Chapter 30: Plague of Nights
Sancturia...
Gabriel was locked in combat with Plagueis. The squirming fiend had a surprisingly agile fighting style and swiftly clawed away at his body with his many vile needles.
But Gabriel knew where he'd strike and when to block. His blade's length ensured not a single gap could be opened to his foe.
Yet when it came to striking back, that was not so easy. Plagueis swerved away from each thrust and slice and continued fighting back with no pause in between.
Gabriel shifted forward and went towards his foe's face, and found his blade locked in a cage of needles. Plagueis gurgled, feeling elated at the struggle.
"You're more stubborn than a squad of white blood cells!" He pushed his face towards the tip of the blade, knowingly enticing the pain that he presumed would never come, "But that's always when I have the most fuuuuuun!"
He threw the katana towards the ground and slid away momentarily as it rose towards his face. He then flew right back into the fray and kept swinging his needles away at the samurai's face.
Gabriel had a close encounter with the grimy tips that drew a bead of sweat from his forehead. Meanwhile, Saturn was pacing around slowly and filing information away on her handy watch.
"Gabriel, I need you to try and push him away!" She said, her tone more respectful than forceful.
"Yes, I'll get right on that." He replied, his tone tensing as he found Plagueis' needles grinding against his blade.
"Hmmm!" Saturn nudges up her glasses and shut off the watch, "I guess I can work with this."
She reached into her pocket and lightly tossed up a small, metallic yellow orb. It tingled her nerves with excitement when she wrapped it in her hand, and after smirking she chuckled slyly.
She then clicked the top and the middle split open with a few blue sparks. Gabriel glanced her way and subtly nodded before resuming contact with their enemy.
Saturn flicked the grenade in an arc and its ticking counted down rapidly. When Plagueis took notice, too bad! There's no escape this time.
A magnetic burst from the grenade repelled Gabriel and Plagueis from each other. Saturn then raised her watch and quick-fired a purple laser at the enemy.
It scorched his coat as he squirmed out of the way with annoyingly unnatural timing. She tried two more lasers in quick succession and the grimy fiend took that as a cue to start dancing around them.
"Hold still you devil!" She raised the watch before her eyes and started charging up for a double-sized dynamic laser attack!
Plagueis twisted towards her and started scuttling at her like a crab after ingesting a mix of sugar and cocaine. She fired the laser off without warning and he swerved out of the way.
Gabriel provided back-up by deflecting it back down with a slice, burning a hole in the bottom of Plagueis' coat. He quickly squirmed many feet away and tucked his arms down by his sides.
"Gggggggggg!" There goes the arrogant laughter. A common coping mechanism for cornered cronies. Next up he'll probably say "I have you all figured out now".
"I have you all figured out now."
"Hehehe...!" She cracked a smirk as the subtle raise of her lips nudged her glasses into a perfect spot to shine.
"And then he'll say 'Enjoy your last living moments in this world'."
"Enjoy your last living moments in this world." He said while raising his head up high, stretching his shadow further under the pale moonlight.
"Haha! Two for two! I'm unstoppable today! And, for the coup de grace..." Saturn pushed up the bridge of her glasses on one finger and the lens fogged up. Given the fiend's fetish for flus, his next line will be...
"For the diseases I have concocted will take your breath AND life away!" She said in perfect unison with Plagueis, up to attempting to ape his slimy voice.
Her slime ridden nemesis lurched upright like he'd been turned to stone. Truly, his mind had been violated so thoroughly by her sheer awesomeness!
"Hahahaha!" She crossed her arms firmly with a smile.
"...What freak world were you born on woman?" Plagueis said in the driest tone his moist mouth could muster.
"A world where radiance shines from every star, and I shine the brightest of them all!" Saturn flipped part of her hair back and paused for a chuckle, then resumed with a deeper, more bombastic voice, like she was announcing for a sports game, "I am the ray of hope to illuminate the darkest depths, and burn away evil at the source! I am the ultimate superheroine of the stars! Galaxy Rider...Saturn!"
And of course, gotta finish off another great speech by setting off an explosion behind her. But first...
"Ahem...!" She cleared her throat and Gabriel sighed, then took a few steps to the right with a smile.
