When I was re-reading my marvel vs capcom 2 fic, I can't stop but filled in excitement. Though I was the one who wrote it, I became the audience as well and dying for the next chapter. So then that's why this chapter comes in. Well anyhow so let's not waste any time and begin the next chapter of the thrilling Marvel Vs Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes fanfic.
Remember: italic words are thoughts rushing in the character's head.
New Age of Heroes
Chapter 7 – The mission
Roll can not believe what she's seeing, first thing she knew was that she's flying up high in the sky searching for Dhalsim's mountain. And the next thing she knew she's somewhere out on the sea surrounded with people she never seen before. But that's not what got her enraged in anger and annoyance. It's the woman standing in front of Roll, she's the reason that made Roll furious. Not because she did something to annoy Roll, but it's her appearance that literally snapped Roll.
Great! Not only I was rudely interrupted and transported into some random place, but the first thing I see is some half-naked woman!
Roll did not care where she is or why she's here, the first thing that she wanted to do is to lecture the half-naked woman to put some clothes on. She may want to smack the half-naked woman once so Roll's lectures will bury her mind whenever she walked around naked. Roll walked closer to the woman, every inch she's closer to the woman her urge to yell at her increases. But as she walked closer to the woman, Roll noticed that the woman was in fact not normal. A pair of soft white fur flew and hangs high up in the sky got Roll's attention, it looked like a tail. Roll looked at the tail and trailed it to see the owner, and she wished she did not do that. It happened to belong to the half naked woman attached to her "cheeks" at the rear end of her body. Roll looked up at the woman's back; she has a pair of white ears hang on her head.
A catgirl?
"Welcome noble 'eroes of the New Age!"
Roll looked away from the catgirl when she heard another woman's voice that speaks up louder than anybody else on the ship. There she stood, high on the 2nd floor of the deck away from everybody else. Roll analyzed the woman closer with her eyes, she know that woman.
It's Ruby Heart!
"I suppose you all would want to know where this is and why I called you 'ere," she said in her French accent. There was a moment of silent from the passengers aboard the ship. Strangely enough, none of them are enraged or began asking floods of question to the pirate lady. It's either that they know who she is so they watch their manners or that they're too confused to say anything.
Dammit! I can't see!
Roll hated her short height; it's a big disadvantage of her. She ignored the catgirl for now and walked closer to the scene so she can get a good view of the pirate.
"Excuse me, pardon me," Roll muttered as she squeezed in with the other people to get closer to the pirate. Finally she's close enough to watch the pirate lady stand high with two other heroes she never knew or met before.
"The reason is simple my friends," Ruby continue her speech. "I 'ave all chosen you for a mission!"
"Uhh excuse me," one apparent man called out. Roll looked at the man who spoke up from everybody else, he's hanging high attached on the ship's mast upside down.
"But what kind of mission is this supposed to be? And what makes you think that I will approve in all of this," he asked directly.
"That's right we all got lives too you know!" another man spoke up. "I'm no errand boy running around for some chick I just met!"
"Watch your mouth Ken!" the man dressed in white who stood next to Ruby yelled out.
"Hey he's got a point man!" another man whose body is fully coated in white yelled up.
"Bobby please calm down!" Roll heard his friend soothed him.
Roll knows where this is all going to lead to. When one says something, another thing reaches up to another and soon enough before you know it, it all leads to chaos. Roll is right about this, floods of questions and indirect quotes are flying around from the group of "noble heroes". Personally Roll wanted to know what's going on as well, but she knows that her voices won't reach with all these people running havoc.
"Silence! All of you!" Ruby's other friend yelled out. But nothing is working. Some fighters began to take drastic measure; they threw in a punch or two.
So much for the 'eroes of the New Age. I must get their attention! What will be… Ahh but of course!
"Abyss's seal is weakening!!!"
Roll is shocked from the sudden loud outburst from Ruby Heart, who would've thought that a woman like her can yell so loud. The noises stop, everything just froze. Everyone is now at full attention to Captain Ruby Heart.
