Author's Side-Note: This chapter was really a fun one to write and I hope you enjoy it. I also placed some references in here, see if you can find them.
Chapter 36: A Fight To The Finish!
(Meanwhile in the factory)
Rebel 1: The last line has been breached!
Rebel 2: These guys are crazy!
Jet: One person has breached the factory.
?: Whaaaaaat! Dang deploy it now!
Scrouge: What are you going to do about it?!
?: I'm going to take him on, Alone!
Jet: Are you sure that you can take him down?
?: Of course! After all, it's only just one brat who entered the factory. Where is he?
Jet: He's at the third floor, going up to the fourth.
?: That makes my job easier.
(Meanwhile at the fourth floor in the Factory)
Kanji: Dash, I sense something.
Dash: What is it?
Kanji: It's a trap!
Dash: Whoa! (gets thrown to wall)
?: Well i'm surprised you were able to break through my defenses. Unfortunately that only means one thing, you are going to have to die. Hmm, looks like you made this quick for me.
(Hears stones rumbling)
?: Huh?
Dash(In Kanji Form): Yaa! (Knocks ? down) I don't know who you are but I do know one thing. This as far as you go!
?: I've kept my identity secret for years now. No one except my top rebels know who I really am, and I have unfinished business with this kingdom.
Dash(In Kanji Form): How?
?: Years ago, I built my project to help the kingdom, but the king and queen foolishly denied it! I try to improve it and I get caught and banished. It was a good thing they both died that day.
Kanji: (whispering) Wait a second.
?: However if I had gone after the princess and that crazy raccoon. I would have taken it over years ago.
Dash(In Kanji Form): Wait.
(1st Flashback Begins)
John: Back in the day, before all of this happened, the world was at peace and inside of the kingdom of Arcadtropolis, was one of the smartest scientists ever to exist, Professor Mephiles "The Dark", the reason why he was called this was because he had a dark passion for weapons and wanted to advance them at a large scale.
Dash: Why?
John: To prove the kingdom's dominance. One of his most advanced (and scariest) advancements was the mechanoid suit. It was an exoskeleton suit that made soldiers more powerful than anything we had seen before, But King Silver did not approve of such a project.
Dash: How Come?
John: First of all, we were at peace so such weapons were not needed at the time, also what if such a thing were to be used against us? The results would have been devastating. This made him mad, so for months at time he would be in his lab for days if not weeks. The results were horrifying enough to anger the king.
(1st Flashback Ends)
Dash(In Kanji Form): And then?
(2nd Flashback Begins)
John: After that the world was at peace. However Mephiles was developing the mechanoid suit, with the intent of expanding the kingdom with force and dominance, he experimented on people he viewed as military-caliber by mind controlling them and placing them in the suits. Even worse, he planned on invading nearby countries and starting a war. They had to exile him, for it was clear he was becoming an insane power hungry maniac. Had they not done so, something horrible would have happened.
(2nd Flashback Ends)
Dash(In Kanji Form): Then?
(3rd Flashback Begins)
Amber: Ok. When I was a little girl. I was the Princess Of Arcadtropolis, And I could always get what I wanted, of course I got a lot of things but the one thing I really wanted and always got was love from my parents,
Dash: You had life set up for you.
Amber: Yes I did, the royal life was a beautiful and extravagant one to say for the least. But I always had them and their love to get through every day. But that all changed when the day we were invaded. That day started off well but when nightfall came, it was chaos. It was getting so out of hand that my father told my mother's best friend, Marine to take me to her home. Thankfully it wasn't invaded but the guards told her that my parents didn't make it, and when she told me, it was like…
Dash: Everything you loved was taken away from you?
(3rd Flashback Ends)
Dash(In Kanji Form): (Dodges Punch) I know exactly who you are.
?: Try guessing. You won't even get it right. (Throws Punch)
Dash(In Kanji Form): (Deflects punch and throws ? to the wall) You are a madman, a fool and a destroyer. You are the crazed, maniacal banished scientist Professor Mephiles "The Dark"
Mephiles: I'm surprised, How did you figure that out?
Dash(In Kanji Form): I've heard a lot of things about you. All the insane experiments you've done, how, despite your efforts in ending the war and being hailed a hero, you were able to anger the king enough to banish you. Having a hatred for a king is one thing, making a plot to kill one and succeeding, that's a whole different story however.
Mephiles: Well, The Queen has got you delivering milk for her, hasn't she. I'll have you know that those late fools of a King and Queen aren't the only ones I have a grudge against.
Dash(In Kanji Form): That's what the guards are here for, but since I'm the only one here I'll do that for them, and along the way I'll find and kill the two rebels that murdered my adoptive parents
Mephiles: Do your worst.
Dash(In Kanji Form): Yaaaah! (throws punch)
Mephiles: Ha! Ya! (Throws two punches)
Dash(In Kanji Form): Ha! Ho! Ha! (Tries to karate kick him three times)
Mephiles: (Deflects 3rd kick) Ha! I got you now! (throws Dash to a wall) You claim to fight for peace, but do you know what that really means?
Dash(In Kanji Form, Thinking): Wait a second, those machines over there, If I can find a way to arm to land at the right angle and have his blade ignite them, that should do the job.
Mephiles: However I do have to hand it you, you are at most a very interesting challenger. One of the best I've faced in years.
Dash(In Kanji Form): Yaa!
Mephiles: But you cannot defeat me, as long as I have this suit on I am unstoppable
Dash(In Kanji Form): Think again! (Grabs Mephiles by the leg)
Mephiles: (Being spinned by Dash) Whoa, Whoa, Whoa! (gets thrown into the machines) Oof! Once I get my… (hears spark) No! No!
Dash(In Kanji Form): Game over Mephiles, you lose (starts running from the machines)
Mephiles: No!
Dash: (transforms back) It's time to get g… Ah!
Mephiles(Trapped in the exploding machines): If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me!
(Machine Explodes)
Boom!
Boom!
Dash: Aaaaaaahhhh!
(A Spirit appears)
Spirit: Don't you ever give up, Sport.
Dash: Joey?!
(Dash begins to follow Joey's spirit)
Joey: Follow me Dash.
(Jumps to Third Floor)
Joey: This way Dash!
(Dodges a few machines and goes to the second floor)
Joey: Never give up. Trust your instincts.
(Goes to the first floor and barely sees the door)
Joey: You've become so strong, I'm proud of you Dash.
(Barely gets outside the factory before it blows up, Joey's spirit then disappears while Dash looks at the flames of the crumbling factory and proceeds to turn around)
Kanji: We stopped the invasion most of the rebels are either dead or running awa… What's Wrong Dash?
Dash: Nothing... Nothing's wrong! I just feel… very… very… tired. (Blacks out).
Question 1: So "?" was Mephiles the entire time? (General)
Answer 1: Yep. and it was very hard to keep myself from revealing this.
Question 2: How did Joey know about Dash being in trouble? (General)
Answer 2: Technically it wasn't him, it was his spirit.
Question 3: Is Dash gone? (General)
Answer 3: You'll know about that soon.