Chapter Ten: Le Finale

Vampire Kyle's POV
I look at Stan's curious yet peaceful face melt through the Parallelogram. His face is totally shocked all over, and that beam from Butters' gun-the shot that was supposed to hit me...

"You betrayed me!" I say, pulling myself up from where Stan catapulted into me.

"Don't you see Kyle," he says, stroking the gun with an insane look in his eyes, "one shot from this and all your vampire powers are stripped... you could be human!"

I stare at him.
"How many shots do you have left?"
He takes a step closer and aims at me.

"One."

Idiot. Only putting two cartridges in the gun? Everything then happens in slow motion. Butters fires, I leap into the air, over his head and crash down hard onto a desk behind Barbrady. I peek up from the now broken desk like a meerkat, and watch as Chef falls to the ground.
"Too bad. I only developed those antidotes." We look at Chef, who is starting to regain colour in his face.

"So why are you defending him?" I gesture to the piece of slime, cowering behind Butters.

"He's paying me."

"Why did you make that deal with me then? I thought you wanted Barbrady out of the picture?"

"I do," he turns to Barbrady, "as soon as I get paid!" This is totally messed up. I sigh, and call off my vampires.

"I can handle Barbrady myself, and can one of you toss that other me into the machine?"

Bebe distiches herself from the group, and swoops over to pick up this other Kyle and tosses him roughly through the jelly-like doorway.

"O-k, I didn't really mean toss-"

There is then a crashing noise, and everyone pauses to look at a small turtle clad in white.

"What-" I begin, but more figures then come hurtling through the windows.

Cartman, Para-Stan's mother and... My father are sprawled on the ground surrounded by shattered glass.

"Dude," I gasp. He'd finally found me.

"Stupid chopper," Cartman curses under his breath, then stands to look at me.

"Hello again Kaaaaaaaaahhll"

"What do you mean again? This is the first time I've come face to face with you, you arrogant wannabe!"

"Oh-ho Kyle!"

I look around desperately, but my vampire army seems to be frozen and completely zombified. My mother has caught up to me, is standing in the doorway. I follow her gaze. Surprisingly, it's not on me but on my father. She's glaring at Mrs Marsh and evil glare as she is hanging off my father's arm. They all make me sick. This whole world makes me sick. I stare into the Parallelogram, where Stan and the other me are safely back in their probably normal world. There is another crash behind me. We all turn and see agent Stan Marsh roar into the room on a motorbike. Of all the things...

"Give it up Kyle," he looks at the people in the room more closely.

"Oh, two powerful vampire leaders in the same room?" He grins homicidally and steps forward with a crossbow. I sense movement and joy and see Barbrady making towards the window. Butters also notices and grabs his collar. Joy changes instantaneously to defeat and disappointment. Suddenly I sense another feeling, a fresh one. Realization, shock and the faintest glimmer of hope. Standing half hidden in the doorway is the Para-Cartman, his chubby face a pale mask of sadness. I nod my head towards him slightly, and he enters the room. Everyone else looks over. Holy Cartman walks angrily forward and points a gun at his Para-self.

"Who the hell are you?" He demands. The normal Cartman looks pissed off. I smirk.

"I could ask you the same thing." Then before anyone gets hurt, I swoop over and basically chuck Cartman through the Parallelogram. That's everyone who doesn't belong gone. Heck, I don't really understand this place... maybe I don't belong? Agent Stan raises the crossbow at me and Butters pipes up.

"What's loaded in that? T-this is a vampire you're trying to kill, by golly!"

"It's wood," he sneers triumphantly, "or a stake through the heart it shall soon be." He pulls the trigger, and immediately I bounce into action and grip my fingernails into the roof of the office.

"Listen, you have to destroy Barbrady! He's the real villain!" But the glint in Stan's eye tells me that he wants an epic showdown, a fight to the death. I usually don't like to disappoint but as Stan prepares to launch another wooden stake I crawl through the Parallelogram and feel myself immersed in jelly.

