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Also friendly warning: The following boss battle with Giganto has been done differently. You will understand soon enough. ;) )
Everyone walked out of the fishing area and dispersed, though Futaba pulled Weiss to the side.
BGM: Have a Nice Talk (Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story plus Bowser Jr's Journey)
"Okay, so how does this work?" Weiss asked.
"It's very simple. You see, in the games, you can only carry six Pokemon at a time… though in real life, you could just have a Pokemon companion with you on the side, so you could technically have seven."
"So what happens if you catch another one if you have all six? …In the games, at least?"
"Well, the Pokeball is transferred over into a computer and it's stored there digitally and waits there in limbo for all time and eternity until you bring them back out… or, ya know, you do a Nuzlocke and you bring them all out when your Pokemon quote unquote "dies"..."
"What's a Nuzlo-"
"For your sake? You don't want to know. It's emotionally taxing and… well, let's just say Chiaki wasn't herself for the rest of the day."
A long time ago…
"Are you okay?" Hajime asked.
"No… my precious Dodrio died to RNG bullcrap…" Chiaki mumbled as she was in a fetal position. "And my starter? A stupid critical hit got it!"
"Ooooh…"
Back in the present…
"There wasn't enough ice cream in the world to cheer her up. She was that emotionally attached to them all."
Weiss sweatdropped. "You're right… Nuzlockes sound like they're insane."
"I've tried it a few times… never succeeded. Got close to the end though but… stupid Cynthia had to go and ruin it for me…" Futaba grumbled. One of these days, I WILL get that damned Garchomp!
"Soooo… what do you got for me?"
"Ah, right. Let me just bring it up for ya…" Futaba opened her screens up and played around with it until several islands showed up. "Helloooo homemade Poke Pelago~!" She smirked as she looked at Weiss. "Okay, so you got your own, Yang's, Mine's and Masaru's… so excuse me for a moment-"
She typed in some coordinates as all of her Pokemon, plus Manaphy, were transferred into it where the Pokeballs all opened up as they all wandered around, jumping into the water, played volleyball or just relaxed.
"Whoa…" Weiss whispered.
"Pretty neat, eh? So let's see, what ones do you want with you for the time being?" Futaba asked as Weiss looked around and after some moments to decide…
She picked Mine's Gorebyss, Yang's Talonflame, Emboar and Ursaluna, her Mamoswine, and Primarina while also bringing Manaphy out as he placed him on top of Azure.
"That should do it."
"Alllrighty!" Futaba smiled as she did away with her screens. "Everyone else is enjoying paradise, so if you need to switch around, come find me."
"Thanks." Weiss smiled as she hopped on Azure. "Now, let's see if we can't find those last Chaos Emeralds."
She flew off with Saki accompanying her as Futaba turned around to see the floating pyramid in the sky.
"I have a pretty good feeling where it might be." She said, activating her Maiden powers and flew up toward it, but suddenly rock walls rose up to prevent her from gaining access to it. "Wha?! Hey!" She glared at Giganto who tauntingly smirked at her. "Ooooh, I can't wait to wipe that grin off your face…"
She descended to the ground and deactivated her Maiden powers. "Alright… guess I'll do this the old fashioned way."
With Jade…
Jade landed on the ground, having entered cyberspace. She looked around and then spotted a mansion in front of her.
"Alright… let's give this one a shot." She said as she walked through the doors.
BGM: Cyber Space 1-6: Go Back 2 Your Roots (Sonic Frontiers)
Jade walked through the mansion as several Boos appeared in front of her. She immediately pulled out her Poltergust and sucked them in. "It's too bad you're not real… I would have loved to do research on you."
She continued walking through the hallways… when suddenly, a Gold Ghost appeared before her and attempted to scare her.
"...Buddy, that's the oldest trick in the book." She said, sucking it up.
She was then poked on the shoulder as she turned around calmly as a Purple Puncher screamed at her.
"Aaaand so is that one." She said, sucking it up and faked a yawn. "Come on, guys… you can do better than this."
She walked through the hallway until she found a door, opening it up where she found herself wandering around the SDC.
"Huh? …Oh, right. Grandpa showed a machine out to Jacques and he totally flipped out when it malfunctioned."
Jade shook her head with a chuckle. "Good times." She said as she wandered around, casually sucking up ghosts that showed up, including a few Peepas.
She then found a door and opened it up, soon finding herself in a home. "What…? This was my old home…" She whispered.
End BGM
She looked around, seeing all the various gadgets and furniture all around the home. She wandered around and opened up the door to her old bedroom, where she found a ghost casually playing with some toys but Jade sucked it up.
"That's my haunted train set, thank you very much."
She looked around the room, feelings of nostalgia hitting her like a brick.
"Okay, this isn't fair, cyberspace. I wasn't prepared to visit my old home… my home that was… torn down because of some ghoulish asbestos junk or whatever."
"Jade! Dinner's ready!"
Jade gasped, turning her head with her eyes widening. She slowly approached the dining room and nearly dropped her Poltergust. In fact, she had to lean against the wall to catch herself.
She was staring at her parents sitting at the dining table, with friendly smiles all around.
"M-M-Muh… Mom… d-d-d…. dad…?"
"What's wrong, dear? You seem like you've seen a ghost." Her mother smiled.
"Hahaha! Probably seen one just outside her bedroom window to try and prank her." Her father chuckled.
