It all started because of that kid

***one hour later**

It was so boring waiting for Party to wake up so I ended up just doing some training outside. I think Jet Star said something about visiting Dr. Death. He took Missile Kid and Kobra Kid with him. Fun Ghoul said he was going to scout for more supplies so it’s just me and Poison here.

I walk back inside and Party is sitting eating his breakfast, great I can finally ask him. I sit opposite him and he stares at me confused.

“Hey, I need to ask you something-“I get cut off

“Go ahead.” Poison interrupts me.

“I was going to.” I murmur under my breath slightly aggravated “Anyway, I get straight to the point. Why did I wake up this morning to find I was in your bed?”

“Ohh, you feel asleep last night and I don’t think these booths are very comfortable to sleep in so I put you in my bed.” Poison says, finishing off his food.

“Alright so why were you next to me? With your arm around me?”

“I was tired and I wasn’t going to let you deprive me of my bed so I slept next to you.” Poison smiles before continuing “and I must have put my arm around you while I was sleeping.”

“Okay, well please refrain from doing so. I don’t like to be in that close proximity to people.”

“What happened to you to make you have trust issues?” Poison asks bluntly

“I don’t have trust issues I just don’t trust people easily, there’s a difference.” I respond

“Hmm, what happened when you were a child that made you have trust issues?” He asks and I start to become slightly aggravated.

“Okay, I don’t have trust issues so stop saying that and nothing happened when I was a child my childhood was fine. Great in fact, I had everything I ever wanted; toys, video games, sweets, money, clothes, food, a big house with a maid.” I say, not trying to gloat. I was only telling the truth.

“You know you missed something from that list of yours.”

“And what would that be?” I ask confused.

“Loving parents.” Poison replies and I become slightly hurt.

Wow, he sure knows how to push people’s buttons. Do not let your emotions get the better of you Crash! Do not display emotion, you can do it. I won’t get upset at anything else but the topic of my parents is risky business with me.

“Well, my dad was always working and my mother always spending his money. I didn’t need them anyway, they provided for me and that’s all I wanted and needed.”

“But they didn’t provide love huh?” Poison says shaking his head.

“Look can we just get off this topic? If you want the whole spiel then I rarely saw my dad and when I did we didn’t really have any interaction. The only person I talked to at home was my maid and that was just when I needed my room tidying or food. I never had any friends and I used to lie a lot to people. I was sick of being bored so I travelled the world using my dad’s money and I studied martial arts for many years. There happy now?” I rush my sentence.

Poison just nods. I’m glad he didn’t saying anything, it would just irritate me I don’t like getting bombarded with questions. I look down at my hands, thinking about what Poison said. No love? Now that I think about it I guess my parents actually didn’t care what I did, I guess they never actually loved me. Was I my fault? I was just so… unlovable? Damn, stop getting so upset Chaos! You’re going to end up losing all your focus, don’t break down the walls you have built to protect yourself from emotion. Come on you’re stronger than that! If you give in Korse might have a way to get to you. I feel Poison sit next to me and put an arm around me. My body stiffens up again.

“I’m sorry.”

“I’m fine.” I respond trying to shake him off me.

“You know, it’s okay to feel emotions.”

“Clearly you don’t know how to survive the world we live in then.” I snort

“I’d say I’m surviving pretty well.”

I remain silent, I didn’t know how to continue. I want to push him away and for my usual cold demeanour to return so I don’t have the chance to think about things like my parents.

“You know, by not facing your emotions you’re letting Korse win.” Party states

“Excuse me but I have worked, since this whole thing started, on trying to stop Korse so don’t say anything like that again or we’ll have the questioning my ability business happen again. Anyway if I don’t ignore my emotions then I will have a weak spot which Korse can manipulate me with. If I face my emotions then I won’t be focused and Korse will end up being able to play mind games with me.”

“No, you see you have it completely wrong. By not facing your emotions then you are giving Korse an opportunity to mess with you. I only mentioned your parents and you started to become upset, imagine what Korse could do if he found out. However if you just accept the fact about your childhood then you figuratively become bulletproof.”

I manage to push Party off me. No, I won’t let him persuade me to even think about my past, it’s just a distraction.

“My past is just a distraction, a hindrance. There is no point in thinking about it.” I state nodding my head.

