Here we go again!
Round 1: This Post
Round 2: http://cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4010&p=165875#p165875
Round 3: http://cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4010&p=175082#p175082
Round 4: http://www.cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4010&p=234248#p234248
Just posting this a little bit early.
Please do not adjust any votes on the poll. If you can even do that. I have no clue if you can.
Once again there will be 5ish chapters per round. With a few exceptions.
And now for credit!
Roc's Creation: Rewording a few things so it sounds better/proofreading/story
Thatguy/Sora: Proofreading and other stuff/story
Galaxy: Some character ideas/some plot
Super Raveman/Reboot: What do they do again?
Oh and Cold Fusion does stuff too I guess.
It's basically only Thatguy and I now.
Also music will be done slightly different this time. Certain chapters will have their own song. So yeah
Without further ado.
Here's some music
Round 1 Chapter 1 (Warning: Short Song):
Round 1 Chapter 2:
Round 1 Chapter 3: Doesn't exist. Wow.
Round 1 Chapter 4:
Round 1 Chapter 5:
Round 1 Epilogue:
Round 1
Chapter 1
A year has passed since the end of the first war, culminating with Thatguy defeating Terukasaga and gaining control of the world. He had placed various parts of the world under control of delegates - his allies in battle. However, new faces will bring a new war to fruition...
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A huge white mansion stood in the center of a grassy plain located in England. In one of the many rooms in the mansion a man around his 30's with black hair, a black suit with a tie, and a blue and black cape was reading a newspaper. On the side of the room an older man with gray hair and a black suit stood off to the side. The younger man slammed his newspaper on the table.
"...Pathetic." The younger man spoke dryly with contempt.
"What's got you today, Master Antares?" His butler responded.
"The ruler of this area... 712, as he calls himself. I've tried to give him a chance but this character is nothing more than a child!"
"You're right... Only four years old. It's amazing he's lasted this long at all."
"He won't be around much longer. I can't sit around and let this kid rule unjustly. If he can't do what's right, I'll make sure someone more qualified takes his place." Antares gathered his belongings and stood up.
"I suppose you'll be back for lunch later, then...?" His butler was not surprised by his master's words.
"Certainly, Jeffrey." He turned and left the mansion.
After he became the king of England, Michael712 usually took it easy in his castle. Even though Thatguy was the ruler of the world, he allowed Michael712; who was his enemy in the last war, to have his rule. As long as he didn't try to rebel. He had no real reason to, it wasn't like Thatguy was constantly hunting down anyone or anything. On this particular day he had no real meetings going on. These days were the best, as he enjoyed the free time off every now and again. While he was striking up conversation with one of his guards, the door the the throne room was burst open. Standing in the entrance was a man with a blue and white cape and had a set of reflective armor on.
“Who the hell are you?” one of the guards asked.
“The name is Antares Satevis. Nice to meet you. I have come here for one simple reason.” He said, slowly walking farther into the room, "You've been the king of England for an entire year now... and what do you have to say for yourself, 712?"
"I haven't done anything! I swear!"
"Precisely. This entire time, you've done nothing for the people of England... Never worried beyond your own needs. Your reign of injustice ends today."
"Guards, arrest him!!" Immediately following his cry, the guards drew their swords and rushed at Antares. He raised his hands as a mirror emerged from the floor. Just as the guards were in reach of attacking him, Antares clenched his hand into a fist and shattered the mirror. He flicked his wrist and the glass shards flew forward at lightning fast speed, knocking all the guards back with cuts. The guards dropped their swords and withdrew preloaded crossbows as Antares summoned a mirror behind them. They all raised their bows and fired at Antares, who summoned a wide mirror in front of himself. The arrows flew out of the other mirror behind them and struck all of the guards, killing them. Michael712 stood up from his throne.
“So you beat the first wave.” The toddler started, “But let's see how well you can handle me!” Michael712 drew a red sword and pointed it towards Antares, accidentally shooting a fireball out of the sword.
“So that's how I do that!” He exclaimed. 712 ran toward Antares, but Antares jumped into the mirror nearby before he could get too close. 712 turned around to face Antares, now behind him, but was too slow to avoid the wave of glass shards that flew at him, knocking him off his feet. As the king stood up again, Antares summoned a mirror behind him. Antares appeared behind 712 and swung his sword at 712, but only close enough to graze him with a small scratch. 712 countered by pointing his sword at Antares and launching a fireball, knocking him backward.
“Don't worry...” He muttered. “That was all I needed.” Michael712 fell back a little and seemed to black out for a few seconds.
“What the...” he muttered.
“What's the matter Michael? Is something bothering you?” Antares asked.
“That's Michael712 to you!” the king stammered.
Satevis put a hand to his chin as if he was deep in thought, “Maybe 'Micheal' sounds better...”
Something inside of Michael712 seemed to snap, “You never call me 'Micheal'!” He held his sword out and rushed towards Antares.
"When enraged, you become completely predictable." Antares was completely calm as he easily sidestepped and then swung his sword in a long arc, cleaving 712 in half. "Controlled by his fears... Weak."
The king of England fell to the castle floors dead. Antares adjusted his cape and walked out of the castle.
Chapter 2
The moon shone brightly over a forest. A cloaked figure sat there, waiting for something. He looked forward and saw something slithering across the ground. It was some type of goop, with a blue sphere in the front. The sphere had a red circle in the front, and it had arms made out of the same goop coming out of its sides. The figure smirked under the cloak as the slime moved closer.
“You said you wanted to see me?” The slime asked as it made its way into the building.
“That would be correct.” The cloaked figure replied, “Now we've known each other for around six months now Toxin-EDDI20. So I think you won't mind if I ask you a favor.”
“What do you need me to do?” Toxin asked cheerfully.
“I'm sure you are well aware that this world has been under leadership for the past year.”
“How could I not know that?”
“I'm sure that none of us like being under the control of some man who killed another last year.”
“Well, now that you mention it, that is kinda ridiculous.”
“Exactly! And what's the better thing to do, then rebel?”
“So you want me to go against him alone?” Toxin asked
“At first. No one would expect one. Shortly after your attack starts, I will join you.”
Toxin seemed interested, “Sounds like a plan! I'll see you there!”
The slime slithered away, as the figure followed him outside, and stood in the clearing as it went off.
“And the master plan starts now.” The cloaked figure muttered.
Helig Castle. A beautiful area. An ancient castle surrounded by a lake with four large pillars of marble coming out of the corners of the lake. The luscious fields remained after the events of a year ago. While the castle was previously a tourist site, now the grand building was taken by the ruler of the world himself, Thatguy. People would now come to the castle to see their ruler. Given Thatguy's publicity after the war, he was in constant danger of assassination. He promoted Ventus to his second-in-command and personal bodyguard. 'You never know when the outside guards might fail,” Thatguy when he appointed Ventus. He constructed a bridge for an easier way to get into the castle. This also allowed visitors to look at in the interior of the castle, if they so wished.
One of these “visitors” happened to be Toxin-EDDI20.
The ball of slime slithered across the bridge and into the surprisingly empty courtyard. He started to look around, he needed to find the way to the throne room where Thatguy would no doubt be lounging. He looked up and saw a huge pair of doors. This had to be it. One of his hands turned into a huge chunk of stone, as he pounded it against the door, causing it to open. Two men and a group of guards sat in the room. They all stopped what they were doing, and looked at the newcomer.
Thatguy looked confused, “Can we help you?”
“It's time for this age you end!” Toxin started, “No longer will we be controlled by one man!”
“Great, another one of these guys...” Thatguy muttered. The ruler of the world then snapped his fingers, as a group of guards rushed forward at Toxin, swords in their hands. The slime wrapped itself around the guard leading the charge, and quickly the head gave the slime an electric charge, which quickly fried the guard and sent him towards the ground. The other guards quickly stood back, and switched to more ranged weapons. Realizing that the odds were against him at the moment, Toxin split himself up into 8 pieces, and started to ram himself into the guards.
“Really?! Another one of these things?!” Thatguy said, obviously peeved by this. Most of the guards fell back because of the attack, as Toxin got himself back into one piece.
“I think I can handle this thing.” Ventus smiled.
“Just remember to aim for the eye. I had enough of these things...” Thatguy said.
Ventus summoned a keyblade in his hand, and quickly started to make his way towards Toxin. The slime tried to wrap itself around him, but Ventus easily got out of the way, and plunged his keyblade into Toxin's head. The slime screamed, and turned his hand into metal, and punched Ventus into a wall.
“Where the hell is he...?” Toxin muttered. Thatguy got out of his seat, and took out his Yoshitsuna. But Toxin quickly shot a beam of plasma at Thatguy, stunning him in his place. Ventus got himself back up, and was about to strike again. But Toxin started to spread the slime across the floor.
“Time to give you 50,000 volts!” Toxin said. But before he could electrocute the slime, four walls came flying out of ground, and cut off Toxin's head from his slime body.
“What, who did that?” Toxin demanded, his head could only see the opening at the top of the walls. From the opening he saw the cloaked figure from the woods. His ally.
“What do you think you're doing?” Toxin hissed.
“Oh, it's nothing personal. Just making myself look good.” The figure smiled as he dropped a sword into the hole, causing it to hit Toxin in his core. Killing the head quickly. The slime started to dissolve in the room, as the walls faded as well.
Thatguy caught his breath, “Thanks for that. Who are you by the way?”
“I go by Galaxy.” He said.
“Well, I'm impressed.” Thatguy said, “How about you help out when you have the chance. As you can see, the guards don't always do the trick.”
Galaxy smirked, “That would be perfect.”
Chapter 3
The rising sun started to shine across the wasteland. The only things lying in the open plains were broken pieces of machinery, and a robot looking around through the trash. The robot had a green head, claw like feet, and scrawny legs and arms.
“It seems I can't use any of this junk. What a shame.” The robot said to himself as he started to walk away from the junk. As he was walking away, he heard footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw what seemed to be a woman covered in mechanical armor, and was wearing a backpack.
The robot started to chuckle, “So you followed me in time?”
“Correct,” The woman said in an emotionless voice, “One of my orders was to track you down. And destroy you.”
“So they think they can just send a little robot to stop the mighty Scrap Metal!? Tell me robot, what is your name?”
“Artificial Lifelike EXperimental Integrated System. Code name: Alexis.”
Scrap Metal laughed quietly, “An experimental robot? Simply pathetic. But I'll make due with what I have.”
Scrap Metal lifted his hand towards Alexis, as a form of dark energy came forth from it.
“They should know better then to send robots against me by now!” Scrap Metal stated. Alexis stood still, trying to fight off the energy coming from Scrap Metal. A few moments of silence went by, and the energy emitting from Scrap Metal's hand disappeared.
“Impressive. Your programming is high enough to resist corruption. No matter!” He said as he took a drew a sword, “If I can't control you, I'll just have to kill you.”
Alexis scanned Scrap Metal from a distance, gaining knowledge of his abilities. Scrap Metal pointed his blade at Alexis, shooting a dark sphere at high speeds. Alexis launched into the air using her rockets to avoid the attack. A pair of machine guns emerged from Alexis's arms, and she fired at Scrap Metal from the air. He summoned a bolt of purple lightning from the sky, striking Alexis dead center and sending her crashing into the ground. She jumped back to her feet, charging a gun in her left hand. When she fired the ground surrounding Scrap Metal exploded and his tentacles were destroyed. Scrap Metal lunched forward from the explosions. Alexis narrowly sidestepped a punch and countered with an energy blast from her other hand. The blast left Scrap Metal flying backwards. Scrap Metal clawed into the ground with his feet to slow down his momentum. Once he stopped he swung his sword, firing another beam of energy at Alexis. Alexis dropped to the ground under the attack and grabbed a metal pipe. She fired energy at it and the energy took the shape of a blade coming from the metal pipe. Scrap ran forward and thrusted his sword, but Alexis quickly knocked the blade away with a downward sword sweep. Scrap Metal stood back a bit.
“Such a strong robot.” He started, “It's truly a shame you don't join me. Imagine the power we could have if we joined forces! We could make this world ours!”
“The federation ordered me to destroy you. Orders are orders.” Alexis replied, prepared to finish Scrap Metal.
“What a pity...” He muttered as he kicked Alexis, sending her flying towards the ground. He then shot a beam of purple energy at Alexis, but she rolled out of the way, and activated the engines in her feet, allowing her to take flight. Scrap Metal shot another beam at her, but she activated engines in her hands that allowed her to fly out of harms way. From the safety of the sky the backpack she was wearing opened up, revealing around twenty missiles. The missiles fired straight towards Scrap Metal. He moved out of the way, but the missiles just turned around and went straight towards the robot. Scrap Metal summoned twelve tentacles from his body, arms, and hands to protect him from the barrage. But it wasn't enough. The missiles tore right through the tentacles and started to hit Scrap Metal's body. All at once there was a huge explosion. As the smoke cleared Alexis landed on the ground. All that remained of Scrap Metal was his head. Alexis took out a small radio.
“Target Scrap Metal has been destroyed. Send more missiles. What's my next objective?” Alexis said into the radio.
“Try to investigate the dimensional activity in this time. And the missiles are on there way.” A voice replied over the radio. Alexis turned it off and started to walk away, leaving Scrap Metal's head in the wasteland.
