- - - TPOV - - -

"KATE!!?!" Horrified (Y/N) shouted as the proxy hit the ground in a pool of blood, one limb missing from her body.

Kate remained on the ground in silence; her mask was on so they couldn't see her expression, but it was clear that she was in shock.

(Y/N) grabbed their head and started shaking violently... they were muttering to themself now.

Jeff fought to pick himself up the ground, but he could barely stand as the demonic clown had nearly knocked him out cold.

"Kate.... dammit... " Jeff mumbled, "come on Chaser... get up...(Y/N)! Pull yourself together!"

Pennywise grinned as he looked at Kate and got back up from being on all fours.

Jeff began to notice red balloons flying in from all sides of the forest.

"If you two younguns don't mind..." Pennywise chuckled, "I'll be taking the rest of her for myself. You don't mind, do you? Hehee~"

(Y/N) moved their hands from their (face/mask); they were seething mad and took their weapon, ready to run at Pennywise so they could defend their fallen ally, but Jeff shook his head frantically at them.

It would be too dangerous or risky to approach the clown.

"Kate..." (Y/N) muttered, now feeling helpless.

Kate's head slowly turned to (Y/N) 's direction, and to their surprise, she responded, "Fuck this. Stop looking at me like I'm dead!"

Kate somehow pulled herself up using only her one arm and got back up, hunched as she looked at Pennywise.

"I'm not the best of SlenderMan's proxies for nothing," She hissed, cracking her head to the side. "Get ready for a shitshow, circus freak. "

Pennywise sighed, "I hate it when dinner fights back," and he suddenly lunged at Kate with sharp claws.

(Y/n) and Jeff were both stunned by how quickly Kate recovered-or more by how she was even able to recover.

Jeff limped over to (y/n) and muttered, "I never liked Kate much. She's strange... And she freaks me out with the way she acts. Let's get out of here before clown decapitates her and she comes back headless..."

Kate sneered while in the midst of fighting Pennywise, "I heard that you pale fuck! Now both of you just stay out of the way and leave!"

She rolled off of the clown's back and tore into him again with her only gloved hand, as if her hand itself were a knife.

(Y/n) thought to themself, beginning to calm down, 'Kate doesn't fear Pennywise, so she might be able to defeat him easier than me or Jeff would since he can startle us. '

"Don't die on us, Chaser!" Jeff yelled. "If it gets too much, head home! " (Y/n) added. The two then ran away from her, leaving Kate to fight Pennywise.

After getting as far as they could away from Pennywise, (Y/n) and Jeff finally stopped running , stopping to catch their breath.

"That fucking clown really hurt me, " Jeff said, still lurched over.

"You deserved it. Remember nearly grounding me 6 ft under cause you wanna smack me over the head with a glass bottle?"

"That was like three weeks ago, get over it."

(Y/n) looked about ready to worsen Jeff's injury when the bushes nearby them shook, and then they saw some of the others stumble out, covered in blood and cuts; it was Masky, Puppeteer, and Jane.

- - - (Y/n)'s p. o. v - - -

I watched in relief to see other killers showing up again. Masky, Puppeteer and Jane, they looked kind of beat out of it though.

"Those Antipasta creeps are no joke," Jane spoke when she came up to us, running her finger along a large gash running down her leg.

"They might be able to best us... we have no knowledge of their unusual powers... " Puppeteer sighed, a bunch of stab wounds could be seen all over his body.

Masky's mask was cracked along the middle and his neck was slit clean as well. He didn't seem too happy about it.

"I'm done with these antifreaks. It seems nothing we do is enough to completely disable them," Masky snarled, placing a hand on his mask.

"What's you excuse Masky? Kate got her whole arm torn off, yet she's still beating that old clown shitless," Jeff scoffed.

"...Kate what. WHAT!?!!?" Masky shouted after Jeff's remark. Jeff simply pointed in the direction we ran from, and Masky immediately darts in said direction.

"Wow, he actually cares? Doesn't he like to badmouth her since she's better than him at, I dunno, almost everything?" Jane mused.

"Well in the end they're still both proxies, we all look out for each other no matter what. Which is probably why I shouldve stopped Masky from going back to where Kate is...." I said, wondering if I should run after Masky.

"Forget him, if he gets eaten, at least that's one annoying woman less in the mansion," Jeff muttered, shooting his glare in Jane's direction.

I shove Jeff in the side since it pisses me off when he tries to mess with Jane.

Puppeteer glances at me and murmurs, "you weren't hurt, were you?"

He seemed concerned.

"No I'm good. Surprisingly the only time I got "attacked" was when Jeff threw himself into me after getting jump scared by Pennywise, " I responded.

