So this guy walks into a bar, when suddenly Godzilla attacked. Now, most people were screaming and wetting themselves, but not this guy. When things got real, he put on his kewl face, then everything was kewl. Godzilla recognized the face, and then shades suddenly materialized onto his face as he also put on his kewl face, and left, quite pleased. The moral of the story? Never leave home without your kewl face. Just Don't. It makes everything kewl.


Origin Saga: Chapter 65 – Showdown at the Ancient Temple

Before Sonny began, he said, "Just to clarify a few things, before I go on, this place turned out to be home to a sacred tome, which was actually behind us turning into statues and imprisoning Virus in four basic torches. We weren't conscious when this happened, as that would have been horrible to be stuck like that for decades, incapable of moving at all. Okay, now that I got through that…"

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Sonny, Shade, Crystal, Amber and Mads all arrived at the entrance to the temple and cautiously entered. While walking down the eerily quiet stone paths with patterns on the walls, being lit up by torches nearby, they encountered various murals, one of them being Godzilla and Charles Barkley having a basketball game. Virus simply stood a little ahead, waiting for them, and as they approached him, he motioned towards the right wall, at a mural showing himself as a massive muscular beast with only a ghostly tail, and a spiky forehead destroying a city with a river completely evaporated in the background. "Marvel upon this piece of art. Is it not awe-inspiring? I created it myself."

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"Whoa, wait a minute." Sonic interrupted. "Virus did that one himself? Unlike the other ones, that mural wasn't some kind of future prophecy which an oracle came up with?"

"That's what he told us." Sonny shrugged.

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Virus took off further down the path as the others gave chase. When they reached an intersection containing three different paths, Virus summoned a portal on the side of one path and flew through it, vanishing from their sights. Sonny and Amber took the left route, Shade and Crystal went down the right route, and Mads went on along down the middle. After fighting through a room of mummies, all that Sonny and Amber managed to find was a dead end. On the right side, Shade and Crystal entered a large, brightly lit room, with a small flight of stairs leading up to a simple pillar of light where Virus stood as they arrived. "Hello, friends, I'm glad to see you here, yet also saddened with how things had to turn out."

"Same here, though we've had our differences seeing eye to eye, I'd hate to have to kill you, but in this instance, I don't seem to have much of a choice." Shade replied.

Crystal nodded. "You may be different now, but you can't beat us both at once."

Virus frowned at her. "I think you're quite mistaken, my dear. I am vastly different now, far more than you'd know. The difference between us is that I am a hive mind; I can create endless copies of myself, connected to each other spiritually, so any organic energy they drain also allows me to exploit its power. Unless you've forgotten, I recently infected a majority of the humans, and I can already feel a massive amount of power available to me right now. Your chance of victory is small, as you'll soon see."

Shade sighed. "I'm tired of your run-on explanations." And with that, he charged at Virus and tried to punch him, which Virus dodged before kneeing him in the chest then hit him in the back of the neck with a karate chop. Virus effortlessly dodged several attacks from Crystal who quickly joined in, and he waited until she did a sweep kick before leaping up and roundhouse kicking her across the face. He summoned a portal containing several dozen small spikes which impaled Crystal but before he could make another move, Shade fly kicked him.

Meanwhile, Mads had discovered a black book upon a pedestal, and in gold were the words written, "The Godly Book." Upon taking the book, the place began to rumble and a giant boulder suddenly appeared ahead. Mads ran back towards the intersection as he carried the book, evading poison darts shot from the walls, blasting giant spiders, and then leaping across a spiked pit which the boulder fell into.

Back in the large room, Shade hit Virus with an elbow to the face, knocking him back. Crystal knocked him back with a kick, and then as they planned to attack together, Virus created a portal underneath his feet and sank into it, dodging their attacks. Virus appeared behind Shade and punched him into a wall, and then elbowed Crystal in the chest as she turned around, and then blasted her into a wall.

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"Uhh, Sonny, Virus wasn't that strong." Crystal informed him. "I mean, sure, he was stronger than we figured at the time, but he was still beatable."

"Well it makes it more suspenseful this way."

"Actually, it just makes this a little more cliché." Shade replied.

"Whatever."

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After quickly recovering, Sonny and Amber arrived, making it fairly even when Virus started fighting at full power. During this fight, Mads showed up, still carrying The Godly Book. He opened it, trying to look for the right incantation to read out stop Virus for good.

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The projector had stopped, and there was a long period of silence before Amy eventually asked," So what happened after that?"

Sonny shrugged. "I don't know, I can't recall much after that. Do any of you guys know?" He asked, glancing over at the other four.

The other three shook their heads while Mads spoke up. "I vaguely remember saying one thing to do with imprisoning anyone in the immediate area, and would undo the effect upon saying the colour of their eyes out loud. I think this also removed Virus' infection when this happened, causing some partial memory loss as well."

"Then why wasn't Virus released around the same time you guys were?" Tails asked.

"We don't know, and it's not important enough to need a good answer. So anyway, we're pretty much done here." Mads said, getting up.

Sonny hopped out of the chair. "Yeah, we should really get going." The five of them waved goodbye to the others as they left, while they waved back. Rose left quickly afterwards with such silence that the others didn't notice.

Tails stroked his chin as he thought about the book. "That godly book must have been enchanted by an incredibly powerful magician."

Mary Sue nodded. "Yup, he sure was. I knew the guy who wrote the book, personally at one point and helped him write it."

"I didn't know you liked to brag."

Mary suddenly shouted, "I'm not bragging! This really happened!" She calmed herself down quickly afterwards. "This is why I don't talk about myself often…"

"Well it's not like you were the one who created bread."

"Actually, I did create bread, but allowed my friend to take credit for it. Boy, what a dumb idea that was…"

"Well I doubt there are any more absurd things you've done in the past."

"Actually, there's also the fact that holy water comes from my sweat when I go jogging. Sally once collected the sweat from all over my body, which had a side effect of burning evil beings, so they decided to call it holy water." Sally Sue smiled and recalled the time as Mary mentioned this.

Knuckles narrowed his eyes at her. "You're making this up, aren't you?"

Mary chuckled for a few seconds. "Yeah, though I guess it would be somewhat hard to notice." Mary got to her feet. "Anyway, we should also get going, I still need to watch Gilmore Girls."

Sally waved goodbye. "Even though I still don't like you guys much, I still had a good time."

"Have a pleasant day, everyone." Purity added.

"And another thing," Sally began. "Why does almost everyone usually use my full name when referring to me?"

"We're just used to it, I guess." Sonic replied.

Sally simply accepted it and the three of them left. There was a rectangular pack of squirrels outside, which they all gently sat on. The squirrels raised themselves off the ground like a magic carpet and flew off into the sunset. Everyone stared in disbelief for several moments until Sonya said, "You guys saw that too, right?"

"Let's pretend we didn't." Shadow responded.

Back at Virus' place, he had also finished telling the Loli Rangers about the various things he could recall happening. "So that's about it, any questions?" Loli Blue immediately raised her hand. "Yes, Yandere-chan?"

"It needed more jokes." She said with a frown.

"I agree." Loli Green nodded.

"C'mon, guys!" Loli Red began. "At least he bothered to try and tell us, instead of not bringing it up at all. You can't take it seriously if there are too many jokes, so just a small amount would have done the job."

Virus nodded, while still confused by her response. "Thank you, Tsundere-chan…I think."

"I-It's not like I was sticking up for you because I like you or anything…baka."

Meanwhile, Lily sat on top of a hill in an unknown location, staring off into the sky as she sat with her legs crossed and sighed. "I need more screen time…"