~Admiral Frouzt begins to decend the loading ramp~

Frouzt: But you know.......

~Frouzt's face starts to ripple and distort as it turns into the face of Clyde~

Clyde: This gift....

~As Clyde steps up to Fontane's face. Clyde's face then morphs into a mirror vision of Fontane's~

Fake Fontane: Comes wit' a price

Fontane: What kind of price?

Fake Fontane: Four million

Fontane: FOUR MILLION?! You must think I'm some kind of moron! Nothin YOU have to sell me is worth fo~The fake Fontane turns back to the ship and inputs a code on a number pad. More mist pours out of the ship. The sides then unhatch and fall over with a loud *THUNK*. Fontane steps closer and makes out a large figure. The mist settles and the figure turns out to be a giant, Metal Gear~

Fake Fontane: The Metal Gear Class-A Assault Unit. Otherwise dubbed as the Armament Gear. This Gear, is the only gear of it's kind. ~Turns back to Fontane~ Four Million

Fontane: Wanna tell me more 'bout dis scrap metal, Gambit?

~The other Fontane smirks. His body begins to ripple and distort until it becomes the form of a ninja wearing a black, skin-tight bodysuit and a large, diamond-like, vest. The ninja wears a special, diamond oxygen mask. A caption reading "CRYSTAL GAMBIT (voiced by Doug Stone)" appears~

Gambit: Certainly......The Armament Gear......Is Legion's ultimate gear in terms of raw offensive power...It has not yet reached mass production and as such.......Is completelly unique.....

Fontane: Get on wit' it

Gambit: Feh......No Patience, eh?........That's not a good thing Mr. Fontane...........If you must know........This gear is capable of supplying up to twenty-five passengers for up to three months.......It has a state of the art defence system......Radar jammers.....Steath camoflauge.....A highly advanced rail gun sysem..........Capable of destroying some of the most heavily....Armored battleships.......It has eight pairs of pod missles.....Four vulcan cannons.......A fully stocked armory.....And it's even capable........Of space travel.......

~Fontane's eyes spark at the words "space travel"~

Fontane: Well, well....Ya done good. I jus' gots one question. Hows' a weapon dis 'portant jus' go up an disappear. I'm sure Clyde would notice somethin like dis missin'

~Gambit Smirks~

~We now flashback to deep space where a fleet of Legion warships are being headed by a Legion Flagship and two Carriers. Inside the captain's quarters sits Froust on an ice chair in the middle of the room with his feet up on a table. He smokes a cigar with a wide grin on his face. Every inch of the room is completelly covered in ice. A tv monitor on a wall activates and the face of Crystal Gambit appears~

Gambit: Good evening.......Admiral......

Frouzt: Ah, Gambit. I apologize that we could'nt fit you onto the flagship, but we need someone to watch that Metal Gear, and you're one of the most reliable soldiers I've ever fought alongside

Gambit: Thank you sir......That means alot.....I am honored........But back to bussiness.....It was reported that a...........Major asteroid feild blocks our route to Partur........I recommend new co~A loud thunderous noise is heard as the ship rocks back and forth. Frouzt is thrown to the floor. The lights go out and emergency lights and sirens switch on. As Frouzt regains his footing, some more rumbling occurs but less intense~

Frouzt: What in the world?!

Gambit: Sir! One of our ships!...........It's gone.....

Frouzt: Gone?! What do you mean gone?!

Gambit: Sir.......I think you should see this for yourself......

~The moniter turns to fuzz for a second before footage of a huge asteroid field appears getting closer, and closer, and closer still~

Frouzt: Holy!

~Frouzt kicks down his door and rushes towards the bridge. As he enters the room he witnesses a meteor smash a warship to bits. Frouzt grabs a soldier by the collar~

Frouzt: THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?! EVASIVE MENUEVERS!

~The soldier runs toward the navigatin system and begins frantically pressing buttons. The ship jerks forward as the afterburners are activated and the ship rocks back and forth as it swurvs around giant space rocks. Frouzt jumps off the upper part of the bridge towards a large window so he can get a better view. A hologram of Gambit appears next to the admiral~

Gambit: Sir! We have to get out of thi-GHAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!! ~The hologram deactivates. Frouzt quickly turns his eyes towards Gambit's carrier right before the wing is smashed by an asteroid sending the transport into the deep reaches of space. Frouzt begins pouding on the glass which begins turning it to ice~

Frouzt: No! NOOO!!!

~end flashback~

Gambit: Oh.........They won't expect a thing.......Heh hah heh ha........

Fontane: Hm.....Boy you sure did yer homewoik. ~Fontane holds out is hand~ Four mil?

~Gambit grins and shakes Fontane's hand~

Gabit: Four......Mil....

OoC: For those of you confused, think of whenever Gambit pauses, he's taking a breath from his mask

*Meanwall with Fred & the gang*

Fred: Well, looks like we landed on planet Par... por... (Damn it, I forgot its name, too >.> I'll be damned if I double-check, though. Alright, I lied; I had to check something else and accidentally found the name.) Partur. Yeah, we did that.

Rocky: Yay, my friends are on this planet. Reuniting with them will be joyous.

Fred: You shut your damn mouth.

Rocky looks down in quiet anguish, vowing SOME DAY to exact his revenge on Fred for his harsh words. Just then, there's some loud clanking going on inside the ship, but it's coming from the thrusters. You're supposed to gasp. ...Did you gasp? Noice. Anyway, after some more clanking, GORE inspects it out of curiosity and an apparent death wish.

GORE: The thrusters are clanking. This is peculiar. *starts pounding on the thrusters with his metal fist. If he used his gorilla fist, that'd be silly.

Fred: Hey, watch it with your metal fist, jerk; you're gonna muss my ride, HOLMES!

GORE: Don't say that anymore. Anyway, it appears the problem has loosened itself from the thrusters due to me beating on it.

Out tumble Kane and X-66, who had stowed away in the Lithium Debater's thrusters as it took off from the CIA vessel. They appear pretty much unharmed even though they had an EPIC battle in that hole.

Fred: Um, what the hell? We pushed like 50,000 things onto you guys. You should be pancakes, but instead you're DUMBCAKES. Yeah, that just happened.

Kane: It turns out me and X-66 are immune to things that cause us death without the proper amount of plot elements fulfilled.

Fred: That's weird and kinda lame.

Kane: Yeah.

Fred: So, KANE, I guess your name is, what happened to El Mundo down there?

X-66: Actually, he-

Fred: *glares at X-66* I don't remember askin' you a gah damn thing.

X-66: Oop. *shuts his mouth tight*

Kane: Well, after he died and stuff, his body... vanished or something and all that was left was that sword he kept inside his wrestler's leotard that he totally always wears. Then the sword flew out into space where it'll probably be picked up by someone eventually.

GORE: Hey, that's kinda like in Galaxy Go-

Fred: WHOA, GORE! Whoa... whoa....... whoa. Breaking the fourth wall like that is NOT FUNNY. Right, Golem?

Golem: I'm in Japan.

Rocky: Golem! You're alive! I thought you got eaten by the ALIEN and died due to it.

Golem: No, I'm actually still dead, but I'll be back in the next OG for revenge... of salesmen. Of saaalesmen. Ooooof SALESmen! Anyway, bye. *gets sucked into a black hole that disappears afterward*

GORE: Weird.

Fred: Yep.

Rocky: Mmhm.

Fred: Oh, right, I need to exact vengeance on your ass, Kane.

Kane: For what?

Fred: For standing in front of me to knock me down and holding a knife to me, ya big JERK.

Kane: Oh, you're just mad because I killed all your clones.

Fred: Clones? Listen, pal, I don't know WHO the hell those guys were, but they weren't my clones. It was like someone asked if the real Fred would please stand up and they all stood up like they were Fred, but guess what? THEY WEREN'T! There can be only one Fred. Except when there was two, then there could be only two Freds. There's only one now, though. That would be me. Fred. YA PAYIN' ATTENTION?! JUST ONE FRED! NOT TWO, NOT THREE, AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON FOUR! JUST ONE FRED! Anyway, I only let you think you had me cornered with that knife to make Rocky look cool. I could beat you with one punch.

Kane: Psh and psh once more. You fail and that's all there is to it, NARUTO.

Fred: ...Fine, if that's the way you wanna play this game of games, FINE! Said "fine" twice, but that doesn't matter right now cuz my arm, my arm, my arm, my arm, MY ARM, MY ARM, I SUMMON UP THE POWER OF THE FRED HAND! *jazzy interlude* *his right arm bursts with a glow of gold*

Kane: ...I'm not scared of that.

Fred: Oh yeah? Well, prepare for me to Dragon Kick your ass into the Milky Way (Milky Way). *a roulette wheel appears outta nowhere and Fred poises his fist back since he's about to give Kane the gist of it. It spins and lands on Dragon Kick. Fred proceeds to sweep his leg up into a powerful kick that sends Kane into the Milky Way. Like... literally.*

Kane: *floatin' in space* This... this is just terribly inconvenient.

Fred: Bitchin'.

Rocky: Wow, that was neat.

Fred: It better have been; it cost me two roulette orbs.

OoC: Just stimulating the Fredconomy.

Fontane: Now then, Gambit, Let me introduce you to some of my... friends.

*Fontane walks up to the car, and opens the back seat door, to his surprise no one is there.*

Fontane: Ahahaha... Haaa. Orinfall, where are our friends?

Orinfall: Back here boss, see loo-

*Orinfall freezes up, he slowly looks from the empty back seat to Fontane, then to Llefniro.*

Orinfall: They must have uh.... escaped eh ha ha...

*Fontane pulls out a gigantic Revolver, bigger than his own head, and shoots orinfall between the eyes. Orinfall slumps to his seat, and slowly evaporates into a pool of blood and ADAM.*

Fontane: Good help is just too hard to come by. Llefniro, Gambit, We're going to look for some batchigaloops.

*Fontane cracks his neck, while Gambit breathes omniously.*


~~~

*Killface, Barnaby Jones, and Doc Hatchet run through the woods not stopping for anything, as they assume Fontane is on their trail.*

Killface: WHERE ARE WE GOING?

Doc Hatchet: There's a dam not far from here, if we can reach it I may be able to contact some friends for transport.

*They run past many trees charred by a fire which had apparently existed recently, through a large swamp, and came upon a log cabin.*

Killface: Doc, I know we need to hurry, but we have virtually no supplies, we need to check this house for some weapons or food.

Doc: Fine.... Fine. I will stand look out while you and Barnaby forage for supplies.

*Barnaby and Killface enter the house, while Doc stands at the door ready to KILL. Upon entering the house, the house looks long abandoned, overgrown with moss and dead bushes. They see a back door, which they open to find a graveyard. They walk through the graveyard, seeing multiple gravestones engraved with disturbing sayings, i.e Memento Mori, among others. At the end of the graveyard, they see a crypt.*

Killface: Should we defile this grave for our own selfish needs?

Barnaby: Of course we should.

*Killface kicks down the door, takes a step forward, and........ trips down a large flight of stairs. Barnaby rushes in to see what happened and also trips down the stairs. Upon reaching the bottom, they see a coffin suspended on the ceiling.dangling from the coffin is a large sword, encrusted with rubies.*

Kilface: I.... can't..... reach!

Barnaby: Maybe this switch will do something.....

*Barnaby pulls the switch, immediately the coffin falls from the ceiliong on top of killface. Upon closer inspection, the sword is held to the coffin with many chains, apparently holding the lid closed as well. Barnaby grabs the hilt of the sword, ripping it off the casket. the lid falls off, revealing an ancient corpse. Tatooed to its head is the phrase, " The debt that all men pay."*

Barnaby: Killface, I got the sword!

*Killface knocks the coffin off of himself*

Killface: I hate you so much.

*The two leave the crypt and enter the graveyard, they approach the door to the house but it is locked.*

Killface: Odd...

*A large cracking sound comes from the crypt, slowly, a skeletal hand reaches from out of the darkness, followed by a head, then a body. The corpse which they had seen in the crypt had somehow come to life after it had been disturbed.*

Corpse: NnnnnGhHHh.

*As Barnaby and killface back away, more hands emerge from the ground, grabbing them, effectively stopping them from moving, slowly corpses pile out of their graves, heading for the two.*

Killface: Going to freak out now.

~~~

Fontane: Alright Gambit, Do you and Llefniro get the plan?

Llefniro: Yes my grace.

*Gambit morphs into a helicopter pilot, and nods his head slowly*

~~~

Doc Hatchet: What is taking those two so long?!

*Doc enters the house, then enters the graveyard, his jaw drops.*

Doc: Oh jeez.

Killface: HELP US DOC!

Barnaby: God damned terrorists with their god damned zombies...

*Doc whips out his pistol and shoots the hands holding Killface and Barnaby, exhausting his last two bullets. Killface charges at a group of zombies and tackles them, then rips off their heads. Barnaby takes a swing at a zombie with his sword, cutting his head off. The zombie falls to the ground, then stands up again, walking twice as quickly as it did before.*

Killface: ITS NOT WORKING, EVERY TIME WE KILL THEM THEY GET STRONGER!

Doc: RUN FOR IT!!

*Doc, Barnaby, and Killface bolt out of the graveyard, through the house, and out into the woods, chased by a horde of zombies. More and more bodies dig their way up from unmarked graves in the forest, giving chase to our heroes. As they run further, they see a large gate.*

Doc: We're f*cked.

Killface: You guys are like the brothers i never wanted.... goodbye.

*The zombies enclose around them, but suddenly barnaby notices something on the gate.*

Barnaby: What's this.....

*A large opening on top of a pedestal begged barnaby to stab it, and so he did, the sword pierced into rock, and the gate opened, the trio rushed through, and the gate closed.*

~Doc, Killface and Barnaby start running along a trail, zombies begin clambering out of the ground as they run. Doc realizes that they're heading towards the dam. Doc runs ahead of the other two then stops them~

Barnaby: What's the big deal?! Havn't you noticed the zombies?!

Doc: Listen, we have to get to that dam. But-

Killface: Then let's hurry to that dam, post-haste!

Doc: BUT......Fontane could be waiting there

Barnaby: Yeah, I kinda don't want to get thrown into a trash compacter...

Doc: Listen, we have to get to that dam. I have a friend who can get rid of them zombies real fast

Killface: But-

Doc: But nothin, we get to the dam or die trying

~A camara atop the dam films the scene and relays it to a small, secret room in the S.P.E.A.R., Clyde sits, grinning, amid a sea of moniters each transmitting a different scene~

Clyde: Oh this is an amusing sight! If Hatchet can't convince Fontane who his real murderer was, We might not see the good Doc alive for much longer! How entertaining

???: Clyde, your trivial human amusements are childish at best

~Clyde, not surprised, turns his head to eye the shadowy figure of the Hooded Man~

Clyde: It's difficult not to laugh, things are running like clockwork. It's as if I truly am blessed! Soon the UNIVERSE will be reformed in my image!

Hooded Man: Don't be ignorant on how you've come to obtain such power, Clyde

~The hooded man regresses back into the shadows~

Clyde: And you don't forget that I was the one needed to obtain said power...

~The time, Sundown/set which casts a golden-brown light on the area. The place, an old, drecrepid dam. Hatchet =pants heavily as he dashes towards a payphone in the middle of the structure. He grabs the phone, throws in a quarter, punches in some numbers and waits for the phone to answer~

Phone: *cough* Yeah?

Doc: JOHN!

Phone: What?! Hurchet?! Zat you?!

Doc: No time! Come to the Jersey Dam! Bring the rain!

Phone: Yes sir!

~Hatchet hangs up before a zombie busts the payphone. Hatchet kicks the creature in the face then throws him over the dam. The slight sound of a helicopter in the distance is heard, which gets louder and louder. On the horizon, an old BlackHawk helicopter bolts towards the dam, it's machineguns unload on the parade of zombie who explode and fall over, dead forever. It makes another pass and unleashes some rockets on the dam which seperate the rest of the zombies by 100 feet of raging water. The Helicopter pulls up alongside the dam which creates a gust in all directions, the pilot and Hatchet share a thumbs up. Hatchet nods to Killface and Barnaby who have been hiding behind a pillar, they both run up into th Helicopter with Hatchet fallowing. But Hatchet stops when he notices the man sitting just out of sight in the Helicopter, Fontane. He tries to call out but Llefniro grabs and ties up both Killface and Barnaby. Hatchet falls to his knees as Fontane leaps casually out of the chopper and gives a thumbs up to the pilot who morphs back into Gambit. Fontane steps up to Hatchet who stares at the floor. He lifts his cane and smashes it into the side of Doc's face. Fontane lights a cigarette and takes off his coat~

Fontane: Y'know Doc. I've been waitin for dis moment all my aftahlife. Ya killed me Doc, now I'm here to retoin da favah. If ya don't put upah fight, it's gonna be alot hardah dan it has tah be.

~Hatchet slowly lifts himself off the ground and whipes the blood off his nose, inspects it, then spits a bloody lugee on the pavement. He turns to Fontane and puts his fists up. Fontane grins and cracks his knuckles. The two lock eyes. They begin inching closer, then faster, they end up running at eachother, each with a fist in the air. They eventually collide, fists to face, which knocks Hatchet on his back but only slightly moves Fontane who proceeds to stomp on Hatchet. While being stomped, Hatchet notices a lead pipe, he reaches for it but Fontane kicks it away and delivers an elbow to the chest. Hatchet coughs up blood and struggles away from his hulking opponent. Hatchet sees the pipe again and sprints towards it, before he can reach however, Fontane drop-kicks Doc which sends his face into a wall. Fontane stomps on one end opf the pipe which flips it into the air, the mob boss grabs it then proceeds to beat Doc's face with it. Doc tries to run but each turn he takes is met with a pipe to the face. Fontane throws the pipe at Hatchet's bad leg which causes him to fall forward, right into Frank's knee. The villian then lifts Hatchet into the air and proceeds to knee him in the groin and beat his face. Fontane then throws Doc at a wall which he bounces off with a sickening KER-CRACK! Hatchet struggles to get his hand on the side of the wall to lift himself up but Fontane then lands his boot on Doc's back and proceeds to break his right arm which causes Hatchet to clench in intense pain. Fontane walks back to the lead pipe, turns around and is met with a boot to the face. Surprised Fontane takes the full force of the kick and stumbles back, but Doc gives him no time to recover and unleashes a hurricane of kicks onto Fontane. But the small victory is short lived as Fontane grabs Hatchet's left leg and proceeds to snap it. Hatchet falls to the ground, unable and unwilling to get back up. Fontane picks up the pipe, looks at it for a short time, then tosses it aside as he proceeds to shoot Doc in the chest and the knees with the very gun that killed him. Doc's eyes roll back and he falls down, he doesn't get up. Barnaby and Killface both yell out before Llefniro drugs them to sleep with a rag. Fontane lifts Hatchet's body and walks over to the edge of dam~

Fontane: Well Mr. Hatchet It looks like dis is da end of da line for ya

~Fontane tosses Hatchet over the side of the dam with a sickening satisfaction. He laughs a bit to himself, then turns to a smirking Gambit. They both take off in the helicopter, leaving Hatchet's body floating down the river~

