Chills went down Cory's spine as he entered Berlin. The city was massive, it was a magnificent paradise. He stared upward in awe at the tall buildings. The streets were clean and filled with vegetation. Berlin was perfect.
Following Cory was Shadow, Shadow, Newt, and Michael Jackson. The dream team had united. Cory led the gang as they walked down the street toward the capitol building.
"The capitol is at the center of the city, to reach it we'll need to find it first, we need to get to a taller building," Newt said. Everyone agreed except for shadow and shadow, who scoffed. They entered the nearest building and went straight to the roof. From this height, they got a better view at the city. It was beautiful. The center of the city seemed to be the older part, which had an old timey feel to it. How could something so amazing be so evil?
Newt looked through his hands, you probably forgot that he got magnifying lenses surgically inserted into holes in his hands, and looked toward the building, "It's swarming with creepypasta gang members, we'll never get past them."
Cory looked out at the city, "we'll need to. We need to get-"
"-That damn fourth chaos emerald," Shadow the hedgehog finished.
"Maybe I can be of assistance." Zero dropped down from a taller building, landing near them, "I now know you are hell bent on taking down Hitler."
"Yes we are, I would know, I've been to hell," Cory replied.
Zero grabbed his Z-saber and drew a map on the rooftop, "We are able to get to the capitol, but unfortunately there is the airship nearby with it's shield generators. We split up, Shadow, Shadow, and I go to turn off the shields and the rest of you go to the capitol and take out the creepypasta gang members, questions?"
"Will I still get the emerald when we are finished?" Shadow asked aggressively.
"Yes."
"OK."
The gang began running across the rooftops, arms behind their back as they approached the capitol area. Cory nodded at Shadow and they split off into two groups. Michael, Cory, and Newt ran straight for the capitol as Shadow, Shadow, and Zero headed for the bus driver's airship.
Cory and the gang jumped from the rooftops, landing in front of a group of gang members. Newt shouted, "hello there!"
The gang turned around toward them, each one seemed to be a terrible OC of some sort. They all held knives or bats or some sort of melee weapon. Guns weren't edgy enough for them. Cory grabbed his katana out, Micheal readied his magical dust- spewing sleeves, and Newt pulled out his fists I guess. The gang ran up to them, ready to kill. Cory dodged their attacks and stabbed at them, out poured hyper-realistic blood. Today was the day of all the blood. Newt cowered in fear as one came toward him. He punched at the creepypasta and it exploded into blood, covering Newt with it.
"These guys are weak, Cory!" Newt yelled.
Cory began slashing them down like mad, each one exploded, covering the ground in a thick coating of blood. Michael released boatloads of his magic powder at a group of them, completely destroying each and every one of them. As the dust cleared, Cory stared in horror at the streets covered in all of the blood. Hyper-realistic blood was everywhere and covered everything. IT WAS LIKE A MURDER HAD HAPPENED!
Cory began walking toward the capitol, but stopped as he saw that a shield covered it. Hitler had holographic shielding powers. A shadow fell from the sky, and it wasn't one of the protagonist shadows. Ugh that's getting confusing just bear with it.
"Itsa me, remember me?" Luigi, the Italian chef said as he removed his chef hat.
"LUIGI? I thought you worked for the president!" Cory shouted.
"Iya do but asa time went on Iya saw that Iya could starta mafia based on creepypasta-as!"
"How does that make sense?"
"Thata man- slenderman- I tamed him and heya had friends!"
"You became the leader of all of the creepypastas?!"
"Si, and now youa gunna paya!"
Meanwhile, team 2 had reached the airship and were currently making their way into the actual ship. At the top of the ladder, they were greeted with SS troopers, who shot at them, all three of them dodged the bullets, but were ultimately overpowered by the mere size of the troop squad. A man was heard laughing as they fell down.
"Hello, friends!" the bus driver said as he entered the room, "I don't remember any of you, but I'm sure you're working against us!" He pointed to his armband with a swastika, "you'll never reach Hitler, Cory can't stop us!"
"Let us go! We need that damn fourth chaos emerald," Shadow the hedgehog said.
"No, we will be testing my new technology on you, it's a new gun that combines things, we will be using it on living beings for the first time!" He pointed the gun at the three of them and zapped them. A bright light shone, and out came a humanoid robot that was red and black, he had a certain edge to him and held a katana and a gun.
"Wait, you weren't supposed to survive that, it should have melted your conflicting parts null and deleted you from existence!"
"Jokes on you," he said, "We were basically the same person before, now were are one. Null. That sounds edgy enough. I'm null now, loser!" He shot the bus driver many times before open firing on all of the SS troopers, occasionally slashing them with his katana. After dealing with all of them, he moved on toward the next room and destroyed the shield generator, jumping out of the airship before the entire thing exploded, silhouetting him over the fiery explosion.
