Chapter 14:

Nothing. No matter what he tried she wouldn't wake. She didn't respond to his touch. Only the machines told him that she lived. Barely. He didn't know what happened to her. He didn't understand when the doctor told him she'd given birth. That she'd been tortured and dumped at the hospital. Whoever did this threw her away like trash. He didn't even know she was pregnant.

What happened?

Something was going on. He didn't know what. People weren't telling him everything. They left him in the dark.

"Do you know anything about this kid?" He asked Mysterion who watched over Katherine with his little sister Karen. He hoped the kid would actually tell him. Everyone else lied and tiptoed over answers or evaded his questions completely.

Mysterion sighed heavily and spoke with reluctance. "Your wife was possessed. This, the police station and the command centre wasn't her fault Sir. She can't even be blamed for choking Randy Marsh even though he deserved it."

"What happened to Katherine?" All he knew was that she sustained her injuries during a superhero fight at the command centre.

"It was the beast from the sky." Mysterion explained in more detail. "It possessed your wife. Wanted Katherine as a host because she was dying out. He's the one who beat up all the cops, burned the police station down, destroyed the command centre and killed the two guards. He even said he was borrowing the mayor's body for a while."

"Borrowed?" He remembered the animals – his dog and Katherine's cats – acting weird around her. He remembered his children and nephew being scared of her. His step grandchildren wouldn't visit her. He knew why. He didn't understand why he didn't see what everyone else saw. They saw that she was carrying a monster within her.

He could hear his obnoxious voice in the hallway and Yates trying to hold him back. Randy Marsh was the last person he wanted to deal with. He wasn't going to arrest his wife or ask any of his men to do it either. According to reports Marsh hit her first. She acted in self defence whether she was possessed or not.

"I want that bitch arrested NOW!" Randy clamoured angrily as he barged in the room despite warnings not to go in.

"GET OUT!"It wasn't just the fat kid at fault for this, but he was a big part of it. Mysterion ascertained that the beast from the sky was able to take control of his wife so easily is because she was broken. Randy and the council had a lot of nerve showing up when he was going through a family tragedy. The doctor even explained to him that Mary might not survive and Katherine wasn't out of the woods either.

"She fucking choked me!" Randy immediately started to whine because he wasn't getting his way.

"You see this?!" He glowered at Marsh and the council as he held his wife's limp hand. "This happened because of you! This happened because she was broken! How dare you come in here demanding her arrest when she acted to defend herself?!"

"She's faking." Randy grabbed his unconscious wife by the collar of her hospital gown and shook her. She didn't respond.

"Get away from her Marsh!" Officer McDaniels pushed him away and screamed in his face. The atmosphere in the room became hostile.

"That bitch belongs in jail Wonderboy!"Randy retorted angrily.

"Stop being a fucking baby because you're not getting your way!"Mysterion backed them up. He was glad the kid was on his side.

"Stay out of this kid!"Randy snapped at Mysterion.

"GET OUT!"He couldn't stand to look at them. The council had done enough damage. He could only trust Denny Hughes and his wife's aides who'd only come in an attempt to keep Randy out that failed.

"The beast from the sky even said he's the one that rigged the election and paid Mitch Conner. You assholes butt fucked the town and ruined lives!"Mysterion shouted at the council in his defence after Randy once again called him a bumbling oaf.

"My wife could die because of this!"He shouted at the council who gaped in shock.

Randy Marsh rolled his eyes. "Yeah right idiot!"

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Mysterion aimed a swift low kick to Randy's shin and knocked him over. He grabbed Randy by his ankle and dragged him out. He ignored Randy as he protested over the unfairness of this situation. "No one gives a shit about what you have to say Marsh!"

Cops guarded the door at Barbrady's behest as the council followed Mysterion and Yates out. Barbrady wanted to be alone with his family which was understandable. He just didn't feel comfortable leaving Katherine alone.

"Don't even think about it Marsh."He stood between Yates and Johnson and wouldn't let him entre the room.

"This has nothing to do with me you little shit!"Randy naturally denied any fault. The other councillors and even the cops displayed obvious guilt because they all had a hand in this.

"This is our fault Marsh, you idiot!" Yates snapped at him. "I know what's going to happen. That thing will invade the planet. Millions will die!"

"How the fuck do you know?" Randy asked without believing anything Yate's just said.

"It's an alien invasion asshole." He growled through gritted teeth. "You know Mint Berry Crunch?"

"I do." Randy and the councillors knew who he was talking about.

"Mabus and the Gua invaded his planet and now they're targeting Earth. Mint Berry Crunch called him The Destroyer of Worlds." Their faces paled, but he wanted them to know what they brought to South Park with their betrayal.

"What does this have to do with the Mayor?"Linda Stotch asked as her voice trembled with fear of the unknown.

"She was possessed. Mabus had control over her the whole time."He continued. "You assholes sided with Mitch Conner. You and Fat Ass brought him here." He glowered at everyone involved not just the council. He could feel their guilt. He hoped it crushed them. He exchanged glances with Yates after the council finally left. "If you don't want to get fired you better start kissing ass."

