No good deed goes unpunished
Disclaimer: I only own Josh, Steven, Allison, and Harris. Nintendo owns everything else in this fic, excluding websites.
Josh looks on as Harris laughs in a way that just turns his stomach
Josh: (Vehemently) You... this is all because of you!!!
Harris stops laughing and looks at Josh with a sneer plastered on his face
Harris: No... this is all your doing. If you hadn't tried to escape my clutches all those years ago, your pathetic little friends wouldn't be..
Josh: JUST SHUT UP!!! God, do you even feel at ALL remorseful for all those murders and all those poor lives???
Harris: Yeah, I do.
Josh: (surprised) Y-you do?
Harris: Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't keep some more of their body parts as mementos!
Harris cackles as Josh just looks at him, utterly sickened and shocked by this man's cruelty and apparent delight at having taken the lives of so many people
Josh: That's it! It's time for you to die!
But as he points the gun at Harris, Sythe, with cat-like speed, chucks his blade and bottle straight at Josh and soon he's hit with a sharp stabbing pain in his arm. Looking down, he sees Harris's knife embedded in his forearm.
Josh: (looking up at Harris, grimacing) H-how???
Harris: You fool, you think you're the only one who can fight around here?!?
Harris reaches into his coat pocket and, after pulling out another knife, throws the knife at the gun, knocking it out of Josh's hand
Harris: It's time I taught you the meaning of true pain.
With that, Harris lunges at Josh and knocks him back into the wall, slugging at him fiercely. Josh shoves him away, pulls out the knife in his arm, and uses the blade's hilt to give Harris a couple good belts to the head.
Josh: (with a hint of cockiness) That all you got?
Harris screams and charges at him. Josh, however, nimbly steps out of the way and lets Harris run headfirst into the stone wall. Seizing the opportunity Josh runs towards his gun, but is stopped by a knife thrown at his leg. Growling in pain, he falls to the ground and tries to pull out the knife. As he pulls it out, he looks up and sees Harris with his hands full of sharp knives, poised to be thrown.
Josh: Oh... shit!!!
Josh dives out of the way just as the knives get stuck in the wall right behind him. Quickly grabbing back his gun, Josh ducks behind the rack, using the wooden board as a makeshift shield while he shoots at Harris. After several bullets miss Harris's head, Harris charges at him and tries to plunge a thick butcher knife into Josh's skull. But the teen is narrowly able to dodge the blade and it gets stuck into the wooden board. As he tries to get the knife loose, Josh tackles him and pins him to the ground.
Josh: It's over Harris... Your reign of terror is over.
Harris: Like hell it is!
Harris takes his switchblade out of his coat pocket and plunges it into Josh's chest.
Josh: Oh. god...
Josh falls off of Harris and lays on the cold floor, gasping for breath. Harris gets up and looks down at Taylor, who's now bleeding from his chest, arm, and leg.
Harris: You're pathetic, you know that, right? Risking your life to save a bunch of ungrateful little bitches.
Josh: (gasping) How can you say that?!?
Harris: You know, it's because of stupid, selfish people like you that I feel this path of murder necessary. This whole world's full of foolish, thick-headed, mean-spirited...
Josh: (furious) SHUT THE HELL UP!!!! HOW CAN YOU BE SAYING ALL THESE THINGS?!?
Harris spits at Josh's face and looks at him with disdain before giving a bitter laugh
Harris: How can I? How... can... I? I'll tell you!
Harris gets down into Josh's face and pulls him up by the scruff of his t- shirt's collar before continuing
Harris: Every single day of my life I've had to deal with shits like you! You think just because you've got a mother's love and a father's admiration that you're on top of the world! WELL I HAD NEITHER OF THOSE THINGS!!!!!!
Harris slams Josh's head to the ground at this point
Harris: I've had to fend for myself, beating off people trying to take away what little I had! I've had to endure all the people saying "get a job" and "fuck off, slob". No one ever even bothering to stop and give me a bite to eat or even a comforting hand!
Josh: So you took your aggression out on all those people???
