Cody's Nightmare Part 2, Failure

"Remember back in the third season, you just sucker-punched me while I was blind-sided…can't forgive a nerd for aiming such a cheap shot at me now can I? I got a reputation for being the baddest offender in juvy hall to keep, and no offense but…I gotta kill you now." Duncan roared as he swung the deadly blade again, Cody barely dodged the swing that could have killed him before he heard shots behind him as he dived again followed by a trail of wild shots in the air hearing Trent's own dark tone echoing through the bush.

"C'mon out, Code-loser. I got a surprise for you…I know you're gonna like it." The detective swore under his breath at the guitarist's own dark words, muttering about Trent and Duncan getting to his nerve as he crouched down by the bush his breathing heavy and quick like gasps as he peeked out of his cover watching the two ex-lovers of Gwen clustered together ready for an attack as they circled the room. Cody found it very strange and totally confusing that right now he was distorted, not knowing where he was besides the fact it looked like the aviary and the current problem of two ex-lovers of his crush going after his ass for Gwen who he, as far as he knew, never stole from them excluding the sudden invite to his house. Cody couldn't understand what they were thinking or if they were even right in the damn head, but as far as he could figure out for himself from their past connections Cody did not find any reason why the two would gang up on him…except Duncan, but Trent; Trent was someone else than this person who looks like him and the detective knew that the guitarist was someone who was never one to hold grudges besides being sometimes a little too possessive for his own good, which was the main reason for him to lose his relationship with Gwen in the first place back in second season! It wasn't his damn fault but the stupidity of the musician to hurt her with pointless accusations which really at the time he could recall seeing her cry silently to herself in her room, Cody felt hurt as he watched her that he knocked on her door to comfort her…

"Hey Gwen, you wanna talk?" Gwen was so busy crying over the break-up earlier that she had not noticed her door was left somewhat open slightly but the sound of Cody's innocent voice alerted her as she spun around to see the young nerd with a frown etched on his face like stitches, the young goth felt so hurt the girl wanted everyone to leave her alone for the day especially Cody…God, she could swear that the young man seemed to never give up at all on trying to ask her out. She remembered the times he had annoyed her to points of extremes in Total Drama Island with his stalker-like attitude and the times he tried to get her attention, but soon she had come to see he was a nice guy inside who just didn't really understand women like he thought he did…damn those books about romance he probably read, it really must have given him some sort of false guide to getting girls. However, though she didn't want anyone here to speak to her about it, Cody was the person of a relentless personality to find out what was bothering her…she could trust him to tell him about Trent and her strained relationship.

"C'mon in then." She spoke almost in a choked whisper, Cody picked up the hint at the sadness as he had a deeper concern for her as he entered her room. Her room was neat not surprisingly to the standards of Cody who looked around like it was a dream of his…actually, yes it was a dream of his but then the bitterness of the goth was the one thing that stood out above the emotions, the wardrobe sat at the opposite of the clean soft made bed a large window just above the headboard but was now shut by the curtains the nerd looked down at the box of tissues with sheets scattered across the floor and the covers of her bed just showed how hard she had spent crying, the goth nervously sat down but when she saw Cody look at her with his blue warm eyes it seemed to make her feel so secure in his presence as she took a breath ready to spill the words out like vomit.

"I…I broke up with Trent, Cody." At that the geek seemed to trail off suddenly like he was hit by a solid punch, he couldn't really believe that Trent would do something that cruel to her…but then what she did to sabotage the team was the factor that caused it the geek could recall that Trent became so possessive of Gwen to that point he snapped at her. Cody really gritted his teeth to himself as he stared down at the floor, he was almost ready to start a conversation with Trent the old fashioned way but was stopped by Gwen who could see the look in his eye to confront him, she understood his anguish at the musician's betrayal with the recent downturn in their relationship with the poor man becoming paranoid and obsessed that his girlfriend was hitting off on him with Duncan who she admitted was a little cute but now, she wasn't sure of anything anymore…

"Gwen, listen…I'm not going to hit on you or anything but if you need to talk about it I'm here. I'm your friend right? You can trust me as the stalker who keeps things to himself." At that the goth seemed to chuckle to herself, he was right about that point she couldn't argue with as he was someone who she saw as a brother and during the time period they knew coupled with the fact that he was a close fanatic supporter of Gwen but also Cody was an expert at advice. As they both sat down, Cody knew she was still bitter inside of the whole affair and instead of pushing his luck for her to talk about it he just tried to think of another way to get her to forget the whole issue, leaning forward to look her in the eye.

