Tyranny 2025
Chapter 16: Guarding The Heart Of Ymir
Date: February 11th, 2025
My Rune Knight counterpart from this world widens their eyes and is left speechless. And thats when Kidd, Bamph, and various others show up. L finds a place to sit down and gets into one of his strange sitting positions: "If thats the case, then we need to balance what we protect. We have to protect the people, the environment, the artifacts, and those our enemies are after all at the same time. How troublesome. *eats a chocolate ball* So.. We at least know the gist of what we're dealing with and they havent arrived yet but soon will. We still have time to counter what they have in store for us but this isnt going to be easy. We have an entire world to protect. I do not believe that those of us gathered here will be sufficient enough to successfully repel the enemy." The Great Sage replies: "That is why myself and many others have contacted anyone who can fight in this world somehow to help our cause. The guards of every city are as prepared for this as possible. Even mercenaries, retired adventurers, and combat competition veterans have agreed to help us out. After the disaster that happened in Animal Crossing, we knew we had to be ready here before anything happened. Fortunately, because this world had been attacked multiple times since all of you entered our lives, the world is more alert than it would be otherwise. Even many of the goblins, orcs, kobolds, and the other monsters have agreed to temporarily make peace with us and stop attacking adventures until this is over. In turn, we have asked all adventurers to not attack any monsters who dont attack them first." Reiji Akaba adjusts his glasses: "I see. You really are prepared.."
L nods: "Thats not bad for a world that doesnt really have anything resembling modern technology for the most part. But your plan isnt complete. I must propose something rather interesting. We move all known artifacts to secure underground locations in deep in as possible and dispatch powerful groups of our forces to defend them. To be even more efficient, we can have those of you who are some of the targets of our enemies be in those teams as well, making it unnecessary to have entire teams just dedicated solely to the protection of the likes of you. Additionally, we could mix some of you in with those defending other locations." Bonnie speaks up: "Your suggestions are sound, L. We look forward to working with all of you." Kidd nods: "I doubt anyone here disagrees. But we have to get moving and split up into teams. It feels like the enemy is already almost here. Time is not on our side today." A bunch of endermen vanish and then reappear a few seconds later. One of them speaks: "We have found and hidden all of the artifacts." Rombell looks at the endermen cautiously: "Just what are these creatures?" The enderman who just spoke replies: "We mean no harm. We are endermen. We teleport and used to hate water. No time for more explanations. We need to split up like Kidd said. We'll tell you where we hid the artifacts. But only those who get to defend a particular one will learn of its new location." A few minutes later, we're all split up with myself being on the team to defend the Heart Of Ymir far inside of the creepy city of Glast Heim, once sealed away for hundreds of years.
The team is large due to us meeting up with some residents of this world and the fact that many of our comrades came to this world after we ourselves did and thus some joined us. We actually split into parties to be more organized for the battle ahead. The party I end up in consists of myself, Rombell, my counterpart and their companions, Lauren, Yuya, Sailor Moon, Future Trunks, Pinkie, and Stitch. We quickly reached our destination through teleportation and the eerieness of the interior of Glast Heim's deepest depths soon settled in. We could sense many familiar malicious power levels arrive to this world and begin to wreck havoc. People and monsters and others alike are already dying but we cant do anything about it because preventing our foes from even touching the Heart Of Ymir as well as the copy of it created by Varmundt that was brought here too is just as important. They contain great power and can grant immortality, as seen with the Great Sage who made the copy of the original in order to study it thoroughly. We get into position around the copy and original of the heart and waited. We are all on edge and guard, even Stitch and Pinkie Pie were. Stitch sniffs the air: "Stitch smells something funny. Stitch thinks its not from this creepy place." Future Trunks draws his sword: "An enemy must be incoming." But we dont see any of the ancient city's numerous monsters anywhere around us, not even a Alice or Sage Worm. But then, someone started screaming at nothing: "GET AWAY FROM ME!"
We turn and watch as the person, a knight from one of the knight groups who guard the cities of Rune screams and tries to run away but there's nothing there. But then, just as someone asks if they're okay, they stop screaming and running and start wearing a creepy smile on their face. I yell: "Someone! Restrain them! Quickly! Before its too late! Why is THAT THING here?!" But it was already too late. They use their sword to decapitate themselves in front of us all with that smile still on their face. I exclaim: "Damn it! Who has it possessed now?!" Pinkie replies: "Whats going on, Swift?!" "That damn entity from the Smile movies is somehow here! And the only way to get rid of that thing is for its victim to die before it can possess them and kill them! Damn it all! As if it weren't enough to be hearing bits and pieces of the utter chaos thats going on where I originally am from! Now this.. That thing could very well kill everyone here considering it somehow crossed dimensions to get there. And everytime it kills someone, it gets stronger. I fear for how powerful it could become if it decides to kill everyone here one by one en masse instead of waiting 7 days to kill anyone as it does in the movies. That thing is a sadistic parasite that messes with the minds of its victims. Whatever happens, we absolutely must find a way to stop that-" Another of our comrades dies with that terrifying smile on their face. Sailor Moon yells: "Its happening! What do we do?! What do we do?!" "If I were still alive, I would make sure I die before it can kill me.
My very damn existence is worth squat compared to what we're fighting for. It takes a lot out of someone to be willing to die for any cause. Because making such a sacrifice is utterly nerve wracking and quite frankly, terrifying. There is another option that we have that I have thought about recently! If that thing possesses me, it will never get what it wants because Im already dead! Unless.. Wait. Crap! That wont work! Because that thing can just slice and dice me until Im reduced to basically nothing physically! And it reads minds and knows everything about its victims in no time at all. That thing is- *someone else dies with that horrifying smile* out of control. It is finding even more pleasure in killing our comrades in rapid succession! Did this thing get here alone or did someone send it?! I wish we knew! Damn it! This is beyond disastrous and we havent even faced any other enemies!" I then yell much louder: "Mind controlling entity on the loose! Someone who gets possessed by it has to be willing to die before it can kill them to stop it! But because its killing so quickly and is able to torment its victims so masterfully, thats so much easier said than done! Wait.. DAMN IT. If anyone sees someone start smiling creepily, they have to kill them immediately or that thing is never going to stop until we're all gone from this world!"
