Never Ending Nightmare
By Miss-DNL
Chapter 2: Escape through the BIG HEAD!
The streets during the night in the nightmare realm seemed empty, save for Johnny C but that was just on the surface of things. Hidden terrors lurked everywhere, why since there wasn't any hormonal teenagers or stupid adults to hunt was anyone's guess. Maybe it was just their nature to lurk? Lurking was pretty natural for monsters. Nightmare Nny would say it's because their moronic fools that couldn't defy their own nature, constantly making up excuses so as to avoid breaking the mold. From there he'd go on a rant making some good points before spiraling down into a rant of sheer insanity that would make sense to him but no one else.
Johnny continued on his way back to his rotting shack, blissfully sucking on his Brain Freezy, it was one of the few things he enjoyed in his seemingly never ending, horrid excuse for an existence. As such when he was denied said cherished Brain Freezy he'd either kill the one that denied him it or try to kill himself not wanting to suffer further cruelty, sometimes both (Oh the inhumanity!). His mouth twitched recalling the she monster he'd killed via Mentos and diet poop soda, she'd shut off the Freezy machine ten minute early! Ten! Right when he'd come in too! He kindly asked for her to turn it on, aware it'd only take a short few minutes, but she told him to fuck off (how rude)!
Naturally, he returned her un-kindness by pinning her to a wall by stabbing knives through her hands and cramming Mentos down her throat. It was a spectacle to behold when she blew up once diet soda was added. Unfortunately his mouth had been open and he got some of her filthy blood in his mouth. Of course he ran outside and rubbed his tongue along the ground, which he them remember was just as filthy. So he ran screaming back to his home and downed what he had left of mouthwash, then everything was right as rain! Yay!
He may be a serial killer but he does not like body fluids of any kind in his mouth! Who knows what disgusting things his victims have been rolling in! Nny always cringed at the thought of licking blood off a dagger, that's what rags were for, for crying out loud that's disgusting! Why did killers in movies do that? They could contract a disease! As insane as he was, Johnny felt he was the only one with common sense some-most of the-nearly all of the time
Ignoring the lurking Nightmares Johnny C continued slurping down his Brain Freezy, mentally pondering how to kill Fred. Decapitation tended to work. I haven't used my hacksaw in a while, Johnny thought to himself.
"I HAVE DONE IT! MY LATEST INVENTION IS COMPLETE!"
Johnny jumped, nearly losing his precious Brain Freezy in the process. Frantically he fumbled for the falling drink, catch it he froze, looking like a startled, starved cat…with horns. Nny darted his big purple eyes over to where the yell had come from. The Nightmare Membrane's house, of course. Only Nightmare Membrane could yell so loudly, Johnny wondered if his real counterpart was so obnoxious. He didn't doubt it. He was based on the real thing after all.
He heard and irate grumble follow his yell, likely Nightmare Gaz, "Keep it down…"
Nny arched a brow, wondering how he could hear that, he spotted the window to the basement was open. How convenient. Johnny C tapped his chin thoughtfully, something about this had him curious. It was wrong to eavesdrop, then again was it eavesdropping if the one you were listening to yelled nearly everything they said? Nny scratched his shaved head, grumbling, "I hate dilemmas like this…"
Thankfully for the plot Nightmare Membrane continued to yell.
"My dimensional scope is COMPLETE!"
Now Johnny's interest was caught, so after quickly, and noisily finishing his Brain Freezy he crept up to the small open slot-like window. If the dimensional scope was what he thought it was, he definitely wanted in on this. Peering through the window, with no fear of being caught, Johnny looked into the dark colored, yet surprisingly well lit, lab of Nightmare Membrane. Plenty of wicked looking machines were around the room, some of them even impressed Nny with how torturous they looked. The Nny and Membrane were two of the most inventive Nightmares, preferring to use tools than their own claws.
Sitting on one of the warped tables was Nightmare Gaz, sucking in a disgusting manner, on a juice box straw. How she preferred to "work" was a mystery to Nny, even he didn't know what her method was. Surely it was horrific though.
