Gaz and Fink followed the strange man as he lead them through the landscape before coming to a building that looked like it had been patched up to be semi-livable.
"Well, here we are. Home sweet shithole." he said before opening the door. "Come on in. Make yourselves at home."
The two walked in to find a few dozen people of different ages and races inside. Most were playing little games with each other while a few just seemed out of it.
"Hey everyone. We got two newcomers!" the man said to them all, getting their attention. "Say hi everyone."
"Hi." came half hearted replies and waves.
"Uh...hi?" Fink greeted with a small wave.
"Are you going to give us answers now?" Gaz asked the man as he shut the door and stood amongst all the other people.
"Indeed." he sighed. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Bobby Fletchins, leader of these poor souls. And you two are?"
"I'm Gaz Membrane."
"Fink Venomous."
The moment they said they're names, everyone suddenly became more alert.
"Gaz Membrane?! You mean the daughter of Professor Membrane?!"
"And isn't Venomous the name of a super villain?!"
"No way! Those two are top tier gamers! Why are they here?!"
"Even they lost to Stanley?!"
"HEY!" Gaz roared, silencing them all. "What are you all talking about?! Who are all of you?! And who the fuck is this Stanley guy you keep going on about?!"
"Stanley is a monster." came a monotone voice devoid of life. Everyone turned to see a slightly overweight man with a scruffy beard sitting next to the wall, his head lifting up a little before dropping against it every few moments.
"Oh yeah? What kind of monster?" Fink asked while giving him a skeptic look.
"The kind that hates gamers, and holds a grudge for eternity." they droned, his dead eyes shifting to look at her and Gaz. "And soon, you too shall feel his wrath. For in this world, he is God." he warned them. Everyone stared at him before Gaz spoke the first thing on her mind.
"How long have you been hitting your head on that wall?" she asked.
"Go easy on him." said Bobby as he sat in a nearby chair. "He's been here the longest and has been subjected to Stanley's whims."
"Where is here?" Fink asked.
"Stanley's World. A virtual reality program that Stanley made to act as our prison." Bobby lamented. "And I and everyone else here are gamers that have fallen victim to Stanley after losing to him in various video games."
"Say what now?" Fink said.
"All of us here have had our minds downloaded into this virtual prison." someone answered.
"Speaking of which, what game did he beat you two in?" asked a random woman.
"He didn't beat us in anything. In fact, we've never met this Stanley guy." Gaz answered.
"We were about to face off against each other in a tournament, but the VR system shocked us. Then we woke up here." Fink added.
"So you're saying you didn't wind up here by being beaten by that big cheater?" asked a man hanging upside down from a very strong ceiling light.
"No. We don't even know who this Stanley guy is? Who is he?" Fink asked.
"That would be me."
The room gasped while Gaz and Fink turned towards the door to see Stan Lavez walking in and shutting the door behind him.
Before them was a man who...honestly didn't look intimidating at all. He was a short and pudgy man that was bald on the top and had blond bangs over his eyes, which had bags under them and noticable veins in the sclera. He was also dressed in a shirt one size too small that had a cartoon hot dog that was wearing a foam finger, sweatpants, and crocs.
"...Who are you?" Fink asked after a moment of confusion.
"Don't recognize me, huh? Not surprising." the man said with a smirk before his form digitized and showed a short man with brown bowl cut hair, square glasses, and wearing a black and orange striped referee's uniform. "How about now?"
"Stan Lavez?" Gaz said in surprise as the man changed back.
"Actually, it's Stanley Avarez." the man corrected.
"Stanley Avarez...Why does that name sound familiar?" Fink wondered before her eyes widened. "Wait a second! You're the guy who's name was all over those message boards and forums a couple of years ago as the most hated gamer there is!"
"Spawn camping. Smurfing. Hacking." Gaz listened off. "If there was a dirty trick and exploit in a game, you'd use it without hesitation."
"You're point?" he asked in a tone that said that he didn't give a shit.
"Did we really get kidnapped by this loser?" Fink groaned. "If my family hears about this, they'll never me hear the end of it."
"Hey! I am not a loser!" the man protested.
"STANLEY! IT'S TIME FOR DINNER!" came a woman's voice from where Stanley was standing.
"MOM! I'M TALKING TO MY PRISONERS!" Stanley whined in a loud tone while staring upwards
"YOU CAN TALK TO THEM LATER! YOUR LACTOSE FREE MAC AND CHEESE IS GOING TO GET COLD!" she answered.
