"You're really not going to like what comes next. I hope you know that." Luka warned.
"Don't tell me. Air Cheshire has awful in-flight entertainment and horrendous food?" Bayonetta guessed.
"Think about it. Those things that downed the jet aren't just going to let us land on their island. You think we can just say 'Hey, we're here!' and they'll bring us a cake?" He asked.
"Hey, we've handled them up to this point, what makes now any different?" I've asked.
"Roses are red, violets are blue and there's always someone that's better than you." He recited.
I narrowed my eyes at this. "I'mma kick your ass." I said.
He scoffed at this. "Things look good from up here. But the further down you go the harder it is to not notice the reality... of things." He said as he looked at and then stared at Bayonetta's boobs, becoming lost in them as we watched either sweat or water roll down them, much to Cereza's confusion and my annoyance, as I began looking through my coat for the proper weapon to smack him upside the head with.
"Cheshire. Look." Bayonetta said, looking ahead.
"Oh... I'm lookin'". Luka said, mesmerized.
"No, you're not, you fucker, look up!" I said, punching him in the face, turning his head forward, grabbing the sides of his head for him to see the missiles heading toward the helicopter. "You motherf-" I started.
"Oh, fuck me!" He shouted. The missiles struck the plane, but because we're badasses, Bayonetta and I managed to jump out with Cereza and Luka, Bayonetta hooking Luka to the missile's weird points near the exhaust port as I set the child down behind Bayonetta, letting her cling to her "Mummy's" leg as I made my way to the front of Bayonetta and crouched down in front of her so she could see and steer the missile with her magic.
"Welcome to my fantasy zone. Get ready!" Bayonetta said, creating a magic headset or something as she piloted the missile towards the island.
From there we flew through the skies, Bayonetta firing magic energy bolts to kill any angels and incoming missiles in front of us as I fought off any angel that dared to land on the missile and tried to attack us... Yeah, that's it... Not really much else to say about that part...
Soon enough, we arrived at Isla del Sol and looked at the astounding lights of the city. "It's brilliant, mummy!" Cereza said happily as she gazed at the awe-inspiring city.
Suddenly, we noticed another missile heading straight at us, Jeanne and Damion riding on it. The Witch and Demon jumped off each missile and clashed with their counterpart in mid-air. Bayonetta and Jeanne connecting with and kick and firing several bullets at each other on the way down to a roof with a giant spotlight, separating just before landing as Damion and I grappled in the air and landed several punches, knees and elbows on each other, lighting ourselves on fire and crashing down beside Jeanne.
Damion landed on top and tried to slam both fists down on me, but I hit him with a haymaker to knock him off of me, but before I could get back to my feet, Jeanne kicked me in the side and knocked me down to Bayonetta's feet. "Welcome to Isla del Sol, island of wealth and power!" She greeted us.
"Jeanne!" Bayonetta snapped.
"And trust us, your time here will be to DIE for." Damion said.
"Damion." I growled.
"If you've made it this far, that should be enough. You're back to your old self. This is where we finish what was started so long ago." Jeanne said.
"That's fine and dandy for them, but what do you get out of all of this?" I demanded, looking at Damion.
"A friend of my enemy is also my enemy. Be it Witch, Demon or Sage." Bayonetta warned.
"The Lumen Sages... They were our counterbalance as overseers." Jeanne explained as she set off a pair of missiles. "Between us there was a law that was never to be broken. It stated that 'The intersection of light and dark would bring calamity to this earth.'" She continued, shooting another couple of missiles. "But 500 years ago, a child was born in clear violation of this tenet. That child was you." She finished, shooting off several more missiles behind us.
"500 years ago." Bayonetta said in disbelief.
"Well, you look good for your age." I said.
"Idiot..." Damion scoffed.
"The disaster this caused sent the clans into a spiral of chaos that continues to be felt to this day. You, the half-breed of light and dark, are at the center of that chaos. Allowing you to continue to exist is a danger that cannot be accepted." Jeanne told her.
