Paranoid Goths and More Trouble
News of the new Kamen Rider in Amity Park had spread like wildfire after the footage was broadcast all over Amity News. The major factor to the appearance of this new Rider was the fact that the Rider was female unlike her male counterparts. To some of the people of Amity Park, the idea of a female Kamen Rider showed further proof that women could do anything just as well as men. To others, the new Kamen Rider was intruding on the role that the two male Kamen Riders had in Amity Park. It was no surprise that the third Kamen Rider of Amity Park caused a bit of a stir within the community.
As for the female Kamen Rider herself; she was in her family's basement/home theater watching one of her favorite movies: Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
"No matter how many times I watch this, I still can't understand why Wes Craven would have Nancy survive the first movie only for her to die in this one," Sam mused to herself as she continued watching the movie.
As Sam continued watching the horror movie, Star was entering the basement with Paulina and the rest of the cheerleading squad from school. The large number of girls were gossiping about who was dating who in school and who was losing their standing in the A-list.
While the cheerleaders continued talking, Paulina spotted Sam in the basement and didn't like seeing the Goth girl in the same area as her.
"What are you doing here loser?" Paulina asked in a loud and condescending tone.
Sam turned her head to see Paulina and her posse at the stairs. Sam was about to throw a retort but she forgot about how loud the volume of the movie was and the scene that was being shown.
This is it, Jennifer. Your big break in TV.
All the girls turned to see the character Jennifer being picked up by the robotic arms of the TV with the head of Freddy Krueger on top.
Welcome to prime time, bitch!
They all watched as Freddy slammed Jennifer's head to the TV screen. Paulina and nearly all of the cheerleaders looked away in disgust by what they saw from the movie. However, Paulina was shocked by the sounds of laughter coming from Star behind her.
Star was not the only one laughing, Sam was also laughing at the scene that everyone just saw on the movie screen.
"Star, how can you laugh at something like that?" one of the cheerleaders asked.
It took a while for Star to calm down before replying.
"Sorry, but that was just such a classic line," Star told the cheerleader that asked her.
"I can't believe you actually like something the Goth freak likes," Paulina said in disgust.
Star glared at Paulina for what she said.
"That's my sister, Paulina," Star started. "She's not a freak," she continued.
"Whatever," Paulina retorted before leaving the basement with the rest of the cheerleaders. "You better think about where you stand in the A-list, Star," she told the blonde Manson. "You can easily be made into a nobody, just like your freak of a sister," she warned Star.
Star rolled her eyes at the threat Paulina gave her.
"Big deal," Star replied. "In a couple of more years, the A-list won't mean a thing," she remarked.
"Yeah right," Paulina retorted. "The A-list is eternal," she added. "There will always be those who are better than the rest," she finished before she and the rest of the cheerleaders left the Manson twins.
"That view changes as time goes by Paulina," Star said. "Right now, you're at the top but in a few years, you'll hit rock bottom," she added as she watched Paulina and her group leave.
Sam was amazed that her sister had actually defied Paulina and even defended her from what was the usual insult the Queen Bee of Casper High had thrown to the resident Goth girl.
"Wow Star," Sam said in surprise. "I can't believe you would actually say that to Paulina," she added.
"Well…" Star started before turned to look at Sam. "I just had enough of Paulina talking crap about you," she added.
"And it only took you about five years to finally have enough of her shit," Sam remarked. "I'm actually impressed," she added in sincerity. "Want to watch Dream Warriors with me?" she asked her sister.
"Can we watch it from the beginning?" Star asked. "I missed the scene where Freddy killed Phillip," she explained.
"Sure," Sam agreed before resetting the movie back to the beginning so she and Star could watch it.
While the Manson twins watched the third Nightmare on Elm Street movie, over in a Canadian home, another Goth girl was not having an easy time trying to live a normal life.
