i had a weird dream tonight, so i was in the middle of the woods just hanging out being dudes with some random guy ill call kyle, and moist critical, we were climbing the weird trees and rocks n shit and found this deep cataclysm with bridges on the edges, they were somehow on the other side and i was like, "dude you know i cant make that jump." then i looked down and saw the other bridge much closer to me, i get on that one and i brings us to this house in the middle of the woods,the trees and grass were so greenvery lushbut the house was greyvery greyit contrasted alotthen we entered the houseit was abandoned, but not dilapidated, i felt it was recently moved out of, there was still stuff in the cabinets, kyle even grabbed this shot glass from oneeverything was fun acctualywe were just exploring the housebut then we got to the staircaseand moist critical had ran that waybut when me and kyle got there, i saw a shadow at the top of the stairs run past, and the door at the bottom of the stairs close shut...i chose the doori open it and go insidein it was this fucked up toddlerit was short but very mennacingit wouldent have been so scary if it haddent been for the dark room that had the tinyest about of light, i could see everything in the room somehow even tho there were no windows, the monster stands up, it looked to be about 4-5ft it was bassicaly human other than the fact its eyes were way to far apartand the grin was way to widei just stood thereso did itthen i woke up

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It was a summer noon like any other, me sitting in my crappy office chair drinking some ice-cold cola, reading todays paper, specifically the comic section, but that's not the important part. "Knock Knock" the door to my office said as my partner and longtime friend Peir walks through, sweat dripping down his face, "Dude, your vans just been stolen!", I drop my cola, shattering the glass, and my mind. the world seemed to be a bit darker without my van, the chief said I should sit this one out, kept sayin I was too close to the case, I knew he was right, but I was never going to listen to him, we all knew that. the tire marks of my home on wheels, driving away from the safety of the police parking lot, witnesses kept saying i was the one that got in the van, wouldn't be too hard to fake my looks, I wear a crusader helmet after all.

With my wheels stolen we had to do it the old-fashioned way, maybe I should lay off the soda, "So, Peir, we need to get a list of suspects, the usuals I bet.", I look at my map, thank God I had a spare in my office, and I look at where we could find our first suspects, Hellfire and his dame the Toaster. They were busted back 6 years for smuggling foreign sentient appliances, drunk Russian microwaves, yappy Chinese fridges, the whole mix. turns out they had been running a speak easy, the cops knew of this, of course, they get free booze if they keep their mouths shut, the same basic crook cops and the same basic illegal alcohol makers. I open the door, gangsters littered the bar, thinking back I was lucky I still had my chest hole free. I say to the barkeep, "Listen, pal, I'm looking for the owners, and I know they are here." he stays silent, looking over at some armed mobsters, typical gangsters, no talk, all bite. "Hey hey hey, I mean no harm to you, but I know that Mr. Fire is here, I can hear the jazz.". He looks over and one of the gangster's nods to him, he pulls a lever, a bookshelf spins revealing a nice lounge. Lucky me, I had the easy way out. We walk in and the door closes behind us, "Maybe I'm not so lucky", I think to myself hearing Milk scream as the talking toaster hits his back, me and Peir pull our revolvers on him. he drops the toaster and puts his hands up, "Wait, I thought you were the Alphabets!" he yelps out as Peir cuffs him, "Get your mitts of my man, Skinny!" the dame barks at us as Milk picks her up.The mobsters disperse as the cops show up, taking the perps down for questioning was easier than I thought. "So, detective, been awhile, whadya trying to put me away for this time.", I slam my fists down on the table, the wind pushing the crime scene photos to him. "MY VAN YOU SMUG ASS, WHY DID YOU TAKE IT!", Peir rushes into the room, taking me out, the chief didn't look happy. he grabs my coats collar, "Daboi, your too close to this one, I can't let you work on it. Me and my boys have it under control, take a break, but if I see you even look at pictures of your car, your Donzo!". he lets go of my coat, and I walk out of the precinct, maybe I have been taking this case to close to home, but how was I not, I literally live in the stolen vehicle. I walk, thinking, thinking of the case, thinking of where I am to go from here, thinking of where to live while those idiots try and find my van. I walk to the nearest bus stop, then a payphone rings.I walk under the payphone booth; a rain starts pouring down on me. The water hitting my exposed back, I pick up the phone, "So, you wanna know where your car is.", a deep voice said from the other side, country accent and all, "What do you know, prick, where is my van!" I scream into the phone. "Calm down, detective, I never stole your van, but I have evidence that could help you, though, from what my moles say, you have just been suspended.", the man said while the sounds of someone smoking come from the other side of the speaker. After he gave me the address, I go and get Peir's old Nash Ambassador. the drive there was deafening, honestly, I didn't know where I was going, with my life, not the road, I had been to this address once before. Pulling in, I see a large, abandoned camp, well I didn't look abandoned, there were rusty beaters and rat rods everywhere, I pull into an open spot and walk towards the mess hall, the lights shining through the windows like a television. I open the front door and I'm greeted my men in suits, all armed, before any of the men can kill me though, the same deep voice puts his arm around my shoulder. "Detective, glad you can make it, if in going to be honest with you, I thought you would have brought the whole brigade!", I stare at him blankly. I look at the man who just saved my life, "If it isn't Mr. Abc, the alphabet mobster himself." I say while he hands me a cup of cola and mixed fireball, the way I like it. We make our way to the second-floor office, where he does the planning, and we sit down on the nice leather couch, Scooby-Doo playing on the TV, can't believe I was missing my favorite show for this. He turns to me and says, "Detective, never thought we would ever sit in the same room together and still be moving", I could tell he was stalling, but for what, he was nervous, really nervous, either I was just poisoned, or he had bad news for me, "Spit it out, mobby, I have to find a friends couch to crash on in the mornin." He turns to the table in front of us and grabs a folder that had been sitting there and opens it, to my disbelief, it had been my own partner that had backstabbed me, pictures of him putting on the helmet and driving away in my van, I couldn't believe this. On the last few pictures, i showed him taking all my stuff out and pushing my beloved van, into the deep blue.

You are Ernest P Worrell, a survivor trying to survive in a world filled with infected zombies everywhere. You have a pistol and a backpack. You have managed to survive several months avoiding zombies and scavenging food. You cautiously enter a rundown store and hear something behind the counter.

You look over the counter.

You see the counter is hollow and there is something on the wall behind the cash register. Pressing the button on the cash register reveals a hidden compartment. You open the door and find a shotgun and some shells. Picking up the shotgun, you notice a sticker on it.

You look at the sticker.

The sticker has the words "Property of F.T.F." on it.

You hear a noise and turn around just in time to see a zombie grab you from behind.

You shoot the zombie with your pistol.

You shoot the zombie in the head, killing it.

You lie on the ground motionless, barely breathing.

You hear the noise behind you again.

You hold up your shotgun and go and see what is making that nois.

As you turn around, you see two more zombies, and a man holding a baseball bat.

"Hold up there, boy," the man with the bat says. "You're coming with us."

You say "uhhm, i think you have me confused with someone else, im just gonna leave, know what i mean?"

"Hold up," the man says. "You're coming with us."

You and Ernest turn to go but then the man swings the bat at Ernest's head. Ernest grabs the bat and they struggle.

You grab the mans bat and throw it and run away.

You grab the man's bat and throw it at him. The man lets go and the bat flies to the ground. You run and head around the corner of the store, out of the man's line of sight.

You start stealthily sneaking to another building.

You sneak towards another building, when suddenly you hear the man's footsteps and the sound of the bat hitting the ground. You quickly stop and look behind you to see the man with the bat.

You shoot him with the shotgun in self defence.

You shoot the man in the back of the head with your shotgun. He drops the bat and falls to the ground. You quickly check to see if anyone else is around.

You search the man for loot.

You quickly search the man for any usable guns or ammo. You find a silver bar of some sort in one of his front pockets and also a knife.

