"Ahahaha..." Kunpaeteku laughed evilly as he walked through the underground passage beneath Soul Land. With a flashlight in hand to light the dark passage, an army of robotic Astaroths behind him, as well as his muscly and tattoed gangsta bodyguards, he was well protected and things were proceeding very smoothly with his plan. In his other hand, he was holding Ashlotte's head close to his chest and he said, "Well now dollie, what do you think of my army of robotic Astaroths? I based their models on this new world technology as well as his old blueprint."

Ashlotte's head remained expressionless. "I see you've made modifications. Based on my estimation, their strength and stamina has been upgraded by 33.462%, their accuracy by 29.889% and their hideousness by 99.999%. Those hips look disproportional to their bodies and it's reminiscent of a Barbie doll."

This was true since Astaroth's tall and metal frame had an awkwardly small waist that would make most women of the 1600's real jealous; especially since they've had to suffocate themselves with corsets just to obtain that small size waist that the grey robotic Astaroths were sporting.

"Aren't they magnificent?" Kunpaeteku said proudly, his black cloak swishing back and forth as he walked alittle faster. "With those hips, people will be too distracted by the strange sight and then the Astaroth will hit them hard!"

Ashlotte was slightly awed by the fact he could come up with something so silly and stupid but would actually have a 17.422% of working. "I... underestimated you. You are truly an evil and mad genius."

"Hehehehe, I know right?" As they walked, Kunpaeteku had the Astaroths stationed at certain parts to stand guard at certain tunnel ways to guard the underground style palace cult. With the Lizardmen above and the Astaroths below, Team Draw as well as Raphael's team would never stand a chance of getting to him.

After a brief time, Ashlotte spoke up. "What's your reason for infiltrating the underground passageway of Soul Land? Your cult lies far from here."

"Actually... it's right here." The light from the flashlight beamed into Ashlotte's face and she blinked her pale violet eyes a few times before clearing her vision. "Can not comprehend information. This is merely Astaroth's underground stage that's used for amusement at Soul Land. It's a carbon copy, not your cult," she said as took in the familiar underground cult with its stonework, statues of the snake lady, and flickering blue torches.

The evil priest turned off his flashlight and chucked it behind him. "Exactly. It's an exact replica of our cult, dollie. I've decided to take over the world by using this place as my base. After all, most people would expect me to be at our old location so this is best. And I don't have to pay for the plane tickets!" He jerked his finger behind him. "Do you know how much it cost to get all those Astaroths here by plane! I'm not doing it again!"

"I don't understand. You've made robotic Astaroths so why do you still need my newly wedded husband of forty-three hours, 54 minutes and 32 seconds?"

He shook his head at her. "Dollie, there's a flaw to these Astaroths." Kunpaeteku whipped out a bill and showed it to the her head. "Do you see how expensive my electricity bill is! These things have to constantly be recharged and I'm already in debt! I tried to get lighting to strike them a few times but it's horribly tedious and so, I need Astaroth's heart to make non-robotic Astaroths to take over the world." Shoving the paper back into his pocket, he smiled and stroke his black goatee. "Once my minions take control of the Soul characters as well as Soul Calibur and Soul Edge, I'll be unstoppable. Muhahah hahahahha hahah."

Team Draw's comfy living room in their treehouse...

"I've won." Zasalemel said that with a certain glow to his voice and he puffed out his chest. He had claimed every single piece of property on the monopoly board and Mitsurugi had a throbbing vein on his forehead as his next turn, would obviously be his last.

"Well, now what? Are we going to sit in here forever?" Nightmare was busy applying eyedrops to Soul Edge since the eye on the sword sometimes got irritated by his dusty room. Tucking away the bottle of eyedrops, he leaned back against the red couch and yawned. "Hurry up and go bankrupt Mitsurugi, the Azure knight needs to go to bed." He then pointed to Tira who was napping at his feet. "And she needs to get stop using my armored foot as a pillow and go to her own bed. So hurry it up!"

Sitting beside the bi-polar girl, Xianghua began to cry. "I wish Kilik was here to love me the same way Nightmare loves Tira (not really). I miss him so much... If it wasn't for those man-eating lizards out there, I would run over to Raphael's castle and see him right this very moment."

In a dry voice, Taki said from behind her magazine (the latest edition of Weapon Master), "Why not call him?"

"But what if he's sleeping?"

The Korean girl just walked over to the phone holder on the wall and took it. Walking back to Xianghua, Seong-Mina handed it over and said, "Hey hey, I'm sure he knows that you are far more important than a few hours of sleep."

Xianghua's eyes lit up and she beamed. "Yes, you're absolutely right. Kilik would feel much better about the dreadful situation we're in once he hears my voice."

"Yea... well, at least your voice is ten times better than the hissing screeches those lizards are making," muttered Rock and Hwang who were sitting on the fluffy rug and playing cards.

The Chinese girl tapped her finger on the red armrest of the sofa and pouted, "Of course it is! Do you know how long it took me to reach that perfect pitch and tone when I say 'Just Kidding?'"

