OK, we're just about done this mess, so let's get to it.
Let's rock this joint!
/
Running, Liz and Tsubaki quickly followed Black Star and Death all the way to the TARDIS. Out of distance, both out of breath, unable to speak; they only can think about why Black Star and Death are here. Tsubaki hearing them, Black Star with his back at Death asked, "So what do these guys want with this thing?"
"I'm not sure?" replied Death raising his hand into the air preparing to strike, "But I know what I'm going to do with it."
Maka: "I'm going to see what happens if I give Hitler even more of an inferiority complex!"
Swiftly, Death dropped his hand towards Black Star's head. With an hair away for Death's hand ramming into Black Star's skull, a force pushed Black Star out of the way from the attack. Black Star's surrounding moving slowly around him noticing that the force that pushed him is Tsubaki. He also notices that the hand is to fast for Tsubaki to get out of the way. Death rammed his hand onto Tsubaki's spine and slamming her to the ground creating a crater with cloud of dust surrounding it.
Black Star landing on his feet remains motionless waiting for the cloud to vanish. With him watching the cloud disappearing, he sees Tsubaki lying in the creator, motionless. Running to her, Black Star keeled down to check on Tsubaki. Trying not to cry, Black Star quietly said, "Tsubaki."
Both: *stunned silence*
Maka: …I will fucking destroy you.
"Oh, to sad." Death mocked, "Just look at the bright side…forget it their is no bright side your just going to die."
Death again raised his hand into the air, preparing to attack. Before he could strike, a fist punched him in the back. A powerful push flew Death into the air hearing a person shouting behind him, "Soul Force!"
Flying and crashing into the second floor's wall on his back, Death sees that it was Stein was the one who attacked him, however Stein is not alone. "Liz are you alright?" asked Kid while looking at Tsubaki.
Crona: Why are you worried about her? She wasn't the one who was critically injured!
Sad, Liz replied, "Yeah but I don't know about Tsubaki."
The Doctor examining Tsubaki in her condition, while Black Star hold her in his hands. Death crashed on the ground but he quickly is able to stand back up. Liz in confusion shouted, "But why would Lord Death do this?"
"That's not Death." Stein instantly replied.
Maka: No shit, Sherlock!
"Wait a minute, what are you saying?"
Still examining Tsubaki, Doctor added, "If he was Death than this city wouldn't be here since this town is his soul. He was just replace with the only person that knows about TriParadox Theory, the same person who is capable of doing it, the same person who gave me these necklaces when this ever happen! Right…Master?"
"So you figured me out so quick, good work Doctor." sarcastically said the Master.
Maka using her Soul Perception sees the Master's large, crimson soul that beating like a heart. She compares his soul to the Doctor's and comments to herself, "Their souls are about the same size, as though they are equals."
Crona: Size doesn't matter, you know.
Maka: …
Crona: …what?
Maka: Nothing…
"Bla…Black Star." Tsubaki said barely with her coughing blood.
"Don't talk, save your energy." angrily said the Doctor.
Seeing Black Star with watery eyes, Amy asked the Doctor, "See will be alright? Right Doctor?"
The Doctor being silent, continue to examine Tsubaki. The Master being calm said, "You know much as I do Doctor that she'll die.
Maka: As much as I hate to admit it, I wouldn't be surprised, since this author just loves unnecessary drama!
"Shut up." The Doctor said.
"I'm surprised that a weak human like her can survive that attack."
"Shut up."
Both: What he said!
"Well no matter she'll only live only about a few hours."
"Shut up!" The Doctor screamed.
"Am I wrong?"
Being silent, the Doctor said nothing. "As I thought, I mean after all that is what a Grim Reaper does, kill."
Crona: How generically evil of you to say…
"Shut up!" Kid yelled, "Not only I won't forgive you for hurting a friend but you have no right to disgrace my father's name for your actions!"
"Really? When I knew Death he enjoyed killing people."
"Wait? How do you knew my father?"
Maka: Yeah, how about you actually try explaining something this time?
Crona: You know we're not going to like whatever explanation he gives, right…?
Maka: At this point, I just want something that makes sense!
"You haven't told them Doctor?" asked the Master looking at the Doctor, "Well this will be an story for you all. About 900 years ago when traveling between universes was easy, the man that stands before you killed a person in order to protect me. Than after that Death showed up to the Doctor to be his apprentice but he refused and instead suggested me to be his disciple. Death agreed and thereon I became Death's pupil. Irony don't you say Doctor, if it wasn't for you none of this would've happen. I wouldn't met Eidon, Asura, nor would I have gain a body."
Maka: …Crona, do you ever hate being right?
Crona: Every time…
"What do you mean 'gain a body'? Stein interrupted.
"Well I was just a soul wonder around the Void."
"The Void?" Soul asked.
"The third universe needed to make the TriParadox Theory to work but that universe is also called Hell." explained the Doctor.
Maka: Well, if it means everyone's going to get eaten by Sauron, I say go for it!
"Right you are Doctor!" cheerfully shouted the Master, "Thanks to that human Medusa,
Crona: Witch.
Maka: Except spelt with a "B" instead of a "W".
she was able to make the TriParadox Theory come true. She believed that Death City would be destroyed but in reality it was just a way for me to gain a body."
"Why a witch like a Medusa work for you." Maka furiously asked.
