Disclaimer : I do not own Ah! My Goddess, nor do I own Killer Klowns from Outer Space
-oOoOoOo-
Belldandy's breathing began to get shallow while she tightened her grip on her staff as she looked at the two cocoons that contained the corpses of Sentaro and Hijiri.
Urd quickly charged up an UrdBolt as she yelled, "Eat UrdBolt, Clo-"
She had been interrupted by a small explosion and then Jumbo screaming before it spun its way into oblivion.
Urd and Belldandy looked at the third member of their party, Skuld. She was hyperventilating and had her arm stretched out, showing that she threw one of her Skuld bombs at Jumbo's head.
"He… He… He killed Sentaro… an-an-and Hijiri…" Skuld uttered before she fell to her knees and began to cry. She covered her face with her hands as she wept.
Belldandy walked over to her crying sister, as did Urd. The norn of the present placed her hand on the youngest sister's shoulders. They waited until Skuld began to calm down a little.
"Skuld, I promise that I will do everything in my power to bring everyone back after we deal with this alien mess," Belldandy quietly said, though there was an odd look in Belldandy's eyes that worried Urd. It was like there was a part of Belldandy's mind focused on other matters, ones that Urd was a bit afraid to contemplate.
"I'll even pull any and all strings I have to insure it," Urd stated as she looked around for any Klowns that might still be around, waiting for an opening to attack the Goddesses.
Skuld looked at both Urd and Belldandy before nodding at the latter.
Belldandy took a deep breath as she bit her lower lip while she thought, 'I should wait until she calms down more, but time is of the essence when in enemy territory.'
"Skuld, I hate to ask this so soon, but we need you to make a bomb. One powerful enough to destroy this base," Belldandy said, feeling quite low for asking Skuld in a time like the current one.
Skuld sniffed for a few moments before she quietly said,"...Need materials and an idea of where to p-place the bomb."
"Well, I can help with the latter once we find a terminal," Urd said as she got on her knees and turned around. "Bell's a better physical fighter, so I'll carry you, squirt."
Skuld didn't say anything as she climbed onto Urd's back.
'Okay, she didn't react like I thought she did… We're gonna need to her see a therapist afterwards…' Urd thought. 'I hope one of the medical gods is willing to come to earth and see her...'
"Let's head to the elevator and get back to the floor we left," Belldandy said, leading the way to the elevator. Skuld looked back at the two small cocoons as Belldandy and Urd walked away from them.
-oOo-
A klown patrolling the area around the Klowns' spaceship neared the parking lot. It made a 'Hn?' noise when it spotted the unconscious Keiichi in the passenger's side of his beemer. It chuckled for a moment before it pulled out its cotton candy gun and began to march over to Keiichi.
When the Klown reached the pavement, it was hit in the face by a wind spell with a sledgehammer-like force. It screamed for a moment before it vanished in a pink whirlwind, like so many other klowns that night.
Chibi-Hild then flew down and sat in the Beemer's seat. She looked over at Keiichi and said, "Can't have you dying this night, Keiichi. You've been too entertaining."
-oOo-
Sayoko smiled as the elevator door opened. No one was inside, so she walked in. She was about to press a button when the door closed and began to move.
"Oh shit oh shit oh shit…" Sayoko uttered as she looked around in a panic. She then aimed a marble at the door and prepared herself as best she could for the Klown that probably would be there when the door opened.
Sayoko and the Norns were surprised to see each other.
Sayoko put down the slingshot and chuckled, "Glad I met you guys…"
"What the hell, Sayoko?! We told you to go to the arcade and stay there! You could di-" Urd yelled, stopping when Skuld trembled and hugged her tighter.
Sayoko looked at Belldandy, who looked quite angry.
"Sayoko, my sister is right. What possessed you to even enter?" Belldandy asked, no longer seeming like the gentle goddess she usually was.
Sayoko took a breath before she answered, "Revenge. Toshiyuki was killed by these freaks, so I wanted to take down as many as I can. Besides, if you can revive him, you can revive me if something goes wrong."