~~~

*Three hours later*

~

*Cool water pours over Hatchets body as he floated serenely down the river, his eyes closed to the world. Surrounding him are thousands of lives destroyed by the two maleficent ones, Fontane and Clyde. All the zombie corpses seemed to float faster than Doc, as if they were being ferried unto
their eternal slumber, but Doc did not. His eyes opened, and a gasp of air entered his lungs, he violently swam ashore. He stood up on the beach, knowing his friends had been kidnapped. The second he stood up, he remembered his broken leg, which caused him to fall onto a rock, making him pass out.*

~

*Two hours later*


Doc: Unghhh. what happened?

*Doc looked at the rock, coated in his blood*

Doc: Oh.... righty then.

*Doc grabs a piece of wood, and ties it to his leg, effectively splinting it, he limps over to a tree, whereupon moss is growing.*

Doc: New york must be this way! The moss never lies!

*Doc passes a sign reading New york this way, too focused upon the moss, luckily for him, the moss was correct, as well as the sign. After walking for approximately an hour, Doc came upon a toppled over sky scraper, he observed two ADAM zombies mourning the loss of what appeared to be a gun, but Doc didn't have time to question it. He wandered past them, silently enough so they wouldn't notice, and he approached a large billboard which read, " Fontanes Meat Market and Deli, two blocks."

Doc: Almost there Doc, don't f*ck up now.

*Doc Limps past an organ grinder, who is grinding actual organs, and feeding them to his monkey, to which the children seemed pleased. As he approached Fontane's deli, he noticed about Ninety dead bodies, encased in cement, all standing in front of the restaraunt, apparently their faces were posed in such a way as to reveal a sickening grin upon each.*

Doc: Dear god, what the hell is going on here...

*Doc limped to the back of the deli, and opened a door, which lead to a freezer. Inside a lone human stood, Doc fell backwards and began to crawl away, but he then realized it was a Mannequin, but this mannequin had been stabbed.. everywhere. Knives protruded from each visible inch of plastic.*

Doc: Jesus Christ, where does this looney keep his prisoners..... OOH a piece of already cooked meat!

*In the corner of the freezer was a warm piece of turkey, Doc oozed over to it and began to pick it up, but it was attatched to the table.*

Doc : Maybe I need to twi-

*Doc twisted the turkey leg, opening a large shaft below him, into which he fell rapidly.*

Doc: AHHHHHHHH SOMEONE HELP MEEEEEeEEeEe-

*Doc hit the ground with a thud, he had entered the prison of Fontanes hellish nightmare world.*

Doc: Killface, Barnaby, you down here?

Killface: HELP USSS

Barnaby: Shut up, you woke me up.

Killface: Well excuse me for disturbing your beauty sleep in this gigantic prison.

Barnaby: It's ok pal.

Killface: I WAS BEING SARCASTIC.

Doc: Guys, it's me, Doc. I'm here to bust you out.

Barnaby: Doc's alive?!

Doc: SHUT Up, Don't let fontane here you-

*A bullet whizzed through the area, piercing Doc's skull. The smile that he had on his face from seeing his friends permanently frozen in time. His body fell to it's knees, then it hit the floor, never to wake again.*

Fontane: Well whadda ya know, I guess I didn't get him the first time after all. Hahaha.

Barnaby: Holy f*cking shit!

Killface: What have you done?!

Fontane: Old debts end in death, kid, now then where wa-

*Fontane fell to his knees, his hands on his temples.*

Fontane: WHATS HAPPENING...... AGHHHHHHHHHHH-

~~~

Fontane: I knew you would come. Did Clyde send you?

*Doc hatchet says nothing, and pulls out his pistol, loaded with golden bullets*

Fontane: You can't kill me kid, you dont have the balls

*A bullet enters Fontanes skull, as he falls to the ground, he sees a second glimmer in the distance, followed by muttering.*

~~~

Fontane: That son of a bitch. Sorry about that Doc, I guess you didn't kill me after all.

*Fontane kicks Doc's body aside and opens the cell in which Killface and Barnaby are stowed*

Fontane: You two work for me now.

Barnaby: Yes sir!

Killface: Barnaby what the hell, why would you work for this guy he killed D-

*Fontane kicks Killface in the groin and he falls to the floor*

Killface: Ok I'll work for you.

~Within the hour, the remaining forces of Cosbine are defeated or captured.~

Lando: *Sigh* Now things can finally be as they were meant on this planet. *Turns to the Goers* From the bottom of my heart, I thank all of you for helping us bring this effort to reality.

Retro: I wish we could help you guys get off this planet, though..

Lando: With the war over I think it would be better if we stayed. I'm sure these people who were terrorized by Cosbine will need a helping hand to rebuild their lives. My men will be glad to do so after bringing the fight to their own homes.

Fera: *Something redundant about fighting the good fight*

Elder: *Wobbles up to the group, wherever they are, they all turn around to meet him* Huffpuffit, I've been lookin' all over this mountain for ya!

Retro: Why?

Elder: To say thanks!

Retro: Oh. *Turns back around*

Jed: *Ahem* I think it was I who killed Cosbine, thankyouverymuch.

Elder: Well whomever did it, your dead parents would be proud. *Cackles*

Retro: I don't see how that's supposed to make me feel better..

Fera: I think he means you've restored the honor of your family name.. or something.

Elder: And that's it's own reward!

Retro: That's retarded, I just wanted to save you guys.

Elder: We never got to finish our little chat the other night, so later on you just see me, okay?

Retro: Yeah, later.

Elder: And some people stopped by Widget while you guys were off. We never got so many travelers before you guys, it's such an honor. *Weeps*

Fera: Who were they?

Rocky: *Leaps from behind a rock formation* Your beloved Rocky!

Fred: Salutations

Rocky: ..And friends..TRYING TO UPSTAGE ME! *Punches Fred then tackles him, they fight in some dust cloud for a bit*

GORE: We came all the way up here for this? Lame.

Retro/Fera/Jed: Rocky! *They all run up and greet eachother again*

Fera: Are you alright?

Rocky: Mostly..we had a few huge battles, but I'm the resident cool guy, so nothing takes ol' Rocky for surprise!

Retro: Yeah. Like getting eaten by an Alien.

Fera: Or finding out you were a code puppet.

Jed: Or getting kidnapped.

Rocky: Sheesh, alright, alright. What does a guy have to do to not be ridiculed among his own 'effing friends?

Retro: You could start by not dressing like a society reject.

Rocky: Hey, I LIKE my cutting edge, emo outfit. It fits my don't care, don't worry, don't stick around to find out attitude.

Fera: It makes you look like a cigarette. Just saying.

Rocky: Aw...

Jed: I dunno, I always thought it made him look like he was part of the X-Men. Magneto, right?

Rocky: He's my fav! But that's besides the point, now that I am here, you all have nothing to fear.

Leaven: Aside from fear itself. The very definition thereof, which you're harboring.

Retro: *Glares at Leaven silently*

Fera: Great, who've you come back to kidnap this time you monster?

Leaven: Nnghh... listen, Fera.

Fera: Huh? How do you know my name?

Leaven: Nothing, it isn't important.

Elder: Whoa, you three. Pack up the hostility, he's a welcomed guest here don't 'cha know.

Rocky: Yeah! He's not so bad anymore. In fact, he helped save my life.

Adele: And mine, as well as the entire CIA. This man is nothing short of a hero.

Lando: Did you just say the CIA? I'm sorry to interrupt, but I am..or was, a lieutenant under the command of General Strives. My name is Lando.

Adele: Huh? Really? That was my father!

Lando: What an amazing stroke of luck these last few days have been, then..

Leaven: It's an honor to meet you, Lieutenant, but I am reluctant to tell you that the CIA has gone under two different..reforms, since you were last listed.

Lando: I'm sorry to hear that, um..

Leaven: Leaven. My name is Leaven. I lead the CIA now, or rather, I did for a brief time before passing the torch to Adele Strives here.

Lando: Has that much really changed? I.. I have not seen the commander's daughter since she was a child..

Leaven: I shall take the time to explain to you our story, as I wish for you to share yours as well. Come, we will head to Widget and the Belmont estate.

Retro: Who's just gonna let you waltz into my family's mansion?

Leaven: *Pauses, then continues walking*

Elder: Don't mind him now Leaven, you're welcome there too. Many pardons Master Belmont, you see he lived in our town as well for his childhood..

Retro: *Shocked* Wha...what?

Elder: *Nods* Before you were born. That night sure was an eerie one, yep, yep. I'm sure you all must be tired by this point, so let's pack it in.

Jed: Sounds good to me!

Retro: Why is nothing what it seems anymore?!

Fera: Retro, calm down, you're gonna go into a coma if you let these things get to you..*Smooches, then leaves*

Jed: Psst, Retro, you see Fera?

Retro: Y-Yeah?

Jed: Alright, just checking.

Retro: O_o *Starts gasping for air* What did you mean by that?

Jed: Nothing, just trying to stress you out more. You coming or what?

Retro: *Sighs* Yes, yes, I'm coming..

~Everyone heads back to Widget and sets up camp for the night. In the Belmont Mansion, the elder summons Leaven and Retro into the study, a large room with separate, secluded sections.~

Elder: I have called the both of you here for a reason. Despite your differences you are both part of Widget, and therefore, share the same blood.

Leaven: I disagree. We don't even know eachother.

Retro: I haven't seen him many times, but the times I have he's been my enemy. How do you expect me to act like we're a part of eachother?

Elder: *Gets up, and walks around the room, pausing to look out the window* Every one person in this world is a living, breathing creature. They all share the same origins, the same fates, we all have unseen ties to eachother that cannot be discovered unless we ourselves open our minds. Everything that happens, happens for a reason, but the the events that happen can occur through our own actions and the actions of others.

Leaven: *Looks downward in thought*

Retro: Throughout my life..I've done many things to hurt people, and things to try and help them. It feels like I don't remember half of it though. And the future to me...is foggy, still. Is it normal to affect other people when you yourself are not feeling whole? I wish I knew.

Leaven: My life has been all about one driven goal. Ambitious, though it is..I cannot feel anything short of powerless in the face of true fear. I cannot even act to save everything I love without losing something or someone greater. That's only in a nutshell. In reality I know the entire reason I am connected to this world and what I must do, but I am not sure if I can even do it.

Elder: *Nods* So you both have one thing in common, at least. You both want to help people, but are riddled with self doubt. Master Belmont on the one hand, doesn't even seem to realize who he really is. While you, Master Leaven, feel you lack the strength you think you need to achieve what you want.

~Retro and Leaven lock eyes for a long moment, until the elder speaks again.~

Elder: I think I have just the thing for you both. Our alchemists long ago have created a sort of elixir, one that you drink and journey into a state of self-awareness. The journey will not be kind to those that are not ready, however. Well?

Leaven: There's no harm in that, I suppose.

Retro: Yeah, I'll do it.

~After each drinking this elixir, Retro and Leaven pass out. The camera zooms closer into Retro's mind, which is pitch black for a moment. The next, a explosion of light and color. Retro opens his eyes, and looks down to see his body. His arm is missing his pixel attachment, and he is significantly shorter, standing only a few feet from the ground.~

Retro: I'm a child..in Widget.

~Retro looks around the town, but there is no one around. There is an eerie silence about him. Atop the hill in front of him is his mansion. Above him, the sky grows darker and darker. Retro makes a run for the mansion, and as he does, it begins to crumble, piece after piece, and sucked up into the sky.

An enormous being emerges from the earth where the mansion stood. It's face distorted but looking to be a skull, his eyes alight with fire. The rest of his body is pure black. His hand rockets forward and grabs Retro from where he stands. Screaming, Retro is pulled down into the depths below his house. He wakes up strapped to a table. He suddenly finds himself crying, although not knowing how or why.

There are two figures on either side of him, one of them slowly move a midnight colored stone to his head, then after pressing it there for a moment, quickly retract and bash him with it, knocking him out. The next thing Retro knows, he is once again sitting outside his mansion, like nothing happened. The sky is bright, and the mansion stands.

Retro hears a call from another boy, who he immediately identifies as Orter, somehow. Orter runs over to him and picks him up. Retro says something, and they both laugh. After that they run around the hills outside Widget having a good time. The next thing he knows he is on a PDG space station, being yelled at while writing answers frantically on am entrance exam paper. After that, he is with General Exaih..being yelled at.~

Exaih: Kid, ya know this is a dream right. A fabrication of reality. I'm here to tell you to ignore that shit and to listen to me for a second.

Retro: *Says something about field tests he can't even hear*

Exaih: *Slaps Retro across the face* Stop playing into the mind games, dammit! I'm dead, I ain't coming back, unless it's in this but you don't have another chance! *Slaps Retro again* Now listen to me, you're a respected member of the PDG, any mistakes you may have made were intended by our Gods themselves to make sure this universe exists by the time you understand your real purpose! Being dead, it's opened my eyes for the first time. You'd think it makes you oblivious to everything else, but that's what life's for, don't you see? Our forces work through people like you and your friends to let this universe experience life and the greater meanings. You'll understand someday.

Retro: I don't understand now..I don't understand now either.

