Rose breaks from her straitjacket as Mama pats Jack's back. Carter turns around, "Wish you didn't do that." Jack glares at him, Carter smiles as gunshots go off from above us. "You must apologize to me right now." Jack shakes his head at him, "If you kill Rose, right now- I'll let you live." Rose shouts at Jack, "Don't you even think about killing me!" Jack winces, then drops the rifle. He then starts pacing as an explosion's light and rubble rains from above, “I’ve been scared of you for the longest time now.” Rose watches him in confusion, is he trying to get himself killed? "Kill her now." Jack stares dead into Carter's eyes and even the demon himself jumps a little. A stern look comes back to Carter, Diesel's face. Carter forces a smile as bullets whizz at Jack. He growls unnaturally as Jack doesn't even flinch.
He shouts as spit spews from his mouth, "If you don't kill her right now, I will torture them all right in front of you!" He looks past Jack, Rose and Mama hold hands tight, knowing Carter would kill them if they moved any further. Jack shouts, "I am scared, but this is wrong!" Carter laughs lightly, “You were killing people on my ship.” Jack clenches his fists, “I hope it was a mercy.” Carter’s finger twitches, “They were innocent people doing their jobs. You deny your true self.” Jack frowns, “I’m no longer my true self.”
Carter takes a moment, then tuts, “Kill her now and I can give you that back. Your old life. I’ll even let them all live. But she must die.” Jack turns and continues to put himself between him and killing them both. Carter smiles unnaturally wide, “If you don’t, I’ll kill everyone here.” Jack’s eyes glow, “Then do it.” Carter throws something, Jack turns, Jack throws his arm out and a loud ping sounds off. Rose shouts and falls backward. She grabs at her pounding chest, coming to the realization, something just missed her. Jack backs up as Carter squints.
His eyes widen, a fold in his skin gapes open, a large heavy blade flies towards her and she screams. A loud crash kicks up all the dust, Rose shakes in her skin, staring at a giant blade made of bone grinding against something. A grand green glow washes over her as sparks fly, a glowing sphere of glass shards collide against each other violently.
As the dust settles, Carter stares with murder in his eyes. He zooms towards us, I jerk my arm up and as the sphere flies to block a devastatingly heavy blade, a shooting pain explodes from my shoulder, I scream at it, but refuse to look away from Carter. I rub one of my burning eyes. Carter paces as Rose shouts, "How can you see?!" I shout, "Not now!" Carter's face splits apart unnaturally, “You people are destroying everything! The natural order, now the oceans? You are fakes. I am god!”
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A blade pops out his skin and flies towards them, I force the glass to block and the pain in my shoulder hits me harder. I grab at my shoulder.
Carter zooms towards me, another large blade smashes against the fragile shards of glass, the pain gets worse every damn time. I sob loudly at the pain. Just one second away from consulting the reflections around me, something glides against my arm. I jerk away from the object and then grab at my arm. Blood seeps out, I quickly look up, another blade flies in. I jerk my hand forward and I scream loud at my shoulder with tears in my eyes. Mama shouts, "Stop that! You're hurting yourself!" I shout, "I can't!" He's too fast. So many fake outs, he's toying with us. I don't know how to use this! Carter gargles, "Fight back!"
A deep and voice-cracked sigh escapes me as I shut my eyes quick. It can't end like this. I open them and Carter's body warps, "Oh well, I thought you were special." Rose cringes as Carter's skin peels upward, thousands of bloodied wires snap and crack against each other as he runs towards us. Those attacks before were fast, but those, it's almost too fast to track. He gets so close, but a shell flies between us. He leaps back as the shell explodes. As Mama runs, I grab Rose and force her to the ground, she grabs my Jacket and pulls me down with her. She looks up at me with fiery and sparkling eyes. Puppers barks as he runs past us full speed at Carter. Guns emerge from it's skin and they start firing at him.
I load in another shell and shoot it at Carter. He falls over, then bolts away from the bullets flying at him as I l grab for a shell. "It's time I kill you Carter!" I feel around, then turn the ammo belt around, no more shells. I yank the rifle off my back and fire at him. He collapses as my gun clicks. I shout, "We got him!" I yank out my knife and rush towards him. He stands up and I stab him in the back. The smile fades on my face. Kill her. Mama grabs at her back, Jack and Rose stare me down as Mama collapses with a knife in her back. I slowly look at my hands. I scream.
