Chapter 3

"You're not dead. You're just having some idiotic dream." Scott stared up to her, his eyes wider and baggier than ever.

"R-Ramona…" He mumbled.

"Hey." She replied.

"Uh…I uh…"

"I waited at the park for almost three hours." She said, sitting next to him.

"I-I can explain. Gideon he…he attacked me and then-"

"Dude, it's okay. I figured that out when I found his patch in the snow. Why do you think I'm here now?"

"Oh…"

"Anyway, I uh…kinda disappeared for a while. I went looking for…I dunno…myself, I guess?" She said. "That sounds so stupid…"

"Well, at least he didn't get to you. Gideon, I mean…that bastard." Scott sighed, causing her to blush a little.

"I'm sorry." She said, looking down. Scott looked at her. "I'm sorry I left. Those last few days…I was in a pretty bad position. I was messed up, badly. I didn't want you to get messed up too."

"I got pretty messed up anyway."

"But…during the fight…you were so determined, so…tough." Ramona complimented, receiving a cheerful smile from Scott. "I...I wish I could have-I mean, I would have stayed, but in all honesty, I think that would've been much worse."

"But…you came back, right? You came back for me."

"I…had to come back. But I came back for me."

"You mean, you left for you, and then came back for you…?"

"Yes, I'm selfish. I've dabbled in being a bitch. I came back because…because I'm always the one who leaves. I could never say goodbye." She looked over to him. "I don't want to be that person anymore. So…I'm sorry, Scott. I'm really, really sorry." Her face turned into complete seriousness this time. "I came back for me, Scott. I came back to make myself say it. I came back to look you in the eyes, and…and to admit that-"

Without a warning, Scott lunged his lips onto hers. Her eyes went wide and a little bit of sweat dripped from her head. It had been so long since they kissed each other. But somehow, she calmed down and her eyes closed, sighing from her nose. She felt Scott hold her waist as she placed her hands onto her chest. In a swift motion, she pushed away from, saliva flying from their lips.

"And to admit that I was a crummy girlfriend and I feel like an idiot for even trying to-" Scott wasn't hearing it; he really needed to feel her touch. He pushed her onto her back and kissed her again. The sensation of feeling her lips upon his was finally calming the stress and depression that had been clogged within his mind for months now.

"Down boy!" Ramona exclaimed, shoving him onto his back.

"Damn it, Ramona!" Scott shouted, aggravated. "Why can't we both agree that this is all a dream? Why should we waste time arguing about it? I forgive you already! Let's make out!"

"Um…Scott…I lied." She mumbled, nervously. "You actually are dead." Instead of a whine or some form of crying, he grew puppy eyed and he said:

"I'm in heaven? You're…you're an angel."

"…No." She replied with a light blush. Suddenly, the sky started to shift. The desert clouds began to swirl into a large vortex until...

"BING!"

The extra life-which Scott was rewarded after defeating Todd Ingram-popped into view. They had both completely forgot about it.

"GAAAASP" Scott exclaimed.

(Back to the three dimensional world)

"GAAASP" Scott moaned loudly as he was resurrected from the dead. Everyone in the club was startled...including Gideon.

"Sorry, Mom. False alarm." Stacey sighed.

"I told you, Scott got a 1-up in Volume three!" Her mother answered, cockily.

A large glow then emitted from Scott's shirt. An electrical beam of energy shot into the air and onto the concrete, taking form of Ramona.

"You." Gideon growled.

"Me." Ramona mocked with a smirk.

"So, Ramona Flowers, huh? The prodigal son has returned.

"Um, should we keep playing or…?" Envy asked.

"Take five, baby. This shouldn't take long."

"Hey, Guy. You're not dead." Wallace cheered, kneeling down to his undead friend.

"Yeah, maybe we should take him home, so he can just stay that way." Stacey suggested.

"She's real." Scott whispered, staring at his 'ex'-girlfriend.

"Well, then, back to plan A." Gideon smirked. Seconds later, 7 large, metallic tubes descended from the ceiling, revealing only 6 girls that were cryogenically frozen from within. 1 tube, however, was empty. Everyone stared at it in complete nervousness.

