Depressing Women and Arrogant Dudes

***Depressing Women and Arrogant Dudes*** is a story chapter in the ***Everything Ergophobia Vol. 1*** anthology of stories appearing in *The Rage Knights: Red God* universe created by Khaliq Trevor X. This story succeeds the chapter Day 3 (Everything Ergophobia) and precedes the chapter, Lenora and Draya Hunt for Damon Bradley!

## Summary

A young woman named Hela Anderson laughs and scoffs about men that she's met and dated online to her best friend Syl Yessir, a foreign homemaker and wife to a manager king. Anderson brags about an untimely meeting with the man known as Damon Bradley while making light of his and his partner's foundation of Brad-Dunn Inc. While looking for social media outlets to stalk and shame Bradley, she discovers a blog dedicated to opposing the company's future growth and expansion. Finding joy in this, both Anderson and Yessir go through great lengths to defame Bradley and urge people not to invest nor support the company. A blogger going by the name *drummin'-alienoaks11* goes along to Anderson's posts and eventually befriends her and Yessir. As weeks pass, Anderson agrees to meet drummin'-alienoaks11 in real life at a designated location. Feeling hesitant but confident, Anderson goes to a restaurant where she's met with none other than Midlore West-Stein himself. Immediately knowing West-Stein as not only one of the Rage Knights but as Bradley's best friend, she backs down and leaves before actually meeting him.

Later at her domain, an enraged Hela plots to kill Bradley after a paranoid belief that Bradley put Midlore up to making an online persona and harassing her. Yessir tags along and brings a knife as the two women prepare a road trip across the state to find Bradley and execute him. Unbeknownst to them however, Midlore is watching their every move, even casually snacking on foods while the two women gather weapons. Hela reaches Ollie's residential home where she meets Ollie. The businessman, skeptical over Anderson and Yessir's intentions refuses to give any information regarding Bradley. A phone call interrupts their meeting, which forces Ollie to end his conversation with Hela. On their way back home, Hela contemplates every known location Bradley could've been seen last, using his and Cherri Smith's residence as a last resort. She and Yessir encounter Midlore West-Stein whom suddenly appears in their apartment. Refusing to leave, they threaten to kill the Muccian-Rage Knight. Soon Lou Jacobs enters and doesn't pay much attention to West-Stein and the commotion he's caused. Yessir desperately tries to get her husband to fight Midlore but he refuses. As Hela threatens to kill Bradley for having Midlore stalk her, Midlore reveals that he simply made the persona up on his own terms just to play a practical prank on superficial people and downright unfriendly and antagonistic people whom were conspiring against the Rage Knights and Brad-Dunn. Still, Anderson and Yessir fight Midlore despite this. A drunken, lazied and tired Lou watches the women fight and *lose* to Midlore. After his last drink and seeing Midlore steal his belongings, Lou confronts Midlore and threatens a number of bullying tactics against Midlore such as driving him to Pack-Next where he'll experience workplace bullying for upto a week and eventually be terminated if he stand up for himself or have an angry outburst. This results in a lengthly exchange between Jacobs and West-Stein when they fight one another. West-Stein uses a Diseased Core against Lou Jacobs in where Damon Bradley appears, this gives him enough time to delete Hela's online profiles as well as take her and Yessir's guns. However, Jacobs blasts through the Bradley clone with his second head. On his way from Hela's Domain, rude and unsettling neighbors drive up nearly hitting West-Stein. Their car screeches and skids after West-Stein now chasing him and a pursuing double-headed Jacobs. Midlore uses his sole Diseased Core to manipulate his Bradley clone like a puppet and attack his pursuers. Ugly Seekers appear from this commotion and plot to thwart each party. With little time left to continue his charades, Midlore flies away while flipping off Lou and the hostile neighbors.

During his escape, Jacobs makes a final attempt at Midlore's life with a petrifying glare attack but his gaze is cut short when Midlore's Bradley clone kicks him in the groin. Sending Lou Jacobs hurling back into the neighbor's car and even crushing Ugly Seekers in the aftermath. A whiny Hela Anderson later discovers that her blog persona was deleted and in its place was a pixelized Midlore onscreen, with various messages picking on her for failing to defame Brad-Dunn Personal.

## See Also

* Everything Ergophobia Vol. 1
* Day 2: Dead Dads and Fears
* Day 3(Everything Ergophobia)
* Work (Everything Ergophobia)

## Disclaimer

**Disclaimer***: To whom this may concern, the characters in their entirety, while they borrow inspiration from events, ideas, themes and other sources from the original author's life, they are incredibly different and fictional entities inside the Rage Knights Red God and under no circumstance are they expressing a real person's actual views, ideologies, names and likeness to cause harm or defame them. Any names bearing similarities to any real person(s) is unintentional unless stated otherwise and under special permission. The Rage Knights Red God is a work of fiction and solely for entertainment and educational purposes. Please note, the series does not represent events that have happened, events to come nor does it condone the very human evils the series itself is/was meant to advocate against.*