"He's very hurt." AJ was looking at Roman sadly.
"It was two against one but we already solved that, Allen." Randy said annoyed by AJ's complaints. "If Dean and Seth couldn't beat Roman, now that we have Brock too, it'll be impossible. So get on with your new job, the only reason I still tolerate you is because you're a diligent nurse. I know it's only because you love one of my puppets so much."
AJ connected several IVs to Roman as he glared at Randy in deep silence.
"You should stop the drama, AJ. Roman proved to be stronger than his enemies, which is good for you because if he had been defeated, I would have blown him to pieces. I still can't believe I have a device that can destroy Roman." Randy noticed AJ glare at him. "I hope I don't have to use the device to destroy any of my super soldiers, as long as they remain obedient puppets, they will still be alive. And as long as you remain obedient too, Allen."
Randy left the lab laughing, feeling empowered over all his enemies. They were all under his control. So he went back to the Penthouse that he had in his industry building.
When AJ was sure that Randy wasn't near him, he sighed nervously and walked over to Roman.
"I'll fix this my love, or I'll die trying." The scientist kissed the lips of a sleeping Roman.
AJ took the phone and started texting.
Seth woke up to the rays of the sun lighting his face. He had slept a bit and was feeling better.
He was still a millionaire, because he had a lot of money in different banks, but inside Utopia he couldn't use it. He had to get rid of Randy to get his life back.
His mansion was in ashes and his remains were safely guarded by the D-Xs. The Foundation was just rubble. So now he and Dean were at Roman's apartment. It was the only place that, according to the auburn-haired man, was safe, since they had nowhere to go.
Dean, due to fatigue and the medication that Seth gave him to heal the wound, was fast asleep in Roman's room, while Seth occupied Elias'.
Seth checked his cell phone, there were many videos on social networks, all of them showed the horrible news.
"Brock Lesnar, Former MMA Champion Is The New Villain In Town". Seth was in shock.
The video showed Brock and the DX destroying everything in their path.
"Randy is going to create an army." Seth ran his hand through his hair desperately. "I must kill him before this happens."
Seth was wearing his Hound of Justice suit that he had fixed the night before.
"But we couldn't even beat Roman, I don't know if we'll be able to handle two of them." Seth closed his eyes desperately. "Besides, Randy has Finn..."
His phone rang, it was Randy making a video call. Seth answer it, and since nothing really mattered to him, it was time to take the bull by the horns.
"What the hell you want?" He spat angrily.
"Wow, you're really hurt, Roman actually made a number with you, but that doesn't matter since you're coming to see me on your own, anyway."
Randy watched Seth snorting in disbelief.
"I think you should know the good news by now, Sethie. I own this city, I have another super soldier and you and Ambrose are no match for us."
Randy's face showed the satisfaction of feeling the winner and this made Seth feel ill.
"And you called just to rub that on my face?"
"Of course not, I called because I have something that you really care." Randy laughed.
Then Brock Lesnar held a badly beaten Finn in front of the camera.
"What do you want in exchange for him?" Seth looked at Randy with pure despise.
"You, Seth. You must come to my headquarters, I will see what I can do with you when you are in my hands."
Seth laughed softly. "It is not possible for me to be in your hands. Have you forgotten that I can kill you? It will be like swatting a fly."
Randy grinned. This made Seth very suspicious. Why wasn't Randy scared? He obviously had a plan.
"If you hurt me in any way," Randy said confidently. "Brock will dismember the stupid journalist."
"It's a silly exchange." Seth narrowed his eyes. "Seeing you dead is perfectly worth the life of a civilian."'
"It would be worth it, if you didn't love him." Seth could see a flash of jealousy in Randy's eyes. "You're not going to let him die, Seth, and you're certainly not going to let me torture him any more. If you don't come in two hours, my next call will be to show you the part that Brock will have ripped from Finn's body."
Randy closed the call. Seth was breathing hard, trying to calm himself and decided to make a call.
"Seth, I guess you're calling to tell me there won't be an election because Randy took over the city." Said The Miz.
"In fact it's the opposite, now that Randy has exposed himself as the villain that he is, I can become the savior of Utopia, and with that you can be the mayor of this damn place with all the support of its citizens. The place that Randy and Kane have now, will be ours."
