Whumpay 18
fingers in wound/ “wait, what are you- don’t-!” / Arterial bleeding
part 2 of whumpay - loss of senses
Cw: blood and a bit of gore
Hero grunted as they tripped against a root, or rock, or whatever. Not like they could see. Supervillain ignored their struggles and hurried along, their grip on the hero’s hand tight. Hero had given up on keeping their eyes open; all they could see when they did was a blurry scenery filled with black spots. They burned even when Hero kept them closed. They burned so much Hero couldn’t stop the tears from flowing. God, they must look so pathetic.
“Ow!”
“Branch.” Supervillain ‘warned’. Then they had the audacity to chuckle.
“I will make you eat my shit.”
The villain only hummed. “Looking forward to it, sweetheart.”
Hero clenched their ungripped hand into a fist. “What’s your deal, anyway? Why are you here?”
“Currently? Trying to find your leader so I can see the look on his face when he sees your cute little ass-”
“I meant here, in the forest.” Fucking creep. “How did your lot find us.”
“Ah, that. That’s a secret.”
Hero huffed in annoyance. However, they did notice how Supervillain was unguarded, for some reason. Did they not see Hero as a threat? They hadn’t even taken their weapon from them.
Hero slowly reached their sword with their free hand. Nothing. Supervillain continued on, unaware. The hero bit their lip. Here goes nothing.
They pulled the sword and swung blindly. Supervillain gasped in pain as the hero felt their weapon connect with something. Either the villain’s legs or back.
“You… oh, you...” Hero shivered. They did not like that tone. “Heh. I see why Leader is fond of you.”
Hero kept their sword’s tip pointing forward. “Stand back.”
“But why would I stand back when things have gotten so,” a change in the breeze, “interesting.” Supervillain’s voice was right behind them. Hero turned and swung sideways, letting out a big oof as something hit them hard in the stomach. Still, they kept their grip on their sword tight and swung again. The villain hissed.
“Not going down easy, are you?” Hero kept their guard up, muscles tense. “Good.” The villain purred. “That’s very good, Hero.” A whoosh and the hero flinched when a hand landed gently on the fingers the hero had around their sword’s hilt. “You just gave me an excuse to do this.”
Cold fingers wrapped around the hero’s, and the hero heard their bones crack with how much Supervillain was gripping them. Something slammed against their pelvis, which took the hero’s breath away. Another slam and a quick twist of their hand was enough for Hero to drop their sword. Pathetic.
Supervillain shoved them backwards, making Hero fall on their butt. The hero gasped and tried to locate the villain by hearing, but the only thing they could hear was the blood rushing in their system. They opened their eyes into a squint just enough to notice the very blurry shape of Supervillain coming their way, something glinting in their hand.
The fucker has my sword.
“You have no right to-”
The sword touched their neck. “Oh, Hero.” Supervillain drawled. “I am so going to enjoy putting Leader in his place.”
Hero arched their back in agony as their body exploded with hot pain.
This wasn’t good. Leader’s bow was dropped somewhere during the fight, so now he only had his fists. Sidekick had taken a nasty fireball right on the stomach and was out of commission. They laid on the ground on Leader’s right. Medic hovered over him as she gently tried to reduce their pain. Rogue was covering them, doing a good job so far, but even Leader noticed that he was reaching his limit. At some point, Sniper was fished out of her hiding place and forced to partake in the fight, which was no help at all. They were not good at hand to hand combat. To be fair, she had managed to get rid of Henchman right before she got caught, so they weren’t entirely useless. She did her best attempt covering Leader’s left.
Villain cackled when Leader was nearly grazed by their poisonous hands. “Focus, focus!”
Leader’s punch landed right on Villain’s nose. It cracked satisfyingly. He wasted no time and threw a roundhouse kick, hitting the villain square in the chest. They fell on the ground with a wheezed groan.
Leader sat on top of them and grabbed them by their shirt. “How did you find us? Why are you here?”
Villain gave him a bloody smile. “Boss’s orders, man. No hard feelings.”
“Supervillain.” Leader spat. If his nemesis knew where they were, then they were in much deeper shit than he thought. “Where are they?”
“Dunno.” The villain was infuriatingly calm. “Just gave us orders to keep your lot busy.” What? That didn’t make much sense. “Oh, and injure Hero bad enough so you could hide them somewhere away from the fight. I’m surprised it actually worked.”
Leader growled. “You!”
“Hey, hey. Hey! No hard feelings, just the j-”
Villain let out a loud yelp as Leader punched them square in the face. They raised their arm, fingers already producing the poisonous dust, but Leader wasn’t having it. He quickly fished out a knife he kept on his waist for emergencies and stabbed the villain’s hand to the ground.
“Fuck!” Leader twisted the knife and Villain writhed in pain. “I’ll fucking kill you!” They raised the other hand, but the hero quickly caught that too. He pressed it on the ground next to the villain’s head. Good thing that dust of theirs didn’t have a long range.
“You have ten seconds to tell me what Supervillain’s plan is.”
Villain squirmed under him. “What do you think?” Leader twisted the knife again and Villain bit their lip.
