My friends continued to drive in the middle of the night to the unknown mountains surrounding CWCville. They suffered a close call with Magi-Chan in which Eve was able to fight off on her own. Everyone was still mind blown that she could do that. Maybe they should have made OCs when they were younger huh?
Steve was driving but knew nothing about Virginia. He grew up in the midwest and was used to the gridded streets of the countryside and the city and it seemed that over here in Virginia, they didn't follow those rules. He couldn't tell if he was going north, south, east or west. All they could do was stick to the road they were on. All that was behind them was the lights of the city below.
Everyone else fell asleep in the back of the car and Eve and Steve were the only two awake. "How far should we go Princess?" Steve asked.
"Please don't call me that." Eve responded. "Just call me Eve."
"Well excuse me princess!" Steve responded. "Don't be so rude to me your highness dude."
"I'm serious." Eve was getting annoyed.
"Fine, your highness!" Steve laughed. It was at that point where Eve pulled on Steve's beard. "OUCH!"
"Shut up!" Eve demanded.
Both of them looked at the road since it was really dark ahead. Eventually, Steve finds a paved road but heads away from the city. A few minutes later, Steve saw some signs for Elkton, VA.
"Do you think Mary is here?" Steve asked.
"Possibly." Steve responded. "Wouldn't that be knarly."
Both of them notice, on the side of the road was a bunch of tents in this town. It was all quiet, maybe too quiet.
"Why are all of these tents here?" Eve asked.
Steve looked around and turned the car into the town. "I have no idea man."
"Hmm, Keep your guard." Eve said.
"Why don't you just use your psychic abilities to just know what happens next Princess?" Steve asked.
"Umm..." Eve responded. That was when a sudden boom caught them both off guard. "What was that?"
Suddenly, a lightning strike takes out the electricity in the car. "CRACK!" The car then breaks down and Steve then pulls over. "There is someone after us?"
"Someone?" Eve wondered.
"A Sonichu Eve, use your "Psychic" abilities please!" Steve yelled.
"Whats... going on?" Mark asked in the back seat while yawning.
Steve and Eve looked around the area but didn't answer Mark's question. "Shh!"
Right in front of them landed another Sonichu but it was too dark to see his or her features.
"Ok, I want to see you all come out of that car with your hands up?" said a female voice.
Mark shakes Nick awake, "come on Nice wake up" but he didn't, he was too hard of a sleeper.
Eve opened the door and stepped out with her lightsaber about to activate just in case. Then tried to look to identify the creature. Eve could make out that it was a Rosechu with bows and arrows shaped as lightning bolts. Eve started to get a blank picture of her in her head and had a guess of who it was.
"It is either you are for us or you are against us." she said holding a bow in her hands right at Eve. "Why are you here?"
"We were looking for Mary Walsh." Eve responded. "Do you know where she is?"
"Who wants to know?"
"We came from CWCville to look for her."
"So are you undercover cops or something working for Christian or something? If you are, you are not welcome here."
"No, we just wanted her help with something."
"How can I know I can trust you?"
"Umm..." Eve signed. Whoever this was was obviously against Christine as a little anger did some from her voice when she spoke of CWCville's name. So Eve opened up. "I don't know if you can trust us but it you would just listen to our story. My friend is currently on an adventure with another girl to find a way to save the world and get back to our everyday lives. My other friends are here with me to help him form a resistance in case he comes back empty handed. If you want to stop Chris from running the world we live in, I am all in with my friends."
The Rosechu then put down her bow and walked towards Eve. "I can feel your heart, I think I can believe you."
Eve then saw her clearly. "Saramah!"
She was wearing a blue vest and there was a pink bow on her head. But the fact that she was yellow just like Sonichu was made her stand out.
She then peaks into the car. "I'm sorry for attacking you all. I was just protecting this place. It is my turn after all."
Steve then got out of the car helping Mark wake Nick up. So they both had to carry him out. "Oh no trouble."
Eve then looked at Sarah. "What do you mean "Protect"?"
"Here, let me get you inside, its cold, you can sleep inside of the building we put our headquarters in and I will tell you what happened." Sarah responded. She then proceeded to guide everyone into the building in front of them in the middle of the town. There was fire in the fireplace to keep everything warm and the slight scent of cookies in the air. She then got a sleeping bag for Nick who was still asleep through all of this and they all put him in it and placed him next to the fireplace.
"Are you sure he is not in a coma?" Sarah asked.
"I don't know what would cause it." Mark mentioned.
