As I opened my eyes I couldn't see Gale anywhere, but I saw Metal, returned to normal but still with the red glow on his knees, his eyes glitching out and his body shaking, he was damaged.

I quickly ran up to him to see what was wrong, whatever hit him in the mindscape had damaged his outer body’s systems somehow. “Metal! Metal what's wrong?!” I asked in panic as I frantically looked him over.

“L-Lisa...I-It hu-hurts.” His voice glitching as he spoke in a shaky voice.

“It's alright Metal, you're gonna be ok! We'll get you to Marx and he can get you fixed up.” I assured him. I was about to help him up when he was knocked away again. He slammed against the stone wall and collapsed onto the ground with a loud clang. “Metal!” I tried to run up to him but came to a halt as a figure appeared behind him, picked him up and punched him right through the chest.

“GAHAA-AAAAA-AA!” He yelled in a glitched cry of pain.

I shot a tendril at the figure and stabbed it in the chest while catching Metal in my arms. As I glared at the figure, my mad mode beginning to show, I only stared in shock as I saw who it was. “Gale?!”

Gale was in his dark form. He pulled the tendril out of his chest and glared at Metal. “Lisa...stay away from him…” He said darkly. His voice was weird, as if there were two versions of him speaking simultaneously. His normal voice, and then another voice that sounded similar to Xram’s.

“Se-Self repair...failure…” Metal said in an automated voice. “Unable...to...re-repair...injuries.”

“Gale, what's wrong with you?! Why would you do this?!” I demanded in anger, I know he's prone to fits of rage every so often but this is way too fucking far.

“I'll explain later...just give me Metal…” He said darkly as he unleashed a crimson laser blade and began walking towards me.

I backed away and held the injured Metal close like a protective mother. “I am not giving him to you! What are you gonna do to him huh?! You gonna kill him, is that it?! Kill your best friend who is practically your brother?!”

“The...emerald…” Metal said weakly. “Master...emerald…”

That's right! The master emerald can heal Metal. As I turned to rush up the shrines steps a blast of energy destroyed the emerald, it's shards scattering all over the room and Samantha's body begin thrown to the side. I turned around and saw Gale with his hand held out with a small line of smoke coming from his palm.

‘He's really trying to kill him.’ I thought in disbelief. Gale looked at me, a darkness in his eyes.

“Lisa… hand him over to me… Now.” I took another step back.

“Gale… why are you doing this? What has Metal done to you?” Gale just started at me, then began to laugh, his double voice sending shivers down my spine.

“What has he done to me? WHAT HAS HE DONE TO ME?! This metalic MONSTER has made plans to kill me, and steal you away in the process! I’m going to end him here and now, so he no chance to do either!” I gasped. So wherever Gale had gone, he had found Metal’s plans and had misunderstood. I don’t know anything about plans to steal me away from Gale, probably some jealousy induced thing, but that’s not the point. The point is, Gale had taken this the wrong way, and I needed to explain that to him.

“Gale you don’t understand! Metal had made those plans because he was afraid that you’d-”

“Shut up!” Gale threw a ball of energy at me. “I don’t want to hear it. After I’m done destroying this ingrate, I expect an explanation from you as to what you were doing with him earlier.” I could only watch as Gale walked up to Metal. Something was wrong. Gale could get mad, and there were times when he misunderstood things, but he would never go overboard like this unless he knew the full story. What is going on with him? As I watched him, I noticed a dark aura over him, and felt a very familiar presence.

Xram.

But how was that possible? Xram wasn’t here, was he? No, if he was we would have known by now. So what was going on? I mean, it’s not like Gale is… wait a minute. That small piece of Xram inside Gale, that must be what’s causing this! It fed off of Gale’s confusion and anger and took control! I had to get through to him, but how?

“Well well well, what do we have here?” I looked at Gale to see what he was doing, only to find him standing over Samantha. “My, my… isn’t this the one that’s special to you Metal?”