Suddenly, Bayonetta's eyes widened as she suddenly remembered the last missing piece of her past...
The scene replayed of the figure in red impaling Bayonetta. "When the Eyes of the World are within our grasp, the power of creation will be awakened. That is why the Left Eye, our treasured Left Eye, will never fall into the hands of another!" Jeanne declared.
"The Left Eye, our treasured Left Eye, will never fall into the hands of another! Bayonetta, it is time that this is brought to an end. That you are brought to an end!" Jeanne declared.
"You... You did it." Bayonetta accused.
"It is our charge as witches to protect the treasures of the clan... By any means necessary. Even if it means burning every inch of this island to a crisp." Jeanne said, raising her hand to fire the last of the missiles.
But before she could send them off, Luka zipped in from nowhere and snatched missile remote control from Jeanne. "What?!" Damion snapped, lunging for him, only to be blasted back from a shot from Last Regret.
"Sorry, but I think you've shot enough of those already." I said.
Luka sighed in relief as he was revealed in a yellow jeep. "I'm really beginning to hate missiles. You know, I have no idea what the hell you all got going on here, but you don't mind if I take this off your hands, do ya? Get in, Cerezita." He said, grabbing Cereza.
"Mummy..." She said fearfully as they started to take off. "Mummy!" She cried as they drove off.
Jeanne and Damion tried to chase after them, but Bayonetta and I blocked them, Bayonetta holding Jeanne at gunpoint as I grappled with Damion again. However, their faces of anger soon turned to smirks, hinting to us something was wrong.
"Cheshire!" Bayonetta called, before the car exploded. "Cereza..." She said in fear.
"You... Monsters!" I shouted, headbutting Damion back and rushing for Jeanne, only for her to grab Bayonetta and throw her into me.
"You call us monsters, yet you two are the ones who throw everything into chaos." Jeanne said.
"And for that, you must die!" Damion snapped, rushing in, only to jump back as Rodin suddenly rose from a portal to the Gates of Hell.
"Rodin." Bayonetta and I said together.
"Well, well. Looks like things are really heating up. Good thing I got you these babies." He said, tossing Bayonetta a small silver cylinder, before tossing me two curved ones. Once they hit our hands, however, they suddenly emitted plasma blades like lightsabers, Bayonetta's light green and mine a deep purple.
Voiceless: A demoness who lured pour souls to deadly fates with her beautiful voice. She was eventually captured and her voice ripped out, turned into one of these mighty blades, as her body became the other. Together, these devastating weapons will make any target as silent as the demon whose voice and body became them.
"That's all the help you're getting from me. Now put my babies to good use." He said, vanishing into the portal.
I was a bit surprised, but smirked. "You heard the man. Why don't you help me break these in?" I asked, readying my two blades backhand.
"Well, well. Maybe you'll actually be able to put up a fight this time." Damion said, pulling out and activating a lightsaber with a black blade and cross-guard blades.
"Bayonetta. Time is of the essence. This can wait no longer!" Jeanne declared, pulling out an orange lightsaber and firing off another half dozen missiles.
Background Music: "Duel of Fates" by John Williams
We all rushed in, Bayonetta and Jeanne matching each other move for move as Damion somehow managed to counter all of my attacks, despite only having one lightsaber to compete with my two. I hacked down at him with both blades, to which he blocked with his crossguards, leaving the main blade unimpeded as he began to tilt it forward towards me, forcing me to shoot a fireball from my mouth to blast us both back.
I switched to Doomspore as Damion switched to his Razorsong as I equipped Doomspore and fired on him as he masterfully spun the bow like a staff, deflecting the fire from two miniguns at once. He then slashed my chest with the bow's blade bottom blade, stabbed my stomach twice, before slicing upward with the upper blade, causing me to stagger back, allowing him to blast me back with a charged up arrow.
