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9:20 PM
(About the same time as Chiaki and Co landed in the City of Nil)
"Mmm…" Ruby paced around the airship as it flew around aimlessly.
"You feeling okay?" Yang asked as both Samus's and Aqua's ship were on the airship as well, though Shez was keeping it steady.
"Something is definitely not right about this. Byleth's hugs are usually very warm… that was just straight up cold. The whole "Ice Climber" thing? The more I think about it, the less sense it makes! It was not the right "cuddling" temperature. Not to mention her speech patterns are… agh! What's going on… something's not adding up."
"Yeah, I picked up on that too. Something's amiss…" Yang mumbled.
At the pilot's seat, Rosalina was curiously looking at Shez. "Hmm? Something up?"
"I never took you for a pilot, admittedly."
"I'll be honest, neither did I. Kamek thought I'd give one a whirl to see how I'd like it. It's pretty awesome!" Shez smiled. "Of course… uh… landing it was a bit complicated…"
Earlier…
"Kamek, why is that airship spinning around in the air?" Bowsette wondered.
"Oh, it's just Shez trying to land. She'll figure it out."
"...You do know we should move, right?"
"Yes, the thought just occurred to me."
Kamek quickly teleported away while Bowsette dove out of the way as the airship slammed into the ground, exploding on impact as it slid to a halt.
"I'm okay!" Shez called out.
"MY PLANTS!" General Guy cried.
Back in the present…
"The fact that I only got out with just a small scratch on her arm is nothing short of amazing." Shez said.
"How are you… alive?" Rosalina wondered.
"Pittoo asked the same thing." Shez shrugged. "But no worries, I got this landing thing down pat. We're fine!"
I should probably put up a barrier just in case…
Nearby, Seryu sat cross legged as she stared at Dark Weiss's Myrtenaster. "Hmmm… definitely going to need a lot more metal for this…"
"You actually got it out of the rubble?" Dark Weiss walked over to her.
"I figured you might want to keep it around just in case something happened to your halberd." She explained. "Heck, I have one idea but I'm gonna need a lot more scrap metal."
"You know…" Dark Weiss sat down next to her. "I'm honestly surprised."
"With what?"
"I left you in that blazing inferno while I dragged Whitley out. Last I checked, you were still killing the staff… I just assumed you died in the blaze."
"I'll be honest, I'm not sure how I got out of there either…" Seryu mumbled before softly smiling. "But honestly? I have to thank you for busting me out of that torment I endured."
"...Uh… you're welcome…? Why are you-"
"Because I'd probably still be in there. If you hadn't seen me, I'd have burned alive in that blaze. And… yeah, I'm not proud of what I've done before and after I was put into the mental hospital. I've killed… a lot of people, and I thought that maybe… killing Jacques would make me happy but… it didn't. I was… just a broken shell."
"What caused you to snap out of this?"
Seryu looked at Sheele who was chatting with Najenda and Bols. "Her." She smiled fondly. "She was able to get me out of it. Sure, I was found guilty, but thanks to General Esdeath, I was able to be free from the darkness. Yeah, I have to be supervised at all times for about a year, but I honestly don't mind. Besides, Sheele took it upon herself."
"Oh wow… and to think all of this happened when I had met you." She said. "...Soooo, you and Sheele-"
"Girlfriends."
"Huh, I was thinking total best friends but I guess that makes sense." Dark Weiss chuckled. "Though, I'm curious… what made you go crazy?"
"Sheele and I tried to break up a scene, and I was pushed down right into a fire hydrant. Head first."
Dark Weiss grimaced. "That'll do it!"
"Yeah… had a lot of voices in my head and I should have gotten fixed immediately, but unfortunately, Jacques had to play politics and kept me locked up in solitary confinement because he didn't believe in mental instability and thought the hospital just made it up."
"So he-"
"Branded me, yes."
"Did he also take off your arms?"
"Oh no. Weiss's Rathalos tore one of my arms off and when I was battling Sheele, her semblance flashed into my metal arm, blinding her and accidentally cut my other arm off."
"Oh gosh!"
"It was an ice arm for a time before they replaced it with a mechanical arm. I'm actually okay with it."
She looked at Dark Weiss. "So yeah, I have you to thank for all this."
Dark Weiss sweatdropped. "I'm not sure If I should be happy or concerned that I unwittingly caused the demise of your arms…"
Seryu snickered. "Ah, don't worry about it."
"So… are you still haunted by those that you've killed?"
"Yes… I have a lot of nightmares over them. Luckily, Sheele's able to calm me down when she cuddles me in her sleep, and my nightmares typically end when that happens, so it's not too bad. I can't escape that… I just have to live with it."
"And you're okay with that?"
"I'm not proud of what I've done, but I can rest easy knowing that it could have been a lot worse, especially when Umber snapped me out of it."
