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"Alright, we've established the parameters of your healing factor and checked for any other abilities directly inherited from the DNA", said Stitch as he read the readings from "Testing to see if you have any other abilities will be near-impossible without knowing what to predict, so..."
He stopped when he heard a crash from the front of the building, followed by another, louder crash and roaring from the back. The shaking caused by this caused the Time gun to fall off the table and onto the floor. The girl reached down pick it up.
"Wait! We don't..." began Stitch, but he was too late. The gun started vibrating in her hand before breaking in half and letting the Orb inside roll across the floor.
Wait, roll?
Stitch grabbed the half-Instrument in his hand and observed it, ignoring the building coming down around him. True enough, the Orb was now a full sphere again, the half that was missing replaced with a silver replica of some kind.
No, thought Stitch, She can't have...
Could she?
His thoughts were interrupted as he suddenly froze, surrounded by blue energy.
"I'll take that", said a voice behind Stitch. The Orb was pulled from Stitch's immobile hand. "Now be a good girl and hand over the other two", said the voice's owner as he walked round Stitch, never letting his hand point away from the alien lest he escape the Zero Point Energy's grip.
"Are... are you a friend?" she asked.
"Um... yeah!" said the man in black and white. Stitch rolled his eyes; it looked like she believed him. "These people are friends of mine. They..."
He did't get to finish his sentence as a red and black blur shot out of nowhere and hit him in the face. Though he dropped the orb and released Stitch when he was hit, he got to his feet in a flash and trapped both Stitch and what turned out to be Dash with the Zero Point Energy before they could make another move, but he couldn't grab the Instruments with both his hands busy. The girl grabbed the Instruments and ran out into the entrance room.
"Wait! Don't go! I'm your friend!" shouted the masked man.
She may be gullible, but she's not THAT stupid, thought Stitch.
When she got to the room, it was in chaos.
Meta Knight's sword clashed with the axe of a being that seemed to be composed mostly of fire.
"You fight well, being of fire", said Meta Knight. "Especially for one wielding such an ungainly weapon".
In a burst of flames, the axe was gone, replaced with a pair of short ninja swords, and the being dashed forward. It was certainly faster with its new armaments, but Meta Knight wasn't fazed, blocking the high-speed attack with relative ease. It was only after blocking it that he saw the follow-up kick coming, and since his sword was occupied holding back the blades, he took the attack and was sent flying back. He got to his feet quickly, just in time to block another attack from the flaming being.
"We meet again, Zero", said Sigma. "Only this time, X and Axl aren't around to help you".
"I won't need their help to defeat you", said Zero, drawing his sword.
"But I am more powerful than I was before", said Sigma, drawing a long metal pole. At one end, a curved glowing energy blade emerged, turning the pole into a scythe.
"We'll see about that", said Zero, dashing forward.
"So what made you work with these guys, Vergil?" asked Dante as he and his brother clashed swords for the umpteenth time this battle.
"Power, brother", said Vergil. "These beings know true power. You should know by now that might decides everything".
Dante saw another fight nearby out o the corner of his eye. Claw met claw as Larten and Murlough fought, the action taking place too fast for human eyes to follow.
"I managed to get these out, but Stitch and the super-fast boy are trapped back there by a man in a black and white outfit", said the girl in the cloak to the first person she could get to, in this case Klaus.
"Did he wear a white cape and an outfit with an S on the front?", asked Klaus.
She nodded. "And he shoots these blue beams and..."
Klaus sighed. "Syndrome", he said. "Dash told me about him".
An ear-splitting tearing sound was heard from overhead as Deathwing sank his claws into the metal roof high above their heads. A large chunk of the roof broke free as the dragon tore through it completely. It would have come down on top of them, but Tahu stepped forward, activating his Mask of Shielding. The piece of wreckage crumbled as it hit the shield.
"Optimus, I could use some help here", he said, shooting at Deathwing with his Nynrah Ghost Blaster, to little effect.
"So who exactly is this guy?" asked Sora as he and Johnny Blaze faced off against a black bipedal creature with menacing yellow eyes. "He looks like some kind of Pureblood Heartless, like a mini-Darkside or something".
"He's no Heartless", said Blaze. "His name is Black Heart, and he's an incredibly powerful demon. Maybe you should leave this one to me... the other me".
"I can take care of myself", said Sora, summoning his Keyblade as Blaze turned into Ghost Rider.
"So you're the leader of this little posse, huh", said Taskmaster as the man he was facing took off his leather coat and threw it aside. Underneath, his arms were metallic.
"You can call me Razor", he said. "While you're alive, that is".
With a manic look in his steely grey eyes, he raised a hand. Out of the palm of his hand, a katana blade emerged and he slashed at Taskmaster, who blocked the attack with his own sword. As Razor pulled his blade away, the edge turned jagged like a saw, each tooth hitting Taskmaster's sword one by one.
Razor swung his arm at Taskmaster's side, the entire arm turning into a huge axe as he did, only to be blocked by Taskmaster's shield. He slashed with the blade on his other hand, now back to a katana-like form. Unable to move his shield, Taskmaster blocked the attack with his sword, only for the blade to shatter in his hands.
That saw-like blade... it must have been meant to put a chip in mysword so he could break it later, thought Taskmaster, as Razor's blade made its way towards him with no chance for him to block. He was surprised, however, when another blade blocked it, held by a familiar red and black figure.
"Man, your skills must be slipping or something", said Deadpool. "I mean, I thought with all those copied moves you're so proud of, you could handle Mr. Human Swiss Army Knife over here with time to spare, but..."
