All right, it's time for me to go to the next chapter of this dark, gripping story of danger, peril and suspense! Down where he's taken off, and taken Humphrey, Eve, Tony and Lilly, The Wolf Whacker has put the former two in one cruel confinement of his and the latter two in another. As well as this, the other wolves, imperiled by the fire, must find a way out of that situation fast both for their sakes and the sakes of their four captured packmates, not to mention the sakes of all the ones who Wolf Whacker would target, which includes not only wolves, but pretty much anyone and everyone who isn't tainted with evil or contaminated with villainy and sin. Worse yet, Wolf Whacker wants to put all his wolf victims through plenty, but he's particularly intent on torturing Garth and Kate in a way that isn't physical, but is so much worse, physical torture would seem like pampering by comparison. And he has just the thing for seeing this done. What will happen, then, to our heroes? Read away at this next of chapters if you wish to find out.

With the exception of my creation The Wolf Whacker, I do not own a single character, as they all belong to the Alpha And Omega franchise.

The Wolf Whacker

Chapter 2-Sadistic Selection

Wolf Whacker, having escaped and left everyone but the four wolves he captured to either die in the fire he'd lit Jasper Park mountain on or survive it to come after him, at which point he'd toy with, torture and terminate them(in that order), now went through the tunnel he had created to end up where he was aiming to go…into his special underground hideout. It was a fortress which he'd clearly had for years, and one which he had created numerous tunnels to in numerous places on numerous occasions when he carried out his malevolent missions. It was an incredibly large fortress of headquarters, and one which, to Lilly and Tony, the only wolves who were conscious when in the place at this moment, looked like a wolf hell combined with a giant laboratory and research facility. "We're here, you four. Our destination for where I'm gonna be for a while, and where I've got what I have in store for you at the ready. Whether your friends up on Jasper Park mountain survive or not, you're going to be spending the remainder of your lives in this place. Be clear on that. You're only leaving here when you die. Mwahahahahahahaha…"

Tony and Lilly almost puked seeing the place, and for good reason. Besides how there were scary, disgusting looking containment chambers in the place, there were trophies of dead and butchered wolves in various forms. Be it heads on the wall, bones, whole skeletons or many separate pieces of bone, on the floors, wolf skin rugs on those same floors, wolf corpses hanging from the ceiling on long meathooks or ropes or various organs of wolves long ago killed around and about the place, it was clear these were the countless kills Wolf Whacker had performed on his signature targets before encountering the Jasper Park wolves for his next of killing sprees. In addition, there were tables, machines, tools and devices galore, and plenty of weapons and pieces of equipment about the place. Not to mention dungeons, prisons and cabinets aplenty. Since the latter were open, it could be seen there were various poisons in various containers. This, along with how in the wardrobe of the place, there were ten wolf skulls and three times as many coats of wolf skin/fur. All of the prisons and dungeons, by the way, were also torture chambers. In one form or another. Finally, there were plenty of spare weapons and spare costumes, like the ones he was currently carrying, and the one he was currently wearing, respectively, inside of a special room of his led to by a creepy corridor, and said room also contained a giant computer which he used for all kinds of purposes. None of them good. All of them evil. And tracking the location of his next wolf targets predictably being the most frequent use of the damn thing.

Just then, Humphrey and Eve started to come to, to which Wolf Whacker exclaimed: "It appears that the effects of my gases on those two is wearing off! Good…" He then took one of his devices, a special remote control with a single button, and pressed that button to seal off the entranceway to his hideout and restore what he destroyed with that hole in the ground. After that and putting it down, he saw that Humphrey and Eve, now fully awake, had seen where they and the other two had been taken. "Yeah," Wolf Whacker said as he saw their eyes widen. "It's quite the place, isn't it? And as your two friends here have already fucking found out, it's my place. Or could you already tell by the wolf death in all its delightful, wanton forms all around?" Like Lilly and Tony, Eve and Humphrey felt like they were going to puke, especially since they were still weak from the effects of the gas which they'd just awakened from. "Okay, so here's how this is gonna work…" Wolf Whacker said as he tossed all four of them to the floor, and none too gently at all, I might add. After they all landed, Tony and Lilly feeling somewhat more pain due to the bullet wounds still present on them, Wolf Whacker continued: "As I said before, though only two of you were conscious to hear it at the time, all four of you are going to die in this place one way or the other. It is merely a matter of how…"

