Late into the afternoon, I rolled over, stretching. I felt more satisfied than I ever had before in my life. I was beaming with happiness.
"About time you woke up." He growled lowly and I glanced over to see him leaning on the wall beside the bed.
"Terribly sorry, I haven't slept late in quite a long time." I muttered sitting up, resting my feet on the ground, back to him.
"Really? Just a month ago you were unconscious for a couple weeks."
"That's different." I mumbled looking over at him from over my shoulder. I stared at him a long moment. "Oh no, you're brooding. What is it?" I asked turning more towards him.
"Nothing to concern yourself with." He said standing upright and heading towards the door. Growling, I jumped up and rushed in front of him crossing my arms, wings spread wide to keep him from passing me. "You're naked."
"So? Not like you haven't seen it before." I huffed. He chuckled and then I saw his head move as if he was eyeing me up. Blushing, panicking, I wrapped my wings around myself.
"See? Get dressed, we are leaving soon." He said walking around me.
"Yes, sir!" I chuckled and moved over to my armor. The moment he was gone I sighed, frowning lightly. I knew why he was upset, this plan we were going to do, could backfire horribly. I knew that is what was on his mind, but he wouldn't speak it.
Gritting my teeth, I tried to shake off the thought and put on all my armor before heading out to meet him outside. The jet sat there, ready to go and we stared at one another a long moment.
"Where is your staff?" He asked and I sighed softly.
"I left it. I will have no use for it and I would rather it stay somewhere safe." I muttered lightly. "My pistol will be enough. Let's go." I said hopping in the jet and he followed after. Soon enough we were in the sky heading towards the Omnic base.
Much to my surprise, we were not met with any defense, we landed as close as we could and headed inside with no one to stop us. "Weird." I muttered softly taking the lead, but he remained close behind me, silent. The hallway led to a large open, circular room and I glanced around before my eyes set upon Ghalts. Tensing up I reached for my pistol, pulling it out.
"As requested." Reaper said to Ghalt and I then felt a powerful blow of his shotgun to the back of my head. I hit the ground hard and he moved up beside me, kicking the pistol away. "I bring her to you, you give me what I want."
"Yes, yes, as promised." He said waving his hand.
"Reaper?" I gasped turning to look over at him, "I don't understand...how could you...?"
"I told you, Phoenix, I am unable to love. The Omnic came to me, told me of your value, playing you into my hand was easy." He chuckled then kicked me over onto my back, his foot pressed against my throat. "I appreciate your dedication, but I have myself to look after."
I gasped out for breath but couldn't reply back to him, only closed my eyes trying to remove his boot from my throat. I actually tried to push his boot off but it wouldn't budge. Fear set in my heart that this was all real.
"Take her to her cell. I will deal with her later." Ghalt said and then true, tremendous fear set in. I panicked.
"N-no!" I shouted as Omnic grabbed me dragging me off. "Wait, wait! Ghalt!" I shouted out at him. "Give me a chance please!"
"What chance could I give you?" He laughed staring at me as I tried to think of something.
"I-I...I'll work for you. Soley for you. Do your bidding, whatever you wish. I'll fight for you, lead you to all the hideouts I know of, help you finish taking over the world, anything...anything...just not that cell." I said sobbing softly. True terror, tears pouring down the side of my face. Maybe this all was real.
"Alright, I'll give you a chance." He said, this I was shocked by. "Reaper, come here." He ordered and the Demon approached. "stand, Phoenix." He said and I slowly made it to my feet, both Reaper and I were just out of arms reach of one another, staring each other down. "I know of your heart, Phoenix. You don't have the courage to kill someone. Not unless threatened." He purred softly moving close to the side of my face. "I doubt you can do as you say you can." I looked down, my whole body was trembling in pure terror. "Reaper, give her one of your guns." He said and I saw Reaper hesitate before he handed me a shotgun. It was heavy as I expected and the shadows began curling over my hand. "Now point it at him." He said and I looked sharply at Ghalt. "Come now, don't hesitate." I nodded and pulled the shotgun up, pointing it directly at Reapers face. "Pull the trigger."
"What?" I gasped.
"Come now, pull the trigger and I will free you of the cell."