Exaih: Of course you don't you abysmally slow earthworm! *Slaps Retro again* But I still love ya like a son, kid. And these people here with me, they know everything. You're their vessel, you understand me son? If you don't figure out what you are and why, then there's no way we'll survive. But there's gonna be no other way to do that then to tell you to make you remember, and understand all the things you've seen so far. But it won't be me that tells you, the person who does is going to represent everything that you need to overcome. Face your past, kid, face your future, because it's gonna be all of ours. I wish I could have taught you more when I was alive. The important thing right now is to protect everything you love, and destroy the evil in your heart, as well as the evil that lurks out there. That's what got me, understand? Legion is what's going to happen to this universe soon. Don't forget that.

~In the next few moments, Retro relives the rest of his life until this very moment. He awakens sitting in a chair with the Widget Elder peering out the window. He looks over to Leaven, who is still unconscious. Now to peer into his mind.

A bright light shines in Leaven's face, and doesn't leave. A lot of noise is in the background, with a woman screaming nearby, who several other people in the room seem to try to console. A duo of male voices above him speak waveringly.~

Male 1: Will he be okay? Traveling alone, it's got to be a 50/50 chance at best..

Male 2: Quiet! He is the last hope of mankind right now, it will work.

Female voice: Doctor, it's happening!

Male voice 2/Doctor: We have no time to argue the safety of it all, we must dispatch him immediately! The brainwashing mechanisms should work perfectly, he'll know our cause. What he must do..

~The women crying before sobs even more intensely after that is said. Leaven hears a door hatch shut over him, then a great quake rocks his location, then..silence. The next thing he knows, he's in Widget, sitting in the corner at school while all the other kids play and laugh and have fun. He gets up and walks outside to kick a ball around the yard, until a tall man approaches him. Leaven identifies him as his father, or the only father he's had growing up there.~

Man: Lennard, aren't you playing nicely with the children today?

Leaven: I don't care about them, dad, because they don't care about me.

Man: *Kneels besides Leaven* Listen son, you can't expect every single person to accept you at first. I know you're getting used to being in a new school, especially after being tutored, but you can't let that stop you from meeting people.

Leaven: I don't want to go to school, it's stupid. I don't even need it. I'm smart enough to do anything this village can have me do. But I want to start learning how to fight! All of my dreams keep telling me to get stronger, dad. School isn't going to help me do that..

Man: That's enough Lennard. Go finish recess and attend class, your mother and I didn't raise a child who didn't attend school on time!

Leaven: Yes, dad.. *runs off*

Man: What's coming over that boy, I wonder.

~Leaven then recalls an instance later that week, where his powerful mental manipulation powers first developed. While his teacher taught a lesson, Leaven was focusing on a particular girl he liked. For a moment, he was gazing, but the next he felt more and more drawn to what she was thinking. He fascinated himself over it, and something snapped in him, and suddenly he looked around the room frantically, wondering what came over him. He looked back over to the girl, who had just collapsed on her desk. The teacher let out a short scream and ran over to her to wake her, but she wouldn't. Leaven was shocked by this, and ran out of the room, scared.

That night, the only thing he remembers was a violent storm outside, and his dad leaving for a moment to check up on their neighbors. Leaven sat in his room crying over the condition of the girl, when something caught his attention. He could hear his dad coming in with a stranger from outside, who apparently crash landed on the planet. He was an odd one, who hardly talked about himself. He wore black garb most of the time. Over time, he noticed Leaven and his behavior, and they got to talking. Leaven felt strangely confident in telling this stranger about his power, which he took a great amount of interest in. He told him if he wanted to come with him, he would teach Leaven how to properly use such powers, as well as learn how to fight in armed combat. He promised him power, which Leaven immediately jumped at the opportunity to get. They snuck away one night, and disappeared after that.

The man never gave his name, but went by X-66. he dubbed Lennard "Leaven" and taught him the ways of weapon combat, and over time, mind manipulation. After training in a secluded area for a good number of years, they attacked the CIA headquarters and took it over as part of X-66's plan to obtain his own goals. He promised Leaven even greater power, and until Leaven slew him with Strives, that's what he was after. Now he is simply wondering if he can ever obtain such a power that he will be comfortable with to achieve his own goals.

After that, Leaven wakens.~

Elder: Ah good, you're both awake now. I do hope that experience taught you a thing or two.

Leaven: ..I don't know.

Retro: . . .

Elder: Why don't you both get some rest.

~Everyone turns in for the night after that. But sailing down towards town is a familiar dark pirate ship..~

*Back on Earth (by Ozzy Osbourne), ADAM zombies keep being zombies*

Random Zombie A: I say, are you enjoying yourself eating these fine folks of... where are we, New York?

Random Zombie 2: Why, yes and yes, my good man. *looks behind him* Hm, my friend, is that a motorcycle with someone driving it careening towards us?

Random Zombie A: *looks behind him* Why... yes it is. Terribly unfortunate as I was enjoying myself much like you just admitted to recen- *is decapitated by the butt of a shotgun*

Random Zombie 2: My word! He just got his head decap- *is beheaded by shotgun blast*

The owner of the shotgun that just killed these two cultured zombies is none other than the badass mother known as Pole. Yeah, he's back. Turns out when he was devoured by the zombies, he was only turned into like... a half zombie. So, he uses his half zombie powers to further help in his eradication of zombies while trying to stave off his hunger for brains. So yeah, it's sorta like Blade. Cept it's zombies.

Pole: *in his almost unbearable, but still kinda sorta endearing nasally voice* That's two zombies closer to ridding this world of the zombie menace. I'll avenge your death, Guy Wheelchair.

His full name was Guy In Abraham Wheelchair, but he preferred that Abraham, his Confirmation name, was shortened to A, so most people called him Guy In A Wheelchair. However, only Pole was allowed to call him Guy Wheelchair and not suffer severe wheelchair handle trauma. That shit hurt. So, while Pole was cruising through the (Trume Crime:) streets of New York with his trench coat fluttering in the wind, he came across a pretty big ramp that was created by a destroyed bridge. He was too busy reminiscing about his late master to notice it and launched over it. He performed 5 backflips, which somehow turned into 18 frontflips and ended with the motorcycle landing perfectly on the ground below.

Pole: Wow, that was luck- *EXPLOSION!*

As inferred by the explosion, the motorcycle was dismantled by means of combustion and when the smoke cleared, there was no sign of Pole anywhere; there was just random motorcycle parts and Pole's signature trench coat. Could this be the end of Pole? Nope.

*Meanwhile, in Space, Kane's still floatin' around*

Kane: Wow, it's starting to get kinda chilly. *lights his hand on fire and warms his other hand with it* Ahhh... there we go. Hm... I wonder what everyone else is doing... I hope Rocky, WHO I HATE!'s getting hit by something... Heh, yeah, that'd be awesome. I wonder if I'm upside-down right now........ Ground control to Major Tom... Ground control to Major Tom... Take your protein pills and put your helmet on...

*More Meanwhile*
KoD: So then the cockroach asks, "is the-" *disappears with a POP*

Rocky: .....Is the what? Is the what?! *begins to shake Retro* IS THE WHAAAAAAT?! I MUST KNOW!

Retro: *clocks Rocky in the side of the head, knocking him down* No touching.

Fera: Holy SHIT, that was hot! *glomps Retro*

Fred: It's gettin' hot in here. We better take off our clothes. I think Nelly knows what he's talkin' about when it comes to these things.

GORE: I don't have clothes.

*Enough of that*

KoD: "-bar tender here?" Ha, yeah. ...What, Heaven? Did I die again? That's a little harsh; the joke wasn't that bad >.>

Angel: No no, it's just that... we're absolutely booked solid what with the ADAM zombie invasion, so we needed one more reaper.

KoD: Hm... alright, on one condition, though. I want my portal limiter taken off.

Angel: What?

KoD: Right, no lightning strike when I use my portal in an "inappropriate manner". They're my portals and I'll use 'em how I see fit.

Angel: ...Alright, I'll check. *pushes a button on his bluetooth headset* ...yes, hello, Boss? I have Orange Kirby with me. ...Oh, you already know? ...Right, right, all-knowing, pardon me, sir. ...Okay, bye. *turns off the headset* Well, looks like you have a deal.

KoD: *broad smirk accompanied by a chuckle* Well, neat. Okay, who's my reaping target?

Angel: *checks clipboard* Uh... a man in New York that goes by the name of... Pole.

KoD: ...Huh. Alrighty, I'm on it. *grabs a hold of the cloud floor and absorbs some Heaven-ness, turning his skin pale. He then heads to New York*

KoD flies through the skies of New York while doing barrel rolls until he happens upon the person in the picture he's holding.

KoD: *lands next to Pole* Hm... the picture promised me you would have a trench coat. That's disappointing. Welp, reap time. *prods Pole's body with the bottom of his scythe and evokes the spirit*

Pole: ...Where am I? *looks down* Where's my coat?

KoD: I can answer that first question: you're in limbo, basically. As for your coat... Ianno.

Pole: So... I'm dead?

KoD: Yeah.

Pole: No!

KoD: ...Yeah.

Pole: I can't die! I still have to avenge my master!

KoD: Hm... well... Hold on, I need to make something first. You know where an office supplies store is?

Pole: Well, yeah, but it's overrun by zombies.

KoD: That doesn't matter, they can't see us and/or hurt us.

Pole: Oh.

*One office supply trip later*

KoD: Okay, now that we're back at your body, let's do this.

Pole: Really?! Thank you!

KoD: Yeah, no problem. It'd be a shame if you didn't get your revenge and etc. Here we go. *sticks Pole's spirit with his scythe and then slams it down into his body's chest* Sweet. Off I go. *flies back up towards Heaven*

Pole: *gets up with his newly resurrected body* Wow, I feel great! I don't crave brains anymore; I must have been ridden of my half zombie-ness!

Zombie Φ: RAAAH! *bites Pole and then shuffles away*

Pole: Aw man... Now I'm half zombie again AND my trench coat's still missing. ...Wait a minute. *notices another zombie, but... it's wearing his trench coat!* ...That zombie messed with the wrong mother- *pumps an empty shell of his shotgun*

*in Heaven*

KoD: Well, that was fun. *puts the Heaven-ness back into the cloud floor and his skin turns back to orange*

Angel: What just happened?! Why did you put that guy's soul back in his body?!

KoD: Hold it. It can all be explained on this business card that I made a ton of *hands him one*

Angel: *reads it:*
I don't get i-

*KoD is already gone through a scythe portal*

Angel: *sighs and clicks a button on his headset* Sir? ...Let it go? Alright, if you say so.

*Back on Partur*

Rocky: So then Fred just like KICKED him into space!

Retro: Fascinating.

*KoD pops out of the portal and lands near the group*

Retro: Oh, KoD, you missed Rocky telling us about how Fred kicked Kane into space.

KoD: Did he? Neat.

~Back to the S.P.E.A.R. which is nearing it's completion. Several satelites have been

constructed around the large sun nearby and seems to harness it's raw power for the Legion

fleet. All the Legion starships in the area are docked on the S.P.E.A.R. for some kind of

great event. Inside the monstrocity of a battleship is Clyde. The 7ft, hulking man is

adorned with skimpy women giggling and touching their leader as his wardrobe artists adorn

him with his prized medals. He wears what closely resembles a white and black variation of

M. Bison's uniform with golden trim. He's completelly covered with various awards of

heroics, bravery and courage. As he adjusts his white and gold officer's cap he gives a

mischivious and satisfied smirk as he looks at himself in his massive dressing mirror. His

large, green, fur cape drapes around his massive arms and flows down to the floor. His room

is rather huge, with a very large bed (can fit atleast 8 people) sitting on the opposite end of

a great fireplace, and above it is a large, decorated portrait of Clyde and Legion

conquering it's foes. There is a large window on one of the walls that shows a beautiful

view of space and all it's stars, a few legion starfighters zoom by. Clyde raises his hand

for everyone to give him privacy. He takes a deep, satisfying sigh of graditude as he makes

his way over to his fireplace. He pours himself a glass of wine, takes in it's sweet scent,

then gulps it down in twisted satisfaction.~

Clyde: So, my destiny is finally fulfilled

~The flames of the fireplace begin to churn and crack widely. A large gyser of fire begins

to travel around the room and circles Clyde who simply sips his wine. The gyser rises in

the air then drops to the ground and forms the ghastly figure of the hooded man~

Hooded Man: Indeed you have Clyde, you have come farther than previously expected. I

misjudged you Clyde. You were indeed worthy of such powers.

Clyde: It was only fate that you chose me as the most suitable for all this

Hooded Man: Yes, all of your advantages, it makes it almost seem like you're not just a

human

Clyde: Feh, I am no longer just a human, with these powers, i'm nothing short of a

god! ~crushes wine glass~

Hooded Man: So what is this ceremony's purpose?

Clyde: Hmph, you'll see soon enough *adjusts hat*

~A small soldier holding a clipboard runs into the room and hands his papers to Clyde who

glances at them, then glances back at the soldier. Clyde hands the papers back to the

soldier who doubles over in pain. The soldier kneels and coughs blood on the floor. He

looks up and sees Clyde manipulating his fingers, the soldier pleads for his lord to stop.

Clyde opens his hand and releases the soldier who scurries toward the door. With a smirk

and a twinkle in his eyes he clentches his fist tightly which caused the soldier's upper

body to implode~

Clyde: I told them not to bother me.....Oh well, disciplinary actions must be taken when

neccessary I suppose

Hooded Man: Well? What were those papers?

Clyde: Oh nothing, it seems that it's time for the show

Hooded Man: ........Show?

~Clyde does an about face and moves silently out his room into a hallway of saluting

officials and soldiers. Clyde begins making his way down the hallway into a corridor with

large windows lining the entire way. Outside there are thousands and thousands of battle

cruisers, several destroyers and all types of fighters lined outside the S.P.E.A.R. The

Hooded man's shadow makes it's way across a wall as he speaks to Clyde~

Hooded Man: Tell me what such an occasion is this?

Clyde: Patience, patience, all will be revealed in due time

~As the two make their way down the corridor a very large orchastra is heard, as they near

their way to their destination the booming sounds of the orchastra grows louder, and

louder. Clyde steps infront of two fairly large doors. The orchastra seems to be playing

something very similar to Farewell of Slavianka. Clyde takes a long, satisfying sigh and

walks slowly through the doors into a gargantuant lobby filled to the brim with cheering

Legion soldiers. He steps up to a pedastal covered in microphones. After a few minutes

Clyde raises his hand and the entire room falls silent~

Clyde: Ladies and gentlemen! You have all been gathered here today to witness a momentous

occasion! All of your pain staking labor for the betterment of Legion has paid off! Tonight,

our unmatched military power will be sent into the stratosphere! Our enemies will be

crushed by your hands! Legion's influence will be felt all across the universe! Our goal is

nearly met! With our new weapon, we will reach our destination of total domination

much quicker! Our little project has passed it's final stage of completion!

~Clyde presses a button on his pedestal, a loud mechanical, hydrolic sound is heard. A

large wall opens up into a window facing into space. A hatch opens up on the Spear and out

comes an incredibly long, needle-like protrution. The crowd exclaims with Oooos and Aaaaahs

as the structure reaches it's full hight. The tip of the structure splits into four

triangular points.~

Clyde: Ladies and gentlemen! I introduce to you, The Devestator!

~Meanwhile, the event is being broadcast all across the universe. Frouzt and his crew

seround a television to watch the event from his ship. The admiral does not seem as

thrilled as the other soldiers at the reveal of this new weapon. Back in New York Fontane

sits at his desk in a dimly lit office room by his mobster minions. His face twisted with

fury at the sight of Clyde who seems to look directly at the mob boss and snickers at him~

Clyde: With this, the weapon of our domination, nobody will have the gull to stand against

us! And I think it's time we show the universe just what armageddon truly looks like!

Captain! Unleash Legion's fury on our enemies!

~Clyde signals to a soldier who nods and enters some coordinates into a computer, a large

hologram of Earth is seen, with the New York asteroid orbitting it. Frouzt and Fontane both

cough and choke with astonishment~

Frouzt/Fontane: *Hack* What does that fool think he's doing?!

