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The Bizarre Rescue Mission - Scary Paranormal Story · Shallow Nights: Scary Bedtime Stories

• 0:38
  I pressed the palm of my hand in my forehead.
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  So that's why Ersnock wants you back so bad.
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  I said. No wonder you ran out on him,
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  just like you ran out on us. Well, if I hadn't and he said,
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  you'd all be dead right now, along with everyone else that
• 0:53
  you've ever known or met. You know what?
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  Right now that doesn't seem like such a bad prospect.
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  And he groaned. God, you're so good at playing
• 1:02
  the victim. You should be on TV.
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  You can play a corpse on Law and Order, and you can play you know
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  what, screw you. Wow, very Cle.
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  Frank and Teddy boomed out a long noise.
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  Annie, Miss Hatchetface and I all turned to look at them.
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  My apologies. Sometimes when I get
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  uncomfortable, I make noises. And he turned back to me and
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  pointed her finger at me. Frank and Teddy repeated.
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  Miss Hatchetface was grinning up at Frank and Teddy and Annie
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  looked put out. Fine, Annie said.
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  So you went and got our daughter kidnapped and now you want me to
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  go to the Netherworld to sort it all out for you, is that it?
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  Yes, I said that's all. Oh, she replied.
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  That's all, that's all. Wow, I am so lucky that all
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  you're asking is for me to go to the Netherworld and talk to the
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  most powerful being in existence giving up his only
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  granddaughter. You do know why they call him
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  Ersnok, the World Leader, right? Why, Because he eats worlds.
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  I rest my head on the bar for a moment.
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  Inside. I bring it back up and rest my
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  forehead in my hand. Look, I say, I don't really see
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  what other choice we have. We need a plan.
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  Annie replied. A rescue plan.
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  We were sitting in Annie's living room, gathered around a
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  fold out table she'd set up in the center.
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  The bright yellow light of a desk lamp bathed the papers, and
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  that had been haphazardly strewn about its surface.
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  They were maps, schematics of the Netherworld office building
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  in which Ersnock, the world leader, resided.
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  The light from the lamp bounced off the papers and lit Annie's
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  face from below, making her look even more tired and stressed
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  than she was. Which was very the way I see it,
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  she said. There's only one way we can go
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  about this. We sneak into the office and put
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  Ersnock back to sleep. You can do that?
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  I asked. It's possible, she replied, but
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  it won't be easy. I believe I have a solution,
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  Frank and Teddy said. Even at a whisper, his voice was
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  loud. When I find I cannot sleep, the
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  Lady Hatchetface sings lullabies to me.
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  You do that, I said, turning to Miss Hatchetface.
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  That's so sweet. Miss Hatchetface went a slightly
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  deeper shade of red than she already was, and he made a
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  slight disgusted noise. Hold on a second, she said.
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  Are you boinking the nanny? Darren?
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  That's so cliche, who or what I boink is none of your business.
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  I replied and Annie rolled her eyes.
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  Just not in my house, she said. OK don't worry about that.
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  The sight of you pretty much killed my urge to boink.
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  Frank and Teddy looked at me, then Annie, then back to me.
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  What is boink? He said.
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  It sounds like fun. You don't want to know, Satan
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  said and then turning to the rest of us he said.
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  Can we please get on with this? You still have no idea what this
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  apocalypse has done to real estate prices in hell.
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  Is that a pressing concern right now?
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  I said my daughter's trapped in the netherworld right now.
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  Well, not for you, Satan said. But it's bad for those invested
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  in the future of the greatest nation of all time, America.
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  What? No hell?
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  Oh. Annie was shaking her head.
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  How do you guys get anything done?
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  She said. We don't really.
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  I said. CEO is more of a managerial
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  role, seeing added in, not a job where you actually do things.
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  Annie sighed and picked up a pen, stabbing at one of the
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  blueprints that sat on the table.
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  This is where we need to enter. She said.
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  The door will sense my blood and open, and the rest of you can go
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  in. After that, you're on your own.
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  If Ersnock finds me in the Netherworld, he'll eat the earth
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  at once. I'll have to come back here and
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  hide. How are we going to find our way
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  through the building without you?
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  I asked. That's what all the maps are
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  for. Oh look, it's simple, and he
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  said, sliding the blueprint towards her and marking it up
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  with the pen. This is the route you need to
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  take. She slid the blueprint back to
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  the center of the table and we all leaned over it.
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  This route right here? I asked.
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  Yes, the one that starts at the door marked Do not enter and
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  ends with the room labeled Certain Death.
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  That's the one. OK, just checking, but getting
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  in is the easy part, she said. It is, yes.
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  After you're inside, you'll need to keep yourselves and the goat
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  hidden to keep from setting off security.
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  Wait, there's a goat? And he cocked her, hadn't
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  squinted. Of course there's a goat, she
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  said. What else would you sacrifice?
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  I'm not really comfortable with the idea of sacrificing
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  anything. I said don't worry, she said.
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  The goats used to it, It's his job.
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  That really doesn't make me feel any better.
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  Look, she said, do you want Sarah back or not?
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  I sighed. Get me the freaking GOAT.
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  And he made another phone call, and the GOAT had shown up at her
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  door in a suit and tie, wearing a black bowler hat.
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  He made sure to hand out business cards to every person
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  present that simply read Larry Crowder, sacrificial specialist.
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  The GOAT took off his coat and bowler hat, standing up on his
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  hind legs to hang them from the rack before seating himself in a
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  brown overstuffed recliner. So, he said gruffly, I
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  understand this is another world job.
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  He reached inside the pocket of his suit and pulled out a cigar
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  and a Zippo style lighter. He lit the cigar and puffed out
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  a cloud of smoke. I stared down at the ivory white
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  business card in my hand, and he was the first to speak.
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  Yes, she said. Do you think you're up for it,
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  Mr. Crowder? First off, sweetheart, he said,
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  You can call me Larry. He took another long try of his
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  cigar, leaving his face clouded by a haze of smoke.
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  He made no sign that he intended on answering.
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  Listen, Larry, I said. We're kind of in a hurry, so if
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  you could. Whoa, whoa, whoa, Larry said.
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  I said the lady could call me Larry.
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  It's still Mr. Crowder to you. I wasn't sure how to respond to
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  that, so I just kept my mouth shut.
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  The way I see it, Larry said, leaning through the cloud of
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  smoke so that we could all see his face, Another world job
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  ain't worth the risk. Well, it's in it for me if I do
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  this. I decided that now wasn't the
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  time to bring up that this job was to get sacrificed.
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  Because if you don't, I said, the world's going to end.
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  What world? What do you mean what world?
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  I said Earth. Larry leaned back and took
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  another puff and his cigar. Not my problem, he said.
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  Not your problem. I asked, dumbfounded.
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  Do I look like I'm from Earth to you, boy?
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  He said. Look, Larry.
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  And he said, shooting me a quick, dirty look.
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  He didn't mean anything by it. Larry scoffed.
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  Besides, she continued. Urznock, the World Eater has
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  awakened. You think he's really going to
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  stop after he eats the earth? He'll come for the goat
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  dimension next. You know he will.
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  Maybe, Larry said. He narrowed his eyes and leaned
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  back against his veil of smoke. I could see his black eyes
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  glittering as he sat there puffing on his cigar, thinking.
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  I'll come back tomorrow, he said. 5:00 AM sharp.
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  Without waiting for our response, he got up, slung his
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  coat over his shoulder and pulled his bowler hat down over
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  his eyes and left the same way he came in.