Bayonetta appeared to have the upper hand, landing a few slashes on Jeane, before the white-haired witch leapt into the air and fired down on her, before dropping down with a powerful axe kick, knocking Bayonetta back. She quickly recovered, but Jaune was immediately on her with another barrage of attacks, each one followed up with a bullet, before she was knocked back with a Wicked Kick. Damion soon joined the assault, Bayonetta struggling to hold the two back, before finally dodging one of Jeanne's attacks and activating Witch Time, landing several kicks and slashes on her Umbran Sister, before knocking her down with a Wicked Stomp.
Time restarted and Damion swiped at her with his bow, but she managed to counter it, leaving the assassin open to a brutal pummeling as she switched to Lt. Kilgore and landed several crushing hits on him, before finally knocking him into a wall and repeatedly blasting him with a pair of rockets. Jeanne recovered and tried to attack Bayonetta once again, but I had also recovered, now fighting with my fans and landing several slashes on her, sending her into the air with a mini tornado, jumping after her and knocking her down with an axe kick, teleporting to the ground below her and sending her flying with a powerful spinning rear kick as Bayonetta knocked Damion to the side with a round kick, causing our adversaries to crash into each other between us.
We re-engaged with our original adversaries and continued to fight, even as the building we were on began to collapse, up until it fell with a great explosion, causing Jeanne's expensive clothing to catch fire, leaving an opening for Bayonetta to kick her away as she tried to put out the fire, launching her back as we all landed on the side of a building. Now nude, Jeanne landed and created a bodysuit from her hair similar to Bayonetta's. "So, she is an Umbran." I said.
"She won't be alive long enough for it to matter." Bayonetta said.
"Bold words. But can you back them up?" Damion asked, equipping his Plague talons. We all rushed in and traded blows once more with our various weapons, Bayonetta whipping at Jeanne with Kulshedra as the silver witch dodged them with her own ice skates, kicking at Bayonetta, who managed to dodge each attack.
Meanwhile, Damion was now using his Plague talons to turn my Asmodeus cards into orbs of green energy. "I think we already did this song and dance on the plane." He smirked as the orbs surrounded him.
"Yeah, but then I remembered the cards can explode." I said, triggering the remains of the demonic energy inside the orbs, causing them to explode. I readied my next hand, waiting for Damion's next move. However, as the smoke cleared, he was surrounded by dozens of green energy orbs he must've charged up while covered by the smoke. He then launched the orbs at me. "House of Cards!" I announced, the 5 cards making a hexagonal shield around me, stopping the orbs but destroying all but the card behind me, but it was soon gone to as Damion rushed in with his talons, stabbing me in the chest, before kicking me off and through the card.
Our weapons continued to perfectly counter each other, Bayonetta and Jeanne now clashing their skates together as they fought and Damion blocking or deflecting my katanas with his broadswords, occasionally grazing each other, before hitting each other hard enough to make us each skid back 5 feet, at which point we pulled out or pistols and began firing at each other, the bullets bouncing off each other and never reaching their target. However, I soon noticed Bayonetta and Jeanne were throwing a missile back and forth between them and Bayonetta appeared to be wearing down. At this rate, she wouldn't be able to return the missile next time. "Bayonetta!" I shouted, shooting the missile when Jeanne caught it, catching her in the explosion.
However, this left me open to be stabbed by Damion's Dracotaclysm scythe. "You don't know how to mind your own business, do you?" He asked.
I coughed up some blood, but glared at him. "It's called giving a shit. Try it sometime!" I snapped, headbutting him, before drawing Ryuk and slashing him with the dual kamas, forcing him back.
Suddenly, a missile came flying in, Jeanne and Damion leaping onto it, causing it to turn and come back at us, forcing us to dodge and jump on it as well, continuing the fight. This became precarious, as we now had to worry about attacking our allies in the narrow, confined surface of the missile. Damion equipped his Heartseeker claws and attacked me while I went on the defensive with Permafrost, blocking all of his attacks and managing to hit him in the face with the staff, staggering him. He then blasted at me with the plasma cannons, but I fired ice shards from to counter them, but this left me open for a rushing slash across the chest.
