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They had been at it for days now.
Almost a week.
The two creatures tearing at each other tooth and nail.
One, a creature of darkness, a powerful demon restrained in this world.
The other, a being of pure violence and destruction, old as time itself, bound to a mortal shell.
With each punch, each slash, each attack they grew stronger still.
Those watching stood in awe of these titans, their attacks booming across the countryside.
It was morning, and neither had stopped since the first day.
Clad in an inky-black suit of armor, Nexus stood atop a ridge of rocks looking down at DG. Crix had long since gone, Nexus controlled this body now. There would be an end to this fight.
No cackles, no jokes, no madness. Nexus was as serious as death itself now.
His face was like his skin, writhing blackness, with large even blacker orbs making covering his face, and a mouth full of razor fangs split from ear to ear curled in a snarl.
"Back to it demon. We've come to far to stop now." His voice was booming and deep, not the normal hissing static and distortion it usually was. It held power.
He pointed his abyssal sword at the Demon and a helm grew over his head with a grim skull for a face.
"No more games puppy. Show me your TRUE power. I can feel it in you...what the hells holding you back?"

"I think about a great many things." Nexus said as he descended the rocks. Slowly, with his sword raised before his face. "I think of blood, of thousands of dead, of cities burning, and everything in existence being annihilated one day. I think about all the violent acts being committed as we speak, fueling me." He stopped a few feet from DG, face unseen under the helmet.
"I think about what you could be, or more accurately, what you SHOULD be. You should be the one to unleash me on the material world. The one with the potential to fight me with no quarter. And yet I find you, as always, stopping at some point." He hissed, "I'm tired of that."
In a flash he was on DG, in his face and he drove one of his armored claws deep into DG's chest, but it drew no blood. He Held DG and there was a dull glow from within the helmet. Nexus was searching on planes of existence mortals couldn't fathom for whatever held DG.
"Your going to fight me at your best, even if I have to RIP WHATEVER IS STOPPING YOU OUT!"

Nexus was silent for a moment, then began laughing. It started slow and deep and became a cackling outburst that sounded much more like him, his old voice resurfacing.
"Oh COME ON DG! I expected this kind of crap from Crix but you...oh my. Love, well who am I to mess around with such a thing? Not my area of expertise...never met the guy myself." He seemed to make tsk tsk tsk noises.
"She looks human no less...can't really tell but thats just odd, someone as tough as you being restrained by a mortal. Got a bangin body though." He giggled.
"Oh but where was I?" He dropped the sword and plunged both hands into DG's chest, and in the space between worlds, grabbed at the very magic that bound DG to the scroll. The chain that held him back. His claws sizzled and hissed touching the thing, it was potent. But Nexus was hellbent to have a worthy foe, no matter what.
He crushed with strength unfathomable, in between worlds he could exert his power fully, and even this chain could break.
He laughed and again it was deep.
"Such a shame to see a creature of destruction such as you chained up."
And with all his force he crushed, and the chain broke.
DG was free.
Nexus pulled his hands free, smoking from DG's chest, and sighed.
"Oh magic, so complicated but still broken with enough brute force."
His main eye glowed with dark light from under the helm as he stared into his foe's face.
"Now, how do you feel? Take a breath of fresh FREE air. Maybe stretch. We have work to do."
Underneath the helmet he was smiling.

The dust hadn't even settled before Nexus came flying out like a black missile. He collided a punch with the strength of aeons behind it straight to DG's massive face and knocked the Demon backwards.
Neuxs' form coalesced and warped, he hissed.
"Yesss, now we will see what happens when an unstoppable force meets and immovable object. Bring your best, I did you the favor now set ME FREE!"

"Your getting there. Fire breathings all good and proper, but I need brutality."
The black figure strode through the fire, his armor melting away revealing Crix's mutated body. His skin was hardened, like carapace, and writhed as he walked. His dead black eyes stared straight at DG through the fire, his skin sizzling from the heat.
"I need something like this."
He ran through the torrent of heat and grabbed DG's mouth, snapping back his Jaw before kicking him straight in the throat.
He delivered another blow to the demon's head and held onto his face smiling.

