Shattered Doll
Chapter 37: Temper
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Why won't you die?! Your blood in mine! We'll be fine! And then your body will be mine...!
-System, Queen Of The Damned
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Sandra climbed back up to her feet. She placed a hand against her cheek, feeling how sore it was. She shook her head, wondering at first who had struck her. The answer became quite obvious. As she lifted up her head, she was not at all surprised to see Dr. Gelcro standing there.
The dog zoner's neck fur was raised up on end, his pupils shrunk into dots. His lips were curled up, showing his sharp teeth at her. Sandra was startled at first, but only for a split second. She narrowed her eyes, getting off the ground and turning to face the zoner. She adopted a defensive stance of her own, her tail swishing from side to side.
Just how stupid was this doctor? Didn't he leanr his lesson before? Of course not. He was just ignorant of the situation. Well since her earlier warning didn't work, she would have to try something more...thorough with him this time.
She looked over at where Snap was. At the moment, he was laying down on the ground, on his stomach. He was pushing himself up onto his hands, slowly regaining his footing. She narrowed her eyes at this as her mind began to surge with thoughts.
Just what was she going to do with him? She had tried to be reasonable. She had tried to show him the error of what he had done, and help him change for the better. All she ever wanted to do was help him. Yet he couldn't understand that. He was infuriated with her even after she had explained to him what her goal had been. He had even called her a liar, and accused her of using him for her sick, twisted purposes.
None of that was true. Sandra did care about him. She liked him and thought he was a nice guy. She was grateful for what he had done for her. She was just returning the favor. As he helped her get her fresh new start in ChalkZone, she had wanted to help him by showing him how to be a better person, to acknowledge when he had done wrong and admit to it.
She knows he destroyed the machine on purpose. There was no way he could have done that by accident. She wished he would have confessed to it and apologized. She would have forgiven him. But now..he was just so stubborn, and he denied what he did, and he had the gall to say she was the bad guy...
Well she would take care of him later. She would figure out a way to fix things. In the mean time, she had someone else to take care of.
"I see you don't know when to quit." Sandra said. "Why couldn't you just leave? This isn't of your concern."
Dr. Gelcro took a few steps towards Sandra, his ears lowering. "You need to stop this, Sandra. Sooner or later, the other zoners are going to find out what you've been doing. You will be ostracized and arrested. No one is going to defend you."
Sandra narrowed his eyes. What a naive fool he was... If the zoners had any kind of intelligence to them, which she was certain they did, they would understand the importance of a promise, and how she was just upholding it. All she was doing was making sure the promise wasn't broken. Everyone should know what once a promise was made, it cannot be taken back.
She was aware of how dangerous this was. That was why a promise should be handled with care. One must be careful of what they said before they made one, because undoing it was not an option.
Dr. Gelcro cut her off from her thoughts. "Especially if they find out what you did to Rudy! They would all turn on you!"
Sandra shook her head at this. "I'm sure they would thank me. Rudy was nothing more than a worthless promise breaker." She said with a tone of bitterness. Her eyes blazed slightly. "He is not to be trusted."
Dr. Gelcro narrowed his eyes. "Exactly when did he break this alleged promise?"
"He promised to help Penny with some drawings, and he failed to do so." Sandra said. "And since he failed, he is a promise breaker. Therefore, he has no place in this world. All promise breakers must pay for their sins. I was merely giving him what he truly deserved."
"That was years ago... He...he did help her in the end..." Snap said with a weak voice. Sandra turned her head, raising up an ear as she stared at Snap with one eye. "Penny forgave him."
"Well isn't that sweet." Sandra said sarcastically. "I can see her heart is foolishly open." Snap growled at this. Sandra ignored it and turned her head away. She spoke again, addressing them both. "I don't care how long ago it was. The time frame does not matter. If Rudy wasn't punished, then he had escaped justice. If that is the case, then I am glad I was here to deliver that long overdue retribution."
Snap leaned against the wall, seething in pain. Sandra took note of the wounds she gave him. Scratches and bruises mostly. Some of his clothes were a bit torn. He looked pretty beat up, but was able to still stand. She herself wasn't looking that good, and some of the pain increased, such as where Mint had chopped off part of her ear. She ignored her pain as she watched Snap, waiting for him to speak.
"Rudy did pay..kind of." Snap said. "It was because this broken promise that Penny was captured and turned against him, or so we thought. Yeah it was all fake, but Rudy did feel guilty about it."
