To The End

“From now on you refer to me as Poison, Got that?” he says to me. I nod and smile. Its so awesome that I could call him by his alter-ego name. “Do not call my real name, like ever, or I will beat you,” he says seriously. I nod and gulped, I’m quite afraid of him. “Now you need a name, but for now I will call you kid, Got that to?” he asks again and I nod. I felt disappointed, I don’t want to be known as just ‘kid’ to him. I pouted and he saw me. He furrowed his eyebrows and realized why I did that.

“Fine, I’ll call you … Frankiestein,” he says smiling. The biggest smile swept across my face. He started laughing. “I knew you’d like that, now lets go save them!” he says. I jump in glee and follow him towards the street. He then holds his hand out for me to stop. There was a patrol car rolling by to make sure no one was a rebel I guess. “Rule #1 to be a killjoy,” he starts. I stare at him waiting for him to continue. I was very scared, I had no idea what I had to do to become one.

“Always be daring,” he looks back at me and pastes an evil grin. My eyes widened and I gulped harshly. What is he going to do? “Watch and learn, Frankiestein,” he says and slowly walks toward the oncoming patrol car. I stood there frozen. Oh My God! No he isn’t!

I see him run in front of it and two guys shouted. “Hey! We found him!” they shout. Gerard… oops! I mean Poison jumped onto the hood of the car and smashed the window. I stood in the same spot I’ve been in for the last few minutes watching him do a very stupid thing. But I guess its part of the wildlife of killjoys. Am I up for it? Well I have no choice since I have no where else to go. Dammit.

The two minions jumped out of the car ready to attack him. He swiftly jumped off attacking one of them. The other ran around the car and held out a gun. “Freeze! You are a menace to the society of our people. I now have a right to arrest..” he was cut off by Poisons loud antics. “Blah blah blah! Shut up! Why don’t I stick my foot up your ass!” he lunges for the other minion. He shoots at Poison, but misses him by an inch. I shrieked and thought he was hurt, until he jumped on the smaller guy and put him in a headlock. He had the gun straight to his head. Oh my god! How am I to do that? I couldn’t even save myself!

“Now, say anything to anyone or I will put this hot heat of a bullet through your head,” he hisses into the man’s ear. Was it me or is this angry Poison turning me on? Stop it Frank! Jesus Christ every little thing he does turns you on! No it doesn’t! Yes it does! No it doesn’t! shut up! stop being so god damn gay and get it on with him then! Shut up brain! Am I seriously fighting with myself? I will be with you through the whole thing! oh god. I face palm myself and look up to see what Poison is up to. He still had the man in a head lock. The other minion was getting up after Poison’s crash landing on him. He then pulls out his gun on him. I stood there frozen and was about to shut my eyes. Wait I’m a killjoy in training. What am I doing standing here?

I quietly moved around them to the back of the car. Poison smirks at me. I gulped, how do I even attack him? I’m not even mad! I only fight when I’m mad! I have to get mad fast! Poison looks at me and waits for me pounce on the minion. I nod and walk slowly behind him. I have to admit how scared I am. I’m about to crap myself… literally. You better not! Shut up!

I think about how these people have grabbed my new friends and they took Mikey, Ray, and Bob away from me and Poison. How they didn’t care if they hurt them, how they just shoved them in the van like dogs. I became angry and clenched my fists really tight. I started to twitch my eye from anger. Poison looks at me with a distorted face and seen how pissed I was. He seemed a little frightened from me. Good.

I’m guessing the minion he was holding was trying to tell the other to turn around, but couldn’t because the way Poison positioned him. The minion figured it out himself because the way Poison looked past him and at me. He turned around holding out his gun and I lunged swinging my fist connecting to his face or mask. I don’t know, but still aimed at his head. His mask flew off and I see just a regular person under it. He fell to the ground and I seen blood spurt out. I made him bleed? Holy Cow! I made him bleed! I got excited and I grabbed the front of his shirt and beat him. Poison looked at me in awe as I bruised this man’s face. I beat him until Poison told me to stop. He threw the other one on the ground stepping on him and ran to me. He grabbed me from behind and I started crying. “Let’s Go! You did well! Don’t cry! You don’t got to cry!,” he pulled me into the patrol car and pushed me to the passenger side. I got in and sat in my seat while Poison buckled himself in. He turned the key in the ignition and took off. The two minions lay on the floor in pain. I was crying of sadness, joy, and for thrills. I had so many mixed emotions right now, I don’t know what to even say. “Oh my god you did so amazing!” he screeched. I flinched at his outburst and smiled to myself. “I didn’t think you would be able to handle this stuff! You just the beat him until he bled! You are quickly impressing me! But!” he stops. He turns and looks at me with a serious face. I was panicking because he wasn’t looking at the road. He seen my face expression and obeyed my fear. He turned his head back to the road. “If you mess anything up, anything, you will regret ever meeting me,” He says sternly. I gulped, “I won’t,” I reply. He smiles, “Then I have nothing to worry about,” he answers. I smile, but I was shaking, I hope I can handle it. “You have many more tasks to handle then just to be daring,” he continues. “Trust me, there’s a lot,” he adds. I nod and will accept it. I will do anything to become a killjoy. He was so proud of me. I was kind of proud of myself to be honest. I didn’t think I would have the courage to beat someone up like that. I had to take my anger and frustration out. So that poor little man was the target. I smirked to myself and stare out the window for our next mission to saving our friends.