“Hey, look at me.” Poison commands

I look up at Poison and hold his eye contact.

“Listen, your parents never gave you what every child should have, love. But that’s okay because you have us now, if you just opened up a little we would all gladly be your friend and give you all the love and hugs you never got as a child.”

I feel a tear roll down my cheek. What’s happening to me? He actually got me to cry, I’d worked so hard on pushing my emotions out that the sudden feelings that came with his words hit me like a ton of bricks. I felt more tears fall down my face silently as I tried to deal with the realisation of what my childhood actually was.

Poison took me by surprise and pulled me onto his lap. I didn’t stiffen or become awkward, instead I actually clung onto him as I sat there. Great, now he probably thinks I’m weak because we only talked for a couple of minutes and now I’m crying in his lap.

I start to calm down and slowly my tears come to a stop. I suddenly feel very weird as I sit here for no reason, god that was so embarrassing crying in front of him like that. It was like whenever I used to fall down in the school yard and cry, I tried to be like the boys and act tough but I just couldn’t help it. Well then, what now? I don’t know what to do in situations like this, do I get up off his lap and thank him? Do I just walk away? Do I just sit here and wait until he does something?

This morning has been so exhausting. First I learned how to have fun and a couple hours later I’m crying in the lap of the man that I’d held a knife up to. I rest my head into Poison’s chest and loosen my grip on him a bit, I’m so tired. I close my eyes.

“Tired?” Poison asks and I respond with a grumble.

He picks me up and starts to carry me. I let him, usually I would be protesting saying that I can do it myself but this sudden attack of feelings has brought me to my knees. I feel us going upstairs and before I know it I’m laying down on what I presume is his bed. He puts me under the covers and in a surprise move he clambers in behind me. He holds me tightly to his chest, my back facing him and I notice his jacket is off. I would have never of let someone get this close to me. Ever. But thanks to that kid I’m now being spooned by a random killjoy. I feel the sleep closing in on me and I fall into a dreamless slumber.

***One hour later***

I wake up and find that Poison is still sleeping behind me. I notice my mask on the ground. I wonder if the others are back yet, the others! What if they see me and him like this? I slowly try to get away from Party’s grasp but he clings onto me tightly and I don’t want to wake him. Okay, well I’ll just have to try and listen for any noise that would suggest the others are back. I hear small noises, they sound far away. Is that a ray gun firing? Can’t think, must act. I jump out of bed and run out of the room, I hear Poison say something behind me but I ignore him. No one is inside the diner but I can see Kobra Kid and Fun Ghoul with their guns raised outside. I run outside and take in the scene- A scarecrow has got Jet Star on the floor with a gun to his head, Kobra Kid and Fun Ghoul are running over to him and Missile Kid is getting dragged away once again by dracs. Everything seems to be happening in slow motion and I have time to calculate what I’m going to do. Save the kid, that’s part of the reason of why I’m here. I run over to the screaming girl and shoot the two dracs right between their eyes. I hear something behind me and I instinctively kick behind me, I look around to find a drac lying on the ground so I pull out my ninjatos and stab it in its chest. I see Poison run out of the diner and stop, him also taking in the scene. I take Kid by the hand and push her gently towards Poison so he can take care of her. I look around again and see Jet Star still on the floor and Kobra Kid losing the fight to the scarecrow, Fun Ghoul is dealing with yet more dracs not far from him. I run over to Kobra Kid a shoot the scarecrow, missing and only hitting it’s arm. I get closer and Kobra is slowly getting weaker, I act quickly and get behind the scarecrow, pushing my blade into it’s back. I pull back and watch as it’s body crumples to the ground. Kobra nods me a thanks and a return the nod. Fun Ghoul shoots the last drac and is out of trouble.

I sigh in relief, everyone is safe. I stop thinking that as I hear an ear-splitting scream. I look around and see Missile Kid looking traumatised and Party Poison against a wall with a scarecrow pointing a gun to his head. Without thinking I rush over and cut the scarecrows arm off and kick it in the side, it falls to the ground and I stand over it before pushing my sword through it’s heart.

I put my swords away and as the adrenaline starts to wear off I begin to pant. Jeez that was unexpected! I remember Missile Kid and turn around to look at her, I get down on my knees and let my eyes search her body for any wounds. None that I can see.