You grab his bat and run away from his body.

You grab the man's bat and run away from his body. You hear the man moan as you run into another building next to the store.

You hear the man moan again.

You peek at the body from around the corner.

You peek around the corner of the building and see the man lying on the ground. He isn't moving. You quietly move around the corner and see him. He is not moving. He must be dead.

then the man turns into a zombie, ernest hides and the zombie goes away.

You try to sneak away but the zombie cries out "HALT THERE BOY!"

You decide to stand up and shoot the zombie in the head, killing it.

"Thank you."

You run away to the nearest building.

Ernest run away to the nearest building and it turns out to be a suvivor safehaven

You say "hello?"

"Hello?"

"I'm over here!" You hear a woman's voice yell. You turn and see a woman in a car, she seems to be in her late 20s or early 30s.

You say "uhm, hi im Ernest P Worrell!"

"Im Laura, i have a car, we can get out of here if we hurry!"

You hear gunshots and you see a man holding a gun coming out of the store.

"Go!"

You get in lauras car.

You get in the car and the man with the gun follows. He closes the door behind him.

"Drive!" the man with the gun yells.

You say "whats goin on?"

"They have everyone else in there, we have to get out of here!"

"Who are they?"

"I think they're some refugees that were trying to get out of the city before the dead came!"

You say "then lets get out of here"

You get in the car and start driving. As you drive, more zombies come out of the store. The man with the gun gets out and starts shooting them. You slow down so you can help.

You shoot the zombies with your pistol.

You shoot a few zombies that walk past the car.

Suddenly you see a truck coming towards you.

"Hurry!" the man with the gun says, "hit the gas!"

You start driving away.

You drive as fast as you can, but it is hard to outrun a truck. Eventually the car tires spin and you see that you are going to crash.

You say "AAAAAAAAAA"

You slam on the brakes and try to turn the car around, but it doesn't work. The car hits the truck from behind and both vehicles crash. The windows are broken out, and the airbags deploy.

i get knocked out from the airbag.

You are on the floor of the car, and the man with the gun is on the passenger side door, shooting at the zombies outside.

You wake up "what happened, where am i"

You wake up and see that you are in a car. You realize that you were knocked out by the airbag. You look around and see that you are in a suv.

You get out the car.

You get out of the car and stand up. You see a man holding a gun shooting at some zombies, that are trying to get in the car.

You help and start shooting the zombies.

You help and start shooting the zombies.

Meanwhile the man with the gun finishes and gets back into the car.

"Drive!" he yells.

"But what about you?" Laura asks.

You say "come on man get in the car!"

You get in the car and the man gets in the passenger side. Laura gets in the back seat.

"Drive!" the man says again.

You quickly start driving away.

You say "so my name is ernest, what is your guys name?"

You say "my name is Laura, what is your friends name?"

"I don't know, he never told me!"

Suddenly a zombie grabs Laura from the back of the car and tears her head off.

You scream.

You scream and slam on the brakes. The car swerves and you nearly get thrown out of your seat. The zombie is pulled under the car and you see it's head disappear under the tires.

You say "AAAAAAAAAAAAA"

You say "AAAAA" as you point your gun at the back of the car.

Suddenly the tires are hit by something hard.

You stop the car.

You stop the car and look out the windows.

You see that the back of the car is destroyed and that zombies are walking around the mangled body of a car, trying to get in.

You pound the go pedal and you and the mystery man keep shooting at the zombies.

You keep shooting the zombies with your gun.

Suddenly you see a man in a window, trying to get out.

"Look out!" you yell, "He's trying to get out!"

You say "what do we do?"

You ask "What do we do??"

"Shoot him!" the mystery man says, "Shoot him in the head!"

You shoot him and get you and the mystery man to a safe place.

You shoot the man in the head, and the zombies are confused at first.

They stand there for a moment and then continue on their way.

The mystery man gets out of the car. You follow him.

You say "so whats your name?"

You ask "So whats your name?"

"Don," he says, "Don Jones."

You say "well ok don "

You say "Well ok Don."

Suddenly you see a group of zombies coming your way, they are about 50 yards away.

Do you run away from them?

...

You say "don we gotta get outa here"

You say "don we gotta get outa here."

The two of you start running away.

Behind you, you hear the zombies starting to get closer.

You get don and you run to the nearest building and hide.

You get don and you run to the nearest building and hide.

Unfortunately zombies have an excellent sense of hearing and can hear the noise you are making.

The zombies gather around the building and surround it.

You look around for stuff you can use to baricade the doors and windows.

You look around for stuff you can use to barricade the doors and windows.

You see a large two by four on the ground.

It is about two feet thick and six feet long.

You get don and you go to the second floor.

You get don and you go to the second floor.

The zombies don't follow you, because they think you are still in the building.

You hide behind a dumpster.

Don hides behind a car.

You signal to don with your hands that you need to go.

You signal to don with your hands that you need to go.

Don nods and you head to the front of the building.

You crawl through the windows, and get in the car.

You say "psst hey don, what do we do now"

You ask "psst hey don, what do we do now"

"I don't know," Don says,

You say "does the car work?"

You ask "Does the car work?"

"I don't know," Don says,

"let's go check,"

You go and check.

You go and check.

The car starts right up.

Don follows you.

Don drives and you both look out the windows.

You see a chain-link fence surrounding the parking lot.

You say "don i think you have to drive through it"

You say "Don i think you have to drive through it"

Don nods and the car goes through the fence, to the road

You say "ok don well if ya dont mind me asking, where are we going?"

You say "ok don well if ya dont mind me asking, where are we going?"

"I have to go home," Don says, "I have to go home and get my family out of there."

You say "out of where don?"

You ask "Out of where don?"

"Out of where i live," Don says, "Out of Chandler, Arizona."

You say "Chandler, that's a long ways away."

You say "well don i hope i can help you get to your family"

You say "well don i hope i can help you get to your family"

Don nods, and the two of you continue on to Chandler, Arizona.

You say "hey don can we make a pip stop at this next gas station, i have to go use the little boys room, if you know what i mean?"

You say "hey don can we make a pip stop at this next gas station, i have to go use the little boys room, if you know what i mean?"

"Yeah," Don says,

don then pull over at a gas station in the middle of nowhere.

"I'm going to go use the bathroom," you say, "Stay here."

"I'm coming with you," Don says,

You after you use the bathroom, you go to the snack shelves.

You go to the bathroom and then go to the snack shelves.

You see that there are no snacks for sale.

You also see that there is a large number of people stocking up on supplies.

You see how many people there are.

You see how many people there are.

It is about 10 or 11 people.

You also see that they are all men.

Women seem to be in scarce supply.

You go to don and say you need to get out of the gas station.

You go to don and say you need to get out of the gas station.

"We have to get out of here," Don says,

You say "ok lets sneak to the car"

You say "ok lets sneak to the car"

The two of you walk quietly and quickly to the car.

Don gets in the car and you quickly drive away from the gas station.

You say "whew that was close"

You say "whew that was close"

"Yeah," Don says, "I thought for a second that they saw us."

You say "you think they wanted to rob us?"

You say "you think they wanted to rob us?"

"No," Don says, "they just thought we were part of the crowd."

You check around the car for stuff.

You check around the car for stuff.

There are some trash bags full of food in the back seat, some clothes, and a sleeping bag.

There is a bottle of water on the floorboard.

You take the bottle of water.

You take the bottle of water.

"We need to fill up the water bottles," Don says,

"We can fill up the bottles at the next town," You say,

You check everything you have in your backpack.

You check everything you have in your backpack.

You find your compass, some of your food, and two full water bottles.

You put the items in your backpack.

You say "hey don?"

You say "hey don?"

"Do you have anything?" Don says,

"I have my sleeping bag and a pillow in the backseat."

