HA-HA! I OWN GUNDAM: THE DARK ERA!... Too bad I don't own Gundam. Bo-ho...

Gundam:

The dark era:

Chapter 14:

Apparition:

The fire surrounded him. Was he in hell?

"No... You're not dead... yet..."

And suddenly... white.

Fex got up off the floor. He wasn't hurting anymore, for some damn unexplainable reason. He wasn't bleeding either. He couldn't tell where he was. Everything was white. This didn't make sense. Last thing he remembered was being in the Gundam. Now didn't know where the hell he was.

Was he dreaming?...

"Fex?..."

Fex turned around and looked down the hall in front of him...

Kat was at the end of the hall...

"KAT!"

They started running for each other, arms open anticipating an embrace. Then they met and it was like they had both ran into a brick wall. They both staggered back. Insane amounts of blood came pouring out of their noses for seemingly no reason.

"It's not allowed... Not in front of me..." Said the deep, guttural, mechanized voice from nowhere. "I can't stand it..."

Fex and Kat stood back up and realized that they were now in a completely different hall altogether. They could see something at the end of the hall, but they couldn't tell what it was.

"Let's go down there together..." Fex whispered to Kat. Kat grabbed his hand and nodded. They walked slowly towards the other end of the hall.

"I heard that..." The voice said. "I can hear everything you say. You're walking down here together. Are you afraid?"

Fex raised the hand coupled with Kat's in defiance. "Nothing scares me! I'm not afraid!"

"Well... We'll see about THAT!"

Fex and Kat were pushed back down on the ground by a strong, invisible force. It was like the wind got insanely strong and swept their feet out from under them. Fex turned to Kat and they helped each other up.

"Are you all right?" He asked.

"Yeah..." Kat responded. They were standing up then.

Fex felt something grab him strongly by the back of the neck and pull his head back. Fex noticed that the same thing was happening to Kat and he couldn't see what the cause was. Then, their heads collided together, breaking each others noses. Their heads were forced back again and then the invisible force began repeating the process rapidly.

"LOOK...AT...ME!" The voice sounded angry.

Suddenly, they were looking at something. Something... hideous...

The thing, if you could even call it that, was the skinned and burned torso of a man on a pillow, stumps being all that was left of his arms and legs. He still had a head, though the top of it was cut off and the brains were visible. The muscles and veins were also visible in gory detail.

Kat leaned in for a closer look. "What is this... thing?"

"Do you ever learn?" The voice growled.

The thing's eyes opened. They were red with big, black slits in them.

"AAAAAHHHHH!" Kat stumbled backwards. "WHAT IS THAT FUCKING THING!"

The thing's lip quivered. Blood dripped from it's mouth and sprayed from it's stumps. Now it spoke from it's mouth. "Not very nice language for a little girl..."

"I am NOT a LITTLE FUCKING GIRL!"

"Oh, really? Can you prove it?"

Kat shook her fist in the thing's face. "I don't need to prove anything to you. I'm a..."

The thing opened it's mouth and projected bloody puke onto Kat's face. It then turned it's attention to Fex.

"What are you going to do, little boy? Now that I've violated your little girlfriend? Try to prove that you're a man?"

Fex shook his head. "I don't know what I'm going to do..."

"Right. And that's exactly why you are still just a little boy. You never have the slightest idea what to do. In battle, you are confused and scared..."

"I told you, I'm NOT..." Immense pain suddenly shot through Fex's body, rendering him speechless.

"DON'T INTERRUPT ME!" The thing yelled in anger. "You ARE still a boy. You can't provide for your two younger sisters. You're too naive, young boy. But, oh, I forgot. They don't even exist, do they? At least, that's what Rapter says. And he may be right. You should listen to your elders, BOY!"

The grip of pain let go of Fex. He put a hand on his throat. "What's going on here? Is this a nightmare? Am I going insane? Is this really happening?"

"Let me explain this to you..." The thing said. "You are not having a nightmare. You are not going insane. This is really happening... But your physical body is not experiencing this..."

Fex pulled at his hair. "THEN WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?"

"Don't get frustrated, boy. You have to figure out what's going on yourself..."

Fex got into the thing's face. "DON'T USE THIS CRYPTIC TALKING SHIT WITH ME, ASSHOLE!"

The thing puked on Fex like he had puked on Kat.

"Boy..."

The puke came off both of their faces. It was then Fex realized that in order to deal with this thing, he needed to keep his cool.

