"Stan was right about one thing. I did go to Heaven after I died, and I was lucky. Apperantly they used to only allow Mormons in Heaven, but since dead political correct people had been bugging God lately, He's been allowing more people of different beliefs to come in. And I was able to slide in even though I had killed someone before. Am I making sense so far?"
Making sense? A ghost was in Butters room talking to him, and since he wasn't sleepy he had to assume that this was for real, and she was giving evidence that further proved it. At this point, sense had been thrown out the window the minute Butters entered the room. But Butters merely brought himself to nod so she could go on.
"So like you said earlier today, Stan killed himself to get to me in Heaven, but of course people who kill themselves still aren't allowed. God's bent a lot of the old rules to be P.C, but He really is staying firm about keeping that one alive. After all my pleas, I'd say He really doesn't want to budge. So here I am stuck in Heaven while the love of my former life is trapped in Purgatory forever, and I really never will see him again! At least not if this thing fails."
"What thing? Why did you say you needed my help for whatever the thing is?" Butters asked with a lot of worry. He'd seen enough ghost movies to know that there might be a chance he wouldn't make it through the night here. But then again, this was Wendy and she wouldn't hurt him- unless she went insane from losing Stan forever or something, ghosts are driven to revenge and killing for lesser reasons than that according to TV! He held his hands tightly to prepare for the worst as Wendy continued.
"I've spent 4 months in Heaven trying to find some angle I can use to get to Stan. And recently, I finally found one. In Heaven, there's a group of people that specialize in taking the souls of the living, they're kind of the bad boys and girls of the dead. They have the power to go from Heaven to the Earth and to any other kind of land. They're banned from using their spells to go to Hell and Purgatory, but the spells they used to use to go there still exist! If I can get into their group, I can find the spells they used to go to Purgatory, and use them to go there and get Stan back! That's why I'm here." At this point, Butters willed himself to think clearly again, and after analyzing what she was saying, he suddenly got an idea of what she was actually here to do. "So you're here to get into their group? How are you gonna do that?" Okay, he hadn't gotten it yet, but Wendy figured she should clear it up quick so she could get this done quicker.
"I have to kill someone and take their soul back to Heaven, then I'll be a part of the soul taking group and then I can find those spells. And so, that means I have to, well...." Wendy knew she had to be very careful in saying this, since Butters was usually a nervous person and finding out something like this would give him a heart attack. But then again, that might make it easier to do the deed, so maybe it wouldn't be so bad. However, since his sounds of panic would make his parents come up, she went back to trying to make it easy on him. "I have to take you to Heaven."
"You mean you gotta kill me?!!" Well, so much for that little plan. Wendy quickly covered Butters mouth again so he wouldn't make any more noise. But he still spoke and spoke his panic in muffled tones. Wendy had to calm him down right away and tell him the rest of the story, since she couldn't do this without his consent. Of course the soul takers group never asked for permission to take souls, but for Wendy's special and secret mission, it was nessecary.
"Butters, calm down a second! Yes, I actually do have to kill you, but not perminently! Before I came down here, I perfected an old spell that can send souls back to their bodies, and when I'm finished, I'll do that for you! You'll be brought back to life as soon as I'm reunited with Stan!" That actually seemed to make Butters look less likely to scream, so Wendy took her hand off his mouth and went on more gently. "I can't go through this thing without someone around to help me, and I can't tell any of the dead people about my plan or else they'll tell on me to God! I need someone I can trust and someone who knows how important it is for me to see Stan again to help me. That's why I need you." She then held Butters hand with her special power to touch the living while the living couldn't touch her at all.
"We'll go back to Heaven together, and then after I help you get settled in Heaven to impress the group, we'll work together to find a way into Purgatory, and then sneak Stan outta there to live with me in Heaven forever! You and I both know he belongs there and he belongs there with me, it's an injustice that must be fixed!" She let go of Butters and sat back on the bed. "I know I'm asking a lot, but I really need you to ignore that for both me and Stan's sake. Please let me kill you so you can help me find Stan again, please?"
Butters wanted to faint or pass out or doing anything to have more time to think this over. It was one thing to have the ghost of Wendy here, and another to ask him to go to Heaven with him and possibly into Purgatory too- but to top it off, she wanted him to die too! He couldn't do that, could he? Sure, he had been miserable as Hell and he missed his friends a lot, but not so much that he wanted to die just like Stan wanted to die! And who's to say that this really isn't a dream or some hallucination? And even if it wasn't, he couldn't very well leave life behind forever just to get Wendy and Stan back together! He saw the pain and suffering that happened to Kyle and the Marshes and Ms Testaburger. He couldn't put his family through that kind of torture by dying himself.
