Chapter 7: Frog Force
PUNCH!
"DAMN IT! DAMN IT! DAMN IT!"
Horace watched as Patch punched the walls repeatedly until there was blood on his knuckles. The hippo ran to stop him and grabbed his hands getting them covered in the pig's blood.
"Patch stop! We need to remain calm." Horace said.
"HOW? HE'S...ORVILLE...HE'S...GONE!"
"I KNOW...I...know..."
Patch shook his head before looking back at the elephant's dead corpse on the floor. Horace walked over to him leaned down to his face. Orville looked like he was at peace, but his eyes were open. Horace said a prayer before slowly shutting his friend's eyes.
"I'll make many more stories for us Orville, don't you worry."
Patch remained silent until they heard more knocking on the door and he groaned.
"Ugh, not now damn it! How many more fucking VR chickens are there?"
"Patch is that you? It's Monty, I got Phillip with me. We need to patch him up."
Patch had his suspicions, he looked back to Horace who nodded. Sighing again, the pig opened the door slowly to see it was really Phillip and Monty.
"Phew, were you followed?" Patch asked.
"No, but hurry before we're caught!" Monty said quickly.
Once they were in, they gasped to see Orville's body.
"ORVILLE!" Phillip gasped.
"NO! HE'S DEAD?" Monty said.
"Yeah...he sacrificed himself for Horace." Patch explained.
"He's...in a better place now." Horace said sitting Orville's body against a wall.
"I'm...I'm so sorry Horace." Phillip said.
Horace just nodded as Monty sat the bear down on the bed.
"Them VR Chickens got you good huh?" Patch eyed Phillip's injuries.
"It wasn't them. Carla pummeled the shit out of him before getting Cassy killed." Monty asked.
"WHAT? SHE'S DEAD TOO?" Patch gasped.
"So that's what Vanny was talking about." Horace gasped.
"Poor Carla then." Patch said shaking his head.
"I'm no leader, I'm not worthy of being in charge of anything." Phillip cried.
"Hey now, relax, let's just get you patched up for now." Monty said.
"Where is Carla and Roxy?" Horace asked.
"They ran off somewhere, probably to cool off. They better stay out of trouble." Monty said.
"Wait...WHERE'S HARPER?" Patch panicked.
They all went wide-eyed when they realized Harper was also still missing. What had happened to her? Speaking of her, Harper was being interrogated by the strange tall intimidating iguana who had blocked her path out of the Captain's Quarters. The frog tapped her fingers together as he towered over her.
"A request?"
"Yesss, listen little froggy, I'm in charge of making sure you and your friends don't leave this ship, but I'm also planning to end this whole mission on my terms, I'll kill Vanny before she can get to me. You and your friends are more like practice targets."
"Practice targets? I'm sure none of us know you!" Harper said.
"It's true I know none of you, but the Fazbear Crew, oh yes, I KNOW THOSE BASTARDS!"
Harper gulped.
"What...what did they do to you?"
Xelti shut his eyes and clenched his fists before leaning against a wall, and tail whipping around as he collected his thoughts.
"All those bears in the Fazbear family are my enemies, that one bear, Fredrick, he put me through so much shit! He experimented on my body after capturing me, made me feel so much pain, did things that you wouldn't understand! He ruined my fucking life and now I'm gonna ruin HIS! HE'LL PAY! THE WHOLE FAMILY WILL PAY! And that damn Springtrap helped to torture me back then, he basically became what I am now. All the pain, all the changes to me, I just want them fucking gone! I just want to be at peace...with her..."
Harper had to admit that the iguana did look rather corrupted with his strange augmentations and scars from previous experiments and his job which was an assassin. He growled just thinking of the memories while the frog looked away.
"I'm...sorry you went through all that."
"Tch."
"What do you want from me?"
Xleti moved from the wall and looked back at her.
"You're going to be my little spy for a bit. One of your friends is a traitor and I already know who it is!"
"WHAT? WHO?"
"I'm not telling."
Harper was no longer afraid, now she was just annoyed.
"Why not? And I don't exactly have the mentality right now to be a damn spy for anyone."
"Oh come on, is the ninja frog too afraid now to do such a simple task?" Xleti teased.
Harper groaned as Xleti walked around her in a circle.
"You could become one of the greatest ninjas around with my help! You seem pretty smart."
"Tch, yeah smart enough to keep running into danger." Harper groaned.
"You're safe with me!"
Harper growled.
"Bullshit, you want to kill all of us."
I can care less what happens all that remain...except two."
"Two? Who?"
"Phillip and Carla."
"Phillip and Carla? Do you know them well?'
"No, but they're the closest I can get to taking out the Fazbear Gang."
"WHAT? NO! YOU CAN'T KILL THEM!"
"And who's gonna stop me?"
"BUT THEY'RE..."
"I'm gonna take them out, Vanny already got to Cassy, so only they remain!"
"But they're my friends! And members of my favorite band!"
"Last time I heard, the band is broken apart."
Harper almost forgot about that, but it didn't matter. She'd find a way to bring them all back together if it was the last thing she did.
"I'm gonna fix everything, even if I got to go through Vanny!" Harper said.
"Ooh, getting really brave now huh?"
Harper flipped him off as Xleti began to laugh. The frog looked at her phone, still no service, but she could still look at her gallery. There were pics of her, Patch and Cassie. They all looked so happy.
"I...I just wanna go home."
"So do I, but we can't! We're stuck here until Vanny is killed."
"And you can't do it?"
"No, it's not easy."
"So you need my help."
"Exactly."
Harper hoped her upcoming plan would work.
"On...one condition."
