I zip Malley up and he turns around. "I hope whoever takes care of her next, does a better job." Decontamination Corridor Opening I nod and he walks in. I follow him in, he turns to me, "There's only one suit, get out." "I'm immune to radiation." He laughs, "Crazier things have happened, I suppose." Arms up. We get sprayed, I shout in pain. The chemicals seep into my skin and I kneel. I pant as he pats my back, "You a hypochondriac?" "That shit hurts!" "You must be radioactive, then." He waves a Geiger Counter as I march ahead. My hairs raise at the sight of dead engineers, I push him back into the corridor. It shuts, he stares into my eyes. I jump, sudden pain. I look down, Not again! Please, not again!

Malley waddles out the corridor. I get pulled back and the blade pops out of me. I fall down and that thing slithers to me. He tilts his head, "How are you still alive?" Sealing Access to Reactor! He smiles, "How brave." He raises his fingers above me, I turn away and shut my eyes, Is that all you got, princess!? Don't be a scared little girl! He digs into me and I wince. Oh come on, kid! Fight! He turns my head, "Open your eyes!" I open them, his face, black eyes, bloodstained body. I scream and jam my thumb in his eye. Fuck yeah, you small sheep! The demon roars and stabs into me with the long blade repeatedly. "You don't disobey the Reaper! Not I, Sabbath!" Take back your pride! My hands quiver while gripping his blade, a warmth rolls over me, machinery slams together, apart. A huge boom in the center of the room. Water fills the room from broken pipes above us. Reactor Online! I roar and push him off me. He tilts his head, "That's how." I look down and my body heals slow from the radiation. He zooms in faster than ever before. A heavy slam to my gut, my feet grind against the floor. I gasp for air as the reactor shuts off. Cooling down.

The radiation keeps me healing. I grab my chest, roar and fall over. Kid! Sabbath slithers up to me and licks my face, “Your light is back?” “You can’t take it from me.” He stabs into me, “I was wrong before, my pleasure will last forever.” Sock him! Sabbath laughs wildly, a blade slides out his wrist. He hacks away at me and I wince. It hurts less than before. Like something switched inside? He stops and laughs, “Scream!” I stare into his good eye as my body heals slowly, “Do your worst!” He hacks away and I scream at the pain, Nevermind. He’s cutting into my real flesh now. I look at the pipes, green goo squirms up the walls, towards them. He grabs my face, “Why aren’t you afraid!?” He stabs deep into my chest. I gasp, “I hold your heart like a roast chicken on a stick.” I hyperventilate as he wriggles the blade around, forcing my blood to spew out, “That’s better.” He pulls it out and I convulse at the pain. When I get in there, I’m going to kill the both of ya! “Does he ever shut up!?” I wheeze and cough as green blood spews out my chest. “What is that?” I pant and try to punch him. He slowly moves out my way and bites my arm. I groan as he sucks the blood out of me. My head goes blank at the pain, like before. It’s odd, being back here again. But it’s now my choice. I’m a slave to him right now. I hate it. That’s what scares me over anything else.

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I zone back into this sick reality, numb to everything. Green goo covers the holes in the pipes. Water rushes overhead, the pipes leak a little. Commencing Power Off. The emergency lights shut off, pitch black. We float in pure darkness.

KAYLIN

I shout, “What happened!?” People shout, “We’re locked out of everything!” The shudders open again, the sun lets light in. People start gasping for air. Markus stares into my eyes, we both gasp for air.

I chug the rest of my whiskey. I take a breath from a tank of oxygen and growl as I grab the lever, “Get off my ship!” I slam it forward.

The machinery slams together again, light, a giant boom. My resolve, my strength floods into my head. That good feeling. I clench my fist and goo covers it, hardens.

The shudders close, the lights come back on, we smack against the floor.

Sabbath and I lock eyes, we walk to a run. The fusion reactor slams again as we clash fist and blade. I crush the blade and grab his slippery little throat. “Shi-“ I swing him up, then slam him down against the floor. He tries to stab with his fingers, I grab his hand and violently twist it from his arm. A large sickle slams into the front of my head. A heavy cold overwhelms me and an incoherent moan, Did I make such a weird, unsightly sound? “Awww, what a disgusting sound!” I pant and touch at the sickle, follow it with my fingers, My head feels funny.

He laughs as he gets out from under me, “You jump in like an animal! Idiotic instinct, only saved by some weird power I yet to fully understand. Unworthy of my gifts!” My fingers touch something wet, I poke inside and I moan uncontrollably again. It’s inside my brain!? My words slur and lisp, “No- don’t do it!” “I’ll just have destroy you!” He nods his head with a wild smile, I scream at the top of my lungs, “Please!” He swings his arm, the sickle goes with it, tearing through bone. Bits of my brain trail behind the blade as I fall.

I slam onto my hands and knees. My brain pounds, my vision goes red for a moment. All the pain, fear- they rip and twist away as a tsunami of power that overflows my body, my body tightens- Ohhh, I'm gonna demolish you, desecrate you. I giggle, push myself up, one foot slams down as he slithers my way. I again stomp forward to my feet, grab the sickle and snap it from his wrist- It swings up through his chin.

He grabs at it desperately, Wow, that’s pretty fun. I swing it out, do it again. He quivers at the pain and hugs me, he breathes out from his locked jaws, “You’re like me?” He stabs into my side, I don’t even feel it. Kill him. I push him by the sickle, let the sickle slide out. He laughs with his lower jaw swinging with his movements, "There can only be one!" "KIIILL him!" Blades sprout from his back and he leaps towards me- I scream, “Die!" I swing it deep into his skull. He goes limp, falls to his knees. I drool at the sight of him, I tilt the sickle to get a better look. The sight of dead flesh, so alluring- Wait, what? What am I saying? I shake my head, squint my eyes shut just to open them again, over and over. I knock on my head, What’s wrong with me? Oh right- I could eat him. I let go of the sickle, he plops over dead. What the fuck?! Disgusting! I look back, He could taste like chicken. I pull my hair and cry, “No, he wouldn’t! Shut up!” Are you alright? I hug myself, Old man left his family behind, piece of shit can just die. I growl, “Do not let me out! Even if I beg!” What? “Something’s wrong with me!” I shout and knock on my head.