Chapter 5: Things Falling Apart
Robert's eyes fluttered open, a bright light was above him, things started to come into focus. A youthful woman was towering over him, and smiled.
"Ah. You're awake I see. You were badly injured, but you're better now."
Indeed Robert looked down at his once shattered limbs, now not even a scratch was on him. He looked at his bare chest and saw that even the scar the Samantha had inflicted on him before was gone.
"Buh how?" Robert asked dreamily.
"Mutant power youngin. It comes in handy, watch."
Robert watched in a half-aware state as the nurse grabbed a knife and cut her arm. No blood came out, instead it just mended itself.
"Uhhggrgrgrgrgr" Robert gurgled in disgust.
"By the way, names Nurse."
"That's rather... blunt." Robert mumbled.
Suddenly, Tom and Carlos were standing over him, smirking. Tom thrust out his hand, Robert grabbed it and stood up, still slightly amazed at Nurse's powers.
"C'mon Obert, time for lunch." Tom said, his voice thick with accent.
"It's Robert." Robert stated stupidly. Tom looked at Robert dumbly for a second.
"Uh... well I'm going to lunch..." Carlos said with an attitude and walked off.
Tom grabbed Robert's arm, and two seconds later he was in the dining room.
"AH! Thanks Tom...now I got a headache..."
"No prob Obert."
"IT'S ROBERT!"
Tom just walked off and took his seat, next to Samantha this time. Robert took his seat across from Samantha, Zach next to him. Samantha looked up from her empty plate.
"Robert, you're okay!"
It took everyone to hear Samantha say this to look at the fine Robert.
"Weren't you worried about me?" Tom said, poking Samantha in the arm. Samantha ignored him.
"Wow, you look as good as new! How?"
"The nurse was a healing mutant! How lucky!"
"I was lucky too, Samantha!" Tom tried to get her aknowlgdement , but still got none.
Samantha reached out for a turkey sandwhich, when a little hand grabbed the plate and pulled it away. Samantha glared up evilly at Zach, who sneered and took a miniuature bite out of the sandwhich.
Robert realized there was no food around him.
"Uhhh Carlos, can you pass the fried chcken please?" Robert asked. Carlos lazily picked up the plate, his nail poked it, and it melted, scattering fried chicken across the table.
"Ummm Zach... could you pass the burgers please?"
"No."
"What? Why?"
"Cause. No."
Robert looked across the table at Scott. He had picked up one of the stray chicken legs and was having trouble tearing off a bite. He finally pulled off a bite, but the force made his arm fly into Jessica's face, a grease mark was visible on her forehead. Robert sighed at the madness.
Robert reached in front of Zach, when he felt little teeth puncture his skin.
"SONOVA BITCH!"
"ROBERT!" Scott quickley yelled.
"HE BITE ME!"
"Still that's no reason to shout sonova-"
Cyclops was drowned out by the sound of Samantha's violent barfing all over Cable, who looked very uncomfortable.
"Ummmm... Samantha? Are you alright?"
"BLARGGGGGGHHHHH!"
Cable picked up Samantha and threw her over his shoulder. Tom leapt up, grabbed her and flew down the hall. Robert turned into a wolf and dashed down the hall.
"Robert! No wolves in the house!"
Scott took off the down the hall next. Zach sat there chuckling just like Santa Claus.
"What's wrong with her, Ms... uh Nurse" Robert asked excitedly.
"A severe case of food poisoning."
"Can you fix her?"
"Of course you silly child. I am Nurse!"
Robert looked a bit taken back by this statement. Nurse reached out and put her hands on Samantha's stomach. Samantha started to convluse, Nurse drew her hands up, a thick fluid floated out of Samantha. Nurse grabbed a needle, took up some of the liquid, and put it under a microscope.
Samantha slowly sat up, her body was trembling.
"Wha the hell fire happened?" Samantha said weakly. Robert shrugged.
"Intresting..." Nurse mumbled, fiddling with the little knobs on the microscope . Scott galumphed over to Nurse, shoved her head out of the way, and looked into the microscope.
" All I see is green gunk..."
"No..." Nurse pushed Scott's head out of the way. "That's a rare and fast growing mold, it only grows in highly polluted waters though..."