“G-Get aw-way fro-om h-h-her.” Metal struggled to get back up, but he was too badly damaged.

“Hmm, I wonder. Should I subject you to the same fate you saw fit for me? Should I steal her away from you too?” No, he wouldn’t dare. Gale was too sensible, not even Xram’s influence would- “You know what? I think I will.”

He held up his hand and began charging up an attack. He aimed it right at Samantha’s head. I managed to get to my feet and ran to her, throwing myself over her body.

“Gale stop this please!”

“Get out of the way Lisa.”

“No! I won’t! If you want to kill her, then you’ll have to kill me too!” I gave him a hard look. There was a reaction in his eyes. For a second, they became normal before quickly becoming crimson again.

“Hm hm hm, very well then.” He continued to charge up the attack and was about to fire when Gregar came out of nowhere and attacked. He tackled Gale to the ground and the two began to fight for dominance. As they did so, Falzar flew to my shoulder with a worried look.

“Master! Are you alright?”

“Yeah Falzar, thanks to you two.”

“What happened to Gale?”

“He’s being controlled by the piece of Xram that’s inside of him! We have to help him!” Falzar nodded.

“Alright master, then there is only one thing we can do.”

“And what’s that?”

“FUSE!” Falzar became all digital before he flew behind me. A grid appeared all around me and armor started forming. Boots with talons appeared on my feet, a red and black armor appeared on my legs, my chest plate had the same color, and the gauntlets that I gained had claws. Two spine like things grew out of the helmet I received, and wings appeared on my back. In all honesty, I looked like a faceless female Bass with the Falzar beast out mode armor on. My wings spread out along with a flash of light, signifying that my armor was done building itself.

I felt pretty awesome. As Gale knocked Gregar off of him, I sped towards him and kneed him in the stomach. I then grabbed him by the neck and threw him upward before I unleashed giant fire birds from my hands. All of them hit Gale, causing an explosion in their wake.

Gale then charged me but was knocked away by a blast of red energy. I looked down to see Metal on one knee, one hand over the hole in his chest and the other held out. “G-Get him a-away fr-from the shrine.” He said before falling on his face, his eyes fading out.

“Don't you die on me little bro, you're getting out of this with me.” I lifted him up with a tendril and put his back against the wall to support him. His eyes brightened again but were flickering off and on.

“Lisa...he hit my chaos drives.” His voice now appeared to be better, but I knew that there was no way he was going to fix anything else on his own. From what I knew Metal was powered by those drives, without them he would die. He shakily opened the hatch on his chest and showed the cracked drives, two of them in reduced to half their original size as they had been hit when Metal was damaged. “I won't last much longer…”

“Stay with me. Please Metal, I don't want to lose anymore friends.” Gale came up behind me and knocked me away while I was distracted. I stopped myself in midair with my wings and watched as Gale lifted Metal by the throat with the intent to kill.

“I won't let you take her from me!” He yelled as he began to crush Metals neck.

Metal seemed to bring up some more strength and began to glow red. “Chaos...blast…” He said weakly. A small, contained blast of chaos energy blasted Gale to the other side of the room. I ran up to Metal and wrapped him in a tendril, lifting him up behind me.

“I’m getting you out of here Metal, you're in no condition to fight.” I said sternly.

“Lisa, I'm staying right here.” I looked to him and saw that he had a serious expression on his face. “Long ago I promised to protect you and Gale, to make sure that you two lived happily together, so that you wouldn't lose each other like I did Samantha. If I have to die to make sure that you two can be happy then so be it. I'm staying, there's nothing you can say to stop me. If you send me away I'll just teleport back or use a portal.” He turned his head. “Watch out!”

I used a wing to shield myself from the blast of energy but it caused me to let go of Metal.

“I'll assist you if I can. You focus on Gale. If you can bring him to a cave under Canterlot, I have something there that can stop him.” Metal said as he shakily got to his feet, hand still over the huge hole in his chest. I nodded and turned to Gale.

