"There!"

Black*Star pointed ahead, to a small round room in front of them. Inside, there was a machine, labeled "emergency Z consiousness restoration", and with a small rod next to it.

The team rushed to the machine, and Z-soul bounced from patty's hands and his squishy body slid onto the rod. There was a crackle of electricity.

Suddenly, the door slammed shut behind them! The machine Z was on retracted into the wall, and a panel closed over it. Then the room started going up, like an elevator. when it reached the top, the soul eater gang was in a cage. J sat in a throne in front of them. The room was otherwise empty, save a door at the top of some steps behind the throne.

"uh uh uh. Soooo predictable." She said.

"you expected this all along." Said Kid wearily.

"But of course! Not a moron now, am i?" said J.

"and I assume that was a fake restoration machine we put Z on, to trick us." Said Liz.

J looked blank. "…you know… that would have been a really good idea."

"no matter! He'll never find us here, even if he is reconnected to his precious ship!"

KA-BOOM!

The door at the top of the stairs blew clear off its hinges, flying over the cage, and hitting the wall behind it.

Smoke obscured the figure in the doorway. The figure raised its hand…

…and rang the doorbell. "ding-dong!"

"always do it with style, boys and girls." Said the figure as he walked in.

it was Z, back to his original form, broken eye intact, green Mohawk faintly glowing, wearing his black spiky battlesuit. His good eye was full of rage, his broken eye expressionless.

"No… I'm sorry. please… don't hurt me." Said J, cowering.

"I can't make any promises." Growled Z.

J grinned maliciously, straightening up and pulling a detonator out from behind her back. "me neither." She said, pressing the big red button.

A cage dropped from the ceiling. Z immediately attempted to bend the bars open, but reared back as purple energy from the bars seared his hands.

"don't bother." Said J, still standing next to her throne, the detonator dropped to the floor. "that cage is charged with chaos energy. Unbreakable, even by you." She grinned evilly.

"I know your fears, Z."

"Z fears nothing!" Z roared as he tried again to break the bars, but failed as the purple energy seared his hands again.

J cackled. "how's a nice French maid outfit sound?"

Z froze. He stared at Z, with dilated pupils. "you wouldn't." he whispered quietly.

"oh I would and I will. Then I'll chaos-charge a bedframe and some change, and spread-eagle you on it." J's grin widened. "then I'll take a huge dildo and shove it up your ass."

She turned back to the soul eater cast. "Z fears humiliation and embarrassment, and this is his worst fear. You guys will watch, and laugh."

"why's he hate it so much?" asked patty. "we do it to kid all the time!"

"PATTY!" kid screamed. "she's lying, she's fucking lying!" he told the others, who were struggling not to laugh.

"never…" came a whisper from Z, returning all eyes to him.

"hmm? What was that?" taunted J, raising a hand to her ear.

"NEVER!" Z roared, and a blast of sheer energy exploded from him, making the soul eaters' hair stand on end. The unbreakable cage broke, desintigrating into dust.

J gulped. "Now, Z… we can compromise-URK!"

Z had moved so fast it was like he had teleported. One moment he was near the top of the stairs, the next, he was next to the throne, holding J by her throat.

"no, actually we can't." he said as he grabbed the back of her head, and put her face toward one of the throne's armrests.

WHAM!

He slammed her face against the solid gold metal armrest.

WHAM!

He slammed it again. He continued to slam her head, gradually going faster and faster, harder and harder…

WHAM…WHAM…WHAM…WHAM…

WHAM..WHAM..WHAM..WHAM..

WHAM. WHAM. WHAM. WHAM.

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

WHAM-WHAM-WHAM-WHAM-WHAM-WHAM-WHAM-WHAM

And he finished with a powerful uppercut to her jaw, and the soul eater cast could actually HEAR her jaw breaking.

"Now to finish you with one hand tied behind my back." He said, putting his left hand behind his back as he flipped her onto her back on the floor. He knelt down, pinning her.

His right hand began to crackle with orange electricity, descending towards her face, palm open. Z had murder in his eyes.

"NO!" screamed J, grabbing Z's wrist with one hand, attempting to stop him, but failing. Z slowly pressed on.

"NO! NOOO!" J screeched at the top of her lungs in a terrified voice. But she couldn't stop it; the hand reached her face. It covered her entire face, Z's palm covering her mouth.

There was a noise which was a cross between a gust of wind and a scream. Z's body jerked, and her skeleton was visible through her skin. Dust clouds whipped around Z's ankles as he stood back up and roared, J's life-electricity arcing from her body into him.

After a few seconds, it was over. J's smoking corpse laid on the floor, her eyes blank and unseeing, the gash on her head from the throne still bleeding.

Z then turned to the cage. "let's get you guys out of there." He said, bending the bars with his bare hands to let them out.

The meisters and weapons shuddered. That was a horrible scene they had just witnessed…

"let's get you guys home at last." Said Z. "the 24 hours are surely up by now." He sighed, and began to lead them out of the fortress, to the spaceport.