Alicia, Arthur and Chuck are sitting in the bunker right now. Chuck is 'sleeping' courtesy of Alicia.
The other two are now having a conversation about their new-found feelings….pause…having a conversation about the fact they no longer hate each other.
"So, why did you apologize to me, a mere human?" asked Arthur in a sarcastic tone of voice. However, he was being dead serious. The most prominent question, of many, that are in his head is just..why?!
"I realized that the reason I disliked you was irrational and bigoted" started Alicia as she gave a small wry smile as she continued, "Not to mention, hypocritical, considering that I did most, if not all of the things I was worried you would do"
"Mn, I would never betray Marcel" agreed Arthur as he nodded repeatedly. Looking like he was going insane from how hard he was moving.
Alicia then paused with her mouth slightly open, seemingly debating whether to say something or not. In the end, she shook her head, not intending to spill.
Arthur saw that but decided to respect her privacy by changing the subject.
"So? Does Miss Princess know how to play Mortal Kombat?" asked Arthur as he flashed a sarcastic smile and chuckled.
"Oh, you poor soul" responded Alicia with a pitying expression. Arthur looked confused but Alicia didn't explain she just said, "I know how to play, wanna go?"
"Wouldn't have asked if I didn't" responded Arthur with a laugh as he started getting the game ready.
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Meanwhile back at Marcellus' house….
Marcellus' eyes just fluttered open slightly as he was waking up. As he woke up and yawned a little bit, he suddenly held his head because of the massive migraine that he had.
'Why does this feel familiar?' questioned Marcellus to himself before he eventually just shook it off.
As he went over the memories of everything that had happened lately he sighed as he got up and stretched a bit.
Since a decomposing corpse doesn't hold any weight it loses all the muscles and fat in the body. As a vampire, Marcellus only drinks high in vitamin dumba—COUGH– high in vitamin blood from people. That along with the absolutely hellish training that Casstis makes her students do, he has been gaining quite a bit of muscles. I mean, he has a six-pack already!!!
He flopped down on his bed with a heavy sigh. He feels guilty for all of the things he left out that need/ might need to be done for the plan to work completely!!
In truth, he also didn't want to know about the things he left out. There were so many good and bad things that popped into his head after using 'Data Inference' that even after limiting his eyes, he was almost overwhelmed by the amount of information.
It wasn't just the amount of information that made him feel sort of overwhelmed either. It was the thoughts about doing harmful, dreadful things to the people after him and Alicia that made him feel like that. I mean, he hadn't even purposefully killed anything until a werewolf almost killed Alicia!
Why was it then, that he was able to envision killing, torturing and other things of the sort to them? He didn't like those types of thoughts but there wasn't anything he could do about it, really. He needed 'Data Inference' To help him keep planning but he needed to control the subject more.
'Data Inference does many things but it's most essential part in this is that it is able to make Marcellus use all of the information he currently has and bend it to his will.
If Marcellus wanted to win a game of chess all he would have to do is read about all of the moves a single time and thanks to 'Data Inference', his perfect memory would allow him to become the best chess-master in the world!
So, when he uses this power on everything he has learned related to this group of people targeting Alicia, lets just say that it got scary.
Sighing once again, Marcellus got out of bed and went to go meet Arthur and Alicia. He already had the location but there was a slight problem. His car was too flashy to go somewhere you want to keep hidden. So he had to walk/run for about 100 miles!
Although Marcellus liked running, it was still a pretty tall order. One that he was dreading. But he was a big boy, so he got his Sh*t together and left the house.
He drove until he got to an abandoned area where there was nothing but grass. He got out of the car and stretched a little before he got into a runners position.
He then looked into his consciousness space and found all seven blood-red lightning bolts vibrating in place. He tried tugging on the one that boosted his physical agility and then left his inner space.
While keeping the feeling of holding the lightning bolt, he thought of the name he gave to the sub-ability, 'Bloodsbane Flash'.
His eyes and body suddenly started sparking and crackling. Then like after lightning strikes in a storm….it THUNDERED!!!
*BOOOOOOOM*
He hit mach 2 in 0.001 seconds and broke the sound barrier. Two sonic booms roared behind him as he ran as fast as he could. He couldn't be seen, the only indication that you had that he had been there, was the continuous sound of sonic booms and the blood-red lightning that was visible on the outside of his body.