Chapter 41: Social Scape
Alice and Pinoy crashed down back at YouTube. When Alice looked up, she was shocked by what she saw above her. It was Belle's YouTube channel.
Back in the real world, Belle opened her phone to look at her YouTube channel, which just hit 1 million subs. But when she went to check on her stats, she saw something that shocked her. Alice was on her phone, in her stats, fighting an anomaly. It was one stronger than anything Belle had seen before.
Daemon slammed her against Belle's most recent video, which started playing in the background. The anomaly tried to punch her, but Alice ducked under him and slashed his wrist with her sickle. But in milliseconds, the wounds healed up and Daemon used his other hand to deliver right to Alice's face, making her stumble back.
"A-Alice?!" shouted Belle. But Alice couldn't hear Belle.
She shoved one of her sickles into his jaw. As he tried to kick her, she parried it, and stabbed her other sickle through his forehead. However, all this damage barely made him flinch as he proceeded to grab her arm and slam her into the ground. He went for an overhead kick, but Alice managed to slide out of the way and sweep his legs. As he fell, Alice kneed him in the face, sending him up in the air.
Daemon released several tendrils from his back while still in mid-air and all of them were dodged by Alice. Though, Daemon used this miss to hook his tendrils into the ground. He then pulled himself towards Alice and chopped her throat, making her gasp for air. While she was in pain, Daemon elbowed her into the ground. Then, he grabbed her by the hair and threw her into Belle's analytics.
As she tried to get up, Daemon rushed her and kicked her into Belle's content section. She tried to get up, but she was exhausted from how much damage she was taking. Her eyes started seeing red as her claws and teeth extended. As Daemon walked up to her, she growled and snapped her jaw at him, catching him off guard.
Suddenly, the editing subtitles behind Daemon started spelling out words. [Alice, it's me, Belle. Can you hear me?]
Alice's body returned to normal as she saw the text. "B-Belle?"
[What are you doing on my phone?]
Before Alice could respond, Daemon rushed at her again. She threw a punch at his neck, but he jumped over her body and grabbed the top of her head. He spun around her head and landed behind her; following up by delivering a devastating roundhouse kick that knocked her out of the YouTube studio. Now, they were in the Dino game in the web browser. Alice was in the air and could see a pixilated dinosaur beneath her jumping over cactuses.
Pinoy caught her as she was falling. He transformed into his beetle form and crash-landed them while holding her in his four arms.
"You're not dead, are you?" asked Pinoy.
"No, not yet. Do you have the video ready yet?"
"Yes... Despite how cringe it is, I didn't actually die while watching it back."
"You know, I really could use your help in this fight."
"Are you mad?! I'm echo class! I'd get slaughtered if I fought a zenith class."
Daemon jumped back down to them, letting out a massive roar. His body contorted as he walked towards him. He moved like he was possessed in a horror movie. Alice got off of Pinoy to confront Daemon again. The two traded multiple blows.
Daemon turned his hand into a hammer, trying to crush Alice. She managed to backflip and dodge while taking her sickles out of Daemon's face at the same time. She tried to rush back in and slash him with both sickles, but he blocked them and elbowed her in the chest, making her roll back and drop her sickles.
"I still need more practice with those before I can use them fully. Until then..."
Alice pulls out her scepter and goes back in to attack Daemon.
Meanwhile, Pinoy was setting up the button to display the screen around Daemon so he couldn't avoid it. As he was about to push the button, he recalled his past.
He was just living in his small town, carefree and happy. While he was playing with the other kids in the neighborhood, U.S. soldiers came by and put him and his entire town through forceful search and seizure. It was because Daemon made a fake post about them on social media. Pinoy didn't know what it was, but it was so bad, that it made soldiers of the U.S. government come to his town and start killing his friends in front of him. Later, Pinoy was taken in by his auntie who lived in Japan, swearing to kill Daemon to avenge his village. He didn't care what would happen afterward. He just wanted Dasmon dead. He didn't even care if he was the one to do it. All he wanted was Daemon's death.
Ever since then, Daemon has made many false posts on social media, getting several celebrities arrested for false SA, spreading racist narratives through the internet, and even creating a platform for the Red Pill and feminists. He didn't seem to have anything in mind but one goal and one goal alone. Cause as much divide amongst people as possible.
Back in the present, Pinoy slammed on the bottom. As Alice was about to get her face torn off by Daemon, a giant video screen appeared in front of them. It was a video 3-minute video of Alice several months ago. She gushed about how kind and hot Yoshi was and was practicing ways to get him interested in him. She tried various things like pretending to trip on him to even cleaning him room while he wasn't there. Of course, it was all just imagination. However, towards the end, she started goofing for Yoshi. She felt something gushing from between her legs as she fell to the ground and started panting. Her tail wagged uncontrollably as her hand entered her panties.
Suddenly, the video ended. The three who were once fighting just stood there, baffled at what they had just watched.
"You know. I'm not as ashamed as I probably should be." commented Alice.
"I...hate you." Pinoy remarked.
Suddenly, Daemon began to start glitching out. Alice jump-kicked him in the chest, making him fly back into another invisible wall.
"I honestly can't believe that worked." Pinoy said with shock.
"I might be a degenerate, but my love for Yoshi is pure. Now," she ventured to Daemon to come forward. "Let's dance, shall we?"