Featured Author ocs:
Hikari-Angel143- Carmina Sanchez
Lucas Bane- Lucas Fedrick
Pikpixie03- Rally Nightshade
Roseria Slyvester- Rosetta "Rose" Sonoma
Zalger248- Shuyan Chao
TheUndyingCrystal- Cynthia Gordon
AWESOME AUSSIE GURL- Isabelle Smith
Realms of Destiny- Dez Xerxes
Grypinh the Moonfox- Griffin Luna
Chapter 51: You'll Never Fight Alone!
Opening Theme: "Philistine" Kristine Alicia
[Location: Fort Condor]
Fort Condor, the mountain hollowed out by rebels fighting to protect the Condor that nested above. Though the battle for the mountain and the Condor's egg was put on hold. For ShinRa shelled out nearly all of their resources into the war against the rising Deepground.
So the rebels, with no enemies simply lounged around turning Fort Condor into an inn for weary travelers.
"Sounds like they're in trouble." Rally gripped her flip PHS. Her brown hair fluttering like a war flag in the winds just near the nest of the Condor. She wasn't alone, Lucas, Rose and Tifa were with her.
"It's been almost a week. We were supposed to have rendezvous here two days ago." Tifa punched into her palm. She tightened her fists.
Lucas stood with his hands in his pockets staring at the view beyond, from Fort Condor viewing east. One could see the grand plains of emerald-green beyond leading to the Coast and Junon Harbor. The giant cannon could be seen from miles away, a giant juggernaut that struck fear into anyone who gazed upon it.
The Cannon in Junon Harbor represented ShinRa's sheer military force and ingenuity.
"It's exactly for this reason that I had you develop 'that' skill, Rally." Lucas added. With that the three girls looked in his direction.
Rally nodded. "Yeah. I was hoping we wouldn't have to use it."
" What's 'that' skill?" Rose asked placing a finger on her chin.
The cosplaying freak simply grinned.
[Wastelands]
[Time: One minute later]
(Kel's POV)
BOSS BATTLE BGM: "Fugue in G Minor" Megaman Legends (Nero's New Theme for this Fic)
As the chilled air blew to the west, ruffling my tie and sending sand sweeping off to my left. I kept my Beam Katana at my side and glared upon Nero's form as he stared back at me. He had weird black eyes with golden irises, ones that only a devil would have. "Let us begin..." The moment Nero said that suddenly a giant hand amassed from a puddle of darkness in front of me raised open wide attempting to grab me.
I stomped the ground leaping backwards as fast as I could as the hand came down splatting on the earth and exploding into a puddle of darkness.
"Errrr...what the?" My sneakers hit the sand and I pressed my toes into the sand to stop myself. Suddenly I felt a barrel lightly tap my right temple as Nero's chin rested on my left shoulder. He whispered into my ear sending a chill down my spine. "Submit..."
POW!
After slightly adjusting his wrist with the slap of my elbow up he simply shot my hat off. I spun around quickly thrusting my foot into his chest but his body dematerialized into darkness. I grabbed my falling hat out of the air then slipped it back into my head. "It's like fighting a logia fruit user from One Piece." I said.
Nero raised from the darkness again this time with his hands strapped to his strait jacket, his body glen with a dark purple, blue and darkness. He summoned two giant hands which swung down upon me like fists. "Ripple Drive!" I slammed my beam katana's blade into the earth creating that massive dome of energy which burst back the black hands.
With his body disoriented from Ripple Drive, I dashed at him filling my Beam Katana once again with an icy aura. "Winter Fest!" I swung my newly acquired ice saber at from right to left, right to left, left to right six times before slashing him up sending him flying into the air with a slashing upper cut.
Nero's body flew up and disappeared exploding into a mass of ice and dark particles. "Another decoy?!" By the time I'd noticed it was too late. Nero appeared held out his palms creating six massive black swords from darkness, with that he manipulated the swords to fly at me slash me across the chest.
All six at high-speed, one after another slashing me from left to right and the last hitting me on its flat side whacking me back down towards the earth like a fly. "AHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed falling from the sky and hitting the ground head first. Blood cascaded down my chest from the open wounds and rivers from my hat on my head.
