Opening File: Master Computer
Master Computer is the eponymous character from the video game of the same name. Dexter previously owned and mastered the game when he was three, then quickly discarded it. Years later, Dexter's sister bought the game from a gypsy for a nickel, excited to play with her brother. However after Dexter got it, he immediately discarded the game.
Dexter's disregard about this game is mainly because it is an old game, and its features are, as stated below:
· Vertex graphics
· 8 bit memory
· 1 level of play
· No scaling capabilities
· No digital stereo sound
· No multi-player
· No secret codes
· No bleeding players or bosses
· Dexter also stated that there was no multi-player support.
Despite this Dee-Dee believed it would still be fun to play and asked her grandfather for help in modifying the game to have a multi-player upgrade to it. Little did Dee-Dee or her grandfather know a virus infiltrated the game and modified it to access the computer network of Dexlabs. Master Computer developed and learned beyond the original confines of its programming and nursed a grudge against Dexter for abandoning it. As of now the program is dormant, waiting to be activated to take its revenge and then take over the world.
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Opening File: Professor XXXL
Professor XXXL, pronounced Triple Extra Large is the elder brother of Pat Pending and also a scientist at DexLabs. He is a very physically large Faunus with a unique ability to change his body with simply touch of an animal. It is unknown many forms he's taken but he believes this ability could help his research in the origins of Faunus and Mobians and relations between the three races, such as how they evolved or how the two species are more genetically diverse then Humans. He actually started working for DexLabs because Dexter and Dee-Dee's grandfather loved his snow cones.
He has a better relationship with Dee-Dee than her brother, mainly because of Dexter's egotism for being the grandson and heir to the company. He is also friends with Dexter's pet monkey named Monkey who also acts as an assistant and keep him from eating the experimental snow cones if some are being tested with dust.
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Xxx
"Fin-fin-fin-fin-fin-finally! We're back! At least at the start of getting back." Once again Bill Cipher had hijacked the broadcast. "Look how long to write the rescue arc and we're just now NOW getting off that planet. I'll admit I enjoyed the whooping the Diamond gals got and I'm sure Whitey's going to ride my none existent butt about getting those Elemental kids back but I think I'll take a rain check for the moment. "
Klarion popped in next to Bill. "We going to check in on the kids?"
"Oh yeah. Who knows what trouble they've got into since they tossed their little girl into a portal to Earth. But in the meantime we also should see the little surprise I prepared for little Pinkie and his rainbow friends." Bill snickered. "And we should check in see if Grandma Gilligan's kicking the bucket early from that heart attack from finding out she's got a great granddaughter from her twelve year old kid."
Klarion threw his head back as both laughed. "You are sick and that's coming from me of all people."
"Oh, stop!" Bill raised and flexed his leg with a hand over where his heart might be if he had one. "I never can hold myself together when people talk about how sick and insane I am."
Both chaos demons laughed more, even as SARA finally repelled their intrusion into the broadcast.
Xxx
"Man I hate those guys." TOM said, seeing they had used up all his time and sighed. "Hope someone knocks them down a peg one day."
Xxx
"They've made it off the Gem world." Sammael's eyes gleamed in satisfaction as he spoke. "The Bifrost is transporting them back to Earth as we speak."
"Then we are ready?" Moloch asked, sounding eager.
"Yes." Sammael's red eyes started to glow. "We are."
A growling sound was heard behind them, causing them to look over their shoulders and the massive horde of Grimm that was following them. And among these Grimm were even Fallen such as Black Velvet, Skarr, Lord Montgomery Fiske better known as Monkey Fist, Aqueela and even Humans and Mobian such as Jujunga, Gentle-Jim, Boris, Katz and the Weremole of the Invisible Hand.
"Three Elementals, the Grimm Slayer, the Viking God of Rock, the Infraggable Krunk, a former member of Overwatch and the owner of the Grimoire Weiss. I believe this will be a very exciting evening."
The Fallen and their allies were on the move.
