NEW F/O List!!!
Romantic F/Os❤️💖
Scarecrow (Batman The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, Nolanverse, Brave and The Bold, Arkhamverse, Fear State, Injustice 2, Audio Adventures, Tomorrow-Verse, Harley Quinn Series and Happy Halloween Scooby Doo)
Luigi, Bowser and Daisy (Mario)
Meta Knight (Kirby)
Mad Hatter (Batman The Animated Series)
Penguin and Ragdoll (The Batman 2004 Series)
Riddler (The Batman 2004 Series and Arkham Knight)
Joker (Batman The Animated Series and The Batman 2004 Series)
The Question and Huntress (Justice League Unlimited)
Gentleman Ghost (Batman - The Brave and The Bold)
Spawn (Image Comics)
Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Snork (Moomin)
Radley Heeler and Frisky Heeler (Bluey)
Wes Weasley (Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog)
Unexplained Noises (Orion and The Dark)
Mr Shark and Diane Foxington (The Bad Guys)
Doctor Octopus, Vulture, Electro and Shocker (Spectacular Spider Man)
Bender (Futurama)
Po and Lord Shen (Kung Fu Panda)
Mr Scatterbrain (Mr Men Show)
Alastor, Zestial and Velvette (Hazbin Hotel)
Blitzø, Paimon, Asmodeus, Sallie May and Striker (Helluva Boss)
Dr Krankcase (Skylanders)
Professor Venomous (OK K.O)
Girlfriend, Chris, Nikku, Nikusa, Garcello and Tabi (Friday Night Funkin)
Taki (Friday Night Fever)
Zavok, Zazz, Blaze, Espio and Tangle (Sonic)
Paintbrush, Silver Spoon, Candle, MePhone4S, Bandana and Hay Bale (Inanimate Insanity)
Conch Shell and PDA (The Power of Two)
Needle, Pen, Donut and Tennis Ball (Battle For Dream Island)
Six, Lollipop and Gaty (Battle For BFB)
Thrax (Osmosis Jones)
Amadeus Wolfgeist, Hellen Gravely and Morty (Luigi's Mansion)
Scar and Lex Woods (Alien Vs Predator)
Vex (Sackboy - A Big Adventure)
Sideshow Bob, Ned Flanders, Moe Syzlack and Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons)
Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot)
Fred Jones (Scooby Doo)
The Earl and The DangerGrid of Doom (Skatoony)
Monica (Oggy and The Cockroaches)
Black Hat (Villainous)
Jafar (Disney's Aladdin)
Nasira (Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge)
Maleficent (Disney's Sleeping Beauty)
Captain Hook (Disney's Peter Pan)
Hades (Disney's Hercules)
Peppino Spaghetti and Vigilante (Pizza Tower)
Katz, Freaky Fred and Computer (Courage The Cowardly Dog)
Espresso Cookie, Clover Cookie and Frost Queen Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom)
Rainbow Dash, Princess Cadence, Discord, Cheese Sandwich, Trenderhoof and Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony)
Fear and Anxiety (Inside Out)
Eddie Brock/Venom (Venom)
The Mole (Happy Tree Friends)
Goofy (Disney)
Simon Belmont (Captain N The Game Master)
Izzy, Chris McLean, Mike/Svetlana/Manitoba Smith/Mal and Zoey (Total Drama)
Nordic Bunny (Shred Force)
Mr Puzzles (SMG4)
Mario.EXE (Mario's Madness)
MX (Mario 85 and Mario's Madness)
Dr Nefarious and Emperor Nefarious (Ratchet and Clank)
Claude Frollo and Esmeralda (Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Kasane Teto (Vocaloid and UTAU)
Ales Mansay and Mr Dark (Rayman)
