Hey all, I liked doing the last chapter; I decided to make another one right away, hope you enjoy it!
Jenny looked for the boy, but could not find him. She wonders if it really had been Tuck she saw, he could not possibly have been...could he?
"Well, there is nothing more to do but figure out what is going on here" she said
Jenny decided that she should head to the center of the city, hoping to get some help.
Stepping forward, she lit her pigtail jets and flew off, she never saw the pair of eyes looking out from the bushes.
Much more of the devastation was visible from the air, and the most suspicious thing was that a weapon did not cause most of it; it was like the buildings had been ripped apart by a set of strange appendages.
Jenny decided to stop at the carnival, it was on the way to the heart of the city, and she was hoping to find some people there.
After a few minutes looking, she was starting to panic. 'Isn't there anyone left?' she thought.
Just then, she heard a loud crash coming from the room of mirrors, so she called out "hello? Who's there? I'm not going to hurt you!"
After a moment of waiting, Jenny figured that no one was going to answer, so she headed inside.
It was rather spooky, walking among the partially broken mirrors in the dark, and Jenny could not help but feel that she was being watched.
After a while, she found herself walking along a long hallway, with mirrors all along the right side. She walked along watching her reflection in each one, trying to think. "Who could have done all this."
"Why, you could, dear sister" the reflection said back.
Jenny jumped in surprise, and then she saw she was not looking at a mirror, but a copy of herself!
In every way, it was identical to her, save for a few small details, like the soul-piercing stare she cave, the cruel grin, and the blood on her hand.
BLOOD?
Slowly, and with her copy watching with an amused smile, she looked down...and saw the body.
It was Brad...
Jenny's world stopped, it felt like her CPU was going to explode trying to process what she had seen. He was definitely dead, his throat ripped open. Brad's lifeless body stared off into space, a look of shock on his face.
After what seemed like forever, she silently croaked out the one word: "why?"
"Because humans are weak and inferior, and worthless, and it was a test of my master to see if I was truly loyal to him, like what I did with Mrs. Wakeman!"
That was the breaking point; Jenny threw her fist at her copy...and shattered the mirror.
"What? But...she was just here! I saw here!"
Not sure what to do, she put her hand to the mirror, unsure what to believe now.
It was solid, and there was nothing behind it.
Still trying to get all that he had seen out of her head, Jenny flew to the center of town.
As she went, she saw strange cables everywhere, and they all seemed to be centering on the city's core.
Finally, Jenny reached the city's center, and saw...
It could not be described accurately, it was as if a madman had sculpted a machine, and stopped halfway through. It was a writhing, twisting mass of wires and metal, over 200 feet tall. Hundreds of cables running from many of the more intact buildings ran into it's body at all angles. At the very top, an almost humanoid torso, arms, and head rested, looking this way and that, atop a stalk of wires and metal.
Jenny had never been so scared in her whole life, she could not even move, just a single thought went through her mind: 'please, please, don't let it see me'
Suddenly, the thing spun around, and saw her.
Right AT HER! Looking right AT HER!
For some reason, the fact that it saw her was worse that anything that she had ever faced before then.
It saw her. It saw her! IT SAW HER!
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
To be continued...
Well, how did this one work for you?
