Review responses: This is where I answer and respond to reviews from the last chapter at the moment.
The Constitutionalist: OK, I messed up. I may have led some readers to believe that the first of the three heroes appears in this chapter. That is NOT the case. The 3 friends who fought off the goombas and zombies are the heroes. I meant the first good guy from the video games arrives. If you don't get it now, you'll see later.
That's the only one that really needed a response to, No Offense Ny'Kle! Anyway, on with the story.
Chapter 2: Level Up!
Alduin was spitting fire at some zombies and hadn't noticed them yet. Michael was the first to have an idea. "We gotta get out of here!" Michael shouted in Josh's face. He turned to run in the opposite direction of Alduin, but he didn't notice what had suddenly appeared. He had barely taken 2 steps before running face-first into a block. A mario brick had appeared and when Michael ran into it, the block dispensed a... shotgun?
Both Adam and Josh thought it made sense because of the collapse of worlds. "Aw Shit!" Michael yelled. They couldn't blame him. He had just head butted a brick at full speed. Then he noticed the shotgun. "Sweet! Mine! Called it!" He was happy to finally have a useful weapon. As he picked it up, a larger portal opened up on thier left.
A hoard of zombies was coming through. Josh looked them over and realized what type they were. Thry weren't black ops zombies, thank god. They were from Resident Evil 4. While Josh wasn't pleased with las plagas zombies, it was better than black ops.
They all looked at the zombies, then at Alduin, and back at the zombies. They all said together, "Zombies," and nodded. Michael lifted his shot gun and Adam hoisted the sledgehammer over his shoulder. Josh drew his dagger and sighed, "Why today? Why not Monday? But Saturday, seriously?" Josh's Saturdays always seemed to get ruined, but this one took the cake. "Lets just get this shit over with." They then rushed at the zombies.
Micheal entered shooting while Josh used an under stab, ramming his dagger into the first zombie's neck. Adam entered the fray with an overhead smash of the hammer. They started kicking ass. Josh started slicing zombies up with blinding speed as Adam destroyed zombies with devastating strength. Michael was tearing through the zombies with a seemingly endless supply of shotgun shells, but the zombie hoard seemed endless also. Zombies kept pouring in from smaller portals and the 3 heroes were slowing down.
Shit really hit the fan when Adam lost his hammer. It got caught on a zombie due to his waning strength and he had to abandon it to not end up surronded. Then, as Michael was trying to reach Adam, a zombie jumped on his shoulder. He started flailing and shooting,to keep the zombie on his shoulder from biting him and to keep any others from getting to close. Then it happened.
A portal started to open up on Josh. Then it disappearedand and Josh went wide eyed for about 5 seconds. Then Josh snapped back to reality and ran at the zombie holding Michael. He somehow dodged the other zombies and as he reached the one holding Michael unleashing a devastating roundhouse kick, smacking the zombie aside.
"How'd you do that?!" Michael said standing up and looking at Josh in shock. Josh had never had a karate lesson in his life. Suddenly, he's like Bruce Lee. Josh dodged a zombie by doing a somersault backwards. He then rushed up to it and round house kicked it into 2 others. He then turned to another zombie and buried his knife in its leg. It leaned over in pain, so Josh wrapped his arms around its neck and preformed a suplex, blowing chunks of zombie head everywhere.
Josh picked up his knife and told Michael happilly, "I don't know how to explain it, but I feel so powerful, so skilled, so full of energy." Then Josh remembered what it was Michael was doing. "Adam!" They looked over to see an unbelievable sight. Adam had gained some power too.
Adam was angry and pulled back his fist with no they heard what he said next. "Faallcconn...," Adam prepared as he pulled back his fist and Josh and Michael could have sworn they saw his hand turn red. "Paawwnnchh!" Adam let fly his punch in a firey explosion of justice. Flames flew everywhere engulfing the closest zombies and burning others. Of course, those who were in front of or received the punch were simply gone.
"Adam gained the powers of Captian Falcon!" Michael said excited as Adam continued to 'Falcon' his way through the hoard until nothing was left. He rushed at the last zombie and grabbed its shoulders.
Adam lifted his knee with a shout of, "Knee of Justice!" The zombie's head exploded in a firey blaze... of justice. He then came up to Michael and Josh with a happy look on his face.
"Yeessss!" Adam yelled happilly. Captian Falcon was his favorite video game character of all games in existence. "Who'd you get though Josh?" Josh thought for a minute. Who's powers did Josh absorb? Josh suddenly had an epiphany!
"Leon!" Josh shouted at them. "That's it! I got Leon S. Kennedy's powers from Resident Evil 4 and 6." The zombie dodging and fighting skills was all stuff Josh had seen Leon do in the game.