BGM: Missing You (Kingdom Hearts II)
Jade tried to speak, but words failed to leave her mouth as her mother approached her and gently took her hand. "Come on, we made your favorite." She said gently and took her to the seat. "If you won't eat, you won't grow anymore, but it seems you've grown on us in the blink of an eye!" She giggled.
"They say "they grow up so fast", but this is ridiculous!" The father joked. "You look like a full grown teenager, and you were just a little girl this morning!"
Tears swelled in her eyes as she sat down, still unable to find her words as they all sat down and ate their meal, though since it was cyberspace food, it wasn't all that filling for Jade.
"Isn't this wonderful? Just the three of us? Oh… but there's an empty chair… you didn't invite your girlfriend over?" Her mother asked.
"Um… well… she's-"
"Ah, got busy with hacking? Understandable." Her father chuckled. "She's quite the catch, I'd say."
"R-Right… I'm just… happy to see you again…"
"What do you mean, dear? We were here all this time. Did you miss us that much?" Her mother playfully teased.
"Yeah, it's not like we were ripped from your life and you failed to save us or anything." Her father chuckled as Jade's sad smile faded. "...Hahaha! Forgive me, you know how I tend to ramble! Just a bunch of BS, am I right?"
"Haha… yeah…" Jade's sad smile returned.
"You've grown so big and strong… I wonder what it would have been like if you were stronger to save us from King Boo." Her mother said.
"Huh?"
"I asked how was your day, dear."
"N-no… you said… must've imagined things."
"Ah, imagination's gone wild, I see!" Her father smiled. "Good! You can use your imagination to figure out how faster you should have been to save us."
"Wh-what? I should've been faster?"
"Hmm? What do you mean?"
"You said I should've been faster to save you."
"Noooo? I said "An imaginative mind is a healthy mind". Are you feeling okay, sweetie?" Her father wondered.
End BGM
"I… I think so… I don't think I'm running a fever." Jade mumbled as she looked into their eyes, seeing their eyes turning sinisterly purple for a few seconds. "Nnngh!" She whimpered, shaking her head as their eyes turned normal again.
"You seem sick…"
"N-no, I'm fine."
"Yeah, she's definitely fine. If she wasn't, she would have saved us from our souls being sucked away from King Boo… but that's neither here nor there." The father shrugged.
"Th-there you go saying it again!" Jade exclaimed. "My parents would never say such a thing!"
"Oh Jade…" Both parents spoke. "You act like we're being controlled."
As they spoke, King Boo rose up from the table with a nasty smirk.
BGM: King Boo's Illusion (Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon)
"You…!" Jade growled as she stood up, readying her Poltergust.
"Ah ah ah~!" King Boo smirked as he held her parents in front of him. "You wouldn't want to hurt your dear ol' folks, would you?"
Jade lowered her Poltergust, glaring at him as King Boo smirked sinisterly… before he fired magic straight into her, sending her into a wall… but as she got up, she found herself as a little girl again. "Huh?!"
"Ahahahahaha! Just like old times." He said as the parents hopped off of the table as Jade was forced to watch them being turned to stone again. "You couldn't save them! You weren't fast enough with those tiny little human legs! And who do you got to thank?"
At that moment, a door opened up as Jade saw Myra approach them, casually leaning against a wall.
"You can thank her! She was the one who did this to me! And as such, she killed your parents. She stole their lives…"
"No! She's a good person!"
"Hahahahahaha! That's what all little kids think. They think everyone is a good person until they do something nasty to 'em. If it wasn't for her… your parents would still be alive."
Jade closed her eyes. "It was an accident…"
"Really now?" King Boo mused. "Then would you call THIS an accident?" He fired lightning bolts into the statues, destroying them in seconds. "Ooops~"
Tears swelled in Jade's eyes as King Boo cackled, as Myra laughed with him.
"Tell me! Was that an accident? Would Myra have done that by accident… or was that on purpose? Because frankly, I-"
SLAM!
Suddenly, laser bolts hit King Boo and Myra and before they could react, more lasers struck them until they dissipated into data, then several bombs were laid out and blew up the entire home.
End BGM
Jade groaned, finding herself back to normal. "What was-"
"Are you alright, Gadd?"
Jade turned around, seeing R3-B7 in front of her. "Huh?! R3-B7, you… saved me? …Wait… did you take over?"
"If that is what you want to think, then… yes. Cyberspace is not pulling any punches here… it delved deep into your memory and turned your past against you, as if it wants to torment you. I should know, I feel the same way."
"What do you mean?"
"I've been looking around for Robotnik, but unfortunately, everywhere I turn, I've met with hostile GUN vehicles. By the time I'm done destroying them, I'm back to where I started… and then during my search, I found this place tormenting you."
"Oh…"
"Do not let it get to you, because if you do, then Cyberspace wins. I have been trying to get out of here for some time myself, but to no avail."
At that moment, a portal appeared in front of them.
"Ah, what do you know. But according to my data, only one may leave that particular one. I'll find another way out."
"Okay…"
"Oh, and before I go… tell SAPR I said hello." She flew off.
"What…?" Jade wondered before shaking her head. "Cyberspace is playing tricks on me again…" She said as she walked into the portal, finding herself back out as vault keys appeared in her hand.
However, the keys became blurry as Jade wiped her eyes and quickly pulled out her phone, texting Iris and Futaba.
