NX Worlds: Dreams Of A Multiverse
Chapter 1: First Battles, Truth and Reality
1st Person View: Richard
Just when I come to the usual conclusion, all chaos is unleashed, as I now stand face to face with a snake abomination.
Great. Just f**king great.
Let's summarize what happened, before I go into this battle, shall we?
First of all, some portal sucked me away from another portal before I fell through the one that was currently sucking me in, and I'm in some realm that's like Luigi's Dream World in Dream Team. I meet Jace and Hunt inside some temple ruins, and well, things escalated a bit, but after a bit of threatening with my blade, Jace began to do the logical thing and explain himself.
What's weird that somehow, from the Fanfiction I read on-line when I was still a citizen of the Real World, is that Jace is deviating from the path. Somehow, he used some last-resort spell called 'Mind Banish', which is like setting off a magical energy nuke, which can devastate even continents, and protects allies by sending them through a portal that will send them to safety. The catch is that every single memory of the caster will be consumed as energy, and the exhaustion is so great that the caster will fall into eternal sleep that is only stopped by some impossible mean. It took a while to put two and two together, and figured out that this realm is actually out of whatever dimension we were in before I got sucked, and Jace appeared here, and that either the Darkness are trapping us here, or whatever enemy that Jace had teamed up with the Darkness.
That's when the question about my side came. Hunt and Jace both asked what the Darkness are, but I couldn't speak, as ominous sounds of slithering and hissing and groaning were heard in the air. Fuxi and I went back to back, Fuxi drawing out his katana which is glowing a green aura that emanates power, and I drew out the golden lion-head shield of my Heaven's Will sword and shield set, which Jace handed Hunt his 3DS, ordering Hunt to use whatever item in the device to assist them, and Jace prepared a fireball not different to the one that Gus uses, learnt from a skill scroll. Fuxi warned us when the enemy is in sight, and we all turned to the adversary, only to find the very beast that I am now about to fight.
The Freakish. A snake that is almost the size of Manda from Naruto, with scales that are of a greenish-brown colour, with black oval spots all over its body, and markings of the same colour covering its head. It's jaw unhinged to show a mouth filled with mountain lion teeth, with the addition of viper fangs in the mix, and its eye opened to show green slitted eyes, which gave us a uncomfortable feeling, as it let out a combination of a hiss and a roar.
To be honest, I was scared of this beast, but Jace has taken it too far. He was literally pale as a ghost, as his will was shattered, and the fireball he prepared was shrinking into a almost snuffed candle-flame. I could see why. After all, due to the fact that this beast almost killed him, he has every right in the world to have shaking knees seeing it. However, by the looks of it, if Jace doesn't snap out of it soon, he's going to be lunch for this monster.
"Goddamn it..." I muttered, and then turned to Fuxi. "Fuxi, distract this beast and stop it from coming from us, while Hunt supports you with whatever is in your device."
"I can do that well. Stay safe." Fuxi responded.
Fuxi shifted his posture, and leapt into the sky, preparing to intercept it, letting out a courageous cry, as he jumped on the monster's nose, right on top of its snout. The beast hissed, as it shook its head to try to shake Fuxi off, but Fuxi managed to maintain balance, as he waited for the moment for when the snake stopped moving, to attack the head, slicing through scales on its head, exposing the flesh, and unleashing cut after cut on the area, dealing a lot of damage to the beast, as it was roaring. Meanwhile, Hunt was shivering, as he pulled out a Blaster from Super Smash Bros, and aimed at the eyes of the beast, managing to hit the flesh around them, but failing to hit them accurately due to him shaking in fear.
Meanwhile, Jace was literally frozen in fear. I could see that his expression was locked into one, eyes wide, and teeth chattering, as he watched the entire scene with fear.
I can't let him stand by with fear. It's time to get him back on his feet with a few words, as I walked up to him.
"Jace. JACE!" I shouted at him in front of him, receiving no response. "Snap out of it! You're better than this!"
"FF-Fre-ee-akiish..." Jace stuttered.
"Wake up!" I yelled, shaking his shoulders. "You're better than this! You're a damn hero! Don't let a goddamn snake be your death! We can show that snake who fears who!"
Jace's expression didn't change, but somehow... I feel that his fear is diminishing.
