Lincoln had begun to regain consciousness, being out cold for what seemed like hours. He felt like he was laying on a cold hard floor, and that he left arm was locked onto something. As he begin to open his eyes, he heard some voices nearby, one of them was a female, and sounded really angry...
"One thing! You couldn't have done one thing!"
"Look, boss, it ain't that big a deal. You wanted us to get the kid, and we got him!"
"What part of "in one piece" do you know not freaking understand?! I didn't ask you to put a freaking crack in his skull!"
"I didn't even hit him that hard!"
"Yeah, and look! We patched him up nicely!"
"That doesn't make up for it!"
"Look, lady! You got the dang kid, so you better pay up!"
"Oh, yeah? Well, here's your dang payment right here!"
Lincoln could then hear some commotion happening. Things breaking, cracking, two guys screaming in pain, and a little bit of crazed laughter. He could only assume that it finally happened. He's been kidnapped and now under the possession of that crazed girl, Cherry. He didn't want to open his eyes. He wanted to believe this was all a dream...
"There's your dang payment."
"What's wrong with you?"
"Don't ever ask me that. There's too many things to count...Hmm, looks like he's awake."
Lincoln dared not open his eyes until he began to hear footsteps coming straight towards...
"Open your eyes. It's not I'm gonna turn you to stone."
Deciding to do what she says, Lincoln slowly opens his eyes to see a teenage girl towering over him. He could assume it was Cherry. She wasn't as scary as he thought she might be, but she definitely looked crazy...
"Nice to see you're awake, little one.", Cherry said. "My name is Cherry."
"Yeah, I know who you are.", Lincoln said coldly."
"Don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt you.", said Cherry. "I just wanna keep you. All to myself."
"You're crazy.", Lincoln said in her face.
"That's never been up to debate now, hasn't it?", Cherry says. "But please, you can trust me. I would never harm a kid."
"Just let me go.", demanded Lincoln. "I don't want to be here...I just want to go home now."
"You're not going anywhere.", stated Cherry. "I'll make sure of that. You belong to me now."
"What do you even want from me?!", asked Lincoln.
Cherry replied, "I just want you. My last chance for comfort."
"What?", Lincoln said, being confused.
"Everyone else failed me...I had a feeling you won't.", Cherry explained. "We're not so different. You and I."
"Please, just let me go!", yelled out Lincoln.
Suddenly, Lincoln felt a blade coming close to his neck. Cherry was now holding him at spear point, seeing the terror in his eyes...
"Listen to me...", She commanded. "I've waited for so long to get my hands on you, and now, I finally have you. I'm not gonna let anything spoil the moment! Do you hear me?"
Lincoln said nothing as Cherry began to back away, turning her back on him. But then, so suddenly, she turns around once more and throws her spear right next to his head, having him paralyzed with fear...
"Not ever your friends, my old friends, are gonna get in my way.", Cherry stated. "I hope you understand that."
Taking back her spear, Cherry began to walk away from her prisoner, laughing madly as her goons limped after, Frank and Joshua were moaning in pain while Margaret shuddered in fear. With them out of his sight, Lincoln began to work on the chain clamped to his left wrist, wondering if there was any way to get out of it. After a few minutes, he wasn't able to take it off and gave up, believing that he was gonna be here for a while...
"What have I do to deserve this?", he whimpered to himself. "Somebody, please...Mom, Dad, Lori, anybody...help me."
Meanwhile, Shannon was running down the street, panicking after what happened last night. She told Carol and some other friends to meet her at the sidewalk the next day. She had a feeling that their reactions to what happen wouldn't even be remorseful. Soon enough, she saw Carol, Mandee, Jackie, Whitney Dana, Chaz and Greg. Now it was time for her to face the music...
"Shannon, are you alright?", asked Carol. "You look exhausted."
"Forget about me!", Shannon yelled. "It happened! Lincoln was caught!"
"WHAT?!", the majority of the group went.
"Last night.", Shannon began to explain. "We heard noise coming from outside. Lincoln insisted on going alone to check it out."
"And you didn't think to convince him to take you with him?!", questioned Whitney.
"I swear. I wanted to go with him.", stated Shannon.