~Meanwhile Barnaby and Killface have been driving for quite sometime to the dump in order

to dispose of Hatchet's body. The car pulls up beside a rather large compactor, Killface and

Barnaby (Now both wearing cheap sunglasses and pinstripe suits, Killface wears a fadora)

step out of the car and open the trunk. They stare down at their dead ally's body which has

been wrapped in a blanket. Small tears trinkle from underneath their glasses, but their

faces remain cold and emotionless. They silently remove the body from the car and begin

dragging it to the compactor. Killface's grip slips and drops the body causing Barnaby to

trip. Barnaby angrily leaps at Killface and grabs hold of his collar~

Barnaby: What are you doin' butterfingers?! We have to get rid of the body quick or we'll

end up just like him!

Killface: I cant do it Barnaby! It can't end like this!

Barnaby: Better him than us! Now get a grip and dump the body! Then we gotta get over to

Gambit and high tail it off this rock!

~Killface sighs and picks the body back up~

Killface: Goodnight sweet prince

Corpse: *Hagheeeaaahck* *hack* *kreasplort*

~The two freeze and drop the corpse which begins moving and coughing under the sheets~

Killface: Bloody hell! It's not possible! he's a zombie! Kill it!

~Killface rushes towards the body but Barnaby stops him~

Barnaby: *snickering* Wow, I didn't figure he could survive THAT

Killface: How come you seem so calm?! There's a demon infront of us!

Barnaby: I've known Hatchet for a long time, he has a bad habit of being pretty persistant

when it comes to dying, but I never figured he was THIS stubborn...

Killface: You mean, he's going to live?!

Barnaby: What? Oh no he's done for, didn't you see his brains splatter all over the floor?

Unless we get him some medical attention, he's not gonna last long.

~A bloody hand busts outta the sheet, claws at the air, the body seems to be choking, and

then falls limp~

Killface: Is.....Is he?

Barnaby: ~lighting a cigarette~ No, he's just uncontious, let's get him to a doctor before

he really kicks the bucket

Killface: I got it! Let's stow him on Gambit's ship!

Barnaby: Naw you think?

~Meanwhile over at Gambit's cargo ship, Gambit oversees his lackeys who are busy loading

supplies before they depart~

Gambit: Hurrryy.....We don't have allll dayyy....Worthlessssss......

~Barnaby and Killface run up the loading dock, the two are carrying a long box~

Gambit: Hold it......You two little......Traitorous pigs aren't getting on my

ship.......Without proper inspection......

~Gambit kicks open the top of the case, Barnaby and Killface nervously trade glances.

Gambit edges closer to the case and finds it to be containing a high powered rifle~

Gambit: Hmph.......Alright move along......

Barnaby/Killface: Sir!

~The two quickly depart into the ship as Gambit gives them a suspicious glance, then he

rotates his hand in the air signalling time to take off~

~Now back to Clyde's broadcast. Clyde sips another glass of wine, savors the taste, and

raises his chalise to his audience~

Clyde: Unleash armageddon!

~The center of the cannon extends a bit further, and the four "arms" that protrude from it

pull back slightly, and begin to rotate. Faster they go, faster and faster. An electrical

trail begins to form where the arms are spinning. Light begins to emit from the base of the

cannon and builds up to the top. A ball of light forms at the tip. The electrical trail

diverts into four spinning trails which feed into the ball. The cannon emits a screeshing

noise and fires an enourmous blue beam, the diameter of the beam is about the size of

Pluto~

~Frouzt pushes his crew out of his way and angrily presses himself up against the

television screen~

Frouzt: What have you done.....

~Back onto the cargo ship. Barnaby and Killface have barricaded themselves in a room in the

living quarters. They stare out the window at a decrepid Earth and barely glimpse the sight

of the small asteroid that is New York. They open up their case holding the rifle, and

remove it to reveal a secret compartment holding Hatchet. They lift him up and prop him up

on a small bed, facing a large window. Hatchet's eye opens slightly. Barnaby puts his face

up to the half-contious Hatchet~

Barnaby: Hey there buddy, can you hear me? Do you get what i'm saying?

~Hatchet lifts his head slightly and lowers it~

Barnaby: Get some rest man, we'll be home free so~

~An intense rumbling begins throughout the entire vessel, it's as if all of space is being

shaken. Objects fall over and smash and supplies in the cargo hold crash against one

another. Killface falls over which prompts Barnaby to trip, his face lands on the window.

He tries to regain his balance and scans the outside environment for what's making the

shaking. A blue, planet-sized ray of energy barely misses the spacecreaft (in this case

it's a couple thousand miles since well, it's fricking HUGE) and heads straight towards

Earth. Meanwhile back in the mean streets of Manhattan, Pole fends off the zombie horde. He

viciously beats some zombies with a lead pipe, but suddenly they all hiss and run off into

the alleys~

Pole: Aww cmon i'm not finished whuppin you yet! ~Pole triumphantly flips his lead pipe in

the air but accidentally hits his head~ Ow ;_;

~The red, angry skies suddenly turn blue, and a white beam of light glistens in the

atmosphere. Pole shields his eyes and tries to make out what the object is, his expression

turns grave when he relizes what the object is. The gargantuant Lazer slices through a

small fraction of the asteroid and goes straight towards the earth. The intense energy of

the lazer (possibly more intense than a thousand suns) bores towards the center of the blue

planet. after a couple minutes the Lazer grows smaller until it dissapears into the depths

of the planet. Suddenly the entire planet starts cracking. Light begins to pour out from

gargantuant holes in the crust until it becomes blinding. Then the light stops for just a

second, everything becomes quite. Pole stares back at the planet which starts rumbling

violently. Pole begins running down the street frantically. The earth then implodes and

right after, explodes in an incrediblely violent burst of fire and energy. The chaotic wave

of flames spreads out in all directions, growing closer and closer to New York. Pole races

down the streets, kicking fleeing zombies in the face as he sees them. A zombie driving a

truck barrels down the road, hits another zombie and flips across the street, cuttng

Pole off. He spins around to see the flames reach the largest buildings of the city.

Destroying everything it touches. Pillars of fire slide down the streets of the city and

grow increasingly closer to Pole who cant seem to find an exit, he's completelly cornered.

He then notices a subway entrance on the side of the road infront of him, towards the fire.

He makes a split second decision and sprints for his life towards the stairs of the

entrance, racing the fire. He closes his eyes and leaps to freedom.......But falls down the

stairs as the flames rush by.....The immense energy from the planet covers all of New York,

obliterating most of it, and destroying the rest of it, most of all it's buildings crumble

withint seconds and zombies all across the city either desintegrate from the intense heat

or spontaniously combust. Frouzt throws the television across the deck and smashes it~

Frouzt: ~Punches a dent in the wall~ That monster! There were so many innocent people on

that planet! So many survivors! Why would he......HOW could he?!

~Frouzt looks back towards his crew who have already gathered around another television to

watch Clyde who seems incredibly content and triumphant. The entire crowd is in an uproar

of praise and cheer with their fists in the air. It's as if every Legionaire in the

universe is praising their leader all at once, well....all accept one. Barnaby and Killface

can't believe their eyes. As the light and dust dissapears they look on in unfathomable

horror.....THE ENTIRE EARTH HAS BEEN OBLITERATED! All that's left is dust and small

asteroids. The sight of this tradegy causes a small tear to trickle from Hatchet's eye.

Pole wakes up in a daze in the subway station. A small fire burns on his zombified leg,

Pole yells out in surprise and pats it out. He gets up and scans the incredibly dark room.

Pole finds a wall and lifts himself up. He then lights a match to find that the entire

subway is infested with hundreds of zombies who all turn towards him~

Pole: ~spits on the ground~ Well isn't this nice...~pulls shotgun from a holster on his

back~ Alright, who's first? im gonna put this shotgun up every single one of your asses!

~The zombies all lurch towards Pole in a beastly frenzy. Pole cocks his shotgun as the

zombies get only a couple yards infront of him. He points the barrel of his weapon forward,

jamming it in a zombie's mouth, and pulls the trigger as the zombies crowd around him~

~A violent rainstorm drenches the small town of Widget during the night. The lightning that would normally strike the ground is diverted into one of the many lightning rods set up on the roofs of houses (and as lightning strikes more than once every few seconds on Partur, this comes in handy.)

For the citizens of Partur, this lightning is easy to sleep through, but as for Leaven, it's impossible. He slips out of bed in light clothing and wraps a robe around himself. Walking out into the hallway, he decides to take a walk around the mansion to help clear his head some more. After walking down the corridor for some time, he spots the Elder of Widget descending the stairwell with a candle in hand. Leaven follows him silently.

The Elder doesn't notice Leaven following him, and proceeds down to the first floor, and then down the hallway towards a dead end. Leaven look at him, puzzled, but gasps silently when the Elder heads through the wall, with the candle disappearing. Leaven rushes up to the wall and places his hand on it.~

Leaven: It's solid.. where did he go?

~Suddenly, Leaven feels an ominous presence nearby. Up his spine he can feel a chill shoot upwards until he stops shaking. He thought he felt someone behind him, but does not see anything. He pauses for a moment, and then heads back the way he came, but now in pitch blackness, aside from the frequent lightning strikes illuminating the hallways for a split second. Leaven continues down, not sure where he was going now, as the rooms looked unfamiliar to him all of a sudden. He can feel the weight of his feet pressing against the ground, even finding it hard to continue moving, like he feels as though he isn't gaining any real distance.

Another flash of light reveals the hallway before him, Leaven still feels uneasy now, as if the house is now changing around him with each bolt of lightning. Another flash, and the shadows cast by everything around him loom further and further, until they become unnatural.~

Leaven: No doubt about it, this house isn't normal. It's evil.

~Another flash of lightning, now Leaven sees a giant black figure directly in front of him in the hallway. He jumps backwards, and the figure laughs incredibly loud, the bellow echoes throughout the house, so loud that Leaven covers his ears and yells at it to leave. The shadow shatters into different pieces with each flash of lightning, and then disappears into the ceiling. Leaven catches his breath, then runs for the stairs, following the railing and dashes down the hallway. The glass window at the end is shattered, with rain pouring in. Leaven runs up to it and looks down- there's nothing but the bottom of the cliff there. He feels a brush past his shoulder and then a shrill whisper, "Where would I go?" it says to him. He spins around and sees nothing, only one of the lights in the hallway switched on in front of one of the doors to a room unoccupied.

Leaven walks to the door and looks at it for a moment. All of a sudden, by his own will or not, the thought of "Will I go in?" pops into his head. He places his hand on the doorknob and turns it immediately, in spite of his own thoughts, and enters. He can feel the heartbeat of something in the room, and his mind picks up erratic thought waves invisible to him until now, like a flood of old sensations rushing back to him. The sound of the rain, the lightning and his own breath is drowned out, all that can be heard is a very, very fast heartbeat. It goes on for a little while, then dies out. Leaven finally speaks.~

Leaven: Who's in here?

~There is silence for a few seconds, and then a low, dead voice responds.~

"Your father."

~A lightning bolt crashes through the ceiling and tears through the room. Leaven leaps backwards and hits the wall, and as he does, the man on the other side of the lightning jumps over at him. He grabs Leaven and pins him to the ground, the light in the room (furniture and things in the room which have been set on fire from the lightning) reveals him. X-66.~

X-66: What a treat it is, to meet you here. Are you surprised to see my face again?

Leaven: Not really.

*X-66 throws Leaven against the wall, he slides down onto the floor*

X-66: *Laughs* I knew fate would lead us back to each other, that's exactly the way it was meant to be. A predestined meeting.

Leaven: Why are you here?

X-66: Did you think that I could rest in peace with a knife in my back? Just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable. I'll kill both you and X-65 before I can even consider being satisfied.

Leaven: You're not getting to them while I'm still here. And if you think you can kill me, you better think again.

X-66: You still don't know the situation you're in, you won't stop me. No, how about I tell you of what you failed to stop already? These people in the village? They're all dead. They're ALL dead. Ghosts, shadow puppets of a higher power. The looming darkness over this planet is a sight that can only be seen by those who have been touched by the messenger of the dark.

Leaven: The evil in this house was your fault, wasn't it?

X-66: I have not done anything to this town, or the people in it. It was him, he sent a message, it said: "Here I am." It's not just this mansion any more, or the town for that matter. Once he visits a planet, he does not leave. The first people to get a taste of his power were the Belmonts, and among them, the Belmont boy. Yes, Leaven, I know of him.

Leaven: *Looks away*

X-66: Something irreversible happened to this town some time after you left, and nobody knew about it except for the Belmonts. I know what happened, because I've already become part of it. It's my sacrifice to obtain the power needed to manipulate you and the others trapped inside this mansion.

Leaven: "Trapped"?

X-66: Yes, you're all trapped here. Forever. This house may not exist, but the power chained here is already something that has mutated beyond the fact that it's own existence limits its power. How will you flee? It doesn't matter, you're going to remain here, and watch me as I kill everyone else. They should still be asleep, but you.. you couldn't sleep, and surely the lightning kept you awake? The lightning was merely your alarm clock, Leaven, and now let this be your wake-up call. Let the power of Xallos' poison keep you in this prison for eternity.

Leaven: You think you've got us beat, but I'll tell you right now, I'm going to send you back to Hell all over again. We all are. By now, my friends are aware of what's happening thanks to Ms. Strives.

X-66: Amazing what parlor tricks two stray dogs can think up when your back is turned.

Leaven: If it weren't for you, our minds wouldn't even be linked.

X-66: You think I CARE? What's that stupid girl going to do? Warn the Belmont and X-65? All that matters now is that you're all going to die soon. So go and run to your friends and have one last group hug before I descend on you all and send you to him myself. Try and escape, try and defend yourselves..because it's you against the world right now. *Cackles and disappears*

OoC: In case you're confused by now. Basically, Widget hasn't "existed" since Retro left, and now X-66 returns to confront Leaven, only he joins with the sleeping power in the town in order to make sure he wins. Could he have been told of this? And by who? You probably know if you're one of the 4 people who read this.

A thing to keep in mind by this point is that everyone who was invited to stay at the mansion (the main group, Leaven's group and the others) are now trapped, and the Darkstar Pirates are still in Widget, on the outside.

The Next Morning

KoD, awakening from slumber: *yaaaawn* Well, today feels totally non-ominous. I should wake the others so we can get a head start on this non-ominous day.

KoD went to the others' bedrooms but found them empty.

KoD: Hm, they must be outside. I shall join them!

KoD then made his way to the main chamber of the mansion and found that everyone was standing in front of the door with Rocky continually ramming his shoulder into the door.

Retro: Will you stop? I mean, did you even listen to Leaven? We're trapped in here due to evil forces and deception.

Rocky, still ramming into the door: I stopped *thud* listening after he said *thud* "We're trapped in the mansion." *thud and then the ramming stops* Wow, why won't this door open?

Retro: ... *turns his hand into a pixelated blade and runs after Rocky* I will KILLL you!

Fera, holding Retro back: No, honey, don't. We're supposed to make war, not pixels.

Retro: ...You're lucky you're hot and inadvertently carrying my child or I would TOTALLY just stab you for that. Totally.

Fera, insulted: Well, we'll see how far that attitude gets you later. I'm not at the third trimester yet.

Retro: ...*puts the pixelated blade to his wrist vertically (he's serious)*

Fera: *slaps the blade away* Knock it off!

Retro: Yessum *looks down*

KoD: What uh... what's goin' on?

Leaven: We're trapped in the mansion.

KoD: Oh, hey, sir! I didn't think I'd be seeing you again.

Leaven: I've been here for a while now.

KoD: I haven't noticed you until now.

Leaven: Are you serious?

KoD: It's the ONLY explanation as to why I wouldn't have talked to you already. I mean, I used to serve under you in the CIA, why wouldn't I strike up a conversation unless I didn't notice you, right? *looks at Retro*

Retro: I... guess? What?

KoD: *glares at Retro* Nothing. *turns back to Leaven* Anyway, yeah, hi.

Leaven: Yes, fine, hi. We're trapped in this mansion, possibly forever.

KoD: Why?

Leaven: Something about a guy named Xallos. *lightning strikes and the lights begin to flicker on and off*

???: ooooooOOOOOOOoooooo! That's right, you're trapped in here by Xallos's power... FOREVAH! oooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo.