"UGH! FINE!" he groaned before grumbling. "Stupid mom. Right when I was about to gloat to my new prisoners." He blinked and looked at said prisoners as many of them had their hands clamped over their mouths. "...The mic's still on, isn't it?"
They answered that by laughing their heads off and pointing at him. Even the ones who looked like they were empty shells were giving off low chuckles.
"SHUT UP! STOP LAUGHING AT ME!" he childishly demanded. He started turning red when they just laughed harder at him. "YOU GUYS ARE SO GOING TO GET IT WHEN I GET DONE WITH DINNER!"
"Sure. Whatever. Say hi to your mom for me." Gaz taunted, making the man growl before suddenly disappearing.
"I ask again. We got kidnapped by that loser?" Fink asked after she stopped laughing.
"Unfortunately, yes. Just like with all the rest of us." Bobby answered.
"Okay...but why? Why did he kidnap us all?" Gaz asked.
"Like you said before, he's a gamer that uses nothing but cheap tricks and tactics to win." Bobby began. "And because of that, he despises other gamers like us. There are probably many reasons why, but there's three main ones. One, we still defeat him in his games online. Two, we call him out on his BS. And three and most important, he absolutely refuses to try and get good and sticks to these tactics."
Gaz and Fink just stared at him before Fink facepalmed.
"That...is utterly pathetic." Gaz finally said after a few moments.
"Yes. But what he lacks in...a lot of things, he makes up for it with his intelligence and twisted imagination." said a woman playing a virtual game of checkers with another unlucky prisoner.
"One by one, he's gone out and challenged us to play a game against him. And when we lost to him...well, here we are." Bobby explained.
"You know, you could've just ignored him." Fink pointed out.
"Most of us did, me included. I told him to fuck off. Three days later, I got a call from my retired grandfather saying that, for some reason, his bank account was practically empty." Bobby ranted. "And standing nearby in the middle of the call was Stanley, a laptop in hand and a smug grin on his face. He typed on it, then a few seconds later, my grandfather says it's all back again. I knew then and there that if I didn't accept his challenge, he'd go after my family."
Others added what Stanley had done to get them to play.
"He went after my boyfriend."
"My grandma nearly lost her house."
"My wife got strange calls from the bank about our account."
The two newcomers could almost feel the misery as the others lamented their woes.
"Of course!" Gaz suddenly said after a moment of thought. "I didn't realize it first, but you guys are the gamers that have been falling into comas!"
"Oh yeah!" Fink nodded before doing a quick head count. "Yeah. 37 people were reported to have been found collapsed in an almost blank state."
"Yeah. And if that's the case, then you two are 38 and 39." said the one playing cards. "Welcome to the club."
"If that's the case, then her dad and mine won't sit by and do nothing! At such a big event with all those people watching, they're bound to act!" Fink said in a confident tone.
"Yours maybe." Gaz said while looking up at the ceiling. "As for mine...?"
"PROFESSOR MEMBRANE!" yelled an underling of the smartest man on Earth. "YOUR DAUGHTER'S MIND GOT ZAPPED BY A VR GAME IN A TOURNAMENT!"
"Oh dear. I know that games improve hand eye coordination, but I did warn her about playing them for too long." Membrane sighed before perking up. "Well, she'll know when to rest, then go right back to it."
"Yeah, I don't see it happening anytime soon." Gaz said with a shrug before looking at them all. "So what do you guys do here in this world?"
"Aside from being Stanley's playthings, we just...actually, we're pretty much doing it." said an Asian man. The two looked at most of them lazing about with bored and tired looks on their faces.
"But you're not doing anything." Fink pointed out.
"Not much point in doing anything if Stanley's just going to take it away...or burn it...or zap it...or flood it...or-
"Alright alright! We get it! He won't let you guys have any fun!" Gaz snapped.
"Yeah. So just pick a spot, call it your own, and wait for him to get done with his food. After that...brace yourself." Bobby warned.
The two of them just looked at one another before settling into a vacant corner and looking at the other people in the house, some of which looked back.
"Come on, Zim. I know you're not just sitting around doing nothing. Hurry and get us out of here." Gaz mumbled.
Not much time had passed, but the two newcomers had been informed of a few things about this virtual world they were stuck in.
Things such as eating, sleeping, bathing, and need of toilets were no longer...needed.
The buildings repaired themselves from any damage the players caused. Only Stanley himself could permamently destroy them.
And finally, Stanley always won, no matter what game he made them play.
"I'm back~" Stanley announced as he appeared before them all.
