Chapter 27 - The Powers Revealed
On board the Tornado, the group seemed restless with anticipation. As the flight to the Little
Planet continued, you could practically cut the tension with a knife. It wasn't from the
excitement of getting the Descendancy Powers, however...and Anthony could sense the tension...
"Guys, I sense you're nervous about something. Are you that excited about getting the Powers?"
"It's not that, Anthony," Sally said, giving Anthony a look of concern. "We're kind of
wondering how you're holding up. Things are moving rather quickly now."
"I'll manage. Granted I am a bit scared about going to war..."
"Anthony..." Sally said, interrupting him. "Amy told us...about what happened last night."
Anthony slumped back into his seat upon hearing that. He had hoped Amy would keep those events
to himself, but didn't figure she'd be so concerned she would tell the others.
"Do you want to talk about it?" asked Zelda.
"What's there to talk about?" Anthony said, bowing his head in shame. "Let's face it...I'm no
hero, at least not enough of one to bear the name Gamemaster. I don't what possessed me to
introduce myself as such to you, Sal. I guess I wanted to help so bad I just let my mouth move
without thinking. Besides that, I used a pretty low-down method to convince Knuckles to help,
showing him that fan fiction that upset him. No hero would stoop that low...I'm surprised
Chuckles didn't tell Julie-Su to do her worst to me right then and there!"
"Julie-Su told us about that," Protoman said. "OK, so you made a mistake...everyone makes
mistakes, even heroes like Mario and Sonic. That doesn't make you a bad person."
"I know that. But...I'm not ready to accept the role of 'hero'! Especially not the role of a
hero that five worlds look up to!"
"Then apparently you weren't listening to Amy," Peach said. "You don't have to become as great
as the original Gamemaster, Anthony. In fact, we don't want you to."
Anthony looked up, more confused than he ever was before. "Huh?!?"
Zelda explained. "Sir Eric sacrificed his life to save the other Companions, and this act is
what makes people in Arcadia hail him as the greatest of the heroes. You, however, don't have
to sacrifice your life. You've already made a name for yourself by bringing the worlds of
Arcadia together..."
Protoman continued, "...helping to bring down Wily..."
Sally added the last part, "...and reuniting my father with Elian and myself, as well as Sonic
and his siblings with their mother."
"Besides," Tails piped up. "I know of one female hedgehog that would be way depressed if you
did sacrifice your life like Sir Eric did..."
Anthony nodded, knowing how Amy would react, but also knowing how his own family would react.
Peach and Zelda then said, in unison, "This is my fault," and looked at each other in surprise.
"Ladies," Anthony said, "if you are both referring to asking if I am to become the next
Gamemaster when we first met, don't blame yourself. You had no way of knowing I would be
unprepared for that task. Besides, if anyone's to blame, it's me."
"You?" Protoman said, surprised.
"Yeah..." Anthony said, sheepishly. "Based on what you guys are saying, I guess I'm taking
this whole 'Gamemaster' thing out of proportion and trying too hard to become the Master of
old." He then laughed a little and then continued. "Funny...this is the one time having a
great work ethic works against me."
The rest of the group felt a little relieved after hearing Anthony laugh. Sally then said,
"You going to be alright now?"
"Sure," Anthony said, sitting back up in his seat, "I guess I just needed some perspective
there. To be honest, I needed the reality check. I was somewhat treating the situation like a
game at times...and I needed a reminder of how real this was."
"I understand," Sally said. "Davie had the same problem a while back...however his reality
check came in the form of the Roboticizer Override, a device which self-destructs roboticized
people and items. We destroyed it, thankfully. You're lucky your reality check didn't come in
the form of something that could kill you."
"Indeed," Anthony said. He was silent for a while before continuing. "Guys...the Decendancy
Powers...what exactly are they? Additional powers or augmentation of existing powers?"
"Depends on the powers," Peach said. "Ralius's powers allowed him to control elemental magics
to their maximum, allowing him to use both wizardly magic on top of his own clerical magic."
"Because he was formally a soldier," Zelda continued, "Zorin's powers allowed him to master all
types of weapons as if he trained for years with all of them and forgot nothing of the
training."
Tails added the next part. "Sasha told me that Magi Reynard was experimenting with summoning
magic, and his powers allowed him to add additional spells and abilities depending on which
beast or creature he summoned. I was told he even used the Chaos Emeralds for his summonings,
each one able to summon a different type of creature. Blue was aquatic, green was avians, and
so on..."