Maka: Because she's as generic a character as you, Blandy McStupid!
"How does the Cybermen even come into play in all of this?" the Doctor asked.
"Well that witch needed to believe that she's going to have an army." calming said the Master, "Until you showed up Doctor, I was going to use them to conqueror a few worlds but since the TARDIS is here I don't need them anymore."
Crying, Amy yelled, "So everything you did, hurt are friends, kill off millions of people for you robot army so you can just toss them away, destroy our homes so you can your 'body'!"
Thinking for a moment, the Master replied, "Yes. Now excuse me I need to…"
"Shut up you bastard." Maka angrily said with her fist clutched, "Because of you, Soul would have never been in bed and Tsubaki wouldn't have being dieing because of you.
Maka: Way to show lack of preference, Blandy!
Soul."
"Yeah." Soul acknowledged by turning into a Death Scythe for Maka to use.
'Liz, Patty!" Kid demanded.
Both Liz and Patty turn into guns with Liz saying, "I can't believe we're doing this."
"Since I'm a Grim Reaper, prepare to be judged for the actions you have committed!"
Marie turned into a hammer for Stein to wield. Marie than said, "Now I'm a teacher at this school which means that I'm going to protect my students but also punish anyone who hurts them."
"I have to agree with my partner." replied Stein.
"Doctor, Amy; look after Tsubaki." Black Star said with his head down, "You going to die bastard. You hurt Tsubaki and I won't allow you to hurt anymore of friends! When I kill you, I'll see you the afterlife and kill you their as well."
Crona: …wait, is Black*Star saying he's going to kill himself? That's…depressing…
The Master looking at all Meisters and weapons who are about to fight him, only laughed. He continues to laugh, and laugh, laugh, laugh.
Maka: OK, we get it, he thinks this is funny. Move on.
Annoyed, Maka yelled, "Whats so funny?"
The Master stopped than responded, "I'm just enjoying that tools who say I discard tools I don't need and yet their tools for the Doctor."
Everyone confused in what the Master means, he continue to say, "I mean who was the one who told you what was going on, the one who gave you those necklaces, the one who send you to fight, the one who gave away his friend to Death? You see reality is that we're all tools of the Doctor. He controls when you live and die, right Doctor?"
Maka: Oh, great, time for the failure of a Hannibal Lecture.
"That's not true, he saves people." Amy said.
"If that's true than how people died just being around the presence of the Doctor."
Amy is silent. "You see the truth is Doctor your like me who tosses tools away when they have no purpose anymore and I think your going to allow more tools to be tossed when this is all over. Speaking of tools."
Crona: As indignant speeches go, I've heard better…
Hearing footsteps, Doctor and Amy turned around to see the Cybermen marching in three straight lines heading right towards them. Kid looking at the line called out, "Damn it! We can't fight this guy and them at the same time."
"Don't worry about them; me and Amy will handle them." The Doctor said.
Surprised Amy immediately asked, "How exactly are we going to 'handle them'?"
"Yeah…I'm working on that."
Maka: Well, they're screwed.
Crona: To say the least…
Everyone prepare to attack, with the Master shouting in the air, "It's dinner time!"
Crona: So…he's going to eat them?
Maka: Apparently.
Authors Notes:
I'm going to get a lot of hate mail for this.
Maka: Gee, I can't imagine why! It's not like you essentially killed one of our friends for no reason!
Black Star from behind throws a punch and Kid from the front fires his guns at the Master. Both attacks are blocked by the Master unleashing multiple black, skull shaped shadows surrounding his body. The Master immediately counterattacks against Black Star by fickly his fingers and sending him flying into the air. Stein dropping from above, about to slam the Master using the flat surface of the hammer, instead Stein slammed his hammer on the ground for the reason of that the Master step aside rather quickly. Than again from behind, Maka swigged her scythe in the bright glowing form of Witch Hunter, a technique sharper than a sword, at the Master. The Master not only stopped Witch Hunter dead in its tracks but also shattered it into little pieces and turning it back into its normal form just by using his hand as a shield.
Crona: …definitely seen better fight scenes before…
Maka rolled in front and out of the Master's range of attacks too roll next too both Kid and Stein. Annoyed, Kid grunted, "Damn it, not only he's using my father's body but he also has the same skills as him."
"If that's the case than a change of tactics will be necessary." said Stein.
"Whatever, it only means that Witch Hunter isn't enough." Maka said angrily.
"So we're going to use that technique?" asked Soul.
"Yes we are Soul."
Both Soul and Maka shout at the same time, "Genie Hunter!"
Maka: UGH! Oh God, no! No! God, if you're going to use that, call it Majinn Hunter! Just…Genie Hunter? UGH.
"Delete!" shouted all the Cybermen shooting at the Doctor, Amy, and Tsubaki who are hiding behind the TARDIS.
"Doctor, I think now is good time to fight them!" yelled Amy.
"Fight them?" puzzled the Doctor, "We're not going fight them, we're going to run and distract them from everyone else."
"How are going to do that in her condition?"
The Doctor looked at Tsubaki to reply, "Your right. Forget that plan…ha…we can't fight them and we can't run from them. Custard."
Maka: …I'm just going to ignore that terrible attempt at a quirky curse word.
"So how are we going to…" said Amy before she is stopped by a massive headache.
The Doctor seeing Amy with her hand on head in agonizing pain, he examines her head and asking, "Amy, what's happening to you?"