"I need a hug. Desperately."
"On our way." - Iris
"Where you at?" - Futaba
"I'll launch a fireball in the air."
Jade walked away from the portal and then used her Poltergust to launch a fireball into the air, where Futaba, Iris and Rantaro came running/flying over to her.
"You okay? What happened?" Iris asked as Jade tried to find her words, but instead tears swelled up as she quickly hugged them, softly crying.
"Easy…" Rantaro whispered.
"We're here, just let it out…" Futaba said.
"Take your time to explain what happened."
Meanwhile…
BGM: No Way Out (Sonic Frontiers)
"Wow… that truly is fascinating about Futaba." Sage said.
"Indeed. Now then… progress report."
"While you were telling me about Futaba, I have extended the range of my control, but I can still only command a few of the Ancients' relics at a time."
"Commendable, but what about finding me a way out of this digital dimension?"
"I have run one million, seven hundred thousand and fifty simulations. There is no scenario to safely remove you all from Cyberspace."
"Unacceptable! Keep looking! Make it your number one priority!"
Eggman took off.
"But… keeping you all safe is my priority…"
End BGM
Meanwhile, with Weiss…
Weiss approached a portal, hopping off of Azure. "Well… I guess this will have to do." She said as she pressed her hand against it and found herself digitized into it.
She then found herself in a cybernetic-like area filled with metallic walls. She would see a white digital door in front of her. "Okay… let's see what we got here." She said as she walked into the doorway, her weapons at the ready.
However, as she walked through, her weapons disappeared on her as her Pokeballs were locked up. "Huh?!" She wondered as she looked around. "Where'd they…?"
She heard heavy footsteps as she turned to the source as she found Samus approaching her. "...Samus?" She wondered as she narrowed her eyes, seeing her face distorted through her visor. "You're not Samus. You're the SA-X."
The SA-X said nothing as it aimed its arm cannon at her. Weiss quickly tried to put up a glyph, but found that she couldn't make one. She tried throwing a Pokeball, but it didn't open up, as she didn't realize they were locked up.
Weiss paled, quickly picking up the Pokeball. "Soooo uh… how are you doing?"
BGM: Cyber Space 1-7: Time Flyer (Sonic Frontiers)
The SA-X fired at her, forcing her to duck as Weiss quickly ran away from it as the SA-X ran after her, firing as Weiss rounded a corner and quickly jumped into a vent that she had seen. She slowly crawled away as the SA-X scanned the area.
Weiss then hopped out of another vent in another room and quickly ran away, sighing in relief as she did… only for something to tackle her to the ground. "MMMPH!" She grunted as she looked to see that it belonged to an EMMI.
The EMMI pinned her to the ground, ready to skewer her but Weiss kicked it off of her and tried to run away but the EMMI changed colors, changing to yellow as it sped up and then tackled her to the ground, pinning her legs and shoulders as it stared her in the eyes.
Fear took over Weiss as she could only tell what the EMMI was going to do to her… only for a blue blur to spin dash into the EMMI to knock it off of her, and then Weiss felt herself picked up by Sonic.
"Am I too late?"
"How'd you find me?"
"Heard Manaphy was in distress and by the time I noticed your weapons were outside, I figured you were in trouble."
"Yeeeeah, I could use a ride…"
"Then hang on!"
Sonic took off running, speeding away from the EMMI and leaving it in the dust as he ran around the maze until he screeched to a halt, seeing the SA-X on the other side.
"Samus?"
"That's the SA-X!"
"Ah, right, I heard about that…" Sonic said as the SA-X fired, but Sonic was immediately behind it and then several yards away. "Come on, is that the best you can do! You can't even catch up!"
At that moment, electricity wrapped around the SA-X and proceeded to Shinespark toward them.
"Oooor maybe you can." Sonic grimaced as he took off running as he found a spring and ran into it, jumping between walls as SA-X proceeded to shinespark its way up as Sonic boosted away from the SA-X while the EMMI crawled up on the ceiling to catch up to them.
"They're gaining!" Weiss warned.
"Not for long!"
Sonic tossed Weiss into the air, quickly charged up speed and then by the time Weiss landed in his arms again, he Light Speed dashed away from them as they went straight for an open vent as they went through and popped out on the other side where a portal awaited them.
End BGM
Sonic and Weiss burst out as Vault Keys appeared in their hands.
"Mama! Mama!" Manaphy jumped up into Weiss's arms after Sonic put her down.
"I'm here sweetie…" Weiss hugged him tightly. "Thanks Sonic."
"Don't mention it." Sonic smiled before he ran off.
"Okay… I think I had my fill of portals for right now." Weiss said after the Wyverns nuzzled her as he hopped up on Azure as they flew off together in search of the Emerald.
Meanwhile…
BGM: Kronos Island - 7th Mvt (Sonic Frontiers)
The Tower Guardian fell to the ground after Nero and the Atlas Sisters took care of it. "Ha! Takes care of that." He said, high fiving the sisters as a spring appeared.
"Hmm… I think we found a way to get up on that pyramid." Nico said.
"Well, let's not dilly dally!" Nero smirked as they hopped on the springs, bouncing along until they reached some platforms as they ran across it before hopping on some railings, jumping off at the last moment to boost through some rainbow rings before landing on another platform, though Nero latched onto a zipline that boosted him up as he did a few flips before landing on the ground, where he would see a rock in the way.