We drove along a highway toward the city. I didn’t even notice the stretch of desert between the ghetto and the big city. When I was on that building, I could see everything perfectly, like it was close. It was only an illusion, Poison says to me. I sigh and enjoyed the ride. I have to say it’s been a while since I’ve been in a car. So my stomach wasn’t very appreciative of it. I began to get car sick.

“Hey, you okay kiddo,” Poison asks me. I shake my head no and quickly put my hands to my mouth. His eyes became wide. “Oh my god!” he pulled the car over quickly and I jumped out of it running to the side of the road and letting out the contents in my stomach. I finished vomiting and kneeled down. I look up at the sky and see all the stars. It was so beautiful. It would be more beautiful if I hadn’t thrown up. I sigh and slowly walk back to the car. I open the door and lazily plop in my seat. Poison looks at me with concern on his face. “Better?” he asks. I nod and smile. He laughs at me. “Man! You’ve been so alone all your life you forgot everything didn’t you?” he says. I nod and smile. I closed my eyes and closed my door. He put the car in drive again and we drove along the stretch of road. I felt the low humming vibration from the car and the wind in my face. Since he smashed the stupid window. But anyhow it felt good. I closed my eyes enjoying the peaceful quietness in the car. I finally dozed off.

I woke up the next morning in a bed. I slowly opened my eyes and rubbed them. I sat up and looked around. Hotel room? What am I doing in a hotel room? I swung my legs over the bed and stood up stretching and arching my back. I cracked my neck and my back. Oh yes. That felt good.

I started to take detail in the room. The floral curtains hanging over the window. The air conditioning under it. The big comfy bed in the middle with a red brick color to it. The two nightstands on each side with brown lamps on them. I see a TV across from the bed in a big entertainment center dresser. I kept staring at the TV. Do you have any idea how long since I even seen or watched TV? A long time. I stared at it and smiled. I wanted to check out the bathroom first, since I had to piss really bad. I walked to the other side of the room and found the bathroom. I walk in and unzipped my pants letting my release relax me. I finish up and wash my hands before walking back out into the room. Where was Poison? I finally realized he wasn’t with me. Did he just abandon me? Why would he do that? I don’t think he would do that. Well maybe if you would stop thinking dirty things about him, he wouldn’t have left you. Shut up! He didn’t leave me. Are you sure or are you trying calm yourself down? I just ignored that question and went to go sit on the bed and turn on the TV. I see Oprah come on and decided to watch it.
“Pedophiles,” she says as soon as I turn it on. Whoa! Oprah! I chuckle to myself.

“Do you know if you live around any?” she asks the audience. I shake my head no and became so interested that I didn’t even hear Poison walk in until he slammed the door. “Hey,” he says casually. “Hey,” I reply not taking my eyes off the screen. “Oprah?” he says. I nod and kept my eyes on the screen. I hear a rustling noise like a bag, but don’t even bother to look. “This is how you know you live around any,” Oprah says. I kept keeping my eyes on the screen. Poison just laughs at me. “You really haven’t done anything,” he says to himself. My eyes were still on Oprah. Poison finally walks in front of the TV.