Chapter 4
A tall man stood in the middle of a snowy field, looking a map. He wore an old had, crocodile-skin boots, and had unkempt scruff over his lower face. He was a genuine Western-cowboy.
The man sighed and threw the map at the ground, “Great, I must have made a wrong turn somewhere. Me, Alphonse McGraw! What a dark chapter in the Royal Flush's life.” He lowered his head in shame, feigning sadness. He quickly lifted his head back up and chuckled, “Well, it looks like I won't make it to the city today. What a shame! Those ladies don't know what they're missing! Ah well, I'll just head on back.” Alphonse picked the map off of the ground, stuffed it in his pocket and began to walk in the direction he came. He continued to walk across the plains until he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. He stopped in his path and looked to his left. He saw an average snowman sitting there. McGraw walked up to the snowman and studied it.
“Why would someone build a snowman in the middle of nowhere?” He thought to himself, he then continued to look over the snowman as if he was an art critic.
“It's painfully average too...” he muttered, “Did he really need to put a top hat on it? As if that wasn't cliché enough! And does it really need a shovel? You hear me whoever made this?! Your snowman sucks!” The cowboy walked away from the snowman, but before he could get far he landed face-first in snow.
“What the hell was that...?” Alphonse muttered as he turned over. Only to see the snowman he so harshly critiqued standing right over him, ready to stab him with the shovel that was sitting by it.
“HOLY SHI-” He yelled as he rolled out of the way to avoid the snowman's shovel. Al quickly got himself back on his feet and whipped out a pair of pistols, which he pointed at the snowman.
“Geez, can't take a little critique can we?” McGraw taunted as he quickly started to shoot rounds into the snowman's body. The snowman stood still as the bullets grazed through its body, leaving a lot of holes in it but causing no actual damage. The snowman then reached down, packed some snow and filled up the holes in its body. Al stopped firing his pistols and stood there with wide eyes.
"Crap." The snowman lunged forward and attempted to decapitate him with its shovel. McGraw ducked and aimed at snowman's legs, or at least where he thought the legs should be. The snowman didn't react and swung its shovel at Al's stomach. Al narrowly jumped back to avoid it.
“Yes, I know I'm pretty awesome,” McGraw started, only being interrupted so he could sidestep to the left to avoid another attack, “and I understand that you're jealous,” the snowman tried to stab Al's legs, but he jumped over the shovel, “but is that really a reason to kill someone?” Al shot at the snowman's shovel so he could buy more time while the snowman was picking the shovel back up. The cowboy jumped back and aimed at the snowman's head and fired. The shot knocked the carrot off of the snowman's face and it fell to the ground. Al quickly picked up the carrot, and held it in front of the snowman.
“Got your nose!” McGraw taunted,"This proves that coal isn't part of his body. In that case..." Before he could finish that thought, the snowman summoned a row of icicles and fired them at McGraw.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Al raged as he was bombarded by the icicles, drawing blood from his face.
Al wiped a bit of blood from his cheek and smirked, “Don't worry, you're not the only one here that knows how to play dirty.” Al jumped into the air and aimed his two pistols at the snowman's coal eyes. He fired, and the coal were shot out of the snowman's head, leaving the creature blind.
“Bingo.” McGraw muttered. The snowman started to walk around blind, not knowing where he was walking, swinging his shovel like a mad man, in hope that he would hit the cowboy. Al walked up behind the blind snowman, and carefully took the head off of the rest of the body, and placed it onto the ground. The body instantly stopped moving without the head attached. Alphonse then took the shovel out of the snowman's old arms, and started to smash the snowman's head into the snow. He continued until there was nothing but an old top hat left sitting on the snow. Al picked up the hat and looked at it.
“What a piece of junk.” He said as threw the hat to the ground, wiped the snow off of his clothes, and began to walk away.
Chapter 5
Darkness. Nothing but darkness. How long has it been now? Time had lost all meaning. There was no time, no reality. Only the darkness.
Suddenly, there was light once more. Everything came rushing back that was previously lost. The woman's eyes opened after a year of sleep.
What had happened? The last thing she could remember was smashing the little brat's toy, then...nothing. She sat up and looked at her surroundings. The walls were not those of Earth. Pure black with a few white lines running through them. A loud knocking sound was heard and without waiting for a response the door was opened. Three humanoid figures walked in. Though they were definitely not humans. They were all pitch black from head to toe and they seemed to be flat. They noticed the girl sitting up and exclaimed some beeping sounds. She couldn't tell what it meant, but they seemed happy with something.
The girl finally spoke up, “What the hell is going on here?” she demanded.
The figures looked at her as if they forgot she was there. One of them stepped out of the room and returned a few moments later, only with a man wearing only rags walking behind him. The pitch black figure stepped aside and pushed the man in front of her.
“H-hello. My name is Francis and I'm the Game&Watches translator.” the man stammered. One of the figures took out a piece of paper and began to make beeping noises.
Francis cleared his throat, “Elena Ampere...correct?”
The woman stood up and crossed her arms, “How do you know who I am?”
The figures made some more beeping sounds, Elena figured that this is just their language, even though it sounded really dumb.
“It's only natural that we have records of every poor soul that makes its way down here. But now, let me get straight to business.”
One of the figures began to pace around the room as Francis continued to translate.
“Now as a little recap, you were killed by Dan Jenkins when he threw his hatchet at your neck, but-”
“You mean that little brat actually managed to kill me?!” Elena yelled.
The figure raised his hand and continued to beep, “He did, but you also managed to destroy the only thing that kept him alive at the moment. You see, there's a nice price to using our power, and you got rid of it. Now, we saw your dead body on the battlefield and took it with us. Normally, we just dispose of them, but we have watched over the war that took place and saw great...potential with you.”
“What are you saying?”
“How quickly you would kill someone. And how efficient you do it. So we took some time to bring you back to life. Of course that means we had to sew your head back to your neck. Though testing shows that it can be removed for a short time. Though we helped you, now it's time to help us. After Dan's failure, we have had a shortage of souls lately. You see those white lines on the wall?”
Elena nodded, while trying to figure out how to take off her own head.
“They are running low, they power this place. And by turn, power us. So it's simple. We let you run back to Earth and do what you're best at. Except you let us take the souls of all your victims. What do you say?”
Elena started to chuckle, “While a job centered around killing doesn't sound half bad, there's still one important thing you need to know.” She quickly searched her pocket, found her whip and took it out, “I work for myself.”
The Game&Watch stood back and started to beep faster, “You don't seem to understand, we put you back together, we can easily take you apart again!”
Elena smirked, “Go on. I'm waiting.”
Elena cracked her whip and a bolt of lightning shot down into the room. The three figures stood unflinching, though Francis was caught off guard and was quickly killed by the attack. The three Game&Watches in the room quickly took out weapons of their own. What could only be described as a hammer, a frying pan, and a stick that was on fire. The one with the pan rushed towards Elena but before he could attack Elena kicked him towards the wall, straight at that white line. The line burst open and an alarm quickly went off.
Elena quickly realized what was going to happen next and she rushed out of the room as fast as possible, the other two Game&Watches following close behind. Elena ignored them for the time being and continued to run.
“They mentioned going back to Earth...there has to be a portal here somewhere.” she thought to herself as she continued running. She noticed an elevator around the corner, ran into it and shut the doors. Inside the elevator was a map. Though of course none of it was in English, there was still a marking that looked very much like a portal, and with no other leads she hit the button that matched the marking on the map and the elevator began to move.
Of course she was expecting some problems on her way to the portal, but fifty Game&Watches waiting outside the elevator.
That was a bit of a surprise.
Though she saw the portal on the other end of the room, and that was what mattered. Elena started to spin her whip around and lightning bolts started to shoot all around the room, knocking a lot of the Game&Watches into the walls. She started to run towards the portal as fast as she could, but one of the figures lying on the ground split a can of oil under her fit while another threw a torch at it...
The center of the room was engulfed in flames, Elena raised her arms to cover her face, but there was much less burning then she expected. In fact, it only burnt a little. She lowered her arms and began to laugh. The Game&Watches looked on in confusion, when suddenly she burst from the flames and made it to the portal where she quickly jumped in. One of the figures began to rush after her, but another one grabbed it by the shoulder and stopped it. The one that grabbed it only pointed up to a huge throne. The hasty one lowered his arms and nodded. He knew what would happen next.
Compliance wasn't an issue...
Epilogue
And now, we're back with the 6:00 news with Shelly Porter.
“Good evening everyone. In the last few hours the previous king of the U.K; Michael712 was found chopped in two in his throne room, with dead guards surrounding him. It's currently unknown who murdered the king or why, but police are currently investigat-”
Antares turned off his TV, he had seen enough. Jeffery walked into the room and placed a glass of wine at his table.
“You know Jeffery, I think we should go on a vacation. This wouldn't be the best place to reside at the moment.” Antares suggested.
“Do you want me to turn on the defense systems before we leave?” Jeffery asked, not minding his sudden choice.
“Of course Jeffery.”
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“Thanks for coming over Dr. ...Umm...”
“It's Oshiro.”
“Oshiro! That's it. I apologize, I'm not all too good with names.” Epic Kirby said.
Oshiro smiled, “No problem. Can you please remind me of what you want again? Something involving a teleporter...”
“Yeah, during that war a year ago my tower was stolen from me. Quite rudely I might add. And when I returned I found some data in one of the computers that the people who resided here while I was gone teleported to some place. I'm just a bit curious on where someone would go. Who knows? It could answer some questions we have about the war.”
“I see...Smash Man!” A robot entered through the door, “Can you take the teleporter out of the truck?” Oshrio asked.
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“You want to join the guard?” Thatguy asked.
Galaxy nodded, “I knew that slime from a while back, but he came over a few days back and said something about attacking the ruler of the world. I of course would have none of that and rushed over as soon as possible. We just can't afford to have anything happen to the king.”
Ventus looked over at Thatguy, “Well he seems friendly enough.”
Thatguy stroked his chin, “True...and the more help the better.” He turned back to Galaxy.
“Well then, you already proved yourself, you can join the guard.”
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Elena looked around. She found herself in a barren field. How long had she been dead? Did they mention a year? However long it was, she was out of a castle, a slave, and a place to even stay.
“That's not something a little bit of killing can't solve...” Elena muttered and began to walk off.
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A large group all sat in a room together. All of them wearing very similar silver cloaks. One of the men stood up.
“How's the dimensional travel plans going?”
Another voice piped up, “We are almost done, the plans are in our lab. I will send you the copies as soon as I put the finishing touches.”
A deep laugh echoed throughout the room, “Perfect...”
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“It-ts not...not over!” The discarded head of Scrap Metal started to fly off of the ground. The bounty hunter wasn't aware of his true powers. But he was weak right now...he would need a host.
After a few hours of flying low, Scrap Metal's head had flown by a camp. One that obviously hasn't been tended to for at least a year. In on the dirt outside one of the cabins, a discarded body of a robot lay. Scrap Metal smiled, and started to attach itself to the body. His new host.
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History begins again...
April Fools Day Chapter
Rainclouds formed over the bridge, a short figure standing on it sighed, this is going to be one of those days huh?
His thoughts were interrupted by footsteps, a young woman had walked onto the bridge. The small figure raised an eyebrow.
“What the hell are you doing here?” The figure asked.
The woman smirked, “Kirbysonic are you not?”
The figure took a step backwards, “How could she have known...?” he thought to himself.
“Please, that Epic Kirby fellow told the newspaper about your existence. Though I'm a bit surprised to see you here.”
Kirbysonic smirked, “I'm impressed that people would even listen to a story like that.”
“Oh please, they had stories of killer sheep and murderous boyscouts. This wasn't too out of the question.”
“Touche, though who are you?”
The woman sighed, “I guess I should be nice and tell you who I am. Or rather, my alias.” The woman hit a button and a suit of armor went around her body, “I'm known as Power Woman. One of the most nice and creative people in the world. And I'm here to bring you to justice Kirbysonic.”
Kirbysonic lowered his head and started to laugh, “Please. For someone as creative as you, I'm sure you didn't think of something like this!”
Kirbysonic put one of his hands onto his face and started to pull on it. The entire face came off, revealing it to be a suit. Inside was something that sort of resembled a monkey. It was actually kind of hard to tell.
“You see, I'm not Kirbysonic at all! He's sleeping at home or something. The truth of the matter is that I'm actually the almighty...XMAN!”
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Power Woman stood back surprised, but a smile spread across her face.
“While we're revealing things! I should tell you that I'm not actually Power Woman...” The suit of armor fell away to reveal a robotic woman.
“In reality, I'm actually Wet Woman!”
The two foes were about to charge at each other, but suddenly the bridge disappeared In fact, the entire world basically disappeared All that was left were many confused people, and a never ending green and black sky.
Thatguy looked around the area, “What the hell happened.”
Smash Man began to run around the area, “Has anyone seen where Epic Kirby went?” he asked.
Suddenly, a giant creaking sound was heard and everyone looked up and saw a flying table, chair and computer. Though it started to crash towards the ground. Once the dust cleared from the landing they noticed Epic Kirby sitting in the now broken chair.
“Son of a...” he muttered.
Galaxy raised an eyebrow, “What the hell are you doing?”
