"Last time..." Chris hacked up a huge portion of that black goo that he'd been choking up for the past few intros, "Dammit... this body needs to rest... but how long can I hold it out for?" Chris looked back up at the camera and still played along with the reality show gimmick, even though he knew full well that nothing was being broadcasted, "Apologies for my sickness... last time, I decided to have our prisoners try out a new challenge, one that would require them to solve a few simple tasks without using their powers and while wearing handcuffs... Davy seemed to have made a bit of an enemy with Jacque, while Aztaroth took advantage of his 'servant' Edna... Deena ended up as the victor and made a futile attempt to outsmart me. Obviously, I punished her by locking her in solitary, while I eliminated Monica for Deena's misdeed. Speaking of solitary... I should probably let her out now..." Chris laughed, "Regardless of that... it's time to see what will happen next..."
Intro Start
The intro started off with a shot of the prison, but instead of cameras popping out, the shot just went to static and cut over to the prison library.
"..." Inside the prison library, Aztaroth was reading a book but was interrupted when a loud crash came from behind him.
"..." The crash was revealed to have come from Romeo, who accidentally knocked over a bookshelf with his strength.
"..." After another static cut, Jade was seen picking up bits of litter in the courtyard, with a guard threatening to hit her if she didn't.
"..." Off in the distance, Picollo was washing off his makeup, suggesting that he didn't wanna wear it here.
"..." With the screen again turning to static, the shot was now of inside the cafeteria where Deena was eating breakfast for the day.
"..." Also in the cafeteria was Edna, who was eating god knows what.
"..." The shot stayed on Deena and Edna for a bit, before suddenly jumping to George who was looking outside from an old watchtower.
"..." George turned around, to see that a grinning Clover was behind him, causing the athlete to jump in surprise.
"..." With yet another static cut, we now got a shot of Relinda desperately trying to call someone on the prison phone, to no avail.
"..." Also in the phone room was Quinn, who had a chart of all the other contestants in her hand.
"..." Suddenly, the screen changed over to Davy and Rival, who were trying to avoid Chris in the main cell block.
"..." Off to the left side of the cellblock, Jacque and Monica were trying to talk, but for some reason couldn't remember their conversation.
"..." Finally, on the right side of the cellblock was Chef and Salem, with the former looking concerned and the latter grinning evilly.
"...There is no escape…" Instead of the final shot of the intro being of the campers around some sort of campfire, it was of a darkened figure with the dullest and deadest eyes ever…
Intro End
"God this job is so boring..." A 6'2" sandy caucasian male with a somewhat skinny build yawned as he waited on the docks for a shipment to arrive at the prison. He wore a red intern shirt, gray pants, and black shoes. His brown hair was short and combed backward, and his pale blue eyes looked extremely uninterested. "How much longer till this supply boat is supposed to get here?" The man asked another intern.
"I dunno Kyle." The second intern replied, he stood at a height of 5'9", had a slightly muscled build to him, and had a light tan for his skin tone. He had dark green eyes as well as long blonde hair that was tied into a ponytail. He wore a dark blue intern shirt, gray pants, and brown shoes, "Would ya stop asking me already?"
"Well, sor-ry." Kyle sneered, "This job is boring as hell, Mikey, I gotta have something to keep my interest for more than two seconds."
Mikey rolled his eyes in response, "I'm sure Chris'll love to hear you say that."
"Fuck Chris," Kyle responded, "That guy's been acting like a creep ever since he discovered this prison a few... days..." Kyle let out a large fit of coughs.
Mikey looked over at Kyle with concern, "You good man? That sounded pretty bad."
"Yeah, I... don't know what came over me..." Kyle shook his head, "Anyways like I was saying, Chris has been a real asshole since he came over to this prison, with his constant mumbling about having the perfect game and shit like that. I-" Kyle suddenly kneeled over and began to cough even more.
"Hey!" Mikey ran over to the fallen Kyle, "What's going on!?" Mikey asked Kyle as he coughed in pain, Mikey looked a lot more concerned for the intern than before.
"I..." Suddenly both Mikey and Kyle heard a loud crack come from Kyle's body, which alerted the two.
"Holy shit what was that!?" Mikey asked as Kyle began to foam from the mouth.
Kyle's eyes widened as he looked over at Mikey, "Help..." Kyle managed to let out before he fell to the ground and began to spaz out on the dock.
Mikey could only watch in horror as his fellow intern's body began to mutate into a horrifying body of flesh and bone, with only his head staying the same as before. Kyle was unrecognizable from the intern he was before, not even his clothes could be seen on his horrid body...
"KYLE!" Mikey grabbed a radio to call someone for help, "I NEED HELP SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH KY-"
Mikey's call was suddenly ended as Kyle's spazzing ended up kicking the other intern away. Normally being kicked to the ground wouldn't be a problem for someone, but luck wasn't on Mikey's side today, and he landed head first onto a large rock that was jutting on the ground, splitting the back of his head slightly open and knocking him out.
Kyle weakly got up as he saw the sight of the unconscious Mikey in front of him, he let out a weak whimper as he tried to help the intern up off the ground.
"What the hell is that!?" An intern ran out of the prison and saw the sight of Kyle and the unconscious Mikey in front of him... something that didn't look all that good for the mutated intern. "Holy shit that thing killed Mikey!" The intern yelled out at another intern, "Get the rifle from the armory, we gotta kill this thing!"
Kyle's eyes widened as the other intern ran off to go grab a weapon. Kyle let out a whimper as the intern who noticed him first picked up a rock and threw it at him. Obviously, the intern knew it wasn't gonna do much, but he seemed to be too stubborn to stand there and let the 'dangerous' monster get away.
Kyle tried to speak out to the other interns to explain who he was and what happened, but all that came out of his mouth was a series of groans and moans.
"Got it!" The other intern ran outside while holding an emergency rifle, he wasted no time aiming it at Kyle and pulling the trigger...
Kyle closed his eyes braced for the impact of the bullet but felt himself subconsciously running away... he opened his eyes to see everything around him as just a blur, and his body was running as far away from the other two interns. Kyle whimpered as he found himself in the execution room... he knew a place in here he could hide from the interns in... and it was most likely his only chance to survive...