We take a break from this both for the sake of suspense and to see what happens with Jasper Park and the wolves still there on it. Currently, the wolves were helpless, due to how the wounds which Wolf Whacker had inflicted on them were still holding them down badly, and it couldn't have been at a worse time. The fire he'd lit Jasper Park mountain on had not only spread about rapidly, but it was now inches away from touching them and subsequently burning them all up into a canine crisp. Worse yet, it was also moving about so that they were trapped in what could only be referred to as a literal ring of fire. And said ring of fire, as if they weren't already in severe enough peril, was very close to them to the point where they could feel the heat. Not a one of them would be able to recover in time to escape, much less do anything about this fire that engulfed their home and was seconds away from engulfing them, and the injured wolves all fully damn well knew it. Those that were conscious, that is. The unconscious ones seemed like they'd be the slightly luckier ones, due to not being conscious to feel the burning pain. Fortunately, it'd turn out that luck was actually on the side of these wolves more than it appeared to be. A whole hell of a lot more. How so?

Just as all seemed lost and it looked like both the home of the wolves that was Jasper Park mountain and the wolves themselves would be consumed by unstoppable flames, a giant flash of lightning occurred, followed by an enormous downpour of a rainstorm that was more than sufficient to completely douse and extinguish even an enormous fire like the one that the mountain was being burned by and the wounded wolves were trapped in. Turns out, it was, in fact, going to rain like this tonight anyway, and, were Wolf Whacker not to have shown up, right after the howling was done and the wolves all back in their dens and asleep, and thus it wouldn't have been a problem for them had the night gone normally. Now, though, it was a blessing and a true gift from God, and they thanked him silently but repeatedly in their minds as the gigantic in addition to vastly powerful rainfall completely eliminated every single last spark and flare of the otherwise fatal fire in full. And, although there were some burns and damages done to the Jasper Park mountain and the whole mountain, along with the wolves, was plenty drenched, the former was nothing the mountain's plants couldn't recover from, nor that its rocks couldn't maintain and continue to maintain their strong, solid form with. And the latter was much needed and made it so the wolves, despite their injuries, felt refreshed and relieved in the best way, both physically and emotionally. Of course, if this monsoon-force rain hadn't come when it did, then things may have turned out much worse in every way imaginable. But thankfully, it did. And the amount of rain that occurred also managed to make things like the saw blade pinning down Garth and Kate and anything keeping any wolf trapped break loose and wash away, so once more, they'd be able to move about freely if they could manage to get their wounds treated.

However, the problems of Jasper Park's wolves were far from over. Despite how those who had lost consciousness thanks to Wolf Whacker now came to, and despite how those who had stayed conscious and not been captured through all of this fully explained the situation and what had gone on to them, these wolves now had to find a way to get their wounds treated fast, even without Eve present, and find where Wolf Whacker had taken her, Humphrey, Lilly and Tony as soon as possible. So, using what materials they could find which weren't too much of a crisp to be of use, they managed to just barely find enough plant matter to bandage up their bad wounds and make the pain from them bearable enough to go and try and rescue their friends and stop the Wolf Whacker, though the wetness of the water that drenched them contributed highly to the reduced amount of pain and the increased amount of tolerability, though their wounds still hurt a lot despite how they'd seen to it they'd be more bearable and not become lethal. In any case, they were about to start a search for where Wolf Whacker could have gone and where he could have taken their packmates, when all of a sudden, they were saved the trouble.