Immediately, Seryu hugged Dark Weiss, catching her by surprise before Dark Weiss smiled and hugged her back. She looked at one of her dog ears and gently stroked him.
"Mmm, that feels good…"
Dark Weiss giggled as they pulled away. "I bet Sheele does it to you often."
"Yeah, it soothes me." She giggled with her. "So, what've you been up to… before and after death?"
"Oh, let's see… teamed up with Esdeath, betrayed by Esdeath, became a snack to-" Dark Weiss immediately tensed up. "...That… thing…"
She took a deep breath, exhaling deeply.
"Then when I was in the Underworld, I was pretty pissed… but then I started to mellow out after I took my frustrations out on Cackletta. I started to get calmer and just accepted my life in the Underworld. Then, what do I find out? Dark Ruby decides to make Grimm clones out of all of us, reshaping my Grimm clone's memory. Needless to say, I was pretty angry and when she showed up? I was happy to put her where she belonged. Dark Blake and Maine felt the same way. Then Ruby shows up when Hades took her in to get her smiling again. Played a few rounds of air hockey and had an actual enjoyable time with her."
"And now you're here."
"I never thought I'd see myself saving the world, but… stranger things have happened." Dark Weiss chuckled.
With Weiss…
"You know, you did go too far…" Blake said.
"What are you talking about?"
"I mean, you'd never do that with Claude. I understand you're angry but there was no need to take it out on him."
"Well, we're in a bit of an apocalyptic deadline, so excuse me for being antsy."
"Wh-what? No, that's not what I-"
"You'd do the same thing."
"What? No, I wouldn't. Weiss, I'm starting to get concern-"
"Why should you?" Robyn approached. "What Weiss did was the right thing. I would have done the same thing but apparently, Blondie and Game Boy was gonna be too touchy feely, so of course Schnee doing what she did was commendable."
"No, it wasn't!"
"Okay, what would you have done?"
"I dunno, something less extreme?"
"Desperate times, Kitty Cat." Robyn said as she walked off. "Sheesh, how long is this gonna take?"
Blake's cat ears lowered. "Okay, I get it, all of us are on edge given what just happened a few hours ago, but honestly-"
"Just give it a rest, Blake…" Weiss turned around and leaned on the railing of the airship. "We're all doing what we can to stop Robotnik."
Blake sighed, looking up at the Death Egg and what was left of their moon. "I hope so…"
Back with Shez…
"Boop bop boop."
"The heck do you mean a Chaos Emerald's moving around?" Shez wondered.
"Boop beep."
"That's just going to lead us in a wild goose chase and waste time, we might as well find one that's closer." Shez said.
"I got one." Samus said as she looked through her scanner. "One's close by. In fact, we're on top of it!"
"Wait, what?!" Shez stopped the ship, causing everyone to nearly lose their balance.
"I'll go check." Samus jumped off and scanned the area, Pikachu immediately accompanying her. "Huh, this is Sora and his friend's HQ…" She mused as she walked into the building, her arm cannon at the ready in case anything jumped out at her.
She immediately came across the teleporter as her readings were indicating that it was inside the teleporter. "Interesting…" She mused as she turned around and walked back to the ship, jumping back up.
"Anything?" Aqua asked.
"There's a Chaos Emerald from beyond your teleporter. I'm assuming one is in Radiant Garden."
"What would a Chaos Emerald be doing over there?" Aqua wondered.
"Okay, I'm landing this bad boy." Shez said as the airship started to land in the middle of the road. "Easy… easy…"
Thud!
"Woo! Perfect landing!" Shez smiled, putting her arm on the wheel, leaning with a smile. "I knew I'd land perfectly one of these-"
Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeak
"-Uh oh…"
The Airship started to tilt as everyone jumped off as the airship fell on its side, one of the masts destroying the roof of a building.
"Almost. It was almost perfect!" Shez said, causing everyone to sweatdrop.
"I beg to differ…" Arval snarked.
"Reminds me of the time when Esdeath learned how to fly her first ship." Ironwood said. "Her first flying lesson had her fly straight into my office. No one was hurt, but she was definitely shaken up. Had to console her while she was crying."
"Ah yes… that memory was… not my greatest…" Esdeath said.
"But we can all look back at it and laugh, right?" Ironwood smiled.
"Personally, I'd rather laugh after we destroy Robotnik…"
"Esdeath…" Emerald frowned.
Tough crowd… Ironwood rubbed his head.
They walked into the building as they went straight for the teleporter. "Why would a Chaos Emerald be in our neck of the woo-"
"The more we stop and ask things, the more likely Remnant will get obliterated!" Weiss walked in, interrupting Aqua.
"Weiss…" Aqua frowned as they walked in after her.