"Butters, let me just say something else to sweeten the deal. Like I said earlier, I can bring you back to life when my plan works, and I will. When it's over, I'll cast a spell that will transport your soul back in your body at the exact split second that I took it away. At that point, no one will know you died and it'll be like nothing ever happened."
"But, but what if your plan doesn't work? What if something goes wrong and I have to stay in Heaven and be dead forever?" It was just like Butters to think of the worst at these times, but this time he had a good reason to, as Wendy knew. But she wasn't gonna let that get in the way. "If the worst happens and I can't see Stan, I'll still send you back. Even though they'll probably find out that I sent a dead soul back to be alive again, and that'll get me punished somehow. But the greatest punishment for me is never seeing Stan again! Not to mention knowing that if he had just waited to die naturally, I would have seen him again in another 5 years when he drank himself to death on the anniversary of my demise! I can't live my afterlife with that and I won't, and I don't care what I have to do to do that! Nothing is too far for me here!"
"Not even killing one of your friends and risking that he could be dead forever?" Butters answered quickly, thinking that that may just be the excuse he could use to get out of this.
"All right, I know that sounds bad too, but I told you I won't let that happen. Butters, you are my friend, and I need a friend that I can trust and count on to help me with this thing. I'm willing to trust you with helping me with the most important thing I ever have to do. Don't you trust me enough to know that I wouldn't thank you for your help by letting you get the shaft? That's what Stan and the others used to do to you in 4'th grade and that's what the bullies did in the other schools, but it isn't something that I do, and you know that!" That was true. If it wasn't, then there was no way Butters would have worked so hard on that eulogy.
"I, I do trust you but, I'm, I'm still not sure. I know I should think more clearly about this. Stan didn't think too clearly before he jumped off and now you're here as a result, so-" Wendy then lept up and remembered her final selling point. "That's just it, Stan is suffering. From what I've heard, Purtagory has fallen under the control of someone who must not be named. Everyone's too scared to tell me who this person is, only that it's someone so dangerous that both God and Satan have left him alone to rule Purgatory in whatever way he wants! And since he's someone evil, you know he must be doing something horrible to Stan because of it!"
"Oh jeez, it's Widmark, isn't it? He killed himself so he must be in Purgatory too, it's gotta be him getting revenge on Stan!" Butters figured that was logical considering how Stan had stopped him from killing Wendy for the murder of Widmark's daughter, but Wendy answered, "That's what I thought too, but it's not him. I heard that Widmark got sent to Hell by this unnamed dictator a few years back, and again, because God and Satan really want nothing to do with this guy, they're letting him do whatever he wants."
"So we gotta go to Heaven and face this nameless guy to get Stan back too?!" Now Wendy cursed herself for making Butters even more scared, but now knew she had to stop wasting time and get him to go already. "Butters, I know this is plently scary but I need you to do this!" Now fearing that the details of the Purgatory dictator would make Butters want to stay alive, Wendy got even more desperate and looked right into Butters's eyes. "I'm desperate here! I've been through Hell although I'm in Heaven, and the one who I should be spending eternity with is going through God doesn't know what kind of torture! I need to get him out! I need to be with him again! And I need you to help me!" Now that she was coming close to crying, she tried to finish quickly before she lost it. "I swear to you, on my former life and Stan's, I won't let you stay dead and I won't let anything else happen to you because you're helping me. I don't know what else I can say! Wait, I know! You never got to say goodbye to me and Stan! Wouldn't it make you feel a lot better to say a proper goodbye after seeing us reunited thanks to your help? Wouldn't that make you feel less bad about our deaths and make you stop thinking it was your fault?"
He would have given anything to stop thinking that when he was at his lowest point. But who was he to really brag about a lowest point? If this was real, Stan was going through torture because he wanted to see Wendy again, and now he couldn't ever do that. And Wendy wasn't happy in Heaven like she deserved because Stan did all this. And now that she had the chance to fix that and spend all of time with him like they should have....how would it make Butters feel to turn them down and deny them that one final shot to be together? He felt bad enough in what his role was in their deaths, but that might pale in comparison to how he would feel to screw them over after their deaths like this.
But then there was the whole problem of having to die! He couldn't let Wendy do that to him, although she gave him his word that she'd put him back. But would Wendy lie and sacrifice his life just so she could see Stan again? Would she lie that she could put him back just to trick him into doing this? She loved Stan so much that she killed a teacher to get her away from him, so wouldn't it be logical that she could kill him to get back together with him?
