Chapter 13:
"I AM AKU, SHAPESHIFTING MASTER OF DARKNESS! THIS PLANET IS MINE, AND ALL WHO DARE TO CONTEST THAT WILL BE OBLITERATED!"
Aku continued to speak to the entire planet via the means outlined on the previous chapter. As he was about to continue his decree, a small, obnoxious voice interrupted him.
"Hey, hey Aku!" called Eric Cartman. This caused Aku to bend down, so that his enflamed face was directly before Eric's. "I was the one who freed you, and you're gonna need me to take over, so let's get some things straight! When we win, I want my own mansion in Hawaii, a pudding swimming pool, and Kyle's Jew head on my wall!"
Aku erupted in cruel laughter at this, laughing into the dark starless sky he had created. "Don't laugh at me! I saved you from the Time Lock! You need me!"
"You are but a disease, albeit one of my own making. You are nothing, and will be crushed like all others who dare to defy me." Aku stated when he finally stopped laughing. Cartman was visibly shaken by this.
"I... I'm not importent?" Eric asked, going into a breakdown from his huge ego shattering.
"No. No you are not." Aku replied matter-of-factly. He then turned his gaze to Kuki and her friends. "But this one interests me greatly. Old magic runs through you four, magic long thought to be extinct."
"That's right, you big meanie!" Kuki yelled back. "We hold the power of the Rainbow Kingdom, and we're going to stop you!"
Meanwhile, back at the KND base camp, reports are flooding in from all across the world, all of them requesting help against the abominations currently ravaging the planet. Numbah 1 is doing his best to co-ordinate the responses, but there are too many fires and too much distance.
"Sector J, ride with Sector S and parachute over Florida. Sector N, we need you to back up Sector L. Numbah 2, we need those aircraft repaired A.S.!" Numbah 1 commanded desperatly. "We just don't have enough transportation." he finally admitted with defeat.
"Uhhh... excuse me?" Spoke the short, bald Chinese kid, Omi. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at him. "I may be able to help." he stated while pulling a hand from behind his back, revealing he was wearing the Golden Tiger Claws.
All across the world, rips in the fabric of space and time begin opening at the site of the monster attacks. On the shores of the Great Salt Lake, now a bubbling swamp of green slime, four choosen children appeared. The boy in with the red cap, Ness, the girl in the pink dress, Paula, the boy in the green uniform, Jeff, and a young monk in a white tunic, Poo. (Yes that's really his name. Look up Earthbound if you don't believe me.)
Of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, where the dark god Cthulhu is decimating the population, the bald monk with the arrow on his head, Aang, the healer in the blue dress, Katara, a boy with a tunic the same color as the girl, Sokka, and a small, blind, little girl, Toph. As they assumed combat poses, a flash of yellow suddenly soared across the sky and slammed into Cthulhu's face. It was Monkey!
Although this blow was strong enough to knock the monster back, it also attracted the full wrath of the abomination.
Meanwhile, a sinister simian glares down a giant telescope jutting out of an observatory atop a mountin in the middle of town, observing the fleet of black armored Reapers bombarding the Earth. With an angry, jelous look on his face, Mojo Jojo begins to rant with his trademark speech patterns. "Do this fools understand who they are provoking with this wanton provoking destruction? This world is mine to conquer and control, and any effort to render this soon to be conquered world and my soon to be controlled servants lifeless will be met with a hostile response that is hostile!" He then removes a cell phone and dials. "This is me, MOJO JOJO!... Yes I'll hold."
About ten minutes later, giant laser guns rose from the bases and lairs of super-villains world wide. Mojo Jojo called up every villain he knows, and quickly persuaded them to help defend the Earth based on his can't conquer what's destroyed logic. A massive ray gun takes aim from Mojo's Observatory, Father's Mansion, Mandark's Lab, an island with a mountin in the shape of a bunny, a frozen arctic base, the current lair of Doctor Drakken, and so many more, all of them taking aim at the Reaper fleet...
