Descent Into Madness

10, Betrayal

I ran past countless exploding electrical fuses, wires and devices. All tangled together, trying to latch onto me and this elven woman to kill us. Though, we did make it. I then stopped at the entrance of our ship to catch my breath since I ran so hard that I essentially almost choked myself to death. We still had a good few thirty minutes before the ship beside ours would blow to shreds. So twenty-five minutes in, I'd get up to go to the pilots cockpit and I began to move the ship away from the Blacklite ship I had just sabotaged. "Finally, I can catch my breath-" I grumbled with a tone of anger to myself.

Though, what I saw next was something I'd never be able to get out of my head. "Okay. What's your name woman...?" I asked her before I left for the cockpit to have a word with Aki. "W-why do you need to know that?" She asked back in a fearful murmur. "I might need it, don't know when I'm gonna need it but I might do"

"Fine. I'm Eden-" She finally spoke up. "And you can call me NextGen. Now I need to go to the front of this device we're in now, just stay exactly where you are or you'll mess this up."

I advised. She nodded which was enough approval from me to go ahead and check if they were still there. "Aki!! Why the f-ck haven't we moved from here?! I have a civilian here! Aki?"

He was simply dead, his insides were scattered all around the cockpit. Kor's body was split into several pieces and scattered along the control room. It shook me. The mere sight stabbed my heart. "W-wha...what the f-ck?! Who...what?! They're here. I know it."

Five minutes left. How the actual f-ck am I meant to do anything in five-

"Simple, you can't." I turned around and I saw the dreadful image of a woman. Hair made from ashen obsidian, her eyes glinted like blood under the moonlight. Then, I saw it.

The logo on her shoulder, the Blacklite logo. "Damn...damn you..." I stammered out. "Heh, NextGen. Did you really think you'd be able to get far? You know how long I've been tracking you for? Boy." She asked me with a voice that can only be described as menacing. My heart felt like it could stop at any moment. My hands were clenching instinctively from fear. I saw something else on this woman as well...a yellow tie. "Ice...why the f-ck would you betray-"

"I didn't betray you. You betrayed yourself; you fell right into my trap. Hehe..." She broke out into a fit of maniacal giggles. This moron. Killed both of them. This is NOT Ice, this is someone...I think I know them.

When I was younger, I knew of a woman similar to Ice. She was almost the exact same in appearance and was an older cousin of mine. She'd always come across as this...malicious assassin. I don't know how to describe it, but she was both stunning and dangerous at the same time. "Nova." I said out loud. "Is that you...? If it is. Thanks for ruining everything. F-cking moron." I don't know why she chose that path. The path to the darkness. Nova was never this way, I always looked up to her, always loved her like a sibling. "You guessed one thing right." She replied in a chime. "Guess you really are as observant as you say you are, boy~" Yeah, nah. That's not working on me.

"You damn perv, that seduction sh-t is not gonna work on me. We're sixty-five percent blood related." I called out before using my Rage Style aura to coat my hands in a crimson, blood aura. I'd throw a quick punch straight to her face. But she caught it and threw me to the side.

I'd bounce off the wall and land with my sight faced to a clock. Three minutes left. SH-T!! I frantically got up, my heart was racing and I rushed to the cockpit as swiftly as I could. Nova would follow. "You're not gonna run away from me now, you're gonna be a specimen for-" I kicked her in the stomach, getting a yelp out of her and sending her flying into the wall. "Shut up- I don't care about myself right now, I'm worried about something else." I'd hear her chuckle as I frantically turned on the systems and started up the engine. "You brang someone here?! You saved people?! How pathetic are you NextGen...you really are stupid. There's only two minutes left until the whole thing blows now, it's no use." First, I'd let out an angerful sigh.

"I SAID, SHUT UP!!" That white, glowing aura would burst out from me once more as I yelled at the top of my lungs, scraping her face and scarring it. That'd get a scream out of her. "NextGen!! YOU PIECE OF-"

"What did I say Nova?!" I used that same white aura to generate a punch hard enough that'd send her all the way to the back of the ship, destroying so much in its wake. The whole place was a mess, blood everywhere.

"NOW GO F-CK YOURSELF IN SPACE, B-TCH!!" I yelled before I saw Eden stumble and run my way while I accelerated the ship, leaving the megaship that would be blowing to complete shreds. It'd be a waste of scrap now...I opened the airlock for a quick moment to throw Nova out and then after getting a good distance away from her and the Blacklite ship.

I let go of everything. I let out a sigh of complete anger that became a loud cry of frustration. I punched the wall. Again and again and again until my knuckles on my hand began to drip with immense blood. I was even sobbing, loudly. In front of Eden...

I didn't even know if I could trust her...yet she still walked towards me slowly and just healed me. "Why did you even want to follow me...?" I asked her. "I have a lot of sh-t on my a-s I don't want others to find you and kill you just because I'm a problem." I told her.

"I-I don't know. You just feel...I feel safe around you."

"Eden, seems like I can...I can take you with me. Just don't expect me to trust you all that much."