Kai, Isabella, and Fatima find themselves squeezed within a mushy, brown, spherical chamber, its interior entirely made of dense, fibrous meat soaked in sauce. With them are other Hell souls from the army, all equally trapped and struggling against the same suffocating pressure. The walls press against them, the wet, slick meat leaving barely enough space to move, while the sauce seeps into every crevice, clinging to their skin and pooling around their faces, making it hard to breathe.

  Despite the oppressive conditions, they manage to exchange words, piecing together the last thing they remember – being dragged into the fierce vortex. Desperate to escape, Kai tries to push against the unyielding meat, his hands sinking into its soaked, pliant texture, and orders the others to do the same. Before they can make any progress, an unseen force violently pulls them out. A bright light follows their exit, and just like that, they all vanish into nothing but essence.

  As Wei and Steve press Gluttony’s name on their screens, both pointing in the same direction, a familiar portal materializes, gradually expanding in size. The moment the portal appears, Spaghetti Monster redirects its spaghetti strands and launches meatballs toward the two leaders. Acting swiftly, Wyn’s team and the souls saved earlier leap in front of the portal, holding the attacks at bay as long as they can. Meanwhile, Wei and Steve pivot, carefully turning the portal with them to ensure Gluttony doesn’t strike their comrades on the way out.

  Determined to hold their ground despite the suffocating pressure, souls are relentlessly pulled in, while others are hurled into space, their numbers dwindling rapidly. Wyn’s team closes ranks, ready to grab Yu at a moment’s notice should they need to evade. Just then, the pasta god halts its relentless assault, only to jet forward with alarming speed.

  Reacting swiftly, Yu uses Wyn’s cyclone to dash the team and the two leaders downward to safety, but the sheer force of the creature’s movement sends them tumbling as they descend. As Yu steadies himself, his eyes widen at the sight of Gluttony, emerging from the now-massive portal above, grabbing hold of Spaghetti Monster with immense force. Steve and Wei stabilize their positions, having shifted the portal’s trajectory upward just in time.

  Even more massive than the spaghetti foe, Gluttony’s large flabby arms grip the spaghetti strands tightly. As expected, Gluttony wastes no time, viciously consuming the strands, sucking them in with unsettling haste.

  Meanwhile, the prolonged exposure to the sauce begins to take its toll, causing several souls to lose consciousness and drift aimlessly in the sticky red depths. At Steve’s signal, the remaining souls quickly regroup in space.

  “Should us water souls support Gluttony from below?” Yu asks, glancing at the others.

  “Good idear. Ret’s dive back down. The rest of you, stay put in space,” Wei orders.

  “Where’s David and his team?” Wyn interjects, scanning the scattered souls.

  “Water sourls, forrow me,” Wei says firmly. “We’rl rook for David first, then we’rl back up Gruttony.”

  While the water souls search for David and his team, Spaghetti Monster relentlessly regrows its strands, though its pace lags slightly behind Gluttony’s rapid consumption. Meatballs continue to shoot from its mass, but they seem ineffective against Gluttony, whose enormous bulk remains unmoved. In desperation, the pasta entity extends its appendages adorned with eyes, wrapping them tightly around what could only be described as Gluttony’s neck in an effort to hinder him. However, Gluttony reacts immediately, shaking the slimy folds of his form. His gelatinous mass allows him to slip free from the grip, all while continuing to pull and devour the strands with unrelenting hunger.

  At this point, Spaghetti Monster finds itself unable to escape or create distance from the gluttonous entity that matches its strength. Each attempt to dive away is thwarted as Gluttony’s otherworldly sinuous tongue lashes out, wrapping tightly around its strands and stopping its movements entirely. After several failed attempts to flee, and with Gluttony inching ever closer to its meatball core, Spaghetti Monster resorts to a desperate explosion, breaking free from his grip. Seizing the opportunity, it ascends back into space before regrowing its spaghetti mass. But in an unexpected turn, the newly formed strands begin absorbing the sauce below through spaghetti strands, causing the level of the sauce ocean to drop rapidly.

  “What do we do?” Wyn asks.

  “Gluttony is too massive. He can’t move well,” Steve replies. “We need to bring the enemy to him. Doesn’t matter if it’s in space or in the sauce.”

  “Yeah, how?” James asks, skepticism evident as he eyes the massive Spaghetti Monster.

  Suddenly, strands of green, gooey liquid latch onto Spaghetti Monster, clinging stubbornly to its mass. Startled, the pasta creature thrashes its spaghetti strands, attempting to detach the sticky substance, but to no avail.

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  As Wei emerges from the sauce with the water souls, David and his team in tow, he quickly passes the unconscious David to another soul at Steve’s signal. Without hesitation, Steve and Wei combine their efforts, though from a distance, summoning a powerful water stream and cyclone. The two forces converge, driving Spaghetti Monster downward.

  With the added pull from the gooey liquid, the pasta god is forced to take another plunge into the sauce. Without hesitation, Steve moves to Wei, and together they dive in after it, determined to investigate. As they descend, the source of the gooey liquid becomes horrifyingly clear – it's oozing from the wide-open areola-like holes on Gluttony's grotesque form.

