“OUCH!”

As he was absently staring around, he felt someone or something slam into the back of him When his original self fully turned around, he saw a little child with blonde hair, no more than 6 laying down on the ground hold his head

“Whaaa, Sniff sniff. I’m sorry!”

(Oh great, just what I need. Another child to annoy me)

“Watch where you're going brat!”

*Wait, I know that kid. He was the poor fuck who was being held hostage by that fucking criminals*

(Guess I’ll at least help him up)

As he leaned over, the poor child started to shiver and cry with even more strength. But instead of stopping, Josh’s original self started to reach his hand out. When the child saw this, his eyes rolled upwards. Then without any warning, his head slumped over.

“What just happened? Hello?”

His original self thought for a few seconds, before going to the corn wall and grabbed a stick. Then he proceeds to walk back over to the passed out child, poking him gently, then over time with more and more force in different areas of his body

*Are you fucking serious me? He’s not a fucking disease, stop poking him and help him for fuck sakes*

“Ugh, how annoying. Forget this”

With more annoyance filling him, his body turns around and walks away without any hesitation. Leaving the poor child passed out on the ground

*What the fuck am I doing now?? Dude, go the fuck back and help that kid! He obviously needs help!*

As Josh walks away, he hears his dad’s voice behind him

“What? A child? Are you okay little guy? Where in the hell did Josh go?”

*This can’t be right! There’s no way in hell I would be like this!*

As Josh was questioning himself, his original self kept walking in random directions. Every time he saw someone, he would completely ignore them. From the calls of help, to any questions they asked him.

(Why can’t everyone just leave me alone already? I need to find a place to hide for a while. I want to be left alone!)

He then comes into a clearing. A small house with no doors or windows. Behind the house is a slightly big water tower.

(I know, I’ll hide up there! No way dad or anyone else would find me there! I’ll finally be left alone!)

Josh then bolts in the direction of it. Moving through the corn walls. As he got closer, he saw the chain fence with the door open. Behind the door was a ladder that went all the way to the top.

(Lucky!)

*NO! Not lucky! That obvious a fucking problem! The door should be closed and locked! What happens if a young child climbs up there and falls? It would kill them!*

His original self then walks through the open door, closing it behind him. Then with slight hesitation, he starts to climb the ladder. As he got closer to the top, he could hear noises. Sounds of a person mumbling

(Who else is up here?)

When Josh gets to the top of the ladder, he sees a person with a long object in their hands laying down on the other side of the tower. They were looking at something in the far left corner of the corn maze

(I wonder what the person is doing? And what is he holding?)

*What am I thinking? I see a stranger in the middle of nowhere and the first fucking thought in my mind is “What are they doing?”. I couldn’t have been this fucking stupid!*

As Josh got closer, he could start making out the mumbles

“The target is near the fish statue. Holding a young child with black hair……..Can’t get a clear shot, moving too much…….Attempting sho-”

“What are you doing?”

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With the sudden noise behind them, the stranger makes a slight sudden movement, shooting in the process. With the recoil of the gun shot, an ear piece falls out of the strangers ear

“SHIT! I missed, repeat, I missed!!”

With the sudden female yell the stranger quickly turns around, whipping a pistol out and pointing it at Josh

“A kid? Are you serious?? What are you doing here??”

Short blonde hair with gleaming green eyes stared at Josh with extreme hostility

“What are you pointing at me? A toy? Are you playing a game or something?”

“Answer the question brat! What are you doing here?!”

*It’s hard to connect the dots because she's not wearing a worker's outfit. But I think that's Aurora. Why does she have a sniper?*

“I’m hiding!”

“Hiding? Why are you-”

The ear piece starts making sounds. A low female voice rings out

“Child down! The child got hit. Not Moving! What's the problem?! I need eyes on that sinner!”

Aurora then grabs the ear piece and speaks into it

“There’s a kid up here. Let me deal with him for a quick second.”

She then drops it, always keeping her eyes on Josh

“Kid, get away from here. This place is dangerous. There are criminals here to do real bad things. Get to your parents and follow the police orders”

“But-”

BANG

A strong but small breeze flies past Josh’s small face. Fear rapidly rising within him

CLICK

“Because of your interference, someone innocent is now dead. I’m not playing any games here. The next shot won't miss your skull and I will kill you. You're in my way of the mission.”

