Chapter 1
Heloise sat looking along the city line of Miseryville. She sighed, looking down upon the demonic and monstrous denizens from the only window in her laboratory at Misery, Inc. A rare sense of sadness overcame the miniscule inventor. She hated hanging around all by herself all day. She rarely got a break from her job, and it was taking its toll. Heloise watched as a young hyperactive 14-year-old boy with blonde hair danced and jumped and laughed with a 17-year-old red demon. The boy's name was Jimmy Two-Shoes, and the demon's Beezy.
"C'mon Jimmy, do the damned stunt already!" cried Beezy, with Jimmy's dog, Cerbee, watching with a hanging tongue and cheerful eye.
"Ok, Beezy!" cried Jimmy, giving a thumbs up.
He proceeded to do some random extreme stunt. Heloise wasn't paying attention to the stunt, more the one committing the crazy deed. She sighed as the boy did umpteen flips, and probably a million spins. His crooked smile made Heloise melt inside. She watched as he landed flat on his face. The young girl gasped.
"I'm ok…" Jimmy groaned, grinning. Heloise gave a sigh of relief. It had been five years. Five bloody years, since the one they called Two-Shoes had moved to Miseryville. Indeed, it was at first sight that Heloise realized that Cupid did actually exist. The boy showed such a kindness to her that the cold, dead embrace that clenched her black heart had been dispensed from her. She ran millions of painful, torturous tests on herself, trying to determine what she felt. But she realized what it was when Jimmy gave her a hug one day. It was love, and it burned deeply within her. Heloise always thought she couldn't feel love. Oh, what a fool she had been! There was no cure, no medicine, no way out. She was in love with Jimmy Two-Shoes. And Heloise wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
"HELOISE!" screamed a familiar voice. It was none other than Lucius Heinous VII. The ruler of Miseryville was no taller than her, but he was a lot meaner. And could inflict way more misery. "Is the new invention ready?" he demanded. "Hmm? Oh, uh… no…" Heloise said rather sleepily. "Well finish it!" screamed her boss. Heloise scowled. She turned back to her work. She began scribbling on some blueprints, when the petite genius began to daydream…
It was a large empty field. Heloise and Jimmy were standing there, amongst the loneliness. Jimmy was motionless. Heloise turned and looked at him, and in turn, he turned and looked at her. He smiled. She smiled. "Jimmy," Heloise began. "There's something I've been meaning to say. It's been festering within my heart for so long, and I can't bear to keep it hidden for any longer." Jimmy gave that stupid smile of his. Heloise gave a schoolgirl-with-a-crush sigh. "Jimmy, I… I…"
Heloise awoke. She had been doodling all over the blueprints, drawing hearts and 'Mrs. Heloise Two-Shoes.' She giggled to herself. Heloise looked out the window. And saw something that shocked her.
"Oh, Two-Shoes!" It was Lucius. "What's up, Lucy?" Lucius nearly exploded with rage, but he calmed himself. "Will you kindly put your head down this hole?" he asked. There was, as Lucius had said, a hole in the ground. Heloise watched with a face of suspicion. "Sure!" cried Jimmy. He did so, then-BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM! A geyser of lava shot up from said hole. Jimmy flew upwards and, with an audible thump, fell back down. His whole body was burnt up, blood dripped from his mouth and nose. Heloise watched as Lucius laughed at the suffering boy. And laughed. And laughed. And laughed.
Rage came quickly, swelling up within the young scientist. Heloise's eyes filled with fire, a fire she had not felt in ages. Only when she received that warm embrace from Two-Shoes did she feel it. Heloise knew she needed to do something. But not one of her usual plots. She needed something that will change everything. Heloise threw together everything in her lab, with hopes of creating that something. Five minutes later, she had it: a doomsday bomb. As clichéd as it was, she personally never made on herself. Heloise closed her eyes, her finger resting ever so lightly on the detonation button. "I love you…" she whispered to herself. "Jimmy…"
And then suddenly, in a single soundless event of light, Miseryville became enveloped by the explosion. And Heloise felt no pain.