Author's Note: Well hurricane is set to hit tomorrow and I'm prepared. Reviews answer to time.
Wassup13: Oh well.
On with the story.
Chapter 11: Consider That A Divorce
We find Finn lieing forlorn on his bed in the dark, staring at the TV, but not really watching. The blue light of the television flickers against the somber red of the setting sun. "This afternoon at 4:30 pm, I signed an order declaring martial law throughout the Mars Federal Colony. I will not tolerate any further damage to our mineral export operations. Mr. Lincoln and his terrorists must understand that their self-defeating efforts will only bring misery and suffering to the people of Mars." Simon Petrikov said. Finn then turns off the tv and stares at the ceiling.
Then theres a knock on the door and Finn is startled. He then sits up slowly, on alert. "Mr. Shada?" Finn then picks up his gun. "What?" "I need to talk to you about Mr. Pen." Finn the cocks his gun and approaches the door very cautiously, from the side. "Who are you?" "Dr. Dextrose. From Rekall." "How did you find me?" "It's difficult to explain. Could you open the door, please. I'm not armed." All of a sudden, Finn flings opens the door and takes hair-trigger aim at Dr. Dextorse from the Rekall commercial! He's dresses in the same tweed jacket. Finn keeps the gun on the giant donut and glances up and down the hall. "Don't worry I'm alone. May I come in?" Finn roughly pulls the doctor into the hotel room and closes the door. He frisks the donut and find to weapon.
"What do you want?" "This is going to be very difficult for you at accept, Mr. Shada." "I'm listening." "I'm afraid you're not really standing here right now." Finn can't repress a chuckle. "Ya know, Doc, you could have folled me." "I'm quite serious. You're not here, and neither am I." Finn then squeezes the doctor's shoulder, verifying its solidity. "Amazing. Where are we?" "At Rekall." that causes Finn's cockiness to waver. "You're strapped into an implant chair, and I'm monitoring you at a psycho-probe console." "Oh, I get it, I'm dreaming! And this is all part of that delightful vacation your company sold me." "Not exactly. What you're experiencing is a free-form delusion based on our memory tapes. But you're inventing it yourself as you go along." "Well, if this is my delusion, who invited you?" "I've been artificially implanted as an emergency measure. I'm sorry to tell you this, Mr. Shada, but you've suffered a schizoid embolism. We can't snap you out of your fantasy. I've been sent in to try to talk you down."
"How much is Petrikov paying you for this?" "Think about it. Your dream started in the middle of the implant procedure. Everything after that the chases, the trip to Mars, your suite here at the Hilton, these are all elements of your Rekall Holiday, and Ego Trip. You paid to be a secret agent." "Bullshit. It's all coincidence." "What about the girl? Black hair, athletic, sleazy and demure just like you specified. Is that a coincidence?" "She's real. I dreamed about her before I even went to Rekall." "Mr. Shada, can you hear yourself? She's real because you dreamed her?" "That's right."
The doctor could only sigh discouraged. "Maybe this'll convince you. Would you mind opening the door?" Finn jabs his gun into the talking Dextrose's side. "You open it." "No need to be rude. I'll do it." Finn shadows the doctor as he opens the door. Bonnie stands in the threshold! Finn does his best to absorb another shock. Bonnie then puts on a brave face, like holding back tears in front of a sick child. There is not the slightest indication that she has even been anything but Finn's adoring wife. "Finn!" "Come in, Mrs. Shada." Bonnie then walks in hesitantly.
Finn then pulls her to him and roughly frisks her. "I suppose you're not here either." "I'm here at Rekall." Finn could only laugh and then he roughly pushes her away. "I love you." she told him "Right. That's why you tried to kill me." "Nooo! I would never do anything to hurt you. I want you to come back to me." "Bullshit." Bonnie's heart is breaking, but Finn's is as cold as ice. "What's bullshit, Mr. Shada? That you're having a paranoid episode triggered by acute neuro-chemical trauma? Or that you're really an invincible secret agent from Mars who's the victim of an interplanetary conspiracy to make him think he's a lowly construction worker?" the doctor asked.
Finn's certainty in undermined. The doctor looks at him with great sympathy and kindness. "Stop punishing yourself, Finn. You're a fine, upstanding man. You have a beautiful wife who loves you." "I do." Bonnie beams at him with pure affection. "Your whole life is ahead of you. But you've got to want to return to reality." Finn was only half-convinced, but doesn't want to show it. "Suppose I do...then what?" "Swallow this." the doctor opens his hand, revealing a small pill. "What is it?" "It's a symbol. Of your desire to return to reality. Inside your dream, you'll fall asleep." Finn picks up the pill and examines it.