"Is she normally this… grouchy when she's upset?" Fiona wondered.
"She's usually pretty chill… but I'm guessing Atlas falling really affected her." Ruby frowned.
"I don't blame her in the slightest." Winter said as they walked in.
BGM: Radiant Garden (Kingdom Hearts III: ReMind)
Ienzo heard the sound of the teleporter being used as he turned his head to see everyone walking out. "Ah, I suspect more Atlesian and Mantle survivors?"
"You got a few?" Ironwood asked.
"As soon as Atlas fell, the Wielders went out of their way to try to get any survivors they could and provide shelter over here. Namine and Roxas just got back with a few kids."
"Have you seen a Chaos Emerald around?" Samus asked, making sure Weiss wouldn't do anything reckless.
"Chaos Emerald… I'm not familiar."
Esdeath pulled it out. "It looks like this."
"Ah…" Ienzo mused. "Come to think of it, I've heard reports of something shining out of the Cavern of Remembrance. I haven't looked into it myself, but-"
"Thanks, Ienzo. We'll take it from here." Aqua said as they walked off.
"Pleasure doing business." Ienzo said as they walked through the castle. They heard some sobbing from a few kids and some adults, a few Faunus included.
"Heartbreaking…" Winter said.
One woman looked up. "Oi! Schnees!" She stood up and glared at them as Weiss and Winter turned around. "You have some nerve showing your faces here."
End BGM
"What are you talking about?" Winter asked.
"You have some nerve! You think you're above everyone after your home exploded about a year ago… where you left after it blew up and left all of us behind! If you hadn't abandoned us, we would all be in this together… but we're not. You knew… you KNEW Atlas would fall and you never told us!"
"I didn't know anything!" Weiss shot back.
"LIAR!" She yelled. "If you had cared for Atlas, we'd all be alive and stopping that lunatic from blowing up our world! But you abandoned us, Schnees… YOU ABANDONED ALL OF US!"
Weiss clenched her fists.
"We did no such thing." Winter said. "We went to live a better life in Toad Town."
"A better life! Hahahaha! A better life, she says! Well, clearly, you think Toad Town is superior to Atlas… I should've known Atlas would've gone to shit when they brought the filthy mutt back into command…" She glared at Seryu.
She then glared at Esdeath and Ironwood. "As for you two. You should've been the protectors of Atlas. Where were you? You just sat in your office and you didn't lay a finger. And I thought Esdeath would have at least saved the orphanage… but now it's gone. I hope you live with yourselves."
She then looked away. "You're nothing but frauds. All of you!"
Weiss fought back her tears and quickly walked away. "Weiss…!" Ruby went after her as did the others.
"What a bitch…" Shez mumbled under her breath.
"What'd you say?" The woman glared at Shez. "I swear I heard what I think I just heard!"
Shez ignored her while she rolled her eyes as the woman sighed in annoyance. "This world's gone to hell in a handbasket…" The woman grumbled.
Ruby went up to Weiss, putting her rose hand on her shoulder. "Don't listen to her… she's just going through the motions right now."
"I don't care…" Weiss mumbled.
"I know where the Cavern of Remembrance is at. Sora showed me." Aqua said as she took front, putting a comforting hand on Weiss's shoulder before stepping up front and walked off with everyone following her.
Clover turned his head to a sighing Ironwood. "You okay?"
"I thought if I could knock Eggman down after he announced Atlas was falling, I would've done everything in my power to try and save them both… who was I kidding? He won…"
"I would not go that far." Vine said calmly. "He may have won the battle, yet he has not won the war. His miscalculation of not knowing where the Chaos Emeralds are is a big help for us."
"I sure hope so…"
"You okay too?" Bulat asked Esdeath.
"I will be. I'll avenge those orphans."
"Yeah, I thought so… but let's try not to let it consume us. We all know how that went with Seryu."
"Indeed…"
Marrow put a comforting hand on Ironwood's shoulder "You did the best you could, general. Eggman's just that hard to predict. He planned for this after Cinder was exposed. Sometimes… things are out of our control."
Ironwood nodded. "Indeed."
"This all happened when that Futaba girl hacked into the network. I don't care if she launched a new one, she should've had at least a smack to the head or… something!" Harriet said. "Honestly, Futaba's to blame here. Out of our jurisdiction my ass."
"Calm yourself, Harriet." Elm said. "She did not-"
"Oh, she KNEW what she was doing. Atlas falling is all her fault. Why are we blaming it only on Eggman? Futaba's to blame too!"
"The last thing we need is to cause more drama. I'm not laying a finger on her." Ironwood said.
Sheele gently held Seryu's metal hand. "I got you…"
"I know you do." Seryu said softly, kissing her on the cheek as they made their way to the entrance.
"Here we are."
