The void wasn't a battlefield anymore—it was a roulette wheel, spinning with infinite outcomes. Every shard showed a different truth: Rose-Metal dead, Rose-Metal crowned, Rose-Metal erased, Rose-Metal infinite.
The Oversight loomed, glyphs burning like suns. It didn't attack with weapons. It attacked with truth.
Every word was a rewrite, every gesture a command.
"Anomaly is contradiction. Contradiction destabilizes. Contradiction must be resolved."
Her HUD spasmed, glitching in red.
[Level Undefined]
[Progression: Corrupted]
[Reality Status: Critical]
Rose-Metal spat blood into the void, amber eyes molten white.
"Babe, contradiction is my middle name."
First Clash
She lunged—blade first, cannon firing point-blank, Amber Eyes cutting law itself. Oversight caught it mid-air, rewriting her swing into a harmless ripple of light. She smirked, deleting its deletion.
[Override: Reversal Complete]
[Oversight's Command Nullified]
Its glyphs flared. The void convulsed. Laws bent.
Her blade dissolved into salt. Her cannon leg folded into glass. Her plating cracked down the middle.
Rose-Metal laughed, blood pouring, voice feral.
"You're not deleting me. You're beta testing me."
Crew Interference
The surviving crews rallied, half-mad from fear. Jhene's chains lashed into Oversight's light, burning her palms raw. Yugami threw himself into its glyphs, claws igniting until his body split apart. Nutasi screamed as they overloaded their psychic core, shards detonating like stars. Verma fired his rebuilt rifle until it shattered, shards of chrome embedding in his skull. Shinzoo roared, holding back one glyph-strike with his bare hands, plasma claws burning down to bone.
They all fell. Broken. But their sacrifice carved a single crack.
Rose-Metal's Rewrite
She stepped through that opening, obsidian blade reforming in her hand. Her Amber Eyes didn't just glow—they rewrote faster than Oversight could process.
Every law it tried to enforce? She denied.
Every reset it tried to trigger? She reversed.
Every rewrite it slammed down? She deleted.
Her HUD pulsed violently.
[Warning: System Overheating]
[Warning: Rewrite Limit Exceeded]
[Critical State: Architect Collapse Imminent]
She laughed, sharp and bitter.
"Collapse? Babe, collapse is just another word for upgrade."
Cliffhanger
The Oversight faltered, its faceless form flickering. For the first time, it hesitated.
"Anomaly… is winning?"
Rose-Metal raised her blade, cannon charging, amber eyes blazing infinity.
"No, sweetheart. Anomaly already won."
She lunged—straight into its core.
And existence screamed.