Sandra blinked a few times. She tilted her head to one side. "Oh? So he did recieve some kind of punishment after all?"
Snap nodded his head. "Whatever you like to call it, yes. Not that I think he deserved to be punished..."
Sandra took this into consideration. She thought about what Snap said, allowing it to sink into her head, letting her figure out what it meant. Perhaps she had been a little hasty. Perhaps she should have asked before if Rudy had been punished for it. Snap didn't go into detail, but she trusted it was a sufficient level of punishment, which meant that what she did was entirely unnecessary.
There was a brief pang of guilt, but she pushed it away. There was nothing she could do about it now. Besides, he was just a promise breaker. One punishment often wasn't enough. Rarely did she think that a promise breaker should be allowed to live. She held very little regret for what she did. Why should she? She was simply doing the right thing.
Sandra merely shrugged her shoulders. "Regardless, he got what he deserved."
Snap continued to glare at her. "How can you be so cold...?"
"I'm not cold. I'm just logical." Sandra replied, keeping her voice level. She folded her arms against her chest, feeling the cold metal of her chest plate. "Of course, I don't expect you to understand. You seem adament about ignoring what I say in favor of your own bizarre logic."
"My bizarre logic?!" Snap cried.
Sandra smiled at him and nodded. She then turned away, ignoring Snap's confused cries. She focused on Dr. Gelcro once more, who appeared to be sneaking up towards her. She narrowed her eyes at this, her expression enough to freeze the dog zoner in his place.
She was not surprised that he had tried to take this opportunity to attack her from behind. It seemed like the perfect strategy that he would use. She was distracted, so that would have been an excellent time to lunge at her. Just a shame that he had hesitated. Not that it would have done him much good; she likely would have heard him in time to get out of the way. Still, she would have been at least impressed by his efforts.
She took quick notice of the absense of Ripclaw and Mosaic. She narrowed her eyes softly at this, turning her head slightly around to see if she could spot them. She wondered where they could have gotten off to. Perhaps they ran off to find help. No matter; their lack of speech would make this task much harder.
Although she still wasn't comfortable with the idea of not knowing where everyone was, she knew she couldn't waste time trying to figure it out. So she kept her focus on just Dr. Gelcro and Snap. First, Dr. Gelcro would have to be dealt with. Then she would go after Snap. She would rather do this one on one with him. No interferences or interruptions. She really wanted to give Snap one more shot, and she would rather do that without worry of someone cutting her off.
"I really don't want to attack you." Sandra said, her red eyes glued onto Dr. Gelcro's. "And I can avoid that...if you leave now."
Dr. Gelcro gave a bitter chuckle. "Do you really think I'm going to just leave because you told me to?" She watched him as he lowered his head a little, his teeth bared as he continued to speak. "I have no intention on leaving Snap with someone like you..."
Sandra let out an exasperated sigh. "Look, I'm giving you a chance to leave in one piece." She held up her hand in gesture. "If you leave now and promise not to interfere with me, I will see to it that both you and your..friend..." She couldn't remember if they were buddies or not. "...fully recover from the wounds I inflicted on you."
"Like hell I'm going to take that offer." Dr. Gelcro snarled at her.
"I suppose you want to stay hurt then?" Sandra asked, perplexed by his denial of her service. "Is that it?"
"It's a simple matter of pride." Dr. Gelcro gave a somewhat bitter smile. "You see...I have a thing against being treated by the same person who hurt me, when that same person did not learn any lesson or tried to change."
"So you think I should try to change my ways?" Sandra couldn't help but feel insulted by this. She felt something burn in her stomach. How could he try to request such a thing from her? "That really seems unfair, don't you think?"
Dr. Gelcro didn't look really impressed by what she said. He narrowed his eyes a bit further, his face contorting. "Unfair, huh? Was it fair when you snapped Rudy's neck like it was nothing? Was it fair that you killed countless zoners, all in the name of this scheme of yours? Was it fair that you tricked almost everyone, myself included, that Snap was a monster?"
Sandra could detect not just bitterness, but also some hurt in his voice. She could tell that he felt awful about how he had treated Snap. She knew, from his expression alone, that if he could go back in time and change things, he would have prevented himself from becoming such a jackass to Snap. But the past was the past, and there was nothing he could do about it now. She hoped that he realized that.
She could understand why he would be so upset. It was not a fun thing for a zoner to find out that they had been blaming the wrong zoner. She couldn't really blame him at all for that.
