"Your move, mortal," Thoth taunted as he held up his blade, which sizzled with dark energy. Across from him stood Newt, a tiny boy wearing Japanese robes holding a golden katana.
Newt closed his eyes and began to breathe, focusing. He looked down the length of his katana, watching the sun glow off of it. Newt made eye contact with the glowing entity. He was about to fight a god.
"Fist bump" from sonic forces begins to play.
I can't do this alone.
Newt holds his katana at the ready, running at Thoth. An image of Naruto cheering him on flashes before his eyes.
Even though I am strong.
Newt jumps up over Thoth's khopesh as he swings his katana. He slashes down on the god, but misses as Thoth moves away.
Need something more than me.
Newt dodges the gods slashes as he gets more ruthless, as if he was trying to kill a bug.
Something to push me to victory.
Newt does a roll behind Thoth, creating a substitute behind him. He strikes Thoth just as the god hits the substitute.
Let's see what we can do.
Thoth stumbles back and gets noticeably angry. An aura appears around Newt. Naruto had given Newt his power.
Together me and you.
Newt runs up to the god, dodging the spears thrown at him, and slides under the god, slashing at his legs with the katana.
Can't be afraid to try.
He jumps out of the slide and turns around, slicing at the god's back.
KISS YOUR FEARS GOODBYE.
Newt dodges the god's blade.
NO LOOKING BACK.
Thoth screams in frustration.
YOU AND I ARE ON THE ATTACK.
Newt jumps over Thoth's blade.
FULL SPEED AHEAD.
He slashes at the god's head as he jumps over.
HEADING FOR THE SUNSET.
Thoth roars as his head falls off, revealing a face below.
SUCH A DIFFERENT FEELING.
Newt gasps in shock.
BOTH OF US BELIEVING.
Thoth covers his face, dropping his khopesh.
WE CAN MAKE IT BETTER.
Newt nods, determined.
TOGETHER WE CAN SHOW THE WORLD WHAT WE CAN DO!
Newt charges the god with his katana at the ready.
YOU ARE NEXT TO ME AND I'M NEXT TO YOU!
Thoth gasps and teleports out of the way.
PUSH ME ON THROUGH UNTIL THE BATTLE'S WOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
Newt spins around and uses his momentum to jump forward in mid air, pointing his sword at the god' arm.
NO ONE'S GONNA GIVE A THING TO US!
Thoth's arm falls off, revealing a normal one below.
INTO EACH OTHER WE PUT OUR TRUST!
Newt turns around and slashes off the other arm.
STANDING UNITED AFTER THE FIGHT!
Thoth backs away, falling over in the process.
All alone, you will never be.
Newt approaches the man as the rest of the armor falls off.
The two of us are holding the key.
The man before him is covering his face, only his chestplate remaining.
We see today, a world we couldn't see.
Newt raises his sword and aims it downward, at the heart.
Before I say goodbye to you…
Newt puts his sword down and a light shines across the field, the chestplate flying off toward the other armor.
One more last fist bump…
The music fades as Newt looks down upon the man who was wearing Thoth's armor. It was Mack himself, the man who was growing weed in the Iowa house and Tim's uncle. His handlebar moustache flowing in the wind.
"Explain yourself!" Newt shouted, pointing his katana at the man.
"I-I can explain! I found this text thingy below my house that shows me how to become an egyptian god! Just take it please, don't hurt me!"
"Hm, so the armor must be infected by the darkness," Newt thought out loud, grabbing the paper from Mack.
"Correct!" A dark voice rang across the valley as a khopesh pierced Mack, killing him instantly.
Before Newt stood the darkness incarnated within the possessed armor. The armor fell away and out came a being of pure darkness. It was the darkness. He took the form of Newt and drew his katana, matching Newt perfectly.
Darkness ran at Newt, slashing his dark blade at the boy. Newt dodged and countered with his golden sword, making contact with the entity, but it was only a substitution! Newt did a backflip on the fly as Darkness ran up behind him, slashing forward. Newt jumped backwards as they began to duel, dodging and slashing expertly, mirroring each other in opposite ways perfectly.
"You can't defeat me, I am a god!" Darkness shouted.
"Cory defeated you! I know I'll be able to!"
"Cory is more than a god! He's a main protagonist!"
"Maybe of your story, but mine goes a bit different!"
Newt stabbed forward, leaving himself open to a blow, but made contact with the dark entity. Every success must be earned through sacrifice.
"H-how?" Darkness said as he began to fade away.
"You didn't expect me to leave myself open for you to stab me, you were too focused on me blocking your attacks. Always expect the unexpected."
"I-I'm not dead… I-I'll…. End all of you…" With that, darkness faded away into dust, leaving nothing behind.
The forcefield covering the border disappeared, and the rest of the group walked up to them. Newt inspected the note he had received from mack.
"Hm, it looks like nearly all of the egyptian gods were just mech suit armors used by priests and stuff…" Newt said, reading over the papers.