"It's common for you to die by my hand." Nero began his overbearing speech as his body materialized from pure darkness.
I spat a wad of blood to near my feet. Despite this chilling feeling I got from him, I couldn't back down.
"I am the second most powerful SOLDIER on the face of this world. The first being my Brother. Weiss the Immaculate." He explained offering a hand to me. "Condemn yourself to the darkness that is Nero. You are no closer to defeating me than an Ant has against a Behemoth. "
"Keep shooting the shit man. I don't give a damn if your power level is OVER 9000. What you need to learn about me bro, is that I never give up. You can gouge out my eyes, rip out my tongue...no matter what. I keep on fighting. So bring it, you psychopathic emo freak. It makes killing your cocky ass that much sweeter."
Just as we were about to collide powers once again, I felt the wind suddenly blow in my favor. The air began to blow against me and just when I felt my body physical push backwards a white gate opened. It was very fast, like a flash. The gate was gone in the same amount of time it took to appear, which was a flash.
Before I could blink, I noticed four new figures standing on the battlefield. Three girls and a man in a blue japanese policeman's suit, hanging from his side was a katana. I recognized all of them. "Lucas? Rally, Tifa and Rose?!" I said looking at their faces in astonishment. Fort Condor was at least 4 days away from the Wasteland.
"Didn't I just get off the phone with you?" I asked.
Rally puffed up her cheeks. "Yup."
"How'd you guys get here so fast?" I asked.
Lucas stepped up being the only one to stare off against Nero. "How about we offer an explanation after this nuisance as disappeared."
Nero glared at Lucas. "Back to the void from whence you've come, nave."
Lucas shrugged off the insult. "Hmm...Nero the Sable. Kel, our group has been deprived of real fights like this...I hope you don't mind if I take Nero off your hands as an opponent."
I didn't object, Nero was too slippery of an opponent. I wasn't afraid of him by a long shot and I would fight him, but if I had the choice I wouldn't. There is something about Nero that just exudes this depressed, negative feeling that puts you in a sour mood.
"My vengeance lies with the one behind you." Nero narrowed his eyes at Lucas.
"And there, lies the dilemma. Kel is standing behind us and to get to him you have to go through me...you see because. I don't feel like moving." Lucas replied which only pissed Nero off.
I had to know what gave Lucas this sudden confidence that he could fight on par with Nero. He was right, he was the second most powerful Tsviet and leader in Deepground. The only one who could take him down would be Weiss. "Kel, you're hurt all over!" Rose cried beginning to administer first aid with her Cure Materia.
She began to spread the green magical aura over my body which soothed my burning scars and bruised skin. "Kel, what's the sitrep? What's going on?" Tifa asked.
"Change of plans you guys. We're going to take down Deepground AND ShinRa." I said.
Rose and Tifa looked surprised but Lucas and Rally gave me a completely different look. Their eyes dilated, their mouths formed a sharp grin bearing their beastly fangs. At heart Lucas and Rally were much alike, they craved battle and blood. Despite being humans from earth they had the beastly tendency to fight like anime characters.
"What brought this on? Why did you change your mind about going after Sephiroth?" Tifa asked raising an eyebrow.
"Because I can't ignore this war anymore." I replied keeping my eyes on Lucas' back. "First we're going to take down Deepground, then ShinRa's gonna fall after."
"A bunch of renegades against two huge military organization. Sounds like one helluva weekend." Rally looked over to me with a grin.
"I hope Lucas has done some training these past couple of days, Nero's pretty tough." I nodded.
"I wouldn't worry about him. On our way to Fort Condor we had to fight through a lot of ShinRa and Deepground patrol units. Along the way he managed to learn his special ability." Rose stood after healing my wounds. She cleared a few bangs from her face, tucking her hair behind her ear.
"I still don't understand how these 'special abilities' work and where they come from." Tifa asked.
The special abilities were given to Harmony's Chosen as a means to fight against Chaos. Without it, they'd just be regular humans and that wouldn't be much of an asset in this war.
