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Chapter 5: Past, Present, and Future Tense
Somewhere in the future at an old mine…
Smoke rose from a huge fire caused by an explosion. Some distance away from the danger zone were the two Maverick Hunters, X and Zero, sprawled out on the ground. The two groaned as they picked themselves up.
"Unnnngh… Zero, you all right?" asked X.
"I'm fine, X." said Zero. He looked at the now destroyed mine. "Though I have to say, that was cutting it pretty close..."
"No kidding." said X as he observed the destruction.
He and Zero were just investigating the anomaly detected by the Navigators of Hunter Base. X played the events is his head as he recalled seeing some strange dark energies building up in the mine's lower basement. Upon closer inspection, it was nothing more than what looked like a sphere of purple light floating eerily in the center of the room, no machine or other piece of equipment having it stabilized, much to the Maverick Hunters' confusion. The power the source had been emitting seemed to defy scientific probing. When they tried to approach it, the energy source suddenly came to life and attacked them. Initially, the orb of light shot at X and Zero with energy blasts, then lashed out with numerous tentacles. X barraged it with shots from his X-Buster cannon while Zero slashed out with his Z-Saber, slicing down any energy tentacles coming his way. They managed to defeat the strange creature, but then it triggered something in the mine. Wisely deciding not to stick around, they made a break for the exit just before the underground mine went up in flames, knocking them back and out.
"Should I even be surprised destroying some strange big enemy in a supposed abandoned area would cause a self-destruct?" said X.
"Probably not likely." said Zero.
That was when their comm-links sprang to life.
"X! Zero! Do you copy!?" shouted Alia.
"This is X. Zero and I are fine." said X through his comm-link.
"We've been trying to reach you for thirty minutes ever since that explosion happened where you are! What happened?"
"Were we out that long?" said Zero. "Explosion must have knocked us out."
"We encountered the source of the energy spike, but..." started X.
"It was hostile and were forced to take defensive measures." said Zero. "Whatever it was is destroyed, then it caused a reaction triggering the explosion. X and I were lucky to have gotten out in time."
"In any case, we're glad you're both all right." said Layer on the line. "Also, while you were out, we've also picked up something similar somewhere else. I'm sending you the coordinates now."
A holo-screen appeared before X and Zero, pinpointing the location.
"Hey, that location is..." said X.
Present day, dark city…
The three members of Devil May Cry looked at the group of people who had just appeared before them.
"Hey, just who are you guys and where the hell did you come from?" asked Dante.
"Huh? People?" said Jill as she looked at the trio before noticing their surroundings. "Where are we? How did we end up outside?"
"Hey, we asked first." said Lady.
"Now now, you two. We have to be civil here." said Trish before addressing the group. "Where are our manners? My name is Trish. This is Dante and Lady. We're exterminators of sorts."
"Oh, er, I'm Chris. Chris Redfield." said Chris.
"Jill Valentine."
"Barry Burton."
"We're with the BSAA." added Chris.
"Claire Redfield, TerraSave."
"Leon Keneddy, DSO."
"And I'm Frank. Frank West, freelance photographer." He eyes Trish and Lady as he held up his camera. "Very nice! Can I get some shots?"
Before they could react, Frank took a picture of the two female Devil Hunters ("Erotica" is suddenly displayed on the page).
"So where did you people come from?" asked Trish.
"Would you believe we fell through a hole in the floor and suddenly found ourselves here?" said Leon.
"Wouldn't be the weirdest thing we ever heard." said Dante.
"So judging by the weapons you guys have, you supposed to be military or something?" asked Lady.
"And with the government." said Claire. "You?"
"Something like that." said Trish.
"You mentioned you're exterminators. Of what, exactly?" asked Barry.
Dante suddenly whips out his Ivory Gun and took aim, alarming the survivors of Raccoon City and Willamette. A shot rang out as Dante fired right past their heads, where an inhuman death roar sounded off behind them. Turning around, the six looked to see the corpse of what looked like a human-sized marionette holding knives lying on the ground, it's face shot through completely.
