AN: This is one of the last two chapters of Zero Point, for the timeline,
this story ends by the time Xander/Sonic leaves the Artemis Fowl world when
you compare it to Summer Vacation. One thing I'm considering as a side
story would be Janus and Snyder in the sanitarium common room or whatever
it is where they get to sit and watch TV or whatever its called, it would
be an amusing chapter though, just for a laugh and it might actually be
worth writing.
"You do realize that she is the only thing keeping you alive right now?" Zero asked with a tone of voice that would have given penguins goose bumps.
"And if I let go I still die," the demon commented, "Your play."
His mind was trying to identify why this creature looked familiar, but his memory was running through all of the possibilities it could identify, but finding none. Then it started the more comprehensive search.
"Oh, one thing that you may not have realized is that I am not only what I seem to be, I am a cyborg, and I have an infinite amount of patience for you to make a mistake."
The pale blue hedgehog identified them, but at first it seemed impossible, the enemy was the creature he had known as 'Ken' was before him, but 'Ken' was missing his limbs and blown apart with a grenade.
"I doubt that," the demon said as he started to retreat to the portal out, but it was then that the monster made his mistake, his arm came up and out from behind the teenage girl he was using as a hostage.
He decided that since the creature was wearing a disguise it was the reason, to hide discontinuity in the outside world.
Zero was on him in a heartbeat, grabbing the arm and shattering the elbow to force the hand free. He drove a boot into it from the side, sending it clear of its former hostage and into a pile of debris.
His sensors turned to the girl for a moment, and he spotted a different set of readings then he had expected. The scans not matching the baseline for any human he had encountered in his travels, even the ones who inhabited the bar he had found himself in.
"What are you?" he asked calmly, the scans not reading her as one of those he had exterminated, "You're projecting a different energy spectrum, are you a..." his memory files recalling and finding the information he required...'Bracken?"
"How...how did you know?" she stuttered, holding back tears.
"Lorne one of you went missing and asked if I could help look," he responded, "He had also heard of other vanishings in the area, so I came and checked the place out."
"Thanks..." she started.
"Don't mention it," his mind sensing something about her, it urged him to protect her, she just seemed to young for it, even if his internal sensors only registered him as a maximum of two weeks old.
She just nodded as he heard something and reacted, sensors identifying it as the demon he had just sent flying.
"Run, get everyone out," he said slowly, his mind feeling that there was something about to go bad, worse than he had expected.
"What about you?"
"Doesn't matter," he responded, the calm filling him again, "Get them out as quickly as you can!"
She dashed off to start getting people out as the hedgehog and the slaver stared each other down.
Zero considered just blasting him, but then the world started shaking, unbalancing him.
"What the hell?" he muttered.
"It's already happening," the demon chuckled, blood pouring from injuries across his face and the disguise he had been wearing one identical to 'Ken' was ripped to shreds.
"What have you done?" the cyborgs voice portrayed the casual and collected violence he was known for by those in Caritas.
"Oh, just did something closest equated to setting the dimension to self destruct."
"Why?"
"Because, even if I die, I still get my revenge."
"That doesn't make sense, you still die either way, you aren't completing a mission goal, just committing suicide," the cyborg commented as he launched himself forwards, lifting the demon into the air by his throat, "How do I stop it?"
"You can't, it's the spell that made this place that's dissolving," the demon cackled, "You're too late, too bad, so sad."
Zero snapped the creature's neck and tossed him away like a piece of trash as his mind finished assimilating the data he gained from the pathetic creature.
For a brief moment, he knew that his if his mission was only able to be completed by sacrificing himself, he would do it, that was the nature of his machine half, but his organic half would fight to survive. What the demon had done was incomprehensible to him, so he devoted a small part of his mind to uncovering the reasons behind it, the why.
Then he reacted to the imminent threat the dimension collapsing had created, he was the needed. His current mission would fail if he did not do all that he could to get people out of this nightmare. He was the only one who could do the job of keeping them all safe until they could escape; it was what he felt as if he had been designed to do.
It took him a mere moment to reach the gateway, his machine half scanning it and searching through possibilities to help as he saw the teenage Bracken helping by boosting people out.
He nodded to her before triggering his thrusters to go search for anyone who needed his help in getting out and keeping the pathways to the gate clear. From any of the rubble.
It took hours before he couldn't read any more life in the dimension other than the Bracken and himself. Everyone had made it out, well, everyone who wasn't trying to enslave those who did.
"Holy!" Whistler stammered as the balance demon fell out of his chair, "How the hell did he pull that one off?"
"That one is a surprise to us all," the guardian responded as he saw the raven winged one checking his watch.
"Uh, boss, what are you waiting on?"
"Lucy ought to be arriving in 5...4..." the winged one answered.
"And I'm leaving to avoid the crossfire," Whistler chuckled vanishing.
"...3...2...1...And here comes the psycho of the hour!"
And the Lucifer appeared in a pillar of flames, "Azrael, do you know what your chosen just did!"
