Last time on Mighty Magiswords…
Fusion: You may have won the day, warriors. But I still have the Knowledge Magisword, and all the others in the world! You don't stand a-
Familiar with an unamused expression, taking out the Combination Magisword: Yeah, whatever. (Jumps in front of Fusion's face)
Fusion: Wait, wha- (Gets slashed lengthwise along with her Magisword)
Fusion quickly gets violently sliced in two by Familiar and the Knowledge Magisword shatters its glass, dropping the ruby gemstone in it. The Combination Magisword also falls apart on impact with the ground, dropping its amethyst gemstone. On a large monitor in an unknown location, a group of 4 different people of various sizes watch as Fusion's plan was unsuccessful.
Small one: My Lord! It seems our plan to wipe out the human race was unsuccessful!
Huge one: Well, we certainly can't have that happening anymore, what with our former sisters already dealing with another Earth in a different galaxy. Definitely none of my business anymore.
Tall one: What're we going to do now that Fusion's been destroyed?
Huge one: Well, really the planet's not as developed as I had once hoped. But these people who've fought Fusion are fairly capable. I think it'd be fair to say that, we shouldn't take our chances with them any longer than we have to. Activate the Planet Buster, will you?
Medium one: Yes my Diamond.
Huge one: And stop calling me that! One thing about the others being referred to as such was their self-righteousness, which is the sole reason they're in their mess to begin with. In Fusion's name, you may address me as (Grins)...Lord Green.
Back at the Academy...
The Warriors for Hire; correction; Warriors of Fusion revisit Professor Cyrus' classroom after he had recently been assigned a new class of people like his old ones.
Vambre: Professor Cyrus!
Cyrus getting out of his seat: Oh, it's ya'll again. What's happening?
Prohyas: Well, for starters, turns out that hero alliance that rich guy was talkin about weeks ago, it was a scam. He just wanted us to star in a pretty bad superhero movie.
Simone: On the bright side, we got our money from him and the studio! Now I can finally do something with my life instead of working at some lame burger joint!
Cyrus: What about you, Bimm? You're pretty quiet as always.
Bimm: I'm just tagging along. Kinda wanna see Cattus again. After our fusion with each other, I figured I could meditate with him.
Vambre: That's strange. You've been mentioning Cattus quite a few times before we came here. Och! Do you have a strong bond with him?!
Cyrus: Vambre! Don't be so quick to ask! Besides, you gotta come in smooth like I used to when I was your age.
Bimm: Smooth?
Cyrus removing Frank from his head: Y'know. Like, (In sexy tone in front of Frank) Hey there bade. Do you want an ice tea?
Frank blushing: Bwaak?!
Bimm getting nervous, more than usual: To answer your question, we're in more of a...a…
Familiar A friendly connection. I've seen it before.
Bimm: Y-yeah! That's it! We're just good friends, like you guys!
Energetic Voice in hallway: Good friends, huh? Mind if I join your circle?
Prohyas and Vambre: ?!
Phibby Croax returns to the academy after weeks away since the Alumni Melee Brawl, now with a completely new mechanical armor with heavy shoulder guards, a wrist cannon, and a resizable shield like his old one.
Bimm: Phibby! (Hugs Phibby)
Phibby: Good to see my little kitties again! What's good?
Simone: Oh! You have no idea!
Vambre: Weeks ago, we went on an entire adventure together to fight a corrupted Glori and fuse together with the Sword of Combination!
Phibby: That old thing? HA! I already used it once. Not that big a deal.
Prohyas: Wait. You wielded the Combiner Magisword?!
Phibby: Yeah! How'd ya think I got so strong in the first place? I trained with it while Professor wasn't looking back in the day. Oh, and boss, sorry about that.
Cyrus: Nah. You're fine. I use that thing all the time to practice my jugglin skills.
Familiar You juggle with swords?! And I thought Simone having it was crazy.