Meanwhile, Cory and the gang stared in horror as Luigi pulled out his spatula, turning it into a bladed weapon. Cory drew his own weapon, it still glowed black as night and distorted the air around it. Luigi wiped his brow and ran at Cory with all his might. Both of them were fat and ugly, both of them were good with blades. They caught each other in a duel, both clashed their blades together, focussing on each other.
"Cory! I needa to tella you about your father!"
Cory stared in horror as he saw that Luigi might be his father.
"I KILLDA YOUR FATHER!" Cory's heart began to break as he pushed Luigi away. He pulled out his fedora, a single tear fell from his eye. He put on the fedora and stared at Luigi with hate. The tear fell slowly to the ground, it slowly turned to the darkest black and began distorting the air around it. As it landed, the ground warped around it, breaking reality.
Luigi laughed insanely, enjoying the darkness take over Cory. He turned to Newt and threw his weapon at him, but Michael jumped in front of him. Cory raised his katana and began slicing Luigi into a million pieces. His hatred completely engulfed him. All that was left of Luigi after was his chef hat, which he had taken off before. Newt cried out to cory as he went over to Michael, that had the power to dissipate the darkness for now.
Cory ran over to Michael, who was on the ground suffering.
"C-cory…" he said weakly, "leave me, you… you must take back what's yours… hatred… don't let it… take… over… remember my songs…."
Michael/Micheal stopped moving. Michael Jackson had died.
*Smooth criminal intro begins to play*
Cory got up from his spot beside the dead man, and drew his katana. The shield had gone away as he killed Luigi. He walked onward, Newt looking at him with pride, "go get him."
As he came into the window
Was a sound of a crescendo
Cory walked through the capitol gardens, surrounded by flowers of all kinds. SS guards swarmed him, but he slashed them down effortlessly. He began to glow as he entered seppuku form.
He came into her apartment
He left bloodstains on the carpet
He continued onward, walking into the building and into the lobby, everyone turned in fear as he began to glow blue with seppuku due. The words of Xerath echoed in his head. He was prepared to die.
She was sitting at the table
He could see she was unable
Wordlessly, he passed the lobby and went to the second floor, which was covered with guards. Cory raised his hand, sending them all flying into rooms on the side of the long hallway.
So she ran into the bedroom
She was struck down
It was her doom
Cory burst through the door as Michael's ghostly voice sang "Annie, are you OK." Hitler turned in his chair, it was the meeting of two legends. This may be the greatest moment in human history. This was it, the battle that would decide the fate of the universe.
"Cory 'in the house,' I see you were welcomed well." Hitler said.
"Don't lecture me, Hitler. This is my destiny. Now give. Me. The. Chaos. Emerald!"
Hitler chuckled and got up from his desk, walking around to face Cory, "you're on the wrong side, Cory. The darkness has overtaken you and clouded your judgement. The president is planning to destroy the moon and thus destroy the great god kek."
"YOU'RE LYING!" Cory shouted as he moved his katana into a ready position.
"Young, ignorant Cory. You have been tricked!" Hitler pulled out a recording and pressed play on it, Cory recalled it as the same one the president had played when he first was given the katana.
"The world is different now. Japan has fallen, and the United States has taken over for them in terms of culture. Through the power of the internet, we make people learn Japanese through rosetta stone and celebrate Japanese culture, effectively making Japan live on after death. In an expedition to the abandoned country of Japan, we discovered a large room housing a katana of pure light and murals depicting a hero defeating waves of monsters. One of the murals seems to depict the Xerath race. Another mural has needed revision because it contained me leading the demons. I know now what I must do. I must trick the hero to believe another is the enemy. As soon as I find the hero, I must take him and teach him to fight with that light katana. I believe I know who he is, though, so I have given his father a job at my house, even if he's a bad chef. Soon I will replace him with a better one, though his son must stay. His son is the hero."
"YOU FAKED THAT!" Cory yelled as he ran at Hitler with his katana. Hitler jumped out of the way, jumping toward a closet. He grabbed the fourth emerald out and threw it on the ground.
"You'll have to beat the darkness, Cory. It does not only control you." He then jumped out the window and flew away with a jetpack.
Cory grabbed the emerald and held it up to the light. It began to glow and the other emeralds fell to the ground, now rendered useless. Cory then felt the darkness leave him, his blade began to shine once again. He sighed in relief. He didn't have to kill himself.
Suddenly, Cory felt a dark presence behind him. He turned to see a dark copy of himself, every detail the same. He held a katana and had a fedora on his head. It was the darkness.
"Thank you Cory, you have released me to be independent in this world! Unfortunately, you are too powerful to be left alive. Say goodbye," the darkness said.