"Ha! Like this will stop me!" He said as he transformed and punched it as hard as he could, shattering it in an instant as he ran inside and joined the ladies as they were dealing with some Guardians alongside some Egg Robos and Paratroopas, then once they were done, they hopped into some rings and boosted their way up, Nero punching through several rock walls as they landed on top, finding a white Chaos Emerald for their troubles.
"Score!" Penny smiled.
"Now that is a total of six!" SAPR grinned as Nero reached into the vault and grabbed the Emerald.
Pause BGM
"Alriiiight! Now let's-"
Suddenly, the sky suddenly changed as everything on the island turned a different color. "What the…?" Penny wondered as nearby, Masaru, Yang, and Mine all were back to normal temporarily.
"Huh…?" Mine wondered as Yang looked up.
"Look out!" Yang pushed the two down as the ground exploded nearby.
"The heck?!" Masaru yelped in surprise.
Jade, despite being held by Futaba and Iris and Rantaro were giving her words of encouragements, hugs and rubbing her back, put up a ghostly barrier to protect themselves.
"Waaaah!" Weiss yelped. "What's going on…?!" She wondered as Manaphy hid himself inside Weiss's shirt as the Wyverns attempted to manuever away from them.
Sonic, meanwhile, had grabbed Amy's wrist and pulled her away as she was desperately reaching out for a liquid-like creature that looked similar to Chaos. "No, stop… it's too dangerous…!" Amy desperately reached out to her.
The two Koco reunited, embracing each other as the world around them kept exploding, they closed their eyes until another explosion engulfed them… and then everything went back to normal for everyone, except for two Koco lying in the grass with smiles on their faces.
Amy approached them with a sad expression. "They were reunited… right before the end…"
Sonic gently knelt down next to her. "They're together now. You take a minute. I'm going to keep moving."
"Okay…"
End BGM
Resume Kronos Island - 7th Mvt BGM
One regrouping later…
"What was that all about?" Weiss asked after she landed.
"I was helping Amy and a Koco reunite their lost love and uh… let's just say stuff hit the fan all of a sudden."
"Yeah, we got swept off our feet from that. Almost!" Iris said. "Is Amy going to be okay?"
"Yeah, she'll be a bit… but everything's okay. Right?"
"Got our bearings straight after that… but we're alright." Masaru said. "Wonder what that was…"
"Definitely some kind of war." Futaba said.
"You think so? …I'd believe it."
"For a second there, I thought Cyberspace got reeeeally grumpy over us retrieving this." Nero said, holding the white Chaos Emerald.
"Okay, so that's six." Sonic nodded as he shifted his eyes to see Amy approaching. "You feeling okay?"
"Yeah… I… I feel… like I'm at peace." Amy nodded. "Not to mention I feel like we've unlocked something."
She pointed over to some pillars. "I'm not sure if you've noticed, but it would seem as if some of those pillars lit up."
"So that's what those lights meant…" Rantaro said. "Great, so what do we do?"
"I think we can move them around… right?" Weiss wondered.
"Alright, one of you start moving them around… I'll be the bird's eye view!" Futaba said, immediately flying up to take a good look at the puzzle in question. "This took me fifteen minutes yet somehow, Chiaki managed to do it in five… and that's without looking it up." She mumbled to herself.
"I'm at the position!" Sonic called out.
"Okay, move that pillar to the right! …No no, my right!"
Several instructions later…
"Aaaaand bring it in… we're good!" Futaba smiled. "Heh, that was less of a hassle than I thought it'd be." She said as they witnessed the waterfall opening up and with a nod from everyone, they went off to investigate as they jumped on some springs and launched themselves over a pillar before landing.
End BGM
They heard roaring as they saw Giganto moving away toward the arena in question as they chased after it… but when they got to said arena, Giganto was nowhere to be found.
"Huh…?" Sonic wondered.
"Hold on… I'm picking up on something." Futaba said as she looked into it with her technomagic. "Ah, okay. Apparently there's a firewall that I have to break into. This'll take a few seconds…" She immediately started typing to crack the code.
As she was typing in the code, a large hand suddenly broke through as a large Omega Metroid burst out of it.
BGM: Vs Omega Metroid (Metroid: Samus Returns)
"Wah!" Weiss yelped as she jumped back as they saw the Omega Metroid roar, punching the ground as several more Metroids came out of the ground, resulting in Larva, Alpha, Gamma and Zeta Metroids rising out of the ground.
"What's with all the Metroids?!" Futaba wondered as Weiss looked at the Omega, where it had green eyes compared to its other Metroid counterparts.
"Wait…" She whispered, recalling how Blake had trouble with a particular malicious Omega Metroid.
Weiss clenched her fists. "You guys deal with the offspring. Nina's mine!"
"Welp, time to freeze some of these aliens." Futaba said, immediately activating her Maiden powers as everyone spread out to deal with the oncoming Metroids, all the while Weiss stood her ground against the Omega, where it looked at Weiss hungrily.
Hungry Virus - Data Nina the Omega Metroid
Nina clawed at Weiss, but she quickly parried it while also calling out her Mamoswine. She quickly slashed at the beast and stabbed it in the weak spot. Nina responded by backhanding her away, but Tusky caught her and then charged forward, impaling the Metroid with the tusks and threw her to the side.
"Mamoooo!"
