Calibrations: Extras

Alternate Ending #2: Shreds of Plaid

When Youngblood opened his eyes, he found himself in the middle of a busy street, and when he heard the passersby speaking in Australian accents, he knew that they'd made it to the right place. He glanced at his fellow Gerards - Revenge, Pepper, Poison, Alien, and of course, Figment - and he smiled, knowing that they were all still with him. If they were lucky, they would make it through this. Together, they'd stop the bus crash. Together, they'd save Frank.

Youngblood wondered what the Gerard from this era was up to. If he was anything like him, he was in the basement somewhere, drawing comics. He probably had no idea that Frank was in danger. He probably didn't even realize that this was the day Frank was supposed to die.

Figment glanced at his watch."We're going to need to move fast if we're going to stop the crash," he said.

"And how are we going to do that exactly?" Revenge asked.

"We're going to split up," Figment said. "Youngblood, Revenge, Pepper, Poison, and Alien, you guys are going to find the bus, and you're going to make sure that it doesn't crash into Frank's van. I'm going to stay here and keep Frank and his bandmates safe."

Youngblood panicked for a moment. He couldn't get separated from Figment, not after what Frank had said back in 2014. He'd seemed so sure that Figment would sacrifice himself, and Youngblood couldn't let that happen. He had to keep his promise to Frank. He couldn't just go along with Figment's plan, but he wasn't sure what else he could do.

"The license plate number is HG42FR," Figment said. "I want you to find that bus and make sure that it stays far, far away from the Twitter headquarters, because that's where Frank Iero and the Patience are playing. Do you understand?"

"What's a Twitter?" Youngblood asked, but nobody answered his question.

"Yes, we've got it," Poison said to Figment. "Come on guys. Let's go save Frank."

The five Gerards headed down the street, and the older ones bantered about everything from time travel to the license plate number to the mysterious Twitter thing that nobody would explain to Youngblood. Meanwhile, Youngblood wondered how he could stop Figment. There had to be something he could do, but he couldn't think of anything.

The five of them approached a bus stop, and all of a sudden, a giant bus pulled over and opened its doors. As passengers got on and off, the Gerards ran to the back of the bus to check its license plate. "HG42FR," Revenge read. "This is it."

"What are we going to do?" Pepper asked.

"I've got a plan," Poison said.

"What's the plan?" Alien asked, but Poison wouldn't answer him.

Poison ran to the front of the bus and scrambled on board, and the others followed him. "I need to see your ticket," the bus driver said, completely unfazed by the four identical men that had just gotten on her bus.

All of a sudden, Poison lifted his ray gun into the air and aimed it at the passengers. "EVERYBODY OFF THE BUS!" he shouted. "EVERYONE OFF, OR I'LL SHOOT!"

After a lot of screaming and panicked calls to the police, everyone eventually got off the bus. When the bus was empty, Youngblood climbed into the driver's seat. He glanced at the controls and then looked out at the busy street, with all of the buildings and the people and the bright lights. "I don't actually know how to drive a bus," he admitted to the others.

Poison assured him it was easy, while Alien argued that hijacking a bus was a completely insane plan that they never should have gone along with. Youngblood ignored both of them, and he turned to Pepper for advice.