Epic Kirby let out a weak chuckle, “Umm...you see there was a battle between Xman and Wet Woman...but it was so stupid that reality kind of broke...”
Elena ran up and grabbed Epic Kirby by the closest thing that can be considered his neck, “What do you mean reality broke?!”
“P-please put me down. And I'll explain” he managed to say. Elena complied and dropped him on the ground.
“Err...welcome to Cutstuff War Part 2 guys.”
“What's a Cutstuff?”
“Part 2?”
“You do realize I was in the middle of taking a shower?”
A mob was slowly forming around Epic Kirby by this point. Seeing no other option, he jumped at his computer and quickly typed something in.
“And time was somehow reversed so this chapter never happened!”
Suddenly, everyone except Epic Kirby disappeared from Cutstuff War Part 2.
Epic Kirby sighed and sat back down in his chair, that's the last time he'll every listen to Kirbysonic's ideas or Yellow Devil's “advice” on Skype. He was about to type something else, but left a quick little PS message.
“April Fools”
Here's that music that no one listens to, but I insist on adding it anyway.
Round 2 Chapter 1:
Round 2 Chapter 2:
Round 2 Chapter 3:
Round 2 Chapter 4:
Round 2 Chapter 5:
Round 2 Epilogue:
Round 2
Chapter 1
The computer screen lit up. After nearly an hour of waiting for the teleporter to connect to whatever destination the computer picked up.
Epic Kirby yawned, “It's about time. I really didn't expect it to take that long.”
Dr. Oshrio got up from the keyboard and chuckled, “Well, you can't rush awesome.”
“Yeah, yeah, whatever you say. Anyway, thanks for the help and all, but I got some place to explore.”
“Actually, we don't know what might be there do we? So how about you take Smash Man with you?”
Smash Man, who was sitting in the corner quickly stood up, “Wait what?”
“Well you do have a point...” Epic Kirby mused.
“Perfect! Here's a walkie talkie just in case you find anything. I'll stay here and look after the place while you're gone.” Oshrio said, tossing Epic Kirby a walkie talkie, which he stuffed in his hat.
“As long as you don't steal it...”
With that, Epic Kirby and Smash Man entered the teleporter.
The next thing they knew they were in some run down area, with shattered ceiling tiles on the floor, paint coming off the walls, and it looked like it would break down any second.
“Geez, it looks like someone forgot to do their spring cleaning...” Epic Kirby muttered.
The two walked down a short corridor and found themselves in a room with glass covering the walls, revealing the outside.
“It seems the teleporter took us to the moon...” Smash Man said.
“But why would anyone need to travel to moon?”
The duo eventually came across a small room. Inside the room were what could only be described as chunks of a robot, though they were very rusted. Epic Kirby took off his hat and reached for the walkie talkie.
“Hey doc, there seems to be a broken robot lying around a room up here. Do you want to bring you a souvenir?”
“Can you have Smash Man bring it back here?” Oshrio replied.
Smash Man heard his orders and picked up as many pieces of the discarded robot as he could and headed back to the teleporter, while Epic Kirby ventured forward. He came across a huge room with a computer sitting in it. There was also a huge cannon in one part of the room. He then walked up to the computer, and tried to turn it on. The thing was still functional, though barely. It only brought up the last thing that was opened, a file under the name of “Daily Log”. Epic Kirby clicked on the earliest date the computer allowed him.
Date: 8/31/20XX
The mass production of the robot I found is going as planned. It's nice to have some smaller robots do the work, while saving the bigger guns for other jobs. Speaking of the bigger guns, Project 100 has been stored in the base. Further more...
“Ok,” Epic Kirby sighed, “This is going nowhere...”
Date: 9/7/20XX
Buckshot Man's fighting abilities have been upgraded since I found him. I should know, I just got done dueling him. He's a good robot. But that's not the best part, the package with the stone has arrived. There's some myth about a sealed up god or something, but I know that this stone can power up the cannon, just in case anything goes wrong on Earth.
Date: 9/10/20XX
Speak of the devil, literally. There were a group of huge monsters roaming the planet, but the stone proved it's worth. Though I've been getting some strange transmissions lately...
Date: 9/12/20XX
Invasion...
“The logs end there...” Epic Kirby muttered.
“That they do, but his legacy lives on.”
Epic Kirby turned around, and saw that a new robot entered the room. A robot with green armor, blue eyes and a strange symbol on his forehead.
“Who are you?” Epic Kirby asked, ready for a sudden attack.
“Didn't you just read about me?” The robot asked, “TLN-100. Though it's easier just to say Neo Trollman isn't it?”
“What are you doing here?”
“The better question would be what are you doing here?”
“It's a long story, but in a nutshell, I'm investigating this area for a reason why anyone would even come here.”
“...Interesting. I could always use some minions...” The robot muttered.
“What was that now?”
“Listen carefully now, I'll make it real simple so your feeble mind can comprehend this. I'm offering you the chance to work as my minion while I conquer the dimension.
Epic Kirby fell back surprised, “What do you mean my mind is feeble!? Wait, what about conquering dimensions?”
“Ok, let me make it even more simple! Dimensional conquest. You help me as a minion. You get it?”
“First off, I'm not much of a minion. Second off, I'm not a huge fan of dimensional conquest. Gonna have to shut you down on this one.”
Neo Trollman's facial expression didn't change, “What a shame, I guess I'll just have to use a little bit of force!” he said as he took out a gun, stuffed a random object from a table in the room into the gun, and started to charge it.
Smash Man ran into the room, “Ok, I got the pieces back to Oshi-”
Smash Man quickly ducked under a huge blue ray that just went flying in his direction.
“What the...” The robot gasped.
“Looks like you made it just in time.” Epic Kirby said as he took out his laser gun.
Neo Trollman smirked, “Well, well, well, I guess I'm getting two minions for the price of one.” He suddenly punched the ground as hard as he could which caused a massive shock wave to fly across the metal floor of the base. While Epic Kirby jumped over it, Smash Man was caught off guard and sent flying backwards. Epic Kirby started to fire his gun, but his opponent created a shield to protect himself from the blasts. He then rushed towards Epic Kirby and punched him square in the face, sending him flying towards a wall.
Meanwhile, Smash Man picked himself up from the floor and shot an energy sphere at Neo Trollman. The robot set up another shield to protect himself, but the sphere made a sharp turn, causing it to hit Neo Trollman's side. Trollman's creation quickly dropped the defensive act, rushed towards Smash Man and tried to punch him, only for his fist to be caught in Smash's. The two robots then started to punch at each other, each blocking the others blows. In the meantime, Epic Kirby picked himself off of the ground and saw the two robots fighting. He lifted his gun and tried to aim it at Neo Trollman's head.
“...and fire.” He muttered as he shot the gun. Because of the fist fight, the shot missed it's target and only hit Neo Trollman in the chest, sending him falling to the ground. Smash Man stood over the defeated robot and began to charge his buster. As he fired, Neo Trollman rolled out of the way, and into a small spaceship parked at the side of the room.
“Two against one isn't the best odds right now, is it? Trust me! We will meet again though” He said as he flew away from the moon base.
Epic Kirby and Smash Man remained in silence for a few moments.
“What do we do now?” Smash Man asked.
“Umm...let's just head back to the tower.”
“Agreed.”
Chapter 2
The sun started to set over a hilltop surrounding a small laboratory. Inside the lab were two people working on a machine of some sort. One of them was a woman with blonde hair, a white lab coat, and purple pants, while the other was a tall man with white shoes, short brown hair, and a brown shirt. Little did the two realize that they were being watched. From the hilltop an odd combination of both man and machine looked over the lab. At first glance, most people would think he was a robot, though he was still human. Just a human with robotic arms, scalp, left side of face, dome like legs, and eight robotic limbs shooting out his back. In fact, the only human parts of him were the right side of his face, his brain and his torso. But even his torso was covered in armor. A scanning device slid across his right eye as he looked at the lab.
“Let's see...two residents. Names: Dr. Naomi and Xavier One of them being the target...”
There are just somethings you can't have people do for you, this being one of them. For the man, the plan was simple. There were two prominent scientists; besides himself of course, who could be any threat to his plan. This Dr. Naomi currently residing in the lab, and one Dr. Daniel Oshiro. Oshiro would have to be for another day. The man knew of his activity in the first war, plus he learned that Naomi wasn't as interested in building robots as most scientists. Instead she mostly took care of appliances. Though if they fall into the right hands, everything could be ruined. Quietly, the man used four of the robotic limbs to sneak closer to the lab window. He peered inside the room to see what the two were making. It seemed to be...a video game console...?
“This is going to be way too easy...” The robotic man muttered. Suddenly, he pierced one of his robotic limps through the window and jumped through. The two inside quickly dropped what they were doing and turned around.
“Who are you?!” Naomi asked.
“Dr. Kyrgyzg. Maybe you've heard of me?” The man replied.
“The Dr. Kyr-”
“Yes, yes, yes. But this is no time for this. Let me make this quick for you, I'm here to offer you an invitation.”
“Really? You'd think I'd work with a monster like you?! I've heard what you've done.” Naomi said in disgust.
“Oh good. I would have to kill you either way.” Kyrgyzg casually said as he took two pistols out of a belt.
Xavier quickly lifted up the console they were making and pointed it at the doctor. A digital clone of Kyrgyzg emerged from the console. Without giving a second glance, Kyrgyzg shot a laser out of one of the guns which easily destroyed the clone.
“Xavier Armor now!” Naomi commanded. A flash of light surrounded the lab. When the lighting returned to normal, Naomi was wearing gray armor, with a yellow center, and Xman had white and yellow armor covering him from head to toe, with a hole in his chest.
“Time to face the combined power of Power Woman and Xman!” Naomi stated.
Naomi began to charge a pistol, while Xman started to charge a buster that formed out of his arm.
Kyrgyzg quickly fired his two pistols at the duo. Both of them lunged downwards to dodge the attack, as they both fired. The mad doctor raised two of his limbs in front of him to protect him. Xman whipped out a beam sword and ran towards Kyrgyzg, while Naomi fired a yellow ball at the wall behind her. Xman tried to stab the doctor with his sword, but Kyrgyzg countered with his own limb. While the ball of energy circled around behind Kyrgyzg, and hit him from behind. He was flung forward by the attack, but he caught himself with his limbs. Xman took out a katana in his second hand, and tried to attack his foe with both weapons, but Kyrgzyg easily blocked the blows. The mad doctor swung one his limbs at Xman, but he jumped out of the way, as his armor suddenly turned black. The hole in Xman's chest began to glow as more energy started to be absorbed into it. Suddenly, a huge white beam was shot out of his chest. Kyrgzyg dashed out of the way of the blast, while a wall of the lab was taken out of by power of the beam. While he was dashing, Kyrgyzg shot Naomi right in the chest, sending her to the ground. Xman started to run towards her so he could help, but the robotic man beat him to it, and he used one of his limbs to stab Naomi through her heart, quickly killing her.
“Hmph, now that's out of the way...we still have to kill you don't we? I mean, we can't have any witnesses, you know how that works.” Kyrgyzg taunted.
Xman looked down at Naomi's dead body and started shaking.
“Ooh, what are you gonna do now?!”
Xman put his hands in a “V” shape and yelled, “Overdrive Blast!” Quickly, a huge orange beam was shot out of his hands, and took out the entire back of the room. Dr. Kyrgyzg stood on the side.
“Oh! You're not so mute after all. But if I could so easily avoid your first beam, how couldn't I dodge that one? Especially when you yell when you're about to attack me!”
Xman yelled at the top his lungs as the helmet on his head fell off, revealing his hair to have turned to a blonde color. He began to levitate over the ground.
Kyrgyzg stood back surprised, “What is this kind of m-”
Without giving him time to finish his sentence, Xman began to fire orbs of energy at Kyrgyzg. He continued firing until smoke from all the explosions covered the room. When the smoke blew away, all that was left was a burn mark in the floor. Xman fell back to the floor.
“It's...done...” He sighed.
“You really are pathetic.” A voice said from above.
Xman looked up and saw that Kyrgyzg had attached himself onto one of the remaining walls of the building.
“How could you have survived that?!” Xman demanded.
“You really don't need to know the details. And let me tell you why.” Kyrgzyg said as he jumped off of the wall, and pierced Xman's throat, causing him to fall onto the ground dead.
Dr. Kyrgzyg looked around the destroyed lab, casually took a tissue out of a compartment from his dome, and wiped the blood off of the robotic limbs as he walked away from the crime scene.
Chapter 3
The cloaked man walked into the building, and slowly made his way to a desk. The building was rather large, and out of the way as it was on the top of a cliff, which were surrounded by trees to keep the place even more hidden. The man was almost done with his work, he just had to put on the finishing touches. Shortly after he joined the group his knowledge was noted, and once they had all the pieces of their plan set up, they sent him to work on discovering on how to set up a dimensional portal. There were rumors spreading around that such a portal had already been made before, but their plan had to be kept a secret. It would simply be too dangerous if someone found out about this. The man turned to a computer where an image of a similarly silver cloaked man appeared.
“Please inform me of your current progress Ashton.” The cloaked man said over the monitor. Ashton quickly removed the silver hood covering his face, which revealed a man with slicked back black hair, a black streak of paint over both of his cheeks, and a pair of shades.
