[Twi] Twilight VII: The Dog bites Back!

[darkblade]

Zexion

"Membership was based on the strength of the soul and didn't she have a different agenda than you in your last meeting? I'm pretty sure her and the Dr. Krane through you to the angel at the last moment making you lose most of your potential power." Zexion says opening his book to the file on Wednesday that Edward had collected when he wanted to recruit the lost God.

"Regardless I don't see the point in this? We already have an army of heartless trillions strong, and we could have made them heartless all the same with your keyblade. What's with the rings?"

***

Darksied

Paying no attention to the retired superhero Darksied feels the world looking for any more connection to Anti-Life. "Another world. This Tower seems to be connected to many worlds, we must be careful not to draw the attention of our dimensional duplicates."

[doliest]

Ash
Ash looks around, "Wow. What a s***hole." He moves around, digging through the remains of the Deus Ex for an idea of what had happened here. And where he could get something to drink.

[Gulping]

Ryoma

Ryoma's grin crosses the border from 'intimidating' to 'oh **** run,' "Awesome." He leaps back into the Getter's cockpit and turns it back on. The strange pupils come back on as the hatch closes up, and the machine takes off.

"OPEN GET!"

The Black Getter immediately comes apart, separating into three large aircraft; one red, one white, and one yellow. The transformation sequence seems to break almost every law of physics at once, with special attention paid to the conservation of matter. How exactly the color change happened is probably better left unexplained. The machines come back down to land, and Ryoma leaps out of the red jet's cockpit.

"Ok. Asuka, green man, which machine do you want?

White controls Getter-2. It's focused on agility and melee combat. It can dash across the ground and jet through the air, although it wasn't meant for long distance flight. It can also burrow underground and travel through the earth, which is a pretty good way to ambush someone. It's actually the most defensive form, despite its light armor. The best defense, after all, is not getting hit.

Yellow is Getter-3. It's the heaviest unit, focused on underwater combat and brute force. It also carries a ridiculous amount of firepower, so it can operate as an artillery platform. It's best used at either very long or very short range, and is meant for overwhelming offense.

Red is mine, and it controls Getter-1. Meant for long distance flight, it can fight in any environment except underground and underwater. Versatile and well balanced, it's the only form that can access the most powerful attacks the Getter has. That said, there's times where the other forms are more desirable.

Kamina over there's going to stick to his machine. I don't know much about it, but I have a hunch that we can make it work with the Get Machines. Don't ask me why I think that."

Then what Asuka said reaches him.
"Hmm. Somehow I doubt that'll be a problem. If it's anything like the EVAs I've encountered before, you're probably the only person who it'll work for. Even then, it's in kind of bad condition at the moment, and probably doesn't have much power left. I think we can stand to leave it. If you want, we can find somewhere to store it."

Dante

"Ah crap. That's just fricking spectacular. Welp, let's go say hello, then." Dante saunters over and sits on Light's other side, placing an order for a strawberry sundae before looking right at Flagg with his practiced air of insolence.

"Hey there, s**thead, how you doing? Find any other babies to give Denarii to, or have you moved on to teenagers?"

The Stig

You nod and follow Anderson. *Can Take R-Type. Cover More Ground. Cockpit Has Room For Three People. KOS-MOS and Spectre Anderson Can Ride On Exterior. Can Get Different Ship If That Unacceptable.*

[doliest]

Light
Light looks at Dante, amused by his actions...but also more than a little annoyed by his presence. Still, compared to how he felt about a lot of people in the casino, annoyed was practically friendship. Light drops a bit of money, paying for Dante's drink as he watches the fireworks, "Any reason you came in here and insulted my Master?"

Pinhead
"Dante." He adds nothing more, but he's interested, chains coiling around Pinhead's arms like snakes.

[Cracklord]

Wednesday
"She's drunk my mead, so I can be certain of her loyalty. As I can be certain of yours." He replies as though this settles it. "As for the rings, they're a design of my own. Perhaps we should watch them in action, and you can see for yourself what I have done."
He waves his keyblade vaguely once more, and the remaining raven flew through it. A screen on the wall began to broadcast what it saw.
The Nobodies made up of the ex inmates were dead enough for the lanterns to work. And they were reaping a terrible toll on the world. A green Lantern ring is described as the most powerful weapon in the universe. A black Lantern, in the right hands, can be just as effective. And every one of the inmates was using it to great effect. The death toll was already in the hundreds of thousands after mere minutes of them being put into action, with more rings finding new hosts.
Super heroes who could have fought even the most powerful heartless on even terms were killed alongside other people. And one by one, they returned, still hungering for death, black rings of their own on their fingers.
Blackest night, as foretold in the book of Oa, had come.
"Am I making my point, Zexion?" Wednesday asks, as Poison Ivy returns, in dark green robes with a staff in her hands and a smile on her lips.

