Tyranny 2025
Chapter 14: Redd Cons Again!
Date: January 4th, 2025
Resetti yells: "LIKE WE'LL LET YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO! WHAT YOU JUST DID IS ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE RESETTING!" I speak up: "Lets not waste any more time. We dont know if we're going to get any reinforcements especially because everyone else is struggling too.." Gracie grins again: "So youre THAT ready to be buried along with all pf your hideous getups?! VERY WELL, I WILL PUT YOU IN THE GROUND AND BUILD MY NEW STORE OVER YOUR BODIES! MY FASHION LINE WILL RETURN HERE AND OFFER QUALITY FASHIONABLE CLOTHES AND FURNITURE TO THE COLONIZERS WHO ARE ALREADY ON THEIR WAY HERE!" I reply: "Colonizers? More like invaders and intruders in places that dont belong to them. The peoples of Animal Crossing are having everything taken from them and yet you side with the enemy who is taking everything away from them. What happened to the care you had for your fellow inhabitants of this world?" She grins creepily: "That was a whole other life! I have found that my own people will NEVER make this world as great as it could be! Who needs them when I can profit so much more under the Harbringers Of Doom?!" Gracie has been completely twisted, few traces of her original personality remain. This is how it is and thats not a good thing at all. We gear up to fight despite knowing we were in for another difficult one and seeing all the destruction around us.
Nothing remains of Fun Land except ruins and rubble. This is what all oppressors salivate for when they seek to displace and slaughter entire groups of individuals. They cant help themselves. Theyll step on anyone and destroy anything to gain and maintain power over all. They see themselves as far superior to everyone else and look down on other species of life forms as fodder at best. None of us say a word to Gracie after what she just said. We just pull out our main weapons and go at her immediately but as expected, nothing we do works and she pushes us back with ease. "You darlings think some of you have nailed the looks that kill look.." As we more strategically begin to attack her, she changes her appearance and laughs: "But I can do it so much better than any of you can!" It doesnt work on us. Gracie made an outfit beautiful enough to kill someone with the looks that kill theme but didnt truly get the assassination essence of quite literally making something that has looks that kill. Pinkie yells: "Smoophy, you completely failed! I never thought you would ever have a fashion failure! If we werent fighting you, I would be crying right now! I used to admire and look up-" Gracie blasts her with some kind of corrupted "fashion power" before transforming through Artificial Barian Battlemorph before our eyes. So far, things arent going that good but none of us have died again just yet. We are more prepared for immense suffering this time than we were against Nook or DPI.
Gracie wont overpower us as easily. But still, we have gone straight to full power in our attempts to begin trying to defeat Gracie to no avail. Nothing has done any damage once again. Its the same old thing all over again. If we had 3-4 times the numbers of us currently here, we could take Gracie with a strong chance of beating her. But because theres so many villains and AI piloted advanced military weapons and vehicles across this world, we dont have that. It doesnt help we dont really know much about how things are going for the others. Without us noticing, communications have been somehow completely cut again. Not even wireless signals that can go from dimension to dimension are working. For 15 minutes, we mostly fight Gracie without saying much, just letting her go on and on unless one of us got annoyed enough to yell about something. The only thing we have going for us is the fact that she hasnt killed any of us yet and we are working so well together once again. We have one another's backs and compensate for our weaknesses. Where one is weak or not very proficient, another is strong. Having a balanced lineup where thats a thing is very important. Gracie laughs: "Whats wrong? Has my superior tastes in fashion left all of you too speechless to say anything or try something clever that could work against me?!" Blathers yells: "Hooooooo! Dont listen to her taunts! Stay focused!"
Gracie chuckles: "That wont help you. Im getting rather bored of this, I know what each of you is capable of already. Why dont I try something new? Insects are rather disgusting but I dont mind using them if it means ending this farce that much sooner!" With a simple wave motion, a bunch of bugs come out of the ground and go after Blathers: "EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! STAY AWAY FROM ME, YOU WRETCHED THINGS! THE HORROR... THE HORRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRR!" But she wasnt just satsified with making Blathers act in fear despite the disruption that was already causing to our efforts to fight her. No, she started playing on other known fears some of us have. Because of that, those of us she doesnt target soon have to comfort those she does while attempting to continue to fight her. She took advantage of this and used her acquired through unknown means martial arts and magic against us. Gracie gained complete control of the battle and was able to subdue all of us by herself. She ties us up to her sports car of all things and smiles: "Any last words, fashion failures?!" Isabelle replies: "You havent won yet! We're still fighting!" "That's ridiculous! How can you fight while tied up?! The answer is you cant!" She starts laughing at all of us, seeing us now as pathetic losers who just dont know when to give up. Now she's underestimating what we can do even while tied up. I use Artist's Eye to temporarily create a copy of Twisted Land around us and even imagine a command block with a redstone block underneath it. The command block is imagined to have a command in it.
That command runs instantly and teleports Gracie into the Expedition Of The Tukan Pyramid: Pharaonic Rage roller coaster I created. It is a completely indoor, compact, and 12 minute long roller coaster in which most of the track is enclosed in long tunnels that stretch for even hundreds of blocks, connecting each room in the coaster to one another. It'll take her a while to get out of it because she now have fo navigate it and try to find a way out. The coaster is a complete circuit so its not a maze in layout, it just takes an agonizing amount of time to walk through the entire course of it. I actually teleported her to a spot in the coaster close to the beginning of it and imagined the beginning of it behind her blocked off, thus forcing her to have to go through the vast majority of the roller coaster to get out. This bought us a lot of time. We used it to free ourselves and get updates on how the others are faring. And it isnt good. Only a few other villains have been defeated and many of our comrades have been killed. The villains are thus beginning to gang on on some of our comrades in groups of 2, 3, or even 4. Upon getting the updates, Deirdre speaks: "So we're on our own." I sigh: "Looks like it. Damn. Theres no other choice. It hurts less that no one is coming to help us because no one can. This isnt like the situation where Im from. There, plenty of people can help the people as a whole but choose not to because they gotta maintain their civility, power, and illusion of prestige but no one is coming to save the people. We've been left on our own in my world. Theres no heroes or international forces coming.
