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Chapter 25: Shrouded Pasts
Flashback:
Once upon a time there was a man with a powerful love for the occult. So much so that he tried his hand at magic. Eventually through multiple trial and errors he found that shadow magic fitted him the best.
"What do you mean fitted him the best?" asked Mr. Game&Watch.
Back to present...
Dr. Facilier was impatiently tapping his foot on the floor, obviously chagrined over being interrupted in his story.
"You see here my little paper thin friend magic is like..." Facilier thought for a moment "... shoes."
"Shoes?" asked G&W and Dr. Mario.
"Oh yeah shoes," Facilier explained "Some people go with simple practicality and some people prefer them fancy. Different kinds of magic simply don't fit or feel right for certain people. The first basic step of becoming a mage is to find out what kind of magic suits you."
G&W and Dr. M took a moment to let it sink in.
"Now if there are no more interruptions I'd like to continue my story..."
Flashback:
Since Louisiana...
"That's an American town right." asked Dr. M
It's an American state, now are you two going to keep interrupting or am I going to have to shut you up. Anyways people who use magic are officially registered as Meta-humans and we all know how much Americans hate Meta-humans...
"Tell me about it." said G&W glumly.
... Okay simple answer since magic is looked down upon I had to study in secret, which made it very hard to get a proper education. So a lot of stuff I had to learn on my own.
A younger Facilier was in a small, dark, candle-lit room full of voodoo trinkets and occult objects currently reading a book about magic on a small desk. Eventually he eyed some spells that caused him to grin widely.
Eventually I came across the means to create living shadows.
Facilier was in that same room with a magic circle on the floor, in the circle was jars filled with shadowy forms.
The idea was use some simple magic to collect a bunch of shadows from insects and small animals then fuse them together to create one living entity.
Facilier then started to chant and as he chanted the jars filled with shadows started to shake, they shook subtly at first but they quickly started to shake faster, then the shadows within the jars started to stretch and deform and develop a purple glow around them. Suddenly the jars shattered and the shadows all flew into the air swirling around each other, by now Facilier was chanting his loudest and was clearly excreting himself. The glowing shadows then converged together to form a black ball glowing with a purple light. Facilier stopped chanting and started to concentrate his magic on the ball, the magic circle glowing its brightest. Then with a final surge of magic the ball exploded in a combination of purple light and black fog.
Once the fog cleared Mr. Game&Watch was seen sitting in the center.
Delighted with his results Facilier walked up to the newly born G&W and offered him a handshake.
Naturally at the time since you were just born your mind was how should I say, "Less developed" then I'd like.
A drooling G&W then proceeded to suck on Facilier's hand. Facilier simple groaned in chagrin.
Back to present...
"Of course over time my shadow creature's mind developed slowly but surely the way the mind of an infant develops. In time I tried again to create a living shadow this time using my own shadow. By now my magic was more refined so my shadows mind was far more developed." Facilier continued.
At that remark Facilier shadow beamed with pride. Meanwhile Dr. M and G&W watched with expressionless emotions.
Flashback...
For a while everything was aces.
Facilier was currently studying more magic, while his shadow and G&W were in the background doing minor chores. While Facilier shadow appeared to be fully matured, G&W appeared to be mentally underdeveloped, as proven how he preformed his ordered duties in a trance-like state.
Eventually Facilier's shadow attempted to trick the trance like G&W into doing more work.
Fortunately for the shadow Facilier didn't seem to notice.
Or care.
Eventually some sanctimonious witch-hunters or mutant haters or whatever the heck they call themselves found out about me.
An angry mob was outside Facilier's home which was revealed to be small shack way on the outskirts of town. Facilier stood outside his home dressed in his signature garb with his shadow looming above him and G&W on a leash beside him.
Standing merely ten feet away the mob yelled various profanities, while Facilier appeared completely unafraid.
With a tap of his cane, Facilier's shadow morphed into demonic shapes while G&W started to bark and chomp like a little dog.
The mob immediately dropped their torches and pitchforks and ran away.
It didn't take much to scare them off.
Feeling proud over his victory Facilier sauntered back into his shack.