Ramon/Rayman (Captain Laserhawk)
Midnite and Edge (Mario + Rabbids)
Darlwing Duck, QuackerJack and Negaduck (Darlwing Duck)
Sniper, Medic and Spy (Team Fortress 2)
Right Hand Man (Henry Stickmin)
Sasha Waybright (Amphibia)
Wally Darling (Welcome Home)
Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Dr Strangeglove and Luvli (Moshi Monsters)
NOS-4-A2, Zurg and Ty Parsec (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command)
Emperor Belos and Raine Whispers (Owl House)
Devil, King Dice and Baroness Von Bon Bon (Cuphead Show)
Elvira (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and Happy Halloween Scooby Doo)
Rango and Beans (Rango)
Gia (Madagascar)
Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal TV series)
[Queerplatonic]🍀
Maud Pie (My Little Pony)
Ford Pines (Gravity Falls)
Rattlesnake Jake (Rango)
Trenderman (Creepypasta)
Gaston (Disney's Beauty and the Beast)
Toffee (Star VS The Forces of Evil)
Platonic F/Os💛🌹
Kuromi and Cinnamoroll (Sanrio)
Moony (ENA)
Henry Stickmin, Ellie Rose, Reginald Copperbottom and Sven Svensson (Henry Stickmin)
Dr Flug and White Hat (Villainous)
Benrey (Half Life VR)
Boyfriend, Carol, Annie, Pom Pom and Ash (Friday Night Funkin)
Edd, Eduardo and Zanta Claws (Eddsworld)
Ell (Ellsworld)
Rayman (Rayman and Animated Series)
Globox, Grand Minimus and Teensies (Rayman)
Betina (Rayman the Animated Series)
Flynn, Cali, Hugo, Tessa, Eye Brawl, Chop Chop and Wrecking Ball (Skylanders)
Bambi and Faline (Disney's Bambi)
SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, Sandy Cheeks and Karen Plankton (SpongeBob)
Tanjiro Kamado (Demon Slayer)
Poppet, Zommer and Katsuma (Moshi Monsters)
Wall-E, EVE and M-O (Wall-E)
Charlie Morningstar, Angel Dust, Vaggie, Nifty and Vox (Hazbin Hotel)
Bunny, Kitty, Shirley the Medium, Cajun Fox and Black Puddle Queen (Courage The Cowardly Dog)
Anne Boonchuy (Amphibia)
Red Action (OK K.O)
Cream Puff Cookie, Strawberry Crepe Cookie and Cherry Blossom Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom)
Rocko Rama and Filburt Shellbach (Rocko's Modern Life)
Maria (Unicorn Wars)
Luca Paguro (Luca)
Curse Of X, Lord X and NormalCD (VS Sonic.EXE)
Bubble, Ice Cube and Pin (Battle For Dream Island)
Four, Eight, Nine, Ten, Fourteen, Five and Two (Battle for BFB)
Iscream, Fwench Fwy and Cofi (Chikn Nuggit)
Freckles and Rocky (Lackadaisy)
Alex, Marty and Vitaly (Madagascar)
Charlie Dompler and Pim Pimling (Smiling Friends)
Mario, Peach, Wario and Toad (Mario)
Sonic, Amy Rose, Vector and Chip (Sonic)
Knuckles (Sonic Movie)
Po, Laa-Laa, Tinky Winky and Dipsy (Teletubbies)
Alice (Batman The Animated Series)
Donutella (Donutella)
Bianca (Pokémon)
Nazz (Ed, Edd N Eddy)
Oggy and Marky (Oggy and The Cockroaches)
Verosika Mayday, Collin, Vortex and Queen Bee-Zlebub (Helluva Boss)
Pomni and Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Gus Porter and Hunter (Owl House)
Coco (Crash Bandicoot)
Cajun Fox (Courage The Cowardly Dog)
Shirley The Medium (Courage The Cowardly Dog)
GB (Mario's Madness)
Bullfrog (Captain Laserhawk)
Bubble (Fundamental Paper Education)
Glendale (Centaurworld)
