Madder Woman

— Something greater? — Ragnarok said, knelling.

— GREATER THAN KRUGER THERE IS NOTHING!

The fat bastard was behind her. Twitching that hollow and ugly head of his. Ragnarok focused on her breathing, to calm herself before the enemy. Going wild now, would be of no use to anyone.

— Nothing is greater than you? — She thinks carefully. — What about a family?

— FAMILY, JUSTICE, PEACE ARE ALL ANTI NATURAL CONSTRUCTS!

— But you said you had a brother and sister… right?

— EJO AND VITROLICA ARE GREAT EMOTIONAL AVATARS!

— But they are your family.

— BROWN GIRL YOUR QUESTIONS DO NOT FAZE ME!

Kruger grabs Ragnarok by the head. Electricity flows from him, torturing the woman.

— MY MIND WILL NOT WANDER TO ANY OTHER PLACE!

He swipes down and his hand goes through her as if she was made of jelly. But after his fingers passed, is like nothing happened to her, it was just a very awkward feeling, designed to confuse her. Open palmed, he then slams Ragnarok away. There was a blue fire glow from his hands and necklace.

Juice watches carefully, trying to not call attention for himself and trying even harder to come up with a winning strategy. Kruger walks towards the woman that was trying to stand.

“Sorry Larissa. I’m gonna take advantage of your resilience now…” — Her ally thinks.

— I GOT IT! — She yells. — THANKS JUICE!

Kruger looks back to see Juice, who was clearly faking his sleep.

“YOU IDIOT! DON’T TALK TO ME LIKE I’M AWAKE!!”

— Hey Kruger! You big fucking idiot!

The thing focuses on the woman again. Ragnarok was standing, both hands tightly on her mace, and blood all over her body and crazy joyful smile.

— You’re saying I can’t handle your pressure?!

— SURELY, MOST SURELY!!

— I’m all for pressure baby! I can’t live without something weighting on me!!

An image of Larissa’s family takes over her mind.

— I’m used to this stuff!!

Kruger charges against her once again. What she said, was a big fat lie and she knew it. The Cortisol Room was eating at her sanity and body with alarming ferociousness. If they stayed there any longer, especially with Kruger amplifying their suffering, they would absolutely succumb and die. However, her intent wasn’t off. She finally understood what Juice had told her regarding the situation and acted accordingly.

— I’LL SUICIDE YOU NOW!

He lifted both arms, ready to smash down at Ragnarok. She was ready to clash but another flaming fist came from his belly to deck her in the face. His actual arms generated a big head of himself surrounded by blue flame. He throws that comet against her. She was recovering from the punch when she realized she would be attacked again. Hastily, she gets up on her knee and swings at the face bomb. The fire that surrounded seemed hard like steel and tanked the woman’s attack. The head that was inside it fired a blue laser from its mouth, so violent it sent Ragnarok away, leaving her mace behind.

— I AM OVERWHELMING ABNORMALLY! YOU REALLY THINK THAT YOU CAN WITHSTAND THE CRAZY SAUCE AND NOT DEATH AWAY?

After the laser cannon that ruptured an abyss in the watery surface, creating a massive strand of upwards waterfall, Larissa gets back up. The left shoulder was in live flesh and a chunk of the left side of her head was gone. Yet she still managed to smile. She could not falter. Not now and not never.

— I told Dani his big sis don’t quit!

Love and concern for her family was the last strand of sanity in which she held on to. The VSS could still be used, and Larissa could still increase or decrease gravity although there were two problems with that. For one, it was unlikely that Kruger would let her go through with it. And for two, Larissa could not focus on her power more than she could focus on her family, or she would collapse.

But Kruger wasn’t any bit frustrated. His anger and focus were still directed towards the one enemy standing and she would surely, most surely, lose her footing after one or two more attacks. Hell, if Kruger put a lot of effort in the next one, it would be all over for her.

— ENOUGH FUNNY BUSSINESS!

Larissa breathed like an animal, on her last legs. But she runs towards certain death, for another swing.

— METHOD DEVE —

Kruger failed to finish the sentence. And the woman managed to get a clean hit, smashing her mace against his exposed brain. He doesn’t react to the attack, so Ragnarok continue to pummel him. The monster was stunned and deep inside his chaotic mind, wondered why.

Juice was the responsible. After Ragnarok challenged Kruger to break her, he went through with his plan. He gesture a gun with his fingers and silently took aim at his own head. His VSS was to manifest the projectiles, so the flare gun was just a tool, to aid his power. He focused a very special shot at point blank, hoping that it would work out and that he wouldn’t end up killing himself on accident. But given the situation, he rated his plan a good enough out of ten.

The bullet carried the intent of waking him up and cleansing his mind of any strong influences. Meaning that Juice now found himself in the waking world. He was on the lounge and before him was Ragnarok and Kruger, both asleep. Fortunately for him, it seemed that Kruger had a real body and wasn’t just a ghostly manifestation. Furthermore, it seemed like the Cortisol Room was also real. Kruger had locked all three of them into a red glass box to protect himself from outside intervention.

Juice sees that other Searcher walked by him without taking notice of the big red ogre demon relaxing next to everyone.

— This one goes out for a special somebody.

With his real gun, Juice aimed at the brains. Putting the muzzle into the thing’s hollow eyes for maximum damage. And blasts.

— METHOD DEVE —

Exploding a hole into his head with chunks of flesh and strings of blue blood staining the three of them. In the Cortisol Room, Ragnarok was battering him and in the real world, Juice was firing at point blank with no mercy.

— DAMN YOU!!

Kruger undoes the Cortisol Room, bringing himself and Ragnarok back into the waking world. He doesn’t waste time trying to grab Juice and pop his head between his fingers. But the woman next to him didn’t waste time in taking her mace to his already messed up skull. With the impact she carves his body into the wall and Juice fires against him one more time.

However, as the red box disappeared, Juice began to feel immense pain and exhaustion. There was no time to think but Juice and Ragnarok instinctively felt that it was a very familiar type of pain. It seemed as if the damages caused withing the Cortisol Room would become real. And the speed in which the injuries were manifesting was alarming.