"Of devils." replied Dante.
"What the hell!?" said Barry. "What is that thing?"
"A Marionette." replied Trish. "Haven't seen one of those since Mallet Island."
"Heads up, people." said Lady.
Suddenly, the group got surrounded by more of the hellish Marionettes.
"Dammit… I've always hated clowns..." said Frank as he looked at the clown-like devils.
"They're like any BOW." said Jill as she got out her gun.
"Well, it looks like another party." said Dante as he pulled out his sword. "Now then, let's dance."
The DMC crew darted off in different directions and began taking down the marionettes, much to the newcomers' surprise. Dante slashed his sword, slicing several marionettes in two at the waist then bisected another. Without missing a beat, he took out his Ebony Gun and shot a marionette point blank in the face. Trish charged in and sliced down more marionettes with the Alastor Sword, electrocuting them with purple lightning. With her free hand, she grabbed a marionnette by the face and shocked it with her lightning before throwing it into another. Lady dual-wields a pistol and an uzi, riddling marionettes with bullets. She quickly blocks a knife with her uzi before blasting the marionette in the face with her handgun.
"Well I can say one thing for those guys. They certainly love their jobs." said Claire.
Chris takes a marionette down with a headshot. "Regardless, there're too many of these things! Take 'em out!"
The Raccoon City survivors took out their guns and opened fire on the strange living puppets. Chris took down several with well-placed shots, then sent one flying with an uppercut. Jill knocked one back with a spinning roundhouse kic then dual-wields her submachine guns at either side of her to mow down more marionettes. Barry took out his assault rifle and unloaded into more marionettes, pausing to knock down one that got too close with the butt of the gun before shooting it. Leon dual-wields his handguns to tag marionettes in their heads then kicked out at one that tried to jump at him. Claire readied her submachine gun and fired into a line of marionettes. She quickly ducked a marionette trying to swipe at her with a knife then countered with a kick.
Frank took out his Defiler and swung it at the marionettes, reducing them to splinters then crushed another one with an overhead smash. He paused a moment to see Trish slash down a marionette then stomped another one under her stiletto boot.
"Ooh, that's a nice shot!" said Frank as he took out his camera and snapped a photo.
Trish looked over to see Frank taking a picture. "I hope you're taking my best side."
"Either is best!" Frank brings his Defiler to bear on an approaching marionette.
"I'm impressed. You certainly know how to handle yourselves." said Dante as he ran his sword through the heads of five marionettes before slashing at more while they were still impaled on the blade.
"Fighting freak horrors is something we're a bit too familiar with." said Jill as she shot down a marionette.
"But honestly, I feel I'm getting too old for this!" said Barry after blasting a marionette with his gun.
After another minute of fighting, they managed to defeat all the hellish puppets, leaving nothing but broken wood remains. Claire could only give a sigh of relief.
"I thought they'd never stop..." said Claire.
"Well that was fun." said Dante as he shouldered his sword.
"You and I have very different definitions of fun." said Leon.
"So these things aren't BOWs?" asked Jill.
"What the hell's a BOW? They're devils, plain and simple." replied Lady.
"Wait, you were serious?" asked Barry.
"Of course we are. They came from Hell itself." said Trish.
Frank and the Raccoon City survivors were stunned. Usually, the freaks they've fought before were the result of horrifying biological experiments gone horribly wrong. Despite this, they never would've imagined they'd encounter actual supernatural monsters.
"Great, what on earth have we stepped into?" said Chris.
Suddenly, a pair of voices caught their attention.
"Hey, where did we wind up this time?"
"Looks like another horror flick or something."
Everyone turned to see two people, a young man and young woman.
The man had red hair and a goatee, wearing gray khaki pants folded at mid-shin, yellow sneakers, a blue t-shirt with the letters "HMD" in white on the front, and a backwards yellow cap. On his wrist was a strange looking watch.
