Post by ConfessionFPT on Nov 15, 2016 6:30:27 GMT
SKWD PART 15: SCHISM
Dr. Neo Cortex limped down the hallway that lead to Professor Stange's office. His normally white lab coat was covered in blood. He held Mr. Freeze's Cold Gun erect in his right hand, pointed at the ceiling.
Waluigi awkwardly paraded behind him, making exaggerated arm motions. He was quite proud of how they handled that situation.
There had been a mob of Professor Pyg's Dollotrons making a blockade of flesh between the two and this door. Cortex was eager to see what was on the other side of it.
He didn't even check to see if it was locked before he took the gun and aimed it at the door. A continuous ray of cold energy coated the entire thing in a sheet of ice. He then bowed and motioned for his cohort to proceed, "After you."
Waluigi put his blood soaked tennis racket in his back pocket and adjusted his hat. He picked his leg up and put all of his strength behind his powerful leg, sending broken shards of ice everywhere.
The two looked through the gaping hole in the wall. Professor Pyg stood there trembling, a trail of urine flowing down the inside of his thighs.
"You?" Cortex thundered, "what are you doing in here, where is Strange?"
"Yeah!" Waluigi shook his fist.
The fat man was shaking, his knees were knocking so erratically that it caused him to crumple. He put his hands over his head and pleaded, "No, no, no, no, no, no! Puh-puh-puh-please!"
Cortex could tell, even before the pigman wet himself, that he smelled terribly. As much as it pained his nose to do so, Cortex grabbed Pyg by the collar and forced him out the door of the office. The second he vacated the room, Cortex aimed his borrowed gun and froze him.
The mad doctor marched toward Strange's desk, on the way freezing the urine stain on the carpet in an attempt to block its smell.
Waluigi followed, avoiding the pee spot. Cortex sat in Strange's office chair and kicked his feet on the desk.
Waluigi was confused, "Uh, dontcha wanna get-a outta here?"
Cortex let out an evil chuckle, "Why would we do that l, my boy? This place was just beginning to feel like home."
~~~
Marcelene was glimmering in nervous sweat. Her and Goldar were more evenly matched this time around. Neither one of them were able to land a single blow on each other with their weapons, the difference was Marcy was pooped and Goldar showed no signs of slowing down.
The fight did not stay confined to their single motel room for very long, with Blackfire blowing the Demon Barber of Fleet Street out of the window to start things off.
Red X was not amused that he had to fight a juice mascot and a bear that seemed to be trained in martial arts, simultaneously.
He had to dodge the Kool-Aid man's heavy hands and the surprisingly quick combos from Kuma Jr.
That's when Goldar raised his sword and stared the Vampire Queen down. She wore half a smile and began to levitate. "You wanna take this fight to the sky?" Goldar growled at her. "Oh yeah you can't! Cause I ripped your bunk wings off!"
The Wii Fit trainer took the opportunity to attack. Without even looking at her, Goldar swung his sword at her, sending her flying through the roof, and into the distance like she was being knocked off the stage in Super Smash Bros. The same noise from the game actually occurred in the background as she left the stage. That was the moment where Marcy became nervous, and their sword fight began.
Now back to the end, Marcy was breathing heavily and Goldar was smirking at her. "You disgraced me, and now I'm going to end your life."
"Afraid that isn't happening today, big boy." she proceeded to transform into a hideous bat monster and leaped through the ceiling.
Goldar went to extend his wings, only to remember he couldn't. He could not pursuit.
He screamed and kicked the vending machine next to him, putting a big hole in it.
Shocker gave Blackfire a bit of a headache but she was finally able to knock him out.
Kuma and the Koolaid man were entangled in the red goo that X kept in his utility belt. Both were struggling, the more they did, the more trapped they became.
"Oh no!" the Kool-Aid Man said to himself.
Goldar and Blackfire soon joined Red X in the room with his captives, Blackfire carrying Shocker into the room and throwing him next to the others.
"Is that everyone?" Red X asked.