Sayoko didn't expect the slap that nearly flung her to the ground.
"What the hell was that for?" Sayoko asked as she rubbed the area where she had been slapped, while glaring at Belldandy. Belldandy was glaring right back.
"Don't ever sacrifice yourself like that for revenge!" Belldandy stated, walking forward a little, so that her face was only a few inches away from Sayoko's. "We are leaving right now and then I will be coming back with a bomb to destroy this horrid place."
"I found a spot where the weapons are being kept. If I show you where it is, can I stay?" Sayoko asked, doing her best to hide her fear from Belldandy.
"Where?" Urd asked.
"On the floor where we all entered," Sayoko answered, making Urd sigh in an annoyed tone.
"And we have no idea where that might be…" Urd muttered.
"Why not press the button that sent you to this floor?" Sayoko asked.
"That would be stupid and it wouldn't-" Urd replied before she thought some more. She sighed again before muttering, "Then again, this place wasn't built by sane minds…"
So Belldandy entered the elevator. On a whim, Urd looked off to the side at the cotton candy cocoons and tore a piece of cotton candy off of one.
Her eyes widened at who was inside of it as Belldandy asked, "Urd?"
"C-Coming, Bell," Urd muttered as she hatily placed the cotton candy back and entered the elevator.
"Urd?" Belldandy asked, her usual kind self starting to come back for the moment. Once Urd entered, Urd pressed the button that sent them to the cotton candy cocoon room and the elevator began to go down.
"They got him… They got Shohei…" Urd quietly muttered. Her eyes were wide in either horror or fear, Belldandy couldn't tell.
"Urd…" Belldandy said as she reached out for both her sisters.
"Urd, before dawn breaks, every single one of these damn klowns is going to be in a million pieces," Sayoko spat out.
Urd took a sharp breath. The horror she felt was burned away by the desire for revenge.
"Right. A few UrdBolts and any klown that gets in my way are dead," Urd said as she began breathing in a way that made it seem like she was only breathing to distract herself for the moment before the elevator opened. Urd looked up and spotted the mark on the ceiling she made. On the ground was several brightly-colored guns "So where's the armory?"
Sayoko walked to the door that had opened for it. It took a moment, but it opened. The turned-over shelf was still on the floor.
"Huh… Wonder why it didn't open for us…" Urd muttered as she walked in and then bent down. "Alright, Skuld. Make the bomb that'll send all the clowns to hell."
Skuld quietly got off, went over to a shelf that still had weapons on it, took out a few tools from her hammerspace, and began to take apart the various Klown weapons. Urd spotted what looked like a pullout terminal at a wall in the armory.
"Bell's gonna guard, I'll go hack the database, and you keep on eye on Skuld," Urd quietly said to Sayoko in a tone that implied bad things would happen if Skuld somehow went missing while the two goddesses were looking away. Skuld made a frame for the bomb, as well as converting the guns' power sources into bombs.
"Gotcha," Sayoko said as Skuld began to put in as some of her more destructive bombs into the frame.
Urd went over to the wall and pulled out the terminal. Her eye twitched for a few moments as she tried to read the words on screen. The font seemed to be in a cartoonish way and a bit hard to read. The only saving grace was that trying to find a map and how to get to places was easy.
"Alright, now to check where a good spot would be for the bomb," Urd stated. She looked at Skuld, who seemed to be finished with the bomb. It kind of looked like a rainbow-colored Kettle Krazy Popcorn Popper, but with grenades inside of it. taking a glance at Skuld, Urd noticed something missing on the bomb. "Skuld, where's the timer?"
"No parts for it…" Skuld muttered as she hugged her knees and stared at the bomb.
"Yeesh, this ship just screams 'bad plan'. It seems like a good amount of the innards exists in a space warp… Which means power core would be the best place for the bomb. No power core, no space warp, no ship," Urd muttered as she looked back briefly to commit the ship's map to memory and what buttons on the elevator went to. She then looked around and asked, "Anyone got a watch?"
"I have a wristwatch," Sayoko said as she pulled her sleeve back to show off her expensive watch.
