Authors note: I changed my mind, I want to keep on uploading because 37 or 38 chapters is a lot for a story.
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Within moments Jimmy and the mysterious mercenary were tied up Jimmy was still bleeding slightly, the aardvark man merc had a black eye. Jimmy had some cuts from the broken glass that had dried up, this scene seemed deadly familiar, it wasn't good, and it reminded him of Pulp Fiction… No it was like Pulp Fiction except it was going to be much worse like a bad movie playing.
The pawn shop owner known as Giorgio was brandishing a baseball bat threatening both Jimmy and the mercenary, "When Jed gets here the fun will begin."
"I am Jimmy Crosswire, you better let me go, my uncle is Ed Crosswire, and the Crosswire's will sue your ass!"
"I don't care if you are a world leader, but we got two birds with one stone" The seedy aardvark man replied, then threatened to hit Jimmy, "If you both shut up, and face your punishments then you will both be allowed to leave, if you both get into trouble, then we kill you both.
Within moments Jed had arrived, he was a piss poor county sheriff known as Tanzanian from Teal County who had worked with Roscoe Davenport; he was only arraigned but is working to get Sonny out of Jail.
"Ok, the fun will begin!" Jed yelled, he pointed at the mercenary, "You are first."
Jed and the shop keep untied the merc and dragged him into the next room, Jimmy could hear groaning, "Shut up!" Jed yelled at the merc and turned to Giorgio, "Giorgio get the chili oil!"
"Oh god!" Jimmy yelled he knew what they were doing to the poor man, which was most likely something painful as they were sadists he heard the screams from the mercenary as they used chili oil on him; Jimmy untied the rope and left the pawn shop.
There he ran into Reno he grabbed the collar of the suit and pushed him against the wall, "You! I am going to kill you! I am going to wrap my hands around your neck and strangle you to death!"
"You won't believe what went on in there," Jimmy replied as he was getting the life chocked out of him.
Reno didn't care, "Well, you better have a good explanation for the police, they want information, and the Crosswire name is like a rash on their computers apparently."
"That guy I hit had a chainsaw; no normal person walks around carrying a chainsaw and wears armor!"
They just went back to Crosswire motors saying nothing Reno wanted to kill him but that wouldn't be the best way, moments after they both left the old country commissioner arrived, Davenport who was driving a crappy pickup truck parked it, the overweight bear man dressed in white as he was smoking a very cheap cigar walked into the pawn shop. He saw what they were doing to the poor man and he just watched as Giorgio shoot the mercenary dead, "Excellent, when Salvatore Benneditto arrives and his brothers arrive the death of the cultists will come we will resurrect Tony and pick up Sonny today… They will rue the day when they cross Roscoe Davenport! Now get that corpse out of here!"
They had wrapped it in several sheets of cloth tying his hands and legs together and dumped it in the back of a pickup truck they had drove to a bridge that wasn't too busy and dumped the body off the bridge.
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Mr. Crosswire was waiting for Reno and Jimmy of course, "So how did the meeting go? Sell a lot of cars?"
"Your nephew should tell you," Reno stated as he was annoyed he had visions of killing Jimmy with a crowbar.
"I kind of went extreme when I told the police officer something called 'the awful truth', he just told us to get out."
Mr. Crosswire grumbled under his breath, "Jimmy, when you sell a police officer, paramedic or fire fighter a vehicle, please stick to the facts and don't make it into CSI or Law and Order. You sir are fired."
"But uncle!" Jimmy exclaimed as he was escorted off the property.
Mr. Clarkson chuckled, "Good riddance to some bad rubbish..."
"What was that Reno?"
Reno stopped laughing, "Nothing sir."
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"We better get going," One of the handmaidens stated, "Word from the locals is that some mercenaries and heresy lords are on the way here to detain you both."
Sue Ellen, Fern and the five handmaidens quickly left the planet, "Where to?" Fern asked.