'Not even the meiji could save us now.' Gracie will get out of my pyramid roller coaster soon. And we have no one coming to save us because no one can. But we can defeat her, it will take everything we have and more just like it did against Dark Princess Isabelle." Mabel adds: "We cant give up! Not not, not ever! Lets keep going and not allow any of these villains get what they want!" But then, a different familiar voice speaks: "It is you who are the villains. Anyone who goes against society and authority is a criminal and therefore, a sinning villain who needs to be sent to hell by God's judgement!" Pirate Blaster yells: "How did you escape this time?!" Gofast appears with a smile on their face: "I cant give credit to my actually realizing I am non binary, seeing as to how Ive tried to deny it and doing so has only weakened me. I hate that Im that way but that doesnt matter right now! Not when I can punish you all and get my revenge on you, my counterpart! My powers and gear may have been taken from me but I now have better versions of them at hand! And there's nothing you can do to resist what Im about to-" Dominic yawns and drains their power with a power absorbing device that works under certain conditions, including our current conditions, apparently. "SINNER, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY POWER?!" But things get weird as they just start laughing: "Just kidding! I let you take my power to fool you into believing I was going to be a mere pushover! *effortlessly takes the power back* Now, you are at my-" Theyre cut off as an alternate version of them shows up.
The original version of Gofast I envisioned as we quickly found out. They defeat the villain with ease due to the villain not having their guard up and sending them into another dimension. Alt Gofast speaks: "BRAINS members, you can now count on my aid and support as well. Lets do this. *sees me* Youre one of my counterparts, arent you?" "I am." "Good to finally meet you. Would you believe that Im the original Gofast you envisioned? Strange that the number cards in my world have turned out to be imitations of the actual ones but I have moved past that shocking reality. As a champion of my world, you wont see or hear from me much but I will help you in this battle. After all, I have come here to stop that other Gofast and I should stick around for the time being at least. *draws ender sword* I will continue protecting my world as well as keep an eye on that other Gofast." "I see. If that's what you think is best, go for it. We appreciate the help, we really need any we can get." We then get ready for Gracie to reappear along with our new ally. And then, just like that, our foe comes back at us just like that: "HOW DARE YOU TRAP ME IN SUCH A UNSETTLING PLACE-" We attack her before she could finish talking. We dont have time for her crap. But even with Alt Gofast's help, nothing changes. What will it take to stop her? Shes somehow even harder to deal with than the two villains we faces before her. Gracie laughs calmly: "I was able to watch footage of how you handled my associates. I know every single move you can try. I wont be caught by surprise by any of your moves again.
When Im through with all of you, you will have found yourselves constantly left unable to do anything to hurt me! The looks on your faces will be the only fashionable things about any of you once I have my way!" Biff replies: "If thats true, when did you get the time to do that?!" She opens a portal to reveal the corpses of some of our comrades: "These weaklings didnt even last 30 minutes against me! You could say I was on standby in case Nook and Dark Princess Isabelle failed to kill you all and died at your hands in the end!" This is seriously getting more and more twisted as time goes on. Gofast replies: "But you dont know what I can do." "You are lying! You have the same abilities as that other one!" "You are incorrect. *manifests red aura* *Ki power up* Heres what I can do." They engage Gracie in a epic clash but the villain knows how to counter their every move. She laughs: "We have been studying not simply the likes of all of you. No, we have been studying your techniques, learning to counter them! Thats part of the reason why you saw or heard nothing from any of us since the collapse of the Nacirema Empire! And because of that, its useless to-" She staggers as something begins to affect her. Carlos chuckles: "You might be bluffing but poison is still poison!" "What have YOU done to me?!" Leif replies: "We all coated our weapons in a happy little surprise.. Not so happy in actuality.." Jack chuckles: "We pulled a good trick on you. And now, its time for you tp experience what thats going to do to you!" Gracie starts laughing again: "You think poison is going to end this for you?!
Now that I know all your moves and already how to counter to them, none of you will be able to do anything I can't anticipate!" I speak up: "Then theres only one thing to do.. Chaos." We begin putting aside tried and proven techniques in order to begin pulling all kinds of unpredictable moves. I start waving my sword around like I just dont care and run around while doing so. She widens her eyes as the mayhem unfolds with ease: "WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING BY ACTING LIKE HOLIGANS?!" The only answers she gets is random nonsense. And within little time at all, she begins to take damage as a chosen few of us take advantage of the chaos to attack her completely unseen in her blind spots and areas she just isnt paying much attention to at the moment. Annoyed by the damage shes getting, she unleashes all kinds of attacks to try to get rid of us all for good but none of them hit due to us acting so unpredictable. Instead, we just continue doing our thing and wittling down her health in the process. But then, she tries again after beginning to move around incredibly fast. Because of this, we are all criticially wounded in no time at all. "That was so easy! I cant wait to be rid of-" Shes hit by a space laser and screams while her body burns alive. Our space station has been remotely transported into this universe and is now orbiting this planet and blasting many enemy flying crafts out of the sky as well. Shes then blasted over and over again before she could even properly react. But Gracie is still far from finished even after being blasted by laser after laser over several entire minutes. The villain is angry but mostly intact despite all of those lasers.
