Tales Of the Cosmic Wars!
Chapter 84: Rage Awakened! The Brutal Madness of Idious!
Last time, in Tales of the Cosmic Wars, Cloud and the others had just returned to learn of Ben's recent troubles from Moz and Aeris and were concerned about their friend. And their concern only magnified when they found out that the planet Kira sent Ben to, the world of Michtam seemed to have just been blown up! Even Kira did not seem to know Ben's fate, but his friends were not going to accept that was the end to our hero and began to search for him. However, just as they were about to begin, a new crisis emerged that diverted the attention of the entire order! As all of this has been going on, other Enji have been fighting against the combined Zeon and Space Pirate forces on the world of Taris under the command of the crazed Shi'ar commander Cal'syee Neramani-Summers, or Death Bird.
The Enji commanding the Lylat forces on this world were Enji Captains Eugene, Beatrix, Basch and an Enji who called this world his home, Rahm Kota. Just when the warriors of light prepared to make a device battle against Death Bird however, a new insane figure crashed the battle!
Although he had the symbols of the Zannacross Empire on his armor as well as its Advance cursed seal crystal all over him, he seemed to have only sworn allegiance to himself! His reasons for coming? Apparently just to fight and kill everything in his path!
The mad masked man quickly showed he had the power to support his fun as he blasted apart Lylat and Zeon forces alike with his partner in crime, the large and monstrous mega level Digimon dragon of destruction, Helldramon!
The Enji tried to protect the people of the planet from their opponents lust for death, but even four on one they could not even cut in to the man's tremendous power! It was only thanks to the sudden arrival of Basch's friend Balthier, that the raging demon was stopped in his tracks. But even having two warships fall right on him could not slow him down!
Realizing just how dire the situation was, Kota told the other Enji to leave him so they could warn the others, and after some debate, they reluctantly agreed.
With his comrades out of the way, Kota put everything he had on the line just as the masked man gave his name, Darth Idious.
With introductions given, Kota then gave something else, his most powerful attack, the Tri Beam!
Sadly, even though he put all his remaining magic and life-force energy into the blast. all it did was leave a large crater and give Idious a good laugh before he died! Idious gave his respect to Kota's brave attack by giving his own best attack. However, that was kind of a bad thing, because he then used his Final Flash energy beam to totally destroy the planet! It seems that the Enji have just been confronted with another deadly foe, who seems to have no sanity at all! And just how does this guy's fate intertwine with Ben's? Well, this is no time to take it slow, so let's get started!
Our chapter in fact begins just where we left off, back at the castle of darkness, Neo Pandemonium!
Yes, the demon most loyal to the supreme god of darkness has just finished transferring the souls that Idious' killed from the now destroyed world to feed into the seal of Chaos.
And as he finishes, he sees all four of his Inquisitors enter through the main doors. It seems while Damonus was satisfied about his new servants results, it would seem his other "helpers" are not as enthusiastic to find a new guy cutting into their work.
Damonus then turns to see Genesis, Nightmare, Ganondorf, Sigma, and Dr Robotnik all enter and bow, before Damonus says, "You may raise my fellow followers of the darkness. I did not summon you, why do you stand before me and the master?"
The former king of the Gerudo thieves is the first to rise and he says,"Lord Damonus, it seems some clown who has the power of darkness seeks to rival our ambitions. I was just on my way to destroy the world of Taris as ordered, when my own servant Kotake informed me it was already reduced to space dust!"
He then uses his own power to make an image appear on the flames in the shrine of Chaos to the left, and the image of Idious laughs madly, as he blows up the world with his Final Flash!
Sigma then stares at the screen for a moment before he turns to his boss and curiously says, Lord Damonus, shall we destroy this foolish clown who dares act as if he is one of us? Huh?"
The five villains are shocked when they see the robbed masked demon just chuckle evilly for a bit and responds with a wry,"There is no need for such acts, for I am well aware of this man's existence. And he is our newest enforcer of the dark side, Darth Idious."
Nightmare is at once on his feet and responds with a inquisitive," Darth Idious? This man is the successor to Xehamaru, to Darth Orchi? My master, how could you choose an unknown person to be the will of our god?"
Damonus just walks slowly to the throne in the back and responds with a scathing," I know you feel dishonored, Nightmare, but I assure you the reason I did not inform you all was because the creation of Darth Idious had been a delicate matter. Yes, it took a while to find, but this man has a deeper taint of darkness in his heart than even Xehamaru. However, it was only because of our supporter that this darkness was able to be shaped into our uses."
Genesis then looks amused and says, "Forgive me for my curiosity, but just who is this "supporter "that you have been mentioning for sometime now? If he is one of us, then why does he not show his face around here?"
Damonus rises his staff and says,"That answer is simple enough. The man who has been orchestrating Darth Idious's creation has been planning this for some time now. Yes, his ambitions even rivals those of you all. However our plans have moved along because of this man's unique position. Let's just say he can taint those with darkness where we can not, because of this.
In fact, he is a little too ambitious, but if he cannot know his limits, I will gladly burn them into him. However, thanks to his support, the time of reckoning for this rotten cosmos can come about even sooner!
Yes, it's time the Enji Knights learn that their futile pursuit of a fantasy, can only come ruin! And soon we shall carve an ending to this long war between light and darkness, and Darth Idious will be the one to begin the demise of that wretched order!"
Robotnik strokes his mustache and says,"You're entrusting this newcomer and this other guy to destroy the entire Enji order? Is it even possible?"
Nightmare then swings his Soul Crusher sword around and adds,"For once, I am aligned with the doctor, I ask that I go along with this Idious to make sure he gets the job done!"
Damonus shakes his head and says, "Not this time, Nightmare. Idious has the potential to shatter the Enji most of all, because, unlike all of you, that Grand Master has no idea what is in store for him. Oh, but he will soon enough. And it will be the last thing he realizes in his life. Muhahaha! Do not worry; you all have roles to play too.
While Idious runs amok, here is the carnage I have planned for you all."
The shadow lord then begins to inform the evil ones his next move for them all. However, as he does, we end viewing the plans of those that serve the darkness to those that are fighting for the light.
Ever since Kira has been unable to find the wielder of the Star Sword's location Cloud, Doug, James and the others have been trying to figure out what could have happened to Ben, but to no avail .
However, their search was forced to be put on hold when they and all the other Enji were forced to have their attention turn to the mad Darth Idious' sudden deadly appearance!
At the moment, Cloud and the others are rushing into one of the monitor rooms just as it is showing the demise of Taris! As they rush in Doug says,"Are you kidding me? Out of nowhere some crazy guy smashed into a battle between our guys and Zeon forces, and wiped everyone out!?"
James gives a tense look at his friend before he responds with, "I doubt anyone would just make this kind of thing up. And what disturbs me is that even with the likes of Captains Kota, Beatrix, Basch, and Eugene all on the world, the reports said this guy was not even hurt at all, as he crushed everyone easily."
Doug just says,"Oh come on; the report must have been exaggerated! Whoever reported this must have been too freaked out to get the facts straight, because not even the likes of those Inquisitors or the dark Enji can just laugh off the combined power of four captains!"
Cloud then looks at the main screen and says, "I am beginning to think that maybe the reports were correct, Doug."
Doug glances at the Enji Captian's direction as he responds with, "How come? Huh, Whoa!"
Doug and everyone else then see what Cloud is talking about, because they then see the captured recording one of their ships got out of Idious blasting the planet to nothing but atoms with his Final Flash attack! As they see the warrior of darkness laugh madly on, Helldramon. Aeris sees the murderer of a world laugh with sadistic glee and looks aghast before she says,"He thinks the death of billions as amusement? Those eyes of his look even fuller of hatred than either Sephiroth or Xehamaru!"
Cloud then has his anger explode as he utters a outraged, "This is insane. How could such a powerful minion of the Zannacross Empire just pop up underneath our watch?! They have been active, but as far as we know there has been no major outbreaks of additional dark energy."
James then thinks for a second and then looks worried before saying,"Wait, Cloud, that's not entirely correct. Remember the planet of Vjun, and how it was shattered by a major explosion of darkness? And most of all, how ever since then, Ben has been missing?"
Cloud nods and says, "What are you getting at, James?"
"Well, think about it. Right after Ben's disappearance, this guy shows up. Kira sent Ben to that shrine because of some mission.
