Flutterbat has been kidnapped and taken to a place in Earth that's so secret, no one knows about its existence. Luckily for her, Cale McManus, her human lover will do anything just to get her back. Even if it means going into a new kind of Hel
Pitch Black wants revenge for having his destiny of ruling Equestria failing. His act? Kidnapping Flutterbat and taking her to Earth. A certain place in Earth that holds secrets. Very dark ones. And as for the location, no one knows where it is. But Cale McManus, the human love interest for the bat pony will roll the dice and take his chances to walk into the dangerous place to save his mare friend and bring her back.
A different take to the movie The Cabin in the Woods.
4th story in the series.
The Four Horsemen of Equestria (First) A Nightmare's Nightmare (Second) Fear the Four (Third)
Inside Castle Nightmare, Pitch Black sat by a large organ and played a very dreary tune. His shadow was walking around the room behind him. "All is lost..." Pitch Black said softly.
"But you said that you want revenge. You were so sure to get back at the humans" the shadow said.
"So I did... But I out thought into it and I realized... Those humans will just make things worse for me."
"But you're the King of Nightmares, you can unleash different kinds of hell!" The shadow exclaimed.
"And the humans will just pick them off one by one!" Pitch snapped. "I don't think I should be calling myself 'King', my shadowy friend."
"But sire..."
"Just leave me alone for awhile..." The shadow nodded and slipped into the floor, reattaching itself to Pitch Black's body. The latter continued to play the organ, overcome with depression and failure.
Canterlot
I walked down the hall of the castle half awake. I say 'half awake because I honestly don't know where I was going to go in the first place. I snapped to my senses when I accidentally bumped into a wall. Now I remember! Princess Celestia wanted to see me in the throne room. I made my way over to said room and approached the door. The two royal Pegasus guards knew the Princess was expecting me so they stepped aside and let me in. I walked down the aisle and approached Princess Celestia. I still carried the habit of bowing to her.
"Cale, the formalities are unnecessary" she said.
"I can't help it" I said as I got to my feet. "Even with your sister, I still can't help but bow."
"I'm touched" she said. "But I assure you, you won't receive any form of punishment from me if you don't bow." That's a relief.
"Thank you Your Highness" I said.
"And please... 'Princess Celestia' will do just fine" she added.
"As you wish... Princess Celestia" I said.
"Now on with business as to why I called you here" she said. I stood straight and listened carefully. "A friend of yours dropped by not too long ago and told me to hold on to this." She used her magic to hand me an envelope. I tore it open and gasped.
"Chase wants me to go to Ponyville. And he also has invited Jack, and Remy as well! I think I know what this is about." I continued to read the letter. " 'Bring Flutterbat'..." I smiled and folded up the letter. "When does the train depart?" I asked.
"Chase has asked me to personally teleport you there" Princess Celestia answered. "Just come to me when you're ready."
"And indeed I will" I said. I headed over to the doors and opened them. I walked down the hall and headed over to my room to ask Flutterbat if she wishes to come to with me to Ponyville. I opened the door to my room and stepped inside. I closed the door behind me, as well as all the curtains in my room to darken the area. "Flutterbat?" I asked as I approached my closet. I lightly knocked and pressed my ear against it. Inside, I heard a really soft hissing sound. I opened the closet door and saw Flutterbat hanging upside down by her tail, her wings wrapped around her. She opened her eyes and I was greeted with her vampiric red eyes. She uncoiled her tail, flew out if the closet, and hovered around me, hissing happily. "Some bat pony's happy to see me" I commented. Flutterbat now hovered in front of wearing a look on her face as if she's wondering why I woke her up.
"I'm going over to Ponyville to visits some friends. Wanna come?" I asked. Flutterbat nodded but then glanced at the curtain. Oh right... The daylight. I needed to come up with a way to settle this. I put a finger to my chin and paced around the room. What is it could I do to make Flutterbat have a good time without being affected by the sun's rays. Several soft hisses got my attention. "What?" I asked confused. Flutterbat made gestures with her forehooves and repeated her hissing noises. Same tone, same rhythm.
"Are you sure?" I asked. She nodded. "Ok, if you say so." I stepped out of the dark room and into the bright hallway. Flutterbat hissed at the sun reflected stain glass window before clinging onto me with her wings. As I made my way back to Princess Celestia's throne room, Flutterbat kept glaring at the rays reflection through the window. Even though the sun won't kill her, she still has a strong dislike for it. Considering the fact that Flutterbat and I are a... Thing now?... She's considered a resident to Equestria. The second I stepped into the throne room, Princess Celestia looked at me as if she knows I'm ready.
"You're ready to go, aren't you?" She asked.
"Sure am, and so is she" I said, gesturing to the bat pony on my back clinging onto me like a cat just got sprinkled with water.
"Very well." Her horn glowed and a flash of white engulfed Flutterbat and I.
Ponyville
Jack and Remy lounged in Princess Twilight's library along with the Mane Six. "Chase better have a good reason for bringing me here" Remy complained. "I was so close to congratulating a Pegasus for making into the Wonderbolt Academy! A dream he has finally fulfilled!" He kicked a wall but cried out. "Ouch... God!" He muttered quietly.
"I'm sure Chase has a good reason for bringing us here, darling" Rarity assured.
"I hope so" Remy growled. "Because if he doesn't, I'm gonna--" a flash of light appeared in the middle of the room. Flutterbat appeared from the light.
"Flutterbat!" Jack exclaimed.
"What is that ghastly thing?!" Rarity asked as Fluttershy hid behind her.
"I'm gettin' my rope!" Applejack shouted. Rainbow Dash was about to tackle it down, but Princess Twilight used her magic to stop Rainbow Dash.
"Girls please" she said. "She's one of us."
"Are you sure?" Fluttershy asked worriedly.
"Very sure" she answered. Jack noticed something.
"Where's Cale?" He asked.
