Mugena gets pushed back hard and slides along the cement parking lot. She moans with stress. She slowly turns over onto her front and stands back up on her feet. She looks around for Liquid-X and notices the crowd watching her. She then looks directly at the small group of Dr. Lopes, her mother, and her friends and is shocked that they did not move from their spot. "What aren't you guys leaving?!" she yells angrily.
Joe, one of the six friends present, smiles and says, "No way! This is cool!"
Mugena rolls her eyes and then turns away from them, searching for Liquid-X. The mechanical being walks around a car that separates them. As soon as he gets pass the hood of the vehicle, he places his hand on the side of the car and pushes it out of the area, making a larger battle area.
"This is getting too far out of hand," she mutters. She transforms into Arina-Mugena, pauses a second to think ahead, and charges in at him.
Liquid-X stands his ground, ready for the possible attacks. Arina-Mugena waits for him to start to do a counter, as he has been doing for the past while. Just as it looks like he is about to do so, she quickly springs high up. Liquid-X quickly changes his strategy and leaps up at her.
She transforms into Felicia-Mugena and places both hands on his shoulders. Liquid-X calculates that it is likely a throw and readies to counter. She flips over him, still holding his shoulder, but she quickly morphs directly into Mika-Mugena. She uses Mika's wrestling skills to go into a neck-breaker drop, Liquid-X does not counter the attack.
The two slam into the ground. Mika-Mugena sits up and does the split-finger victory sign and smiles. But before anyone can react, Liquid-X rolls back his legs and springs up onto them. He was only stunned for less than half-a-second, Mugena can sense her opponent getting back up.
As Mika-Mugena turns her head around, Liquid-X turns around to her with a fist raised. She rolls out of the way, and transforms back into her normal form during it. Liquid-X brings his fist down into the concrete, which cracks for a radius of over ten feet with finer cracks beyond that. He raises his fist, revealing his fist's indentation in the ground.
She gets ready to attack again quickly, but a sudden force projects her upward. Liquid-X leaps up into the air to attack, first with a swinging kick to her gut. Then a downward elbow-check to her back, causing her to hit his leg again. He grabs the back of her neck, as they both start to descend, and throws her to the pavement below. She hits it on her side hard and rolls into a car. She slowly sits up and grabs her bleeding arm.
Everyone becomes scared, especially her friends and Dr. Lopes who quickly catches Mugena's mother as she faints.
Liquid-X makes a perfect landing on his feet. He stretches out his arm which morphs into a pulse cannon, "Time to end this and move on to the others." The cannon begins to charge.
Mugena rises to one knee, but doesn't take her eyes off him.
He fires the cannon and Mugena can't get out of the way. She is hit and carried through the car behind her, which explodes into flame near instantly. She comes out a moving cloud of smoke a fair distance away and lies on the cement next to the wall of the mall.
Her friends are shocked, enough to bring tears to their eyes. "Mugena?" says Susan tearfully.
Andy's rages beyond his tears and he yells out, "HEY YOU! HOW DARE YOU ATTACK SOMEONE IN THAT MANNER!! HAVEN'T YOU HEARD OF AN HONORABLE DEATH!?"
Liquid-X closes his eyes and then an identical copy of his face molds into the back of his head. The face moves forward, creating a separate head. Then a new body comes out, with the exception of the pulse cannon which itself is slowly molding back into a normal arm.
Liquid-X 2 walks a few feet towards the group. "I am Borg. The only honor I shall see is that of following orders of the Borg, and only the Borg," he says with some sense of anger.
Mugena shows some signs of life by rolling over onto her back, moaning loudly. "She's still conscious, let alone alive," says Liquid-X 1. His arm is approximately half way converted back.
Too bad I don't have any of those Senso Beans that the Z-fighters use, I could sure use one right now, she thinks to her self while feeling the full damage she had taken. My bones are broken, I think. Or at least bruised badly. I wish I could take punishment like Wolverine, or maybe heal like him. … Wait a minute! I have a Resident Evil form that I haven't tried out yet! She reaches over to her arm-computer, which smokes a little. Come on, be in there. Still work. She uses her bruised arm to enter the keystrokes. It takes her a second to find the form and she morphs into a badly bruised Jill Valentine-Mugena.
"This technique was not in the original analysis," says Liquid-X 1, who hasn't taken his eyes off her but still doesn't attack her.
The sounds of police, firefighter, and paramedic vehicles are heard coming closer, Liquid-X 2 gets ready to confront them. Mugena's mother regains consciousness but is helped to stand up by Dr. Lopes and Joe.
A couple herbs materialize in Jill-Mugena's least-injured hand. The herbs sink into her skin unrealistic-like. But her arm almost instantly feels better, still with the blood on her skin. She gets up to her feet in a few quick seconds, the crowd is amazed at her recovery.
Liquid-X 2 turns towards Mugena and goes to stand beside Liquid-X 1, who's arm is just got back to normal. They both look on at her without saying a word.
Mugena changes back and looks at them angrily. "That's it! No more misses-nice-gamer!" She morphs her body into Jean Grey, the Phoenix. She charges at the two androids.
Liquid-X 2 sprints out at Phoenix-Mugena. Just as they are about to collide, he loses his structure and slops onto Mugena's body. She is confused for a second and then panics when the liquid goo spreads around her. She struggles to get it off her face, which is covered like a holeless mask, but it is too slippery, thick, or hard to do anything.
"Finish her now," says Liquid-X. Mugena's friends fear the worse.
Mugena's shape changes back to her own. She struggles for a moment, and then her feet are forcefully planted to the ground. Suddenly, her head is thrown the side with a loud cracking sound. Then her torso, arms, hips, and legs are twisted as well, making loud cracking sounds. The silver-covered Mugena bends backwards in an arc with her legs straight. Slowly, the substance evaporates from her body and joins back with Liquid-X. Starting with her head, her seemingly-lifeless body is revealed and she is lowered to the ground. In a few seconds, the substance has completely left her body.
"NOOOO!!!" yells her mother. She as well as a few of her friends begin to cry loudly.
Liquid-X walks up to her and scans her body. "Life Force is extremely low. Her skeletal structure is intact, confirming the power of her technology. Death is imminent. Must finish her off completely." He raises his fist.
The sound of numerous guns being cock grabs his attention. He looks around at the numerous police and military personnel. Firefighters try to control the blazes and the paramedics search the wounds, some wait to get to Mugena.
Liquid-X lowers his arm and turns around, "Priority is overwritten, no longer threat. New threat is priority one." Liquid-X's face expands forward along with the chest and upper gut. Soon another Liquid-X is formed. Then each one splits again in a similar manner. Each turns towards one quarter of the surrounding policemen.
Mugena wheezes out a breath, but still is unconscious…
******
King Arthur and his knights ride on horseback down a traveler-worn path. Merlin stayed back at Camelot to try to keep the kingdom's peasants calm, though dreads to think what is to come. King Arthur leads the group in semi-full battle armor.
There is a disturbance in a small group of bushes, Arthur slows the guild down to a stop. He draws out his sword, his knights do so as well.
The bushes shake again. Arthur dismounts and points his sword at the disturbance. "Friend or foe?"
There is a small pause and then a voice says, "Friend."
Arthur lowers his guard slightly but not his sword. "Then come out."
A short, young man with dark hair rises from the bush, scared at what may happen. Then another short man rises, this one a little fatter and with [light brown] hair.
There is a disturbance in the bush as something runs away from them. "Sire!" warns Sir Gawaine. The creature doesn't reveal himself and the two short men try to turn their heads towards it but are held back by fear.