"Abyss's seal is weakening!" Ruby repeated in a quiet tone. "It won't be long until that 'orrible monster re-surface and destroy our planet and mankind." Mutters and chitchatting are heard from the heroes, they began to discuss about the matters which are related to Abyss.
"That is why we need your 'elp," Ruby continued. "We need you, the New Age Of 'eroes. To strike Abyss before it returned to surface."
"No problem!" the man who stood at the very front speaks up. Roll noticed the weird pink eyeshades he's wearing. "Just tell me where he is, and I'll finish him in no time!"
"You wish four-eyes!" another man stood next to "four eyes" butted in. "I'm not leaving something as responsible as this to you!"
"Logan, Scott please be quiet," the woman who stood before them broke them off. "I'm sure there's more to all of this correct Miss Heart?"
"That is correct Miss Storm," Ruby replied. "This is the reason why I called ALL of you 'ere."
Roll braced herself for the worst. She has no idea why she's here or why she's chosen for a mission to attack the ultimate evil. But one think she knows is that she's no match for the ultimate evil, and it will be a suicide attempt to attack him.
"Look around you 'eroes," said Ruby. "Each and every one of those around you are 'eroes of The New Age."
Come to think of it, Roll never thought of who the people around her are. But after hearing Ruby's comment, it all made sense to her. Most of these people around Roll are heroes she saw and heard about from the magazines, the newspaper and TV. Roll looked around the huge crowd frantically, they all seem so high and powerful compared someone as low as her. She wondered if she actually belonged here in the first place.
"Hey wait a minute!" Roll heard someone yell out.
Ruby's attention turned towards a young woman who is dressed in flexible blue traditional Chinese clothing. Her hair is tied into a twin buns, it looked quite cute on her despite of her rash attitude.
"Why is he here?" the Chinese woman pointed to a certain man between the crowd. The man is dressed I red-blood color clothing, his cape is wrapped around his might and sturdy body.
"He's no hero!" she angrily remarked to the pirate captain. "He's a monster!"
The Chinese woman's voice affects deeply to the people around her and the mysterious man clothed in red. Roll walked closer to the scene pushing people out of the way to have a closer look at this monster the woman was talking about. Her instinct grows in and her curiosity is dying to find out who is this monster among the crowds of heroes. She's beginning to see the red color clothes, soon enough she would get a closer look on this man.
"That is no concern to you Miss Li," Ruby spoke up. "All I can tell you is that 'e is part of my chosen candidate, and if you can't co-operate. Deal with it!"
After hearing those words coming out from Ruby, Roll turned away from the scene to watch the pirate woman tolerate the Chinese girl's attitude. Roll looked away from the place where the red clothed man stood, she forgot about him already. Roll looked to the girl that was called Miss Li, she's being comforted by a muscular army man with a goofy haircut.
"We are wasting time fellow 'eroes!" Ruby is getting impatient. "I need full silence from all of you! You can all talk about this after I finish!"
The heroes obeyed the pirate's order. Curious of where this is going to lead to and also curious of Abyss. Roll's glad that everything quiet down, this is exactly how she wanted to be. It's also silent and calm, she can relax a little. All of this tension around heroes and Abyss stressed her out big time, even though she's still rookie fighter. But she can not relax now, she needs to know Ruby Heart's plan and what is she planning with everyone aboard the ship.
"As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted," Ruby continued her long lost speech. "Abyss, the ultimate evil. The monstrosity that would bring the world back to primordial times, killing all life in the process is about to reign this world once more."
Roll knew about The Legend of Abyss, and she suspect that everyone in this ship has probably heard of him too.
"As I said before," Ruby spoke. " 'is seal is weakening! This very own seal that was casted on Abyss doomed to seal him for all eternity is about to be broken."
No one acted surprise when she said this. Ruby yelled this out loud earlier to get people's attention, surprises revealed already. Though it's already told, Roll can not shake the feeling of knowing that The Great Evil will be free. Fears and pressures are swirling over her head, pictures and images of the doomed world flew across her mind shaking the poor girl off her feet. But she knows that she must be strong, the road of a fighter always have risks in them. And this situation happens to be the worst possible risk that anyone can ever take.