Darksied and Thanos
Before you can answer, the window is smashed through. A rotted corpse, big and bulky with decayed muscle, a black lantern glowing on his finger is floating. He is dressed in a harness, shoulder pads and carrying guns. here is a cigar clamped between his teeth. It's Eddie Blake, back for revenge.
Ozymandius turns to look at him. "So help me, if Jenny Sparks comes down the chimney I'll be very put out." He says, then dives for cover as the black lantern begins to spray bullets everywhere.

Dante and Light
"I'm not actually his master. Just coerced him into working for me, and he thinks if I let him kiss my ass I won't notice how much he wants to stab me in the back." Flagg replies, with a sh*t-eating grin. "And that's nine to five stuff. It's the weekend at the moment. I figure I'll take a break, poison the water supply, something like that, you know?"

[darkblade]

Oracle

"I'd prefer you stay on foot for now. Vehicles will attract demon attention and we already have enough problems."

***

Asuka

"I'll take the yellow one." Asuka says proudly, she probably would be better with the white one but Yoda didn't seem the type to be used to heavy ranged weapons while her EVA training covered all forms of mecha weaponry at all ranges.

***

Zexion

"You got a name yet?" Zexion apsently asks the woman her element was quite obviously plants as it was in her true human form but a Nobody's new name was important. It shaped them in ways those with hearts cannot understand.

"Well it's impressive but why only do this now? How many worlds have we killed that had superheroes like that to deal with?"

***

Darksied

Darksied stares at the Black Lantern careful not to let any emotions show lest the creature leave the superhero and bother him. "Impossible, the Blackest Night cannot occur yet it is too soon."

[Cracklord]

Zexion
"How much more power for us if we can take an entire world with ten expendable men?" He replies, still watching as he felt power flow into him from the deaths of the world.

Pamella Isley looks at you "Pallexma." She replies decisively, and her posture changes slightly. "Do I get a chair?"

Wednesday nods. "You can have a chair and as big a garden as you want, m'dear. You can have plants you didn't even know existed. Welcome to the organization."

Darkseid
You are hit by a few stray bullets, but it's Adrian Eddie Blake is after.

Oracle
"I'm sorry, but I can't take a call at the moment." Bond. Now he replies. "I can't even talk and chew gum at the same time, carrying a conversation as well as this is a little beyond me."

[doliest]

Light
Light shrugs and laughs; pantomiming humanity was an everyday task for him, "If you say so, Master." He leans back, keeping an eye on both Flagg and Misa. He stops for a second, "You....handed my coin to a child." He stops sipping his drink, putting it down, "You...took my coin to give to a child." Light doesn't look...well, emotional. Inside however, he's screaming to crush Flagg like an insect.

[Draxx]

Thanos
Eddie turns to stare at Thanos, who disolves him to mist, and crushes the ring beneath his foot. He is very, very angry. Just how angry is almost unbelievable.
"Someone is daring to poach my mistresses domain." he says quietly. Even Darkseid finds himself more then a little terrified in that instant.

Yoda
"Agreed. For me, this one seems. He says, hobbling over to the mecha, and getting in. He adjusts the seat to take into account his small size, then belts himself in place, and moves himself over to the controls. He considers them, then unfolds the mech. Then he smiles an impish smile. He hasn't enjoyed himself this much in a long time.
"Ready, I am. To the tower we must go." He says.

Kamina
The badass leader of team Gurren gets into his mech, adjusting the controls and smiling. "Lets do this!" He yells, and Gurren begins to run towards the tower.

[Gulping]

Dante

"Because I don't agree with his taste in children's toys." Dante fishes the sealed Denarius out of his pocket and slaps it on the table, glaring at Flagg the whole time. His hand doesn't cover the coin, but it remains poised nearby, and can slap back down faster than the blink of an eye at any time.
"There a reason why you were trying to hock Sammael here off on a kid who hasn't even said his first word, Mister? Beyond being a petty little prick, of course."

The Stig

*R-Type Capable Of Interstellar Travel. R-100 Can Reach Mach 7.38 In Atmosphere. Anchor Force DX Yellow Laser System Fires Sweeping Beam In 270 Degree Radius Around Fighter. Doubt Demon Capable Of Beating That Exists.

