HROT: Spawn of War

Chapter 15: The Reckoning

Blood seeped from the slit Kiah had begun to slice into Tony's neck. Tony winced in pain. "You little bitch," he growled. "Why didn't you just kill us when we were vulnerable at the camp?"

"There's no fun in that," Kiah replied. "I wanted you to get close to victory before I helped Pore snatch it from you."

Pore smiled widely in approval as she held her own blade tightly against Scott's throat. "You've served me well, Kiah."

"Let's all just calm down," Crunk insisted. "We can end this without any more bloodshed."

"Fuck that," Jhonny remarked. "I can't wait to smash you to pieces."

Scott looked at Tony in agony. "I'm sorry, Tony," he said. "It wasn't supposed to end this way."

But Tony wouldn't see himself and Scott die at the hands of these malicious monsters. He tried to struggle away, but Kiah only pressed the knife harder. "One more move and it's over," Kiah warned.

Tony was filled with rage and exclaimed, "NO!" Out of nowhere, a purple vortex appeared behind him, right where Kiah was standing. Kiah gasped in shock as the portal swallowed her lower half and then warped back to another dimension. Her blade slipped from her hand as she hit the floor with a thud, only her upper body still in existence and bleeding profusely. She twitched as she died from the blood loss, and her guts seeped onto the floor.

Tony stumbled back in shock. "What the hell?" he asked himself. That had been just like Alex Katz's power. Did he somehow summon that ability? But how?

Pore grimaced. She wasn't backing down. "You still can't do anything. If you do, Scott dies."

"Please!" Shannon pleaded as she fell to her knees. "Don't hurt him! He's all I have left!"

"Oh, I'm not going to hurt him," Pore replied as a smirk snaked across her face. "He's going to hurt you." She latched her hand onto Scott's skull, and Scott's eyes rolled into the back of his head. Pore groaned with the most intense concentration she had ever summoned as Scott rose to his feet and stared at Tony with bloodshot eyes.

Tony stepped back, sensing danger. "Scott? Are you okay?"

Scott started to walk toward him. Before Tony could stop him, Scott crossed his arms and summoned Skincrawler Doctees, who began sprinting madly toward Tony and the others. "Oh shit!" TF remarked. He and the others engaged the copies of Scott as Pore invested all of her power into controlling The Doctor's son.

"Scott, you have to fight this!" Tony demanded as he impaled Doctees left and right.

Shannon ducked behind a pillar and tried to figure out what to do. Her dear Scott was being controlled by the enemy, and she wasn't a good enough fighter to stop him.

Her eyes lit up. Kyle. Kyle could stop this. She quickly stripped off all of her clothes and vanished into thin air. She then sneakily headed for the dungeon.

TF and Crunk jumped back as Jhonny swung his mighty fists at them. "You're going to die for what you did to our friend!" TF growled.

Jhonny bellowed laughter. "I can't wait to grind you into a paste, and stomp that stupid top hat of yours."

Crunk smashed the ground in front of Jhonny with his club. "You won't lay a hand on him," he warned.

Jhonny couldn't wait to destroy these medieval creeps.

Leon, Kieran, Michael, Ass Cat, and Hovermind viciously defended the breach in the castle. The merc numbers were overwhelming, but they were determined to stand their ground. Leon slowed time around as many as he could. Kieran struggled to keep up the energy as he continuously morphed into objects, such as a spiked wheel, a shield to defend the others, and a crossbow for Michael to fire his nuggets with. Ass Cat ferociously clawed any enemies who came near. Hovermind raised the piles of debris into the air and dropped them on clusters of mercs.