Author's Note

Merry Christmas everyone! And happy holidays to anyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas

Chapter 147

Sanctuary

“So…” Micro finishes. “That’s what happened.”

He and his mom were sitting around the table in the dining room, a small breakfast that he made in front of them. Not that it was being touched at the moment.

“S...so,” Software stuttered. “You’re being targeted by someone... and he won’t stop until he gets you…”

“Sadly yes.”

“And we can’t just… move? Hide out in here?”

“If we move he will just find us… I suppose hiding in here may be an option, but considering they have created items to dampen and negate the Gamer abilities I doubt that they would be stopped for long. “

Micro just watched as his mom tried to process this all.

“Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”

With a sigh and running his hand through his hair, Micro started.

“As cliche as it is, to not have you worry. To avoid you freaking out. As much as I wish I could say there was something deeper, I just didn’t want you to have this on top of the typical parental worries. Not that I knew about the guy hunting me down at first but…”

“Is there anything else I should know?!” Software yelled in frustration. Micro thought for a moment.

“Chara is a video game character brought to life and Fluttershy is a half vampire half dryad.”

Software just stared at her son before taking her coffee and drinking from it heavily. Micro waited a moment before continuing.

“And Spike is a dragon person.”

His mom nearly spat out her coffee and inspite of the situation, Micro had to laugh a little. When he saw the look in his mom’s eyes, he stopped.

“Look mom,” he said. “Do I regret not telling you? Yes. I should’ve told you at the very least the moment I knew someone would be after me. I never even thought that you would be targetted. But I can’t change it. All I can do now is exactly what I have been doing, and now I can protect you at the same time.”

Opening her mouth, Software looked like she was about to say something, then she closed it. Trying again, she again closes her mouth.

“Why the hell do you have to be so smart,” she finally says. “It makes it harder to reprimand you when you have counters to everything.”

Micro smiles as his mom does the same.

Dream World

“Killed the world!?” Scootaloo questioned, unable to process what was just said as Pyramid Head roared. “What the hell does that mean?!”

“Centuries ago…” Luna says. “I turned on my sister. Micro told you of our titles? The Princess of the Moon and the Sun Princess. They aren’t there for fun. They-”

“Short fucking version!” Bloody Heart barked out as she dashed through the barrier and delivered a kick to Pyramid Head’s stomach. Normally, a kick from her would’ve sent someone flying. Pyramid Head just slid back a few inches.

“I wanted to become more powerful!” Luna sobbed out. “And so I tried to plunge the world into everlasting night. I draw my power from the night.”

“And how does that translate to killing the entire world?” Diamond asked. She was looking at Silver, checking how her friend was holding up. She was still waving her staff, trying to create more and more barriers to hold back Pyramid Head. Wait...how does she have her staff? Sombra was literally a program in Micro’s dream machine so she could’ve just uploaded herself and Chara was transferred in through said machine so...

“No sun means no plants,” Luna muttered. “Not plants, no food for cattle and no fresh air. Lack of food, lack of oxygen…”

Scootaloo went wide eyed in shock as Pyramid Head swung his cleaver toward Bloody. It would’ve cut her if not for Silver creating an angled barrier at the last second between the two. The cleaver smashed through it but the brief second delay was enough for Bloody to get out of the way.

“Where’d you get the staff?” Diamond asked Silver. The glasses girl looked at Diamond in confusion.

“Micro got it for me remember?”

“No! I mean while in the dream world!”

Silver was still confused...until the realization of what her friend was asking meant. Now she was confused about something else.

“I...I just thought of it like normal when I was attacked…”

“In your dream?” Diamond pushed, thinking of a plan. Silver just nodded and Diamond grinned.

Meanwhile, Bloody was desperately trying to dodge the rusty cleaver. Blaster after blaster fired and Sombra, free from healing Luna, tried using her Doomfist gauntlets and even combined it with her Genos style Machine Gun Blows. That managed to do something and while it wasn’t as effective as it normally would be, she was managing to drive the beast back step by agonizing step.

“Luna!” Scootaloo said, grabbing the vice principal’s shoulders and trying to get her to focus. “You have to get a hold of yourself! Whatever almost happened didn’t! You can’t beat yourself up over it!”

“How do you expect me to get over it!” Luna growled. “Unlike Diamond, I can’t just get my almost victims give me their forgiveness! It’s not just one or two people! Everyone I ever met wouldn’t have even been born! None of you! How the fuck am I supposed to just move past that!”

Before they could say anything else, to everyone’s shock, the world around them seemed to change. The sexy bedroom became almost temple like. Marble pillars and stone flooring appeared, lit only by torches. As the shifting settled and became solid, Luna and Scootaloo watched as Bloody and Sombra were both flung into a wall by a now supersized Pyramid Head. Focusing on Luna, the demon of regret marched forward, Silver’s barriers only freezing it in place for moments at a time.

Just as the cleaver was raised above Luna and Scoots, a blur of fiery red wrapped around its arm, pulling Pyramid Head over the others and slamming it into a wall. Following the red whip of fire, the other gasped.

A huge red skinned demon with leathery bat wings stood, chains on its wrists and skulls decorating it’s cloth loincloth and metal ankle bracers. In one hand was its fiery whip, and in the other was a blade of lightning.

“I can’t summon anything this powerful in the real world now,” Diamond said, sitting up on the beast’s shoulder. “But this is my world bitch, so meet my friend. Balor...feast!”