A/N: Part 3 begins now! What awaits the other two teams in their final battles? Find out!
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G-Man and Ginrai: This comment is addressed to both of you to avoid being redundant. But yeah, this chapter has been a blast to write. Hope these next few will be just as enjoyable as the last.
"Alright! Welcome back! This will be the last break of the episode, including for the elimination so I hope you've gotten all your snacks with you. Right now, the Kings are on their way to their second to last stage. But, surviving isn't going to be enough. To have a chance at winning, they need to finish with at least two players left, the number that the Rats finished with from Morty and Natsu being the only ones remaining. After what was seen before, can they do that? Maybe. Maybe not. But anyways, let me stop talking and have you see for yourself what's going on." Chris said.
Weiss, Huey, Bren, Rook and Bobo were actually back on Camp Wawanakwa. The real one as indicated by some trees still being down or damaged due to the previous battle that happened between the Rats and Team Darkspin.
The only thing that was waiting for them with a chest that had suits, seemingly outfitted for space survivability.
"We've been here for a few minutes. If someone was supposed to show up or ambush us they would have done it by now I would think." Bobo said.
"Maybe they're late? Or, even better, maybe they won't show up at all. Then, it's an automatic win for us!" Bren proposed.
"That proposition is highly unlikely. I suggest we stay vigilant." Rook said.
"No need. Look up!" Huey called out before a meteor was coming to the ground from the sky, with some sort of dark purple energy that looked like gas streaking behind it.
"A meteor!? Our opponent's a meteor!?" Bren said aloud, in a mixture of disbelief and horror.
"Well, would you rather that or spider-Vilius? Throw out those Monsuno and shoot it before we die for real!" Bobo said.
"Please, I don't want to lose this one too…." Bren thought, his eyes closed as he hesitated to pull out a core.
"Bren!" A voice called out to him, snapping him out of his thoughts, that voice being Weiss before she tried to defend everyone with a wall of ice as best as she could as the meteor was about to make an impact on the ground. But several seconds passed and no impact was heard or felt.
"Wait, we actually survived?" Bren said in disbelief.
"Yeah, no thanks to you." Bobo said.
"That can't be. Meteors don't just disappear." Huey said.
"And sports players and toy cars aren't supposed to have superpowers." Bobo remarked sarcastically.
"Okay, I see your point, but still. Is it really safe to say that this thing in particular still doesn't make any logical sense?"
"Then why don't you go out there and do a bit of a scientific investigation?"
"Well? Are you going to come out or do I have to break in myself?" A voice said on the other side.
"We'll take option A!" Bren answered.
Everyone, slowly, but cautiously, revealed themselves. The source of the voice was none other than the man they saw on the preview. Ryu Kaizel. A brown car with yellow lines around it along with black wheels with yellow rims and a spoiler that had the design of a shoji door with dragons on both the left and right was seen in front of him. The machine also two detachable "mouths" on the front that had a yellow anchor design on the top of it as well. The machine that was none other than Dragnite.
"Good. That means we get to take care of you from the jump." Bobo said.
"Take care of me? Don't make me laugh. You can't even take care of your own shadow, let alone me." Ryu replied.
"You must be talking to him. 'Cause you're sure as heck not talkin' to me." Bobo said, referring to Bren.
"Oh no. That was to all of you."
"Then why don't you put your money where your mouth is?" Bobo said before shooting at him with Rook also following suit. Weiss even added some ice shards to attack him with via glyphs along with Huey also pitching in. But to Ryu's credit, he was able to dodge the attacks without even needing to use his Dragnite.
"If that's supposed to be your show of force, then I'm not impressed. Now, try this!"
Purple energy began to surround Dragnite as its power stone lit up. Though unlike the usual rainbow-like colors seen when special abilities are activated in other cars, it changed to purple before a dark purple dome of energy surrounded the machine.
"That doesn't look good." Bren said.
"Stop it before it finishes!" Rook said before all of them tried to attack the machine.
Ryu commanded for it to unleash the energy it had charged up. A typhoon of purple energy was seen along with a gust of wind. The strength of the wind forced the five to have to shield themselves. It wasn't strong enough to completely blow them away, but their weapons were at risk.
"Prepare to be blown away!" Ryu declared.
"Just run!" Weiss called out.
As they ran, Ryu smirked before making the typhoon disappear seconds later. But it was just to unleash his next attack, releasing the mouths from the vehicle as they were revealed to have been held on by chains. Performing the first part of one of Dragnite's moves, Double Anchor. While he could have easily completed the move and caught them with the vehicle's incredible reach with the mouths, he instead chose an alterrnative.
"Fire!" Ryu commanded.
Both of the mouths fired at them with powerful lasers. Though his target wasn't at them, it was at the ground, causing a large purple explosion, which sent them flying. As they were getting up, Dragnite was charging energy again before releasing it, creating an even larger typhoon and mixing it with a large dome of energy. The wind gusts getting even stronger as they were actually being pulled in.
Both Weiss and Rook used their blades and put them into the ground to avoid being pulled in, grabbing onto the others as well.
"I've got you now!" Ryu said before Dragnite grabbed onto both Rook and Weiss with one mouth each, wrapping the chains around the pair and starting to squeeze.
Bren, against his better judgment, knowing that he had to do something, pulled out one of his cores to spin it out and try to help. But, the results were what he was hoping not to happen: He lost the core and it was sucked into the void of energy.
"Shellshot!" Bren called out. Though it wasn't long before the others joined them as well, even with the valiant resistance they were showing. After they were all sucked in, Ryu was laughing.
"It's….. over? Just like that?" Ruby R. said, a look of shock on her face.
"They didn't even really get too much of a shot at attacking him and they're done that fast…" Marinette commented, trailing off.
"I don't think so." Diego started. "It may look like he beat them, but that might not the case. I think he actually took them somewhere else instead. Giamoth and I got sucked in just like they did along with Taiga and a few others during one of the Championship Gran Prix races."
"Can you describe where they went?"
"No need. If they were actually beaten, they probably would have come back by now. Let's see where they've gone to shall we?" Chris said.
The five were suddenly in an area where they were on a hovercraft where several planet-sized floating heads were in the sky. Two large speakers were seen on the left and right as a platform was in the middle.
"Huh, well that's a surprise." Chris commented.
"Something else you didn't expect?" Doyle asked.
"Nope."
"You organized this challenge. And you brought us here with the challenge being delayed. How do you know so little about what's going on in it?" Becky F. asked.
"I could tell you the process of what I went through to pick these particular peeps, but it'd take way too much time to do that. Maybe you could interview me for the next Total Drama News episode? Hint, hint?"
"Wait, how do you know about that?" Riley asked.
"Uh, cameras? Duh. You've done that outside like the past two times. How could we not know? And no, it is not an invasion of privacy. You were outside. Anyways, let's get back to the main focus of the episode shall we? The place where the finale of our last multiverse season took place, Cromulons!"
"So, you want to win, do you?" Ryu's voice was heard from above over all five of them. "Well so do these four."
Marinette, Huey, Falcon and Luz suddenly appeared. The first two on the left side of the hovercraft, the latter two on the right side of it. Though their entire bodies and clothes were darker shades or black along with their skin. Their eyes also lacked pupils and were completely purple.
"If you want to face me, show me your will to win. Prove to me your power is greater than theirs!"
"What did you do to them?" Bren said.
"You should be more concerned about what they'll do to you if you're found to be weak! If you want to survive, then fight! Fight! Show your strength! Your power!"
The Shellshot core that was sucked in before was brought back down to him from the sky as it fell in his hands.
"This can't be real. Marinette is back in the set. We should be okay in fighting these guys and not have to worry about hurting them." Huey said.
"Even if they were real. They don't exactly look like they're in the mindset of bein' friendly with us." Bobo said. "And if they actually are, I'll apologize later." He said before pulling out his pistols.
"Sudden Death! GO!" An announcer called out above them.
Multiversus OST- Get Schwifty(Match Point Variant) Plays
The four new additions suddenly started to attack the five and occasionally, oddly enough, each other.
"Wait, do-over! I wasn't ready yet!" Bren said as he was being attacked by Huey.
"Do over? Pay attention!" Huey said as he continued to attack him with a mixture of attacks, including with his sword. Attacks that Bren desperately tried to avoid all of but couldn't as he was nowhere close to being a good hand to hand fighter like Jinja was.
"POWER CHANGE!"
"Tikki! Spots on!"
Seconds later, Luz, Falcon and Marinette had transformed, no catch needed.
"The last time this happened, none of them got access to this that fast. What gives?" Courtney commented.
"Probably whatever Ryu's done to them. His Dragnite's powerful, but he's shown to not have to rely on it for everything he does when it comes to his abilities." Shiro said.
"In other words, if Diego is to be believed, they're playing by his rules now." Bakura inferred.
"Which are still within my own, don't forget that." Chris said.
"Says the person that didn't even know they'd be sent here in the first place. Why in the world would you even bring someone like him in in the first place?" Fiona said.
"Still within the rules, so it's still cool with me. And to answer your question real quick, we decided to watch some recordings of what he was like in races. And he definitely looked like he was going to be challenging. And bam, that's how he's here."
"And if they can't deal with him, we might be in serious trouble all over again. Even if the overall strength of everyone here is higher, Ryu threatened to destroy the entire universe and it took a herculean effort to even beat him the last time. Did you even think this through?" Myron asked.
"You guys complained about Vilius and they turned out fine. Now quiet!"
Although the other four were faring decently or pretty well in their respective matchups, Bren was still having a hard time in his. Huey wasn't giving him any breathing room to throw out his Monsuno at all.
"Come on! You not gonna fight back? Or are you just gonna cower and constantly walk back like a little b[censored] the entire time?" Huey F. said as he continued to attack him, backing him further and further to the edge of the arena, as the fighting had already destroyed the platforms where the speakers were barely over a minute in compared to last time.
"Yeah, this definitely isn't our Huey." Ben said.
"This seems like it's the one from that other dimension." Rally said.
"Hold on!" Rook called out to Bren before preparing to use his grapple to grab on to Huey before he was stopped by Marinette, who was trying to pull the Proto-Tool away from him with her Yo-Yo.
"Let's see you try and fight without that Proto-Tool!" Marinette said as she was trying to pull it away but was stopped by Falcon who punched her away.
"I'll take care of him. In fact, I'll destroy all of them! Power Explosion!" Falcon was preparing to send several homing missiles at everyone throughout the arena as Bren was about to be pushed off by the dark Huey.
"It's one thing to go out. But to go out like you did? Mercy ain't somethin' you deserve." Huey said before pushing him off. Blue energy would be seen immediately after that. Seconds later, he would also be off the arena himself as he was unable to avoid the missiles being sent his way from the dark Falcon.
Bren was seen flying back upwards thanks to Neo-Quickforce saving him.
"Guess mercy isn't exactly deserved for jerks either." Bren remarked before reentering the battle with the others being able to survive the missile barrage, with Weiss, Luz and Rook protecting themselves, Bobo evading them and causing them to hit Marinette instead, who used her yo-yo to avoid being sent off the arena and Huey, who used the mallet that he still had to cancel out the missile that was coming at him.
"You would think it would be smart for you to work together instead of against each other." Weiss said as she battled Luz.
"Together? Ha! That's a good one Weiss." Luz said before blinding her with light magic. "I won! At this point, why would I need teamwork?" She added, sending her flying with explosive fire magic.
Weiss, using a glyph as a platform, saved herself from certain doom and was able to recover.
"Everyone needs teamwork! You can't expect to do everything by yourself every time. You should know this! What about your teammates that helped you? You wouldn't have won without their help!"
Flying around like a human rocket, Falcon barreled himself into everyone, landing hits on all of his targets with the exception of Marinette, who jumped over him and tried to grab onto him, which proved to have been a bad idea as he pulled her along.
"Which is exactly why she didn't deserve to win. It took her relying on her teammates, and getting lucky breaks from getting access to her magic to win. That's not real strength she's showing here at all." Falcon said as he sent a rocket punch at Weiss and at Huey, with Weiss blocking the attack to stop Huey from getting hit.
"If what you're saying is true, how come you weren't good enough to win?" Huey remarked as he sent energy balls his way, with Quickforce adding in his own attacks.
"The same reason I didn't. By cowardice. She literally waited to attack Huey at the end and that's how she won! And relying on assists and a technicality for a vehicle rule." Marinette said before attacking both Bren and Bobo, dodging the shots that both the latter and Rook were firing at her.
"A rule that was clearly stated before the race even started. That's still your fault. And let's not pretend that you still didn't have a chance to recover and win anyway." Weiss countered before sending fire Luz's way to stop her advance.
"You two are just discrediting my win because you weren't strong enough or smart enough to take an opportunity! I took a leap! I took a chance! Which means I got rewarded for it!" Luz said before freezing and sending the biggest threat out of all of them, Neo-Quickforce, flying.
"A reward that you split with a decent amount of people here mind you. If that was me, I'd take all of that money and only leave enough for me and my family, not anyone else's. They didn't win that money. After everything that happened at the end between Adrien and I, I persevered! I SHOULD HAVE WON! LUCKY CHARM!"
"What is wrong with them? I've never seen Marinette like this." Adrien said.
"That is because it isn't them. Whatever Ryu has done to them, they aren't our friends." Puss said.
An assist trophy appeared available for Marinette to use. After grabbing it, seconds later, another figure joined in on the fight to assist her. This figure also being shades of gray and black with full dark purple eyes and no pupils. Which was Vegeta who immediately powered up, jumping into the air, out of reach of all of them.
"This is it! I'll blow you all away in one hit!" He declared as he put his hands apart with yellow energy appearing in both hands. "FINAL..."
He put his hands together as more energy was seen.
"Get behind me guys!" Bren said.
"Huh?" Bobo said, surprised.
"I'm serious! Shellshot! Longfang! Launch!" Bren bounced the cores off Falcon's armor as he and Luz were attempting to fly towards Vegeta to stop him from getting the attack off.
"...FLASH!"
A powerful yellow beam of energy was unleashed, obliterating Falcon and Luz barely dodging the attack. Longfang and Shellshot put up shields to try and block the beam. The two were holding up for a few second before they were overwhelmed by the beam and were obliterated in the blast. A bright white light was seen. When the dust cleared, the hovercraft was somehow still floating even after taking punishment from a blast that could easily obliterate most aircrafts. Marinette was seen hanging on to Luz with her yo-yo before she threw her off and Vegeta had already disappeared. Though Bren was on the ground along with his cores which were seemingly empty.
"Bren! You okay?" Huey asked.
"Yeah but... my cores... they're..."
"Looks like they took the brunt of the attack. Good thinking." Weiss said.
"You don't understand! They're..."
"They're what? Spit it out kid!" Bobo said impatiently as Marinette and Luz were fighting each other. A tear came out of Bren's eye.
"Bren? Are you... crying?" Huey asked.
"Unbelievable. They're gonna be back kid! Get your head back in the game!" Bobo said, picking him up before Bren immediately Bren grabbed him back.
"DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THEY'LL BE BACK TO YOU!? THEY'RE NEVER COMING BACK!" Bren shouted, showing him the now empty gray cores, moreso shoving them in his face, to his shock.
"Oh." Was all Bobo could say. He knew he had just made a mistake before Bren had suddenly disappeared.
"I am sorry for your loss. Truly." Rook said as Luz was sent flying back down on the ground towards them.
"You guys are still here? Guess I'll deal with you too!" Luz said, charging at them before Weiss stopped her with a Glyph.
"You should have known not to just charge in like that. You may look like Luz, but you're nowhere near as smart as she was." Weiss said.
"Shut... UP! I AM LUZ NOCEDA! THE MOST POWERFUL HUMAN WITCH IN THE BOILING ISLES!" Luz shouted in anger as purple energy surrounded her with the same energy surrounding Marinette who was already back in her ladybug form.
"And you are nothing but a useless, whiny little kid playing dress up!" Marinette said before kicking her away.
"Says the girl that whined about perseverance after what you did to Adrien! Who's fault was that again!?" Luz said before attacking everyone, including Marinette.
"That's why it's called perseverance you idiot!" Marinette said before outright tackling Luz to the ground.
"You think we should let them fight it out?" Bobo asked his teammates.
"Actually, that can be used to our advantage. We need to get rid of them now. It's like they're getting angrier." Huey said.
"What gave it away? The yelling? The tackling? Or the purple aura surrounding them now?"
"Huey is right. Leaving them around any longer and hoping that they beat each other or just converging on one could pose way too much of a risk. We were fortunate that Bren was even able to take that attack for us." Rook said.
"Then it's settled. Pick and choose our spots, and try not to put yourselves too much in harms way." Weiss said.
"Well that's easy." Bobo said before he shot at them from far away, with the others following suit, using long ranged options themselves. Many of their attacks hit, which allowed Luz to overpower Marinette and knock her off the ledge.
But the projectiles only made Luz angrier as she immediately attacked them.
"None of you are stronger then me! None of you!" Luz roared out as even more purple energy surrounded her. Using ice to slide past the projectiles, she then immediately used her vines to try and restrict them. Luz slowly walked to them, a confident, yet malicious grin on her face.
"Now you'll see exactly why I deserved to win! Now eat-" Luz started before she was spat on by Bobo, which not only disgusted her, but made her even more angry, sending him off instantly. But Rook, who was the closet to her, headbutted her, causing her to drop her staff.
Rook, using all the strength he could muster, tried to loosen up the vines before ultimately deciding to actually bite off some of them to help. It was enough for him to get an arm free and rip apart a couple of vines and get the rest of his body free as well. Before he could even pick up the staff, Luz had it as well, with Luz, with surprisingly incredible strength, pulling the staff away from him and kicking him away out of the arena as well, yelling as he did.
"Rook!" Huey called out.
"Now, where were we?" Luz said before she was trapped in a net.
"What... is this?" Luz said, trying to get out of the orange energy net. Fangs were then revealed in her teeth as she actually tried to bite through the net before being repulsed back from the energy from the net or biting it.
"Rook! You're not dead!" Huey said as Rook cut them all free.
"We may celebrate after. Luz must be finished!" Rook said. Using a gravity glyph, Weiss immediately sent her flying.
"I CAN'T HAVE LOST! I AM THE STRONGEST!" Luz yelled out as she was rung out.
"Maybe, but you're certainly not the smartest. Next time, try disarming your opponents." Weiss said. "I HOPE YOU LEARN FROM THIS AOMINE!"
Before Aomine could even say anything, Ryu was heard laughing from above. "Good! Good! If you survived, it means you deserved to do so. You proved that you're stronger!"
"Deserved it? If you can do all of that you can bring back Bren's Monsuno!" Huey called out.
"HA! That trash!? He lost his Monsuno and couldn't survive because he was weak. Had he been stronger maybe he would have survived. The same with that monkey! Weaklings don't deserve a second chance!"
"You keep talking about strength. We beat the opponents you gave us. Now it's time for you to stop hiding like a coward! Show us your strength!" Weiss said.
"That you did. But you're not through yet. But before you move on, let me show you something. You want to see strength? Power? Here it is!" Ryu said before Dragnite showed itself from a cloud of purple mist on the ground. Surrounding it was several purple sparks of electricity. Though the one that was seen was vastly different from the one that was seen initially. This one was not only larger, but it had three heads instead of one that were clearly seen at the front of it. In the middle was the longest one with a silver horn on top of it. It also had an additional spoiler behind the other along with its "arms" on the side of the frontmost one.
"Did it... evolve?" Weiss commented.
"That it did Weiss Schnee. And soon, it's newly evolved teeth will be sinking into you three next! Now, if you still want to face me, follow me!" Ryu said, still not seen before laughing as it sped it off, flames trailing behind it before driving into the sky and... breaking it? The same purple fog or clouds could be seen in the little area of the sky that was "broken" by the evolved Dragnite.
"I don't like the look of that." Huey said, referring to the part outside of the "broken sky" that was seen.
"I don't exactly have a good feeling about this myself. But we don't exactly have much of a choice if we want to get out of here. Rook, can you take us up?" Weiss asked.
"Absolutely." Rook said before attaching his grapple to the hole that Dragnite left.
"I don't get it. Usually, when it comes to Pokemon, they evolve in battle right?" Kise asked.
"In many cases yes. But it's not the only way evolution can occur. Why?" Paul said.
"I thought so. Which makes this even more weird. It never even battled or raced here. So how could it evolve that fast? Unless he disappeared and raced somewhere else during all of this. Or, am I getting this wrong? I don't know much about Pokemon or Yugioh other than the basics, but I don't have a clue how Scan2Go, Monsuno or Bakugan works at all."
"That's not even close to what happened." Shiro started. "After hearing how Pokemon evolve you're right, Scan2Go machines do evolve the same way Pokemon do. Through care, training and the spirit of its racer among other conditions that can be achieved to evolve them. But Ryu is different. He doesn't have to do any of that. And he certainly doesn't have the spirit of a real Scan2Go racer. Although it helps, he doesn't have to win. All he has to do is destroy his opponents. And then, he can reap from the aftermath of the carnage."
"So because he played a hand in this, that was how he was able to evolve?"
"From the looks of things, I'd say yes."
"Next question, Bren was okay, so how exactly did he disappear? Only his Monsuno were gone."
"This is just an assumption, but my best guess would be just that. His Monsuno are linked to his survivability since they're basically his companions and his most efficient way to fight, the same way our machines are or Paul's Pokemon are. So if those are defeated, then so is the owner." Myron inferred.
"Then if that's the case, you'd better be careful Fiona." Diego said.
"Thanks but, considering the blueprint of what we might have to face, there might not be any room for me to hold back regardless." Fiona said. "And besides, let's not pretend like Giamoth's the only one out of us that's can take some punishment. Leopatra is tough too!"
After making their way through to the hole, they were seemingly in a desolate area with gray fog all around them, making it hard for them to see.
With them now were all of their other teammates selected for this challenge.
"Wait, all of you are here?" Huey said, surprised.
"It surprised the heck outta me too. Guess this is it." Aomine said.
"It would seem like it." Razer said.
"Which means, we should call on our assist." Weiss said.
"I second that idea. But who should it be?" Rook said.
"Eliza, Sophie or Paul are the most sensible options I'd say." Huey sad.
"Choose Paul. He's the most well-balanced out of all of them. If Ryu is as dangerous as Team JET describes, we will need to be ready for anything." Akashi suggested.
"Long as it makes sense I don't really care honestly, so don't ask me for much of an opinion." Aomine said. "I get why you guys wouldn't pick Ben for this though. Time limit."
"Personally, I would say teammate Paul is the best option out of the three. Despite lacking the individual magic ability like she does, his Pokemon outnumber Sophie's titans. And of course, Eliza as she's only one individual." Penny said.
"Well, if that's what you all want, I support it." Weiss said.
"Well then, shall we bring him in?" Rook said before choosing Paul, who still had the usual neutral expression on his face.
"First of all, we need to get rid of this fog. It's starting to get thicker. Magmortar, stand by for battle!" Paul said before bringing out said Pokemon to disperse it.
"Already with the smart decisions. The last thing we need is to get separated." Huey said as Rook also used the flashlight feature on his Proto-Tool as well.
"If it's such a good decision, then why the hell is it not working?" Aomine said as the fog actually started to get thicker at a faster rate than before.
"Okay then, why don't you come up with an idea?" Weiss said, hands on her hips.
"You first, princess."
"I would, but I don't exactly have that many."
Razer put up a protective blue barrier around all of them.
"Hopefully, this should be enou-" Rook started before realizing that every one of his other teammates were gone, to his confusion.
Suddenly, her other teammates felt as if they were fading away before completely disappearing.
"Rook! Paul! Huey! Aomine! Penny! Akashi!" She called out, but wasn't answered by any of them.
"Splendid." She said sarcastically, not even knowing how she even got separated in the first place when she was just talking to her teammates not even a second ago.
"The hell? Where'd everyone go! HEY! WHY THE HECK WOULD YOU IDIOTS LEAVE ME HERE ALONE!? AKASHI! FROSTY! ROOK!" Aomine called out, in the same situation as Weiss AKA "Frosty". "Jeez. This is such a pain in the a[censored]." He said, grabbing his neck before pulling out his phone to try and call Akashi. He wasn't going to try to call Kise or the others back at the set and risk breaking some rule and getting himself disqualified. But the second he pulled it out, it said that there was no service. "Of course there isn't." He said before sighing before walking to try and find a way out.
Huey, Rook, Akashi, Paul and Penny were all in the same situation as well with Penny switching to thermal vision to see through the fog for heat signatures.
"I don't like the look of this at all." Diego commented.
"Do you think Ryu's behind this?" Sophie asked.
"If I had to guess, yes."
"Ugh, I can't take this. I need something to eat." Fiona said before getting out of her seat to leave.
"Hey, that's not a bad idea. You guys want something?" Diego asked his teammates.
"Chocolate, please." Libby said.
"Chips, candy and a drink. And make it snappy tubbs." Zak M. said.
"A simple please would have worked too." Diego remarked.
"Something frozen. Popsicle, ice cream or a sandwich. If that doesn't work, I guess chips will be fine too." Mr. Wolf said before actually deciding to get up to join the pair. "You know what? Let me help ya out. Anyone else want something?"
"Honestly, I don't mind having something myself. And nothing's be
"I'll take two popsicles please!" Molly said.
"I don't know. Whatever's easier for you to get I guess." Asta said.