"Oh would you look at that. Mr macho "I don't have any fears" can't even keep himself together when seeing a clown. What a joke," Jane huffed.

"If you'd seen the damn clown for yourself you would've done the same, asswipe," Jeff spat.

"Hey look, we don't have time for this. We either need to search for the others, try and fend off more Slashers, or head back to mansion and report to Slenders," I interupt their arguing. "If we can't defeat them now, then we need a different approach, and we're going to have to report that to Slenders."

Puppeteer nodded, "I agree. Mostly on part that we return home. Like I said, we may be at a high disadvantage."

"That's a real shame, considering you have all those magical stringy thingies, and for what??" Jeff sighed. "Couldn't you at least have strangled one of them?"

Strings suddenly wrap around Jeff's neck and Puppeteer raised him in the air, his eyes deepening in color,

Jane laughed and motioned to Puppeteer with her hand, "Come on Pup, let's bring it home," She said, starting off into the trees. Puppeteer floated behind her while still controlling a wheezing Jeff.

I watched them for a bit before slowly following behind them.

- - - - -

Back at the mansion, a lot of other Creepypastas had returned, but a lot of them were really beaten down.

SplendorMan and Nurse Ann were frantically going around trying to heal everyone.

"Former thinks we needs backup, Master..." I heard Former say to SlenderMan in the living room. I look over and see SlenderMan was helping him out; it looked like one of the Slashers had nearly cut him straight through.

KageKao was hovering around the two, looking hella worried for his friend.

KageKao was yelling things at SlenderMan in Japanese, so I didn't understand a word that came out his mouth.

I sighed and turned from them to see Sally come running up to me, looking upset.

She hugged my waist and murmured, "There's this strange girl outside. I was watching Clocky try and stab her but she didn't get a chance. She looked directly at Clocky and twisted her neck. She then saw me and flung me far away. All she did was stare!"

"That's horrible," I whisper to Sally. "At least you're safe here now."

Huh. The girl she is describing sounds a lot like Carrie.

"Don't go outside again, got me? You stay in here where it's safe," I order Sally. "I promise (Y/n)," Sally responded, nodding her head.

I pat her head and send her off, hoping to check on the others.

I see ClockWork on the couch, passed out, but SplendorMan is using magic to heal her neck.

Hoodie's got a few knife marks here and there, but he's doing better than most.

Ticci-Toby's walking around with a fucking machete in his back but I don't think he even notices it. It literally takes SpenderMan shouting at him for getting blood on the "expensive carpets" for Toby to realise he got impaled in the back.

I walk over to BEN who looks a bit shaken. "Dude?" I poke him.

"What?"

"Are you okay?"

"Uh no, not really. Considering this is all my fault, you know?"

"Yeah, it kinda is."

BEN shrugged and looked down. "Yeah. Everyone's getting hurt 'cuz of me. I Shouldn't barged into your room like that, then none of this would've happened."

He then looked back up and stood, "You know, everytime I'm around you, something bad happens, ya know? Starting to think maybe I'm just bad luck. Or it could be you, I wouldn't know. Maybe we should stay away from each other for a while."

Before I could even say anything, he began floating off. "BEN?" I called after him, "you're not serious, are you? You're joking, right? Come on BEN, all that's stupid, it was an accident for crying out loud!"

BEN stopped and shook his head, "Yeah, well accidents happen quite often around us , don't you think?"

He then added on more lowly, " S'not like you ever really were my friend anyways. I just kept bothering you and you just accepted it. Don't think you ever liked me around. I'm just an annoyance to you."

He then disappeared after that statement, and I was left standing in utter confusion.

Where did THAT come from?

I never thought of BEN as an annoyance... well, maybe a little bit, but regardless, it wasn't bad having him around.

Even though I initially hated him when I first came here, I grew used to him and he was kind of the person I hung out with most besides the proxies.

I guess you could call it friendship. But I don't know why he was suddenly acting to miserable.

Yeah the whole thing with the dimension cube exploding and the Slashers pouring into our world was technically his fault, but that didn't mean he was bad luck or whatever it is he was trying to say.

If anything though, it was probably ME that was bad luck. Negativity is usually drawn to me like a magnet. I wouldn't be surprised if things went South cause of my "pathetic" self, as Jason The Toymaker had said.

And speaking of the Creepypasta Jason(not Slasher Jason), I was starting to wonder where he was.

Did he go out to fight the other killers, or did he just straight up leave the work to us?

Maybe he was still helping Slenders figure out the cube problem, but Slenders was busy helping with the healing of the other pastas.