"Do you want to hang out? Just the two of us, let's forget about Trent and Duncan for now and focus on the future you have ahead…alright?" Gwen had never a chance to open her mouth, but the assuring invitation meant more to her than before when she would utterly refuse him outright…he really did understand how she felt, the goth nodded as she followed him out of the door to her room leaving behind her grief for some fun.

"Found you." Cody swore as he heard the crackle of feet behind him, the detective ducked out of the way rolling forward as he saw a blade hack off a whole branch of ferns followed by the smiling delinquent tapping the sword on his shoulder blade sneering. The detective raised his pistol but was caught by a hailstorm of bullets from outside the bush as Duncan escaped the range, Cody dived again out of the bush to fire back at the figure called Trent who was firing his arms accurately this time aiming for specific points to knock the detective to the ground. As Cody forced Trent back into a nearby corner, the delinquent took the opportunity to attack jumping from behind raising the blade in a strike as he tried to slam the blade into his head but the detective was much quicker, catching the blade with his pistol locking them into a clash of arms sparks could be seen flying on the floor like burning cinders. Cody's strength from training started to take its toll on Duncan who tried to force the sword down on his brain, but instead he felt the floor give way under his feet the delinquent looked down to see that while he had been so concentrated on seeing Cody get cut into half Duncan had exposed his legs to the detective, the young man's eyes widened in horror as the hook slipped him face first into the concrete Cody getting to kicking the delinquent in the face swearing loudly at the figure now cowering under the attacks.

"Fuck you! You betrayed Gwen, you broke her heart…I outta kill you!" He continued his ruthless onslaught of blows, kicking and raving mad at the young man already half-dead from the beatings given to him. But before Cody could land another blow he felt his arms and legs clamp together in a sudden jerk of force, landing him straight crashing onto the pavement unable to move as his body flipped on its belly mercilessly hanging him in mid-air before smashing him onto the hard surface Cody yelled in pain as his chin smacked hard on the ground, sending him into hisses and gasps of breath air was lost as his mouth rang like a bell. Unable to fight the invisible force, his head was jerked upwards to see Trent smiling deviously at him the darkness of the strange orange sky was replaced with something else, the clouds started to darken in half through the light of the glass rooftops Cody could barely eye the musician's face being covered half-way at the chin as his green eyes gleamed brightly with hatred. As on cue, he reached out into the dark grabbing something or someone as he heard a yelp like a girl but the tone of her voice was familiar, a feeling of dread ran down his face…

"No! Gwen! Shit!" He struggled flinging his arms and legs to break free of the hold that kept him on the floor, his face stuck on the struggling young woman kicking against the musician's own mistreatment as Trent growled raising his pistol sending a crack against Gwen's head sending her to the floor head first, before the musician took her by the hair yanking her upright to see Cody who was desperately struggling against the barrier that held him down.

"Let's play a little game, shall we Detective? You get to guess Heads or Tails, it's a simple matter really…only that it is a three shot chance at her life, succeed and she's yours. Otherwise…well, you get the picture." Trent smirked at that last statement in hidden glee, aiming a pistol at the woman's head her dark orbs stared at Cody's in hope for her to live. The detective seeing that tried to fight the situation he was in, but if that was his only chance to save Gwen then he would take that shot to save her from certain death…hanging his head in defeat, he acknowledged the challenge.

"Let's play."

"Good, I expected fire in you…so now it's my guess. I guess it will be Heads, does that sound fair?" Cody nodded calmly, his hopes were pinned on that one toss even though he had two chances as the musician tossed the coin in the air shining in the air with the orange dark sky that filled the air, as though a coincidence thunder struck as the coin fell onto the surface of the man's palm slapping his hand carrying the pistol on it Trent eyed the content first sneering at the detective with a dark grin as he walked towards Cody showing the silver currency piece with the head of the mayor in it, Cody swore under his breath…

"Heads. I win, but before we continue the round…" He spoke slowly, his eyes flashing to Gwen's own confused face before he twirled around aiming his pistol at her as he fired an accurate shot at her lower torso hitting her in the left side sending her onto the floor screaming and yelling in pain, Cody could eye in shock and then rage at Trent's backtracking looking scared at Gwen's condition as he yelled back at the smiling guitarist.

"You GODDAMN BASTARD!" Trent just held up his hands in some sort of innocence at the sudden attack, his smile however hung on his face, which told Cody enough that he was not the person he knew back in all three seasons. Gwen had tears streaming down her bleeding head, trails of blood streaked down her cheeks as she seethed pain through her teeth.