I figured my troubles were behind me.
KABOOM
But I was wrong.
Sometime later Facilier's shack was blasted by one of the many tanks stationed outside his shack; apparently some sort of military group had taken action against him. The military group was dressed in green jumpsuits and armour; they were armed with an assortment of high-tech weapons and vehicles (including jeeps, prison vans, helicopters and tanks). Large white letters "M", "R" and "D" appeared to be their logo.
A military group called the "Meta-human Response Division" came and hit me with everything they had.
A panicked Facilier was busy running through the burning woods carrying G&W by the nose while his shadow was seen panicking. Eventually Facilier came across a beach where he noticed a motorboat tied to a pier. Facilier hijacked the motorboat and sailed out to sea.
In the background the MRD burned the forest to the ground searching for the dangerous Meta-human.
Some unknown amount of time later, Facilier found himself in a gruelling storm, which tossed and turned the boat. Facilier struggled greatly to keep the boat afloat in the harsh conditions while his shadow unable to assist in the situation could do nothing but move around and panic, G&W tried to help but do his under developed mind he did not seem to truly understand the danger he was in. In the high powered winds G&W was blown off the boat and like a piece of paper in the wind he flew into the dark clouded sky.
I was so focused on keeping the boat afloat that I didn't notice you were gone until...
Facilier realised G&W was gone and looked until he saw him in the sky just before he disappeared over the distance.
... It was too late.
Back to present...
"So that pretty much it for my story, I don't think you'd really be interested to know what happened with my life till now." Facilier finished.
G&W and Dr. M were completely silent their faces showed that they were struggling to know what they were supposed to feel at the moment.
"How do I know your telling the truth?" G&W practically whispered.
Facilier turned his back to the two of them so that his face could not be seen "That's the million dollar question now isn't it." said Facilier "For all you know I could've made the whole thing up, and everything I said was just a big fat lie. But there's also the equal chance that I told you the truth and now after years of wondering and pondering you finally know the truth of your past."
Facilier then turns around and sits on a mat that was never noticed till now, the mat itself was mostly decomposed with age so no real specifics could be noticed "Either way I've bought some time. Nothing to do now but wait till the ritual is complete." Facilier then eyed G&W bound by a large dark fist and Dr. M who was bound by his shadow "You two might as well make yourselves comfy. You aint leaving the Ghastly Kings old throne room any time soon."
G&W slowly turned to Dr. M "Doc?" he asked desperate for guidance on something, anything.
Dr. M having no way to help his friend could only shake his head and apologise.
Suddenly the arm holding G&W growled and tensed as if it was in pain. All eyebrows were raised at this action; Dr. M tried shaking his head again and got the same results, he kept trying it again and again until the arm had enough and dropped G&W.
G&W and Facilier started at each other with blank expressions for a while.
"Ghede Loa Swarm" Facilier summoned a horde of 2-D arms to incapacitate G&W, as G&W ran to aid Dr. M.
While running and dodging, G&W conjured and lit a matchstick which he used to ward off the arms. He was about to strike the wall in which Facilier's shadow occupied, when Facilier shadow panicked, dropped Dr. M and fled back to its master.
When Dr. M was free he and G&W charged towards the witch doctor.
"Petro Loa Smash" Facilier summoned a giant black arm that raised its fist and prepared to smash Dr. M and G&W.
SLASH
Before the blow connected the hand was inexplicably cut cleanly off the wrist.
Facilier and his shadow stood with their mouths agape in shock as the arm writhed and squirmed in pain.
"You know I was wrong about your magic" Facilier and his shadow turned towards the voice to find it was coming from Dr. M. In his left hand Dr. M was holding a small flashlight (the kind used for looking down people's throats) "When I realised these things didn't like fire, I assumed it was because of the heat or the danger of burning." Dr. M then pointed the flashlight at Facilier's forehead "But the thing that your shadow arms didn't like about the fire was in fact..." Dr. M then swiped the flash light. The light went through the shadow arm as if it were a blade cutting it in half "... the light."
Defeated the black arm disintegrated into oblivion.
"That's amazing Doc, how, when did you figure that out." G&W asked.