Nexus was pleased, finally someone was besting him in combat. It wouldn't be much longer now.
Finding himself constricted he tried to rip his way free using his strength, but found it useless. Slowly his body was being crushed. Bones made of super-dense material cracked and snapped, and his carapace cracked, leaking inky-black fluids into DG's mouth.
He was dying. He was being defeated.
That was what he really needed.
His body was broken, but that didn't matter now.
The liquid filled DG's mouth, tasting unlike anything he had ever tasted before, but completely awful. It seeped up and out his lips and nose in great torrents from the broken shell left in DG's maw, and pooled before him. It condensed itself into a black ball, and reality itself seemed to warp around it, the air screaming as something was on its way. The sky darkened, and the ball rose to a level on par with DG's face. And from it came a laugh that shook the very earth with its sound.
"Thank you, finally I can be free. Since the first creature tore at the throat of another for food at the dawn of time I have waited for this. I, Destruction incarnate, can roam free, and wreck this galaxy as Ive wanted to for so many years. Good things do come to those who wait. All thanks to you my friend."
Black lightning crackled all throughout the air around the orb, a massive shape seeming to flicker in and out of existence. He was on the very brink of materialization.
He just needed one more push.

Nexus' form still twisted in between the worlds, silent and observant.
"Interesting" he bellowed.

The ink slid from Crix's face and with DG's power running through his body he coughed and hacked up even more of the liquid before his blue eyes opened wearily.
"Oh man...the hell did I eat..." He looked up at his boss through a haze.
"You look so....dark..."

Nexus laughed.
"Really DG? The boy? Let him die already, I kept him alive WELL past his time. I even killed his woman...at least his first one. Hes a poor shell that's outlived his usefulness."
The massive black form flickered quickly, and closer to DG.
"You have more pressing matters, like ME"

"DG," Crix said wearily, "Is...Em Okay?" He remembered fighting with DG like they usually did, though this time they had stepped it up. He looked around at the ball, and recognized the voice that came from it. "I'm sorry...whatever happens DG just keep her safe from him." He didn't know what to do, he felt he had failed. Nexus was free and whatever hell he unleashed was Crix's fault.

There came a loud hiss from the air,
"I'm getting impatient"

Crix felt better...better than he had in years. Hundreds of them.
He felt DG's own strength surge up into him, and beside that, his own.
He thought about everyone who had let him into their home.
Adam, the lovable killer insect that faithfully defended them no matter what.
Desi, the always dependable cat that he always admired for her tenacity.
Lace, whos energy always seemed to light up their home.
He thought of others and everyone that had come through this place but most importantly, he thought of her.
His one bright spark throughout the darkness that Nexus had created in his life. The person who not only gave him his memories back, but helped to keep him sane afterwards.
And he thought only of defending her from this evil. He felt like he did hundreds of years back when he weilded his legendary blade and cut whole swathes of villains before him. When he slayed demons and monsters by the dozens.
DG could surely feel this pride return, the determination course through his body.
"Sir, I'm ready. Lets do this for our family."
He opened himself up to whatever magics DG was wanting to employ.

And similarly, Nexus roared.
"NO DAMN YOU! I SIT ON THE PRECIPICE OF FREEDOM! THE VERY BRINK OF EXISTENCE!" It shook the earth and caused fault lines to crack with its might.
The air before them ripped wide open, a long, spiked tendril slashing through the gaps between the immaterial and the real. And two carapaced claws like those of a crab grabbed each side and slowly tore it open, the world screaming as this creature came forth.
"Untold eons, millenia upon millenia. Ill break free even if I have to do it myself." With a final surge of strength the rift was torn apart, and into their world seeped something that should have never come to pass.

He was massive, as tall or taller than a skyscraper, his body a roiling mass but resembling that of a giant crustacean. Gigantic Segmented Legs held him up, each the width and size of enormous trees. His torso was bristling with spikes and lashing tentacles ending in things ranging from barbs to spiked maces. His head was a constantly morphing mass of black eyes and fanged teeth. This was his basic shape, but even standing still segments shifted and changed, weapons forming from his very skin and his eyes glowing with power held back for time untold.
One of his two main arms lifted before his face and he blinked at it, moving it back and forth.
"I did it...so long I've waited for this moment. To feel the fresh air on my skin, to be a REAL thing! To not be an idea...what to do first..." He turned his head to the side seeing Barton in the distance. "Oh yes. That." He pointed a claw at the town and from it fired a black missile, that rocketed to the heart of the town and erupted in a massive explosion, leaving a mushroom cloud in its wake. "I hated that place." He spat. "Happy to destroy it with humanity's own weapons." He stomped a giant leg and the town's foundations cracked, causing the still burning town to fall underground, the death toll skyrocketing.
Nexus let out a laugh so loud that anyone within miles could feel it.
"Im done watching violence, causing it, feeding off of it! I am Violence." He shot another missile at another nearby town.
"I am destruction." He roared at a nearby forest, leveling whole sections of trees.
"I AM WAR" He Breathed deep, feeling every violent act and thought across the planes as he never had before.
"I AM NEXUS!"