“Are you alright?” I ask Kid to make sure.

Missile Kid just nods a yes and runs over to Jet Star who has gotten up but looks a little disorientated. I see Kobra Kid limping towards the diner, I decided to go over there and help him out. I put his arm around me and let him lean on me, my body stiffens again.

“Thanks for saving me back there.” Kobra Kid says

“No problem, did you get shot?” I ask

“Yeah, in my leg and in my shoulder.”

“Ahh, well who’s the ‘healer’ of the group?”

“Well Party is pretty good with stuff like that but Missile Kid likes to help.”

I nod and let him sit down at a booth. Fun Ghoul walks in with Jet Star and Missile Kid.

“What the fuck happened out there?” I ask, aggravated because once again I had to save Missile Kid, but I guess it is my responsibility now.

“I met up with Jet Star, Kobra Kid and Missile Kid at Dr. Death’s place. We were being followed, we didn’t realise until we got to the diner and they jumped us.” Fun Ghoul responds.

I sigh. I can’t even be bothered to complain or shout at them about the whole thing. I notice that Poison isn’t with us.

“I’m going to check on Poison.” I tell the group before heading outside.

I walk out of the diner to find Poison searching the dracs, I presume for supplies. I walk over to him and tap him on the shoulder, he jumps and points his gun at me. I smirk and press my body against it.

“What you gonna do with this huh? Well, you going to shoot me?” I say, thinking back to when I first met the killjoys and how I had acted so hostile towards them.

Poison just gives me a weak smile and goes back to the dracs body. I go to the other side of the body and look at him, I cock my head to one side as I see his facial expression-he looks sad.

“Uhh, you ok?” I ask, slightly confused at his expression.

“Yeah it’s just…” He trails off

“What?”

“Well, look.” He says and takes off the dracs mask

“What?” I ask again, looking at the drac

“These were people, and we just kill them on sight. It’s not right, we are murdering the innocent.”

“The innocent!” I snort “These so called ‘people’ work for Korse they have lost all sense of morals and integrity. And may I remind you that we kill on sight because they do the same to us.”

“Yeah but, these people have been brainwashed by Korse and BL/ind, I bet they had families before this whole thing and now… they follow orders daily while they gulp down pills to keep them docile for Korse to manipulate. It’s wrong, I want to help them but…” Poison sighs

“Look, I’m guessing that you at least watched one zombie film as a child. It’s the same argument, yes they used to be people but look at them now, mindless machines inside human bodies who kill anyone who is not of their own kind.”

“True… thanks for saving me back there.” Poison says and stands up.

“Yeah, no problem. It’s what I’m here for I guess.” I say, standing up also.

We look at each other and the feeling of awkwardness creeps up on me again. Missile Kid comes running out the diner and towards us.

“Hey Poison, Kobra needs some help with bandaging his wounds, can I help you?” Kid asks, hope in her eyes.

“Sure thing Kid.” Party smiles at her warmly.

Just as we were about to head back into the diner we all see a small robot head towards us.

“What’s that?” Missile Kid asks and starts to head towards it.

I grab her hand, my heart beating fast in my chest, the numbers 00:05 is shown on the robots eyes. It approaches us quickly.

“Poison run!” I practically shout.

“A little present from me to you killjoys.” I hear Korse’s voice come from the robot.

With adrenaline pumping through me I manage to pick Missile Kid up and run a short distance, Poison slightly in front of us.

“Shit.” I say I put Missile Kid down on the ground before covering her with my body.

I see Poison duck down behind a small boulder before I fell bits of derby hit me. Shooting pains run up my back and legs, I feel shards of something stick into the small of my back. Then the wave of heat hits me and I can feel my body temperature rise, I cover my eyes so sand doesn’t fly into them causing me more pain. I have to suppress my bodily instinct so cover my wounds, I must keep protecting Missile Kid until the blast is over.

It feels like minutes go by as I feel more pain strike my body as I get hit but in reality it’s only seconds.

“Fuck.” I feel something hit my head and my vision fades to black.

Notes

New Chapter! Yay, it's quite long and fast paced but some interesting scenes will emerge soon :)
As always hope you guys like it and post any suggestions you have in the comments :3