*Hey guys! I'm done with the second part of this episode. 

Random reader: Elm, is the final part of this episode?

Me: No, silly reader, we have about one or two more to go with this episode. But rest assured that it will be finished nonetheless. 

Jokes aside, I'm really excited that I'm getting close to finishing it! Then, it's SEASON FOUR time! HECKA YES!!!! I'm already working on Season Four. LOL! This is published on October 25, 2020. If you guys like this part, make sure you give it a vote and spam the comment section. That will be much appreciated. Have a blessed day! Enjoy! Warning: There's a bit of gore.*

Sam, with his small body all bruised up from fighting back against the cultists, was strapped down onto the metal table. His red hat had definitely seen better days with its dirt splashed on it and burnt marks. He's on the wooden stage within a small fortified town known as Fort Dunstan...ready to live his final moment in front of the crowd of people who just stared at him blankly.

The walls surrounded the city with a towering building in the center, right behind where Sam was at. The houses and the shops were all the same with dark wood and the whispers were on the speakers all around the town though they were incoherent.

"Let him go! You can kill me! But don't you dare touch him!" Sam could hear his own father screaming from the sidelines. This brought tears to his eyes to receive the parental love that he craved for so long...but it's too bad that he won't get out of this mess.

"Don't hurt him!" Sam turned his head to notice Gabriella sobbing in utter tears while thrashing her body against the cage that held her and Stan, Sam's father. Along within the other cages, Michellee and McWinkle shared one, Gluntz and Louis were stuck together in the other one, Michael was in the cage by himself with Jean perched on his head, and Goat and Vicky shared a cage evidently.

When Sam shifted his sight back out to the audience, he saw the cold-blooded white fur man known as Magnus Stanley, edging a crooked smile at him.

"These Outsiders are nothing more than just imposters!" Magnus Stanley announced to the group of cultists. "They're interfering with our dominance by disguising themselves as a part of us and acting as though they want what we want. But what they want does not align with what we want. We want the world to be reformed, to be cleansed. They want the world to be the same...the same disgusting place!"

"Oh, shut up with your preaching!" Goat barked at Magnus, his brows furrowed with fury.

Vicky clenched her teeth tightly. "Atticus--"

Magnus heard Goat with a chuckle as he turned to him and Vicky and ambled towards them. "Your stubbornness will have its consequences. Soon, you'll see."

When Magnus got close to the cage where Goat and Vicky were in, he cornered a crooked smirk. "But there's a chance for all of you. You can be saved if you choose to join us. Because once the whispers talk to you, they will never get out of your head...not even when you're dead."

Goat spat on his face while gritting his teeth with aggression. "I rather die than join lunatics like you."

Magnus wiped the spit off of his face with a grimace. "As you wish. You're next after Sam."

He turned away from Goat and Vicky while rage boiled up in everyone in the cages.

"Let their justice be served!" Magnus called out as he signaled one of the men behind to flip the switch to electrocute Sam.

"NO!" Michellee, Gabriella, and Michael cried out simultaneously.

"You son of a yip!" McWinkle cursed at Magnus.

"You're dead meat!" Goat threatened while throwing his body against the cage.

"Coward! You're coward!" Jean gnashed his teeth with rage.

"Get away from him!" Gluntz yelled while trying to reach out of the cage.

Louis narrowed his brows in fits of anger. "Don't you dare!"

"No! Don't hurt my son!" Stan cried with tears streaming down his cheeks.

The cultist had his gloved hands ready on the lever to flip on the switch while everyone in cages was crying out for them to stop.

"STOP!!!" They heard a familiar voice shouting from behind the crowd. They all turned to look out through the audience as the cultists turned to form an opening to reveal that it was Guy, standing behind the crowd with handcuffs and three hooded 'guards' escorting him harshly. The two were with him while the other one was following close behind them.

"We found this Outsider outside of our gates!" One of the 'guards' stated with a growl.

Magnus cornered a sly smile. "Bring him to me."