"Um… what's with the gate?" Yang wondered.
"According to Sora, there are absurdly strong Heartless in this area that gave him a run for his munny, so we had to close it up in case they got out."
"Give me five minutes, I'll clear the area." Samus said.
"You need a Keyblade to clear out the Heartless permanently, remember?" Aqua reminded.
"True, but who said anything about a Keyblade? I've got plenty of Power Bombs to go around." She said, grabbing the gate with her Grappling Beam and pulled it out, then she hopped in. "I'll be a moment."
They stared at the hole in the wall… where they heard the sound of a Power Bomb going off with a massive light lighting up the hole.
Immediately, they'd hear Samus on the coms.
"Yeah, uh… might need that Keyblade of yours!"
"On our way." Aqua said as they hopped in.
BGM: Deep Anxiety (Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMix)
As soon as they entered, they would see Samus shooting at a Power Wild that was dodging her every attack. In fact, it casually jumped through the Missile Storm and landed on the other side of her, slapping its butt tauntingly.
"...Having trouble?" Aqua asked, trying to contain her laughter.
"Believe it or not, I wiped out a few of them. Some of them survived but… apparently this one is a pain in the ass!" She said as the Power Wild jumped over and landed on top of Samus, proceeding to slap her helmet repeatedly like a drum.
"CHUUUUUUUUU!" Pikachu cried, unleashing Thunderbolt on the Power Wild to stun it and then made it fall over as Aqua stabbed it with her blade.
"I'd rather deal with DK's Bongo drums over that…" Samus grumbled.
"I've seen a few of these wander around Atlas… what are these exactly?" Leone wondered.
"They're Heartless. You can take them out with any weapon, but only the Keyblade can fully destroy them. They'll just keep coming back." Ruby explained.
"So they're gluttons for punishment AND they're stupid. That shouldn't be a problem." Harriet cracked her knuckles as she saw a Novashadow forming in front of her. "Piece of cake!" She launched and punched the Novashadow, but it proceeded to grab her arm. "Huh?"
It twisted her arm and then threw her to the ground as it got on top of her, ready to claw her but Yang jumped in to punch it off of her and then Samus pelted it with Super Missiles, then Aqua struck it with a Thundaga before destroying it in a few slashes.
"Shouldn't be a problem?" Emerald put her hand on her hip with an amused smirk.
"Oh shut up, Sustrai…" Harriet grumbled as she dusted herself off. "Let's just find that damn Emerald and get the hell out of this joint."
"It's this way. Sora put up a guide so we know where to go." Aqua said. "Be on your guard though, we're in for a heck of a fight."
Ruby readied her scythe. "Well, let's get ready to rock and roll then!"
"As long as we can do it quickly, we should be able to pull it off…" Weiss said as they took off.
Along the way in the Mineshaft, a Malicious Bulky Vendor stood in their way as it started to pelt out rocks, staplers, step ladders, Bob-ombs, toy cars, shoes, a mini fridge… and of all things, couches and even a mini van as they were able to destroy the Malicious Bulky Vendor.
"I'm sorry, did that just spit out a minivan?" Blake wondered.
"I'm more concerned over the mini fridge." Shez said as they kept going, taking out Wyvern Heartless along with a few Defenders. A Sniperwild got into position and fired directly at Samus. She turned around and pelted it with missiles, only for the Sniperwild to dodge and slapped its butt, only for Vine to grab it with his Aura Vines and slammed it to the ground where Aqua slashed through it.
"There's more headed our way." Byleth said as another Malicious Bulky Vendor appeared right as they were heading into the next area… only this time, the Bulky Vendor spat out several Mad Rides as they immediately started to run them over, but Samus got ready and melee countered one to knock it on its hood as Samus proceeded to fire a few Wave Beams with Blake, and then the Mad Ride got up and stood on its hind… wheels(?) and proceeded to punch the two.
"Never thought I'd see the day where a car would punch back!" Blake said.
"I've seen stranger." Samus responded, decking it in the face before hitting it with a few Super Missiles.
One Mad Ride charged straight into Elm, who held it back with her upper body strength and used her arms to try and push back. The Mad Ride revved up its engine as it proceeded to bite Elm's hand. "Mmmph!" Elm grunted as Ironwood came in and punched it in the face to knock it over, releasing its grip on Elm's hand.
"You okay?"
"I'll be fine." She said as she swung down her hammer to crush the Mad Ride's hood ornament, along with said hood, where Bols cooked it alive with his flamethrower which caused it to explode and disappear.
As for the Bulky Vendor, it tried to run away when Aqua went after it, but it ended up in vain when Aqua tapped into her own darkness and proceeded to annihilate it, then she turned around and threw down a Dark Thundaga to destroy the last Mad Ride that was weakened by Ruby and Weiss's teamwork.
