A Collection Of Other Adventures
We Will Stop Super Covid-19
Date: May 9th, 2023
Immediately, Super Covid-19 tries to attack us by attempting to crush all of us. We had all seemingly foolishly gathered in a position that made it easy for the virus to do so. However, we split up almost immediately through various means as soon as the virus tried to crush us. I simply dodged as I drew my sword. "Damn, that was unexpected and too close." "Hey Swiftdrawer! That was awesome! You only put in the effort you needed to to dodge! That was so exciting to watch!" "Goku, of course it's you. I hope you take this fight seriously and hold nothing back because this virus is no pushover. It's clear that we will all need to fight them together to end them for good." "You're right. The power level I'm sensing is off the charts!" I'm just going to generally refer to our foe as simply Covid now to make things easier to write about. Covid sees the two of us just standing around. Thus, they form arms from their spikes and get ready to pound us with some of them. Their speed is so unexpectedly high that both of us only narrowly managed to dodge a barrage of punches. I sweat heavily: "The power in those punches.. Not even my armor can withstand them for more than a few seconds.. They ripped through the air just now." "Stand still, you foolish humans and die already to my infection!" I'm forced to backflip while Goku goes Ultra Instinct and takes punch after punch really well. And I just keep dodging over and over. That's only made much harder when the arms of the virus start being able to stretch to, making it impossible for really anyone to get out of range of the ruthless attacks unleashed by the virus. "Crap! I'm just narrowly avoiding being hurt! This is really bad! I have to do something!" But the margin by which I'm able to dodge only grows thinner. I'm forced to power up with my Ki to increase my speed, allowing the margin to become wider. However, that only buys me a very short amount of time to think as the arms of the virus close in on me again.
"Swiftdrawer! You got this! You can survive! You just have to fight harder!" "More like dodge harder or whatever!" The dragons on our side unleash destructive blasts that destroy the arms that were coming for me. We have a lot of dragons so it was terrifying to think only about 20 of Covid's many many arms were destroyed by them in that coordinated attack. And as if that weren't enough, the arms just grew back within seconds. Barla yells: "Damn it! No matter how many arms we destroy, they just keep coming back!" Tsunade yells: "It's worse than that! These arms have such a far reach that even Naruto who is gathering nature energy a good distance from this battle is being targeted by some of the arms. Naruto! You better hurry up with the nature energy!" Minglow Bats and Maya of all people suddenly come in front of us and start throwing whatever they've made in time for this battle at Covid. "Take this you, big jerk! Face my alchemy!" "And this is what I could gather on such short notice. These failed potions have unknown effects. Anything could happen as a result of them." As I use the chance of the arms being held back to build my defenses with my best move, all I can see around me are explosions and things of that nature. Even eye lasers and other lasers from some of our comrades. "I can't just do stand around and do nothing but even if I can't deal even a damn bit of damage at the moment! Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 18!" There goes much of my energy but now, I'm protected by a merging of all 18 huge tornadoes as are some of my comrades as they got by me before I finished the move. Shadow smirks as he stands by me in it: "Impressive. Is this your ultimate technique? It's very powerful." "Normally, it's an offensive move but it can be used as a defensive move as well. More importantly, we gotta use the defense of this move while it stays around to our advantage. *I begin charging a Kamehameha on the spot* If you need time to prepare any powerful attacks, I suggest you all start that right now."