"Enjoy your mac and cheese?" Fink said with a snicker.
"Yes. Yes I did." Stanley nodded. "And now, it's time for us to play a game!"
That statement made most of the group flinch and cringe, with only Gaz and Fink not really caring.
"Oh come now. It'll be fun." Stanley reassured with a smile that fooled nobody.
"What kind of game?" Fink asked, her eyebrow raised in curiosity.
"Glad you asked." Stanley replied before he and Fink disappeared.
Fink blinked after she reappeared and looked around in confusion.
"What just happened?" she asked as she gazed at the long corridor she was now in.
"You're in a game, of course." came Stanley's voice.
"Stanley?! Where are you?!" Fink demanded.
"Up here."
Fink looked up to see a giant Stanley towering over her and where ever she currently was.
"Yeesh! And I thought you were ugly before." she said with a grimace before shaking her head and glaring up at him. "What's going on?!"
"Simple. We're going to be playing a little old school game from the 90's called Mouse Maze. And guess who's the mouse?" he answered with a big grin.
"Oh no! No way! Uh uh! I am not moving!" Fink declared before sitting down, only to immediately stand back up. "What the?!"
"Silly mousey. You don't have a choice. My world, MY RULES!" Stanley snapped before old game music began and her legs began to move on their own.
"WHOA! WAIT! STOP!" she protested as she began to run around a maze until she saw some floating cheese slices. "Oh you gotta be kidding-" she started before they hit the cheese, causing it to disappear and an audible *GULP* to be heard. "Blech! That tastes horrible! I thought you couldn't eat in here!"
"Hope you're hungry, because there's a lot more where that came from!" Stanley laughed before having Fink run from a cat. "Actually..." he said before he made her stop.
"Oh you sonnuva-"
Meow!
Fink felt the world come back after being caught by the cat before her legs started going again.
"When I get out of here, I'm gonna rip your head off and shove it up your-*GULP* ASS!" Fink threatened as she kept eating cheese before she approached a dog bone. "What's that supposed to do?!" she asked before she touched it, turning her from a rat into a dog. "I had to ask." she groaned before she started running towards a cat. The moment she touched it, it vanished and she kept going, though she noticed it's tail was hanging from it's mouth.
"HAHAHA! This is fun!" Stanley laughed as he had her eat the last slice of cheese.
"Okay! We played the game! Now let me out of here!" Fink demanded after the music stopped.
"Why? We still have 24 more levels!" Stanley informed her as she appeared in a new area. "Hope you're hungry~"
"...fuck."
Time passed before Fink suddenly reappeared before the others. She was swaying on her feet before she fell onto her butt. Her stomach looked like she'd eaten half her weight in food, the area around her mouth was orange, and she had a dazed look in her eyes.
"Fink! What happened?!" Gaz asked the rat woman as she knelt down next to her. Fink opened her mouth to say something, only to belch out bits of cheese and hairballs before falling over.
"I hate mazes...cats...and cheese." Fink groaned as Stanley reappeared inside the room.
"How's my new pet mouse?" he asked Fink.
"Eat shit!" Fink growled before forcing herself to stop from throwing up. "How am I even full? This is just a VR World!"
"You're that way because I said so." Stan answered with a smug smirk. "I can make each and every one of you here think, do, and feel anything I wish with a simple click of a mouse."
"The only thing I feel like doing is punching you!" Gaz growled as she approached him.
"Now there's an idea." Stanley said before the two of them disappeared.
"WAIT!" Fink yelled as she reached for Gaz before slumping in place.
"Forget about it. We're all his toys now, so just get used to it." Bobby stated.
"I am nobody's toy!" Fink growled before hitting the wall. "I don't know how, but I am going to find us a way out of here!"
"Yeah, and Bigfoot's the one who buried Jimmy Hoffa." one of them scoffed.
Fink scowled as she paced the room, wondering what kind of torture Gaz was going through at the moment.
"Could you sit down already?!" snapped a random man. "Your pacing is driving me nuts!"
"Fuck you!" Fink snapped back as she continued pacing. She finally stopped when Gaz and Stanley reappeared in the room. Gaz, in a small boxing outfit, had her back to them all while Stanley looked absolutely furious at her.
"I have no idea how you did it, but I'm going to make sure it doesn't. Happen. AGAIN!" he roared in her face. "And next time I command you to do something, YOU DO IT!"
"Never." Gaz grunted, making him go red in the face before disappearing, leaving them all in silence.