“Leader.” Sniper voice was tense as she tried to get his attention.
“Tell me.” Leader growled at Villain, ignoring her.
“Leader.”
“I think you really should turn around, man.” Villain had a look of relief in their eyes that Leader didn’t like.
“Leader!”
“Where are they.”
“LEADER!”
“WHAT!” Leader finally turned to look at Sniper, who had a furious but concerned look.
“They’re here.” Was all she said and Leader looked towards the direction she was looking at and he gasped in horror and surprise.
Standing on his left, surrounded by their men, was Supervillain. And in their arms was a sobbing, wounded Hero. They were struggling in Supervillain’s grip, tears and a thin streak of blood coming out of their now open eyes. A huge gash tore their clothes and skin from the neck to the stomach. Blood spelt from Hero’s lips too with how much they were biting it.
Leader clenched his jaw in fury. This was too far. Even for his long-sworn nemesis.
“Get your hands off my team.” Leader growled.
“Get your hands off mine.” Supervillain glared.
Leader still had his fingers around the handle of his knife. Villain bit back a whimper as he shoved it deeper into their hand. “Too far, Supervillain. You know you’ve went too far.”
Supervillain stared for a minute, assessing the situation. Leader’s team shuffled slowly behind him and Supervillain’s men went behind Supervillain. They knew better than to get between them. Supervillain stared at the villain under Leader and Leader looked in concern at Hero in Supervillains hold.
“Oh, this isn’t going too far.” Supervillain finally came to a decision, it seemed. Leader’s brows furrowed. “This is.”
They dropped the sword – Hero’s sword, the bastard! – and raised their fingers to Hero’s wound. Leader looked, confused. Then he flinched when Hero squeezed their eyes shut and keened.
“Wait, what are you-” Leader whispered in disbelief. Supervillain never went against their team, it was always just them and him. That changed today. “Don’t-!”
Hero screamed when Supervillain’s fingers went inside their body. “Don't! Stop!” They pleaded. “Stop!”
But Supervillain didn’t stop. They shoved those cold fingers further in and Hero trembled violently, all while the villain looked at Leader dead in the eye.
“Supervillain, you BASTARD!” Leader screamed, but he didn’t dare approach. Villain twitched under him and he realized he had nudged his knife in his fury.
“You have something of mine, I believe.” Supervillain said calmly, staying still. Hero sobbed.
Leader glared at his nemesis, not taking his eyes off them or Hero as he pulled the knife out of Villain’s hand. The villain under them hissed. Supervillain also took their fingers out of Hero.
“Good, Leader. Very good.” But Leader wasn’t listening. He took one good look at Hero and he couldn’t help the rage that filled him seeing them so helpless, so scared, so vulnerable. In the hands of his worst enemy. Crying because of them.
...Fuck this. If Supervillain wanted to go against his team then he would go agains theirs.
Before either of the villains could say another word, Leader swiftly adjusted the knife and without thinking over what he was about to do any further, shoved it in Villain’s abdomen.
Villain was in so much shock they couldn’t even let out a sound, their mouth agape, not daring to move. Supervillain’s eyes widened. Everybody else held their breath.
“Let them go, you villain,” Leader spat, eyes wide with anger and hate, “before I do something I might regret.”
Supervillain stared in shock before clenching their jaw. “The audacity to call me a villain.” They hissed with poorly contained rage and brought their bloody hands to Hero’s wound. “Fine. If the hard way is what you want...”
“What? No, no, wai- NO!” Hero shrieked when Supervillain shoved their fingers in, twisting them around and around. Blood gushed out of the hero as they sobbed.
“Fine.” Leader snarled and used both hands to shove the knife as deep as possible. Villain couldn’t contain their pain anymore and whimpered.
“You... you prick! Stop.” They gasped, using their good hand to push the Leader away. But he wouldn’t budge. He wasn’t even looking at them.
Both parties glared at each other as they tortured their hostages. For a while, all one could hear in that forest were Hero’s sobs and Villain’s cries.
“Leader, enough!”
“Boss, I really don’t think-!”
“Silence!” Both Leader and Supervillain roared, curling their respective weapons deeper and deeper.
“Leader, please…” Hero finally pleaded. “Whatever you’re doing, stop… please.”
Leader frowned. He couldn’t stop. If he did, there was no telling what Supervillain might do. But he hesitated anyway. That gave the villain under him room to breathe.
Just when Hero’s superior really considered stopping, Supervillain opened their mouth. “Yeah, that’s right. Listen to your Hero, hero.”
Leader’s eye twitched. Without further ado, he pulled the knife out of Villain’s body violently. They gasped. Then Leader shoved two fingers in. The villain screamed.
“Well, Supervillain, congratulations!” Leader grinned. “You’ve successfully made me lose my shit! Your lifelong goal, wasn’t it?” He inserted another finger in and Villain arched their back, trying to twist their good hand the hero’s grip to hit him, to blow dust in his eyes, to do something! Their injured hand was useless. But it was pointless. Leader had gripped their wrist tight enough to sprain it. He probably had already. “A shame one of yours had to be sacrificed in the process!”
