“You're going after the police,” Varek said.

“...There’s-”

“YES! If theirs something in the human world, likely hell has a version of it, enough with that question!” Varek sighed.

“Ok ok! Sorry,” Spike said.

“In any case I gave a larger than yours amount to a group of demons who had this hair-brained idea that they could emulate human world cops, to torment those who were incarcerated before death, but they seem to think they above paying, show them their wrong,” Varek said.

“Ok,” Spike said as he turned and left through the portal.

“...Heheheh, too bad he doesn’t know this group has a really big enforcer,” Varek chuckled.

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Police brutality

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Spike exited the portal and found himself outside of a police station.

“Ok, what’s waiting for me in there?” Spike asked as he walked up to the place.

…Not noticing he’s being watched…

“Code red… he’s here, alert Zeke,” The being in the bush said into a walkie-talkie.

“Affirmative,” The voice said back.

Spike made his way up to the building and peeked through the window.

He saw a normal lobby with someone sitting at a desk.

“Good so far,” Spike said before turning around… and getting a nightstick to the face knocking him to the ground.

“Hah! Got you myself, guess Zeke doesn’t need to get his hands dirty after all,” the police uniform-dressed person said, his skin was grey like Varek’s but his eyes were red.

“Van-” Spike didn’t finish as he beat him some more with the nightstick.

“You're under arrest! For trespassing!” He kicked Spike onto his back and climbed on top of him.

“Don’t worry buddy, you’ll be going away for the rest of your life!” He laughed before hitting Spike in the face and knocking him into a daze.

Spike’s vision was bleary as he was being dragged by his shirt into the station.

“Hey Ricky! I got him!” He said.

“Not my fault if Zeke beats you up for stealing his prey, Brad,” The cop stationed at the counter said getting up and walking over.

“Why hello there, we’re your new friends for life, get used to it,” He then kicked Spike in the face and Spike hit the ground.

“If you got a million dollars we can let you off the hook!” The two laughed as they dragged him through a jail area and then Spike heard rumbling noises and a huge blurry figure entered his view.

“He a new prisoner?” A dull sounding voice said.

“Uh, yeah, but he…. Tripped on his way in, sorry Zeke,” Brad said.

“Aww…” Zeke sighed.

“Hey cheer up big guy, we can put him in interrogations later and you can wail on him to your heart's content,” Ricky said.

“Sounds good!” Zeke said sounding content with that as he left.

“Heheh, thank goodness he’s stupid,” Ricky said as they dragged Spike and tossed him into a jail cell and tossed him in.

“Wake up…” A familiar female voice said and Spike opened his eyes and sat up.

“Huh? You're up earlier than I expected,” Brad said as he stood by the cell “Go on, eat, you’ll need your energy when Zeke beats the hell outta you, heh,” He laughed as he set the food down outside of Spike’s cell.

Bread and a potato…

“Thanks…” Spike reached out for the food… before a pee stream hit the food.

Spike winced in disgust as he saw a dog he hadn’t seen before peeing on his food.

“Hah! Good boy Rover!” Brad laughed as he and his hellhound left.

“...” Spike silently cursed them with every curse word he knew and he sat back in his cell.

“Well? Aren’t you going to leave?” Varek boredly said.

“How? I’m trapped,” Spike said.

“Giving up? After all this? Pathetic,” Varek said.

“I’m so tired… so much death, so much pain… I don’t know how much more I can handle…” Spike droned, feeling the weight of this whole situation on his soul.

“If you wish to give up, simply say so and I’ll save you and return you home… in exchange for your wife and children,” Varek said, sounding eager to hear a yes.

“.....I-” Spike was about to say it… but suddenly a vision came to him… one that erased his doubt.

Varek breaking into his home, kidnapping his family, and feeding them to his dogs…. He couldn’t bear the thought… and it sent new strength through him.

“No… NO!” Spike stood up and smacked his face to snap out of it “I’M NOT GIVING UP!” Spike said before shaking the bars.

“...Hmmph,” Varek huffed.

“Hey! Quite down there!” The guard nearby yelled.

“NOT ON YOUR LIFE! My family needs me!” Spike said.

“I don’t care, shut up!” The guard said walking over.

“Then I’m getting through!” Spike backed up, knowing this’ll hurt he got ready… and he speed boost shoulder rammed the door open and busted the jail cell open and sent the guard tumbling.

“OW!” Spike grunted feeling his shoulder was dislocated, he managed to reset it and quickly get moving.

“Prison break! CODE RED CODE RED!” The guard shouted on his walkie talkie and several guards burst into the area and began chasing Spike.

