Notes.
Little bit more of his identity crisis and action.
So sorry if in action moment there is going to be less talking thing, I just love to make fighting scenes more serious and focused.
"Was it what I think it was or…." Lucy thought, but immediately shook her head, "No Lucy, It's NOT possible! Emmet just need more time to recover, he'll come out sometime later" Lucy stood from soda and moved towards window.
It's been two hours after the fight she and Batman got into and ever since then, Emmet kept himself looked in his room.
"It's not possible, of course it's not, you're just paranoid!" She told herself. But the word paranoid caught her attention.
"Better to not know at all, than become paranoid…." She whispered. These words hit her like sharp knife. Has she become paranoid? Maybe, but only because Emmet's not okay and she worries about him.
"Everything is going to be okay, just get a hold of yourself, at least for Emmet…" She looked outside. The weather was sweet, moon shined bright and there were no time to check the city.
This time she's going to be more careful and will take her camouflage cloth. Just to be sure that no one is going to see her.
Lucy turned towards Emmet's room and sighed. Maybe it's better to let him know that she's going out? Just to not make him worries.
"Emmet' I'm going out, if you need something Benny and Unikitty are still home" Lucy yelled. She waited for respond, but heard only silence.
The silence, the same silence that was few hours ago when Emmet returned. Only this time there was something strange in this silence. It was…. Cold.
Sighing once again, she turned towards exit and left.
Emmet lowered his head and stared at one spot. After everything that happened yesterday he wasn't sure how to feel about his split life anymore.
It was too hard. He never found it that hard before. There he was completely sure that Emmet and Mar are two different people, but now…. This line started to fade.
The more he thought about that, the more it was making less and less sense. How is that even possible? He learned how to act. He was acting like a professional, yet allowed this to happen.
But even with these thoughts, he wanted to put on his disguise and continue his day as Mar.
"And why not? Lucy left, Benny and Unikitty wouldn't check on me,being busy with building new weapons." Emmet thought.
The thought was sweet, maybe he'll do it. Cause why not? If he feels like hurting someone, Mar has no regrets in doing this. But Emmet…..
"No, I can't let myself, not after what I did as Emmet…." He hid his face in hand and sighed. All this being two different people thing, was pulling on his nerves.
He was barely sleeping; all his dreams were filled with laughing villain, his own screams of pain and face of a broken man.
He looked at the mirror and slowly walked towards it. From the other side was Emmet and he looked like shit.
Giant bag under eye, hair looks like nest, no more cheerful shine in eye, no more smiles on the face, only pain.
"Maybe if I just look at myself not as Emmet, but as Mar, nobody going to get hurt, are they?" He whispered and turned to look at his secret place.
He wanted to know, why they were looking at him like this when he's Mar. He needed to be sure, so he finally stops comparing himself to Mar.
"Only once, only this time" He entered his secret spot and moved towards giant box. There was a lot of stuff, starting from giant toolboxes and ending on small knifes that Lucy made him keep in case something happened.
And maybe if Lucy didn't make him keep them, he wouldn't be as violent? In the free time he was practicing different attacks on handmade manikin.
The same manikin that was lying completely broken and torn apart. On day when he failed at saving people, he was so furious that gone full strength at it, not caring about damage after.
He moved the box away and took his Mar suit with robotic armor. He quickly put on his armor, switched his outfit and stared at his mask, his other side of face.
Or was it other side of his face? Or his face was the other side of mask? This thought made him shook. Why he keeps thinking about it?
"C'mon Emmet, it's still you, with mask of not, you just look different, that's all" He closed his eye and put on his mask.
Slowly mask connected to him and put on hologram. But he kept keeping his eyes closed. He was studying how he felt before and after putting the mask and he was shocked.
All the worries, all the happiness was taken away, replaced with anger and hatred. It felt almost as if mask just blocked everything, every feeling that made him Emmet and left only the things that made him Mar.
He slowly looked at himself and almost had heart attack, from the other side of mirror was someone, someone else but not him, it just couldn't be him.
His both eyes were filled with so much hate, so much anger and murderous shine, that Emmet felt horrified, "Is that how I look like him?" He whispered.
No, it's just a hologram, hologram that made him look like this. He's still Emmet under all this…. Right?
He slowly moved closer to mirror and touched his face. But immediately he let go of it. It not only looked older, but it TURNED older, he could feel every detail of his new look and it was…. Strange.
