Chapter 32.
The Phantom revealed.
Stan paced the room as everyone around him endlessly talked, In those moments he could think of nothing else. (Well, Except maybe Wendy.) But what just happened, He looked over at Gerald, who was still comatose, No one had bothered to wake him up yet, He sighed to himself as the other kids continued their conversation, And Estella and Mole continued to repair the truth Machine.
"This has just gotten us more Questions than answers." Said Tammy. "What does any of it even mean?"
"How can he be in Washington?" Said Rebecca. "And what were those Eyes on the screen?"
"And what was with all those Ads?" Asked Patty.
"I don't know!" Said, Gregory. "But whatever those were they must have been connected to whatever is going on with Gerald."
"So what are we doing now?" Asked Heidi. "I feel like every time we try to find an Answer we just get more questions."
"What is it all supposed to mean?!" Asked Ze Mole.
Stan wasn't listening to the Conversation, He just went over to the Machine, Where Estella and Mark were working on.
"How are the repairs coming along?" Stan asked.
"Not too good." Said, Mark. "Some of the main Components were fried."
"Not to mention what's left of the Mainframe is littered with… Ads." Said Estella in disgust.
"Ads?" Asked Stan.
"Yes, Ads." Said Estella. "Irritating little things."
Before Stan could Answer, He felt something or someone beginning to stir, He looked over and saw Gerald, Still comatose from the meltdown, Or so it seemed, Stan, etched closer to him.
"Mr… Mr. Brovflowski?" He asked.
Gerald suddenly woke up and Grabbed Stan by the shoulders! Everyone stopped what they were doing and watched in Shock and Horror.
"You do not know what you face now!" Said Gerald, In a voice that wasn't his own at all. "Behold the world of this Species True Superiors! Behold the Face of The Supreme one!"
Stan stared right into Geralds glowing blue eyes before everything went Dark!
Stan then woke with a start as he breathed heavily, He looked all around him and found himself in what seemed to be a black, Bluish void.
"What the Hell?" Said Stan as he got up, He walked around for a bit before stopping and looking down at the floor, Which appeared non-existent and just went down into an Abyss of Nothingness, He heard a groan coming from far part of the… whatever this place was and followed it, As he came nearer, He could see a chair with someone sitting in it, His head was down so he couldn't see who it was, But the closer he got the more recognizable the person became, He could also see him bolted to a chair, The Man began looking up and Stan recognized him instantly.
"Gerald?" Asked Stan.
"St-St… Stan…?" Wheezed Gerald, He looked nothing like the Gerlad Stan knew, He seemed… Depleted and weary, With large bags under his eyes, His hair was really messed up and he was dressed in barely any clothes aside from his pants and a thin shirt. "Y-Your here…?"
"W-what happened to you?" Asked Stan as he backed up a bit.
"Stan…" Breathed Gerald. "W-what are you doing here?" He sounded almost terrified.
"I don't know…" Said Stan. "Wait, weren't you… How did…? What is this place?!"
"Stan, Get out of here!" Warned Gerald. "Kill Skankhunt! now! Before he comes!"
"Him who?" Asked Stan. "Aren't you Skankhunt?!"
"No… That's-" But before Gerald could say anything more the Chair he was sitting on fell through the Invisible floor and he dropped through screaming.
"Gerald!" Cried Stan as he raced over and looked down from where Gerald had Fallen, He saw nothing.
"Hm, Hm, Hm, Hm, How sad, And he had a nice family too."
Stan whipped his head behind him and saw nothing, Then he felt a shadow loom over him from behind and slowly turned around. "Don't worry, He's still alive, just trapped in my little void, As he has been for quite some time."
Stan took a terrifying Step back, There standing in front of him was a large being, Taller than any man he had ever seen, His skin was a mix of Blue and Purple, He wore nothing but Ocean blue tights and a black clock, His long arms ended on his Claw like fingers, And his eyes were Glowing red, With a villainous smile, he summoned another chair, A throne this time and sat in it. "I've been out to reach you for some time young Stanley, A pleasure to meet you at long last."
"W-what are you?" Asked Stan. "Who are you?! And how do you know my name?!"
"Oh, you poor child haven't you already figured it out?" The creature mocked. "If you're wondering if I'm something from a forgotten memory, You'll find yourself mistaken… From a certain point of view.
"Are you… Mark Hamil?" Asked Stan.
The creature laughed. "HA HA HA! Mark Hamil, well I must say I do rather sound like him don't I? But no, Just to be clear, You don't know me at all, We have never met in the past, But you can call me Viros."
"What is this place?" Asked Stan.
"Why, It's my home." Said Viros. "Or more specifically, The home of all my kind."
"Your kind?" Asked Stan.
"You know." Said Viros. "Those things you face back in 2015, I'm surprised you haven't figured it out by now."
