BGM-Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 OST-Heroes & Heralds Menu Theme
Mega Man X: Hello, my name is X. A Maverick Hunter fighting for peace. It was an all-out battle between us, the Masters of Evil, and Ultron Sigma at the Mishima Zaibatsu. Doom wanted to steal the Devil Gene and Satsui no Hado for his own evil plans, and Ultron Sigma thought it was the perfect chance to destroy all his enemies in one place. Luckily, we forced them to retreat. Good job, team! We're halfway done!
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Issue 11: The Devils Strike
Aensland Castle, Makai. Earth-30847.
Within a demonic castle in the depths of this demon realm, there stands a man that is more than man. In other words, a vampire that rules this realm as a proud noble. His name is Demitri Maximoff, Head of the House of Maximoff. And he is waiting for someone in their bedroom.
"…How long are you going to stand there, Demitri?"
The stoic vampire is being stared at by an attractive succubus from across the bedroom. Her name is Morrigan Aensland, Head of the House of Aensland. Two of the Makai Realm's greatest Darkstalkers confront each other for a mysterious reason, one that Demitri is ready to elaborate. "Don't you find this all incredibly boring, Morrigan?" Demitri calmly asked his fellow noble.
"Yes, I'd have to say I agree." Morrigan grinned.
"In that case…You know why I came here." Demitri claimed.
"I can't think of many other reasons why a gentleman would traipse into a lady's sleeping quarters." Morrigan quipped.
"Indeed. I'm here to settle things." Demitri proclaimed.
BGM-Project X Zone 2 OST-Feast of the Damned
Swiftly a noble yet extremely powerful aura envelops the vampire's being. A power that can protect him from the sun and other weaknesses as his eyes turn blood red for one purpose. To fight his rival noble. "Now! Master of Aensland! Fight me! Then shall we see who is truly worthy to lead Makai!" Demitri declared, determined to defeat Morrigan and claim all of the demon world as his to rule for eternity.
But to his surprise, Morrigan replies with, "…Not right now."
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"Hmm?" Demitri responded whilst calming his power.
"I believe we have company." Morrigan claimed.
BGM-Super Dragon Ball Heroes OST-Prison Planet
As sensed by the succubus, a powerful tremor hits the castle that prompts the Darkstalkers to go out and investigate. Both head out to a balcony outside that has a wonderous view of the chaos reshaping Makai. The demon world is under siege by both armies of Ultron Sigma and the Masters of Evil as they wage war with each other for absolute control of the realm. Ultron Drones clash with Creatures of Grimm. Spycopter mechaniloids dominating the skies but not a Masters Air Force. It's a madhouse outside of Aensland Castle.
"A war between demon and machine?" The curious Demitri described.
"One we're caught in the middle of. I was wondering about this strange power I sensed outside of my castle. This will be a good chance to check it out." Morrigan commented.
"Yes…I've noticed it myself. Who could be behind this? Jedah?" Demitri wondered if the third Makai noble is orchestrating this war for his own conquest of Makai.
"That I don't know. But…" Then, a mischievous smile forms on Morrigan's face as she states, "All of a sudden, I think things are finally turning a lot less boring."
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Meanwhile in the Human Realm…
"Gang, I think we have something!"
BGM-Mega Man Zero 3 OST-Prismatic (Telos Ver.)
Night has fallen around the Aven-Jet as Spider-Man enters the war room alongside Tron and Alia with an important announcement. "You found a cure to the Sigma Virus? Awesome! We were just tellin' Fury what's been going on." Sonic smiled, standing alongside a holographic screen with Nick Fury's face.
'So what do you have?' Fury asked the scientists.
"It's not so much a 'cure' but more of a solution. All we have to do is destroy Ultron Sigma then traces of his Virus will cease to exist along with him." Tron smiled proudly.
"Seriously? That's it?" Ryu commented since he was expecting a more complicated solution.
"Easier said than done. You remember the trashing he gave us in Cyberspace. His Sentinel didn't compare to the real deal." Zero reminded them of their first fight with the Maverick Fusion.
"That is where our Anti-Ultron Sigma Weapon comes into play, once it's finished, which won't be for a while." Spider-Man said.
"Ultron Sigma is the physical embodiment of the Sigma Virus, making him the hive-mind of all the infected. They're an extension of his will. Even if we destroy his prime body, he'll just resurrect in another one. But with the data we collected from the Maverick Avengers, we can upload it into the weapon and force the individual copies back into the prime body the second he's destroyed." Alia explained the plan to defeat Ultron Sigma.
"So basically, we must destroy the Maverick bloodline in one fell swoop." Jin summarized.
"You must feel envious." Xiaoyu teased, knowing he's on a similar mission to destroy the Mishima bloodline.