Every detail becomes so real, so natural, like it was always like this. The more he was looking at himself, the more his heart was squeezing.
It just don't feel right, it's almost as if he was Rex copycat or something. At the only thought of that, he shook. No, of course not! He was just doing it to find and make villain pay for his crimes, not something more.
But, at the same time it felt so good when he was tearing robots apart and even when he hurt that man, "He deserved that" Mar hissed, "He wanted this in the first place"
His right side of face darkened a little, as if Emmet was slowly fading away, dying. Just like he wanted it long ago, at his first time when he defeated-
"No! He was only joking, it was just a huge misunderstanding!" Emmet hesitated, "Maybe at the smallest part he deserved, but NOT like that!"
Now it was time for left side of face, the mask to darken. As if his Mar side was furious.
He looked at his reflection, like he and it were two different people, with two moralities and looks on what good and what bad.
"I shouldn't have snapped like that, it wasn't what Emmet would do, Emmet supposed to help, not hurt!" Emmet yelled.
"Sometimes the hurt is the best help, you can do" Mar laughed. Emmet stepped back and ran his fingers into hair, "No this is wrong!"
"Wrong for who, exactly?" Mar hissed. Emmet turned away from mirror and shut his eyes.
Was he talking to himself or talking to mask? He wasn't sure, but he was sure that he made big mistake. He made a very BIG mistake creating it in the first place.
He already figured it out when he saved his friends as Mar. Long time ago. When he for the first time meet face to face with robots.
Then why he keeps it? Why he continues to use it, if he knows HOW dangerous It is. Why he can't just destroy it? Maybe it'll be better for everyone.
"I shouldn't have created you in the first place" He took side of his mask, ready to take it off at any moment.
"And what else? You created the mask to stop feeling like useless idiot and now you're afraid to see your true potential?" Emmet looked at his reflection.
Mar was looking at him. His eyes were cold and dark, small smile could be seen on him. It was NOT his reflection. It couldn't be his.
"You wanted to show, that your strong, aren't you?" Mar whispered, "And now you want to let go of it? Is this what HEROES do?"
Heroes, such pathetic word. Heroes always do what's best for others, but in return gain nothing. Sometimes even hate.
He saved SO MANY people and how he was paid? Called Rex copycat, got hated by everybody and only because he was not helping like TRUE heroes do.
Sure he was using more violent ways, but still, he was doing it to HELP NOT to HURT. Yet still everyone thought that Mar and now maybe Emmet is monster.
Emmet kept staring at his reflection, it was telling the truth. Maybe painful, but still the truth that he wanted to forget.
Slowly he let go of the mask. Mar was right, he couldn't do it and the things he can do as Mar were too much freedom for him to just let go of it.
He never felt so alive from the moment he lost part of body. From the moment when he and Lucy were just talking and laughing.
Emmet turned away from mirror and looked at door. "Lucy said that she's going out, but how far…. That's the different question…." He sighed and ran fingers through his hair, his heart started to race faster.
"Maybe, if I go out for one moment, wouldn't hurt anyone…." Emmet thought, "Benny and Unikitty, in case if they going to check on me, can be fallen asleep with a help of sleeping gas"
He had a lot of it. In case that someone notices him or founds out about his secret by mistake. He can just make fall them asleep and make sure that they'll forget about it.
That thought made him chuckle darkly, before he realized what exactly he planned to do with his friends only for his secret being kept secret, "The less I wear this mask, the better it's going to be" He quickly took off his mask.
Immediately his fears and worry returned. They hit him so hard that he stepped back and almost fell on floor. He slowly looked at the mask in his robotic hand and his eye filed with worry.
This mask. It was cold, he could feel it even with robotic hand and it wasn't just a normal metallic cold. It was as if mask hated him and wanted to stop fighting.
"What exactly are you, Mar?" Emmet whispered, he kept on staring at the mask, but it remained the same. "Just the opposite of me or something more?"
Lucy quickly jumped from building to building, her face was full of worry and fear. On the other side of city something was happening and this something wasn't a great thing.
The giant building was half the way destroyed, bright flames burned around, eating everything that was in its way and in the middle of this, stood cloaked figure.
Pitch black mask covered his face, there was no hint of eyes, nor mouth, like it was nothing but a monster from the nightmares that wants to tear you apart.
Lucy quickly hid behind the near spot and quickly took her phone. "Guys, he's here, HE'S HERE, I need your help right now!" Lucy texted and turned to figure, it was still there.
