Here's chapter 9!
Now if you have been following the clues in each of the chapters, you'll find out about Stacy's terrible past and why she was so afraid of Shawn and the others back when she met them in chapter 1.
This is, what I think, an emotional chapter because of what Stacy had to go through in here. And I wanna thank my good friend, SailorMarble, for her help. Thanks hon! (hug) :)
Not sure when I'll get the next chapter up but just hang on until I do, okay? And please don't judge me too bad for this chapter if it's not perfect for I had to get this down as soon as possible.
Next chapter: Everyone gets a day off after the incident and Stacy bonds with her brother. But will Sugar try to pull them apart?
I don't own Total Drama, Eureka Seven, or the characters. Stacy is my OC, she belongs to me.
Chapter 9: Insanity
Stacy is sitting under a tree and cries a little because Dave is gone. It hurts her because not only her friend was eliminated but the way Sky and Chris had treated him as well.
"It's not fair!" she thought sadly, "Dave didn't have to go out like this! It's should've been Sugar blasted off in that cannon and Chris should've kept his big fat mouth shut! Why does this keep happening to me?! This can't possibly get any worse!"
Suddenly, Stacy feels the island moving and began to worry, "Oh my gosh! What's happening?!"
Meanwhile, Shawn and Jasmine look for Stacy while dodging the island. Trees are popping up everywhere, it's snowing and spewing lava at the same time, and everything else on the island is going chaotic.
"Stacy! Stacy! Where are you?!" They both called out for her.
"I can't find her and this island is going crazy! What am I gonna do?!" Shawn began to panic.
As they continued searching until Jasmine sees a small figure in the distance, "There she is!" she pointed out.
They run to Stacy but before they could reach her, she disappears through a hole that opens and closes!
"STACY!" they shouted horror.
"Where did she go?!" Jasmine asked.
"I don't know!" Shawn knelt down and pounded on the same spot where Stacy fell, "Give me back my sister!"
"Come on," Jasmine pulled him from the ground, "we can tell Chris what's going on. Maybe he might know what to do."
"He'd better!"
They go to find Chris, where he's explaining to the other teens that the island is not real but it's really artificial and they don't have a lot of time until the self-destruct activation goes off. When Shawn mentions what happened to Stacy, everyone glares and wonders if Chris is actually gonna do something.
"Stacy fell into a hole! You have to get her back!" he said.
"Well with the island malfunctioning, I don't know how." Chris shrugged.
Then, Chris gave his tablet to Scarlett which shows the location to the control room and announces that the new "challenge" will be to shut off the island before it blows sky-high. To make matters worse, Chris hops into his helicopter and leaves while the challenge begins.
This made Shawn very furious, "Seriously?! You're gonna leave us to die and let Stacy die too?!" he gave a sigh to calm himself before turning to Jasmine, "Come on, Jasmine! We have to find Stacy!"
"Right!" she nodded.
While the others split up into two small groups, Shawn and Jasmine continue their search for the lost little girl. They look for Stacy and come across the ocean where they had to go underwater, fight a shark, and get inside a secret passage.
Meanwhile, Stacy lands in a different area inside of the island away from the others.
"W-Where am I?" she said as she stood up.
Stacy looks around and sees she's in a secret lab and it brings back terrible memories, causing her to feel shaken. She feels like she's ready to hyperventilate, but this time she tries to keep calm.
"Get a grip, Stacy." she told herself, "You can do this. Just find a way out."
She goes to find an exit. A little bit later, Shawn and Jasmine made it inside along with Sugar and Sky.
"Have you girls seen Stacy?" he asked.
"Nope." Sugar shook her head.
"I haven't seen her." Sky added.
"Great. Now I'm really getting worried." Shawn held his head in his hands in worry.
"I'm sure she's fine." Jasmine tried to comfort her boyfriend.
"I hope so." he sighed deeply, "She's the first and the only little sister I'll ever had and I don't wanna lose her."
Meanwhile on the other side, Stacy was walking around and, suddenly, she saw Scarlett and Max land right next to her.
"Max? Scarlett?" she went to them.
