Fallout-Man101 Presents.
An Old Snake
A GI Joe x WORM Crossover
Chapter One.
DISCLAIMER:
I do not own GI Joe nor WORM they are the works of Hasbro and Highbrow.
Taylor struggled intensely as Madison, Sophia, and Emma, all suddenly shoved her towards the open locker. She twisted and tried to get out a scream which prompted Sophia to suddenly stop shoving and let go to forcibly gag her with her hands.
"You truly are pathetic Hebert." The taller student spat.
Even through all her struggling Taylor could tell she wasn't going to break free and her now free hand frantically reached behind herself in desperation, grasping a short, sharp object which in her desperation she thrust forward...
...Towards Sophia...
The world slowed to a crawl as Taylor saw Sophia's eyes widen as her hand which she could now see contained a sharpened pencil went forward towards the other girl's abdomen and then along with her hand passed right through it...
Taylor felt her own eyes widen in shock and she caught a glimpse of Madison's doing the same before an unexpected punch to the gut sent her now limp body flying back into the locker which Emma slammed shut.
"Sophia's a cape!" Taylor thought frantically as she banged against the locker sparing no more thoughts to the matter in fear, as claustrophobia combined the smell of the disgusting garbage and hygiene products kicked her mind into a panic and that was before she heard a strange hissing...
Taylor froze as she felt something small, scaly, and worse 'living' drop onto her back onto her shoulder area and she broke out screaming as she realized what it was and what the trio had done.
She banged against the locker door in a blind panic as everything came to the forefront of her mind, her mother's death, all of the hurt, all of the corruption or lack of care at Winslow, all of the abuse from the trio...
Suddenly as everything reached its zenith, she felt a sharp pain in her neck as the hissing grew louder before she shook violently and felt another sharp pain to her thy before giving out one final exhausted scream in anguish and blacking out.
"I can't believe you let Emma know but didn't tell me!" Madison hissed in a whisper annoyed that Sophia hadn't bothered to inform her that she was not only cape, but a PRT celebrity.
"Emma only knew by accident." Sophia shot back in a quiet and defensive tone before adding. "And please quiet down! We can talk about this somewhere else..."
Madison bit her tongue as she looked around at the familiar setting of Winslow as her thoughts started to turn to home and she realized she needed to retrieve her things from her locker and bit her tongue before speaking. "Sophia, I left my cellphone and purse in my locker."
"What?" Sophia exclaimed her previously expression morphing to one of outrage. "Are you shitting me?!!! Madison we can't afford to be seen going near the lockers or risk rumors!!! Sure, Hebert is a nobody who not a person in this school will believe if she suddenly comes out claiming I am a cape provided we say different. But if her claims seem credible enough that that some shitheads post it on PHO or some other online hell hole we will be up to our ears in legal crap."
"Dad could stop them." Emma suggested only for the larger girl to snort.
"Yeah, but only for you or Madison, it's mostly my neck on the line with the PRT." Sophia spat.
"We need my credit card though to buy dinner and call my parents to pick us up." Madison stated thinking of how she wanted to get home and get a shower after a hot meal. "How about the two of you wait out front while I get it?"
Sophia grunted with a look that said 'Hurry' and Emma nodded along.
Madison turned and began backtracking through Winslow as she saw student's heading out the door and rushing past in a hurry to get home with a tinge of annoyance as she thought.
"Why on earth am I forced to have one of the worst locations for a locker in the building?"
Winslow was an ancient school which anyone could clearly tell had never been designed with its current student capacity in mind, lockers were arranged haphazardly throughout the building, her own locker being on the other side of the building near Hebert's rather than near Emma or Sophia...
At the thought of the girl they had shoved into the locker Madison felt a slight tinge of regret, she had always had never been as into pushing Hebert around as Emma or Sophia were and was only going along with it half-heartedly to avoid upsetting them even if she felt it was getting old and today something told her that she and her friends had crossed a line, which she hoped the others would get so they could back off and leave the girl alone for the foreseeable future for the sake of more important things.
