A half-eaten, mutilated tentacle zombie was screeching in terror as it desperately tried to move away from the terrifying figure that was currently consuming the lower half of its body. The majority of the tentacles on its head were ripped off, and one of its bladed arms was missing.
It stabbed the spike on its elbow into the ground in front of it to drag its remaining upper body forward. It shivered as it heard the sounds of gnashing and tearing from behind it. Suddenly, the sounds of eating ceased and footsteps echoed out in the quiet surroundings.
The tentacle zombie resumed its screeching as it felt its head being lifted off the ground. The screaming became gurgling noises as its head was severed from its neck. The dying tentacle zombie's head was turned to face its killer and saw glowing green eyes before everything faded to blackness.
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Kain blinked as he looked at his surroundings. What just happened? One minute I was chasing after the 3rd fleeing zombie, and I felt this overwhelming feeling. Did I become unconscious again? How come I didn't appear in the dream world?
Kain looked at the ground and saw the shriveled head of a dead tentacle zombie. Where was the rest of its body? How come all the tentacles on its head are…gone?
Kain licked his lips as he felt a weird icky feeling in the back of his throat. He checked out the rest of his body, but found that his clothes were entirely ruined, with large parts missing. He hurriedly checked for any wounds, but didn't find any.
Kain weirdly felt…sated. Like he had just ate the most fulfilling meal. He felt…amazing. Kain checked if his powers changed at all and connected to his tentacle zombie powers. He quickly noticed that his control over his powers magnified by several factors. The tentacles didn't come out near his legs or his head. He focused his will and a tentacle came out of the palm of his hand.
What could these tentacles do? Just as he thought that, he noticed the suction on the tentacles. He put his other hand up to the tentacle and he felt an extremely strong suction force latch on to his other hand. He had to will it to let go and it made a pop noise as it did.
Kain looked up at the branch of a tall tree and had an idea. He willed the tentacle to stretch toward the branch, and it shot up and latched on. Then, he willed the tentacle to shorten and he zoomed up toward the branch.
He saw that he was going to overshoot the branch so he unlatched the tentacle and catapulted through the air over several trees. He connected to his wind power and slowed his descent, but still created a mini-crater when he landed.
When he summoned his elbow blade, it shimmered in the dark and looked even sharper. He turned his arm elastic and was able to attack with the blade from various angles that a normal human arm couldn't.
Finally, he checked out his radiation detection ability and it covered a vastly larger area than the first time he checked it. He was about to disconnect, but he noticed something deep in the earth. It was miles deep in the ground and it was like a moving green sun.
In comparison, the other green lights around him on the surface were like fireflies. Whatever it was, it was humongous and fast. It quickly moved out of Kain's detection range and disappeared.
Kain shook his head and wondered what that was, but then he quickly noticed two green lights dashing quite a distance from him. For some reason, he knew it was Barton and Desmond. He quickly changed his ruined clothing, and put on new ones.
He then turned on his comm link and then heard a familiar voice, "Dang, I totally feel like I leveled up. I can't wait to see Kain's face when he sees me."
A smile broke out on Kain's face as he yelled into his comm link, "Barton! Desmond! It is me Kain! I am near you two!"
"O thank God, Kain…you don't know the garbage I had to put up with the last few days. Get over here quick and distract this motor mouth for a bit, will ya?" cried out Desmond over the comm link.
"Hey, that's so not fair. How come you spoke more words just now to Kain, than the entire two days you were with me? Are you guys fucking lovers or something?" yelled out Barton.
Both Desmond and Kain were speechless and couldn't say anything, but Kain quickly noticed something with his power and yelled, "Guys, I think something is coming your way fast."
"Oh shit, the ground is shaking." said Barton.
"This can't be good." said Desmond in a resigned voice.
*SQUEEAAALLLL*
"MOTHERFUCKER, WHY IS THE SHITHEAD COMING AT ME?? GO AFTER HIM! HIM!!" yelled a desperate Barton.
