Three Chances

Chapter 9:The Hateful 8

After an hour's time had passed, everyone had made it back to the Krossroad with their companions. When they arrived, Shadowgun was polishing his guns and Insanity was stretching. To kill time and warm up(another joke about hell)they sparred with each other in pairs. Ghost versus Fire Queen, Lostit versus Luna, Phantom versus Montana, and Shadowgun versus Insanity. This went on for about 15 minutes, considering that they were trying to conserve energy in case they needed it. After all of them regained the energy they lost, they all gathered for a quick meeting. Shadowgun led it, as usual.

"I'm not gonna waste my time telling you all what you already know. Satan had something in store for me and these three." He pointed to his brothers, who all had a sense of urgency on their faces."And we got you girls to bring along. As strong as we are, Satan has enough firepower to put the four of us down ten times over. And you sisters are our only rivals when it comes to strength, experience, and smarts." Phantom stood up and started to speak."Because at the end of the day, if Satan does pull something, we'd all prefer to go out by the side of our loved ones. You all have already agreed to come along for the ride. Now is when we ask you...are you sure? Cause there ain't no turning back once we make it to Satan's place." The Careless squad looked at each other and nodded, looking back at the boys. Then, everyone started changing. Phantom took his mask off and tied his hair back, revealing his red eye. He still kept his mouth closed except for when he barely cracked it to let out purple smoke that surrounded him like a cloud. What was inside his mouth was still unknown. Then Lostit. He absorbed his mask into his arm like before and showed his stitched mouth and light blue whip-like tongue again. Ghost's jacket and mask disappeared in a flare of black flames. He smiled a bit, showing that he had chrome fangs for teeth and a mouth full of black fire. But instead of just letting it sit, he puffed up his cheeks and swallowed the fire, making his eye's colors invert and his hair catch black fire. Next up was Montana. The only apparent difference was that her pupils had turned into purple crosshairs. Luna followed Montana, but she just changed back into her wolf form, but she was bigger. She looked like she would be about a foot taller than Lostit if she stood on her hind legs. Lastly was Fire Queen. She had no physical change, but she did seem like she was putting off more heat than usual. Shadowgun and Insanity just watched all of this happen, smiling a bit. Then, Insanity finally uttered some form of speech."All of you can head to Satan's lair. I need to talk to Shadowgun...alone." Her sisters took off, followed by Shadowgun's brothers. Shadowgun looked at her, puzzled."What do you want to talk about?" Insanity's eyes turned completely white as she swung at Shadowgun with a black claw that emitted from a portal that was connected to her back, but barely visible. He was able to catch the first one, but she tried again with another and he was forced to dodge it because Insanity was somewhat stronger than him. Insanity let the claws come back to her side and hold her up."You've gotten soft. And I know you're gonna say you haven't. My response to that is gonna be 'prove it'. Me versus you. All out until the first hit lands." Shadowgun gave her a look of agreement."Don't expect me to pull my punches, kid."

Insanity smiled a bit as the claws rotated and eventually lifted her off of the ground. She flew towards Shadowgun with an intent to kill him. Shadowgun ran towards her with a shotgun in both of his hands. When they collided, there was nothing but energy shockwaves coming from multiple different places. The fight had just begun, and there were already craters from when they got close to the ground. Because every now and then, Shadowgun would sling Insanity into the air and she would pull him with her. This caused them to attack and block while falling back to the ground. About two or three times in each clash on the ground, they'd completely disappear from sight before reappearing in a stalemate because they both attacked and cancelled each other's attack out. After a few minutes of this, they both landed and stopped attacking. They were about as far from each other as the distance between three professional football fields. Insanity began charging a ball of energy with the claws, so her hands were crossed. Shadowgun did the same, but with only his right hand. Each ball of energy was the size of a basketball. Shadowgun's ball was dark red and got darker as you got closer to the center of it. Insanity's ball was black and had rings around it like an atom would. It also had black lightning emitting from it and it connected to the ground from time to time. After about two minutes, they ran at each other for what would be the final clash between them. They each put their ball in front of themselves, making them collide with each other. Shadowgun let out a sound that was between a growl and a yell, but Insanity only yelled. As moments passed, the ground cracked, the clouds gathered in a spiral overhead, and black and red lightning came down around them. After a matter of about 30 seconds, there was a huge explosion of energy waves and light. When the light cleared, they both stood on the crumbled area that was once known as their battlefield. They stood as if nothing had happened with only a few feet between them. Shadowgun looked down at Insanity, Insanity looked up at Shadowgun. With no words spoken between them, Shadowgun summoned his bike and Insanity got on the back of it, wrapped her arms around Shadowgun, and smiled as they sped off to catch up with the rest of the Hateful 8.