I'm screwed. I'm going up against a vicious monster with half the power of a god. I'm screwed. I'm going up against my old best friend and the person who was like a brother to me. I'm screwed. I'm going up a sadistic, crazy, monster with no sense of pity, mercy, or compassion. All I had to do was get Alex out of there and I'd be happy. I opened the door quietly and took a deep breath. "Will!" yelled a voice, I saw Alex, chained to a wall by a door.

"He's behind that door isn't he?" I asked. Alex gave a quick nod; I got the chains off her and pulled her into a kiss. "If I don't make it, Barrel's holding onto something for me. I told him to give it to you if I go down."

"You won't die, I know it!" she said, squeezing my hand. I lifted my goggles and wiped away a tear.

"If you say so, you're the smart one in this relationship." I said with a weak smile. "Try not to cry, m'kay?"

"Give em' hell, and remember I love you." She said, kissing my cheek before stepping to the door out. "Is the way clear?"

"Should be, but find a weapon, a bunch of the dead inmates should have some." I said before she left. I opened the other door to find Nick sitting on a large cushy chair. "Hey Nick, you look like hell."

"How did you know I'd be in the east tower?" Nick asked, amused.

"Remember, you always woke me up so you could watch the stupid sunrise? I doubt in death you would change your habits too much, I didn't." I said lighting a cigar. "You used to hate it when I smoked, said it would kill me."

"Instead a knife wielding maniac did." Nick said, demolishing his chair with a single punch.

"You have no idea how many times I've made that joke." I said, putting up my fists.

"We fought with fists before, your friends almost got you killed." Nick reminded. He waved his arm and a table of weapons slid between us. "Remember last time we fought with weapons?"

"I remember you getting sent to the emergency room when I broke your leg, dressed as Jaq Hallow or not, that bad leg was still around before you hung yourself and it should be on your new body with the chain-arm." I said, grabbing a scythe as he grabbed a sword, he crashed through the table, sending the weapons flying into the walls, and I quickly dodged him before he did any harm. I pulled down my goggles.

"Have you ever wondered why I chose here?" Nick asked between exchanged blows. "Why I came to a prison nobody has ever escaped short of a second death? Even now, when the cage doors are wide open?"

"Well it isn't because of the good neighborhood or schools, and I assume it's not the tenants, so I'm going to say the great view." I said, glancing outside to the moonlit lake Angel Cage resided by.

"Everything's a joke to you Will, always was, you were always so damn irritating." Will said, making a deep cut in my left leg. I yelled out in pain and ran to Nick and grabbed his shoulder with one hand and started punching him repeatedly in the stomach.

"And! You! Were! Always! So! Damn! BORING!" I said, punching him with each word. He grabbed his sword and tried to run it through my heart, but instead the blade broke. I ripped off my shirt to reveal a breastplate painted orange with black to make it look like a Jack O' Lantern.

"Getting back to the point, it's because of the people's nature." Nick said, taking another sword out of the wall.

"So you like murderers, thieves, and rapists? You're a sick man!" I said with a smile, slicing through his shirt and leaving a small cut on his belly.

"I don't like them but who said the master had to like his puppets. Tonight is a special night!" Nick yelled.

"You mean after you kill me you actually plan on loosing your virginity?" I smiled, swooping my scythe to the back of his sword and getting it stuck like a hook and pulling back bringing the sword into my other hand.

"This building alone is like a battery, full of dead souls full of evil. All these criminals, every time one dies the darkness level of this place doubles." Nick started.

"So you're planning on killing them all either way, and then sucking all the evil outta this place like the energizer bunny's (A/N, I don't own) vampire cousin in a blood battery factory and ruling Halloween town." I said, dodging a blow from a chain mace Nick was wielding in his chain-arm.

"You think so small, after I suck all the juice out of here I'll more power than Jaq Hallow's older brother, the one who's death split the worlds into their various holidays. The rifts between life, death, and these worlds of limbo will see me as none other as Rapture, the oldest of the holiday demons and the worlds will pull back together into a single land." Nick explained.

"Then what, are you going to get some lottery tickets, some booze, and cry yourself to sleep?" I asked, getting bored with the little story.

"No, after I obtain the master world I can use the bridges of life and death connected to it to obtain dark souls straight from hell and become an all powerful being to rule over the earth itself." Nick finished, I raised my hand.

"Three things I just gotta say. One, that plan seems like you ripped it out of a Saturday morning cartoon. Two, why you told me all of that I do not know, seriously I would keep it to myself and let the good guy keep guessing, making him ultimately fail. And three, world domination? Extremely cliché." I smirked. "Oh and one more thing."

"What?" Nick asked.

"Balltap." I said before kicking him in the nads. I ripped a chunk out of the floor and as soon as he got up I smashed it over his bad knee, bending it in a 90-degree angle… the wrong way. He screamed out in pain.

"I should have killed you, making another like father like son moment." Nick seethed.

"What the hell are you talking about?" I asked.

"My dad wasn't killed in the army and your dad wasn't killed by a gang. My dad killed your dad and got the electric chair for it, your mother told me three days before last Halloween." Nick smirked. I didn't yell. I didn't scream. I didn't do anything. I just took my scythe and knocked down all the oil lamps in the room, which were the only source of light.

"After all that happened I thought you would be more of a challenge, but the last times I was afraid, I held back, I still saw you as a friend in some sense. But I have two words for you." I said, spraying him and the area around him with bug spray as the building started to break under the quickly spreading fire.

"And what would that be?" Nick asked, seeing the spray around him catching fire.

"Drop dead." I said, leaving and catching up with the others. As soon as she saw me Alex almost toppled me, I groaned from the bad cut in my leg.

Barrel gave me my watch back and I gave it to Alex. "It's broken!" Alex exclaimed, almost yelling at Barrel.

"Always was, ever since the day it was made. Like my family, it's only right twice a day. My first right today was that I said I was gonna save you." I said just before Angel Cage exploded I smelt blood in the air and a corpse landed by us, almost indistinguishable except for an arm connected to the torso by a chain. "The second was that there was going to be one last execution at Angel Cage." I said, taking the scythe I was fighting with and cutting off the chain arm at the shoulder so the arm was still connected to the chain. "You guys, I think we're gonna find a taxidermist, go home, open up my one good bottle of wine, and drink until we pass out."

"Here's to that." Barrel smiled, helping support me while I was on my bad leg.

"Alex…" I said almost silently.

"Yeah?" she replied.

"I love you." I said with a smile, she kissed me on the cheek.

"I love you too."

Hope you readers enjoyed the last chapter in the second part of the William Cody series, more to come but I'm gonna take a two week break before writing more.