Suddenly seven portals opened around the four causing Skyler to drop Jak.
"What is going on?!" yelled Skyler, but then clutched his head.
"You losing!" spoke a voice from nowhere and then a bright light engulfed Skyler and when the light cleared two figures stood facing each other.
"No! I-I had you under my control!"
"Next time Rage, take control of Blaze and Hunter first!" said Skyler in his Light/Dark form, "Before some allies arrive, THIS IS FOR DAXTER!" finished Skyler as he grabbed Rage by the head and threw him into a nearby Cliffside and then turned to the stunned duo.
"I suppose you want a explanation?" said Skyler looking at the two who nod their heads, "Rage got into me and slowly took over, but Blaze and Hunter helped me get control back and now I believe its time you guys met some more of my allies."
From one portal stepped forth a figure with stark white skin with red markings, a scar on one of his eyes, and a big scar on his abdomen, and wearing something that resembled golden lamb fleece on his arm.
"You guys think I can be brutal, this guy beats me. [Quietly] I'm even surprised I became his friend." said Skyler, "This guy is on one serious revenge bent quest, but I can see some things have changed.
"You're right Skyler, a lot has changed." said Kratos.
The second portal confused the two because unlike the others, this one opened up on the ground near to rocks. Suddenly two weird looking creatures came out of the portal and wrapped themselves around the rocks and pulled out somebody who landed in front of the portal, the two creatures retracted back into his hand.
"Why'd you bring me here Skyler?! I ought to kill you for delaying my revenge on Quan Chi!"
"Easy Scorpion. I called you to help with somebody you encountered once."
"Who?!"
"Rage."
"Him? I take back what I said about killing you." said Scorpion pulling out his sword.
"W-what's his deal?" asked Jak with fear in his voice.
"You don't want to know."
"Skyler! W-why would you call in those two?! Hahahahaha! They're crazy and revenge seekers. You can't trust them!" said Rage trying to get free of the rocks, but having a hard time.
From the third portal stepped forth a man that looked dressed like a futuristic cowboy, black hair that seemed to droop over his eyes, a dragon tattoo on one of his arms, seemed to be military, and carried a medium sized rifle which he had resting on his shoulder ready to draw it at anytime.
"Long time Skyler."
"Yeah Jim, long time."
Suddenly another figure appeared beside him, this one a woman. She was dressed in white armor, carried a Sniper rifle-like weapon, and her hair seemed more like weird tentacles and Skyler's face went into shock.
"K-Kerrigan?" said Skyler with one eye twitching.
"Yep. Its me." said Kerrigan with a smirk.
"L-last time I saw you, you were the Queen of Blades, leader of the Zerg Swarms."
"Times change."
[Skyler faints]
From the fourth stepped two figures, one a boy who looked about fifteen and rather short for his age, dressed in a black shirt, gloves, along with black pants with blonde hair that ended in a braid; the other was dressed in a big suit of armor.
[Skyler gets up and is front of the two in a second]
"See you two still have your problem." said Skyler and both jumped at hearing this and as to how fast he appeared before them.
"WHAT'RE YOU TRYING TO DO?! GIVE ME A HEART ATTACK?!" yelled the blonde trying to hit Skyler but was held back by the other one.
"Easy Ed. I'm not here to pressure you, but you have to help me."
"With what?"
"Dealing with him." said Skyler pointing towards Rage.
"This shouldn't be too hard. Right, Alphonse?" said Ed turning his auto-mail arm into a blade.
"Right, brother." said Al getting into a fighting stance.
"Hold off a minute. We have to wait for the others."
From the fifth stepped Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura, Rock Lee, Kakashi, Neji, and Choji.
"[Quietly towards Jak and Naruto Kitsune] Guys whatever you do, don't call Choji anything other than "big-boned" or "chubby", or else he'll flatten you. Tell Daxter that too, or he'll regret it!" said Skyler.
From the sixth portal came Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and Shadow.
"Shadow, deal with Rage not me." said Skyler pointing towards Rage, still struggling to get free of the rocks.
From the seven came a tiger-like roar and a 27 year old man in a tiger-based costume was there.