“Vanish!” Spike disappeared and they paused.

“Dangit! Where is he?!” They said.

Spike snuck through a door and panted heavily… he couldn’t give up, not when his family needed him, he’d been to rock bottom, and he wasn’t about to let them hit it as well!

Spike ran from there and made it into another hallway, seeing soul shards he made to collect them while running, as he collected them a camera saw him and an alarm went off.

“He’s over there!” A guard rounded a corner and pursued Spike down the pathway.

Spike continued running even as several guards got in his way and they blocked him.

“Speed boost!” Spike said and he sped up.

“Uhm… he’s not slowing down!” The guards readied themselves and Spike wound up blowing past them.

“CRAP!” One grunted as he hit a wall.

“Heh, why the sudden fire?” Varek asked.

“I’m not in the mood,” Spike said as he went on to dodge around a corner and into another hallway.

As Spike made his way to the other side of the hall a wall came down and he paused as a hulking monster of a cop came out and stared down at him.

He was massive, had a baton as big as he was and a chain around his chest.

“Oh crap,” Spike said as he raised his baton.

“YOUR UNDER ARREST!” He slammed it down and Spike dodged as the slam broke the concrete.

“Yeah! Get’em Zeke!” The guards cheered from afar.

“I will break you!” He grabbed at Spike who jumped away and used vanish to disappear.

“Huh? Where you go?” Zeke looked around and Spike fled into another hallway where he saw more shards and collected them.

Spike made his way down that hall and into another prison area full of cells, as he ran past he noticed other sinners were locked up in cells.

He was determined to not end up like them!

Spike ran around the area collecting shards, he accidentally triggered another camera, and as he finished collecting all in this area Zeke plowed through another wall and chased after him.

“Found you!” Zeke said swinging his baton at Spike who ducked it and fled into another hallway but Zeke was on him.

As Spike was making his way out of there he heard barking and saw a few hellhounds closing in on him, he panicked and tried to run past them but they pounced on him and tore into him.

2 Lives left: “I hope they throw away the key when they're done with you,” Varek laughed.

Spike woke in his original cell and he wasted no time getting out of there and running back through the area and making his way back through the doors into the lobby.

Spike ran past a surprised cop in the lobby.

“HEY! Stop right there!” he pulled out a taser and ran after him but Spike rounded the corner and knocked over a potted plant which tripped him up.

Spike ran on before a wall behind him busted down and Zeke ran into the hall and chased after Spike.

“RAAAAGH!” Zeke swung his giant police baton and smashed another wall in.

“Easy Zeke! You trying to bring the whole place down?!” Another guard said.

“He evade! I pursue!” Zeke ignored and he plowed through a wall instead of going around it.

Zeke chased Spike into a solitary confinement area and Spike dodged down another hallway to his right and evaded Zeke who came around the corner.

Spike had been collecting shards the whole time but when Zeke saw a chance he tore a bench out of the ground and chucked it at Spike, hitting him and knocking him down.

Spike got up but Zeke did a jumping drop kick that smashed Spike against a wall.

1 Life left: “It’s the stony lonesome for you, amidst an empty graveyard,” Varek said.

Spike got up and staggered out of the cell, he forced himself to go on and make his way down to the other side of the jail cells and he heard barking, meaning one thing…

“Hellhounds,” Spike turned and saw several running for him, he dove behind a door and blocked it, preventing the dogs from getting through.

Spike hurried on through the corrupt police station and made his way into an office area, and he collected the last several shards.

“That’s all of them, go to the lobby, the safe is there,” Varek said.

“Ok,” Spike made his way down the office area and into the hallway that leads to the lobby.

As he entered suddenly a door smashed down and Zeke appeared.

“Why you not quit!?” Zeke demanded as he chased Spike.

“Speed boost!” Spike said as he sped away from the giant and went around the corner as another officer tried to stop him.

Spike ran towards the lobby where two guards were standing and Spike paused.

“Nowhere to run now little man, Zeke will find you soon,” They said.

“I didn’t come this far for nothing!” Spike said as he ran up to them and one tried to jab him with a taser but Spike caught his arm and managed to wrench the taser out of his hand before tasing the other guy who tried to strike him with a police baton.

“Aaagh!” The other guy fell over and Spike dodged a punch by the other demon and tased him too.

Afterwards Spike ran over to the desk and went behind it and found the safe in a drawer, he pulled out the contract and ran for the exit.

“STOP HIM!” the guards on the ground yelled.

And a camera caught Spike leaving the area and an alarm went off.

