"Hey Nero," someone said. Nero turned around to see who had spoken and saw Dante walking toward him with a smug look on his face.

"What's up?" Nero asked.

"You know, the Red Queen is cool and all with its motorcycle engine, but guess what the Rebellion has now," Dante said with a smirk.

"What? A pizza maker?" Nero asked with a sigh.

"No! Though that is a good idea... Anyway, it now has an airplane engine!" Dante exclaimed with glee.

"Dante, please don't waste my time. I'm trying to help clean up the town, you know, something productive?"

"Hey! I can do productive things too! You're just a sore loser, cause you know my sword's better now," Dante said haughtily.

"I could make the Red Queen better than that piece of junk any day!" Nero said angrily.

"Prove it," Dante taunted.

"You bet I will!" Nero yelled.


Several Days Later


Dante was sleeping on the couch when he heard a knock on the door. "Come in," he said drowsily.

"Check it out, the Red Queen now has a jet plane engine!" Nero said with a grin.

"What!? Well, I can still beat that!" Dante yelled. And so it began. The swords got more and more ridiculous until one day...

"The Red Queen is now officially unbeatable!" Nero announced.

"Oh yeah? Let's see it then," Dante replied.

"It now has a built in nuke! And if I press this button..."

"No! Don't pr-" Dante was too late. The city exploded. After the mushroom cloud had cleared away, it was revealed that there were two survivors. They just stood there and said nothing. Nero fell to his knees and started crying.

"I blew up the city! More importantly, I blew up my girlfriend!" he sobbed.

"Look at the bright side, now you don't have to help repair the city!" Dante said.

"This is all your fault!" Nero said with a crazed look in his eyes.

"My fault!? I tried to tell you not to press the button but no! You just had to press it! This is all your fault, not mine!" Dante exclaimed.

"If you hadn't started this competition, this never would have happened!" Nero yelled.

"Fine! I started it so I'll finish it!" Dante yelled as he stomped off.

What did he mean by that? Nero wondered with a worried frown.


Several Weeks Later


"Hey Nero! I told you I'd finish it!" Dante said as he walked up to Nero.

"What is that thing!?" Nero asked in shock.

"I found the engine of this thing called a Death Star! It's amazing, they say it can blow up whole planets! After that incident with the nuke I decided I wouldn't use a button but a certain, really hard to pull off, motion would trigger it. That way, there's not much of a ch-" before he could finish Nero tackled him.

"I finally found a new girlfriend and I won't let her be blown up!" he screamed.

"Calm down! Everything's fi-" he stopped mid-sentence with a look of horror on his face. Nero had knocked the Rebellion out of his hand and it had spun in the exact motion that would set it off. "Well, what are the cha-" then the earth exploded. The only two survivors floated through space. They were riding on a chunk of the planet with dumbfounded expressions. They sat in silence for a while. Finally, Dante broke the silence, "I hate you," he told Nero calmly.

"I hate you more," Nero replied just as calmly.

"I could use that pizza maker about now..." Dante said with a sigh as he stared at the Rebellion.

"Arrrgh!" Nero screamed as he leaped at Dante.