Devil Jin had finally gotten a replacement leg from Polygon Man. It took a while, but he could finally walk around again instead of having to fly everywhere. So that took him to Gigadis' hell, not too far from Calypso's realm, and Calaca's law firm. "No, no, no!" Gigadis reprimanded his servants. "The statues go on the other side of the lake of fire! Doesn't that make any sense to you?! How are we supposed to see them if they're behind us?!" The servant hung his head in shame. "Well, don't just stand there, I've got more pressing issues to attend to." The servant left as Gigadis returned to a box of grenades. He picked up one and aimed for a target a good Six Hundred yards away and threw. It was like a guided missile, striking the target dead centre. Dracula was staring at Gigadis as he lobbed another grenade at another target. "What's going on here?" Jin asked, confused. "He's been at this for eighty straight hours. I don't know what he hopes to accomplish. He's a good shot though, I'll give him that. He hasn't hit anything but dead centre for the past sixty-three hours." Dracula explained. Jin walked up to Gigadis. "Gigadis?" The prince jumped. "Yes?" Jin waved off his erratic behaviour as exhaustion symptoms. There were rather large bags under his eyes, after all. "What's with the target practice? Dracula says you've been at it for eighty hours." "Well, you see, it's like this." Gigadis produced a vial. "Calypso gave me this, a vial filled with a 'love agent' if you will. So-" "You're gonna throw it at your waifu and have your way with her." Gigadis didn't appreciate the sarcasm and gave him a cold stare. "You're sick. But whatever, none of my concern." Jin flew off, looking for Calaca. "BY THE FEATHERS OF THE ROOSTER DEVIL, I'LL HAVE YOU ALL PROSECUTED!" Jin laughed a little, wondering what drew the strange reaction. He could see the building from which the noise came from, and so decided to pay a visit.

Devil's Advocates

Law Firm

It's in the claim

That was what the sign outside said. Walking inside, he was nearly hit by a filing cabinet. "What's going on in here?" Calaca slammed his fist on his secretary's desk. He was yelling down the end on the phone. "AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING, IF YOU SERIOUSLY THINK THAT IN ANY WAY THE AVENGERS CAN MAKE THIS SPIDER-MAN ANY BETTER THAN THE LAST ONE, YOU MUST HAVE ROCKS FOR BRAINS!" He slammed the phone down with enough force to break the desk, and then realized Jin was watching. "Oh. Ehm, about that, just a friendly debate." Calaca laughed it off. Jin raised an eyebrow. "Look, I really don't care. I just wanna know what you're doing here." The charro skeleton cleared his throat. "I'm going to sue Gigadis!" Calaca proclaimed. "For what?" Jin asked, intrigued. "For stealing hell!" He answered. "You see, Calypso originally was going to give me more power in exchange for work I did for him, but then I thought to myself 'Carlos, you old fool, why not ask that you get to keep all the lawyers that go to hell?' and it was an ingeneous idea! Hell is as good as mine!" He cackled as he called down a thunderbolt behind him. Jin sighed. "You're an idiot." Calaca stopped. "What gives you that idea?" He asked. "First of all, most of the courts were destroyed by those imps you keep sending out to conquer more land. Second of all, even if there were courts left, what the hell kind of a court is gonna deal with that case?" Calaca remained silent. "D'oh, curse you Calypso!" Calaca stormed off down the halls. Jin sighed. Just as he thought, they were both idiots. Why did Calypso bother himself with them?