"You can keep your junk food to yourself. I don't want any." Noelle said.
"I'm fine. Thank you." Blaineley said.
Focusing things back on the action as the three kept the others' requests in mind, Rook was the first to have seemingly found something in all of the fog that wasn't the rocky ground or the fog. Unfortunately, that something wasn't any of his teammates. It was something else. A building. He slowly approached the building, staying wary of his surroundings for a possible trap. A blue crystal was waiting for him inside.
The second Shiro saw it, he was in shock before he started to sweat and breathe heavily, grabbing his chest.
"Shiro, you alright? You don't look so good." Scott asked.
"Here. If you need some water, I still have an unopened one." Kageyama said, offering him a bottle.
"No..." Shiro said, wincing.
"Take it. You need it more than me. I can just get another one."
"Move." Shiro said, still clutching at his chest.
"What!? It's one thing to say no but it's another to act like an a[censored]hole!"
"I SAID MOVE! PLEASE!" He said, holding his head now.
Tsukikage said something to Bass and Jenny.
"You guys have to move. That crystal's effecting Shiro. He could transform!" Jenny translated, which horrified everyone as he desperately pushed his way through several people and desperately tried to get away, still clutching his chest. It was Jenny and Ruby that ultimately helped him move.
"I told you to-" Shiro started before Ruby shushed him.
"At the rate you're going, you weren't going to be able to get out of here. You may not want help, but you need it." Ruby G. said.
Focusing things back to Rook, the minute he looked into the crystal, it was as if he couldn't look away.
A round of applause was heard in Rook's head before a figure appeared in the crystal. That figure being Ben, who was surrounded by several people including the Plumbers and Max as they were suddenly on a highway.
"Ben?" Rook said, confused.
"Uh, he realizes I can't hear him right?" Ben commented, just as confused as to why he was still staring at the crystal, doing absolutely nothing.
"Another day, another bad guy stopped." The Ben on the highway said as he continued to be pestered for autographs and pictures. "Alright! Alright! I'll get all of you, just be patient."
"I know for you this may seem like another day at the office but still, sometimes repetition, and I imagine that this definitely applies for something like this can probably cause some fatigue. So how do you do it? How do you continue to persevere?"
"Well, it's easy. I just have to remember that I'm not just doing it for myself. I'm doing it for everyone else. Fame is never something I would ever only consider doing this for. But I couldn't do this alone."
"That's right. It was a hundred percent a team effort for this one. Like it almost always is." Max added, which was when Rook was prepared to make himself seen to be acknowledged by Max for his hard work.
"Yep! All my trusty aliens." Ben said, holding up his omnitrix. "Oh, and... wow. The name just slipped from off the top of my head. How could I forget? Think all those slushies at once are getting to my brain."
"I believe you mean, Rook right?" Rook proposed, now with the three.
"Oh yeah, right! I remember now! Kevin!"
"Kevin?"
"Yeah, he shows up occasionally from time to time to help out. Funny that he and I used to start off as heated enemies."
"He's grown himself to be a fine young man I'd say." Max said.
Rook noticed that something was off. It was as if they didn't see him. Even when it looked like Ben was responding to him, not once did he look his direction.
"Ben?" Rook said, touching his shoulder.
"Yeah? What's up?" Ben asked, turning around.
"Thank goodness. I was beginning to think you didn't see me. Do you know what's going on here?"
"Don't you know? I just saved the world from an alien invasion. Again."
Rook held his head. "Strange. I would have thought I would have known about something as important and as large scale as this, but I... do not. When did this occur?"
"Uh, just now? Are you feeling alright? I mean what else would you be here for? Now, what do you need me to sign?"
Rook raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me?"
"You're a fan right? Please tell me you're not one of those people that wants me to sign on their body."
"While I genuinely respect what you've done for so many worlds, I do not want an autograph. Nor am I one of your 'fans'."
"You sure? That sounds like fan talk to me."
"Yes I am perfectly sure."
"Well if that's the case, whatever questions you've got for me can wait until I'm done, okay?"
"Hey, you can't skip the line!" One fan called out to Rook.
"Yeah! Get out of the way!" More fans actually tried to pull him away.
"What are you doing!?" Rook said to the fans. "This is not necessary!"
"Hey! Stop! That's uncalled for! Now, control yourselves!" Max called out. When this was heard, they relented.
"Thank you Magister Tennyson."
"You're very welcome. Sorry about that."
"Do you know what is going on here? Why is Ben treating me as if he doesn't recognize me?"
"Probably because I don't?" Ben said.
"I am Rook Blonko. Your partner. Do you remember now?"
"Nah, my only partner's on and off. And partner might not even be the right word. It's Kevin."
"He's right. Kevin and occasionally his cousin, have been the only people he's really worked with." Max said.
"I see now. This must be these... pranks. I suppose I should play along." Rook said.
"Prank?" Max said, confused.
"Yeah, I have no idea what he's talking about." Ben said.
"A prank. It is where you-"
"Dude I know what a prank is, you don't have to explain it to me. And trust me, this isn't a prank. I think the giant crater over there should tell you this real."
Rook looked over at the giant hole that was in the middle of the street not too far from where they were.
"I suppose I am in an alternate universe or timeline where I was never enlisted into the Plumbers. But how... did I get here?" Rook wondered.
"Timeline? No. This is reality." Someone that looked just like him said, appearing behind him in an alleyway. Though the colors of the armor and fur were reversed. "And that reality, is that we will always be in his shadow." The Rook look-alike said, turning back to Ben, who was even showered with gifts as well.
"I trained. Worked hard. My dream was to become a Plumber and help people across the galaxy. Just like you. But, that never came to pass. All of the recognition. Deeds. They all went to him. And I was ultimately forgotten. Outside of a few minor commendations from some of my fellow peers in the Academy, no one gave me credit. When I had a hand in helping throughout many of his endeavors." The Rook look-alike explained.
"I do not understand. It would seem you did well. Why would the Plumbers release you?" Rook asked.
"They did not. I left on my own accord. If they were not going to at least acknowledge the hard work that I have done, then what is the point? With his powerful Omnitrix, he can do anything better than I can anyway. And soon, you will suffer that same fate. Forgotten. Treated as if you just some other person in the streets by the person you call your partner. For him to have such a powerful device and a heavy responsibility, he treats it as if it is just a game. On top of being selfish. Refusing to give credit."
Rook closes his eyes. "I see."
"Yes. I'm glad to have been able to open your eyes to the truth." The Rook look-alike said, slowly approaching him.
"But... your argument had not only one, but several flaws in it." Rook said, finally opening his eyes and backing up from him.
"Flaws? Explain."
"You claim that no credit was given to anyone, when he just gave Kevin credit for helping him. Second, yes, he does have several fans. But, he understands the responsibility and burden that he carries and knows that he is not just doing this for himself, as he had also just stated. Third, your claims are also hypocritical. You criticize Ben, yet you quit because you were not receiving credit for the deeds you have done?"
"You know this to be true! He always receives the credit on missions! Where is the applause? The fans for you!?" The Rook look-alike said, anger rising in his voice.
"You are right. I am not discrediting you on the point of him having several fans. But why does it matter? The point of being a Plumber is not for recognition of your deeds! As a matter of fact, if you will recall, the Plumbers are a secret organization. So it is understandable that the actions of its members may not be recognized by the public."
The Rook look-alike slowly backed away, grimacing in anger. "Don't you, just for once, want to feel what it is to be recognized? To have all of those people wanting your autographs? To be seen as a hero?"
Rook closed his eyes, seemingly deep in thought before ultimately opening them again to make his concluding answer. "No. Because I already am seen as a hero. By my peers. By Ben. And by many of my people back on my home world! Including my family! And I am grateful for that! Speaking of which, what your family would do to see what you have become. Consumed by jealousy. Ungratefulness. Selfishness! All of which that ultimately caused you to quit helping others because you put yourself over those can't protect themselves! If your family is even close to resembling what mine is, they would be disappointed in you. Heavily. And finally, your fourth flaw in your argument. You used a contraction."
"What?" The Rook look-alike said in disbelief.
" 'I'm glad to have been able to open your eyes to the truth.' It is 'I am.' I know that I have used contractions myself when I have had very strong feelings about something in the past. But those feelings were reserved to things I truly care about. Such as my siblings. Not for something like this!"
The look alike then did something very uncharacteristic of Rook. It growled. "Fine then! If you want to stay in your little 'noble delusions', then you can drown in them as well!" He said before pulling out his own Proto-Tool and attacking him with it, causing the real Rook to have move out of the way. Though a civilian was hit.
"No! Stop this! You are hurting innocent bystanders!" Rook said.
"Bystanders? You mean the same people that are rabid fans of him? Good riddance!"
"I do not know who you are, but you are not me!" Rook said before shooting the Proto-Tool out of his look-alike's hands and tackling him to the ground. After wrestling with him for several seconds on the ground, the look-alike overpowered him, pinning him.
"I am not you. I am better than you! Stronger!" The Rook look-alike prepared to perform a two-hand fisted smash on the original's face before he was pushed off. The two were in a stand-still before the original shot away his look-alike's Proto-Tool out of reach.
"You... you're supposed to be honorable!"
"Yet another contraction. And yes, I am honorable." Rook said before engaging him in hand to hand combat. The two were able to match each other in blows for several seconds before the original ultimately won, seeing several gaps in his look-alike's defenses and his offense before netting him.
"But honor is not reserved for someone like you. And another thing. You need more time in the academy. Your moves are undisciplined. Impatient. Sloppy. The minute you couldn't hit me and receive instant gratification from the hits you became frustrated. And your execution became worse."
"Don't lecture me!" The Rook look-alike said, growling as he tried to get out of the net but couldn't.
"And, you need to stop using contractions. You continue to bring shame to our home world in doing so." Rook said before shooting upwards in the air to try and find a way out, concluding that this must have been something that Ryu created.
"You will see. You'll be forgotten and thrown to side! Just like I was! YOU'LL ALWAYS BE IN HIS SHADOW ROOK! ALWAYS!" The look-alike called out. But his words were ultimately ignored as after shattering a part of the sky, he grappled his way out. But it was revealed that all of that was in Rook head as he gasped, seemingly out of whatever trance he was in. He looked away before shooting the crystal with his Proto-Tool, shattering it. The minute he did, the building started to come down, with Rook ultimately running out of it.
"What in the world was that?" Ben said. "It's like he was in some sort of trance."
"He's not the only one. Something's going on with the others too." Rex pointed out. Though what exactly was going on with each of them couldn't be seen by any of the spectators, the same way that Rook's couldn't be seen.
Weiss was in a similar situation as Rook when it comes to the conflict that she faced. Though Ben was replaced with Ruby. But she seemed to have an easier time getting past herself than Rook did and what she said afterwards indicated that even further.
"I have nothing to envy Ruby for. Not anymore. She may not get everything right. And that's okay. But that's what teammates are for. Helping doesn't mean taking over as leader. Think about it. If I were to make a mistake, by that, or in this case, my past self's logic, then my leadership should be put into question then as well. Otherwise, it'd be hypocritical criticism. Do you see why I discarded that argument long ago?" Weiss asked her past self who only grunted in anger. She simply walked away.
"I'm not through with you! Not yet!"
"But I am." The current Weiss said before continuing to walk away.
Focusing on Huey next, he was actually racing Ryu in a Scan2Go race. But no matter what he did, as Huey actually had a powerful machine that could find the best path and line on the track, similar to what Myron's can do, he was unable to overtake Ryu and his Dragnite Galleon, just falling short every time for one reason or another.
"Come on! Is that all you've got!?" Ryu taunted.
They continued to race around the circuit and they approached the final straightaway.
"So Ryu already used his second turbo boost. This is why I saved it. Just for this moment! I've got you now Ryu!" Huey thought confidently.
"Boost now!" Huey called out to his machine. A red light glowed, indicating that it was using its second and final turbo boost, gaining a burst of speed. It looked as if he was about to pass Dragnite but it was starting to slow down just as they were about to cross.
"Come on! Come on! Nooooooo!" Huey said, frustrated that he was so close to crossing first.
Dragnite crossed first, indicating that Ryu won the race.
"I'll admit, that wasn't too bad. So, I'll give you another chance. The same conditions apply. If you can beat me, then that'll be enough for a victory for your team." Ryu said, arms folded now. "So, what do you say? Are you in or out?"
"I'm in. I'll get you this time." Huey answered.
Penny meanwhile, was battling team RWBY one on one each. And was actually faring pretty well, the only one remaining being Ruby.
Despite Ruby trying to use her speed to overwhelm her, Penny was unfazed, using her strength and her flight to beat her.
Clapping was heard afterwards from an elderly man with brown skin and short, balding white hair and wore a red vest over a cream colored shirt with a pink bowtie along with dark mustard pants, leather boots and a green cap. He was in a special white and green chair that had four moveable legs.
"Good job Penny! Good job!" The man said.
"Father?" Penny said, not believing that her father and creator, Pietro Polendina was there. And the heat signature coming from him proved that he was no illusion just like team RWBY.
"Didn't expect to see me here did you? And I must say, I am absolutely impressed with what I've seen you do against such a great huntress team." Pietro said, approaching her in the chair.
"While I appreciate the compliment, I am still very confused as to what is happening here. My teammates and I were battling a man named Ryu Kaizel. A scan2go racer with his evolved vehicle under the name of Dragnite Galleon. But we were all suddenly separated. Have you seen him or any of my teammates?"
"Hmm, I don't think so. But it certainly doesn't seem like these four are. Doesn't look like it matters now. You showed them." Pietro said, referring to the now defeated Team RWBY before laughing heartily.
"But they are my teammates. And my friends. I don't understand why they would suddenly attack me."
"Well, friends don't attack friends with no reasonable explanation I would think."
"Which is what makes this so uncharacteristic for them. Even for friend Yang."
"Considering how you were able to defeat them, I would have thought you would have been a lot prouder of your achievement like I am."
"But, why would I be proud of defeating my friends?"
"Penny, I built you to think logically. Would friends try to attack you with no valid explanation whatsoever?"
"Well... I suppose not but..."
"If they can attack you once, what is the likelihood that they'll attack you again?"
"Hmm... slightly unlikely."
"Even with that, there still leaves the possibility of it occurring. You must be certain. And if there is the slight chance that they will, you must finish it before they harm you or anyone else."
"Finish it? Father, you don't mean..."
"Yes. I do."
"I... I... cannot. Even though they attacked, I don't believe it was done out of genuine malicious intent. My history with them proves the contrary."
"I see. You disappoint me Penny." Suddenly, the four defeated RWBY members suddenly rose up. "A simple mistake that can be fixed. Once I take you apart and start over."
Penny frowned, slowly stepping back. "You are not my father. There may be some things he may have disagreements on, but destruction would never be something he would be so adamant on unless absolutely necessary. Which means, this is yet another trap set by Ryu." She began to take flight to try and find a way out before using the blades on her array to create a large green energy beam, smashing through the sky and then flying through it to escape.
Focusing on Akashi, his conflict involved no combat whatsoever. He was sitting in a chair playing shogi chess in his families' mansion. His opponent sitting on the other side of him in the chair: Himself. Though, this version of himself wore a business suit along with having one eye that was red and another that was orange. His original self was leading with 14 out of his 20 pieces left compared to his opponent's 12 out of 20.
It was currently his alternate self's turn, moving his silver general piece diagonally forward, one up higher into the neutral zone of the board.
"Tell me, you have been here for 30 episodes. 19 eliminations have taken place and after today, there will be at least one additional, marking at least 20 eliminations. Do you believe your team can win this challenge?" His alternate self asked.
"Yes. Of course. I have faith that we will be able to win."
"And yet your contributions have been miniscule compared to the rest of the team. Answer me honestly. After seeing everything that your teammates have provided, do you think you'll be able to provide anything unique, provided the skillsets that we have?"
The original Akashi pondered this question before ultimately answering, and making his move, moving his bishop diagonally backwards, back into his zone. "I don't know."
As they continued their game, their conversation continued.
"Then you concede that your elimination is imminent." The second Akashi replied.
"No. I do not." The original answered.
"Then explain. Why? You already stated that you aren't sure you have any unique skills to contribute to your team."
"Simple. Perseverance."
"And you think something as simple as 'never giving up' will be enough to push you through not only your fellow Miracles, Kagami and the others for this challenge, but for the entire season as well?"
"Yes. Even if I don't have any unique skillsets to provide, that may not be needed for the team to win. If simply being an extra voice of reason and encouragement is what I need to be, then so be it."
"With all of the skills we have been taught, is simply being a mere cheerleader all we are ultimately capable of here? A far cry from our role before."
The original simply closed his eyes and smiled. "Yes. Unfamiliar territory I know. And unprecedented. Even during the game with the rest of Vorpal Swords, our role was still as the control tower."
The alternate Akashi gets up from out of the chair. "You are smiling as if you are happy with such a miniscule role."
"What are you doing? The game isn't over." The original Akashi asked, confused.
"I see no reason to continue playing."
"I don't understand. So you concede?"
"I never said I did."
The original Akashi looked at the board and was shocked that he didn't notice it sooner. Predicting a few moves ahead, and it was revealed that he was actually going to lose had they kept playing. All possibilities pointed to this outcome. Eyes widened, he looked up at his alternate counterpart, who was still standing, not even looking in his original's direction.
Next was Razer. Who was on the Blue Lantern home planet of Odym. A beautiful dawn sky was seen overhead. He was an open area with a few trees and a waterfall in the distance. Though this blissfulness would be ruined by the combat that was taking place by he and two others. His opponents? A rage-fueled Razer and Aya, both who were infused with red energy. The first thing being seen was a clash between weapons from all three.
"You waste your time here playing this trivial game instead of searching for Aya. Have you forgotten your quest!?" The Red Lantern Razer asked, voice full of anger as shown by his red aura surrounding him, fueling his rapier construct.
"Of course I haven't forgotten." The original said calmly.
"Then what purpose do you have for being here? You have no need for the winnings that'll be given. You could easily continue your quest searching across the multiverse. How could you be so selfish Razer!? HOW!?" Aya said before using her red energy to blow the original Razer away.
"Answer me! After all the work you've done to find her, you stop. Why!? WHY!?" The red Razer said, relentlessly attacking his counterpart alongside Aya, seemingly overwhelming him.
"Look at you. Too much of a coward to even answer. Just like you were too much of a coward to express your feelings to Aya." He added.
"All of this your fault! My blood is on your hands! Do you even realize that!? The universe was in danger because of you! I was destroyed and became the Anti-Monitor because of you! Your quest would have never happened had you actually cared about my feelings!"
Razer tried to protect himself with an energy barrier but Aya and the red lantern Razer's budding rage broke through his barrier, knocking him to the ground.
"You should already know what happened when the Blue Lanterns tried to stoke my fires of rage. They failed. Your blue ring is useless!" The red lantern Razer said.
"The most sensible option if you want to have a chance against us is to use your red ring. Embrace your rage!" Aya said before attacking him again. But even with these constant attacks, the original wasn't the least bit angry.
"I don't understand. You would think you would be blaming yourself for what has happened. At the very least, wanting to survive for yourself or for your team. So why won't you fight back!?" The red lantern Razer asked.
"Yes, those thoughts have constantly lingered in my mind. But I have already made peace with my mistakes. It would seem that you haven't. And that burden has consumed you." The real Razer said before actually using a balance of blue and red constructs to defeat both, finishing them with both a blue katana and his own red rapier.
"Please Razer. Leave these people behind. They don't need you. I do." Aya pleaded, on the verge of shutting down.
"I know how much I have stressed about continuing my quest to find you. Day in and day out. But this team. These people. Abandoning them now for my own needs now wouldn't be right. You of all people should understand that." Razer said before he closed his eyes before flying off as Aya began to shut down.
Aomine was already in a conflict, not with his former self, but all of his teammates at Teiko, Kuroko included. In every single thing that was their strength, from trivia, to shogi, to cooking and baking, to horseriding, and even playing an instrument and karaoke, he was outclassed in all of them. But surprisingly, he wasn't even close to being frustrated.
"Whatever. I already conceded that none of those things are my strength. And I'm fine with that. So whatever trick is trying to be pulled over me it ain't gonna work." Aomine said out loud.
"Yeah. Basketball's where's it's at." Kagami said, walking through all five of the others as they made way for him. He was dribbling a basketball in his hands and was wearing a white t-shirt and green camouflage pants with red and black tennis shoes.
"Exactly. Now let's see if these little mind games are gonna work here. 'Cause I'm almost certain they're not." Aomine said, a confident grin on his face as both he and Kagami entered the Zone.
The first two baskets belonged to Aomine as they were playing a first to ten.
"Guess that's another thing that you didn't take into account. He may have beaten me when it comes to our team game, but that's the only time he's beaten me. I've smoked him in one on one twice. And I beat him the first time our schools met." Aomine said aloud.
"Yeah, you say that like the first time we played one-on-one, I wasn't injured from playing against Midorima and Shutoku. And the second time I wasn't even wearing the shoes I usually wear." Kagami countered.
"Okay, so I'll be nice and give you the first one. But even then, your stamina sucking's got nothin' to do with me. The second one, I wasn't even wearing the shoes I normally wear myself. And I guess you nothin' to say about the first team game huh?"
"Yeah. I hate to admit it but you were straight up better than I was. But it wasn't just you, it was the team as a whole. But the second we upgraded was the second you lost. So try playing me straight up. No advantages. No bulls[censored]. Let's go."
"Uh, dude, we're already playing right now."
"Huh!? Oh. Right. Well, let's keep going!"
"Whatever man. Just don't make this boring. If I shut you out, I'm gonna take back everything that I said before." Aomine said before passing the ball to him.
"Didn't you say that before when we played in the Winter Cup?"
"Yeah, I know that. Guess it's a case of, what is it again? I forgot."
Kagami took the chance to shoot over him for two points as it was behind the line. The game was now tied.
"Hey! What the hell!? I thought you said no bulls[censored]!? I was thinking here!"
"Yeah I did. That's your fault for not paying attention dumba[censored]!"
"That's it, check the damn ball already."
"And by the way it's Deja Vu."
"Oh. Thanks." Aomine said before blocking another sneak attempt. "Heh. You really thought that was gonna work on me a second time? Idiot."
Though the blue speedster's attitude was immediately brought back down as his attempt to get a one handed shot over him, a signature of his unorthodox playstyle, was stopped by Kagami's signature high jumps.
"I already seen that one! Try somethin' else!" Kagami called out.
Like before in their last game, Kagami was able to do more than just keep up with him, he was able to completely overmatch him when it came to energy and stamina. Kagami was leading 7-4.
"Damn it! What the hell's going on!? I trained my a[censored] off to make sure I had more stamina to last longer. And it showed itself in the Jabberwock game. Hell, I hate to admit it, but I think even Weiss' training has helped a bit too. So why the hell am I getting tired while he doesn't even look like he's broken a sweat!?" Aomine thought, dribbling the ball.
But it was suddenly stolen from him by Kagami, who immediately dunked it. Aomine tried to stop him but was too late.
It was now 8-4.
"Come on. You looked surprised. I told you before, you're not the only one that's been training." Kagami said before passing him the ball.
"Don't get cocky. You can have as much energy as you want, but it doesn't matter if you don't even know how to use it against me!" Aomine said before throwing the ball in between his legs and throwing it into the air at the goal. It misses, but that was intentional, as Aomine quickly uses his speed to catch it. But Kagami was right there to stop it.
As the ball rolled harmlessly to the ground, Aomine turned and looked right back at Kagami, the former's eyes being widened.
"Like I said, this ain't like the last two times." Kagami said.
"Well, at least I know this isn't gonna be boring. But I'm not done yet." Aomine said before getting the ball again.
Last but not least was the team member that was called on to assist them for this final stage: Paul.
He was in a Pokemon arena, with the opponent on the other side being a doppelganger of himself. He was almost certain that this was something that Ryu had somehow created to block his path.
But it wasn't going to discourage him in the slightest for one. And second, with the arena closing behind him, it wasn't like he exactly had a choice.
A large screen was seen in the middle of them. Like in most Pokemon battles, the portraits of each trainer was seen along with the number of Pokemon they had remaining, with each side having four.
A referee was also in the middle of them as well.
"This will be a standard Pokemon battle! Each trainer will be allowed to use four Pokemon! The battle ends if one side either forfeits or when all four of either trainer's Pokemon are unable to battle! Winner stays on! You will not be allowed to switch out Pokemon for this battle! Now, both of you, please choose your first Pokemon for battle!" The referee called out.
"Pikachu! Stand by for battle!" The clone Paul called out before bringing out a Pikachu. A small yellow rodent-like creature with red cheeks that had electricity fizzling from them was seen.
"Pika! Pika!" The Pikachu stood in front of its trainer, ready for battle.
"If you're going to try to impersonate me, at least do your homework." The real Paul commented before choosing his own Pokemon. "Magmortar! Stand by for battle!"
The large red and yellow fire-type Pokemon with cannons on the end of its arms and two huge flame-like shoulder pads that resembled fire was seen in front of the original.
"Magmortar!" The Pokemon called out.
Seconds passed as neither side had performed a move yet. The arena, due to it oddly being empty with no spectators around in the stands, was eerily silent.
It was then that the original decided to take the initiative and be the first to make a move.
"Use Rock Tomb!" The original Paul commanded.
Magmortar shoots rocks at the ground out of its left cannon arm. But instead of shooting the rocks at Pikachu, the Pokemon instead placed them in front of himself.