“Everything's running fine, I already figured out the nature of this other dimension, the only thing left is to find the right materials that can hold a dimensional portal.” Ashton replied
“It will be done soon, correct?” The man asked a simple question, but it almost sounded like a threat.
“It should be done in a month at the latest.”
“Perfect. I'll await your progress in three days.”
“Yes sir.”
The screen flickered off and Ashton turned back to his table where he began to inspect a set of blueprints.
“Now if I put that....no that would never work. There needs to be some sort of power core somewhere...” He mused.
His thoughts were quickly interrupted when an alarm started to go off, someone was closing in on the building. Ashton dropped the blueprints on the table, and hurried outside to see who was coming.
“It's probably some hiker or something...” Ashton muttered as he opened the door. He saw a young woman looking around the building.
“Oh yes, this might do nicely. It's no castle...but you take what you can get.” The girl said to herself.
“I'm sorry, who are you?”
“Oh great residents...” She muttered, “Elena Ampere, let's make this simple. You got two options here, let me reside in this building and allow me to do what I want no questions, or I can go for the more exciting way. Take your pick.”
“I'm sorry miss, but this place is used for research, you're gonna have to leave.”
Elena snickered and took out her whip, “Good, it's been way too long since I've had a good kill. Don't you disappoint me now.”
With that, Elena started to run towards Ashton, but he quickly jumped out of the way, and ripped his silver cloak off from his body, revealing a black wetsuit.
“Really? You're going to fight me in that?” Elena asked.
Ashton just smirked and shot a blotch of oil out of his hand. He then took out a gun and shot at the puddle of oil, the shot immediately set the oil ablaze.
“How pathetic...” Elena muttered as she cracked her whip, sending a lightning bolt crashing down upon Ashton. As he lay on the ground, he raised a hand in front of him and created a clone of himself right in front of him. While Elena ran towards the clone, Ashton picked himself off the ground, shot oil under his feet and slid to the other side of the cliff. At the same time, Elena lashed at the clone still lying on the ground, and it faded into nothingness. She turned around and saw Ashton setting up a line of oil across the middle of the battlefield. Before he could set it on fire, Elena ran past the oil and was about to strike Ashton, but he quickly created a wall of oil in front of him to protect him from her attack. He then set the wave on fire and shot it towards Elena. She jumped right through the wall of fire, as it kept on going until it reached the trees at the edge, which were set ablaze. The fire quickly spread throughout the circle of trees, until the entire forest surrounding them were on fire. Both Ashton and Elena looked around for an escape. To Ashton's relief, the building was out of the way of the fire, but the trees surrounded them from all sides, except the edge of the cliff itself. Ashton quickly looked up at the sky and saw rainclouds overhead. The fire wouldn't be the problem here, the rain would put it out once it starts. The problem here was surviving against Elena...
“Ok, this needs to stop.” Ashton said as he aimed his gun at Elena. But before he could fire, Elena wrapped her whip around the gun and ripped it out of his hands. She smirked and threw the gun off the cliff. The gun exploded when it hit the ground below, which started a mini blaze down there.
Ashton started to back up a bit, “Ok you can live here..it's fine.” He quickly looked up at the sky again, rain drops were starting to fall.
Elena started to laugh, “I'm sorry, but you don't get a second chance.”
As one last resort, Ashton shot a shot of oil underneath Elena's feet, hoping to make her slip. The trick worked and she started to slip off the cliff. But as she started to fall, she wrapped her whip around Ashton's body. Ashton started to hang onto the dirt below him, while Elena began to swing herself back and forth, until she had enough momentum to swing all the way around and back onto the top of the cliff. She then unwrapped Ashton, and quickly shot a bolt of lightning at him, causing the ground beneath him to crumble as the ground underneath his feet began to fall off the cliff onto the burning ground below. As he hit bottom, it began to rain heavier and the fire was slowly put out...
Chapter 4
The doors of the building slid open as someone who could only be described as a man with the top of a mushroom on his head walked in the building. He was wearing a brown sleeveless jacket, black pants, and the spots on the mushroom over his head were also colored black. A woman sitting behind a counter noticed him walk in.
“Harry Shroomlen, you made it just in time! We have finally located the location of the 'Teddy Ripper'.” The woman said.
“Really? I can finally get this bounty done?” The man replied.
“You got it Harry. He has committed another murder, this time in Agorix City. I don't know why he would leave those bears as clues...”
“It does make finding him easier...”
“Well, you got that right. You ready to go get him?”
Harry simply nodded and walked back out of the building.
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The bus Harry arrived in came to a stop. He and a few other people stood up and exited the bus. Over the past year Agorix City hadn't been doing so well. The city never really recovered from the damage that was done from the now infamous “Battle of Agorix”. The buildings were more sparse and in some cases some remains of burnt buildings could be seen. The destroyed buildings. which led many to be homeless. These people now resided in small shacks by the edge of the city. The sun was starting to set, and it would be time for Harry to strike soon. He had received knowledge on Teddy Ripper's appearance. Or what seems to be the lack of one. He is dressed in all black all the time, the only ways you could see him was if you had a light source, or if he shone his metallic eye.
A few hours passed, Harry got up from a bench and started to walk through some alleyways. It would seem like a good place for him to hide. He suddenly heard footsteps behind him. Harry quickly turned around and whipped out a flashlight, revealing Teddy Ripper standing there.
Harry stood back surprised, “How could I have found him so easily?” he thought to himself.
The killer slowly walked closer to Harry, “Ahh Harry. It's so nice to see you, I knew I'd find you in an area like this.”
“You were looking for me?”
“You don't know? I'm an assassin too. And I got a client who was awfully fond of taking out the members of your bounty hunter group.” Teddy Ripper looked up to the sky and casually tossed a knife into the air, “Let me guess, you were told to kill me.” Ripper continued, Harry slowly nodded, “Very well!” the knife fell out of the sky and back into Teddy's hand, “Don't worry, I'll make this quick for you.”
Ripper started to rush at Harry, but with his free hand the bounty hunter took out a gun and fired a laser ball at Ripper chest, which sent him skidding across the ground. Teddy jumped back onto his feet and took out a gun. At lightning speed, the assassin fired the gun and the bullet pierced through Harry's arm, causing him to drop the flashlight so he could grab his wounded arm.
“Now let's see you fight what you can't see!” Teddy taunted as he started to move around the alleyway Harry could hear him, but he couldn't tell where he was. The bounty hunter then put his gun away and took out a golden hammer with a dark red handle. With some trouble due to his wounded arm, Harry lifted the hammer and slammed it onto the ground, which caused a small quake in the alleyway Harry heard a figure get slammed against a trash can. Harry ran up to the trash can and saw Teddy slumped up against it. Before Harry could attack, Ripper through a smoke bomb onto the ground and smoke covered the area. Harry put his hammer away and took out his gun again. He started to fire shots through the alleyway to clear out the smoke. It was by his luck that one of them happened to hit Teddy's leg.
“Damnit...” Teddy muttered as he got to one knee. In one swift motion, Teddy threw his knife at Harry. He quickly jumped to the ground to avoid the projectile, and when he picked himself off the ground, Ripper was gone. He suddenly saw a red light out of the corner of his eye, Ripper was standing right behind him.
“Surprise.” the assassin whispered and raised his knife. But before he could lower it, Harry through a shuriken behind him, which pierced Teddy in between his eyes. The assassin dropped the knife and fell to the ground. Harry started to breathe and left the alleyway
“Who would try to get rid of the main bounty hunter business...” Harry muttered as he left.
Ripper struggled a little bit and took an one-eyed teddy bear out of his trench coat, and placed it right next to him as he became motionless...
Chapter 5
The clues were not adding up. Stefan Hyden; A man in nearly all black, with long black hair covered by a black bandana with a white emblem on it, was walking through the open field. He had been trying to figure out the mystery behind Savior Sword's disappearance a year ago. He had learned that he made allies with Thatguy, and later learned from him that he was not present in his last battle against Terukasaga. After doing more investigating in the Chaos Theatre; Where Savior was operating a year ago, he learned from the manager Sam, that he had received a letter from Auroria Borealis to fight her at the old Skull Castle. He had investigated the area many times but has never found anything besides a few scraps a metal. He tried looking over the scraps a metal for clues, but only the word “Zero” could be seen on them, the rest were broken off. Though he kept finding himself coming back there for more clues, and hopefully the rest of the message.
Stefan could now see the ruined castle and the open field that was before it. Though something was different. Someone else was in the field, which was an actual odd thing to see. Upon closer inspection, it was a man with brown hair, a blue jacket, and an anchor necklace around his neck. Stefan seemed to recognize him immediately He took out a weapon with two blades sticking out the sides and one the front, and he ran over towards the man.
“Nix Olympus!” Stefan yelled.
The man looked up, “How do you know who I am?”
Stefan scoffed, “Please, I did my research. One year ago you were Auroria Borealis's partner were you not?”
Nix raised an eyebrow quizzically, “What does it matter to you?”
“You do know of Savior Sword? He was last seen here fighting one Auroria Borealis. Now, you're her partner,” He lifted his blade in Nix's direction, “of course you would know something about this.”
Nix shook his head, “Why do you think I'm here?”
“Please you're not fooling anyone!”
Stefan swung the blade at Nix who jumped backwards to avoid the attack. Nix waved his hand in front of him and a row of icicles were created. He pointed in Stefan's direction, and all of them went flying towards him. Nix didn't expect him to be able to dodge every single one of the icicles so easily. Nix then raised a platform made of ice out of the ground, and jumped on it. He then sent the ice moving forward towards Stefan. While he was getting closer, he took the necklace off his neck and started swinging it around, which caused the anchor on it to grow in size. He then threw the anchor in Stefan's direction. He dived out of the way of the huge anchor and landed on the ground.
“Cmon, where is she...?” Stefan thought as he picked himself off the ground.
“There's a little problem with your idea. Auroria has also been missing since her battle with this Savior fellow.” Nix calmly said.
“You're lying.” Stefan said through gritted teeth and charged at Nix with his sword. Before he could get close enough, Nix raised a wall of ice out of the ground. Before Stefan went face first into the wall, he back flipped backwards. Causing a piece of metal to fall out of his pocket. Nix stood back surprised.
“Allow me to see that...” He quietly said.
“And why should I trust you?” Stefan retorted.
“Because he's helping us.” A female voice said.
Nix and Stefan both turned around and saw a woman with long red hair, red robes, a black bow, and a white star over her left eye.
“What are you talking about Nova?” Stefan said.
“Nix here is in the same problem we're in. I've met with him a few weeks ago and learned that Auroria has in fact disappeared along with Savior. The two events are almost exactly the same.” Nova explained
“But how could this happen...?” Stefan mused.
“May I please see that piece of metal?” Nix spoke up.
Stefan turned around and nodded. Nix bent down and picked up the piece of metal with the writing “Zero” on it. Nix reached into his jacket pocket and took out a similar piece of metal, with the writing “Tsu” on it. He held the two pieces together, they fit perfectly revealing the words “TsuZero”.
“Isn't that Tsukiyomaru's logo?” Nix asked.
“It does look like it...what would he have to do with this?” Stefan wondered.
“There's only one way to find out, we have to go to Port Town.”
Epilogue
Oshiro sat at a table and continued to work on the broken robot Smash Man had brought to him. He was back in his lab and had Smash Man and another short robot with long hair, a scanner over his right eye, and a suit of armor.
“Meteor Man, hand me the wrench! I think it's almost rebuilt!” Oshiro said with glee.
Meteor Man did as he was told and after five more minutes, the robot on the table was activated and rose.
“...Where am I?” The robot asked.
“You're in Dr. Oshiro's lab,” Smash Man started to explain, “You were found destroyed in some moon base.”
The robot hanged his head down, “So I lost again...”
Oshiro placed a hand on the robot's shoulder, “What's your name?”
“Buckshot Man”
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The abandoned warehouse shook violently, a robot covered completely in silver armor was looking through the warehouse for things he could use. The warehouse used to belong to Red, but since he died...
He eventually came across a capsule, inside of it was a robot that looked very similar to himself, except it had a sword behind it, a cape, and a huge “R” emblem on its chest. It also seemed to be made out of plastic.
“Hmm... I might have use for this.” The robot muttered as he broke open the capsule, freeing the robot inside.
The plastic robot looked up, “You're one of Red's creations?”
“I'm the Almighty Lag Man, and yes I was created by...him.”
“Yes, very nice to see another one of his creations. I'm Hombre de Plástico.”
“Yes, that's great. Can you...assist me with something?”
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“My lord, we have lost contact with Ashton.”
The circle of cloaked men now had two empty chairs. But it only seemed like one to them. The first member to die, The Amazing Imp was rather pathetic, and didn't even really do anything. It didn't help that he was killed during his vacation.
“That is some troublesome news indeed. We still have access to the plans he finished, correct?”
“He had sent them about two weeks ago.”
“Very well, it might take longer, but we must finish the plans ourselves.”
“Might I make a suggestion my lord? Dimensional portals had been made before, so if we have access to one...”
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Alexis walked through the barren streets as she took out her radio.
“What should we do about this mind poison problem?” Alexis asked.
