DW2: Eraser
The colossal crackling crunch of concrete and steel crumbles before the bubbling fist of a gigantic water monstrosity. Twisted dragon shaped eyes and face contorts as the beast roars. In the dark city of St. Canard, nothing but chaos and destruction surrounded the path of the water monster. A group of shadowy troubled heroes were seen running frantically away from the beast, who had the shadowy 2nd lost soul member riding upon his back.
"Give it up worms, there's no escaping the awesome power of the Lost Souls. Lord Solego shall be resurrected whether you're dead or alive to witness it, demolish everything in sight until you find them Blaarg" Echo commanded to his watery creature creation. The dark cloaked stranger known only as Echo was hunting for the missing Sora and his friends, Echo clutched the missing red shard of his master's jewel in his right gloved hand.
In the dark winding alleyways of the seedy city, Darkwing Duck panted with sweat oozing down his purple masked eyes. "Gawrsh that was close, he almost spotted us" Goofy said, Darkwing frantically asked Donald "Who the HELL are those guys?". The wizard duck shrugged "Some wacko cult that's been chasing us ever since we started going home, he wants us dead and to find 5 of these red jewel pieces". Launch pad was carrying the frail Sora.
Still stricken with the dark disease pleaguing his young heart, Sora was clearly in no condition to move let alone escape his monstrous captors. Quietly Darkwing hummed "This all sounds vaguely familiar, even that name that wacko Echo guy mentioned, I know I've heard it somewhere before". Echo growled "The reason it sounds familiar is because you were the one who DESTROYED MY MASTER". The heroes screamed out.
Echo and his water monster Blaarg were standing right over Darkwing's horrified white feathered face. The gigantic water monster had used his watery muscled forearms to prey open the alleyways. Launch pad and Darkwing nervously backed away from the furious glowing eyes of Blaarg and Echo. "Gulp oh yeah I remember, Solego the chaos god, he was that giant lizard I sent...b-b-b-back into that s-s-stone" Darkwing stuttered.
Fury and incredible anger boiled furiously in Echo's black heart, and just as he was about to crush Darkwing with his water monster's fist, he spotted something. There huddled in the arms of Darkwing's sidekick Launch pad, he saw Sora, frail, weak, dying, and a sick smile painted the shadow warrior's face. Coldly Echo laughed "Now isn't this a treat. The great and mighty keyblade master lay stricken with disease, such a sad sight to see.
My mission only stated to collect the missing jewel shard of Lord Solego, but how can I turn down such a momentous opportunity such as this? The chance to kill both Sora, the legendary chosen keyblade master, and Darkwing Duck, destroyer of the great chaos god, in one fatal final blow. Blaarg, CRUSH THEM ALL", the water monster roared and morphed his fist into an aqua shaped hammer. Goofy and Donald shrieked out loudly.
"Suck gas evil doers" Darkwing hissed as he blasted a pellet of purple smoke from his gas gun, blinding Echo and Blaarg long enough to escape. Darkwing, Goofy, Donald, Launch pad, and Sora hopped into the Rat catcher motorcycle, and whirred off far, far away from Echo as possible. Goofy smiled "Gee thanks Mr. Wing for rescuing us like this, but do you think were safe from that Echo guy?". Darkwing smirked "Absolutely".
Suddenly a building behind them literally exploded with thousands of gallons of water that shattered through the steel and stone to form back into Blaarg. Echo slowly hovered behind the water monster as he insanely charged forward after the Rat Catcher. "NOT" Darkwing gasped as he floored the engines, Donald cried out as the machine whirred to zooming life. Rubber tires screeched powerful speed thrusts going faster and faster.
Blaarg smashed his water shattering fists into the crushing chunks of mangled street asphalt, his water hammer fists smashed relentlessly. Each bubbling fist bash that Blaarg landed, inched closer and closer to Darkwing's speed trailing cycle. Knowing that even if the masked mallard had a jet engine in this machine, nothing could escape this monster's watery fury. "DW what are we gonna do, he's gaining on us" Launch pad gulped.
