Darry sat down boringly in a stall of an internet café with Violine, who was searching the information they needed for a school task. Darry sighed.
"This is boring," he complained. "And real hot. This place is really crowded. It is much better if we do this task at home." Darry said, referring that the whole internet café was full by students who were doing their task and opening internet for their own fun like games or social networking sites.
"Unfortunately, there is no internet in both of our house right now." Violine said. "They're just suddenly go down."
"Yeah. And I have to spend time here doing the boring task here with you." Darry stood up to see the stalls around. "And none of the students here are actually doing that stupid task now! All of them are playing online games! That task is still due next week!"
"We should be doing that starting from now. And it's a two person grouped task." Violine said. "You can play your games after the task is done instead of procrastinating and doing it at the last seconds."
Darry lied back on his chair boringly. Same old speech by Vio.
"Yo, Dar! Wanna play LoS?" Mike from the two stalls next to them stood up and called him. "I and Anthony already on! And this stall is finally empty" He pointed to the stall between their stalls.
Darry grinned. "You got it!"He got up from his seat.
"But, wait! The task!" Violine reminded him.
"If you need me I will be on the next stall. I got bored waiting for you. So in meanwhile I will play the game, ok?" Darry replied. Then he exited the stall and instantly entered the empty stall. Violine got a little annoyed.
Felicia, who heard the noise of two boys shouting to each other about logging on stood up from her stall. "Ha, Barrell! I doubt you can beat me on my score in this quest!"
"You wanted to challenge me? Bring it on, Failicia!" Darry put his headphones on and challenged her back.
"How about putting at group versus? Three versus three on group quest. You got your folks over there," Felicia pointed to Mike and Anthony. "And I got my team over here." She pointed to Serena and Helen.
The four person mentioned thought that would be fun and nodded in agreement.
"Sounds interesting." Darry grinned. "Log to it, guys."
Violine just watched helplessly and decided to return on her task and focused on finishing it.
Darry started counting down. "Ready? On three! Two! One! Game's on!"
"You guys would probably end up getting sucked into the game or something." Violine murmured.
However, not long after there was a big flash and the six kids screamed. Violine gasped. "Darry?" She hurriedly rushed to the stall beside her, finding Darry was gone.
Darry Phantom's Adventures
Episode 11 : Online Fantasy
"Ouch." Everyone got up, some holding their heads. "Where are we?" They looked around, and noticed they were standing on a field. Soon, they saw each other and gasped. "W-What?"
They noticed their clothes were changed. Not to just any clothes- every of them recognized it was the clothes from the very game they were playing. And they looked different as well… it was… 3D? It was game graphical. They looked at themselves, gasping again.
"What happened?"
"What is going on?"
"I-I-I am-"
They touched everything on them. Their clothes really changed, and they got the ear-things on their ears.
"We're… inside the game?" Soon they realized. Gasping altogether, they tried to not panicking.
"This- this is very cool!" Felicia was the first to scream that out. …Okay, then they weren't panicking. Sorry, wrong narrator guess.
"It is!" Serena joined the cheer.
"This is so awesome! I actually able to attack on things in actual 3D!" Mike said, attacking on the empty air. And then he stopped and looked at Anthony strangely. He wore a bear hat.
"It is so cute I can't help it?" Anthony smiled sheepishly.
"I've always wanted this kind of thing to happen! This is so cool!" Darry grinned.
"Uh, guys." Helen broke the mood. "How do we get out of here?"
Everyone fell into silence.
"We're trapped?" Mike asked.
"Woo!" Anthony cheered. Nobody was cheering again. "Uh… we're trapped?" Anthony asked again.
"Where's Vio?" Darry started looking around.
Back in the normal world, Violine was wondering- and scared because the stalls were suddenly empty. "Oh no," Violine muttered. "What is going on?" She decided to take a look at the screen. The game was still playing. She stared at the screen. "Wait…" The players were moving on their own, and the chat message was pretty much filled in and kept going on.
phantomjr58 : Vio? Vio?
cool_dude23 : you're right. She's gone :o
fd038 : More like we're the ones who transported into nowhere!