"You should have then!", yelled Dana. "If you had been watching Lincoln like you were supposed to, this wouldn't have happened!"
"Can we please not focus on that now?!", yelled out Jackie.
Mandee added, "She's right. We need to focus on saving Lincoln now!"
"Carol, do you have any ideas or plans?", Shannon asked.
Carol replied sheepishly, "I...I don't know. I never thought this would actually happen."
"Seriously?", said Dana.
"We got to think of something!", stated Shannon. "Anything that'll rescue Lincoln."
"...I'm not sure if that's a good idea, Shannon.", Carol said.
Shannon asked, "What do you mean?"
"It's been a year since the last time we saw Cherry.", Carol explained. "Who know what she has up her sleeve? How smart and insane she has gotten?"
"I can help out with that.", said Greg, getting everyone's attention. "I know all about Cherry like the back of my hand. I never stopped...getting to know her."
"What are you saying?", asked Carol.
"I might know where she is.", he explained. "I know how to get to her."
Carol pulled herself back together, saying, "Alright. We all made a promise that we were gonna watch over that boy and protect him! That promise still stands! We're getting him back!"
"Are we all gonna head over to that Psycho Chick's place?", asked Chaz.
"You do not have to come.", answered Dana.
Chaz replied, "Well, I'm not gonna miss this."
"I'm definitely coming too.", said Shannon. "I need to make this right."
"Great, so we're all going.", stated Carol. "I'll call the rest of our friends and tell them to wait for us at the club."
"Come on!", commanded Dana. "Let's go get our little friend back."
Back to Lincoln, things turned from frightening to boring for him, as he was just left, chained to the wall with nothing to do. He just banging his head against the wall, wanting to knock himself out until he saw Margaret staring at him, having a bored expression on her face as well...
"What do you want?", Lincoln asked her.
"...You should consider yourself lucky.", said Margaret.
"How exactly am I lucky right now?", he asked.
"Cherry likes you.", she answered. "You don't have to deal with crud you go through while being her little attack dog."
Lincoln replied, "She must put you through torture then, huh?"
"Pretty much.", Margaret said. "And it seems to just get worse for us."
"...What is your name?", asked Lincoln.
"... Margaret.", she answered.
"Well, Margret...what would you want if I asked you to help get me out of here?"
Margret laughed at that question, saying "Seriously? There's nothing you could offer me."
"I promise you.", started Lincoln. "I'll get you anything you want in exchange for my freedom."
"No way, kid.", Margaret said. "I don't trust you, and secondly, Cherry would kill me if she found out I let you go. You're better off on your own."
Before he got the chance to say anything else, Margaret already began to walk away. Left alone again, Lincoln gave out a heavy sigh, planting the back of his head against the wall once more...
A little while later, Carol and her friends were moving through the woods, being lead by Greg, who manages to help them find Cherry's hideout. An old abandoned warehouse that's been hiding in the woods this whole time. Not too far from it, the group was hiding in shrubbery, wondering how the plan was gonna be. Meanwhile, Carol gives the people back at the club a heads up on where they're at...
"We found Cherry's hideout. We're gonna figure out how we're gonna get in and get Lincoln out. Can you guys see us?"
Rex, on the other line replied, saying, "Yep, we see you just fine."
"Alright. But can you explain to me again how you are able to see us?", she then asked.
"Oh, I just added a bunch of cameras around the woods during my free time.", Rex explained.
"Nice work.", Carol said. "Way to plan ahead."
Rex replied, "It was nothing."
"I don't like being out in the woods too much.", said Whitney. "I'm afraid that I my hair might get caught in some things."
"Stay focused, Whitney.", said Shannon. "We got a little boy to save."
"So, anyway. This is where Cherry's been living for the past year now.", Greg explained.
"And you know this how?", Whitney asked.
"I've been keeping tabs on her for quite a while.", he answered.
"...So basically, you've been stalking her?", Mandee asked, creeped out.
Greg replied, "Well, that's one way to put it."
Everyone shivered at the thought of Greg secretly stalking his ex-best friend for an entire year, something he got unamused by...
"Anyway...Cherry's likely to have set up some traps around her place, so be very careful where you step.", he told everyone.