"Doctor Light probably told you this already," Protoman continued. "but Adaman was able to use
his powers to draw upon the combined technical knowledge that existed in his time, and which
was used to create him, to augment himself. It was said the technology that existed in his
body during the time he used the powers might have been equivalent to your worlds current
technological level."
"Whoa...I didn't know that!" Anthony said. "I could just imagine what will happen to you,
Proto. But...what about Sir Eric's powers?"
Everyone looked at each other, then Peach answered, "No one knows. The knowledge we have was
passed from generation to generation, and...since Sir Eric died..."
"I understand..." Anthony said. "A pity...you know, if Sir Eric's children were told about
this, they might have passed the knowledge down, possibly even trained their children for this
day. Maybe then I would have..."
"Guys, the Little Planet is coming up," T-Bone's voice said over the intercom. "Better get
ready to disembark."
Anthony answered him on the intercom. "Got it, T-Bone. Once we leave, find a place nearby to
land and we'll contact you when we're done." He then turned towards the robodogs who were
resting until now. "Rush, Treble, jet mode!"
The robodogs transformed and Zelda and Peach climbed on Rush while Protoman and Saly climbed on
Treble. Anthony then activated his jet sled while Tails opened the bay doors and readied his
twin brushes..
"Good luck, guys!" T-Bone said from the cockpit as the group flew out the door.
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Sally led the group through the Little Planet to where she and Sonic found the Time Stones.
Nicole, now transformed from handheld computer form to her new panther body, was scanning the
area for anything unusual.
"Sal," Anthony said as the group walked, "you know...you wouldn't have succeeded going back in
time to prevent Robotnik's takeover. If the event ceased to exist, you would have had no
reason to back in time in the first place, and thus you wouldn't have stopped it to begin with.
Kind of a 'temporal paradox'..."
"Really?" Sally said. "How do you know?"
"After seeing several movies and games dealing with time travel, you tend to see similar
patterns." Anthony said, looking around.
Eventually the group came to the chamber where Sally got the time stones. It was then a
booming voice called out...
-Who seeks the time stones?-
Anthony was the one to speak. "We do not seek the time stones. We seek..."
-Wait...I sense familiar spirits in five of you. A magi, an elementalist, a golem, a wanderer,
and a master. You seek the lost powers...-
"Correct. Where can we find them?"
-You must pass a test. Here in this chamber is a sign that should not exist on this world.
Find it, and you will find what you seek. It is then that one of you must pass a different
test.-
"Thank you for your help, who...or whatever you are!"
The voice no longer spoke and the group started looking around. Anthony was sure the sign had
something to do with Hyrule, but he kept his options open. He then saw something on one of the
walls.
"Zelda, could you come over here?"
Zelda came to Anthony's location and looked where he was looking. She gasped when she saw the
symbol of the Triforce.
"Looks like I was right on the money. Try playing the Song of Time, Zelda."
Zelda took the Ocarina of Time out of a pouch she was carrying with her and played the Song of
Time with it. Within minutes, the wall changed into a door with what looked like a control
panel with five large buttons on it. There was strange writing on the buttons.
Sally and Nicole walked up to the door. "Nicole," Sally said, "can you translate that?"
"Certainly," Nicole said. After scanning it for a few seconds, she caused a holographic
display to appear over the words, indicating what each button says.
MAGI'S CALL
ELEMENTALIST'S ESSENCE
MASTER'S WILL
GOLEM'S KNOWLEDGE
WANDERER'S MIGHT
"Hmmm..." Protoman said. "Maybe these buttons are supposed to be pressed by the appropriate
descendants of the original heroes. Looks like I got 'golem's knowledge'."
Tails, Peach, Anthony, Protoman, and Zelda reached out and pressed the buttons in question.
The door then opened to reveal a hallway to some unknown location. When the group followed it,
they found a room with a strange pedestal with a sword sticking out of it.
"What the..." Anthony said, looking at the sword. "A sword? Is King Arthur hiding somewhere?"
"Anthony," Zelda said, "that's the Sword of the Gamemaster! The same sword Sir Eric used in
his final battle!"
"Really? Then...why isn't it all rusty after 1000 years?"
"It was said the sword was infused with psionic energy, making it able to cut through solid
stone and preserving it until now. I believe it's yours to take."
