Tales of Cosmic Wars

Chapter 11: Dreamland's Nightmare

We begin today's chapter on a different part of Popstar then where we left off are heroes. As Ben and co were facing off against Vile, King Atem was talking with King Dedede about the planet's energy trade along with that they're selling energy to the Zeon Federation.

Also in the debate was Elraine. Since the true nature of Sithantos is still not known to the Enji knights and to them she is just there to explain to the two kings why Patriarch Havoc Drashid is supporting President Weil and the Zeon Federation.

Commander Kira, as well as the rest of the Enji knights has surrounded Dedede Castle because of a tip that Meta-knight is planning to launch an attack. Squall, Senel and Zidane have returned and are at the moment reporting to Kira at the front of the castle.

They have all seen the explosion brought on by Vile's Thermal Donator and Squall is going up to Kira to see if he knows anything about the source of the explosion. At the moment Squall sees his superior watching the sky of Popstart on the tallest tower of the castle before Kira instantly senses his presence and turns around to say

," Ah Squall I see you have returned, where is Ezan?"

Squall sees his teammates both looking wary before he shrugs,"He was searching the woods with us and now the transmissions are being jammed. Maybe I should go back to look for him. That explosion is worrisome."

Kira closes his eyes and crosses his arms behind him before he says," No, Cloud's squad has not returned yet from his mission either."

Squall responds with," So do you think Ezan and Cloud's squad found trouble?

Kira goes to the edge of the castle tower and says," That is the most likely conclusion."

Squall's responds is," Then maybe Cecil's unit and I should go back and help them."

Kira then quickly turns back to Squall and narrows his eyes," No, you will not, I need all the Knights here in case of an attack."

Squall gets annoyed as he then says,

" You don't think that explosion is nothing to follow up on? We may not have heard from them but they could be in real danger! We should at least look for them Kira!"

The son of the Grand Master clutches his fist as he says," I said no! The main mission is to protect King Atem no matter what! If lives are to be lost so be it! Remember that Enji Knights are protectors of justice in this universe; it's our job to sacrifice our lives for the greater good if that is what it takes. If there is hostile action it would be best to deal with it where our forces are gathered together. Now unless you have something else to say get back to your post! I'll be returning to the command ship to get a better grasp on the situation. Fallow the plan till I say otherwise everyone."

Squall gives a reluctant salute and says," Yes sir."

With that rebuttal Kira returns to the command ship to watch over the planet for any suspicious activity. Little does he know that despite his years of military experience he failed to research that the Great Cave of Offensive has a lot of raw materials to nullify its presence, which makes it ideal for anyone trying to hide from any sensors searching for an army.

This would is why Meta-Knight had chosen this massive cave to construct the Halberd mark two to best help his realize his plans.

In fact, Meta-Knight has just gotten the signal from Elraine and orders Arbormon and the battalion of Digimon to march to Dreamland.

Meanwhile as the forces of evil make their move X, Zero, Ezan, Kirby, and Axl have made it back to the castle and are in the process of meeting Squall and the others. Squall sees Ezan and takes a deep breath before he says,

" Ah Ezan your back, that's a relief. Oh and X, you guys are back as well. Who's the pink marshmallow man?"

X sees his small new ally stir before saying," Oh this is Kirby he might not look like it but he is a warrior of this planet. He helped us and Cloud's teams fend off Vile and his goons but got hurt in the process."

Squall and the others get alarmed as he says," What, you guys fought Vile? What happened to Cloud's squad?"

X is about to go on before a female voice then says,

" You guys heard from Squad 7, are they ok?

" Everyone turns to see none other than Lisa walk in to the area. Lisa is wearing a more battle fitting set of black pants and yellow and blue battle armored blouse Zidane and most of the others all ready know Lisa and as Zidane sees the blond haired women look slightly worried he grins and says,

" Oh hey there Lisa. Don't worry, Ezan and the Hunters seem to have good news with that. "

Lisa smiles and says," Now that's a relief. A girl really hates to meet a man only to lose him. I knew after seeing him for my own eyes I knew Ben would not die to any stupid robot. So, he is really ok?"

X nods and says," As far as I know he and all the members of Squad 7 of his squad were fine before they went in to the temple miss, don't worry."

Lisa winks and says," Thank you, I feel better now. Well, better go back to my post before I get hollered at fellas, catch you later."

