Ramona has never felt so scared before in her life before. The exes were all charging her at once and she was totally rooted to the spot. She felt like Scott when he first fought Matthew Patel. All he did was ask 'what should he do.'

'FIGHT!'

Wallace's words broke threw her clouded mind and she jumped into the air edging over Gideon's sword slice. She landed on the sand and deflected Lucas's skateboard. She kicked him in his gut, but Kyle punched her in the back shoving her into Lucas' backhand. Ramona fell into the sand and rolled to the right avoiding Matthew's fireball.

"Hold on!" Ramona yelled making Gideon halt mid-charge. "Why are you guys trying to kill me? I'm already dead."

"Just because you're dead now doesn't mean you'll stay that way as you've seen with Roxy and Todd," Gideon stated.

"We kill you here," Kyle started.

"And you'll be gone forever," Ken continued.

"As if you never existed," Matthew finished.

Kyle and Ken directed their gaze at Matthew.

GLARE

"What?" Matthew asked. They just continued to glare at him. "Am I missing something here?" He asked them.

"You finished our thought. That's our thing and our thing alone. Haven't you read the books?" Kyle asked.

"Isn't that Pilgrim's lame line?" Lucas asked.

"What books are you guys talking about?" Gideon asked then looked around frantically. "Hey? Where'd Ramona go?"

"There she is!" Lucas shouted pointing with two fingers. Ramona was running off into the distance.

"Let her go for now. It's not like she has any place to go to," Gideon said polishing off his sword with his tie.

"We're going to have to go after her eventually. We won't know where in this blasted desert she is," Lucas said to him.

"That's already taken care of. Right Matthew?"

"That is correct G-Man. Ladies," Matthew said and the four demon hipster chicks materialized into view.

"You called Matty?" They all asked in unison.

"We need you to tale Ms. Heartbreaker for us for about say 30 minutes. That should be enough time before she passes out. After that three of you keep track of her while the fourth reports back to let us know her position."

"You got it," the ladies responded and took off into the sunlight.

Ramona was staggering and stumbling with each step; the unbearable heat from the sun draining all her strength. But she had to keep moving. She couldn't let them kill her. Well kill her again that is.

"I can't believe I'm dead!" She shouted in her mind. "This means I'll never see Scott again. Scott." The image of his body lying somewhere in the city was still fresh in her mind. If Envy and Julie were prepared for her then someone probably intercepted Neil, Stacey, and Knives. That could mean that Scott could be dead for all she knew. Ramona had never felt this angry before. She wanted to personally kill Envy and Julie for what they did to her, but nothing can be done now. She was alone now. So alone.

"So alone," Ramona whispered as she still ran.

So alone.

The words broke through Scott's hazed mind. He lifted his head off of the cold street. He was soaking wet from head to toe. The power of self respect still clung in his right hand.

"What happened?" He mumbled. He hadn't remembered falling, but then again he didn't remember a lot of things. All he could recall was the fight against Perfect Chaos and then the energy from the sword leave him, then Ramona saying 'so alone', before he woke up here. Scott weakly looked around his surroundings and saw Ramona lying a large, but reachable, distance away from him.

"Ramonaaaaa," Scott groaned out and tried to stand, but his body refused to stand up. Scott wasn't going to give up, however, and painstakingly started to crawl over to her.

Stacey and Neil followed Claire and Leon down a long and dark corridor. Knives had been led into another subspace door by Ryu Habusa approximately five minutes ago. Now it was just Neil and Stacey dressed as Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine with Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy. If Neil's life weren't at stake he'd be geeking out right now. Instead he only kept his mouth shut. The only sounds heard were the breaths inhaled and exhaled by the four as well as the sound of their feet against the metal floor. Stacey could feel her bite mark burn a little and that made her heart beat start to race slightly. Her quiet breaths also started to get quicker. Noticing this Neil reached over and took her hand making her calm down a little.

He looked at her and mouthed out, "it'll be ok."

Stacey nodded her and got closer to Neil as they started to reach the end of the hallway. Neil kept his eyes transfixed on Claire and Leon. He was a little afraid of what they had in store for him and Stacey. Without their weapons they had no real way of getting the drop on them. They stopped in front of the door and Claire activated a retina scan. After that Leon scanned his hand print and the door sprung to life. It opened up and Leon motioned for the pair to go through. The obeyed and went inside a dark room. Once the door shut the lights came on revealing a large T.V. monitor. The monitor came on revealing the back of a chair. The chair spun around and sitting in it was none other than Julie Powers; decked out in a pair of sun glasses, black gloves, and a black jacket.

"Welcome to the Hive, ****ers."