“Hey, Gale!” He turned to me. This was gonna hurt to say this, but I had to keep his attention. “Personally I think that Metal would make a way better boyfriend. He’s newer, sleeker, and just all around better. Seems as though he’s already stolen my heart!”

Gale gained a hurt look on his face which cut me to the core. His sadness turned into rage as his eye glowed red and he charged with a cry of fury. I turned around and took off, heading towards Canterlot as fast as possible.

”LISA!!!” I rolled out of the way of another blast of energy that was aimed at me. Looking back I could see that Gale was gaining on me, looking as though more would please him than my destruction. But that didn’t too much matter, I was almost at the caves.

I looked down and saw Metal standing at the mouth of the cave and motioned me inside before teleporting away. I blasted Gale point blank to earn some time and flew into the caverns underneath the wrecked city.

As I flew deeper and deeper into the cave I wondered just how long Metal had spent planning out these tunnel systems.

I eventually reached a small chamber with Metal standing on one side by a lever, holding the hole in his chest as he leaned in the switch, a red circle surrounded most of the room. “Get over here, and don't go inside the circle.”

I nodded and flew to his side. “What's this gonna do Metal?”

“You're about to find out.” Suddenly Gale burst through the stone wall and landed in the middle of the circle. “Gotcha now ya bastard.” Metal pulled the lever and Gale was suddenly surrounded by a dome of electricity. He tried to get out but was pushed backwards when he tried. The floor underneath him opened up and a golden sphere began rising out of the ground and surrounded Gale while placing restraints on him, rendering him unable to move. “There, that should hold him for now...you do what you gotta do.”

I nodded and focused my energy on Gale, and entered his mind.

Metal’s POV

I watched Lisa fall limp as she entered Gales mind. I caught her and lay her against the wall to avoid her getting hurt. I walked back over to the lever and watched as Gale was electrocuted by my device. I had contraptions like this built all over the place, not just for Gale, but for everyone, even myself. I knew there was always the possibility of us turning to the darkness, so I needed a backup plan in case we couldn't revert the possessed displaced back to good.

If Lisa was doing anything in Gales mind I couldn't see any change in him, other than his power was rising. “Great…” I looked to the hole in my chest and sighed. “How the hell am I gonna repair this without the master emerald?” Just then I remembered something about Sonic characters and their super forms. If you went super, even if you were fatally injured, your body would repair itself and you'd exit the form at peak physical condition regardless of your state beforehand.

I saw Gale starting to break free of his restraints and stepped back, holding up my hands and summoning the emeralds to my location. The super emeralds appeared and began circling me, transforming me into Hyper Metal Sonic. My body changed to that of Neo Metal Sonic and began flashing different colours.

I had learned in my first fight with Gale that energy poured from the Hyper form like a fountain, so I had to learn to contain that power to avoid others using it for themselves, and thank God I did.

As Gale broke out of his prison and charged me I effortlessly knocked him out of the mountain and flew after him.

He snarled at me before going super, his power still far beneath mine, in his fit of rage he couldn't hope to concentrate enough to ascend to a higher form, even with his rage mode activated. He began to rapidly throw balls of energy at me, hitting me as much as possible, but no damage was dealt to my invincible body.

I rolled my eyes and instantly appeared beside Gale before swatting him away with a backhand. Man if felt good to feel like a God. As Gale was about to stop himself in midair I appeared behind him and kicked him upwards, sending him flying up at a speed exceeding mach ten before appearing above him again and sending him flying back down to the ground.

What proceeded was something that you would see in Dragon Ball Z as I knocked him around like he was a ball in a pinball machine, there were even sound effects being made.

As I was about to hit him again he turned around and punched me in the face. He smirked at me before a look of anger took its place as I hadn't even flinched. “Gale, when has that ever worked?”