Supervillain screamed in rage. They didn’t care about being gentle anymore. They stabbed all four fingers into Hero’s chest. The hero let out an agonized shriek.
Leader did the same, the villain twitching and twisting their body in a desperate escape attempt. “Not gonna lie, Supervillain!” Leader taunted, curling his fingers inside Villain. “It does feel good!”
“Oh, you sick-!” Supervillain was cut off by Villain’s begging.
“Boss, please! Please, enough! He’s not going to stop, please!” There were tears in their eyes as Leader twisted his fingers inside their abdomen. Villain looked like they were going to be sick.
Supervillain, with four fingers inside Hero’s body, flinched. Leader saw it. That hesitation. He stopped.
Both teams were watching this violent scene with horror and disgust. Apart from their boss’s heavy breathing, only the hostages’ cries could be heard. Sidekick, awake and aware, clutched his stomach as Medic and Rouge helped him stay on their feet. Sniper had her fists clenched to the side, body frozen in place. Supervillain’s men looked disturbed as well. One held Henchman’s unconscious body on their back, two others looked like they were going to pounce on Leader. But none of them moved without receiving orders.
“You know what to do, Supervillain.” Leader said, stopping his movements, but keeping his fingers pressed inside. Supervillain did the same.
“Seems like you know as well.” This had to stop.
“Let Hero go.”
“Let Villain go.”
“Bitches first.”
“Don’t test me.”
They glared at each other. This wasn’t going anywhere. Reluctantly, the two enemies accepted what they had to do.
Both had to let their hostages go at the same time.
Leader started. He slowly removed one finger out of the whimpering villain. He looked at Supervillain.
Supervillain, not taking their eyes off of Villain, did the same as Leader. They removed an extra finger. Leader followed.
Both hesitantly took their fingers out of the respective hostages’ bodies. Leader resisted the urge to wipe the blood on his clothes. Supervillain let their bloody hand drop to the side.
Leader huffed and quickly stood up, taking Villain with them. The villain moaned at the sudden movement.
He and Supervillain watched each other closely. Supervillain gestured and one of their men to go to Leader. “You will bring Villain to them.” They ordered as they basically dropped Hero onto the goon’s hands.
Leader frowned. “Fine. Sniper.” Sniper was quickly by his side. “Get Hero back.”
Sniper nodded and grabbed Villain by the arm. She walked slowly towards the other villain approaching her. They met in the middle. She winced at Hero’s wound.
They stared each other. It would be so easy to drop what they had in their hands and attack. But no, they had orders. And their friends’ life was on the line.
The goon made the first move. They reached towards Villain hand. Sniper did the same. She gently touched Hero’s arm. The hero flinched.
“Hey. It’s me.” Sniper whispered, her grip on the villain loosening.
The goon took the opportunity and released Hero completely, letting them fall in Sniper’s hands. Villain clutched their abdomen as they were freed, their friend quick to grab them and take them to Supervillain. Sniper did the same.
Both parties held their breath. Leader reached out and Hero was finally, finally in their arms. The team released a huge breath.
“Hero.” Leader breathed and took a quick look at Hero’s wounds. The gash was mostly superficial, but the wound in their chest was deep and messy. Their eyes were bloodshot, dripping with tears and blood, due to Villain’s poison. Leader’s throat went dry, his eyes landing on the wound on Hero’s chest, which was still dripping blood. What had he done? “Hero… Hero, I’m…”
“I’m sorry.” Hero sobbed. “I’m sorry, Leader. I tried to find the river on my own, but-” their voice got stuck in their throat and Leader’s heart throbbed, “they found me. I was so close and they…”
“It’s okay.” Leader’s thumb gently brushed their tears away. “You’re gonna be okay.”
“I feel so… everything hurts. Leader, I’m… I’m so dizzy.” Hero’s eyes rolled to the back of their head as they fell right on Leader’s arms. Leader held them tight, even as Hero’s blood soaked their clothes.
“Shit, must be the blood loss.” Medic’s voice chimed from behind him. And the pain.
“Leader, we have to abandon the mission, we can’t go on like this.” Rogue said.
Leader had forgotten about the damn mission. He didn’t even care. He raised his head towards Supervillain, eyes still full of fury, expecting to see them gloat, smile, or even stare at him with a superior glint in their eyes.
But no, the heroes’ leader was surprised to see his nemesis tilting Villain’s chin up gently to inspect their black eye. Leader saw them say something quietly, but he couldn’t hear what was said from there. What he did notice was Villain mouthing “I’m sorry”. Supervillain shook their head.
Then, as if sensing Leader’s gaze, they turned around and looked. The supervillain had a look in their eye that Leader had never seen before. He returned that look.
They sized up each other, both keeping their guard up, even though both knew there would be no more fighting today.
Eventually, Leader turned his gaze away. He looked at Hero, unconscious in his arms. He adjusted a few strands of their hair.
“Come on, Hero.” Leader whispered softly, gesturing at Medic. “Let’s get you all healed up and home, yeah?”
He turned his back on his enemy as Medic took the hero from his arms and laid them on the ground, immediately getting to work. With the corner of his eye, he noticed Supervillain quietly leave, carrying Villain in their arms.
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