"No kidding," Nightmare muttered as he thought about how annoying it was. When Xianghua shot him a dark look, he quickly beamed. "Nice look. It's full of darkness and rage! I can see the savagery in your eyes Xianghua."

Xianghua sighed and shook her head before dialing to call her boyfriend. After awhile, Kilik finally picked up the phone and she said sweetly, "Kilik! It's me, Xianghua! How are you and Maxi? Are you guys holding up alright?"

"Holy Caliburrrr! How did those lizards get into my kitchen!" shouted Rapahel's voice in the background of the phone conversation.

"Fear my lance and sword, as Wolfkrone's princess strike you down!"

"You're breaking my plates woman!"

"Quiet! You're nothing but a servant of the holy sword, I shall make you evil right here and right now!"

"Me?! A servant! You shall pay for your insolence Hilde! Hey, and why are we repeating our story battle dialogues with each other?"

Just then, Talim's voice came through the phone. "You tried to replace me and Siegfried just like that?! And you people turned my falcon into a big baby bird?! I will have the wind carry your screams to Lord Kunpaeteku! Wind!

Next, Maxi's voice also came through. "Come Kilik, as friends, let's join the dark side together. Hell, once we're done here, we'll move to Team Draw's stupid treehouse and make Xianghua evil as well!"

Xianghua said frantically into the phone, "Kilik! Was that Maxi who just said that? What's happening over there! Kilik?! Kilik?!"

"Sorry Xianghua, my hands are full in trying to purify Hilde, Siegfried, Talim and Maxi and we're sorta being overrun by lizards. I'll call you back as soon as possible if I don't get eaten. Love you, bye."

Xianghua held the phone limply in her hand and began crying, "Oh no, lizards are invading Raphael's castle and Kil-Kilik might get eaten..." And she burst into tears.

Just then, a scaly clawed hand ripped through their boarded up window and Aeon poked his head in. "Hsss..."

Yun-Seong shouted, "It's Lizardman!" The lizard hissed angrily and Yun-Seong asked, "What?"

Rock translated and said, "He told you to call him Aeon or else he'll eat you!"

"Why? We've been calling him Lizardman for awhile now."

Aeon roared and shot a blast of fire at the Korean who had to quickly duck to avoid being turned into well-done piece of meat. "Ok ok! I'll call you Aeon!" Yun-Seong shouted as Aeon unleashed his firebreath which the Korean managed to dodge, by utilizing his crane stance (this stance automatically has him dodge all vertical moves).

Just then...

"Howah!" Cervantes rolled down the stairs and into the living room with his swords. The undead pirate was wearing some really ugly, purple, fuzzy pajamas since he was getting ready for bed before he got attacked by the reptiles. Sitting up, he pointed and said, "Voldo managed to infiltrate the bedrooms and he's leading a bunch of lizards as well!"

"This is it..." Mitsurugi stood up and unsheathed his shining katana. The passionate fires of anticipation for a fight burned in his eyes as the hisses of the lizards reached their ears. "Stupidity has dragged on long enough. What was I doing, sitting here and playing monopoly? I am Heishiro Mitsurugi and I will fight my battles head on!" He slashed the monopoly board and began fighting the lizards that streamed down the stairs as the fake money papers flew everywhere.

"Wait, why did you slash the monopoly board?" Yun-Seong asked curiously as the monopoly money rained down on everyone.

"Because that means I never lost," Mitsurugi said with a gleam in his eyes before he returned to the fighting.

"Sore loser," mumbled the young Korean dryly. "Ok, let's get this started."

Everyone else readied their weapon and Zasalmel said, "Time to get serious then. If Raphael's team dies or gets turned evil, we're the only ones left who can save this world." His gold eye gleamed as he said, "The true future of the world shall come true, even if it takes me a hundred years!" Snatching his heavy scythe from the wall, he cut off a lizard's tail and smirked. "Flounder, silly beast."

Taki leaped to his side and guarded his back before saying curtly, "You know the tails grows back right?"

"... Yes." Zasalamel bit the inside of his cheek in slight embarrassment and said, "I'll aim for the head next time."

From the other side, a vicious battle raged with the Azure knight. "Let Soul Edge devour your souls!" Nightmare swept a bunch of them away and sent them flying into the giant T.V screen and he let out a manly and evil laugh. "Yes! The darkness shall consume you all!"

"Nightmare you dunce! Don't break the expensive items!" shouted Hwang.

In response, Nightmare purposely sent another lizard crashing into Hwang's collection of Korean dramas. "Ha, watcha going to do now? Ooof!" Hwang tackled the Azure knight to the ground and proceeded to sit on him with his fat body. "Get off me you overweight and replaced character!"

"I'll cut your limbs off for waking me up!" Gloomy Tira growled as she swung her ring blade up and down and danced around the reptiles with her deadly grace. She then leapt into the air and was about to perform one of her acrobatic and fatal move but then her head banged against the ceiling and she fell to the floor (luckily, the small pile of monopoly money cushioned her fall. Sort of.). The crash turned her jolly and with a pout, she pounded on the ground. "This place is too crowded! Zassy! Do something!"