"Just tell us... Why are we here?"

"I need to show you something." The thing answered.

"What?"

"Your souls... Or, at least, the dark side of your souls..."

"WHY WOULD WE WANT TO SEE THAT?" Kat yelled.

"Because you need it, little girl..." The thing retorted. "You will find out everything about yourself. After this brief glimpse of genius, you will be thanking me. You will bow down before me and worship me. I will..."

"All right, all right, we get it. Now can we get this over with?"

The thing's stomach suddenly exploded, expelling it's guts all over Kat. She flipped out.

"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" It growled. "Anyway, do you want to see your soul first, little boy?"

Fex nodded. "Let's do it..."

The thing closed it's eyes. There was a bright flash of light and then they were in a depressed, rundown alleyway. They saw an alternate reality Fex come out of one of the apartments and go to the trash and look through it.

"BITCH! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY FUCKING CIGARETTES?" He screamed at someone still inside the apartment.

"Who's he screaming at?" Kat asked, nervously.

"You can't tell?" The thing asked her. "Guess..."

Then an alternate reality Kat came out of the apartment. She looked slightly different...

"Is she pregnant?" Fex asked.

"Stop asking stupid questions and watch, boy..." The thing told him.

"WHERE ARE MY FUCKING CIGARETTE'S, WOMAN?" A.R. Fex asked. (A.R. is my way of distinguishing the two Fexs, just so you know.)

"I traded them for peanuts, honey..." A.R. Kat responded. A.R. Fex snapped in her face.

"HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO FUCKING DO THAT?"

"I'm sorry, I..."

A.R. Fex punched her. "SHUT UP! YOU ARE A FUCKING DUMB ASS, BITCH, AND YOU ARE A FUCKING WHORE!"

"What? What are you saying? I never..."

A.R. Fex whipped out a pistol and shot A.R. Kat in the face. Fex fell over backwards in disbelief. He kicked at the ground, trying to push himself away.

"THAT IS NOT ME!"

A.R. Kat fell to the ground. She was dead almost immediately. A.R. Fex pointed down at her body and kept shooting.

"NO WAY! THERE IS NO WAY THAT PERSON IS ME! THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL!"

A.R. Fex reloaded and continued shooting.

"YOU'VE GOTTA' BE FUCKING KIDDING ME! GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!"

"First..." The thing said. "You have to admit something to me..."

"FUCKING ADMIT FUCKING WHAT?"

A.R. Fex reloaded again.

"Admit to me that you are scared..."

A.R. Fex emptied that mag and reached for another one.

"ALRIGHTALRIGHTIADMITITI'MFUCKINGSCAREDNOWJUSTGETMETHEFUCKOUTTA'HERE!"

Just as soon as he said that, the shooting stopped. Fex's heart was racing. There was no way he was going to calm down anytime soon.

"I'm ready to wake up now..." He said.

"Oh, no..." Said the thing. "We are not done here."

"WHAT! ARE YOU INSANE? I DON'T WANNA' SEE ANYMORE OF THAT SHIT!"

"Calm down, boy. You are done here when I say you are done here. Besides, I still haven't shown you children the little girl's dark side yet..."

Kat looked over at Fex nervously. There were tears welling up in her eyes. She knew what she could expect to see...

They were back in the alleyway...

A.R. Kat came out of the apartment and stuffed a trash bag into the garbage. Then she turned around and faced the doorway. She had something behind her back.

"Honey! Come on out here! I've got a present for your birthday!"

Fex looked at this and realized there was something not right here. This didn't seem bad at all...

A.R. Fex came out. "Oh, I can't wait! What is it?"

A.R. Kat looked up at A.R. Fex and smiled. "Fex..."

"Um-hum?"

She swung an axe out from behind her back and brought it down on his head.

"...I LOVE YOU!"

Kat screamed and put her hands over her ears.

"NO! NO MORE! STOP IT!"

A.R. Kat kept chopping A.R. Fex as he went down.

"I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU!" She said every time she chopped.

"This is the way I wanted it... The way I wanted to show you..."

"I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU!"

"This is a battle inside of you... This is your battle..."

"I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU!"

"But you need to choose whether or not you want to fight it... Because it's not the only battle to choose from..."

"I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU!"

"This is the battle with yourself... The other is the battle with the world... So, which will it be? You must find out what is more important to you... Everything inside?... Or your life?..."

Strange chapter, eh? Scary, maybe? Tell me what you think in your review.