Lisa waves playful before dashing off and Zidane chuckles at this before saying," Oh man, when did Ben get the attention of Lisa? He complains about no girls giving him any time of their day and then a girl that I would drop everything for if I did not all ready have a solid lover for cares for him? Heh, Ben could pay attention more but, that's just me. Anyway, glad you guys calmed her down, making it seem so casual and all. But, I guess even if it's been a while you guys seem to have fought that guy so many times it must have been routine by now."

Zero chuckles at this and retorts with,

" You're not too far from the truth on that one. Seriously, in the end it was nothing special really. Vile pulled his usual arsenal of dirty tricks. He had a few new ones and one almost got us but thanks to Ezan here he backed off. I have to admit Ezan; you pulled off some nice moves there. At this rate you'll make it to an Enji knight within the year!"

Ezan gives a slight nod and says," Thank you, sir Zero. "

Zero seems uncomfortable as he rubs the back of his head and says," Ugh, please don't go calling me that, makes me feel old."

Squall then says," By the way what happened to Cloud and his squad?"

X turns around and says," Well when we went to a place to throw a bomb that Vile tried to nuke us with to space.

After that Ben's Star-Sword caused this temple to come out of a fountain and they went to investigate it. It, did not seem like a hostile place but if we did not hear from them after too long we were planning on going back to check up on them. "

Squall nods and says," Ah, so that was what that explosion was, we all saw that in the sky and since then Commander Kira has had us all on high alert before he went to the Command ship, Internal Justice.

Axl nods before he eyes Kirby and says, "Um, speaking of the commander we should probably get our pink friend to a healer and report to the commander before he goes off and gets suspicious or something."

Squall chuckles and bitterly responds with," Good luck Axl, he's already in a bad mode."

Zidane rolls his eyes at this and says," Seems like that's his only mood Squall. Seriously, that guy is so uptight all the time he makes my friend Steiner look laid back."

Squall eyes his tailed teammate and says," Zidane, show some respect, he is one of the greatest Enji Knights, some say he is almost as strong as his father. He is both a master of combat and a brilliant tactician, and it may not be far off to not only say he surpasses his father but is truly the best warrior in the entire cosmos. Trust me I learned just how good he was after a sparring session.

Zidane groans and says," Don't lecture me Squall I seen him in action but still, does that really give him the right to treat everyone like pieces in a game?"

Squall hesitates and is about to comment further before X and Zero look at each other till the blue maverick hunter clears his throat and says,"

You know Zidane he was not always like that."

Zero nods and fallows up with," Yah four years ago when we fought with him during the civil war on planet Irazous he was still quite but actually a nice guy."

X nods and adds," But during this mission to kill the leader of the main contributions to the deadly civil war, self proclaimed prophet Shirma Zaden.

He was holding out in a village using the people there as hostages. It was a carefully planned mission under the command of Shin Myers.

Senel is shocked as he says," What, I never knew that Master Rodimus had a second son."

X looks distraught as he looks up to the Lylat ships above him before saying," No surprise, that's because Shin died that day. Shirma lend us to a trap and Shin died that day saving Kira from a surprise magic attack. Kira was captured as well and we lost track of him. Two weeks later Kira returned with an emotionless face, apparently after being tortured for a long while Kira unleashed his real power and killed Shirma.

The Enji Knights don't talk much about Shin, mostly because the whole mess with Irazous is something no one likes talking about, the Grand Master is deeply hurt just thinking about how he let one son die and one nearly die, and for all of his power still not being able to stop things from getting so bad.

After all, right after that happened is when former general Ginias decided to end the Civil war by bombarding the planet and well, the Irazous civil war ended all right since half the world's people were dead. Although some people say this was what caused the idea of the Zeon federation."

Zidane shrugs and says," Wow that's deep, I heard about Irazous but never the full story. Even the archives only cover it vaguely. Well, I guess everyone has their reasons for who they are. Still, letting the past define you is kind of weak."

Senel looks exasperatingly at his teammate before he says," Oh come on you're one to talk Zidane, didn't you tell me earlier that you were created to enslave the people of planet Gaia?

Zidane chuckles and says," Well, it's not like I use that as an excuse to get away with being stuck up!

Squall sighs as his cold demeanor forms on his face again,"All right that's enough, you two, take Kirby to a healer so he can be brought back in to shape."

Zidane responds with a cheerful," Sure."

As Zidane does that X looks around and says," Well we should get going as well, has King Atem's meeting with King Dedede and Elraine started yet?"

Squall looks back at the castle and responds with,

" Well actually they should have started the conference right about now. Come on guys, if Vile got away then there is a good chance he will try and finish the job. Guess Kira was right after all, but no matter what we can't let anything happen to King Atem.