But he had to understand that she wasn't using him, nor was she trying to create a rift. She needed the zoners to turn against Snap, at least on some level, on order for Snap to understand what it felt like being hurt and betrayed. Turning the zoners against Snap was a necessary evil that, while she did not want to perform, she knew had to be done. If Dr. Gelcro took time to really thought about that, he would see that she had only been trying to help.
All of this was going to be over soon anyway. If it hadn't been for the interference, she would have ended this, and things would have gone back to normal. Of course, they just had to complicate things... How unfortunate.
"I know where you are coming from and I understand. Really, I do." Sandra placed a hand against herself. "It wasn't something I really enjoyed doing, and I admit, there were times when I wondered if I was going a bit too far."
"Oh really now?" Dr. Gelcro asked, cocking an eyebrow. His voice was laced in sarcasm. "You don't say?"
Sandra ignored the sarcasm and nodded her head. "But it wasn't like I had much of a choice. I couldn't break the promise until Snap learned his lesson. I had to make sure it was thorough so he would know not to do it again."
"You could have tried to do it without having a bunch of zoners try to lynch me." Came Snap's bitter comment, but Sandra chose to ignore it.
However, Dr. Gelcro did not ignore it. "Snap is right, Sandra. If you felt Snap needed to learn a lesson, you could have just confronted him about it. You could have told him, in his face, what you thought he did and work out a solution then." He took a step forward. "Instead, you chose to hurt him. And you murdered several zoners in the process, all in cold blood, and you put the blame on Snap. Just..." He gripped the sides of his head. "..how sick and twisted do you have to be to think that was a good idea...?!"
"Well when you put it like that, sure it sounds bad." Sandra admitted, holding her hand out as she gestured with it. "But come on.. if you just stop and think, and not let your mind get clouded, you would realize that..."
"Shut up!" Dr. Gelcro barked.
Sandra's eyes widened in shock when the dog zoner, his temper clearly lost, charged at her. She heard Snap shout at him, telling him to stop. But it was all in vain. Dr. Gelcro didn't stop and instead just increased his speed. In a split second, he lunged at Sandra.
The dragon zoner didn't waste time reacting. She moved along to the side in an almost graceful manner. She watched as the dog zoner brushed pasted her. He turned his eyes, and in that moment, they locked onto hers. In a split second, she could see he realized his error. Taking advantage of the brief opening, Sandra formed a fist with her hand and struck down onto his back, between his shoulders. This was enough to knock him into the ground, onto his stomach.
Sandra pinned him down, pressing a foot against him. She pressed her claws against his back, causing him to wince and yelp in pain. He squirmed on the ground, trying to escape her. He tried to bite at her leg, but she immediately seized his jaw, holding it shut in her hand. She slammed his head against the ground, turning it roughly to force him to look up at her.
"I really don't want to do this, Dr. Gelcro. If you do not call off your attack, I will be forced to take more drastic measures." Sandra said in a stern voice. "I cannot afford interruptions. If you do not calm yourself down, then I will have to make you calm down...permantly."
"No! Wait!" Snap begged her. He started to move towards her, holding his hand out as he limped. "Please, don't hurt him!"
"Stop right where you are!" Sandra shouted at Snap, her voice booming. This was enough to make Snap freeze, his wide eyes staring at her, silentl pleading with her. "Do not come any closer! This is between him and me, not you!" She glared at Snap, one red eye staring at him. "Take another step and I will take care of him now..."
Not caring to wait and see if Snap got the message, Sandra turned her attention back to Dr. Gelcro. She kept her grip on his jaw as his head jerked from side to side. A few whimpers escaped his throat as he tried to open his mouth. She reached down and grabbed him on the back of his head, pulling at his scruff roughly. His body stiffened on instinct.
"So..what's it going to be?" Sandra asked, her glare boring through the husky's mind as she stared at him in the eyes. "Are you going to walk away quietly, or are you going to continue to fight me? I promise I will make your end come swiftly if you continue resisting me."
Dr. Gelcro stared up at her for a few seconds. He then nodded his head slowly. Sandra took this as him reaching an understanding. She gave him a small smile and she released her grip on him slowly. She took a step back, watching him as he climbed up to his feet.
"Okay, you may exit anyway you.." Sandra didn't get a chance to finish. Without warning, Dr. Gelcro turned on her and took off. "What the hell do you think you're doing?!"
Dr. Gelcro never answered her. With a loud snarl, he jumped at her. Unable to get out of the way in time, Sandra let out a scream as she felt his razor sharp teeth sink into her shoulder. She was knocked against the wall, her shoulder radiating in pain as Dr. Gelcro tore into it.