It would have been impressive if the dark lords robes hadn't caught fire, or if he hadn't gone prancing about to put it out, or even if he hadn't ended up falling and crashing through the chair the balance demon had vanished from only seconds earlier.
"You do realize that she is the only thing keeping you alive right now?" Zero asked with a tone of voice that would have given penguins goose bumps.
"And if I let go I still die," the demon commented, "Your play."
His mind was trying to identify why this creature looked familiar, but his memory was running through all of the possibilities it could identify, but finding none. Then it started the more comprehensive search.
"Oh, one thing that you may not have realized is that I am not only what I seem to be, I am a cyborg, and I have an infinite amount of patience for you to make a mistake."
The pale blue hedgehog identified them, but at first it seemed impossible, the enemy was the creature he had known as 'Ken' was before him, but 'Ken' was missing his limbs and blown apart with a grenade.
"I doubt that," the demon said as he started to retreat to the portal out, but it was then that the monster made his mistake, his arm came up and out from behind the teenage girl he was using as a hostage.
He decided that since the creature was wearing a disguise it was the reason, to hide discontinuity in the outside world.
Zero was on him in a heartbeat, grabbing the arm and shattering the elbow to force the hand free. He drove a boot into it from the side, sending it clear of its former hostage and into a pile of debris.
His sensors turned to the girl for a moment, and he spotted a different set of readings then he had expected. The scans not matching the baseline for any human he had encountered in his travels, even the ones who inhabited the bar he had found himself in.
"What are you?" he asked calmly, the scans not reading her as one of those he had exterminated, "You're projecting a different energy spectrum, are you a..." his memory files recalling and finding the information he required...'Bracken?"
"How...how did you know?" she stuttered, holding back tears.
"Lorne one of you went missing and asked if I could help look," he responded, "He had also heard of other vanishings in the area, so I came and checked the place out."
"Thanks..." she started.
"Don't mention it," his mind sensing something about her, it urged him to protect her, she just seemed to young for it, even if his internal sensors only registered him as a maximum of two weeks old.
She just nodded as he heard something and reacted, sensors identifying it as the demon he had just sent flying.
"Run, get everyone out," he said slowly, his mind feeling that there was something about to go bad, worse than he had expected.
"What about you?"
"Doesn't matter," he responded, the calm filling him again, "Get them out as quickly as you can!"
She dashed off to start getting people out as the hedgehog and the slaver stared each other down.
Zero considered just blasting him, but then the world started shaking, unbalancing him.
"What the hell?" he muttered.
"It's already happening," the demon chuckled, blood pouring from injuries across his face and the disguise he had been wearing one identical to 'Ken' was ripped to shreds.
"What have you done?" the cyborgs voice portrayed the casual and collected violence he was known for by those in Caritas.
"Oh, just did something closest equated to setting the dimension to self destruct."
"Why?"
"Because, even if I die, I still get my revenge."
"That doesn't make sense, you still die either way, you aren't completing a mission goal, just committing suicide," the cyborg commented as he launched himself forwards, lifting the demon into the air by his throat, "How do I stop it?"
"You can't, it's the spell that made this place that's dissolving," the demon cackled, "You're too late, too bad, so sad."
Zero snapped the creature's neck and tossed him away like a piece of trash as his mind finished assimilating the data he gained from the pathetic creature.
For a brief moment, he knew that his if his mission was only able to be completed by sacrificing himself, he would do it, that was the nature of his machine half, but his organic half would fight to survive. What the demon had done was incomprehensible to him, so he devoted a small part of his mind to uncovering the reasons behind it, the why.
Then he reacted to the imminent threat the dimension collapsing had created, he was the needed. His current mission would fail if he did not do all that he could to get people out of this nightmare. He was the only one who could do the job of keeping them all safe until they could escape; it was what he felt as if he had been designed to do.
It took him a mere moment to reach the gateway, his machine half scanning it and searching through possibilities to help as he saw the teenage Bracken helping by boosting people out.
He nodded to her before triggering his thrusters to go search for anyone who needed his help in getting out and keeping the pathways to the gate clear. From any of the rubble.
It took hours before he couldn't read any more life in the dimension other than the Bracken and himself. Everyone had made it out, well, everyone who wasn't trying to enslave those who did.
"Holy!" Whistler stammered as the balance demon fell out of his chair, "How the hell did he pull that one off?"
"That one is a surprise to us all," the guardian responded as he saw the raven winged one checking his watch.
"Uh, boss, what are you waiting on?"
"Lucy ought to be arriving in 5...4..." the winged one answered.
"And I'm leaving to avoid the crossfire," Whistler chuckled vanishing.
"...3...2...1...And here comes the psycho of the hour!"
And the Lucifer appeared in a pillar of flames, "Azrael, do you know what your chosen just did!"
It would have been impressive if the dark lords robes hadn't caught fire, or if he hadn't gone prancing about to put it out, or even if he hadn't ended up falling and crashing through the chair the balance demon had vanished from only seconds earlier.