{ Chapter 6: Blindside, Doolally, Whizbang, & Rhetoric }

Viktor and Althea are hiding behind the truck as Viktor pulled out his gun.

"What's going on, Viktor?" she asked with concern.

"Intruders. And they have guns." he replied.

"What?! How did they find us?" she exclaimed in shock.

"Don't know." Viktor said.

"What are you going to do?" Althea asked.

Viktor glared ahead to where the farmers are heading inside.

"I'll finish them all." he declared.

He then tossed another gun towards Althea who catches it.

"Althea, familiar with these?"

She stares at it nervously and holds it, touching the trigger.

"Oh...I've seen..uh... W-Well, I've heard—" she stuttered.

Althea accidentally pressed the trigger, causing it to shoot towards Viktor who quickly dodges to the side, hitting the truck window as the glass shattered. He stared at her blankly and Althea sweatdropped nervously.

"Uh..no. No, no I'm not." she said, gulping.

Viktor rolled his eyes and fixed his gun.

"Just try and get a good aim. You'll get used to it." he said.

"R-Right..." she sweatdropped.

Just then, one of the farmer approached the metal door.

"Just how are we gonna get in—"

He was cut off by the gun shooting rapidly at the lock of the door, giving them an advantage to slam the door open as they barge inside. They aim their guns, looking around in the dark.

"...Now what?" one of the farmers asked.

"I can't see my hand in front of my own face..."

"Someone look for the damned light switch."

The farmer managed to touch something.

"I think I found it over here."

Just before he could turn the switch back on, a loud bam hits the switch, destroying it.

"AUGH!"

The farmers immediately start firing their guns out, shouting everywhere as Viktor and Althea took cover.

"Where'd that come from?!"

A glass bottle was thrown towards the wall, shattering it.

"What was that??"

They shoot to where the sound was.

"Quit wastin' rounds shootin' at the dark!"

"Well, we're not gonna accomplish nothin' standin' around here like a buncha dazed turkeys."

"SHHH! Everyone keep movin'. 'Cause we got 'em out-gunned."

They slowly walk past the truck to where Viktor and Althea are hiding. Althea immediately gets ready to shoot as Viktor places the bullets inside before clicking it on, catching their attention.

"THERE!"

Viktor pulled her close to his chest and pulled the truck door open to take cover from the bullets as they duck below. The farmers stopped shooting, thinking they got them.

"Couldn't've missed... 'success and glory are in the advan—'"

He was cut off by being slammed in the door by Viktor. He then grabbed him by the arm and slammed him against the other as they fell onto the crates full of bottled drinks. Viktor reaches down to grab him that appears to be the leader of the farmers.

"EMERY! SHOOT!"

Emery tried to aim at Viktor, but it was too dark.

"I can't hardly see what's what!"

Althea followed the voice and shot Emery, hitting him in the shoulder. He yowled in pain, holding his shoulder as Viktor takes the leader's gun and slammed it on his face. He then takes their gun and starts shooting at Emery with a growl. Emery ran off to take cover.

"AVERY! AVERY!"

"SHHH! Whisper. What happened? Where's Avril?" Avery asked.

"I don' know. I couldn't see and I got shot. All I know is that weren't no mosquito over th—"

He was cut off by the cover being opened from below by none other than Rocky.

"HELP HAS ARRIVED!" Rocky announced with a grin.

"Hurray." Zib said nonchalantly with jazzy hands.

Althea's eyes widened in horror as everyone went silent for a moment. They all stare at each other in shock and horror of what's going on as they could see each other through the light below Rocky and Zib and the band. Althea noticed the farmer is about to take aim at Viktor and she immediately pushed Viktor out of the way.

"VIKTOR!" she yelled.

BAM!

Althea gets shot in the shoulder almost close to her neck. This caused Rocky and the band to slam the cover back down, bringing them back downstairs. Viktor dropped the gun after Althea pushed him away from the gunshot. Avril picked up his gun, looking all bloody and battered.

"CELLAR DOOR!" he coughed out, opening the wooden door from the floor. "Hehe..."

Viktor looked over and his eyes widened in horror to see Althea holding her shoulder in pain to stop the blood from flowing.

"Althea!" he gasped.

"I'm fine, Viktor... It's just a little shot." she said, hissing.

"You need help." he said.

They heard a groan and turned to see the farmer that Viktor just pummeled him down earlier got up and saw the light that leads underground lounge. Viktor and Althea stayed silent as the farmer gets up and runs away. Viktor glared at his retreat and turned to her.

"Stay here." he said.

