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Dante would feel a cold set of claw press lightly on his shoulders. There was a sharp buzzing noise followed by the lights flickering on and off as a demonic voice laughed throughout the HC. It was smooth and eerie.
"Everyone is meant for something... at the end of the road death meets us all." It hissed in his ear. It’s hot breath like a flame near his head.
"But how long that road is up to you... What you do in you life decides what you were made to be. So, what will it be Dante? How long is your road?"

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Nick grit her teeth as the dark fog took over completely. The COM-Link was fried and there was no communication with the other Zoids caught up in this mess. As she looked back at Tidus, Tidus would see something completely different. Her old mentor, Song Bird, looking back at her.
Within that little moment there was a flash of light and the next second Song bird was limp in the seat, blood trailed from her eyes, nose, and mouth. Her eyes rolled back in her head. Slowly her arm rose and aimed "Peace Maker" At Tidus.

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"This is pointless...." Nick mumbled as she looked down at the COM-Link than back at the fog ahead of them.
"What now? You sit with an assassin.. a murderer like yourself." A demonic voice chuckled from behind. Nick slowly looked back to see the Judge sitting where Tidus once was. Slowly Nick lifted her gun at the Demon.

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"Are we still sore about the village Hugo? You know I spared your life... your village was doomed because of their auctions, but you are alive because I found you to be fit to do so." The judge Whispered to Hugo. The voice echoed thought the cockpit.
"Now come back to me... I would so love to meet you in person. I know you have been dying to meet me little boy."

Titus looked up from her growl as what she thought would be Nick looking back at her; It wasn't in fact it was....no it couldn't be. Titus' brown eyes widened and she slowly uncrossed her arms. Almost gawking at the sight, mouth ajar
"J-oy?...." Her words where soft and barely made it out of her mouth, stuttering of the end of her tongue. But before even the word left her mouth, the image was replace. A horrifying one at that. It sent shivers escalating though her body, it was the closet thing she ever felt to fear in her life.

-No!No!No!....DO SOMETHING! DO SOMEHING! ANYTHING! YOU STUPID PUP!- Her mind raced as she tried to move her now heavy lead body as she stared at the limp body. She couldn't move! WHY! Her thoughts darted though her mind but yet she couldn't gasp a single one to move her body, let alone look to the vary gun Gun drew Nearer to her.

Ripping her sight from the corpse, she felt her cheeks become moistened as unknowing, silent tears ran from the craves of her eyes. Her eyes glued on to the barrel of the gun, she knew that gun...that Gun, she had carried that Gun,...she had derived it to Nick. Nick!? Where was Nick? She was just...

Titus didn't dare look at the corpse again her eyes remained attached to that vary gun...And it's aimed barrel...

"Gun..." The word slipped out of her mouth, she didn't even know she had even spoken, until the soft hum hit her ears. The word was so slight at it was the only thing that she could resister to say. A failed attempt to say Nick's name.

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Blood exploded from the dark figure, but it did not cause it to stumble one bit.
It only laughed at his and his attempt to rid himself of the terror.
"Oh, my road ended a long time ago boy. I have found a new one to travel and I can assure you it will never end. " It laughed, fire shooting form its mouth. The mask it wore gradually cracked and chunks begun to fall off and disintegrate as they fell. Being gone before they touched the ground.
Behind the mask was nothing but thick black fog swirling about. Some of it begun to seep through the cracks in the demonic mask, sailing up toward the ceiling.

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Nick paused as the figure spoke. Tidus, where had the puppy gotten to? All she could hear was the constant buzzing sound in her ears and the laugh of the Judge. Nick hesitated as she begun to tighten the grip on the trigger.
The sound made her right eye cut in and out. The image shifted from Tidus to the Judge in that eye creating a split image.
This caused her grip to loosen a little.
-think about this... this isn't making any sense. -

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The corps changed faces back to what it was originally. Only this time there was a red glare on her right eye. It shown dimly through her shades. The gun remained in place, but the grip on it loosened slightly.
"You are hopeless... and powerless to do anything. What are you going to do now? Cause the death of yet another? It's too late for that... worthless, murderer and a liar." The demon laughed at Tidus.

