Chapter 24
Note 1: The Fusion of Max and Chloe will simply be referred by 'Pricefield'.
Note 2: The fusion combines the body, mind, characteristics, etc of Max and Chloe. They are one person. However, they can still communicate with each other as separate entities.
What tremendous power we have! I feel like we could do anything! Let's do this!
The Goddess is frozen still, confused and terrified upon seeing the fusion of the Arcadia Bay couple. She senses an unbelievable and overwhelming power from her. She shakes her head in disbelief and lets out another terrifying screech that once again shakes the entire universe. Pricefield remain unaffected by the screech and trembling and gives the Goddess a cocky wink, which angers her.
"BE GONE YOU HIDEOUS CREATURE! DISGUSTING RATS YOU TWO ARE! ALL YOU HUMANS ARE! I'LL WIPE YOU OUT FOR GOOD!"
"Bring it on. Bitch." Max and Chloe beckons the Goddess, which angers the otherworldly being even more, and prepares to fight.
The Goddess forms several long green tentacles from her arms, fueled by electricity, and hurls them at Pricefield who slaps them away. The alien being creates more of these tentacles in response and once again attempts to grab her but once again Pricefield slaps them away and even tangles up some of them. She then grabs some of the untangled tentacles, stretches them out until they get ripped apart, and slaps the Goddess's face with them. This forces the Goddess to groan in pain and retract her tentacles.
"Okay! You asked for it you cockroach!"
The Goddess starts off by launching thousands of purple plasma beams at Pricefield. The beams, traveling thousands of times faster than light, distorts and bends space and time itself as they pass through. However, this doesn't faze Pricefield at all and they simply stay still. The Goddess stops her barrage in shock as she realizes that all of her plasma beams have suddenly disappeared. The fused duo didn't even move an inch. None of her plasma beams made contact. Getting even angrier, she unleashes more of her plasma death beams with more might and speed. This time she doesn't stop her barrage for several minutes until she realizes that the same thing has happened. She's aiming directly at her target, yet, has failed to land a single hit. Pricefield still hasn't moved but is somehow evading her attacks. The Goddess lets out a tremendous roar in anger and unleashes another series of attacks. This time, however, instead of a straight forward barrage, she controls the direction and flow of every single plasma beam and hurls them at her target in all directions and speed, hoping to catch the fused duo off guard. Paying more attention to her attack, she realizes that right before any of her beams reaches Pricefield,they seem to be blocked by an unseen wall or barrier. Every beam disintegrates before it makes contact. The Goddess's random and unpredictable series of attacks forces Pricefield to move a bit, however ultimately remains unscathed.
"Y-You! What are you doing? Why aren't my attacks reaching you!? Tell me now!" The Goddess shouts as she shakes her head in disbelief.
"It's quiet simple actually. I can't believe you don't know the answer miss wanna be god. I guess I have surpassed you already. I'm not even trying though." Pricefield chuckles and gives the Goddess another wink causing the alien entity to hiss.
"TELL ME NOW YOU DISGUSTING PIECE OF GARBAGE!"
"Jeez, don't put your panties in a bunch miss alien freakshow. Fine. I'll tell you before I destroy you. Deal?"
"Don't get cocky you insect. Don't think that combining bodies will make a difference! I'm a God! You're nothing!"
"Sure. Whatever you say freak. Anyways, none of your little beams are reaching me because I can simply erase them. I simply stop time and cancel them out with a mere thought before they come close. Pretty cool huh? I guess you're too slow to figure this out on your own."
"Slow!? What did you say you little bug?"
"Didn't you hear me? You're too slow!"
"You little..."
"You're so annoying. It's time to end this once and for all."
Before the Goddess can react, Pricefield punches her right in the face and follows it up with a side kick to the face as well. The impact from her attacks causes the Goddess to be launched directly towards an asteroid field. After colliding through several asteroids, the Goddess emerges from the rumble and lets out yet another terrifying screech, which destroys all nearby asteroids instantly. The fused duo quickly arrives at the asteroid field and watches the Goddess begin to shine with a purple-black aura and starts to form and charge two giant pinwheel discs, one in each hand, made of terrifying amount of dark plasma and electricity.
"I'm going to kill you Caulfield and Price. You hear me?! I'm going to slice you in HALF!"
Pricefield braces herself as the Goddess launches the two energy disks at her. She attempts to stop time and simply erase them but realizes that the two discs are tearing a rift through space and time as it approaches them. Even with her time stop, the discs continue on their paths as they slice through the fabric of space and time.
