Issue 18: Inexorable Death
Shepherd's Camp
BGM-Dragon Ball FighterZ OST-Justice (Unison Attack)
While waiting for their leaders to finish discussing how they're going to properly raid Fort Steiger, Sonic and Yang decided to spar for a bit until they're done, with Lucina sitting on the sidelines to observe how strong and fast these outworldly warriors really are. She sees Sonic attacks Yang with a spin attack but the blonde Huntress caught in time for a counterattack, but Sonic easily escapes her grasp, grinning cockily after he homing attacked her. Sonic boosts through her defensives, circling around Yang so he could produce afterimages, commanding all six to attack simultaneously. With a loud shout, Yang disperse all the Sonics, leaving the original vulnerable for a hard punch. Sonic quickly recovered and attack Yang with lightning-fast kicks she managed to parry each and every one with one arm, countering with an amazing uppercut.
"Incredible. You two are way more powerful than I thought." Lucina interrupted their spar, pleasantly surprised to note their strength.
"Heh. This is nothin'. My punches can shatter the earth if I actually try." Yang grinningly boasted.
"And my feet can slice the air itself. Hah!" Sonic bragged with a big laugh.
"Wow. I'm starting to wonder if my friends could keep up with your level." Lucina said with a smile.
"By the way, where are your friends? They didn't come with you to the past?" Sonic wondered about her friends from the future.
Lucina's face grows somber when he mentioned her friends, the only other people that are alive in her world. "Unfortunately, Naga only had enough power to send me and you Avengers to this world, so my friends are stuck in my time. I pray every day they are safe."
"I'm sure they're fine," Yang smiled brightly. "If they're as tough as us, I'm sure they're okay."
"Yeah. You just got to believe in them," Sonic continued to cheer up Lucina with a thumps up "No matter the era, the bonds with our friends will make sure everything's okay. Don't worry. Soon enough, we'll save your future, and you'll be reunited with your friends in no time."
After hearing those encouraging words, Lucina smiled once again with life. "Thanks, guys. In a way, you all remind me of my friends, just…a little stranger."
"We get that a lot, well, Sonic and Peter does." Yang teased, then gets into fighting position. "C'mon, Lucina. Let's see what you can do!"
Sonic chuckled as he paces himself for battle as well. "Yeah! Let's make this a three-way battle royale. If I can beat your ancestor, I'm SURE I can beat the descendant." He smirked cockily.
"Is that a fact?" Lucina smirked, drawing out her sword for battle. "You'll soon learn just how different I am from the Hero-King."
"Says the girl that went by the name "Marth" for a while." Sonic teased.
"Alright, then! En garde!" Lucina charged at Sonic and Yang for a healthy good fight between each other.
BGM End
In front of Fort Steiger
After finishing discussing the plan of attack, the Ylissean Army make their stand in front of the heavily-armed Fort Steiger, packed to the brim with high-tech security and Valmese troops waiting inside. "Damn! Look at those walls…This isn't going to be easy." Flavia said, glancing at the giant walls surrounding the fortress.
"It's not the walls I'm worried about, it's the hordes of Valmese inside them." Basilio said.
"Our best bet is a swift, surgical strike, right at their heart. If we can strike down their commander and shut down its command center, the fortress will be ours. So—Khan Flavia, your men will take on the forces surrounded the castle. That should create an opening for a smaller team led by Chrom, Spider-Man and I. ...I regret to say this will put you at the forefront of the battle, Sir Chrom and Sir Spider-Man." Say'ri said to her commanders.
"We wouldn't have it any other way." Chrom said.
"Hmm…" Spidey has been staying silent for a while, because he's been too focused scanning the fortress's' technology with his Webware for any information that he could use against the enemy.
"What did you find, Spider-Man?" Robin asked him.
"The technology here. I recognized the tech. It's Makluan." Spidey replied.
"Makluan? Wait! You don't mean…?" Tails responded, as somebody who's currently Tony Stark's right-hand intern should know what this ancient technology should be.