Gwen Fahlenbock, former contestant of the Total Drama reality TV series, had entered her house after finishing school. After opening her front door, Gwen grabbed a salt shaker she had placed on a small table top. She poured the salt along the front door before closing it. This act became a ritual for Gwen as she hoped the salt barrier she had read about would keep evil spirits away. After the events of Total Drama's last season and the deaths of her friends and cast mates, Gwen's paranoia and the visions of the ghost that murdered them, had taken a great toll on Gwen's psyche.
The fear of that ghost returning for her had consumed Gwen and it had worried her mother and brother as they watched Gwen turned from a morally strong and sound girl into a paranoid wreck who was too afraid to look at her own shadow. Gwen's mother had tried to convince her daughter to talk to a therapist or a counselor at her school, but Gwen refused, saying that she had everything under control. Her mother was not convinced, but allowed Gwen to continue on with what she did to keep herself safe from the ghost that slaughtered her cast mates.
Once she finished refortifying the salt barrier, Gwen placed the salt shaker back on the table top. She noticed that her house was very quiet, which struck Gwen as odd as her mother would either be in the kitchen or vacuuming the house and her brother would be in the living room watching TV.
'Maybe Mom went out grocery shopping and Jerry is out with some friends,' Gwen thought to herself as she headed towards her room.
Once she reached her room, Gwen opened the door and moved her hand to the light switch. However, when her hand touched the wall, Gwen felt a sticky substance on it. She recoiled her hand away from it and looked at her hand to see it covered in red.
"Is…this…blood?" Gwen stuttered in fear as she looked at her room, but wasn't able to make out anything out of the ordinary.
Feeling like something was compelling her, Gwen nervously turned on the lights to her room to see the walls and floor splattered with blood. On her bed was the mutilated body of Jerry with his severed head mounted on her desk.
Gwen covered her mouth to prevent herself from screaming as she turned to head for her mother's room, fearing that she was killed as well.
When she reached her mother's room, Gwen was treated to the burnt corpse of her mother on her bed.
"No…" Gwen muttered in terror as she backed away. "Who could have done this?" she wondered as she reached for her cellphone and dialed 911.
The phone rang for a moment before someone answered.
"911, what's your emergency?" the operator asked.
"Help!" Gwen screamed. "My mother and brother have been murdered!" she cried as tears poured from her eyes.
"Calm down Gwen and tell us where you are," the operator told her.
Gwen was about to give her address but stopped herself when she realized that she never gave the operator her name.
"Gwen, can you hear me?" the 'operator' asked sounding a bit more sinister.
Gwen refused to answer as she dropped her phone and backed away from it.
"Well if you're not going to answer, I guess I'll have to come over," the 'operator' stated as numerous tiny spiders started crawling out of the cellphone.
Gwen continued backing away as the spiders merged together into the familiar form of the spider ghost that slaughtered so many of her cast mates.
"I'M…" the ghost started in a disturbingly joking manner. "…BACK!" he finished before laughing at the look of terror on Gwen's face.
"N…no…" Gwen stuttered in disbelief. "You can't be here," she said in horror.
"Oh but I am," Spinister retorted as he looked over Gwen and into her mother's room. "I love what you've done with the place," he added.
"What?" Gwen muttered in confusion as Spinister headed into her room only to return.
"Wow, even I wouldn't have thought of doing that to someone," Spinister said after looking at the remains of Gwen's brother. "I'm impressed," he told her.
"What are you talking about!?" Gwen yelled in anger as her fear started to subside.
"These kills aren't my doing," Spinister told her.
"You're lying!" Gwen screamed in rage.
"Afraid not Pasty," Spinister mocked the Goth girl. "This you're doing," he told her. "Take a look at yourself," he added.
Gwen was about to retort until she looked at her right arm and saw that it was covered in bristles and a long curved blade sticking out from the middle of her forearm. Gwen started shaking in terror at the sight of her arm's new look. She looked at Spinister in horror as the spider ghost smiled at the look of horror on Gwen's face. Spinister on the other hand, liked the arm Gwen was now sporting.