"Well, looks like this all you're using to attack me? HAHAHAHA! You can't beat me!" said Rage at which the ground started rumbling and a fair distance away Driller, Scorpio, and Scorponok burst from the ground with Driller revealing Shockwave. Scorpio and Scorponok then transformed and Scorponok looked like a bigger version of Scorpio's humanoid form, but with 6 eyes.
"Scorpion, disarm." said Skyler coolly.
Scorpion then raised his hand and from inside a weird snakelike head protruded and roared to life and shot forth and nailed Rage in the stomach.
"GET OVER HERE!" yelled Scorpion pulling a stunned Rage from the rocks and upon Rage getting within melee range, he disconnected the snake's head and brought his sword down onto Rage's left arm severing it in one blow then severed the other one.
"AAH! HAHAHAHA! Is this all you have?! You can't beat me!" yelled Rage thru pain.
Suddenly a red and black sword went thru Rage's back and came out his chest then he was pulled towards Kratos and was slammed to the ground. Suddenly he was launched skyward and then saw a metal suit hit him in the gut sending him flying towards the ground. Rage then felt his body get filled with 50 cal. Bullets, shuriken, kunai, and then what should have been a heart stopping blow from Neji.
"Where's…HAHAHAHA….fat boy?" said Rage as he lay on the ground bleeding orange blood from his many wounds. Suddenly a huge shadow appeared above him.
"HUMAN BOULDER!" yelled Choji as he fell on Rage.
"OH, NO!" screamed Rage before impact.
"I'm not fat, I'm BIG-BONED!" yelled Choji after he returned to normal size.
The entire group, minus Daxter because of his injury, approached Rage's body hoping he was dead.
"Is he dead?" asked Alphonse but the response was not desired because a spin kick get-up move was delivered to the entire group which sent Al's helmet flying and the rest of the suit fell to the ground as Rage's arms began to slowly come back.
"Aw...What's the matter? Tin can empty? Nothing in it! HAHAHAHA! Nothing in it but pure puppetry!" said Rage turning his back on the empty suit.
"No. I'm not empty." said the headless armor getting and everybodies' eyes, excluding Skyler, Kratos, Scorpion, and Ed's went wide.
"WHAT?! cugh!" screamed Rage, but was cut off as Al delivered a punch to his gut sending him flying.
"Here's your helmet back." said Skyler handing Al the helmet.
"Thanks." said Al as he reattached the helmet.
"Wait. How'd is it that, that empty shell holds your brother?" said Jak and both Ed and Elric seemed to panic at the question.
"W-we, uh, did something very, uh, illegal and we had to pay the price for it." said Ed rubbing the back of his neck.
"Is it anything like Skyler-mmpphh." began Kitsune but both him and Jak got their mouths covered by Skyler's tails.
"No, its not it." said Skyler sternly towards the red-blonde and green-blonde.
"You can't get rid of me that easily!" said Rage as he reappeared on the battle field.
"Die you miserable creature!" said Scorpion as he removed his face to reveal a skeleton head underneath that lit up with flames causing everybody but Skyler, Kratos, and the Autocons to jump back in shock.
"Why'd we even come here if there'd be so many ghouls around?" said Uzumaki quietly but the creeped out look on his face gave him away.
Ignoring this, Scorpion took a deep breath and blew fire at Rage, but only managed to burn a arm. Suddenly a gunshot was heard and half of Rage's head exploded and from the highest point in the area, they saw Kerrigan with her Sniper rifle aimed at him, or at least Skyler saw her due to her cloaking.
"That, hahahahaha, tickled!" said Rage as his head began to regenerate and sent a roundhouse into Scorpion's face sending him reeling backwards.
"[Sighs] He's right we can't beat him...with me still alive." said Skyler and then grabbed the Blade of Olympus from Kratos and impaled himself with it as Rage screamed in pain, "Hah, he must be using my body still as a healing agent, but...[coughs up blood]...hurt me enough and he dies..."
Everyone at this newest development seemed hesistant, even Shadow, but Kratos was the first to step forward and yanked the Blade out causing Skyler to fall to the ground as Rage flinched.