"A few seconds ago actually." Dr. M answered.
Flashback:
(The following is done in slow motion) As Dr. M shook his head, light from the torches would reflect off of Dr. Ms head mirror and the light would strike the black arm causing it pain.
Dr. M took note of this.
Back to present...
"You were able to figure that out from that little instant?" Facilier asked.
"Well "Doctor" Facilier as a true Doctor I need to be able to come to conclusions like that in an instant." Dr. M explained "on an operating table I've got to make spilt second decisions based on as much detail as I can get. Oh another thing about real doctors." With that Dr. M drew a second flashlight from within his coat "Real doctors kept their supplies in bulk" with that Dr. M held the flash light in front of G&W which G&W grabbed, G&W then turned on the flashlight and held it as if it were a Lightsaber.
"Okay, okay listen here guys I've had a change of heart." said Facilier "Why don't you two become a part of (pause for effect). OPERATION BAD WOLF!" Facilier said the last part very ostentatiously.
"You're pathetic!" yelled both G&W and Dr. M.
"Hey wait here me out." said Facilier, G&W and Dr. M showed no signs of approval or disapproval, they then both turned off their flashlights "You see my master has a little remodelling project going on."
"What's he trying to remodel?" G&W asked.
"Why the very world itself!" exclaimed Facilier "As I'm sure you'll agree Mr. Game&Watch this world is full of rotten people and rotten places. My master plans to tear down this old miserable world with its do nothing government and rebuild the world into a utopian society from the ground up."
G&W and Dr. M looked to the wall cravings depicting the Ghastly Kings many victories "and you're going to revive that ancient monster to do It." said Dr. M.
"Come on a little destruction is needed for practically any remodelling." Facilier stated casually.
"You think sending that thing on a rampage will make the world a better place!" G&W yelled.
"It's not quite that simple but that's more or less the idea." answered Facilier "Besides there are a lot places that deserve to be destroyed... wouldn't you agree Mr. Game&Watch."
"N-n-n-no NO, NO, of course not, I've never known anyone who deserves to be killed, I repeat anyone or anywhere for that matter." said G&W in a huff.
"Who are you trying to convince me or yourself?" Asked Facilier smugly. G&W just snarled not wanting to dignify Facilier's comment.
"And you" Dr. Facilier turned towards Dr. Mario "You pride yourself on being a doctor, and isn't a doctors main duty to heal." Dr. M said nothing "Join in operation Bad Wolf and you can heal this sick, sick world." Dr. M continued to remain silent.
"Together we can all become kings of BRAND-NEW-WORLD" Facilier exclaimed ostentatiously with his shadow adding in the showman ship.
"Your right I am a doctor and as a doctor it's my job to heal." said Dr. M, Facilier smirked sinisterly while G&W looked to Dr. M "But don't delude yourself, you and your so called master don't want to heal the world you want to put it down. I'd stake my life that you and your master both lived hard lives and that in turn makes you believe that gives you the right to do whatever you want. Because you can't move on from your pasts you think the world is sick."
Facilier was shocked by the accusations. Though the accusations appeared to have struck a sensitive area.
"Well I'll admit this world has a few maladies but it's still alive and healthy." Exclaimed Dr. M loudly, with that he turned on his flashlight and held it like a Lightsaber.
"Better save the heroics to your cousin." said Facilier bitterly.
"I left the Mushroom Kingdom so I could be part of my cousins adventures not to give up when things got tough." remarked Dr. M.
"Yeah, you tell him Dr. Mario." said G&W enthusiastically.
Facilier gasped in shock "You'd turn against ME? The man who created you." asked Facilier.
G&W glared at Facilier "Throughout my life I was always asking "where I came from" but now all I can ask is "who cares"." exclaimed G&W "What I was or may have been does not matter to me anymore, all that truly matters is what I'm doing right now and right now I'm a Doctors Assistant."
G&W then turned towards Dr. M "And as a doctors assistant I gotta follow the doctor's orders." Dr. M smirked in response. Without another word the two of them struck battle ready poses with their flashlights.