You see, a giant portal formed, and Wolf Whacker appeared in it, going: "So, it would appear my computer was right! You WERE saved by that rainfall and managed to fix yourselves up enough despite the injuries I left you so that you could try and save your friends! Well, why don't I just save you the trouble of looking for me!" "WOLF WHACKER!" they all exploded in unison. "Where the fuck are my mate, mother, sister and father-in-law?!" barked Kate furiously at him. "And you'd best have a fucking answer, motherfucker!" Can-Do added aggressively, true to form. "Oh, I most assuredly have an answer, indeed, my soon to be rugs and coats!" cackled a cocky, cruel and callous as ever Wolf Whacker. "While you were fixing yourselves up, thanking God for that downpour and getting ready to try and find where I was with your captured friends, I was putting those same friends into their respective containment units while also seeing about your fates on my computer, which I used to make this portal, too, and to set up their containment units the way they needed to be!" "Be warned that the only reason we're not attacking you is for how we must know where our packmates are…" Winston growled, "…and I swear to God, if any of those four, especially my mate and/or daughter, are dead, so help me God, I'll…"

"Cool it, gramps." Wolf Whacker told Winston. "They're all still plenty alive. Of course, I could have killed them, but then it wouldn't make my destruction of your sorry asses and this latest of wolf massacres too exciting, now would it? Anyhow, if you want to see them, and if you want any chance of any of them surviving at all, I would advise you to follow me through this portal I've made. You'll be able to tell where it leads very quickly, I assure you…" Knowing the facts that they had no choice and could not possibly try to fight Wolf Whacker again when there were less of them than before and they were wounded, they waited until Wolf Whacker vanished into the portal and all jumped into it themselves. As soon as they were through the portal, they felt themselves land on what just happened to be a wolf skin rug on the floor. Seeing what it was, they all gasped and jumped off of it quickly, with Wolf Whacker going: "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! I thought that shit would fucking freak you out! But there's plenty more where that came from, I should tell you!" He walked into where they were from his computer room after having gotten to his computer and making it close the portal, and then he spread out his arms while booming out: "Welcome to my place, wolves! I can assure you that, one way or the other, you'll all be forced to spend the rest of your lives in here! So take a good look around…because it's the last place of any kind that any of you will see before your death!" "We're not buying that bullshit." Garth spat aggressively. "Now, you fucking tell us where my mate, father, mother in law and brother in law are this instant, or I'll rip out your goddamn heart and fucking show it to your ass so you can see it stop beating as you die!" "Assuming you have a heart, that is!" Candy added. Though repulsed by the look of the place and all they saw in it, along with the knowledge of who it belonged to, it was clear to them they could not let that distract them from the more urgent things right now.

"My, such spunk! And such aggression!" Wolf Whacker exclaimed mockingly. "Perhaps you're forgetting who you're talking to? And how I easily took all of you down at once before, in addition to how you had more allies and weren't wounded yet, plus I was only fucking around with your sorry asses to make this more intriguing and fun for myself? But in any event, you will indeed be made to know where your captured friends are. However, only TWO of you will get to actually see them…" He took out his shotgun and flame thrower, then he pointed the former at the face of Kate and the latter at the face of Garth. "And I've just made it clear which two. Now, unless the rest of you wolves would like to see the bitch's brains blown out and the asshole made a victim of arson, you will stay right where you are and wait for until I return. The two of you, in the meantime, will come with me and cooperate unless you want to die. I will lead you to where the four that you seek currently are. And in case you're wondering, yes, they are all still fully and completely conscious and aware. To say nothing of under a lot of distress, the reason for which I can assure you that both of you will fucking see very instantaneously indeed…" Kate and Garth growled in rage, but knew they had no choice but to follow his orders, with the other wolves, for the exact same reasons, doing the exact same thing. So while the others stood and watched, all of them suppressing their fury the best they could, as it was their only option, Wolf Whacker led his two selected wolves through the opening wall that led to their destination room.

