Mini-Grand 5106 [SUDDEN DEATH]

Originally posted on MSPA by Ixcalibur.

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this ghost struggles but its body does not respond. what is this? what compels this ghost to move and dance and scurry around like a mouse in play?

this ghost scans the crowd of dancing mice, all are dancing, dancing dancing silly prancing mice. they do not know this ghost is among them, so silly they do not see her. she will feast on them all. tasty tasty mice.

cannot be silly singing mice, weak and silly and singing mice. no it cannot. winter, it is beyond him. death it must be death. he controls the fire, flames from his hands, the dancing is him too.

even Death underestimates this ghost. this ghost is silence, death does not know. this ghost calls down the silence and all the mice stop. Death is confused, he's just a mouse now. this ghost will gobble him all up.

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With the music stopped by Naiima's sound engulfing silence there was a moment of confusion followed by a lot of soundless panicking. The police officers, even though perturbed by their song and dance routine and its abrupt ending, remained on task and attempted to arrest the Chix and Mattilus. Mattilus was unwilling to go quietly, they'd try to take his book from him, and so he used it as a club. He brutally smashed it over the head of the nearest police officer, sending him to the ground bleeding. He smiled cockily at the others as if saying 'come and have a go if you think you're hard enough'.

In the chaos Naiima had got the jump on Edward. She'd forced him to the ground under her weight and bitten into his neck, her toxin was not effective against the android, but then again she hadn't expected it to be (not against Death). He was tough (tougher than other mice) but nothing that she couldn't handle.

Mindy, already handcuffed had to be restrained as she watched the giant spider tear Edward into scrap metal. She would have screamed and sobbed except that she couldn't make a noise.

Edward did not make a noise as he was torn to shreds, he would not have done even if he could. His laser gun arm had been torn from his body; his head was only just about still connected. ‘At least I kept her safe’ Edward thought. Whether or not he was thinking about the chix he had saved, or the queen he had left behind was impossible to tell. His processor was in pieces, his memory was shot, for that one moment they might have been one and the same.

Edward's discarded visor slowly faded to black.

"No." Mindy mouthed silently. "It's not supposed to end like this. It's supposed to be a happy ending... We always have a happy ending…"