"That's fine, come on sit down with me." She then relaxed her power and turned back into a human. Then she signed.
"Is there something wrong?" Steve asked.
"Yeah... its this world and this power." she mentioned.
"I get ya!" Eve responded.
"Not just that but... there is something more on my mind." Sarah mentioned. "I never thought to myself I was a character to really anyone. You see, Chris and I go way back to our childhoods. But I didn't really call Chris necessarily a friend, just a neighbor I would play with."
"There is nothing wrong with that." Mark responded.
"Yeah, there isn't. I didn't think Chris would lose himself this far to the point where we get to where we are now. I never thought that me, Sara Nicole Spicer that I would end up a part of Chris little delusions. We were just kids after all."
Sarah took a deep breath. "But before I got married to the greatest man in my life, I heard that Chris was writing these comics and I didn't read them. I also heard that Chris was losing his mind so I chose not to invite him to the wedding. After I got married and I saw him one last time then moved to another part of Virginia with my Husband. I wasn't that far from Ruckersville so it was really easy to go home. I ended up starting a family but I still updated myself on what was happening at home every once in awhile. But eventually, I forgot about him to worry about my kids."
She then started to tear up. "Then, a few days ago, I was taking my kids to school when I was engulfed by this whitelight and I found myself in Chris' Imagination with powers and everything. My kid was just next to me as well and yet I lost him. I don't know where my family is! There gone! I am guessing they are back in CWCville and I want to look for them and return to my peaceful life as a mother."
Eve tried to comfort her. "I see, well thanks for telling us what was on your mind."
"That's not all." She responded. "I didn't really read Chris' comic until recently when we all got called to this world. I was also standing in that large crowd like you all were looking for my child with purple Lightning Bracelets that I couldn't get off of my arm. That was when I started to wonder the city and I was found by something I have never seen before."
"Oh, its Sarah!"
"Have you seen a little child, about this tall and looks kind of like me? He is my... wait... who are you and how do you know my name?"
"Oh, Father mentioned you a lot from when y'all where kids."
"Father... What? You mean Chris?"
"Yes, yall where married in a past life as co rulers of the Cherokee clan."
"What? What are you talking about?" Sarah asked.
"Do me a favor, cross you arms and say. "Graceful lightning"."
"Um.. ok... Graceful Lightning!"
*Zapping sounds*
"Yep, thats the real Sarah alright!"
"Oh my gosh... WHAT HAPPENED TO ME? WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?"
"It's an honor to meet you, my name is Rosechu."
"Stay back!"
"At that point, I ran away, I didn't want to be seen like this in public
In Chris' comic, I am portrayed as the Lady of Peace. But yet, since I have been here, Chris has killed many people with the Sonichu's at his disposal to do his bidding. Wesley is not a bad man as he is a very talented magician in fact he was there to put on a show for my kids birthday party even when we went our own separate ways. Maybe the person I was truly supposed to keep in check this whole entire time wasn't "We-Li Sonichu" but is was really Chris the whole entire time?"
Everyone nodded in agreement. "Its weird how Chris could contradict himself today when he said he wouldn't do those things 10 years ago." Steve pointed out.
"Chris must have really looked up to Sarah as one of the only people he would hang out with." Mark mentioned. "I know the feeling, the friend I grew up with right now is looking for a way back to reality and left CWCville a few days ago. I have known him for 6 years at least and he is really an inspiration for me as I am for him. We both didn't put each other down but supported each other when we needed it."
"Oh... my relationship with Chris wasn't 50-50." Sarah pointed out.
"What do you mean?" Mark asked.
"Chris is extremely gullible and I took advantage of that to have some fun with that. Overall, I didn't hang with him that much. He to me was just a person I knew who I lived next too." Sarah mentioned.
"So you didn't hang with Chris that much?" Mark asked.
"Yes, but not that much, he didn't interest me as a friend you know."
Sarah then looks at her bracelets. "When I look at Chris now, he just creeps me out, after I accepted it was like I getting memories from another life. Well 2 to be honest. That was when I learned about the comics that included me. After going through my fake memories, I concluded that Chris is really creepy."
"Ya think?" Eve said ironically.
Sarah laughed. "I ran from CWCville for this reason. Not long after I found someone that had a similar problem right here in this town."
"Is it Mary?" Steve asked.
"You got it,"
"Where is she?"
"Oh, she is in the top floor making cookies."
Everyone was wondering where the smell of cookies was coming from. Then they suddenly hear. "Hey Sarah, I hear guest, do they want some cookies?"