"You know, ancient Egypt was a pretty woke place when it came to aliens and reptilians, maybe you need to be woke in order to use the suits?" Alex deduced. Newt sighed and handed Alex the paper. Alex read it over and pulled out a knife, cutting open his thumb. He then smeared the blood into the shapes of hieroglyphics across his arms and head. He then held up his arms.
The Thoth armor floated to him like a magnet, attaching itself to all of Alex's limbs. It seemed to morph around his figure, fitting him perfectly. Soon Alex had become the egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth.
"I see now that I have been wrong this entire time. There is no fourth dimension and there are no reptilians. On the other hand, I can confirm the existence of aliens on the moon," he looked up at the sky.
"Ugh you're even more annoying now, lets just go and help the fat loser," Espio said, rolling his eyes.
Meanwhile in Tenochtitlan, Cory ran through the streets, heading for the pyramid. Around him, kids played, people walked to work, and others maintained their homes. The people of Tenochtitlan seemed to live in peace, despite living underneath something other than the US government. That made no sense at all to Cory.
Nobody attacked him or tried to stop him as he headed to the pyramid in the distance. In fact, he was welcomed to the city when he arrived. Cory was very confused at this, since even in DC they didn't allow outsiders to enter without signing the communist agreement.
As Cory neared the pyramid, the guards moved out of his way, as if they were expecting him. He was let though the gate of the pyramid by two guards holding obsidian spears. He had never seen anything like the obsidian on the spears and was intrigued by the guards weapon.
This was short lived as he got distracted by the great hall that was before him. Lined with torches on brick walls, the hall seemed to go on for miles, with red carpeting as a floor. Cory walker along, seeing nobody else in the hallway. He neared the end, where a fork in the road appeared. On the wall sat a painting of the original leader of the Neo Aztecs, Titan.
Cory looked up at the painting as a figure walked up behind him.
"Great painting, isn't it?" Montezuma Caesar said as he approached Cory.
"Wh-who are you?" Cory asked nervously.
"That's the question, isn't it? I'm the leader of the neo aztecs, Montezuma. I'm assuming you're cory?"
Cory drew his katana, "My mission is to kill you."
Montezuma remained unphased, "I'm here to give you a proposition. You're strong. We could use someone like you to free America."
"America is already free!'
"hm. You see the President enacting laws to limit the powers of the people in DC? He made it illegal to be out past 10pm. He is abusing his power. He's been in charge far too long!"
"Everything he's done has been good for us!"
"how can you say that? Are you blind? I'll even let that girl go if you help me. We are the good guys, Cory."
"You're against the President, so you're against me."
Suddenly, a figure approached with her head down, laughing.
"Your dreams of a free nation are about to end," she said, laughing.
"Sophie! I'm here to rescue you!" Cory yelled.
"I don't need rescuing. This is my kingdom now."
"What? I'm the emperor though, you're only a prisoner," said Montezuma.
Sophie looked up, revealing her skin chipping and falling to the ground, "you still don't get it, do you? You're merely a pawn in my game of world conquest. I've been using you!"
Montezuma's eyes went wide as he suddenly remembered his mother. His father had told Montezuma that she had died in childbirth, but she knew he would one day be king of the Aztecs. The woman Montezuma had seen in photos looked exactly like Sophie, only older.
"Y-you…"
"Yes, you and your idiot father did everything I wanted you to. I've implanted every soldier in the army with my snake venom, so now they're under my control!" she laughed as a chunk of skin fell off, revealing scales below. Sophie was the snake goddess.
He should have seen it coming from miles away, Cory HAD lived with her, in fact. Always pranking him and testing his abilities, something snakes were always doing. She was sneaky and devious. She had even cared for a snake at one point. Now, as the skin chipped off of her like lead paint, he saw her true form. Below were green scales covering her entire body. It was like some sick reptile fan art, but it was real.
"No… no you…. My dream…."
"It's dead, mortal. As if you could unite the world for peace," she said, smirking.
Montezuma fell to the ground. His entire life had been a lie. Everything he worked for, all the sweat, blood, and tears he had spent creating this utopia. All for nothing.
"W-why do you want to rule the Earth?" Cory asked, scared.
"You've never craved power? You've never wanted to rise to the top and become the greatest? With power over the entire world, I would be able to create it in my image, becoming the creator of a new world."
"I… I won't… let you!" Cory shouted as he charged at her with his katana. She slid to the ground as a pile of snakes that slithered out of the way, forming back into her.
"You can't even touch me, much less hurt me!"
Cory ran at her again, getting the same results as before. He tried with effort to make a single blow on her, but he couldn't. It was time for her to go on the offensive. She jumped above him and turned into snakes, falling down upon Cory. He instinctively sliced at the snakes, killing a few, but they healed themselves and reformed into Sophie.
"Sophie, please stop!"
"Cory, have you ever had a dream? We are the same, we wish to see a new world born out of the old one. We wish to see our enemies gone, and see our dreams become a reality. You and I are the same."
"NO!" Cory shouted slashing at her, she turned into snakes once more, but Cory sliced down at the snakes, killing a few of them. As she reformed, Sophie hissed at Cory and threw a snake at him. Cory easily cut it down, but it was only a diversion. Another snake flew at him, sinking its venomous teeth into the boy. Cory gasped as he felt the venom enter his system.