Resetti yells: "NOT EVEN THAT WAS ENOUGH?! NOW THAT ALL OF THAT POWER I USED ON THOSE NASTY ALIENS IS GONE, I CANT KNOCK HER INTO NEXT WEEK MYSELF!" Yeah, I dont think a single one of us knows how we're supposed to defeat her. Actually.. Ive been misleading you readers. We have been going easy on her without looking like we were. But Gracie didnt know that in part because Gofast wasnt in on that plan, they were fighting Gracie with all that they genuinely had which worked to our advantage. Annoyed by our strange methods of fighting her, Gracie suddenly begins moving far faster than she did before, going on a rampage to slaughter us all. But we just stood there, not responding to her attacks at all with action. We just let her hit us and over again in part to help save our strength for when we really needed it. And that time was coming soon. It all comes down to finding the perfect opportunity. And when Gracie slows down, expecting to see all of us reduced to mince meat, thats when we turn the tables on her. Blaze stops time and her along with it. We then take our time while time remains frozen to each attack her with as much attack force as possible along with other things such as inflicting all kinds of debuffs on her with some potions we snagged from the station. Every possible bad Minecraft effect is now applied to her. Thats going to mess with her greatly in addition to all the damage and pain she will have to react to all at once. Some of us loaned mana to Blaze so they could keep time frozen while we finished up what we intended to do.
The moment they had to stop and allow time to resume, Gracie screams from all that we did to her without her being able to do a thing due to being frozen in time while we did all of that. But we didnt stop with this. No, we doubled down and gave her not a single chance to respond with her own moves. We kept on the offense while yelling and saying things to aggravate and distract her. Some of us insult her fashion tastes and now failed fashion business, that really grinded her gears. Gracie was completely outsmarted and outplayed just like that. All because we pretended to be putting in our best effort while attacking her earlier. Her overconfidence caused her to be blindsighted and unable to notice or call our bluff. Instead, she bought it without question and that was her biggest mistake. All of us unleashed a relentless series of attacks that looked epic. I exhausted myself nearly to the limits of my arms and legs while pitching in to make all of this work out the way we plan on it doing so. And just like that, the great Gracie was being defeated, her mind and senses too overwhelmed for her to counter anything we threw at her. Even her automated muscle memory was rendered unable to react. More poison was put inside of her through many attacks and it was spreading. Gracie is marked for death now, it would take a huge plot twist for her to flip the table on us and reveal she is far from through just yet. That plot twist never comes because we never let up for a single moment. When someone needed space and time to unleash more large scale attacks, at least one other would strike Gracie from underneath.
There wasnt a single moment where she wasnt being attacked or talked/yelled to. The words being said to her were only angering her more and more as did all of the pain she was feeling. This kind of bombardment cannot be withstood for long by many of the most mentally and emotionally strong individuals out there. If they didnt have a chance, neither did she. She was trying to respond to everything being said to her: "YOU YOU YOU YOU.. SHUT SHUT SHUT SHUT SHUT.." Her rage explodes only for her pain to worsen to the point she couldn't even remotely ignore it anymore. Gracie was now left helpless, doomed to react to her pain and try to end it to no avail. I dont know who took her head right off but someone did and it was a very quick way for her to go. With her now dead, we all calmed down and regrouped on the longer of the two beachs in town where all we saw was the remains of enemy ships. Our comrades who ran down here earlier cleaned house. Theres no longer any enemies in Fun Land but still, the battle continues on across the planet. Isabelle speaks: "What are we going to do now?" KK Slider replies: "We have to save our friends on Harmony island." We all agree, wanting to help defeat more enemies as soon as possible and not caring too much about where we do so with all of the enemies there are to deal with. But before we could teleport there, Redd appears and chuckles: "Cuz's, where do you think youre going?!" Lloid suddenly uses Unrelenting Force on him, knocking him to the ground and causing him to be motionless for a couple of seconds.
Thats all we needed for some of us to deal a crap ton of damage to him and cast some basic binding spells. They should hold him up at least for a little bit. We leave Redd behind to go save the residents of Harmony only to find chaos and catastrophe when we arrive via teleportation. Everything is destroyed. While its true I reshaped whats on the island greatly, moving trees, planting fruit trees, uprooting most normal trees and selling them off instead just cutting them down, placing down every structure's designated locations myself, and all that stuff, the rubble still managed to cover much of the areas that have been left completely empty for the time being. And what we saw going on was just devastating to watch. The island's residents were up against Dr. Ziggurat and he was showing them no mercy. Katt, Isabelle, Mabel, Sabel, Timmy, Tommy, and Blathers looked relieved to have been in Fun Land instead of here. But that relief was hardly there compared to their shock and horror which most of the rest of us were also feeling. This was just so wrong. We rush to the aid of our comrades. Ziggurat laughs: "So more of you have come here, have you? Its a shame I cant get my revenge on Ginga and his friends but killing all of you will be enough now that Ive become one with my Spiral Capricorn again! HAHHAHAHAAHAHAHHAAAAAHAHAHAHA! You thought I was done when you helped destroy my new Hades City, didnt you? Its a shame for you that you were completely-" He is interrupted by Redd appearing: "You cant get away from me so easily, cuz's! *looks around* Ziggurat, this is my island to terrorize!
Not yours! You know that! That was part of the agreement!" "I never cared about that silly little agreement!" "Neither did I, cuz. But I still wanted to torment this island myself to help sell more my scams in the future!" "I see. But wouldnt it be better for us to join forces to kill all of these pathetic interlopers?!" "No, cuz. You're boring. Im not working with someone too pathetic and boring to be a good accomplice." They begin to argue in earnest, allowing us time to safely heal our comrades. Orvile of Dodo Airlines speaks to us as we help him and everyone else out: "We were almost goners. Thank you for saving us." Camofrog, one of Harmony's islands shouts: "Theres no time for that. Those enemies are still very dangerous!" Hes right. We decide to just wait for the villains to settle their differences. As a result, Redd kills Dr. Ziggurat with some of his forgery sculptures of all things. The scammer turns to us with a gleeful expression on his face: "Lets have some fun together now that Ziggurat is out of the picture!" In seconds, chaos erupts among us.. Carlos yells: "HEY, WHY DOES MY RIGHT DAGGER FEEL STRANGE?!" He tries it on Redd but it breaks and Redd attacks him with a dagger that looks a lot like his left dagger. Carlos fumes: "LET GO OF MY DAGGER!" The weight in my helmet suddenly shifts as others start exclaiming that something strange is happening as well. Before we knew it, Redd was wearing my helmet along with a mismatch of other armor worn by others. He somehow switched my helmet out with a fake version made out of cardboard, paint, and tinfoil!
