Future Defenders - Book 1 - Rise of the Murderers

Chapter 23 - Reality Loss

For the first time in almost forever, silence was all that could be heard in the Legends Hall. The two murderers stood there, quietly and almost out of energy. For Rusty, it had been one heck of a final massacre, especially the final battle. But it didn't matter as this would be the last. For Riley, he had given it all he had but his opponent still stood. However, there was still something up his sleeve.

"Well, that's it then." Riley broke the silence. "Your just gonna walk up to me and end it forever. Heh. That's what would've normally happened. But this time, I, no we, have a plan that will need this all."

The Hall around them began to glitch out as fear filled Rusty and Riley continued to speak. "As you can see, everything around us is glitching out. Reality is breaking apart. The timeline has become unstable. And it's all cause of you. Every time you reversed time, the timeline began to glitch albeit it was very small."

"It built up overtime." ###### added. "And you played right into our hands. Because of you, I can now interfere. I was able to get Riley here into the void so I could leave and help him. The whole reason your in this mess is because you couldn't be bothered to quit when you had the chance."

The glitching picked up and Rusty began panic more, realising the mistake of coming back. Without a second thought, they began to try and reverse time so they could simply avoid all of this. After a few seconds, they realised nothing  was happening. Riley and ###### saw this struggle and the two of them laughed.

"Don't bother trying, it won't work anymore." ###### began to explain. "The timeline is too unstable and now reality is breaking up. With no reality, time is unstable, meaning your powers are useless. You've lost the control you thought you had on us. Toying with us. Playing with our lives. Being some kind of being above us all. That's all gone. As for us, we can use the loss of reality to our advantage, as it's been one of the things I've been working on during my spare time in the void. Trying to break reality."

"Please," Rusty began to beg. "Give me back my powers and I'll reverse time back before I arrive. You don't have to see me ever again. Please, let me fix this all."

"And let you get off scott free." Riley scoffed. "Not a chance. You've done too much damage that you can't go by unpunished. So either give up here and let us take your powers so we can fix this ourselves, or we can do this hard way."

Rusty refused to give up their powers just cause their enemy told them to. As if they'd be able to use it. "Fat chance, I'm not giving it to you."

"Suit yourself then."

A massive scar appeared above Riley's right eye up, going up under his hair. Instead of blood flowing out, it was pure black as if it cracked right into his skull. The glowing purple returned to his eyes followed by his body beginning to glitch. ###### took his place behind him and in one move, the two reignited the battle.

Unarmed, Rusty ran up to their opponent to get a fist in, but ended up falling right through him and landing on the ground facing upwards. They felt themself be picked up by the collar of their shirt and slammed into the ground. Getting back up, they were greeted by flashing eyes and a fist to the face launching them across the Hall.

Dazed, they began to search for their knife had been tossed over to before. Death Blasters and spikes someone came their way and Rusty had to put their attention to surviving them, knowing that since they could no longer reverse as reality is glitched out, any deaths would be permanent.

Suddenly as Rusty went to move to the left, they ended up moving to the right. Confused, they tried to move to the left again and still moved to the right. A Death Blaster their way so they attempted. Instead they ended up ducking and taking the blast from it. A thought flashed through their mind, explaining the only possible way this could be happening.