"With this the Enji all nod before going on to do their jobs but with that we leave the group to go turn to the key part of their mission, the leader of the Lylat Kingdom himself! And as we do as ironically enough Atem was just about to begin the meeting with the other two. Before he does he is sitting by himself in the throne where the local leader usually sits. Mahado then enters the chamber and as Atem sees his aide arrive he smiles and says.

" Ah are Dedede and Elraine at the conference room yet?

"Mahado gives a quick salute before responding with," Yes my king they are waiting for you."

Atem then raises and says," I guess I should not keep them waiting then, what's wrong Mahado you looked stressed."

Mahado looks around and responds with," Oh it's nothing, just that the past few months have threatened to destroy all the good you and your father have brought to the universe. We all came so far, to have it fall apart now would seem to me like the universe having a scar it could never mentally recover from."

Atem looks resolute as he walks up and says," Don't worry, if we can just reason with the moderates in the Zeon federation and show that they can still live their lives freely as long as it's not at the cost of other less fortunate people then I know the Lylat Kingdom will once more become whole after the end of the fighting. Rest assured, I won't let what we all strived for be for naught my friend.

I am positive that as long as the Enji knights find and neutralizes the radicals who want war at all cost, I think the people of the planets will realizes that they do not have to fear the Lylat Kingdom."

Mahado narrows his eyes and says," Still, what about the suspicious motives of the Sithantos?"

Atem merely chuckles at this and says," Heh, my father once told me a funny story about religions like Sithantos, those that worship the end often last the longest.

The order of Sithantos may be declaring Armageddon to the cosmos for thousands of years now but I think that it is really just a bunch of power hungry individuals who want to control others. If they do no illegal activities, then despite my resentment of them, I will not try to bring them down. However if they really are inciting the Zeon Federation then I will not show them any mercy. Oh yes, I should get going to the meeting now.

Manado looks outside and says," Remember my liege, Me, Agunimon, and Wolfmon will be right outside the room if there is any trouble."

Atem just walks forward and say," I know you will do your job but you worry too much my friend. "

The King then goes out of the room and sees both his Digimon guards and Elraine 's own escorts, the older bearded servant Dandelion and the younger man with the red hair named Garv all salute before going in to the conference room where King Dedede and Elraine are waiting. Atem at last sees King Dedede, who looks like a large jolly penguin with blue skin, black eyes, and is wearing a fancy red fur coat and a red hat with a white fur sphere on.

Dedede kneels on his large trademark hammer but is happy to see the arrival of the other king in the room before he jumps up and says,

" Ah hey there Galactic king Atem I must show my appreciation for you coming half way across the universe to talk to me."

Atem calmly but regally sits on his own chair and says," No need to be nervous Dedede I am just here to discuss with you a few certain things about who and why you are sending Energon gems and class S Ingots to .

Dedede nervously tugs his own coat and says," Er, oh I can explain that hehe."

Elraine gives off a pleasant smile and says,

" What about me my lord? Although I am honored to be summoned to your presence I do not know what this energy trade has to do with me and the order of the Sithantos having to be on this world."

Atem smile back and says," You're right, you and your order have nothing to do with the energy trade.

However the reason I wanted to see both of you at once is because both of you seem to be involved with dealings of the Zeon Federation. King Dedede my resources told me that you made dealings with Commander Craft's subordinate, the elite warrior Harpuia.

As for you Elraine, Master Rodimus Myers has showed me a halo-video of you providing Zeon troops with some of your holy guardsmen. I may be wrong but are they not supposed to be only guarding your holy sites?

Dedede gupls and says," Well now I can explain my reason for the energy. See here I was under the guise from Elraine here that I was selling this Energon to refugees from Zeon planets. It was not until my friend Kirby told me that he saw Zeon solders getting the energy from Elraine here. While I'm on the topic I like to add that Miss Elraine here has been trying to convert the people here to worship the "new era " or something.

Not sure on the details but I know in one week I had a thousand of my Waddle Dee 's become followers to some wacky ideas. And let me tell you if it's wacky in Dreamland it's REALLY wacky."

Elraine sighs at this and says," My my, this from someone who once stole food from his own subjects? You're far from the one to accuse people of uncouth behavior King Dedede."

The ruler of dreamland grumbles and slouches on his chair before he counters with," Hey I know I was a lousy King for years but getting my butt kicked by Kirby all that time and being possessed by that nasty dark matter as shown me my mistakes, I swear I'm a good king now! That's why I don't want you and your "followers" brainwashing any more of my subjects!"