Vanity Smurf (Smurfs)
Bernie and Marina (Zig and Sharko)
Flaky (Happy Tree Friends)
Snorky, Fleegle, Drooper and Bingo (The Banana Splits)
Karen, Axol and SMG3 (SMG4)
Familial F/Os💙🍒
[Parents]🍁
Bandit Heeler, Chilli Heeler, Calypso, Pat and Brandy Heeler (Bluey)
Eda Clawthorne, Lilith Clawthorne, Darius Deamone and Camila Noceda (Owl House)
Millie, Moxxie and Stolas (Helluva Boss)
Lucifer Morningstar, Rosie, Carmilla Carmine, Sir Pentious and Husk (Hazbin Hotel)
Jack Skellington and Sally (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Moominpappa and Moominmamma (Moomin)
Mama White and Papa White (Sanrio)
Victor, Laverne and Archdeacon (Disney's Hunchback Of Notre Dame)
King Andrias and Lady Olivia (Amphibia)
Lila and John (Spooky Month)
Wallace, Lady Tottington and Wendolene Ramsbottom (Wallace and Gromit)
Muriel Bagge (Courage The Cowardly Dog)
Yor Forger and Loid Forger (Spy X Family)
Solazar, Ruv, Sarvente and Dr Springheel (Friday Night Funkin)
Alice (Pokémon - Rise of Darkrai)
Count Bleck and Tippi (Super Paper Mario)
Tankman and Steve (Tankmen)
King Boo and Rosalina (Mario)
Dr Eggman and Vanilla (Sonic)
Optimus Prime (Transformers)
Ventriloquist and Scarface (Batman The Animated Series)
Catwoman (The Batman 2004 Series)
Connor and Lieutenant Hank Anderson (Detroit: Become Human)
Jason Voorhess and Pamela Voorhees (Friday The 13th - Original)
Ragatha and Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus)
EteleD/Henry Morris and Corrupted Mii/Austin Sanders (Wii Deleted You)
Genie (Disney's Aladdin)
Mrs Piggy and Swedish Chef (Muppets)
Mao Mao, Badgerclops, Shin Mao and Eugene (Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart)
Funella and Furgus (Furchester Hotel)
Majin Sonic (VS Sonic.EXE)
Clarabelle Cow, Horace Horsecollar, Oswald The Lucky Rabbit and Ortensia the Cat (Disney)
Tom Wachowski and Maddie Wachowski (Sonic Movie)
Melman and Gloria (Madagascar)
Smee (Disney's Peter Pan)
Mona and Mike (Warioware)
Rarity, Princess Celestia and Thorax (My Little Pony)
[Siblings]🦋
Moomintroll, Snorkmaiden and Little My (Moomin)
Octavia and Loona (Helluva Boss)
Bluey Heeler, Bingo Heeler, Rusty and Mackenzie Border Collie (Bluey)
Slushi (Chikn Nuggit)
Marcy Wu/Darcy, Sprig Plantar and Polly Plantar (Amphibia)
Mabel Pines, Wendy Corduroy and Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls)
Meggy Spletzer, Tari and Melony (SMG4)
Meilin Lee, Miriam Mendelsohn, Priya Mangal and Abby Park (Turning Red)
Jenny Wakeman (My Life As A Teenage Robot)
Soft Boyfriend and Soft Mouse (Friday Night Funkin - Soft)
Streber (Spooky Month)
Rabbid Rosalina (Mario + Rabbids)
Tails (Sonic)
Giulia Marcovaldo (Luca)
Selever, Rasazy, Cassette Girl, Sunday, Rascal and Hex (Friday Night Funkin)
Nezuko Komado (Demon Slayer)
Shaggy Rogers and Madelyn Dinkley (Scooby Doo)
Darrell, Shannon, Raymond, Enid and KO (OK K.O)
Dee Dee (Dexter's Laboratory)
Edd/Double D (Ed Edd n Eddy)
Olivia (Oggy and The Cockroaches)
Hilda (Hilda)
Iris (Pokémon)
Patsy Smiles (Camp Lazlo)
Noisette (Pizza Tower)
Orbulon (Warioware)
Tiana and Charlotte La Bouff (Princess and The Frog)
