Suddenly he was dumped from the cart, landing hard on wet ground.The hood was jerked from his head and he blinked, trying to cope with the brilliant light of the summer sun.
“Wh-where am I?Who are you?” he asked shading his eyes.
“You are in hell,” said Eric kneeling to face him.“And this is where you will remain.But first, there are some people that want to speak with you.”
“I-I don’t know any of you.I don’t know you!” he yelled.
“No,” said Kane in a rumbling voice.“No, you don’t know me, but I know your kind and I know from whence you came.You see, I knew Colonel Moore.Better than I would have liked.In fact, we all did.”He swept his arm behind him, his entire family of strange, gifted people staring at the man.
“I am embarrassed to say I am his daughter,” said Fiona.
“No.No, that can’t be.They’re all dead.I mean, all except Judy and now she’s dead.”
“Sorry to disappoint you,” she said staring at him.Nat stepped closer, her fingers dancing with flames at her fingertips.Jericho cried out, scooting backwards.
“People like you will never learn,” she said softly.“You fucked with God.You fucked with us.But you really fucked with those children.”
“I didn’t know any of you!” he cried out.“I was just trying to help those children!”
“Help them?By cutting open their heads and examining their brains?” asked Luke.“That’s not helping them.That’s not helping anyone.You killed those children without remorse, without thought, without any consideration for their lives.”
“They had no lives!They would all have been a burden to society!I would have made them famous,” he said proudly.The kick to his ribs came so swiftly, he didn’t even see it.He didn’t see that it belonged to an older man, wearing a size fourteen boot.A man that had enough of children being abused and taken advantage of.
“Let me kill him now,” said Ghost.
“P-please,” he gasped.“I can explain.”
“There is no explanation for what you’ve done.You brought that pink dust shit back to life,” said Adam.“You brought it to life in a liquid form and you put it in the children’s formula and milk.”
The shock on Jericho’s face told them everything they needed to know.He never believed anyone would guess how he’d done it.
“Your buyers have been notified that you were mistaken.You have no formula and your experiments were not a success,” said Ace.“They are disappointed, as you can imagine, but it’s interesting to note that they all said they didn’t believe you anyway.Things like this could not have happened.
“What you didn’t count on, what you weren’t even aware of was what you did to Sutton.The stupid, interfering, sneaky child you attempted to kill drank some of the milk you left for her brother.
“See, she was starving and her parents were out looking for work.She’d fed, Pip, but she was hungry and just wanted a little.A few sips out of each gallon of milk over several months.But she wasn’t hearing impaired.She had no detriment in her brain.Instead, it gave her a very, very special gift.”
Gaspar stepped forward and called for their friend.
“Bella?Come out honey,” he said gently.
“Bella?I’m supposed to be afraid of someone named Bella?” said Jericho.
“Not someone.Something,” said Gaspar.The massive boa constrictor wound her way around Gaspar’s feet, sidling up his leg to rest her head at his hip while he stroked her.
“Bella?Sutton said you had some very interesting ideas on what to do to this man.You have my permission, just this once, to proceed.”
“Wh-what?No!No, you can’t do this!” he cried.
Bella didn’t care.She knew what he’d done to the children and she was going to make sure it never happened again.
“You see,” said Eric, kneeling to look in his eyes, “A boa constrictor kills its prey through constriction, hence the name.Neat, isn’t it?It’s a process that causes immediate circulatory arrest.That means blood flow and stuff.Instead of suffocation or crushing bones, the snake wraps and coils around the animal, or human, although we’ll leave it at animal for now, and squeezes tightly, cutting off the flow of blood and oxygen to the heart and brain, causing unconsciousness in seconds.”
“And there.He.Goes,” said Nine.“Bella, you can either give him to Alvin to take to the swamp or share him with your friends.”
Gaspar and Luke laughed.
“She says she doesn’t eat junk food,” smirked Luke.“Alvin?Can you take out the trash?”