After a short moment of observive staring, King Arthur asks the two, "What are your names, young men?"
"… I-I-I'm Frodo Baggins. Of the Shire," says the dark haired one. He pauses for a moment then introduces the other one, "and this is Samwise Gamgee."
"Of the Shire," adds Sam.
"The Shire?" mutters a few confused Knights.
"Where is this Shire?" asks Sir Lancelot.
"And what the heck was that thing in the bushes with you?" adds Sir Galahad
"That was… Gollum. And the Shire is our home." There is another pause as the Knights become even more confused. "Many hobbits live there."
"Hobbits?" asks King Arthur.
"Yes," replies Sam. "We are hobbits from the Spire in Hobbiton."
"Sire, we must be going," says Lancelot.
Arthur turns and mounts his horse. Sam nudge Frodo to ask something but Arthur can hear what Sam is muttering. Frodo steps forward one step and asks the king, "May we, come along in your presence?"
The young student wizards gather into the main dining/gathering hall.
At the Gryffindor table, Harry just arrives and sits across from Ron. "Have you seen Hermione anywhere?"
"Not in the last ten minutes," Ron replies.
Hermione sneaks down the center of an empty hallway, looking around at every spot visible. "I know I seen you…" she mutters.
Raphael hides behind an ajar, wooden door at the corner of the hallway. He mouths words of frustration, wanting her to hurry up and pass.
She slowly creeps up towards the door, theorizing that it is possible that she will find what she is seeking.
Before she gets to the corner, there is a loud creak from a different door. She looks down at the hallway and sees a door try to close, but it starts to swing back. She hurries into that room. Inside are numerous books and furniture, covered in dust. Except for the back of a chair which looks like a hand print. She goes over there to continue her search.
The door creaks again as it is pulled shut. "Hey!" she yells as she runs over to the door. The door is not locked but it extremely difficult to open.
On the other side is Donatello, who has managed to jam the door with a book that holds the bottom of the door in place. "Raph!" he yells in a whisper.
Raphael runs out of his hiding spot and towards Donatello. He leads Raphael down the hallway.
Hermione manages to get the book out from underneath the door crack and opens it. She looks around for the culprit.
The doors to the main hall open up, Dumbledore walks in slowly. He suddenly begins to move faster, right behind him is an oddly-dressed stranger. Psycho Shredder walks right behind Dumbledore, with a current of electricity flowing over his armor every few seconds. The students and teachers stand up in shock, some even advance to come to Dumbledore's aid, but the appearance of six armed androids in Foot Soldier guises stop them from doing anything foolish.
They walk towards the head table for the teachers. Once they reach the table, Snape and Gandolf come into the room. "Sit back down, children," says Snape to make the place a little calmer.
Dumbledore and Shredder head to the center of the table. Three soldiers stand on each side, the inner two have handguns drawn and pointed at Dumbledore.
A few teachers step forward. "Don't use magic," warns Gandolf. "He claims he's immune."
"Though I bet he isn't," whispers Snape.
Shredder smiles under his mouth-mask. "Now, my part begins." He looks at Dumbledore, "Tell me how to use your magic."
Hermione wanders around the hallways again. She is suddenly grabbed by two androids, "Hey!" She looks up at their masks, their faces look down at her.
One android's vision is replaced with a display scene, showing information. It reads off the records, "Criminal subject: 98402. Hermione Granger. Dimensional coordinates: I75. Inaccuracy. Subject in custody: Hermione Granger. Dimensional coordinates: I493."
"Criminal?! Subject, dimensional, what are talking about?! Unhand me!" she yells.
They begin to walk forward, not letting go of her. They must detain her.
The Ninja Turtles gather in a large storage room, behind several shelves of books and potion jars. Leonardo just arrived with information.
"So, what's up? Leo?" asks Raphael.
"Not good," he replies. "There is a hall down one of the next hallways. Shredder's in there, and he has hostages."
"So go in there, take him down, and we're heroes to the magical munchkins," says Michelangelo.
"No. There are six of those androids with him. They look like foot soldiers. But now it looks like the entire school's in there and more androids are starting to patrol the hallways."
"So there are possibly hundreds of hostages now," concludes Donatello.
"So we can't go on offense then," says Raphael.
"So we go on defense?! What good will that do?" jokes Michelangelo. He gets a small slap on the head by Leonardo.
Donatello snaps his fingers. "I got an idea. But before I say anything, I need a volunteer." Donatello turns his head to Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael point at Michelangelo, and Michelangelo points at Donatello. "I'm not going to be the volunteer, Mikey."
"Then why am I the one who gets put in the path of danger, huh?"
"Okay then," says Leonardo. "We will decide fairly then."
Donatello nods and then says, "Paper, rock, scissors. Only winner is exempted, only loser becomes volunteer."
They each put out a fist and do the three-shake-and-go method. Donatello, Raphael, and Leonardo are rock and Michelangelo is paper. He gets up and does a small cheer, "I knew that you knew that I knew that you knew I would chose rock. Wait a minute, hey!"
"Don't worry, we would never team up against ya." Raphael turns his head to Leonardo and gives him a secret look, as if saying 'It didn't work'.
The three remaining contestants go for round two. Leonardo is paper, Raphael and Donatello are scissors.
"What?! Leo lost?" says Donatello.
"Leo never loses!" adds Raphael.
Michelangelo holds back his comment about his rare win. Leonardo sighs and accepts his defeat.
Gandolf and Snape turn around towards the door and move out of the way. Shredder is interrupted by the entrance of the two androids and Hermione. They push her forward and release her. She rubs her arms but stares at the armored man at the front of the room.
"Find your place, child" orders Psycho Shredder.
Dumbledore says without signs of fear, "Find a seat." A few worried students move over to make a space for her, she quickly accepts it.
"This world," continues Shredder. "Your secrets are revealed to this world. And this world is now mine. Wizards I hear you are. You will all make good servants, those who appose will become slaves. And then you—."
This is a loud slash and sparks near the doors, both androids' heads fall to the ground and there bodies become lifeless, except for a bit of movement before shutting down. The outer four androids at the front of the room draw out their weapons, from the retractable holsters in their legs.
"Hold it, Shredder," says Leonardo as he walks in with his swords drawn. The students and teachers becomes surprised at the giant upright-walking turtle. Gandolf and Snape study his body because he is very close to them. He walks in-between them. Hermione now knows she wasn't seeing things a few minutes ago.
"Damn you Turtles," curses Shredder. He then realizes something, "If you are here, Leonardo… where are your brothers?"
Leonardo shrugs casually, "I don't know. We go separated, they could be anywhere now." Leonardo turns around, looking at all the students' faces. He hides his face from Shredder and mouths to both Snape and Gandolf 'Machines. Freeze. Time.' Gandolf and Snape look at each other, Shredder thinks they are still confused by this mutant stranger. Leonardo finishes one full turn and takes a few more steps forward.
One the outer edges of the room, two Turtles sneak by without notice.
"So Shredder… Is it global domination again this time? Global annihilation? 'A' and 'B'?"
Shredder feels uncomfortable. He moves his right arm beside Dumbledore's head, he can slash him with a twist of his arm. "What are you up to?"
Leonardo takes a step back and places his katanas onto his shell. "I just want you to let these people go. You can take me instead."
Shredder pauses at the request. "But I can also make your brothers come to me for revenge."
"Revenge?"
Shredder lifts his arm to point, "Shoot him!"
Once the first syllable left Shredder's mouth, Gandolf began to chant a spell. The androids heard the command but Leonardo got lucky and they couldn't pull the triggers in time.
