Slaughter and Savior

Chapter 11: Back Together

Clockwork's P.O.V.
Me and Toby raced around the ship to find our friends. "Where do we start?" Toby asked me. "I overheard Troy and his friends talking. From what I heard, there are three rooms with vents. I'll go check there. You find the other rooms and see if you can find anything that'll help us. Okay. Let's go!"

We split in two different directions. Now I gotta check the rooms. What were they again? The captain's room, the cabin and...oh no. Just then I heard a strangled yelp which could only be made by one voice: Ben's. He must have hidden in the kitchen! It would also make sense, Ben would surely be hungry after being chased around. From the sound of Ben's girly yelp, I'm gonna have to get there soon.

But this ship is huge! It could take hours before I find him. Who knows what they could be doing to him right now? They had cuffs that could block out his powers. You could only imagine how vulnerable he is whithout them. Then, luckily, I heard his voice again. "Hey guys, you have to get here!" No time to waste! I ran back to the flight of stairs behind the main deck.

Maybe, there's some kind of label on the doors, I thought to myself.

I checked around the entire ship. I saw another door. It said: NAVIGATION ROOM. The letters painted on the door prooved my theory correct. There are labels for the doors and the rooms. Now I just have to find the one that says 'kitchen'. That can't be too hard, right? Man, I hope Toby's having better luck at finding than me.

-meanwhile-

Toby's P.O.V.
I had heard Ben's scream. It didn't sound good. Okay, if I were Ben and were stuck on a huge ship, where would I be? Clockwork never really mentioned the names of the rooms to me, but I do remember seeing some other doors while I was being chased by Troy. If only I could remember where I saw them. I was lost in my thoughts, pacing around the ship. Without looking where I was going, I felt a cold, hard metal hit my head. "Ow! What the--!" I exclaimed, stumbling backwards a bit. I looked in front of me to see what my head hit. In front of me was a door. It was a light shade of silver, 3qq to the boxes we were inside of before. There were letters painted on the door as well. They spelled out: KITCHEN. Ok, what are the odds? On one hand, chances are I might find one of the guys inside. On the other hand, it could be filled witch angry chefs, knives and unlikley, guns. But, I'm pretty sure that I can beat them so it's a win-win, right?

I took a deep breath, not knowing what to expect. Then, I kicked the door open. After seeing what was inside, I wanted to facepalm myself but I held the urge. Inside, I did find Ben and Jack inside and something else too. Bodies were scattered around the floor, along with pots, pans and knives. Each of them had matching, white uniforms. I could already tell that Ben and Jack had already taken them down. The green, blonde boy was eating spaghetti, which is ironic die to the events that happened a few nights ago. Jack was eating the chefs like a hungry beast. "Oh, Toby! Glad you could make it! Yeah, this place was full of these white chef dudes but we totaled them. I saved a finger for you!" He waved the sliced off digit in front of my face. I slapped it out of his hand.

"Are you kidding me right now?! We've been looking everywhere for you guys! Oh my--look, just tell where the others are." Ben raised his arms. He had a shocked look on his face. "Woah, dude. Calm down. The others? I got no clue at all. After that crazy chase scene, we all went our seperate ways. And while you went alone, and when Clockwork was captured, the rest of us paired up. Jack went with me, while Masky went with Hoodie. That meant you, Clock and Jeff were the odd ones out." I sighed, wondering where they could possibly be. Of course, while all of this was going on, Jack was still eating up the corpses off the floor. "Ew, gross. Come on. We have to tell Clockwork the news."

Jack shrugged and wiped his mouth. We walked outside. "Ben, call her." He cupped his hands over his mouth. "Clockwork! Where are you, girl? Get over here!" Thankfully, she responded. "Ben! Is that you?! Where are you?" Jack finally spoke up. "Hey, Ben. Can't you just, like, fly over the ship to find her?" Ben chuckled. "Oh." I rolled my eyes but then remembered something. And just when Ben was about to go in air, I immediately pulled him back down. "Hey, what are you doing?" "Two of Troy's men are still alive and are probably looking for us right now. It would be better to stay low."

Ben snorted. "Well, let's get to it, then. These guys are starting to piss me off." Ben snorted, rolling up his sleeves. "So, where do we begin looking?" Jack asked. "For Clockwork or for the other guys?" He shrugged. "Any. Just as long as we can find someone, that's good enough for me." "Split up?" We all exchanged glances. "Okay." We all walked in different directions. "Oh, and be careful this time. If we're too far away from each other, we're easier to be ambushed." Jack and Ben nodded.

Ben's P.O.V.
Clockwork? Or the rest of the Pastas? Clockwork? Or the rest of the Pastas? Clock? Or the Pastas? Clock? Or Pastas? Clock?! Or Pastas?! Pock?! Clastas?! Kcop?! Satsalc?! All of this stress is getting to my head. If only Slender was here. Wait. What if he were here? That's it! I could still see Jack in the distance, but Toby was already too far away to call for. "Jack! Jack! Hey, wait!" He turned back as I rushed over to him.

"What is it now?" I leaned over a bit, catching my breath. "Wow. That's new. Tell me when you start growing your IQ size." I raised my eyebrow. "What?" Even though he had no eyes, I could already tell he would be rolling them by now. "No, really? What if we could call Slender here so he could help us out?" Jack's grey skin started to get a little more radiant.

Jack's P.O.V.

I grasped Ben's shoulders. "Ben, that's the smartest thing you've said all year!" He smirked. "Why, thank you!" I hit him in the shoulder. "Shut up and call him with your cellphone." He started fumbling his hands in his pockets and stopped. "Oh, wait. Slender broke it, remember?" We both sighed. Then, we heard a rush of footsteps coming towards us, followed by the sound of gunshots. We looked back to see both of Troy's assistants running towards us, alive and well.

"Oh no."