"Julie. When I get my hands on you," Stacey began to threaten then felt her bite mark act up again.

"You're running on borrowed time and a very short amount at that. The more anger you generate the quicker you're going to become just like these guys." Julie picked up a remote and pressed it. The monitor changed to another area of the Hive showing a group of zombies ravaging part of the building. The monitor changed to a group of lickers locked up in their cages; cages that didn't look like they would be holding for much longer. The monitor went black and changed back to Julie.

"Those poor lickers. They haven't had any fresh human meat in months. I'm sure they'll be thrilled to see you two," Julie said giving the two an evil smile. Even if it was an evil one it was still very scary (not to mention weird) to see an actual smile on Julie's face.

"Neil," Stacey whispered as quietly as she could. "I need you to create a quick distraction." Neil nodded and started slowly stepping towards Claire and Leon.

"Now if you two will brutally escort our prisoners to the licker level," Julie said, but spotted Neil trying to sneak up on her two pawns. "Behind you!" She warned. They turned around as quickly as they could only for Neil to tackle them. Neil punched Claire in the face and elbowed Leon in his nose. He blocked Claire's punch, but Leon grabbed him by the neck. Stacey reached into her shirt and pulled out a concealed grenade.

"Neil!" She yelled to grab his attention. Neil threw back his head into Leon's face and knocked away Claire's fist. He made a dive and Stacey threw the grenade. The two characters gasped as it landed next to them and attempted their own dive. The grenade went off and blasted them both into the nearest wall. Their bodies glowed red from the damage as they connected with it and landed on top of one another.

Neil spotted one of their dropped guns and snatched it up before racing out the door followed by Stacey.

"Get them you ****ing idiots!" Julie shouted at them. Leon and Claire rolled their eyes and started to untangle themselves. After doing that for two minutes they got up and rushed out the door. They didn't see them in the hallway, but they couldn't have gotten far. They jogged down the hallway and opened the first door on the right.

"Looks like we just missed them," Claire said noticing the broken ammo boxes.

"I'm surprised how quickly they got away. Especially seeing as the girl's been bitten."

"Achoo!"

"Bless you," Leon said.

"I didn't sneeze," Claire said taking out her gun.

"Then who?" Leon started, but stopped when Claire pointed her gun in the direction the sneeze came from. Leon moved towards an over turned table and pulled it away from the wall revealing an opened air conditioning vent.

"Gotcha now," Leon said with a smile.

Stacey was crawling through the air vent as quickly as she could. Neil was right behind her keeping his gun aimed down the vent.

"Keep moving Stacey," he said.

"I'm trying Neil," she said feeling tired and sweaty. "I don't know how much longer I can hold out," she said before collapsing to the floor. Neil was quickly over to her and held her close.

"Don't give up on me Stacey," he whispered shaking her. Stacey's eyes opened, but their color had changed to an intimidating red color.

"Neil what is it?" She weakly asked him then realized her vision had changed. "The virus is taking over. You have to kill me."

"I'm not going to kill you," Neil said stubbornly. "There has to be a cure in this base somewhere."

*Clang*

"What was that?" Neil asked pulling out a flash light and pointing it at the floor. "Grenade!" He yelled and nearly started pushing Stacey down the vent. The grenade went off blasting them both forward.

"Neil? Neil?" Stacey called out despite being in a daze. They had been very fortunate that the grenade hadn't been right next to them, but it still did damage. Neil was out cold and wouldn't move no matter how many times Stacey shook him. She didn't wait for him to regain consciousness and started to drag him back down the vent.

"I've got you Neil," she said as she strained to pull him to safety. She could hear the sounds of Claire and Leon crawling after them. Stacey came up to a portion of the vent that diverted to the left and the right. Stacey choose the left path, but failed to pay attention to what was behind her and didn't realize until it was too late that she had come to a dead end. Well not exactly a dead end, but the only way to advance was a very long way down.

"They went this way!" Leon yelled. Stacey looked down the drop and took a deep breath.

"Geronimo!" She yelled going down the shaft pulling Neil after her.

Knives back flipped across the area; the power of the warrior knives in her hand. A group of shuriken flew towards her, but Knives blocked them all. She took a defensive stance and exhaled. Ryu Habusa had brought her to an arena where ninja came to pass their graduation test. But today there weren't any tests. Only a fight to the death. Knives' opponent remained calm and cool the entire fight. She never once spoke. She hadn't even used her weapon.

