By animeninjaNIPPON

Johnny stomped into his house at about 1am, and for once, Rev. MEAT didn't put his two cents in. In fact, Johnny couldn't find Rev. MEAT anywhere, but it was just as well, since he'd forgotten where he'd put the statuette anyway. He reached for his Die-Ary, then after a second thought picked up a stack of "Happy Noodle Boy" comics and began working on those.

It wasn't long after that when Nny heard that voice again. "Tell me how it went."

"Not now," Johnny mumbled.

"Don't you want to relay your information while you can still remember it clearly?"

"I want nothing. I have nothing."

"Wrong. You have feeling, like any other person. It is what drives humanity, you know."

Johnny looked up. "Where are you, anyway?"

"Don't try to change the subject! Besides, I am a part of you, remember? The part of you that feels every sensation - soap in your eyes, wind in your hair, the beating of your heart at the sight of a lover - "

"Excess! Only excess; that's all you ever talk about!" Nny stood up. "I don't want to hear about your filthy desires!"

"Those desires are yours, not mine." Rev. MEAT stepped out into the open.

Nny glared in anger and slight surprise. "You've become another one of the doughboys..."

"No I haven't," Rev. MEAT argued. "They grew away from you. But I'm still a part of you - I AM you!"

"You're NOT!"

"I am another version of you, Nny - I am you as you should be, functioning as you should be."

"STOP!" Johnny cried. "You are NOTHING, ESPECIALLY if you claim to be me! I am nothing to no one!"

"You're something to Squee. You're a friend to that boy. And you are a slave to - "

"DIE!"

Johnny brandished a kitchen knife, stained maroon from past slayings, and drove it deep into Rev. MEAT's plastic head.

The Big Boy statue chuckled. "You can't get rid of me. I've been with you for too long. Even if I fall silent, you'll still be a slave to something."

"I'm free," Johnny argued. "You hear me? Answer me, dammit!"

Silence.

"Answer me!"

"Nny..." called a strangely familiar voice.

"That voice...I know it."

"Don't you remember? You heard me before..."

"You... I know you..."

"Don't listen to him, Nny. He's only trying to steal your existence."

Johnny gasped. "You're...You're..."

The voice fell silent again.

"NailBunny..."

Everything faded to black.

End of part eight