Madison rounded a corner and walked by Taylor's locker, trying not to stare for fear of someone walking in and seeing her doing so, but she did note the eerie silence as she walked by, almost as if nobody was trapped within...
"She's fine, probably just exhausted from trying to get out and the struggle..." Madison attempted to reaffirm to herself as she stopped and opened her locker to retrieve her things even as her anxiety built at the continuing dead silence before she turned and began to walk back towards her friends only to slow as she again started to pass the locker.
"Maybe, I should unlock it so Hebert can leave when she wakes up?" She thought realizing that with the padlock which Emma had used to close the locker there would be no way to hide the fact that another party was the one who had locked Taylor in there or a way for the girl to eventually get out.
"The points been made anyway." She thought her conscious finally caught up with her as she quickly moved to the locker and imputed the combination that she had wasted quite a bit of time to acquire for Sophia and took off the lock before turning to leave...
*HIIISSSS *
Madison felt the hair on the back of her neck rise at the barely as she spun around hearing a barely audible sound coming from the locker
"What is that noise?" She thought as her curiosity built and despite the risk involved in staying as well as every instinct, she possessed telling her not to investigate her curiosity got the best of her and she reached out for the locker latched and pulled it open.
The smell that wafted out of the locker was overpowering, it was clear that Sophia and Emma had outdid themselves in prepping the locker for this prank and Madison barely constrained a hurtle as her eyes went wide at Taylor slumping against the locker side barely breathing, her body pale and limp.
"God, she looks like sh-"
*HIIISSSS! *
Madison looked down and nearly jumped out of her skin as she saw the source of the noise move at Taylors limp feet and immediately recognized it for what it was and slammed the locker shut in terror.
She immediately began walking as fast as she could back to Emma and Sophia in a blind panic as the realization hit her that not only had either Sophia or Emma had gone too far with preparing the locker for the prank, but Taylor could damn well be dead because of it!
"Shit! SHIT!! SHIT!!!" Madison thought as she neared the entrance and saw Sophia and Emma standing by the entrance looking as casual as could be in silence.
Sophia noticed her first. "Hey Madison, where to?"
"Outside!" Madison hissed back before beckoning them to follow her as she walked right by them and out the doors of Winslow.
Apparently both Emma and Sophia got the message because they followed her without complaint outside as Madison made a beeline for the football field which wouldn't be occupied this time of day and appeared empty.
Madison whirled around ablaze with emotions when they arrived and seethed out. "Sophia! Emma! What the Hell?!!!"
"What?" Sophia spoke back. "I told you I only told Emma because she found out f-"
"IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT GODDAMNIT I AM TALKING ABOUT THE FUCKING SNAKE!" Madison yelled in a panic before frantically looking around to make sure nobody had heard her.
Sophia paused and Emma just looked at her taken aback at her outburst before the former recovered as an incredulous expression formed on her face as she spoke. "Don't tell us your getting cold feet now Madison! Hebert is a weakling an either she will adapt to this or remain the prey she is."
How can she adapt if she's fucking dead! I didn't sign on for murder Sophia!" Madison bit back hyperventilating. "You put a fucking goddamn Coral Snake in her damn locker!"
"What?" Emma finally spoke up her face warping into general confusion.
"When I walked by Taylor's locker, I didn't hear anything! Curiosity got the better of me and I opened the door and saw her pale as corpse with one of the deadliest snakes in the U.S. at her feet! Thats what!!!" Madison lashed back.
"Hold on!" Sophia spoke. "That is a Kings Snake! I flinched it from Simmon's classroom!"
"Y-yeah it's the one closest to the far-left window..." Emma spoke her lack of confidence telling.
"Like hell it is!" Madison retorted before speaking.
“Red touches yellow, kill a fellow, red touches black, friend of Jack”
There was a brief silence as the rhyme ended and finally realization of the situation hit the girls.
