{Young Lisa POV}

I ran towards the mountain that he stayed at. I don’t know why he never told Lisa that he was here. He actually only told me, and then told me not to tell anyone else. I guess he knew that I would be the only one the scary lady didn’t take away. I guess it didn’t really matter right now, all I knew was that we needed his help. I soon approached the cave he lived in, and walked right in. I looked around. The cave was pretty bare. Contrary to what I remembered, he like to keep this simple. I strolled up to the only thing in the cave, a huge capsule. I knocked on the glass.

“Uh, mister? We need your help. Metal came just like you said he would, and he went to fight the scary lady all on his own! Please, we need you!” I waited, but nothing. Then, I heard a loud noise, and the capsule opened. Smoke was pouring out, letting whatever was in stasis wake up. Then, two blue metal arms gripped the sides of the capsule before a red eye glowed.

{Third POV}

Metal rushed through the city as more cracks in the ground appeared all around him. As he dodged around, he made sure to keep his eyes on his target. The castle. Just as he rounded a corner, a tendril came rushing out of a random crack and nearly smacked him. He just barely dodged, and stared at the tendril in shock.

“I see. So you’re fed up with trying to indirectly attack me and now you’re attacking me directly. Seems as though you see me as a real threat now.” With a nod, Metal sped past, continuing on to the castle.

As he moved along, more and more tendrils came out, attempting to strike. Pretty soon, the tendrils stopped, only to be replaced by Proxies!

“What the hell?!” Metal cried out as a Proxie took a swing at him. He jumped back and fired a beam at it, destroying it instantly. “Still got energy attacks in here, good to know.” More Proxies began walking out of the cracks, forcing Metal to hurry up and move. As he ran, he noticed that the Proxies were running up behind him, and gaining! He jumped up, turned mid air, and fired a powerful shot of energy. The shot exploded and annihilated the Proxies. He continued on, more and more proxies appearing behind him.

“Don't you guys have anything better to do?!” Groaning in frustration, Metal back-pedalled, jumped into the air and slammed down onto the ground in a split second, sending a shockwave across the area, wiping out all the Proxies. “Thank you.”

After that, he sped off towards the castle again. For a minute, it seemed as though the Proxies had given up chasing him. He knew this wasn't the case,met here was no way that the one controlling these things would be stupid enough to just leave him alone.

He turned out to be right as he turned a corner he found an entire swarm of the beasts waiting for him with one huge Proxie leading the charge. Behind the horde was the castle, he was almost there, he was so close to finding a way to free Lisa from her mental prison and end the corruption of her mind, and those Proxies were in his way.

“Get…” As he began to pick up speed he unknowingly pulled his fist back. “...out…” As he clenched his fist tighter his hair began to flicker red and red electricity began to violently spark around his fists. “...of...my…” As the gigantic Proxie swung it's huge fit towards the young boy, Metal sidestepped and threw his fist forward. “...WAY!!!” He was suddenly on the other end of the horde in a flash of light. The street behind him erupted in a huge blast of red electricity that destroyed even the buildings around the now destroyed Proxies.

Metal himself stood with his fist forward, sparking with red energy as did his hair and eyes. He stood breathing heavily, the area around him turning red as well. He looked down at his hands and to the destruction he had caused.

“So...the Apocalypse Magic is still in me...but it feels more…” He opened his hands and the energy seemed to calm, it's sparks becoming less erratic. “...natural and controlled.” Sensing a nearby disturbance he looked down and saw a small stream of Apocalypse Magic and a few tendrils of the dark energy wrestling against each other, the Apocalypse Magic slowly gaining the upper hand as it spread itself into the darkness. “That could one in handy here…”

Having been distracted too long, Metal slapped himself in the face and sped into the large castle through the huge, broken doors.

Now having less space to run around, he reduced his speed to a fast jog as he journeyed through the abandoned castle.

“I wonder how Luna and Dash are holding up right now, I'm sure they're worried as hell.” He spoke to himself, remembering the mares he had fallen for to try and brighten his mood. “Heh, Dash is probably pacing impatiently demanding to join the fight while Luna is sitting acting calm but inside she's just like Dash is on the outside. I'm going to have to make it up to them after this...if I survive. I probably won't.” He said nonchalantly. “Huh...I said that too readily, I guess with all the times I've come close to death I've lost all fear of DEATH himself.”

“Oh really now?” The grim reaper asked as he began to phase in through one of the walls.

“Fuck off!”

“Ok.” DEATH faded back out of existence as a bolt of Apocalypse Magic was thrown at him.

“God!” Metal shook his head before readjusting his eyepatch. “The nerve of some people.”

“This coming from the one that has broken into someone else's property.” Metal came to a complete stop as he heard the familiar voice, the voice of Lisa's mad modes. “Hello there my Metal Prince, so nice of you to join me!” A tendril wrapped around him and pulled him into the darkness.

“Oh no you don't!” Metal growled before bursting out of the tendril and jumping back into the light. “None of that shit! Show yourself Slenderwoman!”

He heard giggling and footsteps coming from the darkness. “My my, a little demanding and fierce are we? I like that in a man.”

‘Oh my fucking God this is wrong on so many levels.’ Metal thought as he stood unfazed by the words of his target. “I'm going to give you one chance Slenderwoman. Let Lisa have her body back willingly, or I'm going to beat the living shot out of you until you do.”

Metals POV

As the crazed woman in control walked into the light, she giggled and pointed one of her tendrils at me while licking her lips. “Heh, I never thought I'd see a descendant of Apocalypse offer a peaceful solution to a beast such as I.”

“What're you talking about?”

“Oh right, little Cosmo hasn't told you of your heritage has she? Oh well, if you somehow manage to survive this without becoming my new husband then you'll be able to ask her yourself.” She smirked before shooting a pillar of darkness my way, which I knocked to the side with a backhand.

“Alright then, force it is.”

Author's Notes:

And so the shit hits the fan for the, what is it the fifth time in this arc?