Facilier sighed heavily then reached into his shirt and pulled out the tiki amulet "You know what this is?" Facilier asked.
"That must be the amulet that Bowser spoke of." said Dr. M. G&W looked at Dr. M funny "You know the one that turned Peach into a frog."
"This here is basically the voodoo equivalent of a Swiss army knife" Facilier explained "It has no specific function rather it's designed to be able to perform multiple functions, and those multiple functions can be performed in many ways." Facilier then smirked sinisterly "For example."
Suddenly the "eyes" of the amulet flashed a bright red light, and then the amulet started to glow with a blazing red aura. In no time the aura spread all over Facilier's body. Facilier convulsed violently as the energy infused with Facilier's body, the aura even spread to his shadow. The shadow moved out of the wall becoming 3-D then the shadow's body swelled up until it was incredibly buff, Facilier's shadow got covered in glowing red veins. Facilier stopped and faced towards his opponents.
Now Facilier stood there, with the glowing amulet around his neck his body glowing with the same red energy as the amulet, in fact his eyes were now glowing pure red and so was several veins over his body. Facilier's shadow was now looming above Facilier 3-D and buff glowing with the same red aura as well as the same glowing red veins.
Facilier was chuckling his voice sounding as though it was under water "ARE YOU READY!" He yelled.
Meanwhile...
Luigi used the flashlight on his Poltergust 3000 to lead Ness, Diddy Kong and Yoshi deeper into Ghastly Cave.
Yoshi turned to look at the ever shrinking light of the entrance "Is it OK to leave DK crew out there." Yoshi asked worriedly.
"Don't worry Yoshi." said Ness "I used PSI Life Up on them. So their bodies should be patched up fine."
"Then why were they still unconscious when we left?" Yoshi asked.
"Well they did get quite a beating, but they should wake up in about an hour or two." said Ness reassuringly.
"Hopefully by then this whole mess will be finished." said Luigi "This arc has gone on way too long."
"Don't worry if getting rid of the DK crew was that easy. We'd been dead long ago." Diddy said proudly.
"You mean you fought creatures as nasty as Shallows?" Yoshi asked.
"Hollows." Ness corrected.
Diddy sighed heavily "No we never faced anything like those Hollows before." Diddy said glumly "Here I was thinking we've gone up against every nasty thing the world can throw at us and then along comes these Hollows. Hard to believe there are monsters like that in Toonera."
"As someone who traveled the world before I should know." said Ness "Toonera is a big place."
They both walk past the beaten up K. Rool, all silently agreeing that Bowser was nearby. Feeling no need to state the obvious they moved on.
Yoshi eyed the back the Poltergust the very device that gave Luigi a much needed boost in confidence and asked "What you going to do with Hollows?"
Luigi stopped and looked at the Poltergust "Oh I'm going to send them to E. Gadd once this whole Ghastly King situation has been taken care of." Luigi looked closely at the Poltergust and remembered the three evil spirits he recently trapped inside "So uh let's solve this whole Ghastly King situation quickly alright."
Yoshi rolled his eyes "Same old Luigi."
Luigi turned towards Yoshi "Hey you got nothing to worry about." said Luigi; everyone else rolled their eyes at that comment "With you three to handle creatures of flesh and blood, and my Poltergust to handle any more of those Hollows were ready for anything." with that Luigi turned to head deeper in the cave.
Only to come face to face with a giant roaring monster, Luigi shrieked and hide behind Yoshi while Yoshi said "Hello Bowser."
Curious Luigi shined his light towards the monster that startled him moments ago.
Apparently the previously mentioned monster was Bowser who used the opportunity to scare Luigi as a spot of fun. As a result he was chuckling to himself with the light of the Poltergust making him look more menacing.
"Bowser Koopa, what are you six?" Ness scolded.
"Hey I just wanted to have a little fun with Mr. Useles..."
"DONT YOU DARE CALL HIM USELESS!" Diddy yelled "A few moments ago he single handily took down all three of those "Friends from the other side"."
"Really?" said Bowser curiously, with that Ness, Yoshi and Diddy moved aside to reveal Luigi, who quickly puffed out his chest and put on a proud face.