The intern pulled the trigger, only for Kyle to completely disappear from sight. The duo looked around to see if they could see where Kyle went but it was hopeless, the mutated intern was completely gone.
"Where did it go?" The intern asked as the other intern ran over to Mikey and checked his pulse, only to find out that he was still alive.
"Holy shit!" The first intern replied in relief, "Mikey's alive, Dan, he's alive!"
"Are you serious!?" Dan ran over while making sure Kyle was nowhere in sight, "Thank god... we should put him somewhere safe so he can rest for a bit... how bad is his injury?"
The other intern gently turned Mikey over to see that he just had a small head injury, "It doesn't look too bad... first aid should be able to fix it up..."
The two picked up Mikey and brought him to the prison, they were still worried about the loose Kyle, but their focus turned to helping Mikey out...
A few hours later Dan and Chris sat in the prison's mailroom, which was turned into a makeshift hospital where Mikey sat unconscious in a bed, "I don't know what the thing was... but it nearly killed Mikey..." Dan told Chris as he watched over the injured Mikey.
"I see..." Chris rubbed his chin as he paced around the room, "I'll have an expert kill the beast immediately... as for Mikey, I've already called over a doctor to take him to a real hospital... I don't think he'll be returning to work on this season after this..."
"That's good to know..." Dan looked down at Mikey before turning to the door, "It's getting late, so I'm going to head off to bed, if you need me to help hunt that monster, I'm free to do so..."
"I don't believe that will be necessary..." Chris replied as Dan nodded and left the room. After waiting a few minutes for Dan to go far away, Chris turned over to Mikey, who began to wake up
"Huh?" Mikey blinked twice, "W-where am I?"
"So Kyle is a monster now..." Chris stated as Mikey looked around the room, "How interesting..."
"What?" Mikey rubbed his eyes as Chris shushed him.
"Please be quiet..." Chris ordered Mikey, who was still mumbling in confusion, "Unfortunately for you Mikey... I've already thought of what to do with Kyle, and I can't have any chance of you ruining it..." Chris pulled Mikey's pillow out from under his head, "So this is goodbye."
"Wait what are y-" Mikey was cut off by Chris calmly smothering him with the pillow. The intern tried his hardest to fight back, but there was nothing he could do... after a small struggle, Mikey was gone...
"That takes care of that." Chris dusted himself off, "Salem." Chris clapped his hands, causing the demon to appear, "Dispose of this body..."
Salem grinned as he grabbed Mikey, "As you wish..."
Back in the present, Jade and Rival sat in the same cell together, talking to each other about yesterday's events. "I just can't believe that happened." Jade covered her face with her hands as Rival, "I knew Chris was a horrible person... but I didn't think it was this bad. Monica never deserved that..." Jade bit at her thumb nervously.
"I know." Rival agreed as he looked away, "This whole prison is a horrible place..."
Jade looked around to see if anyone else was in the cellblock, "You know... between the two of us... I was thinking of starting a sort of revolt against Chris... after everything he's done. I know it sounds crazy, but I think if we all work together we can all take him down."
"Are you sure about this?" Rival asked with concern, "Who knows what he'll do to us if we try something like that?"
"I know there's a risk involved." Jade replied, "But I think Jacque, Relinda, and Clover especially could help up stop Chris... as much as I wouldn't want to work with someone like Clover, I've heard from Relinda that her power makes it impossible for you to fight back, while Jacque and Relinda could hold him down if he does manage to fight back... it's our only chance."
Rival sighed as he looked around, "You're right... but I'm still terrified of fighting against him... I don't want to be responsible for someone going to jail..."
"I know..." Jade grabbed Rival's hand, "But it's all we can do... we either go down fighting or we slowly let him take us down one by one... please Rival... we have to work together on this."
Rival teared up as he pulled Jade in for a hug, "You're right... it's our best shot... I just hope it goes well..."
"We'll do it after the next elimination... we need time to gather everyone..." Jade stated as she held Rival close, "I'll try talking to Jacque first..."
"Got it..." Rival nodded as he pulled back.
As the two prepared to go off and ask some of the other prisoners to help with their revolts, Jade suddenly began to blink a few times before she shook her head, with Rival following along not long after.
"Huh?" Jade looked around, "When did I get here?" Jade asked herself as Rival also looked around.
"Yeah... why are you in my cell?" Rival rubbed his eyes in confusion.
"I don't know..." Jade shook her head, "I'm gonna have to try and remember what happened... I don't usually forget things..."
"Y-yeah... good luck with that." Rival waved goodbye to Jade as she left the cell, their plan of revolting had been stopped before it even started...
Relinda yawned as she sat alone in the cafeteria, normally everyone would be here to eat breakfast, but everyone else seemed to be busy with other tasks at the moment, whether it be Aztaroth dealing with Edna on his back, Jacque minding his own business in his cell, or Deena who was still locked in Solitary confinement. "It's very quiet today." Relinda thought to herself as Salem teleported himself and Chris into the cafeteria.
"Hello, prisoners..." Chris looked around at the near-empty cafeteria, "Hmm... I expected to see everyone here anxiously waiting for the return of your fellow prisoner... Salem?" Chris looked over at his intern.
"With pleasure." Salem began to teleport around the prison, bringing all the prisoners, except for Deena, into the cafeteria, "That's everybody."
"Jesus Christ." Jacque groaned as he dizzily took in his surroundings, "You can't do that to a man."
Chris grinned, "Oh it was for a good cause, Deena's solitary ends today... don't you want to welcome your... friend's... return to this prison?"
"Not particularly, no," George replied with a smirk on his face.
"Oh well..." Chris shrugged as Salem brought Deena back to the room, she didn't seem all that changed from her visit to solitary, looking more bored than anything, "Here she is..."
"That's what you call solitary confinement? That was weak." Deena rolled her eyes as she looked over at where breakfast was usually set out for the prisoners, "Anyways, where's breakfast? I'm starving."
"Oh... right..." Chris gave an evil grin, "I need all of you to do a little task for me before you can eat your breakfast... something simple..."