Back in Miracle City, Kuki, Sonya, Fanny and Rachel are growing weary. They have been battling Aku using the Rainbow Magic, but they are unskilled in its use, and are unable to hang on for much longer.
"Numbah 3, I can't... fight... for... much... longer." Sonya spoke in between gasps for air.
"We can't give up!" Kuki rallied. "Think of everyone who is counting on us!"
The girls suddenly began to think of all their loved ones. Brothers, sisters, parents, soulmates. By thinking of the ones they love, they find the streangth for one last attack.
"C'mon girls, let's put our power together and show this stupid demon boy who's boss!" Fanny rallied. The others, faces now full of hope, all put their hands together and focused, thinking of everyone they care for, causing a ball of swirling, rainbow energy, composed of pure love, to form within the circle they made with their bodies.
Meanwhile, The Doctor rushed into the Police Box, revealing it to far, far bigger on the inside then it is on the outside. He rushes over to a consel at the center of the time and space machine, which is a massive hodge-podge of techno-organic machinery and scrap items, and begins working away, flipping switches, pushing button, dialing knobs, and other such things.
Suddenly, a red headed irish woman joins him on deck. "Doctor, what's going on?" Amy Pond asks.
"Right now as we speak four incredibly brave girls are facing down an extra-dimensional being even the Time Lords couldn't destroy, with only the power of love, which they, knowingly or not, are drawing from every living thing on this planet." He spoke quickly. "I am about to activate a destabilizing field that will weaken the barrier between universes to give them a power boost, letting them fuel their attack with the love of every being that ever existed in ANY world!"
"Well, do you think they have a chance?" Amy asked with concern.
The Doctor just grinned. "No doubt about it." and threw the last switch.
The light atop the T.A.R.D.I.S. suddenly began to glow brighter, indicating that the walls had come down and that the love was coming in. All across the limitless expanses of Time and Space, love, that beautiful, universal feeling, came rushing in. All sorts of love, the love of a parent, the love between siblings, and the lover of two soulmates. From a sparse island located Nowhere, from the cold vaccum of space warmed by two lovers, from a beast freed from a curse by love, froms sparks of life cried from royal eyes, from a mother shielding her child from beyond the grave with love, from eight melodies embodying love, from so many places and times and people and more, love came pouring in.
Then, once all that love had been gathered together in a single place, a single moment, it was all sent soaring into the heart of darkness itself, into the Demon bent on destruction.
And the Demon did shriek in pain upon contact with this wonderus light, his dark, souless form reacting to the harmonius light as if it were burning acid. Aku writhed and he burned and he shrieked horribily, but then, the screams turned to a mocking, wicked laugh. Their attack had failed to deal a mortal blow!
Sinking to her knees, Kuki released the last of her hope in the form of a final plea, one last cry for help, for the ultimate hero, before despair choked her mind.
Back to The Doctor, who is also begining to feel hopelessness creep into his mind, when suddenly his Time and Space Ship begins to activate of what seems to be its own will! Energy flowing, parts moving, The Doctor and his companion rush about, trying to see what is happening. When The Doctor does diagnois the problem, he is stunned, then overjoyed.
"Hah, I can't believe it!" The Doctor exclaims. "Oh that little girl is definitly getting a Rainbow Monkey now!"
"I don't get it, what's happening?" Amy asked. "And how come you never get me Rainbow Monkeys?"
"Because you never managed to telepathically power up the T.A.R.D.I.S., overloading it with so much emotion that it locks on to the greatest hero in the universe and takes off to get him of her own free will, just to help you!" he explains rapidly, then slows down. "But you can still get one, if that's what you fancy."
Just then, the T.A.R.D.I.S. materializes around this ultimate hero, confusing him, to say the least. "Why 'ello there!" The Doctor exclaims.
"Uh... hi. So, are you dudes good, or evil?"
A/N: It seems that the power of love alone is not enough to stop Aku, but can this Ultimate Hero defeat Aku? Can the other heroes stop the rampaging abominations? Just who is the hero, anyway? Find out next time as we near the end, in Chapter 14: The Clouds Pass.
See you next time!