Everything Stays: In the Future

Slaughterhouse

Inside a large bedroom, an alarm blares as a tired hand reaches up and slams their clock right beside them. The figure sits up to reveal it is Ember. He yawns and cracks his neck a little before slapping his lips together. He rubs the back of his neck before slapping himself across the face to wake himself up.

May: I still don't see why you have to do that?

Ember rolled his eyes and turned back to see May still lying on the bed. He smirks a little before he leans down towards her.

Ember: It's what I do to get you to laugh.

May: No wonder why I haven't laughed at your jokes for 20 years.

Ember gains an annoyed look as May giggles to herself.

Ember: First: that's not even remotely accurate and second...we should probably get moving before the kids think it's a good idea to cook again.

May: Fair. But maybe we could-

Ember: You told them that "I want to make my own food."

May: Ok, ok. You just work on that case, and I'll help run our country.

May got up and tied her hair back into a ponytail before she walked off. Ember hopped out of bed and quickly followed her, smirking down at her as they walked together. However, as the reached the midpoint of the stairs, Ember sniffed the air and his eyes raised upward.

Ember: Kids! You better not being trying to cook again!

Mocha: (Yelling) We're not!

Wolfgang: (Yelling) It was all Mocha's idea!

Mocha: YOU JACK-

Ember and May: Language!!!

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Damson is thrown onto a chair, being strapped in more and more until he is almost completely tied down to the chair. He has a neutral expression, almost lifeless as guards look at him, ready to strike if necessary. A large man and a female judge walk into the room and look at Damson.

Gris: Damson Shade. I'm not even going to list off your crimes. This is the Honorable Ludex.

Ludex stepped up to Damson and looked at him up and down.

Ludex: For war crimes, crimes against the Kingdom of Vacuo including murder, assassination, theft, cannibalism among others. So, tell me, Mr. Shade, how do you feel about having your war crimes laid out before you?

Damson slowly looks up to Ludex.

Damson: Thursday.

Damson raises his legs and flips himself forward. The guards run towards him but Damson flips forward, using every ounce of strength to his advantage and shatters the chair down onto a guard. His restraints fall off and Damson frees himself. Gris slams an alarm button and the room enters a lock down with giant metal doors blocking all doors in total. Damson glances around to asses the situation.

Damson ducks his head as he hears a gunshot. He looks back to see Ludex nearly shoot him. He turns back to the judge and lunges forward but Gris runs between them and attempts to high kick Damson. Damson flips over the kick and bites down Gris' leg and pulls him. Gris is flung upward a bit until Damson punches the warden in the neck. While Gris flies backward, Damson lands in front of Ludex.

Ludex shoots Damson in the foot, making the man wince in pain. She goes to shoot him in the face, but Damson barely dodges the bullet. He bites down on her wrist instead and punches her in the stomach. Ludex yells a bit as Damson releases his mouth from her wrist. He grabs her arm and throws her into the wall. He punches her in the back and grabs the back of her head. He slowly goes in to take a bite from her neck.

Ludex: I know where your daughter is!!! (Damson stops) I swear to you! I know damn good lawyers. We can get you a better trail. You can go free and I'll show you your daughter!

Damson began to laugh. He let go of the judge and slowly backed away, laughing the entire time. Ludex gets off of the wall and rubs the back of her neck. She glances down and sees her pistol laying on the ground. She glances back to see Damson still laughing and slowly goes down to grab the gun. However, Damson grabs her and bites down on her nose. He throws her onto the ground and began to bite down long her neck, pulling off bites of flesh with every bite.

Damson only stops once he knows the judge is dead and stands over her and the rest of the knocked out/dead execution crew. He glances around the room and looks upward and smirks to himself.

Damson: There you are.

Damson leaps up onto the wall and slowly climbs upward and punches the ceiling, shattering it into glass. It was a one way window and Damson now sees an observation room. Another guard captain points to him and 20 guards open fire at Damson. Damson flips backwards onto a guard and bites down on their neck, killing them. He grabs the guard's knife and rolls along the ground and stabs another guard in the neck with the knife.

The uses the second guard as a shield as he removes the knife and throws it towards a third guard. Damson goes down to his hands like an animal waiting to pounce and attacks a fourth guard. He bites down on guard number 4 and uses their body as another human shield. He throws the guard at a fifth and sixth before he grabs another knife and slits their necks. A seventh guard runs over and punches Damson in the face and sends the assassin flying across the room.

Captain: Keep firing!

The guards open fire and one bullet is able to hit Damson in the shoulder. Damson looks around for an escape and smirks as he glances upward. He rolls back towards guards 2 and 3 and grabs something from them before jumping up and entering the air vents. The captain nods and four guards run up and open fire at the ceiling. Another two run in and throw smoke bombs up, trying to flush Damson out.

After a few minutes, nothing happens. The captain glares upward and presses a button on a console. Every single door way and air vent is locked off throughout the entire complex. He nods and leaves the room. In the hallway is huntsmen and huntresses.

Captain: Your orders from the kingdom is to kill Damson Shade. By any means. Go.

The huntsmen and huntresses nods and begin to run throughout the complex. Meanwhile, Damson breaks free from one vent and looks down to see some swear pipes. He sighs as he looks over his body: a bullet womb and several cuts and bruises. He sighs and jumps down onto the pipe and looks around. Every single possible escape route is blocked off. He looks down at a swear pipe and takes a deep breath.

Damson punches the pipe 5 to 10 times before it breaks open. He glances around and quickly gets inside the pipe and begins to crawl his way outside of the prison. After what is possibly hours of crawling, Damson finally reached the end of the tunnel and kicked the bars out and was finally freed. He washed himself quickly as a bullhead landed near him. From the bullhead was Gabrielle Helios.

Helios: Let's move.

Damson growled a bit but leapt up into the ship and the bullhead quickly took off.

Helios: Enjoyed your stay?

Damson huffed a little as a member of the Indigo Gang attached a new tail to Damson's back. He looked at it and nodded slightly, agreeing to it. Helios opened a case and inside was Damson's knives, Jekyll and Hyde. He takes them and places them along his waist.

Helios: You were the first. The others will be out shortly.

Damson: Hazel won't. We don't have anything to bring him back. He'll talk.

Helios: Then we silence him.

Damson: Good luck with that.

Helios: Well, that is where you come in.

Damson: No. Not this time.

Helios: Excuse me? I said-

Damson: And I said no. (Chuckles) Unless YOU want to have dinner tonight?

Helios backs off a little before looking back at Damson.

Helios: And what will you do?

Damson: I want to find my daughter.