Simone: Hey, I only poked Bimm with it to try it out! At least this time we didn't decimate a whole village like Fusion did. Oh, yeah! Phibby. Before we left to fight Fusion, we were gonna try and call you, but we didn't know where you went after the game the other day.
Phibby: I went on vacation with my Dad to Misty Island. Turns out, the place isn't as boring as I thought it was! I even got my own armor!
Bimm: It looks more robotic than usual.
Phibby: It should. Part of it used to be my shield! HAHA!
Vambre: Well, it's a good thing you were safe. We didn't know F-F-Fusion was as powerful to us as Cyrus claimed had we not fought her!
Prohyas: Yeah. And ever since we fused with each other, we started stuttering and having all these weird hallucinations about our adventure.
Cyrus: Huh. No wonder ya'll keep comin back here. This ain't no TV show where the camera's always poinin at us ya know!
Prohyas, Bimm, and Vambre briefly look at the reader/audience.
Cyrus: Buut, other than that, you didn't come this far just to tell me about yourselves. You wanna hear about my new class, don't ya?
Vambre: How is it? Are they like us when we were-
Cyrus: They're borin.
Vambre and Prohyas: Oh.
Cyrus: They're like robots in my storage closet downstairs. They don't even know what a Magisword is! It's in the name of the show for Frank's sake!
Bimm still looking at the camera: …
Simone: Well, ya gotta start somewhere, right? Weren't we like that when we met you?
Cyrus: No. These guys are dumb as concrete! Much of you were a special kind of dumb!
Vambre, Phibby, Prohyas: Aww. (Realizes something) HEY!
Cyrus for a moment turns his attention towards Bimm as though he's concerned for her, almost out of character for him.
Cyrus: You, doin alright back there, Bimm? You're kinda just standin there like a statue.
Bimm: Huh? O-oh! I'm fine! I was just in deep thought again. (Facepalms) I just wish I could make it stop since our fusion.
Familiar Yeah, it's been happening a lot lately. Kinda makes me wonder. How's Cattus doing after all this, because we haven't seen him since we fixed the Knowledge Magisword.
Prohyas: He's headed this way. ... Wait. How'd I know that?!
Cyrus: About that. I should've said before that when we fuse with each other, we start sharin everyone's thoughts for a few weeks. I learned that when I was little 40 years ago from my old man when he fused with his crew.
Phibby: Freaky...
Vambre: Well, perhaps maybe since it's been a few weeks already, it will wear off!
Prohyas: Cool! No one'll have to think what I'm thinkin ever again! My fetishes are safe once more!
Cyrus: Wait. Hold on. Why would he be coming back here?
Familiar looking out the classroom window: I don't think he's coming back for us. Take a look at that.
Outside, a round yet pointy green pod of some sort crashes down to the surface in front of the school, and two strange beings step out of it. A tall blocky one and a tiny round lady with a nice suit and skirt floating in the air observe the area.
Short Person: Alright, Blockhead. It seems our observations were correct.
Blockhead: Aqua, Lord Green already told us to change our names to something fitting, not insulting!
Aqua: Well, it IS fitting. You're more angular than I am, and you're shaped like a cube!
Blockhead: Ok. Then how about I call you Shortround?
Shortround: Hey!
Vambre flying with her rocket Magisword: Cattus!
Cattus arrives by the invaders and meets with Vambre, Prohyas, Familiar, and Bimm as they land to the ground.
Cattus: I fear we may be too late to stop my dream from coming true.
Prohyas: Dream? What, has your meditating turned into fortune telling?
Shortround: Cattus? So you're one of the people who killed our soldiers!
Vambre: Who are you?
Shortround: You can call me, Mandy, and this is my partner, Blocky.
Blockhead: Hey, you know, Mandy's not a bad name.
Mandy: Yeah. It suits my style actually.
Bimm: You know about Fusion?
Mandy sounding slightly nicer to Bimm: Naturally ma'am.
Blockhead: You guys took out our poor soldiers and used their gems against each other. And now, we're going to finish what we started and destroy your planet once and for all!
