Hey guys, Happy October!
So, some quick notes (feel free to skip until after you've read the chapter): After thinking it over for a while, I decided to make a change to the story's genre. Instead of Romance/Drama, it's now Romance/Sci-Fi. The reason for this change is the content in these early chapters (the Chemical X monsters are pretty sci-fi, yes?) as well as some content in later chapters. The science fiction elements are stronger and more relevant in this story than in HTCM, so I think it's only right that I change the genre to fit the content of this story most accurately. Fear not, though: there will definitely still be drama. (I mean, would it even be a story written by me if it didn't have drama in it? Haha.) It's just that the sci-fi elements are just a teeny bit more prevalent in this story than the drama, at least in general.
On a related note: Considering the content in this chapter and in future chapters, I have also been wondering if I should change the rating from T to an M rating. I've held off on it until now, because I'm not totally sure about it. I haven't written an M rated story before, so I guess that's why I'm still on the fence about it. What do you guys think? Based on the story so far, should I change the rating?
Okay, enough of my rambling! Onto the big battle!
Warning: This chapter contains intense and sometimes graphic violence, as well as mild language. If any of those things bother you, please read with caution!
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters, settings, or properties from The Powerpuff Girls, Craig McCracken owns them. Also, I highly doubt the idea for mutant Chemical X creatures is original, but I guess I at least own their designs?
Sorry for any errors!
Chapter Six
-Blossom's POV-
The disgusting army stretched out in front of us, large, never-ending and completely unbelievable. Part of me hoped that I would blink and wake up, and that this was just some fever induced nightmare, and that none of this was real. But I kept blinking. And they were still there, staring back at me with their countless lifeless black eyes.
"How is this possible?" I asked all of my companions. "How is this happening? How?" I counted the white mass of creatures again. Still fifty. I hadn't imagined it. This was real.
Brick answered my questions with another question. "Where did they all come from?"
"Good one, genius. It's a little late to be asking that," Buttercup snapped at him. She let out a shout of frustration. "We should have tracked down whoever's been doing this back when it first started a week ago. Then we wouldn't have to deal with this now." She gestured to the army with one giant sweep of her arm.
"Well, it's also a little late for should-haves, isn't it?" Brick remarked, looking at her darkly. Buttercup shot him an icy glare.
Butch glowered at his brother too, barking, "Shut up, Brick."
In warning, Brick turned his glare to Butch. "You watch yourself," he snarled.
"Easy," said Boomer, looking between both of his brothers, extending a hand towards both of them, ready to separate them if he needed to.
"Blossom, what are we going to do?" Bubbles asked me, turning to me with panic all over her face. She spoke loud so she could be heard over the noise of the army and the others arguing. "One was hard enough to fight. How are we going to take on all of these? There's only six of us!"
I had my forehead nestled in my hands, digging my fingernails into my scalp, trying hard to shut out all of the noise. "Would everyone just stop arguing, shut the hell up and let me think for five freaking seconds?!" I yelled.
Everyone quieted instantly, and all I could hear was the sound of the shrieking, braying, buzzing creature army around us. I dropped my hands.
Brick came right over to me, resting his forehead against mine. "We can figure this out. I know this is intense, but you have to concentrate. Think, baby. Think hard."
I resisted the urge to cave. I would not cave under this enormous pressure. I had to stay calm. I had to think. "I'm trying," I whispered, closing my eyes. I felt my hands shaking.
He placed his hands on either side of my face, whispering, "This can't be that hard. We can handle this. We can handle this just like we handled the other attacks."
Something clicked inside my mind, like a light switch turning on. My eyes snapped back open, and I looked directly into his eyes. "You mean work in pairs again?"
His red gaze boring back into mine, he nodded. "You know all of us work best in coordination. If each pair focused on one kind of monster at a time, it'll be easier."
"We've already fought at least half of these before, so we already know at least half of their weaknesses," I murmured, finishing his thought. "So we take those out first, then leave the mystery ones for last, for all of us to take down together."
"Exactly," he said, grinning at me with electric anticipation. "And we'll feel it out from there with teamwork."
If our respective siblings and an entire flock of monsters weren't staring at us right then, I would've kissed him so hard. "You're fantastic," I said, taking in a deep breath, feeling hope and energy beginning to pump through my veins, preparing me for our plan.
"So are you." He gave me a quick kiss on the forehead, then pulled away, looking around at our four other battle partners. "You hear the plan, guys?"