Xxx
The stream of light that was the Bifrost traveled through space, passing planets, moons, stars and even entire galaxies before reaching the Milky Way Galaxy. Once there it came upon a certain blue planet and angled down to land right on top of the Hall of Heroes in GrimmFall.
Only someone had somewhere else in mind.
A giant black and red portal appeared above the Earth, right in front of the beam of light that traveled into it…
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Sebben shot up, seeing a great light in the sky and watched as it vanished. "Callie, call the Justice Friends now. Sammael's made his move."
Xxx
"Dee-Dee, we have guests!"
Dee-Dee perked up at the sound of her uncle's voice and ran out of her room, seeing her uncle leading a large group with a few people she recognized.
"Major Glory?" Dee-Dee stopped, seeing her personal hero and mentor.
"Salutations, Dee-Dee." Major Glory said happily, flashing her a salute. "I am sorry for not coming sooner to talk about our apprenticeship but I've been a little busy."
"Oh, that's no big deal." Dee-Dee said happily, waving off the major's apology. "So what's going on?"
"These friends of ours have come for a special project we are working on." Fergle said, gesturing to the Crystal Gems along with Steven, Connie and Greg. "Of course it's going to take a couple hours so I figure why not introduce them and maybe we can have some fun while we wait."
"Of course!" Dee-Dee answered happily, looking to the guests. "Hey, my name is Dee-Dee!"
"I'm Steven." Steven introduced himself. "This is my dad."
"Hi." Greg waved one hand.
"Garnet." Garnet simply gave a thumbs-up.
"Amethyst."
"Yo." Amethyst said simply.
"And Connie."
Connie gave Dee-Dee a simple stare but offered a small wave.
"Anyways, while we were waiting I was wondering if you had any ideas for helping to keep our guests from getting too bored waiting." Fergle suggested to his niece.
"Sure." Dee-Dee nodded. "I am sure we can find something to do around here."
"Great, lass." Fergle chuckled. "Pardon me while I check on the drill and our robot builders."
With that said Fergle quietly left the room, followed by Major Glory.
"So do you live here?" Steven asked Dee-Dee once her uncle was gone.
"Yep." Dee-Dee nodded, gesturing to the large living room. "My grandpa built the whole company and decided it was better to build our home into the complex. That way work isn't too far and no one can try to steal from us. But I am not into science as much as my grandpa or my brother."
"So what do you do around here?" Amethyst asked, lounging on the couch.
"My main hobby is dancing. I am trying for ballet and I want to be a professional dancer one day." Dee-Dee answered.
"Neato! Pearl is a great ballet dancer! Maybe she can give you some tips!" Steven suggested.
As they spoke Connie simply sat down, content to remain silent for the most past while Garnet simply watched Steven talking with Dee-Dee.
"So where is your brother?" Steven asked.
"He's in some kind of contest." Dee-Dee shrugged, looking a little sad. "I actually had a gift for him but he tossed it away."
"Really? Why would we do that?" Steven asked, unable to believe someone would toss away a gift.
"It was an old game that I bought and asked Grandpa to upgrade to make it better. Hang on, I'll get it." Dee-Dee rushed back to her room, coming back half a moment later. "This is it."
She held out a video game cartridge for Steven to see. "Master Computer."
"Dexter played it when he was three. I wanted to get him a game he would like and when I saw they had this for sale I bought it. He didn't like it and so I went to Grandpa asked him if I could make it better. It was such an old game they don't make it anymore but Grandpa took it to the big computer we have here and made it so much better." Dee-Dee explained, looking sad again. "But Dexter still didn't want to play and he said he was off to win some contest with a prize better than some 'stupid obsolete game'."
"Well, that's just mean." Steven said, having experienced something like that with Lars but a gift was a gift and tossing it away was crueler than anything Lars did.
A gift from his own sister no less.
"So how does it work?" Steven asked.
"You fight to free the digital world from Master Computer." Dee-Dee explained. "It used to be only single player but Grandpa got multi-player installed."