The fraud laughs: "The others prefer to mostly use magic, pure power, and brute force to get what they want. But what they dont fully grasp is the power of the world of fraud! Do you have any idea how many have fallen for my scams? Hundreds, if not thousands, of course! And this scam is my best trick yet! Look at all of you! So angry I took some of your stuff and replaced them with cheap knockoffs! And none of you even noticed when I did this to you at all! Isnt that hilarious?! I think it is! *laughs* You all must be so mad at me!" I really want my actual helmet back but Im choosing to be levelheaded about it: as much as I want to run at Redd and just take it from him. Hes a slippery fella, he knows exactly how to push our buttons and make us act and feel the way he wants us to. He's also a charmer, always promising that he sells all genuine stuff when his store is visited by anyone. Some of us run at him but he was ready for that and pulls off tricks and powerful attacks to knock them off their feet and take their stuff. Afterwards, he pauses and does some thinking while using his muscle memory to keep us away from him by various means while still thinking. A light bulb icon appears over his head as he says: "I have a proposition for you. If you pay me 444,444 bells, I will give back everything I took and leave you all alone without any questions asked. I'll never bother you again so you can go help come to some of your friends as reinforcements, save lives, and blah blah blah. All I want is money, I dont care about much else! Not revenge, not anything!"
Blathers exclaims: "We can't accept your deal! Not after all of the times forgeries you sold have been submitted to me for the museum and rejected right away! I had to spend so much extra time studying historical artworks because of you! Whats more is that you said you wanted to terrorize this island earlier. Ridiculous! We wont fall for this scam of yours! Youll take our bells and just scam us all over again!" Redd shrugs and sarcastically says: "Hooray! You saw right through me! Good job, you!" Some of us suddenly yell and shout again. Redd just took more of our items and replaced them with knockoffs. Chuckling, he smiles: "Now its time for you all to die as I kill you with your own items! And keep myself alive by using some of them to protect myself! It was pleasure doing business with you, raiding your bodies is going to fetch me a lot of bells once I sell all of your stuff off! Heh!" As he runs at us, I try to use my sword on him but it just flops like a rubber sword. He then reveals he has my actual sword and uses it against us along with other weapons at once after transforming with Artificial Barian Battlemorph and growing 3 more pairs of arms as a result of doing so. Damn it. He got us again! I throw the rubber sword at him and pull out something thats actually real and not taken from me: my daggers. I charge them with wind magic, lower myself a lot closer to the ground by bending real low, and attack whenever I see an opening to. But all of our efforts, not just mine, prove to be ineffective due to him wearing so much stolen gear.
However, what he doesnt realize is that all of our items are enchanted with anti-theft spells. This causes his trickery to backfire on him. His power level at the moment had suppressed the automatic activation of the spells but.. Someone shouted the code word to manually activate that spell on any of their items that have been stolen. This causes the item that was taken from them to fly towards them and Redd along with it. Redd tries to resist the spell but its no use because theres another facet to it. It also stops anyone who has stolen an item from using their powers or spells for up to 30 seconds after the spell's activation. And because it gets activated on another item after that someone gets their item back, Redd is dragged along again and that 30 second timer starts over. The enchantment spell is pre loaded with lots of mana for multiple uses on each item its been applied to. Thus, theres no drawbacks to the owner of an item using the spell to get their stolen item(s). I soon quickly take my helmet back: "And I will be taking this back now. I wont waste time talking about how especially insulting its probably seen to take a knight's helmet from them or something like that. Now then, shoo, shoo." As Redd is sent all over the place due to that spell, the stolen items are gradually taken back from him and he is soon left without any gear to defend himself.
In fact, hes already greatly weakened because he was already attacked many times by the time the last stolen item he had on him was taken back. Redd coughs heavily: "I did not see that coming.. Oh well.. Im always prepared even when my scams are exposed! I always have a backup plan! And this one is something I never thought I would ever have to use!" We sense a bunch of dead life forms out of nowhere. Tom Nook widens his eyes: "Whats going on?!" "HEEHHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHE! BEHOLD! IF A SCAM WONT WORK, I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO GO THROUGH WITH THIS!" Thousands of ghosts suddenly appear out of the ground and before any of us could even say a word about this development, the ghosts began to possess.. our bodies.. Redd laughs again: "The ghosts now control you and because I control the ghosts, that means I also control all of you now! It doesn't matter how strong your wills are when theres just this many ghosts overtaking your bodies! I have had so much time to prepare for all scenarios in situations in which my schemes all failed and I teamed up with the forces of you know what before that happened! Cuzs', why are you about to hit each other?!" None of us could resist the ghosts, not even me even though Im undead or Bray despite her massive amount of mana or Barla even with her constantly strong willpower and awesomeness.