Besides me and Shadow, there's also Goku, Beerus, the Mane 6, Yuzu, Aki, Yufa, Roan, Sakura, Hinata, and Atemu using my attack as cover. Atemu gathers energy from within the Millennium Puzzle. Beerus prepares a giant Haikai attack: "That damn virus is why my nap was interrupted. I don't appreciate that. I really don't appreciate that. And I might have had something delicious to eat by now too." Yuzu and Aki power up their duel monster comrades while also using their respective powers to the max. Yuzu gathers energy from within herself which is leftover from her complicated interdimensional past as well as partially stored within her bracelet as the 4 cards of nature that defeated Zarc twice were fully entrusted to her as the reincarnation of Ray Akaba. Those cards give her so much power. Aki's Signer and psychic powers are used by the once infamous Black Rose duelist to get ready to unleash very powerful attacks in conjunction with the likes of Black Rose Dragon. Roan prepares a huge variety of defensive moves while Yufa gets ready to heal as much as she can. Sakura and Hinata ready their fists for the continued fight as does Goku. The Mane 6 unite their Elements of Harmony by connecting their hearts again. And then after 20 seconds, a barrage of stretching fists break my attack but I ate an HP banana in time as I attempt to power up my sword by transferring any chakra, Ki, and mana I can manage to to it. I had already gotten into the perfect stance for a powerful counterattack when my move was finally dispelled. The arms coming for us now had first degree burns but that didn't stop them one bit. Instead, they just closer and closer to all of us. Because my mana, chakra, and Ki control is not where it should be, there was only so much I could transfer to my sword. If we all had proper time to fully train, I would know several ninjitsu techniques already but sadly, that is not what has developed.
Stepping out of Miitopia for even a minute is risky because of how bloody the war has been. We're lucky we just keep wiping out the enemy troops but that doesn't make it any less risky. Even if just one of us is away in another universe for some reason, that could very well be the reason we end up losing the war. We must fight like hell every day, pushing our limits and gradually getting stronger in order to keep the war going without us losing. Anyway, several arms come for me but I'm ready. I decide to combine two of my techniques in a combination never seen before. "Haaaaaaaaa! Proud Protector! Drawing Devastation!" I perform the power of Drawing Devastation but with the blocking technique of Proud Protector inputted into my fierce sword strikes. This is very successful as Covid wasn't expecting this despite clearly having the brain capacity to have so many thoughts focused on different things at once consciously. It's obvious because of the way the arms are all behaving. It's beyond my understanding how that works exactly without multiple personalities but some things I just can't hope to really get. I'm only human after all no matter how impossible my current level of strength should really be for a human. I think I have stated why I believe I've been able to get so strong in the past so I won't explain. I'm able to attack the arms without taking much damage myself with my attack force, defense, and agility all at play at once. That was a relief but that relief didn't last for long. Suddenly, I got punched in the chest after I stopped using my move combo which had been more effective thanks to my powering up my sword. I cough up blood and clench the area I was hurt tightly with my left hand in an attempt to stop the bleeding. "Damn it! Our foe is so strong! *I cough up blood again* At this rate, I'm going to die soon!" I try my best to block all of the punches coming for me but this only leads to damage to my gloves and bracers.
That's when as my hands and arms start bleeding heavily too that things change a little bit. The arms after me suddenly hit a wall of energy or something. I look around as I collapse to my knees and cry out in pain. A lot of individuals have called upon so many defenses. I now even see field spells and action fields protecting us. There's so many things protecting us that I can't even see our foe anymore. This is the perfect chance to further reinforce these defenses, recover, and charge up and prepare more attacks and defenses. Madeline who is berserk at the moment sees my condition: "DAMN IT! THEY GOT YOU THAT HURT ALREADY?! I OUGHTA BLAST THAT VIRUS INTO THE NEXT UNIVERSE! GIGA CURE!" And just like that, my wounds are healed. I had no time to thank her because she literally runs out of our defenses. I hear a loud crash which is followed by a intense burst of light. Dominic shows up next to me and begins creating a massive gravitational force. I see others make the defenses even tougher with traps and more being set. And then, a bunch of fists break through all the solid walls that prevented me from seeing our foe in action. Luckily, I was even more ready for the fists this time as were the others. But regardless, I knew that I was in for a world of more hurt if I wasn't more careful this time. I used a move I have yet to perfect to conceal my Ki for as long as I could while also casting Repair to repair my gear and eating an MP candy to restore my low mana pool. And then, I put on my Akatsuki cloak right after unleashing the Kamehameha I was trying to charge earlier. Because I couldn't do so as I forgot about it when my best move was broken apart, I had quietly transferred the charged Ki to my sword and managed to not use it until now. So I got that charged Ki back into my hands before blasting our foe with it. That was the perfect cover for me to put the cloak on and run into a nearby building. The whole battle was pretty much set to demolish the whole city we were fighting in but there was no time to worry about something like that.
