It's cold.
I don't know why, but those are my first thoughts when I think about the whole situation I've gotten myself into. We're in a field, It's night time and we're surronded by white flowers and grass. From the looks of things, we're far from any of the main cities. It's a shame, if the circumstances were different I would've thought this place was quite beautiful. Instead, I'm on my knees in the brisk night air, getting ready to get my skull smashed in by a grinning bastard I thought was on my side. Serves me right for trusting Giygas, I guess... It really is a shame though, If I knew of this place, I would've taken Paula here. It would've been a nice place to finish off a date.
A date? I want to date Paula all of a sudden? Where did that come from? All my time with Paula, and I've never thought of dating her until now. I guess the concept of my inevitable death is messing up my head a little. I suppose it would've been nice. I've always wanted to know what love was like, and no, I'm not talking about knocking up some random girl at your friends house when the adults aren't there. I've been there and done that, it solved nothing. What I want is different, I want real love, like what my parents had with each other. The kind of passion that allowed them to accept their flaws and quirks and still be happy. I don't want just sex, I want that, not that I'm saying the sex is bad, but now I'm thinking like Giegue.
That prick. Speaking of Giegue, he's the reason I'll never experience any of this! I'm not going experience love, or going pro in baseball, I'm not going to be able to graduate, or get my first car, I'm not even going to be able to say goodbye to Jeff, Poo, Paula, Apple Kid, Venus, Dr. Andonuts, Frank, The Runaway Five, Tracy, or anyone for that matter, and it's all his fault! All his goddamn fault! As I continue to think about it, my anger for Giegue rises. All of a sudden, I want to kill him. I want to take my bat and smash those perfect teeth of his, then break his jaw so he can't grin anymore. Then I'd break his arms so he can't brag about his fucking boxing skills anymore, but not before I break his legs so he can't run. Then, I'd go for his balls, let's see you sleep with all those girls now! After that, and only after all that. I'd finally go for his head, can't brag about your great military mind when your skull is caved in, and I wish he was wearing his white suit, so I could ruin it with his blood! The best part, is that he would deserve it! He would deserve every second of it! Giegue came to earth and ruined everyone's life, then when he was executed, he came back to do it again, and then, for a third time, he tries it again and lets out Pokey in the process, and this is the best part! He comes to me with this whole 'I'm sorry' crap, and I believed it! I actually believed it, and now he's going to do it again!
"You know Ness. You have a good point there." He must've read my mind. "I ruined a lot of lives, and I've ended just as much. The funny part is, the incedent with Ninten isn't even the first time I've done that. While I was doing those things, you think I didn't look in the mirror and question why I was doing it? You think I've never doubted myself? You think I've never broke down in tears and apologized for all those horrible war crimes I've commited so early in my life." He closes his eyes for a bit, in that moment, he looked peaceful, as if he was having a pleasant dream. He opens his eyes, his face taking on a more somber expression. "You think I've never dreamt about leaving the council again?" He talks quieter. "Going back to George and Maria, living a peaceful life with no bloodshed and no war. Wouldn't that be nice?" He looks past me, as if remembering something from long ago. "Whatever." He lets out a laugh before looking at me. "But, now I'm sure you're wondering if I'm telling the truth? Who knows? I might be, I might not be. The answer is best left to history now, isn't it?" I stare deeply into those red eyes of his. They're glowing slightly, in the moonlight, they look like rubies. Something about them really gets me thinking.
Does Giegue really feel sorry for what he did? Does that even make it okay? I really wish he was more clear with stuff like this. Now, I'm all confused. My thoughts about him really shouldn't change, He's still betraying me and he's still about to kill me with my own bat, but I can't help but feel bad for all the horrible things I wished upon him a few moments ago. He probably deserves everything I've thought about doing, but now It just feels so horrible that I even thought them. Damn it, why is he making this so complicated! I sigh as I shift my gaze to my bat, it's not important now. I'm still going to die.
"So. This is how it ends, huh?" Unable to think of anything else to say. I ask the obvious.
"Nope." Giegue grins at me. I swear, does he ever stop grinning? It must be hell on his cheeks. "This is where it begins." He takes a moment to clear his throat. "This is my verdict. As I bring my weapon upon this boy's head, it represents my judgement. All who watch must learn from this. Failure will not be tolerated. No matter how skilled or how young, if you fail, you will die. It is as simple as that." He lets out a sigh. "Any of you know what it means?" He looks back at the three, they all meet him with confused faces.