"You tell me" my voice said. They all glanced up and saw that my jacket got snagged on a bookshelf so I was hanging from it. Princess Twilight used her magic to teleport me to ground level. Jack couldn't help but laugh.
"Hilarious!"
"Yeah... Haha" I faked a laugh. "Funny."
"Um... Cale?" Fluttershy asked nervously. "About the Flutterbat?"
"Oh I heard everything while I was snagged up on the shelf. Watch this." I picked up an apple from a fruit basket sitting on the coffee table. "Uh..." I said as I stared at Twilight, pointing to the apple.
"Of course" she said with a smile.
"Thank you." I turned to Flutterbat and took a bite out of the apple. The smell of the apple juice attracted her. She flew over to me, and stuck out her tongue. Like a lasso, she grabbed the apple from my grasp, and brought it to her mouth. They watched as she sucked the apple juice from the apple. What amazed them was that she left some for me. I took it from her mouth and bit into it. "You want the rest?" I asked. Flutterbat hissed, grabbed the apple with her forehooves and began to suck the apple dry.
"I never knew she could do that" Remy said.
"Now you know" I answered. I watched as Pinkie Pie bounced around Flutterbat.
"Oh! Oh! We should throw her a Welcome to Ponyville Party!" Fluttershy aporoached Flutterbat.
"Um... Hello" she said almost timidly. Flutterbat hissed softly and extended her hoof towards Fluttershy. The latter hesitantly hoof bumped the bat version of her.
"See? Friendly once you get used to her" Princess Twilight said.
"But if you hurt Cale in front if her..." I cut Jack off.
"You, shush! They don't need to know that."
"Know what?" Rarity asked.
"Nothing" I said quickly, hoping that she'll drop the topic.
Just then, the doors burst open, startling us all. Chase hurried into the room.
"Twilight's here, right?" He asked.
"Yes, I'm here" she said. Chase took a giant step over to her.
"Ok good because I want to talk to you and it's serious" he said.
"Oh my gosh, is everything ok?" Fluttershy asked worriedly.
"Is it?" Princess Twilight asked worriedly.
"Well um..." Chase began, scratching the back of his neck. "There is only one way I can describe the seriousness of the situation." He hesitantly got on one knee, emitting gasps. Pinkie's was the loudest one. Princess Twilight gasped and put a hoof to her mouth. "Now I know it's a bad idea right now but..." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a black velvet box. "Will you marry me?" He asked as he opened it.
I know they are already engaged, but I'm starting to wonder why hide this fact from everypony and put on this act like this is Chase's first time doing it? Twilight's friends were surprised and put on expressions, hoping it would be a 'yes'.
"No, no, dude, come on" Jack said.
"Bad idea, Chase, come on... Don't do this."
Princess Twilight leveled herself to Chase. "Yes" she whispered. But they continued to pull the act. "Chase, why are you doing this?" She asked. Chase closed the box and looked at this.
"You know... I don't know. I mean this seemed like a good idea at the time." Princess Twilight gave him an unamused look. "I'm doing this because I'm sorry."
"How do you propose because you're sorry?" Jack asked.
"I mean 'sorry' because its pretty much a mixture of being ready, and wanting to get married. Which I'm not" he laughed to himself. "You will be my wife, right?" He asked as he opened the box again.
Princess Twilight smiled and laughed. "Yes" she said. Her friends cheered, as did me and Flutterbat.
"Wait a minute hold on" Jack said as Chase out the ring on Twilight's horn. "Proposing is that easy?!"
"Oh shut it, you don't have a mare friend" Remy said.
"I always saw it as hard and intense. Why so simple?"
"Clearly the love they have was meant to be" Rarity said. The ponies gathered around Princess Twilight and Chase to congratulate them. I glanced at Flutterbat and nodded. She returned the gesture. While congratulations happened in one corner, and Remy tried to calm Jack in another, Flutterbat and I quickly snuck out of the library and down the streets of Ponyville.
Castle Nightmare
"I have it!" Pitch exclaimed as he stopped playing the organ. "I know how to start my revenge!" His shadow rose from the floor.
"You do?" He asked.
"Yes. I shall start with the leader. I'm going to target the Flutterbat that was made to kill him, but instead, she helped him kill his fear!"
"How?" The shadow asked. "I'm going to kidnap her and bring her to Earth."
"And you'll torture her?" He asked.
"Much better than torture" he said with a grin. He fired a blast of black aura in front if him and some kind of mirror appeared.
"That's it? You'll kidnap her and take her to that?" The shadow asked.
"Looks can be deceiving my friend. This may not look much, but there are dark secrets hidden within that places. Secrets that are dark as my castle." The two of them continued to look at what was through the mirror.
A cabin in the woods.
He tapped his walking stick on the floor rhythmically. Several security guards armed with assault rifles emerged from the shadows and bowed before Pitch Black. "What is it, my lord?" One of them ask.
"Find the one named Flutterbat" he said, showing them a picture of her via aura. "She's always hanging out with him." He made another aura with my face on it. "Kidnap the bat, and bring her to that place" he said, pointing to the cabin. "Once you get there, hide yourself with the humans. Blend in with your new surroundings. And don't fucking let slip where you came from." He clicked his fingers and the auras and the images vanished. He banged his walking stick on the floor and a black portal appeared. "I shall be watching you. Once you have the bat, I'll create a portal that leads you to where I want you to go."
Ponyville
It took some time, but Flutterbat was now getting used to the sun. The two if us walked along the grassy plains outside of Ponyville. Not far from us was the Everfree Forest. "This is nice, huh?" I asked the bat pony walking next to me. "Chase and Twilight are engaged, Jack is freaking out, and and I are alone on the field without any distractions. Flutterbat rose on her hind legs and placed her hooves on my chest. Every time I look into her red vampiric eyes, my heart beats faster and faster. They say men do crazy shit when they're in love. And I somewhat agree. We both leaned forward to kiss.