You say "ok im gonna go to sleep, cya in the morning"

You say "ok im gonna go to sleep, cya in the morning"

"Good night," Don says,

"Good night."

ernest goes to sleep and has a dream.

In his dream, he is a prisoner in a dark room, and he is chained to a wall.

Then he hears footsteps.

You say "huh what whos there?"

You say "huh what whos there?"

The chains on his wrists clank loudly, and he can barely breathe.

There is a man standing in front of him.

You say "who are you?"

You say "who are you?"

The man says "You are nothing."

"You are nothing."

You say "I TRYED TO SAVE HER!"

You say "I TRYED TO SAVE HER!"

"You tried to save who?"

"I tried to save laura!"

The man laughs.

You say "laura was not my fault"

You say "laura was not my fault"

"I should have never asked you to save her."

"I should have never listened to you."

"She was my friend."

You say "WHO ARE YOU!!"

You say "WHO ARE YOU!!"

"My name is rick," the man says, "and you are?"

"My name is ernest," you say, "and you are?"

ernest then wakes up in the morning, smooth jazz playing on the radio.

He stretches, gets up, and looks at the map.

He thinks about what to do next.

You say "hey don how are ya"

You say "hey don how are ya"

"I'm doing great," Don says, "thanks for waking me up."

"No problem," don says,

You say "so don are their any pit stops we can make on the way to chandler, arizona?"

You say "so don are their any pit stops we can make on the way to chandler, arizona?"

"Yeah, there are a few places we can fill up the water and food."

You say "no way don look, its the biggest water park in the usa, we should go there, imagine, no lines!"

You say "no way don look, its the biggest water park in the usa, we should go there, imagine, no lines!"

"No way!"

"Yes way!"

You say "come on don, it could be fun"

You say "come on don, it could be fun"

"I guess," Don says, "but it would be so much fun if we could go to the next town before we went to the water park."

You say "no problem don, we can stop anywhere"

You say "no problem don, we can stop anywhere"

Don turns on the radio.

"I'm hungry," Don says, "let's find some breakfast."

You turn on the radio.

the radio talks about how the water park is now a safe zone from zombies.

You turn it off.

"Zombies," Don says, "they are everywhere."

You say "now aint that the truth, i bet by the time we get there it will have been over run 10 times over"

You say "now aint that the truth, i bet by the time we get there it will have been over run 10 times over"

"You're probably right."

You arrive at a gas station.

There are no zombies around.

There are a few cars parked at the gas station, and a man is leaning against the hood of his car.

You say "hey there stranger!"

You say "hey there stranger!"

The man turns and looks at you.

He is a man in his forties, and is dressed in all black.

He says "What are you doing here?"

You say "we are on our way to arizona"

You say "we are on our way to arizona"

"Good luck with that," the man says, "this whole place is a no go zone."

"Why?" you ask,

You say "i havent seen a zombie for miles?"

You say "i havent seen a zombie for miles?"

"There are no zombies anywhere near here?," the man says, "they're all over the place."

"We should go," Don says,

You say "yea i agree"

You say "yea i agree"

The two of you get in the car and drive away.

After a few minutes, you arrive at a town.

the town is called big barrel, and it looks like it has been taken over by zombies.

There are zombies wandering around in the street, and it looks like some have even gotten into buildings.

You tell don that you need to sneak around the town.

You tell don that you need to sneak around the town.

"It'll take longer," Don says,

"But we can get to chandler much quicker."

"I guess."

You drive around for a few minutes, and then you come to a fork in the road.

You say "so like which way we goin don?"

You say "so like which way we goin don?"

"I think this is the way to the water park," Don says,

You go to sleep and dream.

You go to sleep and dream.

You dream of a large body of water.

And there is a large group of people around you.

You realize you are swimming in the ocean.

You say "huh?"

You say "huh?"

You start to swim through the water.

You see a girl in the distance that is getting out of the ocean.

You keep swiming.

You keep swiming.

You see a boat pulling away from a pier.

The people in the boat are being chased by a large group of zombies!

You climb onto the boat.

You climb onto the boat.

The people in the boat see you.

They are about to lower the oars, when the zombies start to climb the sides of the boat.

You look around for something to help.

You look around for something to help.

The nearest thing you see is a small oar.

It looks like it could help if you hit one of the zombies with it.

You start hitting the zombies with the oar.

You start hitting the zombies with the oar.

It hurts your hands, but you continue to beat the zombies with the oar until one of them falls overboard.

You look overboard.

You look overboard.

There are about ten zombies on the boat, and they are climbing on the sides of the boat to get at the people.

You decide to do something else.

You run into the captains quarters.

You run into the captains quarters.

You are in the cabin.

There is a radio on the bedside table.

You turn it on and hear that the boat is being hijacked by zombies!

ernest wakes up, the car is stopped at a house.

You have to make a decision:

Do you:

You look out the window.

There are zombies right outside, climbing up the porch.

don is shooting the zombies from the second floor windows, but he is not making much of an effort to kill them.

You have to choose whether to stay in the car, or help Don.

You pull out your shotgun and start blasting zombie heads off.

You pull out your shotgun and start blasting zombie heads off.

It's noisy, but effective.

You take out a few more with your shotgun, before you runs out of shells.

You say "DON, HURRY GET BACK IN THE CAR!"

You say "DON, HURRY GET BACK IN THE CAR!"

Don looks at you, and then runs out the door with the shotgun.

You say "HURRY!"

You say "HURRY!"

Don runs back into the house, and you see zombies coming through the door behind him.

He reloads the shotgun and runs back out.

don gets in the car and they drive away from the house.

A few minutes later, you arrive at the water park.

The two of you get out of the car and head towards the entrance of the park.

You say "psst, hey don, the park looks empty"

You say "psst, hey don, the park looks empty"

"Yeah, it's supposed to be empty," Don says,

"There are supposed to be no zombies in here"

You say "yea, but then where are the people"

You say "yea, but then where are the people"

"Well, I don't know, but we should at least check it out," Don says,

You say "yea"

You say "yea"

The two of you walk into the park.

You look around, but don't see any zombies.

The park does not look like it has been completely looted.

You say "don this is great, but i say we still sneak around, never know when the dead are around, know what i mean?"

You say "don this is great, but i say we still sneak around, never know when the dead are around, know what i mean?"

"I guess you're right," Don says,

I consider myself a sandwich connoisseur, a man that wants to experience all the nice flavors of the humble sandwich.

I've had many a sandwich in my life so let's start with something I have quite often, first start with American rye bread from giant eagle, lightly toast then spread with a sauce I made, sauce contains 50/50 mayo and ranch, with garlic powder and salt, mix until it looks like one sauce. after adding the mayo-ranch combo onto the bread, add some cheese, either Colby jack or American cheese, then hit it with 8 hard salami slices, then add lettuce, make sure its crispy and green, if your lettuce is kinda old don't worry just don't use the completely white parts. (Optional but very recommended) when the tomato slice is added make sure to add some salt to the slice, then take off all the lettuce, and put the tomato on the meats bc I forgot that went first. after fixing the mistake i made add the second piece of bread, make sure both sides have the sauce, then add a couple slices of turkey and a chicken patty, add the tomato with salt, then lettuce then, and the final sauced slice of bread, and boom you've probably got diabetes if you are going to make this, that's why i make this only when i have the proper ingredients. daboi out

so basically im not gonna put any effort into the comic, most of the time that is, i despise drawing alot but it is fun at moments, so ima keep the comic drawn horibly, plus it will help me hone my art skills more i guess, just a side thing

i realised i dont need to keep it child friendly for the story, and im rereading it and realizing how cringe some of it was honesly, gonna take some time away from chapter 3 and ix some major isues about the first 2 chapters

the comic is a side thing, tho i do want to make art for the skeliton key, its been my passion for like 3 years, ive made an entire universe for this thing and i honeslty think its time to share it to the world, hope you all enjoy my work.

