Imagine #171: The Overcast Chronicles (END)

*Y/N's P.O.V.*

"Would you look at that...9 chosen people are inside the same room. People with gifts...isn't this fascinating?" Cliff said the moment he gathered all of us inside a room.

Pete, Joe, Andy, Tyler and Joe were held by Cliff's people while they point a gun at them. I was actually relieved to see them all still standing alive there as it seems they've already put up a good fight against the other guards downstairs.

"These aren't gifts, theses are curses." Pete murmured and Nate and Cliff just laughed.

"Well, it's your fault after all. The commotion of the musical festival have disturbed this facility and the experimentations so when the meteor hit, it fully ignited it. You're just in a wrong place and in a wrong time, but somehow we're thankful too. If it wasn't for that, we wouldn't have made this work." Nate explained and I looked at them in shock...I can't believe this is all because of that! We caused this to happen to us.

"Well, if you weren't experimenting with this at first place, this wouldn't have happened!" Patrick shouted and Cliff chuckled at him.

"Easy there, Tiger. I can see your eyes igniting in anger...wanting to wish all of this just didn't happen?" Cliff mocked him and I stood between him and Patrick.

I'm still feeling weak from the pain Cliff has given to me, but I'm pulling myself together now.

"Don't listen to him, Patrick. Don't use your power for that wish, you know it won't end well." I said.

"You're catching up fast, Y/N! But for the sake of everyone, let's explain the beautiful power that Stump has!" Nate said like a mad scientist and he kept walking around all of us. "You see, the greater the wish benefits YOU, the more damage it will bring to you and the people you care about the most! So if you wish for something like 'all this didn't happen'...it might cause a greater damage because that would benefit you...the power knows what could. It's beautiful, right?" he explained.

I know Patrick and I have looked towards Pete wanting him to shout that he's lying...sadly, he did not. "He's telling the truth." he murmured.

"We don't need wishes out of this mess. Let's do this the hard way!" Joe said. "Josh! Now!" he said and almost a blink away, Josh attacked all the guards at superhuman speed.

Andy and Joe helped bring down the other guards too.

"You just don't understand, do you?" Cliff asked and I find it irritating that he's still so calm. "You can't escape this now. If you don't want the powers, we'll just suck it out right through your lifeless bodies, shall we?" he said. I really had a bad feeling about this, so I decided to grab a knife from an unconscious guard and charged at him.

"I'm going to end this madness now!" I said and attacked him. I, fortunately, managed to stab him on his sides, trying to avoid his touch at all cost. I saw that Nate was about to save his brother but Pete and Tyler attacked him.

The guards around the room are almost all unconscious, we're finally winning here! I backed away from Cliff and was about to grab a gun from the guards, but before I could even move to reach it...something has stopped me.

"What's the matter, Y/N?" Cliff asked me in a very mocking way.

"N-no...no! Everyone, take cover!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. Everyone seemed so busy fighting off our enemies that they didn't notice the red lasers pointed on their heads...

I warned them all...but I was too late. Before they can move, gunshots were heard.

I saw it in front of my eyes, how these bullets hit my friends...my family at the same time. I'm sure my scream was horrifying as I collapse on the floor. Blood were everywhere and the lifeless bodies of my friends are now on the floor.

"NO! NOOOO!!" I heard Patrick's screams too. The only one left was me, Patrick, Nate and Cliff. My mind was too messed up right now but I know it's too angry. "I'm going to kill you!!!" Patrick shouted and charged at Cliff.

Pull yourself together, Y/N...The fight is not over.

I stood up and charged at Cliff too, but Nate caught me. "Let them fight first," Nate said excitedly as he look at Cliff and Patrick.

"Aren't you tempted to make your wish come true, Patrick?! Come on... WISH! WISH something that will benefit you. Wish to save them? Wish to kill us?! COME ON!" Cliff taunted Patrick...for some unknown reason he wanted Patrick to show his powers...but I know if Patrick did this, something terribly bad will happen. All of us could go down with a wish.

"Show me your power, Stump! WISH!"Cliff said and unfortunately, he caught Patrick's hand and with that Patrick screamed in pain.

"PATRICK!!" I shouted and struggled to escape from Nate's grip. I elbowed him so hard on the abdomen and he finally let go of me. I reached for a gun and with no hesitation in mind, together with the anger and frustration. I immediately pulled the trigger before he could even possess my body again. I pulled the trigger once...twice...thrice until he's on the floor. "I've had enough with this." I murmured and looked at Cliff and Patrick.

"I just want to see your powers at work, Patrick. Come on, maybe this wish could bring a black hole in here and destroy the world! Your power is the ultimate one of all...I've pushed you to your limits right?! ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE DEAD! Or maybe you need one more death?!" Cliff said then he threw Patrick away.