He was just looking around and enjoying what he did. If he had a mouth, Lucy was sure, it would be nothing but giant smile from ear to ear.
"I'ma sending you coordinates, be here in five minutes!" She hid her phone and once again looked at the figure, it wasn't there anymore.
It wasn't there. It just faded somewhere else, but how!? She looked away from him only for few seconds, not longer.
That realization made Lucy terrified, she quickly looked around the place where he stood, but saw only fire.
Not simple fire, it was much darker, than it should be. Maybe he was using some chemicals to make it that way, so the fire would act like alive and eat everything it sees.
Lucy gulped and turning around she met with his pitch black face. Loud scream of terror escaped her throat.
Emmet immediately jumped and turned towards door, it was, no mistakenly Lucy's scream, but how can she scream so loud? And how he managed to-
"Doesn't matter, if Lucy's in trouble I have to help her!" Emmet, once again put on his Mar mask and, not caring that his friends would see him like this, ran out of his room and dashed towards exit.
He had to get there as fast as he could. He needs to save her, no matter how aggressive he has to be, he will save her. NO MATTER WHAT.
Benny and Unikitty, who just left their rooms with horror on their faces, from the messages theygot from her, noticed only black-green shoes and closing door.
Mar run towards direction, from where Lucy's scream was heard. People, who hurried in safe spots, were staring at him like he was new Rex and screaming, calling his monster, as if he wanted to help this bitch to hurt Lucy. But that was the last thing he cared about.
"C'mon, c'mon!" He hissed and climbed at the nearest roof. Standing in full size he was stunned by what he saw.
It was awful. He couldn't believe his eyes, he just couldn't. It was too much to be reality, but still, it was and it made his heart race like crazy.
On the other roof, all covered in giant, likely able to heal, cracks was Lucy, her face was twisted with pain, hot tears were streaming down.
Cloaked figure kept kicking her in the face. With every new kick her screams were turning more and more painful and loud. His cruel, evil laughter filled the air, he was enjoying the pain, her loud screams.
The same laugh that he already heard before, only now it was much higher and more insane. As if he completely lost his mind after so many time that passed.
Mar couldn't move, he couldn't think, he was terrified at what this animal was doing to Lucy, to his Lucy, to Emmet's LUCY!
Even if he hated her, she was still HIS and he still cared about her. And now, his brain just shut. All his fear was replaced with fury, his teeth slowly cracked, becoming fully sharp.
Letting out loud roar of animalistic rage, he dashed towards figure. His whole being, no matter how broken he was, was filled with urge to kill.
To kill everyone who gets near his Lucy, everyone who just dares to look at her. He's going to kill them all. Everyone will die, every last one.
His left eye turned bright red, when he, at full speed, kicked cloaked figure in the back and not letting him fall on roof, caught his arm.
Mar hit him against roof and started to beat his masked face with, almost, inhuman strength. Cracks appeared on his mask within few seconds, but the only reaction villainshowed was laughter.
He kept on laughing like crazy. Mar's heart filled with so much rage, that he, not caring about anything anymore, roared right in figures face.
He wasn't thinking anymore, there was no one there who's able to think. No Mar, no Emmet, just monster who wants to rip this idiot who dared to attack her.
He started to tore him apart, bite him and scratch him. All the time 'Mar' was hurting him, figure only kept on laughing, right to the last moment when 'Mar' ripped his head off.
'Mar', not satisfied with his opponent's death, kept tearing his corpse, right to the moment there was nothing but pieces of broken lego and cloak.
Only when his opponent was completely gone, 'Mar' stood at full size and slowly looked at Lucy. Terror once again appeared on her cracked face, but 'Mar' not cared at all.
He slowly moved towards her, his every movement, every step he took was trembling. He was shaking from fury, from the feeling of his first kill. His first human kill….
Lucy tried to back away from him, but she was too hurt to do so. After few moments this monster was standing right before her.
Was he going to attack her? She wasn't sure, but that red shine and twisted face made her heart race. She never felt so terrified before. Not even when that guy was beating her.
Lucy quickly closed her eyes and waited for death, but only thing she felt was cold and hug that made her feel not only pain, but shock. It felt too familiar.
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That…. Was…. SO GOOD! Haha! Finally I fell SO great! Sorry about this whole violent-detail stuff and less talking / thoughts at the end.
It's just in my nature, like, I can't help it!
But maaaan, I can't wait to write NEXT chapter!
See ya all later!