Those energy discs are ripping through literal time and space! My time stop isn't doing anything! I need to outrun them until I figure out something!
Pricefield uses her speed to evade the discs but they are following her every movement. The Goddess is almost completely affected by the time stop but seems to be following the action with her eyes. Despite lack of movement from the Goddess, the discs continue to follow them, as if they have a mind of their own. The self-propelled discs continue ripping through the fabric of space and time and slicing through asteroids and space debris as Pricefield flies around the solar system.
Max. I have an idea. She's barely following this at all. Let's trick these discs to slice her in half instead. She won't be able to dodge them. She'll be done for!
Good idea Chloe. Alright, here it goes!
Pricefield abruptly charges directly at the Goddess who looks confused and concerned. Unable to move due to the time stop, the Goddess has no other choice but to stare directly at her enemy's eyes who is now standing before her.
"Have a taste of your own attack bitch."
The Goddess's eyes widen perhaps realizing what is about to happen. She attempts to break free from the time stop but is unable to get out of the way. Just before the discs reach Pricefield, she resumes time and teleports away. The Goddess screams and attempts to stop the incoming discs with her bare hands. The Goddess is pushed back several miles by her own attack and screams in agony as she struggles to avoid being sliced. Meanwhile, Pricefield waits for the perfect moment to attack. The Goddess, after a lot of effort and struggle, manages to compress the discs and crushes them. Realizing that the Goddess was grazed by her discs and is slowly recovering from that, Pricefield goes in for a surprise attack. She teleports behind the alien being and puts her on a choke-hold. The Goddess groans and roars and attempts to bite her away out but not even her fangs makes Pricefield let go of her.
"Good job stopping your own attack. But you are no match for me!"
Pricefield extends her right arm, choking the Goddess with her left, and rewinds time. However, this rewind is unlike all the others before it. The visible universe around them completely changes in appearance. The asteroids that were destroyed suddenly come back, distant stars and constellations have moved in position, supernovas fade away, and a rocky planet that was not previously there appears. In mere seconds, Pricefield has managed to rewind eons in time. This tremendous rewound completely disfigures the Goddess who is now completely swirled up. Completely shaken and badly damaged, the Goddess lets out a weak cry as she hopelessly floats in space. Her disfigured twisted face exposes her disgusting wide mouth and long snake tongue which disgusts Pricefield.
Look at her. We messed her up pretty bad. Did she really deserved that?
Of course Max! She killed everybody! She deserves much worse!
Let's put her out of her misery and get this over with.
"This is the end for you! You don't mess with us and live to tell the tale! In the name of everybody from earth, this is goodbye!"
Pricefield time-skip punches the disfigured alien being which sends her flying towards the rocky planet that was just spawned in. The overwhelming power of Pricefield causes the planet to explode upon impact. She protects herself from the flying debris from the exploding planet by creating a barrier around herself. After several minutes, she no longer senses a trace of the otherworldly being and is convinced that she has done her job.
"It's finally over! We did it!"
However, before she can celebrate, she senses a tremendously large power nearby. She erases the destroyed planet's remains and looks for the Goddess. Flying all over the solar system and asteroid belt, she searches for the otherworldly being but is unable to find her despite sensing her presence.
How could this be? I sense her everywhere I look yet I can't find her. She's definitely out here somewhere! I better watch out! She might be doing something!
"MMMMMMAAAAAAXXXXXXXXXXX CCCCCCCCCAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLFFFFFFFFFIIIIIEEEEEEEELLLDDDDD!"
She covers her ears from the terrifying loud voice shouting her name. She looks around and realizes that the entire universe has completely changed in appearance again. This time however, it doesn't even look like a universe anymore. Apart from a few visible stars and planets left, there's nothing but green and purple colored shades. She still doesn't see the Goddess anymore but continues to sense her presence all around her.
Okay this is getting scary now. Where the fuck is she? She just screamed my name. It sounded like she spoke through loudspeaker. Wait a minute, did she? Oh shi-
She starts to hear loud laughter all around her. Pricefield looks around in all directions and braces herself for anything. The universe around her now starts to resembles an acid trip with variant neon colors, odd looking shapes and patterns, and distorted human and alien like-faces. The Goddess's voice returns and now she realizes that, somehow, the otherworldly being has become the universe itself and is speaking through it.
