Chapter 17

Felecia Saves Humanity But Marine Gets Arrested

Marine had just been wandering around the facility. He had come to discover that the cause of Butt-Slapping Bob's transformation was his consumption of chicken nuggets. But how he got a hold of them Marine didn't know. But if this was what chicken nuggets did to people, then it was only right that Marine continue searching for Mr. Buttrugger to stop him before something like this happened to someone else.

He wound up at a dead end. It was a small room made out of large bricks. A fiery light shone out of the gaps in the floor. It was starting to look like Hell again. Perhaps that's where he was, but he had no memory of entering a portal. It was likely that Hell was beginning to merge with the real world. That certainly didn't sound like a good thing at all.

There had to be a way to stop it. But how?

Then something impacted the other side of the wall, sending the bricks flying. Marine jumped to the side to avoid being hit. "Whoa," he exclaimed. "I must be at the demolition derby. Because I can see the demolition."

He climbed over the bricks and through the giant hole in the wall. He found himself in a large cave. Between cracks of the walls came the bright orange glow of a fire. What he stood upon was a large round platform. In the center of the platform was a hole. He started walking towards it when he noticed movement from above his head. He looked up to realize that he had walked between the legs of a figure that stood at least 20 feet tall.

The creature stood on goat legs, had what appeared to be a rocket launcher replacing its right hand, and had two horns jutting from each side of its head, which curved inward and ended at a point. Marine stared up in horror at the sight of the creature.

"Hi," the goat-like creature shouted in a loud high-pitched voice, "I'm Larry!"

Marine awkwardly shuffled further into the room as he greeted Larry with a small wave.

Larry continued. "I'm here to help you close this giant demon butthole that opened up in the ground, because I am a good guy, obviously. So let's work together!"

Then Felecia arrived out of nowhere and darted straight at Larry's left leg. Her spinning blades sped up and as she flew by his leg, her blades dug into the limb just at the knee, severing it completely. Larry cried out in pain as the detached leg fell to the floor. He collapsed to the floor. Grasping what was left of the limb, he looked up at Felecia.

"Why did you do that?!" he cried. "I just wanted to help!"

Then Felecia made a beeline for his neck, slicing deeply into it.

The poor man thrashed around in agony. "Oh no!" He cried, even though his throat was slashed. "Now I'll never get that merit badge!" Then he keeled over and died.

Marine looked at Felecia, appalled by her actions. "Geez, Felecia, why the hell did you kill him?"

Felecia flew towards the hole. "Because the only way for me to close this butthole is for me to sacrifice myself! Bye!"

She flew inside the hole, and seconds later, the air from inside started rushing out of it as it started to close up. Marine held his hands over his nose and mouth to hide from the horrible stench. But unfortunately, it was not enough. Dizziness overwhelmed him, and he passed out for what only felt like a second before his eyes opened and he found himself somewhere else.

He ran his mind through his memories to make sure that he wasn't just dreaming about everything that occurred in this place. When he realized that he was laying on a puddle of dried blood, he concluded that everything he had experienced was indeed real.

He slowly sat up, placing his back against the wall as he sighed with exhaustion. He rubbed his eyes and examined his surroundings. Obviously, he was back in the factory of the Chicken Nugget Farm. But this time, it was quiet. No imps, demons, or screams of the damned. He had done it. The portal that the demons were entering from was now closed and the mystery of the missing chicken nuggets had been solved. But he still wondered how he got here.

He looked around and saw beside him a trail of blood leading from his position to a door. The blood trail also went straight ahead and around the corner of a desk, where a human hand lay still. Someone must have dragged him here just before they died.

Marine was about to stand up to check on the person before the door opened and two robotic dogs walked in. Right behind them were two police officers, who began searching the room immediately. They split up and searched each side of the room.

The officer on the far side of the room shined his flashlight in all directions as he asked the other, "Why do you and I sound exactly the same?"

"What do you mean?" the other cop asked.

"Our voices. They sound exactly the same. What's the deal with that?"

The other officer finally noticed Marine and approached him. "I have no idea, but that's not important right now." He crouched down and grabbed Marine by the arm. "We count this guy. He's alive and he's probably the cause of all the demons and stuff. We must arrest him."

Marine looked flabbergasted as the other cop came to help the other lift Marine to his feet. Before he could say anything, they forced him to walk towards the door on the other side of the room.

"You're going to jail for a long time, buddy," the officer said.

Marine tried to protest, but the cops would hear none of it. As they walked across the room, Marine had the opportunity to get a view of the man who had likely dragged him to this room. When he walked past the desk, he was shocked to discover that he was looking at the corpse of the YouTuber, Elliot Swann.

"Oh, that guy's dead," one of the cops said, pointing to Elliot. "He's very dead."

Marine felt bad for him. No one should ever have to die this way. Slapping could be a very dangerous act, especially when done to people's butts. He would be willing to continue the man's YouTube channel, but there was the matter that Elliot had never told Marine the password for his Google account.

But now, he was being arrested for something he had nothing to do with. Well, at least he happened to be wearing a body camera throughout the entire investigation. So he had plenty of evidence to prove his innocence.

He would be able to rest easy, knowing that the universe was no longer doomed to become a giant hellhole.