Atem crosses his arms and says," Well that answers a few questions and opens a few more. Elraine, I hope you have a good reason for Sithantos are supporting sales to a faction that is at war with the Lylat Kingdom. Otherwise you and your Patriarch Havoc might face crimes as high as treason."

Elraine merely smiles pleasantly and says,

" Of course there is a reason for this my king. I am afraid you misunderstand the purpose of the Sithantos. We are an order that has existed for thousands of years that proclaims salvation to all that renounce the current form of the universe and embrace its savior."

Atem gets a wary eye as he says," And what is that savor again?"

Dedede gets suspicious himself and adds,

" Now that I think about it you never mentioned that to me either! What is the true purpose of your Sithantos? You talk about performing miracles and ending pain but it's all vague hogwash to me, and that's AFTER I had someone explain the explanation! Why don't you be clear for a bit miss?

Elraine has her clear eyes flicker for a second before she takes a deep breath and says," Well, my kings the answer to that is,"

Before Elraine can speak further an explosion rocks the castle! Wolfmon and Mahando then come in to the room. The trio then see the blur armored Digimon breath tensely till he turns to his leader and says,

" My king it's an emergency, an army of Digimon headed by a native of Popstar with a mask on a battle ship have appeared to the southwest and are storming towards the castle! As you can see they are all ready making their intentions very clear!"

Dedede is so shocked he falls out of his chair till he angrily gets up and says," That traitor Meta-knight! I knew he would pop up again at a time like this!

Mahado then looks bewildered as he sees hostile projectiles raining down outside till he grasps his magic staff tightly and says,"

It's strange that all of these Digimon follow him. They did not seem to be living in Popstar. In any case we are going to plan delta, please everyone fallow me!

"The people in the conference room nod and fallow the Black Magician to try and be safe from the brewing battle. And with this we now turn are sights to this battle.

It seems that Meta-Knight has received quite an army from Havoc, plenty of champion level Digimon like the drone like dull gray Mekanormon and the tank like Tankmon. Also in the Digimon attack force are the brutish Dark- Tyrannomon and larger Metal Tyranomon. To finish it off, the two deadly Dragon Digimon Ultimate classes Megadramon and Gigadramon are lead by the special wood spirit level Digimon, the humanoid brown wooden figure with a round head named Abormon.

Abormon is at the moment walking up to Meta-Knight before seeing the rest of the forces and chuckling.

The Sithantos minion then says," So the job is to whack the Lylat king Atem, right?"

Meta-knight gives an annoyed sigh before he says," No you fool, our mission is to capture him, not kill! We can kill anyone else but we must capture the Lylat King alive to serve the purpose of the Patriarch."

Abormon scratches his head and says," Oh right, what was that purpose again?

Meta-Knight grasps his blazing sword tightly and says," Like I know minion, all I need to know is that in the new era of Sithantos I will be in charge of this planet and rule it like it should be run!"

Abormon does a stretch and says," Oh all right it's the will of the master so that's all there is to it. But, um, aren't there a lot of Enji knights there? I can probably take a bunch of them with no sweat, but all of them together could be getting to the king a problem right?

Meta-knight looks at the sky and sees the two Lylat ships in the distance before he says,

" Tsk we have two advantages to that. First of all the Enji, even the great Commander Kira, has no idea that Carnal Elraine is luring them in to our trap. Advantage two is our new inquisitor; his power will be enough to take out a few arrogant humans. Now, enough talk, Abormon began the attack!

"As Meta-knight and Abormon's troops close in on the castle the Enji knights Commander Kira is notified onboard the command deck of his ship the Internal Justice about the attack and is not very happy about being fooled. Kira had just conformed all the data collected before his usually blank face becomes a furious glare and he says,

" What? A group of terrorist, an army of Digimon appeared to the south and is attacking the castle? Impossible, our sensors should have noticed them from anywhere on the planet!"

Enji Captain Cecil is currently talking to him vie a hologram transmission and Cecil is at the moment looking around before he says,

" It seems that they were hiding in that Cave of Offensive Kira. I heard from locals that we now know has special rocks that block things like the sensors.

But commander the important thing is that we are being attacked now and we need your ship the Internal-Justice to counter the terrorist warship and end this as quickly as possible."

Kira glares at Cecil and responds harshly with," I am in charge Cecil and I know what to do! I will send the ship along with the elite Titan Special Forces to assist you. Hold them off until then, and no matter what make sure nothing happens to King Atem! "

The Warrior of Light nods and says," Yes sir.