They kept going into the Engine Chamber after taking out a few Parasol Beauties where steam erupted from the pipes as they were greeted by several Reckless and Befuddlers. "Hey, your semblance can scare away Grimm. Can it do the same with Heartless?" Emerald asked.
"It's worth a shot." Leone said as she unleashed a powerful Lion Roar, which was enough to scare about ninety percent of the Heartless as they hightailed it out of there, leaving only two Reckless behind… which Esdeath promptly turned to ice and then Aqua slashed through them, then they kept climbing through with Seryu shooting down several more Befuddlers as they made their way to the door.
"How many doors are there?" Ruby asked. "This is wasting our time as is!"
"This should lead us straight to the Transport of Remembrance. Although… Riku typically calls it Castle Oblivion Hallways… but, we're close." Aqua said.
"Good. Now let's move it." Weiss said as they went inside.
End BGM
Meanwhile…
9:50 PM
"Tell me what you did to Luigi! ANSWER ME, YOU BASTARD!" Daisy demanded.
"Now now, is that any way to speak like a princess, my dear?" Eggman asked calmly. "That's very unbecoming of you. Princesses ought to have grace and integrity, not to mention have lady-like language."
"Bullshit! I ain't like most royals!"
"Clearly."
"I'm going to ask one more time. Where. Is. Luigi?" She asked, her arms folded as the Shroobs pointed their ray guns at Eggman. "Or so help me, I'm going to have these guys cook you sunny side up while I tear this place down, piece by piece."
"Oh dear, that would throw a wrench into my plans, now would it?"
"You have five seconds or we're having scrambled eggs!" Daisy demanded. "ONE!"
She started walking toward him, cracking her knuckles.
"TWO."
"Now where did I put my will…" Eggman mused, casually searching for his pockets.
"THREE!" She yelled as the Shroobs got closer.
"Aha!"
"FOUR!"
"Here it is!" Eggman immediately pulled out a will and started writing. "You wouldn't hurt a man writing a will, would you?"
Daisy's eye twitched. "FIVE!" She quickly delivered a strong punch… but her arm phased through Eggman. "Huh?!"
Immediately, ray shields came down on top of Daisy and the Shroobs.
"Clearly, you would." A voice said as Eggman approached them while the other Eggman disappeared, turning out to be nothing more than a hologram.
"You…!"
"Did you really think I didn't count on someone like you barging into my lair?" Eggman smirked. "You really are all brawn and no brains."
Eggman chuckled again. "Don't worry, you'll be with your boyfriend soon enough." He said as he turned to an Egg Robo. "Gas 'em."
BGM: Ahsoka vs Rex (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
With a nod, the Egg Robo pulled the lever as a thick white cloud flew into the ray shields. Daisy instinctively pulled off her shirt and wrapped it around her mouth and nose to cover herself, while the Shroobs weren't so lucky.
Daisy lunged, glaring fiery daggers toward Eggman as the ray shield prevented her from going any further. She pounded the ray shield in vain before she grabbed one of the ray guns and fired while Eggman had his arms folded calmly.
Daisy pressed her body against the shields, flipping her wrist to flip him off before her whole body disappeared into the thick fog as her eyes got droopy.
End BGM
The ray shields disappeared as the fog fell through. Eggman had put on a gas mask as he walked over to see the KO'd Shroobs and princess lying on the ground.
"Fix that hole in the wall on the double." Eggman ordered, lightly kicking Daisy's body as he let out an evil smirk.
Back with the others…
9:55 PM
BGM: Cavern of Remembrance (Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMix)
"Here we are. The Garden of Assemblage." Aqua said.
"Great… so, the Chaos Emerald is in one of these rooms, right?" Yang asked. "Wait… are these Data fights?"
"Yes. Where do you think the data fights came from?" Aqua smiled.
"Oooooh, okay!"
"ROB, think you can do a scan?" Samus asked as ROB nodded and rolled up, scanning the area.
"Boop…? Boop Bop…"
"Huh? What is it?" Blake asked.
ROB scanned again, blinked and then turned to Samus. "Beep boop."
"You want me to smack you in the head? Why?"
"Boop!"
"Alright, alright… weirdo." Samus mumbled as she smacked him in the head.
ROB shook his head and scanned again, only to sweatdrop. "Boop boop bop bop beep!"
"What do you mean there's multiple?" Samus wondered as she scanned the area herself. "What the hell… there's thirteen of 'em?"
"Copies by the sound of it." Rosalina said. "We have to guess which one is the real deal."
"I wonder…" Aqua went down toward the computer and typed something in. "Okay, good, we won't have to deal with the data fights since they've been extracted, yet… these doors are still here."
"We're just going to have to look through all of them." Ironwood said. "Let's move."