JulyInsect : …we're in a game ._.
football32 : it's true, though. She's gone D:
hellpsych0 : idk?
phantomjr58 : I wonder if she knows where we are.
Violine gasped, realizing her friends were inside the game. She started wondering what she should do. She sat down on Darry's seat and put on the headphones. She wondered if she could contact them this way. "Hello? Guys? Can you hear me?"
Inside the game, everyone surprised and looked around. "Vio?" Darry asked. "Where are you?"
"I am out here." Violine replied, talking on the mic. "In the real world. You guys are inside the computer!"
"I guess we really are inside a game." Serena stated.
"Do you have any idea how to let us out?" Darry asked.
"No, you guys just suddenly disappeared and went inside the game." Violine replied. "I have no idea if I can let you guys out."
"Why should we get out? This place is awesome anyway!" Anthony said.
"Idiot, you'll never able to play football anymore." Mike stated.
"O-oh…" Anthony realized. "Let me out of this place!"
"I am trying, I wonder what happened-"
Suddenly a laugh was heard. "You little midgets! You've fallen right into my trap!" And on the sky(in the game), little pixel molecules formed into a head. "I, Technus! The manipulator of machines, lord of all gadgetry, wizard of integrated circuitry."
"I guess he is the one with long introduction my dad talked about," Darry said.
"I've hacked into your house's internet system, Phantom Jr.!" Technus looked at each one of them, and then stopped. "Uh, I thought I hacked the internet of that red-beret's daughter too."
"I am not fallen into your trap, you ghost!" Violine's voice replied from outside of the game.
"Huh, I guess she is not coming then. " Technus looked at the kids. "At least I got so many of you trapped here! I made the ghost boy junior's internet gone so he has to go to the set up computers in this internet café! And you are all now fallen into my trap!"
"That's not going to happen that smoothly, big head!" Darry stated. "Phantom Phase!" He shouted. However nothing happened. "Phantom Phase!" Still nothing. "What?" Technus started laughing.
"Are you dumb or something, Barrell? We're inside a game!" Felicia said, she summoned a huge hammer that appeared on her hand. She jumped, trying to attack Technus. "Hyaaah!"
"That's right," Mike noticed. Everyone else started to ready their attack, however they canceled it when they saw Felicia just went through Technus.
"What?" They gasped.
"This head is currently nothing but a projection. I will see you guys deep in that dungeon over there as a boss if you want to battle me. Ha, ha… ha ha ha!" Technus projector said before he completely disappeared.
"Blast it." Darry cursed.
"I think you can't use your powers while in there," Violine said.
"I know!" Darry replied back.
"And you didn't use the advantage that we, instead, have the powers of this game. Like, magic and all." Felicia said. "That's what you get for relying on those ghost powers of yours too much,"
"Quiet, Failicia. You're just jealous that you don't have those 'amazing powers' in real life." Darry replied back.
"Are you really bringing this now? All I do was just saying the truth." Felicia walked forward.
"And I am pretty much doing the same here." Darry walked forward as well. "And anyway, your attack earlier just ended up in fail."
Felicia rushed forward with her hammer. "Oh? So you really want a taste of that failure attack that much, huh?"
"Yeah, and I am pretty much sure it's not going to work for me!" Darry summoned out a blade on his hand.
"Oh, yeah? Eat this! This! This!"
"No, you are the one who is going to eat this!"
The two started fighting.
"Uh, guys…" Serena called.
