Slaughter and Savior

Chapter 12: Weirdness

Jack's P.O.V.
Me and Ben froze as the two men ran over to us. At first, I was terrified. Then, I smiled. "Hey, Ben." He was trembling a bit. "Y-yeah, Jack?" I faced him. "I take the left and you take the right." He stared at me, then he grinned. "Yeah." His eyes turned red. The men were a few inches away from us when I bit one of their faces. "Ow! Get of me!" The other one tried shooting at me when Ben jumped in front of me. The bullets bounced off of his chest. I tore away from the poor fellow, leaving him with a bleeding face.

He fell to his knees, moaning things I couldn't even understand. I looked behind me to see how Ben was doing. He was floating in the air, gliding around the other man. His victim seemed terrified, firing bullets at him in random directions. Of course, Ben doged them all. "Hold still, dammit!" He chuckled. "Language!" He slapped the guy's face before lifting him off of the ground. "Wh-whoah! Let me go! Put me down or I-I'll shoot you!" He laughed harder. "If you say so."

The fall was so hard, I had to cover my eyes. He crashed through the floor. "Oh God, I hope you're okay. Wait, that's not right. I HOPE YOU'RE DEAD!" Then, he smiled at me, dusting his shirt. "Crazy agents these days, am I right?" I gave him a thumbs up, then his expression changed. "What?" He pointed behind me. "Behind you, man!" I spun around. The man who I bit lunged at me. I raised my arms in front of me for defense when...he stopped.

He had literally froze in place. I looked back and forth between Ben and my attacker. I finally stopped at Ben. "Are you seeing this too?!" He lightly nodded his head. I examined the frozen man. Ben hovered back down. "How do you think this happened?" I asked Ben, touching the sides of his face. He didn't move an inch. "Hang on, let me try something." Ben then proceeded to kick the guy in the nuts. "Nope. Still not moving. But that kick sure did help me." I shrugged at him. Then, I looked at the sky. A flock of birds were flying by. Wait, are they?

I tapped Ben's shoulder. "What is it man?" I pointed at the sky. "Woah. Is that for real?" I shuddered a bit. "Go check it out." Ben nodded then floated again. He touched the wings of one of the still birds. "How did this happen?" He tipped one of them over. It floated upside-down. I examined the rest of our surroundings. There was still dust floating around from after Ben's attacker fell. It was stiff as well. You could actually push through it.

"What do you think's going on here?" I shouted to Ben from below. He giggled a bit. "I don't know, but it's crazy wack." He had all the birds tipped over in the shape of a 'B'. "Come on back down here." He floated back down. We heard something from behind us. He was moving again. But not in the way we expected. He was clawing at his own face, struggling around. "Ow! Get off me! Ow! Get off me! Ow! Get off me!" Ben raised his eyebrow.

"Um, dude? Are you alright?" Ben tried to tap his shoulder. But instead of his finger actually touching the man, it went right through him. A static noise was heard as Ben's finger passed through him. "Woah, hey! Are you a ghost too?" The man didn't respond, and instead continued to claw his hands against his face. "Something his definitely wrong here." Ben continued to try to catch the man from all directions. In every try, he either went right through the man, or tripped. "Maybe we're all just dreaming at the same time." It was meant to be a joke, but when it came out, I had meant it.

"Yeah. Maybe, we completed the missions Slender assigned to us, were deemed worthy to fight You-Know-Who, and are all fast asleep in our cozy little beds. Or the men in black knocked us out, drugged us, and put us in their little torture chamber, with helmets strapped onto our brains, as their little lab rats!" I stifled a chuckle. "Yeah. Maybe." I remembered something. "Clockwork!" I suddenly blurted out. "We forgot to keep looking for her! Who knows what's going on around her right now!" He looked at me with a face of concern. "Split up?" I shook my head. "It's too risky. We could either be caught off guard, or experience....other things." Me and Ben spent the next few minutes looking for Clockwork.

We walked around the entire main deck. We hadn't found her or any clue as to where she might be. "Maybe she's hiding in one of the rooms." We headed to one of the doors. It had another label on it, painted in white letters. But it read 'MXYLPLITXS'. "Um, okay then?" Ben touched the handle on the door, and it swung open.

We couldn't see anything but darkness. I looked for a light switch. I moved my hand around the wall. I felt something. It seemed to be a switch. I flicked it. Nothing happened. "Maybe she's not in there after all..." We were about to leave when we felt something cold and bony on our shoulders. "He...Comes..." Me and Ben were about to run for our lives when we were pulled back. Expecting to feel cold metal floor hitting our heads, we fell down. The light coming from the doorway appeared farther and farther from us as we were falling.

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This is shorter than my usual standards.