He signaled the cultist to not touch the lever yet as the 'guards' gripped on Guy's shoulders and escorted him through the crowd full of different colored pale-furred people with pale eyes staring at them blankly and emotionless. A lump went down on Guy's throat as he whispered to the two of the 'guards'.

"When we get close, push me onto my knees. It has to look harsh," Guy whispered.

"Alrighty then," the 'guard' answered with a whimsical hushed tone.

"Whatever you say," an elderly voice replied as they got close to the stage. However, when they were close to the stage, the two 'guards' pushed Guy harshly onto the ground, causing him to grunt in silence.

"Not that hard, guys."

The 'guards' had their teeth clenched."Sorry."

Magnus smiled at them. "Perfect. You three are excused."

The guards bowed their heads and walked off in a different direction. However, Gabriella noticed something odd about the one guard...he had a black tail with the white end sticking out of the cloak. Instantly, she recognized the guard while covering her agape mouth with both hands as to not scream out her father's name and tears of joy shimmering in her eyes.

Magnus and Guy locked gazes at each other.

"You came," Magnus uttered while Sam watched helplessly from the metal table.

"Yes, I did," Guy answered with a firm nod.

"What made you come back? Your little followers?" Magnus snarled while referring to his family in the cage.

"The whispers," Guy responded with his brows drawn together.

Everyone in the cages stared at him wide-eyed as Magnus chuckled humorlessly.

"The whispers? They told you to come back here because--"

"To join," Guy uttered. "But...if you want me to join you guys...you must uphold something for me first."

"Uphold something for you?"

"Yes."

"Alright...what do you want us to uphold?"

Guy gazed at his family lovingly as he breathed in and out deeply. "I will join you if you promise me that you'll never touch these people ever again. You stay as far away from them as you can forever. If you have any control of me, do not let me come near them or let my hands stained with their blood ever. You never touch those people ever again."

Magnus pondered for a moment. "That sounded a bit one-sided. Don't you think?"

"You get to have me and conquer the world, just the way you want it. But you can't touch them."

"And what makes you think that they won't rebel and get you back?" Magnus snarled at Guy.

"They won't," Guy uttered, shocking the group more. "They'll leave peacefully and they will never bother you ever if you don't bother them."

Magnus began to laugh heartlessly at Guy's deal. "They're just as stubborn as you are. How about I'll make you a better deal? If you can convince them to join us, then they will not be harmed. However, if you can't...well...that's the loss that you must bear."

"You're a sick son of a--!"

"Goat!" Guy barked at Goat, silencing him. "You have to...please. They are only trying to reform the world."

"Just pretend to say yes."

A thought came across Goat's head when he suddenly realized that Guy was talking to him through his mind.

"Wait...you can read and talk to me in my mind?" Goat asked in his thoughts.

"They won't hurt you," Guy continued to ramble on as if he's convincing them to join. "Just surrender to them and they will give you life."

"Yes. I'm talking to all of you right now. Just pretend to say yes. They'll let you go if you do." Guy spoke from his thoughts as Goat glanced around everyone else in the group to realize that they were hearing the same thing. "Just trust me."

Sam took a deep breath. "I believe you, buddy."

Magnus turned to Sam in shock.

"I'll join the Gatherers of the Whispers," Sam finished his thought with a small smile. Guy nodded his head slightly.

Michellee pondered for a moment, thinking of all the risks that were right in front of her but Guy gazed at her gently.

"It's okay, honey. I promise I won't let them hurt you. I won't let them use me to hurt any of you again. I love you."

Michellee took a deep breath as she glanced up at Magnus. "I'll join you too. It'll...be a pleasure to hear the whispers."

"Yeah. Yeah," Gabriella replied while nodding her head. "I will join."

Stan and Gabriella gave each other brief glances as he shifted his gaze up at Guy.

"I won't let them hurt you again, Stan. You have my word."

"I will be the instrument of destruction," Stan uttered, unsure with himself.