She then pleasantly crossed her arms and "Kaboom!", off went the (safety regulated) fireworks behind her, leaving behind a flashy blue and purple cloud.
"Oh good grief enough already!" Plagueis violently squirmed and swung his needles back out, "You're making me sick with all this nonchalant chit-chat and insane antics...! Do you take me for the common flu?!"
"Your foul ilk is a disease and we are the cure!" Saturn proclaimed while thrusting her pointer finger out.
"You haven't seen me play foul yet..." Plagueis wiggled one hand's worth of needles before his face, "Allow me to elucidate to you...the true definition of fear."
A heavy breeze blew forth from the fiend's body. Nay, it was his speed at work, and the complimentary afterimage acted as his deception.
With a quick flinch Saturn hopped away and narrowly avoided the sting of Plagueis' needles. All the while, he took another swing at Gabriel's head, and the samurai guarded with his katana.
"Got you...!" The fiend's voice deepened with malice and after a sharp turn of his head, one of the needles dislodged from his hand and stuck into Gabriel's neck.
"Ghhh...!" Gabriel bit his teeth down and took a swing at Plagueis, only for him to slip away like a tadpole. He then quickly pulled the needle out, leaving a throbbing, discolored hole in his skin, with the veins slowly turning yellow underneath.
"Gack...!" He heaved a dry cough and clasped his neck, dropping onto one knee as less and less noise came out of him.
"Ohohoho, now that's more like it. Grovel near the dirt like the worm you are!" Plagueis boasted while all hunched towards his foe.
Saturn ran towards her ally and diagnosed the conditions immediately. The fiend had infected Gabriel with a virus that forced his esophagus closed and made it hard to breathe.
"You slimy scoundrel!" She proclaimed whilst turning her head hard towards the enemy, and giving them an even harder glare.
Plagueis gently wagged the tips of his needles beside his face and brushed her confidence off with a laugh, "Arrogance, mankind's greatest disease..."
He waved his hand out a finger a time and shook his head in pity, "You were so relaxed trying to beat me that I had plenty of time to figure you out, while I kept my cards close to my chest."
"The moss skinned samurai is tough, granted, but he still needs to breathe," Plagueis' collar started to become drenched in slime yet again, "Oh I wonder how much oxygen he has left to spare...How quickly shall he lose the color in his eyes. I want to see this green man turn purple..."
"...But I have work to do and lost time to catch up on. There's no more need to entertain a crazy girl playing make believe hero..." He kept his hands close to his chest and muttered, "The doctor is in, and you are out."
He turned around and scuttled straight into the city. He wasn't just scum, he was cowardly scum, the worst kind of them all!
Saturn looked at Gabriel and saw the samurai close his eyes in a wince of pain, "G-Go! I'll be fine..."
It was a vote of confidence gifted by what few precious breaths he might have left. And there was no way in heck she was going to let that go to waste.
"Yeah!" She stood right up and threw her coat back, releasing a few hand-sized drones from the pockets, "I ain't letting this scumbag outta my sight. Nobody hurts my comrades and gets away with it!"
That slime scoundrel wants to talk definitions? She's about to show him what being a "heroine" really means. And really, claiming that he's got her all figured out?
"Heh, I ain't even used one full deck of cards!" She said with a confident smirk, "Time to get to work!"
"Phi!" She proclaimed to the drone with rough pink lights.
"Yes madame?" They replied in a respectful chiptune voice.
"Monitor Gabriel's condition and keep his vitals in check. The rest of us are gonna take the bad guy down!"
"Of course. Be on your way."
That drone hovered behind while Saturn leaped onto the nearest rooftop and started bouncing across them like they were the soft, springy mushrooms on Caulispo 7.
She tapped the side of her glasses and her field of vision became covered in an olive green tint. A certain scoundrel appeared through the houses as a glowing blue figure.
"Gotcha punk!" She kicked up the pace and bolted across the roofs while barely taking a break to land.
Plagueis wiggled his way through the streets of Sancturia and flicked his needles towards the houses, striking the bold but now foolish Aurians for daring to peek outside the sanctity of their homes.