"Hey Stacy." Max smile as he and Scarlett got up on their feet.
"How did you get here?" she asked.
"Up there." he pointed up above.
"You too, huh?" Stacy frowned, "I fell down here as well and I have no idea where Shawn is."
"Well, it looks like we're near the control panel." Scarlett said as she adjusted her glasses.
"Control panel?" asked Stacy as Scarlett gave a nod, "So what do we have to do?"
"Find a pass-code and stop the island." Scarlett answered.
Stacy nodded and follows Max and Scarlett until they find the entrance to the control panel. Max tries to put the pass-code in, but he kept on getting shocked until the pass-code broke and the door opened. The young girl hated seeing the shocking but she was more about Max while Scarlett went inside.
"Max! Are you okay?" Stacy checked on her friend.
"N-N-Never b-better." Max said as he was laying down and feeling dazed from all the shocking.
She helped her friend snap out of his daze and guided him inside but they were in for a nasty surprise when Scarlett started to act very unusual.
"The island is mine! Mine!" Scarlett said in her moment of triumph.
Max enters and calls Scarlett "sidekick" again with Stacy standing beside him. That name was the final straw as Scarlett started to remove her glasses and hair-band.
"I am...not...your...SIDEKICK!" Scarlett yelled with fire in her eyes.
Max started to feel uneasy and Stacy knew her suspicions were right from the very start. Scarlett was EVIL!
"So, you where never good this whole time!" Max glared as Stacy hid behind him.
"You got that right. This is the real me!" Scarlett his with a grin, "Also, I'd run if I were you!"
With the press of a button from the wall, she releases mechanical animals on Max who chased him out of the control room, locks the door, and turns to Stacy with an evil smile. Stacy never felt so terrified in her life for Scarlett reminded her of an awful woman from her past; someone who used to abuse her and her friends in the awful lab she grew up in.
"Now, what to do with you?" Scarlett approached the girl.
"Shawn...help me!" Stacy said in a scared voice.
"No one can help you now!" Scarlett gave an evil laugh.
The young girl backs up and tries to run away but Scarlett grabs her by the back on her shirt, "Where do you think you're going?"
"Let me go!" Stacy struggled to escape from her grip," Let me go or or I'll tell my big brother!"
"Well, where is your big brother?" she asked with a smug look.
Stacy looked down and knew the teen was right. She had no idea where Shawn was and all she could do was look down, "I...I don't know."
"See? He will never save you now!" Scarlett gave an evil laugh as she pushed the girl aside, "Now, I have an important call to make. Don't make one move!"
Stacy nods fearfully and stood where she was as Scarlett sat down and called Chris on the monitor. Once Chris appeared onscreen, Scarlett explains that she is in control of the island and unless she is given the million dollars, she'll let the island explode with everyone on it. Stacy saw her chance to escape and tries to sneak away as Scarlett is talking to Chris, but then she hangs up and grabs Stacy again.
"Ahh!" Stacy screamed.
"You're not going anywhere, Missy." Scarlett tightened her grip as she held onto Stacy's wrist.
Scarlett is ready to put her plans into motion and Stacy tries to break free but to no avail.
"W-What are you going to do to me?!" Stacy asked in frightened tears as the red-head gave a smirk, "Please just let me go!"
"Sorry but let me give the others a message." she presses another button that allows them to appear on a monitor for the other teens to see.
During that time, the other teens have been dodging lasers, motion sensors, booby traps, and mechanical animals just to get to the control panel. Just when it seems like they're at the homestretch, a monitor appears in front of them and Scarlett shows up on the screen.
"Attention vermin!" Scarlett said on the camera, "Either Chris hands me the million or everyone gets eliminated...permanently! You have-"
Four minutes and counting.
"That is all." Scarlett was about to turn away but faced the camera again, "Oh! And this is for Shawn." the camera pans out and shows her restraining a scared Stacy with one arm and holding a sharp knife at her neck.
"Shawn! Help me!" Stacy screamed, "Someone please! H-Help!"
"SHUT UP!" Scarlett yelled at her.
