Chapter 4
Epic Battle at the Agency
All the agents are outside the Agency and are geared for battle. Suddenly, they look up and see a ship. Tech Boy used his techno psychic powers and made the laser turrets aim at the ship. Luckily for them, it wasn't one of Darkness's ships. It's Falco's ship from the Super Smash Bros. World. He said over a commlink, "I came here to help." "Welcome aboard," said Jeremiah. A bunch of Superhero ships also just arrived. And guess who else just arrived. It's Darkness and his army.
"My regular minions. ATTACK!"
His regular minions started attacking. The fight is on. The agents are using the attacks that hit the most enemies at once which usually come in bursts, circular, or spherical attacks. Darkness's regular minions are either using powers or shooting lasers with these weird trident things. Jeremiah is starting to think, "Where are his best minions?" He looked up. Nobody was guarding the roof. And even worse, minions are climbing the Agency. He activated his Light Sword. Then, he levitated up to the roof. Then he started slicing and dicing. He defeated those minions but even more were climbing up.
"Oh great. There's more," complained Jeremiah as the minions just arrived at the roof.
He used Light Burst to knock them off the roof. Meanwhile, Nic is shooting a bunch of electricity at Darkness's minions. When the electricity hit them, it electrocuted them and knocked them out. He tried forming a fist of electricity but he put in too much power and it shorted out. One of the minions seized the opportunity and shot a laser at him. He fell down but he wasn't out.
A huge explosion happened on the other side of the Agency. One agent was shooting a bunch of energy orbs at a minion while that minion dodged and came in for a spinning fire attack. That agent was defeated. Suddenly, the minion couldn't move. Tiffany walked out of the shadows and pinned that minion to a wall. The impact knocked him out. Three more minions somersaulted off the roof and launched a series of precise blows at Tiffany. One of the shots accidently hit her in her unmentionables. This made her angry and she unleashed a burst of psychic energy causing them to go flying. Jeremiah jumped at the speed of light and slashed them thus knocking them out.
When he landed he asked, "Need a hand?"
"No, I'm good," replied Tiffany.
"Alright then. Hey, how about we switch posts? You get the roof while I go back to the land battle," suggested Jeremiah as another explosion happened right behind him.
"Sure why not," answered Tiffany as she used her psychic powers as a spring to take her up to the roof.
Jeremiah ran back into the heat of the battle at the speed of light. One agent done a whirling fire kick on a minion while another minion shot a bunch of rocks at another agent. Head Spikey was running through the battle on all fours shooting fireballs at a bunch of minions knocking out every minion it hit and leaving a trail of explosions in his wake. Jeremiah was doing quite some fancy swordplay while running through the crowd of minions. When he stopped in front of the minions for a bow to the other agents, they all fell down. Another electric guy in the Agency shocked another minion. Unfortunately, that one was wearing shockproof armor. That same minion shot a bunch of dark electricity at him while hitting three other agents at the same time. Jeremiah noticed this along with Head Spikey who arrived at the exact same spot simultaneously. Jeremiah took a look at his armor and noticed that it looked different than the rest of the minions.
"That isn't one of his ordinary minions," stated Jeremiah with his voice as serious as can be.
"What do you mean, Agent Jeremiah?" inquired Head Spikey taking a closer look at this odd minion.
"Look at his armor. It's different from the rest of his minions. Not to mention the fact that he significantly more powerful than the rest of them," said Jeremiah as another explosion happened in the background.
Head Spikey now saw the difference by looking at the lighting pattern all over this minion's armor.
"You're right. I suggest we get Agent Nic for this. He is unaffected by electrical powers," suggested Head Spikey as he got himself geared for battle.
"All right, I'll get him. But what about you?" asked Jeremiah.
"I'll create a diversion," replied Head Spikey as he shot a fireball at the minion.
The minion turned in Head Spikey's direction with dark electricity surging through his body. Jeremiah knew that was his cue to run and find Nic, which he did.
"Come get me if you can," taunted Head Spikey as he started running on all fours.
The odd minion began pursuit.
Jeremiah ran at light speed through the heated battle. He went past many people: like a superhero who was lashing water at some minions, minions who were throwing tridents at some superheroes and agents, and even those who were causing what could be considered natural disasters such as earthquakes and tornadoes. He suddenly came across Hurricane, a guy with black hair who can turn his limbs into tornadoes. He helped Jeremiah way back in his early days, but usually as support instead of combat. Jeremiah went back-to-back with him.