They all turn to the source of the voice and find a man Rocky-size under a white sheet with Rocky-like sunglasses over eyeholes cut in the sheet, still flicking the lights on and off.

Leaven: Will... will you quit it? It's bad enough we're trapped here. Do you have to bug us, too?

X-66: God, fine. *leaves the lights off* Yeah, deal with it *walks off*

Leaven: Hurm.

X-66: *comes back* Oh and I'm gonna kill all of you soon, but you woooOOOooon't know wheeeeEEEEEEeeeeen *holds his hands up and wiggles his fingers in a spooky manner, cept they're obstructed by the sheet still*

Leaven: GO. AWAY.

X-66: So dead, all of you... so damn dead... *mumbles more, but it gets more indistinct as he walks off again*

Fred: 'Bout time I got some lines. Anyway, this is way too dumb for me to stay here, I'm out.

Retro: Fred, we're TRAPPED here.

Fred: Maybe YOU are. I'm leaving this mansion and in the process, this OG. Good luck without my help that you never got anyway. C'mon, GORE.

GORE: Yes, my liege.

Fred walks to the door with GORE following behind.

Retro: The door won't open and it obviously can't be forced open.

Rocky: I have the dislocated shoulder to prove that.

Fred: Like I said, this is way too dumb, so I'm not staying here. *pushes the mansion door open and both Fred and GORE exit. Where did they go? ...Ianno, somewhere. The door closes behind them*

Retro: How did... but... huh.

Rocky: I deduce that due to Fred's chaotic nature, he was able to counteract the forces at work and successfully break through to the outside.

KoD: No.

Rocky: But that sounded REALLY intelligent.

KoD: Noooope.

Rocky: C'mon!

KoD: No.

Rocky: Man! Never get to be right *looks down and pouts*

KoD: That aside, I have an idea. Check it *hands Retro his business card, who shows it to everyone else*

Retro: So... you can use em whenever you want? Even now?

KoD: That's the plan. We're outta here! *slices through the air with his scythe* ...aaaand, portal! ...*slices through the air again* portal! portal? ;_; PORTAL! *begins wildly slices through the air* portal portal portal portal portal portal portal PORTAL!! >.< *drops his scythe and collapses in a fit of sobbing* P...portal ;_;

Retro: What gives? If this business card is to be taken seriously, that should've worked.

Elder, still holding the candle: Xallos's power is strong enough to render ANY plot device useless.

KoD: My scythe is a legitimate travel companion ;_; ...Where'd you come from?

Elder: Upstairs.

Leaven: Aren't you a part of the illusion, too?

Elder: Yes, but I can come from upstairs if I want to.

Everyone else: ...

Elder: ...

Everyone else: ...

Elder: ... *lifts up a leg, holds the candle underneath him and passes gas, which causes a stream of fire to erupt, then he walks away*

Retro, in an accepting tone: ...Okay.

And now, because YOU wanted it (you meaning Rocky): Meanwhile in the ruins of New York.

Pole: Holy crap, all this avenging is exhausting. *lays down on his side on the subway station floor amidst all the zombie bodies with shotgun wounds in them* Yep, time for some well deserved rest and pleasant dreaming... *a zombie lurches from behind him, but Pole takes him out with a shotgun without opening his eyes or turning over and then falls asleep shortly after*

Meanwhile, in the deep reaches of space

Kane: Tell my wife I love her very much... she knoooows!

Now somewhere else in space

Eddie Murphy: Hey everybody, we're alive again! *signature laugh*

Troy Murphy: Now I can go back to playing basketball.

Uniyerp: Negayerp. Reason for resurrection of League of Murphys is because of lack of assimilation before its termination, yerp.

Eddie Murphy: ...What?

Uniyerp: ABSORBING YERP ENERGY! RAAAAAAAAyerpAAAAAAWR!

League of Murphys: Oh noooooooooooooooooooo- *assimilated*

Uniyerp: ...Boredom has gone up 5000% Returning to home planet... a.k.a Earth. Yerp.

OoC: Sorry for the skimping on the Pole section, I just don't have anything to write for him currently :/ Nice post overall, though, hm? Also, no one else post about Uniyerp (Like I have to ask, but just in case) cuz I have something planned. Thanks.

~Frouzt slumps on his frozen seat in his freezer-like room. He anxiously taps on his temple while his icy blue eyes are fixated on a frost covered locket. He tries to pry it open but it's frozen shut. Frouzt grunts in frustration and an icy blizzard builds up around his room. He clenches his fists, grits his teeth and closes his eyes. We are brought to an icy kingdom in a frigid land, the land of Blizon. A younger man with spiky gelled blonde locks picks a blue flower off a frozen tree and places it in the hair of a beautiful young woman adorned with a very vivid dress and tiara. The man has soft, light-blue eyes, a nice complexion and wears a cerimonial uniform. The woman has blurred features but somehow she radiates beauty~

Young Man: Did I ever tell you that you're more beautiful that Christmas morn?

Girl: ~giggling~ Oh, well you aren't bad looking yourself, Jack Frouzt

Frouzt: Please Princess Eve, do not say my name, I am only a commoner

Eve: ~giggles~ Come now Jack, I think as Fleet Admiral you're considered more than just a commoner

Frouzt: I was a born a commoner, and will remain to be one at heart

Eve: Well.... ~puts hand on Frouzt's cheek~ Commoner or not, you're still one love

~Frouzt puts Eve's hand down~

Frouzt: No......I'm not.......Your father has chosen another for you, and you will be happy with your husband to be, just as I am happy that I have been able to bring you so much joy

Eve: But I don't want to marry Prince Eric! I want to marry you! I love you!

~Eve falls in Frouzt's arms~

Frouzt: It is not our choice to make. Your father has hand picked the next ruler of Blizon, and you will marry him as tradition.....Just know that I will always love you, forever and ever

~Eve looks up with tears in her eyes, the two stand together for a time~

Soldier: Admiral!!!

~A soldier in the distance is heart calling Frouzt. The two share saddened expressions~

Frouzt: ~Kisses Eve on the forehead~ I'll always be there for you

~Frouzt begins to walk, but Eve calls his name. As Jack turns around Eve embraces him with a passionate kiss. Frouzt draws himself from the kiss and dissapears into the snow as tears drop to the ground by Eve. Far in the distance a mysterious figure has been watching the two from the palace. He wears a very royal uniform covered in golden trinkets and such. He has Hawk-like, light purple hair and a promident chin.

Flash-forward to a few days after the wedding. Frouzt falls out of his bed to the sound of explosions and gunfire. Men shout distance. Bullets rip through Frouzt's room as a plane passes by. A Frouzt jumps to his window to see that the frozen palace is on fire. Frouzt grabs his axe and his revolver, kicks open his front door and fights through a crowd of panicking villagers towards the burning stronghold. A newspaper floats it the wind, the headline reads "KING CHRISMAN REFUSES TO HAND OVER POWER TO PRINCE"

Meanwhile in the Palace, Princess Eve barricades her bedroom door as gunfire is heard just outside. A man outside shouts "Protect the Princess! Don't give in!". Other men scream in agony and pretty soon silence is heard. After a few tense moments the door lurches forward, and then again, and again. The princess presses a stone in the wall which opens a compartment of stairs leading to the palace's highest most tower. The door blasts open. A few soldiers enter the smoke filled room and out of the fog enters Leaven.

Frouzt enters a corpse filled throne room. The King lays impaled in the chest by a golded-diamond studded saber. Frouzt drops his weapons and rushes to his king~

Frouzt: My lord! Wake up! Your highness what happened here!

~The king coughs up blood as he slowly gains contiousness~

King: It wasss........It wassss......Eric......

~Eve is hit to the floor. She looks up to see Prince Eric's Hawk-like spectre~

Eve: Eric! Don't do this! Please! You won't succeed! Frouzt will stop you!

Eric: Frouzt? You think Frouzt, that commoner, will come to save the day?! Why, I'm counting on it!

~bloody wheeze~.....He......He stormed the c-castle.......~hack~.....He hir-hired a man........His name issss...........

Frouzt: His name is what?! WHAT'S HIS BLOODY NAME?!

~The king's body falls limp and a girl's shriek is heard throughout the castle~

Frouzt: EVE!

~Frouzt bursts into the tower to witness Leaven impale Eve with a saber, toss her aside, then light a cigarette. He looks down at his bloody shoes in disgust, then looks over at Eve and gives a sneer of disinterest~

Frouzt: Eve! No!

~Frouzt fires off a couple shots at an off-guard Leaven, the bullet barely grazes his arm. Leaven leaps onto the window as Frouzt rushes with axe in hand. A helicopter rides up alongside the window, snow and wind pour into the room and a frigid chill slows Frouzt. Leaven grabs onto a ladder hanging out from the helicopter. Frouzt runs to the window as the helicopter pulls away, he slams his fists in a rage, but a familiar voice calls him out of it. He turns and sees Eve's outstretched hand to him. He rushes by her side. She puts a locket in Frouzt's fist and kisses his hand as they both begin to cry. Eve's grip becomes weaker and weaker, and her head falls to the floor~

Frouzt: Eve! *shakes her! Eve wake up! Eve!! Don't leave me!............Eve!!......I tried to save you!!......Eve!!! I tried!!.......Ah, god!! Please!!!!Eve wake up!!......God no!!!...........No.......

~Frouzt embraces Eve's body, and a chilling snow begins to fill the room. After a long while Frouzt places Eve's body back in her bed, picks a blue flower out of a neardy vase, and places it her hair. He rubs his hand over her cheek~

Frouzt: I'm so sorry Eve......I love you baby.....

~Frouzt leans and kisses Eve. He then turns and marches out of the room. A deathly fire burns in his eyes, it's clear that murder is on his mind, and the victim is Prince Eric. Frouzt makes his way to Eric's quarters, but he is nowhere to be found. He notices a draft coming from under a curtain, he rips it down to find a secret passage down to an underground lab. Frouzt Is amazed by what he sees. Beakers and bottles filled with strange liquids fill the room, and Eric stands infront of a table mixing chemicals. Frouzt takes out his pistol, struggles to get a steady aim on the prince's head, cocks the hammer, closes his eye and fires. To his amazement, the bullet passes right through the prince~

Frouzt: What?! A hologram?!

~Eric jumps out of the shadows and injects a serum into Frouzt's neck. Frouzt shoots Eric in the stomach before falling to the ground~

Eric: Urgh! Insolent peice of filth! You can't just stay out of my affairs?! Well, no matter ~cough~ that serum will kill you soon enough! It causes your cells to intenselly multiply and changes your ginetic code until you're nothing but a blubbling mass of flesh! Have fun dying!

Frouzt: Nuuughh! That shot hit vital organs! You're not going to last long either!

Eric: Oh so that's what you think? Well try this on for size!

~Eric grabs a syringe and injects himself with an odd blue serum. His skin begins to turn paler as his lips and hair turn blue. Ice begins to form on small spots of his body and the bullet wound heals itself. Eric forms an ice club from his hand. He raises it and clubs Frouzt in the head. He clubs Frouzt several times in different spots, breaking his legs and his ribs. Eric raises his frost club one last time~

Eric: So long forever, Jack Frouzt!

~Eric lurches toward Frouzt when the cieling caves in. Explosions rattle the room. A large tank next to Frouzt explodes and a strange gas pours over his body, his lips begin to develope a slightly blue hue. He hears Eric begging for mercy, screaming "No! Don't! I'm the king now! I'm royalty!". A booming, chilling laugh is heard. "Well then it seems your reign has ended sooner than your whails of pain will!" says the man. Frouzt looks over at the shadow on the wall infront of him. A very large entity of a man is seen looming over a cripled Eric, a sword through his back. The man reaches out to Eric's head, grabs it, then rips it clean off, spinal cord and all. Frouzt turns to see the man, but his vision grows fuzzy and begins to black out. He manages to catch a glimpse of a very, very tall man draped in a green cape triumphantly holding up Eric's head.

Frouzt opens his eyes to find himself back in his frosty room, still clentching his locket. A a tear begins to slide down his cheek but becomes frozen in place. Behind him on a monitor, Kane can be seen being escorted to Frouzt's room~

~Meanwhile, at the Belmont estate, the group continue to debate on the next course of action while trapped.~

Jed: It's getting dark outside. ;.;

Leaven: Who knows, it could be a mirage for all we know. This house is already playing with our minds, perhaps it's not even on solid ground any more.

~The house shakes violently at that, but it subsides after a minute or two.~

Fera: This is driving me CRAZY! Can't we do anything to escape like those idiots who left earlier?

Adele: It's like Leaven says, the house is just playing with our minds right now. But there might be a way out.

*The rest of the group look towards her*

Adele: If we find X-66 and kill him again, that might break the hold on the house at least, or do something else..there's no telling what will happen, but that's our best bet right now.

Rocky: He does deserve to get it after locking us up in here. I'll beat the solution to this out of him if I gotta. Just leave it to ol' Rocky!

Leaven: He's the one with the hold on this mansion, and he's also our biggest problem at the moment. He's after all of us. If we stick together, hopefully he won't ambush one of you and, well..

Jed: I vote we should all pick a buddy so we don't get lost! *Jumps at Fera, who moves to the side and closer to Retro, leaving Jed on the ground.* D'oh..

Leaven: It's best that we all stick together for now...*goes off on something about safety in numbers. Fera whispers to Retro something as Leaven speaks.*

Fera: Retro, I've been thinking lately. This whole mess, what've we gotten ourselves into? I don't want anything to happen to us, or the baby for God sakes.. this is all way too scary to think about.

Retro: I know it sounds dangerous, but I'm going to do my best to protect everyone, especially you. We've got to set some things right, and there's something bigger than the both of us going on now. I'm going to see it through to the end no matter what, and when it's all over, you're going to be there with me. Okay?

Fera: Okay. I love you.

Retro: *Removes his mask and smiles* I love you too.

~They hold hands~

Leaven: ...so don't go wandering off, got it? I'm depending on you all to work together despite any differences.

Jed: Um, *pokes Leaven in the leg until he looks down* should we go look for X-66, or wait for him?

Leaven: He controls everything that happens here now. We're better off waiting for something to happen, or else we'll wear ourselves out.

Jed: How do you know that for sure?

Leaven: It's certain something will happen soon.

Adele: Our ex-leader was impatient, that's how he knows.

Rocky: So am I dammit! *Paces back and forth frantically*

Fera: Gee, I wonder why.

Rocky: *Glares*

Retro: ...Oh! I just remembered, where's Lando gone?

Leaven: He insisted on staying outside with his troops for the past couple of nights. They have no idea what's happening right now.

Adele: And it's pointless trying to establish a mental link past this aura.

Retro: Hurm.

~Outside in the town of Widget, Lando and his forces camp just outside the town as always. It is the middle of the day in Widget, despite what the other group is seeing, and Lando sits in his own tent reading a book he borrowed from a local citizen. Suddenly, a man enters his tent and speaks, Lando recognizes his voice as the captain of the Darkstar Pirates.~

Drake: ...Blackheart, Drake Blackheart, pleasure to meet you.

Lando: I believe we've met- or spoken, I am the CIA Lieutenant, Lando. *They shake hands* Please, sit down.

Drake: Well if you insist. *Laughs and sits* Although I'd prefer something else besides a tree stump, I ain't complainin'. So, I'll cut to the chase here- we've been trying to establish a link with your commander again. We noticed your banner, I didn't think it would be you guys again.

Lando: Ah yes, I remember. However, since then my men have been rescued by the new CIA commander. He's here in Widget as we speak!

Drake: New commander? Not that I ain't pleased to know this lieutenant, fer your sake and mine, but I'm not sure he'd want what we got now.

Lando: If you want to talk to him, I think you can get this all settled and be on your way again.

Drake: *Rubs his chin and mulls it over* Yeah I s'pose. This new commander, what's his name?

Lando: Her name is Adele, Adele Strives.

Drake: Ah, arright. Thanks for yer time, I'll try and ask around for them in town. *Tips hat* Lieutenant.

Lando: Captain. *Resumes reading*

~Meanwhile, back at the estate~

Jed: O.O I thought the sun was SETTING.

Retro: Why, what's it doing?

Jed: It almost set, but then it shot straight back up in the air again!