'Plan is still risky. What if you all get infected with the Virus?' Fury questioned.
"Already planned for that." Spidey then shows off in his hand a syringe and hi-tech bracelet, "Thanks to Zero, we were able to synthesize vaccines and gadgets to fight off the infection. They're not 100% guaranteed, but they will buy us more time."
"It's not the worst plan in the world." Chris commented.
"Sorry guys. I wish there is an easier way, but this is the best we can do." Spidey said somberly, wishing he could do better.
"Don't beat yourself up about it." X smiled, cheering him up by placing a hand on his shoulder, "You've come farther in curing the Sigma Virus than anyone else. We have hope thanks to you."
"Thanks, X. I'll definitely need your help when we go up against Ultron Sigma. The Evolution Stone is a lot like you. Limitless potential wrapped in one enigmatic package." Spidey grimly compared them.
"I've noticed." X frowned sternly.
Then out of nowhere, Ingrid returns into the ship with her own little announcements. "My my, a lot of new faces in this group. Keep this up and this ship won't hold your weight." She joked at her fellow freedom fighters.
"Ingrid! You haven't aged a bit. I've heard you've been helping us. Have you found Ultron Sigma's base?" The smiling Chun-Li asked, having met the mysterious girl a few times during past investigations.
"Close. Thought I stop by and tell you what I have found out. As some of you know, Ultron Sigma has formed an alliance with Grandmaster Meio. They are massing an army against us, their numbers growing by the hour." Ingrid informed the party.
"We've noticed. Their Sentinel nearly wiped us out." Sonic remarked.
"What else?" Strider then asked, wanting to know more on what his arch-nemesis is up to.
"Meio is testing some kind of biological weapon. A gas. Three guesses on what it is." Ingrid told them.
"The Sigma Virus." Chris realized.
"That is not good. If that gets released into the atmosphere, the entire planet will be infected. And because of the dimensional link, the other Earth will be corrupted simultaneously." Alia noted.
"We have a vaccine now. Nothing to worry about." Viewtiful Joe conversed.
"It's still experimental! There's no way we'll be able to mass produce it to protect two dimensions in time!" Tron retorted.
"Masters of Evil, Ultron Sigma, and Meio? We never had our hands full like this before. What's the plan?" Blake wondered, worried about their odds at the moment.
"We need to defeat the remaining Maverick Avengers to collect more data and reduce causalities." X answered, before turning over to, "Strider, you're Meio's enemy. Where do you think he's hiding?"
"Either the Battleship Balrog or the Third Moon. They may be hiding in either our dimensions." Strider answered.
"Then Ingrid, coordinate with SHIELD and locate either base. Contact us once you're done with recon." X ordered her.
"Right. From what I heard, we don't have a lot of time. Good luck out there, gang." Ingrid said before teleporting away to continue her investigations.
'We'll be arriving at Las Vegas in 10 minutes.' Doctor Light announced through the intercom.
"Enough time to give everyone their flu shots. Who's first?" Spidey asked, teasing everyone with the pointy syringe in his hand that unnerves the few that hates getting shots.
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Later at Las Vegas…
BGM-Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening OST-Prologue
The Aven-Jet is moments away from arriving at their latest destination. Heroes like Wolverine are taking their Anti-Virus Vaccine shot now to double their resistance against the Sigma Virus. Meanwhile, those like Ryu equip themselves with Virus Buster Bracelets that'll allow their attacks to destroy possible Sigma Virus drones. Of course for robots like X they are equipped with Anti-Virus parts because of their synthetic nature. The Resistance is now ready to take on this new Maverick Avenger and whatever they want to throw at them, waiting for the ship to drop them off in the middle of the abandoned streets.
"You seriously gonna fight without a shirt on?" asked Sonic, noticing Jin is in his shirtless battle uniform.
"This coming from the naked hedgehog?" Jin snarked stoically.
"Just don't want us dogpiled by the fangirls. This is Vegas after all." Sonic quipped. But seconds after arriving at Las Vegas, the heroes are shocked to confront a colossal tower that is radiating an unholy presence, "Though I'm pretty sure Vegas isn't famous for evil-looking towers."
"What is that…?" The amazed Tron wondered.
'Nothing is showing up on the database. I can confirm that it was brought here by the spacetime anomalies.' Alia informed the team through the commlink.
"Our Maverick Avenger is somewhere in there." Wolverine assumed. Then he notices Jin acting both strange and in slight agony as he asks, "What's wrong, kid?"
"The Devil Gene…It's reacting to it!" Jin replied whilst touching the devil mark on his left shoulder, "That tower was created by demons!"
"Demons?" Ruby reacted in shock from hearing that.