Loona (Helluva Boss)
Odette and Clara (Hazbin Hotel)
Wubbzy, Widget, Walden and Daizy (Wow! Wow! Wubbzy)
Luz Noceda, Willow Park, Vee, Collector, Eberwolf and Kikimora (Owl House)
N (Murder Drones)
Gangle and Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Charles Calvin (Henry Stickmin)
DogDay, CraftyCorn, Hoppy Hopscotch, KickinChicken, CatNap and Boogie Bot (Poppy Playtime)
Molly McGee and Libby Stein-Torres (Ghost and Molly McGee)
Sniffles and Lammy (Happy Tree Friends)
Toaster (The Brave Little Toaster)
Elflin (Kirby)
Phoebe (Furchester Hotel)
Gordi (Unicorn Wars)
Tord and Tom (Eddsworld)
Tamara (Ellsworld)
Mags (Skylanders)
Squid Ink Cookie, Parfait Cookie and Custard Cookie III (Cookie Run: Kingdom)
Iris (Pokémon)
Lamb (Cult of the Lamb)
Berk (The Trap Door)
[Children]🍰
Child! Blitzø, Child! Stolas, Child! Octavia, Child! Fizzarolli, Oliver and Child! Moxxie (Helluva Boss)
Pom Pom, Lila, Muffin and Socks (Bluey)
Cyan Fitzgerald (Todd McFarlane's Spawn)
Penny Crygor, Kat, Ana, Ashley and 9-Volt (Warioware)
Hello Kitty, Mimmy White, Fifi, My Melody, My Sweet Piano and Julianna Scott (Sanrio)
Eri and Kota Izumi (My Hero Academia)
Maggie Simpson (The Simpsons)
Nugget (Super Meat Boy Forever)
Anya Forger (Spy X Family)
Bubbles (Powerpuff Girls)
Adorabat (Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart)
Skid, Pump and Robert (Spooky Month)
Hat Kid (A Hat In Time)
Sam (Trick R Treat)
Cream, Cheese, Orbot, Cubot, Sage and Charmy Bee (Sonic)
Kirby, Ribbon and Adeleine (Kirby)
SCP-053 and SCP-239 (SCP)
Baby Doll (Batman The Animated Series)
Cub (Happy Tree Friends)
Lazlo, Gretchen and Edward (Camp Lazlo)
X and Cake (Battle For BFB)
Lumas (Mario)
Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Baby Peach, Bowser Jr, Boo and Luma (Mario)
Onion Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom)
Three Diablos (Puss In Boots: The Three Diablos)
QT (Friday Night Funkin)
Fink (O.K KO)
Pinocchio (Disney's Pinocchio - 1940s)
Egg Boiz (Hazbin Hotel)
Blanky (Brave Little Toaster)
Flips (Rayman The Animated Series)
Henry Hugglemonster (Henry Hugglemonster)
Sunflower (Plants Vs Zombies)
[Others]💜
Grandma White - grandmother and Grandpa White - grandfather (Sanrio)
Chris Heeler - grandmother, Trixie Heeler - aunt and Stripe Heeler - uncle (Bluey)
Gwendolyn Clawthorne - grandmother, Edric Blight - cousin and Emira Blight - cousin (Owl House)
Nanny Plum - grandmother and Wise Old Elf - grandfather (Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom)
Uncle Hairy - uncle (Humf)
Isabel - cousin (Furchester Hotel)
Samantha Coleman - cousin (Wii Deleted You)
Alice Green - grandmother (Big City Greens)
Alicia - grandmother (Pokémon - Rise of Darkrai)
Nina Cortex - niece (Crash Bandicoot)
Burt Curtis - cousin, Earrings - cousin and Dave Panpa - cousin (Henry Stickmin)
Dribble - uncle, Spitz - cousin and Dr Crygor - grandfather (Warioware)
Soft Pico - cousin (Friday Night Funkin - Soft)
Hop Pop Plantar - grandfather (Amphibia)
Iroh - uncle (Avatar - The Last Airbender)
Granny Smith - grandmother, Pharynx - uncle and Princess Luna - aunt (My Little Pony)
