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  CLANK!!

 

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   It’s over…they’re finally done. They finally get to rest. The spikes digging into their head, the smell of blood and rust having no difference, the pain, the wires going through their hand, the blood staining their clothes. The regret of not saving everyone. It’s all gone.

 

  

  Charlie sat up almost instantly, looking around the room, a room with knives, a gun here and there, a bat, an axe…an axe? Charlie knew he was revived again. He was alone again, he got up expecting to feel some pain but nothing. He walked around and picked up the axe, he remembered it…Ranboo! He remembered Ranboo! Did they escape? Are they safe? Maybe he could leave too!

  Charlie ran out of the room with weapons with the axe in hand, he had to find Ranboo. He had to, “Ranboo! Are you still here?!” Charlie shouted, his yells echoed through the mall, “It’s me, Charlie!” He stopped walking when he saw an exit sign above a door, should he just leave? There was no one around, no employees, no Hetch, no of that weird body of wires, he might as well.

  He walked into the room expecting it to be an actual exit, only to see small blood on the floor, he immediately began to feel worried, that could be anyone’s blood right? He needed just to get out of there. He continued with his eyes looking to the ground to avoid anything in sight, he looked up when he thought he heard something…someone familiar… then he saw them. Against the wall, wires going through their hands and legs, wires tied to their waist, their limp body, the blood-stained clothes and skin, the box. This is a joke right..? This isn’t real…? This can’t be real… Charlie covered his mouth with his hands as he felt tears filling his eyes. He went to the controls nearby and pressed the button with the word ‘release’ in bold letters. The box opened and it showed Ranboo’s face, their broken mask, and a lot of blood. Charlie went over to Ranboo, cutting the wires with the axe, and then dropping it when he caught Ranboo’s body before falling.

  “R-Ranboo…? You're still here…? Please..don’t go, I don’t want to fucking do this alone. I thought you made it…” he said panicking and crying, “I saw you press the button…why are you still here? You could’ve been outside with Niki or, or…anyone else.. you can’t go-“ he was interrupted as he heard a way too familiar voice.

 

   ”ah, Charlie…I see you’ve awakened again, and met a friend…” why was Hetch here? He should be dead, they saw him dying for fuck’s sake! “Unfortunately Ranboo was chosen to die, but our viewers' choices weren’t really interesting to me so I took matters into my own hands.”

   ”what the  fuck  those that mean..?” Charlie let go of Ranboo’s body and stood up to walk over to Hetch, his voice was filled with fear and anger, “What the hell did you do to them…?”

    Hetch only laughed at Charlie’s response, feeling no regrets about his decision in the last episode. It made Charlie snap.

   Charlie was pissed, he grabbed the axe and swung it into Hetch’s abdomen. Tears ran down his face, Hetch’s scream was filled with pain until dropping to the floor when he was unconscious. Charlie didn’t bother to watch, he immediately went back to Ranboo’s body as he hugged them tightly, “I’m sorry…I’m so..so sorry…” Charlie didn’t care that all he smelled was blood, he cried into Ranboo’s shoulder. It was impossible for him to think the person who would help him more than themselves die. He knew Ranboo had a chance to be reseted and brought back but that was in the future…not now.

 

   Charlie took the body out of the room and back into the place where he woke up, he rested Ranboo on the floor using a bulletproof vest as their pillow. He went and sat against the wall as he fell asleep after crying, only to have a nightmare all over again…

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Wake up… wake up Charlie… Charlie…CHARLIE-

Charlie woke up and jolted up, remembering what happened yesterday with Hetch and Ranboo. wait. Where’s Ranboo? Ranboo was sleeping? Weren’t they dead? They’re alive? But their head… they couldn’t have survived that...

Charlie got up and put on the bulletproof vest that he decided to use as a pillow, it was uncomfortable but he had nothing else. He walked left and right, with no sign of Ranboo… Charlie knew he shouldn’t have slept, what if the employees took them? Or Hetch came back again and took them himself?! Charlie didn’t want Ranboo to get hurt; he ran out of the room, running through the halls of the abandoned mall that took him away from the outside world, and didn’t stop running. His eyes darted from door to door, searching for any sign of his masked friend.