He then runs after him, leaving her to make sure she doesn't loose any more blood as she pressed her wound harder. She looks back at the cellar door and notices the farmers are heading down to the underground lounge. No doubt, murder her friends she cared about. Quickly, Althea removes her glove and ties it around her shoulder to stop the bleeding and makes sure it's tight before getting up and following after.

Once she made it down the stairs and towards the door, she sees the lounge all messed up and ruined. Some glass bottles and cups were shattered at the bar as the farmer shoots them.

"I BET YOU'RE SORRY NOW, YOU SONSABITCHES!!" Avril shouted.

Althea quickly hides behind the door and looks around. She finds her friends hiding behind the pool-table.

"Sorry about what? What are they so angry about?" Mitzi questioned in confusion.

"Hell if I know. Maybe your errand boy can enlighten us." Zib said, looking at Rocky.

"What did you do?" she asked.

"Uh, I don't recall, exactly." Rocky lied, shrugging. "I'm a little hazy on, uh... heck, I can't even remember what I had for lunch today. How can I be expected to remem—"

"You had pancakes." Freckle said, cutting him off.

Rocky gives his cousin a strained smile.

"Thank you. That's helpful..."

"...After we set their cars on fire." Freckle reminded.

"He did what?!" Althea whisper-yelled in disbelief.

"Yeah. You probably don't need to go into excruciating detail about—"

"And their house." Freckle added. "And their barn exploded, remember that? That's probably why they're so angry."

"And to think the police force didn't want you - such a smart cookie. You should've made detective." Rocky said, still strain smiling.

Althea face palm at Rocky's carelessness.

"ONE OF YOU GIT ME A MATCH!" Avril shouted, pouring drink on the ground.

Mitzi instantly gets up.

"No!" she exclaimed, holding up her small gun.

Rocky holds her down.

"No! Stay down!" he exclaimed, not wanting her to get hurt.

"I can't let them burn—"

"They'll shoot at anything that moves."

The farmer instantly sees Rocky and points at him.

"THERE HE IS! THE ONE WITH THE EYEBROWS!"

They start shooting the pool-table as Rocky and Mitzi ducks back down to avoid them. Althea growls and comes out of the opening.

"Hey!"

All eyes are on her now as Avril and the farmers were shocked at the sight of a human girl. Mitzi's eyes widen in horror.

"No, Althea! What are you doing?"

"Who the hell are ya?!" Avril shouted.

"I'm Althea. Stay away from my friends." Althea glared, approaching him.

"Oh, and what are you going to do about it?" Avril mocked, pointing a gun at her.

"You don't want to mess with me." she stated, unfazed with the gun point.

Avril looks at her for a moment before lowering his gun. Then he grabs her by the neck when she instantly grabs his arm, twists it, and grabs the back of his neck. He yelps in pain and she rams his face against the bar desk, breaking through. The two farmers were shocked and about to act when Avril gets up with a sneer. He holds up a broken bottle and swings it as she dodges it and grabs his arm and twists it, making him loose the bottle before she punches him in the face and kicks him in the chest, sending him flying. Avril rams into the chairs. Althea picks up the bottle and throws it at Avril, making it hit against the wall and breaking it into pieces.

The two farmers starts shooting her. Althea quickly runs away to avoid the blow and jumps on the table. She sees two bottles on it and and jumps, making them go flying. She kicks them towards the farmers and hits them in the face. The farmers drop their guns. Mitzi and her friends watches in awe as Althea spins around and spin kicks the farmer down and then uppercuts the other in the chin. Once the farmers are down, Althea looks at her friends and gets concerned. She runs over and checks on them.

"You guys okay?"

They nodded. Groaning was heard and they turned to see the farmers getting up.

"GO! Backstage!" Zib shouted.

Everyone except Althea ran out from their hiding spot and towards the stage. They stopped when they see Althea staying put.

"Althea!" Mitzi called out.

"Go! I'll catch up!" Althea said, glaring at the farmers.

"But—!"

"We have to go now!" Rocky urged, gently pushing her forward.

As they escape, Althea grabs the farmer in a headlock and spins him and throws him towards another, hitting him in the stomach as they went flying. She faces off Avril and flips him over her shoulder. The farmers kept getting up and she punches and kicks them away. Althea holds them as much as she could as she split kicks them. Suddenly, something hits her on the head hard. She gets knocked out as she falls to the ground. Avril could be seen holding a broken bottle, panting.

"That crazy bitch..." he mumbled. "Come on! She's not what we came here for. Let's get that eyebrow freak!"

The farmers picks up their gun and runs to where Rocky and others went off. Althea groans and turns to see them heading through the backstage. Slowly, she gets up and rubs her head in pain. Althea quietly follows after them. They go through the backstage to reveal three underground tunnels. She noticed one was heading to the first one while the other two head to a third one as the second tunnel has a door.