Bayonetta and Jeanne were again masterfully dancing around each others attacks, neither one seeming to gain any ground until Jeanne rushed in with a kick, which Bayonetta dodged, leaving Jeanne open for several slashes from Shuraba, followed up by dozens of jabs from the katana, before Jeanne managed to backflip out of harm's way and into the air, dropping down on Bayonetta with an axe kick, which Bayonetta blocked with some difficulty, pushing Jeanne back. Suddenly, we noticed the missiles was heading straight for a building and would crash, forcing us to jump off and onto the next missile.
Shortly after landing, Bayonetta and Jeanne clashed once again, forcing them to duke it out with a barrage of punches that repeatedly slammed into each other, Wicked Fists trying to overpower each other as well, before Bayonetta's finally powered through and knocked Jeanne back with a devastating haymaker. Meanwhile, Damion and I each threw a round kick, our feet clashing into each other right at the ankle, forcing us to also follow through with an onslaught of kicks that constantly clashed and cancelled out each other, eventually forcing us to stop and nurse our sore shins, before glaring at each other and shooting each other in the face with a fireball to knock the other back.
This, however, caused us to wind up beside the Witch we were fighting AGAINST, not the one we were fighting WITH. Bayonetta narrowly dodged the attacks from Damion's dragon scythe and used Sai Fung to fight back, although the hits she landed with the weapon barely seemed to faze him. Meanwhile, Jeanne matched me move for move as I used Ghostshade to contend with her sabre version of Shuraba. I managed to land a small cut on her face and kick her back. She noticed the blood coming from her cheek and became furious, using Witch Time and slashing me all to hell before kicking me back just as Bayonetta wrapped Damion in her whip and flung him at me.
We crashed together in between the two witches, spinning around and grabbing each other by the collars, jumping off the missile in the process. Jeanne and Bayonetta silently decided to get off the missile as well and jumped onto the building as Damion and I crashed and separated, all of us drawing our lightsaber weapons for the final bout. Bayonetta and Jeanne once again rushed in with stabbing attacks, dashing and almost dancing around each other in an attempt to dodge their attackers and land their own hits.
They jumped onto the wall to the side with the fake waterfall and began fighting their, Jeanne landing a few strong hits before lashing out with a Wicked Kick, but Bayonetta dodged the giant foot and began landing her own combo, ending with a Wicked Stomp that knocked Jeanne back onto the ground. Bayonetta jumped off the wall and hacked down on her, but the younger Umbran rolled out of the way, getting to her feet and preparing for one final slash, Bayonetta doing the same. They both rushed forward and slashed at each other, Bayonetta leaning forward in pain slightly as Jeanne collapsed behind her.
Back with Damion and I, we circled each other, making the occasional fake start, but neither of us fell for it. "This is where it ends." Damion said.
"On that, we finally agree." I said. We rushed in at this, still matching each other move for move. I managed to land a round kick to Damion's side, but he used this and the slight push that came with it to move to the side and hit me in the back with his blade. I shouted in pain and swung at him with the lightsaber in my left hand, but he ducked under it and weave to the left, getting in front of me as I was wide open, kicking me in the chest and knocking me back. I rushed in and slashed at him with both blades, but he Matrix dodged under it and stomped on the back of my left leg, bringing me down onto that knee. He hacked down on me for a finishing blow, but I blocked his saber above my head with both of mine, tipping them up so his blade slid off mine, allowing me to turn and slash him in the chest with both weapons, causing him to stagger back and fall to the ground.
End music
Bayonetta stood over Jeanne as she laid defeated on the ground. "Now it's decided." Jeanne said emotionlessly.
"So it is." Bayonetta said in the same tone. It was as if the two didn't know how to feel about this.
