Chapter 51: Bogeymen are Everywhere
A/N: This chapter is a chapter that is a chapter. Okay, just something I noticed while rereading Squee #3, did anyone else notice that Nny makes a cameo in "A Brief Friend"? He's in his car, about to run over some school children.
Squee's walking along the side walk. In the distance he spots the bus stop he has been assigned to, he also sees several children whom he was sure would make fun of him when he gets there. "I think you should have brought a lighter!" the bear silently comments from the backpack. "Oh Shmee, I keep telling you setting people on fire is wrong" the boy tries to explain to the Pyro-bear. "You could always claim self-defense! They are trying to hurt you after all!" the bear says in defense of himself.
Squee looks up and sees the bus in the distance, not wanting to miss it he starts running. Then, as he passes an oddly dark alley something jumps out, grabs him, and then retreats into the darkness. He is then thrown roughly into a metal cage, getting back on his feet he looks out the cages barred door and finds two shadowy figures standing over him. The two figures step out of the shadows and reveal themselves to be men dressed as animal control officers.
"Well, well, well what do we have here?" the stouter of the two started. "I think iz a stray meng" the other says in an extremely stereotyped Mexican accent. "And what, my novice friend do we do with stray's?" the first asks. After a few moments of contemplation the somewhat dim witted and taller man responds. "We take to pound?" at this response the stout one looks at his companion in dismay and anger.
"For the last time you imbecile! We are not really animal control officers!" the guy gesticulated angrily. "Oh yeah…so what we gonna do wit'im?" the dimwit was very dimwitted. "We are going to bring him to the fun bus, now pick up the cage!" the much dumber individual did what he was told while talking to Squee. "Yous gonna like da' fun bus little guy, you really will" the idiot remarks only to be distracted by the sound of metal against bone. The idiot looks over to find his companion unconscious on the ground, an impact to the skull bleeding somewhat.
The slow minded individual takes a second to fully absorb this scene. And in that second, a certain skinny serial killer shoves a metal pipe strait through the man's chest. The man dropped the cage, clutched at the pipe which was now throbbing with the pulse of his own fading heartbeat, and the fell to the ground, dead. "Hiya Squeegee! Are you okay?" Nny asks the frightened child through the door of the small cage. "Ummm, I guess, could you unlock this cage? I have to go to school" the small child indicates the lock on the cages door.
"Oh yeah, of course" the killer mumbles as he carefully searches around for the keys. "Oh! Found'em!" the killer exclaimed as he pulled a comically massive set of keys from the smarter guy's belt loops. Fiddling with the absurdly large collection he selected one key and tried it. "Okay, well let's just see…nope…not it…no….damn" this continues for a few minutes before a yellow school bus passed by the alleyway.
Both characters watch as the bus pulls out of view, after a few moments of contemplation the killer shrugs and pulls out a wickedly sharp blade an rams it straight through the lock. "Well your definitely not getting to school on the bus…I could give you a ride" the maniac indicates a silver truck parked haphazardly across the street. Squee thought this over for a moment or two before nodding, considering a blood stained, stolen vehicle a better ride than a bus filled with stupid children, bullies, and possibly zombies.
Devi's POV
Devi walks along the empty, early morning side walk trying to think of something to do. Normally she'd be working at the 24/7, or working on some cover art. But this was one of her days off from the convenience store and her more art based employers had yet to send her a new assignment. And then there was her lack of a car, she had taken it in for a checkup and completely forgot about the horrific blood stains in the trunk. Thankfully the mechanic assumed that she had had a boyfriend that went hunting and made the mistake of putting the animal in the trunk.
Thus she found herself trudging along, on her feet, no vehicle, nothing to do. As she continued down the street the school bus that was meant to pick up Squee came rolling along. She immediately knew something was up when the vehicle was rather silent. Usually the other meaner occupants would try to startle him into unleashing his signature sound, others would just chant "Squeak!" there was no such noise this day.
