Chapter 9
Big things.
There were bright spots in the ocean here and there, but there was nothing else. Approaching the spot they saw a bright flash that made everyone cover their eyes.
Three islands and a huge waterfall now filled the Sea of Eden. Looking in awe they went to each Island. After the third Island they saw something float down to them.
"Is this some test?" Glenn asked.
The thing was like a huge mask with hands floating in front of them. Each hand had what looked like steel spikes in each clasped hand. It floated before them looking sinister, as the face had no normal characteristics.
"I don't know what it is. but it's going down hard!" Diss said dropping into a conservative fighting stance. Sure enough his danger sense had told him right as the thing attacked smacking Glenn and knocking him out. Serge looked at Diss who nodded.
"Cover us!" Diss said as he and Serge began charging up.
Paul, Shaun, and Fargo held off the creature as Diss rose in flame and Serge rose in pure white light. They slowly seemed to merge into one person before releasing a powerful wave of pure energy. The wave hit the creature causing it to start floating lower, obviously hurting. Diss and Serge were on their knees, their part in the battle over. Paul threw his halberd hitting the mask squarely. The mask slowly started spinning, dropping the halberd before spinning away to where it came from. Diss caught his breath smiling.
"It worked," he rasped his voice slowly returning. Serge nodded smiling as he did so. Paul looked at Diss and Serge and asked for an explanation.
"Inferno plus Luminaire makes up that attack, I think we'll christen it.Solaris," Diss explained.
Shaun nodded liking the name. He helped them up helping them back to the boats. In the distance the waterfall had sunk back into the sea revealing a complex. Diss felt he vaguely remembered the complex. He couldn't shake the familiar feeling it gave him. As he stepped in front of the complex he felt something nagging in the back of his mind. He looked at Paul and Shaun who nodded. They felt it too, as they walked in all three said in unison, "Duck."
Everyone dropped to the ground as a beam of light shot over them. Getting back up Paul shot electricity into the now dropping Robot as Diss flamed the pad of missiles on its shoulders. Shaun merely used the rocks outside pounding the thing flat in no time. As they looked around Diss noticed something about the robot.
"Paul look here." He said pointing to the back of the thing.
"Yeah scorch marks, so what?" Paul asked dumbly.
"Paul it never exposed its back. Tell me how those got here especially since." he pointed at the marks on front of the machine that were still smoking. They were identical.
"Got me, but obviously we've been here," Paul said slowly.
Shaun nodded as he looked around. Serge silently took in the information, as did Fargo and Glenn. Finally Diss turned around, "I'm going after Kid, and you guys work your way through here. Find Lynx. and whatever you do don't confront him till I'm there."
Serge nodded. Payback was now. Paul and Shaun lead the way deeper, incase their memories would prove useful again. Diss merely took the stairs going up slowly.
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Kid was anxious. Serge had gone down to the basement telling her that Lucca's killer would be on his way soon. Serge seemed preoccupied, but she knew he had bigger fish to fry. All he would need to do is get into the mainframe and he could make sure that his friends wouldn't barge in. She paced impatiently her dagger in hand.
Diss slowly went through door after door. As he encountered security he quickly disabled it by using his staff or just torching the annoying machine. This place seemed too high tech to be natural to this planet. Finally he made it to a wide-open space. His danger sense tingled as he quickly rolled forward avoiding the dropping figure that would have gored his back with the dagger it held. He came up staff in hand in a defensive posture.
Kid smirked, "I would have thought ya would be this hard to kill. After all ya did kill Lucca."
"What?" Diss asked in disbelief.
"You don't remember me do ya? I'm the blonde haired girl you nearly torched in the orphanage," She said bridled with anger.
"Blonde haired girl. What orphanage?" Diss asked confused.
"DON'T INSULT ME BY PLAYING DUMB!" Kid yelled.
"How can I play dumb when I haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about?" Diss asked.
She lunged at him quickly, he grabbed her wrist and twisted flipping her over quickly then backed off dissipating his staff from his hand.
"Should have figured you'd have expected that," Kid muttered.
"This coming from a girl who a week ago was madly in love with me," Diss said.
"What? Are ya Looney?" Kid blared.
Diss crouched low, "Stop yapping, if you're going to kill me lets get it over with, I have a date with Lynx."
Kid grinned, "My point exactly." She slashed. He quickly grabbed twisting her arm so she was on the ground and pinned.
"I thought we were fighting?" Kid asked in disbelief.
"I don't want to kill you. Don't make this harder on you. The more I do this the less Lynx is controlling you. So either choose a different method or-" Diss stopped. Kid had somehow managed to lodge her dagger up to the hilt in his stomach. He looked at her then his stomach before rolling off her. He pulled the dagger from his stomach slowly before dropping it on the floor.
"Or, you get killed," Kid finished grinning as she picked up the dagger. She brought it to his throat smiling sadistically, "Now I finish what I couldn't so many years ago."
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"Freaky." Paul said blowing up another robot.
"Shocking." Steena managed to get out with a small grin. Paul looked at her with a smile on his face. Shaun looked ahead of him and was blasted in the head with a large metallic fist. Paul again shot energy from his hands and the robot fell.
"Now that smarts." Fargo said stomping out his cigar. Shaun got up slowly rubbing his jaw.
"Oh, ow." Shaun said quietly as he tried to talk. Steena did a small spell and Shaun felt better. "Thanks." Shaun said. Steena gave him a small hug replying softly,
"No problem." Paul came back around a corner.
"Security here is impossible to break if you didn't have me, but since you do, this place is easy to crack." Paul said in his flashy tone. "Just need to boost the volts to overdrive the system." Everyone grinned as Paul stood smiling. Steena was the first to stop smiling when Paul spoke frankly, "There's something big, metal, and most likely going to piss me off behind me isn't there?" They all nodded. Paul was kicked half way across the hall and he hit a door hard denting it. Paul was knocked out leaving the robot able to work without problems. Steena grabbed Glenn's sword yet again and chucked it at the robot hitting it between two plates.
