[Opening: Nujabes - Battlecry]
FusionFall Infinite
Season 3
Spiral Arc Part 7
Chapter 23: A Shitshow in the Stars
At the moment, Maylene was in a panic having awoken to a voicemail from Enid that gave her displeasureable news. The Loveless family was gathering warpers to aid in leading a full-on assault on the planet and universe.
"Seems the Twitter attack was taken as a declaration of war, well that's just dandy!" Maylene screamed in frustration.
She had to wear her alternate mission clothes given she did not have time to wash her usual ones. She did not want to break these out, being the clothes were a last resort being that she'll definitely not blind in. She goused that least she had the hair for it as she put it on. She looked in the mirror at her purple and black spandex suit making side the runes implanted on the right arm of the outfit where in place. Her belt had a buckle in her colors, her boots even had gray mettalic soles, her fingerless gloves were in place, and she adjusted the scarf that doubled a hood. She reapplied that black lipstick and got on her red Albedo jacket.
"If there's any consolation to this, is…well I don't exactly look bad in it as I feared." Maylene mused before getting her things together.
Slipped out and raised her hood checking out of the motel. She tried to go for an Ultimate XLR8 and got diet Flash. The black spheres on her feet? Now glowing and flaming orbs that left a trial. The world felt like slow-motion to her as she ran through state after state. She had to admit, having the heightened reaction time felt incredible. In five minutes, she was able to get to Beach City from that farm town in Idaho. She transformed back rushing out to Sosa's mansion which looked like it saw better days.
[Cues: Metroid Fusion Music - Environmental Tension]
"Shit." Maylene spat before going in. "The whole town looks abandoned."
She cocked her V-Charger moving in surely and chargely. She deftly headed for the garage already knowing where the ships are. What she found was one ship big enough left and someone working on it. Then, she saw Sosa in the dim light looking impatient.
"Hurry the fuck up! We need to get the hell out of this universe!" Sosa said impatiently. "It's bad enough that two fucking cunts ruined by empire, but Spinel's losing her fucking mind."
"Sosa must have figured Spinel's called for a war." Maylene thought before looking up at the ship. "What? Is that Hacker's ship from Cyberchase? Damn, I feel ol…wait, that that show have a grand fina…No, focus! Look that up later."
Maylene took advantage of the dim lightning to inch her way closer. Sosa was pacing and checking his bags taking out one item in particular. It was a portal gun from the likes of Rick and Morty but looking more like a prototype television remote. One of Sosa's henchman came in carrying a duffel bag full of cocaine.
"Look boss, this was all I could scrape together. Seems Montana missed your emergency stash, but your vault of treasures was raided." The henchman said.
"Well that's just fucking great. When I find Montana, I'm going to make sorry he even spat in the direction of me." Sosa spewed before turning to the mechanic. "Now, are the modifications done?"
"Look, making a radar scrambler out of the shit you have laying around well take a while! I can't just Warper Edit the parts together!"
"And why the fuck not?" Sosa screamed as Maylene readied a Petrosapien Shard bomb.
[Cues: Metal Gear Solid OST – Encounter]
"Because the quality wouln't be good. Might I remind that most of us have only been warpers for a short time? I hadn't…what's that green thing by your foot?"
Sosa took the green shard up asking what was it before it exploded on his face sending Petrosapien shards through his skull! The henchman got a few in his legs forcing him to the ground. The mechanic tried to run only to get a V-Charger thrown at his head. Maylene ran in impaling through the chest with her tanto before catching the V-Charger to smash the end of it into the mechanic's skull before pushing him off her blade. BLAM! One final shot to take down the henchman before taking the prototype portal gun. She moved into the ship after closing the panel the mechanic was working. A quick sense out of the place revealed no one was on the ship before she got to the controls. She wasted no time getting the ship punching the hyperdrive option blasting away out of the mansion, out from Beach City, and out from the States.
[Music Ends]
Maylene was going so fast that she did not sense Spinel had arrived at mansion just seconds after Maylene left. Spinel was a mess and in the need of a pick me up to get back in the groove. She sniffed out the bag full of it that Maylene left behind. As she lit some up to smoke, one of her general called once again and she actually picked up. What she heard…ruined the smoke for her.