Within moments, the hand maidens gave Sue Ellen and Fern some outfits, they were dark gothic outfits.
Sue Ellen was far from impressed with the choice of outfit a dark silky like outfit, "Fern I am picking the next planet you know."
They got off the ship and it was raining, and they ran into the sanctuary.
Fern sighed happily, "I like the outfit its dark and has a nice feeling to the skin."
There were many aliens and other non alien species wearing outfits that was dark colored the skin of these inhabitants was pale as the planet didn't have much sunshine but was life sustainable at about 80 Celsius.
"Next time I pick the planet." Sue Ellen replied she didn't like the clothes or the planet at all.
She sighed, as she looked outside the gloomy street that resembled a mid 18th century street, with cobblestone walkways, many devices of punishment at the time in the town square even places to hang people, Sue Ellen almost fainted as she had seen an alien corpse that was an aardvark with devil horns removed.
One of the police officers wearing something of an old style 18th century London police uniform looked at Sue Ellen who looked like she was going to be sick, "Don't worry, he was sentenced for killing and drinking the blood of a female virgin for satanic purposes."
Sue Ellen ran to the nearest trash can and threw up, Fern ran over to see her and she heard thunder "Thundering, we better get indoors..."
The handmaiden sat them both down, "This planet is well known for their strong affection for horror movies and cult horror films, it is their lively hood to make the whole planet look scary, this side of the planet doesn't have the fear hounds, and it is usually dark overcast days with rain and some thunderstorms, there really hasn't been a sunny day here for a while."
Sue Ellen sighed nervously as she held her stomach and looked at the black roses on the coffee table, "…great." This wasn't good for her morale; she had secretly hoped some heresy lords would come so they could change planets.
"We are going to have so much fun here!" Fern commented excitedly, "We can tell horror stories and force Buster here."
Sue Ellen explained, "Apparently Buster traveled through here, he went into some sort of shock being exposed to too much of the fear hounds scent."
One of the handmaidens began to speak, "The moon of Exodus is faithfully known as 'the land of the dead' to the locals they bury the dead here now, but years... 20000 years ago they did it here, but people wanted to settle here instead; enough about that lets just get some rest."
"…Wait," Fern interjected, "Tell us some sort of scary story or legend that was based here."
"Are you sure?" The handmaiden replied, "It is scary."
"Yea, go ahead."
"Ok, 10000 years ago, Exodus was pretty much a small colonized planet population under 400000 but growing, the colonists weren't used to the fear that struck them when the fear hounds came to emit their scent, as generations had past the people here had developed an immunity to the scent, this place doesn't have an army, they hire soldiers and hunters to kill any fear hound due to the Fear Hound Act passed 20000 years ago in the Senate based on Corn. Member planets thought it was a waste of money, Gaia, Terra and Obsidian was the ones who were able to sway the vote but rumors claimed it was rigged because someone got some of the scent and put it in the diplomat's quarters, so they voted for it, the main council was for the act and it passed."
"This really isn't scary…" Fern criticized as she hoped for something really scary.
"Well, just wait, there was a squadron of soldiers sent here from Rydia, they were sent to investigate some strange activity in some catacombs, when they went in none had returned, legend said a demonic monster had killed them, the monster was towering at five meters, it used its teeth to rip a persons head off, its claws could tear the skin as their claws were about five inches long; the monster looked like a oversized pit bull, it had razor sharp teeth, and to any locals who had seen it, it was like Cujo on steroids which we will be watching if you both are up to it.. The members of his squad had died, as they were torn apart by the monsters from within."
And she continued to talk about the legend.
Moments later Sue Ellen and Fern were in bed, their eyes wide open trembling with fear. This nervousness wasn't helping them as they could both hear howling in the distance.
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On Earth it was daytime; Arthur confronted D.W. "D.W. Max had to go to the hospital; you know where you kicked Max?"