Leaven: At least we know that time is also an illusion here. *Stands up and walks over to the window and stares at it* This world is so breathtaking with it's scenery, how can it all be dead inside?

Rocky: Everything dies once you find out how to zap the life from it. That's just how it is. It's better to have lived and died in a natural way than to have it changed before your eyes.

Jed: It still looks super weird. I'm gonna lay down. *Collapses where he stands*

Leaven: He's watching us now, I can-

Adele: -feel it? Don't let your feelings blind you now, don't be fooled by anything.

Leaven: That isn't what I meant.

Adele: You're worried though, I can tell. If you get too paranoid about when he'll strike, you'll play into his traps. This is his strategy, he knows he can't take all of us in a straight fight.

Leaven: He's just itching to jump out of the wall and carve me up with an axe, but it's not me I'm worried about. He's saving me for last.

Adele: We can worry about ourselves, just sit back and keep it in your head that we're all going to make it out of here.

Leaven: Stop telling me that, I know...I'm trying not to think about it alright?

Adele: Just stay close, and keep your mind on something else.

Leaven: Our mind, you mean.

Adele: That's what I said. *Smile*

Rocky: This house doesn't even look spooky. *Knocks over a priceless vase by mistake* ...Oops.

*Everyone glares at Rocky*

Rocky: Oh come on, I doubt X-66 cares.

~The house begins to rumble again, suddenly the shards of the vase rise to the air and one by one, fly in random directions~

Rocky: Look out! *Jumps to the ground with his arms over his head*

Retro: Oh please. *Obliterates all of the shards with a blast until they turn to ash and disappear*

~Suddenly a voice comes from nowhere~

"Stop cheating."

Retro: Make me.

~X-66 appears in the center of the foyer~

X-66: None of you get it, why do you even fight back? You're huddled here in fear, wondering if stopping my little game will even stop the darkness here. Well, just because you stop the game doesn't mean we're all finished playing. Haaahhhhaaaahhhhaaaa...

Rocky: No more games! *Leaps at X-66 and tackles him*

X-66: UURGH! What?! Pain! I..I feel pain.. *Laughs crazily for a moment, but then screams at nothing in anger* IS THIS A JOKE?!? WHAT KIND OF POWER DO I HAVE IN DEATH, WHEN I CAN FEEL AN IDIOT'S BODY?!

Rocky: You were cloned from an idiot, idiot!

X-66: I'll kill you first.. it's always been on my mind- you, kid. My whole drive in life was to kill you, why is it, then, that you mock me?

Rocky: Easy to laugh at one's self.

X-66: I'm not you! *Swings at Rocky but is stopped by his fist in his face. He staggers backwards and grabs it.* You can't be serious, what's the point of this power if I can't use it to take my revenge out?! WELL XALLOS?!

Retro: Don't put too much confidence in strength that isn't your own! *Bum rushes X-66 and knocks him into the bottom of the stairway, breaking it into many pieces*

X-66: GRAAARGH! *Sends out a shocking wave of power that knocks Retro and Rocky backwards* Get away from me you filthy, freaking mortals! *Stares in horror at the blood he wipes from his face* Stop this right now, there's been some sort of mistake- it's all backfired! BACKFIRED.

Leaven: I didn't think he'd break this easily..was he too overconfident?

Adele: That's too easy of a fluke...isn't it?

X-66: I'll kill you, X-65. That will make it all better, ALL better. I can rest if you're dead, come here...COME HERE! *Cries out and grabs his longsword, then flies at Rocky*

Leaven: Rocky! Defend yourself!

Rocky: With what?!

~Leaven and Adele both leap up at once and step in front of Rocky with their weapons out and stop X-66 as he pushes forward. The steels of their weapons grinds, as the sword slips through and nearer to Rocky as he's up against the wall. Leaven and Adele somehow manage to flip him to one side and then they exchange swings of swords and axes for a while. X-66 tries to make a break for Rocky, but either Leaven or Adele deflect him off of his path and keep him busy.~

Fera: Do something Retro!

Retro: I can't! *Is trying to aim with a beam at X-66 amidst the fight* I might hit the other two!

Jed: I got it! *Jumps into the fray and deflects a swing of X-66's sword which would have been fatal to Adele, and then flips it around and rams the other end into his rib cage. X-66 staggers back with the wind knocked out of him.*

X-66: Dammit! DAMMI- *Is blasted away by Retro's beam through a wall*

Retro: ..Is it done?

Leaven: No. *Leaps through the debris, and some seconds later the clangs and swings of swords and axes begin again*

X-66: X-65, GET THIS IN YOUR HEAD, I HATE YOU..I WON'T LET YOU DIE HAPPY. *Punches Leaven in the face, grabs him and throws him into the other room, but Adele catches him* Because...because if you die sad, I'll be happy. Finally happy.

Rocky: You're crazy anyway. You and Kane look like me..*thinks for a second* or did..but you're not me. We're all different, now isn't that ironic of a clone to say?

X-66: GRR. ALL MY PLANS RUINED. RUINED. RUINED. RUINEDRUINEDRUINEDRUINEDRUINEDRUINEDRUINEDRUINEDRUINEDRUINEDRUINEDRUI-

Leaven: All of those years building your way up..

X-66: -RUINED!! Because of all of you. How can you deny my dreams? Why does this world HATE me? And why does LIFE hate me?!

Leaven: Because..it wasn't allowed by fate that such dark wishes could be fulfilled.

X-66: *Twitches* Fate? FATE? FAAATEEE?! FFFFFAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTEEEEEEEEE?! *The foundation shakes and chunks of the ceiling fall to the floor.*

~For a few moments there's an eerie silence in the mansion~

X-66: ... ... ... I get it.

Leaven: Get it?

X-66: Life, or death, either one that I choose, I'm still the same. No matter what the outcome is, I'm always a puppet or a throwaway doll of some kind. You win, X-65. You are the superior, and soon, I sense you'll also be the last.

Rocky: Hm.

Leaven: I..

X-66: Don't utter another word to me, Leaven. I mean, Lennard. You are so despicable, so purely, purely beyond hating, I don't want any more to do with you either. I had fun teaching you, but I suppose that came back to bite me later on. If it wasn't for you, well, who knows. I bet you'll change the world, like you always wanted.

Leaven: ...

X-66: Now end it. Finish me off once and for all, I'll rest for sure knowing that everything went right for you, and that an expendable doll shouldn't have tried to interfere.

Leaven: *Closes his eyes and slowly raises his axe*

X-66: Do it, damn you.

Leaven: *Comes down with the axe. Everyone looks away. It's lodged in his back.*

X-66: ..In..a..way...you'll...always...be my...son.

~More silence~

Leaven: Death always gets me in a bad mood.

~Suddenly, the house rumbles more~

Rocky: Is it over? Is the curse thingy over?

Fera: I don't know..*Goes for the door and tries to open it. Locked* Aw..

Retro: But what happened when he died?

Leaven: Nothing. The house always rumbled like that while we were here.

Adele: But..up until now I thought HE was doing that.

Retro: Hurm.

Jed: Guys, I don't mean to um, well who cares, as an expert on portals..I'm beginning to sense one nearby.

Retro: Huh? How near?

Elder: Pretty near, I'd say.

*Everyone looks to the elder of Widget, coming seemingly from nowhere*

Elder: This house, in itself, is a portal. It takes us to many places, to see many people. You two know this for sure, don't you?

~Retro and Leaven stare at eachother for a second~

Elder: I may not exist, but I still have feelings that bind me here, let me tell you. This time, you're all going for a journey except for me.

Retro: Why, who are we going to see?

Elder: I'm not sure, but hopefully it isn't your maker.

~The house rumbles more violently than ever before. Suddenly, the walls begin to contract and twist around.~

Fera: Wha-What's happening?!

Rocky: I dunno, hold on tight!

Jed: *Clings to Leaven's cape* >.> <.<

~Outside of Widget, all of the citizens (including Blackheart and Lando's army) stare up at the mansion as it lifts off of the ground and begins to warp into itself. It vanishes in a giant flash of light.~

Drake: *Lowers his hand from his eyes* Well I'll be damned, you don't see a house do that every day.

~A instant later, the house reappears in a newer, drastically different place. The ground is not solid, with everything being a dark mesh of purple, blue and red. A swirling cloud of darkness looms in the sky above the mansion, with lightning coming out. After a moment, a new landscape forms from around the house to model itself after Widget. All of the people in this town exit their houses to greet each other and talk about their lives. A group of children fight over their favorite playthings, while adults complain about meaningless things.

The party wakes in the mansion, intact and all right. They reassure eachother of their well being and then look around.~

Rocky: Where are we?

Retro: I dunno Rocky, but I'll say this, we're not in Widget anymore.

Fera: *Tries the handle once more, it opens* Gasp! Guys! Come look, the door's open now!

Leaven: Wait Fera, we don't know what's happened, we should just look what's going on.

Fera: Oh? I-I know. I'm just lookin'. *Shocked when she gazes outside and witnesses the entire town before them with a different sky above them. She closes the door and leans against it.* Ahaha..nothing to see out there, really.

Rocky: Well out with it what'd you see out there?

~Fera cups her mouth and shakes her head~

Rocky: Ugh, fine

~Rocky quickly moves Fera aside which causes her to stumbles a bit, Retro gets aggrivated

and steps toward Rocky to confront him. When he reaches his friend he notices a frozen

expression on Rocky's face as he peers out the door. Retro looks outside and his face

freezes as well. Jed begins poking Retro's leg~

Jed: Well guys, what's out there?

Rocky/Retro: .........Widget

~Meanwhile back in the other Widget~

Drake: Well I 'spose that makes you the new commander

Lando: Hm......This is a surprising turn of events. Humph, I'll assume temporary command

until Miss Strives returns

Drake: Looks to be a long wait, mate

Lando: Hold on......Let me see those documents again

~Drake hands Lando the blueprints to both the Metal Gears and the Devastator designs.

Lando's hands begin to tremble~

Lando: So this is what Clyde's been up to.......?

Drake: I'm 'fraid it is.......You know what this means, mate

Lando: ..........We'll have to assault his headquarters before he destroys an entire

planet....

Drake: ~Sigh~ I'm 'fraid he already has...

~Drake hands Lando a small, square device that shows a recording of Earth being

obliterated~

Lando: My god......How could he?!......What kind of monster is this man?!

~Drake places his hand on Lando's shoulder~

Drake: It's our only hope, mate. Lest we risk more worlds to be destroyed by Clyde. We

gotta stop 'em at all costs.

Lando: But......How do we ge~A flurry of dust and sand begins to beat against Lando's

campsite as a mysterious ship lands just outside it's bounderies~

~The main hatch doors slowly open and a freezing vapor makes it's way down a ramp to the

ground. Lando rallies his troops to flanking points aroun the camp and various rocks~

Lando: Drake, go get your crew, see that mark on the side of the ship?

Drake: Aye I see it, Legion

~A tank rolls up to the side of Lando who proceeds to climb aboard. Some troops set up

sandbag bunkers and high-calibur minigun nests. Footsteps and rustling is heard inside the

ship. Then a slow steady clunking, each time gets louder. clunk. clunk. CLUNK

. Soon a very large, imposing shadow appears in the fog~

Lando: Get ready men! Don't give them room to fight back!

~Kane makes his way down the ramp as bullets begin to fly by his head. Some troops exit the

ship from various points but most become filled with lead. Lando directs the tank's main

cannon at Kane's head and fires a ballistic missle at the fiend. Kane lights a cigar and

takes a big puff of smoke as the missle explodes in his face, a direct hit. Lando opens the

hatch of the tank to get a better view as smoke shrounds the area. Out of the smoke Kane

steps, dusting himself off, he spots Lando. The two makes eye contact, Kane simply smirks~

~Meanwhile in the other Widget, the group has been roaming around the town for a bit. Retro

crosses his arms in deep thought as Rocky makes faces and waves his hands infront of the

various townsfolk who seem oblivious~

Rocky: Haha, I can't believe they don't notice us, boy this town rocks

~Rocky sees an obviously wealthy man strolling down the road and proceeds to pitpocket the

rich man. He also steals the man's monocle, tophat and cane~

Rocky: Hey check it out, i'm the Planter's Peanut!

~Rocky opens the man's wallet that he stole and out folds hundred dollar bills~

Rocky: Jackpot!

~Fera swipes the wallet and wags her finger in Rocky's face~

Fera: Can't you stop acting like your eight years old for five minutes?

Rocky: Cant'cha let a guy have some fun once in awhile?

Adele: This is serious Rocky! We have to find a way back to Lando!

~Both girls lean over Rocky with fiery, angry eyes. Rocky simply shrugs them off and

smirks, he then proceeds to open his right jacket pocket which is filled with an assortment

of hair care products and begins to comb his hair. The two girls are furious at Rocky's

ignorance of them and pounce ontop of him. Jed quickly makes his way over and watches in

excitement but is dragged into the skirmish by Rocky's hand~

Leaven: Well........What now?

Retro: Hurm, I'm not sure

Leaven: Maybe we should look around to find clues to where we are, because the townspeople

are no help

~Retro looks over at Rocky pantsing a police officer before Adele, Fera and Jed tackle him

again~

Retro: ~Sigh~ Alright

~The groups disbands throughout the town to find the answers to their questions.......Well,

except for Rocky who continues to mess with the townsfolk.....Jed enters a dark alley.

There seems to be a decrepid door at the end saying "KEEP OUT!"~

Jed: Hm........Looks like a clue ~puts on cap and pulls out a magnifying glass~

~Jed makes his way down the alley and soon he hears a chillin tone, the sounds of a little

girl singing. She sings eerily soft. A steady rythme of "Laala laalala laaala laaalala" Jed

cautiously makes his way closer and closer to the doorway. With each step the singing gets

louder. "Laala laalala laaala laaalala, laala laalala laaala laaalala, LAALA

LAALALA LAAALA LAAALALA. Jed's at the doorway now, he notices small blood splotches on

it. He also noticed that the singing has stopped. He nervously pans the door for a handle.

He finds and old, dusty doorhandle, he turns it but it falls to the ground. Jed shrugs and

slowly pushes the door open "CKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK"~

Jed: Man, the hinges on this door really need to be oiled

~Jed peers into the darkness of the room and makes out the figure of a little girl~

Girl: I Knew You'd Come. You're Going To Play

With Me Now.

~A lightbulb dangling above the girls head turns on, her back faces Jed and her dress is

stained with blood. Her head slowly turns around a full 180 degrees. By this time Jed's

face looks alittle like ._.~

Girl: We're Going To Play Forever!

~The girl's head spins around a few times before it pops clean off her neck and rolls to

Jed's feet. Jed looks down at the head which turns to face him~

Head: LETS PLAY A GAME!

Jed: O.O eek!

~Jed flees back down the alley as the little girl laughs. As Jed runs he notices a fire

coming from town square, as Jed rounds a corner he sees the townsfolk mobbed together with

torches and pitchforks, they moan horribly and have glowing red eyes. They swarm the local

pub which is partially on fire. From a window Jed hears Retro yell "WHAT DID YOU DO?!" and

Rocky reply "I didn't do squat!". Jed leaps over the heads of the zombie villagers and

crashes through the window of the pub to find Rocky, Retro and the rest of the gang

barricading the door~

Jed: ROCKY, WHAT DID YOU DO?!

Rocky: For the last time, I didn't do jack shit, honestly!

~Leaven spreads a bagel~

Leaven: Well SOMEBODY peaved these villagers off

~Torches and cocktails fly through the window and set the bar on fire~

Fera: What do we do?!

Rocky: Well gee considering we have superhuman powers that would most likelyl be able to

kill most normal people in an instant, I'de figure we fight back

Retro: Great way to ruin the suspense Rocky

Rocky: Hey get off my back why dont'cha

Adele: Wait! Something's happening!

~The zombies moan in pain and run in fright. Retro peers into the town, nobody remains,

it's dead silent~

???: So, you're all finally here are you?

