Hello Lurkers of Fan fiction! Welcome to another installation to Deep Darkness! Now we'll see what happens to our lovely heroes as they will go against the lord at the Tree Fortress!
Ch.14 The Battle at Tree Fortress
Flippy and Flaky slowly get up from the corpse and look around to see the darkness becoming much worse. The buildings begin to rust and rot away slowly, fading away into ash and disappear into the darkness. Flippy turns round and look at Flaky and take her hand as they run up the stairs to see Niki with CrayZee along with Katz and Fritz as they walked towards Flaky and Flippy. CrayZee raises her chainsaw in defense and growls at Flaky as Flippy raises his gun at CrayZee. Niki walks up and tells CrayZee to put the chainsaw down as she walks up to Flaky and smacks her as she is grabbed by Fritz and Katz. Niki curses at her and keeps swinging into the air. Flaky touches her cheek as Niki is kept down. Fritz looks at them.
"Benny…Benny didn't make it. He died when he was flung out the Hummer. His body… looked horrible…mangled. Thanks to your girlfriend there, she killed him!" Fritz said as Flippy keeps his gun on them.
"That wasn't Flaky in the Hummer. She was possessed by The Lord's staff which made her act like that which led to us crashing. We just encountered him a few minutes ago… he killed Gerald… I promised him that I'll keep Flaky close to me and protected. I'll make sure that I won't fail that mission. I'm sorry about Benny but we have other problems to deal with now. We need to get back to Mouse Ka-Boom's house and try to deal out the situation and try to stop the Darkness and The Lord. Do you all copy me?" Flippy said as Fritz, Katz, CrayZee, and Niki who finally calms down looks at Flippy.
"Yeah we got it. But if she becomes crazy like that again, I'll make sure CrayZee ends her life quick. Now we have to go." Niki said as the group leaves to find a vehicle. Mouse Ka-Boom on the other hand with Laces, Disco Bear, Toothy, Clumy, Flurry, Ruffy, Scott, Cro-Marmot, Lammy, Truffles, Lumpy, Arrow, DJ, Aurora, and Rager along with Sparky, Frost, Luna, Fang, Beat, and the rest of the tree friend characters we're all at kept close together and took turns looking out the windows for any sign of movement from Flippy or the enemies. Ruffy cocks his shotgun and looks up to see Shifty becoming pale and barely moving as Lifty wipes away the sweat and talks to his older brother. Fang, Arrow, Rager, and Sparky walked towards Ruffy. They have a concern look on their faces as Ruffy knows what the group may be thinking about.
"It's about Shifty… isn't it?" Ruffy said to the group as he places his gun on the table and crosses his arms.
"Yes, he's much worse when we left that hotel from those creatures. Ever since he got bit, he's become quiet. Can barely talk, hasn't eaten, lost some movement to his body. The infection of that bite has pretty much taken over most of his body. I feel that we should end his misery." Fang said as Sparky and Arrow looks at her.
"I understand but that's his brother. He'll make sure none of us place a bullet in Shifty's head." Arrow said as Fang looks at him.
"I understand but we can overpower him and finish the job. I know it's wrong but what choice do we have? What happens once the infection fully takes over him? Sit there and get killed or become like one of them?" Fang said as a voice from the back calls attention to the others.
"Uh guys, I need you to come see this…" Rhyme said as he motions for the some of the people to come but they didn't listen as they were either watching the TV for news or talking about plans on how to escape. Rhyme turns back to see quick movement through the dark tress as he keeps trying to get their attention. Lifty slowly getting up, goes to get a glass of water for Shifty. He passes the group and hears about the conversation about Shifty.
"Look we'll settle this now. We have to kill Shifty." Fang said as Lifty gets furious.
"WHAT?! Don't you fuckers get near him! You're not killing him! I'll make sure you all die before he does!" Lifty said as everyone looks at Lifty whereas Rhyme tries to get everyone's attention again to only get quieted down by Oscar.
"This is going to get good!" Oscar said with a smile on his face. Rhyme gives a mean glare as Lifty continues to shout at them. Fang steps up and looks at Lifty.
"He's infected already! He's becoming one of those things soon! He's dead to us Lifty! Once he turns he will kill us all! Put him out of his misery already!" Fang said as Lifty glares at her.
"Back off Fang… I'm not in the mood to be dealing with your bullshit. If that's how everyone is going to think about my brother, then go ahead. But I'm not going to let you kill him!"
"Look you stupid idiotic moron, he's just slowing us down and we're all going to die because of you being retarded! If it was the other way around, Shifty would have accepted it and popped a cap in your ass. So I suggest you do the same and end your brother's misery now!" Fang said as everyone was quiet and Rhyme shouts out at everyone which gets almost everyone's attention.
"For the last time! I saw some movement! It could be Flippy or shadows!" Rhyme said as Fang looks at Rhyme.
"Are you sure that it was…"
Bang! Thud!
"Oh shit!" Ruffy said as Fang's body hits the floor with Lifty pointing the gun at her corpse. An angry look glued to his face as Ruffy tackles the raccoon and punches him.
