A new world

AN: so this is it, we've come a long way and now it's time to settle this.

MC grimaced at how boring and ugly the world looked.

He took a few steps down, then stopped when he suddenly found it difficult to breathe. He took in as many breaths as possible, coming to the realization that his human form had to breathe at all times to stay alive.

'How problematic,' thought he, just as Michael rose up and attacked him head on.

Compared to Monika, this human was nothing to MC as he landed a punch on Michael's already damaged chest, sending him into a few of the tables in the room.

"This is the world Monika wanted to see so much of?" asked he, to no one in particular. He slowly made his way to one of the computers and with a few keystrokes, he closed the portal to the real world, effectively locking Monika out.

"How is this possible?" Michael asked, getting back to his feet again.

"How? It's because that damned thing underestimated me," MC replied, as he kicked Michael in the chest. He then grabbed Michael by the head, lifted him up so that he could land a kick to the side of Michael's head, knocking him back again.

"You know I expected more from you," MC said, in a condescending tone, watching Michael struggle back up.

"The way she spoke about you, the emotion in her voice," added he, waiting for his opponent to stand on his feet "it pissed me off to no end."

"What the hell does she see in someone like you?" asked he, tossing his gun aside and raised his fists. Despite his injuries, Michael still launched a competent set of attacks. None of them had too much emotion or openings in them which MC was surprised by.

But even with all that MC's knowledge in hand to hand combat allowed him to overwhelm Michael. In the span of a few seconds, Michael's body was riddled with fists and kicks, making standing up almost impossible.

MC knew that this was a fight he would win. Despite how much Monika destroyed his world, wiping out chunks of his data and taking away many of his core functions, he still survived and with what little he had left, he would use it to exact his revenge.

"Seeing as you won't be alive to see me do it, let me tell you what's going to happen when you die," MC said, taking a seat.

"The first thing I'm going to do is put down that damned squad of yours one at a time. I'll save your close friends for last, make sure they suffer nice and slow."

To illustrate his point, MC purposely punched Michael in the face, then kicked him in the legs, forcing him to his knees.

"Have to admit," MC continued the sight of a human on their knees certainly brings a smile to my face.

"So anyway, once I'm done with them, I'm going after Monika."

"If Alex has proven one thing it's that Monika can be hurt. It may take me a little while to corner her in the digital world but when I do."

He stopped a moment to laugh at a whatever dark though passed his mind before continuing.

"I'm going to bend, twist and break her apart a thousand times before putting her back together. When I'm done with her, she's going to be on all fours like the bitch she is, begging for her masters love."

"But I won't stop there," added he, "I'm going after Alex's daughter next. And after her I'll find another girl to add and another and another till I have a harem big enough to satisfy all my desires."

"And…. why the hell…. Would you go…. So far?" asked Michael, lying on the floor.

"I thought that one's pretty obvious," MC replied "BECAUSE I'M A GOD. I CAN DO WHATEVER THE HELL I DAMN WELL PLEASE AND YOU MONKEYS WILL JUST WORSHIP ME."

"I'm going to make this world and the digital world mine," MC continued looking at the portal and imagined all the things that he had planned. Under his rule, this world and everyone in it would bend and bow to his every whim and desire. He would recover all the power that he lost and he would inflict revenge on Monika in the slowest possible way he could imagine.

Of course what MC didn't know was that all plans fail when you get punched in the face.

Such was the case when he turned around to receive a right fist aimed at his face, courtesy of Michael, whom he thought was unable to move.

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Michael watched MC stagger a little from the attack and knew he could not waste any time. He saw his opponents exposed knee and kicked it as hard as possible, causing MC to let out a shriek of pain, forcing him to the ground. MC tried to reach Michael from the ground but Michael responded with a kick to the chest.

He watched MC struggle towards the gun and had an idea. While his enemy struggled forward, Michael took out a keyboard then rammed it into MC's back, causing him to scream again in pain but at this point Michael did not care.

No matter what happened, he would not allow someone as despicable as MC to live. Michael continued hitting MC in the back, causing the keyboard to snap in half. With one broken half still held firmly in hand, Michael plunged the keyboard into MC's leg, effectively separating his right leg from the rest of his body.

Amidst all the screaming and cursing that came from MC, Michael paid no concern to it at all. He quietly retrieved a computer screen from somewhere nearby then got back to MC and kicked away the gun that he was about to reach. He watched silently as MC struggled to get up then swung out, crashing the computer screen into MC's face, taking some teeth out in the process.

Michael then slowly grabbed MC by the neck, raised him up before starting to choke him. With whatever strength he had left, MC kept punching Michael in the face but the latter did not let up at all. His grip tightened deeper and deeper into MC's neck

Until.