"You fool!" Sandra cried, her voice tinged with pain. "I gave you a warning and this is how you react to it?!"
Dr. Gelcro didn't answer her. He started to tear up her shoulder more, blood flowing from it. Sandra hissed and yowled in pain, her tail wriggling around. Okay then, if this was the way he wanted to play it, fine. She warned him, and he chose to ignore it. It will be his own damn fault for what was about to happen next.
Sandra lifted up her foot and she kicked him in the stomach. Her claws raked across it, leaving behind bloody gashes. Dr. Gelcro let out a whimper as he staggered back. She let out a scream as she felt him tear off a piece of her shoulder. She looked at it. Anger boiled in her blood. How dare he... Yes true..she could just heal herself. But still...
Dr. Gelcro came back. He knocked against her, pushing her against the wall. He then grabbed her by the arm and tossed her into the ground. Sandra looked up, watching as the crazed dog zoner rushed at her, mouth split open.
Before she knew it, a massive weight hit against her. She let out a grunt as she felt his feet hit against her stomach. He snarled at her before opeining his mouth wider and he clamped them down around her throat. Sandra's eyes bulged and she began to struggle on the ground, kicking her legs wildly. She could feel the teeth begin to sink into her neck, and for a moment, she felt the same fear that Rudy had just a little while earlier.
"Stop! Dr. Gelcro, please don't kill her!"
The two zoners froze at this. They turned their eyes over, noticing a frantic and frightened Snap standing there.
Snap looked at Dr. Gelcro, his eyes wide in desperation. "You aren't going to be any better than her if you kill her, Dr. Gelcro! Please stop! I know you're better than her!"
Dr. Gelcro's grip on her loosened. His jaw was still arond her neck, but she was no longer choking. She looked up at him, noticing that he wasn't trying to do anything. It would seem that he was confused, torn between two choices. She decided to take advantage of the situation.
With Dr. Gelcro distracted thanks to Snap, she was able to slip her tail over unnoticed. She quickly wrapped it around the husky's leg. His eyes shifted down at her, realizing what was about to happen. Before he could bite down harder in defense, she thrust him away from her, knocking him against the wall. She hopped up to her feet and, as the husky came after her, she held out her hand, activating her powers on him.
Dr. Gelcro's eyes widened and he let out a loud whimper as he collapsed back into the ground. She watched as he hit the ground in a thud. He curled himself into a fetal position, gripping his head tightly. She narrowed her eyes and twisted her hand, causing him to begin thrashing on the ground wildly, crying in pain and agony.
"Sandra! Stop this!" Snap limped towards her. "Please!"
"Stay out of this, Snap!" Sandra warned him.
Snap ignored her words. He kept coming closer. Soon she could feel him grab onto her arm, tugging at her. He looked up at her pleadingly. "Stop hurting him! He was just trying to help me!"
Sandra flattened her ears as she struck Snap with her tail. "I said stay out of it!" She shouted at him as he tumbled across the ground. She watched him as he looked up at her, his eyes wide in fear and desperation. She glared at him for a few seconds, giving him a silent warning to stay back. She then turned her attention back to Dr. Gelcro. "Now as for you..."
Sandra spoke no more. Her eyes narrowing, her blood heating up more, she increased her power usage against the zoner who had dared try to stop her. She watched silently, almost emotionless save for her anger, as she twisted him up inside. She was slowly detaching his blood vessels, and she could see the results in his eyes.
After a few moments, the dog zoner began to convulse on the ground. His body trembled in great pain. She did not let up. She had given him his warning, and he chose to ignore it. She could not be blamed for this. She continued to rip him apart internally, watching as several spots began to turn dark purple from the intenral bleeding. Dr. Gelcro turned his head from side to side, letting out multiple loud cries.
Then finally he collapsed. He stopped moving almost entirely, save for a few twitches here or there. He let out a few moans as he looked up at her pitifully. She just smiled at him, knowing that he was finally paying the price for his actions. She began to twist her hand the other way, deciding it was best to end his pain now instead of prolonging it.
Then, just as she was about to make her final move on him, she felt something hit against her back. She grunted and stepped forward due to the force. She didn't have long to think about what happened when someone grabbed onto her ears and pulled on them hard.
"Release him now!" It was Snap. "Stop this!"
