In Alice's mind, Gold could be seen grabbing Red's chains. "Hehehe, see, you need me." red said in a demeaning voice."
"I don't need you. This is my body and my power. You won't take it from me. Besides, I'm only gonna use a little bit of it."
"You trained for this, didn't you? That last month of the summer, you spent nonstop training for this; to prevent me from taking over your body again. Well, I hate to break it to you, but you're still too weak. You can't win."
"Really then? Well, I guess I'll have to prove you wrong."
"You'll die."
"Then I'll kill death."
"..."
Back in the digital world, Alice started walking towards Daemon. Alice wrapped her scarf around her scepter. Her sharp eyes launched a piercing gaze at Daemon. Her aura and spiritual pressure were overwhelming, yet Daemon continued to smile. "What a freak of nature you are. Keepers are beings of desire. They set stronger by striving for their dreams until they get extinguished. Yet you... you seem to not apply to that. You remind me of the Cataclysm. Wish she could be here to see you."
"I don't know who you're talking about, and frankly, I don't care."
"You will, one day. Your life will be snuffed by her as she lays waste to every filthy human on this wretched earth."
Daemon spawned two glitchy balls in his hand. They looked like they were phasing in and out of reality in an unstable way. He threw the glitches orbs at Alice, and she dodged out of the way. Daemon surrounded himself with dozens of more of them and fired them all off.
"If even one of those touched me, I'm dead." Alice thought to herself.
One of the glitch balls got close to Alice, and she was forced to form a null wall in order to block the attack. Daemon came around the wall and transformed his hand into a scythe. He tried to bisect Alice, but she jumped out of the way and slammed the spiked ball part of her scepter into his stomach, making his eyes shoot open with pain. She sent him flying back into the delete tab.
Alice and Daenon appeared on a computer desktop. Daemon grabbed a folder and launched several of the saved pictures at Alice, but Alice used the scarf-covered part of her scepter to knock away all the glitch balls.
"I see." Daemon said while grabbing the recycling bin. "So that's what you're scarf can do; reduce the strengths of my attack and deflect them."
By slamming the trash can option, he and Alice were sucked in, dropping them in the delete bin. But the two didn't give up the chase. Alice put away her scepter. Wanting to wrap this up quickly, she extended her claws again.
"You look like the Black Panther." said Daemon mockingly. Daemon used the recycling bin icon to cover himself. This cast him in a layer of chainmail armor.
Daemon ran up to Alice, enlarging his fist. He series of brutal punches to Alice's torso. Alice gritted her teeth, absorbing the blows as best she could, before finally sidestepping one of the punches and landing a brutal uppercut to Daemon's jaw.
However, unlike before, Alice's synergeta shield was ineffective. It seems the recycling bin somehow made him immune to the effects of the shield.
The impact snapped Daemon's head back, his body stumbling but not falling. He wiped a trickle of blood from his mouth and launched himself forward, spin kicking Alice in the throat. Her body hit the mat hard, but she didn't stay down for long. Alice kicked off the floor, launching herself back to her feet, and delivered a sharp, fast elbow to Daemon's temple.
Daemon reeled, but in a blur of motion, he caught Alice's wrist, twisting it painfully. Alice winced but responded with a quick knee to Daemon's groin. The pain sent Daemon stumbling backward, but his grip on Alice's wrist tightened. In a desperate move, he slammed Alice's arm into his shoulder, forcing him into a painful armbar lock.
However, this close range was exactly what Alice needed. She exploded a wave of null energy out of her body which sent Daemon flying back and destroyed his chainmail armor.
He fired off more glitch balls. She weaved through the attacks and got up close to Daemon. Daemon's face was shocked as she placed her hand on his chest.
"Your power is impressive; befitting a zenith class anomaly. The old me and even the new me don't stand a chance against you. Your power far exceeds mine. But I hate something you don't. A win con."
With just a touch, Alice's death aura surged through and Daemon's body violently ripped apart. But even then, Daemon still smiled. "I can't believe it. I just lost. But it's fine. Once I'm revived in the Cataclysm's new world, I'll be free and you'll be dead."
Daemon disappeared and reality began to collapse around them. Alice realized she didn't get his flashback like she did before, which only made her more curious about what kind of anomaly Daemon was.
Alice was ejected from the computer screen in front of the Derozeus leader again. Before he could say a word, Alice grabbed his shin and ripped it off, disabling his ability to speak. Then, she launched forth death chains that wrapped up his body and slowly drained his life away, leaving him a lifeless corpse on the ground.
"Wow, what an eventful day."
Meanwhile, on the other side of Tokyo, Star was inside his lab with Rose and Sapphy by his side. In front of him was a group of elderly people, being experimented on by his scientist.
"Wow, their screams are so delightful. I think I enjoy them even better than the sound of children screaming."
Rose approached Star with a handful of documents. "You are just... Ok, anyways, someone found an old document from 100 years ago. You're name."
"Well, yeah. I had one of my other wives use Eternity to send back in time. The second time was in WW1 and WW2. I remember it like yesterday. I had one of my disciple's father a boy and abused him. I made him get into art and then ruined his dreams. Then, over several years I slowly broke him and turned him into a psychopath after my own heart. Seeing him gaslight his people and tournament those Jews was so much fun."
"Wait, you're not talking about..."
"Yeah, I spawned Hitler. Actually... Joseph Stalin, Genghis Khan, Osama bin Laden, Vlad the Impaler... after a while, I forgot how many awful people I've created for nothing more than entertainment. Warping history for people's suffering will always be a joy for me. Anyways, speak, bitch. Why are you here? You interrupted my contemplation."
"..."
"..."
"Well... you told me to keep tabs on Alice."
"Oh, yeah. Hey, ask me how my legs doing?"
"H-How is your leg, sir?"
"Great. Good as knew. Crazy, right? Null is so busted. It removed an idea and its boundaries from space, time, and concept. Essentially, it rejects things from existence. And yet, I could still get my leg back. And it's all thanks to my third ability."
"..."
"Anyways, I want to make Alice my next victim. I failed to kill Yoshi last time, so this time, I will and I'll make her do it as well. Her despair will be delightful!"
"What about me." said a pouty Sapphy. "You knocked me out last time."
"Oh yeah. Well, you can help me kill her friends. They should be plenty entertaining for you."
"And what about Willow?"
"Oh, I have a special plan for her."