Requiem: "You're finally here."

Max's team steps through the door as it begins to close.

Samuel: "So uh..."

Tyler: "How's life?"

Grace: "Really?"

Flames spark on the blade of Max's scythe.

Lucas: "We're ending this."

Requiem: "How cliché."

Requiem summons their scythe.

Shoma: "You think we're scared?"

Requiem: "Not at all. After all..."

Requiem looks towards Max.

Requiem: "... he's with you."

Amanda: "We won't deny that it helps."

Faith: "In fact, you're the one who's scared!"

Requiem: "(chuckling) Are we?"

The range users make some distance.

Ike: "Why wouldn't you be?"

Requiem: "(in head) If you only knew."

The melee users dash closer.

Tyler: "No witty comebacks? Guess that Verse half is messing with your sense of... uh..."

Bell: "I think it's that he doesn't need one."

Marcel: "Because you clearly have no idea what you're saying."

Requiem moves out of the way in time to avoid the attack.

Requiem: "We're perfectly fine."

Max and Requiem lock blades.

Requiem: "In fact, you've already lost."

Max: "(Scottish accent) Oh have we now laddies?!"

Requiem repels Max.

Nia: "Looks like this won't be a cakewalk."

A wind begins to blow.

Alexis: "It never is."

Bell: "Why can't it be?"

Requiem begins to zip around the area.

Requiem: "Because we won't die."

Everyone locks back to back.

Marcel: "Did you think we didn't notice?"

Requiem: "No."

Requiem grazes Grace's shoulder.

Grace: "At least they think of us as something?"

Requiem: "(in head) No, it's only luck that beat us three times before."

Requiem proceeds to deal light damage to everyone.

Max: "(pissed) I can't fucking hit him!"

Chloe: "Try to stay calm Max!"

Ethan: "They just want us to break formation!"

Requiem: "(in head) So he does have a short fuse."

Max manages to block Requiem.

Max: "How's that?!"

Requiem: "(smirking) Not bad at all."

The others send attacks flying at Requiem.

Samuel: "That doesn't sound right."

Requiem jumps back, avoiding the attacks.

Nia: "You're hiding something."

Requiem: "What if we are?"

Moment of silence...

Bell: "It's obvious."

Electricity begins to cackle.

Requiem: "Just give us a little time before we play it, please?"

Tyler: "Please? You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel."

Max lunges towards Requiem with a burst of wind behind him.

Max: "(pissed) Just do it already!"

Requiem dodges again, causing Max to land just in front of the wall.

Requiem: "Oh you're so eager to let everyone know the truth!"

Bell: "The truth?"

Samuel: "What truth?"

The fighting pauses.

Requiem: "We know all about the day you were diagnosed with aspergers."

Marcel: "You've got aspergers?"

Max: "(Scottish accent) Oh now you notice laddie!"

Requiem: "Our connections also gave us the incident where your mother asked you if you had it, but you were just diagnosed."

Max: "(menacingly) Don't you dare bring that up."

Requiem: "We were all born from your anger and resentment of the world around you."

Max is beginning to lose it.

Amanda: "We were born from hatred?"

They look towards Requiem.

Ike: "That's a lie!"

Requiem: "Then why do beings like us exist?"

Faith: "B-Because..."

No one can say a comeback.

Requiem: "You were simply born as countermeasures."

Max: "(darkly) Shut your damn mouth."

Max pushes off the wall and bolts towards Requiem.

Requiem: "We're simply the underlying rage within him, born to eradicate the people of our world."

Max is wide open for an attack.

Grace: "Max! Adjust your-"

Requiem does a single swing, with it appearing Max had phased through Requiem.

Requiem: "Let us do our mission you humbly gave us."

Max was sliced diagonally in half, with his arms and head in one half and his legs in the other.

Max: "(weakly) Nev..."

Max's parts fly to the other side of the room, his blood and innards barely staying inside.

Chloe: "(horrified) He used his own flaws as the greatest weapon..."

Life fades from Max's eyes.

Requiem: "His own mother never cared and the people around him kept pushing his buttons."

