The Juggernaut Club: Part 54

Garen is seen sitting on the floor in the basement of Sion's Monument. Scrawled on the wall is "Skarner was here!", along with a couple of poor drawings of him beating up the other Juggernaut members. Garen shakes his head at the one of him falling victim to Skarner.

: Dream on, Skarner, dream on.

Finally, there is the patched hole from his last attempt to burrow into the clubhouse. Seeing it, Garen gets an idea.

: I wonder...

He walks up to the patched hole, and grabs the tacked-on wood covering it. Steadying himself, he starts to pull on it to try and rip it off!

: Come on... Come on...

Upstairs, Talon and the rest of the members of the "Obliterator's Order" are readying more jack-in-the-box and other traps for the other Juggernaut Club members.

: Alright, so there's the trap to incapacitate the beastly ones.

Fizz has rigged his "Feeding Time" fish on a rope over a hidden pit that the members had dug in the ground over the course of this whole series.

: Best check on the others.

He goes and checks on Nocturne's trap. He's just set up the typical bucket of water on the top of the doorway trap. He and Shaco are snickering as they imagine who will fall for it.

: You call THAT a trap!?

: Hey, you can't go wrong with a classic like this!

: We're TRYING to incapacitate or imprison them, not mildly annoy them!

: Darkness.... (You never let us have any fun...)

: Besides, I haven't seen YOU setting up any traps! You've just been sitting around in Darius' chair like you own the place!

: I do, since the Club's gone. Besides, blame Darius for not locking it when they left!

Fizz speaks up, though he sounds somewhat distant, like he's in another room.

: Actually they DID lock it! You had to go and get the spare key from Swain's office, remember?

Talon groans.

: OK, you're right! I ran into my so-called "sisters" along the way. Kat is STILL hung up on that bonehead we've got locked in the basement now. I have no idea what she sees in him that the men of Noxus don't have.

: Darkness... (You're just jealous.)

: AM NOT! Besides, Kat and Cassie's father told me, before he disappeared, that if I even THOUGHT of trying to make any advances on either of them, he said he'd rip out my intestines and strangle me with them!

: Darkness...? (Was that before or after Cassie turned into a half-snake thing?)

: Does it matter?

: Well, he's been gone for a while... I think he's been declared legally dead, in fact.

: Pfft! I ain't taking no chances. Besides, if that Demacian nut tries anything, maybe THAT'LL be what brings the old coot back!

: So he can "rip out his intestines and-

: And strangle him with them, yes.

A sound similar to wood cracking and splintering is faintly heard.

: What was that?

: (Distant, from another room) Sounds like it came from the basement!

: That better not be Skarner trying to tunnel in again! Nocturne, go check! Everyone else, back to setting up traps!

Nocturne shrugs his shoulders and floats off towards the basement entryway while the others get back to work.

In the basement, Garen was trying to rip off the wood, but has given up. All he got it to do was crack, and is now considering busting down the door at the basement entryway.

: Pretty used to breaking down doors, so what's another at this point?

He then hears something pounding against the wood. Looking behind him, he wonders what it is.

: Are you trying to get in again, Skarner? If you've dug your way from Riven's Bunny Bar, could you get me a drink?

However, the being doesn't answer him. It just keeps pounding, trying to break in.

Garen hears something like angry grumbling, and he goes up and puts his ear up close to listen closer. He peeks through a knothole in the wood, and sees... Aatrox?

: He looks... different from when I last saw him. Huh.

: Stupid Skarner, telling me the only way in was through this tunnel he dug. AARRRGGHH!

: Oh crap!

Garen quickly gets back as he sees Aatrox lift his sword to cut through the wood!

SMASH!

In comes the newly-reworked Aatrox!

: AH! There. Finally got through, and I'll-huh? Garen?

Garen silently waves hello.

: What are you doing in here?

: I'm a Juggernaut. This is the Juggernaut Club's clubhouse.

: What!? The Juggernaut Club!? Rhaast told me it was the Diver's Domicile!

: Uuhh... nope. Never heard of that place. It's also currently undergoing an attempted take-over by Talon and his Snickers Obliterator's Order.

: Whatever. I'm here to submit my official application for entry!

: For what?

: The Diver's Domicile, or the Juggernaut Club or.... Whatever this place is!

Garen smiles.

: You came to the right man! You're looking at the Chief-of-Staff of the Juggernaut Club! Under his breath (Formerly.)

: What?

: Coughs Just a tickle in my throat. Anyways, all applications for membership must go through me!

: Well what good luck! What do I have to sign?

: You don't have to sign anything; what you have to do is your initiation.

: Initiation?

: You must perform an act that impresses the members, or in this case, ME since I'm the only one present at the moment, enough to give you membership. We don't just hand it out to anybody, you know!

: So what do I have to do?

: Smash open that door up there for starters! Gotta see if you're really strong enough to be called a Juggernaut. That wood you did is nothing in comparison to it.

He points to the basement entryway door. Aatrox salutes.

: Can do!

He walks up to it, and lifts his sword, just as Nocturne reaches for the knob...but both of them stop their respective actions as a strange whining sound slowly becomes louder.

: What's the matter?

/ : Do you hear that?/Darkness...? (Do you guys hear something?)

Outside, Jinx and her unintentional traveling companion (Ezreal) are nearing the hole in Sion's Monument that she made back in the "Chaos in Noxus" Arc.

: Oh boy, Cell-mate! Let's see if we can get this big one to fit in that hole!

: YAAAAAHHHH!

Jinx aims the Super Mega Death Rocket for the hole in the monument!

To Be Continued...