The thing is now killing us faster than we can really even react to what its doing. Many of us pull out our BRAIN Blasters and set them to snipe mode and get ready to fire the moment we can catch it about to kill someone else. But despite our efforts, it kills far too quickly. Rombell yells: "There must be a way to see this entity! There must be another way to stop it!" The Rune Knight leader tries anything he can do on hand but to no avail. Yuya grins: "Wait! I think I have something that may work! Lets set the stage everyone with this action field! And now, ladies and gentlemen, both and neither, witness as I unleash a show you will never forget! I set the Pendulum scale with Timegazer and Stargazer Magicians! Lets do this! My monsters are ready to swing into action! Come on out, everyone! Odd Eyes Pendulum Dragon, Hip Hippo, Whip Snake, and last but certainly not least, Silverclaw! Alright then! Lets find ourselves a parasitic entity!" Yuya's idea.. Its brilliant.. I yell: "Dont spoil the surprise for our unwelcome guest!" Yuya guides the Performapals to leap at anyone who suddenly has that creepy smile on their face, forcing it to possess them instead. And when monsters die should they be summoned, they go to the graveyard. However, since the monsters are also Pendulum monsters, they will instead go to Yuya's extra deck and technically not die, trapping the entity inside of one of them or even forcing it out of hiding, allowing all of us to see its hideous appearance up close and person for ourselves. And believe me, it is truly disgusting in appearance. But the thing quickly starts evading Yuya's monster friends.
Stitch goes AWOL and starts trying to lure the entity to possess him: "Nyeh nyeh boo boo! You cant possess me! You cant possess me!" Naturally, it doesnt work. This thing is really intelligent. It could already simulate entire days for its victims by the climax of the second film. It took so many of us dying for the thing to be forced to go inside of one of Yuya's monsters. He smiles: "Looks like it worked! And now, I activate Polymerization to fuse Odd Eyes together with Silverclaw who that entity is clearly possessing! Now appear, Beast Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Furious at what just happened to it, the entity breaks off of Silverclaw now that the Performapal is in Yuya's extra deck. Now we can see its appearance for real. I point my sword at it: "Now we can kill it and avenge our fallen comrades!" But our attacks against it would prove futile much like how it would prove to be much stronger than any of us really saw coming. Despite it needing a host to continue living, it was still strong and terrifying. Killing so many of us must have allowed it to become strong enough to survive on its own now.. The kicker is that the thing would always make what it did to its victims seem like suicide.. Though that changes at the end of the 2nd film for some reason in a really twisted way. Watching that made me very paranoid for a short time. Yufa shouts: "Im going to bring everyone back now one by one! We cant beat this thing by ourselves! Resurrection!" We are then faced with it and its terrifying strength and mind games. For half an hour, it tries to wittle our numbers down while messing with our heads using illusions.
Unfortunately for it, the Artist's Eye is still stronger than its illusions even though said illusions are made by directly manipulating its victims' minds, making them basically trapped inside dreams. It can make the victim view their own body as if it looks like someone else's body and theyre looking at it. Its like a forced form of a out of body near death experience. But after that half hour, it tries to enter my body for some reason. Maybe it's because it knows Im already dead. I summon my shadows to block it. Applejack exclaims: "Hey uh, is that thing hungry or something? Why else would it try to possess you, Swift?" A few minutes later, it was dead in a big pile of its own remains. Disgusting. We do our best to heal one another and revive the fallen as quickly as possible. We dont have a moment to lower our guards or get distracted here. Our foes want the Heart Of Ymir and its copy and we must absolutely protect them. But then, a bunch of monsters and spirits begin attacking us. Pitohoi laughs: "Just look at them, turning on the agreement they made with our comrades not so long ago just like that or having refused to agree to it!" My counterpart replies: "No, thats not it.. They benefit from working with the White Witch along with our other enemies.." Theyre completely right and despite the attempts of the monsters to weaken and slow us all down, we decimate them. The floor is soon painted with a new layer consisting of their blood. Users of light and holy magic use such to get rid of the spirits but that proved to be pretty time consuming. And just to add the cherry on top of this mess, the Dark Lord appeared: "I have once again returned and this time, I wont be going anywhere ever again! Just you watch!
HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA! I will seek my revenge and soon rule this world and allow the monsters to take over all of the lands of this world! I will rule this world as a ruler of monsters! You can kill me as many times as you want to but as long as humans and monsters in this world feel negative emotions, I will always come back to start my plans all over again!" Future Trunks sighs: "This guy is going to be tough, isnt he? *mainfests Super Saiyan God Ki* Lets see how he handles this!" With his hair turned red and sword in hand, he flies at our foe and slashes him with his blade, using as much force and precision as possible. But it does no damage. Seconds later, Yuya's monsters are sent packing. "Damn it! My turn.. *I activate my duel disk* Regnes and everyone else! Join the chaos and help us! We need your help!" They appear at once a couple seconds later thanks to me making moves with my cards as fast as I possibly can. Regnes speaks: "Its been sometime since you have summoned any of us. It may prove to be better for us to come here through summoning after all based on a change that has recently occurred that I will not go into detail about. Lets see how the Dark Lord likes experiencing terrors for himself." Jammer starts playing a melody of doom: "This song is dedicated to you, Dark Lord. I call it Your Incoming Death."