Spike made his way onto the outside of the police station and he was almost to the portal when something leaped out from behind it and punched Spike sending him tumbling.

As Spike got up he saw Zeke approaching and Spike hobbled back.

“Zeke smash you now, lethal force authorized!” Zeke growled before turning his baton on and it turned out to be a giant taser.

“Tch! Vanish!” Spike disappeared and Zeke looked around but stayed close to the portal, he looked around and saw footprints in the dirt.

“RAAH!” Zeke swung his arm and struck Spike sending him flying against a nearby police car denting it and knocking him out.

“Spike,”

Spike woke up quickly and he looked up to see Zeke picking him up and throwing him.

Spike tumbled on the ground and Zeke laughed as he walked towards him.

“I…can’t lose here, I need to save my family… I need to win!” Spike said before getting up and turning to see Zeke approaching.

“You no win this…” Zeke said in his simple tone.

“Watch me,” Spike said before he used speed boost to run for the portal and Zeke jumped in front of the portal and swatted Spike aside.

Despite the pain Spike rolled to his feet and ran for the portal.

“You annoying little-” Zeke raised his baton and swung it down at Spike.

“Vanish!” Spike said before dodging and running around him and Zeke swung his baton wildly.

Spike got some distance and saw Zeke in front of the portal, turning he saw a dozen cops exiting the building to aid Zeke.

“You no get through!” Zeke said.

“I will!” Spike said before speed-boosting and running at Zeke who raised his fist and slammed it down but Spike slid under him and jumped into the portal.

“NO!” Zeke cried as he tried to jump in after him but the portal closed and he hit the ground.

“Aw crap…” The guards said realizing the implications.

YOU ESCAPED!

Spike handed the contract to Varek who took it with a grin.

“Nice work, very nice,” Verak said.

“How close are we to being done?” Spike asked.

“Two more and you're done,” Varek said.

“Alright… How much time do I have?” Spike asked hesitantly.

“Five hours, clocks ticking,” Varek said.

“...Better than I thought,” Spike said knowing he couldn’t afford anymore passing out, times almost up.

“I have a special mission for you, before you leave,” Varek said.

“What?” Spike said eager to move on.

“That angel that’s been following you around, she’s not supposed to be here, I want your aid in capturing her,” Varek said.

“What?!” Spike said.

“Yes, bringing an angel down will significantly boost my standing,” Varek said.

“No, I can’t in good conscience do that,” Spike said.

“Even with your family on the line?” Varek asked with a raised brow.

“...No, she’s helped me more than you, give me a chance, I’ll convince her to leave,” Spike said.

“Meh, whatever gets her out of my hair,” Varek waved Spike off and he waved him off.

“Alright,” Spike left the area and went into the portal.

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A new friend is made

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Spike made his way into the hallways of what looked like an old factory, looking up Spike saw a sign.

“Joy .co?” Spike said out loud.

“I remember this crackpot,” Varek said.

“Great,” Spike said as he hurried down the hallway, when he got there he saw this cardboard cutout of a pale-skinned woman with orange hair and a blue dress pointing down a hallway.

“Great,” Spike said as he made his way down multiple hallways, encountering a cutout each time.

He eventually made his way past a window and even though he was on a time crunch he couldn’t help but notice the weirdest thing on the other side of the window.

Bunnies, giant plush bunnies were walking around.

“....No comment,” Spike said as he walked up to a double door and opened it.

Spike saw the woman from the cutout, standing over amidst a series of pathways stationed over machinery.

She was talking with one of the rabbits.

Suddenly it pointed at Spike and she turned and smiled wide.

“HEEEEEY!” She cried in a joyful tone that was like nails on a chalkboard.

“Look, I don’t have time for this, give me the contract and I’ll leave,” Spike said.

“....HAHAHAHA! Why would you leave? I haven’t given you your own cuddle buddy yet,” She said as she skipped up to Spike.

“Look lady, I don’t have time for this, please give it to me,” Spike said.

“Nope! Not till you get a cuddle buddy!” She said before curtseying “I’m Joy by the way, and I own this humble little toy factory,” Joy said.

“If I get a cuddle buddy will you give me the contract without fuss?” Spike asked.

“Sure thiiing!” She sang and she then skipped off towards a doorway and gestured for Spike to go through.

“Alright,” Spike said knowing by now this was going to be difficult.

But Spike followed her and she ran down the hallways while holding her arms out and making airplane noises much to Spike's confusion.

“She's like a kid in an adult body,” Spike said.

“Yeah it's kind of her shtick,” Varek said.

He continued to follow her until they made it to a window where a plain white cuddle buddy was standing.