Deena rolled her eyes in annoyance, "What do you want?"
Chris smiled as Salem teleported them to the execution room, giving the prisoners yet another fright from being teleported suddenly. "Inside this room is this..." Chris pushed a box out of the way, revealing a trap door hidden underneath it, "The entrance to the prison's sewer systems..."
"Ew..." George gagged as he thought about the sewers, "Couldn't have picked somewhere cleaner for the challenge?"
Chris rolled his eyes as George interrupted him, "Unfortunately for all of you, it's required that you go down here and search for someone... important... who's hiding out down here."
"Someone important?" Jade asked, "Like one of your friends or something?"
Chris shook his head, "Oh heavens no... it's a wild animal that mutated and snuck away down here... Salem tried to catch it, but it ended up being too fast for him..."
"An animal?" Relinda tilted her head, "How could that be so hard to catch?"
"It appears that humans aren't the only ones who gain special abilities in this prison..." Chris responded, "A raccoon that the other interns have named 'Birsha' ended up gaining this ability to move super fast, and he's been a pain for everyone who's tried to catch him."
"So we're just your little extermination squad, got it." Jacque rolled his eyes.
Chris smiled in response to Jacque's comment, "So smart Jacque... that is exactly what you're needed for... the first prisoner to find and kill this raccoon will win immunity."
"Oh Davy'll do this easy peasy." Davy cracked his neck, "Some raccoon isn't enough to take him down!"
"What if I grab the raccoon and set it loose inside the prison..." Clover smiled at the thought, "Seeing the interns react in horror to something they tried so hard to catch finally coming after them would be amazing..."
"I see that nobody here has any objections..." Chris looked at the group, "So hurry up and find that animal..." Chris ordered, "Stop wasting time..."
After Chris ordered all of the prisoners to go down into the sewers, and they all went through the trapdoor, Chris turned over to Salem, "Lock them down there until they complete the task... I'd like to see who can take out poor Birsha first..."
"Of course..." Salem grinned as he pushed the box back over the trap door.
Confessional: Aztaroth
"Oh this challenge will be too easy," Aztaroth grinned, "Edna is basically a dog, and she can just sniff out this 'Birsha' for me. I'll just have to beat her up as a reward for her service."
Confessional Over
Confessional: Relinda
"Poor raccoon..." Relinda frowned at the thought of killing a raccoon, "But if it's mutated it's probably in a lot of pain... hopefully I can finish it off painlessly.
Confessional Over
Confessional: George
George smiled widely, "Catch a raccoon? That's way too easy, might as well just give me the immunity."
Confessional Over
Confessional: ?
The Lights in the confessional stayed off as only a pair of eyes and a smile could be seen peeking out of the darkness, "They have no idea what they're in for... this will be fun to watch..."
Confessional Over
The sewers were very dark and wet, which was obvious due to them being a sewer system, but it still wasn't pleasant to walk around in. The contestant were all in a group at the moment, but it was pretty obvious that they were gonna all split up to try and win the challenge by themselves.
"Alright Edna, let's go find ourselves a raccoon to deal with..." Aztaroth fixed his jacket as Edna panted and looked around the sewers.
Edna smiled and jumped up, "Of course mastaroth! Edna will do whatever you need!"
"Pfft." George began to chuckle, "Don't even bother looking for it, I'm gonna take it out so quickly you won't even know what happened!" George declared to the other prisoners.
"I would love to see that happen. You look like a twig, I doubt you could even catch a squirrel." Deena laughed at George's expense.
George shook his head, "Laugh all you want, you won't be laughing when I win this challenge like it's nothing!"
Deena rolled her eyes and chuckled, "Rrrright, you're gonna win this challenge! That's a pretty funny joke because you're gonna be left crying to mommy after this."
George clenched his fist in annoyance, "Well, we'll just see about tha-" George suddenly disappeared from everyone's sight, with the sound of a wall being cracked echoing through the halls of the sewers, and then the sound of George yelling in pain.
"What the hell!?" Rival jumped back, "Where did George go!?"
"It's gotta be that way!" Jade pointed to where the noises were coming from, "Quick! Let's go follow it!" Jade ran after to where she thought George was.
"Holy crap..." Jacque chased after Jade, "That was so sudden... just... instantly he was gone..." Jacque stated as the group all ran after George.
The group kept running for a few minutes until they eventually stopped at a corner turn, where they saw George being repeatedly hit by what looked like a blur to them.
"What the..." Davy watched as George was being beaten up by the blur, "Uh... guess Davy can grab it while it's distracted."
"I've got a better idea..." Jacque stepped forward, "He's going nowhere now." Jacque suddenly used his powers on the blur, revealing the horribly mutated intern Kyle, who was now known as Birsha as well as causing George's now unconscious body to fall to the floor. The sight of the intern shocked almost everyone there, with Clover and Edna being the exceptions, Chris told them that this monster was just a raccoon... but it was far from that... it was clearly a human. Jacque let go of Birsha in his surprise, which led to him letting out a mix of a growl and a whimper at the prisoners before running off before anyone could react.
"That's..." Relinda stared at where Birsha was widened.
Jade shook in complete horror as she finished Relinda's sentence, "Not a raccoon... it looked like a horribly disfigured person..."
Davy backed up, "Woah woah woah, Davy isn't a murderer! Davy just likes having a good time not killing... whatever that was!"
Deena gulped, "I'm with you on that... I... don't think I can do this..."
"Fuck that noise." Jacque crossed his arms as a look of anger appeared on his face, "If Chris thinks he can just have us go and kill some random guy for his entertainment, he's-"
"Correct in every step of the word." Aztaroth blankly stated, catching the surprise of everyone in the area.
"What the hell are you talking about!?" Deena asked in anger, "Nobody here is gonna kill that guy!"
Aztaroth smirked as he stepped away from the others, "I knew you lot were daft, but I didn't think it was that bad, do you really think Chris cares about our morals? I can take a wild guess and assume he won't be too happy about you trying to avoid the task he's given us." Aztaroth stated, "I'm no killer either, but I'm not gonna anger the man who has a demon at his beck and call."