"FUCK!" Sophia screamed as she turned to Emma. "I thought you said the one we needed was on the left side of the classroom by the Window!"
"It was supposed to be!" Emma spoke as she too started to panic.
"Madison!" Sophia spoke jerking around and grabbing her shoulders. "Was Hebert alive?"
"She was breathing." Madison stated finally happy she was getting through.
"Well at least she isn't dead yet." Sophia spoke as she turned to Emma and asked. "How long does it take for one of these damn things to kill someone?"
Emma looked conflicted and truthfully Madison wasn't sure if she actually knew but then she wasn't much an expert either.
"U-Under an hour." She stated in a non-confident voice that in no way sounded assured.
"Then she is already dead." Sophia stated as she groaned. "Fuck! we are going to have to do something about this now!"
The words hit Madison like a rock to the head as she realized. "...I helped killed someone..."
"But what if they find out Sophia?!" Emma yelled frantically. "The PTR! The Police! Blackwell! The fucking Dockworkers Union when Uncle Dan realizes we killed her!"
You don't have to tell me! I would be the one looking at being sent to the birdcage!" Sophia seethed looking at the two seriously. "And if you're an accessory to it, you will both will be looking at Juvie or at least, prison and that's if you're lucky enough to not draw the attention of some vigilante cape who decided he isn't going to sit back and let the system stop justice!"
Madison's skin crawled in horror as realization of reality kicked in even more than it already had as she realized the ramifications of what she was suddenly involved in. "Just this morning it was only supposed to be a prank, now I have helped murder someone and I am facing the possibility of being caught!" She thought as a wave of terror broke over her.
"W-W-What do we do?" Emma asked some of her panic gone but her eyes making her look like she was somewhere else...
Sophia held her hands up to her chin as she began paced before suddenly looking up and saying. "We need to make it seem like a suicide or some other stupid accident."
"How do we do that?" Madison responded incredulous her eyes still lingering on Emma. "Taylor obviously was bitten due to that snake being placed in there with her and our prints are all over it!"
Sophia didn't answer immediately but after a second, she responded. "...That only counts if she died in the locker..."
Emma's fear filled eyes lit up with recognition. "W-We move her from the locker to Simmons classroom and t-then put the snake with her there and make it seem like she messed up..."
"Then we lock the locker back up and quietly clean out any evidence from it before people get a chance to look." Madison spoke feeling sickened to be involving herself in this, but she was finding no choice but to go along with it.
"It can work." Sophia nodded as she turned to look at Winslow's doors to see the Blackwell locking the door and leaving on schedule early for the weekend. "I can phase into the office and place the cameras on a loop before opening the door to let you in, but we have to get it done quick!"
Madison nodded slowly, but truthy she felt everything about today was going to end up being viewed as a lifelong mistake regardless of how bad or well it went at this point.
AN: Alright my first WORM fic and a crossover at that is a go! For my TS readers sorry for adding more fuel to the flame!
As you can see, we had a dual point of view this chapter from both Taylor and Madison which I felt was needed for a multitude of reasons.
I know some might think I am playing down Madison here or trying to go for a "Draco in leather pants/Death Eater Ron" style situation for her and that not the case. Madison did wrong here and is doing wrong even now in hiding this and at the very least she will pay by watching this acts ramification for good or ill and she will have to indeed live with that mistake. Also, we shan't be seeing her too often I think so don't get used to seeing her much.
On the other hand, I hope Sophia, Emma's, and Madison's reaction to Taylor being a dead woman in all but name, doesn't come across as contrived, keep in mind the only person who has seen death amongst the three is Sophia and between them panicking over this as well as being hormonal, angsty, stupid teens they are making a lot of assumptions and jumping to conclusions with incomplete/faulty information.
Thank you for reading! Like and comment I welcome it!
An Old Snake
A GI Joe x WORM Crossover
Chapter One.