Familiar Huh. Seems simple enough.
Mandy: I prefer intimate. While our ship's main cannon is charging, we'll take each of you on ourselves!
Prohyas: Ha! What're you gonna do? Tickle us to death?
Mandy: I would try that, but I think I'd much rather do what we've been preparing since last night while your academy was left unguarded. (Presses button on shirt)
Abruptly, the bottom of the academy explodes and the entire building falls one level and begins to tilt to its left! Multiple students in the school slip and slide towards the edge of the structure! Multiple random objects from the school fall to the ground, some of which cause an explosion on impact!
Cattus: They're going to destroy the academy!
Prohyas: Well, it's too bad for them. We've got backup this time!
Vambre calling: Oh, Phibby!
Phibby jumps through the window of Cyrus' classroom with a jetpack activated on his armor. He flies down to the ground and performs a heavy ground pound that causes the surface to fold and wobble, shooting Blockhead in the sky.
Blockhead: Woah!
Vambre grabs her cannon magisword and shoots hearts at Mandy, who dodges each of them with key precision and fires a beam from her baton. It freezes Vambre and the other warriors in place and gives Mandy the opportunity to toss them to the side. Mandy catches Blockhead with the same beam and shoots her at Prohyas and Vambre like a gun. Blockhead crushes both of them against the ground and smacks Familiar into a wall before he could strike with his longsword! Bimm steps in and uses a yarn sword to chop Blockhead, but she somehow absorbs the top half of it and shrugs it off. Bimm backs off and Blockhead removes the sword from her shoulder, throwing it away.
Bimm: I've never seen such an ability before!
Cattus: It seems these foes are more than prepared to match up against us. Phibby, I will draw Mandy's attention, so you can defeat Blockhead.
Phibby fist pumps: Sounds like a plan!
Bimm running to the side: I'll try and help save the building!
Mandy aiming at Bimm: Hold it, catwoman! (Gets grabbed by Cattus) Oof!
Cattus holding onto Mandy: Cease hostility! (Gets zapped by Mandy) Meow?
Mandy throws Cattus into the ground several times like a ragdoll, making craters and imprints! Meanwhile, Phibby's trying to take on Blockhead, landing a few blows to the face, causing her visor to break loose. She stumbles back away and spawns a perfect clone of herself from her left arm.
Phibby: Huh. Cool! Clones! This is gonna be a problem. (Gets headbutted in the nose) DAH!
Back at the other side of the falling academy where the bottom crack is, Bimm meets up with Simone, who jumps out another window to the ground.
Cyrus: Why is everyone jumpin outta of a window?! There's an open one right next to it!
Frank: BAK!
Simone sliding across the falling wall to Bimm: Hey Bimm! I've got some putty left from one of our classes together. You remember that time we made mage glue?
Bimm: In potions 101, yes! (Grabs some putty) Great thinking, Simone! (Tosses putty to wall support beams)
Simone and Bimm toss plastic-like strands of green putty across the area, connecting them with the bottom of the school to keep it from falling. The building comes to a stop, temporarily saving everyone in it. Next to the school, Familiar gets back up and quickly hops away from after seeing the falling walls right above him!
Familiar jumping away: Wah! (Sees Vambre and Prohyas) Hey! You two! Don't go night-night now!
Vambre and Prohyas with their faces in the tall grass: ZZZZZZZ…
Familiar Well shoot. (Wears very unamused expression) I guess it's up to me…again. (Takes and equips Vambre and Prohyas' magiswords)
Phibby shoots his twin shoulder cannons at a Blockhead clone, who then absorbs them into her chest plate. She shoots them back at him and some of his armor parts fall off!
Phibby: Nice try! But this suit's made by yours truly! (Hears clone come up behind him) I've gotcha this time!
Blockhead splits herself into two more clones catching Phibby.