I immediately shoot Cliff with a gun, but after hitting him twice...I was out of bullets. I only shot him in the stomach and he kept on fighting.

"I can't let them die...I-I'm going to bring them back!"  I heard Patrick murmured. God, he's a mess right now...he's going to do what Cliff wants him to do.

"Patrick, stop. Don't! Cliff is pushing you to do it, something bad will happen if you do." I told him.

I ran towards Patrick and hold him, he's really trying to do it now as his eyes are now smokey green.

"That's right, Patrick. Let me hear your wish ---

He's not in a state to wish something so perfect that would save us all from this...besides all of the possible wish will probably benefit him, meaning it will only bring more trouble after the wish has been made.

Except for maybe one wish.....

"Look at me!" I said as I push him to look at me. "I-I'll make the wish...Patrick! Listen to me, I'll make the wish!" I said and I heard Cliff laugh.

"Come on, people. No matter who wish, the wish will still benefit him instantly --

"SHUT UP!" I shouted and tried to talk to Patrick again. "You trust me, right? We...I can make this all right. Make this wish come true." I said and Patrick stared at me.

"Anything that can make this better..." he murmured and I smiled sadly at him. This might make things better again, but I have to sacrifice something here too.

"Thank you, Patrick. I really love you...don't you forget that." I said with a smile and took a deep breath before saying my wish. "I wish your concert back in our city five years ago didn't happen,"  I said and before Patrick and Cliff could even react, I saw his eyes light up...meaning, my wish had been granted.

"You have lost your sanity, it's pityi--

I laughed how Cliff didn't see any relevance of that wish of mine now. I looked at him and laughed as he stares back with confusion. Nothing was happening around, meaning that the powers didn't detect that it would benefit him that much...

"W-what did you do...w-why would you wish that?" Patrick was finally realizing what he has done.

"It was the only way...the powers may have had a hard time detecting it would benefit you a year later after that canceled event," I said while smiling sadly.

"What the fuck are you both talking about?" Cliff asked angrily and I laughed at him.

"Never heard of the term 'butterfly effect'?" I asked him. "The wish may have been taking in its effect slowly, but say goodbye to your powers now...and surely you'll forget this all too. I canceled the moment I met Patrick and the band...through that wish, I made us not meet and everything will follow after that."

Suddenly we noticed that a green mist is surrounding us quickly.

"If that show didn't happen...I wouldn't have met you. I'd have no idea who you are...why would you..." Patrick said as he weakly walks towards me.

"What the hell is happening?! What did you do?!" Cliff angrily said and he collapsed on the floor due to the gun shot, but he's still conscious.

"I pursued my career in the music industry because I have met you...and since I prevented that, I'm sure I won't go that way anymore. Remember I was one of the organizers of the music festival that started this all if I wasn't there anymore. This festival wouldn't have happened, all this wouldn't have happened. It was the only safe wish I can say, it seemed so non-beneficial but the following effects will save us all." I explained.

"No!! There shouldn't have been any loopholes to this!"  Cliff shouted and I laughed sadly.

"There is and I saw it, I just have to sacrifice something to make it happen." I murmured and looked at Patrick again. "We won't remember any of this happening, Patrick, I guess it should really go this way." I said and I felt him hug me tight and I did the same to him.

"I-I don't want this to happen...please..." he said sadly. I smiled at him and hold his cheeks.

"I'm sorry, Stump." I said, feeling this green mist already surrounding the both of us. "I love you..." 

"I love you too." and in a bitter-sweet moment, I was glad that that ended on this note.

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*After Shock of all this*

You are laying down on your bed as you read this fanfiction that gives you different kind of emotions. Doing this has been your daily routine since you're still a big fangirl of the band. You were still upset that the show they were supposed to have in your city had been canceled, but that didn't change the fact that you still love the band.

You've still followed them all throughout their career that had been continuously going up. New Albums were released, Pete and Joe married and finally, Patrick married Elisa too. The fandom was going crazy on their new achievements and everything and you're still proud to say that you're a big overcast.

As this part of the fanfiction come to its end, you began to realize how odd this mini fanfic made you feel. It was something so absurd, involving powers and all that...but you somehow love that it ended on the note that it could have really possibly happened to you...

And maybe...just maybe, it may have really happened to you. You just happen to forget it all because of the wish you made to save yourselves.

{Breaking the 4th wall is amazing. Hahaha. SORRY IF THIS SEEMED SHAKY OR SOMETHING, BUT I HOPE YOU ENJOYED! MANY MORE FANFICS TO COME. THANKS!!!}