"Thunderbolt!" The clone Paul ordered.
"Pika...chuuuuu!" The Pikachu sent electricity at the rocks to destroy them.
Before the rocks could even be destroyed, Magmortar was already in the air and actually picked up a couple of the rocks he created that wasn't able to be seen behind the wall of rocks in front of him and threw them in the air, hitting Pikachu directly.
"Now use Smog!" The original Paul commanded.
Magmortar created a gas attack and sent it out at Pikachu.
"Jump and use thunderbolt!" The clone Paul commanded before jumping in the air high enough to try and avoid the smog attack before sending out a thunderbolt at Magmortar. Even though it wasn't high enough to dodge the gas, the Pikachu was still able to score a hit on it, resulting in a hit trade.
"Use flamethrower!" The original Paul commanded.
"Counter with thunderbolt!" The clone Paul ordered. Even with it still struggling from the effects of smog, it still tried its best to unleash the attack to counter the flames. Both attacks collided, but the thunderbolt was overpowered, knocking Pikachu to the ground.
"Get up and use Quick Attack!" The clone Paul commanded to the Pikachu. The Pikachu struggled to get up, still reeling from the flamethrower, the smog effects and the energy it used from the thunderbolt attack. But it refused to quit and still carried out the attack, quickly running at Magmortar.
"Rock Tomb!" The original Paul commanded, creating rocks to block his path.
"Dodge them!" The clone Paul added.
Instead of running through them, the Pikachu quickly ran around the rocks to try and get to his opponent.
Just as he was getting close to Magmortar, the clone Paul gave out another command.
"Now use Thunderbolt!"
"Grab him!" The original Paul commanded.
Hearing this surprised the clone. "What?"
Magmortar grabbed Pikachu into a bear hug before the electricity was unleashed, shocking Magmortar. But not long after, Pikachu was burning. This was due to Magmortar's Flame Body ability, where direct contact moves against him have a chance to burn the attacker.
"Keep using thunderbolt!" The clone Paul commanded. Both of the Pokemon cried out in pain from the damage they were taking.
Magmortar let go of Pikachu, as there was dead silence between the trainers and their Pokemon. But it was the original Paul that smiled a little a couple of seconds afterwards, with the Pikachu falling to the ground unconscious.
"Pikachu is unable to battle! Magmortar wins!" The referee announced.
The clone Paul simply closed his eyes as he returned the Pikachu to its Pokeball.
"I suggest you choose a better matchup next time." The original said before the clone pulled out another Pokeball.
"Buizel! Stand by for battle!"
An orange and yellow weasel/river otter-like Pokemon appeared. It also has a floatation ring around its neck, two tails and blue fins on the sides of its arms.
"Now Buizel, use Water Pulse!" The clone Paul commanded.
Buizel formed a blue ball with its hands before sending it forward as water trailed under it at Magmortar.
"Dodge it!" The original Paul commanded. Magmortar jumped in the air to dodge the attack.
"Now use Aqua Jet and Ice Punch!" The clone paul commanded as he surrounded himself with water and reinforced himself with ice as well to resist the effects of Flame Body.
"Flamethrower Punch now!" The original Paul countered. It started blowing flames on its fists to increase the heat and power of the original Fire Punch and continued to do so until Buizel got close enough. Magmortar, mid-air, countered Buizel's charging attack with the punch, and actually being hot enough to break through the ice, sending the Buizel flying into the wall of the arena.
And even with the reinforced ice, Buizel still felt the effects of Flame Body afterwards, burning him after the fact.
"Now use Rock Tomb, then Flamethrower!" Magmortar used Rock Tomb again before breaking them apart and setting them on fire, causing what was the equivalent to a mini-meteor strike.
"Use sonic boom and smash the rocks!" The clone Paul commanded, using its tail to smash through the rocks. But after doing so, he was burned again from the effects of Flame Body.
"Magmortar! Return!" The original called out, suddenly returning said Pokemon to its Pokeball.
"You realize that by doing that, you won't be able to use him again right?" The clone Paul asked.
"Well duh."
"Whatever. Do what you want."
"As if I needed permission from a garbage manifestation of counter strategy. Metagross, stand by for battle!"
A massive, robotic Pokemon with a turquoise, disc-shaped body and four legs appeared. A large metallic cross was in the center of its ace and red eyes peer out on the left and right sides of the armor.
"A Psychic type huh?" The copy Paul commented before being the first to make a move. "Use Water Gun!"
"Dodge it with Agility!" The original countered. The Metagross quickly moved around the arena, with Buizel looking around to try and keep his eyes on it.
"Water Counter Shield!" The copy Paul called out, with Buizel spinning around and using water as a barrier to protect itself from Metagross and its inevitable attack that was incoming.
Though it never came and Buizel was burned again from the effects of Flame Body as it stopped spinning. He was struggling to stand as Metagross stopped moving.
"Now use Psychic!" The original Paul called out. Metagross' eyes glowed purple before Buizel was suddenly lifted into the air and thrown onto the ground.
"Get up and use Sonic Boom with Aqua Jet!" The clone ordered. Though it took a few seconds for it to get up as it was exhausted. "What are you waiting for? Attack!"
He attempted to combine the two attacks but was barely able to put any power into it and was easily knocked out of it by a Meteor Mash from Metagross as called out by its trainer.
Buizel was on the ground, but was trying his best not to quit, even with all of the damage and the Flame Body coming into effect yet again. But it seemed as if will wasn't enough for the Paul duplicate as he gave it no command, with Buizel pleading with him from the look on his face to keep fighting all but his plea went unheard. The Paul copy all but let Metagross hit Buizel with another Meteor Mash.
"Buizel is unable to-" The ref started before he was already being returned to his Pokeball.
"Buizel return!" The Paul copy called out.
"If this is what was supposed to stop me I'm not impressed in the slightest." The original Paul said.
"You say that as if you haven't lost any lost any Pokemon yourself! Electivre, stand by for battle!" The duplicate Paul said before bringing out the Pokemon.
"Using your ace out of pure emotion. Real smart." The original Paul said sarcastically.
"Use Brick Break now!" The copy Paul called out.
"Meteor Mash!" The original Paul countered. The attacks clashed with the two cancelling each other out.
"Now use-" The Paul copy started before seeing that his other self already had his Pokeball out.
"Metagross, return!"
"What are you doing?" A mixture of confusion and annoyance in the duplicate's voice.
The original ignored the remark before choosing his next Pokemon. "Garchomp, stand by for battle!"
The Dragon pokemon returned once again, this time for a Pokemon battle.
"Giga Impact!" The duplicate commanded. Electivire charged forward at Garchomp.
Waiting for the right moment, the original called out his next attack for Garchomp. "Dragon Claw!" With one hand, Garchomp slashed at Electivire with a powerful precise hit as the attacks clashed.
Electivire was pushed back, but was nowhere close to being done.
"Draco Meteor go!" The original commanded. Garchomp charged purple energy from its mouth before preparing to send it upwards.
"Protect! Right now!" The duplicate commanded.
"Now, charge forward with the Draco Meteor!"
"What?" The duplicate had a surprised look on his face.
Garchomp, with the Draco Meteor projectiles right with him, charged headfirst into Electivire's protective barrier. Dust was seen as it collided with the barrier. Before it even cleared, Electivire was knocked back and was on one knee before it got back up.
"What kind of combination was that?" The duplicate asked.
"Something I picked up from someone I know. But it's called innovation. You should try it sometime and maybe it'll yield you better results."
"Innovation won't be enough to win you this battle. Electivire, let's go!" The duplicate said.
As the two continued their battle, two others were nearing their end. Or in Huey's case, for the third time.
"This is the third time I couldn't win. I know the ins and outs of the track now. But I still can't seem to beat him. I'm taking the best lines, everything! And I know for sure he's not. So what exactly am I missing?" Huey thought, his frustration continuing to grow.
"It's obvious. You've been unable to beat me three times already. This is all but over." Ryu concluded before going to claim his machine.
"Wait! No! Give me another one! Please!" Huey pleaded.
"Pleading isn't going to make me change my mind."
"I can beat you! I know I can! Just give me one more try!"
"I already told you to stop begging. It only makes you look weak! And in your case, it makes you look weaker than you already are."
The worst part was for Huey was that he had no way to dispute him. He's shown that he's easily one of the lowest performing members on his team, which shouldn't say much as they have seemingly been the best team so far, but that hasn't been the case recently, with both of the other teams finding their footing. Which meant that he was more than likely at risk of not only eliminating himself, but his brothers as well.
Huey had his hands on his head, frustrated as he fell to the ground.
Ryu turned back around and faced him, Dragnite Galleon in hand as he looked down at him. "Absolutely pathetic. Even your teammates put up a better fight than you did. But I suppose, it doesn't matter in the end. Losers are still losers no matter how you try to spin it. And that's what your whole team is! So what if you have your little analytics or feel for the track? That means absolutely nothing if you don't have power! And that's what you lack. That's the reason why you're not even worthy of my Dragnite devouring you. But to tell you the truth, I knew it from the beginning."
"You're saying that you already knew that I didn't even have a chance at beating you?" Huey asked, looking up at him after hearing him reveal the last statement, in utter shock.
"Not at all. At least not fully anyway. I had that sneaking suspicion because I didn't feel or smell or anything from you that seemed interesting. But I still allowed you to challenge me anyway so I could see if my suspicions were right. And they were."
"If you knew I couldn't win, then why would you do that? Why give me those multiple chances? Did you do this with the others too?"
"No. I didn't need to. They were still weak mind you, but not as weak as you. I raced you multiple times so I could get a better sense of how strong you were. And my Dragnite determined you weren't worthy." Ryu explained before he closed his eyes. "So I decided that there was no reason to race you again. It's just that simple."
"You were just using me to see if I was worth hurting like the rest of my teammates. And I'm not even worth that to you! But, I can't even say you weren't smart in what you doing. You were confident that there wouldn't be any variables that'd give me the chance to win. And unfortunately for me, you were a hundred percent accurate."
"Even with my analytics, my guidebook, my survival skills. Competing with these guys... even Kagami. He's not the brightest person at all. Not factoring in anything with his relationship with Rei, he makes up for what he lacks with pure emotion. He'll do whatever it takes to will his team to a win. And even then he still has a horizontal hangtime and vertical jump that is absolutely unheard of. This multiverse stuff. None of my plans work against these guys... I don't know what to do." Huey thought as the thought of his brothers being upset with him for being the reason they were sent home began to settle in. Along with the negative opinions that his teammates have of him along with Chris and some of the opposing team members also joining in, with the host making fun of hm and the opposing team members taunting him.
These thoughts began to swarm his head like flies. And they grew larger and larger as they surrounded him.
But from the outside looking in, no one saw this. The only thing that was seen was Huey covering his head. And he wasn't the only one. Aomine was doing it as well, with Akashi covering a part of his face, all three having their eyes closed, seemingly grimacing in pain.
"What's going on? Are those three alright?" Ruby R. asked, concerned.
"Too bad our experts aren't here." Blake commented, referring to Team JET.
"Yeah, where are those three anyway?" Isagi added.
"Maybe they're having trouble carrying all of the tasty snacks they have." Bachira commented before audibly licking his lips, thinking of the snacks before getting up. Sly and Isagi were the ones to stop him from leaving with Sly using his cane to pull him back.
"If they're having trouble, let's not have trouble hold them up any longer, alright?" Sly said before focusing his attenton back on the game. "Gotta say though, I share the feelings as everyone else even if it doesn't seem like it. I hope they're alright." He thought, even though he already knew in the back of his mind that they probably weren't, comparing the looks they had on their faces compared to the others.
A basketball was heard harmlessly bouncing on a court. Aomine was on the ground, a look of utter shock on his face as Kagami landed on the ground. And unlike the last time they played on teams, where Seirin, Kagami and Kuroko beat Aomine and Touou by 1 point, it wasn't even close. The reality was, Aomine never scored another point since being at 4. He understood losing, as much as he hated it, but the context made it more dumbfounding and embarrassing for him.
"Well, I that about wraps things u-" Kagami started before seeing the look on Aomine's face. "You okay man?"
"I don't get it..." Aomine said under his breath.
"Don't get what?"
"I did all of that training. Worked my a[censored] off like everyone wanted me to. And not only do I lose again... but for you to not even look like you were trying... I don't get it. What kind of training did you do?"
As he was about to explain, Rei ran up to Kagami and hugged him affectionately. "I saw the whole thing. You were incredible!"
"Thanks. Really?" Kagami tried to hide his rose red cheeks now but couldn't.
"Well duh. What else would I expect from someone as awesome as you?"
"Don't tell me it's some sappy BS with her." Aomine said.
"It's not just her. It's everyone. And that's the difference between me and you. As long as you still have that way of thinking you got now, you ain't ever gonna beat me again. And I mean that a hundred percent." Kagami said before turning around, holding hands with Rei. "Come on, I'll make you something. Your friends around? I'll make something for them too if they'd like."
"I'm sure Usagi would love to have your cooking again, so I'll ask." Rei replied.
Aomine was in utter disbelief at how blatant Kagami's statement about him never beating him again was.
"No way. I'm not gonna let you get away with saying something that without provin' it! I want a rematch! Now!" Aomine said, snapping out of it and running to catch up to them.
"Give it a rest man. You're tired. And I already said I'd cook for someone. I'm not gonna tick people off over a basketball game. I love the game, as much as anybody. Especially you. But there's more to life than just that. But then again, that's all you have, so you wouldn't understand."
"Are you trying to diss me with that!? Like it wouldn't be a fair game?"
"Damn it, I said give it a rest! I'm not gonna say it again!" Kagami said, anger and annoyance rising in his voice from Aomine's persistence.
Him being brushed off like this and insulted pissed Aomine off. Greatly. With his skills, he wasn't just someone that could easily just be dismissed like Kagami was doing, something he found rich as the last game they played one-on-one, Aomine beat him soundly. And before that, was the Winter Cup game where he only lost to Kagami by one point. So it wasn't as if they weren't close in skill long ago at all. It was still recent.
But it was one thing to be upset. It was another to do what he did, something that he would probably regret after the fact. He ran up and forcefully tried to grab Kagami to stop him from leaving.
But thankfully for him, the grab somehow never connected as he touched nothing but air. They were already somehow off in the distance. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief as he could have sworn that they were right in front of him. And when he did, the next thng he knew, he saw Kagami cooking, spending time, and just having a good time with several people including Kuroko, who, like always scared him and others from his sudden appearance. Even the rest of his former team from Seirin High was there.
"I hope this isn't too much for you." Kiyoshi said to him.
"It's... surprising, but I don't mind at all. Honestly, it's pretty nice. I would have never imagined something like this just for me coming back from America." Kagami replied.
"An awesome party for an awesome guy. You deserve it! A hundred percent!" Kise remarked.
"Kise? He's there too? What is this?" Aomine commented in disbelief.
"It's dooooone!" Momoi announced before coming in one of her "dishes". It was a pie that she tried to make. And while the outside looked promising, the inside was... not so much.
"Satsuki?"
"Here! I made this for you Kagamin! It just felt right for me to do." Momoi said, showing him the peach pie that she made. "Admittedly, I had to look up how to make this and made a couple of changes to make sure the test wasn't bland, so please let me know how I did."
"Uh... I'm not sure-" Kagami started, knowing firsthand about Momoi's track record for being a notoriously bad cook along with his own coach, Riko. Both of them completely outclassing Midorima's bad cooking by a mile.
"Go on! If you've got some room after eating, which I'm sure you do as you're just like Dai-chan with a bottomless stomach, then give it a try!"
"Where is Aomine anyway?" Kiyoshi asked. "Usually, all of you come in together."
"I am not sure. I tried to contact him by phone, but he hasn't responded to any of them. I even tried contacting him through text message as well. Still no response whatsoever. Even the voicemails have not garnered a response." Akashi said.
"Dude, you could have just said, I tried calling, text and leaving a voicemail and I still didn't get anything. This isn't an essay. Lighten up ya freakin' nerd." Hyuga said.
"Oh. My apologies."
"It's alright. I'm just messin' with ya. I'm not asking you to change who you were, but we're here to have fun. It's nothing too serious."
"Momoicchi, anything?" Kise asked.
"No. I tried calling, I'm not getting anything from him." Momoi said.
"Guess he's salty because Kagami here beat him." Usagi said before laughing as she was eating cake. "What a big baby."
"That's real rich coming from you." Rei remarked, sitting on a sofa.
"Seriously, you shouldn't make fun of him like that. We don't know why he hasn't attended. That's very insensitive." Ami added.
"Who cares? If he's not gonna come he's not gonna come. That's more food for me." Murasakibara remarked.
"After Ami makes that remark, you turn around and do that. How tone-deaf can you be Murasakibara?" Midorima remarked, lucky item in hand, which was a stick of deodorant.
"Leave him be." Another voice remarked. One that made his eyes widen. "His sore loser behavior is such a disgraceful act. Any criticism he receives is well-deserved." The voice being Weiss.
"But, didn't you train him?" Momoi asked.
"I did. Why?"
"So I don't understand. You spent a lot of time with him to have at least somewhat of an understanding of the person that he is."
"Momoicchi, what are you getting at here?" Kise asked.
"I guess... I just thought... maybe you'd care enough to maybe try to defend him or at least give a more justifiable explanation. I guess that was too much to expect. Sorry."
"I would if his actions were justifiable. They weren't, so there's nothing for me to defend."
"How the hell does she know? She wasn't even here!" Aomine commented out loud.
"Has he been training?" Kise asked.
"I don't even know if I should even train him anymore either. Not as if he's been fully invested in it anyway." Weiss replied.
Aomine's jaw-dropping confusion quickly turned to anger. Aomine picked up the ball and threw it at the backboard hard.
"This is how your teammates treat you. They abandoned you. They see you as weak. Mocked you. Even Weiss has left you. Doesn't seem fair does it?" A voice inside his head asked. "You want to beat Kagami and prove you're the best again don't you? Then do the same thing he did. Get stronger. Use that instinct. That power inside of you. Don't tell me that this is all the power the Ace of Aces has to offer?"
The ball flew right back at him. But instead of letting the ball hit him, he catches it, and with incredible speed, runs towards the goal.
"Harness that anger, that frustration as fuel for revenge. To get stronger. Show them who is still the unstoppable ace!"
He slams the ball into the basket so hard he rips off the goal completely, which isn't something he hasn't done before, but he's never done it as angry as he's been until now. As his eyes began to glow purple, with electricity coming out of them, growls were heard as the goalpost started to shake before it ultimately fell to the ground.
Little did he know was that someone was watching him overhead, grinning with glee. That someone being Ryu as he looked at four that he seemingly had in his grasp. Those four being Paul, Huey, Aomine and Akashi.
Although ne of them was about to break free from that grasp. Though with the results, and how he's feeling, you could argue that he was never in Ryu's grasp in the first place. That person being Paul as he had just scored the final knockout against his doppelganger's Torterra.
"Torterra is unable to battle! That means the winner of this Pokemon battle is Paul!" The referee announced, referring to the original.
His doppelganger was in shock. "I don't understand. My Pokemon were supposed to be stronger than yours!" He said.
"Your Pokemon? Give me a break. Those were never yours to begin with. You only had them in your possession." The original Paul said.
"So what's the difference?"
"The difference is, you may have those Pokemon and tell them what to do, but none of that matters if you don't have an understanding of one another. Case and point, you all but quitting on Buizel when it was still in the fight, even when it tried to let you know it still wanted to battle. It's one thing to bring them back to their Pokeball because you don't think it's a smart decision to keep them in, but you couldn't even do that."
"I don't care about your lecture!"
"Considering you just lost, you should. But then again, you're someone, or should I say something, I've already moved past. I know you're just an obstacle set up by Ryu to try to stop me. But I'm not someone that's stuck in the past, hence why I was able to beat you so easily. This battle just looked a lot closer than it actually was. Having all of the Pokemon I used exert a lot of effort on you would be a waste of time and energy. As a matter of fact, this pathetic excuse for a match was a waste of my time. So unless you've got anything better for me Ryu, I think it's about time I leave." Paul said before the next thing he knew, he snapped out of whatever strange trance he was in. He had a surprisedly look on his face for a bit before looking around and seeing that he was still in the same desolate foggy area that he was in before.
He then decided to bring out a Pokemon just to test something. "Magmortar, stand by."
And just as he had hoped, Magmortar was fine. But as the pair navigated through the area, he was suddenly joined by some of his other teammates. Or maybe he joined them. No one out of them knew for sure. But they did now know that whatever they had just experienced was now over.
"Enough of these cowardly parlor tricks Ryu! Come out and face us!" Weiss called out.
Ryu was heard chuckling before wind was seen, fully clearing out all of the fog in the area, revealing them to have been on... the island the entire time?
"I have to admit, I was expecting more of you to crumble." Ryu remarked as he appeared from the torrent of wind that was around him.
"A product of underestimating this team's willpower." Razer remarked.
"Oh, don't get confused with what I just said. That's not going to change a thing when it comes to the outcome of this. You'll all be crushed. The only difference now is Dragnite will be the one to do it."
"Then go ahead and bring it out. We're not-" Weiss started before noticing a few teammates were missing from the group. "Where's Aomine? Huey and Akashi?"
"Funny you should mention those three. They were lost, so I pointed them in the right direction." Ryu said, smiling as the three suddenly appeared beside him. Aomine and Huey had drastically different looks on their faces, with Aomine having black fur and his face resembling that of a black panther's. His eyes glowed purple and dark purple electricity came from them rather than the usual blue that came from them that indicated he was in the Zone. Huey's eyes also glowed red, his teeth were shown and he had the look of a wild animal on his face. Akashi was the only one that didn't look any different, and in his case, he returned with the rest of his team.
"Hmm... I guess I was wrong about what I sensed within you." Ryu said, referring to Akashi.
"While I am glad Akashi is okay, what did you do to Aomine and Huey?" Rook asked.
"Me? I only freed them. They made the conscious decision to want more power."
"I highly doubt that they would volunteer to be turned into what you've done to them." Weiss said.
"You say that, but think. All of you have some type of darkness in your heart. Jealousy, anger, hatred, greed, loss, grief. You all saw that in different ways I'm sure." Ryu said. "For example. Rook, your jealousy of Ben."
"Wait, Rook's jealous of me?" Ben commented, genuinely surprised.
"Although in your case, I suppose that amount of jealousy you have is very low."
"That is because I have no ill-will towards Ben and the amount of fame he receives. I completely understand that in most cases, I will be overshadowed when it comes to being known by the general public. But none of that matters. For I am grateful for the people that acknowledge me and look up to me on my home world for one. And second, fame is not what being a Plumber is about. It is about helping those in need across the galaxy. And Ben understands that first and foremost despite all of the attention that he receives. One aspect of him that I deeply respect."
"I see. And more than likely, the rest of your experiences are the same way." Ryu said before laughing as Huey and Aomine growled. "But unfortunately for you, even if you all don't have those feelings, these two are completely different. Aomine and Huey's souls are filled with frustration, which of course led to anger. Along with jealousy and hatred. Lots of it."
"In this world. In this universe, if there are winners, then there must be losers. In the light and glory of those that win, there is the shadow of tens of millions of those that have suffered defeat! Huey and Aomine know this because they have been the reasons their team couldn't win! Even with all of their effort, their hard work to try to prove themselves to the team, they still failed! And now, they know that they're in danger of being cast aside and being labeled at useless! Isn't that right Aomine? The minute Kagami caught up to you in power, he outclassed you. And what he has outside of basketball, are things that you could never hope to have! But you still want to prove that you're better than he is! Not to mention the resentment that you have towards someone else that has been willing to try to hurt your friends and teammates." Ryu added before looking at Huey.
"Poor little Huey. No powers. No abilities. And skills that are either useless or redundant! That is why your desire to defeat me was so strong! You want to prove yourself to not only your team, but to your brothers as well! Well then, with the power you have now, you'll be given that chance! But if you want that opportunity, both of you, you must first defeat them! Once you've done that, you'll have earned the right to have one final battle against me and give your team the chance to win!" This caused Huey and Aomine to growl even more as even more savage looks were on their faces.
"Make them pay for wanting to abandon you! Release that power within you! Release it!"
The same purple aura that surrounded the dark Luz and the other 3 in the Cromulons look-alike area surrounded those two.
The pair began to quickly attack their teammates, or in this case, their former teammates, with Aomine attacking with the panther claws that he had and Huey with the mallet that he still possessed. Razer, using a blue energy shield, blocked their attacks and prevented them from getting in to attack him or the others.
"Stop it! We don't want to fight you!" Weiss called out. But she was ignored as they continued to attack anyway.
"It's no use. Why would they listen to the very same people that cast them aside?" Ryu remarked.
"But we never did that. All of what you are saying is completely false!" Rook replied.
"Even so, they're far beyond them listening to us at this point. If we want them to stop, then we stop Ryu." Paul said before commanding his Magmortar to use flamethrower on his Dragnite Galleon, which it easily dodged.
"Not a bad idea trying to target me. But I think you've got two raging beasts that you need to deal with first and foremost!" Ryu said as the pair's attacks now became infused with dark energy, starting to break through Razer's shield. This even included the mallet attacks from Huey. The quick attacks from the pair, especially Aomine after being enhanced with the Zone, allowed Ryu to escape and watch from a distance.
