The Regular Show Chronicles
Chronicle #3.5 Just a Scratch Part 2
Later that night
"What time is it?" Raven asked. "10:43PM." Mordecai replied, looking at his wristwatch. "Feel anything?" Raven asked. "Not really, just bored." Rigby replied, switching the channels non-stop on the television. "Not feeling anything at all?" Mordecai asked. "No, just feeling a little sick." Rigby replied, coughing a little. "Okay." Raven sighed, resting on the couch. "This is gonna be a long night" Mordecai and Raven thought in unison.
A couple of hours later
Raven woke up to a loud noise coming from outside. "Mordecai, wake up." Raven shook Mordecai awake. "Uhh…what?" Mordecai groaned. "Rigby isn't here." Raven said. Mordecai looked where Rigby was sitting earlier and noticed he wasn't there. "And I heard a noise outside." Raven continued, pointing to a nearby window. Mordecai and Raven got up off the couch and left the house.
There was another noise, it was coming from nearby, and it sounded like garbage cans clattering. "You go check it out…I'll stay here." Raven said. "No, you're coming with me." Mordecai demanded, dragging Raven along with him. "Fine! But if it's something scary I'm done, got it?" Raven said. "I thought you were fearless." Mordecai joked. "Shut up." Raven replied. "Let's find out where that noise is coming from." Mordecai said, trying to sound tough.
After a few minutes, the two friends had searched around the house and still hadn't found anything. The noises started to get louder as the two friends began to go towards the back of the house. But this noise was different, it sounded like something banging against glass. Mordecai and Raven had found the location where the noises were coming from, it was coming from the meat locker, under the house.
Mordecai and Raven got to the door of the meat locker and noticed two figures inside the meat locker. "There's people in there!" Mordecai shouted. "Open the door!" Raven shouted. Mordecai and Raven opened the meat locker door, and one of the figures, ran out of the meat locker and thanked Mordecai and Raven for rescuing him. Mordecai walked into the meat locker and noticed a familiar creature lying on the floor.
"Rigby?!" Mordecai gasped. "Why's he in here…?" Raven asked. "How did he…?" Mordecai began. "Wake up Rigby, wake up!" Mordecai shook his friend, waking him up. "AAH! WHAT, WHERE?!" Rigby screamed. "Calm down Rigby, it's just us." Mordecai said. Rigby got up and hugged Mordecai tight. "What happened? Why are you down in the meat locker?" Raven asked. "Well, me and some other guy got knocked out and locked in here." Rigby explained.
Mordecai glanced at his friend. "Where are all you're scars and gashes?" Mordecai asked. "What are you talking about?" Rigby asked. "I think I understand what's going on…" Raven began. "What's going on?" Rigby asked. "I think, that someone is impersonating you, taking over your body and killing it from the inside." Raven continued. "Well, who'd wanna do that to me? An innocent raccoon?" Rigby made his trademark innocent puppy eyes.
Mordecai chuckled a bit, before he was cut short by a noise coming from outside. "What was that?" Raven asked. "Not sure, I'm gonna go check, stay here." Mordecai ordered, leaving the meat locker.
Mordecai quietly walked out of the meat locker and noticed that Rigby was standing outside, with a knife in his hands. Mordecai peered back into the meat locker and saw the real Rigby talking to Raven. Mordecai looked at the other Rigby and noticed that he was cutting himself with a sharp knife, feeling no pain.
Mordecai wanted to vomit, he resisted the urge to stop him and walked slowly back to into the meat locker. "Rigby, there's a guy that looks exactly the same as you, cutting himself up with a kitchen knife." Mordecai explained. "What?" Rigby asked. "He's right." Raven said, looking outside. "Let me see." Rigby said, walking out of the meat locker, with Mordecai and Raven following close behind.
Rigby gasped as he looked at himself cutting himself with a knife. "What are you doing?" Rigby asked, alerting the other Rigby. "Oh, you're out of your prison." The other Rigby grinned, twiddling the knife in his hands. "What are you doing? Why are you doing this?" Mordecai asked. "Are you serious? You don't recognise me? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since you guys sent me to jail four years ago." The other Rigby explained.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Rigby stared at the other Rigby. "Does this jog you're memory?" The other Rigby asked, picking up a trucker hat which Rigby had seen before. "Doug?!" Rigby exclaimed. "Ding, Ding, Ding! We have a winner! Guess what you win?" The other Rigby asked. Rigby was too afraid to ask. "Not willing to answer, that's fine. Well, you've won a free funeral service!" Doug shouted, lunging at Rigby with the knife.
Rigby dodged the knife and began to run towards the house, with Mordecai and Raven following close behind. Rigby ran into the house and barricaded the door with a chair and hid behind a dresser next to the staircase. Doug broke through the door and looked around for Rigby. "I want your hide! You hear me!? I want your hide!" Doug shouted. Doug went up the steps to the friend's room and searched for him. Mordecai ran inside with Raven, guessing that Rigby had ran upstairs to their room, they ran up the stairs and followed Doug into their room.
Doug saw Mordecai and Raven enter the room. "Ah, I have an idea. Do you know where Rigby is?" Doug asked, twiddling the knife in his hands. "No, we don't…" Mordecai lied. "That's too bad." Doug approached the two friends, Mordecai backed off, while Raven backed into the wall. Doug walked slowly towards Raven, grabbing him by the neck and pulling a knife to his throat. "Any sudden moves and I slit this asshole's throat." Doug grinned. Mordecai didn't move, he just followed Doug and Raven down the stairs.
