Sunset’s Hellish Adventure
Chapter 11: Chapter 11: Beginning of Reckoning
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThis could not be happening... This had to be some kind of nightmare! There was no way this was real!
Sunset continued to look at the image present on the TV, trying to somehow convince herself that she was not staring into her own eyes. There had to be some sort of mistake here. Her face, her name, it was all exposed to the public, all while the city is pinning the blame on her for the death of Theodore Rattingsbottom. But she didn't do it! It wasn't her!
The entire time that Sunset had sat on her knees, staring horrified at the television screen, Barbed Wire had yet to say a single word. She just constantly looked between the screen and back to Sunset with her jaw agape. Soon enough, she finally made the attempt to place a hand on Sunset's shoulder, but Barb was very hesitant and her hand shook more the closer it came. "S-Sunset...?" Barb said.
"I didn't do it..." Sunset said almost inaudibly.
"I know." Barb's hand finally reached its destination.
But the very same second the hand landed on her shoulder, Sunset very quickly moved in front of Barbed Wire, gripping her by her upper arms. “I didn't do it!" she shouted with her breath becoming shaky. She began to lose control of her breathing. Sunset was very overwhelmed with so many thoughts and questions.
"I believe you, Sunset!" Barb knew that to be true, but she feared that no one else would believe her.
"This can't be happening. He can't have been murdered! He just couldn't have!" Sunset's voice cracked as she began to cry. "What am I going to do? What can I do?! Is Hell just against me or something?! Why can't a single thing go right for a change?!!" It was as though no matter how many chances she tried to give Hell; it always found some other way of making her stay worse.
Barbed Wire placed her hands on Sunset's cheeks, wiping away falling tears with her thumb. She wanted to tell her that it was all going to be okay, but given the situation, it would feel more of an empty promise. Instead, she told Sunset, "You can't rely on Hell to give you a good day, it's just not going to give you what you want. But what we can do is ensure that it never gets the better of us. I don't know what's going to happen or what our future will possibly hold, but I want you to know that no matter what, I'll stand by your side! Whatever it takes, I believe we can find a way to fix this together!"
"But how?" Sunset asked, sniffling still. "How can we change the minds of everyone after what they've seen? There's just no way anymore! I'm a criminal!"
But then, before Barb could respond, there came a loud banging on the front door. Barb immediately shielded Sunset by throwing her arm in front of her. She glanced back at Sunset, signalling for her to keep quiet.
Of course, with an announcement of a bounty demons would come rushing to their door! This city was already full of idiots, so of course everyone is going to want a piece of that! Demons will likely make their attempt to capture Sunset. Barb knew that she could not let that happen! No matter what, she will protect Sunset!
Barb slowly inched towards the door, getting close enough for her to peak through the peephole while not leaning directly up against the door. The coast seemed to be clear out in the hallway, but out from the corner of the peephole, something came swinging around to the door. In a split second, Barb jumped back to avoid the axe that came crashing through. It was ripped back out to reveal an elderly demoness looking through the hole.
"Here's Granny!" she said as a threatening grin crossed her face.
Already it seemed as though Barb had to bust some heads, and who would have thought that it would be her own neighbour from across the way too. She still hasn't even fully recovered from the Ogre fighting her. But for a demon that appeared at this age, this shouldn't take much out of her at all.
The elderly demoness swung into the door once again, which Barb used to her advantage by grabbing whatever of the handle came through the door and stole it from the psychopathic grandma, breaking the axe head from the handle.
"Hey! You bitch! I had to kill my husband to get that axe first!" The elderly women reached inside and tried to grab hold of the young whippersnapper with her frail, wrinkly fingers.
Without wasting anymore time, Barbed Wire bent the enemy arm against the door until she heard it break, which then it was immediately pulled back outside to the pained pensioner. Barb then went back to Sunset, taking her by the hand. "We're not safe here anymore. We need to go now!" And with that, Barb and Sunset began making their leave back through the now destroyed door, passing the demoness still crying on the floor. "You'll live! Get over it, for fuck's sake!" Barb shouted.
They both ran outside, only to find some demon's waiting for them hoping to collect the reward. The stairs leading down into the street was completely blocked off, preventing simple means of escape.
