Friendship is a Game

Dream Realm

“What the hell is that thing!?” Silver shouted.

“Pyramid Head,” Chara growled as she instantly switched to her Bloody Heart form. She wasn’t about to try fighting this thing in base form. “A fucker that feeds off of regret and past pain to become stronger and hunt.”

Diamond gulped as she still had issues with her past. Her dream probably wasn’t the best place to fight this thing. Bloody also had a bit of uncharacteristic trepidation. Chara had her issues as well, and this thing already fed enough to beat Luna…

An inhuman scream sounded, reverberating the metal over the beast’s head. It raised its cleaver at the same time Bloody raised her trident. Instead of trying to catch the blade though, she batted it aside. Making a fist, she summoned a series of bone spears around Pyramid Head and brought them in. They struck the body hard, but refused to pierce flesh.

“Damn it!” Bloody hissed as Pyramid Head tried to slam it’s metal cased head into her face. She leaned out of the way and jumped back as the cleaver smashed the bone spears to pieces. It began lumbering toward the group, dragging its weapon behind him.

Writing appeared in front of Pyramid Head and it slowed to a stop. Silver strained as she pumped as much magic as she could into the barrier.

“Is….Luna...getting better?” she spoke slowly, desperate to not break her concentration. Sombra still just poured Green Biotics into the downed Princess of Night.

“I think so,” Sombra said. “But she isn’t waking up yet.”

“Get him off the barrier!” Scootaloo shouted, looking at Silver in worry. Bloody lifted her hand and summoned a large Gaster Blaster to bite Pyramid head around the waist and pull him back inch by inch. Silver seemed to relax a bit as the pressure and drain on her magic dropped. With more measured steps, she tried reinforcing the barrier.

“You said this thing feeds off regret and pain right?” Silver asked, trying to figure out the best course of action.

“Yeah!” Bloody said, conjuring another two blasters, the first having been broken. She had the two grip its arms to try and prevent it from swinging its cleaver. When there was just enough space, a third appeared in front of Pyramid Head and fired a massive stream of energy.

“Well... it gained a high level of power before we saw it,” Silver followed the train of thought. “If that’s the case, then the main source of its power right now isn’t any of us. Its either people that it found on its way…”

“No,” Sombra said. “From what I know if the person dies then the flow of energy stops, and he doesn’t look like the type to leave prey alive.”

“Then that means…” Silver looked at the downed vice principal. “That it’s drawing its power from her.”

Micro

“We weren’t told about this!” Aura Sing said as she fired a series of shots at Devil Micro. The two bottom arms used the Bloodberry and Lightsaber to bat the laser’s away as Cad grabbed Sing and grappled away to another level.

“He clearly didn’t show his full power in the fights Tirek showed us before,” he said as he and Sing darted into a hallway. Hitting a button on his gauntlet caused a huge door to drop down behind them as a series of droids and Magnaguards flooded behind them. He growled and drew his pistols as the primal roar was heard again.

“What are our chances here?” Sing asked, aiming her sniper where Micro’s head would be.

“I have no idea,” Cad admitted. Feeling the pulsing of the handprint on his head he growled. “But we don’t have a choice but to fight that thing.”

The sound of metal buckling drew their attention, as well as the echoing sound of a shotgun blast.

“All fire on my mark!” Cad called out. A huge indent appeared in the door as another blast sounded. Cad and Sing both felt a small trickle of sweat run down their foreheads.

BANG!

Their fingers twitch on their gun triggers.

BOOOM!

The door flew inward and crashed down on a group of droids.

“FIRE!” Cad shouted as he and Sing fired shots with their guards into the new hole. The figure they saw burst into a cloud of smoke but they kept firing. After a solid minute of shooting, Cad called for the droids to stop. More smoke had filled the opening in the door over the course of them firing.

“Do you think he’s down?” Sing questioned. She didn’t care if Micro was dead. Screw what their boss wanted. Either the bastard dies or they do and she wasn’t going to throw her life away to bring this asshole in alive.

Before Cad could say anything in response, a gust of wind pushed the smoke into the hallway. Heavy footsteps were heard as the only thing visible in the smoke cloud were lines of light (from the beam katana and lightsaber) and the flash accompanied by shotgun bursts. The thing that freaked the bounty hunters out the most…

There were more than two lines of light.

They began unleashing bursts of laser fire wherever they saw the light, but as soon as they did their targets would vanish and another would appear somewhere else. More smoke poured into the hall as Cad and Sing began backing up.

Suddenly, Cad sensed something behind him. With his guns held high he turned and tried to fire, only for the barrels of his guns to be cut off. Sing was about to spin as well but the lightsaber pierced her skull. Cad watched his partner fall, and wasn’t able to dodge the hand that grabbed him around the throat.

Devil Micro grabbed Cad’s wrist gauntlet and crushed it as well as the arm it was attached to.

“I respect you Cad,” Devil Micro growled out. “But you fucked with my mom.”

Cad tried to struggle for a moment, only to stop when he realized he had no chance.

“And I you boy,” he says. “I am sorry for what I had to do. I wish you the best of luck with Tirek. If you could, just make my death swift.”

Devil Micro gave the bounty hunter a nod, before taking the lightsaber and bisecting Cad’s head.