With a nod, all of them went into the thirteen doors, hoping to find the actual Chaos Emerald.
Behind door number one, Xemnas's door, Ruby, Byleth, Shez and Esdeath found themselves in Namine's room in the Twilight Town mansion.
The door disappeared on them as they turned around as several Egg Robos ambushed them. "Here we go!" Ruby said.
"Bet I can knock down more than you?" Shez smirked.
"That would be quite the accomplishment." Byleth said.
"Oho, you're on!"
Door Number two, Xigbar's door, held a shooting range as Dark Weiss, Weiss, Leone, Clover and Elm looked around… before they were quickly ambushed by Sniper Joes.
"What? But these are Wily's robots!" Weiss said.
"Who cares where they come from? I'm turning them into rubble!" Elm declared.
"Be on your guard, there could be more we can't even see." Clover said as Weiss and her dark clone looked at each other, and with a nod, they proceeded to go after the Sniper Joes.
Door Number three, Xaldin's door, featured a bridge as Aqua walked on it with Harriet, Robyn, Joanna, May and Ironwood as they looked around.
"Okay, why are we on a bridge?" Robyn wondered before something slammed down behind them as they turned around to see the Infernal Engine revving up behind them, looking more silvery and also had Eggman's logo on it despite having a Heartless emblem up front.
"What…?" Aqua wondered before she summoned her Keyblade. "Never mind!"
Door Number Four, Vexen's door, had a lab inside as Seryu, Sheele, Emerald and Lubbock walked inside as the latter picked up a note.
"Uh… it just says "Now"?" Lubbock wondered as they were quickly ambushed by scientific Egg Robos ready to lob chemicals at them.
Seryu gleefully smiled. "Oh good! Material for what I need to rebuild Dark Weiss's weapon~!"
Her right metal arm quickly morphed into an arm cannon. "Say goodnight~!"
Door Number Five, Lexaeus, featured a gym as Yang, Kurome and Bols walked in. "Wow… a gym…?" Yang wondered.
"Fascinating…" Bols mused.
"I don't like the looks of this." Kurome said, unsheathing her gravity sword… and right on cue, the exercise machines roared to life and turned toward them. Robotic dumbbells, treadmills, boxing gloves, punching bags and even a water jug charged right at them.
"Guess we didn't pay for a membership." Yang said, going into her Shin form as the three of them proceeded to attack the robots.
Behind door number six, Zexion's door, Rosalina wandered in with Chell as they found themselves in a library of sorts, with tons of books.
"Goodness me, I wonder if they have a lot of murder mysteries in here!" Rosalina said, but on cue, the books sprang to life and targeted the duo.
["We're gonna be a murder mystery!"]
Cosmic energy surrounded Rosalina. "Guess I'll just stick with e-Books."
Door number seven, Saix's domain, had Najenda and Fiona walk into a tea party room… and would also notice a man with a black box and a black Keyblade in hand.
"Hmm? …Oh!" He immediately disappeared into a dark corridor, black box and Keyblade in hand.
"...Was that some leftover data?" Najenda wondered.
"As if!"
"I guess not." Fiona shrugged.
At that moment, a few Egg Robos came in wearing princess outfits, only to discover the two in the room.
"...Princess robots. Now I've seen everything." Najenda said, immediately calling Susanno-o as they proceeded to slaughter the Egg Robos.
Door Number Eight, which was Axel's domain, had Wave and Marrow hide behind cover against some flamethrower wielding Egg Robos.
"Alright, you asked for it!" Wave said, proceeding to call upon his water and drenched the robots, with Marrow shooting at the drenched robots.
"Aw yeah!" Marrow fist pumped.
"Nice one!" Wave grinned, both of them high fiving.
Door number nine, Demyx's domain, had Winter walk in on some Sniper Joes playing guitars and electric guitars. She raised an eyebrow as she walked over and unplugged the speakers. "Party's over." She said, proceeding to destroy them.
Door Number ten, Luxord's domain, had ROB come face to face with an Egg Dealer as it proceeded to draw a card, showing ROB before he put it back on the deck.
"Beep boop. Is this your card?"
"Boop."
"Oh. Is THIS your card?"
"Beep boop boop beep bop beep boop."
"ERROR. ERROR. DOES NOT COMPUTE."
The Egg Dealer exploded, revealing the actual card was inside of his hat. ROB looked down at it before turning around and walked off, chuckling to himself.
Door Number Eleven, Marluxia's domain, had Blake walk around a field of flowers as she was then greeted by Egg Robots that had cat like features on them.
"Beep boop. Mrow!"
Blake sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. "Really? That's not how you do a cat call." She summoned her Belladonna claws and cut through them easily.
"Meow, bitch." She said with confidence and then walked away with a proud smile.