DISCLAIMER:
I do not own GI Joe nor WORM they are the works of Hasbro and Highbrow.
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Taylor struggled intensely as Madison, Sophia, and Emma, all suddenly shoved her towards the open locker. She twisted and tried to get out a scream which prompted Sophia to suddenly stop shoving and let go to forcibly gag her with her hands.
"You truly are pathetic Hebert." The taller student spat.
Even through all her struggling Taylor could tell she wasn't going to break free and her now free hand frantically reached behind herself in desperation, grasping a short, sharp object which in her desperation she thrust forward...
...Towards Sophia...
The world slowed to a crawl as Taylor saw Sophia's eyes widen as her hand which she could now see contained a sharpened pencil went forward towards the other girl's abdomen and then along with her hand passed right through it...
Taylor felt her own eyes widen in shock and she caught a glimpse of Madison's doing the same before an unexpected punch to the gut sent her now limp body flying back into the locker which Emma slammed shut.
"Sophia's a cape!" Taylor thought frantically as she banged against the locker sparing no more thoughts to the matter in fear, as claustrophobia combined the smell of the disgusting garbage and hygiene products kicked her mind into a panic and that was before she heard a strange hissing...
Taylor froze as she felt something small, scaly, and worse 'living' drop onto her back onto her shoulder area and she broke out screaming as she realized what it was and what the trio had done.
She banged against the locker door in a blind panic as everything came to the forefront of her mind, her mother's death, all of the hurt, all of the corruption or lack of care at Winslow, all of the abuse from the trio...
Suddenly as everything reached its zenith, she felt a sharp pain in her neck as the hissing grew louder before she shook violently and felt another sharp pain to her thy before giving out one final exhausted scream in anguish and blacking out.
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"I can't believe you let Emma know but didn't tell me!" Madison hissed in a whisper annoyed that Sophia hadn't bothered to inform her that she was not only cape, but a PRT celebrity.
"Emma only knew by accident." Sophia shot back in a quiet and defensive tone before adding. "And please quiet down! We can talk about this somewhere else..."
Madison bit her tongue as she looked around at the familiar setting of Winslow as her thoughts started to turn to home and she realized she needed to retrieve her things from her locker and bit her tongue before speaking. "Sophia, I left my cellphone and purse in my locker."
"What?" Sophia exclaimed her previously expression morphing to one of outrage. "Are you shitting me?!!! Madison we can't afford to be seen going near the lockers or risk rumors!!! Sure, Hebert is a nobody who not a person in this school will believe if she suddenly comes out claiming I am a cape provided we say different. But if her claims seem credible enough that that some shitheads post it on PHO or some other online hell hole we will be up to our ears in legal crap."
"Dad could stop them." Emma suggested only for the larger girl to snort.
"Yeah, but only for you or Madison, it's mostly my neck on the line with the PRT." Sophia spat.
"We need my credit card though to buy dinner and call my parents to pick us up." Madison stated thinking of how she wanted to get home and get a shower after a hot meal. "How about the two of you wait out front while I get it?"
Sophia grunted with a look that said 'Hurry' and Emma nodded along.
Madison turned and began backtracking through Winslow as she saw student's heading out the door and rushing past in a hurry to get home with a tinge of annoyance as she thought.
"Why on earth am I forced to have one of the worst locations for a locker in the building?"
Winslow was an ancient school which anyone could clearly tell had never been designed with its current student capacity in mind, lockers were arranged haphazardly throughout the building, her own locker being on the other side of the building near Hebert's rather than near Emma or Sophia...
At the thought of the girl they had shoved into the locker Madison felt a slight tinge of regret, she had always had never been as into pushing Hebert around as Emma or Sophia were and was only going along with it half-heartedly to avoid upsetting them even if she felt it was getting old and today something told her that she and her friends had crossed a line, which she hoped the others would get so they could back off and leave the girl alone for the foreseeable future for the sake of more important things.