"Whoa. Never seen Stanley that mad before." Bobby commented while Fink walked up to Gaz.
"What'd you do to-" she began before she noticed Gaz start to tip over. "Whoa! I gotcha!" she yelped after rushing over to catch her. "Easy Gaz. Why're you...oh Lord!" she quietly exclaimed as everyone saw the shape she was in.
Gaz's face, arms, and stomach were all covered in nasty bruises. Her lip was busted, her nose was bleeding and broken, and her left eye was completely swollen shut. All in all, she was a mess.
"Sweet Gravy Cakes! What happened to her?!" one of them yelped as Fink supported Gaz.
"Gaz! What happened?!" Fink asked. Gaz looked at her with her uninjured eye and smirked.
"I defied him."
-Earlier-
Gaz looked around at a bunch of generic faces cheering up at her as she stood in the middle of a boxing ring.
"What happened?" she asked while rubbing the side of her head before jerking her hand away. "The fu-?! A boxing glove?!" she asked as she looked at the gloves on her hands.
"That's right!" Stanley said from where he sat outside the ring. "After all, you can't play Punch Out! without boxing gloves! But...something's missing?"
"If you don't get me out of here, the only thing missing will be your teeth in a moment!" Gaz warned with a glare.
"Now I know what it is!" Stanley declared while snapping his fingers.
Without warning, Gaz's outfit had changed into Little Mac's boxing outfit, which hugged her body like a second skin to the point that almost everything was on display.
"Proper boxing attire!" he said while Gaz blushed with a growl.
"You do realize that I have to destroy you now, right?" she asked.
"Actually, you need to destroy your opponents." Stanley corrected as Glass Joe materialized in his corner.
"You're joking, right? Anyone can beat this clown." she scoffed before his body shifted into a boxer's stance against her will. "What's happening?!" she grunted as she couldn't move out of the stance.
"I'm playing Punch Out! And you're the one that's doing the punching!" he explained as Glass Joe approached. Gaz soon found herself throwing rapid punches at the digital boxer, causing her breasts and butt to bounce and jiggle around from the rapid movements. "Wow! Those things are really bouncy!"
"How 'bout you keep your eyes on the fight, you pervert?!" Gaz yelled before she threw a punch at the right moment, sending Glass Joe down for the count.
"You're right." Stanley agreed before a dozen cameras showed up and began flying all over the ring, all of them aiming at Gaz. "Fight now, look later."
"Keep it up. It'll only make it worse for you in the end." she said as the fights kept coming. 14 fights later and Gaz was still going strong, though she was looking a little winded.
"Wow. I am actually impressed with your stamina." Stanley complimented. "I had a few of those others shmucks play this before and none of them made it passed the sixth fight. Still, it was fun making their unconscious body's keep fighting."
"I work out." Gaz huffed before looking upward. "What's taking him so long?"
"Who?" Stanley asked before laughing. "Wait. Are you expecting to be rescued?!"
"Yes." was Gaz's simple answer.
"HAHAHAHA! That's what they all say and it gets funnier each time!" Stanley guffawed. He was laughing so much that he suddenly disappearing, but Gaz could hear the sound of him falling and giggling before he reappeared. "Sorry. I fell off my chair."
"Are you done laughing?" Gaz asked in a deadpan tone.
"Yeah." he answered with a grin. "But it still kills me every single time my prisoners think they're getting out of here."
"I don't think we'll get out of here. I know we're getting out of here." Gaz stated.
"Oh please. If I had a nickel for every time I heard those other idiots here say it, I'd be richer than that little green freak, Zim." Stanley scoffed.
"Hey! Zim's not a freak!" Gaz snapped with a hateful glare, earning a confused look at her reaction.
"You're kidding, right? Have you seen the guy? He's small, green, and he doesn't even have any ears! Guy belongs in a freakshow of a circus if you ask me. Still, if not for his VR tech, I wouldn't have been able to make this world you and those jerks now call home." Stanley ranted. He looked up to see if she would say anything, but only saw her facing the other way. "Nothing to say? Alright then! LET'S GET IT ON!"
With that, the final opponent appeared in their corner.
"Hello, Mike Tyson. Ready for Gaz to knock your block off?" Stanley chuckled as the digital Mike got into the center of the ring. "Okay. Gotta dodge for the first 90 seconds." Stanley muttered as he waited for Tyson to throw an uppercut. The moment he saw Mike shift, he pushed for Gaz to dodge-
POW!
-and blinked in confusion when Gaz not only took the hit, but righted herself before she fell.