"I guess every dog has its day." said Bowser bluntly.
Luigi mood immediately darkened "That's the best I'm going to get huh."
"Pretty much." said Bowser casually "anyways it's good I found you guys so quickly, I was just on my way out to meet up with you guys. You see there's this super hardy force filed up ahead that's preventing me from moving deeper into the cave. Since I couldn't force my way through it I decided to round you guys up."
"A force field?" Ness asked.
"Yeah Facilier erected it so he could fight Dr. Mario and his paper thin friend uninterrupted. We should probably head over there one way or another that fight probably going to be over by the time we get there." Bowser answered, with that he turned around and started walking deeper into the cave "Ness, Yoshi, Diddy, Luigi you better come along or I'll leave you behind."
With a smirk on their faces Ness, Yoshi, Diddy and Luigi followed Bowser deeper into the cave.
Elsewhere...
Dr. Mario and Game&Watch gawked at Dr. Facilier's transformation "What have you done to yourself?" G&W asked.
"Simple answer is I'm using the magic of the other side to augment my life energy into spirit energy." Facilier answered.
"Life energy?" G&W
"All creatures on Toonera have a DNA based energy source within their bodies." Dr. M explained "It comes in many forms and goes by many names but all creatures have it."
"But there are ways in which a warrior can harness and control his/her life energy to do all sorts of things." said Facilier "But instead of explaining how it works I think a demonstration would be better."
BGM: Dragon Fight (Blue Dragon)
Facilier twirled his cane then pointed it at G&W and Dr. M; Facilier then gathered his newly acquired spirit energy to form a sphere of red energy, the red energy was then launched at them.
Dr. M and G&W managed to jump out of the way in time. The energy blast flew past them and impacted the force filed covering the exit.
KABOOOOOOOOM
"That looked just like that energy attack used by those monsters!" G&W said.
"There called Ceros," Facilier corrected "Thanks to my voodoo magic I'm a human with the powers of a Hollow, baby."
Suddenly Facilier's shadow moved to attack, it tried to smash Dr. M with its fists but missed, "I guess my shadow got tired of waiting, oh well." said Facilier.
While Facilier's shadow continued to attack Dr. M, G&W rushed towards Facilier flashlight drawn.
BANG
G&W was shot in the head with a small red energy projectile; the impact caused G&W to fall onto the ground and drop his flashlight. G&W slowly got up while Facilier continued to boast "You like that it's called a "Bala", it's not as powerful as a Cero doesn't need to be its twenty times faster." with that Facilier shot another Bala just as G&W got back up.
Facilier then proceeded to launch a barrage of Bala's at G&W.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG
Facilier stopped shooting as a large dust cloud was formed from the explosion. Facilier stared into the dust cloud "It didn't have to be this way you know." said Facilier "We could have worked together just like in the good old days."
"Forget the good old days!" yelled G&W as he stepped out the dust cloud battered and bruised (though it was hard to tell because of his anatomy) "I've chosen my future." With that he conjured an old scuba helmet, like all the other items he conjures it was black and 2-D "I'm going to go forward and not look back." with that he equipped himself with the scuba helmet.
G&W then charged forward.
Facilier's shadow was still trying to land a blow on Dr. M. Dr. M would slash Facilier's shadow with his flashlight, but the shadows body was thicker then Dr. M anticipated and the attacks were doing very little damage.
"Damn that things body is so thick, I might as well try to cut a stake with a butter knife." thought Dr. M.
Then the shadow tried to crush Dr. M with a very strong punch, which Dr. M managed to avoid. The shadow held its fist in pain from the impact.
"Now's my chance." thought Dr. M, with that he turned off his flashlight aimed it at where he assumed a vital point was and turned it back on quickly. He then proceeded to with the same procedure at multiple vital points on the shadows body. Dr. M was basically using the flashlight to "shoot" the shadows vital spots.
When Dr. M was done he looked upon the shadow which was keeping completely still as if paralyzed "There I just struck several of your vital parts, you are now completely paralyzed."