Yelling, Amy responded, "I don't know."
Crona: She probably realized how confusingly stupid this fic was and got the same kind of headache we got…
"Soul are you ready?" Maka asked.
Sitting at a piano wearing a black tuxedo, Soul replied, "Of course."
Tapping his fingers, pressing on the white keys, dark sounds bouncing off between the chords, Soul playing a dark song using the piano inside the Black Blood. The resonance of the dark song increased the soul's link between Soul and Maka, turning the scythe into the Witch Hunter than becoming an executioner's ax shape like weapon, Genie Hunter.
Maka: A hundred times UGH!
Witnessing the weapon's formation, the Master replied, "Uh that looks like something that can kill me?"
"Don't you ignore me bastard!" screamed Black Star jumping behind the Master with a fist ready to strike.
Forming a yellow barrier, the Master stopped Black Star throwing his punch. Shattered, the barrier is destroyed by Black Star's soul channeling through his fist. Black Star grinned landing on the ground while the Master turn to face him with an agitated face. "You're a pretty loud tool." The Master said.
Black Star vanished, Master surprised wonder what just happen, hears Maka yelling behind him. Quickly looked, Maka is feet away from slicing him using Genie Hunter. Realizing this, Master unleashed a bolt of blue lighting channeling through his body, blocking Genie Hunter acting like a sword. Maka putting all of her strength into breaking through the Master's lighting, the Master however replied, "Oh no I'm done for what should I do. Oh wait your noise is nothing like my drums."
Crona: I'd ask if he's ever going to explain that drums thing, but that won't end well in any scenario…
Maka: You mean either they don't explain or we won't like the explanation?
Crona: Exactly.
The Master shattered Genie Hunter than he closed his fist and ready to punch Maka. Before he could, Black Star grabbed Maka and took her with him out of the Master's range next to Stein and Kid. All surprised, Marie remarked, "Stein how can a man like him able to block Genie Hunter?"
"Because right now he's a grim reaper." Stein replied.
"I'm no grim reaper, tool." said Master, "I'm a time lord."
Maka: Because that's so much more powerful and all…
"Amy listen to me, hear my voice." The Doctor said panicking.
"Doctor what's hap…in…ing?" cried Amy.
The Cybermen marching closer, Tsubaki pleaded gushing out blood, "You two…leave."
"I can hear it." Amy said.
"No we're not leaving you!" Doctor angrily shouted.
"I can hear your soul Doctor." Amy said calming, without feeling any pain.
Marching closer. "What are you talking about."
Marching closer. "I think this what Maka was talking about."
Marching closer. "What are talking about Amy."
Marching closer, Amy began to glow and glow becoming an orb of light. She continues to transform into something, an object. The Doctor took the object in his hands wondering what's happening.
Maka: …oh you can't be fucking serious…
Marching stopped, Tsubaki and the Doctor are surrounded by Cybermen all saying, "Delete."
"Way, way, way, wait a minute!" shouted the Doctor. "Do you know who I am?"
One Cyberman replied, "You are the Doctor."
"Yes that's right and that's right I'm giving you a choice, leave now and don't bother anyone else on this world ever again or you'll have to deal with me."
"You have no power to make demands, prepare to be deleted."
"Before you do that, there are two things you should know about me, one never trapped a group of people into a corner. Two, never trapped a group of people into a corner with me in it!"
Crona: If it didn't work the first time, it wouldn't suddenly work now…
The Doctor lifts his hand into the air pointing a sonic screwdriver at the Cybermen however this screwdriver is different than his other one. This screwdriver is long, black, with a crimson light blinking at the tip of it. It's Amy, as a weapon like Soul, Tsubaki and Marie. The Doctor used the screwdriver, shutting down each Cyberman one at a time. All the Cybermen around them are no longer moving nor saying anything. "What did you do?" asked Amy in screwdriver mode.
"Don't worry, I just turn them off." Doctor replied, "However you on the other hand become a sonic screwdriver…more powerful than mine. I guess the merge did more to you than just amnesia."
Maka: …*head meets tray*
Crona: …so, what was all that about essentially staying the same despite being in another world? Or are we just ignoring that now?
Doctor hears more Cybermen marching towards them. The Doctor asked, "Okay Miss Pond ready to take all the Cybermen and protect Tsubaki from them?"
Amy gleefully said, "Of course."
"So what now?" asked Kid to everyone else.
"I don't know." replied Maka than asked Soul, "Hey Soul, what did he mean his 'drums' is louder."
Soul replied, "I hear his soul's wavelength. It's loud ongoing sound of four beats and those beats have never been stopped in a very long time."
Crona: …that's just lame.
Lightning channel through his body, hands conducting the lighting, covering and surrounding his body of lightning; the Master spoke calming, "Doctor's tools, your noise is nothing compare to the sounds of war, sounds of agonizing pain, the sounds of madness itself." The Master lifted his hand towards the Meisters, "The sounds of a warrior that tell me to kill, kill, kill, kill you!"
Lighting soared though his hand and moving at incredible speed at the Meisters. All of them jumped away from the explosive impact in all different directions. Black Star charged at the Master and screaming "Shut up! Your just annoying bastard with a god complex!"
Maka: …let's just leave that one alone.
Crona: Yeah…
Black Star jumped in the air with fist ready to strike however the Master stopped and attack him with his lightning. "Like you're the one to talk, tool." Master replied.
