"HEY BILL!" Came a voice, and Bill looked up to see...
In this timeline, Bill's day of reckoning with the bullies of the school has arrived. The only question is, which bully is it? It could be Jonathan Ingerman, the leader of the bullies, there to finish the job personally, or it could be Rob Bolstrum, the former head bully of the school, there on orders from Ingerman to beat Bill up.
As Bill did not experience this timeline, anything can happen. But with knowledge of the stone and what it can do, Bill has more options that he ever could have had before.
"HEY BILL!" Came a voice, and Bill looked up to see the red headed troll named Rob Bolstrum advancing across the street, his face twisted into a scowl and his hands balled into club like fists. "BIG JON SENDS HIS REGARDS!"
"Oh shit!" Bill hissed, and slid the stone into his pocket as quickly as he could. The last thing ANYONE needed was was idiot like Bolstrum getting his hands on something as powerful as the stone.
Rob Bolstrum was the former leader of the bullies at Bill's school. He was the toughest, meanest, and not quiet the smartest sonuvabitch around and had made life a living hell for everyone, regardless of who they were. If you pissed off Rob or got in his way, you were dead meat. Pretty much the only people that were 'safe' from Rob's wrath were women and children. If you were a woman and you pissed him off, Rob would just verbally assault you, and if you were a kid, Rob would terrify the shit out of you. Which he did once, to a third grader. Even most of the teachers were terrified of Rob simply because he was a volcano of anger and outright meanness. And as they are wont to do, Rob had, over the years, established his own small army of enforcers; neanderthals like himself that preyed on the weak either through sheer physical force or intimidation.
But then Jonathan Ingerman had transferred in and had quickly beaten the shit out of Rob in a epic confrontation. In the aftermath, Bolstrum had quickly found his powerbase eroded as his gang had quickly fallen in line behind "Big Jon". And for his own survival, Rob had bent the knee and become Ingerman's right hand man. And it had only made him angrier. Where there had once been a beast that could be reasoned with (or at least paid off), now there was an almost mindless force of nature. A violent storm that simply had to be weathered and survived.
It was part of the reason why Rob was currently storming onto Bill's property instead of playing it smart and waiting for Bill to leave and be out in the open, as Ingerman would have done. Rob simply did not care that he was trespassing. His pride was gone, all he seemed to have now was the need to hurt others regardless of the cost to himself.
At least, that was the assumption that Bill, Tom and his other friends had made of Rob's new position in the bully pecking order.
And Bill, in the interest of self-preservation, quickly grabbed his backpack and scrambled back inside his house, slamming the door behind him as the heavy footfalls of Bolstrum's boots thundering onto the porch.. Surely Bolstrum wouldn't be stupid enough to follow him in, would he?
"HEY, SHITTERMAN YOU FUCKING COWARD GET OUT HERE!" The bully roared, slamming the twin battering rams of his fists against the front door of Bill's house, the glass in the window clattering loudly as it threatened to shatter from the force of the impacts.
Bill's hand slipped towards his pocket, where the stone waited...