"Heh. Now this is entertainment." Ryu commented, watching overhead, out of the way of the combat.
"That coward! Why doesn't he just fight them himself instead of turning people against each other?" Natsu commented.
"This is what he does." Shiro said, returning along with the rest of Team JET and the others that left, actually having a bottle of water himself along with a bag of dried fruit.
"Shiro, you're back!" Julie said, relieved to see him okay.
"I'm fine. There's no need to worry about me anymore. Those two are who we should be worried about." Shiro said, referring to Aomine and Huey as they continued to relentlessly attack the others.
"So what do they have to do to get rid of his mind control?" Hinata asked.
"This doesn't look like mind control to me. If anything, they gave in to it." Jotaro remarked.
"That's exactly it. As harsh as that sounds, for them to be like this, there had to have been something within them to make them this way." Shiro began to explain.
"So all of those things Ryu said about their frustration and anger. All of that is true?" Diana asked.
"I'm not sure what he said exactly, since everything that occurred was mentally, but probably." Even if whatever he said wasn't a hundred percent true, it's"
"Which means everything he said about the others was true too. He tried to get Rook and everyone else as well." Ben said.
"And I'm guessing it didn't work." Diego said after eating a powdered donut from the bag he had as he continued to watch the battle. "More than likely because there wasn't enough there for it to."
"You mean negative emotions, right?" Maki guessed.
"Yeah. The same time he got to Taiga the second time was the same time he tried to make me fight too. But I refused. I remember Ryu said it was because I didn't have a lot of anger within me. Everyone has negative emotions. That's just natural. Even if it's just grief or sadness. The problem is when you let those emotions cloud your judgement. And Ryu doesn't do them any favors."
"But none of us would have been upset with him. Too much." Louie said.
"Are you trying to be helpful or hurtful? Because I really can't tell." Dewey asked.
"Look, all I'm saying is he's putting way too much thought into something that I'm sure half of us probably never even thought about."
"That's the thing. Even if you didn't say it, it's what he thinks. It's Ryu that'll exploit that and amplify those thoughts." Diego said.
"And I thought curses could get bad. Imagine what Ryu could be like if he ever was around where I'm from." Maki commented.
Rook nets Huey. But to his surprise, he was able to actually tear the net open and was about to pounce on him again had Penny not wrestled him to the ground. But he bit her face before pouncing on her.
Aomine relentlessly slashed at Razor, Akashi and Weiss and was able to keep up with them all, being faster than he's ever been thanks to the dark energy that he now had that strengthened the effects of the Zone. He was even able to contend with the blade construct that Razer had thanks to his claws.
"I know how convincing it would seem, but rage is not the answer Aomine!" Razer said after he was able to acrobatically dodge attacks from Weiss.
"Why wouldn't it be? Thanks to his anger, he's been able to tap into his animal instincts, and fully unlock his potential! Those same beasts and competitors he could never hope to fight, now he can contend with!" Ryu remarked just as Huey swung hard enough to knock away Garchomp as he had joined Magmortar in battle.
"The same goes to Huey! Doesn't seem like he's messing up now is he?" Ryu added before laughing.
"I don't understand. Why can't they just attack the source? If they do that, then problem solved!" Courtney commented.
"More than likely it probably isn't him. For all we know, the island they're on could be something Ryu created as an illusion again." Hanamiya said.
"Draco Meteor!" Paul commanded. The Draco Meteor rained above, with both Huey and Aomine being forced to have to shield themselves from it.
Paul then commanded Magmortar to punch both of them with a flame-fisted punch.
"We should be trying to get them back to their senses, not hurt them!" Weiss said.
"Thinking like that will be the reason why we'll lose. Dragon Claw, now!"
Before the slash connected, Weiss blocked the Pokemon's path with a glyph, knocking it down.
"What are you doing?" Paul said, not happy that she interfered.
"It's one thing to try and convince them to come back and defend yourself, but it's another to have the intention of hurting them."
"It's too bad they don't feel the same way, isn't it?"
This gave Huey and Aomine the chance they needed to recover and go back to attacking the others.
"Believe me, if there was a way to purge them of whatever Ryu has done to them, that would be our first choice. But until then, we have no other options. And neither do I. I may not be a fighter, but I must defend myself!" Aomine said before a red glowing outline appeared in both of his red eyes, indicating that he had just activated his Emperor's Eye.
"Purge them... that's it! I need you to group them together!" Razer called out to the others.
"What are you going to do?" Weiss asked.
"Exactly what you want. But they need to be grouped together so I can get both of them at the same time."
"Considering their mental state, I personally do not believe we have that many alternatives." Penny noted.
"Well then, what are waiting for?" Rook said before they all, with the exception of Razer, all tried to do just as Razer asked of them.
"Looks like Akashicchi definitely means it." Kise commented.
"How do you know that?" Isagi asked. "Other than what he just said, but, that still might not mean much."
"It's not what he said, it's what he just did. He's using the Emperor Eye now."
"So he has finally decided to get serious then. Interesting." Sebastian said.
"Questions is, will it be enough?" Kise thought.
Huey came swinging at him, but Akashi was able to dodge the attack easily before grabbing onto the mallet to try and pull it away from him. While it looked as if he was going to pull it away easily, Huey was able to actually pull it back and overpower him. Although this caught Akashi off guard, he was still able to dodge the next attack.
"I hope you know what you're doing." Paul said to Razer.
"I hope so as well." Razer admitted. Something that didn't exactly assure Paul of anything. But he decided to take the risk and put some trust in a teammate that has been fairly reliable so far. He pulls out another Pokeball. "Metagross, stand by for battle!"
"Now Magmortar and Garchomp, grab the both of them!" Paul commanded.
He waited for the perfect time before calling out a command to Metagross.
Akashi dodged a couple of other attacks before Huey's wild attacks overwhelmed him, knocking him to the ground. But before any real damage could be done, Magmortar grabbed him.
Though Aomine seemed to have been a different beast altogether, no pun intended. And it looked as if he was getting faster as time went on. He disarmed Rook before hitting him in the chest, which was actually strong enough to actually go through his armor. Before he could attack him again, Weiss sent a warning attack by sending fire his way, forcing him to have shield himself.
"We are not your enemy. Plea-" The next thing she knew, Aomine pounced on her. He used his mouth to forcibly take her Myrtenaster away from her before he relentlessly slashed at her. Garchomp tried to grab onto him but his instincts caused him to be able to marginally dodge the grab attempt.
"This is exactly why we should have taken him out earlier. Now he's becoming even more of a problem." Paul commented. "Do what you have to do to help Huey." He said to Razer.
Razer wanted to argue with him but realized that he wasn't exactly in a good position to do so and only nodded, containing Huey in a blue protective field, this time, concentrating more energy from his ring to try and stop him from breaking out. Though Flame Body also helped with this as well periodically.
"You're frustrated. You don't think you have much to contribute to this team. But that couldn't be further from the truth!" Razer said before showing Huey images of hope with the power of his blue ring. The images that he saw were thing that he has done in the season so far to contribute positively to his team's success, which included helping create the brooms for the broom racing event. And even his persistence in the World Martial Arts Tournament battle he had.
These images made Huey hold his head in pain before the purple energy that surrounded him was lifted from him, returning to normal. But, it was at the cost of him now being unconscious. Seconds later, he was brought back into the aftermath set.
The first thing Doyle and Heloise did was check on him.
"Before you ask, he's completely fine. Just unconscious. He'll wake up eventually." Heloise said.
"Thank goodness." Louie said with Dewey giving a sigh of relief.
"Metagross! Use Agility!" Paul commanded. Aomine caught sight of Metagross and tried to attack him with his speed, but compared to the others, it was hard for him to keep up with the Pokemon's constant movements around him, which only made him growl in frustration.
"Garchomp! Stone Edge! And Magmortar, use Rock Tomb!"
Garchomp slammed his tail on the ground to create blue stones below. Magmortar added on with his own rocks. While Aomine was able to dodge the rocks, it wasn't easy and it slowed him down a bit, which was exactly what Paul was hoping for. "Now Metagross! Use psychic!" Metagross's eyes glowed purple before he picked up Aomine off the ground and held him in place before tossing him to the ground hard.
"Penny! Hold him!" Paul called out. Penny, using her strength, was able to get Aomine into a hold that locked him in place. Even though he tried his hardest to get free. Which was no longer an issue as Razer enclosed him in a barrier as well.
"I know you're angry Aomine. But Ryu is clouding your mind. Your judgement." Razer said. He began to connect with Aomine's soul and began to project images of hope personal to Aomine, which included his friends along with his teammates at Touou.
"Are you really going to let this weakling cage you? Don't you want to face me? Prove yourself? Because I don't see it! You've broken through once before. You can do it again!" Ryu said in Aomine's head. "You're an unstoppable wild beast that can't be contained! No one can stop you! Not Kagami, no one! Not even someone that wields powerful weapons such as Razer! Remember that!"
This caused Aomine to resist the same cleansing that Huey went through, attempting to slash at the barrier again along with slashing away the images of Kuroko, Momoi, Kise and the others that appeared, yelling and growling louder as he did.
"If you're really as unstoppable as you've claimed you are in that song you sung on the talent show, then someone like Ryu should not be able to influence your mind!" Razer said aloud.
"With that logic, you shouldn't have any influence on him either. You want to call out my hypocrisy when you're prying into his soul too!" Ryu bellowed from above.
The minute Aomine slashed away at the image of Weiss was the minute the real one spoke up. "Then let him make his own decision!" Weiss stated, hurt with a slash across her face and arms, something that he noticed.
This statement made Ryu frown as he looked down at Weiss with contempt.
"What are you saying?" Razer asked.
"If he really is uncaged as you say he is then let him go. No more tugs of war on his mind, his spirit. From both of you."
"You're only saying that so you can get your hands on him. So you can use him against me." Ryu said. "You see? They see your power and now they want to use you because of it! She and the others could care less about you! I gave you a fair shot at battling me! A fair opportunity that this team never gave you!" He added, speaking to Aomine again.
"The same way you don't care about him! If I'm wrong, then you'll stop influencing him. But you won't. Proving how much more of a coward you are."
Aomine looked up at Ryu, growling at him now.
"Fine. But let me ask you something. And I want you to answer truthfully. Do you think what I said about Huey and Aomine was a hundred percent a lie? You really thought I went through the effort to make all of that up?"
"So what? Even if some of it is true, it doesn't change the fact that you still used them for your own benefit. If you really believe they're strong enough to challenge you like you're telling them, why not get it out of the way now? Why have them fight us first? It's because you're really afraid of us. So you're hoping we took each other out." Paul said.
"Afraid of you? Don't make me laugh."
"Even with Aomine and Huey as they are now?"
Ryu frowned. He knew that Paul had got him there.
"Enough of this. What are you going to do Aomine?"
Aomine looked at Weiss and all of the others.
Aomine growled and pointed a black-furred finger at Ryu.
"So, you want to challenge me now? Okay then. Come on!" Ryu said before he landed on the ground, the real him this time. He then pulled out his Dragnite Galleon and set it on the ground. Something that Aomine clearly didn't like and made the swiping gesture with his hands, showing that he still had some sense of intelligence.
"Fine then." Ryu said before pulling out his scan card from his pouch before swiping the card across the machine. "Scan one!" The power stone glowed blue. Aomine swiped again with Ryu scanning it again. "Scan two!"
The power stone on the machine then glowed red. Dragnite Galleon then revved up. "GO!"
Both the machine and Aomine went at one another. He slashed at Dragnite but it dodged.
"This is gonna hurt!" Ryu said, charging an energy blast from one of its mouths before firing. It almost hit Aomine but he was able to dodge it. He slashed and knocked the machine back before it began to recover.
"If I were them, I'd attack him now." Eliza commented as their battle continued.
"Oh yeah, I definitely agree." Heather said.
"That's not gonna happen." Kagami said.
"Oh? Explain." Eliza said.
"Weiss promised that Aomine could do what he wants. He didn't say it, obviously, but I think he wants to challenge Ryu by himself, without help." Ruby R. said.
"Doesn't matter what he wants. It's about the team winning." Heather said.
"But it matters to him. Not defending his actions whatsoever, but despite his looks, as he's already shown, his mind's not all gone. If his teammates step in to try to help him, if he does come back to normal, it's not going to be something that'll sit well with him for a while." Jotaro said.
"It's still stupid regardless. What kind of macho honor crap is that!? If his teammates want to help him, then let them do it! And another thing... why aren't any of them stepping in to stop this nonsense!?" Courtney said.
"Because of the reason Jotaro just said. Weren't you listening at al-" Kise started before Courtney let him have it.
"I HEARD WHAT HE SAID AND I DON'T CARE!"
"WELL YOU DON'T HAVE TO YELL! WAY TO BE RUDE!"
"WILL BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!?" Fiona yelled.
Aomine landed another hit. "That all ya got?" Ryu taunted before sending tremors across the ground with his machine, causing Aomine to stumble a bit, so he actually, for the first time, decided to run on all four like a real panther and pounce on his prey, which was Dragnite. He grabbed the machine in his mouth. But strangely, Ryu wasn't worried.
"Hmph." Ryu said, smirking. Suddenly, purple energy began to form from one of Dragnite's mouths before it shot in the air similar to the Draco Meteor attack. Aomine quickly tossed away the machine into the air. But not long after, the energy rained down from above. Aomine tried to avoid all of the shots, but there were just too many and he was overwhelmed.
"Aomine!" Weiss and several of his other teammates called out.
Suddenly, something was seen in the sky above. It was Dragnite. The problem was that there were multiple somethings.
"Are those..." Rook started.
"Meteorites! Electivire! Use protect!" Paul called out.
He and Razer, with the latter trying to protect as many as he could, put up shields to protect their teammates as the meteorites rained down. The amount of meteorites that rained down crushed the shields that were put up, damaging Electivire in particular. But even with that, wincing in pain, it was able to slowly stand back up.
"What was that? That attack could have hit all of us!" Weiss said before Ryu laughed.
"So what? Collateral damage. Why put off something for later that you could do now?" Ryu remarked.
"Why do I personally have this intuition that you weren't being truthful about battling Aomine alone?" Penny said.
"Oh I was still going to do it. But considering what just happened, none of that matters anymore." Ryu said before Dragnite Galleon's stone changed to purple again. Even more meteorites were seen, forcing them all to have to shield themselves again. And this was the strike that caused Electivire's demise. Though in his case, he wasn't able to be brought back into his Pokeball. He was immediately sent into the same void that appeared when Bren was defeated.
Aomine saw this and growled angrily at Ryu.
"What? Are you really upset over losing one of those pathetic creatures? Oh I see. It's because I attacked the others isn't it? Like I said, why does it matter? You were all going to fall before me regardless, so why not do it now? I already honored your little request anyway and you showed me that you couldn't beat me."
"That's a bold assumption to make when he was able to keep up with you." Weiss said.
"Don't be ridiculous. That wasn't even close to my machine's full speed. Or its full power. I gave him a chance and he couldn't even lay a scratch on its paintjob!" This was a statement that shocked Aomine.
"If that's the case then we have every right to step in. But what did you do to Electivire?" Paul asked, upset that his Pokemon never returned to him.
"That weakling? I sent him into the void of despair! But don't worry, you'll get to join him. Right now!" Ryu declared before the purple aura around him expanded as he charged more energy. Purple lightning was seen before a large light purple sphere made up of dark energy appeared where the lightning was.
The bright light caused the remaining Kings to shield their eyes. Lightning started to strike in the immediate vicinity of all of them.
Everyone, including Paul's Pokemon, were starting to come off the ground. Razer tried to pull himself and the others away, but the pull was too strong.
"What's going on?" Weiss said.
"Gravity seems to no longer be a factor. That sphere is what is causing it!" Penny said.
"Magmortar! Use flamethrower to attack the spear!" Paul commanded. Rook and the others also tried the same thing, but Weiss and Rook's weapons were being pulled away from them.
And the flames were sent away. "It's no use! You'd best just run! But to where, I don't know!" Ryu said before laughing maniacally.
"Is this really it? What are they going to do?" Dewey said, hands on his head.
"There's nothing they can do." Myron said grimly. "Just like most other machines, Dragnite has a specialty or strength. And in its case, its specialty is controlling gravity. What Ryu created was a dark gravitational sphere. It'll pull them all in. And once they make contact..."
"What!? What's going to happen!?" Courtney asked.
"That's it. From the looks of how big that sphere is, there's a lot of energy there. Most of them, if any, especially with the damage they've already taken from Huey and Aomine, aren't going to survive that attack. It'll be a miracle if the island is still left." Jotaro concluded with Myron silently nodding to confirm his conclusions. "Unless..."
"Don't you're going to go somewhere else like before. The second you hit this, it'll be your destruction!" Ryu said before laughing again.
Paul closed his eyes before ultimately issuing the command. Knowing that he had no choice for them to ultimately stand a chance. "Garchomp! Fly-"
"No need. I will do it." Penny said before activating her thrusters to fly closer to the sphere.
"Penny?" Weiss said before realizing what she was doing. "NO, YOU CAN'T!"
"For my friends and my team to have a chance, one of us must provide that chance. I am the most suitable for that task." Penny said. "Good luck fellow Kings!" She said before saluting and flying into the sphere. The second she touched it, an explosion was seen that knocked all of them back, even ruining some of the island along with it.
When the dust settled, Penny was nowhere to be seen as the others were now on the ground, getting up. Thankfully for Rook and Weiss, their weapons were on the ground as well.
"That changes nothing!" Ryu said before getting Dragnite to charge another attack from its middle mouth, gathering blue electrical energy from it.
"That's what you think. Metagross! Psychic, let's go!" Paul commanded. Metagross picked up the machine before slamming it into the ground multiple times.
"Attack him now!" Razer said before everyone used some of their strongest ranged attacks on the machine, with Magmortar also using Flamethrower and Garchomp using Draco Meteor. A large explosion was seen from the powerful attacks.
"Now that had to have damaged him." Isagi said confidently.
"Oh yeah. Way to celebrate something that should have been done the beginning the guy showed up. You had a 1-v-whatever and you took this long to gang up on him." Todd said before sarcastically clapping.
"I highly doubt it." Shiro said.
"Who turned you into a negative Nancy since you came back?" Rex said.
"Just watch and you'll see why."
Dragnite's right mouth was open and sucked in the remaining aftermath left from the attacks, with no damage seen on the machine whatsoever.
"Not even a scratch!?" Paul said in disbelief.
"It absorbed our attacks!" Razer said.
"Now, seek and destroy!" Ryu commanded before sending out a dark ball of energy from its from its middle mouth, which was a micro-black hole bomb. A shot was sent into the air before it split again.
"Above us! Take evasive action!" Rook called out. Everyone tried to scatter to get away from the shots, but it was useless.
"Garchomp! Fly into the air to get away from the bomb! Then descend and use Dragon Claw!" Paul said.
"You can run all you want. While Dragnite absorbed your pathetic excuses of attacks, it locked on to all of you with its targeting system! If you thought the last attack was going to finish you, then this attack certainly will!" Ryu said. "And as for that Garchomp of yours, attacking the bombs does nothing!"
Paul looked back. It was starting to show on his face the look of horror in the fact that he couldn't get away. And that was when Magmortar and Metagross both stepped in to take both their and Paul's projectile. They yelled in pain from the hit before a portal appeared again and were sucked into it.
And the same thing happened to Aomine and Akashi in an attempt to protect Rook and Weiss. Razer was knocked to the ground after the attacked broke through his shield.
Before any of them could take time to take in what happened, Ryu laughed.
"Do you really think these self-sacrifices are going to actually do something? It's only changing how I'll destroy you! As a matter of fact, you don't get even that luxury! I'll just do it again!"
Dragnite began to charge up for the same attack.
"SHUT UP!" Weiss lashed out before trying to attack him again, using a time dilation glyph to speed herself up and attack Dragnite directly. All of which did nothing to it after she was exahausted.
"Are you finished yet?" Ryu said. She simply stood there. Even if she didn't say it, she was exhausted, energy-wise and option wise.
"If their direct attacks aren't damaging it, and it can absorb projectiles, what are they supposed to do?" Rex asked.
Before anyone could respond, Paul was heard.
"Now! Garchomp!" Paul called out. Garchomp descending back down to the ground.
"What?" Ryu said.
"Attack Dragnite's stone!" Paul commanded.
The Pokemon hit Dragnite perfectly, hitting its Power Stone and actually cracking it.
"You insolent little-!"
"Judging by the reaction of yours, looks like my plan worked." Paul said, a bit of a smile on his face which quickly went away when Dragnite started to have purple flames around it as Ryu had suddenly become said flames, a mouth, red eyes and same purple diamond from before still being seen. He then cried out in pain.
"So he figured it out." Shiro said, a similar smile on his face as well.
"That's all they had to do? Attack the stone? Why couldn't have Weiss or Aomine have done that?" Ruby R. asked.
"Because, it needed to have been a direct hit. Nothing else would have worked. As you've already seen, ranged attacks are useless against Dragnite Galleon, since he can simply absorb them all. So closed ranged attacks are your only hope. The problem is having an attack that's strong enough to affect it." Myron said.
"But if that's the case, isn't that a weakness for your machines too?" Asta asked.
"Not exactly. The Power Stones were made to be almost indestructible. So damaging it is almost never an issue when it's not in use or minimal power is used such as for turbo boosts. Except when its power is being tapped into for things like special attacks or moves. And even then, the attack still needs a great bit of power to even crack the stone, let alone destroy it. This was the same method that Dradd used to beat him in the final race of the Championship Gran Prix." Myron said, showing them footage of Dradd's brown, with red and yellow lines outlining it, Jape attacking Dragnite Galleon from above.
"JUNGLE SKY BOMBER! IMPACT!" Dradd declared in the footage. Jape hit Dragnite Galleon, and although it couldn't be seen because of how far it was, cracked Dragnite Galleon's stone.
"It doesn't seem like much, but the fall increased the impact of the attack. And that's what made the difference between both attacks being strong enough to succeed or fail." Rex said.
"But how? I don't get how that could change anything." Asta asked.
"The faster the fall speed and the greater the distance, the more damage the attack will do because of the compounding force. Simple physics." Myron said.
Asta was still confused. "Can you explain that in another way? I'm sorry, but I'm still confused."
"You and me both dude." Natsu said.
"Think about if you fall off a building compared to if you fell off a couple of boxes. What do you think will hurt more?" Becky B. proposed.
"The building, right?"
"Correct! The same thing applies here, except the pain is transferred to Dragnite instead of Garchomp or Jape. If that makes sense."
"I think I kinda get it. So, what about Kagami's meteor jam with Puss?"
"Same concept. Puss wouldn't have had the speed to be able to keep up with Jotaro's throw or cause so much pain to Todd if he wasn't that high."
"Yeah, don't remind me of that." Todd said. "I couldn't even sit down right to play games or watch TV for the whole day. Also, can he stop yelling and go away already?"
Ryu was still yelling in pain. "This can't be! HOW COULD I LOSE TO THIS PATHETIC TRAAAAAAASH!?" A large explosion was seen that blew away Paul and everyone else.
When the dust cleared, Garchomp was gone along with Ryu with everyone standing up to regain their bearings. Only a crater was seen. Paul closed his eyes. While he was relieved to have beaten Ryu, he lost four Pokemon in the process.
"It is finally over." Rook said.
"Please tell me Aomine is back to normal. And that Bren and Paul's Pokemon and Monsuno are okay." Weiss said.
But there was no portal in sight.
"Something is wrong. Why hasn't a portal appeared?" Razer said.
A purple light was seen, shining in the area where the explosion was.
"No..." Weiss said.
Like a phoenix from the ashes, Dragnite was seen rising from the crater, dark energy surrounding it as it did.
Ryu was heard laughing again, though he was nowhere to be found before he reappeared once again, the dark energy manifesting into Ryu's body.
"I thought you said they destroyed his power stone!?" Eliza said to Myron, trying her hardest to hold in her anger.
"I never said they destroyed it, he only cracked it!" Myron corrected her.
"Regardless, he should be gone! Why is he still here!?"
"It's that dark energy. Ryu must have gotten strong enough to be able to gain regeneration like he did the last time it evolved." Shiro said.
"You had us celebrating for nothing!?" Heather said to Myron.
"Look, I wasn't a hundred percent sure so I wasn't going to say anything!" Myron said.
"You've got it all wrong. It's not because Dragnite evolved. Not in the slightest. Don't you remember?" Diego asked.
"So what is then?" Heather asked.
"In short, it's because of a lot of us. Our negative emotions."
"You and your machine were gone! W-what kind of monster are you!?" Weiss said to Ryu, still in disbelief that he was able to survive that explosion when he was gone.
"Monster? I am the child of a black hole, sent to consume and banish all into the abyss. I suppose... you could say that is my reason to race!" Ryu said before having a maniacal look on his face as he smiled. "DESTRUCTION! DESTRUCTION! DESTRUCTION! THAT IS WHAT I SEEK! LOVE, PASSION, HOPE, DREAMS, ALL USELESS EMOTIONS THAT ARE THROWN INTO THE VOID OF DARKNESS! And what remains... IS HATRED, DESPAIR, ANGER, JEALOUSY, GREED, GRIEF! NOTHING MORE! That is what feeds me! As long as those exist, I will never fall!" Ryu shouted before laughing maniacally.
