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Zelus knew he was coming. Surely he would be arriving any minute now in his nefarious attempts at assassination on the true and righteous CEOs of Geist.

And no doubt, the sound of shouting, gunshots - even muffled, they reached his ears, growing slowly louder. And as he heard footsteps approaching, one set reached him first - one of the loyal Geist Soldiers. The soldier cried out with a panicked warning "They're here!" And it was true, as he looked past the soldier he saw them.

One, a woman with a firey anger which blazed in her phoenix hair, a horrible scowl set in her face. Another, a terrible hulking beast of a man, with horns and spikes protruding from all across his body.

And between the two of them stood him. That horrible man, the foul villain whom Zelus' sworn mission was to bring to justice by any means possible. His bright red hair, with the ends still tainted in black dye that hadn't quite grown out - like the shadow of his evil nature he was no longer trying to hide.

Zelus gave him a slow applause. Standing proudly, he smiled at the villain, comfortable in the knowledge he had the upper hand. It was only right to tell his nemesis of the truth of the situation, after all he had made the effort to arrive here.

"I'm sorry, Ace Galatine, but you have been outplayed." Zelus proclaimed proudly

"Outplayed?" He echoed, arching an eyebrow.

"Yes, you see," He spread his arms out to gesture at his surroundings, "All of the Geist CEOs have retreated to a safe location. You are unable to harm them for they are much too far away from here."

"So? That doesn't matter much to me." He said with an easy confidence, as he took a few steps forward - minions at his back.

"You aren't?" Zelus' confidence cracked slightly, but he didn't let his posture crack. Surely he was bluffing. What else could he be here for?

"No." His grin widened. "I'm here for you."

"For me?" He was taken aback. This treacherous man had come all this way to haunt him specifically?

"Yeah! Let's get him!" The phoenix snarled, but Ace put up a hand

"No, No. Don't you worry. I can deal with him myself. I'm sure there's more important things you could be doing. Argos might need help, or Willow." Ace brushed the both of them off.

Zelus recognised those names. He had run into them not that much earlier in a previous attempt to take down the heinous Ace Galatine. Willow was a monster who had severely damaged his arm as she threw him through a building and Argos was.. that gamer? He's pretty sure. He still didn't know why that trap had failed, it was perfectly designed to capture the strongest Reflection users in the room.

That whole ordeal had ended rather poorly until Ace decided to drop a giant robot on the Geist building. While not ideal, it had revealed Ace's true nature and had set up the dominoes for Opia's collapse.

None of that mattered at the moment, though. No - all that mattered was the man standing before him. His minions dismissed, they ran past Zelus to leap through the window and off the balcony behind him. Clearly equally as insane as the man they worked under.

But now, the two of them standing face to face, the terrible Ace Galatine began to speak.

"You know, there's something about you," as he spoke he stalked a slow circle around where Zelus was standing, like a predator circling its prey, "something that even though I've hardly met you before it just pissed me off."

The villain stopped briefly, before righting his posture and smiling - continuing his circle the same as before.

"And you know what? I've figured it out. I've finally realised what it is about you that irritates me so much."

And as that terrible villain reached the last line of his monologue, he had done a full circle and was once again positioned perfectly before him, a wild smile splitting across his face.