Everyone gasped in horror as they saw the sweet little girl they loved being held hostage by their former teammate. Shawn clenched his fists and stared at Scarlett in utter fury.
"You bring her back right now or else!" Shawn exclaimed.
"Hahahahaha!" Scarlett laughed evilly as tears began to form in Stacy's eyes, "Or else what?"
Shawns anger only grew as Scarlett continued to laugh, "If you touch just one hair on her head, so help me I'll make you wish you were never born!" he threatened.
"Oh really?" the red-headed girl mocked him and held Stacy up by her shirt, "How can you rescue her and beat me if you can't even reach me? Take a good look fool, cause this will be the last time you'll ever see your little sister ever again!" Scarlett laughed more before the screen finally went black.
The others felt very worried as they turned to Shawn, who clenched his fists so hard that blood started to drip from his hands.
"Shawn, are you okay?" Sky asked nervously.
"Am I okay?" he shook in anger before turning to the others with fire in his eyes, "AM I OKAY?! When I get into that control room, Scarlett is going to pay! Nobody threatens my little sister and gets away with it!"
With fierce determination, Shawn sets out to rescue his little sister and stop the evil Scarlett once and for all. But before he or anyone could get far, they are suddenly ambushed by a horde of Chris bots; they are robots that resemble Chris McLean in every way possible and Chris uses them whenever he's not hosting the shows.
It seems like all hope is lost but when Jasmine says that they are like "zombies", Shawn went into battle mode and bashed every single Chris-bot in sight, shocking everyone. Chris appeared on the monitor and wasn't happy that his bots were destroyed but no one cared because they still see Chris as a big jerk.
"Wow! You got them!" said an impressed Sky.
But Shawn was still furious, "I'm gonna do more than that to Scarlett if she hurts Stacy!"
Chris informs everyone about where Scarlett is and what she plans to do to the island. Everyone rushes to the control room, catches up with Max (who is recovering from his experience with Scuba Bear) and they make it to the door, only to find it locked tight. Then, a monitor appears again and shows Scarlett holding Stacy.
"You're running out of time, peons!" she chuckled as she ran her fingers through Stacy's hair, "And so is she."
"Shawn help!" Stacy said before the screen went black.
Shawn growled in fury and was ready to beat the door down, "Hang on Stacy! I'm coming!"
"Wait!"Jasmine said, "We need a plan to get in and stop Scarlett!"
"Yeah but what?" asked Sky.
After some thinking, Max comes up with a plan, "Wait! I have an idea!"
Using one of the heads from the Chris-bots and a monitor, Max makes it say that "Chris" is going to give her Scarlett the million dollars and she bought it without noticing a thing.
"Excellent!" Scarlett smirked.
Before she went to the door, she took her knife and held it against Stacy as if she was about to stab her. With tears falling, Stacy closed her eyes and waited for the knife to pierce her but, suddenly, she found herself hanging from the wall by her shirt. Scarlett only pinned her shirt against the wall and Stacy was as helpless as a butterfly caught in a spiders web.
Scarlett got up in her face and gave her a deadly stare, "Don't. Move." she said sternly.
Stacy only nodded silently as her captor went to the door. But as soon as it was opened, it was revealed to be Max holding the upper part of one of the promo bots.
"Ha!" Max said in triumph, "I tricked you! Now who's more evil?!"
The head fell off and Scarlett hissed as she advanced towards the frightened Max. But before she could do anything, everyone else charged in the room and pounced Scarlett! As the others tied her up and deactivated the self-destruct command, Max took off the dagger and Shawn helped Stacy back down. He placed his hands on her shoulders and checked to see if she was hurt.
"Stacy, are you okay?!" he said in a worried tone, "Did she hurt you?! What did she do to you?!"
Feeling relieved and scared at the same time, Stacy wrapped her arms around her brother and cried onto his chest like no tomorrow.
"B-Big brother!" she sobbed heavily, "I-I t-thought...she was g-gonna...k-kill me! I-I d-didn't...know...what to do! I was s-so s-scared!"
Shawn felt his heart break seeing his little sister so frightened and upset all at once. He picked her up, held her close, and rubbed small circles on her back to comfort her.
