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Blood Red Shadows

by The Destoyer

Chapter 26: Act I, Chapter 25: The Duel (Edited)

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Alex awoke, still in the medical office.

He was surrounded by Vanoss, Ruby, Kat, and Twilight, all of them looking either pitifully or angrily at him.

"What happened. Did I kill Winchester?" Alex asked. A look to his right gave him his answer. The Agent lay unmoving on the linoleum floor, engulfed in a puddle of his own blood.

"You have no idea what you just did, do you?" Kat starts choking him. Alex notices the bloodied bandage wrapped around her waist.

"Not really, nobody told me anything!" Alex yelled after getting Kat to stop choking him.

"The Ambassador found me, I asked him what he knew about all of this." Ruby began.

"He said something along the lines of 'The Agent is the Key to Oblivion', or something." Vanoss continued.

"I went over and interrogated Twilight on the matter, then, she told me an old tale about the predicted end of her world." Kat added.

"Well, I don't got all day. Tell me." Alex insisted.

"A while ago, Celestia had a vision. A Spirit came before her and told her what was destined for the whole Multiverse." Twilight answered.

"What did Celestia hear?" Alex asked

"Alex, think. At the end of almost any myth, what comes last?" Kat asked him.

"They were all depict great battles. The ultimate clash of good and evil. The End of the World." Alex replied.

"It's not just in your world. In our legends, we call it 'Kazi'ivan, it's an ancient word meaning 'The Great War'." Ruby told him.

"Get to the point." Alex ordered them.

"Agent Winchester's death made a lot of people very, very pissed. Like these 'Inquisitor' bitches." Vanoss told him.

"How exactly?" Alex asked.

"The legend goes that 'Two beings, not like any other ponies, would come to Equestria and engage in conflict, then continue it elsewhere'." Twilight said.

"Yeah, and in Remnant's ancient writings, it was said that 'The death of either of these beings would anger the Warriors of the Dark into escalating the conflict into a war." Ruby said.

"So what you're all saying is, killing Winchester is going to start the Apocalypse?" Alex asked, bewildered.

"Well, yeah." Vanoss shrugged.

Alex slumped down in his seat, remorseful.

"Damn it, why and how does it have to end up like this?" He sighed heavily, as if he wanted this done entirely. Initially, he thought this would end the fighting and he could go home.

Alex realized something in that moment.

He had no home to fight for.

All this time, he had been fighting so having one could be a possibility, so he could have some sort of freedom again.

"What now?" Alex hardened, he couldn't lose morale.

"Sigma is out there right now. Before she left, she said she was looking specifically for you." Twilight said.

"Are your friends okay, Twi?" He asked.

"They're fighting Sigma right now, we turned on them." Twilight replied.

"What about your Crew, Evan?" He turned to Vanoss.

"They're with them." He said back.

"And your team, Ruby?" Alex asked Ruby.

"Fighting Sigma." She replied, ready to fight.

"As for Zera?" Alex asked Kat.

"Where do you think?" Kat asked sarcastically.

"Let's move, NOW!" Alex grabbed his Helmet, along with Electric Fury.

Looking at his weapon, it seemed...different.

"I enchanted your weapon, hopefully, it should stand more of a chance." Twilight told him.

"Right. Let's go!"

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Alex and the others ran outside to see their comrades fighting valiantly against Sigma.

"I'm not going to lie, you're all boring me. Where is he?!" Sigma demanded.

"Right here, you dirty comrade-killer!" Alex panted.

Sigma turned to Alex.

"Well. I guess you actually killed the bastard. I bet you don't even know what you started." Sigma glared at him.

"That doesn't matter right now. Everyone, stand back. This is between me and her." Alex ordered,

"Finally, someone who might not be such a bore." Sigma summoned her bow, drawing back three arrows.

"This ends here!" Alex said, pulling out a now fully reloaded .44 Scratch and his enchanted Electric Fury, both revolvers cocked and pointed at Sigma.

It was Sigma who attacked first, unleashing a barrage of arrows at Alex, who either dodged, shot them with his revolvers, or let them strike, for an explosion like that had little effect to him, his armor...well, there was a huge black mark where that arrow struck.

Alex shot at Sigma whenever given the opportunity, knocking her slightly backwards with every shot. Alex kept this up until they were mere feet apart.

Then Alex struck.

Converting Electric Fury, he slashed at Sigma, who blocked the attack with both swords.

Alex shot Sigma with .44 Scratch with his free hand, Sigma stepping back in reaction to the attack. Alex fired relentlessly at Sigma, who blocked the attacks with her bare hands as well as her swords.

