Getting Out Alive: Chapter 30

"Wake up you little shits! The amusement park is now open! Enjoy the festivities of the day before our closing time!"


Tanezumi's voice chimed as irritatingly as the bell that sounded before the announcement. I sat up and rubbed my head. I felt a bit foggy, but I figured that would all go away once I got ready. I freshened up and got dressed and immediately went out to meet everyone for breakfast. I was a little early, but that was okay because last time I was late and that upset Mr. Gus. Mr. Gus is the last person I want to upset or disappoint. He's trying his best to keep everyone together and safe and I would not want to go against that.


I arrived to the cafeteria and I found that I was the only one in there besides Tiny Miracle who was cooking breakfast. I found it odd, because I figured Mr. Gus or at least The Fart would have been here. Maybe I was earlier than I really thought. I decided to pass the time by talking to Tiny Miracle. Seeing him there cooking alone gave him this sense of isolation and I felt awful for him.


I approached the robotic boy and greeted him with a good morning.


"Good Morning, Mary" Tiny Miracle greeted me.


"How are you today?" I asked him.


"I am doing quite well. How about you?" he asked me, continuing to cook breakfast.


"A little worried about everything and scared for my life, but other than that I'm okay..." I shrugged.


"Do not fear or worry, the clock is ticking and the time will surely come" Tiny Miracle told me as he flipped an omelet.


Though I was not sure what he meant, I felt my heart sink with that statement.


"W-What do you mean?" I asked him.


"Avoiding punishment is never a good thing." he told me archaically.


"I'm sorry, I don't understand" the more he talked, the more creeped out I would get.


"I am programmed not to tell" Tiny Miracle told me.


"Sworn to secrecy? By who?" I asked.


"You are asking for confidential information that I cannot give you. Mary, may I suggest you please be mindful of your curiosity?"


I took a deep breath in, attempting to calm my now pounding heart. Though I didn't learn much from the conversation, it left me even more terrified than I already was.


"I'm sorry" I was able to squeak out.


"Apology accepted. Please sit down and wait for breakfast to complete." he instructed me.


I nodded and did as he said. I regret speaking with the robotic boy, but there's nothing I can do now. I awkwardly sat and waited for everyone else to come in.


Soon enough, The Fart came prancing in with his clipboard. He smiled and waved to me.


"Good Morning, Mary! You are quite early!" he giggled.


"I didn't want to disappoint Mr. Gus like I did yesterday by being late" I told him.


"You are a really good gal, Mary!" he smiled at me as he sat down.


I waited some more, and watched as more people piled in to the cafeteria.


Billy. Eric. Susie. Dennis.


Waited a little more. I started to panic as I saw the late comers come in.


Slog. Gweelok. Ham Sandwich. Izzie.


Where was Mr. Gus? He's always early! On top of that, where is Tiger, Ramona, and Steve?


"Alright, let's all do a role ca-" Fart began, but I interrupted him.


"Where is Mr. Gus, Pizza Steve, Tiger, and Ramona?" I asked as I slammed my hands on the table in panic.


Everyone else began to panic too as they looked around for them.


"I knew we were missing people! I just wanted to role call to be sure, though! It's what Mr. Gus would have done!" Fart exclaimed as he slapped his hands on his cheeks.


"We need to look for them immediately!!!" I shouted out.


"WHAT IF THEY'RE DEAD?!?" Slog cried.


"Don't panic yet, let's just look for them!" Billy reassured him. "Maybe they got caught up!"


Billy didn't look too sure, though. We immediately all went separate ways looking around for our missing friends. I looked around in the library and found nothing. When I exited, I heard Susie's high pitched scream. I ran in the direction I heard it coming from and found that it was coming from the casino building. I saw everyone else running toward the casino building. As I entered I saw everyone crowding around the strange tiled area. When I was able to push through and see what was going on, I couldn't believe my own eyes.


The horrible sight in front of me was too much to bear. Billy dropped to his knees as his jaw hung agape.


"No..." Billy sobbed.


