Chapter 3
"You're not dead. You're just having some idiotic dream." Scott stared up to her, his eyes wider than ever and starting to become baggy.
"R-Ramona…" He mumbled.
"Hey." She replied.
"Uh…I uh…"
"I waited almost three hours for you at the park." She said, sitting next to him.
"I-I can explain. Gideon he…he attacked me and then-"
"Dude, it's okay. I figured that out when I went inside your head. Why do you think I'm here now?"
"Oh…"
"Anyway, I uh…kinda disappeared for a while. I went looking for…I dunno…myself, I guess." She said. "That sounds so stupid…"
"Well, at least he didn't get to you. Gideon, I mean…that bastard." Scott sighed, causing her to blush a little.
"I'm sorry." She said, looking down. Scott looked at her. "I'm sorry I left. Those last few days…I was in a pretty bad position. I was messed up badly. I didn't want you to get messed up too."
"I got pretty messed up anyway."
"But…during the fight…you were so determined, so…tough." Ramona complimented, receiving a cheerful smile from Scott. "You even stopped Gideon's fist with your foot. Anyway, I wish I could have-I mean, I would have stayed, but in all honesty, I think that would have been much worse."
"But…you came back, right? You came back for me."
"I…had to come back. But I came back for me."
"You mean, you left for you, and then came back for you…?"
"Yes, I'm selfish. I've dabbled in being a bitch. But listen…I came back because…because I'm always the one who leaves. I could never say goodbye." She looked over to him. "I don't want to be that person anymore. So…I'm sorry, Scott. I came back to say I'm really, really sorry." Her face turned into complete seriousness this time. "I came back for me, Scott. I came back to make myself say it. I came back to look you in the eyes, and…and to admit that-"
Without a warning, Scott lunged his lips onto hers. Her eyes went wide and a little bit of sweat dripped from her head. It had been so long since they last kissed each other. But somehow, she had been able to calm down and her eyes closed, while she sighed from her nose. She felt Scott grasp onto her waist while Ramona placed her hands onto her chest. Suddenly, she pushed themselves apart, a little bit of drool flying from their lips.
"…And to admit that I was a crummy girlfriend and I feel like an idiot for even trying to-" But Scott wasn't hearing it. He really needed to feel her touch. He pushed her onto her back and kissed her again. The sensation of feeling her lips upon his was finally calming the stress and depression composed within his mind for months now.
"Down boy!" Ramona exclaimed, shoving him onto his back.
"Damn it, Ramona!" Scott shouted, aggravated. "Why can't we both agree that this is all a dream? Why should we waste time arguing about it? I forgive you already! Let's make out!"
"Um…Scott…I lied." She mumbled. "You actually are dead." Instead of a whine or some form of crying, his eyes grew into puppy ones and he said:
"I'm in heaven? You're…you're an angel."
"…No." She replied with a light blush. When suddenly, the sky started forming some sort of vortex which grew shorter every second until,
"BING!"
It was the extra life received by Scott from when he defeated Todd Ingram. They had both completely forgot about it.
"GAAAASP" Scott exclaimed.
(Back to the three dimensional world)
"GAAASP" Scott shouted as he resurrected from the dead, nearly startling every one in the club, including Gideon.
"Sorry, Mom. False alarm." Stacey sighed.
"I told you, Scott got a 1-up in Volume three!" Her mother answered cockily.
A large glow then emitted from Scott's shirt and it literally flew into the air and landed onto the ground, revealing Ramona as the glow died down.
"You." Gideon growled.
"Me." Ramona mocked with a smirk.
"So, Ramona Flowers, huh? The prodigal son has returned.
"Um, should we keep playing or…?" Envy asked.
"Take a break, baby. This shouldn't take long."
"Hey, Guy. You're not dead." Wallace cheered, kneeling down to his undead friend.
"Yeah, maybe we should take him home, so he can just stay that way." Stacey suggested.
"She's real." Scott whispered, staring at his girlfriend.
"Well, then, back to plan A." Gideon smirked and then seconds later, 7 tubes descended from the ceiling, revealing only 6 girls, apparently cryogenically frozen within, while 1 remained empty. Everyone stared at it in complete nervousness.
