A Regular Outbreak
Season Two: In Plain Sight
Episode Two: First Day
11th of March, 2024, Morning
Day 237
The next morning, Mordecai, Rigby and Sean, accompanied by Vivian and Axel, were in the courtyard. "Where's Alpha?" Axel asked, turning to face the supermarket. "He's doing jobs for Ann." Vivian whispered back. Axel nodded and faced the front, where Stan was talking. "The horde of zombies seems to have moved further south, away from here. But that doesn't mean we don't stop working. Rigby, I need you to come with me." Stan glanced at the raccoon. "Why?" Rigby asked. "Just come." Stan rolled his eyes. "But what if he hurts you again?" Mordecai grabbed Rigby's shoulder, stopping him.
"I…I'll be fine." Rigby pulled Mordecai's wing off his shoulder his shoulder and glanced at the blue jay's worried face. Mordecai nodded and watched Rigby walk away. "Stay safe." Sean watched the raccoon follow Stan to his office.
"Same as last time." Stan said, sitting on his chair. "You're not gonna beat me up now, are you?" Rigby asked, scared. "No." Stan replied. "I've called you up here, to reason with you. To explain why you must stay here." Stan said, sternly. "Oh?" Rigby watched Stan get up. "Let's see…how do I begin…?" Stan began to pace.
One hour later
"What's taking him so long!?" Mordecai had his head in his knees. "Come on, he'll be fine." Sean comforted his friend. "What if he's being hurt up there!?" Mordecai exclaimed. "I'm sure he's okay…just calm down." Sean sighed. "Sorry Sean…this is too much for a kid to handle…I'm putting too much on you." Mordecai glanced at the wolf. "No…I don't mind doing this. I used to do this for my dad all the time, when he fought with mom." Sean argued. Suddenly, the garage door opened and a familiar raccoon walked in.
"Rigby! There you are." Mordecai ran over to his friend. "Back off weird…bird thing. Anyway, Stan wants to see you." Rigby barged past the blue jay. "What?" Mordecai was confused. "Mordecai." Stan stood at the garage door. Mordecai glanced at his friend, who had just walked past Axel and Vivian. "It worked?" Vivian was surprised. "Dunno, it's never worked before." Axel shrugged. "Mordecai." Stan said, louder. Mordecai sighed and followed Stan up to his office. Sean glanced at Rigby, who had a blank expression on his face.
Meanwhile
Margaret's eyes slowly opened, she was greeted by the sight of Thomas, who was facing her. Thomas was in deep sleep. Margaret savoured the moment of being this close to the goat, even though she had feelings that this was wrong. She slowly backed off a little and stood up. She noticed that Eileen, HFG and Benson weren't on their bedrolls. Margaret yawned and walked out into the main room. "Morning." Eileen greeted, as she walked in. "Where's Benson and HFG?" Margaret asked, walking over to Eileen, who was sitting at one of the tables.
"They're supply hunting. They were originally going to take Thomas along with them, but they decided to leave you two alone." Eileen grinned. "Shut up." Margaret rolled her eyes. "What is with you, Eileen? It's as if you think Thomas and I are in love." Margaret asked. "Who's in love?" Thomas walked in, yawning as he entered. "Oh…no one." Margaret said, glaring at Eileen. Suddenly, Benson and HFG burst through the door of the coffee shop, breaking the barricade. "I just fixed that!" Eileen shouted, as they entered. "Help!" Benson exclaimed, carrying a shitload of supplies in his hands. Thomas and Margaret ran over and held the door shut, while Eileen helped HFG and Benson away from the door.
"Hold the door!" Margaret grabbed a nearby chair and barred it against the door, keeping it closed. "Phew." She sighed. "Nice." Thomas complimented her. "Aw, no problem." Margaret blushed a little. "What'd you get?" Eileen asked, glancing at the stack of supplies that Benson had brought in. "We raided the grocery store. We managed to get a lot of stuff." Benson answered. "Good." Eileen glanced over at Thomas and Margaret, who were staring at each other. "There they go again." Eileen chuckled. "Come on over here and help us pack our new supplies, Thomas!" Benson exclaimed, breaking Thomas out of his trance. "Oh, sorry, sir." Thomas ran over to help. Margaret followed him shortly after.