Instead, I used the cover of the building to plan out my next move because I can't afford to be punched even just a few more times due to my earlier blood loss. I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to blood loss but it's obvious I lost quite a bit of blood back there. I find myself joined in the building by one of Naruto's shadow clones, Ino, Nya, PIXAL, Biara, and Kaito. "What are all of you doing here?!" "I have confirmed that this is the optimal hiding spot to establish an unexpected offensive from." Nya adds: "That means, we're going to be here together for a little bit." "It's time for me to get serious. Go, Photon Transformation!" "Guys, I might be able to hold back any arms with my clan's specialty." "Dark Mummy Surgical Forceps is out there helping hold our foe back as much as possible. I am creating a counter to the virus right now since I've been allowed to show up as my avatar in Link VRAINS here in this world." "Don't forget about me! I will help you all stay safe, ya know!" "I detect that you're one of those shadow clones." "That's right! I'm a shadow clone, I'm here to help, ya know!" "Enough talking, we have to get serious." Kaito pulls something out. It's a sword colored the same as Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon. "Go, Galaxy Sword!" The Galaxy Sword was created with some of the energy found in Astral society as well as rare materials from it and Earth. Now, Kaito can be a seriously powerful fighter without his monster comrades. Hell, the power his brother gave to him powers the sword itself to make it more powerful. We can hear things get more and more violent outside but focus on what we can do for now. Biara speaks: "If we can somehow get to Super Covid-19 without being noticed, we could deliver what I'm programming right now directly to the virus. It should in turn do some damage to our foe, giving us a chance to attack at once." PIXAL replies: "There is one possible method to accomplishing that. The sewers below this city. We can use those to travel underground before breaking through to the surface and attacking the enemy from below."
"If I still had my elemental powers of water, that would be easy for me to do alone. But now, I can't do something like that alone. It's going to take all of us to pull this off." We all nod at Nya's words. And then, I use my Ki to create energy blasts to blast with down into the sewers. "Be careful down there. Who knows how disgusting the sewage down there is at the moment if it's there at all. It wouldn't be good to get our footwear covered in that stuff. Just the thought of that is completely unsettling." The others nod and we all jump down into the sewer together. Naruto's clone speaks: "That was close. I almost poofed. That wouldn't have been good, ya know! I'll sense Super Covid-19. None of you will have to worry about that. I'll tell you guys when it's wise to begin the attack from below once we get below the enemy." And so, we ran for quite a bit until the clone shouts: "Now!" PIXAL becomes Samurai X by calling her high tech Samurai X suit to come right away. The sewer was empty of sewage for some reason. Worked out for us which is kind of a win so I'll take it I suppose. Anyway, PIXAL got inside her suit and uses it to drill right to the surface. Kaito raises his sword to generate a cosmic force: "Galaxy Levitation!" The move causes use to be all floated up to above the surface in seconds. And as we continue going up, Biara smirks: "The program is complete. All that's left is to insert it into our foe without being caught." And we continued floating up and I had another Kamehameha ready to go. Biara is able to insert the program into the virus. Nya yells: "Now!" "KAAAAAAAAAAAME HAAAAAAMEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" "Photon Slash of Destruction!" "Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!" All these things catch Covid by surprise and cause them to be pushed up slightly by the sheer force. Kaito smirks at this until we see all the arms on the underbelly of the virus. They took most of the damage and regenerated just seconds later.
