Tangle of Tension P2 "creepypasta story"

"Tim! Brian!" he called out wearily.

Hearing his shout, Tim and Brian rushed over, alarmed at his disheveled appearance. Blood streaked down his arm, and he looked even more unkempt than usual.

Brian: "What happened? Why are you alone?" He glanced around, expecting Sao to enter at any moment.

Toby: "Tied… to a tree…" he managed to say between gasps.

Tim: "Excuse me?"

Toby: "I drugged him and tied him to a tree…"

Brian: "Don’t tell me…"Tim: "SS again, huh?"

Toby: "Worst possible timing. He took over while we were alone… but I managed to subdue him before he could completely lose control."

Tim: "Then why do you look like you just walked hours straight? Where’s the car?"

Toby: "Oh, about the car… FUCK you, Tim. You didn’t fix that heap. We were walking back when SS took over halfway."

Brian: "So, we’ll have to go get him."

Toby: "Take the cuffs… he’ll kill me otherwise."

Tim: "Is this because of what happened last time?"

Brian: "What are you talking about?"

Toby: "No time to explain. Just take the cuffs, and I’ll fill you in on the way. We have to get to him before he finds a way to escape… or before someone else finds him."

In the forest:

As they hurried through the forest, Toby quickly recounted last month’s incident. "When SS took over before… I heard strange noises coming from the kitchen late at night. I thought Sao had come back, but when I saw what he was doing… he was trying to gouge out his own right eye."

Brian: "Why would he do that?"

Toby: "SS said he was hearing voices in his mind and feeling unbearable pain in his closed eye… the same symptoms Sao describes. Apparently, Slender was trying to communicate with Sao, but SS couldn’t handle it."

Tim: "And you stepped in…"

"That’s why, when he regained consciousness today… SS was still living in that memory from a month ago," Toby continued. "He tried to kill me in the forest, thinking it was that same night."

When they finally reached Sao’s location, they found him bound to the tree, his face bruised, blood trickling down his forehead and below his right eye. He was awake but still visibly sedated, his movements sluggish.

Brian: "Did you do all this?"

Toby: "What, you wanted me to let him kill me?"

Tim: "When Sao comes back to his senses, he’s not going to like what you did to his face."

Brian approached with a strip of cloth, firmly gagging SS to prevent him from biting or screaming. Toby began untying the ropes while Brian held him steady, ensuring he couldn’t lash out. 

Once Sao was fully restrained with cuffs binding his hands behind his back and another set around his ankles, Tim hoisted him over his shoulder. "It’s too dangerous to leave him alone… he’s not Sao right now," Tim said.

Back at the hideout:

They laid Sao’s restrained body on the ground. Despite the gag, he struggled, trying to shake off the cloth with furious eyes.

As they settled back, Brian finally pulled the gag from SS’s mouth.

SS: "Let me go! You’re all insane!"

Tim: "Should we let him go?"

Toby: "Don’t you dare… I don’t have the energy. Please, just leave him." Just then, Kate entered, assessing the scene with a raised eyebrow. Toby quickly gave her a summary of what had happened.

Kate gestured for Toby and Tim to help her move Sao. They dragged him to the basement door. She pulled out a knife, slicing through the ropes binding his hands, and then shoved him forcefully down the stairs, where he landed heavily on the concrete floor below.

SS screamed in fury, scrambling up and rushing to the door, but before he could reach it, Brian slammed it shut, locking it securely.

Tim glanced at Kate. "I guess this works too."

Toby: "Are we keeping him down there until he comes back to his senses?"

Tim: "Maybe… he won’t die in the basement, even if we leave him for a few days." he said Jokingly.

Tim smirked, glancing at Toby while ignoring SS's angry shouting and insults. 

Toby, taking a deep breath and trying to calm himself: “What now?”

Tim, with a sly smile: “Imagine what would’ve happened to you if you two were inside the car together and he was in this state!”

Toby paused, his face paling slightly as he pictured the scenario. “I don’t even want to think about it... he almost killed me out in the open. Can you imagine if we’d been trapped inside the car?”

Tim laughed loudly and said, “What a nightmare, honestly! you must thanks me for not fixing that crusty car.”

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When Kate cut the rope around SS’s hands, she left the cuffs on his wrists. SS began working to free himself from the rope binding his ankles, standing up with intense frustration. 

He started rotating the chain of his cuffs, winding it as tightly as he could, then pulled with a strong, quick motion. At first, it didn't budge, but then he found a broken iron pipe fixed to the wall. With a powerful strike, he managed to snap the chain. 

"I’m tired of this damn confusion... I need an explanation from you, you fool…”SS started pacing in circles around the room, trying to remember something. “When they play those recordings… it’s always Sao in the room… standing in the corner…”He stopped pacing the moment he realized where the hidden camera was in the room. Removing his shoe, he pulled out a hairpin and used it to pick the lock on the basement door.

 In a controlled fury, he quietly stepped out of the basement, headed to his room, and began tearing apart anything that belonged to Sao. He ripped up clothes, shredded the bed linens, scattered papers, and poured black ink all over the floor. Finally, he found the camera and took it before escaping through the closed room’s  window.

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SS tried to remove the handcuffs using the same hairpin, but it broke in the door lock. Realizing he was out of options, he bolted toward the forest, leaving no trace behind.

After some time, Brian noticed the basement door open and rushed over, searching for SS, only to find the place empty. He then headed to Sao's room and saw the chaotic mess left behind, along with the open window. “How did he…?” He thought for a moment before feeling a mix of frustration and disappointment towards himself and his team. 

“Idiots… Sao escaped from his prison… a basement door was hardly an obstacle for him.”

Brian walked calmly toward the window, murmuring, “I suppose we’ll just have to wait for him to come back...”