"Kira then ends the halo screen of Cecil and summons his fleet commander Bask Om, a military man in a black Lylat military outfit with red goggles. This man who prefers victory at any cost walks right up to Kira before saying.

" It seems commander that the enemy is more resourceful then we thought, what are your orders?"

Kira looks at the exploding battle zone beneath him till he puts his hands behind his back and says,

" Tell the Titans to launch and destroy the opposition. But, be careful, King Atem is in the area below us and it's too messy to abstract him at this point."

Bask nods and responds with," I guess this will be the perfect time to see if our new mobile suit weapons the Gundam's are able to be effective in combat."

Kira merely says," Well, for the sake of you and your division I hope so too. "

With this Kira focuses all of his attention to the battle and so now the stage is set its time to see who is best prepared today! We now turn to Enji Captains Squall, Cecil, and Stan as they are getting ready their squads for battle. Cecil is now seeing the eyes of his enemies and braces himself for battle before he takes out his sword and says,

" Blast it, where is Cloud and his Squad? There are at least a hundred Digimon coming and we need all the Enji we can if we are to protect King Atem and the innocent people around here."

Ezan casually walks past him and takes his sword out of his sheath,"

Captain Cloud and his squad were investigating the Temple of Dreams to see if Vile went there. Perhaps the temple blocks communications or maybe they are dead. Either way, they are not with us so we must make do without them.

" Zidane just shrugs and says," I see you are as cheerful as always Ezan, that's just dandy."

Stan looks excited as he takes out his fire infused sword Dymlos before saying,

" That's all right there all a bunch of weak Digimon, I can probably take out twenty of them without even sweating!"

Squall puts his Gun-Blade over his shoulder and says," Remember this is not just a free for all. We have to protect not just King Atem, but the people here too unless we want this world to think that the Lylat Republic is no better than the Zeon federation."

The Blond Enji Captain's face then goes from cocky to serious as he says," Right right, don't worry I'm not big on seeing innocent people dying so I'll make sure to protect them. Lisa and the others are stationed to insure his majesty is safe, looks like we got are bases covered. "

X then hears an explosion before he winces and gets his X buster ready before turning to the others,

" Good thing to because it looks like the Digimon are ready to attack. Here we go everybody!"

And with that now the battle begins to kick in to high gear. Although the army led by the vicious Meta-knight is quite powerful, The Enji knights did not get their reputation by being weak. Stan is able to crush five Tankmon right from the get go, easily dodging there explosive attacks and taking them down without pause.

Meanwhile Squall engages Abormon as soon as he lands and at first it looks like it will be an easy fight as Abormon is not the brightest mon. Abormon at once tries to pummel Squall with his fists but Squall is too fast for his foe to hit and easley manages to slash Abormon across the chest with his blade. Abormon winces before seeing how serious Squall is. However the Enji Captian is shocked to see the brown foe just laugh and snidely say,

" You Enji is something else, but you're not something that is going to stand up to me!

I'm gonna make an offer you can't refuse, hand over King Atem and I might just rough you up a little, got it?"

Squall responds by having his Lion-Heart sword surge with blue magical energy before he points it at the Sithantos minion and says,

" How about you go now or I will turn you in to splinters!"

Abormon sneers at this and says," Tough guy huh well deal with this! "

Abormon then has the middle of his chest open up as he launches a rock from a hole in his chest but Squall just slashes it in half. Abormon then tries to catch Squall by surprise by extending his arms and legs for a surprise blow but a former SeeD and current Enji captain is not going to let a cheap trick like that get to him.

Squall simply dodges it and uses his Rough Divide limit attack to cut half of his limbs off! Squall sees his foe land on the ground before he rolls his eyes and says,"

Tsc, does Sithantos truly think walking wooden puppets are elite soldiers? In any case it will take more than that to get past me!"

Abormon manages to turn his body around while saying,

" Ouch! You Enji are just as lethal as Meta-Knight and E, oops almost let the cat out of the bag!"

Squall narrows his eyes and says," So there is someone else behind this attack! Tell me now whom you are working for!"

Abormon just laughs as he retorts with," What do you care you're about to be dead! Time to take off the kid gloves!

Abormon slide evolution to, Petaldramon!"

Squall sees Abormon unleash an explosion of green energy before a few seconds later he sees a gigantic dragon with a flower like face and green fur over its body! As Petaldramon smashes the ground with his tail Squall grimaces before saying,

" Blast it; he's one of the lost sprit Digimon!"