"What the fuck man!? Why the hell did you do that?!" Ruffy shouted as Lifty struggles from his grasp and looks at Ruffy. They both stare at each other as a figure dashes through the window and grabs Rhyme, jabbing its claws into his stomach and ripping them open as the Deer screams in agony with blood gushing and splattering on the broken glass and on Oscar as he backs away. Ruffy and the others look up to see the Darklings pulling Rhyme out of the window and tearing him apart as they break down the door and hiss at the tree friends. The Tree friends and OC's look at each other and back up as they aim their weapons at the Darklings.
"Everyone steady your aim now… if they attack, you blow their head off clean! You all got that?!" Hollow said as Cro-Marmot screams and dashes toward the Darklings who extends its claws and impales them through his head. The Darkling raises the body and opens its mouth, savoring every taste of blood that falls into its gaping mouth. Hollow nods and opens fires as the Darklings scream in pain and dash off as they hide in the darkness. Hollow and the others look at each other as the reload their weapons and begin to barricade the window and door to see claws bash through the barricade.
"It won't hold much longer! We need to get out of here!" Beat said as Mouse Ka-Boom smiles and looks at the group.
"There's a hidden passage here that leads to a secret room. It's known to most people as Tree Fortress. They won't find us as the passage may be long but it's worth it. Now let's go!" Mouse Ka-Boom said as he runs up to the bookshelf and pulls a book as a mechanic sound is heard. The bookshelf slowly goes up as the house begins to rumble. The tree friends are trying to regain their balance as the rumbles vibrate louder and louder. The vibrations shake even more, sending all except Splendid to the floor. A huge roar echoes through the house as windows, glass, and the TV screen shatter. Sniffles screams in pain as his eyes are sliced by the particles from his broken glasses. He gets up and cries to see that the lights are flickering on and off. Mouse Ka-Boom, Hollow, Ruffy, Arrow, Oscar, Chunky, and the others feel around and look for the bookshelf. Sniffles feels around and grabs something as it feels cold and slimy. Sniffles struggles to pull away but can't as the substance is sticky and can't separate his hands from it. Sniffles cries bloody tears as he heard demonic laughter next to his ears as the substance begins to swallow him up. Sniffles cries again to only in the next second, be gone.
"I see it guys! We have to hurry! They're in here!" Beat said as the group begins to get up to see a sharp blade impaled through Lumpy's chest. The group cries as Flurry looks through her book quickly as Lumpy is dragged out the front door. Frost and Sparky use their powers to freeze and shock the enemies as Mouse Ka-Boom lights up his lighter and calls the group to go through the bookshelf.
"Come on! We can't waste any more time!" Mouse Ka-Boom said to the others. Cuddles grabbed Giggles hand and got up and ran into the shelf as the others did the same thing. Mouse, Frost, Sparky, Hollow, Chunky, Petunia, Shifty, Lifty and Ruffy are left. Hollow and Ruffy continue shooting as they see black substance entering through the windows and doors. Lifty continues to drag Shifty as he places him next to the wall as Lifty shoots to help the others. Hollow continues to shoot to then unload the empty clip. As He was about to reload, the dark substance forms a long tentacle and hit Hollow, sending him into the book case. The house begins to shake once again as the roof begins to crumble. Frost and Sparky dash into the passage as Ruffy and Chunky continue to take out the rest of the Darklings. Chunky fires off his rounds as Petunia cries out. Chunky turns and sees her about to be tackle by a darkling as he fires a bullet. Everything was in slow motion, Petunia covers her face as the debris from the ceiling slowly starts coming down as Ruffy backs up with Lifty looking at Ruffy and raising his gun at him. Lifty couldn't trust anyone and seeing how Fang came to him for a plan and how he was attacked made Lifty angry. The lights flickered off this time as the only light was Mouse's lighter and the shotgun going off. Lifty smiled as he was about to pull the trigger. Chunky smiles as the bullet hit the Darkling in the head as it hits the ground. Another gunshot goes off as Chunky turns to see Lifty falling to the floor with a bullet hole on his head. Ruffy turns to see Mouse blowing away the smoke and looks at Ruffy who nods and backs up to get Shifty who's coughing out blackish blood. Petunia looks at Chunky who holds her hand and looks at her.
"You ok?" Chunky said as Petunia looks at him.
"Yes… I am. Thank you very much Chunky." Petunia said as Chunky smiles to only scream in pain as a Darkling bites into Chunky's neck and rips a chunk of flesh as blood squirts out. Chunky turns and blasts a few bullets into the darkling as he falls to his knees. Petunia cries out and goes toward Chunky who backs away from her.
"Get away Petunia. I don't want you to be like them. Go! I don't know how long I have but I'm going to like them soon… Take my gun please and go." Chunky said as Petunia looks at him and cries. Chunky cries as he looks at her and looks at the darkness surrounding them.