Paul simply closed his eyes, seemingly the only one that had no visible reaction to Ryu's declaration. "Nice speech. But... all of that's useless info if you can't even beat us." Paul said.
"Oh don't worry, that'll happen very soon." Ryu said before the purple gem in his forehead shined as he pointed upwards into the sky. The moon above them was suddenly red.
"A red moon?" Razer commented. "What did you do?"
"You see, thanks to all of the hated, despair, anger and grief that I've gathered prior, including from your fallen comrades, the countdown of destruction begins! But unfortunately, I don't exactly have enough to move it as fast as I'd like. But once I crush you, I'll have all the power I need to accelerate the process and destroy this planet! And just think... All of that despair, loss! It will make such a great feast and fill me with power! And I will become the ultimate black hole and consume everything! But first, let's increase that despair shall we?"
The gem in Ryu's head shined a bright purple light.
"This... is my FULL POWER! HAAAAAA AHHH!" Ryu shouted, charging more energy within himself, with Dragnite following suit as it began to transform. Not only did it increase in size, now being tall enough to match some of the remaining four's heights, but it also sprouted dark wings, its left and right heads expanded, making them similar to a hydra's heads. It also had mechanical arms that each had two yellow swords in each of them. After its transformation completed, the machine actually roared out loud like a real dragon.
"I don't remember that form being that big." Fiona said.
"It must have been from all the power it absorbed from those it eliminated compared to the council and all of Ryu's other opponents, Zero included. Other than that, I honestly can't give a rational explanation for why that happened." Myron said.
"Behold! The true form of my fearsome Dragnite Galleon!" Ryu declared. "Now what will you do?"
"We'll just simply have to beat you again! And this time, make sure you stay beaten! Gyarados! Stand by for battle!" Paul called out, using one of his two remaining Pokemon. "Hyper Beam!"
"Wait! It'll just absorb the attack!" Rook called out.
"Two can play at that game." Ryu said before charging energy from all three mouths. The beams collided. "Now meet your end!"
Razer also joined in, using red energy now. Against his better judgement, Rook also joined in.
"If you win, it'll be the end of everything! I will not let that happen!" Razer said, putting more of his rage into the ring, pushing back Dragnite's energy, to Ryu's surprise.
"There's nothing you can do to stop it from happening!" Ryu said as Dragnite used even more of its power to push back the beam.
"As long as we are standing, there is always hope!" Razer said before pushing the beam back once again, using even more power from his red ring and now his blue ring, overpowering Ryu.
Although it didn't absorb the attack, it was definitely staggered from it. Seeing this, Rook hit him with missiles, staggering Dragnite even more. Seeing this,Weiss mustered up any strength she had left to assist by firing fireballs at it as well.
"You're gonna have to do better than that!" Ryu said as Dragnite either evaded or blocked the additional missiles and fireballs with its swords.
Afterwards, it roared again, with Ryu using one of his unused turbo boosts to try and quickly advance and swipe at them with Dragnite's Swords.
"Gyarados! Dodge it!" Paul commanded. Along with the others, Gyarados dodged the attempted attacks along with the blasts it simultaneously sent.
"Stand still! It'll be quicker that way!" Ryu said.
"Ice Fang!"
Gyarados wrapped around Dragnite. "What?"
The machine was constantly damaged.
"Everyone! Attack it now!" Razer said. A second wave of attacks were unleashed on the machine, with Weiss and Razer using close ranged attacks on it. The attacks overwhelmed Dragnite, as it was unable to attack back with its swords.
"I win when you're all gone! NOW DISAPPEAR!" Ryu shouted, the purple gem in his head glowing again before Dragnite used its arms and its left and right heads to attack and break free. It even used its middle head to blast Gyarados off. The charged blast being strong enough to send it into the void, leaving Paul with one last Pokemon.
Weiss was struggling to get up after that hit.
"It's hopeless. We can't beat him. Even our strongest attacks can't stop him." Weiss thought.
Any damage Dragnite had sustained was immediately negligible.
"This is getting us nowhere!" Paul said. He wasn't willing to quit, but he was getting annoyed that any real damage they did meant nothing seconds later.
"At the very least, our attacks are effective, but we need something that he simply cannot recover from!" Rook said.
"Well then, I'm open to suggestions." Paul said.
"Good luck finding one!" Ryu said before Dragnite attacked them again, with Razer, Rook and Dragnite's swords clashing.
There was something in Weiss' mind telling her to just close her eyes and rest. "What attacks? We tried basically everything. And exhausted our assists. I don't- wait." Her eyes suddenly snapped open. "That's it!" She remembered that their team had one more assist remaining.
"I don't know what you have, but I'm confident it'll be good enough!" Weiss said before choosing someone for their assist. That someone being Ben again.
"Stubborn fools!" Ryu said before charging up more energy. "NO MORE GAMES!" Dragnite began to send a large tsunami of dark energy forward. "This time, there will be no self-sacrifices to save you! This attack will consume every last one of you!" Ryu said before having a borderline unhinged laugh.
"No time for jokes. This time he's gone. For good." Ben selects a form. In his case, choosing Atomix, an alien with a humanoid robotic appearance and has a green and white body with large cylinders on his arms near his wrists that are full of green energy. The same energy is on his Omnitrix-shaped chest. His pointed head also had the same green energy at the top.
"I think not!" Atomix said before standing in front of the tsunami.
"Oh yeah?" Ryu said as the large tsunami began to consume the island.
"Absolutely! Razer, shield the others!" Atomix requested with the dual lantern doing just that. "HAA-MEE-NA HAA-MEE-NA HAA-MEE-NA HAA-MEE-NA HAA-MEE-NA!" Atomix created a ball of green nuclear energy that completely destroyed the tsunami as an explosion was seen.
"You stopped it!" Ryu said.
"And now, I will stop you!" Atomix declared before flying right into Dragnite, going right into the sky.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"Following my partner's suggestion!"
The next thing both of them knew, they were now in space.
"I think he's about to push him to..." Kaz started as the pair were approaching the heart of the solar system. Ryu, spirit infused with his machine, looked back to see it. Beads of sweat were starting to appear on his face from annoyance and as much as he wouldn't admit it, horror of what could potentially happen to him if he were to be pushed in.
"Why you... you wouldn't dare!" Ryu said.
"Oh this is no dare." Atomix said, continuing to push him towards the sun.
"You really think I'm going to just let that happen!?" Ryu said before Dragnite's power stone glowed purple again, tapping into more power as it slammed down on Atomix with its arms. It then used its flight to fly towards him and punch him back.
"HAAAAAAA!" Ryu cried out with Dragnite and Atomix flying at another to punch each other with the punches colliding.
"See if you can take this!" Ryu declared before charging an even larger black hole bomb.
Atomix, seeing this, allowed Dragnite to overpower him. "Very interesting. Now try this! HAA-MEE-NA HAA-MEE-NA HAA-MEE-NA HAA-MEE-NA HAA-MEE-NA!"
"DISAPPEAR!" Ryu said as the dark energy ball went towards Atomix instead of splitting. Atomix sent forward an even stronger atomic bomb. The balls collided. The force of the explosion so great that both of them were sent flying. The impact could even be slightly felt on Mercury. Ryu was close, but it wasn't quite enough.
"I am... tired. But I must stop you!" Atomix said.
"Then if you're tired... let the soothing comfort of Darkness put you to sleep! FOREVER!" Ryu declared before charging energy blasts to finish off the exhausted Atomix.
"It is this battle that will be put to rest!" Atomix said before using any ounce of strength he had left for one last gasp, dodging the energy blasts from all three mouths.
"Why don't you just give up and fall!?" Ryu said before shooting more blasts, getting annoyed at the constant persistence.
Atomix got to Dragnite and with both of his fists, sent him into the sun. "No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Ryu screamed out.
Dragnite, and by extension Ryu, were both completely obliterated by the searing heat of the sun.
The Omnitrix was on the verge of reverting him back to normal. But right as it did, Ben was enclosed in a force field by Razer, who joined him.
"Thanks. I think I'm done. That was way harder than that had any right to be." Ben said, exhausted.
"I think it's time we all get some rest." Razer said.
"Why is the moon still red? It should have reverted." Rook asked as he, Paul and Weiss were still back on Earth on the ground. The moon was still moving closer and closer to earth.
Chuckling was heard. "Destroy! Consume! Drown everything in darkness!" A demonic voice was heard.
"Impossible." Razer said.
"You just couldn't leave well enough alone could you?" Weiss said to Rook, a horrified look on her face.
Dark red dragons were seen surrounding the sun before Ryu's face, now nothing but pure dark energy with red eyes and a mouth, was seen directly on the sun.
"You have got to be kid-" Ben started before he was back on the set. His time was up. Which meant that the Kings were officially out of assists.
"I have to thank you! This is just brilliant! If I can absorb the sun, there is nothing that can stop me! And once the moon crashes onto the Earth, the hatred, sorrow, grief and despair that comes from it, will be more than enough power to do just that! But admittedly, even with the fact that I was able to unlink my conscience and spirit from Dragnite to revert to my true form at the last second, it won't mean much. At best, I only bought myself extra time before I still burn out. And changing to the form that you saw before is instant death. But I think it'll be more than enough time for the moon to hit the Earth and it won't even matter! And the best part is, because of the fact that I am nothing but pure dark energy, you can't touch me, or get close enough to the sun to try to and risk yourselves, so there really is nothing you can do to stop me now!" Ryu said before actually performing an unhinged laugh this time.
"Energy can be absorbed. The problem is, I don't think any of them are capable of doing that." Myron said.
"Their only other option of beating him now is by doing the same thing we did." Kaz said.
"Which is?" Sly asked.
"Hold back the moon long enough for Ryu to burn out." Shiro answered. An answer that left multiple people dumbfounded.
"In other words, do the impossible. Got it."
"Hey, don't be so negative. If we can do it, they can do it too!" Diego said.
"This is VR right Chris? RIGHT!?" Heather asked.
"Not confirming or denying yet." Chris said.
"Alright, I've been wanting to hold back from saying this because this is pretty strong, but Chris is officially insane." Fiona said.
"It took you that long to figure that out?" Courtney asked.
"Like I said, I really wanted to hold back from saying it."
"What's wrong? Where's your hope now!? If you're going to put up some putrid attempt to stop me, better do it now, because you're going to be missing a planet soon!" Ryu taunted Razer.
Considering how the others are unable to breathe in space, Razer was the only one that could stop it. So he used all of the energy he had to attempt to stop the moon. But it didn't make much of a difference. And as time passed, his blue ring only got weaker as his hope decreased.
"Come on! You can do it! Push harder! Put your back into it!" Ryu taunted before laughing.
As much as Ryu was joking, Razer couldn't stop him.
"Do not give up!" Rook called out as he and his other teammates all wore their space suits to join him.
"After all we've done, we're not going to let that effort go to waste." Paul said as he and his Torterra also joined.
"Mark my words, you will not get away with this Ryu!" Weiss said.
All five tried to push back, but it was still useless.
"A touching speech. Too bad it doesn't give you any extra strength!" Ryu said as the moon grew closer to Earth.
"Is he really going to win?" Weiss said.
"Darn it! We need more power!" Paul said.
"Don't tell me you're struggling now." A voice different from all of theirs said.
"You made it this far and now you wanna give up? Come on, get your heads up!" Another voice said, familiar to all of them as it was from the talent show.
"We're not going to let Ryu win. Not if we can help it." Another voice said.
"By my word as a king, we will protect Earth!" A fourth voice said.
"On my word as a Galactic Federation Officer, your evil days end here Ryu!" A fifth said.
Four Scan2Go machines were seen in space, now alongside them. One was yellow with silver drills at the front. The second was red with a mechanical tail with the front resembling that of a scorpion's. The third was the same machine that was seen in the footage Myron showed them. The fourth was white and blue with purple accents at the front. Retractable tentacles were seen on the sides. And the fifth was a purple car with two detachable sonic cannons on top.
"Taiga! Antares! Dradd, Kraken and Jack!" Kaz said, genuinely surprised to see his fellow Gurao Academy peers appear.
Taiga was an anthropomorphic tiger with brown fur with a yellow headband on his hair that pointed upwards. His racing suit had a brown chestplate, and silver boots and shoulder pads. He owned the fist machine, Junger.
The red machine, the one Antares owned, was Scorvilain.
Dradd, who owned Jape, had a human-like appearance but was not from Earth. He had blue hair styled into dreads, a silver headband and brown headgear and wore a purple vest over his green jumpsuit.
Kraken was a humanoid squid that had a pink head and wore a gray bodysuit and yellow glasses with blue lenses and owned Jelok.
Jack was a humanoid alien with blue skin and wore purple body armor over a purple and black one piece suit, pointy orange ears and wings. Though it is unknown if the wings are a part of him, making him a humanoid bat-like alien or a part of his suit. He owned Vampbat.
They assisted in helping push back the moon.
"Did Antares ask you all to help us?" Weiss asked.
"Eh, something like that. But I suggest you do less talking and worry about the moon!" Taiga said.
"Any friend of Team JET is a friend of ours." Dradd said.
"And in my case, this is more than just friendship or companionship, this is my duty!" Jack said.
"Now everyone! Full power!" Kraken said.
All five racers pushed their machines to their limit by using their maximum turbo.
"Don't think this changes a thing! Your weak machines aren't strong enough to hold out!" Ryu said as they were actually starting to push back, Razer's hope increasing.
"Ya know, I'm about sick of you talkin'!" Bobo said as he and the others, including even Luz appeared! All of them wearing suits as well. Bren's Monsuno were all available to assist him as well. And even all of Paul's Pokemon!
"But how did-" Rook started.
"When you sent Ryu into the sun, his power over the dark dimension that he sent us to decreased." Bren said.
"However that works. More than likely so he could save his own skin here." Bobo said.
"Eh it was just a hypothesi-" Bren started before Aomine cut him off.
"Would you shut your yap and push harder? Jeez." Aomine said, back to normal and beside Weiss, something that surprised her. "Don't get sentimental on me snowflake. Get pushin'."
"I wasn't! I'm just surprised it took you so long." Weiss said.
"Shellshot! Neo-Quickforce! Everyone! Get it everything you've got!" Bren said to his Monsuno.
"The same goes for you six! Put all of your strength into this! Full power right now!" Paul commanded to all six of his Pokemon.
Huey was silently seen alongside Razer, with the two only nodding.
"No. No! You were all drowning in grief and despair!" Ryu said.
"Does it look like we're doin' it now?" Bobo remarked.
"Where there is darkness, there is light. Don't ever underestimate the spirit of those that don't lose hope!" Zero, someone who wore a black zip-up jacket with yellow lines running across the shoulders and a matching mask with red see-through eyes and a yellow lion design on the front that covered every part of his face but his mouth. His machine also appeared and was blue and yellow with a laser turret on the back right of it and a lion head at the front of the car. This machine being Leone.
"Zero!" Kaz said, excitedly.
"Don't count me out either! It'll be so great to not only get paid, but to beat you again!" Hebina added, also appearing with her green Hisstoria with purple scales on the sides and gray dual engines on both sides. Afterwards, she performed a noblewoman's laugh.
"Of course she'd only be there for the money." Fiona said, rolling her eyes.
"Everyone! Combine all of your power!" Luz said.
They continued to hold off the moon, with everything they had.
"Impossible! I am the blessed child of the black hole! I was destined to have this universe! AHHHHHHHH!" Ryu was burned out into the sun, never to be seen again as the moon returned to its normal color. Suddenly, a white light was seen. The remaining four along with Bren and the others that were defeated, were transported out.
"Okay, that definitely confirms that was VR. But still, to have us do something like that is an insane ask." Aomine said, before clutching his head. "Not to mention, my head's killing me."
"Then I suppose the best course of action would be for you to get some rest." Akashi suggested. Though secretly, there were pangs of pain going on in his head as well.
"Yeah, that was way too over the top for my tastes." Luz said, also appearing.
"Of course it was VR. After what we've watched happen in other seasons, you really think we're just going to let a guy like that come here? Even if it was an alternate universe version of him? Absolutely not. I don't care how much drama he could cause. If he could do something like destroy the universe like Kaz and the others said, I wasn't going to allow that here." Chris said. "Anyways, congrats, you've sealed yourself at least second place. As for why Luz was here, she wanted to play a role to help her team out more, and since she did win before, I was cool with it. The dark Luz you saw before was completely fake. That wasn't her. But the racers? Those were real. Now let's see how our final team does! Reagan, how's that arm lookin'?"
"Well, I'm out of whatever Krabb put me in at least. But unfortunately, I can barely feel anything from it. So yeah, I'm done." Reagan said.
"Okay. Good to hear. Well, choose a sub."
"I guess Julie could sub for me."
"I will replace Ayame." Urien declared.
"Cool. Now, get in the portal please. And before you ask, yes, this one is definitely VR as this was inspired by a potential season-threatening challenge created by another me from a different universe." Chris said. "Good luck!" He added before he pushed all of them in.
***Confessional***
Becky F.(Radical Rats):
"Great. Even after all of that, we're on the cusp of losing again. The only saving grace of this is that if what the last two final stages were anything to go off of, then they're not going to have it easy."
***End Confessional***
Breakers' Stage 4: City of Steel(Transformers Devastation)
The five were brought into a city. Not too far where they were located, a construction site was seen.
"Well, at the very least, we have a clear and obvious place we're supposed to go." Randy said, looking up before everyone else saw what he did: Several blue claw-like arms in the ground ahead of them.
"That could mean anything. We can't just use something we just saw as a hint on where to go without actual reasoning behind it." Noelle countered before they were almost roadkill by multiple blue cars with orange windows. There were nine of them.
"Watch where you're going!" Urien called out before the vehicles transformed into robots. All of them had a purple symbol on their chests.
"You think they heard you?" Randy commented before one of them said something.
"I don't know what you're doing here, but you got about three seconds before we make you regret it." One of the robots said to the five.
"I suggest you choose your next words carefully." Urien warned, already not happy at the fact that he was almost ran over, and now taking exception to the fact that they were now issuing a threat to him.
The Decepticons all got into fighting stances aftter hearing this from Urien.
"Okay, yeah, guess that question's out the window." Randy commented.
"With how things are going, a peaceful resolution is not in the cards." Gorem commented to Julie.
"Hmm, guess you're right. But this is!" Julie said before pulling out and loading an ability card into her gauntlet.
"Ability card ready." The gauntlet AI said before a light brown energy blade appeared from the gauntlet.
Transformers Devastation OST- Decepticon Plays
"This'll be over in ten seconds flat!" One of the blue robots said confidently before some of them actually pulled out silver swords before they began to attack the five. Though it didn't take long for Urien, who was the first on his team to attack, and eventually, the others, to get into the action as well and fight back.
Rolling out of the way of a completely telegraphed overhead attack from a Decepticon that was running at her, Noelle striked back with a water ball, the force of the attack knocking him down to the ground with Julie following up with several slices with her energy blade. It didn't take long before he went down.
"Take this!" One of the blue robots, who was fighting with his fists said before throwing a right hook to Urien, who dodged the attack and charged right at him, knocking him down before hitting him with an electric sphere, shocking the robot.
Randy dodged a kick and a sword side slash from two of them before countering back with kicks of his own to send the two flying into the air before bullets from Launch finished both of them off.
And it didn't take long before the rest out of the nine were turned into scrap metal.
Hearing the action that was occurring, more vehicles showed up. Along with completely identical blue ones, black tanks and white and purple jets also appeared, with the jets flying overhead and immediately firing at them. One of the cars drifted right in front of Launch's face, causing her to sneeze and change into her bad personality. One of the tanks immediately transformed, revealing it to be a larger black and red robot with a gray hammer, who immediately tried to crush Urien, who, instead of dodging, shot a sphere upwards, knocking him down.
Though it didn't take long for the robot to get up, showing his extra toughness compared to the smaller blue ones from before. "That all ya got?" He said, hammer still in hand before swinging it at him rather quickly, forcing him to dodge to avoid getting hit.
"It makes no difference how tough you are. All trash goes to the landfill in the end." Urien said.
As the five continued to battle all of the adversaries in the construction site, Chris began to give a bit of background on this particular stage.
"What are those changing robots you ask? Decepticons! The same thing that Starscream is actually. Total Drama Infinite was one thing, but here? We decided to turn the difficulty up a notch." Chris explained, just as a couple of the Seeker Decepticons, who were the jets, were brought down by Randy, Noelle and Julie.
Though the first twos attempts to bring down the heavy tank soldiers were futile. Even with Randy's quickness, the fact that they barely flinched from the attacks made things a lot harder for the pair.
"Into the scrapheap!" One of the tank soldiers said as he swung his hammer, catching Randy unexpectedly.
After being knocked down, Randy looked at the band on his arm to see how much damage he took, which was a good bit before he immediately got back into the battle.
"Okay! Note to everyone! Do not get hit by the tanks! They hurt! A lot!" Randy said aloud to his teammates.
"The tanks aren't the only problem. It's these jets too!" Launch called out, having to constantly be on the move to avoid the Seeker soldiers that either hovered in the air in their robot form or flew in the air in their jet form. But both resulted in them trying to fire at them all from a safe distance out of melee range.
"I hate to say it but my weapons are barely doin' anything to these guys!" Launch said, trying to fire at them, but unable to bring them down with bullets. And they were too quick for her to use explosives either.
"If you're too weak to fight, then it's best that you stay out of the way!" Urien declared before using his aegis reflector to reflect the rifle shots of a Seeker back it unexpectedly, causing it to go down from its own firepower.
The smaller blue soldiers, while still a threat, were nowhere near close to being as much of a problem as the tanks, who could literally tank and dish out some damage and the Seekers, who were a ranged threat, something that the other two enemy groups lacked.
Other than Urien, it was surprisingly Julie that took the lead in doing the most of the damage, slicing through and dodging most of the smaller blue ground soldiers and even being able to do a decent amount of damage on the tanks, even if they were still a tough out and still required persistence, using their slower speed against them, and somteimes a bit of teamwork to beat them. Her achilles' heel was still the Seekers. The only reason she was able to catch the first one that she beat was due to her knocking a jet out of the air with good timing before it really got airborne during one of its air raid blaster attacks.
"I've watched Infinite's first season. No offense, but I don't think adding fodder is a true difficulty increase. I'd say it's more artificial." Riley commented.
"Oh yeah, you mean the thing game devs do to make some boss encounters a little tougher. That's pretty much easy difficulty increase 101." Toxsa said.
"We'll see what you guys have to say after the fights are over." Chris replied.
"How about while the fight's going on now? Do you see what Julie's doing? She's absolutely killing it." Kise commented.
"You say that like it's a good thing." Kagami said.
"I know, I know, but I still want to give credit where credit is due. She is absolutely awesome so far!"
One of the blue Decepticons attempted to attack with a quick sword slice immediately after transforming into car mode to get back into the battle after being knocked into a wall by Randy. But it was still easily dodged with Launch disposing of him easily.
"Got you now!" A tank ground soldier declared as he attempted to catch Urien off guard with a mighty upward swing with his hammer as the Secret Society disciple seemed to have been charging electrical energy.
"Heh, too easy!" The attack connected, but the result was not what the Decepticon expected at all. He didn't even flinch. The next thing he knew, he was in the air from an electricity infused tackle attack, taking shock damage before ultimately being destroyed by another electric sphere.
The only enemies remaining were the jets. There were three left.
"Stand aside. I'll take care of the air." Noelle declared before taking care of one of them right after this. But the last two were destroyed from someone that wasn't from their team. A red car that transformed and suddenly, like a blur, sliced through the two robots with two swords as if they were tomatoes before they collapsed to the ground, sparks coming out of them as they did.
Music Stops
"Heh. I was expecting more of a challenge." The robot said before dodging a direct attack from Urien, who was still charged with electricity.
"Woah. That's the thanks I get? Some of you humans are weird I tell ya." The robot said.
"Thanks for what? Saving us?" Randy asked.
"Uh yeah. What else?"
"We were fine without your help. And we still will not need it." Urien said.
"Who are you? You can't expect us to just thank you when we don't even know that." Noelle asked.
"Name's Sideswipe. Which is exactly how I felt after this guy here attacked me." Sideswipe said. He noticeably had a red logo on his chest compared to all of the others' purple. (A/N: Quick reminder that the game uses the G1 incarnations and thus the same will apply here for all characters here. Even many of their VAs returned for this game!)
"That symbol. It's different from the others. You one of the good guys?" Launch asked, noticing the symbol as well.
"Yep. I'm an Autobot. Those guys? Decepticons. As you've already experienced. Anyways, you'd best get out of here. As you've already seen, this ain't exactly a safe place for you to be in."
"Do you at least know where Mandy and Starscream are?" Julie asked.
"No idea who the first one is. But Starscream? I'm sure he's around here somewhere. But I gotta warn ya. Lay off and let us take care of that Decepticreep. He might still be, ya know, Starscream, but he's not like the rest of these grunts." Sideswipe said before more of them appeared from a ramp overhead, this time, a couple of them being golden brown along with more blue ones that stylish drifted before transforming and getting into fighting stances. Purple and black jets appeared and instead of shooting at them, immediately attacked Julie, Randy and Sideswipe with surprisingly quick slices after transforming, wielding twin swords along with their standard blaster rifles. So quick that Julie was overwhelmed by them and was knocked away.
Transformers Devastation OST- Decepticon Sergeant Plays
"Speak of the devil." Sideswipe said as he tried to hold off one of the twin sword-wielding Decepticons.
