The plan gets....confusing

The plan was simple. Evil Laz and Evil Opal didn’t trust Evil Sascha, so they’d never let her get near enough to their ritual to thwart it. But Sascha herself would need to be there. Evil Sascha’s plan was that they use their Laz to switch Sascha and Evil Sascha’s bodies, allowing Evil Sascha to sneak in and take out Evil Laz and Evil Opal while they were distracted with their Lilith-draining ritual.

It was a horrible plan. No way Evil Sascha would not screw Sascha over on it….but nobody had any better ideas. So Laz was called and Bastion and Sascha went over there to start things out, while Evil Sascha went back to the fight club.

At Laz’s house, they were warned how bad of an idea this was. This was meant to switch two souls, and one of the Saschas didn’t have a soul. Potentially, Evil Sascha wouldn’t be able to survive in a human body without a soul, and would die instantly, trapping Sascha in a vampire’s body.

Bastion tried to convince Sascha to ditch this plan, but she just looked at him and asked him if he had any better plans. He stalked off to wait on the bike as Laz started inscribing a complex henna tattoo on Sascha’s arm.

He watched briefly as Bastion left.
“So what’s your deal with him?”
“Umm…well he completely hates me now, and I pretty much deserve it too.”
“I don’t mean to sound like a chick here….but he obviously doesn’t hate you. You should probably talk to him. If the world is going to end tonight and all….”
“Laz….got a few things on my mind beyond boys tonight.”
“Yeah well…still.
“All finished up! All you have to do is touch her and the switch will happen. But don’t touch her again after that until you’re ready to switch back.”

She left and headed out front. Bastion had the bike started and was waiting. Sascha grabbed the keys and turned it off, grabbed Bastion and kissed him.
“I’m sorry for everything, and I’m trying to make it all better, and thank you for helping me, and please please please stop being a jerk.”
“Um…okay?”

Not sure of what else to do, she climbed up behind him, and he silently started the bike again and drove them both to the club to talk to the vamp.

Getting past the guards easily because Sascha now looked like her counterpart, we got in to see Evil Sascha easily enough. She sat in front of a mirror, brushing her red hair. She looked a lot more innocent than she should. Sascha explained the risks, and touched the vampire’s hand. A flash and a draining sensation overcame Sascha for a moment, and when she was done, she was looking across at her counterpart….who still had red hair. With a quick check, she realized she was still in her own body. But she felt disoriented and dizzy. Evil Sascha laughed.

“Damn you are gullible!”
“What…the hell…did you do?”
“Oh I didn’t do anything. Funny story….but that would be your buddy who set you up for this little fall. See now I have all my own power as well as yours. See?”

The vampire shoved Sascha, and she went down hard. Her body ached in ways it just didn’t before. Evil Sascha smiled as Sascha staggered to her feet.
“So now I have all the power I need to do whatever I want. Hey thanks.”
“But…that means I’m…”
The vampire smiled evilly “Come on….almost there.”
“Human…”
“Bingo! Atta girl. Love to stay and talk about this, but since I have to get going….someone’s going to need to take my place and fight Hawk. Boys…”
“You can’t! I’m human! He’s going to beat me into paste!”
She smiled even wider “Now you really are catching on…”

She plopped a red wig onto Sascha’s head, almost as a joke, and the two demons she called dragged her out of the room and threw her into the arena. The other door opened and Hawk walked out and squared off.

Sascha got up and tried to get his attention, but he ran at her and she clumsily dived out of the way, frantically asking him to stop. Hawk laughed and told her he wasn’t falling for it, even after she started trying to pull off the wig. He ran at her and hit, crushing two of her ribs and sending her flying one way as the wig flew another. She landed hard and blinked back tears as she grabbed her side. Hawk ran at her again, but was brought up short by a large black figure who had landed in front of Sascha.

“Dude…it’s not her. I can tell that from all the way up in the stands!”
Hawk stopped, looking concerned for the first time. Sascha was laying on the ground gasping in a very un-vampire-like way. “Uhh….yikes. Sorry?”
Bastion helped Sascha up and she glared at him. “Sorry. NEXT TIME CHECK FOR THE FREAKING PULSE YOU ASS!!!”
“Hey, I wasn’t exactly going to get close enough to do that! She...bites.”

Sascha very quickly explained to Bastion and Hawk what had happened, as a soda cup hit Bastion from behind. The fans were getting ticked at the lack of fighting. Bastion yelled back “Hey!! Leather!!”

But the three of them hightailed it to the side of the arena, where Bastion lifted the cage gate, and Hawk went under to take out the guards. Watching Hawk work again with some level of admiration, she commented to Bastion, who said he wasn’t so good. Sascha smiled briefly and said that Hawk was their world’s version of Bastion, so he shouldn’t worry too much. She slipped under as Hawk finished and the three ran for the stairs as we started discussing what had happened. Some things with their story were not adding up. Why Hawk was here, and why exactly Sascha would be trying to ensure Lilith’s return in a world not her own mystified us. Hawk looked at them confused.

“Lilith isn’t in charge in our world.”
Sascha stopped. “Wait…but who the hell are the three of them then? Your world isn’t hell on earth?”
“Well we have a lot of Republicans…but they were escaped criminals from an arcane prison.”
“No Lilith? So….I was just vamped?” She looked at Hawk again. “Did….did you and she ever have a thing?”

He laughed “That chick has been a vampire since before I was born.”

Bastion shoved us towards the stairs, saying “We have to get going or we’re going to be fighting our way out of here all night.” He stopped and looked at Sascha. “You sure you want to come? I can drop you somewhere. A human isn’t going to be able to do much.”

Sascha looked down at herself “Human. Wow…it’s like I’ve been handed everything I’ve ever wanted in some horrible evil way.”
“If you don’t want to go…”
“No I have to at least go. I just…. If you get the chance to kill evil me…do it.”

The three of them got out to the parking lot, where Sascha called Laz to get some answers. He picked up and a reluctant voice said “Um…hello?”
“You realize I’m going to somehow break your neck right?”
“Look it totally wasn’t my fault! Well it was my fault….but it was evil me! I showed up and told me if I didn’t trap the spell and not tell you anything about it he’d kill you.”
“Wait EVIL LAZ did this?” She turned towards Hawk, “They really are just screwing each other over any way they can, aren’t they?”
“Laz…get Opal and Oscar ready. They’re at Cam’s house by now with the resurrection machine. Let us go in first and if we need you….you’ll know.”
She hung up and she and Bastion rode towards town, with Hawk flying above them as a…well…hawk.

One way or another, it was time to end this.