But even Kira can't be right all the time, and maybe when Ben thought he was going to find the last part of the Star Sword. what he really did was unleash this insanely powerful demon or Sith Curse?"
Everyone then gets a bad feeling and Aeris gasps while saying," Oh no! You don't think that Ben accidentally freed this Darth Idious? But, you don't think that Ben was, no!"
Doug then pounds his fist in the ground and lashes back with,"No way! Ben would never be taken out by a creep like this guy! He might be trapped or have gotten blown away to another world, but he is not dead!"
Cloud then smiles and calmly says, "Don't worry, Doug, I doubt Ben is dead too. I just know he is alive. However, this just makes things even more complicated and now I have a lot more questions. One of them being just how Kira could get his information so wrong, when usually he makes sure he has everything he needs to know about what he wants.
But most of all, I want to confront this Darth Idious personally, and get answers from him if he has any involvement with Ben. No matter how powerful he may be. I won't let him go on killing whoever he wants for his fun!"
Doug then cracks his neck before he strongly responds with, "Oh yeah, that Idious better be ready, because next time he shows his mask, I am going to kick it into the nearest star!"
Aeris then adds a curious, "Beatrix and the others should be returning here on that friend of Basch's spaceship soon. Maybe one of them might have heard this Idious mention Ben."
Cloud looks at Aeris and smiles while saying,"Good thinking, Aeris. Come on guys; let's see if the Strahl has exited out of hyper-space yet."
The rest of the group nods and leaves the chamber.
However, little do they know that their desire to confront Darth Idious will be granted sooner than they imagined!
We now turn our view back on Idious himself. At the moment he has just commanded Helldramon to return to normal space and the large dragon obeys. The two then find themselves in the meto asteroid belt that is the final stop before Corneria!
Seeing the capital planet still in the distance, the dragon growls and says, "Why did you stop me here? Do you like just drifting in space, because we are way off course!"
Idious laughs and holds out his hand so that he can pretend he has the world in his grasp before responding with a coy,"Tsk, exactly Helldramon. After all, getting too close to the planet would alert the defense grid's sensors. And I don't want to ruin the surprise I have for all those Enji. Hehehehe, after all, it's entire one they will never forget!"
Helldramon then says,"Why bother even giving them time to be surprised? Let's not give them any time to react, and blow up this world in one shot like before! Even if it's bigger than Taris, I doubt it could withstand a combined blast from the two of us!"
The digimon is shocked to see Idious surround himself with his aura and jump of Helldramon.
(He is forming a barrier around himself to breathe and stuff if you're wondering. )
He then strokes his chin and says,"Nah, don't forget this is their precious capital. It would be a pain even for me to break it open like that and deal with all the guardians they have. And besides, to end the Enji like that would be way too anti-climatic. No, I will prefer to destroy the Enji up close and personal.
After all it's the best way to share my" joy" with them."
Helldramon then smashes a nearby asteroid with his tail into dust in annoyance and responds with a grumpy, "Fine, drag things out, but don't blame me when you screw up!"
"Oh, please, I have no intention of giving a weak message to those warriors of light! I already have everything planned. Just be a good boy and wait here so no one can detect you until I give you the signal. Take a nap or something while I do my thing, and then get ready for a feast!"
Helldramon then uses one of his unique powers to have his body become invisible and says, "I suppose I could take a rest. Don't want to be drowsy before we crush the majority of the Enji Knights."
Idious then laughs and responds with a sarcastic,"Ah, don't worry, they will just be dying to meet you! Ah, no better way to inscribe your name into the cosmos then by destroying the so called defenders of justice! It's time to plan for a whole lot of funerals, hahaha! Huh!"
Helldramon sees Idious grasp his head for a moment and says," What is it? Don't tell me that Kota guy's attack managed to hurt?"
Idious just laughs and shakes his head before saying,"Oh please, as if. No, it was just that annoying guy stirring again. Bah, he can whine all he wants, but his time is over! He has had time to suck long enough, and now this is my show forever! Alright, it's time, doesn't dare defy my orders. Helldramon just wait for my call!"
Helldramon nodded before Idious bursts like a rocket at the planet while saying, "Hahahah! Yes, I am coming, Enji! Those other three thought that their pal's sacrifice could let them get away? I will show them that the prey of Darth Idious has no future! Yes, and if people are still foolish enough to doubt me, they will just be the next ones too! Ah, and how nice a ship, just perfect for hitchhiking!"
What Idious meant is that as he dashes at top speed through Corneria, he sees a Lylat Crusher flying by. Before the ship can detect him, he dashes behind it and lands on the engine. He lands gracefully on it and punches its upper engine to take hold.
In fact, the captain of the ship hears the vibration that punch made and says to his crewmen,"What was that? Did something hit us?"
His co pilot presses a button on the command deck, but Idious has already surprised his power level and the ship does not track him. The captain then says,"Arg, most likely just another stray small asteroid. Guess all the more reason for a new paint job. Oh well, back to business. Attention all passengers. We are preparing to land in the capital planet of the Lylat Kingdom, Corneria! Please fasten your energy belts as we go through the planet's energy shields and have a nice day!
Oh and thank you for traveling with inter galactic Continental air.
The most comfortable way to travel in the Lylat Kingdom!"
As Idious sees the barrier shut off for the ship to pass through, he chuckles and says, "I'll say! HAHAHA!" As the Enji hating fighter comes closer to making his move, we shift back to the Enji themselves.
However, now we turn not back to Cloud and co, but a much more aggravating group.
If you haven't guessed, I mean Brad Fowltror and his gang. The large muscle bound man is at the moment searching for Lacus and is annoyed he does not know where she is. After angrily storming out of the women's dorms without finding her, the group is now in the main hall that branches to all the sections of the Enji Knight's home. He sees everyone hurrying around and says,"Ah man, what is Lacus thinking, not having her phone on? I don't know what her deal is.
All of a sudden she bails on our plans to go to Neo Arcadia. I can't believe she still thinks she has to be right at her Captain's feet whenever she is called. Maybe some quality time with the Unstoppable Juggernaut will loosen her up some more, if I can figure out where she ran off to!"
His sidekick, Jerid, chuckles and says,"Too bad you never bothered to learn how to sense magic energy, Brad! Then you could just zone on in and that would be that, lol! AH!"
Brad responds to that by kicking Jerid hard in the back, causing him to go flying! As Jerid lands a few feet in the distance, Brad says,"Maybe, but I haven't seen you learn it either! And most of all you haven't learned how to deal with my punches yet, so shut up! Bah, someone has to know where she is. Hey, isn't that that Yuna chick that is part of her squad?"
He sees a few people running up the stairs and Mondo takes a look and says, "Nah dude, that's the Enji that is also queen of that Dalmasca country?"
Brad looks harder and sees that Mondo is correct, for it's not Yuna, but Ashelia B'Nargin Dalmasca, or Ashe for short.
Also running behind her is the tall knight from Alexandra, Steiner, and an Enji from the same world of Eugene, named Mao. Brad then says,"Bah, most of these dames look the same to me. Hey Ashe! See my Lacus around?"
Ashe just stops briefly and says, "I don't have time to address your vulgar demands, Brad Fowltror! I have much more urgent matters to attend to!"
Brad then gets annoyed and reacts with a snarly, "Well, excuse me! Bah, you all have some nerve talking down to the most powerful fighter in space!"
Steiner then looks angrily at Brad and says, "Watch your tone, Brad! She is correct, those that survived the tragedy of Taris."
Brad then looks up and shrugs before he responds with, "Oh right, that dude that blew up the planet. Sucks to be anyone living on that world."
Mao just looks at with Brad with a look of pure disgust and says,"How can you act so casual about this? A henchman of the Zannacross Empire just destroyed an entire world! Beatrix, Eugene, and Basch barely escaped, and only because Captain Kota gave them time to get away with the price of his life!"
"Sucks to be them dude. Still...it's just part of life that there will be winners and losers in life. If you let death get to you, then you will never have enough guts to be really strong. That's just another reason why I am the top dog, nothing fazes me!"
The red haired Enji just looks shocked at Brad and says,"Man, you really are only concerned about fighting. Whatever, I don't have time to deal with you!"
The three then run off to the other hallway and Brad just spits into the fountain to his side and says,"
All of them can act as smug as they like. But I know they are just intimidated because they know for all their tricks I can still beat any one of them! Bah, none of these stiffs understand me. It's only because of Lacus that I bother to stand these guy's lectures. Still, if Lacus is not going to pay attention, then she will just have to miss tonight's fun. We are moving out boys!"