"Say'ri, who's the commander of this fortress again?" Spidey asked the princess of Chon'sin.
"I don't know much about him, except he goes by a foreign name called "The Mandarin." Say'ri answered, confirming Spider-Man's suspicions.
"Mandarin? I've heard about him from Mr. Stark. Isn't he a Chinese overlord genius that wields magic jewelry?" Weiss asked.
Spider-Man nods to her. "The Makluan Rings. Ancient alien technology that could easily be confused for magic. Very powerful stuff. The Masters of Evil must have recruited him for additional support to power their machines. That, and this world seems very fitting for him."
"You can still hack into their systems, can you?" Flavia asked the webhead.
"I've dealt with Mandarin and his tech a couple of times. I can easily hack it, no problem." Spidey answered with a confident thumb up.
BGM-Sonic Forces OST-Network Terminal (Outside)
"Then it's settled. Other Resistance forces are on the way. With luck, they'll arrive in time to help. Let's cleave them a proud trail of imperial blood to find us by!" Say'ri draws out her killing blade as they all storm the fortress with thundering footsteps. Sparks of steel blow through as the heroic army persevere through the Valmese bots and cybernetic soldiers. Despite the overwhelming odds, the heroes' outstanding teamwork smash everything that poses a threat to them, all while under the watchful eye of the Chinese Criminal Overlord, the Mandarin, who sits calmly still in his throne room.
"Hmhmhm. Such arrogance…They truly mean to assault the Mandarin in such meager numbers? Fools. When I'm through with them, they'll wish they'd challenged Yen'fay or Silver Samurai instead. Everyone! Battle stations!" Mandarin commanded more of his forces to combat the meekly resistance. And to spruce things up, he calls upon his elite robot created from Makluan technology with the assistance of Eggman and Doc Ock. The tentacled-battle mech of Eggman's E-100 series: E-135 Mu, fashioned in Ock's icky yellow-green colors.
At the far beginning of the fort, the Spider-Brothers and Xiao-Long Rose sisters lead their forces to the command center controlling all the nation's robot factories. "C'mon, guys! Let's show them the power of siblings!" Ruby said to her friends as they approach a swarm of Valmese soldiers.
"I'm game!" Spidey replied with a thumbs up.
"Let's do it, Scarlet!" Yang said to the stoic spider clone.
"Just don't get in my way." Kaine replied. With his unlocked ISO-Semblance, Kaine teleports himself and Ruby to attack multiple enemy squads in a blink of an eye, disappearing and reappearing before they could attack them, allowing the younglings to combined their skills to drill through their pathetic line of defensives.
"Woo-hoo! Nice job, Kaine!" Ruby complimented the clone.
"You weren't half bad yourself, squirt." Kaine responded with his own compliment.
Not far behind them, Spider-Man whips a horde of enemy bots with singular, large web strand, comboing them long enough for his girlfriend to launch them to the air with a powerful ground punch, dangling them in the air with her energy shotgun bullets. "It's dual-wield hammer time!" Spidey uses the concrete to produce dual-wield web hammers and beats down the airborne flunkies, giving enough time for Yang to jump into the air to join him on the carnage.
"Don't cry now! Almighty attack!" Yang and Spidey launch one last, combined hammer-punch with a loud battle-cry to blow away dozens of weakling goons off the map.
"No one can top our skills!" Spidey claimed.
"Or our humor." Yang added.
"Awesome teamwork, you guys." Amy complimented them while fighting her own band of metallic morons, but she soon finds herself overpowered when she and Lissa are confronting E-135 Mu and his octopus tentacles.
"What is that thing?" Lissa asked, blocking a tentacle with her huge axe.
"It looks like another Super Badnik created by Eggman," Amy replied, getting a good hit off Mu with her hammer, but was smacked away by another tentacle. "Why can't all robots be as nice as Gamma?" She wondered, long enough for Mu to strangle her with one tentacle, but was saved by Lucina after she cut her free.
"I got you." Lucina said to Amy.
"Thanks."
