Chapter 11:
A/N: From now on, the Guardians from the reality Cole is from, will be known as the A-Guardians.
For example: A-Irma = Alternate Irma
Enjoy!
The first to strike was the Fire Golem, who shot a fireball at Malcom, who absorbed it with his own fire shield. He then took that fire and blasted it at the Earth Golems wooden parts.
"That should take care of that one!", Malcom said as the fire burned the wooden parts.
"I don't think so.", A-Cornelia said. "Look!"
Malcom turned to see the Earth Golem's wooden parts growing back.
"Oh, now that's just wrong!", Malcom said.
"I have an idea!", Cornelia said to A-Cornelia. "This thing is made from earth, right?"
"Yeah.", A-Cornelia said. "Oh, I get it! Let's do it!"
Both Cornelia's then focused their powers and pulled the Earth Golem apart, revealing it's Elemental Core.
"Now what?", A-Cornelia asked.
"Allow me!", Marcus said as he ran at at the Elemental Core, with his super-speed. "Hyper Strike!"
Just then Marcus began to glow as his speed picked up. Once he was close enough to the Elemental Core, he jumped up into the air. He then vanished and reappeared behind the Elemental Core, with a pair of daggers in his hands. The core then exploded into tiny pieces.
"Now that's how it's done!", Marcus said as he put his daggers away.
"Very nice!", Cornelia said as she and A-Cornelia flew down towards Marcus.
"I do my best.", Marcus joked. "I think we better go help the others."
"Right!", Cornelia said as the three of them took off towards the others.
"It's time to fight fire with fire!", Malcom said as he dodged the Fire Golem's fireball. "How's it going Taranee?!"
"Not so good!", Taranee said. "Each time we try to absorb some of it's fire power, it's Elemental Core restores it's power!"
"It's like it can't run out of power!", A-Taranee said.
Just then, the Fire Golem started to get hotter and swell up some. It then shot some fire into the air, making the swelling go down, and it's heat go down a bit.
"You two saw that right?", A-Taranee asked.
"Oh yeah!", Malcom said as he lite his hands up. "Let's give a case of heartburn!"
The three of them then began to blast the Fire Golem with their own fire, which it absorbed, making it heat up. It then began to get hotter and swell up! It then shot out some fire up into the sky.
"I got it!", A-Taranee said as she made the fire go back into the Fire Golem.
With all that fire and no where to send it, as Malcom was using his telekinesis to keep the flame in the Fire Golem, the golem of fire exploded leaving his Elemental Core in plain view. Malcom then floated up to the core, and used his telekinesis to bring the Elemental Core closer to him.
"Now to take care of you.", Malcom said as he focused his psychic powers.
Then slowly but surely, the core began to crack and break apart! Finally, the Elemental Core broke into tiny pieces.
"Well, that takes care of that!", Malcom said as he brushed his hands together.
"We did it!", Taranee cheered as she wrapped her arms around Malcom's neck happily.
"Now let's go help the others.", A-Taranee said as she Malacom and Taranee flew towards the Water Golem, the Irma's and Leonas were fighting.
"This isn't working!", Leonas said as he dodged the Water Golem's attack. "It's Elemental Core is right there, but we can't get to it!"
Suddenly, the Water Golem swung it's left arm and knocked A-Irma down. It was about to come down on her again when Hay Lin hit it's arm with a blast of cold air freezing, it solid.
"Take that!", Hay Lin said proudly.
The Water Golem looked at it's now frozen arm and then lifted it up and began to bring it down on A-Irma, who was still stunned from the first attack.
"Look out!", Leonas said as he ran by and scooped up A-Irma in his arms, avoiding the attack.
Once it's frozen arm hit the ground, it shattered into pieces.
"You okay?", Leonas asked A-Irma as he set her on her feet.
"I think so.", A-Irma said as she rubbed her head. "Um.... thanks for the save."
"No problem.", Leonas said rubbing the back of his head.
"Really now?"