"YOU PIECE OF HUMAN TRASH! YOU HAVE RUINED MY BODY! MY PRECIOUS, BEAUTIFUL, GODLY BODY! YOUR FUTILE ATTEMPTS TO STOP ME ENDS HERE. THIS IS MY UNIVERSE! I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT WITH IT! I CAN CHANGE THE DENSITY AND WEIGHT OF ANY OBJECT! I CAN FORCE GRAVITY IN ALL PLACES! I CAN CREATE A TRILLION SUNS IN AN INSTANT! I CAN REARRANGED THE FORMATION OF THE STARS TO MY LIKING! YOU'RE NOTHING COMPARED TO ME! NOW DISAPPEAR!"
As the Goddess shouts her apparent capabilities, she backs her claims up by displaying them in front of Pricefield. Planets, stars, asteroids, and other space debris suddenly come falling down from the skybox, as if gravity is pushing them downwards. Countless stars varying in size and color also suddenly spawn and they quickly collide with each other like marbles. Although Pricefield herself is ultimately left unaffected by these events, she is still forced to evade all the incoming obstacles and destruction around her.
Holy Shit! She's getting crazy now! She's destroying and rewriting the law of physics! She definitely did something with the gravity. Looks like I'm not directly affected by these changes but what the hell am I suppose to do now? There are millions of things happening all around me and she's no where to be found! Her powers are fucking frightening! How am I suppose to fight her now?
"MY POWERS MAY NOT BE ABLE TO AFFECT YOU...BUT IT CAN AFFECT EVERYTHING AROUND YOU!"
In an instant, the chaos disappears but are soon replaced by countless human sized figures, possibly made of clay, who emerge and surround Pricefield. The figures suddenly morph into people they recognize including Jefferson, Nathan, Warren, Kate, Victoria, Frank, Steph, Drew, Joyce, and others. They all have the same emotionless zombie look on them and they begin to attack the fused duo. Pricefield attempts to stop time but quickly realizes that she's unable to. Caught off guard, they are soon overwhelmed by the countless clay human-like clones attacking them from all directions. She can hear the Goddess's massive laughter in the background as she gets ambushed by these odd looking figures.
What the hell is going on? I can't stop time! I can't rewind either! I don't feel like I lost any of my powers yet I can't use them! I still feel the overwhelming energy within but something is wrong. Beating the shit out of people who resemble our friends and family members doesn't this make this any easier either. These things aren't too tough but there's way too many of them!
Relying on her tremendous durability and physical power, she is able to recover from the initial assault and starts to counter attack. However, she realizes that as soon as she takes care of one enemy, 10 more take its place. She attempts a time-skip attack but is immediately cut off by an unseen force and gets ambushed again. The loud laughter continues.
"SOMETHING THE MATTER YOU RAT? OH YES! YOU CAN'T USE YOUR TIME POWERS ANYMORE! WELL GUESS WHAT? I DELETED TIME FROM MY UNIVERSE! TIME NO LONGER EXISTS HERE! I ERASED THE CONCEPT OF TIME! HAVE FUN YOU PATHETIC PUPPET!"
Oh fuck, she erased time itself? How the fuck is that even possible? That explains why I can't use my time powers anymore. Shit, there's so many of them! They're a bunch of weaklings but they're so annoying. Fuck, they are ganging up on me.
Dozens of these clones get behind her and hold her tight as thousands more gather around them. They are trapped inside the horde of clones, unable to move an inch. She can still hear the Goddess chuckling out loud despite being physically crushed by the horde.
There's no way we're going to get defeated by something like this. We have to fight back! No holding back! She may have erased time but we're capable of much more!
The Goddess's chuckling is immediately cutoff upon seeing the horde of clones getting completely disintegrated. Pricefield has powered up and begins to shine with colorful red and blue aura. The remaining clones go after her but the aura repels them away. Pricefield raises her right hand, closes it, and all the remaining clones get erased. The Goddess, in a panic, spawns more of these clones but they all share the same fate. Pricefield looks up at the sky and shouts at her enemy.
"IS THAT THE BEST YOU GOT? COME AND FACE ME YOURSELF! STOP SENDING THOSE THINGS AFTER ME! THEY ARE WORTHLESS!"
"DON'T WORRY LITTLE GIRL. I'LL MAKE THEM MORE DIFFICULT FOR YOU! GO AHEAD AND KILL AS MANY AS YOU CAN! THEY WILL JUST KEEP COMING BACK! I CAN MAKE THEM IMMORTAL AND I CAN DO THIS FOREVER!"
Millions of these clones spawn, stronger and faster than the earlier ones, but they are no match for Pricefield. Her aura and physical powers are on a completely different level. She can easily fend off thousands in a second and any hits she does receive doesn't hurt her at all. As she is taking care of the clones, she realizes that she can still use her shockwave attack, billion times more powerful than ever, and uses them against the attackers. In less than a minute, she has taken care of the clones that spawned in. She can tell the Goddess is getting irritated and frustrated by the sounds she hears. They're unsettling groans, hisses, and growling.