"What does Ultron Sigma want with a dumb like this? Better go check it out. You'll be okay?" Axl asked the devil fighter.
"Yeah. Let's go." Jin proclaimed, eager to confront this demon tower.
The only way into the tower is through a chamber covered in thick ice. It looked like something was sealed in here and later killed as the heroes pass by the corpse of an icy three-headed hellhound. "Creepy." X commented, cautiously walking around with his X-Buster on standby.
"Don't forget unholy as heck. This feels like Yami's vacation home." Issun joked.
Immediately after, they arrive at a tall lobby-like open hall. "Where're we headed?" Spider-Man wondered.
"The roof." Jin answered, just like that.
"How do you know?" Spidey asked.
"My genes sense something up there. A demonic force like no other." Jin explained whilst walking ahead.
"Didn't know the Devil Gene is also a GPS." Spidey quipped before following him up the stairs.
'I am detecting an abnormal energy reading at the apex of the tower. It seems to be another dimensional anomaly.' Alia informed them.
"Oh come on. We're already overworked as it is." Axl complained.
"Let's just hop back into the jet and fly up. That'll save us a hassle." Chris suggested.
'That won't work. There's some kind of anti-air energy field that surrounds that area. The only way to reach it is by climbing the tower from within.' Alia stated, forcing the team to continue making their way to the second floor.
"That doesn't sound too bad." Sonic grinned.
"Yeah, for those who have superspeed." Xiaoyu instead scowls at the cocky hedgehog.
"Just think of it as training." Ryu encouraged with a smile.
"Well if I collapse midway, you're carrying me." Ruby snarked.
"I wouldn't mind riding the elevator." Jill joked.
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BGM- Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening OST- Taste The Blood
Suddenly, Peter's Spider-Sense is alerting him to trouble about to rear their ugly heads. "Uh oh. Get your game face on! We have company!" Spidey alerted his friends.
Emerging from the darkness before the heroes' very eyes are demons. Bona fide creatures from the Underworld that want their souls. Like possessed Marionettes. Creepy Hell Wraths. Hell Prides ripping off Ruby's style. As well as a deathly family of Sin Scissors. "Ahh! W-What's that?! Who're those weird guys?!" Axl screamed, scared from facing demons for the first time.
"I knew it! Devils, straight from hell!" Jin scowled.
"Then let's send them back." snarled Wolverine, popping his claws out for devilish battle.
Marionettes were among the first to strike with their target being Spider-Man. Literally armed with blades, the puppets attack him as a group but were outmaneuvered by his unique inhuman abilities that's helping him evade their stabs and slashes before bouncing off one to web-rodeo a puppet on its brethren. The second they were dealt with, another Marionette fires its shotgun that the webslinger evades just narrowly, allowing his buddy Chris to retaliate in his place by killing the puppet with his own shotgun. Spidey returns the favor by protecting his back from more puppets with web bullets, with Chris doing the same for him with his assault rifle.
Next to them is Wolverine saving himself from being clipped by a Sin Scissor. His adamantium claws block its rusty weapon and keep it still long enough for Viewtiful Joe to destroy it with a Red-Hot Kick. The other Scissors are all for Wolverine to savage, mercilessly, until the scream of a Hell Wrath in agony catches both him and Joe by surprise. "You okay, dude?" Joe asked, falling for their suicidal explosive trick that smashes both heroes through a wall. "Are…we okay…Ow…" He grunted in pain.
"Ruby, they stole your do." Sonic jokes around while playing with a Hell Pride.
"I'll kill them!" Ruby then proceeds to massacre the copycats, decapitating several and Petal Bursting into the air to shoot more of them down before slamming down on a crowd with a spinning slash.
The demons are on the cusp of being destroyed, so it is only naturally that someone else wants to complicate things. The sound of a demon riding a motorcycle catches the ear of X as he takes a quick glance of them approaching. "We have another one on wheels! 6 o'clock!" He warned everyone.
The demonic motorcyclist seems to be targeting Wolverine. The X-Man sees them coming and tries swiping them, only for them to be a sexy blonde woman that is agile enough to jump over his claw and land back on her bike perfectly. The sunglasses-wearing demoness shoots a smirking glance at the mutant whilst riding up the tower, goading the heroes to pursue her.
"After her!" Wolverine ordered.
The mysterious demoness rides her motorcycle through the halls that lead to the central floors of this strange tower. Whoever she is, her skills with a gun are smokin' as she's shooting down countless demons without bothering to bat an eye at any of them. "Who rides a motorcycle up a tower?" Spidey wonders while chasing this woman.
"Yang, for fun." Blake quipped.
"Say what?" Spidey retorted.
"Is it me or does she look familiar?" Ryu noticed.