"Hey Hurricane. Long time no see," greeted Jeremiah as he kicked a minion back a couple of inches.
"Hello Jeremiah. Haven't seen you in a while," greeted back Hurricane as he turned his arms into tornadoes and blew away several minions.
"Hey Hurricane, can you do me a favor?" asked Jeremiah as a minion tried to stab him with a trident which he kicked aside, grabbed, and stabbed that same minion with.
As that minion fell over and bled its black blood, Hurricane replied, "Sure, what do you need?"
Jeremiah punched another minion in his face as he tried to blind-side him and explained, "I need you to cover me while I use my Citaloanin Sight to look around the battlefield for someone."
"Roger that, Jeremiah. I'll do the best I can," replied Hurricane as he hit several more minions.
As Jeremiah activated his Citaloanin Sight, Hurricane ascended and expanded his arm tornadoes to the point where they hit the ground once more. While Jeremiah was searching for Nic, Hurricane made the tornadoes circle at amazing speeds. Several minions try to get in but were instantly stopped by the tornadoes. Jeremiah found him fighting at the edge of the Agency. He used his Citaloanin Sight to figure out the best path while Hurricane kept him protected. Once he got his route figured out, he deactivated his Citaloanin Sight and exclaimed, "Open a path. I know where to go now." "Roger that," replied Hurricane as he stopped his tornadoes thus opening a path. The minions started charging straight for Jeremiah. He used his super speed to slice them all in the blink of an eye. When he stopped for a brief moment they all fell down. After that, he began running towards his destination. Agents and heroes were falling one-by-one. Unlike the minions, the agents and heroes were getting tired from the battle thus causing them to fall one after the other. It was not a pretty sight to see. One hero freezed several minions only to see them thaw out by a minion who had fire powers. Jeremiah reached his destination. He tapped on Nic's shoulder. Nic was ready to zap him but hesitated when he saw that it was Jeremiah.
"Jeremiah, what the heck are you thinking? You should know never to tap on somebody's shoulder in the middle of combat," yelled Nic.
"We can talk about my lack of protocol later. Right now, we need to get to Head Spikey right away," said Jeremiah as he grabbed Nic by the arm and started running around the battlefield as if he was in an endless relay race.
Back at Head Spikey's location,
Head Spikey is still running on all fours while the mysterious minion kept attacking with some sort of dark lighting. Spikey kept dodging while the minion kept chasing using some dark electricity as thrusters. Head Spikey suddenly skidded to a stop and shot a fireball at the minion. The minion guarded and the fireball dissipated on contact. It made his armor steam a bit but he was unphased by the attack. The minion zapped Head Spikey and he fell down for the count. Jeremiah returned with Nic. He saw the strange minion as he landed. Jeremiah looked down and saw the defeated Head Spikey. He went up to him and listened for his breathing.
"He's still breathing, but he needs urgent medical attention. I'll zip him on over to the Medical Wing. Nic, we need you to beat that minion," said Jeremiah as he pointed to the minion that knocked him out.
"Nic, do you accept this mission?" asked Jeremiah as he put Head Spikey on his back.
"I accept. He is going down," replied Nic.
"Good luck," said Jeremiah as he ran towards the Medical Wing.
Nic looked at his opponent and exclaimed, "You're going to pay for what you did to Head Spikey!"
The minion titled his head towards him. He could not see his face due to the helmet covering it.
Dark electricity surged through the minions as he focused it through his fingertips and aimed at Nic as if his fingers were a gun. He shot a bolt of dark electricity at Nic. Nic just stood there because he assumed that he could absorb like any other electricity. He was wrong. It hit him in the shoulder blade and left him with what looked like a second-degree burn. Nic then realized that he could not absorb his electricity because it was not compatible with his bio-structure (Which he would have no clue of what I am talking about). Nic generated electricity into the palms of his hands and used it like thrusters to lift himself off the ground. The minion shot a ball of dark electricity at him. He quickly dodged it because he wasn't about to make the same mistake twice. He enhanced the electrical output to gain a burst of speed and quickly get behind the minion. Once there, he put his hands on the minion's back and shocked him. The minion fell down but he wasn't out, not by a long shot. The minion formed a whip of dark electricity and started lashing at Nic with it. Nic formed Planetary Wall, a power that forms an electrical dome around Nic giving him maximum protection. The minion could not break through it. He generated his dark electricity into a fist, which Nic failed to do so earlier. Nic exclaimed, "Oh come on. He can do that but I can't." The attack shattered Planetary Wall and hit Nic pinning him to the ground. Nic started swirling electricity around him, as the minion was about to deliver the final blow. Before the minion struck, the electricity suddenly rushed to him thus electrocuting him. After a few minutes, it stopped and the minion fell down which knocked off his helmet thus revealing his face. The minion's face had a striking resemblance to Nic's face except much darker and sinister. As Nic took in the shocking sight, the minion melted into thin air as if he was turning to dust.
