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' How should I do it?' Amon Lister the boyfriend of Avalon Corduroy-Pines thought about what he should do, it was so random he just got asked to be her boyfriend out of nowhere which made him staggered on answering only for Ava to interpret it as a yes. Don't get wrong though he likes girls and all, he wasn't the type to just jump into a relationship and Ava and her siblings can be… intense, sure he considers them as friends and despite all the chaotic antics like that time with mutated carnivore plants it was fun and all but so is Avalon hence he wasn't sure how to break that to her, for start ghosting is no option as she herself said to her in a rather chippy attitude that if he does so she will hunt him down and feed him to her carnivore sandworm pet, second of all considering Ava is…well Ava, he wasn't sure how would she react and even if he survives her wrath since there is no guarantee her siblings wouldn't go after him, in the very first introduction the brother named Tyrone joked that if he is a jerk to her tallest sister that he would and in a quote "-Would cook the fear turkey and then revive it so that he can cook it again.", that wasn't alarming at all, especially with the reputation the triplets had which they called themselves "ATA" using the first alphabet of each of their names or The Mystery Trio. By now he had faced mutated carnivorous plants and currently, he and the Pines triplets were in an abandoned factory that got banned, there were stories of haunted ghosts and typical of them they decided to investigate for themselves for fortune, adventure and glory. Despite being noon the inside of the building was a bit dark and upon entry they saw damaged and old machinery that was used to make products.
“Ahm, are you sure this is supposed to be a level one ghost?” Amon asked anxiously.
“Relax, this is not going to be like the mutant plants, I think,” Annable told her, who was currently carrying a blue bag with exorcist tools such as Avalon with a green sports bag and Tyrone with his red futurist-looking backpack.
“Besides, even otherwise we faced a lot worse than some salty ghost too salty about the fact that he or she is dead to go to his afterlife or something.” Tyrone was carrying a pad with some modifications by himself which had an antenna attached to it supposedly to detect anything supernatural.
“Lame, why couldn’t we go after chupacabra?” the tallest of the twins who was near her boyfriend whined.
“You heard mom and dad, no dangerous adventures or we will get punished.” Anna reminded her of her acting with an acknowledgement grunt.
Minutes passed as they looked over with Ava and Lister being the two at the distance with the first humming while the latter kept thinking how he should break up with her, ‘ Come on, have the courage! Is not like you are alone in a desolate haunted building, with your girlfriend and her siblings who can break your bones in so many ways…’ he thought nervously.
“ cough so Ava, I was thinking…”
“Guys, my device keeps giving mixed messages, I suggest we separate into two teams to search the whole place,” Tyrone informed everyone.
“Sound plan.” Annable nodded in agreement.
“But…isn’t that like every horror movie trope where it ends badly?” Amon changed the subject and asked.
“Hence why we are diving into two teams, girls with each other and you with me having a guy's time.” Tyrone rebuffed his worry.
“Besides, we watched a lot of horror movies, so we know how to not fall into a cliche.” Annable shrugged.
And so they divided with Ava and Anna going to the other side of the factory and Tyrone and Amon in the center.
“So, I was thinking Ammy.”- Amon rolled his eye at his nickname which was given to him -” considering my sensors didn’t detect any necro-plasma based on the data my pad gathered…” he continued to talk on and on like a professor as Amon internalized with himself ‘ Oh yeah Amon, you had your chance in school and now you have to worry about this place because you thought there was such a thing as a ‘perfect’ moment.’ he internally grumbled, pretending to understand any of the only brothers of the triplets’ technobabble.
“...and as I have mentioned unlike the popular belief ghosts arent-”
PING
Tyrone let out a groan from the sound of the ping from his tablet “You stay a moment, I have to check my software, it is still a prototype.” He gestured to him to stop temporarily to check his electric tool. Amon was so busy talking with himself that he didn’t hear it so he kept moving away from him and Tyrone, being mono-focused on his pad as he lay on the wall, didn't notice that Lister was moving away from him.
‘- I mean, she surely was joking about feeding me to her pet…’ Then suddenly, something moved on the ground, the startled boyfriend of Ava at first thought it was a snake only to follow the vine-like thing that moved on the floor with his gaze until he followed it to the ceiling. Up in the ceiling, there was the ghost, but it wasn’t instead it was this black mass of tentacles with one big eye looking at him and blinking once. Upon seeing the Lovecraftian horror, Amon took a deep breath and then react like any reasonable and rational person-
“AAAAAAAAAAH-!” he screamed as he ran followed by whatever that thing was.
ROAR
"AAAAAAAAAAAH-!"
Amon passed by a Tyrone with such speed that the air momentarily moved.
"Oh, he found it." the self-proclaimed genius of the triplets noted bored.
ROAR
"OH! IT WASN'T INDEED A GHOST!" Tyrone exclaimed upon seeing what was coming and then activated two drone-like propeller pads on his backpack to fly away, surprisingly Ava's boyfriend was very fast in sprinting, probably due to the fact that he used to attend running sport class or maybe because of the rush of adrenaline that pushed his body to the limits, not to mention he somehow managed to move past a mirror without injuring himself with Ava near the shattered mirror in surprise looking at the still running future Brother-In-Law with a tilted head.
"HehehehahahHOHAHAHAHA!" Avalon laughed maniacally in anticipation as she raced to the other side of the hallway with a ready ax with Annable as her company.
In the Corduroy-Pines house…
In the resident Corduroy-Pines's house, Mabel was talking as she drank from her Mable juice while Dipper was looking with a magnifying glass at an old artefact that seemed to belong to the Aztec era on the table and Wendy was sitting on a chair changing channels on the TV board.