"You're boring me miss goddess. Just come and face me yourself already. Oh wait, are you afraid that I will mess you up like before? That's it right? Go ahead and send more of your clone buddies at me. I'll simply destroy them. You must realize that you're getting nowhere with this!"
We're pissing her off even more. Is that a good idea Max?
Yes Chloe. She might be a superpowered alien being but she's isn't perfect. She acts exactly like a child not getting what she wants. The angrier she gets, the chances of her getting careless and making mistakes increases! Mistakes that we will capitalize on!
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU LITTLE BUG? ONLY IF YOU KNEW WHAT IS WAITING FOR YOU! BUT YOU WON'T EVEN EXPERIENCE THAT! BECAUSE I'M GOING TO WASTE YOU HERE AND NOW! GET ENGULFED BY MY POWERS!"
The universe around them starts to crumble as a massive planet sized tornado develops in front of them. The tornado is completely made of the unusual trippy abstract patterns and objects that make up the current universe's appearance. The tornado is trillions of times more powerful than the Arcadia Bay tornado.
That sure looks familiar. A fucking tornado in space? What the hell is next? It's heading right towards me. It's getting bigger and faster by the microsecond. Oh fuck!
The super massive tornado has managed to swallow her up and she gets trapped in the vortex. As Pricefield goes around in circles at immense speeds, she begins to feel real pain and worries her bones might break apart at any minute.
Max, this is getting bad. She's getting more desperate and dangerous. The more damage we take. The less time our fusion lasts. We need to finish this quickly!
But how?
We need to truly unleash our full power! No more holding back got it? I'm giving it all but I feel that you're holding us back. Don't be scared to use that great power you have Max. Remember, if we defuse, we won't stand a chance against her!
"JUST DIE ALREADY YOU DAMN INSECT! GET DEVOURED BY MY TORNADO! JUST GO AWAY ALREA-WAIT WHAT?"
The Goddess is left speechless as Pricefield, who now shines with a white aura, casually blows away the super massive tornado from within by using a series of her shockwave attacks. The powerful shockwaves travel across the visible universe and eventually reach the corners of the observable universe, ripping holes in reality. The Goddess screams in agonizing pain as more cracks are created from the shockwaves.
That's it! I'm ripping through the fabric of space and time just like she did earlier. This time,however, I'm ripping holes in her own reality. She merged with the universe and now has to endure the pain. This is my chance!
Pricefield unleashes more of her piercing shockwaves in all directions creating more cracks and holes in reality. The Goddess screams and screeches and desperately launches lightning and plasma beams from above at Pricefield but they have no affect on her. As she continues her assault, she realizes that there is something visible through the cracks. Mostly darkness but she can see distant stars and something gray and rocky, resembling the Moon. As more cracks are made, she realizes that on the other side of the holes, she can see glimpses of the Earth. She flies towards one of the larger holes and investigates it. Although she can clearly see the Earth, she realizes that she cannot simply step inside the hole and go through it, as there still seems to be an invisible wall in between the two realities. She also notices a short gap of space composed of apparently nothing but pitch darkness in between the two universes.
Whoa! That's our Earth all right! I thought it was destroyed! This must be way back in the past then since I did a massive rewound earlier. That's another way out of here once I'm done here. Speaking of, I need to kill this bitch immediately before she tries something ne-
The Goddess's terrifying disgruntled voice shouting Max's last name breaks her train of thought.
"CCCCCCCCCCCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!"
Too late.
"I'M THROUGH WITH YOU! I'M THROUGH WITH YOUR UNIVERSE! YOU HAVE SINNED ENOUGH! YOU HAVE LIVED LONG ENOUGH! I'M GOING TO WIPE YOU ALL FROM EXISTENCE! IT'S A GOOD THING YOU SENT US BACK IN TIME CAULFIELD! I CAN NOW DESTROY YOUR WORLD AGAIN! I'M GOING TO FINISH YOU OFF IN ONE BLOW! I DON'T CARE IF I HAVE TO DESTROY MY OWN UNIVERSE! YOU NEED TO DIE NOW! EVEN IF I MISS YOU, MY FINAL ATTACK WILL BLOW AWAY YOUR ENTIRE UNIVERSE! YOU BETTER BE READY CAULFIELD! THIS IS GOODBYE!"