Watching Black Star falling to the ground, Liz asked, "Hey Kid, what do we do now?"
Kid just sign, only to think, "What do we do? Genie Hunter doesn't work and his attacks keep on blocking us and attack us at the same time. With all that, not only his he fighting in a grim reaper body but he's also fighting with his skills from his world. This fight seems impossible to win."
Noticing a light glowing behind him, Kid turn around to see the familiar cracked wall on a side of house. Liz seeing the crack, confused she asked, "Hey Kid, what is that thing?"
Patty laughed and yelled, "Hey it's that weird looking smile!"
Maka: …you know what? If you're going to make Patty like that, just don't have her talk anymore. That would actually be preferable.
"Smile?" shocked Kid.
Remembering what everyone said, Kid looking back in what Soul said, 'just smile Kid. And don't worry; your dad will be alright' and what the Doctor said, 'only thing you need to know about it is that you never get to close to it or otherwise that crack will remove you from existence' connected the dots. Turning to all the Meisters, Kid shouted, "Guys I have a plan."
All the Meister's ran towards Kid including Black Star who quickly stood to his feet. Stein telling everyone, "Okay guys, we need Resonate souls with each other so that he doesn't hear us."
Everyone agreed than everyone merge their souls with each other forming a soul larger than their own and equal to the Master's.
Maka: That's not how Soul Resonance works, dammit!
Communicating thought the Souls, Stein asked, "So Kid what is your plan in defeating the Master."
"It's not complicated I just want you guys do one thing for me while I prepare for an attack." Kid said, "Can I can't on you guys?"
Crona: …was that even a question?
Maka: That almost looks like it was done on purpose!
"Who do you think you're talking to?" asked Black Star.
All the Meisters jumped in all different directions, Master confused. Both Stein and Black Star ran next both to Master's sides ready to strike. The Master stopped both of them with his lighting however they won't budge. Maka behind him, ready to swing the scythe downwards to slice him in halve. Again, the Master stopped Maka using his lighting. Looking at all three of them in pain, the Master marked, "That looks like it really hurts. We don't you just lay down like the tools you are?"
"Resonance stable, noise at 0.3%"
"This doesn't hurt one bit." remarked Black Star, "Especially when I felt worse pain when I saw a friend getting hurt by you!"
"Black Needles charge with Soul Wavelength"
Marie added, "Being a teacher I'll protect my students from people like you and people like you don't need to exist."
"Prepare to fire in five seconds."
Maka responded, smiling, "For a guy who says where nothing but tools. You sure depend on us don't you? And that's why we tools can beat our 'master'!"
Maka: "And by the way, we're the obvious distraction!"
"Fire!" shouted Kid, Liz, and Patty.
All the Meisters jumped away from the Master. An orb like missile instantly rushed towards the Master. Unable to block or escape, the missile impacted and exploded on his chest, blasting him through the air and crashing into a wall. The Master seeing all the Meisters standing next to Kid, the one who fired the missile with Death Canon. Smirking, Master said, "It takes a lot more than that to kill me."
"Who said killing you was our goal." Kid applied.
Shocked, the Master looked down to see that he is being engulfed by the strings of lights from the cracked wall he's laying on. Slowly the light dragged him into the cracked wall, only for him to laugh. The Master shouted, "You think you this will end everything? Me being…defeated…doesn't stop the merge. Once the merge is complete, I'll be back but I don't think most of your world isn't."
Crona: I'm sorry, I have no idea what you just said. Is there any chance you could form a coherent statement this time…?
The only thing left the light to dragged in is his mask, with him saying his final words, "Tell the Doctor, I win."
Maka: David Xanatos you most certainly ain't, pal.
Authors Notes:
Hope this is fight that everyone wishes, because I like it.
Maka: Like you would know what's good and what isn't…
Surrounded by the motionless Cybermen; Maka, Soul, Kid, Liz, Patty, Stein, Marie, and Black Star met up with the Doctor, Amy and Tsubaki. Black Star sat next to Tsubaki, trying to comfort her in her pain. Looking at her, Amy walked up to the Doctor in tears, "Is their anything you can do, at all."
Crona: Dramatic convenience says no.
Maka: Sucks to be her.
Silent, the Doctor sat down while trying to hide his sadness. Soul seeing the Doctor's expression of hopelessness, he suggested, "Hey, let's just leave those two alone and so you can stop this merge."
Still depressed, the Doctor responded, "I can't."
"What do you mean…you can't?" Amy asked, shocked.
"It means that I can't!" screamed the Doctor.
Maka: Again, they're screwed. Hope you guys enjoy non-existence!
Everyone looked at the Doctor in suspense, immediately Black Star angrily shouted, "How can you save that? Tsubaki gave her life to save and in return all you can say is that you can't?"
"Black Star." whispered Tsubaki, "Please calm down."
Crona: For someone who supposedly gave her life, she's being very talkative…
"We defeated the Master wouldn't that stop all of this?" shouted Maka.
"Did you forget Maka?" Kid explained, "His defeat doesn't mean anything since it isn't the cause for this, but according to you his existence should be erased since we used that crack of light so none of this shouldn't be happening."