"System overload shutting dowwwwwnnnnnn." The robot said hunching over. Steena pulled the sword out and sliced the head off cleanly spewing sparks every way.
"Hiya." Steena said in a mocking tone. She tossed the sword back to Glenn as she walked over to Paul. "You might want to see if they have medical areas around here." Shaun saw an emergency hatch to a small cupboard. He slammed it with his fist breaking the door as he ripped it open. He pulled out the medical supplies and handed it to Steena. She was in the process of wrapping a bandage around Paul's head when she saw another spark fly out from the robots severed head.
"Bring me the head." Steena ordered. Glenn tossed the head to Fargo, who tossed it Steena. She pulled a wire out and had it touch Paul. As soon as it made contact Paul jumped from Steena's arms onto his feet.
"Oh yeah!" Paul said full of energy. "Gotta have my sparks!" Everyone laughed as Paul pulled Steena onto her feet.
"You owe me." She whispered as she pulled herself closer to Paul.
"Ya, pay ya back later." Paul said quickly giving her a hug. Shaun looked around as he thought he heard something.
"Wonder how Diss is doing." Shaun muttered.
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Diss felt her slowly start pressing the dagger deeper. The pain in his stomach made it hard to think when he finally came up with an idea. As she pulled the knife farther back he rolled back grabbing her head with his legs then reversed directions leaving her sprawled on the floor. The exertion took his toll as Diss hunched in pain. She looked over at him grinning.
"Desperate, but still dangerous, I see, well now that I know that." She got up with her dagger still in hand. Diss slowly got up drawing out his staff. As he brought it up she stabbed forward. He was too slow and the blade again sunk into him cutting his left arm deeply. He wrapped his right arm around the pole of his Dragon Staff and began fending off attacks slowly. His energy slowly leeched from his body as he struggled to keep up. Finally he tripped up Kid and with her sprawled flat brought the staff down on her head.
Kid slumped unconscious as Diss slumped then fell forward lying right next to her. He slowly started bleeding to death as he felt coldness slowly seep into his body.
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"He's probably lying on the ground bleeding to death." Paul said sarcastically. They moved further down the building when they approached a small room. It had pods in it that made Shaun and Paul begin to act differently.
"What's wrong, Paul?" Steena asked as Paul twitched.
"Bad memories." Paul said back looking at Shaun. They both went ahead of the rest as they drew closer to the pods. They both read each pod carefully.
"Test subjects A, B, and C." Paul said slowly. At that moment two men walked in to the room, they had a strange aura to them and Paul couldn't place it.
"They put up quiet a fight." The first man said.
"Yes, subject C and A were particularly annoying." The second man said.
"I still don't see how they managed to control the basic elements the way they did. It was as if they had the power to use thunder or fire whenever they wanted." The first one said walking by Paul. Shaun and Paul stood frozen as they realized they were describing them to the letter.
"Belthazar was right. Sending them to Opassa Beach was the best idea for them, wiping their memories of the place was to." The second said walking right through Paul. Steena looked at Glenn and Fargo who both shrugged.
"Not to mention the damages the building took." The first man said again.
"Let's see. Subject A was stronger than Subject B, and Subject C is stronger then A and B put together."
"With the right conditions mind you. Who knew they all could resist FATE'S power control. They definatly are subjects to behold." they both sat down in the chairs and vanished from sight.
"I think I feel sick." Paul said looking at the pod and the scorch marks that could only be made by Diss.
"Me to." Shaun replied looking at the destroyed Pod. "Only you could have done this." Shaun said pointing to Paul. Paul nodded as Steena put an arm around him.
"You okay?" she said in a whisper like tone. Paul nodded looking at Shaun. He nodded back.
"Just a little shaken." Paul said quietly. Shaun took another look at the pods. He read something to confirm his beliefs: Test Subject C: Behavior modifier: Irrational. Performance modifier: None. Test Subject B: Behavior modifier: None. Performance modifier: Rejected. Test Subject A: Behavior modifier: None. Performance modifier: Endurance boost. Shaun stared in disbelief as he looked at Paul. Paul read the same thing and left the room. His screaming was easily heard.
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Diss slowly felt as if he was going cold. Beside him Kid started stirring. He groaned as he realized she would finish him off in his weakened state. He waited for the knife blow that would kill him when he heard her talk.
"Diss?" She asked in disbelief. He felt her helping him sit up as she started trying to stop the bleeding.
"Diss, oh my gosh. How did this happen?" She asked.
"You," he said weakly as he tried to move his arms.
"How do I fix this?" She stammered in shock from the blood he was bleeding.
"So.cold."
"Hold on Diss I'm going ta get ya back to yer shiela. Just hold on."
"So.cold."
She thought about it for a second before coming up with a plan.
"Diss, I'm going to make a fire, just hold on," She said as she looked around. Nothing flammable was around and she started panicking when she felt him take her hand to his stomach.
"Fireball." He said weakly before he sunk under.
"Ya gotta be crazy! A fireball now could kill you.." She said before thinking. She thought and finally decided to grant his last request. She gently put his body on the floor and charged up the fireball. Cringing, she fired it at Diss.
Slowly the fire seemed to be absorbed into his system. He sat up slowly as his skin slowly closed over his wound. After his body stopped healing he fell back.
"Thank you," he whispered before falling unconscious, oblivious to the world around him.
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Paul was throwing robots left and right as he was moving down the stairs. As one robot slowly got up Shaun pounded it back down with his fist. They both walked together down the hall as they had a look of revenge on their faces. Paul was not happy being changed and Shaun wasn't happy he was almost changed as well. Steena and Glenn walked slowly behind as Fargo stopped now and then to see if anything could be pillaged. Paul and Shaun temporarily disappeared as they went into a room. When they left they had weird swords in their hands.
