Simon arrived an hour later, panting and tired.
"I know where Omega is. And we're basically screwed. Because it's nothing we've ever seen before."
3 and Luigi, who were finding their way to being entirely awake and listening, stood up and groggily watched.
"Omega, he's… remember the lady from the last base? She was using magic, but this is like no magic I've seen before. Like he's making himself-"
The captain ran in, a second later.
"Guys! I have good news and bad news! I'll tell ya the good ones first! I found Alpha!" They looked around and saw a loss of Alpha in the room. "But then there's the bad news. You might want to get into a battle formation, because I got spotted-"
The door flew out of its hinges, to reveal Amber. Her eyes were bloodshot, she was panting and tired as well, also having unsheathed a katana. Her eyes instantly looked at Simon. That seemed to peeve her more.
"There you are! You and I have unfinished business to attend, Mr. Sword!"
Simon drew his weapon, as well as everyone else, but he stopped them.
"You guys run. She wants me, not you."
The others ran away, but Luigi looked at Simon. A tear nearly formed as he quietly said, "thank you."
Luigi ran off, right as Simon and Amber started fighting.
While running down the halls, 3 heard an extra pair of feet running behind them. She turned to get tackled by the emerald man again.
"DIDJA REALLY THINK YOU'D BE RID OF ME?!"
"Go, I got this!" 3 called.
The others ran away, as 3 and Travis fought.
Luigi turned and saw it. Himself. Mr. L stood across the corridor.
Luigi looked behind Mr. L. He was in front of a portal. Luigi took his chances and ran away with the captain. Two stood more of a chance than one of them.
Meanwhile, wherever Mr. L is…
Mr. L laughed a bit and went inside of the portal. He emerged in the mushroom kingdom, but. But. A poof of smoke and light and there they stood. Mario, Peach, Bowser, and Toad.
"Ah! Welcome home, Master Mar-" Toadsworth saw Mr. L and shut up. "Aah! M-mister L! Your highness, we have some… visitors."
Mario turned and saw Mr. L.
"You're…"
Mr. L smiled. "Yes. I am the Luigi clone who betrayed you. Now, tell me. Would you want Luigi to find you in pieces?"
Mario got into a battle stance. "What have you done to my kingdom?!"
Peach stood beside Mario. "What has he done to OUR kingdom?!"
Toad snatched a spear from a nearby guard and held it forward. "Who do you think you are, impeding on our kingdom?!"
Bowser felt the flames rise at the bottom of his throat. "We've been through an alien planet and lived off of fruit, there's no way in history you're going to beat us."
Mr. L summoned lightning at his fingers, but then called it off. "No… guards, would you be so kind as to escort Mario?"
"W-where s-sir?"
"Oh, you know, out of this mortal coil and into hell."
The guards slowly shook their heads. "No. We won't do that! You're gonna kill us WITH Mario! You hear that? We're going to die WITH Mario!"
Mario glanced over. "Maybe not DIE, but that's still nice too."
They looked to Mr. L. He was about to strike. They all charged. This was it for Mario. The uncertain end.
They tussled and fought for the longest time, but they couldn't keep up. Not until the guards came in and fought too. Mr. L still had a small upper-hand, but that hand was destroyed when Mario blasted him away with a fire blast. Mr. L collapsed, a second later.
They thought he was dead, until he jumped up and became filled with the lightning power. He and Mario flew to the top of the castle. Mario jumped and shot fire, but mostly hit with the fire attacks. After some LONG tussling, Mario saw Mr. L short-circuiting.
"M-Mario… you… y-you… will never… be... " He sickly coughed. "M...V...P…"
Mr. L blew up. Literally, he exploded into an electric pile of ash.
Mario looked up. A crack, a hole in the sky, something revealing the fabrics of time in physical form had opened.
A group of Gamma thugs fell out and started attacking, but Mario and co. held them off. After defeating the first wave, Mario looked up into the sky and sighed.
"Let Luigi be okay, please."
Meanwhile...
Luigi and the captain ran through the halls until they stopped and looked up. Like a coliseum, there were seats and a middle. Where they stood.
Omega, unsuited, just normal, stood in the middle.
"You made it. I'm surprised my rowdy rusher of a daughter, the emerald insanity, and envious greenie hadn't killed you yet."
The captain scoffed. "Just show us your master plan and get on with it."
"Ok." Omega slowly cackled. "Lower the suit."
A purple bulky suit, a lot bigger and purple, the lines in it were illuminated with green lights and it looked some kinda bulky.
"This is Omega-sized beauty. My new suit. Auto-sizes anything that steps in. Like so."
Omega stepped in and the strips of metal holding back the mechanical parts on the inside fit to his stature and size as he did so. The suit closed up and he was now in full control. He laughed.
"Mr. Billy may not have been done, but it looks and feels mighty fine to me. And this is where you die. The. End."
"WAIT!" Called Simon, who had ran in.
"If you're going to fight us, fight it a fair battle! That means no one left behind!"
3 walked in as well. "We'll see who dies first, buddy!"
A tied up Alpha cheered from the crowd.