No, no, that was the old Wendy. He only had to take one look at the Wendy before him to see that she probably wouldn't do that to him. Yet this thought was coming from someone who kept falling for Cartman's cruel pranks and jokes because he was so naive and stupid! But Wendy did a lot to stop people from doing that to him in high school. She knew better now than to sacrifice people like this to get her way. And he and Wendy have, or had, been friends for a long time, long enough so that she wouldn't think of lying to him for something like this. Long enough so that she wouldn't think of asking him to do this if she didn't really need him, and if she didn't really think she could count on him to do something this important. She valued his help and thought it would be valuable in such an important mission. How could he tell her that he didn't want that responsibility because he was being selfish? He wouldn't do that to her when she was alive, if she wanted his help then he would have done it because she would do the same thing for him. That's what friendship is all about, and it should be that way even after death. At least that's what he was starting to get.
"You promise that I'll be okay doing this?"
"I promise."
"Then....okay. I'll do it." Butters was nervous to say this, but he calmed down after he saw how happy this had made Wendy. But before she started whatever she was gonna do to kill him, he had to get one more thing straight. "Will, will this hurt?"
"I know a way to do this so quick that you won't feel a thing. I'll see you on the other side, and...thank you." Wendy gave Butters her sweetest and most thankful smile, and Butters was a lot more calm after seeing that. He did miss seeing her smile like that and, after all this confusion, it was very comforting to see her again.
At that point Wendy took Butters head in her hands and twisted it around, snapping his neck and spine and killing him instantly without any lasting pain.
Wendy caught Butters before he fell to the floor and put him on his bed. Then she began the spell that the group taught her to take the soul out of the body. "Baya sim tumbo die to life. Baya simbo die to life again. Baya die to life and back again. Baya die baya die baya die!"
With that, Wendy took Butters lifeless hand, which then lifted when the spirit of Butters rose from his body and was now holding on to Wendy's hand. Wasting no time, she cast the spell that would bring the two of them to Heaven. "Baya kum by heav, baya kum tu baya heaven back! Heaven back tum ba aidos!"
And a second later, a light covered the two spirits and transported them out of room. Only the body of Butters remained. If Wendy's plan worked correctly, she would transport Butters soul back into the body at this very second before his parents saw him. But for now, there was a mission to be done and a reunion in Heaven to plan.
END OF ACT I
Act II, Scenes 1-3 to come on July 19'th.
Making sense? A ghost was in Butters room talking to him, and since he wasn't sleepy he had to assume that this was for real, and she was giving evidence that further proved it. At this point, sense had been thrown out the window the minute Butters entered the room. But Butters merely brought himself to nod so she could go on.
"So like you said earlier today, Stan killed himself to get to me in Heaven, but of course people who kill themselves still aren't allowed. God's bent a lot of the old rules to be P.C, but He really is staying firm about keeping that one alive. After all my pleas, I'd say He really doesn't want to budge. So here I am stuck in Heaven while the love of my former life is trapped in Purgatory forever, and I really never will see him again! At least not if this thing fails."
"What thing? Why did you say you needed my help for whatever the thing is?" Butters asked with a lot of worry. He'd seen enough ghost movies to know that there might be a chance he wouldn't make it through the night here. But then again, this was Wendy and she wouldn't hurt him- unless she went insane from losing Stan forever or something, ghosts are driven to revenge and killing for lesser reasons than that according to TV! He held his hands tightly to prepare for the worst as Wendy continued.
"I've spent 4 months in Heaven trying to find some angle I can use to get to Stan. And recently, I finally found one. In Heaven, there's a group of people that specialize in taking the souls of the living, they're kind of the bad boys and girls of the dead. They have the power to go from Heaven to the Earth and to any other kind of land. They're banned from using their spells to go to Hell and Purgatory, but the spells they used to use to go there still exist! If I can get into their group, I can find the spells they used to go to Purgatory, and use them to go there and get Stan back! That's why I'm here." At this point, Butters willed himself to think clearly again, and after analyzing what she was saying, he suddenly got an idea of what she was actually here to do. "So you're here to get into their group? How are you gonna do that?" Okay, he hadn't gotten it yet, but Wendy figured she should clear it up quick so she could get this done quicker.
"I have to kill someone and take their soul back to Heaven, then I'll be a part of the soul taking group and then I can find those spells. And so, that means I have to, well...." Wendy knew she had to be very careful in saying this, since Butters was usually a nervous person and finding out something like this would give him a heart attack. But then again, that might make it easier to do the deed, so maybe it wouldn't be so bad. However, since his sounds of panic would make his parents come up, she went back to trying to make it easy on him. "I have to take you to Heaven."