"This looks like the place." Spike looked up from the map. The grim streets of Ospylac City lay ahead of them. "Well, best get a move on then." Heihachi walked ahead of the group. The streets looked empty and desolate, almost as if it wasn't intended for people to live there. The colour scheme for the whole city was a dull black colour which ensured that even during the sunniest days under the most blue of skies, it was always a dark day in Ospylac city. Although at night, like it was now, the city was illuminated by bright lights from all the buildings. One building towered above all though. Black like any other, but with a bright neon blue sign on the front that acted as a beacon for the city. It was a 'C' with a diamond or something in the middle of it. 'Calypso Industries.' was underneath it. They weren't supposed to be here. What they were supposed to be doing was making sure the GTA province was safe, but Shadow had led them astray, and none of them were complaining. "So why are we here?" Sacrifice asked, looking around for any signs of life. "There's something here." Shadow answered. "Like what?" Sacrifice asked. "A chaos emerald." They all turned to him. "You. Show me the emeralds." He instructed, turning to Pupuru. "Uh, sure."

Kuu reluctantly surrendered his newly found emeralds as Shadow held them in the palm of his hand. "Six down. One to go. Once that happens..." Shadow stared off into space. "We still don't know the exact location though. Don't get too far ahead of yourself." Alucard brought him back down to earth. The only two who hadn't spoken so far were the mute Juan Aguacate and Isaac Clarke.

"Maybe we should go straight for the tower?" Isaac suggested. "Not a bad idea. But what's up there? I doubt it would be empty. As in, like, completely unguarded."

"Tell you what. I'll go up there on my own. I'll take the chaos emeralds with me. You guys investigate this city, make sure there's nothing of interest." Before they had a chance to object, Shadow was gone. "Guess we're wandering the city now." Isaac shrugged. "Are you sure? What if that Calypso guy they were talking about is around-" Spike gasped. "Ospylac is Calypso backwards." Heihachi rolled his eyes. "Seriously? How could you not figure that out immediately?"

Then he felt a hand on his shoulder. Heihachi turned to see his rival. Juan shook his head in disaproval. He then went over to Spike and flexed his muscles, threw a few punches, and encouraged the group to follow him.

Juan was mysterious. That was what Heihachi thought. He normally would've just branded him a goody two-shoes, or a dumb brute, but the fact that he didn't talk, or interact very much, gave him a third dimension. He seemed very relaxed and peaceful, like he had nothing to lose. When Heihachi first met him, it was the first time he had a proper test of his new youth. In his experience, only two kinds of people fought the way Juan fought. Those who had nothing to lose, and those who had everything to lose. Juan overpowered him, but even then, he didn't utter a single word, but his fighting style was brisk, not like he wanted Heihachi dead, but rather, out of his way. Did he have something to lose? Who knows? Who cares? Heihachi stopped thinking and moved on.

The Heavenly Sword clashed with Bohan's Battle Axe. The fight had been going on for an hour, and neither side showed any signs of slowing down. On the ground, Pyramid Head and Silent Hill's lesser known inhabitants had killed or scared off most of Bohan's men, and so things were starting to calm down, despite the battle raging on between Nariko and Bohan. Pyramid Head wasn't stopping though. He knew he needed to help, and so he trudged off to the battle, looking to help in the fight, any way he could.

Bohan called in an unkindness of ravens to blind Nariko, before swooping in and tackling her off her feet, which proved to be a mistake as Nariko drove the Heavenly Sword into his back, causing the Raven King to hiss. He took off into the air, taking Nariko with him. Nariko launched a punch for the side of his head, which he answered with a punch of his own.

The fight descended into punch after punch before Bohan got close enough to the ground for Nariko to jump off at, taking the Heavenly Sword out of his back. Pyramid Head lumbered over to her and grunted. "Not now!" Nariko waved him away as Bohan made a return trip. She thrusted the Heavenly Sword at Bohan only for him to avoid it and go for Pyramid Head. The bogeyman grunted as he struggled against Bohan, punching him several times in the head as he was lifted before Bohan dropped him. It was quite the fall as he landed, on his head. The beast roared as a cracking sound was heard. He looked completely broken with the top of his head in the ground and his feet also on the ground trying to pull himself out. As Bohan came down again, Nariko finally had a clean strike on him again, cutting him deep. Nariko retracted the sword and stabbed Bohan again, and again. "This ends now!" She yelled, going for one final stab, only to have it blocked by Bohan's axe. "For you, that is!" Bohan retaliated, as the two weapons remained locked. "You've been a thorn in my side for long enough as it is, Nariko! You and your accursed tribe!"