"Skuld, can you use that?" Urd asked as she put the terminal back into the wall. When she didn't hear any response from her younger sister, Urd looked at Skuld. Seeing that Skuld was still staring at the bomb, Urd walked over to her, got down on her knees and asked in a worried tone, "Skuld?"
"I couldn't save them.. I couldn't save…" Skuld said before she began to cry once more.
Urd then looked at Belldandy and asked, "Bell, take Skuld out of here. I'll get Sayoko to the powercore and we'll try to set something up, so we can leave as fast as we can."
Belldandy then realized something before she asked something in such a flat tone that Urd got more scared. "Sayoko, what did you to Keiichi to get him to let you come in?"
Sayoko took a deep breath, having a slight idea how much trouble she was in before she answered, "I… Uh… Knocked him out with something labeled sleeping potion for humans from Urd's room?"
Almost in an instant, Sayoko's back was slammed into a wall and her throat being gripped by Belldandy's fist. The heiress looked into Belldandy's eyes and she wished she hadn't, for the goddess's eyes were burning with fury.
"If any of those klowns gets to Keiichi… I will hold you personally responsible, Mishima, and I will punish you," Belldandy hissed.
Sayoko's response was to utter, "Then… Let… Me.. de.. ton… nate bomb."
"Bell! Get Skuld out of here and check on Keiichi! I'll take Sayoko!" Urd loudly ordered. It took Belldandy a few seconds but she let go of Sayoko and walked over to Skuld. "Chances are the Klowns know we're here, so no mercy, Bell."
Belldandy bent down and gently said, "Skuld, let's go wake Keiichi and then get to a phone."
At first, it seemed like Skuld wasn't listening, but eventually, she stood up. "Belldandy offered her hand and Skuld took it before they began to walk out of the armory.
Once Belldandy and Skuld were out of sight, Urd glared at Sayoko and stated, "Don't think for a moment I did that to save your hide. At the moment, all you're good for is to detonate that bomb 15 minutes after I leave you at the ship's power core."
As Urd picked up the bomb, Sayoko coughed for a moment before she asked in a raspy tone, "That's rather heartless of you…"
"One, you volunteered when Bell shoved you against the wall. Two, you took a potion from my room and used it on someone. Three, you used it on Keiichi. If I didn't need you conscious, I'd fry your sorry butt into dreamland," Urd said as she walked out of the room. "Now stop stalling and get into the elevator!"
Sayoko rubbed her throat as she followed after Urd and muttered, "Your sister has one hell of a grip, if you hadn't noticed!"
"You deserved it," Urd said as the two entered the elevator and pressed a button near the bottom of the panel. After the door closed, Urd pointed a finger towards the door and began to charge up a spell.
"What are you doing?" Sayoko asked.
"Wait and see…" Urd muttered.
-oOo-
Belldandy and Skuld turned a corner and saw something that made them pause.
A crowd of frowning Klowns, all with weapons aimed at the two goddesses. Belldandy's free hand opened up, like she was now holding a baseball. In it, air spun around around faster and faster.
"Skuld, close your eyes," Belldandy said as a few Klowns began to giggle.
"Ready!" One Klown croaked.
"Why?" Skuld quietly muttered in a deadpan tone, almost in a whisper.
"It won't be pretty," Belldandy replied as she squeezed both Skuld's hand and the ball of air.
"Aim!" The Klown uttered, as Belldandy let the ball of air go.
A wall of air expanded from Belldandy's hand and rushed towards the crowd of Klowns. Their clothes and noses were shredded, like there was invisible sickles within the wind. All of the Klowns screeched before vanishing. The wall continues onwards, even turning corners and splitting when it encountered forks and intersections. A dark part of Belldandy enjoyed the screeches of any Klown hit by the wall of wind.
"Let's go, Skuld," Belldandy quietly said as she and Skuld walked pass the area once blocked by Klowns.
-oOo-
The elevator stopped. Unlike before, the doors opened up slowly.