The woman had long blonde hair reaching her mid-back, wearing a pink sleeveless minidress with white boots and fingerless gloves. Around her neck was a light pink tie scarf and a pair of glasses on her face. Like the red-haired man, she also wore a similar watch.
"Joe, I really don't like being in horror genre films."
"Relax, Silvia. I'm sure the next film will be way cooler."
"Hey! You two! What are you doing here?" Chris called out, getting their attention.
"Huh? People?" said Joe.
"You two on a date or something? This is hardly the place for it." said Dante.
"Oh, uh, it's nothing like that." said Silvia.
"You shouldn't be here! This area is dangerous!" said Jill.
It was then ten marionettes emerged behind Joe and Silvia.
"Hey! Look out!" shouted Claire.
Joe and Silvia turned to see the strange puppets jump at them. Before the others could react, time seemed to have dragged to a snail's pace.
'The hell? I haven't felt this sensation since fighting Geryon.' thought Dante, remembering the time-manipulating demon.
Next thing they all noticed was Joe and Silvia taking some strange poses as the marionettes were nearly upon them. Then a voice rang out.
"At that moment of despair, our heroes, Joe and Silvia, recalled instinctively that key series of magical words, that bold, righteous, abra-cadabra that fills our hearts with love and emboldens our spirits! Yes, it's time, once and for all, yell those words and yell them proud!"
"Hey, did anyone else hear that?" asked Leon.
"Wait, you heard that, too?" asked Barry.
Joe and Silvia took a pose and…
"HENSHIN A GO-GO, BABY!"
To everyone's surprise, the two suddenly transformed into costumed beings. Joe wore a red tight-fitting spandex suit with white gloves and boots. Around his neck was a pink scarf that seemed to continuously blow, and on his head was a red helmet with a silver V-shaped emblem complete with a black eye mask.
Silvia wore a light blue sleeveless short skirt dress with brown leggings and white elbow length gloves and knee high boots. On her head was a light blue helmet with a pink visor where her hair flowed out in a long topknot ponytail. She also held a pair of cheerleader pom-poms.
In that moment, the marionettes were knocked away from the pair, who took more poses.
"Viewtiful Joe!"
"And Sexy Silvia!"
"LET'S GET IT ON!"
Everyone stood stunned after seeing the sight.
"Okay, that's new..." said Chris.
"Are they supposed to be… superheroes?" asked Claire.
Viewtiful Joe ducked a knife swipe at his head from a marionette before countering with an uppercut, knocking it back, then jumped to dodged a slash from another at his legs before kicking it in the head. He rushed around, delivering punches and kicks that stunned the marionettes, then took another pose.
"MACH SPEED!"
To everyone's astonishment, Viewtiful Joe moved at super speed and looked to be on fire. He punched and kicked at marionettes at an unreal speed to the point he looked to have been duplicated. Three of the marionettes caught on fire before blowing up.
Sexy Silvia cartwheeled out of the way of a marionette's attack before flipping forward with an axe kick, knocking it down. Suddenly, her pom-poms transformed into a pair of guns where she shoots heart-shaped bullets wrapped in blue flame at more marionettes. She turned in time to see a marionette coming from behind where she takes a pose.
"REPLAY!"
Sexy Silvia kicked at the marionette, but the single kick repeated itself in rapid succession, causing her to sparkle with blue electricity. He gives another replay kick that caused the marionette to explode.
Both Viewtiful Joe and Sexy Silvia took on another pose before shouting out their next attack.
"S-S-S-SLOW!"
Again, everything slowed to a snail's pace. Standing on opposite sides of each other, Viewtiful Joe sends a marionette flying with a punch at the same time Sexy Silvia send another flying with a kick. Time resumed as the marionettes crashed into each other, exploding on contact. The pair turn to see the last two marionettes before them, then jumped up high into the air.
"RED HOT KICK!"
"COOL BLUE KICK!"
The two henshin heroes dove down at the marionettes with flying kicks that destroyed the hellish puppets on impact.
"Whoa..." said Lady.