"It was your own bloody fault! Your greed knows no bounds, Bohan!"

"Power, Nariko. If you are to be a ruler, you need power. Doesn't that make sense?!"

"You're not fit to be a ruler!" Nariko retaliated. "Oh, Nariko, you have n-" He was literally cut off by a knife through his chest. A Great Knife. Nariko was surprised the beast managed to get such a good hit on Bohan, but she took full advantage of his vulnerable and weakened state, readying one last slash with the Heavenly Sword, slicing the Raven King's head clean off. The Pyramid Head parted the rest of Bohan with the Great Knife like a pair of curtains, allowing the two halves to fall to the ground. Nariko breathed a sigh of relief as the Heavenly Sword took back its extra power. That drained a lot of energy from her, but it was satisfying to know Bohan was dead.

The Sword acted as her support as she was too exhausted to stand. She surveyed the ground around her, Bohan's remains, which were as widespread as his kingdom once was, and...something else.

That was when Nariko noticed something. The Pyramid was still stuck in the road, which meant...his face was exposed. Nariko looked at him.

He looked basically like a male J-Horror ghost. His skin was much more pale on his face than anywhere else on his body as well as decaying, save for his neck and shoulders, he had short black hair which clung to the side of his head like a greasy, disgusting parasite. The skin on his neck and shoulders had been ripped and torn by the pyramid cage on his shoulders, exposing a raw red fleshy substance. He didn't seem at all fazed by his lack of cover, although maybe the fog helped him adjust to the light, it really was hard to tell, with no eyebrows and milky, empty and bloodshot eyes, like he hadn't slept since he put on the cage.

"What are you?" Nariko asked the beastly apparition. He ignored her and picked up the cage. It had a mold of his face in it, to prevent it from moving on his head. The Pyramid Head grunted and dragging the Great Knife behind him, disappeared back into the fog. He said one thing, in a voice as nightmarish as he was.

"I did not ask for this."

There were skeletons in sombreros and ponchos roaming the streets of Ospylac City, trying to attack the All-Stars. They didn't provide too much trouble, as Spike was able to stun them with his stun clubs, allowing Heihachi and Juan to KO them, and also allowing Isaac to use his Plasma Cutter. There were some of them that were completely black, and were immune to attacks from Isaac, Spike and Heihachi, but Alucard, Pupuru and Sacrifice were able to deal with them.

Weirdest of all, Juan was able to turn himself into a silhouette of himself and beat up the other silhouettes. "What kind of an ability is that?" Heihachi demanded as he landed a kick to a skeleton's jaw. "Fight now, questions later!" Sacrifice answered, draining the life of another. Soon, the skeletons were gone, obliterated by the All-Stars. "So now what?"

There was an explosion from Calypso's tower. It was audible, but it didn't look too serious. "Wonder what that was?" Pupuru asked. "That hedgehog's probably run into trouble." Isaac answered. "Maybe we should go help?" Pupuru asked. "Nah. He'll be fine with those emeralds on him. "Alright. So what happens now?" Alucard asked.

"Now, is when I step in." Dracula answered. Then he noticed Alucard. "So you're still here? I assumed they killed you off back in the jungle." Alucard raised his sword. "They didn't do a good enough job." He lunged in with an attack, only to be attacked as Dracula turned into a wolf and lunged at him. Alucard countered by summoning bats to distract Dracula, forcing him to go back to his human form. He started to call in flaming meteors from above, aiming not only at Alucard, but also the other All-Stars.