Doug took Raven into the living room and called for Rigby. "Hey Rigby! I got a guy here who might be able to convince you to come out!" Doug laughed. Rigby peered from behind the dresser, without Doug noticing and gasped as he saw Doug holding a knife against Raven's throat. "Now this can go one of two ways. You can come out and I spare this asshole's life, or you don't come out and I slit his throat, what do you think?" Doug laughed.
Rigby considered his options, stay hidden and risk Doug slitting his friend's throat, or go out and risk being killed himself. Rigby let out a scared sigh, as he came out behind the dresser. "Oh, there you are." Doug grinned. "Rigby, don't!" Raven shouted, before he was cut off by Doug gripping harder on his throat. "Let him go." Rigby demanded. "A promise is a promise." Doug replied, throwing Raven against a nearby wall.
Doug walked up towards Rigby, knife in hand, Rigby nervously backed off, while his friends watched helplessly as Doug began to get closer to Rigby. "I've been waiting four years for this." Doug laughed. Doug lunged at Rigby once again, trying to stab him, but Rigby dodged. "Don't fight it! It won't take very long!" Doug shouted. Rigby ran into the kitchen of the house and stood behind the dining table in the kitchen. "Don't worry, Rigby, I'll take good care of your pieces!" Doug grinned, climbing over the table and stabbing Rigby in the chest, knocking him to the ground. Mordecai and Raven stood at the kitchen door and saw Rigby getting stabbed, Mordecai couldn't keep watching, he ran over to the cutlery drawer in the kitchen and picked up a large kitchen knife, before stabbing Doug in the head, killing him instantly.
Doug fell on top of Rigby's motionless body. Mordecai moved Doug's body off of Rigby and pulled out the knife that was jammed into Rigby's chest. "M…Morde…Mordecai…" Rigby faintly said. "Don't speak Rigby…" Mordecai applied pressure to Rigby's wound. Raven came over and asked; "What should I do?"
"Call 911." Mordecai replied, trying to keep Rigby calm. Raven nodded and called 911. A few minutes later, the paramedics came and took Rigby away in the ambulance. "Can we come in? We're his friends." Raven asked. "Yes, come in, but don't touch him, he's in a critical condition." One of the paramedics warned. Mordecai and Raven nodded and entered the ambulance.
Twenty Minutes later, the ambulance arrived at the hospital and they led Rigby inside. Raven and Mordecai waited in the waiting room for what seemed like years. After a few hours, a doctor came over to the two friends. "Are you related to the raccoon in room 706?" The doctor asked. "Rigby? Yes." Raven replied. "He's just finished his operation. He's gonna live." The doctor smiled. "Really? Awesome!" Mordecai smiled.
"He was very lucky, the skin was punctured by the knife, as you told us, only mere centimetres away from Rigby's heart, if it was only a few more centimetres to the right, Rigby would be dead." The doctor continued. "That's amazing…I can't believe he's alive." Raven smiled. "Can we see him?" Mordecai asked. "Yes, but be very careful, he's under the effects of morphine and is in a lot of pain, so I would recommend not to wake him up, at least not yet." The doctor continued.
"Alright, thanks doctor." Mordecai smiled. "No problem, have a good evening." The doctor replied, walking down the hallway. Mordecai and Raven entered Rigby's room and stood next to his bed. "I can't believe all that happened, and we didn't notice." Mordecai sighed. "Yeah…it's crazy, we should have known it wasn't the real Rigby." Raven glanced at Rigby's body on the hospital bed. "There's only one thing that I don't understand." Mordecai began. "What's that?" Raven asked.
"What was the symbol on Doug's hand from that first time we noticed the slits on his arm...?" Mordecai continued. "No idea." Raven shrugged. "Well, I guess it doesn't matter, but I guess we'll never know." Mordecai sighed. "Yeah." Raven replied. "Well, I'm gonna stay with Rigby overnight, you can head back to the park if you want." Mordecai said. "But I would like to stay…" Raven began. "Sorry Raven, but I'd like to be alone with Rigby for the night." Mordecai ordered.
"Alright, well, see you in the morning." Raven said, leaving the room and heading back to the park.
Mordecai rested next to Rigby's bed and said to him; "I'll never let this happen to you again Rigby…I'll protect you…I promise…" Rigby was awake for a little while, but Mordecai didn't notice, Rigby faintly said; "I know you will." Before falling asleep in his bed.
A few hours later, Mordecai woke up to see his friend in the hospital bed, shaking and shivering, which reminded him of the nightmares Rigby had been having before Doug imprisoned him. Mordecai didn't waste any time, he tried to calm down the little Raccoon, by rubbing his hair a little bit to ease his tension. He ran his wing through Rigby's hair, and thought to himself; "It's cute when he sleeps." Mordecai stopped for a second and processed that sentence through his head. "Why would I say that…?" Mordecai thought to himself. Mordecai ignored those thoughts and rubbed Rigby's hair again, causing Rigby to purr lightly and shiver in his sleep. Mordecai thought it was very cute and continued to rub his friend's hair, listening to him purr made him feel something he never felt before. True Friendship. Mordecai than thought to himself; "Could I like Rigby more than a bro…?"
OOOOHHH! There we go! The 1000 View special is finished! And there goes the cliff hanger! I've been typing all night, so I'm gonna go to sleep for a little while, I'm gonna keep typing more Chronicles tomorrow. Please Follow/Comment/Review/Read more of my stories! Thanks for the reviews, favourites, follows and comments! I really appreciate it. Don't forget to suggest more Chronicles for me.