"Uh…" Violine, and everyone else were just watching as phantomjr58 and fd038's HP bars decreased bit by bit in the same time.
fd038 changed their weapon
"You don't like it much, huh? How about this?" Felicia changed her hammer into a staff and summoning thunders. Darry ran away in panic to a safer side.
phantomjr58 changed their weapon
"You're the one who is getting this!" Darry, now with a death scythe starting to chase her back. Felicia ran back to the safer side in panic.
fd038 changed their weapon
"How about this?" Felicia made Darry ran back to the other side while shooting arrows.
phantomjr58 changed their weapon
"This!" Darry made Felicia ran back again with a huge rock hammer.
fd038 changed their weapon
phantomjr58 changed their weapon
fd038 changed their weapon
phantomjr58 changed their weapon
The two kept going forth while keep changing weapons.
"Uh, guys…" Serena tried to break their fight, while Helen watched without knowing what to do.
"Uh…" Mike and Anthony looked at each other.
"Guys!" Violine shouted from the microphone. "Can't you see you're trapped in a computer game? And your health bar keeps decreasing?"
Darry and Felicia stopped and looked at their health bar, both at red color.
"Who knows what would happen if you die in a game?" Violine said. "You might be dead too!"
"…She has a point," Felicia said.
"Yeah," Darry replied. The two looked at each other and nodded, agreeing to cease fire in this situation. They took potion from their items and used it.
phantomjr58 used a hyper potion
fd038 used a hyper potion
Sparkling green lights went around them and soon their HP bar filled into maximum.
"So… we agreed now." Darry said.
"Yeah." Felicia replied.
"But now, what should we do?" The two then turned to the others.
"He told us to come into the deepest part of that dungeon and fight him in a ghost battle." Helen said.
"We can do that." Serena smiled. "And then we will go back home."
"In one piece." Darry added.
"And we have to stay alive no matter what. Because we don't know what would happen if we die in this world." Mike said.
"Yeah." Anthony nodded, followed by everyone else.
"…but, just how strong the enemies are over there?" Felicia then asked.
"Strong or not, we will beat them into a pulp." Mike said.
"No, Felicia got a point." Darry said. "We need to know our enemies if we want to make it out alive without a single death."
Everyone started to think. "Hey, Vio. Do you think you can go open the help website for us?" Darry then asked.
"Me?" Violine then say, "Okay, I will do that."
"We need information for the enemy list in that dungeon, and their weakness." Darry continued.
"Yeah." Everyone else said. Even though normally they never actually check walkthroughs, they needed it this time. Because they wanted to avoid the chance of death.
"I can do that." Violine said. "What should I look up?"
"Lands of Solune." Darry said. "Dungeon Zero. Enemies list."
"I thought the game's title was Legends of Solune?" Violine questioned.
"Uh, it's the main game- the offline series. This one is the online version." Darry explained. "Just search for it."
"Ok."
While Violine was searching for the list, everyone else talked to each other.
"So, now… what about divide our fighting types?" Felicia asked. "That might come in handy."
"I second your idea." Serena said.
"That's not a bad idea," Mike said.
"I like that. I am taking the blade weapon type." Darry said, summoning out his blade.
phantomjr58 changed their weapon
"I will take the dual type." Mike then said. Summoning his dual light-sabers.
cool_dude23 changed their weapon
"I am with the hammer." Felicia said.
fd038 changed their weapon
"There are 6 weapon types, so one of us will share a same weapon type." Felicia turned into Serena and asked. "What are you going with, Serena?"
"I guess I will take the staff so I can help with spells and healings…" Serena summoned the staff out.
JulyInsect changed their weapon
"You?" Felicia asked Helen.
"I am good with long-range." Helen stated.
hellpsych0 changed their weapon
Helen hold her bow and arrow on her hands.
"I guess we pretty much have every type of weapon now." Felicia said. "What are you using, teddy bear?" She then asked the boy with teddy bear hat- Anthony.
"Uh… I…" Anthony began. "I am using hammer right now, I don't know if I should change it."
"I guess two hammers are okay." Darry said. "Those are slow and gives heavy damages. That type helps a lot."
"Yeah," Mike agreed.
"It's all set, then." Felicia said.
"Let's go battle Technus on Zero!" Darry stated and the whole party started moving.
