Journey in the Aftermath

Chapter 15: Stage Fright

This story is told by the POV of Steven

"Yeeaahh!! I'm the mother fucking man!!" Antonio screams and drop kicks the metal severed head over the crowd of people

"Free the girl." Volt says irritatedly to Shert

"Umm.. Which one?" he replies hesitantly

"The quieter one" Volt answers. Shert leaves and returns with Bailey, her hands bound infront of her

"Hey! Where the fuck is Kelly?!" Antonio screams

"You get her last!" Volt screams back

"What?! Why?!" he yells right back at him

"Because I don't fucking like you guys!!" he shouts and sends a huge bolt of red electricity into the air. Shert touches the rope tying Bailey's hands together, melting it away to nothing. "Anyways! Steven, you scaredy fuck. Its your turn!" everybody starts hooting and hollering and I am led infront of the group back into the building. I look back for Devin and see him arguing with some small kid

"No, kid, I don't fucking know you! Go away! Leave me alone!" he shouts trying to shake the kid off

"Its time for me to end you Steven!!" a familiar raspy voice shouts infront of me. I look up and see the pale invisible kid waiting at the entrance to the auditorium

"Everybody take a seat in the audience!" Volt shouts and grabs a chair right up by the stage. I know what's next and I step onto the stage ready for my fight

"Are you ready for this, Steven?!" the pale kid taunts

"Why do you hate me so much?" I ask getting annoyed

"What? Don't recognize me? Last time you saw me I had a bullet propelled through my face" he says and all at once it hits me

"Jacob?!?! I thought you were dead!!!" I scream at him not knowing what to do now

"I was. The powerful Him has saved me from death by using his powers. You left me to die. And now I kill you!" Jacob shouts running towards me turning invisible. I scan around trying to read his thoughts but I guess being dead so long has shut off enough of his brain waves. I get hit in the face and get knocked right off of the stage

"It wasn't my fault! What was I supposed to do?!" I shout and swing randomly into the air hitting nothing

"You saved yourself, why couldn't you have saved me?!" he shouts and hits me again hard in the face. I shrug it off and begin swinging wildly all over the stage

"You mother fucker! I didn't know I had these abilities!" I shout and get hit yet again hard

"Steven, Steven, Steven. You are a failure. You failed and now I am dead. Just like you are going to fail and cause everybody else to die. The little girl is probably dead already. Milton and Kelly will die soon enough too. Devin is going to die. So is Antonio. And Beth. And that cute girl that can control ice. What was her name? Madeline? Yeah. She's gonna die too and its going to be all your fault" Jacob says and I begin to shake with anger. I clench my fists so hard that my nails pierce my palm skin and blood drips to the ground. Jacob walks up to me and swings another punch. It stops infront of my cheek and bounces away sending him spinning. He stands up and kicks at me resulting in him flying a few feet back and off the stage.

"Look here you psychotic mother fucker! Nobody is going to die except for you! I am not a failure! I am not the reason you died in the first place! But you know what Jacob?!" I say and leap of the stage towards him laying on the ground staring up at me "I am the reason that you are going to die again!!" I take a few steps towards him and he turns invisible again. I reach my hand up and all the chairs in the front row of the audience come flying to me causing Volt and about 13 of his followers to fall on their asses resulting in an uproar of laughs from the rest of the followers until Volt stands up and shoots lightning into the air to silence them. He opens his mouth to yell at them but is silenced by the sound of me telepathically smashing all of the chairs together in the air. I focus hard and bring all of the wooden shards together into one area then disperse them in all directions of the stage area. All but three strike the floor and shatter into even smaller pieces. The other three make a popping sound and stop in the air with the tips dripping in red

"How... How dare... You.." Jacob says slowly coming back into vision. He coughs up a bit of blood and grabs the biggest wooden shard and tries pulling it out "I'm not going down that easily... You loser.."

"Jacob. Shut the fuck up" I say calmly and mentally shove all three through his body and out the other side. Jacob collapses and begins to fade in and out. His eyes begin to dim and I walk over to his body and kneel down

"Steven..." he says reaching a hand out towards me

"What?" I reply not taking his hand

"Thank... You..." he says and closes his eyes smiling. From his eyes, ears, and mouth comes a bit of black smoke that floats a bit then dissipates and I stand up wiping my eyes. I look over at Volt with pure hatred for him and lock eyes with him through his mask

"Milton. Now." I demand and he waves his hand to Shert who leaves and shortly returns with Milton soaking wet

"Well, well. I'm not having as much fun as I thought I would be having. However, I did save the best for last" Volt says looking over at Devin

"Who do I fight? You? Shert? 100 of these little follower fucks at once?" he says pointing around "It really doesn't matter. You killed Jessica. You kidnapped our friends. You act like this is some big game, but it's about time you accept the fact that you are just a ten year old playing his older brothers Call of Duty and I am that one Prestige mother fucker that is going to shut you down over and over and over" he says glaring straight at Volt. Volt clenches his fists then stops at the feel of a humongous hand on his shoulder

"It's ok. I will handle this." says a huge bulking man almost 7 feet tall looking right at Devin "Let's end this in the band room half-pint" Devin's grin and confidence from a second ago have completely vanished at the sight of his next enemy

"Brent.. Long time no see.. Sorry about that Baritone incident..."