Prologue: Bricks P.O.V. (12 yrs ago)
I woke up in a daze. Don't know where we are but it's hot and the air feels heavy as fuck. My brothers are behind me out cold. I look around and see nothing but red rocks and the sky looked like a black empty space. Looked like night time but no stars or moon just space. The ground were on looked dry and dusty. I tried to get up off the ground but it feels like my body got run over by bus or something. "What the fuck just happened?" I thought to myself. But then it hit me like a mother fucking freight train. THOSE FUCKING BITCHES. They humiliated my boys... HUMILIATED ME... ohhh they're gonna pay. All of them will but my thoughts kept focusing on one specific puff with pink eyes I will never forget. I think it's time to wake up dumb and dumber.
"Butch... Boom... WAKE UP!" I screamed at them as I hit them both upside the head. They both seemed to respond to it and began to twitch on the floor and managed to slowly get up like did. "Guess I wasn't the only one who was feeling like shit" I thought to myself.
"Owwie! My fucking head! Couldn't you wake me up a little softer than that?" my idiot baby brother whined. Honestly I heard about dumb blondes but you couldn't get any dumber than Boomer. "Man my body feels all heavy. What the hell is going on Brick?" my other twitchy younger brother asked. "I don't know what's going on but I do know one thing... we lost" I explained. As soon as I said those words they both jolted up with whatever strength they had in themselves and both screamed "WHAT!?!?"
"Whadda ya mean we fucking lost? We were supposed to be stronger than the last time! That's what that frilly ass lobster said to us so how could we FUCKING LOSE!?!?" he yelled as he socked the ground. The ground cracked underneath but the crack didn't stop it kept going and going til it split the ground from underneath us. We stepped aside letting the ground crack open. Out of no where this red and pink mist started to come out of the crack and swirl in the air. Some of it surrounded us until it took form of a giant claw and grabbed all three of us together. We struggled and tried to pry our wait out but no dice.
"Awwww... poor babies... whatever am I going to do with such LOSERS AS CHILDREN!?!" the voice in the air yelled.
The rest of the mist took form of the giant lobster we talked about. He called himself HIM. Kind of a fucking weird name to call yourself but whatever. "WHAT THE HELL HIM?" I yelled. " Yeah you told us with us coming back we would be stronger than before but we still lost to those sissies" said Boomer.
"Ah yes... well it would have worked if you JUST FINISHED THEM LIKE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO! YOU THREE MORONS COSTED ME MY CHANCE TO FINALLY GET RID OF THOSE BRATS AND NOW... You're gonna pay for it." HIM said in a sinister voice that gave me goosebumps. I looked behind me and my brothers are shaking like leaves. Honestly it looks like Boom is gonna piss himself.
"Hold on HIM, we only lost because you told us to have fun with them! You guaranteed us that we could do it. And last I checked we was collective as in ALL OF US!" I said with fake bravery in my voice. I know I'm scared but the boys are even more terrified. I can't let them see their leader scared of some ugly ass cross dresser. "I thought we meant you as well HIM and last I checked, I didn't see you in the battlefield with-" before I could finished my statement he started squeezing us with that big claw he had around us. My sides hurt and our arms start bleeding from the sharpness of his big razor sharp claw. I felt like I couldn't breathe even more. He leaned in real close.
"YOU HAVE A BIG MOUTH FOR SOMEONE WHO IS NOTHING BUT AN ANT TO ME! Learn your place boy." he said to me. "I think as your mother I have no choice but to discipline you." he said sinisterly.
"YOU AREN'T OUR MOTHER NOW LET US GO!!!" I yelled.
"Ohhhhh Briiiick... I think you are forgetting one tiny little detail..." he sang as he leaned in close again. "I OWN YOU!!!" He yelled. "IF I SAY JUMP YOU SAY WHAT!?!" he yelled again. I looked down and said "How high..." i mumbled. "WHAT DID YOU SAY!?!?"he asked. " HOW HIGH!!!" I yelled at him. "THAT'S RIGHT! NOW I AM GOING TO DISCIPLINE YOU BOYS AND I WILL CONTINUOUSLY DO IT EVERYTIME YOU BRATS FAIL!" he explained.
I looked at my brothers shaking a bit but they looked terrified. It was if every bit of bravery we had just slipped away from us. We we're scared. But for some reason I was more terrified for them rather than myself which is weird to say the least but wasn't my top concern right now. "What are you gonna do to us?" I asked with tremor in my voice.
"Funny you should ask." he said as he threw us to the ground. Chains shot up from the ground and grabbed us front arms and legs and one each on our necks. We struggled but it felt like our strength left us. Butch was on my right and Boom was on my left. "I have a lot of experiments I want to try on you boys. Should they succeed they should be very useful for upcoming battles with the girls. You boys shall be my Guinea pigs in hopes they could work on defeating the girls. HAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!" he explained as he laughed at our soon to be future pain.
Boomer started crying so much he started dry heaving and Butch was so terrified that he couldn't move nor speak he just stayed there kneeling like us. As I was scared for myself I couldn't shake the thought of one of them getting hurt. Especially from me, I'm the leader I have to take responsibility. They didn't deserve to get hurt. It was at that moment I realized something. I have to be the big brother from us. I'm the leader and I have to take charge. Before HIM could even touch us I yelled out "HIM WAIT!!!". He stopped and looked at me curiously. "I take full responsibility on our loss it was all me, I should have been a better leader but I let those bitches mess with us and I'm sorry. You don't have to discipline them but you can discipline me." I said while I looked down with shame. I noticed both boys looked up at me like I grew a second head. "Brick are you nuts!?!?" Butch yelled. "Yea Brick. He's really gonna you hurt bro don't do this." Boomer cried. "Guys shut up! It's my fault ok?" I said to them. "HIM I'm the reason we failed so if there's gonna be any discipline then do it to me." I said. He was silent at first then he raised his eyebrow and made a mist around the boys. It turned into muzzles and the boys mouths were chained. They struggling and everything they said or tried to yell at me was muffled. He then asked.
"You want to take responsibility for them? You want to take their punishment? You want me to leave them alone am I hearing that correctly?" he asked.
"Yea... just me. The boys are innocent. They just need a good leader and I just need to learn from my mistakes even if it means getting punished for it." I said. He put a claw to his chin and started stoking that ugly ass goatee.
"Hmm... very well. If you want to take their punishment then it will be tripled on you Brick. And from now on every loss and every single failure will fall on you. Do you accept?" he asked a raised a claw to me. I understood what he was doing. He was making a deal with me.
"Only if you agree not to hurt my brothers" I said. He nodded and shook my hand. More mist came and snakes around our arms. It turned into a snake with the head turning into a miniature version of his head with fangs. It bit down on both of our arms but we didn't feel any kind of pain. A mark showed up on my arm, it looked like two circles and two dots.
"Very well, Butch and Boomer you are both free to go to your room." as he said this the ground shook and then this giant red door appeared out of no where. "In there you will find a room with three beds. Take your pick" he explained. The chains around us disappear. We began to walk towards the door when he pulled me aside from them. " Not you... you still need to be punished. You two go on ahead... he will be with you shortly." he said as he stared daggers at me.
"You two go on ahead... I'll be right behind you." I said with a fake smile.
"Brick, are you sure about this?" asked Butch.
"Totally. Anything this freak can dish out, I can take it. I promise to meet you guys after this." I said again lying through my teeth. They gave me one last look before they went through the door and shut almost immediately as soon as they stepped through.
"Now... shall we proceed?" he asked and laughing the entire time. It was the most brutal thing I ever went through. Little did I know... it was gonna get much worse from here.