"What the heck?" Stanley asked as Mike threw another uppercut. Despite pushing the dodge buttons, Gaz still took the hit, this time going down to the mat. "What's going on here?! I know I pushed the buttons to make you dodge!" he yelled while mashing the keys to make Gaz stand. She stood up and face Mike again after the referee left the arena, but was knocked down again when she, once again, did not dodge an uppercut. "Why is this happening?! Did I pull the keyboard out when I fell?!" he asked while having Gaz stand up again. "No, can't be. She's getting back up." he told himself before watching Gaz go down a third time, ending the match with a T.K.O. "...WHAT?! HOW?! WHY DIDN'T YOU DODGE?! I PUSHED THE-THIS IS...FUCK!"
"STANLEY! PLEASE DON'T USE SUCH VULGAR LANGUAGE!" came the voice of Stanley's mother.
"SORRY MOM!" Stanley answered before turnin to glare at Gaz's still downed body. "Something's not right." he said before he disappeared. "I pushed the right buttons. I've been pushing them all this time? Why?" came his voice. "Wait a second...Error? What error? Is this why she wouldn't dodge?"
"Wrong." Gaz answered as she slowly got to her feet. She was sporting a black eye and her nose was slightly crooked, but she was smiling all the while. "I didn't dodge...because I chose not to."
"You...what?" Stanley balked, wondering if he heard her correctly.
"I chose not to dodge. I chose not to fight back. I chose not to listen to you." she explained.
"You...you can't do that!" Stanley hollered in rage. "I made this world! I have total control! I-"
"Can kiss my ass." Gaz finished with a smile. "I am not your puppet, and I won't do what you want."
Years from now, Gaz would wonder if the snapping sound she heard was Stanley's patience or mind.
"You will do what I say." he said in a low tone before all of the enemy boxers appeared and surrounded her. "One way, or the other."
Gaz looked at all of them with a confident smile.
"Bring it on."
-Present-
"After that, I was used as a punching bag." Gaz finished to her awestruck audience as she laid down on the nearby couch.
"You...You actually...stopped yourself from obeying Stanley?" one of them asked.
"That can't be. We've all tried to fight back, but we couldn't do anything on any game."
"How on earth did you do it?"
"Pure willpower is all I can say." Gaz answered.
"Awesome."
"Maybe we can fight back too?"
"Yeah, until he updates. Or breaks all of our wills so we don't try anything like this again."
"Why you gotta bring down the good mood?!" one snapped, sending a bunch of them into an arguement. Fink ignored them as she sat on the floor in front of the couch to talk to Gaz.
"How you holding up?" she asked.
"I'm fine. After all, it's nothing compared to what I'll do to him." Gaz answered with a smile that promised nothing but pain. "No one insults Zim like that and gets away scot-free."
"Well don't hog him all to yourself. I gotta pay him back for this." she said while staring at her still swollen stomach.
"We all want to pay him back, but it ain't gonna happen!" one man barked at her as he pulled a chair out to sit in. "Your minor resistance was just a fluke. It ain't gonna happen again. We're gonna be stuck here for the rest of our lives!"
Everyone laughed as the man fell to the floor.
"What's wrong? Forget how to sit?" a woman chuckled.
"Shut up!" the man snapped. "I know where I was planting my ass!"
"Hey, what's going on?!"
Everyone turned to see the head banger flailing on the floor with half of his head stuck in the wall.
"What happened to him?"
"Forget that! Look at the table!"
They looked to see the table glitching about, looking all scrambled and disfigured.
"It's not just the table! Look around us!"
Everyone stared in confusion as the whole room looked to be glitching and spazzing out.
"It's happening to everything!" an African America woman yelped as she stared out the window at the glitching buildings.
"Maybe your resistance broke something?" Fink pondered towards Gaz, who only shrugged before she fell through the couch when it glitched out.
"Or Stanley trying something. Everybody, brace yourselves for anything!" Bobby ordered, causing them to either get defensive or hide under something.
"Uggh! Whatever it is, no more cheese." Fink said with a hopeful/desperate tone as the whole world began to futz about.
Nobody knew what to expect, but what did happen shocked them to the core.
Stanley was beside himself with rage after failing to get Gaz to do as he commanded via his world's programming. To take his mind off of it and cool down, he did the only thing that would make him happy aside from torturing his prisoners and adding to his collection.
"Aww, you're all so adorable and cute!"
