COLD❄BLOOD/Story Expansions/FINAL✨CHAPTER

Concluding Zinfestation's story is FINAL✨CHAPTER, which immediately continues the events of HEART💔PATCH and serves as Fuchsia Panacea's final project with TimeStrike before her untimely and unexpected death. It wraps up COLD❄BLOOD as a package and introduces the Creator into the main game as the final boss and most challenging opponent of them all. It focuses on Silver Zin and Mallory Zin as they must take down the mischievous Dream Weaver and figure out what really lies beyond the Zaxiverse (which turned out to be fake, all along). Following its conclusion, the animated series Incubus Eyes went under an infinite hiatus and all works by the company would become available for download on Microsoft Windows (via Steam). How will the conclusion turn out?
Please do not read this followup to Zinfestation if you haven't read the main story and the resulting expansion packs BITTER💊SCARS and HEART💔PATCH.
==FINAL✨CHAPTER==
===The End: Get Born Again===
:9:52 P.M. · SUNDAY November 13th, ZXE-233
:Black Oblivion, Unknown Location
Silver and Mallory follow the Dream Weaver's lead through this strange black oblivion, watching him mount his throne and smirk at the Zins, swinging around a glass of wine in his hand.
:Dream Weaver: Well filthy Zinners, the road ends here I'm afraid!
:Silver: I don't think so. I don't know why you randomly turned on us, but I'll do whatever it takes to free us of the bad luck that you ultimately gave us to deal with.
The Dream Weaver looks like he's going to lose his shit.
:Dream Weaver: Aha, you really thought I was with you this whole time? I was always dominating the chessboard that you and your friends lived in for decades, and all that's left is a king to knock down!
The Dream Weaver scratches his nails against the Creator's flask.
:Dream Weaver: And sorry to say, but you're in checkmate!
:Silver: You traitor!
:Dream Weaver: Can't call me a traitor if I was never your friend, stupid!
The Dream Weaver cackles as he strokes the Creator's flask, making it roam inside and bounce around the flask's walls in agitation and frustration with who it thought was its only friend.
:Dream Weaver: I'm here to be completely blunt to both of you: neither of you are superpowered maniacs and neither of you have any royalty! I gave almost everyone ridiculous powers so I could exploit their weaknesses and harvest off of their sorrow!
The Dream Weaver lets Galaxia, his spatial girlfriend, rest on his throne and fluff out his hair.
:Dream Weaver: The only reason why you two were so special was because I've known through the "real world" that your family always had a history of abuse and misfortune. I wanted to prey on the weakest of the weak, and you two fit the bill pretty nicely.
:Mallory: That's fucking disgusting, you put us through every ounce of pain we've taken just so you could harvest off of our negative emotions? You're a real creep!
:Dream Weaver: Yep! Admittedly I wasn't completely responsible for everything, but I steered so many things to try and make life hell for the both of you. I fumed in frustration when you took out the spirits that I ordered the Creator to push out. Y'know, the Manipulator and the Devil's Mask.
:Mallory: You sicced those on us?
:Silver: You tried to make me an addict. And succeeded.
:Dream Weaver: I made sure Silver didn't die when he was spending his remaining days on Satellite 15, I wanted him to feel so much rage and I soaked it all in for the decade he was trapped.
The Dream Weaver sips from his cup of wine.
:Dream Weaver: I made sure Minute was brought along that rescue mission to recruit Silver. I knew that if either of you died that Minute would need to revive you. After all, I didn't want only one of you awake.
:Silver: "Awake"!? This is getting more and more absurd by the minute!
:Dream Weaver: You were always dreaming! Everybody you've seen, all the places you've seen, all the shit you've had to deal with, it's based off of the stuff I've found in your minds and exaggerated so hard that you couldn't tell you were only dreaming!
:Silver: Hang on, so how do we wake up?
:Dream Weaver: Oh that's easy, I can do it by killing you in your sleep- literally!
Silver didn't trust him, and was right to do as he just barely avoids a Nerve Boil attack that the Dream Weaver executed flawlessly. He snickers loudly as he sees Silver just barely avoid death.
:Dream Weaver: Every time someone dies, they get placed in limbo until limbo is overcrowded or until the hosts themselves wake up. Hammerhead made keeping everyone in limbo so much harder.
:Galaxia: Everyone woke up.
:Dream Weaver: I need to kill you right now, because if I don't do it now, I can't get away and return the real world to its frozen-in-time status. If I kill you, the dream ends and I can finally escape what I've admittedly made into my own prison.