"Flus and viruses and vernal diseases! These are but some of my favorite thiiiings~" And worse than anything he'd done up until this point, he was singing. Badly. Nails on chalkboard had better rhythm than him.
He twirled around in the middle of a cul-de-sac of houses as Aurians collapsed to their ground, scratching at their boil filled faces or becoming paralyzed by bulging mushrooms erupting out of their backs.
"Take part in my pleasures, and fill me with your fear! Writhe in agony, for your end is near!"
"You're not just ugly, you're tone deaf too!" Saturn proclaimed as she vaulted high off the nearest roof top and descended in front of the moonlight with her coat swung back like a cape.
"Ugh...Do you ever give up?!" Plagueis hunched down then lashed his upper body out in a grotesque fashion, firing all the needles at his current disposal her way.
She summoned a wall of aura to deflect them and then pinched the side of her glasses to keep them on, "Attacking an officer of the law too? Your evil knows no bounds!"
Changing her field of vision to blue revealed the veins of the infected Aurians were quickly turning a slimy yellow. Disgusting!
"Copper, Byte, Gamma, tend to the sick!"
"Roger roger!" "Of course ma'am!" "It shall be done." The drones separated and hovered over the Aurians. They were properly equipped with nanobots that knew how to hunt down and eliminate these specific diseases. If these were the cards the enemy was holding back, then they're about as disappointing as his fashion sense.
But, it didn't hurt to be safe. Right upon landing she quarantined the sick in bubbles of aura and cocked her watch up towards Plagueis.
"Hiyah!" She hollered as she fired a laser straight at him. He wormed his way around the beam and it passed between a pair of houses instead. Then he turned upright and gurgled.
"Hmph! Lets see if you can keep up! Flu season is in...!" He flicked a few more dirty needles and right upon doing so turned tail and ran like the dickens.
Running. Curse her young, supple body for this one weakness...! But justice didn't need speed. It catches up to evil eventually!
She followed the obvious trail of slime he secreted in joy and found him targeting more Aurians that were joining in the fight. Now yes, it'd feel a little wrong to douse their hot-headed heroism, buuuuut...
"Outta the way, he's gonna make you sick just by looking at him!" She tried, they just didn't quite hear her in time.
They looked back at her and allowed Plagueis to jab his needles into each of their guts, infecting six in under a second. He then squirmed away from the crowd as they dropped to the ground, rolling over with their arms clutched against their gut.
Some started coughing up blood, others browned their pants. Disgusting, times two! This would absolutely require more drones to fix up.
She called out four from her pockets and ran at the crowd yelling, "Don't worry! Help's on the way!"
Comfort, one of the best medicines out there!
"You should worry about helping yourself girl..." Plagueis mockingly commented. He jerked his right hand up, then his left. The ill bodies left in his wake were forced to their feet, and tossed through the air like rag dolls.
"He can control the people he infects?! That's a lower than low blow!"
She caught the first one flying at her in an aura bubble and vaulted over it like it was a hurdle, "Epsy! Clear out his stomach and give his body a clean-up!"
"Beep!" The drone replied with a very high-pitched sound.
Upon landing she caught the second body in a bubble and carefully swerved around to place them beside the first. Then she flipped back and thrust her hands down to catch a third one in a bubble.
"Ortega, give these two's throats a couple nanobot lozenges and wash their chins off!"
"MA'AM YES MA'AM!" The drone replied in a general's booming voice.
Upon landing she only had moments to respond to two more being flung at her sides. She turned around and ducked and ran underneath them, then flipped back to put them both in the same bubble.
"They're both inflicted with the same disease. How fortuitous!" As she casually pushed her left hand behind to catch the last ailing Aurian, she gave commands to the last drones.
"W3!" That drone turned around and made a computer start up sound, "Clean out these two's intestines of any germs! Also..."
She reached into her chest pocket and flashed a card with her face and logo imprinted on it, "Go and buy 'em some new pairs of pants!"
She slung the card into the droid's slotted mouth and it bobbed in the air. Then she turned to the last drone and hastily said, "As for you Roze, just do what you normally do, but be gentle."
"Oooh I will, mistress Saturn." They responded in a sultry voice.
