This is a teaser to an ongoing fanfic I will be writing with no regular updates. This is the preview of what will be in the bulk of the story. The beginning chapters that explain everything will be ahead, if you like this sort of standalone chapters, follow, if you prefer a story more plot driven and less standalone, then you should find another story.

Memories flashed into my head. Watching the dark figure push my parents into the abyss, finding it was Ekko that was in the laboratory that day. It was the single worst moment of my life. My parents and idol snatched away just like that.

I stared at my hands, covered by black leather gloves. How much have I given up for the sake of revenge? How many people have I lied to? How many people did I hurt? I pulled out Jinx's gun, its weight familiar. I had lied to her, a prank I said, for Ekko. It'll give him the surprise of his lifetime.

Nothing else will compete for its title anyways.

I felt my memories overwhelm me again, I was so close. In just one hour, everything will finally be over.

"Report, I have successfully delivered Pyrite to Luden. Luden will be coming soon."

"Good job, your cash will be at two feet, east, in a black box."

I stood up, exited my room, and walked down the hallway. I walked up the stairs and entered the living room. I had rented the mansion for ten thousand dollars. I won't need it anymore soon enough.

I opened a secret compartment on the side, and I hid, waiting for my cameras to pick up Ekko. The room was reinforced, I had done so. There was only one exit, and no one was going to be leaving anyway.

I leaned against the wall behind me, steeling myself for the confrontation.

It'll all be over, one way or another, in just one hour.

I watched him turn the device on the moment I entered the room.

Ekko turned around, I stepped out of the darkness.

"Hello, Ekko."

He turned around, a surprised look passed his features for less than a second. So he hasn't Chronobreaked yet.

I held up a Zaunite badge for police, I tricked him thinking he needed one to access the prison cells.

"Are you looking for this?"

"Maybe, what's it to you?"

I dropped it to the ground, and crushed it beneath my heels.

"I've been waiting a long time for this Ekko. You should of activated your Z-drive earlier, because now you're never going to get out of here alive."

Ekko held up his sword, and smirked at me.

"Never lost a fight yet."

I laughed. "There's a first to everything, a first to losing, a first to winning, a first to having your idol murder your family."

Ekko paused. "I never killed any innocents."

I pressed on, ignoring his lies. "They were just scientists, trying to make a living, they were working on a cure for all this pollution! Trying to make Zaun a better place. I practically worshiped you Ekko. You saved people, you brought them in. But I know what you're doing, you're just trying to make your own gang."

I shuddered, remembering watching the black figure push my parents into the dark abyss.

"You killed them without a second thought, you pushed them aside, into the reactor. They died in front of me."

Ekko stopped. He remembered. I knew it.

"You mean, I… killed them?"

"You made me this way Ekko. You my life from me. You protect the lost children of Zaun? You think you're so noble? You're no different from them, and I'm about to cleanse this world of one more parasite!"

Ekko shook his head. "I never meant to kill anyone."

I shrugged. "It's too late. For them, and for you."

I threw a dice in the air, it had a total of ten sides, one for every single fighting strategy.

It landed on the ground, a four.

He looked at the dice questioningly. I gave him a triumphant smile.

"The thing about dice is, even the smallest difference will change the outcome. Nothing I do will make any difference, and it will always be a four if I roll it. However, you will change. When you lose, I'll see the scratches, and that'll affect the outcome, because I'll be too busy studying it."

I pulled out a sword. "You won't win this time, Ekko."

I stood still, and I waited. Ekko blinked in my direction, his sword carving through the air towards me. Fool. I grabbed his sword with my hand, feeling it cut through my muscles, and I slashed my sword against Ekko's arm, he narrowly dodged the first swipe, only a small cut, but I tugged his sword towards me and I was about to stab my sword through him when he let go of the sword and jumped back.

I grinned at him, ignoring the pain screaming in my left hand.

"Go ahead, feel free to reset. Your end is near. "

I sat down on the ground, getting comfortable.

"I'll be here."

He gritted his teeth.

"REVERSING POLARITY."

Ekko was already facing me as I entered the room. A cut on his arm was dripping blood.

I smiled, and threw the dice up in the air. It was a six.

"Guess I'm pretty good at what I'm doing huh?"

I picked up the dice again, and I frowned.

Ekko ran at me, hoping to catch off guard, I pressed the one on the dice in, and threw it at him. It glowed red.

Ekko realized it was an explosive and rolled to the side, but he still got hit by the shock-wave.