Meanwhile, I stood over my defeated adversary. "It's over, Damion... Whatever your reason is for fighting me, it dies with you." I say, raising my sword to finish him.
"Bold words coming from you. That rat bastard has my sister, Selene...I was fighting to get her back...That's my only reason for doing this..." He explained.
I was shocked at this, before growling. "Zeidan..." I said, glaring at the tower I knew he was waiting in, before looking back at Damion, lowering my sword. "I'm sorry... Out of all my enemies, you had the only decent reason to fight. I'll save your sister and I'll make him suffer. That's a promise." I said.
"I hope you can give him hell. But leave him for me to finish off. I want to make him pay for putting hands on my sister." He said.
"Very well. We'll make sure he gets the slow death he deserves." I said.
"The fear is still not gone from your eyes..." Jeanne stated.
"Fear?" Bayonetta asked.
"The memories you've held for 500 years are the source of your fear. They cloud your vision. But now, you've accepted your fate. That is how you bested me. That is why you possess the most beloved of Umbran treasures. That is why you possess the Left Eye." Jeanne explained.
Bayonetta took the ruby out of her Umbran Watch and looked at it. "We fought for this stone... And because of it everyone died."
"That gem brings back so many memories..." Jeanne said, taking the gem in her hands and remembering...
The scene replayed to reveal that Jeanne stabbed Bayonetta, but sealed her into the jewel to keep her safe. "That is why the Left Eye, our treasured Left Eye, will never fall into the hands of another! I will not stand for the wild ambition of a treacherous Lumen Sage who disrupted our age old balance. Your path ends here! Do not fear your fate. Stand... Cereza." Jeanne declared as she held the gem to the sky.
"In the innocence of our childhood, we used to play together as friends. But as time passed, perhaps even my eyes were clouded with fear." Jeanne reminisced fondly.
"We were...?" Bayonetta asked, shocked and saddened.
"Do not fear your fate. Stand, Cereza. Stand and open your eyes. For with every truth, there is another one to be seen." Jeanne told her." Suddenly, the defeated witch sat up and shot Bayonetta in the head, staggering her.
"Now, go!" Damion said, using a wave of energy to push me back. We looked at our defeated counterparts in confusion as they both smiled, before we heard a sound, looking up to hear missiles flying down at us, striking down on Jeanne and Damion directly, sending Bayonetta and I flying into the building across from us, Bayonetta crashing into a pillar as I hit a wall.
We both looked up to the destroyed rooftop where our final battle took place and our tragic enemies fell, now engulfed in flames. "Jeanne." Bayonetta said sadly.
"Damion... I'll do right by you. I'll save Selene. I promise." I said to the fire.
We were so busy looking at the flames we didn't even notice the elevator ding and a certain reporter stepping out. "Hey. Is it over!" Luka announced, walking up with Cereza in his arms.
"What the hell!? You made it?!" I asked in disbelief.
"What!? It's not like you don't scare the shit out of me all the time!?" He countered.
"Cereza! I don't know whether to shoot you or take you to Vegas for good luck, Cheshire." Bayonetta said.
"Give me more credit than that. If you must know... Where L.U.K.A. Luka is concerned, there's no such thing as luck. Only skill." He explained, recalling as they bailed from the vehicle before it exploded. "You didn't expect me to trust bitches... I mean witches, did you, Bayonetta!?" He asked as he walked up.
"How's the little one?" Bayonetta asked, stroking her hair.
"Out like a light, but OK other than that. What about you? You really think I'm gonna let myself be seen in public with a girl looking all beat up like that?" He asked, producing a lollipop and handing it to her.
"Hey, man. You just earned my respect. Don't ruin it already." I warned him.
"I look dreadful, do I? You'll have to learn to wipe that stupid look off your face or I'll never let you keep chasing me around this world. Got that? Luka." She asked, before strutting off.
"Now that's more like it." He said with a smirk, before following us.