Petting, playing, and talking with his mother's many cats and kittens. He teased them with little cat toys and scratched their tummies, letting their cute reactions just melt away his stress.
"Ah, you guys are awesome. Much better than the assholes I've dealt with all my life." Stanley said as he began to think about his life. "Ever since I was young, I was smarter than a lot of the others. While others played sports and other activities, I stayed in and studied in the hopes of obtaining a promising career." He scowled as his thoughts turned to darker events. "But my hopes came with a price. I was constantly picked on and bullied. Called all kinds of nasty names and had rotten pranks played on me. The only time I could ever get back at someone was in video games. I would play them all day and all night after doing my homework, and that included the weekends...but nobody in town would play with me. Not even other gamers. Said I was 'too childish' and that I 'didn't play by the rules.' So I would screen peek and spam moves and other things. So what?! It's no reason for them to not want to play anymore! I mean, if it gets you the win, why not use it?" he huffed before one of the cats rubbed against his chin, making him laugh.
"Then gaming went online and opened up a whole new world for me. I could play with people from across the globe. People who didn't know me!" he said with a smile before it fell into a scowl. "But then they started to bash me for how I played. Sending me nasty messages and calling me names! 'Don't be a spawn camping kill stealer. You're ruining the game for the rest of us!'" he said in a whiney mocking tone. "Well TOO BAD! I saw a chance to get a lot of kills and I took it! But does that help? Noooo. Not to those assholes! Pretty soon they started spreading my username on message boards, giving me nasty labels to keep others from playing both against me and with me."
"But that's not the worst of it. You want to know what the worst is?" he asked the cats. "I complained about them to the admins and leaders of the game servers and message boards. And guess what? THEY SIDED WITH THOSE JACKASSES! Said I should stop using these tactics and trying something else, or to just stop playing altogether! Many of them even started to make it so that others would leave game lobbies so as to not play with me!"
"Pretty soon I couldn't even buy anything from gaming stores because they banned me from both physical stores and online stores! They were trying to take away the one thing in the world that made me truly happy! Well, I got back at them!" he said with a cruel grin. "Ever since Zim Ovirk made that game company that specializes in VR technology, I've been enacting the perfect revenge: Stealing the minds of excellent gamers and making them play games where I am always the winner! And I got two of the biggest gamers out there in one shot!" He then got up and stretched a little. "Well, I'm gonna head down and torture all the others. Then I'll figure out how Gaz resisted my control."
With that, he left the room and headed down into the basement, where a massive computer setup was waiting. Years of collecting tech and learning about computers had all been accumulated into his own personal little gaming hub, where he spent his days gaming and earning money, by which of carefully hacking and siphoning tiny amounts from various accounts. Nothing too much. Just enough to pay the bills and fly under the radar.
"Hello darling. Did you miss me?" he asked the custom VR set he made in a sweet tone before putting it on "Let's go greet the little ones, shall we?" he said before flipping it on.
Zap!
"Ow!" he yelped as he appeared before the building all his prisoners stayed in. "Stupid static electricity. Must've let the cats rub on me too much." He shrugged it off and opened the door, making all the people inside stop what they were doing and look at him in fear. "Hello everyone. Nice to see you all here. Hope you're all ready for a game." he chuckled before he noticed two of them were gone. "Wait a second. Where are Gaz and Fink?!"
"They're upstairs. Whatever games you made them play has them completely terrified." Bobby answered.
"Is that so?" Stanley asked with a grin. "Well, I'm just gonna pop up there and say. Then we're all gonna take turns playing Dead by Daylight. Doesn't that sound fun?"
"No." they all chorused with frowns.
"I knew you'd agree with me." he chuckled before walking up the stairs and towards the door they were in. Deciding to give them a scare, he raised his foot and kicked the door open. "Knock Knohaaahaaa!" he trailed off, forgetting what he was going to do for a moment.
Kind of hard to think when you see two hot women, one battered and the other stuffed, making out like there was no tomorrow.
"Oh. Hey Stanley~" Gaz cooed when she noticed him at the doorway. "I was wondering when you'd come back."
"Uh...what is this?" he asked while Fink gently nibbled on Gaz's ear.
"What? Never seen two girlfriends kissing?" Gaz asked before giggling when Fink cupped Gaz's ass. "Easy you." Stanley just stared for a moment longer before shaking himself out of it and clearing his throat.
"As pleasant as this scene is, I want some answers from you!" Stanley said while pointing at Gaz. "How did you resist my control?"