"It won't be long until The Great Evil will rise once more to roam this world!" Ruby said to the crowd of heroes.
The pressure is getting to Roll miunte by minute. The way of how we the world is doomed told by Ruby Heart is told so well by your truly, is getting to Roll deeply. She can not stood her ground any longer, she's shaking in fear. This is the exact same feeling she felt when she came across against Spiral and Sabretooth. A feeling of fear when you know that this may be it, it could be the last stand before your very own life will disappear before your eyes. Roll shook rapidly, her knees are getting weak.
Before she could drop on her own feet and before losing her mental consciousness, a soft warm feeling touches her shoulder. Roll felt a warm fuzzy feeling on her left shoulder, it lead her to a new feeling of comfort and calm natured. There's nothing better than a soothing hand to calm you down before eharing oh how much the world is screwed. Roll looked on her left shoulder, to the hand that lead her away from the pressure of the heroes' responsibility. She gasped quietly when she saw that it's no hand that held her shoulder, it's a giant paw.
"And as we all know that by the rule of the new age, it is our time to stop Abyss from roaming this world!"
Roll turned her eyes away from the giant paw only to look up to Ruby again. Her speech is turning bright once more from the dark gloomy feeling of Abyss's freedom.
"By the rules of The New Age, it has finally come for our time to prove our responsibility as 'eroes!"
Roll is starting to feel better and better as she spoke on. Her shaking is loosen up and she can breath properly now. Her sense of justice and spirit began to kick in. Her hope returned to her fighting spirit.
"But before facing Abyss, I need to know which of you is more suited to face The Great Evil!"
This is the only news that shocked all of the heroes on the ship, not only Roll. Ruby needed to know which hero is the perfect fighter to face Abyss, she wouldn't want to throw a random hero to fight Abyss. It's sort of like murder if she did so.
"This is why I called you all 'ere," Ruby continued on. "Look around you 'eroes! Every one of these people on this ship are my chosen candidates for the right to face Abyss!"
This is when everyone looked around to the other heroes. While some gave blank stare to one and another, some are glaring to the people they are not happy to see aboard this ship. The first person Roll wanted to looked first was the owner of the white paw. She turned her head around to see the owner of the giant white paw, shortly she wished she didn't do so. Because the first thing that goes into Roll's head when she saw the hero behind her is complete anger. It's none other than the catgirl herself, the half-naked woman that Roll wanted to lecture before Ruby interrupted her. And the first thing that caught Roll's attention is the catgirl's barely clothed body. Her body is fully exposed with only couple of white stripes that covered her privacy-related body parts. Although barely clothed, Roll still can not give up the anger that goes into her bodies towards this catigrl. She may be "covered up", but it's still revealing to the world to see. Roll's reaction has finally reached up to the max.
"There are 51 of you in total excluding myself and my friends 'ere," Ruby pointed to herself and her two stood-by-her-friend. Roll took her eyes off the catgirl and focus on Ruby, she's not sure where Ruby is going with this.
"Listen up 'eroes," said Ruby. "This is your first task!"
Roll paid full attention towards Ruby, what kind of task is Ruby planning for her and everybody else? Ruby looked around the crowd, they're all behaving quite controllable despite for having to be forced to do a task. She smiled at the situation, it's all going according to plan. She stomped the deck twice on her right foot. Immediately, pirates walk in through the hidden door on the floor. But these pirates are no trouble maker, they all walk on through the deck in an orderly fashioned manner. They're no life-threatening and seem to be under Ruby's assistance. Each pirate walk on the deck approaching each hero all at once.
"Each of you will be given a special device," Ruby called out from the 2nd floor deck. Ruby's assistant pirates walk to each fighters with no hesitation despite for their look and their different size. The pirate hand each fighter the device Ruby was talking about earlier on. Roll took the device and held it on her hand. It is no bigger than an average size of a mobile phone and not even smaller than a size of a pager. It's a round shaped mechanical gizmo with a huge screen dead center on it. There are three buttons located on the left, middle and right respectively.
