Part 2 of my short story.
When Bart stepped into the house of his blue-shirted counterpart, he was met with a surprise. The interior of the house looked almost absolutely nothing like his own home. With the exception of the pink walls and the teal floor, the way everything was set up was completed different. To the left was what Bart believed to be the living room, he peered in and saw that the tv was off the tv looked so bizarre and foreign to him… and yet he felt like he's seen a tv like this before. The tv was a purple box with knobs on the side of the screen and antenna on top of the box. "What's your problem, weirdo? Never seen a tv before?" BlueShirt-Bart asked. Bart turned to face him, "Oh, uh, I have…. Just…. Not like this.." he answered. Bart didn't feel like elaborating further, and to his relief, BlueShirt-Bart only rolled his eyes and walked away, not wanting to deal with his…… "strange behavior." "If you wanna Buzz Cola or something, they're in the fridge in the kitchen. You know what a kitchen is?" Bart heard his blue-shirted call. "I know what a kitchen is! I'm not stupid!" he called back, rolling his eyes. He walked to the hallway to the left towards the kitchen… at least he thought the kitchen was that way. Bart looked through the hallway and looked bamboozled. The hallway had no ending in sight! It went on forever with other hallways on its side as well, it was like a maze!
"Uhhhh blue shirt me, where is the kitchen?" Bart called out. There was no answer. "Hello?" Bart suddenly heard that same beating he heard outside. It was faster than it was earlier, what the hell was this place?? "You lost?" Bart suddenly heard a voice that sounded almost like his. He stopped and turned to find the source of the new voice. It wasn't his blue-shirted counterpart like he thought. This was a brand new person… that looked almost exactly like him! This new Bart had a red shirt like him but that was not what made Bart unnerved. What made Bart a little uneasy was how this new Bart looked. He didn't look like he came from here at all, he felt so… out of place. This new Bart looked like he was from one of those strangely animated movies he's seen. 3D it was called… at least that's what he thought it was called. "I said are you lost?" The 3D-Bart repeated. Bart was snapped out of his trance. "Umm yeah… I'm looking for the kitchen. This house is like a-" "Giant maze. I know, we all know. But don't worry, you'll get used to it eventually," 3D-Bart interrupted. Bart stared back, wide-eyed. "We!?" He asked. 3D-Bart nodded. "Yeah, there's a lot of us here in the house," he replied. "Us!? You mean there's more versions of me!? But blue shirt me told me that he's the only one in the neighborhood!" Bart said. As if on cue, BlueShirt-Bart appeared through a hallway and looked at the two counterparts. "By being the only one in the neighborhood I meant people other than different versions of me in my house," he said before walking into one of the hallways and disappearing once again.
The two Barts stood there for a second. "You said you were looking for the kitchen, right?" The third-dimension boy asked his counterpart. "Uh.. yeah, I heard there were Buzz Colas?" Bart asked. 3D-Bart nodded, "I'll show ya where it is. Follow me," he said and walked away, Bart following. It was only 5 seconds when 3D-Bart turned left down a hallway and they were in the large kitchen. Bart facepalmed, the kitchen was seriously next to him and he got lost!? 3D-Bart seemed to notice Bart being upset at himself. "Hey, don't feel too embarrassed, I remember getting lost in a maze and I didn't realize that I was right next to the exit!" he said. Bart raised a brow as if to say "The hell?" but said, "Uhhh thank you.. three-dimensional me," 3D-Bart grinned, "Anytime, two-dimensional me," he said. Bart walked over to the giant fridge and opened the door. He peered in and his eyes widened. This refrigerator was filled with Buzz Colas! There were no other hints of other food or drinks, just Buzz Colas. Bart wasn't going to lie, he wouldn't mind if his own fridge was filled with nothing but Buzz Colas….. and Krusty-Burger… ohh how he loved those. Bart grabbed one of the cans and was about to close the fridge until a voice suddenly shouted, "LEAVE IT OPEN!!" Bart jolted at the shout and saw an arm stretch right in front of him. Literally stretch, like elastic! "Gah!" Bart yelped in surprise. The elastic arm coiled around three cans at once and quickly retracted from the fridge. All of that happening in the matter of a second. Bart closed the refrigerator door once the arm was gone.
"Thanks, man," said the source of both the voice and the elastic arm. "Uh.. no problem," Bart replied as he turned around to see who was there. There were now three new different versions of himself! The one on the left was wearing a green mask that surrounded his eyes and outfit with a cupcake on the chest as well as grey gloves. There was also an orange cape tied around his neck. The one in the middle, which was also the one that spoke, wore a red suit with a blue planet shape on the chest. The one on the right wore a blue shirt and shorts with a purple mask covering his upper head and had a purple cape that was also tied around his neck. Bart's eyes widened because he has seen these versions before. They were superhero alter egos he had made up in the past! Bart couldn't help himself and he blurted out their names. "Cupcake Kid! Stretch Dude! Bartman!" Cupcake Kid's and Stretch Dude's eyes widened at the boy's knowledge of their names. "He knows our names! GET HIM!" Cupcake Kid shouted as he grabbed a cupcake from his pocket and was about to throw it until Bartman stopped him. "No! He's a Bart as well, of course he knows our names," he said. Cupcake Kid lowered the cupcake in his hand and said "Yeah, you're right," he then proceeded open the can of Buzz Cola he got from Stretch Dude and pour some of the soda on the cupcake he was holding! Bart, Stretch Dude, and Bartman all looked at him like he had grown a second head, he noticed. "Hey! Don't judge me! It's not my fault that soda is a delicious cupcake topping!" Cupcake Kid spat before taking a bite of the soda-soaked cupcake, causing the other Barts to shudder.