"Love the new look," Spinister told Gwen before laughing at the screaming girl as her body started changing.
Gwen's body started to fall apart as a female version of Spinister took her place, all the while Gwen screamed in horror.
Gwen shot up from her bed screaming in terror because of her nightmare.
"Gwen!" Gwen's mother screamed as she rushed into her daughter's room and was by her side. "Are you alright dear?" she asked her daughter.
Gwen didn't say anything as she clung to her mother and sobbed as this was her twelfth nightmare in the past week. No matter how much she tried, Gwen could never forget about the sadistic ghost that would continue to haunt her in her life and nightmares.
The next day.
"Danny, something bad is going to happen to Star," Sam told Danny as he closed his locker.
"…What?" Danny replied looking at the gothic Manson twin like she was crazy.
After spending last night watching Freddy Kruger movies with her sister, Sam started to worry about Star's safety in the morning.
"Think about it, last night Star talked back to Paulina, something she would never do," Sam started to explain to Danny. "She asked me if she could watch Dream Warriors with me and if I could start it from the beginning," she continued. "And the two of us ended up watching more horror movies," she added. "Something the two of us haven't done since we were eleven," she pointed out.
"Okay, so the two of you have begun to reconnect after six years," Danny said to Sam after listening to her. "But I find it hard to believe something bad is going to happen to your sister," he added. "Usually when something like this happens, usually that person has something horrible planned for their intended victim as they pretend to be nice to them," he continued.
"Star's not that good at manipulating people," Sam retorted. "Plus, she and Paulina are horrible actors," she added. "Remember that freshmen play they were in?" she asked him.
"I remember the headache you had after smacking your forehead repeatedly after every line Star screwed up," Danny answered.
"Exactly!" Sam yelled out. "I spent two weeks helping her memorizing her lines and she fucked up the play in one night," she added. "And Paulina was doomed to fail from the beginning because she spent all that prep time making out with that Wes guy," she ranted.
"Who the Hell is Wes?" Danny asked.
"No one important," Sam waved the question off.
In another part of the school, a senior that looked vaguely like Danny sneezed for no apparent reason, just before getting hit in the face by a basketball.
Back to Danny and Sam.
"I still think you're overreacting a bit Sam," Danny told Sam as they walked to their first class.
"We live in a town that gets attacked by ghosts on a weekly basis, you have three ghosts living in your house, a long nosed, pale skinned ghost researcher you brought back from the Ghost Zone, you're a ghost powered motorcycle riding superhero, I have a brace that is essentially a scaled down version of your alter ego, and we have gems to keep safe from a power hungry ghost king that has what may as well be consider the Reality Gauntlet from the Marvel Comics," Sam listed as she and Danny entered their classroom.
"Yeah, the thing does sound like the Infinity Gauntlet," Danny agreed after thinking about it. "What are the odds?" he joked as he took his seat.
"Not that high really," Sam replied as she took her seat. "Not a lot of people know about the Infinity Gauntlet without actually reading the comics," she pointed out. "Though it might appear in the third Avengers movie," she added.
"Do you think so?" Danny asked.
Before Sam could reply, the teacher walked in and the bell rang which led to class starting.
While most students were either listening to their teacher give the day's lesson or ignore said teacher in order to daydream, Sam's attention was directed at Star as her mind came up with various horrible things that could happen to her twin.
'There could be a ghost stalking her, Paulina planning some sort of revenge scheme to get back at her for sticking up for me, one of the jocks raping her, a black cat crossing her path, Tucker actually dating her…' Sam's mind rambled on. 'Wait, he and his family moved out of Amity Park after the whole Total Drama incident, so that won't happen,' she realized. 'But what if she was abducted by aliens, or run over by a steamroller, or the ceiling collapsing on top of her in class!' her mind continued.