"There there, sis'." he said softly, "It's okay. It's all over now, don't worry. Shhhh, shhhh. I'm here. Big brother's here and I'm not going to let anyone hurt you. Not ever, I promise."
Everyone else looked at poor Stacy and felt just as sad as Shawn did. Of course, Sugar stepped towards the two and wanted to comfort the child herself.
"Oh, you poor little thing!" Sugar said as she held out her arms, "Come to big sis' Sugar!"
"Sugar," Shawn took a step back, "maybe you should let me handle this. She needs me right now."
As Shawn kept trying to calm the frightened little girl, Sugar grew very very jealous of their relationship and glared at Shawn.
"Why does he get to have all the time with her?!" Sugar thought in anger, "One way or another, I will have her as my sister!"
She was snapped out of her thoughts when she heard the doors open.
"Great job guys!" Chris came in the control room, "You did good on taking down Scarlett! And-"
He stopped when he saw little Stacy crying hard against Shawns shoulder and walked over to them.
"What happened?" he asked, "Why is she crying?"
"Scarlett held her hostage and nearly killed her." Shawn said in a soft but angry tone, "The poor girl was scared to death. Shhhh...it's okay." he said to the child.
Even though Chris wasn't very nice to Stacy some of the time, even he knew that Scarlett had gone too far and made his decision.
"Scarlett, you are so gone!" Chris yelled at the tied up Scarlett.
Meanwhile,
"Uh!" Stoner snapped out of his sleep and sat up in worry.
While all the other adults and the children were asleep, Stoner was the only one awake because he felt that his little daughter was in danger. He felt helpless that he can't be there where Stacy is and prayed all his might for her safety.
"Stacy...please be alright." he said quietly.
Back on the island,
While Chef and Chris kept Scarlett tied up and the island under control, Sky, Max and Jasmine went to check on Shawn and Stacy. Sugar was not present because she was eating some left over chuggy chunks from the last challenge regardless if it'll make her sick later. Stacy still cried from her traumatic experience with Scarlett and Shawn was trying his best to calm her down.
"Shawn?" Sky spoke up first, "Is Stacy alright?"
"I'm afraid not." Shawn replied sadly as he sat on a log and held Stacy, "She really got terrified back there."
Stacy cries harder as Jasmine sat next to them and rubs her back, "I-I-It was awful! Scarlett tried to kill me!" she sobbed and cried on her brothers shoulder.
"Shhhh. It's okay Stacy." he soothed her and started to rock her back and forth.
"This is my fault." Max looked down in regret, "I should've protected her."
"I should have been with her." Shawn said.
"I should never have let her go." Jasmine added.
"I should have never made her upset." Sky sighed deeply.
Everyone felt guilty for leaving Stacy alone as she started to pour out everything she held in, even her deepest secret.
"W-Why...why is everything out to get me?!" she sobbed even harder, "Why am I being punished this way?!"
"Punished?" Shawn asked in confusion.
"Why did I have to grow up in that stupid lab!" Stacy admitted without realizing, "Why did they always hurt me!"
"Lab?" Max wondered.
At that moment, Stacy realizes what she just said and tries to cover it, "N-Nothing! I-I didn't say anything!" she stuttered as she wiped her eyes.
"You said something about a lab, what is it?" Shawn asked his sister.
"N-No I didn't! It's nothing!"
"Yeah you did", Shawn know something is wrong and wanted to help his sister somehow.
Not wanting to talk about her secret anymore, Stacy pulls away from Shawn and tries to walk away much to the concern of the teens.
"Listen, I'm just tired so I'm going to head back to the cave." she sighed and took a couple steps back.
"Stacy, talk to us please." her brother pleaded.
Stacy only teared up again and turned away, " I-I can't! I just can't!"
Stacy tries to run away only for Shawn to grab her hand, gently, to prevent her from walking off. He wasn't going to let his sister walk away in such a state until he figures out what's going on.
"Just please tell us." he said softly.
Stacy tries to push his hand off, "Just let me go! I don't want to talk about it!"
"Why not?" asked Max with concern.
