Ready for the next chapter? I thought so.
In this chapter, you'll see a new OC villain that I've created.
You all know the disclaimer.
Chapter 6: Crysis Core
Armand had just told the racers about the battle against the Rogue Riders that Jet's and Wave's fathers won. They had killed two of the Rogue Riders, but Redd, Cyrax, and Flash escaped.
"I never thought that two of the Rogue Riders would have been killed in one battle." Jet said.
"Well, Mech would have died if it weren't for Mintra." Armand reminded them. "But enough about that. It's time to get back to the real story."
"Who's next on the villain list? Erazor Djinn?" Storm started. "Possibly Black Doom? What about the Babylon Guardian? Could it have been…"
"Will you SHUT UP!?" Emily yelled. "Now, Armand, who is the next villain?"
"A villain who can control every element in existence. Someone who can possibly destroy the entire world if he were to combine each element into one attack. He was the very definition of crisis. Crysis the Lion."
12 years from present day…
"Crysis wasn't a bad guy at first, though. He worked with others in the past and was valued as a great guy, as well as something of a scientist, though he would never be as great as Eggman's grandfather. He was a friend to everyone." Armand narrated. "My father was a great friend of his, helping him out on anything he may have needed."
In Station Square, Crysis was visiting Tobias, talking to him about a new experiment he could try.
"What if I gathered a little bit of every element in the known universe? What do you think that could do?" Crysis asked.
"If used for good, it could be used to prevent an early end to the world. But if it were used in the wrong hands, it could be the opposite. I don't know about this, buddy. If this experiment were to go wrong, who knows what could happen." Tobias warned Crysis.
"I know that. But it's a risk I'm willing to take." Crysis said as he started to leave.
"Good luck!" Tobias called as Crysis left.
A few days later, Tobias went to see how the experiment was coming along. But when he reached the lab, he saw a fire. Something had gone wrong, and he wanted to know what. He made his way through the crowd and entered the blown-out door, and he saw a few of Crysis's helpers dead. He headed deeper into the lab, seeing more corpses as he made his way to the center. When he reached the center, he found Crysis on the floor.
"Crysis, what happened?" Tobias asked.
"Egg…man…Nega. He…planted a bomb in…the lab." Crysis tried to explain.
"What?"
"We…didn't…see it until…it was…too late. Most of my helpers…died in…the blast." Crysis told him.
At that moment, a shockwave came from the nearby reactor.
"What's going on?" Tobias asked.
"The reactor's going…to explode. You…have to escape." Crysis told him.
"I'm not leaving without you!" Tobias said.
"It's too late for me. Get out of here."
"No. I'll get you out…"
"I said GO!"
Crysis knocked Tobias through the doorway, which closed immediately and locked so it would contain the reaction. Tobias tried to open it, but couldn't.
"No! Damn it!" Tobias cursed. He then heard a few last words from Crysis from inside the room.
"Tobias! You…must avenge me! Kill Nega!" Tobias heard Crysis say.
The reactor then exploded, causing a large shockwave that shot Tobias clear out of the lab. He knew it was too late.
"NOOOO!" Tobias yelled, but he knew it was too late. Crysis had died, along with everyone else in the lab.
"Damn you, Crysis. I could have gotten you out. Why did you have to do that? WHY!?" Tobias yelled.
Knowing there was nothing more he could do, he left the ruined lab.
Six months later, Tobias was watching Armand, Axel, and Basil have a race. He marked a finish line, and the kids were waiting for his signal.
"3…2…1…GO!" Tobias called.
Armand got a quick lead, but Basil immediately passed him. The race was three laps around the house. Basil kept the lead for the first lap until Axel passed him about a quarter of the way through the second lap.
"See ya at the finish, Basil!" Axel called as he rounded the corner.
"Darn you, Axel!" Basil called as he sped up.
"Hey, don't forget about me!" Armand called from behind Basil.
Axel was currently in the lead, with Basil and Armand close behind him as they reached the front of the house. As they began the third lap, a laser beam came from out of nowhere and hit right between Armand and Basil, causing them both to jump back. Tobias jumped up, wondering who would have the nerve to do that when he saw a large red-and-black robot. Tobias remembered this robot from the first time it attacked Station Square. He saw Eggman Nega in the cockpit.