"No." Mona speaks up. "We've never heard anything like that. Who said it?"
"Mjollek did, a very long time ago. It would be a quote for the history books, but unfortunately, the records are sealed." Giegue rolls his eyes. "Typical of him."
"It sounds like a good quote. What does it mean?" Jack asks. Giegue grins even wider.
"It means THIS!" Giegue yelled as he smacks Jack in the face with my bat. He then shoots a PK Fire at Clyde and a PK Freeze at Mona. "Fucking idiots. How stupid do you think I am? I know Mjollek is planning to kill me after I do this, and you guys really need to learn how to be humans better. I knew you guys were up to something since when we first met." He shakes his head and turns to me. "You OK, Ness?" He extends his hand towards me. I say nothing, I just stare at him blankly, eyes wide with suprise. He wasn't going to betray me? "Figured as much, you still think I'm not on you're side. Look, when this is done, I'll tell you anything you want. You cool with that?"
"Fine." I say as I get up.
"Cool, now then, we can get to beating down these morons."
"That was a stupid move." Mona says as they all get up.
"Was it really?" Giegue turns around to face them. "I don't think so. A stupid move would've have been running back to the High Council like nothing happened."
"Hmph. Mjollek was going to allow you to live."
"Ha! You actually believe that? You guys are dumber than I thought." Giegue shakes his head. "Anyway. You little dogs should run back to your owner."
"Don't worry." Clyde begins.
"We will." Mona continues.
"After your dead!" Jack raises his foot. I sprint over to him and tackle him to the ground. Clyde sees this and rushes over to us.
"Ness! Catch." Giegue throws my bat to me. "Watch out, Jack knows PK Ground, don't let him stomp. Mona has Thunder and Clyde has Freeze."
"Do they have anything else?" I manage to say to Giegue despite that I'm now being attacked by Clyde and Jack."
"No, these guys are really pathetic, to be honest." He rolls his shoulders. "Well, I'm sure they have some talent, otherwise they'd be dead, but they are pretty trash compared to us."
"You have a lot of confidence in me." I say back to him while wrestling the both of them. "To be honest. I was expecting you to take care of things by yourself."
"Not like you couldn't handle them yourself. I think you derserve a bit of confidence. You took me out once, didn't you?"
"With lots of help." I mumble as I continue to wrestle Clyde and Jack. Evantually after a bit, I manage to kick them off of me.
"You have no chance against us." He gets up slowly. I grin at him, not unlike Giegue.
"Ha! I was about to say the exact same thing. For members of the Gian army, you three sure are weak." I crack my neck. "I guess you just pissed off the wrong humans, huh?" I let out a PK Rockin' and knock him back, I quickly jump to the side before Mona's PK Thunder hit me. Clyde raises his arm and get ready to shoot a freeze at me, but Giegue knocks him down quickly with a PK Freeze of his own.
"You know." Giegue turns slightly to me. "These guys have the fear of Mjollek in them. They won't stop until they die. I say we stop trying to incapacitate them and just go for the kill. Mjollek is going to kill them anyway." I nod to him. Right, I have to kill them, they wont stop otherwise. Simple. Just kill them.
I just have to kill them...
I watch Giegue walk up to Clyde and shoot a Rockin' Omega, right in his face. It didn't take an expert to see that Clyde was dead.
"You bastards!" Jack yelled out in anger of watching Clyde die.
"How could you!" Mona screamed out from beside him.
"Simple really." Giegue replied, unfazed. "Nothing the council didn't teach you, I'm sure." He turns his head to me. "So, with two now, the odds should be even. Dibs on the Cinqtopolis kid." He starts to make his way towards Jack. Right then, that leaves me with Mona. I should've brought my Franklin Badge, this would be a hell of a lot easier if I did. Well, I can't cry about it now. With a scream, Mona shoots a PK Thunder at me, I simply step out of the way to avoid it. It's pathetic, really. With a scream, she tries to shoot another PK Thunder at me. I just step out of the way again. With a sigh, I shoot a PK Flash to blind her.
"Die! Die you murderer! Die!" She starts shooting PK Thunders randomly at this point. I simply walk up to her and push her to the ground.
