P.I.E. Operation: PARASITIC

XXXIX: Mission Gruesome

Light Zeron was told his next destination by the Rake: 2nd Floor hallway, to the left. He would still have to check out each room until he found one resembling an infirmary.

He didn't know why he had trusted Rake for directions after knowing what the students acted like, but he really didn't know who else to turn to. For all he knew, he could have been heading for a trap.

The 1st floor hallway ahead of him seemed almost endless. He looked back out of the feeling that he was being watched, but Rake and Jeff were gone, meaning they were probably back in their 'class.' Still, he felt a cold air behind him.

Breaking the silence, Billy said with a quieted tone, "I can walk."

"GAH!" Light fell over with Billy being swung over his head. His scream echoed back at him.

"Ouch," Billy groaned.

Light straightened up. "Don't do that! You nearly scared me to death!" Zeron yell-whispered at the Acachalla.

"Anyway, as I said before, I can walk." Billy said somewhat optimistically, beginning to stand up. He wobbled on his feet. "I'm just... a little dizzy." He stepped forward and ultimately fell into a sitting position.

"Yeah, you can't walk." Light said. He went to help the boy up.

"No, no, I'm fine!" Billy insisted. He stood up slowly.

Zeron slumped a bit in annoyance. "Okay, Mr. Fine, you can walk." He said sarcastically. "But I've basically been put in charge of momentarily sustaining your health; from what I've seen, you won't be able to go upstairs without cracking your skull midway, so you need to at least let me be your support."

Billy unwillingly obeyed.

Even going upstairs was quite the adventure. A very, very slow adventure. Billy almost fell over a few times, which also about pulled Light down the steps as well.

The second floor of the school was in worse condition than the first. There were slimes of different colors oozing off the walls and making the wood board floor soggy enough to fall through. Eerie fog poured through the roof and trailed off from the end of the hallway to the bottom of the stairs. There was an endless amount of doors throughout the lengthy hallway.

"Geez, I'll never find the Infirmary like this! Who designed this place, anyway? It's a bad idea to have the Nurse on the second floor." Lights remarked.

"This is a school of death, after all. And I'm sure there's a nameplate that'll indicate where it is." The Acachalla sibling said in response.

"What's behind door number one?" Billy said with the voice of an announcer. He opened it slowly with a small smile on his face and then quickly closed it again in fright.

"What happened?" Light said when the Acachalla began breathing heavy.

"There... were so many creepy monsters...! I... I just opened the door and came face to face with... a boy who had the face of a man and stood on a pedestal."

"The face of a man...?" Light asked.

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On the first floor, there was a newly formed silhouette of Sally Waffles carved into the rotting school walls. Around it was a splatter of blood ranging from a light pink color to a dark red; Sally wasn't exactly normal.

"Why do you help these weak-weaklings? W-Why do you bother to oppose me," Jimmy Casket growled to the teenager half hanging out of the wall, "when you know it wi-will only bring you death?"

Jimmy grabbed her semi limp body by the collar and pulled her upper half out of the moldy drywall.

Sally opened her eyes and narrowed them as soon as they were in contact with Jimmy's. "Because it's my choice, and none of your business!" She said in her childlike voice.

"W-Well, even so, Johnny isn't doing any-anything to pay back for your kindness, so I-I guess he'll have to watch your execution." The murderer held up his infamous weapon and went to push it down into Sally's skull through her forehead, but he was interrupted once again.

By this point, he should have expected someone to butt in.

Johnny had come up behind him and held his own parasite at gunpoint; his hands were shaking around the pistol's hilt and Jimmy's neck. At the same time, his victim had gone and stabbed Knifey through Jimmy.

The weapon glowed and left one of Casket's bullet hole wounds as a plain scar. Surprised, Sally wrenched back out and threw it across the room where the murderer couldn't reach it.

Jimmy's face twisted into a half smile, ignoring the gun barrel aimed at his head. "I didn't lie w-when I said Knifey wouldn't h-hurt me, right? Instead... she does the opposite."

Johnny's eyes widened."What?! That's not physically possible!" He said loudly into Casket's ear.

"A lot of t-things shouldn't be possible in this, yet some things just defy that impossibility and go beyond what is considered normality." Jimmy said.

"Like what?" Johnny asked in a deeper voice. He held his finger very closely on the trigger of the gun.

"Like you." The parasite's half smile stretched even further to the point where his face was basically split horizontally.

In less than a second, Jimmy had blocked the paranormal investigator's bullet by covering the barrel of the gun with the palm of his hand. It tore straight through the skin, but it was better than being shot in the head, because even a parasite couldn't survive that.

Casket winced slightly, but he suppressed the pain by simply ignoring its existence and trusting in his own strength over bugs like Sally and Gregory.

That basically proved he was truly an 'immortal' superhuman type.

He grabbed Johnny by the collar of his jacket as he had previously done to Sally (despite the hole in his hand).

He giggled with a crazed expression as he watched them try to squirm out of his grasp before saying,

"You've b-brought me to my limits... I think you're both go-good to go for an... experiment in the science lab."

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NO, NOT THE LAB OF SCIENCE!