"Oh, dammit…" Sayoko uttered when she and Urd saw that behind the doors, was a large crowd of ghastly grinning Klowns armed with their brightly-colored pistols, intent on more cotton candy cocoons.
Urd merely fired off the spell she had been charging up. A bolt of energy left her finger, hit one Klown in the nose, then bounced off and hit another Klown's nose, and so one, occasionally hitting a wall to hit the next line of Klowns. Any Klown nose that got hit, popped and the Klown vanished. All of which happening in an instant.
As the bolt of energy bounced out of sight,Sayoko asked, "So when will that disappear?"
"When it runs out of energy or when it can't find any Klowns within two hours," Urd said as the doors closed and the elevator continued on its way to the ship's power core. She still had her finger pointed at the door.
"Huh... " Sayoko muttered as the elevator stopped. Unlike before, it opened up to an extremely large room. One with a large tower that crackled with energy. The only ground they could step on was barely a six by six meter platform. "This it?"
"Yup. When we revive you, do you want your memories of this?" Urd asked as she pulled out a terminal out of the wall and began to press a few buttons on the screen with one hand, as the other was still holding the bomb.
Sayoko closed her eyes and shook her head before she said, "No, I'd rather not. I'd like to live without a nightmare of Toshiyuki dying by my side while I'm getting him to safety."
Urd paused for a moment before she put the bomb down on the ground and… smashed her face into the terminal.
Sayoko tilted her head as Urd rubbed her nose as she muttered, "Ow… Ow… Klown terminal does not count as a screen enough for my transportation medium…"
"Wha…?" Sayoko asked.
Urd looked at her and said, "I felt merciful enough to try and make sure of a way to take you off the ship before it blows up. Got a mirror?"
Sayoko searched through her pockets and found her small makeup mirror. Urd smiled and said, "Good. I'll make sure to have Belldandy save you before we activate the bomb."
Urd then went back to typing. A few moments later, she closed the terminal and said, "Alright, I'll let Bell know. After I enter the elevator, you're stuck in this room until Bell comes. The ship's gonna fly up as high as possible during that time."
"What's gonna stop the Klowns entering the elevator?" Sayoko asked.
"Every elevator's gonna go on lockdown, except the one I'm on. Once I get off, even this elevator's not gonna work," Urd answered as she entered the elevator. Just before it closed, Urd said, "Good luck."
Sayoko looked at her watch and muttered, "Could've given me a weapon or something…"
-oOo-
As soon as Belldandy and Skuld exited the Big top ship, Belldandy asked, "Skuld, do you want a piggyback ride?"
Skuld nodded, so Belldandy got on her knees and Skuld climbed on. Belldandy slowly stood up and made sure that Skuld had a tight grip on her back. Belldandy looked back and almost smiled at how Skuld rubbed her face into Belldandy's back. The Norn of the present looked ahead and flew towards the parking lot, dodging each tree in the way, even making sure that not even a branch scratched Skuld.
When Belldandy reached the parking lot, she was extremely glad to see Keiichi safe and asleep in the Beemer's sidecar. A small look to his side showed why he was safe.
Belldandy landed near the Beemer, she said, "Thank you, Hild. You have-"
"I think that I have an idea of how glad you are. I've spent a long time having faith in someone protecting a person who has a place in my heart," chibi-Hild said as she leapt off the beemer. "So where's Urd?"
"Back on the ship. She'll be along shortly," Belldandy said as she bent down to let Skuld off. Almost a minute later, Belldandy stood back up when Skuld didn't make a noise, or tried to stand up on her own.
"Huh… y'know, I know a few people who can help Skuld, if you want me to. Since I like her, the price would be really cheap!" Chibi-Hild said as she leaned to the side to try and look at Skuld..
"I'll think about it," Belldandy answered.
-oOo-
When the elevator opened up, Urd looked up and checked the ceiling outside the elevator. The burn mark was there, so Urd floated into the air and flew through the corridors.
'No Klowns… guess Belldandy was either throughout or the klowns didn't consider her a threat… Probably the first one...' Urd thought as she traveled through the halls and neared the exit.