Luckily though, Sunset was quick to have an idea, so she grabbed Barb tightly and clacked her ankles together. With her newfound devil strength surging through her legs, Sunset launched into the air with Barb by her side, climbing up different flat landings one after the other and eventually landing atop the apartment block's roof. The demon's waiting out front then started to break inside to run up to the roof. Clearly, the time for resting wasn't now, so Sunset continued to make use of her Devilitis and leapt across the rooftops until she was sure the heat had died down, allowing her to catch her breath. Sunset sat down by the side of a vent.
"Good thing you have that, huh?" Barb commented. Sunset just threw her a thumbs up. "But we can't stay here for too long. Someone will have probably noticed us stopping here."
"What are we going to do now? Surely, we can't just run forever," Sunset said.
"I said I was going to help you, didn't I? What we gotta do is find the real bastard that did this." Barb cracked her knuckles in preparation for the heads she may have to bust tonight.
"But everyone believes that it was me that killed Rattingsbottom." Sunset looked out at the entire city before her. "And there are millions upon millions of demons this city! How are we ever going to find the one?"
"I don't know about you, but I think the answer's more obvious than you think," Barb said.
Sunset turned to Barbed Wire. "What do you mean?" She wasn’t given a reply. Instead, Barb pointed towards the central part of the city up towards the building that poked its roof above all others'. The Mayor's Tower. "Oh no."
"I'm afraid so, Sunny. That sly, conniving shit would do anything to get what he wanted."
Sunset hoped that it wasn't so, but, unfortunately, she could not deny that it all made too much sense. What does one do if they are found forever stuck in second place? They resort to extreme measures so they can to put an end to their losing streak. It would also seem that to get revenge, he had Sunset take the fall for his own crimes. A petty endeavour which appeared to have worked in his own favour. And now, for any morsel of hope that she could clear her name, she had to face Goliath once more.
So now the plan was how they were getting there. The streets down below were crawling with demons, and she knew the closer to the tower they got, the more there would be. It looked like their only option was to jump the rooftops the entire way through, but even the quick escape just now took a lot out of Sunset, and to do that for a few miles without stopping... It was daring, but it was the easiest option without having to fight through so many demons.
"Get on my back, Barb," Sunset commanded, hunching forward for her to climb.
Barbed Wire just as well knew how crazy the idea was, but she did not argue and followed Sunset's order.
With her friend now in tow, Sunset reactivated her devil leg strength once again and ran towards the edge of the roof, leaping off at the last second to the next building. This process was repeated countless times, and soon enough Sunset began to feel her legs burn with exhaustion. The burning wasn't terribly painful at the moment, but it would not be long before she could really feel it. She was sweating up a storm, but she kept on pushing, only thinking about making it to that tower.
Eventually, Barb and Sunset would come to find demons watching over the rooftops, and unfortunately, they would be at the one's Sunset was heading towards. While they tried to block Sunset's path, Barb thought of lending a helping hand and stuck out one of her arms to hit the demons out of the way, all while Sunset would attempt to evade them.
However, her run would soon be thwarted as she was getting closer to a much larger gap between the buildings. At this point, she was barely able to make the one jump. Nevertheless, she still had to try. At the edge of the next rooftop, Sunset squatted with her feet parallel to each other. She powered up her jump and finally flew through the sky! It was certainly a much further jump, but she was not sure if it was going to be enough. She stuck her hand far out to reach for the rooftop. Her fingers scraped the edge, but then slipped right off. The street below them had more demons than ever before, all of them looking directly towards Sunset and Barb as they just about hit the wall.
But then, before they could fall, Barb reached out and grabbed hold of the edge, quickly clinging onto Sunset's hand while it was still out. "I got you!" Barb said, her voice straining as she struggled to keep them both in the air. Her fingers were losing their grip, so she swung her other arm around, creating enough momentum to throw Sunset up top, and just as her last fingers had stopped holding, Sunset grabbed Barb by the arm and pulled her up too.
They had travelled far into the city, and the Mayor's Tower was only a few blocks away, however, Sunset's legs had almost become completely drained of their energy. As she stood still now, the pain managed to catch up to her, and she could barely stand. Despite that, she still invited Barb back on her back.
"Sunset, you're too exhausted! You can't keep going like this," she tried to explain.
However, Sunset didn't want to hear it. "Shut up! I still have some jumps in me! Now let's go!"