The fusion monster begins singing along with some haunting and chilling lyrics. DL laughs: "You pathetic mortals believe you even stand the slightest of chances against me now that I have been given what I needed to become far more powerful than I have ever been before?! DONT MAKE ME LAUGH EVEN MORE, YOU ARE ALL ALREADY SO AMUSINGLY WEAK, PATHETIC, AND TINY COMPARED TO ME!" A voice begins speaking as the DL is suddenly locked in place by the force of many spirits as the setting around us changes completely somehow. We are not in Glast Heim anymore.. "Welcome, foolish mortals to the Haunted Mansion. I am your host, your ghost host. *laughs* Step all the way in and make room for everyone. There is no turning back now. Here you may see portraits of some of our guests who have 'retired' at the Haunted Mansion. But while this chamber has no windows or doors, I am not here to frighten you mortals prematurely today. Instead, I am here to assist you along with the 999 happy haunts here inside this Haunted Mansion." The DL yells: "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME?! RELEASE ME AT ONCE!" The Ghost Host laughs: "Foolish Dark Lord, the playing of a melody of impending doom has once again sealed you to a fate of humiliating defeat. You can never truly die but nor can I. Spirits cannot die again, after all. Or.. can they? *laughs again* Now, it is time for the pathetic mortals to unleash what they wish to inflict onto you without you fighting back."
Our foe gives a truly pissed off expression as we basically unleash hell onto him without any mercy at all. But the damage he takes instantly heals and he breaks free and destroys the Haunted Mansion around us, sending us back to Glast Heim just like that. The evil being laughs: "I have yet to unleash the fullest extent of what my power has now become! All of you are doomed to die miserable and painful deaths! Im just getting started!" We are strong enough to still injure our foe and he reacts to it by showing signs of being in pain but he always heals in an instant. "HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAA! EVEN MY BODY IS NOW REJUVENATED INFINITY BY ALL OF THE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS BEING FELT THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE WORLD!" Rombell sighs: "I have heard of the Dark Lord but I have not faced anyone as powerful as he has become before.. I have been too busy to be involved with recent conflicts until now.. At least I, no longer constantly in debt to the bartender in Izlude.." Hearing this, our foe laughs even harder and exclaims: "I WILL NOW USE YOUR REGRETS AND WORST MEMORIES AGAINST YOU-" Shikamaru replies: "Seen that, done that." "WHAT?!" Sailor Moon adds: "Thats right! Can you do anything we wont expect?!" "WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!" I speak up: "Do we have to spell it out for you? High energy cartoonishly evil villains like you are always the same damn gist at this point. Okay. You're evil and youre going to destroy us all and laugh arrogantly and want to be a ruler and destroyer. We get it. Weirdo. Youre a serious threat but sheesh are you still ridiculous.
We have already seen just about anything you could possibly throw at us at least once before from someone else. Messing with people using a cursed sword that hurts their souls and leaves a nasty cross between a curse and a gaping wound behind. Okay, thats not one we've really seen anyone else use but still." And yet, the Dark Lord crushed us within the next few minutes. I spit out blood: "We didn't underestimate him. We knew that even overused tactics would still be incredibly dangerous if used by him. We thought we could piss him off enough to impair his judgement but it looks like that doesnt work on him anymore. He has learned from all of his failures.. And thats bad news for us all.. Damn it. He even managed to penetrate my armor without very much effort.." Meanwhile, Stitch is riding the Dark Lord and walking all over him too. Our foe is trying to get him off but Stitch is.. well, Stitch. He pulls out a random chili dog and eats it before releasing a really loud burp that left an extremely powerful burp smell behind. And yet, he didnt even have a burrito platter with extra garlic. SHINC are firing at him all at once. Eva yells: "Bastard! Do you even have the balls to just be done with us already?! Youre just toying with us! At least Pitohoi was relentless while also toying with us in Squad Jam!" "HAHHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAAAAA! IM ENJOYING HURTING YOU FAR TOO MUCH TO JUST KILL ALL OF YOU IN A SINGLE ATTACK!" When did he become a true sadist?
The Machine Gun Lovers, who are also here and I cant believe they even are because they're kind of a bunch of total losers in GGO are constantly firing their guns at the Dark Lord thanks to specialized backpacks that reload their machine guns for them. And theyre just laughing. "OH YEAH! MACHINE GUNS RULE ABOVE ALL WEAPONS! NO ONE CAN STOP THE MACHINE GUN LOVERS!" M facepalms: "These guys give other not so obsessed fans of machine guns a bad name.. I like machine guns but not like they do." Pito laughs: "Isnt it just adorable when they act like this?! Like it did them any good at Squad Jam 2!" LLENN shakes her head: "Thats because you made sure to get rid of everyone you possibly could as quickly as possible. This is not GGO. This is for real! PITO! THIS IS FOR REAL!" Eva adds: "Little munchkin is right. Now then.. Ladies.. Lets use that little surprise we have been saving for a while. You think our anti-material is cool? Just you wait to see what we have now." And load and behold, SHINC somehow obtained a big plasma cannon. Thats not even a thing in GGO. The thing makes their anti-material rifle, which already requires 2 people to use properly seem small by comparison and they use it on the Dark Lord and manage to cut one of his limbs off in the process. It took about 2 seconds for that limb to regenerate. Meanwhile, Lauren is cooking up a culinary nightmare for our foe to "enjoy". Skilled enough Miitopian chefs are able to turn monsters into dishes while in still battle. You don't underestimate them or otherwise mess with them.
Nothing we throw at the Dark Lord does any lasting damage but it does make the Dark Lord more amused and yet also more annoyed at the same time. That said, he still remains as sharp with his tactics as ever. When did our enemies get so good at emotional control? This development is genuinely terrifying. If he learned to control his emotions this well, that means our other foes have done exactly the same thing lately if they hadnt already done so. He starts unleashing a seemingly endless torrent of attack after attack. My armor only gets more damaged the more we try to fight back. My counterpart yells: "Will this ever end?!" The Dark Lord replies: "Yes it will, following all of your deaths!" Sailor Moon smiles at him: "Wrong! The future is yet to be decided so dont go around saying the future willl go the way you think its going to go! I have been through enough for even a crybaby like me to learn that fact!" Our foe just laughs while continuing to fire off attack after attack with his immense power. But wait.. Arent we forgetting about something? The White Witch appears with a bunch of henchmen from the devious Dandelion Corps who manipulated a lot of people into causing Castor and Pollux to both be killed and sacrificed along with the artifact known as the Salt Pillar. That artifact was powered up by turning people into salt in a terrifying incident that plagued the city of Morroc for a significant amount of time.
