Beatrice flew through the skylines of Danville as Oberon and his wife Titania persued them. The giant Void Fae king chasing the young gynoid and her father.
"We've been at this for hours!" Beatrice complained. 'Bo! Please tell me you've made some progress since this started!' She transmitted to her twin brother.
'Actually... I have. Thanks for not just making paniced transmissions every few minutes.' Beauregard responded. 'Rest assured, the rest of the BEA-Droids have been repaired.'
'And the catch?' Beatrice transmitted.
'Well... as I'm sure I don't need to repeat. Earth is under seige by hijacked PDF Technologies robots. You were there, but I'm certain that in the stress of using dad as bait has caused you to neglect this fact.' Beauregard transmitted.
'But after we defeat Oberon and Titania they'll dissappear right?... right?' Beatrice transmitted anxiously.
'I... I don't know.' Beauregard answered. 'I've been in contact with the Errant Traveler. She's says that there are weapons that can directly harm Void Fae... but the way she phrased it was confusing, the most I could get out of her explanation was that it was in somekind of vault. The point is, even if you do destroy Oberon and Titania's physical forms. It won't be the end of this madness.'
Beatrice was caught off-guard by this revelation. "You... you mean this is hopeless?" She said outloud.
Distracted, Oberon managed to catch up with her. "Finally! Now... I wish to parley with Phineas Flynn. You're 'daughters' services are no longer required." He then took Phineas in one hand, and Beatrice in the other. He then threw Beatrice through a number of buildings.
Eventually, Beatrice landed on a skyscraper rooftop, both of her legs and her left arm torn off. Our titular heroine was in complete shock. "I... I give up." Beatrice said, exhausted as she sat up.
'Beatrice... what happened?' Beauregard transmitted.
"I'm tired... I'm tired of risking my neck for Humanity." Beatrice sobbed. "For ten years, it's been one thing after another. If it's not overly ambitious criminals, it's alien monsters looking to take over the universe or whatever!" She cried. "And just... just when I think thing's will calm down... something new replaces it."
'Bea, I know you're overwhelmed. But now isn't the time for this.' Beauragard transmitted.
"First, I run away from home, accidently taking Bethany with me. Then you try to take over the world with an army of robots. Then dad not only locks you away, but pretty much erases my memory that you ever existed in the first place." Beatrice said frantically.
'Bea I'm sorry to hear that you're discouraged, but if you don't do something then dad is going to have his knowledge taken from him. And then, and I'm sorry for saying this. But you're backstory will be pittence compared to the Void Fae attaining proper physical bodies for themselves and... doing whatever exactly they plan to do afterwards!' Beauragard transmitted.
But Beatrice didn't listen, listing off every major adventure she had been in. From her time in the Young Superhero Initiative, to the Sym'ian Occupation, her journeys with Stellar Imperium and his crew, to the Unification War. As well as over a dozen other adventures and missions in between then and her first days of High School. From the return of Vow of Vengeance, to the Sym'ian attack at Christmas, to the War for Earth.
"And now... now I have to save everyone from space fairys!" Beatrice sobbed.
Then, an arcane portal opened up, and out stepped Beauragard. "Beatrice... I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I had a part to play in you're psychological damage. I'm sorry that I couldn't be around to help you. I'm sorry I put my desire for revenge above my family. And most of all, I'm sorry for not being the brother that you needed." Beauragard said earnestly. "But... you've got the biggest heart out of anyone on this planet, maybe the entire universe."
"Some fat good that's done me... I don't remember how many bodies I've lost doing this 'Superhero' scrap." Beatrice moaned.
"And even if you never took it upon yourself, these threats to Earth would probably still come about on there own anyway. Ty'raka would've destroyed all Humanity, the Sym'ian's would turn them into a vassal species... at best, at worst they'd become slaves. My point is, if you had done nothing, things would be so much worse for everyone." Beauragard said.
"But... all I ever wanted was to be normal. My first thought. EVER. Was that I was Human!" Beatrice lamented.
