Chapter 23: Mike's Ultimate Plan
The subsequent morning...
"Having fun, CC?"
Caitlin shot up at once. Once she opened her eyes, she saw that Mike was in her face with a smirk on his face. Caitlin glanced around for Natsu and Megan, but they weren't there. Only she and Mike were in the cell.
"Where's Megan and Natsu?" Caitlin inquired.
Mike looked over at the door and remarked, "Oh, at one last night, I came in here to let you out, but you were sleeping, and Natalie and Dilla weren't, so we just left you there because we didn't want to wake you." He glanced back over at Caitlin. "It's eight right now. The other two are taking their showers hopefully, and now you should run along."
Caitlin shook her head and got up off of the cell's floor. She nodded to Mike and ran out of the cell. Caitlin ran down the dark hallway, which was now lit with torches, and to the door in which led to the front room. She opened it and ran up the grand staircase to the bathroom. Once she was inside the bathroom, she removed her lime green ribbons and took a shower.
A few minutes later, Caitlin was putting her hair back into pigtails with her lime green ribbons. She dyed it black again, and she glanced over at Natsu and Megan who were also dying their hair black.
"So, he let you out at one?" Caitlin broke the strange silence.
"Yeah, but you fell asleep at, like, twelve fourty-five, as usual," Megan responded.
Caitlin nodded as she popped her knuckles haphazardly. "So, it's almost nine, right?"
"Yeah, I guess," Natsu replied as she slipped on her pair of gold-colored glasses.
After the girl hams finished up and walked down to the dining room, they sat down at the table with Mike, Roger, and Becky. There wasn't much talking in the room at all. Caitlin spun her knife like a baton while Megan strummed her guitar silently as Natsu twirled her hair around her fingers. Mike hadn't even looked over at the three girls, Roger was looking back and forth between Mike and the three girls and wondered why Mike wouldn't look at them, and Becky was playing games on a compact computer.
Caitlin set down her knife and remarked, "So, did you look into what I told you yesterday, Mike?"
Mike glanced up at her with his chocolate brown eyes. "About Jake? Not much. I didn't have much time last night because of you three." He shrugged. "If you could find out the location and the time and all, we could do this. If you can't, then this might not work out."
"What's 'this'?" Natsu inquired.
Mike got his familiar bright flames in his eyes. "My plan."
"What's 'Your Plan'?" Megan asked.
Mike glanced down and clenched his paws. He closed his daring eyes and responded, "I'm going to kill him. Slow, hellish, and harsh, too."
"Woot, I finally get to see Mike's killing process in action. How exciting." Caitlin rolled her eyes. "You're not serious, are you?"
Mike looked back up into her sapphire blue eyes. "I'm as serious as I could be. I'm going to go in there in front of however many people and I'm going to prevail. I'm going to murder him nonchalantly and remorselessly in front of them, too. And I'm going to make sure he's dead, also.
"See, I've a plan. You three are going to go with What's-His-Face into where ever, and then I shall have the Numbers surround the perimeter of the building, and I shall go in with Roger and Becky backing me up, and you three should mislead everyone until we get in there. Then I am going to find my target while shouting something threatening at everyone who dares move. Oh, and I'll be caring my 9-mm., one of my knives, and my six-ended whip with me. I'll also have you three keeping our dear audience that is watching under control. I'll go and kill this guy as slowly as I can. I'll tell you how I plan to kill him.
"First, I'm going to wear him down by ramming into him and sending him flying into the wall. Then I'm going to beat him for a few minutes with my whip before I throw my knife into his stomach and rip apart his organs while avoiding the ones that keep him alive. When he's clinging onto life barely, I'll put a bullet to his head with my 9-mm. Oh, and if that's not enough, I'll shoot him in the chest a few times to make sure he's dead."
Caitlin glanced at Megan and Natsu while whispering, "He's a real manslayer doing a real dowser, isn't he?"
Mike shrugged. "One time, I just stuck knives in a guy and left him to bleed to death in a forest."
"That's TMI," Megan muttered.
Mike continued, "I'll tell you what I'm going to do next. I'm going to go in front of our beloved audience and inquire if anyone else wants to challenge me. If someone raises their paw or whatever, I put a bullet to them too. Then I find Stella, and we get the hell out of that place before anyone gets a chance to alarm anyone else. Is it good, or do you think it's not bloody enough?"
"I think it's bloody enough personally...," Natsu mumbled.
Mike looked down at the floor. "I think I could add some more things, like more knives to stick him with or-"
"I really do think that's enough," Caitlin said with a sweatdrop rolling down the back of her head.
Mike shook his head. "I really don't know. I could duct tape his paws to a cinder block with only his fingers exposing and chop them off one by one. That would be harsh, no? I think it would be. But, as I said, it's supposed to be slow and harsh."
Caitlin glanced slowly over at Megan and Natsu. "You might as well kill him and then behead him."
"Good idea." Mike nodded convincingly.
"That's ironic...," Megan whispered.
"It's as ironic as what happened last night," Natsu replied.