"Oh shut up alre-" Deena tried to throw a punch at Aztaroth, but he caught her fist and responded by punching her in the face, causing her nose to start bleeding.
"My my, so quick to violence aren't you?" Aztaroth smirked as the other prisoners backed away from the fight, "It's no wonder you ended up here, you're quite uncivilized." Aztaroth turned around and walked off on his own, "You'll realize eventually that you can't tempt fate... eventually you'll buckle to what Chris says..."
While Deena and Aztaroth had their little argument, Clover sat away from the rest of the prisoners and smiled to herself, "The despair... Birsha... you're the perfect embodiment of despair... forget bringing him to the rest of the interns... I'll protect you from the rest of these people... they can't end your suffering..."
After the argument between Deena and Aztaroth, the prisoners began to split off one by one, with only Relinda, Rival, Jade, and the unconscious George being left in the area.
"You two go on..." Relinda stayed over George's body, "I'll make sure nothing happens to him."
"Are you sure?" Jade asked the waitress, "I think he'll be fine, I don't see anything else down here."
"I'm sure." Relinda replied as she stayed next to George, "What kind of person would I be if I left someone alone and helpless? Besides... I'm never gonna win this challenge anyways... not after... not after seeing what we're going after..."
"Godspeed then Relinda." Rival nodded as he and Jade began to walk down the corridor.
"Just don't do anything risky, ok?" Jade asked Relinda.
"Got it..." Relinda bleakly replied as the two walked away to go find Birsha, leaving Relinda all alone with George. Relinda sighed as she looked at George, "I hate seeing people in pain, you know? Even if it's someone like you who's a huge jerk... I can't help but feel sorry for you..." Relinda somberly stated as she looked down, "This place is so awful... I can't help but wonder what's gonna be the breaking point for me?" Relinda asked herself as she looked at where Rival and Jade walked off to. Relinda picked George up with her powers and began to walk after them, "Maybe I should make sure they're safe..."
Davy and Deena were the only people besides Rival and Jade to go as a pair, and the two seemed to be a lot more upset than they usually acted.
"Davy doesn't know about this..." Davy shivered, "Davy's had all sorts of run-ins with cops and stuff like that, and yeah they've definitely gotten violent, but Davy's never killed a guy before... especially not a... freak like that..." Davy let out a small laugh to break the tension.
"Me neither," Deena shook her head, "Maybe if it was like a life or death situation with someone who was threatening someone who I really cared about, then yeah, I'll gladly cave their skull in for even thinking that was a good idea... but someone who seems to be attacking out of self-defense right now? That's pretty far, even for my standards. Besides, what would I tell someone like Andrius if I straight-up murdered a person? I don't think he'd wanna see me anymore..."
Davy gave a slight smile, "Hah, sounds like you care about someone!" Davy teased, "Davy, on the other hand, could care less about the many exes and 'friends' he's had in his life, they're all nobodies who just want a chance with greatness." Davy put his hands behind his head, "The only people Davy's ever needed are his bandmates, especially Paul, man always had a ton of weed for the group!"
"He was my best ex-boyfriend, to be honest." Deena replied, "Obviously we were probably the worst couple together, we couldn't stop arguing over the smallest things, but I couldn't help but be charmed by him, he was just a sweet kid, I guess, and that was all that mattered to me." Deena shrugged, "I guess that ship sailed though, he just couldn't handle being with someone like me and dropped the relationship, didn't really try to adjust to it."
Davy laughed, "Sounds like a nerd to me."
"Yeah," Deena shrugged, "But he's my nerd. Anyways when I get out of here I'm gonna pay him a little visit, maybe make fun of his crooked glasses or something." Deena joked.
"Davy should join in on that!" Davy laughed, "He'll help you break into his house so you can scare him in the middle of the night!"
Deena began to laugh hard, "I'm not gonna..." Deena kept laughing, "Scare him to death you psycho, not when he's the only ex of mine that I like... ok except for maybe this one super muscular guy I met. He was pretty cool, but he had kids and I wasn't ready to deal with that."
"Oh yeah, kids are the worst!" Davy agreed, "Always whining and stuff like that!"
"Oh tell me about it!" Deena nodded, "Have you ever seen a kid in juvie? They're the worst."
"Oh yeah!" Davy cracked his neck as the two kept walking forward, "Always yelling and being big babies, like damn, shut up already!"
"Especially the ones who scream about how they don't deserve to be here!" Deena added, "Like dude, you stabbed your parents to death, you got off pretty easy to be honest."
"Or the kids who constantly bang on the cell doors to piss off the guards!" Davy shook his head, "Davy can appreciate a good prank to pull on the guards, they're all assholes, but damn, do it sometime when Davy is not trying to sleep! Davy needs his energy to rock out!"
The two kept up their conversation before they reached a crossroad in the path, one path that went right while the other went forward.
"Well, looks like it's time to split up." Deena shrugged as she kept walking forward, "See ya later Davy." Deena waved at the rocker as he turned right and followed that path.
"See ya bitch!" Davy called out, getting a middle finger in response, "Davy'll talk to ya later!"
While the two walked away from each other, they both now focused on the goal of the challenge... which made them both realize... they really don't want to kill this guy...
"Damn. Maybe Davy should've stayed with Deena." Davy thought to himself as his footsteps echoed throughout the sewers, "Davy was distracted from what he's gotta do the-" Davy stopped walking when he heard a strange noise echo through the hallway, something that sound like 'pair'?
"Deena?" Davy called out, "You dumbass, you gotta stay on your path, not Davy's!" Davy laughed only to hear something suddenly rapidly approaching him. "Oh fuck!" Davy jumped back, realizing what it was, "That guy is after Davy... Davy's not ready to fight this guy!" Davy got in a defensive position as he waited for Birsha to show up... but it wasn't Birsha who was coming after him... it was Clover's monster Lugosi.
"What the-" The shock of seeing the ink monster made Davy stay completely still in confusion, and that confusion was enough to allow Lugosi to pounce him and take him to the floor. "Ah! Get off of... Da...v...y" Davy felt all will to fight back suddenly be removed from his body... nothing remained in him except for pure despair...