"Oh, I'm sorry…I did say that she wouldn't die in those two tosses, but that didn't mean I couldn't you know, push her limits of survival a little." He said sadistically, Cody could just grit his teeth as he struggled again hearing the musician just sing a short tune before he stepped back beside Gwen now suffering intolerably on the floor, her shivering body told him that every moment wasted led her to death.

"Now, Heads or Tails…Detective?"

"Damn, I can't get a signal on Cody…he seems to be just wandering off in a random direction!" Valen exclaimed as he thumped the desk with his fist, an enraged and irritated look evident in his voice as he watched helplessly unable to stop Cody in going rogue on the mission now. Gwen also had a deep concerned look, her eyes were brimming with concern as she tried to hold back any sign of worry or care for him, right now she couldn't do anything and she knew it deep in her heart even when it was screaming for her to find him at the asylum…Cody, he was the one person she couldn't afford to lose now as she looked at the screen. Valen suddenly pushed the leather chair out from underneath his body weight, the squeak of the cushion as it puffed back to its size like a balloon the butler reaching for the phone as he heard the beeping of the communication device muttering words of worry leaving the goth to eye the screen. Suddenly, her eyes fell on something that seemed to appear out of the corner of the main hall with several other dots approaching the area where Cody was bringing a nudge of concern at the meaning of the indicators before Valen came back Gwen pointing towards the screen, the butler immediately sprung back into his seat watching them as he typed in some commands bringing up a list of profiles reading them at an incredible speed of Gwen had to admit she wouldn't have read a book that fast, five minutes before he leaned back sighing in relief.

"Do not worry, Gwen. These men are part of the local SWAT team, so you don't have to worry much…and they're led by a woman, someone you know no less." Valen assured Gwen's worried expression as she took a look at the profiles falling on the one of the team leader, her eyes widened in shock and surprise at the familiar face despite some changes.

"No way…"

"C'mon Detective, is that the best you have? Two little rounds of Heads and Tails too worked up for you already, Gwen's bleeding so badly because of you…" Trent spoke in a sarcastic tone, his smile already stretching to its limits as Cody swore and bit his lip in frustration and looked away from the shivering body of Gwen lying in a pool of her own blood, ashamed of his causing of her to die this way…but if there was another way to get out of this he needed to take that opportunity as he saw the final coin toss between him and the overconfident musician.

"I choose…Heads." Trent's eyes widened a little in suspicion as Cody watched the facial expression smiling at the coin trick, he had seen it being done quite a few times on the television or the movies for all it was worth and if he was correct about this…

"That coin…is just two heads, isn't it?" Trent kept silent, biting his lip quietly tuning out the words he could say to the detective who just continued with the game very confident with his own words. The musician could not admit it, but the detective had hit the jackpot head on with the two heads on the coin…he had however wasted two chances to figure it all out, but Trent still took a breath of air as he had the better advantage of it.

"Okay, you found me out…but which heads do you bet on will pop up this time? I have in here an angel and a devil's head on each side of the coin I have been using, and now here's the deal: if the coin shows the angel you win and take her, but you know what happens if the coin shows the devil well…let's just say you gave her the last step to martyrdom." Trent sneered with an evil grin as he stood at the ready, his palm resting over the coin which will determine the fate of the bleeding goth between them as Cody just gave a glance of hope to save her, the girl managing to look at him with a look of worry for death but Cody reassured her with a slight false smile.

"Don't worry, Gwen…I'll get you out of here." He said as the coin flipped into the air, landing on the palm of the guitarist turned killer's hand the man eyed him with some venomous intent as he opened the surface of his palm just sneering at the content as he held out the coin towards them, Cody's breath had just vanished into the air for a moment as he waited for failure expecting something bad to happen. However, he was rebuffed and relieved as Trent's coin had the face of an angel on it bringing a dark glare to the musician's face staring at the coin like it betrayed his judgment before he snorted at the detective who had a smile on his face, his muscles suddenly felt the weight off his limbs as he moved quickly while Trent was distracted for that moment kicking the ankles of his former friend sending him to the ground as he fell on the ground Cody then following with an elbow crushing into his lungs bringing out the air from Trent's mouth. Cody brought the gun finally in a dead end to the man's face, who had a face of terror replacing his own smug face he had earlier which gave a sort of evil glee in the detective as Trent begged Cody to put the gun away waving his trapped arms on the concrete eyes pleading.