Harris: That's right! If I wasn't gonna be given a helping hand, I was gonna make sure the world regretted screwing Harris Sythe's life over! *sighs in a sick tone* my first kill was particularly satisfying. I remember it so well...
Now Harris's face takes on a look of twisted reminisce as he kneels over Josh
Harris: She was a pretty little thing, a blonde-haired beauty queen I believe, on her way to her graduation. She'd told me earlier when I asked for a bite to eat to "bite her". So I hid in the bushes near her school and, as she approached the graduation ceremony, leapt out onto her, and used my switchblade to slice her throat. Then, taking her advice from earlier, I crouched down and bit into her sweet, juicy, dimpled cheeks.
Josh just looks at him, utterly revolted, as he goes into more detail
Harris: From then on, I made my kills more effective, more gruesome, and more devastating to the victim's families, sometimes including the families as well in my slaughters. One victim, a kid on Christmas Eve, I climbed down his chimney, went into his bedroom, and used my blades to cut off his head and send him into an eternal sleep. Another kill, a family on a picnic, I hot-wired a steamroller and crushed them into little bits!!! Each kill more to my delight!!
Josh: (silently) Jessie was right... he's not a killer, he's a fucking devil!!!
Harris: I had it all going my way! I was going to become the most feared man into the world and repay mankind for all the shit I went through!!!
Harris's face dons a sinister expression. One that could make even Satan tremble.
Harris: Then you and that damned Meowth came along and sent me off to prison! I was sentenced to be killed! But the day before my execution, your cousin came and sprung me! I told her if she delivered me your head, I'd get her back the love of her life! What a fool, I had no intention of EVER keeping my word! After you and your friends were gone, I was gonna do away with her since she knew too much! I had it all planned out to a T!!!
Josh: (scared) You.... you.. you're insane! You're fucking insane!!!! Just because the world screwed you over, you take your anger out on innocent people?!? You're mad!!!
Harris: No. I'm just paying the world back! But I've already said too much. It's time for you to die!!!
But as he starts to plunge a thick blade into Josh's heart, the boy uses his good leg to give Harris a kick right to his privates, stunning him and making him drop his knife. Taking hold of Harris's momentary distraction, Josh pulls the blade out of his chest and sends it into Harris's, making him stumble back into the guillotine.
Harris: (gasping) What the??
Josh slowly gets up and limps over to Harris, who's sitting on the edge of the guillotine's bench, trying to breathe and clutching his chest
Josh: You know what the difference is between you and me? After you screwed my life up, I didn't try to massacre people to get revenge. I also wandered the country, trying to survive, but I never took my sadness out on those who didn't deserve it. I may have lost my family, but at least I didn't lose my sense of decency. I was always able to help out a stranger in need. Maybe, if you'd just asked me to give you a hand, I would've done that. (leans into Harris's face) But you decided instead to wreck the lives of countless people, and that's where you made your big mistake!
Josh shoves Harris back into the guillotine's chopping block and locks his head into the stockade
Josh: You know, maybe in the afterlife you'll get a little mercy. Because after what you've done in THIS life...
Josh limps over to the cord holding the blade up above Harris's head and puts the barrel of the gun at the cord's center
Josh: .you sure as hell ain't getting any from me!
Harris: Josh... you wouldn't! Your mom and dad wouldn't want you to be a murderer!
Josh: (turning his head towards Harris) Well, thanks to you... I'll never know that now, will I? You should have known that either the prison would kill you, or that I would!
Josh casts a glare at Harris before saying the last 2 words that Harris Sythe will ever hear.
"Goodbye, Harris"
With that, Josh pulls the trigger and cuts the cord, sending the blade down onto Harris's neck and decapitating him. As he looks at the killer's headless body, he wipes the sweat off his face and turns to leave. But as he does, he looks towards the sky one more time.
Josh: Mom, dad, I did it...