"Ummm... I drank some water at lunch, then I barfed everywhere..." Cable nodded his vomit covered head in a grim agreement.
"Robert. Go get her glass of water." Scott ordered.
"Get it yourself, biclops."
"Wha? You fatherless bastard!"
"DON'T TALK ABOUT MY FATHER!" Robert yelled, tears welling up in his eyes. With that, Robert ran out of the room.
"What did I say?"
"Scott you heartless beast. You should've been more sensitive." Nurse said.
"NO! He deserved it!" Scott shrieked defensivley.
"I really don't appreciate that either Scott. You're the closest thing we have to a father." Samantha said sadly.
"Hmph...sorry then..." Scott mumbled.
"Sure. I'm going to go talk to Robert then." Samantha said, jumping up perfectly healthy again, and ran out of the room.
"So Nurse, where do you think the poison came from?" Scott asked, a more serious tone in his voice.
"No telling where it came from, or how it got there. I fear it was one the students though."
"Yes... I've been suspecting it was Zach. It appears that he's caused a few misfortunes lately, like tha danger room, and now this. I'm not sure if he's the spy or not... we don't have enough evidence to prove anything though."
"Mmmmm... well Scott you'll have to keep a closer eye on the students. No offense but I find your reasoning unreasonable sometimes."
Scott looked wounded by this comment.
"Right... c'mon Cable, back to lunch then."
Robert had his face stuffed in the pillow, crying. The bringing up of his father made him have a flashback, from almost as far back as he could remember.
horrible whooshing flashback noises
Elementary school...
"Ey!" A ten year old Robert exclaimed happily.
"What Robert?" said a thirteen year old Samantha.
"Nothin."
"Robert you're being stupid again. Stop."
"Ok sis."
Robert ran off to play foresquare.
"Sorry kid but you can't play." One of the large sixth graders told him.
" Too bad." Robert was even rebelious when he was ten.
"What's that kid?" Robert defiantly stepped into one of the squares, even though it was already occupied.
"Did you hear me kid? I said you couldn't play!"
Roc
"GAHHHHHHHHHH!" Samantha shreiked painfully.
Butch looked bewildered, Samntha thrust out her arm, Butch started floating and got slammed into the wall, blood spurting from his nose. He got picked up again, and then slammed into the wall again.
"Stop..." Butch said weakly.
Again and again into the wall, everyone, including the teachers, were standing around, watching as she continued to smash the very dead Butch into the cracking brick wall. A few moments later and Samantha floated back down to the ground, realizing what she had just done. She looked at Robert, who looked more bewildered than anyone else in the crowd.
Tears streaming down her face, she sprinted away from the scene.
Later that afternoon, Robert got off the bus, horribly confused, and still crying. He saw his front door was open.
"What shit is happening now?" Robert thought to himself.
Robert shrieked like a banshee when he saw the blood soaked scene.
His father sat hunched over in the recliner, blood spatter all over the walls, his dad's body riddled with holes, a huge pool of blood surrounded the recliner.
"Today at this school, a sixth grader died of a viscious mutant attack." The T.V. blared loudly.
Robert realized the carpet was wet, he went into the kitchen. His mom lay on the floor, also riddled with holes, the oven was on fire, and the sink was still on, overflowing. Robert realized whoever must've did this did it quickly, before anyone could even react.
Robert ran upstairs, hoping his sister was still alive. In the hall was three swat officers, their helmets had appearently imploded on their heads, crushing them. He looked into Samantha's room, and there she sat, outlined by bullet holes, but not one had touched her.
"Robert we have to get off here."
Suddenly the door flew open.
"Robert, you okay?"
Robert leapt up and gave Samantha a big hug.
"Yeaha I'm fine. Thanks."
Three hours later...
"Ok children! Who's ready for fun?" Scott said lamely. If Scott thought something was fun, it was probably really lame. He had brought everyone outside. Even though it was still in the mansion, it almost seemed like outside anyway.
"It's funday!" Scott said, still trying, and failing to get the students excited.
"Whoo." Adam said, whirling his finger in a circle.
Robert could've sworn he heard Zach hiss the second he stepped outside.
"What's wrong Zach, never been outdoors?"
"Shutup or I'll bite you again."
Tom was all over Samantha.
"Are you sure you're all right my sugar plum? I'll kill whoever did this to you!"
