Chapter 17): New Game! (2)
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{Spoiler Alert if you haven't watched Season 2! Watch it before hand or don't, I am going to keep making this either way.}
{Skill Rankings: SSS, SS, S, A, B, C, D, F}
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(A/N: So, I spent I reached into the deepest parts of my mind in order to write this. And if I did this right, it will be chilling, if not and you are reading this version of the author's note, well I was okay with it. Still: WARNING!! Everything you read after this is all imagination nothing else, I am in no way telling you to try this nor am I doing it myself it is just for entertainment purposes!)
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(Game POV)
The group of three walked into the next room and were blinded by the lights as they flashed on, the blinked before they were able to see clearly what was happening in the room. The room was surgical, that was the best way to describe it as there was a fully operating room built inside of a giant glass box, along with something covered on the table.
Along the walls were X-rays of someone's body, inside the body was what appeared to be four keys, the keys looked jagged and rough, but they also seemed to have a number marked on them that couldn't be made out. Sarah's eyes went wide as she saw the set-up, she was a surgeon after all and had seen the inside of these places more than once so she could see it was all grade-A equipment.
As she was contemplating that and before anyone could speak the door behind them was sealed and locked, they all jumped at the loud bang it made as it closed but ignored it as they heard static. Looking at the Television they watched as the person in the clown mask appeared again.
"...Sarah, you might be familiar more than the others here as you are a surgeon in your own right, a rather gifted one too if your colleagues are anything to go by. What your friends and colleagues fail to realize though is that more often than not you are letting people die on the table on purpose." He started.
"That is a Lie!" Sarah shouted even if she knew every word he was saying was true.
"They don't realize that you have taken your sacred job of saving lives and turned it into your own form of the game of operation. You are using it as a thrill to get away with killing people and loving every minute of it, so much so that you have even went from having a 90% saving rate down to a 75% blaming it on marital problems."
Jasper and Cindy both looked over towards Sarah who was glaring at the TV.
"So, this next game is special just for you. The room in front of you holds a body that you need to operate on in order to gain the keys inside of it so that they can give you access to your freedom through the door. Enter the room when you are ready to begin the game." The person in the clown mask cackled before the tv cut out.
Sarah gulped as she caught the others watching her, she glared before walking over towards the glass container, "WAIT!" Cindy shouted before she could step all the way through.
Looking back, she raised a brow at the other woman, she was a little woozy from blood loss, but she was trying to play it off, "What?"
"Don't you think we should look around more before you begin shouldn't you at least examine the X-rays before you start." Cindy reasoned looking at Jasper for help, but the man wasn't even paying attention to her as he was looking at the door which had locks all over it.
Sarah sneered, "I am a doctor with 90% clearance rate like you just heard! I already looked at the X-rays in the room, I can do this in a heartbeat."
She didn't wait to listen to Cindy anymore as she stepped into the room, the moment she did a buzzing noise went off and the door closed behind her, she looked panicked as the TV clicked on again showing the clown. "Sarah, you have thrown away your vowels of a doctor and caused harm to others. Today it will be your turn to either save a life or cause harm to even more."
Before she could question what, he was talking about the sheet was thrown off the body somehow and her eyes grew wide as she saw who was laying there, "TONY!!!" She shouted rushing towards him.
"Your husband will make great motivation don't you think? At the moment he is asleep but will wake up real soon, you have thirty minutes to not only get the keys but also to save both your lives, because above you is a pipe that will slowly fill the room with a slow acting acid that will slowly fill the room.
Can you finally see the error of your ways and save the man you love along with yourself, or will you both perish here. Let the game begin!" The clown said right as she heard something hit the ground.
Looking over she saw a clear liquid hit the ground, it was still for a moment before the liquid hissed and a small puff of smoke went out, her eyes widened in panic at the sight of it.
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(Love and Joe POV)
"Whoa, what do you think is going to happen?" Love asked looking at the screen completely entrapped by it all.
"I have no clue, I am rooting for her to save themselves, but at the same time she did basically murder a lot of people on her operating table." Joe said while shaking his head as he moaned biting into the cake that Love had made.
"Well, what would you do if it was me?" Love asked turning to look at him as she thought about her own past and what she did.