~The group jumps and whips around to a voice behind the burning bar counter. A dark figure

slowly rises from the flames. A black mist fills the room. The shadow figure slowly forms

into the hooded man, his eyes glowing red. A bolt of lightning strikes nearboy, lighting

the room, the group catches a glimpse of what appears to be a demonic, skull-shape under

the dark hood. Retro and Rocky point their fingers at the figure, ready to fire off

whatever they got at the hooded spectre~

Hooded man: Your body tells you to fight but your mind says to run. What does your heart

say?

Rocky: Easy, it says to kick your ass back to wherever you came from

Jed: Wait, this guy just saved us from the zombies, should'nt we be thanking him?

~Jed walks up to the man to give him a handshake but Rocky shoots a bullet of fire from his

hand directly infront of Jed's hand~

Jed: Hey what's the big idea?!

Rocky: Don't do it Jed, we've seen this guy before, he's no good

Retro: What's he doin here?

Rocky: I don't know........But I'm not lettin' him get away again!

Hooded man: Muahahaha, yes! Release your anger! Come kill me!

Rocky: With pleasure!

Retro: No! Rocky! Wait!

~Rocky unsheathes his sword and charges at the hooded man. Retro prepares himself for the

obvious trap that's to come once Rocky comes close enough to the man, but to his surprise,

Rocky manages to run the man through the stomach. The man doubles over in pain~

Hooded man: Gyaaaaahhhh! Ahhh! *hack* How?!

~Retro stares in awe at how easy that seemed, even Rocky himself is surprised. Rocky pulls

his sword out of the man who falls to the floor. Rocky turns and cleans his sword

triumphantly while the rest of the group look at Rocky in amazement. Their expressions of

awe quickly turn to terror as a large shadow looms behind Rocky who seems to know all to

well what their expressions mean~

Rocky: Aww crap.......

~A giant shadowy hand pushes rocky through the barricade and rams him into the well in the

center of town, then it slams him onto the ground and grabs hold of him. The hand then

morphs into a constricting cover, the hooded man's face appears from the shroud and several

fists begin pummeling Rocky in the face as the hooded man laughs. The hooded man's head

then explodes in a burst of pixel energy. Rocky looks over at Retro with his hand

outstretched, they give eachother a reasurring thumbs up. Xallos's head reforms and he

bends backwards to face a surprised Retro~

Hooded man: Oooooh, you didn't think I forgot about you?! NYAAAHH!!

~The hooded man opens his mouth and stretches his toungue to wrap around Retro's neck. He

then proceeds to flail Retro around the air and slam him into various things as he

continues to pummel Rocky.

Leaven rushes at the hooded man but is stopped by a hand holding onto his ankle. Leaven

trips and turns to see the hooded man's head ascend from the rocky ground~

Leaven: What the-!

Hooded man: HAHAHA! Don't try to get the drop on me! You'll find the results will be

shocking!

~The tentacles from from the ground and wrap around Leaven's limbs where he proceeds to be

electrocuted. The hooded man then slams Retro intro Rocky and begins to choke them both~

Rocky: Gyuh! Don't just stand there! D-do something!

~Jed rushes at the hooded man who tries to grab Jed like he did Leaven, but Jed evades it

by using his portal. The hooded man, surprised, frantically scans the landscape for Jed,

but can't seem to find him. The hooded fiend looks up to find Jed's scythe cut deep into

the man's face. Jed grasps a tight hold of his scythe handle and overloads it with crash

energy which channels directly into the hooded man's body. the shadowy spectre releases

Rocky, Retro and Leaven and screams out in pain as he begins to spasm and flail while light

penetrates his body~

Jed: Take cover!

~The group leaps behind the well as the hooded man's body explodes in a reaction of light

and crash energy, Jed's scythe flies directly at Fera's head but Jed firmly grips it and

spins it around into a pretty badass fighting stance~

Adele: Hooray for Jed!

~The group cheers and pats Jed in celebration of their victory, but out of the well a hand

grasps Jed's body and the giant spectre of the hooded man ascends from the waterhole. The

hand becomes a rope and ties itself around Jed's body. The hooded man yanks the rope

against his fist, Jed bounces off, then the villian yanks again to create a paddleball

effects~

Hooded man: ~yawn~ Well, I grow tired of these games. Time for some real fun!

~The hooded man throws Jed into the group and raises his arm. He thrusts his arm down in a

sweeping motion which produces a violet wave of magical energy which knocks the group on

the ground. One by one they begin to fall asleep from the wave's influence~

Hooded man: Nyehehehahahah!, sweet dreams

~And now we enter the dreamworlds of our heroes, first up, Jed. We see our hero floating in

a peaceful sky. He laughs with gleee as he bounces softly between two walls of giant

breasts. A booming laugh is heard "Nyehehehahahah!" and the peaceful blue sky turns dark

and red. Lightning flashes all around~

Jed: Wh-who's there?!

~Jed turns to the giant jigglies, but looks in horror as one of the walls turns into giant

Bronto Burts~

Jed: Eeek! No! Ahh! o.o HEEEELP!

~Jed floats towards the other row of boobs for protection~

Jed: Atleast I know you'll never hurt me

~The gargantuant jumblingsthen ripple and morph into the giant visored head of Rocky who

proceeds to yell lines and lines of gibberish~

Jed:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

~Now to Leaven's dream. We see Leaven in a white room filled with bagels, he stands holding

Adele in his arms. The hooded man angrily bursts into the room~

Hooded man: Now really THIS is what you dream about?! Mortals, how boring

~Leaven raises his axe to the hooded man's throat~

Leaven: Who are you?!

~The hooded man cackles~

Hooded man: Why, you already know me

Leaven: WHAT'S YOUR NAME

Hooded man: Xallos

Leaven: W-what did you say?

Xallos: Oh, don't worry about me, we're here for you! NYAAAAAAAHHH!!

~Adele dissapears from Leaven's arms and the room begins to shapeshift. Snow begins to fall

from the ceilling Leaven realizes that he's in Blizon Palace. He turns to Xallos but he is

no longer there, but his voice lingers on~

Xallos: Ah yes, you remember this place quite well don't you Leaven? This is where your

true colors were shown once again!

~Leaven turns to see himself impale Princess Eve once again. Leaven winces at the sight~

Leaven: NO!

Xallos: YES! THAT IS WHO YOU TRULY ARE! YOU'RE A COLD BLOODED MONSTER! You completelly

ruined the life of an innocent man!

Leaven: Man? What are you talking about?!

Xallos: Keep your eyes open

~Leaven watches Frouzt shoot the past Leaven's shoulder, and then feels his own shoulder,

remembering the wound~

Leaven: How dare that guard shoot me...

Xallos: AHA! There it is! You have not completelly shed your old self! But a word to the

wise, pay more attention to your serroundings in the future, boy. That was no mere guard,

you know him as the feared Admiral Frouzt!

Leaven: ........F-Frouzt.....?

Xallos: Yes! The good admiral was madly in love with Princess Eve in his youth, she was his

entire world. Just like you and your darling Strives! Speaking of her.....

Leaven: If you lay one finger on her!

Xallos: My my what anger, it satisfies me so! Maybe we should look back to what YOU'VE

already done to the poor girl!

~The room switches over to the wartorn throne room of the CIA headquarters. X-66 is seen

stabbing the commander in the chest. Behind X-66 is the young Leaven~

Present Leaven: No!

Xallos: Yes!

Young Adele: Leave my father alone, he didn't do anything to deserve this!

CIA Commander: Adele, get back! I can't stand to lose you!

X-66: Bah, what an annoying sounding little girl. Leaven, take care of her.

Young Leaven: ...Fine.

~The younger Leaven dashes towards the young Adele, the Present Leaven knows all too well

what's about to happen. Leaven runs towards his younger self to protect the young Adele,

but simply passes straight through him. The memory continues as it did before~

Xallos: Nyehehehhaha!! And we're just getting started! I'm gonna make you relive ALL of

your sins! You'll forever feel the pain of those you've killed and their loved ones! By the

end of this day, I will have broken you!

~Leaven falls to his knees and looks over at the now uncontious Stives~

Leaven: ........I'm sorry Adele...

Xallos: Nyehahahah! HAHAHAHA! NYAHAHAHAHHAAAAA!

~Now we delve into Adele's dreamworld. We are brought to a white room, Adele is being held

by Leaven. An angry Xallos bursts into the room~

Xallos: You mortals never cease to dissapoint me! What is this?!

Adele: Beat it Xallos! Leave Leaven and I alone!

Xallos: Ah, so you know who I am then, how curious

Adele: I know because Leaven's mind is linked with mine! We feel and think everything

together!

Xallos: Very curious, then you know the torture I'm putting your little boytoy through then

don't you?

Adele: Let Leaven go!

Xallos: Ah, but young Strives, it's simply too late! Nyaaaahhhh!!!

~The the room ripples and transforms into a holding cell. Strives is just outside the door.

She looks down at the name of the occupant in the cell, it reads "Leaven". Curious, Adele

peers into the room to look at an decrepid, dirty man~

Adele: L-leaven?

~Leaven picks his head up slightly but doesn't make eye contact. Xallos enters the room

from the shadows and hands Leaven a revolver engraved with skulls and demonic symbols.

Leaven looks at the handgun for awhile, then he closes his eyes tightly and points the

barrel to his right temple~

Adele: ~Banging on the door~ No, Leaven! No!

~The door doesn't budge and Leaven doesn't seem to notice. Xallos descends from the shadows

behind Strives and pins her to the door~

Adele: What did you do to him?! Let him go! Stop this!

Xallos: Nyeahahah! What did I do? I simply showed him the truth! I showed him, just how

much of a monster he really is

Adele: Leaven is no monster!

Xallos: Nyehahahah! If only you KNEW half the sins he's accomplished over the years! I

simply REMINDED him! Like most mortals, he couldn't take the truth and simply snapped!

Nyehehehahahah!

~Adele struggles to break free but Xallos slams her face against the door window~

Xallos: Now, now, I want you to watch this. Try to make him stop, prevent the inevitable.

Maybe it'll work and you can change fate...........Or maybe you'll simply fail! Who knows!

Nyeheheha!

~Adele turns to Leaven who cocks the hammer~

Adele: No! Leaven! Leaven! Please!

~Xallos dissapears in a cloud of black vapor and the door flies open. Adele, crying, rushes

into the room. Surprised, Leaven looks up and accidentally pulls the trigger. Adele holds

Leaven's bloody body in her arms as she weeps and begins to rock back and forth as Xallos's

cackle is heard echoing throughout the room.


Now we enter Fera's dreamworld. Fire ravages the landscape. Buildings crumble and bombs go

off in the distance. Fera stands before a mountain of bodies, at the foot of the mountain

are the corpses of Rocky and Jed~

Fera: Eep! What is this?!

~Xallos slithers out of the shadows and rests his hands on Fera's shoulders~

Xallos: Why dear girl, this is your future!

Fera: Who could have done this?! All this destruction!

Xallos: Why, your son of course

~Xallos points atop the mountain of bodies. Fera focuses on two figures fighting on the top

but can't make them out. One figure pulls out an axe and decapitates the other. The figure

throws the head into the distance and then kicks the body down the mountain. As the body

nears the bottom of the mountain she notices the familiar pixelated suit on it. Fera

shrieks in terror but quickly cups her mouth hoping the figure atop the mountain didn't

hear her. The figure turns it's head away, Fera let's out a sigh of relief. Then the figure

throws the axe down the mountain straight at Fera's head. Her shriek is heard throughout

the landscape.

Now we enter Retro's nightmare. Retro sleeps in his apartment on his couch, Fera slumbers

In a bedroom next to a baby's crib. Retro wakes up to go to the bathroom. When he's done he

takes a long, hard stare at himself in the bathroom mirror. Xallos's face appears in the

mirror with his familiar "Nyaaaahhhhhh!". Suddenly Retro finds himself in a burning

apartment. A bloody knife in his hand. He looks around the room smiling. He sees Fera's

bloody body next to him, then he sees his child's mangled and bloody blanket in the corner.

Retro snaps out of his trance. He yells and cries histerically as he runs to Fera. He holds

her hand and caresses her head as his tears flow onto her night gown. Xallos comes out of

the fire's smoke~

Xallos: Retro Belmont.....This is not just a nightmare, this, is your destiny. You're a

killer at heart. You always will be a killer. Fera and your child will not be safe with you

around. You've killed before, and you're bound to do it again, we both know. This is no

nightmare, it's a peer into the future, it's your fate.

~Xallos dissapears into the night as Retro holds Fera's body. And finally, a look into

Rocky's nightmare~

Director: You, Rocky, kill him. Now.

Rocky: Huh?

Director: Please... and thank you!

~Rockyk goes into a trance, picks up a crowbar obediently, and walks towards Ryan with the

intention of killing~

Ryan: What...but Michael! No, no it...!

~Rocky forces the crowbar into Ryans skull. He too slumps too the floor, dead.

Xallos's shadowy apparition forms from the corpse and floats towards Rocky who casually

turns around to face him~

Xallos: What's this? This is your dream? It looks like a nightmare already! How messed up a

mortal are you?!

Rocky: This is the dream I have every night since the incident at Rapture, nothing else

enters my sleep.

Xallos: Rapture? Aahhhhh, I thought you looked a bit familiar

Rocky: Yeah, I remember you in that rat-hole

Xallos: Do you? I thought your memory was wiped before the second time you were there......

~At this point, Rocky's expression is completelly blank~

Xallos: Nyehahahaaa, so......You can't recall your past? Well it seems you can't even

recall what happened here

Rocky: What do you mean? THIS is exactly what happened!

Xallos: Nyehahahahaaa! Your mind decieves your memory! I suppose the incident was so

traumatic that your feeble brain could'nt process it. Here, let me show you what REALLY

happened!

~Xallos lays his hand on Rocky's forehead and lets out his shriek "NYAAAAAAHHHH!". Rocky

watches Micheal get shot through the skull, but it isn't Ryan who shot him, it's a large

man in a familiar pinstripe suit, this man is none other than Fontane.

~Ryan shoots Michael McClow between the eyes. His body slowly slumps to the ground~

Fontane: Heeheeheheheh. Heh...Hehe. And now for you two...what am I going to do with you?

Ryan: You! I'll kill you for the things you've done!

Fontane: You, Rocky, kill him. Now.

Rocky: Huh?

Fontane: Please... and thank you!

~Rocky goes into a trance, picks up a crowbar obediently, and walks towards Ryan with the

intention of killing~

Ryan: What...but Michael! No, no it...!

~Rocky forces the crowbar into Ryans skull. He too slumps too the floor, dead.~

Director: Wow. Good going, Rocky.

~Rocky collapses on the floor nex to Ryan and starts to talk to him~

Rocky: Oh! Sorry! Oh man, you don't look to good...Dude?

~Rocky pokes Ryan's lifeless corpse~

Director: Good, kid. You've done good.

Rocky: Huh? Who are you anywho?

Fontane: The name's Fontane, kid. You've been a peach, but it's time for me to blow dis'

joint, heh.

Rocky: Uh, what? Are you okay, buddy?

~Fontane smirks and fires a bullet between Director's eyes. Rocky is parlylized in fear and

surprise as he watches his best friend fall to the ground, dead~

Fontane: Buddy? Listen kid, I'm not your buddy. It's just bussiness. Now, I need you to

press that shiny button on the control panel by that wall, please and thank you.

~Rockyk finds that he can't stop himself from obeying, and sets off an alarm. The room

suddenly starts shaking. The scene freezes and Xallos appears from the shadows and makes

his way over to Present Day Rocky as he examines Director's corpse, a tear flows down from

under Rocky's sunglasses~

Rocky: ~sniff~ So........This is what really happened....

Xallos: I do not lie, I simply show the truth about things. And I'm going to show you an eternity of truths. You're going to spend the rest of your life in my world, get used to it.

Rocky: I appreciate you showin me the truth, but before I let you do that ~Rocky looks at Fontane, then socks Xallos in the face who staggers back in pain and surprise~ I got some unfinished bussiness with Fontane!

Xallos: H-How?! You can't harm me here! This is your nightmare! You're powerless here!

Rocky: ~Smirking~ I don't have nightmares ~Rocky becomes enshrouded in black fire and morphs into his hell clone form~ I MAKE them! HYAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!

~Rocky holds his arms up high, then swings them down hard onto the ground. The nightmarish world begins to crack and slowly break apart~

Xallos: Hm...... I think I understand......So it IS you.....Oh this'll be fun! Nyehahahahahahaaaaaaaa!!!