"Have you forgot the many times you spat at the face of evil and death!?" I continued. "You defeated your own dark self, you have defeated many villians, you survived a damn apocalypse with Smash Characters, AND you're a damn saviour. I'm scared as hell now, BUT I DON'T CARE! You and I are both chosen ones to save the multiverse, and I won't a overgrown grass snake be the end of me! NOW SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!"
Jace shook his head after I was finished, his expression now more courageous.
"That's right! I'm the White Knight now, and I got the help of you, Hunt and your friend Fuxi, to take him down! Maybe you're right, we do have a chance to bring this beast down once and for all!" Jace said with determination, getting louder and louder as he spoke.
"That's the spirit! We'll get revenge on that bastard for what it did to you." I replied with the same amount of determination.
Jace pulled out his Smash Sword, and moved onto attack. Although that beast is larger than him, he's not showing much fear. It's as if he's fighting fear and giving it the 'f**k you" finger.
Guess he's back to his heroic self, but... can't let that young man hog all the fun, no?
I immediately followed up, and jumped, while calling out to Hunt: "Use some super-powered projectile, Hunt! You'll need to use it to break the scale armour!"
"Got it." Hunt replied, and then replaced his blaster with... a Daybreaker!? I thought that I was only one with that weapon before I even went to Kid Icarus Uprising!
Either way, Hunt sure knows how to work that gun, as he fired a shot that stunned the Freakish enough for me to land on its head. Honestly, this was a new experience, standing on the head of a enormous snake. The surface is slippery, yet I can stand perfectly well on it. It makes me feel giddy, considering that I'm pumped with adrenaline from this very experience.
That very adrenaline became my driving force, as I began to run and slice at breakneck speeds, as I cut through that damn snake's skin place after place, and even finishing off by taking out both of its eyes. Jace was hacking mid-air, like he's doing a juggle combo right in the air, causing damage through the skin, and even puncturing some muscles and organs as I saw blue blood flow from the cuts.
"Keep it up, Jace!" I complimented, seeing that more and more of its body is filled with cuts and bruises, and thanks to Fuxi, the head of the Freakish is literally just muscles, skin all gone, although some of the bone is poking out. It's disguising that this abomination could live through this amount of physical damage, but it's a monster after all, and monsters don't die just because their head is skinned off.
"Same to you!" Jace yelled back.
I took a moment to try and hack into its brain, but somehow, the more I try to hack into his cranium, the more pissed this snake gets. Hunt is still firing beam after beam from the Daybreaker while running, although it was only 2-3 shots due to the time it took to charge it up, while avoiding the Freakish's attacks, which consisted of swiping its tail, and shaking its head to try and get us off.
After a while though, it roared, as its marking began to glow, and the skin of the snake began to produce spikes from every scale, which shot outwards like a porcupine shedding its needles. It wasn't pleasant, not even a bit, as I was punctured time after time by those spikes, which caused stabs of pain around my body. I began to lose balance on the head, and fell down on the ground, and Fuxi tried to catch me while I was going to fall to the ground, but he was too occupied by the flying spikes, avoiding them with maximum concentration, and Jace was blocking the needles with his sword, faring better than me.
I landed on the ground with a loud thud, and my consciousness was slipping, as there was stabbing pain from the spikes and pain from the harsh landing. The Freakish took this moment to wrap me with its long tail, and then bring me up to its face, as it hissed in my face with its forked tongue flickering out of its mouth. I could see that Fuxi was trying to distract the beast by jumping down, and attacking its body with Jace, but it's attention was directed at me, as it began to squeeze tightly, trying to pop me like a flesh balloon. The pain was increasing by tenfold from the pressure, and I could feel myself losing breath, and my heart beating so fast I suspect that it was going to burst. I tried pulling out my arm, but it was too tightly squeezed to pull out.
The beast then flicked its tail up, sending me up into the air, and then opening its maw to consume me. I could swear that my life was flashing before me as I fell through the air, as I had no time to waste.