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He jerked awake. He didn't want to sleep while he sat with his wife in case she slipped away. Mysterion kept the sodas coming when the hospital cafeteria was closed over night. His head drooped.

"Oh jeez!"He couldn't tell if it were a dream or not, but he felt someone – his wife? – squeeze his hand.

He checked her. Nothing. Maybe he imagined it.

"W-where?"She rasped. He assumed he'd imagined it in his dreams. He wasn't completely awake.

"Barbrady?"His stepson shook him.

"What?"He quickly apologised for snapping at him when he realised what he was positioning at. She was awake. Mary looked up at him dazed.

"Mary?"He was relieved. He kissed her gently. She squeezed his hand softly. She was weak.

"W-where?"She struggled to move just so she could get her Barings. "Where am I?"

"It's going to be okay."He assured her as she panicked. "You're at the hospital. You're safe."

"H-hospital?"Alex brought her some water so she could talk properly. "What happened? Why am I sore?"

He didn't know how to tell her. He didn't really know what had happened to her. "I…"

"Did I do that?"She asked as she noticed Katherine in the next bed.

"That wasn't your fault."He had to reassure her because it was the beast in control of her who was at fault.

Heavy tears streamed down her cheeks. He looked to see her holding her stomach. She didn't even look at him.

"Mary?"She responded with sudden uncontrollable sobbing. "Mary?"

"H-he stole my baby!"She wailed helplessly. He remembered the doctor saying she'd given birth.

"Mom?"Alex was just as confused as he was. "What baby?"

She looked at them with tear soaked eyes. "We have a son George."

"Barbrady, you didn't?"Alex must've realised what she meant.

"He's the antichrist!"She shrieked as heavy sobbing continued. "The beast from the sky!"

He was stunned. He didn't know. He didn't see it. Everyone else saw what he couldn't or refused to acknowledge. She was possessed and had been since he found her in the woods. The monster within was gone. "W-we have a son?"

They needed time. She needed it more than he did, but they needed time to grieve. Because he'd been a gullible idiot they'd lost a child.

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She wanted to go home. She'd been in the hospital a week. She wanted to grieve the loss of her child in private. She remembered why. She did it to protect Katherine from Mabus. The kid was administered another sedation after yet another vision. She wondered if the visions ever took a toll on the kid. They must do, she always ended up in hospital because violent seizures accompanied her dreams.

She wondered why Alex became hostile at the nurses when they gave the kid a sedative.

"It's the same human plasma and foreign DNA shit we found at the foster home. I don't trust them."He explained.

She asked her husband to investigate the hospital. Something wasn't right. So many nurses she didn't recognise. There was always something wrong with their eyes.

"I don't even want to be here."She grumbled when she heard familiar shrill voices shrieking in the corridor.

"I thought those assholes were in Vegas."Alex scratched his head. It was common knowledge around town that Katherine's parents abandoned her in South Park to go on a crime spree in Las Vegas. Up until now Katherine had been staying with Big Gay Al and Mr. Slave so she could avoid her while she was possessed.

"Give me back my fucking kid bitch!"Janet Holloway shrieked as she stormed into her room.

"GET OUT!"She hated Janet Holloway. She wanted her gone. She wished their temporary custody hadn't run out. Those people didn't deserve to be parents.

"You kidnapped my kid bitch!"Janet shouted accusations at her that weren't true.

"You abandoned her to go to jail and then Vegas!"Her husband reminded Janet with disgust. He noticed Dazza Holloway trying to unhook Katherine from the machines. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Taking my kid back mate!"Katherine was limp when he hoisted her over his shoulder. "We're moving to Vegas."

She couldn't let this happen. She couldn't let the kid live a meaningless life in the back of a stolen getaway car. "Get Adams in here NOW!"

"Get off me pig!"Janet squealed once Alex tackled her to the ground and cuffed her. Her arrest was warranted after she punched her in the face.

"You're under arrest!"He retorted bitterly.

"Those two can face the courts in Nevada."She grumbled as a nervous Mr. Adams arrived at the hospital. She knew she had re-hired him when she was possessed and she would fire him again only once the paperwork had been processed.

"You wanted to see me Mayor?"He asked apprehensively and fidgeted with his plump fingers while he waited for her to respond.

"Can we get this adoption process done NOW?"She demanded as Barbrady took Katherine away from Dazza Holloway who responded with a slew of insults and throwing punches that missed landing him in handcuffs instead.

She wished she'd done this sooner. She didn't need to think about out and neither did Barbrady. They signed the adoption papers and Katherine was finally theirs. She was surprised Big Gay Al and Mr. Slave hadn't beaten her to it since she'd heard rumours they were thinking about adopting her.

"She's your kid now."Adams fled the room with the paperwork to be processed before she fired him again. Yates and his men dragged the Holloways out.

"You should've stayed in Vegas then you wouldn't be going to lock up."Yates sneered at the Holloways on the way out.