"What?!" yells Shredder. Dumbledore looks up at him as Shredder raises his fist. A charge flows to the fist and he is about to bring it down.
But then, Snape chants a spell to stop him, but Shredder's given powers won't allow the full affect. Shredder's fist comes down at a quarter of the intended speed.
Suddenly, Raphael comes in from the side and kicks Shredder before the attack could land. Donatello runs in from the other side to assist Dumbledore out of the way.
The spell fails on Shredder and he back to normal speed. Leonardo leaps in with a katana and slashes at him, Shredder defends with his spiked armor but he is forced back a few feet. "Now, Mikey!"
Michelangelo rushes into the room with turtle-grappler spinning. He throws it at a floating chandelier, jumping up with it a bit. The hook catches and Michelangelo swings in with at Shredder, "COWAB-AH-ah-Ah-UNGA!"
Leonardo gets out of the way as Michelangelo swings in and collides into Shredder with a double-leg kick. Shredder is sent flying into the window, almost missing it and hitting the wall underneath it. Shredder yells as he falls.
The Turtles gather around the large hole to see if Shredder was hanging outside.
"You know guys," says Michelangelo, "this calls for a c—."
"An explanation," says Dumbledore.
The Turtles look around the room at the many faces. "Yeah, that too…" replies Donatello.
Leonardo walks amongst the frozen androids and slashes them at their necks and chest plates. They remain frozen in the air until Gandolf releases them. Michelangelo gets his turtle-grappler to retract.
There is a sudden shaking of the building. "Sounds like Shredder is coming back for seconds," says Raphael, sais ready.
"I don't think so," says Snape in a near-mutter.
Gandolf hears notices in the corridors. "SHUT THE DOORS! QUICKLY!"
A few students get up from their spots to push the doors shut. There are a few thuds before being fully closed and two arrows fly into the room. One hits the head table, the other hits the edge of Donatello's staff.
"Barricade it shut!" yells Gandolf.
Though out the school, Orcs run with swords and bows, looking for prey.
*******
Morrigan stands her ground as Chucky taking taunting steps towards her. He laughs with an evil stare at Morrigan. B.B.Hood stands behind but she is leaning against the wall and grips the acid wound on her arm that the Alien's blood left.
The Aliens on the other side of the lake started to make their way towards the other side of the lake, where the DarkStalkers are, but for some reason retreat.
Chucky twitches the knife, to tease Morrigan. She decides to attack first, she fires a Soul Fist. It hits Chucky quickly in surprise. He flies back several yards but doesn't drop the knife. He gets up without much more damage that he already shown, he does his evil laugh.
B.B.Hood feels groggy and falls to her knees. She wakes up completely when she hears a splash from the lake behind them. All three turn towards it and see Jason Voorhees walks out with an Alien limb in one hand and his machete in the other.
"These two are mine!" yells Chucky.
Jason stares at the standing doll. Chucky smiles again and rushes in at the undead corpse. He drives his knife into Jason's knee. He wiggles it to make a deeper and more painful wound. But he stops when he notices that Jason isn't doing anything but staring at him.
"What the Hell?" says Chucky. Jason grabs Chucky by his hair and tosses him high and far down the street. Chucky moans with each object he hits.
While Morrigan watches the flying doll, she doesn't notice Jason coming towards her. She notices him when he raises his fist. She turns to block, but the fist hits her on the side of the head and she is thrown a fair distance. When she bounces on the ground once, Lilith comes out of her body and lies on the ground with the same pains as Morrigan.
B.B.Hood never took her eyes off Jason as he continues towards her. He raises his machete and she instantly takes out her uzis again. He squeezes the triggers, firing numerous rounds into Jason's chest. Jason's body shakes violently with the force of each bullet. Soon Jason falls over and onto the ground, he appear lifeless.
B.B.Hood releases the triggers but continues to stare at the corpse. Jason suddenly sits up, making B.B.Hood jump from her position.
There is a slicing sound, and Jason falls back down. Chucky smiles at Jason, "Don't f*** with the Chuck!" He then turns his attention to the three girls. He tries to pull out his knife of Jason's skull.
There is the rapid sound of footsteps. Just as Chucky turns towards the noise, he is kicked away by a white, paw-like foot. Chucky rolls towards the lake and almost right beside Lilith, who is about to stand up. She notices the moving doll and leaps to her feet. Morrigan was already standing right behind her.
B.B.Hood feels dazed again, her arm wound is now swollen and darken. She tries to stay awake and she sees who the helper is.
"Are you guys okay?" asks Felicia. "It looked like you needed some help, so we come to give it."
"Why you little—," says Chucky until he is suddenly grabbed by the back of his overalls.
"Go for a swim!" yells Jon Talbain as he throws the Chucky doll into the lake.
Felicia walks over to Jason's body and studies it. Talbain begins to gloat, "Well, aren't you glad that we showed up to help."
"I'm sure we had it under control," says Morrigan.
Jason body suddenly springs back to life with the knife still in his skull. Felicia screams at the sudden fright. She quickly kicks him in the goalie-mask. He hits the ground but instant sits up again. He turns to her and attacks with the machete. He misses and it digs into the ground. Felicia backs up a few feet.
Jason gets back to his feet. "You two can settle this later," says Lilith.
As Jason turns towards them, several men in long, black-leather trench-oats leap down from a building and rush towards him. Jason turns around in time to get pounced by one of them. All but four try to push Jason to the ground, the other four run at the DarkStalkers. They stop a few feet in front of them and stand, waiting for the first attack.
"Vampires," says Talbain. "They're all over the place."
"So we must have been sent after Demitri then," says Lilith. Jason finally gets pinned down by the vampires and gets his weapons removed, but he still struggles to get free.
Felicia backs up to just in front of B.B.Hood. B.B.Hood could barely stay awake, there must have been a poisonous agent that entered her blood stream. Out of the corner of her eye she sees a glimpse of a little girl in white.
The other four DarkStalkers realize that these four vampires don't intend on hurting them just yet.
"Why aren't they attacking us?" asks Lilith.
"Because I told them not to yet." Demitri walks towards them from behind the dog-pile of vampires. He is protected by two vampires, one male one female, each with a samurai sword by their sides. "I have other plans for you."
"Looks like you built yourself an army," says Morrigan, "or at least the starts of one."
Felicia begins to move towards the other three, but stops when she realizes that B.B.Hood isn't moving with her. She runs back to her and sees that her eyes are closed. She grabs her, carefully not touching the wound that she just noticed. She drags her over to the others.
"What's wrong with her?" says Lilith.
"She's asleep," Felicia replies. She drags her behind the other three.
"Asleep?!" says Demitri. He then laughs, "It appears that Raiden has made you weaker rather than stronger."
"Why the Hell is she sleeping now?!" says Morrigan.
B.B.Hood walks through a low-fogged forest. She follows a hidden path, not knowing what is ahead. Her wound is gone.
A little girl giggles ahead. She heads towards it.
She comes to a clearing where the fog is less dense near the center. She then notices three little girls in white dresses in the exact center of the clearing, playing jump rope while singing a song.
"Doesn't this look familiar…"
She walks closer and the girls' chant becomes clearer.
"… Three, four, better lock your door. Five, six, grab your crucifix. Seven, eight, stay up late. Nine, ten, never sleep again. One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four…"
B.B.Hood's sleeping body looks so calm. The other fighters have no real choice but to protect her.
The pile of vampires begins to lose it purpose.
"I suggest you run," say Demitri. "We'll give you the chance now."