"I'm alittle preoccupied, Tira," Zasalamel said with a -can't you see that I'm taking on five lizards at once- look. Which actually wasn't much compared to Mitsurugi who was dealing with ten of the lizards on his own.

From the window, Aeon hissed and he shot out more blasts of fire. Now let's remind ourselves that their home is a TREEHOUSE. In other words, this place quickly caught on fire and in T-minus a few minutes, everything was going to burn. Usually, Nightmare would be pretty happy when people are dying and things are burning. But in this case, not really.

"Everyone! Get out now!" commanded Zasalamel, gesturing to his team to start heading down the ladder. "And Nightmare! Grab your girlfriend!"

Nightmare jumped through a ring of fire that was eating their rug and grabbed one of Tira's hand. "Tira! Hold on to my deformed and malfested hand!"

This made Tira's eyes sparkled with joy as she said, "Nighty, you do care..."

But then the Azure knight jumped on her back and pointed forward. "Now hurry up and carry me out of here!"

This caused Tira to switch to her gloomy side. "WHAT DID YOU SAY YOU HUNK OF EVIL JUNK!"

Aeon snapped his jaw at Seong-Mina who ran past the window but she dodged him and ran out with the rest of the team. The lizard snarled and tried to wiggle his body out of the boarded up window but it was proving to be alittle difficult. They had done a good job boarding it up and it had take a whole monopoly game to claw part of his way in. But right now, it looks like his head and his right arm was stuck. Aeon hissed and wiggled some more as the fire spread across the treehouse and after awhile, he panicked. "Shhhhsshsh!"

On the outside, some of the flying lizards noticed their master lizard who was obviously in trouble and they flew over to help. Grabbing onto his scaly legs, they beat their wings and pulled.

Meanwhile, on the ladder...

Xianghua screamed as lizards snapped at her legs as she began climbing down. "Get these things away from me!"

"Kaaats!" Mitsurugi held his sword up high and jumped down without using the ladder. "Get down while I hold them off!" shouted the samurai as he squashed a lizard flat by landing on it. Next, he proceeded to defend his teammates as he slashed and cut with the fury of a raging tornado. Grabbing onto a lizard, he shouted, "Kaaats!" and knocked it out with his bare fist.

While the lizards swarmed the samurai who keeps shouting 'Kaaaats!', everyone on Team Draw made it down safely and Zasalamel quickly looked into the future. Concentrating, he said, "We need to head underground and infiltrate Kunpaetku current base, which is Astaroth's stages from SCII, SCIII, and SCIV all combined into a giant nightmarish cult right now." He then looked at Rock and Hwang who were still overweight and said, "I can cast a spell that'll give you back your old athletic worthy Soul Calibur bodies but the after-effects-"

"It's fine." Hwang raised up his hand to interrupt. In a manly voice, he said, "We shall bear the consequences of your spell for the sake of defeating Kunpaetku and his evil creations and in saving our team members as well as the world."

As for Rock, he just said this. "For Bangoo!"

"Alright then." Zasalamel quickly murmured an incantation and the light from the burning treehouse above them illuminated his serious eyes. (In the background, Mitsurugi was still busy shouting Kaats and dealing with the lizards). Yellow light engulfed Rock's and Hwang bodies and when it died down, they were hot and fit again.

"Let's go." Hwang twirled his Blue Thunder pointed to the path straight ahead that was littered with empty soda cans, pizza boxes and discarded cotton candy bags.

Xianghua had a look of determination on her face as she readied her own sword. "I shall cut my own path through these lizards and save Kilik. No regrets!" And they all ran off and headed for the Molten Lava Stage (Yoshimitsu's stage from SCIII) to find a way to get to the cult.

"Hey! You people forgot about me! Xianghua! The lizards are over here!" Mitsurugi shouted as he fought against a sea of lizards. But soon, he sank out of sight underneath the mass of scaly bodies, sadly forgotten by his team.

After being saved by his lizard underlings, Aeon was perched on top of the tree and he hissed before stretching out his beautiful white wings. Voldo jumped on his back and when the blind and mute man was ready, Aeon took off into the night sky to report back to Kunpaeteku to prepare the traps.

After a few minutes of running through the eerie, deserted and trashed amusement park, Taki stopped. "Wait, we just forgot about Mitsurugi."

There was a bit of a stunned silence before Cervantes said slowly, "So... should we go back for him?"

After some consideration, everyone laughed and shook their head. "Nah, it's Mitsurugi. He'll survive." And they continued running off for the Molten Lava Stage.

But then Tira spoke up. "Wait! We forgot about Ashlotte's finger and left arm in the tree house!"

Zasalamel's right eye twitched. "We just lost 400 points."

At Raphael's dark castle...

"No! Team Draw just went down!" Sophitia pointed out the window at the sight of the burning treehouse from afar.

"The only good thing that happened so far tonight," Raphael said dryly as he slashed at Maxi who was swinging his nunchaku at him while the two fought in the chaotic hallway.