This is just so completely unexpected. None of us were prepared for this. And before I knew it, the ghosts were making my body hurt Bray's body as other ghosts had her body hurt my body at the same time. Redd has willed the ghosts to control our bodies to make them fight one another to the death. In just a few minutes, most of us were dead as a result. But because Im undead, the ghosts struggled to get my body to be motionless even after killing Bray. Everything about this is horrifying. Redd laughs once again: "Its a good thing I decided to research the occult and forbidden techniques in case my business sank and I needed something fresh to con others through! Well, its been fun but it looks like that all of you are about to be doomed if you aren't already dead! Oh and fun fact: those of you who have died are now going to be trapped as ghosts on this island for eternity and trying to reenter your bodies will just prove futile! Dont waste your time trying! And no, this isnt a lie either, why would I lie when it would be so much more fun to torment you with the truth in this case?!" Minutes later, Im the only one who hasnt been reduced to a ghost due to already being dead. My armor is all busted up and my body looks grotesque but my spirit hasnt left it. Redd looks very confused at this: "Why havent you left your body?! Youre dead! Move out of it!" He commands the ghosts in my body to stop possessing it so thats exactly what they do. I reply: "Redd, Ive already been dead in this body for almost a year and a half. You can bust up my body as much as you want but that won't evict me from it."
"..Did I miss something about you?! Wait a minute.. Cuz, youre that one some of the others have complained about refusing to die and going on about being dead already! So thats it! *laughs* This is really amusing to me! Okay then! I'll just restrain- HEY, WHY IS MY ARM ACTING ON ITS OWN?!" His right hand pulls out a pen and paper from his pocket, forces him to get much closer to the ground, and writes after setting the pen and paper back then before picking up the pen again: "YOU JUST GOT PUNKED, HEHEHEHE!" Did Carlos seriously possess Redd's arm? This whole battle is going more and more strangely for us as time passes. "What the?! GHOSTS, GET WHOEVER IS POSSESSING ME OUT OF MY ARM!" The ghosts enter his body, only to turn on him and cause his body to look like it's fighting itself. Redd groans: "Good thing I have a backup for this backup plan! Leave my sight and never return, spirits!" The thousands of ghosts are vanished just like that but it took a lot out of him to make that happen. And he inadvertently caused something else to happen too. The spirits of all of my killed comrades return to their bodies, causing them all to return to life in not so great conditions. Redd looks frustrated: "WHAT?! I DIDNT PLAN FOR THIS POSSIBILITY AT ALL!" He manifests a terrifying aura while Bray heals herself along with everyone else. "ALL OF YOUR POSSESSIONS WILL BELONG TO ME! FORBIDDEN SPELL: ULTIMATE STEAL!" He steals literally everything we're wearing and on our persons. Along with all of the stuff in our inventories..
The situation is now so dangerous that theres no time to react to the absurdity of that we've all been stripped naked. Not even our undergarments were spared from his spell. Redd cackles: "All of your stuff is mine and now, there is NOTHING to defend yourselves with! Now, I can kill all of you once and for all unless you give me 123,456,789 bells! If you do that, I'll give you back everything I took from you! Otherwise, youre all going to die!" We were too stunned to really say anything. Most of us are mortified by being stripped naked like this. I just sigh again and use my Artist's Eye to imagine clothes onto all of us. But then, Harv exclaims: "Wait, what about the anti-theft spells?" Redd startles: "Oh right! Those! The ones you used against me earlier! Sucks to be you because I just shut them all down with my full power! Too bad, so sad! You missed out on a once in a lifetime chance to turn the tables back on me! Better luck never!" Now we were at a loss at what to do. Even our Quantum Leap bands were taken. And all of the vehicles on this island have been destroyed so we couldnt escape even if we wanted to. Blanca, the faceless cat and prankster, linked to April Fools Day chuckles: "There are still ways to turn this around." Redd prepares a deadly attack to get us all: "But without any of your stuff, its pointless! If you give me 999,999 bells, I'll spare your lives and pretend to have killed you all.
And if you also give me 1,000,000,000 more bells, I promise to give back all of your stuff and cover for you and never betray this agreement!" Hes just making up numbers. The nerve this scammer has, the absolute nerve. Blanca ignores him and says: "We dont need magic to defeat him necessarily. Whos up for some comedy?!" A few minutes later, I could hardly believe what I was doing along with many of the others. We were shaking our butts at Redd just like Twerkies used to do so to miis back in Miitopia. Redd laughs: "You dp realize Im about to obliterate all of you at once, right cuzs'?! What do you think whatever it is youre doing is going to even accomplish?!" I mutter to myself: "I cant believe we're trying to weaponize nudity against someone who has allied himself with legitimate tyrants.." Blanca's next plan is even more absurd. Please never try any of this nudity stuff at home or anywhere else, readers of all ages. The next thing we ended up doing was a series of things that Im not going to write about because they would make this story a story that minors should NEVER read until they turn 18. Redd looked shocked: "Just what are you doing?! I can't look at you all! This is too much!" He speeds away to the opposite side of the island. Like that really helps. He can still see us because even the higher points of this island have been completely leveled. Our foe is still charging his attack. Blanca then suggests we move to get out of his sight for the sole purpose of making it difficult for Redd to aim his attack at us.
Did I also mention its winter on this island? We have been trying to ignore it but those of us who are well described in the words of Senku in Dr. Stone as: "hairless shiny monkeys" are FREEZING. Including me. By all accounts, we should be frozen solid and dead by now but we arent. I am at a loss of words. Bray uses fire magic to create something to keep us from freezing completely with. But that only delayed the most likely outcome of this fight. All of us being reduced to motionless bodies or worse. Tiffany glares at Blanca: "None of your plans have worked! What do you even want to try now?!" "I have run out of ideas." We were shocked by that statement. But that shock was interrupted by Barla yelling: "What the hell are we doing?! We're supposed to be finding a way to stop Redd and get our stuff back!" I almost couldnt believe what we would be doing a couple minutes later. Sneaking up on Redd by taking the long way around to reach him. Why? To blast him with energy attacks without him seeing it coming. Somehow, he was able to take all of our stuff without the weight of it all weighing him down at all. But if we hit him hard enough, all of the stuff might explode out of his inventory. We take our time to make ot to him and when we get close enough, we unleash what we can all at once. I myself perform a classic Kamehameha. Taken by surprise due to focusing so hard on charging his attack while trying to find us without actually moving his paws around to do so more effectively, our plan went perfectly without a hitch.
