Chapter 2 – The Break Out Beatdown
I closed my cell phone and stuffed it in my pocket before going over to the baseball locker and getting an aluminum bat. My heart raced as I stepped to the wooden door and busted through it. I looked around when I stepped out into the gym hallway, bat raised as if I was going to hit a baseball, and then continued through the gym into the school's main hallway. When I stepped out into the main hallway, I heard shuffling in the locker row to my right. Carefully, I checked the lockers one by one until I found one that was locked. I knocked on it and the shuffling grew louder. I slammed the bat hard, handle first, into the lock. It broke off with a single try. The locker's metal door swung open and I dropped the bat on the tiled floor as none other than Jasper came flying out and landing in my arms. I removed the gag from his mouth before laying him down on the ground and beginning to remove the rope from his hands and feet.
"Emmett, thank god! Where have you been, you had Rosalie worried sick!"
Jasper yelled as I finished with the ropes and he sat up to rub his wrists.
"I fell asleep during fourth and no one woke me up. The next thing I know, Rose calls me and tells me that Alice and her are locked up in here. I busted out from the weight room and came to find you, Bella, and Edward before going to get her. Speaking of you, why are you in a locker?"
Surprisingly, my voice was flooded with relief. I had found Jasper, and maybe it was false hope, but I thought at the very least he knew how to hit someone with a bat. I slid the bat over to him and nodded toward it. He took it and nodded before we both stood.
"From what I can remember," Jasper said, rubbing his head, " I was talking to Rosalie, and the next thing I remember is her screaming and then nothing……that is until you broke me out of that metal cage."
Jasper's phone rang suddenly, making him jump and me put my fists up into a fighting stance. I relaxed when I realized that it was just his phone. He flipped it open and held the bat lazily in his left hand.
"Hello? Alice? What's going on? Hang on; let me put this on speaker."
I tilted my head to the side as I looked at him.
"Jasper, listen, that crazy guy was just here until he heard something and took off, was that you?"
"Yes, Alice, that was me, Emmett is here too. We are coming to get you."
"Listen, Jasper, forget about me, if that guy gets there and sees that you are gone…"
Alice's voice broke and I heard a small sniffling sound coming from over the phone. Jasper shuddered; I could tell that he felt the same way I felt now. I knew he was going to want to beat the shit out of the person responsible for making Alice cry and worry. Soon, we would get our wish, as a man walked from around the left corner where the hallway split into two. Jasper looked to the man, then to me, then to the phone. He clutched the bat tightly in his grasp before speaking back to the phone.
"Alice is this guy tall, muscled up, with a scar on the right side of his face from his eye down to his jaw?"
Alice's voice became concerned and worried. When she spoke, it clearly showed that she knew what was going on.
"No!!!!! Jasper, don't do anything stupid, just run!!! Please!!!!"
Jasper took a step forward, clicking the heel of his tennis shoe against the tile to make a loud noise. The man turned and looked at us, and then smiled. You won't be smiling after this, motherfucker!
"Sorry, Jasper, but this guy is mine!"
My voice was more of a growl than a spoken sentence as I rushed forward, running as fast as I possibly could. Right before I collided with the man, he slid back and kicked with his right leg. I stopped and threw my arms around his leg, then used my upper body to throw him against the lockers. He went down easily, settling on the ground when I closed the distance again and began throwing punches as fast as my arms would swing. Each hit connected and caused a new course of pain to go through the man's body.
Even when I was too tired to swing and he was a bloodied mess, he was still smiling. I had to back off and catch my breath in hurried, short gasps. Slowly, he got up, and walked casually over to me. His left hand shot out and gripped my neck, causing me to choke as he pulled upward, making my body go straight. I saw Jasper tip-toe behind him with the bat raised up, and the next thing I know, my breathing was normal and Jasper was shaking my arm.
"Emmett, Emmett!"
My eyes opened quickly, and I darted up, coughing and looking around.
"Where," *cough* "did he go?"
"He's over there."