"There they are!" A voice shouted. We turned our heads and saw a squad of soldiers dressed in black. One charged at me. I quickly grabbed his assault rifle, elbowed him in the chest, yanked it out if his grasp, cocked the gun, and gunned him down, making several bullet holes. I raised the gun up again and gunned down another. Flutterbat flew by me in her anthro form. She tackled a soldier and began biting at his neck. The soldier screamed in both fear and pain. Eventually his screams died down while blood pooled all over the grass. Any soldier that tries to stop Flutterbat, I gun down. One soldier crept up behind me and whacked me in the head with the butt of his gun, rendering me unconscious. The anthro bat pony hybrid turned her head and gasped. Before she could do anything, a soldier knocked her on the head, knocking her out.
"We got the package" a soldier said.
"Good" Pitch's voice said over the radio. In his lair, he was holding a radio that he had made. It too was shrouded with black aura. Take the bat and leave the boy. The portal to the cabin will be waiting for you."
"Yes my lord" the soldier said.
Back in Ponyville
I slowly came to and found myself back in Canterlot. I was lying in a hospital bed. I quickly sat up with a gasp. "Flutterbat!" I got out if bed and out into the hall. "Flutterbat!" I called.
"She's gone" a voice said. I turned my head and saw Jack standing there, looking sad. "We found your unconscious body as well as several dead bodies and blood."
"How did you know where to find me?" I asked.
"The noises of gunfire gave it away."
"Where is she?" I asked.
My Room
"Cale.." Princess Celestia said. "Flutterbat is being held in a building that's far from civilization... On Earth."
"And the workers there a cruel, the scientists a hostile, and the security are corrupted" Remy added.
"Good" I answered. "That's all I need to hear."
"Cale, are you serious?" Remy asked. I didn't answer him. Instead, I turned to Princess Celestia.
"Do you know where the place is?"
"I do but... I'm scared that you won't make it back."
"Just tell me how to get back" I said in a serious tone.
"Go to a secluded area and say the name of this world." I smiled.
"Works for me."
"Cale, listen to yourself, you're going back to Earth" Chase said.
"Yeah so?" I asked.
"Cale, face it, you'll probably be never seen again" Jack said.
"And the place she's being held is probably also run by torturers, insane interrogators, or worse... Slavers?" Remy suggested.
"Then I'll kill them all just to get her back" I said.
"But..." They said in unison.
"Enough." I opened a drawer and grabbed a handgun. "Flutterbat chose me as her special somepony" I said as I picked up a mag. "And as her special somepony, I'm going over there and I'm bringing her home." I inserted the mag into the gun and pocketed it.
"Cale, the place she's being held..." Jack said with worry.
"You're forgetting one thing Jack. I'm a skilled assassin."
"But Cale, the place is being run by workers, scientists, corrupt security, and they have a storage of monsters. God knows what they're being used for. And Flutterbat is one of them" Jack said.
"I'm guessing that you didn't catch what I said" I said seriously. "I'm going to kill them all... Just to rescue Flutterbat."
"You do know you're basically going to Hell and back, right?" Chase asked.
"I know" I said without thinking. I didn't need to think of what I was doing. "Now you're getting a glimpse of how much I love her. What's so difficult to understand?" I asked. I was pleased with their silence. "Good. You understand. Now if you'll excuse me..." I picked up another handgun and pocketed it. "There is an Equestrian resident... A bat pony that turns into an anthro if you upset her greatly... That I need to save." I turned to Princess Celestia and nodded. My three friends stepped back and watched as I was transported to Earth... Once again.
I found myself on Earth, the one place I now hate. I'm here for one thing and one thing only... Flutterbat. I may be in Earth now, but where exactly in Earth I'm in... Is just plain confusing. I found myself in some kind facility. The place looked empty and I was wondering where everyone is. I walked down the hall, looking around. I found a door slightly ajar and peeked inside. It was a closet. I opened it and saw jackets hanging on racks. Lab coats to be exact. I slipped inside and c,owed the door behind me. I grabbed a lab coat and put it on. I grabbed a random name tag and looked at the name. 'Lloyd Barclay'. I clipped the name tag on and grabbed a pair of glasses that I found sitting on the table. I checked my pants pockets. Satisfied that the gun I took from Equestria is safely hidden inside, I left the supply closet, closed the door, and walked down the hall.
"Hey!" A voice called. I turned my head and saw a worker running towards me. "What the hell are you doing here?" He asked. I pointed to the direction behind and opened my mouth to answer but he beat me to it. "Come on, the bettongs are about to begin!" He grabbed me by my lab coat and hauled me down the direction he just came from. He led me to an elevator and pressed the 'up' button. While we waited, the worker looked like he was impatient with me.
"What?" I asked.
"Because of you, we'll be late for the betting."
"What betting?" I asked.
"What the fuck is wrong with you? Don't you fucking work here?" I was about to answer, but he cut me off. "No don't answer that!" He snapped. The elevator bell dinged and the doors opened. The worker shoved me inside and followed. He pressed a button and the doors closed. I felt the elevator going up. "I can't fucking believe what's happening to my fucking life right now. I have to deal with you, and because of that, I won't be able to place a fucking bet! Now I hear that we get a new monster added to the collection which lowers my chances greatly to see the headless horseman in action! And how fucking gay is that new monster? An anthro yellow furred bat hybrid with pink hair and a pink tail with pink tattoos of three fucking bats?! Give me a break. I bet that creature will be waste of time to see in action." As he said this, I took off my glasses and folded them. "And I bet that the creature won't do anything but..." I quickly turned him to face me and struck the glasses across his face so hard, that it broke, and several shards of glass were embedded into his face. The worker screamed in pain. I shoved him against the wall, clamped a hand over his mouth, and plunged the broken glasses into his neck.
