Chapter Five

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Violet's P.O.V

     I watch Tom and Jerry with Martha. She giggles as one of tom's traps backfires. Out of the corner of my eye I see Ecco enter the room. "Are two ready?" I nod picking up Martha. I walk towards her. "Promise you won't try to escape?" I nod. She leads us out to a car. I climb in back with Martha.

     "Ecco, what is he planning?"

     "He wants to talk you himself." She replies and I sigh.

     "Is he alright?"

     "He'll talk to you later." She snaps. In the distance I can see and hear another car pulling up. "He's early." She says talking to herself."

     "Who?" I question. She ignores me and gets out. 

     "Stay in the car." She disappears into the woods. I pull on the handle and to my surprise it opens. I pick up Marth and run away from the bunker and car.

     "Mommy, where are we going?"

     "I'm not sure princess." 

Jim's P.O.V

     I walk into Jeremiah and Violet's bunker. I hold my gun up moving up and down the corridors. Eventually I reach Jeremiah's office and find the door wide open showing the bright glowing blue generator. One of the monitors switches on and I walk  over to it. Jerome's face appears. "Hiya Jimbo." He explained how he didn't expect me to be distracted by his followers. One sentence struck me. He wanted to bring me here. Why? I feel a gun on the side of my head. I glance to my side and see what appears to be a woman. Wearing a mask and black jester outfit. 

     "Don't mind her she's just here to make sure there's no talking during the movie and trust me you're gonna wanna pay attention so the twist at the end makes sense." Two hands pop up choking him. This distracted the girl for a moment, allowing me to grab her arm and slam her into the table in front of us. She gets out of my grasp and grabs a pair of scissors lunging at me. I catch her arms pushing her away from me, but she threw me against another table. After a few more punches I manage to knock her out. I lean don and pull off her mask.

     "Ecco?" I question. This doesn't make any sense. The sound of a gasp causes me to look back at the monitor. Jerome's still being choked. Eventually he went unconscious and another monitor turns on revealing Jerome. This guy really is insane.

     "I tell you suicide really takes it out of a guy." He pulls out a handkerchief and wipes away his sweat. As he does, he wipes away some of his scars. "Huh, what's this?" He asks peeling off the scars. What? It's fake? What's going on?

Bruce's P.O.V

     When we made it to the cemetery, we saw Jerome's followers had dug up his body and Jeremiah freaked out and ran into a crypt. When I tried to get him to leave worried about Jerome's followers, he freaked out even more, claiming I was Jerome.  We get back to Jerome's grave and this time he's perched against the headstone. Even though there was evidence that I wasn't Jerome was right in front of him, he still wanted more. He pulled a knife out of Jerome's pocket and swung it at me several times. I was able to grab him and put him into a headlock, pleading with him to fight the gas. That's when Jerome's followers come and pull us apart. As they cheered. "Long live Jerome." Jeremiah smiled widely, until one of the followers said. "Jerome's victorious at last." His face dropped all emotion, and he pointed the gun under the guy's chin and shot him.

    "Jerome victorious? Are you serious? He's dead, Haven't you been paying attention?" He takes off his glasses and threw them on the ground, he pulls out a handkerchief and wiped the blood off his face, though, it wiped the color off his face as well. His true skin color was almost white. He smiled menacingly at me, then walked over to his brother's dead body and kicked into the hole the followers dug him out of. "I am the one victorious."

 Jim's P.O.V    

     "Thank god I'm done with that." He lifts up his head, revealing he wasn't Jerome, He was Jeremiah. All the monitors turned on revealing more Jeremiahs. "Jerome is dead. Long live me."

Bruce's P.O.V

     "You all need to see Jerome for the utter dud he was. So, I donned the mask of madness To show you how feeble it is compared to true greatness. Behold the true face of sanity." He announces.

     "Where is Violet?" I question not trusting him. I hope she's safe.

     "She's safe with me and that's all you need to know." He told me. I didn't believe him. He has to be holding her against her will.

Ecco's P.O.V

     I woke up and saw that Jim was still there. Good. Jeremiah was at the part of the recording where he was explaining why he pretended to be his brother, which was to gain the cult's trust. He would soon introduce the bomb, so I had to get out of here and get back to Ariel. I quickly got up and ran out of the room, locking the door behind me. I run out of the house back to the car to find the door open and then gone. Oh, no. 

Jim's P.O.V

     "Sidebar, that is a perpetual generator, it can store an unlimited amount of energy. I would hate to be within a mile of it if it were to... overload." I looked at the generator then back at Jeremiah on the monitor. He was gonna blow the house up. I had to get out of here.

Bruce's P.O.V

     "Jeremiah, the gas worked. Think about it, you wanna carry out Jerome's plans sanely what could be madder than that?" I said trying to get him to realize how insane he's become.

     "Madder? Let's see." He said as he opened Jerome's journal. "Ah, here for example Jerome wanted to slather you in honey and have you eaten alive by corpse Beatles. Now that's mad. Me? If I wanted to kill you I'd shoot you in the head plain and simple." He says pointing his gun at me.

     "Jeremiah." I whispered almost pleading for him to stop.

     "But, I don't want to kill you." This earned boos from Jerome's followers. Are you gonna listen or behave like children?" he turned his gaze back to me. "See I don't wanna kill you because I want to show you how much I've changed things. How much we've changed things. Because I could not have done any of this without your help."

     "My help?"

Jim's P.O.V

     "Killing you will help secure the loyalty of Jerome's minions. Wel...... That is that. Goodbye." He finished. Then I remember the secret door he led me and Harvey through the first time we met Jeremiah. I reached under the desk and pressed the button. The door opened and I ran out of the maze as fast as I could.

Violet's P.O.V

     As I sprint away, I hear an explosion. I turn to see smoke coming from the direction we came from. My eyes widen. "Mommy?"

     "It's okay baby." I start running again. I have to keep going. We need to get to Wayne Manor. No, that's the first place he'll look. The GC

Bruce's P.O.V

     "Jim Gordon is dead." Jeremiah claimed.

     "NO!" I shouted and tried to charge at him, but Jerome's men held me back.

     "I am sorry Bruce, but progress requires sacrifice." He apologized not sincerely.

     "I'm going to stop you." I declare tears in my eyes.

     "I really hope not. I would hate to have to kill you." He puts Jerome's diary back in his jacket and steps closer to me with his gun raised. "I can honestly say that you are my very best friend." I only saw his hand with his gun raised, Fly up towards me. After that everything goes dark.  

 Violet's P.O.V

     "Are we going to see Uncle Bwuce?" Oh, god what did he do to Bruce? My eyes start to water. Please let Bruce be ok. 

     "No we aren't."

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