Josh leaves the torture chamber and heads up back to where Jessie and Meowth are waiting for an ambulance to arrive for James, and Mondo. As soon as he enters the holding area, Meowth races to him and gives him a big hug
Meowth: Josh, what happened?!? Where's Harris? (looking down and seeing Josh's new wounds) And what did he do to you???
Josh: That doesn't matter now. I made sure he'll never get the chance to hurt anyone again. (looking at Jessie) Jess, are the paramedics on their way???
Jessie: I called them about 20 minutes ago, they should be here...
As she's talking, the screeching of emergency sirens fills the air
Jessie: (grinning a bit) any second now...
Soon James, Mondo, and Jessibelle are loaded into one ambulance and, after some guiding from Josh, Harris's head and body are put into a separate ambulance, headed for the hospital morgue, with the 3 living occupant's ambulance ready to take off for the emergency room.
Paramedic: (Looking at Josh's wounds) You know, you may want to get those patched up...
Josh: I know, but I want to make sure that James and Mondo are alright and that Jessibelle's taken to jail where she belongs.
Paramedic: Alright, it's your decision. (turns to climb into the back of the ambulance)
Jessie: (tapping at the paramedic's shoulder) Um. would it be alright if I came in the ambulance with James and Mondo, you know... for support?
Paramedic: (not wanting to waste time arguing about regulations) Alright, hop in!
With that, Jessie climbs into the ambulance with the others and, as Josh and Meowth watch, the ambulance speeds off towards the hospital
Josh: (watching as it fades into the darkness of the late night) I can't believe it... Harris is finally dead.
Meowth climbs onto Josh's shoulder and puts his paw onto the boys head affectionately
Meowth: You did good, kid. You did really good. (hops off Josh's shoulder) Hey listen, I'm just gonna wait in the truck for you. Is that alright?
Josh: Yeah... I guess...
Meowth gets into the truck as Josh just looks in wonder at Ripper hall and thinks back to all that has happened.
Josh: Goodbye, Harris...
Josh gets into the driver's seat of the truck and, with the turn of the key, heads off to see to his wounded buddies and thank them for all their help
TO BE CONTINUED
Disclaimer: I only own Josh, Steven, Allison, and Harris. Nintendo owns everything else in this fic, excluding websites.
Josh looks on as Harris laughs in a way that just turns his stomach
Josh: (Vehemently) You... this is all because of you!!!
Harris stops laughing and looks at Josh with a sneer plastered on his face
Harris: No... this is all your doing. If you hadn't tried to escape my clutches all those years ago, your pathetic little friends wouldn't be..
Josh: JUST SHUT UP!!! God, do you even feel at ALL remorseful for all those murders and all those poor lives???
Harris: Yeah, I do.
Josh: (surprised) Y-you do?
Harris: Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't keep some more of their body parts as mementos!
Harris cackles as Josh just looks at him, utterly sickened and shocked by this man's cruelty and apparent delight at having taken the lives of so many people
Josh: That's it! It's time for you to die!
But as he points the gun at Harris, Sythe, with cat-like speed, chucks his blade and bottle straight at Josh and soon he's hit with a sharp stabbing pain in his arm. Looking down, he sees Harris's knife embedded in his forearm.
Josh: (looking up at Harris, grimacing) H-how???
Harris: You fool, you think you're the only one who can fight around here?!?
Harris reaches into his coat pocket and, after pulling out another knife, throws the knife at the gun, knocking it out of Josh's hand
Harris: It's time I taught you the meaning of true pain.
With that, Harris lunges at Josh and knocks him back into the wall, slugging at him fiercely. Josh shoves him away, pulls out the knife in his arm, and uses the blade's hilt to give Harris a couple good belts to the head.
Josh: (with a hint of cockiness) That all you got?
Harris screams and charges at him. Josh, however, nimbly steps out of the way and lets Harris run headfirst into the stone wall. Seizing the opportunity Josh runs towards his gun, but is stopped by a knife thrown at his leg. Growling in pain, he falls to the ground and tries to pull out the knife. As he pulls it out, he looks up and sees Harris with his hands full of sharp knives, poised to be thrown.