"Well," Michael said jokingly, "You've got the hair for it." They all laughed at the very true joke. Josh did have hair that some would compare to Leon's. "Why didn't I get powers?" Josh and Adam just shrugged. They knew nothing about the collapse of worlds, just like Michael. This was new to all of them. "Well, what did it feel like to get the powers?" It was an honest question. "Cause you guys blocked out the world for about 5 seconds."
Josh and Adam looked at each other, thinking of a way to explain it. "Well," Josh started, "It's hard to explain. First off, it feels like ten minutes. The best way to describe it would have to be uhh, it's a rush." Michael looked at Adam for a better explanation. Adam shrugged, agreeing that was the only way to explain it.
"Aw man!" Michael yelled. "You guys got powers and I didn't! That means one of two things! 1: I'm gonna either die or be captured for your guys' entire quest or 2: I'm gonna be the third wheel and you guys are-" Michael was cut off mid-rant as a portal opened up on him. Josh just smiled as it closed and Michael started absorbing the powers.
Then a zombie came up behind Michael and both Adam and Josh yelled, "Michael!" Michael suddenly whirled around blowing the zombie's head apart with his shotgun, holding it with only one hand. "I have had enough of these motherfucking zombies at our motherfucking college!" Michael yelled rushing at a group of zombies. He started tearing through them with his shot gun and reloading with amazing speed.
Adam and Josh just watched from the side with blank faces. "So," Adam started, "What powers do you think he got? Call of Duty or Battlefield?" Josh thought for a second.
"I don't know yet," Josh answered with no emotion just like Adam. Michael then picked up a hatchet one of the zombie's had been wielding and threw it into the face of another. Josh and Adam looked at each other.
"Call of Duty," they said at the same time. Michael then came up to them, all the zombies near them dead.
"Okay," he said happilly, "my bloodlust is sated. I got Call of Duty powers! Yes! I'm not a side character!" He then walked face first into another block. "Son of a bitch!" This time, a hand gun fell out of it.
Josh scooped it up. "Mine," he said, claiming Leon's main weapon. He then helped Michael up. "What do we do now guys?" Then he noticed a shadow that had covered all three of their visions. Josh looked up to see Alduin flying above them. The shot gun blasts and falcon punchs must have caught his attention. "Aw shit." Josh knew they were fucked now. Then, Alduin stared raining down meteors. "Aw shit!" Josh yelled dodge rolling behind a building. Michael leaped behind another with Adam using his falcon speed to follow.
The meteors devastated the land destroying most of the buildings, but not touching the 3 heroes. They came out 2 minutes later, looking over the damage. The land was barren and full of minature craters, the heroes noticed as they walked around. They knew Alduin was around, but were to dazed to care at the moment. Then the dark shadow fell over them again and Michael went into a rage. "You know what!?" Michael yelled furiously, "I'm fucking done!" He then picked up a RPG that had fallen through a portal and shot it at Alduin...
Alduin shot fire and destroyed it without a thought. It was at this time that the 3 heroes knew they were doomed. There wasn't enough building left to hide behind. But then, the heroes heard something they all knew by heart that made them look at the source even with death in front of them. "Fus Ro Da!" shouted a voice with intensity. As the shout hit Alduin, both him and the heroes turned to look at the speaker.
It was the dragon born! He looked just as the game depicted him in the game. He was a nord, wearing iron armor and the bad ass horned helmet, and was an average height of 6'2. Alduin flew toward him, forgetting all about them. All 3 of them knew he would be fine and if he wasn't, there wasn't really anything they could do to help. So they did the only thing they could. They ran for thier lives. As they left the campus, they heard the battle raging behind them.
5 minutes later, they took a break. They were on a high way next to the campus. All 3 were thinking, 'What do we do now?' They didn't know wher to go. Then Josh had an idea. "Why don't we head to the portal?" He pointed to the main giant one that looked even bigger then before. "It looks like the main one. If we head to what ever's under it, we could find who or what summoned it."
"Seems like our best shot," Adam said. He got up and looked down the road. "W-what the?" They all looked down the road and were struck speechless. Coming down the road was a bald man who had a red tatoo going down his body and over his eye in a line. He was only wearing a loin cloth and had two swords strapped across his back. It was Kratos, bane of gods.
Notes: Ok, so the first hero didn't stay too long, but he saved all of their lives. Kratos, on the other hand, who knows what will happen with him? Oh yeah, I do.
Next time on the Crossover Paradox: our three heroes talk with Kratos and get separated from each other. Our three heroes must face a tough enemy and master thier new powers. Can they master their new powers, or will they die trying? Next time: Learning the Controls