Omega punched his fist and smiled, under the suit. "If you wanna die together, so be it. Once this is all over, I get to watch my battalion destroy the universe, one by one. And you'll have to watch too. But enough talking, let's get this over with."
They all went to charge, but stopped as Omega had spoken. He repeated the unheard line.
"Are you ready?"
They all nodded.
"Then…" He sighed. "Martha, forgive me. But what needs to be done is getting done today, one way or another."
They all began with a slow trot. It went to a jog. Then a run. And, finally, a full-on sprint. They wanted this over. But fate didn't want that. Not in that moment.
The crowd went mad when 3 hit the floor last. They had lost. Omega stood, victorious.
"You lose." He said.
Omega turned and the hands of the suit lit up, as he did something.
The captain, weak as he was, looked up.
"What are you going to do?"
Omega turned back around.
"Creating a fissure. A hole that opens in every part of the multiverse. The whole multiverse will see it, and they, too, will kneel or die. Like you. Just don't fall in, you don't have proper equipment and that'll suck for anyone with the gall to-"
Omega was interrupted by an angry Travis, who was still alive, for whatever reason.
"SHUT. UP."
Omega turned. "What is that?"
"I said, SHUT UP. You talk too much, too little action! Besides, you're taking away MY universe as well? I can't do anything I wanted anymore, because of you!"
Travis pulled out a hunting knife. "I've lost two battles today. If I'm gonna lose, kill me. Because I'm not going down without a fight."
Travis pounced. Omega took a second to shake off the flexible animal that was attacking him. But 3 and everyone else as well had seen what happened. Travis kicked one of the plates on Omega's back and he screamed. Something was going on inside of the suit when Travis had done that, but Omega didn't stand for it. Travis had a giant hand grasp him and chuck him right into the fissure.
Omega tried to catch his breath, but he had no time to breathe, as the agents were already standing up. Or, trying to. 3 was wobbly for a second.
Omega looked at everyone.
"You are willing to die for the universe. Willing to die for people that aren't even your worth. That? That is called stupidity."
Alpha, or Michael, whichever, stood up in the crowd. "No! That's called selflessness and sympathy! Something a pig like you wouldn't understand!"
Omega snorted. "And what do you know about sympathy?"
"I know that pigs can't feel it!"
Omega felt a sting of pain, but he quickly regained composure as Luigi shot one of the plates on his back.
"AH! You swine, I'll kill anyone who impedes on my dreams, including YOU, Michael!"
Omega swung at Luigi, missing several times. While this was happening, 3 was preparing to jump. She did, and punched the plates on the back again.
Omega twitched suddenly, jerking enough to knock 3 off.
The captain swung right as Omega turned, getting a hammerful on the backplates.
The suit jerked and had repeated spasms, and Simon jumped, swung, and jerked his whole sword into the backplates. Omega screamed and punched Simon away. He screamed, but it stopped abruptly, and he fell to the floor. Blood pooled out of the holes in the suit and it twitched and he still released pained grunts as he reached his hands to grab the nearest agent or thing to kill.
Michael bent over near Omega.
"Forgive me, father. But what needs to be done is getting done."
Alpha jerked his foot onto the back plates. A horrid crunch sound came from the inside as Omega screamed one last pained scream. Moments later, an MVP battalion arrived. They locked up what they could find. What they could find being ALL (or most)OF GAMMA, Amber, Billy, and the deceased Omega. Travis was floating around in the fissure. And that was when it hit them. That place was gonna blow. They had to let Alpha shut the fissure. He took needless time stalling.
While on the getaway ship, Alpha sat down near the team.
"Listen… what you saw, you had no role in. You were no part of that, because that was between me and him exclusively. But… as a reward for helping me through it… you get a break. Paid through, of course. You guys get a break, for your hard work and because renovations are being done so you can go home, until further notice."
The captain and Luigi had sustained the most damage.
3 and Simon weren't off the hook either, Simon had jacked up his leg pretty bad 3 had scratches and bruises from Travis and a few more fractures from Omega.
Alpha took the time to drop each of them off at their homes. One by one, they returned home. Since it was uninhabited by its owner, 3 was given Travis's house. No one knew how Alpha got the thing under her name, but he did.
Luigi was dropped off first. When he went into the kingdom, the toads all greeted him with happiness and parading.
"Hey guys, Luigi is back!"
Luigi turned and Mario was sitting beside him.
"Welcome home, Luigi. The MVP has returned." Mario winked on the sly. It was very sly. Luigi masked his surprise by laughing.
The toads had been cleaning up after Mr. L and Mario's fight, which wrecked some things. Even Bowser was participating. It seems as if Luigi's mistake brought the kingdoms together, temporarily.
Simon limped home, given a cane for his leg injury, to his log house out in the country. He opened the door and smiled. The smell of firewood never gets old…
The first thing he did when Simon returned was sit down and take a well-earned nap. Pulling off the final blow was draining, after all. After the nap was over, Simon visited family on the other side of the world, became friends with the mayor of New Donk City, became the first to (accidentally) travel to the FE universe. He schooled all of the sword fighters before he was dragged home. But he enjoyed himself.