Before Mu could attack again, he's hit by a number of web balls coming from Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider. "Girls and tentacles? DEFENITELY do not mix." Spidey quipped, smacking the E-bot in the face, damaging its sensors for detection. Spidey hops on one side of Mu with Scarlet standing on the other. "Ready, Scarlet?"
"Yeah." He replied.
"Here comes the Spider-Bros: Double Crawler Assault!" Spidey and Scarlet unleashes a blurring flurry of punches from both sides of Mu, double kicking him to the air for Ruby and Yang to knock it back down with a combined assault, joining the Spider-Brothers for a final strike to the chest, blowing the elite badnik into dust.
"Bingo!" Ruby cheered, giving Spidey and Yang a high-five, but not Kaine as he initially refused it, but the others convinced to groanily join in, making them all happy.
BGM End
In the middle of the large fortress, Chrom and Say'ri are seen fighting together until they heard some rumbling below them. "Sir Chrom, I hear movement from the floor below. It may be reinforcements. Be way…" Say'ri told him. Not long after, Say'ri resistance forces have finally arrived to lend them a hand. "Our comrades! But wait, how…"
"The Resistance had already infiltrated the castle…?" Chrom can tell something's wrong with how the Resistance have infiltrated the castle with little to now trouble.
"Nay, impossible! Something is amiss…" Say'ri said.
Unknown to them, Walhart's general and tactician, Excellus warps in to meet the Resistance. "Oooh, it appears I'm just in time for the Rebellion reunion! Delicious... Please, do give your "friends" your warmest welcome. Just remember your promise...or you can be sure I will remember mine." He said as the Resistance start attacking what should they be their Ylissean allies, but not anymore.
"Say'ri…Are you certain their reinforcements are from the Resistance?" Sonic asked the princess.
"Aye, sir, I'm ashamed to say I am. I know some of them by name. ...B-but why would they turn cloak against us now?!" Say'ri wondered.
"Oooh, it seems we've touched a nerve! I do so enjoy inappropriate touching... Now be good little servants and scrub the stronghold of these Ylissean filth." Excellus chuckles, teleporting himself to Mandarin's throne room.
"Why are you meddling in my affairs, Excellus?" Mandarin asked him.
"..."Meddling"? Why, General Mandarin, one might almost mistake you for ungrateful. This "meddling" is going to save your post, and quite possibly your life..." Excellus told him.
"You DARE underestimate my power, schemer! I can handle this myself." Mandarin replied, annoyed that this walking filth thinks so lowly of him.
"Why yes, of course you can, General! I can see you're doing SO well already. You're obviously just...waiting to crush the Ylisseans? Toying with them, like a cat! I only brought these rebels so they might learn from your shining example! They were so anxious to join the cause..." Excellus said.
"How did you convince them to attack their allies? Did you torture them by any chance, or perhaps…" Mandarin seems to be slightly aware what Excellus did to get the Resistance to work for the empire, but he lets out a fake cough to stop him from continuing.
"...I would not wish to burden you with such mundane details, good General. You have more important matters to think after, and to deal with...quickly. But rest assured they are QUITE motivated. Feel free to thank me some other time!" Excellus said before warping away without a trace.
"Obnoxious fool. Who does he think he is? Oh well. It doesn't matter. The heroes will soon meet their end." Mandarin said to himself as he prepares to face off against the incoming heroes.
Even though the arrival of the now enemy Resistance delayed their objectives for a bit, the heroes still prevailed through them, eventually leading to their objectives. Spider-Man's forces found themselves in the central network that controls the other robot factories in the country and begins hacking it to shut them down, but they were quickly interrupted by the arrival of a certain hunter.
BGM-Sonic Heroes OST-My World
"Spidey!" Ruby calls to him so he could face Morlun, who unsurprisingly, survived their last encounter after he was dropped into a volcano.
"Morlun. I'm really getting tired of you popping up out of nowhere when you're CLEARLY not on the guest list." Spidey quipped.
