Hello! Just got back from New Mexico! Little time to actually work. Just post a story that I already had. Now, nobody has been talking to me for a while. Or commenting. It's starting to get a little lonely. Did I do something wrong? Hmm... Oh, now I'm pulling you into this. Sorry 'bout that. Well, the next chapter! I don't own half of this! But, I own Akuma, Deus ex Machina, Dante Poulsen, Ashi Nagai, Maruyami, and Telematus! Roll film!


"Dante. I need your mechanical expertise. Now." Misery whispered in the mechanics ear. Dante turned to her.

"Why?" Dante asked.

"Cause I know of something you can do for Ruby. Follow me." Misery goes running towards Dr. Valentiner's glass house, without looking to see if he followed. Dante peeked back to where the gang were setting up spikes to defend against the robot army marching a mile away. Then he looked at Misery again, and then back at the defense. His eyes fell on Iris and his face became red.

"Misery! Wait up!" Dante yelled, following her. He was not doing this for her or not even himself, like he used to do. He was doing this for Iris, he didn't know why, but he was. "Where are we going?"


(Ruby's Pov)

"Where's Dante going?" Iris asked. Dante was running off with Misery. I knew it. They were nothing but cowards.

"Just keep working." I replied dryly.

"Are you okay Ruby?" Iris asked.

"Peachy." I reply. I start sharpening another rather large peice of wood into a spike. I sigh. "She was sent to kill us." I finally say quietly. Iris, apparently not hearing me, leaned in and repeated her question. "She was sent to kill us all! By a guy named Grim! Uggh."

"Grim? You mean-" Skull Boy started.

"Yeah, Grim Reaper." Telematus said dryly. He lifted a large cannon to the top of the house. "Misery was the first banshee to be accepted into the Reaper Academy. She was one of the most successful ever. 587 successful reapings in a year... before she gave it up."

"Why would she do that?" Len asked.

"Well, she said she found something better." Telematus replied.

"What was that?" Frank asked.

"Duh Frank. Us!" Len said. Everyone stared at him. "What? I can be smart when I want to."

"Misery gave up a career where she was the best... for us?" Ruby asked.

"Yup. She took on all of the impossible missions that no one else could. She was practically a hero. Then she came to retrieve the souls of the Glooms... she... never came back." Telematus explained.

"How do you know this?" Len asked.

"Psychic. See it in my mind's eye." Telematus said quickly.

"Hmm..." Ruby knew when someone was lying. There was something Telematus was hiding.


"Wait up Misery!" Dante yelled, running to keep up with the banshee. "How can you run so fast?"

"Easy. If you've been running from disasters that have been following you all of your life, then you can run pretty fast." She turned around, running back and started jogging in place in front of Dante, who was panting heavily.

"Can I *gasp wheeze* take a break?" Dante dry heaved.

"No! We have to get there now! If we don't, then..." A sly smile spreads over her lips. "then... Iris might get hurt." Dante was off running, Misery's hair whipped past her.

"Come on slowpoke!" Dante's voice came from the glass house nearly half a mile away. Misery smiled and chuckled, following quickly after the human.


"Everyone! Get inside. We can hold them off." Telematus growled. Ashi and Maruyami ran forward, both as battle ready as Telematus. Everyone ran inside, except Ruby and Iris. Telematus, catching this appeared to glance back at them, his eyelids opened a little bit, just enough to see the whites of his eyes. "That includes you two."

"Nice try. We aren't going anywhere." Ruby snarled.

"It sounds like too much fun." All of the guys groaned. Iris was the only one who would think that fighting an army of robots would be 'fun.'

"You two. Inside. Now." Ashi growled. Ruby made a growl in her own throat, scaring Ashi half to death. Ashi glanced over to Telematus, who was holding his head in a hand.

"Stay in the back. Behind the spikes. Got it?" The two girls exchange glances before nodding. "Good. Where's Misery and Dante? They were going to be in the main force."

"They turned tail and ran." Ruby hissed, manning a cannon.

"It's weird. I heard Ruby was this optomistic person." Maru mumbled.

"I like it." Yami replied back.

"Of course you would."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Phinedroids and Ferbots.

Phinedroids and Ferbots." The robots sang, a few yards away.

"Damn." The two halves said at the same time. They turned, pulling the bow and arrow from behind their wings. Swords of pure light rotated around Telematus while Ashi bared his fangs, venom dripping menacingly. The army kept coming, unfazed.

"Damn." All four of them hissed, before jumping into the fray.


Dante ran past the calendar on the wall, stopped, and walked back. They had just entered the glass house, and Dante ripped the calendar down from where it was hanging. April 20, 2012. Dante fainted.

"Dante?" Misery asked, hearing the sound of fainting. Dante stirred, holding the calendar to the girl. "What? It's a calendar."

"Not the calendar. The date." Dante whispered.

"So?"