At the same time
Sean was hiding, he had a bad feeling that Stan was doing something to Mordecai, as he hid. Sean hid behind one of the trash cans, as Mordecai walked back in. "Thanks." Stan glanced over at Sean. "Think we should bother?" Stan asked. "He's just a kid, don't waste the time." Ann convinced Stan. Stan nodded and shut the garage door.
"Mordecai?" Sean walked over to the blue jay. "Hi." He greeted. "So you do remember?" Sean questioned. "Remember what?" Mordecai was confused. "Everything?" Sean furrowed a brow. "Whatever, kid." Mordecai rolled his eyes and walked away. "Damn it." Sean silently swore. "Hey kid, you alright?" Vivian approached the wolf. "What's wrong with them? It's as if they don't remember." Sean sighed. "I don't know. We think Stan has…brainwashed your friends into believing that this is their home." Vivian explained.
"How would they do that?" Sean asked. "We're…not sure, we've been here for so long that we don't remember. But Stan has tried to do this to all of us. Me, my friend; Axel and Alpha." Vivian pointed to another table. "What can I do?" Sean asked, glancing at Alpha, who was sitting alone. "I don't know…" Vivian sighed. "Vivian! Come here for a second!" Axel shouted. "What do you want!?" Vivian walked over to him.
Sean walked over to Alpha, who was sitting nearby. "You…you look like me." Sean commented, standing in front of Alpha. "Excuse me?" Alpha seemed confused. "You're a wolf, too." Sean commented. "I guess." Alpha furrowed a brow. "What's your name?" Alpha asked. "Sean." Sean answered. "Nice to meet you, Sean." Alpha smiled at him. "You can't be here alone, where's your mom and dad?" Sean asked. "Well, they're dead." Sean shrugged. "Oh sorry." Alpha sighed. "But I guess in a weird way, Mordecai is my father and Rigby is my mother, I guess." Sean shrugged. "Oh yeah, co…wait, Mordecai and Rigby?" Alpha was shocked. "Yeah, my friends, over there." Sean pointed to Mordecai first, then to Rigby.
"Wow! I haven't seen them since we were kids!" Alpha exclaimed. "How did you guys meet?" Sean asked, sitting beside Alpha. "Well, originally, my brother…Omega, moved to Twin Peaks – where Mordecai and Rigby are from – but then Omega…Omega had a problem, okay? Sometimes he…would freak out and get people hurt…I remember the time he had that problem, and almost killed your friends...I'm not gonna start from the beginning, so I'll start further into it." Alpha began. "So…about…fourteen years ago, my brother went completely insane and kidnapped Rigby." Alpha continued.
"What?" Sean was confused. "Urgh, just pay attention…" Alpha sighed.
A/N: I know this is a dumb idea, but this is also for people who don't know who some of these characters are. Sorry guys.
14 Years Earlier, in Twin Peak's Industrial District
"Omega!" A voice shouted, running into the factory. "Oh, here he is…" Omega chuckled. "Omega! Stop this at once! What has gotten into you!?" Alpha shouted. "Rigby! Where are you!?" Mordecai shouted. "Rigby, take care of the tall one, I'll take care of my brother…" Omega ordered. Rigby nodded and jumped down from the platform they were standing on and tackled Mordecai. Mordecai screamed in pain, his arm broke from the impact.
"Mordecai?" Alpha asked, before Omega tackled him. "Rigby! Stop! Please, it's us!" Mordecai pleaded. This time, Rigby didn't stop. "What do we do with them?" Rigby asked. "We'll take them into that room over there." Omega ordered. Rigby nodded and dragged Mordecai to the room indicated by Omega, with Omega dragging Alpha behind him.
"Let us go!" Alpha ordered. "No." Omega said, throwing Alpha against the hard stone wall of the factory. "What are you doing this for…?" Mordecai asked. Rigby suddenly threw Mordecai against the hard stone wall, with Mordecai collapsing beside Alpha. Suddenly, Rigby groaned in pain. "Rigby…? What's the matter?" Omega asked. "I…dunno…ARGH!" Rigby shouted, clutching his right arm in pain, the gash on his arm was closing so there was no hole in the skin. "Oh no…" Omega began. "No. NO!" Omega shouted, punching Rigby over.