"Ha, soon that venom will overwhelm your body and kill you. It works much faster than regular snake venom, while also making it difficult to move while it affects you! You'll be dead within the next ten minutes!"
Cory gasped for air. This was the end, he never would have guessed this was the way he would go: inside an Aztec pyramid in modern day Mexico fighting a snake goddess. He decided he would go out a hero. He entered his seppuku form, the aura around him distorted with the pain he was in. He ran at Sophie with his massive blade. It was so long and girthy that anyone would tremble in fear as they saw it. He slashed at the goddess, slicing at the snakes as he began killing them all.
As Sophie reformed, she was only a head, as she had lost most of her bodies composition, "don't worry, I can heal all the snakes around me, and even attract new snakes!"
The ceiling above her crumbled as the floor began to rise to the top of the pyramid. The air turning feeling as if electricity was flowing through it. Sophie rose off the ground as the people of Tenochtitlan began to fly toward her. The peaceful city was now deserted as everyone flew toward her to form an abomination.
She was massive and in the form of a distorted snake. Her body curled around in a coil, with many snake heads slithering out of her, as if they were trying to escape. The top of her body looked more human, but without arms. Her head coiled backwards, snakes slithering out of her neck, even her eyes had snakes coming out of her. She smiled as she floated above the pyramid in her new form, energy from her massive aura penetrating Cory.
Cory fell to his knees, too weak to fight. Montezuma looked at his city, his entire life. His dream was gone, dead. He now had nothing. 'Titan… father… I have failed you…' He thought as he looked over the ghost town, the shadow of several million snakes covering the city.
He turned to Cory, "Promise me you'll do what you think is right…"
Cory looked at Montezuma weakly, barely able to lift his head, and nodded.
Montezuma nodded and took out his obsidian dagger, while handing Cory an amulet with a skull on it. Cory put it around his neck and watched as Montezuma held the knife above his heart. Cory knew they could have been allies. Montezuma wasn't a bad guy, he was only an opposing force. What would life be like in another world? Would they have teamed up? Cory didn't know, but he knew all this was true as Montezuma Caesar, the benevolent emperor of the Neo Aztecs and a man who worked his entire life to see his dream come to light, plunged his dagger into his heart.
The dagger began to glow, and an energy beam connected to the skull amulet. Cory instantly felt his blood cleanse from the venom, purifying him with the life energy of the righteous king. Cory felt the power of the man as well, feeling the skull amulet break a barrier inside of him.
"Go, defeat the snake goddess…" a voice rang in Cory's head.
He clenched the amulet as he began to float off the ground, wings breaking out from his back as an rainbow aura surrounded him. He drew his sword, causing shockwaves to fly across the entire city. He floated up to the snake goddess, who hissed at him with her awesome might.
The ghost of Michael Jackson and Montezuma appeared behind him. He charged at her as generic Japanese music began to play. He slashes at her with his massive sword. She slashes back at him, snakes raining from the sky. A protective barrier appears around Cory as the snakes land on him, disintegrating all of them to dust.
Cory flies at her once more, slashing at her, she screams as she slowly becomes smaller with each hit, eventually becoming her normal snake self once more. Cory held his sword above his head and pushed down on her, sending her flying into the wreckage of pyramid, destroying the remaining pyramid entirely, and causing the city around it to collapse.
Cory landed next to the body of Montezuma, looking down on the dead man as he reverted back to his normal form. The man lied there motionless, a dagger in his heart. Cory shook him, attempting to awaken him to no avail. He set him down at a hill overlooking the city and walked away, leaving a man with his kingdom.
Newt walked up to Cory followed by Espio, Chris, and Alex in his armor, "we did it, man. We won!"
Cory nodded, regretfully, beginning to walk away with Newt, the rest hanging behind.
"Do you ever wonder if we're fighting the wrong enemy?" Newt asked, hesitantly.
"No, I'm confident that the president is the right person to be in charge," Cory said, not sounding entirely certain.
"Hm," Newt said, "Hey where's Sophie?"
Meanwhile, back in the wreckage, a hand grabbed the body of Sophie. Their hands were covered by gloves that were covered in glowing wires. A red barrier appeared from them and surrounded the snake goddess, seemingly scanning her. He then dropped her as she fell to the ground, all color drained from her.
"I see… I knew something was off with her, especially since I'm a virgin," the president said after being informed about his daughter.
"Yes, I'm sorry sensei…" Cory said regretfully.
"It's ok Cory. I've accepted it."
"What's next, then?"
"We're still working on tracking down Hitler, in the meantime, you're going to be testing out a simulation we have created from the internet experiment technology you tested last year."
"Ah! So what's this simulation?"
"You'll be sent back in time, to our nation's founding."
Cory's eyes went wide.
Cory walked to the basement and into the chamber which would send him back in time.
END OF SEASON 3, IF YOU ARE READING THIS PLEASE HELP I CAN'T STOP.