McWinkle nodded his head slowly. "I surrender."

"I surrender," Gluntz remarked while breathing anxiously.

"So do I," Louis stated hesitantly.

Meanwhile, while everyone was 'pledging' to join the Whisperers, the three 'guards' took off their disguises to reveal Cat, Grinch, and the Oncelor.

Cat took out his hat and create a huge portal behind the house they were hiding at. "Alright, fellas, it's showtime."

The super ax hackers roamed out of the portal and drove discreetly through the small town with Dave, Jeffrey, Ted Gluntz, Ted Wiggins, and Nora Wiggins driving them. Grinch and Cat watched as the Oncelor entered the portal and drove out his own super ax hacker. Then, Nancy Gluntz, Audrey, her parents, Ms. Wiggins, and other few villagers from Thneedville came out of the portal, armed and ready to fight the cultists. E.B rode on Mr. Jenkins and held Karlos's fishbowl while Mr. Jenkins tiptoed out of the portal with Max trailing behind them.

"Is that all?" Grinch asked Cat.

Cat looked into the portal to see no one else was there. "Nope." He closed it as E.B, Mr. Jenkins, Max, and Karlos approached him. He handed E.B a flare gun. "Send the signal once the others are out of the city. Make sure you point it towards the sky."

Grinch watched the event unfold as everyone in the cages said their devotion to the whispers.

Guy looked back at Magnus, who seemed shocked by their change of attitude. "Now they are devoted to our cause, you will let them go."

Magnus chuckled slightly. "I'm impressed that your little followers are now converted." He signaled the cultists to unlock the cages. They seemed hesitant at first until they nodded their heads in reverence and obedience and unlocked the cages to let them out. They cut the straps off of Sam as he slid down the metal table.

"Sam!" Gabriella called as she ran to him and hugged him tightly.

He hugged her back, burying his face into her brown hair. "I'm okay. I'm okay."

Stan limped towards his son while nuzzling his head against Sam's. "You're okay, son."

"You still need to give devotion to the whispers. The family reunion will come later," Magnus coldly implied as they heard something drilling from the other side of the city. "What the--?"

The crowd turned their heads to see what the commotion was. Magnus drew his brows together.

"My people! Hide yourselves! The Whispers will protect you!" Magnus growled the order as the people scattered back to their homes as he signaled more of the hooded assassins who were soldiers along with robots. "Kill whatever is lurking over there!"

The robots and the hooded soldiers headed to where the commotion was at. Magnus signaled other men and glanced at them. "Watch over the NewBloods."

Magnus left swiftly towards the building as the men apprehended them as Guy just used his mind powers to knock them out. The group was left in shock as Guy got out of his handcuffs easily by pulling his hands through and dropping it.

"Come with me," Guy whispered to his family and friends as he guided them towards the side door that led them into the forest surrounding Fort Dunstan. "Here's what you got to do. You got to go up that hill, make a right, and keep going that direction until you bump into our allies."

"You're not coming with us?" Sam asked in concern.

Guy looked back at the small fortified town and then back at his friends, more specifically, at Sam. "No, Sam. But I'll be okay, though."

"What if they turned you into that beast again?" McWinkle cautioned as he subconsciously caressing his missing eye that was replaced with a white bandage that played as an eyepatch.

"They won't. That evil stuff is gone now," Guy reassured them with a warm smile.

"What? How--?"

"It's a long story," Guy interrupted Vicky's question. "You guys get going before that Magnus guy comes back."

"Wait, I'm not leaving without you," Sam replied with stubbornness. "We're a team, remember? Dream team?"

Guy smiled warmly. "I know...and we are. When you bump into our allies, you'll get the instructions on what to do next."

Goat furrowed his brow. "Who the yip is our ally?"

Guy smirked at Goat. "You'll see."

He headed back into the town as the group did as they were instructed.

