You Picked the Wrong Village Fool(1)

(Note: Those who have not played Resident Evil 8 yet. Be aware of spoilers.) 

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A maid working in Castle Dimitrescu was leisurely dusting off some of the dust from the cabinets and some of the paintings in a hallway on the second floor of the massive infrastructure, using a feather duster while casually humming a tune in a peaceful manner. 

"What a wonderful and lovely day it is today.' She thought as she continued to hum merrily.

Until...

"Nigerundayo!"

"Hm?"

Looking to her left, the maid spotted a male humanoid with pale pink skin, cat-like ears and eyes racing towards her and being pursued by Bela and Cassandra, who were flying after him while surrounded by a swarm of flies. 

This humanoid was Rodeo, a human who has become the Stand known as Killer Queen, and had unfortunately crashed into castle Dimitrescu, all caused by SCP-507, also known as the "Reluctant Dimension Hopper". 

As he continued to run, Rodeo noticed the maid in his path and immediately vaulted above her and landed behind her back before continuing to run, while Bela and Cassandra simply flew past her and continued chasing Rodeo. 

"...Who was that cat person?" The maid wondered for a moment before shrugging her shoulders and continuing on cleaning as if nothing had happened.

Meanwhile back to Rodeo, he continued sprinting through the hallways till he came across some stairs and chose to descend them to reach the first floor of the castle. Then he looked to the right and found a corridor, which he rapidly sprinted through, and then noticed more steps, which he descended to reach the bottom floor. 

Glancing from behind, Rodeo noticed that Bella and Cassandra were no longer there or were still chasing him.  

"If they're planning on ambushing me, I'll just keep on running.' Rodeo reasoned as he looked ahead...

Only to be startled and surprised by Bela and Cassandra standing right in front of his face, causing him to tumble to the floor on his back.

'Why do crazy ladies always have to jump scare me!?' He screamed in his mind, staring at the two women with malicious smiles on their faces.

"You really think you can outrun us, whatever you are." Bella was the first to respond.

"I think he's a cat." Cassandra speculated.

"It's quite obvious actually from the eyes and ears, but with a man's body, I wonder how his blood might be." Bella grinned evilly, licking her own lips.

Rodeo instantly rose up from the floor with his fists ready, and declared, "Out of my way, or I will fight you two bitches up!"

Bella and Cassandra both gaze at Rodeo with confused looks, they exchanged puzzle stares before bursting out laughing

"Hahahahahahahaha!"

"What's so funny?"

Bela chuckled and replied, "No, it's just that you, an average weird looking cat man or whatever you are, want to go hand to hand against us? It's hilarious because others have tried but failed miserably."

"What makes you any different?" Cassandra asked.

As if a response to their question, Bela and Cassandra were then hit in the face by two fast jabs from Rodeo's outboxer technique, their eyes widening in disbelief because the speed and intensity of the force in which they receive was insane, and it happened before they had a chance to react or evade the jabs at all. 

They both took a few steps back and paused for a moment to reflect.

'This... speed.'

Both of their expressions now went into a deep frown, realizing he wasn't your average normal person. Others have even tried using firearms and other armaments and means to take them out, but ended up failing. Although the jabs did harm them, they still can't be killed thanks to the swarm of flies that have kept them alive for years, and since it was June and the summer season had arrived, the swarm wouldn't be frozen by the cold winter which would leave the two vulnerable to being killed. 

"Okay, you're strong, I'll give you that." Bela replied as she and her sister drew out their primary weapons, sickles.

"But you can't escape this entire village." Cassandra added.

"We'll see about that," Rodeo stepped forward with a serious expression, not feeling threatened by these sisters as they made no attempt to move, but somewhere the air felt different. It felt heavier.

Staring at the two, Rodeo instantly pointed his finger to the right and shouted.

"What's that!"

Bela and Cassandra could only look at Rodeo with blank expressions.

"...Seriously?" 