“Hey!” I start, but then I realize he was shirtless. I stared at him with wide eyes. He chuckles, “ Dude, I got you food, lets eat!” he says. He shakes his head and walks back to the bag. I kept my eyes on him, then the screen now. Oh my god! His body, oh my god oh my god oh my god. He turns around looking at me with a weird look. “Are you going to eat or stare at my hot body?” he asks. My face flushed red and I broke my gaze away. He smirks at me and hands me a burger with some fries. I take it without making eye contact with him. “Thanks,” I say before I unwrap the paper and took a big bite into the burger. He laughs at me and goes to eat his own food. “So… what are we going to do now?” I ask him. He swallows his food and looks at me. “Well, obviously we have to get into that city,” he answers. Then takes another bite into his burger. I watch him contently while eating. He swallows and starts talking again. “They would take them there because they have been after us for years. Ever since I quit,” he continues. He then stops and lets us both eat. I started thinking. What if we don’t find them? What if they’re hurt? What if what if what if? My face became all worried and concerned. Poison noticed my emotions and he came to sit next to me. I looked at him and started furrowing my eyebrows. “What if we don’t find them?” I ask him, my eyes were starting to tear up. “Hey hey, we will, trust me we will find them,” he says wrapping an arm around my shoulders. Too late. Tears were already beginning to come out from the corner of my eyes. He gives me a worried look and I kept staring at the floor. “Hey, don’t cry,” he says wiping my tears away. “Sorry,” I apologize. He laughs, “No need Frankiestein,” he says. I crack a smile. “I’m glad you care about my friends and my brother, that really touches me kiddo,” he adds. I swear to god he’s so nice when he’s not angry or overprotective. He rubs my shoulder a while longer and then stands up. I felt disappointed, I wanted more of him, but I know I can’t. For the love of god Frank! Go after him! In due time my conscious, in due time. I smile to myself at how stupid I sound.

“Alright, Frankiestein, we got to roll,” he says standing up. I stand up throwing my trash away and followed him out the door.

“HANDS UP!” we heard someone shout at us. We both froze. We were surrounded. Fuck. We looked at each other with fear in our eyes. Rule #1- be daring. I crack a grin. Poison looks at me with a confused look. He has no idea what I’m up to. The door to our room was still open. Either I pull Poison back in with me or I bolt for it through the crowd, which is what I am not going to do. I chose the first option. I grab his hand and pulled him back into the room with me. The minions started yelling at us and pounding at our door. “What are you doing?!” he asks me like if I’m some crazy. Which at the point I know I am. “I have a plan, but not a very well thought through one,” I shout back. I know when your in a hotel there is always a door that leads to the room next door. “WHAT?!” he shouts back at me. “ Just trust me okay?” I reply. He stood there in shock and I started to pound my foot to the door next door. “What are you doing?!” he shouts at me. I ignore the question and finally busted open the door. I heard screams. There were a couple in there looking out the window. “SSSHHH!” I say to them. They stood there frightened and nodded. Poison followed me into the room. “Are you fucking kidding me?!” he yells. I put my finger to my lips to tell him to shut up. I close the door I just busted open. I ran to the next door and repeated the same routine until we got to the end of the hotel. The minions already broke into our room, but we were at least distanced enough from them. We made it to the last room and I peeked out the window. They still surrounded around our room. Dumbasses. I chuckle and slowly opened the door to exit. There was somebody’s car there. I jump in glee and grabbed Poisons hand. He gasped and I pull him toward the car. I broke the window to the drivers side and told Poison to jump in. He obeyed and got into the passengers side. “They’re they are!” someone shouted. Shit! They spotted us. I practically only had two minutes to hotwire the car. That is just what I did. “Hurry! Frank Hurry!” Poison pressured me. They kept getting closer and closer to us. I started panicking and kept swiping the wires more furiously at each other. Miraculously the car started. They were a few feet away from us, when I put the car in reverse. I then backed up and started driving backwards. “HEY! GET BACK OVER HERE!” they shouted and chasing us. That is when they all ran to their cars and started them to catch us. “OH MY GOD FRANK!” Poison shouted at me. I started laughing and had the most fun. I kept driving in reverse and seen that they were catching up to us. “FRANK IF YOU DON’T TURN THIS CAR AROUND, I’M GOING TO HAVE A HEARTATTACK!” he screams. I just laughed at him. “What happened to ‘be daring’” I reply. He just gives me a frightened face. It then turned into a smirk. I kept the car in reverse and pulled out my gun. I held it out the window I just broke and started shooting at them. They kept swerving on and off the road. Poison did the same thing having a better aim than I. “You drive! I’ll shoot!” he yells at me I nod and handed my gun to him. He gladly took and had half of his body hanging out the window. I kept revving the car to go faster. “That’s right! Take it! Suck it! Taste it! Fuck it! And like it!” I hear Poison shouting. I started laughing at his stupid remarks. I kept looking behind to see if I crashed into any cars. Luckily no one was on this road. I smirked and yelled at Poison, “Hey Poison!” he stopped shooting and put himself back into his seat. “Hold on!” I smirk. He gave me a confused look. I pounded on the brakes and car screeched . He held on to the dashboard and his seat. I gripped onto the steering wheel and switched the car into drive. I looked at him and I swear to god his face was priceless. I start flooring it and going head on toward the patrol cars. “Frank what the fuck are you doing?! What are you doing! Oh my god!” he shouts and I was grinning like crazy. The patrol cars started to swerve off the road and I drove in between two of them. Then I braked and switched the gears. I turn the car around. Poison was screaming his head off. I was laughing my ass off. The car came to a halt. I stood there, pressing on the gas, it was making a humming sound. Like those old classic cars when you take out the gasket. I smiled and put the car in drive and started speeding. I was driving right behind the patrol cars. I seen Poisons face switch from fear to joy. I laugh at him and he smiles at me giving a crazy grin. He then put his body back out the window and started shooting at them. I sped up getting a closer aim for him. He shot at one of the cars tires and it swerved and started rolling. It almost hit us until I swerved the car to the right. Poison almost fell out the window. I grabbed the hem of his pants and trying to drive at the same time. He looked at me frightened. “Thanks bud!” he shouted. “No problem” I reply. We then started toward the other patrol car. The car slowed down and I braked. Poison was lucky he fell back into his seat. He grabbed the door handle for dear life as my gripped tightened on the steering wheel. The patrol car sped up again and this pissed me off. “Fuck this!” I shouted and floored the car again. Poison looked at me in disbelief. I cant even picture what I look or even how I’m acting like right now. All I was worried about was killing those motherfuckers!