THE SKELEITON KEY by Devon Edward Fiedler

CHAPTER 2

Is it worth the risk?

Police are all around the factory as they arrest any leftover mobsters, then came Lenard with a face of true anger walking at the detective. “DETECTIVE!!!” he said with the loudest voice both have ever heard, “I said we NEVER had ANY jurisdiction here, because of you the chief will have me hanging on a steak by my a- “. Keys interrupts him before he can say the no-no word, “Woah hey dude its fine we had this entire thing settled way before you even got here.” He then explains to Len how the Southrun police arrived before any of Dorcya City Police Dept got here, and that the police never even knew about the mafia factory out here. “And as a sign of gratitude they let me take all the stuff I want from this defunct manufacturer.” Said Keys as he is finally done loading his van with all he could carry. 

From the other side of the yellow tape, Southrun officers Jamie Lun and Lou Smith are searching the building, more specifically, the office of El Copper. “This place is awesome, does the mafia business really make this much money?” Lou said while admiring the architecture of the large meeting room, not caring enough to mention the bones in suits sitting on luxury leather chairs, while the forensics were pre-occupied with taking pictures of the recent and not so recent dead bodies, Jamie found a hidden pathway under the large table. With Jamie and Lou standing in front of the tunnel, they walk in without anybody seeing them, as they descent into the damp and pipe lined sewer, they hear distant footsteps in front of them. Watching closely, they spot what looks like a man walking far in front of them, looks like the sewer is more like a small gross tunnel, they then begin running as in their head they think it might be a gangster or even El Copper himself.

As they finally make it to whoever they were running to they notice the perp’s abnormal features, this man was 6 feet tall hunching underneath the small sewer roof, they noticed what seemed to be a tail partially hidden behind the large coat it was wearing, it had an abnormal white skin tone with what seemed to be scales over what skin had been shown, the monster then turned around revealing more of what they had gotten themselves into, the beast had an abnormal mouth filled with pearly white sharp teeth. Then it introduced itself “Uhm, well hello, I’m- “then the officers screamed and started firing their pistols causing the monster to run in the opposite direction full speed, which was fast, really fast. 2 weeks had passed and Dakota was still unable to crack this case, in the weeks prior, both officers Jamie and Lou had gone missing, the only leads were the breaking and the bullet casings suggesting that the officers had some sort of fight with their kidnapper, and the only piece of evidence connecting the H.S.A.I.C. case and the Kidnapping case, and this was the only reason the chief in Southrun allowed her to work on both cases, she looks over her evidence one more time.

She then hears a knock at her front door, she lived in a rich suburban neighborhood, so it was pretty normal for her neighbors to invite her to parties, she opened the door to nobody there. Looking down she saw a box, opening it right on the porch, inside the box was a nearly empty vial rack, holding 3 vials, only one being filled with a mysterious fluid. “Hey Keys, you need to get here, I think I just found out what was stolen from the H.S.A.I.C. building.” she spoke into the phone, propping it up with her shoulder as she analyses the fluid in the vial

Keys and Gas were walking to her house as the van was in pretty rough shape after being tossed around so much, regretting the previous night when they had to ram it into a getaway car carrying criminals. “So, when are you gonna tell her?” Gas started the conversation with a question Keys had been avoiding, “When I’m ready I’ll tell her man, just give me time.” With a laugh Gas exclaims that he can’t keep hiding his secret to the people he is so close to, “Gas this will be a bomb to drop on someone who thinks I’m long gone”. “Hey you!” they then turn around to see a character in a black trench coat, “I might have info on your case.”. “The name is Detective Richard Joke, I’m the lead detective at Southrun, if you want me to say more we should go to a secure location, there are Arceneer spy bots around. Keys, Gas, and Joke finish their walk to the detective’s home and get settled. “So, you were a spy in the mafia operation, but that case was completely irrelevant to the H.S.A.I.C. case, I just had some unfinished business there.” Keys asked the mysterious man, “Quite the contrary my friend, El Copper was the one who stole the liquid in the first place.” The room falls silent, “Liquid?” Gas said after picking up one o the vials, “Yea, the thing your holding, that’s what was stolen, I don’t know what they do with it but it can’t be good in the wrong hands, probably why the mobsters wanted it.”

They then go to the H.S.A.I.C. building to finally ask, what was stolen, with or without being allowed to. “Knock knock, open up, I have a few questions to ask you!” the detective asked, the door opens into a very classical house, the inside was different than the outside in many ways, stepping inside the building they take note of the tall ceiling and large lounge room they seem to be in the floor a dark red carpet lays with stains a many, the walls a black varnished wood, adorned with paintings and awards to many, including Dorcya Bays most prominent scientist Dr. J. L. Brown, the lead scientist in the Anomaly Project, a project made to study, capture, and or kill the monsters on the island, Joke then spoke in a soft spoken voice, “Hello! Anybody home?” only to be responded with silence. The room was dark, not a light on, when they all were inside the room the doors shut and the lights turned on blinding our heroes. Over a speaker they hear some one in a menacing tone, “Hello my test subjects, you will be the latest lab rats for my new machine, the Transporter will begin in 5 seconds.”, “What?” Joke said before the room fell dark.

Keys then woke up in a city, familiar to his own but it was more, gritty and industrialized, with purple flags with a skull emblem on every street. A car then passes, one not of Gennt origin, something that was able to hover. Key is confused, was he teleported, or sent to the future. Walking down this street, he starts to recognize people, his first order of business was to get a map of where he was. Keys then thought, “If this is the future then maybe Dakota is still the lead detective. He finds what seems to be a police department, Stefan Weber Police Dept, walking in he tries to talk to the first cop he sees, “Uhm hey, I need to know where I am, can you please- oh hi Len.” Len looks at Keys with no amusement, “Oh hey look another slack job looking to be the next Firefighter, what’s your name, Death Giver, second you’re in Stefan Weber Square, on Dorcya Bay, third, I have 0 idea who you are, fourth- “Keys cuts him off before he can say anything else, “Jeez ok man I get it I’m not welcome.” Len then cuts him off again and says “Ok well if you would have let me finish then I would have told you that any vigilantes are to be killed on sight, you have 0 seconds to go now.” The buildings wall then gets blown out as a guy in fire protective gear comes running in and grabbing Keys by his arm, “We have no time for introductions, my name is Firefighter and welcome to the resistance.” They then go into a modified firetruck and speed down the roads losing the cops, driving into the hidden base, Keys realizes that this is the same base that Arceneer uses, “Hey isn’t this Arceneer’s base?” he asks Firefighter, “Who is Arceneer, never heard of that hero, did he like die or something?” Fire spoke back, within the cave are many people, these include, Firefighter, Cunner, and a ghost named Hook. “the Resistance is 3 People? This is very strange man.” Keys said with the most confusion he has ever experienced. “Well…… if you need some sleep then the sleeping quarters are over there, down that hall to the right.” Keys thinks to himself that sleep might help him figure it out, he knows something’s wrong but he can’t put his finger on it.