Clover walked forward to go and pet Lugosi, "Good monster..." Clover looked over at the despair-filled Davy, "Oh poor Davy... stuck here filled with nothing but despair... but that's just perfect you know... that Birsha... he's the ultimate despair in this world... and I don't think I'll let him die anytime soon..." Clover then kicked Davy in the face and knocked him out... taking out the second of ten contestants.
"It's... very quiet here..." Rival stated as he and Jade walked through the halls, they didn't hear any sounds outside of the dripping water coming from a broken pipe in the ceiling.
"Yeah." Jade agreed, "It's pretty unnerving actually... like we shouldn't be here..."
"Mhm." Rival looked around, "But... I thought about something ever since Monica was eliminated... what if we tried fighting Chris?" Rival asked Jade, "Maybe... if we have everyone gang up on him this elimination... we can take him out."
"That's..." Jade blinked a few times, "A horrible plan you idiot."
"Really?" Rival moved back in surprise of being insulted by Jade, "I... I thought it was a pretty good idea, to be honest."
"Leave it to the man who beat his brother into a near-death state to think something like that even resembles thinking intelligently." Jade rolled her eyes and turned over to Rival, "It's no wonder you hate yourself, you're a waste of life who shouldn't have been born in the first place. But I suppose the god above had to cripple this world somehow, because in some way, you were created, a disappointment to humans everywhere."
Rival looked deeply hurt, "Jade..."
"And just for the record..." Jade formed a sword with her crystals, "Try and revolt Rival, and this will be on your hands." Jade then proceeded to stab herself with her own sword.
"HOLY SHIT!" Rival jumped forward, scaring Jade in the process.
"What happened!?" Jade jumped up, "Did you spot that guy?"
"You just..." Rival looked at Jade to see she was completely fine, "You... stabbed yourself... how are you..."
Jade raised an eyebrow in confusion, "I stabbed myself? Rival? Why would I do something like tha-"
Before Jade could finish, she was met with Birsha suddenly appearing, with the mutant ramming her into the wall and knocking her to the floor.
"Jade!" Rival screamed out for his friend, but before he could use any of his lightning to hit Birsha, he too was knocked out, with Birsha punching him in the gut multiple times to make sure he wouldn't get back up. Rival fell to the floor and began to fade out of consciousness, "Jade..." Rival reached out as Birsha hunched over him... there was nothing he could do as he passed out from the hits.
Birsha was about to stomp on Rival to do more damage, but before Birsha could hit Rival, even more, he was suddenly thrown away from the two by Relinda's telekinesis, who had caught up with them.
"Stay away from them!" Relinda yelled at Birsha as he ran off from the waitress, leaving her alone with three unconscious people. Relinda set George down and rushed over to Jade and Rival, "Oh god... I should've just brought George with me from the beginning..." Relinda stayed with the three, "I just hope someone finishes this soon... I can't leave these three alone..."
While Birsha ran through the halls he eventually came across Edna, who was sniffing at the floor to see if she could catch Aztaroth's scent. "Mastaroth hasn't been here..." Edna sadly stated as Birsha grabbed her by the head and slammed her into the ground, leaving a bloody mess behind. Birsha sadly moaned as he prepared to run away from Edna, only for her to wake up and quickly grab him by the leg.
"Mastaroth hits better than you do..." Edna's eyes dilated till they looked like two dots, "Edna needs to teach you how to hit like her master..." Edna clawed at Birsha's back, which led to the mutant screeching in pain and kicking her away. Birsha then took the chance to run far away from Edna, not even bothering to keep fighting her.
Edna looked at her bloody claw as her eyes began to go wild, "This..." Edna grinned ear-to-ear as the blood dripped onto the floor, "...Edna did good... Edna made red..." Edna's eye began to twitch, "But Edna can do better and make more red..." Edna laughed crazily as she felt her body begin to change, "Edna's... gonna go find her master... she has something to do now..."
"What the hell am I gonna do when I find this guy anyways?" Jacque asked himself as he heard nothing but drips of water throughout the area. Jacque kept his guard up despite the empty surroundings, however, he was no fool, and he knew that if Birsha wanted to, he could take him out in an instant. "This is all fucked beyond belief..." Jacque looked around... still nothing... "Fuck it." Jacque stopped looking around, "I'm not wasting my time looking around fo-" Jacque was cut off by something passing by him and hitting him to the floor, there Birsha was, with a look of fear on his face as he glared at Jacque. "Nevermind..." Jacque pulled himself to his feet to come face-to-face with Birsha, "I'm sorry about this man." Jacque prepared to fight Birsha, "I really don't want to do this."
Birsha groaned as he dashed past Jacque and knocked him back onto the floor, cracking his neck as he watched Jacque fall to the ground. Birsha was about to run away from Jacque when the man got back up with a determined look on his face. Jacque rubbed his mouth as he glared at Birsha, "Like I said before... I'm sorry about this." Jacque closed his eyes as he used his powers to knock Birsha down before he could fight back. Birsha didn't let himself go down so easily, though, seeing as he crawled over to Jacque to try and kick him in the shin, but Jacque's power was able to somewhat keep up with the mutant thanks to his power's speed.
Jacque winced as Birsha struggled against his telekinesis and he lifted him up into the air. Jacque looked away as he then tossed Birsha into the wall, causing an indent to be left from where Birsha landed. Birsha began to twitch for a bit before suddenly stopping. "That's... that..." Jacque turned away from the presumably dead Birsha. Jacque ended up making the mistake of letting his guard down because Birsha turned out to be alive. The mutant hopped up and suddenly pounced on top of Jacque, with Jacque only being fine thanks to his power giving him a shield. "Augh." Jacque tried to kick Birsha off of him but was stopped by Birsha repeatedly slamming his fists onto his face.
Jacque tried to reach into Birsha's mind to hurt him that way, but the minute he entered Birsha's mind he was met with hundreds of different thoughts racing through Birsha's brain... thanks to his power, he also thought too fast for a person to keep up with, so Jacque was stuck being attacked by Birsha.