Jasper pointed to the body lying in the corner. I followed his finger to it and nodded. He helped me to my feet and then we both opened our phones. I knew where Rosalie was, and we both knew where Alice was, the only problem was where the keys and Bella and Edward were? Jasper called Edward and I called Bella.
JPOV
I flipped my phone open and dialed Edward's number. My eyes never moved from the motionless body of the man I hit with the bat. After five rings, Edward picked up his phone.
"Jasper? Where are you?"
Edward sounded like he was going to throw up. His voice was cracking and he was gagging every few seconds. I heard another ringtone going off in the background accompanied by a female's voice.
"I am near the main hallway, at the split. Emmett busted me out of the locker I was held in. We ran into the crazy little bastard that locked us all up, and Emmett went totally ape- shit on him. But, he is one tough guy, because even Emmett beating the heck out of him didn't keep him down. Here's the freaky part, he was smiling through the whole thing!"
A few seconds passed before Edward finally spoke again.
"Smiling? Even after Emmett beat him? That doesn't seem likely."
I could tell that Edward didn't believe me, but we had bigger things to worry about, like the fact there was still a dead janitor cut from the mouth down around here somewhere, and an unconscious psychopath in the corner nearest me. I allowed my gaze to drift to Emmett, and it looked like he got a hold of Bella. That was good, considering that we still didn't know where they were.
"Jasper, listen to me, Bella and I are locked up in the basement. You're right, I don't believe you, and the janitor is with us, in the heating stove."
Well, that basically answered all of my questions. I turned my attention back to where the psycho's body was, and felt my mouth open wide and I almost hit the floor.
"Emmett!!!"
EmPOV
I stopped talking to Bella to turn to Jasper. His jaw was wide open and he looked sick. I followed his gaze to the corner, where nothing but a couple of teeth, and a trail of blood lay. No body, no clothes, just teeth and a blood trail . My stomach turned knots inside my stomach, threatening to expel everything I had eaten that day, which at the current time, I couldn't remember. I tugged Jasper's shirt and made him follow behind me around the corner, to where the basement steps were. Sure enough, the trail went under the door. I raised the phone up to my ear again and spoke to Bella.
"Bella, remember how I told you about the guy I beat down and Jasper knocked unconscious? Well, he's gone now, and I think he's coming for you guys, just a strange thought, nothing to worry about."
"NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT!!!! Emmett, that's not just some guy you're talking about; it is a psychopathic killer! He's coming this way? Oh god!"
*Click*
Nothing but silence and then I heard Edward yelling at Jasper before his phone cut off as well. I hang up my phone and put it into my pocket again, then opened the door to the basement stairs. Jasper followed the example, putting his phone away and then entering the stairwell, keeping the bat raised at the click of every step. We made it to the bottom, and both Jasper and I threw up immediately. Strewn across the room were at least five bodies, pools of blood surrounding them, each cut up differently. One body I recognized to be the school nurse, then Mr. Varner, two of them I didn't know, and the last chilled me to the bone. There, in his leather jacket, no head, no left arm, was Bella's father, Charlie. Damn, how in the hell did that sick bastard get Charlie? I thought to myself as I finished puking the last of my lunch up. Jasper finished a minute later, then wiped his mouth with the sleeve of his shirt. My phone rang and I pulled it out and answered it.
"Hello?"
"Emmett, it's Edward. Did you just lie about what you thought?"
"No, his body is sitting right outside of your pin."
"I will have to keep this from Bella."
"Yeah, well, Jasper and I are going to try to break you out, so sit tight."
I ended the call, and then looked for a light. I found the switch to the light and then saw three levers to my left. I pulled the first lever and heard a click coming from somewhere in the room, I couldn't tell precisely, because the sound echoed from all over the room. I motioned to Jasper to check the door, and sure enough, it was unlocked.
"Edward? Bella?"
Jasper said, right before being toppled over by both of them. They all landed on the ground with a thump, and then scrambled to their feet.
"Heya, Eddie!"
I said through a smug grin. I was happy to see my brother and his girl, even if I couldn't see my own.
