Post #74 [Zero X. Diamond]

Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :

Everyone had neglected to notice that Bob was unconcious in the corner, with the exception of Sandra and Nebiroth. They quietly discussed it with each other.

"Well," Sandra inquired, "What should we do?"

"Take Bob somewhere to heal." Nebiroth instructed.

[Well, duh. XD But in seriousness here, this was more due to how ZXD was using Sandra and Nebi. :P]

Sandra looked at him a bit oddly. He'd obviously been hanging around with Bob a little too long. She walked over to Zac and tapped him lightly on the shoulder.

"Excuse me, but where's the infirmary?"

"Oh, it's down the hall, third door on the right. Why?"

["We got a near-dead dude here."]

"If you haven't noticed, Bob's playing hero nearly got him killed, and if we don't get him there, he might die anyways."

"Oh, yeah. I kinda forgot..."

[XD "I kinda forgot..." Again, the way ZXD rolls with things. :P]

Sandra looked at him, a little annoyed at his carelessness. Someone was nearing death, and he completely forgot about them. He saw the look and immediately opened the doors for her.

[ROFL. If only ZXD understood at the time he wrote that what kind of havoc can happen when you anger Sandra enough to give someone that look in reality. :O]

Bob was lying there, motionless as ever. While he was being dragged to the infirmary, something was amiss in his head, and it wasn't just his brain...

[Really? How can you tell anyways, dear narrator? :P]

He awoke in a dirty, roach-infested room. The ceiling had cracks, the floor had creaks and the drywall had several punctures in it. And in the center, there was a crib, gently rocking. He took a closer look at the crib, revealing something he hadn't seen in forever.

It was himself as a small child.

[OMIGOD. A baby homicidal killer! Toys of the world were probably scared crapless of Bob as a little tyke. XD]

And he was just as he could recollect. Small, scrawny, hair matted even as it was just coming in. He smiled gently as he placed himself back in the crib. He opened the door and stepped out.

He immediately began falling. He landed in a heap of flowers, out of which emerged several hippies. They all stared at him. Then one spoke.

[Hippies? Of the normal kind, or the EarthBound kind? :o]

"He is the evil one, man! He has been sent by the system to destroy us!"

[I will not comment. >.>]

"Uh... what are you talking about?"

"What'd I tell you, man!? He's preaching the words of the system, man!!"

[Hippie-dude... you're really hopped up on goofballs, man!!]

The hippies suddenly gained executioner's masks. [LOLWUT?!] They converged on him like vultures on a carcass. This was getting weird. Then, as they came towards him with their flower covered halberds, a voice began reading him letters from the Zodiac Killer in his head.

[Um.... whaaaaaa.....ttt? @_@]

"... I am the Zodiac Killer. The police will never catch me. I am too smart for them..."

[The Zodiac Killer is a famous and supposably un-appriended killer of sorts. I don't know much else beyond that anymore. ZXD told me some things about him/her/it back when he wrote the post, but I don't remember most of it anymore. :\]

He clutched his head and screamed. It seemed to bring him more and more anger. He reached to pull out his knife, and felt the hilt. But when he pulled it out, the hilt was attatched to a wet noodle.

"ARGH!! WHAT IS THIS CRAP!?"

[You know what Bob, you and I have the same reaction for once. :o]

Bob began falling again, now landing in front of a shining ray of light. This was where it really got weird.

"Bob... can you hear me?" boomed a deep, echoing voice.

["God, is that you?"]

"Uh... yeah... Who is this?"

"Bob, listen to me. You have a power only you understand. You have courage. You have cunning. You have a certain... random consitency. Believe in yourself, Bob... And now, back to your regularly scheduled dream."

[No less weird than the rest of the dream, now only in the form of disembodied voices! :D]

"But wait, who are y-"

He was cut off there as he was flung into another hole. This time, he was in a room full of pictures of Sandra. In the middle was a spinning stool. He sat down and began to look at them all.

[One can only honestly wonder about the nature of the pictures he mentions. Probably nothing 'bad' or anything like that, just probably general pictures of her. It shows how much Bob's mind is really on her at this point in time. XD]

Back in reality, Bob was rapidly recovering. The chamber was really doing its job. He would be rejoining them soon enough. A sign appeared in front of Bob in his dream world.

"You have reached the end of your dream." it stated, quite clearly.

[Man, I wish I had a sign that did that when it was time for me to wake up. It'd get rid of the need for my non-useful alarm clock. D:]

"Beg your pardon?"

"You," it said, much slower. "Have reached the end of your dream. Time to wake up."

["Duh. Did you... not hear... me the... last time?" :P]

"Oh, okay."

With that, he woke up, feeling better than new. It was almost as if that dream had raised his morale. Ah well, it didn't matter. What did matter is that he was back and ready for action.

[And yet watch him get into another bind within 5 more minutes. ;D]

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