Weiss got back up and proceeded to use some glyphs to have ice chunks strike the Omega. Nina breathed fire as the duo got out of the way as the Mamoswine unleashed a Blizzard, then Weiss swooped in and stabbed at the weakspot.
Nina growled, grabbing Weiss and slamming her to the ground, not caring about the Blizzard as it attempted to bite down at her, but Azure and Saki both came in and smacked her away with their tails while Manaphy used Whirlpool.
Weiss got back up as she quickly switched to her Orbitars as they both unleashed ice lasers into Nina, causing the Omega to wail in pain as she proceeded to dig underground to avoid it before she sprung up between Weiss and Tusky as Nina grabbed a hold of Weiss by the neck.
"Nnngh…!" Weiss grunted, trying to hold on as Nina roared in her face.
"Mama!" Manaphy cried out as everyone turned to Nina holding Weiss hostage after Futaba made quick work on them.
"Weiss!" Jade called out as Futaba readied herself, but Nina quickly put Weiss out up on front, holding her as a meat shield.
"Dammit…" Futaba growled as Nina eyeballed Sonic with a glare.
"Uuungh… can't… let this Metroid… best me…!" Weiss grunted as Nina turned to Weiss, licking her chops…
End BGM
…When suddenly, a few lasers struck the Metroid. Nina roared, turning to see who was responsible for the lasers.
BGM: Space Armada (Super Smash Bros Brawl)
In a flash, an Arwing flew overhead and flipped upside down, causing the cockpit to open as a woman launched out of it… before conjuring up an ice Valstrax and dive bombed into Nina, causing an icy explosion that knocked Weiss off of Nina's grip.
"Mmmph!" Weiss grunted, falling on her butt as she saw a mist in front of her as she also heard Nina screeching as a lone figure fought the creature until Nina suddenly fell to the ground in front of Weiss, slowly disappearing out of data.
End BGM
"What…?" Weiss wondered.
"Are you alright, sis?" Winter emerged from the mist, extending a hand toward her.
"Winter?!"
"Nice of you to drop by." Futaba said as Weiss grabbed Winter's hand and was pulled up, where they'd see the Great Fox coming in and landing gently as Star Fox walked out with Byleth, Dorothea, Gonta, Shadow and Kyoko.
"Oh hey, it's you guys!" Nero said. "What took ya so lo-" He immediately grimaced when Kyoko gave him a sharp glare.
"I'll chat with you two later." Kyoko said.
"Busted…" Nico chuckled nervously.
"So what's going on here? Why are Yang, Masaru, Mine and Amy glitching out?" Kyoko asked.
One explanation later…
"That would explain it…" Kyoko nodded. "Still, I'm glad that you guys are alright for the most part."
"Eh, we've been through worse." Yang said as Gonta tried to hug Yang but to no success.
"Gonta can't hug sister…" Gonta pouted.
"Aww, but I definitely can feel it!" Yang reassured her. "Don't worry, big guy. I can feel the hug~"
Gonta smiled sweetly. "Gonta is relieved."
"So am I." Byleth said as she attempted to hug Yang with Dorothea. "So relieved that you're unharmed… ish."
"Eh, you know me. Nothing can knock me down… not even turning into data or whatever this is."
"Still… everyone else is MIA. We haven't heard from anyone." Iris said.
"I've been working on trying to get communications back up and running so we'd communicate with the folks over at Toad Town… I'm slowly getting there." Futaba said.
"At least you're working on it." Shadow said. "So, any way to crack this barrier?"
"Ah! I was just about to crack it open when we were so rudely interrupted." Futaba said as she turned around. "What? What do you mean "progress lost"?! Aaaargh… alright, this is gonna take a minute."
"While we wait… there's something I need to show you, Weiss." Winter said as she walked into the Great Fox with her, and then pulled out a box.
"What's this?" Weiss wondered.
"Let's just say Neptune designed it and Ibuki went right to work on it." Winter said as Weiss opened it, and her eyes widened in surprise before she headed off with the box.
She then came out with her hair let down to her waist. She now wears a pale blue sleeveless, thigh-length dress with white pleated halter-like straps extended to the back closed at the collar by a ruby in the center. She also has a white pleated hem above the skirt, matching opera-length gloves, and light gray-blue tights. She wears a blue pouch belt to hold her scroll, dust, and other stuff. She's also wearing pale blue boots with white detailed trimming and gray. Finally, a silver ice-shaped tiara with the same ruby on her head.
"I have to say, it's surprisingly comfortable."
Winter smiled. "Glad you like it."
"And you said Neptune designed this? I didn't think he had it in him."
"He's developed a talent for designing outfits. They've been pretty spot on." Winter said.
"Well, I'm gonna have to hug him for this later."
"Speaking of hugs…" Winter immediately hugged her tightly.
"Oh!" Weiss said in surprise before smiling, returning the hug. "Gods, I needed this…"
The sisters walked out together. "Everyone, meet the new Weiss." Winter said as Weiss walked up.
"Daaaaaaaaamn!" Futaba put her ice glasses down. "Looking cute as hell!"
"I'll say!" Jade agreed.
Sonic whistled. "Lookin' good!" He gave her a thumbs up while the Atlas Sisters happily smiled and gave a thumbs up as well.
"Looks good on you." Kyoko complimented.
"Wow… not bad." Fox said.