Waking up was not something to enjoy when you’re in a place like showfall, his eyes opened slowly but he winced in slight coldness as he saw that he was surrounded with blood… he started to remember… the shark thing, the cabin, a weird slime demon talking upstairs as he was stuck in a cage with a plastic skeleton… his name ‘Sneegsnag’ or ‘Sneeg’ is what everyone called him.

Sneeg got off the floor and squeezed some of the blood that stained his hoodie. It still stained but at least the extra blood was out, god the smell made him want to throw up; the smell of blood hating him more than anything. Sneeg walked around the mall, the windows cracked, the mannequin’s limb in the stores broken and so were the clothes, passing the room where his friends died. Why didn’t I react? Their screams were loud enough right…? No. Don’t think about that right now, main job: get out of this place before you die. Again.

Sneeg barely got out of deep thought before someone ran into him causing both of them to collapse to the cold dirty floor, looking up to see a familiar face in front of him. CHARLIE?!

“CHARLIE?! YOU’RE STILL HERE!?” Sneeg yelled shockingly before helping Charlie up. “Jesus Christ man! Um, what happened…? You look… scared…”

Charlie chuckled before nodding, “Long story… very long story.”

Charlie explained the entire story to Sneeg, waking up in a weapon room, finding Ranboo AGAIN only to find them dead, taking them back to the room he woke up in, waking up to find them gone. It was all so confusing yet so worrying.

Sneeg talked in a kinder to,ne than the voice he used back in the show ”I’ll help you find him, and we’ll find him Charlie.” Seeing Charlie nod made him happy he believed him, now he had to believe himself for this.

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“It’s weird…I got so used to an employee following us around with a damn camera…” Charlie said nervously, he wasn’t but was use to the chases and followings of the employees, “Sneeg…before I came back…how was Ranboo…?”

Sneeg responded with a neutral tone, “Well… he kinda just acted…normal? I’m not sure man…I’m pretty sure he wasn’t even was even sane at that point…they were stressing the entire time!” Sneeg said, now a bit more of a stressed tone. Sneeg was worried for Ranboo, especially since Ranboo was probably just walking around, probably on risk of getting attacked by anything that Hetch threw at them all.

“Where am I…?” Ranboo mumbled to themself, walking around the old dusty mall. They barely remember anything…a few people but their face were blurry, a mean voice that talked to him in a cold hearted way. “Hello! Anyone here…!?” They said a little more louder, but no answer.

Ranboo walked up the non-working escalators hoping to find someone, once he got up to the second floor they only saw a small rat, which he found interest in, crouching down to the small rat and smiling at it, but only a corner of their face was show since the mask was slightly broken off…they petted the rat with their nail gently, the rat liked them and climb up their arm and rested on their shoulder. Only to hear a yell soon after…

”RANBOO!”

Ranboo turned immediately to see two familiar people that ran up and spoke in a panic/worried tone.

”Ranboo are you okay?!” 

”Why did you leave before I woke up?!”

”Did Hetch do anything to you?!”

”How did your mask break?!”

All Ranboo could do was stare at the two, not knowing who they were…only to mutter out in a soft voice, and feeling the rat climb more securely on their shoulder…

”I’m sorry…but who are you two…?”

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Guys this is just a small announcement, I might not continue this fic, I have no ideas left so that’s why they’re always so short chapters. I’m sure no one really cares but I still wanted to say this just in case like, 1 person actually liked this. Full credits to the person who gave me permission to write this though! Sorry I couldn’t continue with it.

Edit1: I feel like in the mood to write about this again, actually good this time though. I might, also might not. I have a few other stories in mind so if you want to hear about them I might post them. <3

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I kinda want to re-write about this again, actually good this time though. I might, also might not. I have a few other stories in mind so if you want to hear about them I might post them. <3

Btw thank you for reading this even though my writing skills definitely need work and yeah ★