~.~

The robots and the men marched towards the commotion as Oncelor and Nora saw them from their super ax hackers. He did notice Dave and Jeffrey almost have done with destroying the building with a bunch of speakers...which they all could assume that it held the communications with the allies outside of the fort. Ted Gluntz and Ted Wiggins drove the super ax hackers into the building with the speakers on the other side of the small town to destroy all communications from the outside world.

When the robots and the hooded soldiers approached Dave and Jeffrey with guns aimed at them, Oncelor and Nora drove their hackers into them while using the axes attached to the machines to slice up the men and the robots standing in their way.

More soldiers were alerted when they saw a flare fired up towards the sky, which was surprisingly shot by E.B.

Cat created a portal for the Grinch to go through to get back to the Whos.

"Great job, E.B," Grinch applauded as E.B had her brows raised.

"What do we do now?" she asked as Karlos popped out of the fishbowl that's in her grasp.

"Yeah," Karlos concurred as Grinch pondered for a second.

"Want a ride in my sleigh?" Grinch offered E.B, who gave an excited smile at him.

"That sounds fun!" E.B said with excitement.

"Come on then," Grinch urged as he went through the portal with E.B, Max, Mr. Jenkins, and Karlos following him. Cat closed the portal while taking out his shotgun to help Oncelor and his people.

Meanwhile, Jane had her binoculars with a smirk on her face when she saw the flare.

"Ready!" Jane yelled to Jonathan, who's lined up with the Whos that had their catapults filled with the snowballs at the ready.

"Aim!" Jonathan shouted as the whos aimed the catapults and pulled back the sling that will launch the snowballs into the town.

"FIRE!" Rudy declared while popping out of Jane's pouch, surprising the mother kangaroo.

The Whos from cheery Whoville released the sling and fired the snowballs up in the air. The snowballs flew through the sky and over the fortified wall surrounding the small town. The snowballs broke to reveal the whos, armed with guns, inside. Before the soldiers and the cultists take action, they fired their guns at them while more soldiers were called out into the field.

Ms. Wiggins, Audrey, her parents, a few people in Thneedville, and Nancy helped the whos with fighting more soldiers by taking out the ones that were on the walls, guarding their positions.

Jane gathered most of the monkeys and the whos with Horton by her side and Morton perching on top of his head, facing the small castle. Some other monkeys had their banana peels rolled up in a giant ball and covered in tar to set it on fire and aimed it towards the walls.

Jane picked Rudy out of her pouch, who looked confused. "I need you to stay out here."

"Why?"

"This is a dangerous battle and I don't want you to be in the middle of it," Jane warned her son as the monkeys approached them. "Stay with the monkeys and help fire the catapults."

Jane turned away from her son as she stood along with the army of monkeys and the Whos from Whoville. They saw the rustling of the bushes approaching them as it revealed to be Sam, Gabriella, McWinkle, Michellee, Stan, Gluntz, Louis, Goat, Michael, Jean, and Vicky coming out of the bushes with shocked glances at them.

"Jane?!" Goat instantly recognized with his jaw dropped.

Jane smirked at Goat. "What? You think I wouldn't join."

"I thought that you're going to get yourself killed without us knowing it," Goat uttered, tilting his head. "Wait, how were you guys able to convince the monkeys to join you guys?"

"Hi!" The squeaky voice from the speck on top of the flower Horton was holding spoke again.

"It's a long story," Horton replied with a nervous chuckle.

Grinch strode through the crowd and noticed Stan standing by Sam and Gabriella.

"Stan!" Grinch called as he revealed a present to give to Stan. "Merry early Christmas."

"What is it?" Stan asked with a brow raised.

"Open it."

"I can't." Stan showed the Grinch that he had no arms.

"Oh...sorry," Grinch uttered as he opened the present for Stan to reveal two metal arms that won't be so easily ripped off.

Stan's eyes trembled as Grinch put it on him quickly.

"There. Now you have arms," Grinch replied with a soft smile.

Tears edged out of Stan's eyes, examining his new arms to see that they're hands that he could fiddle his fingers and grab something that doesn't have to be a claw. "It's not...anything dangerous."