“Perhaps you should find more people who share your cause. With a world as...diverse as this one, finding more people who are against mind poison shouldn't be too hard.” a raspy voice responded.
“Very well.” she said as she disconnected the radio.
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“You wanted to see me Galaxy?” Thatguy asked.
“That is correct, I just wanted to make sure about possible enemies.” Galaxy responded.
Thatguy stood up, “There shouldn't be many opponents currently after us. Of course, there's those people that hate any kind of rule, but there doesn't seem to be anyone risi-”
A blinding light filled the room.
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Kirbysonic stood in a basement, with a small portal.
“Don't worry now...You can't reach your true power yet. But I can let you enter the world in a weaker form, and you can gain power from there!”
A portal opened, and a smoky red figure emerged.
“Destruction...” It hissed.
Kirbysonic started to scratch his head, “Hmm...you really can't do anything in this form.”
The figure floated there for a second, but it suddenly flew off as if it had an idea.
Kirbysonic watched it fly away and started to laugh.
I don't know why I add music but I do.
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Round 3 Epilogue: I don't know. Play some cool song.
Round 3
Chapter 1
It was an empty morning at the Chaos Theatre. But it usually was pretty empty in the morning. Sam was sitting at a table counting over money when he heard the elevator doors open. He glanced up from what he was doing as the doors opened all the way to reveal a tall man in what seemed to be a solider uniform holding a machine gun. Instantly, the man started to fire the machine gun all around the room. Sam quickly ducked underneath the table he was sitting and whipped out two pistols.
“Geez, what a wake up call...” Sam muttered under his breath.
The solider started to pace around the room, “Would you know where the manager is?”
“That would be me.”
Another round of gunfire in his direction.
“Do you know what happened here a year ago?!” the man demanded.
“Well, a lot of things happened. We got attacked by a devil like thing, and it really seemed like we were getting invaded every week or something.”
The solider pounded a table he was standing by, “Does the name 'Ninja Sister' mean anything to you?”
Sam started to rise up a little from under the table while keeping his guard up, “Haven't heard the name in my life.”
“You're lying! She died here a year ago!”
“You realize I wasn't the mana-” Sam started, but the man continued to fire in Sam's direction. He rolled under another table and started to fire his own pistols at the crazy man. The solider was startled by the return fire, but quickly recomposed himself. Sam then sent an electric current through his two pistols.
“What makes you think that the manager killed her anyway?! Brawls pop up all the freakin' time here.”
Sam said.
“I'm not saying that you killed her, but as the manager you should have some answers.”
“Hate to disappoint you, but I don't keep track on deaths here, not part of my job.”
More gunfire headed at Sam's direction. Sam fired one of his pistols which shot a slow moving sphere, which slowly began to move towards the solider.
“You really believe that can stop me?!” The man demanded.
“No. I believe this will.” Sam calmly said as he fired his other gun at the sphere, which caused it to explode right in the soldier's face. When the smoke from the explosion cleared, the man was still standing perfectly fine.
“Wait, what the hell?!” Sam said as he had to duck again, for the solider who started to fire again.
“If you won't tell me anything, you too shall feel the vengeance of Spetsnaz Dad!” The solider said triumphantly.
“Really, that's what you're calling yourself?” Sam asked.
“Ok, now you're going to die.”
Before he could fire, a loud crashing noise and laughter was suddenly heard from above. Sam and Spetsnaz looked above them and noticed two holes in the ceiling, and two almost identical robots flying down to meet them.
“Oh, are we interrupting something?” One of the robots said, while the other was looking at Sam.
“Look at this Plástico! One of Red's followers, you know what needs to be done.”
“Lag Man, what about the other one?” Plástico replied.
“Ugh, you can worry about him if he causes trouble, I'll handle Sam.”
Sam sighed, “Seriously, more of these guys?”
Spetsnaz looked up at the robots, “Well, these aren't related to me...” he muttered.
Lag Man took out his spear and pointed it in Sam's direction, causing a lighting bolt to shoot at him. Sam raised his glove up and countered with his own bolt of lightning. When the two collided, a miniature explosion was created, which took out a pillar in the room.
“Cmon! Those cost money to repair!” Sam said, as he started to fire at Lag Man. Red's creation flew out of the way and turned its hands into cannons, and started to fire those at Sam's direction, blowing up tables along the way.
On the other side of the room, Plástico and Spetsnaz were fighting a very similar battle. The solider got one shot straight at Plástico's head, but the bullet only left a slight dent. The plastic robot fired a shot directly at Spetsnaz's stomach, which send him flying into a wall. But without even flinching, the solider got himself back onto his feet, and rushed towards Sam. The owner of the Chaos Theatre saw him coming, and shot a bolt of lightning at him. While Sam was distracted, Lag Man dived down and tried to stab him with his spear, but Sam got on the ground, and shot Lag Man head on, causing him to go off course. Spetsnaz took a grenade out of his pocket, and threw it in Sam's general direction. But the grenade was intercepted by a flying Lag Man, who knocked the grenade towards the other pillar, blowing it up.
Suddenly, the entire theatre started to shake violently.
“Shit, it's starting to cave in!” Sam said, as he grabbed his stuff and opened a door saying “Emergency Exit”, which revealed a very tall staircase. As Sam began to climb the staircase, he was pursued by Spetsnaz who started shoot after him. Lag Man and Plástico began to fly out of the crumbling theatre, but before he left, Lag Man shot one last blast at the ground below, causing it to catch fire. As the fire began to spread, the two robots flew out of the building...
Sam and Spetsnaz continued to race up the stairs, they could hear the building starting to crumble, and the smell of flames. Spetsnaz took out a pair of pistols and began to shoot at Sam. He countered by firing the moving sphere at him, which blocked Spetsnaz's path. As Sam made it to the top, he saw that flames were starting to consume the top portion of the building too, though it seemed that everyone working up there had escaped. His thoughts were interrupted by a crashing sound. The elevator wire had burned, and fell to the bottom floor. The deafening noise set off a chain reaction, with the top floor starting to sink a little. Spetsnaz suddenly came rushing out onto the top floor, and shot Sam in the arm. He grabbed his arm in pain, and began to run towards the entrance of the crumbling theatre. Only to see a chunk of the road rise upon him, as the theatre was collapsing upon itself. Sam jumped out of the collapsing theatre, as Spetsnaz followed suit. Outside, Sam ignored every single news reporter on the scene, ran straight towards his motorcycle, where he began to drive away from the city. As the rest of the Chaos Theatre finally collapsed onto the bottom level, and the flames started to consume everything still remaining...
Chapter 2
It was getting close to evening now, and the bars were packed. But by this point, the people of Port Town really had nothing better to do. While most people were not happy about it, the bartender's business was booming. Though even those who weren't happy really had no choice...
One year earlier...
News of the Battle of Agorix had hit the people around the world. When Port Town received the news, they didn't really pay attention to it, they were more interested in who installed a group of large screens all around the cities biggest buildings. Suddenly, all of the screens turned on as everyone in the city stared at them. The screen revealed a man in completely blue armor, and a black trench coat spinning around in a chair as if he was a child who just got a bucket of candy. Very quickly, the man recomposed himself and faced the camera.
“Hello people of Port Town! My name is Tsukiyomaru Zero, but that's not the important part. Your group of protectors have all sadly died during the war. And I take it upon myself to not only protect you fine people, but to lead you as well!”
The replies from the people were mixed. Some people didn't think twice and thought that protection would be great, though others were suspicious of the sudden shift. One second, most of the squad was alive and the next day they're dead? They weren't even part of the Battle of Agorix. And of course rebellions rose up, but every time a protest would strike up, by the time the next day rolled around it would have ended. And the people would have disappeared during the night as well. Some assumed they just leaved the city, not wanting to deal with whatever they were protesting about, but others thought of the worse.
As time passed on, and the protests started to become less frequent as the disappearances became more apparent, the story of a winged beast patrolling the city was spread around. The story went that anyone who stepped out of line, would be secretly killed during the night. Most didn't question the story too much, but some did an odd looking shadow...
By the time a year had rolled around, no signs up rebellions were around. People were too terrified to even start a minor protest. Groups would bring too much attention, simply talking about it would somehow be heard by Tsuki. And even the joke of a rebellion must be killed off. The only way someone could possibly rebel would be to keep it to themselves. But by this point, while the population is still huge, the only people still around in Port Town are the ones that didn't mind Tsuki's sudden leadership, and the ones too terrified to even think of rebelling. That is, except for one man, who dreamed about freeing the city; Raider.
Present Day
The bar doors were forced open as Raider slowly walked away from the mass of people inside the building. The man was wearing a pair of sunglasses, blue pants, and a red jacket with a gray shirt underneath it. He looked up at the big tower in the center of the city, his target. While Tsuki did live in a different building, that tower contained all of the things keeping him in power, so if he was able to take it down this whole nightmare would be over. The problem was taking out the building, Raider had a place where he had slowly been gathering supplies, and it was time to get there and put the plan into action. He knew he couldn't go during the day, it would easily be noticed, but if he went during the night he could easily get in there and take some time to put the final preparations. Though going out at night would be staying up past the curfew which was now forced upon the people. But there really wasn’t much else of a choice. And if those rumors about a beast was true, he'd just have to get rid of that too, it might make a good fight too. Raider walked over to the parking lot, jumped on his motorcycle and started to drive towards the outskirts of the city.
About half an hour had passed, and the roads were empty, save for Raider's motorcycle, it must had been past the curfew already. Though that didn't matter too much, he was almost at the warehouse he needed to go to. Suddenly, Raider heard a loud flapping sound. He turned around and saw a huge green dragon robot flying behind him. Raider stopped the motorcycle in shock and jumped off of it.
“Is this the beast they're talking about?” He muttered to himself in disbelief. He quickly recomposed himself and took out a handle, which turned into a laser katana with the press of a button. He then pointed the blade in the direction of the robot.
“So you're the one who's been said to kill hundreds during the night? I guess I'll just have to take you out in the name of Port Town!”
Raider swung his blade in the direction of the dragon, which caused a wave of energy to be fired at the robot. Due to it's massive size, the dragon wasn't able to avoid the attack, and an explosion enveloped it. As smoke covered the dragon, two massive fire balls were shot out of the smoke in Raider's direction. Without a second thought, he took out a laser shield to block the two fireballs. He then put his katana away and took out a plasma rifle and started to shoot plasma shots in the dragon's direction. While the shots were connecting with the robot, it didn't seem to be taking a lot of damage, and if it was it was good at hiding it. The dragon then swooped down towards Raider and opened its mouth ready to devour him. But before it could, Raider revealed a miniature rocket launcher at the bottom of the rifle, and fired a rocked straight into the dragon's mouth. The huge robot staggered back towards the ground a little. Using this to his advantage, Raider clicked his boots together which allowed him to jump really high into the air, so he could land on the dragon's back. The robot, seeing this started to fly high above the ground and tried to shake Raider off. So he could hold his ground, he took out his laser katana and stabbed the dragon in the back. It let out a mechanical howl as it started to falter a little bit. The dragon then turned its head around and faced Raider. It then started to shoot a barrage of fireballs in his direction. He once again took out his shield to absorb the attacks, but the sheer amount of fireballs being hurled at him caused him to be pushed off of the dragon. As he was falling, Raider took out a pistol and hit a button on it labeled “Wind”. He then fired the gun below him as a gust of wind was shot out of it which allowed him to land safety on the ground. He then hit another button titled “Plant” and fired that towards the dragon. A seed was shot towards the robot, which quickly ate the projectile. For a few moments the dragon seemed pleased with itself as it flew down closer to Raider and prepared to shoot another round of fireballs at him. But before he could, a huge vine that grew from the seed shot out of the robot's chest. In one motion, the dragon had ceased functioning and fell to the road before with a loud crash. Raider looked around to see if anyone had heard that, quickly hopped on his motorcycle and continued to drive towards his destination...
Intermission
The sun had set and night had fallen over Agorix City. Most of the city lay in the darkness, asleep in their homes. But one building in particular seemed to have a lot of activity going on. On the outside, the building looked like it was in pretty good condition, but the inside showed otherwise. Paint was peeling off of the walls, there was a slight hole in the ceiling which caused water to drop into a corner, and the floor boards would creak with every step. Of course, such an undesirable building would be the perfect place to hold meetings, which was going on with a group of robots.
Three robots occupied the room, one which looked like your average humanoid robot from the waist up though with a snake body from the legs down, one which was a tan robot with two drill arms and a spark coming out of its head, and what looked like a floating upper body with two large hands.
“Are you sure this is going to work?” the robot with the drills asked,
The one with the snake body smirked, “You don't need to worry. You know that I'm leading this operation, so you should know that I have everything under control.”
The floating robot just punched the air in anticipation, “You worry too much Spark Drillman! Let's just get to the exciting part!”
“Yes...we will strike three days from now. From there we will kill the person in charge of the city, and take it for ourselves.”
The floating robot looked ecstatic, Spark Drillman a bit worried, and the snake satisfied. Though they all stopped what they were doing when they heard clapping echoing throughout the room. A robot clad in red armor with blonde hair slowly walked into the shadows and let out a low chuckle. Without a second thought, the snake robot turned his two hands into cannons.
“What the hell do you want?!” he demanded.