Before Sam could continuing thinking of many more ways for her sister could be harmed, a paper football hit her in her right cheek. Sam snapped out of her thoughts to see the paper football on the floor. She picked up the piece of paper and unfolded it to read what was on it.
What's with you?
You're spacing out too much in class.
Star
Sam looked to Star's desk to see her sister looking very worried about her.
Not wanting to alarm her sister, Sam rolled her eyes before smiling at Star, assuring her that she was okay before writing her reply on the piece of paper and sending it back to her.
Star picked up the piece of paper and read what her twin wrote.
I'm fine, just thinking about if I should see either Lights Out or Don't Breathe this weekend.
Sam
Star rolled her eyes at the reply she got before turning her attention back to the teacher.
As the day progressed, Sam's mind continued to wander on the many, many possible ways Star could get hurt. It got a little weird during gym class when the class was playing dodgeball as Sam took nearly every ball that was flying at Star. The weird part about it was that Sam was on the opposite team. Danny noticed this and was quite worried about Sam and her increasing paranoia. Star also noticed this and was annoyed with her sister purposely defending her.
By the time of noon, it was time for lunch for the students of Casper High. As expected, Danny and Sam were having lunch at their usual table. However, the two of them were having a conversation involving Sam's growing paranoia.
"Sam, I think you need to back off from Star for a bit," Danny told Sam.
"What, why would I do that?" Sam replied, shocked by what Danny said. "My sister could be in danger if I leave her alone," she argued.
"The two of you only started getting along last night, and you've been dive bombing to get between her and a dodgeball," Danny told Sam. "And two of them were thrown by me," he added. "And I was actually aiming for Dash," he pointed out.
"That would explain by those last two were aimed so low," Sam mentioned as she remembered getting hit in the face by two dodgeballs during the game. "But what's your point?" she asked.
"I think your concern for your sister is driving you crazy," Danny told her. "And I don't think Star appreciates how you're suddenly acting all protective of her," he added.
"She's my sister," Sam argued.
"And Jazz is my sister, but you don't see me getting hit by dodgeballs for her," Danny countered.
As the two of them argued over Sam's actions, over at the A-list table, a different conversation was being discussed.
"Did you guys see the news last Saturday?" Kwan asked his fellow A-listers.
"Yeah dude," Dash replied. "Can you believe it, another Kamen Rider in our town," he continued. "And not only that, it's a chick," he added.
"You said it man," Elliot agreed. "And she's got a nice body," he added.
Many of the guys in the A-list agreed with Elliot, while most of the girls didn't think so.
"Yeah right," Paulina interrupted. "She doesn't look that great, you can't even see her face," she continued. "She's probably got such an ugly face underneath that mask," she added.
Several of the girls agreed with Paulina.
"Plus, she isn't as stacked as me," Paulina boasted.
'Yeah, because no one can be as stacked as a girl wearing a pushup bra,' Star mentally retorted as she kept silent.
"But doesn't it look like that new Kamen Rider's really close to the white one?" one of the girls asked.
"THE BIKER BOY WOULD NEVER DATE A LOSER LIKE THAT UGLY HUSSY!" Paulina screamed while glaring at the girl.
The girl that asked the question flinched at Paulina's outburst and glare.
"Sorry Paulina, I just thought…" the girl started to explain herself.
"You're not in the A-list for your thoughts," Paulina interrupted the girl. "You're here because of your looks and place in the cheerleading squad," she told the girl.
The girl closed her mouth after being told where she stood in the A-list by the Queen Bee.
Before Paulina could continue berating the girl, Star stood up and dumped her lunch on Paulina's head. The most popular girl in Casper High screamed in horror as her hair was ruined and glared at her satellite.
"What was that for Star!?" Paulina screamed. "Have you lost your mind?" she continued.
"I thought our minds weren't a part of the A-list," Star retorted. "And who gave you the right to yell at us for asking a simple question?" she continued.
"I am the captain of the cheerleading team and the founding member of the A-list," Paulina retorted as she glared at Star. "I have more than a right to yell at anyone who is out of line," she continued.