Talbain growls, "I will not run from you!" The four vampires in front of them take a step forward and flare their fangs.
Lilith looks behind her, there is only a few feet yard between them and the lake, and B.B.Hood is right behind her. She then looks at the faces of the other three.
"We are not running away!" yells Talbain again.
There is a long pause as they stare each other down. The pile of vampires gets less and less sturdy.
"Dammit!" says Talbain. He turns around and picks up B.B.Hood.
"We'll find you later," taunts Demitri.
Morrigan waves for them to follow her, but Talbain gets ahead of her and they exit along the side of the lake.
"Are we going to kill them later, sir?" asks the male body guard.
Demitri chuckles as he turns around to walk the other way. "No, unless we have to. But those creatures will be after them too. And then… we will follow them to their queen. And then… I still have Raven out there."
Demitri and his two guards walk away. Jason suddenly gets all the vampires thrown off of him and he quickly gets up in a rage. The vampires attack but Jason easily bats them away with his fists.
Raven, the seemingly-unkillable vampire from before, walks down the center of a street in a different part of the city. The sounds of screeching Aliens are close by, but he is not frightened. There is a chirping sound from behind him, he turns around to it.
He chuckles first and says, "Well, you're a new one here. And I assume that you are after me. Well, I have bad news for you. I'm a Super Vampire. Thanks to Lord Demitri, I am the first of my kind. I cannot be slayed, burned, drowned, die from illness or age. I am perfect, not even Death himself can take me down…"
The same verbal trilling sound is heard.
"… But that's not going to stop you. You have all the confidence in the world." He takes out a large butcher knife. "Well, I welcome you to try…"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…….!!!"
Raven's head is now being swung upside down, with a horrified expression. A small trail of dark blood runs down his chin and just passes his nose. Blood drips from his severed head, only hanging on by the spinal cord. The attacker walks away with the spinal cord rapped around his hand. Two metallic blades stretch out from the hand, occasionally tapping the head.
He stops and raises Raven's head. The Predator roars in triumph.
******
"Hmm?" says a young man's voice. "Can it be? It is!"
"This place… seems kinda… difference now." Lina Inverse (Slayers reality) walks down a cleared path, with Naga close behind her. She groans and turns to Naga, "You didn't know where we were going, did you?" she says angrily. "Now we are lost in th—!"
"We are not lost," says Naga. "If we keep going straight, we will find a way out of this forest."
"And how do you know we are not just going in circles?!"
"You yourself said that this place is different, therefore we are almost at the other side. So, as you can see, Naga the Serpent is never lost." She does her laugh.
"Or we can just be going in deeper." Lina sighs heavily. Naga walks by her, continuing down the only path. She starts to follow her, but she then hears the noise of running footsteps on twigs and grass.
Naga slows down and turns around, "Why did you stop?"
Suddenly, a skinny, dark haired comes out of the trees beside them, spooking both girls. He is out of breath but straightens himself up and says, in trying to be a gentleman, "Oh, I didn't realize there were two women here. It is a pleasure to meet you, my name is Carot Glace. And I will do anything for you." Carot (Sorcerer Hunters reality) takes a few steps towards them, and more in the direction of Naga when he noticed her.
The girls are confused and a little surprised by his actions. "Why are you here?"
"Like I said, I'm here to do anything you desire. And perhaps even go out somewhere afterwards." Carot comes in closer to Naga.
Naga slaps across the face, "Back off." Carot is thrown back a few feet. He straightens himself and does the same routine.
His face suddenly changes to worried when he hears a distant yell. "Oh, Carot! My darling!"
Carot turns around in the direction he came from, searching for any signs of his group. He turns back to the girls and smiles, "Why… don't we continue our conversation somewhere else."
"No way," replies Naga. Then the ground begins to shake violently for a second.
A short distance away, two powerful beings continuously collide into each other in their aerial battle. With each collision, there is an energy explosion. Mutant Ermac forces MewTwo downward into a thick area of forest. MewTwo projects himself straight up before Ermac could continue with an attack. Another energy explosion occurs when they meet.
When the shakings become less violent and become mostly a distant noise, the three rise back to their feet. Lina soon realizes that Carot has his arms around her tightly, and not because he was scared. She quickly knocks him away.
Carot is suddenly grabbed from behind by two girls. "So we finally found you," says Tira Misu with a sense of anger.
"So, my darling, you ran off again to find another girl," says Chocolate Misu.
"… So this guy is with you, huh?" says Lina.
The two sisters turn their attention to Naga, and her very revealing outfit. Then there are two other men, who come out the same direction as the other three.
"I see that you managed to catch up to him," says Marron Glace, Carot's brother.
Gateau Mocha sighs heavily and says, "Looks like our little pervert has set his sights on more innocent girls."
There is another ground-shaking explosion in the distant, this one is not strong enough to knock them off balance but it does surprise a few.
"What was that anyway?" asks Tira.
"Since that occurrence a little more than an hour ago, everything has gone chaotic," comments Marron.
"Maybe there are sorcerers nearby that are cause this," says Gateau.
"Well, we didn't do it so you can't blame us," says Naga without really thinking.
The Sorcerer Hunters are shocked by her words. Lina realizes that maybe that these people are not too friendly with people like them.
Carot becomes disappointed, "So that means… Aw, why it is that the good looking girls are always sorcer—ah!"
MewTwo suddenly appears as he slams into the ground near the group. They only have a short second to get a good look at him before he teleports out of the way. Mutant Ermac slams his knee into the ground where MewTwo was. MewTwo throws a psy-ball at Ermac, the charge causes Ermac to be thrown into several trees.
"Well, this is new…" says Naga.
MewTwo looks at them, "All of you! You must leave now!" he says telepathically in an angry tone. They don't respond to him. Before he could say anything else, he is checked by Ermac. MewTwo flies end-over-end and into the opposite side of trees. Ermac creates orbs over his fists and charge in. MewTwo creates several ghost images of himself in Ermac's mind, Ermac slams into the center one which wasn't really there.
MewTwo creates a spherical shield around the bystanders and raises it into the air, taking a large part of the ground with it. It raises a fair distance into the air, everyone inside is very confused by the sudden events.
MewTwo flies out of the forest at a high speed, the sphere follows him. Both keep pace at a high speed.
Ermac gets to his feet, but instead of following, he powers up.
MewTwo flies the group to a different area of land. From above it looks like Japan, but the mergings have made forests, hills, and cities to be mixed together.
MewTwo brings them down near a small group of people. When he removes the shield, the pile of dirt and plants crumbles and the seven passengers slide on it unintentionally.
"Is that… a demon," asks one from the surrounding group. It's Kagome, and beside her are her friends Inu-Yasha, Shippo, Miroku, and Sango with her pet two-tailed fox Kirara.
"Now just stay here," says MewTwo and he quickly flies back up and back in the same direction from which he came.
The three groups watch him leave, and then look at who is with them. But before anyone says something, there is another explosion in the distance. When they all turn back to it, they notice an object flying through the air rapidly and engulfed in a psy-blast. MewTwo's body flies over ahead and disappears in the other horizon.
Inu-Yasha instantly turns to the other two groups, "Do you people have something to do with any of this?!"
MewTwo's body slowly descends and crashes through dozens of trees. His body stops on a hillside. He is alive and conscious, but hurt enough to become temporally paralyze.
A shadow covers him. "Whoa!" The shadow moves in closer.
"Hey, Ryoko!" yells a voice. "What was that over there?"
Ryoko stands up from the pokémon's body, "I think you guys should see this."