"She smells like demon and pizza." Wolverine caught her scent. As well as the large demonic blade being carried by her back, "And that sword on her back…Reminds me of someone else." And just like that, it hits him. He realizes who he is chasing, much to his displeasure, "Oh crap. It's them again."
"Who?" Ryu asked.
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The answer instantly becomes obvious once they arrive in a big room flooded with weapons and bones and demons that honestly believe they can stand a chance against the arriving demoness and her white-haired swordsman friend looking stylish in a red coat. "Devil May Cry." Wolverine revealed the business name of their soon-to-be-allies.
BGM-Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite OST-Theme of Dante
"Hey Dante! Found us an audience to watch us work." The Fiendish Femme Fatale known as Trish said whilst smacking around demons with her motorcycle.
"Just in time. These guys think they're done warming up." Devil Hunter Dante joked while his legendary skills help him fend off the massive demon horde with the most utmost of ease.
Equipped with his iconic Rebellion sword, Dante blocks an attack from a Hell Pride before blowing its brains out with his other signature dual pistols, Ebony & Ivory. Both guns are used while he's partying in the air, showering demons with bullets that Trish swerves through with her bike to make this fight crazier. She crashes her bike into a Hell Wrath on purpose so the stronger explosion could destroy more demons while she flies around electrocuting more goons with lightning bolts. "1. 2. 3. 4 and 5. 6. 7 and 8." Dante continues mocking the demons by playing hopscotch with their heads, landing at the end of the line to swiftly stab them all-in-one with his Stinger technique.
"I'm already bored. Let's wrap this up." Trish yawns while appearing beside her fellow demon hunter for a team attack. She uses her lightning to paralyze the remaining demons, grouping them together for Dante while he rocks out on his guitar-like Nevan. His Devil Arm sends out a flurry of electrical bats that blow them to the other side of the room where he already awaits to finish them off with a slammin' jamming session before Trish poses by his victorious side.
"Jackpot! Yeah, baby!" Dante smiled at their stylish victory.
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"A showoff as usual…" Chun-Li sighed, tiredly familiar with Dante's flamboyant lifestyle.
"That was viewtiful, Dante! You haven't lost your touch." Joe complimented his demonic best friend.
"Joe, my man! How ya been? Things alright with Silvia?" smiled Dante, bro-fisting the little superhero.
"Same old, same old. Except for the multiversal robot invasion destroying everything as we speak." Joe quipped.
"We've noticed. Some of them robots were hunting us devil hunters. Taught them that was a big mistake." Dante wisecracked.
BGM-Mega Man X8 OST-Deepening Mystery
"So what brings the gang here? Doubt it's just to tour the Temen-ni-gru." Trish wonders while taking off her shades.
"Temen-ni-gru? That's where we are?" Spidey remarked.
"Yup. This place was sealed away by my father a long time ago. Serves as a gateway to the Demon World. Haven't been here in years. Been wondering what brought it back." Dante explained.
"Blame Ultron Sigma mucking with spacetime using a Convergence Device. It has thrown our worlds into complete disarray. And if we don't do something soon, everything will be destroyed." Spidey replied sternly.
"We're here tracking down one of his commanders. An Avenger that has been taken over by a Virus." X told the devil hunters.
"Oof. That suck. You superheroes are a lot more annoying to deal with than demons. I take it they have nothing to do with people losing their souls the past week?" Dante responded, sparking a new topic of discussion.
"What are you talking about?" X questioned.
"A great evil has been lurking unseen across the world stealing human souls. A million of them. Our investigations led us here so we can stop the demon pulling this off." Trish elaborated.
"Know who it is?" Chris asked for the identity of this demonic culprit.
"Kinda. His name is Jedah." Trish answered.
"Lord Jedah? The Dark Messiah? I thought he was a myth." Issun retorted, with Amaterasu barking in surprise.
"Makes sense. He was dead for over a century last I heard. One of the three High Nobles of Makai. That's another name for the Demon World. Anyway, he's back and he's planning something big that won't be good for either realm in any universe." Trish said.
"Wonderful. Another crisis we have to stop. If Ultron Sigma is seriously planning on adding demons to his collection, then Jedah should expect some competition." Sonic snarked, guessing that the Mavericks plan to conquer Makai.
"We need to hurry to the roof. Whatever's happening up there might lead us to Makai and stop them. Can you lead us there, Dante?" Jin asked for his assistance.
"Sure. I know this place like the back of my hand. Try and keep up if you don't wanna get lost." joked Dante, racing ahead while leading his new team to their destiny at the Temen-ni-gru Apex.
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Majigen, Makai.