"Get off of me..." Jacque telekinetically pushed Birsha to the floor, but Birsha's speed allowed him to recover and hit Jacque again before his shield could return. Birsha tried to get another hit off on Jacque, but Jacque hit him across the face with his psychic powers. Birsha moaned out as he punched Jacque in the side as revenge for the hit. Jacque then used his powers to push both of them away from each other so he could have a moment to catch his breath. "Fuck... I'm really gonna have to kill this guy..." Jacque sighed as Birsha rushed towards him, allowing Jacque to easily trip him up with his power.
"I'm sorry kid." Jacque mumbled as he used his power to make everything stop, just like he did with Relinda the two times before... Birsha may have been fast, but he was nowhere near as fast as 'time'. Jacque walked over to the defenseless Birsha, but instead of trying to kill him with his bare hands, Jacque did something to take away Birsha's greatest strength... he kicked at his leg until it broke, making it impossible for Birsha to run properly... Jacque then returned his shield, he wanted to make this death as painless as possible for Birsha... even Jacque had enough of a heart to not make someone suffer more than needed.
Birsha shrieked in pain as he gripped at his leg in pain. Before Birsha could do anything to react to Jacque, however, he was met with Jacque's aura surrounding his entire body. Birsha fought with the aura as Jacque stood still, it was hopeless, but Birsha still tried out of pure desperation. "Ok Jacque..." Jacque told himself, "You can do this... just put him out of his misery... he's clearly suffering..." Jacque tried to convince himself to use his power to end Birsha but he still struggled to do anything but keep him in place. Jacque began to slightly tear up as his grip on Birsha loosened, "I'm not a killer... I... I can't do this... there are some things that are too far..." Jacque thought to himself as Birsha still struggled to fight back.
Before Jacque could do anything else, however, he was met with something pouncing onto his back. "Huh!?" Jacque let go of the injured Birsha and turned around to see Lugosi holding onto him, "Oh... fuck..." Jacque's eyes widened as Clover appeared from the shadows.
"Sorry Jacque..." Clover grinned ear-to-ear as Lugosi's power began to set in, "But I can't just let you kill my precious Birsha... no siree..." Clover shook her head as Jacque was left helpless against her. Clover pulled a loose brick out of the wall that Birsha was thrown into earlier and hit Jacque over the head with it, knocking him out. "Aww... how unfortunate for Jacque..." Clover mocked as she tossed the brick away.
Birsha whimpered as he tried to back away from Clover. Clover looked over at her 'perfect despair' and gave a friendly smile, "Oh please, feel free to go run off." Clover made a shooing gesture with her hands, "I just wanted to take care of Jacque..."
Birsha suspiciously looked at Clover before dragging himself away from her, leaving a blood trail behind in the process...
"Where is that stupid monster?" Aztaroth asked himself as he walked through the halls, "I swear this place is a maze-" Aztaroth started when something suddenly caught him off guard.
"Mastaroth…" Began to echo through the halls of the sewer system, with the sound of a claw scratching against the walls accompanying it.
Aztaroth raised an eyebrow before letting out a groan of annoyance, "Edna? What is it this time."
"Edna needs to pay back the pain you gave her…" Edna's voice slowly came closer to the gambler.
"Not right now you imbecile." Aztaroth's eye began to twitch, "I have better to do than get distracted by your pain fantasies."
"Please… mastaroth…" Edna began to step out of the shadows, "Edna insists…"
While Aztaroth wasn't worried about Edna's power due to him beating her before, that calmness began to crumble when he saw Edna in front of him. Edna's claws were now about a foot in length, her eyes were completely rolled back into her head, she had fangs coming out of her face, and her feet now also grew claws.
"What… the… hell?" Aztaroth moved backward as Edna smiled.
"Edna is excited to show you a new type of pain mastaroth!" Edna leaped forward at the gambler, starting the second round between these two. Edna wasted no time delivering a slash to Aztaroth, which cut his arm a fair bit.
"Augh…" Aztaroth yelled out, immediately going into his shadow-covered form, "You're dead this time…" Aztaroth then tried to hit Edna with a punch, but was outclassed heavily by Edna's superior speed, which allowed Edna to cut Aztaroth again.
Edna looked down at her claws, "This is so much fun mastaroth!" Edna followed up with a kick to Aztaroth's leg, stabbing him with the claws on her feet.
Aztaroth fell to the ground after the hit, giving Edna the chance to hit him again with her claws. Aztaroth gripped his leg as Edna stood over him, "you… bastard…" Aztaroth coughed out as he ripped out a chunk of the wall and threw it at Edna, only for her to dodge it with ease.
"Nice try there Mastaroth!" Edna laughed as she tried to cut the gambler again, except this time Aztaroth predicted her move and grabbed her by the arm.
"Remember when I said you're dead?" Aztaroth glared at Edna as he threw her to the ground, making sure to grip her arm the whole time. "I'm not a liar." Aztaroth proceeded to stomp on Edna's face with his good leg, stunning the dog-girl.
"Ah…" Edna spat out, "Good job mastaroth… but Edna still has to pay you back!" Edna used her claw to stab Aztaroth through the other leg. While Aztaroth gripped his leg in pain, Edna quickly recovered and pushed him into the wall, giving her an opening to start clawing at him.
While Edna kept up her attack, Aztaroth managed to grab her arm again, repeating the same snap he did last time they fought each other.
"Oh no…" Edna laughed, completely ignoring her broken arm, "Anyways!" Edna stabbed Aztaroth through the shoulder, making him wince in pain. "Mastaroth is finally getting the joy Edna feels! Yay!" Edna giggled as Aztaroth delivered a punch straight to her face.
"SHUT UP!" Aztaroth knocked Edna back as took a moment to get up. Aztaroth then followed up his punch with a headbutt that knocked Edna to the ground.
While Aztaroth towered over Edna, Edna tried to stab him again, with him grabbing her arm before she could do anything. "Nice… try…" Aztaroth snarled as he prepared to break Edna's other arm, only for Edna to lean forward and bite him in the neck. "AUGH!" Aztaroth stumbled backward as Edna jumped up and stabbed him in the stomach.