"Cory, you must sacrifice yourself," Xerath's voice echoed to Cory. He now knew what he must do.
Cory readied his katana and ran at darkness, his slash was met with the blade of darkness. It was light on darkness. Cory slid back and slashed once again. Each slash was blocked by the darkness blade.
"You cannot defeat me, I AM YOU!"
"NO!" Cory yelled as he threw himself at darkness, slashing at him with precision blows, each one was met with a block. Cory was knocked back, straight into the emeralds. Cory looked down at the deactivated emeralds and noticed the one Xerath had used to summon kek upon him. Cory grabbed it and held it up.
"KEK! I SUMMON THEE UPON MYSELF!" Cory yelled, but nothing happened.
Darkness chuckled at Cory, "Your emeralds are useless as you have used the power of the fourth emerald!"
Cory grunted and screamed as he enter seppuku tre. He grew into a new form, the form of Cory with a purple hue around him. His long, auburn hair flowed behind him with the wind of the power.
"Foolish child, you can never overpower me," He teleported them to the black hole near the moon, "I created an infinite black hole that loops exponentially! I cannot be defeated! I AM A GOD!"
Cory closed his eyes and realised seppuku form didn't have tiers. It was only his power level. He screamed and enter seppuku infinite form!
"SO AM I." The god kek showed up faintly over Cory, the emerald powered up and began to glow brightly.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Cory shouted as they clashed swords once again.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Darkness shouted back.
"I AM MORE THAN A GOD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Cory slashed at him, breaking the darkness katana in half and opening another black hole, sucking them both in. They struggled as they flew through the black hole, slowly being ripped apart molecule by molecule. Suddenly, a bright light fell over Cory, and he was lifted up out of the black hole.
"This isn't the last you'll see of me, I am everywhere and in everything. Expect me!" Darkness said as he disappeared from view. Cory looked up to see what the light was, it was the great god kek.
"Good job, child. You have conquered the darkness and have become a hero among the nations. What do you wish to do now?" Kek stated, staring at him with his frog eyes.
"I want to go back to my normal life, back to the white house, back to the good old days."
Kek closed his eyes, and smiled at Cory, "remember, the darkness is still out there, and only time will tell who your friends and enemies are. Goodbye!" Kek faded and Cory closed his eyes to the blinding light.
He awoke in the garden of the white house, back where it had all begun. Cory brushed his long auburn hair out of his face and looked around. Newt got up nearby, as well as Null. On the other side of the garden sat the body of Michael Jackson, one of the many heroes who gave their lives in the battle of Berlin.
"Cory, we did it! We beat Hitler and saved the world, man!" Newt said, getting back his shtick.
Cory nodded, but knew that Hitler was still out there. Today, though, they would celebrate, Hitler was defeated and at the lowest power he had ever been at, besides dead.
"W-what happened to you, shadow?" Cory asked, feeling much like his old self again.
"I have become the embodiment of an experiment, I am now Null."
"O-oh, that makes sense."
Cory got up and walked over to Michael.
"He's gone, man. We need to bring his legacy with us, man!" Newt exclaimed.
"What if he's just sleeping. Maybe he's in a coma! Sonic would know what to do!" Cory shouted, in denial. Newt merely shook his head, they all went back into the white house, leaving a dead body in the white house garden in plain view.
Null slipped away from the group and walked up to the president's office. He dropped the seven chaos emeralds on his desk silently.
"Good job Shadow, you've done good for your country."
"It's null now." Null said, crossing his arms.
"Of course it is. Now we can activate phase two of our plan."
"Whatever," Null said, uninterested. He had no interest in this plan. He was part of a plan he wasn't interested in.
The president turned in his chair, looking at a map on the wall, "I have another assignment for you. There is a floating island somewhere on this earth with a deity known as 'knuckles the echidna.' He is the guardian of the chaos emeralds and knows how to combine them into the master emerald. Find him, but don't tell Cory or the others about it. They will be sent on different missions."
Null was torn, though they were essentially the same people, shadow, zero, and espio all had different loyalties. What would Null end up choosing? The reploids Zero was a part of from the future in another dimension, the president who had given shadow the right to kill, or the earth that espio vowed to protect from evil? Only time would tell.
Meanwhile, Cory suddenly realised his fedora was gone, replaced with a bandana around his head, a symbol of power. He was disappointed a little, but he knew that Kek had transformed it so he could fulfill the prophecy. The darkness was still out there, possessing Hitler, probably. He would need the help of his trusted friends to do it, nothing was going to stop them now.
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Well, that's season II. What a ride. I kind of forgot this was a Cory in the house fanfiction halfway through Xerath Chronicles Part III, so it might sound a bit dramatic. Of course, season III will be coming soon, I just need to figure out more plot points that I should add to it. Feel free to PM me ideas and stuff. Thank you for continued support!