BGM-Super Dragon Ball Heroes OST-Creepy Space Tree
Blood. Flesh. Damnation. The best words to describe the Majigen, a demonic pocket dimension created by Lord Jedah himself. This reddish hell serves as the Masters of Evil's base of Makai operations, where Salem stands before another of their secret projects. Doom and Wesker have been building a Symbiote BOW army. Here, there is a massive stone structure built around a large Symbiote surrounding something of a soul egg as it's absorbing countless souls at once in order to grow into the ultimate weapon.
"And how is the child growing, Miss Salem?" Jedah asked upon returning to base.
"Healthy. But time is short. Ultron Sigma has doubled his offense on Makai. The Nightmare Stone can only hide this domain for so long. Soon he will discover this pocket of spacetime between the realms." Salem answered the high noble.
"I concur, but do not fret. It will not long before the Grimm-Symbiote awakens and the Majigen serves its purpose." Jedah calmly assured her.
"If so, it will still lack the power to oppose either Ultron Sigma or Thanos." Salem claimed.
"Then we will lead it to continue the work in the human realm. Would you be so kind to offer your immortal soul to speed things along?" Jedah smiled.
"Thank you, but no. I still have a use for this body." Salem frowned menacingly.
"Oh. I was under the impression you distaste your immortality." Jedah said, aware of the Grimm Queen's curse.
"The Gods that made me this way wanted to teach me to respect the balance of life and death, but it was all in vain and a waste of my time. They must answer for their arrogance and I intend to use my curse and the Exo Stones to see it through." Salem reminisced, vowing vengeance on the Brother Gods.
"Your anger is justified. They are ruining their own ideals by prolonging your life. My universe is suffering the same fate, where heroes never truly die. More live now than have ever died, in my universe, as in yours. They covet that which in truth they owe to beings like me in tribute." Jedah expressed while pacing around in a calming manner.
"Their souls…And you are certain the Symbiote can fulfill this purpose?" Salem questioned curiously.
"At least for Makai." Jedah retorted, wishing to restore balance to his demonic home. "For all realities, I suggest a union. Our home universes, reborn as one. A perfect balance between life and death." He then proposed his own twisted means to create balance.
"We are working on a project to conduct such an undertaking. We dub it 'Project X Zone'. It is our ultimate ambition with the Exo Eight." Salem told him of the Masters' ultimate objective.
The interested Jedah grins, "Interesting. Soon you will upstage those Gods of yours, in both power and efficiency."
"It would rub salt in the wound to accomplish what they failed to do for millennia. Ultron Sigma wants to establish eternal life. Thanos seeks everlasting destruction. And the heroes are content with living in chaos. I simply desire peace in death, but I will make certain that the heavens, hell, and the Earth itself be balanced by my pain. My legacy. A world reset for eternal punishment." Salem smiled both creepily and ominously, looking forward to the day she makes her enemies suffer as she has.
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Meanwhile at the Temen-ni-gru…
Dante kicks down the door that finally leads the Resistance into the apex of the colossal tower where another epic showdown awaits them. "Well, we made it to the roof." Dante told his new team.
"Whoa. We're way high up, huh." Viewtiful Joe said, so amazed by how high in the sky they are that he doesn't worry about falling into a gruesome death.
"Am I the only who's feeling this…excitement?" Knuckles senses some strange energy in the area.
"No. I feel it too, Knuckles. This is a magic force at work." Trish replied.
"Yeah, this power's from the demon world alright. It's crazier than ever before." Dante stated sternly.
Spider-Man then uses his Spider-Sense to help them have a better understanding of what awaits them, "I sense someone is up ahead. I feel something. It's up above them."
BGM-Mega Man Maverick Hunter X OST-Boss Appearance
Everyone follows the pathway that takes them to a massive circular arena surrounded by seven distinct demonic statues. It is up here where they confront Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme, who is infected with the Sigma Virus. "Strange!" Spidey shouted at his corrupted friend. Yet Cyber-Strange neither hears him nor face the heroes, for he's a little too busy orchestrating an ominous spell.
"Never mind him! What's that?!" Tron retorted upon noticing something horrifying.
The heroes look up to find the source of Strange's attention, a gigantic portal that is transporting Maverick forces into a demonic realm. "Impossible. The sky…It's ripping apart." Blake commented.
"That's the demon world you can see there." Cyber-Strange said, finally deciding to turn around and confront the heroic interference, "It is two worlds connecting to each other. I have been tasked to maintain the portal to transport our forces to the other side. Soon even Makai will fall under Ultron Sigma's rule."
"I've had it! He's wreaked enough havoc on this world! How many worlds will that monster destroy before he's satisfied?!" X retorted furiously.
"Why should you care what happens to the demons? You fight to destroy evil yet pride prevents you from fulfilling that destiny. Why else have you not used the Exo Stones to complete your mission." Strange chastises them.