"Sheer willpower." Gaz answered. "And actually, I have to thank you for giving me the edge I needed to do it."
"Me? What'd I do?!" Stanley asked in gobsmacked confusion.
"You insulted our boyfriend, Zim." Fink huffed. "I wouldn't have moved a step if I had heard it earlier."
"Boyfri-What?! Zim is your boyfriend?! Both of yours?!" Stanley yelped in surprise.
"He is." Gaz nodded.
"...You two have really low standards then." Stanley finally said.
"Hmph. Just the petty words of a jealous man." Fink said before sighing. "I wanna see him again. Even if it's only for one last moment."
"Oh, don't worry about that. He's next on my list." Stanley informed them. "Then you can be together forever~" he sang in a mocking tone.
"What?! No!" Fink yelled in panic.
"Leave him alone, Stanley!" Gaz said in a threatening tone.
"You gonna make me?" Stanley chuckled. "Fat chance. Besides, I need him so that I can upgrade my VR tech here. Would've already nabbed him and that VR set his company made at the tournament, but I couldn't pass up the chance of getting both Piggyslayr22 and Cuteltlfink."
Gaz and Fink's eyes widened at his declaration. Not only was Stanley aiming for Zim all along, but...
"YOU?!" they both yelled in surprise while pointing at the other.
"You're Piggyslayr22?! You're the one I was fighting against all that time before the tournament?!" Fink asked.
"Cuteltlfink-How did I not put that together?!" Gaz asked herself before facepalming. "I'm such an idiot!"
"You didn't know? I'm a little surprised." Stanley said before shrugging. "But yes, I do need Zim to upgrade the tech. And while he's doing so, I'll go out and collect more and more gamers to add to my collection. And when I've gotten them all, I'll download myself to my computer and play games against your jerks forever!"
"So that's your plan, huh? Just force other gamers to lose to you or simply be pawns to be played with?" Fink growled.
"Pretty much." Stanley answered before eyeing Gaz. "Of course, there are...other means of entertainment to have soon."
Gaz gave him a sultry smile before walking towards him, her hips swaying with each step.
"Oh don't you worry, Stanley~" she cooed as she stopped before him and gently slid her hand down his chest. "We're going to have a lot of fun with you." she whispered in his ear as her hands cupped his nuts outside his pants before squeezing.
Hard!
The man began to release squeaky grunts of pain as he felt his lower extremities being crushed by Gaz's grip.
"Lots. Of fun." she finished before pulling her free hand back and smashing it against his nose with enough force to send him flying through the wall, making him tumble and roll after hitting the ground outside.
"Owww! My face! My balls! That hurt, you bitch!" he cried out in pain before his eyes flew open. "That...hurt?"
"Finally realized it, huh?" Gaz asked from the hole, looking completely fine and no longer injured.
"B-But that's impossible! I shouldn't be able to feel anything in here!" Stanley yelped as he got to his feet.
"Now you know how we feel!" Bobby said. Stanley looked to see that he was surrounded by all of his prisoners, plus a few new faces he'd never seen before, and each and every one of them were giving him a death glare.
"You'll pay for what you did to our sister and her friends!" growled a green robot with a pointy nose, his hand turning into a blaster. Stanley yelped before paling in terror.
"Something's wrong! I can't disconnect!" he yelled before he tried to remove his VR gear. "I can't feel my gear!" he shouted before turning to look up at Gaz. "What'd you do?!"
"I didn't do anything." Gaz said with a smile.
"I did!"
Everyone turned to see a giant screen appear before an image of Zim in his disguise showed up on the screen.
"Zim Ovirk?!" Stanley yelped in shock.
"That's right, Stanley. Or Stan, or whomever you are." Zim answered.
"What's going on here, and...is that my basement?" Stanley asked when he noticed the familiar surroundings in the background. "ARE YOU IN MY MOTHER'S HOUSE?!"
"That's right. I just arrived moments ago. She's a sweet lady, by the way." Zim said.
"What'd you do to me?!" Stanley demanded. Zim smiled before moving out of the way to show Stanley's own body slumped over in his chair, his eyes as blank as Gaz's and Fink's after being zapped by the VR sets. "WHAT'S GOING ON?!" Stanley hollered.
"I'd tell you." Zim began as he moved back into view with a smug smile. "Buuuut you have other things to worry about."
Stanley began to hyperventilate as the crowd began to close in on him, some of them cracking their knuckles or readying weapons and rocks and such.