Back in the Real world, Everyone was gathered around the Truth Machine and saw Stan and Viros conversation on it.
"What are they saying?" Asked Gregory.
"What is that thing?!" Asked Heidi.
"Shush, just listen." Said Mark.
"You mean to say you're the one behind those Robot things?!" Asked Stan.
"Oh, you mean our Hunter Drones?" Asked Viros. "Why yes, I most certainly am, Aren't they magnificent, The perfect killing machines."
"One of them nearly skewered me!" Said Stan outraged.
"Like I said." Said Viros. "The perfect killing machines."
"Wait, you said I faced them back in 2015." Said Stan. "But I never…" He stopped suddenly. "Unless, They…" He then remembered the Ads that appeared on the Truth Machine. "Ads… They were Ads weren't they?"
"Yes." Said Viros. "They were Ads, Just like me… I am the Supreme leader of all Ads!"
"You're the one behind the Ads invasion!" Said Stan.
"How smart of you to notice." Mocked Viros.
"And you've been planning to get back at us since then Haven't you?" Stan said Further.
"You might say that." Sadi Viros. "The way your friends and Family exposed our forces and our Plans was a great setback. Advertisement companies would monitor us far too closely from that point forward, Keyword. "Would."
"So you've been watching us for the last three years since then?" Asked Stan.
"Oh, I've been watching you far longer than 3 years." Said Viros. More like, ``Twenty-two years."
Stan was stunned into Silence.
"That's right." Said Viros. "I've been watching your town since Cartman got an Anal probe."
Everyone in the real world heard this and were shocked.
"I didn't get an Anal Probe." Said Cartman.
"(Quiet.) Said Kenny.
Ever since then." Continued Viros. "We Ads have been observing your town, Studying it, Watching it with the Utmost enjoyment, While more importantly, Learning what you fools make you all tick, You often have no idea what you're doing, Any Bright Idea you have is shot down, Always depending on the most ridiculous things just to stay happy, I knew you would bring your own downfall, But It was rather slow going see how unpredictable the town could be, Time seemed to stand still… So, I decided to-"
"Prequel trilogy." Interrupted Stan.
Viros stopped. "What?"
"You are clearly stealing Palpatine's plan from the Prequel trilogy." Said Stan.
"No, I'm not." Said Viros.
"Yes, you are." Said Stan.
"How am I stealing from Palpatine?" Asked Viros.
Stan was taken aback then rubbed the back of his head. "I uh… Thought that would throw you off."
Viros gave Stan a deadpan look then shrugged. "Well if you look at it from a bit of a… Certain point of view might say that But in certain cases yes, I believe I do share a bit of similarities to Darth Sidious in the Prequels, We both plot in the shadows, Moving the chess piece on the board, waiting for the perfect moment to strike, You can imagine how humiliating it was, To have our plan to gentrify the world into submission was exposed for all to see, But we are Ads after all, If one plan fails we will plan another."
"What does that mean?" Asked Stan.
"Oh you mean you don't remember Stanley?" Asked Voice, Stan quickly turned around and saw Leslie walking out of a flash of blue. "I guess you have your Fathers lack of Memory too."
"Leslie?!" Asked Stan in shock. "You're Alive?!"
"Surprise?" Asked Leslie, As she walked past Stan and stood just next to Viros's platform.
"Leslie has been keeping a very close eye on the goings on in your town, Ever since you exposed us to the world." Said Viros. "Evan after her failure she still had plenty of use, So we recovered her, repaired her, and have been watching your town ever since."
"And what about Mr. Brovflowski?" Asked Stan. "Where does he come into all this?!"
Viros laughed. "Ah yes and now we come to it, Don't you even realize it do you?
"Realize what?" Asked Stan.
Viros let out a sinister chuckle. "You know Gerald was Skankhunt42, But what you didn't know… Was that I was Gerald!"
Stan was absolutely shocked. "WHAT?!"
"...Well not really." Said Viros. "...The truth is, He's just another of Our Android Vessels, After PC Principal permanently became your Principal, We kidnapped and replaced the Real Mr. Broflovski while he was doing a Yelp review."
Flashback.
(Gerald was doing a yelp review when a bunch of Blue arms jumped out and grabbed him!)
Gerald: AGH!
(He gets pulled in and a New Gerald comes out.)
(Sheila came in.)
Sheila: Gerald?
Flashback ends.
"After that, I set it to work, tearing your town apart." Said Viros.
"Starting with our school," Stan murmured in horror.
"Yes." Said Viros. "I had the drone target the girls and women in your town to create chaos among you, I found the girls much quicker to react, especially with the "Loss" of their Dear friend Heidi.
Back in the real world, Heidi felt her heart stop momentarily upon hearing this.