"Dude…are those...your evil exes?" Scott asked.

"Yes! The answer is no." Gideon laughed. "You might say they're the ones who got away. They're all cryogenically frozen, awaiting the future in which they will all have no choice but to go out with me. I love them." He pointed both his arms to the crowd and a yellow glow emitted from his palms. "And you Ramona, are about to join them!"

A large blast shot from his hands, causing everyone to cover their eyes. Once it ended, everyone noticed their heads were glowing.

Scott didn't know what was going on at this point. Not only was his head glowing, but everyone else's were, too. He couldn't tell if it was all a dream or if it was just some twisted headache...scratch that, it WAS a complete headache. He then heard a loud "POP" over his head. He looked up and aw two a double energy bar. One energy bar was blue, which represented health, whilst the other one was red which represented something else.

He quickly noticed Gideon thrusting the sword towards him. He and Ramona quickly side-stepped the attack. Unfortunately for Scott, he was cut in the stomach, which drained his health to 96%. Scott grasped onto his bloodstained abdomen, feeling frustrated.

"Okay, why am I even still fighting this lunatic?" He complained, causing the red energy bar to very slowly rise. "I mean, you left, Ramona. Nobody said anything about defeating your ex-girlfriend's ex-boyfriends." This quickly raised the bar to 23%. Scott, once again, was too aggravated to notice.

"See, Scott? You're totally on my side." Gideon chuckled, cutting Scott across the chest, causing more blood to shoot out; his health was drained to 84%.

"Scott, look at me, I'm right here. I came back." Ramona advised. "Finish what you started!"

"What!?" Scott exclaimed, causing the red bar to rise a bit faster to 39%. "Who started this? It wasn't me! All I wanted was to date you!"

"She started it." Gideon yelled cutting his abdomen again, draining the blue health bar to 88%. "It's all her fault, Scott! Everything."

"Shut up, you stupid…uh…guy!" Scott shouted.

"Better comebacks, Scott." Wallace yelled.

"Maybe this was a mistake." Ramona sighed.

"Yeah?" Scott exclaimed, frustrated, causing the the red bar to increase to 42% "Maybe you should just go back to wherever the hell you were." Scott's red meter was already up 50%.

"You two are adorable. I can see your relationship is really working." Gideon said, sarcastically.

"Really? Cause, I mean, it seems like they're fighting." A random sideliner muttered.

"Why are we glowing? Glowing sucks!" Scott complained, raising the red meter even higher to 66%. His anger was growing every second. There was a red aura that briefly and dimly surrounded his body. Nobody noticed because it faded away in the blink of an eye; that and their glowing heads blocked it out.

"Ask him. He invented it." Ramona said, pointing at Gideon.

"You wanna know why I started the league? When I realized she wasn't coming back, I got wasted. So, I posted a drunken rant on craigslist." Gideon explained with an evil grin.

"You WHAT!?" Ramona shouted in disbelief.

"You mean I've been fighting seven evil psychos because you were drunk?!" Scott shouted enraged, causing the red health bar to increase to 72%. The red aura started to flash around Scott's body, which Ramona was able to notice. "I've been getting my ass handed to me because you were intoxicated?!" Make that 78%.

"What was…"

"I never expected a bunch of your actual evil exes to reply! Who the hell even dates seven evil people?" Gideon snapped thrusting the sword towards her, but she quickly dodged it by jumping over his head.

"You know, maybe they weren't evil when I dated them. Maybe they turned into complete assholes later! Like you?" Ramona retorted.

"You're the common denominator, baby!"

"Why do you even want me back? You spent our whole relationship pushing me away! You didn't even want me back until I left!"

"I wha?" Gideon mumbled, 'remembering' the events. It appeared as an idiotic, Rom-Com in Mario-Fashion. "Insolent whore! Don't you DARE sully my memories." He snapped, slashing Scott's across the abdomen, causing his blue health to drain to 79%.

"This…blows." Ramona commented.

"No kidding!" Scott agreed, blood dripping from his lip. His red health bar was already increased to 80%. "Any bright ideas?"