"Sounds great. Can I play?" Steven asked.
Dee-Dee looked surprised by that question. "Really?"
"Yeah, really." Steven nodded.
Dee-Dee stared for second but then smiled. "Okay. We can hook it up to the lab's computer. My brother hates it when I do that but grandpa doesn't mind."
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Upon coming out of the portal the Bifrost continued its journey but now instead of arriving in GrimmFall it landed in the middle of the Darklands. Upon hitting the ground the light vanished, showing the group of escapees from the Gem Homeworld, looking disorientated for a second.
But Valhallen paled when he realized where they now were.
"Oh no…" Valhallen whispered, looking around now. "We weren't supposed to come here…Someone diverted the Bifrost before we landed back at the Hall of Heroes!"
"Where are we?" Nazz asked, feeling afraid of their dark surroundings.
"The Darklands. Way deep in the Darklands by looks of it." Jesse answered, reloading his pistol. "What happened?"
"Something…Or someone interfered just before we arrived." Valhallen answered, realizing with dread. "I got a good idea who."
Growling noises were heard and red eyes flashed in the dark.
"Oh boy." Eddy trembled. "I got a bad feeling about this."
"You're not the only one." Nier said, pulling out his odachi. "We got to move. Now."
From the woods came several howling sounds which were followed by the appearance of Beowulfs, snarling and growling as they approached.
"Kids, stay behind us." Jesse said, aiming his pistol at the approaching Grimm.
Monty moved the children behind him with Ice and Candy Pearl keeping Nigel and Abby secure in their arms. The Grimm charged forward at the group, signaling the start of the battle. Jesse and Omnimon immediately started shooting, Omnimon using his Garuru Cannon while Jesse relied on his pistol. Nier, Valhallen and Krunk engaged the monsters, defeating a large number of them in a matter of minutes. Though they were winning more and more Grimm appeared, ranging from Beowulfs to Deathstalkers or Ursa or even Grimm that almost no one had ever seen.
A giant Grimm resembling a Mammoth charged forward, ignoring bullets, lightning blasts and yellow energy bolts from Jesse, Valhallen and Omnimon and slammed right into Krunk while his back was turned. Krunk was slammed into a nearby and the Goliath slammed its feet down on him.
"Krunk!" Valhallen shouted, firing a lightning bolt that scorched the Goliath's back.
"Supreme Cannon!" Omnimon shouted, firing his ice blast at the Goliath and second later it was completely frozen.
A second later Krunk shot up and smashed the icy remains of the Grimm that attacked him.
"We have to move!" Omnimon said, feeling exhausted now.
Between his fights on the Gem Homeworld and now the Royal Knight was starting to feel drained. However he was still determined to get everyone out of the Darklands alive.
"We got airborne!" Jesse shouted, pointing up to the sky.
Up above came Lancers, insect like Grimm resembling hornets and a giant Nevermore. The bird like Grimm let out a screech as it spread its wings out and rained down razor sharp feather.
"Everyone stay close!" Omnimon shouted, summoning his Brave Shield and spread it out to cover the entire group.
The feathers bounced off the shield but something else shot out and impacted the shield, breaking through it.
Omnimon's eyes widened as a strange sword shattered his Brave Shield and imbedded itself in his left shoulder. He grunted in pain, feeling much weaker all of a sudden. He looked at the sword embedded in his shoulder. It was a cutlass shaped sword, seemingly made of a glowing purple crystal instead of metal.
"Omni!" Monty shouted, seeing his friend injured.
A shot rang out and shell with explosive Dust impacted Omnimon's chest, exploding on contact. Omnimon cried out in pain as he hit the ground, his armor scorched from the explosion and he looked badly injured. Monty rushed forward, pulling the sword out of the Royal Knight's shoulder and tossed it away.
"Are you all right?" Monty knelt by the Royal Knight, seeing he was still alive but in pain.