Phibby: W-What?! (Gets pounded to death by clones) Gak! Agh! AAGH! (Gets absorbed by combining clones)
Cattus remains beaten by Mandy, who's enjoying the pummeling a little too much. She grabs a communicator and calls Lord Green.
Mandy: Lord Green, you're free to start the targeting sequence. We have the warriors occupied.
Lord Green on the communicator in the bridge of her ship: Excellent! (Looks at short minion) You heard the lady, Fortune Teller.
Fortune Teller: At once, my…hey, that's not a bad nickname.
Lord Green impressed with herself: No, it isn't. We should've stayed back home and recommended tons of names. They really help distinguish one another without the need for numbers.
Mandy on the communicator again: What shall we do with them, sir?
Lord Green: I dunno. Tickle em to death? They won't live when we're done anyway.
Mandy: I'll think of something. (Cuts transmission) But first, I've been having so much fun with you since I came here. I'm going to give you a "second" to recover.
Cattus slowly turning his head: T-t-thank you. That's very consider- (Gets zapped and smeared across the dirt)
Mandy laughing like an evil little gremlin: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!
Blockhead fused back together: I guess I'll take care of pantsless and tribe guy again. (Hears gurgle in stomach) Huh? (Suddenly explodes and remains as a gem)
Phibby exploding out of Blockhead: GEAAAAAAAAAAH! (Flexes arm) Told ya this was made by yours truly! (Muscle veins bulge) Nothin can beat the Croax Master!
Familiar running past Phibby to Cattus: Uh, dude. I think Cattus could use our help!
Cattus continues to get tossed around by Mandy, who's taking way too much enjoyment out of his torture. She throws him in the air and lets him fall on his back. When she aims her wand again, Cattus quickly gets back on his feet!
Cattus: (Breaths hard while struggling to see and move) You know…for the first time…someone has managed to irritate me.
Mandy takes her baton and shoots a beam meant to stun him into submission, only for him to keep making his way towards her. The force of the beam normally freezes anyone in place, bit Cattus keeps trying to move, stomping his way to Mandy and losing some of his clothing in the process, to the point where the force of the beam causes almost all of his chest and abdomen to be exposed. Bimm watches as Cattus proves just how powerful he really is, overcoming what was said to be impossible.
Mandy surprised: Agh...! (Continues to shoot beam)
Cattus struggling to move: Grr...Ngh...Agh...! (Rises from ground and howls with strength) GrraaAAOOOOOW!
The beam starts to diminish, running completely out of juice.
Mandy: What?!
Familiar quickly runs over to Cattus and slings the Blade of Combination at Mandy, cutting right past her!
Mandy: HA! Even with that piece of metal, you're never gonna be able to touch m- (Splits in two lengthways and poofs away)
Cattus uses the absorbed energy from Mandy's beam to fire at the side of the school, pushing it back into place with help from Familiar, who shoots a number of rocket magiswords at it with Prohyas' crossbow. Cattus stops to take a rest and falls on his chin with his tongue out.
Cattus exhausted: Phew!
Phibby: Nice call, Cat dude!
Bimm running over to check on Cattus with her hand on his back: Cattus, are you alright?
Cattus: Yes. I will be. But for now, (rises from ground) we need to stop the invaders from unleashing their ultimate weapon.
Bimm getting aroused by Cattus' abs and chest tattoo: Oh my...
Familiar walking over checking out Cattus: Dang, man...! And I thought Phibby was the only one in the sexy department! And, is that a tattoo?!
Simone: Where's V and P? They betta not be sleepin on the job!
Prohyas walking over with his hand on his forehead: We're here. Just got caught in a little…Wow. Nice build Cattus. Anyway, what's the scoop?
Cattus: We've stopped the invaders and saved the school, (holds up Mandy's aquamarine gem) and it seems that these people spawn from the same material as the gems in the Combiner and Knowledge Magiswords.
Bimm holding Blockhead's topaz gem: As much as I hate to say it, maybe if we use these, we'll be able to combine with each other again. That is, if they don't give off the same effect as Fusion's.