Josh: Oh... shit!!!
Josh dives out of the way just as the knives get stuck in the wall right behind him. Quickly grabbing back his gun, Josh ducks behind the rack, using the wooden board as a makeshift shield while he shoots at Harris. After several bullets miss Harris's head, Harris charges at him and tries to plunge a thick butcher knife into Josh's skull. But the teen is narrowly able to dodge the blade and it gets stuck into the wooden board. As he tries to get the knife loose, Josh tackles him and pins him to the ground.
Josh: It's over Harris... Your reign of terror is over.
Harris: Like hell it is!
Harris takes his switchblade out of his coat pocket and plunges it into Josh's chest.
Josh: Oh. god...
Josh falls off of Harris and lays on the cold floor, gasping for breath. Harris gets up and looks down at Taylor, who's now bleeding from his chest, arm, and leg.
Harris: You're pathetic, you know that, right? Risking your life to save a bunch of ungrateful little bitches.
Josh: (gasping) How can you say that?!?
Harris: You know, it's because of stupid, selfish people like you that I feel this path of murder necessary. This whole world's full of foolish, thick-headed, mean-spirited...
Josh: (furious) SHUT THE HELL UP!!!! HOW CAN YOU BE SAYING ALL THESE THINGS?!?
Harris spits at Josh's face and looks at him with disdain before giving a bitter laugh
Harris: How can I? How... can... I? I'll tell you!
Harris gets down into Josh's face and pulls him up by the scruff of his t- shirt's collar before continuing
Harris: Every single day of my life I've had to deal with shits like you! You think just because you've got a mother's love and a father's admiration that you're on top of the world! WELL I HAD NEITHER OF THOSE THINGS!!!!!!
Harris slams Josh's head to the ground at this point
Harris: I've had to fend for myself, beating off people trying to take away what little I had! I've had to endure all the people saying "get a job" and "fuck off, slob". No one ever even bothering to stop and give me a bite to eat or even a comforting hand!
Josh: So you took your aggression out on all those people???
Harris: That's right! If I wasn't gonna be given a helping hand, I was gonna make sure the world regretted screwing Harris Sythe's life over! *sighs in a sick tone* my first kill was particularly satisfying. I remember it so well...
Now Harris's face takes on a look of twisted reminisce as he kneels over Josh
Harris: She was a pretty little thing, a blonde-haired beauty queen I believe, on her way to her graduation. She'd told me earlier when I asked for a bite to eat to "bite her". So I hid in the bushes near her school and, as she approached the graduation ceremony, leapt out onto her, and used my switchblade to slice her throat. Then, taking her advice from earlier, I crouched down and bit into her sweet, juicy, dimpled cheeks.
Josh just looks at him, utterly revolted, as he goes into more detail
Harris: From then on, I made my kills more effective, more gruesome, and more devastating to the victim's families, sometimes including the families as well in my slaughters. One victim, a kid on Christmas Eve, I climbed down his chimney, went into his bedroom, and used my blades to cut off his head and send him into an eternal sleep. Another kill, a family on a picnic, I hot-wired a steamroller and crushed them into little bits!!! Each kill more to my delight!!
Josh: (silently) Jessie was right... he's not a killer, he's a fucking devil!!!
Harris: I had it all going my way! I was going to become the most feared man into the world and repay mankind for all the shit I went through!!!
Harris's face dons a sinister expression. One that could make even Satan tremble.
Harris: Then you and that damned Meowth came along and sent me off to prison! I was sentenced to be killed! But the day before my execution, your cousin came and sprung me! I told her if she delivered me your head, I'd get her back the love of her life! What a fool, I had no intention of EVER keeping my word! After you and your friends were gone, I was gonna do away with her since she knew too much! I had it all planned out to a T!!!
Josh: (scared) You.... you.. you're insane! You're fucking insane!!!! Just because the world screwed you over, you take your anger out on innocent people?!? You're mad!!!
Harris: No. I'm just paying the world back! But I've already said too much. It's time for you to die!!!