DPA DPA DPA DPA DPA
Soon, they were inside the dungeon, fighting numerous monsters as they proceed. Violine already gave them the information about the enemies, and currently assisting them by telling enemies' locations because they couldn't see the game map while in the game.
"On the left, three." Violine informed.
Darry slashed a monster, and once it's down to no HP, the monster disappeared by dissolving as data. Felicia smashed a monster to a wall, and it's dissolving as well. Serena cast burn magic to lower enemies' health. She turned to see Mike who just defeated a monster, now in low health. She applied heal magic on him. Anthony kept on pounding enemies. And Helen was assisting from long range. Soon an enemy approached her, and she couldn't attack from that short range effectively. Anthony came to the rescue and soon the others were too. All of them nodding, and proceed.
Finally they reached the checkpoint. All of them were panting heavily.
"Everyone okay?" Darry asked, still panting. They replied with either a 'yeah' or nod. Serena collapsed, holding her hand. Her HP is depleting quickly, thanks to poison. Felicia gave her an antidote.
fd038 used antidote on JulyInsect
"Thanks." Serena said.
"Here, take this." Darry threw an item at Serena.
JulyInsect received a from phantomjr58
JulyInsect used an elixir
"You should've told us if you run out of MP" Darry said, and returned to resting.
"Thanks for the safe earlier…" Mike told Serena. "Um, Serena isn't it?" Serena nodded.
"No problem." She replied. "We don't have many items. We need to share our items and ability at this kind of moment."
"And we should not waste them too much," Anthony said. "We need them in the final battle." Helen nodded.
"It's harder than using consoles." Felicia said while resting. "It's still cool, though." She grinned.
"Yeah." Everyone else seemed to think the same.
"I have no ghost powers, but… this is still fantastic" Darry grinned.
"Ah, yeah… you're more used to real battles than us." Mike said. "That's why you can beat more enemies easier."
"It's probably just your dumb skill." Felicia told Mike. "I am pretty good with fighting in this world."
"Oi, I thought we made deal to not fight in this world?" Anthony said before anyone break into a fight. Everyone fell quiet after that, avoiding the fight.
"Vio, what are you doing out there?" Darry then ask.
"Reading more about this game." Violine replied. "…this is the place where Tim got separated with his friends before heading to the final battle, singing the song 'Never End'. Who is Tim?" Violine then asked.
"Timothy. That's the main character in the offline series." Darry replied. "You play as him in Legends of Solune"
"Oh…" Violine replied as she scrolled through the page.
"Are you guys well-rested yet?" Darry then asked.
"I guess so," Mike said, getting up. Once everyone are ready, they continued through the dungeon. "There's no turning back."
"Let's defeat him and return to our world!"
Everyone walked to the next floor level, meeting more dangerous, high-leveled enemies than before. "Here it comes…"
The monsters jumped on them and attacked them. With the big pointy-ended weapon, Anthony slammed them away. Now not in a mob, everyone went one on one after the enemies. However, this time they got more enemies attacking them before they finish one. They fight as they made their way progressing to the next level. Leveling is not important that time: it's to survive and save energies (and items).
"Ugh!" Mike used the hit and step back type of attacking while dealing with three at once.
"Blasted-," Darry gritted his teeth, continuing his combos. But then another monster attacked him from behind. "Ah!"
Serena and Helen started screaming when a monster with fast movement came close to attack them.
"Eat this, you fool!" Felicia hitting monsters around her. Anthony kept getting surrounded by enemies. He hit on the floor many times to attack all of them at once.
"Vio! Is there any more enemies in hidden places? Vio?" Darry asked. However there was no response. Darry heard something behind him and turned around, luckily guarded himself on time before getting a static attack that can make him immobile. "Vio?" He called out again.
"Vioooo?"
Upon hearing this, Mike realized this too, "Violine is gone?" Mike knocked an enemy away from him and then started shouting, "Violine? Oi? Are you out there? Answer us!"
"Violine?" Serena called as well.
"Violine!" Felicia called. Everyone started to call her. But no response.