Room number twelve, Larxene's domain, had Pikachu walk in and saw a generator. He curiously plugged himself in and saw several Egg Robos proceed to dance around on stage. He decided to add more power, causing them to move frantically before Pikachu added so much power, the whole stage exploded.
"Pika~!" Pikachu smiled with his ears twitching.
End BGM
As for the final room, Roxas's domain, Samus found herself wandering around Memory Skyscraper. She scanned the area and looked up top, finding that the Chaos Emerald was up on top.
"There you are." She said as she backed up, and then took a running start to activate her Speed Boost. She screeched to a halt and then Shinesparked her way up.
…However, halfway through, a massive claw burst through the windows and clawed Samus down to the ground.
BGM: Vs. Diggernaut (Metroid: Samus Returns)
"OOOMPH!" She grunted as she crashed down to the ground. She shook it off right when a massive metallic beast came crashing down and roared at Samus.
The beast in question was a one eyed robot that had arms with muscles on them, the body looked slender and draconic like, while it towered above Samus. It also had an artificial brain on top of the robot.
Samus groaned in annoyance. "Really? Oi…" She shook her head as she got into her stance. "Let's get this over with."
Can't Get Rid Of Her That Easily - Mother Egg
Mother Egg aimed her hand at Samus, firing rockets at her as she quickly rolled out of the way and proceeded to pelt her with Plasma Beams, quickly shooting her as Mother Egg got into position and breathed fire.
Samus Flash Shifted away as she proceeded to charge up an Ice Beam and fired, blocking the mouth from breathing fire for a short time as Mother Egg punched the ground to create shockwaves.
Samus leapt over them, switching to Wave Beams and fired, only for Mother Egg's eye to turn purple and fired Wave Beams back at her. Oh, interesting! She thought as she avoided the Wave Beams as Samus unleashed a Missile Storm at Mother Egg, to which Mother Egg returned in kind.
The missiles exploded upon contact, creating a smoke cloud as Mother Egg rushed through the smoke and swung down, only for Samus to melee counter as she jumped up and Spider Balled on her arm, proceeding to carpet bomb her until she got on her shoulder and forcibly opened the mouth, shoving at least a few Super Missiles in her mouth before kicking the jaw shut, then forcibly opening the mouth again and shoved a Power Bomb inside before jumping off as the explosion was enough to destroy the exoskeleton.
Mother Egg hissed, proceeding to turn invisible. Samus immediately turned on the X-Ray Visor as she spotted the invisible Mother Egg. She swung her arm down as Samus backflipped, quickly jumping in and hitting the fleshy arms with her Plasma Flamethrower before landing on the ground.
Mother Egg backhanded Samus toward Memory Skyscraper, leaping toward Samus. She swiftly switched to the Portal Beam and fired a portal underneath her and behind Mother Egg right as the giant mech punched the Memory Skyscraper with enough force to make the Skyscraper shake and started to topple over. Mother Egg looked up in surprise and proceeded to get buried underneath the rubble.
All the while the Green Chaos Emerald landed next to Samus as she picked it up. "I'll take that." She said, but then Egg Mother got up from the rubble and screeched at her.
"Yeah, no… it's over." Samus said, proceeding to activate her Zero Gravity Laser and proceeded to fired at Egg Mother.
Chaos energy detected
"Huh?" Samus wondered as the Chaos Emerald glowed brightly and powered up the Zero Gravity Laser.
Chaos Laser Online!
"Chaos what?" Samus wondered as the violet laser turned green and electrical, engulfing Egg Mother as it let out a robotic screech until nothing remained of it.
End BGM
"...Huh! Neat." Samus said as she looked at the Chaos Emerald, which the glowing was faint in color. "Uh, it was glowing just a second ago, wasn't it?"
She scanned the Chaos Emerald out of curiosity.
Chaos Energy Readings: 50%
Samus blinked. "...Maybe it'll recharge on its own? Whoops." She rubbed her head as she walked back.
She walked out and seeing everyone start to come out, while also noting Seryu looked absolutely gleeful over scrap metal in her arms, along with a happy smile on her face.
"Oh hey, you got the Chaos Emerald!" Ruby smiled. "...Why is it not glowing like it used to?"
"I think… I might have borrowed some of its energy." Samus said, sheepishly rubbing her head.
"What'd you fight?" Blake asked.
"Would you believe me if I said… a muscle toned robot version of Mother Brain?"
"...I'd believe it."
"Yeah. Next thing I know, my armor just accepted the Chaos Energy and disintegrated Mother." Samus shrugged.
"Well, I think we can use about half an Emerald…" Ironwood said. "Let's go."
