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Chapter 1,

By Hekyl and Jekyl

Time period, near end of Gremlins 2, the new batch, year 1990

Note, we assume Phantom died with the rest, but we know what becomes of people who ASSume...We never saw him staying around...but right now, picture him sneaking out just after his mask was snatched off by that dolled up gremlin.

Phantom's personal quote, borrowed in part from History by Fallout Boy

"The movie's all wrong, the kids are all off.

Heavy metal broke my...HEART!"

*Waves baton*

Phantom had injected himself with some of the sunblock the admittedly enterprising Brain had just made and headed outside. He didn't like the light, but he planned to find somewhere shady and quiet to hide. HE needed time alone to collect himself and just...well to hurt in private. That stupid SOB who'd thrown acid in his face had wisely melted into a crowd of other Gremlins so Phantom hadn't been able to find him to execute a fitting revenge, I.E making the little turd gargle with the acid he was obviously so fond of.

That very thought soothed Phantom's pain a little, causing him to giggle in satisfaction. Then he growled under his breath BECAUSE the act of giggling hurt his face. It really hurt! He'd put on a brave front, not wanting to be the laughing stock, tormented and bullied for his weakness...He knew how it was with his lot, after all. Especially stupid George liked to bully and likely Brain would get rid of anyone he saw to be the weakest link too. Not that it had been Phantom's fault he'd gotten acid thrown in his face, but who was ever fair? Not that such bothered him unless he was on the wrong end of it, the gremlin had to admit. Phantom sighed and realized happily that sighing didn't hurt his face. One learned to be grateful for the little things, he thought darkly.

Outside of the science building there were stairs and a cement overhang under them that looked nice and shady. The scarred gremlin hurried to shelter himself under this, mind angrily playing over what had finally made him need to retreat. The stupid cow Gremlin in that stupid dress had pulled off his mask! At least the mask had looked cool and because of her...him...it, the mask had gotten torn. Phantom had no dignity, his face hurt, and his lack of a mask showed both to the world, effectively making him most probably the weakest link, just a bit above that stupid Gizmo creature! Yes it was definitely more humiliating to be a Gizmo than a scarred gremlin. Phantom sighed again as he wondered if he'd ever be in the mood to be around the others again.

"Hey! What happened to your face?"

The gremlin voice made Phantom snarl and spin round to the left, glaring. He obviously was in no mood for company. His eyes widened at the sight that met them. It was...it had to be...but how could it be?

"Stripe?"

He'd heard of Stripe. They claimed Mohawk was like him, but Phantom thought Stripe's eyes looked more curious and amused than vicious, at least right now.

"Yes, but...how did you know that?"

"I guess you're some sort of legend. They say Gizmo is frightened of Mohawk because of you."

Then Phantom remembered the original question.

"Some stupid asshole threw acid in my face. It hurts."

Stripe shuddered slightly.

"I'm sure it does! Sorry about that."

Phantom gave a slight nod.

"Thanks"

Stripe nodded back, then gritted his teeth.

"Gizmo. I'm glad someone exists to terrorize him. Even better that who ever it is reminds him of me. Good. That's good."

Stripe's eyes glittered with satisfaction as his teeth gritted. His dislike for Gizmo was clear. Not abnormal, Phantom observed. As they all saw it, the little creature turned on his own kind to cuddle up to the soft weak humans as a matter of course.

Apparently still thinking of Gizmo as well, Stripe snarled, hands lifting and claws raking at the air as his eyes flashed.

"I was just playing and he and that stupid human of his tried to kill me! Nothing I did...nothing any of us gremlins did back then was worth being killed for. But I'm the bad guy because I chose to protect myself?"

Though Stripe spoke quietly, his voice was full of hard anger. Phantom felt his eyes going round.

"Really? They tried to..."

"Yes," Stripe hissed.

"It was an unpleasant surprise for me as well. Apparently having a little fun gets you killed. Everyone thinks Gizmo is so sweet and cute, but he tried to kill me! Yet somehow he's still the good guy. Though he deserved it, practically begged to be killed several times, I never tried to kill him ever! I just wanted to play and have fun. All of us did. You know, messing with stuff, watching the humans react...pulling their screamy strings..."

He giggled, expression lightening briefly before it darkened and grew angry once again.

"The killing me was Billy's idea first but that little fake fluffball had no problem adapting, that's for sure," the white striped gremlin concluded.

To be continued

Well. There are always at least 2 sides to every story and we hope you enjoyed hearing Stripe's take on what happened in the first film. If you'd like to check out more rare Gremlins stuffs check out our Jekyll Hyde Club channel on you tube to see our rare action figure reviews from the 80's and 90 Gremlins films. We are going to review several figures, so subscribe and keep up with the stories here as well. There is a sample chapter up on you tube in the comments of the first Stripe figure review from 1984.