"The A-list is nothing but a joke," Star retorted, earning numerous gasps from the established members.
"A…joke?" Paulina stuttered in rage.
"Yes, a joke," Star told Paulina. "And it's not a funny one either," she added.
The next thing to happen was Paulina slapping Star's face. The Queen Bee would have gone further but she was stopped when a black and purple blur appeared next to Star and threw a right cross, knocking Paulina onto the floor as Sam stood over her.
Sam glared down at Paulina while Star looked at her sister in surprise while holding the cheek Paulina slapped.
"I don't care who you think you are Paulina," Sam started as she picked up the down Queen Bee. "But if you ever slap my sister again, I will break every bone in your body," she threatened Paulina.
"How dare you!" Paulina screamed as she got up and was about to slap Sam's face.
Unlike her twin, Sam grabbed Paulina's wrist and punched her right between the eyes. Paulina was knocked back onto the floor while Sam stood over her.
It was at that moment that Lancer entered the cafeteria to see what was going on.
"Pride and the Prejudice!" Lancer yelled out. "What have you done this time Fenton!" he accused Danny.
"What the Hell did I do!?" Danny yelled in protest.
While the insanity that happened in Casper High continued, in a familiar apartment, four ghosts were about to receive an unexpected and unwanted visitor.
"This is ridiculous!" Fright Knight yelled as entered the den where the other three ghosts were lounging around.
"Restless again Frighty?" Desiree teased the ghost knight.
Her answer was the tip of the Soul Shredder pointed at her throat.
"Do not push me wench," Fright Knight threatened the ghost genie. "We have been in this world for nearly ten years and this past year we barely did anything," he complained.
"Hey, we've done some stuff," Vortex argued.
"Granting wishes, causing a couple of rampages, and harvesting people's dreams for a few months is hardly enough," Fright Knight countered.
"Well, it's not like we wanted to lay low," Desiree argued as she moved the Soul Shredder away from her throat. "With those Kamen Riders, white soldiers, red huntress, the chaos that spider ghost caused recently, and the fact that Walker is after us, we couldn't follow through with any of our plans," she pointed.
"And using that fool, Johnny 13, to lure out that demon girl didn't go so well," Nocturne interrupted. "Such a waste," he added.
"That no longer matters since those Kamen Riders defeated her yesterday and sent her back into the Ghost Zone," Fright Knight reminded everyone. "And the fact that Walker has entered the human world looking for us means that someone wants us," he added.
"You couldn't be any righter," a fifth voice said from behind the front door to the apartment.
The four ghosts stopped talking once they heard that voice. They recognized the western accent anywhere and they weren't happy to hear it.
"It's…him…" Vortex stuttered in fear.
"Who sent you to come after us Walker?" Fright Knight asked the ghost warden as he approached the door.
"I'm surprised you weren't told Fright Knight," Walker replied. "Surely, Nocturne would have told you that Lord Pariah sent me to collect the four of you," he added.
"What!?" Fright Knight yelled as he turned his attention towards Nocturne. "You didn't tell us that Lord Pariah had placed bounties on our heads!" he yelled at the ghost of sleep.
Nocturne stayed silent as the others glared at him.
"Since you've been out of the loop for a while, Fright Knight, I may be willing to lighten your sentence if you do something for me," Walker said as he phased through the door. "Help me capture your cohorts, and I'll let you have a conference with Lord Pariah so you may plea for your defense," he told the ghost knight.
The Fright Knight looked at Walker and then towards the others.
"You're not thinking of…" Desiree started to say but couldn't finish her sentence.
Rather than answer her, the Fright Knight charged at Desiree, Nocturne, and Vortex. Walker smirked when he saw the ghost knight's answer before joining the fray.