Everyone nodded. "Yep," Boomer said. The usual laid-back, calm quality on his features were gone, replaced with rock hard aggression.
"It's good," Buttercup said. She was already looking eager to carry it out. Her hands were clenched into shaking fists at her sides, and her green eyes were ablaze. "I think it'll work."
"I think it's great." Bubbles chimed in. Recognizing the steely look in her eyes that she always had during battles, I knew she was prepared, too. "I'm ready when you guys are."
Butch had been staring out at the sea of monsters. "They're just watching us. It's like they're waiting for us to make the move first." He looked at us, looking pensive and wary. "It's like they came here looking for a fight."
A moment of silence passed between all of us as we stared out back at them. Even though hostility was emanating from them, it was indeed like they were waiting for us to do something. It wasn't just peculiar, it was…unheard of. I glowered out at them, turned back to my teammates, then said, "Then let's give them a fight."
We turned around to face them completely, and their noises got even louder. Deafening screeches, demented cackling, unearthly whispers, and static buzzing filled the air, echoing loudly in my ears.
Feeling the adrenaline taking over my body, spitting fire through my veins, I said to my companions, "Remember the plan, everyone. Stick to the type of monsters you defeated last week so that there are no surprises. Show no mercy." Lining up, counterpart by each counterpart, everyone readied themselves, preparing to fly. Glancing over at Brick, clenching all of my muscles and getting myself ready, I nodded at him, giving him the signal to make the call.
Ominously, he nodded back, turning and facing the army again. Then, after a hefty, tense half second, Brick took a deep breath and thundered, "Attack!"
With a surge of movement, we charged, advancing through the air toward our enemies with speeds that nearly broke the sound barrier. Likewise, the creatures lurched forward—galloping, slithering, rolling, ambling, coming straight for us, closing in and swallowing us up completely.
It was immediate pandemonium.
Coming in with my heat vision to clear anything in my path, and ducking past a flying creature with 6 dragonfly-like wings, I barreled straight towards the first spherical monster that I laid eyes on. With its hollow eyes on me, it reared back, face disappearing as it prepared to launch its spikes into the air.
Breathing in, I gusted a frozen tundra in its direction, making the spikes freeze to its body. It shuddered, making shrieking chortles as it froze to the ground, and after breathing out one last thick haze of ice, I came at it from the air with both of my fists pounding it down, smashing it into tiny pieces of icy chunks and then landing on my feet.
In the same moment, out of the corner of my eye, I caught Buttercup flying straight to a skinny, four legged creature, landing with her feet against its protruding ribs, grabbing both of its arms in her hands and then flying backward at high speed, ripping them off its body. It let out an earsplitting scream. Turning my head, I saw Butch similarly, viciously, tearing the legs off of an identical creature as it wailed to the heavens.
The next second, several objects pierced my skin in the back of my legs and my back, and I cried out in pain and surprise, spinning around and frantically pulling the spikes out of me, leaving several puncture holes in the fabric of my clothes. Past the holes, I saw the multiple stab wounds throbbing hard, closing up quicker than usual from the extra Chemical X that coated the spikes.
Turning and looking ahead, I saw my attacker: spherical, white, smaller than the last one. Its replacement spikes were only just starting to come up in the empty spaces, making its body mostly smooth, and I acted quickly. I leapt high into the air, flying up and then soaring back down. Coming down at it full speed with both feet, I stomped it hard, and to my surprise it squelched onto the ground. Like the soft body of a jelly fish, it disintegrated into mush under my feet. It bubbled, buzzed, and then was silent. The only part left was the skull face—shockingly flat without it resting on the spherical body.
'That's why it uses the spikes to ward off direct bodily attacks,' I thought, flummoxed. I picked up the skull face with both hands, which was grimacing at me instead of grinning. I seared it with my heat vision until it became ash, floating down to the ground.
Suddenly, there was a giant crash against the ground, making me lose my balance and sending me toppling over into the black and white goo that used to be the creature I was fighting. I grimaced down at the mess all over me, standing up and trying to wipe some of it off my pink, now ruined tights.
Then, after a thought came to me, I reached into my shorts pocket, taking out one of the handkerchiefs that I always kept with me. It was pink, and engraved with 'Utonium' in calligraphy. I reached down, gingerly scooping up some black goop and some white, jelly-like flesh, placing it into the handkerchief, carefully wrapping it back up inside it and stuffing it inside my pocket. Since I had no plastic bags with me, this would have to do.