"Um…"

Without warning, Rodeo throwed a flashbang at them that he had kept in his hollow stomach compartment back in the SCP world when he was sent for the operation to Mount Foraker. 

Bang!

The flashbang soon explodes on their faces, bursting in a blinding light and ear-piercing noise which stuns them temporarily. Rodeo takes advantage of this by running past them and heading for the main doors that enable admission into and and may also be used to depart the castle. Soon, he came to a halt when he saw a metal gate barring the main entrance. No doubt to prevent him from escaping.

However, he is Killer Queen, so he decided to do the most logical thing possible. 

Proceeding to touch the metal gate that blocks the door, Rodeo glances at the readers and says, "If you hit an obstacle, you blow it up."

Click!

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Outside the castle doors, Daniela, the craziest of the three Dimitrescu daughters, was arriving with the corpse of a deer she had hunted, dressed in the same black robes and hood over her head as the other two sisters.

"What a great hunt it was today. I got a deer and got to explore more thanks to the summer." She said happily, "I wonder what else might happen today? Maybe some- " 

BOOM!

Halting her steps, she witnessed the doors in front of her explode.

"Eh?"

Running through the blown-up doors came Rodeo as he ran past her, ignoring her completely and heading for the village area.

"...Did I just see a large cat run out of mother's castle?" Daniela questioned with a puzzled look. Her lips curved upwards in an uncanny, and unsettling smile just then. "By the gods, I've always wanted to have a kitty, even if that kitty is a strange human cat who I just encountered. I'll catch it."

Dropping the dead deer to the ground, Daniela then flew after Rodeo. At a following moment, Bela and Cassandra came flying out of the castle windows and followed their sister Daniela, who was chasing Rodeo into the village. 

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At the castle, Alcina remained in the same room where Rodeo had burst through the ceiling, holding and observing the armor he had left behind.

As she examined the strange object, she noticed two logos on the armor's shoulder pads which were unfamiliar to her. The logos were those of the SCP foundation and MTF Queen's Requiem. The armor seemed to be very sophisticated and was unlike anything she's seen before, leading her to wonder where Rodeo really is from.

"Just what are you?" Alcina inquired in her thoughts, before noticing the maid enter the room. 

"My lady, you have a phone call."

"Thank you, dear." Alcina smiled, "And please clean up the mess here and store this... armor in one of the empty rooms."

"Yes, my lady." The maid said, bowing respectfully to her and getting to work, while Alcina proceeded to get the phone in her chamber. 

As she reached her chamber, she saw the phone, which appeared to be from the old times, ringing before picking it up.

"Hello?"

[We have a meeting today, lady Alcina. You know that right?] Said a female voice on the phone.

"Of course, I'm well aware of the meeting. Although I recently had an unwanted visitor crash into my castle, and don't worry, he's being dealt with by my daughters."

[Is he a threat?]

"I don't think so, but he was wearing armor of a type that I am unfamiliar with, with unknown logos on it."

[...Do you still have it? The armor?]

"Yes, I do."

[Hm... I'm curious, bring the armor and the person who owns it to me, and keep him alive.]

"Alright, Mother Miranda." Alcina nodded, hanging up the call and putting the phone away. 

"Looks like I'll have to go after him as well." 

Then she leaves the room. 

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The Village, a small unnamed community located in a mountainous region of Eastern Europe, and despite its modest population, it was nonetheless active and very lively. It was populated by people who lived in small houses made of wood or small amounts of bricks. Most lived out their lives by producing and raising livestock they had and planting crops through farming, and on most occasions working as servants for House Dimitrescu and other houses.

The people of the village always respected the four houses, especially Miranda, but some knew or heard rumors of the more darker secrets that go on with the houses, but mostly they don't try to do anything or ask because they trust Miranda or fear the four houses for what they might try to do should they go up against them with the village was cut off from the outside world... at least from the time being

Today, the villagers were either currently performing their usual work of farming or were having their morning breakfast. Walking along the village and heading towards the place the meeting will take place was two men. 