  Peering closer, the two leaders catch sight of something even more disturbing. Through the holes, trapped souls are visible within Gluttony’s mass, their faces twisted in agony. They appear unable to swim or move, held in place by the same viscous liquid now pulling Spaghetti Monster deeper into the sauce. The muffled sound of their screams reaches him, a haunting echo in the thick, oppressive depths.

  As a water entity, Gluttony swims and moves freely in the water, using his body flaps. When they flap, the gooey liquid strands shake rhythmically with them. The sinuous tongue follows, attempting to wrap around Spaghetti Monster’s eye appendages, but fails as the creature retracts and extends them elsewhere. With Gluttony inching closer, Spaghetti Monster dives into him with such force that it sends Gluttony backward and deeper into the sauce ocean. However, with the strands still latched on, the pasta god is dragged along with him.

  Spaghetti Monster is relentless with its ramming, all the while taking advantage of its speed to wrap Gluttony in spaghetti strands and his own gooey strands, before stopping behind his head to avoid being eaten. Gluttony appears to be breathing heavily through his small nose, discomfort evident in his small eyes. Meanwhile, the pasta monster shoots meatballs to the back of Gluttony’s head. This prompts him to close the holes on his areola, cutting them off and freeing himself, but still latched onto the enemy as he clings on to the severed gooey strands. He resumes chomping down on the spaghetti strands wrapped around his body, prompting Spaghetti Monster to explode in close proximity. In the aftermath, Steve and Wei find the gluttonous entity floating face down in the sauce, while the pasta entity quickly regrows and continues to shoot meatballs at Gluttony.

  Wei decides to slap Gluttony in the face with water streams while Steve repositions him with cyclones so he's floating upside down and facing Spaghetti Monster. To their surprise, Gluttony doesn't pass out. Instead, he drinks the scrumptious sauce. Confused as to why Gluttony would drain the ocean, Steve, working with Wei’s water, launches two cyclones, curving them toward the back to push the pasta god closer to Gluttony. At the same time, the leaders stabilize themselves, ensuring they keep their distance to avoid being pulled in. The force of Gluttony’s sucking with his mouth pulls the pasta monster even faster as it nears. In response, Spaghetti Monster extends its strands, trying to resist the pull as they push against Gluttony’s head.

  To prevent another close-proximity explosion, Steve begins freezing Spaghetti Monster while Wei keeps pushing streams from its back. Slowly, the frost begins to slow Spaghetti Monster’s resistance, while the sauce ocean continues to drain. Observing from above, Wyn calls all the souls to descend into the ocean once more and join Steve and Wei. David’s team, now conscious but still unaware of their other friends’ fates, follows suit. With wind, cyclone, and water souls working together to stabilize the army against Gluttony’s pull, they collectively drive the pasta monster faster toward its gaping maw.

  After a large, toothless chomp, a quarter of Spaghetti Monster’s meatball core is crushed and torn away, revealing the dense, fibrous meat within. Sauce gushes from the exposed section, showcasing the sheer power of Gluttony’s jaws. Still, it explodes, but this time, it slowly dives away, unable to regrow where the chunk was bitten off.

  The sucking from Gluttony stops as he’s happily chewing the food inside his mouth, despite the significant burn damage on his face and head. Unwilling to let Gluttony consume Spaghetti Monster’s whole and lose the essence, Steve and Wei dive toward the injured pasta enemy. But they’re halted by Gluttony’s massive arm. This gives an opportunity for Spaghetti Monster to leave the ocean.

  Gluttony proceeds to regurgitate, coughing up all the essence he had consumed while sucking the sauce. David’s remaining team watches in horror, their eyes widening as they hope the essence doesn’t belong to one of their friends. Meanwhile, Gluttony takes aim and launches the same gooey strands, but misses the hovering entity. Steve and Wei then return to space. As Steve traps the pasta god with surrounding burning cyclones, Gluttony manages to latch onto it. At the dead center, Steve and Wei summon a searing cyclone, forcing Spaghetti Monster down into the ocean and straight into the deadly mouth of Gluttony.

  With a decisive chomp, more than half of what's left of Spaghetti Monster is bitten off. Even then, the remaining mass remains still, making it easy for Gluttony to consume the rest. However, Gluttony doesn’t stop there. After directing the souls to return to space, he begins drinking the sauce, draining the ocean completely. It seems that other creatures and even Heaven souls in the ocean are now inside him. When he's done, he regurgitates the pasta god’s essence and leaves through a portal which he opens on his own from below the now-empty ocean floor.

  David’s team is left devastated after thoroughly checking the surviving Hell souls. They’ve lost Kai, Isabella, and Fatima in this fight, finding bands resembling their friends lying clumped together on the floor. The army now stands at barely five hundred. The souls mourn their losses while sharing the essence.

  “I’m sorry for your losses, David. We were useless without Gluttony,” Steve says, his voice laced with sadness. As much as he wants to console David by comparing the losses in his faction to David’s own, he decides instead to reassure him. “There will be no mistake next time. We’ll summon a moderator quicker into the fight.”

  Despite the victory, the scene is far from joyful. Wei instructs what’s left of the army to rest on the ocean floor for a while before heading off to another fight.

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  For Gluttony's description, go to Chapter 6

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