Crona: …can you guys please stop giving such confusing dialogue? It only makes this worse…
"It doesn't work like that." the Doctor said, "The Master used the same crack to make this all this happen and not to mention on the other side of that crack at this moment is the void. Even it did erase him from existence the universe would cooperate to make sure everything he did still happen even if he isn't around to do it."
Realization, Liz asked, "Wait a moment, why don't we destroy those towers that's making this merge happening?"
"We can't do that either because those towers is in a forth dimension which we can't get too."
Marie walked up to the Doctor, picked him up by the bowtie than screamed at him, "So your saying is that everyone is gone forever and theirs nothing we can do about it? So everything we did up to this point is for nothing and we should've just let this merge continue to begin with!"
Maka: That sounds about right. Nice to know this entire story was utterly pointless.
"No…of course not." the Doctor replied.
Bam, Marie slap him, slamming him too the ground. "Don't tell me what you can't do!" screamed Marie, "We're not some tools who wait around to see what happens. Maybe you gave up, doesn't mean I have to."
Maka: Uh…not to complain, because I always enjoy seeing Professor Marie slap people around, but…that really didn't make any sense.
She began to walk away from everyone but she stopped by Stein's words, "How exactly are you going to stop this Marie?"
"I don't know but anything betters than doing nothing!"
"And so right your are." The Doctor announced while getting back to his feet, "It's not over yet and your right, we gotta do something right. Okay, theirs something I'm missing but what is it that I'm missing, come on think. What did the Master say?"
Maka thinking, she said, "Well that only talked about how where just a bunch of tools."
"And also he talk about his never ending drum beat." added Soul.
"That's nothing new." commented the Doctor, "Those drums of been…"
The Doctor stopped; everybody looked at him in confusion. Than he shouted in exciement, "Of course how can I miss that, it's so obvious."
Crona: …there it is again. That feeling that I'm not going to like where this is going…
Maka: I know exactly what you mean…
"What is it?" asked Amy, "What's so obvious?"
"All these universes are being pulled in by a common frequency and we have to do is separate the differences of the universes and block out the common frequency."
"I don't get it." said Black Star.
"Okay I'll put it in these words, all the universes are the water inside the cup and we're breaking that cup."
Crona: That analogy still doesn't make any sense…
"Okay but how are we going to 'break that cup'?" asked Soul.
"Amy, Kid remember the song we heard in the TARDIS?"
"Yes." Amy replied.
"I heard it but no else did though." Kid applied.
"They didn't hear because they don't have hears like us
Crona: …wow.
Maka: I agree.
but the point is that it's not music but actually the frequency that's been combining these worlds together and we're going to do is stop that frequency."
"Okay but how?" puzzled Amy.
"Right now, theirs too many frequencies going on because the merge is creating many frequencies; most notably the Cybermen. You see we have to do is cut off the Cybermen's frequency so I can find and isolate the main frequency with the TARDIS."
"How are you going to cut off the Cybermen's frequency?" asked Kid.
"We're going to use the Madness Manipulation Machine for that."
"You can't be serious?" Maka demanded.
Maka: Sadly, he clearly is. There's clearly no downside to this.
"But I can't do it, so Stein I need you to do it for me since you know how to dissect things."
Maka: Oh, even better! Have the person who's apparently still struggling with the madness be nearby while it's going on! What could possibly go wrong there?
"What exactly do you need to dissect in order to make this work?" asked Stein.
"A Cybermen. More accurately you need to wire a living Cybermen to the Madness Manipulation Machine along with one of our necklaces. But the bad news is that the person that the Cyberman replaced properly won't come back."
Marie in anger said, "What your saying is that we have to…"
Black Star interrupted Marie; he pulled out necklace likes theirs out of this pocket and said, "I know the perfect Cyberman we can use."
Maka: Wait…so Medusa really will be dead this time?
Crona: Apparently…
Maka: WOOHOO! *gets up, starts dancing and singing* Ding dong, the bitch is dead, which old bitch? The wicked bitch…
Crona: Those aren't the same lyrics…
Maka: No, but they are appropriate!
"Were did that come from?" asked Liz.
"Hold on, you say that you can't do it, why?" Kid asked the Doctor.
"Well in order for me to isolate the frequency I need to go back to my universe and compare the frequencies between our worlds." explain the Doctor, "Even then the only thing I can do is finding it; one person has to jam it from its original source."
Amy confused, asked, "Where is the original source?"
The Doctor looking at the cracked wall across the street, he said, "In the Void."
"But wouldn't the person who goes in there won't existence anymore?" worried Liz.
"Yes but the necklaces will keep you safe, just not for a long time though." expressed the Doctor.
"Then I'll do it." Soul said pointing to himself with his thumb.
Maka: …wait, what?
Crona: …
In shock, Maka sadly said, "What? Soul you can't."
"Why not?" angrily said Soul, "This frequency is just like a song isn't? I'm the only person here who can stop it; all I'll have to do is use my black blood. Doctor, just tell me what I have to do."
Maka: *sits down* So, not only do you kill off Tsubaki for no reason, you're going to have Soul wiped from existence for the sake of a Heroic Sacrifice? I...I can't even find the words to describe how much I want you to DIE!
Hesitating, the Doctor replied, "Just listen for the frequency and stop it by with the same frequency."
"What, theirs no way I'll let you go in there." cried Maka.
"Stop it Maka! I'm your weapon and I'm going to protect you no matter what even it's going into another world and play some song!"