After that opening wall closed again, behind Kate, Garth and Wolf Whacker, once they'd reached the room, Kate and Garth gasped and Wolf Whacker grinned as the two wolves saw the current status of their friends. "Yeah, you weren't the only ones hard at work." Wolf Whacker a second later said as he put away his weapons. "I was, too, and, as you can see, I put Humphrey and Eve into one of these containment units, the one on the left, and I put Lilly and Tony into the other one of them, the one on the right. Then again, I think you two can tell that, but I should, in addition to all of this, inform you that each half of each containment unit has a different way of seeing the one in that half of it dead. And despite their differences, the one thing all four of those death method setups have in common is that they are all designed to go off at the same time, and in a matter of five minutes, starting now and counting!" He took hold of a detonator nearby to a second later press the button which would see to that, before either Kate or Garth could react or do anything to stop him or make what he'd just reveal to them cause this to become easier. They cursed to themselves and Wolf Whacker told them as he put the detonator down: "So, if I were you, I'd go and rescue them as soon as possible!" Kate and Garth quickly took off, deciding to make it so each one of them dealt with one containment unit, in order to get the job done faster and cover more ground. Naturally, Kate went for the one containing Humphrey and Eve and Garth went for the one containing Lilly and Tony.

First, we check out Kate's situation, with her going: "Humphrey! Mother! It's all right, me and Garth are here, and so are the others, though they were forced to stay behind! I'm going to get you out of here while Garth does the same for Lilly and Tony, and then we'll all find a way to see to it we get out of here and so do all the other wolves who've been forced into this disgusting shithole and hellhole of a place!" But as she was about to press the button which was clearly the button to press to see the containment unit opened, which there was one of on the other side, she noticed, Humphrey gasped: "Kate, no! Do not open my half of the containment unit!" "What?!" Kate exclaimed, confused. Humphrey then explained: "After he put me and Eve in here, Wolf Whacker designed this so that if this half is opened, then Eve is shot full of meth and cocaine, in liquid form, contained in needles, to the point where it will speed up her heart far beyond what would be required for it to explode! And it'll destroy all her other organs, too! You must not condemn me to a life of guilt! Please, don't kill your own mother! If one of us must die, my love, let it be me!"

"Humphrey, calm down! As altruistic as that is, I would never kill you, love, and there is another way I can save her and you, you know!" Kate told him. "I saw another button just like this one on the other side! I'll just go and see that one pressed…" So she went over to the other side, but before she could press the button, Eve cried out: "No, Kate! Stay back! Don't press that button!" "Mother, why?" shouted Kate, and an instant later, Eve replied: "Wolf Whacker has designed my side of the containment unit so that, if you open it, not only will Humphrey be bored through the sides and neck with drills galore and gutted with a giant chainsaw blade plus castrated with huge scissors, but the kind of fire used in a garbage incinerator by humans in their factories and/or work buildings will go off inside of that other containment unit holding Lilly and Tony and turn them into nothing but ashes and charred bones! Do not let three wolves be killed for the sake of one! Especially your mate, your sister and your father in law who is your father's closest friend! Listen to your mother…make it so I perish while they live!" "No!" Kate cried out. "I can't kill my own mother! But I can't let my mate, sister and father in law die, either. What am I going to do?!" She found herself feeling more trapped than she ever had in her life.

Meanwhile, Garth had gotten to the containment unit of Lilly and Tony, and it did not take him long to see that each side of it had a button meant to open one half of the containment unit each. He said: "Lilly, Dad! It's all right! I'm here, and while Kate saves Humphrey and Eve, I'll save the two of you!" He was about to press the button which would open Lilly's half of the containment unit, but he stopped short when Lilly screamed: "Oh, my God! Garth, don't do it! Please don't do it!" "But Lilly, darling, I'm freeing you and then dad!" Garth said, shocked at the words he'd just heard. "It's not that simple, dear." Lilly told Garth. "Wolf Whacker has built this and designed it so that, if you open my side of the containment unit, then not only will Tony end up being crushed and impaled by spiked compactor walls that were built into his side of it, but in addition to that, toxic gas and carbon monoxide will spray into the containment unit holding both my mother and Humphrey and see them suffocated and choked to death in less than ten seconds! Please, I love you and vice versa, and we are mates, but do not kill your own father, my mother and my sister's mate for my sake! Do not put their deaths on my conscience or yours! Please see to it I'm the only casualty here. I know it will hurt you and kill me, and I wish there were another way, but there isn't!"