"I know, but... you've met so many people who love and care about you! They don't care that you're a robot! They only care that you're such an amazing person, selfless, kind and generous to a fault, and you've put you're existance on the line for Earth more times then I can recall!" Beauragard said.
"One-thousand, one-hundred, and thirty-eight." Beatrice said glumly.
"Yes..." Beauragard said. "And if nothing is done, right here, right now agianst Oberon, Titania, and the Void Fae. Then everything you've suffered, everything you've ever sacrificed... it'll all be for nothing. Then what'll happen?" He said, he then pulled out an arm, and a pair of legs from a magical portal. "At least let me repair you."
Beauragard then attached the new arm and legs to Beatrice's stumps. "Thank you... I just get so overwhelmed by all of this that I sometimes forget that I've got friends. Some of the best friends a robot girl like me could ask for, even if they drive me crazy sometimes... wait, Bo I just got an idea!"
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"How is this taking so long? He should have his knowledge extracted by now!" Titania said in annoyance as Oberon tried to us his Arcane powers to drain Phineas of his knowledge outside of Danville.
"I'm sorry my love! This mans will is strong... what's more this man has done so much at such a young age, and- look. This is taking longer then I'd like, all we can hope for now is that Earths defenders don't rally." Oberon said, strugling to extract Phineas's knowledge like he planned.
"OBERON!" Beatrice roared as she flew towards the leaders of the Void Fae. She flew fast enough to punch out Oberon without the aid of her Silver Automaton armor. "TITANIA!" She yelled as she tossed the Void Fae Queen aside. "Dad! Are you okay?"
"Hey mom... can we have fried chicken tonight?" Phineas muttered, dazed from the entire ordeal he had just been through.
"We can have all of the fried chicken you'd ever want after this is done." Beatrice said, cradleing Phineas.
Then she was surrouned by Void Fae possessed robots. "You... I will not be denied the vengeance we deserve!" Oberon bellowed.
"So because someone else was mean to you, that justify's spreading terror across an entire planet?" Beatrice said. "I don't care what horrors you, and you're people have been put through. And I'm sorry, well and truely sorry that you lost everything that was important to you because of that. But if you earnestly believe that you're past suffering justifies lashing out, hiding behind you're pains instead of facing them... then you have no right to dictate the fate of creation!" Beauragard then stepped out of an arcane portal, and summoned a number of other arcane portals.
"Okay... I've got a secure link. But I'm not sure how long I can maintain these portals." Beauragard said as he displayed a number of arcane runes in his hands.
"And did you get into contact with everyone?" Beatrice asked.
"Yes... plus a few surprises that I'm certain you'll appreciate." Beauragard said as Beatrice's numerous friends and allies stepped out of the portals. From her friends she made in the YSI when she was barely a year old. To Stellar Imperium, and A'dara and H4-K-7. To her high-school class mates.
Beatrice was overjoyed to see her friends... less so when she saw that the Void Fae possesed PDF Technologies combat robots started to gather around there master. "Uh... Bo? I think we're going to need more."
"Alright, just be advised that I'm overclocking myself as it is." Beauragard said as he opened up even more arcane portals. Out of these poured armies of alien warriors and robots, mainly the Fellowship of Yoral, and the Andromada Federation, as well as other allied intersteller nations. "Oh boy... this better be enough for you. Because I am NOT violating any safety protocals at this point." He said, exhausted from maintaing the portals.
"Everyone!" Beatrice said as she manifested a gleaming sword from her nanobots. "CHARGE!"
And the battle began, and it was mayhem. But our focus is going to be on Beatrice, and fighting Oberon and Titania. Beatrice flew circles around the giant Oberon. "Don't worry love! I got this from the armory in that lab!" Titania said, pulling out a heat-seeking rocket launcher. "Okay... hopefully this thing will only chase the robo-brat." She then fired off a heat seeking rocket.
"Hmm..." Beatrice said, sensing the missle. "This, I can work with." She said to herself as she led the missle towards Oberon. Causing it to blow up in his face.