"I mean, I could put something more--"

"No. This is perfect." Stan hugged Grinch, who felt awkward hugging the man he barely knew and trying to help. "Thank you."

Grinch giggled nervously as they both dispersed from each other. "It's not a problem. I thought I would give you some arms before we marched down the field. It took a bit longer than I expected but I was able to finish just in time before we got here."

Michellee looked around the crowd anxiously. "Where's E.B?"

"Hi, Mom!" E.B shouted from the sleigh behind the army while Mr. Jenkins popped his head up behind her and Max barking happily.

"E.B, what are you doing up there?!" Michellee gasped.

"I'm helping the Grinch with the sleigh!" E.B responded excitedly.

Grinch laughed nervously. "Gotta go!"

He quickly went back to the sleigh as the group found more sleighs at the ready to fly.

Jane looked to the group. "We're going to storm through the doors and fight every cultist that tries to kill us. Are you guys up for it?"

"Heck yeah," Goat responded with a determined nod. Everyone else nodded in agreement except Michellee. She took a moment to ponder and then took a deep breath.

"Yeah," Michellee responded with a nod as the monkeys handed them guns and swords to fight with. They all faced the fortified town with glares ahead of them.

"CHARGE!!!" Jane declared as everyone in the front lines sprinted down the slopes with their weapons raised high and their battle cry heard from the distance. The fury in their eyes glowed brighter as Horton and Goliath, the huge ape, was the first to at the door, They charged through the doors as the cultists called to arms with one another and began to shoot at the monkeys coming at them fast, missing some while hitting the others. Goat took out his automatic rifle and pulled the trigger, firing at the cultists shooting him and his friends.

Sam, Stan Gabriella, and Michellee worked together to take out the cultists that were coming out from the darkness while Vicky and Michael were able to attack the robots that were trying to kill them and the monkeys behind them. The whos helped too by fighting back. While they were fighting, the large balls of banana peels that were on fire flew over the walls and hit the spots where the cultists were grouped in the fortified town. McWinkle, Louis, and Gluntz fought alongside Jane, Horton, and the monkeys with their guns and their swords. Morton and Jean scurried into the clothes of the cultists and took them out from biting them harshly and pitter-patter all over them except Morton did quicker than Jean.

Cat joined in the fight too while firing his shotgun at anyone who would dare come near his daughter. When the bullets flew and hit the cultist about to attack Gabriella, she turned to look up at Cat with a tearful smile on her face.

"DAD!" Gabriella cried out while running up to him and hugging him.

Cat lifted her short body up and twirled her around with a hug and his face buried in her shoulder.

"How did you survive?" Gabriella sobbed while wiping away her tears of joy.

Cat pulled the fake fur that he had been wearing to reveal a bulletproof vest underneath. "Gotta wear one on every occasion."

Gabriella laughed as she hugged him again. "Oh, Dad."

Sam, Stan, and Michellee approached Gabriella and Cat.

"Cat! You're alive!" Michellee replied happily.

Cat winked at her. "Yes, I am, Chellee."

Sam looked around the destroyed town full of fighting people. "Where's Guy?"

Cat shrugged. "I don't know, I haven't seen him."

Stan widened his eyes as he bolted towards the building.

Sam arched a brow. "Dad?"

More fireballs landed into the town, shaking the ground underneath them as sleighs were seen flying over the town and shooting down the flying aircrafts the cultists began to take out.

"Come on, we got to keep going!" Cat urged the group as they went back to firing their bullets at the incoming cultists.

~.~

Magnus Stanley began to tremble the more he heard bullets firing outside of the building he's stumbling through. He's on the twentieth floor and he reached his office that was on the left across the windows. The sun did not make an appearance behind the heavy set of gray clouds. He barged into his office and shut the door quickly, panting. Becoming more nervous about the chaos ensuing outside, he called on the microphone but the line went busy.