Sandra felt her head being pulled back as Snap yanked on her ears. The pain in her torn one increased as Snap pulled on it, gripping it tightly. She released her hold on Dr. Gelcro. She began to stumble away from the whimpering canine zoner as she struggled to grab Snap.
She soon managed to grab him and she began to pull on him. Snap responded by wrapping his legs around her body and securing himself there. As she pulled, she ended up pulling herself with him. She growled in frustration, unable to believe that Snap was going to make things this complicated and rough for her. She had hoped that he would listen to her warning, but he had deliberately ignored it. Well then, if he was going to act this way, then she would need to use some more force with him.
Sandra jerked herself from side to side, bucking left and right. She tried to make Snap dislodge and fall off. He still held onto her tightly, his grip like a vice. He pulled on her ears more, almost as if he were trying to guide her somewhere. Her legs wobbled around, her tail swishing back and forth violently. She pulled on him harder, but ended up yanking on her ear harder. This made her stiffen up, her mouth emitting a screech.
That's it. She's had enough. She was going to get Snap off, and she was going to do it now. He was being unbelievable, absolutely unreasonable. She had to stop him before he did anything he was going to regret.
The blue dragon turned around so that her back was facing the wall of the tunnel. Then, as hard as she could, she began to slam it against the hard surface. She hard Snap cry out each time. She did this again and again. She listened to Snap's grunts, his hisses of pain. She hated doing this to him, but he had left her with no choice. She didn't stop until she felt him loosen his grip. Then she tightened her grip and she slammed him into the ground.
Sandra stared at him for a few moments, watching him as he groaned in pain. She didn't give him too long to recover. She immediately shot her foot forward, wrapping her talons around his neck. Snap let out a cry at this. She lifted him up and immediately slammed him into the wall, knocking the wind out of him. She kept him pressed against the wall, applying pressure to make sure he couldn't shake himself loose that easily.
Snap began to struggle. He pushed against her leg, kicking his own desperately. He gritted his teeth as he turned his head from side to side. He managed to hit her a few times, but she ignored them. She was not going to let go of him, not yet.
Sandra put her face close to his and said, "I'm trying to be reasonable with you, Snap." She hissed in pain as she felt her torn ear ache. "But you just have to make things difficult, don't you? Geez, I would have thought Rudy had drawn you with some common sense."
Snap's eyes widened at that comment, then they narrowed. "Don't you dare bring him into this, you bitch..."
Sandra narrowed her eyes. "Watch your mouth!"
"Why should I? It's not like you ever listened to anyone! You're too busy, strung up in your own little world, that you fail to realize what's going on, or just how people would really view you! Do you think anyone is going to side with you when they find out what you have done?! Do you think that the zoners who lost their loved ones because of you are going to look upon you kindly?" Snap's voice was firm. Never once did he falter or stutter. "You have gotten away with your atrocities for far too long, Sandra! It's about time someone did something about them!"
Sandra growled at this. She slammed against him, making him let out another pained cry. "You need to learn to stop being so narrow minded! All I did was try to help you better yourself! You helped me, so now I want to help you! But you won't listen to me! Even after I explain, you still ignore my words!"
Snap shook his head the best he could at this. Sandra went quiet and waited for him to speak. "I am not. I heard every word you said. It's just that what I hear disgusts me." Sandra widened her eyes at this. "You think that you were doing the right thing, but all you did was betray me. You hurt me and plotted behind my back. You murdered innocent zoners, some of which you decided to turn into food. How...how can I trust you..." Snap shut his eyes for a second, letting tears escape. He looked at her with an expression of heartbreak. "...when you are the source of the pain and misery that had gripped the city?"
Sandra stared at Snap when he said this. Her mind began to race. For a short few seconds, she began to question her actions. Her heart twisted as she saw just how hurt Snap was. She..she hadn't meant for him to feel this way. She hadn't meant for him to feel betrayed and crushed like this. She had only done what she believed to be the right thing.
But that guilt was fleeting. She reminded herself that Snap was the one who brought this upon himself. He has to learn that life can be rough at times. He needed to learn his lesson. If he didn't want to get punished, then he shouldn't have committed the crime against her.
"I see..." Sandra said softly. "I'm...sorry you feel that way. I..."
Snap cut her off. "No you're not sorry! You never were!" His voice raised in volume after a couple seconds. Sandra narrowed her eyes. She tried to speak up, but Snap wasn't finished yet. "If you were sorry, you wouldn't have hurt me! You wouldn't have tormented me like you had been the past several weeks! If you cared about me at all, you would have stepped down from your promise and just talk to me!"
