CHAPTER 80: ONE WHO DIES

I sat on the porch step in the rain, raining my cheeks with tears. I wASn't sure what to do. My whole life as I'd known it had been dissolved away, much like Foster's Home. What semblance of Wind Walter's life was left at this point.

As my flabby ass was sat on the step my nanocom started buzzing. I answered it. "Hello?"

But then I started shrieking because there was a horrific crash and screaming on the other end! When I looked into the camera, looked into the camera, I saw the truth: TECH SQUARE WAS UNDER ATTACK!
"DEXTER!" I screeched, running into the Home to find Dedter, he was sitting next to Eturado's corpse with a thinking look on his face.

"What's wrong Wind?!" he asked. "Be quiet, Eduardo is sleeping!"

"TECH SQUARE IS IN DANGER!" I screamed. By this point my nostrils were in danger too since Eduardo had farted again sheesh. "Here, LOOK!"

I showed him my nanocom and he brought his hand up to his mouth, paloing in shock. He scrambled out of his seat but fell on the floor and vomited on himself. It was... too much for him.

"READY THE CARRIERS!" he demanded, then puked again

We were shipped out to Tech Squared, I stood near the entrsance feeling the wind against my face and the breeze in my hair. All I wanted was a normal life again. But now everything was just turned upside down. I couldn't even remember the last time I tasted my mom's cooking. Or the last time I'd used an actual toilet. But now it might be kind of weird considering my romance with Lou. But my planet was dying, I was one of the last few hundred humans left on the face of the Earth. And that meant I had to give my all to save her for the future of mankind.

"So sad... uh hewh hewh hewh," cried Numbuh 5.

On the ground everything was out of control. The Powerpuffs were already here using LAZOR VIZHEAN on a terrauser and, by extension, the fusion spawns squealching out of it. Numbuh One was shooting at various spawns but then one bit into his arm and ripped it off.

"Nigel!" Dexter craide, and he jumped off the still-landing carrier to go and save his friend. But unfortunately, by the time he reached Nigel the poor Brit had already been massacred by the spawns, ripped to pulled human and being devoured for nourishment.

Dexter's scream of "NGHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" rang out and I tried to go and help him but was dragged in the opposite direction to go help the troops. There was a massive oiled ogre terrorizing the K.N.D. comm camp set up at the front lines (who the hell would set it up there?!) and we had to kill it before it disemboweled everyone and stole our things.

"Holy cannoli, where did you come from?" asked Numbuh 5 from down a nearby hill.

"Not now, Numbuh 5. We gotta move. Follow us!" said Ben. I wondered who they were talking to.

Sure enough I rounded a corner there was a bigass oiled ogre. It smelled gnarly and looked like a vulture covered in green sludge... then it hurled a ball of FM at me and I knew I couldn't gawk no more. I whipped out my pistol but my motor skills were out to lunch and my joints cracked. I fell to the ground as my nanocom injected me with high amounts of LSD to compensate for the pain.

"N-No... no... have to fight... have to protect..." I spluttered, watching helplessly through my drugged daze as the oiled ogre massacred my friends and colleagues. And there was nothing I could do.

"Wind!" cried Ben, picking me up and dragging me out of harm's way. "Are you okay?"

"Meatloaf," I whispered, shaking my head as I slowly came down from Cloud 9. "Ben?! What happened?"

"The Oiled Ogre killed everybody on the carrier," Ben crargled. "Except you, me, and a handful of the others. We need to retreat and we need to do it now. We're extremely outnumbered and outskilled."

He helped mesit up and I looked around. "Wait... where's Decter?"

An explosion rang out from the other side of the Courtyard and we heard a bloodcurdling scream, and a disembodied arm flew past us with blood trailing off it like a comet. "Never mind him!" Ben encountered, pulling on my own attached arm. "If we don't get you out of here, you'll be as dead as that guy over there!"

I yanked my arm away from him, unfortunately my doing so mostly severed it from my shoulder, it was only hanging on by a few strands of muscle now. "No way!" I floistered. "I'm not leaving without Decter!" And I writhed away out of his grasp, he grabbed his hair and screamed loudly like a banshee.