Over the hill come Tenchi, Ayeka, and Yosho. There are also some other faces, Ranma Saotome, Genma Saotome, Akane Tendo, and Soun Tendo. They all stare with greatly shocked expressions at the giant creature.
"And my life get even weirder," says Tenchi, continuing from a previous conversation.
"Same here," says Ranma.
MewTwo moans heavily as he tries to sit up. The sudden movement causes the two groups to back up a few feet.
******
MegaMan leaps back from one of Mutant Rain's lightning attacks. Pikachu and Kirby dodge them as well, but Pikachu attempts to counter using his own lightning attacks.
Ash, Misty, and Brock watch the battle from a little further back. Every near call for Pikachu causes Ash to become even more worried with Pikachu's safety.
MegaMan charges up his buster and fires at Rain. He is knocked back only about a foot from the blow. Rain then throws a paralyze-orb at MegaMan, but he manages to duck underneath it.
Kirby and Pikachu attempt to do a double-team strike from different sides of Rain. But Rain catches sight of them, and roundhouse kicks both of them away.
"Pikachu!" yells Ash.
In the forest nearby, another group of humans and monsters, going down a path near the battle, notices the massive electrical storm that seems centered on one spot.
"Wow," says Holly.
"Something not right chi," says Mocchi.
"Well then, let's check it out!" says Genki. He starts to speed off on his roller skates, which he always keeps with him, "Race ya there." Mocchi follows but can't keep up.
"But the pendant is not pointing that way," yells Hare, in an attempt to have the group not go that way.
Tiger starts to walking after the two, "Well, we better follow."
"Why, yes. Let's get go to the source of the problem and get half-killed in the process," says Suezo sarcastically as they follow. He then mutters, "Thanks a lot, Genki."
"But it was Suezo who noticed it," says Golem. Suezo rolls his eye and sighs heavily. The group [from a Monster Rancher anime reality] picks up the pace and goes after Genki. No one notices that there is something hiding in a nearby bush.
"Are those pokémon?!" says Jesse's voice.
"Maybe they're newly discovered pokémon," suggest James's voice.
"New talking pokémon!" says Meowth's voice.
Jesse stands up from the bush, "Well there are five of them, and taking them for the boss may promote us."
James rises from the bush with Meowth grabbing onto his shoulder, "We definitely need a boost in our popularity."
"For sure," says Meowth.
MegaMan gets a jolt from a sudden lightning-orb from Rain, he is stunned for only a second. MegaMan regains his balance and quickly decides to change his buster mode. But when he goes to switch, all of the power-ups that he received before are no longer present. "What?!" he says with a shocked expression, "I swear that I had quite a bit left."
Pikachu jumps up from behind Rain and clamps onto the back of his head. "Pika… chuu!" Pikachu lets out a massive charge. Rain moans in pain from the attack but it doesn't knock him down.
Rain counters with his own electric charge to shock Pikachu, but it also amplifies the attack he was already receiving. There is a miniature explosion as both are thrown apart. Kirby aids in Pikachu's landing by simply getting in the way of his body.
"We got to help them," yells Ash in frustration and anger. He takes out a pokéball, "Maybe if we soak that ninja, he will be forced to into not using so many lightning attacks. Go, Totodile!"
He throws the pokéball to the ground and Totodile pops out, doing his little excited jump, "Toto Dile!"
"Totodile?" says Misty confusingly. Togepi's expression becomes happy.
"Are you sure that it'll work, Ash?" asks Brock. "If it doesn't, he will be vulnerable to his lightning attack.
"I believe it will help Pikachu win," says Ash. "Totodile, use Water Gun on that ninja, now!"
"Totodile," the pokémon replies. He takes in a short breath and opens his mouth to spray out a stream of water. The attack hits Mutant Rain as he is about to get up his blow from Pikachu, he gets soaked.
Rain's eyes grow brighter and a lightning bolt strikes Totodile from the air. Totodile is electrocuted, but a charge goes through the continued Water Gun attack and shocks Rain badly.
Totodile falls onto his back, knocked out. "Dile…"
"Totodile, return," says Ash as he points the pokéball at the downed pokémon. Totodile turns into energy and returns to his pokéball.
Genki suddenly leaps over a bush near Ash and the gang. "Hey!" he yells with excitement, "It looked like you guys were having a… huh?" He notices the strange, unknown 'monsters', Pikachu and Kirby, just off to the side of his view. He accidentally stumbles on his roller blades and falls flat on his face. "Ow, that hurt…"
"Mocchi mocchi mocchi!" Mocchi jumps over the same bush and lands onto the Genki. Genki moans loudly.
Ash, Misty, and Brock are confused by Genki's sudden appearance, but are surprised at this new 'pokémon'.
Ash takes out his pokédex, it beeps that it is not in the database. "Wha?... Is it a new pokémon?!"
Genki slowly lifts his head, "What's a pokémon?"
Rain slowly rises to his feet again. "Oh, no," says MegaMan, "He just can't stay down."
"Why? Who is that?" yells Genki to him.
Several bolts of electricity begin to swarm all around Rain's body. He turns around to everyone, revealing his brightly glowing, bluish-purple eyes. A charge causes Rain's skull to be visible through his ninja suit for about a second.
Genki gets back up to his feet quickly when he sees the flash of Mutant Rain's skull, Mocchi grabs onto his leg.
There is a heavy stomping sound, Golem becomes visible through the trees. But it is Tiger and Holly that come out of the trees first. "There you are, Genki," says Holly. She then notices Ash, Misty, and Brock who are all shocked at the new pokémon.
"Wow!" says Misty as Hare, Suezo, and Golem follow Tiger and Holly out.
"They have five new pokémon!" says Brock.
But before the others can ask anything. Rain generates storm clouds over head, thunder booms directly overhead. He begins to levitate upward to the sky.
"MegaMan!" yells a distant, familiar voice.
MegaMan looks up into the sky, a small airborne vehicle is visible just underneath the clouds. "Roll?!"
Roll flies down towards MegaMan. She rides on Rush's back with Eddie in her arms and Beat flying just beside them.
Rain turns his attention towards them. He causes a lightning bolt to strike at them, it barely misses but Roll accidentally lets go of Eddie.
"Eddie!" yells Roll. She turns to Beat, "Beat, catch him and take him to MegaMan."
Beat nods and then flies down to Eddie. He catches him by one of his feet. Rain continues to summon lightning strikes at Roll and Beat.
MegaMan charges up his buster again and fires at Rain. It hits him, making loose his concentration, but it doesn't have the same effect as before.
Beat flies down, then flies level to the ground, he drops Eddie just when he passes MegaMan's feet. Eddie, who landed on his side, hops back onto his feet. "Presents for you from Dr. Light, MegaMan," says Eddie as he opens his top. Several power-up pop out of his container-like head.
"Thanks guys," he puts the power ups into his buster. He then looks up for Roll and Rush.
Rush safety lands near Ash, Genki, and their friends. Roll gets off, "Thanks boy," she says as Rush converts from jet mode to dog mode. Rush runs out to MegaMan.
Kirby walks up to Eddie and touches him curiously.
"You guys better get out of here for now," says MegaMan, with Rush now standing beside him. Eddie and Beat go back to Roll.
Rain levitates higher and summons lightning to strike him, to power him up.
Roll becomes worried, "This doesn't look good."
"You know what's going on?" asks Ash.
Team Rocket kneels down behind another bush but a fair distance away from the fight. "Look, it's that twerp and his friends again," says Jesse.
"And it looks like Pikachu is back. But what is that odd looking one near him?" says James.
"It looks like a marshmallow with eyes and feet," says Meowth.