(Third Person POV)
Once again we found ourselves overlooking two warriors on the dusty sands a night, the moonlight and stars being their only source of light. Nero and Lucas stood facing off against one another. "His combat status is nearly the same as the man in the hat." Shelke's voice reported through a communicator in Nero's ear. "Be careful, Nero. His level is sufficient enough to end your life."
"You needn't worry, I shall return with my vengeance well served." He replied.
Though Lucas stood strong, stoic and almost emotionless he was strategically laying out the entire fight like Sherlock Holmes. 'From the Dirge of Cerberus game. What do I know about Nero? He can control darkness, warp and even create after images made of flesh.' He thought pulling his hands from his pockets. 'Perhaps, looking to the game isn't really a good idea. Nero in person and Nero in game are two completely different people on the battlefield...I'll start off using my ability straight off the bat.'
Nero quickly drew his side arms and just as he was about to point it at, he noticed a dark navy blue blur fly at him wielding a katana. It was Lucas he was flying with his hands up ready to slash Nero vertically, but the dark gunner was ready releasing a flurry of shots at the moving shinsengumi.
POW POW POW!
POW POW POW!
Six shots, three rounds from each gun pelted Lucas' face and body ripping through his body and spraying fresh plasma across the sand. Nero's eyes narrowed feeling the satisfaction of victory, but it was disturbed as he spotted the blue blur once again flash across his eyes. Appearing near Nero's left was Lucas again, this time wielding a battle axe!
The attack was too slow however as he tried swinging it horizontally to lop the Sable in half. "What?" Nero put his gun to Lucas' head and open fired splattering his brain through the back of his head. His body dropped and hit the ground. With that Nero looked down to see that the previous Lucas was still lying on the ground.
An identical twin of Lucas which wielded the battle axe with the back of his head blow out, laid face down on the ground with his eyes open wide as well.
"Enjoying yourself?" Hearing Lucas' voice caused alarms to set off in Nero's head, his eyes wide he slowly turned as if he were in a horror movie to see the Lucas he was facing before still standing in that one position with his hands in his pockets. POW! Just before Nero could ask a question a bullet pierced his right shoulder from behind spraying blood to the sand.
"Ergh..." He turned his head seeing another Lucas clone thousands of yards away kneeling down on a rock formation holding a massive sniper rifle, about the length of his own body. Nero held up two fingers manipulating the darkness to heal his gunshot wound while the shadows formed a pair of crocodile jaws which swallowed the clone wielding the sniper rifle.
During the healing process Nero used his mechanical wings to take to the sky, just as he thought he was safe he spotted two Lucas clones coming from the sky. One wielding a naginata and the other a chinese trident. They both collided with Nero creating a shockwave of darkness and light which rumbled the wastelands for miles.
Kel looked on with wide eyes. "The fuck is this?!"
Rally placed her hands on her hips. "This is Lucas' ability."
"His ability, Infinite Possibilities. He has the ability to duplicate himself an infinite several times through different scenarios. " Rose explained.
Kel looked over to Rose. "Whaddaya mean, different scenarios?"
"Whenever Lucas thinks of a scenario of how his opponent dies, a duplicate of himself from that scenario appears to fight and act the scenarios out. For example, the Lucas with the battle-axe there. Lucas probably imagined himself chopping Nero in half with that axe. Thus, the replica from that scenario was brought into the real world and so on."
"Noway." Kel narrowed his eyes finding a new-found respect for Lucas.
"I know, I thought the same thing when I first saw him use it." Tifa added thinking back to their battle in the open plains.
Nero materialized from darkness hiding behind a rock formation. "Shelke, have you compiled enough data on this man?" Nero asked through his communicator.
"I don't understand. Each one of these replicas have the exact blood type, bone structure and heart beat of the original. They are all...but this is impossible." Shelke replied. "You should retreat Nero."
Right when Nero thought he was safe, his eyes widened to see a Lucas replica leaping from off of the rock formation he was hiding behind. This Lucas replica wielded two tomahawks one in each hand. Nero held up his palm manipulating the darkness like flames, it danced through the air devouring the Tomahawk wielding Lucas.