The sight on the tiled floor in front of us was Pizza Steve, Mr. Gus, Tiger, and Ramona perfectly laid out in a circle formation within a largely drawn Ursidae Congregation symbol that we saw in one of their bibles. Mr. Gus, Tiger, and Ramona all had their throats slashed and they were lying in a puddle of their own blood. Steve, on the other hand, had cuts up and down his arms. There were candles that looked like they had been lit at one point carefully placed within certain spots of the weird symbol circle.
The television immediately flashed on and Tanezumi's announcement began to ring throughout the room.


"We just found a body~ We just found a body~ We just found a body~ I wonder who killed it!"


That announcement sounded exactly three times before the television shut off and Tanezumi appeared in the room and shoved the autopsy report into Fart's hands.


"Here's your report! You know the drill!" she told us.


"B-But..." Fart was thumbing through the autopsy reports.


"You're a walking butt and fart joke, we know!" Tanezumi laughed in his face.


"Be quiet! I am not making potty jokes!" Fart told her sternly. "I am pointing out an discrepancy in this report!"


"What discrepancy?" Tanezumi rolled her eyes.


"Where's the report on Pizza Steve?" he asked. "We only have Gus, Tiger, and Ramona!"


Tanezumi laughed. "Nobody gives a fuck about Pizza Steve! He doesn't even count as a person, don't worry about it."


Billy got up angrily.


"I CARE you sack of shit!" Billy gritted through his teeth. "However much of a pain in the ass Pizza Steve could be, he was my friend and I cared about him!"


Just then, we heard a loud wail coming from behind us. It was Uncle Grandpa. He was mourning beside Pizza Steve's body.


"PIZZA STEVE NOOOOOO!!!" Uncle Grandpa cried out, tears streaming down his face and mucus coming out of his nose. He immediately shot an angry look at Tanezumi. "You! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS?!? PIZZA STEVE MEANT EVERYTHING TO ME!"


Tanezumi smiled. "I didn't do it! You can blame one of your precious friends on this one. Someone betrayed you, and I find that fucking hilarious!"


"YOU ARE TRULY EVIL!!!" Uncle Grandpa cried as he hugged Pizza Steve's body.


"I will see to it that you suffer for an eternity!" Billy hissed at Tanezumi.


"HA! Good luck with that, Bilbo!" Tanezumi laughed as she flipped him and Uncle Grandpa off before disappearing.


Uncle Grandpa sobbed.


"My closest RV friends.... they're dead!" Uncle Grandpa cried. "No more Mr. Gus. No more Tiger. No more Pizza Steve!"


Uncle Grandpa sobbed uncontrollably as he held onto Pizza Steve's body.


"Hold on a minute!" Izzie interrupted.


"No I can't... the people I loved are dead" Uncle Grandpa sobbed.


Izzie sighed before pushing Uncle Grandpa out of the way and grabbing Pizza Steve's wrist.


"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HIM?!?!" Uncle Grandpa panicked.


"Shut up!" she hissed. She continued to hold onto Pizza Steve's wrist firmly before letting go and turning to us.


"Fart, do you remember the discrepancy you pointed out in the autopsy reports?" she asked.


"Yes! Pizza Steve's autopsy report is missing!" he nodded and told us.


Izzie nodded and put her arm around Uncle Grandpa. "Now, of course this isn't going to be good news for Mr. Gus and Tiger, and you couldn't give two shits about Ramona, but I do have good news for you, my Uncle and Grandfather."


"Now what exactly do you mean?" he asked her.


"Look at your poor friend Mr. Gus. Look at your poor friend Tiger. Look at the disgustoid gal you don't really care abou-" Izzie was telling him, but Uncle Grandpa interrupted.


"Hey I care about Ramona too! I just wasn't as close to her as I was to the others" Uncle Grandpa told her sternly.


"Anyways! Notice on them something we don't see on Steve?" she asked him.


He squinted. "Hmm... is the answer about how Steve is not wearing any underwear?"


"What? No!" Izzie smacked her palm against her forehead. "Look closely, and you can see that Mr. Gus, Tiger, and Ramona all have their throats slit. But if you look at Pizza Steve, he does not. Pizza Steve is the only one with an intact throat and he is not swimming in a puddle of his own blood like the others are."