*Interference? Did she accidentally shoot a child because I startled her?*

With only one thought in his original body’s mind. It bolts down the ladder, running back into the maze to hide. Before Josh or his original self realized it, he was back at the small house. Hiding behind it. His body shivering nonstop

*A person died because of me….I think a child is dead because of my actions….what have I done?*

Josh whispers in his mind softly

(I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry. She is going to kill me. She is going to kill me. I’m so scared. Someone please help me)

While Josh was slowly starting to understand his actions. His original self is instead freaking out. What could have been seconds or even minutes later. He start to hear voices of two grown adults nearby

“I can’t believe they are cruel enough to actually kill the poor little shit”

A deep, low voice whispers out

“I know right? And they call us criminals”

A slightly high pitch voice replies

“I want to ask what the plan is to get out of here, but first. Who’s the little brat?”

“Oh her?”

When his original self heard that, he could not stop himself from peaking out of his hiding spot. When he looked over, he saw a male with black hair, a tribal tattoo on his neck. Next to him is a female who is a head shorter. Short brown hair, the same tribal tattoo that's on the man's neck but on her shoulder. Both of her arms are preoccupied. Forcibly holding down a 6 year old child

“Ain't she pretty? Her long red hair, that adorable face. Those small sexy curves. Hmmmm just looking at her is getting me excited”

(Is that…..Ellena? What is she doing with them?)

*NO…This can’t be happening! She got lost! I remember her getting lost! There was no fucking criminals. I don’t remember any of this happening!!!*

The female lets go of the child, throwing her at the man with so much force she leaves the ground. The man catches her, then looks up and down at her, like he was window shopping, inspecting the goods he was about to buy.

“She would be perfect to help us relieve some stress. Don't you think?

The female continues on, after watching him inspect her.

“Now that I have a chance to look at her, she is quite tasty looking!

A hand caresses her lovely face. Before his hand moves to her small but developing body.

“I’m so sorry, but please, please let me go. Stop touching me. I promise I won’t tell anybody. I don’t know what I did. But please forgive me”

Ellena struggles with more force, but she could not break away from the tight grip

“Hahaha, don’t worry my little cutie. What we will do to you will only hurt at first. You will feel immense pleasure soon afterwards”

(I wonder what they are talking about? It will only hurt at first? She looks so scared)

As the two continue to talk, Ellena starts to struggle less and less before suddenly stopping and losing all strength. Her eyes focused right in front of her. Her breathing increasing rapidly

*She’s going into shock! WHY AM I NOT TRYING TO SAVE HER RIGHT NOW? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME?? MOVE!!*

Josh tries everything he could think of to make his body move. But no matter how much he screams and yells, his original self stays put, watching everything with interest. Another feeling growing with him other than fear

*What is this feeling….is this….excitement? Am I actually starting to enjoy this? No..NO NO NO NO NO!!!! MOVE. FUCKING MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE!!! STOP STOP STOP!! GOD DAMN IT!*

(That's what you deserve for ruining my life. Maybe not this much but you had this coming. Now if only Jared could get a good scare like this!)

Josh’s mental yells start dying out before a slight mumble could be heard

*...Stop…please god stop….I….I couldn't have been like this…there's no way I would do this….No way I would be excited to see my siblings scared….Was I truly like this?....*

Both versions of Josh didn't notice the small, childish blue eyes looking at them all. After watching them for only a moment, the eyes disappeared. Then not a minute latter, Both Josh and the criminals could hear someone screaming at the top of their lungs and making as much noise as possible

“HELP HELP! MY SISTER NEEDS HELP! TWO STRANGERS ARE ATTACKING THEM!”

The voice echoes out into the distance, covering the whole maze and even slightly past that. Perhaps god was looking after them because what seemed like a minute of silence, another familiar voice speaks out right behind Josh

“That kid did a good job. Unlike you. Thanks to him I was able to find theses fuckers quickly”

BANG BANG

After the two loud noises ring out, two quieter thuds soon follow. The person then shoves Josh to the ground before jogging to Ellena. As the unknown person grabbed and lifted her up, they glanced to their side.

“Your death came too quickly, I can’t wait to see you two burning in hell!”

Two bodies lay on the floor, a bullet hole in both of their heads, blood dripping out and soaking into the dry dirt.