He cried in rage and kicked me away with as much strength as he could muster. To keep him distracted I just let him get a few hits in before driving a lunar blade into his leg to stop him on his tracks. As he went to take out the blade I roundhouse kicked him, sending him flying over to a mountain that then collapsed as he made impact.

“Damn, the Hyper form is way too powerful...I love it.”

Meanwhile

{Lisa’s POV}

As I entered Gale’s mind, I noticed how dark everything was. I expected everything to be vibrant and happy, but with everything that was happening now I guess it made sense. Once I was fully integrated into Gale’s head, I noticed that once again I was my human self overshadowed by my displaced form. Seems as though Gale’s mind doesn’t regard me as a danger to him.

Good, that means I still have a chance.

I immediately began running, trying to find Gale. Assuming Gale would be where I felt the most sadness, confusion, and anger would be, I headed in the direction where I felt a large amount of distress. After a minute or so, I came upon his body.

What I saw was shocking to say the least.

There was this huge statue in the figure of Xram’s body from the waist up. It was holding an orb, with hundreds of chains coming into from every direction. In the center of that orb, was Gale.

His human form had changed a bit. Now instead of blue and light blue, he was black and grey. There were tears streaking down his face as the chains held him. He was in great emotional pain.

“Gale!” His heartbroken face hit me where it hurt. He looked like he was in so much pain. His eyes told me he didn’t want to believe what he saw in front of him.

“L-Lisa?” His voice sounded hurt, causing tears to form in my eyes.

“Gale!” I rushed up to him only for the orb surrounding him to stop me. I pounded on it once, then started looking at the chains trying to find a way to break them. “Gale I’m gonna get you out of here just hold on.”

Using my tendrils I started snapping chains. One by one they began to break as I attacked them. Gale just watched as I proceeded to demolish chain after chain, trying to set him free. He hung his head low before he spoke.

“What’s the point of freeing me? Two of the most important people in the world have just betrayed me.” I stopped and stared at him. “I don’t want to live with this pain, I just want to-”

“Gale, stop.” He looked up to see the tears in my eyes. “Gale, please… don’t say that. You’re.. you’re scaring me.”

“What do you care? You seem to like Metal a whole lot more than you do me.”

“Gale no I… I never meant what I said. I just did so you’d follow me to the caves.”

“And after that? What, you think freeing me is going to make me feel better for what you two have done?”

“Gale you misunderstood. Metal never meant to-”

“Then why was that plan in his head? Huh? Huh? Explain why he had a plan to kill me… and why he had a plan to steal you!” I stepped back. Gale was clearly just as angry as he was sad. He hung his head low again as he continued. “Please… just explain that to me. I want to understand why… why you-”

“Gale… Metal never meant to hurt you like this. He never wanted to steal me away.” Gale gave me a look. “Okay, well he doesn’t anymore. And for that plan of his? Look, he lived in a separate world than ours. In his world, Samantha was his version of me, and another person named Martin was his version of you.”

“So what?”

“Gale… Martin wasn’t exactly, right in the head. He was mad, crazy mad, and he did some pretty bad things. When he found out that you were another version of him, out of fear he created that plan just in case you became like Martin.” I began breaking chains again, trying to reach Gale. “He made that plan because he was afraid his past would come back to haunt him and those he cared about.”

Gale just looked at me. I think he was starting to get it. His anger was starting to dissipate, and was being replaced by realization and more sorrow.

“Gale… You have to know that I would never hurt you… not like this. I love you too much for that.” As I started to break the last couple chains, the orb around Gale began to disappear. “When I saw your face after we had exited Metal’s mind, I was worried about you. I knew that I had to do everything to get you through this. And now I’m here, freeing you from the bindings of something that has possessed you. If I really wanted to hurt you, don’t you think I would have left you like this?”

Once again, Gale’s anger began to clear up and make way for realization. He now knew what had happened, and what was going on, and he was horrified by his actions. Thankfully, I was here to comfort him. As the last chain broke, the orb disappeared and Gale fell to the ground. He lended on his knees and I rushed up to him, hugging his head into my chest. As he began to cry into my breast, I rubbed the back of his head and held him in my embrace.