He groggily got up, and saw me holding a gun at him.

"REVERSING POLARITY."

Ekko was already facing me as I entered the room. A cut on his arm was dripping blood, and he looked battered.

I smiled, and threw the dice in the air. It was a 10.

"I guess I'm pretty good at what I'm doing huh?"

I turned around, and locked the door, then I flipped a lever on the wall.

He stood still, and the lights turned on. I pulled out a sword.

We stood still for a bit, and I slowly walked towards him. Eventually, I started coughing, and Ekko started to cough too.

Suddenly, he realized that the lever did more than one thing, there was gas being poured into the room, and once again he slammed the button.

"Reversing-*cough*-polarity."

Ekko was already facing me as I entered the room. A cut on his arm was dripping blood, and he looked battered, and was coughing up gas.

I smiled, waiting for him to finish coughing. I threw the dice in the air, it was a two.

"I guess I'm pretty g-"

I suddenly grabbed a mace from the corner of the room, and charged him. I swung, and he narrowly rolled to the side, caught off guard by the surprise attack, only to dash towards me and sink his sword through me. I instantly brought it back and smashed it against him, although he had deflected it with his sword, the electricity coming off it stunned him. I pulled out a knife, gave him a shallow slash on his stomach, and held it to his throat.

"Do it, reset."

I felt weakened from the blood loss, and what seems to be an eternity later, Ekko finally recovered from the electricity, and slammed on the button again.

Ekko was already facing me as I entered the room. A cut on his arm was dripping blood, and he looked battered, looked ill, and there was a cut on his stomach.

I threw a dice in the air, a three.

"Three. Her favorite number. She always said… *sob* always said they were lucky. This dice is all that I have left of her…"

"You took it all away."

I charged him with a sword, missing every hit, he first tried to dodge, but when he realized in my anger I was barely managing to make a dent on anything, he disarmed me easily.

I fell down. Pounding the ground with my fists.

"Why did you kill them Ekko? WHY?! You were supposed to be good. You were supposed to help Zaun, to give us a brighter future. But you took her away from me, you took everything away from me. They were my family. Did you think of that when you pushed them? That they were people, that someone loved them?"

I remained that way for another minute, before he came to his sense and started patting my head, trying to comfort me. I suddenly grabbed my knife and sank it deep within his leg.

I stared at him, a malicious grin covered my face, I could see his shock. I swiped at him with another knife hidden in my sleeves, but he already slammed the button, and I saw the blue glow take him away.

Ekko was already facing me as I entered the room. A cut on his arm was dripping blood, and he looked battered, looked ill, and there was a cut on his stomach, and a deep gash in his leg.

He looked angry.

I laughed.

"You think I would spare you after what you did to me? I'm going to kill you Ekko. I am going to break you bit by bit until you beg me to release you from this world. You're going to pay for what you did. What you did to my family."

Ekko glared at me. "I know how to beat you, and I will survive."

I just shook my head sadly. "You're not going to win.

I looked at him, a smile full of malice. "We'll be here together, fighting forever. Misery is more fun with company."

He spat on the ground, disgusted.

"Watch me.

I entered the room and a sword was already coming at me, I dodged left instinctively and pulled out my sword. Ekko.

He pressed on, I parried. He slashed right, I blocked it, and he tried to kick me from the side, I twirled my body away from the kick and slashed down, slicing his body diagonally.

He immediately pressed the button.

"ONE MORE TIME."

I entered the room and a sword was already coming at me, I dodged left instinctively and pulled out my sword. Ekko

He pressed on, I parried. He slashed right, I blocked it, and he tried to kick me from the side, I twirled my body away from the kick suddenly a felt a sword in me. The kick was a bluff. I failed.

I felt my blood leave me, and I fell on the ground, his sword still in me. I didn't even lock the door. All my work, gone. Just like that.

Ekko stood over me. His face stoic.

"Just, please. Tell me why you did it. Why did you kill them? You were a hero to me."

He turned his back to me.

"ANSWER ME! YOU TOOK EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING!"

"One more time."

Ekko turned around, I stepped out of the darkness. Something was off.

"Hello Ekko."

He was already sitting down, there was a cut on his arm, two on his body, he was battered and bruised, blood flowing from his thigh and looked ill.

"Please, just stop. I never meant for any of this happen, I never wanted to kill anyone. I never wanted to hurt anyone."

He stared at me with a pleading look.