She then ran around the last bubble as Plagueis was beginning to turn tail yet again, "That's it fiend! Your pants pooping reign of terror is over!"
The fiend looked over his shoulder and the contempt he glared felt empowering. Widening her smile just to squeeeze all that hatred outta him, she then crossed her arms and stood at a slant.
"You're ridiculously persistent. But I will not play your little game of cops and robbers..."
As he turned around Saturn thrust her right hand towards the sky and proclaimed, "Ship! Deploy the Frost Suit!"
"As you command." Came out from her wrist. Her sleek ship sped on by overhead and sent a beam down directly on top of her.
She crossed her arms again and closed her eyes as her body was enveloped in that comfy form-fitting nanofiber she loved the most. Once hair, skin and face were properly sealed in her vision outside was exposed via a light-blue snowflake shaped glass plate. Dozens of data points ran at once from her point of view, and she, of course, kept track of them all.
The sheer awesomeness she exuded sent Plagueis into a state of shock, emphasized by him bending his head down and uttering a blunt "WHAT?!"
"Yeah. I know it. I'm awesome." She closed her eyes with a joyous laugh and then crossed her arms to deliver the message heralding his demise, "You face Galaxy Rider Saturn, in the flesh! There is no escape for you now!"
"How hard were you hit in the head as a child?" The villain turned to face her.
"The only thing that hit this head were the books!" She pointed out her fists and remarked, "And now I'm going to do the same to you! Book you, that is."
Plagueis slumped and slowly started turning to do his usual cowardice. He really needs to...chill.
She jabbed out and shot a thick blast of ice at the ground to freeze it over. The moment Plagueis moved his upper body bobbed around, failing to gain momentum.
He then shifted right at her and grumbled, "I'm not going to get anywhere unless I deal with you personally..."
Saturn wagged her fingers towards her and the front of her enemy's hat slanted like brows. He then slowly pushed himself off the ice and, the moment he was off, bolted straight for her in a daring attempt to give her the flu.
But as the needles got close to her suit she flexed the ol' brain muscles and made a heavy frost surround her suit and freeze them in place.
She then shattered them with a rising knee that lifted her off the ground. "HIYAAAH!" She attempted to kick him but he scurried back and shoved more needles out from his gloves.
"Gggggg!" Plagueis flung them out, as expected.
She put her hands an inch apart and focused aura and frost between them into the shape of a blade, "Zero Cutter!"
She swung right out and the dashing wave of ice released filled the floor with spikes between her and the house farthest back...And missed her foe entirely.
Plagueis had taken that time to run right in and attempt another infection. Saturn released a wave of frost and not only stiffened his needles, but heavily covered his coat.
Spin kicking his body was foiled by his agile retreat yet again. He shuffled his head around and then eyed the houses.
"What's he plotting?" She prepared another blade and swung it at him the moment he looked ready to move.
Plagueis reeled back centimeters from the wall of spikes and then scurried along it towards the houses, ducking behind cover.
She quickly put her vision into focus via an x-ray mode and saw the fiend rounding the houses. Oddly, not retreating.
"Hiding out of sight? That ain't gonna help you here!" She had fully consumed his foul stench and could track it without opening her eyes. She fired off small, carefully guided missiles of frosted aura around the houses to tag the fiend the moment he popped up.
A few seconds later he made his first appearance outside of a house to the right and flicked his needles towards her. The frost field been on the upkeep rendered his little game of hide and seek fruitless.
He popped out from behind a different house every few seconds and seemed to not be trouble by the missiles satelliting the area. Why he kept trying to fight this way was beyond her comprehension but there wasn't even a 1% chance she'd let her guard down.
It wasn't until a minute into this silly game when Plagueis sprinted out behind a house and threw an entire healthy Aurian at her.
"!" Saturn popped her aura off and held her hands up to catch the panicking Aurian, "Hang on citizen, I've got you!"
Her eyes widened as a stabbing pain throbbed in both her palms. Plagueis had run behind the Aurian and pierced their body with his needles to get to her.
"Found you..." He murmured.
Saturn's hands trembled and she could feel a horribly chafing rash forming all over the skin. And the same was happening throughout the Aurian's body.