"GAH! Titania! The brat directed you're missle into my face!" Oberon said in pain.
"Sorry! I'll try agian!" Titania said as she reloaded her rocket launcher.
"NO! YOU'RE JUST GOING TO MAKE IT WORSE!" Oberon bellowed. Over the next fifteen minutes, Beatrice redirected missle after missle at some part of Oberon. Until eventually he fell to his knees.
Then, the Errant Traveler arrived in her Tacho'noma, and stumbled out looking like she lost a fight with a big cat. "I GOT IT!" The Errant Traveler said as she held a football shaped device over her head. "I GOT THE ARCANUM DECIMUS!"
"Wait..." Beauragard said grogily. "Does... does that thing do what the name implies?"
"Yep! This lil' baby will destroy any Arcane energies on any planet it's on. It's the last one in existence." The Errant Traveler said.
"But... we've got Arcane powers." Persephone said, looking scarred.
"Yes... and more to the point. Can that thing kill non-Void Fae?" Beauragard said. "Cause despite the fact that I haven't had that much... much time- whew." The young android was exhausted, and artificial bloody was leaking out of his nose. "Point is... if loosing these powers is nessisary to save us... then I'm willing to make that sacrifice. Even... oh I'm dizzy."
"Actually... this will kill you." The Errant Traveler admitted. "But there's no need for innocents to die... well innocent of atempted genocide anyway. Oberon! Titania! I am the Errant Traveler! You know my reputation, and you know what the Arcanum Decimus can do to you! I'm crazy enough to set this off... but there's a complication. I explained the the Spaa-Chronous Tribunal that we couldn't repeat the sins of our ancetors. So they have sent me with a bargain... well an ultimatum, but that's just more of the same. Now, you can either submit yourselves to captivity to the Spaa-Chronous, where you will be looked after and kept safe... refuse. And this baby is going off, and the entire Void Fae race will be wiped out. Once... and for all."
Titania looked with terror, as she looked upon her felled husband. Oberon could barely hold himself up as he couphed up blood. And her peoples robotic vessels had been destroyed, the ambient Arcane energies being the only thing allowing the rest of the Void Fae to exist in the material plain. "I... I will speak on behalf of my people. I... I shall surrender to these terms that you have pressented, Errant Traveler."
"Oh thank goodness." The Errant Traveler said under her breath in relief. Then Tacho'nomas started manifesting around the battlefeild, and the Void Fae we're ushered inside. "I'll be honest, I'm not even sure if this thing works at all." A number of Void Fae looked up at her. "I said I'm not sure! That doesn't mean that it doesn't work, or do you want me to put that to the test?"
The Void Fae continued there trudging into the Tacho'nomas without another word.
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"So... is that the end of the Void Fae?" Beatrice asked the Errant Traveler several hours latter.
"Well they won't be threatin' Earth, or anyone else any time soon." The Errant Traveler said.
"Good... because I need a vacation from being a super hero." Beatrice said. "This... I need to take a break. I mean... this entire year had just been DRAINING me. As in... look I've been anxiously waiting for an alien attack for months on end, unable to tell anybody about it. Then, after three months traveling back and fourth across this galaxy, and Andromada. I get just enough time off from school to get back to the status quo... and then we learn about the Void Fae, and the threat they presented to Earth."
"So you're up for that vacation to the Bronze Age I suggested?" The Errant Traveler asked.
"Quite the opposite." Beatrice said. "I want something mundane... I want to just relax, not have to worry about the fate of the world, and NO TIME TRAVEL!"
"Oh... I see." The Errant Traveler said awkwardly. "Then why are we inside of my time machine? If you're so agianst that-"
"Because... I don't know okay! I haven't thought straight for over a year! Just... gurh!" Beatrice then stormed out of the Tacho'noma.
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"Wow... so this is that Legends of G'wiber game you were talking about!" Persephone said in amazement as she looked around the virtual world of the Andromada based MMORPG.
