Riverdale Battle Royale – Chapter 2
Jason Blossom, Cheryl twin brother was the next to leave. His item was a claw hammer, not ideal for surviving. As Jason left the bunker he came across Sayid's corpse. He wondered which of the other three who had left already had killed him. Jason would have guessed his sister, Cheryl had always had a twisted side to her. If one believed in the theory of a good twin and an evil twin then Cheryl was most definitely the evil twin.
As Jason got closer he saw that Sayid had ended up with a crossbow bolt up through the bottom of his jaw and into his brain.
"At least it would have been quick," Jason muttered.
Jason quickly examined Sayid back pack but only the map was left. As Jason had suspected Sayid's stuff had been taken already. With his hammer in hand Jason continued on carefully.
Nancy Woods was one of the of the last to leave the bunker. There were only four other students still in the bunker when she left. In her backpack she'd found an aluminum baseball bat. However Nancy had no desire to participate in the Battle Royale. If she were to win that would mean she'd have to kill the love of her life Chuck Clayton, or at least go on without him; and Nancy wasn't sure she could.
Nancy was trudging along the path when she heard rustling in the bushes. She gripped her bat with two hands ready to attack when suddenly Chuck emerged from the bushes.
"Chuck!" Nancy exclaimed.
"Nancy!" Chuck responded as the two of them embraced and then kissed.
"Chuck, what are we going to do?" Nancy asked. "I can't… I won't kill you. And I can't go on with out you."
"Me neither," Chuck said.
"Well what are we going to do?" Nancy asked.
"Come with me," Chuck said.
Chuck led Nancy through the bushes for a while till they came to a clearing near the edge of a cliff. Holding Nancy by the hand Chuck led her to the end of the cliff.
"If we can't survive this together, then we can at least go out together," Chuck said.
Nancy nervously peered over the edge of the cliff. It was a long drop, at least sixty feet, to the bottom. Nancy looked at Chuck, tears in her eyes.
"Together," Nancy said.
The two of them kissed for the final time and then they both jumped off the cliff their bodies smashing against the rocks below.
Raj Patel found himself in a clearing near a series of huts. When he had looked in his back pack he had found a sort of tablet like device, except the only thing on it was a round grid like pattern sort of like a radar screen. He wasn't sure what it was but soon he had figured it out, it was a collar tracker. It let him know where the other students were.
Raj figured one of the huts would be a good place to hide and with the tracker he could see if anyone was coming. Raj pulled out the tracker and looked to see if anyone was nearby. He then realized that somebody was hiding inside one of the huts already.
Raj was about to run away when he saw Cheryl in the doorway of one of the huts, a scared look on her face.
"Raj?" Cheryl asked.
"Cheryl, what are you doing here?" Raj asked.
"I'm hiding," Cheryl replied. "I didn't get anything good in my backpack. Did you?"
"Well sort of," Raj replied. "I got this thing that let's me track collars. It doesn't cover the whole island, but I figure it's got a range of about a half-mile. What did you get?"
Cheryl held up a broom. Raj inwardly breathed a sigh of relief, he had thought Cheryl was perhaps trying to lure him in to kill him.
"Maybe we can team up, temporarily?" Cheryl suggested.
"Yeah, that might be a good idea," Raj agreed.
"Come on in here then," Cheryl said. "I used the broom to clean it up a bit."
Raj smiled and walked up the short steps into the hut.
"You know I have to admit I thought that you were trying to lure me into a trap," Raj said. "But now with my tracker we can perhaps work together to ambush…"
Raj never finished his thought as Cheryl almost hacked his head off with a single swing of her sickle. Cheryl wiped the blood off the blade on Raj's shirt while she pried the tracker from his hands.
"Thanks for the offer but I work better alone," Cheryl said to Raj's corpse as she looked at the tracker and headed off.
Dilton Doiley had come across what seemed to be a small urban area with a series of four apartment buildings on a single street that was cracked and had weeds growing through it. In his backpack Dilton had found a 9mm pistol. It was one of the best things he could have gotten. Now Dilton just needed to come up with a plan, as the smartest student in the class he should be able to come up with a good idea.
However staying out in the street here was not a good idea. Dilton made his way into one of the apartment buildings and then into one of the stairwells. As he sat on the stairs he pulled out his map of the island.
"Okay now let's see, if I know my classmates most of them we'll likely head here," Dilton muttered as he perused the map.
Dilton was mumbling to himself and he didn't notice a rope with a noose slowly dropping down towards him. Suddenly the rope dropped down around his head and then pulled up tightening around his neck. Dilton kicked his feet and tried to pull the rope off his neck. As Dilton looked up he saw Reggie Mantle straining as he held the rope tight. Dilton pointed his pistol up and fired off a couple of shots but they were wild and nowhere near Reggie. After about a minute Dilton went limp. Reggie finally let go the rope and Dilton fell to the ground in a heap.
Reggie made his way down the stairs and checked on Dilton making sure he was dead. Reggie then took Dilton's pistol and his rope.
"Some genius you were," Reggie said to Dilton's corpse.
Brigitte Reilly was in a wooded area. The slightly overweight girl had gotten a pump-action shotgun in her backpack. Brigitte had never used a shotgun or any other type of gun before. However, she had to admit she felt safe holding it. Just then Brigitte thought she heard what sounded like somebody crying.