Nagato shouts: "We have to no longer hold anything back!" I know what hes implying. Not "Avengers, assemble." Instead, "Akatsuki, assemble." Or thats what I thought for a few seconds until we saw the White Witch Gunnr with her henchmen stealing the artifacts that we have been trying to protect this whole damn time. Bulma yells: "Hey! Hands off those artifacts!" The White Witch laughs: "I must thank all of you for helping me get these artifacts for myself at long last. Now, the Harbringers Of Doom will never age again!" Before we could stop her, the Dark Lord crushes us all again despite us trying harder thanks to Nagato's shout and she quickly teleports away with a fly wing item or something. This really isnt going well. We finally go into full gear and begin attacking with every last ounce of effort and thing we have to use. I scream: "WE MUST HURRY THIS UP TO CATCH UP TO GUNNR! HAAAAAAAAA!" Our attacks become enough to kill the Dark Lord over and over again but each time he dies, he comes right back due to all of the negative emotions hes able to feed on. "I TOLD YOU FOOLS THAT YOU CANT TRULY FINISH ME OFF WITH ALL OF THE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THAT I AM ABLE TO CONSUME IN THIS WORLD! HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! AND SOON ENOUGH, ALL OF YOU WILL BE FINISHED ONCE AND FOR ALL! GO, ARTIFICIAL BARIAN BATTLEMORPH!" Hes ready to slaughter us all and stop going easy on us just to entertain himself and enjoy our misery. Somehow, this is even worse than that. But we are ready. We have been training a lot again lately.
We dont have the luxury of skipping on training for weeks at a time. We cant just let our muscles or minds become rusty. We always have to be battle ready, even if that readiness is hidden beneath a completely chill mood. There is no other option. This is what we must do. But for some reason, the Dark Lord suddenly breaks apart into a bunch of small monsters with his face on them. What the hell is this? Why is he suddenly this unpredictable? Its like our foes have learned to copy straight from our playbook. He laughs: "Now I will get to see all of struggle against me and die at the same time!" He has split himself up enough times for each of us to face one monster with his face on them. Disturbing. I block with everything I could to rest my burning yet undead muscles. When I feel ready to actually fight back, Im already bleeding heavily in so many spots. My armor is broken in a lot of places. This has happened far more times than I can count or remember. I unleash my Artist's Eye, shadows, Ki, chakra, and wind elemental powers at the same time while upgrading my sword using Release Recollection. "I forgot I could do all of this at once.. I have no other option but to fight you, do I? Dark Lord, we can see what youre really doing and you already knew that we can, didnt you? You want more than just to experience seeing us all die at once." He doesnt reply. He just laughs in my face and prepares to attack me with physical and massive magical attacks. I charge my sword with everything I can. Thats the most simple way of using what else I have besides my sword skills at the same time as them.
Cant make things too complicated. My shadows hungrily try to devour the portion of the Dark Lord we're up against every so often as I give it my all through my attacks. I use everything I have to use. Even the Kamehameha Slash and the creation abilities of my Artist's Eye. But its still not enough nor are any of the other weapons in my possession. The villain laughs as his body transforms to sprout a big and long arm which he uses to pick me up and slam up so hard into the ground below that my armor breaks even more and I look like a completely weakened mess. I cant even speak, Im so worn out from the impact and draining myself by using what I still had to try to fight back while I still could. The Dark Lord laughs at me: "Its always so amusing when knights like you are proven to be weak and useless in the end." I know exactly what I would say to him if I werent too exhausted to even speak a single vowel. He got me. Even my sword was damaged by what he has done to me. "Not so defiant now, oh 'brave and courageous knight'! HAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!" Yeah, yeah, laugh it up. But you probably dont realize Im among the weakest of those of us here. There are others who can hurt you a lot more than I can here. I wont let your mockery break my spirit. Mock me all you want but I wont tolerate you mocking my comrades. The Dark Lord gives up on mocking me when I just keep giving him a stare while blood continues to drip from my many wounds.
Its remarkable that Im still able to move even in the slightest given my condition. Now I just have to wait until someone can help me. I cant do crap to help myself at this point. He and the other enemies can hurt and kill as many of us as they want but our cause will never die. As long as someone believes in it, they cant truly kill it off. Thats the power of a movement. I wait and wait for help to come for several minutes. It finally comes in the form of Madison the vampire using one of her abilities to restore my body's blood supply after giving me some poison potions to regenerate my undead body. "Thank you, Madison. I needed this. Now.. I will repair my armor and sword. I cast Repair! ..But seriously, thank you so much." "Im glad you're okay now. Lets get back to trying to stop the Dark Lord. He hasnt bested us yet!" I nod: "Lets go." I pick up my fallen sword, now fully repaired along with my armor and grip it tightly for now. I also put my left hand around it too. Time to change tactics a little bit. Some of my strength has returned. We can do this. And we return to battle only to see the parts of the Dark Lord in differing conditions. Some are literally being disintegrated or otherwise blasted apart. Integrity Knight Alice shouts: "We shall never surrender to you!" "HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAA! YOU ARE ONLY DELAYING YOUR DOOM!" Our foes can make our blood shed all they want. They can kill as many of us as they want but we will never truly give in.