Alex holstered .44 Scratch, and smashed the ground before him, Erupting violet lightning from the ground under Sigma.

"When I killed your friend, she did not die immediately. No, she died slowly, painfully, I'm not one to show mercy to a traitor like her. Or like your friends." Sigma taunted.

"I'm not letting you kill them, even if that means I have to kill you myself!" Alex retorted, feeling rage cloud his mind and darken his vison.

"Good riddance." Sigma punched him hard in the chest, summoned several razor-sharp spikes made of glass, and flung them at Alex.

The attack did not affect him, the thorn-like projectiles shattered on contact, giving Alex the opening he needed to strike.

Alex lunged at her with Electric Fury, wounding her to a minor degree and distracting her.

With Sigma properly distracted, Alex used his jump-jets as well as his own abilities to fly above her, and come rocketing down in front of her, the lightning erupting before her turning more and more red. Alex swung his weapon with both hands, further disorienting her. Alex ducked down to a crouch and swung Electric Fury in a wide arc, slashing Sigma in the legs as she tried to regain composure.

He kicked Sigma hard in the stomach and punched her even harder in the neck, Alex constantly trying to keep her from getting another opportunity to attack him.

The next punch he made, Sigma blocked it with her bare hands, twisting it at an awkward angle and hacking Alex from his lower right abdomen to his left shoulder. While not piercing the armor, it produced a significant amount of pain on Alex's part.

How had Twilight enchanted it again?

Alex felt Electric Fury change again, into more of a rail gun, the handle curving, the blades folding, the gun barrel poking out.

The cylinder popped upwards, Alex loading Electric Fury again. Pushing it back into it's designated spot, he pulled the trigger.

All six shots flew out of the gun in a rapid pace, disorienting his opponent and damaging her armor.

Changing Electric Fury back into it's sword form, he swung again at Sigma, the blow managing to send red-hued bolts of lightning shocking her and frying her insides.

Sigma placed both swords together at the pommels, and sharply twisted them. She spun her dual blade in a flourish, distracting him until Sigma landed a blow on Alex's chest. The Armor turned a bright red and burnt his chest painfully.

"Agent Thorne died for nothing, child. Just like those two I killed a few months back for personal business, who were they?... Oh, right, Jason and Alice Walker. Let me guess, they were your parents?" Sigma glared

"YOU WILL DIE WHERE YOU STAND!!!" Alex screamed, she killed his parents... She had to die.

In his rage, he threw down his sword, relying only on his bare fists.

Each punch exploding in blood-red hued bolts of electricity, Sigma could only watch as his rage continued. She herself had been disarmed as she blocked and dodged her opponent's anger-fueled attacks.

She simply could not attack, even if she had the opportunity, it would only enrage him more and more.

Alex's onslaught was matched, but not very easily. Sigma was noticeably injured, but still fighting.

His lightning was electrifying his armor, the deep red glow had moved past his fingertips and he was now glowing in the deathly color.

Sigma attacked, but nothing seemed to affect him anymore. Suddenly the color moved to his right hand, the gauntlet glowing brightly in that color. He was concentrating all his power into this one death blow.

"Still angry over your parents' death, Walker?" Sigma mocked.

"I WILL KILL YOU!!!" Alex spat in his intense anger.

"They, like your friend, died as they lived, like cowards too scared to fight back. You will too unless you stop this now."

He charged, running dangerously fast. Sigma tried to hold him off, delay his attack.

Until he struck.

Her side exploded in an eruption of energy, breaking all armor in that particular spot.

Alex attacked more and more. Sigma countering whenever possible, striking at his back, his neck, his knee, anywhere she could reasonably attack.

Alex grabbed his sword again, swinging it even if Sigma got away from him, lightning constructs barreling at her in waves, continuing to fry her.

He planted the sword firmly on the ground, a massive beam erupting from where it was planted, striking her again, further weakening her.

He walked slowly, the lightning starting to turn a very, very dark red color. Almost black.

He lashed out, blackish-red lightning exploding from his hands like a volcano, the attack was ridiculously powerful, leaving Sigma in constant pain as she tried to stand firm against it, only for his power to grow more and more, until she fell to her knees, smoke floating out of the broken figure on the ground.

Walking back, Alex picked up the sword from the ground, and strolled slowly over to the defeated foe, he managed to get a closer look at this inquisitor.

Her armor completely shattered from where he had hit her, burnt skin underneath, the armor only got to about the lower abdomen, and all the skin underneath looked badly burnt.

The helmet Sigma was wearing almost completely broke, exposing the right side of her face, eyes the color of fire, looking fearfully up at him.

He raised his sword, ready to deal a killing blow.

"Stop!" A voice ordered from behind him.