Requiem faces the remaining heroes.

Requiem: "Good to know getting someone like him was impossible."

Lucas: "You make us sick Requiem!"

Chloe: "So you changed plans?!"

Requiem: "(chuckling) It's just to make life easier on us."

The heroes are filled with more hatred than ever.

Requiem: "Can't you feel the hatred you were born from?"

Alexis: "We weren't born from hate!"

They assume offensive positions.

Requiem: "Then prove it!"

Max's blood covers the floor.

Heroes: "We will!"

They resume combat.

However...

Max: "(pissed) Fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!!!!"

Max is standing in a realm made of the night sky in his normal attire.

Max: "(pissed) It's always these fucking dumbasses who do this to me!"

Max tries to take deep breaths.

Max: "(calming down) But now I'm fucking dead."

???: "Are you now?"

Max: "(startled) Who's that?!"

Only a voice is heard in the realm, no physical being is anywhere to be seen.

Voice: "The shattered voice of souls."

Max: "Say what now?"

Voice: "The world's core is the very place you stand, the only place where I retain my own consciousness."

Max: "Why are you talking to me?!"

Max is beginning to get agitated again.

Voice: "To bring you back to your senses."

Max: "What senses?!"

Voice: "You also created those to fight back against your rage, didn't you?"

Max snaps back to reality.

Max: "Y-Yeah... I did."

Voice: "Those souls with the power to stand up to gods."

Max: "The others..."

Voice: "You had a few souls have the power to stand against the coming threats of the immortal Hymn and Verse, the two who carry half of my power."

Max: "But you really think I can help? I'm a body on the floor."

Black energy pours from the room and into Max.

Voice: "You have one chance, me."

Max: "You?"

Voice: "My powers will put you back together and unlock our real potential."

The energy finishes fusing as the voice is now heard in Max's mind.

Voice: "Now say my name."

Max begins to fade.

Max: "I'm on it!"

Max has faded away.

Meanwhile...

The heroes are struggling to retain their footing.

Requiem: "So are you done? You're the only ones we need."

Faith: "Like hell we are!"

Requiem manages a light cut on everyone's stomachs.

Requiem: "You know it's pointless without Max."

Shoma: "It'll never be pointless!"

Requiem begins to zip around again.

Requiem: "When will you mortals-"

???: "(weakly) Cacophony."

Requiem stops.

Requiem: "Is he seriously still alive?"

Everyone looks towards Max as black sparks put him back together.

Lucas: "Cacophony?"

Max is put back together as he begins to stand.

Max: "(darkly) I created people like them for a reason."

Black sparks begin to cackle on Max's chains and zippers.

Max: "(darkly) To keep my anger in check."

Samuel: "Talk about pulling yourself together."

Requiem: "Really? You give your hatred so much power, yet you have a couple mortals keep it in check?"

The sparks grow larger, creating black lightning.

Max: "(darkly) It's all I need."

A dark grey light flashes in Max's eyes.

Bell: "Max..."

Max: "(darkly) Now to show you just how much of a mistake you made!"

The electricity strikes Max, creating a massive surge of power in the area.

Max: "I'm the amalgamation of all souls in your world!"

Max begins to look more and more like Requiem, human traits visibly fading.

Max: "They're like the people who keep me from going over the edge."

Faith: "This is insane!"

Stray sparks land on the heroes, healing their wounds.

Requiem: "Then what do you call this form?"

Max: "My hidden name is..."

The electricity dissipates as his eyes turn dark grey.

Grace: "... Cacophony."

His chains appear to be made out of black fire as his zippers cackling with black electricity.

Requiem: "Cacophony? Sounds pretty lame."

Max begins to walk towards Requiem.

Max: "(menacingly) It's more than a name."

The others are dumbfounded by Max's new form.

Marcel: "(dumbfounded) Now that's a twist!"

Requiem begins walking towards Max.

Requiem: "A complete set of souls? You're just trying to show o-"

Requiem seemingly can't move.

Max: "(menacingly) I've accepted myself."

