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Death On Wheels: Chapter 3

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Honestly, I do not know what I was expecting when I opened the door, but I certainly wasn't expecting this. For a moment, the thing was in the corner of the closet curled up in a ball. Its once bright colors now dark and off-putting. The minute I opened the door the thing snapped its head up and looked at me. It looked like it had been crying, its clown make up running down its face.

"No fucking way..." I shook my head in disbelief.  

The thing suddenly gave me a look of anger as it began to open its mouth, revealing sharp teeth. It began hissing very loudly and slowly started to get up. I immediately shut the door and held it shut, making sure the thing didn't try to get out.  

"I wasn't aware Pennywise lived in the RV!" I told Ned, holding onto the door.  

"No kidding!" Ned was helping me keep the door closed.

"Really, asshole? You fucking spoil one of the fear game creatures?" Tanezumi appeared in front of us with her hands on her hips. "And his name's not Pennywise! It's Pogo the Sad Clown!"

"That's one of the fear game creatures?" Ned asked in disbelief.

"Yep! And I guess y'all will be seeing him tonight" Tanezumi giggled before angrily pointing to the campfire room. "Now go explore elsewhere, you fruit loop dinguses!" and with that she disappeared.

"I hope we don't get picked for that fear game!" Ned gulped.

"We should probably try to find some batteries just in case, though. It worked in the movie 'It'." I told him.

"Yeah, you're right. I hope they let us bring weapons" Ned nodded.

We walked over to the campfire room. Uncle Grandpa was sitting on one of the logs crying and eating pages out of a book. I honestly didn't want to stay and talk with him, but Ned nudged me. I knew why too, though I wasn't sure if it would be the right time to be asking him about what we came here for.

"Hey Uncle Grandpa..." I greeted reluctantly.

"Hello, Kev" Uncle Grandpa sobbed, popping a page into his mouth.

"Hey listen, I know it may not be a good time to ask, but-" I began to ask, but Uncle Grandpa narrowed his eyes at me before interrupting.

"Is that what this is all about?" Uncle Grandpa asked me suspiciously.

"You know?" I asked.

Uncle Grandpa sighed before holding his forehead. "No no no, Kev. Listen, just give up on it. It's a dead issue."

"But-" Ned began to speak but Uncle Grandpa put his finger to his lips.

"No! Please! There's already enough trouble around here, we don't need any more." Uncle Grandpa told us before angrily stomping off with his book into another room.

I sighed and leaned up against the wall, pulling out a cigarette from my pocket. "I don't know how he knew, but I really don't like that answer."

"Yeah, bro, that was a complete bummer." Ned sighed.

I put the cigarette in my mouth before taking out my lighter. "There's more to this RV tour than he's letting us in on, and I intend to get to the bottom of it."

"Do you now?" I heard a voice ask. I looked over to see Villefoe grinning at me, a book in hand.  

"Yes, yes I do." I told him. "But what's it to you?"

"I just happened to overhear. Are you looking for something?" Villefoe asked.

"Yes, but it's nothing." I told him so he would stop pressing the issue.

"Very well" he seemed to get the hint. "Would you kindly share a lighter?" he asked before revealing a cigarette in his other hand.

"Sure, bro." I lit my cigarette before lighting his.  

"Thank you" the bear man nodded before walking away.  

That was a bit of a strange meeting, but I decided nothing would get done if I just stood in this room all day. I motioned for Ned to follow me into the next room, which was the famous kitchen/living room that is always shown on Uncle Grandpa's show. Tiger was in the kitchen with a robotic boy. It looked like they were cooking something.  

"Hey Tiny Miracle, could you pass me the butter?" Tiger asked.

"Sure thing!" the robotic boy handed her a stick of butter before she placed it in the bowl and began to furiously mix it.

She looked up at us, her bleak expression not changing. "I hope you don't want any cookies, because these are all for me."

"Tiger, perhaps we should share with the guests" Tiny Miracle suggested.

"I'm too stressed to share my cookies with the guests!" Tiger hissed. "They're all mine. And if Steve even comes near them I will personally eat him"

"I apologize for Miss Tiger's behavior, she is not in a good mood today" Tiny Miracle apologized for us.

"Understandably so" Ned nodded.

I saw Mr. Gus and Pizza Steve sitting on the couch. They looked pretty bummed out. I didn't really want to hear their complaints, though, so I just kept moving on. I followed the arrows into the next room, which looked like a giant dinner table with a bunch of chairs. I figured this is where we would eat our meals, if they feed us. I went on to the next room and found it was an arcade, which was pretty cool. Adam was on one of the arcade machines playing a game, of course. So was Nac, and unsurprisingly she was playing "Super Pizza Bros. 2". She was squealing the whole time too over the obviously ripped off game.

"I can't wait to upload screenshots to my website!" she giggled to herself

I shook my head. I saw Belly also playing a game. It still bothered me that he wasn't wearing a shirt. Not because he was chubby, but because he looked so out of place. I feel like an asshole for it bothering me as much as it did, but there's nothing I can do about it.

