Helluva Distraction

Chapter 45

"Well, isn't that so...pathetic," Mammon's voice boomed through the void, "those people are doing nothing more than holding you back from unlocking your true potential. You're a talent who should work under someone who can give you the life that you yearn for, not someone who can barely choose between you and a fucking bird," he murmured. A tear of light shot through the darkened sky and revealed an image of Blitz and Stolas hugging one another. You coiled under the sight and glared toward the figurine in the distance.

"Blitz loves me and Stolas respects me. There's nothing that you could give me that would mean more to me than the people in my life!" You spit.

"Is that so? What if I gave you...their life?" He chuckled loudly, the figure in the distance getting closer.

"What the fuck are you talking about?" You hissed.

"If you come with me and do as I say I'll spare all of their lives. If not, I'll kill each of them one by one, and none of them will die a painless and quick death, I can assure you of that."

"Why...why do you want me so badly?" You stuttered.

"I see your potential for all that it is, for all that you could be. I need you just as you need me," the figure was just a few feet away now.

"I don't need you," you snarled.

"Maybe not. But you need them. And if you don't come with me they'll all die," he laughed loudly and wickedly again, the sound of chiming bells ringed from the figure.

You began walking quickly toward the silhouette, your hands balled at your sides, your finger nails digging at the skin of your palms. You clenched your teeth as irritated tears pooled in your eyes and ran down your cheeks. You stomped towards it when suddenly it began growing in height, towering above you with a wicked smile plastered on its face.

It resembled Fizz with its clown like attire, but he was different. His colors black and gold, his figure large and bulky, his eyes a neon yellow through the darkness, his teeth sharp and jagged. He pooled over you and bent at his waist until his face was just inches away from yours, a laugh underlying under every word he spoke.

"Make your choice little Imp," he snarled. You rubbed your eyes angrily and fixed your gaze behind him. There, lined in perfectly straight rows, stood hundreds of robofizz's along with hundreds of Imps who had parts of their bodies replaced with robotic attachments. They all stood eerily still as their eyes and smiles shown through the blackness that swallowed them. You gulped loudly before allowing your eyes to peer into his once more.

"How do I know you're not lying? How do I know you could even hurt them? Hm?" You questioned angrily.

Mammon's grin grew even larger as he slashed one of his large hands against the blackened sky. With it, his finger tips scrapped open another portal that showed Blitz and Stolas again as they spoke to one another, the portal out of their sight. Mammon clapped his hands together twice and one of the Robofizz's move from his stiff stance toward the portal, ready to jump through it within an instant, guns clasped in his hands.

"Stop!" You yelled, the portal dwindled back into nothing but the night sky, the Robofizz quietly returned back to his spot within the formation. Mammon let out a wicked and playful laugh before telling you once more,

"Make your choice little Imp. Their lives are on the line."

"Fine...just leave them alone."