“I-I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”

“Shh shh, it’s alright Gale. It’s alright.” Gale looked at me, sorrow in his eyes.

“How can you forgive me so easily?” I smiled at him.

“Because I know you Gale, and I know that even though your jealousy took over, you were still desperately trying to come up with an answer to what had happened. And it’s because of that, that I love you.” I held his head in my hands, and kissed him. It was deep and meaningful, showing him how much he really meant to me. His eyes went wide for a second before they slowly closed and he returned the kiss. We stayed like that for a little while before we broke apart and put our heads together.

“I love you Lisa.”

“I love you too Gale.” Everything slowly started going white as the darkness in Gale’s mind was cleared away by my love.

Metals POV

As I held Gale in the air by his throat I started to notice that his body's steel was becoming lighter, the darkness that had overtaken him must have been purged. “I guess Lisa was successful in getting this idiot to listen to reason.” I dropped him and watched from the air as his body began to shift around and a large black blob started to form on his chest as the darkness gathered in one place. “Interesting…”

I floated down and kneeled beside Gale before grabbing the blob as all the darkness had gathered and flew back up in the air.

“Is this some kind of parasite or some shit?”

The blob then launched itself into the air and began to expand, forming the shape of a black version of Gale...except different. It seemed to have a more demonic design to it. It grew two dragon like skeletal wings out of its back and it's quills were sharper and had small spines around them, it's hands had become claws and its eye glowed red rather than orange.

“Ok, a crappy recolour is going to fight me, I didn't know deviantart could invade realities.”

“You fool.” It spoke darkly. “I am much more than-”

“Ok I'm going to have to stop you right there.” I interrupted by holding up a finger. “We could just stand here and you could go on and on about your powers, how you're much more than whatever and that you are stronger than whatever. Or! You could just tell me your name and we can get to the actual good bit of this little meeting.” With that last part I punched my right hand into my left palm, sending a shockwave over the area we were currently in. God I loved this form, too bad it's not able to last really long periods of time like the super form, but it should still hold up.

“Very well, since you seem so impatient.” He spreads his wings and his eye gleamed. “I am The Alpha Nightmare, one of the most powerful Nightmare Fuels in the multiverse, and I shall be your undoing.” He stated proudly.

“A Nightmare Fuel eh? I've been wanting to see one of you freaks for awhile now. Don't tell me, Xram is here too right? I want a chance to beat his boney ass into the ground for what he's done to Gale and what he made Lisa go through.” I summoned a lunar blade which came out red. I remembered the Apocalypse Magic that was still in my system, I looked down to my hand and saw that it was starting to change to the claw of The Wolf as I like to call it now. I clenched my fist and fought back its possession. ‘Keep it together!’

“A version of him is indeed here, as well as another of my Nightmare brothers.” I could tell that Alpha was smirking as he spoke the next line. “I seem to remember that the Nightmare of this world took great satisfaction in killing your little female that happens to get mixed up in all of this. As well as beating that seedarian that cared for you so much.”

Like that, the sound of glass shattering riddled the landscape as any mental barriers blocking out the anger I had been repressing for so long was finally let free. I have been holding back so much anger...so much rage...I've seen and done some underhanded shit in my time...but killing an innocent girl was NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!

Samantha...my sweet...precious Samantha…

…

…

…

It's their fault…

That Nightmare...that Xram...this Nightmare…

It's all...their...fault.

I am going to tear each and every one of them to shreds. I am going to obliterate their consciousnesses. I am going to disassemble their molecules.

In other words…

I AM GOING TO DESTROY THEIR VERY EXISTENCES!!! AND I DON'T CARE IF I HAVE TO TEAR THIS REALITY APART TO DO IT!!!