Vambre: It's worth a try. We have better control of our actions and emotions, so…Phibby, would you like to fuse with us into Centurion?
Phibby stretching: I would, but I think I'd rather stick to the guns I've already got.
Prohyas palming his fists: Alright! Let's do this!
Bimm puts the topaz gem into the bottom of the Combiner Magisword and Cattus puts the aquamarine gem into the Knowledge Magisword. Each of the original Centurion fusees grab hold of both swords with Cattus saying with joy
Cattus combining: This is where the fun begins.
Narrator: Vambre Warrior, Prohyas Warrior, Bimm, Familiar, Witchy Simone, and Cattus the One Blade combine to form...!
Centurion with his fist in the air: Centurion!
Phibby: Not bad!
All of a sudden, a loud rumble sounds off around the two heroes, and several large black metallic towers make their decent to the surface from space, where the invader's cruiser and Planet Buster are visible to the naked eye.
Centurion: This must be the Planet Buster's targeting beacon.
Phibby: How could they miss it?
One of the beacons near the academy shoots a narrow beam in the sky that connects to the main cannon, aligning it near the center of the planet.
Centurion Simone: That can't be good.
Centurion Familiar Wait. Where's Cyrus?
Centurion looks behind and sees Cyrus holding on tightly, dangling from a nearby tower's edge.
Cyrus: Don't worry bout me! (Points to different direction) Get your butts over to that there volcano!
In the far distance where the alien cruiser sits close to, the volcano burns with black smoke coming up from its center.
Centurion Familiar Correction. THAT can't be good.
Centurion: But we can't give up! Let's get-get-get up there!
Phibby looking slightly disturbed: Awesome...!
The duo make their way to the other side of the map, eventually getting up the tall mountain towards path to the volcanic surface. They continue to run with great speed thanks to their enhancements, but find themselves occasionally pausing to avoid magma droplets. When they reach the top, the bottom hull of the ship is just above them, only a few feet below the clouds where it's visible.
Phibby: Here it is! I'm finally ready for some action!
Centurion Cattus: Yeah. Maybe when we get up there, we can find more information about the BWAAAK! …
Phibby: I didn't know that was their name!
Centurion Familiar What just happened?
Phibby: Sounds like Frank got in ya, or somethin.
Centurion Bimm: Well, he did fuse with us by accident when we fused with Professor…wait, that's right! Cyrus was supposed to help maintain the form!
Phibby: So, you're like a computer, huh?
Centurion: Wish we weren't. (Gets hit in shoulder by pellet shot)
The ship deploys several large machine turrets that aim straight toward the duo. They shoot at them, forcing them to go on the defensive. Phibby fires multiple missiles at some of the cannons above, but there's still hundreds more attached to it. Some of which even seem capable of respawning! Centurion blocks with his swords, trying to give Phibby some cover. However, the ship starts to make its ascent above the atmosphere, and the turrets might cause a minor eruption from the volcano. With haste, Phibby comes up with a plan.
Phibby shooting with his wrist cannon: You guys get up there!
Centurion: Wha...What?!
Centurion Cattus: Phibby, you'll be trapped out here with the ship turrets!
Phibby: I don't plan to get trapped by anybody! (Grabs Centurion's back) I'll be right there! (Throws the combiner to the ship's left wing)
Phibby lifts and throws Centurion at the ship while he remains on the volcanic surface shooting his cannon at the ship turrets. Just as the ship makes its way above the atmosphere, the turrets keep firing at Phibby, who gets hit by some even though he's using his shield. The many blasts of the guns causes the volcano pool to erupt, blowing smoke everywhere and seemingly killing Phibby! Centurion briefly gives a mourning expression before getting back on task and making his way to the ship's interior through a wall where the wing ends. He uses both magiswords to carve a perfect circle in the wall and hop in before the cruiser can seal it with an emergency hatch behind them.
End of Chapter 3