The shadow then grinned widely and moved forward to attack, as it charged it morphed its fists into maces. The shocked Dr. M prepared to take evasive actions "I guess shadows don't have vital points since there made of... whatever there made of."
With that the shadow continued to swing its mace fists around trying to hit Dr. M, with great difficulty Dr. M managed to avoid the blows. Eventually the shadow raised its fists together to try and smash Dr. M with a downward smash.
"Mummification" Dr. M shot some surgical tape out of his sleeves; the surgical tape wrapped itself around the shadows head and arms. While the shadow flailed about blind and with its arms bound Dr. M noticed that the shadows waist descended into a 2-D strip and that said strip stretched till it was behind Facilier (who at the moment was busy having a swordfight with G&W) and attached to the back off his feet.
"That shadow must still be attached to Facilier" Dr. M thought "I bet I can defeat this thing if I cut it connection to its master." with that Dr. M moved past the flailing shadow and headed towards the 2-D strip, he then cut the strip with his flashlight.
Dr. M grunted in satisfaction at seeing the strip get cut in half. Only for the strip to reattach itself moments later. While Dr. M gawked the shadow started to burn with its red spirit energy burning the tape off. Before Dr. M could react the shadow stretched its head towards Dr. M and stretched its mouth wide to swallow him.
CHOMP GULP
Meanwhile...
G&W charged towards Facilier wearing his 2-D scuba helmet, Facilier tried to shoot more Bala's at G&W but his helmet proved sturdy enough to withstand the attacks. All the Bala's managed to do was stall G&W momentarily.
When G&W got close enough he jumped towards Facilier with his hammer drawn and prepared to hit him with an attack. But Facilier tensed his body causing a burst of spirit energy which sent G&W flying back a short distance, G&W managed to regain his footing and discarded his hammer in order to conjure his frying pan.
"Chef" G&W used the frying pan to throw sausages at Facilier. Once again Facilier flexed his spirit energy disintegrating the sausages before they even touched him.
"Fast Food Chef" G&W conjured a second frying pan and used the two of them to throw more sausages, he also increased the speed he was throwing the sausages. Facilier continued to flex his spirit energy to disintegrate the sausages.
"Lunch Hour Fast Food Chef" G&W span clockwise like a blur causing a barrage of sausages to rain onto Facilier, Facilier continued to flex his spirit energy until he overexerted himself and could flex no more. Without the spirit energy to protect him the sausages relentlessly pounded his body, thanks to the velocity they were being thrown the blows were quite painful.
Suddenly G&W stopped spinning and conjured a giant key, with the giant key G&W charged towards the disoriented Facilier.
"KeyBlade Strike" G&W hit Facilier with a horizontal strike.
WHACK
The force of the impact sent Facilier hurtling to a wall, Facilier staggered from the impact but managed to stand strong "Sorry pal, but these modifications also increase my physical abilities." Facilier bragged "Allow me to demonstrate." With that Facilier tried to pound G&W with his cane but G&W blocked the blows with his key. As a result G&W and Facilier got into a makeshift sword fight.
The two combatants were pretty evenly matched, but eventually Facilier managed to gain the upper hand and hold G&W in a blade lock. Suddenly Facilier's red-eyed face grinned as darkness shrouded G&W, G&W looked behind himself to notice Facilier's glowing shadow looming over him.
G&W nervously looked around trying to find his friend "Where's Doc?" G&W asked.
The shadow patted its belly in response. No other words were needed.
"Alright Shadow here's my plan." yelled Facilier, G&W switched between looking shockingly at Facilier and his shadow "when I move you smash this little traitor into the ground, got it."
Facilier's shadow morphed its arms into one very large hammer and lifted said hammer in preparation. G&W caught between Facilier's blade lock and the shadows hammer found himself unable to do anything.
Facilier quickly yelled "NOW" and jumped out of the way as his shadow prepared to crush G&W, G&W couldn't react fast enough to get out of the way.
Suddenly inches away from G&W the shadow stopped.
"What are you waiting for finish him!" Facilier yelled angrily.
The shadow then morphed its arms back to normal to hold its stomach and mouth, then the shadow started making gagging sounds as if it was going to throw up "WHAT WRONG WITH YOU?" yelled a panicking Facilier.