"By myself?" the farmer asked.

"It don't matter. They're runnin' like rabbits 'cause they're out-gunned." Avril said.

"Not on my watch." Althea glared, deciding to follow one behind.

Rattling sounds of the gun could be heard as she caught a glimpse of two cats running away from the shooting range. They ran towards the door that leads to the weapon room as the light shows the shadow figure of her friends. The moment that man was about to shoot, Althea starts to get angry that this is happening and sees red as she charges towards him. Just as he got to the door with his gun out, at the same time, Freckle had his gun pointed at him...

"What are you doing..."

They turned to see Althea in front of the farmer wit her leg up. Before he could say anything, he was kicked in the shin and his head was rammed through the ceiling of the tunnel.

"...to my friends?!"

Freckle holds his gun down, looking just as surprised and shocked as the rest of her friends.

"Wow." they said in unison.

The farmer's body that was stuck to the ceiling stopped moving, showing that he's dead. Althea instantly turned to her friends with worry.

"Are you guys okay?! Are you hurt, Ms. May?" she asked.

"We're okay." Mitzi nodded, still shocked at her powerful kick.

"You kicked him good." Rocky stated, looking up. 

Althea looks up and cringes seeing him hanging with his face buried in the ceiling. She realizes that he's dead.

"Oops..." she sweatdropped.

"Don't worry, kid. He did tried to kill us anyways." Zib assured her.

Mitzi noticed her shoulder and gets concerned.

"Sweetie, your shoulder..."

"Oh, I'll be fine. I just got shot." Althea assured her with a smile.

Freckle picks up the gun that the farmer had dropped and holds it, looking at it before laughing maniacally and running off.

"HA HA HA HAAAAAA!!"

Althea and her friends stare at where Freckles run off to for a moment before looking at Rocky.

"My cousin." Rocky smiled.

"He has your laugh." Mitzi stated.

"No surprises there." Althea commented.

Zib takes a cigarette and places it in his mouth, pulling out a lighter from his pocket.

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Meanwhile with the pig farmers

"How far we gonna go, Avril? There ain't no light back here." the farmer asked as they head into the tunnel. "...And whatever we're walkin' on's hurtin' my feet."

"Just old bones. Peccaries or somethin'." Avril said, looking down at the skulls. "Heh... Mostly."

"HA HAHA HAA!!"

Freckle's laughter could be heard, catching their attention.

"You hear that? What in the hell is that?"

"That laughing idiot again." Avril growled.

The two started to follow the voice.

"Ain't no living thing oughta make a sound like that. Damn sure he won't be laughing when I shoot that d— right off his face..."

"What?"

"Follow the noise."

"HAA HA HA HAHA!!"

"THERE!" Avril shouted.

They started shooting at the tunnels, which they instantly stopped after finding no one.

"Just an echo. There ain't no one in—"

Three shots were hit on the ground between them.

"AUGH!!"

"HAAHAHA!!" Freckle laughed, revealing to be standing on the pole of the ceiling.

"Where'd that—?"

"MOVE! GO!"

Freckle holds his legs as he swings upside down and starts shooting at the two farmers.

"THAT WAY, THAT WAY!" Avril shouted, running away from the shooting range.

Freckle lands behind them and catches up to them with his gun raised.

"There he is!" the farmer shouted, looking back at him.

"Gotdamn, it ain't him. It's the'other one." Avril said, looking at Freckle.

"Where'd he get a chopper from?" he asked.

"Dunno. Just keep movin' till I say. You just git ready to pop the little bastard when he comes around the cor—ner..."

They stopped to see Althea, Zib, Mitzi, and Rocky by the corner as they were about to run away. Everyone stare at each other in silence as Rocky awkwardly waves at them. Zib looks down at the small gun.

"Um... HA!"

He throws it at the farmer on the head, smacking him. Avril glares and points his gun at Rocky.

"YOU!"

He begins shooting again as the group split up, dodging it. Rocky runs to the other direction as Avril chases after him.

"RRAAUGH ROTTEN GRINNNG BLACKGUARD M'GONNA SHOOT YOU IN HALF, YOU WRETCHED LITTLE STICK-LEGGED PANSY-TOE MILKSOP SON-OF-A—"

Althea knew he's in trouble and looks back at Mitzi and Zib with worry as they were about to escape when the farmer points his gun at them.

"HEY!"

As if help is on the way, Freckle skids in view with a chopper in his hand.

"OH!" Mitzi gasped in surprise.

Althea quickly runs off to where Rocky and Avril went, knowing Freckle can deal with him.