Leonas turned to see Irma looking at him, with a small scowl on her face.
"What?!", Leonas asked. "I was just saving her from getting crushed! That's all it was, baby!"
Irma then started giggling, that soon broke into laughter.
"That's so not funny Irma!", Leonas said.
"I'm sorry!", Irma laughed. "But I couldn't help it!"
"Did I miss something?", A-Irma asked.
Irma then went to A-Irma and whispered something in her ear. A-Irma then busted out laughing.
"Oh great.", Leonas said. "It's in stereo now."
"Guys!", Hay Lin said. "Look!"
They all looked to see the Water Golem's watery arm grow back.
"Oh, that's just great!", A-Hay Lin said. "We freeze it, it grows it's arm back!"
"Oh!", A-Irma said dodging the Water Golem's water blast. "If we could get some dirt in it....."
"...... and dry it fast......", Irma added turning the water blast back at the Water Golem, knocking it down.
"...... we can break it!", both Irma's said at the same time.
"We'll need Cornelia and Taranee, for this.", Leonas said.
"Well, here comes Taranee, and..... Taranee.", A-Hay Lin said. "This is going to take some getting use to."
"Tell me about it.", Hay Lin grinned.
"Now we need Cornelia.", Leonas replied.
"Hey, Corny!", both Irma's yelled.
"Don't call me Corny!", both Cornelia's said flying up to them.
"Wow!", Irma said. "Corny in stereo. What a concept."
"Okay ladies.", Malcom said getting their attention. "Leonas just told me the plan. So let's do it!"
First, the Cornelia's mixed some dirt into the Water Golem, making clay. Then the Taranee's and Hay Lin's mixed their powers together to dry the dirt in the golem quickly, stopping it in place. Leonas then jumped in the air. He then aimed himself at the Water Golem as he came back down with his claws, that were now glowing, aimed forward. He then started spinning around and around at a fast pace.
"Spiral Claw Attack!", Leonas yelled coming down at the Water Golem.
Once he hit the Water Golem, in his clay state, he drilled right through him and grabbed it's Elemental Core. Once he busted through the other end of the Water Golem, Leonas landed on his feet, and tossed the Elemental Core in the air. He then jumped up and slashed at it with both claws, breaking it apart.
"That's three down.", Leonas said. "And one to go."
"So, should we help them?", Hay Lin asked as they watched Angelo, Cole, and Sam battle the Lightning Golem.
"Nah, let'em have their fun.", Leonas said.
"Okay!", Angelo said as he dodged a lightning bolt, fired by the Lightning Golem. "This guys getting off my nerves!"
"I couldn't agree more!", Cole said as he blocked a lightning bolt with his sword. "We need to end this, now!"
"I'm open to any ideas!", Sam said as he flew around the Lightning Golem. "Any at all!"
"How good is you aim?!", Angelo asked Cole as he blocked the golem's attack, as it swung down on him.
"Pretty good!", Cole said as they both jumped back from a bolt of lightning. "Why?"
"Just get ready to blast the Elemental Core!", Angelo said as he flew towards the Lightning Golem. "Okay, big fella! Let's see how you handle this! Sam! Double Whammy!"
"You got it!", Sam said as he flew next to Angelo.
As they got closer to the Lightning Golem, they began to pick up speed. Suddenly, Angelo was covered in a aura of yellow light, like Sam was. The Lightning Golem fired a barrage of lightning bolts at them, but they were so fast, that they just bounced off of them.
"Double Whammy!", Angelo and Sam yelled, as they burst right through the Lightning Golem!
Once they burst through the Lightining Golem, the electricity it was made of disburst, leaving it's Elemental Core wide open for attack! Seeing his chance, Cole formed a large ball of Holy energy in his hand, ready to strike.
"Angel's Light!", Cole yelled as he fired his attack that turned into a large wave of energy, destroying the Elemental Core.
"Not bad.", Angelo said to Cole as he and Sam landed next to him.
"Now we find our Will's!", Cole said as the others came up to them.