The battle raged on for several more hours. Testing the strength and endurance of agents and heroes alike until all the minions were defeated. After that, the only people left on the Agency and Superheroes' side was Jeremiah, Nic, Tiffany, Tech Boy, Tech Girl, Hurricane, and Earth. Darkness smiled the nastiest smile in history and laughed hysterically.
"Congratulations. You have beaten all my regular minions. But now, it's time to bust out the big guns. Best minions. ATTACK!"
Suddenly, eight portals opened up. All eight of his best minions rose out of the portals. His best minions from Club Penguin are Herbert and Kluztley. His best minions from the Super Smash Bros. World are Bowser and Bowser Jr. And his best minions from Roblox are The Evil Robloxian and three random Robloxians. Jeremiah goes into his Light Turbo Form and speed levitated toward them. Once he was in the very center of all of their positions, he used his Light Burst to send them all flying. Bowser put his feet on the ground and skidded across the Agency and he caught Bowser Jr. while he was at it. Herbert's shadow marking started glowing and shadow energy wrapped around Herbert's feet in the shape of roller skates, which it became. He used the roller-skates to stop him form hitting the wall. He succeeded but fell flat on his face because he never ridden roller-skates before. Kluztley hit the wall right when Herbert fell on his face. He fell down on Herbert. The Evil Robloxian got out a sword and stuck it into the ground. It made a trail in the ground but it stopped him from hitting the wall. He threw teleport tools at the other Robloxians and they teleported to him.
Jeremiah levitated up to Darkness and exclaimed, "Hey Darkness. I have a way to make things more interesting."
"And what would that be?" inquired Darkness his curiosity peaked.
"I think we should divide it up to where everybody has 2-on-2 face-offs, or in the Robloxians' case, a 3-on-4 face-off," suggested Jeremiah.
"We'll have the face-offs, but you shall be excluded because you provide an unfair advantage to your side," stated Darkness.
Jeremiah turned back into his regular form and replied, "Alright. I accept the terms."
"Let the contest begin," said Darkness as a bunch of shadow energy started rising from the ground.
"How are you doing that?" asked Jeremiah amazed at the sight.
Darkness pointed up and Jeremiah saw the Shadow Energy Core on the roof.
"When did you do that?" asked a hysterical Jeremiah.
"At the brief moment you left your post unguarded. I set it up to gather the Shadow energy from the Shadow Realm and spread it once the battle was over," explained Darkness.
"So that means…" realized Jeremiah.
"That as soon as they lose, they will fall under my control," finished Darkness.
"Then, why don't you have me battle?" asked Jeremiah.
"Because it's more fun to have your friends capture you than you becoming my minion due to losing a fight," answered Darkness.
The matchups are Hurricane and Earth vs. Bowser and Bowser Jr., Nic and Tiffany vs. Herbert and Klutzley, and Tech Boy and Tech Girl vs. the Robloxians.
Bowser just shot a fireball at Hurricane and Earth. Hurricane turned his lower limbs into tornadoes and ascended while Earth jumped out of the way. As Hurricane ascended, the shadow energy rose to make sure he doesn't get out of his arena. He shot himself at Bowser like he was a torpedo. Earth aimed and used Meteor Tongue where he changes the chemistry of his tongue to match that of a meteor's and hit his opponent with it. How he can breath while this power is in use is still unknown. It hit Bowser straight in the face. As he fell down, a giant hand grabbed him. They looked up and saw Bowser Jr. in some sort of giant robot. The robot was light blue in its armored parts, it had a cockpit on the top of its "head", its feet were flat and the kind made for stomping, and its hands were connected by big cables that gives it maximum flexibility.
"That robot can barely fit in the arena," commented Jeremiah.
"By the way, I forgot to mention one thing," said Darkness.
"What?" asked a scared Jeremiah as the robot put down Bowser and pinned Hurricane and Earth to the wall of shadow energy.
"There is such a thing as a ring-out in this competition," answered Darkness who just loved the scared look on Jeremiah's face.