"Take them and keep going." Paul said. "I'm going to leave you now." Paul said quietly walking away. "I have some buisness to finish." Before he could be stopped he vanished around a corner.
"He told me to lead you guys down the hall to the basement." Shaun said walking on. Steena was about to follow Paul when he came back around the corner.
"Stay, please." Paul said going back around. Steena looked like she was about to cry.
"They must be doing this." Shaun muttered.
"He's doing it on his own." The older girl said walking around the corner. "I had no say in the idea." The little girl poked her head around the corner.
"Sis, we can't tell them that!" she said. The older girl silenced her picking her up. Shaun looked at them quizzically.
"So what are we suppose to do." Shaun said.
"Wait for Diss, then take on FATE." She said carefully. "Don't wait for Paul. Or you'll all die." She then left walking the way out Paul did. They all walked and looked up at the walkway before them. Above a door was a bit surprising,
"Project Kid?" Serge said in disbelief.
"Looks like we all were here before." Shaun said to Serge.
"Let's wait." Glenn muttered. Fargo took out a cigar longer than most.
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"I feel like I've been dragged to hell and back," Diss said clutching his head.
"Hold on there mate, yer still a little woozy from tha blood loss," Kid said.
Diss slowly got up. Kid tried to get him to sit back down but he shook his head.
"No, I got to get back to the group. Now tell me did Serge go anywhere?" Diss asked.
"I, I don't remember," Kid stammered.
"Try harder, it's important," Diss said.
"The basement." Kid said after awhile.
"Lets go..." he took her hand leading her on.
"Where mate?"
"If you had to ask then I'm not answering just lets go." Diss said as he hit the basement floor elevator button. A red light came on and asked for an access card.
"Here," Kid said handing him one out from her satchel.
Diss slid in the card and smiled as they went to the bottom floor. He was going home.
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"Nope, not here." Paul said to himself. He closed a door as he searched for something in the armory. He opened a door to another cupboard. "Nope, not here." Paul shut the door. He opened a chest and smiled. "Found you." he said grabbing a small book.
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"Diss!" Shaun said looking up. "We thought Kid finished you off." Diss shook his head motioning for Shaun to change the subject as Kid appeared behind him. "Oops." he said quietly turning around.
"Uh, guys?" Serge said softly. "I think I have been here before." He said.
"Time Arbiter confirmed. Welcome back Chrono Trigger." Came a computer voice. They all stared at Serge as the door opened.
"Lets go." Diss said slowly.
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"Hmm, so that's all I have to do?" Paul said crossing wires so they sparked. Soon the monitor flicked on and Paul tapped a few things on the keyboard.
"Requesting additional power sources." The computer said to Paul. Paul grinned with sadistic glee as he surged energy to where it was needed. "Power levels complete." Paul looked at the dimensional vortex he created.
"YES, I AM INVINCIBLE!" Paul said standing up raising both fists in the air.
"Power failure. Connection lost."
"NOOOOO!" Paul said hitting the computer monitor. "Damnit." he muttered as he flipped through the book again.
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Diss walked into the room carefully staff drawn. Blood still covered the front of his shirt from where he had been stabbed, but he was still ready for action. Kid walked up behind him dagger ready, when the others walked in behind him. Diss looked around.
"Where's the bloody Frozen Flame?" Kid asked when Diss tapped her shoulder and pointed up. She followed his gaze when they saw the flame. It was brightly shining as a series of machines were hooked up to it.
"Welcome home Diss. I would have thought even she could have done the simplest of tasks in killing you," Came evil Serge's voice.
"I was nearly killed a long time ago. you just never knew it," Diss smiled evilly.
"What?" Serge asked confused.
"When Paul threw me into the ocean, about an hour afterward I was pronounced dead by my friends. No one else knew except for maybe the doctor, but they assured him I would be fine," Diss said smugly.
Everyone except Shaun looked at him like he was crazy. Evil Serge only laughed.
"I forgot about your report. I remembered something about extreme regenerative powers, but I forgot that it also included return from severe injuries." Evil Serge was cut off.
"Unless completely immersed in water for an hour," Diss finished the statement.
"Why water mate?" Kid asked.
"Its my weakness, it's like acid to my skin," Diss replied. Shaun nodded.
"Well, well, well, now that the science lesson is over I will continue my thought," Evil Serge said cruelly, "Apparently this girl wasn't enough to contain or kill you, and so I will have to rid myself of you once and for all."
Diss' eyes grew hard with a fire Shaun had never seen before, something was making this personal to Diss, and when that happened, people died. Diss grinned suddenly and smiled.
"Shaun, Get the tables." Diss said coldly.
Evil Serge laughed, "Show me Serge, show me what if feels like to truly be alive."
As Diss and Shaun ran forward to set up evil Serge he began morphing. As he grew taller pistons seemed to grow from his back until his lower body was completely gone and his upper body looked like a twisted person's vision of a cybernetic computer. Diss looked up at the computer before it picked up Shaun and Diss "How do you like me now?" the computer yelled at them before tossing them aside into a nearby wall knocking them out.
"I truly am Fate now; to defy me is to be condemned to death!" The computer shouted.
"Commencing countdown, 5" Came an electronic voice.
The remaining warriors felt themselves pulled down into the earth before being whip lashed back to where they were. The sudden change in gravity caused them to fall down but quickly get back up as they prepared. Serge looked at Glenn who nodded, they both dashed at Fate at the same time slashing through the computer. As they circled around the heard the voice again;
"Countdown, 4"
A bright ray of heat started going for Kid. Diss suddenly was in front of her shielding her with his body as he screamed in untold agony. As the beam shut down he dropped to his knees but still managed to stay conscious.