"Hello? I need more backup," Magnus uttered in panic but the line was busy. He could guess that one of Guy's 'followers' destroyed the communications outside of this fort. He's stuck here until this battle was over. Body shaking, the whispers were louder in his ears. He covered his ears and began to let streaks of tears down his cheeks.

The door was prompted open but he didn't bother to turn around to see who it was.

"Are you seriously hiding in your office?" He heard a familiar voice scoffing at him. Although, Magnus already knew who the voice was.

"And you came all this way to find me," Magnus uttered while wiping his tears away and turning his head to reveal blood dripping from his eyes that seemed to shock the familiar Knox standing at the doorway. "Are you here to kill me, Guy?"

Guy narrowed his brows. "I'm here to end this fear and this religion of yours once and for all."

Magnus scoffed and laughed at Guy's determination. "Don't you want to succeed? Don't you want to find yourself finally not failing?"

Guy growled a bit. "I've already succeeded in breaking into your fortified town and gathered a revolution against you. We're done surrendering to you. Now it's your turn to surrender to us. Surrender this religion and burn all of those golden books that showed ungodly things to ashes. This is not right and you know it along with those people who are out there fighting and dying for you and your whispers."

There's a pause as Guy turned on the lights in the office to see blood all around Magnus's head as Magnus stared back at him with bloodshot eyes.

"We-We-We are nothing with the whispers," Magnus whimpered as he pulled out his handgun, which didn't cause Guy to flinch.

"No...you're wrong. The whispers don't tell you who you are. You are who you choose to be. You have a choice to get out of this, Magnus," Guy uttered softly, not ready to fight him yet. But he didn't step close to Magnus to comfort him. "It's up to you whether you'll take it or not. You're the Influencer. You have to tell these people to stop fighting and stop listening to those whispers. Take out those earplugs, put down the mask, and live. You, along with everyone else, have a reason to live. That's why we're fighting back. You're trying to take away our right to live...so, we're getting it back."

Magnus tilted his head while shaking his head. "Influencer? Me?"

"Yes, who else would it be?" Guy asked with an arched brow.

Before Magnus could utter a sentence, an explosion erupted in the office pushing Guy back against the glass windows and breaking through them. He grabbed onto the ledge while he looked out over the castle walls. He saw more tanks, cultists, and bombs coming towards the fortified building with the aircraft flying through the air.

Guy breathed heavily as he climbed up towards the floor as Magnus was laying in his office, his face contorted in an ugly shape. He stood up and looked over Magnus's burnt body, who's barely breathing audibly.

"I'm...sorry," Magnus uttered. "This...this is not what...what I was expecting."

Before Guy could think of healing him, Magnus's last breath was drawn out. Guy blinked for a few moments before hearing someone coming up from behind him. He turned to notice Stan staring at him and then at Magnus's dead body.

"Magnus...he-he-"

"He's dead now, Stan."

"I wished he live," Stan uttered softly.

Guy arched a brow. "Why? He tortured you--"

Stan's short body trembled a bit. "Because I want to give him the same torment that he gave to me. He used the ones I love to make me submit to everything he wanted me to do. I-I know what I've done was horrible and I'll own up to my mistakes...but...Magnus was the one torturing me and drove me to the brink of insanity. I could never go to sleep without hearing his voice and my screams. I could never be at peace without at least thinking that I'll wind up back on that metal table, screaming out my wife's and my son's names. But now...Magnus gets to die in peace and I'll never sleep without hearing me scream in my dreams."

Guy put a hand on Stan's shoulder. "It will heal."

"How do you know?"

Guy paused for a moment. "I just...know that it will. It might not happen overnight but it will heal eventually."

Stan nodded his head. "O-Okay. I want to say something to you."

"Yeah?"

"Thank you for being there for Samuel. I know it's hard to be a friend to someone who's used to being alone. Thank you for being his briefcase buddy."

Guy chuckled. "Yeah. It's no problem. We got to get back to the others."

"Right." They made their way out of the building while hearing more gunshots and screams from outside. 

To Be Continued...