Bane's Adventure to the Fifth Wall!
We begin our story on the docks of a Switzerland. Boats are lined at the harbor, transporting goods and people and other things of the like. A young man of age fifteen is walking through the crowded docks till he arrives at the end of a particular dock. Docked here is a strange black ship that has several holes in it, and ripped sails. Atop the mast waves a tattered flag with a bowl and a spoon on it. The young man wears a cloak that covers him from head to toe and even obscures his face. As he approaches the ship, he takes a small, folded piece of paper from his pocket and opens it to the size of a chess board.
"Well," he says, making a mark on a spot on the paper, "It ain't here." This young man's name is Bane. He is what is called an OC, or, 'Original Character'. An original character is a term used in the fanfiction world to mean "A character that an author has made, that is not normally in the fiction that their story is written about."
This young man is on a quest to find the legendary "Fifth Wall." What is this fifth wall? Well, let me start with its more widely known cousin, the fourth wall. That is the wall that separates the knowledge/existence of the real world and the fictional world. For example, If Mario (of Mario Bros.) were to say to Luigi 'Ya'know, when Link (of the Zelda series) saves Zelda, he gets all these cool weapons, a horse, and an epic boss fight, but I just get a pair of shoes, the occasional hammer, several mushrooms, a half-dozen battles with Bowser and his nieces and nephews, and a thank-you kiss from Peach. Where's-a the justice in that?' then he would be breaking the fourth wall by making a reference to the Legend of Zelda series, which he should not know about.
The Fifth Wall, however, is the last barrier between the fictional world and our world of reality, the laws of physics, and plumbing that doesn't teleport you to the Mushroom Kingdom. Once found and opened, the Fifth Wall can be used to bring a fictional character (such as Bane) into the real world, or vice-versa, bringing a person of our world (such as Justin Beaver, Selena Gomez, Jonny Depp) into the fictional world of video games, books, movies, and the like. IF the Fifth wall was ever found by the wrong person (Bowser, Ganondorf, Giovanni of Pokemon, Hitler, etc…) the events could be catastrophic. This is why the Fifth Wall was hidden; to prevent it from being found.
So far, Bane has searched this alternate, fictional Switzerland, an alternate Argentina, alternate California, and an alternate moon, and he is getting nowhere. Suddenly, Bane gets an idea. He heads off in his ship, to another world of fiction, to seek help in his quest.
*Another Strange Land, Where People Are Doing Things*
A young man of similar age to Bane sits atop a clock tower, eating ice cream. His sandy-blonde hair wavers in the light breeze. Sitting on his left is a young girl, about the same age as him. She has a contrasting shade of black hair that only reaches to her jaw. To his right is an older man, by about three years, with blindingly red hair spiked in many directions. These three wear cloaks in the same style as Bane's; black with hoods down and chains hanging from the front, near the neckline. Below the cloaks they wear black boots and their hands are covered by black gloves. As they sit, the boy with blonde hair, gives each of his friends an ice cream like his own. They take them and sit, enjoying the sunset.
"…Does this sun ever actually set?" the girl asked her friends.
"Not really," the oldest replies. "It just sits right there in the sky, looking pretty."
The blonde boy yawns and lies back on the tower's small balcony. "I wish something exciting would happen," he thinks out loud and closes his eyes. "Just something to stir things up, you know?"
Suddenly, a black pirate ship falls from the sky, crashing into the plaza down below the clock tower. Our startled trio looks down in shock, seeing the flag only feet from their faces. As they notice the bowl and spoon on it, the blonde one gets a bad feeling in his stomach, but they use portals of darkness to teleport down to the crash site anyways.
Once there, they look at the odd pirate ship that has suddenly crashed into their world. A young man concealed by a black cloak leaps from the ship and lands before the girl. He throws a sparkly, pink dust at her and she collapses into slumber on the ground. The redhead and blonde leap to her aid, summoning unusual weapons to fight off this mysterious invader with; the older, a pair of mainly red chakrams, and the younger, an odd, key-shaped weapon.
The young man throws more dust at the older one, leaving him unconscious, but realizes he has no more to use on the blonde, thus he goes for his other weapon: a large tuna! The blonde stands, speechless, as the man backhands him with the large fish. He quickly becomes more alert and starts to fight off his attacker, but is matched with each blow by the poisson-wielding fiend. Suddenly a frying pan falls from the sky and lands on the blonde man's head, making the trio fully unconscious.
The young man, being the only one awake, takes off his hood and reveals short, messy, black hair and pitch-black eyes. He nods at the job well done and uses a portal of darkness to drag his three captives through.
*At Bane's Cavernous, Lair-Like Place…*
The three heroes are unconscious and duct taped to dining chairs in a large, dark, dank, slightly morbid cavern. Bane sits on a large, blue sofa, waiting for their awakening. Suddenly, the blonde stirs, slowly raising his head and looking at his surroundings. As he spots Bane his eyes widen and narrow. "You," he nearly growls.
Bane raises his hand. "Sup, Roxy? Nice nap?" he calls with a smug smirk.
Roxas starts to get up, but realizes he's taped to the chair. "Let me out of here!" he demands.
"…Nah," Bane says as he flips through a magazine while watching TV.
"Let me out right now!" the taped duck (get it? Duct tape? Taped duck?) shouts, wiggling madly.
Bane yawns as the fiery redhead comes to. After a short moment to awaken, he shouts, "What the ruler with a waffle stapled to it is going on here!?" He then spots Bane. "Oh, you," he grumbles.