"Yes Tom I'm perfectly fine. Please get away from me now, people might actually think we're together."
"And what's wrong with that gumdrop?"
Samantha shoved Tom to the ground and walked away.
"Biclops... what is it we're supposed to be doing?"
"It's Cyclops, or Scott, not biclops."
"You didn't answer me."
Scott got a wicked smile and pulled out a huge remote, over a hundred buttons covered it.
"MWAHAHA! Er... more training. Less dangerous training of course."
Everyone still remained unintrigued by this.
"Ok! The first event is the laser sack race!"
"What the hellfire is that?" Barbara exclaimed.
"Okay then. Everyone find a partner."
No one moved.
"Please?"
"Scott move!" Bobby jumped out of a nearby bush and kicked Scott out of the way. There almost seemed to be a small cheer.
"Okay then. Everyone find a partner."
Robert stood next to Samantha, Tom and Carlos temaed up, the three sisters stood together. Zach and Katie paired up, leaving Adam on his own. Bobby picked up brown potatoe sacks and threw them to the teams. Adam barely managed to stuff himself into the sack.
"Alright, now the goal is to make to the end of this obstacle...course. It's only a mile long, you can do it! Powers are allowed though. Good luck!"
Everyone stood still for a second, confused. They were supposed to go a mile in a sack, and avoid obstacles. Madness!
"By the way, whoever makes it to the finish first gets to make Scott their slave for a whole hour!"
Everyone immediately started to hop, not even sure where the finish was. Robert was powered the most by the incentive of this fantastic prize, and he took the lead, Adam last.
Suddenly lasers popped out of the ground and fired at the jumping sacks. The Walter's sack exploded , the three sisters rolled out and threw a fit that they lost already.
Tom suddenly burst into the lead, his sack was hopping at a mad speed, zooming in front Robert.
"Samantha do something!" Robert exclaimed.
"Um okay... I guess... But I don't know if it's fair..." Smantha said, half-heartedly leaping, Robert doing all the work.
"Just do it!" Robert yelled, he was losing sight of Tom already.
Tom suddenly tripped, and at the fast speed he was going at, smashed face first into the ground. Carlos looked at his broken partner and laughed cruelly.
"Well um I didn't say hurt him!" Robert said, still excited, but panting now.
"Wasn't me I had no intention of even stopping him."
As Robert passed the fallen Tom, he saw there was a big splotch of brown crap-like suubstance. Adam. Robert looked behind him, and sure enough, there came Adam, the same color as the sacks. Amazingly enough, Adam's toxic form bounced, with a sickening squish sound. Adam threw a glob ahead of Robert, but Robert just leapt around it.
Samantha wasn't even trying to jump anymore, Robert turned into a wolf, and used his powerful hind legs to leap foward. Adam wasn't visible anymore, but now the goal line was, about a quarter mile ahead of him.
Robert lept harder, but his leaps turned into jumps, his jumps turned into hops, his hops turned into a shuffle. Only about ten yard away now, and strangely he didn't see anyone behind him. He finally scooted across the goal line, but suprisengly there was no one to congratulate him.
At the top of the hill he saw Katie and Zach hopping along, Katie looking unintrested, Zach was unnaturely white, and looked nervous about something. Behind them came Tom and Carlos, Tom had a bloody nose and a good black eye.
Bobby came out of nowhere.
"Congrats Samantha and Robert, not only have you proved you r physical condition, but you've won one slave hour over Scott. Hazaa!"
"What, really?"
"Yes. Has anyone seen Adam?"
"Yeah he was behind us. Bouncing."
"Say what? Robert that wasn't very nice."
"No literally, he was bouncing."
"Hunph. Hey look there he is!"
Yes but if Bobby if had any sense, he would notice that something was terribley wrong with him, his hand clutched his flabby chest, his face was a dark red, and he was covered with sweat. He collapsed at the top of the hill, his body wasn't heaving with his breaths anymore.
"ADAM!" Bobby shrieked and ran up the hill.
Everyone else stood silenlty, watching their fallen comerade.
Ed. Note: Ha another chapter well done I think. Okay I was too lazy to add more to it but oh well. Yay more foreshadowing. Things falling apart, no kidding. Who's ready for explosions and fictional violence? I am! Woot!