"You mean you gotta kill me?!!" Well, so much for that little plan. Wendy quickly covered Butters mouth again so he wouldn't make any more noise. But he still spoke and spoke his panic in muffled tones. Wendy had to calm him down right away and tell him the rest of the story, since she couldn't do this without his consent. Of course the soul takers group never asked for permission to take souls, but for Wendy's special and secret mission, it was nessecary.
"Butters, calm down a second! Yes, I actually do have to kill you, but not perminently! Before I came down here, I perfected an old spell that can send souls back to their bodies, and when I'm finished, I'll do that for you! You'll be brought back to life as soon as I'm reunited with Stan!" That actually seemed to make Butters look less likely to scream, so Wendy took her hand off his mouth and went on more gently. "I can't go through this thing without someone around to help me, and I can't tell any of the dead people about my plan or else they'll tell on me to God! I need someone I can trust and someone who knows how important it is for me to see Stan again to help me. That's why I need you." She then held Butters hand with her special power to touch the living while the living couldn't touch her at all.
"We'll go back to Heaven together, and then after I help you get settled in Heaven to impress the group, we'll work together to find a way into Purgatory, and then sneak Stan outta there to live with me in Heaven forever! You and I both know he belongs there and he belongs there with me, it's an injustice that must be fixed!" She let go of Butters and sat back on the bed. "I know I'm asking a lot, but I really need you to ignore that for both me and Stan's sake. Please let me kill you so you can help me find Stan again, please?"
Butters wanted to faint or pass out or doing anything to have more time to think this over. It was one thing to have the ghost of Wendy here, and another to ask him to go to Heaven with him and possibly into Purgatory too- but to top it off, she wanted him to die too! He couldn't do that, could he? Sure, he had been miserable as Hell and he missed his friends a lot, but not so much that he wanted to die just like Stan wanted to die! And who's to say that this really isn't a dream or some hallucination? And even if it wasn't, he couldn't very well leave life behind forever just to get Wendy and Stan back together! He saw the pain and suffering that happened to Kyle and the Marshes and Ms Testaburger. He couldn't put his family through that kind of torture by dying himself.
"Butters, let me just say something else to sweeten the deal. Like I said earlier, I can bring you back to life when my plan works, and I will. When it's over, I'll cast a spell that will transport your soul back in your body at the exact split second that I took it away. At that point, no one will know you died and it'll be like nothing ever happened."
"But, but what if your plan doesn't work? What if something goes wrong and I have to stay in Heaven and be dead forever?" It was just like Butters to think of the worst at these times, but this time he had a good reason to, as Wendy knew. But she wasn't gonna let that get in the way. "If the worst happens and I can't see Stan, I'll still send you back. Even though they'll probably find out that I sent a dead soul back to be alive again, and that'll get me punished somehow. But the greatest punishment for me is never seeing Stan again! Not to mention knowing that if he had just waited to die naturally, I would have seen him again in another 5 years when he drank himself to death on the anniversary of my demise! I can't live my afterlife with that and I won't, and I don't care what I have to do to do that! Nothing is too far for me here!"
"Not even killing one of your friends and risking that he could be dead forever?" Butters answered quickly, thinking that that may just be the excuse he could use to get out of this.
"All right, I know that sounds bad too, but I told you I won't let that happen. Butters, you are my friend, and I need a friend that I can trust and count on to help me with this thing. I'm willing to trust you with helping me with the most important thing I ever have to do. Don't you trust me enough to know that I wouldn't thank you for your help by letting you get the shaft? That's what Stan and the others used to do to you in 4'th grade and that's what the bullies did in the other schools, but it isn't something that I do, and you know that!" That was true. If it wasn't, then there was no way Butters would have worked so hard on that eulogy.
"I, I do trust you but, I'm, I'm still not sure. I know I should think more clearly about this. Stan didn't think too clearly before he jumped off and now you're here as a result, so-" Wendy then lept up and remembered her final selling point. "That's just it, Stan is suffering. From what I've heard, Purtagory has fallen under the control of someone who must not be named. Everyone's too scared to tell me who this person is, only that it's someone so dangerous that both God and Satan have left him alone to rule Purgatory in whatever way he wants! And since he's someone evil, you know he must be doing something horrible to Stan because of it!"
