Chapter 29:
Her stomach twisted and churned. She desperately needed to vomit. She hoped that she could rein it in during the fight. PC Principal assured her he was trained, rested and ready. He looked keen even jumping up and down on the spot while he waited for the trial to begin.
"I won't let you down Mayor." He announced eagerly just as Alexander and the other cops were bringing Randy Marsh in.
People were getting excited. Randy Marsh wanted this. She told herself. If he should lose it's his own fault.
Randy had yet to know who his opponent was. She made sure no one mentioned it in casual conversation especially not while on guard duty at the barn. As far as she was concerned Randy was fighting blind.
She smirked. Randy Marsh honestly thought he had the upper hand in this fight. He wasn't in control anymore and he was the last person who should be in charge of the new South Park. She stood up to address Randy Marsh and the crowd. Almost everyone in the new town had turned up for it.
"Mr. Marsh." The crowd became silent when she started speaking. She had discussed his charges with the council that morning. He was also going down for crimes he'd committed before the dead roamed the Earth. "You are hereby charged with multiple counts of assault, poisoning almost everyone with your Tegridy Farms Halloween Special, murder, destruction of property, trespassing, sexual assault and rape. By demanding a trial by combat you have pleaded guilty to all these charges."
She hadn't felt this powerful or in control in a long time. She first started to notice that Randy Marsh was pushing her out of her job when they decided to bring in Whole Foods in an attempt to better the town, be more progressive and disconnect from their association with President Garrison. She smirked when his face fell in disbelief. You wanted this you got it Mr. Marsh. She thought bitterly.
"South Park was nothing without Tegridy Farms!" Randy screamed at her. The crowed started clamouring and pelted him with rocks they found in her courtyard. "South Park was nothing without me!" He dodged the projectiles thrown at him as he addressed the clamouring crowd. "I'm the one who set up camp, I'm the one the one that made the old South Park better, I'm the one that got you assholes out of town when shit started to go down and the dead fucks started eating people!"
Nausea overwhelmed her when he locked eyes on her. "I saved your life Mary. I saved the idiot's life. You'd both be dead if it weren't for me!"
She didn't want to be reminded of it. He had saved her life from the Big Bad Government Guy just as he aimed a shotgun in her face the day they stormed Hell's Pass Hospital. He did barricade the door so the dead couldn't get to her husband who lay in a coma. She didn't want to be reminded of it. She wasn't grateful to him for anything. He used her for years to get his own way on council and he used her back at camp and treated her like a slave. She was done. She was done being a puppet. She cut the strings and became her own leader. The one she always wanted to be.
"ENOUGH!" The crowd silenced as her shouting reverberated around the arena she usually used for horseback riding. "No one is bailing you out Marsh. You've made your bed and now you must lay in it."
"Fine!" Randy removed his shirt and threw it in the dust. "Let's do this bitch!"
"I'm not the champion Marsh!" Because of her pregnancy she couldn't and wouldn't fight him herself as much as she wanted to. She had the abilities of a Gua hybrid and longed to use them against him. She resisted the urge because she knew her husband wouldn't let her.
"You're not fighting me either." Alexander and the cops removed his restraints and the quickly took their seats in the arena.
"Well come on then!" Randy was known amongst people originally from South Park for his trash talk and he didn't hesitate to let his over confidence show. "Come on whoever you are! I'm standing right here! Come on let's go bitch!"
Peter Charles Principal aimed a right hook punch to Randy's face and clocked him in the jaw.
"Aw! No fair!" Randy whined after he regained composure. "I should get the first swing!"
PC Principal struck him again and again aiming rapid punches to Randy's face. "You sir are a disgrace to the South Park PC fraternity chapter!"
She allowed herself to sit next to her husband and relax a little since Peter Charles Principal was on a roll. So far Randy launched one swing at his opponent and it fell flat sending him face first into the dust as he stumbled over his own shoelaces.
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He cursed Classi and the beast that travelled with her. The wolf mauled his men and he'd have to explain it to Big Bad Government Guy when he returned to Westwood.
He swerved to avoid a rotted corpse that looked like she'd been dead for months.
"What an ugly skank?!" He said aloud as he drove the blade fitted to his prosthetic arm through the dead fuck's skull.
He swore to himself that he'd get both Classi and his former superior the dim witted Police Chief George Barbrady back even if it's the last thing he did. He smirked as he liked the thought of fashioning himself a nice pelt from the wolf's hide. It was cold and he hurried back to Westwood as quickly as his legs and the dead surrounding him would allow. Despite the fact that he wanted revenge he longed to return to Westwood. It was warm and they had food. He missed his bed. He realised that he probably should've listened to his new superior the Big Bad Government Guy when he told him not to bother with his personal revenge mission especially not during winter.
