The Killjoy from Yesterday

Chapter 8- Now What?

All the five killjoys could do was stare in shock. "What?" The word fell out of Alkaline's mouth.

Cassadee nodded as the two other guys caught up to her. Now that they could see who the Exterminator was; it was Kobra Kid. His hair was its natural dark brown color and he still wore glasses close to falling off his face. The Killjoy pulled off his mask and his eyes grew wide; it was Party Poison. The only aspects separating them was that the other Party Poison had a blue jacket on while Alkaline's Party Poison had a black jacket, and one had a large purple bruise under his right eye. Everyone yanked out their ray guns at once.

"Cass, what are you doing?" The Exterminator/Kobra Kid asked.

"Alkaline, what the hell is going on?" Fun Ghoul asked. "Who is she?"

"She's me." Both Alkaline and Cassadee answered at the same time.

"Mikey, she's me if I was a killjoy." Cassadee explained.

"Ghoul, that's me if I stayed in Battery City and never met you guys." Alkaline explained.

"Ghoul?" The blue-jacket Party Poison spoke up, "As in Fun Ghoul?"

Fun Ghoul nodded in response. "Who are you? Some kind of clone?"

Alkaline could tell this was about to get really ugly really fast and she could tell that Cassadee was thinking the same thing. "Hey Cassadee, should we take this upstairs before someone gets arrested?" She glared at the only person dressed in BL/Ind clothes.

"Yea, that sounds like a good idea." She agreed.

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In the apartment, everyone semi-circled around Cassadee and Mikey's small living room area with Alkaline Army and Cassadee standing at the front. "Okay, now that we're less likely to get arrested, let's figure out how the hell we got here." Alklaine explained.

"You told us that it was the Carraway psycho." Fun Ghoul spoke up.

"It was Carraway who pulled the trigger, but we need to figure out how we got to this particular timeline." She clarified.

"I think I found something about that," Cassadee said, "Gerard, do you still have that file?"

The blue-jacket Party Poison handed Cassadee a cream colored folder laying on the table next to him. She snatched the file out of his hand and flipped it open. Alkaline looked at the file; it was the exact same as the one her Party Poison showed her back at the diner. "I may have a theory." Alkaline told Cassadee.

"Well spill it Killjoy." Mikey said. Cassadee glared at him.

"Jet, remember that drug Ripper uses in his interrogations?" Alkaline asked. Jet Star nodded in response. "I think that was how I got the drug. Cassadee got it through the pills, but I never took the pills when they commissioned this experiment. That's why they only took me back in Zone 4!" She realized. "They didn't need you or Pixel, they just needed to get me to administer the drug."

"But why you two?" Kobra asked. "Out of all the people in Battery City and the Zones, why you two? It could have easily been me and him." He pointed at Mikey sitting beside him.

"Hey, we are nothing alike." Mikey retorted. "And neither are they." He pointed at the girls.

"Geez dude, what's got your pants in a twist?" Kobra muttered.

"Heard that!" Mikey glared at his killjoy counterpart.

"Mikey!" Both the Cassadees snapped. "Shut up and listen."

"Wait up a second." Jet Star broke the rising tension. "Where are Ghoul and my counterparts?"

"Yea," Fun Ghoul agreed. "What about us? Party seems to be the only one who stayed the same."

"In this reality, Ghoul's an Exterminator like Kobra." Alkaline explained, "Jet, you and me are both worker drones for BLI."

The two killjoys' eyes widened. "Us? Working for them?" They said at the same time.

"Kobra and I are too apparently." Alkaline replied.

"You're joking, right?" The black jacket Party asked. "I can't see any of us working for them."

"Well believe it because it's true." Mikey snapped. Alkaline was really started to get fed up with him. This was nothing like the Mikey she's seen. He sounded annoyed with us, like it was our fault that this was going on.

"Hey Mikey," She spoke up, "Can I talk to you for a minute? Alone." Cassadee looked at her counterpart suspiciously, her face read off as 'what are you doing?'. "I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to talk." She added.

Mikey was suspicious, but now he may be able to get some real answers about all this. He reluctantly agreed to talk to her, led her into the bedroom, and closed the door behind him. "Okay, I have some questions for you, Alkaline Army."

Alkaline smirked mischievously, "Then fire away."