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Rain slaps against the glass ceiling, Markus' friend gets whipped as I watch the workers, rotations, weapons. Carter talks with Cornelius Onyx as I shout, "Good thing it's dark out!" Mama shouts into my ear, "Is Jack there?!" I click the radio, "No. Don't shout in my damn ear." Puppers stands up and points, I look across, there's a woman with a sniper rifle, it's that woman that helped us on the boat. I shout, "Nobody move! We have a sniper on us!" "Now that's a smart man." A man with a tattered leopard skin over his shoulders walks up with a shotgun as Jan and Markus draw their guns. Puppers whines as the man peeks down and smiles back at us, "You guys here for Carter too?" I shout, "Yeah!" Jan shouts, "Tell us what you know about him!" He smirks, "I know he's a manipulative son of a bitch. I say we go down there and cut his head off." Jan yawns, "I thought the great Bullet Onyx was smart enough to survive this long without daddy dearest's money." He smirks, "I even took from his business for myself before all this shit happened. Who are you anyway?" Jan smiles, "I am no one important." He smirks, "I'll show you terrorists how it's done-" He grabs his earpiece, "Amber, get over here. We're going in soon."

I shout, "Hey, I don't think you know who's down there." Bullet smiles, "A dead scumbag, he doesn't know it yet." With a couple steps, he raises his gun a little, "He controls people-" "With some magical bullshit, I know." Jan shouts, "So it's true?" He nods, "That's why we're going to kill him right now." Bullet looks at Puppers with a smile, "Wow. You can tame these demons?" Puppers growls and snaps as he leans in to watch Thadius below, "Or does it fear you like it does me right now?" Jan rests his gun on his crossed arms, "It's more respect." Amber marches up soaked with thick bandages wrapped around her wounds. She clenches a heavy machine gun, staring us down with a blank expression. What happened to her?

"Amber! On my mark, let Carter have it!" Markus shakes his head as Jan, puppers and I huddle in, "They're going to get themselves killed. We're going to leave them. We get my brother and that girl, we get the hell out." Jan grabs our shoulders, "We might be able to kill Carter here and now." I poke him, "That thing morphed into some bloody demonic monstrosity and survived a demon encounter, in the vacuum of space. We can't fight him." Puppers points at me with a whine. Bullet shouts, "You guys ready or what?!" They both nod at me, "Yeah!" I tap my mic, "You ready, Mama?" Go.

Bullet shouts at the top of his lungs, "Let them have it!" Jan shouts, "Puppers! Attack!" Amber opens fire as Puppers crashes through the ceiling. Jan clips a rope onto the ceiling's frame and rappels down. Carter leaps up and Bullet shoots him point blank. Carter glances at me as I hop down.

Carter zooms towards Bullet as he shoots him again. I shout, "Bullet!" I open fire on Carter, he turns and he shifts out the way of the bullets. I drop the gun and run towards him with my knife. He closes in and I stab him, a red whip explodes from him and I roar at pain in my shoulder. I jump back as I finally see a crimson red blade cut deep into my forearm. I rip it as blood pours out a gray metal casing. He smirks as I catch my breath, his skin flaps upwards in sections, little tiny red blades protrude out from them. Bullet shoots and he doesn't even react, "I'm going to kill your friend, then you." I run towards him and try to stab under his skin, those things cut towards my skin, forcing me to jump away. I can't get close. The blades pop out farther and spin as he inches closer, they cut through the air, cracking like whips against each other. Scott was right. "Bullet, run!" An axe flies straight into Carter's shoulder, he turns as Bullet runs towards him with a lead pipe. "Amber! Two by four!" I nod as he throws the pipe past Carter. I catch it, twist and throw it towards Carter. The pipe goes through Carter's body and he screams, the sharp tendrils sharpen and stiffen out to needles for a brief moment. Bullet slits Carter's throat, "Too damn Easy!" Carter grabs his wrist as I run to him, "Bullet!" He yanks Bullet's weight into the air, he throws him towards me and I catch him. I tumble with him so he doesn't get too hurt.

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Carter fingers grow sharp and his face splits open into crimson red sections, a long tongue flails as a guttural scream explodes from him. He pumps out his chest and the pipe explodes out his skin, away from me. Two loud crashes sound off behind me, I scream in pain as the pipe tears through my leg, from behind me? I take a knee from the force and grab at the pipe. I get on my back and drag Bullet with me as Carter follows us, "Cornelius plays along in my world, you will too." I look to the edge, the others shoot at the soldiers at the front gate from behind cover. Bullet clenches his knife close to my chest, he whispers, "Go or I'll kill you myself. Find a way to kill this bastard."

No. I can't. I killed everyone to keep you safe. I throw Bullet towards the opening in the ceiling, he shouts, "You dumb bitch!" I shout, "Get out of here!" Carter grabs my neck as tiny blades slice me up against my skin, despite the pain, his voice rings in my ears clear as day, "And what are you?" I scream at him and my fist caves in his already disemboweled face, he suddenly stretches taller than me and slams he against the roof. A loud and brief creak echoes inside my head and I grab at my neck under his intense grip. He suddenly disappears, my fingers tremble around rigid bends in my throat.

I look up to the sudden burst of energy, "What the-" A soldier comes to my side and I shoot him in the vest, a bullet flies through his head and he just drops, "Puppers!?"

I duck as bullets fly near me and grab the mic, "Mama!? Where's Jan?!" "You guys take Puppers and go." The big naked man growls from behind cover as the girl tends to the gunshot wounds in his chest. I squint as her whole body turns into water. It wraps around him in a thin veil, rain smacks against a smooth puddle around his body. He crawls and grabs a gun. Markus shouts, "Quit gawking and shoot back!" I shout and lean over the barricade, "Right!" I shoot as the big man quakes behind me. I duck, "He's going for the jeep! Cover him!" "That's what we're doing!" "He's getting on the gun, signal Markus to run with you on my word." I shout, "Markus!" I point to the jeep and he shakes his head, I hold up five fingers, then four. He nods, "Ready...now!" I bolt up and run for my life as bullets hail at the enemy. I open the car door and leap in as Markus gets in the driver seat. It starts up as I lean over to close my door. The jeep jerks back as bullets crack against it. The big guy roars and ducks inside. Blood doesn't spread inside the watery suit he wears. He plops down and mumbles something in a foreign language. I squint at him, that water veil doesn't soak into the seat, it's like he's a magnet. We push through the gate as Jeeps drive towards us ahead. They pull over, form a barricade and open fire. Markus shouts, "Come on!" He stomps on the gas as I lean in to look, Puppers leaps up onto one of them and swallows a soldier whole. I grab onto the back of Markus' seat and we are thrown forward a little as he crashes us through the other jeeps.

While the shootout rages on outside, Cornelius walks towards me as Bullet climbs up the rope, "Jan Myers." I nod, "Cornelius." He sighs, "I don't know where Kaylin is. He keeps us separate." I roll my shoulder, "What about a lab?" He shrugs, "Phrase?" "Taste of home, with biblical values buried underneath." His head leans in, "Above even me." I shake my head, "There a back exit?" He smiles, "Even better."

I huff and puff as Carter eye's go wide on the beach with a bloody chunk of meat in his hand, "Slim?" I huff out cigarette smoke and grab the huge gash in my side, "Bye now." I zoom back into the warehouse and position myself to pass out on the couch.

I smile and cut off my arm. It immediately starts growing back as I pick up the syringe with a note rolled around it. I open it. I toss it down and start laughing, "Off limits? Really?" And here I thought angels aren't supposed to have favorites. I take a deep sniff of the sea spray. "How sinful."