"Sounds like you really don't want to be here anymore. I can help you with that." I viciously slit his throat, blood spilling on the floor, himself, and on me. The worker slid down the wall, leaving a trail of blood on the wall. I tossed the bloodied glasses on the floor. "And for your information.." I said as I removed my blood stained lab coat. "That's my friend you're talking about." I bent down, retrieved the name tag, cleaned the blood off with my lab coat and clipped it on to my shirt. The elevator bell dinged and the doors opened. I stepped out of the elevator, pressed the basement button and walked down the hallway as the elevator doors closed.
I continued my way down the hallway until I walked by a large glass window. Behind it were several workers. All wearing lab coats. I saw a large whiteboard with several names of various killers, monsters, and creatures. But on the top, written in big letters was:
New Monster: An anthro yellow bat hybrid!
I watched as the workers place cash and change into a large jar. I turned away from the large window and continued to walk down the hall, searching. "Flutterbat?" I whispered quietly. "Where are you, you sweet bat of mine?" I asked. Did I care if I said something stupid? Fuck no. "Flutterbat?" I asked quietly. Just then, I heard a door open. I turned around quickly and saw two workers exit the room. I quickly ducked behind a corner and listened closely to their conversation.
"Who are you betting on?" One of the men asked.
"The giant wasp. How about you?" He asked.
"The new monster of course. I want to see an anthro bat hybrid creature" he said. The two stopped and I moved further away, trying not to make a sound."
"Do you even know what's going on?" The man betted the giant wasp asked.
"No, I'm new here." The other worker was taken back.
"Oh, my apologies" he said.
"Don't worry about it. So what's going on?"
"We have 21... Wait, including the new monster, 22 creatures stored within the facility called The Jailhouse. There are two categories...
Beasts and Supernatural.
With me so far?" He asked.
"Yes."
"Now... We sent out a flier saying that we are accepting juvenile delinquents to ensure a severe punishment. It'll be a matter of time before they find the storage and fiddle with an artifact, toy, whatever shit they pick up. They unknowingly summon them, then we watch the massacre."
"How many juveniles are brought here?"
"Seven."
"What happens to the ones who don't pick up the items?"
"They're cons. Inmates. Bad boys. They all mess with shit that don't belong to them."
"So they're brought here to die?"
"We really hate misbehaving kids. We hate them so much we want to see them die. And this is why this place is built."
"How do you get up there from down here?"
"There's a red elevator at the end of the hall. It only leads to the surface. But it can only be used if you have this." I saw him hold up a red key. "Since you're new, you won't be able to get one until the end if the month." The new worker staggered back.
"This place... I... I need to breathe..." He panted.
"You'll get over it."
"Oh God... I'm in a place where they kill teens." I watched him run off. I I clipped my name tag and approached the worker with the key.
"Hey man, you still want to bet?" A worker called.
"No man, I'm--". He was cut off when I threw the name tag horizontally, embedding it into his throat. I grabbed him by his lab coat and yanked him into the corner I was hiding behind. I leaned him against the wall.
"This is mine now..." I said venomously as I took the red key with one hand and slowly pushed the name tag deeper into his throat with the other, causing more blood to spill. "Sleep tight" I whispered. I left the corner, ran down the hall until I reached the red elevator. Instead of an up and down button, there was a keyhole. I inserted the key into the lock until it made an electronic beeping noise. I pulled the key out and the doors opened. I slipped inside. I pressed the only button that said 'surface'. My plan? Go to the cabin, find whatever artifact that summons Flutterbat, get the hell as far as we could, return to Equestria.
Instead of the doors in front of me, the ceiling slid open. I squinted my eyes to block my view from the rays of the moonlight. The walls were built in such a way that made it easy for me to climb. I hauled myself out of the lit and crawled along the forest floor. I got to my feet and ran through the forest. I made my through the forest and approached the cabin. Inside, I saw seven young boys wearing orange jumpsuits. Similar to the ones inmates wear. I saw them ascend from what appears to be the basement. I took a few steps back, hoping that they wouldn't see me. Suddenly, I heard movement behind me.
In the facility, the workers, the scientistd, even the corrupt security guards watched the big screen waiting with anticipation to see who'll be emerging from the ground. The boss was a man around his late 40s. He has gray hair, wore a business suit, and had a monocle over his left eye. "And the winners are..." He said. Everyone in the room gasped when they saw the three creatures rise from the ground. "That's a wrap!" The boss shouted. "Those who betted the Redneck Zombie, a Nazi Zombie, and the Headless Horseman, claim your prize!" One of the workers greedily grabbed the jar, chuckling to himself. "Now..." The boss continued. "The fun part. We watch the criminals who summoned these three get slaughtered."
Back above, the three creatures made their way through the forest and spotted me. I pulled out my gun and cocked it. I raised it up and shot the Nazi Zombie in the head, blood splattering out. Inside, the seven teenage cons gasped. "What the hell was that?" One of them asked. Another stood up and approached the door. When he opened it, he was greeted by an axe slicing his head off.
"Trent!" One of the cons screamed as the con's headless body crumpled to the floor, blood pooling everywhere. The headless horseman stepped inside, axe in one hand, sword in the other. The Redneck Zombie also entered the cabin. It wielded a pick axe. The remaining six cons huddled together as the two entities approached them. Suddenly, gunshots rang out, getting the Redneck Zombie in the back. It groaned loudly, staggering forward, dropping its pick axe in the process. I tucked my gun away, grabbed the pick axe sand hooked it at the back of the zombie's neck. With an angered yell, I pulled out the axe, but the top half of the zombie's head came with it. The cons gasped as the body crumpled to the floor. I tossed the pick axe with the attached top half of the head aside. The headless horseman turned around and approached me. I took a couple steps back, breathing steadily.
