Chapter 6: Time to Face Your Fears

A year has passed since Nick, along with the members of Overwatch arrived in the capital of the Alliance. This was the home of the heroes who were able to escape the Federation, a safe zone for heroes and other beings that come out of the Rifts. During this time Nick trained his powers and abilities, thanks to Zenyatta he was able to gain the powers of soul, and energy, Hanzo was then able to teach him Dragonstrike, Genji then taught him dragonblade. Also during this time Nick found out that he can master any weapon by just picking it up. Nick did not just train his powers and his body, but his mind giving himself more knowledge about who he was fighting. The figure that Damien fought and died too, Nick was not able to be found in any books, this did make Nick less nervous about fighting him, but it was still there.

"Okay, Nick was it." Tony Stark asked Nick, who was getting ready.

"Yes, sir. I'm ready for my first mission for the League of Heroes." Nick replied with the most enthusiasm someone who was going to risk their lives could have.

"Good, you're going back to your high school, our spies found out the demon child Chara, is hold up the place." Tony reformed Nick

"Okay, and." Nick said.

"She is looking for you, she has captives, civilians they are around your age." Tony said, this put Nick in shock, to go back to a place where it all began, to face someone so powerful.

"Okay, so what should I do?" Nick asked.

"That is up to you, this will prove yourself as a hero." Tony replied this somewhat relieved Nick. It was not the responsibility that frightened him, it was Chara. After a couple minutes of thinking and coming up with a plan to make it out alive, with his friends. Nick decided to make a small strike team, so he picked Hanzo and Reaper, giving him the sneaking advantage. After the journey back to the school, Nick's heart began to race, and adrenaline pumped through his veins. They enter the school, by the gym.

"Huh, it's like it never happened." Nick said, he started to remember the day, when the Rifts open, the Fireling killing his gym teacher, and the decisions he had to make. This flooded him with dread and anger, he thought to himself "If only I did not leave i could have stopped all this from happening, I could have protected them." After wandering the halls for a while around the gym, they all started to head to the main lobby. Nick walked in first, as he peaked around the corner he could see his friends: Chris, Matt, John, and Juliet. As they could see him, they all shocked their heads no, but as soon Nick noticed, he heard a voice, one that sounded like his.

"I knew you would show up." Nick turned his head to where the voice was coming from, and there were two people standing there, both he knew Chara and someone who looked just liked him. As Hanzo and Reaper tried to walk in they were stopped by an invisible barrier, neither of them could get through, no matter what they did. "You look confused, like you have seen a ghost."

"Who the hell are you, why do you look like me?" Nick asked.

"Why I am you. Well not exactly like you, I'm the opposite of you personality wise, if you are good then I am evil." Evil Nick said

"Just let, my friends go, it's me you want not them. They have nothing to do with this." Nick said.

"Oh they do, they will watch you die, then they will die." Evil Nick said

"Than you are going down!" Nick screamed. He teleported; however, He was caught by the Evil version of him. "What the?" Nick said as the floated in the air.

"I am stronger than you Nick, now prepare to die." The evilier version said

as he through Nick into the wall, Nick let out a yelp, never in his time with his powers has he faced someone stronger than him, or who could catch him mid teleport. Nick quickly got back up and leaped at the dark figure, with a fist full of flames ready to punch. As he got ready for impact Evil Nick teleport on top of Nick and jumped off of his back, pushing Nick to the ground. He landed on a table breaking it in half, Nick stud back up, he was failing in front of his friends and loved ones, they watched in fear as Nick was being beaten from all angles.

Nick tried to block the punches from the darker version of him beat him. Nick surrounded himself with flames, to push away evil Nick. Nick turned around and began to shoot electricity out of his finger tips, zapping the other Nick. Chara seeing her "friend" be electrocuted she ran towards Nick, and swung his knife at Nick, creating a red line that flew towards Nick. Nick quickly teleported away, allowing evil Nick to gain his footing. He summoned another set of Gaster Blasters, this time Nick evaded every shoot. "This is getting interesting." Evil Nick said, watching Nick evade with ease.

"How can you summon Gaster Blasters, Sans would never train you." Nick said firing fire blasts at the dark version at him.

Putting up a wall of rocks to block the oncoming fire blasts. "These are not the regular Gaster Blasters you are acquainted with, these are my own version." Evil Nick said. He sent another set of Gaster Blasters more than before, this time completely surrounding Nick. Nick quickly created a barrier surrounding himself with rocks. The power of all the blasters, broke through the barrier and hit Nick. Nick could not teleport away due to the fact he could not concentrate on a location in that proximity. Nick collapsed on to the ground. Evil Nick summoned his own variation of Undyne's spears, he threw them into Nick's hands knocking Nick down, "Now die Hero!" He screamed as he pounced onto Nick and stabbing him in the chest.

As Evil Nick stood victorious over Nick's corpse " See your hero dead, now it is your turn to die, Chara do your thing". Chara moved to attack Hanzo and Reaper, who stood helpless, to watch their friend die, both were filled with Rage. The cries of his friends and family filled the room, cries of fear and sadness.

Nick's body began to glow a bright blue, his body began to levitate the power of both souls, and the cries of the Multiverse resonated throughout Nick's being. The holes Nick body glew the brightest as they healed. The glow moved to his eyes and his hands, the aura was extremely bright, it light up the entire room. Evil Nick turned around to see his fallen victim rise and stand on his own feet. "How are you still alive!" Evil Nick said surprised that Nick was standing.

"The power of the Multiverse. Now I recommend you run or fight." Nick's voice echoed, sounding like there were other people speaking along with him.

"Now there is a challenge, this should be fun." Evil Nick said charging at Nick, as he got close Nick prepared his defence. Evil Nick tried his old attack on Nick, but every time he swung Nick blocked. With every hit a flash of energy was created from Nick's blocks. Nick teleported a couple feet from evil Nick, he fired a beam of light evil Nick fired a beam of darkness. The beams collided together, the hum was intense. The clash of both beams put a lot of stress on both Nicks, the power struggle to show who was stronger. Their power equalled out, even Nick in his his most powerful form could not outrank his evil doppelganger. Than evil Nick drew on his rage."I will strike you down!" Evil Nick said as the beam got closer to Nick. "Now die" The beam got a close to Nick's hands as it could without touching, than Nick's eyes began to glow brighter becoming from a light blue to a bright blue, like the blue of a crayon. The red beam began to get push closer to evil Nick by Nick's beam of light. "What is happening, how are you winning!" Evil Nick said as the blue beam came in contact with is body. The immense power knocked Evil Nick back.

"The power of the soul is more powerful than your anger." Now it is time to finish you off." Nick said with his voice an echo.

"Let's go before it's too late." Chara said.

"I agree, until next time boy." Evil Nick said as he and Chara teleported in a smoke of darkness. Nick's eyes, heads, and voice went back to normal, as he gained his regular form the barrier that once held back Hanzo and Reaper went away.

"What was that, you were dead?" Reaper questioned Nick, who seemingly .

"Now I have some explaining to do, huh."