Sandra raised her ears, her eyes widening in shock. Did..did Snap just suggest that she break one of her own promises? Was he insane? He should know that she could never do that. She growled at him, angered that he would dare suggest such a thing.
Snap noticed her anger. "Look I know you are obsessed with these promises, but you can't just keep hiding behind them like some kind of excuse! Sometimes promises can be broken. We could have worked things out, Sandra. If you had just told me up front that you were upset with me, I could have tried to help you." He paused for a moment. "Although now I'm not sure if I would even do that, knowing what you have been doing with zoners..." He shuddered, looking at Sandra with wide eyes. "Just..how could you do that?"
Sandra cocked an eyebrow. "How could I what?"
"How can you kill a zoner and feed their meat to other zoners?" Snap spoke in a shaky voice. He looked from side to side. "I just..don't know how anyone could..." He licked his lips nervously, swallowing. He stared at her, wide-eyed. "How do you sleep at night...?"
"Quite well, thank you." Sandra said. Her tone was a bit more bitter than she had intended. "I think it is an honor to eat the flesh of a loved one." Snap gasped at this. Sandra smiled, realizing that he simply didn't understand. "Don't you see? That's the highest level of respect you can give a friend. Let them eat your meat."
"You're disgusting..." Snap managed to say. He made a few sounds, suggesting that he was holding back the urge to vomit. Just barely. "How can you think like that..?"
"It's simple logic, really." Sandra said. "Of course, you have to be willing to listen and see reason. I see you are too clouded to really see my point of view."
Snap's struggles increased. "You're absolutely bananas!"
Sandra shook her head at this. It was frustrating that Snap still didn't see things her way. Why couldn't he try to understand? Why couldn't he listen to her? Why did he have to be so difficult? Oh well... There was nothing she could do about that. She did the best she could.
"Snap... I just wish you would understand. Don't you know how much trust it takes to let someone eat you in times of need? What a noble sacrifice..." She spread her arms out at this. "And besides, I was doing some of those zoners favors. Being trapped in a hospital for a long time, even forever, is a much worse fate than being eaten. I was being merciful."
Snap gripped her foot and pushed on her. "Those...zoners had loved..ones..." He said through gritted teeth. "And you...took them away..."
Sandra nodded her head once. "But I gave them back." She raised a finger up. "Their loved ones are now a part of them. A perfect way to reunite someone, wouldn't you agree?" Snap wretched at this. "Oh come now, it's not bad really." She tilted her head to one side. "Eat a loved one and they become a part of you...forever."
"How can you..." Snap started to say.
Sandra cut him off. "You should understand this quite well, Snap. After all, you enaged in it. You experienced it. You are not suffering any backlash. Now you are truly unified with someone that you know."
Snap looked at her in horror, taking in a sharp breath. "Wh-What do you mean..?"
Sandra chuckled at this. She wasn't surprised that he didn't know. She hadn't told him about using sentient zoner meat in her recipes. She might as well tell him now, since she brought it up. Perhaps if she told him, and he realized that he hadn't been harmed by it, he would relax and become more comfortable. He had enjoyed the taste, after all.
Sandra smiled gently at him. "Remember when you came over to my restaurant for breakfast? The eggs and bacon?" Snap opened his mouth, and then shut it. He nodded his head once, his eyes filling with dreadful anticipation. "Well have you ever wondered what I made the bacon out of?"
Snap shook his head. "N-No... I just assumed it was..."
"It wasn't turkey bacon." Sandra said. "I made the meat from that one zoner..the puppet one... Oh what was his name...?" She rubbed her cheek as she tried to place the name. "Oh yes!" She pointed a finger up as she recalled the identity of the zoner. "I do believe his name was Howdy."
Snap's eyes bulged wide at this. "H-H-Howdy...?"
Sandra nodded her head. "Yes. Howdy. You ate Howdy."
Snap swallowed shakingly, lowering his head as his body shook. He struggled to keep himself from throwing up. She could tell he was having a hard time. She couldn't help but roll her eyes at this. What a disrespectful display... Snap should show more respect towards his friend for sacrificing his life to be a part of him.
"Now now, calm down." Sandra said as Snap struggled to keep himself from crying. He looked so traumatized and shaken, his skin going paler than it already was. "Howdy is with you now. He flows through your veins. He is never going to leave you." She reached down at touched Snap's cheek. "You should feel proud to have him as a part of you. Not everyone is so lucky."