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"Such hateful words for a little child." It mocked. Fubar would find himself heading for a large dark mass, but what the fog did not reveal to him was that he was heading right for the Transport Zoid owned by Dante.
"Such a barbarian." It continued to mock and laugh at Hugo.

Titus' gaze dropped from the Gun to it's owner as she listen the words from the monster; part of her believing it, but another remained to what she was taught by Nick. She did think about raising that gun, and part of her would have done so if not for that talk. -hopeless, murderer, Lier,....no..I....don't...want..too- Titus' hand slowly creeped to her own Gun, as if fighting with herself to not pull the weapon. She could do it...it wouldn't hurt that much would it...she would be left alone again...but,...No! what was she thinking...she was in control...not whatever it was....

She let out a soft annoyed grow as she looked back at nick, her eyes to her's even if the shades blocked the view, she notice the red hue. And she made the choice...Though as hard as it was not to defend her self...no of this was making sense....Joy was dead...and she was in Blades pit; Nick's owner. if she wanted to shoot her...it hadn't stopped her before.

"Do it...." Titus smiled...Maybe she was going crazy...but it amused her in a way, because as she thought about it....and the words that escaped her mouth...if it really was Nick and she heard her She would shot her most likely shoot or get beat for even compromising with death. Maybe that is why she chose such words....

As Dante assaulted the Judge its whole body begun to disintegrate into that black fog.
"You amuse me boy... We'll have to meet again, heh, yes. Some day we will." It laughed as the fog begun to clear.
It was than that her purpose was realized. By now the Gryphon zoid was less than a few seconds away from the Transport Zoid leaving no time to react. The Judge had played them all for one reason, a collision and a distraction.

Nick grunted as she nearly pulled the trigger, but before a shot could be fired, Blaze tripped as his side scrapped the side of the Transport zoid. Nick was thrown off balance and slammed into the eject button. Her seat was thrown from the Zoid along with her. She gasped as she vanished into the rapidly vanishing fog. Kagi could be heard taking off after her, but his noise too vanished along with his frame.
Blaze lat flat on his chin parallel to the HC.

"You, Hugo, are nothing more than that. Nothing. You can't even protect the ones you care about... worthless and weak. Ponder that little boy." And with that the fog was cleared revealing all three zoids as they all faced each other.

Titus' gaze concentrate hard on the Gun as she watched for the slight movement on trigger. she was unexpectedly jolted to the side as the Zoids collided. Growl of frustration left her mouth only to be linked to a grunt of surpizment, as the pit flung open and Nick's seat rocketed from the pit unexpectedly, almost taking a part of Titus with it. Titus's arm found it's way to cover her face as the pit left, as if to protect it for any dhabi or anything of the sort. Her other hand fell firmly upon the the pit's inner to stable her self and save her from a fall; as Blaze's head dropped.

The fog vanished revealing no footprint of the Jury. The sand had erased them from existence. Along with the wreckage, in half buried in the sand, was the chair ejected from Blaze. The chair was darker than it had been. A closer look would reveal Nick's shades resting on the chair. Both lenses were heavily cracked with the right side having several pieces missing from it. There was a long stream of blood on the right side with heavy splatters on the left side, as well blood leading to a long blood covered chunk of skin pinned under the sand. It was smoothly cut from the top and curved to the bottom, which was buried under the sand. The skin was that of a right arm, whole. No where was it torn. It was thick as there were all layers there. And to make thinks scramble more out of place, Nick ( and Kagi) was nowhere to be found...

Blaze groaned as he kicked his feet back. His head hurt badly. Not only did that fog mess with his circuits, but is just felt weird from fog he had ran in before.
"Graw?" He called back to Tidus and, whom he did not know was missing, Nick.

The Judge's demonic laugh echoed over the desert like an eerie wind. It mocked at each of the members of that group of persons. Than, like the wind, it was suddenly gone and left the group cold and without answers.