"C'mon Codester…we're friends, right? You'll let me go, just put the gun away man."

"You think that's going to work on me, Trent? You betrayed Gwen's trust, you thought she was unfaithful to you and then you suddenly hurt your relationship with her and that gave her sadness instead of something else better…love." Cody argued back, the musician seemed to fall silent as he eyed the floor head turned to his right as he stretched his hand out a grin written on his face before Cody fired a shot straight to the man's heart. Shocked by the fire, the detective stepped back from Trent as he watched the young man's body start to wither into the wind with trails of grey ash clouds flying into the orange sky as the dark clouds receded from their hold Trent choking and coughing as he glared at Cody who had his fingers encased on the trigger.

"You think you're the only one who was hurt? Heh, you really are stupid for a detective…you're a failure like the rest of us, a person who cares for someone who doesn't love you back is nothing but a failure…you'll lose her, Cody. Everything like me when I lost her in Drama Action, just like me who gave my love, my all for her and she cheated me like Death…that's all you'll end up, Code-loser. Just like me." Trent spoke before his eyes rolled backwards, his head slumped back on the concrete floor as he disappeared into ashes leaving Cody to think on the words he said before he dismissed it…Gwen was safe, but how did she get into the asylum was the question he wanted to ask as he knelt beside Gwen trying to comfort her. She was bleeding from the shoulder and stomach, the wounds and loss of blood made her pale skin already much paler from it as Cody wrapped his handkerchief around the wound in her shoulder and laid his coat on the stomach to halt the bleeding as he looked at her heavenly face.

"Cody…thank you." She said as she drew upwards for a hug, Cody receiving it with gladness in his heart. As long as she was there for him he would feel happy…wait, how did she manage to move despite her wounds? The thoughts had not crossed his mind before he heard the drawing of a knife and the blade plunging into flesh, Cody suddenly crying out in pain as he withdrew from Gwen's embrace looking at the blade that lodged into his heart, the detective just looked at the goth's smirking face a flicker of evil in her eyes.

"Gwen…what? Why?"

"You're just a failure Cody, I should have left you to die in World Tour. Sorry, love…you were just not my type to begin with. You failed this time, now I bury the hatchet once and for all." She said as she raised another knife above his head, aiming it straight for his forehead before she brought it down the detective cried out in horror and pain.

"He's stabilizing! Someone get him up!" Cody woke up to the sounds of a group of people shuffling around, his eyes still blurred to see the figures like shadows fluttering and creeping around the hall where he saw himself lay down…the gas! Nightmare poured through the pipe he saw, Cody raised his head to see that very corner of the wall behind a pillar where the bent twisted pipe that fed into his direction knocking him out, but instead he found himself inside a strange hallway not far from the main hall as he stared at the floor to find himself face to face with a mosaic of some sort of Greek figures, his eyes widened: he was back in the main entrance not far from another entrance to the library as he saw various men in black night ops uniforms overlooking the doors to the hall with SMGs blocking the way as a man made his way to him, grabbing Cody gently by the elbow as he brought him up from the hard marble floor easing him on his feet ensuring the young man could walk before releasing him and yelled out to another person standing at the entrance with two men tracers on the main hall. He held his head, the pain in his skull like a pounding headache had its toll on him that he could just be sent to a coma if it kept up...whatever Crane put in that stuff must have done him a number as he stroked his cheek, feeling a numbing pain in his skin as he felt another in his eye like a sort of black eye he suffered from something unknown, but what?

"Hey, Commander! He's awake!" the commander of the Black Ops just walked straight towards Cody who now turned to see the main man, the face covered by the dark helmet and visor which gave a threatening glare to him as Cody calmed himself speaking with some concern for Crane and Courtney's safety. He knew these guys were from Black Ops, a strict Canadian division separate from the army of course and used by the SWAT team as a commando unit moving in night missions to raid drug rings and help the CIA and the like, a international organization with knowledge of many things even Cody admitted he didn't know…typical of governments.

"I need to know if Courtney and Crane are still alive, please they need my help…"

"Courtney and Crane are safe, but Courtney was captured too? Woah, I thought most of them were captured and some escaped like me…" The leader stunned Cody as he eyed the person suspiciously, there was something about this person's attitude that he knew from before and recognized it but couldn't find a way to put it where he heard it. As though an answer, the leader pulled off the helmet to let the familiar orange hair flow from the helmet containing it the same green look of ivy in her eyes gave a shocked face to the detective as he stuttered the words out at the familiar beauty.

"Izzy?"

End