Cool Kid Saves the Cats
Chapter 36: The True Faces of Evil
Screams of anger and cries of anguish echo throughout the red lit sky as the 4/20 Awards are ruined forever. Fire Trucks, ambulances, and police cars head over to the area, in hopes of calming down the crisis. As they drive down the roads, within so much as noticing, they speedily drive past a bloodied Cool Kid, walking down the sidewalk.
He managed to walk down from the building where he had defeated Butch the Bully, though his energy was almost completely empty. His entire body was covered in bruises, cuts, and blood. Blood drips down from his body onto the sidewalks as he walks. The people around him are either too engrossed with the horrendous red fireworks to notice him, or are purposefully ignoring a bloodied man such as himself. Cool Kid chooses to ignore them and keeps walking, hoping that the answers that he's searching for will be close. Now that he's defeated all of his enemies, nothing can stop him from saving Cool Cat.
Just as he had that thought, a bright light flashes in front of him, nearly blinding him. He covers his eyes with his arm. The people around him quickly disperse, leaving him alone once again. The light turns down a little, so Cool Kid lowers his arm and opens his eyes to see a row of armored police officers pointing guns at him. He freezes in fear.
T-The police!? Why? They've never tried to stop me before…
A loud static noise fills the area. Cool Kid covers his ears before looking up to see the large vertical TV on the front of a building, right behind the police. It's currently producing very loud and annoying static. However, the static quickly ends, and a hooded figure is standing in its place. Cool Kid's eyes widen, he instantly recognizes the figure as the person that was talking to Butch while Cool Kid was unconcious. The hooded figure smiles and raises his arms before laughing maniacally.
"Hello Cool Kid! Chances are, you don't know me, but I sure know you! You've been quite a troublemaker over the past few years. Oh but don't worry, I'm not angry, in fact, I'm rather proud of you!"
Cool Kid stares at the screen. "W-what…?
The hooded figure laughs again. "Oh I'm sorry, this isn't very fair is it? Officers? Please lead our esteemed guest to his destination."
The cops all nod and move a little to open a path in the middle of them. Cool Kid notices there wasn't just a line of officers, but what seems like an entire platoon of officers. They formed a pathway leading directly to the building with the TV on it.
"Go ahead and take your time! And when you get inside, go to the elevator and hit the 99th floor. And don't worry, I'm not gonna force you to do this without something for you. You'll get the answers you're looking for."
With an ominous smile, the TV cuts to black. Cool Kid looks down at the pathway leading to the building. Realizing he doesn't have much of a choice, he takes a deep breath and walks down the path.
He enters the building to see a sparkly clean white room with a customer service desk. Behind the desk is a woman, who's staring straight forward at the door. Cool Kid approaches her.
"H-hello?"
She doesn't respond.
"Uh...hello? Are you okay?"
She still doesn't respond. He raises his arm and waves his hand in front of her face. She still doesn't respond. He retracts his hand and takes another deep breath and walks to the elevator at the end of the room. As he walks, blood drips all over the clean floor, ruining its perfection. He enters the elevator and looks at the floor button. He reaches up for the top and presses the "floor 99" button.
The elevator doors quickly close and a red laser appears in the elevator. A robotic voice suddenly appears through the speaker inside the elevator.
"Scanning for authentication." The scanner lowers itself and scand Cool Kid, along with the whole elevator. "Scan complete! Special guest verified. Welcome, Cursed One!" The elevator starts moving up towards the 99th floor. As it moves, Cool Kid scratches his head and thinks to himself.
Cursed one?
While he ponders why the machine called him that, he reaches the 99th floor, and is greeted by what seems like the polar opposite of the room in the lobby. He sees a dark and dirty room, with nothing but a chair in the middle of the room, a medium sized TV on the wall in front of that, and a wall of black glass. He hesitantly walks into the room and looks around until he hears a familiar voice.
"Thank you for coming, Cool Kid! Now if you don't mind, would you please get seated before we begin?"
Cool Kid huffs at the Hooded man's voice but chooses to sit down for now. As he sits and places his arms on the arm rests, two cuffs appear from the rests and restrain him. He struggles and tries to free himself, but even with the improved strength of his robot arm, he cannot free himself. After a few minutes of struggling, he surrenders and lays himself down in the chair.
Suddenly the door in front of him opens, revealing not just one, but three hooded figures. He instantly recognizes the one in front as the one who was talking to him before, but the other two are completely new to him. The hooded man in the center smiles and points at Cool Kid. The hooded man on the right of him rushes over to Cool Kid and reaches for his hips. He grabs his pistols and pulls them from his body and walks back to the other two. The hooded man in the front smiles and nods, and the hooded man on the left takes the guns away into another room.
"Just some insurance, I'm sure you understand." The hood man returns and nods. All three of them smile and look at Cool Kid. The hooded man in front speaks to him.
"Thank you for coming once again, Cool Kid! We were so looking forward to your arrival! Tell me, do you have any idea who we are?"
Cool Kid looks at them. "A bunch of assholes?" He smirks.
The three of them laugh. "I guess that is true, yes. But more importantly, we are the ones you have been after all this time."
Cool Kid freezes and clenches his fists. "You're the ones who...took Cool Cat?"
"hm...In a sense I suppose? We are the ones who control everything. This country and the world are ours. Butch was suberviant to us! We are the true faces of evil. We are…. The Sardonacast!"
Cool Kid stares at them. "The...what?"
"The Sardonacast! A group that has suffered at the hands of Cool Cat! Here, let me introduce all of us. On the left of me here is IHE, or I Hate Existence. He well….he hates a lot of things. And on the right of me, is YMS, or Your Mortality Sucks. He craves for the end of mortalism. And then there's me. I am Ralphs The Movie Maker!"
"R-Ralphs?"
"Yes! Being a heathen you wouldn't remember, but there was once a time when we the humans truly believed in the gods. During this time….I was known as two beings: Ralph the Movie and Ralph the Maker. But thanks to an event years ago, I was finally able to achieve my freedom, and the two of us combined to make me, Ralph's The Movie Maker! Now, my power is stronger than almost any other god in existence. Soon they will all be bowing to me! But for now, I must complete my goal. My goal of destroying Cool Cat once and for all!"
Cool Kid's fists clench again. "Don't you dare say something like that! I will save Cool Cat from the likes of monsters like you! Wherever he is, I will save him!"
The Sardonacast look at him and start laughing together. Ralphs looks at him and smiles. "Oh Cool Kid, he is so much closer than you realize."