"But... you are at a disadvantage and I don't want to die, in fact I'm not even in town."
"I know. According to my data, you are about to take a plane to go to Brazil." Seth smirked. "You are going to reconnect your old partnership with McIntyre. But before you do something like that, you should seriously think about my proposal."
"I have to go back to my old business, I like money." The Miz couldn't hide his amazement, and maybe even fear, knowing that Seth had tracked him down.
"I still have a lot more money than McIntyre. And no one has said that you can't reconnect your business with him, in fact I need you to do it. I am very interested in meeting him myself at some point. So listen carefully to what you have to do and if all goes well, very soon you will return as mayor of Utopia." Seth sentenced. "Unless you really want to go back to the Amazon jungle just to clean up Mcintyre's oil and blood stains. I thought you were more ambitious."
"I hear your proposal then." The Miz agreed.
"It hurts to breathe." Dean was waking up.
He buried his face in the old mattress, which he shared so many times with Roman. Where they both confessed their love.
"The last time I was here, we had that fight. If I had supported you, none of this would be happening, you wouldn't be the villain who killed so many people and your best friend." Dean dragged his body out of the bed. "Your pride and my foolishness have led us to this, but I will not solve anything by crying, if we still have a chance, I will take it."
Dean was limping, his arm was still far from healing and he couldn't even remove the bandage. Never in his life did he feel so useless. The wounds on his body wouldn't heal for at least a couple of days. He wandered around the apartment looking for Seth, but found nothing. He checked his phone that Seth left charging, had several messages.
Dean stared at the screen in amazement, his hands shaking. He didn't have time to think about where his brother might be, let alone think about what he was going to do. He put on his suit and rushed out of the place, as fast as his seriously injured body would allow him.
If someone found him now, they could easily kill him, but none of that mattered more than those messages.
"I thought you would announce yourself at the reception." Randy smirked. "But I like surprises."
"Don't waste my time," Seth said dismissively as he finished entering Randy's attic balcony. "Where's Finn?"
Randy walked over to his minibar and poured himself a glass of whiskey. "You want something to drink. I just want to enjoy your company a little more."
"You know it would only take me three seconds to kill you?" Seth looked at him disinterestedly.
"Maybe, maybe not." Randy smirked.
Seth narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
"But let's say you're right, Sethie. You know it would take Brock less than that to dismember your beloved Finn? And then he'll kill you and as a bonus, he'll destroy Roman. Yes, Roman, that villain your little brother loves so much. A chain of tragedies that can be avoided if you stop behaving like a brat."
"I could do as you ask, but once you take me to Finn, I would kill you anyway. So it can't be that easy, can it?" It was obvious that there was a trap here. But Seth had no idea.
"Of course not. That is why you are swimming in money, you are very smart." Randy smiled. "I have an ace up my sleeve, one that will surprise you, but it's a little secret that I'm not going to share with you... yet. Now let's go to my bed."
"You are so basic that you want me to sleep with you." Seth said indignantly.
Randy just smiled and pointed to the bed. There was a huge wall of mirrors and everything was beautifully decorated. Seth was disgusted.
Randy unfolded the huge screen in front of his bed and there was the image of Finn Balor, badly beaten, held up by Brock Lesnar, like a piñata.
"Talk to him, honey," Randy indicated. "So you can verify that I'm not lying."
"If I give you what you want so much and your puppet kills him anyway," Seth said angrily.
"You kill me in three seconds." Randy replied. "I have no interest in Balor. You, darling, YOU are the enemy. An enemy I must get rid of but... it would be a shame to get rid of you without having you in my bed. I will give you Balor in exchange, while I get to safe and then, I will leave it in your hands to escape from here alive, against my super soldiers".
"And if you give me Finn, in exchange for your life." Seth said threateningly.
"Try it, but you know, the chain of deaths. I know you don't really care about Roman and Dean, but Balor... just look at you, you'd die if something happens to him. No, you're not going to risk his life. If I wasn't sure about that, I wouldn't be here alone with you." Randy was very confident.
Seth clenched his fists, he was totally cornered. "Finn..."
Finn looked up a bit, it was obvious that his whole body hurt. "Seth?"
