The return of Kcaj
An Ultra Omake by Lone Wolf


"You're completely lost, Jack."

The red-haired mad god looked around. Oddly enough, the hospital was gone
as was the scenery in general. He seemed to be standing in a black misty
void. Small islands of rock floated everywhere.

"So? I make my own path anyway!" He proclaimed proudly.

"You've broken lives in your mad games. And for what? A laugh? A cheep 
thrill?"

Jack looked around again. He knew that voice...
"I resent that! I broke nobodies life. I fixed them. I made Shinji get a
life, Dan get some real power, and Ultra a lot more entertaining. Besides
who are you to judge ME, pal? I run Ultra, and make everyone's life a lot
more fun."

"But why, Jack? Why cause all this pain and chaos? What's to gain?"

The leader of Sex and Violence peered into the mists. He could almost
see it...
"You sound like a Jehovah's Witness. I do it because it's fun! Because
it's the truth! Because it's what everyone wants!"

"But it's not. Who wants to die, Jack? Who wants their entire world to
be destroyed?"

Jack's ever-present grin grew by about five inches. 
"Who want's to die? Anyone who tries to get in my way. And Shinji. At
least he will after that movie marathon. 'Graveyard of the Fireflies?'
Yeesh! And people think I'm mean... And I don't exactly see a whole
lot of complaining from Sephiroth about planet bustin'. Hell, just
about anyone from that whole Omega group is very proud of their planet
smashing abilities."

"Jack, you have to be stopped. And I can wait no longer."

"Then show your weak self and do it already! I've got things to do!"

The mists parted, revealing a male figure. About the same height as
Jack, with spiky red hair, and dressed in a business suit. In fact,
it looked just like Jack.

Jack (the one who was not in the mists) sighed. "Oh great. YOU again.
My -sanity-. Yeah, right. I thought you got beaten up in Impromagna."

The second Jack frowned. "Yes. I was hurt, but I will stop you this 
time. Damnit, Jack! I'm not going to let you destroy another world!"

The pair of Jacks rushed at each other. One laughing madly, the other
silent and grim. The sounds of knife on knife echoed through the void
as they tried to kill the other.

"Hey, what's your name anyway?" 
Jack no. 1 ducks under the knife, turns and slash...

"What?"
Jack no. 2 hops back and rushes in...

"Duh. I said what's your name, moron. How are you supposed to be better
than me if ya don't have a name, stupid?"
Another clang as the knives connected, along with the required scraping
noises.

"I am the opposite of everything you stand for. I am Kcaj."

"No, he's got short hair and sunglasses."

"Not Cage! Kcaj. Jack spelled backwards?"

"Oh. Well, then you're even worse than I thought! You're supposed to 
have some really cool name that means logic in Summarian or something!
All mental personas are named like that."

"Too damn bad."
Kcaj pulled away from Jack and swung his blades low. Jack was quickly 
the proud recipient of two matching knee slashes. 

"Oww! Owowowowowowow! That hurt!"

"That's nothing compared to what I'm going to do."

Jack laughed. "WRONG! This is -my- mind. -My- world to play with in 
anyway -I- choose. Guess what? It's playtime!"

"What th-?" Kcaj found himself sinking into the island he was standing
on. Just as quickly, jagged sheets of stone smashed up from that same 
island, locking him in place.

"See? I make the world my own. If I want to blow it up, It's my right
as a human being."

Kcaj grunted slightly as the sheets continued to crush him.
"You... you're nothing... but a pathetic failure."

"Excuse me? A failure? Yeah, and I got a bridge to sell you."

"You ignore reality... ignore god herself..."

"I MAKE reality. It exists because I say it does. Not because some
little homemaker who got lucky in a cook-off wants it too.

"you live in... delusions..." Cracks began to appear in the sheet
rock.

"I live in the truth! I AM the truth! I make everything happen!
Everything!"

Kcaj laughed. It wasn't a cocky laugh, or a mad one. It was not
an evil one, or some stupid hero laugh. It was a self depreciating,
mocking laugh of someone who has finally realized why they can't
fix the problem. The mistake is just too bad.
"You... the truth! You," cough, "are lies! You sow pain and chaos!"

"YES! Because CHAOS is the truth! CHOICE is the truth!"

"Chaos is NOT choice! Chaos offers no freedom, only random insanity."
The sheets of stone shattered.

"Sanity is determined by the winners. And this time, you won't be
returning."

"You are lost Jack." 

"Oh please."

"You're insanity drove away your family, your friends, your life..."

Jack looked at Kcaj, and for a split second the smile fell, showing
a tired, aching, screaming soul. Then the smile returned.
"I am not insane! Anne tried to 'fix' me! Joe tried to stop me!
Only Mr. Duck accepted me for who I am!"

"And who are you, Jack?"

"I am the only sane person!"

Again that laughter from Kcaj. "You don't even know what sanity is,
Jack! Your madness will destroy you. You cannot defeat Kasumi, and
she will not take this forever."

"She can't stop me."

"She will."

"She can't. She'd have to kill me first. And Kasumi just can't kill!"

"You will die, Jack. Maybe not by her, but by someone, and when you
do, no one will notice. You will die as you lived, a brief spark from
a massive bonfire, born and killed before anyone could notice."

Jack screamed at Kcaj and swung his fist. The blow connected and Kcaj
shattered, the pieces vanishing before they hit the ground.

Jack looked around. He stood on a blasted isle of stone in a black
abyss of mist. This is his mind, these are his thoughts, his life.
Then he laughed.

"Nice try Kasumi! You almost had me! But you will never get rid of
me that easily!"

Jack's mad laughter echoed through the void like a mocking ghost.

**********
Oooo.... snowflakes. Don't see them in the summer that often.

For timeline purposes, this story takes place immediately after Ultra 18. 
Since this all goes on inside Jack's head, this can actually take place
right after Kasumi leaves him and before he starts to laugh.

My apologies for making this so  serious. I probably screwed up Jack's
character a lot. 

Kcaj did actually appear in the original Controversial Jack. In fact, 
they had a sort of mental duel like this one. For more info, check out
Impromagna. 

Man, I'm getting sick of all these weird mind game stories I keep writing.
Think I'll go do a spamfic.
 Ja ne,
  Lone Wolf