Tloj: O.O ...I wonder if I'm gonna die for that...
"Ha! I didn't think it would be this easy!" Fear laughs. "I win!"
Shade drops to her knees, and whimpers pitifully, "No..."
"You... BASTARD!" Antonio roars, going straight to Lost and charging at Fear.
Fear smirks. "Ooh, much better!" He fades out as Antonio does, both of them on the offensive.
Shade barely notices, moving to crawl for his body, but Millie holds her back.
"Shade... he's gone..."
"No."
"Shade-"
"NO!"
Antonio roars, "You killed him! He has wives, a kid! And you took him away from them!"
"Oh, boo hoo! They'll all die eventually. Even you will." Fear hisses.
Shade sobs at Hero's form, her heart breaking as she thinks she will have NO way to explain this to Sarah...
"Not today I won't!" Antonio yells, punching Fear across the room.
Shade finally dislodges Millie, and scrambles to Hero. Once there she sobs harder as she takes his head, and carefully hugs it to herself, shaking with sorrow.
"Nice punch, son. I'll feel better about killing you." Fear smirks and punches Antonio in the gut.
Millie glances between Shade, and Antonio, unsure of what she can do.
"Hey!" Millie looks up, and Seis runs in with Cinder, Smoke, Chaos, Spike, and Counterpunch.
"What did we... oh." Seis blinks, seeing Hero's prone figure.
Cinder stares, Smoke's arm over her shoulder as he limps. Spike, the one most used to taking hits, looks the best off of the whole group.
The realization that Hero has fallen takes a toll on their morale, the effects of Fear's blood start to wear on them.
"No..." Seis murmurs, before bowing his head and placing a hand on his heart respectfully.
Reave, and Crystal join hands, and bow their heads in defeat.
"Well." Seis looks up with a growl. "If I'm gonna die, then I'm gonna die fighting!"
Spike summons his sword, "That makes two of us!"
"And drunk." Seis adds before charging with a yell.
Spike runs beside him with his teeth bared, sword held over his shoulder with the point facing Fear.
"Hmph." Fear does a split kick and hits them both in the face. "I don't care how many of you I face. You all have fallen, your leader is no more."
Seis skids and takes a swig of alcohol before charging again. "We lived without him before, we can do it again!"
"Besides, better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool," Spike puts in, charging, going for a stab to the heart.
"Valiant words." He states, dodging Seis' sword before slamming the side of his claw into Spike's face.
Spike turns his head, catching Fear's wrist in his teeth, and holding him in place as Cinder materializes in front of him, looking much like an angel of war as she slams both her feet into him.
As Fear goes flying Spike spits out his arm, yellow blood crystallizing on his sword. "That tasted foul, and I ate out of dumpsters..."
Fear hisses before smirking, his arm regenerating. "I admit, you got me with that one, princess of the Sea Clan."
Cinder takes a stance as Smoke shakes off his limp to flank her on her other side. "You have no hope of beating me without your godly powers Fear, you radiate the very thing that has motivated us here."
"That is what you claim." He smirks and starts glowing yellow. The fear in the air becomes oppressive as he walks calmly towards her.
"I am the master of fear. I know what you all are afraid of." He states.
Their ears fold back, and Cinder growls, "Fear of death, fear of the unknown, fear of failure... We have risen above all these for this fight, and I'll be damned before I cower before the likes of YOU!"
"No, you have conquered these things, and so are no longer afraid of them." He states, slowly smirking. "No, I mean your personal, private, individual fears."
Reave cracks his eyes open, "He's right... They're both right. We rise over fear constantly, and retain our individual fears because it's impossible to be without fear."
Crystal nods, "We know our fears, we know our weaknesses, and we know bistro make them an advantage."
Smoke smirks, "Your little mind games won't work anymore you fucking asshole."
Spike cracks the crystal bold off his sword by slashing the floor, "So now it's back to basics."
"Oh, that's where you're wrong." He smirks and walks slowly walks towards them, walking like Mephiles. "Cinder is afraid she isn't good enough for Chaos, that he will cast her aside. Not true in the slightest, but the thought is there."
