Vyser: I'm back from the land known as school!
Zeek: Took you long enough to update.
Vyser: Time is hard to find, especially how it's close to the end of the first Trimester.
Zeek: Let's just get this chapter done, Vyser doesn't own Tales of Symphonia or the characters that you all submitted.
Vyser: You're all in for a treat…or trick. And possibly, someone whom we all know and loathe will return.
Zeek: Dear Martel, it had better not be who I think it'll be.
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All of the teams had returned to the Renegade base, Team Azul had actually beaten Marina whose true form was the same as in Misty Water Springs. We find the main group with Kratos, Yuan and Vezerini placing the majority of the summon spirits in a special container located in Yuan's office.
"We're missing one," Kratos stated as Zeek looked up. "And we still need a way to get the summon spirits from their crystal form."
"Tech must have it, he's only one of the Dreamos left," Zeek said as Yuan sighed.
"Then this might turn out to be easier said then done," sighed Yuan as he sat down behind his desk. "Sane, I want you to take a few of the members here and start trying to find a way to get past that barrier that Tech put up."
"Yes Yuan," Sane answered as he turned towards the group. "I'll require Genis, Raine, Locke, Regal Kerro, Elemmírë, and Tyron to come with me."
"We can't really forget about that army that Tech has," added Colette as the people that Sane mentioned followed him out of the room.
"And those weird Mecano generals are also a factor," Lloyd said.
"We'll just have to prepare ourselves for anything, for tomorrow we'll take our attack to Tech," replied Yuan as he crossed his arms. "I suggest that you all rest up for tomorrow."
"Sounds like a good plan," Presea said as everyone left the room.
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The time was midnight, as a bright light appeared mysteriously in Yuan's empty office, Vex was in its place. Vex grinned as he found the many summon spirits. Slowly he began to pocket the summon spirit crystals, but as he about to take the last summon spirit crystal, the lights in the office turned on and Vex quickly spun around and saw Tailys staring at him.
"This is not what I needed," thought Vex as he quickly took the last summon spirit crystal.
"What are you doing here?" Tailys asked as she quickly pressed a button on the wall and an alarm was sounding through out the base.
Kratos, Yuan and Lloyd were the ones who got there the fastest; Vex just smirked as the three drew their swords.
"As much as I would love to fight you all, I've got some other things to attend to, namely offer these summon spirits to Master Exodus," commented Vex as Lloyd pointed a sword towards Vex.
"You're doing no such thing! Rising Falcon!" Lloyd yelled as he jumped into the air and quickly dived towards Vex with huge force.
"Ignorance is definitely contagious," thought Vex as he lifted his right hand and intercepted the attack.
"Lloyd! Watch yourself!" Kratos yelled as Vex quickly used his other arm to force Lloyd flying into a wall.
"Fun, pointless, but fun," mocked Vex as Kratos and Yuan charged.
Vex was quick, and managed to grab both of the angels' swords and forced them back without any hassle.
"Well, now, I've got to be getting away now!" Vex announced as he disappeared in a flash of light.
"All that work, all for nothing," Lloyd said as he slammed his fist into the ground.
"Lloyd, we must focus on what's next, mainly try to make sure that Exodus doesn't get his hands on the last summon spirit," said Yuan as he turned towards Tailys. "Tailys, do me a favor and make sure that everyone is in the conference hall in the morning."
"Yes Mr. Yuan!" Tailys replied as she and everyone else left the room.
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The morning soon came and everyone was informed of what had happen last night, on a stage we find Vezerini, Yuan, Sane and Kratos with Yuan standing up.
"And that's what happened, but now onto more important matters. Thanks to Sane and his group, we have discovered a way into Tech City," announced Yuan as many people cheered. "After Vezerini and Sane bring down the force field, we'll have an infiltration team enter and try to get into the main building. While this is going on, we'll distract Tech's army with our own army. The infiltration team will consist of Lloyd, Colette, Genis, Raine, Zeek, Sera, Luna, Duke, Zelos, Sheena, Jet, Suzu, Kratos, Dai and Heath. The rest of you will join the battlefront in order to distract the Tech soldiers. So prepare yourselves!"