"I thought fire healed ya!" Kid yelled at him.
"Its not fire, It's a laser beam pure energy without nature's touch." He groaned as he got to his feet. He looked at Kid who nodded. The machine dropped between them again. Both kicked the triggers of the machine as Diss pumped flame into the machine. A huge beam of energy directly connected nearly tearing Fate from his housing. The voice still came strongly;
"Countdown: 3"
Diss watched in horror as Fargo was launched up into the air and allowed to free fall into the ground knocked flat, and out, of the fight. Diss turned and faced Fate utterly in disbelief as Shaun slowly came around. Looking at Shaun, Shaun barely got the nod off as he tossed the rock high in the air. Diss pumped the rock as full of flame as was possible before it crashed down into Fate.
"Countdown, 2"
Balls of dark energy hit everyone in the room except Fargo knocking them all down hard and breathless. Diss looked at Serge who nodded. Slowly they began glowing until they finally merged releasing the power of Solaris and fell to their knees obviously tired. The voice still came flawlessly;
"Countdown, 1"
A black ball of pure energy appeared in front of them. It slowly started drawing everyone towards it as Diss slammed his staff deep into the metal.
"Grab on!" Diss shouted at he held out his hand. They all grabbed onto him or the staff and succeeded in not being dragged in. As they recovered Diss looked over at Shaun.
"Get the tables." he said.
"Its too big for that man!" Shaun said in retort.
"Damnit Shaun I need answers not problems!" Diss yelled as he looked over at the computer.
"How 'bout a reverse table smash?" Shaun yelled.
"That'll do Shaun, That'll do," Diss said as they grabbed the nearest table. Fargo came to in time to see Shaun look at Diss and nod. Shaun used rocks to raise the both of them up to high above Fate. Kid watched in awe as they perfectly free fell smashing the table over the Fate computer's head. Fargo cheered, as the computer seemed to take massive damage.
"That's how ya do it mateys!" Fargo yelled. Glenn threw his sword up high. The sword stopped in the computers head as Glenn jumped up grabbing both sides of the hilt and using his momentum to kick in the computers head.
"Countdown.." The computers voice faded before finishing zero.
They all looked up at it.
"Is it dead?" Glenn asked.
"Fancy schmancy computers all come down to one... simple. cord," Came a voice from Fate's head.
Everyone looked up to see a plug twirling in Paul's hands. As Diss and Shaun cheered the others looked on in disbelief.
"Is that legal? I didn't know the rules of engagement allowed you to unplug your opponent," Glenn asked miffed.
"Rule one of playing videogames, if your losing, unplug the other person's controller," Paul said. Before he could jump down the computer lurched to life.
"Back up power source initiated, recommencing countdown," The computer voice said as Paul fell from it.
"Countdown, 0," came the dreaded voice.
The computer fired the heat ray, but this time swept it across all the people on the field as it burned them all raw. Diss slumped unconscious and so did Serge before Paul finally got angry.
"That's cheating. Nowhere in the manual did it mention a backup power source," Paul said angrily.
"What manual?" Glenn asked.
He tossed a booklet in front of Glenn that read Fate: The Complete Guide. He then turned to the computer.
"Now to get rid of you permanently." Paul said sadistically.
He slowly began charging up as Shaun watched horrified.
"Oh shit! Everyone get behind me!" Shaun said as he erected a rock barrier between himself and Paul. Paul slowly continued charging up statically until finally he released all the energy he had in him. The computer disintegrated as its power system exploded causing more collateral damage before Paul dropped down amazingly still standing.
"That was half power. You don't want to see full power," Paul muttered as he kicked through the mainframe. It crumpled and shattered as it had no resistance to offer.
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Far away the dragons all began stirring.
"The time has come." The White Dragon roared.
"We have been awakened; we are finally free of FATE." The Blue dragon continued.
"Stand ready sons of Man." The Red Dragon chorused his reply.
"You will pay for your crimes." The Earth Dragon bellowed.
"In blood." The Black Dragon responded.
"Humans, face your judgment!" The Green Dragon finished.
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Diss slowly came around as he watched Paul and Kid climb up to the flame.
"Non, Monsieur Paul and Kid! Do not touch ze flame!" Came the all too familiar French accent of Harle.
"Shut up ya freak!" Kid shouted in contempt as she stood over the flame.
"Shut up Harle, for once in your life butt out!" Paul yelled adding to Kid's statement. Serge watched as Kid began hanging off the catwalk reaching for the flame.
"Ze temptation to destroy everyt'ng iz too powerful, don't drag everyone down into destruction wiz you," Harle pleaded.
"Shut up, I know what I'm doing!" Kid screamed.
"Kid!" Diss yelled. Kid looked down at him questioningly. "Don't throw away everything for a moment of vengeance. I lost everything when I lost my mentor and it took me seven years to get it all back. I wanted to kill the man that ruined my life. I couldn't though and do you know why?"
Shaun and Paul looked at Diss waiting for what was new information.
"Why?" Kid yelled back taking the bait.
"That man was my brother. He was the only family I had left after the Aryans took everything from me. To kill him I would destroy myself. If you use that for a single act of vengeance you will be destroyed yourself!" Diss yelled sorrowfully.
"Hydros was your brother?" Paul asked incredulously.
Diss nodded sadly, "Yes, my family saved the world. Now don't throw away his sacrifice for nothing Paul. And Kid, vengeance is never worth the death of innocent people."
Harle looked up at the sky, "Oh non, I hoped zis day would never come."
Everyone looked up to see a clear picture of all six dragons heading right for Chronopolis. Diss looked at them with contempt as he realized they used him. Fate had been the stabilizing force for them and now they would tip the scales and kill him in the process of eliminating all traces of Fate. Harle looked up before jumping up into the frozen flame. Kid and Paul both reached for it, but it disappeared in a flash of light knocking them both out as Diss watched in horror.