She then began running towards the bus stop in order to investigate what had happened. But when she neared a certain alley way she nearly tripped over her own legs before practically leaping into the door of some store next to the alley. Emerging from the miniature side street was a certain skinny lunatic, some short unconscious animal control officer draped over his shoulder. Immediately behind him was Squee whom was staring at the unconscious form.
"Nny what are you going to do to him?" the small boy inquired. The killer whirled around, Devi tensed up afraid that she may be seen, however Johnny was more focused on Squee. "That's kind of a dumb question, you know what I do to people like this" the maniac attempts to point towards the mass on his shoulder. "But wouldn't Devi like it if you stopped killing?" the kid asked while Devi continues to eavesdrop.
"hmmmmmm, well I suppose so…." The killer appeared to think this over for a few moments. He then walked back into the alley just before a loud "thump!" could be heard. After he was done disposing of the unconscious body he and Squee crossed the road, and got into Nny's stolen and blood stained truck. The maniac the screeched across numerous lanes of traffic before finding the right one, all the while a faint Squee-ing could be heard.
When the vehicle was out of sight Devi exited the shop and entered the alley. "Hey why aren't you trying to stop Nny?" Sickness inquired. "Because Squee seems to trust him, and he stopped Johnny from killing this bastard" Devi remarks as she kicked the unconscious form. "Okay, so what are we going to do with him?" the demonic doll asked. Devi began to consider this deeply, not noticing that the man was beginning to regain consciousness
Pedophiles POV
"Ughuhhh….oh….wha?...OH MY GOD! PHILLIPE!" the man began screaming as he dragged himself over towards his dead friend. "That freak of a kid did this! I just know it!" he screeches, angrily shaking his fist at the air before running towards the alley's entrance. But before he could reach it he trips over someones foot. Looking over his shoulder he finds that the boot was connected to a rather angry looking, crimson haired woman wearing a purple shirt marked with a circular insignia with a strait portion meandering downward.
"Oh hello madam, you would happen to have seen a small child run out of this alley would you?" he questioned of the silent woman. "You see I am a truant officer and he is a repetitive offender" the woman remains silent for a few more moments. "You are wearing an animal control uniform" the woman points out. "Yes well, this is a disguise you see…" he honestly hoped she would buy it. "It doesn't matter, another…friend of the kid has already taken him to school" the woman stated.
"Wait! You know that little demon!" he was panicking at this point, his thoughts drifted towards the lifeless corpse further down the alley. "Of course I know him!...I have only been taking care of him for the last month or so" she talked as she calmly walked in-between him and the street. "So that leads me to ask what were you planning on doing to him?" she leaned down extremely close to the fallen man's face. Thinking that he could easily over power the anorexic looking female, he haughtily boasted his devious plans.
"Oh don't worry madam, we weren't gonna violate him or nothing" he sarcastically started as he got to his feet. "We were just gonna sell him to the highest bidder, so they could do all the nasty stuff to him" the man began a disturbing pedophile laugh, which was promptly cut short as the woman shoved him deeper into the alleyway. He felt himself slammed against the wall of the somewhat confined space moments before a searing pain shot through his wrist. He looked over to find a rather large knife rammed through the joint, pinning the appendage to the wall. Another pain shot through his left wrist, once he was fully able to understand what was happening he attempted to scream.
The sound was cut short as the woman cuffed her hand over his mouth. He at first considered biting her, but she was crushing down with such force that he could feel her nails dig into his face-meat, while his jaw and cheek bones crackled like wood. After a few moments of crushing pain, her grip lessened slightly, and through the rushing blood in his ears he could hear her talking. "Of course I'm not going to let him live!" she exclaimed to someone. He frantically looked for her companion, hoping for some form of mercy. However, the extremely messed up look that overcame her visage, along with the pain surging through his gut as she sliced it open lead the now dying man to believe that she was, in fact, crazy.