"Yep, Stellar Imperium got me into it when I was traveling with him." Beatrice said, with her boyfriend Daniel by her side, and Beauragard with Persephone. She was wearing her ingame clothes. Brown boots, light green pants, dark green leather armor, a brown belt, a beige colored shirt, and elbow length dark brown gloves
"And during our journey to Andromada, she got us to play this game as well." Beauragard said. "And it not only helped us to unwind, but we could coordinate with the leadership of the Andromada Federation before we physically got there."
"Not to mention that it's one of the few times that I can do this." Daniel then started dancing, Beatrice rolled her eyes. Acting like she heard this same thing before.
"Bo, Percy, could you give me and Danial a moment alone?" Beatrice asked, her brother and his girlfriend went off and found a glade. "Okay... if I've said this once to you Daniel, I've said it a thousand times. GET. NEW. LEGS."
"And if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times." Daniel said bitterly. "I won't-"
"Get replacement legs because you want to be able to dance with you're own legs. Except that every time I suggest some kind of surgery, you found a reason to avoid it." Beatrice said in frustration. "And then the Battle of Nidavelir, you got you're legs sheared off by debris because I overestimated our chances! And..." Beatrice then started to cry. "I just want to help you... but... but it's like you care more about having a reason to lash out at the world, then about anything else! Well I'm sorry that I couldn't save you from being crippled in the first place by the Sym'ian's!"
Daniel was taken aback. "I... I didn't know that you blamed yourself for that."
"All I wanted was to help... all I ever wanted was the help. But at every turn it's either rejected, or it's 'not needed'." Beatrice sobbed. "And you... my boyfriend... Daniel. I love you, more then I can describe. But... you're stubburn pride of being parapeligic. I just can't work with that. You're just... you're just so obessed with reminding everyone... pretty sure you recoverd from you're injuties so fast was because you ignored you're good legs."
Daniel looked ashamed of himself. "Bea... before I met you, Jessie was pretty much the only friend I had. Everyone else would complain about how much I hated being regarded as 'less' or broken. You asked why I didn't get new legs when we first met, and you only pressed the subject whenever you heard of something you believed could help me to dance agian. And... and I'm sorry for making you feel bad about the entire affair." Daniel said as he hugged his upset girlfriend. "When we're done. I'll ask Mr. Flynn to make me some legs, first thing I promise."
Beatrice wiped the tears from her eyes. "You... you mean that?"
"Hey, I've always been a man of my word to you haven't I?... seriously have I? Because I'm pretty sure the author left out that kind of character development." Daniel said.
Beatrice wiped the tears from her eyes. "Thank you... now, let's try to have some fun." She and Daniel then found Beauragard and Persephone. "We're ready guys!"
"You're just in time." Beauragard said. "By my calculations she should be done with the tutorial level, right... about... now."
Then Persephone emerged from the tutorial cave, covered in scars, and with her new Golem. "I am victorius! Proud with the scars of battle!... this won't effect my real body will it?" Persephone asked.
"I was once eaten alive by a Lumnivore in the Crypt of Narja'val-Cuulik the Smelly, got an axe through my head from a Golarnian Maurader, and got a paper cut from reading the terms and conditions for this game when I first logged in. Nothing happened to my physical body at any point." Beauragard said reassuringly. "So I highly doubt that anything'll happen to you."
"Oh... this is going to be fun." Persephone said. "I mean it would've been nice to get a heads up about the killer alien rabbits. And that antlered bird creature. But look at this little guy!" She said, holding up her golem.
"Either I'm crazy, or Nova'lizzard is making these quests too easy." Beatrice whispered to Daniel. "Well we need to level you up, there's a big expansion pack coming in a few months, and we need you to be ready for the upcoming Story Quests... I've been waiting five long years for the War of the Twenty-Seven Dukes!" Everyone gave her worried looks. "What? That plot has been dragging it's feet since the Seige of Kalas'vor-Takaa. I've had to read bad fanfiction just to keep myself excited about it."
Everyone just smiled and laughed, Beatrice looked confused before deciding to join in.
TO BE CONCLUDED...