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Stan's POV

I've hit my head at least eighty times during these past few days I'm surprised that I don't have brain damage. I look around in the darkness. I can't see anything or sense anyone. I feel... a tad ordinary. Well, maybe I'm in heaven after Butters shot me. I mean, the bullet pierced my heart right? Then again, I am a vampire... I hear rustling next to me and am very surprised to see Kyle sit up and rub his beautiful reddish-brown locks. I didn't sense his feelings at all... I stand up groggily and stumble over to a light switch. The parallelogram is in full swing, green and glowing... I stagger back over to it and realize I can see through it like a window. It's like watching television...

"You betrayed me!" Kyle yells at Butters and stands up.

"Don't you see Kyle," he says, "one shot from this and all your vampire powers are stripped... you could be human!"

I look away. I got shot from that gun. My newly formed vampire powers are gone.

"Dude, what's happening? I saw myself! I saw two me's..." I look at him desperately and then see a figure melting through the Parallelogram. It's Cartman.

"Oh great," Kyle scowls standing up, "I thought you were going to stay in that hippie-free universe for good!"

Cartman looks genuinely shocked.

"No way man," he falls to the floor, "I've seen a lot of things and done a lot of thinking Kyle."
After sitting and staring at the parallel world like a television, vampire Kyle climbs through the device.

"Why are you back?" I whisper.

"You guys are the only friends I've ever had," he gulps, "and my world is seriously fucked up."

"You!" Cartman yells at the new arrival to my world.

"Uh, yeah..." Vampire Kyle looks embarrassed.

"Come on. I think we have to destroy the Parallelogram for good." I say.

"Word," Kyle and Kyle chorus. They look at each other. I can still tell that my Kyle is freaked out. Even though I don't have supernatural powers I can still sense what my super best friend is feeling. I look around the government's 'secret' room for things to bash the Parallelogram with but vampire Kyle simply picks it up and throws it hard against the wall. The outer metal frame cracks, and the image in the green jelly becomes fuzzy before finally dying out. We all stand up as the alarms sound.

"Come on," vampire Kyle holds out his arms and we all take hold. Then he flies over to the door, tampers with the lock and we speed out of the whole building. We soar onto the roof of the nearest building that isn't the government's base and just sit and ponder.

"Hey," Cartman gets a sudden thought, "with two Kyle's shouldn't we give this vampire a different name?"

"Maybe," I shrug, "If he wants one."

Vampire Kyle shrugs.

"I want to forget the other world ever existed. From now on call me... Lyle."

Cartman looks up at Lyle, and I think he's blushing slightly.

"I-I've always wanted a brother you know," he looks down, "you can live with me." Lyle nods, and we sit in silence for a few more moments.

"Well, I think we should get some sleep now," Lyle stands up. Cartman follows suit and they head towards an emergency fire exit ladder on the roof and climb down the rungs.

"You know Stan, some pretty weird things happened to me today," Kyle sighs standing up, "but I think that I learned-"

His sentence is interrupted as I lean in to kiss him. He kisses back enthusiastically.

"It's not exactly a fairy tale ending but it works for me," I hear Lyle whisper. We break away at that moment, and stare gratefully up at the full moon.

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As Agent Stan watched Kyle crawl through the Parallelogram, he fires his crossbow after him, yet just before he could shoot he falters slightly and the wooden stake shot out the window. Everyone turns around to watch as it crashes into the side of the snowy mountain, and gasp as there is a rumbling sound. Before anyone can do anything, the base begins to shake and tilt sideways. An avalanche roars down the mountain at full speed and before anyone can do anything, Agent Stan, Barbrady, the vampires, Holy Cartman and Kenny the turtle, Mrs Marsh, Mr Broflovski, Mrs Broflovski and Butters are covered under thick heavy snow, probably never to be seen again. Yet, before the end comes Stan tries to crawl over to the Parallelogram. It's too late, the green glow is faltering and transmission will end at any moment. Quickly tampering with the signals to get into another world the doorway changes to a bright red glowing colour. It is at this moment he throws a scrunched up piece of paper through the doorway. He prays this world has a time travelling machine that can save their lives...

THE END