Journey in the Aftermath

Chapter 14: Weed Warrior

This chapter is told by the POV of Antonio

"No! Jessica!" Steven yells and punches the big guy holding his arm then grabs his knife and turns to attack the others

"Do it and he fries!!" Volt yells and swiftly turns and pins me by my throat against the wall of the hallway with red electricity pulsing between his fingers. Why is it red?! I thought it was only yellow like Devin's

"Do it." I say while he is looking at Steven. He turns and I can see the confusion in his eyes through the eye holes of his mask

"Excuse me?" he slowly says trying to regain control of the situation

"I said FUCKING DO IT!!!!" I scream in his face as loud as I can as the ground begins to shake. He raises his hand and red electricity begins rushing around his arm in waves and streaks. A fist connects with my face sending me flying to the ground. I look up and see Devin looking down at the ground with his metal fist hovering in the air where I just was

"We have to save our friends" he says then looks up at Volt "then Ill let him kill you"

"I'm shaking in my boots." he says and walks forward again

"Thanks.." I say letting Devin help me up

"No problem, we can't fight him yet. Just don't do that again" he says

"Yeah I know, wait until our friends are safe" I respond, anticipating the time when I get to beat Volt's ass

"When our friends are safe, we run" he says quietly and I almost break my neck turning towards him so fast

"We run?!" I ask in a loud whisper

"Antonio, I don't want to fight him. That red lightning. It scares me. It scares the shit out of me" he says. I shut up and think about that more while we walk. Why would he be scared. This is bad.

We finally arrive and I am the first one up. I am led infront of everybody and brought to the parking lot outside of the cafeteria. Everyone forms a circle around me and as I look around, the circle opens up and up walks two immensely large ugly metal men. Wait.. No.. No..! Oh my fucking god you have got to be kidding me!!

"You won't beat us this time!" the uglier one says cracking his huge metal knuckles

"Mother fucking bastards! Its been so long!" I say smiling so wide it hurts "Ugly and Smelly 2.0, this is going to be great!" I punch the ground and it shakes and they just stand there perfectly still, no wobbling or stumbling or anything

"Nice try" Smelly says and runs towards me. I roll to the side then punch him in the back of the leg. A loud crack rings out as my knuckle shatters against his solid metal leg

"Son of a whore!!" I shout out in pain then shove my hand into the dirt to heal. I get kicked at by Smelly and I barely duck while still hand in the ground

"I'm going to squash you, pebbles!" Ugly shouts stomping towards me

"Time out!!!" I yell and they both freeze in place confused. Using this split second I shove my other hand in the dirt and pull up forming a large barrier around me enclosed at all sides. Ok. So what do I do now? Hand is healed, but I can't hit them because they are so much stronger than my rock. But what if I cover myself in rock and do multiple quick hits. No, that won't work

"Come on out so we can exterminate you, little weed!!" Smelly shouts and punches a hole in my barrier. I dodge to the side and cover the hole with another layer of rock. But wait! Little weed!! I pull the weed out of my pocket and push my finger into the ground popping up a large skinny cone made of rock. I stuff the weed in the cone then snake two vines out of the ground then strike two large rocks together making the vines catch on fire. I lean down more towards the fire with the cone in my mouth and begin inhaling. I breath in and in and in and in even more until Ugly's hand breaks through the rock barrier and grabs me by the head

"What the hell is this?!" he says taking the empty stone cone in his hand. I grin and blow a giant cloud of smoke right in his smug little face. He drops me and waves the smoke away. I stand up and stumble a bit then begin laughing

"Maaannnn... This is some heavy shit!! Shout out to my man Tano Tano!!" I yell hitting my chest then throwing a peace sign to the sky

"You're a stupid idiot!" Smelly says and smashes his metal fist into my face. I don't budge an inch from the force but instead just look up at him and smile

"No. You're are a stupid stupider idiot" I say mocking his dumbass voice. He swings at me again and I catch his fist without looking. I look over at Ugly who is staring in disbelief and throw Smelly into him causing sparks to fly everywhere from the metal scraping together. I walk towards them smiling ear to ear

"What are you?!" Ugly screams at me. I ignore him and keep slowly walking towards him. Smelly stands up and brushes himself off. I stop and smile at him then wave

"I don't care how strong you think you are! I'll kill you!!" he yells and runs at me. I stick my arm out and wait for him to get closer. Once he is close enough to swing at me I swing under his arm, get behind him, and shove my entire hand through his chest from behind

"Now lets see if tin man has a heart" I say slowly pulling my hand out and grabbing his heart on the way. Its also made entirely of metal. I crush it to pieces then lightly push Smelly, toppling him to the ground in a dead heap of worthless trash. I finish my walk to Ugly who is paralyzed in fear at the sight of his dead brother. I raise my arm up high over his head

"Please don't kill me!!!!" he begs and sobs. I slam my hand down infront of his face then stop. I grab his nose and start making honking noises in between laughs "wait.. What..? You aren't going to kill me..?"

"Oh, you ugly piece of shit. Of course I'm killing you" I say ripping his head off of his shoulders. I hold it up for the dead silent crowd to see. I burp and a little bit of smoke comes out and floats past Ugly's metal severed head