Name: Temari

Fandom: Naruto

Weapon of choice: A giant fan

Temari sprinted across the arena and Knives sprinted as well to keep up. Temari stopped her run and leapt into the air at speed too fast to be seen. Knives stopped and did the same. They flew at one another and Knives pulled back the power of the warrior to slice Temari in half. Temari pulled her fan out from behind her and swung it folded at Knives. The hard metal of the fan connected with the right side of Knives chest. She held back a cry of pain as she flew downward to the ground. Knives crashed into the dirt and rolled in it a few times before coming to a rough stop. Knives dug her weapons into the dirt and used them to push herself up. Temari was on the ground as well; fan unfolded.

"You first," she challenged. Knives narrowed her eyes and threw her blood red blades at the blonde ninja.

Temari swung her giant fan and a mighty gust of wind blasted away the knives, but that wasn't all. Knives at first shielded her eyes from the big gust, but then could fell multiple cuts forming on her body. Knives grit her teeth and fought to keep still in the ground, but the wind was far too great and she felt herself get lifted off her feet towards the wall. Knives made a hard crash against it and the crowd erupted in a thunderous applause. Temari smirked at the sight of Knives trying to stand back up again.

She could tell that 18 year old was weak from that one attack alone. Temari didn't even bother to wait for Knives to stand and ran all the way to her. She folded up her giant fan and jammed it into Knives' chest. The feeling of the metal driving into her made Knives gasp out; the gasp changing to a yell when Temari used the fan to body slam her to the floor. Once again the audience cheered while Knives panted on the ground

"See this?" Temari asked unfolding her fan. She was pointing at a purple sphere on her fan. "That's moon number one; two more moons and your dead." Knives glared at Temari and shouted something at her in Chinese.

"What did you just say?"

"I don't know!" Knives yelled and jumped up throwing out a kick at Temari's chin. Temari blocked it and grabbed Knives' arm. She twisted it behind Knives' back pulled out a kunai knife. She tried to stab Knives, but she managed to stop it and slipped out of Temari's hold.

"Impatient are we? Ok then. Moon number 2!" Temari cried out swinging her fan. An even bigger gust of wind hit Knives tearing into more of her flesh. The wind blasted her back once again. Knives felt the wind get knocked out of her and the air leave her lungs as she collided with the ground once more. Through the cloud of dust Knives saw Temari approaching her. Knives couldn't will her body to move no matter how much she wanted to. Temari stepped out of the cloud with the final moon on her fan revealed.

"You ready! ?" She called out.

"No," Knives mumbled into the dirt.

"Moon number three! Wind Scythe Jutsu!" This blast of wind was the worst of all of them. Knives was lifted into the air and became trapped in a whirling tornado. She spun around faster and faster with each passing second. The wind cutting into literally every inch of her skin that it could.

"Make it stop, make it stop, make it stop!" Knives screamed in her mind.

"Don't bother resisting! It'll only prolong your death!" Temari yelled to her.

"KNIVESSSSS!"

"What the?" Temari thought turning in the direction of the scream. What looked like a black cloud of smoke whizzed past her chest, flew into the tornado, and landed in the ground. Temari looked dumbstruck at the sight of a girl dressed in black, with blonde hair, and very red lips.

"Roxy. You came for me," Knives said.

"Save your strength, Knives. You'll need it," Roxy said lifting her up.

"How did you get here?" Temari questioned prepping her fan again.

"You guys aren't the only ones that know how to access sub-space." Roxy informed her.

"Well good for you. Get ready to be blown away!" Temari shouted, but as she swung her fan she felt a deep pain flush through her chest and then her entire upper half separated from her bottom. Her upper half crashed into the ground and exploded into several quarters. Her bottom half fell back into the ground and exploded into coins as well. Roxy smirked and turned her attention back to Knives.

"How did you do that?" Knives asked in a daze.

"Cut her on my way in," Roxy explained picking up Knives. "Let's get you out of here."

"I think not!" Ryu Habusa declared from the stands. He leapt out and landed in front of the half-ninja and 18 year old.

Name: Ryu Habusa

Rating: M for Mature

Fandom: Ninja Gaiden

Scott finally reached Ramona. He gasped at the sight of two holes in her body. "Ramona," He whispered and reached forward to take her hand. It felt cold as ice. "No. You can't be dead Ramona," he said finding the strength to sit up and pick up her body. Her body was as soaked as his, but dry or wet she still looked beuatiful to him. "Don't go," he pleaeded, but knew that she was gone and there weren't any extra lives to bring her back.

"That's not the thinking from the Scott Pilgrim I know," Wallace beamed into Scott's mind.

"What can I do Wallace? I have no way to revive her. I mean the phoenix down and the extra life from the last story and Volume Six respectively were just last second deus ex machinas for the climax of the stories. And given how this isn't the climax I don't think there's anything that can be done," he said as his voice started to crack.