3 went and personalized Travis's house. She cleaned the nasty stains from the basement, continued to train with the punching bag, made new friends, competed in social events and failed miserably. But none of the people she met didn't feel anything of a friend as Travis. Maybe because he was different? That sus character from chapter… 14? Yeah, she appeared a bit more out in public. What was even her deal? It seems like Travis had been using her, but 3 was "smarter," as she claimed, and wouldn't fall for the same trick twice. As Luigi (quietly) said, "Yeah, right."
Lucifer/the captain went home to requiem with some friends, spend more time with his family, get into politics (for whatever reason THAT was,) buy a SWEET RIDE, become friends with Mario and re-friend Luigi, still be in contact with Alpha, even off the job, teach his kids, one girl and one boy, how to play golf, and "accidentally" have another child and spend tons of time and money with it. The captain tied loose ends and spent more time with loved ones.
Alpha received the same mug from literally EVERY SINGLE AGENT IN THE CORPORATION on his birthday. He loved it more than anything. And he wasn't lying. He tied loose ends with Amber, she now followed his dream and was released and reformed. They both mourned the loss of their father but quickly got over it and became the best of siblings and friends. Amber finally got her brother back. And Alpha fixed the family issues.
Billy learned several new tricks about engineering and science, but never reformed. He'd nicened himself up quite a bit, but the rest of the prisoners made it mandatory to never get on his bad side. One did, and suffered acid burns for a long time. Billy got himself a name and was well underway to reformation. Like a champ. The champ he knew he was. But it was hard to tell whether or not him becoming good was real. Because he was always smiling. Even when happy little accidents happened.
Travis… the emerald man, the insane being we knew for so long, he remained, floating in blackness, atoning for his deeds in the pure nothing. The atmosphere was like that of something we have seen before, where he's trapped but not able to die. Stuck in his own hell, to rethink everything he'd ever done. Sounds horrible.
Mario and Luigi reached a pact to where Mario wouldn't rat Luigi out if he took Mario on a tour through the base. So they did just that and the secret was safe. Mario and Luigi, in the span of one year, saved the princess(5 times), saved the planet(1 time), went golfing and fishing and played soccer and basketball and went karting and skiing and to the movies and to the fridge for a glass of milk. All in the confinement of a singular year.
Alph went home to a welcome party! Everyone celebrated the (not literal) prodigal son's return. He made his grandpa proud when he shared all the stories he had. Alph even gave out taser lessons! Let's just say that they weren't as successful as you'd think. Brittany finished training and decided to become an official agent. Alph was supremely happy. He spent time with his whole family, all of them.
Captain Toad did NOT become an agent. He had… other callings. At least, that's HIS reason. Luigi had to get over this. Sadly, Captain Toad was wiped of any memory of the MVPs and sent home.
Omega was not buried. He was blown to bits with his dream and now lay in heaven with Martha. Even the worst villain still gets a good ending. He got a memorial in Alpha's room. Nobody bothers to ask who it is, or why it's there. But his father now rests in peace. His memorial stated 7 words. "A good father and an honorable fighter."
But, one day, they snapped back into reality. And it was the best thing they had heard since they got their jobs.
1 year later…
3 awoke to the distress beacon going off.
A rush of adrenaline soared through her body as she jumped out of bed and ran over to the comm system.
Indeed, someone was calling. Alpha had left a message.
He spoke like he was happy. And that was because he genuinely was happy to see them back.
As he said, "The world may not be pretty. Nothing is truly pretty. Especially not in this line of work. Nothing is pretty because everything is seen differently in the eyes of everyone. That's where we come in. If your view on the world is sick and twisted, then it's about time you got locked in a cell and talked it through with us. If you're like me, or anything like me, you would be able to likely guess why I made this corporation. Not like I'm going to tell you, though, I came to tell you that the renovations and shrapnel checks are done and you can resume your job as soon as possible. Now, I suppose certain ones would rather not go right away. That is fine. Just know this: I meet and hire and even fire MVPs daily. They come to me for help, advice, etc. You guys? Why, I can forget about any other agent until I see them again, but you guys did something another team had never done. You surprised me. No doubt your names are going in the MVPs book of honor- Now, since your friends are probably waiting for you, run along. Lucifer, Luigi, Alph, 3 and Simon, welcome back."
3 laughed and ran to the closet. Her suit was still there, collecting dust.
Simon picked some lint off the hood and smirked.
Luigi donned the suit and opened the portal.
And there it is. Gamma's gone, but things out there still want to seek and destroy. But Gamma's mark on the universe is still being cleaned up. Most of the Gamma members were sent to their homes as new people.
Hi. It's me again.
This story, man... Perhaps you could find it and see the true moral I wanted you to hear. But it's over. Travis got what he deserved, Omega was laid to rest, and our friends all had good times. But. They're going to continue working and myself as well. And here it is. The MVPs, my first writing project, over. Probably...
There's one more thing I want you to see. Stay tuned. Thank you for sticking with me 'till the end. It's been fun. Criticism is welcome, since I'm done (for now), Nahfam OUT. Hope you had a fun read.