"Do you think that was the best way to deal with her?" Lyric asked as he leaned against the railing next to his father, who continued to stare down at the city with a dead look in his eyes.

"There was no best way to deal with this, just the best way to get the message across." Dantes replied in a dry and emotionless tone, ignoring the odd feeling in his chest that had grown but was slowly fading. 'It seems not all of his heart is dead yet...this could be a problem..."

Lyric eyed his father cautiously. "I sense doubt in your voice...or something I don't recognize."

Dantes glanced over to his son and hummed in thought. "I didn't realize, I'll have to think of what is causing it." He already knew. 'Why now?' He asked as he placed a hand on his chest, feeling his irregular heartbeat. 'Why now do you try to surface, was it seeing Sunset? All our old friends? Or seeing your daughter?' He didn't expect any answer as he felt the strange feeling fade away once again.

Lyric narrowed his eyes slightly before sighing before walking away. "You do that, I'm going to make sure that the next traitor is where he needs to be. It's almost time." With that said, he gave his father one last suspicious glance before walking away.

Dantes closed his eyes and breathed in the night air before nodding. "Now isn't the time for thinking, I have work to do."

In The Ball Room

"How the hell is he here?!" Rainbow asked in confusion.

"Electro told us all he was dead, I don't understand why he would lie." Rarity stated as she tried to control he frantic thoughts.

"What're we waitin' for? Let's go over and talk to 'im!" Applejack said before trying to walk over to her friend, only to be held back by Fluttershy. "Shy? What's wrong? It's Treble! We gotta go talk to him!"

"That's not Treble..." Fluttershy muttered, both she and Pinkie looking to the ground with pain in their eyes.

"What in tarnation are you talkin' about?"

"His eyes AJ..." Pinkie whispered as she shivered. "That look...his eyes were so dead...so lifeless...so...cold...there's no way that he's Trebel..."

"Didn't you see Sunset running away crying? There's no way Treble would ever do something to make her cry." Fluttershy explained with a low voice. "I don't know what happened to him but..." She paused as she looked at all the other girls. "...Electro was right...Treble is dead."

'So are we if we don't get out of here.' Hack thought as he looked to the guys. "Now is probably the time to go." He said to them.

"That's not happening, guards have locked or are standing by all the exits." Casino muttered to him.

"Wait, there's one door unlocked and unguarded, lets go that way." Eclipse pointed out as he began to run.

"Wait Eclipse don't!" Casino called out, but Eclipse kept running. "Damnit!" He yelled in frustration as he ran after him.

"Should we go after them?" Silver asked Hack in confusion. "Why are they running anyway?"

Hack watched as they both ran through the door, only for the Mist and Solid to come out of hiding and shut the door after them. "Idiots..." He muttered to himself as he walked away to get himself a drink.

"Where are you going? We need to comfort the girls." Ocean asked as he grabbed Hack by the shoulder.

"You do that, I'm not in the mood." Hack replied in a dry tone as he shrugged Ocean off and headed towards the nearest wine bottle.

Ocean frowned and turned back to the girls, he, Silver, Onyx and Sparkjump comforting them the best they could.

"Should one of us go after Sunset?" Silver asked with worry.

"Sunchyme and Bass went after her, they'll be fine without us." Onyx said as he hugged Pinkie and Applejack. The group fell silent, Hack in the corner of the room drinking himself under while the others sat huddle together. Sunchyme and Bass hugging Sunset tightly as she cried her eyes out in the gardens.

Adagio looked down on all this taking place and shook her head. "I expected better reactions from them. Then again, this whole thing is starting to become tiresome, maybe having more than one run into the trap was a good thing."

"Just means more of a mess to clean up." Lyric muttered as he walked up beside his mother. "Everything is ready, father will be leaving for the room in a moment."

"You seem conflicted sweetie, what's bothering you?" Adagio asked with worry while placing her hands on his shoulders.

"Mother, I have reason to believe that Treble isn't fully dead, and is trying to regain control."

"Damnit man stop!" Casino called out as he began to catch up to Eclipse.

"Come on! I think there's an exit this way!" Eclipse yelled as he turned a corner.

"You idiot! You're running right into a-" Casino was cut off as they entered a room and a large steel door slammed behind them. "...trap."

"Well, I wasn't expecting two of you to show up." They heard Dantes' voice echo out in the dark room. "Although this will speed things along nicely, just be glad I planned what types of death you would both experience beforehand."

"Treble I'm sorry! I had no choice! Electro threatened my family!" Eclipse cried out in desperation as he dropped to his knees. "Please! I never wanted to hurt you! None of us did!"

There was silence.

Tears rolled down Eclipse's cheeks as he heard footsteps approaching him for the darkness. "I believe you."

Eclipse felt a glimmer of hope rise in his che-

*Cha-chic BANG*

Which was immediately replaced by a sudden, unbearable pain. Looking down, he saw a huge bloody hole in his chest, Dantes appearing from the darkness with Eclipse's old shotgun in his hands. Before Eclipse could gasp out anything, Dantes pointed the gun to his head.

"It doesn't mean I forgive you."

With another brutal shot, Eclipse's head was completely destroyed.

Casino stood frozen in horror, shaking like mad as Dantes shifted his gaze to him and threw away the shotgun.

"Wait I can-"

Casino was cut off yet again as he felt something stab into his shoulder. Looking over, he saw a playing card with razor sharp edges. His old weapon.

"You're a betting man, aren't you?" Dantes asked as he slowly approached the frozen Casino while shuffling a deck of razor sharp cards in his hands. "When you gave Treble up, you pushed all your chips and went all in, now you're just waiting for the final card to be drawn in this decade long game of poker. Sorry to say..." He said as he reached him, pulled out a card and held it up to Casino's forehead. "...Dantes takes the pot."

Dantes pushed the bladed card into Casino's head and let his body fall to the ground.

Author's Notes:

Brutal right?

See any mistakes let me know.