Anthony walked up to the sword and looked down upon it. As he grasped the handle, he sensed a
great amount of energy passing through him from the sword. He then pulled it out of the
pedestal, an action which caused a great flash to light up the room.
"Whoa..." Anthony said as the flash subsided. "That...was awesome! Hey guys, do you think..."
He noticed that his friends weren't moving and seemed to be transfixed in their current
positions. He tried nudging them, but they didn't move.
"What the hell? It's like they're frozen...frozen in time!" This realization made Anthony
afraid again, and he was about to put the sword back to see if that would reverse the effects
when he heard another voice.
"So we meet again, Gamemaster!"
Anthony turned towards the source of the voice and saw Packbell standing there. He reached
towards where his lightsaber was attached but found nothing there. It was then he got a second
shock...
Instead of the armor Light gave him, he was wearing a full set of gleaming plate mail, with
blued steel chain at the elbows and upper legs and metal gauntlets and leggings. He also felt
something like a cape attached to the back of the armor.
"Oh, great!" Anthony thought to himself. "This is the WORST time for me to turn into a
phracking paladin...great, I'm talking like Davie now..."
Packbell fired two shots towards Anthony, but at the same time Anthony erected a psionic
barrier which reflected the shots back at Packbell. Anthony was sure he didn't know this type
of barrier power before, and realized something...
"This...must be the Descendancy Powers!" He then got a smile on his face as he looked towards
Packbell. "Let's see what else I can do..."
Anthony decided to try a power called "Fade", which caused his body to become invisible.
Packbell couldn't find him, and Anthony managed to come in close and hit him a with a couple of
sword slashes across his torso. Anthony was surprised the sword did such heavy damage to the
armor casing of the cyborg.
Anthony became visible again when he hit with the sword and used his next couple of strikes to
remove the gun arm from Packbell. Packbell tried to hit Anthony with a punch from his other
arm, but it was immediately blocked by another psionic barrier. This enraged Packbell, and he
decided to take his frustrations out on the currently frozen in time individuals. He ran
towards Sally.
Anthony ran as fast as he could to cut off Packbell, raising a psionic barrier over Sally
before Packbell could hit her with a newly formed laser gun arm. Anthony then proceeded to
attack Packbell again, this time going for the other arm.
Packbell dodged the sword blows and tried to fire shots towards the other time frozen heroes,
but Anthony rose barriers over them so the shots never hit. He then got enraged at Anthony and
started to fire several shots towards Anthony while saying, "I refuse to beaten by a mere
accountant!"
That was Packbell's last mistake...
"DON'T...CALL...ME...AN...ACCOUNTANT!" Anthony said, punctuating each word with sword strike
to Packbell and finishing it off by driving the sword through Packbell's heart, if he had one.
Then, as Packbell was falling to his knees, Anthony made a final swipe at Packbell which
beheaded him on the spot, causing a fountain of oil and sparks to spurt out of him.
-Well done, Gamemaster.-
The voice again, the same one that greeted the group as they entered, was addressing Anthony.
-You have passed your test. You have defeated your opponent while at the same time protecting
your friends. You are truly worthy of Sir Eric's powers.-
"Wait...what happened to my friends? Come to think of it, what the heck happened to me?!?"
-Your friends were placed in that state so they could not interfere with your test. They were
in no real danger, the Packbell you fought was merely an illusion, but you protected your
friends as if they were, a true test of your character. As for the armor you wear, it is the
same armor that formed when Sir Eric used the powers first, and is the same armor that will
form whenever you draw upon the powers.-
Suddenly, a mirror appeared so Anthony could look at himself. He noticed the star-shaped
symbol in the middle of the breastplate of the armor, and then noticed the same symbol was the
same shape of the handle near the hilt of his sword. He also noticed the cape was white and
had what appeared to be a family crest on it.
-That crest is the crest of the Larson clan, and your deeds as of late bring honor to that
clan. Use your powers well, for this world needs your help. Packbell represents the plague
this world faces...order without compassion. You and all of Arcadia must fight this plague
with all your might and free this world from Robotnik's grip. Now, I shall release your
friends so you may face him. I and the rest of Mobius pray for your success.-
The mirror disappeared, as did Anthony's armor, leaving the original red breastplate he came
with. The sword remained however. His friends were also starting to move again.
