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Splendont felt the bear in his hand grow weaker by the second, lavishing the sounds of suffering he made. It felt so good to the red squirrel to be able to hold the power to decide the fate of the handsome male in his grasp. He felt his grip tighten, and he saw a single tear slide down Flippy's face. It was so sad, so hopeless.
At that moment something inside Splendont broke.
Literally. Splendid had sped forward and smashed his fist into the red animal's ribs. Splendont dropped Flippy as he crashed into the tunnel's arch behind him. He bared his teeth and blasted out of the hole, blasting Splendid with his laser vision as he sped by. The blue squirrel let out a scream of fury and kicked blindly behind him.
Splendont gasped as his nemesis' foot connected with the broken rib and he felt it puncture his heart. He went limp in the air and sped down to the cell floor.
Splendid followed the squirrel and punched Splendont in the face as they smashed into the floor. Dust and rocks spat out the ground and rained down on the blue fox and red porcupine nearby.
Flaky had Flippy in her arms, tears spilling down her face and mixing with Giggles' blood. Flippy was barely alive, knocked out and badly bruised. She leaned forward and kissed his forehead.
Kirimi heaved Giggles over her body to protect herself from the raging storm of soil and stones. She coughed and gagged as the air cleared and Splendid was wrestling with Splendont in their crater.
Splendont's mouth was dripping with blood, but he continued to push against Splendid's fists. "Damn this! I swear to god I'm going to win! Then we can be together!"
Splendid glared. "You can't...love me...I hate your guts!"
Splendont stood, his chest bleeding out onto the dirt. "Really now?" He hacked some blood onto the ground and Splendid flinched as some of it made contact with his paws. "Well," the red squirrel continued," Why don't I just peek into your mind and see who you really like?"
Kirimi tossed the pink chipmunk off of her, choking on the stench of death when suddenly she heard Splendid scream nearby.
"Stay here!" Kirimi hissed to Flaky, who looked as if she was one of the living dead. The blue fox crawled over a pile of debris to find Splendid on his knees, doubled over in pain. Splendont leaned triumphantly over him, clearly injured.
The blue hero let out another scream of pain and he tangled his paws in his hair. "Get out...of my head," he moaned.
"Oh look," Splendont sing-songed. "One of your recent dreams. Looks romantic, eh, but where's Toothy? All I see is you and Flippy at the seashore."
Splendid looked as if he was trying to tear his scalp off. Kirimi choked back a scream of fear, remembering Evil's pain during Splendont's cruel mind games.
Splendid began to twitch violently. "Stop it," he begged. "It hurts...so much.."
Kirimi couldn't bear to see her only escape out of here like this. Then it hit her; she and Flaky had been flung into a crack near the tunnel. They could escape, leave all this behind and be free. She bowed her head, her eyes shut tight.
Flippy and Flaky are here. So technically, if we got out of here, I wouldn't have failed. Right, Evil? Kirimi blinked. But then, you wouldn't exist.
Another painful screech sliced through the air, cutting off all of Kirimi's thoughts. The blue fox peered over the pile and gasped.
"Oh God," Splendid moaned. "Hnng...st-stop it...ah! Th-that's not..." Another scream of pain. The red squirrel hovered near the blue squirrel, his eyes shut as he played with his prey's mind. Kirimi felt sick at the look of satisfaction on Splendont's face as he continued to toy with Splendid.
Kirimi didn't think, and looking back she wished she had. She lunged forward and crashed into Splendont, breaking Splendid free from his psychological breakdown. Splendont let out a roar of fury and flung Kirimi into the opposite wall, not minding the horrible splatter of her internal organs as she hit the wall. Her organs were still inside her, but to put this nicely, not in the same place.
Splendid stood up on shaky legs. His mask was torn and there were cuts all over him, some bleeding afresh and others scabbing over. His fur overall was matted and bloody, and second to wanting to kill Splendont he wanted a nice, ice cold shower. Splendont, on the opposite side of Splendid, was looking just as bad, but with a nasty dent in his chest. The sight was horrific.
"I'm through fucking with you!" Splendid raged. "This is over!"
Splendont was bent over in pain, blood pouring from him like a leaky bottle. "This isn't over," he rasped, clutching his side. "You forget, I'm more powerful than you in every way. One way, for instance, is my immunity to Kryptonut!"
"Fuck!" Splendid shot backwards into the air as Splendont revealed the gleaming acorn-shaped stone. "I should've known you would've brought this shit into the fray." He pressed himself against the wall, cowering from the Kryptonut's sickening aura.
Splendont took a step closer, and Splendid flinched, badly. "I don't want to have to do this," Splendont rasped. "Now look. I'll make a deal. Admit that you're defeated-"
"Never!" Splendid snarled, but he eyed the Kryptonut fearfully.
"-You didn't let me finish. Admit that you're defeated. I'll take the whole romance thing out of my proposal. Let's just be partners in heroism."
"That's possible," Splendid lied. Yeah right. I just wanna save everyone and bust my ass out of here. Fucking Kryptonut is keeping me from killing that red bastard!
"And," Splendont continued. "I'll set everyone free."
"What's the difference?" Splendid spat. " You've killed Kirimi, Evil and Giggles. Flippy is barely hanging on, and I'm sure Flaky's ready to give in to starvation. There's no point. It's just you and me now."
Splendont straightened up and smiled at the enraged blue hero. It was an odd smile, like there was a good intent in mind.
"I came prepared when I made this cave." He grinned. "I knew I would get hurt, or something would go wrong. So I learned revival. I can bring everyone back to life."
He spread his good arm out wide, and Splendid flinched as the Kryptonut's aura made a wave in his direction.
"Now I know this'll be difficult to do," Splendont said firmly, and more blood spilled from his wound. "But..I need you to trust me. It's now up to you whether everyone here lives or dies."
"It's not up to me," Splendid rasped fearfully. "It's-it's up to you."
"Deal?" Splendont pressed. "You admit defeat, we get along and everyone gets away with their lives."
Splendid hesitated, sweat pouring down his forehead. He could swear the Kryptonut was getting closer.
"Deal." he squeaked.