The Dream Weaver twitches.
:Dream Weaver: Had you listened to me and let Hammerhead kill you, then I would've reset the Zaxiverse again, and I wouldn't be dealing with this issue. But you didn't listen to me.
:Silver: Why would we, especially after listening all of this?
:Dream Weaver: YOU DON'T FUCK WITH THE DREAM WEAVER!
The Dream Weaver casts a bunch of spells, which Silver and Mallory carefully dodge as they stare at their enemy's twitchy, angry eyes. He was easily the worst person they've ever met. Even Gonzalo couldn't compare.
:Dream Weaver: How about we make this quick and painless, huh? I'll kill you, then I'll be your friend again in the next Zaxiverse incarnation. I'll be sure to double the abuse I hand you.
:Mallory: No.
Silver nods at Mallory, looking at the Dream Weaver.
:Silver: We've put up with enough. It's time to make the suffering end!
Silver and Mallory pull out their weapons and charge them, making the Dream Weaver angrily get up and draw out his own staff. He scoffs at them, angrily breathing as his eyes narrowly focus on the Zins'.
:Galaxia: Be careful, my darling, they clearly aren't going to take it anymore.
:Dream Weaver: Tch, of course they want to fight. You Zins don't know what's happened to your previous selves, huh? You wanna know what happens to the Zins that fail to beat me, multiverse after multiverse?
Galaxia spreads apart her void-like body, showing many different incarnations of Silver and Mallory floating about midair. Trapped in limbo, all they could do was rotate. Like seeing different playthroughs of the same adventure, several characters like Pierce and Medea and Junkhead and Vizole and Crymsia were seen holding the in-limbo Zins' hands, implying they all have their own stories to share.
:Dream Weaver: I'll throw your bodies in there too for the next Zins to feel nauseated by!
Silver and Mallory stared at the void. Mallory, without Silver's input, steps forward.
:Mallory: All of those brave souls who tried to fight you and free us from this curse.
Mallory jumps inside Galaxia's body, screaming as Silver follows her in. They freely float in this limbo, able to freely swim around as the Dream Weaver pokes his head in and chases them inside.
:Dream Weaver: What're you doing!?
:Mallory: I'm going to make this encounter particularly special!
The Dream Weaver follows her in, charging up lasers between his palms as he growls at the Zins.
:Dream Weaver: You made it much easier for me to seal your fate!
Silver winces as he swims after his sister, catching up to her and tugging on her shoulder.
:Silver: What're you doing!?
:Mallory: We're going to free all of them.
:Silver: Wha?
:Mallory: We're going to free all of these Zins!
The Dream Weaver chases after them. He clearly wasn't going to have it, judging by just how quickly he was swimming after them. Hatred bubbled in his pupils as he tried to swim as fast as he could.
:Dream Weaver: BEGONEEEE!
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Silver and Mallory get pushed outside of Galaxia's body, landing straight down on their backsides. They get back up as the Dream Weaver manages to catch up to them, growling before suddenly stepping back in surprise. Many varieties of Silver and Mallory stood behind them- they're respectively the Original Zins, Zaxinian Zins, Cavemen Zins, GlamRock Zins, Cyborg Zins, Hillbilly Zins, Dragon Zins, Grunge Zins, Hip Hop Zins, Cake Zins, Superstar Zins, Siren Zins, Full Demon Zins, and finally Techno Zins. Our Silver and Mallory, the Satellite Zins, stand triumphantly.
:Dream Weaver: What... what is the meaning of this?
All the other Silvers and Mallories looked confused. They checked out their surroundings, then realized where they were and quickly stood with the Silver and Mallory we know and love.
:Zaxinian Silver: Last thing I remember, I was falling into infinity with my sister.
:Techno Silver: Ah, I suppose that all the multiverses somehow aligned?
:Grunge Mallory: Jeez, and I thought Alice in Chains was dark.
:Hillbilly Mallory: Howdy do y'all what's up y'all? Y'all!?
The Dream Weaver faceplants as he stares at the thirty Zins present before him.
:Dream Weaver: Like two of you wasn't already bad enough!
The Dream Weaver panics as the cavemen Zins chase after him, ready to bash him into the floor with their club-like weavers. When he makes a getaway, Silver looks at everyone he's gathered.
:Silver: What did all of you endure before getting trapped in limbo?
:Original Mallory: I'm traumatized not as a survivor of abuse, but as an inflictor of abuse. I didn't know I hurt people and my dream exaggerated everything and made me kill myself in the end. Then I fell asleep and ended up in that limbo, praying to never be found.