Yoshimitsu knocked back two lizards with his bad- I mean poison breath move and lectured the vampire. "Raphael, how can thou be so tactless? They are still fellow Soul Calibur members and at this rate, Kunpaetku's evil plan will cometh true!"

"Whatever," replied the uncaring Lord of the Night. He continued fending off Maxi''s low attack and breathed a sigh of relief as Ivy and Setsuka took over for him. At the alchemist, he shouted, "Ivy! Where's that cure you said you've made!"

Ivy slapped her whip up and pulled down a heavy painting which flattened two lizards before answering. "It's in my laboratory! I had to use the bathroom and before I could return, these lizards were swarming all over the place!"

Raphael snapped to Ivy, "Well, go get that damn cure because I-"

"Wind!"

"Hugh!" Raphael got spun in the air in a ridiculous manner before flying straight down the stairs towards an open jaw of a lizard. At the last second, he used his teleportation power and stomped down on the lizard's back. "Know your place!" With a final stomp, he got off the moaning lizard and shouted, "SOMEONE GO GET THAT STUPID CURE RIGHT NOW! AND STOP BREAKING MY FURNITURE!"

Just to annoy him, Talim giggled as she blasted a large vase from the Ming Dynasty into the air and Hilde threw her lance, shattering the treasure (that costed $20000) to pieces.

Raphael gasped. "That was a twenty thousand dollars antique! How dare you!"

"As a princess of Wolfkrone, no one tells me what to do!" Hilde said as she pointed her sword at Raphael. "You will join my side in battle or you shall have to face-"

"Face what? Your Siggy?" Raphael said snidely.

On the steps of the stairs, Talim clasped her hands behind her back and shook her head. "Not just Siegfried. You'll have to face Soul Calibur as well."

"What?" Before Raphael could say anything more, a tidal blast of ice froze him solid as Siegfried's slammed the holy sword into the ground, making the ice flashed down the stairs at a high velocity.

Setsuka ran out from the hallway and readied her blade against the knight on the top of the stairs. "How did you find the location of Soul Calibur? Raphael hid it deep inside his castle."

"Yea, in his bedroom. His password for the safe was also pretty laughable." Siegfried rested his hand on the hilt and smiled. With his old sword back, his armor grew shinier and more ice-like, making him look sorta like a lightbeam.

"What was his password?" asked Kilik as he stepped up beside the geisha.

"No duh. It's AMY," everyone said in a matter of fact voice.

The monk turned red and scratched his head. "Yea, I suppose that's just like him."

Walking up to the crystalized Raphael, Cassandra kicked him. "You chose that as a password?! Can't you do a better job of protecting Soul Calibur? What kind of idiot are you!"

Raphael's mouth twitched and when some ice broke off his lips, he retorted, "Fine! Next time, I'll set the password to 'I hate Cassandra and her big mouth'!"

"Everyone, time to stop bickering," Talim said with a pleasant smile as she slowly stepped down each steps of the stair with an air of victory. She opened her arms and said gently, "It's time for you to join the dark side of the wind."

Before anyone can move, Siegfried unleashed more ice from the glowing holy sword and froze them all. The two hallways and the entire staircase was now filled with frozen Soul Calibur characters and Raphael's paintings were ruined, as well as the purple rug underneath the hardwood floor. Hilde looked around and said warily, "Where's Amy and Zwei?"

"They won't get far." Maxi pointed to the lizards that were obediently standing there for their orders. "You guys, go find them."

Zwei rapped on Amy's door rapidly with his knuckles as he held onto the five bottles of Ivy's potions. "Amy! Open up!"

Amy held her Albion up as she guardedly opened it. When she saw he was alone, she let him into the room. Raphael had forbid her to join the fighting since he was worried for her safety. Therefore, he had forced her to stay in her room where it was safer. "How's the fighting?" Amy asked worriedly, looking up at Zwei with concern for the safety of her father.

"From the screams I can hear, not good," Zwei answered grimly as he stepped inside. A large bed rested against the wall, under a translucent violet canopy. Moonlight shone through the two windows beside the bed and on the floor, giant stuffed animals and dolls sat around the bed and stared at nothing with glassy eyes. A pretty dressing table sat nearby with a few cosmetics and Zwei spotted the pink and purple orb resting on a small lilac colored pillow on the table.

When the door was locked securely, Zwei held up the potions. "Anyway, while I tried to help, Ivy asked me to fetch the cure from her lab." In a annoyed voice, he added, "But she didn't label which one was the cure and these were the only potions that were still warm from the recent experimentation."

Amy pursed her lips. "How will we know which one is the one we'll need?" At her feet, Ein barked excitedly and began chasing his tail. Crossing her arm, an idea popped into her head.

Zwei seemed to know what she was thinking and he said curtly, "We're not testing the potions on Ein. That's animal cruelty and he's my pet."

Amy huffed, "Why don't you test the potion on yourself then?"

Zwei said sarcastically, "I'm so going to chug down unknown chemicals because I KNOW nothing bad will happen to me."

Amy looked at him for a moment before deciding that Zwei wasn't the type of guy to crack when the going was tough. But she was sure he would crack if she played her cards right. She turned her back on him and said softly, "Zwei... I'm sorry."