Reinforcements wont likely come. Our other comrades are far too busy defending other locations in this world and we still have to take what the White Witch took from us back. A couple minutes pass and more parts of the Dark Lord are killed off. Takius shouts: "Dark Lord, the reason so many parts of yourself are now falling to us is because our skills and tactics surpass yours! You only have yourself while we have each other! And that is why the likes of you can never win when enough of the likes of us team up and risk everything to put you down!" "RIDICULOUS! YOUR FEEBLE TEAMWORK IS NOTHING AGAINST MY ULTIMATE POWER!" Thats what he thinks. Sheesh, he is as cocky as ever. Those of us with guns or laser blasters are by and large deploying them at the moment. Earlier, we did in fact give our all and still fail to stop our foe. But by giving our all, I did not mean using every possible tactic we can use nor the use of any poisons or other dangerous substances. And by splitting himself up, our foe has only turned parts of himself into easy targets for some of our comrades to pick off. I put away my sword after killing one of the parts of the Dark Lord with it while using stealth tactics. I then pull out my daggers: "Its time to use this good old trick." Some of the others also have weapons coated in that specialized substance that can turn a organic life form into goop that one should never ever touch. Several minutes later, we have killed enough parts of the Dark Lord to force him to wholly come back together.
He powers up to the max and laughs: "You may have been able to weaken me by killing so many parts of me off but in the end, that will not save any of you! Its now time for all of you to die at last!" Spectre grins: "Im sorry but its not going to go the way you wish it to!" "SILENCE, PESKY HUMAN!" Thats when we heard the sounds of several crystals being shattered, this all but stops our foe from fueling his power with more negative emotions. The Dark Lord widens his eyes: "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Maya sticks her tongue out at him and Poi-Poi the little pink poring does the same: "Looks like someone should have stopped relying on those emotion crystals or whatever you call them!" Our foe is shocked. M speaks: "You may have been able to hide them well but some of us were still able to find them. Unlike the last time any of us faced you, you have relied on those crystals again except they arent inside of anyone's souls this time." "YOU MORTALS! *laughs* Now I really must kill all of you!" I throw my daggers at his body with as much force as possible. This helps them stick pretty deep into inside of him. And Im not the only one to attack him in a swift manner. The Artist monster comrades I summoned are still here and they are able to attack out of nowhere as well. And others still also did the dame kind of thing. A lot of weapons with that substance on them therefore were able to touch or even wound of puncture the enemy. But still. Even if we kill him again, he will just come back, even if his body is turned into goop that turns any organism that touches it into goop as well. We still have a hard obstacle to overcome as in defeating him well enough for him to screw off and never return anytime soon.
While our foe withers in pain, we are given some time to think about this and other things. Future Trunks speaks basically what I just stated but also says: "There has to be a method to stop him that wont cause him to just come right back but what?" Pinkie replies: "I have an idea! Positive emotions! They should be strong enough!" The Dark Lord recovers in time to laugh at her words: "That does nothing to the likes of me!" Minutes later, we finally position ourselves like a raid party fighting a Floor Boss back on Aincrad. That means Im on the frontlines as a tank. Our foe just laughs at our efforts to better organize our collective efforts. And he also begins attacking again without mercy. With my shield fully equipped to my left arm's armor, I am able to easily back while still having a free hand to do some stuff with. Myself and the others on the frontlines hold our ground, refusing to yield in order to keep protecting everyone else while also attacking from our vantage points. SHINC and other veterans of GGO are in the backlines in order to attack our foe from a distance. The chaos of battle just keeps making us forget how easily we can better organize ourselves and our positions. But now, we got this. Pinkie yells: "Hey Dark Lord! CUPCAKES ARE THE BEST, YOU ARENT HAPPY BECAUSE YOU HAVE NEVER HAD ONE!" Trunks facepalms. Stitch laughs before rolling into a ball and yelling: "Stitch is going to be a distraction! HHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEEHE! STITCH UP TO NO GOOD!"
His mischief and Pinkie Pie's words inspire others to be distracting and annoying. Oh yeah. We have possibly hundreds of techniques we havent used on our foe just yet. Hundreds. With some of us now being actively annoying, the Dark Lord begins to struggle to hurt any of us with his attacks. Hes been more weakened than he realizes, it seems. Myself and others wearing heavy armor run at the Dark Lord tp try to knock him down since he has so graciously taken up full physical form and planted some of himself on the ground. This is why willpower. We will never surrender again. Our foes are going to have to wipe us out along with anyone who believes in the same causes as us to truly defeat us. They will have to waste so much time and effort on getting us all. Whatever can be done to at least delay the damning plans they have for the multiverse is worth the effort we ourselves put in. Even if our causes fail, we will have gone out with a bang and wasted the time of our enemies at the very least. I cant state this kind of thing enough as part of our current intentions. This is what we are able to do. This is how we fight. We fight, not certain of victory but not certain of defeat either. We try to win but know that we may lose and fall at any time. The efforts of myself and others who wear heavy armor are only enough to make the Dark Lord lose balance. He doesnt fall but that does buy us all a few seconds to get some good moves in. And each move really adds up.
To defeat an oppressive force, you have to be willing to risk and lose everything. Thats always how it goes. Its scary but we dont have a choice so we just have to face reality and keep dealing with it for as long as we have to. The Dark Lord has been killing many of our comrades since he suddenly appeared earlier. But we dont have time to grieve the dead again, especially when they're all coming back to life sooner or later. We will do our best to ensure thats able to happen. The Dark Lord's attacks are still scattered because of the whole Stitch and others still being annoying thing. Orochimaru suddenly shouts: "We will win! We might just have to seal away the Dark Lord away to make that happen!" Baphomet replies: "Thats not going to work this time. It may be time to destroy him much more permanently." Our foe laughs: "GOOD LUCK ON THAT, FOOOOOLS! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAA!" My daggers fall out of him. I race to pick them up but get attacked as a result. I am sent flying into a wall. After recovering from that experience, we all hear our foe begin to really scream in pain. The goop making substance is working as intended, even on the Dark Lord. And before we knew it, he was reduced to a spirit over a pile of goop. Mayuri chuckles: "I can see his spirit so clearly! If we can destroy his spirit somehow, we can end this right now! Nemu! Where are you, Nemu?! Hand me that spirit destroying thing I gave you! *she does so* HEHEHEHEHE!" Mayuri is now holding some kind of strange looking device that almost looks like a staff you would find in a tomb in Skyrim.