“Oh, you don't need to be so touchy, I just wanted to congratulate you on the big plan you worked out. But don't you think a city is too little? Think of all the extra lives you could be taking if you...I don't know, go for the world instead.” The newcomer started as he walked closer to the trio of robots.
“What are you trying to say...?”
“What I'm trying to say is I can help you. Not only that but I can help escalate your plans to world domination!”
The snake robot started to charge his cannons, “You think you can just waltz in here and take over my plan?! We'll see about that!”
The newcomer sighed and lifted out his hand as a dark energy came out of it. Out of nowhere, all three robots started holding their heads in pain. Green static shot through the bodies, and just as quickly as it begun, the static stopped and the three robots calmly looked at the newcomer.
“So we plan to start our world domination plan in three days, right Master Scrap Metal?” The snake robot asked wearing a grin on its face. The other two robots kept their previous emotions, but were now looking at Scrap Metal as the leader.
Scrap Metal smirked, “Now that's more like it.”
A low cold laugh spread through the night of Agorix City.
Chapter 3
Deep in a building in Agorix City, Scrap Metal turned to his new allies and smiled.
“Now, let's get down to the dirty business. I have a job that one of you need to do for me. For you see,” Scrap Metal paused and placed a picture of a strange robotic man with red armor around his chest, orange armor protecting his legs, and a silver looking helmet on the table, “Right here we have a little 'Hero' who happened to follow me through time. As with every good plan, there is someone who can stop it, and this is the one that is the greatest threat to the plan. So one of you need to take him out.”
Spark Drillman looked over with worried eyes,
“Who would you send out to do it?” The robot asked.
Scrap Metal put a hand to his chin as a cunning grin spread over his face as he glanced over to Emmisary, “You were leading this group before, am I correct?”
The snake robot grinned and crosses his arms, “That would be correct.”
“Great, go out and take out Paladin.”
Emmisary's smirk quickly disappeared, “Sir, you realize that I know none of his skills, weapons, or his current location?”
“That will not be a problem,” Scrap Metal threw Emmisary a blue cube, “I have a radar tracking his location, how else would you think I know he's here? As for his weapons and skills. He uses a combination of firearms and blades.”
“Both a close range and a long range fighter...” Emmisary grinned, “I like that, a nice challenge.”
Paladin was slowly walking through the dark streets of a large city, he had heard rumors of people seeing a robot looking similar to the one he has been looking for around this area, so it was in his best interest to search the area. He continued to walk down the street when suddenly a lighting bolt came flying out of the sky, and before he could react he was struck down by the bolt and fell to the pavement. Paladin turned himself around and looked upwards to see a snake like robot standing on top of a building in front of him: Emmisary.
“What a shame,” Emmisary sighed as he crosses his arms, “That usually takes care of the job nice and quick. But it seems that you're made of something tougher than most, which is a real pity...you're gonna have to actually feel the torture you're about to go through...”
Paladin jumped back onto his feet, “Who are you?!”
Emmisary jumped off the building and landed on his feet, “That doesn't matter,” he started as his hands turned into two large cannons, “as you're gonna die in the next three seconds.”
Two large blasts came out of the cannons in Paladin's direction, while he was knocked back by the blast he was still able to keep his ground. Paladin whipped out a machine gun and started to fire it at Emmisary. The robot held his hand out in front of him and closed his eyes, the bullets started to glow, and then harmlessly fell to the ground.
Emmisary began to laugh, “All your efforts are futile. Your bullets can't even harm me!”
“Who says I need bullets?” Paladin scoffed as he took out a blade and began to run in Emmisary's direction.
“Oh yes, I've heard plenty of your other means of offense. Let's take care of that, shall we?” Emmisary taunted as he snapped his fingers. Without any warning, a wall of fire surrounded Paladin on all sides.
“It's been fun, but orders are orders after all.”
Paladin's eyes widened, “But there's only one who would...”
Emmisary rolled his eyes, “Please, I have better things to do than tell you all about who I'm working for, how about we end this.”
“Yes, let us!” Paladin smirked, as he began to jump up in the air past the wall of fire.
“Not so fast!”
Paladin suddenly flew headfirst into a giant block of ice and he fell to the ground. As he looked upwards, he saw that the huge ice block now lay above the fire wall, making escape pretty much impossible.
Emmisary chuckled a little but quickly recomposed himself, “I have standards, I don't leave huge gaping holes for people to escape.” His arms turned into two large cannons that began to charge, “So I bid you farewell!”
Paladin looked upwards and took out a flamethrower that he fired at the ice block, causing it to melt. The second Emmisary fired the energy blast, Paladin once again jumped up into the air, only breaking through the melting ice with his helmet. As he began to descend, he held out his blade downwards.
As the smoke surrounded the area where the wall of fire once stood Emmisary smiled to himself.
“What a painfully easy job...”
Without warning, Emmisary felt a great pain in his stomach, as he looked down he noticed a huge blade impaling him.
“H-Huh” Emmisary gasped, “Would y-you look at th-that...”
Paladin removed the blade from the robot's body as it fell onto the pavement below. He then picked up the deactivated body, he needed to find out of he was behind this, and fast.
Chapter 4
7:45 P.M., September 10th, 20XX
“The Oshiro Zone”
Mission Briefing
“Alright, are we all finally here? Since one of you came about, I don’t know, ten minutes after the meeting started.”
Two figures were seated at an oval table, surrounded by ten chairs, with five on each side of the table. One was nestled at the end of the table, while one was at the opposite side, raising his gaze from his screen to glare at the newcomer standing at the door. He seemed to be typing on a holographic screen, filled with disturbing images of destruction and carnage. He turned off the screen with a simple wave of his hand, and rose from his seat.
“And you didn’t even bring me my coffee.” grumbled the irritated fellow, revealing himself to be Dr. Oshiro. Snapping his fingers, he summoned a giant version of the previous screen, which now contained different images. On the right of the screen, there was a picture that looked like it was shot from a dirty lens of a camera, as it was very blurry.
Upon closer inspection, the picture on the right appeared to be that of an archaic city completely surrounded with haze. To the side of this picture was a portrait of a girl with brown hair and green eyes, with goggles on her head and a giant red label across the whole portrait, which read “MISSING” in giant red letters. One could barely read the name “Nido” underneath the red text. There were nine other portraits above and below, with each one having the same message as the first.
“Miss Tardypants, you can take a seat right here.” Dr. Oshiro motioned the girl to an empty chair to his left, and grabbed a laser pointer from the desk.
“About a month and a half ago, we sent a squad of ten to find and investigate Kallipolis, a city rumored to be well-known for its advances in elemental magic and technology.” Dr. Oshiro said, while pulling up an image of a city on a mountain.
“Without help and information from our former ally, Nix Olympus, this site would have stayed concealed and lost in the ‘sands’ of time.” A figure with brown hair and a lock of red popped onto another screen as he said this, along with a map containing a location of the city, which appeared to be near a desert.
“And considering the potential weaponry and resources it contained, that of course, wasn’t an option.” Dr. Oshiro explained, bringing up 3D models of advanced firearms and other weapons, including one which looked like a small anchor.
“However, the signal of these ten disappeared about halfway before they reached their definition, in an indistinguishable location in the desert.” He circled the entire area of the desert with the pointer.
“We’ve been searching for them with no success, until… this distress signal appeared. It was sent by Nido, the leader of the team, just recently, around yesterday morning. Immediately, we traced the signal to an area located near the center of the desert, where we sent some drones to survey the area. However…”
Oshiro frowned, and brought up several destroyed drones. “Most of them ended up crushed, or wadded into metallic junk wads. However, there was one still left slightly intact, which took the picture I brought up before.” Dr. Oshiro circled the picture again, noting the parts of it that contained the city.
“Anyways, your task is to locate this ‘city’, find who’s been destroying my creations, and look for survivors. I trust you’ve received battle instructions from Mikhail?” he smirked, staring at the robot sitting in front of him.
“Of course! Just leave it to me!” Meteor Man roared with enthusiasm, leaping from his seat with his fist raised in the air.
“And of course, let’s not forget about you.” Oshiro sighed, staring at the girl to his left. She was spending most of her time staring at a giant crystal ball with utter boredom. The girl responded with a simple roll of the eyes, and went back to what Oshiro assumed was ignoring him. He closed his eyes and counted to ten, quelling his frustration, and resumed his speech.
“As for transportation, you’ll be taking a car. I’ll provide you both with Exit Units and some medical supplies, and keep a tracking beacon so you won’t exit my sight. You know, so you don’t end up like those unlucky ten.” Dr. Oshiro said, with what appeared to be a dash of challenge in his statement. He snapped his fingers again, and the entire conference room descended into a garage underground. Meteor Man regarded this with incredulity, while the girl remained unfazed. The car was located right in front of them.
As the two rose from their seats and walked to the car, Oshiro tersely said to the girl, “Oh, and if you don’t save her? Well, that gives me no choice…”
He looked at the girl with a pretentious stare.
“…but to remove you from the premises, Celeste Alaron.”
1:34 P.M., Sept. 11, 20XX.
Somewhere in the Desert
The billowing smoke clouds engulfing the back of a car were the only abnormal sight in the vast desert, cutting a fine, but cloudy line in the barren wasteland. The car itself was also peculiar, as there were no roads to drive on, and not many would consider driving in such a dangerous, uninhabited place. The car looked ordinary enough, but the insignia of a certain “Dr. O” was imprinted on the hood.
Inside the car, there sat a robot with brown hair and robotic, golden armor, holding the wheel with one hand and conversing with the passenger beside him. If one took a look at his face, he might be reminded of someone famous, but who had long faded into legends of old. The robot’s official name was DCN-10, but most people called him “Meteor Man”. He seemed to be discussing about his favorite game, a game about “blue bombers”, to the girl sitting to his right.
The girl sitting on his right seemed to be in her teens, yet her attire seemed to state that there was something more. She dressed in blue robes that turned purple at the edges, much like her hair, which came down to her shoulders. She wore two earrings, depicting the sun and the moon, suggesting a connection to the Astral Arts. She sat in her seat with a blank expression, staring out the window and not uttering a word.
“…and when he shot the capsule, with only a sliver of life remaining, he defeated the nefarious Doctor Wily and saved the world! Isn’t Mega Man amazing?” Meteor Man finished, with the type of excitement often seen in fans dedicated to their beloved game, such as those who loved shooting games with little girls or games about accelerating upwards with rockets. The girl didn’t respond, regarding the topic with disinterest and went back to staring out the window. Sensing this rather cold reaction, Meteor Man sighed and went back to his tedious job of staring straight forward into the sandy horizon. Idle conversation seemed to be impossible with this woman. Meteor Man scratched his head. What did Oshiro tell him?
“Either she’s mute, or she’s doing it on purpose. If it’s the latter, then she’s doing a great job, because it’s irritating and annoying.” snapped an exhausted Dr. Oshiro to Meteor Man, right before his departure. “Oh, and the fancy moniker she goes by is Celeste Alaron. Just make sure she cooperates, understand?”
Before Meteor Man could contemplate more on the matter, the entire scenery around him became progressively darker. Looking above at the sun roof, massive storm clouds rolled in from the opposite direction, something he hadn’t noticed before. The entire front of the road became surrounded in a foggy haze, heavy enough to block his entire view. Desperately, he turned on the high beams, but the haze was too thick to see a difference. However, Meteor Man could hardly make out the outline of a large city in the distance. He floored the accelerator, heading straight to his destination.
Before long, the place known as the City of Haze towered above him.
The city reminded Meteor Man of the one time he visited Pharaoh Man’s tomb, during an excavation with Dr. Cossack. Old and broken, it mostly consisted of buildings that looked more like giant, windowed bricks, or nothing resembling a shape at all. However, the city in front of him was almost intact, surprisingly, since all the buildings looked well worn with age. Instead of producing the standard ruin feel, this city felt ominous and foreboding, giving the impression to “keep out”. Meteor Man parked the car right in front of the iron gate, which was wide open. Ironically, it was the only part of the city that looked inviting.
“Nice place, huh.” said Meteor Man, wondering what idiot would bother to build a city in the middle of a desert. He motioned for Celeste to come near, who was busy examining the city.
“Alright, remember; we search for any of the ten survivors, rescue them, and leave, okay? No touching ANYTHING unless you want to be hit by a thousand arrows or smashed by a giant spike wall.” Meteor Man instructed. Celeste rolled her eyes, giving the expression that he was clearly exaggerating. Meteor Man sighed, and walked towards the broken gates.
“Let’s see if whoever sent that distress signal is alive to begin with.” he muttered, kicking the door aside.
Celeste summoned a ball of light, and Meteor Man turned on his headlight.
Inside the city, hazy streets were filled with shops of all sizes, with stands directly bordering them. The stores looked antiquated and old, like something you would expect from the Victorian era. However, all the stands were barren and on the verge of falling apart. The entire scene looked normal, except for the massive litter of skeletons on the brick road. Some were in normal positions, such as sitting down on a bench, while others leaned precariously towards walls or were laid upon the street. The bones were bleached with white, and upon closer inspection, had no skull. Eerily, not a single skull was seen in sight. Meteor Man grimaced and kept walking. He’d already seen Skull Man multiple times before, so the uncanny sight didn’t bother him too much except for the obvious question of where their heads were. Celeste contained the same vacant expression on her face. They walked on, towards where the shadowy clouds were gathering.