Joe paused as he was about to take another bite, he frowned as he looked at her, "Which one, I am the surgeon or on the table?"
"The surgeon, would you try your best to save me? Or would you let the acid eat away at both of us giving us a great final moment?" She asked leaning back away from him so she could watch his face while he spoke.
Joe paused for a moment before he spoke, "It would eat me up inside, but I would try my best to save you before the acid could kill us both, I would try my hardest not to hurt you in the process, but I would do it. If I couldn't then I would try my hardest to get you out so that at least you could get away."
Love looked at him for a moment to see how truthful he was before throwing herself into his arms and kissing him hard, Joe moaned into it thinking it tasted better than the cake she made.
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(Game POV)
Sarah was suck as a slow drizzle went about the room, she didn't know what to do in that moment as the acid had frozen her, "ugh.." Tony on the table was slowly coming too, his arms and legs were strapped down by metal cuffs with key holes, she couldn't get him out, "Sarah...is that you? What is going on?" Tony asked.
Sarah rushed to his side hissing as some acid hit her shoulder, "Tony, everything is okay, well it is going to be okay. That crazy clown has us in one of his games...he wants me to operate on you though to pass this part."
"WHAT!!" Tony shouted in panic as he thrashed so he could get away from the cuffs that were holding him down, "Sarah, you have to get me out of here! Don't do this please."
Sarah cried as more acid started to fall on her, Tony was somehow not in the range of any of it that was falling down, "I'm sorry sweetie, there is nothing I can do but operate. The room is locked, and the only way out is to get the keys out of you so that I can unlock you and we can go free."
Tony froze gulping looking towards his wife, "C-Can you do it?" He asked knowing she had been having trouble recently at work with her bosses so her saving rate had gone down a lot.
Sarah glared, "Of course I can, I am the best there is!"
"Well..." He said sheepishly.
Her eyes widen as she remembered what she had told him, but she also couldn't tell him the truth, the only light in her life besides killing others was her husband and she didn't want to lose him over her secret. She bit her lip looking down at him kissing his lips lightly, "Just trust me I got this sweetie."
She stared into her eyes before nodding, "I trust you."
She grinned as she moved to grab the scalpel that was setting to the side, there was nothing else beside that and forceps which she would need to use to get the keys out when it was time. There was also a needled and thread to close it all when she was done.
From the X-rays she knew that the keys were in; A lung, A Kidney, The Spleen and the last was right next to the heart.
Whoever had done this did it with such precision that they got the key next to the heart without cutting it, which showed skilled but from the stitching she could tell they had no medical training at all. Letting out a breath she gave Tony one last look before she cut into his chest, he screamed and thrashed as she cut deeper but she couldn't stop now.
She cursed as she nicked a vein from his thrashing and blood began to flow faster, her arm also slipped as more acid fell and she couldn't help but hate the pain that was searing her arm. "Shit! Sorry Tony, just hold on." She said while trying to get a visual on the first key in his kidney, it was the least likely place she would kill him from the fastest.
Jasper and Cindy on the outside winced as more acid poured into the room with Sarah and her husband's screams echoing from even inside the box, they were both to fascinated to look away from what was happening. Both were losing more and more blood as the acid was causing more injuries slowly melting Sarah's face from where it landed.
The time ticked away as the screams became less and less with blood pooling on the ground, Cindy threw up as Sarah's face was now deformed from the acid, the woman couldn't even stand anyone. Her husband was no better as Sarah from the pain and loss of blood but too deep at the lungs, which slowly filled with blood.
When their screaming finally stopped the room buzzed again but to the door that was keeping Cindy and Jasper locked in the room, it broke them from their staring and caused them to walk towards it. Cindy shuddered as she saw the dead body of Sarah lying there, she was unrecognizable.
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(Love and Joe POV)
"Wow." Was all Love could say as she saw what just happened, it was like watching a horror movie which is why she wasn't freaked out more than she should be.
123,546,321 million viewers
Joe saw that at the top of the screen and smirked as he did so, it was no longer limited to him just showing it in America he had went for across the world this time and he was getting good results like he wanted.
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[Name: Joe Goldberg (Joe Angel)
Age: 26
Skills: Hacker (SSS), Renewal Taekwondo (SS), Whistling (D)
Minds: John Kramer (A) Neal Caffery (B)]