Petaldramon stomps forward and says," That's right baby! You should be honored that I'm gonna be the one to kill you! Now, Leaf Cyclone! "

Petaldramon then has the petals on his face blow around quickly before he tries to blow Squall away with his powerful wind attack but Squall is able to withstand it by setting a magic barrier to lessen the impact. Unfortunately the attack doses send some of the local Waddle Dee's and one eyed Waddle Doo's flying.

Petaldramon then tries to impale the Enji with his giant tail, but Squall is able to dodge it, however the tail goes into the ground and surprises Squall by coming out on the other side of a nearby rock!

Squall is then captured in Petaldramon's grasp and as his large foe binds him tightly he feels the pressure and says," No, I was too careless!"

Petaldramon looks eager to crush the life, and more out of Squall as he says," Aha, now who's the dumb one! "

As Squall is in this situation Cecil is fighting a few blade welding Knightmon when Meta-knight appears before him! Cecil remembers hearing about the masked villain before hand and gets tense till he says,

" You! You are Meta-knight, correct? I will not let you through to King Atem, as a former King of Baron I know the importance of good leadership.

Atem has done well to lead several galaxies through a universal civil war and I will not let you lead this Lylat republic into chaos! Prepare yourself!"

Meta-Knight sees the resolve in the Enji Knights eyes before he gets in to a fighting stance and says," I see you appeared to be a worthy opponent. For that I shall grant you a fast painless death! "

The battle between knights begins. Meta-knight is very fast but not fast enough to damage Cecil, who is one of the top Enji Knights for a reason. After parrying a few blows with Cecil, Meta-Knight then resorts to tricks.

He uses his dark power to create a whirlwind and tries to blow the Enji away. However, Cecil is prepared and uses his control of light magic to blast the wind attack away.

Meta-knight then creates a dark energy wave from his sword and throws it at Cecil. However Cecil then creates his own sword energy wave of light and counters Meta-knight's attack.

As Cecil battles with the scourge of Dreamland he realizes that Meta-knights attacks resemble the dark knight attacks he himself used to use when he was still a Dark knight of Baron.

Cecil then dodges another slash before parrying yet another attack and saying," Your skills, so you are one who trains in the teachings of the Dark Knight? Take it from me the path of darkness might seem the most powerful but its power consumes you and misguides your true skill."

Meta-Knight jumps back from another slash till he chuckles bitterly," Ha like I believe something from an Enji scum like you! The power of the Dark Side cannot be used by the weak, only the strongest can use the strongest power and thus only the strong shall win!"

Cecil blocks another slash and says," If that is true, then how come you can't beat me? Maybe it's because you don't know what the true power of the heart is, here let me show you!"

Cecil then charges his magic energy and a white magical aura forms around him before he fires a holy magic attack at Meta-Knight. The round bodied menace tries to counter by unleashing another sword wave but it just bounces off the holy spell. The spell seems to hit the villain and as it explodes one might get the impression that he is defeated.

But when the smoke from blast clears it has become apparent that Meta knight has wings and was able to dodge at the last second by flying upward. Meta-Knight gazes at Cecil intently before he says;" You are indeed a worthy adversary."

Cecil remains wary as he keeps a tight grip on his sword and says," I could say the same to you, but as long as you keep insisting on attacking us there is no luxury for mercy. Give up and surrender Meta-Knight! Otherwise I won't show you mercy!"

Meta-Knight snickers with disgust till he says,

' Mercy? I don't need your mercy you Enji scum! That's it,

"he then takes out a dark red crystal from where ever he holds things, the same crystal that Bowser and K rool used before! Meta-Knight then grasps his fist tightly as he says,

"I was going to save the Seal of Necrocalcous for my final revenge against Kirby but I must complete this mission at all cost! Now fool, see the true power of darkness!"

Meta-knight then throws the crystal in the air and it envelops him in a dark aura. His eyes began to glow red and the ancient Xenogan word for darkness appears on his forehead. As wicked energy surges around him the collaborator to Sithantos points his glowing blade at the Enji below him till he says,

"Now where were we? Oh that's right; it's time for you to die!"

Meta-Knight then dives in to the air and collides into Cecil and incredible speed. Cecil is able to block it but only at the last second. The impact from Meta-Knight's attack causes a strong shock wave that destroys the houses around them. Meta-Knight gazes right at Cecil and says,

" See Enji fool, you cannot stand up to my true power! King Atem will soon be leaving with me even if I have to blast you all to dust with my ship to get to him. Either way, the new era will soon come to pass!"