Madison rounded a corner and walked by Taylor's locker, trying not to stare for fear of someone walking in and seeing her doing so, but she did note the eerie silence as she walked by, almost as if nobody was trapped within...
"She's fine, probably just exhausted from trying to get out and the struggle..." Madison attempted to reaffirm to herself as she stopped and opened her locker to retrieve her things even as her anxiety built at the continuing dead silence before she turned and began to walk back towards her friends only to slow as she again started to pass the locker.
"Maybe, I should unlock it so Hebert can leave when she wakes up?" She thought realizing that with the padlock which Emma had used to close the locker there would be no way to hide the fact that another party was the one who had locked Taylor in there or a way for the girl to eventually get out.
"The points been made anyway." She thought her conscious finally caught up with her as she quickly moved to the locker and imputed the combination that she had wasted quite a bit of time to acquire for Sophia and took off the lock before turning to leave...
*HIIISSSS *
Madison felt the hair on the back of her neck rise at the barely as she spun around hearing a barely audible sound coming from the locker
"What is that noise?" She thought as her curiosity built and despite the risk involved in staying as well as every instinct, she possessed telling her not to investigate her curiosity got the best of her and she reached out for the locker latched and pulled it open.
The smell that wafted out of the locker was overpowering, it was clear that Sophia and Emma had outdid themselves in prepping the locker for this prank and Madison barely constrained a hurtle as her eyes went wide at Taylor slumping against the locker side barely breathing, her body pale and limp.
"God, she looks like sh-"
*HIIISSSS! *
Madison looked down and nearly jumped out of her skin as she saw the source of the noise move at Taylors limp feet and immediately recognized it for what it was and slammed the locker shut in terror.
She immediately began walking as fast as she could back to Emma and Sophia in a blind panic as the realization hit her that not only had either Sophia or Emma had gone too far with preparing the locker for the prank, but Taylor could damn well be dead because of it!
"Shit! SHIT!! SHIT!!!" Madison thought as she neared the entrance and saw Sophia and Emma standing by the entrance looking as casual as could be in silence.
Sophia noticed her first. "Hey Madison, where to?"
"Outside!" Madison hissed back before beckoning them to follow her as she walked right by them and out the doors of Winslow.
Apparently both Emma and Sophia got the message because they followed her without complaint outside as Madison made a beeline for the football field which wouldn't be occupied this time of day and appeared empty.
Madison whirled around ablaze with emotions when they arrived and seethed out. "Sophia! Emma! What the Hell?!!!"
"What?" Sophia spoke back. "I told you I only told Emma because she found out f-"
"IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT GODDAMNIT I AM TALKING ABOUT THE FUCKING SNAKE!" Madison yelled in a panic before frantically looking around to make sure nobody had heard her.
Sophia paused and Emma just looked at her taken aback at her outburst before the former recovered as an incredulous expression formed on her face as she spoke. "Don't tell us your getting cold feet now Madison! Hebert is a weakling an either she will adapt to this or remain the prey she is."
How can she adapt if she's fucking dead! I didn't sign on for murder Sophia!" Madison bit back hyperventilating. "You put a fucking goddamn Coral Snake in her damn locker!"
"What?" Emma finally spoke up her face warping into general confusion.
"When I walked by Taylor's locker, I didn't hear anything! Curiosity got the better of me and I opened the door and saw her pale as corpse with one of the deadliest snakes in the U.S. at her feet! Thats what!!!" Madison lashed back.
"Hold on!" Sophia spoke. "That is a Kings Snake! I flinched it from Simmon's classroom!"
"Y-yeah it's the one closest to the far-left window..." Emma spoke her lack of confidence telling.
"Like hell it is!" Madison retorted before speaking.
“Red touches yellow, kill a fellow, red touches black, friend of Jack”
There was a brief silence as the rhyme ended and finally realization of the situation hit the girls.
"FUCK!" Sophia screamed as she turned to Emma. "I thought you said the one we needed was on the left side of the classroom by the Window!"