He looks at Spike. "Spike is afraid that he will kill anyone he loves. Well, Cinder, Reave, Smoke... they're all still alive. But all it takes is a push."
The walls seem to close in on them all, the fear stifling the room.
"And Smoke... well, June could always see you for the monster you are..." His reptilian gaze stares right through him.
They all finch a bit, and Crystal raises her arm, "Burn in Hell."
Her Phantom Blade springs to life as a crossbow, and she fires a dart for his neck meant just for him... Diamond.
He catches it without looking at it. He glances at it for a second. "How clever. Unfortunately... that's not how the diamond factor works." He flicks the dart back, and it strikes her in the chest, knocking her into a wall.
He walks forward. "I have to be encased in pure diamond. Not just dust. And you can't have that much diamond." He smirks. "Ah yes, the Nightshade. It hurts that you're the last female of your clan, doesn't it. How will you fulfill your father's legacy without an heir?"
She looks up, glaring at him, "Dying in combat in an effort to avenge my clan will be enough to honor my father." She yanks the dart free of her chest, and draws her wristblades.
"And what if both you and your brother die?" He aims his claw in Reave's face, who had been sneaking up.
Reave has doesn't even flinch, "Then the Nightshades end gloriously." He knocks the claw aside, spinning into Fear, and slamming his newly refilled Poison Blade into the villain's chest.
"Amazing what you find on a quest," Reave remarks. "That was four ounces of Black Mamba Venom. Two drops kill in under a minute, I wonder if your healing factor can keep up."
He slowly looks up at them, a glint in his eyes. "Can you?" He grabs them both and slams them into each other before fading out with them, chunks of wall and floor evaporating with loud explosions.
By the time they come back into view they're both unconscious, and pretty beat up.
He skids to a halt, panting and oozing blood. "Heh... Worthy attempt, at least."
"RAH!" Antonio comes from nowhere, surprising Fear as they disappear.
Smoke waves smelling salts under the assassins' noses, and they jolt awake with matching grimaces.
"Dafuq is everyone else? We could use Sonic, Knuckles, Chaos, someone!" Seis hisses, limping up and using his sword as a crutch.
"I think the Grandmasters got them," Smoke says. "Fucking cannon characters, they always leave the hard work to the OCs whenever we star in a book or movie."
Chaos climbs up the stairs slowly. "I'm here! I'm..." He pauses, looking at Hero. "...Shit."
Cinder turns to him, "Remember what we discussed?"
He nods. "Your sure you want to do this? Against Fear?"
"I don't believe we have many options."
He nods and leaps onto her, transforming into liquid armor, his brain resting on her heart.
Antonio hits the ground heart, reverting to normal as he goes unconscious.
"There goes our heavy hitter..." Seis growls, raising his sword. "Spike, have you ever used two swords?"
"A few times yeah."
"Here then." He throws his sword over. "Break it, and if we survive, I'll break you."
"I'd like to see you try," Spike smirks.
"There's more than one way. Now kill the bastard!" He motions to Fear.
"Hm, mother and son? I've never killed three in one." He smirks and sheathes his claws, taking a fighting stance, ignoring his wounds.
"Dude, you're going to bleed out eventually," Spike says as he twirls both swords.
"If you say so. As far as I see, I'm just making you collapse while you struggle to cope. Death, fear, struggling... the heart can only take so much." He says calmly.
Spike punches him in the face with his spikes, "Up yours buddy!"
"How original." Fear rolls his eyes and kicks Spike's kneecap.
Spike curses, and uses one sword to balance himself before going into a one-legged cyclone slice, "I got a boner for murder!"
"I have a cure: Death." Fear unsheathes his claws and starts firing at Spike.
Spike plants both his feet, deflecting them, and out of the blue he bends forward as Cinder rolls over his back, slamming both feet into Fear's face. There's an explosion of multicolored energy on impact that sends all three of them sliding back.
"Grr!" Fear hisses, charging at Cinder.
She forms a water blade on her arm, and slashes off his claws. Then she deflects his arms upwards, lifts him into the air with a knee to the balls, and then punches him away with a punch to the scrotum.