"Isn't it amazing mastaroth?" Edna grinned as she pulled her claws out, causing Aztaroth to fall straight to the floor in pain. "Edna is finally just like you!"
Aztaroth pulled himself up as he gripped his stomach, "You'll… never… beat… me…" Aztaroth tried to punch Edna, but she effortlessly dodged the hit and slashed his back. Aztaroth growled at Edna as she kept on dodging his hits, it was clear she had the advantage over him by being so much faster.
"Don't worry mastaroth! It's not that bad!" Edna smiled happily, "It's super fun!" Edna then went behind Aztaroth and stabbed straight through him with her claw. "Yay! Edna wins!" Edna giggled as Aztaroth fell to the ground on his knees. "Sorry mastaroth!" Edna apologized as she pulled out her claws… leaving the injured Aztaroth to pass out on the ground…
Well, that's what Edna was planning to happen, but before she could pull her claws out from Aztaroth's back, she was stopped by him grabbing her arm and taking the chance to break it.
"Huh!?" Edna winced as Aztaroth kept her arm in his grip.
"Got…" Aztaroth panted as freed himself from Edna's claws and held her arm, "You…" Aztaroth then threw Edna by her arm into the wall, temporarily stunning her. While Edna was stuck in the wall, Aztaroth quickly charged up to her and slammed her deeper into the wall.
"This is over!" Aztaroth yelled as he proceeded to punch Edna's head further and further into the wall. Aztaroth then pulled Edna out of the wall and threw her to the floor. Aztaroth was about to keep up his assault on Edna when he noticed that she had passed out from the attack, showing that he was the winner of this brawl…
Aztaroth took a moment to process his victory, before suddenly bursting into a crazy fit of laughter, "That was fun…" Aztaroth coughed out as he fell to the floor, "But I'm still the best…" Aztaroth began to turn back to normal. Aztaroth looked over at the passed-out Edna, "Who would've thought the animal… of all things would… give me a challenge…" Aztaroth fell over on his side, "You're better than I thought Edna…" Aztaroth grinned, "But not good enough…" Aztaroth then passed out from his injuries, but he still won their second round…something that only mattered to Aztaroth…
Deena was walking through the halls of the sewer slowly and cautiously now that she was away from Davy. The sewer being like a maze obviously wasn't any help, seeing as she felt like she was constantly ending up back where she started.
"I swear..." Deena looked around the area, "I shouldn't even be trying to find this guy... what am I gonna do? Kill him?" Deena asked herself as her voice gave a quiet echo, "There's no way I could do that to... someone like that-" Deena looked down when she noticed a blood trail on the floor, as well as the unconscious Jacque against the wall, "Who's... who's blood is this?" Deena ignored Jacque and looked over at the rest of the course to see where it went. Seeing that the trail turned around the corner, Deena decided to follow it... to see whatever she could find.
Deena slowly walked forward and saw the blood trail continue, "What happened here? Did that guy get into a fight with someone?" Deena stopped as she neared the end of the trail, spotting a cowering Birsha in the corner of the area. Deena found the source of the blood trail, Birsha's broken leg from Jacque.
"Holy..." Deena said to herself as she faced the mutated man, "Shit..."
Birsha turned over to face Deena and immediately backed away from the delinquent in complete fear, his broken leg preventing him from running away. Birsha let out a noise of nervousness and fear as Deena held her arms up and approached him.
"Hey... hey... it's ok..." Deena slowly moved forward to the man, "I'm not gonna hurt you..." Deena promised as Birsha began to kick in fear. "I'm serious! I'm not gonna hurt you... you don't have to be afraid..." Deena gulped as she got closer to the mutant. "Just stay still..."
Birsha began to breathe heavily as Deena got closer until the delinquent got within arm's reach of him. Instead of attacking Birsha, Deena pulled him in for a hug. "Look, I'm not really good with this comforting sort of thing... so I'm not really sure if this is helping or not... I'm just trying to show you that I'm not gonna hurt you."
Birsha whimpered as he looked up at Deena with wide eyes, still somewhat afraid of her.
"See... it's ok..." Deena cautiously patted Birsha on the head to calm him down more.
Birsha closed his arms as he stopped whimpering at Deena, he began to feel safe near her...
Deena looked around to make sure nobody was nearby to hurt Birsha while he was defenseless, "Ok..." Deena looked over at Birsha and began to whisper to what she assumed was his ear, "Ok... look... we need to find you a way out of here... I can break the walls... but I don't know how you'll get past the water..."
Birsha nodded as Deena told him the plan.
"We could try making you a raft, and when you make it back to the land you can go look around for somewhere to hide from other people... sound good?" Deena asked Birsha.
Birsha let out a groan in response, one that sounded somewhat happy.
Deena sighed in relief, "Good... then let's try and get you out of he-"
CRUNCH.
Deena opened her eyes to see that nobody in front of her, but she still felt herself hugging Birsha. As Deena came to her senses she realized that she felt a horrible metallic taste in her mouth... Deena slowly looked down, hoping that her fear worst fear about Birsha didn't just come true, but unfortunately for her... it did.
Deena looked down to see a now headless Birsha still stuck in her grip. "What the-" Deena spat out a red liquid onto the floor of the sewers... "No no no no no. I didn't just..." Deena covered her mouth with her hands as Birsha's body fell to the ground, it was no question of what happened...
Deena killed Birsha.
Deena felt herself holding back throwing up as she realized what she did... but the biggest thing on her mind was 'why'... "What the hell!? Why did I just..." Deena teared up as she looked over at the lifeless mutant, "I wasn't..." Deena let out as she began to cry, "He was helpless... I..." Deena fell to the floor, "Why..." Deena cried, "Why?"
Chris' voice suddenly came on the intercom system in the sewers, "And it looks like Deena has won today's little challenge... in a very clever way I might add... as you know, that means she's safe from elimination while the rest of you are all in danger... but congratulations to you Deena... I'm sure you feel so happy right now... don't you?"