"Whoa, Lilly! Don't piss yourself with fright! I saw another button just like this one on the other side of this. I'll just press it to save Dad, and then he and I can both save you! Selfless as you're being, there is a way around this…" He moseyed on over to Tony's side of the giant containment unit, confident he could fix this and make sure no one died, but would soon have that notion shot down when he was just inches away from pressing the button there. "Son, do not do that!" Tony shouted. "Stay away from that button! Don't press it!" "Dad, how can you say all of that?" Garth asked, baffled as hell. Tony then told him: "Wolf Whacker built this in a way so that, if you open my side of the containment unit, Lilly will be vivisected by a pentagram shaped laser grid in under a second, and she will be blasted to further pieces by land mines galore which will then move up from inside of the floor of her half to on it, as they will go off as soon as they touch the air in that half, for they only haven't for being inside of its floor! If you save her, then Humphrey and Eve still have a chance, as Wolf Whacker's designs which will kill me, the walls with spikes, and which will be meant to kill Eve and Humphrey, the gases and carbon monoxide, going off will make it so they still have seven or eight seconds to live, and thus, if you run over to press the button on one side of their containment unit while Kate presses the button on the other side of it, then they can run out before they are choked to death after it's opened, just as Lilly can run out after her side is opened! And both doors being opened most likely means the devices meant to kill them and Lilly and myself if either one is opened and the other left shut are not going to go off! Do not kill your mate, brother in law and mother in law just so I can live! I'm old! I've lived my life! Lilly, Humphrey and even Eve still have quite a bit ahead of them! Don't doom me to endless guilt! Save Lilly and then tell Kate what you and her must do as fast as you can so you can save Humphrey and Eve, and allow me to be the one wolf who does not make it out of here alive!" "Oh, my fucking God…" Garth stammered. "I…I can't let my own father be destroyed! But…I can't allow my mother in law and brother in law to lose their lives…and certainly not my mate! And what if opening both of the doors on Eve and Humphrey's containment unit sets off what happens if either one is opened by itself anyway? What'll I do?"

Just then, Kate and Garth looked at one another, able to tell by the looks on each other's faces that they'd just learned why Wolf Whacker had chosen them for this, and then turned when they heard Wolf Whacker laugh evilly: "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So you see, alphas, that this was certainly not as you were expecting it would be! I'd like to add, by the way, that it's now gone from five minutes to three minutes! So you now both have three minutes to make your choice of who to save and who to let die in this sadistic selection, and, if you haven't made it by then, then not only will everything I've designed in those containment units go off automatically and all at once…" Wolf Whacker took out his toxic darts and held a good number of them in each hand before continuing: "…but I will fill you both full of my dart weapons coated with poison and poisoned wolf blood, so that, as your loved ones die, the last of things they can see is the two of you being fatally wounded! So I would advise you to make your picks quickly…unless you want it to go all downhill and to hell in the worst possible way in the end! Whatever happens, know that it will be a win/win situation for me, and a lose/lose situation for you! And I will have whoever is left alive as either my new trophies or my new slaves, or, if things go as I'm hoping they will, both! After all, if your spirits are as broken and shattered as they'll be should you make one choice or the other, then you'll be unable not to submit to me as my eternal servants, which will last until I decide to kill you as well!"

Kate and Garth were in the worst kind of ethical dilemma imaginable. They were, for the first times in their lives, truly shaking with real fear and actual angst, for they knew that they did not want to let anyone in those containment units die, but that there was no possible way at least one of them wouldn't. What were they going to do? What could they possibly do? How could the two alphas live with themselves or each other, whatever choice they made, after they made their choice? And they certainly couldn't let all four of the captured wolves die, but they couldn't save all four of them, either, and they couldn't find any kind of plausible third choice at all, even with how desperately they wanted one! For the very first time, they felt themselves starting to break down and feel the cruel touch of despair. They tried to fight it, especially since all four of their packmates were still alive and needed them to rescue them, but there was no way out of this cruel choice, nor any way they could end this moral dilemma without a guilty conscience! How would any wolf get out of this unscathed or even alive? As this is the superb time for a pulse-pounding and suspenseful cliffhanger, we're going to discover the answer to that in the third and last chapter of this dark, edgy tale!

TO BE CONCLUDED…

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