Brigitte ended up stumbling out of the woods to find Ethel Muggs sitting next to a small stream. Ethel turned around in surprise, a dinner fork in her hand.
"Please, please don't kill me!" Ethel begged as she raised her hands in surrender.
Brigitte pointed the shotgun at Ethel unsure of what to do. Ethel was a friend, Brigitte didn't want to kill her. But if she was to survive this Battle Royale, Brigitte knew she was going to have to kill her classmates.
Suddenly Ethel pointed at Brigitte and screamed. Startled Brigitte's finger pulled the trigger. The shotgun boomed, and Ethel was knocked backwards into the stream, her face full of buckshot. Brigitte stared dumbfounded at what she had just done.
However her surprise didn't last long as Cheryl buried the point of her sickle into Brigitte's head, piercing through into her brain. Brigitte's eyes rolled backwards, and she began to wobble. Cheryl pulled her sickle out and watched Brigitte topple face first to the ground.
Cheryl then calmly took Brigitte's shotgun and then searched for any extra ammunition. Once she had everything she wanted Cheryl took out the tracker she had taken from Raj and then then began to follow the stream.
Boyfriend and Girlfriend pairing Frankie Valdez and Maria Rodriguez had found each other. Unlike Chuck and Nancy the two of them didn't decide to commit suicide together. Instead they decided to team up and at the end Frankie would sacrifice himself so Maria could win.
The two of them found one of their fellow students, Nick St. Clair. Nick had only transferred into their school this past year and he didn't quite fit in. He wasn't friends with any of the boys, and while he was good-looking the girls all found him off putting. Nick thought he was a big ladies man but he didn't really have game.
"You go distract him and I'll sneak up behind him," Frankie whispered to Maria.
Maria nodded and ran off in one direction while Frankie went the other. Maria then jumped out in front of Nick holding the nunchuks that she had gotten in her backpack.
"Hey Nick," Maria said.
Nick didn't reply but just stared.
"Where you headed?" Maria asked.
Frankie meanwhile was sneaking up behind Nick holding the hatchet that he had found in his backpack. Suddenly Nick reached into his leather jacket and pulled out an Uzi. He spun around and unleashed a burst into Frankie's chest killing him.
Maria freaked out and ran away. Nick turned back around and fired another burst striking Maria in the back. Maria fell to the ground in a heap not dead yet but very badly wounded. Nick turned around yet again and walked over to Frankie's corpse and picked up the hatchet. He then walked over to Maria who was desperately trying to crawl away but barely moving. Nick then buried the hatchet into Maria's skull killing her.
Nick then calmly pulled the hatchet out of her skull and stuck it in his belt and then put his Uzi back inside his jacket before calmly walking on.
Veronica had made her way into the interior of the island looking for high ground. She'd ended up finding a waterfall that looked out over more than half the island. Veronica was feeling abandoned and angry. She just knew that Archie and Betty were together because Betty had been sent out immediately after Archie had. It should have been her that was with Archie not Betty. If she found them the first thing Veronica was going to do was put a bullet in Betty's pretty blonde head, and that would be easy to do with the .44 revolver that she'd found in her back pack.
Just then somebody came stumbling out of the woods nearby. Veronica looked to see that it was Jughead Jones.
"Veronica!" Jughead called out. "Are you alright."
Veronica responded by raising her weapon at him.
"Don't you come closer!" Veronica warned him.
Jughead panicked and threw his weapon at her. Jughead's weapon was a jar of acid which shattered as it hit Veronica in the face. Veronica screamed in agony as she stumbled backwards, she ended up slipping on a wet rock and toppling down over the waterfall. Jughead ran to the edge and looked down, hoping that he hadn't killed Veronica. But he saw Veronica's body floating face down in the water below, a pool of red slowly spreading out.
"Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap," Jughead muttered.
He realized that Veronica's screams might end up attracting other classmates to him, and now he was completely defenseless. Jughead went sprint headlong into the forest. As he ran Jughead came across a cave, he realized it would be a great place to hide and went inside.
"Safe at last," Jughead said to himself with a sigh.
"Think again," a voice growled.
Jughead turned around to see Moose Mason, the biggest strongest boy in their class. Behind Moose was his terrified girlfriend Midge Klump.
Moose probably could have killed Jughead with his bare hands, but instead he had a huge Bowie knife. Before Jughead could do anything Moose began stabbing him repeatedly. Jughead screamed in agony at the top his lungs, the sound echoing and amplified by the cave walls.
Jughead's screams ended up attracting the attention of Avalon "Shrill" Priss. Shrill made her way to the cave where she spotted Moose still stabbing into Jughead's corpse as Midge tried to make him stop pleading that Jughead was already dead. Shrill reached into her back pack and pulled out the Micro-Uzi that she had gotten. She then entered the cave and fired a quick burst at Midge, killing her. Moose then looked up and turned towards Shrill his knife at hand. Shrill then emptied the rest of the clip into Moose. Moose took about two steps towards Shrill before he collapsed to the ground in a heap.
Shrill pried the knife from Moose's hand and then searched the Jughead and Midge's bodies. She let out a frustrated sigh at not finding anything useful. But at least she had eliminated some of the competition.
The deaths come quick and fast in the Battle Royale. Twelve students were killed off in this chapter alone. Do you have a favourite to win at this point? Please Review!