With no warning, Bubbles sped past me, nearly knocking me over again, and I watched as she flew up into the underside of one of the tall mutant spiders that loomed above, aiming a flying punch at its human-like eight eyes. The thing stood no chance against the impact, and it launched backwards, landing belly-and-eyes-side up some ways away on top of some other monsters. She chased after it, curled her hands into fists and launched an explosion of blue electricity directly at it, which electrocuted it and made its legs stick straight out. Lastly, she came down at its body with a fierce one-two punch kick combo, and black liquid came spurting out of it as its legs curled up.
Likewise, Boomer was swinging another twelve legged creature around by its legs, and he threw it against a large nearby tree. A resounding cracking noise came from both the creature and the tree's trunk, and then he charged down at it with his fists, finishing the job.
Turning away and looking up towards the sky for my boyfriend, then finding him fighting a spherical creature at least eight times larger than the ones I had fought and the one we had fought together, I shouted up at him. "Brick! Go for the body!"
Pausing mid-flight, he looked down at me, confounded. "What? Do you want me to get impaled?"
"No!" Seeing a mid-size sphere monster rolling toward me at high speed, I yelled up at him again. "Just watch me!"
Coming at the monster before it could reach me first, making sure it could see me, I stood there right in front of it as it reared back. I hit the ground, making myself as flat as possible against the dead grass as the thing launched its spikes, flying up in all directions. Being as flat against the ground as I was, they completely missed me.
As soon as it was safe, I jumped back up. Taking off up into the sky, glancing back at Brick again to make sure he was watching, I came back down fast with one leg. Before more spikes could grow out of whatever jelly substance it was composed of, my foot crushed against the monster, and just like the last one, it squished into white and black goop under my shoe, splashing in every direction. Landing and then locating the skull face and finding it, I stamped down on it, making it crack apart like a ceramic plate.
"Holy shit! Wicked!" Brick cried, grinning roguishly from ear to ear. "That just made this a whole lot easier!" He turned back to the giant globe of a creature, heckling it by smacking his lips together in a mocking air kiss. "Give me your best shot, sugar lips."
The massive thing laughed at him, a deep-throated, slow, static-y cackle, then began to rear back, its big skull face rolling back and disappearing.
Brick cupped his hands around his mouth. "Everyone take cover!" He bellowed, diving to the grass. Our teammates and siblings heard him, all of them abruptly dropping down against the ground and behind other monsters. I threw myself against the ground again.
The huge sphere erupted, letting loose its tree trunk sized spikes and sending them soaring in every direction. They shot through trees, soared off into the sky towards other parts of the city, and went splicing through countless other monsters nearby—through wings, through necks, through torsos, splitting others completely in half. Buttercup, Boomer and Butch were hooting and laughing and hollering their exhilarated approval, and Bubbles shrieked in horror at the sight.
As soon as it was safe to get up, I leapt from the ground, shouting, "Now!"
Brick took off into the sky, flying up so high that the dark clouds completely swallowed up his form. The next second, he was barreling back down in a burning red streak, hurtling himself into the smooth, spikeless white globe, and it burst, black and white spurting and splattering everywhere. It coated the ground, making it slick and hard to walk on, coated other monsters, causing them to screech, and drenched all of us.
Completely coated in black goo, Brick stood up, walked over to the giant skull face and just like I did, stomped it with his foot, causing it to splinter into pieces.
Wiping slime off my face before I opened my mouth, I nodded and said to him with approval, "Nice work."
"Hey, can you watch it?" Buttercup yelled, scooping some goop away from her eyes with both of her hands and throwing it. "That was awesome and all, but I'm trying to whoop ass over here." She cocked her head to the side and then suddenly turned, throwing her fist and wailing on the face of a monster who had been coming up behind her. It fell to the ground, and she tackled it.
Brick laughed, wiping some gunk off his face as well. "Sorry," he replied to her. Suddenly he turned, chasing after another nearby spike monster that had caught his eye, ready to do it all over again.
Before I had a chance to follow him and join in, my whole body was unexpectedly grabbed.
I was being wrapped up in something—and it took me a few prolonged seconds to realize it was a creature. Its body was long, muscular, snakelike—like a python's, and ice cold. It tightened its crushing grip, squeezing me so hard that all of my joints creaked.