"I'm not going anywhere… I'm staying with you Chunky… Like I always do." Petunia said as Chunky holds her close as Ruffy is pulled back by Mouse, Hollow and the others as Ruffy begs to help save them. Mouse closes the bookshelf as The Darkness rises up and around the couple as they kiss one last time and get covered in darkness. Ruffy is let go as he hits the floor with anger. They lost a few more people as he thinks to himself. His thoughts are interrupted as coughing goes through his ears and turns to see Shifty on his back. Shifty has lost most of his fur and his pink flesh skin is turning black. His eyes are slowly changing colors and his teeth are becoming sharper than before. Ruffy gets up and aims his gun at Shifty who can barely move his head as his eyes look straight at Ruffy. Ruffy places the barrel of the gun at Shifty's temple.
"I'm surprised to see that you're still alive… We lost Rhyme, Chunky, Lumpy, Petunia, and a few others cause of you. Fang had to fight and snap and it cost her life and now you lost your only protection and loved one. I didn't even want to think about it but it was the right choice to end your suffering. But I couldn't do that to your brother though. He'll be devastated and turn away from us but fuck morals… I understand that this is survival now… but I'm the one that's going to end your life. Right here…right now…" Ruffy said as he looks at Shifty and aims once again and is about to pull the trigger whereas Mouse puts his gun down.
"What are you doing Ka-Boom? It's the right choice." Ruffy said as Mouse looks at him.
"It's not worth it Ruffy. I understand that nobody didn't deserve to die just now but fighting and arguing isn't going to solve anything. We'll deal with him at ze fortress ok? Let us see if he can make it there. If not, we do what we got to do no?" Mouse Ka-Boom said as Ruffy nods and picks up Shifty and drags him along.
"I can't believe I'm doing this…" Ruffy said as Hollow turns and looks at Sparky.
"Sparky, can you use any of your powers to light up the way for us?" Hollow said as Sparky looked at Hollow.
"Yeah I can. I've been trying out this new power of mine that I can light myself up. A walking talking Flashlight or Light bulb if you want. Here goes nothing…" Sparky said and closes her eyes as she concentrates. Her body slowly begins to glow as her hands and feet are the first to light up. Everyone backs up as the rest of her furry body shine as her arms rise and her eyes open to show nothing but light coming through as her body is full of light. She looks at everyone and smiles.
"It works! Yes! See I told you!" Sparky said as hollow and the rest smile.
"This is fantastic. We could use that trick on those dark bastards and the Lord if we can." Hollow said as Sparky turns away.
"I will warn you; this takes a lot of my charge power away. I will need to conserve some power for the next battle or else, when I lose all my power… I will do whatever it takes to get power… and I mean anything." Sparky said as she begins to walk with the rest of the group. The passage way was in ruins. The walls were old as time itself. Cobwebs were all over the place as grass was growing out of patches from the cracked walls. Sparky looks around for anything as quietness filled the passage way.
"How long…ugh… does it take to get there?" Ruffy said to Mouse as he twirls with his moustache.
"Eh about 10-15 minutes at tops. It's not long like I said. I always take this shortcut to visit the fort and I get in for free every time I like to visit the Fort and learn about the war." Mouse Ka-Boom said as Beat looks at him.
"Don't the veterans get in for free anyway?" Beat said as Mouse looks at him.
"Shut up! I like ze taste for an adventure and I walk through this passage every time!" Mouse said as Giggles is annoyed.
"Well you should have cleaned this place out then so it doesn't reek with spiders." Giggles said as Mouse looked annoyed.
"It gives that feeling of dread and suspense and adventure as well!" Mouse Ka-Boom explains as the group sighs and doesn't say anything else at all.
"Um…we're forgetting something…" Clumy said with a worried look.
"And what is that?" Hollow said as Clumy looks at him.
"Isn't Flippy, Flaky and the others coming back to the House?" Clumy said as everyone stops in their tracks and look at Clumy.
"Fuck… when they get there, they won't make it! They'll take Flaky and will convert her into one of them!" Sparky said as Mouse looks at them.
"I got a plan… and ze Fort has something that will get their attention. I don't know if any Darklings or survivors are in there but a radio transmit can help us." Mouse Ka-Boom said as he looks at them and stops at the wall and pushes it open to see the inside of the fort. It holds panels of soldiers and paintings of the war and weapons that were used. Mouse smiles as the others begin to come out of the passage way to see Mouse Ka-Boom shut it behind him and looks at them.
"This is where we'll be when we get Flaky and the others back. Now I'll show you the way to ze radio." Mouse Ka-Boom said to see a creature drop down to the floor. It had spikes on its back as the claws on each of the arms are dripping with blood and darkness. Its eyes shine a bright bloody red as it roars. Two tentacle blade arms pop out from the back as the stomach rips open slowly to show teeth. The creature slowly walks towards the group as Mouse and the rest look at it.
"Well…. This is going to be a problem…no?" Mouse Ka-Boom said as the creature dashes towards them.
To Be Continued… in Part 2!
Yes! Now another chapter has been completed in The Deep Darkness Arc! Just a few more chapters and it'll be completed! I hope you enjoyed it and see what will happen next as our remaining survivors fight against the Darkness and try to save Flaky and friends who are still looking for a vehicle. Will the Darkness win? Or will Mouse and his comrades will help secure the Fort? Find out next time!
DDD09 signing off.