She quickly froze the Aurian over and apologized, "I'll thaw you out later!"
She flung them overhead and contained them in a soft, temperate bubble. At least that way the infection wouldn't spread through their body. She then applied the same layer of frost over her own hands and went up to the wrists.
Plagueis backed away slowly, grinding his needles against each other, "I will start simple...and work my way up. When I'm done they won't even recognize you by the hairs on your head!"
"...Ship! I need the Thermal Suit, pronto!" Blah blah blah, the bad guys love to brag, but she'll always remain undaunted by meager taunts!
The ship shone another beam down and swapped suits on the fly. Now her glass visor was shaped like a red hot ember and intense heat exuded from every pore of the suit.
"Alright, time to expel these germs!" Specifically targeting the infected parts of her skin with heat caused sweat to seep through the pores, both expelling and drying up the germs that gave her that nasty rash. But boy howdy, did it still itch like her-
Plagueis ran in and attempted scraping his needles down her chest like claws. She backed away and thrust out a punch that carried him away on a wave of heat.
He wormed his way out of it and lobbed a volley of needles her way. She turned up the outward heat to, ironically, freeze them in the air until they started melting down.
The itchy hands were starting to be a HUGE pain in the rear, "Note to self...Create a Remedy Suit later."
The computer in the suit wrote that down.
She swung a few punches at Plagueis to get him sweating, but the only wetness on his clothes came from his own intoxicated, slime-ridden mouth.
She had to get in close whether she liked it or not. One short burst of speed closed the gap and she rapidly swung her fists out. He dodged around every one of them, and it felt like she was hitting empty air when she did scrape the coat.
When Plagueis retaliated with whipping movements she backed away and used aura as a shield. In turn, the fiend detached a needle down into her foot.
She flinched and directed the heat down to her foot to eject the germs before they cause any harm. Plagueis stabbed dangerously close to her eyes and she recoiled her head back.
Then he took his other hand and managed to stick a couple needles in her chest. She hurried to eject those germs before her heart wound up racing faster than it already was.
She swung her legs towards his stomach and head and he ran directly away from them, only to pull himself right back in to slash his needles down towards her chest.
She threw her hands up to grab whatever qualified as his wrists and tried to drag him in. He slipped right out and scraped the tips of his needles over her palms.
Sweating continued to thwart his infections at every turn. Sure, her vision was blurry and her breathing had to increase, but she was totally in control of the battle!
"Just got to get one good hit in..." She swung out a few times and waves of heat shoved Plagueis away. He threw his needles out in a wide spread, forcing the use of her field to give her time to dodge.
He thrust himself right into the fray and wrapped his wiggly arms around her back to inject disease near the shoulder blades. It was a little painful, but more sweating took care of the worst of it.
She grabbed his arms, leaped, and kicked him square in the gut, sliding him all the way back into a house. Once she landed she huffed and puffed.
Plagueis hunched over and chuckled, "You're starting to tire...Is this plan of yours really doing you any good?"
She arched her brows and heated up her right arm until it was red hot. She then did a full circle turnaround and swung at the air with a vigorous thrust, "Raging Cycle!"
A circular wave of heat rose into a spiral on its advance upon the field. With a joyous fit of laughter the fiend scuttled around the attack and darted straight for her.
"Shoot Geyser!" She punched the ground and a geyser of heat erupted out of it, launching itself into the air. It then burst, spreading a volley of heat blasts across their battlefield.
Plagueis cackled like a madman as she squirmed his way around every shot and was soon mere inches from her body.
"Time for a more direct approach...!" He hissed, giving no time to react to the grime ridden needles being stabbed into her skull.
She froze up as a strange feeling entered her brain in a second. It was like poison was enveloping her mind in an intoxicating fog. The colors of the world became...funny. Lots of strange greens and yellows she couldn't identify swirled before her.
The colors began to mix into a striking, if dirty, azure, with bits of black and gray inside. It melted down into a massive puddle, and formed wavy lumps that ebbed like a steady tide.
The lumps rose and three holes formed near the top. Two circles, and an oval of sorts. A cacophony of moans filled the air. They were hurting. They were in pain.
..."They"?