Lisa’s POV

I woke up in the cave to see the machine broken, Metal and Gale nowhere to be seen. I teleported outside and looked around, seeing a blue blur by the forest nearby.

As I rushed over I saw it was Gale, his body back to normal. He coughed slightly and began to rise to his feet. “Man...whatever happened to my body has just...drained me of energy.” He said tiredly.

I helped him to his feet and looked down at him with caring eyes. “You gonna be ok?”

He nodded slowly. “Yeah...I think so.” He shook his head and took a step forward. “Alright, let's go find Metal...I need to apologise to him for almost killing him like that.”

As we were about to leave the area we suddenly stopped, sensing a very large amount of dark power flooding the area. Looking up we saw what looked like a Nightmare version of Gale and...oh god.

Metal was in his hyper form...but something was very wrong...so...so very wrong.

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Red lightning shot out from his body, the flashing colours of his highest form ceasing and his body being coated by a blood red coat. His head hung low, the dark clouds above circling him.

He clenched his fist as he was now completely red, dark blood red mist seeping from his body and forming the shape of dragon wings behind his. His eyes were closed, but even then I could see the relentless anger in them… what happened while I was in Gales mind?

“Shit.” Gale was staring at Metal’s new form. “And just when I was about to say sorry.”

As Metal opened his now glowing red eyes his arms fell limp to his sides, an eerie silence passed over all of us, the Nightmare Gale just looked at him with curiosity. “Well well, what do we have here? It's seems as though you have more control over that magic than I thought.” It spoke. “But the question remains, do you control it or does it control you?”

"W̗̻̠̳̮h̡̻͉̠̯y̬̠͇̖͙ ͏̞̦̦̲͍d̲̣̻o̘̼͈͓͙̬͈n̼͖̻̟̼'͉t̟͈̫̼͢ ͈͖̻w͓é̻̹͇̘ ͚̫f̡̲i̘̭̱̩n̞d̟͕͚͇̪͢ ̣̫͔o̹͎͈u͘t̝͚̰́?͚̪̙̫̰͚"҉͇̪͓͖

Gale and I froze at the sound of Metals voice. There was no way in hell that this was a good thing. I could tell by his voice, his posture, the look in his eyes...Metal had snapped.

"̨L̦̰̹̝̙̦̟e̞͚̫͔̺t͎̙'̵͕͚̤͉̥̥̗s͚̜̺̙̠̲͙͡ ̳͖̦͕͝s̡͎e̖͓͔͖̭͚ͅe̮̩̬̻̠̱̲ ̼͕̘͡i̴̹͚̺f҉̟ ̹̭̲̹̲͈y̷͔̙͍̙̼͖o̖̼͇u̵̗̤͇̯̩̼ ̫͞N̪̰i̸͍͍͓̩̖̝g͍̩͎̳͢h̼̝͙͔͚̲ț͙͔͉͕m̪̪͚͍͚͔͝a̧̳̺r̀e̩s̖͍̞͍ ͙a̛̪̖͔͉͍̝̳r̜̻̬̪̜̤̫e͏̲̼ ̣̬a͓̠̦̲̙ͅs͙͔̪̻͍̮ ̸̲̲̺̻̞̘s͏͔̺̺̯̹̫t̟͈͔͚̖̀r̡̬͈̞͙̟̪o҉͙ng͢ ̧as̩̣̭̣̘̮̖ p̨̫͚̼̬e̼͎̰͓͕o̴p̫͕̣̪̖͚l̵̝̦e̜̩̟ ҉̘̗̭̺ͅs̜̩a̡̮̗ý.͘"̳̩̺͖

Metal held up one hand and snapped his fingers. Suddenly the Nightmare was knocked away by a red explosion of energy. Metal snapped his fingers again and another explosion knocked it into the air.

He held out both arms and hundreds of red lunar blades began to appear and circle him before he threw his hand forward and sent a wave of cursed swords shooting at the distracted Nightmare.

