Reclusa sat up, breathing hard. He tapped his face, feeling a crack spread across its surface. He was injured, not dead. His death must have only been a dream. He sighed heavily. His limbs lacked Glohm, but he felt it surrounding him nonetheless.
"[Glohm...]" His voice glitched with his face. To fix it, he smacked the side of his head a few times, repairing it as if it were a broken machine. "Testing...one, two...There we go! Good as new!" He grabbed his limp hair. "Well, almost."
"SCREEEK! Vut are you doing here?!"
Reclusa jolted back, bumping into a wall. The voice was loud, screechy, and commanding. It belonged to a figure that resembled a bat, a large, jagged cape nearly touching the ground. He jabbed a claw at Reclusa's face.
"You look evil...Mario stopped you, I assume?"
Reclusa stuttered, shaking. This strange being knew about Mario; and he was shrouded with Glohm. But Glohm...He wanted to be alone, so why was this bat pestering him so?
"Vell? Can you speak? Vee haff no choice but to meet..."
"Mario and Luigi both." Reclusa finally found a voice. The Glohm stilled when the bat backed from him.
"I see."
"Glohm...I need it...Bring it BACK!"
"...Vut?"
Reclusa tackled the bat to the ground. He forcefully moved his head side-to-side, seeing what irritated him. He shoved Reclusa off and backed off again.
"You haff problems..."
"Where did it go...? I need it, I NEED IT!" He slammed his hands into the ground. "I can't be dead! I-I...My cycles! Endless cycles! I wasn't done! Worlds...still unified! I need to destroy it! DESTROY IT ALL! Get me out of here!" He rammed his side into the wall. "GET ME OUT OF HERE!" He scratched the walls.
"...Many problems..."
"I haven't been powerless in millennia! I need my power back!" He punched the wall. "I need my Glohm to live!" He tossed his limp arms into the wall, knowing full well they did nothing. "I can't! I CAN'T! I need to destroy UNITY! Connections! All of it! I need it gone! Then, and only then, can I allow my death! But I can't die now! Not from those...plumbers! And that traitor! Zokket...Cozette...She turned on me! She was supposed to help me until I killed her! I had her death all planned out! She wasn't supposed to die then! My TOYS! My TOYS are all GONE! Everything I worked for is GONE!"
"Vee've all been there...But maybe you failed because your anger got the best of you..."
"SHUT UP! You don't know ANYTHING! You're just a dumb bat! I'm a CONCORDIAN! I should be SMARTER than those idiotic BROTHERS!"
"C-Concordian...? Vut are you going off about, SCREENK!"
"MARIO! And the green one! They killed me before I could finish my job!"
"Sounds right...But his name is Luigi..."
"Do you think that I CARE?"
"...Yes?"
"Well, I DON'T! I just want to get out of here! I need to get out of here!"
"Your SCREEKN gets pointy..."
Reclusa finally calmed down enough to stop yelling, and folded his short arms. "Hmph! I'll find a way...I'll get out of here and stop those brothers."
"Vee'll see about that..."
A wall slid open and an impish creature entered. He wore a gray suit, and held a clipboard under his arm. He looked to the bat, then to Reclusa.
"Oh, you. We've had to work double shifts since you arrived. Get up, it's time to talk to the queen."
"Get AWAY from me!" Reclusa ordered.
"Alright, looks like we have a fighter here. Wrap it up, we've got a busy schedule."
A few more impish men entered the room, one holding handcuffs. Reclusa scrambled away from them. One pulled out some sort of stick and stabbed Reclusa's side with it. Reclusa screamed, his face glitching into all sorts of colorful patterns. Reclusa fell to the ground, glitching and twitching. They handcuffed him and dragged him out the room.
"Alright...Reclusa? What kind of name is that? These guys have some weird names. Remember that Dimentio guy? Strangest name I thought I'd see. But Reclusa probably tops that. Oh wait, no, turns out its name is actually Yamagen. Interesting. It used to be a Concordian before corrupting itself into Reclusa. These guys are always getting themselves hurt for what? World domination is overrated nowadays."
Reclusa could not move, but listened in.
"Queen Jaydes says...Oh WOW! That is a lot of sins! Countless murders, torture, successful world domination...Seems like Reclusa is one of those insane ones. But these are probably worse than Dimentio's right now. At least Dimentio had some human decency. Reclusa...Wow. This is bad. You'll be punished for a long time, that's for sure."
The other one spoke finally, the voice coming from closer to Reclusa. "It acts like a kid. What do you think Queen Jaydes has prepared for a kid?"
"It's not just acting like a child, it seems like it is a child. Maybe a thousand spankings? Ha!"
They both chuckled.
Reclusa knew who he'd kill first, that was certain.