"Enough!" shouted Razor, slashing Deadpool across the chest with a huge bladed claw that batted him aside and left four large gashes across his chest.
Suddenly, the roof crumpled and tore, vines spilling through the cracks as Biollante climbed atop the hangar, and enormous roots burst from the floor.
"Tintin! Use the Orb to summon a portal!", shouted Dante, as the roots and vines grew longer and thicker all around them. Tintin took a second to think of where to go, before thinking of a good place and summoning a portal there. "Come on everyone!" he called.
Dante, Lupin, Jigen, Tigress, Po, Klaus, Namah, Zig-zag and Tintin himself had made it through when a blue blast of energy from somewhere in the overgrown hangar hit Tintin in the back, wrenching the orb from his grip. The unmistakable glow of Zero Point Energy lit up the orb as it was pulled back through the portal and into Syndrome's hand.
"You're not getting away from us that easily", said Syndrome, holding the orb with one hand and holding Stitch, Dash and Woody still with his Zero Point Energy in the other. No sooner had he said that, though, than he saw an orange glow out of the comer of his eye, and flew to the side just in time to dodge Omega Supreme's laser. Even so, he was forced to release his captives to do so.
Before he could even blink, let alone hit him with his (possibly drawn) greatest invention, Syndrome found the orb snatched from his hand by Dash. He passed it to Stitch on his way to the quickly-closing portal. Taokaka and Deadpool just managed to make it through before the portal closed, taking the gauntlet with them.
Stitch another portal behind himself, before Syndrome flew at him unexpectedly. Thinking fast, he stepped to the side and Syndrome flew through the portal. Stitch quickly closed it after him.
"Ok, forget that idea", said Stitch, tossing it to Sora.
Take me to where Kairi is, thought Sora. A portal opened next to him. As Vergil, Sigma and Murlough were held up temporarily by Biollante's tendrils, Spawn was handling Razor for now, and Cloud and Grimlock were currently fighting Inferno, the Guardians of the Golden Sword found now to the perfect opportunity to make for the portal. Sora tossed the Orb to Optimus and took the Sword of Timelines before he too went through the portal.
"We'll need an extra-large portal", said Tahu, shielding off an attack from Vergil. "We've got to fit Omega through it after all..."
"Let's make our way to him and summon the portal when we get there", said Optimus. "Roll out!"
By now there was barely anything left of the hangar, so when Optimus cut through the vines ensnaring where it once was, he saw Omega Supreme almost immediately. Though he was badly damaged from having to fight both Biollante and Deathwing, even having one arm torn clean off, he was still putting up a brave fight.
As Optimus focused on summoning a portal, Deathwing rose up and released a mighty blast of flames towards him, but Tahu stepped in the way. He raised his hand and the fire stopped before it could reach them, as though it had hit an invisible barrier. The flames then rebounded, engulfing Biollante. The kaiju roared as the flames
scorched her body. Deathwing stopped his flame barrage, flapping his giant wings to stir up sand from the desert floor which aided the extinguishing of the flames.
"That's odd", said Kernor. "He didn't seem the type who would stop attacking his enemies to help a teammate..."
"Come on, Optimus, hurry up", said Tahu. The flames on Biollante had been extinguished, and the two monsters had turned their attentions back to Tahu, Optimus and Omega Supreme.
"Hold on... There!" said Optimus, a portal opening beneath Omega and dropping the three of them through it. Just before he went through the swirling gateway completely, he threw the orb. The winged blue woman flew up to grab it, but Peter beat her to it.
Deathwing swooped down towards the portal, but Cloud blocked him head-on, slowing the dragon down considerably. Grimlock, now in robot mode, leapt up onto Deathwing's back and stabbed his Energon into the dragon's back.
"Come on!" called Micro-Ice from the edge of the diminishing portal, alongside Rei, Kernor, Twilight Sparkle, Spike and Takanuva carrying an unconscious Shinji. Since the portal was now small enough that neither Deathwing nor Biollante could fit through it, Cloud leapt in after them. Grimlock, meanwhile, pulled his sword out of Deathwing's back, leaping down onto his neck and raising the sword, intending to decapitate the beast, but he saw the yellow glow a moment too late and was blasted back by a beam from Biollante. The Dinobot leader fell through the portal while his weapon clattered against the ground.
"Peter, any time now is good", said Woody, as Razor's team closed in around them. "Summon a portal and get us out of here".
For a moment, Peter thought he felt something crawling up his back. But it passed, and he summoned a portal behind his remaining allies. The group fled through the portal, Spawn snatching up Grimlock's huge sword before joining them.
"Peter, where is this?" asked Buzz as they stepped through the portal into a white-panelled corridor of some kind.
"I don't know", he said. "I just summoned it by instinct and..."
His statement was interrupted when Blackheart stepped through the portal. The rest of his team were making their way through as well.
"Close that portal!" shouted Buzz.
"Not yet", said Spawn, hurling the sword at the group.
To traverse the quickly-narrowing portal, Blackheart, Sigma, Inferno, Vergil, Razor and Murlough were forced into a convenient line, and the sword was able to stab through them one by one, hurling them back through the portal, which quickly closed after them.
"That's them taken care of for now", said Spawn.
"Question is, where the heck are we?" said Samus.
Since I have four arcs/storylines (for the four groups our heroes justsplit up into) that happen roughly simultaneously (sort of), I have apoll on my profile to decide what order I write them in. Between thefour, all the requested teams will show up, and all four storylines willbe written eventually, but you may decide on the order they occur in (they willbe written in order of number of votes). Alternately, I could cyclebetween storylines, alternating between chapters, but that might getconfusing, so it's up to you.