Crona: …you know, when he says it out loud like that, it sounds even more stupid than it already is.
The Doctor looking at his wristwatch, said, "Okay we don't have a lot of time, we better do this now. Amy with me."
The Doctor tossed his sonic screwdriver to Stein saying, "Just point and press."
The Doctor entered the now fully powered TARDIS with Amy entering behind him angrily. Amy shouting at the Doctor, "You're just going to let him go on like this?"
Without saying anything, the Doctor flipped some levers, making the TARDIS shake. "He's giving up his life!" screamed Amy.
Maka: And yet everyone except Blandy McStupid appears to be OK with this. Did I mention that I want this author dead?
Outside, everyone watched the TARDIS disappear leaving behind flurry of winds. Stein turning his head to Black Star asked, "So Black Star, where is this Cyberman we can use."
Black Star looking at Tsubaki said, "It's the one in the Death Room."
Tsubaki demanding Black Star, "Black Star…we're going with them."
"No way! I'm not letting you move from this spot."
"The Doctor said that we needed…the Cyberman alive. And we're going to hold it…down while Professor Stein can do what…he needs to do."
"But Tsubaki…"
"This is going to be my final performance Black Star…and I want you to be there with my…on stage."
Maka: …I'd find that really touching if I wasn't so pissed off at Tsubaki having to die for no real reason.
Crona: How is she dying, anyway…?
Maka: I have no idea. Maybe she's infected with a soap opera disease. Who knows?
Black Star cried, looking at them, Soul replied, "Keep her safe Black Star and I'll stop this by playing Beat Four."
Kid hearing what Soul just said, he remembers his conversation earlier with the other Soul. Instantly, Kid said, "Play Verse Three instead Soul."
Confused, Soul asked, "Why Verse Three?"
Kid replied, "Three's more of an even number."
Maka: You mean "symmetrical". There is a difference. In one case, this makes sense. In the one you're using, it doesn't!
"Hold on Kid, what are you exactly are we going to do?" asked Liz.
"Well the Cyberman are still running around in this town. We're going to distract them while everyone else does their parts."
"I think it's time for you to do that, we can't stand around here talking." said Stein.
"Right. Liz, Patty."
"Yeah, yeah." Liz acknowledged, turning into a gun.
"Okay." Patty said turning into a gun.
After Kid obtain his guns, he jumped in the air throwing a ball of light in to the ground. The ball of light turned into skateboard, which Kid landed on. The wheels powerful like jet engines, blasted into the air. Looking at Kid taking off, Stein said, "Black Star, just follow us while we make our way to the Death Room. We don't want Tsubaki getting into more pain than she is in now. Marie."
Marie turning into a hammer said, "Right."
Black Star picked up Tsubaki, with her under both of his arms. Stein ran off to the DWMA with Black Star following him. Maka and Soul stayed behind, watching them running off.
In the air, Liz worried asked Kid, "Kid, is what we're doing right?"
Confused, Kid said, "What do you mean?"
"I'm mean is that we're doing nothing more than just being bodyguards. Shouldn't we be helping the others?"
"We are helping Liz. It's hard to explain but it seems that all of this should happen the way it wants to be played out."
"Says who Kid?"
"Soul." Kid replied.
Crona: *yawns*
Maka: This is what happens when you don't sleep at night, Crona…
Crona: Th-That's not it…I always get like this when things get boring…
Kid looking, he sees rows of Cybermen marching through the streets. Shouting, Kid said, "Get ready, we're going in."
Later; the Death Room, Stein stared at the only static figure in the room, the one Black Star defeated. Not satisfied, worried Marie asked, "Are you sure this is the right thing to do?"
"Positive." Black Star unemotionally said.
Tsubaki said, "Black Star…I'm ready."
"That's good." commented Stein, "Because it's coming."
The figure like the others is being replaced with a Cyberman. Agony, Tsubaki painfully turned into a black sword for Black Star to wield. Crying, Black Star shouted, "Shadow Star!"
Tons of long tentacles popped out from Black Star's shadow. Wrapping themselves with it's arms, legs, head, and stomach, the tentacles captured the Cyberman; hanging it flat and spread out in the air. Stein pulling out a scalpel, walked next to the Cyberman saying, "It's time to dissect you."
In the streets, Soul and Maka standing a distance from the cracked wall, witnesses Kid dodging all the lasers shooting at them from the Cyberman.
Maka: …*head meets tray*
Crona: It's the jumping around again, isn't it…?
Maka: Yes.
Without seeing Kid anymore since he hid behind the buildings, Maka looked at Soul with an angry look. Soul in the corner of his eye sees Maka's face, took a step back fearing her. "H…hey don't look at me like that." Soul said scared.
"No!" Maka yelled, "I just don't understand why you have to sacrifice yourself!"
"Because Maka if I don't than everyone from our world will be gone forever, do you want that to happen?"
"Of course not but why does it have to be you?"
"Man, you're one big idiot. It's because like Tsubaki I'm the only one who can do it at the time. Besides I don't want that jerk of a Master too win."
"Than that's the case than as your Meister I'll join you."
"And as your weapon I don't want you to come! Anyone who goes in their, don't come back and I don't want that happen to you."
"But Soul…"
Maka being interrupted, Soul flicked Maka's forehead. "You idiot. You're the coolest partner and you don't know when to give up. Besides someone as to keep your father in his place." Soul sign.