"What the hell is going on?!" "Did you not see the arms until now, ya know?!" "I calculate a 100% chance of a counterattack in less than 10 seconds." Indeed, a barrage of punches start being sent our way. Ino performs hand signs: "Mind Transfer Technique!" She manages to gain control over one of the many arms coming towards us and uses the chance as I catch her body to tangle up as many enemy arms as possible, making it very hard for Covid to untangle them if at all. That only took care of some of the arms. The rest were coming at us and nothing we had was enough to withstand what was about to come down on us. Damn virus just had to gain the ability to levitate in the air, didn't they? That is completely the opposite of helpful for us. It means we can attack from below from the ground too but it also opens up a whole side of annoying and dangerous arms to us. But now we had to deal with all these arms and there wasn't much time left to avoid being hit by them even after the Galaxy Sword's levitation ability ceased to affect us, causing us all to fall several meters and forcing the Naruto clone to use his body to break our fall. He poofed as a result. That was basically right after Ino did her thing. Inevitably, we were now facing countless arms, all punching down as they stretched to be closer to us. For some reason, they were slower at stretching than the other arms myself and others had to contend with earlier in the battle. "Damn it! There's no way my armor will be able to last against all of these arms! The same goes for my very life! Crap! There's no time to effectively counter! I'm so dead now!" That's when a blue blur grabs all of us somehow and drags us out from below Covid. Sonic smiles at us once he slows to a stop: "Hey there fellas! I saw you needed some saving! Well, now I'm here and I saved you! You're welcome!" Amy is by us too now. When she sees a lot of arms coming for us, she raises her hammer: "I'm done being a sad and lovesick joke! This is for friendship!"
Her emotional passion is so great that she's able to literally smash down every single arm enough to get them in range of Barla and Mel's attacks. "Hell yeah! Thanks Amy! We'll take it from here! Right, Mel." "That is right! It's my duty to see this through! It will only give us a few seconds so we have to be ready to react quickly. Let's go! Miitopian Knight Barrage!" "Wild Shot! Not to mention! Plasma Blast! And all my guns and more! Oh yeah!" Barla and Mel obliterate all the arms that were coming towards us. Ino returns to her body. And then, myself, Mel, and Barla all charge up our Ki. When the arms return, we all unleash Kamehameha blasts at them, wiping them out and actually scratching Covid's surface a tiny bit. We don't cheer. Instead, I shout: "We gotta keep going! This is perfect window to deal some real damage! Only a few seconds at most but still! Haaaaaaaaa!" The arms go for us again. "Laser Beam!" "Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 18!" "Miitopian Knight Barrage!" "Photon Slash of Destruction!" "Samurai X suit, deploy all weapons!" "Mind Transfer Technique!" "Even I will attack! Surgical Interruption!" Biara pulls out a huge syringe and attacks with it. So far, the effects of Biara's program have clearly not kicked in against Covid but that's okay. As long as they lead to our eventual victory at some point, it's alright. More importantly, Sonic suddenly stands with Shadow the Hedgehog as we obliterate the new batch of arms and Nya uses Spinjitzu. "Hey Shadow, are you ready for this?" "Let's get this over with. I still have no desire to be your friend." Sonic shrugs as he pulls out the Chaos Emeralds. "Chaos!" "Control!" And now, Shadow and Sonic have gone super, they're golden with golden auras now. And they attach our foe together. Shadow/Cid sees this and laughs: "This sounds like fun! Shadow Garden, join in on the attack! Alpha, make sure the others join in." "Of course, Lord Shadow." Shadow/Cid with the help of Uravity's Float quirk of all things to get high above Covid very quickly.
Nagato and his Pains join him up there. One of the Pains speaks calmly while aiming at the virus the name of the ultimate push attack. And then, Shadow laughs: "I AM ATOMIC!" As if that weren't enough, every member of Shadow Garden attacked Covid while Blaze, multiple versions of The Flash, Iida, and other speedsters literally applied Miitopian Shield Sprinkles that were provided by Dominic to everyone in battle against Covid. This would protect us from any impact of what was about to be done. And then, pretty much everyone uses their ultimate attacks. "Big Bang Kamehameha!" "Final Flash!" "*12 at once* Haikai!" "Fire Bolt!" "Rising Sun Ultimate Slash!" "Pegasus! Galaxy Nova!" "Obelisk! Fist Of Fury! Ra! Blaze Cannon! Osiris, it's your turn!" "Exodia, obliterate!" "Special Beam Cannon!" "Tempest Terrahertz! And now, Storm Access Burst!" "Detroit Smash!" "With the Elements of Harmony, we are bonded forever as friends!" I think you get the point. So many ultimate attacks hit Covid, wiping out every single arm that was getting in the way of everyone this entire time effortlessly. And the resulting blinding explosion flash made it hard to see anything for a few seconds. But once normal vision was restored, we all saw at the same time a horrific reality. Covid was still standing and only had a few scratches. "You fools cannot hope to kill me! I am far too powerful for any of you to defeat! This is where your lives come to an end. I will destroy all of you! You have tested my patience for too long. I have held back to see what you people could do to me. Now I see that it was a mistake to allow you all to live this long. Roarrrrr!" The arms come back but this time, each one is powered by destructive Ki. Future Trunks shouts: "Damn it! This makes our foe as powerful as Goku Black if not even more so! This is bad! Cell wouldn't last a second against this virus!"
