Although Vergil was truly talking to no one in particular, what he didn't know was that his message was recieved. "I hear your creed, twin sons of the Black Knight, and I retort with my own. You, and your allies shall not survive this day. And if you do, you will not survive the next. You will be found, and I swear on my position as king of the 9 circles: you will be dragged down to the hottest, most torturous pit of hell!!" Mundus sent, telepathically. "Don't bet on it." Dante retorted back. ahe turned to the group. " Today, we find the rest of the Devil Arms, tomorrow, we finally have the heads of Mundus and Cursa mounted on our walls."
Prisonic Fairytale
Dante's eyes flicker open. He shoots up when he finds himself in a large, dark room. He can't see a goddamn thing!!! He takes off and pockets his left glove, and rolls up his coat sleeve before transforming his left arm into its Devil Trigger form, and lights a fire in his clawed hand. Now that he can see a little, he notices that he's in a very small room. How did he get here? Where are the others? He hasn't the time to think because he hears, or at least thinks he hears a loud ticking noise. He looks around and the light from his flaming hand lands on a large bulb. More like a large, human heart, inside of a purple plant. "What is that?" He asks no one in particular. But just as he reaches out to touch it, it explodes!! Dante jumps away, and hits his head on the ceiling. 'Right, Small room.' He lands, and looks around, but doesn't see anymore heart-plant-bombs. But he does see a door. He pats his chest with his right hand. His bandolier, and with it, Ebony and Ivory, are gone. He checks his back for Rebellion. Gone. "Dammit!!" He curses out loud. He pushes the door, and finally resolves to punch it with his Devil Trigger arm. He walks through, and looks to see a long hallway. He sighs in annoyance, and continues walking. The hallway leads to multiple doors, and He walks into the middle one. He finds himself in a much larger room, and looks around. He sees a large wheel, and resolves to turn it. He deactivates his Devil Trigger in his left hand, darkening the room, and turns the wheel, until it can't be turned anymore. He reignites his hand, and sees multiple statues of angelic looking Rabbids in mutiple fatal positions. One stabbed with a spear through the heart, one with his head cut off, one screaming in agony as he melts to the ground, and the final one ripping his own chest open!! Dante shrugs as he's seen worse, and done worse to demons. He brings his hand downward, shedding light on a large platform that the statues are resting upon. He steps on it, and the platform starts to raise. Suddenly, Dante hears a groaning noise. He brings his hand up to reveal the statues twosting and contorting. The spear one pulling the spear out of his chest, the headless one cocking back his arm, head in hand, The melting one starting to REALLY melt into a hot looking liquid, and the chest ripper releasing his torn chest, and lokkong toward Dante. They slowly lumber toward him, and ready themselves to kill Dante! Dante however, knows something they don't. He's not completely defenseless. "Hey guys." He summons the Tidas gunlance and launches himself into the air just as the statues attack! He shoots below him, and watches as the statues all freeze in place. "Chill." He lands and nearly slips on the ice created from his struggle. But thankfully, the elevator stops. Dante dematerializes Tidas, and reignites his hand. A large white door appears. There's an insignia on it in black. Dante smirks and walks over to it.
He punches the symbol with his Devil Trigger hand. Suddenly, the floor starts to move, and soon there's another door. This time it's red. Dante walks over to it and punches it as well. The floor moves again. But this time, it lands on a blue door. Just as Dante's about to punch it, it opens. He walks through, and finds himself in a large room. And then he feels a cut in his side, and hears strange, gremlinish cackling. When he looks at his wound, he sees that there's blood flowing from it. Ah hell. Whatever that thing was drained his healing factor. He looked around and held out his Devil Trigger hand. But there was no flame. No light. It got his Devil Trigger too? "Not just that!!!" Dante whipped his head to the front of the foyer, and saw a sickly green being with long, skinny limbs, a skinny body, and a thick, hunched neck with a small head at the end with bone white horns. But most importantly, it had his sword!!!! "No no no!! Not even just that!!" It said in its sickening voice.
Record Scratch
What the hell? That thing was reading Dante's mind!! "This thing has a name!! And your little friends too!!" He said before pointing upward to show Edge, Rabbid Luigi, Rabbid Mario, Rabbid Peach, Rabbid Rosalina, Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Vergil all strung up by their wrists groaning or grunting in pain. What did this bastard do?! "This bastard's name is Darkas the Envious!! But I no longer need be Envious!! Oh nonono!!" "And why is that?" Dante wondered aloud. "Because, I have everything special to the greatest Devil Hunter of them all!!" Darkas said, cackling insanely. "His friends!! His artillery!! And even his power!!!" Dante tried to summon a Devil Arm, but found that he couldn't. That last slash must've taken them in addition to his healing and Devil Trigger!! "Figured it out have you? Well, you're too late!! I have the power!!! And when I slay Mundus, I will have all of the glory too!!!" Dante glared in anger at Darkas, but then, a smirk crossed his face. "Do it then. Use your almighty powers to kill me." "Dante what are you doing?!" Edge shouted from above. "Letting him get a free hit in." "With pleasure!!!" Darkas shouted before igniting his hand, and tossing a fire ball at Dante, which then proceeded to swerve at the last second. Vergil smirked. "What?!?! What the hell?!?! What kind of last minute idiocy is this?!?!" "Simple, it's true that you have all the power, but you don't have the control. Not like I do." "...Ok that's bullcrap." "It is, but does it really matter?" "Yes!!!" "We're demons!!! What we do already bends the rules of reality!!" "Wait wait. What your-a saying is, you can-a just control-a your fireballs? Even if-a someone else-a launches it?" Rabbid Mario asks, confused. Dante nods. "...Nah, I agree with the demon, that's-a bullcrap." "Bullcrap that's gonna save your ass. So shut up, and let me get to work." Rabbid Mario shuts up.
Taste the Blood
Dante cracks his knuckles runs toward Darkas, who futilely launches fireball after fireball, which just keeps swerving. Kind of a stupid idea, but hey, guy's gotta do something when a demon Rabbid's about to curbstomp him. Darkas pulls out Rebellion and tries to swing it, but Dante straight up catches it!! Which, of course hurts since he did it wrong, and he doesn't have a healing factor, but that was about to change. Dante concentrates, and slowy but surely, his powers return as Darkas struggles to retain control. Dante ignites his arm's Devil Trigger, and punches Darkas in the face. Darkas breaks the stain glass window behind him, and nearly falls, but Dante grabs him by the neck before spotting his guns on the demon's waist. He holsters Ebony before grabbing Ivory and taking Aim. "Green with Envy, meet Red with Sin."
Dante shoots Darkas in the face, and tosses his body back into the room.
Stop
He then jumps up, and cuts all of his allies' restraints and lifts them down safely. He gets to Vergil, who shakes his head before ripping his restraints off, and falling to the floor in a superhero landing. "Why didn't you do that earlier?" Princess Peach inquires. "He obviously stole my powers too." Vergil said, dusting himself off before walking over to Darkas' body and claiming the Devil Arm. The body transforms into a large bladed wheel, like a buzzsaw. "Hey!! You copied my weapon!!" Rabbid Peach shouts at Vergil. Vergil scoffs before dematerializing the Devil Arm, and beckoning the team to follow him.