But before they could do anything else, they were interrupted by the roof door being broken down, revealling many demons looking to collect their prize. Sunset was finished with waiting and snatched Barb's arm. She prepared herself for another jump, but as she readied herself, she instead fell to her knees. Her legs have officially given up on her.
The demons surrounding Sunset and Barb were now given a huge advantage. Sunset could no longer escape herself and there was no way that Barb was making that jump. However, despite the odds that were stacked against them, Barbed Wire still stood her ground, hiding the worn-out Sunset behind her.
Barb looked between the faces of every demon around her, waiting for the very moment one of them makes a move. "You dipshits have all got the wrong demon!" she announced, not breaking her stance. "She's innocent!"
"That ain't what we're seein'. And besides, the price goin' for her? You'd be really fuckin' stupid to pass that up!" one of the demons explained. "So, if you're not deliverin' her yourself, we'd suggest you hand her over before things get ugly."
"Believe me, it was going to get ugly either way!" Barb remained patient until finally, one demon lunged at her. She easily avoided them and threw them back towards the semi-circle of bounty hunters. Everyone else took this as a signal of sorts as they all made their attempt to subdue the powerful demoness. Barbed Wire fought back hard and defended Sunset to the best of her ability. She found herself to be lucky that some of these demons were not so much experienced as fighters. But then as more demons began piling their strength onto her, a few other demons took this opportunity and had snuck behind Barb and grabbed hold of Sunset, tying her hands and legs tightly together. Sunset struggled to escape, but the ropes prevented her from hitting her hands or her ankles together. A demon then quickly knocked Sunset's lights out with a single blow to the face.
"Sunset!" Barbed Wire shouted, diverting her attention away from the demons she was holding back. This only created an opening as she was easily tackled to the ground, where she received the same as Sunset, finishing off with a blow making her become unconscious.
"Wakey, wakey!" Sunset and Barb could hear.
The two demonesses had begun to wake up, both of them feeling the same sore nose and binds around their wrists and ankles. As their eyes had now fully opened, they looked around to Sunset's realisation that they were in the Mayor's office, only now it seemed much darker than before. But in front of them and walking out from the shadows, they were both met with the demon that seemed to wait for their awakening.
"Ah! There we go now. I was wondering when you'd wake up." It was Goliath, resting on one knee to be at eye level with them both.
"You!" Barbed Wire hissed, already trying to break her ropes.
"Why yes, it is me. Glad we have that established. I must say, you two put up quite the chase. Really, I was only expecting to see Miss Shimmer, but I do enjoy the extra company, especially when they swear to protect the very threat to our city. You must be a friend. Do tell me, what is your name, dear?" Goliath asked, gesturing to Barbed Wire.
"As if I'd tell you anything! Especially given after everything you've done!" Barb shouted.
Goliath gave an audible 'harumph', clearly taken aback by his prisoner's comment. "'Everything'? Why, I haven't even done anything. Well, not yet, at least."
It was now Sunset's turn to speak. "What do you want with us, Goliath?" she asked.
"Mostly what I want is the same as what everyone wants. Just to know why you would do this, Sunset Shimmer? I mean, killing the mayor? That's certainly not the impression I got when I first saw you."
"I didn't kill him!" Sunset argued.
"Mm, the evidence says otherwise. From what anyone can find, you were the last demon to be seen in the building before the bodies appeared." Goliath moved away and sat on his new desk. "It doesn't seem that you have much of a leg to stand on Sunset Shimmer. So now, you've become a danger to our society."
Barb continued to struggle trying to break out of her ropes. She had the feeling that she might have loosened them a bit. "We know it was you, Goliath! You killed Rattingsbottom and framed her for it!"
Goliath snickered at the accusation. "Oh? You know it was me? With what clues? What are you basing your knowledge on?" he asked, leaning closer towards Barb. "Because unless you have even a scrap of evidence, I'd refrain from interrupting, okay?"
With the snake demon within close proximity, Barb attempted to lean forward and headbutt him. However, Goliath was quick and avoided her attack.
"Ooh! A feisty one! I like you, but try that again and we'll be having some issues. Observe." Goliath snapped his fingers and out from the shadows of both the left and right of the room emerged around ten or so strong looking demons. "Do you like it? They're part of a large project I'm working on. It's a small army so far, but soon enough our power will become unfathomable!"
The surrounding demons gave a round of cheers for their leader, sharing his excitement for the future of the army. Goliath accepted the high praise from his subjects while even encouraging them to give him even more.
