Chapter 2
Susan turns around and had a baffled feeling, "Hey where's Dr. Cockroach?"
Link turns around, "I dunno, probably went to go find some garbage to eat," he walks over to another desk of plants and searches for the weed.
Susan saw something sparkle on the ground from where Dr. Cockroach was standing when she last saw him. She drew closer and saw it was his golden name tag he got as a gift. His name in cursive shined in the light.
"What's this doing here?" she picks it up, "He never leaves without this," she said observing it. She puts it in her pocket and walks back to her group and continues to search.
Within a second, Dr. Cockroach pops out of the ground. He stumbles a bit trying to keep his balance. He was covered in dirt and looked as if he was sleeping and his friends didn't even notice his appearance.
Bob turns around and jumps back startled, "Oh my gosh Doc, you scared the math out of me! Whew," Bob grinned coming up to his friend, "Don't just stand there, we got a weed to find. It's not like it's gonna show up in front of us," Bob chuckled pushing the drowsy doctor to a desk of plants, "Come on, get to work," he patted his back and went back to his pile.
"Hey Doc," Susan greeted going to the side of him. Dr. Cockroach absently gazed at her. "Where were you?" she asked. Dr. Cockroach mumbled something, but the growl in his stomach made it hard to hear.
"What was that?" Link called over his shoulder.
"You hungry Doc?" Bob asked from his place.
"Yeah, sort of," Dr. Cockroach muttered.
"Well you can eat once were done searching," Susan said placing a hand on his arm.
The growl in Dr. Cockroach's stomach grew louder and hurt. He held his abdomen with both hands as it grew louder then stopped. "But I'm hungry right now," he grumbled.
"Come on Doc, you can hang in there," Susan said comfortably rubbing his arm.
Dr. Cockroach looked at her while holding his stomach, "Susan, wouldn't you like me to have you for lunch?"
"Aww, that's so sweet Doc, but not right now, okay?" she said and walked away to search with Bob.
Dr. Cockroach clutched his stomach harder as the growling came back. He ran out of the green house and took a breath of air. He felt as if something was slithering on his spine then a sharp pinch came to the back of his neck. He fell to his knees leaning forward and grasped at his stomach in pain as it rumbled loudly, he moaned in distress. "So…hungry…" he said. He closed his eyes and grits his teeth then the pain stopped.
Dr. Cockroach held his stomach while bowing his head, gasping in air. He shot open his eyes revealing bright green light from them. He stood up casually and opened the door, to find his 3 monster friends and pet searching in the plants. He goes up to Susan from the behind.
She sensed him come up, "Hey Doc, did you find it?" she asked not facing him.
"No not yet Susan," Dr. Cockroach said in his normal voice, with his eyes still shining bright green, "How about we just stop investigating and go and grab a snack? Huh?" he moved to the side of her.
Susan didn't even glance at him, "No Doc! We still gotta find the plant," she said playfully. Dr. Cockroach's green shine lowered to a dimmer shade of green to a point where only his pupils where visible when Susan turned her head. "Um…Doc? Why are your eyes all…green?" she asked rummaging through the plants again.
"Uh…experiment gone wrong…," he chuckled, "But really," he grabbed a hold of her chin and made her look up at him, "I would really love to have you for lunch, darling…"
Susan blushed and took his hand off her, "Doc not now, we still gotta find that weed," she shyly laughed going back to the plants.
"Susan why don't you just meet me outside?" he asked.
"No Doc," she said gently, not seeing his gaze.
"Meet me in an ally?"
"No."
"Empty parking lot?"
"No."
"How about just in that old building? Huh? What about that?" he asked urgently.
"No Doc, not now."
He sighed frustratingly and walked to the middle of the green house. There was a scream outside, while the others jumped Dr. Cockroach just glanced up.
They ran outside seeing the whole city covered in weed vines growing up buildings and streets. People were being chased by other people. Cars were crashing into poles flaming with fire and smoke. The monsters go across the street slowly, watching in shock at the disaster happening around them, all were shocked, all except for Dr. Cockroach.
A loud crash was heard behind them, they spin around to find the weed growing out of the green house and building up the old building beside it. It gets to the top shifting into a pink rose; it closed up with weeds hanging off the roof.
They watch as the rose finally opens up to reveal a bright light of pink shining into the dark green fogy sky. The humans chasing the people looked up at the flower, their back showed a huge weed glowing green stuck to their spine area. Smaller weed roots stuck out from that weed and slithered around their back. At the tip of the bigger weed was stuck on the back of the neck blazing with dark green liquid inside.
Susan noticed Dr. Cockroach was looking up at the flower too, his eyes glimmering green. She gasped and backed away when she saw the weed run along his back, sparkling though his clothes. "Guys, guys!" she whispered, "Look!" she pointed towards him.
Link saw what she was seeing and started to back away, "Come on, let's go," he whispered. The flower closed up and everyone stood silent.
"Why's everybody so quiet?" Bob said out loud.
Dr. Cockroach snapped back to reality but his appearance stayed the same, eyes glowing and the weed shining. He glared at them for a minute.
"Doc, why are you looking at us like that?" Bob asked. All 3 monsters and dog stood in fear close together. The humans that were looking at the flower and that were chasing the other people, stared.
"Susan, remember when I said I was hungry?" Dr. Cockroach said in his voice.
"Yeah," Susan replied shaking.
"Well, I'm not hungry anymore," he chuckled.
"You're not?" Link asked with a bit of relief.
"No, I'M FUCKING STARVING!" he growled loudly.
The people behind them shrieked in a high and low pitch, all showing sharp teeth especially Dr. Cockroach.
"Run!" Link yelled taking off. All monsters and dog run off down the street with Dr. Cockroach on all fours close behind. He was followed by the others, howling with rage and hunger.
Susan looked back while panting and saw what she never wanted to see. She saw her parents running with the crowd. Beside them she caught the sight of Derrick; he too looked the same as the mob chasing them with hunger in their eyes.
Dr. Cockroach reaches out for Susan's leg. She was falling behind and couldn't run much faster. She was gasping with a dry throat and her body was sore to the bone. Her legs gave way, making her fall to the floor. She turned over to see Dr. Cockroach pinning her down in an instant. He hissed revealing sharp-edged teeth. Drool dripped from his mouth and he aimed for a spot to bite down. Susan struggled under his power; then a flashback came to her.
"Rusty's right Susan, we will never let anything harm you," Dr. Cockroach's voice echoed in her mind.
She looked at the friend she always trusted now a real monster wanting to eat her alive.