Requiem's shadow seems to be the cause.

Requiem: "(paralyzed) Our shadow?!"

Electrifying mist swirls around Max.

Max: "And I can do so much more."

Ike: "He's mixing bonds?!"

Max lands a single slash, sending Requiem flying into the wall.

Requiem: "(in pain) A simple swing?!"

Requiem is able to move again.

Max: "Now you see what you're up against?"

Requiem quickly gets back on their feet.

Requiem: "I see how we can't hold back."

Requiem makes a dash for Max.

Max: "Here's the thing, you haven't been."

Requiem stops.

Alexis: "Max was able to do that when Requiem was going all out?!"

Max looks towards the others.

Max: "And I'm just warming up."

Max grabs Requiem's blade while still paying attention to the others.

Requiem: "You're actually mocking us!"

Max: "That's the fun part."

Max tosses Requiem into the ceiling, creating a massive crater before Requiem plummets into the floor.

Shoma: "This is insane!"

Max turns towards the stumbling Requiem.

Marcel: "And you're still holding back."

Max: "(awkwardly) That's not the fun part."

Requiem: "(in pain) Toying with us?!"

Requiem fixes his stance.

Requiem: "We can't allow that."

Requiem circles around Max at light speeds.

Chloe: "I can't tell where they are!"

Max slowly walks towards the edge of Requiem's circle before holding his arm out and causing Requiem to slam his face in.

Max: "Now tell me, are you done?"

Requiem: "(in pain) Never."

Requiem staggers for a moment, but still gets ready for another fight.

Amanda: "Talk about resilient!"

Nia: "They haven't lost yet."

Max proceeds to block with flames giving off a white light.

Requiem: "We won't lose to someone like you! An imitation!"

Max: "I'm the imitation? You really are scraping the bottom of the barrel."

Tyler: "I know right?!"

Ethan: "You aren't helping Tyler."

Max has hazy shadows form around him.

Max: "You're really not."

The hazy shadows rush towards Requiem.

Requiem: "(in pain) Nothing we can't handle!"

Requiem dodges out of the way.

Max: "When I give the okay, we're going to go all out!"

Max weaves his way over to Requiem.

Shoma: "Alright!"

They get back as Max and Requiem continue to exchange blows.

Requiem: "Stop holding back!"

Max: "Not yet!"

Max roundhouse kicks Requiem's neck, sending him into the wall.

Lucas: "Now?"

Requiem gets up.

Max: "Nope!"

Max continues to attack.

Ethan: "He's going to have us strike when Requiem is staggering for long enough to actually do damage."

Requiem proceeds to get destroyed by Max.

Requiem: "(in pain) We won't die while you keep holding back!"

Max lodges his blade in Requiem's shoulder.

Max: "I know, now!"

The night sky aura glows brighter than ever.

Faith: "Took you long enough!"

Wind, light, fire, mist, shadows, electricity, and hazy air begins to swirl around everyone when Max rips out his blade.

Heroes: "Perfect Synergy..."

The elements swirl around Max's scythe as he prepares for the same attack that finished him before.

Heroes: "... Soul Bound Decimation!"

Max swings the blade, but with no visible effect on Requiem.

Requiem: "A simple swing..."

Requiem drops to the floor as the elements makes their way through their body.

Marcel: "That attack will destroy you from the inside out."

A button falls to their side.

Requiem: "(smirking) So you plan on killing us this way."

Flames, mist, and electricity begins to pour out of the wound.

Alexis: "Sounds like a foolproof plan."

Requiem pushes the button.

Bell: "He's getting away!"

Requiem is beginning to fade.

Requiem: "(smirking) I'll discard this body and then this attack won't finish me."

Requiem's body disappears as the other door opens.

Amanda: "That's got to be a bluff."

Max returns to his standard attire as he turns towards the door.

Max: "Then let's drop that and kick some ass!"

Max begins the march forward.

Tyler: "That sounds like an idea!"

Ike: "But are you going to be okay?"

Max: "Never been better!"

Everyone shrugs.

Nia: "If you say so."

The others follow...