"Because we're not gods! And not all demons are evil! Our three friends here can attest to that!" argued Ruby, with Trish looking prideful and Jin just standing indifferently.
"Kid has a point. You and your nuts 'n bolts for a boss are the ones acting like baddies." Dante snarks at the corrupted sorcerer.
"We do what we must for the sake of our utopia! To break the balance between good and evil! If you won't be the gods that will rid evil from the multiverse, then Ultron Sigma will claim that role as his own!" Strange retorted.
"Then let's party to celebrate his short-lived promotion!" Dante quipped, unveiling his sword in a stylish fashion as he's ready to defeat the infected doctor.
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BGM-Mega Man ZX OST-Rockin' On (Tunes Ver.)
Fight it out. The otherworldly battle with Cyber Strange starts with the mad doctor summoning a Maverick horde to surprise the Resistance with a ferocious assault. Dante slashes through a number of them to reveal an opening that Strange exploits with the Bolts of Balthakk that take down Jin as well as Wolverine, Axl, and Tron. However, they fail to strike Dante because of his demonic reflexes that aids him in appearing behind the doctor and landing some sword slashes, even rebounding him off of Joe's uppercut and having Sonic knock him in the air with a diving stomp.
"Fail." Dante taunted.
The Cloak of Levitation halts Strange, giving him his second wind as he casts a runic circle underneath the trio. "Flames of the Faltine!" No sooner than he says that, green flames erupt from the circle and engulf the heroes entirely. But no more worrying about them for now, as Tron returns with her dashing drill arm that Strange outspeeds until he flies into the air where he is safe for a second before receiving an onslaught from a flying Axl's dual-pistols. The Maverick Sorcerer counters this with an illusion spell, constantly evading his attacks with teleportation until he's confused and primed for the painful Daggers of Denak. Tron comes to his aid with her Servbot Launcher, firing Servbots that hug Strange's face and distract him from Axl's G-Launcher rifle that blasts him back down to the arena where both Wolverine and Jin are eager to smash him into paste. Unfortunately they are too late to stop Strange dropping into a portal and reappearing with another spell in the works.
"By the omnipotent Ultron Sigma!" Strange channels Evolution Stone power whilst manipulating reality, sending everyone into a twisted geometrically version of the Temen-ni-gru that is confusing the heck out of them.
"Trippy!" The shocked Joe commented.
"Not this freaky place again!" Sonic remarked in annoyance.
"You vaca here often?" Dante joked.
"It's the Mirror Dimension. Strange is getting serious!" Wolverine proclaimed, knowing Strange fights his best in this parallel realm.
"Indeed I am." Strange retorts while coldly floating above them, conjuring intimidating glyphs that bombard Dante's group with relentless energy blasts that they hope to endure.
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The battle with Cyber Strange has intensified but he shouldn't be the only enemy to worry about. The other heroes are scattered throughout the crazy Mirror Dimension, with some like X and Blake sticking together in eliminating Mavericks until their corner of the battlefield is safe for a breather. "No more on this side." Blake said, having had X's back in that last scuffle.
"Same. Let's find the others and figure out a way out of here." X replied.
Before either of them could move forward however, a surprised Blake spots a familiar foe that is hungry for some vile vengeance, "LOOK OUT!"
BGM-Mega Man Maverick Hunter X OST-Encounter with Vile
Narrowly, the Hunters jump away from the slamming lunging fist of Vile piloting his custom Ride Armor. "That guy really is a magician. Made it easier to have time to ourselves, don't you think?" Vile chuckled sinisterly.
"Vile?! Why are you in the Temen-ni-gru?!" X questioned his returning rival.
"I knew this place was the only way for you to reach Makai, so I waited to ambush you with my rebuilt Ride Armor, courtesy of Ultron Sigma tech. X! This time for sure, you're going down!" Vile retorted.
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BGM-Mega Man Maverick Hunter X OST-Vile Battle
The Rogue Hunter doesn't give X a second to react when his Ride Armor charges at him with a dashing punch powerful enough to send him flying. He goes to punch Blake only to miss and switch his mech's left hand with a powerful machine gun that forces her to dodge at great speeds. She keeps on dodging before using a shadow-clone to distract the Maverick while she attacks his Ride Armor head-on, only to be annoyed by its invulnerability.
'His armor is sturdy.' Blake noted in her head.
"Forget the armor! Attack Vile directly!" advised X, returning with a buster barrage that targets Vile personally.
"Won't make it that easy!" Vile jumps around the distorted dimension to avoid his shots until he grabs a demon statue that he throws at X, stunning him long enough so he may be stomped with ferocious force.