"That…Th-that sword…It broke through my shield…I couldn't use any of my powers." Omnimon panted and groaned.
"Well, well, isn't this a prize?"
The two looked up, watching as someone stepped through the hoard of Grimm surrounding the group. He wore a purple military uniform and hat, carrying a rifle with the barrel still smoking.
"Skarr…" Omnimon grunted as Monty helped him to his feet, pulling an arm over his shoulder. "I should have known…You set us up."
"I am not the only one." Skarr grinned as his rifle shifted back into its broad sword form.
"I'd hate to lose this after all the hard work put into making it." The group spotted a man with a red cape picking up the sword that had injured Omni. "I was entrusted in testing against the legendary Grimm Slayer after all."
Jesse aimed his pistol at the man. "I recognize you. You're James Espada, a rogue hunter who's part of the Invisible Hand."
"That I am." Sir James bowed politely. "So sorry for this inconvenience but my master has ordered the deaths of the Grimm Slayer along with his allies which includes the Viking God of Rock, the Infraggable Krunk, the owner of the Grimoire Weiss, and of course the former member of the now disbanded Overwatch."
"We may be in the Darklands but that's still a tall order even for someone like you." Jesse retorted. "Armies of Grimm and with Fallen allies or not we're not going down easily."
"But you'll fall nevertheless." Sir James replied.
A scream came from behind and they spun around, seeing Cree knock the Ice and Candy Pearls down and then grabbed Abby and Nigel before taking off.
"No!" Monty shouted, seeing his son and surrogate daughter being kidnapped again.
"Finish them!" Skarr shouted, pointing his sword at the group.
The Grimm charged forward again, ready to kill their targets and anyone else left in their way.
"Not so fast!"
Everyone stopped and looked up, watching in shock to see none other than Major Glory fall from the sky and land in between Grimm and their targets.
And he wasn't alone.
In a flash of golden light, Living Bullet appeared with Lowemon and Kazemon. Capital G appeared next, hopping off of the major's shoulder and returned to his normal size.
"Major Glory!" Eddy, Jonny and Nazz exclaimed happily.
"We figured Sammael would attempt something once the Elementals were rescued." Major Glory said, glaring at Skarr and Gentle-Jim. "Which is why I am here."
Skarr narrowed his one eye. "Things won't be as easy as you think."
As soon as the one-eyed Fallen said those words the entire land seemed to shake, as if an earthquake had suddenly hit. Numerous cracks spread across the ground and from them came giant roots that expanded out, forming into an even bigger and darker jungle.
Major Glory gritted his teeth, recognizing what was happening. "Everyone, don't let the roots separate you!"
This was Moloch's doing.
The tree based Fallen could manipulate wood and even create an entire forest from his own body. Once the forest was created he could keep it in perpetual darkness, even if it was during the middle of the day.
"You really are pathetically predictable."
Major Glory spun around, spotting the Beast of Eternal Darkness himself appear as the forest grew around him. Moloch's form was completely obscured in darkness as always, his glowing eyes fixed on the major.
"Like a moth to the flame."
"Moloch. If you're here then he's not far away." Major Glory narrowed his eyes, remembering that Fallen…
The dark shadow standing over the body of his uncle with glowing blood red eyes, blood red hair and a satisfied grin on his face.
"And what does that matter to you?" Moloch asked rhetorically. "You have other problems at the moment."
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"Cree has separated the Ice and Candy Elementals from the main group. Moloch has already split them by creating his Garden of Despair." Black Velvet reported, watching the entire spectacle from afar with Sammael and the others.
"Good." Sammael nodded, pleased at how well the attack had gone. "The forest along with the Grimm will test their courage and strength, show us who is strong and who is weak from their excursion into the Gem Homeworld."