'Ok, how am I going to deal with this one?' I thought to myself. The horseman tossed me his sword and readied his axe as if I made a move, he'll slice my head clean off. "Shouldn't given me your sword" I said quietly. I lunged forward and stabbed him with ease. Leaving the sword there, I watched the horseman fall to his knees, dropping his axe. I picked up said axe, raised it up, and embedded it into the spot where his should've been. The entity then fell dead. I looked at the shocked faces of the teenagers. "You guys look like you haven't seen a dead body in your life."
In the facility, everyone was not happy. Not even the boss.
"What the fuck?!"
"That kid butchered up the whole operation!"
"This wasn't suppose to fucking happen!"
"Now those teens will continue living, committing more crimes!"
"We can't have that shit continuing!"
"Send them back to the cellar! Have them pick another item!" Even though the boss was as pissed off, he refused to let say anything. He glared at the screen, fuming. He then turned around and angrily punched a computer monitor. "Fuck" he said quietly but angrily. "That fucking kid needs to die, now..." He clenched his fists, listening to the complaints and arguments in the room. And from what he was hearing, he agreed with everything they are saying.
Back in the Cabin
"Holy fucking shit!" One of cons cried out as the watched me drag the body of the headless horseman out the door. I dragged it to the side and returned to the cabin, closing the door behind me. I sat on an old and almost completely torn recliner chair by the fireplace. One of the cons approached me. He was a little short and looked like he was 15. Perfect height for his age. He has short blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Who are you?" He asked. I didn't answer him. Instead I folded my hands, rested my chin on my knuckles and closed my eyes. 'Flutterbat... Wherever you are, I hope you are safe. And I promise you... I'm going to find you and we'll get out of this hellhole together.' A small tear ran down my face.
"Mr.?" The con asked again. I glanced up at him.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Yeah" I lied.
"You didn't answer my question: What's your name?"
"Cale" I answered.
"Rat" he said as he shook my hand. He turned to the other five. "That's Barclay, Speed, Klaus, Lloyd, and Roland."
"Who's the leader?" I asked.
"Me" Roland answered as he approached me. He had dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, and looked 17. "Do you know where the fuck these things came from?"
"No" I answered. "But I know one thing" I said.
"What will that be?" Barclay asked.
"You guys have to get out of here."
"Let's do it then!" Klaus exclaimed.
"But where do we go? It's dark outside" Rat said. Lloyd gasped.
"I got it!" He got up and went down to the basement. A minute or so later, he came back up. "This is the same flashlight we used to look in the basement" he explained to the other cons. He dropped a bag filled with working flashlights. The the other five cons bent down and picked up a flashlight. Roland tossed one to me.
"Anything else?" Klaus asked.
"Nope, this is all I gathered" he answered.
"All right boss man" Roland said, turning to me. "Lead the way" he answered. The seven of us exited the cabin, but I knew what had to be done. I wasn't going to leave here without Flutterbat. I turned to the woods and ran there. But as I did, the cons saw me fall in what appeared to be a pit.
"Cale!" Roland shouted. He and the others ran to where I fell and looked down. "Cale!" He yelled shining his flashlight. They saw me leaning against something. "Are you ok?" He asked. I made a pained groan.
"Kind of" I said. Just then, a slight noise was made. Speed cried out and ran forward, pushing all the cons in. Speed lost his balance and fell in too.
"Nice going Speed!" Klaus yelled. Suddenly there was a click and the sound of a door sliding closed was heard.
"What the hell was that?" Rat asked, clinging onto me like a kid.
"I don't know" I said.
"Hey guys?" Lloyd asked. "Why are we sitting on a metallic floor rather than dirt?" There was a loud clicking sound and the thing we are in started moving. We were brought to a really dark area. The thing we were trapped in suddenly turned on. We were all in a large cube. We continued sliding until we stopped abruptly. Klaus was thrown across the block and slammed against the wall.
He groaned in pain and rolled on his back.
In the Facility
The new worker found a clipboard and with a shaky hand, he ran a finger down the list. The boss placed his hand on his shoulder. "Are you alright?" He asked. The new worker continued to read through the pages.
"I know you're upset that this didn't go well" he said, thinking that the worker was going through the list to find something to kill me.
"That guy... He said that there are 22 creatures in the Jailhouse" he said.
"Don't listen to him... 22 is his favorite number so he uses it all the time."
"How many of these things do you have?"
"49, but because of our new monster, 50. Well, since three have been summoned and were killed by that fucking guy, we have 47 now. I'll give you time to read through the list." The boss left him alone. The new worker's widened withe each name listed on the clipboard.
The place was so quiet, it's starting to scare us. "Is it getting cold in here, or is it just me?" Klaus asked. The cube we were in started moving again. We then felt like we connected with something. We then saw that the floor, walls, and ceiling were all glass windows. Klaus turned around and saw something move in the dark. "What the fuck?" He asked.
"What is it?" Lloyd asked.
"I thought I saw..." Klaus trailed off.
"Saw what?" Lloyd asked.
"Never mind" Klaus said backing away from the window. As he did, he saw something sitting on the floor in the cube beneath them. "Guys look" he said. We all looked down at the cube beneath us. A man was loading what appears to be an assault rifle. When he glanced up, we saw that his face was painted so it looked like a skull.
"Mercenary" I whispered. The cube he was in moved to the left but he never left his gaze. He kept staring at us as if he's going to kill us soon. Lloyd glanced up and saw a creature that's half dragon, half bat, flying around.
"Goddamn... Dragonbat thing" he complained as he moved away. Something connected to out cube.
"Whoa" I heard Speed say. "Am I tripping? Or is this thing real?" We all turned our heads. Connected to us was an anthro bat hybrid. Her wings were folded back, her kegs were drawn up, and her arms were hugging her knees. She had pale fur, red but sad eyes, pink hair, and a pink tail. I turned my head slightly and smiled when I saw three pink bats on her flank. I tapped the glass window lightly. Flutterbat turned her attention to me. Her red eyes widened and went over to the glass window. The cons gasped and moved back, but I stayed where I was. She placed a clawed hand on her glass window and I placed my hand against mine so it looked like our hands were connecting. Another loud click was made and the cube I was in started moving away from her. We stopped somewhere and the doors slid open.