The only time he flinched was when she cut off his claws. He hisses, and the claws extend, fixing themselves. He stands up. "I think I'll kill you next." He growls.
"I welcome you to try," she says, and moves fast enough to blur out of sight. Taking him off-guard she rips off his head, and rips out his heart before he knows what happened.
He falls to the ground lifelessly.
Cinder squeezes the heart, "Playing Opossum won't fool me."
He regenerates and warps to his feet. "Shame." He charges at her with a snarl, jabbing a claw into her midsection and unloading a hundred rounds. None of them penetrated, but it was like being punched a hundred times in the same spot over the course of two seconds. He follows the punch through, throwing her into a wall.
Cinder grunts, and climbs back through the wall with narrowed eyes. "I would have wished to fight an opponent such as you while both mortal. A proper challenge is hard to find."
"I thank you for saying so!" He smiles and bows before taking a fighting stance.
She cracks her neck, and straightens her hat before taking a stance of her own, "If the world were not in peril by your presence I would be tempted to let you escape, that way I the eons to come I would have one constant rival... A shame."
"You needn't fret. I am not the only one vying for this world to fall." He smirks and charges forward, his barrels spinning.
She makes a spike of Chaos-infused water over her fist, and slams it in the middle of the barrels, making the gun rip itself apart as she shreds his arm off, "Then I take it you admit defeat?"
"Not. At. All." He hisses, his arm regenerating. He grabs Chao's brain and rips it out of the armor, and Chaos screams, the water falling off Cinder. Then, he stabs the stub of his shattered claw into Cinder's chest over and over again, laughing sadistically as he throws Chaos' brain away from him.
Out of the blue Smoke slams a foot in his face, right into Spike's sword which the hedgehog then uses to nail him to the ground.
The water flows to Chaos, who regenerate before launching himself at Fear, covering him in an attempt to drown him.
Fear struggles, growling loudly. "Grah, you pests!" He kicks Spike in the balls hard enough for him to go through the ceiling, and punches Chaos' brain, the water god disintegrating as he moves swiftly to the side, cutting himself almost in half but freeing himself from the sword. He leaks blood freely, panting. "You all are quickly becoming less amusing."
Smoke holds up a device, "Surprise motherfucker." He presses a button, and a block of C4 goes off on Fear's back, the evil hedgehog blowing into bits.
Chaos hisses, limping over to Cinder and helping her sit up.
Cinder clings to him, "You were right... We need a better place to hide your weak spot..."
"Yeah..." He manages to say, focusing on healing her wounds with Chaos energy. "...When do you think Spike's coming back down from that upward... spike?" He wasn't exactly sure what else to call the attack.
Cinder looks up, "As soon as he dislodges his head from the ceiling I suppose."
He looks at Shade. "I feel bad for her. Her husband, the hero... and he fell."
Cinder rubs Chaos's back, "Some of the greatest heroes in history have been martyrs."
Shade is still in shock, holding Hero's upper half close to her chest.
The ground suddenly starts shaking, and Fear stands, his body regenerating bit by bit. "I will kill you all!" He roars.
Shade looks up at him, her eyes slowly hardening, and then burning as she stands, leaving her husband on the ground as she summons her swords, "I am Shade of the Tundra clan, Princess of Echidnas, and daughter of Enerjak. I WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD!" She charges him with a building battle cry.
"...Ruh-roh." Chaos helps Cinder to her feet, wrapping onto her once again.
"Try me!" Fear growls, finally dropping his nice facade. He regenerates his claws and charges at her.
Shade leaps high, spinning sideways as she kicks his face, and gouges his back with her Leech Blades as she comes down behind him.
He roars and elbows her face savagely, slashing her chest. "You are weak! You are nothing compared to your husband!"
Shade stabs him through the jaw, and up through the head, "Shut! Your! Gob!" Her chest quickly heals over thanks to her pool of collected life energy.
He shoots her in the stomach, blasting her away with a hiss before getting blasted from behind.
"Okay, I'm through with this." Antonio hisses, turning Lost again.
"I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" Fear roars, healing and bursting with yellow aura.
"You've done a good job so far... not."