:Original Silver: Tried to convince her that it was gonna be okay, she offed herself, then that boy I just saw moments ago came along and killed me too. I found my sister sleeping in limbo.
:Cyborg Silver: Beep-boop-bop. Our creator, Saliva Zin, planned to use our bodies for research we personally felt uncomfortable doing for him. We both wheeled ourselves off of a bridge and short-circuited in the bay.
:Cake Mallory: Our mother was a cannibal and spent her entire life trying to eat us, we tried living with Uncle Rhett in hopes he'd protect us from her, but she ended consuming us in the end. I remember being eaten, the feeling of her candle-like teeth, going through my pastel flesh.
:Hip Hop Silver: Yo-yo! I'm a white rapper, kinda like a certain candy brand, and my life got turned upside down when my sister became jealous of me getting more success than her and she shot me through the head! Then I think someone got her through the head.
:Hip Hop Mallory: It was the Dream Weaver, yo. He drove by merely seconds after I killed you and shot me.
:Hip Hop Silver: Yikes! What a motherfuckin' monster!
:Grunge Silver: Mal and I were in a gang of smokin' gangsters and then we were suddenly thrown down, had unspeakable acts done to us, and we got all our money stolen. We dunno what happened but I got really fuckin' mad and tried to kill 'em. They shot us through our skulls.
:Techno Mallory: Our father spied on us for illegal purposes and we found that out while barging in on them demanding information about why taxes were suddenly raised so high. Then we looked through their history and, well, we were done. Bang-bang! Went our futuristic guns.
:Hillbilly Silver: I was in Alabama!
:GlamRock Mallory: We were dating femme fatales and they both killed us when they got the chance. They took our hands after we asked if we could leave our abusive father's home and they betrayed us in the end.
:Superstar Mallory: When Silver and I reached the top of the world as a hot pop duo, we realized we had nothing more to prove and began spending most of our money on booze and drinks. Our health declined and we rotted away really fast. When our mother sued us claiming damages we did to her years ago, we just hid and smoked until we died.
:Zaxinian Mallory: I never got the attention like my sibling did, so I became aggressive and angry with him just out of spite. It was a thousand year wait to get my revenge on him!
:Dragon Mallory: I was young and joined a group of smaller dragons, intending to become a professional writer. Instead I saw some terrible things and became involved with them, and the guilt became so hard to bear that I couldn't do anything but... RAAAAAAAAWR!
Dragon Mallory breathes a bunch of smoke that all the Zins avoid in time.
:Siren Silver: We were hunted by savage men and harpooned for our meat, and that's the last thing I can remember. We were stranded when we were really young and would get in fights all the time~
:Caveman Silver: Oog! Oog oog oog. Oog oog oooooog?
:Incubus Silver: I spent an eternity as Mallory's rival in the underworld, we had differing views on what was acceptable and what wasn't and spent so long fighting each other. Our separated parents though fought when we reconciled, and in the end my mother won and slain both Saliva and Mallory. I killed myself then.
Silver and Mallory look around at all of them. Jeez, none of them really lived much of a strong life!
:Silver: What if I told you all that, if we work together, we can channel out all the abuse and torture we've taken and throw it back against the Dream Weaver?
:Mallory: He manipulated our lives, so it's probably safe to say he probably manipulated yours as well!
:Grunge Mallory: That sounds like a plan!
:Hip Hop Mallory: Yo! Let's beat the shit outta that dumb hoe!
:Caveman Silver: OOG!! OOG!! OOOGGGG!
:Hillbilly Silver: Let's give him a taste of banjo powa! Yeeeeehaw!
Silver holds out his hand, with Mallory placing her hand on top of Silver's. They were met with a stack of hands of varying skins, backgrounds, and experiences, but they were all still from Silver and Mallory.
:Silver: Right. Let's go take him down.
:Zaxinian Silver: Hey, uh, you're kinda cute for a leader.
:Silver: Thanks, I think? You're me, so that's a little weird?
:Zaxinian Silver: I'm just saying.
:Zaxinian Mallory: Don't mind him, he's a simp.
:Zaxinian Silver: Shut the frick up, Mallory.
:GlamRock Mallory: I didn't say anything!
:Cake Silver: C'mon, let's just get to the point, I need to get stored in a refrigerator as soon as possible or else I'm gonna melt out here thanks to the tension in the air.
Silver nods as he becomes the leader of the men and women, moving all the way to where the Dream Weaver is. He stands up, prepared for them this time as he swings his weapon expertly.