Yes. They definitely had...jaws. Broken jaws. Slanted jaws. Detached jaws. Were they human? Yes, at one point. Now they were screams. Echoing, desperate screams, clawing for either Heaven or Hell to take them.
"I must die...!"
"Why did you do this to us?"
"Catherine."
"Catherine!"
"This is your fault."
"CATHERINE!"
"Daughter...you killed us..."
"All of us."
Dragged through the muck, where the lumps continued to grow in number. Then, carried into the black abyss beyond, the mass was revealed to have a curvature to it. And the bodies, so many bodies, were merely parts of a greater whole. The teeth of something bigger, nastier, unnatural.
And stretch did its maw, as the face of a skull pulled itself away from the rest of the titanic, spherical mass and whispered in its dissonant tone.
"MOTHER."
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Plagueis hovered over his knelt foe and leaned his head in close. Her eyes were wide-open and trembling. There was something...beautiful about how white her eyes were.
"Fascinating..." He murmured in delight, while caressing the curve of her skull with his right hand, "You are a more interesting specimen than I could've ever imagined..."
Enticed into a state of bliss, he failed to pay attention to the shifting of her eyes downward, and the slow, steady breaths she started taking. Hot and cold sweat mixed profusely out of her pores. And her fists, turned taut.
"...Banish the Nightmare..." Starting with a whisper, the moment Plagueis began to move, she stood right up and rammed her knee into his gut, "KICK!"
"GHHHH!" He spat up slime and recoiled quite a few feet back. He quickly raised his head and swiped a hand over his chest, "WHAT?!"
Saturn stood up and firmly crossed her arms with thunderous resolve, "You'll have to do better than that to throw me off my game!"
"Oh?" Plagueis twisted his head right and boldly remarked, "Is that a dare?"
He gently pointed downward and looking there showed Saturn that he had stuck another needle into her foot as he retreated. She scoffed "So what? I'll sweat it out like I always do!"
"I'm afraid you won't find that possible for this one." A dull laugh filled his coat as he rose.
A cracking sound started climbing her from below. When she looked down again, her skin turned stone cold. An azure mass with bits of black and gray spread out from the needle and onto her armor at an alarming rate.
"I hardly have much use for something like this but...A virus is a virus, and I am nothing if not a diligent connoisseur," Plagueis boasted, "But to think I'd run into someone else who knows about, nay, fears it."
The mass had gotten to her waist already. Her body froze up, and she hastily screamed, "E-EJECT SUIT! SET TO SELF DESTRUCT NOW!"
"Are you s-"
"YES YES YES HURRY!" The fabric came undone and repelled into the air. A countdown hastily went from 5 to 1, filling the material with white light. And then, it exploded, taking out that mass.
Saturn's heart felt ready to burst out of her chest. She breathed so much, how could her lungs possibly be keeping up?
Plagueis, the cruel fiend, stood there and giggled at her expense, "Ggggggg...! Oh, aren't you adorable?"
He hunched forward and slowly remarked, "Little miss perfect...You are the funnest type of subject to break. Hiding flaws behind shells, always trying to do the right thing..."
"Slowly, surely, I wear your kind down and chip away at your brittle shell...Then you face reality, the darkest truth of the world..." He waved his arms down and stared up into the sky, "There is no such thing as perfection. We live, and we die. Mortality is an everlasting flaw, a disease that corrupts down to the soul..."
"You are no different, no matter how many suits you hide behind. Deep down, you're just a scared little girl playing superhero..."
Saturn's eyes were obscured in shadow, and her lips laid flat.
"And you will die, alone and unloved..."
"..." Saturn's lips perked into a smile, and slowly she raised her shaky hand to her glasses. Give it a few seconds, then raise them so they shine.
"Hahaha..." Start it off slow, let the fear sink into his villainous mind.
"HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!" Then erupt into laughter, crossing your arms as a defiant shield of justice, and watch as the fiend sinks into utter confusion.
"Ha! So you've finally gone mad!" He exclaimed in ecstasy.
"Wrong!" She barked back in his face with a tight grin, "You've got it all wrong! I'm many things, but alone ain't one of them!"
Plagueis hunched down and seemed increasingly unaware of the massive shadow flying closer behind him.