Alternative Fighter Not As Powerful, But More Maneuverable In Urban Environment, Capable Of Hovering. Firepower More Than Sufficient.*

Ryoma

"Good to hear. Ok, get in your machines and we'll go when everyone's ready."

With that, Ryoma returns to the Eagle Machine and starts it up, ready to launch whenever Yoda and Asuka are ready.

"The cockpit might look a bit bewildering at first. Just grab whatever's most comfortable for you and do what seems natural."

'Bewildering' is somewhat of an understatement. The Get Machine's cockpit is a mess of levers, handles, and throttles, none of them labeled, arranged in no apparent order around a central console that features a display screen, a set of three buttons (which are the only things that are actually labeled at all, with each one being colored Red, White, and Yellow and labeled 1, 2 and 3 respectively) arranged vertically next to what appears to be a shifter from an automatic transmission. On the floor, in addition to yet more levers, there's what appears to be a pair of holsters with an arcade light-gun controller resting inside it, and a single, lonely looking pedal. You get the distinct impression that the designer was either a genius or completely mad. Probably both.

[doliest]

Light
Light looks at it, "Hm." Can't swipe it. Flagg won't help. Trade for it? He knows I want it, so I can't go back; maybe use Pinhead? Hm. Maybe this could work out for the better, "Would you be willing to part with that coin?"

[Cracklord]

Light, Dante
"Sure there is. That kids got a destiny, much like you two do. So I tried to off him before he has a chance. That's how these things work, we give them a chance to be corrupted, then we kill them. You'd be amazed at how man aspiring heroes don't make it past grade school. How's the drink?" He asks Dante, still smiling as though everything was right where he wanted it.
Blade shakes his head. "I'm really getting tired of this bullsh*t."
Flagg nods. "Good for you. You've said your piece. I've said mine. No, I'm not going to let you hit me, and I'm rather enjoying the atmosphere in here." He says, then gets up. "I think I'll go talk to the owner, actually. Have yourselves a drink, I'll be back before you know."

Thanos
Eddie Blake does not stand a ghost of a chance. But he's far from the only one visible below. They are everywhere.

Team Awesome
You arrive at the lift at exactly the same time the four Green Lanterns do, despite this making no sense. Of course, with the universe distorted as it is, who can say what makes sense and what doesn't?

[Colesign]

Solomon Kane

"I may be a Puritan, Harry Dresden, but by the Grace of God I do not use my Faith to justify being an *******."

Vin

Vin keeps her Tin flared as she walks, listening for any disturbances or shifts.

She turns to Mouse. "I don't suppose you can tell if we're going on the right path?"

[Cracklord]

Sanya
You arrive in time to witness Ashley j Williams, John Taylor, Fayt, Shotgun Suzie, Razor Eddie and Deadboy step out from an elevator that closes behind them, never to be seen again. Your in seattle looking for the cause of the desolation, the place where the monsters are created.
And by the grace of a sufficiently powerful entity that may or may not be god, or perhaps just sheer dumb lock, you have met people eager to help you.

King Dedede
At last, you have arrived at Gotham. You have the vorpal sword, and the knowledge that Kirby is in here somewhere. You also have the cat, and your hammer. What could possibly go wrong?

Vin, Dresden, Kane
You turn the corner, and stop. You are right back where you started. The engineering of the tower doesn't make sense.

[darkblade]

Oracle

"You're alive enough to be a smart mouth. You better have a good reason explaining why Cass was alone." Oracle snaps at the spy.

"I have no doubt about that Stig, but I can't have you flying it near the Asylum. Your ships may be able to handle the demons but I only got so much juice in the security systems."

***

Darksied

"She permited this long ago Thanos. Are you not familiar with the Book of Oa?" Darksied says calmly.

***

Zexion

"No the idea is sound but why did we wait this long? Once we had a couple Green Lanterns notches in our belts this shouldn't have been too difficult." Zexion says taking his seat.

"Anyways have you thought about finding a keyblade weilder for that thing? You don't have a heart or soul you know this is an unstable arrangment."

***

Asuka

"So now what? We're bigger than the doors?"

[Cracklord]

Zexion
"I wanted to be sure it would work first." Wednesday replies, his glass dissolving into nothing as he finishes it. After so long living on scraps, he seems to relish using his power for simple things like creating drink. Wasteful. Extremely wasteful. But he has so much power by this point he can afford the loss.
"Now that I am satisfied, I will use this technique more often. As to this," He looks down at the Keyblade. "Well, as long as we don't have anybody alive in this fortress it won't be a problem. And we don't. Nobodies and Heartless are even less appealing to it then I am, and it can't travel on it's own."
He says that as though it was fact, rather then conjecture. He does that.
"Now, we need to find you a few more companions. Do you have any you like so far?" he says, returning to the agents you brought in.