"No! Nonono! This can't happen! I'm supposed to torture you guys, not the other way around! This is my world! My revenge! MY GAME!" Stanley screamed before Bobby clocked Stanley with a right hook, with all of Stanley's victims pouncing upon their captor, causing him to scream in anguish and terror.
"Game over, Stanley." Gaz said with a satisfied smile.
A/N: And that's that for this chapter. Do not worry, I will explain how they were rescued next chapter.
Three things I want to say to you all. One, I'm not getting as many reviews as I used to. I want to hear your opinions and know how I'm doing, plus your votes for who's on the list.
Two, I have been getting some very strange requests, along with reasons why when I asked. So now, I'm going to add those names to the Unsure Suggestions at the bottom to let you all decide if yay or nay.
And finally, congrats to LoamyCoffee for correctly guessing the right song first. Their selection of female to add will get five votes. Now, here's the list.
Mandy from GaoBaM: 7
Martian Queen Tyr'ahnee: 8
Vicky from FOP: 7
Lord Dominator: 10
Tallest Miyuki: 6
Tak: 6
Leela: 1
Amy Wong: 1
Lum from Kaiba: 1
Lily Enstomache: 1
Boa Sandersonia: 2
Lydia Deetz: 2
Spinel: 3
Erotica Jones: 1
Mandie from FOP: 2
Commander Dish: 2
Enid: 5
Wilhamena from OK KO: 3
Fink from OK KO: 2
Mavis Dracula: 4
Adult Grimwood Girls: 5
Jinx: 4
Blackfire: 3
Tenn: 4
Kirika Misono: 2
Jenny Wakeman: 5
Misty from MLAATR: 3
Chifusa Manyuu: 3
Dee Dee from Dexter's Laboratory: 4
Lee Lee from Dexter's Laboratory: 4
Mee Mee from Dexter's Laboratory: 4
Wednesday Addams: 6
Deb Turnbull: 2
Melisa and the entire Island of Beautiful Women from Johnny Bravo: 2
Judy Funnie: 1
She Venom from Marvel: 3
Blue Diamond: 4
Yellow Diamond: 2
White Diamond: 2
Blue Pearl: 4
Yellow Pearl: 4
Pink Pearl: 4
Peridot: 3
Lapis Lazuli: 3
Rei Miyamoto from HSOTD: 2
Saeko Busujima from HSOTD: 3
Saya Takagi from HSOTD: 3
Shizuka Marikawa from HSOTD: 2
Minami Rika from HSOTD: 2
Jessica Rabbit: 1
Jessica Albert from DQ8: 2
Chun Li: 1
Cammy from Street Fighter: 1
Eris from GaoBaM: 1
Natsumi/Mii from Jungle De Ikou: 1
Madame Sharley from One Piece: 1
Amande from One Piece: 1
Lori Loud: 1
Leni Loud: 1
Luna Loud: 1
Luan Loud: 1
Lana Loud: 1
Lola Loud: 1
Lisa Loud: 1
Monet from One Piece: 1
Perona from One Piece: 1
Nami from One Piece: 1
Robin from One Piece: 1
Vivi from One Piece: 1
Keiko Shinanome: 1
Bulma from DBZ: 1
Maron from DBZ: 1
Zangya from DBZ: 1
Launch from DBZ: 1
Android 18 from DBZ: 1
Desiree from Danny Phantom: 1
Penelope Spectra from Danny Phantom: 1
Ember from Danny Phantom: 1
Jazz Fenton from Danny Phantom: 1
Tatsumaki from One Punch Man: 1
Fubuki from One Punch Man: 1
Do-S from One Punch Man: 1
Carrot from One Piece: 1
Wanda from One Piece: 1
Chloe Carmichael from FOP: 1
Trixie Tang from FOP: 1
Asami Nakaoka from HSOTD: 5
April O'Neil from TMNT 2012: 1
Karai from TMNT 2012: 1
Apolex from TMNT 2012: 1
Samus Aran: 1
Midna from LoZ: Twilight Princess: 1
Gwen Tennyson from Ben 10: 1
Charmcaster/Hope from Ben 10: 1
Female Waybad from Ben 10: 1
Frankie Foster from FHFIF: 1
Unsure Suggestions
Dot Warner from Animaniacs. She looks like a kid, but is a lot older. Plus, cartoon powers could make for more fun.
Charlotte Flampe from One Piece. Bratty, but has the balloon suit and such.
Bowsette and Queen Boosette from a Mario universe where they were born women in the first place.
Dani Phantom, the female clone of Danny Phantom from Danny Phantom.