I went into the next room and saw a library. So far, this RV tour has been uneventful. I saw Anthony and Chester lost in the books they were reading. Celeste was in there too. She had climbed on top of a ladder to get to a book she wanted on the top shelf. She seemed to be struggling to reach it. Before I could offer any help, she began to lose her balance. She flailed her arms in a weak attempt to keep balance.

"Woah!" she squeaked.

I immediately rushed over to catch her.

"Hey! Be careful!" I told her as I caught her. "You could have gotten hurt, and that's the last thing we need right now."

She looked up at me. Her hair was flopped over enough that I could see her eyes, which were widened. Her cheeks were bright red. She let out a loud squeak before she put her sleeves over her face. I sighed.  

"Hey I know I look scary, but I'm not a monster! Stop being so scared of me!" I told her, trying to sound reassuring but sounding more annoyed instead.

"I-I'm not scared!" she buried herself deeper in her sleeves.

I gently put her down. Maybe she was embarrassed that she fell over?

"Do you want me to get the book for you?" I asked her.

She nodded.

I climbed up the ladder before looking down at her. "Which one is it?"

She pointed to the book she wanted and I took it down for her. After getting off the ladder I handed it to her.

"Here. Be careful next time. Ask for help when you need it." I told her.

She nodded before running away with her book covering her face.

"That was nice of you." Ned smiled.

"Yeah, being nice is punk rock" I told him, laughing.

Ned laughed with me.

We went on to the next room, which just seemed like a room full of bean bags. I saw Honey sitting on one of them and petting them, which I found a bit odd. But then I saw why she was petting it. It was an actual living creature.  

"What the heck?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Ssshh, not so loud! You don't want to startle them!" Honey told me.

"What are they?" Ned asked.

"Who knows? They're awfully cute though!" I saw Gabriella lying against one of the big creatures while cradling one of the smaller ones.

Austin stood in a corner of the room twiddling his fingers.

"I-I want to pet one, but I am afraid I will accidentally hurt it! I'm really clumsy!" he sighed.

"Just be careful when petting one" Honey reassured him. "You can do it!"

"Yeah, we believe in you!" Gabriella also reassured him.

Austin nodded before taking a gulp and crouching down to pet one of the creatures. Instead of successfully petting it, he ends up tripping over the creature some how, which frightened the creature and made it scurry away. Austin let out a sigh and buried his face in his hands.

"Aw man!" Austin sighed, feeling defeated.

I didn't really want to stick around to watch  Austin's failed attempts, so I went on to the next room. This room looked like a gym. I saw Bromanor and Xarna already lifting weights. They just got here and they are working out. I will never understand people who do that. I also saw Charlie bouncing around on one of the exercise balls, but I don't think he was trying to work out. Looked like he was just trying to play. He kept nudging the ball over to Xarna or Bromanor who would end up kicking it away and he'd just chase after it. Nothing too interesting here, so I went on to the next room, but rather than go into a room, I was met with a big locked door.

"Huh?" I scratched my head. "Why is this here?"

"I don't know,  I kind of want to know myself." I heard Mooon Man say. I looked over and saw him standing next to me looking at the door.

"As Tanezumi law states, you get access to more rooms when you kill each other" I heard Steve sigh from behind us. We looked over at him and he was leaning against the wall also holding what looked like a cigarette, but didn’t actually smell like one.

"So in order to look at the rest of the RV we have to kill?" I asked.

"Eeyup" Steve took a drag from the questionable cigarette. "I'm gonna try to override that though. That's ridiculous. You didn't come here to kill.  What the fuck does Tanezumi think this is? Literally no one wants to pay money to use a shitty app that should be free, clearly literally no one wants to kill people to look in another room. Sometimes I wonder why she comes up with this shit. If she wants money she's better off hosting bank heists" Pizza Steve laughed, exhaling a thick cloud of smoke. "It helped me buy the moon"

"You don't own the moon yet, you're still making payments" Mooon Man corrected him.

"I own the moon!"  Steve laughed again before taking a drag from what I now actually think is just a rolled up blunt. Was he seriously smoking marijuana?

"Lay off the oregano" Mooon Man gave him a smirk.

Steve made a kissy face to him in response before literally disappearing. I don't get it with these RV people and disappearing. Whatever.

"Oregano has the same effect on pizza people that marijuana has on humans." Mooon Man told me.

"So he was literally smoking oregano?" I asked in disbelief.

"Yeah." Mooon Man nodded.

"Nac would appreciate those factoids about him" I told him.

"No kidding" he giggled.  

Before we could do anything else, we heard a voice over the intercom.

"Attention everyone! Please report to the dining room!" a voice that sounded like Tiny Miracle's voice sounded.

I began to walk back to the dining room, with Ned and Mooon Man following behind me. Everyone piled into the dining room and sat down around the table. Tiny Miracle stood before us with a giant tray.

"Dinner is served!" he said.

"Dinner?  It's really that time?" Ned asked.