Leatherface/Bubba Sawyer - uncle (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
May Parker - aunt (Spectacular Spider Man)
Pet F/Os🐑🤍
Gidget, Daisy and Chloe (The Secret Life of Pets)
Fat Nuggets and Keekee (Hazbin Hotel)
King, Hooty, Flapjack and Clover (Owl House)
Thumper (Disney's Bambi)
SCP-999 and SCP-131 (SCP)
Artemis, Diana and Luna (Sailor Moon)
Zero (Nightmare Before Christmas)
Puss in Boots, Kitty Softpaws and Perrito (Puss in Boots)
Gary (SpongeBob)
Ringo (Eddsworld)
Pipsqueak (The Lorax)
Shirousa, Kurousa, Strawberryusa, Blueberryusa, Momousa, Vanilla, Aousa, Pandausa, Balletusa and Primausa (Sugarbunnies)
Pusheen (Pusheen The Cat)
Cheezborger and Chikn Nuggit (Chikn Nuggit)
505 (Villainous)
Gromit, Feathers McGraw and Hutch (Wallace and Gromit)
Jeffrey The Land Shark (It's Jeff)
Polterpup (Luigi's Mansion)
Jess (Postman Pat)
Garfield and Odie (Garfield)
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private (Madagascar and Penguins of Madagascar)
Bond Forger (Spy X Family)
Courage and Le Quack (Courage The Cowardly Dog)
Hypno (Pokémon and Friday Night Funkin: Lullaby)
Pikachu, Pichu, Jigglypuff, Eevee, Sylveon, Darkrai, Piplup, Wynaut, Manaphy, Togepi, Togekiss, Pawmi, Mudkip, Torchic, Chikorita, Jirachi, Emolga, Axew, Cosmog, Mew, Celebi, Zorua, Minccino, Cinccino, Ralts, Azurill, Latios, Latias, Riolu, Lucario, Buneary, Dwebble, Altaria, Swablu, Quaxly, Espurr, Meowstic, Gengar, Misdreavus, Audino and Diancie (Pokémon)
Shinto (Friday Night Funkin: Lullaby)
Scooby Doo (Scooby Doo)
Chao and Yacker (Sonic)
Rilakkuma
Zippy (TUFF Puppy)
Pugsley (Dead End: Paranormal Park)
Jiji (Kiki's Delivery Service)
Mog and Owl (Meg and Mog)
Peep, Quack and Chirp (Peep and The Big Wide World)
Baby Rox, Jeepers, Sleepypaws, Shishi, Holga, Suey, Fifi, Capt Squirk, Tomba, Kissy, Roxy, Grinny, Gabby, Mr Snoodle, Scamp, Bingo, Misty, Blinky, Marsha, Priscilla, Gingersnap, Fernando, Scrumpy, Penny, Tingaling, Pip, Prof Purplex, Honey and Nodkins (Moshi Monsters)
Nine (Frankenstein's Cat)
Pr0ships, c0mships, bigots, z00, anti-self shippers, NSFW, necr0 and p#do DNI!!!
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@whumppromptoftheday This is from your prompt!
CW: badly injured whumpee, implied past violence, robbery, begging.
Broken World
1. Rescue
The Ripper stepped out of a violent tear in reality and into a dark hall. The rift in this universe annealed itself almost immediately, the maddening uncolors of the Other Place quickly vanishing. Then Ripper had to bend almost double for a moment, swallowing the taste of blood as they waited for the pain to stop. They didn’t make a noise. They’d learned not to do that a long time ago.
It was hard to get carnite. A lot of it had been mined out, and it was the source of one of only a few ways to permanently alter the function of metapowers without removing them. It was therefore tremendously valuable. The cache supposedly being kept here in Registered Metahuman Team 99B’s base was said to weigh five kilos and be worth about a billion dollars.