"All right. Let's say you're telling the truth, and this is all a dream." He then Realized something, he then raises his gun to giant Marshmallow's head. "Then I can pull this trigger, and it won't matter." "Finn, don't!" Bonnie said. The marshmallow remains preternaturally calm. His eyes and voice express his unselfish concern for Finn. "It won't make the slightest difference to me, Finn, but the consequences to you would be devastating. In your mind, I'll be dead. And with no one to guide you out, you'll be stuck in permanent psychosis." "Finn, let Dr. Dextrose help you." Finn's finger was on the trigger ready to fire, however Finn is torn with doubt. "The walls of reality will come crashing down. One minute you'll be the savior of the rebel cause, then, next thing you know, you'll be Petrikov's bosom buddy. You'll even have ridiculous fantasies about alien civilizations as you requested. But in the end, back on Earth. You'll be lobotomized."
Finn then became totally demoralized. "So get a grip on yourself, Finn. And put down the gun." the doctor stares at him hard. Finn hesitantly lowers the gun. "Good! Now take the pill and put it in your mouth." Finn then puts the pill in his mouth. "Swallow it." Finn hesitates. The doctor and Bonnie watch with great anticipation. "Go ahead, Finn." Finn is wracked with indecision. Then he sees a single drop of sweat trickle down the doctor's brow. Abruptly, he swings his gun at the giant marshmallow and fires. The giant marshmallow's blood splatters in a dense circle on the wall.(Do marshmallows even have blood?) Finn then spits the pill out onto the doctor's blood-stained body.
"Now you've done it! Now you've done it!" BOOM! The blood stain explodes, blasting Finn backwards through the air. Suddenly four mars agents storm through the big hole. Finn ducks, turns, and starts to rise, facing toward the wall. One of the agents rushes Finn. But Finn ducks as agent goes to hit Finn with his gun, but goes over Finn's shoulder. Finn rises and then flips him over his right shoulder. The agent then lands on bed.
As Finn recovers, another agent grabs Finn's right arm. Then another agent grabs his left arm, and another one comes in to hit Finn. But Finn kicks the agent in the chest. As the agent flies backward. Finn then elbows the agent holding his right arm in the chest then backhands him across the face. As that agent falls backwords Finn throws a right cross at the agent holding his left hand, who falls backwards, as Finn follows through with his punch. the agent on the bed comes in and kicks Finn in the stomach with his right foot. Finn reacts, then backhands the agent across the face. As that hits the ground another agent comes in with a right leg kick at Finn's left shoulder. However Finn grabs the leg and throws him. Instantly, the agent that was down rises up behind Finn and hits him on the back of the head with his gun.
Finn then collapses and tries to crawl away towards the door. But an agent grabs Finn by the collar and shirt. Then another agent grabs his left leg, and they try and restrain him. Then Bonnie steps in and kicks him across the face, moves around to the other side and kicks him in the balls. That caused Finn to stops resisting. Bonnie then kicks him across the face again, Finn then fell backwards unconscious. "That's for making me come to Mars. You know how much I hate this fucking planet. Cuff him." She looks down triumphantly and speaks into a wireless "I've got him."
At the other end of the line, Marshall sits at a bar next to the agent I stopped caring about a long time ago. You could see a panorama of Mars is visible behind them through the dome. "Bring him down by the service elevator." Bonnie blows him a kiss then ends of call. Marshall and the agent who I caustantly make fun of slide off their stools, and run through the lobby to the service elevator."
Four agents drag Finn's semi-conscious body to the service elevator as Bonnie follows. An agent presses the call button. They then wait. Until the doors slide open and Marceline is seen standing inside and professionally assassinates the four agents who have their hands full with Finn. Bonnie drops to the floor, swings her legs, and swipes Marceline's feet out from under her. Her gun goes flying. Then Bonnie kicks Marceline in the face and the stomach and then flips her over her head. They stand and face off, then Marceline hits Bonnie in the face and kicks her in the stomach. But Bonnie blocks Marceline's next punch and elbows her in the ribs and flips Marceline again, then elbows her in the face.
Finn squirms groggily over a pile of corpses and wrests a gun from a dead hand. Bonnie positions herself on top of Marceline and pulls her head back. Bonnie then pulls a knife from an ankle sheath and prepares to plunge it into Marceline's throat. PIYUNG! The knife flies from Bonnie's hand. Finn sprawls on the floor, hands cuffed in front of him. He holds a gun aimed at Bonnie. "Finn...you wouldn't hurt me, would you, honey?" She said as she sees his expression. "Finn, be reasonable. We're married." Bonnie stealthily reaches behind her back for a concealed gun and pulls it on him. However Finn shoots her in the forehead, leaving a clean, small hole between her eyes." "Consider that..." he takes out sun glasses and puts them on "A divorce." (YEAAAAAAAH! Ok that not how the scene actually happened but I thought this was funny)
"That was your wife?" Marceline asked. Finn then nods blankly. "What a bitch."
Author's Note: Well I enjoyed writing this chapter. I also when I first started writing this story I honestly knew PB couldnt fight. But after seeing Lady and Peebles that proved that she can actually fight and that she fit the role for Lori perfectly.