Holy shit Max. She has lost it. She's willing to wipe out her own universe to get rid of us. She's going all out. We must stop whatever she throws at us. It seems that her universe and ours are intertwined. If we fail to stop it, everything we know of will get destroyed and possibly erased from existence! Holy fuck what is she doing? Looks she's consuming her universe and concentrating all of it into one gigantic energy ball of destruction!
The abstract acid trip-like colors, patterns, faces, and other objects that made up the Goddeess's universe rapidly gets drained, exposing more of Pricefield's normal universe, into a massive frightening death ball. The death ball, the size of the Sun and at the edge of the universe, is completely composed of dark matter and energy. The pressure and overwhelming concentrated power of the sphere is starting to crack the invisible boundary separating the two realities. Pricefield knows she doesn't have time to mess around and charges right towards super massive death sphere. She can hear the Goddess speaking from inside the collection of dark matter.
"FAREWELL CAULFIELD AND PRICE!"
As Pricefield charges at it, the sphere of destruction charges back at full force. Although completely dwarfed in size, Pricefield continues to head towards it, also at full power. They eventually clash and Pricefield gets severely pushed back from the devastating energy. She attempts to stop the blast with her bare hands after her shockwaves having no affect on it. She screams as she struggles heavily to neutralize the death sphere but the Goddess's strength is overpowering her.
Dammit! We're doomed! I can't stop this thing! If only I can rewind or stop time...but she took away time itself! Wait a second, I'm no longer in her universe am I? This massive destruction ball is her universe. I have to try to use my time powers again. It's my only chance now. We're getting closer to Earth by the microsecond. It's now or never!
Using all of her physical strength and mental concentration, she manages to slow down the sphere's path and eventually freezes it in place with her time stop. Using her utmost mental concentration, she keeps the death sphere at bay without using her hands.
"NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!" The Goddess starts to panic and scream in horror. Pricefield then opens her arms and screams as she attempts to destroy the dark energy sphere. She closes her eyes and using every ounce of her energy and strength, which is rapidly diminishing, starts to slowly compress the Goddess's universe. The agony is unbearable but she continues her efforts, fueled by the memories and thoughts of everybody back home. She can hear the Goddess's voice screech, growl, and cursing at her in an unintelligible language as her universe, her own body, is getting confined.
"THIS IS FOR EVERYBODY YOU DESTROYED! THIS IS THE POWER OF US HUMANS!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DAMN YOU CCAAAAAAAUUUUUULLLLLLFFIIIIIIEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDD"
Using all of her remaining vitality, she has completely flatten the size of the death sphere into the size of a volleyball. She's holding the entire Goddess's universe in her hands. Pricefield gasps for breath and almost collapses but continues to hold the dark energy orb. She's about to shatter the universe but gets interrupted by the Goddess's weak and pleading voice.
"Wait Caulfield! Please don't kill me! I never meant to do any of this. Please, listen to me! I need to tell you something important! If you kill me, you're going to kill a lot of innocent lives that reside in my universe! Please, you're not a murderer! You're going to regret killing me. I'm not the one-"
Before the Goddess can finish speaking, Pricefield completely crushes her into pieces then erases every trace of her left. She begins to feel nauseous, fatigued, and is about to pass out.
We...did it Chloe! We did it! It's truly over now. We defeated her! I'm so glad it's over. We saved everybody. But we better...get out of here...before we faint...
We kicked a lot of ass today Max! I'm so glad I was able to spend one last day with you.
O-one last day? What do you mean? Chloe...
I'm sorry Max. It's time to say goodbye...I love you so much. Thank you for everything.
C-Chloe?...
They defuse and Max catches a glimpse of Chloe's spirit waving goodbye, with tears on her eyes, as she vanishes into thin air. She also catches one last glimpse of the blue and green planet before she whites out.
"Max. Max. Mmmmaaaaaaaxxxxxxxxx. Open your eyes."
Max hears a strange man's raspy voice whispering to her. The man's voice sounds familiar, however, it's not William's, Warren's, Nathan's, Jefferson's, or any male voice she knows. As Max slowly opens her eyes and regains conscious, she remembers the man's voice.
It's that man's voice! He spoke to me at the hospital. He kicked started this entire week or so of madness. W-who is he? Where is Chloe?
Max manages to open her eyes completely and sees an average height pale-skinned green eyed man with a round face and a side part haircut standing before her. He's dressed in a black business suit jacket with a black tie. The man clears this throat and smiles at Max.
"Miss Caulfield. At long last we meet."
TO BE CONCLUDED IN CHAPTER 25