BARF
The shadow vomited a large mass of clear black goo with a very slimy Dr. M in the mix. Dr. M got up and tried wiping off the goo "You just got puked out of a super charged sentient shadow." G&W said bluntly unsure of how else to state the situation.
"If only the guys at the hospital could see me now." Dr. M said sarcastically "Good thing I had a megavitamin on me that contained a certain chemicals that when ingested in large amounts cause..."
BARF
"... Vomiting." without another word Dr. M reached into his pocket and pulled out one of his megavitamins he then turned to G&W and said "Here Game you should take this, to heal your injuries."
G&W looked at the megavitamin oddly then took off his helmet "Okay doc I'll take your medicine." With that he reached out and took the megavitamin out of his hand.
"If you think I'll give you a chance to lick your wounds you've got another thing coming!" yelled Facilier with that Facilier shot a cero at the two. G&W and Dr. M quickly jumped out of the way causing the cero to hit Facilier's shadow by mistake.
KABOOOOOOOOOM
The impact caused the shadow to fall onto the floor.
"Oops" said Facilier sheepishly. The shadow lifted its head and "glared" at Facilier "hey don't blame me you're the one who didn't dodge." Facilier retorted. He then felt a tapping on his side turned to see G&W, just as G&W spayed something from his mouth into Facilier's eyes.
Facilier yelled and held his burning eyes in pain "WHAT IS THIS STUFF?" yelled Facilier.
"It's a type of acid that helps digestion." said Dr. M "Good for the stomach bad for everything else."
By now Facilier was keeling over in pain "You see doctor Facilier all those big pills may look the same to others," said G&W with his arms crossed "But to me and Doc who made them together, there as easy to tell apart as Night from Day. So when he gave me that pill I immediately knew what Doc had in mind."
"Impressive teamwork." said Facilier defiantly "but you forget that I'm not fighting alone."
Dr. M and G&W heard Facilier's shadow groggily get up, Dr. M and Facilier looked to each other nodded and charged forward. G&W conjured a trampoline which he used to jump over Facilier's shadow.
"Mummification Ritual" with that Dr. M shot some surgical tape from his sleeves which G&W caught while in midair, then using his aerodynamic body and the momentum he gained G&W swing around Facilier's shadow tying up its entire body. When G&W landed Dr. M cut the strip connecting the shadow to its master, and G&W tied it up in tape before it could reattach itself. Now cut off from its master the shadow was significantly weakened and could do nothing but wriggle helplessly on the floor.
G&W and Dr. M clapped each other's hands in satisfaction. Then Facilier managed to stand up and flexed his spirit energy to the point that it looked like an inferno. He glared at his two opponents with eyes blurred from the acid "It doesn't matter if I have trouble seeing you." said Facilier as he gathered a huge amount of spirit energy in front of his cane "BECAUSE I'M GOING TO SHOOT A BLAST SO BIG THERES NO WAY YOU'LL BE ABLE TO DODGE!"
Unfortunately the sheer heat as well as the force behind the spirit energy was keeping Dr. M and G&W away from Facilier, G&W quickly lost his footing and was about to be blown away by the energy, when Dr. M grabbed him by the leg and without another word threw G&W with all his might towards Facilier.
As G&W flew towards Facilier he conjured his hammer.
"Judgement Level 6" with that G&W's hammer impacted with Facilier's head and G&W used the momentum to smash Facilier's head onto the ground.
SMAAAAAAAAAAASH
To be continued...
Scientific note: Facilier's shadow has a symbiotic relationship with its creator, its draws on Facilier's life energy in order to survive. It can survive on its own for short periods of time but if it stays too far away from its master it will die.
The Meta-human Response Division is based off the Mutant Response division the primary antagonists from the T.V series "Wolverine and the X-men".
Facilier's transformation is a less potent form of Hollowfication. If you do not know what Hollowfication is I suggest you look it up on Bleach Wiki.
The names and forms of life energy in Toonera include: Chakra, Chi, Mana, Aura, Haki, Furyoku, Reiastu, Magic Power, and Power from within.