Call of Conversion Bureau
Anyone seen the plot? I think I dropped it somewhere. Along with my sanity.
Previous ChapterNext ChapterWhile Henderson and Will were at the bar getting drunk, the night began with the Ponies using a Ponification for Earth's Rebirth (PER) front, planning to kill the son of a top HLF officer.The bodyguard, a HLF pony sympathizer named Spontaneous Combustion, was quickly knocked out and thrown in the trunk of one car, while the kid was loaded into the back-seat of another.
Enter stage left: Henderson and Will. They see them wacky Ponies up to no good, and they decide to nick the vehicle with the visible hostage. While Will hotwired it, Henderson punched a hole in the gas-tank of the second car, and lit it off. They then sped away after unknowingly leaving Spontaneous Combustion to burn screaming in the trunk of the second car.
Approximate elapsed time between the start of the confrontation to Spontaneous Combustion's demise? Two minutes and thirty seconds.
They then decide to pull into a local bar with the Don's kid to help him get off his problem.
At this point in time, Ronald was playing darts. Ronald was a used car salesman coming off the tail-end of a bad divorce in which his wife gained all their worldly possessions, and then promptly turned herself into a New Foal and left it all to the Conversion Bureau. Unbeknownst to him, a pony from the Bureau just let loose a powerful chaos curse after the car that was stolen from them. A curse with a very specific target: The brake-lines of the car coming in for a hard stop just outside.
Ronald looked at the perfect game he was playing, and felt genuine joy for the first time in weeks. Then he was ripped in half by a BMW coming through the brick wall behind him. This was less than ten minutes after the first death of the evening.
Henderson gets out of the car, and the Bartender with the HLF connections immediately puts a gun in his face.
"What the bloody hell do ya think you're doing?"
"Trying to escort a young man to safety. Damn ponies must've cut the brakes."
The bartender then recognizes the HLF Officer's son, and calls him over to see if he's alright. Danny, the boy, is confused but mostly unhurt. This saved Henderson's life.
As luck would have it, the HLF knew of a possible lead on the Pony Cult case.
Or was it Henderson's revenge? I think it had something to do with a invisible parrot and an inflatable sex doll... You know what? Forget it. There's racist ponies to kill!
They soon arrive at the home, and open the door to creep inside. Unbeknownst to them, one of the pony drug dealing human trafficking evil cultists was already there. He had already investigated the upstairs, and found notes saying something about a lab in the basement. Henderson, in the meantime, had gone straight down on the logic of 'what the hell kind of evil human pony cultists just fucks around in the living room when they have a creepy ass cellar to play with?'
He finds an old summoning circle down there, and decides to spit in its general direction, accidentally activating it as he walks out the far door, finding nothing of 'interest' in the room. Upon discovering that this other door leads outside, he circles back around into the house, and winds up in the study with Will.
Meanwhile, with the pony human pony cultist's new lead pointing him at the basement, he trots in, sees the horrible thing taking shape, botch the FUCK out of his save against 'crawl into the fetal position and cry while losing 2d10 sanity'. Henderson meanwhile picks up a book off the shelf and flips it open to a random page.
"What the hell kinda gobblydegook is this anyway? How are you supposed to pronounce this: Al'whya al Cthulhu fhatagan? K'kili'far al is ar'arkas fal dep'wa?" He turns to Will, completely oblivious to the be-tentacled beast he just conjured into existence behind him, cocked eyebrow barely visible above the rim of his sunglasses. "What does that even MEAN? What's the point of wasting paper with that sort of nonsense?"
Will, having barely failed his SAN check, loses his beer and points behind him muttering something about a thing that 'should not be'. Henderson chuckles and says how he's not going to fall for that one again. Last time he did the tranny he was interrogating vis-a-vis his lawn gnomes had 'her' pimp beat the shit out of him and steal his wallet. So he leads Will to the kitchen, leaving the monster to its own devices.
In the kitchen, Henderson continues to be disappointed with the continuing lack of clues, while Will is overjoyed to discover that the liquor cabinet was never emptied by the previous owners, and helps himself to a bottle.
Then the local Lovecraft Pony cultists, getting a report of Henderson's location, proceed to buck the door to come kill him.
Three of them are eaten by the thing Henderson summoned in the study, and while they're screaming the two of them take a peek at the next room, and Henderson smashes all the alcohol and lights it off while they run out the back door.
The abomination in the basement with the first cultista equinis does nothing of importance, while said cultists regains his wits and attempt to leave. Bursting out the way he came, see the fire, and immediately have a SECOND breakdown caused by a pre-existing phobia of fire and then die burning, screaming in pain and terror.
Much like the cultists and the monsters.
Meanwhile, Will is asking Henderson why his car only has the Creedence Clearwater Revival playing ever. It turns out that it's because the CD is jammed in there and the radio is broke. Henderson just never bothered to fix it because Creedence is awesome.
So they ride away happily listening to 'Around the Bend'. Henderson then stops at a Krogers to see if they had any turkey.
Somepody in a yellow robe gave Splat a pile of money and a picture of Henderson, asking him to make sure he 'disappeared'. Now normally Splat would think twice about accepting such a shady deal, since he preferred to 'rough people up' since it couldn't get you 25 to life.
However, it was a LOT of money. And his previous incarnations were very bitter about the whole dying every fucking minute. So Pat agreed to the job.
First mistake.
Turns out, Henderson wasn't a particularly tough fellow to find, since there's only one crazy old fucker with a mohawk and Hawaiian shirt running around reeking of cheap whiskey and porcelain.