Out in real world, the stall was left empty.
phantomjr58 : Vio? Hey, Vio!?
The game continued on with the chat kept popping up. Worrying about Violine's condition out there, they kept on battling the monsters. What if a ghost got her? They should get out of the game quickly. They proceed on their mission, and then…
"Mike, watch out!" Serena shouted as a monster about to attack Mike from behind. Mike turned. Anthony knocked the enemy on time. However he ended up getting the toxic attack because he touched the enemy.
Helen searched for her antidote in the item list, but then she was too late.
Before Anthony got a recharge from that attack, the enemy attacked him with a blow and his HP dropped into zero points. His body started to glow white.
"Anthony!" Everyone shouted.
"No-… no-…" He pleaded as his body starting to dissolve as data into thin air.
"Anthony, no!" Mike tried to reach out to him, but his hand went through him as he disappeared. "N-no…" Shaking and still shocked, he stayed still, forgotten of the poisonous enemy that killed Anthony earlier.
Serena had to shook off Anthony's game-death (or did he just died for real?...) and react fast- since she was the closest to Mike at that moment."Get away from Mike!" She casted ice magic to make the monster stay still. Soon after that, a finishing arrow was shot by Helen at the monster. Helen took deep breathes from the earlier heart attack, trying to calm down.
Nobody could accept Anthony's death yet.
"…You ok?" Serena tried to help Mike up.
"Y-yeah… I guess so." Mike got up, still shocked.
"Anthony…" Darry muttered. "And Vio too,"
Felicia gritted her teeth. "Guys, we need to reach the last check point first!" She knocked the enemy away. "And then we can get that ghost for erasing our friend away! And to get him back!"
Everyone seemed to agree, they headed to the last floor with more determination. They ended up being more cautious, and finally they reached the pre-boss battle waypoint. Once everyone reached the waypoint, they started to break down once more.
"Ectoblast!-" Darry cursed. "Anthony,… I wonder what happened to him now." He paused before adding, "And Vio."
Mike sat down. Emotionally torn that he lost his best friend. "He… he protected me." He stated. "He is my buddy ever since a kid and I don't want to believe that he is erased now!" He started gritting his teeth. "I knew you have that goofy smile and football obsession! Your teddy bear hat is not dumb, ok? It's cute! Just… get back already-… stupid brother," Mike started to curl into a ball.
Everyone else staring at Mike, feeling the same feel. Will he really come back? Is he really erased? None of them really know what would happen if they are dead in that game. What if he is not coming back? What if he is erased just like the monsters in the game that is gone for real when they beat them? Previously all of them were so excited for this adventure inside the game, but now they're just…
Scared.
…
And worrying to no end. Is Violine okay out there? Can they get out from this place? Being inside a video game is not all fun like what they thought…
"What if any of us die in the final battle…" Helen broke the silence. "And meet the same fate like Anthony… erased forever?"
"Helen, don't say things like that!" Serena told her. "He is alive,… I think."
"Guys,…" Felicia tried to cheer them up, but then she ran out of words. "…You're right…"
"We need to get out of here." Darry said. "We need to save Vio!" At least Violine is safe in real life, right? But what is happening to her? Everyone looked at him, starting to think about it.
"…You're right." Mike said. "We will fight him now, making Anthony back safely, and save Violine." Mike stood up and headed to the door. Darry nodded and followed after him. Felicia looked at her two friends, and the three nodded together. All of them headed to the door to fight the game's boss… Technus.
DPA DPA DPA DPA DPA
Technus was waiting, in an ultimate appearance of a gigantic boss with armors. The moment the whole gang entered the room, he grinned and welcomed them. "Phantom Jr.! Welcome! I've been waiting for you!" He grinned. "In this room, inside this game I knew you like to play- I, Technus, master of-"
"Uh, can we cut off this part already?" Darry asked, cutting him off.
"Fine! I, Nicolai Technus… will battle with you!" He finished, and then the battle started. Technus sent out many robots as his underlings.