"You don't understand. I came from the time April 20, 2482." Misery wasn't following. "That's 400 years in the future."

"So? Your here now. Come on. We have to move. The robots are probably there by now." Dante hesitantly put the calendar down, taking Misery's offered hand, and ran.


"They just seem to keep coming." Wheezed Maru.

"It is starting to prove to be a nuisance." Yami answered.

"Why are they still coming?" Ashi asked.

"Because Deus ex Machina keeps making them." A voice said. Everyone looked back to the house. A girl stood there, a gold dress stained red. Her waist length golden hair flowing in the breeze.

"Dani?" Telematus asked.

"Telematus." She snarled. The two looked (Well, Dani looked. Telematus' eyelids were still draped over his eyes.)

"I'm still waiting for an apology." Telematus said simply.

"Well, you aren't getting one." She grabbed onto Ruby's arm. "Now, I will do what that banshee never could." Dani pulls a chainsaw out from behind her back, pressing it to Ruby's throat. "Now, die Gloom." Dani cackled, raising the now whirring chainsaw over her head. She brought it down, and with a crack the whirring stops. Everyone gasped, seeing the chainsaw stuck in a head. "Stupid calaca." Dani hissed. She kicked the now unmoving body of Skull Boy to one side. She pulled out her second chainsaw, holding it in her hand. "No, where w-?" She started the cliche. Ruby was standing there, face down so that there were a curtain in front of her face. Her body was heaving slightly. "Aww, are you going to cry about it? Huh?" Dani smirked. Ruby held out her right hand, one of Telematus' energy swords came flying in her direction, she catching it in her right hand. She holds out her right hand.


"Are you almost done?" Misery asked, Dante hunched over the table.

"Don't rush me! This is a delicate process." Dante replied, wiping the sweat from his brow. The staff in Misery's hands started vibrating strongly.

"What the-?" They both started. Misery held on with everything in her, but even with the unbelievable amount of power holding the staff where Misery was, the staff went flying, going up the stairs.

"What is happening lass?" Dr. Valentiner asked.

"Ruby." She whispered to herself, looking at where the staff had left.


"What's happening?" Dani asked, now in a shrill voice.

"Away! Everyone get away!" Telematus yelled. Misery's staff came flying, landing in Ruby's outstretched hand. Blue sparks ran from the sword and down Ruby's arm, red sparks from the staff. With a simple flick of her left wrist, the staff grew a long blade at the end.

"I-impossible. Y-you brought out the true nature of the scythe." Dani backed up slowly. Ruby advanced slowly, the scythe's blade scraping against the ground, black sparks raising from the ground.

"YOU! YOU! YOU KILLED HIM! NOW YOU SHALL FACE MY WRATH." Ruby said in a voice that wasn't her own. It was dry and sharp, like a desert made of glass. There was something like a second voice, soft and tinkly, like a bell made of velvet. Dani backed away slowly, fear in her eyes.


"Attatch this wire... binary to english... specialized pressure pads... bionical optical receptor... 6.3 terrabyte memory... and whatever this is called." Dante said, lifting up a miniature backhoe claw. "With a little addition here... Walla! Bionic lobster claw!"

"What need would there be for that?" Misery asked.

"Climbing. And hand to hand combat." Dante explained. "Now... just need optical pulse laser."

"Really? We don't have the time for this!" Misery yelled. "Is it finished or not?"

"Fine. She's ready and functional." Dante grumbled, crossing his arms in front of his chest. "Here goes nothing." There was a flash of light, bathing the three in red.

"It's alive! Mwahahahahahahahaha!" Dr. Valentiner cackled. Misery and Dante gave him a look. "Oh... sorry. I got a little excited."


"Please. No... more..." Dani begged. She held her right arm, which was bleeding profusely. She had various other scrapes and managed to get a black eye.

"DIE." Ruby said, raising the scythe above her head.

"Ruby! Violence is not the answer." Telematus yelled, grabbing her shoulder. A red blast made him go flying, crashing into the wall of the mansion.

"Ruby!" Maruyami yelled at the same time. The two sides grabbed both her shoulders, intending to spin her around to face them. However, red and blue sparks crawled up their arms, sending them into Frank and Len's garage. "That brat tore my wing!" Yami's voice came from the hole.

"Shut up Yami." Maru replied.

"Ruby, give me the scythe." Ashi pulled on the weapon in Ruby's hand, managing to wrench it from Ruby's grasp. The scythe immediately sailed into the ground as if it weighed a ton. Ashi with his gloved hands pulled, putting his spider legs in it, couldn't even lift it an inch off the ground.

"I-I-I won't forget this Gloom." Dani spat, grabbing her chainsaw from Skull Boy's head and ran. The scythe flew back into Ruby's hand, sending red sparks into Ashi, and he went flying into the tree that holds Poe's treehouse, as Ruby walked slowly after Dani. However, the robot army had reached the Gloom Mansion.


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