"What's the matter, X?! Aren't you gonna show me your true power?! You'll hardly be able to change the world if you're dead!" Vile taunted, kicking his nemesis in the head.
"You're delusional! Is revenge all you can think about?" Blake questioned upon kicking him in the head, bouncing off him to shower his defensive body with bullets. "Let go of the past, Vile. Do it for yourself." She advised whilst landing.
"Don't talk to me as if you know me." Vile retorted.
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"Actually I do. I had a partner that is just like you. Always angry at the world and believes violence will change it, refusing to understand that he'll just get everyone killed including himself. Once I realized that, I wanted nothing to do with him anymore." Blake said, comparing Adam Taurus to Vile and hoping the latter will listen to reason.
"Sounds like my type of guy. It's a good thing you left him. He doesn't need a gutless weakling like you to slow him down!" snarked Vile, smashing and pummeling Blake into a wall.
BGM-Mega Man Maverick Hunter X OST-Encounter with Vile
"Stop!" X shouted whilst firing his spiky Parasitic Bomb to stop Vile from killing the faunus, "There are better uses for our power than just senseless destruction!"
"Oh yeah? Have any of them stick? YOU'RE the one flaunting your power on your so-called friends! Sure you haven't gone Maverick behind my back?" Vile mocked.
"No, I…" His taunting hit X in a sour spot as there was a time he feared of becoming Maverick himself. This left the naïve hunter opened to be grabbed brutally by Vile.
"Our friends are sick! We fight to save them! To bring peace for all races!" argued Blake, jumping into the pilot seat to clash with Vile briefly.
"Peace for all races? Don't make me laugh! If you believe that, then why destroy other Reploids? Other of your freakish kind? Does betraying and killing your comrades bring them peace? What's the difference between my actions and yours? We are so alike, you and I!" Vile taunted, deliberately playing mind games with the huntress.
"That's…That's not true!" Blake retorted with a weakened resolve, leaving herself vulnerable to his shoulder cannon that knocks her off his Ride Armor and leave her paralyzed with electricity.
"Get this through your thick skulls! Fighting is endless! Being a worrywart will just get you killed! Neither you nor X have the power to change the world! I do! Me, Vile!" He claimed with supreme arrogance that is fueling his strength to crush X some more with the Ride Armor.
"Aaaaaagh!" X screamed, powerless to save himself or the paralyzed Blake as it looks like victory belongs to Vile.
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"Heya Vava Fett!"
BGM-Mega Man X5 OST-Intro Stage (Zero)
Spider-Man suddenly shows up and webs Vile's face, blinding him to Zero blasting his Ride Armor's arm off to free X. Trish also makes a grand appearance by dispelling Blake's paralysis so she may have room to leave a large scar wound on the Ride Armor using her legendary Sparda blade. "You kids alright?" Trish asked her rescued friends.
"Yeah…" X responded amidst recovery.
"Always needing help from your friends. How pathetic. If you're going to take those weaklings' side, then I'll have to destroy you too!" Vile scoffed, threatening to kill the reinforcements.
"Do your worst, Maverick!" Zero retorted.
"Wouldn't recommend it unless you want to be treated in a mental asylum." Spidey snarks at the rouge robot.
"If you think I'll go nice after rotting in jail, then you're living in a dream world." Vile mocked.
"Nothing wrong with that. Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us into something better. And on my soul, I swear that until my dream of a world where happiness and peace is the reality we all share, I'll never stop fighting. Ever." Spidey vowed, inspiring both X and Blake in the process.
"Cheesy little punk…This isn't over yet, X! Not for you either, Catgirl! I'm still not done!" Vile snarled, teleporting away before Zero could attack him again.
"All that big talk and he just runs away." Zero mocked.
"I have a habit of doing that. Sometimes I'm too afraid to take on a challenge. You can sympathize, right X?" Blake said solemnly.
"Yes. There was a time I gave up. Lost direction and forgot why I chose to fight. In time, my friends reminded me we did it for the sake of everyone else." X smiled, glancing it at both Spidey and Zero.
"I was just returning the favor." Spidey quipped, calling back to their conversation in the Aven-Jet when X cheered him up.
"You two have good souls but can be too naïve. Sometimes peace cannot be achieved unless those who spread war are destroyed." Trish lectured the young hunters.
"That's right. Where there's a will, there's a way. Next time we'll prove to Vile that nothing is as powerful as our dream!" Blake vowed with a strengthened resolve.
"Yeah. We'll settle this. All my old hesitance is gone now." X declared resolutely, ready for whenever Vile wants to brawl with them one final time.