When Urd exited the door, she watched at the Big Top ship began to fly up. Urd paused for a moment to watch the ship fly higher and higher as she thought, 'I hope Skuld's fireworks are nice and big!'
Urd then flew off towards the parking lot, though she kept hitting various branches. When she stopped near the beemer, she began to pick out the branches as she said, "Okay, if everything goes well, we have like 10 minutes or so before we get a big boom."
Urd paused when she heard Chibi-Hild say, "That's good to hear!"
Urd glared at Chibi-Hild and asked, "What are you doing here?"
"I was protecting Sleeping beauty here while you and Belldandy were out killing the Klowns," Chibi-Hild answered, gesturing to the still unconscious Keiichi. Urd looked over at Belldandy, who nodded.
Urd then went back to glaring at Chibi-Hild and said, "Well, I guess that's good… But I'm here now and so's Bell, so you're not needed."
Before Belldandy could say anything, Chibi-Hild glared at Urd and said, "You have a pretty good of my intentions. You have a good idea of the Klowns' intentions, which are pretty bad, going by how Skuld doesn't seem to respond much to anything around her."
"Urd?!" Belldandy loudly asked.
"Bell and I both have enough power and awareness to handle any Klown that tries anything, and Sayoko's gonna blow their ship up in a little bit. I take it that you protected Keiichi, So I thank you for that," Urd replied to Chibi-Hild's words. "So make like a tree and leave!"
"Oh-ho! A tree joke, right near a park! I bet that taxed your brain to come up with that!" Chibi-Hild responded.
-oOo-
All of a sudden, some tinny music began to play in the Power core room Sayoko was in. She looked around.
Elevator door was still closed and no amount of trying to open it seemed to work.
Looking down gave the special kind of vertigo that staring into an abyss gave.
Looking up….
Looking up was a mistake, as Sayoko learned.
Above was a large Klown, wires attached to its wrists, back, head, and ankles, like a marionette. It looked down with a wicked gleam and let out a low roar. The closer and closer it got, Sayoko shook more and more. Going by how big its hand was when it brushed against a wall, the heiress guessed that the Klown was big enough that she was no bigger than a doll to it.
When its feet were getting closer to the platform, the Klown began to kick around. Sayoko quickly looked at her watch.
'Dammit, where are you, Belldandy!?' Sayoko thought. as she grabbed the bomb. 'Then again, I guess you never expected Klownzilla to appear, Urd...'
The Giant Klown marionette leered at her before letting out a roar, one loud enough that Sayoko almost dropped the bomb. As it began to reach for her with one of its hands, Sayoko gave one last glare at it before she pressed the buttons on the bomb.
-oOo-
"I said, beat it, Hild or I'll see how many times I can get you bounce on the nearest lake!" Urd yelled as Belldandy managed to get Skuld to stand up on her own.
"Y'know, I really thought that-" Chibi-Hild angrily said before an explosion was heard. They all looked up at the sky, where the Big Top Ship was now a bright explosion in starry night.
"Oh, shit… I… forgot.. Sayoko..." Urd said before she and everyone was covered in some odd foamy stuff. As she began to wipe the stuff off herself, Urd muttered, "Yuck, yuck, and double yuck…"
As Belldandy wiped the stuff off her face, she tasted a little bit and said, "Kinda familiar… Like... Like…"
Her eyes widen in horror as she remembered Aoshima and his fate.
"KEIICHI!" Belldandy shrieked as she rushed over to the Beemer. Alas, the large amount of Acid pie filling did its work in merely a matter of moments and left only the Beemer and some scraps of clothing.
-oOo-
Notes from HotelKatz : The title, 'Coulrophobia' was thought up by Nena Camadera of the Goddess Relief Office forum. Spatial Chronaut and vanagandr helped out a lot with this chapter.
To those that want a bad end, this is where the fic ends for you. Pretend that Belldandy's request was refused. Because of how… quickly the Manga's end felt, I'm tempted to put myself into this camp, purely out of spite.
To those that want a happy end, like how the Ah! My Goddess, series goes, no matter the cost might be, please wait for the next chapter.