A female voice comes from behind them, "And why do these monsters interest you?"
All three Team Rocket members look at each other before realizing that there is someone else behind them. They all turn their heads simultaneously to a rock-giant and a winged-monster on its shoulder, Big Blue and Pixie. Team Rocket's expressions become extremely worried at the sight of Big Blue.
"Strange ones they are," says Big Blue.
"Very," says Pixie.
Jesse and James grab each other but continue to stare at them with fear, Meowth grabs onto Jesse from behind.
******
A blond man in a long, white coat walks down a path that rises over numerous hills. A calm snowfall slowly comes his way in the average weather. "Snow?" he says when he sees the coming, dense, falling snow.
There is the sound of rapid moving footsteps, Ky Kiske [Guilty Gear X] gets his sword ready. "Who's there?!"
A figure with a sword leaps through the air and lands crossed-legged a few yards from Ky. It seeming disappears into thin air for a half-second and pops out, onto its feet. "It is I, Yoshimitsu!"
Ky is a little confused by his appearance, which is like a samurai with a demon mask. "What is it you want? I don't see why I should be wasting my time."
"I'll take anything you have of value," replies Yoshimitsu [Tekken / Soul Calibur series] as he gets his sword ready.
"You're just a thief?"
Yoshimitsu doesn't reply. Yoshimitsu is a 'Robin Hood' of his own way. The snow intensifies greatly. The two, who were just about to battle each other, suddenly get their attention pulled to something else.
Sub-Zero gets thrown over a ledge of ice and snow, he holds on to what he can. The clone of his brother, Mutant Sub-Zero, comes to the edge and stares down at him.
Mutant Sub-Zero raises his ice-sword and swings at Sub-Zero, but Sub-Zero lets go of the edge just before then. He falls into a thick fog of the snow blizzard.
Mutant Sub-Zero follows him down. When he reaches the next part of level ground, he can't see his opponent anywhere. The blizzard moves down to him.
Sub-Zero suddenly leaps in from the side and attempts to downward fist-smash. The blow knocks Mutant Sub-Zero back a little.
There is a monstrous roar as Mutant Sub-Zero recovers, but it wasn't him. Both turn around to an enormous furry creature. Both ninjas quickly dodge the creature's charging tackle.
Ky begins to shiver by the cold wind, Yoshimitsu doesn't appear to be affected but he too doesn't have the want to attack.
There is a car-horn honk from behind Ky. He turns around to a dark police van stopping just a few feet from him. A black man opens the driver's side door and yells to Ky, "Get in!"
Ky doesn't hesitate and rushes for the van's side door. A blonde, white woman opens the door for him to get him. Yoshimitsu has disappears into the snow.
"Thanks," says Ky.
"What are you doing out here?!" says the man in the front.
"I was trying to find someone," he replies. "I'm Ky Kiske."
The woman pulls out a badge. "Agent Sonya Blade and Agent Jax Briggs, Special Forces. We are out here, tracking a fugitive."
Mutant Sub-Zero and the Abominable Snowman clash in a test-of-strength, neither one seems to be getting the upper hand at first. But then Mutant Sub-Zero uses his freezing powers to hurt the creature's hands. The sasquatch tries to put aside the pain and clubs his opponent away.
Sub-Zero stays out of the fight so he could recover some strength.
"Sub-Zero?" says a female voice from behind him.
Sub-Zero turns around to a female, Lin Kuei ninja with frozen hair. Sub-Zero doesn't know who she is. Sub-Zero gets ready to fight, "Who are you? Did the Lin Kuei send you after me?"
"Are you really Sub-Zero?" she asks with confusion. "Where did you get that scar on your eye?"
Sub-Zero realizes the situation and lowers his guard. "You are from another reality, different than mine. If you were from mine and from my Lin Kuei clan, you would be attempting to kill me."
The female ninja is a little stun, "That sort of sounds like my story."
"I don't know you from my world, how did you come to become a member of the Lin Kuei?"
The female ninja removes her mask, "I'm Frost. I didn't join the Lin Kuei but my sensei found me and taught me in the way of his clan and teach me some moves that his friend had, which is really you"
Sub-Zero is stunned, "Who was your sensei?"
"Smoke."
Sub-Zero gasps at the mention of that name. So, Frost must be from a reality where it was Smoke who escaped the Lin Kuei instead of Sub-Zero.
"But I thought you were the Sub-Zero that I was following, but then—."
"Wait, you were following another version of me?"
There is a sound of feet moving packing down snow that they were stepping on. They turn to the sound. There stands a Lin Kuei CyberNinja. "That's him," says Frost.
"Frost, you are wanted for treason against the Lin Kuei and the forces of Shao Kahn. Brother Sub-Zero, apparently you survived the first Mortal Kombat lead by Shao Kahn. You will also be destroyed for allying with the enemy." Cyber-Sub-Zero goes into a fighting stance.
Frost does so as well, but Sub-Zero just stares at his cyborg counterpart. "Well, are you going to help me," asks Frost.
Sub-Zero just remembers the other battle going on behind him. Mutant Sub-Zero and the Abominable Snowman continue to strike each other. "This is turning into a battle royal." He turns to Frost, "I'll fight your enemies as long as you will fight mine."
Frost nods in agreement. Sub-Zero goes into his fighting stance.
Cyber-Sub-Zero charges in, ready to take them both on.
******
"I think it sees us, Sonic," says Knuckles as both of them head straight for the giant mech, Eva-01.
"I think so too," replies Sonic. "But if it attacks, we knock it down. Agreed?"
"Yes, but I will be doing it."
"Is that a challenge?" smiles Sonic
Shinji watches the two come straight at him. He is hesitant to attack, these two don't seem to be much of a threat.
"Shinji! What are you doing?!" yells Asuka's voice over the com-system. "They're coming straight at you!"
"Yes, but…"
Suddenly, rifle fire hits the area around Sonic and Knuckles. They leap in panic and then go for cover behind a building.
Eva-02 comes out from behind some buildings and comes into Shinji's view. "I had to save you again. Wake up, Shinji, and get back to the real world!"
Shinji doesn't reply.
Sonic and Knuckles peak from around the corner. "There's another one," says Knuckles, "Why didn't we see it before?"
Sonic smiles and then suddenly runs off straight for Eva-02.
"WAIT!" yells Knuckles as Sonic runs away. "Dammit, that hedgehog is too hot headed to think of plans." Knuckles looks up the building beside him and decides to climb up it. "Maybe he'll be the distraction I need."
Sonic runs up to and jumps on to an abandoned bus. He then waves at Eva-02, "Hey!" He then whistles.
Asuka notices the blue hedgehog, "Huh? Is it taunting me?" She stares at Sonic for a few seconds.
Then Sonic turns to Eva-01 and waves at him. Shinji stares at the hedgehog confusingly.
"Asuka?" says Shinji. "Maybe he is not against us."
Asuka causes Eva-02 to point her gun at Sonic.
Sonic smiles and waves his index finger. And then he takes off in a flash.
"What?!" says Asuka as she looks for him. "Where did he go?!" She turns around and notices Sonic standing a few blocks away in the open, he taps his foot as if impatient. Sonic then takes off straight for her. She starts firing her gun, but her aim is off by the time she shoots.
Shinji watches the battle from a few buildings away. He feels something on the outside of Eva-01. Suddenly, Knuckles head pops down from above, "Anyone home?"
Shinji is spooked by the sudden appearance.
Knuckles taps the spot where the nose would be on the face of the Eva, "I know there has to be someone in there…"
Shinji is a little nervous but decides to speak, "You can talk?"