"Get the fuck out here now!" The guard yelled. I tackled him to the floor and punched him repeatedly in the face.
"This is for Flutterbat, you piece of shit" I said with venom in my voice. I drew my gun, pulled the hammer back and pulled the trigger next to his ear. When he opened his mouth to scream, I pressed the gun against his chest and planted two more bullets. I got to my feet, exited the cube, and ran down the hall, leaving the cons to stand there with shock. "Are you coming or what?" I asked. From down the hall. The six convicts left the cube and followed me. Now to find a way to get Flutterbat out of there.
In the main room, a security guard barged in almost out of breath. "We have a problem" he panted. "The new guy has led the convicts in here."
"Hunt them down" the boss said. "Leave none alive. Oh, and bring me the body of the new guy. I want to kill him myself." The guard nodded and left the room.
We ran down the hallway, taking occasional turns. "Do you know where we are going?" Klaus asked.
"Yeah. Trying to find a way to get my friend out there" I said.
"What friend?" Roland asked.
"The bat pony hybrid you saw me interacting with." We turned a corner and entered a large area. One side was a row of elevators doors and on the other was another set of doors. I counted 50 total.
"Holy shit" Lloyd gasped. Rat clung onto me like a kid. Just then, we heard multiple footsteps.
"This way!" A voice called. We spotted a glass window in front of us and hurried over to it. I opened the door and slipped inside along with the other cons. Klaus closed the door and locked it. There was a control panel on one side and on the other was locker. I shot the lock and opened the locker, revealing an arsenal of handguns and assault rifles.
"Jackpot" Roland grinned. While the cons armed themselves, I went over to the control panel searching for something to release Flutterbat. Suddenly gunfire rang. I dropped down as did the others.
"Give us a fucking break!" Klaus shouted over the gunfire. Speed got up and ran over to the dashboard. He grinned when it had to deal with the monsters.
"That's it.." He said angrily as he pressed a button. A red button flickered on and was blinking rapidly. I noticed the warning sign that said RELEASE ALL AT THE SAME TIME under the blinking red button. I eyed a button that said 'Release 5 at a Time under a green blinking button.
"Speed, wait!" I shouted.
"Take this, fuckers!" He pressed down on the blinking red button. Suddenly the control panels switch off. The gunfire suddenly ceased and the sounds of movement came from the elevator doors.
"Speed... What the hell have you done?" I asked shakily. Just then the movemements ceased. A choir of dings was heard and 47 elevator doors slid open.
Out of the 47 opened elevator doors, 46 jumped out. The security guards frantically open fired but were killed first. Eight creatures stayed behind to kill while the rest scattered around the building.
A Giant Snake grabbed a guard and swallowed him whole.
A Dragonbat grabbed a guard and took flight, it then slammed him on the ground and began eating him.
A Killer Robot grappled two guards with its hooks and killed them with its circular saws.
A Werewolf took down a guard and started biting at his neck.
A Giant Wasp grasped a guard with its legs, took flight, and stabbed him repeatedly with its stinger while hovering in the air. It later dropped him and flew down the hallway.
A Giant Scorpion impaled a guard with its stinger and crawled down the hallway, dragging him down the hallway. It slammed him on the floor and yanked its sting out of him before following the Giant Wasp.
A Goblin jumped on a guard's back and bit him in the shoulder blade while stabbing him relentlessly.
A Wolf tackled a guard down, bit him hard in the arm and dragged him across the floor like a dog running away with a bone. The guard screamed as he was dragged away.
While the chaos all happened at once, Speed whimpered and began staggering back. I got up and opened the door. "Lock and load" I said. "We're getting the fuck out of here" I said. I left the room along with the cons. Roland stopped and turned around.
"Speed, come on" he said. The con whimpered and shook his head.
"Did you not see what the fuck happened out there?! We're gonna die!"
"That's why we have these" Barclay said as he head up his gun.
"You guys go and get killed! I'm fucking staying here where I'm safe!" He screamed.
"Speed, don't be such a--"
"A what?! A coward?!" He shrieked. He got up and approached Roland. "Go follow him then! Just you wait! He'll lead you to the chaos and you're all gonna die! And--" the Dragonbat suddenly crashed through the window, and tackled Speed to the floor. It opened its jaws and began biting the screaming con.
"Speed!" Roland shouted. He open fired at the beast but it didn't seem to have any affect.
"Come on!" I yelled. We all left the room and ran through the aftermath of the massacre. The Dragonbat screeched loudly, stopping us. We turned around and saw it climb through the window, leaving the mauled body of Speed behind. We turned and ran as quickly as we could. The Dragonbat flew after us, but an anthro pale furred bat pony hybrid tackled it to the floor. She sunk her clawed hands and feet into the Dragonbat and viciously mauled it. She sniffed the air and hissed softly. She then took flight and followed my scent.
"Fall back!" A security guard yelled as he gunned down the Goblin. He turned his head and saw a Gorilla charging at him knocking workers and scientists aside. The guard raised his gun up and gunned it down too. "Who's next?!" The guard challenged. He heard gunfire. He turned around and saw the Mercenary running down the hall gunning down everyone in his path. The guard raised his gun up and gunned him down as well. "This is easy!" He laughed. From the side, the Giant Wasp tackled him and pinned him against the wall. It then stung him repeatedly in the chest before flying away.
In another area, the cons took cover and gunned down security guards, workers and scientists. "Cale! Is there an exit?" Roland asked as he gunned down a Deadite.