"So, what? You've finally accomplished your goal of becoming mayor, but now you want more? And now you're manipulating innocent demons into doing your bidding?" Sunset asked, her eyes staring up to the new mayor with a stone-cold stare.
"Who said anything about manipulation? You wound me so, Sunset Shimmer, but I'm afraid to say that they all joined me by their own free will. All I've done is help them realise how much stronger they can be if they follow me," Goliath explained. "In fact, as we speak, my dear Montgomery is currently recruiting more citizens to join. I have also sent parts of my small army to go and recruit more demons across the city. In no time, my forces will be limitless! Though, if demons do start refusing, then we may have a bit of an... issue, to say the least. I waste no time with weaklings however, so I have those who have accompanied me to remove the blemishes from my perfect world. That's just how things work. If you don't believe in my vision, then you don't deserve to be a part of it!"
Suddenly, Barb finally snapped her ropes after constant attempts and jumped towards Goliath, aiming for a strong punch to his face. However, in the blink of an eye, Goliath turned to the side and easily avoided her attack. With Barb now flying past him, he took the oppurtunity and grabbed hold of her arm and head, pushing her body onto the desk.
"Honestly, the drama with you two!" Goliath scolded, holding Barb down like she was nothing, despite her thrashing. "Is it that hard to surrender?"
"Don't hurt her!" Sunset called out, worried for Barb's safety.
"I won't have to unless she continues this! My lord, treating me like I'm the criminal here!" Having being fed up with his currently trapped prisoner's fighting, he threw her back towards Sunset, his strength causing her body to slam and roll along the floor. Once she stopped, she finally remained still, allowing the ruler to continue. "Anyway, if that's all distractions out of the way, I believe we can finally get down to business."
"What kind of business?" Sunset asked curiously.
"Well, as the mayor, demons all around the city are expecting me to do something about the perpetrator for Theodore's death. Now that I have you, I can now exact something that's never really been known in Hell... justice!"
Sunset's eyes widened. "W-What are you going to do with me?"
Goliath sighed, kneeling before Sunset yet again and raising her chin up to him with his claw. "Well, if I imprison you, demons may fear that you'll just escape and wreak more havoc. I'm afraid that the only option is for you to serve your time beyond Hell, through death!"
With an opening finally present, Barb threw her fist once again, landing on the side of Goliath's jaw. He was blown to the side by the sheer force of the blow. Barb then freed Sunset of her ropes, lifting her to her feet. It seemed that Sunset's energy had returned to her, with her legs no longer burning.
Goliath quickly recollected himself. "Don't let them escape!" he barked to his small army. A few of his demons blocked the door to the elevator. "So, you want to play dirty, hmm? I'll be gladly to fulfil your dying wish. Watch closely, my subjects! For you are about to witness the true power of your new ruler!"
This was not at all what Sunset was hoping for! The doors were blocked, so it would seem that they didn't have much of a choice anymore. She could probably imagine how eager Barb may be for something like this, but the last thing that Sunset wanted to do was have to face against Goliath in a fight!
Barbed Wire was the one to make the first move. She rushed towards Goliath with fire in her eyes and a clear intent to defeat. A flurry of attacks was sent the tyrant's way, but he avoided each and every attack, moving his slender body in ways that didn't seem possible. He slithered his way out of Barb's fury rush and appeared behind her. Before Barb was able to process his escape, Goliath slammed his elbow directly into the centre of Barb's back. She let out a loud grunt of pain as she fell to her knees. It was unbelievable! Barb hadn't managed to land a single hit, and yet Goliath took her down with only one! How strong was he?!
There was no time for thinking, however, as Goliath turned his attention towards Sunset. "Let's finish this, shall we?"
Sunset did the only thing she could think of. She activated her devil arm strength, but she didn't know where to go from there. It was clear that Goliath was incredibly smart and fast. Any attempt to hurt him, he could possibly see coming from a mile away. For safety, she activated her leg strength too. If she was going to fight, she had to be prepared for anything.
Goliath approached her and immediately went for a leg sweep, knocking Sunset onto her back. She was left in a daze, but she snapped out of it in time to realize that Goliath was holding a fist over her body. She rolled out of the way for Goliath to make a hole in the floor, resulting in his hand getting stuck.