With Keys drifting peacefully into sleep he starts thinking hard in his mind, who, what, when, and where are his only questions, who is Firefighter, What has got everybody on a hero killing spree, When does this point in time take place and where is he, because this certainly isn’t Dorcya Bay, Keys is woken up to clear vision and a copper plated pistol to his face, “So, you think you can just sneak in here, appealing to our desire to help people huh Hubris!” around Cunner were Hook and Firefighter with their respective weapons pointed at him, Keys with a grogginess to his voice finally speaks, “Uh, man like what are you on abou-“ Firefighter then yells at the top of his lungs “You know what is going on Hubris!” “You can’t just walk in here and think you would have gotten away with it!” “Now give us one reason to not wipe your pitiful life of the face of the earth.” Then it finally clicked for Keys, “Wait, you think I’m this Hubris guy, I don’t even know what hubris means dude.” Then Hook said, “Lies will get you nowhere Hubris!” “He doesn’t have to.” Said a purple figure at the end of the room, Firefighter then spoke with genuine surprise “But, y-your right here? How are you- ““I’d love to stay and chat but I have a me to get rid of.” Keys then gets up and puts his mask on, pulling out his double pistols, with Hubris pulling out a revolver with a purplish tint, they both aiming their respective arms at each other, “Now it’s a game of who shoots first.” Hubris said cocking the hammer, “Well that will determine who wants to get shot second.” Keys spoke, the room falls silent until a boom is heard outside, with Hubris running outside and oureroes following suit there in the sky is Mr. Gasmask and “Gas what are you doing up there.” Hubris said while still running out the building, in the sky is a green and yellow cloud with 2 figures fighting in it then in no time flat Gas is thrown into the building, “Hey Gas, how was the fall” Keys said with a smile, “Not now Keys we are literally about to die.” then gunfire starts raining down on out heroes, with them now running the hail of bullets.

The heroes then run into a back-door area and onto a dock where a ship was waiting for them, the driver yells from within it, “We going?” “Yes, we are going Ken! Start her up.”, a guy with a teal hat comes running out holding a glass of what was presumed alcohol, the guys load up onto the boat and they set sail away from the island, Firefighter then starts whispering to Ken, with the pair occasionally looking back at Keys and Gas. “Hey, the name is Ken, though I bet you already know a lot about me, my friend here has already told me what has happened, how did you get here stranger.” Keys and Gas then explain how they got here, explaining how they entered a room and were taken and placed into chairs, transporting them into this world. On the ocean it was strangely sinister, like the ocean held more than it revealed, which was probably the case. “So.” Gas asks, “Where is the detective?”, they look him puzzled, “Which one, Southrun or Stefan?” Ken asked steering the ship to the left, parking next to a dock connecting to an island, a sigh labeling it as, Kergernoughtst Island.

Keys responded “I guess both, in our world they were with us before we were teleported.”, “Wow, you were in the same room as the Dorcya detective and still have your liver?” Fire talked with surprise, Ken said to the fireman with much annoyance, “Dude, he isn’t from here, his Dorcya detective isn’t a crazed killer.” Entering the island, they are loaded up onto a makeshift van made from trash and other stuff, no doubt made from Kenneth smarts, but he noticed it lacked the signature Kenneth charm to it, this creation seemed, lifeless. 

“Well, if you do need his help then we can show you to our Dr. J. L. Brown, he might be able to send you back to your world.” The island was larger than Dorcya bay by a longshot, miles upon miles of road and trees, in Keys world, this place was a mutant infested mess, but here, I was peaceful, not a monster in sight. “This place is nice.” Keys said admiring some local plant life, both worlds still had orange trees, but he was willing to bet that these were edible. “Why what’s wrong with Kerger in your world?”, Keys then stood up, “Long story.” They walked up to a house, it was a small second story with a huge garage, with to rooms on either side of it, in this garage were many tools and spare parts, old posters of women in bikinis on the hoods of old cars, they went inside and Ken told them he had to fix there car, but that the doctor would be expecting them in 3 days, the rooms on either side of the garage were small, one was a laundry room and the other was a kitchen, the fridge was empty, this place hadn’t had power for a while, the cupboards still had canned food in them though, assorted vegetables and cans of beef stew, and Keys favorite canned mandarin oranges, they were probably safe to eat, the other 2 rooms in the house were a living room with what seemed to be multiple milk cartons of beer in it, and a room on the second floor that wanted to collapse from the sheer weight, being held up by rope, bungee cords, and luck. The only thing there is an old bed frame and moldy mattress.

Then a news broadcast goes off from Firefighters radio, “Breaking news, suspects lost in Stefan Weber Bay, they e-escaped on boat and are being pursued by our b-brave leader, H-h-hubris, when the suspects are caught by the D-dorcya detective and eaten alive we will c-celebrate and praise our glorious leaders.”, “To preachy in my taste, of I were to rule the world I wouldn’t make myself look like the devil incarnate…, wait did he say eaten?”, Keys said before out of nowhere a frail female figure in a torn trench coat wields a sacrificial knife and digs it into Keys back, he screams in pure agony as the knife digs itself deeper and deeper until Gas kicks her off him and evacuates the building with everybody, with the evil detective and gas now in battle he tries to irradiate her but she whacks the axe out of his hands causing him to lose his powers, several punches and stabs are thrown and she stabs Gas in his arm, but then he finally reaches his axe and he makes the house forever inhabitable, the screams emanate from inside for only half a second as a bright green flash takes over the house and almost blinds everyone, Gas walks out unharmed from the flash, the Dorcya detective, now lies on the ground a moving puddle.

Hubris looks over the island, waiting for the cannibal to return with 4 new prisoners, then a green flash erupts not far from where he was, “Gas we have to deal with this problem ourselves, unfortunately.”, they then load up on a purple and black speed boat, stopping at the remnants of the home they go to walk inside but their Geiger counters start going off, high amounts of radiation in this area, but they do notice something, tire marks ,on the dirt, leading deeper into the island.

Down the road not far from the house is an old gas station that some run of the mill bandits took over, though they had better weaponry than usual, there were a lot of expensive Douglass Rifles, stuff from the mainland, scoping out the place Gas determines that there are 28 bandits, 19 equipped with rifles, 4 with old rocket launchers, and another 4 with different melee weapons, and one with powered heavy armor and a mini-gun. “How are we gonna pass without them taking the van, man?” Keys said while pulling out his dual pistols, Fire trying to convince him “Violence isn’t the answer, maybe we can convince them to leave us alone.” Then from inside the gas station comes gunfire and yelling, running to the building weapons ready the gunfire suddenly stops, walking out of the station are Joke and the Detective, Cunner then asks, “Is that the dorcya detective from your world?”, “Hey, what’s up Keys! We have been looking for you.” Both sides then explain their story, detective and Joke both were sent to Kerger and had been searching the island for a boat to get back home, but they didn’t know that this was a opposite world to their own, “We are going to find the Doctor and he might be able to send us back.” Gas said, with no hesitation they all load up into the van and speed down the dirt road, passing abandoned buildings and old broken vehicles, all ending up at a junkyard labeled “Browns Keep”. The yard had large walls with spikes poking out of it, knocking on the large door, Fire says nervously, “Hello! Anybody home?” the large doors then open a smidge for an eye to peek out from the crack, “Who is there?” the doctor said while his darting eyes took in the people in front of him.

“We need to help these people get back to where they came from, they said they came from a different world, like you.” Ken spoke taking a sip from his drink pointing at Gas and Keys, the doc not believing them starts to ask a few questions, “What is the capital of Dorcya Bay, what is the story behind the Lost Dark, where does Kenneth buy his ingredients for the Kenneth Special?”, “Easy, Saint Porter, it was a Nazi in need of help and a demon helped him, and duh, the only store in main street, the big yellow building.” Keys said while pulling out a map of Dorcya Bay, pointing to various locations, most of the group having no idea what they are looking at. The doctor invites our heroes inside, the walls were made of old cars and scraps, sheet metal and old wood run the walls, old and dingy, yes, but surprisingly comfortable, Dr. Brown walks up to a desk and invites them over, “I’ve been trying to get out of here for ages, I have even recreated my Transporter, but I have no power source, no power source, no getting out of here.” Ken then spoke up, “So all of your stories were true, but, no, this makes no sense man.”