Xleti went wide-eyed for a moment, then scowled.
"What condition froggy?"
"If I help you kill Vanny, you leave everyone else alone, that includes Phillip and Carla."
Xleti let out a loud growl and his tail smacked into the wall.
"Hell no!"
"Hell yes! I'm gonna fix everything Vanny broke, and maybe I'll even have to fix you too!"
Xleti stared daggers into the small frog girl who stared daggers back.
"You're pushing your luck girl." Xleti growled.
"You know what? I don't care anymore, I'm so sick of being weak, being scared, all my friends dying, and this cruise being ruined! I'm not gonna just stand around and let more of this shit happen. It's too much, part of me wants to run, hide and cry. The other side says enough is enough, and that's the side I'm gonna listen to. SO THERE! PHILLIP AND CARLA ARE STAYING WITH ME ALIVE, AND ONLY VANNY DIES!"
There was a very tense silence from both of them for a few seconds before Xleti stomped a foot toward her, but Harper didn't flinch. He then lowered so he was at eye-level with her.
"So that's your decision huh?"
"Yep."
"Are you sure?"
"Yep."
"You really think you can save who's left, stop Vanny, and deal with me?"
"..."
"..."
"Yep."
Xleti took a claw and poked her in the chest, specifically one of Roxy's eyes on the shirt.
"I'll hold you to this."
"It's a promise." Harper said.
Xleti stood back up slowly before backing away.
"You. Tomorrow. Here. Don't be late."
Xelti left the room with nothing else to say as Harper breathed a sigh of relief.
"I can do this, I have to! But where to start?"
For now, she left the room and shut the door before climbing back down the ladder...only to run into two more VR Sisters who blocked her way out of the hallway.
"Shit." Harper said.
The sisters looked at each other, then back at her before cracking their metal knuckles. Harper looked around seeing she was alone, Xleti must move really fast. Harper had no choice, she couldn't run despite being outnumbered. She put up her fists making the sisters look at each other again in surprise, only then they shrugged and prepared to beat the frog to a pulp.
"Come on! I'm not scared!" Harper yelled.
"Good then!" Came a familiar voice.
A green claw poked the purple VR sister who turned before getting grabbed by her head and smashed into the wall then decapitated.
"ROXY!" Harper gasped for joy.
Suddenly the yellow VR sister swung at Harper who dodged before Roxy grabbed the bot from behind but is elbowed in the jaw. The bot turned and sucker-punched Roxy back. Harper growled as she leaped and double-kicked the bot to the ground also decapitating it.
"Motherfucker!" Roxy growled stomping a foot on the bot's head.
"You okay?" Harper asked.
"Yeah for now, good thing I arrived. Nice kick though!"
"Hehe, thanks Roxy."
"Come on, we should go find a spot to hide for now."
"Yeah, good idea."
While the two went around a corner, they missed Carla who entered the hall they were just in. She had heard the scuffle and saw the broken bots on the ground.
"Less for me to deal with."
Her eyes were red from her crying and she was tired from everything, her fight with Roxy, Cassy's death, her beating on Phillip, and just her stress. She was hoping this was all one bad dream, but she doubt it. As she avoided the oil and got to the end of the hall, she heard a voice she really didn't feel like hearing.
"Aww, I missed the scuffle...but I might be getting into one myself soon."
Carla stopped before turning to see Vanny walking towards her laughing.
"HAHAHAAA, man what a great show this has been! All the fights, the deaths, the betrayals! It's like a bad drama or comedy!" Vanny teased.
"FUCK YOU! YOU KILLED CASSY!" Carla yelled.
"Oh? Did I? I thought you put all the blame on Phillip."
"JUST SHUT UP! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"
"I'd like to see you try. I've been told that so many times throughout my life, it's annoying at this point."
"Well I'll do it!"
"DO IT THEN!"
The two were right in each other's faces, fists clenched, anger rising. Vanny shoved her a little.
"FIGHT ME! COME ON! You couldn't win before, so what makes you think you can win now?"
"I'll try again."
She raised a fist and Vanny made no attempt to block it as Carla sent her staggering back with a vicious right hook.
"BITCH! YOU FUCKING BITCH!" Carla snarled.
Vanny however only chuckled as she rubbed her mask.
"Good hit, I let you have that one...however..."
Vanny suddenly sent a quick right hook of her own to Carla making the chicken smack into the wall.
"OOH THAT FELT GOOD!" Vanny said looking at her fist.
Carla stood back up but had to regain full focus. Just how tough was she, could she really be human?
"This...this isn't over." Carla said.
"Of course not sweetie, we're far from done!
The two faced each other again.
"We're gonna get out of here...we're gonna beat you! You can't take us all out!" Carla promised.
"You know I love a good challenge chicken. Your cousins will pay for what they did to me, I can promise you that."
Carla was confused.
"What did they do to you?"
"Don't worry about it, I don't need to say."
"I can talk to them and get their side of-"
"NO! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, THEY'RE GOING TO DIE! EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE!"
Carla ducked from a sudden swing from Vanny who staggered forward from the swing. She then grabbed her head and headbutted the wall. Carla watched as Vanny proceeded to calm down.
"I...I will get revenge. I have to, I deserve it."
"..."
"I'll...I'll kill you all, then go for them!"
"We'll see..." Carla hissed.
"Oh yes, we will. This isn't over Carla, stay alive for now, I want you to myself when the time is right."
Carla was surprised by this as Vanny pointed to her threateningly before walking back down the hall. Carla decided it was best not to make things worse and just continued on her way in the opposite direction.
"Chica...Chi Chi, what did you two do to her?"
To be continued...