"It was supposed to be!" Emma spoke as she too started to panic.
"Madison!" Sophia spoke jerking around and grabbing her shoulders. "Was Hebert alive?"
"She was breathing." Madison stated finally happy she was getting through.
"Well at least she isn't dead yet." Sophia spoke as she turned to Emma and asked. "How long does it take for one of these damn things to kill someone?"
Emma looked conflicted and truthfully Madison wasn't sure if she actually knew but then she wasn't much an expert either.
"U-Under an hour." She stated in a non-confident voice that in no way sounded assured.
"Then she is already dead." Sophia stated as she groaned. "Fuck! we are going to have to do something about this now!"
The words hit Madison like a rock to the head as she realized. "...I helped killed someone..."
"But what if they find out Sophia?!" Emma yelled frantically. "The PTR! The Police! Blackwell! The fucking Dockworkers Union when Uncle Dan realizes we killed her!"
You don't have to tell me! I would be the one looking at being sent to the birdcage!" Sophia seethed looking at the two seriously. "And if you're an accessory to it, you will both will be looking at Juvie or at least, prison and that's if you're lucky enough to not draw the attention of some vigilante cape who decided he isn't going to sit back and let the system stop justice!"
Madison's skin crawled in horror as realization of reality kicked in even more than it already had as she realized the ramifications of what she was suddenly involved in. "Just this morning it was only supposed to be a prank, now I have helped murder someone and I am facing the possibility of being caught!" She thought as a wave of terror broke over her.
"W-W-What do we do?" Emma asked some of her panic gone but her eyes making her look like she was somewhere else...
Sophia held her hands up to her chin as she began paced before suddenly looking up and saying. "We need to make it seem like a suicide or some other stupid accident."
"How do we do that?" Madison responded incredulous her eyes still lingering on Emma. "Taylor obviously was bitten due to that snake being placed in there with her and our prints are all over it!"
Sophia didn't answer immediately but after a second, she responded. "...That only counts if she died in the locker..."
Emma's fear filled eyes lit up with recognition. "W-We move her from the locker to Simmons classroom and t-then put the snake with her there and make it seem like she messed up..."
"Then we lock the locker back up and quietly clean out any evidence from it before people get a chance to look." Madison spoke feeling sickened to be involving herself in this, but she was finding no choice but to go along with it.
"It can work." Sophia nodded as she turned to look at Winslow's doors to see the Blackwell locking the door and leaving on schedule early for the weekend. "I can phase into the office and place the cameras on a loop before opening the door to let you in, but we have to get it done quick!"
Madison nodded slowly, but truthy she felt everything about today was going to end up being viewed as a lifelong mistake regardless of how bad or well it went at this point.
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As you can see, we had a dual point of view this chapter from both Taylor and Madison which I felt was needed for a multitude of reasons.
- I wanted duality of views.
- I wanted to show different depths of the trio given they are so integral to Taylor's character in canon and the same shall be so in this case.
- I wanted to change up the trigger situation and give a little spin on how it's uncovered later.
I know some might think I am playing down Madison here or trying to go for a "Draco in leather pants/Death Eater Ron" style situation for her and that not the case. Madison did wrong here and is doing wrong even now in hiding this and at the very least she will pay by watching this acts ramification for good or ill and she will have to indeed live with that mistake. Also, we shan't be seeing her too often I think so don't get used to seeing her much.
On the other hand, I hope Sophia, Emma's, and Madison's reaction to Taylor being a dead woman in all but name, doesn't come across as contrived, keep in mind the only person who has seen death amongst the three is Sophia and between them panicking over this as well as being hormonal, angsty, stupid teens they are making a lot of assumptions and jumping to conclusions with incomplete/faulty information.
They are assuming Taylor is going to die in an hour with secondhand information that a shellshocked Emma is getting completely wrong and are also without information that she has triggered or that her passenger might not slow the process.