'Good work Ness.' I hear Giegue's voice in my head. 'I guess she was physically the weakest fighter out of all them. Watch out for the PSI, though. Anyway, you got her where you want her. A well swung bat to the head should finish the job.' Right, Gotta finish it. I raise my bat.
"Go ahead, kill me! Kill me like Giegue killed my friend! Show your true colours, human!" My arms tense up a bit.
"My true colours?"
"Yes! You are obviously evil if you're working with Giegue, even after the Kl'rt annexation." There it is again, that annexation I keep hearing about. First Clyde and now Mona, what is it?
"I have no idea what you're talking about." I say this a bluntly as I can.
"The Kl'rt annexation, you fool! Don't pretend you know nothing of it!"
"You better give me some answers. I don't even know what a Kl-whatever is!" I growl at her. She widens her eyes in suprise.
"The Dominus objective! The siege of Tarnax IV! Giegue didn't tell you anything!?"
"I think he mentioned it before but-"
"Ness, watch out!" I hear Giegue yell at me. I instinctively jump out of the way. Just in time to see a PK Thunder Omega land where I was just a moment ago. Mona lets out a hiss of annoyance. I push her down on the ground with my foot and turn to watch Giegue and Jack's fight.
"No way..." I hear Mona say in awe. Jack is being completely outclassed by Giegue. Jack throws a right jab, only to be dodged and countered by Giegue. He tries a left hook, only to have the same result. Jack gets his bearings back and tries another punch, only this time, he stops inches from Giegue's face and opens his hand.
I hear a ringing in my ears. My vision goes white. My guess is that he used a beta version of PK Flash. I don't have much time to think, because I feel my foot hit the ground and something collide with my cheek. My vision clears up quickly, and I see Jack heaving with his fist extended. Hmm, I guess he just punched me.
"That all you got?" I taunt him before grabbing his extended hand and throwing him back to Giegue. Giegue puts his hand on Jack's face, charges a bit of PSI and BANG! Something that sounds like a gunshot came from Jack as he fell lifelessly to the ground.
"NO!" I hear Mona scream out. I let out a sigh as I catch her hand coming from the side. "Let me go! You monsters!"
"Riiight." Giegue approaches. "Of course we're the monsters! After all, we're the ones that have enslaved thousands of planets, and we're the ones that have the most corrupt leader ruling over us, and we're the ones that kill or maim anyone who fails a mission. Oh wait." He grins.
'So, do we... You know...' I telepathically grumble to Giegue.
'No, actually, let her go. Let her see how great her fearless leader really is.'
'You sure?'
'Positive. You need to see this too.' He nods to me. Taking his nod as a signal. I let her go. "Okay then, I have a proposition for you, council dog. You can either end up like your two friends. Or you can go to your mothership in peace. The choice is yours." She gives us one quick glance before she runs away and uses Teleport Alpha to get out of here.
"Are you sure that was a good idea? What if she tells this Mjollek person about our fighting stratgeties?"
"She won't need to. If the big man need to know about our 'tactics'. Then he'll just watch directly. By the way, I hope you're not squemish."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"3... 2... 1..." As soon as he says 1, a purple light starts to form in front of us before finally revealing- Oh my god! What was returned to us was Mona, except... She was dead. No, dead isn't enough to describe it. She was on the ground, impaled by around 10 metal spikes. Amidst all the blood, the only thing that I managed to discern was her face, which was seemingly unscathed compared to the rest of her body. Her face was frozen into a permanent expression of anguish and fear "Ah, the delusion of choice. " Giegue shakes his head at the sight.
"Why the hell would you want me to see this!?"
"Simple, you need to see what brutality Mjollek is capable of. I don't know what's he's doing here, but you have to understand that it isn't going to be good. I couldn't rely on you trusting me, since you don't like me much, you had to see it for yourself."
"Oh god... I think I'm going to be sick!" I hold my stomach and look away.
"It's what he wants." Giegue replies, still fixuated on Mona's corpse "He wants you to be scared, he wants you to be afraid, he wants to break you. It's so he can win. Warfare is all psyche when it comes to the High Council. It's how they work." He shakes his head one last time before finally turning to me. "Come on. Let's get out of here, I promised to explain the whole thing to you, and I plan to do that. We don't need to be here anymore." He says as he gathers up energy to teleport. As I'm teleporting, I can't help but take one last glance at the grizzly sight before me before finally teleporting home.
Hey folks. Sorry about the late update. I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Bye.