Chapter 8: The Tribunal Pt II: The Undertakers

Once again the Tribunal had assemble when news of the drumming couple was heard. Crosier had spent a lot of time gathering information from reliable sources. What he discovered made him sick. He feared the coupling could jepordize the world more so then what Dethklok was doing alone.

"As you can see, Cancerous is staying with Dethklok because of the incident at Salt Lake City. Not only that, they are going to colaberate with one another to create and perform a song. What will happen, it is too soon to tell." General Crosier said to the Tribunal. His report was brief, as many had heard the details on the news. "A group of rabid Dethklok fans have joined together and called themselves The Undertakers, very much like the Revengencers, only they are after Cancerous. This group is deticated to annihilating Cancerous so Dethklok would have no competition. They have broken into hundreds of record stores across the nation, detroying any thing and everything related to the female band." The old General paused for a moment.

"General Crosier," Vater Orlaag began, "What else do you know about these Undertakers?"

The four star General glanced at the long bearded man, "I believe they may make a scene at the concert. The bands have yet to announce the location, not until the end of this month, but I can tell you it will be in Russia. The Russian military is preparing several stages such as in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Dikson and Never. Of course, only one will be used, the rest decoys. A estimate of one billion tickets will be sold worldwide, but only sixty million will actually have the correct location. All this to confuse and keep the Undertakers as far away from Cancerous as possible. This is a very dangerous group, as they've managed to infiltrate a military base and take bio weapons, even a detenator of a small nuclear bomb. Whether not they will use it is not clear, as Dethklok will also be there. So there is the possibilty they will wait until Cancerous is alone."

"What more have you uncovered about the drummers, Pickles and Cherry?" Vater continued to ask questions, curious about the progress, and probably asking the very questions that had Mr. Selatcia was pondering himself. Of course he never spoke unless he really felt like it, and that was usually when the meeting was about to end.

"That, gentlemen," Senator Stampingstons said as he finally spoke up, "Is something very hard to investigate. Not only is Cancerous staying with Dethklok, but they seem to be under house arrest. Dethklok has made a few appearances outside of their home, but not with the company of the women. We believe these girls are under lock and key to protect them from the Undertakers. Mordhaus is like a fortress, guards are everywhere as well as hidden traps."

The screen behind him flashed, showing the image of a man who had an odd resemblance to Seth, Pickles brother, only with golden dreadlochs and black eyes. On his bare torse was various Dethklok related figures, even their names were painted on his body.

"We believe this to be the Undertakers' leader, former Marine Javier Van Winkler. General Crosier, please elaborate." Mr. Stampingston turned to him and gave him a slight nod.

"Van Winkler is a part of every Dethklok fan based forum, and attends every concert Dethklok has. He dropped out of Yale and entered the Marines in the early 90's, but was discharged for treason and stealing military secrets. With Van Winkler's military background, he is a prime candidate to be their leader. He was last seen at the Salt Lake City concert."

The pictures of a young Van Winkler were displayed on the large screens. Some from his Yale years, others from his life in the marines and the last ones were of him among numerous of people at Dethklok concerts. One was of him holding onto a "DIE FOR DETHKLOK" banner looking bloody and beaten as police officers carried him away. He had an insane look in his eyes as he grinned at the camera.

A picture that stood out the most was of him carving Dethklok into his right bicep. On his expression was of that as a madman. This guy was clearly nuts, and was indeed a prime suspect of the Salt Lake Incident. And if he had military secrets, then he was bound to know what to use to make bombs and the likes. Or where he could get a hold of nuclear weapons. Holy fuck he was crazy alright.

"General Crosier, keep an eye on Cancerous. Let nothing happen to them." Mr. Selatcia said in his normally low and raspy voice. "We must see what becomes of Cancerous and Dethklok."

"I agree." Orlaag said. General Crosier merely mumbled under his breath.

Everyone was dimissed. General Crosier went down a long hallway that lead to the outside of the secret facility. When he sure no one was behind him, he dug into his pockets until he pulled out a wallet. Taking a deep breath, he opened it. In the middle, there was a picture of a younger him, still in his military uniform along side another man. Crosier had a small smile on his lips as the young man beside him held up a little baby girl. All three of them smiling, even the baby who had a toothless grin on her little face as she reached out for Crosier.

Turning the picture over, it read Summer, Crosier and Seargent Implosion with daughter, Moira. It took him a while to actually remember he had the picture, and more so to remember Edgar. It had been almost twenty years since his death. With new conviction, Crosier vowed to keep Cancerous as safe as possible during the concert by sending his troops in to blend in with the crowd, whether or not Mr. Selatcia approved.

Taking the picture underneath the older one, he put his wallet away. He finally stopped walking and sighed. The picture was of Tina Implosion and a sixteen year old Moira, both standing infront of Edgar's American grave on the anniversary of the adults' wedding. The female Implosions had flown what was left of his body back to the US to be buried, leaving behind a memorial at the location in which the deceased family man had died at. Bitter sweet memories. He wished he had stayed in contact with the two, but life was hard for the General. He could only hope Dethklok or the Undertakers didn't end up killing Cancerous. He had to protect his god child at all cost or die trying.

I heard of a Winkler once. Evil, evil choir director, holy crap she was scary looking! I can personally say I really enjoy writing this fic, I've actually been keeping a pretty steady pace with it, a hell of a lot better then my other ones, who are now just over a year of not being updated. Damn writer's block. Maybe because I am ridiculously obesessed with Dethklok right now and keep watching the episodes I have on my iPhone :D

Well, there you have it! A nice chapter to start the weekend. Thanks again reviewers, and YourSweet, don't worry about Evanescence, everyone has different preferences in music and life in general. I'd be pissed though if you said "it killed the story" or something, a comment I got back years ago for one of my fics -has been horribly scarred ever since-

Dragonz, :D Boonfans unite! Lol, of course living with someone for a while will either lead to you liking them or hating them more. In this case it was like. At least that's how I see it...

Warning for Next Chapter: SkwisxRuna smut. Yeah, I actually went there x.x