"It was late fall, Halloween had just happened if I remember correctly" Craig began. "At the time things between Tweek and I were, complicated. We had gotten into a fight the year before over his parents, he was in denial about the fact that his parents were lacing his coffee with meth just like they had been doing to the entire town. That fight ended up causing a break up, and for a while we couldn't even look at each other. Clyde was there for me back then, Token too, Tweek had the girls and well, Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Butters were off doing their own thing. Come to think of it, that Fall was when you came to us right?"

"Yeah" I said, "It was right after I lost my senate seat and gained my Ultimate Title."

"Hold on I thought you got your title because of your senate seat" Craig asked.

"Turns out I was remembering it wrong" I said, "but I'll tell my story later, keep going with Tweek's if you want to that is."

"Yeah" Craig replied, "Well around the time you showed up the guys from Project UA began snooping around, they were looking for the best of the best for their special project, and so they came to South Park High, hell if I know why though, South Park was never anything special. Anyway, they assembled a bunch of us in the gym, in total fourteen of us."

"Fifteen" I said, "I was there but UA had already picked me up so they kept me in the shadows since I was already recruited."

"Ok, definitely coming back to that later" Craig said, the goons told us that we had been selected for the UA project and we were to become Ultimates, famous high school students that would make the world a better place, all of us that were here on that first day, were the same ones UA recruited.

Anyway, they told us that we had to come away with them to hone our talents and gave each of us a permission slip and pamphlet on what the project was all about. That's when I realized that Tweek was there too, we had both been chosen to become Ultimates, I thought it was a sign, a sign that we could work things out between us.

After they finished their speech they left and said they'd return to hear our answers, granted it didn't matter since they gassed and grabbed us. We were walking out of the gym and I tapped Tweek on the shoulder, he flinched in pain, and it wasn't because of me. I wanted to catch up and make nice but like the idiot I am I asked him what was up with his shoulder, tactful I am not. He shouted at me, told me it wasn't any of my damn business and just because we were both going to be part of this project didn't mean we had to be friends or anything. He took off after that, later that night I decided to apologize so I went to his family's coffee shop, that's when I heard the sound of glass breaking and Tweek screaming. I ran into the store to see Tweek on the ground his arm bleeding from the glass hid dad had just thrown at him.

According to the police report, Tweek had told his parents about project UA and they freaked out, no son of mine is gonna go off with some government hacks, I need you here to get the coffee shop customers, that was the last thing Tweek's dad said to him. Things only got worse from there I ran through the door and gave his father a right hook to the jaw, he fell back instantly. Tweek called out to me and asked me what I was doing there, I tried to explain but I didn't have time, Tweek's dad had grabbed a pot of hot coffee and threw it at me. Tweek he, he pushed me out of the way, but he wasn't quick enough to save himself. He took a whole pot of scalding hot coffee right to the face. He started screaming in pain and his face had turned bright pink."

Craig stopped for a minute and took a deep breath.

"It gets worse" he said, "like the idiot I am I ran out of the store and called the cops, I waited outside for them to show, but, that was a big mistake, I shouldn't have left Tweek's side, because when I did his dad locked the doors, put a gun to Tweek's head and took him hostage. His dad refused to stand down, it was a family matter, he kept shouting, all the years of taking meth laced coffee finally got to him. In the end the snipers shot Tweek's dad in the head, he was dead before he hit the floor, Tweek was covered in coffee burns and blood."

"Dear god" I said, "that's terrible, how can anyone's parents be that cruel?"

"Sometimes god just likes to screw you over" Craig said, "he spent weeks in the hospital after that and I never left his side, in time we grew close and I remembered why I fell in love with him. But then the goons from UA showed up in Tweek's hospital room, they wanted both of us to come with them but my parents had already said no and Tweek's parents had made their position quite clear when they took their kid hostage. We didn't go with them, and I left the hospital that night to go back home. That night, was the night UA gassed and grabbed us. When I woke up I was surrounded by the rest of you guys, I asked them what the hell did they do to us, and those goons lying through their teeth said that our parents changed their minds. Then they told me Tweek was in rehab and he'd be joining us soon. A month goes by and sure as shit Tweek shows up. At that point I didn't care that we'd lost contact with our families, I didn't care that we had to be moved because the place we were staying at got torched, all I cared about was making sure Tweek was ok. He was officially given his Ultimate Barista title and went through training same as us. The training paid off we each were able to use our Ultimate talents to achieve great things. Of course, you know this already, you were there for this part if memory serves."

"Yeah" I said, "by this point we had all met and had gotten close, hard to believe we had forgotten all of that when we were kidnapped and brought here."

"Memory wipes will do that to you" Craig said, "Tweek and I had gained the memory of that night the day before I asked him to marry me. We stayed up all night just holding each other, I needed to keep him calm, to reassure him that we'd never be apart again. Now he's gone and I couldn't keep my promise."

Craig was crying at this point, I knew he and Tweek went way back, but to go through that much hell and only being a high school student, god truly was cruel when it came to the two of them.

"Craig" I said, I walked up and hugged him, "I don't have any words that I can say to make this right, or to bring him back but what I do know is that your husband has got to be one of the strongest people I've ever known, not only did he go through that ordeal with his parents, but he stared his own death in the face and smiled as he passed on. You may think you broke your promise to him, that you failed to keep him safe, but he was able to keep you safe and that's what being married is all about, it's not just you protecting him, and it's not just him protecting you, it's both of you protecting each other."

Craig had fallen to his knees and was crying even harder now than he did earlier.

"Now you can make a new promise to him, you can promise to fulfill his wish, the one that he gave you in the trial chamber. You can promise to avenge him and end the killing game, look up at the stars Craig, he's up there right now looking at you, promise him that you'll avenge him, promise him that you'll end this nightmare, and promise him that you'll meet him in your next life.

Craig screamed, "I promise Tweek! I promise to avenge you, to end this game, and to honor your memory till my dying breath!"

Craig stood up he looked at me and said, "thanks for listening to me Mike, you're a real friend. Next time I'll listen to your tragic past." He chuckled and made for the stairs heading back to his room. I remained on the deck for a moment longer, the memories I've recovered, the truths I've uncovered, will he really still call me friend when I tell him that I wasn't recruited by project UA, but that I joined them by choice.