Johnny looked back to the ghostly appearing Nightmare Membrane he was holding up what Nny assumed was the scope, "With this we'll be able to escape the world of Nightmares to the Real World!"
Nny's eyes widened in pure awe, suddenly that scope was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen, which was sort of disturbing. He snapped back to the wretched thing called reality and continued listening to the loud mouthed (he has a noise hole right?) Nightmare Membrane, "All we need is one more part from the scope at the Skool."
Nightmare Gaz arched a brow, "Then it really isn't complete yet."
She had a point, much to the ghostly professor's chagrin, one of his goggled eyes twitched, "It will be complete soon." He corrected, earning a huff from his technical daughter.
Picking her up Nightmare Membrane carried her on one arm to the front door. Soon they'd be free of this world, and without Nightmare Bitters they'd actually be able to have fun without worrying about the Real World being ruined in a few years. As much as the thought of destroying the whole freaking world was, it was a short lasting type of fun. They didn't want to contend with other Nightmares for territory either, nor immediately alerting the armed forces. That'd be a pain in the rear to deal with.
Hopefully they didn't run into other Nightmares while they snuck into the Skool, Nightmare Bitter's improvised castle. With his ghostly abilities it wouldn't be too had to get in and out, but if they did he had a stun gun ready, made by himself of course. They didn't have time to get kill happy, especially since up close and personal wasn't his forte. Yes, all they had to do was avoid getting found out.
Opening the door he was met with the dark figure of Johnny C. Drat. If Nightmare Membrane wasn't pale enough already he was sure ghostly white now.
Inwardly he scrambled to gather himself, trying to recall if had done anything to antagonize the homicidal Nightmare. Nothing came to mind, at least nothing he could think of. Clearing his throat he played innocent, "Well, hello there Johnny what brings you to my home?"
"Hey Johnny." Nightmare Gaze greeted a slight perk to her head.
Lowering his head to her level a smile slithered its way on to Johnny's lips, "Hello Gaz. It's been some time." He greeted, the two had a mutual understanding as they shared similar disdain for those around them. Straightening himself he eyed the ghostly Nightmare evenly, arms crossed behind his back, "I know about your dimensional scope."
Double Drat. Nightmare Gaz huffed and crossed her skeletal thin arms, "It told you to keep it down…" She said dryly, for a so called genius Nightmare Membrane could be a real moron.
Nightmare Membrane shot his daughter a disapproving look which was easily ignored. Looking back to the skinny Nightmare at his door the ghostly one's expression turned more fearful. He like many others were aware of what he was capable of, what he was willing to do. Despite being ghostly, he could still be harmed, and he didn't want a maniac like Johnny C hunting him down. He could be very determined when it came to murder. Clearing his throat he spoke, "Ah, yes, what about it?"
Nny raised himself on his toes, getting in Membrane's face, "I know what it does, and…" He paused dramatically (oooooh, suspense!).
"And?" Nightmare Membrane repeated, somewhat curiously.
Suddenly Johnny grabbed him by his coat collar and pulled him down, causing the taller Nightmare's life to flash before his goggled eyes. It was neat, and horrifying seeing as he thought he was about to be stabbed to death. However, and good for him, no stabbing came.
"Take me with you!" Johnny screeched, shaking the ghostly professor. He paused a moment, and grinned in an exaggerated manner, "Please." He said as he let go.
Righting himself Nightmare Membrane adjusted his goggles, eyeing the homicidal maniac warily, "And what happens if I don't…?"
Johnny chuckled, "Well, if you don't…" in a flash he simultaneously grabbed the professor again and produced a knife, seemingly out of nowhere. "I'll stab you in the ghosty parts!" He yelled before his voice fell to a more questioning tone, "And honestly did you even need to ask?"
Nightmare Membrane shrugged, "No, just wanted to make sure. And just to be clear, what are the "ghosty parts"?"
"Oh," Johnny said before narrowing his eyes, getting threatening again, "All of them."