"Despite their look, they know how to handle themselves." said Leon.
"Well, I've got to say, you two, that was pretty stylish." said Dante as he clapped.
Viewtiful Joe and Sexy Silvia turned to the group of people.
"Stylish? Naw, man, that was..." They took a pose. "… VIEWTIFUL!"
Unknown area, unknown time…
"Huh…? Wha…!?"
A man sits himself up from the ground in a strange area resembling a dark void. The surrounding area was lit up to see at least at a twenty foot radius from where he was at.
"Where is this…? Where am I?" said the man. He had short blonde hair with a single spike curving up from behind his head and wearing a red pilot's uniform with brown gloves and boots. A Union Jack flag was printed on the shoulders of his jacket and an image of a sexy brown haired angel in a red armored bikini holding a gun printed on the back. Around his neck under the jacket was a white scarf and a pair of goggles around his head. "Last thing I remember was flying around in my plane, then suddenly I find myself here, wherever here is..."
Suddenly, humanoid shadows emerged from the ground, taking the man by surprise. More appeared and they soon surrounded him.
"Who are you!?"
The man gets punched in the face by a nearby shadow in response. He wipes the blood off his mouth before getting into a boxing stance.
"So that's the way you want to play, eh? Well you picked the wrong fight!" He ran up and sucker-punched the shadow in the face, knocking it out. He looked at the remaining shadows. "Listen up! I'm Edward Falcon! Adventurer and professional boxer! And I'll teach you to respect the name!"
Falcon held up his fists as the shadows lunged at him. He lashed out with a punch at one shadow, hitting it out of the air, then turned to punch another. Rolling forward to avoid a shadow trying to swipe at him, Falcon rose up with an uppercut, knocking another back. He grabbed another shadow and threw it into more of them, then kicked at one charging from the side. Falcon the jumped up and dove down at a shadow with a flying kick, then backfists another upon recovery. A shadow grabbed Falcon from behind, trapping his arms when another comes to attack him from the front. He quickly knocked it back with a kick, then hits the shadow holding him in the face with the back of his head, causing it to let go where Falcon threw it forward into the one he kicked away.
Falcon huffed as he looked at his handiwork. "There! You see?"
The shadows melted back into the ground, followed by a flash of light that appeared before Falcon, catching him by surprise. The light then died down and to the pilot's surprise, it revealed a red fist-sized gem emitting a glow.
"Is that… a Power Stone?"
Falcon grabbed the red Power Stone, and as soon as he does, he felt himself falling into the void, screaming all the way.
Some time later, Falcon sits back up as he finds himself in another void area. He also noticed he was clutching the red Power Stone in his hand.
"So it is a Power Stone… but what good is it when I have no idea where I'm at?" Falcon just pockets the gem in his jacket.
It was then he heard a light moaning off to his side. He turned to see what looked like a voluptuous woman's body on the ground.
'Wait… is that…?' thought Falcon as he got up and went to where the woman was at.
Upon closer inspection, the woman had dark tan skin with long dark brown hair tied in a thick braid with a heart-shaped gold ring attached to the end. On her head was a white headband with a red jewel ornament in the center. She wore white forearm-length gloves with a brown detached collar around her neck that served as a short cloak of sorts. The rest of her outfit left little to the imagination as it only consisted of a small blue bra top exposing her stomach all around with matching arm bands, lowcut purple harem pants with a pink trim and a gold heart-shaped buckle below her navel, and dark blue slipon shoes, giving her the look of an exotic belly dancer.
Falcon's eyes widened as he recognized the woman as that belly dancing fortune teller he met.
"Wait… Rouge? Hey! Wake up!"
Rouge stirred awake at hearing Falcon's voice. "Mmmm…. What…? Falcon? What are you doing here?"
"I should be asking you that!"
Rouge looked down and revealed she was clutching an orange Power Stone in her hand. "I had forseen in my Power Stone an evil shadow looming over the world. It greatly worried me, so I went to investigate the matter, and I suddenly found myself here."
