.
"If all goes well yes, but it will take a little time. A few hours maybe. All of our memories will combine into one. It'll be like reliving it. To us it'll feel like days, year's maybe. It just depends on how much they changed." Ray said pressing a button then walking to one of the beds.
Gerard kept his eyes on Victory.
"You don't have to do thi-"
"I'll do it." Victory said sitting in the bed. "I'll do whatever it takes to remember."
Gerard took the bed next to her and held her hand. Ray gently placed the wire into each of their heads. They winced as it pinched. Gerard helped Ray put his in and they all lied back. The wires stuck out through a small hole. Ray lifted his hand revealing a thin remote with a red button.
"Are we ready?" Ray asked taking a deep breath. Gerard gave him a thumb up along with the others.
"Let's just hope there aren't any side effects." Mikey said casually. Ray pushed the button.
"SIDE EFFECTS?" Frank shouted.
The world faded to black.
"RESTORATION AT ZERO PERCENT." A computerized female voice sounded.
A/N: Hope you liked it. The next chapter might be a week or two. Internet troubles. But I'll get it as soon as I can. Please R&R to let me know what you thought. :D