"Whoa..." Tails said. "What happened...and what's that symbol on your armor?"
Anthony felt his armor and noticed the star-shaped symbol was now embedded on it. He then
decided to draw upon his powers and reform the armor to show them what happened.
"WHOA!!" They all said in unison.
"My Descendancy Powers..." Anthony said, then looked towards the Tails, Zelda, Protoman, and
Peach "as well as yours..."
He concentrated on the symbol and managed to create four copies of it that floated towards the
other descendants. When they reached out to grab them, similar transformations took place...
Peach's dress turned white and it had runic symbols running along the sides in arcane patterns,
with the symbol attached to it in the same place the jewel was on her previous dress. She was
also carrying a large staff with twelve different colored jewels on it.
Zelda found herself wearing form-fitting plate mail with the symbol on the breastplate, as well
as chain mail sleeves and leggings, and plate boots. She was also carrying a weapon which
resembled a bow, but closer examination showed it to be made of two scimitars and that could be
detached.
Tails found himself wearing what would appear to be a wizard's robe with a gap in the back for
his twin tails to come out. He wore the symbol around a chain on his neck and also carried a
wand which appeared to have seven large and different colored stones on it, which he guessed
were the Chaos Emeralds used by his ancestor.
Protoman's transformation was the most unique. With the exception of the symbol on the
breastplate, Anthony recognized the form...
"Holy SHIT! Proto..." Anthony said, "you look like...ZERO!!!"
Protoman was confused. "Who's Zero?"
"A robot from the Megaman X game series, a series that takes place in the future."
"Remind me to ask Doc Light about those disks you showed him," Protoman said.
Sally was amazed at the transformations that took place. "Great Destiny...it's like seeing the
original heroes..." she said to herself, then snapped out of her amazement and addressed the
group. "We'd better get moving, we have a battle to prepare for...and five worlds to encourage
with those new found powers of yours."
"Better save on these powers then," Anthony said, as he made his armor disappear. The other
descendants changed back as well. "Oh brother..."
"What's wrong?" Peach asked as the group exited the chamber.
"Well...the powers are great and all, but...did we have to turn into the Power Rangers?"
The group laughed at hearing that, and then Sally made the call to T-Bone to pick them up.
On board the Tornado, the group seemed restless with anticipation. As the flight to the Little
Planet continued, you could practically cut the tension with a knife. It wasn't from the
excitement of getting the Descendancy Powers, however...and Anthony could sense the tension...
"Guys, I sense you're nervous about something. Are you that excited about getting the Powers?"
"It's not that, Anthony," Sally said, giving Anthony a look of concern. "We're kind of
wondering how you're holding up. Things are moving rather quickly now."
"I'll manage. Granted I am a bit scared about going to war..."
"Anthony..." Sally said, interrupting him. "Amy told us...about what happened last night."
Anthony slumped back into his seat upon hearing that. He had hoped Amy would keep those events
to himself, but didn't figure she'd be so concerned she would tell the others.
"Do you want to talk about it?" asked Zelda.
"What's there to talk about?" Anthony said, bowing his head in shame. "Let's face it...I'm no
hero, at least not enough of one to bear the name Gamemaster. I don't what possessed me to
introduce myself as such to you, Sal. I guess I wanted to help so bad I just let my mouth move
without thinking. Besides that, I used a pretty low-down method to convince Knuckles to help,
showing him that fan fiction that upset him. No hero would stoop that low...I'm surprised
Chuckles didn't tell Julie-Su to do her worst to me right then and there!"
"Julie-Su told us about that," Protoman said. "OK, so you made a mistake...everyone makes
mistakes, even heroes like Mario and Sonic. That doesn't make you a bad person."
"I know that. But...I'm not ready to accept the role of 'hero'! Especially not the role of a
hero that five worlds look up to!"
"Then apparently you weren't listening to Amy," Peach said. "You don't have to become as great
as the original Gamemaster, Anthony. In fact, we don't want you to."
Anthony looked up, more confused than he ever was before. "Huh?!?"
Zelda explained. "Sir Eric sacrificed his life to save the other Companions, and this act is
what makes people in Arcadia hail him as the greatest of the heroes. You, however, don't have
to sacrifice your life. You've already made a name for yourself by bringing the worlds of
Arcadia together..."
Protoman continued, "...helping to bring down Wily..."