Brad then moves to the elevator that descends to Neo Arcadia. As his gang follows him in, CJ sees the doors close and he says,"Are you sure Lacus is going to take you leaving her behind? She got mad the last time you ditched her, you know?"
Brad just laughs as the elevator moves downward and says, "It's not my fault if Lacus can't figure out what really matters. Oh well, I'll just smash more losers. Huh? Hey watch where your around you whale!"
Brad gave that last sneer at the Sally women, who by chance was leaving Hallow Bastion to visit her family. As she hears Brad taunt she just tries to blow it off and just walks to the elevator. However, at this point everyone hears a lot of explosions and people screaming and the Slate then says,"What the, did the lower platform blow up or something?"
Brad hears more screams and then begins to laugh before saying, "No way, sounds like someone looking for a fight eh boys? I tell you what, this is going to be a good day after all! Perfect, I'll get an extra pounding and score some points with the higher ups. Now, who's a knocking?"
The elevator then lands, only for the doors to be blasted open! Brad and his gang see the room that is usually filled with transports to the city and other areas in the world a flaming wreck, and everyone in the room has been brutally killed!
Only one figure is alive, and while Brad does not realize it, he is staring at the masked face of Darth Idious! Sally is nearly face to face with the masked murder and as the dark man glances at her face she freezes, before quickly muttering," What, what do you want? What do you think your doing? You can't get away with this! Your going to be stopped!"
Idious narrows his eyes before he quietly responds with a cold," Oh, why is that girl?"
As Idious walks forward in a creepy manner Sally gulps before she says," Because we are the heroes, and hero's like Ben are going to stop you, its what they do!"
Idious's eye twitched, before he grasped his head. For a moment it looked like he was in pain, before his eyes glowed red, and he just chuckles darkly and got right in front of her face." Is that how you think it goes you revolting eyesore?"
In a flash Idious suddenly is right in front of her face and emitted a sadistic," Such pathetic logic, such massive delusions, its revolting to watch going on! No matter how much a ugly duckling dreams of becoming a swan...in the end trash will always remain loathsome, revolting, unwanted, trash! Let me do you a favor and put your hopeless worrying to a end, forever! "
For a moment his eye twitched again...till all of sudden his right hand is right below her heart, and is glowing with red energy! As Idious releases this energy Sally screams, and Idious has his energy explode before he unleashes the blast!
The orb rocks Sally in to the air before in a moment she explodes! As most of her body vaporizes instantly, her right arm lands besides Brad and the insane being just glances at the arm before he cackles out a dark," Tsc, waste disposal really is such a disgusting job. And to think, we are not really getting in to the really bad trash, eh boys?"
Despite the gruesome event that just unfolded Brad just wipes some blood off his face and snorted before he stepped on it so hard that the limb shattered."Well, looks like someone's ready for a party. Too bad your costume sucks! Think your so tough eh punk? Any loser can blow up the fatass eyesore tech support from the back like a camper pansy! You just did what I wanted to do if I did not want Lacus and the masters nagging on me for picking on losers again! But I tell yah what, it takes a real man to make his move out in the open! Just what you calling yourself eh freak show?"
Idious glares at Brad, and then out of nowhere laughs until he is laughing at the top of his lungs! Brad then gets annoyed and says,"Hey, I asked you a question, punk! What is so funny! What the?"
All of a sudden, Idious explodes with magic energy that the remaining transports and bodies are blown away, and Brad's boys are pinned to the ground from his magic pressure! Jerid then says,"This guy is nuts!"
Brad just cracks his knuckles and says,"Alright, hot shot, you want a fight? You got it! But you better be prepared to get totaled, because the Unstoppable Juggernught don't do playing nice!"
"You're not even worth a warm up. I don't feel like wasting my time with loud, annoying, empty headed monkeys! So now it's time for you to die, you miserable trash!"
Brad then narrows his eyes and looks like a dog ready to pounce before he says,"Oh man, you really don't get around, do you, masked boy? Otherwise you would have known you're looking at the most powerful Enji of all!"
CJ then says, "Man this guy is going to get his head smacked off; no one gets away with disrespecting the Brad!"
Brad then says," See that, freak? You're in over your head! You don't even look scary in your fancy armor and lame mask! What's wrong, scared to show your face?"
Idious begins to use his magic to float into the air and responds with a dismissive, "My face is not to be seen by trash like you. I came here to fight and kill the Enji order, but if you insist in annoying me, I'll be all too happy to rip you apart as a bonus!"
Brad then gets annoyed and barks back with,"You think you scare me? Here is what I think of you!"
He then powers up and both his size and muscles increase till his power level has risen massively, while he says, "See what I mean? You're just like all the others, thinking you can beat me with your cheap tricks!
However, I've crushed dozens of magical freaks with my raw power alone. Only Xehamaru managed to one up me before, and now I have become even stronger so that I could crush him in my hands as well!"
Idious' eyes glow as he responds with a malevolent,"You talk too much, stop talking, as your voice is nothing but irritating!"
Brad then gets mad and charges right at Idious while saying,"You want to skip right onto me killing you! Fine, then die! GUH!"
Brad throws a massive punch at Idious, but the masked man just blocks it with a finger from his left hand, and then punches Brad in the arm with his right. In fact, he punches Brad so hard his arm is nearly broken in two! Brad then screams in pain and says,"YOU! Damn freak, what trick did you use now?"
Idious looks at Brad's broken arm and says,"Damn, I held too much back. I wanted to punch it off! That can easily been fixed though."
Brad then glares at Idious and says,"You're dead! No one makes a fool out of me! GAH!"
Idious' response is to punch him hard in the stomach and then roundhouse kick him through a wall! He then says, "You are nothing but an eyesore. They say that the loudest dog is the weakest one! I seek someone to fight that is truly strong, not an annoying vermin!"
Brad then explodes out of the rubble and begins to power up while saying, "EYESORE? I'LL SHOW YOU WHO'S AN EYE SORE! YOU LITTLE PUNK! I'LL SMASH YOUR BONES! Let's see you handle even more of my power! Eighty percent will give you the message!"
Brad then fires from his good arm a barrage of energy blasts that hit Idious dead on and causes an explosion! Brad just keeps firing as Mondo says,"Oh yeah, the Brad is turning up the heat! Now what do you have to say, punk? What the, AH!"
For a moment it might have seemed like Brad's energy barrage did some damage.
That is, until the laughing resumes and a massive shock wave comes out from him. It's so powerful that it's enough to blow Brad's four cronies away!
Brad is horrified to see Idious emerge with his massive crimson aura encircling him. Brad then steps back and says,"No way, this has to be a trick! Only an illusion could take that attack like that!"
Idious just glares at Brad and his hands begin to shimmer with power as he says,"You would amuse me if the mere sight of you did not make me want to shatter you! You think someone like you, an idiot who only knows how to thrash everything in sight, can defeat me? Bah, there is no place for the weak to exist!
Let's see if you think this pain you are about to feel is an illusion, if you can survive it!To show you just what I think of you, I will make you experience a million deaths in a instant!
Time to make everyone on this planet know my presence, Shungokusatsu!"
Idious then flash steps over to Brad and grabs him, and all of a sudden a large explosion rocks the area! This explosion is so large that the entire mountain is shattered, and that definitely gets the Enji Knights attention!
Cloud sees the explosion and gets alarmed before he says,"What the? An attack? No, such power!"
Cid, who was in the same room at the time sees the massive flames and says,"You got to be joking! Either someone is taking a nap and is going to be fired, the sensors are broken, or someone sneaked a doomsday weapon underneath our noses!"
Aeris then begins to sense the darkness approaching and looks at her friends with dread before she says,"Oh no, I never thought he could get here so quickly! Cloud! It's him, Darth Idious."
Cloud, Doug, and James all look at Aeris and James says," What? He has powerful teleport magic too?"
Aeris just responds with a weary, "I can feel the same dark rage, it has to be him."
Cloud and the others then see that Aeris was right, as they hear a mad laugh. Many Enji Knights rush to the scene as they see Idious emerging from the flames. The first two to arrive on the scene are Cecil Harvey and Zell.
Zell sees the madman looking delighted before he gets outraged and says,"You, you're the man who destroyed Taris and killed Kota! Darth Idious, I never thought you would be this insane."