But as he starts to plunge a thick blade into Josh's heart, the boy uses his good leg to give Harris a kick right to his privates, stunning him and making him drop his knife. Taking hold of Harris's momentary distraction, Josh pulls the blade out of his chest and sends it into Harris's, making him stumble back into the guillotine.
Harris: (gasping) What the??
Josh slowly gets up and limps over to Harris, who's sitting on the edge of the guillotine's bench, trying to breathe and clutching his chest
Josh: You know what the difference is between you and me? After you screwed my life up, I didn't try to massacre people to get revenge. I also wandered the country, trying to survive, but I never took my sadness out on those who didn't deserve it. I may have lost my family, but at least I didn't lose my sense of decency. I was always able to help out a stranger in need. Maybe, if you'd just asked me to give you a hand, I would've done that. (leans into Harris's face) But you decided instead to wreck the lives of countless people, and that's where you made your big mistake!
Josh shoves Harris back into the guillotine's chopping block and locks his head into the stockade
Josh: You know, maybe in the afterlife you'll get a little mercy. Because after what you've done in THIS life...
Josh limps over to the cord holding the blade up above Harris's head and puts the barrel of the gun at the cord's center
Josh: .you sure as hell ain't getting any from me!
Harris: Josh... you wouldn't! Your mom and dad wouldn't want you to be a murderer!
Josh: (turning his head towards Harris) Well, thanks to you... I'll never know that now, will I? You should have known that either the prison would kill you, or that I would!
Josh casts a glare at Harris before saying the last 2 words that Harris Sythe will ever hear.
"Goodbye, Harris"
With that, Josh pulls the trigger and cuts the cord, sending the blade down onto Harris's neck and decapitating him. As he looks at the killer's headless body, he wipes the sweat off his face and turns to leave. But as he does, he looks towards the sky one more time.
Josh: Mom, dad, I did it...
Josh leaves the torture chamber and heads up back to where Jessie and Meowth are waiting for an ambulance to arrive for James, and Mondo. As soon as he enters the holding area, Meowth races to him and gives him a big hug
Meowth: Josh, what happened?!? Where's Harris? (looking down and seeing Josh's new wounds) And what did he do to you???
Josh: That doesn't matter now. I made sure he'll never get the chance to hurt anyone again. (looking at Jessie) Jess, are the paramedics on their way???
Jessie: I called them about 20 minutes ago, they should be here...
As she's talking, the screeching of emergency sirens fills the air
Jessie: (grinning a bit) any second now...
Soon James, Mondo, and Jessibelle are loaded into one ambulance and, after some guiding from Josh, Harris's head and body are put into a separate ambulance, headed for the hospital morgue, with the 3 living occupant's ambulance ready to take off for the emergency room.
Paramedic: (Looking at Josh's wounds) You know, you may want to get those patched up...
Josh: I know, but I want to make sure that James and Mondo are alright and that Jessibelle's taken to jail where she belongs.
Paramedic: Alright, it's your decision. (turns to climb into the back of the ambulance)
Jessie: (tapping at the paramedic's shoulder) Um. would it be alright if I came in the ambulance with James and Mondo, you know... for support?
Paramedic: (not wanting to waste time arguing about regulations) Alright, hop in!
With that, Jessie climbs into the ambulance with the others and, as Josh and Meowth watch, the ambulance speeds off towards the hospital
Josh: (watching as it fades into the darkness of the late night) I can't believe it... Harris is finally dead.
Meowth climbs onto Josh's shoulder and puts his paw onto the boys head affectionately
Meowth: You did good, kid. You did really good. (hops off Josh's shoulder) Hey listen, I'm just gonna wait in the truck for you. Is that alright?
Josh: Yeah... I guess...
Meowth gets into the truck as Josh just looks in wonder at Ripper hall and thinks back to all that has happened.
Josh: Goodbye, Harris...
Josh gets into the driver's seat of the truck and, with the turn of the key, heads off to see to his wounded buddies and thank them for all their help
TO BE CONTINUED