:Dream Weaver: I hope you're prepared for me. Even if there's thirty of you, you will all go into limbo where you belong when I'm done taking you out.
The Dream Weaver smirks as he picks up the flask, uncorking it and letting its contents slip down on his tongue. Right before the Zins, he becomes one of his own, his eyes paling out as he summons not just one but two Mind Weavers, a tail stretching out from his body as he reaches full power. Not only was he technically on a higher level than Saliva in the first place, this may be the strongest creature Silver and Mallory have ever faced. And there's thirty of themselves up against this thing!
:Dream Weaver: I regret letting either of you leave the cage, you really should've just drowned in space like you deserved. And here's the kicker! You can't beat me!
The Dream Weaver folds his arms, laughing high and mighty.
:Dream Weaver: Infused with the strongest powers available, and with pure invincibility, taking all of you out should be a snap! Maybe slightly difficult, but I can't imagine you taking me out!
Silver and Mallory still remain standing, with all their clones standing up too.
:Silver: For all the abuse and trauma you've put us through, Dream Weaver, and for all the deceit and trickery you've done to get this far. YOUR TIME HAS COME TO VANISH!
:Dream Weaver: Try me!
:Mallory: CHAAARGE!
All thirty of the Zins run up to the Dream Weaver, who looks very amused.
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Silver and Mallory are thrown against the wall, their alternative selves fading as the line between reality and dreaming is beginning to blur. The Dream Weaver closes in on them, sneering.
:Dream Weaver: Foolish Zins, you cannot beat me, for you are the ones who forced me into being!
The Dream Weaver swings both his staffs, laughing maniacally.
:Dream Weaver: BEGO-
Suddenly the Dream Weaver gets pushed over, breaking his connection with the Zins as Silver and Mallory open their eyes for the first time in what might be a millennium. Valerie was piled up on the Dream Weaver, hitting him over and over again where it hurts using her knee.
:Dream Weaver: GET OFF OF ME!
The Dream Weaver throws away Valerie. Silver and Mallory blink before slipping out of the sheets, now in the same room as the ordinary citizens we saw in the last story's epilogue.
:Silver: How long were we asleep?
:Pierce: Uhhh, I honestly don't know how long.
:Dream Weaver: 13,500 years! And everyone will be going back to sleep real soon!
But Silver walks over to his window, kicking down the Dream Weaver to the floor. Silver looked much more human- although his handsome demon traits have faded away, he gained olive-green eyes and looked really goth as something of a tradeoff. The same can be said about Mallory, who beats her hands together.
:Dream Weaver: No, no, this is all wrong!
The Dream Weaver points his staff at Silver and Mallory, charging a bright white light.
:Dream Weaver: G-Go back to sleep! Dreamland awaits you!
Silver and Mallory stare at at the nervous Dream Weaver, ready to engage in their second fight. Luckily for them, the Dream Weaver's Zin traits didn't carry over to reality... just like their own.
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The Dream Weaver, made bloody and horrible, tries to get up. He hisses as he tries to stand up, reaching out for them. But in the end, he's just someone weak that likes to feast off of people's suffering. And those are the people who deserve to die most, regardless of what suffering they're causing.
:Dream Weaver: You can't dispose of me! I have so much more planned, I need more and more!
:Silver: You know, we're real fucked up, we're not the best person there are and there are things we'll certainly never be forgiven or remembered for. We all make mistakes, even if they are beyond redemption. But we know something you don't, and it's that we changed and you took 13,500 years to never change!
The player is given a button prompt as Silver approaches the Dream Weaver. By pressing the red action button, Silver will do an uppercut that knocks the Dream Weaver outside, making him land on the floor. Then Mallory will jump out, and by pressing the same button, she will come down and crush his chest, killing him for good.
:Silver: Finally.
Silver leaps out the window, going over to hug his sister. Mallory wraps her arms around her sibling, holding him tightly. The nightmare was finally over. Everything about the Ohio neighborhood they were living in this entire time gets colored back in, and time flows once again.
:Silver: The nightmare is over, Mallory. It's over.
:Mallory: Thank Jesus for that.
:Silver: Nah, thank us for that. We finally stood up for ourselves.
The Dream Weaver disintegrates, a portal opening up to collect his remains. Galaxia is shown to be pulling him back into their dimension, giving the Zins a nasty look before disappearing.
:Mallory: Thank you Silver so much!
Silver and Mallory hug each other even tighter. Mallory tears up in Silver's neck, crying a little bit.