Idious laughs once more and responds with a sarcastic, "Sorry I was late, I was having more fun tenderizing my appetizers than I thought I would. However, I am done with them now. "
On cue, the two Enji then see Brad fall down with a large thud! It seems Idious gave Brad hell with his Shungokusatsu attack because Brad's body is burned head to toe and is bleeding all over! Zell sees Brad and says,"Whoa! Even Brad got wasted by this guy! He really is strong!"
Idious then says, "Glad you got the message!"
He then laughs and kicks Brad's body so hard he goes flying into the sky and he then says,"Now then, let us begin! Welcome Enji, I have a game for you all to play."
Cecil takes out his Light bringer sword and responds with a dire,"You twisted fiend; we won't play your games."
Idious just begins to power up some more and reacts with a wry,"Sorry, but participation is not optional! Besides, I did not even tell you the name of the game yet! It's simple enough. Today's game is called the shadow carnival of Idious.
The rules? I will fight any one I see. The game will continue until I am somehow defeated, or until everyone in this area is dead!"
Zell snaps back with a disgusted, "Your game sounds like a freak show, but coming from a freak that's not saying much."
Idious wags his finger and counters with a dry, "Bah, I suppose insults are the only weapons you weaklings have."
Zell then gets mad and says, "I'll show you what my real weapon is, My Final Heaven!"
Zell then powers up and dashes at Idious before channeling all the power he has into his fist and unleashing his most powerful limit break attack! Idious just aims his eyes at Zell and catches the punch with ease, even as the force of it causes a large impact around them! Zell is shocked that Idious so easily brushed off his most powerful attack and says,"Are you serious?"
Idious laughs again and points his middle and ring fingers at Zell while he gathers energy and says, "Deadly serious. I can see you're clearly not worthy of my time, so be gone. Huh? Oh, you want to die along with him?"
Idious sees that Cecil has jumped into the air and powered up himself and as the paladin's sword glows with holy energy, he says,"The only one that will die is you, demon! Holy Slash!"
He then strikes Idious horizontally with his attack, only for the masked man to block it with his knee! As he sees the shock in Cecil's eyes he says,"It does not matter how many of you come at me, I'll kill every last one of you! Sigh, is there no one that is worthy of truly fighting me! Still, even though you cannot satisfy me, I will be gracious enough to share with you, my pain!
You should be grateful; I am willing to share my hatred with every last one of you!"
Idious then unleashes a brutal lightning fast barrage of punches and kicks that are hard enough to shake the area before he slams them through a wall and knocks them both out! Idious then sees even more Enji come out, including Cloud, Doug, James, and Aeris!
As he finds himself surrounded, Idious says,"That's right, all of you come, it's much more fun than wasting time hunting you all down! Nothing beats showcasing your power than crushing the majority of a washed up order!"
Cloud then gets into his fighting stance as he says, "You really are trying to test your luck just making a scene like this. Even Xehamaru and his followers were not insane enough to attack here."
Idious then laughs madly before unleashing another shock-wave from his magic aura and responding with a theatrical, "Of course not, because they were not the most powerful being in the universe! I, on the other hand, am!"
Doug then cracks his neck before he brazenly states, "You sure have a big ego, Idious. Can't wait to knock it down a peg or four!"
Idious looks at Doug and his eye twitches before he cackles out,"Heh, that's amusing. So you, never mind, that is meaningless now.
But I assure you it's not ego, but reality that controls my actions. After all, ask the owner of this sword if my power is not real!"
Idious then takes a sword out of his back and throws it into the left wall!
Cloud then looks at the Sword and recognizes the symbol on its handle before saying," That blade, it was Kota's sword! You, you take pleasure in killing an honorable man? I'll make you regret that."
Idious then begins to hover in the air and says,"Honorable he may have been, but, no, I can't say I had any fun with him. After all, he was far too weak! That is why I came here. I was hoping killing you all at once would form a semblance of a challenge!"
Cloud then powers up his aura and responds with a fierce,"Oh, you'll get more than a challenge, Idious, I assure you."
Aeris then sees everyone get ready to fight and says,"Cloud, everyone, we have to be careful. This guy destroyed the last planet he fought on and we can't let him destroy Corneria, no matter what!"
Tifa then looks around and adds a dire,"This is quite the bad situation. He just had to choose to attack when the Grand Master, Master Zoda and Master Yamamoto were all away on missions."
Cloud then looks around and says,"Don't worry, Aeris, Tifa. Even if that is so, Grand Master Myers is still on this world, and I doubt he won't sense Idious. And I am sure we can at the least hold this guy off till then.
Hey Idious! If it's a real fight you want then how about we move just a little too somewhere better suited?"
Idious sees Squall and Cless on his left and Cyan, Veigue and many more Enji surrounding him and laughs before saying,"Want to save collateral damage on your home eh? HAhaha, fine, be that way, this place could be a nice castle to keep anyway! Just be quick!"
Cloud then runs to the side and says,"Come on, guys, fallow me. "
His fellow defenders of justice do that and Idious trails them. Two minutes later, Idious sees Cloud has stopped at the great maw, the same place that Sora faced off against a thousand heartless in Kingdom Hearts two. Cloud then has his First Sword glow with magic energy and says,"This will be the place where your fun comes to an end, Idious."
Idious gives a crazed chuckle before his responds is, "Fine, this way I won't have to worry about piling up corpses in awkward positions!"
Squall then says, "Tell us, Idious, just why have you come out of nowhere and caused all these deaths? Are you some sort of new toy just created by Darth Damonus, because he is getting impatient to resurrect Chaos Zannacross Necron?"
Idious then turns to Squall and says,"Wrong answer, scare face. I have been around for a while, but you haven't seen my handy work, because thanks to a series of annoying events I have been forced to be dormant for a long time. However, now I am free and I'll make you all die in the most painful way!"
Aeris responds with a solemn, "No matter what your reason, anyone that sees fun in committing genocide will be stopped!"
"So what? Killing is the natural way of things. People try to build up all these delusions and lies, but in the end it comes down to the never ending struggle between the strong and the weak that try and ignore their inferiority. I am just the purist essence of this cosmos wiping out those unfit to exist! So, are you going to lecture me all day, or do I have to kill a few of you to get things started?"
Cless then says, "Right, I don't think we are going to reason with this guy. That's it, time to avenge Kota, and all the people you killed!"
Idious sees some of the heroes are about to charge and jumps into the air before powering up his aura even more and saying,"Ah, I can see fire in lots of your eyes. However, just because you have resolve to take me out, it does not mean you will be able to match me! Heh, I think I'll save time and have these guys handle those who are unworthy of challenging me. Time to add some more guests to the party!"
Idious then uses his power to summon his large sword to his hand and has it glow with energy. He then catches everyone off guard and fires a blast into the air! This blast seems to create storm clouds that at once rains down a storm. However, this storm does not rain down water, but various types of Necrocalcous! As the Enji find themselves being themselves surrounded by the demonic monsters Doug just laughs and says,"Oh, come on, give us some credit! You think you are going to take us out with an army of grunts?"
Idious looks around at his new army of Necrocalcous and responds with a sly,"Well, they are stronger than the standard ones. But, you're right, they are not the best to rely on getting the job done. Ha, good thing I have a stronger garbage disposal! Yes, it's time, Helldramon!"
Everyone then sees Idious fire a beam from his sword that seems to form a sort of portal in midair. Moments later they all hear a roar, and Helldramon flies out of it! He then glares at Idious and roars out a angry,"Who are you calling garbage disposal? It's because of me you got to this planet! And next time make the portal larger, I had to squeeze through!"
Idious just says, "If you're so cranky, feel better by devouring some Enji!"
Doug then chuckles tensely before he gibes out, "Oh great, he brought is ride. And that is one ugly dragon. He even makes Bahamut look like a cuddly doll. Huh, oh nuts."
Helldramon's hearing seems to be better than they thought, as the Digimon turns right to Doug and extends his claws before saying,"Ugly? Let's see who is ugly, when I rip you to shreds! Hell's Edge!"
The massive claw of his glows with energy and he charges right for Doug and everyone near him and James says,"Nice going, Doug, whoa!"
Everyone in the area just manages to avoid Helldramon's attack, as it slams the ground with such force it creates a massive shock wave! As the rock formations around them crack, Cloud sees Helldramon charge after Doug and James and he says, "Oh no, they are in trouble. Hang on, huh? Don't think you can get me that easily!"