There were bright spots in the ocean here and there, but there was nothing else. Approaching the spot they saw a bright flash that made everyone cover their eyes.
Three islands and a huge waterfall now filled the Sea of Eden. Looking in awe they went to each Island. After the third Island they saw something float down to them.
"Is this some test?" Glenn asked.
The thing was like a huge mask with hands floating in front of them. Each hand had what looked like steel spikes in each clasped hand. It floated before them looking sinister, as the face had no normal characteristics.
"I don't know what it is. but it's going down hard!" Diss said dropping into a conservative fighting stance. Sure enough his danger sense had told him right as the thing attacked smacking Glenn and knocking him out. Serge looked at Diss who nodded.
"Cover us!" Diss said as he and Serge began charging up.
Paul, Shaun, and Fargo held off the creature as Diss rose in flame and Serge rose in pure white light. They slowly seemed to merge into one person before releasing a powerful wave of pure energy. The wave hit the creature causing it to start floating lower, obviously hurting. Diss and Serge were on their knees, their part in the battle over. Paul threw his halberd hitting the mask squarely. The mask slowly started spinning, dropping the halberd before spinning away to where it came from. Diss caught his breath smiling.
"It worked," he rasped his voice slowly returning. Serge nodded smiling as he did so. Paul looked at Diss and Serge and asked for an explanation.
"Inferno plus Luminaire makes up that attack, I think we'll christen it.Solaris," Diss explained.
Shaun nodded liking the name. He helped them up helping them back to the boats. In the distance the waterfall had sunk back into the sea revealing a complex. Diss felt he vaguely remembered the complex. He couldn't shake the familiar feeling it gave him. As he stepped in front of the complex he felt something nagging in the back of his mind. He looked at Paul and Shaun who nodded. They felt it too, as they walked in all three said in unison, "Duck."
Everyone dropped to the ground as a beam of light shot over them. Getting back up Paul shot electricity into the now dropping Robot as Diss flamed the pad of missiles on its shoulders. Shaun merely used the rocks outside pounding the thing flat in no time. As they looked around Diss noticed something about the robot.
"Paul look here." He said pointing to the back of the thing.
"Yeah scorch marks, so what?" Paul asked dumbly.
"Paul it never exposed its back. Tell me how those got here especially since." he pointed at the marks on front of the machine that were still smoking. They were identical.
"Got me, but obviously we've been here," Paul said slowly.
Shaun nodded as he looked around. Serge silently took in the information, as did Fargo and Glenn. Finally Diss turned around, "I'm going after Kid, and you guys work your way through here. Find Lynx. and whatever you do don't confront him till I'm there."
Serge nodded. Payback was now. Paul and Shaun lead the way deeper, incase their memories would prove useful again. Diss merely took the stairs going up slowly.
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Kid was anxious. Serge had gone down to the basement telling her that Lucca's killer would be on his way soon. Serge seemed preoccupied, but she knew he had bigger fish to fry. All he would need to do is get into the mainframe and he could make sure that his friends wouldn't barge in. She paced impatiently her dagger in hand.
Diss slowly went through door after door. As he encountered security he quickly disabled it by using his staff or just torching the annoying machine. This place seemed too high tech to be natural to this planet. Finally he made it to a wide-open space. His danger sense tingled as he quickly rolled forward avoiding the dropping figure that would have gored his back with the dagger it held. He came up staff in hand in a defensive posture.
Kid smirked, "I would have thought ya would be this hard to kill. After all ya did kill Lucca."
"What?" Diss asked in disbelief.
"You don't remember me do ya? I'm the blonde haired girl you nearly torched in the orphanage," She said bridled with anger.
"Blonde haired girl. What orphanage?" Diss asked confused.
"DON'T INSULT ME BY PLAYING DUMB!" Kid yelled.
"How can I play dumb when I haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about?" Diss asked.
She lunged at him quickly, he grabbed her wrist and twisted flipping her over quickly then backed off dissipating his staff from his hand.
"Should have figured you'd have expected that," Kid muttered.
"This coming from a girl who a week ago was madly in love with me," Diss said.
"What? Are ya Looney?" Kid blared.
Diss crouched low, "Stop yapping, if you're going to kill me lets get it over with, I have a date with Lynx."
Kid grinned, "My point exactly." She slashed. He quickly grabbed twisting her arm so she was on the ground and pinned.
"I thought we were fighting?" Kid asked in disbelief.
"I don't want to kill you. Don't make this harder on you. The more I do this the less Lynx is controlling you. So either choose a different method or-" Diss stopped. Kid had somehow managed to lodge her dagger up to the hilt in his stomach. He looked at her then his stomach before rolling off her. He pulled the dagger from his stomach slowly before dropping it on the floor.
"Or, you get killed," Kid finished grinning as she picked up the dagger. She brought it to his throat smiling sadistically, "Now I finish what I couldn't so many years ago."
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"Freaky." Paul said blowing up another robot.
"Shocking." Steena managed to get out with a small grin. Paul looked at her with a smile on his face. Shaun looked ahead of him and was blasted in the head with a large metallic fist. Paul again shot energy from his hands and the robot fell.
"Now that smarts." Fargo said stomping out his cigar. Shaun got up slowly rubbing his jaw.
"Oh, ow." Shaun said quietly as he tried to talk. Steena did a small spell and Shaun felt better. "Thanks." Shaun said. Steena gave him a small hug replying softly,
"No problem." Paul came back around a corner.
"Security here is impossible to break if you didn't have me, but since you do, this place is easy to crack." Paul said in his flashy tone. "Just need to boost the volts to overdrive the system." Everyone grinned as Paul stood smiling. Steena was the first to stop smiling when Paul spoke frankly, "There's something big, metal, and most likely going to piss me off behind me isn't there?" They all nodded. Paul was kicked half way across the hall and he hit a door hard denting it. Paul was knocked out leaving the robot able to work without problems. Steena grabbed Glenn's sword yet again and chucked it at the robot hitting it between two plates.
