"You’ll know if we lie? I don’t believe you!"
A moment of silence followed.
Then the voice answered, slower this time. It was dangerously patient.
"... You hear me speak to you from somewhere you still cannot detect."
"You saw me block your cameras."
"You saw me turn the dungeon gate into a solid wall of red."
"And yet the thing you find unbelievable... is lie detection?"
Signa’s face twisted as if she’d been slapped.
Destro coughed, releasing a wet and ugly sound. Blood splattered across the stone.
"You won’t let us go even if we talk," he rasped.
"You will have to take a leap of faith, yes," the voice agreed.
"Either through torture or the peaceful manner, I do not care. I will get my answers. The method is your choice. The outcome is not."
Destro bowed his head for a moment.
Silent.
Thinking.
Then his shoulders straightened. His spine stiffened. His hands clenched.
He looked up with a steady, deadened resolve.
"You’re wrong, Kaiden Grey. I am the one who gets to decide the outcome."
Before anyone could move, Destro turned toward Signa.
Her eyes widened.
"Wait!"
His fist ignited with violent, fiery force, and he drove it into her.
She didn’t just die.
She ceased, her body erased in a burst of blistering heat and force that blew her limbs apart and hurled the remains against the stone. What hit the wall wasn’t even a body anymore, just chunks of scorched matter sliding down in wet streaks.
"HOLD HIM DOWN!" the voice thundered.
The minions lunged as one, but it was already too late.
Destro laughed.
A broken, delirious, triumphant sound.
"Glory to the Queen of Night... long may she reign."
His skin began glowing from beneath, turning white-hot as light began leaking out through the flesh.
Monsters clawed at him, grabbed his arms, piled onto him.
"[The Great Sacrifice]."
A heartbeat passed.
Then he exploded.
A violent, contained blast tore through the hall. It was bright enough to blind, hot enough to scorch, strong enough to hurl monsters across the hall. Limbs flew. Bodies hit the walls. The closest creatures were vaporized on the spot.
And then came silence.
Smoke drifted.
Ash settled.
Where Destro once stood, there was nothing but a blackened crater and the shattered remains of several minions.
Destro was gone.
Signa was gone.
Every invader was gone.
...
Death Row, Maximum Security Facility
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