He never thought to look behind him. Otherwise, he would have seen us coming from behind after spending time walking on the shoreline of the island to try to circumnavigate around his gaze. And just as I thought might happen, all of our stuff kind of exploded right out of his person and went everywhere. As a result, he ended up kind of getting stuck in the ground and glitching out in a situation straight out of a video game. Thats very ironic in this case, isnt it? We ignore him and call over our comrades and we work together to get our items back to who they belonged to. I was so glad to be back in my armor and holding my sword again after enduring the cold for so long. Bray is the only reason none of us froze to death during all of that. Once all of our stuff was back in our hands, we turned our attention back onto Redd who was quite red due to the fact that we ignored him while he continued to literally glitch out. He is fuming but too angry to actually say anything. We even just build a structure using obsidian blocks from Minecraft to cover him and leave him glitching in the ground, not willing to deal with him at the moment. Instead, we prepare to go help some of our comrades who are still alive. But Redd doesnt let us leave. He gets himself out of the ground and breaks through the obsidian: "Cuzs'! You arent going anywhere! But for the price of 50,888,777,103 bells, I will just let you carry on and do what you were about to do next!" Nook exclaims: "Not even all of the Nook Incs combined in this world could afford to pay anyone THAT much! Yes, yes, that is asking for too much!"
"Very well! I'll just ask that much in exchange for handing your bodies over to anyone willing to pay up such a sum! Now you can all just die and stop rejecting me at every turn as a result! We could have been good pals, with good business relationships but no! You never wanted to play the game I wanted to play! And for that, Im so disappointed! Oh well! Redd and his Jolly Roger are going to make big bells one way or another! So long to your- Darn it! My attack has to be restarted from scratch because of that stunt many of you pulled on me! *laughs* But it changes nothing! My future customers will get the best scammiest prices in no time at all! I shouldnt be worried at all! My business is as good as secured!" Alt Gofast replies: "Not so fast!" "And what is that supposed to mean?!" They whisper: "Someone! Help me out here!" Mabel replies to Redd: "We want to make a mutual beneficial deal with you!" "Why didnt you say so?! What made you change your mind about doing business with me?!" "Theres no time to explain! Someone from your side might come and forcibly stop our discussion. And that would lead to missed profits.." "Did you say profits?! Hehe! I need to know everything! Tell me everything, cuz! I NEED TO KNOW DESPERATELY!" I chip in: "Yeah, its a bell venture you dont want to miss out on. You pretend to capture us, we pretend to be captured, and you hand us over to 'your' side.." Mabel continues: "And then, you ask them for the payment you desire and then turn on them. We escape from captivity and help you steal all of their money and we escape and split the profits." This is an obvious ploy to distract Redd.
But when he hears of an opportunity to make some money, hes all ears and totally entranced by the prospect of making a lot of money. Hes as bad as Kakazu was before we got him over it if not worse. And how exactly does this end in Redd's defeat? Myself, Mabel, and several others keep him busy and distracted as we come up with a unknown to him fake plan to steal from his side. After all, hes only interested in the money. He'll betray or even double cross or triple agent, whatever nets him the most money at any given time. If someone's offer is better than another's, he'll go for that someone's offer. And so, we just kept that up while some of the others tie him up without him even noticing at all due to still being entranced by the idea of stealing lots of money. It just kept on going this way until the others hadnt just tied him up. They didn't stop there and stripped him of his power and abilities in all the time we spent keeping his eyes and ears on us. And it actually worked. Redd finally comes to his senses: "Why am I tied up?! What is happening to me and why didnt you stop it?!" Carlos chuckles: "Got you!" Redd attempts to use his abilities to break free, to no avail. He spends several minutes failing to do so again and again while complaining before he runs out of energy to use to be angry. Now that hes calmer, we tell him what we've done to him and state that we're willing to reason with him over all of this. But our attempts to appeal to whatever kindness he actually has inside of him fails.
I speak after all of that fails: "Redd, we arent sure whether to eliminate you outright or send you away to a rehabilitation center. Actually, no. A rehabilitation center is where you in fact need to be." We discuss that very thing among ourselves with some of the others disagreeing with him so we had to sort that out. As we talked, Redd tried to use his tricks to escape but was foiled right in the act over and over again. After sending him away to a rehabilitation center, we teleported to the nearest location where some of our comrades were still fighting. We found ourselves inside what looked like the ruins of a modern New York City, decades if not longer after the near extinction of humanity in this world. And in the ruins, we found many duelists fighting against Matt with physical combat skills as well as their cards. Matt laughs: "Isnt it just so beautiful seeing all of you gradually die off one by- *notices us* More plebians to kill! Wonderful! And I remember some of them very well for being at the center of RUINING MY THEME PARK! My revenge will really come into fruition now! I cast Necromancy! Now, your dead friends are my minions to do my bidding!" The duelists who had been killed come back to life and act like duel ghouls but with their communication skills actually intact as they activate their duel disks and summon their monsters. Kapp'n yells: "This isnt fair, yar! Look at them! He brought back many of the best duelists we know!" Every rival character was revived as a zombie along with the reformed ex-villains.