As if in reply, the Black Puddle Queen appeared in the room. The three had a bit of a jump scare before attacking her. Goldar tried to cut her, but his blade passed through her, like a hand through water. Blackfire's starbolts hit her body and caused nothing more than a ripple. Before Red X could reach for a explosive device in his belt, the Queen's form went completely liquid and encased him. He got caught up in the wave that was her, and brushed out the room.
"Red X!" Blackfire flew after him. The Queen, as a body of water, rolled into the middle of the street, her captive visible in while in the middle of her. She was going straight for a man-hole
Blackfire's glowing eyes widened, she wasn't quick enough to stop her.
Before she could reach, an arm of water flipped the lid up, and BPQ flushed her and her captive down the hole.
Blackfire flew down after them. She only found a deep reservoir of water, with many wide pipes leading away from it.
~~~
It didn't take Cortex long to take control of Arkham Asylum. The crooked security guards and doctors took no objection to the sizable checks that Cortex was handing them, to cover up the scuffle with Pyg. The good doctor had thousands of patents that contributed to his hush money fund.
Those guards searched high and low for Strange in the complex, but he could not be found.
Cortex spun the story to the media that a normal transition had taken place, with Professor Strange simply moving to a new facility, in South America. After all, Cortex, among his many other degrees, did have a Master's in Psychology.
Strange nor Waller could come out to disprove this either, knowing that Cortex could shed light at what was really going on in Arkham. He had a pile of Dollotrons stashed in the basement to prove that.
Cortex was unnerved by Waller's lack of response. Knowing well her reach, that anyone could storm Arkham and try and kill him, he hatched a plan.
There were many formidable menaces in the asylum's care, and Cortex saw them as excellent candidates for his new breed of Cortex Commandos.
Waluigi mostly just sat in Cortex's reconstructed office and played with a ball in a cup that Cortex had supplied to distract him.
He constructed a new, perfectly designed, Cortex Vortex, and fed some of Arkham's more animalistic guests to it, so it could completely further manipulate their already twisted minds.
Man-Bat, Copperhead, and Jackanapes were his first three of his attempts who survived, and converted to Cortex's strict command. They were his generals now.
Cortex looked out his window, overseeing the courtyard where some of the higher functioning patients received a sort of recess. "I'm ready for you, Waller," he said to himself, "I'm ready for whatever you have."
Waluigi narrowly missed getting the ball in the cup for the fifth-hundredth time.
~~~
Back in the destroyed motel, Goldar and Blackfire were performing the oddest routine of good cop, bad cop ever conceived.
"Where did she take him!?" Blackfire screamed.
"I'd answer the lady if I was you," pointing to her as she ripped a mattress in half.
"He was my friend, he is the only person who understands what I'm going through, we promised we'd get back to our world together and you're going to tell me where he is or so help me!"
Kuma, Shocker, and the Kool-Aid man were all tied up and shivering with fear. All seemingly too afraid to speak.
"I will gut you like a Risian Swampfish if you don't tell me what I wish to know, right now!"
Kuma, the bear, was the only one who could muster a word, and as soon as he started, he couldn't stop gushing:
"[Do you think we want to be in this situation? We have nothing against you or your blue friend here, this is completely circumstantial. We've all been forced into this, you see: Amanda Waller kidnapped Shocker's daughter. It's all he's talked about this entire trip, how worried he is about her. I don't know him terribly well, but he is sincere, and he seems like a good father, despite his criminal background. And the Kool-Aid Man, he doesn't even have free will. He was created by Kraft Foods, in a ritual involving a pyramid and a goat or something, and they worked him like a slave, promoting their nasty-ass line of sugar drinks. Amanda Waller realized his destructive potential and killed every member of Kraft's Board of Directors and has enslaved him for her purposes. He doesn't know what he's doing. And me...I was just trying to make my master happy! Waller promised him a spot in the Illuminati if he loaned the Tekken Force to her on her whim. To sweeten the deal he offered my services, I'd do anything to make Heiachi happy. He saved me from the woods, raised me, taught me to fight, bought me my first TV. As you can see, we are all underlings in this operation. We don't have the answers you seek! I sense that Waller has wronged you, like she wronged all of us. I would like to help you, I really would. But I don't know where she took your friend. Please be forgiving with us, we were never a threat to you.]"