"But his wrists! Look how slashed up they are!" Uncle Grandpa pointed out.


"Yeah so? Someone cut up his wrists, but other than that Pizza Steve is fine. He's alive, just unconscious. That's why he doesn't have an autopsy report."


Uncle Grandpa screeched out in complete joy.


"HE'S ALIVE!!! HE'S ALIVE!!!!!" he celebrated.


"Uncle Grandpa, though that is very good news, we should not celebrate. Mr. Gus, Tiger, and Ramona are dead!" Billy reminded him.


"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Uncle Grandpa began to cry again. "I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE MY HEART IS TOO BROKEN TO GO ON!" Uncle Grandpa ripped his heart out of his chest, threw it on the ground, and disappeared. Uncle Grandpa was not joking when he said his heart was broken. It was literally torn in half lying on the floor. What the hell is even going on anymore?


"Anyways, I am a doctor!" Izzie said as she broke out her doctor's kit. "I'm going to administer some smelling salts"


Everyone watched her as she put the salt substance under Pizza Steve's nose. Pizza Steve immediately bolted up holding his nose.


"AAAHHH MY NOSE IT BURNS!!!" Pizza Steve screamed.


"Calm the fuck down! You'll be fine! You were unconscious I had to wake you up somehow." Izzie scolded him.


"What happened?" Pizza Steve rubbed his head before realizing he had cuts up and down his arms. "What the...?"


He stared at his cuts before immediately getting up.


"Slow down! You just woke up, take it easy!" Izzie scolded him.


Pizza Steve took a quick look around him and immediately noticed Mr. Gus, Tiger, and Ramona dead on the floor. He let out a loud scream and dropped back down to the floor again.


"NO NO NO NO NOOOO!" he screamed, taking off his sunglasses and letting them fall beside him. Pizza Steve began violently sobbing and crying profusely. "NO!"


He tried his best to gather up his friends and lie their heads into his lap.


"No no no!!! NO!" he mourned over their bodies.


"Steve..." Billy put his hand on his shoulder.


"I am such a fucking asshole!" he cried. "I am a huge fucking jerk and I failed everybody!"


"Steve..." Billy tried to comfort him.


"I was too focused on myself because I was afraid of what was going to happen to me! I forgot to stop and care for my friends! I was too busy pushing them away and now they're gone!!!!" he sobbed.


Steve lifted up Mr. Gus's head and leaned his own head against his. "Mr. Gus.... if I could take back all the shit I've put you through and every terrible thing I've said to you and about you I would. I always admired you, I always wanted you to see me how I see you. Instead, I hurt you and now you're gone and you still have no idea..." he wept into Mr. Gus's fluffy green curls.


Steve ran his fingers through Tiger's hair. "Tiger has always protected me and looked out for my best interest. I never showed enough appreciation to her and she's gone and has no idea how much I care..."


He put down Mr. Gus and picked up Ramona's head, burying his face into her light blue hair. "Ramona always tried to understand me and would always be there for me no matter what. I had to go scare her and make her cry and now she's gone without knowing how sorry I am to do that to her and without knowing how much I care for her!" He began to bawl again.


"I FORGOT TO TELL THEM I LOVED THEM AND NOW THEY'RE GONE!" Pizza Steve let out in a shrill voice as he cried.


Billy forced Steve to look at him before smacking him hard across the face, tears also in his eyes. "STEVE!"


Steve stayed silent for a moment before turning his head back to Billy and rubbing his cheek. "Thank you. I needed that. I was pretty hysterical..."


Billy hugged him. "I know you loved and cared about them in your own special and strange way and I'm sure they knew that too. I know it's hard, those were our friends." Billy released the hug but continue to hold onto Pizza Steve's shoulders. "Right now, we need to start investigating and find out who did this to our friends. Once we find out, we will avenge them by making sure the murderer gets what they deserve!"


Pizza Steve nodded. "Y-You're right..." Pizza Steve broke away from him, picked up his sunglasses, and immediately put them on. He balled up his fists and shouted, "Let's do this!"