"Hmm?" Zwei was puzzled by the sudden change in her tone of voice. Putting a hand on his hip, he said suspiciously, "Something wrong?"

Amy shook her head, making her red pigtails bounce. "I was just thinking that... it would have been better if we didn't meet. You wouldn't have gotten dragged into this mess and your life wouldn't be in danger because of man-eating lizards."

"It's ok." Zwei patted her on the back. "At least things were nice while it lasted."

Unknowingly, he accidentally made her poke her eye since she was rubbing it slightly. "Oww!" Amy put her hands over her eyes as tears began to flow.

"Hey! You alright?" Zwei turned her around and when she removed her hands, he panicked slightly at the tears. Before she could say something, a heroic look shone in his eyes and he said, "I've decided. I need to contribute something to all the people that have been so kind to me. You... and everyone have become a important part of my life and I am certain, that I want to become a part of the Soul Calibur universe."

Grabbing a vial, he took a big sip of the sparkling blue potion. Amy watched him anxiously and asked, "So... how do you feel?"

Zwei looked at the bottle and licked his lips. "It tasted like blueberry... and I don't feel anything really." A few more seconds passed before Zwei rolled his shoulders. "My arms feel kind of heavy though." Little did he know, he just drank the potion of extreme skills. Suddenly the door started moving as the lizards behind it started banging on the door. Talim was with them and she said, "Oh Amy! Zwei! I know you're in thereeeee. The wind told me you also have the cure with you. Please, step outside and hand it over and I promise you, the evil transformation won't be too painful for you."

Zwei panicked slightly and looked at the other four potions in his hand. Putting them down on Amy's dressing table, he picked up a bluish purple one. "Ok, this one next." Suddenly, Ein barked loudly and jumped at his feet, his doggy curiosity getting the better of him as he wanted to try the next one.

"No Ein, this isn't for you."

Ein barked and bit Zwei's leg, making him jump slightly. Some drops of potion spilled out and Ein immediately lapped it up as Amy gasped, "He's drinking it!"

"Ein!" Zwei picked up his puppy and started trying to get it to throw up. "Spit it out right now boy!" All of a sudden, Ein vanished and Zwei started looking around. "Where's my dog!" Unbeknownst to them, Ein had drank the potion of spirits.

"I-I don't know." Amy turned her head and scanned the room as well. "He... just vanished." This was bad. It seemed the potions could actually have serious effects. When the door started banging once more, Amy knew that time was not on their hand. If they found the cure, then there was still hope. And she should also do her part, to protect her father and their castle. Grabbing a vial of pink potion, she took a big sip.

"Amy!" Zwei coughed as smoke enveloped the room. Waving it away, he felt his hormones kick in as he looked at the beautiful white hair woman who was wearing a dress that was obviously too small for her size. Immediately turning away, he asked hesitantly, "Amy?"

"Look at me and I'll stab out your eyes."

Yep, that was Amy alright. Zwei muttered, "It looks like you took some kind of ageing potion."

"Now what?" Amy folded her hand over her chest that was barely restrained by her dress (which was already revealing in the first place. What was Raph thinking in letting her wear that in SCIV).

Zwei turned to the two remaining potion. One was the cure and one was still unknown. But things were getting really stupid at this point and it would be best if they search for Algol for help. Of course, they needed to get past the now evil wind priestess and a dozen crazy lizards. Grabbing the pink potion, Zwei chugged it down as well and in a flash of smoke, he also gained some years and was now a handsome man in his mid-twenties with some more noticeable white patches in his hair.

"You wanted to age as well?" said the sarcastic white hair woman. Behind her dressing screen, Amy had quickly changed into a different outfit that her father had bought for her before he realized that it was too big. But now, it fitted perfectly against her more mature form. When Zwei turned around to answer her, Amy blushed slightly at the sight of his leather pants and since it was tight, the buttons had come undone. "Erm, your pants-"

"We should get out of here," Zwei said shortly, picking up the bad luck potion and his sword with the other.

Amy picked up the real cure but for some reason, she felt the orb beckoning to her. Picking it up, she gasped as she saw something strange. "Kunpaetku is planning something evil down in Astaroth's stages. We have two options. Head there on our own or search for Algol for help."

The two stepped back as the door flew open. Talim stood there with a crossed expression on her usually serene face. "Now now, it's about time." She tilted her head and blinked at them with confusion. "Wait, who are you two?" Zwei held up his modified sword and Talim gasped. "My Cao Ankana... you're Zwei?!"

"That's right." Zwei's ocean blue eyes flashed as he said, "I don't want to hurt you miss Talim. Please stand aside."

Talim's dark chocolate eyes darkened and a slow wind started to stir around her as she unstrapped her elbow blades from her pink belt. "Who do you think you are to tell me what to do, you new recruit. Only the wind, my parents, my grandmother and Lord Kunpaetku can give me orders." Just then, she noticed the orb in Amy's hands. "That orb... why didn't I notice it before? The wind around it is-"

"Talim, did you get them?" Hilde called from far away as she head towards the wind priestess from the hallway.