"I want you to stop thinkng that way this instant Scott. Or else when I get out of this dimension the first thing I'm going to do is kick your ass to Kingdom Come and I'm not kidding."

"Well do you have any bright ideas?"

"The power to save Ramona rests within Scott. Well it 'rested' within."

"You aren't making any sense Wallace."

"Figure it out Scott."

Ramona collapsed into the sand; too weak to carry on. She turned over onto her back and saw what looked like three vultures circling over head. "Great. I'm going to die again and my body's going to be left for a bunch of blood thirsty scavengers," she muttered. "Dying sucks."

The vultures stopped circling and then Ramona saw something shooting down towards her.

"Oh shit!" Ramona cursed and quickly rolled to the left dodging a great big fireball. The flying figures all landed in front of Ramona with their hands on their hips.

"Not you guys," Ramona whined at the sight of the demon hipster chicks.

"Is that anyway to greet old friends?" The first demon asked.

Demon Hipster Chick # 1

Name: Mary

"No and neither is throwing a giant fireball at them," Ramona countered.

"You had plenty of time to dodge that fireball," the second demon said.

Demon Hipster Chick # 2

Name: Kate

"You intentionally gave me time to dodge it?"

"That's right," the third said.

Demon Hipster Chick # 3

Name: Ashley

"We've been instructed to keep you alive until your ex- boy toys catch up."

"Wait. Aren't there supposed to be four of you?" Ramona asked and then the ground blew up from behind her throwing her into Ashley's arms.

"I'm right here Ramona," the fourth hipster revealed as the flame in her hand went out.

Demon Hipster Chick # 4

Name: Olson

"Keep her steady Ashley," Gideon said as he polished off her sword.

"You pretentious ass!" Ramona yelled as she struggled with Ashley.

"Oh. That really hurts Ramona. Right here," Gideon said in a fake sad tone while pointing to his heart. "But then again this isn't the first time you've hurt me there is it?"

"You ignored me. It was only after I was gone that you paid attention. And let's not forget that oh I don't know. You had a ****ing chip installed in my head!" Gideon glared at Ramona, walked up to her, and slapped her.

Gideon Graves

What a dick

Ramona looked at Gideon with pure unrestrained hate in her eyes.

"Are you made at me Ramona?" Gideon asked then started to laugh. Ramona let out a yell and then rammed her knee into Gideon's private area. Gideon's body flashed red and he let out a yell before punching Ramona into the sand.

Bad! Bad!

Gideon looked at the words that appeared from nowhere and destroyed them with his sword. Sweaty, weak, and angry Ramona tried to push herself back up, but Gideon roughly brought down his foot onto her back. Gideon looked at the hipster chicks and motioned for them to go stand by the other exes, which they did.

"Before I destroy you, Ramona here's something you should know. This endless desert isn't another dimension. We're inside Scott's head."

"You're lying," Ramona said.

"How else would you explain the fact that you're frying to a crisp and the rest of us aren't even in the least bit affected by the heat. And let's not forget the attempted ambush by kyle and Ken earlier in the story. Both of them were copies of the real twins behind us. I created them with my thoughts, but that takes a lot out of me. Othewise you'd be surrounded by now. I'm in control here for the most part that is. If I was at full strength I could control Scott."

"How did we get here?"

"It was meant to be a failsafe in the event of my death. It was also meant to be a joke at the other exes' expense. When Scott killed me my soul entered his mind. I was planning on taking over his body from the inside out, but as it turned out this place had become my prison. I couldn't escape due to my decrease in power upon death. Luckily for me I didn't have to be here on my own. I had chips installed in all the other exes as well. Once they died they'd get trapped here too."

"Why would you do such a thing?" Ramona asked him. The heat was slowly over taking her. She wasn't sure how long she'd stay conscious.

"Because that's just the guy I am," he responded with a tone of arrogance. "But here's the real kicker. I won't be trapped here for much longer."

"How? There aren't any more extra lives."

"Wrong Flowers. When Todd came back he had a 'continue'. That 'continue' granted him three extra lives. After he escaped, Roxy stole the second extra life for herself, and then she shattered the third before escaping. It was broken into seven different pieces and scattered across the desert. It's taken us quite a while to track down each individual piece, but our task in nearly complete. Once I have the extra life the first thing I'm going to do is kill your precious Scott; slowly and painfully. I'll be sure to inform him how you spent your final minutes," Gideon said kicking Ramona onto her back.

"Take all this information with you into HELL!" He shouted and swung down his sword. Just as the cold steel of his sword was about to connect with Ramona a powerful shield materialized from nowhere protecting her.