"Question is, where are they?", Angelo said.
"Guys!", Taranee said, getting everyone's attention. "We've got bigger problems!"
Everyone turned to see the shattered Elemental Cores come together to form one huge Elemental Core!
"Oh, this can't be good.", Sam said as he and everybody else backed away slowly.
"Is it ever?", Leonas questioned.
At a distance, the cloaked man was watching the events unfold with glee.
"It seems that they're stronger than I gave them credit for.", he said holding the crystal ball, the Will's were trapped in.
"Just wait until Angelo and the others find us!", Will said, from within the crystal ball. "I promise you, he'll mess you up!"
"Aren't we the mouthy one.", the cloaked man said. "You're just as bad as the other one. To bad you can't do anything to stop me."
"Why you.....!", Will began to say. "Quintessence!"
Just then she fired a bolt of lightining at the wall of the crystal ball, only to have it bounce back at her, knocking her back.
"Ow!", Will said as he sat up rubbing her head, as the cloaked man laughed at her.
"I hope you learn faster than your counter-part has.", he said.
Will then looked up to see herself walking up to her.
"I guess you the "me" of this world.", A-Will said as she helped Will to her feet.
"You could say that.", Will said. "So, from what happened earlier, I take it you and that Cole guy are close."
"Yeah.", A-Will said as he cheeks turned a little pink. "I'm sorry about how they attacked your friends."
"It's okay.", Will said. "After what they been through, I can see why they did what they did."
"I just hope they can beat that thing.", A-Will said as they both looked down at their friends.
"You and me both.", Will said.
Once the new Elemental Core was formed, it began to glow a dark red.
"It's gonna blow!", Cole yelled.
"I got this one!", Angelo said as he flew under the Elemental Core.
Once under the Elemental Core, Angelo took off in the air with the Elemental Core. He flew higher and higher, trying to put as much distance between him and the others.
"Is he crazy?!", A-Cornelia asked. "He's gonna blow up with it!"
"He tougher than you think!", Marcus said.
"Yeah, but.........?", A-Hay Lin began to ask.
"Don't worry.", Hay Lin said. "He'll be okay."
As he was flying higher, Angelo was starting to feel the energy in the Elemental Core reach it's peak. He then started to fly faster. Seconds later, it reached it's peek.
"Here we go!", Angelo said bracing himself for the explosion.
The Elemental Core then exploded, making a bright light in the sky. As for Angelo, the explosion sent him flying back towards ground, hard. Will looked on in horror, from her crystal ball prison, as Angelo fell towards the ground at breakneck speeds
"Angelo!", Will yelled as he was close to the ground.
'This, is gonna hurt.', he thought to himself.
He then hit the ground hard. The others got there to find him, in a small crater he made on impact.
"Angelo!", Sam said trying to wake his cousin up. "Angelo wake up man!"
"Uh.", Angelo said sitting up, rubbing his head. "What a hit."
"Thank goodness.", Will said as she breathed a sigh of relief as Angelo stood up.
"Blasted all!", the cloaked man said. "What does it take to beat these brats?!"
"A lot more than you've got!", Will snapped.
"Face it, jerk!", A-Will said. "You done for!"
"I'm not out of tricks yet!", the cloaked man said.
"There he is!", came Taranee's voice.
"What the?!", the cloaked man said as he looked to see the group of heroes coming at him. "They found me that fast?!"
"We couldn't sense your energy!", Cole said.
"But we could sense your thoughts!", A-Taranee said.
"It's something we Fire Guardians can do!", Taranee said.
"Give us back our Will's and we'll go easy on you!", Angelo demanded as he came flying down at him.
"Foolish boy!", the cloaked man yelled as he raised his right hand, holding a blaster. "Did you think I came unprepared for you?!"
The cloaked man then fired the blaster at Angelo. The beam that came out was a dark violet color that caused Angelo great pain, once it hit him, in his chest.
"Aaaaahhhhhh!", Angelo yelled as he fell to the ground.