"Amy! Now!" Zwei grabbed her hand and the two pushed Talim aside as she was distracted.

When the lizards snarled and tried to grab them, Zwei felt his newfound skills kick in. His heavy sword swung from both sides as he deftly switched them back and forth (he also pushed Amy back and forth to keep her away from danger during the fight). With a strong front kick, he sent one careening into the wall and it made an imprint on Raphael's wall. Slamming the hilt into the last one's stomach, he grabbed the slightly nauseous Amy and pulled her into a run.

Hilde's mouth dropped open at the hot pair that was coming towards her. "Who are you! State your name if you have any honor!"

Giving her a grin, he replied, "My name is German for two."

Hilde had to think about it for a moment before she realized and her eyes almost popped out of their sockets. "ZWEI?!"

In her surprise, Zwei and Amy also pushed her aside as they ran for the stairs to head down to the main floor of the castle. While running, Amy said, "It looks like that aging potion has really helped our chance of survival. Not only are we now very good-looking but our longer legs will help us escape easier."

"Our work's not done. We need to find Algol and get his help and save everyone," Zwei replied. But then he looked down at the ground sadly, wondering about what happened to his dog. "Ein..."

"Where do you think you're going? This is my castle..."

Amy gasped as she saw an image of her father with a shotgun in her orb. "Zwei! From the right!"

Zwei cried out in pain as a gunshot rang through the air and struck his right arm. They came to a stop as the rest of the evil turned cast blocked the stairs and the way leading to the front doors. Amy bit her lips and looked up at the tall German as he pushed her behind him protectively. "Stay back."

Stepping out from the shadows of a pillar, Raphael threw away the gun before pointing his Flambert at the two. "Who are you two?"

Cassandra smiled and looked up at Zwei. "You're just my type... anyway, want to join the dark side and pound Team Draw into the ground with me?"

Amy narrowed her eyes and held up her orb. "Forget it. Your future is 'Forever unmarried.'"

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!"

Cassandra stomped her foot down and was about to say something when all of a sudden, Sophitia laid a gentle hand on her sister's shoulder. "Calm down Cassandra." She then frowned and said to Amy, "Though I am now evil, I shall still show mercy. This is my warning to the two of you, leave at once. It's for your own good."

Zwei said curtly, "Yea... we'd love to do that if you guys can you know, lower your weapons and stand ten meter away from the door."

"Sophitia, thou are too soft." Yoshimitsu eyes flashed behind his mask. "Evil or not... they will die if they don't serve Lord Kunpaetku."

The rest of Raphael's team agreed and Ivy smirked as she ran a finger down her sword. "Your punishment will be severe if you don't agree. You two are already dressed like bad guys, why not just give in?"

Beside her, Raphael grinned and said to Amy, "As for you my pretty, why don't you ditch your boyfriend and be my lady instead?"

Amy immediately gave him a -I can't believe you just said that to me- look. "I'm Amy. And this is Zwei."

A few seconds passed by before everyone's mouths dropped down. "WHAT?!"

Just then Talim and Hilde caught up and they confirmed that it was the truth. "Guys! It is Amy and Zwei!" Talim held up some potion bottles and said, "I think they drank something to make them age."

For some silly reason, Kilik asked, "Wait, then where's that puppy he always has with him?"

Zwei put a hand on his bleeding arm and said sadly, "Ein... he..." But then he shook his head. "No time to get sidetracked. Come fight if you want but we're not joining the dark side."

"At least you will end your life, fighting with honor." Setsuka drew out her blade and when the light reflected off the chandelier and then her blade and into Zwei's eyes, she ran forward.

Everyone began charging towards the two but Raphael did tell them not to hurt his daughter. Zwei gritted his teeth as he fought against the skilled warriors. When Setsuka slashed his thigh, she said, "Let the wounds from my blade bring your demise."

"Sorry, I didn't catch all that!" Zwei punched her in the stomach with the hilt of his sword but he realized it was quickly becoming dire. Amy didn't have her rapier and she could only duck the attacks while occasionally kicking. She did manage to claw Siegfred in the face though.

"Ah! My face! The only part of my body that isn't protect by armor," howled Siegfried as he stumbled back.

"That's why I told you to wear a helmet like me!" shouted Hilde as she tried to stab Amy with her lance.

When Zwei got beaten to the ground by Kilik and Cassandra, he whispered, "So... this is the end?" All of a sudden, a fearsome wolf beast appeared out of nowhere and snarled. "Ein?" Zwei's eyes widened as he looked up at the strange creature that only had half a body and had a giant freaking crescent moon stuck out of it's body.

Ein howled before knocking everyone out of the way. The magical air around it affected Amy's orb to some degree and as she watched the fighting, she closed her eyes and just wished they could just be where Algol was to find help.

POOF

"What just happened?" Cassandra asked curiously as everyone stood there with their weapons out and wasn't fighting anyone in particular (Zwei and Amy had teleported out of there due to the orb's strange power which also causes forgetfulness from chap31).