"Now you see?! I am going to kill all of you today for messing with what I've been trying to do since I came to this world, to infect and destroy more lives for that is what I've been programmed to do by gaining my intelligence from those foolish powerful humans in all ways but physically." Covid uses their arms to obliterate the defenses that were still up from earlier before turning them on us. That's when all of the number monsters get in the way of all of the arms. Regnes appears right in front of me from elsewhere, facing the arms head on and not even fighting. The numbers can only be destroyed by other numbers meaning that the only way to get to us through them was for Covid's arms to seriously be attempted to be used to deal so much damage that the numbers could no longer fight back. And so, the rest of us were pretty much forced to watch while planning more attacks, recovering, and preparing to attack all over again. I ate another HP banana to restore my energy and whatnot. Dominic ends up next to me: "What a nap causation. Those numbers can't die or be physically destroyed by non-numbers but they only have 3 minutes at most at this point until Covid's constant and brutal punches through their countless arms overpower them and sap the rest of their strength. Covid has to have a weakness even though you among others are adamant that this virus monster has no weaknesses. Even perfect life forms have a weakness. Or at least a limitation that they just can't survive past being reached." Madeline, Mel, and Barla hear this. They each get an idea. "Hell yeah! What if we all just wear full on masks!" "AREN'T WE ALL WEARING THOSE?!" "Most of us but not N95s like we should have been this entire time!" "ITS WORTH A DAMN SHOT! AS IS GETTING FAR ENOUGH AWAY FROM COVID SO AS TO NOT BE REACHED BY THEIR ARMS." "I must share an idea I have as well. Getting inside of Covid and attacking from the inside." "HEY EVERYONE, MASK UP WITH N95S SO WE CAN SEE WHAT HAPPENS!"
And with that, Blaze and other speedsters give everyone N95 masks from undisclosed locations. We've learned a lot from those redundant apocalypses. Any solution to winning is on the table. Even wearing N95 masks in spite of the fact that this strain of Covid was no longer just a highly dangerous microscopic virus. This one was even more dangerous than the very system of capitalism as well as the ideology of fascism themselves. After some convincing, everyone puts one on just in time for the numbers to run out of energy and be defeated. Now, many arms are headed to us all. And for the most part, the N95s actually work? "Not highly effective facial masks! The bane of my existence! If it weren't for those, I would have destroyed my home Earth sooner than I actually ended up doing so!" Most of the arms are unable to harm anyone wearing an N95 for some reason. However, there were a few who were still attacked and injured in spite of that fact. Dominic looks even more annoyed at the situation: "Nap! Now! This solution is completely bananas and yet it's working! I need a nap, a really long nap! Leave me alone annoyances! Leave me alone!" But then, more arms are able to attack more individuals wearing the N95s. Not many more but still enough to be a concern. Barla then shouts: "Physical distancing!" And after some more convincing, all of us are now 600 meters away from Covid in any direction. The number of us who could be attacked by those arms was now lower than it already was. I sigh: "If it weren't for the seriousness of this situation, I would be laughing extremely hard at the fact that actual ways to prevent the spread of Covid-19 that hasn't become a giant and physical living monster are working. They're working against this Super Covid-19. I really can't believe it. This shouldn't even be possible. It feels so ridiculous but the facts don't lie! We can see it working right before our very eyes."