"Angelo!", Will cried as she saw him hit the ground. "No!"
"What was that?!", A-Taranee asked.
"It can't be, what I think it is!", Malcom said as he landed next to Angelo. "You okay, man?"
"That's a...... Dark Matter......... Blaster.", Angelo said as he hand his hand over his chest. "But where did he......?"
"Did he say Dark Matter Blaster?!", Sam asked as he hovered in the air.
"Yeah.", Malcom answered.
"But where did he get it from?!", Irma asked.
"What's a Dark Matter Blaster?", Cole asked.
"A blaster that's powered by crystallized Dark Matter.", Leonas said. "It's Angelo's one weakness."
"And now for the rest of you!", the cloaked man said as he put the Dark Matter Blaster away.
"Take him down!", Leonas said as they all charged at him.
The cloaked man fired a few blast of dark energy, knocking Leonas, Sam, and both Irma's back! Taking her chance, Cornelia made the ground below the cloaked man shoot up, flinging him in the air. A-Taranee shot a fireball at the cloaked man, but he was able to block it. But he didn't see Taranee fly up next to him, and fire a fireball at him hitting him on his arm, burning him. Next Malcom hit him with a force of telekinetic energy, cracking a few of his ribs.
'My ribs!', the cloaked man thought to himself as he landed on his feet. 'I have to escape, and heal myself, before I can even leave this reality!'
"I think he's done.", A-Irma said.
"Think again!", the cloaked man said as he held up his right hand, while holding his sides with his left hand. "Shadow Flare!"
Just then a blast of dark energy formed in his hand. He then released the energy, sending it at the heroes, knocking them all to the ground. Seeing them all on the ground, and to weaken to move. He then walked up to Cole, who was trying to get to his feet, but like the others, was to weak to move. Cole then looked up at the cloaked man as he pulled back his hood to show him his face.
"It can't be!", Cole said. "It's impossible!"
Cole as well as everyone else was shocked to see that the cloaked man was an older version of Cole. His hair was the same, only it had black streaks in it, and his eyes looked darker.
"Surprised?!", Dark Cole asked with a smirk on his face. "So was I when I found out that there were Guardians in this reality! Seeing as I made sure that the ones, who were supposed to be their parents, never met! Then I find out the the Oracle pulled Guardians from another reality here. Not to mention five heroes, from another reality! He was preparing for my return! To bad he didn't think that I'd fool you into doing my handy work!"
"You won't win!", Cole said. "You shall never free your master!"
"And who's gonna stop me?", Dark Cole asked.
Just then a arrow flew by Dark Cole, hitting a rock and sticking in it. Dark Cole looked in the direction in which the arrow came from to see James and Shan Ying Roberts standing about fifty feet away from him. James had a pair of maces in his hands, while Shan Ying was holding a bow with an arrow at the ready.
"Well, if it isn't James, and Shan Ying.", Dark Cole said with an evil smile. "It's been awhile."
"C-Cole?!", James questioned in shock.
"It can't be!", Shan Ying said as she lowered her bow. "We thought you were........."
"Dead?!", Dark Cole grinned. "Oh, I'm very much alive, dear Shan Ying. Only, unlike you and James, I choose a different path. The path of darkness!"
"No!", Shan Ying said sadly.
"And now that I have two Keepers of the Heart, in my possession......", Dark Cole said as he held up the crystal ball holding the two Will's. "........ "He" shall be free soon!"
"You don't mean..........?!", James began to ask.
"Yes!", Dark Cole said, with a dark smile. "Necronas shall be released from the Dark Realm and he shall rule all realities! But now I must heal, before I can open the Dark Door. Until then...... old friends!"
Dark Cole then teletranported away, leaving the others defeated and worried for both Will's.
A/N: What a twist! So it was a evil version of Cole that's behind all this! And with our heroes in the shape they're in, will they be able to pull themselves together to not only save both Will's, but save all realities?!
Once again I'd like to thank DREAMCOLE for the use of their character Cole Angelheart!