Obviously, Kuma didn't speak English, so his heartfelt confession came out as a series of incoherent bear grunts.
"Uhhhrg! This is hopeless!" Blackfire screamed.
Goldar sighed in frustration. Out the side of his eye, he noticed a familiar face on the TV. The news was on, the story was of great interest to Goldar. He nudged Blackfire and pointed to the TV, flabbergasted.
"What?" She said annoyed, "what is it?" She looked at the TV as well.
Dr. Cortex was on it. He was the new administrator at some insane asylum?
"What is he doing?" she wondered aloud.
"I," Goldar paused, "don't know."
"We have to go there," she looked at him, "I have no idea what that guy is doing, but the others might be with him or see him on TV and go find him. Then we can find X together, we have to go."
"Right," he nodded and they both turned to leave the room, but were interrupted.
"You're not going to leave us here are you? Stuck in this goo?" Shocked called out behind them.
They stopped.
"If you leave us here, Waller will find us, and kill us. And she'll kill my daughter. I only did this to save her, you have to understand. When Waller finds us, and she WILL find us, she'll kill us all."
Goldar turned around and raised his sword, "So you want us to destroy you now?"
"OH NO!" the Kool-aid Man yelped.
Blackfire put her hand on her comrades shoulder, "Killer Croc told me while we were together...that you and everyone else in your group had bombs implanted in your head, and forced to do Wallers bidding...aren't these stupid creators the same? Just puppets for her?"
"Well why didn't they say that earlier?" Goldar asked. Kuma grunted in frustration. "What should we do with them?"
"Take us with you!" Shocker pleaded, "we can help you take Waller down, help you find your friend, just don't leave us here."
Blackfire looked at the trembling trio, and looked back at the golden one. He rolled his eyes and reluctantly agreed.
~~~
Cortex spent much of his time looking out the window to his office. Trying to foresee Waller's approach on the horizon.
Waluigi was completely bored. He broke his ball in a cup toy and Cortex refused to get him another one. He laid on the the massive desk, on his stomach, bending his legs in the air.
"Imma bored," Waluigi whined.
"Go to the courtyard and play some tennis, I'm busy," Cortex didn't even look at him.
"All-a ya do-a is looka out da window," the plumber retorted, "come-a play wit meh."
"Go away you feeble parasite, I have no time for your-" and then he saw them.
Blackfire, Goldar, and a strange selection of other characters walked straight up to the front gate.
"What are they doing here!?" Cortex said, shocked. Waluigi pressed his face against the glass, wearing a stupid, flattened smile.
"Goldy!" the plumber clapped his gloved hands together.
Cortex smacked his nose, "No! This is a bad thing!" Cortex's mind was spinning trying to find a way to get this situation in his favor. He was legitimately happy with the what he had set-up at Arkham. "Plumber," to be honest he wasn't sure what his associate's given name was, "we're...friends now right? We get along?"
"Yeah!" Waluigi yelled. The raised volume of his voice irritated the bad doctor, but he tried to conceal it.
"You have no allegiance to those cretins, they aim to take away what we have here? Don't you want things to stay this way?"
"Well..." he thought over the proposition.
"Look, help me defeat them, and I'll buy you another cup toy, ok?" Cortex gave in.
Waluigi gave a big thumbs up, "OK!"
~~~
So here's, prolly, the last double shipment of SKWD stories. Hope you like.
Goldar - electricferret.freeforums.net/thread/1396/goldar
Blackfire - electricferret.freeforums.net/thread/5025/blackfire
Shocker - electricferret.freeforums.net/thread/2376/shocker
Kuma - electricferret.freeforums.net/thread/890/kuma-ii
Kool-Aid Man - electricferret.freeforums.net/thread/5027/kool-aid-man
vs.
Waluigi - electricferret.freeforums.net/thread/4828/waluigi
Dr. Neo Cortex - electricferret.freeforums.net/thread/4846/dr-neo-cortex
Jackanapes - electricferret.freeforums.net/thread/5333/jackanapes-batman
Copperhead - electricferret.freeforums.net/thread/5336/copperhead-dc-comics
Man-Bat - electricferret.freeforums.net/thread/2337/man-bat
