"Derek… Derek… Yo! D! Wake up!"
"Oh… ummm… uhhh…"
Derek sat up in the seat and rubbed his forehead. He was in front of a colossal metallic tower. It was dark, and as they pushed on, the found themselves ascending a spiral stairway around a central supercomputer. Or at least that's what Derek thought.
The stairway flattened and the team found themselves on a metal grate pathway. As they went forward, Derek received an all-too-familiar loud and raspy voice.
"Man… swords… kill… killed… plants… ability… calcified… CARDIA."
"Arrgh! Get out of my brain!"
"Doctor… what's wrong?"
"He's here… I can feel him…"
A great door that needed a card key stood before them.
"Card key," said one of the soldiers. "Easy."
He shot at the opening and the door opened. The soldiers instantly collapsed and began convulsing.
"What the… double you tee eff?"
"Must be the vapours. We've experienced them before, but not these guys."
Here he was. Hooked up to so many wires and tubes, he was there in all his mortifulness. The arbiter himself, Adam.
"It has been… months… my friend."
"You DARE to call me YOUR friend? How can I accept an undead shadow of a man who tries to condemn everyone to death and dismiss it as 'fate'."
Derek's eyes began to glow blue, leaving a trail of light as they moved he spoke with two voices. "Death may be written in the pages of Fate's tragedy, but it is not up to you to assume the role of judge! You are barely human!"
"We are more alike than you think… Derek… ADAM Stiles! We both have blood on our hands… no, I speak of human blood. You will… soon. Jeromé! Unleash it upon his fair maiden! Make him repent his own heart! Make him another carrier!!"
"With pleasure, Father!"
Jerome held out his hand toward Derek as he lunged and his whole body writhed with pain. He knew very well of 'subliminal messages', but they had no intention. A syringe that vibrated with raw energy was forced into Angie's stomach. She was taken aback, before she fell to the ground, limp and near lifeless.
"Now… cough nuke away…"
A soldier's dying words brought forth the sound of helicopter blades. Derek picked up Angie's body and clenched his fist. He glowed with a blue aura as he shot out of the doomed tower, and towards the sound of blades. His head started pounding, and as he began to reach the limit of his consciousness he landed in the helicopter. Adam gave a small smile; he knew, while his un-life had ended, he had died thinking that his objectives would be complete.
Enter oblivion. And guess what? I never miss. You'll like this. And there's a problem in everything. I make it like that. Because I'm the leading man. And you know what they say about the leading man? He never dies. That's why you can't complete TCSO without winning 6-4. I can also make a round link. Yuri Lowenthal, the voice of Derek, is friends with Cam Clarke, who voices Master Miller. In the same game, Metal Gear Solid, Paul Eiding voices a character called Roy Campbell. Paul Eiding does the voice for Max Tennyson in Ben 10, who has a grandson called Ben, whose voice actor is soon to be replaced by… Yuri Lowenthal! BTW, final A/N, I was going for a kind of metal grate/Enter The Matrix hanger intersection/Hollow-Bastion-computer-entrance kind of place.