Cloud sees Idious charge at him with his sword from above and quickly blocks, just as Idious strikes and the clash of blades is strong enough to cause the ground to cave in around them. Cloud finds himself nearly on his knees from the blow!
Idious sees Cloud struggle and says,"Tsc, see what happens when you worry about others too much? You end up losing your head! Hahaha, my sword, Akuma, finds many people have been making that mistake lately!"
Cloud's eyes narrow as he struggles to get Idious off of him and Idious laughs and says,"The great Cloud Strife, looks like I'll be adding another one on my list of accomplishments!"
Cloud just snaps back with a resolute, "Not just yet!"
He then shocks Idious by unleashing a burst of energy and blasts Idious back! At once, the masked man gets back on his feet and says, "You are not bad, I may enjoy this yet!"
Cloud just responds with a cold, "Glad you're having a good time, but the fun ends here!"
He then fires an energy sword wave at Idious only for it to be causally batted away as his opponent ,"Fine then, if you want to die the fast way, then so be it!"
The two then move at top speed clashing at each other several times per second. Eventually Idious grows bored at this and says,"You may be skilled, but there is only so far a misguided one like you can go. I think its time I give you a taste of what I feel about your passion, and put to the test if it can compare to my own! Get ready, mess up here and your dead!
Idious then catches Cloud off guard and once more spins his blade around swiftly using the chain attached to it before throwing it at him!
Cloud is just able to dodge the attack as it smashes into the wall, however, all of a sudden, Idious shows his speed and warps right behind Cloud and charges up a crimson energy blast in his fingers before saying, "Oh, nice try, but it's game over! Good night, spiky, I'll save a place for you in, oh?"
Right as he is about to fire, Tifa jumps at him from his side and says,"No you won't! Final Heaven!"
Tifa punches the masked warrior with all she has, but to make sure Idious is not going to laugh it off, Cloud's canine friend Red XIII also charges at Idious from the other side and says, "You won't kill anymore of us, Red Fang!"
The two both hit Idious, and while it seems to not harm him, it does force his blast to go off target and blast apart more rocks! Cloud then says, "Tifa, stay away, he is too dangerous!"
Tifa then looks at Cloud with amusement before her retort is a wry,"Is that how you say thanks after I saved you from having a hole in your chest? You're not fighting this guy alone, Cloud!"
Idious just laughs madly at this and he hunches over before he yells out a erratic, "Aw, how touching! Your display of friendship is so strong that I feel sick! If you want to all die together then I'll be happy to arrange that!"
He then unleashes another outburst from his magic aura and the resulting shock wave blows the three back! He then jumps into the air and charges up more before he points his sword at his opponents and says,"You're all so pathetic! You all really trust each other? Nonsense, any one is capable of betrayal. In the end, the only one you can truly rely on is yourself! Oh well, don't take my word for it, find out in hell! Tenma Gou Zankuu!"
Idious then unleashes a volley of red energy blasts to try and blow up Cloud and co! However, as Cloud prepares to act fast, everyone hears a voice say,"The only one going to hell today is you, Light Divider!"
Cloud then sees a purple energy blast come from the left and blast away Idious' own barrage of energy bolts, and sure enough, Ezan is the one who fired it! He flash steps to the position in front of Cloud and Cloud says,"Ezan, thank you for the assist."
Ezan just responds with a curt, "Sorry for my delay in arriving. There were a hundred or so Necrocalcous in my way that would not take a hint. So, you're Darth Idious, the one who has been causing the biggest disturbance as of late."
Idious chuckles and responds with,"My, you talk with such confidence in your abilities. You better be ready to back it up or your head will be rolling on the floor in a few moments!"
Ezan takes out his Soul Eater sword and says,"Why don't we see who is being conceited?"
He then powers up his magic aura and Cloud says,"Careful, Ezan, he may fight like a crazed berserker, but every move of his is planned out. Damn him, if he did not decide to have all his lackeys attack as well, this would be going more smoothly. Doug, James, and everyone else. Don't let those kind of guys do you in."
Idious then points his sword at Ezan and Cloud while saying,"Hehehe, this is becoming even more fun than I though it would! Still, you two together are still nothing before me! Shall I dismember you to demonstrate your glaring weakness? Genocidal Tempest!"
Idious then begins spinning his blade around madly until he is like a min tornado of death himself as he charges at the heroes! Ezan just says,"I'll not only endure it, but destroy it! Chidori Burst!"
As his blade crackles with electricity Cloud then says,"Time you see just how faulty your twisted logic is, Braver!"
He and Ezan then both launch their attacks at Idious and the resulting force causes a massive shock-wave, one so strong that even Doug and James can feel it where they are!
Speaking of them, they happened to feel it just as Doug dodges being crushed by Helldramon's tail and he sees the explosions in the distance and says,"Oh boy, I am not sure if I am annoyed to be missing the action or glad to be out of the red zone!"
James is behind him at the moment and has just fired a barrage of energy arrows to knock back the massive claw of the mega Digimon and he says,"
Just keep moving, or otherwise none of us will be able to be sure about anything again! I must say, even for a mega level Digimon, this guy is proving to be more dangerous than I first thought."
Helldramon flaps his wings and grinds his teeth while saying,"You're acting like you expected less? Idiot humans, I'll teach you who is the most powerful one here! Megiddo's Maelstrom!"
The Digimon then begins to flap his wings extremely fast. Soon a barrage of energy blasts heads down at the two! James fires a barrage of energy arrows to counter them and Doug then says,"You're going to find we are not so easy to cook, pal! Bursting Machine gun punch!"
Doug then unleashes his attack to aid James, but the amount of blast Helldramon has unleashed is too much for them and their opponent says,"You morsels can't outlast me! I'll swallow you both in one bite!"
He unleashes more of his attack and moves in to get closer. As he gets closer, the two can see his large teeth and Doug says,"Err, this is not looking good!"
Helldramon opens wide and says,"Time for some fine dining! Good, Bah!"
Helldramon is just about to reach them when a barrage of various magical attacks blast him back!
Doug and James turn to the right to see some of their allies have come to their aid!
The closest ones were Cloud's friend Barret, Genis, and the expert blue mage, Strago Mangus.
Barret aims his gun arm at Helldramon and says," You think you and your equally demented pals can just pop in and wreck this place? Ah hell no!"
James smiles and says, "Thanks for the help, guys. I suppose we underestimated this monster's power."
Genis then gives the two a thumbs up and says, "Don't worry, we have your back, so let's take this monster out!"
Helldramon roars and says, "You Enji Knights think you can match my fieriest, huh? Think again!"
Strago then powers up his aura and says, "This monster is in need of a reality check. Let us end this; I am worrying he will wreck the liberty. Grand Train!"
Genis then adds,"Eat this, Indignation Judgment!"
Barret then charges up his power and throws in, "Catastrophe!"
Barret then fires of his most powerful limit break and the massive blast, combined with Genis' mystic art and Stargo's most powerful blue magic attack! The three energy blasts head right into the mega Digimon and a massive explosion breaks out that causes waves in the lake nearby! Doug pumps his fist in the air and says,
"Oh yeah! That will teach smiley not to be so hungry! Heh, even if he's not dead yet, he still has to be hurting from that!"
Everyone then hears a large roar that shakes the ground and James says,"Um, you have to remember not to bet such things until you are sure of them, Doug."
Doug is about to respond, when all of a sudden, they all see Helldramon emerge out of the smoke with only a few minor scratches! He then gathers energy and says," You call those attacks strong? I'll show you power, Apocalyptic Flare!"
He then unleashes a massive red energy blast with the intention of blasting everyone around to dust! However, right before it hits them, out of nowhere, a gigantic energy barrier covers the group and deflects the blast to the nearby other mountain, which is in turn shattered by the blast!
Doug breathes a sigh of relief and says,"Man, that was close. Who was powerful enough to block that shot? Ah, Lacus. Nice timing."
Doug and the others see that the woman in question is running to the scene and sees the group before saying,"
Is everyone okay? I came as soon as I healed the injured, I am glad I made it in time."
James then runs up to her and says, "Thanks for that, if not for your barrier we may have been quite dead."
Lacus looks at Helldramon glaring at her obviously mad at having his attack neglected, and she says,"
All of this madness, all for what? I never imagined the Zannacross Empire would already be so desperate as to unleash such demons right at our home. However, no matter what happens I won't let them harm this place that has come to mean so much to me!"