I wanna go a search for him, but I stop when I see Masky barge through the front doors of the mansion along with Kate.

"Leave me ALONE! I can manage myself!" Kate screamed at Masky, trying to get away from him.

Masky still held onto her shoulders-or shoulDER, trying to lead her to the couch. "Stop trying to act all tough, your whole right arm is gone and you're telling me you don't see that as a problem!?" He snapped.

"NO."

The other Creepypastas in the living room all stared at Kate with huge eyes of shock.

"Bro, your arms gone," Glitch Red remarked.

"Oh wow, I didn't even notice," Kate sighed.

Nina looked at Kate and chuckled quietly. She seemed a bit too thrilled about Kate's misfortune.

"I think Kate needs the most help out of all of us, to be fair," Judge Angels murmured, shaking her head.

"Don't say that out loud, you'll make her mad," Hoodie whispered.

Kate still had her mask on but I could feel her anger.

She didn't like to be seen as weak or injured, so the fact that everyone was noticing her now was driving her mad.

Kate was so mad she just stopped moving altogether.

Masky sighed and picked her up, carrying her elsewhere.

Lost Silver watched them go for a long time before quickly teleporting after them. He looked really worried about her.

Poor Kate, I've never really seen her like this. I guess she felt vulnerable or something.

I'm wondering if she was able to best Pennywise though, and its got me looking outside in worry.

Puppeteer comes beside me and looks outside too.

"Are you scared?" He asked rather quietly.

"... Of course not. Are you?"

".... Of course not.... "

I nod my head and continue looking out in silence, but Puppeteer speaks again in his same, sad sounding voice, "Actually... I am scared. But only for my friends. I don't want to see anyone get hurt. That's what frightens me."

I turn to him and he quickly lowers his head. "I'm sorry, that sounds stupid, doesn't it? I understand if you think so, don't mind me."

"That's not stupid. You care about your friends, that's a great thing. There's nothing stupid about that," I say, trying to assure him. "And I'll tell you what. You don't worry much because I promise I'll do what I can to protect everyone. I may not be the strongest of Slender's followers, but I'll sure try. All your friends will be fine."

I thought he'd feel better when hearing that, but he still seemed sullen. "You're my friend, (Y/n). But if you're protecting everyone else, whose going to protect you, right?"

He then just sighs and walks off. And again, I'm left wondering why everyone's acting so edgy today.

Maybe I need to take 10 with Splendor or something because everyone's attitude has been pulling me down with them.

Don't they believe at all that we have a chance? We have killers that can at least use magic, more than those of the Slashers that can.

We can win.. I feel like I'm sure of it. I still don't agree with fighting the Slashers in the first place, but whatever is the outcome, I don't see how we'd be on the losing side.

Sure we had a rough start going in to fight them blindly, but now that we know what to expect, we should be able to come back a bit stronger.

I want to try and test something, actually.

Since no one was paying me any attention at the moment, I snuck off to the training area and got into the arsenal closet.

Yeha, I might've snagged a key that Jeff had actually taken from Slenders and kept it for myself.

I start stockpiling weapons on myself; both range wise and melee, as well as a shield that came in the form of a capsule but formed into a full body protection unit when activated.

Once I've tied on enough for me to carry, I sneak back out the basement and start heading for the dining area. I force open a window and push my way through the loose boards that blocked it so that nothing could see inside.

I'm going to try and trace down each of the Slashers and mark down their areas so that we would find it easier to track them and make plans to actually bring them down.

If I could, I would try and take out a few myself... All I had to do was stay low and-

"(Y/N)-SAMAAAA!!!"

I hear KageKao's voice exactly one second before the whole of him lands on me and crushed me into the ground.

Really growing tired of these people jumping into me and stuff.

"Why jump on me though?" I sigh on the floor, "and how the heck did you know I was even out here??"

"You can't sneak past me shirai," KageKai said, getting off me and allowing me to get up. "I want to help you! You know, to make up for everything, and I mean everything I did!"

"Weren't you being dealt with by Slender or something? Or staying with Former?"

"I snuck out on Master so he wouldn't know! And don't worry, Former always knows my plans. He's got a whole list of excuses to defend me if Slende-sama finds out! That faceless spider-rat will never catch me, Kekekekekekeke!"

...I feel like I just can't stand this guy but at the same time he's the absolute best dumbass ever and I can't help but admire him. Somehow...

"Alright KageKao, you wanna make up for your mess so I'll let you clean up. Just promise you'll actually be help and not think things and possible get us killed?" I said, looking at him unsure.

KageKao nodded his head, and his masked formed a wide smirk. Don't worry about all of that, shirai.

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