"Sorry! I'm trying to concentrate!" I yelled over the gunfire and screams as I slowly slit a Doctor's throat with the scalpel he once was carrying. "Finished" I said. I glanced up and saw a clown holding a curved knife approaching me, giggling. I picked up my handgun and fired at him to no avail. The clown continued approaching me. "Right" I said, tossing the now useless gun aside. I picked up the scalpel and threw it, getting him in the eye. The clown dropped his knife and screamed in pain. He also made a sound like he was crying. I got up and picked up the curved knife. "Oh shut it, Chuckles" I said as I slit his throat. I then shoved him aside.
"You!" A security guard shouted, aiming his gun at me. Thinking, fast, I threw knife, getting him in the head. The body crumpled to the floor.
"Cale!" Klaus called. "We found a way!" He shouted. I ran towards him and we slipped through a door and ran up a couple of stairs. I opened the set of doors at the top and looked around.
"Clear" I whispered. The remaining cons exited the door and followed me down the hall. Suddenly, a large stinger impaled Lloyd from behind. His pained groan alerted us. The Giant Scorpion grabbed ahold of Lloyd with its pincers and tore him in two. Out of anger, Roland raised his gun up and open fired as did the other cons and myself. We watched the Giant Scorpion thrashed and died of its wounds. The room was quiet once again. The faint sounds of screams, gunfire, and creatures growling were heard below us.
Roland kicked a wall and let out a frustrated yell. "You!" He yelled at me. He shoved me against the wall and choked me. "You fucking know something! Tell me right now, what's going on! Why are we brought here?! What is with all these fantasy creature shit?! And what--"
"Leave him alone Roland!" Barclay shouted. "He fucking didn't do anything wrong!" Roland turned his head sharply to Barclay and gunned him down. Rat and Klaus gasped and backed away as Barclay fell to the floor.
"What the fuck, man?!" Klaus asked angrily.
"Shut up, or you're next!" Roland screamed. He turned his attention back to me. "Now spill it! I know you fucking know what's going on and I want you to fucking tell me!"
"I know that you shouldn't be doing this right now" I said with a smile.
"You fuck!" Roland screamed and punched me in the chest as hard as he could. I cried out in pain.
Somewhere in the building, Flutterbat's ears twitched as my cry echoed through her ears. She glanced up, and hissed angrily. She took flight and flew around the facility, following the sound of my cries.
"If you don't fucking tell me what's going on, I'm going to kill you!" What the cons don't know is that no matter where I am, and if at any point I'm threatened, she'll come and kill my tormentor. No hesitation.
"I suggest you stop threatening me" I warned.
"The fuck I can't! I can do whatever the fuck I want! And I'm going to fucking threaten you! Speed was right! You have brought us to our deaths! And I'm going to--" Flutterbat burst through the floor and grabbed Roland. She flew around before slamming him down on the floor. She buried her sharp clawed hands into his shoulder blades and buried the claws on her feet into his chest. Roland screamed in pain.
"I warned you not to threaten me" I said.
"Get this fucking bat hybrid off me!"
"That cannot do" I said nonchalantly as I placed a hand on Flutterbat's shoulder. "Give me a moment with this fuck mook" I whispered. She hissed softly in response.
"Why?!" Roland screamed.
"Because you threatened me."
"Ok, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I said it! Now get this bitch off me!"
"I said I can't" I said calmly.
"WHY NOT?!"
"To the bat pony hybrid, threatening me in any shape or form is the one thing she really hates."
"So what? You want me to apologize to her? Are you fucking serious?"
"No. Apologies are out if the question."
"Then how do I get out of this?!"
"You don't." I bent down next to him and smiled. "There's a saying... If you threaten the one she loves, you're fucked."
"Who said that?"
"Oh it's pretty obvious." I patted his cheek. "Time's up. Satan will be seeing you now." Roland's eyes widened.
"Wait, no, no! Wait! Can we talk this out?! Klaus! Rat!" He yelled. "Help me!"
"You killed Barclay" Klaus said.
"You killed our friend" Rat added. "We're not going to help you."
"Goodbye Roland" I said. "Hell awaits." Flutterbat bared her fangs into bit into Roland's neck. We watched as Flutterbat continued to bite Roland and drink his blood at the same time. Blood pooled around him and soon his screams of pain stopped. The only sounds that are heard are Flutterbat lapping the blood up like milk.
Flutterbat looked up from her meal and looked at me. She licked the blood off of her mouth and stood up. Klaus and Rat move back a little. "Careful, Cale" Klaus said cautiously. I approached her and smiled.
"Ready to head back to Equestria?" I asked. She shook her head and a soft hissing sound.
"I see" I answered. "You want me to help my new friends get out of here?" She nodded. "This won't be a problem, considering that you and I can't die on Earth." She nodded wearing a smile that showed all her bloodstained fangs. I turned around to the two remaining cons. "Well guys, I believe that there's an exit we have to find. But first, I have to do something." I walked over to Brclay's body and knelt next to him. His eyes we slightly opened and so I closed them. I took his arms and crossed them. I did the sign if the cross and folded my hands.
"A shepherd I shall be For Thee my Lord for Thee Power hath descended forth from Thy hand That my feet may swiftly carry out Thy command So I shall flow a river forth onto Thee And teeming with souls shall it ever be. In Nomine Patri Et Filli Spiritus Sancti."
I got up and turned to my three companions. I nodded to them. "Let's get the hell out of here."
"How?" Klaus asked. I pulled out a red key from my pocket.
"We find a red elevator, we find a way out" I said as I pocketed it.
"Cale?" Chase asked. "About what Roland said... What is really going on?" He asked. I stopped walking and so did Flutterbat. I turned to the two cons.