"You're getting down, Technus!" Mike shouted as he attacked some of the robots with his double sword. "You are going to return Anthony to us!"
"Oh,…" Technus grinned, creating an electrical attack and throwing it at Mike, who dodged that attack. He kept continue making the electrical attacks. Darry dodged those by rolling around while approaching him. Once he was close, he went to attack Technus face-to-face that caused him not able to use the electrical attacks for the room-range attack. However, Technus turned intangible the moment he wanted to slash him.
"Hey, that's a cheat!" Darry shouted at him.
"What's wrong? Can't use your ghost powers, second ghost boy?"
Serena dodged the attacks by kept running to one side and then she joined Darry to attack Technus back with magic, who was blocked it. Helen used this chance to shoot an arrow.
"Take this!" She said as she released the arrow. Technus, who caught off guard, took the attack and received damage on his HP.
"Never underestimate the Girl Gang of Win!" Felicia shouted as she did a spin attack hitting on a robot. "We're the best when it comes to-"
"Team-" Serena continues.
"Work!" Helen finished.
Felicia knocked the robot to Technus, made it exploded at him. She grinned.
"Lookin' good there, Failicia." Darry told her. "How unlikely the normal you who always failed."
"Not a bad roll, Barrell." Felicia replied. "To think ya did it right."
That was a chance and they rushed forward to attack the technology ghost when he is stunned. However then Technus let out his hands and absorbed the HP of the five players to heal his HP. The five screamed as their HP getting lower and Technus' filled back. The five fell down.
"Ah… what a good game is this, right?" Technus asked the five. All of them in low HP. One more blow would cause them to disappear for good.
hellpsych0 used a potion
Serena casted heal magic on herself. Before every of them able to heal their HP, the robots already came to back Technus up, so the rest three had to back off to dodge. Unfortunately, Felicia was too close with Technus and hit an electrical barrier Technus set up. She screamed.
"Felicia!" Serena and Helen screamed.
"Darmson!" Mike screamed.
"Failicia!" Darry screamed. Her body started to glow white just like Anthony. She stared at herself in disbelief. The game was over for her. Serena, Helen, and Darry tried to reach for her, but she dissolved as data already. Mike just stared at the scene, remembering Anthony's game-death.
Staring into the empty air, Serena and Helen lost their friend and leader. Darry turned at Technus, remembering the disappearance of Violine. Preparing a fire magic, he dashed forward and shot it at him, causing a burn status, and then the four retreated from the middle for a while and heal.
"We've lost two of our party…" Mike said.
"First Anthony, then Failicia." Darry confirmed. "And I don't even know what is going on with Vio out there."
Technus tried to shoot some electrical balls. The four started to dodge the attacks only. They needed a plan without losing another party member. Dodging thrown attacks while surrounded by robots was not that easy, and their HP was getting low when they're also in low of item stock.
However, the four eventually found themselves cornered by the surrounding enemies. With low HP and items, it made them harder to get them off. Seeing them scared, Technus laughed.
"Yes! Surround them, my electro-into-fantasy game!" The four prepared for the worst as they watched Technus creating a large electric energy ball to throw on them. They went to guard stance and closed their eyes.
But then…
Suddenly a white, shining arrow came through fast and attacked straight on Technus. The five couldn't believe what was happening. They gasped, watching the situation.
"Who was that who attacked me earlier?" Technus got up and rubbed his face. "I was sure I got all of them cornered at… there…" Technus gasped.
Out of flash, a figure shining in the distance jumped to the four with a big white hammer and hammered on the floor, knocking the enemies away.
"Are you guys okay?" She asked as she turned to see the four.
The four players gasped, when the figure turned out to be…
"V-V-Violine?" They were shocked. Darry couldn't say what he wanted to say. "B-B-But- how? Why? What?"
huntressgrl changed her weapon
Violine changed her weapon into a staff and casted magic to heal the entire team member. Still unbelieving this, everyone stayed still in their places. Violine was wearing a white outfit that got some shinning parts.