Everyone yelled into the air and many people began to prepare him or herself immediately.
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A hour later, outside the force field of Tech City, we find Sane, Kerro and Tyron standing near it setting up some equipment. Everyone else was hiding in the nearby forests waiting.
"So let me get this straight, older brother?" asked Kerro as Tyron was putting on some weird clothing. "You're saying that there's some way to actually control a majority of Tech's army? How does that include your dancing?"
"Allow me to explain," Tyron said as Sane was finishing up the final touches on the force field negate machine. "You see, Tech usually has his machine work on a synchronization signal, all I have to do is get the right signal and I can control a majority of the Tech soldiers."
"And you're wearing that suit because?" asked Sane as he stood up.
"This suit allows me to synch up with the signal to make the Tech soldiers do what I do," Tyron answered as Sane pushed a few buttons on the machine. "Well, at least half of them at the least."
"I guess we'll just have find out!" yelled Kerro as the force field went down and many Tech soldiers appeared to be running towards the group and the rest of the Renegades who were running towards the city ready to fight. "Bro, if you're going to do something, now would be a good time to do so."
"Alright, let the music spin!" Tyron yelled as he began to dance the can-can.
All of a sudden, a majority of the Tech Soldiers were doing the can-can; this made them easy targets to defeat. Only a few fifty were unaffected. Sane and Kerro took out their weapons and began to charge.
"You'll never see a stranger sight, robots doing the can-can," mocked Sane as he began to shoot many of the dancing robots.
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Meanwhile all the fighting was going on, we find the infiltration team making their way to the main building, which happened to be the tallest skyscraper. The streets were empty except with the team running through the streets till they reached the building. Just as they were about to enter, hologram of Tech appeared in front of them.
"Tech!" yelled everyone as the Tech hologram began to laugh.
"Lloyd, Zeek, and the many others, did you honestly think that you could take me by surprise?" Tech asked.
"Well, we could've tried," commented Sera as Tech glared at everyone.
"Enough of this talk, I'll offer you all a chance to face me, all you have to do is get to the top floor of my skyscraper and well, you'll face me with out me running away," Tech offered.
"What's the catch?" asked Genis as Tech laughed.
"The youth ask so many good questions, all you have to do beat my Mecano Generals, in fact the first one should be here any second," Tech answered.
All of a sudden, a man on a motorcycle shattered the glass that's on the second floor and flew out of the building. The group used their arms to protect themselves from the broken glass as the first Mecano general landed on the ground with his motorcycle. When everyone uncovered their eyes they were shocked to see the person in front of him, most especially Locke.
"Skull!" yelled Locke as Skull laughed while getting off of his motorcycle.
"Yep! And back from the grave!" Skull laughed as he stroked his blood red hair. Skull was wearing a huge ripped black overcoat, no shirt underneath, ripped dark gray pants, and black boots. On his back was a huge scythe, and on his pale forehead was a crimson jewel. "So what do you think of my new body?"
"How in the hell are you back?" asked Kratos as Tech laughed.
"Remember his Scythe? Well, his true soul was sealed in it so with a little transfer, well, you can see the results in front of you," answered Tech as Skull turned towards him. "General Skull, you have your orders and remember to have the other generals have a turn at these fools."
"As you say Master Tech," Skull replied as the hologram of Tech disappeared and Skull turned towards the group. "Okay, here's how its going to go down. I get to choose which five of you I get to fight and the rest of you can enter the building."
"Alright, then who are you going to face?" asked Lloyd as Skull thought for a second.
"I choose, Kratos, Locke, Raine, Zeek and Sera."