"Come on Autorunt! This your backup?" One of the golden-brown sergeants taunted.
The next thing the five knew, some of their weapons were either upgraded, on in Randy's case, was given a sword. Julie and Noelle were the only ones that were unchanged. Launch had even better artillery with blaster rifles along with an upgraded rocket launcher.
"Make fun of us will ya?" Launch said before aiming her newfound weaponry at all of them and immediately firing.
"If you're gonna help, there's no need for you to hold back! Send 'em cryin' home to Megatron!" Sideswipe called out to the five as he swayed and rolled out of the way of several of one of the Seeker Jet's quick and acrobatic slashes.
"With pleasure!" Launch grinned before unleashing the full power of her upgraded arsenal on the unlucky blue Decepticons in front of her.
"I'm gonna enjoy this." One of the sergeants said, putting his fists together as he and four blue Decepticons accompanied him, surrounding Urien.
"Don't waste my time." Urien said before charging electricity as they all converged on him before slamming onto the ground, creating a pillar of electricity around himself, shocking the life out of all of the surrounding Decepticons' sparks as they all fell to the ground.
Other than Sideswipe, Randy seemed to have been the only one with the speed to actually match the elite Seeker's sword attacks.
"You know, robots vs ninjas seems like a great movie. Wonder if anyone's done it before?" Randy remarked.
"What are you blabberin' on about human?" The seeker said, countering after dodging some of Randy's attacks.
"Oh yeah, you guys probably don't watch movies do you?"
"The only thing I'll be watching is your lifeless corpse fall to the ground! Now take this!" The seeker performed several rapid side swipes before suddenly rolling back and performing a two-sword uppercut, something that Randy was able to dodge.
"Shouldn't have done that." He tripped up the robot before sending him into the air himself and attacking him with relentless attacks before the seeker fell to the ground after the end of the attack chain, exploding right afterwards.
"Unironically, all of these death explosions are straight out of an action movie."
"Stop talking and help us!" Noelle said, having trouble getting through the purple energy shields that some of the blue Decepticons that were remaining now wielded. Julie was pushed back as well. But luckily for her, some of their attacks to punish her were too slow, allowing her to dodge them.
Sideswipe came in from his car form and immediately sent a couple of them flying with and an uppercut. And the other two that Noelle couldn't attack with a dropkick.
"If you're gonna take out their shields, you need to hit them with powerful attacks! Otherwise, you're wastin' your time." Sideswipe advised as he had zipped to slicing through three more blue unshielded soldiers.
On cue, Urien, using brute force, busted through two of the soldier's shields before using his own aegis reflector on another in a show of force, shocking it before picking the robot up and slamming it into the ground and finishing it off with an electric sphere.
"Yeah, somethin' like that." Sideswipe said, thumbing to Urien.
"Well this should be more than enough!" Launch said confidently before locking on to one of them with a missile. The explosion made one of the shielded enemies reel back which gave Julie the time she needed to hit the robot with multiple slices, with it falling to the ground shortly after.
"I see. Well, try this!" Noelle focused more of her magic to unleash more powerful attacks and pierced through several of their shields. Though her triumph would be short lived as one of the remaining seekers had quickly advanced onto her. The only reason the attacks weren't as devastation was because she had used Mana Skin to protect herself, reducing the damage taken.
"I got your back!" Sideswipe said before zipping to the seeker, like a red blur and performing rapid-fire slices to its abdomen before changing into car form and ramming him, sending him into a building where Randy would finish him by slicing his head off.
Music Stops
"Okay yeah, maybe the beheading was a bit much." Randy commented after the fact.
No more enemies were in the area.
"It's not like it's real anyway. Don't worry about it." Launch said.
"Alright. Looks like that's all of 'em." Sideswipe said.
"Sideswipe. What is your status?" Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots said over the comms.
"Decepticons have been taken care of. Although I had a bit of help from a few humans."
"Humans? Were any of them hurt?"
"Nope. As a matter of fact, they actually hurt more decepticons than I did I'm willing to bet. I was just as surprised. But these guys were armed and ready for battle, with some of 'em havin' powers of their own it seems."
"I see. Were you able to find anything on what they were looking for?"
"Negative. Whatever it was, they sent reinforcements, sergeants, tanks and elite seekers, so it must be big." Sideswipe said. "How about you? Find anything?"
"No such luck. But with this new revelation, I feel we are getting close. Whatever they are searching for, we must stop them. Get the humans to safety, and continue to inform me of any important updates. Prime out."
"You got it." He then looked at the others. "Alright, looks like this is the end of the road for you. If you go the way I came from, you'll be out of the way of any Decepticon forces." Sideswipe said, pointing to the road that he came from.
"What about you?" Randy asked.
"Me? I'm gonna continue my little investigation. So long!" Sideswipe said before searching the area for any hints of what the decepticons were looking for in the area.
"We're not really going to just get out of the way are we?" Julie asked as they traveled down the path that Sideswipe told them about.
"Of course not. What kind of a question is that?" Noelle said.
"Considering what he's doing now, following him would be all but useless." Urien said.
"I suppose our only other option is finding them ourselves." Gorem said.
"We don't have any other choice but to!" Launch said.
They continued to traverse the oddly desolate streets.
"What happened to everyone here?" Julie said.
"You're saying this as if all of this is real, this is none of our concern." Urien said.
"It's hard to remember that all of this isn't at times honestly."
"If there were people, you know the virtual ones, the Decepticons are probably the ones that did all of this, searching for whatever it is they're looking for." Randy said.
"I'm willing to bet that if we find whatever it is they're looking for, we'll find Mandy or Starscream." Noelle said.
"Yeah one problem though, we don't know what it is."
They continued to explore the city, coming across two different paths: An interstate with a broken up road in some parts of it, and the regular highway that had several lasers in the area that moved around.
"Let's see... highway with deadly lasers that could possibly fry us or a rocky interstate. I choose the interstate who says no?" Randy said.
Urien, with his electric spheres, shot the devices in between each of the moving lasers. When he destroyed them, the lasers were shut down.
"Good thinking Urien! We should be able to get through safely now." Launch said.
"Hmph. Just don't fall behind too much." Urien said, being the first to run across the highway.
"Huh. Hghway it is I guess." Randy said.
When the others caught up to him, he was seen rolling out of the way of a large mechanical door that seemed to have defense mechanisms in the form of two buzzsaws.
"This is the deadliest toll booth/gate if I've ever seen one." Randy said.
"Well, if we can't get close, why not just used ranged attacks?" Noelle proposed.
"That won't work. Only closed ranged attacks seem to be effective against it. Observe." Urien said before running forward to punch the door a few times. But not long after that, buzzsaws were seen from above, one on the left and one on the right, forcing him to roll out of the way. The three squares that lit up out of the nine that were seen were no longer lit, one by one. "The problem are the buzzsaws. And they cannot be destroyed."
"This must be some sort of puzzle. We can't turn back now! This might lea-" Julie started before Launch immediately covered her mouth.
"Pipe down! Listen!" Launch said.
"Well? Anything?" A jet on the other side of the wall that was red and silver with blue arms asked another decepticon that was blue and silver with a cannon on his right shoulder. On his chest was a silver square with the Decepticon symbol on it.
"Energon anomaly levels are above average. Chance of discovery of objective, 45 percent." It answered.
"It had better be 100 percent soon! You are testing my patience Soundwave!" The jet said, balling up a fist before a silver robot with black hands and a black cannon on his right arm had landed on the ground.
"Starscream! Status report!" The Decepticon said.
"Well, we are certainly making a bit of progress Lord Megatron. Although it would be faster if these lazy decepticons would work harder and Soundwave's sensors would scan faster!" Starscream, who was revealed to have been the jet, had answered.
"I see. Then I suppose you should include yourself in that as well!" Megatron replied.
"But-" Starscream started before Megatron interrupted him.
"Other than giving out repetitive and useless commands, what else have you contributed to this search? Nothing I presume! If you aren't going to assist in the search here, then make yourself useful another way. Assist in creating more kinetic barriers around the city to contain perimeters for more dig sites! The last thing we need is Autobot meddling."
"As you command Lord Megatron." Starscream said before flying off. "Such blasphemy! I, the great and powerful Starscream, am forced to do standard work like any other Decepticon grunt! And what does he get to do? Sit back and do absolutely nothing as he sends us on a wild goose chase for something that no one can even control! One of these days Megatron..." Starscream said before flying off, begrudgingly following his orders.
"That sounds like that's our guy flying off. And one of them still there sounds like his boss." Launch said. "We get him, we find out where Starscream's headed."
"That's great and all but, hello?" Randy said, gesturing to what was still blocking their path.
"Noelle, you think your barrier can protect us from those buzzsaws?"
"I don't know. But it's worth a try." Noelle said before they all got close enough. Interestingly, during the time that she created the Sea Dragon's Nest, the buzzsaws never appeared. It wasn't until after three hits that they came. And with one hit, her protective spell was stopped and took damage on top of it. "Okay, so that won't work."
"Why don't we try to go over?" Randy proposed. "Noelle, send me up!"
Noelle, with a burst of water, sent him over the wall. Though that attempt was thwarted by an energy barrier that partially appeared.
"Wow. They even covered that too. They're good." Randy said after falling flat on his face, taking damage from hitting the barrier.
Julie was the next to approach the door. After hitting the door three times, the buzzsaws appeared, to which she immediately avoided.
Hanamiya's eyes suddenly widened. "I got it!" His sudden reaction caught several people back at the set off guard. "Sorry. I guess you could say I'm a little excited to share what I found. It's a pattern. The saws only come out after three hits. So if they could get the timing down and attack right after, they might have a chance at getting the door open."
"I think that's a plausible claim. Now let's see if the others can figure it out." Myron said.
"I think this is where we need to use teamwork. Attack the door all at once before the saws come down, and then evade." Julie said.
"That sounds like a plan to me. Let's do it." Launch said.
They all attacked the door simultaneously. Before the buzzsaws even came down halfway, the door was brought down.
"Well, they got it down." Hanamiya said, a little surprised at the way that they did it but wasn't going to complain. The door being brought down got the attention of Soundwave,Megatron and two others that had just arrived as they looked over at the five. The additional two was a purple and black robot that wielded a sword and another that was purple with his left hand being a laser blaster and both his chest and head being hexigon-shaped. He also appeared to have one eye that was yellow.
"It appears we have some uninvited guests." Megatron said.
"Awaiting orders, Megatron." Soundwave said.
"Do you even have to ask? Soundwave, Motormaster, Shockwave! Get rid of them!" Megatron ordered before flying off.
"I don't know how the heck you got here, but you're gonna wish you never ran into us!" Motormaster said, channeling electricity in his sword.
Transformers Devastation Soundwave Theme V1 Plays
"New objective: Total annihilation." Soundwave declared before he pressed the button on his shoulder to open his chest, releasing his cassette tapes, Ravage, a dog, Laserbeak, a robot with an avian-like appearance and Rumble, a smaller purple robot.
"Alright ya bucket of bolts, you're gonna tell us where Mandy and Starscream are!" Launch said.
"Ha! Never gonna happen!" Motormaster said.
"You fail to understand. That was not a question." Urien said.
"You trying to test me? Bring it on ya puny humans!" Motormaster said.
All six of the enemies all had bars over their heads along with their respective names for the five to see.
The battle began with Soundwave locking on and shooting homing missiles from his cannon at all of them.
"Look out!" Randy called out as all of them had to take evasive action on the missiles. The problem was Shockwave, Motormaster and the cassettes. Especially Motormaster, who easily backed up his tough talk with action.
"Roadkill!" Motormaster said as he quickly dashed back from an attack, evading the speed of Randy and the strength of Urien before rapidly slashing electricity projectiles at them with his sword. The slashes were quick, but it left him vulnerable to be attacked from the side and from behind which was just the opening that Randy needed to attack as he was able to dodge the projectiles.
He hit him multiple times with several quick slashes. But his combo would be interrupted by the robot actually parrying his attack and quickly responding by slamming his sword into the ground, creating waves of electricity in multiple directions. The parry to the attack was so quick that Randy was hit by the swords and was then followed up by a quick side slash and punch in the face that sent him flying.
"Okay yeah. This guy's definitely faster than those seekers." Randy said before getting up.
Urien tried to attack him with multiple punches but missed every last one of them due to Motormaster's quickness.
"That all ya got?" Motormaster taunted before slashing upwards with his sword from a distance, creating a crescent-like projectile and hitting Urien with it.
He then quickly advanced forward almost instantly after that and tried to hit him with a kick to the face as he seemed to have been stunned. But Urien was able to tank the hit, revealing that he was in a stance to take said hit before grabbing him and headbutting him before sending him flying back with a devastating punch.
"So you're not as garbage as I thought. But I'm still king of the road!" Motormaster said as he got up.
Meanwhile, it was a ranged battle between Soundwave, Noelle and Launch, each of them exchanging various projectiles at one another with Laserbeak raining blaster shots from above and Rumble occasionally using his piledrivers to send a quack in front of him to disrupt the pair's aim.
"I'm about sick of those small robots!" Launch said.
"Oh yeah lady? Well then why don't ya come and do somethin' about it?" Frenzy said before shaking the ground again.
"If you'd stand still, I would!"
"Aiming." Soundwave simply said before locking on to the pair once again and shooting more missiles at them.
"All I need is a well timed strike and I can get rid of those two." Noelle said.
"Then stop talking about it, and do it!" Launch said before attempting to fire at Laserbeak, but once again, missing.
As for Shockwave, it was a completely different battle with Julie as he performed a mixture of close and long ranged attacks, all of which were hard for Julie to keep up with as he would occasionally evade away with a dash that was so fast, it left purple afterimages of himself. After trying to time her attacks when he looked to have been vulnerable after he shot energy waves from his left arm, she attacked. But it was parried.
"Easily avoided." Shockwave said before firing at her again. She dodged and quickly tried to attack but missed.
"My turn." Shockwave said before kicking her into the air. After falling back to the ground, she instinctively rolled out of the way for another attack.
"Punish." Shockwave said before catching her immediately after she finished rolling with a turnaround punch to the face.
"This should do it!" He added before changing into a laser gun, turning and shooting in a 360 motion, catching her and everyone else that wasn't a decepticon in the attack.
"Easy!" Motormaster said before hitting Urien with quick slashes that sent him into one of the buildings.
"Man, they are takin' it to those five right now." Chris commented. "I would say I might have made it too hard but nah."
"Oh this definitely looks beatable. This is just a case of git gud honestly." Toxsa said.
The battle continued, with the five holding their own against the six Decepticons. But the lingering presence of the cassettes and the quickness of Shockwave and Motormaster, along with the ranged attacks of Soundwave, still made life difficult for them. And Randy was on the verge of being the first one gone, with Noelle not too far behind.
"Calm yourselves. Despite the current circumstances, this battle is by no means out of reach." Gorem advised.
"I appreciate the words, but it's easier said than done when Shockwave keeps going all over the place. Heck, this entire battle has been pretty hectic." Julie said, dodging a sonic blast from Laserbeak.
"Then control the battle on your own terms. Work together with your team."
"Hey guys! Gorem says we should work together!"
"Any other bright ideas?" Launch said sarcastically as her and Soundwave's missiles cancelled each other out.
"I'm serious! Their overwhelming us because we're just attacking without a plan. It's just too much for us to handle."
"You got that right! These darn cassette tapes are freakin' annoying!" Launch said just as Urien, on cue, had his aegis reflector interrupted by Ravage biting him, forcing him to take the brunt of the electric beam that came from Motormaster's sword.
"Why don't we all decide who we're going to take out and how?"
"I say Soundwave and his stupid cassettes." Launch said.
"I've noticed Soundwave isn't as quick as the other two. So that may be our best first choice." Noelle added.
"Then it's settled."
The five, though still balancing combat with Motormaster and Shockwave, focused their attention on keeping an eye on Soundwave. They converged on him, every time they got the chance.
"Resuming close quarter combat." Soundwave said before throwing out a two-fisted smash at Randy but missing as he quickly hopped back.
"Fall!" Shockwave shot all of them with his pistol form, which Noelle guarded against to protect them all from a potentially fatal blow.
"Say goodnight!" Motormaster added but sending forward another beam of energy. But this time, Urien was not going to be denied, reflecting the laser back and shocking Motormaster with it. The stun was long enough to allow the others continue to relentlessly pursue and attack Soundwave before he staggered backwards and began to float in the air before creating a shockwave so powerful it knocked everyone back.
Transformers Devastation Soundwave Theme V2 Plays
"Initiating countermeasurem-" Soundwave started before he, Motormaster and Shockwave all fell to the ground.
"What was-" Launch started before someone wearing a pink dress and had blonde hair curved into a style that resembled devil horns and a headband. She also wore black mary jane shoes. She tossed away the sniper she had before claiming Motormaster's sword and Soundwave's cannon and forcibly, with the power of a scythe, reverted Shockwave into his pistol form.
"Come on. You wanted to face me right? Let's get this over with." The girl said before her name was seen over her head which said "Mandy".
But there would be four more of her, each of them having black hair instead to indicate that they were clones as she was able to split herself.
"Okay, that was definitely unexpected, but whatever. Let's see what happens." Chris said.
"Wait, she came back too?" Heather said in disbelief.
Despite her size and her age, she, nor her clones, were there to play around as they quickly attack them all with incredible speed that somehow rivaled Motormaster's. And to add on to that, she had their attacks and some of her own via the scythe that she also had, with her periodically switching from weapon to weapon.
"Look, I know this is crazy to say after everything else that's happened to that, but there is no reason she should be moving this fast! She's just a kid!" Randy said, barely dodging a laser blast from one of the clones, with the weapons seemingly cloned as well.
"Speed or not, I refuse to lose this challenge to a mere child." Urien said as he kept watch of Mandy's movements to try to find an opening.
"Try and reflect this." Mandy said as she continued to dash from side to side before suddenly attacking Urien with Motormaster's sword.
"That I will." Urien said confidently before using his aegis reflector. But that was exactly what Mandy wanted, baiting him and quickly dashing back, in the blink of an eye before quickly dashing at him at a speed that was just as fast, dodging the aegis reflector and hitting him with several quick sword slices. Urien fell to the ground on one knee before she wasted no time in finishing him off, eliminating him.
"Consider that payback for the VR." Mandy said. "I wasn't going to let you get away again."
Acrobatically dodging missiles and electric projectiles from Motormaster's sword from two of the Mandy clones, Randy was amazing able to take out both in a few hits.
"Well, at least we know the clones can't take too much punishment. That's a relief." Randy said before he was double-crossed by one of the clones and the real one.
"And at least we know you talk too much. And by the way, I'm with Reagan, that lingo is stupid." Mandy remarked just as Randy was sent back as well, also being eliminated.
Losing Urien was a telltale factor that this wasn't going to be like the Decepticon battles. And Julie was the first to sense this and call for help, choosing someone that can keep up with her speed and still deal decent damage. That someone being Jenny.
Already knowing her job within the limited time, she immediately swung into action to make an impact on the battle.
Jenny, instead of wasting time on the clones, attacked the source. But she missed and flew right into a wall as Mandy dashed to the side quickly.
"You'd think you wouldn't choose the move obvious attack." Mandy remarked before attacking Noelle next, her speed making it hard for her to keep up with.
"Looks like all that royalty talk doesn't do you much good here. Why? Because no one here cares. Charming's royalty and you see how people hate him." Mandy said.
"It's easy for you to make all of these remarks when you have the skillsets and arsenal of three others along with your own." Noelle replied, using her Mana to try and resist the attacks.
"So? Cry about it. Don't act as if this is cheating." Mandy then combined attacks with her remaining copies, creating an array of lasers around the area, making it hard for the remaining three and Jenny, to traverse through because they're constantly changing.
Even with this difficult obstacle, the four were able to dodge the projectiles. The moment Mandy recovered was the moment she was sent into a wall by missiles from Jenny before she immediately flew right into her. Mandy tried to fend off any attacks to her face with the scythe.
"Where the heck do you come from to be using weapons like this? I know you're real because you mentioned Charming. Who yeah, he's definitely a jerk, but he's from a real season!" Jenny asked before wrestling away the scythe.
"Endsville. And by the way," Mandy started before whispering something in her ear.
"I what? NOOOOO!" Jenny shouted in agony before she was shot directly in the face by Mandy with Shockwave.
"Too easy." Mandy said, landing on the ground before getting instantly flown into again. This time, immediately thrown into a wall before being burned to a crisp, a display that shocked most people in the set and her teammates.
Music Stops
The clones instantly disappeared.
"Wow. It's a good thing this isn't real huh?" Chris commented.
"That and whatever she said to Jenny really rubbed her the wrong way it seemed." Rally said.
"Considering the people that's here this season, I'd say she dodged a bullet. A big difference between the people here compared to last." Ben said.
"For the people that weren't here, myself included, what do you mean by that?" Sly asked.
"I mean I don't think she'd be as scary to some of the people here compared to last season. Personally, I'd say only Vegeta, Rick and a couple of others on her team either weren't scared of her, didn't care, or both. In other words, after what happened here, I don't think she makes the merge this time, no matter what team she's on."
"She doesn't even look that older than me. I don't get how she can be scary. Heck, looking at my sister's face is even scarier." Todd said which caused Riley to roll her eyes as he looked over with him yelling.
"See?"
Suddenly, more metal music was hard coming from the monitor.
Transformers Devastation OST- Starscream Theme Plays
Asta and Fiona had joined in to replace Urien and Randy, with their chosen partner to assist them having yet to be chosen as Launch had advised them to save it instead of using it without seeing who their opponent was. Fiona notably wielded electric gauntlets along with having Leopatra available to use.
As were preparing to cross a bridge Starscream blocked their path.
"So you're the ones that defeated Shockwave, Soundwave and Motormaster. No matter. I will succeed where they failed and restore glory to being named a Decepticon!" Starscream declared confidently before changing into jet form and raining down missiles from above from all three.
"Well, technically, it wasn't us that landed the killshot." Julie said.
"I don't care who did it! Losing to any of you humans is still a blemish to the Decepticon name!" Starscream said as he suddenly charged forward, but not to hit with ranged attacks, this time he quickly performed a foot dive, using the speed from his jet form as momentum for more damage. Thankfully, the five were able to dodge the attack.
But the minute they tried to converge on him, the most they were able to get were a couple of hits in from Asta and Julie before he immediately transformed back into jet form to retreat.
Now having some distance, he changed back into robot form.
"Catch!" Starscream said before throwing out a missile that scattered into multiple, forcing them to have to dodge. Which was exactly what Starscream hoped for. He hit Launch with an energy blast that shocked and stunned her.
"Can't... move!" Launch said, trying to get free but couldn't.
"Now you're scrap!" Starscream said before changing into jet form and immediately intending to charge forward and hit her directly like a missile.
"Not going to happen!" Fiona said as she and the others prepared to attack him directly to stop him. But it had the opposite effect. It was Starscream that sent them all flying from the attack.
Starscream laughed. "How was that? You thought this was going to be easy? I told you, I'm not like those three weakl- AH!" He was suddenly hit by Leopatra ramming into him with a full speed turbo. And the other five also bombarded him with some of their strongest attacks.
"Sea Dragon's Roar!" Noelle created a large dragon from water magic and sent starscream flying.
"Satellite Owl! Thunder!" Fiona called out, with the Satellite Owl choosing the lightning option and creating clouds overhead before lightning struck, striking Starscream and stunning him.
"Now you're scrap!" Launch called out before hitting him with an array of shots from the weapons that she had.
Starscream, disoriented, looked up and saw Julie and Asta coming at him. But it was too late for him to even respond as both hit him with several slices, sending him flying into a building. as he was now sitting down. After that, Starscream knew he was in trouble. He underestimated them and he knew it. But he wasn't one to take defeat gracefully. He quickly pressed a button on his wrist.
Leopatra's Satellite Owl had detected something before it alerted Fiona.
"Watch out!" Fiona quickly said. But it was too late. The shots were already fired.
Music Stops
Asta, with incredible reaction time, was able to block most of them. All of them but one. Launch had fallen to the ground, the sniper shots from the turrets that appeared coming so fast that they didn't even have time to react. They were now down to four. Starscream couldn't even hide his smile as the turrets disappeared.
"You overconfident fools. You thought you had the battle wo-" Starscream started but was suddenly bombarded with multiple attacks yet again. As much of a punching bag as he was, he was still resilient. Though he was probably only a few more slices away from being down for the count. Thankfully, the backup he had also called had arrived, making his presence known by slamming down onto the ground. A robot with a purple body and brown shoulders and golden head was seen.
Transformers Devastation Blitzwing Theme V2 Plays
Blitzwing was seen over his head.
"Now you're in trou-" Starscream started before he was immediately knocked unconscious.
"Come on!" Blitzwing said before running at them. It may have looked like a foolish thing to do after what happened to Starscream, but it wasn't. None of their attacks were making Blitzwing flinch at all, even with the damage that he was taking. And he made Asta in particular pay for that pre-assumption by grabbing him and dragging him across the ground.
"You face a triple changer now!" Blitzwing said before spinning him around in a circular motion and them slamming him back down into the ground. Hard.
"Who's next?" Blitzwing turned his attention to the others before throwing out two punches and then sending a missile from his back, still unfazed(literally), by the others' constant attacks.
Even another Sea Dragon's Roar to try to get him into a corner, did nothing to him.