Outside the apartment, the wall of the four ghost's lair exploded as Desiree, Nocturne, and Vortex flew out of the apartment. Fright Knight and Walker stood at the destroyed wall, watching the three ghosts flee. Walker's head split into four segments as a large orb of ectoplasm formed in front of it before firing at Vortex.
The blast hit the weather ghost in the back and shocked him. Vortex yelled in agony before falling towards the ground below. The Fright Knight leapt off the apartment and headed towards where his former comrade fell while Walker turned his attention towards the other two ghosts flying off.
Once he touched the ground, the Fright Knight looked at the downed Vortex as humans either ran away from the two ghosts or hid behind whatever looked sturdy enough. Fright Knight ignored the humans as he stalked towards Vortex, Soul Shredder in hand.
Vortex managed to get up to see Fright Knight coming towards him. Panic-stricken, Vortex tried to shoot out a bolt of lightning, but the lightning shot out in random directions. The Fright Knight continued walking as the lightning did not touch him.
"Please…Fright Knight," Vortex whimpered. "We've fought side by side this past year," he told the advancing knight. "You can't just turn us in like this," he begged.
The Fright Knight didn't reply as he got closer to Vortex.
"There's no way for you to know if Walker would honor his word," Vortex pointed out to Fright Knight.
The Fright Knight picked Vortex up and lifted the weather ghost towards his face.
"I'll take that chance," Fright Knight told Vortex as he flew the two of them away from the humans and towards Walker.
As for Walker, he was flying through the air chasing down Desiree, who was trying her best to escape from the ghost warden.
"The longer you resist, the longer your sentence will be Desiree," Walker told the ghost genie as he continued chasing her.
"An eternity in your prison plus whatever number of years you'll add is still an eternity," Desiree spat back at Walker while trying to fly faster. "I rather remain a fugitive in this world than a prisoner in your prison," she added.
"So be it," Walker replied as he fired a ghost ray at Desiree's back.
Desiree screamed in pain when Walker's ghost ray hit her, causing her to fall towards the ground below.
Down below, Duncan was on his bike heading back to his apartment after running an errand for his mother. He stopped at the traffic light just before hearing a strange whistling sound from above.
"What the Hell is that?" Duncan wondered as he looked up.
What Duncan saw appeared to be a female falling from the sky. The female crashed into the intersection creating a crater and causing some vehicles to flip over from the crash. Duncan was flung off his bike due to the sudden shockwave of the crash. He landed on the street with a grunt before getting back up to inspect the crash site.
Once he got close, Duncan recognized the female was a ghost that looked familiar to him. The female ghost groaned as she lifted herself up to see several humans surrounding her. Before she could do anything, another ghost landed on top of her and stomped his foot on her back.
Once the other ghost appeared, the people scattered to get away from the ghosts while Duncan stayed and pulled out his Edge Blade. Walker noticed the human that remained and turned to face him.
"You should have left with the rest boy," Walker told Duncan. "This is between me and her," he continued.
"Well from where I'm standing, you're just an asshole beating up on a woman," Duncan retorted. "And don't you know beating up a woman is a horrible thing to do," he added as he inserted the Edge Blade into the Edge Driver. "Henshin," he said before activating his transformation.
Walker watched as red rings appeared around Duncan while the boy charged at him, and tackled him off Desiree. Walker was knocked off balance and slammed onto the street. He got up to see Duncan covered in a black body suit with red gloves and had green compound eyes, one of the eyes looking like a blade.
"Another one…" Walker growled as he got back up.
Desiree looked on in stunned surprise as Duncan created an ectoplasm ax with sword like traits as well.
Duncan stood between Walker and Desiree and was ready to take on this ghost while Desiree stayed behind the red gloved Kamen Rider that may be her only hope of escaping Walker.
Author's note: There is much I could say about this chapter, but I've been fighting this headache I've had for a while so I won't be talking about the chapter this time around. I will say this though, when it comes to Freddy Kruger or Jason Voorhees, Sam and Star are on Team Freddy while Danny is on Team Jason.