"I want a dress like that…" Krystal and Amy muttered in unison.
"Ahem. The firewall?" Shadow reminded.
"Ah, right!" Futaba quickly returned to it. "Aaaaand… enter!" She pressed it as the firewall opened up as Giganto appeared before them.
BGM: Titan: GIGANTO (Sonic Frontiers)
The Ancient Titan's Rage - Giganto
"So, we have six Chaos Emeralds against this big guy. Where's the last one?" Byleth wondered as they noticed something shining up on top of Giganto.
"I have a feeling." Weiss said.
Winter immediately got on Saki. "I'll see what I can do!" She said as she flew off as Star Fox ran off.
Giganto roared, firing lasers at the group as they quickly avoided the attacks as Giganto then fired lasers at Winter and Saki, but Arwings came in and fired at Giganto to get its attention.
Giganto swung at the Arwings, where they all avoided them as Winter made her way to the top of the head, landing on top of it as she made her way toward the Purple Chaos Emerald, dodging ring lasers.
Winter hopped over and grabbed a hold of the Chaos Emerald, then she whistled as she hopped off as Saki caught her and flew toward the others and hopped off. "Anyone wish to fight this thing, now would be a good time!"
"Let's go." Weiss said as WSSP walked up.
"Hey, wait up! I need to pay that jerk back for bitch slapping me across the island." Futaba insisted as she got into the circle and then the Chaos Emeralds circled around Weiss, Sonic, Penny, SAPR and Futaba.
BGM: Undefeatable (Sonic Frontiers)
"I'm hanging on to the other side… I won't give up 'till The End OF ME!"
The Chaos Emeralds turned the group into their Super Forms. Sonic was now Super Sonic. Weiss became Super Weiss. Penny became Super Penny. SAPR became Super SAPR and Futaba became Super Futaba. The group looked at Giganto with the serious face of determination to save their friends. They all smiled though knowing that they were gonna style on the Titan.
"GO!"
Rank: DESERTED
The group immediately rushed the enemy in and pummeled Giganto. Super Sonic used Sonic Boom before quickly stomping on it's head three times. Super Weiss performed a thousand stabs to it's body three times until Giganto let out a defensive wail to push everyone out. All were pushed out except for Super Futaba, who, parried it's attack and summoned a flurry of snowballs from the palm of her hands. The damage dealt wasn't powerful but made up for it with blocking it's view. Super Penny and Super SAPR zigzagged dashed to the Titan's shoulders.
"YOOOOOOOOO!"
"YEAH, WELCOME TO THE MIND OF A DIFFERENT KIND!"
"WHERE WE'VE BEEN GROWING SLOWLY!"
The Heiress, Hedgehog and the Winter Maiden, one by one, drop kicked it's chest.
Rank: CIVILIZED
"THINK I'M ON 11, BUT I'M ON A 9! GUESS YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW ME!"
The two android sisters sucker punched the Titan five times with a Donkey Kick to boot. Giganto stomped the ground, grabbed the two giant rocks that were sent upwards thanks to the stomp, He used the two as gauntlets and spun around.
堅実なダブルラリアット! (ROCK SOLID DOUBLE LARIAT!)
"RUNNING FROM THE PAST IS A LOSING GAME!"
The group saw this and got into a defensive stance…
"IT NEVER BRINGS-"
Parried it…
"-YOU GLORY!"
And immediately counterattacked with an Ultimate Grand Slam that had them Spindashing it's jaw and multiply from 2s to 4s. Eventually. There were thousands of clones ready to strike at Giganto and did as soon as the group landed the hit.
Rank: BABYL-ANCIE-SECRE–STARFAL-SUPER SONIC STYLE!
"BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE!"
Super Weiss then felt something hurting her head.
"ALREADY KNOW THIS STORY!"
A flashing light appeared and disappeared. Revealing that the young heiress had a mask on her face.
"FACE YOUR FEEEEEEAAAAAAAARS!"
She quickly struggled to pull it off until….
"FACE YOUR FEEEEEEAAAAAAAARS!"
"GRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" She pulled it off. She was in pain with her friends turning around to hear her screams. That pained scream then soon became a roar as she was now dead serious. Her new form glowed a cyan, gray, and blue color. It was almost similar to her Fierce Deity form but were now based on the tech of the Ancients.
ウルトラ相続人 - 真神ヴァイス! (ULTRA HEIRESS - SHIN DEITY WEISS!)
"Is that-" Before Super Futaba could say anything. Shin Deity Weiss immediately went after Giganto as it, too, went after the Powered up Huntress.
"IT'S TIME TO FACE YOUR FEAAARS!"
Giganto stomped the ground to summon pillars of stones as it's defense.
そびえ立つ防衛ピラーズブロック! (TOWERING DEFENSE PILLARS BLOCK!)
The huntress sliced them with ease and it repeated until the Titan resorted to use the broken pillars as it's armor.
"CAUSE WHEN YOUR TIME HAS COME AND GONNEE! (GONNEE!)"
"I'LL BE THE ONE TO CARRY OOOOON! (CARRY OOOOON!)"
Shin Deity Weiss struck down Giganto's armor three times with her sword. Breaking down the armor completely. Her Shin Deity form began to crackle electricity before going out. Reverting her back into her Super form. The Titan was about to strike her down while she was vulnerable.