Helldramon gets a laugh from this and says, "A noble speech, lady, but it won't change anything. Nothing that Idious and I play can withstand us, no matter how many come at us, death is the only outcome for you all!"
Doug then says, "Just try it! Man, we got to take this Helldramon out fast. If just one of his energy attacks lands a hit, it will take more than a little remolding to fix things!" James looks closely and says,"Yes, no doubt he is very dangerous. However. I wonder, he must have a weak spot."
Lacus then takes out her Oath-keeper sword in one hand, and her energy ribbon in the other, and calmly says,"Everything does, it's just a matter of figuring it out in time. It's odd, those spikes around its head wings and limbs, they almost look like advanced curse seal crystals of Necrocalcous."
James looks closer and says, "Now that you mentioned it, they do look like the same objects Xehamaru and Bowser powered themselves with. I wonder, could they be what power him?"
Lacus then says, "Of course, that's it! Maybe if we focus our attacks on the crystals, maybe we can stop him before he can harm anyone else."
Helldramon then begins to ready a charge and says,"I hate when my enemies conspire. It always means they are trying to be sneaky, and sneaky ones are the ones I want to burn the most! Hell's Edge!"
Helldramon then begins to charge again and the three flash step out of the way as he smashes into the ground. Doug then says, "You guys have a nice theory there, but there seems to be a snatch to me and it's that I don't think he is going to play nice and stay still!"
Lacus looks at Helldramon and powers up her magic energy and says,"Leave it to me, I'll keep him occupied. Radiant Storm!"
Lacus then has a sphere form around her and she then points her blade at the ground. The sphere then shatters into a barrage of floating blue flowers of energy. She then points them at Helldramon and her flower funnels then surround the Digimon on all sides and open fire! Helldramon is hit all over and even though it seems to be only stinging him he says, "Bah, you think this is enough to hurt me! Huh, now what?"
While he is trying to swat the flower funnels, he then catches Doug charging at him top speed and he gives a gun ho,"That not enough for you huh? How about this! Hammer of Might!"
Doug then unleashes a powerful punch and manages to score a hit right on the distracted foes' Curse seal crystal on his back! The monster growls a little and says,"
Annoying idiot, now that itches! Get off me!"
He then moves around like a raging bull and Doug can barely hang on! As he grabs one of the Digimon's spikes hard, he says,"Whoa ! Good thing I did not eat in a while! Sorry, but my rides not over yet, not till I do this! Fury Aura!"
Doug then powers up and his grieves and gauntlets burst with his magic energy! He then says,"Take this, Sanjuu no Kiwami!"
The blond brawler then unleashes an even fiercer blow than before, and his punch lands hard enough that the crystal cracks! This manages to get the dragon to howl in pain and he says,"RAH! That hurt! You will pay for doing that, Enji!"
Helldramon then begins to fly higher before spinning rapidly around. Soon he moves so fast, he is like a mini cyclone and Doug is violently launched off of him and is slammed into the ground! James and Lacus run up to him and Lacus says,"Are you okay, Doug?"
Doug looks dizzy and responds with a woozy, "Other than the fact that I seemed to make him multiply, fine."
James looks at the cracked crystal and says, "Good, it hurt him. We just need to hit him harder."
Helldramon then flies downward at a faster rate and screams out,"You won't get the chance, I'll finish you all now! Roar of the Departed!"
The demonic digimon then roars so loudly that the three have no choice but to hold their ears in pain! He then dives at them and says,"Just because you managed to hurt me, I'll make your deaths even more painful! Huh, now what is it? "
Helldramon is about to swing his claws when, all of a sudden, he sees three large lights come from the Hallow Bastion castle and hit him! The lights turn into energy anchors that try and drag him to the ground ! Lacus then says,"Huh? The Castle defense system activated? Oh, Captain Terra!"
Lacus and the others see the members of her squad run up to her and Terra says,"We were able to boost their power to hold this Digimon down. However, even at full power the containment barrier can't hold down something with that large a power level for long."
James then powers up his energy and says,"Alright, it's now or never. Everyone fire at the Curse Seal Crystals!" Ginrei Kojkyaku!"
James then releases the full extent of his Quincy powers and aims his bow at Helldramon. He then says, "This is the price you pay for wiping out so many innocent lives, monster!"
He then fires a barrage of energy arrows and Lacus then says,"Yes, it's time this carnage is stopped! Burst Stream of Judgment! "
Lacus then adds her powerful energy beam into the mix as it is aided by a holy spell from Yuna, a Grand Cross attack from Collette, and an Ultima magic spell from Terra!
The combined attacks blast into the restrained Digimon and, in his weakened state destroy all the curse seal crystals!
The monster roars in pain as he is consumed in an even bigger explosion! Everyone is then blown back by a massive shock-wave and they see an odd light shine from the blast.
Soon all they can see is smoke, and Doug nervously says,"Alright, your plan worked, James! Looks like as tough as he was, he needed a power source to keep him going and without that, he is done!"
Lacus looks at the vital waves around the lake and she says,"I am not so sure that we got him. Even with that combined attack, there should be some remains. What if he is just hiding underwater?"
Terra then prepares a powerful thunder spell and says,"You're right, Lacus, I still sense a faint magic energy."
James then points his bow at the water and says,"Get ready everyone, if it is still alive it might try an even more vicious attack in desperation."
He then sees some bubbles begin to form near the edge of the lake and he says,"There he is, now! Hey, what the? No way!"
Doug and the others have similar shocked expressions on their faces, because they are shocked to see out of the water pop up a dazed Hiryuumon! The Digimon does not even seem to be aware where he is, all he is concerned with is the fish biting his tail! He runs out of the lake screaming in pain and says," Ow ow! Lousy stealth fish, I should be the one eating you!"
He then flings the fish of his tail and just then he sees everyone! He then gets confused and says,"Doug? James? Lacus? What are you all doing here? Am I dreaming?"
Doug is the first to speak and says, "That is what I was going to say. Um, Hiryuumon how did you get here?"
Hiryuumon then looks around and says,"Why, where are we? And how did you all get to this planet? And most of all how are you and James still alive? You should be dead!"
Both Doug and James look bewildered and Doug touches his head to make sure before saying, "Err, last time I checked, I am still a living, butt kicking machine."
James then gets suspicious and says,"Hiryuumon, just what would make you think we are dead?"
Hiryuumon then looks confused and says,"Well, for one thing, you two tried to attack us! Then the boss got really mad and fired one of his best attacks to make chopped liver out of you two! Hey, why did you betray us anyway!? Did you know how much that hurt Ben!?"
Doug then says, "What are you talking about!? We would never betray our buddy! Hiryuumon, how hard did you hit your head! And how were you related to that other Digimon? Were you, Helldramon, trying to deep fry us just now?"
Hiryuumon looks totally lost now and says,"Helldramon? Who is that? He sounds nasty. Man, now I am totally lost! Where is the boss, anyway?"
Lacus looks worried and says, "Hiryuumon, let's move back a bit. What do you last remember? Do you know anyone named Darth Idious?"
Hiryuumon scratches his head and says,"Err, nope, does not ring a bell. Well, last thing I remember was me and the boss fighting what at least looked, smelled, and acted like Doug and James.
After we beat them, the boss was really upset. However, then this giant crystal popped up and Kira told us it was the last thing Ben needed for his Star Sword to make him complete.
Ben did as told, but then this really creepy light broke out! Last thing I remember was hearing this creepy voice laughing, and that's it. I guess I have been dreaming since then. Hey is this home? How did I get here? Have any of you seen the boss? I am worried about him."
Lacus looks more worried and says,"Me too. This, does not make sense at all. If Hiryuumon was possessed by the Curse seal crystals and was forcibly transformed into Helldramon, does this mean that Darth Idious was unsealed and transformed you?"
Hiryuumon shakes his head and says,"I don't know, why? Did I do something bad? Hey, hold on, I got Ben's scent! He is right, over, there?"
He then points to the left, right at the great maw, where another explosion bursts out! Hiryuumon then says,"Man how long was I out? What is going on?"
James starts to put things together and his face becomes frozen with terror and Doug sees this and says,"
What is it, James? You figure out just what is going on? Something really stinks around here."