When Splat caught up with him, Henderson was taking a piss in an alleyway on the cardboard 'home' of a hobo that just tried to mug him, now dead. As he finishes up, Pat taps him on the calf.
Second mistake.
"You Henderson?"
"Indeed I am." And then Splat's right hook hits him in the face and smashes his aviator shades into a useless mess of metal and glass shards. At which point Henderson very calmly pulls it off his face and pulls out a spare pair of shades, puts them on and comments "Well that was kinda rude."
Then Splat caught him with a left.
Henderson then tosses the second useless pair of sunglasses aside, dons a third set and then says "Now son, I've only got one more pair on me and I've got considerably less patience than that. What the bloody all loving fuck hell are you doin?"
"I got good money from a man in yellow saying that you're a no good son o' bitch who needs to be put down."
At this, Henderson puts on a very surprised and concerned face. "A man in yellow you say... Son, I'm afraid that there's been a very big mistake here."
Final mistake.
"... I've been lied to?"
"Nah, you're pretty spot on." Henderson replies, before shooting out both my knees with his concealed handgun, followed by a pair to the balls. "But no man gets between me and me wee men." He then walks out of the alleyway, leaving Splat to bleed to death.
Will and Henderson bounce around trying to find a lead to work with for the whole 'ponies, revenge, ???, profit' plot they were kinda working on. They ended up meeting up with Jimmy to try and talk his girlfriend out of being a cultist.
Which ended up fantastic.
Jimmy basically agrees to go to one of the meetings if she promised to seriously have a chat with him afterwards about the whole 'joining a cult' thing. She agreed, basically telling him that he'd totally change his mind once he saw what it was all about.
Jimmy was a smart boy, and he called Henderson's cellphone for backup in case things went south.
So, pretty soon, Henderson and Will are sitting outside the church on the curb.
Waiting.
Henderson breaks the silence. "Man, I fucking hate stakeouts."
"They aren't that bad."
"Last time I was on a stakeout, two of my friends got killed and your bar burnt down."
"... does this shit happen on a regular basis with you?"
"Not causing it. Well, not usually. I remember I got arrested about a year ago for scaring a cook shitless."
"What? Why?"
"I told the motherfucker that I was allergic to olives. I get olives on my everything. I coulda fucking died if I didn't check it out."
There's a silence.
Then "Fuck it, there's a Best Buy and a video rental place around the corner. I vote we get one of those portable DVD things and a movie."
"Fuck yes. Shit, we're just here in case Jimmy calls us, let's get baked and watch something funny."
So they went and got a copy of Grandma's Boy, got high, and laughed their asses off.
In public, outside a church they're supposed to be watching for cultists that already know what Henderson looks like.
Surprisingly, nothing comes of this until Jimmy calls them from inside the church. Apparently they just called up some kinda demon, and told it to eat his girlfriend and him as a sacrifice to their god.
His girlfriend, shocked at the sudden change in tone from the companionable welcoming air that was there before, suddenly realizes that cults aren't as awesome as she thought.
And that's when Henderson and Will run inside, guns drawn. Jimmy, wise man he is, grabs his girlfriend and ducks, while full auto-shotgun spray kills every motherfucker in the room.
They go outside and into the car, Henderson starts it up while Will keeps the arson streak alive and sets the building on fire. As they pull away, Kary (Jimmy's girlfriend) goes all 'my hero' on them, and soon the two freaked teenagers are 'getting busy' in the back seat. Will looks shocked, while Henderson lights the bong up and starts hot-boxing while cranking up the stereo.
Which is when they passed a cop going in the opposite direction.
To this day, no one know what that cop must've been thinking when he saw that.
There's Henderson 'driving' the car, taking a hit off a bong the size of god, next to him is a dude who looks like a slightly less fat Kevin Smith looking bored out the window, there's so much smoke inside that you'd think the car's on fire, and there's a couple of people obviously fucking in the back seat.
I'd like to think that he was thinking about his family, or going to watch a hockey game at the bar with his friends. Or maybe finally asking the cute waitress out.
I just... Some part of me desperately wants to know why it took him two blocks to process what he just saw.
Henderson just keeps going, not a care in the world.
Cop turns around and starts to follow him.
Henderson keeps going.
Cop turns on his lights.
Henderson keeps going.
"Sir, pull over the vehicle." The cops says into his loudspeaker.
Henderson pulls into a drive-through.
The cops walks up halfway through an order for tacos and politely asks what the fuck he's doing. Henderson responds with a 'hold on a sec' gesture and finishes his order. Then he asks if the cop wants anything.
The cop asks him to please step out of the car, sir. Offers of a chalupa are denied.
Henderson gets out of the car, a plume of smoke accompanying his exit, Jimmy and Kary are kinda blushing and avoiding eye-contact, mostly having recuperated.
Will, having seen three cosmic horrors in the last day, killed a bunch of people, and still coping with the loss of his bar... apparently has no fucks to give. He just sits there, high off his ass listening to 'Fortunate Son'.
The cop interrogates him as to why he didn't pull over, and Henderson responds that was because he was color-blind, and that he didn't realize there was a cop behind him.
The cop asks him why he smelled like weed, and Henderson replied that it was because he just smoked a huge fucking bowl, but it's cool because he has one of those medical licenses.
When asked about the kids in the backseat, he stated confusion, and asked what kids, before looking back and seeing Jimmy.
"Hey Jimmy, when'd you get here?"
"You... you came to pick us up."
"No shit?" He turned to the cop. "Tell you what, memories the first thing to go, followed right by the memory. So how can I help you officer?"
After replaying the conversation a few more times, the cop made Will drive and they left relatively unmolested with their tacos.
Author's Note
I do this late at night to make it even less coherent.
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