"AND YOU CAN THROW ME TOOOO THE WOOOOOLVES! (THROW ME TOOOO THE WOOOOOLVES!)"
Super Penny parried the attack to save her friend. She then summoned her own take on the Ultimate Grand Slam. There were hundreds of her all around and readied their swords.
踊るバレエ剣弾幕! (DANCING BALLET SWORD BARRAGE!)
She and the clones began hitting from the left-
"'CAUSE-"
-Then right-
"I"
-Up-
"AM"
-And finally-
"UNDEFEATABLE!"
-A satisfactory down smash. Giganto got back up to attack her but Super SAPR arrived to do the same thing her Sister did and parried it.
"I'M HANGING ON TO THE OTHER SIDE!"
Super SAPR performed her Ultimate Grand Slam. Summoning her clones of different dust types. They went inside of her. Super SAPR glowed different colors as she aimed her arm and locked on the Titan and immediately shot out a huge laser energy.
レッコハ ラグナロク! (REKKOHA RAGNAROK!)
"I WON'T GIVE UP 'TIL THE END OF ME"
Giganto blocked the attack.
"I'M WHAT YOU GET WHEN THE STARS COLLIDE!"
"年早いんだよ! (You're ten years too early!)" Super Sonic and Super Futaba shoulder checked their opponent.
"NOW FACE IT, YOUR JUST AN ENEMY!"
The Super Group cylooped Giganto. Thousand of their clones created a tornado that sent and carried the boss into the air.
"WHOA, WHOA!"
They delivered a flurry of kicks.
"YOU'RE CROSSING A LINEEEEE!"
They slammed it down with another cyloop attack.
"WHOA, WHOA!"
It hit them with a giant rock.
RANK: BABYLONIAN
"NOW WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIMEEEEE!"
The group and the Titan sent a flurry of punches at each other.
"WHOA, WHOA!"
They were ready to land to most nastiest punch.
"I'LL TAKE WHAT IS MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!"
They charged towards Giganto at high speed as the latter did too. Super Sonic, Super Weiss, Super Penny, Super SAPR, and Super Futaba got the upper hand and hit Giganto with all their might. The Titan started whirring up. Falling to it's knees.
"Is it over?"
"Not Yet! I'm getting readings that it's…" The Titan wasn't gonna end up being defeated. So it decided to shift itself into Overdrive. It then started to pop off it's red energy pillars that was on it's back before shooting lasers.
"GOOO!"
"Huh…"
"NO WAY?! IS IT OVERCLOCKING ITSELF?!" The four girls were a bit offput the sudden increase of Giganto's huge resurge in strength and power.
"Oh neat. A Light show. That's what we needed." The Yellow Devil said. Not showing any type of fear in spite of the overclocked Titan.
"AND WHEN THE STORY ENDS-"
Giganto stood back. It then opened it's mouth.
-IT BECOMES A PART OF MEEEE!"
It shot out massive laser attack and laser missiles.
ハイパーセンチュリーミレニアムレーザー! (HYPER CENTURY MILLENNIUM LASER!)
"I'LL GIVE IT WHAT IT TAKES!"
The Super Group quickly blocked the laser. However, the great strength had them struggling.
"I'LL FIND ANOTHER WAY"
"DON'T GIVE UP! I KNOW YOU GUYS CAN DO THIS!" Super Sonic yelled. Encouraging his friends to not submit to the attack.
"I USED TO NEVER KNOW"
Super Weiss, Super SAPR, Super Penny and Super Futaba were feeling the burning sensation from the laser. They were ready to slip up and take damage…
"BUT NOW IT'S CRYSTAL CLEAR!"
…But they didn't. They sucked up the pain.
"THIS FEELINGS JUST A GHOST!"
The Super Group overcame and threw the laser attacks out of the way. Heading towards their enemy and pummeled it's body.
RANK: ANCIENT
"IT'S TIME TO FACE YOUR FEAAARS!"
Super SAPR cylooped a rock and it immediately formed a Hammer/Axe Hybrid. If Giganto was gonna use the rocks to it's advantage, she was gonna have to play Fire with Fire and use it against the Titan.
ワンOKロック! (ONE OK ROCK!)
"CAUSE WHEN YOUR TIME HAS COME AND GONNEE! (GONNEE!)"
She performed a spinning vertical slice. Hitting the Titan 6 times and did the exact thing but horizontally.
"I'LL BE THE ONE TO CARRY OOOOON! (CARRY OOOOON!)"
It let another defensive wail. Pushing the android girl and her weapon out. Her sister came in and catched her newly formed weapon. She quick cylooped it and now, her summoned clones had now wielded the Hammer/Axe combo.
"AND YOU CAN THROW ME TOOOO THE WOOOOOLVES! (THROW ME TOOOO THE WOOOOOLVES!)"
The clones bomb rushed towards Giganto. Hitting it one by one as the stone made weapon were breaking each time. The two android sisters. Hedgehog, Huntress and Winter Maiden then-
RANK: SECRET
"'CAUSE-"
-Flew-
"I"
-Up-
"AM"
-And-
"UNDEFEATABLE!"
Performed a somersaulting overhead axe-kick to the head.
"I'M HANGING ON TO THE OTHER SIDE!"
Super Sonic and Super Weiss performed Homing Shots to it's body.
"I WON'T GIVE UP 'TIL THE END OF ME"
Giganto began opening it's mouth and shot lasers once again. This time, Super Team WSSP and Super Futaba dodged it and went it's face with a powerful loop kick.
