Off the Grid Season 5

Blood dripped in place of the souless. The upside down crosses were bathed in the darkness that coated the perfectly aligned tombstones nearby from all that had met their end here. The haunting sound's echoed throughout the void like place, followed by the scream's off the dammned. This was the Nightmare Realm, a twisted, fucked up hellhole that housed the most evil thing's in here. An axe was raised, and landed down, missing Sheriff Stryker who had dodged Bendy's attack. Stryker was worse for wear, and he was getting to the verge of submitting to the darkness within him, but he still had enough fight in him to keep going.

Stryker fired his Nightmare fusion cannon attached to his arm, but Bendy used the blade of his axe to cut Stryker's shot's to pieces. The Ink Demon cackled, as Stryker charged up another shot, but felt a huge crank in his arm. "Oh crap it's jammed" He cursed, as Bendy charged at him with axe in hand. A loud grenadier shot nearby rang, as Bendy was knocked back hard, his axe shattering into glass from the powerful weapon. Stryker turned his head, and spotted Shift who was geared up in more new weaponry than before.

"Stryker...over here, let's go, let's go, let's go" Shift shouted, as Stryker quickly followed him. Bendy looked around, no longer finding his enemies, as he smiled.

"You can run, but you can't hiiiiiiddeee....AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" Bendy laughed, his laughter making a haunting echo, as Stryker, and Shift had a chance to take a breather.

"That was a close one today, huh Sheriff?" Shift asked, as Stryker exhaled deeply.

"It was Shift....I'm not sure how much longer we can keep hiding, or how much longer, before I turn" Stryker told him, feeling the bleeding ethereal darkness that was a part of his face, and bubbling inside him.

"Yeeeaaahhh....." Shift sighed sadly, knowing how badly this mess they were in was, until he looked at Stryker.

"....How do you think Pixel is doing out there?" Shift asked.

"I know she's doing fine....I just hope she destroy's that blasted chalice" Stryker told her.

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Pixel slept alone around the campfire that she made....the mare herself was still having Nightmares, but these weren't ones about Vampra, these were about her, and Stryker. She heard it again....Stryker's voice calling to her, as she was sleeping. "Pixel......Pixel.....PIXEL His voice shouted from the depth's of the Nightmare Realm.

"STRYKER.....Stryker, where are you?" She asked on the verge of tear's, hoping that she hasn't been delusional all this time.

"Destroy the cup....Destroy the cup....Destroy the cup.....Destroy the cup" Stryker echoed, as she took a good look at the cup, before the idea clicked into her head.

"Destroying the cup, must be how to bring Stryker back.....I have to destroy it" She snarled, as she looked into the supplies of weapon's she had to destroy the cursed artifact. She placed the cup in front of her, and unsheathed the sword she still carried. "The pain you've caused IS OVER!!!!!!" She shouted boldly, as she raised her sword, and swung at the cup. The blade merely touched the cup, as an angry ethereal roar eminated from the artifact, before knocking Pixel across the room of the very gray, abandoned shack.

Pixel only growled, as she looked in the supply truck, and pulled out a sniper rifle, and loaded some ammuntion into it. She raised the gun, and fired with skilled accuracy. The bullet bounced off the cup, and hit the wall next to her making a rather huge dent. She dugged into her bag once more, and threw an incenidary grenade at it, as it detonated with a huge explosion. "No...way" Pixel groaned, as the cursed chalice remained unscathed from both attempt's. She took the chalice, got into her truck, and headed into the wasteland's.

"I have to find out more....it's the only way to honor everyone who has lost their lives to this wretched thing.....and I have to free Stryker from it's grasp" She told herself, as she drove faster than she ever could, hoping to get answer's. She went around asking many about the chalice. She asked a group of hooded men who had their own fire, and were dressed like cones. They had no info about the chalice at all. She even asked other Equestrian's who had fled The Grid from Regalias. They told her that the cup's creation did seem familiar, but didn't know much about it.

She even asked other creatures that came from Vampra's original domain, only to find out that even they didn't have any answer's. She also asked some more knight's of the wastelands who wore Viking equipment who only said that their kind fought the Nightmare Realm demon's once, but didn't know anything about the chalice. Even an undead skeleton being who once escaped the Nightmare Realm knew nothing about the cup. She finally left a shop in a very deep, and shadowy part of the wasteland's, as she groaned.

"Ugh..this is no use I know almost nothing more than when I started" Pixel sighed, until a rattling got her attention.

"I can tell you, all you need to know....about the cup" A raspy female voice spoke, as Pixel immedietly saw, and recognized the female figure in front of her.

"H-How did you....." She began, until the figure spoke again.

"P-Pixel" The raspy creature spoke, as Pixel gasped.

"VAMPRA!?!?!?!?!?!?"