Soul ran to the cracked light, jumping in. Shocked, feared, Maka yelled, "Soul!'
Maka: …Crona, I want you to understand something.
Crona: Y-Yes?
Maka: You're one of my best friends…but if you ever do something like that to me, especially after delivering such a terrible goodbye like that, I will kick your ass. Got it?
Crona: Y-Yes…
Maka: Good.
Circuits connecting between the chest of the Cyberman, the necklace inside the Cyberman, and the Madness Manipulation Machine; Stein completed the project. Marie looking the equipment, she asked, "So is this going to work."
Lighting a cigarette, Stein replied, "Hopefully."
Confused, Black Star said, "So how do you turn it on?"
Stein pulled out the sonic screwdriver that the Doctor gave him, "With this."
He pointed the screwdriver at the Cyberman and pressed the button. The device turned on, a blue beam of light shot into the air with acting like a transmitter. Outside the Death Room, the Cybermen become transparent, unmovable, unthinkable figures standing motionless. Kid stopped moving around seeing the Cybermen, not doing anything. "Looks like they did it" Liz applied.
"Not yet." Kid added.
The Doctor messing around with the controls, sees on the monitor that the frequency of the Cyberman is cut off. Rejoicing, the Doctor shouted, "Way to go Frankenstein!"
Crona: …hey, do you think Professor Stein was based off of the monster, or the doctor?
Maka: Both, though the monster part is just cosmetic. …and now I'm picturing Professor Stein walking around going "Urgh, urgh!" a lot.
Crona: S-Sorry…
Maka: No, no, it's actually a pretty funny image…
Turning fowls, pulling levers, pushing buttons he locates the other frequencies and blocking them one by one. Seeing on the monitor, the Doctor located the main frequency fusing all the worlds together. Shouting, "Now front and center!"
Complete darkness, silent, nothing; Soul drift through the nothingness with eyes closed. In the Black Blood, at the piano he listens for the noise of the frequency. He hears it, raised his hands into the air and shouted, "Beat Four will take care of you."
Soul like a rock dropped his hands to slam the piano and play it. He stopped before he touched the keys, he listen again. Realizing, Soul said, "No that's not right. Verse Three will do instead."
Crona: It's not like that wasn't made clear enough times or anything…
The key pressed, the tone of the sounds poured out of neither of sadness nor madness rather the sounds of cheering. Faster the song went but not it didn't race the heart but rather calmed it. The higher notes didn't make a person scared but instead makes the soul feel warm.
Crona: …why is he trying to describe music? It never works…
The fast shaking, rough, hanging for life, the Doctor and Amy tried their best not to bounce around inside the TARDIS for their life depended on it. Slowly the TARDIS begins to calm down and calmer to the point where it moved motionless. Both Doctor and Amy stood up and looked around to see if anything is wrong. Amy looking at the Doctor asked, "So is it over?"
The Doctor walked towards the monitor and replied, "Lets see, the TARDIS still as power, the sun is a ball of gas, the moon doesn't have a face, theirs no detections of Cybermen, all stars are in the right place, but theirs only one way to find out."
Maka: Hey, that sounds pretty concrete to me! Story over! The end! Let us go home already!
The Doctor pulled a lever than the TARDIS again began to move. Amy puzzled asked, "Where are we going Doctor?"
Stopped, the Doctor ran outside with Amy following him out the doors to the middle of a hot, empty, desert. Amy just looked at the Doctor who he is looking at the ground while walking around. She asked him, "What is this place and what are you looking for?"
He responded, "This is the Nevada Dessert where Death City is supposed to be."
"Supposed to be?"
"Right, but everyone is all right if I can find…"
"Looking for this?" said a familiar voice holding out in their hand the Doctor's sonic screwdriver.
Kid, Liz, and Patty stood in front of the DMWA surrounded by fellow students and hearing people talking in the streets. Stein and Marie walked out of the DWMA meeting up with them and also Maka running up the stairs also meet them. Liz worried asked, "Is it all over?"
Maka: *facepalm* …I want that to be the last one…but it won't be, will it?
Crona: Knowing how lucky we are with these…
Maka: *groan*
Inside the Death Room, Tsubaki lied on the floor coughing out blood with Black Star crying holding her hand. "Come on Tsubaki, your spotlight isn't over yet." said Black Star, "You still got a crowd who's waiting for your performance."
Trying to speak, Tsubaki whispered, "Black Star…you're a good friend…can you tell my parents…"
"You tell them you're not going to die here."
"Tell them…I had the best friend in the world next…to me…so please don't…cry."
Tsubaki evaporated into the air like pedals blowing in the wind, leaving behind her soul. Black Star hugged the soul crying, saying, "Sorry Tsubaki."
Maka: …I really do need to get to making that hitlist.
Crona: I'll help.
The dessert, the Doctor grabbed his sonic screwdriver from Soul who is wearing a black tuxedo. Amy confused asked, "Soul, what are you doing here?"
Shrugging his shoulders, Soul said, "Well actually I'm not here, this is only an illusion of me."
"What are you talking about?"
"Well you see, I'm on the other side of that crack you see behind you and I'm just playing a song to communicate with you."
Amy and the Doctor turned to see the same radiating crack lying on the ground. Soul continued, "Like the Master, I used that thing to talk to Kid and tell him a few things that he might need to know, like telling him to make me play Verse Three."