"Dude…are those..your evil exes?" Scott asked.
"Yes…the answer is no." Gideon laughed. "You might say they're the ones who got away. They're all cryogenically frozen, awaiting the future in which they will all have no choice but to go out with me. I love them with all my heart." He pointed both his arms to the crowd and a yellow glow emitted from his palms. "And you Ramona, are about to join them!"
A large blast shot from his hands, causing every one to cover their eyes. It finally stopped and they all saw their heads started to glow.
Scott didn't know what was going on at this point. Not only was his head glowing, but everyone else's were as well. He couldn't tell if it was all a dream or if it was just some twisted headache. For him, it all just felt like a complete headache. He then heard a "POP" above his head and saw two health bars above his head with one health bar under the other. One blue, which represented health, whilst the other one was red which represented something else.
He quickly noticed Gideon slashing the sword towards him. He and Ramona quickly moved out of it's way. Unfortunately for Scott, he was cut in the stomach a little, which drained his health to 96%. Scott grasped onto his bloodstained abdomen starting to get a little frustrated.
"Okay, why am I even still fighting this lunatic?" He complained, causing the red hud to slowly rise a bit. "I mean, you left, Ramona. Nobody said anything about defeating your ex-girlfriend's ex-boyfriends." The red health bar was already up by 23%, but Scott was too aggravated to notice.
"See, Scott? You're totally on my side." Gideon chuckled, slashing Scott across the chest, causing some blood to fly out and draining his blue health to 84%.
"Scott, look at me, I'm right here. I came back." Ramona advised. "Finish what you started!"
"What!?" Scott exclaimed, causing the red hud to rise a bit faster to 35%. "Who started this? It wasn't me! All I wanted was to date you."
"She started it." Gideon yelled cutting his abdomen again, draining the blue health bar to 88%. "It's all her fault, Scott! Everything."
"Shut up, you stupid…uh…guy!" Scott shouted.
"Better comebacks, Scott." Wallace yelled.
"Maybe this was a mistake." Ramona sighed.
"Yeah?" Scott exclaimed, frustrated, causing the the red bar to increase to 42% "Maybe you should just go back to wherever the hell you were." Scott's red health meter was already up to 47%.
"You two are adorable. I can see your relationship is really working." Scott said sarcastically.
"Really? Cause, I mean, it seems like they're just fighting." Some guy said from the sidelines.
"Why are we glowing? Glowing sucks!" Scott complained, raising the red health meter even higher to 56%. His anger was growing every second. He's never been so angry in his life. There was a red flash that shot around his entire body. Kinda like an aura of some sort, but it was too fast for anyone to notice. What with their heads glowing and what not.
"Ask him. He invented it." Ramona said, glaring to Gideon.
"You wanna know why I started the league? When I realized she wasn't coming back, I got wasted. So, I posted a drunken rant on craigslist." Gideon explained with an evil grin.
"You WHAT!?" Ramona shouted in disbelief.
"You mean I've been fighting seven evil freaks because you were drunk?!" Scott shouted enraged, causing the red health bar to increase to 65%. A few more red flashes occurred around Scott's body, which Ramona was able to notice this time. "I've been getting my ass handed to me because you were intoxicated?!" Make that 69%.
"What was…"
"I never expected a bunch of your actual evil exes to reply! Who the hell even dates seven evil people?" Gideon snapped thrusting the sword towards her, but she quickly dodged it by jumping over his head.
"You know, maybe they weren't evil when I dated them. Maybe they turned into complete assholes later! Like you!" Ramona said.
"You're the common denominator, baby!"
"Why do you even want me back? You spent our whole relationship pushing me away! You didn't even want me back until I left!"
"I wha?" Gideon mumbled, remembering his thoughts, which only ended up as an idiotic, romantic comedy of Mario. "Insolent whore! Don't you dare sully my memories. He snapped, slashing onto Scott's shirt again, causing his blue health to drain to 79%.
"This…blows." Ramona commented.
"No kidding!" Scott said, some blood dripping from his lip. His red health bar was already increased to 73%. "Any bright ideas?"
