B.a.D S7 Premiere: Ascent (Part 3 Of 3)

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* 5 minutes ago, Yochanan would have considered capturing Mizzle an incredibly joyous occasion. But now that he wanted to coax G.g.B out of the cave, this was not exactly in the plan. Hopefully, B.a.D wouldn’t be far behind. Now, however, he and G.g.B stood over the foyer of the B.a.Dcave where soldiers we’re strapping Mizzle to the table to be tortured. The strange thing was, Mizzle didn’t seem to be resisting much… *

Mizzle, this is your last chance. You don’t know the level of torture we can put on you. Unless you have something to tell me. Something I need to know.

Uh, OK… since the last time I saw you, you're so ugly that you could model for death threats. That nuke B.a.D and I hit you with really messed up your jerry-curls, didn't it?

*Yochanan needed to know where B.a.D was if he was going to pull off his plan to get G.g.B out of the cave. *

Where is B.a.D?

Well, it’s 5 AM, he’s probably cleaning his chimney. Crazy bastard.

That’s enough. Shut up.

What, 10 seconds ago you wanted me to talk, now it’s “shut up”? I don’t mean to nitpick, but you’re the worst at this torture thing.


* Katastrophe walked into the foyer of the B.a.Dcave to see Mizzle… this was the first time she had seen him in months, and he was strapped to the table. She made eye contact with him… then looked over at Yochanan, who was eyeing her suspiciously, as if waiting for her to do something… he looked at G.g.B… *

Sir, this is obviously a trap. B.a.D is lying in wait somewhere. We should evacuate you, at least until we’re sure…

That’s enough. Prep him!

* Katastrophe’s eyes widened. That was why nothing had happened to her… Yochanan did know about the plan all along, but he was using it to get G.g.B out of the cave so he could have it for himself! She knew Yochanan wanted his power back, but she did not know that he would have gone this far to get it… what did that mean for her plan? “Fuck it,” she thought, this was getting way too complicated. As far as she was concerned, they we’re both going down, and it didn’t matter to her which one went down on top of the other. It was time to play her hand. *

Excuse me, but there’s a transmission coming in from B.a.D. He’s in the Air Force Zero ship.

* Yochanan and G.g.B exchanged shocked looks… *

That son of a bitch… it was him. Put him through.

* B.a.D’s image comes up on the screen, a smile on his face... he looks around at the B.a.Dcave, at Mizzle strapped to a table with electrodes on his nipples, to the hundreds of guards, all armed with high-powered guns, to Yochanan, then directly at G.g.B, disfigured in a wheelchair, and he smiled…*

Love what you’ve done with the place.

Hello, B.a.D. Surprised to see me?

Not really. Only one guy can lose a ship as sweet as the one I jacked and am sitting in right now, so I had a feeling you we're still kicking around somewhere.

Funny. Where are you?

Portugal.

* Yochanan cursed inwardly. B.a.D was not even close. Mizzle had tried to do this alone, and they had captured him. This did not bode well for his planned coup. *

Ha! Too late. I already knew you we’re in Africa. Katastrophe told us.

* Yochanan, Katastrophe, Mizzle, and every guard all rolled their eyes in unison. *

Oooooooook…

You have good timing. You contacted us just in time so you could watch your friend Mizzle here be tortured.

What, you think that electrodes on his nipples are gonna make him talk? He eats that shit for breakfast. Crazy bastard.

Well then, you won’t mind if we do it right in front of you. *Turns to doctor. * Do it!

Doctor: All right Mizzle, I’m going to put this in your mouth to ground the… stop eating it!

Sorry. Don’t make it taste so good.

Doctor: That was plastic covered in Vaseline!

B.a.D, write that down so we can have it at home!

You know what, I’ll save you the trouble. You’re not going to torture him.

Good, you’re going to turn yourself in and save us the trouble?

No. You’re going to be leaving the B.a.Dcave in less than 5 minutes.

... ha ha ha… and why is that?

Because in 5 minutes, the B.a.Dcave will explode. I hacked in with my cell phone and activated the silent self-destruct.

* G.g.B looked over in shock at one of his aides. The aide punched something in on the B.a.Dcave computer, then turned around and nodded, confirming the info that B.a.D had just given. *

… well, embarrassingly enough for you, B.a.D, I have the command codes to this cave now! I can just stop it.