Finally the journalist seemed to focus his eyes on the screen and smiled when he saw the heir, although it was only for a moment. His gaze focused on Randy who was sitting on the huge bed and Finn closed his eyes in frustration.
"I'm going to get you out of there, okay?" Seth said trying to sound undaunted.
Although he was sure that at this point it was useless to keep pretending in front of Finn or Randy.
"No, Seth, you must stop him, you can. My life is a price I'm willing to pay in exchange for you finally sending that bastard to prison." Finn pleaded.
Seth couldn't take it anymore. His face finally showed the despair he felt and he didn't even care if Randy or Finn noticed.
"Finn, I hope you can forgive me and understand that... this is my fault. I could always have killed him, but I didn't care about being a hero, so I never did the right thing, even if I could. I never... I never felt empathy, I didn't care about anyone... so, I let Randy accumulate this power... But now I'm going to fix this... I love you Finn. Please forgive me."
"Enough of love confessions." Randy turned off the screen.
"I am going to kill you so slowly and painfully. I am going to bathe in your blood, I will destroy your empire, your companies, your employees, I will destroy even your shadow. And if you don't honor our deal, I will rip you member by member." A lonely tear escaped Seth's eyes.
"But nothing is going to remove my mark on your body and how dirty you are going to feel. Anyway, I win because I will hurt you. Just look at you, you look like a helpless child. Finally you are and now you are powerless." Randy approached Seth and kissed him.
Seth allowed himself to be kissed, totally disgusted. Randy finally let him go.
"Nothing will remove the dirt from your body. You will dream that I took your body for the rest of your days. You will never be the same again and I will enjoy it very much." Randy kissed him again.
"You are too late!" AJ said indignantly.
He was in an alley several blocks from Randy's building.
"I almost die yesterday, you asshole." Dean complained. "I can barely walk."
"Randy is busy now and he will be for a while longer , just as his new puppet. This is the right time, we will enter through a secret entrance."
AJ took Dean to the lab where Roman was on a gurney. There was a lot of blood on the sheets.
"What did you do to him?" Dean limped toward Roman.
"I've released him, at least physically. But his mind... his spirit..." AJ's lips trembled as he spoke these words. "He trusts you and you must convince him that even if he sees himself as a threat, he really isn't, and he can still redeem himself or at least try, by ending his nemesis again. By defeating Lesnar."
With his healthy hand, Dean caressed Roman's face gently. Despite the horrible battle they had, Dean could feel nothing but concern, love, and a bit of guilt. He was scared too.
"He has already defeated Lesnar. Also, if you release him, he could team up with Seth and me, three against one would be perfect..."
"That, if he wants to form a team. If he wants to fight even. We don't know how he's going to react, besides..." AJ said doubtfully. "It's not that easy. Roman was a successful experiment amid many failures. But he is not the best version of the serum."
Dean's eyes widened desperately. "What are you talking about? You're crazy! Roman... almost killed us, of course he's the better version..."
"I'm not the only scientist working here, Dean... and I've spent a lot of my time looking to reverse the brainwashing. Also, Randy no longer trusts me and he's relieved me of my position as head of the lab. Now several of other scientists who work for him have improved the formula used in Roman and by far. You and Seth, well, both are the result of a formula from almost 20 years ago. Roman here is an improvement on that same formula... but Lesnar... he's the 100% perfected serum."
Dean was breathing heavily. "Still, we are three..."
"Really, Ambrose?" AJ snorted. "You can't walk, you won't be useful. And Seth is unpredictable, and I'm sure he won't be mentally okay... And Roman... well, when he wakes up I don't know what will happen to him."
"What do you mean Seth is not going to be mentally okay?" Dean asked in horror, walking back to AJ.
AJ closed his eyes. God, Randy's plan was disgusting and obviously Dean didn't know about this. But before AJ could explain the atrocity Randy was planning to do to Seth, Roman started to move. Dean and AJ immediately tensed. It was the moment of truth.
Roman sat on the gurney, holding his forehead as if he were in pain. Surely he was. Dean and AJ looked at him with wide eyes. They didn't know what to expect, they didn't know what could happen. Roman seemed to want to open his eyes. They were minutes of tension that seemed like hours. Until finally Roman opened his eyes and his gaze focused on his hands.
He looked around a bit more and saw AJ and Dean standing in front of him.