Snap looked at her, wide-eyed, before he snarled and slapped her hand away. He seethed at her, kicking at her with more force. Sandra stared at him, watching him as it looked as though his blood was going to boil over.
"How can I feel proud of eating Howdy?! That's sick and disgusting! I can't believe you did that to me! How could you be so disgusting?! I met a lot of villains in my short life, and you are the absolute worst! Even Skrawl is better than you!"
Sandra narrowed her eyes. "Don't compare me to him, Snap. You know that he doesn't care about anyone but himself. I'm not like that."
"Sure you're not! That's why you killed countless zoners to feed customers in your freakshow of a restaurant!" Snap barked at her. "You kill one of my friends and feed them to me and you expect me to like it! You expect everyone to like it! I don't know how you got so messed up in the head, Sandra. But you need a wake up call! Nobody is going to like you after this! Nobody is going to give you a second chance! They will all label you as a monster!"
Sandra bared her teeth. "How can you be so sure?"
"Of course you'd ask that. You can't seem to comprehend this. I have no idea what happened in your creation time, Sandra, but you act like you got hit in the head and then sat under a rock for the past twenty years! You can't even grasp the concept of what love and companionship actually are! If you did, then you would know just how demented your plans really are!"
Sandra glared at Snap. "So you're saying I'm retarded?!"
Snap shook his head. "I'm just saying you are messed up. I don't know if anyone can help you. Something is wrong with the way your brain functions. You are a menace to society and you need to get locked up."
Sandra felt her heart twist at that statement. She couldn't believe Snap would say something like that to her. "I am no menace..." Her voice was low, a hiss that wafered in the air. "I help ChalkZone. If anything, I'm doing more good than anyone else has."
"How?" Snap asked. "Name one thing."
"Removing dangerous zoners, like the Doofi." Sandra said as-a-matter-of-factly. Seeing Snap's expression, she said, "They were obviously too dangerous to be around. Especially Doofus Rudy. They were so astronomically stupid that they would have brought down the entire city if they weren't stopped. Now they will serve a better purpose. They can help ChalkZone by letting the citizens eat them."
"Unbelievable..." Snap uttered under his breath. "You're an even bigger monster than I had imagined..."
Sandra snarled at this. "How can you say that?!" She cried in disbelief.
Snap narrowed his eyes at her. "You are the one who has been killing zoners like they're some kind of wild game. You are the one who had made loved ones eat loved ones. You fed me Howdy..." He shuddered at the memory, his face contorting in disgust. "You then tormented me for days, turning most of ChalkZone City against me, and all for what? Teaching me a lesson? I never thought you could be so cruel, Sandra. I thought you were my friend..."
"I am your friend! That's why I had to hurt you! To me you see! To make you understand!" Sandra cried. "I was only trying to make you in a better person!"
Snap shook his head at this. "Better person...? I don't believe you." He stared at her, locking eyes with her. "If you wanted to help me, then you would have foregoed your stupid promise and confront me directly, instead of hiding behind a promise like some coward."
Sandra widened her eyse at this. She growled at Snap, seething at the mere thought of Snap insulting the sanctity of a promise. She tightened her grip on him, flashing her teeth at him. "Watch your tongue..."
Snap looked a little startled by this, but he continued anyway.
"I was only friends with you because I thought you actually cared about me. But now I see you for what you really are. A despicable person.. a coward that hides behind lame promises. A creepazoid who needs to be sent to jail for all the crimes you commited against ChalkZone. The zoners deserve closure, and they will only get that when you are safely behind bars, away from the zoners so you can't hurt anyone ever again. You're a monster, and I can't believe I actually liked you!"
Snap paused for a moment, catching his breath. He lowered his head, his eyes closed. His expression softened up. Though anger was clearly present, there was some other emotion there. Sandra could not identify it.
"You will never understand...how much you hurt me, Sandra. You will never understand what I have gone through... I know you don't even care. If you liked me, then you wouldn't have hurt me... But I see where your loyalties lie. You care only for yourself. Damn everyone else, am I right?"
Sandra shook her head. "No..."
Snap gave a bitter smile at this. "Sure... Why should I believe you?" He shook his head slowly. "You have given me little reason to believe anything you say. You aren't my friend, Sandra. You're my enemy, a criminal. And I am going to deal with you like I deal with all other criminals I encounter: I am going to get you locked up."
Sandra growled. "Stop speaking such nonsense..." She took in a deep breath, trying to calm herself down. "Look, I promise that..."