What's this? Looks like a tamagotchi.
"This device you 'ave received are my special locater device," Ruby explained holding up one to show the others. "It will track and show you where my candidates are located." Ruby's device is switched on automatically. It bleeped once before showing a map-like diagram on the huge screen set on the middle. Roll looked at the screen shown on her device.
"You may be wondering what this device is for correct?" Ruby asked. She saw couple of nods from some of the heroes, while some just stood in silence not bothering to answer her question. Ruby can guess that some have understood her plan, but she might as well explain to some who are still clueless.
"As you all know," Ruby started another story. "There are three legendary 'eroes who sealed Abyss in his containment." Roll knew that it's no lone hero who single handed Abyss, there are three in total who did so. She wondered what it has something to do with the locater they received.
"Soon enough I will return you back where you were," Ruby went on. "Once you've returned, I want you to find and choose your teammates by using this locater!"
It all made sense now. The reason why Ruby called them here, why she count how many people there are, why she said there are three heroes who defeated Abyss last time, she wanted the heroes to get in group of three. Roll understand the purpose of the locater now. Ruby looked at the shock expression rallied on the heroes' face, they're not well prepared to join with some random stranger.
"This locater will tell you where my chosen candidates are," Ruby explained further. "This means that only the candidates I have chosen are allowed to be your teammates."
Roll looked around the people surrounding her, if she wanted to join this madness mission she must worked together with two of the heroes that are on this ship. But she doesn't even know if she wanted to join this crazy mission in the first place.
"Once you 'ave formed a group of three," Ruby continued. "Press this button in the middle. So I would know which candidate is ready to participate." Roll looked at the middle button, so this button leads to your confirmation as a proud hero who is willing to fight The Great Evil.
"If you are considering in withdrawing the mission," this got Roll's attention and most of the others. "Press the button hidden at the back of the locater." Ruby showed the heroes of the tiny hidden button at the back of the device. It's so tiny that only by using a pen tip or needle is needed to press the withdrawal button.
"Consider your choice wisely fellow 'eroes," Ruby finished. "Now it is time for all of you to return."
Roll had never felt so glad to be sent back where she was. All these crazy things that are happening to her is too much for her to handle. She never felt pressured this much ever before.
"One more thing," Ruby exclaimed. Roll and the other heroes turned attention back to Ruby. It's not over yet.
Give it a rest already! I want to go to sleep!
"I will give you exactly one week to prepare your teammates and yourself for this mission!" Ruby's voice echoed to the heroes. "And remember, once you have accepted…There is no turning back!"
Ruby tapped the floor three times with her left foot. Her pirate assistants, who have left after handing over the device, heard her signal and began to work on their assigned task. Ruby take one last good look of The Heroes of the New Age before they're going to be transported back as promised. She looked at her two teammates stood by her with the corner of her eye, they're ready and prepared to be returned too. She looked over to the heroes who are now noised with conversations with one and another.
"Good luck 'eroes of The New Age!" she spoke for the final time. "I 'ope I will see all of you next week!
Now that Ruby has finished with her final words, Roll can finally lectured that half-naked catgirl she first saw once arriving on this ship. She looked around to find something that is white and barely clothed. But before Roll can go any further, the same white ray that transported The Heroes of The New Age collide with the heroes once more returning them back home. The game is on, all that is left now is to find out which group of three will have the rights to fight Abyss and carry on the names of The Legendary Heroes.
THAT'S ALL FOLKS!! THIS STAGE SURE FELT LIKE PRESSING START ONCE YOU PUT THE COIN INSIDE THE ARCADE GAME!! AND NOW WE'LL JUST HAVE TO FIND AND PICK THE CHARACTERS!! REST ASSURED FOLKS FOR THE ENXT CHAPTER WILL BE OUT SOON. PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!! OH AND ONE PIECE: HIGH SCHOOL EDITION WILL BE UP IN A FEW MORE HOURS.