Knuckles hears the mumbled reply through the Eva. "Huh? Oh course I can talk. I'm talking right now, aren't I?"
Shinji is silent for a moment.
"Why are you attacking us? Well, more of that one than you."
Then unexpectedly, Sonic comes up from below Knuckles. "Hey, Knuckles. Who are you talking to?"
Asuka's voice comes over the com-system, "Where did that blue thing do?!"
"They are… on me," replies Shinji. There are a few loud steps and then Eva-02 appears with her gun ready.
"Uh oh," says Sonic as he and Knuckles leap off Eva-01 and disappear into the buildings.
"Wait, Asuka!" says Shinji. "They might not be against us."
"Yeah right," replies Asuka.
Sonic runs up Eva-02 and stops on its shoulder. "You're just too slow," taunts Sonic. Eva-02 attempts to grab him but he moves to the other shoulder. "It's not me that started this." Asuka tries to catch him again but he moves back to the first shoulder. "It was you who started shooting at us!"
Knuckles swoops in at Eva-02. He draws his fist back, "Knock, knock." He punches Eva-02 in the cheek. The Eva tips back a little but quickly regains its balance. Inside, Asuka feels the affects of the blow.
Sonic and Knuckles head back to Eva-01 and stand on opposite shoulders. "Can we talk now?" asks Sonic.
Asuka looks at the two creatures angrily. "Shinji! Squash them!"
Knuckles taps on Eva-01's head, "Can you tell your partner that we are not against you."
"Uh, Asuka. The red one told me to tell you that they are not against us," says Shinji.
It takes Asuka a moment to lower her gun, she growls then sighs with dissatisfaction.
"Finally, we have an understanding here," says Sonic.
A soldier in uniform guards a doorway into the entrance to the underground city of Tokyo-3. He appears to be very bored and is about to doze off.
There is a knock at the door, which awakes him. He goes up it and says, "This is a private passageway." He opens the door a little, standing on the other side is a man in the same type of uniform and a military cap covering his eyes. "Identification please."
The man looks at him, "You don't recognize my face?"
The soldier looks at him for a moment and replies, "No, I don't, sir"
"How about this face?" The Venom symbiote flows out over the man's body.
The guard panics and tries to flee. Venom webs him up against a wall.
"I'm sure you won't forget it now," jokes Venom. He then drags two web-cocoons inside, Bunnie Rabbot and Tails moan and wiggle inside.
Venom transforms back into Eddie Brock with the uniform. He then goes up to a control panel and searches through the computer system. He smiles and grabs the cocoons. He travels down a hallway, leaving the guard suck to the wall.
The guard sighs with relief. But suddenly, a web-line comes out the hallway, grabs him, and pulls him in that direction. The guard yells as he is thrown in the air and slams his head on an emergency button on the wall. He falls to the floor unconscious as the alarm sounds.
Alarms in Eva-01 and Eva-02 go off. "What's wrong?" asks Shinji.
"Tokyo-3 has gone into shut down, something must have happened down there," replies Asuka.
Sonic looks at Knuckles from the shoulder he stands on, "Can you hear what they are saying in there?"
"Only mumbles now." Knuckles suddenly remembers something, "Hey, weren't Bunnie and Tails behind us?"
Sonic suddenly remembers too, "Oh yeah." He looks around but some building block their view. "Don't worry, I think they're okay."
"SONIC!" mumbles Tails as he tries to scream for help. Venom carries his and Bunnie's cocoons over his shoulder like nap-sacks.
The alarms blare loudly and security doors start to close, one-by-one, down the hallway. Trapping them inside and keeping the others out.
******
A man bursts into an old, wild-western style building. Inside are five men playing cards.
"Something wrong, Jed?" asks one man.
"Didn't you guys hear the ruckus down the street?!"
"What?"
"Well there's a man in iron fighting four critters. One is a bee, one's a gator, and… I don't know exactly what the other two are."
"And where was this?" asks another man. No one is showing any interest.
"Down the street, where the saloon was."
A few men laugh. One man says out of laughter, "You usually ain't like this until dusk, Jed."
There is the sound of an explosion within the town. Everyone stops laughing.
Juggernaut rises from a destroyed, old-western building. Fire spreads all around the broken lumber. But Juggernaut's new armor is not even scratched yet.
The Chaotix regroup and stare at their nearly-invincible opponent. "This is getting out of hand," says Charmy.
"At this rate, there won't be much of this town left," says Espio.
"Well, we have to keep trying to find his weak spot and keep knocking him down," says Mighty.
Vector looks at Mighty, "But you are the only one that can knock him down! Our attacks barely faze him."
Juggernaut rises back to his feet. He growls in anger and grabs a large of burning lumber and throws it at the four. They dodge it barely and a couple get too close to the heat.
The crowd of cowboys watch them in amazement. Most of them want to help defend their town but their guns and other weapons have had very little effect already.
Juggernaut charges in as the Chaotix are distracted by the projectile. He shoulder charges all of them in one shot.
Charmy is thrown into the air and manages to regain his balance quickly. He notices something in the sky. "Huh? What is that?" A merger orb explodes in the air.
Everyone notices the distant exploding noise, then the approaching wall of white. It quickly engulfs them all.
The cowboys uncover their eyes after the wall hit them without feeling. They are surprise to see that the five strangers are gone as well as one building that was destroyed. They look at each other, then to the sheriff.
"I'm as confused as you are…" he replies.
The Chaotix materialize in mid-air and yell as they fall. They hit a wooden surface hard.
Numerous men surround them as they sit up and rubs their heads. "What happened?" asks Vector.
The men gasp. "The lizard can speak!" says one man.
Espio sits up and looks at all the swords and guns pointed at them. "Where did we go now?"
"Aye! But my question is… from where did odd creatures like you come to be here?" says a man with distinguishable clothing.
The Chaotix stand up, some men become scared that Vector was as tall as them, if not more.
"We are on a ship," says Charmy. He notices the Jolly Roger flag above the crow's nest, "A pirate ship!"
"That is right. You are aboard my ship, the 'Loyal Fortune'. I am Captain Bart Roberts."
"Now listen here—!" Mighty takes a step forward but then all the guns point towards them.
"What shall we do to them?" asks his first officer.
The Captain thinks for a moment. "Chain 'em up." He walks off.
A few crewmen get a long, large chain. Espio suddenly disappears in front of their eyes, Charmy talks off to the air, and Vector and Mighty look at them with menacing smiles.
"Uh, how're we suppose to chain 'em up?" asks one crewmate.
Vector smiles, revealing most of his teeth, and Mighty cracks his knuckles.
Suddenly, the pirates, who were holding pistol, get their guns launched into the air by the invisible Espio. Charmy helps out by also knocking their weapons away.
Vector and Mighty begin attacking the pirates with their fists.
A small group of native children play along a beach. Suddenly, one of them slams into a solid surface. The children gasp as they look at the object in front of them.
The sun reflects off Juggernaut's armor, making him look almost like a spiritual being. The children start repeating a name in their native tongue.
******
Numerous Future-Borg androids work inside a glass pyramid building. In the center, they construct a massive array, and it is nearly complete.
Several androids are about to carry a power chamber towards to the array through a long hallway. But they suddenly stop when one notices an out-of-place object in the room. Two androids walk towards it to check it out.
As the two get within a few feet of the large, spherical object, Link and Sheik drop down from above the other androids. They quickly take them out with their weapons.
The other two androids turn around and draw out their weapons. Samus morphs out of her sphere-form and points her arm cannon right at them. The androids turn around to the noise and are then blown to pieces by Samus' blast.