Sacrifice was able to use his own magic to destroy the meteors while the other All-Stars focused on Dracula. Juan managed to get a few punches in while Heihachi launched a kick to his head. His pyrokinesis, or whatever it was, came in pretty handy for dealing with that. Juan managed to roll through the flames and launch a Rooster Uppercut at Dracula, catching him off guard. He quickly turned into a bat to avoid a rough landing, although that proved to be a mistake. "Hold on, I think I can hit him from here!" Pupuru called out, using her staff to freeze the bat Dracula. Spike caught him in his net. "Alright, that wasn't too bad." Sacrifice spoke too soon. Spike's net was knocked out of his hands by a kick.

"So you're back, Kazama!" Heihachi recognised him immediately. "Not just me!" He whistled, and Madfang Ragewolf came flying into the street towards Isaac. Isaac barely had time to use kinesis before Ragewolf slammed into him, but he got it done, before sending the archfiend flying in the other direction. "Nrrrgghh! My element of surprise is foiled!" He grumbled. "And that bastard Taterazay isn't here either!"

"Oh, don't be so selfish, Madfang." Gigadis appeared, laughing. "Hey, I'd like to remind you that you're only here because of that damn sorceress you're always talking about." Ragewolf shot back, causing Gigadis to stop laughing. "Well...let's not go pointing fingers." Pupuru sighed as she saw the hell prince focus his attention on her. "Today is the day, my love!" He sang. "You shall become mine, and together we will rule over hell!" Heihachi rolled his eyes. Maybe they were perfect for each other, with their bizarre perceptions on what love is, and their equally poor love interests.

"Can we just start beating the crap out of each other?" He asked, looking for any relief from Gigadis' soppy love proclaimations. They all stopped. "Good idea!" Ragewolf agreed, his claws glistening as he launched himself indiscriminately at the All-Stars. As the whole thing descended into chaos, Gigadis took one last look at the vial in his pocket. "One shot." He muttered. "That's all I get. Better make it count."

Shadow found himself in the office. Unfortunately, he wasn't alone. The chair was turned looking out the window behind the desk. "So you're Shadow?" The voice asked. "Yeah. You must be Calypso then."

The chair swiveled around. "No. Calypso's out today." A skeleton. "I am Carlos Calaca." Shadow readied himself for a fight. "So you're in league with Calypso then?" Calaca managed to warp a few feet forward in front of Shadow. "I supposed you could say that. You must be in league with Mr. Ash." Shadow didn't really consider himself to be in league with Ash, but technically, given the circumstances, that was true. "Yeah. What's his deal with Mr. Ash?" Shadow asked. "None of your concern." Then he attacked. Swiping at Shadow with a dark energy, connecting with the first hit before disappearing. Shadow couldn't pinpoint his location. Until another swipe from behind knocked him forward. "Hehehehehe, you're quite a pushover!" Calaca taunted him. Shadow got up and looked around, only to be hit again. "Much too easy if you ask me!" Shadow remembered the chaos emerald. It was close by, he could sense it.

Only one way to find it. Shadow removed his inhibitor rings as he created an energy field around himself, ignoring further attacks from Calaca. "Chaos..." Calaca started to realize something was wrong as the field grew bigger. He quickly switched to the world of the dead to avoid damage. "BLAST!" That didn't stop Calaca from feeling the full power of the blast. Shadow looked around at the wreckage, before noticing a hole in the wall behind the trophy cabinet. Miraculously, the roof had stayed on.

Shadow ran through the lab, avoiding all of the crazy looking mutants who wanted to rip his head off with ease, going deeper and deeper into the complex, seeing more and more bizarre experiments taking place. Shadow felt his heart racing. He was close, so very close, if he could just pinpoint the location. There was a steel door. Shadow didn't have much time to second guess himself, and so he went straight through the door using Chaos Control. Landing on the other side of the door, there was a scientist.