Sally added the last part, "...and reuniting my father with Elian and myself, as well as Sonic
and his siblings with their mother."
"Besides," Tails piped up. "I know of one female hedgehog that would be way depressed if you
did sacrifice your life like Sir Eric did..."
Anthony nodded, knowing how Amy would react, but also knowing how his own family would react.
Peach and Zelda then said, in unison, "This is my fault," and looked at each other in surprise.
"Ladies," Anthony said, "if you are both referring to asking if I am to become the next
Gamemaster when we first met, don't blame yourself. You had no way of knowing I would be
unprepared for that task. Besides, if anyone's to blame, it's me."
"You?" Protoman said, surprised.
"Yeah..." Anthony said, sheepishly. "Based on what you guys are saying, I guess I'm taking
this whole 'Gamemaster' thing out of proportion and trying too hard to become the Master of
old." He then laughed a little and then continued. "Funny...this is the one time having a
great work ethic works against me."
The rest of the group felt a little relieved after hearing Anthony laugh. Sally then said,
"You going to be alright now?"
"Sure," Anthony said, sitting back up in his seat, "I guess I just needed some perspective
there. To be honest, I needed the reality check. I was somewhat treating the situation like a
game at times...and I needed a reminder of how real this was."
"I understand," Sally said. "Davie had the same problem a while back...however his reality
check came in the form of the Roboticizer Override, a device which self-destructs roboticized
people and items. We destroyed it, thankfully. You're lucky your reality check didn't come in
the form of something that could kill you."
"Indeed," Anthony said. He was silent for a while before continuing. "Guys...the Decendancy
Powers...what exactly are they? Additional powers or augmentation of existing powers?"
"Depends on the powers," Peach said. "Ralius's powers allowed him to control elemental magics
to their maximum, allowing him to use both wizardly magic on top of his own clerical magic."
"Because he was formally a soldier," Zelda continued, "Zorin's powers allowed him to master all
types of weapons as if he trained for years with all of them and forgot nothing of the
training."
Tails added the next part. "Sasha told me that Magi Reynard was experimenting with summoning
magic, and his powers allowed him to add additional spells and abilities depending on which
beast or creature he summoned. I was told he even used the Chaos Emeralds for his summonings,
each one able to summon a different type of creature. Blue was aquatic, green was avians, and
so on..."
"Doctor Light probably told you this already," Protoman continued. "but Adaman was able to use
his powers to draw upon the combined technical knowledge that existed in his time, and which
was used to create him, to augment himself. It was said the technology that existed in his
body during the time he used the powers might have been equivalent to your worlds current
technological level."
"Whoa...I didn't know that!" Anthony said. "I could just imagine what will happen to you,
Proto. But...what about Sir Eric's powers?"
Everyone looked at each other, then Peach answered, "No one knows. The knowledge we have was
passed from generation to generation, and...since Sir Eric died..."
"I understand..." Anthony said. "A pity...you know, if Sir Eric's children were told about
this, they might have passed the knowledge down, possibly even trained their children for this
day. Maybe then I would have..."
"Guys, the Little Planet is coming up," T-Bone's voice said over the intercom. "Better get
ready to disembark."
Anthony answered him on the intercom. "Got it, T-Bone. Once we leave, find a place nearby to
land and we'll contact you when we're done." He then turned towards the robodogs who were
resting until now. "Rush, Treble, jet mode!"
The robodogs transformed and Zelda and Peach climbed on Rush while Protoman and Saly climbed on
Treble. Anthony then activated his jet sled while Tails opened the bay doors and readied his
twin brushes..
"Good luck, guys!" T-Bone said from the cockpit as the group flew out the door.
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Sally led the group through the Little Planet to where she and Sonic found the Time Stones.
Nicole, now transformed from handheld computer form to her new panther body, was scanning the
area for anything unusual.
"Sal," Anthony said as the group walked, "you know...you wouldn't have succeeded going back in
time to prevent Robotnik's takeover. If the event ceased to exist, you would have had no
reason to back in time in the first place, and thus you wouldn't have stopped it to begin with.
Kind of a 'temporal paradox'..."
"Really?" Sally said. "How do you know?"
"After seeing several movies and games dealing with time travel, you tend to see similar
patterns." Anthony said, looking around.
Eventually the group came to the chamber where Sally got the time stones. It was then a
booming voice called out...