Oracle
"She moves faster then me and thought she had an opening that she didn't." Bond replies. "They stunned her and took her away. I am pinned in what's left of a house trying to use a pistol to compete with long ranged rifles." He replies.
"I can only do so much in these circumstances."

Asuka
Except... You're not. Space stretches, and the Two mecha's get into the lift, awaiting only the green lanterns.

Dresden and Vin
In the room, you spot a dark, perfectly smooth sphere, that is completely frictionless, and too large to be lifted by any of you. You feel yourself drawn to it, though none of you could say exactly what it is.

[The Shoveler]

Anderson
He continues on his way to Oracle's room, whether the others follow or not.

Megas
I was at the store, getting the last Big Gulp when a weird dude in black with a fist on his shirt destroyed the store and the drink. He would pay for this! I jumped in Megas, my awesome customized car-robot.
"Hey, you gothic nightmare! Go back to Hot Topic!" I yelled, picking up a controller and proceeding to open up a can of whoop-ass on him, Street Fighter style! I activated the Eight-Ball Fireball and shot a hadoken at him. MY BIG GULP WOULD BE AVENGED!!

[Gulping]

Dante

"Why do you even want it? Guy's an a**hole, and I already stole his crap and sealed his coin. He's not going to get out unless I let him out." Dante doesn't add the part about how the seal can be broken through brute force. He doesn't know how much it would take, and he's the only one who NEEDS to know.

Ryoma

"Huh. Who the hell builds an elevator that friggin big?" Indeed, the elevator is actually large enough to accommodate the Get Machines and Gurren. Apparently it too does not care for the laws of physics.

"Screw it. I'll just hit a button." A servo arm folds out of the Eagle, and punches a button at random.

He presses the button for Floor Four.

"You guys coming?" He's obviously addressing the Green Lanterns here. Evidently, he's willing to wait on them, to a point.

The Stig

*Could Fly Around City Perimeters, Draw Attention Off Arkham That Way.* You know that you're at your best in a vehicle, and it's hard to get much better than the R-100

Travis F**king Touchdown

So yeah. At long last, I make my appearance in this f**king catastrophe of a game. I, Travis Touchdown, the Crownless King, have arrived! I'm back and better than ever, baby, so you'd better strap your ass to your pants, because it's about to get blown the hell away.

Now I just have to figure out where the s**t I am...

[AnimeKid]

Dedede

He arrives in Gotham, a city that could give the Mushroom Kindom a run for its money. "Well now, so this is the where Kirby is huh. Hmph, you better watch out Kirby cause here I come." he says as he takes off into the city.

Fayt

He takes out his trusty scanner and starts scanning the wreckage and the surrounding area. While he does that he starts talking to John. "Hey John, I've been wondering whats your gift? I know Bella could warp reality, but what about you?"

[Colesign]

{Well, well: it looks like my favorite Black Russian Holy Warrior makes his return Hopefully, I won't get swamped by the number of characters I must portray}

Sanya

Spoiler

Show

Guy on the right. Looks much friendlier in person.

The Knight of the Cross is startled at the emergence of so many grim Anti-Hero types from out of nowhere.

He waves. "....Zdravstvujte?"

Vin

Vin feels the pull of the sphere, even with her Copper burning. That worries her.

"I'm pretty sure we shouldn't touch the mysterious sphere until we know more about it."

She burns Steel to see is the Sphere is made of metal.

Solomon Kane

"I concur." The Puritan avenger adds.

[doliest]

Ash
Ash looks up at the Russian, "Hey! Do you know where the f*** we are? Or where I could get a f***ing drink?" Ash wasn't surprised in the least by Sanya; after all the s*** that had happened in that Tower, he doubted anything would surprise him.

[darkblade]

Oracle

"Very well Stig take your ship. I got a job for you further away from the Asylum anyways. I got an agent pinned down by rifle fire not far from your position.

She then turns and nods to Anderson before turning back to the machine that is running the eye symbol through a database.

***

Zexion

"I don't trust that Deathstrike guy. He's too much like Dexdapool and I'm too attached to my kidneys to want to work with Lectre. Fisk doesn't seem much of a fighter and we don't need another schemer. Deadshot and Kaine seem perfect though, they already have near total control over their emotions so they won't be too unpredictable without them and we could use their frontline firepower."

***

Dresden

I tap on the skull a couple more times. "Hello? Bob? You in there?"

Hell's Bells, I didn't kill Bob by bringing him here did I?