More androids come into the room, alerted there by a network between all the drones. There all draw their weapons and fire at the three. Sheik and Link get behind the power chamber and Samus hides behind the crates around her.
The androids approach them and continuously fire at them, but are sure not to severely damage anything they will need for the array. Diddy Kong falls on from above and grabs onto an android near the back, covering its eyes with his hands. The android tries to pull him off.
Then Donkey Kong comes down and smashes three androids right in front of Diddy's. He then smashes Diddy's android with his fist to its chest plate.
Samus, Link, and Sheik then use their projectiles to destroy the remaining androids.
"Let's go!" says Samus as she leads them out of the room.
In another room, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Captain Falcon battle the opposing androids. They all battle with punches and kicks, Yoshi also does a few swallowing attacks and butt-stomps. It takes them a few minutes to finish their fight with minimal injuries.
They then hurry out of the room.
Both teams gather at one junction of hallways, almost simultaneously.
"Did everything go as smoothly with your fight as ours?" asks Mario.
"These robots are not too hard to destroy," replies Link.
"But hopefully, there are not too many left," says Sheik.
They all run down the center hallway, towards the center of the building.
They stop at the last closed doorway and stand alongside both sides of the door. They make sure everyone is ready before Samus activates the opening mechanism. The door sudden opens and the noise of construction comes at them loudly.
"How many do are in there?" asks Luigi.
Link looks inside and pulls away quickly. "Too many."
"Like a hundred?" asks Captain Falcon.
Samus looks around the corner, "Oh, there is many more than that…"
Hundreds of androids move around the large room. The array extends from the base level to the top of the pyramid-building. About two-thirds of them are quickly constructing the device while the rest are on item-gathering and military-defense.
"This is bad," says Mario.
An alarm suddenly activates and blares extremely loud.
"This is worse!" says Captain Falcon.
They fear that the androids would be coming to them in full force. But the building shakes violently after an explosion.
"Can you guys hear us?" says Fox's voice through Samus' helmet.
"Yes, we can. Where are you?" asks Samus.
"We are attacking the building from the sky," replies Falco's voice.
"They now have their defense weapons at full power," reports Slippy.
"We will draw their attention, while you take out the transmition cannon," says Peppy's voice.
"We will try," replies Samus. "There maybe too many."
"Fox! They now have shields up!" reports Slippy.
There is the sound of distorted explosions.
"Damn! We can still draw their fire, but we can't damage anything right now," says Fox.
"Then we should go after their source for their shields," says Captain Falcon.
"And some of us will find and destroy the power source for the cannon," says Link.
"Agreed," says Fox.
"The power sources for the shields should be on the upper levels, that's where the shields are the strongest," says Peppy.
Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Captain Falcon hurry back down the hallway in search up a way to the higher levels.
Samus, Link, Sheik, Donkey Kong, and Diddy sneak pass the door. They hide behind large crates of mechanical parts. Samus, Link, and Sheik each get their projectiles ready.
Several Borg androids turn to their position, they have been sighted.
"They know we're here," says Link.
Donkey Kong lifts up the crate he was hiding behind and throws it at a small group of androids. Its contents cause a miniature explosion but it does take out most of those androids.
"Go!" says Samus as she leaps out of from her hiding spot and fires at the androids. Link and Sheik get their weapons ready as they jump out together. Diddy runs up to Donkey Kong and they run off to battle their own group of machines.
******
Fujin and Gohan stand on the side of a mountain, both move away rocks to reveal a hole. When the last rock is removed, the next DragonBall shines at them.
"That makes six," says Gohan as he grabs the ball. "Just one more."
Fujin looks at the DragonRadar and is confused by what it shows. He then looks at the other five DragonBalls on the ground.
"I don't remember me or Krillin putting this one here," says Gohan as he looks into deeper into the hole or anything else that may be there.
"I am getting three blips on this thing," says Fujin. "Could it be malfunctioning?"
"It shouldn't be. But I guess that something could have happened to it recently."
Fujin looks down at the DragonBalls by his feet, he seems stunned. He picks up one of the balls, "How many stars does the one you hold have, Gohan?"
Gohan looks at it, "Five. Why?"
Fujin shows the one in his hand, it also a five-star DragonBall.
"What?! How can that be?"
"I forgot about the merging problem too," says Fujin. "This world has merged with others containing DragonBalls. We've been collecting multiple sets."
"So what do we do now?"
"We keep searching, the more we find the more likely we will find a set. And then we—!" Fujin senses something in the distance.
"What is it?" asks Gohan.
"Dammit! I was wrong."
"What? About the DragonBalls?"
"No, about Broli and Buu. It's not Buu that I sensed before."
Gohan begins to pick up the DragonBalls, "So who is it?"
"I'm not sure yet," replies Fujin. "Did Raiden tell you guys about the other realms with different Gods? I remember him telling you that it was two Greek Gods that saved those from Lucifer during the time of Kung Po."
"Yeah, I remember that."
"Well there are many universes out there, each collection of similar universes, like yours, has a reality where the Gods would know of MUGEN." Fujin pauses for a second. "I think I knew who it is."
"He is from a Neo-Universe of the Greek Gods. The God of War, Ares…"
Broli falls to the ground hard. He moans as he slowly tries to get up.
A man with black leather boots, pants, and a long trench-coat lands behind Broli. "The Legendary Super Saiyan, Broli," says Ares. "I thought you were tougher than that."
Broli growls then quickly rises off the ground. He then comes at Ares with a continuous flow of punches and kicks. Ares manages to dodge each attack, but barely.
Ares punches Broli high into the air. Suddenly his body shrinks down to a black pearl as Ares stretches his hand out to him. The pearl comes back to Ares and he holds hit between his fingers. He smiles, "Yes, a nice gift for her…"
"Hold it right there, Buu!" yells Goku's voice from behind him.
Ares turns to the Z-fighters, "Buu? Who said I was Buu?"
"You mean you aren't?"
"I am not a super marshmallow, am I?"
Videl steps forward, "Well, Fujin said that there was a Broli and Buu here."
"And we just saw what you did to Broli," adds Krillin.
"Fujin?!" says Ares. He then laughs, "Oh, that Fujin. From Raiden's universe. You see, we know each other but not in a good way." He then puts the Broli Sphere away in his coat, "And you guys must be the famous Z-fighters."
"That's right," replies Goku.
"What? Now I must fight you guys?"
"Then why are you here?" asks Android 18.
"I'm here for the DragonBalls. With the mergers occurring, the Gods are too busy to stop us from collecting them."
"That's what I don't get, why are Gods going after the DragonBalls?" says Tien.
"Even though Gods have more powers, the DragonBalls have some powers we don't." Ares suddenly realizes the meaning behind Tien's words, "Fujin's here and looking for the DragonBalls!"
The Z-fighters are silent.
"Maybe he will come to me this time. And I forgot to tell you, I am Ares, the God of War. And not one to be taken lightly."
"That doesn't scare us at all," says Goku.
"Well then," says Ares, then he makes a sword appear in his hand. "If you want to fight…"
Goku charges up into his Super Saiyan Level 2 form and charges in. Goku comes in with a punch but misses. Ares then trips Goku and he flips in the air, Goku recovers a short distance away.
"This could get interesting. You are worthy of an honorable death."
"If you haven't noticed the halo above my head, I'm already dead."
"Then it's even more thrilling, a spirit versus a god." Ares gets his sword ready, and charges straight at Goku. "And I will kill you in the name of Queen Hera!"