"I told you. I will never tire until you are dead and my hunt is complete." Morlun replied.
"Sorry, Morlun, but we're a little too busy trying to save the world." Yang said.
"From the return of Grima, I presume," Morlun said, getting them to grunt. "You are already too late. Your fate has been sealed long ago, you just don't know it yet."
"It's never too late to change our fate!" Lucina stated.
"Get out of here, Mor-dumb, before we make you." Spidey threatened.
"I would like to see you try." Morlun replied, preparing himself for round four he'll surely win because he's just too invincible.
BGM End
BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST-Miscreant (Intro)
At a faraway area of the castle, Hummingbird uses her telepathy to scare the guards protecting the chamber leading to the Mandarin. "It's clear!" She said, allowing Chrom, Sonic, Say'ri, and Sun to enter the throne room, where they confront the Chinese conqueror himself.
"Greetings, Prince Chrom, and welcome to your final hour." Mandarin greeted the heroes with a threat.
"You must be the Mandarin." Chrom said.
"Ah. So you've heard of me. No doubt because of your "Outworldly Avengers." Mandarin replied.
"It's best you give up now, buddy. Those magic jewelries won't save you from a massive butt-whopping." Sonic taunted the Makluan-ring user.
"Ignorant little rodent. It's time you learn your place. With my limitless power, you will not leave this fortress alive!" Mandarin proclaimed.
BGM-Sonic X OST-Sonic's Fight
"Oh yeah? Show us how, Mandy. I'm interested to see what those magic rings could do." Sonic smirked. The blue hedgehog starts running around the large chamber, easily avoiding impact beams from one of Mandarin's ten rings while running on the wall. Sonic chuckles, "What's the matter, Man-dork? Don't have a ring to blast me at Sonic Speed?" He taunted the villain to blast him with a ring that produce a high speed windy vortex that knocks Sonic off the wall.
With his Falchion in hand, Chrom thrusts himself to battle, clashing against the Mandarin and his powerful rings. While managing to get a few good hits in, blocking Mandarin's impressive hand-to-hand combat maneuvers, he was soon caught off-guard when the devious villain uses another ring to rearrange the ground to large rocky hands that holds him in place for a destructive fire blast.
"Cover me!" Say'ri said to Sun.
"Yes, sir! I mean, ma'am!" The goofball monkey sits still, channeling his Semblance to emit three spectral clones of himself, leading them with Say'ri towards Mandarin, striking down the spiky ice attacks the villain forms with another Makluan ring. Eventually, they caught up, overwhelming the Mandarin with a cluster of heavy fire, but it didn't last long once he blasted them away with a shocking electric blast from his middle finger ring, instantly destroying Sun's clones.
"Fools! Drown in my power!" Mandarin launches a large beam of energy at Say'ri and Sun to disintegrate them into dust. Luckily, Sun grabs Say'ri and avoids the blast with his parkour skills, allowing the blast to kill a few nameless soldiers outside the chamber, transforming them into nothing.
"I am SO glad we didn't get caught in that!" Sun said, wide-eyed.
Slowly recovering his strength, Sonic shakes his head before revving up for a spin dash. "Now it's time to get serious!" He unleashes his light-speed attack onto the Mandarin, but soon found himself covered in total darkness thanks to Mandarin's right hand, little finger ring. "Hey! I can't see!" Sonic said. Before he could find a way to break out of the darkness, Sonic feels his body growing heavy, soon crashing down multiple floors of the castle, all thanks to the gravity-manipulating ring Mandarin possess.
Despite being weakened and possibly outmatched, Chrom is still determined to fight. Knowing those rings are dangerous, the prince quickly thinks of a plan that involves a nearby Hummingbird outside the throne room. "Hummingbird!" He shouted, getting her attention while he clashes with Mandarin once more.
"Yes?" Aracely replied.
"Distract Mandarin with your powers!" Chrom said.
"Sure thing!" She saluted, flying above Mandarin's head, staring him dead in the eyes. "Those rings don't look too good on you. Take them off." She said with a blank face.
