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9. Battle Royal, Sadie and Shade
"So." Said Shade.
"What?"
"Is Ryko being your date just a cover? Or…"
"Ugh, he probably thinks it is. I just wish…"
"Really?"
"Of course! What isn't there to like! He just can't see in front of his face!"
"Well, with the whole Ares thing, he's under a lot of stress. He kills people for a living! He's so used to that that he just doesn't really… get stuff like that. I'm sure he has regrets. Anything else he's going through?"
Sadie thought of Hades.
"…No."
"You sure took a long time to answer."
"Whatever. We need to find Ares."
They stumbled into the library.
"Hmmmm… don't they always have secret books that you pull?"
"Nah, that's to oooaaahhhhhhhhhh!"
Sadie whipped around to find a latch open in the floor.
"Weird."
She was about to enter the latch when time itself froze.
"What the…"
"Hello, daughter of Aelia." It was… Anubis? Was that his name?"
"What's going on?"
"Time itself is frozen. I do that when I need to talk to someone."
"What do you need to talk to me about? Shouldn't you be tending to your brother?"
"I am. This is the second part of the soul, the ba, the personality."
"So Your babysitting your brother without a personality?"
"Listen, Sadie. Ryko likes you. He really, really likes you. Being around you brings comfort to him; it makes him less under pressure. He may not tell you, but when you're around him he feels more confident and more relaxed. He's glad he has someone else to talk to for a change." Sadie's eyes lit up with excitement.
"Really?" Anubis nodded.
"In order to defeat Ares and restore Ma'at, order, you must be at his side at all times. Telling him what I told you could be very dangerous. He might confuse himself. Just take my advice. He needs you… and from what I've heard from your recent conversations, you feel the same way about him as well."
"Do you gods-"
"We aren't gods."
"Do you super powered divine beings like yourself always do this?"
"I don't talk to mortals much. But we do what is right."
"What you think is right." Anubis stared at her.
"What we know is right." Time continued and Anubis disappeared.
"Well then…"
She jumped down the hatch.
"Hey, check this out!"
A map was etched on the wall.
"There must be a system of catacombs under here…"
"And it looks like it's huge. How are we gonna get along in here?"
"Like this."
She pulled out what seemed to be a rectangular prism. She scanned the map with it and an exact copy printed out of it.
"What do you do at G.U.N, anyway?"
"I'm not supposed to tell anybody, but it involves a little espionage."
"I see."
"We should explore this place, don't ya think? We might not get killed by ancient booby trabs."
They explored the ruin and didn't run into anything… for a while. They came to writings on the wall.
"Hmmm… death ahead, be warned, and ooh, check this out, demons ahead. Let's go."
"They continued to go through the catacombs until they saw skeletal robots.
"Brilliant."
"Not half bad. That metal isn't modern, though. Might not even be metal. Whoever built this must have been an ancient civilization."
"Know what they say at G.U.N?"
"What?"
"If it's still moving, kill it."
They fought off the two robots, which didn't prove to be very hard. They both continued on.
"Ryko woulda loved this place."
"I wonder what they're all doing right now."
"It can't possibly be as awesome as this."
"Freak yea."
Robots. Exploring, ruins, robots, robots, robots, ruins, exploring, dead end, robots. It was all very exciting.
"Shade?"
"Yea?"
"I just realized something."
"What?"
"What are we doing in this place? Aren't we supposed to find Ares?"
"He could be hiding in here, I would. Plus, this is pretty freaking cool."
"Point."
Robots.
"These robots are really annoying me right now."
"And there's probably a whole military in here."
"I hope not."
Well, it turned out that there was about three militaries in there, and they fought their way out of every situation.
"Can I take back my earlier statements? This really sucks." Sadie laughed.
"Yea, well… who cares."
They were scanning a nearby wall.
"Hey, I got a secret passage."
"Then let's go in."
They immediately regretted it. When they got out of the passage, they were surrounded by (you guessed it, folks!) robots.
"We, er, come in peace?" The robots closed in on them.
"But you guys don't. Are you armed, Shade?" She tossed her two Nocturnus guns, and it was on.
Robots.
Robots.
Robots.
Robots.
"Can we hold them off much longer?"
I need more power… oh god, I have an Idea. This isn't gonna work.
"Anubis! I need help! You wouldn't mind taking out half of these guys, would you?"
Half of them fell dead.
"… that works."
She kept shooting them with their guns until they ran out of ammo. Then they used their fist and hands to take out the rest. When they finished, Ryko and Laoch came through… Hades' portal?" She then noticed the differences.
"You said not for three days!"
They finished to conversation and she filled them in what happened, and how they still don't know where Ares is.
"Well." Said Ryko.
"This has been an interesting day."
"Yep. Anyway, maybe we should go." They all hopped in the portal and appeared outside of the palace.
"Sadie, keep my car for a week."
"You won't need it for a week? But that means… No, not that long."
"He must." Said Hades.
"This is all for you! Ryko is generously giving you his body and mind, and you take advantage of his thoughts and everything! He wants to help out a friend! This isn't hosting you… you're possessing him! This is… URGH!"
She hopped in Ryko's car and drove off recklessly.
"She's really upset, maybe we should-"
"Ryko, we need to focus on-"
"SHUT UP! SHUT THE FREAK UP! WE'RE GOING HOME RIGHT NOW!" He disappeared in a portal of fire.
"Sharing two minds… hearing a different voice come out of your mouth… he must going crazy." Said Laoch.
"Sadie could get seriously hurt driving like that, too."
"Go home safe, Rykadies. No, that sounds stupid, um, Hyko? Nah, er, Hado? Whatever. Let's go home."