-Who seeks the time stones?-
Anthony was the one to speak. "We do not seek the time stones. We seek..."
-Wait...I sense familiar spirits in five of you. A magi, an elementalist, a golem, a wanderer,
and a master. You seek the lost powers...-
"Correct. Where can we find them?"
-You must pass a test. Here in this chamber is a sign that should not exist on this world.
Find it, and you will find what you seek. It is then that one of you must pass a different
test.-
"Thank you for your help, who...or whatever you are!"
The voice no longer spoke and the group started looking around. Anthony was sure the sign had
something to do with Hyrule, but he kept his options open. He then saw something on one of the
walls.
"Zelda, could you come over here?"
Zelda came to Anthony's location and looked where he was looking. She gasped when she saw the
symbol of the Triforce.
"Looks like I was right on the money. Try playing the Song of Time, Zelda."
Zelda took the Ocarina of Time out of a pouch she was carrying with her and played the Song of
Time with it. Within minutes, the wall changed into a door with what looked like a control
panel with five large buttons on it. There was strange writing on the buttons.
Sally and Nicole walked up to the door. "Nicole," Sally said, "can you translate that?"
"Certainly," Nicole said. After scanning it for a few seconds, she caused a holographic
display to appear over the words, indicating what each button says.
MAGI'S CALL
ELEMENTALIST'S ESSENCE
MASTER'S WILL
GOLEM'S KNOWLEDGE
WANDERER'S MIGHT
"Hmmm..." Protoman said. "Maybe these buttons are supposed to be pressed by the appropriate
descendants of the original heroes. Looks like I got 'golem's knowledge'."
Tails, Peach, Anthony, Protoman, and Zelda reached out and pressed the buttons in question.
The door then opened to reveal a hallway to some unknown location. When the group followed it,
they found a room with a strange pedestal with a sword sticking out of it.
"What the..." Anthony said, looking at the sword. "A sword? Is King Arthur hiding somewhere?"
"Anthony," Zelda said, "that's the Sword of the Gamemaster! The same sword Sir Eric used in
his final battle!"
"Really? Then...why isn't it all rusty after 1000 years?"
"It was said the sword was infused with psionic energy, making it able to cut through solid
stone and preserving it until now. I believe it's yours to take."
Anthony walked up to the sword and looked down upon it. As he grasped the handle, he sensed a
great amount of energy passing through him from the sword. He then pulled it out of the
pedestal, an action which caused a great flash to light up the room.
"Whoa..." Anthony said as the flash subsided. "That...was awesome! Hey guys, do you think..."
He noticed that his friends weren't moving and seemed to be transfixed in their current
positions. He tried nudging them, but they didn't move.
"What the hell? It's like they're frozen...frozen in time!" This realization made Anthony
afraid again, and he was about to put the sword back to see if that would reverse the effects
when he heard another voice.
"So we meet again, Gamemaster!"
Anthony turned towards the source of the voice and saw Packbell standing there. He reached
towards where his lightsaber was attached but found nothing there. It was then he got a second
shock...
Instead of the armor Light gave him, he was wearing a full set of gleaming plate mail, with
blued steel chain at the elbows and upper legs and metal gauntlets and leggings. He also felt
something like a cape attached to the back of the armor.
"Oh, great!" Anthony thought to himself. "This is the WORST time for me to turn into a
phracking paladin...great, I'm talking like Davie now..."
Packbell fired two shots towards Anthony, but at the same time Anthony erected a psionic
barrier which reflected the shots back at Packbell. Anthony was sure he didn't know this type
of barrier power before, and realized something...
"This...must be the Descendancy Powers!" He then got a smile on his face as he looked towards
Packbell. "Let's see what else I can do..."
Anthony decided to try a power called "Fade", which caused his body to become invisible.
Packbell couldn't find him, and Anthony managed to come in close and hit him a with a couple of
sword slashes across his torso. Anthony was surprised the sword did such heavy damage to the
armor casing of the cyborg.
Anthony became visible again when he hit with the sword and used his next couple of strikes to
remove the gun arm from Packbell. Packbell tried to hit Anthony with a punch from his other
arm, but it was immediately blocked by another psionic barrier. This enraged Packbell, and he
decided to take his frustrations out on the currently frozen in time individuals. He ran
towards Sally.
Anthony ran as fast as he could to cut off Packbell, raising a psionic barrier over Sally
before Packbell could hit her with a newly formed laser gun arm. Anthony then proceeded to
attack Packbell again, this time going for the other arm.