Her powers seemed to have worked, slowly forcing the Mandarin to take off his rings. "A-Are they really? I always thought they-." This leaves him vulnerable enough to be strike down by vertical sword slash from Chrom. "Aggggh! You tried to trick me! You'll pay for that, brat!" He said, about to use one of his index rings to destroy Aracely, but before he could get the chance, everyone in the chamber hears a loud sonic boom from the lower levels, which of course, belongs to Sonic the Hedgehog, blasting through the castle at light speed to head-butt Mandarin through the roof of the castle, sending him back with a finishing axe kick to the head, defeating him.
"Game over, Man-Dumb. Guess those special trinkets weren't so special after all." Sonic mocked the beaten Mandarin.
"Tch. Whatever. You might have beaten me now, but don't think it'll make much of a difference. Your battles are coming to a gruesome end, and I'll be there to watch it all." Mandarin uses his rings to form a smokescreen, and once Chrom cuts it down he's gone, along with his Makluan rings.
"He's gone. Where did he go?" Sun asked.
"He's not our concern anymore. This battle is ours." Chrom replied.
BGM End
Back at the network terminal of the fortress, as expected, Morlun is simply too much for Spider-Man's team and have practically beaten them, yet again, and has Spider-Man in his grasp, slowly draining his life-force, yet again. "I am…REALLY…getting sick of this…Go feed on a bear…or a snail…" Spidey said, weakly.
"I did. They were a bit salty, though." Morlun replied.
"How about you try my fist instead," quipped Yang, punching Morlun so hard in the face he actually spits blood on the floor.
"Lame quip…" Spidey quipped.
"I was in the heat of the moment." Yang replied, holding onto his weak state by the shoulder. They both see Morlun lunging at them, ready to feed on them both like a hungry animal, but as he confronts them, he's stabbed in the back by Lucina, which doesn't kill him, but gives Ruby enough time to trap him in a gravity bubble with her gun so Amy could go full angered mode and smack Morlun's bubble straight out of the castle for many miles, temporarily defeating him, but again, for how long.
"Is it over yet…?" A semi-unconscious Kaine asked, lying on the floor after he was beaten by Morlun again.
"For now," Lucina said, helping the weakened clone up his feet so Lissa could heal him. "Thankfully, during that scuffle, we shut down the terminal. Hopefully, the other factories should be offline.
"Which brings us back to the original topic: How the hell are we gonna beat that creep? No matter how strong we are, no matter if we're working as one, that guy will always beat us. There has to be SOME weakness we can exploit so we can really dish out the pain." Kaine said, as he is getting tired of being Morlun's food/punching bag.
"Wait…hold on just a sec…" Spidey limps down to the part of the floor where Yang punched a bit of Morlun's blood out. With a simple smash, he breaks part of that blood floor and keeps it with him.
"What did you pick up?" Ruby asked the webhead.
"Morlun's blood. Hopefully, with this, I can examine his DNA to find a weakness. For now, let's head back with the others. It seems everyone else is just about done." Spider-Man said, following everyone back so they could regroup with the rest of the army.
BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST-"Someone has to save you from your good intentions"
"Spider-Man! What happened to you guys?" Chrom asked when he sees the Hero-Spider limping towards him, almost as if he's hopping on one foot.
"Morlun." Peter answered.
"Again?" Basilio asked, getting really tired of that Inheritor showing up whenever he pleases.
"Forget about him. Is Steiger ours?" Spidey asked, not wanting to think about Morlun right now.
"Aye, sir, but I'm afraid our new enemy has the fortress surrounded." Say'ri answered.
""New enemy" …You mean the rest of the former Resistance?" Ruby asked, wondering why they turned traitor and fight against them.
"Aye. Words cannot express my shame. My...regret... Finally, I succeed in uniting them...but only against us." Say'ri said, feeling disappointed and full of regret. Unfortunately, a nameless Ylissean solider runs in with more regretful news.