Kain heard crashing noises and what sounded like an epic battle through the comm link. He hurriedly started launching himself from branches with his tentacles toward where he sensed the battle was occurring.
Kain had closed the distance between them by half when he felt the trembling in the ground. He was just about to say he was almost there over the comm link, when he heard Desmond's calm voice:
"Take your time Kain. I think Barton is fine."
"Wait, why do you sound so calm? I still hear a huge struggle in the background." asked Kain.
"I was going to help out, but Barton said to stay back. He said he wanted to personally teach it a lesson for targeting him. I think he accidentally turned off his comm link, otherwise, you would be hearing the obscenities coming out of his mouth. He is currently running away from the squealer while turning to slap its face every once in a while. I actually feel infuriated for the squealer." responded Desmond.
Kain was shaking his head as he was catapulting through the air. He finally arrived and saw what Desmond was talking about. The moon was full and revealed a devastated clearing where Barton was running from the squealer. Barton was running in his transformed state and suddenly, he turned quickly to slap the rampaging squealer in the face, before turning to yell, "haha, can't catch me you stupid pig."
The infuriated squealer seemed to have a fire lit under its butt as it wanted nothing more than to impale its prey to death.
Kain saw Desmond standing calmly off to the side with his arms crossed under a tree. He walked up next to him and watched silently as well.
Barton was getting bored of slapping the squealer and was going to ask Desmond to help him kill it. He then saw Kain and brightened up before yelling out, "Kain! You are here! Watch me mess up this…"
The squealer saw its opportunity and launched itself at the distracted Barton, knocking him to the ground. In its hurry, it attempted to impale Barton, but missed and hit the left butt cheek.
*DONG* *SNAP*
*SQUEEAAALLLL*
"EEAAYYOOWWWW!!"
Both Barton and the squealer cried out in pain. Barton for his sore left butt cheek, and the squealer for its broken penis. Barton was furious and had stood up to slam down kicks on the pig's groin.
"DOOORRRYYAAAA!!"
*WHAM**WHAM**WHAM**
Both Kain and Desmond chuckled as they shook their heads. Kain walked up to help Barton put the squealer out of its misery. However, when Barton saw Kain approaching, he threw a few more well-placed kicks to stun the squealer and rushed up to Kain while sniffling…was he…actually crying?
"Kain, brother….you… consider me your friend, right? I ask of you this one time, for the biggest of favors. Please, don't refuse me!" said a still furious Barton.
"Um…of course. Tell me what you want?" replied Kain.
"Give me your rifle and every single one of your magic bullets." said Barton.
Kain knew Barton needed to do…whatever he was planning to do, so he handed over his rifle along with all of his magic bullets. He then backed away, giving Barton some space.
Barton immediately loaded every single one of the magic bullets, while mumbling, "You dare try to fuck me…now my friends will always remember seeing what happened…I'll make you pay."
When he was locked and loaded, he immediately unloaded point blank into the squealer's groin.
*BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM*
*SQUEEAAALLLL*
"Oh, you are still alive?? Then, take some of your own medicine!!" yelled Barton.
He promptly shoved the gun barrel up the squealer's butt and pulled the trigger.
*BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM*
The first shot caused the stomach to explode, the second shot blew out its midsection, the third shot exploded the squealer's head, and the fourth shot was wasted as it shot through the squealer's body to explode a tree in the distance.
*CLICK**CLICK**CLICK*
Barton was finally satisfied and removed the gun to give it back to Kain. Kain just waved and said, "I don't want that anymore, just throw it on the ground." Barton complied and threw it on the ground.
Barton took a quick look around and saw it was somewhat bright in the valley with the moonlight, but he figured that maybe Kain and Desmond didn't see exactly what happened. He quickly grabbed the back of his left knee and complained, "Ugh, what a bastard. He got me pretty good down here...oww…let me just shake it off for a bit."
Kain knew Barton was pretending to protect his pride, so he didn't say anything.