One of them is a tall, middle-aged man with long, black graying hair, a mustache, and a beard. He wears a long tattered brown coat with a beige shirt underneath, brown trousers, boots, gloves, and a wide-brimmed hat, as well as what seems to be a compass, an old fish scale, and a dog tag around his neck. He possessed a huge hammer made of steel, assembled from different mechanisms that he sometimes carries around with him. He also wears old-fashioned sunglasses and is seen smoking a cigar.

The other appeared less human, his skin a sickly, pale green-gray, with a prominent hunched back courtesy of the large growths and incredibly short stature, his hair gone save for a few stringy black clumps. His hands and feet are webbed much like a toad, with his teeth being pointed fangs with gills on his neck and wears a body cloak and robe, alongside a hood adorned with a crown of bones.

These were one of the four lords of the four houses that work under Miranda and have control over the village. 

These were Karl Heisenberg and Salvatore Moreau. 

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The majority of the villagers who saw them either bowed or looked away in fear knowing what they were.

"Sigh…"

"Something wrong, brother?" 

"Don't call me brother, Salvatore. These meetings we've been having for years are just a waste of our time, and I have to listen to that psycho doll Angie's continuous giggling everytime we do it!" The man named Karl Heisenberg said in an annoyed tone as he took a deep breath from his cigar, "But I bear it either way. Well, most of the time at least."

"But we need to do these meetings to make sure that everything is running smoothly in the village and report anything important or unusual to Miranda."

"I get it, fish boy. I ain't dumb like you."

"I am not as dumb as you think, Karl."

"Fine. What's two plus two?" 

"Uhh…"

"Like I said, dumb as hell."

Just then, Karl and Moreau noticed someone jumping from rooftop to rooftop of the village's dwellings, but since they were so far away, they couldn't see them clearly. 

"Hmm…" Karl hummed. Curious, he brought out a binocular from his pockets and looked through it, just to discover Bela, Cassandra, and Daniela chasing down Rodeo, whom Karl wasn't familiar with. 

"What did you see?" The creepy robed men named Moreau asked.

"Seems like this day won't be boring after all." Karl smiled, "Come on, Moreau, we might have something better to do."

"B-But the meeting? We need to attend it."

"Yeah, but someone who looks completely different that I spotted through the binoculars has just entered the village, and... Miranda might need him." He glanced at Moreau, "Me and you can make her proud if we capture this guy."

Upon hearing his words, Moreau's expression lit up in delight 

"Then let's go!"

Then they head towards the direction where Rodeo was. 

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Back at Rodeo, he was jumping from rooftop to rooftop of each house, attempting to outrun the Dimitrescu daughters. 

'I really need to lose them. I can't throw another flash bang on them because two of them saw it and won't get fooled by the same trick twice!' Rodeo thought as he leapt from the roof and landed on the ground safely. 

As he hurried down the road, he immediately made a right turn, followed by the three sisters as they also made a right turn.

Only to find he was nowhere to be seen. 

They looked around to search for the strange cat man, but instead found a man wearing farmer's clothing sitting in a rocking chair next to a house, having the tip of his hat lowered down which in the process covered his face, and wearing brown leather gloves.

"Hey, did you see a man with light pink skin, cat ears and eyes run past here?" Bela asked the farmer.

"Yes, my lady. He climbed up that ladder next to that house and ran through the roofs." The farmer answered, pointing to the ladder next to his house.

"Thank you."

The three proceeded forward in search of their target, utterly unaware and being completely oblivious to the fact that the farmer they spoke with turned out to be Rodeo in disguise.

How? Cartoon logic perhaps. 

When the three sisters were on the rooftop of a house, they suddenly came to a standstill, realizing something.

"...Wait a minute."

The three turned back around to see the man, who they assumed was a farmer, was no longer sitting in the rocking chair, and the only thing all that remained were the farmer's clothes. 

Rodeo escaped. 

"..."