"Just the usual one." Ramona answered, causing the glow to emit around her body. Scott recognized this from when she left him. He knew what was going to happen. His red meter stopped rising.

"Ramona..." He called.

"Maybe I can't change." Ramona said, already on the verge of disappearing.

"Don't go..." He whispered. And suddenly,

"KSHHHH!" She was abruptly stabbed by the Power of Love. Ramona gasped in pain as some blood spewed from her mouth. Scott's eyes were wide with fear. He stared in complete fear as her blood dripped from the blade onto his cheek. A smug evil grin mixed with satisfaction rose across Gideon's cheeks. Everyone else stared in complete shock.

"Damn it…" Ramona breathed, pressing against her wound.

"Wow, man. She's been riding the glow into subspace. This makes sense." Scott didn't respond. Instead he continuously stared down at her body, his heart beating rapidly. Nobody noticed his red meter was rising faster than ever. It was already up to 89% causing the red aura to flash brightly and rapidly. His breathing was heavier, his teeth and fists were tightly clenched together. His red health meter was now 92%

"Uh, Scott?" Gideon called, but no answer. Instead his breathing turned into grunts his body rapidly flashing brighter than the heads of the patrons. He was making everyone in the club nervous.

"…Scott?" Wallace called, raising his arm towards his enraged friend.

"Don't…touch…me." Scott growled shutting his eyes, practically scaring his former gay roommate. He covered his face; his red meter was already at 98%. His body was now completely covered in a red aura. The entire club gasped in fear as his the bar rose to 100%; the entire health bar was literally on fire. Scott uncovered his face revealing a pair of blood red flames blazing within his eyes. He viciously growled, causing everyone to stare in fear.

"HRAAAAHH!" Scott screamed, glaring at Gideon. He stomped on the ground, which made a hole in the concrete. Ramona stared up in shock. His body was…it was unnatural. It emitted a vicious red glow, which overwhelmingly emitted over Gideon's glow; his wounds quickly patched themselves. His shirt was no longer bloody and the image on his shirt transformed into a fireball.

Scott Earned the Power of Rage

Guts: +8
Smarts: +6
Heart: -3
Anger: +10
Will: -2

"Uhh...what the f-" Gideon mumbled. In an instant, Scott lunged at an unbelievable speed and landed a rock hard punch which could be heard from around the room. The punch made Gideon fly back and crash directly into a line of arcade games. The impact created a gust of smoke rise in the air.

"Dude, are you seeing this!?" One of the bystanders exclaimed. "G-man is a total dead man."

"I'm totally freaked out right now." Another commented.

"Somebody record this!" It was a series of mutters as they all stared at the angry, glowing 24 year old. He suddenly started to levitate in thin air and moved towards Gideon's location, waiting for the smoke to clear.

"Dude, he…he's flying!" Neil commented. Scott just floated there, as the smoke finally cleared...Gideon wasn't there. Scott grew confused as he looked around the club, but he was nowhere within the province.

"S-Scott..." He heard Ramona moan. He descended down to her and raised his harm but when he tried to make contact, he had accidentally electrocuted her. She screamed, which made him jump back, stunned. "Don't worry...I'm fine. I...I shouldn't have let myself get hurt." She reassured. Scott stared down in concern, while Ramona stared at him with mixed emotions. She looked into his flaming eyes in nervousness, but she could feel his true presence inside. Wallace walked up to them and said:

"Scott you uh...you're looking pretty deadly there." Wallace, commented. Scott glared at him, which widened Wallace's eyes. "Not that there's anything wrong with that!" Scott remained silent. "But uh...ahem, Ramona, is it true? Gideon really infected you with his secret weapon?"

"Our whole relationship was like some sick experiment to him…ugh…I can't believe he's still at it. He just…has this way of getting inside my head. I mean that literally."

Scott mustered the information given and glanced at Ramona's subspace bag, which was laying down on the floor; now he knew exactly where Gideon was. He unzipped the subspace bag, causing Ramona and the others to stare in confusion. He dove into the bag head first until he found himself not only in subspace, but in Ramona's head.