James then says,"You have no idea just how much. Just think about it. If Hiryuumon does not remember what he has been, even while he was fighting as Helldramon, then it's quite simple.
I think we know where Darth Idious came from."
Lacus then thinks, and as it slowly horrifies her, she says,"Wait, you don't mean? Oh no, it can't be! Ben, what happened to you? We have to get over there right now!"
Everyone nods at once and they all run to the other battlefield blowing away any Necrocalcous that tries to interfere!
Meanwhile, at said battle, Darth Idious is proving his power is not to be taken lightly, because no matter who joins the fight, they are easily beaten back by the masked warrior's power!
At the moment, Squall, Chloe Valens, Ezan, and Cloud are all slashing at Idious only for their foe to seem to be toying with them, as he dodges every attack !
He then sees Squall and Chloe go to attack and says,"Heh, are you idiots going to at least make me take you seriously, or do I have to slather the whole lot of you first?"
The female Enji Knight is insulted by this and Chloe says,"You truly are a despicable man, and for that you shall be taken care of like one! Shining Storm Rising!"
Squall then uses his magic energy to empower his Lion heart Gun-blade and he adds a stern, "I think you had enough fun, so now it's over! Blasting Zone!"
The two then try to strike the swordsmen with their attacks, but the villain just blocks them both with his blade and says,"Enough already! Your pitiful attacks are useless! Huh?"
He then sees Ezan charging at him from behind and the silver haired swordsmen then says,"Let's see if you think this is useless! Chidori XIII Blitz!"
The masked man's demonic eyes narrow as he sees Ezan's attack is too fast to dodge now, and he is attacked with a powerful electrical slash to the back! Ezan does not let up and Ezan moves at extreme speed to land blow after blow as the ground is lit in purple flames in a pentagon formation!
Ezan then jumps into the air, before readying to unleash a final slash! However, Idious manages to block with his blade and the force creates a powerful shock-wave! Ezan struggles to overpower Idious, but his opponent just presses down and says,"Hahah, not bad, that felt painful! However, that is nothing! Let me show you real pain, Enji! Let's see how you like being, huh?"
All of a sudden, Cloud charges at him from his side and says, "No, let's see how you like being on the verge of death, freak! Meteor Rain!"
Ezan then back steps just as the spiky harried warrior unleashes a barrage of energy meteors! Idious is consumed by the blast and the warriors stand back. Ezan then says,"
That arrogant madman got what he deserved. Did he really think he alone could defeat the entire Enji order? What the, NO!"
Out of the smoke they hear a deranged laugh and a large vibration, as they all hear Idious say,"Why yes! Here is why!"
Only a second later, a giant red energy ball blasts out of the smoke to hit all the off guard Enji! They are all hit hard and blasted to the other side of the Great Maw as Idious floats into the air! He then laughs madly and says,"You weaklings don't get it, you can't defeat me! You don't have enough hatred! You fight for such idiotic things like peace and justice. But all you're fighting for is lies! Such things are meaningless; in the end only power is the true tangible thing in this cosmos that matters!"
Cloud struggles to get up and responds with a solemn,"Darth Idious, I pity you, for you understand nothing. You have nothing to cherish and that is why you are empty. No matter how strong your fury is, you will never be able to win."
He then charges at Cloud, but the masked warrior uses his power to get Cloud in a magic grip and just slam him to the ground! Idious seems to get mad from that and charges up a large amount of power in his right hand. He then says,"Then how come you're the who is totally outmatched? Let's see if you are so passionate about your little worthless code of honor that you will die for them! Adios Cloud Strife! Final Impact!"
Idious then extends his palm and fires a powerful red energy blast with murderous intent! However, out of nowhere, a holy magic spell blasts it to the side and blasts it into the air! As it explodes, Idious is annoyed and says,"Oh, come on! Stop being morons and messing things up or you won't save anyone. Which moron is it this time? Oh, the pretty one!"
Idious turns to the right and sees that it is Aeris who intercepted his blast! She then looks at Idious and says,"Darth Idious, I will not forgive you for your actions. If you will not come to reason, then I have no choice but to use all my power to stop you! I will ask you one last time. Will you come to reason and stop your mass rampage?"
Idious mockingly bows to Aeris and wryly says,"Sorry madam, but I will not stop my justice for anyone!"
Aeris then looks down before she glows with magic energy and says,"I see, in that case, I will do what is necessary to protect those important to me, Celestial Prism Power!"
Aeris then shines with light and gives off a light large enough to radiate the whole area! It's bright enough to force Idious to look away, and when he is able to look back at the last Cetra, she is once more transformed and is now powered up and covered in her celestial armor given to her by goddess Minerva!
Idious feels the holy power coming from the one time flower girl and says,"Oh my, we have someone looking quite powerful looking here! But your fancy outfit won't be enough to match the darkness I possess!"
Aeris just raises her shield and staff and says,"It's time for you, puppet of the dark side, to be put down. Photon Feather!"
Aeris then fires a barrage of holy blasts fire out of her shield and all eyes lock on to Idious. The madman jumps into the air and easily bats them all away with his large sword while saying, "Is that all the power you have? How boring, it seems in the end no one can satisfy me! Huh, what the?"
He is shocked to find that after defecting the light magic attacks back. that Aeris is gone, only to see her warp to his side and try to slash at him with her staff as she unleashes her attack! He dodges as she smashes the ground and darts backwards while saying,"Hahah, you're not that bad. Who knows, with that sacred power of yours, this game might be getting fun after all! Huh, no way!"
Aeris is all of a sudden behind him and slams him into the ground with her shield! Before he even hits the ground, she has her armor transform into a giant crossbow that gathers holy power while saying,"The fact that you consider such chaos fun proves how you are a threat to this and all other worlds, Idious. I will lay you to rest here, Judgment Arrow!"
She then fires off a very powerful holy blast, just as Idious was about to charge again! He is consumed by the blast and the largest explosion today emerges! Tifa, who was knocked far from a previous attack by Idious, is able to walk over to where Cloud is and says,"Aeris, she is able to match that psycho. At last, this insane attack can end."
Cloud looks at her briefly before looking at the explosion fade and he says,I hope so, and then we can focus again on finding Ben. Huh, did she do it?"
He and the others see the explosion fade and run over to Aeris to see if she was able to do it. As she lands, and her armor transforms back to its first form, they all see that Idious is nowhere to be seen. However, their hopes of his demise are quickly crushed when a large tremor emerges and a massive burst of energy blasts the rubble on the bottom away as they hear a large scream of fury!
Sure enough, Idious slowly floats out of the rubble, but at least he did not just shrug off that last attack. His armor is now dented all over and he is clutching his face with his left hand as he wields his weapon with the right one.
Even though he is bleeding and his eye looks rabid, he continues to laugh and says,"Hahahah, HAHAHAAH! Did you think you could kill me? I told you, none of you will destroy me. I WILL NEVER DIE! HAhahaha! Still that was quite a sting! I underestimated you; however you're still never going to beat me! Nothing will stop me, from giving all you Enji what you deserve!"
Cloud strongly states, "You must clearly be delusional to think you alone can defeat us. You are only fighting for your own selfish desires, while we are all not only fighting for the sake of the stability of this cosmos, but for each other! Whoa!"
Cloud is shocked to see Idious charging at him to try and impale him through the chest and just barely manages to block in time! Idious really seems angry now and he says,"
All of you Enji blabbing on about friendship makes me what to rip you apart!
Friendship, such a farce. In the end everyone is capable of betrayal, and wasting time on such pointless things will only make you weak!"
Idious then sees both Ezan and Aeris try to strike and he dashes backwards and he sees more Enji firing at him and creates a barrier around himself. However, Ezan charges at him and says,"I care little about your insane ideals, I just am tired of a masked idiot blowing up where I sleep. Delta Ray Edge!"
Ezan then slashes Idious three times in a triangle formation to hit him. Aeris then gets behind Idious while he is caught off guard and fires a powerful holy blast right at his face! He is blasted into the wall and lands off the wall with a thud.
Aeris then points her spear at him and says,"I can sense a tremendous rage in you. I suppose that you will not come to reason, in that case I have no choice. I hope that this will at last let you have peace."
Aeris then prepares to fire off another Judgment Arrow and everyone sees Idious clutching his face and saying,"Peace? I will, never, have peace! Not until, I give you a taste of my sorrow, my anger and my hatred!"