Cecil grits his teeth and says,

" Blast, somehow he got so much more powerful, I'm not sure anymore if I can defeat him on my own. What is taking Commander Kira so long to get here with the reinforcements? And what ever happened to Cloud and his squad? We need all the Enji we have to protect the King! Meta-Knight, no matter how hard you try your not getting past me!" Meta-Knight does not bother to respond and continues to try and prove his point to the hero with his blade! However, as this dual escalates we leave for now to see how the people who are the core issue of this battle

As the Enji knight's battle against Meta Knight and his forces around the castle, King Atem along with king Dedede and Elraine are being escorted by Wolfmon and Mahando to the underground high density bunker. Also with them are Lisa Alster and Zidane, who were the nearest Genji around and were told by Squall and Stan by communicator to assist the kings to the shelter.

Wolfmon has just seen everyone reach the basement level of the castle before saying," This way King Atem, we're almost there. Lowemon is at the shelter door and is ready to close it as soon as we get there." Lisa then runs up to Atem and gives a playful wink before adding," Don't worry I won't let any of those nasty bad guys hurt you my king." As Atem nods Dedede yells out in frustration and says,

" Blast, that Meta-Knight is always showing up at the wrong time! I promise you King Atem I have nothing to do with this!"

Elraine responds with this with a curt frown as she says," Oh really? The history of your weak fiber is well known King Dedede. I must admit my doubts of feeling safe in your shelter."

The king of Dreamland glares at the white wearing women before responding with," Quiet Missy! I built this thing to withstand an attack from anything from Kirby to a warship's main cannon! We'll be safe in here until the battle is over."

Atem calmly responds with," I have full confidence in your words Dedede and don't worry these Enji Knights are some of the best warriors in the universe, I have full confidence that these attacks will be repelled."

Zidane looks confident as he says,

" Thanks for the vote of confidence, looks like we're here!"

The group indeed runs up to a giant door with Dedede 's s face planted on it. Waiting for them is another one of the Lylat King's royal guards, a humanoid clad in dark lion shaped armor named Lowemon.

The Digimon nods to everyone and says," There you are, quickly this way King Atem! "King Dedede instantly slams his palm in to the door to get it to open and after a few seconds Lowemon escorts everyone in to the underground shelter and once everyone is inside he and Zidane close the doors. The shelter is relatively comfy. It is the size of a small apartment and has lots of objects, one of them is a big screen TV the size of the room. Zidane looks at one of the couches and chuckles," My, nice place you have here king Dolly."

Dedede instantly puffs up and responds with," That's DEDEDE!"

Zidane nervously rubs the back of his head and puts out a," Er, oh sorry. Just saying, it's a nice place you have here, almost like a real treasure room. "

Dedede laughs and says," Where else would I store my best stuff Enji? Anyway this place is unbreakable, no one can enter or exit without my permission and in worst case scenario I have an emergency three man escape pod to go somewhere safe."

Mahado looks around and sighs before saying, "I admit, it's quite impressive. You thought this out more then I gave you credit for."

Elraine giggles lightly and says," I see you thought this out well Dedede, but what if there is someone already inside the shelter?"

Dedede rolls his eyes and responds with," I already told you no one gets in or out without my permission!"

Lisa gives out a cute victory hand sigh before flicking back her hair and saying," Don't worry I only sense the magic energy of everyone here and I can tell if someone is hiding their power."

Dedede crosses his arms and says," See! You're just uptight; nothing's gonna happen to us!

Elraine just sighs with disgust as her eyes narrow," So naïve, you deluded pathetic fool."

"Just then Zidane notices that a dark colored icicle is about to fall on Dedede's head and he pushes the ruler of dreamland out of the way just in time before it falls. The dark icicle melts the floor where Dedede just stood. Dedede sees Elraine looking annoyed, and also notices her hands are glowing before he glares at her, "What the? You, you really are a crazy witch!

Elraine sees everyone around her look shocked before she smiles pleasantly," Oh sorry I forgot to thank you for bringing King Atem all the way to this outer rim planet and now trapping him in this shelter where no more Enji Knights can interfere. But now you have outlived your usefulness. In fact the King Atem is the only one who must live for a while; the rest of you shall now sleep for the rest of time!"

Atem sees the expression of the women in front of him turn from kind to sinister in a instant till his own expression becomes one of outrage and he says," Elraine what is the meaning of this? Did you and Havoc Drashid orchestrate this whole attack?"