Ripper snorted back more blood inside the medical mask. Real costumes were for people who wanted to be on the news. Ripper was wearing gray sweats and a dingy white tank top with a black hoodie. Their mask was just a black N-95. They weren’t even wearing real shoes. They had tabi socks with lightly textured soles, almost noiseless on the institutional tile floor as they walked down the hall. Their gray backpack was the most expensive thing on them, metal-less, high-density ceramic zippers only.
All the lights were out because nobody was here. The Ninety-Nines were at a parade doing security for the mayor or someone. Ripper didn’t know who and didn’t have a reason to care. The important thing was that Silverant and Teledyne weren’t here, no annoyingly perky speedster, no super strong asshole who could break Ripper’s spine with a tiny finger-flick. None of the others were that dangerous to someone quiet and careful, Ripper told itself.
The ventilation hummed constantly, but the heat felt like it wasn’t doing much. The air was cold. The Ripper knew they were four stories below ground; they needed really precise imaging to get into somewhere they’d never been. It hadn’t been cheap, either. Not many people had been down here on the Vault level. The rooms on either side had little windows in their heavy steel doors. Ripper peeked in all of them until it found the one that looked like a biology lab more than a place to keep rocks: microscopes, fridges, centrifuges. A good look from the door was enough.
Ripper stepped back and reached into the world inside itself and tore it open, clawing at their chest. Their hands went from brown to light blue to flat black as they exhaled into a silent scream. Inside became outside, and now they were in the Other Place, grasping in front of them to tear at the membrane of something made of colors that weren’t real and didn’t make sense. They had to get out before they could focus on the idea that they weren’t real here, either, or it might stop existing before it could get through.
The membrane tore, burning and wet under their fingers, and they slid out into the glittering dark of the lab. They stifled a cough. There was no recording equipment this far down, but it felt so loud in the quiet.
They turned on the overhead lights and rifled all the cupboards. Nothing was locked, not a good sign. And while they were reading the labels on all the little shelves above the counter, someone made a noise.
Ripper froze.
It happened again. Someone had made a sort of whimpering moan that ended in a gasp, like maybe they’d breathed too deep and it hurt. It came from behind one of three doors in the back of the lab. These had bigger windows in them, laced with a diamond pattern of metal reinforcement, so it could see that two were empty. All of them were bolted shut.
In the third one, there was a man tied to a steel chair.
Ripper stood there staring, still swallowing blood inside the mask. That was normal. This wasn’t.
He was middle sized, dark haired, not as brown as the Ripper. He’d been in decent shape before someone beat him with… Ripper measured the size of their own fist with the bruises on his naked belly. The knuckle marks were bigger. Was that Teledyne, Ripper wondered, just pulling his punches? The man’s eyes were swollen, and there was a cut above one eye that had matted his eyebrow and blinded him with blood.
The blood looked sticky and half-crusted. Around his nose it was still red, in horrid congealed bits atop the black. It had taken longer to dry up. His eyes couldn’t be seen at all between the swelling and the dim overhead light. His cheeks were deeply hollow. Bands of muscle pulled tight and stringy across his ribs. A blow had left a mark there, black and blue and swollen. Ripper realized that some of the marks were yellow around it, and tried not to gag as they realized why, that someone had waited for the bruises to fade a little and then hit him there again. Cuts around his jaw showed someone had shaved him carelessly, and a deep shadow said it hadn’t been today. His light gray sweats were spotted with blood drips. His feet looked almost black. They had no toenails.
Hairs stood all the way up along Ripper’s spine. It almost cut and ran right then, but a billion was a lot, and maybe this man knew where it was kept. So instead they unbolted both bolts and opened the door. A thin slice of bright light seemed to hit him like a blow; he jerked back, turning his face away as he wheezed. Ripper heard him swear under his breath.
“I won’t hurt you,” Ripper said. “I’m not one of them.” Their voice sounded rough. It usually did. But it didn’t sound like anyone else’s voice. The man looked around, squinting at the bright light.