:Silver: Whatever we have to deal with now, it's not going to be anything of that scale ever again. We've learned a lot in that dream and we need to use what we learned to stand up against whatever comes our way.
:Mallory: Right. I'm going to treat you more nicely from now on and be more clear when I'm having problems, ok?
:Silver: Me too. How about we go eat at Burger King or something?
Silver's friends join them, smiling as they watch the siblings embrace. Pierce quickly hops over and hugs Silver tightly, with Medea and Zellen joining him.
:Silver: Aww.
:Zellen: C'mon, how about we actually make ourselves a thing for real?
Silver grins.
:Silver: Yeah, let's do that shit. Alright Mallory, erm, do you have any lovers here?
:Mallory: Altha was my pen pal and not really my girlfriend, I'm trying to remember-
Suddenly Mallory felt someone hug her. Turning her head and looking down, Cody was holding her tightly, keeping a tight grasp on her.
:Mallory: ...It's Cody!
:Cody: I didn't think I'd ever see you again, limbo was so scary, god I'm so glad it's all over now.
Silver walks forward, looking down a long road. It might be 4AM, but everyone was hungry and they just needed to party. Valerie walks while giving Syinara a piggyback ride, Scotch and Oshelia were holding each other's hands, Crymsia was almost reluctantly dragging along Azrail, and Zonas was mounting a bike and pulling Sinicini and Dexa on with him.
:Silver: Let's all try and remember what we dreamt together with a smile on our faces, and look forward to the incredible futures that Satellite 15 hinted at for us.
:Mallory: Absolutely. Well, ladies first.
:Silver: You're more of a lady, so you go first!
:Mallory: Nawww!
Silver and Mallory nudge each other playfully before laughing and straightening themselves up. They begin walking over to the Burger King, dawn starting very early as they begin walking towards better, healthier futures. They were leaving the past behind them, and looking forward to the now. Silver high fives his sibling as the credits roll.
===The Futures of Everyone===
==A Final Thank You==
Hey, if you've read Zinfestation from the beginning all the way to the very end, thank you so much for taking your time to absorb all this writing. It is the culmination of seven years' worth of writing, the ultimate conclusion to many characters' arcs that were formed as early as 2013. A bit of a bold claim, but I will always see Zinfestation (and COLDBLOOD as a whole) as my magnum opus and greatest work to date on this website. And unlike all of the incarnations of this story that came before it, it's not going anywhere and will be available with the rest of my 2019-2020 catalog even after I leave. I'll say this straight away before anyone else does though: I know this story is flawed, there are some things I could've written way better and in some places I might've been a little too extreme for my own good. But I am nevertheless proud of this work and think it'll be hard for me to top, even when I begin taking my writing career outside this wonderful community. Thank you all for your endless support.
Something I want to address is that Zinfestation was excruciatingly painful to write, because it loosely reflects a lot of my own personal experiences whether they were online or offline. Many events that happen within the story itself are based on things I either faced alone or with the community and many of the characters carry hints and sprinkles of many of the people I've met here and in real life. I want to iterate that 90% of my experiences with the community have been positive and that many of you helped develop me into a stronger, better person overall, and I am thankful for that. But there are several individuals that have also changed me for the worse, and while all of them are thankfully gone, some of the horrifying shit I've had to face was so outright disgusting that I really haven't been comfortable in this community for years. Silver and Mallory are very personal characters to me because they carry so much of everything I've seen.
"Is there a moral to this story?", you might be wondering. Well, not really, it's just the journey Silver and Mallory take and all the good and bad experiences they have while discovering themselves and each other along the way. But if you look hard enough, you might find dozens of morals to take. I guess the only thing I can really say is, well, not everything is black and white?
'I want to stress that Zinfestation is my last planned wiki project and I don't plan on doing anything on Fantendo after this. Thank you for taking your time to read these paragraphs, Zinfestation as a whole, and (I'm assuming) my works in general. Goodbye, old friends
Thank you for taking your time to read this.
==Credits==
*Exotoro- Story reviewer, frequent reader, graphical designer
*Pablo- Story reviewer, frequent reader
*Pyra- Story reviewer, frequent reader
*Brandon- Story reviewer (main story)
*Fuz- Reader (BITTER💊SCARS)
*Oddish- Reader (HEART💔PATCH)
*Amb- Motivator
...And the entire wiki for giving me the motivation I need to write a story this massive and write so much lore for it. Without the wiki's support, this project would've been canned just like its previous incarnation as the Zaxinian Lifts.
Thank you. I guess this is an informal goodbye.
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