"Nega! What are you doing here?" Tobias asked.
"I'm going to destroy you. But not with this robot. It has a new paint job, but it still doesn't compete with the previous one. Instead, I'll have a new minion destroy you instead." Nega explained.
The robot stepped aside to reveal someone that Tobias knew all too well.
"Crysis? No way!"
Tobias couldn't believe it. Crysis had survived the incident six months ago. It was like he had never been harmed.
"It's been a long time, Tobias." Crysis said in a dark voice.
"Crysis, what's wrong with you?" Tobias asked.
"What's wrong with me? Nothing." Crysis told him.
"Well, I'll leave this meddlesome "hero" in your hands, Crysis. Until then, I must be off." Nega told the lion before leaving.
"I won't disappoint you, master." Crysis said as Nega left. Then he turned to Tobias. "I almost died six months ago, but at the last second, Nega tossed a force field at me, and it protected me from the blast. You didn't even attempt to save me."
Tobias was shocked at this news.
"What are you talking about? I tried to save you, but you gave up on life and knocked me out the door before that happened." Tobias tried to explain.
"LIAR!" Crysis yelled. "Nega saved me, so I owe him a debt of gratitude. He told me I could repay him by killing you. So here I am."
Tobias saw a fight coming. He didn't want to fight, but if he didn't, he would be killed, and Nega would be free to terrorize the world.
"Now, let's fight!" Crysis challenged.
"Much as I hate to, I guess I must. I won't let this city get taken over." Tobias declared as he formed his blue laser sword. Crysis responded by forming an elemental sword while charging at Tobias. The swords clashed in a burst of energy which threw Tobias and Crysis back. Tobias recovered first and charged at Crysis, but the lion countered by ducking the strike and kicking Tobias into the air, then following up and delivering numerous slashes, all of which Tobias managed to dodge. Tobias then formed a laser shield and bashed Crysis with it, sending him to the ground.
"You're good. But I'm just getting started." Crysis declared.
"Bring it on." Tobias challenged.
Crysis then formed a fireball in one hand and a water ball in the other hand, then combined them into one ball. The ball looked like an orange jellylike liquid.
"NAPALM BOMB!" Crysis bellowed.
Crysis threw the bomb, but Tobias jumped over it to dodge it. The bomb exploded without harming anyone, but Tobias knew what it would do if it were to hit. The napalm would burn him to the point of death with one hit. He was lucky to have avoided it.
"Man, you really are out of your mind." Tobias said.
"All the better to kill you." Crysis replied. He then charged up a thunderbolt in one hand and a dark ball in the other.
"DARK SHOCK!" Crysis yelled.
He tossed the dark ball into the air above Tobias, then fired the thunderbolt at it, causing a dark thunderbolt to strike Tobias. The impact knocked Tobias to the ground.
"How…how could you do that?" Tobias asked.
"When Eggman Nega saved me, he took some of each element and filled my body with them. With that, I can combine any element I want." Crysis told him.
"Well, let's just see how long it takes you to lose." Tobias said.
Tobias reformed his laser sword and charged at Crysis, delivering an upward slash that knocked his opponent upward. He then leaped into the air and used a new move that he learned a couple of months back.
"Watch this. ACRO LASER!"
Tobias then disappeared, as if he teleported. He then reappeared, fired a laser, and disappeared in less than one-half of a second. He did this nine more times in less than three seconds, and Crysis fell to the ground as Tobias landed.
"Incredible. When did you learn to do such a move?" Crysis asked.
"A couple of months ago." Tobias told him. "Then again, what's it to you?"
Crysis didn't answer. Instead, he got up and started charging a gravity ball in one hand and a dark ball in the other. He then tossed them in front of him and combined them.
"BLACK HOLE!" Crysis bellowed.
The darkness expanded to form a vortex of some sort, while the gravity started pulling Tobias towards it. Tobias tried to move back, but the gravity was too strong for him to overcome. He then thought of something he could do. It was a long shot, but if it worked, he would shoot through the hole and hit Crysis. If it didn't, he would be lost to a field of darkness forever. He charged up a laser beam.
"I hope this works. MEGA LASER!"