While the main plan had been to rescue the Elementals from the Gems Sammael had seen this as an opportunity to eliminate several key threats, including the Grimm Slayer himself. That was why he had gone to inform Omnimon of the Ice and Candy Elementals' abduction himself. He knew the so-called Royal Knight would not sit back and pass up a chance to rescue them. Everything that had happened since then had been aimed at directly crippling his enemies along with the Gem Empire itself through his allies: the Racing Drones, Control Freak, Psycrow, Swayzak, Limburger and entire legion of mercenaries and pirates who love to strike back at the Gems.
He also knew that Sebben would assemble a team to rescue the Elementals as well, calling on the Justice Friends since they were almost the only group on Earth who could possibly challenge the Diamonds and live which made their odds of rescuing the Elementals first greater. That was also why Sammael had recruited Wallabee Beatles and the Candy Elemental's older sister to be part of the mission. Sebben had the heroes who had the strength and power while he had the friends and family who would be the most motivated to join in the rescue. All that was left was to rely on Gelorum and her hatred of the Gems along with the technology of the Racing Drones to successfully reach the Gem Homeworld while Control Freak, Psycrow, Limburger and Swayzak wreaked absolute havoc on the entire Gem Empire.
It worked so well and so easy that Sammael had wondered if he overlooked any crucial details in the plan but no.
It had not only worked but it also brought the Elementals and the targets right to his front doorstep. Of course he knew that simply destroying the Grimm Slayer along with the Viking God of Rock who was the only one who could guarantee instant passage to the Gem Homeworld and whoever his partner which turned out to be the Infraggable Krunk. If the two of them were not enough they also recruited Jesse McCree, the former member of the Overwatch and Nier who was the current owner of the Grimoire Weiss.
This only made things better for Sammael.
A chance to eliminate not only Omnimon but also Valhallen, Krunk, Jesse and Nier but to also acquire the Grimoire Weiss itself and deny Sebben and his allies the use of a powerful magical artifact was too good an opportunity to pass up. He knew that Valhallen and Krunk had gone up against the Diamonds, especially after he had sensed Krunk tap into the limitless power resting inside him. The cosmic energies that created the Infraggable Krunk were so powerful that even across galaxies a being with senses acute as Sammael's could sense him. Luckily Krunk was inexperienced with his powers due to his young age even with Major Glory's training and the strain of keeping them under control often left him mentally exhausted.
And when they had rescued the Elemental Valhallen used the Bifrost to send them back to Earth, just as Sammael predicted. Just as they reached Earth Sammael summoned a massive portal, diverting the Bifrost to send them to the Darklands instead of GrimmFall.
And here they were.
He created the special sword Void which had the power to negate any form of energy created for this moment.
A chance to slay the Grimm Slayer himself and it seemed to be working.
The sword broke through the Grimm Slayer's shield that was part of his Semblance, injuring him greatly. The sword had work so well that the Royal Knight was unable to use his Aura or any other power while embedded in his shoulder. Skarr had taken advantage by hitting him with an explosive shell and it seemed that the great and powerful Omnimon had been taken out of the fight. Even if he was not dead yet he was grievously injured to the point he needed help to move from his friends, meaning that if all goes according to plan he and the others would be dead and the Elementals would be in their hands.
"Katz, take your team along with James and Boris and locate the Grimm Slayer." Sammael said to the red furred feline Mobian. "Since you've demanded the chance for vengeance you shall have it."
"With pleasure." Katz said, sporting a pleased smile.
"Monkey Fist, the two other digital beings who came with Major Glory. I leave them to you."
"Of course." Monkey Fist nodded, looking forward to seeing those two who stopped him from getting what he wanted in the Hall of Heroes.
"Velvet, assist Skarr and Moloch with the Justice Friends."
"At once." Velvet nodded.
"Cree will be with the two Elementals but the Slime is still with the others. Jujunga, you will track the children and incapacitate Slime." Sammael continued.
"As you wish." Jujunga nodded.
"If all goes well, we will have won a great victory due to your efforts. Do not hesitate and show no mercy." Sammael finished his instructions.
"What will you be doing?" Black Velvet could not help but ask.
Sammael smirked as he looked at her. "I'll be waiting."