With a telepathic wail, the Master’s severed head flew at Adam.

It broadcast its thoughts: “You specks think you can defeat me? Impudent fools! I will destroy you!”

Making that proclamation, it bit into Adam’s shoulder.

Gladys grabbed the head, pulled it. Adam screamed as his flesh tore.

The head escaped Gladys’s grasp and spat Adam’s flesh at her.

“I am the most powerful mind on this planet!” the head broadcast. “I will never-”

Dante’s hand suddenly punctured the Master’s skull from behind, the clawed fingers exiting through the eyes.

Dante grunted. “And you wanted to be this asshole’s friend.”