The doctor then pushes one of the many buttons on his desk and a wall made of trash opens up, a room with computers and wire about all leading to the colossal cabinet in the middle, the hunk of old wood and scrap metal connects the roof to the floor, like a pillar, the door made from a boat, the insides were a metal tube with a metal grate covering the top and bottom transporters, “Well what was the power source?” Fire asked, Dr. Brown then pulled out a map of Stefan Weber Island, the roads were mapped out way differently than Dorcya Bay, a lot of it was in German, which they all knew at least some of, the doctor pointed to a building and said that it held something that could help, with the building was a sticky note and writing next to it, the sticky note had a picture of a battery looking thing, the building was heavily guarded, but they were a group of heavily dangerous individuals, except Fire, who was a pacifist. The doctor says farewell and sends them on their way back to the island, at night, when our heroes have been long away, he hears an explosion come from the entrance, smoke and the sound of a fire alarm fill the air, and the silhouette of 2 men walk slowly from the smoke, one starts speaking in a muffled voice, “Where is the Resistance, tell us and we wont kill you, its really that simple.”, the doc responds, “I have full belief that they can handle themselves, they are going back to Stefan, you can’t kill them all, how many times have you hopelessly tried and failed to kill just the normal group, now they got your counterparts, you wont stand a chance against yourself!”, Gas2 talks back, “But they don’t have our secret weapon.” And then Hubris pulls out a large cannon like gun, and with that the doc comes running in the opposite direction, “We never tested if the Teleporter is operational.” Gas2 said, “We couldn’t have known, not yet anyway, we need the power source.” Hubris said, then points to the map, “And I know where to get it.”

On Stefan Weber, they are running in the shadows, the gloomy purple accent makes this place feel dead, but Fire knows of the danger on every corner, “Like, dude I’m gonna go home, I don’t need to be here, plus I got a bottle brewing.” Ken said while walking into another alley, they knew where they were going yet Keys and Gas had zero idea of where they are. They then spot their destination, H.T.B., the Hubris Trophy Building, as advertised it was very high security, cameras, saw traps, laser hallways, the works, “How will we get in there?” Keys said while scratching his chin, looking at a costume store. Hubris then walks from the shadows with a line of prisoners in cuffs, “I need to enter.” He said while yanking on the chains. One of the guards spoke up, “What is the password?”, Hubris snaps back, “Is the answer Zero Pay?”, they then open the doors, a voice recognition software is attached to the second door, this also disarms all traps, as to not harm Hubris, a loud computer voice booms from speakers, “VOICE PASSWORD REQUIRED PLEASE.”. That was one thing they didn’t know, the password, our heroes then take off their disguises, the detective then looks at the console, “We have 5 tries before were locked out of this system for 24 hours, let’s start looking around shall we.”. Keys wonders to himself, how did he get to this situation, he wonders how he lets himself just go with the flow, he just wants to take a break and rest, he’s been on the run for what feels like a month at this point. Then the front door opens again, revealing both Hubris and Gas2, holding the secret cannon and backed up with 4 heavily armed guards.

THE SKELEITON KEY by Datboii657

CHAPTER 1 

Down the rabbit hole.

It was a bright and bustling night for Dorcya City, businessmen going to work after kissing their family’s goodbye for the day until they come back the next day to enjoy what hours they have with their children until they have to return to the boring and awful life of cubicle jobs. Of course, this wasn’t a problem for some, as Keys and Gas were fast asleep in their apartment, until the sounds of blaring alarms and gunshots hit them from across the city. Quickly springing into action, they suit up and grab some grub for the road. Hitting the streets, they ride in the rust bucket to the scene as the police are wrapping up, “Well, well, well, if it isn’t my city’s “saviors” late to the latest burglary.” Exclaimed Officer Lenard Diora with a smile of glee written on his face. Keys with a slight attitude says “Save it for the books Len, we got here late, it happens.” With Gas backing up his claim saying “We are still human Lenard, don’t forget that.”

“Well forget this, we have bigger fish on our line and they aren’t coming willingly Len.” Keys said with slight worry in his voice, “Who, what, when where, Len come on give us answers!”. Keys, Gas, and Lenard all head up into the H.S.A.I.C. building where the robbery took place, “Hey, Len what does the jumble of letters on the front of the building stand for?” Keys asked with confusion “Well, I do believe it stands for High Security Anomalous Item Catalogue, but for what the burglars stole it’s still unknown, this robbery occurred at 12:30 on the dot, they swooped in got the thing they were looking for and left all in the span of one quick minute, we have security footage but they cut most of it, they must have had a mole in the building.” Lenard said with quick precision while writing on his note pad checking the scene. Keys then exclaimed “So are you just not gonna explain who the corpse in front of us is, or are we just gonna skip this piece of evidence?” “Oh right!” Lenard said after checking his note pad once more, “The deceased here is security guard Gary Lee Jones, 63 years old and so close to retirement, he was shot 5 times in the chest and abdomen presumably after seeing our perps getting away with whatever they were stealing.” Keys then opens his phone up and calls the only person he knows fit to solve a murder case.

With Detective Dakota arriving at the scene of this crime she quickly starts the case, examining the body she concluded that the killer used an untraceable homemade 10mm bullets, the casing left behind also had the initials of the machine that manufactured it, Wiggums, the gun and bullet company. “I’ve seen this company before, it used to produce machines that let you reuse bullet casings to save money buying new ammo, it was intended for hunters on the mainland but I don’t think the perp who owns this specific ammo maker intended on using it to hunt deer, we need a guy to help us research everyone who has ever bought one of these.” The detective said with her pen vigorously writing down her large note pad, “Okay then guys, lets hit the bed and return to this tomorrow, I didn’t get my sleep and after the fight I had yesterday, I’m exhausted.” Keys said yawning. Our team then return to their home and have a good night’s rest, except for our detective who is to focused on her newfound case.

Keys wakes up and calls the detective to get up, but when she picks up right away, he was surprised, “Hey Keys, I’ve been up all night trying to crack this case but I can’t even figure out what the crooks stole, I even called up the people who owned the H.S.A.I.C. building to see if I could convince them to tell me because its related to a case, but the night guard signed a paper saying that if his death was related to an item police couldn’t investigate or know what item was.” Keys while still waking up spoke only a couple words “Okay, but like we have that factory to check out.”

“I’ve tracked down 5 living people who are related to Joey Wiggum, and believe me this company has a very sketchy history.” Dakota said while riding shotgun “DUIs, many of the family dead, says here they had a weapons trade deal with some mafia family’s including some as infamous as the El Copper Family, but those were never actually proven true so the company is still running, the only reason the company is still up is because of the massive money boost from criminals.”. Keys then spoke with a slight hint of sleep deprivation in his voice, “So these are the guys who keep feeding Dorcya Bays criminal population, well we are coming up to our first stop here, oh hey Gas, put this on.” He then hands Gas a trench coat. “What’s this for?” Gas asked confused, “Well we need to blend in better, it’s not like we are, I don’t know, hated by criminals?” Said Keys “I don’t feel like fighting just yet”.

As they finally stop at the house Kyra Wiggum lives at, the Detective knocks on the door and waits patiently, coming from inside of the house comes the voice of an old lady “IM COMING, WAIT, DON’T GO, I BARLEY GET ANY VISITORS THESE DAYS.”. Opening the door, she smiles with pure happiness as she hasn’t had guest in so long, “Oh please, come inside I’ll make tea.” The old woman not seeming to care who was at her front door she blindly let our heroes inside her humble abode. As Keys, The Detective, and Gas sit down they notice how some of the décor included skeleton keys posters and toys and comics scattered around, “Sorry for the mess, my grandson is spending the month here.” Kyra said handing over some tea to Dakota, Keys spotting the Skeleton Key merchandise said “I notice he is a Skeleton Key fan, he said silently smiling to himself, “Oh yes, he loves his superheroes, but his favorite is the skeleton man, oh I can barely see let me grab my glasses.” She waddles to her chair in the living room and grabs her leopard pattern glasses from her table and puts them on, turning around she notices that the people in her living room are the people her grandson idolizes. “Oh, my you people are the people on the walls and books!”