"Doesn't that see a little overboard?", questioned Chaz. "I mean, what are the chances that-"
Before he could finish, Chaz felt something tighten around his ankle and the swoop him off his feet and then dangling on a tree. Chaz was caught in a rope trap...
"Okay...I stand corrected.", Chaz said, sheepishly.
"Doesn't look like you're standing at all.", Dana remarked. "Now that we know this place is booby-trapped, let's just all try to act carefully and not trigger anymore."
And then, Dana felt something sharp clamp onto her leg, she looked down and saw that she triggered a bear trap. That was scary for everyone, seeing that there's probably more of them in the opening surrounding the warehouse. Greg grabbed both ends of the bear trap and pried them open, then took out a knife and cut the rope from which Chaz hung by, making him fall...
Carol then said, "Okay...why don't we all just take deep breath...and run."
And with that, the entire group began to run through the opening, triggering a whole bunch of traps, bear traps mostly, and some that are even a little explosive. They made it to the warehouse, covered in cuts and bruises...
"Well...that went well.", said Jackie, cracking her back.
"Now, how do we get inside?", asked Shannon.
Looking around, Carol saw that there was a side door on the right, and a open window and the second floor...
She then commanded, "Dana, you, Shannon, Whitney and Chaz take the side door, we'll take that window."
"We can't all go through the side door?", Whitney asked
"Because Chaz is already way ahead of you.", Carol pointing to the fat dude who was about to charge into a small door.
Shannon groaned saying, "Message received."
"And just how are we gonna get up a two story window?", Mandee questioned.
"We could use this." suggested Greg, bringing out some rope.
"Where did you get that?", Carol asked.
"I took it off the tree before we ran here.", Greg explained. "Thought it might come in handy."
"Well, something's better than nothing.", Carol accepted, taking the rope and begins to use it as a lasso. She manages to wrap a handle bar from the roof and have the rope secure enough for them to start climbing. Meanwhile, Dana, Whitney and Shannon waited to see how Chaz was gonna go through the door this time. However...
"Hey, guys! It looks like I just squeeze right through. Just give me a shove!", Chaz said happily.
"...You heard him.", Shannon told Dana.
"What?", Dana said.
"Give him a shove.", Whitney said with a smirk on her face.
"But...why do I-? ...Ugh, fine.", Dana unfortunately accepted, beginning to help push Chaz through the door. While they do that, Carol's group was already heading up to the second floor, and they already getting tired...
"Carol, did you really think this was the best idea?!", Mandee said exhaustively.
Carol wiped some sweat off her head, saying "In retrospect, not really."
"Why didn't we just use that latter?", Jackie pointed out to. All their heads turned to see a steel latter next to the wall...
"None of us noticed that before?", questioned Greg.
"Welp...too late now.", Carol said sheepishly, getting angry faces from Mandee and Jackie.
And so, both groups managed to get inside from different way, being how Dana managed to finally push Chaz through the door, and how it only took 30 minutes to climb up to a two story window. Once inside, they were kind of surprised by what they saw. Place almost looked like it was from TMNT, having a place to chill, a place that looks like it's for training, a table that looked to be covered in pictures. And a opening on the side that none of them saw just yet...
"Wow.", Carol said. "Cherry did all this?"
"I would say so.", Greg answered. "She had an entire year to do it."
"Let's just find Lincoln and get out of here.", Mandee demanded.
"Yeah. Agreed.", Jackie added.
Where Chaz's group was, they were looking at the table that had dozens of pictures on it. Some of them, being with Cherry and some of them hanging out and a whole lot of them being torn apart and covered in ink...
"I guess she never stopped thinking about us.", Dana said, feeling concerned.
"Sure looks that way.", Chaz said.
"H-Hello? Is somebody there?"
That voice got everyone's attention, as Carol's group got back down to ground level and met up with the others. They followed that voice to that side opening and were surprised to see who it was. Their old friend, Lincoln, sitting on the ground and having his left hand chained to the wall...
"Lincoln!", they all shouted in joy.
Lifting up his head, happiness was shown on the boy's face as he said, "I knew you guys would come for me."