“All righty mister first let's picture your favorite color mine is pink but also blue,” she giggled.

“Yeah yeah,” Spike just clicked the color orange.

“Aww you sour puss you didn't even check,” she pouted.

“Like I said I'm on time crunch,” Spike said.

“Okie come along my friend,” Joy said as she continued running down the hallway like she was flying Spike sighed and followed her down there.

After making some distance they arrived and Spike saw his orange cuddle buddy through a window.

“Next mister, pick a patch for their stomach, I personally like the flower!” She giggled.

Spike rolled his eyes and picked the one that looked like a dragon, because it looked cool.

“Hmmm, not what I would have gone with,” She said before ‘flying’ off again.

Once they got to the next step she showed it to Spike.

“Lastly do you want him to have a decal? I was thinking a necklace or earrings or-”

Spike pressed a button that had a symbol for a flower.

She drew a prolonged gasp “That’s my favorite too!” She cheered. As she ran over to a doorway and opened it.

“Come! Meet your new and last best friend!” She said.

“Ok, fine,” Spike said as he walked into the room “Just give me the contract after-

CLANG, LOCK

“I hate this place…” Spike sighed turning around to see Joy waving at him.

“Hiiiii, soooo, problem, I can’t give the contract to you, but I can still give you a cuddle buddy, he’s really excited to meet you,” She giggled.

Spike heard a noise and turned… before being slashed across the face by a claw and he stumbled back clutching his bleeding face.

“HAHAHAHA! Isn’t that the best part, I just made you design your own killer!” She laughed hysterically as the orange rabbit hopped off the belt having sprouted metal claws.

“Tch!...” Spike avoided two more swings from the Rabbit and dodged around it using vanish.

“Noooope, no powers will save you here,” She giggled.

“Shut up you nutcase!” Spike said as he looked around for an escape and he saw a vent up higher in the room.

He became visible again and the rabbit lunged at him but he evaded and jumped onto the conveyor belt before climbing on the machinery.

“What are you doing?! NO, stay and get butchered!” She shouted after Spike as Spike pulled the vent from the wall and climbed in.

“NOOO! NO NO NO NO! This is not how it goes!” She shouted after Spike as the cuddle buddy couldn’t follow.

Spike crawled through the vent as fast as he could but when he got to the other side he found himself in another room and he hopped down.

Suddenly a p.a system came on and Spike looked up.

“Attention cuddle buddies, we have a big meanie refusing to play with his cuddle buddy, go get him!” Joy ordered.

Spike sighed and he ran into a hallway and made his way past several machineries developing more of those killer rabbits.

Spike ran down a hallway but didn’t notice what was on the ceiling… a green cuddle buddy, and it descended onto him pinning him.

“Agh!” Spike yelped as it moved in to stab.

2 lives left “They wanna cuddle, forever, until you die,” Varek taunted.

Spike woke up back in the room and found several rabbits already in the room, he used a speed boost to escape them but they were on his tail and they were surprisingly fast.

Spike continued to run until he was sure he evaded them.

As he saw his chance to collect more shards he did so this time he paid attention to the ceiling so that nothing could the drop on him again.

As Spike ran through the toy factory a door opened and he paused to see Joy standing there.

“Heehee! Not letting you leave… ALIVE!” She said before pulling out a knife and running at Spike.

Spike used vanish and disappear avoiding a swing for his neck.

“Where did you go?!” She looked around while Spike made his way out the door she entered through.

When vanish wore out Spike made his way to the other side of the business area.

There were more of those demented rabbits on production lines being moved throughout the factory. Spike saw more shards hovering over the conveyors and he decided to climb onto them and he hopped from one to the next, collecting shards, when he suddenly heard noises and he turned to see more buddies jumping down from upper catwalks to pursue him.

Spike hurried across the multiple conveyor belts as the rabbits chased him.

“There he is! Get him!” Spike looked up and saw Joy on a catwalk above him and several rabbits jumped down to swarm him.

Spike hurried to avoid them dropping down on him and he got to the other side of the production line and ran into a doorway as two bunnies tried to charge him from both sides of the catwalk.

“You're getting quite used to fighting monsters, eh Spike,” Varek asked.

“Yeah,” Spike said as he ran up some stairs while the bunnies clung to the walls with their claws and climbed across them to keep up with him.

Spike made his way out onto a catwalk and saw Joy leap from hers and onto his catwalk.

“Stop being so persistent! You think you can escape my bunnies?” Joy said as she ran forward and swung her knife and cut Spike on the arm but Spike used this opportunity to grab her arm.

