CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

The wolf didn't let up his attack. He pressed on again and again. Each strike carrying the same fury as the last one.

"Right! We should..." Og'drimun hesitated. "Uh, should we actually do anything? He seems pretty focused."

I mean, I don't know, bro. Death shrugged. Anything could be going on in that head of his.

"Then I say we should..." there was another pause, before Og'drimun called out. "We should keep defending our friends right here."

"Whoa!" the tiny demon called out in surprise as a shockwave from the wolf's attack knocked his skeletal mech and/or friend back with him inside.

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Sid pulled his hand away, and then his eyes flashed open. The next moment, his body went limp, and he crumbled to the floor next to the corpse of the old man in the mechanical coffin.

"I tried to warn you." The young girl's voice scolded.

"What...what is happening to me?" Sid groaned as his body twitched ever so slightly on the floor.

"Safeguards of course." she explained. "Upon killing him command has transferred to you. Of course, that comes with more stringent requirements."

Several mechanical arms descended from the ceiling. They were holding wires, syringes, and several strange pieces of metal.

Sid was helpless on the ground as he was stabbed with the syringes. The metal was pressed against his body and latched around onto him. Wires were plugged into the metal, and sparks flew into the air where they connected.

Sid's eyes rolled back into his head as his body started to convulse.

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"Stay calm. You are merely reaping what you sew." she said softly.

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"Seems he's still at it." Sentenza mumbled as he stood at the edge of the tunnel.

In front of him was the large chamber with the fleshy room to the side. A hairless wolf missing a leg was attacking a giant metal orb with a sword made from ice as a cold mist followed him around. And near the fleshy room was a fuzzy ball of evil sitting inside the rib cage of a skeleton that was holding a scythe.

It was quite the strange scene, but nothing too far-fetched with what the cowboy had seen recently.

"Wwwhhhaaattt iiiissss tttthhhaaattt?" Bakade asked as she pointed a bony claw towards the strange, square room.

Sentenza scratched the back of his head with the barrel of his gun as he clicked his tongue. "That's uh...it's...hmm..."

He fidgeted around and reached up with his other hand to scratch his neck as he lowered his gun. "Best I can say is it's that demon's mess."

"Oooookkkaaayyy?" Bakade sighed as she looked out at the battle in front of her.

Nugget stirred slightly, as the chill from the wolf seemed to reach them even there.

Sentenza glanced over but didn't seem overly sympathetic about the chicken's situation.

"Any idea who that is?" Sentenza asked as he pointed towards the wolf.

Bakade shook her head. "Nnnoooo. Hhhheeee iiiiissss rrreeeaaalllllyyyy ssstttrrrrooonnnggg. Aaaaatttttaaaccckkkeeeddd mmmmeee aaaannnddd Nnnnuuuggggeeeettttt, bbbuuuttt nnnoooowww iiiisss fffooocccuuusssseeeedddd oooonnnn aaaatttttaaaaccckkkiiinnnggg ttthhhaaattttt ttthhhhiiinnnggg."

A glint of anger twinkled in Sentenza's eyes. "You don't say." he grumbled as his eyes peered straight at the wolf.

Without another word, Sentenza leaped down and with seemingly no effort, he began to slide down the wall on the heels of his boots. His balance was perfect as he kept an eye on the wolf. He pulled out both of his guns, and opened fire.

Twelve shots. Each fired one after the other in perfect rhythm.

They didn't head towards the wolf. Instead, they slammed into the side of the giant metal ball. All of them hit the exact same spot. With each pushing the one before it in even further.

The wolf seemed to ignore that completely. Nothing changed as he continued to try and crack open the giant machine.

Sentenza made it to the bottom of the circular wall and nodded as he almost instantly reloaded both of his pistols.

"Wwwhhhyyy dddiiiddd yyyooouuu dddooo ttthhhaattt?" Bakade asked as she landed next to Sentenza. "Aaaarrreee yyyoouuu tttrryyyiiinnggg tttoooo mmmmaaaakkkkeee eeennneemmmiiieeessss?"

Sentenza holstered both of his guns and methodically put a cigarillo into his mouth before he lit it. He took a long, slow drag off of it, and then let out a puff of smoke.

"Nope. Wanted to see for myself." Sentenza explained.

He pointed at the wolf. "He's clearly a killer, but he seems focused too. And when I attacked the thing he's after, he didn't seem to care. Means he's too focused to pay much attention to us."

"IIIIII ggguuueeessss?" Bakade shrugged.

"Also means this is our best shot to kill him." he added with a tinge of anger in his voice to go along with the threat.

Bakade turned to him abruptly. "Wwwwhhhaaattt?"

Sentenza's eyes followed the wolf's insane speed as easily as if he was watching someone walking down the street. "He's moving fast, but it'd be like shooting a guy in the back while he's staring down some sheriff."

a young girl's voice echoed through the underground chamber, "Update complete."

Hundreds of spider robots flew out of the giant machine as it started to unfold. They latched onto the wolf's blade as they froze solid. More and more latched onto each other, until enough had grabbed on that the small robots in the back weren't freezing completely anymore.

A giant hand reached out and grabbed the mass of robots as it stopped the forward momentum of the wolf completely.