Matt laughs: "I knew killing all of them first would prove to be entertaining! Just look at them!" But before he could continue gloating about how well hes doing against our comrades, Mayuri appears with Nemu while chuckling: "Zombie duelists, huh?! How very interesting! Its quite a shame that Im going to be taking them from you, isnt it?!" Nemu injects the undead duelists with something as Mayuri laughs: "Your zombies are now my zombies! Get Matt, my zombies!" It was a strange and unnerving sight, watching as the duelists turned on him and all that. All of us present then quickly got to work working together against Matt. Matt screams as our efforts overpower him to his and our surprise. "This cant be! Noooooo! NOT AGAIN! YOU DAMN PLEBIANS, WHY DO YOU KEEP OVERPOWERING ME LIKE THIS?!" Almost none of us were sure how our teamwork suddenly turned the tables on him completely in mere seconds. He looked like he was going to kill all of the duelists when we arrived here to help them out but now, hes just losing just like that. Carlos yells: "This cant be right! I smell trickery! Hes tricking us!" But he wasnt. After he just kind of ended up dying faster than any of us could have imagined, Bray analyzed his body and concluded: "He drained himself too quickly and used too much mana through the necromancy spell. I shall return our undead comrades to life now."
After she does that, we teleport back to Fun Land where stuff is apparently happening again despite the fact none of us are even there at this point. When we get back there, we see a bunch of enemies that havent been seen for quite some time. Slappy points to some of us and laughs: "Hello there, fools! Did you MISS ME?! Im back and I brought along a LOT more friends this time!" Vlad from the Sims 4 just stares at us. He is less twisted than he was the last time any of us saw him outside of his home universe. Lex Marthias glares at quite a lot of us: "VENGEANCE WILL BE MINE! I WILL AVENGE LORD BOWLING, YOU MUDFLESHES!" Oh thats right, the Minecraftian version of the "gender critical" movement that includes many Life Stealers who went missing, escaped, or previously died have become active in recent months, finally ready to launch their nonsense. And it looks like they chose to work with Katherine Glassgate and the whole practical rouges gallery of villains already working with her. That's really not a surprise. The worst individuals love working with others as awful as them as long as they can stand one another's egos and nonsense. Another Life Stealer yells: "Now is the time for the destruction of ALL MADE UP GENDERS!" Slappy laughs: "Arent all of these friends of mine just SO entertaining?!" Theres also most of the Goosebumps monsters currently present. We might be completely overpowered here. This is going to be difficult to overcome.
The Mummy from Goosebumps looks somehow visibly excited at how things have come to play out. Slappy points at me and calls me out: "You! I will never forget you! But you know whats really funny?! YOU COULD SAY ALL OF US ARE HERE TO TRULY 'COMPLETE' SOME OF YOUR PAST STORIES! You know! The Saga Of Fun Land! The only time I appear because you dispatched me so quickly during its events and never really saw me again! And also Miis Go To Minecraftia's Lost Academia! The Life Stealers only really showed up in it and The Saga Of Fun Land! Oh I do love twists like stories coming to life or even fictional stories being written by people who actually experiencee what happens in them themselves in worlds that are considered fictional in the world said fictional stories are published in! But enough talking out of me! Lets set the stage perfectly for torment, terror, and more! Im going to enjoy the looks on your faces as they twist in agony! Are you ready to scream?! Ready or not, here we come! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHA!" Hugh yells: "I feel weird! Whats going on now?! Cant I at least get a snack?!" Seconds later, Im separated from everyone else. Using my Ki sense, I determine that we have all been split up to be all alone on what looks to be some sort of uninhabited island. I analyze my surroundings closely: "I dont see anything strange or out of place.. Was I randomly teleported to this spot or is there something more going on here?"
I hear something and raise my guard immediately: "I know youre there. Come on out, whoever you are." Crickets. Nothing happens. I dont get any response in the slightest. Just what is this? I can sense something but not really well, its like something is interfering with my sensory stuff. I am hit by a spell out of nowhere. That wasnt an ordinary spell. That was the instant death spell the Life Stealers love to use on anyone they demonize and/or make an enemy out of. Blast that Slappy. This situation was set up by him, whoever cast that spell is an opponent I must face alone and I dont think thats a good thing. I like working alone a lot but against the kind of enemies we have, working alone is almost always something to be avoided as a potentially reckless thing to do. Lex Marthias curses under his breath, revealing his location to me as a result of doing so. I had him on the ground in seconds but he pushes me off of him and glares at me after getting back up while firing a constant flurry of spells at me: "YOU MUDFLESH! YOU ILLEGITIMATE MAGIC USER! YOU WERENT EVEN BORN WITH MAGIC! ..Because of you, my son has been dead for 6 years! Because of you and your friends, the Life Stealers have become a class act, weak and pathetic compared to how we used to be! We continue Lord Bowling's mission but it cant be completed as long as you and everyone else responsible for our downfall dies!
And while we're at it, Im going to enjoy helping destroy all of those imaginary genders! Stop calling yourself a they them, youre a man! Act like it!" "Bold of you to police my identity and claim that I cannot define who I am correctly while you, someone who has never been in my shoes can just go around, acting like the gender police which is like the grammar police but 40 times more real and 200 times more dangerous. You wouldn't like me treating you the way youre treating me. But enough talk, youre here to get your revenge against me before you kill my friends. I know what you want so lets drop the time consuming formalities and extra junk and just get to it. *draws sword* I am not the same person I was the last time we really faced each other. I remember that day pretty well. Fighting in a subway setting was strange. "SHUT UP, EVERY SINGLE THING YOU SAY IS SO DISGUSTING THAT IT GIVES ME A HEADACHE! GO, ARTIFICIAL BARIAN BATTLEMORPH!" He transforms in under 3 seconds and apparently, his staff has merged with his right arm. Lex Marthias grins: "Why should I even be mad when Im about to get my revenge and the satifaction that comes with it at long last?! I forgot just how much power I have come to hold since I was freed from what you and your friends did to me and the rest of the Life Stealers!" He begins attacking me with his fists while charging them with elemental magic. Just what kind of menace has he been transformed into by our main foes?