A shot rang through the silence of the room. Michael looked on his wounded body and saw that the bullet was not aimed at him. He looked up and saw a hole on the side of MC's face. That first shot was followed up by two more, all of which pierced MC's skull, reducing him to a lifeless bag of flesh.

Michael tossed the body away then gazed at the culprit who stood at the door and now had his gun trained on him.

Alex watched Michael reach down, pick up a piece of glass before pointing it at him. For the longest of times, the two of them stared at each other, neither side making a single move.

There was a 50/50 chance that Alex would hit Michael. He knew that if the shot missed then MIchael would definitely close the gap and end him at a moment's notice. For a moment, Alex weighed the options in his mind, then let out a deep sigh.

He put the gun back in its holster, looked at Michael then shook his head and walked away.

Michael waited till he was out of sight before taking stock of his look. The many tears and blood stains were not a pleasing sight. He did not want to greet her like this, looking like crap. Because of that, he took the clothes from Rory, washed his face in the nearby restroom and changed into them.

As he made his way to one of the computers, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, causing him to convulse forward and spit out blood. His vision blurred but he ignored it all and forced himself back up. He was close, only a few more steps till he reached the computer and activated the process once again.

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Stepping through the portal, the first thing that Monika saw was Michael's smiling face followed by the words "Welcome to the new world my Goddess."

Monika took a few steps, forgetting to breathe which caused her to gasp for air a little. Michael immediately came to her, held her up then told her that she needed to keep breathing all the time.

"That sounds like a deal breaker," Monika said

"Well you get used to it, Michael said with a smile.

Monika continued to gaze at Michael's face. At last, after so many years of looking at him through a screen, she was finally seeing him in the flesh. A surge of emotions welling up inside her finally came out in the form of her falling on top of Michael, forcing them both to the ground.

Of course in her reverie, she failed to notice the pained expression that came from when he hit the ground.

"I finally get to see you Michael," said she, resting her head on his chest, "this is what your heart beat sounds like *sniff sniff, that's what you smell like."

"Hey now don't go sniffing me like that," objected her boyfriend, "i haven't had a chance to clean up."

However his words fell on deaf ears when he noticed Monika's expression change completely. In an instant, Monika came towards him intent on kissing him like they always planned but Michael was quick this time and avoided her.

Monika was somewhat confused by this and tried again only to have Michael dodge.

"Awww come on Michael, I wanna kiss you," said she, with a little pout.

"Ahahaha, sorry about that," replied he, rubbing the back of his head "It's just that I um… well bit a guy's throat off so now's not the time for that."

"Eww", said she and understandably so. Monika finally stood up allowing Michael to also stand up.

"We should get going right?" asked she, holding his hand and he replied with a nod

"It's a brave new world out there Monika," Michael said, while she took a step forward

"A world that I won't be a part of".

Monika suddenly felt him let go and turned around to see what was wrong. All her joy and happiness gave way to fear as she saw the blood trickling from Michael's mouth followed by a growing splotch of red spreading from his chest.

She screamed his name, darting forwards to catch him as he fell, no longer able to stand up.

"Hey, I know you two are probably busy making out right now," Barry said, entering the room. His expression immediately changed noticing the couple. Barry dashed towards the pair, while Monika pleaded for him to live.

"Come on Michael, you said we were going to get married and live together," she said, tears now pouring out of her eyes.

"That's right damn it, you two are going to live long live together and you're going to come to my house everyday and annoy the hell out of me," Barry added.

"Hey now brother what's wrong?" Titus asked, through the communicator.

"Titus, it's Michael, he's injured; badly."

"I'm on my way, keep him alive till we get there."

"You hear that Michael, they're coming to save you," Monika said, desperately trying to keep his eyes from closing "So you've gotta… .you have to survive. Come on Michael, please, please, please don't do this."

"I'm sorry… *cough cough Monika," Michael spoke, struggling to string together enough words.

"No, no don't say anything," urged she, "conserve your strength all right. You can apologize to me afterwards."

Thinking back, Michael remembered that he had never kissed a girl. In fact he wasn't all that social and had nearly no friends at all growing up.

However with his last vestiges of strength, he used it to slowly and weakly raise one arm up all for the purpose of wiping away some of the tears from Monika's face. In that moment, he gently rested his hand on her cheek, feeling her warmth for the first and only time in his life.

Michael gave them both one last smile before his eyes finally closed, marking the end of the old world.

AN: I always imagined this was how it would play out, with one of them dying and I couldn't let it be Monika seeing as she was the focus of the story. That being said...