And then, some of the more reckless of us take off their masks and move closer towards Covid. "Damn it! Why don't you mortals ever learn?! I so need a nap and some instant ramen after this. This is truly unbelievable. Mortals, get back here at once!" I sweatdrop and face palm: "This really feels like the time in which everyone really started giving up on trying to stay safe from Covid because they thought getting the 2 shot mRNA vaccines or that one shot vaccine for Covid would do the trick forever and ever. But no matter how much protection is used against Covid, it will still get some people. But it gets everyone when nearly everyone returns to their pre pandemic normal lives without doing much of anything to keep themselves protected, That is why it's important to like in this battle to use as many forms of protection as possible to reduce the risk of getting serious hurt by Covid. They're about to get themselves seriously beat up." And I was right, those who got too reckless get beat up badly and the speedsters are forced to get them and move them far back as some healers treated their injuries. That left the rest of us still masked and standing far away. Only a few of us were getting attacked at this point but we knew that if we got any closer, our chances of getting injured would increase significantly and that's not good at all. Everyone was made aware of this as quickly as possible through various means I don't need to go over. More importantly, we were mostly safe and almost lulled into a false sense of security. That's when Covid evolved before our very eyes to become bigger with even more arms that stretched outward even further. In fact, the arms didn't attack us at first. They just yanked our masks off of us. That's when it became clear that we would need more than just things that were supposed to slow down transmission, not reduce physical attacks sent our way to our foe. "This fight is crazy! Man, I can't wait for it to get even more intense! This is going to be so much fun!"
"Damn it, Goku! This is not the time to get excited! This is the time to get serious! Even I'm afraid for my life! What about you, Whis?" "My lord, I cannot confirm nor deny the answer to that question." Barla yells: "It's BRAIN Blasters time!" And so, the majority of us, myself included just pull out our BRAIN Blasters as all the buildings between us and Covid get demolished by the arms controlled by the virus. And we fire at will. Since the blasters are far better than they used to be, they now have a lot of juice in them per say. All arms coming towards us are blasted away. However, they regrow back instantly. Those who haven't transformed yet immediately transform. For example, Gohan transforms into Gohan Beast and Piccolo transforms into Orange Piccolo. I power up with my Ki once again and activate Artist's Eye while pulling out my sword effortlessly. I take out and put away my sword so quickly now that I don't always remember when I took it out or put it back in its scabbard anymore. I use Artist's Eye to create the same kind of black metal rod the Rinnegan creates and have it embed itself through one of the arms of Covid and pierce into em. I then put away my BRAIN Blaster which was in my left hand and replace it with one of my daggers. When the arms come again, I try to stab them with my dagger while holding them off with my sword skills at the same time. Not exactly the wisest strategy in terms of safety but I knew that if it worked, we might have a chance to win with another ticking time bomb practically inside of the enemy. And after a couple minutes, I'm injured again but it was worth it because one of the arms turned to goop before me and never grew back again. Critical, Covid now has a small amount of that substance slowly destroying them from the inside. "I did it. *I raise my voice and talk fast* Everyone who can hear me, listen to me! Covid is going to eventually die thanks to the substance on this dagger I'm using. We will win or we will lose and then Covid will lose too. Super Covid-19 will die but it won't bring an end to the Covid-19 pandemic in my world that still rages on with almost zero media attention to it."