I cried out in astonishment and pain, and a face appeared directly in front of my face—white scales, long, needle-like fangs in multiple rows in its mouth, three pairs of black eyes, the three circle symbol on its forehead, and most unexpectedly, hands on the sides of its head, reaching down at me. The hands were white and bony but had skin so humanlike that I couldn't stop myself from staring in terror.
As I struggled to get my own arms free from its tight hold around me, its face advanced down toward mine, peering at me eagerly, almost hungrily. Then, it actually spoke.
"Sssso preeetty," it said in a hissing, static whisper. "Preeetty girl, sssso preeetty. I will eaaats the meaaats of your preeetty face, and it will tastes good, sssso veeery good."
It came close with its hands, tightly holding my face close to its own, and I screamed.
Suddenly its face and hands jerked away, then quickly unfurling from around me, its whole body flew back as it made gagging noises, and I was freed from its body's tight grasp. I fell onto the dirty, sticky ground, black liquid and dried grass and dirt clinging to me in clumps, and I sat up, gasping in air deeply.
I looked around to see where the creature had gone, and it didn't take long to find it—my boyfriend was standing with its neck between his hands, strangling it and rattling it around.
Then, with his bare hands, he tore the head from its body, yanked its hands off of the sides of its head, and then turned his eyes, incinerating the squirming snake body with heat vision. It turned into black ash, and he threw the unmoving head onto the ground, stomping down on it with his foot several times, then hocked a wad of spit on it with a repulsed look on his face.
Brick then turned away from it, rushing over to help me off the ground. "Are you alright, babe? Anything broken?" He steadied me as I slipped on the slickness of the ground as I stood.
"No, I'm fine. Thanks to you," I grimaced. Normally, it took a lot to truly shake me up, and that had left me feeling shaken. "It told me it was going to eat my face off."
He made a face. "God. I'm sorry. I would've come sooner, but I was taking care of another Ball of Doom," he laughed bleakly, then looked down at me. "Did it sneak up on you?"
"Yeah, it—" I stopped mid-sentence, something catching my attention as I glanced out at the chaotic scene. Across the way, Bubbles was being carried away by one of the flying creatures. Searching around for Boomer, I saw that his back was turned to her, preoccupied with beating a monster into the ground. I moved around Brick. "Oh God. Be right back!" I told him, tearing into the air after the winged thing. I heard Brick call after me, but I kept going.
Bubbles was screaming, trying to writhe free from its grasp on her, and the creature buzzed in response, lifting higher into the air as it struggled to carry her.
Without being seen, I flew up and hovered behind the winged creature, grabbing its first pair of kaleidoscopic dragonfly wings and yanking them off of its body. It yelped, beginning to turn to face me, and I latched onto its back so that it couldn't. Wrapping my legs tight around its white, furry body, I ripped off the second pair of wings, throwing them out of the way.
"Bubbles, get ready to fly away! This thing is about to drop like a rock," I shouted down to my sister.
Stopping her struggling for a moment, she turned her head towards the sound of my voice. Her short blonde hair was matted, much like mine was, with black muck. "Blossom?"
"Yes, it's me." I told her. "Get ready!"
"Okay!"
Tightening my hands around the last pair of wings, I tore them away, and immediately all three of us began to descend, plummeting back towards the Earth like an asteroid. Getting off of its back, I dodged its snapping jaws—it looked like a bird beak, but it had pointy teeth inside—and came around to the front of it to see Bubbles trying to claw her way out of its grasp.
Three pairs of white arms were wrapped around her—human arms—and I began to help her break through all of them. The creature reached down with its beak and bit me on the hand, and I jerked it back, screamed, "Ow!" and punched it in the face.
Seeing the ground rushing up faster now, I yanked on all of the white arms hard, finally breaking their grip, and then I took my sister's hand as we flew up and away just before the creature landed. As it crashed onto the ground, the creature let out one last loud static-y yelp, and it landed on a stray rock in the field—breaking its body in half and silencing it.
We hovered in the air, staring down at it. "Thanks for helping me," Bubbles said, sighing in relief and turning to me. I could tell just by the look in her eyes that she was shaken, just as I had been minutes ago. "Boomer was distracted, and it just grabbed me out of nowhere."
"It's okay," I told her, squeezing her hand in mine. "You've been going a great job otherwise."
She smiled, appreciating the comment, then paused and looked around. "Where's Brick? Wasn't he with you?"