Gaz chuckled to herself, enjoying her supposed Father getting threatened at knife point. Glancing her seemingly eternally narrowed eyes at the ghostly Membrane she dully says, "Just let him come, we could use his murdering skill just in case." Her upper lip curled upward cruelly, "Or not, I wouldn't mind seeing you get stabbed repeatedly."
Nightmare Membrane shot another look at the small horror he was carrying. Ignoring her dark jab he considered the idea, not liking the idea of being stabbed or crossing Johnny in general he nodded. The gesture appeased the dark skinned Nightmare causing him to let go. Straighten once more Membrane gave his answer, "Very well, it would be useful if you came. We just need to get a part from the dimensional scope that's in the Skool."
"I'm aware." Johnny stated normally.
"Yes, and before we go we need to put on these!" Nightmare Membrane exclaimed pulling out three watch-like things, save for a clock face it had an evil stylized looking smiley, "These will help us blend with the humans in the Real World!"
Johnny arched a brow pointing to the watches, "Why do you have three? And why didn't you put them on earlier?"
Nightmare Membrane ignored the last question and put one of his glove hands on his hip, "It always helps to be prepared!" He declared proudly.
"Right…" Johnny said slowly, not bothering to point out he didn't answer one of his questions. He knew the answer, idiocy.
Membrane looked around before motioning for him to come in. Johnny arched a brow setting into the warped home. He pocketed his knife back into his boot for the time being. The ghostly professor gave him one of the watch things saying, "It'll hurt a bit but rest assured. That is normal." He paused before correcting himself, "Actually it'll hurt a lot."
"Why would it hurt?" Johnny questioned as he put it on. Once he fastened it snuggly he heard a rather drill-like sound coming from it. Sliding his gaze down to the watch thing he saw the smiley face glowing red. That couldn't be good, and it wasn't. In the next second what was no doubt a drill dug into his wrist, his sweet blood juices seeping from the sides. Johnny let out a shrill scream while flailing his arm, it was the most pain he'd felt in a while. Once the drill stopped, tears in his eye he shot a seething glare at Membrane.
Membrane held his hands up, "I told you it'd hurt, you didn't let me explain."
Holding his wrist Johnny C frowned, he was right. Nny just hadn't thought a freaking watch thing would drill into his fucking arm! Nightmare Membrane was off the hook, for now.
Putting the watch thing on himself Membrane cringed painfully as it drilled into his arm, "My Genetic Imposter Mechanism, G.I.M, for short, changes its wearer's genetic structure to that of a humans! I managed to get a DNA sample from the boy when he was last here. It also needs to get a sample of yours, as well as attach itself to you for it to work. Hence the drilling." The ghostly professor explained helpfully then looked at Nny, "It should be attaching right, about, now."
Johnny yelped as what felt like a nail stab into what he assumed to be his bone, he rubbed his arm trying to ease the pain. "Is it done?" He grumbled, this was getting annoying. As if to answer the glowing red smiley shifted to a frowning face. The magenta background of the smiley changing to a depressing blue, the frowny no longer lit up.
"Yes, it's done, when you next press the button it'll change you to human form." The Nightmare professor explained before flinching, his G.I.M finishing its work.
Johnny looked at his wrist, the area was throbbing with pain but he'd could deal with it. He blinked his purple eyes when he saw the blood was gone. Had the gizmo sucked it up? Nny huffed, that was good he didn't want sticky blood clinging to him. Saved him the trouble of cleaning it.
"Can we go now?" Nightmare Gaz spoke up bringing the two adult's attention to her, much to their surprise her G.I.M was already attached and ready. They hadn't even heard her make a noise much less see her wrap it around her wrist.
"Yes!" Johnny exclaimed arms in the air, "let's go!"
Before Nightmare Membrane or Gaz could even respond the homicidal maniac trotted down their path then towards the school. Nightmare Membrane passed a look to Gaz who merely shrugged. Deciding not to question Nny's seemingly random mood swings the ghostly scientist followed after the maniac.