All of a sudden, a barrier appeared around Skull and began to grow until it pushed the group away. The only ones who were not pushed back were Locke, Raine, Zeek, Kratos and Sera. Skull was laughing as most of the group was trying to get into the barrier.
"Try as much as you like! But it won't make difference!" laughed Skull as everyone stopped trying to take down the barrier. "Now, we won't start fighting until the rest of you leave, and this barrier even prevents air from entering here."
"That's inhumane," Suzu gasped as Skull laughed.
"Well aren't you going to die too?" asked Jet as Skull grabbed his scythe.
"Hmm, actually, no, you see, I don't need the things I needed when I was human, but now that I'm cybernetic, that's a new story!" Skull explained as the rest of the group walked past the barrier. "I thought so, now worry, I'll be seeing the rest of you all soon when I'm done with these five. I plan on having more fun."
As soon as the group entered the building and disappeared, Skull began to laugh as he took his scythe from his back.
"How much air is in here?" asked Raine as everyone drew his or her weapons.
"Oh don't worry about that, I just having some fun before the blood was spilled," Skull replied as everyone looked embarrassed. "What? Can't a sadistic murder who came back from the grave have some fun?"
"Yeah, but its probably rotten humor," said Locke as he sighed.
"Right, now! Enough talk! Time to die!" Skull yelled as he jumped into the air and was readying for his scythe attack!
Skull's first target was Kratos; Skull quickly tried to slash Kratos who quickly raised his sword to block the attack! Skull then looked like he was about to vomit and as Kratos quickly got out of the way, Skull vomited a light green substance that blasted on the ground. The weird stuff was eating through the metal, as Skull was unaffected when he wiped the substance from his mouth.
"That was both gross and weird, what is that stuff?" asked Sera as Skull stretched.
"It's called sulfuric acid, and can eat through almost any material," Raine explained as everyone looked a little worried. "How Skull is unaffected is beyond me."
"Its quite simple, my new metal body is acid proof, and guess what, my metal stomach is filled with acid!" answered Skull as he began to run towards the group. "Now enough tutorial! Let's get this back on track!"
Skull then charged at Zeek, who quickly jumped out of the way of the attack, which caused Skull's scythe to get stuck in the metallic ground. Skull quickly turned towards Zeek and vomited the acid from his mouth.
"Oh crud!" Zeek yelled, as he made his wings appear and just barely flew out of the way of the acid.
After his acid attack, Skull couldn't get his scythe out of the ground. Kratos then walked up to Skull with his sword ready to attack.
"You keep returning from the dead but now that all you got is your little acid trick, you're not going to be much of threat," said Kratos as Skull turned towards him.
"Really? Well to me you're not really all that different, you've outlived the human life span, all I did was returning to keep my life," Skull retorted as he lifted his fists. "And who says I'm out of tricks?"
"Great, Skull probably has maybe many claw like hands," sighed Locke as Skull laughed.
"Nope! But I've got these!" Skull laughed as two long scythe like blade shot from his fists. "And I've still got a whole bag of trick for you all!"
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Vyser: Well, I wish you all a Happy Halloween.
Skull: That's why I'm back! I'm the scariest character in this story!
Vyser: You're only back because you're an android or something like that.
Skull: Vyser, didn't you want to ask the reviewer something and respond to their reviews?
Vyser: Thanks for the reminder that's basically the only good thing you did in your life.
Vezerini Corozan: Well now you're fighting many robots doing the can-can, that seems a little much.
Dualzero: And I just updated again!
Treekicker: Yeah, thanks for the compliments of the scenes. And tiny Jet still gets upset, classic, simply classic.
Gijinka Renamon: Sorry to disappoint you but, Marina already showed off her final form in Misty Water Springs.
Angelglory: That's what I did!
Vyser: And now for the announcement, reviewers, I need you to decide on which Mecano General will face the team next.
Skull: Your choices are Gyro, Drogue, Liminate, or Sealth. You see Kai is going to be the last general.
Vyser: So till the next time, review!