"He's—" I squinted back to the area that I'd been before, only to see two of the four-legged creatures latching onto him—one with its fanged jaws with the both of its two heads, fangs sunken into his torso, and the other with its hands, holding onto his feet so that he couldn't fly away. "Shit!" I shouted, letting go of my sister's hand and soaring back across the battle ground towards him.
On my way, another flying monster flew up beside me, buzzing and opening up its jaws. I did a sideways flip mid-flight, sending my foot clobbering into the back of its neck, and it crashed down onto the ground with a crunch. I aimed a particularly strong lightning bolt down at the creature, and it caught on fire, burning to a crisp as I flew away.
Arriving at the scene, I rushed up behind the four-legged monster that held Brick's feet, latching my arms and legs around its long neck and holding its head between my hands. It began to wail in a human man's voice, letting go of Brick's feet and reaching back with its hands to try to pull me off of it. I twisted its head to the side in a rapid jerking motion, a crack resounded, and its scream got cut off as it dropped to the ground with me still on it.
I crawled out from underneath its weight, getting up and glowering down at it. Somehow, it still moved, its arms and legs flapping around, and with my foot, I brought it down hard in the middle of its torso, hearing its spine snapping in half. Its movement stopped, but I still heard the static noise coming from it.
Remembering how I'd seen Butch and Buttercup defeat these monsters, and realizing what I had to do, I reached down and grabbed it in my hands, holding it by its gaunt torso. Flexing and then tearing its body apart with my hands, black splurting all over me like water, I threw the top half of it one direction, and the other half in the opposite direction.
I immediately spun around, intending to help Brick with the other one, and instead watched as he ripped both of its heads in half—by pulling its gruesome smiles apart with his hands, unhinging the jaws and tearing both of the heads right down the middle. Even considering what I'd just done to the other monster, the sight was truly grisly. I had to look away for a moment, nearly retching.
Done with the heads, dropping them to the ground, Brick came at the body, tearing both arms off, then its legs, and chucking them far away. After watching them sail away, he turned to me, regarding me relatively calmly. "Well, thanks for coming back."
I cringed at him guiltily. "Sorry, Bubbles needed help." I came towards him, lifting his shirt to look at where he'd gotten bitten. I could tell the fangs had sunken deeply into his torso, but there were just little pink marks there now. "It bit you really hard."
"I'm all right," he said, though he was hunching over slightly. "Just stings a little."
"This plan isn't going so well anymore," I remarked, looking out at our teammates.
Buttercup was taking on three monsters on her own; two four-limbed monsters were swinging at her with their hands and snapping at her with their fangs as another—a snake-like one similar to the one that had attacked me—slithered around her. She took the two four legged ones by both of their heads and then smashed their faces together, both heads getting crushed and splurting Chemical X. Letting go of them and rubbing her hands together rapidly, she conjured then launched a green fire ball at the serpent monster, making it explode into a hundred fiery pieces.
Butch tied two snake creatures together, and then he sent them flinging through the air, barreling toward a spherical monster and impaling the creatures on its spikes. Behind him, another spiky monster launched its spikes, and they sunk into his side as he screamed.
Bubbles was throwing injured flying monsters under the feet of the twelve legged monster Boomer was fighting, effectively crushing them into the ground. As Boomer was soaring around the monster he fought, though, a four-legged monster caught his foot and snatched him from the sky, hurling him to the earth. He smashed into the ground, making a large crater around him and sending clumps of dirt flying.
Having watched the whole scene, enraged, Bubbles came careening at the four-legged creature head-on, head butting it with a battle cry and sending it sailing backward into a tree. The closest monster with twelve legs shot some web at her, wrapping all of her limbs up together and causing her to fall to the ground, helpless.
I turned back to Brick, seeing him watching them fight, too. "Look at them. This isn't working. There's just too damn many. They're gaining on us."
"There's not as many left. We just need to keep going," Brick said, but he looked unsure.
There was a sudden explosion of pain in my back. I cried out, turning to Brick and seeing him hissing through his teeth in pain and reaching for the spikes that now protruded out of his back. He ripped one out, grinding his teeth. After exchanging a look, we spun around to find another sphere monster behind us, grinning and snickering at the job it had done.
Completely in sync, we rose up into the air, turned around, and then came hurtling down at it, smashing downward together with both our fists and smushing it into a pile of goop, which once again landed all over us.
