Chapter one
Who knew?
"I can't believe you got us these seats, bro!"
Martin looked around. He was back in the stadium, and nothing had happened. Linda was on his right, and Anna was on his left. Could it have been all a dream?
"You okay, honey?" Anna asked.
"Yeah, I just had a nightmare, where-" he began.
"Oh my god, it's Tony Ortega!" Linda said.
Martin turned around. There was Tony strolling towards him just as he had in his dream. "Oh shit."
"Martin? What's the matter?" Anna said.
"That field goal kick will hit the post," Martin predicted.
Sure enough, it happened.
"Whoa, how'd you do that?" Linda asked.
"I could've predicted that," Tony said.
"Tied 10 to 11 at halftime," Martin said.
"What?"
"The score is tied 10 to 11 at halftime," the announcer said, like clockwork.
"Martin, you're scaring me," Linda said.
"That woman is about to start streaking," Martin continued.
"Martin, stop it," Anna protested.
Sure enough, Arianna removed her clothes.
"It was real," Martin said, then stood up. "Everybody get out of here! This place is going to collapse!"
"Sit down, Martin," Anna said.
"Everyone, run! This place is going to collapse, and all of you are going to die!" he continued.
"Whoa, man, just chill," Joseph said.
"You'll die first!" Martin said.
"Calm down, dude," Joseph said uncertainly.
"You'll get hit by a concrete brick in your torso when your wife here sends you for nachos!" Martin said.
WHAM! Joseph punched him in the jaw. "Shut the hell up!" he shouted, only to be kicked in the shins by Martin. Soon they were in an all-out brawl, from punching to biting.
"What's going on up there?" Arianna said, having hastily redressed.
"Stay out of this, whore!" Linda said.
Arianna winced as if she had been slapped, then slapped Linda herself. They soon began to fight as well.
"Whoa, chick fight," Carl said.
"Hell yeah!" Reggie added.
"Stop swearing around my son!" Danielle said, also a little shaken by the prophecy Martin had given.
Tony, completely nonplussed, said, "If you don't like it, go home."
"You're not part of this, so back off, jackass!" Jason said.
"Jason!" Danielle hissed.
Tony, however, seemed to find this funny. "Jackass? Well, let me tell you-"
"All right, I'll have to ask everybody to leave now." This last comment came from a security guard, who, along with three others, escorted out Martin, Joseph, Arianna, Linda, Danielle, Jason and Tony.
Watching Arianna and Linda go, Reggie said, "Dude, the entertainment's leaving."
"Well, let's leave with it!" Carl said. So the two druggies followed them out.
As they were leaving, the security guards were blocked by Jesse. "Hold on a moment. Why are you taking these people out? This guy probably just drank a few too many beers and picked a couple fights," he said.
"You idiot!" Martin yelled. "This place is going to collapse!"
"Now, now, I'm sure you think that now, but that doesn't mean these people have to miss a game they paid good money for. Now why don't you just – ow!" he said as Martin punched him in the face.
"Okay, that's it! You're all coming out!" the security guard said, and the four of them hauled the ten people out, Martin still proclaiming the impending doom.
As for Anna, she was pondering what to do. She had, of course, seen and heard everything, but she was not completely sure she wanted to miss this game. Eventually, however, she decided to follow him – and got up just in time to be hit square in the face with the cinderblock from the first explosion.
Meanwhile, outside, everyone's attempts to return to the stadium were continuously blocked by the four security guards.
"Come on, let us back in there!" Joseph said. "My wife's in there, and she's probably getting worried."
"No! You can't go back in there! If you do you'll die!"
"That's enough! Both of you shut up! Now, here's what's going to happen. You're all going to drive home, and we'll just forget this ever – oof!" he was suddenly tackled by Tony.
"Get off of me, you stupid, ugly mother f-"
WHAM!
"-ucker?" the guard said as a huge slab of rubble slammed down exactly where he had been.
"Anna!" Martin yelled, but he and the rest of them could only watch in horror as hell unfolded on the stadium behind them.
