Monstercat: Origins (Part 1)

Chapter 21: Vario

Camon entered into a world of happiness. There were bright colors all around, lime green hills and tall buildings with animated signs on them. A familiar pixelized face flashed on one of the signs. Strange purple birds flew around. It looked like Camon had just entered some sick game. In the distance Camon saw buildings and gears, grinding the gross human paste and bones. Camon heard a strange bouncing behind him. He turned around and a large panel that had a large red V on it came crashing down in front of the door, blocking it. Camon noticed a cut rope on the very top of the door. The other end of the rope was tied to a balcony... and on that balcony was the evil plumber bot. A strange smile crept up the robots face as he did a huge leap from the balcony and stomped the ground, shattering the pavement. A jumbotron fell from the ceiling and stopped right above the ground. On the jumbotron it read, "Hello Camon... you are in my domain now... I built this juuust for you." Vario's face popped onto the screen in that strange smile. Then a picture of Dr. Raven tied to a chair in a dark room popped onto the screen as it flew back towards the ceiling. "Hey! You better let the doctor go!", Camon yelled in defense. A loudspeaker came on. "Don't get sassy with me boy!", a staticky, glitchy voice said over the loudspeaker, "Actually, sass me all you want, cause' you're going right where he is. See when Dr. Raven built me he used smartcameras for my eyes, and one of the smartcameras was used... in your father's room. I have seen his pain as you malled his fat robot. I have seen him try hard to care for you and you do nothing. You conspire against the man!" Camon sat, wallowing in thought.  "You have no right to tell me how to live my life! My mother and best friend could be dead right now because of him! I was kidnapped by that monster! All he cares about is his work and galactic rule!", Camon outburst. "Oh young boy... you will soon see the mistake you have made by telling me that... you heard what i said right... this is my domain. I have control over everything in this room!" the loudspeaker replied, as Vario snapped his fingers. At the snap, the birds circling the mountain fell to the ground and shattered into springs and bolts. Camon gulped. "You see, in my world... your life is hell.", the loudspeaker roared as the green happy hills grew angry and turned red. The buildings drowned in a shadow and all the lights in the windows turned red. The V's on the blocks shone bright and the room hid in a shroud of evil. Vario leaned back and cackled, and the loudspeakers let out an evil laugh. He took a step towards Camon. Every step he took rattled the ground a bit. Camon heard the grinding of gears in the background of the loud thumps of Vario's feet. Camon began putting together a plan. He remembered how Dr. Raven turned him off, a little switch on his neck. Camon reached behind his head and untied his trusty weapon, Stert. He gripped it tight in his right hand. "What are you going to do, whip me to death with a piece of cloth?" the loudspeakers taunted. "That's the plan," Camon replied with a smirk. He flung Stert in front of him as it let out a stream of lasers. Vario's face changed dramatically to the emotion of surprise as he leaped backward, lasers striking where he had stood. "This is going to be more fun then I planned," said the loudspeakers. Vario sprinted at Camon as he turned and ran towards the mountain, cloaked in dark red light. He noticed a vine on the side and he dashed straight to it. He turned around at the charging Vario and tugged the vine. Out from the mountain immediately came a red vine hand, grabbing his waist and launching him towards the center of the room. Camon watched Vario's expression from the midair grasp of the vine hand as he hung in the center. "You can't outwit a supergenius computer young boy!" the loudspeakers howled. "Oh, you mean the one that can't even use his own mouth to talk," Camon retorted. Vario yelled and leaped for the vine hand. Camon thought about moving to the left, and the vine hand took him there. Vario flew past. He fell to the ground and grunted, looking back at Camon with an evil expression. Camon had the biggest smirk on his face. Vario then snapped his fingers, terminating the mountain to dust, taking the vine hand with it. Camon fell to the ground a few yards from the robot. "My... Domain," Vario repeated. Camon launched some more batches at the robot and sprinted to a building. Vario was too distracted with dodging that he didn't notice Camon slip through the front door of a dark skyscraper. Once Camon was inside, he noticed that the building was just a frame filled with square lights at every window. He also saw a hose connecting to a large tank across the room labeled Defoliant. "This is all just a special effect show," Camon whispered to himself. He took Stert and flung it at the wires connected to the back of the windows. Sparks flew from the back. Camon noticed that the lights flashed when they were hit, so he just blew his cover. CRASH! Vario stomped through the door, detaching it from his hinges. He immediately saw the defoliant and froze. Camon heard mumbling from outside, and he recognized it as the loudspeakers. "Sorry, what was that," Camon said, cupping his ear. Vario stomped the ground with anger and lunged at Camon. He grabbed the bandana with his other hand and rolled, sending a blast of purple lasers from his back. One struck Vario in the arm, and it crashed to the floor. "FOOL!", boomed the loudspeakers, before each and every one of them blew out. Vario tried to say words, but nothing came out. He started stomping in anger and threw his arm towards a beam of the building, snapping it. The building began falling to the ground, and Camon ran for the door. Vario was quickly on his tail and grabbed his ankle, pulling him down to the floor. Feet from the door, Camon struggled free, jumping out as the structure came down. Vario jumped through a wall, causing seemingly no damage to himself. They both laid on the ground, recovering. As Camon laid on his back, he saw the great equalizer, the jumbotron. Camon grabbed Stert from underneath him and struggled onto his feet. Vario lifted off the ground with no struggle, his head barely dented and arm missing. Camon positioned himself and began flinging Stert above his head like a helicopter, sending lasers towards the jumbotron. Vario leaped for Camon, but he had long dashed out if the way. Vario fell on the ground, then rolled over to see a flashing firework show of sparks flying down, along with the jumbotron. Camon watched as the jumbotron crashed to the ground on top of the robot. The entire wing of the Cult dropped a little at the impact. Camon fell onto his side, and so did the structures Vario had built. All the rubble began sliding towards Camon. Then, the ship stabilized and everything froze. Camon stood up, weak and beaten up. He heard grumbling from a large box that had fallen behind him. He walked up to it and slashed the box open. Tied to a fallen chair was Dr. Raven. Camon rushed over and sliced the ropes with Stert. "Camon!", he gasped before fainting. Camon picked him up, amazed by his strength to do so. He stumbled over to the door, noticing that the sound of grinding gears had stopped. He had just stopped the Mangle production. He smiled and dragged Dr. Raven all the way through the factory, and into the grasp of a giant vine hand. It was easy from there, they were taken through the blue tube to an entrance to the lab. Camon dragged Dr. Raven onto a couch in the furniture department and fell to the ground, blacking out.