Reaper chuckled raising the shotgun pointing it directly at me. "Do not think I will stand idly by and be killed."
"Oh! As expected! This will turn into a delightful game!" Ghalt laughed and took several steps back. The two Omnic in the room with us were then dismissed, leaving just the three of us alone. "Let's see who can pull the trigger first. When I count to three, pull the trigger. Ready? One..." I rest my finger on the trigger as we stared each other down. "Two..." I smiled very gently, softly, tears now freely pouring down the side of my face.
"I love you." I said softly and he was taken aback by this.
"Thr-" I pulled the trigger and Reaper fell back, he didn't move for a long moment and I watched his body fall apart into pieces, fading away into shadow. "What a fantastic show!" Ghalt cheered as I dropped the gun and covered my mouth with my hand, sobbing uncontrollably. "Congratulations, Phoenix, you have won your prize!" He wrapped his arm around my shoulders and pulled me close. "But do not think you're free of my punishments." He hissed in my ear, causing my eyes to close. "You will fight for me, bleed for me, conquer for me and when you return to your new home, I will punish you in every way I desire if you even so much as think about running and hiding, I will rip your body apart and make sure you are unable to revive. Are we understood?"
"Yes...sir..." I stuttered staring at the soul floating in the air before me, something I knew only I could see.
"Good girl." He turned me around and began walking me from the room, towards the hallway. Closing my eyes, I let out a shaky breath and waved my hand, my power touching the soul and the soul disappeared. The shadow that formed was quick to react and disappeared from the room.
I was brought into a small bedroom, ugly and most of the furnishings were unsuable. "This will be your home. You are not allowed to leave this room without me, is that clear?"
"Y-Yes, sir." I mumbled looking down.
"Rest well, Phoenix, for tomorr-" There was a huge explosion on one side of the base and the whole building shook. I grabbed onto the crumbling bed for support and gasped looking around, that quick? There was another loud explosion and I watched Ghalt fall to his knees, writhing in pain for a moment. Was this it? I took my chance, and spread my wings consuming the fire from outside the windows to power up. It was a little amount, but it was enough. Thrusting forward, I grabbed Ghalts neck and crushed his windpipe burning my hand.
"I will never serve you." I hissed softly and another explosion hit somewhere close to the room, the ceiling began falling but I remained where I was, burning his entire body away. The flames grew white, hot enough to even melt the metal of his skeleton. Even if the mainframe was not here in this base, Ghalt was not getting back up.
Once that was done, I rushed to the door, only to have it explode in my face and fling me from the room. I crashed through a couple weak walls, and into another room that was completely ablaze. Coughing slightly, I sat upright and looked around, I couldn't find an exit.
"Reaper..." I muttered softly. "Get out." Closing my eyes, I spread my wings wide and bowed my head remaining on my knees. Arching my wings up, I began consuming all of the fire in the room, instead of soaking them into my wings as I had before, the fire began balling between the two points of my wings. It was a long, tiring process, I refused to stop draining the fire until I could no more. My body writhing in pain, trying to get me to stop, but I refused.
On the opposite end of the building, Reaper was setting off a few more computers, setting more explosives and then moving into shadow to avoid damage. He looked at his handiwork, knowing that he was victorious in destroying the base. He moved to exit the building when he saw something peculiar. The fire was not acting normal, it seemed to be moving. All of it, was draining back towards the center of the building, trailing away.
Tensing up, he stared down the hall towards where the fire was heading and let out a low growl debating his decision. Cursing himself, he then began running.
The talons of my armor dug deep into the flooring beneath me, trying to keep me steady as the ball only grew and grew to a massive size, until I could hold it no more. Opening my eyes, I stretched my wings and lowered my head to stare at the ground. "This is it." I chuckled. "Sorry, I failed you again." I muttered and swear for the briefest moment, I saw a shadow zip across my vision. Assuming it was power loss, I shook it off and took a deep breath. Then, in one thrust of my wings, the entire building exploded. Everything within the building was incinerated, leaving nothing but ashes behind, the fire, controlled enough that once it hit the outer limits it stopped, hitting an invisible force field and bounced back. All underground tunnels and computers, mainframes and wirings was followed by the fire and destroyed as far as it could travel. Then, all disappeared, leaving nothing but a giant crater behind.