Bane nods at him. "Axel," he recognizes. "Good nap?"
Axel is ablaze, literally. The flames burn the duct tape and Axel is free. "…I'm gonna burn you!" he shouts, lunging at Bane. The black-haired boy jumps over Axel, then fires a blizzara spell at him, cooling his jets.
As Axel and Bane fight, the black-haired girl awakens. "Huh?" she asks, looking around in a daze. "Where am I?"
"Hey, Xion," Roxas (the blonde) greets her. "Bane came back and taped us to chairs, and now Axel and him are fighting."
Xion takes two seconds to take in the scene, and then screams at the top of her lungs, stopping the boys' battle. "BANE'S HERE!?" she screams. "I THOUGHT HE WAS JUST A BAD DREAM!"
Bane takes the opportunity to drop kick Axel in the face, then turns to Xion. "I'm not just a dream; I'm the Bane of your life." Suddenly, Axel leaps up to slam a chakram into Bane's back with the flat side. "Dangit!" Bane shouts, quickly turning and giving Axel a mean right hook, knocking out the fire-fighter.
When he turns back to Roxas and Xion, however, they are gone, leaving only empty chairs and crispy duct tape. Bane turns his head about 46 degrees to the right and sees Roxas and Xion attempting to sneak out. "Braggarts!" he shouts, throwing a butter sock at the duo, and leaving them unconscious. As he notices that everyone is once again asleep, he sighs. "Well, back to eating carrots with bean dip," he says, grabbing the remote and turning the TV on.
Another hour or so and Roxas begins to awaken. At this point, Bane is asleep on the couch, muttering about the Olympics and kicking people's butts in water polo hockey-ball. The blonde Nobody quietly makes his move to the mouth of the cavern, but is stopped by a small army of living berries. The strawberry with a Napoleon-like hat stands at the head of the army and shouts, "Ballooooooon!" The berries charge and swiftly overtake the stunned Nobody, taping him to a chair once again. The berries then follow this by taping Axel and Xion to other chairs and leave, never to be seen again, until Batman appears.
Well, while you're trying to figure that one out, I'll move on with the story. Bane awakens and sees that the trio is once again taped to dining chairs. Bane stretches, yawns, then scratches his butt, and walks over to Roxas. "Ya'know," he starts. "As much as I hate to admit it, you're the most sensible one."
"HEY!" Axel shouts, wobbling in his chair (and apparently awake). "What about me?"
Bane raises an eyebrow. "Well, you just nearly erupted, so I'll go with no. And Xion is still asleep, so that," he turns to Roxas. "Just leaves you." Bane places his hand on Roxas' hair and ruffles it, further angering the blonde. "Here's the deal, shorty: I'm looking for something. The Fifth Wall. Ever heard of it?" Roxas shakes his head 'no', so Bane continues. "Good. The less you know, the better – for me, anyways. Now, all I require is some help finding the Fifth Wall. Help me locate it and you're free to go. Simple."
Roxas takes a moment to think over Bane's offer, then gives him a sly look. "And if I don't?"
Bane smirks and pulls out a small, metal box covered with yellow and black stripes, with a large red button on it. "You remember this thing, right Roxy?" he asks smugly.
Roxas' eyes widen in recognition and Axel faints at the sight of it. "You wouldn't dare," Roxas says, just a hint of fear showing. Bane hovers his thumb over the button, moving it closer and closer with each second. As Bane's thumb looks just about to hit it and Roxas' eye is twitching, someone screams. "Just do it, Roxas! I don't care what he wants, just give it to him!" Xion screams in a panic, trying to scoot her chair away (and apparently also awake).
Bane lifts and lowers his thumb just over the button and Roxas groans loudly. "Fine, we'll help you. Now put that thing away!"
Bane sighs and puts the button in his cloak pocket. "Aww, and I was hoping to have some fun," he grumbles as he cuts Roxas' tape off with a mainly black broadsword. He then does the same with Xion and Axel (the latter of whom is still unconscious). "Alright, first thing's first, we have to find the wall!"
"Isn't that the only thing we're doing?" Roxas asks. Bane whaps him on his head. "Hey! We never mentioned not hurting you!" he shouts, summoning his keyblade – Oblivion. Bane pulls out Roxas' Diary/Journal and holds his broadsword to it.
"One more move and the book gets it!" he threatens. 'The book' is Roxas' only copy of his journal, which holds all of his memories of his time at the organization with Axel an Xion, so, unfortunately, he is forced to lower his weapon and desummon it. "That's better. Now, my best bet is that there is a map to the Fifth Wall somewhere in this universe. Where? Well, that's where you guys come in. With your skill at reconnaissance, this should be as easy as about four hundred of your missions. Three-hundred fifty if you're lucky."
Axel wakes up and then faints again as Roxas and Xion's mouths hang open as Bane creates a dark corridor and motions for them to go through. First Roxas goes, giving Bane a scowl, followed by Axel, who is awakened by a smack to the head, who gives Bane a scowl, then Xion, who just walks through dully. Ban follows with a smug smirk as their quest begins.
OC Notes/ MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yes, I, bane, have infiltrated Halestorming's account and posted the first chapter of my adventure! And if you like it he might post the others. So, review for me, my dear, deer, friends!
…No, Roxas, I didn't call them 'deers'… I DON'T CARE IF IT'S SPELLED WRONG! GHOST LIVER RULES AND TASTES LIKE HONEY!