"Just, stop. Let this end. Let me go, and forget everything, let go of this anger, find new meaning in your life. I don't want to kill you again."

I felt a part of me shatter. He was telling the truth, I could see it in his eyes. But, why would he care about me? He killed two already with no remorse. No, he was here for another reason.

He was here to kill me again, to prolong my suffering, even I didn't know he was this psychopathic.

"You got a SICK sense of humor."

He acted shocked, he acted hurt. He feinted surprise.

"I'm serious, I never wanted any of that to happen, please you have to believe me."

I gave him a cruel smile, "I know what happened, you tricked me, somehow. You convinced me all was well. I let you through, and you backstabbed me. But one betrayal kill wasn't enough, was it? You wanted more. You wanted to see my face again."

"Are you trying to spare me like I'm some idiot?"

He hesitated.

"You're going to die here, period."

I held back another sob, he loved rhymes. I steeled myself once more, I will see him soon.

I brought out a detonator. "I knew I could fight you, I knew I would beat you a couple of times. But I would never win. I was never meant to leave here alive."

Ekko eyes widened, genuine fear.

I pressed it, and a huge array of beeping noises came behind him. He turned around and saw the explosives on the wall beep red. I could sense him panic, and I knew what he was going to do.

"DO OV-"

I pulled out a gun with practiced ease, thousands of hours of practice paying off. I put my right foot in front, pivoted my body sideways and grabbed the pistol from my left leg. I swung it across my body and whipped it down as I aimed and shot, all with a smooth motion, at Ekko's back. The wire cracked down from the gun at an astounding rate, barely visible through the air.

Zap!

He felt the electrical shock go through his machine, and the Z-drive overloaded, wires bursting. This time, his machine failed to respond to him.

Turning slowly with horror on his face, he stared at me. I had still not moved, Jinx's signature pistol in my hand, the wire attached, the charge long since spent.

"What have you done?"

He recognized the gun, it was Jinx's, and I could sense his spirit shatter ever more.

I slowly lowered my pistol, the only sound was the ever faster and faster beeps on the bombs.

I laughed, the pistol falling with a clatter. All those years, all of those sleepless nights, all of those breakdowns, all of the practice had finally brought me to this moment.

I fell on my knees, feeling emotions come over me.

"I've done what I should of done eight years ago, I've done what I needed to, I've repaired time, I've restored balance. I have avenged my family, and now I can finally rest."

I tilted my head at the ceiling, smiling, accepting my fate. I heard the boom, and watching it collapse, burying the sins of my past forever.

Jinx clapped in glee, seeing the bright zap, thinking everything went to plan, that Ekko just got the best prank of his life, only to hear the explosions and the roof collapse on the both of them. On Ekko. It. . . couldn't be. He promised. He promised! This was all a joke right? An even more elaborate prank.

Jinx ran through the pile of rubble, digging up the tiles, her desperation giving her scrawny body strength. After what seems like hours, she found the body of Ekko, broken by the ceiling, and the Z-drive was crushed.

There was some odd about it though.

Her taser was sticking out of it, and the wires around it were blackened.

Her friend had killed Ekko. He betrayed her.

She felt the world crumble around her.

"He was an agent from Piltover, he was meant to eliminate threats before they existed, a new protocol. Made by the one and only, 'Hat lady.'"

Jinx whirled around, a figure in the darkness. She was mad, desperately mad, and broken.

"You have five seconds to talk before I start shooting. One, four, five."

Jinx pulled out her mini-gun and started firing away at the mysterious stranger, he laughed, and in movements she could barely see, he managed to cleave through the bullets, somehow remaining unharmed.

"Wha? How? Oh you. . . "

Jinx took out her rocket launcher, launching her mega death rocket. He seem to simply teleport in front of it, and it blew up in the background.

He finally stepped into the light, all bloodthirsty two and a half meter of him.

"I am one of the gods of war, you can't possibly even scratch me."

Jinx threw down her rocket, losing the strength to care. "Then just kill me."

Aatrox just shook his head.

"I can offer you revenge. They killed Ekko for some stupid "order", they killed him just so their life would be more convenient. They killed those you loved because they couldn't kill you."

Jinx was on the ground, and she had clutched her knees.

"I was never serious about it, I just wanted. . . to have fun. To get excited you know?"
Aatrox fell on one knee, to her eye level.

"All you have to do, is take my hand, and I will fix everything."

Feeling betrayed and broken, she shakily grasped his hand, and felt a surge of power.

The last thing she saw was his grin.