Fear pauses, panting. "Who...?"
"Over here." A blast gets him from behind
Fear heals with a hiss and turns. He blinks, his jaw dropping.
Hero looks at him, panting, but with a determined look on his face, even though his body was still severed.
Cinder stares, "What... But how...?"
"No... I killed you!" Fear roars.
"No, you didn't. Sure, you knocked me out for a bit there with that last attack, but Enerjak did worse than you did." Hero states, examining his C.E.A. device lazily.
Shade gasps, and then runs to him, "Hero!"
"Hey... sorry I scared you there." He hugs her gently.
"Bro... you're kinda beside yourself." Antonio states gruffly, his Lost form making him less passive.
"Huh?" Hero looks down. "...Woah. Heh, cool."
"Pull yourself together," Crystal says as she steps up beside him. "We need help."
"Some more so than others," Smoke notes as he watches Spike fighting to free his cranium.
"Right." Hero nods seriously and melts into white liquid, the red blood mixing with the white before he reforms, taking a fighting stance with a smile. "I'm glad I copied Chaos' shape-shifting abilities!"
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Earlier…
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Hero flies through the air in two pieces, his device switching through powers. When he lands, the face of his device slams into the ground, selecting Chaos' power. The powers take over as he hits his head, taking him slowly into unconsciousness.
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Earlier still...
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Chaos grabs the enemies with his watery hands, preferring to drown them unconscious rather than killing them outright.
Hero watches the water god closely, his hand on his C.E.A. device. Once he's seen enough, he slams the face down, copying the ability for later. "Focus on clearing the room as fast as possible!" He shouts, running for the stairs. "We need to work our way to the stairs!"
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Spike finally yanks his head free, "Why didn't you do that sooner?! DAMMIT!" That last bit is because he falls, his head colliding with Fear's.
"FUCK!" Fear roars, rubbing his head as he kicks Spike into a wall.
"I was unconscious and recovering." Hero states, charging at Fear.
Fear growls and charges at him. "It doesn't matter! You'll die for real this time!"
"Not happening!" Hero yells, his fist turning to water and growing huge, punching Fear away.
Spike stares, "Dude, you're like Sandman from Spider-Man, but with water."
His hand turns back to normal. "Nah, that's Chaos' job."
"You have no powers that will save you." Fear growls, standing slowly as he wipes blood from his face. "You constantly grow weaker thanks to my blood everywhere, and if Antonio couldn't stop me, what chance do you have?!"
Hero smirks. "And that's where you miscalculated."
Both Fear and Antonio blink. "What?"
"You forget, the Dark Super transformation is powerful for sure. But it's not stronger than Super, unless it is drawing off the power of Chaos energy. Antonio is only running it on pure darkness! So even though he has powered up way past Super, he's only ten times stronger than Super right now."
"My head hurts," Spike moans. "Stop talking about numbers!"
"Sorry." He smiles and reaches into his hair, pulling out the Super Belt.
"Those are-" Fear growls, startled.
"The Super Emeralds!" Chaos exclaims.
Hero puts on the belt with a smirk.
Spike picks up the cue, pulling a Boom Box out of his hair, and it starts playing "Rock the Dragon" from Dragonball Z.
Hero's fingers glow with Chaos energy, and he states, "The servers are the seven Supers. Their power, Chaos, is enriched by the heart. The controller is the one that unifies the Supers!" He slowly drags his fingers across the dull stones, and to his touch, they start glowing brilliantly like the powerful gems they are.
"NO! YOU WILL DIE!" Fear roars, aiming both of his claws and unleashing a hailstorm of bullets.
Hero quickly crosses his arms across the belt, and quickly swipes them across the smooth surface of the gems, snapping his fingers when he throws his arms out. He yells and explodes with power, his fur glowing rainbow as he starts floating. His hair whips around wildly, like a hurricane was blowing. The bullets bounce off him harmlessly.
Smoke laughs, "GET HIM HERO!"
Hyper Hero smiles gently. "Oh, I will." His voice echoes.
:3 You really thought he'd stay dead? He's called Hero for a reason, of course he comes back! Next chapter... the finale! Reviews would be nice!