"If anyone has any ideas I'm wide open" Darkwing stammered, Donald stood up and aimed his wand towards the rampaging Blaarg. "I got one, it's a long shot but we got to do it exactly right or else were done for" Donald said. The duck quickly whispered his plan to the others, and they agreed as risky as it may be, it'd be the best way to stop Blaarg or at least slow him down. But the sight of the shivering, dying Sora was encouragement enough.
Echo yawned "Bored now, Blaarg flush these worthless little turds down into the sewer where they belong". Blaarg nodded and roared open his watery dragon fanged jaws, as they unleashed a gushing mountain load of high pressurized water. Donald's plan was approaching its dead line, and the daring duck nodded his worried blue eyes to his comrades. The ferocious waterfall roared closer and as Darkwing sped up, he spotted a lamp post.
"NOW" Donald shouted as he blasted a huge burst of snow energy from his wand. The freezing, frosting, blizzard blast struck Blaarg right between the eyes, blinding up the watery monster's bubbly eyes for just a few moments. "Time for a MAJOR u-turn" Darkwing said as he fired his gas gun, armed with a grappling hook that roped around the lamp post. The hook tied securely around the lamp post to hold the cycle down just long enough.
So that Darkwing could initiate the turbo speed engines, and have enough counter weight to make a super sonic dash around the lamp post, and past Blaarg. The blinded water monster crashed into a building with tremendous force, as did all of his expelled water attack. And just to make sure the bubbly beast stayed down for the count, Goofy sliced his shield over the post. Cutting the lamp post in half and causing it crash onto Blaarg's form.
The shattered light bulb in the post expelled wild amounts of electricity, enough to savagely electrocute Blaarg and boil his bubbling body apart. "YIPEE YAHOO" Donald and Goofy cheered watching the fallen Blaarg blur out of sight as Darkwing's cycle whirred down the streets quickly. But all their cheers quickly faded at sight of the shadowy Echo figure, standing directly in front of their bike's path. Darkwing grinned "Splatter time punk".
Echo simply smiled and opened up his pearly white jaws before unleashing a devastating howl. Sonic waves screamed out of Echo's lungs, causing as ear bleeding, glass shattering, sonic scream that blasted the Rat Catcher into shattered spare parts. Launch pad and Sora tumbled to the ground along with the others, falling painfully face first before the feet of the sinister Echo. "Now you know why they call me Echo" the dark rider chuckled wickedly.
Matters only seem to get worse as the thundering, splashing steps of Blaarg soon made a dreadful return. Seems that a monster composed entirely of water was harder to kill then with a simple lamp post. Black gloved fingers snapped loudly as Echo ordered Blaarg, "Remove those insignificant worms from my sight that is, except of course for Darkwing Duck and Sora. Their dead corpses will be perfect trophy's to offer my master once he returns".
Nodding with a gurgling growl in response to his master's commands, Blaarg placed his massive watery fist over Goofy, Donald, and Launch pad. A powerful slurping suction like force absorbed them all into the watery vortex that is Blaarg's body. Evil laughter soon followed as Echo traced his black booted steps towards Darkwing and the lifeless Sora. Bravely taking a stand, Darkwing spread open his arms and cape, protecting Sora from Echo.
"Take another step towards that kid and I'll rearrange your face cloak boy" Darkwing sneered, Echo laughed cruelly "How pathetically predictable. Here you are in the middle of a war that does not concern you, protecting a stranger you don't even know. Tell me crime fighter, what is there to gain by losing your own life when yours is not meant to be lost...yet". Sora weakly moaned a bit, coughing small droplets of blood from his blue lips.
"You don't need to have super powers to tell the good from the bad in this town, and you're as bad as they come buster" Darkwing said. Once more Echo simply shrugged his dark cloaked shoulders and laughed, Darkwing hissed angrily and leapt into action. Webbed feet flung into high flying kung fu kicking spree, Darkwing sent barrages of flying kicks at Echo's head. The dark stranger moved so quickly he appeared to be one with darkness itself.