"You, too, huh?" said Falcon as he noticed Rouge's Power Stone. "You don't suppose it that floating castle again, do you?"
"No, it doesn't feel like that. This dark source seems more powerful than what the floating castle emitted long ago." said Rouge. "I fear that if left unchecked, the whole world will be doomed."
"Wait, what?" said Falcon.
"That was all I was able to see, but it is apparent we can't leave this alone." said Rouge. "This is way bigger than Kraken, Valgas, and Dr. Erode."
Falcon winced after he heard those names. Kraken was an evil pirate who tried to take over the world by hunting down all the Power Stones to use for himself and nearly succeeded if not for the interference of him and other Power Stone holders around the world. Valgas was a power-obsessed fighter who plotted to transform the world into one of continuous combat where only the strong could survive, an insane way of weeding out the weak. Falcon and his allies managed to stop his mad crusade at his home base of Avalon Island. The latest venture was the floating castle of Dr. Erode, a monstrous giant who kidnapped all known Power Stone holders in order to increase his own Power Stone. In the end, he was defeated and his castle crumbled to nothing in which everyone escaped on Falcon's plane.
"If you say it's bad, then it must be." said Falcon. "In any case, what can we possibly do when we don't even know where here is? This place is nothing but a void!"
Suddenly, Falcon's Power Stone began to glow as did Rouge's. Taking out their stones, the two gems shot out a beam of light into the darkness.
"This looks like a good enough lead." said Rouge. She and Falcon began walking in the direction of where the beams were shining towards.
After what seemed like forever, the pair finally come to where the light beams ended. The beams were stopped at a single point, but then they noticed three other beams from different directions were also joined on the same point.
"Huh? Where are those lights coming from?" wondered Falcon.
"Falcon? Rouge?"
The two in question were surprised to hear a voice calling their names. Coming out of the darkness were three people.
The first was a teenage girl in traditional Japanese garb consisting of a short green yukata with yellow cloud prints that stopped high above her knees, red bandage wraps around her shins with brown straw sandals on her feet, and red bracers with handguards on her arms. Her dark blue hair was tied in a thick bun behind her head with a gold hairband. In her hand was a blue Power Stone.
The second was a samurai wearing a blue gi and hakama ensemble with a yellow spotted vest and green travel pack. He wore iron geta sandals, yellow samurai armguards, and his long black hair was done up in a topknot ponytail. At his hip were two katana blades of different lengths, one in a black scabbard, and the long one a red scabbard. He held in his hand a yellow Power Stone.
The third was a young man dressed in kung fu attire consisting of a white short-sleeved shirt with a yellow sash, brown pants and kung fu shoes, and white bandage bracers. His black hair was tied in a small braid. He was holding a green Power Stone.
Falcon and Rouge recognized the people as they were also present during the incidents with Kraken, Valgas, and Dr. Erode. They along with others helped to take down the three villains.
"Ayame? Ryoma? Wang Tang?" said Falcon.
"You people are here, too?" asked Wang Tang.
"It would seem fate has drawn us together again." said Ryoma.
"Finally! I thought I'd never find anybody!" said Ayame in relief.
"The Power Stones are indeed mysterious treasures." said Rouge.
"Still, though, how did we even get here?" asked Wang Tang.
"Never mind that! I just want to know how to get out of here!" said Ayame.
"Perhaps we could use these." said Ryoma as he held out his Power Stone. It and everyone else's stones began to glow in response to their close proximity to each other.
"Hmmm… maybe with other stones here, I can try to see if I can forsee anything else." said Rouge. She holds up her Power Stone and uses it like a crystal ball. After a few moments, the fortune teller's eyes widened as she gasped.
"Rouge? What is it?" asked Falcon.
"I… I see an eternal darkness… it enveloped the world and..." Rouge stopped as she sensed something else. "No! Not just the world! In fact, it affects all of reality itself!"
"What!?" said Ayame.