"So, I decided to join the game to save you all. I signed up using the left computer in the row and entered the game here. It worked." Violine told them, summarizing her disappearance from the real world.
"No! Not that!" Darry managed to say, he approached her while staring at her entire look. "The main focus here… You actually got a limited edition suit?" He asked, recognizing the outfit.
"A-actually my dad bought me the card for the suit long time ago… I never played this game so I never used it." Violine explained.
Darry trailed again. "You got a limited edition suit and you never-"
"Duck!" Violine shouted as Technus finally got a chance to throw that electric ball. They dodged it, and then Darry continued again.
"I can't believe this! And all these time you keep that special promotion card a secret from me! You could've given that card to me if you never used it!" Darry said. "It's very rare!"
"At least I am using it now!" Violine shot back. She got up, starting to run on separated way from the others because the upcoming attacks. "And anyway… Dad? Is everything ok out there?"
"Vio? Vio? Darry? Kids? Everyone? Can you hear me?" A voice suddenly appeared. Everyone noticed this voice.
"This voice… the mayor?" Serena asked, as she fight the robots.
"Uncle Tuck?" Darry asked as well.
"Yes, you're right. It's me." Tucker in the real world replied, he was talking by the headphone and microphone while typing some code on the computer. "You can hear me. Good. I am trying to work on hacking the code of this game. I will try getting Technus and all of you out from there. Valerie is also here. We will catch Technus once he is out from the game."
Everyone sounded surprised to hear this.
phantomjr58 : how are we going to do that?
"I am almost done on that. Just a few more words and…" Tucker typed it and pressed enter. He smiled. "Done."
Nothing was happening.
huntressgrl : uh... dad?
cool_dude23 : is it not working? :/
"No, no." Tucker replied. "I couldn't completely hack this battle because it's already started. It will work. Trust me. All you have to do now is to… beat him in this boss battle."
huntressgrl : so, you're saying that once we beat him… we will get out from this place?
"Yep." Tucker replied. "All you have to do is drop down his HP bar into zero."
phantomjr58 : Drop it into zero. Got it, Uncle.
Back inside the games, they all knew what they have to do. Everyone else focused on one target. It's finally the time to get out from the game for real, returning Anthony and Felicia. Now with addition of Violine, they proceed on beating Technus.
Once Violine saw an opening, she took something from her inventory and threw it on Darry. "Darry!"
phantomjr58 received a gift from huntressgrl
"What is this?" Darry asked.
"Limited edition card!" Violine answered. "For you! Dad got two for both of us back there!"
"Wait. So Uncle Tuck gave me one all these time and you kept it away from me? How long did you keep this away?"
"Darry, I coded the data on that card so you can change into your ghost form in this game the moment you use it." Tucker's voice appeared.
The second he heard that, he grinned. "Sweet!"
phantomjr58 used the gift card
"I guess you should thank me to just give it to you now, huh?" Violine teased as she watches her best friend changed his outfit and biological look to his other form.
phantomjr58 changed their weapon
Now with white outfit that glows, Darry- who now regained his ghost powers- maximized his attack and speed by choosing the double sword. Which also reduced his defense, but that wouldn't matter now he got his intangibility back. "Now that more like it," He said as he flew toward Technus to battle him in equal ghost power-game power abilities.
The rest of players tried their best fighting off the robots. It is a chance to winning. However, the number of them kept adding. It was quite a trouble.
Suddenly, a recognizable voice appeared from the entrance.
"Sorry for the wait." Anthony said, standing with his gigantic weapon.
Everyone instantly looked at him with surprised look. "Anthony!" They smiled in joy.
"You scared me! You know that?" Mike looked at him, still in shock. "I thought you were-" He quickly joined force with him to fight together. "Anyway, it's really good to see you back, man." He told him after that, smiling. Anthony smiled back.