In front of them stood a giant church, with cracked stained glass windows and a soaring spire, surrounded by dark clouds. Listening carefully, they could hear chanting in another tongue, coming from the dark interior of the church. Exchanging glances, Celeste and Meteor Man carefully walked inside.
Candles were placed in rows next to the pews, providing the only light in the room. Skeletons scattered themselves among the pews, once again having no heads. In the center of the room, nine crumpled balls of metal were scattered around. The strangest sight in the room wasn’t either of these sights, but at the altar in the front of the room.
A hooded figure stood in front of the marble altar with raised arms, hovering over something lying on the altar. The figure seemed to be chanting, but the words were unintelligible. In the right hand of the figure, a decorated knife ascended to the head level, and then clasped by both hands. Below the knife lay a brown haired woman, dressed in standard adventure attire, consisting of goggles on top of her head and a black leather jacket. She lay upon the altar with closed eyes, as if she was in a deep sleep. Recovering from his earlier shock at this bizarre sight, Meteor Man summoned a meteor and hurled it at the figure, just as the knife was beginning its fatal descent…
…And the knife launched towards the meteor, creating an explosion where the two connected in midair. The knife, losing momentum, fell to the floor with a clang. The figure turned around and let out a hollow, artificial laugh.
“I was wondering when my ‘audience’ would arrive.” taunted the figure. “Although I didn’t expect them to ruin the performance!” The figure cackled, and pulled out a gun from one of the pockets in the black robe. As soon as it made the motion of raising it, Celeste raised her hand and a red aura surrounded it. The area around the figure burst into a wreath of red flames, and it staggered back, his entire form brightly colored in a mix of orange and red. As Celeste lowered her hand, the cloak of crimson threw itself at her, barely missing her by inches as she swerved to the right, almost knocking Meteor Man over. Meteor Man, regaining his balance, raised his gaze with surprise to analyze what was in front of him.
The figure was a man, decorated in a dark purple suit with a red tie, with dark crimson hair. He held a rather large and advanced rifle in his hands, and aimed it towards his direction. Before Meteor Man could react, the rifle lit up and fired, impairing his vision to static and rendering him unable to move. He felt something pass by him to his left, and heard a gruesome drawing of blood. When his senses came to, he saw a pool of blood on his left, and Celeste clutching her right arm in pain. The man looked at his knife in his hand with a psychotic smirk, observing the smirch of red on the jeweled blade.
“Th-This blood… it’s much more potent than my original sacrifice!” he said, staring at his blade as if it was a diamond. He turned his gaze back to the two heroes, focusing more on the girl.
“It seems my prey has more worth than what I originally thought.” he said with a smile. “After all, your wonderful donation should hasten my plans tenfold- no, one HUNDRED fold!” He eyed Celeste with a peculiar look, and then closed his eyes in a dreamy expression.
“Just who are you, and what in Cossack’s beard are you doing?” yelled Meteor Man, nervously switching his gaze from the bloodied arm to the knife.
“The name? Nox Arcanum, the savior of your pitiful existence.” he said, casually flipping the knife in the air.
“What I was doing? I was almost finished with my sacrifice to the god, Boreas, until you impolitely interrupted me. Now I need to start all over, but this time…” Nox began to draw a bloody circle in the air in front of him with his knife. “I’ll have a better host. As for you…” He sniffed the air, and shook his head. “No, I can’t smell a single drop of blood on you. Useless.”
“Unlike your “partner”, your fate is already laid upon you. Just like your… counterparts.” Nox grinned, pointing at the scrap in the middle of the room. Realizing his “fate,” Meteor Man widened his eyes, and a glowing ball of rock formed in his right hand.
He smiled and looked towards Celeste, his knife almost at the peak of the circle.
“For you, I’ll savor every single moment of my knife heading straight into your abdomen. The blood splattering all over the altar, your heart racing to its final end, and the last strand of your life snapping away.” Nox said happily, returning to his blissful expression. “Thanks to the amount of power contained in your body, the sacrifice should be enough to summon the deity. And when that happens…” Nox couldn’t control himself; his entire body doubled over and quivered. “His life… will be forfeit as well!” he barked, laughing insanely at the very idea.
Celeste, clutching her wounded arm, began to charge another spell, but Nox finished the circle, which reduced her attack to a fizzle of blue sparks. Just as he was about to dash forward, a flurry of star shaped projectiles rained down from the sky, slicing small tears into his suit. Nox pulled out a pistol and shot wildly at the air, clipping Meteor Man in the shoulder and sending him spiraling downwards towards one of the pews. Meteor Man launched his remaining meteor towards the ground, and the resulting explosion pushed him upwards above Nox. Nox casually walked a few paces back, pointing his knife at the spot he was going to land. Suddenly, a gust of wind sent him lurching over Nox, with a look of surprise. Meteor Man launched another meteor at Nox, which smashed him towards the back of the church, while Meteor Man landed and collapsed in front of the altar.
Celeste stood back on her feet, covered with a white aura surrounding what appeared to be a crystal ball in her right hand. Meteor Man rose, hoisting the girl next to him on his shoulder, and then leaped towards Celeste, landing in a cautious fighting stance beside her. Nox casually stood and wiped the dust from his shoulder, looking unfazed and entertained.
“Nice trick.” Nox chuckled, fixing his rumpled tie. “I admit I was caught off guard by your fast recovery, but I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen again.” Following this statement, he drew three more bloody circles in quick succession, one on the ground and two in the air. Celeste and Meteor Man froze in place, immobilized to the ground. Nox punched the circle on the ground, creating a tremor which reverberated throughout the entire church. Immediately, the walls began to crumble and groan, and the entire church began to fall apart.
Satisfied with his work, Nox walked toward his soon-to-be-victims, knife in hand. The ceiling was on the verge of collapsing, and the center slowly tipped inward, threatening to cave in. He dashed recklessly towards Celeste with blinding speed, grabbing her and tossing her straight through the already weakened door, forcibly sending her outside. Meteor Man could only watch in horror as the aged stone ceiling above formed the shape of a V and descended upon him, columns collapsing in sequence and statues reducing themselves to dust. He hastily took what looked to be a neon sign from his pocket compartment, and grasped it in his and the unconscious girl’s hand with all his might, closing his optical sensors while everything around him turned to dust. There was a single flash, and then complete darkness.
Outside of the church, the storm began to worsen. Rain fell to the ground in waves, drenching the entire city. Celeste rose slowly, while the red eyes of Nox stared at her from the growing shroud of fog. Nox ignored the collapsing building behind him, and gazed upon her with contempt.
“I might have miscalculated the extent of your power, magician.” taunted Nox, tossing his blade into the air. “Magicians are supposed to be entertainers, yet you’re the worst I’ve seen.” he sneered, absorbing more blood from his knife. “Why, it almost feels like… Nox caught his blade, preparing to draw another pentacle. “There’s no doubt about it. You’re holding back, aren’t you?”
Silence. Nox sighed and raised the knife to the pentacle’s original position. Suddenly, several jagged streaks of light struck the raised knife, and a deafening roar rebounded throughout the city. Nox’s entire body flashed, and his entire body shook as more bolts appeared from the clouds above. A torrent of water rushed towards his stunned body, drenching him and pushing him towards the remains of the destroyed church. Celeste lowered the glowing crystal ball in her left hand, averted her gaze and ran away from the fallen figure, heading for the entrance of the city.
After what had seemed to be miles, the rusted iron gates could be seen in the distance among the rain, seemingly persuading her to leave. She could see the dark outline of the car a few paces away, her one ticket to freedom. Her other ticket was nothing more than a few broken wires and switches, thanks to Nox. Just as she passed the gate, she froze in her tracks, enveloped in another pentacle. She sighed and looked behind her, charging up her crystal ball.
Nox, now looking more psychotic than before, ran towards Celeste at a ferocious speed. His suit had tears all over, and his hair sparked with electricity, but the wide smile on his face remained unchanged. Celeste blindly fired fireballs, icicles, and anything to impede him. Nox sidestepped the first row of projectiles, jumping over the icicles and gathering speed. Celeste aimed a burst of earth on the ground, morphing into jagged stalagmites and creating an impassable blockade. The grasp of the pentacle weakened and faded away, just as Nox smashed through the blockade with his fist. The resulting aftershock and debris blasted Celeste sideways onto the trunk of the car, collapsing heavily onto the ground.
Immediately, Nox grabbed Celeste by neck and slammed her against the trunk.
“Why should we bother with an altar?” He raised his knife steadily, still stained with blood. “I’m positive that cars provide the same effect!” The knife hovered in the air for a moment, and plunged towards the heart of his victim. In panic, Celeste dropped the crystal ball in her right hand, which landed under Nox, and concentrated, staring at the still-darkened sky. A single beam of light pierced through the black heavens, lighting a line through Nox’s exposed back. His face contorted with pain, and he flinched, holding the knife in place, hand shaking. Several more lines pierced through his back, all piercing the crystal ball underneath, which began to shine brightly with each beam collected. It flashed for a brief second, and released a cone shaped wave of energy in his direction, consuming his entire figure in white.
His hold now released, Celeste could only see a body consumed in flames, along with what seemed like the entire frontal border of the city. She sighed with heavy breath, shuttered, and collapsed on the soft desert sand, next to the smoldering ball. The sun dazzled with radiance, lighting the remains of the city for the first time in decades.
Epilogue
8:15 PM, Sept. 11 20XX
Helig Castle
“The Chaos Theatre has been destroyed.”
Sam had kept driving away from the old theater. Whether he wanted to tell him the news himself or not, Thatguy would learn before long, and he figured it was better to tell him sooner than later. He arrived at the castle, Thatguy was sitting at a table looking a paper over with Galaxy and Ventus nearby. Sam slowly walked in, wondering how he would react, or how badly he would react. Nevertheless he told Thatguy the news.
The king looked up from his paper and at Sam, “...I don't know why the news of a random theater being destroyed concerns me.”
If Sam was the type to do an over the top double take, he probably would have. Thatguy cared deeply for his theater, even if he hadn't been in contact with him for a while he figured that wouldn't have changed.
Ventus shared a similar look of confusion before he decided to speak up, “Well up to this point in time you always wanted to know everything about the place, considering you owned it...”
Thatguy remained in silence for a few moments before breaking out into a light chuckle, “Don't worry about it, the place wasn't important to me anymore anyway.”
“You also have quite a few assassins on your tail. Might want to do something about that.” Sam added.
“Really now?” Thatguy looked around the rather vacant room, “In that case I suppose a few more bodyguards wouldn't hurt anyone...”
6:30 AM, Sept. 12 20XX
Agorix City
The building seemed to appear overnight. For the state of disrepair Agorix was in, it was surprising for the citizens to discover a new large polished building standing in the middle of the city. People frolicked to the new building, unsure of what it was for. Huge red letters stood on top of the building, lighting up the city. Seeing a small crowd form under the building, a set of sliding doors opened near the top where a balcony protruded from the skyscraper.
A figure walked out on the balcony, it was safe to say that it wasn't a human, even if it was in humanoid shape. It's skin was close to pitch black, blue hair running past its neck. Green and blue clothing ran down its frame, with a yellow mining hat sat on top of its head. One hand had a firm grasp of a dark green cane and a smirk lay across his face. The figure looked down to the crowd and began a small speak to the curious onlookers. Mentioning how in the time of war, this company would give products to the people at a constant rate. And who knows, with all the violence going around the products could help them survive in a cruel world.
TGOT Incorporated was open for business.
9:43 PM, Sept. 12 20XX
Port Town
Tsukiyomaru tapped his foot impatiently. Something big was happening, he knew it. He had watched the news of the new war beginning to erupt. However, he had believed that he wouldn't be affected. His city would be safe. There was the assassination of the King of England. A name he saw in the papers a year ago. If he just stayed low, he could maintain his city. After the failure of summoning Noxium, it was probably the best choice. And it was going splendid.
Until the Mecha Dragon was destroyed. While the robot's destruction wasn't a big loss to Tsuki himself, it did open his eyes. He wasn't safe with his control. Someone was trying to tear him down. With the death of other prominent figures, and even the news of Thatguy's old base burning down, he became paranoid. Even if he didn't care for them, he knew that even the people on top of the food chain weren't safe. He didn't think he couldn't handle any threats, he figured he had the ability to do just that. However, he never knew if their would be an ambush now. Due to the paranoia, Tsuki had hired a bodyguard, someone he knew could hold himself in a fight and keep a sharp look out for things. Tsuki turned around as he heard a group of footsteps coming into his office. The guard had arrived.
Tsuki smiled as the doors slid open, “It's nice to finally see you Antares.”
10:04 PM, Sept 12 20XX
Agorix City
Scrap Metal looked out of a window, a small flying drone flew behind him. A mere sentry robot he corrupted earlier. It relayed a small message. Emmisary had been killed in battle against Paladin
The robot barely reacted, “Pathetic. And he called himself a leader.” he glanced behind him at the other two robots standing, “And these simply won't do. I need more of them...” his gaze returned to the sentry drone, “Give me info on where I can find a large amount of robots. And don't keep me waiting.”