"RRRRAUGHH! SCRAWNY SAP-HEADED TICKBAITERRRR!!" Avril shouted.

Rocky keeps running away from the crazy farmer maniac. He didn't see a hanging body of the dead farmer in front of him and rams his face onto his legs. He falls to the ground and looks up to see Avril skid to a stop after seeing him down. Rocky quickly gets up and runs around him.

"AVRIL, AVRIL! From one reasoned individual to another..."

He grabs him by the back of his overall strap and holds it.

"...Uh, if speech is truly what separates us from the beasts... as the Greeks suggested... I remain optimistic we're not yet beyond a resolution..."

Avrils spins Rocky around to get him off of him, but he kept a good grip on him.

"...Uh, through civil discourse?"

"ARRAAWRGH!! HRK!" Avril growled and rammed him against the wall.

He then flips Rocky over his shoulder and slams him on the ground. Avril points a gun at him and readies to shoot when Althea comes to his rescue and hits him in the cheek with a pole she found on the ground. He went flying and ram into the wall. She glares down at him as he groans in pain, holding his cheek.

"What do you think you're doing?" she asked quietly in anger.

Avril turns and sneers back at her.

"You again..."

He picks up his gun and stands up.

"You're dead now, so go back to bloody hell where you can from, you shitty little freak!!"

Just as he goes to pull a trigger, Althea's hand breaks the chopper into pieces as they drop to the ground. Rocky and Avril were shocked that her hand just instantly destroyed the gun.

"Did you... with your bare hands...?!" Avril exclaimed.

"I am Rocky's human friend! If you do not want to end up like your gun, leave at once!" Althea yelled.

"Althea..." Rocky said in awe.

Avril's body shakes in fear as he backs away from her. A familiar gun shot hits Avril, instantly killing him. The shooting range doesn't stop there as Rocky and Althea quickly dodge and duck every shoot.

"AUGHA!!" Rocky exclaimed.

"OOF!!" Althea grunted.

"STOP STOP STOP STOP!!!!" Rocky shouted, bracing himself.

Althea looks up to see a panting Freckle holding a gun.

"Freckle..." she said.

"Uh, gee, uh, thanks. That was gracious of you..." Rocky said, uncovering his eyes. "Uh, you can put the gun down now."

"Yeah... You already killed him." she added, glancing down at the dead Avril.

Freckle calms down and lowers his gun, his expression softens.

"...Oh. Oh, sorry. Sorry." he said softly, placing the gun down.

Mitzi peeks in, looking at the mess.

"S-Sorry. Sorry about the, uh—" Freckle apologized, seeing her.

"Oh... my... unholy mess." she said, holding her arms. "Althea, you alright?"

"I'm fine, Ms. May. You?" Althea said as Rocky helped her up.

"I'm good." Mitzi said before turning to Freckle. "Oh, but don't get so upset, sweetie. It's nothing a little... quicklime can't fix."

Freckle gets freaked out and starts to run away.

"UHHHH I HAVE TO GO NOW."

"Wait, Freckle!" Althea called out.

"Are you okay? Are you alright? You're alright, right?" Rocky asked Mitzi with concern.

"Does he... do this often?" Mitzi asked, looking to where Freckle had gone.

"What? The crazy dance? Oh, once or twice..." he said, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly. "Though the, uh, unmitigated carnage is a recent development..."

"Hm. He's good at it." she said, raising her eyebrow.

"Kinda scary." Althea added.

"Whuh... Well, I can't argue that. Er, I mean I'm sorry it came to that. I was just trying to be thorough, about, uh... That is, I wasn't expecting all that murderous rampaging. And Althea got hurt because of me..."

Althea's heart melts to see how guilty Rocky is. Mitzi pats his arm with comfort.

"Well, honey. You have that effect on people. I need to go see if I still have a bartender."

Althea's head shot up in realization.

"Viktor..." she whispered.

Mitzi approaches Althea and looks at her shoulder.

"We need to get that checked."

Althea looks at her covered shoulder.

"Oh, right..."

Suddenly, Althea's vision begins to blur. She squints her eyes to get a glimpse of Mitzi who appears to be worried.

"Althea?"

Althea's body begins to wobble as she felt dizzy and feeling everything going black as spots appears in her vision. Mitzi and Rocky notices she's about to fall as Mitzi quickly catches her.

"Althea!!" she exclaimed.

Althea's vision went black as she closes her eyes. Mitzi removes the cloth on her shoulder and notices her wound is getting worse and the glove that covered her is all soaked up with her blood. She covers her mouth in horror.

"Oh, no... We need to get a doctor!"

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