Now was Sunset's time to strike! She ran up to him and picked his body up by his shirt's collar. With Goliath now currently rendered helpless, Sunset forcefully threw him across the room with all of the strength in her arm. Goliath was literally sent flying across the room, eventually landing in the arms of Barbed Wire!
Barb's next attack was to suplex the bastard! Arching her back as Goliath's head came crashing to the ground! He was left laying on the floor, quietly moaning as he could only slightly move. Seeing that he was done, Barb ran to Sunset. "You okay?" she asked.
"Yeah. You?" Sunset replied.
"Never better. Come on. We're getting out of here."
Before they could make their leave, however, they heard Goliath's sinister laugh. They both turned to see him rising to his feet once again. "Well, well, well. It appears I have underestimated you both," he said as he twisted his shoulder and cracked his neck. "You two really know how to put up a good fight! Perhaps I should make things more interesting. Soldiers!" The surrounding demons stood firm at the call of their leader. Then, with a raise of his hand, he clicked his fingers. "Onward!"
Then all at once, every demon that watched the fight closed in on Sunset and Barb, trapping them both in the centre of a circle.
"Sorry if this doesn't seem fair, but I can't allow you both to leave here anymore!" Goliath said from outside the circle. "Stop them!"
His soldiers all came charging in at once, brute forcing their way past each other to reach either Barb or Sunset. The demonesses stood their ground, however, with Barb reaching her hand back to Sunset, whispering to her, "Fling me." Sunset took her hand, and with her feet placed firmly on the ground, she twisted round and round with Barb gently raising from the floor. After gaining enough speed, they turned into an unstoppable spinning top!
The soldier demons tried to break through, but Barb's blazing fast kicks kept everyone at bay. However, as powerful as this may be, it came at a price as Sunset's sense of balance was very limited before she became extraordinarily dizzy. She slowed down as quickly as she could and Barb was now back on her two feet. Some of the demons still standing came rushing back as defences were finally low, but not even they were quick enough to out perform Barb by herself. She would jump to each side were they approached and socked each one away, with one of them falling back towards the window, smashing through it and plummeting to their unfortunate demise.
Barb visibly hissed as she slowly turned towards everyone else's shocked expressions. Perhaps she went too far there. "Hehe... Whoops?" she laughed nervously. But as she looked around the room, Goliath was nowhere to be found, that was when she heard light footsteps behind her that she realised... Goliath snuck up behind them!
With a hard blow to her head, Barb fell to the ground, not unconscious, but in a great amount of pain.
"Restrain them," Goliath commanded as he walked to the middle of his office. His soldiers then picked up Barb and Sunset, holding their arms back and legs down. Barb was barely holding on after that hit while Sunset had just come out of her dizzied state. "You know, you girls are strong, but your constant resistance is now really beginning to piss me off! You still pledge you're so innocent, and yet here you are, murdering one of my very own! I mean, how could you do that?"
"That man was just free of his debt!" one of the soldiers shouted with dismay.
"Well, there you go! Killing a man after finally being free! When are you two going to stop this madness? You have no chance of winning!"
Barb glanced up, with strands of her red hair blocking parts of her fury. "I'll stop when you're dead and buried!" she breathlessly said. "I won't ever let you take over!"
Goliath was just about sick and tired of this. "Do you ever be quiet? I'd rather not hear your voice playing in my head after we are finished here."
"I won't let you hurt anyone else!" Barb shouted with rage. She threw her hands and feet around, loosening the grip of the demons holding her down and escaping, and with her war cry, she ran towards Goliath, blinded by her anger.
Once again, Goliath narrowly avoided her, and just as she passed him again, he stretched a leg out and kicked her sending Barb flying at a blistering speed before she crashed into the wall beside the exit door. She tried to pick herself back up, but in the end, she slid back down the wall.
"Barb!" Sunset cried out. That monster! No matter how much he hurts, he never backs down! He was truly a heartless sinner! Sunset realised it now, Goliath must be stopped at all costs! Her head fell down, her breathing shaking from her sadness and anger. Never before has Sunset ever felt this much unrelenting rage. It made her feel... stronger. Throughout her entire body, she could feel herself being overtaken by a feeling similar to her devil strength, except much more!
With a furious roar, she knocked aside every demon surrounding her and charged to the unforgivable beast! She reeled back her arm, feeling the power surge through to the very tips of her knuckles before she let loose a mighty blow!
