Alec had left the keep, dashing through the park and back into the street with lighting speed. "AMY! XIAO!" He shouted out to the two, hoping for some answer by them. The city was collapsing, as buildings fell, and the ground shakes only grew ever worse. Alec had never experienced an earthquake before, so the sensation of panic and fear of falling through the ground was a new one for him, but he didn't try letting the thought bother him. His mind was on finding the two earth benders. Everyone was lost and it was hard to contact them, as the radio was completely filled with deafening white noise. The only thing Alec could do was run. The earthquake was the only issue, however, as Alec ran, he noticed his skin begin to grow ever hotter, as if his armor was starting to burn him. It felt even worse with his head, as sunlight stung it intensely. The Scotsman quickly ran into the shadows of a building, ripping off some of his armor so it didn't sting him more.
Smoke was coming off it, burning away the paint set he had on it. He sweated profusely, trying to catch his breath, but even in the shadows, the air seemed way too hot, as if he was suddenly inside a steam room sauna. Alec couldn't stop though, he needed to push on. picking up his armor once it was fine to touch again, he continued his run, staying to the shadows as best he could so as not to be burned alive. He eventually came across a small excavation site, where he could hear gunshots go off. A shotgun by the sound of it. Quickly, Alec headed for that direction, coming across Ash fighting off a small group of demons that were trying to carve out his face. He was doing fine so far, using his chainsaw to cut them up, while being covered in blood, but the numbers were starting to get to him. There were Imps, possessed, and one Hell Knight. The Hell Knight was dazed and a bi bloodied, but not out, and Ash had chucked his gun to the side; having run out of ammo for it. Alec, because he is a smart lad, ran up to the large demon, with a metal object in his hand, jumped on its back and tried stabbing it in the head.
It didn't work, rather it just annoyed the knight, and tried grabbing for Alec, who kept on its back, even as it thrashed violently. Ash, noticing that Alec had done this from the corner of his eye, ducked a couple of Imp fire attacks, chopped one in half, and quickly sliced off the knights leg with his chainsaw while it didn't see him. The knight fell to his knees in pain, and Ash quickly shoved the saw into its throat, dousing Ash with its own blood as it sprayed out like water from a foset. Alec fell off it, looking exhausted. "Good job." Ash told him, reaching out his hand to grab Alec's. "Thanks." Alec replied, grabbing it and hoisting himself up. The other demons weren't done however, and when Ash grabbed for his chainsaw; shoving it out the knight's throat, he tried starting it up again. No such luck.
"Oh, now it runs out of gas." Alec remarked, going back to back with Ash.
"At least I can still use its teeth when swinging it. How's that little stick gonna cut it?"
"This is not a good time to be arguing!" Alec shouted, as they had already done enough comedy shtick. The possessed slowly inched forwards more, while the Imps circled them like wolves. The two men looked about ready to be taken care off, when suddenly, the possessed went crazy on each other. Along with the imps. They just all started attacking one another, just like they had before with the others who were separated from the group. Alec and Ash looked at each other, seeing what was going down, and quickly began walking past them, as if they weren't there, like two students during class trying to find seats when they ran late. Ash quickly picked up his gun before they left.
The whole city was going insane, even more so than before. The sun grew ever hotter, more of those strange waves began to hit, the earthquake engulfed the city, all the demons went berserk on each other, IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AND NO ONE FEELS FINE! Somehow, Alec and Ash found themselves hiding inside an abandoned home, taking refuge from the sunlight, as it would burn away their skin. Both were drenched in sweat, and dehydrated from all fluid they were losing in their bodies.
They were trapped in the city to die in the most painful of ways. Alec looked ready to have a breakdown, but he was too exhausted to have one. Ash, meanwhile, was thinking over life choices, and how he wished he would've done things differently. Like trying his hand at a managerial role at the S-Mart. He never truly gave it a chance, but the pay would've been nice.
"Hey," he tried getting Alec's attention.
"Been nice meetin' ya."
"Really?" Alec asked, laying on the ground.
"...... No, not really." Ash admitted.
"Just felt like saying it."
Alec looked annoyed from it, but stayed quiet and instead tried his radio one last time. The white noise was even worse than before, but he kept the volume low, and spoke into it anyway. "This is Alec Duggan of the U.S.S Glasgow. If anyone can hear this..... You aren't alone.......... Today is gonna be the day, That they're gonna throw it back to you. By now you should've somehow, Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody, Feels the way I do, about you now. Backbeat, the word was on the street, That the fire in your heart is out. I'm sure you've heard it all before, But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody, Feels the way I do about you now~
And all the roads we have to walk are winding~
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding~
There are many things that I, Would like to say to you but I don't know how.
Because maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me~
And after all, you're my wonderwall--"
"Could you shut up? I'd like to die in peace before I'm crushed to death." Ash interrupted.
"I'M TRYING TO KEEP MYSELF FUCKIN' CALM, YOU EGOTISTIC CUNT!" Alec shouted out, the loudest he had ever sounded. Just as the two were about to begin arguing, because that's the best thing to do when about to die, a sound could be heard.
A shining bright light came in the center of the living room both were collapsed in, and slowly an image began to fade into existence. Of all things, it was a blue police box, and when it finally materialized into a solid object you couldn't see through, the door swung open, and a man in a purple suit with a brown coat popped on the other side of the open doorway. "You two Ash and Alec?" The man asked, looking down at them. Both nodded when they looked over to each other.
Another head popped through. "Amy!" Alec happily shouted.
"Alec!" She replied back. "Come on, we gotta go!" She waved both men in, and quickly they got up; both almost pushing each other out the way to get through the door first. When they did, guess what they saw on the inside?
"Wha' the hell?" Alec muttered, with both he and Ash in stunned amazement by what they were seeing. "Yeah, yeah, keep the stunned amazement to a minimum, we aren't out the woods yet!" The man shouted, moving around his console. There were people inside who Alec didn't recognized, like Prophet, Dusk, and Arthur, while people like Marcus, the DOOM Marine, Lincoln, and Alistia were present. Even Trigger! "Trigger!" Alec yelled, giving the kid a hug. "Where the fuck did you go?!" He asked, confused by why the kid thought leaving was an excellent idea.
"Wait, where's everyone else?" Alec looked around for them, but not a sight of them.
"We couldn't find them in time." Amy said, with a rather sour tone to her voice. Xiao, Mitsuru, Spider-man, the other Marcus, Alicia, Connor, and Kingpin were still missing. The TARDIS suddenly shook though before any more words could be exchanged. "Oh nonononononoNO!" The man shouted moving around his console like crazy. "What's going on?!" Ash shouted.
"It's not the planet that's ending, it's the universe!"
"What?!" Amy, Alec and Ashed yelled in sync.
"Everybody hold on!!!" The TARDIS nearly flipped around upside down from how intense the shaking became, as it quickly flew off into space. Every star in the universe was beginning to enter its final stages of life faster than logic can explain, and the TARDIS was flying as fast as it could to escape certain death. "I have an idea for how to get out of here, but it'll drain up the TARDIS' power, if we do it, we may never see our home worlds again!" The man shouted, holding onto his console.
"DO IT!!!!!" Alec shouted, holding onto the railing with Amy. With the flip of a switch, the TARDIS went into overdrive, and with the snap of a finger, it was gone. The universe lit up into a massive ball of fire, and all life that it ever held was gone. Engulfed in the fires of a million stars dying in a domino effect of one destroying another.
They had escaped from their prison. But a new challenge awaited them. One older, and more powerful than they could believe.