"Milord! Dire news! Our forces to the north and south have been decimated by Walhart and Yen'fay! What's worse, most of the survivors have turned their coats for the empire!" He said, shocking them all that parts of their army has easily been killed by the united empire.
"B-but our troops numbered in the hundreds of thousands," said Say'ri.
"The empire must have had more." Basilio said.
"Or perhaps have been better trained and equipped…" Flavia believed.
"Blast! Walhart and my brother—where are their armies now?" Say'ri asked the soldier.
"Marching toward this fortress, milady. It's only a matter of time."
Knuckles punches his fists in frustration. "Darn! I can't believe it. This war was lost before it even began."
"All our struggles until now, and we've yet to so much as dent the empire…" Chrom said.
Next to him, Robin has been thinking for a bit and feel it's time to speak. "…Chrom?"
"What is it, Robin? Do you have something to say?" Chrom replied.
"We need to leave here, right away." Robin said.
"Have you lost your wits? We're surrounded!" Flavia told him.
"When the other armies arrive, then we'll be trapped for a certainty. If we intend to escape, now is our best chance. Let's use Shadow's Chaos Control to make the retreat more efficient." Robin replied.
"He's right. The dynasts outside betray us only out of fear for the empire. They'll only put up token resistance without their masters watching." Say'ri said.
"But we can't keep running forever. How do we hope to turn the tide?" Spider-Man asked the tactician.
"By striking at either Walhart or Yen'fay before they join strength." Robin suggested.
"Either one sounds like a death sentence." Scarlet Spider remarked.
"One general would be upon us before we could finish with the other." Say'ri said.
"I agree…which is why we attack both." Robin's suggestion to attack both armies at the same time really got a surprised rise out of his comrades.
"Attack both at once? Are you sure that's a good idea?" Tails asked him.
"Our army lies in tatters, yet you would divide it by half?!" Flavia joined in on discussion on the death plan.
"...I didn't say by half. Chrom would lead our strongest troops against Yen'fay. Meanwhile, a smaller force could attack Walhart." Robin explained.
"A SMALLER force? We couldn't defeat him with double our entire number." Basilio said.
"…I didn't say we'd defeat him. We only need to distract him." Robin said.
"Hmm…Spend some lives to buy the other team time…" Shadow said, thinking it's a good, but extremely risky plan.
"This smaller force would face our most dangerous mission yet. It would need a leader of unparalleled skill, reckless bravery..." Chrom said.
"All right, Chrom, please—you're embarrassing me! I'll do it already—just stop with all the compliments!" Basilio volunteered to lead this squad to the fight of their lives.
"Are you sure, Basilio," questioned Spidey. "I could-."
"You're still weak from your battle with Morlun. You rest up, kid. I'll lead the squad. Though I prefer my steaks well done…" Basilio said.
"That's just his way, Spidey. Bad jokes come with the bravado. But the oaf clearly has faith in Robin's thinking. And I as well... All of us do, I'd wager. Somehow he always finds a way to best the odds." Flavia told the weakened web-slinger.
"…Okay, but be VERY careful, Basilio." Spidey told him, who seems to acknowledge his worry with a nod as he's about to leave, but before the one-eyed oaf could exit the castle, Lucina stops him.
BGM End
"Stop!" The time-traveler blocked Basilio's path from going any further.
Chrom and the others are a bit confused why Lucina is stopping Basilio from confronting Walhart. "Lucina? What are you-."
"I cannot allow you to go, Khan Basilio. You will die in this battle. I know it for the truth!" Lucina stated.
"What?" Sonic said.
"You know, lass, you have a strange way of saying good-bye. All right, then. Who is it? Who kills me? Is it Walhart himself? ...Please say yes. It'd make a poor song to die at the end of some farmer's pitchfork." Basilio asked, quickly wanting to confront his inevitable death right now.
"…Yes, it was Walhart. Or so goes the story I heard. We must change our plans so fate cannot take this course!" Lucina told him.
"All I needed to know. Thank you much, lass. ...I'll be careful." Basilio said, still insisting to go fight Walhart.
