get me!" she yelled. The Outsider snapped around to see her. It dashed forwards quickly. Jenna was scared but she managed to get the consciousness to get out of the way as the monster leapt at her. The aurora instantly shot out of the bottles and cast over the Outsider. The genetic demon roared in pain as its eyes burned from the bright light. It fell forwards, crashing face first into the bottles, drawing another screech of agony as the sharp shards drove into its eyes. It stood up and roared as it tried to get the shards out, only doing more damage to itself. "Well that worked better than I’d hoped."
Tina thought of something and ran to the sled, getting out a syringe filled with yellow liquid. She threw it at the monster’s head, it broke on impact, sending the fluid running into its eyes. She jumped back, avoiding getting any on her. "What was that?" asked Balto.
"The same stuff I gave you mixed with the left over diphtheria anti-toxin from your run. The same stuff that makes it work on the virus has the effect of reversing the other medicines effect, it can no longer regenerate." said Tina with a smirk. "Oh and don’t worry, I didn’t mess up the time line using that."
"Who knew that night would save us now?" asked Jenna, smiling.
"Lets attack it while its still stunned." said Balto, leaping forwards and kicking off the monster’s chest. The monster staggered back before Tina dashed forwards and drove her head into the monster’s stomach. It gasped as it staggered. It began flailing madly in front of it, blind and not knowing were it was being attacked. Jenna got behind it and drove her head into its back. It fell forwards but caught itself. Tina drove her head into its lower jaw. It staggered back, only to be struck with a tackle from Balto. Suddenly, it stopped flailing and stood absolutely still. "What’s it doing? Do it give up?"
"I’m not going to give it the chance." said Jenna, jumping at it.
"Jenna! Wait!" yelled Tina.
The Outsider twirled around and slammed its fist into Jenna’s side. She went rolling across the ground for a few feet. She got up and managed to shake off the impact. "Alright what happened?"
"It’s using its other senses to track us, it adapted."
"Great, how powerful is this thing going to get?" asked Balto. He ran forward and jumped at it. It spun around and caught him in midair. It threw him a good distance as Tina tried to attack it. It swung its tail around and hit her in the side, getting a yelp out of her. Jenna managed to jump on its back and bit down on its neck. It let out its disturbing laugh and grabbed her with its tail before throwing her. Balto tried to take its legs out from under it but it jumped into the air and struck him with its tail with enough force to knock him a few feet away. Tina and Jenna dashed at it from behind and jumped at it. It caught them and smacked their heads together. It threw Tina away but turned to Jenna. It knew she wasn’t Tina but it was harder for her to tell without its eyesight so it decided to get rid of her. It wrapped its tail around her neck and released its hand hold, leaving her hanging by her neck. She struggled, her air being cut off. She was scared, she couldn’t breathe. Balto shook off the hit he’d taken and saw his mate being strangled. He ran around and bit down on its tail. The Outsider faced its head in his direction, unable to see him, it recognized his scent. It let out a mocking laugh at him. Balto snarled and bit down harder, he kept biting down, not letting up. Jenna began to black out and Balto’s jaw began to hurt but finally he felt his teeth sink in and tasted the horrid blood of the abomination. The Outsider tossed Jenna away and roared in pain as it tried to dislodge Balto.
Jenna gasped for breath, putting her paw over her throat. "That was too close." she gasped.
Tina came over. "Jenna? You alright?" she asked. She looked at Balto and saw some of the monster’s green blood drip from his maw. "I don’t believe it! That thing’s skin can withstand bullets and he bit through! For you Jenna, that’s love there."
Jenna smiled, knowing her mate had done the impossible again, for her. "You know Balto, nothing is impossible."
The Outsider struck Balto’s head a few times with its fists to try and dislodge his grip. Balto felt light headed and let go, it hadn’t hit him with full force. The Outsider felt and bleeding wound in its tail. It snarled and let out a furious roar. It extended its claws, despite the simulated thunder. It charged at Balto, who jumped out of the way. It’s claw drove through the lantern Jenna had used, becoming lodged in it. It didn’t seem to notice as it kept trying to hit Balto with its claw and unknowingly the lantern but it couldn’t manage to hit Balto. It struck the cliff face after one of its misses, shattering the lantern. It’s claw glowed red with heat. "Great as if it wasn’t dangerous enough already." said Balto, though he was very confident now that he knew he could pierce its hide. He kept dodging. One miss drove its claw through a piece of ice on the cliff face, creating a lot of steam and cooling its claw. Balto couldn’t see through the steam and the monster tried to take advantage with its claw. Jenna and Tina picked up a medium sized rock and together threw it into the monster’s path. The Outsider’s claw struck the rock. The steam settled to reveal…The Outsider’s claw’s on one hand had snapped off and driven into the snow! "What happened?" asked Balto.