"Tis a strange feeling I am feeling," Yoshimitsu said as he sheathed his sword and looked around. "It felt like something just escapeth out of our hands."

"No matter, we have things to do." Kilik slammed the butt of his staff down. "My Kali-Yuga and the new evil that rages in my soul tells me that there any many dark and evil things we must do so let's hurry to Lord Kunpaetku's side. But first..." Kilik grabbed a potion out of Talim's hand and took a sip. "Hmm, it tastes like cherry," Kilik said as he held up the red potion of bad luck.

Ivy was close by and when she saw the potion, she said dryly, "You just drank the potion of bad luck."

"Then what's this one?" Talim asked as she held up the last non-empty bottle.

"It's the cure." Ivy pursed her lips. "But then who drank the other potions? Oh, and did you find Amy and Zwei?" When the wind priestess shook her head, Ivy said, "Time to take care of that then. Maybe they took another way out instead of the front door."

After a moment's silence, Hilde snapped down her helmet and readied her lance. "Nothing to worry. My personal Wolfkrone elites will take care of them." Taking out her cellphone, she speedialed her elite group. "Gerhilde? Yes, it's me. Under my orders, I need you to arrest two people for me. Oh yes, I also need you and the rest of my guards to swear allegiance to Lord Kunapetku and join the dark side."

Gerhilde and the rest of Hilde's top female warriors were getting confused by the phone call. They were standing guard outside Soul Land's gate with Algol's employees and some other warriors like Yoshimitsu's manji clan to make sure no lizard sneaks out and harm the civilians. Until they received this weird call. But as the loyal soldiers they were, they had to follow their leader no matter how what. Deep in their hearts, they were sure their beautiful and courageous princess knew what she was doing. "At once Princess Hilde."

Beside them, Yoshimitsu's clan also got a call from their leader.

"Tis I, Yoshimitsu. I commandeth thee to cometh to my aid and join the dark side at this instant my brethren."

Ukon and Sakon, Yoshimitsu's right and left hand man arched an eyebrow at each other. "Eh?"

Marienbard, Jacqueline and Auguste along with some of Raphael's minions that fled Soul Land were also doing their part to defend the gates when suddenly, their master's loud and bossy voice reached out to them their the intercom above the paying booth besides the gate.

"Minions! I, the great and now more evil Raphael Sorel command you to come to my side at once and join Kunpaetku's growing army. If you do not show up, I shall have you fired."

Hearing that, all of Raphael's minions cheered. "Hooray!"

The intercom immediately carried Raphael's next words. "Shut up you pathetic and sniveling minions! If you don't come to my side at once, Aeon is the one who'll be doing the firing part."

At that, Raphael's minions groaned. "Awwwwwww..."

"This is very bad," Edgemaster said grimly as he took a bite out of his cold corn dog.

Currently, the three old powerful masters had sat down on a sidebench with some amusement park food they had taken from some of the empty fast food restaurants. And we all know... hamburgers can last twenty years.

Littered around their park bench were the bodies of the lizards that the three had knocked out. They could have kept beating up lizards all day but they were starting to think that it would be a better idea to just hurry up and find Kunpaetku's and end this mess already.

Munching on some fries, Olcadan said, "We should go and find Algol. With I, the powerful and intelligent Olcadan, the lovely wind elder Kalana (he proceeded to wink at Talim's grandmother), the average old immortal guy next to her (Edgemaster glared at him) and the Hero King Algol, I'm sure we can stop that vile priest."

Talim's grandmother tilted her head back and looked up at the starry night sky. "The wind... is distorted. I'm beginning to wonder if there are consequences that must be paid for making this strange new world."

"It's risky to play with time." Edgemaster stroked his white beard and murmured, "Soul Calibur may have granted Raphael-"

"Actually, it's Amy wish for this world," interrupted Olcadan.

Edgemaster huffed, "Soul Calibur may have granted Amy's wish, but I wonder if it has some other idea in mind. The saying 'Be careful what you wish for' contains wisdom that most youngsters these days, tends to dismiss."

Flipping open her white fan, Kalana sighed. "May the wind watch over us all..." Standing up, she dusted off her long white robe and brushed back her long white hair. "Come, we must hurry. The wind tells me that Algol... may be in danger."

At Algols' office...

Sitting behind his computer, Algol was typing up important information. Such as Voldo and Aeon's weaknesses. Just then, he got a phone call from his cellphone. "Hello? Algol speaking. What's happening? Any lizards break out of Soul Land yet?"

"Errrr... well... Hilde's soldiers, Yoshimitsu's clan and Raphael's minions aren't guarding the gates anymore and apparently, they've pledged their allegiance to Kunpaetku due to said leaders orders."

"WHAT?!" Algol jumped out of his black comfy office chair. "HOW IN THE WORLD DID THAT HAPPEN?!"

"Sir, you can check for yourself since you installed cameras everywhere in Soul Land (Algol opened up something on his computer and watched the video at light speed before returning to the conversation). But anyway, we're also held hostage now. So... can you save us? I think we're being led to the underground stages of the amusement park. Crud, Gerhilde is looking at me. Bye boss."