The next few things happened quite quickly. I managed to get Heaven's Will out, putting my shield in front of me, while I have my sword at the ready. and tilting my body to a angle where I could gain speed. I thought of a plan that would be called crazy. However, this plan was so crazy it might actually be logical. I immediately went down that monster's mouth, and down its gullet, although my descent is slowed by its digestive muscles, pulling me down slowly. Although muffled, I could hear the calling out to me, and attack with more haste, thinking that I was done for. However, I managed to find the exact spot where the heart was, due to the loud beating, and when the beating was so loud that it sounded close, I immediately used all my strength to cut a way through the muscle and bone that stands in my way, and then managed to find ground to stand on, as I continued to hack through the body of the monster from the inside, slashing through almost every organ I could see, finishing up by bisecting the huge heart of the monster with a strong slash, before I cut my way through outside, being pushed out of the body by a torrent of blood, covering me head to toe with its blood. Behind me, the Freakish was dying as its skin begin to pale into a white colour, as its head swayed left and right, before landing on the ground, dead from blood loss.
By then, I was flooded by emotions. I was both scared and excited at the same time. I, a slightly strong teen with only a good sword and shield., managed to finsih off a Freakish, the very bane of Jace Riders himself. That was also the source of my fear as that experience was too close of a call for me, as I swore I was about to feel Death's cold touch on me. I was panting with exhaustion and fright, as Fuxi rushed to me.
"Oh my lord!" Fuxi exclaimed. "You alright?"
I could barely hear his voice, as there was ringing in my ears, as I tried to pull myself back to reality after the impossible action I did. I could swear that somehow, it wasn't me who killed the Freakish, but someone using my body to kill it, like I was possessed by some bushido master and went all kick-a** on that snake.
"Do you have... anything to wash this off?" I replied, still in shock.
Hunt heard my reply, and gave me a towel. Thank the magical 3DS for its hammer-space storage system. I immediately rubbed myself down, until the towel was drenched blue, and then threw it back at Hunt with might, and he catches it and stuffed it back into the 3DS.
"Thanks... I guess..." I muttered.
"You... killed the Freakish?" Jace asked in awe.
"Don't get me wrong. Even I'm in shock at what I done. I literally killed the very thing that made you shake with fear and give you nightmares." I replied.
"Fair enough." He said.
I sheathed my still-drenched weapon onto my back, putting it behind the hammer-space backpack.
"Now what were you going to ask?" I asked.
"What is the Darkness you're talking about, when you said it was the one that trapped us here?" Hunt questioned.
I sighed. This is going to a b***h of a question to answer.
"Alright, I'll tell you everything. from how I know you to what the Darkness is." I replied. "But let us sit down first. I'm all out of steam after that fight."
The four of us sat down, and I began my tale...
"You see, Jace and Hunt, I live in the Real World too, but a different one. Do you know what the multiverse is?" I explained.
"I heard of it from a lecture. It's a collection of universes. Never was proven true though." Hunt replied.
"Well, about those Smash Characters you met? They're in the same Universe. Just different dimensions, like the 9 realms of Norse Mythology. I and Fuxi, however, are from a different universe entirely. My world is basically the nexus point that connects all the universes of the multiverse together. And the reason? You're all fictional beings created in another universe. In my universe, anyone you met, Link, Mario, Bowser, they're all fictional beings that exist as entertainment."
"What!?" Jace yelled,raising his arms in disbelief and anger. "So you're telling us... we're figments of imagination, form some boy's mind!?"
"Not entirely." I calmly continued. "You see, in some way, WE'RE the one that inspire new universes, making new games, stories, cartoons and animes. The Creator builds them, and seperates them from us, so that reallity and fantasy never mix. In one world, Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom exists, and in another, the land of Hyrule and legends of the Links exists, and so on. Simply, everything you watched is a account of all adventures made in that universe, including your struggle to save reality and Nintendo World."
"That explains why Nintendo characters suddenly pop into our world due to a magical 3DS." Jace said. "But that doesn't explain how you know us."
I pulled out my own Iphone 6, which somehow is linked to the net, and used Safari to show them the Epic Networks page in
"Observe." I stated, as I turned the phone around, as I showed them the very first story to introduce them, "NX Worlds - Super Smash Bros 3D". They scrolled through the chapters of the story, their expressions becoming more and more bewildered as they read on. I couldn't blame them, after all, considering the 4th wall, this very experience could be a damn story for all I know, and no-one would accept that their whole life is a story.
"See what I mean? Your powers only exist to be used as a plot device for people to enjoy, as you, a ordinary teen with a few powers, strive to save the world. It's so much of a cliche that if there is no other elements, the story would be dead in the water. Same goes for me. You think you're the only protagonist in this multiverse, get in line. Allow me to introduce some of the best protagonists in the multiverse."