"I see that you fancy yourself calling yourself a knight! Its too bad that against our power, not even the most noble or legendary of knights could ever hope to beat any of us at this point! I will kill you and make your death so painful and agonizing that it will be far worse than what you put my son through! You arent the only one who has changed throughout these years! I embraced martial arts even though I was originally disgusted with non magical means of combat!" He attacks me over and over again, using the elemental magic to do extra damage with his fists but my armor is taking it incredibly well. Are you telling me this guy is actually a pushover compared to the others we've faced today? I refuse to believe that until Ive managed to put him down myself. "Lex, this isnt the height of your power. Youre just testing me, arent you? You know that Im a far bigger threat to the likes of you than I was 6 years ago. You know that I am more capable of inspiring action and change in others than I did back then. Its obvious. When are you going to start taking me seriously and stop pulling your punches?!" "HAHHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHA! I WILL MAKE YOU REGRET WHAT YOU JUST SAID! *gets angry again* YOU ARE GOING TO PAY, I WILL GET MY REVENGE ON YOU!" His own rage is feeding into his power. Hes unleashing his feelings to power up from them while also trying to intimidate me in the process and increase his killing intent. But his killing intent isnt the only one present.
I have something akin to that along with a reluctance to end his life. But if theres no better choice, I won't hesitate to finish him completely. I refuse to be bound to victim mentality. Victim mentality only helps terrible individuals and entities get what they want. I will not act like a victim when I can fight back or at least try my best to no longer act like one in anyway but its hard to decouple from that due to what teachings I was exposed to growing up: a mix of utter crap, boring stuff, and actually really good things. His punches and kicks dont let up. Lex Marthias is giving me almost no time or room to counter. But Im not going to give up. If he is trying to demoralize me, it wont work. Im an adrenaline junkie and nerd turned knight trying to be some sort of hero while refusing to subscribe to a bunch of crap that the likes of famous superheroes get or are expected to do or have. Im not trying to be a star. I just want to fight and try to change things and empower people to change and take action. The universe can take any glory it offers me and shove that glory up something because I dont want it. For several minutes, I struggle to get any chance to fight back because he is no longer holding back after I goaded him the way I did. But then, I see him get distracted for the tiniest of moments and move closer to him, nearly slicing his right arm off in the process. Neither of us say much to each other, we're both in that mindset of focusing on the kill.
It isnt just a mindset for assassins like me. No, it is a mindset for anyone who is willing to kill someone even if they dont actually want to or are just trying to save their own life from an assaulter or someone or something else. We just skillfully exchange blows and withstand one another's techniques when they actually get through. Despite the size and weight of my sword and how easy it is for me to swing with just my right hand despite being so long, my enemy is holding strong like this isnt a big deal to him at all. He must have trained with a lot of swordsmen and/or watched the moves of a lot of em or something. But as time goes on, he starts talking again while attackong harder and faster: "I dont know how you're still alive but I will seize my revenge! Just you wait! Youll see it yourself as your body becomes lifeless before you even know it!" His focus is unchanged despite going on like that and beginning to obsessively laugh. I dont lose my focus either when I reply: "Im already dead. How did you not know that despite teaming up with so many other villains?" "Youre a zombie?! FREAK, NOW I HAVE EVEN MORE REASON TO REDUCE YOU TO NOTHING BUT ASH!" I start ignoring what hes going on about now at this point. He is not in a mindspace healthy or calm enough to be reasoned with while inside of. I just focus on countering his attacks and unleashing my own. But we are at a standstill. Neither of us is doing much damage to the other. Im going to have to go right to the edge of my limits in order to have a chance to actually deal a real hit on him.
My sword and I are one. It is an extension of my arm now, that is something I can never forget. To best control a sword, you have to recognize it as an extension of your arm or arms and move it accordingly. Lex's staff is part of his arm but thats not the same as what U have with my sword. After fully powering up to the limit and using my Artist's Eye to create things to slow Lex down, we clash yet again but this time with a whole lot more force. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! TAKE THIS!" But my attacks werent enough to do really anything. At first, when the exchange of attacks somehow knocks us both back, I thought I did no damage against him but then, he bled heavily from a fresh cut for a couple seconds before the bleeding suddenly stopped on its own. Meanwhile, he has been unable to wound me or dent my armor as of yet. But that doesnt mean Im certain to win this fight. It just means I got a hit in but it took so much of what I had to pull it off to begin with. I hear him go on about things like me being a knight but still ignore most of it to focus on going forth with that momentum I just had due to reaching the limit of what I can do in a single series of moves in order to counter and damage him. I still have a ways to go till exhaustion kicks in due to in part sharing the burden of my arms with my legs and learning to more efficiently use my sword in very small and subtle ways that add up little bit by little bit over time. I wish people would stop fixating on the fact Im a knight so much. When others get to know me, they dont really do that at least.
I was a lot well before I became a knight. I know Im constantly trying to live up to my own knightly code and now, a pirates code too but still. We keep going and we keep going, countering and attacking each other with a intense display of movements and skills and energies. "JUST GO DOWN ALREADY AND DIE!" "No, I will not do so. Im going to keep saying no to your demands, Lex. So dont bother demanding more of me. The likes of you are individuals who nobody should ever take orders from. They should always put their foots down and say no when you and others like you order them around. Even if resistance equals death, obedience already equals death so one might as well choose resistance. Its a far better way to go out at the very least." "SILENCE, YOU INFERIOR ABOMBINATION WHO SHOULDNT EVEN EXIST!" "I have to wonder how you manage to sleep well at night. With all the hatred you constantly harbor, one can imagine that it isnt easy for you to fall asleep. Having that so internalized that you constantly think about it while going to bed is something to be worried about. That isnt good for anyone, especially not the likes of you." To be continued..