"We're gonna get you out of here, Lincoln.", Dana told him. "Just hold still."
Looking for something to try and get Lincoln free, Mandee found a brick and began to try and smash the chain. And while she did that, Shannon got close to Lincoln, looking a little sad.
"Lincoln, I'm sorry that I let you get kidnapped the other night. I should've been looking out for you better."
"It's okay.", he told her. "It was mostly my fault too."
They smiled at each other while Mandee grunted in frustrating, having the brick in her hand crumble and disintegrate...
"Well, that didn't work.", she said, unamused. "Anybody got any other ideas?"
"Ooh! I got one!", said Chaz, holding something in his hands. "Let's use this axe! Hold still, Lincoln, or you might lose a hand."
But before he could do anything, the others hurriedly stopped him, with Shannon grabbing the axe from him.
"Let me do it!", she yelled out to him. "My hands are steadier than yours."
"Uh, are we sure about this?", said Lincoln, getting afraid.
Shannon replied, "It's fine. Just...try to stay away from the chain."
As Lincoln tried to back away as much as he can, Shannon gripped the axe tightly and gave it a swing. The chain blasted into two very cleanly. Now free, Lincoln wanted to hug the first people he saw, and that was Carol and Dana. They greatly returned the huh, now glad to know that their friend was free and things were gonna be alright. That was...until they heard some slow clapping and turned to see Cherry and her Goons coming towards them...
"You guys have impeccable timing. I'll give you that.", she said. "But nobody...is going...anywhere."
Taking something from her pocket, Cherry pressed a button that made all the exits on the first floor close shut. This left everyone trapped and getting afraid as the four psychos in front of them got closer...
"Greg? Can't you talk to her?", asked Carol. That name seem to have got Cherry's attention, as she turned over to the guy in the brown hoodie.
"What? Me?", he questioned.
"You and she were old friends.", Carol explained. "You can talk some sense into her."
Greg looked at Cherry, who glared at him, having never wanted to see his face again. He knew that simply talking to him was gonna be futile...
"I doubt she'll listen...but I'll give it a shot...Cherry?"
"Oh, shut up.", she said, right before hitting Greg out cold with the blunt end of her weapon. It seemed like the group was pretty much out of ideas. But then, Carol saw an the windows were still open. It's not the best idea, but it was all she had in mind...
"Dana, take Lincoln and everyone else and get out of here.", she told her friend.
"Are you nuts?", Dana asked
"Just go!", Carol yelled. "And give me that axe!"
Taking the axe from Shannon, Carol takes a stance against Cherry and her goons while the others escape.
"Make sure they don't get far.", Cherry tells Margaret, who gestures at Frank to follow her. "You have to be pretty darn stupid to stick around.", she tells Carol. "Who knew you had some guts in you after all."
"I don't want to hurt anybody.", Carol said, seeing how Cherry and Joshua laugh at her.
"You can barely hold up that axe.", Joshua states. "What makes you think you can take us on?"
"Like I said, I don't want to use this. Let's just talk.", Carol said. "Cherry, I'm sorry for what happened to you. We're responsible for that, but you don't have to do this. Let me help you."
"Help me?", Cherry questioned. "I don't need your help. I don't need any kind of help, because frankly, I like the way I am. It makes me happy."
"I can tell you're lying.", Carol said. "You never liked this side of yourself. There's still a chance."
Carol replied, "You know? I'm kind of getting sick of hearing your voice, Carol. So if you're seriously gonna use that thing, then I won't hold my breath."
Taking her naginata, Cherry took a stance, as did Joshua, bringing out a retractable baton. Carol started the fight, taking a swing at the two and doing her best to avoid their own attacks. She blocked some of Cherry's attacks, having both their blades clash one time after the other, but it was two against one and some stuck she was unprepared for, like Joshua getting her from behind and Cherry managing to cut her arm. Not long after, Carol was covered in cuts and bruises, but she wasn't backing down. The two psychos laughed at her while they closed in, allowing Carol to take her shot. Swinging her axe like a baseball bat, she strikes Joshua in the face. Fortunately for him, she hit with the flat side of the axe, knocking him to the ground, so therefore, she's not a murderer...