The Nightmare dodged them all with ease and shot straight into Metal who began to shoot towards it. The collided and caused a massive surge of energy to spread over the land, blowing us off our feet.

“Jesus how strong did he get?!” Gale yelled out before he was smacked against a tree.

We both looked up at the fighters, neither moving an inch as they pushed against each other. Both broke apart and began trading blows, when each ouch landed a hit a shock wave was created, leading me to wonder just how strong they were...and how strong Metal really was. Then, Metal landed a punch on the Nightmare’s face, sending him flying back before he unleashed a ball of energy aimed at the Nightmare. It exploded in a massive red blast, creating a massive dust cloud. Metal glared at the plume of smoke as it began to clear.

“You know, there is a reason why I’m called the Alpha Nightmare.” When the smoke cleared, Alpha was shown to have no signs of battle damage. It was like nothing had even touched him. Holding out his hand, he created a laser blade from his wrist. He held it up in front of his face before swinging out, clearing away the rest of the smoke around him. “I won’t go down as easily as my weaker brethren.”

"̵̭̱͍̥̘̭T͇h̞͘e̥͙̮̣̘͜n̶̲ ͕͖̭c̫̼̪̠͕͔̼͜o͍̘m͏̰̥̮̯̲̠̼e͖͕͉̱͙̳̟͡ ̫̱̝ḁ̙͕̳̥̦ͅt͏̬ ͉̙m̙̙̰̕e̬̥̤͙ ̬͢w̩͎i̜͉̗͝ͅt̬̝͢h̢̬͍̥̤͖̤ ̮͈̼͍͟ͅͅe̦̻̬͍͚ṿ̩͓̦͙̳e̴ŗ͈̼̩ý̩̘͇ͅt̫̰̩͓͈̪͞h͔̼ị̴̖̘̺̩̥n̛̯͉̰͓͓̹̹g̜͎͈͚̝, ͍̬͟I̦͚ ͓͎̥͖̘͍̬w̤̹̘̱i̶l͈̜͓̭͈̙̜l̖̞ ͏̺͍̠͉̰̘̯ẖ͖̳̼̹́o̪̟̹͓̲l̮̞̦͘ḓ̳͙̘͢ ͜n̲͙͔̟͓ot͕hi͚̭̣͉̥̠̱n̘͖̬̦g͎̼̞̹ ̶̼̭̳̝͉͕̱b̴͚a̲͕͉̗̻͍c̪̺͚k̷̺͈͓͓ ȩ͓̠̻̺͖͉͈v̢̬̱͎e͎n͔͍͙ ͇̭̭̳i̥̺̝f͔̝̩ ͏̬i̫t̵̮̭͓ ̖̪̩͘m͘e̘̱̬a͚̦̣͚̤̮n̨͉̱̳̲s̨͍ ̺̪̪̙̥̯̕th͔͙̥̠͞a̠̫̠̝̭̞ț̲͍͉͙̯ ̦̞͚͚͘t̰̱̥̠̳h͏̝͔͍͎̥̣is̻̠̺̥̯̘ ҉w͎̳̲͈͚̞o̞̺r̺̫̝͎͜l̠̻d̨͎̗̰̳ ̢͎m͏͈̭̟̻͔̹a̲͕͈͎͉y̤̭̙ ̡͚̜b̳͉e ̫̰̺͚̬to͍̲̹͖̹r̸̪n̞ ͓̟̰̫͝ą͈̖͖̰͙̯p̵̙a͉ͅr̵̭̠̼̼̻̰̭t͙̯̭̘͜.̭͓͜"̝̪̦̭

Author's Notes:

And so the Apocalypse Magic has now fully connected itself to Metals body, and he has now beco,e Apocalypse Metal.

How will this turn out? I can guarantee that one of our heroes will not walk away the same...but not in the way you're thinking.

And no, I'm not going to say how I got the text of Metals speech to be all messed up. Why? Because I'm a jackass