But, before her hand could reach its target, Goliath caught it without so much as a flinch. This was impossible! No demon could hold back a hit as strong as that!
"Hmm. Impressive," Goliath commented. "You think, even with strength as powerful as that, that you have even the slightest chance of defeating me. You really have no idea who I am!" Goliath punched Sunset directly into the stomach, causing all of her strength to fade away from her. She fell towards the broken window, only managing to catch herself by grabbing the edge before she could fall.
Goliath laughed, but what he couldn't see was that Barb had come back once more. While paying attention to only Sunset, Barb ran up behind him and roundhouse kicked him to the ground! The demon soldiers were about to act upon their leader being attacked, however, with one monstrous glare from Barb, they all backed off.
She ran up to the window edge, just in time as Sunset was barely holding on with one hand now. "Grab my hand, Sunset!" she called out, reaching out for her.
"Barb!" Sunset said as she fumbled with her free arm to try and grab her friend's hand.
"We're getting out of here. Together!" Barb casted to her a reassuring smile, letting her know that it was all going to be okay. Sunset couldn't help but smile back.
But then, she heard something, her face turning white from horror. That ear grating sound of grinding metal was heard, a sound all to familiar to Sunset. From the shadows behind Barb, Sunset caught a glimpse of a long sword-like thing glinting in the night's light.
"Barb! Behind-!"
But it was too late. Everything seemed to go suddenly silent except from the harsh gasp escaping from Barb's lungs. She slowly looked down to see three blades piercing through her body. She looked back to Sunset with a distraught face. She failed her. "Sun... set." The very last thing to leave her mouth as the life could be seen fading from her eyes.
"Barb!" Sunset screamed in agony.
Barb's lifeless body was then raised upwards and flung back inside. Sunset could hear the thump of her body hitting the hard floor, and from where her friend once stood, there appeared Goliath once more. He stamped his foot onto Sunset's hand, looking at her with a maniacal grin.
"Look at the world around you now, Sunset Shimmer! I offer you that much before I take it away forever! We could have worked beautifully together, and you had to make the worst mistake of your afterlife!" Goliath pressed his foot down harder, causing Sunset to cry with pain. "I am going to change this city! And I will do so without the intrusion of you! Goodbye, Sunset Shimmer! It's truly been a pleasure!"
Goliath finally kicked his foot forward, releasing Sunset's grip of the window edge. Time slowed down to a crawl as Sunset realised that she begun to fall. Was this it? Was this the end? Was this how it was supposed to be? Evil rising up, and good failing to stop it? It couldn't be. This isn't how it should have ended. Barbed Wire, her friend, her light, was gone. Goliath, tyrannical, evil, had won. And Sunset... she lost everything all in a single night. She tried all she could, and yet she was still destined to fall. Out of the corners of her vision, she could see her own tears flying off her face. Goliath was getting further and further away, which meant Sunset was only getting closer and closer...
How could it end like this?
Goliath turned away from the edge and to his remaining soldiers. He could only think of how disappointing they had performed tonight. Perhaps these demons in particular were not the fighters that he needed, but he wasn't going to dwell on it, especially with Montgomery recruiting more and more demons elsewhere.
But there was one more matter to attend to. At the side of his eye, there was the body of the demoness Sunset seemed to refer to as 'Barb'. Quite the fighter, but she would lose focus due to her own anger.
"Dispose of the body," he commanded. A couple of his followers came in to take Barb's body away, but before they could leave, a thought then came to Goliath. "Hold on." He looked over the body, staring into her barely opened red eyes. "In fact, take her back to the base to get her wounds tended to. And quickly! She's fading fast." The demons took Barb away, leaving their fearless leader and now fewer soldiers in the office.
Goliath began to snicker, which then grew into a scary laugh, and ending off with a loud holler. "Do you see now?! How strong we can be?!" His subjects replied with major applause and cheers. "This is only a taste of what we can all accomplish. With all of our strength together, we can expand our power to the furthest corners of Hell! We will let everyone know who we are! Will you follow me?!" The demons all shouted louder, they were with him.
Goliath walked back towards the window edge, looking out at his new city. "This night marks the dawn of a new age, and I will be at the forefront, leading our army towards a newer, brighter future! Hear me now, Sinner City! Open your eyes in the wake of a new dawn! Welcome one and all... to the age of Goliath!"