"What do you mean an army is en route to attack?! Who are they un…The Loveless bitch. Who she got to…what to do you mean Pinkamena's joining in the fight?!" Spinel said infuriated. "Ready our army, if they want me, they'll have to come get me….and call off the hunt for Maylene and Enid."
When the general asked why, Spinel pointed that they had a bigger priority noting that if an army was coming that those two could not exactly escape the universe without risk.
-o-
Maylene had immediately called Enid letting her know she had a ship and asking where they were.
"Ok, I'm setting a course for Little St. James…but why there, Enid?" Maylene asked confusedly.
"For one, the guy who owed it is dead…and it's basically empty given everyone left. Why not? There's a mansion we can squat it…plus Star fell a bit ill. I needed to find an empty place to hide, and make sure she did not spread her sickness." Enid remarked. "What's your ETA?"
"Several hours, but I can cut down to a half hour if I use Upgrade. I just need to fix something first. Later." Maylene said hanging up.
For one thing, she was glad for the Galvan transformation.
-o-
"You seriously got some shade of shit luck to get the flu at a time like this." Yang asked as Star was lain on the couch. "And not something worse."
"At least it's not Co-." Ruby remarked only for Nora to cut with, "Don't give us shitty meta-commentary."
"This is still bad because we're sitting ducks!" Estrella said worriedly.
"It's gotten worse." Solaria said darkly. "I checked out the miltary's logs. We're getting an army. Enid, you're from the outside…please tell me the Loveless isn't…a..."
"Only now you realized that?" Eclipsa said holding her phone. "It's been all over Twitter as hashtag 'FuckAPinkBitchUp'."
"Well excuse me for not following the fucking trends!" Solaria yelled as Enid raised her voice.
"Enough! We need to be ready to leave as soon as Maylene gets here." Enid said firmly.
Enid spent her time saying to keep Eclipsa and Solaria from trying to kill each other as Jaune held Meteora in her arms. Globgor simply waited outside to keep an eye out for ships as Moon and Comet tried to keep Star hydrated. It would be agonizing, but Maylene arrived with the ship. Everyone scrambled to get in with Comet, Festivia, and Moon carrying Star who had been placed on a futon.
"Is everyone ready?" Maylene said as Jaune was the last one to get in. "Good!"
She transformed into Upgrade and told Enid to take the the wheel.
"Everyone else, sit down and strap in!" Maylene said trigger the Ultimate Evolution feature.
As Ultimate Upgrade, Maylene gave a purple glow over her Mechomorph body. The Ultramatrix symbol was shifted from her chest to her sternum. Phones had their signal tampered with.
"Maylene, you all there?" Enid asked.
"So much data flowing through my mind. I…am fine." Maylene said in a near monotone. "Though allow me to hurry this along."
Merging with the ship, she put the thrusters into drive as the ship blasted into space. Everyone screamed for dear life at they were propelled into space.
[Cues: Star Fox 64 OST - Corneria]
What they flew into was the middle of a massive dogfight between Spinel's forces from the coalition against her. Laser fires, missiles, explosions, and drowned sounds of the fallen where all over the place as Maylene did her best to pilot.
Aboard the lead ship for the Loveless family, Kikyo was reporting to the clan head herself.
"Empress Loveless, a new ship has entered the fray. I don't think it appears to be on Spinel's side…but it's not one of ours." Kikyo said concerned. "Seems to be drifting away from the fight."
"Engage communication lines with it." Cherie said coldly.
Kikyo opened the lines to which Cherie demanded a status from the vessel.
"This is Maylene Shadows of Fusion Force. We mean you no harm as I am fleeing with refugees on board." Maylene said firmly even giving her Warper ID number to confirm her identity.
Nerine, the one working monitors on the Loveless ship, looked up and confirmed that Maylene was legitimate. Before Cherie could speak, Maylene fired shooting down a fighter jet for Spinel's army.
"Thanks, but this is not your fight…you should go." Cherie said firmly. "The less innocents in the way, the better."
"Then I need you to cover me…I have precious cargo that needs to get out of here." Maylene said icily. "Just keep Spinel distracted!"
Maylene cut the line redirecting her ship away from the fighting just hoping she could get away. But life was never fair as Spinel spied the ship.