Nero used the darkness to warp away from behind the area, when he arose from a puddle of black. His eyes widened to see a sea of Lucas' standing around him in a massive circle. Lucas duplicates for miles all wielding weapons, chainsaws, tomahawks, machetes, machine guns, rifles, hand guns, spears, swords, knives, cannons, gunblades, armored gloves, shields, lances, halberds, chains, sickles, scythes, staves, hammers, bricks, clubs, stakes, frag grenades, claymore mines, C4 and even rocket launchers.
"Bad news Nero, I've imagined myself killing you over 180,000 different ways. Let's see which method is the most effective shall we?" The original Lucas stood on a tall rock formation with his hands folded to his back like a Field Marshall instilling command over his forces.
Nero attempted to summon his darkness but it was too late, a bullet found its way launched through his heart. Before he could scream in agony, a Lucas clone with a metal stake, rammed the sharp spike through Nero's left eye. The Lucas weilding the chain saw severed Nero in half chopping him from the torso down while the others joined in a mass slaughter fest.
"AAAAh...AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Nero's screams carried on through the wastelands for miles.
Lucas looked down at the slaughter with a grin. "Uhuhuhuhuhaahahahhaa...Now...let's take the rest of Deepground out."
Author's Note: First Rosso and now Nero is dead as well, the five Tsviets have been reduced to three! Can Kel and his party keep up their winning streak or will someone bite it in the unfolding chaos?!
OC Abilities:
Carmina Ability: "Contradictory Conjunction", her ability gives her the power to turn the tides of nearly any situation and bend the laws of time and physics in her favor by using language. By using the word "Therefore" she can reverse the links of cause and effect.
Example: If a Behemoth tries to crush Carmina with it's huge paw. All Carmina has to say is 'The Behemoth is strong, I'll die if it's attacks hit me, THEREFORE I need it to be weak." So the Behemoth's attack strength will be lowered. The longer the sentence, the longer the effect will last.
Rally's Ability: "CREATE Skill", this ability gives Rally the power to create temporary skills for herself. Skills that can augment her physical attributes for a short time. The skills however only last a couple of seconds and cannot be used twice in a single day. She can create any skill from invincibility to intangibility but as said before, it only lasts a few seconds and they can't be used more than once in a day. The more powerful and God-like the skill the less time she has to use it.
Example: If Rally created a skill that would allow her to not take any damage from any form of attack. That skill would most likely last 5 seconds. But, if she created a skill that would increase her defenses, instead of making her completely invincible this skill would last anywhere between 3 and 5 minutes.
Izzy's Ability: "All Worth", this ability gives Izzy the power to make any object or item into a lethal weapon. The only weakness this ability has is Izzy's drawing speed to grab an item. The lethal effects of an item aren't limited to just one use either. As long as Izzy keeps the item intact she can reuse it and give it new effects.
Example: If Izzy had a tea pot and used "All Worth" on it to turn it into a battle club and kept the tea pot. She could use "All Worth" on it again and give it a different effect like cutting, crushing or even grinding an enemy.
Lucas' Ability: "Infinite Possibilities", if anyone has seen the movie Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. Then this ability should make sense to you. Lucas can predict how a fight will play out and even his opponents reactions. This combined with an excessive need to recreate different scenarios in-case the first one doesn't work out. Is where this ability finds it's roots. With every scenario created, "the Lucas replica" from that certain "scenario" is born and tries to put the scenario that Lucas pictured...into reality.
Example: Lucas can picture himself stabbing a guy in the chest and killing him with a kitchen knife, in case that doesn't work he imagines himself picking up a butcher knife and swinging it into the man's head, in case that doesn't work Lucas imagines himself grabbing a tenderizing hammer and beating the man to death. From this thought process THREE LUCAS REPLICAS ARE CREATED! One holding a knife, one with a butcher knife and the other with a hammer. Since they were created at nearly the same time with the same purpose, they'll jump the opponent in a mass slaughter fest in an attempt to recreate Lucas' original thought. Each replica doesn't disappear until it either dies or fulfills it's purpose, which is to carry out the scenario thought up by the original Lucas.