[Colesign]

Sanya

Sanya smiles at Ash. "I'm afraid there's no working Bar in Seattle at the moment."

The smile fades. "Monsters came here, burned the city to the ground, and damn near the entire world. Only by the grace of a few good men and women did the destruction end here."

He straightens, and his hand falls to the Calvary Saber at his hip: the head of an Iron Nail pokes out of the hilt, stained with something red. "But I neglect to introduce myself. I am Sanya, Knight of the Cross. There were rumors of strange dark things that survived the destruction of this poor city. So I investigate."

He looks at Taylor. "Huh...you remind me a bit of friend I know in Chicago. Any relations?"

[Gulping]

The Stig

*Thank You. Consider It Done.* You break away from the rest of the group and dial up the Hangar System, grabbing a different R-Type this time...

<FIGHTER CHANGED>
R-11S2 'NO CHASER'

+Ultimate High Mobility Model. Fastest R-Type ever developed. The Stig's personal favorite for obvious reasons.
<LOADOUT CHANGED>
+Lock-On Wave Cannon III (lacks power, but can strike multiple targets with pinpoint accuracy)
+Gallop Force DX (makes up for the Wave Cannon's lack of strength)
+Shield Bit (large bit device meant for defense)
+Photon Missile (yeah, this thing again)

You leap in and blast off towards the agent Oracle mentioned, charging the Wave Cannon as you go. The precision it offers is probably going to be invaluable.

[doliest]

Ash
"Ashley J. Williams. Housewares." He shakes his head, "We're here because some f***er is destroying reality or some stupid s***. We're stopping it."

[Cracklord]

Dresden
A tiny blue spark, so small you couldn't see it unless you were as close as you happen to be, flares in Bob's eyes. "Go away." He says softly. He's terrified. He's terrified out of his mind.

Zexion
Wednesday stirs again. "Seems to me that it would be wiser to take schemers. We have, as you so correctly mentioned, trillions of heartless. They can fight for us. What we don't have is leaders to direct our hordes. Those that can think for themselves. Or rather, we don't have enough of them."
Pallexma smirks. "Then none of them are much use, are they?" She says.

Axel
You're still on the ship. Still a nobody. You don't care, not really, but you have to pretend you do. The alternative is winding up like them.
They don't know you're here. Or they do, and they don't care. Either one leads to the same question, what now?

Vin
It doesn't seem to be. Not comforting.

King Dedede
Arkham looms ahead. You made it here uncontested. Within, somewhere, is Kirby.

Megas
I have no idea what you are talking about, or what I'm supposed to do. So I'll just leave this alone.

Travis F**king Touchdown
VEGAS BABY! SWEET!
The lights are on, the beautiful and rich are everywhere, and everything is great. If only you had some money to spend. That in mind, you don't actually know what you're supposed to be doing. You have a bag with a few DVD's that are probably illegal, a few changes of clothes and some spare swords.
You have, on reflection, 11c to your name. And you have a serious desire to have some fun. Ahead of you is the Caesar Hotel. I think no more needs to be said about your setting.

[The Shoveler]

Megas
The Black Lantern gets hit by a gigantic flaming 8-ball and gets destroyed, ring and all. This made me happy.
"Now where am I going to get my Big Gulp? Or a Mega Slush?" I ask to no-one in particular. I then start flying around, looking for the closest major city to New Jersey. Seattle it is!

[Colesign]

Sanya

"Destroying reality? Nyet Dobre! Perhaps...I should join your Team and help out. I have a sword that may or may not have been given to me by Archangels!"

He points at Esperacchius.

"Who are you all anyway?" His eyes look over Taylor, Suzie, Eddie, Ash, the greyish man in a purple coat...

His eyebrows rise. "You're dead, aren't you."

Vin

"Dresden." Vin says, trying to ignore the strange lure of the sphere. "What is that black ball? And why do you have a skull in your bag?"

Solomon Kane

The Puritan narrows his eyes at the ball. "We should leave it alone, and leave this room."

[darkblade]

Dresden

"Sorry buddy. If we don't die you're getting a Playboy subscription for this." I said placing the skull back in my bag.

"You heard me talking to Bob back at my apartment this skull is Bob. He contains centuries of magical knowledge and he is scared eighty-five percent to death by being here." I explained to Vin before nodding at Solomon setting up a shield between us and the ball.

"Let's get a move on then."

***

Zexion

"If these were normal men I'd agree with you but these are men of power and/or great insanity. Sitting under you won't be enough for them."

[Colesign]

Vin

"Aye. Let's."