11 - Knight VS Knight (PART 2)
Luckily, since Quote and Shovel Knight were now traveling DOWN the stairs as opposed to climbing UP them, they were able to get past the staircase a lot faster. Thankfully, all of the Microsoft Drones had been disabled, but the staircase was already collapsing behind them!
Quote and Shovel made it into the elevator; Shovel Knight slammed his fist on the F1 button so hard that it actually broke, causing the elevator to rocket straight downwards, all the way back down to the bottom of the tower.
"LOOK AT ME, I'M A BIRDIE!" Shovel Knight sang, flapping his arms like an albatross as him and Quote briefly floated in midair before crashing onto the floor.
"SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!" Quote panicked as the two of them ran back out through the lobby and onto the bridge again.
"Dude, censor your f***ing language!" Shovel Knight scolded him as both of them sprinted across the collapsing bridge, chest-diving and face-planting onto the balcony just in time before the whole damned tower exploded and crumbled into oblivion.
"Who is the master who makes the grass green?" Shovel Knight slurred, shaking his head and returning to his senses as a mysterious shadowy figure stood before them.
"For the love of Christ, just GIVE UP already, Black Knight!" Quote yelled angrily at him, pulling his Polar Star out on him.
"I'm afraid that won't be necessary." Black Knight cackled. "It would appear that the cake ingredients are resonating. Becoming one. Becoming whole."
"I know not what you mean! Explain yourself, wretched man-whore!" Shovel Knight yelled at him.
"Foolish child!" Black Knight laughed. "Can't you see? When the legendary Indie Cake is finally assembled, it will set a course for the future depending on what type of people the ones who make it are!"
"So...you just have an insatiable craving to turn every single innocent young man and wench that walks upon this Earth into soulless evil slaves to your black-hearted will?! I...SHALL NOT...STAND FOR THIS!" Shovel Knight roared furiously at him.
"Heh...if you're the type of...THING that passes for GOOD these days, I, for one, would MUCH rather be evil!" Black Knight laughed.
"FOR GOD'S SAKE, WHY?! F***ING EXPLAIN YOURSELF!" Quote and Shovel Knight screamed in anger at him.
"Look within yourself, my son, and you just might see the truth once and for all!" Black Knight told Shovel Knight.
"I am EVERYTHING you're NOT!" Black Knight yelled at him. "INTELLIGENT! POWERFUL! COURAGEOUS! AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, GRACEFUL!"
"Oh, but alas, your WORDS are as EMPTY as your SOUL! Mankind ILL NEEDS a savior such as YOU!" Shovel Knight informed him.
"HMPH! WHAT is a MAN?! A MISERABLE little PILE of SECRETS!" Black Knight laughed. "But ENOUGH talk! HAVE AT YOU!"
"Here's TRUE power!" Black Knight roared as the rage and hatred within his soul transformed him into his true form; a ten-foot-tall armored minotaur with a giant black sword in each hand.
"DIE!" the beast yelled, slamming both of its swords into the ground; luckily, Shovel Knight rolled right between the beast's legs and drove his shovel right into its tail.
"GYAAAH!" the beast roared in pain.
"How did you know that that was his weak point?!" Quote asked him.
"Divine intervention." Shovel Knight replied sarcastically.
"YAAAH!" the beast roared as it spun around with both swords extended out, forming a giant spinning sword tornado.
"He's KILLING the antennae!" Shovel Knight told Quote in dismay as the two of them ran for their lives.
"Don't worry, they grow back!" Quote reminded him, lunging into him and shoving him out of the way of the whirlwind that the beast sent flying out of his sword with its final slash.
"With one weak point exhausted, what could the other one be?!" Shovel Knight asked Quote in a fit of desperation as the beast recovered from its dizziness.
"Only one way to find out! SPUR SHOT!" Quote yelled at the top of his lungs, firing a laser beam directly into the beast's d***.
"YAGGGGGHHHHH!" the beast wailed in agony, clutching its crotch and collapsing headfirst onto the ground, opening himself up for the final attack from Shovel Knight.
"Go get him, Shovel Knight!" Quote encouraged him.
"EEYAHHHH!" Shovel Knight bellowed in a war cry that could be heard from all the way down in New Zork, causing Quote's ears to leak and Jack's to bleed as he charged straight toward the beast's face.
"In the names of Shield Knight, Polar Knight, King Knight, Plague Knight, Mole Knight, Propeller Knight, Tinker Knight, Spectre Knight, Treasure Knight, Shovel Knight and Black Knight...I SHALL NOW STEEL THY MOTHER F***ING SHOVEL AND F***ING END YOU!" Shovel Knight roared, brandishing his shovel to deliver the final blow.
With a slice to the left, a slice to the right, a fancy-ass twirl of the shovel and a brutal stab to the face, Black Knight was finally dead, reduced back into his human form.
As it turned out, Black Knight had his own digital storage pouch. Therefore, Quote stole the Ego Sprinkles, the last of the three main cake ingredients, from Black Knight's pouch and transferred it into Jack's; now that they had all three ingredients, nothing could stop them.
"Good riddance!" Shovel Knight spat, picking up Black Knight's body. "My mother risked her ever-loving life for me, and you as well, father."
"I should've saved you..." Shovel Knight weeped, getting ready to deliver the worst line in all of video game history.
"I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIIIGGGHHHTTT!" Shovel Knight screamed at the top of his lungs with a gloriously timed voice crack to top it off, causing Quote to cringe so hard that his face nearly flew off.
"Huh? Where am I? What's going on here? Did we win?" Jack asked, suddenly waking up.
"Not yet." Quote informed him. "Something tells me there's still one more thing to do...WAIT! EVERYONE! INTO THE PREFAB HOUSE!"
"MICROSOFT ISLAND SELF-DESTRUCT SYSTEM ACTIVATED. ISLAND WILL FALL IN TEN MINUTES." Microsoft Sam announced as Quote and Shovel Knight leapt into the mysterious hole that had suddenly appeared in the floor of the Prefab House.