Tobias fired the attack behind him, and the force shot him towards the black hole. Crysis just smiled. Tobias was going to land right in the black hole. Crysis started to close the black hole…
He wasn't ready for what happened next. Tobias shot into the black hole, and the speed he was going at added to the force of the attack shot him right through the black hole and into Crysis, knocking him backwards as well as shutting down the black hole.
"Impossible! That's just not possible!" Crysis exclaimed. He couldn't believe that his attack didn't work. "No matter. You'll still die."
Crysis then charged up two more elements. One was an ice ball, while the other was a wind blast.
"ICICLE WIND!"
The ice ball shattered into small ice spikes, while the wind blast shot them towards Tobias. He managed to dodge every one of them, and charged towards Crysis, knocking him back with a punch. The impact of the blow shot Crysis into a building. It was the old abandoned lab that was blown up six months ago.
"Here we go again." Tobias muttered. He never thought he would be back in that area.
"Ha ha ha ha! Remember this place, Tobias? This was the same place that would have been my grave if Nega hadn't saved me. This will now be YOUR grave!" Crysis declared.
"I won't allow it!" Tobias told him.
The battle continued. Crysis formed an elemental sword, deciding to not use elemental attacks for now. He charged at Tobias, determined to kill him. Tobias charged back, determined to foil Crysis's plan. Their swords clashed repeatedly as both fighters made subsequent strikes. Neither fighter could get the advantage. Soon, Crysis had had enough of this. He jumped back and started forming a large white ball of energy, with multiple colored beams of energy flowing into it. Tobias knew what was coming. Crysis was gathering every element into an attack that would destroy the city, and possibly the world.
"Behold, Tobias! This is the one attack that can destroy the whole world! A fusion of every element in the known universe! The Psychedelic Bomb!" Crysis announced.
Tobias couldn't believe it. Crysis was going to destroy the world. He couldn't allow that to happen. He started looking around for something that could stop Crysis. His scanner picked up a couple of things. One, Crysis was standing on a cryogenic tank pad, and two, he was standing right near a lever that triggered it. It was his best chance. If Tobias couldn't defeat Crysis, at least he could stop him.
"Hey, Crysis!" Tobias called.
"What is it? Can't you see I'm boasting over here?" Crysis asked.
"Don't you know that sometimes it's the smartest who wins and not the strongest?" Tobias asked.
"What do you mean?" Crysis asked. He dissipated the Psychedelic Bomb for a moment, the one action Tobias was counting on.
"THIS!"
Tobias pulled the lever, and freezing-cold air started to hit Crysis. A tube started closing around him as the cold air started to freeze him.
"What…what are you doing?" Crysis demanded.
"If I can't defeat you, I can at least stop you!" Tobias declared.
"NOOOOOO!" Crysis yelled.
The cold air created a prison of ice in the tube, and Crysis was frozen solid. He had been stopped. Tobias exited and sealed the lab.
"That takes care of that. He shouldn't be able to escape for a long time." Tobias said as he left. As he headed back home, he saw his wife, Alicia, run to him.
"Tobias!" Alicia called as she threw her arms around Tobias. "What happened?"
"Nega turned Crysis against us. I don't know how, but he was turned to evil. I managed to seal him in his own lab, though." Tobias explained.
"I never thought he would do that. Well, at least it's over, right?" Alicia asked.
"Yes. Let's go home." Tobias said.
They walked home, where Armand was waiting for his dad. Basil and Axel had already gone back to their homes, so Armand was waiting on the porch.
"Did you win, Dad?" Armand asked.
"Yes. It wasn't easy, but I won. Let's go in." Tobias told his son.
They went inside the house to rest up. As they sat down, Alicia handed Tobias a notice.
"Hmm? What's this?" Tobias asked. He then read it.
"To everyone who's interested, a battle tournament has been announced. Please report to Station Square Coliseum if you're interested."
"A tournament notice? I'm joining up." Tobias said.
The next day, he did so. Zeus and Mintra also signed up, but Hurricane decided to stay out of it.
End of Chapter 6.
Crysis has been sealed for now, but will he escape? You'll have to find out some other time.
I won't do the actual tournament, but I will do the final battle. You'll like what happens at the end.
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