The robot started pushing through the shadow energy wall slowly. Shadow energy started rushing into their body while Bowser Jr. was doing this. Suddenly, a big swirl appeared in the sky and a bunch of meteors poured down from the skies. It hit the robot's arm and knocked it clean off the robot. The arm fell and landed on the ground. Earth turned his hands into the same stuff as meteors and moved the hand just enough to escape.
Meanwhile in the arena Nic and Tiffany are in,
Herbert did the Dark Kluztley Bowling Bowl on Nic and Tiffany. The Dark Kluztley Bowling Ball is a tactical maneuver where Kluztley forms a ball of shadow energy around himself and Herbert rolls him like a bowling ball at his enemies. He got a strike. Then, Nic and Tiffany used Psycho Storm on them. Psycho Storm is a combo attack where Tiffany moves the clouds in a thunderstorm position while Nic causes lighting to strike down from it. They got electrocuted. Herbert and Klutzley did not take too kindly to this. Their shadow markings started glowing and shadow energy came blasting from the wall. Nic and Tiffany kept narrowly dodging them. Herbert and Klutzley made them converge and curve setting the course straight at Tiffany. Nic ran in front of Tiffany to protect her from the blast but Tiffany did not want Nic to get caught in it so she used her psychic to pull Nic out of the way as the shadow energy hit Tiffany. Shadow Energy started poring into Tiffany taking her morals and twisting it into all kinds of new dimensions. As it poured in, it started corrupting her soul until it was as black as ash and just barely anything remained of the old Tiffany. A shadow marking appeared on her face and she got into a combat stance.
"Tiffany, are you all right?" asked Nic hoping Tiffany would answer with her normal voice.
Tiffany suddenly attacked Nic. Nic is just barely dodging the decisive blows.
"Ah crud. They got Tiffany!" exclaimed Jeremiah in horror.
"One down, five to go," said Darkness in order to rub in the danger of these face-offs.
In another arena,
Tech Boy and Tech Girl were blasting while the Robloxians were slicing and dicing. Thanks to the brutal combat training that is a Superhero standard, they were able to easily dodge the swords especially with the Robloxians' limited mobility. However, the Robloxians weren't trained like Tech Boy and Tech Girl making the blasters a living nightmare to dodge. Tech Boy used his techno psychic powers to modify his blaster into a platform dispenser. Tech Boy jumped up and used the blaster to change the atomic structure of a little piece of the air in order to form a platform. Tech Girl did a back flip and Tech Boy made another platform. She landed on it gracefully. Tech Boy remodified his weapon back into a blaster and used the foot controls on the platform to circle above the Robloxians and blast them. The Evil Robloxian looked up and saw that his comrades were useless. He got out his sword and killed his comrades. But luckily, Robloxians don't die. Instead they respawn at a designated spawn point. The Evil Robloxian transformed into his second form, which is some sort of dragon, and took flight. Tech Boy and Tech Girl barely moved out of the way as the dragon ascended. They made their platforms ascend just as quickly to get next to the dragon. As they rose to new heights, so did the wall of shadow energy that is keeping them confined in the arena. When they were next to the dragon, they started shooting lasers at it. They got a few key spots but it wasn't enough. The dragon knocked Tech Boy off the platform and he started falling towards the wall. Luckily, Tech Girl swooped down and saved him.
"Shall I tell everyone how I had to save you?" teased Tech Girl.
"Heck no. I still like to have my dignity," replied a steaming mad Tech Boy.
The Evil Robloxian breathed fire at them. They quickly dodged.
"We'll talk about this later," said Tech Boy quickly.
"Agreed," said Tech Girl as she put Tech Boy on the ground.
Jeremiah is watching the battles in horror because he knows what the stakes are. Hurricane is breaking the cockpit of Bowser Jr.'s robot. Earth is punching Bowser with his meteors for hands. Nic is barely able to dodge Tiffany's attacks and the shadow energy Herbert and Kluztley keep sending at him. Tech Girl transformed her laser pistol into a laser cannon and shot at the Evil Robloxian. The Evil Robloxian fell down and hit the ground while Tech Boy was barely able to avoid that.
Jeremiah just couldn't stand it anymore. He exclaimed, "That's it. I'm not going to let them risk their lives without a little backup. I'm going in," said Jeremiah as he got up and levitated towards where the arenas converge.