"YOU GOT THAT RIGHT CAT!"
"Who NOW-" Plagueis turned around and his coat bent back against the pressure of Jupiter's approaching fist. He thrust his needles at her knuckles, and they shattered instantly on the skin.
"...Oh shit." He whimpered while quickly pulling away, avoiding becoming paste in the crater she smashed upon the ground.
"Its like we said!" Mars jumped in and almost shotgun blasted Plagueis' head off, then took a few swings in rapid succession as the fiend made his retreat. His expression was fired up and his pursuit of his enemy proved relentless, "We're not going to abandon a friend in need!"
Plagueis repelled himself away with one flailing shove and found himself backed against the wall of the house. He squirmed his head around, watching as Jupiter approached with her knuckles cracked and Mars swung his nunchucks over his shoulder.
"Looks like this scumbag's gonna be our tiebreaker." She remarked, teeth grit in a fanged smile.
"Fine by me! He's got nowhere to run to!" Mars exclaimed.
"What what what?!" Plagueis looked around and quickly came to realize that it was deadly silent in the city. He was the only monster left.
"I-Impossible...! What are you freaks of nature?!" He hollered out as an immense gasp of panic and Saturn, gladly, walked closer to explain.
"We're friends!" She perched her glasses upright and fogged them up as she smiled, "And friendship, is the strongest medicine against evil!"
Plagueis started vibrating all over and wrenched upright with a shriek, "GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!"
His eyes darted towards Saturn as he screamed, "SPARE ME YOUR MIDDLE SCHOOL DIAGNOSIS...AND DIE!"
He lunged straight past Jupiter and Mars on a one way course for Saturn...Only for his needles to be blocked by a familiar katana, held behind the back of the last person he expected to see.
"YOU!" He yelled at Gabriel, standing as tall as a mountain, "How. Are. You...?!"
He turned his head so the fiend could get a good look at how clean his neck looked now, and answered only with a smile.
"Farewell." He turned right around and delivered a hard slash through Plagueis' stomach. A stroke so clean, that his fluids didn't even spill a drop.
"Ghhhurkkk...! CCKKK!" The squirming menace collapsed onto the floor, and its continued movements loosened its coat to reveal...
A giant tapeworm, using its stupendous length to make its own arms, hands, and legs.
"Ugh...!" Jupiter flinched.
"I-!" Was the last word the doctor would get before Saturn crushed him under a giant aura flyswatter.
"Are through!" She rang in victory with a snap of her fingers...And then totally collapsed back first onto the ground.
"Aaaaah..." She let out a long, well-earned sigh of relief while Gabriel picked her up in his arms.
She then turned her head at her friends and asked, "Alright guys, status report?"
Jupiter and Mars were glaring up at Gabriel. And the amazon started railing on him angrily, "What the HELL Gabriel, that was our kill!"
"We needed him to decide the tie breaker in our contest..." Mars lamented a lot more quietly.
Gabriel slowly blinked and muttered, "I'm sorry...?"
"Guys." Saturn remarked.
Jupiter looked down and laughed, "Oh right, sorry Cat."
Mars tucked his nunchucks away and relaxed his shoulders, "City's clear, and there were no causalities."
"Well ignoring the destruction of one of my favorite suits..." Saturn gave a big thumbs-up and exclaimed, "Mission accomplished everyone! Not a bad night of heroics if I do say so myself!"
"I hate to be the one to say it," Gabriel quietly remarked, "But there's still the matter of the monsters' master to attend to."
"...Oh yeah." Jupiter remarked.
"Ehhhh..." Saturn was going to be dragging this out of herself by tooth and nail, "I hate to say it but. I guess we could just leave it up to that miscreant Mew to deal with him."
As Gabriel began to smile Saturn pointed her finger up towards the moon and exclaimed, "BUT! If he messes up which I know he will, we're joining in!"
"You got it!" Jupiter exclaimed, and Mars nodded.
"..." Saturn curled her fist towards the moon and stared at it quietly, "Don't screw it up Mew. This is your planet, your home. You don't want to know what its like to lose it..."
She closed her eyes, and decided to take a bit of a nap...
Next Time: Eyes of Red