As her grandson runs down the stairs he to sees who is in his grandmas living room, “WOAH, IT’S THE SKELETON KEY, AND MR. GASMASK, DUDE I’M DREAMING!” said the boy gleefully, with Gas quickly intervening to finally say why they are here “Mrs. Wiggum unfortunately we aren’t here for a surprise fan meetup, there has been a murder.” Looking over to his friend signing an action figure for the fan, the child then said “Woah, I can’t believe I’m meeting the Skeleton Key, I have the first issue of the comic series, can you sign that too please?” he asked with great sincerity. Keys in a position to not say no he happily obliged and signed his comic while the detective and Gas asked questions to the lady. “So, Mrs. Wiggum, we are here to ask questions about your husband and the rest of your family history.” She then spoke with guilt lining her voice “I had nothing to do with my husband’s wrong doings, he was a bad person but I never had anything to do with the dealings with those mobsters, but I do know a whole lot.” The old lady finished her sentence by sipping her cup of tea. The detective then asked “Well miss if you do know a whole lot then, can you start from the beginning?” With a sparkle in her eye Kyra started the story from the beginning.

 It was a great day for the Wiggum and Edgil mafia families, for once they weren’t killing each other, because of the marriage between Joey Wiggum and Kyra Edgil that had brought the families together. It was a story straight outa Romeo and Juliet, they were inseparable. 

After we had our honeymoon, we decided to start job hunting because at the time both mob families weren’t that big, so there wasn’t a lot of income. What money the family made went to ammo, food, and the house, those were the 3 main things for a mafia family to function. So, it was rough for a little while, but then Joey had a brilliant idea, a brilliant idea that costed us everything. We started Wiggums, and by this time the factory was only a small revolver producer, but as the years grew we started gaining more and more money, and he always put most of it into the business, every day I grew further from the man I loved, after I found out he was making deals with the most notorious mobsters on Dorcya Bay, I ran away with my little girl. After that I found this home and I’ve been living here for a little around 40 to 50 years, but I’ve been getting more and more paranoid as more of my family die, firs it started with Uncle Fred, but slowly more and more of my family died until it’s been just Joey, me, my father, and my daughter Cinthia, and her son Conner.

After Kyra had finished her story, the detective then stopped writing and asked “Ok, well our next stop is at the factory itself, is there a way in that Joey don’t know about?” “Well I do know of a way but my memory is a bit rough, I know it was at our old house though, the house is at Wiggum Ave in Southrun county it’s a red house, it’s impossible to miss it.” Kyra said taking the final sip from her tea, Gas then said being the politest he can be “Thank you for your time Mrs. Wiggum, have a great rest of your day.” With Keys, Gas, and the detective leaving her home and getting into her car for the long ride into Southrun.

As they pull up into the gas station heading to fill up Keys car for the rest of the drive, Dakota with exhausted look on her face said “Hey, I’m gonna go into the store and see if I can pick up some food, Keys you can pay for the gas.” Keys who has been saving up in defense “Well sorry Sherlock I can’t use my money, apart from the hero stuff I don’t get paid for I have a minimum wage job and I’m saving up to buy something cool.” Gas piping up trying to get going again offered to pay, which nobody fought against. As the detective walked up into the building she couldn’t help but notice all of the sketchy looking eyes watching her, when they noticed she was watching them they immediately looked away. Walking into the store she picked up some chips and sodas and asked for the price, but then a couple of the sketchy looking guys waltzed into the door with something behind their backs. Dakota now realizing she has to go picks up the food and is almost out of the door when she hears a booming voice say “Well, well, well, if it isn’t city detective coming to the small town.”

Without a moment to spare she whips around, Colt in hand. She spots 5 men all wearing black trench coats and hats all with bandanas and sunglasses, 2 were holding Drum guns, and the other 3 were holding baseball bats and golf clubs, without a beat she fires 2 shots at the gun holders, she then gets hit with a bat causing her gun to go flying, quickly kicking the first guy she grabs his bat and whacks the other 2. After that she called the local police for back up. When the cops arrive they quickly set it up as a crime scene, Keys, Gas, and the Detective start looking for clues on who had sent the hitmen to kill Dakota, “Hey look!” Keys said while picking up one of the guns, “These guns were made by the one and only Wiggum, somethings fishy here and I don’t know what it is.” He said while looking closer at the guns, “I do have a theory though, what if Joey started hiring hitmen to take out fools he didn’t like?”. The detective already thinking the same thing says “It don’t make cents, Kyra said that the Wiggum family was a very small one.” Gas then said wanting to get his theory in spoke “What if Joey never hired anyone, what if he became the top dawg and started his own new family?”. Everyone stood in silence thinking hard on why, what, when, who, and why? With little no evidence they make their way to their final destination for this case, Wiggums.

As they start the van and hit the road they can’t help but notice how odd this case is, they don’t even know who stole the mysterious item yet, there closer to solving the Wiggums case then they are the H.S.A.I.C. case, but they know of they get to the factory they will be getting the answers they need. As they pull into the red house they can’t help but feel like they’ve gotten nowhere, they start to doubt themselves, not even the detective has had a case this tricky, but they trudge on. Entering the abandoned home, they see glimmers into the past, dolls and stuffed animals with mold on them, walls with paintings of homesteads, a dining room still furnished and with rotten food on the table, it was obvious that Joey couldn’t stand to live here after Kyra left with his only kin. They got through the first floor until Keys phone starts vibrating, “Yo, who is this?” Keys asked “Keys, its Lenard.” “Oh, hey Lenard what’s up, me, Gas, and the detective have bee- “Len then rudely interrupts and says “Where are you guys, nobody told me what’s been going on.” Gas then proceeds to tell Lenard that something bigger is going on in Southrun, Lenard then spoke with annoyance in his voice “We have jobs to do in the city, I could care less, Southrun isn’t in my jurisdiction.”

“Well we aren’t the cops, Len.” Keys said while starting his van, “But I am Keys” Said the detective, Len then said “Oh yea that’s true, you can’t work here, you ARE under jurisdiction.” The detective then said her goodbyes to Keys and Gas and left for Dorcya City, Keys and Gas then start the rest of their search around the house when reaching the second floor Gas says how they haven’t found anything here, but then Keys spot the attic door opens it up, revealing a small gun workshop with power and many rusted guns, ammo benches, and materials. While looking around the ladder to the attic closes and something humanoid jumps out and starts a fight, throwing the first punch the monster hits Keys dead on into his chest and he gets flung into the wall, losing his air, whipping out his duel pistols he fires multiple shots into the monster’s chest, the monster seriously injured, then grabs a broken support beam and spear-throws it at Keys. Keys looking for an escape grabs a piece of sheet metal and deflects the wood beam into the celling, the monster grows angrier and starts running at Keys, he then throws the sheet metal and it collides with the monster and slices it directly in half ending the fight, Gas finally being able to get into the attic barges in and spots Keys standing over the mysterious monster.

Looking around the attic they notice the ammo benches having the Wiggums logo on it, and that they all have been used recently, they are getting somewhere on the main case. They found evidence of a someone living in the attic, and they found their personal journal. Flipping through the pages reveals who had stolen the mysterious item, Lucas Kenji, Fritz Liner, Brody Saffron, and Doug Halloway. Gas after reading the journal with Keys says “Ima send a picture of this to the detective, see if she can get some profiles and help us from home.” They then hear walking from downstairs, and multiple people talking. Taking no time, they gather pictures of stuff and take the evidence they need to keep these people in prison. But then, just as they were gonna leave, bullets start bursting out of the floor as the sound of machine guns rattle their eardrums.