Turning back, Alex noticed Raven, the Inheritor that he had spoken to before reuniting with Kat.

"What are you doing?!" She scolded him.

"You want her dead as much as I do!" He panted, still alit with fury.

"Your Semblance! It seems to correlate with your emotions. You activated it on your own?!" She asked bewildered.

"Yes, I did! Apparently I'm more talented that any other huntsman, why the hell am I explaining this? Sigma has to die!!" Alex said.

"I don't want her dead just yet!" Raven demanded.

"Why?! Give me one good reason why I should let the person who killed my parents walk away?!" He asked, enraged.

He turned back, seeing a gravely wounded Sigma stagger to an undamaged airship, and it soon flew off, leaving him and his allies alone.

"Inheritors don't kill in cold blood, nor do they use their full power in a duel. Huntsmen have this same rule." Raven answered.

Alex calmed down, finally noticing the blistering pain in his chest. Staggering down, he pulled the armor off him, the chest piece peeling his burnt flesh as he removed it.

"It's not over, is it?" Vanoss asked him.

Alex thought about this for a moment.

"I hired you guys to kill Agent Winchester for me. The job is done. You can all go back to your families if you want." Alex responded.

"What?" Kat was bewildered.

"You heard right, they were hired, and they don't have to stay with us. Unless, by any chance, they still want to go through with this." Alex said.

"Well, what'll it be?" Zera turned towards the crew, awaiting their response.

They went into a sort of group huddle, discussing their options only in hushed whispers, only glancing at Alex and the others.

Vanoss finally cleared his throat.

"We're staying." He said.

"Okay, what's your price?" Alex asked.

"You already paid us. We decided that half of the money we got was payment while the other half was in case you wanted to, I don't know, be in our Youtube videos if you wanted to, but this works." Vanoss replied.

Alex was stunned, they were willing to have him guest star in their videos? While that was all well and good, he wasn't sure as to how he would have gotten the computer equipment or any of the games. Alex was officially broke when he paid the crew to help him.

"Glad to know you're still ready to help." Ruby said.

Twilight spoke up, clearing her throat.

"We would have decided to have the Royal Guard help us..." Her voice trailed off.

"But apparently, being a double-agent isn't the best way to keep friends." Rainbow said, awkwardly.

"The guards branded you all as traitors and are still against us, aren't they?" Alex asked, sighing in disappointment.

"Um...yes." Fluttershy said, timidly.

"And last time I checked... The Red Dawn Guild isn't all that willing to help us, either." Kat admitted.

"But they won't intrude on our missions, I think is what Katherine is trying to say." Zera finished.

"And I'm not sure Ozpin is still going to help us much at all." Ruby sighed.

"Crap, Equestria doesn't want us, Remnant doesn't want us. We have no safe haven." Alex grunted.

"Actually, we have a place in mind." Vanoss said.

----

The trip to Los Santos had been a daunting trip for the 7 people who hadn't been there. It was similar to Los Angeles in a way, but it also had an arid desert north of the city, and a redwood forest even further up.

Alex considered this a step down from his daily life as a fugitive, while Vanoss and his Friends frequently were being chased by police, they were not nearly as competent as the Task Force, and they were all far enough away from the Royal Guard, The Militia, and the remaining Task Force members that there should not be that many problems.

Vanoss, being the helpful type, had gotten everyone an apartment somewhere in the city, Alex's in particular was a high-rise, complete with it's own planning room, repurposed from it's usual purpose as a Heist Setup area.

Alex was now sitting in his new house, sipping some wine. Which tasted horrible, he was not used to the taste of alcohol yet, and spit the putrid red beverage into the sink. He was far too young anyways.

The individual members of his team were all contacts on his new cellphone, and he could call any one of them at any given time.

Thankful for the rest, and the new home, Alex thought of the future. He wasn't sure when such cataclysms would take place, but he thanked god for every breath he took. He was exhausted from constantly fighting and killing. He needed this.

Alex thought again about Raven. The Inheritor didn't come with them, though Alex desperately needed training.

But for now, everything seemed to be going for him. Some time spent alone was long overdue.

Author's Notes:

I think this chapter had an unclear time gap as to when they were still at the embassy and when they were in Los Santos.

I think the least amount of time 10 people could scrape money for 7 apartments, one of them a high rise in-game would be about... 3 days. Assuming Vanoss bought a few Shark Cards (downloadable GTA$).

EDIT: I have been told that Alex needed more of a motivator to get that mad in a fight.
In retrospect, I probably should have added more to Alex's hatred for Sigma other than the death of a minor character, but I'm still thinking about what could be done to add that element to the fic and where.

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