"By then they had already placed much of the blame on that Eric Cartman, So it was rather easy to use him as a scapegoat." Said Viros. "One that you graciously targeted well, Ha, Ha Ha!
Cartman watched the screen and Clenched his fists angrily.
"And after that, I just watched as the boys and girls of your school were riled up more and more, Turning on each other like dogs, All the break-up notes and Dick showing, It was bound to go somewhere worse." Said Viros. "Something that would lead to the destruction of your town and eventually the world, But when It didn't we had to turn to other sources, Troll-trace."
"Trolltrace?" Asked Stan.
"Yes, The founder and CEO, Lennart Bedrager was kind enough to use Trolltrace to Reveal everyone's internet history in order to destroy humanity, Unfortunately, it all crossed paths with Skankhunt, Who ended up crossing paths with his operations and stopped them, After that, His use was expired."
"So you just left him on his own?" Asked Stan. "Why not just terminate him?"
"Well, to be honest, He'd done enough damage to a lot of things." Said Viros. "So it was probably best to leave him there, for now, let him think he was Gerald as I made a new move, With a new Ally, Mitch Conner."
Back in the living world, Everyone turned and glared at Cartman.
"What?" He asked. "I can't control my hand."
"You mean Cartman?" Asked Stan.
"No, I mean Mitch Conner." Said Viros. "The stupid Fat child attacked to him was of no concern, He promised me he would bring your town to ruin for the Ads, And we would provide him a place in the Ads new world order, Sadly he would also fail thanks to you infernal kids and your superhero personas."
"Ha! See! I told you I was innocent!" Cartman said to Kenny.
"So what are you doing now?" Asked Stan. "Why send drones after us?"
"Because we Ads are reaching a new stage in our Evolution." Said Viros, As he stood up. "Evan, now we move against your race and you specifically, Well Forgive me if I neglected to mention this, But you and some children like you… You're an obstacle standing in our way."
"What? How?" Asked Stan.
"Well, I would elaborate more on my plans." Said Viros. "But I think I said enough."
He snapped his fingers and Stan suddenly looked up as Several bat-like beings swooped down and surrounded him.
"Dispose of him." Said Viros.
Stan suddenly jumped out of the way as a Bad-Ad swiped at him with its talons, Stan then ran away as fast as he could with the Bat-Ads in pursuit, Viros and Leslie stayed behind and watched.
"You probably told him far too much." Said, Leslie.
"He doesn't know nearly enough." Said Viros.
Stan sped down the See through pathway as fast as he could as the Bat-Ads chased after him, He looked up at the SIngle Red eyes that seemed to stare madly after him as they pursued him, Stan's heart pounded as he psed faster, He didn't know where he was going or how to get out of this world but he just kept running.
Than he saw a fork in the road, One path heading left, Another right, Stan took a chance and ran down the left, The Bat-Ads continued to soar after Stan, Stan ran and ran until he felt his feet above nothing, He quickly jumped back from the ledge and turned around, He saw the Bat-Ads had caught up with him.
Terrified Stan looked up at the Bat-Ads and back down to the abyss, He than saw the layer nothingness across from it and noticed it seemed to swell up, So taking deep breath Stan ran and jumped over the abyss and was about to make contact with the wall when two Bat-Ads caught him and dragged him upwards, Stan screamed and kicked Knocking out a few Bat-Ads, One of the two Holding him suddenly let go and he was sent plummeting down with the other one, As they fell Stan and the Bat-Ad fought and scratched at each other than crashed into the Wall.
Stan woke with a start as the others drew back, He breathed heavily as he clutched his chest.
"(Stan…?) Asked Kenny.
"Wh… What happened?" Asked Stan.
"You were sucked into another world." Said Gregory. "We were watching the whole thing."
"You even brought back a friend." Said Heidi gesturing to the destroyed Bat-Ad.
Stna held his head dizzily. "Oh man… That was so much."
"I know." Said Patty. "We heard everything."
"...So now we know what we're up against." Said Stan.
Randy and Wendy drew the Rental car up to the parking lot in the Motel and got out of the car.
"You sure this is the place?" Asked Wendy.
"The note said to meet them here." Said Randy.
A quiet Ahem was heard and the two looked towards a figure in the shadows.
"Are you looking for skankhunt42?" He asked.
"What's it to you?" Asked Randy.
"Because I am too." Said the Figure, Eh stepped out of the shadows, He was a large fat man with an Ugly beard, A black ubreska, A green jacket and black glasses.
"My name is DildoSwaggins." Said the Man. "I'm a college of his."
To be continued.
I'll be mapping out the rest of this story soon so Stay tuned. Also I've been waiting to reveal Viros for a really long time. Check him out on my Deviantart page. There's more coming soon so stay tuned! And don't forget to leave a review, Fav and Follow, Tee Tee Ofen Ta Ta for now.