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Beetlejuice groaned softly as he felt a tear hit his face. His yellow eyes cracked open, looking up at Lydia. He forced a smile, despite the pain he was in. "Had 'er on the rope the whole time," He mumbled weakly.

"Oh my god!" Adam came running. While he wasn't particularly fond of the demon who had harassed and made lewd comments about him every chance he got, Adam didn't want Beetlejuice to die, either. Barbara was right behind him.

"He have to get him back to the car," She said.

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"I thought he was already dead," Nate said, confused. Also, the idea that the hilarious and rascally demon he'd met earlier was now one of those things was terrifying. Nate jumped when the Maitlands appeared. Adam covered his ears as a blood curdling shriek shook the building.

"What on earth is going on?!" He hollered over the noise.

"Don't ask," Nate said, showing them the door at the top of the stairs. "You guys go, we're gonna' stay with Lydia."

"Absolutely not!" Barbara stepped up. "We aren't leaving you with...whatever that is." She was referring to the awful sounding monsters.

Their arguing came to a stop when it suddenly grew quiet. Beetlejuice had managed to push his demon mom back through the portal, after putting up the fight of his life, and sealed the damn thing. The black abomination collapsed into a pile on the floor, then slowly shifted back into the familiar, striped demon. Only Beetlejuice was now soaked in black demon blood. He was missing chunks out of his body, was bitten and clawed all to hell, and his suit was torn to shreds.

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When the Beetleclone informed them that the portal had been found and teleported them there, neither boy expected what they'd witness. Nate was stuck to the spot in horror as what looked like two massive, hideous monsters from his DnD manual duked it out right in front of them. He finally got his senses back when he saw Lydia, and helped Zach get her up.

They dragged her to the basement stairs, the furthest they could get from the monsters without dragging Lydia up the steps. "Lydia, what's going on?!" Nate cried over the sound of the monsters tearing each other apart. "Where's Beetlejuice?! Have him come help us!"

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BJ's mom's shoggoth form for your viewing displeasure

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Beetlejuice's vision swam. He slowly looked up, seeing Lydia's legs flailing. "Lydia," He groaned softly. He had to help her. His mother was going to kill her! She was going to take the one person he truly cared about away from him! He had to stop her. His eyes began to glow that familiar, angry red. He pulled himself up off the floor, tendrils of red hot rage emanating from him.

"What. Did. I. Just. Fucking. SAY!" He roared, and charged at the woman who had made his life so miserable. He began to shapeshift, but not into any particular form. The beast that replaced the striped demon was inky black, covered in hundreds of eyes, mouths, teeth, and tentacles, all colliding with the bane of his existence.

BJ's mother shrieked when the monstrosity pummeled her. "Lawrence!" She cried. "What the fuck are you doing?!"

Beetlejuice was too mad to answer. He was ripping and tearing at her from every direction. But another roar filled the room. The woman, too, began to shapeshift. She turned into a massive abomination with hundreds of arms that stretched across the room, and a mouth that could have easily swallowed Lydia whole. The two eldritch beasts engaged in battle, tearing limbs and chunks from one another, shaking the entire basement and probably the whole building.

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"You little bitch, I'll feed you to a worm too!" The demon woman shrieked.

Beetlejuice stood slowly at Lydia's coaxing. He was amazed at her powerful display. Since when could she do that? He was still shaking like a leaf, but he raised his eyes up to face his mother.

"You can threaten me, hurt me, and maybe even banish me," Beetlejuice said, his voice slowly turning into a growl. "But if you even try to lay an acrylic claw on Lydia, I'll end you!" Beetlejuice flew at her, gaining the courage to finally fight back.

His mother blinked. She clearly hadn't expected her son to grow a spine. But, overall, she was underwhelmed. With a flick of a single four inch nail, Beetlejuice was sent flying into the nearest wall. He left a sizable dent in the concrete and crumpled to the floor.

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Beetlejuice had already backed into the nearest wall, pressing his side into it and looking as though he'd like to disappear. This was his literal worse nightmare, happening, right now. The demon woman looked as though she'd been slapped when Lydia dared to speak to her.

"Look here you little bloodbag, I don't know what my degenerate, useless sack of shit son is doing with you, but I would suggest zipping that trap of yours before I do it for you!" She began stomping towards them, her high heels clacking on the tile. Beetlejuice whined and shrunk to the floor.

"Just do what she says, Lydia," He whimpered, "It's not worth it. She's too powerful to fight."

"Look at you," His mother chided. "So desperate for someone to love you that you slink around the living world. God, you disgust me. I should have fed your sorry ass to a sand worm centuries ago!"

"Mom, please," Beetlejuice begged from the floor.

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Looks like another year of dead therapy for BJ lol

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Lol boss battle with an aging business woman! >:D

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"It's okay, Lyds," Beetlejuice said over his shoulder. "This'll be over soon. I just gotta' close this portal, and then we can go home and rest, okay?"

He approached the portal, and started working on getting it closed. It was more difficult than his usual effortless power. This thing was a man-made abomination, after all. He had it about halfway closed when it began to glow brightly. Something was coming through.

"Beetlejuice?!" A shrill, female voice said accusingly. A red high heal stepped out of the portal, followed by a leg wrapped tightly in panty hose. "I should have known you'd have something to do with this! God, you're a screw up!"

An aging woman in a red skirt suit emerged, her hair worn in a graying beehive hairdo. She wore cat eye glasses and had a hunch in her back. Despite this, she was still almost seven feet tall. Beetlejuice whimpered and stepped back, cowering.

"M-mom?"