Black Heart: Alternate Ending | A Project Arrhythmia fanfic

A Final Fight

Medusa stood on the steps to Jestar's temple, staring at the large, foreboding door.

*sigh* "I need to do this."

The moment he stepped in, he started shaking. Not from cold, but fear.

"Attention. Unauthorised presence detected in the hallway." Echoed the Core. The voice made Medusa tear up, as memories from being controlled by it flooded back.

His walk turned into a sprint as he made his way to the throne room, only to overhear a conversation.

"So, you wanna get rid of Medusa, huh? I think I have a device that could help you." An unfamiliar, husky voice said.

"Perfect" ENA's voice replied.

Oh shit, ENA's here, Medusa thought.

All of a sudden, the big double doors to the throne room swung open, with a rather displeased Jestar Heart behind them.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING BACK HERE? I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE."

"I-I-I just wanted to chat?" Medusa said shakily. It wasn't easy facing his creator.

"Chat? You know I don't chat, Medusa."

Jestar held up an energy ball.

"I'd suggest you leave before ya get hurt"

Medusa summoned his hammer, tears streaming down his face at that point.

"You. Need. To. STOP!"

With a swing of his hammer, Jestar went flying into the wall.

"You wanna fight, huh? Well then, LET'S BATTLE!"

The two engaged in an incredibly one-sided battle, Medusa being severely overpowered by his creator.

Just as he was about to land a blow to Jestar's stomach, Medusa was frozen.

"Wh-what?! LET ME GO!"

"I'm afraid not, Medusa." Someone else said.

Jestar whipped his head towards the voice, while Medusa could only move his eyes in said direction.

Of course, ENA intervened. How could they not? Medusa was already weak, and using a device that froze others they could easily get rid of both him and Jestar.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" Jestar roared.

"Doing my job, Mr. Heart." The nanobot replied, while walking up to the fight scene.

With a click of a button, Medusa was freed, but Jestar was consequently frozen.

"WHAT THE?!"

Medusa booked it before ENA could do anything to him, and found what seemed to be a remodel of the Heart Locket.

"This is perfect! I can trap him in here, and he'll never bother us again!"

The locket glowed, and shattered in his hands.

"I'm sorry, what was that?"

Jestar's agressive tone was enough to freeze Medusa.

After he gained the courage to look, he found out that Jestar had acquired ENA's second soul.

"Now, where were we?"

The battle continued, only with Medusa getting even more overwhelmed.

"AGH!" He yelled as Jestar sent him crashing into the wall.

Looking up, Medusa saw him charging an energy ball the size of a boulder. Scrambling up to his feet, he summoned his hammer as large as it would go, and managed to reflect the ball as it was thrown.

It hit Jestar, and also managed to destroy the temple. Medusa shielded from the rubble, and when it cleared up, he saw probably the most traumatising thing any child could ever see.

Jestar was laid on the floor, crushed by a large piece of rubble. Black liquid was oozing out from underneath him, leaving Medusa to assume it was blood. The souls were on the floor, luckily unharmed.

"You monster."

ENA walked up to the scene, and grabbed their souls back.

"How could you do such a thing? Killing your own creator?" They said, hypocritically.

"But- I-I didn't mean to- I just reflected a ball of energy- I didn't want to kill him-"

"Oh, shut up. You wouldn't have come here if you didn't. For this, you deserve a punishment worse than death."

That punishment happened to be exile.

ENA dragged Medusa to a small island covered in rocks, no sand or grass in sight.

They summoned shackles, and then tied him down so he wouldn't try to escape.

"P-Please! Let me go! I'll do anything!" Medusa begged.

"I'm afraid not. We can't have a danger like you roaming Arrhythmia freely."

"B-but-"

"No buts, you're staying here."

And that's exactly what he did.

~~~~~~~

[around a year later]

"Oh, my, you poor thing. Whatever did they do to you?"

"Wh-what? Wh-who are you?" Medusa was confused. It had been a long time since anyone had come to visit him.

"Hikari. You remember me, right?"

Memories of his last fight came back.

"Wait, you're the one who created Cyan, right?"

"Correct. A big mistake that was, but there's not a lot I can do at the moment. Anyways, I want you to come back to Paradise with me. I have an offer I don't think you'll refuse."

"YES! YES! PLEASE GET ME OUT OF HERE!" Medusa was more than eager to get out of his situation.

"Alright, let's go."

[END]