"What! ?" Gideon shouted I surprise.

"I'm here for you Ramona! You're not alone!" Scott said with a hand over Ramona's heart; pouring as much energy from the power of self respect into her as he could.

"Scott," Ramona whispered. "Scott!" She called out feeling energized.

"I could use some help here!" Gideon shouted to the other members of the league. They all charged Ramona, but then a tremendous burst of energy fired from the shield sending them all sliding through the sand. Ramona levitated from the sand with her arms outstretched. Ramona's body arched and then something appeared out of her chest.

Ramona Flowers earned the power of Love!

Strength + 5

Speed + 7

Will +6

Ass kicking ability +9

"That's impossible! I destroyed that thing!" Gideon yelled.

Fun fact: Gideon also destroyed the power of self respect. A fact the writer forgot, but was too lazy to go back and fix once he realized it.

"You know what they say Gideon," Ramona said as she gripped the sword and levitated back to the sand. "There's nothing stronger than the power of love."

"Oh yeah. Well we'll just see about that!" Gideon shouted. "Kill her!"

Kingdom Hearts Organization boss them starts

Olson grabbed Ramona from behind and took off into the air. Once they reached an appropriate height Ashley shouted, "Going down!"

She took hold of Ramona and threw her to the ground. Ramona managed to gain control of her descent and spotted Mary, Kate, and Ashley flying directly at her. Ramona pulled back her sword and sliced at all three of them. They all burst into coins as Ramona continued falling directly towards the remaining evil exes. Matthew looked up in shock at the death of three of the hipster chicks while the other guys ran out of the path of Ramona.

"Move you idiot!" Lucas shouted out.

"Huh?" Matthew asked then saw Ramona. "Shit!" He cursed as Ramona crashed into him kicking up a large cloud of sand. When it all cleared only $3.00 in quarters remained. Lucas rolled his eyes and pulled out a gun. Ramona charged him as he fired. Ramona twirled her sword blocking every shot. Lucas discarded the hand gun and pulled out a machine gun from behind his back.

"Say hello to my little friend!" Lucas shouted then started laughing maniacally as he fired off the gun. Ramona jumped up and threw her sword at Lucas, but Ken deflected it with his sword. Ramona landed in the sand and snatched up her weapon. She dodged Kyle's jab and slashed out with her sword cutting off both his hands. He screamed out and fell to his knees. Ramona slashed his throat and then shoved her sword behind her impaling Ken. Both twins exploded into quarters.

A fireball crashed behind Ramona knocking her into the sand. Olson's eyes and hands were both on fire. She threw several more fireballs, but Ramona blocked them all. Ramona ducked another fireball, which flew over her and incinerated the unprepared Lucas. A giant ball of flame appeared in Olson's hands and continued to grow with each passing second.

"Catch this!" She yelled and threw the massive fireball at her. Ramona jumped directly at the flames and sliced at it destroying it. Olson gasped at the destruction of her attack and tried to dodge Ramona's slice; 'tried to' being the operative words. Ramona sliced her in half killing her.

An 'X' appeared on Gideon's glasses and he charged Ramona. She avoided his attacks and took a few swings at him, which he blocked. Ramona took a swing at him, but he leaned back avoiding the attack. Gideon swung down, but Ramona jumped back. They both rose up their swords and swung simultaneously. They connected and Gideon's shattered making him fall into the sand. Ramona pointed her sword at Gideon's neck; breathing angrily. Gideon started to crawl away from Ramona, but he wasn't getting very far.

"Come on Ramona. This isn't like you. You wouldn't kill me," Gideon said nervously.

"You couldn't be more wrong," Ramona declared and swung down at Gideon. Gideon kicked out his feet kicking the power of love out of Ramona's hand.

"You didn't think I'd go down that easy did you?" He chuckled. "Now let's try this again." Gideon said as the sky turned dark and lighting and rain started to fall. "I will scatter your pathetic soul to the winds!" He announced performing a series of hand signs. The ground started to shake and then a giant mech suit rose from it. Gideon let out an evil laugh and boarded his suit. Ramona gripped her sword and took a defensive stance.

"It's time to put my past behind me once and for all."

To Be Continued…

A/N: 'Total Chaos' was supposed to be one big chapter, but I don't want a repeat of the word length for 'Perfect Chaos' so I separated it. 'Total Chaos part 2 will conclude the Chaos Theatre Mini arc of the story. Also I did not forget about Kim. It's just that her section in 'Total Chaos Part 1' was relatively short and would have felt like it was shoe horned in. Hope the explanation for the endless desert was ok. See ya guys soon!