Seeing the source, he changed into his tank form before charging forward, the attack also generating fire. Luckily for Noelle, she was able to dodge it in time. But they were unable to capitalize off the miss as he shot at them from his tank form. Even lightning strikes weren't effective in making him flinch.
Fiona and Asta combined attacks, hitting from behind while he was destracted by Julie, Leopatra and Noelle. But that proved to have been a bad idea as he turned around.
"My turn!" Blitzwing declared before throwing out a punch that made Fiona painfully yell as she was sent flying from it before he transformed into his jet form, dropping down ice missiles as he flew.
A/N: Platinum included the fire and ice attacks as reference to his Animated incarnation
He was successfully able to freeze Julie with one of them. But before he could land down on the ground as his tank form and smash her to pieces, Toxsa, already in Titan Mode as Valorn, appeared and held him up before throwing him down on the ground.
"Oh you're gonna regret that." Blitzwing said.
"The only one who's gonna regret something is you for picking on the lighter classes!" Valorn said before both of them ran at each other, each matching each other in strength. While Valorn was definitely capable of still flinching from attacks, he could still take Blitzwing's without much of a problem.
"It's okay! Even if he is tanky, no pun intended, he's still taking damage! Keep hitting him! You be the support classes, I'll be the tank!" Valorn called out to his teammates.
The two continued to exchange punches.
"I can do this all day!" Blitzwing said.
"Good for you. Unfortunately, I can't." Valorn said. "Computer, how much time do I have left?"
"Approximately 24 seconds." The Tenkai Knight onboard AI said. The second Toxsa got in, he asked it to sync a timer to how much time he had left to assist his teammates.
"When you see an opening, hit him with everything!" Valorn called out before Blitzwing hopped back, something he didn't see coming and quickly spun around in his tank form, hitting Valorn and burning him.
"Warning. Systems overheating."
"Then where's the in-game prompt to underheat them?"
"Heat purge in progress. Estimated time before safe temperatures are reached: 10 seconds."
"Well make it five! We don't have that long!" Valorn said as Blitzwing charged at him to hit him with a hard-hitting punch to the face while he still couldn't move.
"No one's tougher than me!" Blitzwing said before hitting him again and again before picking him up.
"Now!" Noelle called out before she and Fiona combined attacks.
"Sea Dragon's Roar!"
"Satellite Impulse!"
Instead of a lightning strike, Leopatra's Satellite Owl reattached itself to the machine and created a beam of lightning, with the dragon combining with the lightning to not only change the dragon's eyes yellow, but surrounding the dragon with electricity, hitting Blitzwing directly.
Music Stops
A flash of lightning and water being seen before Bltzwing was seen covered in electricity.
He tried to change into his jet form but couldn't and fell on one knee.
"I'm not... through... with you yet!" Blitzwing said before he fell to the ground.
"You may be tough. But there's also strength in numbers." Fiona said.
Starscream was beginning to regain consciousness.
"Not this guy again." Fiona added.
"I told you not to underestimate me! And now I'll send you all back to the bronze age!" Starscream declared, balling a fist before a figure landed on the ground and was sent flying into a building. He got up from the rubble, clearly not happy. Behind him was Sideswipe along with four other additional Autobots, who were driving on the ground, chasing him. Or in the dinosaur's case, was running.
The red truck, who along with the others, changed form, was Optimus Prime. The smaller yellow robot was Bumblebee, the silver sportscar was Wheeljack and the dark grey and golden dinosaur was Grimlock.
"Huh. Funny meeting you here." Sideswipe said to the contestants.
"Lord Megatron!" Starscream said. "I-"
"I don't want to hear any of your excuses. Whatever they may be. There are more important matters to deal with right now." Megatron said.
"Autobot scum." Starscream said.
"You have nowhere to run Megatron. It is over!" Optimus said.
"That I agree on. No more running. But it is over when I say it is Prime! And that will be when I rip your spark in half!" Megatron said.
Large footsteps that shook the ground were heard before wo very large robots appeared from behind the taller skyscrapers. One being green and purple. And another having red and yellow cars for its left and right arms respectively with the cars making up the left and right legs being black and silver respectively. The body was Motormaster's. He also wielded a sword. They jumped over the skyskrapers and shook the ground again.
"You beat Motormaster. Now, see if you can beat me!" The second robot, named Menasor said.
"All hail Megatron!" The green and purple robot, Devastatator, made from the Constructicons, called out.
And on cue, Blitzwing had a second wind. "I told you. I'm not through with you yet!"
Ground soldiers and seekers also joined in.
Transformers Devastation Devastator Theme V1 Plays
"We end this. Here and now." Optimus said.
"That, we can agree on." Megatron said before the final battle commenced.
"Are you insane!? What the hell is that!? How is this even remotely fair?" Reagan asked, as Devastator, Menasor, Megatron, Blitzwing and Starscream battled the Autobots and the remaining contestants.
"You say this as if our team didn't just get asked to push back the moon to win." Octavia remarked.
"Okay yeah, fair point. Overreaction on my part. My bad."
"Fun fact, I'm not even joking when I say this, the game devs made the game these battles are based off of, actually have you fight Menasor and Devastator at once as one of the final encounters. So this isn't on Chris. They were that insane. Though the Megatron, Blitzwing and Starscream stuff was definitely added in." Doyle said as Noelle and Fiona were both picked up by Menasor with both screaming in horror.
The only reason that they didn't taste Menasor's blade, and probably defeat, was because of the fact that Asta, jumping off of the arm of Devastator, hit Menasor in the face numerous times, forcing him to have to drop the pair as he covered his face in pain.
"Now! Attack Menasor!" Bumblebee called out as several of the Autobots and Asta and Julie, focused their attacks(firepower in the case of the Autobots as they used ranged weapons on Menasor and Devastator).
"Wait, all of this is based off a game? What's it called?" Toxsa asked.
"You mean we never pointed it out? Transformers Devastation. Unfortunately you uh, can't buy this anymore. At least not digitally." Doyle said.
"So how'd you play it? You got the physical copy?"
"Uh..."
"You pirated the game didn't you?" Rick asked, getting straight to the point.
Doyle's answer was conveniently cut off by the camera cutting back to the battle.
"Now would be a good time to use that final one." Noelle said, looking up at the large robots towering over them as they continued attacking their teammates.
"Uh huh." Fiona said, beads of sweat on her face as she nervously tried to choose someone. But she kept accidentally tapping faces.
"Taste devastation!" Devastator said, attempting to swipe at its smaller adversaries.
"This is ridiculous. Let me do it!" Noelle said, annoyed at the younger girl's shakiness as the others were trying to fend off Megatron and the rest of the Decepticons. "We need someone that can turn the tide. As much as I hate to say it, he's our best option." Noelle said before preparing to choose Haizaki for his stealing, but was interrupted by Starscream charging at them, something that scared her into picking someone else entirely.
Music Pauses
Someone that was reading a newspaper, had a cigarette in his mouth and had his pants down, something that made Noelle and Fiona shriek out loud as both of their faces were red and said person brought there to look surprised before he yelled, something that got the attention of everyone including Asta, who yelled just as loud afterwards.
"Well, this is awkward." Bumblebee said.
"Okay, I did not need to see that." Sly said as Weiss and Yang had actually covered Ruby's eyes.
"Yeah, I'm with ya there." Todd said.
"Out of all the things I expected to see here, this was... certainly not one of them." Puss commented.
"Okay, censor that! Or at least cut the camera away! Something!" Chris said.
"You two better have a damn good reason for bringing me here or we're gonna have a big problem!" The man said.
"I'm sorry! It was an accident!" Noelle said, still covering her eyes.
"Wait, you brought Captain Yami here? How?" Asta asked Noelle.
"Brought me here? More like sent me here against my will. Some guy just whisked me out of the bathroom while I was taking a dump. Only reason I didn't send him flying was because of the fact that I honestly was caught off guard. I thought it was Finral." Yami said before sighing and looking at the Autobots and Decepticons with Starscream being the first to try and throw a sneak punch at him before Yami grabbed said fist without even turning. "Sneak attacking a man that doesn't even have his pants on. Real low blow there pal."
"You can bring all the help you want! I will crush you!" Starscream said, still struggling to get his arm free.
Yami seemingly was completely ignoring Starscream's threats behind him. "So I'm guessing you're in some sort of fight, and you needed help. And accidentally called me for it."
"That's the gist of it. Now can you please put some pants on?" Fiona said, having to quickly peek to see if he did or not.
"Yeah, yeah, I got ya. Trust me kid, I don't wanna be here as much as you don't wanna see me naked. Now who're we supposed to be fighting so I can get this over with and get back to my business?"
"I am the great and powerful Starscream! I will not be ignored by-" Starscream said before he was sent flying by Yami out of the battle.
"Yeah, I was gonna fight him anyways, but that constant talking while I was ticked me off." Yami said before electricity, lasers and a mace from Megatron all flew past him, indicating that the battle had already resumed. "Guess I'll figure it out on the fly." He takes out his grimoire and his sword and immediately leaps into battle.
Transformers Devastation Megatron Theme Plays
"Why must you always get in the way of my plans Prime!?" Megatron asked Optimus as he threw a punch at him, one that Optimus swatted away before throwing one back of his own, one that Megatron caught.
"Your plans would endanger life on Earth as we know it! That is why I must stop you!" Optimus replied, headbutting him multiple times before Megatron headbutted back.
The two broke off when Bumblebee and a Decepticon grunt tried to attack Megatron and Optimus respectively, Bumblebee sliding as he attempted to shoot him with pistol shots, something that Megatron evaded easily by dashing back with the same afterimages that Shockwave had. Optimus parried the Decepticon's sword slice and countered with an uppercut that sent the Decepticon flying with one hit.
"My plans would bring back the glory of Cybertron! Even if it as the cost of this worthless planet! I am willing to make the decisions that you won't for my home! Cybertron is the center of my universe! How is it not the heart of yours!?" Megatron asked as he pulled out Shockwave, who was still in pistol form and shot at Optimus.
Optimus rolled out of the way of the laser and shot at him back with his Ion Blaster. "Cybertron is my home too Megatron, but controlling Dark Energon. This is not the way! It is too dangerous to wield!"
"Too dangerous for you perhaps. But not for me!" Megatron said before jumping in the air and slammed into the ground, creating a large purple shockwave around him that sent everyone in the immediate area flying back, including Optimus.
This made Yami take his attention off Devastator and Menasor. He rushed forward at Megatron.
"For you to be makin' a commotion like that, you gotta be pretty strong. So let's see what you've got." Yami said, sword in hand.
"Out of my way! You're of no significance to me human." Megatron said before shooting his arm cannon at Yami, which he blocked the attacked with a barrier of darkness.
"Thinking you can just toss me aside like some weakling is a mistake I'm gonna make you regret."
"Do your worst!" Megatron said before quickly swinging the energy mace he created from his arm cannon again and lunging it forward at Yami, which he quickly dodged. Sword engulfed in darkness, he quickly slashed at Megatron, but Megatron quickly put an energy shield. The same energy shield that the blue ground soldiers used and shut down the attack. Megatron, using his arm cannon, sent a very strong gust of wind to blow the him back, forcing him to put his sword into the ground to resist.
Menasor, attempting to slash Asta, swiped low with his sword, sending out a projectile as well. Yami saw this and quickly jumped over the projectile to avoid being hit.
Megatron quickly took this opening to advance forward, moving so fast that he was creating afterimages of himself again, using Shockwave's speed as a means for offense as well, not just defense. He quickly grabbed Yami out of the air before picking him up and began to charge his arm cannon for a point blank shot to his face. But Optimus, in truck form, going at a high speed, rammed him and sent him flying.
"Thanks." Yami said to Optimus.
"You are welcome. But Megatron isn't down yet." Optimus replied.
"I figured as much. Unfortunately. God I need to take a dum- s*it!" Yami said, having to immediately dodge out of the way of large blaster shots from Devastator.
"You'll need to an army to fight me!" Devastator called out.
"This isn't an army, but this should be more than enough!" Sideswipe remarked, firing at Devastator.
Menasor suddenly jumped high in the air, attempting to crush anyone he could. Fiona looked in horror as Leopatra was about to be one of his potential victims.
"Leopatra!"
At least that was before Noelle, using reinforcement magic to increase her speed, was able to get it just in time before he landed on the ground.
"Got you!" One of the tank soldiers said before preparing to send his hammer downwards and crush her. But her quick thinking allowed her to slide underneath him between his legs before he could.
She quickly handed the machine to Fiona.
"Thank you so much." Fiona said.
"Don't thank me yet. This is far from over. Next time don't put yourself in that situation." Noelle replied.
"I won't. Lesson learned." She said before putting the machine away. "It's time to do this the old fashioned way." Fiona said before smiling as the two were back to back, with blue soldiers coming at them.
Asta meanwhile, was fighting alongside Grimlock, against the immovable Blitzwing.
"Grimlock and muscle boy tougher than you!" Grimlock said.
"In another world maybe! Nobody's tougher than me!" Blitzwing said before changing forms into his jet form. "Now try this!" He flew but quickly smashed the ground with his tank form, with the pair dodging out of the way to avoid being crushed.
"Is there anything that can make him move?" Asta asked.
"Grimlock don't know. Blitzwing strong. But Grimlock and muscle boy stronger!"
"Well, can't say you're not trying to be encouraging. Okay then! Let's show him how tough we are!"
"No one defeats Menasor!" Menasor said as he slammed his sword into the ground, creating a larger version of the multi-direction attack that Motormaster did, forcing everyone in the area to dodge.
"Alright, Megatron and the other regular sized guys are one thing. But these big guys are p[censored]ing me off! It's throwing off my rhythm and concentration having to keep my head on a swivel to avoid getting hit by some bulls[censored]!" Yami said, after blocking several quick slash attacks from a seeker with his sword before finding an opening and cutting through the soldier.
"Yeah, that right there is exactly what made having to fight both of them at the same time so hard." Doyle pointed out.
"Keep aiming for their head! That is the most optimal-" Wheeljack said as he shot down a seeker and roller out of the way of a quick slice from Menasor.
"Screw optimal! I'm taking these guys out now!" Yami turns his attention towards Menasor and Devastator and waits for them to get grouped together.
Once he finds it, "Dark Magic! Dark Cloaked Iai Slash!"
Yami dashes forward and slashes both of them, the attack strong enough to actually get both of them on one knee.
Seconds later, it started to rain, with clouds forming overhead, covering the sun.
"They're down! Attack them with everything ya got!" Sideswipe called out to the others. Everyone that could, including Yami, attacked their heads as they were still down. From the amount of health they had left, both of them were on their last legs before they recovered.
"Damn it! These stupid toasters still aren't done yet?" Yami said, getting annoyed now.
"No one defeats Menasor... NO ONE!" Menasor said, enraged that he was being pushed by people that were several times smaller than he was. Devastator as well.
"You fools! Stop holding back!" Megatron called out as he continued battling Optimus and anyone else that dared intervened.
"Oh no..." Reagan started, knowing exactly what was coming next.
Transformers Devastation Menasor Theme V2 Plays
Devastator's arms retracted before they were replaced with drills. Menasor raised his sword to the sky as lightning struck it.
"TIME TO DIE!" Menasor and Devastator said simultaneously as Menasor struck an Obari pose.
Both of them attacked way faster than before, especially Menasor, whose speed rivaled Megatron's now, something that shouldn't even be possible for a robot of his size. Their increased speed, along with Megatron and Blitzwing still looming, meant that the Autobots, Yami and the four Breakers had no room for error in their dodges or parries. They were one mistake from losing as much as everyone and failing the challenge outright. The only positive was the fact that all of the ground soldiers and seekers were defeated.
"I can't watch!" Libby said, completely covering her eyes. Though the music wasn't exactly helping her anxiety either.
"S[censored]. I hurt them, but that did nothing more than just p[censored] them off and make them harder to hit. Which in turn is p[censored]ing me off! I HAVE TO TAKE A S[CENSORED] DAMN IT! WHY THE HELL WON'T YOU INCONSIDERATE BA[CENSORED]S STAND STILL!?" Yami commented, having to dodge lightning strikes, drills, a tank that refused to flinch, and molten lava geysers that came from the ground via Megatron hitting the ground so hard.
"This is where it all ends Prime! Your foolish quest to protect these worthless humans, many of whom will dissect you and turn you into an experiment the chance they get to, will be your undoing!" Megatron said as he all but tossed Wheeljack aside when he tried to attack him, even with his own energy shield up.
Energy Mace and Energy Axe clashed, the two staying connected even with Menasor actually creating a tornado with his sword, sending everyone upwards.
"I want to know Prime! Why protect those that care nothing about you!? You're defending byproduct at best!" Megatron asked as he sent Optimus into a building before they fell back to the ground. He relentlessly attacked Optimus, who was still standing his ground, unwilling to quit. "Answer me Optimus! Servos, gyros and circuits! That is life!" He smashed two fists down on Optimus, with Optimus using both of his hands to stop him as he was inches away from smashing into his chest and tearing into where his spark was. But Megatron overpowered him. "ANSWER ME!"
But Optimus gave no answer. "Then let your last breath, be in silence, fool." He said, charging a shot to blow his head off.
"OPTIMUS!" Bumblebee called out, too far away to do anything to save him. And their others were of no help either as they were blocked by Menasor and Devastator.
"You're wrong Megatron!" Asta called out, leaping from above and actually stabbing Megatron with both of his swords, one in the arm and one in the chest, inches away from his spark.
"Wrong about what, child!?" Megatron said, hitting him with a blaster shot before forcibly taking out both swords.
"What you think is life!" Asta picked both swords back up, before he clashed with the Decepticon leader.
"How can you judge me, when you don't know anything about losing your home!" Megatron said before in the blink of an eye, backing off and performing two punches and an uppercut, all of which Asta ducked or dodged.
"But I do know what it means to want to help your people! But taking lives to do so isn't the way to go about it!" Asta said, throwing out quick sword slashes that Megatron was able to dodge with his own incredible reaction time as well.
"SILENCE! I will not let worthless flesh and blood decide for me what is right and wrong!" He them slammed the ground again, something that Asta saw coming, recognizing the stance that he took when he was about to do so and immediately jumped over the shockwave. Megatron then quickly changed into his tank form and rammed him before shooting at him for good measure.
Megatron, seeing that Asta was defeated, laughed. "One down! A few more to go!"
"Asta!" Noelle called out.
"Forget him! With all due respect we need to worry about ourselves! If we lose or I go on myself, I'm gonna make sure your life's a living hell when you come back!" Yami warned as he dodged a very aggressive Devastator who was constantly hitting the ground with his drills.
"What's wrong Autorunts? Too fast for ya?" Devastator taunted as Menasor attacked as well, with Blitzwing being the one to actually connect, freezing Yami and then allowing Devastator to grab onto him and slam him into the ground.
"I don't know if we can win Gorem. They're just too fast." Julie said, resorting to having to do nothing but run as she just couldn't keep up with the speed of the others.
"Eye of the storm!" Menasor said as he called down a lightning strike, shocking Noelle, who was still concerned for Asta. She cried out in pain from the jolt of electricity.
"Damn it! Noelle!" Yami said before blocking Blitzwing from finishing her off. He was suddenly covered in darkness. Only red eyes could be seen.
Fiona ran to her.
"You make sure she's okay! I'll take care of this." Yami said to Fiona.
"Big mistake pal!" Blitzwing said.
"No. What was a mistake was you sticking around for way too long when I've got a take a dump. What was a mistake was you thinking you could just beat down on my squad members, laugh at them and think I was just gonna roll over with no consequences coming your way! Well I got news for you pal, you're done! And the rest of your little friends are next!" Yami said.
"Dark Cloaked Dimension Slash! Equinox!" The next thing Blitzwing knew, he was cut in half, with Devastator being collateral damage, the big robot falling to the ground.
Noelle weakly opened her eyes, her mana faintly surrounding her. "I don't know if there's much else I can do. I'm sorry." Noelle said.
"No, we can't give up! We can't have pushed them this far just to quit!" Fiona said before bringing out Leopatra again. "If it means turning the tide, I'm gonna risk it all! Let's go Leopatra!"
Yami tried to slash at Megatron, but with his incredible speed, he was able to dodge the slash.
"You'll have to do better than that!" Megatron said.
"It's funny you say that." Asta started before he started to rise back up. "I was thinking the same thing."
"You wanna do a speech? Do it and fight!" Yami said.
"I know you want to take care of the big guy. I'll take Megatron."
"You've got some balls to say that after what he just did to you. But fine. You just better win or else!"
"Bold. But foolish!" Megatron said before he and Asta battled once again.
Timing her attacks, Fiona assisted Sideswipe and the others against Menasor.
"Asta. Even with all of that, you're still fighting. Against Megatron of all people. You never cease to amaze me." Noelle thought as she watched him battle Megatron with half open eyelids. They were about to close before yelling was heard. That yelling being from Julie and Fiona, who sent into the air again by another tornado along with the other Autobots.
"It's over Autorunts!" Devastator said before slicing at them with one final blow. One that would have connected had Noelle not hit Menasor in the head with one fiinal Sea Dragon's Roar. While it disoriented him, the downside was, she was done. If she was going to keep fighting, it was going to be without magic. If she could even do that. She was exhausted as indicated by her hard breathing.
"Well I'll be damn. I was gonna try to charge some more magic to make sure I get a guaranteed killing blow, but what kind of Captain would I be if I didn't reward my mates' persistence? That's pushing past your limits right there!" Yami thought, proud before choosing a spell to perform as he leaped in the air, as close to Menasor as he could before the combiner inevitably recovered.
"Dark Magic! Dark Cloaked Avidya Wild Slash!" Yami performed several swings in a disorderly fashion around Menasor's torso. The slashes were enough to stagger him, but somehow, with no health reamaining, he was still standing.
"What the hell? He should be dead!" Kageyama said.
"Magic pixel dude, magic pixel." Toxsa said.
"What?"
"Oh yeah, forgot that you don't play games. It's-"
"I don't care about what it means, I care about us potentially being robbed because of a glitch!"
"But it's not a glitch you idiot. He literally just said what it was." Tsukishima said.
"SHUT UP AND SIT IN SILENCE LIKE YOU'VE DOING FOR THIS WHOLE EPISODE!"
"Practice what you preach." Miyuki remarked.
"YOU TOO!"
Thankfully for them, he was still brought down regardless, leaving only Megatron. Though in the case of him and Asta, the two were fighting on a rooftop now.
Transformers Devastation Megatron Final Battle Theme Plays
"So you care about the lives of Cybertronians but no one else? Don't you see how hypocritical that is?" Asta asked Megatron as they continued to masterfully counter, attack and dodge each other's attacks.
"On Cybertron, there are no other lives to care about but Cybertronians! Just like here there are no other lives here but humans! If put in the same situation, you would care about saving your own kind before others as well!" Megatron countered as he quickly spun around his mace, forcing Asta to have to dodge each and every spin before he slammed it on to the ground.
Asta shook his head before advancing to try to punish the mace slam. "No. No that isn't right! Of course I care about people! But what about the animals here? We're not the only ones on this planet! Preservation through destruction is not the way to go about it! Yes, I want to help people that aren't of the upper-class. People that were just like me, that weren't blessed to have magic or to have the privileges of royalty like Noelle, or even common-folk. I don't want them to be looked down upon just for having weak magic! That's why I want to be the Wizard King!" Asta dodged a kick before punishing him for the miss.
"Then you do understand! Hence why I will restore Cybertron! And then, bring glory to Cybertron across the universe!" Megatron said before rapidly moving to try and confuse Asta before shooting Shockwave at him again, this time at an angle.
"We are nothing alike! You want peace through tyranny!" Asta said, dodging the laser and attacking Megatron. Each of his next few attacks, even with him trying in a different way, were still things he saw coming and dodged, parried or punished them. "Freedom and peace should be a right for everyone!"
"Just like Prime... then enjoy being weak just like him too!" Megatron said before putting up his energy shield again. Asta ran in. But that was exactly what Megatron was waiting for. In the blink of an eye, he charged at him with the same afterimage speed as before. Megatron, using the element of surprise, attempted to overpower the boy with sheer strength.
"As I said before, empathy is for the weak!" Megatron said as Asta was almost on one knee, straining, but unable to outmuscle Megatron.
"You couldn't be more wrong Megatron! Your quest for power will only lead to your downfall!" Optimus said, rejoining the fight and punching Megatron in the face.
Both of them clashed again, but this time Asta was also there to help Optimus. "You were once a great warrior! I loathe what this world has done to you!"
"Just as I loathe what you have become..." Optimus said. "But as long as my spark is still active, I will never stop fighting for all sentient beings!" He and Asta began to have a bit of leverage on Megatron, and that small opening was all that Optimus needed.
"It's... over Megatron!" He performed a hammer-fist uppercut on him, sending him flying.
Music Stops
"Alright. About time. Took him long enough." Yami commented before cutting up Megatron in half with his Dark Magic-infused sword.
"Was that really necessary?" Noelle asked.
"Yeah, we were already about to leave. At least, I hope we were. Please don't let there be anything else. Please!" Fiona begged, putting her hands together.
"Nah. But I might as well have done it since I got a good slice on everyone else. Besides, I needed to take my frustration out on the main guy that started all this crap in the first place. Wasn't for him, I wouldn't even be here. Now if you'll-" Yami started before a sudden bright light was seen.