Packbell dodged the sword blows and tried to fire shots towards the other time frozen heroes,
but Anthony rose barriers over them so the shots never hit. He then got enraged at Anthony and
started to fire several shots towards Anthony while saying, "I refuse to beaten by a mere
accountant!"
That was Packbell's last mistake...
"DON'T...CALL...ME...AN...ACCOUNTANT!" Anthony said, punctuating each word with sword strike
to Packbell and finishing it off by driving the sword through Packbell's heart, if he had one.
Then, as Packbell was falling to his knees, Anthony made a final swipe at Packbell which
beheaded him on the spot, causing a fountain of oil and sparks to spurt out of him.
-Well done, Gamemaster.-
The voice again, the same one that greeted the group as they entered, was addressing Anthony.
-You have passed your test. You have defeated your opponent while at the same time protecting
your friends. You are truly worthy of Sir Eric's powers.-
"Wait...what happened to my friends? Come to think of it, what the heck happened to me?!?"
-Your friends were placed in that state so they could not interfere with your test. They were
in no real danger, the Packbell you fought was merely an illusion, but you protected your
friends as if they were, a true test of your character. As for the armor you wear, it is the
same armor that formed when Sir Eric used the powers first, and is the same armor that will
form whenever you draw upon the powers.-
Suddenly, a mirror appeared so Anthony could look at himself. He noticed the star-shaped
symbol in the middle of the breastplate of the armor, and then noticed the same symbol was the
same shape of the handle near the hilt of his sword. He also noticed the cape was white and
had what appeared to be a family crest on it.
-That crest is the crest of the Larson clan, and your deeds as of late bring honor to that
clan. Use your powers well, for this world needs your help. Packbell represents the plague
this world faces...order without compassion. You and all of Arcadia must fight this plague
with all your might and free this world from Robotnik's grip. Now, I shall release your
friends so you may face him. I and the rest of Mobius pray for your success.-
The mirror disappeared, as did Anthony's armor, leaving the original red breastplate he came
with. The sword remained however. His friends were also starting to move again.
"Whoa..." Tails said. "What happened...and what's that symbol on your armor?"
Anthony felt his armor and noticed the star-shaped symbol was now embedded on it. He then
decided to draw upon his powers and reform the armor to show them what happened.
"WHOA!!" They all said in unison.
"My Descendancy Powers..." Anthony said, then looked towards the Tails, Zelda, Protoman, and
Peach "as well as yours..."
He concentrated on the symbol and managed to create four copies of it that floated towards the
other descendants. When they reached out to grab them, similar transformations took place...
Peach's dress turned white and it had runic symbols running along the sides in arcane patterns,
with the symbol attached to it in the same place the jewel was on her previous dress. She was
also carrying a large staff with twelve different colored jewels on it.
Zelda found herself wearing form-fitting plate mail with the symbol on the breastplate, as well
as chain mail sleeves and leggings, and plate boots. She was also carrying a weapon which
resembled a bow, but closer examination showed it to be made of two scimitars and that could be
detached.
Tails found himself wearing what would appear to be a wizard's robe with a gap in the back for
his twin tails to come out. He wore the symbol around a chain on his neck and also carried a
wand which appeared to have seven large and different colored stones on it, which he guessed
were the Chaos Emeralds used by his ancestor.
Protoman's transformation was the most unique. With the exception of the symbol on the
breastplate, Anthony recognized the form...
"Holy SHIT! Proto..." Anthony said, "you look like...ZERO!!!"
Protoman was confused. "Who's Zero?"
"A robot from the Megaman X game series, a series that takes place in the future."
"Remind me to ask Doc Light about those disks you showed him," Protoman said.
Sally was amazed at the transformations that took place. "Great Destiny...it's like seeing the
original heroes..." she said to herself, then snapped out of her amazement and addressed the
group. "We'd better get moving, we have a battle to prepare for...and five worlds to encourage
with those new found powers of yours."
"Better save on these powers then," Anthony said, as he made his armor disappear. The other
descendants changed back as well. "Oh brother..."
"What's wrong?" Peach asked as the group exited the chamber.
"Well...the powers are great and all, but...did we have to turn into the Power Rangers?"
The group laughed at hearing that, and then Sally made the call to T-Bone to pick them up.