"Yea?" D.W. asked as she thought she finally got rid of them.
Arthur continued to tell of the situation that happened, "He is actually a girl now, he had to go in for surgery because you kicked him and it destroyed his reproductive organs."
Muffy was with Max she was dressing him up like a girl, he was wearing one of Muffy's dresses, "I don't want to do this!"
"Calm down… put the cup on it won't hurt if she does it again."
Max was a bit confused, "Why are you still here? Thought you went to some fancy private school."
Muffy started to explain, "My parent's didn't like it; they figured I should come back here…"
Muffy did the final touches, did Max's hair and now Max was a dead giveaway as a girl as he had stolen Fern's red hair bow.
Buster checked him... (Or her) out, "Hey good looking, how about me and you go on a date?"
Max turned around, "Yea right…"
Buster freaked and ran inside he was wearing his normal clothes, to Mr. Ratburn, "M-Max is wearing a dress!"
Mr. Ratburn sighed, "Buster, I want you to walk out that door, and pretend that we never had this conversation…"
Arthur had signaled Max to walk forward and D.W. was shocked, "See this is what the result of your action was he won't be a boy ever again."
D.W. was horrified, "I am sorry! I didn't know there were bad things!"
Max started to laugh as D.W. took a deep breath and… "(BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP) YOU!"
In Mr. Haney's office
"Dear lord, that was the loudest swear word I ever heard anyone say!" Mr. Haney said as he was shocked and appalled as he looked outside along with everyone else in the area.
Outside D.W. kicked Max in the same spot but it didn't faze him because of the cup. Max walked back to the limo and he changed into his usual blue jeans and black shirt, he walked up to join Arthur and D.W.
D.W. confronted Max, "Well?"
"We are not going to the TV studio," Max whined, "And how did you like your punishment?"
"No comment," D.W. smiled evilly, "I will tell your mother that you hit me last night."
Max wasn't fazed by the threat, "You are going to be gravely disappointed when they don't allow you to go on the show."
The bell rang and he went to class, Max sat down at his desk with a bored look on his face he had forgot something so he got up and he gave his teacher an apple, he didn't want to be the one to tell D.W. this but it was nagging inside him, he turned to Arthur, "Your sister is a pain."
"Welcome to my world," Arthur joked as it wasn't anything new, "What is she doing this time?"
"Everything," Max replied as everything was wrong, "She wants me to take her to a TV studio."
Arthur laughed, "I am not even going to ask, but for some reason this interests me…"
"What will my mom say?" Max asked nervously, "She will think I am being bullied, and well it will be too embarrassing…"
Arthur chuckled, "What does your mom do when you are getting bullied?"
"Well she walks me to school and hunts down the person who bullied me."
Buster pointed at Max, "You are evil."
"No, you are, you push a lackluster TV show called Postcards from Buster, PBS has enough problems with funding as it is…"
Buster was frozen in his tracks he looked like he was going to wet his pants, as well as he looked like he was going to cry.
Max and Arthur continued their conversation.
Arthur reassured him, "D.W. is no bully, but a pain, she has done some silly things in her life, but she truly is afraid of an octopus."
"Where am I to get one? Can you buy one in a pet store?" Max asked as he hasn't seen one before.
"Well, you could make one… but Sue Ellen or Fern are good at being creative, so I wouldn't know…" Arthur stated as it was a dumb suggestion, "Jack's joke shop could have plastic octopuses."
Mrs. Armstrong was writing some notes when the Brain walked in, "I am not worried about Fern and Sue Ellen; I just want to see for their safe return."
"I know I want them back here where they belong, but if some strange people are after them, it just doesn't sit right with me how they have to travel to many strange places without their parents being there."
The Brain had the right words, blunt words but completely right for the time, "It is called self sacrifice."
Mrs. Armstrong sighed again; it was almost true. Those words had pierced through her like a knife as she was eating the Granny Smith apple, "I know…"
TBC