He attempts to use it to destroy the Dark Lord's spirit but it fails and our foe laughs: "You have proven yourselves to be stronger yet even more foolish mortal than I ever could have realized you were! NOW THAT IM A SPIRIT AGAIN, NONE OF YOUR PHYSICAL ATTACKS CAN WORK AGAINST ME! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!" This is bad. The only kind of attacks that can hurt spirits or magical attacks and not all of us here can use magical spells for combat.. We should have seen this coming. Of course just killing him wouldnt be enough to weaken him to make him that much easier to permanently stop for the time being. Sealing him away in the past has failed, thats why his spirit must die. But then, something else unexpected happens. Our foe laughs as he unleashes a giant AOE dark magic filled attack that hits us all. Many of us are knocked to the ground from the sheer force of the attack. But it only gets worse as another move happens in the blink of an eye. Everything around us begins to literally melt. "NOW YOU PATHETIC FOOLS WILL DROWN IN LAVA!" This cant be happening.. This cant be happening! Now our foes are actively even more going for immense destruction when fighting us! Their tactics have evolved once again. What the hell is this? How do we withstand something like this?! Pinkie shouts: "Hey! I cant teleport out!" Yuya exclaims: "Not even my Performapals can do anything about this!" Oh no no no no. We are as good as done for. This is something none of us were prepared for. Not a single one of us. Our foe just leaves us behind by going through a portal while continuing to laugh. Its getting so hot in here that I fear even my armor will be melted too.
I try to teleport out myself but no luck. The amount of water or ice it would take to counteract this situation is far too immense for us to procure. If something isn't somehow done fast, its over for all of us. More and more comrades are screaming as they burn to death and it's only getting hotter and hotter here inside of Glast Heim. My senses are acting strange. Its too hot to think straight or even notice whats happening to anyone else around me. All I can feel is me sinking into the melting ground and it only get hotter. I cant focus. I feel so tired because of the heat. Im sweating now. The heat is far beyond the powering of my armor's built in cooling system to counteract. That means my armor is going to start melting if it hasnt already despite all the stuff put into it to not allow it to melt no matter what. Its even enchanted with fire resistance among other enchantments. My eyes start to close on their own and I try to open them back up but theu just close all over again. I dont know how long I was out for but before I knew it, I found myself frozen solid in a block of ice that stretched as far as my eyes could see. I cant do anything in the state I am in now either. A few minutes later, this whole mining drill makes its way to me and some comrades hop out of it to free me from the ice. Clutch Powers speaks: "The mining drill takes me back to when I went to the cave of those rock monsters so many years ago.." Future Trunks replies: "Not the time! Are you okay, Swiftdrawer? *helps pull me from the ice that was just melted away from in front of me with fire magic*"
The caster of the fire magic, my own counterpart uses it again to warm my frozen face up. The rest of my body is mostly fine because of my armor. I reply: "..What happened?" "We dont have time. Just help us free everyone else and I'll explain what we do know." "Very well, Trunks. Seems theres no other choice." He tells me that what we do know is that a big block of ice was somehow formed around all of us in a split second and expanded to stop any further melting of Glast Heim. And then, Bevel came to us in that mining drill to help us out as she was free due to the battle for Geffen ending in our side's victory apparently. But that victory was shallow because Geffen was still destroyed including the Geffen Tower, built to keep the undead from crossing over basically. We also dont really know anything else at the moment. The communications are all jammed again and there's too many overwhelming energies around to use Ki sense to look for anyone or for Instant Transmission. Whats worse is that none of our electronics are working anymore. Where did the Dark Lord go and why did he just leave us all to die instead of at least sticking around long enough to watch us all perish? Just what the hell is going on now? We are completely in the dark as to anything happening outside of Geffen and Glast Heim. Once everyone was finally freed, we ran out of the giant block of ice to see a melted Glast Heim with the block of ice just embedded into it. It took us several minutes to run out of the block from just where I was freed. Retreating to Glast Heim Outskirts, we find ourselves surrounded by all of the surviving monsters from Glast Heim. Someone must have transported them here but who?
Rombell speaks: "All of this makes my time as a broken then former knight and drunkard seem cheerful.." Sailor Moon yells: "We have to get past these monsters and fast!" I add: "This entire world is in danger, we are literally defending an entire planet! And the White Witch still has the Heart Of Ymir as far as we know! Just what kind of terrible things do our foes wish to do by using it and the copy of it created by Varmudnt?!" We slaughter every last monster as each one tries to kill us. It was brutal and constant, like the kind of chaotic constant fighting youd find in Skyrim on rare occassions but so much worse. We made it out of the monsters but we didn't do so unscathed. I had to repair my armor again and spit out some blood. At least we're back to being organized into the same parties as earlier. Still, nothing about this is going our way. Lauren yells: "Hey, cant we just fly with our Ki?!" And minutes later, we're all flying with some of us having others hold on to us. But where were we going? Nowhere in particular, just anywhere we see anything relevant to whats going on. But for miles, all we see is devastated terrain, natural and not. But then, we reached the ruins of Geffen city. It was a truly horrific sight and guess who was there? The Dark Lord himself. He laughs: "So you fools managed to escape after all? Now I GET TO WATCH YOU SUFFER EVEN MORE THROUGH THE POWER I POSSESS! You have weakened me significantly but fools, thats not significant enough to stop me. Lets end this now! Your souls and emotions will soon be mine!" On the way here, we devised a plan to finish the Dark Lord just in case.