* G.g.B walked over to the panel and entered his code on the computer, but a large red flahsher came up right away. “Incorrect Passcode”, the screen said. G.g.B swallowed hard, entered it again… same result. He looked over at Yochanan…

… who turned his gaze to Katastrophe… who smiled back at both of them… *

I changed them.

* Yochanan, believing this to be a bluff, decided to keep his hunch hidden in order to get the President to evacuate so he could claim the cave as his own command again, so decided to act angry. *

I should have killed you when I had the chance, you bitch.

You don’t know how right you are, bitch. Now get out of our cave.

* Mizzle took the opportunity of the confusion to jump out of bed and power crotch-kick a guard right in the sack. He took his gun and dove over onto his side, 3 feet from G.g.B, a gun pointed at his neck as he sat in his wheelchair.

A guard made a move toward Katastrophe from behind, but Katastrophe un-holstered her gun and dove toward Yochanan, and landed beside him, with a gun pointed at his neck, as well.

All the guards trained their weapons on Mizzle and Katastrophe. Yochanan looked at her, this person who he had trusted, and regardless of the fact that her plan could help him with his, she had betrayed him… they had been playing a game of mental chess for months, now it had come to this. *

You appear to be outgunned.

If the self-destruct goes off, we’ll all die together anyways.

* B.a.D, watching the entire thing on the screen, finally speaks… *

Tell you guys what. You guys can leave the cave before the self-destruct hits. We get the cave back, and Miz and Kat won’t give you guys another hole to breathe out of. That’s the only way you’re getting out of this alive.

* G.g.B's disfigured face looked as disgusted as a man could look, then spat. *

… fine.

* Yochanan hurriedly ushered the guards out ahead of them, eager to get the President out. He knew B.a.D had to be bluffing, but he wanted G.g.B gone from what should be his command. The soldiers filtered out, until just he and G.g.B stood there, Mizzle and Katastrophe’s guns still trained on them. *

Let’s go, sir.

* G.g.B looked over at Katastrophe, then Mizzle, then finally, up at the screen at B.a.D, where he held his gaze the longest, and he narrowed his disfigured eyes from his wheelchair… *

This isn’t over.

I believe you.

* Fade out to Yochanan pushing G.g.B’s wheelchair out of the room. *


* Fade into Yochanan pushing G.g.B through the corridor, alone. *

Sir, it’s not necessary for both of us to leave. You evacuate, I’ll stay here and try to stop the self destruct… I’m sure I can…

That’s enough, Yochanan! This mission is over. We’ve lost the B.a.Dcave. We will get B.a.D someday... just not today.

* Yochanan had had enough now. It was time to stop this. He was going to get his power back… one way or the other. *

I took this B.a.Dcave. And I’m not leaving.

* G.g.B laughed off Yochanan's statement. Yochanan continued pushing him, and palmed his switchblade in his left hand... he reassured himself that this was what he deserved. And no one would know… he would just say that B.a.D or one of his friends had done it… *

I planned and planned for months to take this cave and get revenge on B.a.D… I was going to run the world! Then you showed up and took it all away from me!

* G.g.B laughed harder this time, and still did not turn to face Yochanan. Yochanan, finally at the edge, took a deep breath, and stabbed G.g.B in the back of the neck as hard as he could, driving the blade all the way in. G.g.B staggered against the wall… *

And now, G.g.B, you will pay for it with your life.

* … but to Yochanan’s terrified shock and surprise, G.g.B turned his head back up, and with the knife still in the back of his neck, got up out of the wheelchair, standing perfectly solid, he turned around to Yochanan, a terrifying, amused grin on his face…

He laughed… and his eyes glowed red… and the next words out of his mouth struck an unimaginable fear into Yochanan’s heart… *

I haven’t a life to give, you fool…

* As G.g.B stared into his eyes, panic and fear overtook Yochanan and he felt as though he might go mad. As he fell to the floor, shaking, he realized one thing… he understood one thing. He understood the mystery about how G.g.B had survived the nuke in Arkensas… he hadn’t. *


* B.a.D had been waiting in the cloaked B.a.Dship outside and had seen all of the staff evacuated. He had bluffed that he was in Portugal, in fact he was right above the B.a.Dcave. He wanted them to think they would be able to evacuate safely, but really his intention was to capture G.g.B and Yochanan.