No matter how hard Darkwing kicked, or how fast he swung his feet into action, Echo was able to dodge his attacks with speed and style. Darkwing panted against Echo who was still standing there grinning, his dark arms crossed over his chest as he chuckled "Are you done yet?". Ignoring his taunts, Darkwing leapt up and dished out a spinning tornado kick. Ducking his dark cloaked head down, Echo plowed his fist into Darkwing's chest.
The mallard's purple vest compacted along with his stomach under the colossal pressure of Echo's gut punch. The dark rider then pulsated a huge surging blast of electrical energy from his eyes, blasting Darkwing in the chest and propelling him skyward. "Scream time" Echo said as he reared back his black gloved hands, focusing his psycho screaming energy. Echo blasted a sonic blast from his hands right into the falling Darkwing Duck.
"UGH OH that's gonna leave a mark" Darkwing groaned as the blast catapulted him face first into the gravel of the road's crumbling concrete. Inside the bubbly confines of Blaarg, Donald and Goofy were screaming and pounding their fists uselessly against the water hide of the aquatic monster. Launch pad gurgled "Guys it's no good, this guy's too squishy to even dent". Goofy blinked "Hey wait a sec, Donald, what if we (whispering)".
BAM! Another powerful punch landed painfully into Darkwing's masked face by the energy charged fist of the wicked Echo. The purple suited crime fighter was now littered with bruises, dirt marks, and other painful reminders of just how powerful Echo is. "Time to die duck" Echo said as he sucked in a large gasp of air, preparing to scream Darkwing out of existence for good. But suddenly a small ball of fire struck Echo's shoulder, he cried out angrily.
Glaring ice eyes turn to see Sora, weakly standing on pale skinned, wobbly legs, his blue eyes looking dull, and his face so pale and frail. Sora's keyblade was weakly raised up in defense, as if preparing to fight Echo in his condition. Echo smirked "I must say you're as brave as the legends say keyblade master, but you're looking a bit under the weather. Time I put you out of your misery and out of GACK", Echo was suddenly being strangled.
While Echo was talking, Darkwing had leapt up behind him and latched his gas gun under Echo's throat tight enough to choke him. Meanwhile Blaarg screamed a gurgling cry as his insides were literally being frozen into ice. Donald and Goofy cleverly used their magic to freeze the monster's body so deeply that'd he become a solid block of ice. Launch pad bashed his fists into the monster's chest, cracking its belly wide open for them to escape.
"Geronimo!" Goofy cried as he and Donald both double tackled Echo down with tremendous force, now all 3 heroes were holding Echo down. "LP grab that rock and toss it to Sora" Darkwing said, Launch pad nodded and fumbled his bumbling fingers through Echo's coat, searching for the stone. If the stones were indeed as magical as Sora said they were, perhaps the initial charge of 2 stones together could be enough to heal Sora's illness.
"I got it" Launch pad cried as he yanked the red rock from Echo's silvery dark coat, the phantom stranger screamed angrily "GET OFF ME NOW". The sonic banshee scream blasted off Darkwing and the others, Echo now turned his furious eyes towards the red rock that lay in Launch pad's hands. "Give me that stone" Echo hissed, Launch pad gulped and shouted "Catch" before tossing it towards Sora. Echo growled and leapt after the red rock.
Sora's dazed and pale, dead like eyes weakly focused on the incoming shape of a red stone being hurled towards his eyes. Echo screamed and flexed out his gloved fingers to grab the rock, but Sora opened his hand up just in time to catch the stone. Bright lights suddenly energized Sora, as the power of his 1st stone was reacting to this new 2nd stone. FLASH! A powerful blast of pure white light engulfed Sora and blasted Echo off with incredible force.
Falling back faster and faster, Echo screamed as he was unable to stop himself from crashing into the frozen form of his monster pet Blaarg. Shattering into a thousand crushed icy pieces, Blaarg was crunched into ice cubes as Echo crashed into him and collapsed to the ground. Goofy gasped "Gawrsh Sora, you look like a million bucks, nice glow ya got there too". The young boy smiled as he examined his newly rejuvenated body.