"Welcome back guys! And good news is-" Chris started before Yami interrupted.
"Don't care. Send me back or else!" Yami said, grabbing onto Chris' head.
"If you could let go of my head, I would."
"Fine. Hurry up!"
Chris opened a portal for him to go back home. "Well, I'll be seein' ya. Hell, it could be sooner rather than later."
"What do you mean by that? ARE YOU COMPETING TOO!?" Asta asked, his excitement starting to rise.
"No you moron! I mean Chris might get the bright idea of bringing a challenge to our world. Not sure what it'd be that he couldn't do anywhere else that's probably remotely more exciting but I digress, who knows. Anyways... I'm outta here. The john awaits!" He walks through the portal before it closes.
"Anyways, with 4 remaining, you all win the challenge!" Chris announced, which caused most of the team to cheer. Some of the others just exhausted. If not physically, mentally. "And as for your prize, you win this!" He gestured to the bed behind him.
"You can't be serious. A bed? We went through all of that and our prize is a bed!?" Dan asked, upset.
"You know what? I'm too mentally checked out from all the insanity from today to even care. I'm sure I'll talk about it, or forget about it, eventually." Mr. Wolf said.
"At this point, I'm just glad it's over." Kageyama said.
"You know what? I can agree with that." Isagi said.
"Just like it's going to be over for one of the Rats soon. With two remaining, you had the smallest number of people left, which means, your team is up for elimination. Again. I'll meet you in about 30 minutes or so. I'm actually kinda hungry, so I'm going to get something to eat before we start." Chris said. "But until then, back to the island! Everyone else can go home."
"Well, guess that's our cue to leave. Good luck!" Beni, making her first appearance said before quickly leaving.
"Wow. Not even a quick, 'Hi I'm Beni'." Toxsa commented.
"Her only interest was the money anyways, so it makes sense. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be here." Gen said.
"So what's her deal anyway? I can't exactly say I'm a big fan of the whole 'playing both sides' thing." Lucy asked.
"Guess Toxsa filled you in. But anyways, she's really only interested in helping herself. That's probably the best explanation I can give."
"So why not just cut her off if you know that's how she is?" Kagami asked.
"Yeah, if that was me, we would have had some problems a long time ago." Rei said.
"Can't exactly do that if our apartments are next door to one another." Gen said.
"Understandable. But I still think someone needs to confront her."
"Well sooner or later, she's going to have to pick a side. Neutrals aren't exactly safe from crossfire. And double agents aren't exactly looked kindly upon by everyone in war." Skipper said.
"Something tells me she understands that. Or maybe she doesn't. All I know is, she hasn't found that event that made her see things, the world, differently, like I have. At one point, I hated the concept of getting close to others just like she did, even if the reasons were different. I was just as upset at the world just like she was. But all it takes is one event. One encounter, that can change all of that. Maybe it'll happen for her too." Gen said. "Anyways, I've been here for longer than I'd like. Best of luck to all of you." He added, before walking through the portal.
"Wait a second, not evan a 'especially you Toxsa'? GEN!" Toxsa said before sighing. "This guy..."
"How are you guys feeling?" Dewey asked Aomine, Akashi and Huey
"I'm good. Ready to go home. Later." Aomine said before going back to the portal to Japan.
"I'm fine. Thank you for asking." Akashi said.
"Could be better if I did more." Huey said.
"You did enough. It's natural that you don't get everything right. We're here to support you."
"Yeah but eventually, something's gotta give. I don't want to keep hearing that over and over again. Eventually, it's going to get to a point to where no one wants to hear that and I'll be gone." Huey said before going through his portal back home.
"I wish we could do more to help your brother."
"You and me both dude." Dewey said.
"But in reality, this is a mental hurdle he has to overcome himself. Now, if you'll excuse me." Akashi said before going in his own portal. "I wish the rest of you a great day."
Noelle breathed a sigh of relief, mentally exhausted before Fiona tapped on her shoulder. When she looked to her left, she saw Toto on her shoulder which scared her, causing Fiona, who was on the right to giggle a little. She had two juices in her hands.
"That's not funny!" Noelle said.
"Hey, cheer up. At least just a little. We did win. Heck, I thought you'd be bragging a lot more after you're little heroics. If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't have won that challenge. Menasor would have gotten us."
"That is true."
"Don't let this get to your head or anything, but I just wanted to say thanks. That's twice you bailed me out. I shouldn't have used Leopatra again. I let my emotions get to me and it almost cost us."
"You're welcome. But if you really want to thank me, promise me you'll do better."
"Promise you? Please, I know I can do better."
"Then stop talking and show it to me."
"'Show me'? Oh I knew it was a bad idea to thank you! Because now this challenge and what I just said puffed your big head up even more!"
Toto started to hang off and pull a strand of Noelle's hair which made her yelp a little. "Get your little rat out of my hair! And who are you calling big head?"
"Rat!? The only one that's a rat here is you granny! Nice gray hair!"
"It's silver you idiot! Why would my hair be gray!?"
"Then how come I've yet to see a single person with gray hair other than you!?"
"Asta? Albedo?"
"Albedo doesn't count. He's an alien. And I honestly forgot about Asta. You know what? With how you two act, you're probably aliens yourself."
"Says the person that uses toys to fight with!"
"LEOPATRA IS NOT FOR FIGHTING IT'S FOR RACING! AND IT'S NOT A TOY!"
"WELL CLEARLY CONSIDERING HOW USELESS IT'S BEEN!"
"YOU WEREN'T CALLING IT USELESS WHEN I POWERED UP YOUR SORRY WATER MAGIC! AND WHAT KIND OF MAGIC IS THAT!? WOW, I'M REALLY SCARED OF GETTING SPLASHED IN THE FACE! LET'S PRETEND WATER GUNS DON'T EXIST!"
"SO IF MY WATER MAGIC IS USELESS, WHAT DOES THAT MAKE SLAZOR!?"
"SLAZOR'S DIFFERENT! NOT ONLY CAN IT-"
As they continued arguing, several people watched.
"Yeah, I think we should pull them away from each other." Asta suggested.
"Uh uh, I'm not getting into that. I'm not exactly a fan of friends fighting, but you haven't felt Fiona's wrath when she's mad. And besides, this is one of those times where things are being blown out of proportion. They'll work it out." Diego said.
"UGH! I CAN'T BELIEVE I ACTUALLY CONSIDERED SHARING SNACKS AND A DRINK WITH YOU!" Fiona shouted.
"GOOD! I NEVER ASKED YOU TOO!" Noelle shouted back.
Fiona intentionally drank the second drink she had in Noelle's face. "Well you don't have to worry about me changing my mind."
"Okay, I think that's enough. Go home." Doyle said to the both of them.
"Eventually." Diego added.
"Lotte that was awesome! I know you didn't win or get to the end, but still!" Libby said, happy for Lotte showing off her potential as a fighter and not just her interests.
"You think so?" Lotte asked.
"Think so? I know so! Take it from the girl that can't do any of that herself!"
Lotte laughs a little. "Well, at least if I go today, I'll have shown off some of my spells. And the play, as much of a dud as that was, was pretty fun too." Lotte said.
"Hey, that's better than me. Other than this, I can't really think of a single good thing I've done." Morty said.
"I'm sure there's something you've done."
"Honestly, I'm trying to think of something and holy s[censored], I really can't think of anything right now." Rick said.
"Wow. Way to be a helpful grandpa." Akko said sarcastically.
"I'm serious."
"Oh. Well, I hope you don't leave today. It'd be pretty disappointing to see you go without seeing some of your interests first." Lotte said.
"Yeah, I don't either. As for interests? Eh..." Morty said.
"You have to have something that interests you."
"I'm just gonna leave it at watching TV and video games. But hey, enough about me, what do you like to do?"
"For the most part, my favorite thing to do is read. Particularly romance novels."
"Romance novels huh? You mean like Twilight?"
"I've never read that series. But yes."
"Me neither. Only know of it 'cause of the memes."
"What kind of books do you to like to read?" Lotte asked, perking up.
"Uh... nothing really. I wouldn't really call myself a reader?" Morty said, caught off guard at her sudden change in demeanor.
"Does reading manga count?" Monta asked.
"Well, those are considered books, so absolutely!" Lotte said. "And... I'm sorry for catching you off guard Morty. I guess I got too excited."
"Don't worry about it. As weird as that was, it happens." Morty said.
"Lotte here was probably really looking forward to another reading buddy." Molly said, lightly elbowing her in the hip.
"I-I was just a little curious." Lotte said.
"That excited little rise sounded like more than just a little." Molly teased.
"I wasn't trying to be nosy or anything! Honest!" Lotte quickly denied, a bit of red on her cheeks.
"Woah, hey, no need to get so defensive! She was just kidding around." Libby said.
"If you took it as otherwise, I sincerely apologize." Molly said.
"I-it's okay. I shouldn't have overreacted." Lotte said before noticing Bennett seemingly talking to no one. Which gave her the excuse she needed to change the subject. "I wonder if the older Bennett's going to stay. He's been gone ever since the first Gran Prix. Which I recall was over 10 episodes ago."
"Jeez, it's been that long? I haven't even been keeping count." Morty said.
"It's episode 20 already. Hard to believe it's been that many. You would have thought I would have been gone sooner. But then again, I haven't been in too many challenges to be given the opportunity to compete and, probably, lose to some of the stronger people here." Libby said.
"I wouldn't exactly look at it that way." Hanamiya spoke up, his sudden appearance scaring everyone, including Molly. "Sorry for scaring you. But anyways, I don't exactly subscribe to that power notion. Anyone, at the very least, depending on the context of the situation, can be beaten. Brute force and power aren't everything. Sometimes, a good strategy is all you need to win. I should know."
"How come?"
"Well, look at the Generation of Miracles. And by extension, the rest of the Uncrowned Kings beside myself. That is what I've had to deal with during my time playing basketball. But I made it work and still gave myself a chance to compete."
"But surely you've got something cool you can do too right?" Lotte asked.
"Nope. I've got nothing but this to work with." Hanamiya said, pointing to his head. "Even the rest of the Uncrowned Kings have something special about them. Nebuya's uncanny muscles and strength, Kiyoshi's hands, Hayama's lightning dribbling, and Mibuchi's diverse offensive forms. But I'm not here to toot my own horn. Just trying to give Libby a bit of encouragement."
"Thanks. I really appreciate it. And besides, it's not like there aren't some things I can do that they can't, now that I think of it. Do you see Natsu trying to make a dessert?" Libby said, performing a heroic pose.
"That's... a pretty random example, but I guess not."
"Oh, by the way, I see that you like to stay to yourself. Just because you come up with some strategies at times, that doesn't mean you can't make friends here. You know these two like to read too" Molly offered, referring to Lotte and Libby.
"I wouldn't consider myself a lone wolf like Shiro, but no thanks. Respectfully. Some board games would be fun though. As for reading, I don't consider myself a fan of romance novels by any means. I'd be a fish out of water."
"Well, I appreciate the answer nonetheless. And I'm glad you want to play some board games. Or card games too. It'd be fun! If we ever got the chance to do it again that is."
"Well, I'll be seein' ya. Here's to another win. And hopefully, better prizes next time." Hanamiya said before going in the portal back to Japan.
"Well, I'm gonna go watch some TV after this is over. I'm mentally checked out at this point." Morty said.
"You know, that would be nice but, I want to stay outside for a bit. Sometimes, the silent sounds of nature can be just as soothing to the mind." Lotte said.
"Well, hopefully you'll have time to do that after. Team meeting. Bennett has an announcement to make." Lanolin said, catching up to the two.
"Well, I think you're question's gonna be answered Lotte." Morty said to her.
"Can someone go and find Hiruma and Rally? I know everyone went off to themselves, but those two just disappeared without a trace." Lanolin requested.
"Sur-" Mamori started before Sena and Tangle had already sped off.
The two were actually in another area off to themselves for a private conversation, as requested by Rally.
"Alright, you brought me here, now-" The next thing he knew, he was punched in the face, a clear visible mark on his cheek after the punch from Rally.
Hiruma looked up at Rally, surprised, but not exactly happy either.
"That was for lying earlier about the guns. And it's not even the fact that you still had them that rubbed me the wrong way. It's just the fact that you lied about it in the first place."
Hiruma could only close his eyes and smile.
"This isn't some joke! I'm dead serious here!"
"Tch. You know what? I shouldn't even be surprised with you Rally. But you're not alone."
"In punching you for the crap you pull? I'm half surprised honestly."
"That f[censored]ing old man and that damn kicker. But, anything else?"
"What do you mean 'anything else'? You're not going to, you know, ap-" Rally sighed and shook her head. "You know what? I'm done. I'll just stop before I end up doing something I regret." She added before leaving. As he watched her leave, he could only grin.
"He's lucky he's got nice people like Sena, Kurita and Monta. And even Mamori. Anyone else would-" Rally thought as she was walking before almost bumping into Mamori.
"Sorry." Rally said.
"It's okay. You haven't seen Hiruma by any chance have you?"
"No I haven't." She lied. "Speaking of which, how do you tolerate him and his antics without telling him off more? Or stronger than what you've done? If it was me, I would have hit him a long time ago."
Mamori could only smile. "It's funny you say that. Because I have. Numerous times. As part of the disciplinary committee, I initially butted heads with him a lot. Believe it or not, some of those same antics he's carried over in school. And I wouldn't stand for it. Hence why I wasn't going to let someone as kind as Sena get recruited by him. It was when he insisted on staying when I tried to pull him from the club that I realized I was trying to coddle him way too much. And it took Hiruma for me to see that. He's the reason Sena realized that he didn't need me to protect him anymore."
Mamori pushed a lock of hair away from her eyes as she smiled. "I would have never thought I'd see the day I'd be the manager for someone like him of all people. I know it doesn't seem like it, but Hiruma genuinely respects you three. You, Lanolin and X. It's rare that he'll defer for anything. He always puts that burden on himself."
"If he doesn't defer, what about you? Has he ever even said 'thank you' to you or the others once?" Rally asked.
"I guess... I'm one of the few exceptions. Even if he's never said it to explicitly. I've learned with him, that you really have to really read in between the lines." Mamori then explained to her the day Sena revealed to the entire world that he was Eyeshield 21, and more importantly, the remarks that Hiruma made about Mamori and the others on his team, personally writing introductions for them.
"Yeah well, seeing is believing. Anyways, as much as I want to be to myself, I've got to find X and Lanolin. Later."
"Wait! There's a team meeting! Just join up where everyone's grouped up in." Mamori called out.
"Team meeting? Good to know. Thanks."
***Confessional***
Rally(Radical Rally):
"I know how hypocritical it is for me to lie to her, but in this case, I'm willing to make an exception. I didn't want to make a scene about that and make it bigger than what it actually is. That's why I wanted it to be in private. Even though with these cameras, 'private' is subjective."
***End Confessional***
Every one of the Rats was gathered up for Bennett's announcement.
"Alright, I'm not going to waste everyone's time with some long speech, so for starters, I'd like to apologize to everyone for leaving. I was upset. But that doesn't excuse my actions at all. I shouldn't have acted that way or blown up in front of you all like that. And second, I'd like to announce that I'll be around to help Bennett, and by extension, the rest of the team, for the rest of this season. I know all I can give is advice but hey, if it helped the kid, then i'm confident it'll help you too. And that's really about it. Thank you." Old Bennett said.
"So question, how come you're with your younger self anyway? Is it some sort of bond or something? I know Reagan talked about how dangerous time travel can be." Kise asked.
"It's... after what just happened today, I really would like to relax. And don't worry, it's time projection, not time travel so it's a lot safer. Less interactive obviously, but safer."
"Okay. Yeah, I can understand that one."
"Well, that's about it. I guess the only other thing left is to prepare for the elimination." Lanolin said.
The rest of the 30 minutes passes and everyone met up with Chris for the elimination.
"Alright, elimination time. Like before, we'll keep things short with who played." Chris said. "So make your votes people!"
***Confessional***
Becky F.(Radical Rats):
*Stamps Cicini*
"Bennett's older self returning changes things. Because I was definitely going to choose him before that announcement. Let's just hope he doesn't up and leave without warning again."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Yulaw(Radical Rats):
*Stamps Bennett*
"You can bring up as many 'what-ifs' as you want. How about this? What if he leaves again?"
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Rally(Radical Rats):
*Stamps Cicini*
"This is a tough one. But I do want to see if Rick and the older Bennett can settle their differences. Plus, Bennett's battle with Granox and Gen really showed me something about him that I wasn't seeing before. And Hiruma, Lanolin and X all unanimously agree with that."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Murasakibara(Radical Rats):
*Yawns and stamps Cicini, because Becky told him to*
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Natsu(Radical Rats):
*Stamps Cicini*
"Glad to see the old guy's back. Hope he can help us. We haven't been doing so hot recently."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Rick(Radical Rats):
*Stamps Bennett*
"Don't care if the older Bennett's back. Cicini's still got more value than them."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Emma(Radical Rats):
*Stamps Cicini*
"Two heads are better than one. But I swear if he up and leaves again..."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Kise(Radical Rats):
"I know this is like way out of left field, but has anyone noticed how Hanamiya's basically been pretty quiet? I mean he's never been the most outgoing guy from what I've seen of him during games, but still. Something to keep an eye on maybe? I didn't think about it until he spoke up about the puzzle. I just hope he actually plays the game instead of trying to find a way to cheat again. It's wishful thinking, but I really want to see his potential and interests put on display. Just unfortunate that all of that's ruined because of what's he done before. Look, if Haizaki can show he can change, why not him? Is it wrong to want to see the best in people? Outside of the obvious pure evil guys."
*He forgot to vote*
***End Confessional***
"Well, this is it! You've all cast your votes and made your decision." Chris said. "Get a boxing glove to the face,your safe! If you don't, you're out!"
"Wait, wha-" Lanolin started before she was the first to be punched by Chef.
"Natsu!"
He instinctively stopped the punch and crushed the glove.
"Way to ruin it dude!" Chris said, not happy.
"Oops. Sor-" He was punched from behind, by Heloise.
"You really think we didn't plan for you fighting back and destroying it? Now take the punch or you're out too."
"Axl!"
Axl, begrudgingly took the punch to the face.
"Rick!"
"Yulaw!"
"Sendo!"
As much as getting punched in the face wasn't anything new to him, it still hurt.
"Lotte!"
She could only sigh before picking up her glasses and putting them back on.
"Morty!"
"Well, at least it wasn't hard enough for me to lose any teeth. But what is this for anyway?" Morty asked, getting up.
"Because, the final fights were VR. So to make up for that, we're giving you real pain."
"You know what? I'm not even gonna question it. I just wanna go home at this point."
"Luckily for you, you get to come back. Because from what I've heard, the only reason you're not gone is because of the two people that are left. Looks like your team's looking to cut some redundancy, so you're not a priority at the moment. That and probably because you're with Rick. Anyways, Cicini! Bennett! Wonder who's going to get punched last?"
"From the looks of things, no one cares about you being the reason the team lost. It's more potential and what your history has shown. Which is rare, but understandable. Usually it's someone quitting for some weird reason out of nowhere, the losing thing like I said before, or an alliance screwing someone over. Or injuries."
"You're saying this as if that's never happened. That's called strategy." Emma said. "Well actually, I've never been here. Has it?"
"Yeah it has. On numerous occasions. I have no idea what Chris is talking about." Rally said.
"Don't act like I'm overexaggerating. I know what I'm talking about."
"Will you eliminate someone already!? I'm freakin' starving here!" Kagami said impatiently.
"Alright, alright keep your shirt on dude."
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"Wait, black ey-" Bennett started before he was punched in the left eye.
"Congrats! You're safe! Cicini, you're out! Oh yeah, by the way, Kise, you forgot to vote. How about vote, then talk, like everyone else?"
"Oops. Sorry." Kise apologized, grabbing the back of his head and laughing it off.
"That's not funny! Doing that could cost someone! What is wrong with you!?" Becky F. said.
"Woah, Becky chill out! It was a mistake!" May said.
"Yeah that was too far. I understand being upset or telling him not to do it again but come on, that last part was uncalled for." Rally said.
"Sorry... just don't do it again, alright?" Becky asked.
"You got it. I understand the reasons behind being upset. This one's on me." Kise said.
"Well thankfully for you, it doesn't matter since there was a multi-vote gap for Cicini here. But yeah, next time you do it, I'm definitely expecting someone to hurt you. Which will be great TV."
"Great TV? That's not funny. You have serious issues." Rei said.
"Come back and say that after it potentially happens to you."
"Like that's going to happen."
"We'll see. Anyways, Cicini, you're gone."
Cicini hugs Bennett.
"Sucks you couldn't be here longer." Young Bennett said.
"Well, at the very least, I loved the time I was here. And at the very least, your older self gets to help again. Even if I didn't win, learning about all of these new things and people, I consider this a success. Learning and exploration was the main reason that I came here in the first place. Winning and getting this far in this show is a bonus. And to do more than just that is even better. I only wish I could leave some sort of parting gift, but I guess the communications and our latest project is more than enough." Cicini said.
"Actually, I think a hug is more than enough of a parting gift." May said.
"Your technology has, and still will help us greatly. Thank you, Cicini. You proved yourself to be more than just a scientist as well." Puss said, extending his hand. Cicini took it.
"Agreed. Your current contributions have been more than enough. Now if you'll excuse me, I must purchase some chili cheese fries before the restaurant closes." Albedo said.
"The rest of you are safe. For now. Now go home!" Chris said before turning his attention towards the camera. "And Cicini's gone next! Probably the most sane and stable genius here in the madness. So this'll be interesting. Drama between Rick, Bennett and maybe Reagan? Must see TV. Hopefully. Find out on the next episode of Total... Drama... Across the Multiverse!"
A/N: Took a little longer with this one because of Finals. School has and always will come first for me.
As for Transformers Devastation, really wanted to show this underrated gem some love. This game was my first exposure to Platinum's fast-paced action games, something I didn't think would work for Transformers, but it far surpassed my expectations. All I really wanted was an okay/decent PS4 Transformers game and I got an absolute fire gem that is now one of my personal favorite Transformers video games. The Bayformers games, as polarizing as the movies are, most of those, especially the 2007 game, are bangers too, especially the DS Autobot and Decepticon games(All the PSP games are trash though lol). And the Cybertron games are awesome too. The very definition of good execution for something that doesn't look like it'd work from an outside point of view.
Pretty unfortunate that this game, outside of physical copies, is lost media now with the game being delisted along with pretty much every other Transformers game in digital stores(Thanks a lot Activision). Still need to play the cartoon-licensed games though. Prime, Animated and the Cybertron Anime Trilogy was how I even got into Transformers before the Bayverse and discovering the G1 cartoon/movie.
As for Dark Energon, that was not the plot of Devastation. I used that as a nod to the War of Cybertron game another TF game that I enjoy.
We also get a short look at Akashi's alternate personality along with his poor man's King Crimso- err Emperor Eye. How will those play an impact later on?
Next episode will be in the land of Remnant, a challenge with strong inspiration from MasterKat's TD Everything seasons.
Elimination order:
165th- Dragonfly Jones(Radical Rats)-Martin Sitcom
164th- Richie and Virgil(Wave Breakers)- Static Shock
163rd- Cameron(Storm Kings)- Total Drama
162nd- Duncan(Wave Breakers)- Total Drama
161st- Chris P.(Wave Breakers)- Dan VS
160th- Mona(Storm Kings)- Mona the Vampire
159th- Owen(Radical Rats)-Total Drama
158th- Zoey(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama
157th - Tetsuya Kuroko(Radical Rats)- Kuroko's Basketball(Quit)
156th-Shintaro Midorima(Storm Kings)-Kuroko's Basketball
155th-MacArthur and Sanders(Radical Rats)- Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race
154th-Luz Noceda(Storm Kings)-The Owl House
153rd-Priya(Radical Rats)-Total Drama
152nd- Shogo Haizaki(Wave Breakers)-Kuroko's Basketball
151st- Edward Falcon(Radical Rats)-Power Stone
150th- Shawn and Jasmine(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama
149th- Zak Saturday(Storm Kings)- Secret Saturdays
148th - Nimona(Wave Breakers)- Nimona
147th-Rocky Rickaby(Radical Rats)-Lackadaisy
146th-Huey Freeman(Storm Kings)-Boondocks
Episode 21: Compete in the Beacon Academy Invitation(RWBY)
Song: This Will Be the Day performed by Casey Lee Williams and composed by Jeff Williams(RWBY)
Episode 22: Krusty Krab Kraze: Compete in a Krusty Krab Eating Contest(Spongebob Squarepants)
Song: Spongebob Squarepants theme(More than likely anyway)
Episode 23: Compete in a Monsuno Battle(Monsuno)
Song: Monsuno by Far East Movement
Episode 24:Splatoony!: Compete in a splatoon battle. Then, the top two from each team compete for a prize(Splatoon & Skatoony)
Song: Skatoony intro(Skatoony)
Episode 25: You're in Jeopardy!: Compete in a game of Jeopardy. With Chris' certifed improvements!(Double Elimination)
Episode 26: Compete in the Kyoto Goodwill Competition(Jujutsu Kaisen)
Kaikai Kitan by Eve(Jujutsu Kaisen)
Episode 27: Drama Prince(ss): Compete in games chosen by the Seigaku Tennis Team(The Prince of Tennis)
(Opening undecided at the moment)