"When you rapidly freeze hot metal, it gets fragile." said Tina.
"Good, we weakened it." said Jenna, smiling.
"Good, lets finish it off!" said Balto, he jumped behind the still distracted monster and pulled on its tail.
"Jenna, how’s you ankle?" asked Tina.
"I’m not sure, haven’t been paying attention." said Jenna, looking down at her ankle.
"Get closer to the ground please."
Jenna was confused by this request but did so. Tina stepped back before charging forwards and jumping off Jenna’s back. She hit the Outsider square in the chest, combine with Balto pulling it from behind, the monster finally hit the ground. Jenna was still startled from Tina’s actions but ran forwards as the monster set up and drove her head into its bottom jaw. The beast was drove down to the ground and stayed down. "Did we beat it?"
"Don’t let your guard down." said Tina.
The Outsider’s eye snapped open and it whipped its tail around, knocking the trio away from it. It breathed heavily. "Insolent…pests!…" it yelled.
Balto had landed beside the sled. He noticed the dynamite sticking out. He saw that despite being smashed, the lantern’s fire remained lit. "Please let this work." he said lowly. He dashed to the sled and grabbed the dynamite. He ran towards the Outsider, lighting the fuse on the way. It turned towards him right as he jumped onto it. He landed his front paws on its shoulders and drove his head forwards, driving the blunt side of the dynamite into the creature’s empty eye socket as deep as he could.
The Outsider launched its blade-less hand up and grabbed Balto by the throat. It lifted him off it and extended its claw. "DIE!!!" it yelled.
To Jenna everything seemed to slow down as her dream repeated itself in reality. The Outsider plunged its claw into Balto’s chest, his eyes went wide and he gasped. The monster pulled its claw out and threw him, smacking his head off the mountain side and good distance away. "NO!!!" she yelled. She tried to run to him but Tina stopped.
Your hero is dead! said the Outsider’s warped voice in Tina’s head.
"Maybe so but he was enough to take him down. Jenna get down the dynamite!" she yelled, covering hers and Jenna’s heads.
The Outsider suddenly realized what was about to happen, it couldn’t pull the dynamite out in time and it knew it. "Not…Over…" it said, it raised its bloody claw above its head and let out a loud roar…right as the dynamite exploded.
Jenna remained down, she wanted to rush to her mates aid but she couldn’t go until the blast was over. Once it cleared, she looked up. As the dust settled, the Outsider still stood, in a pillar of fire. She looked shocked until the smoke around its upper body cleared, its head was gone. The monster’s flaming corpse fell to the ground. Before it hit the ground Jenna had rushed to her mate who laid bleeding and motionless in the snow. She nudged him, crying uncontrollably. "No! You can’t be gone!" She kept nudging him.
Tina walked over but stopped to look at the dead monster, she could feel its life sighs had truly vanished, they’d killed it. She walked over to Balto. Boris and the polar bears had came over and were working with Jenna to try to wake him up. "Come on Balto, don’t quit on old Boris now." said Boris, shaking Balto head. Muk and Luk were shaking him too but not saying anything, they understood how bad it was.
Tina sighed, crying herself but not nearly as much as Jenna. She went over to the sled and got out the first aid kit she packed. She bandaged up the deep wound in his chest, tears streaming down her face. "Well at least he can’t bleed to death now." she said. She looked up at the mound of snow and ice that the Outsider had left before dieing. There was no way they could just carry him over it. She new the polar bears had strength they had no idea they had, which was why they almost crushed Boris and Balto when hugging them but they wouldn’t even be able to. She realized something. "The sled! We can get him back to Nome for help!" she said. Suddenly though the earth seem to start shaking and the ground beneath the Outsider collapsed, an underground cave had been destabilized by the explosion and now opened like a massive maw to swallow the blazing corpse. The fissure kept going and stopped half way under the sled. Tina ran over and grabbed a rope on it. Muk and Luk came over and tried to pull it back. They tugged and tugged. It was almost to the point it would stop swaying towards the abyss…when the rope snapped. The three of them fell backward but Tina quickly scrambled to her feet and looked over as the sled smashed