"I'm not a con" I said. I decided to hide the fact that Flutterbat and I are from Equestria so came up with a lie. "This creature is an experiment. I was just an apprentice to help my boss fuse a bat and a pony. This is what we got. Then some men barged not the lab and killed my boss. The bat hybrid you see before you killed them all out of anger. In the midst of the chaos, I was rendered unconscious and the building set on fire. I was so sure she find an escape and leave me behind. But I was wrong. She rescued me.
On that very same day, she was found by the men who killed my boss and was brought here. A place where they hate teenagers who are sentenced to jail. They hate them so much that it pleases them to see them die. They take them to an old cabing with antiques or junk in the basement. To the criminals, they are said antiques, junks, and broken toys. But to the ones who run this fucking place, they summon an entity. They pick how to die and from what."
"So... We were brought here just to die?" Rat asked.
"That's what I said. And I promise you. I will help you find a way out."
The boss paced around his office with the new worker. Two security officers entered the room. "Sir, it wasn't easy, but we killed all the monsters and creatures from the Jailhouse."
"All of them?" The boss asked.
"Well, one is missing. The new monster."
"Find her and bring her down. And I want the human who fucked us all up here so I can kill him!" The two officers nodded and left.
"No!" The newbie shouted. "I won't have you kill an innocent soul."
"What was that?" The boss asked,
"I said I won't let you do it!" He removed his lab coat and shoved into the boss's face. "I fucking quit! And I don't care if I was hired today!" The boss pulled out a gun and shot him point blank in in the head.
"Don't fucking talk like that to me!" He yelled. "I'm going to find that fucking guy and kill him myself!" He screamed. He left the office and ran down the hall, passing by several dead humans and creatures. The Werewolf groaned in pain. "Fuck you!" The boss yelled as he shot it in the head. He stopped when he heard gunfire and screaming. "Found him" he said happily to himself. He followed the noise.
Upstairs, Flutterbat had tackled down a security guard and was viciously tearing him apart. Not far from her, Klaus, Rat, and I gunned down fleeing workers, scientists, and security guards. "Think you can kill us?!" Klaus asked. I turned my head and saw the boss approaching us. I gasped and pulled Flutterbat away. Klaus turned his head and saw the boss raise his gun. "Cale!" He screamed. He jumped in the way as the boss pulled the trigger. The bullet struck Klaus in the head.
"No!" Rat screamed.
"Shut up!" The boss screamed as he planted a bullet into his chest. He reloaded his gun. "Do you fucking know what you did?!" He screamed. "My career! Ruined! My career! To eliminate the world of sinners! I spent my whole life researching creatures of the supernatural, and I found it! It cost me almost my whole life to pray to the Ancient Ones to grant me just a small army of nightmares! Just a small amount! And I finally had them! And then you... Fucking came along and butchered the whole thing! I was close to seeing the teens slaughtered but you killed them and now you're helping them escape!!!" I turned my head and saw Rat leaning against the wall, gasping. "Now..." He started chuckling manically. "I have you where I want you... And I'm going to end your life in front of this creature's eyes and I'll kill her next. And nothing will stop me!" He pulled the trigger and shot me in the heart. Fluttershy looked at me confused.
"I know right?" I asked. I leaned forward to her, "The perks of being an Equestrian. You can't die anywhere else." The boss gasped.
"What?" He asked. He shot me again, but nothing happened. He even tried shooting Flutterbat. He ran out of bullets but we remained alive. "What the fuck is this?!" He screamed.
"Funny" I said as I stood up. "You wanted to rid of sinners when you're a sinner yourself. Putting juveniles in this kind of hell?" That's just plain sinful.
"You fucking stay away from me..." The boss said as he staggered back. I pulled out my handgun and shot him in the legs.
"No... You fucking stay put!" I shouted over his screams. "You see, I'm a man like yourself. I have the urge to eliminate sinners, but unlike you... I have the patience to wait to see if they are sorry for their past. But seeing that these criminals happen to be sorry, and you kill them anyway, well... That just puts you on my kill list. "Flutterbat? Hold him down. I'm going to enjoy this."
Flutterbat jumped on the boss and as always, she buried the claws on her hands into his shoulder blades and her clawed feet dug into his chest. The boss screamed in pain as I approached him. "Now where was I?" I asked myself. "Oh yes... I remember." I put the gun on safety.
"A shepherd I shall be For Thee my Lord for Thee Power hath descended forth from Thy hand That my feet may swiftly carry out Thy command So I shall flow a river forth onto Thee And teeming with souls shall it ever be. In Nomine Patri Et Filli (I cocked my gun) Spiritus Sancti."
I shot him in the head. I switched the safety back on once more and ran over to Rat, leaving Flutterbat to drink as much blood as she wants. I cradled the 15 year old boy. "Cale..." He said weakly.
"I'm getting you out of here" I said. "I'll get you to a hospital, you will be healed, and I can take you far away from here." I pressed down gently on his wound.
"No Cale... That won't be necessary" he said. "I'm not going to make it."
"Sure you will" I said. Rat held my hand.
"Cale... I want to tell you something."
"What is it?" I asked.
"I want to go home. I want to tell my family that I'm sorry for committing crime and ending up in jail. I want my mom..." He sounded like a bullied child right now. "Cale, I want to see my mom..."
"Ok" I said, knowing that this is a promise I can't keep. Rat closed his eyes and exhaled his last breath. I turned my head and saw Flutterbat standing over us, her hands folded together as if she's hoping Rat is all right. I shook my head sadly. While she cried softly, I gently laid Rat on the floor, and crossed his arms. I did the sign of the cross.
"A shepherd I shall be...." As I prayed, I felt tears coming down my face.
When I was done, I turned to Flutterbat and held her hand. "Ready to head back?" I asked. Flutterbat nodded and held me tight. I glanced down and Rat and Klaus and sighed. I was so looking forward to get them out. I had failed them. I closed my eyes and took a breath. "Equestria" I said quietly. A flash of light engulfed the both of us and transported out of the hellhole and back to our world. Our real world. One that we call 'Home'.