Landing back on my feet again, I looked down at the slime in disgust. "This is getting tedious," I said. After scraping some more of the goopy mess off of my face, I reached back to yank all the spikes out from my flesh once again with a frustrated noise. "Really getting tired of these in particul—"
Interrupting me without warning, Brick shouted, "Blossom, move!"
I lifted my gaze, looking around me, taken off guard. "What?"
Brick came at me, enfolding me in his arms and flying us both out of the way just in time—a twelve-legged monster came crashing down onto the ground in the exact place that I'd been standing. Its legs collapsed onto the dead grass like tree trunks coming crashing down. It made a thundering boom.
As soon as we were sure it was done falling, he let go of me as we stared back at it. "What the hell?" I said. The creature wasn't making a sound. It wasn't even moving. I left his side, standing up, and then came over to kneel next to it, listening closer. It wasn't even buzzing. It was dead. "Who downed that one? I didn't hear anyone pass us."
Brick was searching the sky, looking for any one of our battle partners that might have passed us. "No one did," he said. He'd gotten up too, and he came to stand next to me, looking down at the giant dead thing. "Maybe one of the other monsters did it."
I was looking for any discernable injuries. There didn't seem to be any. "It doesn't look like it," I said. I stared at it and frowned, getting the nagging feeling that something was wrong.
Brick threw his hands up. "Well, maybe it was sick, I don't know. Who cares? Either way, it's one less problem we have to deal with right now." He began to turn away. "Come on, let's just keep—"
There was another resounding BOOM from across the field, making the earth beneath us rumble. We turned our heads to look in the direction it had come from—just in time to see two more twelve legged monsters dropping to the ground at the same time, legs crushing down on other nearby monsters. Bubbles had been fighting one of them, it seemed, and now she was staring down at it in confusion.
Taking a quick sweep of the area with my eyes, I froze. Those two had been the last two monsters with twelve legs, there was no more left.
"What about those?" I asked, turning to Brick, my frown deepening. "Do you think those were sick, too?" He was frowning now, too, looking out at the other dead ones.
Our quiet moment of confusion didn't last long. Directly in front of us, out of the blue, a flying monster crashed down at our feet. The both of us jumped back, startled. "God," I said, gathering myself and gawking at it. Then, I kneeled down to look at it closely. It wasn't moving or making noise, either. Lifeless.
"Blossom," Brick said. "Look."
I looked up. Six flying monsters were raining down to the ground, their wings ceasing to move and dead before they even hit the ground. I searched—that was all of the rest of the flying ones. All gone. I slowly started to stand back up, but then I saw a nearby sphere monster from the corner of my eye. I turned to watch it. It was behaving strangely; its spikes were lurching up and down in strange patterns, vibrating, almost as if it were about to—
I grabbed Brick's hand, yanking him onto the ground as I fell forward. Wordlessly, he let me pull him down, and the next second, there were several earsplitting detonations. The burst of spikes being launched, then a squicky sounding splat right under it. I counted five of them. Some spikes landed in the skin of my arms as I had covered up my head, and then there was the splash of slimy goop all over me.
Slowly, I lifted my head from between my arms, and Brick did the same. We were, once again, drenched in black muck. I looked to where the sphere monster had been sitting. It was gone, a pile of steaming jelly and slime and spikes in its place. It hadn't launched the spikes—its entire body had exploded. I turned my gaze out to the rest of the battlefield, and all the rest of the sphere monsters had spontaneously combusted, as well. All five left were gone.
Our respective siblings had all stopped fighting, looking at all of the downed monsters, looking at each other and then looking over at us, perplexed and shocked. "What the fuck is going on?" I heard Buttercup exclaim.
I reached over to my side, grabbing Brick's arm. He was completely frozen. "This can't be," I said to him, breathless. "Do you think…" I trailed off, never finishing my question.
Looking out, I saw all six of the snake-like monsters that were left slump to the ground, all thirty-six of their black eyes staring out unseeingly and glazed over.
And then, as all six of us watched it happen, the only creatures left, the ones with joker smiles and four legs, collided with the earth.
All five of them, at the exact same time. One landed right next to Brick and I, its head smacking hard against the ground. It twitched for a few seconds, then ceased all movement, its grinning, fanged mouth gone slack, hanging open. I watched Chemical X pour out of its throat, through its fangs and onto the dried grass below.
All of the shrieks, whispers, yelping and buzzing had stopped. The static noises were gone. Just complete silence.
Silence and fifty cold white monster corpses.
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