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BGM-Super Smash Bros. Brawl OST-Boss Battle
Vile retreated. That just leaves Cyber-Strange as he continues giving Dante's group a run for their money. One powerful mystic bolt sends Jin and Axl flying as Sonic spindashes his way toward the flying sorcerer, who catches the hedgehog in a rotating light before blasting him down. Swiftly, Sonic recovered on his cocky feet. Just as seamless, Strange rains energy blasts that keeps the startled mobian busy until a flying kick from Viewtiful Joe and a leaping slash from Wolverine disrupts his focus, enraging him into shattering his portion of the Mirror Dimension to scatter all his enemies. Except for Dante locking magical blades with the corrupted hero.
"You're hurting yourself, Strange. Hear doctors swore to never take a life." Dante joked.
Their crazy high-flying sword duel is taken across the Mirror Dimension with neither swordsman expressing any slight edge. Sonic and Tron pursue them from an upside down pathway, kept busy by Strange's astral form firing relentless blasts while his physical form continues clashing with Dante. "That's an Archimedean Spiral! The Mirror Dimension is just geometry!" Tron noted, racing away from the mystic barrage.
"Not my favorite subject. What about it?" asked Sonic, deflecting blasts with kicks that stagger Astral Strange.
"I have a plan! Cover me!" Tron ordered, leaping to where she can initiate her strategy to defeat Cyber-Strange. With Sonic and Dante distracting the Stranges, Tron is free to channel the Dream Stone for a geometric surprise. "Square the radius…divide by Pi…at flat points along the curve…" She says while flinging sticky energy bands in random directions. Just as Strange lands a good hit that knocks back the devil hunter, he is taken by surprise when Tron shouts, "Hey, Strange! You know what's cooler than magic?", as his foot snags on one of her random bands. Then the shifting of Mirror Dimension objects brings another band right into him. "Math!" Tron smirked proudly, as the sorcerer is completely ensnared by her dreamy trap.
"Adios!" Dante joked, kicking Astral Strange back into his real body just as Tron conjures another dreamy surprise. A giant King Servbot that, with just a single devastating hammer swing, defeats Cyber-Strange so hard that he's sent flying far away from the collapsing Mirror Dimension.
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The Resistance returns to the real world, victorious while standing back atop the Temen-ni-gru. "Home run! Ha ha!" Dante chuckled.
"I never want to go back there again." Xiaoyu sighed, exhausted from that trippy battle in the Mirror Dimension.
"Unless it's for training." Ryu remarked.
"Didn't I see Vile somewhere in there?" Sonic recalled noticing the rogue hunter while battling Strange.
"He was, but we forced him to retreat. Let's focus on getting into Makai and stopping our enemies from conquering it." X replied.
BGM-Sonic and the Black Knight OST- World Map: The Land Ruled By King Arthur
"Let's take the Aven-Jet. You should be able to fly up here without Dr. Strange interfering, Alia." Strider contacted their navigator.
'Copy. Give me a moment.' Alia responded.
"It won't be easy. Strange had one last trick up his sleeve and left the portal unstable." Trish noticed, looking at the destabilizing portal that will erase all intruders.
"Not a problem. I can synchronize my own force to get us sucked up into that hole safe and sound. Did something like that the last time I was here." Dante proclaimed.
"Well, we better get going. Dante, if you could?" Spidey tasked him to do it.
"Heh. We're about to crash one seriously crazy party here, people. Trish, Amaterasu…You mind helping me out here?" Dante requested.
"We just need to unleash our magical powers?" Trish noted.
"Woof!" Amaterasu barked, understanding the plan.
"And Sonic, I'm gonna need you to use one of those Stones. Can tell you're the most adept with them. Try syncing its energies with us." Dante instructed the hedgehog.
"Sure thing. The Genesis Stone is both a creator and destroyer of portals." Sonic quipped, whipping out said Exo Stone to play with for a bit.
Demon Magic, Solar Power, and Cosmic Energy. With their powers combined, the four heroes unleash a massive beam that stabilizes the demonic portal and awaits their venture through. "Good. It worked." Trish stated.
And right on cue is Alia parking the Aven-Jet beside her team. "Come on, let's go!" She gestured them.
Everyone enters to seat themselves, with Dante calling shotgun as he rides the front passenger seat. "All set?" Dante glances at his friends who all seem ready for transport, "Okay. Better close your eyes. This is gonna be one damn bumpy ride." He warned them, prompting Zero to fly their ship to the massively intimidating portal that will lead them straight into demonic territory they have slim chances of surviving.
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BGM-Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds OST-Gallery
KFX Here: Dante and Trish join the party! Just four more heroes left to join the Resistance against both Ultron Sigma and the Masters of Evil. For those curious, this Dante is post-DMC 4. The heroes will definitely need his help if they want to survive the horrors of Makai.
Next Time: Welcome to Hell! A Viral Storm Awaits the Heroes!
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