Crona: So, he can send these "messages" through time…?
Maka: Sure, why not, I don't care anymore, just let this end!
"Not Maka or Black Star?" asked the Doctor.
"Well Maka would be angry and Black Star…he couldn't piece this together."
"Is that the reason your not talking to Maka instead of us?" asked Amy.
"Actually she completely forgot about me like everyone else. So there's no reason for me to talk to her since I shouldn't scare her.
Maka: Asshole.
Well this is goodbye and before I, Doctor for someone who is so smart you sure are an idiot."
Crona: I forget, is there a saying for this too…?
Maka: Yeah. "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".
Soul vanished before their eyes, Amy crying asked the Doctor, "We did he have to go Doctor? I told Maka that a guy who is willing to protect them is guy who's worth keeping around."
"That's not how it works Amy." applied the Doctor, "See Amy he didn't toss his life away but instead he let other lives to go on. I don't know his reason, maybe he just loved them and don't want them to see get hurt."
Black Star walked to the tombstone of Tsubaki and placed a camellia flower on her grave.
"Maybe he did it because he felt that what he should do."
Kid looked over Death City, putting on the same mask as his father.
"Or perhaps he did it so the next generation can grow up."
Marie waved her hand at the students running off to their homes.
"Than again he could have did it so the people he saved can also save people."
Maka: AGH! No more jumping! I can't take this shit anymore!
Crona: I-It'll be OK! We're almost done!
Black Star walked up to Crona who is looking at the moon.
Crona: …*head meets tray*
Maka: Wait, why is Black*Star going to meet with him?
Crona: I honestly don't think I want to know…
"Than again he might did it because is instinct told him to do so."
Maka looked up at the clear blue sky, crying for an unknown reason.
Maka: …*head meets tray*
Crona: …*reaches over, hugs Maka*
"Amy he didn't give up his life no quite contrary he saved people lives so they can live. In fact do you know what Verse Three is?"
"No." Amy replied.
"It's a song written in 2876, the three verses are family, friends, and love; the reasons to fight for."
END
Both: …*heads meet trays*
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The lights slowly came on as Crona and Maka rested their heads against their trays, both thankful that it's over and incredibly exhausted at the same time.
"Crona?" Maka mumbled.
Crona just gave a slight "Mm" in response.
"Are all the long ones this tiring?"
Crona looked up, chin resting on his tray. "W-Well…the Inuyasha one I told you about was longer than this…but I'm not sure if it was worse than this…"
Maka looked up as well. "Oh, I'm willing to bet it was, since, in addition to killing off one of our friends and wiping the other from existence for no good reason, it was just needlessly confusing from all fronts. It was only made more so by the terrible grammar, which he was supposedly correcting, and the lack of emotion on anyone's part."
She then sat up, stretching back while doing so. "Geez…feels like we've been here for days…"
Crona sat up as well, yawning in response.
Maka frowned, turning to face Crona. "Crona, seriously…"
He blinked. "U-Uh…s-sorry…"
"Crona, I'm not mad, I'm worried. You haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately. I have noticed, you know."
Crona looked down, giving a small nod. "Y-Yeah…"
Maka placed a hand on Crona's shoulder. "Crona, is something bothering you? Anything at all? Come on, you know you can tell me…"
Crona winced slightly, thinking about his bad dreams, and what the cause of them was. Should I tell her? I…I don't want to keep secrets from her anymore…not after all the things that happened every time I did. But…I'd have to bring that up again…I don't want to make her think about that…what do I do? What do I do?
He started shuddering, the frustration bubbling up inside of him to the point where he wanted to scream or cry or just run away. But he felt Maka move her hand to his other shoulder, wrapping her arm around his back, and he knew that he couldn't run. That he shouldn't run. Not anymore.
"Crona…?"
"…n…nightmares…I've been having nightmares…"
Maka wrapped her other arm around his front, pulling him closer to her in another hug. "What about…?"
"A-About you…and S-Soul…and…th…th…that."
Maka blinked, a frown coming over her face. He didn't have to go any further than that. She knew exactly what he was talking about. She leaned closer to Crona, resting her head on his shoulder, squeezing him gently.
"Listen to me, Crona." she whispered. "Soul would never do that to me. And if he or anyone else ever thought of doing that to me, I wouldn't let them. You know that, Crona. You know that."
"Y-Yeah…" he replied. "I do know that…really, I do…I just wish I could stop thinking about it…"
Maka felt Crona lean closer to her, and was thankful that he was starting to calm down a bit. And as the two of them stayed together, she gave a silent vow.
If I ever find you, whoever you are…I swear, I will end you for hurting Crona.
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Holy mother of God, glad that's done! Hopefully I won't have to do one that long for a while.
OK, next story is going to be a special one, and I really, really need you guys to come through for me. I need recommendations for stories specifically based on Soul. And I probably just told you why already.
Please note, that doesn't mean Soul has to be a part of a pairing or whatever. He just needs to be the focus. That said, do not pick a Maka/Soul fic just because that's the pairing. For what it's worth, I consider that pairing just as plausible as Crona/Maka. I just picked the latter because I like it. If you're going to send me a fic, send me one that's bad just because it's bad.
I have a couple of ideas as it is, but I'm still iffy on whether or not they'll work. So I really need your help with this.
Looking forward to your suggestions. See you soon!