"I don't think so. If you do, the match is an automatic forfeit and the shadow energy will spread around the Agency corrupting everyone it comes into contact with. Just like how it corrupted that girl," said Darkness as he pointed at Tiffany.
Nic tried zapping Herbert but failed because Tiffany redirected it towards the wall using her psychic powers.
"I trapped myself, didn't I?" asked Jeremiah fearing the answer.
"Yes, you did," replied Darkness making sure it sunk in.
Jeremiah watched the fights in disgust. That's when he noticed that he had nothing to worry about. Hurricane and Earth were combining their powers to beat Bowser and Bowser Jr. Tech Girl just trapped the Evil Robloxian in some sort of electrical field. The only fight that had him worried now was Nic's fight. Nic is very reluctant to attack Tiffany, and every time he tries attacking Herbert and Kluztley, Tiffany redirects it. Jeremiah got an idea.
He ascended, turned around, and pointed out with a bit of taunt in his voice, "Hey Darkness. I thought these were supposed to be fair fights."
"What are you talking about?" demanded Darkness who can care less about whether or not the fights were fair.
"Well, these fights are supposed to be 2-on-2 with the exception of the Robloxians since most of them are not combat trained," started Jeremiah.
"What's your point?" asked Darkness getting a bit annoyed.
"My point is that since Tiffany is corrupted now and working for you, Nic's fight has turned into a 3-on-1 match thus breaking the rules we agreed upon," explained Jeremiah with confidence in his voice.
"So what? We can't change anything now. Besides, who really cares about the odds?" stated Darkness.
"Exactly," said Jeremiah.
Darkness gulped.
"If you don't care your own rules, (He pulled some little ball of condensed light from his pocket) then why SHOULD I?" said Jeremiah as he threw the ball of condensed light just past Darkness and straight at the Shadow Energy Core at the top of the Agency.
When it hit the Shadow Energy Core, it got absorbed and the Shadow Energy Core suddenly expanded. The external shadow energy rose like wildfire and attempted to correct the balance by sucking Jeremiah into the shadow energy and placing him in Nic's arena. Tiffany was about to crush Nic with the remains of Bowser Jr.'s robot. Nic was expecting it to be the end of him but the impact never came. He looked up and saw Jeremiah with a Light Shield up. Light Shield is a power where Jeremiah condenses a bunch of light into a shield that can withstand attacks up to a certain degree. Jeremiah used his own psychic powers to pick the machine parts and he launched them at Herbert, Kluztley, and Tiffany.
"Jeremiah, what are you doing? You'll hurt Tiffany," exclaimed Nic.
"Nic, don't think of her as your girlfriend because she's not anymore. Think of her as your enemy with every intent of destroying you when the opportunity arises," said Jeremiah with a serious tone of voice.
Hurricane and Earth just defeated Bowser and Bowser Jr. while Tech Girl just slayed the Evil Robloxian. Jeremiah just Light Punched Tiffany, got in the middle of his opponents, and used Light Burst. Everyone went flying and went through the wall resulting in a ring out. Then, a holographic screen appeared up in the sky and it said, "Winner: The Agency of the 5th World!"
"Oh yeah," exclaimed Jeremiah before he realized it was short-lived.
Right when the matches ended, the Shadow Energy Core expanded once again and started spreading shadow energy all over the place. Darkness started laughing manically.
"Now, the next phase of my plan has begun. Soon, you will all be my minions. There is no way to stop me now, Mu ha ha ha."
"We can't stop the shadow energy from spreading. But, we can save everyone before the shadow energy gets them. Everyone, listen up. You must grab all the agents and heroes you can from the Medical Wing and head for the ships," said Jeremiah.
"What about you?" asked Hurricane.
"I'll play decoy," answered Jeremiah as he ascended.
He got another one of those odd balls of light and threw it at the shadow energy that kept them imprisoned. This created an opening that would allow them to escape.
"You heard the man, let's go," said Hurricane as he turned his lower body into a tornado and started heading towards the Medical Wing.
Everyone else except Jeremiah followed.
"Hey, Darkness! I got one last challenge for you," exclaimed Jeremiah.
"And that would be?" asked Darkness already knowing the answer to his own question.
"One last fight, you and me, for the fate of the Agency," answered Jeremiah.
"No problem. But, you have to play under my rules," said Darkness as he extended his arms and a ray of shadow energy came out of the core and sucked them into the Shadow Energy Core itself.
What will happen in the Shadow Energy Core? Will Nic and the others make it to the Medical Wing in time? Find out next chapter.