"Surely that can't be true, right?" said Wang Tang. "After all, we've experienced this sort of thing before."
"No… nothing like this..." said Rouge. "Whatever this is, is bigger than any of us. We cannot possibly contend with this by ourselves."
"Well, what else do you see?" asked Ryoma.
Rouge continues to probe her Power Stone. "Millions of lives being literally scattered… also a great war of survival..."
"That… can't be good..." said Wang Tang.
"Did we win?" asked Ayame.
"I don't know. That part is barred to me." replied Rouge.
"Okay, but more importantly, do you see us leaving this place finally?" asked Falcon.
"Well… I can see a sinking darkness..."
"Wait… sinking darkness?" said Ryoma.
Suddenly, the ground below them turned black and softened to the consistency of quicksand.
"Ahhh! What is this!?" shouted Ayame.
"By any chance, is this the sinking darkness you were referring to?" asked Wang Tang.
"It would appear so!" replied Rouge.
"This was not what I had in mind!" said Ryoma.
Before long, all five Power Stone bearers disappeared into the dark portal.
Metro City, future time…
The Commando Team, Bounty Hunters, and Strider Hiryu arrived at the center of the now deserted wreck of Metro City, having witnessed the unnatural phenomena of people dissolving right before their eyes.
"What on Earth…?" said Cyber Blue in shock.
"How could this have happened…?" said Yellow Iris as she held her hand over her mouth.
Captain Commando surveyed the area, using his Captain Shades to scan for any life. "There've got to be survivors…"
They all walked down the destroyed streets, looking around at the wreckages. From within an empty building, something skitters by. Cyber Blue caught the movement from the corner of his eye and reflexively shot a beam from his fist at the building wall, getting the attention of the others.
"Cyber Blue? What are you doing?" asked Yellow Iris as Finn chittered on her shoulder.
"Thought I saw something move back there, something not human..." replied Cyber Blue.
Sho suddenly grabbed at his ninjato sword. "Hiryu, you felt it, too?"
Strider Hiryu readied his Cypher Blade. "Yes. Brace yourselves..."
Everyone got tense as they could hear the telltale sounds of skittering. Suddenly, demonic-looking humanoid monsters with clawed hands crawled out of the woodwork. The group was soon surrounded on all sides by hoardes of the claw hands.
"What…?" said Hoover.
Jennety silently gripped his knives as he got into a stance.
"I liked it better when it was deserted." said Yellow Iris as she readied her claws.
"Be prepared for anything." said Captain Commando as he clenched his fists.
That was when the clawhands attacked.
"CAPTAIN FIRE!"
Captain Commando punched forth, firing a gout of flame that toasted three claw hands. Everyone sprang into action.
Following his initial attack, Captain Commando knocked back a clawhand with a flying kick, then uppercuts another with a flame-charged fist. He lashed out with a hand and grabbed a clawhand before gut-punching it, which he then electrifies his fist, running a strong current through the monster before kicking it away into other, who get electrocuted in turn.
Cyber Blue rushed forth and scorched more clawhands with his Burning Heel Kick. He then gets up and punches another clawhand with a charging straight. Turning, Cyber Blue held his fist out and fired his Cyber Cannon beam. Cyber Blue rushed at two clawhands and knocked them both up into the air with his Hyper Tornado attack.
Yellow Iris lashed out with her whip to take down two clawhands before her. Behind her, Finn charges up, emitting a flaming aura before charging through a line of clawhands while igniting them on fire. Suddenly, Yellow Iris split into three copies and she knocked three clawhands into the air with a rising scratch attack as she went into her Aerial Dance, throwing out slashes and kicks on her rise and descent, her copies mimicing her actions.
Sho moved at high speed as he slashed at the clawhands with his ninjato, slicing them in two, then threw a smoke pellet that exploded in a small group of them, causing them to get blown upwards where he quickly sliced them in twain midair. Jennety stabbed and slashed with his special knives, causing them to crumble. He then went into a top spin as he slashed at more clawhands. Hoover punched a hole through two clawhands with a drill punch from his mechsuit. He took out more clawhands with robo-punches before firing a missile from his suit's hidden launcher in its knee, blowing more up.
