{Metal’s POV}

Once all of my Apocalypse magic had left me, I collapsed onto my hands and knees. I looked up at Gale as he outstretched a hand to help me up.

“Alright, isn’t that better? Now come on! We’ve got a girl to-” Just before I went to grab his hand, Gale sentence was cut off as a laser blade stabbed through his chest. He stopped, shocked, and shakily turned his head around.

Right behind him, was Alpha.

“Sorry there Gale, but we can’t have Metal get back to normal just yet. That would interfere with our plans. To insure that something like this doesn’t happen again, I’m afraid I’ll have to kill you.” With that, he drew back his blade, and roundhouse kicked Gale’s head off.

I could only watch, as Gale’s head rolled up to me. It stopped, face up, and his eyes were dark.

“Well now, this is an interesting development now isn’t it? After all his efforts to bring you back, only to be killed in the end. Kind of ironic isn’t Metal?” I could help but stare at my best friend’s lifeless head. He was only trying to save me, and this is how he’s rewarded?

“You… you killed him.”

“Yeah, wasn’t all that hard either. Kind of relieved that I did too. Pretty sure if I fought him he might have replicated my power and mopped the floor with me. Good thing he was too busy helping you out.” I slowly raised my head to him.

“You...you! I’LL KILL YOU!” I was suddenly filled with energy as I rushed at him and kicked him, sending Alpha flying. I quickly formed into a spindash and plowed into him, before uncurling and punching him in the face. He went flying even further, and didn’t have time to recover before I blasted him with a giant beam of energy. After a few seconds though, the beam burst as Alpha countered it with a small energy blast.

“There you go Metal! Now this fight can really begin!”

{Lisa’s POV}

I ran to the spot where I sensed Gale and Metal had crashed. I hoped everything was okay. As I approached the crater, I saw Metal and Alpha fighting again. I sensed Metal’s mental state was a bit better. He no longer wanted to destroy everything in sight. But, that feeling was replaced a massive thirst for revenge. But, why? I mean, it could be Samantha. But, this want was for the death of someone else.

“I wonder who it’s for.” As I tried to think up a person he could want to avenge almost as badly as he wanted to avenge Samantha, I noticed Gale was nowhere to be found. “Hey wait, where’s G-” Then, I saw it.

Gale’s head.

On the ground.

Separated from his body.

And his eye was dark.

I slowly approached. “Gale?” No response. “Gale?” Again, nothing.

“C-Come on, this isn’t funny. Gale?” I was answered with silence. I fell to my knees, and picked up the head. “Gale, cut it out. Come on, say something. Please, just say something, anything! Gale? GALE!”

No, this couldn’t be real. This had to be a bad dream or something. This… this can’t be happening. But as much as I tried to deny it, I soon realized the truth. He was gone. Gale, the love of my life, the one I spent day and night with, was dead. I started crying as I hugged his head close. Tears streamed down my face as I sobbed. Then, suddenly, something inside me… no not just inside me, something all around me…

...shattered like glass.

{Metal’s POV}

“I’ll DESTROY YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID TO HIM!!!”

I charged up another energy blast and fired it at Alpha. He promptly dodged and sent a ball of energy at me. It hit me, but I didn’t care. All I cared about was avenging Gale. I caught up to him and swung a fist, but he dodged. Then, he roundhouse kicked me away, before charging up a massive blast of energy.

“Sorry Metal, but it seems we can’t get any use out of you after all. Ah well, doesn’t really matter to me all that much. Goodbye Metal, have a nice time in hell. Oh, and say hi to Gale for me!” He fired off the beam he had been charging. I didn’t have the time to recover as it made its way to me. I watched as my death quickly approached.

But then, it suddenly stopped, a massive crack in it. The cracks spread and the beam crumbled into pieces.

“What the hell?” Alpha was just as confused as I was. Why did his attack just fail like that. Was he badly hurt or something? Then I looked to my left, and found my solution.

It was Lisa. But something was horribly, horribly wrong. For one, she had dark, empty eye sockets, that seemed to stare right through me. Her tendrils were out, all of them in positions showing that they were ready to attack. But that wasn’t the worst of it.

No, the worst of it was that there were massive cracks in space and time all over the place, and, to top it all off, there were an army of monsters around her. At first I thought that they were Nightmare Fuels, but upon further inspection, it was revealed to me they were different. For one, Nightmare’s had glowing yellow eyes, not glowing crimson mouths. Two, these guys were a bit bigger, than the normal ones. They each had four tendrils coming out of their backs and there were tons of them. It was like a small army, and Lisa was the head of command.

That’s when I noticed that Lisa held something in her hands. It was Gale’s head.

’Oh no.’ Seeing her like that broke my heart. She must be in so much pain, that she’s become this. Lisa looked at me, before turning her attention to Alpha. The monsters that surrounded Lisa started growling, sounding excited and, hungry. Lisa then snapped her fingers, and all hell broke lose.

With unholy roars, the monsters attack Alpha. He tried to blast them away, but whatever pain he caused them they seemed to ignore. They piled up on him and started ripping him apart. I could hear his cries of pain as they tore off his limbs, and bit into his neck. Once they were done, they lept away and all that was left of Alpha, was a small, purple orb.

Author's Notes:

Ohhhhhh shit...