The word was soon spread and that gave everyone a greater drive and sense of hope. We will win against Covid even if it means we die before the virus dies. I back away from the arms still coming for me as best as I can even as I'm bleeding from the chest all over again. In fact, I even cast Cure on myself by using my sword as a medium for the spell, making it easier and faster to cast and then use on myself. My sword wasn't a magical weapon originally but it's enchantments make it one now. But even despite that, even if my sword were still not magical, I still would have been able to channel the mana required into it to cast any spell I can remember how to cast. My armor is damage again but I don't have the mana to fix it at the moment. At least my wounds have been healed so I can keep fighting for now. Well, when I'm not running at top speed in my armor in an attempt to get some distance from the arms. It's only barely working so I will have to keep on fighting when they all catch up to me eventually. lida is running by me and surpassing my velocity quickly: "What are you doing, Swiftdrawer?! You're supposed to be fighting, not running!" "Ingenium, I get it but listen, if I can stall them for as long as possible, that's more time for them to leave everyone else alone. I want to at least pull that off." "In that case, I completely understand. I will relay this strategy of yours to the others who are really fast as in, the others faster than you as well." "Welp, unexpected things said.. This is what I get for not sharing the idea sooner. Oh well." And so, Sonic, lida, Blaze, all those versions of The Flash, and more joined in on employing that strategy. From what I could see from the frontlines, my Lord Knight counterpart was helping them by using Provoke to draw in as many arms as possible before letting a speedster take care of them. I was somehow running backwards amazingly well at this time. I'm not sure how I pulled that off but I did it. The arms were slowly closing the distance on me so I started running forwards and gradually got further away from them but they still followed me through the abandoned streets of the mostly untouched section of the city I was now in. The evacuation was seriously a huge success.
And then, my student Paladin Fran catches up to me: "Swiftdrawer! I heard what you're doing! Let me help you!" "Of course! I could use the help!" "That makes me so happy to hear! I'm going to pay you back for everything someday and that starts now by helping you!" "I'm glad to hear of your ambition. But we have to focus. Come on, let's show these arms that we aren't just all sword and muscle with no agility." She giggles innocently and makes other adorable sounds. I smile at that but then get more serious almost immediately. I see Sonic dash by us with Shadow not far behind him as the arms chasing them fall to the ground. That indicates that they got stretched too far which means we're safe from the arms all the way over here. My leg muscles are burning a little bit so I take the chance to rest as does Fran who is probably more exhausted than I am. "*huff* *puff* *huff* *puff* We're so far from the battle now. I guess it's not worth the effort to come all the way out here because the arms that fell off will just be regrown. We better rejoin the battle then. There's no choice. I'm going to put all of my concentration and strength into fighting like hell after we teleport back to the frontlines. Are you ready to teleport back there, Fran?" She never got the answer as several energy blasts obliterated everything on their way to us. "What the hell is going on now?! ..Wait.. I can sense it.. Super Covid-19.. They can create energy blasts and more with their many hands.. This is bad.. Really bad.. There is no escape without extreme speed, portals, or teleportation now. We are in such a bad position with this knowledge in hand. Even though we must be 3 kilometers at least away from the battle now, that doesn't change anything for us and that's really bad." "No! No!" I immediately teleport us to the frontlines after nearly choking on an MP candy I tried to eat as quickly as possible. I recovered from that just fine which was vital to my continued ability to fight. I repaired my armor using Repair as soon as we were teleported back to the frontlines. And then, Fran and I touched with our swords to wordlessly communicate our continued cooperation for this battle.
That is one of the things that just naturally developed over time from fighting in Miitopia. It was soon taught to any and all sword users who would join us in the war and whatnot as well. And so, we come at the arms coming for us head on. As we comboed our sword strikes over and over, I realized that I should have been fighting the arms directly with someone else this entire time. But now that I knew that I should have, I didn't hesitate to shout out loud about that: "Those of you trained in direct frontline combat, you must not fight these arms alone! Fight them along with at least one other! I ask of you all to do this right now because it's the only way to stand a chance against these arms! I know I'm normally not like this but hurry!" And out of the corner of my eye as Fran and I fought together, performing a twin twirl of sword play, I saw my words have far reaching consequences. This was right as the black metal rod I made while just barely preventing the strain on my left eye from getting too much to handle was removed from Covid's body, creating a small opening that was slowly leaking out what looked like to be infectious puss. Now the virus has a small weak point that can be taken advantage of as before the rod was removed, it completely destroyed the arm I had it go through. That arm can seriously no longer regenerate as I think I just mentioned earlier as well. But our twin twirl of swords only lasted so long. After 2 minutes, the arms overcame the both of us. We were punched so hard that we were knocked back about 100 meters. I felt my armor take too much damage and pain in several areas of my body. Even my knees were bleeding and I was unable to get back up. The force also tore through more of the leather of my metal gloves than before so now my hands were very much bleeding as well. "Arg! The pain! The pain! It hurts so much! Make it stop!" I tried to get an HP banana out of my ender pouch but the pain was so unbearable that I just couldn't do it.