Back in the Real World Gaz walked into the living room of the Membrane home, passing by the small lamp shaped like her father. There was so much merchandise of her father it was ridiculous, but he did save the world from CHAOS with his miraculous inventions. Gaz even thought she saw wipes once, there was even a clothing line which was pretty much just his lab coat and black gloves.
Carrying her box of crayons and some paper Gaz was getting ready to draw some more piggies, and maybe some horrible monsters. Who may or may not be trying to maul and or eat her bother. Depended on how much her brother ticked her off while she was coloring. Opening up her typically squinted eyes (it was a wonder how she could see) she somewhat surprised to see her brother hogging the couch. All around him was snacks and sodas, apparently he had settled down to watch his DVD sets of Mysterious Mysteries, which was all of them. He even had the one with the episode he was in, during that time his own father had concluded the alien glow orb Zim had as swamp gas (or a weather balloon). The show had sent it to him a gift from appearing, and with a nicely worded letter asking him to stop sending stuff because their storage room of his stuff was full.
Gaz looked to the case he had cracked open, he was only on the first season. She groaned, no way in holy hell did she want to sit through twelve seasons of that garbage, not including her brother's annoying commentary. How the show had lasted that long she didn't know. Gaz shifted her gaze over to her brother who was stuffing his obnoxious mouth full of popcorn, she had to make him leave. His mere presence made her tremble with rage.
"Don't you have to monitor your stupid spy cameras or something?" Gaz asked, oddly enough her brother laughed lightly in response.
"And see what? Zim boarding up his windows from the outside?" Dib mused tossing some more popcorn in his mouth. As he went on he sounded increasingly amused as he imagined his arch nemesis jittering with fear, "He's so terrified of Halloween that he won't be doing anything until it passes! He told me himself." Dib added with a smile, Zim hadn't admitted his fear but it was clear enough.
Gaz clutched her crayon box a little harder, one last try, "Are you sure? He could be lying."
This gave Dib pause, but was quickly dismissed, "Nah! He was way too freaked out to be faking. You should have seen him Gaz! It was amazing!"
Gaz frowned as her brother reclined against the couch, an unsaid rule between them was whoever got the living room first got to do what they wanted. As much as she could force him out, she honored that unsaid rule like her brother did. Still, it irked her. Grumbling to herself Gaz settled down and began drawing piggies, tuning out the Mysterious Mysteries episode about frog people or something. She twitched irately when her annoying, big-headed brother let out a long sigh of relaxation.
"Ah, this is great Gaz! I really needed this! Nearly half a month of not worrying about Zim! I can get back to other cases I've been neglecting. This is going to be perfect! Nothing can ruin this for me!" Dib declared before he chugged down a can of poop soda.
Gaz huffed, "You just jinxed yourself you know."
Her brother waved this off, "Pft, as if. There's no such thing as jinxing yourself."
Smirking Gaz colored the body of her evil piggy creature, "Now you just made it worse."
Dib rolled his eyes, "Yeah right." He huffed before getting back to his Mysterious Mysteries marathon. There was no way nothing would interrupt his vacation. Nothing could go wrong. It wasn't like there was anything worse than Zim running amuck, right?
"Wow, I didn't know stringing someone up with their own guts then jamming an entire butcher knife down their throat could be done so fast." Nightmare Gaz commented as they left the Skool, surprisingly only one person got horribly mutilated during their heist. Unfortunately that one had to insult Johnny C so he had to be "properly" punished.
"I've had practice." Nny said smoothly, as he cleaned the butcher knife off, they were back in the Nightmare Membrane home waiting for the mad scientist to complete his dimensional scope.
"Nice." Nightmare Gaz said with a grin, well her upper lip curled and since that was all he could see Johnny assumed it was a grin or at least a smirk.
The homicidal maniac perked, he didn't receive compliments often, "Thank-"
"My dimensional scope is COMPLETE!"