"Just the usual one." Ramona answered, causing the glow on her head to rise. Scott recognized this from when she left him and he quickly knew what was going to happen. His red health was starting to glow a little bit slower.
"Ramona-" He called.
"Maybe I can't change." Ramona said, already on the verge of disappearing.
"Don't go-" He whispered. And suddenly,
"KSHHHH!" Which was the sound of her body after she was stabbed by the Power of Love. She gasped in pain as some blood spewed from her mouth. Scott's eyes were wide with fear, causing his red health bar to stop. He stared at her in complete fear as her blood had dripped from the sword and onto his cheek. An smug evil and satisfied grin rose onto Gideon's face. Every one else stared in complete shock.
"Damn it…" Ramona breathed.
"Wow, man. She's been riding the glow into subspace. This makes sense." Scott didn't respond. Instead he stared down at her body as his heart beat rapidly. But what he wasn't aware of was that the red health bar was rising faster than ever. It was already up to 82% causing a few more flashes to occur. His breathing began to become heavier and his teeth and fists were already clinched together. His red health meter was now 89%
"Uh, Scott?" Gideon called, but no answer. Instead his breathing turned into grunts and his body began to flash bright red rapidly, practically frightening everyone in the club.
"Uh, Guy…Scott?" Wallace called, raising his arm towards his enraged friend.
"Don't…touch…me." Scott growled shutting his eyes and practically scaring his former gay roommate. He covered his face as his red health meter was already at 98%. His body was now completely covered in a red aura. The entire club gasped in fear as his red bar jumped to 100%, causing the entire health bar to catch fire. Scott uncovered his face revealing a pair of angry red flames emitting within them, with a growl included, causing everyone to stare in fear.
"HRAAAAHH!" Scott screamed, turning to Gideon. Ramona quickly noticed this and stared up to him in shock. His body was…it was unnatural. He was literally glowing red and his fists were clenched tightly and his wounds were quick to heal themselves. His shirt was no longer bloody and the image on his shirt turned into a picture of fire.
Scott earned the Power of Rage
Guts: +8
Smarts: +6
Heart: +8
Anger: +10
Will: -2
"What the hell is up with your eyes, bro? And why are you-" In an instant, Scott cut him off with a rock hard punch which could practically be heard around the entire club. The punch caused Gideon to fly back and crash directly into an arcade game. The impact caused some smoke to rise in the air.
"Dude, are you seeing this?" One of the bystanders exclaimed. "G-man is a total dead man."
"I'm totally freaked out right now."
"Somebody record this!" It was a huge series of gossip as they all stared at the angry, glowing 24 year old. He suddenly started floating in thin air and moved towards Gideon's position, waiting for the smoke to clear.
"Dude, he…he's flying." Neil commented. Scott just floated there, as the smoke finally managed to clear. To his shock, Gideon wasn't there. Scott grew confused as he looked around the club, but he was nowhere to be found.
"S-Scott." He heard Ramona call. He descended down to her and raised his harm. But to his surprise, when he tried to touch her, he had accidentally electrocuted her. She winced and Scott snapped back worried. "Don't worry...I'll be fine. I shouldn't have let myself get hurt." She reassured. Scott stared down to her in nervousness, while Ramona stared at him with mixed emotions. She looked into his flaming eyes in nervousness, but she could feel his true presence on the inside. Wallace walked up to them and said:
"Uh, Scott, you look real deadly right now. But maybe you can use it as an advantage. But Ramona, is it true? Gideon really infected you with his secret weapon?
"Our whole relationship was like some sick experiment to him…ugh…I can't believe he's still at it. He just…has this way of getting inside my head. I mean, literally."
An idea formed in Scott's head and he looked to Ramona's subspace bag, which was laying down on the floor. It became clear as to where Gideon was. He unzipped the Subspace bag, causing Ramona and the others to stare at him, confused. He dove into the bag head first until he found himself, not only in subspace, but in Ramona's head.