"We're only trying to help you, love." Jasmine frowned sadly.
Feeling conflicted whether or not to tell her friends and the scar of her trauma still deep, Stacy started to cry again and Shawn engulfed his sister in another hug.
"I just want the torment to stop..." she cried onto him.
"Please tell us Stacy." Jasmine hugged her too.
"B-But you'll think I'm a freak!" the young girl feared.
"No we won't. We promise." Shawn reassured his sister with the others nodding in agreement.
Realizing her friends are true to their loyalty to her, Stacy stops crying and takes a deep breath. She is ready to tell them everything.
"Alright." she looked up at them, "But promise me you won't tell anyone else."
"We promise." everyone said with a small smile.
"Alright." taking another deep breath, Stacy began to unravel her past, "The truth is...I grew up in a laboratory for nine years."
"What?" Shawn said.
Stacy explains everything that led her up to her escape. Without ever meeting her father or mother (if you could call her that), Stacy was born into a laboratory where she and twelve other children were kept in isolation from love and other emotions for the first five years and the next five are filled with nothing but torture, abuse, and awful training so the people there could mold the kids into soldiers bent on world domination.
But about two or three months ago, the kids worked together to escape and in time, found their families and started to lead normal lives. However, it left some deep emotional, mental, and physical scars and the memories will never go away so easily.
Stoner, her father, had no idea that he had a daughter and the woman he once dated he never saw again. They broke up years ago and after they drifted apart, she found out she was pregnant with a baby girl but she never told Stoner or anyone because she did not want to bear a child. That's when one of the heads of the lab offered to take the baby and "take care of her" when she was born. After the birth of Stacy, the mother left and never saw her baby that day or ever again, not knowing the awful events that would take place for years to come.
When she finished, everyone had a jaw-dropped look on their faces and was at a loss for words. All except for Shawn, who had no idea his sweet, little sister had suffered so much.
"Stacy...I-I am so sorry." he said in a quiet but shocked voice.
"It's not your fault." Stacy shook her head and stood up, "But in case you don't believe me...look at my back."
Stacy turned around, lifted the back of her shirt, and on the young girls' back are numerous scars from the lashes she received there. Once they saw the horrible faded scars, Shawn and everyone gasped in fear and horror.
And both Shawn and Sky now realize why Stacy was so edgy during the cave challenge, for she did not want them to see her scars.
"They did this to you?" Shawn asked in shock. Stacy nodded sadly as she put her shirt back down and Shawn hugged her tight, "I'm so sorry this happened."
Stacy felt more tears pool up as she hugged Shawn, "I know but,it's not your fault. It's been a couple months since I escaped but that doesn't stop the memories from haunting me!"
"I'm guessing Scarlett made it worse for you?" Sky asked sadly.
"Yes..."
"That little backstabbing princess!" Max muttered under his breath.
"What a cruel witch!" Jasmine said in anger.
While the others express their hate of Scarlett, Shawn just comforts his sister the whole time and Stacy stays quiet as the memories began to flood.
"Wanna know what the worst part is?" she began to shake, "Those guys are looking for me."
"They are?"
"Yes!" Stacy choked out, "If they find me, they'll take me back and the nightmare will begin again! I don't want to go back there again!"
Shawn pulled away from her and looked into her eyes, "Don't worry, sis'. I'll protect you from those people."
"W-Why?"
"Well, because you're my sister and friend." he explained as he gave her a comforting smile.
"Y-You are willing to protect me?" she asked as she wiped her eyes.
"Of course." Shawn smiled.
"Same here." Jasmine did the same.
"Me too." Sky said with Max after her, "And so will I."
For the first time all night, Stacy felt happiness in her heart and a grateful smile crept up on her face, knowing her big brother and friends will always be there to protect her.
"Come here sis'." Shawn hugged her again and everyone else joins in on the group hug.
"Thank you, everyone." she said softly, "Thank you."
"Your welcome."
A few minutes later, the hug ends just as Chris comes along to check on everyone. Sugar was finishing throwing up somewhere else but she's lucky she doesn't need her stomach pumped.
"How you doing, kid?" Chris asked Stacy.