And the arms were coming right for us again. I swore under my breath before I screamed in pain. I look to see how Fran's doing. She's in better shape than me but only because she used up what was left of her mana to heal herself and try to protect with a magical shield before repairing the damage to her armor. In other words, she's collapsed from severe mana exhaustion. And I was in a growing puddle of my own blood once again. I took a deep breath and managed to sort of roll away from the arms when they came for me. My sword was on the ground in the puddle of my blood and I could just barely reach it from my position. However, as the puddle expanded because of my sort of roll, the arms came back for me after attacking someone else. They also attacked Fran even though she's unconscious before trying to kill me for good this time around. That's when Mel and Barla ran in and destroyed all the arms. Barla yells to me: "Get your butt up as soon as you can! Let's get this damn battle finished sooner or later! We'll keep these arms busy, you get yourself healed and make sure Fran gets the mana she needs to recover! Hell yeah Mel, defending our friends is about to be so much fun!" I nod weakly right as Mel says: "It is now our duty to protect you both! If one of us is down, that's one less person to help bring us to victory! We mustn't lose anyone if we can help it! Do what needs to be done! But this is urgent, please hurry up and help us fight these arms off as soon as you can!" I sigh before grabbing my right arm with my hurting and bleeding left hand to help support my right hand as I force myself to endure all the blood and pain. And by doing so, I scream at the top of my lungs as I open the ender pouch with a lot of struggle and shakily pull out an HP banana to eat. I don't even take the skin off. Not even as it starts changing color due to my bloody hands. I shove it into my mouth as fast as possible even though that only causes me to experience more pain and agony.
I chew with so more intensity and speed that my teeth and gums and even my tongue start bleeding too. I endure all this and the weird fusion of the taste of iron, banana, and banana skin. But it was so bad that I just wanted to die. I was desperate to do anything to make the pain stop. I'd truly do anything to make it stop as I just proved. But then, the HP banana took effect, healing my body completely. All that was left now was the effects of blood loss and lingering pain but I ignore all of that for now and shake Fran awake before giving her an MP candy as soon as she stirred. I didn't give her any time to say anything but she still ate the MP candy. I then cast Repair to fix my armor again. I picked up my sword only to collapse to the ground right as Fran regained her entire mana pool. "Swiftdrawer!" Barla hears her and it only takes a brief glance for her to respond to my collapsing. "MADISON! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?!" She yelled that as she continued to hold off the arms with Mel's help. The black cat paladin looks at me worried: "Swiftdrawer.." "Fran! Don't worry about me! You have to help Barla and Mel hold back those arms and hopefully create a small opening to get another dent into Super Covid-19's outer body! Please, I'll be okay! It's just non life threatening blood loss! Go!" "Okay.." She reluctantly starts joining in Barla and Mel's campaign to stop the arms and eventually create an opening. And seconds later, Madison appears next to me. She takes one look at me: "You lost a lot of blood, didn't you?" She does a cool pose before casting a spell: "I cast Magical Blood Transfusion!" And suddenly, all of my blood is fully restored and I can get back up again. "Thank you for that, Madison. I'm so glad you learned that spell when you became a Vampire Lord by going to the guild for Miitopia's vampires and undergoing all that suffering to ascend to one sometime ago. I can't believe we all forgot you can do that now."
Madison smirks. "It was nothing. Well, we both should get back into battle. This virus won't know what hit them when we're done with them." I agree with her words before joining Fran, Mel, and Barla in fighting the arms. "Now that our resident Vampire Lord has helped me, I can help all of you. Come on, we must overcome them long enough to make an opening for another blow to the virus! If only we could widen the opening I helped make earlier. It's too bad I can't use Artist's Eye anymore today without completely straining my left eye. That would force me to close it and that's not good." "Well, we're all trying our best here. And that's what matters! We'll win and it will be awesome! Hell yeah!" "It is in our vows that we must do everything we can to win this so let's do it together!" To be continued..