Chapter Eight: Girls Pinch Back
(Note from the author: I couldn't think of any other title for this chapter. I at first thought of "The Dog Bites Back" and "The Bee Stings Back". But I had to stay true to what was happening here in this chapter. The girls won't be pinching anybody anyway. Besides, I had to think hard on that catchphrase from YouTube Poop: "Where there's smoke, they pinch back". Anyway, enjoy!)
"I seriously hope you're not lying," Dart said, at first not believing the news that Ratchet had died from Mr. Grimm's attack.
"But it's true," Pupuru replied. "I saw him die right in front of me! Why did it have to end like this?!"
"She looks serious," Nepgear whispered to her sister. "I don't like how things are going."
Suddenly, Pupuru set her mind to a completely different subject; she now wanted to know how Neptune and her sister Nepgear came here. "How can this be?!" she thought silently. "I've only met them in the dream, and yet they're right here in front of me! Maybe, if my hypothesis is correct, my dream is slowly coming to life! Unless I'm just going insane!"
"Don't get stressed now, Pupuru," Neptune spoke to her. "We'll help you avenge Ratchet's death here and now! Let's go find that skull creep!"
Pupuru agreed to go with Neptune and the others, but she was the last to leave because of something she remembered. She took the Time Box from the counter and kept it safe inside her pocket. She was not sure if it was the correct time to use it yet. "I don't know if this thing even works," she thought. "I guess I'll have to wait and see. Perhaps this will help me from growing insane."
She went with Dart, Neptune, and Nepgear back out into the blizzard, where they would search for Mr. Grimm and avenge the tragic death of Ratchet. They easily found him, but they also noticed something different about him; he seemed a tiny bit chubby, as if he had eaten a big feast.
"We're too late!" Pupuru thought. "He had already eaten…"
"I don't what to say…" Mr. Grimm spoke, halfway drunk, "…but that was the best Lombax I've ever had! But now that YOU'RE here, I wonder how good Dragoon tastes… or maybe a GODESS!"
"Not if I can help it!" Dart replied furiously, transforming himself into the Red-Eyed Dragoon. "I'll make sure you don't eat another day!"
"There's nothing you can do to stop me! He may have given me food...money… but he also gave me something else important: FREEDOM!"
"There it goes again!" Neptune thought. "Who is it that's been causing all this? The Polygon Man may have such great power, but there is someone else with an even GREATER power! Who is it?!" Enraged and puzzled, she struck out at Grimm very hard with a critical edge. It tripped him down to the snowy ground, but it did not kill him. Rather than mercilessly killing Grimm, she merely stunned him.
Grimm was so full of what he just ate, he barely took a stand to attack back. Not even his scythe could save him from the wrath of the Red-Eyed Dragoon and Purple Heart. The battle was won by the ones who would soon join the all-powerful League of Heroes. "Now there's ONE thing that you'll be forced to eat," Neptune taunted. "YOUR WORDS!"
"You don't plan to kill him?" Dart interrupted, holding Grimm by the arm.
"No," Neptune answered in reply. "I only wish to take him back to the asylum. I heard that Stone has been executed, so he won't help any more jailbreaks." Then to Grimm, she said: "I know how tired you are about asylum food, but you'll just have to live with it anyway!"
"No…" Mr. Grimm quietly hissed. "I don't think so…" With that, he suddenly lunged himself out of Dart's grasp and bit really hard into Neptune's arm. Neptune screamed in pain as Grimm yanked himself away and ran off, successful in his sample of a goddess. "Tasty…" he thought as he hurried away. "But it won't be the end yet! I'm saving that goddess for dessert!"
Pupuru and Nepgear hurried over to Neptune to check her wounds. "Don't worry about me," Neptune barked at them. "It's not fatal!"
"But you don't understand," Dart replied. "I know for a fact that he'll be coming back for you; he's saving you for a big meal."
"Maybe you're right. Sorry…"
As nighttime continued on, the snowstorm raged to a stronger blizzard. Pupuru led the others back to Ratchet's house, where she healed Neptune's wounds with the little magic she had brought with her on this mission.
"Are you sure you want to use it for this case?" Neptune asked her as she transformed back to her normal form.
"I forgot to bring a full amount," Pupuru replied. "And so I feel it is best for me to use it for something better than fighting."
"I understand your reason, but what about my sister? She may not be physically hurt, but something inside her MIND is starting to bug her."
Neptune's guesses were correct; Nepgear, now back to her true form, was sleeping on one of the reclining chairs as a dream suddenly struck her head.
"What have I done?" she thought. "I not only let Grimm escape, but I also let my sister get bitten by him! That freak has gone too far! I don't know what else to think…" Her mind went completely out of control as she dreamed about her killing all her friends. She slaughtered them like the psychopath she had battled, beginning to be as dangerous as Mr. Grimm, Billy Ray Stillwell, and Needles Kane.
(Note from the author: We all know that Needles Kane is Sweet Tooth, right? He appeared as a vision in our first story with the Dark Knight, right? He's a clue to who this mystery villain might be, right? I'm saying too much, right?)
Finally, the next and final part of her dream came. After thirty years, Nepgear had grown into a woman, strong in her murdering abilities. But it soon came to an end when she was finally captured, bound and gagged by the man known as Calypso (William Sparks is his real name).
"I had done it," Mr. Grimm thought as he confronted Calypso. "The battle was over. I had won the contest. So I went and saw Calypso; it turns out he was a man of his word. I got my prize. After all these years, the goddess looked exactly the same. She didn't know who I was, but I recognized HER. I've been seeing her face in my nightmares for thirty years. Calypso has one last bonus for me: dinner for one."
Nepgear struggled as hard as she could to break free of the ropes that bound her, but she was not able to escape. She was the victim of Grimm's promised attack as she felt his axe fall onto her flesh.
That was when she woke up. She tried so hard to stay awake so she can control her fears, but something else came to her mind right then; she heard a mysterious but familiar voice call to her.
"Two nightmares in one night…" the voice spoke up. "This must be a strange night for you. So a few mistakes have been made… it wasn't your fault."
"But it SHOULD be," Nepgear blindly replied. "I should have saved my sister in time, but I was too lazy thinking about Pupuru. Why hadn't I been more careful? I should have sensed something would go wrong! It's my fault! I'm the one to blame for all this! I should have been there in time to save Ratchet!"
"Ratchet… he didn't die easy. You should know…he begged for you to help him as Grimm killed him!"
Enraged, Nepgear punched herself to snap out of it. She panted heavily, trying to keep herself awake. She did not know of what would come next…
But only one person knew what would happen, that is about the evil plan of the Polygon Man.
"My friend…" the same voice called to the Polygon Man. "I know now of their scheme, but I shall put a stop to it once and for all…"
"Are you seriously thinking about appearing in your human form?" the Polygon Man replied.
"I believe it would fulfill MY part of the plan. Soon, it will make the dream REALLY come to life as I make things the way they were before. Now I am infatuated and fascinated by Purple Sister's nightmares of becoming the most powerful goddess by killing others. Perhaps to spice up my plan, I'll kidnap Nepgear and convince her to become one of us and also become the most powerful goddess, thus killing all of our enemies! I cannot wait!"
WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE LIKE A BIG PIZZA PIE, THAT'S AMORE. WHEN HE LUNGES OUT AND TAKES A BITE OF YOUR SNOUT, THAT'S A MORAY! GET IT? A MORAY EEL? HEE HEE HEE HEE! I SAY THE FUNNIES.
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT OLD ITALIAN SONG, THEN YOU DON'T GET THE JOKE.
SEE YOU NEXT TIME!