Elraine then giggles once more and says," Well, I suppose you could say that."

Atem sees the hero's around him form a defensive position as he counters with," But why?"

Elraine then has a magical aura of divine light form around her body with enough force to cause her hair to blow around in the self generated wind till she says,

" Simple, for the order of the Sithantos to lead the universe into the era of paradise we must destroy its current form. You, my king, are just one of the keys needed to unlock the way to paradise.

Mortals are so pathetic, they create their own suffering yet they don't have the power to end their own misery. Mortals have proven that no amount of preaching or desire can get them to overcome their chaotic selfish desires. No matter how advanced we've become and how hard we try, mortals will never be able to break the cycle of misery, only Havoc Drashid and the order of Sithantos can lead us to true happiness! And so we will perform the ultimate miracle for this universe, and bring true freedom from its pain, once and for all!"

Zidane sees the mania in the women before him before he chuckles tensely and dryly responds with,

" Ok, well I think you make Kuja and Garland sound normal."

Dedede grasps his Hammer and lifts it on to his shoulder before he says,

" I had it with you, crazy witch! It's too bad for you; I forgot to mention I also hide some of my "buddies" for things like this. Come on out boys!" All of a sudden out of the couch opens on its side to reveal three of King Dedede's henchmen.

One of them looks like an elf with blue clothing; he is Poppy Bro and specializes in bombs.

The second guy resembles a monkey and wields a huge hammer, he is named Bonkers. The last guy is a human sized purple beetle like insect named Bugsy and he is quite good at making use of his fangs. Dedede sees his henchmen gather in front of him before he grins smugly," Don't worry King Atem, this broad's on me. Waste her sorry existence guys!"

"The King then points his hammer at Elraine before Poppy takes out his bombs and promptly throws his explosive at Elraine, causing an explosion. The Sithantos Carnal responds by raising her hands to cause the blast to move around her, but at that instant Bonkers and Bugsy then charge in to attack her however she does not seem worried by this movement as she merely responds by having her finger tips glow with light,

" Poor pathetic insects, Divine Saber!"

There is instantly a blinding flash that blinds everyone for a moment, when they can see again Dedede's friends are lying burnt on the ground, and have many holes in their bodies making it clear they are quite dead. As everyone reacts with various expressions of shock Dedede sees Elraine looking delighted before his face freezes in to a mixed form of horror and hate till he at last says,

" You, you killed my boys you witch!"

Elraine laughs again and says," Hahaha did you really think a bunch of inferior beings like them could harm me? I did not become high priestess of the Sithantos just because of my charisma! Master Havoc gave me this position in his order, because he saw I am clearly worthy of seeing forth the creation of the new age!"

Dedede turns red as he says," That's it "he takes out his hammer"

I'll teach you to mess with my world myself, you heartless witch! "

Dedede madly charges at Elraine and takes a powerful jump up as he prepares to smash her hard with his hammer! But his responds to this is just the women extending her hand out and stopping him at mid air! With a mere swinging of the arm Dedede is then thrown clear across the room and hard into the wall, knocking him out. As everyone gets even tenser Elraine turns to the others and once more gives off a gentle smile as she says,

"Ah, now who else wants to defy their destiny?"

Atem sees the hostile women emit a holy aura that is burning like white fire around her before he gives a resolute face and says," Elraine you will not get away with this!"

Mahado then grasps his staff tightly before a blackish green aura begins to blaze out of him and he says," You seem to forget that I am the top personal guard and Dark Magician of the Lylat King; I will show you that I am not just boosting!"

Zidane takes out his daggers and then gets serious before he adds," Hey don't forget about me! I've gotten past worse, lady, so don't think you're anything special."

Lisa then takes out a yellow knife before she rolls her eyes and says," Seriously, there is NO way I am letting some tacky old maid kill me! "

Elraine has her eyebrows flicker for a second before she grasps her hands and says," I've had enough of you fools useless words. Come, embrace the love of Sithantos!"

Elraine then begins her assault on Zidane, Mahando, Lisa, Wolfmon and Lowemon. Will the combined power of two rookies, Enji Knights, two of the royal guard and the personal Dark Magician of the king be enough to withstand Elaine's power? By the way have you been wondering where Ben and co are during this? Let's find out, shall we? So, with that please continue on to the next chapter lol.

Well seriously that's it for this time. If anyone has any questions feel free to put them in the review or something. Tune in for next time on Tales of the Cosmo wars!