12:43 AM, Sept 13 20XX
Unknown Location
There was a blinding flash. Smoke filled the area, a small fire had broken out. A large crater stood in the center of the smoke, and in the crater sat a small pod. The door slid open, the figure inside obviously confused. Its head was shaking, unsure about what just happened. A robotic figure, Neo Trollman. The crash landing caused the robot's memory banks to malfunction, and now it just stood in the crater it created, lost and confused. Without a choice it began walking forward, hoping to get somewhere.
ERROR IN FINDING COORDINATES
“Get out.”
“Please, you have no say over what happens anymore.”
“I never should have trusted you.”
“You never should have.”
“I'll fix this. I can get out of this.”
“Really, you can't. No one will know what's happening. All you have now is a little voice that won't shut up. Every other thing in your life is now mine, and mine alone.”
With that said...
Round 4
Part 1
1:00 PM Sept 18 20XX
Unknown City
The room was empty, save for a single man pacing back and forth. The man had short blonde hair and was dressed in a normal suit. Or it would be a regular suit if there wasn't guns strapped here and there. He stopped pacing for a moment and looked forward. Nope, no one had made their way into the room, he was still alone.
“The hell is taking him so long?” The man said out loud. As if on cue, the door behind him slid open. One of his hands went straight for his gun. Another man walked in, wearing a full suit of armor and a chain-mail cloak. By all accounts, he shouldn't be able to move due to the weight, yet he managed.
“Take your hands off the gun.” The newcomer said as he took his place behind a desk, “You know I brought you here...Solar Equinox was it?”
Solar's hand slowly left the gun as he sat down in a chair, “You never gave me any details in the letter I received from you.”
The man behind the desk began to streak his beard, “You're a weapons dealer are you not?”
Solar's face turned into a small smile, maybe he finally had some business.
The man continued, “The war a year ago, I'm sure you still remember it.”
“No. It has been completely wiped from my memory.” Solar rolled his eyes.
The man kept going, ignoring the sarcastic remark, “From what I've heard, your sales didn't do so well. Who knows what other effects the war has had on you.”
Solar seemed annoyed by the question, “The war single handily destroyed the government of the entire planet. All the government is now one egotistical 'King of the World'” He seemed to sound more disgusted with each word, “And even then the rest of the world has their own stupid leaders. There's not much I can do about it, but the whole thing is a mess.”
Behind the desk, the man smiled, “You know, I'm a little bit of a weapon's dealer myself.” his eyes moved towards the guns strapped to Solar's body, “Not the same type of weaponry of course, but I have my own trade.”
“I'm not interested in buying.”
“No, no, no. Just listen. We both have a large variety of weapons out our disposal. I'm sure you saw the large building outside the office. You wouldn't believe what type of creature we're brewing up in there.” he pounded his desk, “This is the kick start you need to fix the world. Destiny is at hand, we will strike back and take control of this broken government!”
The thoughts began to fly through Solar's head, every moment he seemed to enjoy it more. He was putting his trade to good use, and he could fix what has gone wrong.
The man behind the desk stood up and reached his hand out, “What do you say? With the army I'm building a few more acquaintances, we could have the powerhouse we need.”
Solar paused and shook the man's hand. “I'll need to grab some supplies from my home though. But I'll be back as soon as I can-” he paused for a moment, “You know, I don't think I caught your actual name.”
“Same name as the company. Orange Juice.”
Solar nodded, thinking of how strange the name is before he walked out the door. Orange Juice turned his chair around and looked out a window, “Broken government? Is that what he called it?” he smirked, “Whatever, it got his attention either way.” With that, he stood up and left the small building and turned to the bigger one. His army wasn't quite done yet.
Part 2
It was as if the entire world had felt the shock wave. No one knew what had happened, scientists around the world were investigating for the past few days trying to find an explanation for it. The shock wave didn't cause any physical damage, but they figured that something must have happened. And they were going to find out.
4:36 AM Sept 22 20XX
“The Oshiro Zone”
Dr. Oshiro was one of those scientists who were working on an answer to the occurrence. Normally his priorities would be elsewhere, like what on earth happened to Nido and Meteor Man a few weeks ago as the answer he had received from Meteor Man was very disjointed. But Thatguy had contacted a group of scientists and was willing to pay them a hefty amount of money to find the answer.
Oshiro himself had been sitting at the computer for six hours now, tapping his fingers on the keyboard as he kept watching the exact moment the shock wave took place.
“As if this couldn't be more boring.” the doctor muttered under his breath. Though something caught his attention, a slight ripple in the sky. Oshiro paused the short video and stared at it for a moment. He looked at the area where it was located, a large highway. Oshiro smiled and slowly reached for a phone, “I think I got it. There's dimensional activity over the major highway.”
10:30 AM Sept 22 20XX
Major Highway
The highway had been emptied. No one wanted to take risks, a sentry plane was sent to fly over the highway and see if the ripple was still there.
The pilot found something a lot more then that. A small portal was now floating in the sky. The pilot picked up a communicator.
“Are you there Ventus?”
“I am, what's going on J?”
“You might want to get someone else out here...”
11:54 AM Sept 22 20XX
Undisclosed Military Base
A large group of troops stood at attention as a man walked in front of them. He was a relatively young man wearing rather casual clothes, a red t-shirt and jeans, a white scarf was wrapped around his neck and had black hair. As he walked in front of them, he started tossing a potato in his hand.
“I've received news from one of Thatguy's men that the shock wave from a couple days back was in fact a dimensional disturbance, and if TGOT's technology is to be believed, there is a hostile force trying to break in. As we don't have the technology to close the portal outright, we're going to go in there and kick the intruder's ass.” he caught the potato and took a large bite out of it before carelessly tossing it on the ground.
The troops responded all at once, “Yes Commander Ecanik!”
“Someone trying to invade our world?” an older voice rang out. The man turned around as he was face to face with an old man wearing red armor, a cybernetic monocle and a green cap.
The man smirked, “That's what I was told Rivera. But now that you're here, why don't you make yourself useful and come along.”
The old man slowly nodded, “Very well Mark.”
Mark Ecanik's face turned into a smirk, “We're off men! Our destination is the major highway!”
1:23 PM Sept 22 20XX
Major Highway
The troops stood in a line, guns ready everyone looking at the portal. Mark stood in the back watching all of his men, Rivera to his side a few sentry robots in front of him. They all stood in silence waiting for the moment when the enemy would make his move. They waited for around ten minutes before a blue robotic hand emerged from the portal.
Ecanik rose a hand, “Don't fire yet! I want to see what this intruder is made of.”
The rest of the body followed suit. It was definitely a blue robot with red eyes and a large fan in the middle of his body. The robot's eyes looked over it's surrounding.
“Yes, this will do nicely.” it said.
Mark rose his voice, “Tell me who you are and what you want now.”
The robot's eyes looked down at the troops, “I'm Airman James. Ruler of Airtopia. I have decided I'm gonna conquer Cutopia.” he looked down at the troops, “Let's start right here.”
“Fire at will!”
The order had been made, bullets began to fire towards James, each one seemingly useless against his metallic body. Miniature tornadoes flew out from the robot's body towards the troops, sending them flying up into the sky and down onto the concrete below. The bodies of a few troops lay scattered and broken on the highway as more tornadoes began to fly out. One soldier in particular held a mini-gun and began to fire it at Airman James. The bullets left slight dents in the robot's body and a few made contact with the large fan, causing a large clanking noise to ring out. In a rage, the robot spotted the soldier and fired a large tornado at him, he was unable to avoid it and was fired straight up into the air as the tornado took out troops standing behind him. However, as the troops behind him were either wounded or died on impact, this one in particular landed on his feet with little to no problem.
Mark stood watching the battle unfold. Rivera pointed towards the robot and the sentry robots began to fire at it, like the troops before it, the bullets barely left a dent in the robot's body, however one shot managed to shoot one of James's eyes out, causing a crack to appear.
“Just a lucky shot!” the robot let out a metallic snarl, “But I still have my secret weapon! WHAHAHAHA!”
As Airman James's laugh rang out, one of its hands turned into an open cannon, from the cannon a large volley of fire shot down onto the troops below. Most of them were killed as the pillars of fire rained down upon them. Rivera and Mark started to back up and the old man's robots were also consumed by the fire. The two looked ahead at the ten or so troops remaining from the original fifty they had brought. Mark recognized one of the troops, who was trying to put out the fire as the same one who survived the fall.
“Rivera. Give me the name of the soldier putting out the fire.” Mark demanded.
“I believe it's Lt. Jonathan Mitchell.”
“Huh. I'll keep that in mind for later.”
The robot noticed Jonathan's efforts and without warning flew downwards towards the soldier. He didn't know what hit him, his right hand was caught in the fan, it was ripped off immediately. Before the robot could continue, it felt a surge of pain at the back of it's head. It turned around and noticed Rivera who shot James as a distraction. Before the robot could focus back on Jonathan, two more troops dragged him away from the highway to safety. Noticing his depleting troops, Mark slipped a red and white rod into his hand. Rivera took out a fire extinguisher and tried putting out the fire. James responded to this by firing a tornado at the old man's direction. As if on cue, Ecanik activated a set of jets in his boots and flew up to Airman James, the rod turning into a sword as he did. Without warning, he plunged the sword into the robot's fan, causing a loud noise to be heard, and for the fan to stop running. Seeing the broken fan, the robot punched Mark in the face, sending him and the sword towards the ground. He landed in pain on the ground, but still conscious.
“You think you can stop me?! I'll kill you and then go on to fight in the ultimate deathmatch!” the robot taunted, as another stream of fire began to rain from the cannon right over Mark. In a panic, Mark began to fumble with a device on his wrist as fire consumed him.
Rivera grimaced as he looked up at the robot and began to take aim with a nail gun, but paused for a moment when he saw Ecanik appear right behind the robot. The old man smirked as he started to fire nails at Airman James.
“You haven't learned your lesson by now? I am the true rival of Cutopia! I know I will win! This world doesn't know what will hit them, but they wil-”
The robot was cut off as a laser pierced right through it's body. It fell to the ground, broken beyond repair. Mark lowered the rod which fired the laser. The two men were in silence for a few moments before Mark spoke up.
“Contact Thatguy. We took care of the threat.”
Part 3
5:00 PM Sept 22 20XX
Agorix City
“...The military have killed the threat, but not without soldier causalities. It has also been reported that the attack had to do with a dimensional rift caused by the shockwave scientists were previously looking into...
The large telescreen continued to run, as people watched the city news from the streets below. But one figure began to walk away from the site.
“Information on dimensional activity has been acquired.”
“Very good. Did the source tell you the ones who fought off this apparent attack?”
“Affirmative. The names were listed as 'Mark Ekanik' and 'Mortimer Rivera'”
“Find them...but don't harm them. If the sources on the names are correct, you might find it wise to make allies with them, they might prove vital in your mission Alexis.”
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9:23 AM Sept 23 20XX
“The Oshiro Zone”
Oshiro sighed “Nido, did you really have to bring your cousin's kid to the lab?”
The younger girl grinned, “C'mon Doc, Alvin is a good kid. Plus his father is away on a business trip, so I volunteered to look after him while he was gone.”
“Weren't you almost sacrificed by some psycho last week?”
“Yeah, why?”
The doctor paused before shaking his head, “...Never mind. He can stay as long as he doesn't start tampering with my robots.”
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11:54 AM Sept 23 20XX
Helig Castle
The throne room was near empty, Thatguy had specially asked the low paying guards to step out of the room while the conference was being held. Thatguy sat on the throne with Galaxy nearby, on the other end of the room stood Ventus, guarding the door. And in the middle of the room stood a figure who hadn't seen the inside of the castle before.
“...And while some of your products seem very...pointless to put it bluntly,” Thatguy continued, “You seem very dedicated to your trade, and with a large variety of weapons at our disposal, threats could be easily contained, especially with the 'Airtopia' incident the other day.”
The other figure grinned, “I'm glad TGOT Inc can be of service Cap'n Thatguy.” the nickname caused the king to raise an eyebrow, “Just toss me an order and we'll get to building some spud launchers for your troops or something. I might even throw in some banana blasters just for you.” While Ventus was finding the whole scene amusing, both Thatguy and Galaxy seemed more confused then anything else.
“...Let's just stick with conventional weapons for the time being.” Thatguy muttered.
“Yeah, sure why not. I think I might call this Team Guy...has a nice ring to it, with our names and all.”
Thatguy simply rolled his eyes.
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11:43 PM Sept 23 20XX
LOCATION NOT FOUND
“Out of everyone on this freaki-”
A small chuckle was heard, silencing the other voice, “That does not matter Kirbysonic.” Another chuckle, this time it was louder, “It feels very nice to have a body once more...even if it's a limited time.”
“So, when do we get to the main event?”
“In due time my friend. Even with a physical body, I lack the power to end this now. You have a simple task, cause general destruction my short friend. As the world slowly falls into ruin, I will absorb it's power until the judgment day has arrived.”
Kirbysonic smirked, “Yes my lord.”
“Don't think I won't do my share. A disguise such as this shouldn't be put to waste after all.” the other figure's eyes moved towards the night sky, “Very soon, the end of everything will be upon us.”