"Indeed!" Tiny Miracle told us. "It is 6 pm."

Tiny Miracle served us all plates of food, and strangely enough the plate I got was filled entirely with my favorite food. That freaked me out a bit. How did they know my favorite meals? First they have all of my usual stuff in my room, now they have my usual favorite foods too?

"Tanezumi will be in shortly to talk with all of you" Tiny Miracle told us before exiting the room.

"Wow! Chicken Nuggets for dinner? My favorite!" Nac giggled.

As everyone chowed away on their food. I just kinda picked at mine. Sure, I had a cheeseburger with crispy french fries on my plate, but I just wasn't in the mood to eat. There was too much going on. It seemed like everyone else was okay with the situation that has been presented, something just didn't feel right. Before I could get too lost in my thoughts, Tanezumi came in.

"Hello everyone I-" Tanezumi started before angrily crossing her arms. "Where the FUCK is Riley?"

Everyone immediately looked over at the empty chair where Riley should have been sitting.

"Maybe he didn't hear the announcement." Chester suggested.

"Someone get that asshole immediately!" Tanezumi hissed. "You were all specifically called to eat some goddamn food and listen to me talk!"

"Woah, hey, calm down." I told her. "He's probably in his room right now. He has agoraphobia."

"Well force him out of his room, then!" Tanezumi commanded. "He needs to get the fuck over himself."

"Hey, it's not easy getting over something like that!" Chester protested.  

"Yeah, give him a break!" Gabriella frowned.

"If you want, I can go bring him his food." Honey offered.

"NO!" Tanezumi slammed her hands on the table.

"Bring him out here NOW!" Tanezumi commanded again before pointing at me. "I want you to do it specifically!"

"Me?" I asked.

"You brought up the agoraphobia crap. Make him get over it!" Tanezumi hissed.

"I-" I went to protest, but she interrupted.

"If you do not get him I will MAKE SURE you are the first to experience the fear game tonight!" she threatened.

"Fine I'll go" I told her rolling my eyes and getting up.

"Good boy!" she encouraged me in a patronizing voice.

I sighed and walked down the hallway. I wanted to read the signs right this time, so when I was sure no one was watching I put on my glasses. That was a mistake because as soon as I did I saw Pizza Steve stumbling down the other side of the hallway and I knew he saw me. He approached me and looked me right in the face with a confused look.  He lowered his sunglasses before putting them back up.  

"Bro, you look like a fucking genius!" he told me before laughing.

"Excuse me?" I asked.

He just laughed in my face in response and stumbled away, taking a swig of what I assumed to be alcohol from a bottle he was holding. He was also still smoking oregano. There's something very wrong with that guy.

I walked over to the split hallways and read the signs. Riley was in the pink hallway from what the sign said, so I went down there and knocked on his door. When I was sure it was his door I took my glasses off.

"Hey Riley, Tanezumi wants all of us to attend dinner" I told him.

"No please! I can't!" Riley pleaded with me through the door. "Please don't make me come out!"

"It's okay, Riley. It's just dinner! They're serving everyone's favorites.  I bet they have your favorite." I tried to reassure him.

"I-I'm not hungry! Please!" Riley told me.

"C'mon! We're gonna get in trouble if you don't come!" I was getting a little impatient.

"Since when did you care about that?" Riley asked me.

"Since the fear games were announced I really don't want to get chased around by shitty monsters in the RV it seems stupid!" I hissed back. "Now c'mon!"

Riley cracked open his door and he peered through the crack. "Steve isn't here is he?"

"No, why?" I asked.

"Something is following him! I see it! He's trying to find me!"  Riley began to cry.

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"You wouldn't understand. Just PLEASE keep me away from Steve. I don't want that thing to see me!" Riley instructed me.

"Alright I'll make sure Steve leaves you alone! Just c'mon!" I reassured him.

"Thank you!" Riley nodded before opening his door. He checked all around before quickly coming out and shutting the door. He held onto my jacket as if hiding from the world.  

I sighed and moved forward. Slowly but surely we would get there. I saw Steve stumbling into another room, which is good because  I don't need Riley seeing him and freaking out. I wonder what he meant by the thing following Steve? I don't see anything. Maybe that was Riley's extreme fears talking.

I got into the dining room and showed Riley to his chair. He quickly sat down and avoided eye contact with everyone. I returned to my seat as well.

"Now that you're all here, I have a few things I wanna go over..." Tanezumi began
Long chapter is long
what the heckle deckle is following Pizza Steve???? Is Riley just crazy???? Who even knows?????

Sarah Nac and Tanezumi (c) Me
Villefoe (c) Staticman5000
Celeste Beaumont (c) Shenanistorm
Yvonne "Honey" Smith (c) TheAwesomeGirl
Chester Warbler Zarke (c) PoochysCabinet
Everyone Else (c) Peter Browngardt

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Death On Wheels: Chapter 4
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pumpkinxspice's avatar
I'm laughing at Steve so much lol
Also I see my bby Hon is bein her good 'ol nicewad self haha