I ran along the sidewalk, desperately looking for any signs of my dear crimson-haired scientist. There was so much pain. So much death. Blood. Raining around me, running through the streets like rivers of gore. I had to find him, else he would be lost to this world. A world that desperately needed him.

Finally I came across the wreckage of the Galaxy Gardens infected zone, there was only a fraction left and even then no plants remained, only wreckage and rubble from the rest of Tech Square. I forced the Dexbot to let me in and I hurried into the one and only place Decter could be hiding, the fusion portal to Fusion Buttercup's lair.

I found Dexter walking away a few feet inside. "Decter!" I called, running up to him and giving him a bog hug.

"Wind!" he said, happily returning the hug, before his mood became serious. "What are you doing here? Tech Square is falling apart, you need to evacuate!"

"I had to find you first, dumbass!" I said, slapping him on the head. "What are you doing in here, anyway?"

"I am trying to find any of my tech that Fusion Buttercup may have stolen from Dexlabs," he explained. "If she gets her putrid hands on it, Fuse will have a sample of my work to build from, and that's no good."

"Well, let's see if we can find the bitch and-" I was cut off WHEN

Fusion Buttercup fell in from the ceiling, she was fifteen feet tall and didn't wear panties we saw our first sights of fusion genitalia. Decter and I screamed in terror at the sight out corneas were burning we got out our weapons for battle. I shot at her with my pop cherry guns and Decter slashed at her legs with his giant wrench. She clawed and screeched at us but soon the bitch was dead.

"We did it!" Decter cheered, and we high-fived.

Then the whole lair started to RUMBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and Decter was nearly knocked onto his ass, I stayed put though huh and I thought I had the worst balance. "Whoa! That does not sound good," he said.

"Yeah, thanks, Captain Obvious," I snapped, and grabbed his arm. "Come on, we gotta get out of here!"

We turned and ran the way we came in but another tremor ran through the lair. Several large boulders were knocked loose from the ceiling.

I somersaulted away and managed to escape the boulders unscathed, but realized Decter was no longer next to me. "D... Decter?!" I called.

Then, when the ringing in my ears had stopped, I heard a struggling, and when the dust had settled I saw him.

Decter was pinned under the rocks.

"Decter!" I grandled, running up to him and falling to my knees before his crushed form. I tried to keep the tears at bay but it wasn't working man. "Hold on, I'll get you out of there!"

"No, Wind," Decter panted, before wincing in pain. "Go. Save yourself. I'm not going to make it."

"Yes you will!" I argued. I stood and tried to wrestle the big boulder on top of him off, but all it did was cause him more pain and he screamed in agony. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," I said, letting go and returning to his side to comfort him, tears rolling down my cheeks.

Another tremor ran underneath us. "You... you have to go," Decter urged, his voice strained.

"I'm not leaving you!" I cried, holding his hand. "No matter what kinds of shit I stirred up, you never gave up on me! You never turned your back! Even after our breakup, and how I cheated on you, you were always there! I won't abandon you now!"

Decter gave a weak smile. "I... I'm giving you an order, Commander."

My eyes went wide. No... I couldn't refuse an order. Especially not one made by my commanding officer with his dying breaths. I shut my eyes tight, tears squirting out from between my eyelids. "... I love you."

"And I, you," Decter said, his own tears trickling down his face. "Now go, Windfall. The world- agh... it needs you."

I nodded, biting my lip so hard I drew blood. It felt like it took hours, but I tore myself away from my best friend and ran out of the lair.

Everything was a blur after that. I know I climbed onto an awaiting S.C.A.M.P.E.R. and we hurried to Secot V. Tech Square collapsed on itself, and in the process Fusion Buttercup's lair was crushed and its remains dropped into the fusion matter ocean. Numbuh 2 tried to comfort me on the trip, but I was catatonic. I couldn't believe what had just happened. My whole body felt numb, my heart felt like it had stopped.

Dexter was dead.


When a soldier loves a scientist, a scientist short and red, when a soldier loves that scientist, you know he'll end up dead. HONK HONK! Merry Christmas everyone! c: