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"CECIL! I NEED YOU CECIL!" Mark cries out to the empty air, no one but Conquest is there to hear him as Eve has passed out from blood loss. He looks back down at Eve, all he can see of her is a red and pink blur do to the tears clouding his vision and running down his cheeks. "Please," he desperately begs her, even though she can't hear him, "keep breathing." The zap of Cecil's teleporter has him looking up, Cecil in kneeling in front of him, "Cecil, she needs-"
Cecil shoves something into Marks hands, "here, put this on and hold her close, Donald will get you two out of here." It's his teleporter band, the one he uses to activate his teleportation. Cecil stands back up and starts walking past Mark.
"No wait!" Cecil stops when Mark grabs his wrist, "you-you can't just talk to him, he's crazy! He- he only wants death, you-" Mark stops when Cecil somehow pulls his hand out of Marks grip, that shouldn't be possible!
Cecil's hand stays in the air for a moment before coming down to rest on top of Mark's head, "We didn't have Sinclair only working on dead bodies, You gave us just enough time for him to finish up on me." Oh, he... oh. Cecil lightly grabs Mark's head and turns him to face Eve again, "now get her out of here before you both bleed to death, let me handle this."
Cecil turns to face the surprisingly patient Viltramite, and he waits until he hears the zap of his teleporter and Donald saying, "we have them sir," before he starts approaching the invader.
"Well, and here I was thinking that the boy was going to be the best fight I could get here, but then he started calling out to you like some sort of savior." Conquest chuckles.
"Believe me, I'm no savior. But that doesn't mater right now. I'm giving you one last chance, leave my planet or become the dirt that feeds it's life."
Conquest just grins, "I choose death!" And he charges, tearing though the air with a sonic boom.
Cecil stands there as he charges, and at the last moment he twists around Conquests strike and slashes his hand across Conquests face. When he does so the fake skin of his fingers tears away revealing metal claws that tear through Conquests cheek down to the bone. Cecil gets hit be Conquests elbow with enough strength to vaporize a normal human, but all it does to his enhanced body is launch him one hundred foot back and destroy the suit he was wearing.
Conquest doesn't charge again, instead he drifts closer while looking at Cecil's now reveals cyborg body, metal twists like muscle and it glows blue through a dozen slits that follow the path of the ribs. "My blood stains your hands, I must admit that I'm actually finding myself curious. Just what can you do, Weapon?"
Cecil blitzes forward like a strike of lightning and conquests meets his fist with equal strength. They both go for another matches punch but Cecil ducks at the last second and shifts into an uppercut to the jaw that has Conquest staggering back. Cecil goes for another punch but Conquest shifts to the side and grabs Cecil's arm before punching him repeatedly in the face, each hit is stronger than the last until Cecil ducks under a hit. Conquest then grabs him be the neck and lifts him up by the throat.
"I'm not like other Viltramites, all they care about is who is stronger, but I know I'm stronger, so instead I decided to get creative." Cecil goes to wrap his legs around Conquest's throat to try and choke him out but Conquest lets go of Cecil's arm to grab his leg, "lets see how much it takes to break you in half!" Conquest throws him up into the air, and before Cecil can reorient himself Conquest appears in the air behind him and double overhand hammer hits him down at the ground. Cecil breaks the sound barrier as he falls.
Cecil knows that if something doesn't change then he will die, so he thinks screw it and activates one of his new bodies untested features. Time slowly to a crawl, looking down he sees Conquest preparing and upward strike that would surely slice him in half. Instead Cecil twists around and drop kicks Conquest right in the face. Time speeds back up and Conquest makes a crater in the already fractured ground.
Cecil lands in a crouch and dismisses three warnings that pop up about the strain he just put himself through. The implant in his ear turns on, Donald says, "Uh sir? We have a situation with Eve-"
"Can't you see I'm busy here? Handle it yourself." Conquest floats out of the crater, "you say your different," Cecil ducks three times in rapid succession as Conquest tries punching him, then Cecil catches his next strike with both hands, "but all I see is another bloodthirsty tyrant." The two push against each other, and because Cecil is grounded and Conquest isn't then he slowly pushes the alien invader back.
