They stand in silence.
"Wait, what?" Parker asks
"The dark Alpha virus!"
"The- o my gosh!"
He jumps behind a table.
"Duck for cover!" He yells.
"Calm down!" I tell him.
He pokes his head back up.
"Why?"
I take a deep breath.
"This version is more concentrated, meaning it has different effects."
He wipes his head.
"Phew, I thought we where going to have a dark Alpha crisis."
I roll my eyes, but they couldn't see it because my eyes are all entirely blue.
"Don't thank your lucky stars yet, there's more."
Parker sighs.
"Uh oh, here we go."
"It seems to prevent me to go into my normal look, and exiting this form I'm currently in will cause me to revert back to true form."
Jewel makes a groaning noise.
I look over at her.
"Jewel, you awake?"
She groans again.
"I've been listening for awhile and none of it sounds good; after all I'm infected too."
She sits up.
"And I'm now like a tiger."
"Not exactly." Parker points out.
"Nobody asked you... Parker, is it?"
"Yes." He says sternly.
He turns back to me.
"How do we get rid of it?"
I smirk.
"Come on, you should know."
"Defeat the source, then we can get rid of it."
I look behind Parker and see the person talking.
Oh boy.
Parker turns around to see Perry.
He stops in his tracks and is surprised to see her.
"Parker, Perry, Perry, Parker." I say.
"Uhh, hi?" Parker says.
Perry doesn't respond.
There's an awkward silence.
"Alright already! The answer is correct, defeat the source, then we can expect the virus." I say
"And how do you propose we do that?"
I turn and look at Jewel.
"Well, it's simple: we just-"
"No! Stop trying to be the leader! That thing dropped us with just his fingers! If we got hit with more of that virus, then we'll be stuck in true form! Sure, we could beat him then, but at what cost!? We don't even have the necklaces!"
I'm stuck in a hole now.
I take a deep breath.
"Then that leaves us with one choice."
I turn to Parker.
"Get the cafeteria ready, we're going to have a lot of guests."
In the lab, I make a quick check to my modification.
Jewel is sitting In a chair next to me.
"What if they're not willing to come?"
I shine my fangs.
"Oh believe me, they will be willing, very willing."
I take a knife and sharpen my bone claws.
"Alright, I'm firing up the machine."
I click a button, and I'm warped away.
Im on a dirt mound outside of a large town.
"Better cross my fingers and make this quick."
I walk towards the town.
"Hopefully he'll listen, or else."
Two hours later...
"Oh my gosh, Jole this is your craziest plan." Parker tells me
I stare over the huge crowd of other mes.
"Well, I guess my personality really does fill the room."
He smacks me on the head, and then waves his hand because my red skin burned him.
"Sorry, your fault."
I look back at the crowd.
"Attention!"
No one looks at me.
I clear my throat.
"PAY ATTENTION OR SUFFER!"
They look at me now.
"Alright, who can tell me why we're here?"
On of me raises their hand.
"Yes! You in the ironic t-shirt!"
He looks at his shirt and reads the label: I hate t-shirts.
"We're here because of your means of various torture methods!"
A few of me agree with that statement.
I shake my head.
"We're here because my dimension is in trouble, and I need the help of the best of the Alphas."
There's a short silence before someone speaks.
"Why should we listen to you? I mean, you're like a demon, why should we listen to you?"
I look at my hands.
"Why does every new form I take look like a demon?" I mutter
I put my hands down.
"I am not a demon!"
I clench my fists.
"I am one of you! My name is Jole Neal!"
They stare unbelievingly.
I growl.
"Fine, I'll prove it! Parker get over here and vouch for me!"
Parker comes on to the stand and explains a bit.
"Any questions?"
There are a few hands.
"Yes, you."
"So he has a virus that makes him not be able to turn back to normal?"
"Yes, that is correct."
"And if he tries, he'll turn into something else that makes him lose all control?"
"Yep."
"And there's a girl version of him in the same state as he is?"
"Ye- how did you know that?!"
He shrugs.
"She was here a minute ago."
Parker rolls his eyes as I come back up.
"Okay, everybody clear now?"
There's a little bit of muttering after that.
"Good. Now I called you all here because you aren't affected by the virus I have. The plan is to go back to my dimension and defeat the thing that gave me the virus. Now, any questions?"
Someone raised their hand.
"Yes."
"I have two. First, defeat it? Second, the thing?"
"Okay, by defeat I mean killed, decimated, destroyed, crushed, k.o., obliterate."
He shrugs.
"Second, that thing, I don't know exactly know what it is. All I know is that it's a grim reaper."
"A grim reaper!?"
Oops.
"I'm not fighting the entity of death! Take us back, you're not the boss of us!"
I'm enraged now.
"You will do as I say!"
"You have no power over us!"
From a distance away, Stephen, Stephanie, Rose, Felix, and Jewel watched the crowd getting riled up.
"I wish I was awake to hear this plan." Stephen said. "I would have stopped it before anyone else got hurt."
Jewel smirked.
"Personally, I'm ready to see Jole pummel those punks! In fact, I'll probably join him!"
Felix put down his soda.