He knew he'd have to lie about what happened to the men he'd taken with him. Big Bad Government Guy wouldn't be pleased to hear about dead men when he returned. He considered himself good at spinning believable lies. It wasn't until the tail end of her election campaign that Mary McDaniels realised he'd turned the police department – excluding Community Officer Alexander Preston McDaniels her first born son and her husband and lover Police Chief George Barbrady – they were not cult members and they were not part of the plot to vote Mary McDaniels out of office thus putting Mitch Conner in the mayor's office at South Park city hall and allowing him to run his police department however he wanted without Mayor Mary McDaniels breathing down his neck about something stupid he or any of his officers may have done that week.
Realising this he knew he could convince the Big Bad Government Guy to believe him no matter what web of lies he told him.
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Both men circled each other like vultures circling a dead animal on the side of the road deep in the baron dessert. She wanted to focus on the fight. She didn't want PC Principal to lose. If he lost she lost. She had only just taken her power back. She didn't want Randy Marsh to have any claim whatsoever on her unborn child.
The baby was restless and almost bowled her over when she returned to her seat. It was the third time during the trial by combat Randy had demanded she had to excuse herself to use the bathroom.
"Mom?" Alexander had gone back to the cabin – which they now referred to as the main house or the Mayor's house and they even from time to time called it city hall with the construction of the new South Park well underway – to check on his wife Keisha and the smaller children. He passed her three paper bags. "In case you need to puke."
She took them from him and used one immediately. Once she wretched she couldn't will it to stop. She blew chunks that blew out the bottom of the bag. All she could taste was bile.
"Eew!" Kids nearby scooted away from her so they wouldn't get sprayed if she needed to vomit again. "That's really gross Mayor." Stan Marsh squealed with discussed.
"I'm pregnant kid I can't help this shit!" She took a water bottle from Alexander and chugged it. She just wanted the stupid trial by combat over with. She wanted nothing more than to go to bed. The plush mattress and flannelette sheets beckoned. Once Peter Charles Principal was finished with Randy Marsh she could rest without having to worry. At least not worry about his constant stalking and incredibly creepy behaviour that unnerved her. As soon as PC Principal was finished with Randy Marsh all she would have to worry about would be the dead and possible surviving bandits that might want to take all that she had built from her.
Despite the overwhelming urge to vomit once again she could see Randy was on his last legs. He staggered around the equestrian arena like he was drunk even though she'd deprived him of alcohol. She didn't want him to have any advantage over her champion Peter Charles Principal who barely had any scratches or bruises on his person.
His clothes were dirty from rolling in the dust as he and Randy tackled each other in a fit of masculine fuelled Rage. Every time Randy Marsh said something against PC Principal's morals he got a free pass at Randy Marsh. Randy Marsh was beneath PC Principal who sat on his legs so he couldn't move while he pummelled Randy Marsh's face with clenched fists of fury.
She ignored the urge to vomit – morning sickness was terrible with every pregnancy she had and it was even worse when she was pregnant with twins – and angrily and passionately rose to her feet. Randy Marsh was practically done for. It was a hand to hand combat fight and if Randy Marsh didn't want a trial by combat he shouldn't have demanded a trial by combat with the assumption she was going to let him fight her husband and Police Chief George Barbrady to the death. "FINISH HIM!" She screamed at Peter Charles Principal with fury as hot rage filled her.
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She could see Mary McDaniel's log cabin up ahead. It was a mansion secluded in the rocky mountains of Colorado. She couldn't wait to get inside as the snow blurred her vision. Twice she almost ran over mindless walking corpses on her way up the mountain. The snow hit hard and she desperately hoped to find her goddaughter Katherine Marie McDaniels Barbrady along with the rest of her family at the log cabin. She hoped it wasn't currently occupied by some unknown group of squatters. She honestly didn't know what she would find when she made her way inside with her new friend Wolf by her side.
The wolf's ears pricked and he lifted his head with intense interest. He seemed agitated and she herself could sense that something wasn't quite right.
"It looks like we may be killing more dead fucks homie." She told her wolf friend as they made their way up to the main cabin.
The property was immense. The main house itself had at least seven rooms that she could remember. Multiple bathrooms upstairs and downstairs, it was three stories high and constructed with wooden logs. The main house also contained two large living rooms, a large family kitchen a rumpus and games room downstairs, library and play rooms for the kids and even a small granny flat on the property for extra visitors when the occasion called for it.
She unsheathed her Katana and asked Wolf to follow along behind in case anything was amiss just as she expected it was. "Heel!"
Wolf broke into a run to chase after a figure that tried to run across the open field. Since she didn't know how zombie meat affected animals and she didn't want to find out she made sure Wolf would stay by her side at all times. To her surprise the wild animal obeyed her. "Come on."
The wolf followed her as she noticed people running from the equestrian arena Mayor McDaniels had on the property. "Oh hell no!" Swinging right to left she took out too dead fucks and proceeded to make her way towards the commotion at the equestrian arena. It was obvious to her – a classy bitch – that the living dead had broken through the perimeter. She picked up her pace when she heard children screaming. If Katherine was in there she wouldn't let any harm come to her. As the kid's godmother it was her duty to protect Katherine as though she were her own flesh and blood.