There out there, was the Man in Black.  About a thousand feet from the end of the horse, the car, the airplane, the mech, and the trench.  Grin existed in so many realities at once, it was hard to get a fix.

-Remember the moment you left me alone and broke every promise you ever made.-

Grin prepared himself as the man in the long suit smiled.  Gleaming white teeth across the gloom.

-I was an ocean, lost in the open.
Nothing could take the pain away.-

He pulled down his visor, his goggles, his flight cap, his visor, and his gas mask.  Violence was in the air.

-So you can throw me to the wolves.
Tomorrow I will come back,
leader of the whole pack.
Beat me black and blue.
Every wound will shape me,
every scar will build my throne.-

He spurred the horse, revved the engine, throttled the engines, pushed the generator to the max, and jumped from the trench.

-The sticks and the stones that, you used to throw have built me an empire.
So don't even try to cry me a river.
'Cause I forgive you.-

The knight wore red armor with a skull helmet, the driver in a red leather suit with a skull bandanna over his face, the pilot in a red flight suit with a skull oxygen mask, the mech pilot in his red one piece with a skull helmet, and the soldier in his red long coat with the skull painted directly to the long gas mask.

-You are the reason I still fight.
So you can throw me to the wolves.
Tomorrow I will come back,
leader of the whole pack.
Beat me black and blue,
every wound will shape me,
every scar will build my throne.-

The lance, the front end, the machine guns, the weapons systems, and the rifle with bayonet were all leveled at the Man in Black.

-I'll leave you choking, on every word you left unspoken.
Rebuild all that you've broken, and now you know, I'll leave you choking, on every word you left unspoken.
Rebuild all that you've broken.-

They clash with the sound of steel off his horse, through the windshield, through the canopy, out of the hatch, and off his feet Grin came.

-And now you know.
Every wound will shape me.
Every scar will build my throne.-

Every reality shattered into a single one as Grin clutched at the blade sticking through his chest hanging there in the air, glaring at the man as he coughed up blood into that skull mask.  The man simply leaned forward to whisper to him.

"Remember to breathe."