All traces of Mirage's dark infections had been apparently cleaned and removed when the 2 shards of the chaos gem had connected. Sora smirked "I feel loads better, sorry about that guys, but now I think it's time we finish this up". Slowly Echo stood back up, ice cold calculating eyes boiling behind strands of silver white hair. The dark rider shook his head coldly cursing in response, "Finished? No, no my dear boy it's NEVER finished.
Your hear me? NEVER FINISHED! I'll burn in hell before I let a mere child stop Lord Solego's glorious resurrection. Now die you impudent little brat, DIE, DIE, DIE", Echo screamed as the whole city shook with sonic vibrations. Echo's powerful banshee cries were literally shaking the city like a giant with a snow globe, the shattered ice shards of Blaarg floating up. By manipulating his screaming energies, Echo was controlling Blaarg's shards.
Dark gloved hands thrust forward on Echo's commanding force to blast the icy daggers directly at Sora. The brown haired focused his blue eyes closely, clutched his white gloved fingers around his keyblade, and stood as the daggers flew towards him. "HIYA" Sora said as he sliced and diced his keyblade in a super sonic speed sword slashing frenzy against the ice blades. Sora's quick blade skills were easily destroying the daggers into ice cubes.
No matter how many flew at Sora or how fast they screamed at him, the boy was able to destroy each and every last one of them through his keyblade. Not taking this lying down or for another second longer, Echo launched from the ground in a flying tackle attack against Sora. Goofy and Donald leapt to help their friend, but a quick sonic blast from Echo stopped them. "Donald, Goofy UGH" Sora grunted as his face was bashed across by Echo's left forearm, a second punch from his right knocked Sora down. The silver keyblade clattered on the ground until Echo's dark digits absorbed it.
The legendary blade that had slain so many Heartless, and other types of demented villainy, was now in the hands of the laughing dark rider, Echo. Yellow shoes clonked as Sora tried to sit up, young blue eyes widening in horror at sight of his keyblade. Echo laughed "Killed by your own weapon, how pathetic". Sora gasped as Echo leapt into the air with the blade raised over his head, the phantom stranger was going to slay Sora with one blow.
"YOUR QUEST ENDS NOW" Echo said as he slammed the blade down HARD. Slowly Sora's terrified eyes desperately searched for a visual, both he and Echo gasped at the realization that the keyblade was gone. Blankly staring at his empty hands, Echo was truly baffled as to where the keyblade went. Whistling from behind had caught Echo's attention towards Darkwing Duck. "I think you dropped this" Darkwing said holding the keyblade.
The masked mallard then quickly jammed the key shaped sword into his gas gun and fired it directly at Echo. Screaming the final scream Echo would ever scream. The keyblade sliced right into Echo's mouth, impaling the dark rider right through his blood soaked head as he flew back from the force. The projected keyblade slammed Echo right into the fuse box of a traffic light. Violent surging volts of electricity literally shocked Echo savagely.
Sizzling mounds of burnt shadow flesh filled the air; Echo lay there, dead, at the hands of Darkwing Duck and Sora. Both heroes collapsed and panted as they wiped their brows clean of the countless mounds of sweat that had been building. "Thanks Darkwing, you saved my life" Sora said. The crime fighter shook his head and sighed, "I only wish I didn't have to" DW said. Eventually Sora removed the keyblade from the dead jaws of Echo's body.
Once the blade was removed, the 2nd lost soul's body dissolved into black mist. Sora, Goofy, and Donald floated off into the night's sky once more now with 2 shards of the chaos god's jewel. Darkwing and Launch pad waved a warm hearted goodbye and good luck to their new found friends. "Gee DW, you think Sora can handle Solego, I mean he was no easy pie" Launch Pad said. Darkwing duck sighed once more at thought of Solego.
Darkwing sighed "I sure hope so LP, I sure hope so. Cause if that monster ever does return, not even god himself will be able to stop him. Good luck Sora, good luck".
To be continued...