Strider Hiryu darted around, slicing any clawhand he passes in two or more with his Cypher Blade. He slashed horizontally at three clawhands, separating them from their torsos. A clawhand that tried to jump at Hiryu wound up getting bisected down the middle. Hiryu then jumped and rocketed forward with his sword out, beheading four clawhands on the pass.
"Captain! There's just no end to them!" said Hoover as he punched out a clawhand.
"Keep fighting! We can't allow ourselves to get overwhelmed here!" said Captain Commando after burning another clawhand with a flame blast.
More of the clawhands appeared before the group of fighters as they prepared for another wave. Suddenly, a barrage of missiles shot out and impacted against the clawhand horde, taking out a good number of them.
"CYCLO-O-O-ONE!"
Following the shout, a flaming tornado tore right through the throngs of clawhands, sending them flying and scorching along the way.
"What the?" started Cyber Blue.
The flaming tornado dissipated to reveal a man with short brown hair wearing a white fullbody pilot flightsuit with spiky shoulderguards. He wore a white billowing scarf around his neck and a long bandanna on his head.
A clawhand tries to blindside the man from behind, but it gets stomped flat by a big green robot. In actuality, it was a mechsuit not unlike Hoover's, but with a glass-domed cockpit. Inside was a lightly tan-skinned teenage girl with long wavy pale green hair, who was also naked save for a techno collar around her neck.
"Jin! Don't be reckless!" said the girl in the mechsuit.
"Relax, Arieta. I can handle myself, you know." said Jin.
Nearby, several more clawhands suddenly get sliced apart as two people appeared in front of them. One was a man with short dark brown hair wearing a black sleeveless fullbody suit with a white torn-sleeved shirt, red shoes, black fingerless gloves, and a thick white forehead protector. He held in his hand a sword with a light green shaft of light for a blade.
The other was a woman with brown hair done up in two buns that seem to stick upwards like a pair of antennae wearing an elaborate pink Chinese-style dress with open shoulder flared sleeves and a very short skirt showing off white knee-high boots with extended knee guards. She held what looked like a ring of light in her hand.
"It's great fighting alongside you, Hayato!"
"When we're together, June, we're unstoppable!"
A clawhand was suddenly grabbed by the head by what looked like robotic hand on a cable. It was swung around and slammed into more of its brethren. Dropping onto the street was a man with brown hair done up in dreadlocks wearing a green tank top with gray pants and full metal boots. What was striking was that his left arm was completely robotic, or bionic in his case.
"You can't outrun my arm!" said the man known as Nathan "RAD" Spencer.
"Hey! Whoever you people are, thanks for the assistance!" shouted Captain Commando.
The five newcomers noticed each other and Captain's group.
"Oh! There are others here!" said Arieta.
"Well if they're not these freaks, they should be fine." said Spencer.
"Talk later! We need to take care of these things!" said Hayato as he and June continued fighting.
"Point taken!" said Jin.
"At least they're on our side!" said Yellow Iris.
The group of fighters continued to fight off the hordes of clawhands, which didn't look to end anytime soon. After another minute of carnage, huge laser blasts shot out, destroying a mass amount of the clawhands. More shot out, severely reducing the monsters' numbers. Looking up, everyone saw the source of the shots to be a flying ship. Seeing the ship, the remaining clawhands quickly dispersed until only the group of fighters remained.
"Whoa, that's some backup." said Cyber Blue. Jennety could only tilt his head.
"Wait… this ship is..." said Captain Commando.
Everyone gathered before the ship as it landed. The loading bay door opened to reveal two individuals.
"Thank goodness we made it in time."
"X? Zero?"
X and Zero looked to who had addressed them.
"Captain Commando?"
To be continued…
Man, this was a chore to do. More crews get brought together, but nothing has been revealed yet. What will happen next? Read and review, please!