(WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS BLOOD, BODY HORROR, MIND CONTROL, USE OF GUNS, SWEARING, LOTS OF MINOR CHARACTER DEATH, ATTEMPTED MURDER, REMOVAL OF FACIAL FEATURES, RELIGIOUS THEMES, MENTIONS OF HERETICS AND MENTIONS OF ANIMAL ABUSE)
Michelle stood completely still as she stared at the man who had decided to stand up in the crowd of bidders.
thousands of old memories that were once tucked away in her subconscious were now flowing through every single groove and crevice in her brain as she saw the man look at her with a small grin on his face.
she recognised him, but it wasn't because he was simply some random guy that Michelle remembered meeting on the streets or something like that, it was because she knew that this man was related to her by blood.
it was her own father, who she had never seen in years.
and Michelle didn't know whether or not she should be feeling happy or terrified by seeing him again.
the two stood in silence for a minute, until the man decided to speak.
"..what's with that face, my dear? are you happy to see me once again?" the man asked as Michelle fully took her bird skull mask off.
"dad..i-..I thought you left us-" Michelle mumbled.
"theres no need to fear or think about the past, Michelle, we are all living in the now, and now..I have a little bit of a favour to ask you" the man said as he started walking through the crowd until he reached the small staircase that Michelle used to go up to the balcony she was on, the staircase was blocked off by a small metallic gate.
"s-sir! you can't go up those stairs! I only allow my own workers on this boat to go up those!" Michelle cried out suddenly.
"I promise you, Michelle, I don't have any dangerous intent here, I simply want to talk to you..do you not want to talk to me?" the man said as Michelle looked around a bit in panic, trying to figure out what to do about this situation.
Michelle tried to walk backwards a bit, but then accidentally pressed a button, causing the small gate to open up.
"..thank you very much, my dear" the man then started to walk up the stairs quietly, eventually reaching the small balcony where Michelle was standing.
"I..I simply can't believe your here, dad, where were you this whole time? it's been years since I saw you.." Michelle quietly said.
"I simply went exploring, I wanted to see what else was out there in the world..I didn't really find anything, but what I DID find..was a little company that I could take as my own and transform into a multi-billion dollar empire..in short, I got powerful, and I heard you became powerful too while I was gone, right?" the man asked.
Michelle looked around, quickly remembering her days of working in the lab with her sister..her sister who has since vanished.
"..yeah, I did, I guess.." Michelle simply said.
Michelle was usually a stern and cruel woman when speaking with people, but seeing her own father, a man who she had never seen in years and who had seemed to become a powerful figure in that time, it made Michelle feel intimidated, scared even.
the two stared at eachother in silence, but the silence was then broken as the man spoke up again.
"I feel like I should cut to the chase here..to put it simply, I NEED that red leaf you showed us all" the man said as Michelle started hearing lots of loud alarms going off in her head.
"dad, no! that object isn't ready for any form of sale yet! its too dangerous to be let out of its cage!" Michelle said.
"..and when it IS ready, what base price do you plan to sell it as?" the man asked.
"um..200 million I believe?..why do you ask?" Michelle responded.
"I want to buy that beast from you for far beyond that price, let's say, 800 million? is that good?" the man said as Michelle froze a bit.
"are..are you serious?" Michelle said quietly.
"..of course I'm serious, Michelle, I was always taught not to lie to the people I care about after all.." the man replied with a devilish grin.
Michelle simply thought about her dad had said, the promise of the sheer amount of riches that he said he would give her if she allowed him to buy that deadly beast was tempting, but Michelle knew she shouldn't just let her greed take over and let him buy the object..
unfortunately, her greed DID take over, and Michelle made her ultimate decision.
"..that beast is all yours, sir" Michelle said quietly while smiling.