“For God’s sake, turn that off,” he said. The Ripper went to turn off the lab lights and came back.
“Tell me where the carnite is and I’ll take you with me,” Ripper said.
“Untie me and I’ll show you,” he said. It took him a couple of tries to get that all out.
The Ripper considered that, looking him over from under their hood. He wasn’t too big. Ripper was taller. And he was in bad, bad shape. Maybe he wouldn’t try anything dumb.
“Yeah, all right.” It walked around to look at the back of the chair. The man’s wrists were zip-tied to each other and the middle bar of the tall chair-back. He had pulled hard enough to make them bleed, but not too recently. The blood had dried all the way. The Ripper pulled at them slightly, getting them off his skin a tiny bit.
“Hold still.” The smallest tear between its fingertips, the smallest gate to the Other Place, separated the plastic like it had been cut. They did it again at the ankles, one by one. THAT didn’t hurt enough to matter. There was only a faint looming shadow for warning before the man crumpled forward. Ripper grabbed at his waist as his cheek smacked into Ripper’s shoulder.
“Hey, careful!”
“Stronger than you look,” the man mumbled, groping weakly at Ripper’s upper arms as he knelt there. He stank of old blood and sweat. “Tha’s good, cause you’re gon’ have to help me walk.”
“Yeah, fine. Come on.” Between the two of them, they managed to get him mostly upright, leaning on Ripper with his arm drawn across its shoulder. “Okay, where’s the carnite?”
“Can you really gemme out of here?” he asked.
“Sure. Organic bodies are easy enough. The Other Place doesn’t like metal, though. You have a pacemaker or anything? Fillings?” He didn’t seem to have any jewelry.
“Nah,” the man said. He wheezed every time he breathed.
“Then no problem. Where’s the carnite?”
“There’s’s secret panel,” the man said. “Kick th’ wall by the blood fridge. That one.” He pointed weakly at a chest-high fridge with a clear front and rows and rows of vials. The Ripper hauled him over there and kicked at the wall with a heel in the spot where there was a smudge. Something hissed, and the panel popped forward and to the side in one abrupt movement.
Inside was a niche with a couple of shelves. There was a green gemstone as big as the Ripper’s fist, a pair of vials of red and blue liquid, and a steel case with a couple of wire fasteners like an ammo box.
The Ripper lowered the man to sit on the floor and reached in to get the case.
“It doesn’t feel like five kilos,” the Ripper said.
“More like four and a half. They. They’b. Been powdering it,” the man said, leaning against the blood fridge with his swollen eyes mostly shut. “So they c’n inject me.”
“What’s your meta?” the Ripper asked, popping the case open. Crushed stone lay in a fat cottony lining. It was the color and sheen of gore. When they poked it, it felt like shards of rock all right, but it was disturbingly warm to the touch. Their stomach turned over. This was it.
“I heal fast. Blood makes other people heal fast, too,” he said. “They said, they.” He stopped to breathe as Ripper closed the case. It turned to look at him.
“They said what?” it asked, a little more gently. They didn’t stop the process of shoving the baggy lining full of carnite into their backpack and zipping it up.
They put the empty metal case back.
“Said one more treatment and it won’t. Wear off. Please,” he said. His head swayed as he tried to find Ripper’s face in the shade under their hood. “Don’ leave me here. I can help you. You’re sick, right? Y’sound sick.”
Ripper wasn’t sure he was even telling the truth.
He’d told the truth about the carnite, though. Who cared if he could heal or not? They had what they’d come for. And it would probably piss the Ninety-Nines off not knowing where he’d gone AND losing their cache of the most valuable mineral on the planet.
“You know what, fuck the 99B’s,” Ripper said. “I need both my hands, so you have to hold onto me, all right? Hang on tight.” It grabbed the man’s hands and pulled them around its waist as it turned around, kneeling on the floor. They could feel him resting his face against the backpack, each breath still wheezy and labored.
“Are you a man or a woman?” he asked.
“No,” the Ripper said, and tore the world open.
Part 2 here
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