Scott landed feet first onto the 'floor' making craters on impact. He was met by a nearby throne with two figures sitting in it. One had to be Gideon, but his shadow appeared spiky where his head was. The other figure was Ramona, wearing some sort of sexy, hipster outfit with her hands cuffed to a rope in which Gideon held in his grip.

"You idiot." He heard Gideon growl in a demonic voice. "Did you honestly think I'd just roll over in here." He stepped out of the shadows and into the light. Gideon's body was a lot taller than usual, his hair was spiky. The Power of Love remained in his grip, but emitted a dark, evil glow.

Scott showed no fear in the slightest. He narrowed his eyebrows, clenched his teeth and growled at Gideon.

"You think your new abilities can take me in this world!? Look around you, you dunce dope! All that you see is me, everywhere you go here, is me! ALL of Ramona's head is Gideon Graves... this is what she wants, buddy." He yanked on the leash that held Ramona and pulled her forward. "This is her inner most desire, your rage is nothing...you are nothing!" Gideon chuckled as he started to grow taller. Scott jumped off the ground and flew after him at top speed.

"I'm…" Scott growled, as Gideon continued to grow.

"Going..." Gideon's clothes ripped apart as he was shifting into something that was beyond both Earth and Subspace. Scott was unprovoked; he continued his attack.

"To break…" Gideon had fully transformed into Gigadeon Graves as the spirits of his ex-girlfriends appeared and wrapped their arms all around him, while Ramona lied in his palm completely passed out, a lustful smile on her face.

"YOUR FACE!"

"KRAK!" The sound of Gideon's skull after Scott delivered a powerful headbutt. Not only did he break the monster's skull, but a few of his teeth cracked as well. The demonic Gideon quickly shifted back to his normal form, allowing Scott to grab him by the shirt. Scott gave him a deathful stare. Scott prepped the final blow until he saw Ramona falling to her doom. His anger shifted to shock, then to confusion.

He could end Gideon and end months of torment but at the risk of letting the woman he loves fall to her death. Or he could possibly save her and the fight will continue. But the last time he made contact with Ramona, he electrocuted her...then he realized he was still holding onto Gideon-who stared at Scott in fear-and he wasn't being electrocuted...that's right...there was no feeling in Subspace; Scott knew what he had to do.

He released Gideon and flew after Ramona at top speed. She wasn't far from the ground so he raised his arms until he managed to catch her. He landed on the ground on both feet, holding her tightly. Ramona looked at him, surprised and he smiled at her.

"You fool! This is nothing to me!" Gideon snarled. Scott turned his attention to Gideon and was met by an attack from the Power of Love. The attack literally split Scott in half. He landed face first onto the floor, while the rest of his body fell over-dropping Ramona along with it. She landed in front of Scott, face-to-face.

"Did you honestly think the glow or your rage would have any affect on me? I've been trapped in my own head since the day I was born." Gideon explained. "You're powerless here. I am alpha and omega; I am the supreme ruler of subspace."

Scott looked over to Ramona. He was surprised when she stared back at him with an encouraging smile. Her clothes returned to normal as she snapped the cuffs on her wrist. Her body expanded to where she was twelve feet tall.

"Oh...uh...hey, Ramona, what's up?" Gideon said, nervously.

"You know, you're right. Part of me does still belong to you." She said as an army of Ramonas' appeared behind her. "But the other parts of me...are finished with you. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"

"...Fine." Gideon agreed, meekly. "But I'm taking HIM..." He raised the sword, readying to kill Scott. Ramona raised her arm in fear. "With me!"

A bright flash occurred back in the real world until it died down, revealing Scott, completely back in his raged form. He looked up and saw Ramona blocking Gideon's sword with her subspace bag, panting softly. Her bag suddenly exploded, causing a bunch of debris to shoot out and push Gideon back, leaving the Power of Love in the midst of the bag.

She gripped onto the sword, pulled it out and pointed to Gideon.

"Gideon, I think it's safe to say, it's over between us." She said confidently as Scott walked right next to her, glaring at Gideon with so much rage.

(To be continued)

The second to last chapter completed. I told you I was gonna add some products from my old story. I hope you all enjoyed it though. Chapter 4 will be up soon.