But he had not seen G.g.B or Yochanan, and those we’re the two he had been waiting for. Everyone else, their soldiers, we’re small in comparison, those two posed the real problem. He thought he had readings on G.g.B and Yochanan, but Yovchanan’s reading stopped moving and went very faint, and G.g.B’s was just… gone. So B.a.D had slipped in through the roof hatch, and immediately, he took in a deep breath.

Home.

Most of the troops had been evacuated already, and the ones who hadn’t we’re only concerned about escaping, so B.a.D did not have to move about with that much scrutiny. He walked around the corner, and saw what he was looking for, and his stomach knotted.

Yochanan. On the ground. Had Mizzle or Katastrophe beaten him to it? No, he was still breathing… B.a.D walked in front of Yochanan. Yochanan did not even acknowledge him, he just stared straight ahead… *

What… you didn’t think I wouldn’t get to you?

* No response. *

Where is G.g.B?

* Still no response, although the mention of G.g.B’s name made him whimper. What exactly had happened here?

“Forget it,” B.a.D thought. If he wasn’t going to be of any help, it was time to end this. If he couldn’t get both of them, one was better than none. He drew his gun and looked at Yochanan, who still did not focus his gaze anywhere but straight ahead… B.a.D took a deep breath…. *

You are responsible for the death of P.c.P. He was a friend of mine.

* Yochanan still stared a terrified gaze straight ahead, but said nothing. B.a.D clicked off the safety on his gun *

Now, because of you, my friend is dead.

* That sentence made Yochanan twitch, and blink. He looked up at B.a.D in surprise, as if he had just noticed he was there… then smiled at B.a.D the most terrified smile B.a.D had ever seen… *

... not everyone who dies… stays dead.

* And with one terrified swallow of understanding, B.a.D knew what Yochanan meant… and even after what Yochanan had done to him, to the B.a.Dcrew, and to his friend, P.c.P… he could not pull the trigger. Because Yochanan was already suffering a terror that looked to B.a.D to be a thousand times worse than death. *


2 Hours Later…

* B.a.D, Mizzle, and Katastrophe all assemble in the foyer. *

We’ve checked all over, G.g.B ain’t here.

I didn’t think so. He’s gone.

How the fuck did he get out without you seeing him?

… I don’t know, but if what Yochanan is saying is true, that might shed some light on it… are you still wearing the electrode nipple clamps?

Is that important right now? What are we going to do with his ass, anyways?

* B.a.D looked over at Yochanan, handcuffed in the corner of the cave. He was exactly the same as when they had found him. Completely insane, muttering… a mere shell of the man who had forced them from their home just months ago… *

I don’t know…

He did kill P.c.P, remember that.

You think I don't know that? Look at him. Can you kill him the way he is now?

* Katastrophe and Mizzle look over at Yochanan… *

No… damn these human “emotions”. Curse this baboon heart!

I’ve still got some friends in high places… I’ll try to get him smuggled into a mental hospital. He won’t be able to go back to the States and I don’t want him anywhere near here, so maybe Mexico.

Not a bad idea, not like he deserves Mexico, but something tells me he won’t be enjoying it.

I guess that means it’s over.

For now.

Finally.
* Katastrophe leaves the room and comes back with 3 Corona’s. *

Drink up, boys.

* They toast… *
To P.c.P.
To P.c.P.
To P.c.P.
* They drink. *

Hey, let’s go watch The Shield. I need Vic Mackey to make me purr right now.

Fuck yeah.

* They start to walk off... *

I’ll join you guys in a minute.

* As they leave the room, B.a.D went over to sedate Yochanan for the night. They would take care of his transportation to a mental house in Mexico in the morning, right now they all needed some downtime. B.a.D stuck the needle in his neck. Yochanan actually smiled as he did it, as if he was finally grateful for the unconsciousness that would soon follow.

As the sedative started to take effect, B.a.D noticed something around Yochanan’s neck. Shiny.

His dog tags.

He ripped them off of Yochanan, to his own surprise, almost having almost forgotten about them. He put them around his own neck. He smiled, and realized how naked he had felt without them for so many months.

Just as he was about to walk off to join his friends, Yochanan said only the second thing he had said since B.a.D had found him… *

If he ever gets those… you won’t be getting them back…

* As soon as the words left his mouth, Yochanan slipped into unconsciousness. B.a.D stopped walking and looked back for a second, then looked down at his dog tags.

And in spite of himself and the fact that Yochanan was probably right, B.a.D smiled, took another drink of his Corona, then walked upstairs to join his friends. *


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