"I was revived on the last checkpoint I was in. It's kind of hard to chase all of you when you have no party." He tried to explain. "Now I will join you too!" He said as he started hammering on the robots.
"Wait… If he revived, that means…" Serena and Helen realized.
"You wouldn't think I will leave the party off so easily, huh?"
The two turned to see their best friend was already standing behind them. "Felicia!"
"You're alright!"
"Of course. Who do you think helped that teddy bear dork to this place safely? The moment I revived, I was surprised that he told me that he already fainted three more times." Felicia responded with her usual tone. "Anyway, we're partying for real now!"
Darry and Technus turned their battle into an aerial one, mixed with ghost powers.
"Oh ho! You're not half bad, ghost boy!" Technus said as they battled on the air. Technus kept on making electric barriers and blasts.
"You're also fight pretty good for someone in a video game world who only relies on ghost powers." Darry replied.
"Well, at least I can keep on summoning my army since data world is MY territory!" Technus said as his hands glowing with electricity power.
"Not anymore. They're not going to respawn this time." Tucker's voice said from outside the game.
"What?" Technus asked.
"And during a fight, there's no way you can code them back, right?" Darry asked as he dodged one of Technus' attacks and kicked him. "So just…Give it… up!"
Technus fell down. This time he had no more army of coded robots left. Everyone gathered together and tried to deliver the final blow. And then there was a very bright light like how they entered the game in first place.
DPA DPA DPA DPA DPA
Everyone landed outside the game, and looked at themselves. "Are we out?"
"Are we out?"
"We're out!"
Tucker took the headphones off from his head and turned to the ghost who floats on the air.
"Bah! It was failed! But next time… domination from inside video games… for sure!" Technus stated.
"Yeah, only in some fantasy." Tucker snorted. "Valerie, if you please?"
Valerie opened the cap of Fenton Thermos and sucked Technus inside as he shouted more of his rambles about being the master of technology and all. Valerie capped the thermos. Capture done. They then turned at the kids.
"You all did a very good job." Tucker told the teens. "I am so proud of you."
"Oh my! Tucker Foley is praising us!" The three girls talked to each other.
"Nah… he is praising us." Mike cut in. Anthony joined with a nod.
"You died four times in that game." Felicia told Anthony.
"Yeah, and you died once. I did not die at all during the entire game." Darry teased. "Which only further explained your daily failure."
"Oh? And you think doing a Barrell Roll in the air during the fight is really cool? Ha? Very cool. Ha." Felicia replied.
"I am sure I beat more enemies than you do." Darry replied back.
"No. I am sure I did!" Felicia said back. "I increased my kill count when I returned to the checkpoint."
"…They're back to normal again." Serena told Helen.
"Yeah…" Helen replied back.
"Uh… Is this really okay for them to fight like this?" Tucker asked Violine. Violine just gave a small nod.
"Believe me, Dad…" Violine said, rolling her eyes. "Just believe me…" at least it's not the prank war.
"Well… if that's so… I guess I will leave Darry and others to you." Tucker said, staring at the kids. "I have to go now, see you later."
"Later, Violine." Valerie said as she left off with Tucker to continue their work.
"Bye Mom, bye Dad." Violine waved, and then turned to see the fighting duo again.
"Are you talking about skill now?" Darry asked. "My skill is not that bad even though I didn't have my powers! Are you insisting I can't catch a ghost without my powers? And you are only able to rely on your two friends!"
"One by one without powers or help? I am not afraid for that challenge, Barrell!" Felicia replied.
"Oh, of course… you're going straightly to fail anyway."
"Um, guys?" Violine asked. But suddenly the room's feel changed… and Darry's ghost sense went off. Not long after, a scream could be heard from outside.
"What a timing." Darry said. He stared at Felicia before dashing off to get the ghost first.
"Barrell! That's a cheat! You sensed that thing before I prepared! Get back here!" And then she chased after him. Everyone else just stared at the two running kids silently.
"I guess this school task will take longer than I thought." Violine sighed to herself.
Online Fantasy - End