"Y-you're still going? But I just told you—."
"Aye, I heard you just fine. But someone still has to stall his division from advancing. If he's the one that kills me, well then, I'll just avoid confronting him. You don't grow this old and handsome without knowing how to avoid trouble." Basilio told her, full of cocky confidence.
"N-No! It's never that simple." Lucina replied.
"Don't worry, love, he'll be fine. He'll have to keep an eye on him." Flavia said.
"You aren't coming, woman! You're the reigning khan!" Basilio told her with an annoyed look.
"I thought you intended to survive this, oaf. Regna Ferox has two khans, and now you're responsible for both. I dare you to die now!" Flavia replied.
"...Har! Aha ha ha! All right, all right. You can come. ...Hope that's all right, Chrom." Basilio said to the prince.
"Just look after each other." Chrom replied.
"And to further avoid this "inevitable death," I'm coming along too," volunteered Shadow. "Scarlet Spider. Xiao Long. Amy Rose. Amitola. You're all coming as well." He said to them.
"What?" Ilia looked confused when she was chosen to distract Walhart.
"Sweet! I've always wanted to fight a conqueror!" Yang fist-bump the air in excitement.
"Hold on! I never agreed to this!" Scarlet Spider retorted.
"Ha! With all of us working together, we'll be sure to bring this big ox back on a leash if it comes to that." Flavia said with a smile.
"Luck and more be with you all. We'll meet again soon." Basilio said.
"But please, your future! You must-." Lucina continues pleading with the khan to change his mind, but it's starting to become futile at this point as he's already made up his mind.
""Please," yourself! not another word. I fully intend to outlive all you sprogs—just see if I don't. And as for your "future," it can kiss my big brown Feroxi arse!" Basilio said, walking away with his team to fight Walhart, leaving a disheartened Lucina behind, thinking that even with the added help, especially those with ABSURD natural powers, she fears it won't be enough to stop the inevitable.
BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST- "I mean it! GO!"
It's a dark and stormy night for an outside battle on the rainy fields. Basilio leads his men to take on enemy forces, but even with the likes of Shadow the Hedgehog and his allies by his side, they quickly become overwhelmed, much to their surprise.
"Persistent pests." Shadow cursed.
"Fall back and form up! Don't let them scatter us!" Basilio commanded.
"Rrgh! Easier said than done…Their cavalry is riding right over us!" Flavia responded.
"We can hold our ground…I'll show you how a real Feroxi fights, woman!" Basilio said.
"Ha! Did I hear a crack in your voice? IS that fear in your eye?" Flavia teased her khan counterpart if he's actually scared.
"Gah! Never! Let's give these kettleheads a taste of our barbarian roots!" Basilio responded.
"Now THAT'S the oaf I love! ...Huh? Enemy soldiers, there—." Flavia and the others see a man in daunting, high-tech red armor on horseback easily killing two soldiers with his red axe.
"Who is that?" Ilia asked, wondering who's the man in front of them.
"It's a man, and he's decimating everyone!" Scarlet Spider answered, just as that named, who so happens to be Walhart the Conqueror approaching them, alongside a familiar-looking egg-shaped scientist in his hover-mobile.
"Doctor!" Shadow glared at Eggman on his Egg-Mobile.
"Shadow. So nice for you all to join in on the fun." Eggman sinisterly smirked at his enemies.
"YOU THERE! Do you command these forces?" Walhart points his axe, the Wolf Berg, at Basilio.
"Aww, crap!" Basilio cursed, as he's forced to battle against Walhart and his impressive might. The terrifying conqueror slashes at Basilio, heavily wounding the one-eyed oaf. Basilio tries to attack with his silver axe but missed, leaving him open for a devastating counterattack.
"Haaarrrgh... Such...strength... Is he even human..." Basilio wondered, close to death.
"Leave him to us, Basilio!" Yang said, joining her friends to attack the conqueror all at once.