I took the phone back, and then switched the link to the one that leads to Sir Areis Lionheart's page, and then clicked a random story in his stash, and showed them a chapter of the story, and Jace and Hunt eagerly read the chapter.
"Alex Vaughn. A man who has come be known as the young commander of the Alpha Command, of the Terminators Army. Ever since his childhood, he has come to known war, and experience its pains and thrills. You think military commanders are great, then you'll be shocked at his feats. He's a young man in his 20s, yet his tactical genius and military skill outshine even all the commanders in human history combined together. He's been to other universes like me. Hell, he even made childish idols like Pokemon and Jazz Jackrabbit look like commanders that will send any army straight to hell, even when its 1 against 10000000. He defeated many armies, destroyed a evil dictator who turned the public against him, and still, he faces the threats of otherworldly threats of the Gears of Wars Reapers, even though he must fight his friends controlled by the enemy."
I then waited for them to finish the chapter, before loading the story "The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest" by AurachannelerChris, sending them once again to a random chapter for them to gaze upon the power of the protagonist.
"Chris, a hero that has friendships with the Nintendo characters so great that you would envy him. He is a ordinary teen that is sent to the world of Nintendo, but unlike you, his goal is to stop Tabuu, not just the Nintendo villians. He uses a wide variety of transformations and powers to overcome his opponents, and has a caring heart for all his friends, and determination to protect all those innocent down to his last breath. Oh, how I wished that I could ally with him. Unfortunately, back then, I was locked within the bounds of reality, and was only a foolish dreamer."
I then turned my phone to standby, and put it back into my hammerspace backpack, and then turned to them, with a wishful gaze.
"And then there's you two. Jace Riders and Hunter Long. You two are both young men from the real world, and although less powered than Chris, the great hero of Nintendo, you still seek to fight for peace and your world, which warms my heart seeing you two being almost like brothers. You now fight in both the real world and the Nintendo world, seeking to find the source of all this trouble, and end the conflict. You are both truly human, yet you fight like a true hero. That is why I respect you two."
Jace and Hunt were in awe after my speech.
"Then what are you?" Hunt asked, still in awe.
"Me? Well, I'm Richard Liu, obviously! I live in the real world, reading all your adventures and more, and becoming a good part of the society. Unfortunately, I found life a bit boring, and the result, I get to become a saviour of the multiverse. It's a cliché, but hey, at least I can get to meet some famous characters like you, and save the multiverse. If you think I plan on having a harem, then you're deluded. My love will remain untouched until the day I become a mature man. The Creator I so speak of is the very god that is the source of all creation. Formless in reality, but in her physical form, she's a beauty. I haven't asked if she has a husband that acts as her opposite, like the Destroyer. Either way, so far, I met Link in the time of the Great Hyrule War, and fought it, earning a early victory by defeating Cia before he can open the Gate of souls. It was no thanks to the Darkness, which is too formless, but can possess and corrupt beings with more power, and their aim is to turn this entire multiverse into nothingness. It's scary, but they are repelled twice. Once in Hyrule, and once in Sonic's timeline. I met Sonic's son, Toni, who bears both Excalibur and Shahra, and sent the Time Eater and both Eggmans present and past back to whatever limbo they crawled from, and that leads to now, where I am with you in some unknown dimension that is yet to be found."
"So that's what the Creator is..." Hunt pondered
"...And that's what the Darkness is, and why you know us well." Jace finished off Hunt's words. What good timing!
"Either way, we won't be able to get out of here just sitting on your tush, so it's time we search this place, and go our separate ways, before our villians find us." I suggested.
"Good idea. Let's move before the Darkness you just told us come..." Jace replied, shivering as he mentioned 'The Darkness'.
And so, we moved from the ruins, into a new adventure. And not in that stupid cliché way.
A/N: And so, Richard's story is summarized and expanded by this chapter. Disclaimers to AurachannelerChris and Sir Areis Lionheart, as I have mentioned your characters. I do not own Alex Vaughn or Chris, so please do not go and sue me for misuse of characters. Head to Epic NX's (Epic Networks) profile, to see the next chapter of the story come into action.
UPDATE! 10/05: Due to a few errors I made, Chapter 3 is being rewrote. Sorry for the trouble, but I cannot cause trouble for Epic NX by creating a fake history for him.