"System overload shutting dowwwwwnnnnnn." The robot said hunching over. Steena pulled the sword out and sliced the head off cleanly spewing sparks every way.
"Hiya." Steena said in a mocking tone. She tossed the sword back to Glenn as she walked over to Paul. "You might want to see if they have medical areas around here." Shaun saw an emergency hatch to a small cupboard. He slammed it with his fist breaking the door as he ripped it open. He pulled out the medical supplies and handed it to Steena. She was in the process of wrapping a bandage around Paul's head when she saw another spark fly out from the robots severed head.
"Bring me the head." Steena ordered. Glenn tossed the head to Fargo, who tossed it Steena. She pulled a wire out and had it touch Paul. As soon as it made contact Paul jumped from Steena's arms onto his feet.
"Oh yeah!" Paul said full of energy. "Gotta have my sparks!" Everyone laughed as Paul pulled Steena onto her feet.
"You owe me." She whispered as she pulled herself closer to Paul.
"Ya, pay ya back later." Paul said quickly giving her a hug. Shaun looked around as he thought he heard something.
"Wonder how Diss is doing." Shaun muttered.
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Diss felt her slowly start pressing the dagger deeper. The pain in his stomach made it hard to think when he finally came up with an idea. As she pulled the knife farther back he rolled back grabbing her head with his legs then reversed directions leaving her sprawled on the floor. The exertion took his toll as Diss hunched in pain. She looked over at him grinning.
"Desperate, but still dangerous, I see, well now that I know that." She got up with her dagger still in hand. Diss slowly got up drawing out his staff. As he brought it up she stabbed forward. He was too slow and the blade again sunk into him cutting his left arm deeply. He wrapped his right arm around the pole of his Dragon Staff and began fending off attacks slowly. His energy slowly leeched from his body as he struggled to keep up. Finally he tripped up Kid and with her sprawled flat brought the staff down on her head.
Kid slumped unconscious as Diss slumped then fell forward lying right next to her. He slowly started bleeding to death as he felt coldness slowly seep into his body.
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"He's probably lying on the ground bleeding to death." Paul said sarcastically. They moved further down the building when they approached a small room. It had pods in it that made Shaun and Paul begin to act differently.
"What's wrong, Paul?" Steena asked as Paul twitched.
"Bad memories." Paul said back looking at Shaun. They both went ahead of the rest as they drew closer to the pods. They both read each pod carefully.
"Test subjects A, B, and C." Paul said slowly. At that moment two men walked in to the room, they had a strange aura to them and Paul couldn't place it.
"They put up quiet a fight." The first man said.
"Yes, subject C and A were particularly annoying." The second man said.
"I still don't see how they managed to control the basic elements the way they did. It was as if they had the power to use thunder or fire whenever they wanted." The first one said walking by Paul. Shaun and Paul stood frozen as they realized they were describing them to the letter.
"Belthazar was right. Sending them to Opassa Beach was the best idea for them, wiping their memories of the place was to." The second said walking right through Paul. Steena looked at Glenn and Fargo who both shrugged.
"Not to mention the damages the building took." The first man said again.
"Let's see. Subject A was stronger than Subject B, and Subject C is stronger then A and B put together."
"With the right conditions mind you. Who knew they all could resist FATE'S power control. They definatly are subjects to behold." they both sat down in the chairs and vanished from sight.
"I think I feel sick." Paul said looking at the pod and the scorch marks that could only be made by Diss.
"Me to." Shaun replied looking at the destroyed Pod. "Only you could have done this." Shaun said pointing to Paul. Paul nodded as Steena put an arm around him.
"You okay?" she said in a whisper like tone. Paul nodded looking at Shaun. He nodded back.
"Just a little shaken." Paul said quietly. Shaun took another look at the pods. He read something to confirm his beliefs: Test Subject C: Behavior modifier: Irrational. Performance modifier: None. Test Subject B: Behavior modifier: None. Performance modifier: Rejected. Test Subject A: Behavior modifier: None. Performance modifier: Endurance boost. Shaun stared in disbelief as he looked at Paul. Paul read the same thing and left the room. His screaming was easily heard.
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Diss slowly felt as if he was going cold. Beside him Kid started stirring. He groaned as he realized she would finish him off in his weakened state. He waited for the knife blow that would kill him when he heard her talk.
"Diss?" She asked in disbelief. He felt her helping him sit up as she started trying to stop the bleeding.
"Diss, oh my gosh. How did this happen?" She asked.
"You," he said weakly as he tried to move his arms.
"How do I fix this?" She stammered in shock from the blood he was bleeding.
"So.cold."
"Hold on Diss I'm going ta get ya back to yer shiela. Just hold on."
"So.cold."
She thought about it for a second before coming up with a plan.
"Diss, I'm going to make a fire, just hold on," She said as she looked around. Nothing flammable was around and she started panicking when she felt him take her hand to his stomach.
"Fireball." He said weakly before he sunk under.
"Ya gotta be crazy! A fireball now could kill you.." She said before thinking. She thought and finally decided to grant his last request. She gently put his body on the floor and charged up the fireball. Cringing, she fired it at Diss.
Slowly the fire seemed to be absorbed into his system. He sat up slowly as his skin slowly closed over his wound. After his body stopped healing he fell back.
"Thank you," he whispered before falling unconscious, oblivious to the world around him.
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Paul was throwing robots left and right as he was moving down the stairs. As one robot slowly got up Shaun pounded it back down with his fist. They both walked together down the hall as they had a look of revenge on their faces. Paul was not happy being changed and Shaun wasn't happy he was almost changed as well. Steena and Glenn walked slowly behind as Fargo stopped now and then to see if anything could be pillaged. Paul and Shaun temporarily disappeared as they went into a room. When they left they had weird swords in their hands.