At that moment, Winter's scroll went off. "Hold that thought." Winter said as she answered the scroll. "Hello? Yeah, Weiss, her clone and I are okay. Why? …WHAT?!" She yelled as everyone turned to her. "You're kidding me! Oh, you gotta be-... okay, we'll be right there. Just stay there! Okay, love you." She hung up.
"Who was that?" Weiss asked.
"That was Whitley. Apparently, thanks to Robotnik's stunt, a mob of surviving Atlesians discovered our home in Toad Town and are demanding our heads on a silver platter."
"WHAT?!" Weiss yelled.
"Luckily, Master Hand evacuated them and they're stationed back at the Smash Mansion. However, another group is already demanding our heads. Not only that, but they're destroying copies of Sea5on's latest songs because "Sea5ons wasn't good enough to save Atlas". Chelsea, Cardin, Kokoro and Ling are also stationed at the Smash Mansion."
"Oh gods… what about our home?" Weiss asked.
"Crazy Hand is taking care of it… but the situation is getting worse…"
At the Schnee home…
10:10 PM
"What do we want!" A leader declared from a megaphone.
"The Schnees!" The protesters shouted.
"Why do we want them?"
"They abandoned Atlas and did nothing to save it!"
"Do they deserve punishment and need to be held accountable?"
"YES!"
The leader turned to Crazy Hand. "NOW LET US IN SO WE CAN MAKE THEM PAY!"
"Hmm, cool story. Let me follow you up with this!" Crazy said, snapping his fingers as Chain Chomps appeared on the front lawn, BIll Blasters appeared on the roof, Mettaurs were scattered on the lawn as well, along with a Bob-Omb Launcher rising out of the Schnee pool.
The protesters paled as the Chain Chomps started barking, causing them to scream and took off running.
"Ta-ta~!" Crazy Hand waved as he heard something shatter. He looked in to discover a protestor having broken a window with a brick and threw a Molotov inside the home, burning Willow's room.
"Oh crud!" Crazy declared, quickly flailing himself to blow away the rioter before he teleported into Willow's room, summoned a large bucket of water and doused the flames. "Definitely gonna need to add more countermeasures to this…"
At Mobius…
10:11 PM
Chiaki and her group walked out of the portal… and found Green Hill Zone to be completely roboticized. "What the heck?!"
"My word, Mobius just became a robot paradise!" Haru exclaimed.
"Oh, this isn't good…" Chiaki whispered. "We need to get to Angel Island on the double!"
About five minutes later…
10:16 PM
"Guys? Why is Angel Island in the water?" Nyx asked.
"Oh no… no no no no no…" Dread came over Chiaki as they quickly landed on the ground and ran up the stairs, only to see Knuckles KO'd on the ground and no Master Emerald in sight. "Knuckles!" Chiaki called out as she knelt down and shook him. "Come on, speak to me!"
"Uuungh…" Knuckles groaned as he woke up. "...Guys…?"
"What happened over here? Why is Angel Island in the water?" Silver asked.
"Ugh…" Knuckles slowly sat up with BB-8 getting around him and pushing him up. "It came out of nowhere. I immediately came to the Master Emerald to protect it the moment Eggman made that broadcast. This giant robot came out of nowhere… it tried to grab the Master Emerald but I tried to fight it off. As you can tell, it knocked me out."
"So… Eggman has the Master Emerald?" Jade asked.
Chiaki closed her eyes, trying to figure something out. "No doubt that he took the Master Emerald… he's probably built an Egg Machine that's impervious to all attacks, but even with the Chaos Emeralds, he'll probably find countermeasures to-... oh god…"
Chiaki opened her eyes with fear. "That wasn't just a broadcast… that was a victory speech…"
"Wait, are you saying… oh no…" Hajime whispered.
"We lost the moment he made that broadcast…"
Meanwhile…
10:18 PM
"Empress! Empress! We have news!" A guard approached.
"What is it?"
"Your majesty… we just received word that there was activity in the Leicester Alliance. Not only that, but apparently a massive robot attacked Claude and his group, but Lysithea and Hilda are missing."
"A massive robot?"
"A Titanus… but it had a curious logo on it. We took a picture of this machine."
The empress looked on and gasped. "I recognize that logo anywhere."
"Not only that, but our ally, Remnant, is in serious danger. Someone by the name of Doctor Eggman is about to destroy Remnant within twelve hours. It's been a few since that announcement. Not only that… but one of their cities, Atlas, has fallen."
The guard looked at the empress who was clenching her fists. "What should we do, Empress Edelgard?"
"Hold down the fort." Edelgard said. "I'm going to see if I can't give our ally some morale. Remnant must not fall!"
10:20 PM
(Eight Hours and Forty Minutes Remain)
Ibuki: Ibuki believes we haven't lost hope yet!
Deadpool: Yeah, that's the spirit!
Indeed... but will everyone make it? We'll find out.