He looked even more ridiculous than Eggman, with a forehead that looked bigger than the rest of his body, with an 'N' slap bang in the middle. "Just my rotten luck that an All-Star would show up when Calypso and Nefarious are away!" He whined as he took out a weird looking laser gun and fired at Shadow. It was a pathetic little electricity ball traveling at a leisurely pace towards Shadow. He didn't even have to use Chaos Control to avoid it. "I don't have time for this." Shadow muttered before landing a kick to the guy's head. "Now, time to-" Shadow stopped.

Behind the reinforced windows, there was someone strapped up to about a million different machines which Shadow neither knew nor cared about. But one of the wires lead off from the rest towards the window, travelling to the other side, along the wall, and to a little holder. The glisten gave it away. It couldn't be, could it? Shadow removed the wires from it and picked it up. It was. The last Chaos Emerald. "There he is! Get him!" Shadow turned to face Carlos Calaca. He looked at the seven emeralds in his hands. Time to show these idiots who they were dealing with.

The emeralds began to circle him, all by themselves. It started off slowly, but progressively got faster and faster. Eventually, they all came to a screeching halt and entered Shadow. Cortex, who had picked himself up, was already running away as a blinding flash of light came from the ultimate life form. His black and red fur was now bright gold and orange, as a powerful aura emanated from him. "You still think you have a chance?" He asked Calaca. "Attack!" Calaca yelled. "Wrong answer." Shadow smiled. "Chaos...BLAST!" The minions were obliterated, and the building was destroyed, though the test subject was still sealed off from the outside world, obviously they wanted it to stay there, and Shadow figured it was for good reason. Calaca obviously had been blown back, where to? Didn't matter. Shadow's super form then faded, as the Chaos Emeralds returned to his hands. "Obviously I don't have enough energy to keep it up for long." Shadow spoke to himself. "But they don't have rings in this world, so how am I supposed to mantain this form for more than a few seconds? I've gotta find a substitute. I'll discuss this with Omega and Eggman when I get back." He went off to the miraculously intact elevator, not wanting to draw more attention to himself.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Calaca screamed as he hurtled through the air at unimaginable speeds.

Gigadis heard the screams. Looking around for them, he was only able to pinpoint them as Calaca slammed into the road behind him, sending the asphalt flying everywhere and creating a cloud of dust. The All-Stars didn't stop fighting, and so Calaca immediately threw himself into the fray, looking for his nemesis. "There you are!" Calaca pointed at the luchador. "Now, Juan. We shall settle our differences on the battlefield!" He was then kicked in the back of the head by Heihachi. Juan gave a thumbs up to his rival, which Heihachi ignored before launching another kick at Devil Jin.

Calaca quickly picked himself up and warped above Juan, ready to slam down on him, only to be cancelled out by a Rooster Uppercut from the mute hero.

Isaac fired his Plasma Cutter at Ragewolf, managing to hurt the archfiend, while Spike prepared to trap him in his net. "Now Kid!" Isaac ordered. Spike held his net above his head as he brought it down on Ragewolf, trapping him. "What is this madness?!" Ragewolf shouted from underneath the net. "I demand you release me!" He went on. "Or suffer the consequences!" Isaac went over to congratulate Spike. "Nice job. You handled yourself pretty well." Spike laughed, picking up the net. "Thanks. Though it's not my first time saving the world." Isaac was a little shocked at that. "What?" He asked. Before Spike could answer, Ragewolf burst out of the net in a torpedo. "Haha! Couldn't keep me down forever!" He looked around for an easy target. Pupuru was busy using fire magic to counter Dracula while Alucard looked for an opening. She was a perfect target. Ragewolf launched himself at her, and scored a clean hit on her legs. "Gah! I need some back up over here!" She cried out as blood began to trickle out of some of the scratches, forcing her onto her knees.

Ragewolf was promptly hit in the head by a blast of dark energy. "You idiot!" Gigadis chastised the tempermental villain. "We weren't supp-" He stopped and looked at Pupuru by herself, trying to pick herself up. No one else was near her. That was his golden opportunity.