"Take them and keep going." Paul said. "I'm going to leave you now." Paul said quietly walking away. "I have some buisness to finish." Before he could be stopped he vanished around a corner.
"He told me to lead you guys down the hall to the basement." Shaun said walking on. Steena was about to follow Paul when he came back around the corner.
"Stay, please." Paul said going back around. Steena looked like she was about to cry.
"They must be doing this." Shaun muttered.
"He's doing it on his own." The older girl said walking around the corner. "I had no say in the idea." The little girl poked her head around the corner.
"Sis, we can't tell them that!" she said. The older girl silenced her picking her up. Shaun looked at them quizzically.
"So what are we suppose to do." Shaun said.
"Wait for Diss, then take on FATE." She said carefully. "Don't wait for Paul. Or you'll all die." She then left walking the way out Paul did. They all walked and looked up at the walkway before them. Above a door was a bit surprising,
"Project Kid?" Serge said in disbelief.
"Looks like we all were here before." Shaun said to Serge.
"Let's wait." Glenn muttered. Fargo took out a cigar longer than most.
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"I feel like I've been dragged to hell and back," Diss said clutching his head.
"Hold on there mate, yer still a little woozy from tha blood loss," Kid said.
Diss slowly got up. Kid tried to get him to sit back down but he shook his head.
"No, I got to get back to the group. Now tell me did Serge go anywhere?" Diss asked.
"I, I don't remember," Kid stammered.
"Try harder, it's important," Diss said.
"The basement." Kid said after awhile.
"Lets go..." he took her hand leading her on.
"Where mate?"
"If you had to ask then I'm not answering just lets go." Diss said as he hit the basement floor elevator button. A red light came on and asked for an access card.
"Here," Kid said handing him one out from her satchel.
Diss slid in the card and smiled as they went to the bottom floor. He was going home.
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"Nope, not here." Paul said to himself. He closed a door as he searched for something in the armory. He opened a door to another cupboard. "Nope, not here." Paul shut the door. He opened a chest and smiled. "Found you." he said grabbing a small book.
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"Diss!" Shaun said looking up. "We thought Kid finished you off." Diss shook his head motioning for Shaun to change the subject as Kid appeared behind him. "Oops." he said quietly turning around.
"Uh, guys?" Serge said softly. "I think I have been here before." He said.
"Time Arbiter confirmed. Welcome back Chrono Trigger." Came a computer voice. They all stared at Serge as the door opened.
"Lets go." Diss said slowly.
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"Hmm, so that's all I have to do?" Paul said crossing wires so they sparked. Soon the monitor flicked on and Paul tapped a few things on the keyboard.
"Requesting additional power sources." The computer said to Paul. Paul grinned with sadistic glee as he surged energy to where it was needed. "Power levels complete." Paul looked at the dimensional vortex he created.
"YES, I AM INVINCIBLE!" Paul said standing up raising both fists in the air.
"Power failure. Connection lost."
"NOOOOO!" Paul said hitting the computer monitor. "Damnit." he muttered as he flipped through the book again.
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Diss walked into the room carefully staff drawn. Blood still covered the front of his shirt from where he had been stabbed, but he was still ready for action. Kid walked up behind him dagger ready, when the others walked in behind him. Diss looked around.
"Where's the bloody Frozen Flame?" Kid asked when Diss tapped her shoulder and pointed up. She followed his gaze when they saw the flame. It was brightly shining as a series of machines were hooked up to it.
"Welcome home Diss. I would have thought even she could have done the simplest of tasks in killing you," Came evil Serge's voice.
"I was nearly killed a long time ago. you just never knew it," Diss smiled evilly.
"What?" Serge asked confused.
"When Paul threw me into the ocean, about an hour afterward I was pronounced dead by my friends. No one else knew except for maybe the doctor, but they assured him I would be fine," Diss said smugly.
Everyone except Shaun looked at him like he was crazy. Evil Serge only laughed.
"I forgot about your report. I remembered something about extreme regenerative powers, but I forgot that it also included return from severe injuries." Evil Serge was cut off.
"Unless completely immersed in water for an hour," Diss finished the statement.
"Why water mate?" Kid asked.
"Its my weakness, it's like acid to my skin," Diss replied. Shaun nodded.
"Well, well, well, now that the science lesson is over I will continue my thought," Evil Serge said cruelly, "Apparently this girl wasn't enough to contain or kill you, and so I will have to rid myself of you once and for all."
Diss' eyes grew hard with a fire Shaun had never seen before, something was making this personal to Diss, and when that happened, people died. Diss grinned suddenly and smiled.
"Shaun, Get the tables." Diss said coldly.
Evil Serge laughed, "Show me Serge, show me what if feels like to truly be alive."
As Diss and Shaun ran forward to set up evil Serge he began morphing. As he grew taller pistons seemed to grow from his back until his lower body was completely gone and his upper body looked like a twisted person's vision of a cybernetic computer. Diss looked up at the computer before it picked up Shaun and Diss "How do you like me now?" the computer yelled at them before tossing them aside into a nearby wall knocking them out.
"I truly am Fate now; to defy me is to be condemned to death!" The computer shouted.
"Commencing countdown, 5" Came an electronic voice.
The remaining warriors felt themselves pulled down into the earth before being whip lashed back to where they were. The sudden change in gravity caused them to fall down but quickly get back up as they prepared. Serge looked at Glenn who nodded, they both dashed at Fate at the same time slashing through the computer. As they circled around the heard the voice again;
"Countdown, 4"
A bright ray of heat started going for Kid. Diss suddenly was in front of her shielding her with his body as he screamed in untold agony. As the beam shut down he dropped to his knees but still managed to stay conscious.
"I thought fire healed ya!" Kid yelled at him.