Aeris gives a sigh of dismay before she sorrowfully responds with,"Sorry, but you can keep your darkness with you to the grave. Now it's, oh?"
Aeris then sees Doug, James, Hiryuumon, Lacus and the others run up to the others and Lacus desperately screams out,"No wait! Please stop miss Aeris! Don't fire just yet!"
Aeris charges up but does not fire and turns to say, "Lacus? But why?"
Cloud then sees Hiryuumon and gets alarmed before he says,"What the, Hiryuumon? Where did you come from? What is going on?"
Hiryuumon is nervous and says, "Err, I am not sure, but I have apparently been here for a while. But more importantly, you've got to hold up! The boss is in danger!"
Ezan then says, "So you guys found Ben at last, huh? Well, that can wait, first, let's finish off this lunatic."
Doug then says, "No, wait, you guys don't get it! You see, we just beat Helldramon, only to find out it was really Hiryuumon brainwashed the whole time!"
Hiryuumon looks embarrassed and says,"Sorry , I had no idea I was hurting you guys."
Cloud starts to get the picture and says,"Wait, if Hiryuumon was taken by the power of the darkness and transformed into Helldramon then, is Darth Idious really, no way! It can't be!"
James then fixes his glasses and says,"Correct, Darth Idious, why don't you tell us what you did to Ben?"
They all hear another round of mad laughing and Idious just has his head face down as it's revealed the mask he was wearing was damaged by Aeris' last attack and it crumbles to the ground.
He then says, "So, you're coming to conclusions eh? Well, you're half right, but mostly wrong!"
Doug then gets mad and says,"Enough! What did you do to Ben! I swear if you don't release him now ill turn you in to ,what the? Huh, no!"
Idious then lifts his head as the rest of his helmet crumbles and everyone at last sees his face! The man's skin is ghost white, and he has spiky golden colored hair in a more wild matter than Cloud. His eyes have the same demonic look with red irises and black pupils, but despite this everyone knows that face!
It may be altered and have the seal of Necrocalcous glowing on his forehead, but it's clearly none other than Ben! Lacus is horrified at what she is seeing at as she says, "Ben!? No, it can't be! How could this have happened?"
Idious/ Ben's eyes go wild as he laughs madly into the air. He then shakes his head and responds with a unhinged,"You keep talking about that other guy, but you're wasting your breath!"
That spineless Ben Auro, no longer exists!
I, Darth Idious, am the true evolution of this body!
I was born from his sadness, from his rage, from his anger!
I have been around for sometime, however, now I have at last gotten enough darkness to take center stage!
Yes, he held me back for years, but at last he just could not take it anymore! At last Ben Auro's heart has been extinguished, smothered by the darkness that consumed him! And let me tell you guys this now, after how long it took to get on top of this horse, I am never getting off! HAHAAHAHA!"
Everyone is taken aback at this startling revelation!
James then says, "It's as I feared. Ben did not unseal Idious, but rather he got possessed by some dark spirit and those curse seal crystals on his armor have completely taken over his body and mind!"
Idious laughs and his face has that same odd stretching thing Yami Marik did in Yu gh oh, before he says,"Oh, please. These little dark gems did give me a boost, but I was around way before that. I'm his shadow, his other, repressed self. It's all because of you all that I exist! Yes, since you all were so nice to throw Ben away it allowed me to grow.
And thanks to those lovely back to back hyper combo of betrayals I had a feast of despair until what you now see is the outcome! I must thank you all! It's because you all were so caring, so caring that you let Ben suffer that all of this is possible. Don't worry, I won't let your gifts be unrewarded!"
Lacus is the most shaken up by this and her eyes are all ready watery as she says,"Oh, Ben, I had no idea, that you were suffering this much. Please, please stop this before it's too late. Ben, are you still in there?"
Cloud then looks dismayed before he says, "Ben, I had no idea you were suffering this much. I, I know about feeling lost but, this is a whole new level. Kira, what did he do to him? I knew it was not good to let him keep training Ben so hard after all that had happened lately. Idious, no, Ben ,can you hear me? I know you are in there somewhere. We are still your friends, you don't have to go through with this!"
Idious just seems to freeze for a moment, before his magic energy explodes with such force that everyone is blown back!
Idious then holds up his sword straight up and it radiates red with energy before it shoots a beam in the sky! His power is so violent that the ground is breaking apart! Lightning then strikes his blade and as he looks at them all he shouts out," HAhahaha! You really think you can trick me!? Ben may have been a hopeless pathetic idiot, but I assure you I am not nearly as gullible! Just like you two. Doug and James, tried to betray us and take our power, and our life! However, we gave you justice, even if it seems you two used a trick."
Doug is not aware Ben fought what at least appeared to be him and James and says,"Snap out of it man! We would never betray you! Some posers must have dressed up as us and tried to mess with you! AH!"
Idious just snaps out a vicious,"Silence! You will never deceive us! Yes, you all used Ben and played him along like a sap. Then when you were through you tried to throw us away! However, we are not going to just roll along and die! We will never die, we will make you all suffer our pain!
For so long, we did everything as told. But no matter how we did, it was never good enough for anyone! No matter how long we suffer, we would never get what we desire! Yes, for so long we were nothing but everyone's pawn, but at last we have the power to have our justice!
Now, all of you hypocrite Enji Knights shall be destroyed as a testament to the supreme power of Darth Idious!"
He releases another massive shock-wave that nearly blows the warriors of light off their feet!
Aeris then says,"Such power. And, I can sense a deep sadness from this power. It's like, this is really Ben's pain. It seems that the Star Sword was blocking the darkness in his heart, but even it was overwhelmed from all those curse seal crystals! And now, they are warping his mind."
Ezan looks at Ben and says," I knew he was soft, but I never figured he would get this bad. Still, I can't let this be the outcome. I won't be satisfied until we can have a true decisive battle, Ben Auro!"
Cloud then says,"Ben, I will free you form the dark side. I'll prove we are all really your friends."
Lacus then has resolve shape in her eyes and she says,"Oh, Ben. I am sorry that I let you suffer so much. I, know the true you is still in there!, I won't let it end like this! If we can just destroy those Curse Seal Crystals, then he should be free like Hiryuumon. Don't worry Ben, I won't let you down this time, no matter what it takes. "
Idious then fully charges his power and says,"Hehehe, let the final game of today begin, Enji! Now, the judgment of Darth Idious will be brought down with absolute fury! And no one can stop it! HAAHAHAAH!"
Well, talk about shocking delvopements! It seems that the darkness in Ben's heart was greater than anyone realized and it has taken the insane shape of Darth Idious. Now that his true identify is revealed, can Ben be saved? Or is this the tragic end of our hero?
Hopefully not, because if so, that would suck as an ending. In any case, to find out if Lacus and the others can bring back Ben from the brink of insanity, then don't dare miss the next chapter of Tales of the Cosmic Wars!
Next time, Idious grows even madder and attacks everything in sight!
Cloud, Doug, James, Lacus and the others all try to reach out to Ben, but he can't seem to hear them!
The more they attack, the more insane Idious grows, and from that the negative emotions fuel the Curse Seal Crystals fused into Ben's body, powering him up further!
At least the good guys get a break when Grand Master Myers arrives to try and turn the tide.
Ben's friends are determined to show to him that he truly does have friends.
Can they rescue Ben from himself? Sorry, but that's for next time in Chapter 85: The Heart That Is Torn Apart. Finding the Real Ben!
Now, for some Author's notes. Just to make it clear, Darth Idious is both a part of Ben and not. Like the relationship of Fei and Id in Xenogears, Yami Marik from Yu Gi oh or Shinobu Sensui from The YuYu Hakusho anime and manga Idious is a sadistic alter ego personality created out of Ben's hatred, sadness, and other negative emotions as a way to deal with all the things he experienced after so much disappointment and other events.
For a long time, Ben suppressed his dark side and was for the most part successful. However the recent events led to him having an emotional breakdown. And when he absorbed the massive amount of darkness he was consumed by the curse seal crystals power and Idious at last took control. In addition, when that happened the dark emotions also transfers to Hiryuumon.
And it caused him to uncontrollably dark digivole all the way to his dark Mega level Helldramon just like how Agumon changed to Skull Greymon in Digimon season one, Guilmon evolved to Megidramon in Digimon Tamers and Shine Gerymon turned into Ruin mode in season five. Alright, I think that's everything. How it makes sense, until next time! And of course thanks for all the reviews!