Now that we have found him, we can finally bring him down if all goes well for once today. I surround the Dark Lord with the shadows to trap him in the Shadow Realm for a few moments. He'll break free easily but this will still buy us a little more time to prepare what we have in store for him: a selection of ways to kill a spirit, of course. I forgot to mention earlier that energy attacks also still work on spirits or at least they still should work on them. I use Artist's Eye in conjunction with Kamehameha Slash in my attempt to help kill the Dark Lord's spirit. It would end up taking us so many damn attempts to kill him for good. And in that time, he seriously battered us down but somehow, we pulled it off and his spirit was now dead, shattered into countless tiny little pieces that cant even really be seen with the average naked eye. Some of those who were in the battle of Geffen end up joining up with us, attracted by the sheer spectacle we made while dealing with the Dark Lord. Thanks to this, Varmudnt among others was now with us. He speaks once everyone settles down: "I have something I need to inform all of you about. While Ki sensory and electronics no longer work at the moment, magic is functioning is normal for the time being. I know where the White Witch is and I will lead all of us to her location." Takius replies: "How did you figure that out? I have been unable to sense or detect anything since we almost melted and burned to death in Glast Heim." "I see. That is concerning, Takius. It seems magic isnt as intact as I believed. We dont have time to worry about that, unfortunately.
But as someone who has spent centuries near the magic of the Heart Of Ymir, I have learned to sense its location, no matter where it is. That is how strong my connection with it has become. I know the White Witch still has the Heart Of Ymir because it can feel her presence and I in turn can as well. She is in Free Port aka Lasagna." My counterpart widens their eyes: "I have friends there! This isnt good!" Lasagna is in a whole other region, past the island next to Izlude: Malado, also home to the Cat Paw Caravan. It is inhabited by talking cat people. Tetsuya shouts: "Well now thats just crabby! And how do you sage crab and I mean that in a actual endearing way, crab supposed we're supposed to get there?! Its making no crabs!" Bevel steps forward in front of us all along with Hatsume. Hatsume grins: "Say hello to my newest babies!" Bevel adds: "Aka my latest breakthrough as well! *unison* A new generation of portal guns!" They pull out literal portal guns that look more advanced than any anyone else in our collective has ever used up to now. Hatsume explains: "These babies arent like your normal portal guns that need both portals to be placed down! Just one will do so long as the user knows where they actually want to go!" One of the Machine Gun Lovers proceeds to try to shoot the portal guns while yelling: "Theyre not as awesome as machine guns!" Seriously, why did we allow those jokers to come? Eva yells: "Hey! Knock it off! Do you want us all to die should this world fall to the enemy or do you want to survive?! Answer me or I wont hesitate to shoot you myself!" They stop firing. Eva breathes a sigh of relief: "Okay, can you get those guns going already? We're running out of time even though it seems like we arent running out of time."
Bevel nods: "Theyre turning on- Wait! No. They arent ready yet! *throws one to my counterpart* Dont drop it!" Hatsume yells while tossing the other to the Great Sage: "Dont break my baby!" Bevel explains: "You two know this world better than most of us here ever will! Just turn on the green buttons and point at something to place the portal while thinking of and stating where you want to go!" Mere seconds later, we were coming out one by one into Lasagna. And the whole place was already being attacked or thats what we thought. But nothing actually seemed out of the ordinary. Sinon speaks: "This is a trap." ..Where is everyone? We feeling something very omninous approaching. Out of the shadows of the alleyways, the White Witch emerges with a wide grin on her face. The same grin produced by that smile demon we dealt with earlier. Chills went down my spine. Something was very different with the White Witch Gunnr and she was followed by black haired clones of herself dressed to look like knights in armor as well as Dandelion Corps members. She laughs: "So you have come at last. We're going to have so much fun. I cant wait to see just how amusing all of you prove to be in the end!" Future Trunks yells: "Just get to the point! We didnt come here to play your games!" "How impatient and rude. But thats to be expected of a Saiyan, isnt it? But nevermind that. You are here for what I took from you. If you want it back, you WILL have to play my game! Clones, Dandelion Corps, ATTACK!" We were overrun by them due to there being so damn many of them. And each one of them was seriously strong. It took us so long just to get through all of them. Gunnr laughs even as we finish off the last few of us.
"Oh look at you! You finally defeated my minions! It's unfortunate for you but this is only the beginning of what I have in store for you! After all, I AM NOW IMMORTAL THANKS TO THE HEART OF YMIR! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAA!" None of us are scared by that statement. "WHAT IS IT?! WHY ARENT ANY OF YOU AFRAID?!" Rombell replies: "You already know why. We will not be fooled by your words." Sailor Moon adds: "Thats right! Immortality doesnt mean you can never die! It means you can never age! See! I have grown a lot from the crybaby who hated school I used to be!" Gunnr is taken aback but starts laughing again: "I see now what I must do." The Salt Pillar appears before us. "I want to thank those of you who lost this earlier. Now, its mine to use as I see fit and it has been collecting souls from across the entire world this entire time!" Another presence begins to manifest before us as the Salt Pillar is silently sacrificed in a ritual no one is able to stop, not even Takius or Varmundt. The entity sniffs the air as theyre born: "Smell.. I smell.. spilled and unspilled blood." The area around us suddenly transforms to show what kind of state its truly in. Gunnr has already ravaged Free Port. So many are already dead. The entity adds while laughing: "I AM BACK, MIDGARD AND THIS TIME, NO ONE WILL STOP MY RETURN!" The White Witch laughs again: "Say hello to Morroc's Fetus!" My counterpart speaks: "Not again!" Gunnr grins at them sadistically: "Now I can truly get my revenge for all of the times you have gotten in my way, little adventurer!" We are now forced to fight 2 enemies far stronger than they are in canon at the same time.