He gave me a grin and went with the plan. I sped up with our cars side to side. The minions looked at us from our window and swerved to hit our car. I got pissed and did it back. Then I seen another patrol car sped up next to our other side. Fuck! We are sandwiched. Poison started shooting at them, but with no luck because they’re windows were up. He then looked in the back seat and happened to find a bat. Dear lord is on our side. He pulled out the bat and put half of his body out the window. The minions didn’t know what he was going to do. He lifted the bat and smashed the drivers window. “Hey!” they screamed. He then pulled out the gun and aimed at the mans head. Oh my god! He’s going to shoot him in the head! He aims and the lasers shot out the metal tube and went through the mans mask into his brain. I gulped at what I saw. Their car started to swerve to the left. The other minion inside was trying to control, but failed when it landed in a ditch and caught fire. Now to deal with the other. I didn’t even realize their window was down. “WATCH OUT!” Poison yelled at me, pulling me head down as they shot at us. I couldn’t see the road and I started panicking. He lifted his head up and grabbed the steering wheel. “Keep your head down Frankie!” he shouted. I obeyed and covered my head. “Don’t let go of the gas!” I nodded even though he wouldn’t see me. He started shooting at them and controlling the steering wheel. He kept shooting at them, they kept putting their window up and down only to shoot at us. He became fed up. “Fuck!” he yelled. “Frank drive!” he yelled. I pulled my head and see him climbing out the car. What the hell is he doing?! He had the bat at hand along with his gun. He kindly slid mine back into my pouch I noticed.

He was on the hood of our car holding on. Oh my god! He is so frickin crazy! I shouted at him, but he couldn’t hear me. The minions rolled down their windows. I quickly pulled out my gun and crazily starting shooting with no aim. I was trying to drive and not throw Poison off the car. That crazy fuck is trying to kill them. The minions rolled up their windows as soon as I started shooting. Thats right! I kept my eye on the road, the minions, and Poison. He managed to get a grip on our car. Before I knew it he jumped onto the hood of their car. Oh my god! I started panicking. Please don’t die! Please done die! Please don’t die! I kept begging. God help us! I kept the same speed as the patrol car. I looked at the gas. We were running low! Fuck shit! At least we had enough to keep going. I see Poison lift the bat up and smash their window shield. I see them getting angry and pissed. The one on my side rolled down his window ready to shoot at Poison. He forgot I was right next to him , gun in hand. This is my chance! I held up my gun and shot at him. Dead on headshot! I can’t believe I just did that. I started to get overexcited. Poison smiled at me before dealing with the other one. The other minion was looking at me, I couldn’t see his facial expression because of that stupid fucking mask. The next thing I knew I see a hand grab his throat and pulled off his mask. The minion was struggling to breathe. I was watching in horror as Poison was choking the life out of him. I was more worried about Poison then the man though. The man fluttered his eyes shut and had a shade of blue, purple, and red. Just like the last time. The last time I seen Poison choke someone in that diner. I started panicking when I realized the car was swerving to the left.

“Poison!” I shouted. He looked at me and nodded. He quickly jumped off the car onto ours as soon as the car rolled into a ditch and exploded. He was holding on really tight. I made the car slow down and stop. I sat there holding onto the steering wheel making my knuckles turn white. Poison slowly got off the car and was at my window. We were staring at each other with wide eyes. Our faces were flushed. He opened my car door and pulled me out of my seat. He then grabbed me and hugged the life out of me. “OH MY GOD THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!” he kept repeating. He was swinging me around in his arms. I tried to pry myself off of him. He put me down and had the biggest smile on my face. “I’m going to call you Fun Ghoul,” he finally says.

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