Algol took in a deep breath before pulling on his white hair. "Damn it all. I have to wiki up the other characters stuff and check out their frames and such on 8wayrun. But first..." He pointed to the audience and said, "For Darkwings13 readers, as you can see, we're in a dire situation. Also, last I heard, Darkwings13 has come down with a horrible cold and is hacking over her laptop and she looks pretty gross since she's dying. And she has two midterms coming up. But she sends you good wishes since it's Lunar New Year so... Happy Lunar New Year."

Next, Algol clicked on a few keys on his keyboard and opened up his email before giving the audience a sheepish smile. "As you can see, since I was busy doing my research on Kunpaetku, his minions and such, I neglected to check the reviews but fear not, Darkwings got Tira to send me a message by using her raven as a carrier pigeon. So I'll call Taki and get some ninjas from her Fu-Ma clan and ask Tira and Nightmare to get some of their malfested soldiers to protect you since you're Darkwings13 wonderful readers and reviewers. Which brings me money if you review..." The Hero King whispered that part to himself before bringing up the long list of reviews all the way from chap 35 as well as the new readers.

"Lizzy, glad to hear you like you lizard plushie. We'll make sure no real lizard get you and your fake plushie. Draconeriz, your wish has come true for this new chapter has come. Please enjoy and keep reading it over and over (so this Hero King can make money). DemonDanteElric, so glad to hear this is one of your favorite. Keep advertising us if you have time." Algol flashed the thumbs up before continue reading the reviews. DarkVampireOfTheNight, I hope your sharp teeth and high class taste buds can savor the sweet taste of comedy in this chapter, thank you very much. Iyana Shinzo 1216, and I'm glad to hear you are glad I updated! And the characters shall forever break the fourth wall!"

Algol laughed before drinking his purified Calibur water (melted from Soul Calibur's ice, this bottle costs $50 but its refreshing taste is out of this world). Next on the list, he read, "Ah! A long time supporter! ThalieXVII, at least you shall be entertained to see more people join the evil group. But no worries, Taki's and Nightmare's people shall protect you can enjoy watching this on your T.V in the comfort of your home. Highwayman Myth, sweet and short review. Happy to hear you like it so far. And dear Annie, it makes me happy to hear you have faith in our wonderful Darkwings13. I shall make sure to send an extra ninja for your protection. And next..." Algol cleared his throat loudly before saying, "Icy Cake! One of Darkwings13 own favorite author! Thank you for all the reviews for noticing that conflict with Aeon's identity. He doesn't know who he is, poor thing. Should he be Lizardman or Aeon? Well, it should be Aeon since it has a nice ring to it then. And it seems you got your wish to see the chars be evil. Look at Talim and that way she's smiling so evilly while walking down that stairs!"

He opened up a program on his computer and rewind the part where Talim walked down the stairs before Siegfried froze everyone with Soul Calibur. With a shake of his head, he muttered, "How am I going to handle this? I should be sitting back and getting my employees and Zasalamel to hand this." He closed the program before reading off the last of the reviews. "You're correct Keyboardsaurus! Mitsurugi never did lose that monopoly game, what a man! I just hope he didn't die so maybe he can take on all my troubles since he's like a one man army. Jarl of the North, thank to you too! Darkwings13 likes to feel manly when people think she's a man. Makes her feel tough! And you're awesome with that awesome review! Thanks and enjoy reading the next awesome chapter." Algol gave a quick wink before proceeding with the next review. "KuchikiGaara, your words must have made Darkwings13 blush! Such a kind compliment on her writing, thank you. Your and the reader's enjoyment are always her top priority and she's glad to hear that. DarkWizard, I can tell you're really having fun reading this and Darkwings13 is glad since she has fun writing it. Hope to hear from you soon and best of luck to your story as well. She is always happy to help those who asks for it."

Finished, Algol turned off the computer and said quietly, "Sometimes, it takes a man to just charge head on and worry about silly things like research. I, the Hero King with my powers can take this on..." Turning around, Algol pushed aside his chair and ripped off his suit which revealed his SCIV 1p outfit with its awesome armor. Next, two bubbles appeared in his hands and he blasted his glass windows in a really cool manner, letting the cool night air brush his face as he levitated slightly from the ground. "Kunpaetku, do not expect any mercy-ooof!"

He was squashed flat as Zwei and a white hair woman with an orb appeared out of nowhere and fell on top of him.

"WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!"

Team Draw: 4463 points (since they've lost both Ashlotte's finger and left arm)

Raphael's Team: 3623 (they have her right arm and right leg).

*Mitsurugi makes some pretty funny sounds while fighting. But my favorite is when he shouts "Kaaats!" during battle lol.

*I do not appreciate reviews that have one or two words that says update on it. If you're like Annie or Lizzy who writes that they really like the story and would really like me to update, then I'm perfectly happy with it. But if you're going to be rude and demanding, forget it. I go to university and I also work

*8wayrun is a competitive site full of character data on movesets and frames and guide to mastering a character. Spacing, zoning, punishes and such can be learned on there.