"thank you dearly, Michelle-"
(BANG!)
a loud, metallic banging noise was heard, followed by a gagged, yet ear piercing scream.
when Michelle looked over to where the noise came from, her pupils shrank when she saw a feral, angered pin R.O.B with a random, blood soaked dead bidder shish-kabobed on its sharp point.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" Michelle yelled in sudden terror as she witnessed a bunch of other objects crawling through the opened metal door that the pin had bursted open earlier.
across the entire room, Michelle could hear the terrified screams of the bidders below her getting brutally attacked.
multiple bidders were getting their stomachs slashed open by the long, sharp claws of feral needles.
some of them were getting mauled by living blocks who were camouflaging with the dark walls of the room.
a few of them were having large splatters of plant sap shot onto their faces by feral flowers who all planned to rip their organs out.
Michelle even saw a bright green leaf with wings manage to lift one of the bidders up high in the air near the ceiling before dropping them to their death.
in general, the room had been turned into a complete bloothbath.
before Michelle could try to think of any sorts of plan about how to get out of here, she saw the man bolt straight through the balcony entrance door.
"dad- wait!" Michelle cried out as she started chasing him through the door, but while she was running, she found herself falling over after tripping over a random lever.
Michelle quickly managed to quickly get back onto her feet, unaware that she just flipped the lever that moves the cages down into the room, this caused the cage that the red leaf was in to be dragged back in, allowing it to witness the brutal fight happening.
the beast simply stood in its cage, watching the other objects around it slaughtering the bidders.
eventhough it's face barely moved, it felt happy watching the blood gushing out of all their dead bodies.
it wished it could join in with the others too.
meanwhile..
wally smiled as he listened to the noises nearby.
the horrified screams of those cruel people within the room.
the vile yet glorious sounds of blood gushing out of their limp corpses.
the roars and growls of his proud and powerful beasts completing their work.
it was all perfect to him.
at last, all the terrible heretics in this place would fall to his beautiful beasts claws.
"yes! yes! keep going my valiant beasts! slaughter any heretic that tries to move! maul them until their nothing but a pile of unrecognisable shredded flesh if you have to! just make sure they are all dead!" wally cried out in joy as he smiled, as he smiled however, he noticed something small near his feet.
there was a tiny little blob of yellow goo, with the vague image of a smiley face on it.
he looked at the creature in confusion at first, but then started hearing a voice in his head.
"my lord, I want to fill out my duty of slaughtering these heretics like the others but..I am simply too weak to be able to commit such acts, what shall I do? am I simply unworthy to you if I'm not able to fight, my lord?" the voice said.
"no, my friend, you have always been worthy to me, all you need.." wally said, noticing someone running off from afar and pointing at where they went.
"..is your weaponry" wally continued.
"of course, you have given me the key to greatness, my lord, I need weaponry just like any other powerful soldier, thank you" as soon as the voice stopped speaking, the yellow blob slid off.
"go off, young one, go and prepare for the fight of your life!- AGH!-"
wally shot his arm up into the air, but as he did, he felt a strange and painful sensation in his flesh.
it felt like a bunch of tiny daggers and pierced through his skin.
"ow-..what the hell?" wally mumbled in confusion as he looked down at his arm, his pupils shrank a little bit as he noticed small red stains on his shirt sleeve.
he immediately knew that the stains were made of blood.
slowly, wally lifted up his sleeve, and gasped at what he saw.
there were a bunch of tiny, blood soaked wooden splinters, all poking out of his skin like spikes.
the first true waves of panic and fear went over Wally's body as he grabbed one of the splinters and tried to pull it out.
it didn't budge, infact, it hurt trying to remove it.
wally felt like he should be screaming his lungs out because of this, but for some unknown reason, he didn't.
something in the back of his mind told him these splinters weren't just a horrible mutation of some sort..
they were the first sign of Wally's evolution into a true God.
meanwhile..
at this point, all of Michelles workers had ran away from the brutal scene happening in the room they were in earlier, and they had all scattered away from eachother aswell.
Reginald and Benjamin had went into a storage room that was filled with stacked wooden crates.