"I only get one shot." Gigadis muttered to himself, his hand shaking. "I'm so close. Here's to hoping it works." He tossed the vial at the sorceress, who had nowhere to run. The vial hit her straight on. A redish pink gas was released as Pupuru inhaled it. Everyone froze in mid-attack. Time slowed down. Pupuru staggered forward a few feet and collapsed, face down on the asphalt. Gigadis was worried. Had he killed her? Hopefully not. Slowly and carefully, he approached her. "What the hell was that?" Isaac asked himself. "Why are we standing around?" Alucard asked. "We don't know what was in that vial. Maybe it was mind control potion or something." Spike answered.

Gigadis gently lifted her head off the ground. Her nose was bleeding. Nothing too severe, but it must have hurt. "Are...are you okay?" He asked. She slowly opened her eyes, and instantly began smiling dreamily. "Everything's okay now." She giggled. "Because you're here, Gigadis." Gigadis' mouth hung open. He was at a loss for words. "It...it...it worked...IT ACTUALLY WORKED!" He jumped up and began dancing in the street. "ITWORKEDITWORKEDITWORKEDITWORKED!" He scooped his queen up into his arms. "Yes! Now let's get out of here!" Jin was feeling a plethora of emotions, from bewilderment, to disgust, to pure shock. "What about the All-Stars, we can't just-" "Ah, to hell with 'em, actually, no, I need some alone time with my queen there, let's just go!" Gigadis clicked his fingers and warped himself and Pupuru to the underworld. Jin said nothing and flew away, unpursued, to bang his head against a wall for three hours. Ragewolf shrugged and headed home. Taterazay wasn't there, so it wasn't like he had any reason to stay, especially after what he had seen. Ragewolf shuddered as he made his way back, wanting to erase all thoughts of Gigadis and his waifu from his mind, and hopefully, later on, from existance. Dracula had already turned into a bat and flew away into the night sky.

The All-Stars were speechless. What the hell was that? What...why...when...ugh. How were they going to explain that to Shadow?

Speak of the devil, the hedgehog appeared before them- wait. Was the edgelord...smiling? Smiling?! On top of everything else?! Was this the day hell froze over?!

Shadow's expression returned to normal as he noticed they looked like they had seen a ghost. "Everything okay?" Shadow asked. He looked around. "Let's see...1,2,3,4,5,6...where's the sorceress?" None of them spoke. "Well? Do any of you know?"

"That man, Gigadis. He had a vial of sorts...anyway, he managed to throw it at the young sorceress, who ingested it, and well..." Alucard was having a tough time explaining it. "She's gone with him to hell. That stuff might have been a love potion or something." Heihachi stated bluntly. Shadow blinked. "What?"

"You heard me. They're a couple now." Heihachi repeated. Shadow thought about it for a second before shaking his head. "Ugh, look. We'll deal with that later. There's at least some good news." His smile returned. "What could that possibly be?" Sacrifice asked.

"I might not be able to count seven All-Stars in front of me, but I am able to count in my hands, Seven Chaos Emeralds."

Author's Note

Finally, all Seven Chaos Emeralds! But will it be enough against Polygon Man?

So yeah, Gigadis actually succeeds in his goal...no trickery or anything. Really, that's what happens. I did laugh at some of his lines in the game, he was an entertaining character in Sorcery Saga and I felt he deserved one small victory. (especially given what he's got coming his way in future chapters.)

I don't believe it myself, but yeah, Unkindness is the term used for a collective group of ravens, also called a conspiracy or a constable.

I also did Pyramid Head's face reveal. I know that it's assumed that the Pyramid is his head, and not something he wears, I have ideas as to why it would be a human-like creature wearing the Pyramid as opposed to it being a part of his anatomy.

I also don't share Calaca's opinions on Tom Holland as Spiderman. (Homecoming might actually be the best Spiderman. Though it's missing J.K. Simmons.)