Deena didn't even care about Chris mocking her, she could only sit down and cry into her arms... she was supposed to be a tough girl who took nothing from nobody, the delinquent who had no fears and got herself into all sorts of trouble... but killing someone was still something not even she could think of doing. Deena st still for what felt like forever as Birsha laid in front of her, the only thing racing through her mind now being, 'why?'.
Clover mumbled to herself as she waited for the elimination ceremony to happen, she seemed to be drawing on a napkin that she took from the cafeteria, and the drawing was a very brutalized Deena.
"You've ruined something so perfect and beautiful in this world Deena..." Clover fumed with rage, "I hope you enjoy your little victory... it'll be the last thing you enjoy in this prison..." Clover snapped the pencil she was using to draw in her hands...
The prisoners sat around the middle table in the cafeteria for the fifth time... due to Deena being the only one victorious this time around, it was a lot harder for some of the prisoners to think that they were safe right now.
"Prisoners... you know the drill all too well by now..." Chris grinned, "If you don't hear me call your name... it's back to jail for you... let's start out with how Deena is safe... not that you didn't know that by now..." Chris told the prisoners.
"F-ffuck off!" Deena got up, she was still shaken up by her very sudden killing of Birsha. Deena didn't even bother staying in the cafeteria, she just shuddered and walked back to her cell... clearly she was too upset to care about what the loser thought of her.
"Clover... you're safe too..."
"Despair always prevails," Clover smirked as she got up.
"Jacque... you as well..."
Jacque got up and walked over to Chris. Jacque took one look at the host before looking down and spitting onto his shoe, "That's what I think of your 'safety'." Jacque glared at Chris.
Chris shook his head as Jacque was hit by one of his migraines, "They never learn do they? Oh well," Chris ignored Jacque who was writhing in pain on the ground,
"Jade..."
"R...right..." Jade looked sick to her stomach, she simply got up and walked out of the room.
"Relinda..."
Relinda held back tears as she got up and left the room.
"Rival..."
"You're just pure evil you know that?" Rival glared at Chris.
"George..."
"I..." George looked around, "Need to be caught up on something..."
"Davy..."
"Right..." Davy shook his head.
"Now look what that leaves us with... the master and his little servant..." Chris grinned, "Aztaroth and Edna... which one of you is gonna go back today? Will it be the master, Aztaroth... or his newly improved servant Edna..."
Edna was happily tapping her fingers together while Aztaroth stared off with pure focus in his eyes.
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...Aztaroth, time to go back to prison..."
Aztaroth smirked, "I figured as much. I would normally be upset at the loss of earning such a large sum of money and being sent back to jail... but I'm afraid I won't be going to jail." Aztaroth pulled out his freedom idol.
Chris grinned, "I knew you had it, I just figured it'd be fun to see your reaction..."
"Awww... mastaroth is leaving already!?" Edna whimpered, "Edna'll miss you mastaroth!"
"Yes, this is where we permanently part ways... I'll admit.. you're a very... horribly behaved fellow... but I suppose I've grown to enjoy your quirks just a little bit... at least when you weren't trying to kill me." Aztaroth turned to the hosts, "Alright, take me back home... this prison is so out of style."
"Of course..." Chris looked over at Salem, "Salem, could you... cut all ties and records of Aztaroth ever being in prison? He's earned his freedom here..."
"Of course." Salem nodded, "Congratulations human... you'll have one hell of a story to tell your peers... assuming that they believe you of course."
"If I tell anyone then you'd have to kill me." Aztaroth joked, "Just send me away already."
"As you wish..." Salem teleported himself and Aztaroth away... making the gambler the second person to escape Hope's Lament...
Deena laid down in her cell's bed as she had the feeling of someone entering the room. Deena looked up from her bed to see that nobody was there, making the delinquent think that she was just imagining things.
"I need to calm down..." Deena took a deep breath as she laid back down, but right as she was about close her eyes in an attempt to go to sleep she saw the same three lights that Picollo saw not too long ago out of the corner of her eye.
"Thank you." One of the lights spoke, but before Deena could say anything to any of them, or even get a good look at one of them, they all disappeared...
"What was that?" Deena asked herself as she shook her head, "My nerves are too shot right now... I gotta go to bed."
Aztaroth yawned as he fell onto his bed back at home, it had been a while since he really got a good night's sleep, and he sure as hell was gonna enjoy this.
Aztaroth sighed in relief as he began to fall asleep, "Life is lovely once again..." Aztaroth slowly drifted off to sleep... it was nice having freedom again...
And there goes another Prisoner. Goddamn tho, I was so excited to write this episode, it's probably the challenge I've thought about the third most of the remaining challenges, it's just so much fun to write.
Reasoning For Freedom:
Man if I had a nickel for every time I eliminated a Morbid OC who I really like in the fifth episode of a fic... I'd have two nickels. I don't think it's too surprising that Aztaroth left here, he had an idol so obviously, he was gonna be freed eventually. I saw quite a few people think that Azta was gonna mess it up somehow and it's like... nobody even knew he had the idol, they'd have to check under his floorboards first (something he wouldn't allow). Yeah, someone like Jacque could read Aztaroth's mind to see where the idol is, but 1. Jacque would have to read Aztaroth's mind specifically when Aztaroth is thinking about the idol, and 2. he'd still have to get past him to get to the idol.
Vote Confessional:
Deena sat in the confessional with a look of pure horror, "I don't care who goes anymore..." Deena checked off Aztaroth, "I need... I need to... sleep this off or something... I... Jesus... why did I do that?..."
Remaining Prisoners: Bella/Edna, Clover, Davy, Deena, George, Jacque, Jade, Relinda, Rival
Elimination Order:
14th ~ Romeo Darnell McFarland - The Toxic Farmer (BigBadBrad)
13th ~ Quinn Potter - The Pyromaniac Matchmaker (GirlPower54)
12th ~ Giuseppe "Picollo" Bilancia - The Clown (lordgemini) [ESCAPED]
11th ~ Monica Rosette Lee - Little Miss Perfect (xxPrincsxx)
10th ~ Matthew Matthews 'Aztaroth' - The Underground Gambler (MorbidGinger) [FREED]