Faye and Gavin had went into a weapons room where a variety of different guns and tazers were kept.
and petunia..well, nobody knows where petunia was right now actually, all we know is that she's planning something.
everyone else knew where they were, but there was someone who had found themselves to be completely lost.
Yolanda.
she had found herself in some kind of dark and messy small room, there were strange stains and marks of rust everywhere on the walls and ceiling, there were a couple broken wooden planks and an old dirty mop, and the sound of water dripping nearby could be heard constantly.
Yolanda was curled up in a corner, internally panicking due to the fear of one of those damned feral objects finding out where she was hiding and killing her on the spot.
"oh..oh lord no..how the hell could this have happened? everything was going so well and- and- oh god! everyone is dead!" Yolanda said to herself as she covered her eyes with her hands, slightly sobbing in the process.
as she was covering her eyes however, she failed to notice something slipping into the room she was in from under the door.
it was a tiny yellow blob of goo, it was only as big as a hamster and it had the vague image of a poorly drawn smiley face on it.
once Yolanda moved her hands away, she felt her adrenaline go up.
"GAH! wh-what the fuck is that thing?!" Yolanda yelped in shock as she looked around in panic, she quickly noticed the yellow blob was trying to crawl over to her feet like a gross little slug.
"no! get away from me! GET AWAY!" Yolanda said as her eyes caught sight of the old mop that she saw earlier, she quickly grabbed the mop and started pushing the yellow slime blob away with it.
the yellow blob didn't get pushed away however, it simply managed to crawl up the broom itself, eventually climbing up near Yolanda.
she tried pushing the mop away, but it was too late, as the yellow blob managed to jump up and splatter onto Yolanda's face.
her screaming had become muffled as she tried to pull the yellow goop off her face, it felt like the skin under the goo was beginning to burn, as if her flesh was beginning to melt away.
in reality, that was EXACTLY what was happening.
unnderneath the yellow goo, a majority of Yolanda's main facial features were vanishing, from her nose, to her mouth, to even her eyes, they had all vanished and were replaced with nothing but smooth skin.
..you probably thought the goo was going to start spreading across Yolanda's body and start fully turning her into a poorly drawn smiley face who makes advertisements for crazy products, didnt you?
nope, that's not what's happening here.
the yellow goo has other plans.
as the rest of Yolanda's face became completely blank, a few black lines appeared on the front of the gooey yellow "mask" that Yolanda had, the lines started changing and shifting, until it became a full, poorly drawn cartoony smiley face.
the goo stopped spreading at around Yolanda's neck, and as soon as it did, Yolanda's mind became completely blank, no thoughts, no memories, nothing.
only one, singular repeating mantra was in her head:
kill the heretics.
kill the heretics.
KILL THE HERETICS.
KILL THE HERETICS.
as this constant chant became the only thing Yolanda could think of, she slowly wandered out of the room she was in like some kind of sluggish zombie.
she looked around, and her nonexistent eyes caught sight of a rusty axe.
she slowly decided to pick it up, looking at the sharp chopping blade on the top of it before walking off.
nearby, Faye was wandering around, wondering where the hell the rest of her group had went to.
"Reginald? petunia? Gavin?!" Faye cried out, trying to see if anyone was nearby.
she looked around, and eventually spotted Yolanda nearby before going up to her.
"Yolanda! there you are! I thought you got injured or something! now, do you know where the others are-"
Faye suddenly stopped as soon as she saw Yolanda's new, gooey smiling face.
she saw her slowly lifting up the axe she had.
eventhough Yolanda technically didn't have a mouth anymore, the goo around her face managed to say one messy sentence:
"KiLl..AlL..hErEtIcS.."
"oh sHIT!-"
Faye barely dodged Yolanda swinging the axe at her as she started running away.
Yolanda started chasing her, desperate to spill blood.
she must complete her god's mission afterall.
she must kill all heretics.