"Its not fire, It's a laser beam pure energy without nature's touch." He groaned as he got to his feet. He looked at Kid who nodded. The machine dropped between them again. Both kicked the triggers of the machine as Diss pumped flame into the machine. A huge beam of energy directly connected nearly tearing Fate from his housing. The voice still came strongly;
"Countdown: 3"
Diss watched in horror as Fargo was launched up into the air and allowed to free fall into the ground knocked flat, and out, of the fight. Diss turned and faced Fate utterly in disbelief as Shaun slowly came around. Looking at Shaun, Shaun barely got the nod off as he tossed the rock high in the air. Diss pumped the rock as full of flame as was possible before it crashed down into Fate.
"Countdown, 2"
Balls of dark energy hit everyone in the room except Fargo knocking them all down hard and breathless. Diss looked at Serge who nodded. Slowly they began glowing until they finally merged releasing the power of Solaris and fell to their knees obviously tired. The voice still came flawlessly;
"Countdown, 1"
A black ball of pure energy appeared in front of them. It slowly started drawing everyone towards it as Diss slammed his staff deep into the metal.
"Grab on!" Diss shouted at he held out his hand. They all grabbed onto him or the staff and succeeded in not being dragged in. As they recovered Diss looked over at Shaun.
"Get the tables." he said.
"Its too big for that man!" Shaun said in retort.
"Damnit Shaun I need answers not problems!" Diss yelled as he looked over at the computer.
"How 'bout a reverse table smash?" Shaun yelled.
"That'll do Shaun, That'll do," Diss said as they grabbed the nearest table. Fargo came to in time to see Shaun look at Diss and nod. Shaun used rocks to raise the both of them up to high above Fate. Kid watched in awe as they perfectly free fell smashing the table over the Fate computer's head. Fargo cheered, as the computer seemed to take massive damage.
"That's how ya do it mateys!" Fargo yelled. Glenn threw his sword up high. The sword stopped in the computers head as Glenn jumped up grabbing both sides of the hilt and using his momentum to kick in the computers head.
"Countdown.." The computers voice faded before finishing zero.
They all looked up at it.
"Is it dead?" Glenn asked.
"Fancy schmancy computers all come down to one... simple. cord," Came a voice from Fate's head.
Everyone looked up to see a plug twirling in Paul's hands. As Diss and Shaun cheered the others looked on in disbelief.
"Is that legal? I didn't know the rules of engagement allowed you to unplug your opponent," Glenn asked miffed.
"Rule one of playing videogames, if your losing, unplug the other person's controller," Paul said. Before he could jump down the computer lurched to life.
"Back up power source initiated, recommencing countdown," The computer voice said as Paul fell from it.
"Countdown, 0," came the dreaded voice.
The computer fired the heat ray, but this time swept it across all the people on the field as it burned them all raw. Diss slumped unconscious and so did Serge before Paul finally got angry.
"That's cheating. Nowhere in the manual did it mention a backup power source," Paul said angrily.
"What manual?" Glenn asked.
He tossed a booklet in front of Glenn that read Fate: The Complete Guide. He then turned to the computer.
"Now to get rid of you permanently." Paul said sadistically.
He slowly began charging up as Shaun watched horrified.
"Oh shit! Everyone get behind me!" Shaun said as he erected a rock barrier between himself and Paul. Paul slowly continued charging up statically until finally he released all the energy he had in him. The computer disintegrated as its power system exploded causing more collateral damage before Paul dropped down amazingly still standing.
"That was half power. You don't want to see full power," Paul muttered as he kicked through the mainframe. It crumpled and shattered as it had no resistance to offer.
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Far away the dragons all began stirring.
"The time has come." The White Dragon roared.
"We have been awakened; we are finally free of FATE." The Blue dragon continued.
"Stand ready sons of Man." The Red Dragon chorused his reply.
"You will pay for your crimes." The Earth Dragon bellowed.
"In blood." The Black Dragon responded.
"Humans, face your judgment!" The Green Dragon finished.
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Diss slowly came around as he watched Paul and Kid climb up to the flame.
"Non, Monsieur Paul and Kid! Do not touch ze flame!" Came the all too familiar French accent of Harle.
"Shut up ya freak!" Kid shouted in contempt as she stood over the flame.
"Shut up Harle, for once in your life butt out!" Paul yelled adding to Kid's statement. Serge watched as Kid began hanging off the catwalk reaching for the flame.
"Ze temptation to destroy everyt'ng iz too powerful, don't drag everyone down into destruction wiz you," Harle pleaded.
"Shut up, I know what I'm doing!" Kid screamed.
"Kid!" Diss yelled. Kid looked down at him questioningly. "Don't throw away everything for a moment of vengeance. I lost everything when I lost my mentor and it took me seven years to get it all back. I wanted to kill the man that ruined my life. I couldn't though and do you know why?"
Shaun and Paul looked at Diss waiting for what was new information.
"Why?" Kid yelled back taking the bait.
"That man was my brother. He was the only family I had left after the Aryans took everything from me. To kill him I would destroy myself. If you use that for a single act of vengeance you will be destroyed yourself!" Diss yelled sorrowfully.
"Hydros was your brother?" Paul asked incredulously.
Diss nodded sadly, "Yes, my family saved the world. Now don't throw away his sacrifice for nothing Paul. And Kid, vengeance is never worth the death of innocent people."
Harle looked up at the sky, "Oh non, I hoped zis day would never come."
Everyone looked up to see a clear picture of all six dragons heading right for Chronopolis. Diss looked at them with contempt as he realized they used him. Fate had been the stabilizing force for them and now they would tip the scales and kill him in the process of eliminating all traces of Fate. Harle looked up before jumping up into the frozen flame. Kid and Paul both reached for it, but it disappeared in a flash of light knocking them both out as Diss watched in horror.