~Rocky wakes up from his slumber and finds himself back in the middle of the second widget. He looks around to find his friends sleeping and experiencing horrible nightmares. He scans the area for Xallos but can not find one trace of him~

Rocky: No Xallos eh? Well let's hope it stays that way. Time for us to get the hell out of here

Rocky proceeded to slap the others awake and when they all came to, Retro, Fera, Leaven, and Adele embraced their significant others while Jed lied on the ground rocking back and forth in a ball.

Rocky: We don't have time for this embracing and being traumatized; Xallos isn't anywhere to be found, so we need to make a break for that portal Jed was talking about.

Jed: *snaps out of his trauma trance* Right, portal, it's that-a way! *points his stub towards a giant portal outside of town*

Retro: How do we even know that it'll lead to somewhere safe?

Jed: It will, trust me.

Retro: How do you know?

Jed: Because I'm an EXPERT on portals! >.>

Retro: Okay.

Off in the distance: NYAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

Leaven: It's Xallos...

Adele: If we run towards the portal now, there's a chance we can go through it before he can reach us.

Retro: We don't know for sure, though. We might have to fight him off once more.

Jed: No, we won't.

Everyone turns to Jed and looks surprised.

Jed: I've been thinking. We need someone to hold off Xallos while the rest of the group safely travels through the portal and... I wanna hold someone off.

Retro: Damn it, Jed, I said no more heroic sacrifices!

Jed: It's not completely heroic, though; it's also so you won't have to worry about my "crush" on Fera anymore.

Retro, astonished: What?

Jed: Oh, you're surprised. My small, light stature makes for very successful eavesdropping. I heard you and Fera talking about it at the mansion.

Retro: But Jed, I-

Jed: Nope. Just lemme clear the air. Yes, I have an obsession with breasts, but that's with breasts in general, not just Fera's. They're lovely, but that doesn't mean I wanna get between you and Fera, I mean... I'm actually kind of insulted that you two would insinuate that.

Rocky: But what about always wanting to be with Fera?

Jed: What, that ONE TIME back in the mansion a little while ago? One time doesn't constitute always; there needs to be a pattern in order for it to come close to always. Plus, I didn't even write that >.>

Rocky: But it's classic...

Jed: Well, sorry to disappoint you, but that's not how things are; there's no crush.

Rocky: What about watching Fera fight all the time?

Jed: Okay, that happened twice, so that's almost sort of a pattern. Still, who doesn't like watching a fight? Hm? Anyone?

No one answers.

Jed: I rest my case.

Retro: Okay, fine, you don't have a crush on Fera. That's no reason to sacrifice yourself. I was kidding about it, anyway.

Fera: Yeah, me too.

Jed: Guys, don't insult me any further. Anyway, *tries to cut a portal with the scythe, but it does nothing* Hm... Whatever *throws Rocky his scythe* Enjoy. You can't cut portals with it because only I can do that, but... just a memento.

Still in the distance: NYAAAAAHHHHH!

Jed: Look, there's no time. Goodbye.

Retro: No! *grabs a hold of Jed and so does everyone else*

Jed: Damn it, let go of me! *struggles out of his hood and breaks free of their grasp, then proceeds to run off towards Xallos* LEAVE!

Retro looks down defeated, but realizes that there really isn't much time, so he takes off towards the portal and everyone follows.

Jed finally comes face to face with Xallos, who's still flying at full speed towards the group, but doesn't see the Golden Flame Fist coming towards his mid-section and he plummets to the ground.

Xallos: Urgh... YOU! *grabs a hold of Jed with his shadowy hand* you're that little... thing from before. Come to slow me down while the others escape because of the false crush, eh?

Jed: How did you know? ._.

Xallos: I know a lot of things, but it's mostly because I invaded your mind during your nightmare and just pieced it together. So you're really doing this just because of that, huh?

Jed: That and the comic relief has been wearing me down this whole time >.>

Xallos: Ah, right. The butt of almost every joke, I can see why you were looking for an assisted suicide *laughs*

Jed: You could say that, but I'm not just gonna lie down and die *glows with crash and explodes out of Xallos's hand, destroying it in the process*

Xallos staggers back, obviously hurt, but wildly cackles as his hand grows back.

Xallos: Good, this'll be much more enjoyable than just killing you.

Xallos's hand turns into an axe blade and swings at Jed, but he jumps over it and prepares a GFF for Xallos's head. He's swatted to the ground by Xallos's other hand, but quickly recovers and fires off a crash blast at Xallos's body. Xallos waves his dark energy-powered hand in front of the blast to cancel it out and looks around for Jed, but can't seem to find him. All of a sudden, he looks down at a bright light down by his smokey bottom half and finds Jed with glowing stubs grabbing a hold of it. Jed proceeds to swing Xallos onto his back and then onto his front over and over by his bottom half.

Xallos: HAAAAhahaha, this is like your battle with Dark Tac almost.

Jed, still slamming Xallos into the ground: Yeah and we both know how that turned out.

Xallos: Indeed, but like I'm sure you've deduced, Dark Tac was a fuckin' CAKE WALK COMPARED TO ME! NYAAAAAAAAAH! *Xallos's bottom half stretches and wraps around Jed, cutting off the crash and constricting him*

Jed: So you're gonna squeeze the life outta me?

Xallos: An exquisite idea, but that doesn't sound too fun. How about we test these buildings' integrity HEEEEEEEEEHA-HA HA-HA! *slams Jed into a bunch of buildings in second Widget at an alarming rate and would probably have given Jed whiplash if he had a neck. After about 20 buildings, he throws Jed onto the ground, creating a slight crater with Jed's body*

Xallos floats down to Jed's bruised-up body as it twitches.

Xallos: I didn't know marshmallows could bruise! HEEEEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHAHAHAHAhaaa...

Jed tenses up with anger and glows with crash all over and before Xallos could notice, he got up, spun around, and delivered a crash-powered uppercut while letting out an almost roar. Xallos's back was already heading towards the ground, but Jed pounded away at his torso and face with crash-powered limbs, scraping Xallos's body across the ground while doing so. Then Jed grabbed Xallos's head and delivered several crash-powered headbutts to his face. He sprang from his headbutts into the air and charged up as much crash as he could muster and shot out a massive crash wave at Xallos's beaten body and didn't stop until he had exhausted every ounce of energy he had. The amount of force from the crash wave had sent him into the air a lot further than he started and given that the crash wave took about several minutes to finally finish, he was way high in the air. Not even able to summon up enough strength to puff himself up to slow his descent, Jed plummeted the whole way and landed on the ground. Breathing heavily and wheezing a bit, Jed took solace in the fact that he was at least able to make his sacrifice meaningful and maybe... just maybe he was able to stop Xallos for good. Maybe he didn't have to die and could just wait until his strength returned to go elsewhere. Not with them, though, he had already burned that bridge. He could probably call in a divine favor and get his scythe back to go somewhere else. Home, possibly. Unfortunately, all those plans weren't going to come to pass because Jed could hear Xallos's remains mushing together and reforming. Xallos eventually reformed completely and made his way over to Jed's body, looking down at Jed, who was looking up at him and waiting for his end.

Xallos: *sigh* My, how history repeats itself. At least you were able to make how you ran out of energy different and you put on quite a display. I'm genuinely impressed. However, I'm made out of stronger stuff than that and no amount of your crash was going to stop me. Still, good show.

Jed, barely able to speak: So... n..ow what?

Xallos: Now? Now I swallow your soul and use it to turn you into a puppet.

Jed: *gives off a wheezing laugh that visually pains him to do* As... fun as that sounds... my soul is spoken for...

Xallos: *looks at Jed, as if reading him* ...So it is. Very well, I'll send you back to your soul's owner. *his hand turns into an axe blade again* Tell Him I said "hi."

Jed: Wait...

Xallos: ...What?

Jed: Just tell me... how was I able to... get a portal through? It was just a... reflex during the fight, but I couldn't do it again just now.

Xallos: Oh, I just wanted to make things more interesting. It worked out well, huh? I couldn't leave it on, though, all of you guys would've escaped. This way, at least I got you. HAHAHAHA!

*SPLURK*

Meanwhile, at the site of Earth's destruction.

Uniyerp: Observation error: This is Earth's exact coordinates. Inquiry: What the f*ck? yerp.

Uniyerp: Commencing boot-up of program: Sit-and-waitforawhile.exe, yerp.

~Meanwhile, the main group falls out of a large portal in the sky over Partur and lands in the middle of the first Widget.~

Adele: Ugh...I never want to go back there again.

Retro: I'll agree with you on that one.

Rocky: Pull yourself together guys, at least we're back.. Hey..look. *Points to the battle between the CIA and Legion forces*

Leaven: What the?

~Suddenly, Lando lands in front of Leaven after being thrown a fair distance from his tank. Although not damaged too badly, he is rattled from being face-to-face with Kane.~

Lando: Commander? Leaven? Oh, thank goodness..

Leaven: Lando! Don't talk, here, let me help you.

~Leaven attends to him, but while looking upwards towards the fight he locks eyes with the leader of the assault as he descends the ramp from his flagship.~

Leaven: It's him..

Adele: Who?

Leaven: Let's say we "encountered" each other back when I served under X-66 and leave it at that.

Adele: Oh no..was it bad?

Leaven: *Thinks about his vision* One of the worst.

Fera: It's Legion..

Lando: Sir Leaven, Commander Adele..I have important news for you and your friends.

Rocky: Save it, we've gotta get this battle under control first, and I don't like what I see so far.

Adele: Don't over-exhaust yourself Lando, we'll hear all about it. Just rest here and we'll deal with this.

Lando: Yes, ma'am. *Is laid down on a soft patch of grass* Just be careful, I thought you all were gone forever once, I'd hate to see it happen again.

Retro: Nobody else is dying. *Walks past the group and towards the battle*

Lando: Oh, um, okay. Good luck.

~Kane fixates his look on a small CIA solider and raises both his arms to crush them, but as he goes in for the kill, he is halted in place by none other than Rocky.~

Kane: Well! Funny how we see eachother in unexpected places such as this.

Rocky: Yeah, it- *is socked by Kane and falls to the ground*

Kane: But I'm getting tired of seeing you. Dead tired. *Cracks knuckles*

~Kane begins to make another move, but is blasted in the side of the head by Retro, who stands at a distance to Kane's side with smoke rising from his hand.~

Rocky: I can handle him myself Retro!

Retro: Don't care, I'm not taking any more chances.

Kane: Just shine that little flash light at me some more Retro, give me more reason to kill you. *Sneer*

Retro: Just keep smiling. *Aims and fires once more, but Kane dodges and charges at Retro, but he deflects him with another powerful wave of pixel energy. Kane stumbles backward and is about to make another rush, but Rocky tackles him and they begin exchanging blows. Eventually, Retro jumps into the fight to help as well*

~Leaven rushes over to the battle and grabs some CIA soldiers by the arms and carries them out of the fight. Fera and Adele do the same. As they come back, a chilling blast of cold sweeps across the terrain, and many CIA soldiers are stopped in their tracks. Leaven spins around with his weapons in hand and finds himself standing before Frouzt all of a sudden. They lock eyes again for a long moment, Leaven can't think of anything to say.~

Frouzt: The feared General Leaven of the CIA. Well, this mission just became personal.

Leaven: Fera, Adele, get back, now.

Frouzt: You care enough for those two that you don't want any harm to come upon them? That's very sweet of you, but you don't understand.. if I killed them both now, we'd be even.

Leaven: No we wouldn't.

Frouzt: Yes, we would. You killed the woman who was my entire world, why shouldn't I do the same? She was defenseless, and you slaughtered her!

Adele: That's not true!

Frouzt: Of course it is, do you see him objecting? This man is a murderer and a filthy attack dog.

Leaven: *Drops weapons* Look, I'm not going to fight you.

Frouzt: I don't want you to fight, I just want revenge!

Adele: But Leaven, you were just following X-66's orders weren't you?

Leaven: That makes no difference.

Adele: Of course it does! Because then it isn't your fault if-

Leaven: No Adele, it makes no difference. It doesn't matter if someone makes and order, the responsibility falls on the ones who carry it out.

Frouzt: That's interesting, I thought it meant nothing to you but just another death. But that doesn't justify anything, now I've got to kill you.

Fera: What will that solve?

Frouzt: What? I'll avenge Eve!

Fera: But killing Leaven won't bring her back!

Frouzt: You think I don't know that? She's NEVER coming back, but killing him is the only way I'll have closure. Now shut up and let me be done with it.

Leaven: I see your entire past in your eyes. You have the same expression in them as the day we met in Blizon. You're not a man who craves bloodshed, you're still a person who only wants justice in an unforgiving world, and you'll go to any lengths to achieve it. Well, I'll tell you something, you remind me a lot of myself.

Frouzt: Shut up! I am nothing like you, my new life belongs to Clyde and Legion.

Leaven: My loyalty lied with the CIA as well. Don't let devotion and revenge get in the way of your feelings.

Frouzt: But your commander was a sick and twisted soul who would destroy lives to excel his organization!

Leaven: That is why I overthrew him.

Frouzt: ..What?

Fera: Why are you saying that like Clyde isn't the same way? Legion is..is..

Drake: Legion is controlled by one of the most dangerous men in the universe.

*Everyone looks over to Drake Blackheart, who stands with the rest of his crew at his side.*

Drake: Darkstar Pirates, help end this little skirmish. It's time we caught everyone up to speed on the new events which require our immediate attention. Now go.

~The Darkstar Pirates join the fray and begin to subdue all of the soldiers that haven't already been killed or frozen. Kane, Rocky, and Retro however still continue to brawl like there's no tomorrow.~

Leaven: Why are you here?

Drake: Nice to see you too. Your ex-commander sent us to secure some precious documents from Legion.

Frouzt: The Metal Gear blueprints!

Drake: That's correct.

Frouzt: Those belong to Master Clyde, hand em' over!

Drake: Easy there, snow cone. I heard about you, so know that your powers aren't enough to take on all of us. You're better off by just cooling it, er...warming it, whichever you prefer. Now then, I've been tasked with returning this to the current leader of the CIA, which I suppose would be Miss Adele Strive correct?

Frouzt: You're an enemy of Legion, and now, myself. *Breathes in a long, cold breath* I'll stop all of you somehow.

Drake: Don't you ignorant Legion followers get it yet? Clyde doesn't give a damn about any of you! The man is insane, he's a lunatic, he's a big hate doughnut with a crazy filling!

*Everyone stares are Drake*

Drake: What? The point is, it would be a little unfortunate if he took over the universe.

Fera: And what do a few pirates care about the fate of the universe?

Drake: Ah. It's a clear act against freedom, miss. A pirate is all for defending freedom, because that is why one becomes a pirate in the first place, ya see.

Adele: Alright, understood. My team will discuss these blueprints and we'll come up with a plan for taking the fight to Clyde.

Frouzt: Have you forgotten that I am an agent of Legion?

Drake: The man is a monster, he's already completely destroyed the Earth.

Fera/Adele/Leaven: What?!!

Drake: *Nods* And I'll bet you a man like him won't stop there either. Really now, mister snow man, how many more innocent lives will you let this man take?

Leaven: You're upset about Eve, I understand, and I apologize for my actions despite it not changing anything, but one thing that you've got to consider is that there used to be a planet full of people who had families, loved ones, and dreams. You're not only being a hypocrite by desiring justice from me when your leader whom you greatly respect has done something on a much larger scale, but you're also a monster for helping him with such a plan.

Frouzt: *Silent*

Drake: Ol' gloomy over there is right. If we don't use our skills and powers to fight this guy and end his plans, who will? We need all the help we can get, maybe even a miracle.

Lando: *Walks over to the group* Hello everyone, sorry for the trouble before. I heard everything. I'm willing to join your fight against Legion on any other battlefield like I have on this one.

Drake: Aye, thanks Lieutenant.

Frouzt: I guess I don't have a choice. *Looks back at Kane and sees that Retro and Rocky have temporarily subdued him, as well as the rest of the invading army* Very well, I'll come.

Drake: Fantastic. So, who's driving?