"You're different you said? What a load of bullshit!" Cecil twists Conquests arm to the side and tries punching him, Conquest blocks the first hit but the second catches him in the throat. "All you care about is bloodshed!" Cecil tries kicking Conquest but he matches with a kick of his own blocking the strike and throwing Cecil off balance, then he comes up with his other leg and kicks Cecil in the chest.
But when he goes for another kick Cecil ducks under them lands three quick slashes against Conquests side before retreating to avoid getting backhanded. "That and breaking the spirits of those who resist you!" Cecil lands two strikes one on Conquests face and slashes at the seam where his prosthetic hand meets his arm. "You have no true character!" Two more rapid strikes to the face and then another slash. "You're only what they want you to be, nothing more than an attack dog!" Conquest rears back his prosthetic hand and Cecil prepares, overclocking his strength he matches Conquests strike and shatters his prosthetic arm, at the same time the arm he punched with starts sparking like crazy and shuts down.
Cecil strikes and slashes at him one handed several more times before he can recover from his dazed state, and when Conquest again tries punching him he grabs his arm and tossed him to the ground. "Fine," Conquest doesn't even bother getting up, instead he launches forward and grabs Cecil by the neck before dragging him over a mile through dirt and rock. "I'll give you the truth then." Conquest pushes down on Cecil's neck so hard that it starts cracking the ground under him and keeps him from speaking or even breathing.
Conquest leans over while keeping up the pressure to speak right into Cecil's ear, "I am so lonely. All the other Viltramites are scared of me. No one talks to me. No one wants to be my friend, they think I am unstable. And your right, they send me from planet to planet committing atrocities in their name. And as I get better at it, they fear me more and more." Conquest sits back up, "I am a victim of my own success. Conquest, unlike the animal you compared me to I don't even get a real name, only a purpose. I am capable of so much more and no one sees it. Some days I feels so alone I could cry but I don't. I never do. Because what would be the point? Not a single person in the entire universe would care." He lets up the pressure on Cecil's throat so that he can breath again.
Cecil sees a chance to both let himself breath and collect more information. "Wh-why won't you die?"
Conquest sighs, "smart atoms, they learn from damage taken and resist future attacks. You never were able to kill me, you were just a toy to play with for my amusement. Now take it to your grave." Conquest redoubles his efforts to shove Cecil into the ground and crush his neck at the same time. Cecil tries to reach Conquests face but his arms are too short compared to the giant man, he needs to hurt him somehow. Cecil the. Remembers Nolan's injuries after he fought the guardians and starts punching Conquest as hard and fast as he can in the chest right over his head, but it seemingly does nothing. Warnings start popping up one after another until the practically cover Cecil's fading vision.
"Hey, Asshole!" Pink light erupts into being and Conquest finally lets go of Cecil's throat as he starts yelling. Cecil rapidly dismisses all the warnings and looks up. Eve is floating there firing an energy beam that has Conquest screaming in agony, if he didn't know better he would assume that she was a god. The beam cuts off and Conquest falls back, his skin has been burned off revealing the incredibly dense muscles underneath. "Fuck you." and Eve falls to the ground.
"This time," Conquest stands back up! "I'm killing the girl!" Conquest charges quickly at Eve.
But not quick enough "No!" Cecil strikes him across the face halting his charge. Cecil sees that the muscles right over conquests heart are visibly damaged from his punching earlier, so he cocks back his unbroken arm and flattens his hand into the chop that Vitamites everywhere seem to love using so much, "playtime's over!" And Cecil's hand pierces through Conquests chest. Cecil twists his arm so that his hand can grab Conquest's heart, and then he crushes it before ripping his clenched fist out.
Conquest stagers back but stays standing for a moment, "You... you did it." And then he fall onto his back, facing the sky as blood starts pooling around him from his many wounds. "You-you actually-killed me."
Cecil stands above Conquest with the remains of his heart sticking to his metal hand. "It didn't have to be like this, not with you and not with Nolan. You said you were lonely, that the other Viltramite's hate you, are scared of you. Nolan made a life for himself here, he was happy, before he ruined it. You could have-"
Conquest cuts Cecil off by somehow still having enough strength to speak, "It-was always-going-to be-this way. There-was-never-another-choice. In-the-end-it-had-to-" And then finally, Conquest knew peace for the first, and the last, time.