Scott landed feet first onto the floor and stared over to a nearby throne with two figures sitting in it. One had to be Gideon, but his shadow revealed a form of spikes which should have been where his head was. And the other was Ramona, wearing some sort of sexy, hipster outfit with her hands cuffed to a rope in which Gideon held in his grip.
"You idiot." He heard Gideon growl in a demonic voice. "Did you honestly think I'd just roll over in here." He walked out of the shadows and his body was a lot taller that usual and his hair was spiky, while the Power of Love emitted a dark, evil glow in his palms.
Scott showed no fear at all. Instead, he narrowed his eyebrows and clenched his teeth and growled at him.
"I take it you don't talk much in this form. But anyway, you cannot defeat me. This right here, this is what she wants, buddy. Her inner most desire. Your rage is nothing here." Gideon chuckled as he started to grow taller. Scott jumped off the ground and flew after him at top speed.
"I'm…" Scott growled, as Gideon became even taller.
"…going..." Gideon's closed were in the process of ripping apart as he was shifting into something that was not of this world.
"…to break…" Gideon had fully transformed into Gigadeon Groves as the spirits of his future girlfriends appeared and wrapped their arms all around him, while Ramona lied in his hands completely passed out, with a lustful smile on her face.
"…YOUR FACE!"
"KRAK!"Which was the sound of Gideon's skull after Scott head-butted him. Not only, did he break his skull, but a few of his teeth had cracked as well. The demonic Gideon quickly shifted back into regular Gideon, allowing Scott to grip onto his shirt, with a look of death staring upon him. Scott was readying to punch him until he saw Ramona falling to her doom. His anger shifted to nervousness. He didn't know whether to end Gideon or save Ramona.
If he ended Gideon, then she'll fall to her death. But if he tried to grab her he might electrocute her again. But would he still be able to save her? What should he do? What could he do? He only had a few seconds to react, and a conclusion came to him.
'I must...believe.' He let Gideon go and flew after her at top speed. She was only a few more feet from the ground so he raised his arm to her until he finally caught her and landed on his feet. And to his surprise, he didn't shock her at all. Maybe it was because the subspace atmosphere had no feeling? Or maybe since they were in Ramona's head, she was able to control what went on, including the fact that he'd shock her if they'd touch. It all became very clear when she looked at him with a shocked expression.
"You fool! This is nothing to me." Gideon said, referring to his head, which was now glowing. He slashed into Scott's chest, but unfortunately, it left only a scar, which quickly healed itself in the process.
"So, he has invulnerability too, huh? Guess I better up the antics a bit." He said as he made a different series of slashes to Scott's body, causing him to drop Ramona in the process. He fell onto his knees, grasping onto his wounds.
"Did you honestly think the glow or your rage would have any affect on me? I've been trapped in my own head since the day I was born." Gideon explained, landing one more slash onto Scott's torso, this time, causing him to fall on his side. "You're powerless here. I am alpha and omega. I am the supreme ruler of subspace."
Scott looked over to Ramona as he felt his eyes turn back to normal, while his glow remained. He was surprised when she stared back at him with an encouraging smile, which made him quite shocked. Her clothes returned to normal and the she snapped the cuffs on her wrist, as she grew twelve feet tall.
"Oh...uh...hey, Ramona, what's up?" Gideon said, nervous.
"You know, you're right. Part of me does still belong to you." She said as an army of Ramonas' appeared behind her. "But the other parts of me...are finished with you. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"
"...Fine." Gideon agreed. "But I'm taking HIM..." He raised the sword, readying to cut Scott. Ramona raised her arm in fear. "...with me!"
There was a bright flash that occurred back in the outside world until it died down, revealing Scott, completely back in rage form as he saw Ramona blocking the sword with her subspace bag, panting softly. When suddenly, her bag exploded, causing a bunch of debris to shoot out and push Gideon back, leaving the Power of Love in the midst of the bag.
She gripped onto the end of the sword pulled it out and pointed to Gideon.
"Gideon, I think it's safe to say, it's over between us." She said confidently as Scott walked right next to her, glaring at Gideon with so much rage.
(To be continued)
The second to last chapter completed. I told you I was gonna add some products from my old story. I hope you all enjoyed it though. Chapter 4 will be up soon.
