The Hunt Begins (Dark Data)

[Ash Williams]

Ash saw Celestia making her way into the hole of the roof and the mad nautilus looked angrily at the alicorn. The monstrous transformed doctor waved its own tentacles at Celestia trying to grab her but was shot by Ash with his boomstick. From the attack, the beast moved its tentacle backward in a pain reaction and had eyes on Ash. Celestia's actions confused Ash where she was heading to but his train of thought got interrupted by the mad nautilus coming for him. This thing was bigger than the doctor's previous form and tougher. The mad nautilus began making its next move by firing energy blasted at the evil dead slayer. Ash ran back to find cover to protect himself from the attacks. He did a baseball slid behind a flipped metal table that was battle-worn from earlier and hoped that this will be strong enough for a shield.

After receiving blasts of energy, the table fell apart which made Ash stand up and make his next move. He reloaded his shotgun quickly and fired two more shots at the horrid nautilus. The shots pierced the robotic body but weren't effective from how far the pellets spread. Dr. Psyche lashed out his tentacles toward Ash to tangle him up. Ash put his gun back in the holster with quick reflex, so he can be able to yank the starter cord to activate his Chainsaw's motor. With a quick yank, the motor roared with exhaust fumes puffing out.

Ash grabbed a hold of the guide bar and started furiously swing his chainsaw back and forth to swat the incoming tentacles. By the overwhelming numbers of tentacles, the evil dead slayer eventually was tangled up and brought closer to one of the sharped-end tentacular body part. Ash struggled to get out of the doctor's grasp but was losing energy how overwhelming it was. The sharpened tentacle moved closer and closer to Ash's forehead even about merely a couple inches away from the skin. He shut his tightly and was prepared to die in a way he didn't think he would go out but was suddenly put down by the doctor, screeching in pain.

Celestia came back for Ash and stood atop one of the fallen debris after firing a strong meteor attack to get the doctor's attention. It worked well, and the mad nautilus spun around in annoyance from Celestia coming back.

"RUN!!!!" screamed Celestia down at Ash which helped to get his attention.

He remembered her going upward into that hole and then he connected the dots why she was going that way. Ash got up quickly and gave it his all to sprint toward the debris she was at. The doctor moved toward her, but Ash ran by the robotic transformed beast and headed toward Celestia. Dr. Psyche doubled his speed and trailed behind Ash. Celestia began making her way back in the hole and so does Ash. They made it to the next floor which appeared to be a storage area of the doctor's chemicals. Everything was stored in glass tanks which the chemicals glowed brightly making the room less darkened.
"YOU CAN NOT ESCAPE YOUR TERROR, PESTS," Dr. Pscyhe roared for the two liberators which he thought they were trying to escape.

The body of the mad nautilus slumped down a bit then shot upwards in a powerful force breaking through the stone ceiling without a problem. After that action, their surrounding shook from the less minded jump. Dr. Psyche planted itself on the ground in front of them and more bludgeons extended out from the end of its tentacles.

"WERE JUST GETTING STARTED," Dr. Psyche boomed with such powerful words that could make any weak secondary shake in their boots.

"We'll see about that," Ash said whipping out his boomstick and stood next to Celestia.

He reloaded his shotgun and aimed it single handily toward the made nautilus. Two shots were fired upon the doctor as the robotic monster moved closer to them. Dr. Psyche unleashed chemical blasts upon them with no mercy. Ash and Celestia went for cover behind wooden crates that help other possessions of the doctor. While they had their backs against a crate, Ash reloaded his shotgun with 12-gauge rounds. After creating a series of blasts, the doctor began charging his horn with energy to create a massive laser. The liberators realized he stopped his attacks and began switching to the offense side of the battle. Celestia fired off a fast-thin ray of heat at the doctor while Ash charged forward. He holstered his shotgun and focused on his chainsaw instead as he came closer.

Damage inflicted the doctor from Celestia's attack but was about finished with his dead laser. When Ash was just a couple feet away from Dr. Psyche, he leaped forward with Chainsaw hand raised above his head to strike downward. The laser was discharged and headed straight for Celestia in an intimidating way. It traveled at a lightning speed which made Celestia reacted bringing up a sun wall to protect her. The heated projectile hit the barrier and made it burst into pieces and knocked Celestia back from the force of the impact. After firing the laser, the doctor squirmed in pain when Ash landed on his body with a chainsaw sawing into its body. Sparks were made as the rotating chain blade met the metallic surface. He attempted to disable the energy cannons, but tentacles came at him in a defensive way to get Ash off the doctor.

Ash realized the incoming tentacles and while his Chainsaw wedged mid-way of sawing the triple cannon, he reached for his shotgun that was in his holster behind him. Before the tentacles could grab him from both sides, he fired off quickly on both sides of him and damaged the tentacles immensely. The doctor growled angerly at Ash who rode on top of him. Ash continued to try to saw while holding his boomstick. Celestia galloped to run around the doctor and kept firing off her ranged attacks. Of course, Dr. Psyche hadn't forgotten about her and fended itself off with the remaining tentacles. She couldn't keep up with her attacks anymore on the doctor because of the surrounding tentacles. Meanwhile, on Ash's part, he eventually got finished by sawing off one of its triple cannons.

"ENOUGH." Dr. Psyche boomed while jumping off the ground and creating a hard landing that shook the ground and caused Ash to fall off.

"ALL OF YOU ARE FILLED WITH TOMFOOLERY AND YOU WILL DIE ONCE I SEND THIS CASTLE CRASHING DOWN ON YOU FILTHY LIBERATORS. GLORY TO NEBULA AND MAY OUR DARKNESS SPREAD THROUGH THE REST OF THE OMNIVERSE!" Dr. Psyche cried out then began charging his horn.

Celestia worried for Revan hoping he would evacuate everyone he can soon enough since it appeared their distraction might not last long. The mad nautilus began charging its single large horn while Ash and Celestia came back for another round. Celestia became ready to summon a sunwall in case Dr. Psyche finished charging. Its horn glowed brightly and ready to discharge the deadly force. The mad nautilus releases the laser beam, but it wasn't aimed at the liberators. Instead, the laser hit a stone wall behind them and caused a massive hole to be made. Dr. Psyche focused to unleash its firepower upon the supports that were holding this dungeon up.

The doctor didn't completely ignore the liberators and used its tentacles to defend itself from the hard-headed primes. Piece by piece the room was falling apart all around them. The two get knocked back a couple yards away from the flailing tentacles. Ash and Celestia moved back to get behind cover since the mad nautilus stopped focusing on destroying the castle for a bit then launched a series of energy blasts at the two from one of the cannons that were still functional.

They had their backs against a wooden crate waiting for the firepower to stop.

"We can't stick around here too long or we'll both become pancakes when this place comes down to us," Ash stated with his chainsaw hand resting in his lap.

"I know, we can't just flee the place like were retreating. If we do so, he might realize that Revan wasn't present in the fight and go after him with the other defenseless prisoners," Celestia replied looking back at Ash while resting.

They think for a moment until one of them blurted out an idea.

"How about this, let's focus our attacks on him and lure him into the castle then we try to find a way outside. Once when were outside, we should be safe from the castle falling apart on us and by the time we get the enemy out of the castle, Revan should have evacuated everyone he could safely," Celestia proposed with hope.

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