"Oh jeez, it's Widmark, isn't it? He killed himself so he must be in Purgatory too, it's gotta be him getting revenge on Stan!" Butters figured that was logical considering how Stan had stopped him from killing Wendy for the murder of Widmark's daughter, but Wendy answered, "That's what I thought too, but it's not him. I heard that Widmark got sent to Hell by this unnamed dictator a few years back, and again, because God and Satan really want nothing to do with this guy, they're letting him do whatever he wants."
"So we gotta go to Heaven and face this nameless guy to get Stan back too?!" Now Wendy cursed herself for making Butters even more scared, but now knew she had to stop wasting time and get him to go already. "Butters, I know this is plently scary but I need you to do this!" Now fearing that the details of the Purgatory dictator would make Butters want to stay alive, Wendy got even more desperate and looked right into Butters's eyes. "I'm desperate here! I've been through Hell although I'm in Heaven, and the one who I should be spending eternity with is going through God doesn't know what kind of torture! I need to get him out! I need to be with him again! And I need you to help me!" Now that she was coming close to crying, she tried to finish quickly before she lost it. "I swear to you, on my former life and Stan's, I won't let you stay dead and I won't let anything else happen to you because you're helping me. I don't know what else I can say! Wait, I know! You never got to say goodbye to me and Stan! Wouldn't it make you feel a lot better to say a proper goodbye after seeing us reunited thanks to your help? Wouldn't that make you feel less bad about our deaths and make you stop thinking it was your fault?"
He would have given anything to stop thinking that when he was at his lowest point. But who was he to really brag about a lowest point? If this was real, Stan was going through torture because he wanted to see Wendy again, and now he couldn't ever do that. And Wendy wasn't happy in Heaven like she deserved because Stan did all this. And now that she had the chance to fix that and spend all of time with him like they should have....how would it make Butters feel to turn them down and deny them that one final shot to be together? He felt bad enough in what his role was in their deaths, but that might pale in comparison to how he would feel to screw them over after their deaths like this.
But then there was the whole problem of having to die! He couldn't let Wendy do that to him, although she gave him his word that she'd put him back. But would Wendy lie and sacrifice his life just so she could see Stan again? Would she lie that she could put him back just to trick him into doing this? She loved Stan so much that she killed a teacher to get her away from him, so wouldn't it be logical that she could kill him to get back together with him?
No, no, that was the old Wendy. He only had to take one look at the Wendy before him to see that she probably wouldn't do that to him. Yet this thought was coming from someone who kept falling for Cartman's cruel pranks and jokes because he was so naive and stupid! But Wendy did a lot to stop people from doing that to him in high school. She knew better now than to sacrifice people like this to get her way. And he and Wendy have, or had, been friends for a long time, long enough so that she wouldn't think of lying to him for something like this. Long enough so that she wouldn't think of asking him to do this if she didn't really need him, and if she didn't really think she could count on him to do something this important. She valued his help and thought it would be valuable in such an important mission. How could he tell her that he didn't want that responsibility because he was being selfish? He wouldn't do that to her when she was alive, if she wanted his help then he would have done it because she would do the same thing for him. That's what friendship is all about, and it should be that way even after death. At least that's what he was starting to get.
"You promise that I'll be okay doing this?"
"I promise."
"Then....okay. I'll do it." Butters was nervous to say this, but he calmed down after he saw how happy this had made Wendy. But before she started whatever she was gonna do to kill him, he had to get one more thing straight. "Will, will this hurt?"
"I know a way to do this so quick that you won't feel a thing. I'll see you on the other side, and...thank you." Wendy gave Butters her sweetest and most thankful smile, and Butters was a lot more calm after seeing that. He did miss seeing her smile like that and, after all this confusion, it was very comforting to see her again.
At that point Wendy took Butters head in her hands and twisted it around, snapping his neck and spine and killing him instantly without any lasting pain.
Wendy caught Butters before he fell to the floor and put him on his bed. Then she began the spell that the group taught her to take the soul out of the body. "Baya sim tumbo die to life. Baya simbo die to life again. Baya die to life and back again. Baya die baya die baya die!"
With that, Wendy took Butters lifeless hand, which then lifted when the spirit of Butters rose from his body and was now holding on to Wendy's hand. Wasting no time, she cast the spell that would bring the two of them to Heaven. "Baya kum by heav, baya kum tu baya heaven back! Heaven back tum ba aidos!"
And a second later, a light covered the two spirits and transported them out of room. Only the body of Butters remained. If Wendy's plan worked correctly, she would transport Butters soul back into the body at this very second before his parents saw him. But for now, there was a mission to be done and a reunion in Heaven to plan.
END OF ACT I
Act II, Scenes 1-3 to come on July 19'th.