"Wow that is not the voice I expected out of her based on Chris' comics." Eve noticed that she had a very normal feminine voice for her age.
"Because I swear, she is one of the nicest people you will ever meet in your life." Sarah mentioned.
Suddenly, the sounds of creaking stairs tell us all that someone was coming down.
"Hello everyone." she said, she was in a purple dress and had short blonde hair. She also had red horns and a red tail. "I am aware of how Chris portrays me in the comic to be honest. The students keep me updated on it. But I sweat, I am nothing like what the Internet tells me what I am."
All of the men in the room kept staring at her except Nick who was still asleep. Eve smacked both Mark and Steve in the face to make them stop. "Ouch."
"I'm sorry for my friends behavior, I will keep them in check for you." Eve then pulled both of their ears.
"I kind of love and hate this form honestly." she responded. "It does make me feel younger. But on the other hand, it was designed by Chris."
"How did you end up here?" Eve asked.
"Well..." Mary put the pan of cookies down on the floor next to the fireplace then sat next to Sarah. "I am still the dean of Students at PVCC after all of these years and I never really talked about students that when there because it's against the law."
"Is this why you don't talk when people ask you about him?" Eve asked.
"That's correct." She responded. "I need to protect the privacy of our students no matter if they do something wrong or not and that is true for any college or university across this country."
Mary then looked at the fire. "I do admit it is hard to stay quiet in the meantime while your name get associated with an image that one of your students set for you. And that image will follow you until my life ends. It's truly sad, I have had to take a step back from work sometimes to ask about why I wanted this job in the first place."
"Now, because we are in this situation where Chris is in control, I think I can now break my silence. It's time for me to open the floodgates and let it all out of me on what I have been holding back on the inside."
Mary took a deep breath and began her story. "Most of the students at the college I never see as they are more focused on getting a degree. That number I believe is over 90%. I get to know students if they are apart of Student Government in which I am the adviser of, if there is a dispute I meet these students, or if there is an incident that I need to investigate. Overall I don't know most students that go through the college."
"In Christian's case though, I never heard of him until students began spreading roomers many years ago of a student holding up a sign and saying that he wanted a girlfriend. Now to get my job, you need to have a degree in psychology because you need to understand the relationships and human mind processes so you can solve complicated issues. When I heard that this was happening and I saw the signs posted around the school, I knew it was an issue."
"All humans try to find interactions and I completely understand why many students try and find love at college. But going around with the signs saying your demands for a girl is a sign that you could be soliciting for sex. I had the feeling that it probably wasn't his intentions because in the note it does say that he is shy but all I wanted him to do was just understand what he was doing. Most students I talk to, I explain what they did wrong and I make them understand what they did was wrong. Then they don't do it again and that is that. But Chris was different. I called him to my office when I saw him sitting on campus with this sign and I explain to him why it's wrong. He didn't take it well lets just say that. The more I talked to him though, he showed signs of autism of course but also showed signs that his parents didn't teach him a lot of things about life. If Psychology taught me something it was when you say yes to everything someone ask you to do and you do it for them, for children, it doesn't teach them that life doesn't give you everything and they come to have life spoonfed to them. That's not good as kids need to learn that or they can't function in today's world. I saw that nobody has really ever said no to him and just let him do what he wanted to do. I wanted him to learn that before he left college so I told him no, that he can't put up these signs to attract a mate because I knew it was wrong."
"In the week after that first meeting, he didn't listen to me as he continued posting these signs. I took one of them down and he watched me do it as well and I took him back into my office. I took it down because I wanted to build evidence. I explain to him again that he could not find a mate with that sign or any similar way. After that, he was really angry and it was like he was talking to himself the whole entire meeting and he did a very hands like gesture to me in which I didn't know what it was. HE said he cursed me and that was the moment I realised that Chris needed more help and that was when I put up a complaint against Chris and I got him banned for a year from the college and I wanted him to get psychiatric help and anger management. I didn't feel safe after he did that to me and I felt that he needed more help than the college could offer so I suggested that he should get a regular psychologist just to talk to. So I do admit to banning him as his behavior was unacceptable but I was basing my decisions of school policy and what I thought was appropriate as a punishment."
