-1Ch. 5: The edge of sanity
"Mad-dog has failed, you know what to do."
"Yes sir, who ever knew he had the guts to do that."
Later at the farmhouse, Courage has sleeping on the carpet in the front room; Eustace was freaked when he saw the corpse of Mad-dog in the kitchen and made Courage clean up the blood.
During his sleep, he began seeing impulses of his past life, Muriel, the farmhouse….Katz.
"Uhh…Hmm…"
Restless in his sleep, a nightmare began, he saw himself in a void of black, running franticly in search of something, anything, any form of life, then he finally saw Muriel, with a leap of joy he began running towards her, but the closer he got the more he saw her face…she seemed sad…disappointed. tried to leap into her lap, but she disappeared before he could, he quickly turned around and saw Katz starring down at him, and out of the coat he pulled a gun, pointed it to Courage's forehead, and pulled the trigger.
His screams matched the high pitched fire of the gun, then he woke up, his body felt cold because of his sweat.
"I need to get out of the house…maybe a walk will clear my mind."
Then his stomach growled… Eustace never fed him, why would he feed a "stupid dog" anyhow?
"…and fill my stomach."
He began the long walk down the dusty desert road to Nowhere, the hot desert sun was beating down on him, he was always used to driving, but he just didn't feel like it, just as he finally got into town, he spotted a familiar old recreational vehicle parked outside the store, then something popped in his head.
"DR. GERBIL!"
And sure enough, Dr. Gerbil came out with a grocery sack; Courage swiftly slid under the car and grabbed hold of the pipes.
"Just what are you up to?"
Then they arrived at his home, hole anyhow, he followed him down to his experimental room, he saw him unloading various items from the bag while talking to himself.
"That little doggie is dead meat; with this new liquid nitrogen bomb he'll be dead in his tracks."
His ears went up in fright, he was insane.
"Yes, so powerful the oxygen itself will freeze."
Courage knew he had to do something, while looking around he spotted a rusty hook among the garbage and discarded objects…then the smile came again, he chuckled and grabbed the hook.
"Its just about-GAHH!"
He looked down to see that Courage stuck the hook in his lower abdomen, he began squealing in pain as Courage started pushing the hook upward, and with all his strength sliced him wide open, the hook got stuck in his sternum and ribcage, he limped over spilling an ocean spray of blood and torrents of organs that were sliced apart.
"Now that he's taken care of…what am I going to eat?"
He looked again at the gutted cadaver, then an instinctual urge took over…and began feasting on his remains.