"What's going on?" Mordecai asked. "His arm is the source of the issue! Omega's losing the control over Rigby, it isn't the eye-contact, it's the- Rigby wears contacts, and it was the arm that was the way he was controlled, not the eyes." Riley interrupted Alpha, walking into the room with Alpha and Omega's father and Ben. "NO! YOU STOLE MY THUNDER!" Alpha cried. "How did you all get here!?" Omega shouted. "Enough is enough Omega…I think it's time you calmed down…" His father tried to calm him down.
"Son of a bitch…" Omega growled. Ben, Riley and the father backed off at the sudden outburst. Suddenly, Omega grabbed Rigby and ran off. "Rigby!" Mordecai shouted, getting up and chasing after Omega. "We gotta catch him before he does something to Rigby!" Riley exclaimed, running after Omega with Mordecai, trying to assist in catching him. Mordecai and Riley chased Omega out of the factory and out to the front of the factory, with Rigby still in Omega's arms. "Let me go you crazy bastard!" Rigby ordered. "No! I need your help with this!" Omega shouted. "Help me!" Rigby shouted.
Present time…
"What happened next?" Sean asked, intrigued. "Mordecai managed to find Rigby, after a long two day search. After all of that, my brother moved back to my home town of Elmore, and we never returned to Twin Peaks again." Alpha finished. "Yeah, I heard that back before the apocalypse, they called it the 'Unlucky Town'." Sean chuckled.
Alpha chuckled a little. "So what happened to your brother?" Sean questioned. "He…he's gone." Alpha sighed. "I'm sorry." Sean sighed. "It's fine. You didn't know." Alpha reassured the kid. "How long have you been here?" Sean asked. "Dunno, what is it now? Three, four months?" Alpha sighed. "Have you ever thought about escaping?" Sean questioned. "Yes, we all have. But Stan won't let us, and now that Mordecai and Rigby seem to have been brainwashed, they're on Stan's side now." Alpha and Sean glanced over at Mordecai and Rigby, who were talking.
"I wonder what they're talking about." Sean shrugged. "Dunno." Alpha shook his head. "Wait a second, how come you're not brainwashed?" Sean asked. "We don't know. But Vivian, Axel and I are definitely not any of them." Alpha assured the kid. Sean nodded.
Suddenly, the garage door opened and Stan walked in with Ann and two other armed people. "Alright, it's around noon and Ann and I have been talking. Since…everything has been sorted out." Stan glanced at Mordecai and Rigby, who were walking up to him. "I need…Mordecai, Rigby…Axel and Alpha to come with me, now." Stan ordered. "What for?" Axel asked. "Just come!" One of Stan's men shouted. Alpha glanced at Sean. "I'll be back, Sean. Just stay with Vivian. She'll take care of you." Alpha stood up and walked over to Mordecai, Rigby and Axel were standing. "Come with us." Stan walked into the supermarket. Axel and Alpha walked together and followed Mordecai and Rigby.
"They got brainwashed." Axel whispered to the smaller wolf. "I know." Alpha sighed. "I feel sorry for the kid." Axel replied. "Same here." Alpha sighed. "After we're done with whatever Stan wants us to do, I want to talk to you, in private." Axel said. Alpha nodded wearily. Rigby suddenly turned around. "Eh?" He said, with a blank expression on his face. "We weren't talking to you." Alpha glanced at him. "Alright then." Rigby faced the front.
Alpha and Axel glanced at each other and followed Stan into the parking lot with Mordecai and Rigby. "Okay, we're running low on supplies and we need people to go down to town to collect some." Stan ordered. "We're going to town? But it's infected!" Alpha exclaimed. "It's okay, if we lose you guys we can just get some more." Stan shrugged. "Damn it." Alpha silently cursed.
"We can't go to town today." Axel spoke up. "Why not?" Mordecai turned around, facing him. "Because we're all exhausted, and it's raining." Axel glanced at the sky. Suddenly, it began to rain. "What the?" Ann was astonished. "Fine! We'll raid the town tomorrow." Rigby growled. "Okay…fine. Go back inside. You better be up early." Stan walked back into the supermarket. Ann and a couple of Stan's men led the four men back in.