"I'M WHAT YOU GET WHEN THE STARS COLLIDE!"
Giganto struck back. Only the Super Maiden to parry it and did her Ultimate Grand Slam. Summoning and slamming multiple Puyos around her opponent. The Puyos exploded upon contact with their respective colors
鎖ぷよ爆弾! (CHAINED PUYO BOMBS!)
RANK: STARFALL'S SHADOW
"NOW FACE IT, YOU'RE JUST AN ENEMY!"
The Titan had enough. Forming an armor more akin to an Mecha. It grabbed two rocks and slammed them in front of the heroes. With them being stunned by the attack. It performed it's most devastating attack.
センチュリーミレニアムクラッシャー! (CENTURY MILLENIUM CRUSHER!)
RANK: SEC–AN-B-C-DESERTED
Giganto grabbed Super Weiss and Super Futaba, stomped on Super Penny and Super SAPR and had Super Sonic be on it's mouth. Ready to kill them once and for all with a single crush and bite. The group were desperately escaping it's grasp. Even the Yellow Blur himself was struggling. Giganto had the upper hand and was about to finish the heroes off. It was until….
"GRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Super Weiss screamed. Transforming back into Shin Deity Weiss. With her scream, the group quickly and successfully escaped the Titan's grasp.
"(AAAAAAAA-) "I'M HANGING ON TO THE OTHER SIDE! (TO THE OTHER SIDE!)"
Giganto tried to attack the powered up Huntress once more. She parried it.
"I WON'T GIVE UP 'TIL THE END OF ME ('TIL THE END OF ME!)"
Did her Ultimate Grand Slam. The clones heading inside of her as she spun in a drill-like manner to destroy the armor.
ヘブンズドリル! (HEAVEN'S DRILL!)
"I'M WHAT YOU GET WHEN THE STARS COLLIDE!"
The Five Heroes flew up into the air once again.
"NOW-"
Striking down-
"-FACE-"
-It's legs-
"-IT-"
-Front and back.
"-YOU'RE JUST-"
Causing the Titan to fall to it's knees.
"-AN ENEMY!"
With Giganto now no longer having the strength to fight. Super Sonic, Shin Deity Weiss, Super Penny, Super SAPR and Super Futaba can finally destroy it.
"Welcome to the mind of a different kind."
"We've been growing slowly."
They gave each others high fives as a quick "well done team" effort before setting their eyes towards the enemy.
"Think I'm on 11, but I'm on a 9."
"Guess you don't really know me…"
They boosted towards Giganto. Finishing it off by piercing through it's body.
"Running from the past is a losing game…."
"It never brings you glory…"
"Been down this road before…"
"Already know this story…"
The group saw the Titan go out in a Blaze of Glory. Finally ending the fight it had started…
RANK: SUPER SONIC STYLE
End BGM
The group heard everyone cheering as they descended to the ground, but then all five of them heard a mysterious voice.
"No! We'll find another way!"
"What was that…?" Penny wondered as SAPR shrugged.
"The first seal is broken. Thy next foe awaits on the sand scarred island."
"Right. You said Titans earlier. Plural." Sonic said as they descended to where everyone was waiting for them, but Amy, Masaru, Mine and Yang were still in cybernetic limbo.
"Hey, what gives!" Masaru complained.
"Ah, darn it…" Amy muttered.
"Nah, it's cool, I like phasing through my family members when I hug them…" Yang rolled her eyes.
"This is annoying…" Mine grumbled.
"It would seem that we need to locate these other titans and destroy them before we get everyone back up and running." Kyoko guessed.
"Yeeeeah… that would seem to be the case." Sonic nodded.
"Can you guys hang on a bit longer?" Weiss asked.
"Eh, we got nothing better to do. Why not?" Yang shrugged with a chuckle as Futaba typed in some coordinates.
"Alright, sent the coordinates to the Great Fox. We're heading out!" Futaba said as everyone boarded, but not before Futaba pulled Jade aside to kiss her in her super form, much to Jade's amusement.
"Coordinates are set. We'll follow your lead!" Peppy said as the five flew off with the Great Fox right behind them after the Wyverns boarded.
Unbeknownst to all of them, a portal opened up as R3-B7 emerged from it.
"Finally, I got out of there." She said as she spotted the group flying in the distance.
"Potential allies/enemies spotted. Will pursue."
Sooooo, a long time ago as we were getting closer to SRS' take on Frontiers, Qwark approached me and asked if he could do the Titan boss battles. I was admittedly caught off guard but I was like "Eh, sure. Go for it!"
And uh... holy CRAP, this dude blew me away! Yeah, that whole Giganto fight was all him the moment Undefeatable kicked on! To say that I'm pleased by what I've seen is a major understatement.
Ibuki: Wooo! Incredible!
Deadpool: I'll say!
Also, that Partner Showcase was stupid. I prefer my Nintendo Directs with first party stuff sprinkled in. Personal preference, ya know? And this Partner Showcase was... extremely stupid. Like, come on... you could've saved it with Hi-Fi Rush (A game I admittedly never checked out, but I've heard a lot of good things about it.) but no, you go for friggin' Endless Ocean. Wooooo...
At least we got Killer Instinct... never looked into that but it should be fun. Probably when I'm done playing Side Order.