What he didn’t expect is for her to lunge forward and bite his arm, drawing blood.

“AAAGH!” Spike shoved the psycho off and she got up with blood on her mouth.

“Heeheehee! You taste bad!” She giggled as she flipped to her feet.

“You're a lunatic!” Spike said getting up as he saw the rabbits approaching from the other side.

“Is it that I’m insane? Or the only sane one here?” She snarked before she lunged with her knife in hand and Spike saw the rabbits charging from the other side.

Knowing he had only one chance Spike jumped up on the railing and leaped towards a lower catwalk.

“Huh?!” Joy exclaimed as she watched him land there and he got up and ran.

She snorted angrily and turned to her rabbits “Stop him!” She said as she jumped down after him and the rabbits ran into the doorway to cut him off.

Meanwhile Spike ran on through the area, he ran into a series of hallways and ran down a hallway to his right and collected the remaining shards.

As Spike rounded a corner and collected the last shard he saw two of Joy’s cuddle rabbits walking by and they spotted Spike so one picked the other up and threw it at him.

“Yikes!” Spike dodged avoiding being skewered by the rabbit and he turned to flee…

SHULK

And ran into another rabbit that shanked him with its claws.

1 life left: “Guess you should have gotten your cuddle buddy in the mail instead,” Varek chuckled.

Spike looked up and found himself in the room he was in when he started collecting shards, suddenly Vareks voice came.

“That was the last of the shards, but good luck getting the contract,” Varek said.

“Why?” Spike asked.

“Joy has it,” Varek said.

“Great…” Spike said before he climbed back into the vent he used to get in hoping Joy forgot about this room and he crawled back into the room he was trapped in, and he was right, it was empty and the door was open.

Spike hopped down and ran out of the room and back into the hallway.

As he went back down the hallways that led to where he entered he heard familiar noises and he paused when he saw a dozen frenzied Rabbits cutting him off.

“Vanish!” Spike used his trusty invisibility and he ran past the rabbits who were swinging their arms around trying to hit him, nicking him once or twice.

Spike made it to the entrance room where once he became visible he looked around.

“Heeheehee! I knew you’d come here,” Joy’s voice said echoing around him.

“Come out!” Spike said before she suddenly dropped from the ceiling and he turned in time to be pinned down by her.

“You're a dummy if you think Varek will revoke your deal!” She said as she swung her knife down to stab Spike in the face but he dodged his head around the stabs and he punched her, she didn’t seem to care as she grabbed Spike by his neck and began strangling him.

“Look me in the eye, and feel my JOY!” She giggled manically as she tried to throttle him.

Spike was panicking but he spotted that she had cast her knife aside to strangle him, he reached over and grabbed her knife before stabbing it upwards and into her head.

She gasped as the knife punctured her brain and she flopped onto Spike dead.

Spike rolled her off of him and panted heavily.

He then got onto her and searched her, before finding the contract, outside a safe this time on her person.

He got up and left when he heard her giggling and he turned to see her standing, knife still punctured through her skull, but she simply pulled it out.

“Heeheehee…. That stung a little…” She giggled before she licked the blood off.

“Nope!” Spike turned and ran through the doorways as she chased him.

Spike ran like heck while Joy ran after him, swishing her knife at the air.

Spike ran until his heart felt like it was going to burst, and when he rounded the last corner he saw the portal up ahead.

Spike hurried down that way as Joy rounded the corner as well she threw the knife at Spike.

“DIE!” She screeched as the knife sailed through the air and landed in Spike’s back.

“AGH!” Spike grunted as he staggered.

“Ha! I win,” She said.

“No… you don’t,” Spike said before he continued limping towards the portal.

“No… NO! Stay dead!” She ran after Spike but Spike made it to the portal first.

YOU ESCAPED!

Spike fell through the portal onto the ground, gasping for air as Varek approached him.

“Hmm, seems you have a little something in your back boy, heheh, I’ll get it,” Varek said as he carelessly pulled it out and walked away.

Spike was healed but it still hurt alot, and Spike stood up shaking.

“Quit your shivering, you made it,” Varek said as he sat back in his chair and put the knife in his drawer.

“How many… How many more?” Spike asked.

“One, you have one left and only an hour and a half left, better move it,” Varek said.

“Ok,” Spike forced himself to stand tall, this was it, he was almost done…

“Oh, and you still haven’t talked to that angel,” Varek said.

“...She didn’t appear,” Spike said as he turned to leave.

“She better,” Varek warned.

Author's Note

One more level?

Sorry about the lower quality, I bet you guys will love the last level