"Hmph. Useless.", Cherry muttered to herself, unprepared for another of Carol's attacks. Moving as quickly as she could, Cherry brought her naginata up, only for Carol to swing her axe downward and chop her weapon in half. This is left Cherry shocked; it was her favorite spear...
"You didn't-!", she said, right before her face met the end of the axe's handle. Meanwhile, the teens had made it up the the second floor were already heading out the window. Mandee, Jackie, Whitney, Shannon and Lincoln had already gone outside. Dana was about to head next, but...
"Out of the way, make some room! MOVE!", yelled Chaz, pushing Dama out of the way. "FREEDOOM!"
But then, surprise, surprise. Chaz ended up getting stuck in the window, beginning to panic, kicking his feet while wanting to get out..
"I'm stuck! Give me some help!", he yelled out, as he felt Dana begin to try and push him through...
"Oh, you gotta be kidding me!", said Dana, pushing with her hands.
"Wait! Don't push me out, pull me back in!", Chaz yelled!
"What?! Why?!", questioned Dana.
"Because we're two stories up, and it's a long way down!", Chaz said, panicking as he saw the ground below him.
It was then that Frank and Margaret managed to head up the latter on the opposite side, bringing out their weapons. Frank with his baseball bat and Margaret with a daishÅ sword.
"End of the line, ladies!", Margaret said, sadistically.
"We don't have time for this!", yelled Dana furiously, beginning to kick Chaz through the window with all her strength. Chaz managed to pop right through the window, then fall to the ground...and on top of the girls, who all groaned in pain...
"Ouch.", went Mandee."
"You know, that didn't hurt as bad I thought it would've.", said Chaz, feeling relieved.
"Speak for yourself!", groan Whitney.
"Geronimo!", went Dana as she began to head down.
"Wait!", said Chaz, right before Dana landed on top of him. "Okay, that one hurt."
"You know, Chaz. This whole 'getting stuck' is getting out of hand.", Dana said, unamused.
"Hey, I'm not the only one with a wait problem!", Chaz said, trying to defend himself. "Just...look at Carlota."
Shannon replied, "At least she tries to deal with the problem. All you keep doing is stuffing your face!"
"B-But-", Chaz couldn't think of anything to go against that.
Back to Carol, she breathing heavily, tightly gripping onto the old axe in her hands as she saw that her last blow left Cherry with a bloody, broken nose as the psycho chick looked at her with angry eyes...
"Broke into my home...broke my favorite toy...broke my nose...", listed Cherry, growling. "You really like to break things, don't you, Carol?"
Carol replied, "I'm just ridding you of your problems, Cherry."
Just as Cherry was going in for a charge, Carol smacks her with the flat side of the axe and knocks her down. Seeing her chance to escape, Carol grabs hold of Greg and begins to drag him towards the latter, but the last hit she did on Cherry didn't knock her out cold. Just as Carol made it to the latter, Greg grabs her by the shoulder, facing her...
He tells her, "You gotta get out of here, Carol."
"Yeah, we both do.", she replied, as she holds him and tries to begin to climb.
"No, just you.", Greg says. "I'm slowing you down here."
"What?!", Carol says.
"Just go.", Greg tells her. "I'll might up with you later."
Carol tells him, "There's no way I'm leaving you here!", right before the sharp end of Cherry's spear come flying by her head, and she sees the psycho coming towards her again. "Okay, fine. I'll go.", she says, leaving Greg on the ground, climbing up the latter, passing Frank and Margaret and then jumping out of the window, falling down and onto Chaz, who was recovering from Dana landing...
"Huh. Soft landing.", she joked, getting off of Chaz.
"Where's Greg?", Lincoln asks her, seeing the shame on her face.
"He couldn't make it.", she said, sadly. Everyone felt like they were mourning. Greg was the one who help them find this place; they couldn't have found Lincoln without him. He was still inside, straining to climb the ladder, only to be pulled back down by Cherry's goon, who, with their boss, looked down on him with evil looks on their faces...
"I may have lost somethings today...but I think I got something better." Cherry said, wiping some blood from her mouth.
"Do as you please.", all Greg had to say as the four loomed over him.