[Cues: Star Wolf's Theme / Sector Z (for 3DS / Wii U) | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]
"Oh, come on!" Enid said flustered as several ships under Spinel gave chase. "Maylene, can you evade them?"
"It's taking a lot of power to hold this Ultimate form and maintain the ship." Maylene said attempting return fire. "There may be a way to get us out of here, but you'll actually have to take the wheel of the ship!"
Maylene unmerged from the ship returning back to her human form panting a bit before going to her bag getting out the prototype portal gun. She had no idea where the coordinates were already set to. They were basically gambling with their lives as May hooked the remote to the ship. Spinel had forced her way into the communication line.
"So, this is where my slaves are hiding? And I see the sniveling Eclipsa is still alive? Running away again like cowards." Spinel taunted. "No spine left to stand, but I guess if you're in league the spawn of white trash and Edgy the Millennial, I guess you're going to be gutless."
Maylene should have backed down, but if there was one thing she hated…was being called white trash or being called the daughter of it. Insulting her dead and gone mother also did not put Maylene in a good mood either.
"I know she's making you mad, but we need to escape!" Moon said as Solaria shoved her aside to say, "Fuck that! We show that pink psycho we aren't cowards!"
"By running into a deathtrap!" Festivia said raising her voice. "For one, most of us don't have our powers back in full."
As they argued, Marco raised his voice.
"I hate Spinel as much as you, but I will take risks I know I can't win. It's for the best we flee. Better we flee to recover to live another day then to risk a shorter life." Marco said firmly.
"We can't risk our lives for meaningless words!" Nora touted.
"He's right, it's for the best we fle-"
Eclipsa was interrupted by Maylene who asked Enid if she still had her Arwing.
-o-
[Cues: Cowboy Bebop OST – Road to the West]
What Cherie witness was an Arwing disembark from the ship and a call for Spinel in a ship to duel. Spinel accepted and she came out guns blazing her personal ship to clash with. What went down was a classic dogfight, aileron rolls, barrel rolls, close calls, and other star fighters getting blown up in the process.
"Just give up and die already, you're delaying the inevitable." Spinel said flying closer to Maylene only to see the Arwing's cockpit was empty. "What?! But you were…"
"Adios…" Maylene said before the line went dead.
The last thing Spinel saw was a bright flash as the Arwing exploded propelling Spinel's ship which collided with her mothership. Pinkamena and Cherie's forces had taken the opening to bombard Spinel's army with everything they had.
-o-
[Cues: Nujabes – Feather]
The portal opened up as Maylene piloted the ship out much to the relief of everyone on abroad. All was quiet save for the radio pumping out chilling music. Maylene turned to Enid asking for a status.
"Ship took a hit, but we're good to go." Enid said as Maylene lowered the music. "You calling your parents?"
Maylene nodded and called her father up.
"Maylene! Where are you? What happened?!" Saki asked worriedly. "The signal on your Arwing…"
"We escaped and got the Metsu Sol Emerald. I don't know what universe we're in, but we're away from Spinel. We're getting a radio signal…so the universe has warpers." Maylene said as Enid ran through to check on things.
"I'm tracing your…wait, I know that universe…oh well, this is convinent. Remember when we found out I was cloned?" Saki said dryly.
"The screw up that ended up as Naruto…and is trying to piss all over the tropes. Him?" Maylene remarked.
"Yes, your 'uncle'. In fact, this coud work to your favor, go see him and get patched up. Then come home…your mother and I want to make sure you're safe and sound." Saki said as Maylene agreed.
She hung up and took the wheel.
"Wait, isn't the space of Naruto…kind of dangerous? What about the moon people?" Enid asked only for Maylene to shrug it off.
"Don't jinx it!" Everyone screamed.
Maylene revved the engine and set a course for Earth just glad it was all over.
(A/N: And there you have it, the end of the Spiral Arc. All done and set before May, and yes, you're getting a crossover episode with Naruto of The Geist Within. Once May 1st rolls in, I'll have the new Warper News Network up. And soon we'll have a new The Geist Within. The chapter that will come here will be the aftermath of that chapter.)
But what about Star and company? Having them residents of CN-Zen Kuro would be a bit out of place but keeping them elsewhere could work. I'll decide on my next Geist chapter!