"They're back?" Sean noted. "That was quick." Vivian stood up and approached Axel. "See you tomorrow morning." Stan shut the garage door.
"We're raiding the town for supplies tomorrow." Axel said. "That's dangerous! You could die!" Vivian exclaimed. "Its fine, I won't." Axel reassured her.
"What about Mordecai and Rigby?" Sean asked. "What do you mean?" Axel asked. "Can we do anything to un-brainwash them?" Sean asked. "Don't know, let's just see what happens tomorrow." Axel shrugged.
"Damn it! I can't wait that long!" Sean exclaimed. "Sean, come on." Alpha sighed. "Out of my way!" Sean pushed his way through Alpha and Axel and walked over to Rigby, who was talking to himself.
"He's right, I can only help myself by helping him…or is it the other way around?" Rigby spoke to himself, obviously confused. "Rigby?" Sean approached the raccoon. "What do you want, kid?" Rigby asked, quietly. "Rigby! It's me, Sean!" Sean exclaimed. "I…" Rigby muttered. "Don't you remember me?" Sean asked, tearing up. Rigby kept quiet. "We need to get out of here, to get everyone out of here!" Sean shouted. "Damn it! Keep your voice down." Rigby calmed his friend down.
"What happened with Stan? What did he do to you? Please…tell me." Sean was crying. "Don't cry, kid." Rigby reached out his hand. "You don't even know me!" Sean shouted. "Kid! Shut up, you're gonna get us into trouble!" Rigby exclaimed. "For shouting? What're they gonna do?" Sean crossed his arms. "Please tell me that you know me. Please." Sean begged. "I don't know you, kid. I'm sorry." Rigby sighed.
"Do you even know who you are?" Sean asked, wiping some tears from his face. "Yeah…I'm…I'm Rigby." Rigby answered. "That's because I called your name." Sean growled. "I just don't know you, now go away." Rigby turned around. "ARGH! I'm gonna kill you!" Sean grabbed Rigby's neck and began strangling him. Axel ran over and pried Sean from Rigby's neck. "This kid is crazy!" Rigby shouted, glancing at Mordecai, who was watching from a distance. "I'm going to kill you!" Sean shouted. "What the hell's going on in here?" Stan shouted. "Nothing! We've got it under control!" Alpha shouted, keeping Sean still.
Stan walked off. After a few seconds, Sean calmed down and Alpha let go of him. Sean just burst into tears. "They don't remember me…" Sean cried. "It's okay…" Vivian sighed. "Don't worry, we'll figure something out, I promise." Axel pat Sean on the back. "Something tells me that tomorrow's gonna be different, I'm not sure what it is, but something's gonna change." Alpha reassured Sean. "I hope you're right, I just want their memories back, and I miss being loved by Mordecai and Rigby." Sean cried. "They seem like great parents." Axel commented. "The best." Sean sighed.
Meanwhile
"Wow, we didn't get as much as we thought we did." Benson sighed. "Yeah, all you got was a few litres of water, a carton of milk and like…" Thomas is counting the supplies. "About seven litres of soft drink and…Oooh! A doctor pepper!" Thomas exclaimed, pulling out a Dr Pepper can out of the bag.
Thomas opened the can and skulled it. "But we did get a fair amount of food." HFG shrugged. "Mind handing me a Dr Pepper?" Margaret asked. "Sorry, there was only one." Thomas sighed. "Any left in the can?" Margaret asked. "Nope I skulled it, unless you want some?" Thomas opened his mouth. Margaret groaned in disgust while Thomas laughed.
"You're disgusting." Eileen commented. "As if nobody didn't know that." Thomas chuckled. "What's that smell?" HFG asked. There was a foul smell filling the coffee shop. "It smells like death." Thomas pinched his nose. "Benson, it's coming from you." Eileen glanced at the gumball machine. "I'm sure it's nothing. Just spoiled gumballs, I guess." Benson chuckled nervously. "Ewww." Eileen groaned. "Something's not right." Margaret furrowed a brow.
Thomas glanced at Benson for a second, he noticed something on Benson's arm.
"Benson, you've been bitten!"
Cliff-hanger? As if I didn't do enough of them. Sorry for the short chapter, I've got major writer's block and I've got a lack of ideas, sorry guys.
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