"Hey, Jole pretty much always knows what to do."
Everybody stared at Felix.
"You do realize we're talking about the same Jole here, right?"
He nods.
"He usually acts like he's got it in the bag."
Everybody roll their eyes.
"Duck for cover in three, two,-"
Jewel stopped and waited.
"A few more seconds."
"Now."
The crowd started chanting: "take us home"
I'm trying to hold it all in, but someone burst the bubble.
"The stupid demon needs help, he must be weak!"
Weak!? WEAK!?
I spit on the ground.
"You want to see "weak"...? Fine, here's your version of weak!"
I float in the air, fire bursts out of tiny cracks on my skin. I force them all in one group, and I set them on fire, but keep them alive.
"Is this weak!?"
I grab the one who accused me of being weak.
"See how weak this is!"
I bite him and inject my poison in him.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!"
I drop him on the ground as I clench my fists and the over burning mes begin to get closer to each other, until they where practically crushing each other.
Jewel was quite enjoying watching the pain of the fools.
"Jewel, go up there and stop him!"
"Nah, I'm liking this."
Felix got up and went underneath me.
"Hey! That's enough!"
I look down at Felix and sigh.
I let the fools go and I land on the ground.
I clear my throat.
"Any other questions?"
Everybody is groaning and getting up.
"Good, be ready in three hours!"
I take a deep breath and the portal powers up.
Behind me, my army of mes stood ready for battle.
Felix and Felicia passed out war paint before joining the ranks.
I'm ready to do everything I can to get my world back.
The portal finished charging and I saw the damage.
Among ash and other debris, was a still living city. People where hiding and running.
I shake my head. Can't wait to clean this one up.
I close my eyes and search for whatever gave me the virus.
"He's over here..."
I open my eyes and see the grim reaper that I know.
I growl.
"I should kill you right now!"
He smirks.
"But I you did, I couldn't help you, couldn't I."
I take a deep breath.
"Fine, but why are you helping me?"
He looks to the side.
"It feels wrong to help them. I know I'm one of them, but it's wrong what we're doing now."
I shrug.
"Always good to have help; where is he?"
For a few minutes, we followed him down a street, until I saw what he was leading us to.
A big group of people where rounded in a circle, and standing on a pile of cars, was the reaper that gave me the virus.
I feel myself getting angry.
I turn to my army.
"This is it, get ready for the fight of your life!"
I walk towards the crowd of people.
I can hear what he's saying now.
"...and that is why you are here! He has left, and you must suffer for it!"
The crowd cries out in fear.
"That's a little cruel, don't ya think?"
He looks over the crowd and sees me.
He smirks.
"So, you did come. You're a fool for coming alone!"
Jewel walked into view.
"Hey, don't forget me!"
He frowned.
"Stubborn as always; that makes two.
I chuckle.
"I'm not done yet!"
I snap and my army moved forward.
He got a bit mad at this.
"How did you manage to get them to follow you while you looked like that?"
"My secret."
I throw an aura knife at him.
"I've talked too long already!"
He smiled.
"Finally!"
Jewel charged with me, and the other mes come and begin attacking.
I stab him in the shoulder, and he just laughs.
"Ow, good arm! Try mine!"
He hits me on the jaw and holds his burning hand.
"Ah!"
I him over and over, and so does Jewel.
He falls to the ground.
"Ha ha ha. I bet you think you won, don't you?"
I'm silent.
"No... Correct!"
He pops claws from his fingernails.
"Remember the cold feeling of being injected? Want it again!?"
He slashes at us and we dodge.
Between dodges, I get a glimpse of something shining in his pocket. Two somethings shining. The necklaces!
I slash at his pocket and the necklaces popped out. I grab mine as he shouts "no!"
I toss jewel hers and we put them on.
"Game time."
I charge at him, and I could see the fear in his eyes.
"Die!"
I slash him with everything I have, which is a lot.
Once he's on the ground bleeding, I fly up and charge a huge mass of energy.
"Good-bye."
I release the blast right on him, instantly vaporizing him!
I start seeing blurry, and I vomit out the virus.
I fall on the ground and change back to normal.
I sit up and look at never gone else, besides Rose. They where just standing there watching; both sides.
"Well, kill each other."
The reapers glanced at the other side and disappeared.
"Wow. Wimps."
I turn to see Jewel, completely normal.
She looks at me.
"You barely even saved any for me, and why did you even bring these guys here, if you did all the work?"
I look back at the army of mes.
I shrug.
"Nobody ever stands a chance, do they?"
She smiles.
"Nope."
In a few hours, everyone was back in their right dimension, except for Jewel and I. We had been ordered to destroy everything on the dimensional device, but I couldn't.
She eyes me suspiciously as she takes the device.
"They'll find out."
I shrug.
"Hide it."
She puts it in her pocket.
"I won't tell anyone."
I wink.
"Neither will I."
I turn, about to press the button, when I turn around.
"I'll try to visit."
She looks down.
"Thanks."
"For what?"
She looks up.
"For everything."
Girls, yeesh.
"Don't worry, I'll see ya soon."
I press the button and return to my trashed world.
I sigh.
"Time to get cleaning."