The loud yell coming up from the lab caused Johnny to growl and then groan in annoyance, he should have seen that coming honestly. Any good moments he had were always ruined at some point. Johnny gave the ghostly Nightmare a bad look as he floated up the stairs to where he and his technical daughter were waiting. The look went unnoticed as the professor was far to absorbed in his pride at the moment, causing Johnny to cross his toothpick thin arms and grumble to himself. If it wasn't for the fact he was his ticket out of this place he'd have stabbed him in his ghostly organs.
"You mean it's now complete." Nightmare Gaz prodded jabbing a finger over in the professor's direction.
Johnny snickered as a look of annoyance emerged on Nightmare Membrane's face, he however didn't respond to her comment, "Now all we need to do is find the correlating location of the big headed boy and use the scope to open the portal. There the fabric of reality between our worlds is thinner."
"How will we find his location?" Nny questioned with a slight raise of a brow and circle of his bony hand. Before the ghostly Nightmare could answer the serial killer Nightmare spoke again, "I'm going to guess you have a device."
"Of course!" The professor exclaimed pulling a radar looking device with two antennas sticking out the top. At the center of the main part was a circular screen showing a single white dot, which by the looks of it was nearby. As Johnny stood up Membrane looked at the screen, "Ah! It's nearby!"
Nightmare Gaz hopped to her feet before she and Johnny followed the ghostly professor, his wispy fog flickering around the bottom of his coat. They came into the living room where he began shifting about trying to pin point the location. Coming to the couch he stopped when he pointed to the middle cushion.
"There it is!" He announced before switching over to the dimensional scope, quickly Johnny C and Gaz gathered around him as he pressed a button on the top of the device. The viewing end began to glow an electric purple as the Nightmares eagerly awaited their portal to freedom.
Dib was halfway through the third season of Mysterious Mysteries, he'd gone through five bowls of buttered popcorn, two bowls of salted nuts, and two liters of poop soda. Groaning he let out a bubbly soda burp before hiccupping and covering his mouth, "Ugh, maybe…eating that last bowl of popcorn wasn't such a," he groaned letting out another brown bubble producing burp, "Good idea...I knew I put too much butter on that last one…"
Rubbing his head his attention drifted back to the current episode he was watching this one was about mole men. He scoffed at the mention them eating people, "Please their totally vegetarians, well mostly they like eating bugs and worms too. They are just overgrown sentient moles after all."
As much as he loved the show, he also liked commentating on their inaccuracies, but it was fun to do. His light brown eyes drifted over to a bag chips he hadn't touched yet, cautiously he pulled it over, "A little more couldn't hurt, I am on vacation after all…" He reminded himself before tearing it open and viciously consuming the contents.
He stopped mid-bite when he felt something strange. Blinking, his glasses somehow doing it with him, he looked upward. There was a beam of purple light coming from his head. He blinked again, that seemed familiar. Wait. He froze, mouth agape, this couldn't really be happening again. His pupils shrank recalling what his sister said about jinxing himself, and with his luck apparently he had.
Dib screamed as the beam got bigger and the purple light blinded him. Suddenly he was flung back tumbling over the back of the couch. Head hitting the table behind it yelped as he bounced of landing face first on the blue carpeting. Groaning he felt the back of his head, he was definitely going to get a bump for this.
He could hear voices in the background but he couldn't lift his head. Inwardly he denied any thoughts of it being because he had a big head. Even though the voices were muffled due him being in a daze, and throbbing head pain, he knew one of them was different but the two other were very familiar.
Dad...? When did he get home? Dib thought in dazed, head pained confusion. Man his brain meats hurt right now.
Something rolled him over, blinking his eyes Dib managed to make out a shadowy figure peeking over the back of his couch. A shadow person, he knew it! The figure snaked its way over the back of his couch soon hovering right over him. Head still swimming he only watch in horror it held something up…
Finally, due to a family issue this chapter is late, that and I got out of the swing of drawing so when I tried to write again...I didn't get it down as fast. That and I got caught up watching several cartoon series. So several things really, but this really helped loosen up the writing muscles.
No one died on screen in this ch...will fix that next chapter. Johnny's kill count is up to 2 and both were off screen! Need to fix that pronto!
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