"I'm okay." she replied.
"Good and you're going to love what I have in store." Chris started to walk the opposite direction, "If you all would follow me, please."
Everyone (even Sugar caught up) follows Chris to the cannon and sees Scarlett tied up inside of it, looking very angry and irritated.
"You're kicking her off?" asked Shawn.
"Yep."
"Good." said Stacy.
"However," Chris explained, "someone has to go home with her to make sure she won't escape or come back on the island like Amy did."
Shawn and the other teens looked at each other, making Stacy feel worried. She had just lost Dave, she didn't want to lose anymore friends (except Sugar). But, someone had already made his decision.
"I'll go." Max spoke up, "I mean she used to be my sidekick, but since she hurt a child I'll make sure that never happens again. I'll give up winning the million and go with Scarlett."
Before he went to the cannon, Stacy goes to Max and hugs him, "I'll miss you."
"And I'll miss you, too." Max hugged her one last time, "Hey, if you ever need a babysitter, be sure to give me a call. Alright?"
"You got it." Stacy gave him a wink.
Max goes into the canon with Scarlett and they get launched away as Stacy waves goodbye to her friend. Shawn pats her on the back and she turns to him with a soft smile.
"It's okay, big brother. I'll be fine." she told him.
"Okay." he said, "Are you sure?"
Stacy nods as Shawn picks her up and carries her back to the cave, but not before saying goodnight to the others. And Chris also announced that everyone will have a day off to relax tomorrow and the island will have a maintenance check. About an hour later, Jasmine goes to check on the two only to find Stacy asleep with her head on Shawn's lap while they were at the entrance of the cave.
She gave a smile as she approached them, "How is she?" Jasmine asked quietly.
"She tired herself out." Shawn answered, "But, she's pretty traumatized now. I can't believe Scarlett would do that to her!" he growled softly.
"Yeah, that was low of her." Jasmine frowned at the thought of that red-headed evil girl.
Shawn rubs Stacy's back as she slept, " I should of protected her." he said in a sad whisper.
Jasmine sat next to him and placed an arm around his shoulders, "It wasn't your fault. Don't worry."
"I know." he sighed, "And I had no idea she had such a bad childhood."
"Yeah. I feel bad for her." Jasmine gave her head a couple rubs.
That's when Shawn thought of something he had not thought about since he first me the child, "You think that's why she was scared of all of us when we first met her?"
"That could be it." the tall girl agreed.
"If I had known, I would've helped her somehow."
"You didn't know, so don't feel guilty." she rubbed his back a bit.
"I know, but I still feel bad for her." Shawn said with Jasmine agreeing, "I feel bad as well."
The two sat in silence for a little while as Stacy continued to sleep soundly. Although Shawn could always count on Jasmine now that they're back together, but he had to know if her promise to his sister was true.
"Hey Jasmine?" he started to ask, "Did you really mean it when you said you'd protect her?"
"Of course I did." Jasmine nodded with a smile.
"Me too. And I wasn't lying when I said she's the only sister I ever had. I grew up an only child and now I have someone to protect and love."
Amazed at her boyfriend's dedication to the small child, Jasmine smiles and gives Shawn a kiss on the top on his lips, causing him to blush.
"Well, I better get Stacy back to the cave so she can rest." Shawn picked up Stacy and held her in his arms, "Goodnight Jasmine."
"Night Shawn." Jasmine gave them each a kiss on the cheek, "Night Stacy."
Shawn carries Stacy to the cave so she can sleep but she started to wake up a little so she could say something to her big brother.
"Shawn?" she asked in a tired voice.
"Yes?"
"I'm so glad I met you." Stacy said as she yawned, "You're the best big brother I ever had."
"Thanks sis'." Shawn held her close, "I love you."
"I love you, too." she nuzzled against her brother.
Shawn smiles and kisses her on the forehead. They go to sleep and the two rest for another day as all the other contestants rest for the next day. Sugar slept outside and tried to think of ideas of how to get Stacy away from Shawn and become her big sister. Well, she'll have to get through protective Shawn first.
To Be Continued...