Glass is shattered as the bullets spiral in all direction and the only way out is death and all seems hopeless, Keys and Gas notice the giant metal bullet benches and start concocting a plan, with Keys jumping on top of the Ammo benches he starts walking across the benches until he can reach the window, after he does that then Gas does the same, but then a bullet ricocheted of a pipe and hit Gas as he got to the window. Gas now injured, limps with Keys to the van, without the bad guys noticing, and they drive off before they notice the movement has stopped in the attic, when they leave the house they notice that the van is gone and that they slashed their tires. Back to Keys, driving into a nearby clinic for help, he calls Dakota for help, “Will Gas be ok?” she asked with worry in her voice, Keys with no energy to keep moving says, “Yea, he is gonna be ok, the doctor said he will survive but he cannot do any work for a week so he can recover.” The detective asking what he will do now, Keys tells her that he will probably keep going, but says he needs some sleep so he will park the van in the back for now.

When Keys woke up he started the car and went the last couple of miles to the Wiggums factory, thinking to himself, “Who were those people who ambushed us?” “Were they the robbers who stole that item I don’t know about, if yes, why?” he thinks to himself, why do I have to do this alone? I don’t have any help to take down a mafia empire, I don’t have anything except some guns and gadgets. As he spots the factory in the distance he decides that acting is the way into this place, pulling into some woods he parks his van and puts on his pizza delivery outfit and walks to the door. “Hello? Pete’s Pizza Delivery here! A mobster opens the door and says, “Who ordered that pie?” which Keys replies, “uhm, a Mr. Wiggums?” he guessed, “Ok walk to the top flight of stairs and walk down the large ominous hallway of past family members.” The ganger said while letting him in, walking around the factory he walks into a bathroom and switches costumes into the Skeleton Key. Going up the stairs he finds the right hallway, and starts walking down it, opening the door at the end of the hallway, it reveals El Copper sitting on his great big leather chair holding a copper plated pistol.

Around the room are the rotting corpses of other mobster bosses, Mr. Wiggum, Gregory Danno, Felix Vanny, all godfathers who mysteriously went missing a few years ago. El Copper suddenly spoke “I’ve been waiting for this day, I thought it was gonna be detective Frank who walked through those doors, but your even better.” When Keys looked back to the hallway, the doors closed with such force the wind that blew back made papers fly, “If you want to live Skeleton man then we have a game to play, you pick, but, if I win you die, if you win I’ll tell you anything you wanna know.” El Copper said while grinning ear to ear. A little while later after some thought Keys said with confidence, “Tag.” The mobster had turned confused and asked him why, which Keys replied, “Well its easy, I say we have a 24-hour game of tag, if I’m tagged then you kill me, if I succeed and evade you and your goons then I get my answers.” With El Copper agreeing to this game it starts immediately with Keys running past the guards that didn’t even know what to do. Running down the hallway past more and more doors he reaches a corner and enters a room. In the room is the mafias gun room, Keys not even with the slightest amount of regret some guns and ammo for himself. With new found weaponry he decides to find a new exit to huddle down for the day.

Back in Dorcya City we see Dakota at her job in the police station, she is working a case about a bakery getting robbed by a hungry drunk, thinking about her friends who are in the middle of nowhere. Places like Southrun are like redneck areas to the people of Dorcya City. She then gets a call from Gas, “Hey, did Keys get home safe?” he said with a hint of pain, “What, Gas, Keys hasn’t entered the city, that means he is still with you.” After a couple of moments Gas speaks again, “He is at Wiggums, send back up immediately, I’m in a clinic and cannot get to him.” With zero haste she jumps up and runs to her car, before that she gets interrupted my Len again, “Hey where do you think you’re going, we need you to work on some unfinished cases.” Lenard said while handing her more papers, “I can’t Len, Keys needs my help, and Gas is in the hospital!” Not wanting to hear Lenard’s excuses she gets into her car and speeds off to Southrun. Driving all the way to Wiggums will be hard but she doesn’t care, speeding down the road she passes cows, fences and the occasional building. With it now being past 10 she arrived at the clinic where Gas was located, walking into his room she asked if Gas was ok. He said yea but he directed the conversation to getting Keys out of the Wiggums factory. Driving down the rocky road she gets a random flat and her progress is halted.

We then find Keys hiding out in an old machine, he thinks it was used for trash but the thing looks long out of order, thinking he was safe he opened his emergency survival box and pulled out a small candle and lit it. Not noticing the mobster watching him from the observation window, waiting, but for what? Suddenly the lights turn bright and the loud booming voice of El Copper says, “Well, well, well, this was a nice hideout for you Keys, unfortunately for you, the candle gave you away!” Then we see mobsters trying to get in the machine but El Copper tells them to not, without any warning the gigantic smelter turns on and the flames start with a fiery blast startling Keys, then the conveyor activates and he starts moving, with every step he takes El Copper turns up the speed knob, forcing Keys to run to survive until he can’t no more.

Turns to the detective speeding down the road after fixing her tire, she hadn’t had a flat before but she had a manual somewhere to tell her, finally reaching the factory she spots Keys van in the woods, then the heavily guarded front doors, heading inside the rusty deathtrap she grabs a disguise and walks to the door, “Hey its Pete’s Pizza here got a fresh pie for a, uhm.” She said wondering what name to blurt out, with one of guards replying, “Oh Mr. Wiggum must have got hungry again, yea go right in.” Walking into the factory she notices how empty it is, basically nobody is there. Entering the main gun factory part, she spots the flames growing through the window of the trash compactor, not to mention the mobsters at the entrance of the compactor. Walking to the nearest empty room, she changes back into her normal clothing and starts following the laughter, looking through an observation window, she spots Keys running endlessly. Noticing the mob boss in the 2nd floor observation window she starts her run to stop the conveyor.

Running down the halls finding no staircase, the sounds of a screaming hero filling the halls as the flames seem to grow louder. Sprinting past some guards, she spots the staircase in a hallway filled with traps, most of which crudely made from trash and office supplies. Keeping a slow pace through the treacherous hallway, she hears the laughter coming from the 2nd floor dying as its replaced by gunfire and screams, quickly fast walking through the traps she makes it to the stairs she runs up, bashing through a door revealing a room filled with mobsters riddled with bullets. Seemed someone already turned off the garbage burner, the smell of melted plastic left the air as the smell of gunpowder and iron filled the room. Slowly walking through the bodies, she notices that Keys wasn’t in the compactor any more, looking at the scene she deducted that he must’ve used a new gadget to latch on to one of the observation windows and break through it. Just as she was taking pictures, the sound of glass being stepped on rang out from the other side of the observation level, walking slowly to the other side of the large cylindrical structure she spots Keys laying on the floor unawake. “Hey, if it isn’t the city cop, here to find your friend little lady?” as the opposing figure of El Copper steps out from the shadows with another mobster. Within an instant he throws a ball at the detective causing her to lose her balance and fall, the mobster now walking to her takes out a vile and chugs it. “Kill her Lucas.” Copper said as he left the room and locked the door. 

Lucas still walking towards her starts transforming, as fog starts rolling into the room making it hard to see the man in front of her. She notices the figure growing taller and the arms longer, she spots stuff falling from the silhouette. Now on her feet she starts backing up from the rapidly approaching figure, frozen in fear, hitting the wall behind her she comes to her senses and whips out her pistol and fires rounds into the thing’s chest, seemingly doing nothing to stop her imminent doom, she then sprints out of the direction of the monster as it starts to run behind her. She tries to find a room to hide in but she can’t see a thing, feeling around the wall she finally hits a door and runs into the room with the monster hot on her tail. The thing clawing and punching at the ancient door, she knows it’s only a matter of time before it gets inside the room so as a last resort she fires what ammo she has left but it only seemed to break the door and not the monster, as she huddles in the corner she closes her eyes and.

A loud sound erupts into the air and she hears the rapid gunfire of automatic guns ring in the air, the monster now distracted starts running in the newly visible room. She then notices the source of the gunfire. With rapid succession Keys fires round upon round into the beast’s chest as it starts to slow down, when he is done with the clip, it lies dead on the ground.