"After that year ban, a few year later, Chris graduated with an associate's degree and I knew he didn't like me, I never really had to deal with him again since that year ban. But years afterwards, as the internet still was growing in size. I was made aware that there were very terrible drawings of me online which Chris has started to what I perceived as trying to hurt my image. At that point, I wanted this man as far away from me as possible and I did not what to see him again. Then in 2014 at the end of the year I saw a drawing from him given to me by security and I have already didn't want to talk or see him again at this point I put up a report of trespassing and send it back. Then a few days later, I get a letter apologizing for what he has done. But the letter didn't say that he truly regrets drawing me in the way he did. In a nutshell, the letter says "If you didn't do this to me, then I wouldn't have done this to you" which is not an apology and more of pointing the blame away from himself saying that is reasoning is justified. At that point, I knew he learned nothing and I proceeded to ban him for life from the campus as I didn't want him getting near any of the students or anywhere near me for safety. I have been watching his mental state from my computer and I just don't see him as a safe person to be around."
"Since then, I never heard from him again, and then while I am at my job, I find myself suddenly within this world. I ended up within the large crowd with my body completely changing to this." she refers to herself. "I attempt to run but one of Chris' characters notices me and followed me to the edge of town where I attempted to escape. Luckly, with these new powers and Chris' incompetence for his characters, I was able to defeat him easily. I went back there last night I think." she looks at the time. "Well more technical 2 hours ago to get supplies for this town we have started here in Elkton. I was almost captured by him as they thought I was stealing but in all honesty, I don't have whatever currency they have there and I may have been still arrested because I am practically banned from the town so what can I do to get supplies for all of the people who couldn't fit in the town."
"I see your reasoning." Eve said. "Well thanks for sharing."
Mary then had teared up a little. "Do you know how it feels to have you name online go from a public official at a highly respected community college to a sex object? What Chris did to me was unacceptable and it's something that will live with me for the rest of my life. And there is nothing I can do about it."
"You see? Mary got worst treatment from the internet than me." Sarah pointed out. "But, I have a lot of remorse toward her. She works so hard because I can tell she loves her job so much and all she wants is the success of the student body. Now her name is shrouded in these drawn images that she can do nothing about."
"I have read Chris' comics after my name became synonymous with the community around Chris. But I think we are not the only people to go through this. There are many people we haven't seen yet that have their names tied to the comic."
"People like..." Steve knew what they were talking about.
"Megan Schroeder." Eve mentioned. "She ended up cutting all tied with Chris did she. She is also one of the only people to be guaranteed powers due to the Dimensional Merge."
"Exactly. We have been looking for her actually," Sarah mentioned. "But no luck."
"Why are you both looking for her?" Mark asked.
"Well." Both Sarah and Mary look at each other. "Megan still has some place in Chris heart somewhere and Megan also knows Chris the most out of both of us. We are trying to start a resistance against him and we think by him seeing Megan again may weaken him a little." Sarah finished.
Mary nodded. "Sarah and I have decided to team up. We don't want to live in this world like you all do. We like our lives the way it was. I think Megan would really want the same thing as well."
"Who wants to live in a OC filled world where Chris-chan is God?" Mark asked.
Nobody raised their hands. Then there was the sound of Nick snoring very loudly.
"You know, we should probably go to bed tonight, we had a long chat and a long drive over here." Eve mentioned. "We should really get some sleep."
"Yeah, well that's fine. I have some sleeping bags upstairs and some pillows of Mary got them." Sarah mentioned.
"I did,"
"Great you all can sleep here for the night. I still need to guard the town so I will see you tomorrow." Sarah then walked outside leaving my friends with Mary.
Mary proceeded to get sleeping bags and pillows and put them next to Nick and the fireplace to keep them warm. "Thank you for coming, there are more OC's and people who are here for the same reason, the town in asleep so you can meet them all tomorrow."
"Thank you for your hospitality." Steve mentioned.
"Your welcome, and thank you for helping us in this fight." Mary said. "Goodnight."
"Goodnight." everyone waved at Mary as she went upstairs.
"You know..." Eve added. "Mary is really nice."
"Yeah nothing like Chris has portrayed her as in the comic dude." Steve responded.
"Well, on the bright side, we know that they have started a resistance. That's a good sign." Mark said while he then laid down.
"Well we are going to have to probably train this army in this town so we still have a lot of work to do." Eve said. "I wonder what the people are like."
"Probably a lot of cringey OCs." Mark mentioned.
"Well, that's for tomorrow. Lets not worry about it and get some rest." said Steve.
"Alright... Goodnight guys." Eve said.
"Goodnight!" Steve and Mark repeated. They all closed there eyes and then got cofetable. Then entered into La La Land.