"Come on! What?! Are you all a bunch of cowards?!" said Skyler and expected at least El Tigre to react but got nothing, "FINE! I'll do it myself..." continued Skyler as he brought out a J-class Detonator and Scorpion and Raynor both seemed to know what he planned to do.
"[Both] Everybody get down!"
Listening everybody got into the lowest possible pistion as Skyler fixed the Detonator to his chest and got up and faced Rage.
"Well, Rage you have two choices: one, you quit using me and die; or two, we both die." said Skyler and Rage could tell he meant it.
"I'll stop you from pushing the trigger!" said Rage as he charged forward.
"This is for what you did to Daxter..." said Skyler and pressed the button and Rage's eyes went wide as he saw Skyler get engulfed in small Nuclear explosion and the pain coursed thru his body like he had been sent thru a meat grinder, 200000 times. But that was the least of his worries.
"GET OVER HERE!" yelled Scorpion firing another living spear at Rage, then pulling him within melee range and when the entire group surrounded him, he could see the look on their faces.
"Oh, crud!" said Rage and was then sent flying by a blow from Rock Lee, then found his back impaled by a one of Kratos' Hades Hooks (don't know true name) and felt his soul ripped from his body, then pulverized by Uzumaki's Shadow Clones, impaled by at least a dozen Chaos Spears, Kitsune's claws tearing thru his flesh, painful blows from Neji and Knuckles, then one that broke his lower jaw into millions of pieces delivered by Sakura, felt a steel blade pierce his left lung, a shell from Shockwave explode in his face, Dark Jak's claws tearing into his entrails, and then finally a very painful amount of fire from Scorpion.
As Rage fell to the ground, the group noticed that Rage's skin disintergrated and saw Skyler limp out of the crater.
"Sorry...I said I'd die soon...six months isn't very soon...go thru the portals back into your own worlds..." said Skyler his voice weaker than usaul and the group followed his orders and went back to their own worlds, the last being Ed and Al.
"Why'd you stop them from saying something about what you did?" said Ed even though Al was trying to hurry him.
"So you didn't copy it even though it works perfectly..." was Skyler's response.
"What did?"
"Light Eco...now go!"
With that Ed and Al disappeared thru their portal as it closed behind them.
"How bad...is Daxter...[coughs]...hurt?" asked Skyler looking towards Daxter who remained unconscious throughout the fight.
"Not bad. You, or Rage...just broke a few ribs and luckily didn't puncture any organs." said Kitsune gently picking up the unconscious Ottsel.
"What about you?" asked Jak noticing Skyler's condition was worsening by the second.
"My...time is...[coughs up at least three quarts of blood]...up..." with this Skyler falls forward and his tails wave goodbye before also falling lifelessly to the ground and like last time, the blood lost its color but this time went beyond dull gray and his eyes lost the blue and went gray also.
The two watched in awe as the ground opened up and slowly buried Skyler and a gravestone came up and marked the grave. Both looked around for anyone or anything controlling the environment but found nothing and with that they headed back towards the city and didn't know how to explain the missing squad, the huge fire fight most likely heard by everyone in the city, and Daxter's broken ribs to everybody but they decided to think it over. Unbeknownst to the two, a 20 foot figure approached the grave.
"Weird, how I die here, yet I haven't faded." said the figure looking at the grave then to his arm looking for any signs of disappearing, "Oh, well. Time and its properties will never be understood by me or anybody. Hmmm, I wonder how those three would react to this me? 20 feet tall, 15 tails, claws that can cut thru almost any metal, and still smokes the burnt flesh cigar? I'd love to see their faces with a 1, 250, 678 year old me." said the figure as he began walking towards the city and disappeared as lightning flashed throughout the sky.
END CHAPTER
Got you with the ending? I even shocked myself with this type of ending. I suppose some of you are wondering how Kratos and Skyler became friends? Lets just say that Skyler had some "unfinished" business with Zues too. I'm not entirely sure if this story is over yet, but I'll see what I come up with.
Note: I do not own God of War, Sonic the Hedgehog, Fullmetal Alchemist, El Tigre, Transformers, Starcraft, Jak & Daxter, or Naruto, or any other genre in these stories. I only own Skyler.