"Keep your fucking promises to yourself!" Snap snarled at her. "I want no part of them! Not after the way you used them to make my life a living hell!" His body trembled in anger. "I hate you, Sandra! I fucking hate you! If I had known that you were going to do something like this, I would have broken my promise to help you! I don't help murderers!"
Sandra growled at this. She felt a surge of anger rush through her body, making her blood heat up. She tossed Snap into the ground. The small zoner let out a cry of pain as he hit the ground painfully. Sandra took on a stalking-like stance, her tail raising up into the air. She bared her teeth at Snap, her lips curling up, making it easy for him to see her gums.
"Don't you dare insult the promise, Snap..." Sandra warned.
"Oh to hell with your promises!" Snap pushed himself onto his hands. "You think you have the right to punish people for breaking promises?! You think that you were in the right when you punished Rudy?! Well let me tell you something, Sandra! It is you, not him, that disgraced the promise! You are the one who poisoned and corrupted what a promise was, using it to your own ends! You are the one who polluted the purity of the promise, as you would say! You twisted the concept of a promise, tainting it with your twisted mind, so you could get away with murder! You are a vile fiend and you give a bad name to promises everywhere!"
At this, something broke inside Sandra. Her body froze, eyes widened. She felt her mind go numb, unable to process what she just heard. She stared at Snap in absolute shock, unable to believe what he said. She felt her mind swirling, aching, as thoughts raced through, her heart pounding against her chest.
Then came the emotion. A torrent of negate energy began to rise up inside of her, twisting her guts. She felt her body start to tremble, unable to stop. She could feel her blood heat up, rapidly reaching its boiling point. She could feel her vision start to cloud, almost turning red as anger swept through her body.
How dare he... How dare Snap say such things.. How dare he accuse her like that.. How could he do something so cruel to her..? How could he do this...?
She couldn't take it anymore. The emotion swelling up inside became too much for her to handle. She could feel it leaking out of her body, dripping down in the form of sweat. Her quaking increased, her teeth gnashing together. She let out a series of growls as she locked eyes onto Snap, her pupils turning into slits.
"You... miscsreant!" She boomed before breaking off into a charge at Snap.
The superhero zoner waved his hand out in front of him, his other still supporting his body. "No! Wait! I-I didn't..!"
Sandra would have none of it. In a blind rage, she struck against him as soon as she reached him, her fist slamming against his jaw, ending him crashing against the wall. She listened to him groan for a second before slamming her foot against him, causing him to again hit the wall with great force. She felt some level of satisfaction when she heard one of his ribs crack.
She then seized him with her jaws, her teeth sinking into his arm. He let out a series of screams and pleads, struggling. She shook him hard, shredding up his flesh, blood dripping down her face and his arm. She then tossed him as hard as she could, letting him skid across the ground.
As she stared at him, she felt that sense of happiness that she did earlier, back closer to the beginning of all of this. At the time, she had felt bad about liking to hurt Snap.
But this time, she was starting to enjoy it...
Her mouth ticked into a sadistic grin. She spoke, her voice scratchy and growly. "Don't worry, Snap. I still care about you. I will make you a part of me. Such an honor..."
"No..please.." Snap cried in horror. He got up to his feet and started to limp away from her.
Sandra narrowed her eyes. Oh no he doesn't... He won't get away from her that easily. Fueled by her rage and determination, Sandra charged towards him, her arms spreading out at her sides. After a few seconds, she jumped into the air...
..and she stayed aloft.
It took her only seconds to reach Snap. She zipped out in front of him. Snap looked up at her in horror, letting out a scream as she struck out with her feet. Her sharp talons slashed in the air, narrowingly missing him as he jumped back. Snap backed away from her, taking in quick breaths as he stared at her with eyes wide in fear, panic, and disbelief.
"Y-You can f-f-fly...?!" Snap cried.
Sandra laughed evilly at this. "Surprised?! I should hope so! Now come here!" She spread her talons, the sharp tips glinting in the light. "Let me send you on a journey that you will never forget!"
Sandra dove down towards him. Snap screamed and rushed pashed her. Sandra hissed as her claws missed him. She turned herself around, opening her jaws and letting out a roar. She rushed back towards him, flapping her arm wings harder. She picked up the speed, moving through the air like an aerodynamic bullet. When she got close enough, she grabbed onto Snap, her claws digging into his sides. She yanked him off the ground and began to carry him down through the tunnel, flying blindly in rage.