"I wouldn't recommend that if I were you." Eggman warned them but they didn't listen. Before the heroes could land a single blow on Walhart, a mysterious force of red energy blast from Walhart blast them so hard to the ground it barely leaves them conscious.
"What…such power…" Amy said, very weakly.
"It felt like I was hit by Thanos…" Scarlet Spider said, lying in the ground, practically defeated.
As Shadow struggles to get up, he notices something very intriguing on the center of Walhart's armor, a mysterious cosmic crimson stone that looks similar to another batch of powerful gems he knows. "An Exo Stone…?"
"That's right, Shadow. It's the "War" Stone. Easily the strongest Exo Stone so far, granting its user unimaginable cosmic strength, rendering them equal to no one," gloated Eggman. "Once we found it here in this world, me and Ock created new battle armor for Walhart so he could safely wield its power to take over this country." He laughed, mocking the beaten heroes.
"...Impressive. You're the first since Yen'fay to survive beyond a single stroke." Walhart said, respecting his foolish combatants that they had the strength to survive his new, cosmic might.
"We d-don't…We don't stand a chance…Flavia! Everyone! Run! Run for your lives!" Basilio told everyone.
"I'm not leaving you here!" Flavia replied.
"He's a demon, woman... I can only keep him...busy while you...escape... Hngh! ...D-damn... Looks like the lass was right..." Basilio said.
Shadow slowly gets up, along with the rest of his chosen warriors. Despite almost killed by Walhart's new might, they are still determined to fight. "We're not losing! We're here, and because of that, events can still change," said Shadow. "Now let's go! No holding back!"
With all of them working together, they make one final stand against Walhart. Flavia blocks Walhart's strike, leaving Basilio to attack, but he didn't leave a single scratch. Ilia and Kaine tie up Walhart long enough for Yang and Amy to clobber him, but they are soon blown to unconsciousness by cosmic flames that match the Dread Lord Dormammu himself. Shadow is the last to fight, unleashing a powerful barrage of Chaos Spears before locking head-to-head with Walhart as long as he can, until even the Ultimate Lifeform is knocked to the muddy ground from an enhanced axe swing, leaving the hedgehog close to death. Finally, Walhart critically injuries Basilio, practically killing him finally.
"Basilio!" Flavia shouted, running up to his side as he slowly dies.
"Nngh…Flavia…Give this to Chrom…" Basilio hands his rival khan a Gemstone needed to complete the Fire Emblem.
"Is this…the Gemstone?!" She asked.
"You have to…survive…G-Give it to him…"
"Give it to him yourself, you one-eyed clod of a man! I'm not going anywhere and neither are you!" Flavia said.
"Fool woman! I'm f-finished... Don't let it...be for nothing... For once in your life...just do what I say... Go! Go, gods damn you! GOOOOOO!" He shouted with his dying words, forcing her to run for the hills back to Chrom's party, all while she's crying out, "BASILO!"
Eggman happily laughed to see some of his mortal enemies either dead or brutally beaten to unconsciousness. "Run! Run back to Sonic and tell him his end will soon approach! With the War Stone in our possession, we are invincible!"
"Hmph. So, doctor, what should we do with the kiddly maggots?" Walhart asked, referring to Shadow's unconscious squad.
"Let's keep the imprison. With them as our hostages, the heroes will surely come to their rescue if they managed to defeat Yen'fay. Once they come to our doorstep, BAM, it'll be all over." Eggman laughed manically, causing the skies to crackle fearsome red lightning.
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Ruby: Hey! It's me, Ruby Rose! I'm a bit worried about Yang and the others, but I'm confident they're okay. We're busy taking on Say'ri's older brother, Yen'fay inside a volcano, who has teamed up with an old enemy of Wolverine's, the Silver Samurai. If we want that Chaos Emerald they have, we have to beat them on a two-on-two sword match. Go get 'im, Spidey and Say'ri! Show them what you got!
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What is the War Stone: Grants the user unlimited strength and durability that could surpass the Hulk. Also grants the user powers over immense flames that rivals Dormammu.