I put my shield arm up and ready my sword arm for some action. We were able to revive those of us who died in Glast Heim before the melting incident so theres more of us ready and able to fight but against these 2 at once, we feared that things like that wouldnt make much of a difference for turning the tide of battle in our favor. Words cannot express just how tight of a spot we're in all over again. Not even all the scientific gadgets do a thing. We were lucky the portal guns run on their own sorta old school power sources at least for the time being. I join in on the fight to stop Gunnr while some of the others deal with Morroc's Fetus. The witch laughs as she seals us all inside the newly established battle area with a ritual like spell, reminding me of what it was like to be trapped inside of the Seal Of Orichalcos for a time a number of times in the past to do battle with Orichalcos users. "There! Now no more pests will get in the way! All of you are going to die here today and you will only have yourselves to blame for whats about to happen to you! Fire Bolt! Cold Bolt! Lightninb Bolt!" She begins firing every mage style spell attack from this world at us but with the added kick of each one hitting every single one of us. That includes for the already devastating Meteor Storm attack. I power up to the fullest extent I can. "Damn it. My plan of using my defense to protect some of the others is just not going to work!"
Those of us who prefer fighting in close quarters begin to zero in on Gunnr's current position to attack her except we are propelled by a powerful barrier. Stitch licks it and gets electrocuted: "Stitch thinks that tastes like ZAPPY ZAP!" I literally dont know a single technique that could break through a barrier spell unless.. Piccolo speaks: "Clearly, this barrier wont go down with a fight. *ignores the magic damage being inflicted on him* Physical attacks arent going to have any effect. Its a barrier. We need to try our own energy and magical attacks. *coughs up blood* Damn it! We're all going to die within the next few minutes if this constant firing of spells doesn't slow down pr stop! *directs his aim at the barrier* SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!" His attack has no effect. "HAAAAAAAA! Kamehameha Slash!" My attack barely does a thing. But Rombell breaks it down himself. "WITNESS THE TRUE POWER OF A RUNE KNIGHT!" Rune Knights are among the most rare of individuals in this world because of a vast number of reasons, including the fact that it takes someone truly determined to become one, much less even a Lord Knight. We charge in at Gunnr but she blasts us away with what felt like an earthquake attack. Does she have control over all types of elements found in this world now? Our comrades fighting Morroc's Fetus are also having a hard time due to their massive defense stats and all that.
Okay.. Our enemies are seriously getting far too powerful for us to really stand much of a chance against once again. Something has to be done to change our circumstances. We fight our foes aimlessly for ages, leaving most of us down by the time I noticed just how much time has elapsed since we started fighting them. Gunnr laughs: "You never stood a chance against us, did you?! Just look at all of your now dead friends and see how you no longer have any-" She is cut off as some of us begin to turn the tables seemingly out of nowhere. Some of the surviving magic users among us join hands and begin chanting a spell and ending it off with: "MANA SUPPRESSING SEAL!" And they aim it at Gunnr. How did they manage to pull that off? I have been too busy to pay attention.. Besides trying to wither down our foe's health along with the other close range fighters fighting her, I have been healing and providing support when I safely can without using up too much of my mana. My mana is one of 2 things keeping my body from being reduced to just bone right now. The seal seals away Gunnr's mana, making her unable to use any magic any longer. Those still fighting Morroc's Fetus are holding out well as we can safely focus on her for the time being. She yells: "THIS CANT BE HAPPENING!" We go in at her with everything we can muster into single moves. I launch a powered up Wind Break Slash at her mixed with the Kamehameha and other forms of energy at my disposal. Using my signature would have probably sent her up and up away because her magic being sealed makes her a much weaker target.
The enemy just screams and yells more and more as the attacks take their toll on her. And thus, she dies before our eyes. Except she comes right back and her corpse is revealed to just be another clone of hers: "Sinners! You will all die for the sins you have committed against us today!" She kills several more of us instantly with some spells only for someone to use Defusion on her for some reason. This causes her to lose the Artifical Barian Battlemorph form she was already in by the time we got here, it becomes its own separate entity due to its Barian and technological origin. It then gets melted by some of us still alive, ending it as a threat right there. But the enemy is far from done. She just laughs at us again as she fires spell after spell and attempts to seal her mana again just fail and nearly get more of us killed in the process. Varmundt speaks: "Everyone, I will provide you all with a 'power up'. Use it wisely. We have to support each other until the very end. I refuse to find myself in the same situation as I did all those years ago. I should have never worked for Rekenbar." We all feel a small but significant increase in power. What do we do though? How are we supposed to kill Gunnr when she is just THIS POWERFUL? The answer came in not a way any of us could have possibly expected. Akihiko Kayaba appears as his avatar Heathcliffe and speaks: "This world, because of the existence of items found inside of MMORPGs therefore still follows the rules of such games, even for those who are not counted as players of the game but are still acting on their own free will at this moment.
Therefore, I have been able to reprogram this world to even the odds. This world wouldnt allow me to do much but I was still able to significantly reduce the amount of power Gunnr has for the time being. The odds are still against us. But now, Gunnr is truly beatable instead of being like a extremely OP and 'doped' boss monster. In addition, Morroc's Fetus has had their defense stats reduced significantly, making them now killable. But this is as far as I was able to go with making this more fair for all of us before this world nearly erased me completely by using ancient magic. I will now rejoin this battle." Gunnr looks really pissed off at what we just all heard. "YOU DARE DEFY ME IN THIS WAY, SINNER?! PREPARE TO PAY FOR YOUR SINFUL CRIMES!" She launches a angry series of magical attacks but her aim is so off that she isnt even hitting any of us even with just the wide ranged ones. Only for Roan to yell: "Hey! You can stop that now! You arent fooling me with that!" She grins: "Thats right! *attacks more precisely* I was tricking all of you into believing I was too angry to effectively respond to any of your attacks anymore and you almost fell for it!" To be continued..