"So, when did you get here?" Stretch Dude asked as he gulped down his Buzz Cola. Bart almost choked on the soda he was drinking as he recalled being pushed around in complete darkness, he didn't want to recall that again. "Uhh… I think a few minutes?" Bart replied. "When did you guys get here?" He asked, curious about them. "We've been here for quite a long time. I'd say…. I dunno.. a few months at best," Bartman replied. Bart raised his brows in surprise. "A few months!? Haven't you tried to find a way to get back to your universes or even wonder why or how you got here in the first place!?" Bart asked, alarmed. The three superhero Barts went silent before beginning to exchange nervous glances at each other, making Bart suspicious. Bart was going to press on about their glances until another Bart peeked his head into the kitchen. He had pale skin, red eyes, and two sharp fangs poking out of his mouth. He was a vampire. However, Bart was confused why this vampire version of himself was not harmed by the sunlight that peered through the window. "Hey, you guys! We're gonna start the Bonestorm Battle Royale Competition soon! C'mon!" Vampire-Bart said. Bart's ears perked up at the word Bonestorm. Bonestorm!? That same game I tried to steal and was caught and Mom got mad at me for!? Bart thought. "Oh yeah! That's right! C'mon Bart!" Stretch Dude said grinning. He, along with Cupcake Kid, Bartman, and Vampire-Bart all left the kitchen to go back to the TV room, leaving Bart behind
"Hey! Wait for me!" Bart shouted as he followed the alternate versions of himself that left. He tried his best to follow them through the maze-like hallways, but it was no use. Bart tried to retrace his steps from where he was led by his three-dimensional counterpart…… but the living room was nowhere to be found. "Uhh guys? I'm lost again… Hello?" Bart called out. No answer. "Damnit, not again!" he huffed. He decided to walk around the hallways until he he can find an entrance to a room of sorts. Minutes have passed with still no such luck. Bart continued to walk more and more down the endless path of hallways until…. "D̸-̵D̸o̷n̵'̵t̶…̷…̷ ̶d̶o̸n̷'̴t̶ ̴h̸a̵v̵e̵…̸…̴ ̸c̴o̸w̴ ̷m̸a̷n̵…̵.̵"
Bart immediately stopped in his tracks after hearing that voice. Both his heart and the quiet surrounding beating began to get quicker. He slowly turned to where he heard that bizarre voice, it was down a dark hallway. "Uhh…… hello?…" Bart called. No response. He didn't know what made him do it, but he decided to follow the source of the voice. He walked slowly through the dark hallway until a strange sound that came from the source of the voice made Bart stop in his tracks once again. It sounded like choking. Not like someone was being strangled, more like choking on their own saliva. Not even a second later, Bart found the source if the bizarre choking and voice. His heart dropped. The source of the voice was a pile of white mush with four tiny stick arms attached to the mush, flailing around endlessly. A head that looked like it had emerged from the mush looked like Bart's own head, with the exception of ears. This mushy Bart's eyes were wall-eyed. "Ḏ̶̓ô̷̼n̸̤͐'̶̹̿t̵̲̾ ̷͓̅h̶͖̚á̴̠ṽ̴̬e̸͇͘ ̴͖̔c̴̮̒o̵͉̽w̵̪͝ ̶̝͛m̷̩̾ă̸̲ń̸̟" he said again. Bart began to shake uncontrollably at this new Bart, who happened to be named Brt Sampsan. "What the hell!?" Bart said in horror, an emotion he didn't like to admit he had. As if he heard him, Brt suddenly stopped flailing and making those strange choking noises. Bart slowly started to back away from this futuristic version of himself. Suddenly, Brt began to let out a loud scream and his mushy body began to extend and become much bigger, the mush reaching towards Bart who screamed and ran away, Brt following close behind. "D̵̼͍͉̑̿͝O̷̡̯̺̘̭͑̋̅̓̉̄̕Ņ̸̢̳̥̇͝T̵̛͈͓͉͂̑̏̄́ ̵̢̢̝̟͝H̸̡̞̳̺͈̺͆ͅA̴̢̝̘̪͇͑̏͐͐͗̚V̴̙̖͈̤̮͓̹̆E̷̯͕͉͔͠ ̶̡͔̼̟̩̙͐̑͛͜C̵̩̻̹̣̅̌̅͑̅͝Ȍ̸̺͚̞͚̻̼W̷̱̣̠͙̓̆̿̉̒ ̷̻̈̿̊M̶̮̘͙̟̀̄̀̕A̷̫̞͔͙͈͔͚͋N̶̢̙̱̰͕̻͛̌̒̈" he screamed again.
Bart ran as fast as his legs could carry him. His heart was thundering rapidly in his ears. WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING!!??? MAKE IT STOP!!! He thought to himself as he heard Brt continue to scream and choke on his own saliva as he followed him through the labyrinth of hallways. He kept running, and running, and running, until he tripped on his own foot and tumbled to the ground. Bart clutched his head. Please. Stop!!
"Bart?" A voice said suddenly. His eyes snapped open and saw that he was in the living room he was looking for. He looked behind him and saw that Brt was no longer following him. In fact, he was nowhere to be found. The thundering heartbeat was no longer there and was back to its normal pace, albeit still a little quick. He looked in front of him and saw the other Barts he had encountered earlier, as well as new versions of him he hadn't seen yet, all looking at him. "What's wrong, Bart?" His third-dimensional counterpart asked him. Bart looked behind him and back at the other Barts and replied. "It's…………….. it's nothing,"
Halfway done with this story.