"-I just don’t get why Ava decided to just choose a boyfriend randomly she didn’t meet before, I mean, was I really that bad-”
" Yes." Both Dipper and Wendy responded simultaneously in a dry tone.
"And that's coming from the gal who dated Robbie." The Corduroy woman added.
Wendy's Sister-In-Law wanted to object as she raised a hand to say something only to put down his hand and begrudgingly agree with them when she got reminded of all the disastrous 'romances' she had when she was 12.
Back to the factory…
The running gang raced away from the pursuing eldritch horror until they reached a room where Amon was near a level that would shut the door.
“HERE! HERE!” Lister called to the rest, having run so fast he was the first one to reach.
They reached with Tyrone being the last who upon entering Amon shut the door.
“Whew, that was closer than expected!” Tyrone sighed in relief.
GROWL
BANG!
The metallic door was being kicked and kicked by the one-eye monstrosity causing the group to step back.
“We better be ready,” Annable stated, so she readied a hunting knife, Ava with her small ax and Tyrone with a blaster pointed at it Amon grabbed a pipe which was on the ground as his weapon.
“Status?” Annable asked her only brother.
“Not a ghost, probably some sort of mutant.” Ty enlightened them.
“Ehm, guys?” Amon saw something behind which shook him.
“Maybe some fish mutant?” Ava joined the speculation.
“GUYS!”
“WHAT!?” all three shouted and looked back, there they saw human skeletons around some ritualistic pentagram painted red with chicken-scratch nonsense written on it and the symbol of the beast painted at the center.
“...the universe is taking joy in proving us wrong.” Tyrone frowned in annoyance.
SCREECH!
BANG!
Another cry from the door.
“Okay, any idea?”
“We charge! And brutalize it to death!” Avalon grinned with bloodlust.
“Appreciate the enthusiasm, but any better ideas?”
“Suicide?” Ty sarcastically replied.
“No sassing your older sister!” Anna reprimanded him.
“We shared the same womb at the same time!” He bellows.
“Does this place have power?” Amon intervenes.
“It has been long shut, I doubt-”
Avalon’s boyfriend punches a button and then light bulbs light up.
“-And of course conveniently the power hasn’t been down yet,” Annable grunted in irritation.
“That’s my boyfriend!” Avalon stated proudly which resulted in Amon scratching the back of his head awkwardly.
ROAR
“Oh! I have an idea! Time to win” Anna called with a mischievous smile with both hands in a cunning gesture.
And so they plan things out together, Tyrone went and pushed some buttons on the console, Anna broke one of the pipes which led to water pouring from it, and spreading around the ground and Ava used her boyfriend as a ladder to come up to open the ventilator to escape to Amon’s discomfort who was on a chair near a wall. At last, Anna put a wire connected from the console to the water and Ty connected a remote control to the console’s system.
BANG!
ROAR
The punch was powerful enough that the door creaked in pain.
“Tyroooone?” Annable called his brother in alarm.
“It’s finished! Go go!”
They then climbed from Amon and Ava’s human ladder to the open escape route.
“OW! MY EYE!” Anna’s leg unintentionally landed on Lister’s nose.
“Sorry!” Annable apologized.
When the duo climbed up Ava then came inside and used one hand to grab her boyfriend’s hand, next with the help of her siblings they dragged him up.
BANG!
The door finally opened with the eldritch mass of tendrils coming in looking for its prey with its razor-sharp mouth looking like the mouth of a leech opened with a snarl.
“Want to be the one doing it?” Ty offered his sister’s boyfriend.
“With pleasure!”- Lister agreed in vindication, took the controller and then pushed the button-” IT’S CALAMARI TIME!”
ZAAAAAAAAAPIIIIING
SCREAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
Electricity came and spread out in the water as it’s electro-conducted and reached the tentacle monster electrifying it as it screamed until the console short-circuited with a spark and the power became dead, so as the lights and the dropped creature with smoke and smell of burning coming from it.
“...Is it wrong that it smells delicious?” Avalon asked, conflicted with everyone looking at
Minutes after using the ventilation system they returned to the entrance and got out of the abandoned factory with the sun coming down.
“Let’s agree to never speak of this to our parents.” Annable stated which all nodded in agreement and walked with her coming to Amon “Smooth my Future-Brother-Law if you ever needed to have some to… put a knockdown tell us.” She whispers.
“Eh…thanks?” Lister didn’t know how to react, but shortly after he advanced toward Avalon with a breath ready for the news.
“A-ava? So I was thinking…” that got Avalon’s attention.“Since-not I-mean we just moved so fast, can we just stay friends?….please don't feed me to your Mongolian worm." Amon gave a nervous smile and pressed his teeth.
“It’s cool.” She shrugged with no hint of anger.
“Wait really?”
“What? You thought I was going to feed you to my pet? I only threatened you if you ghosted me and I was joking.” she added humorously with a chortle.
He sighs in relief.
“Instead I would have beaten your butt to space if you tried to ghost me,” she replied wolfishly.
The relief stops.
“Shame really, I started to like you.” she to his surprise gave a kiss on the right cheek and stepped away. “See ya tomorrow!” she gave a wink and joined her sibling as they walked away, the caught off guard Amon touched his right cheek and blushed and then came the image of Ava in his head of times he saw her fighting the mutant plants the Mystery Trio fought in school’s lab.
Wait, his cheeks are now flushing and he starts fantasizing about Ava as the realization hits him like a brick.
' YOU GOTTA BE SHI-