TFF Rising: Halloween Havoc

[twin blade]

SHIT SHIT SHIT! Why did I forget to bring Sol bullets!? Damn it! TB thought while trying to evade the attacks that were being thrown about the battlefield.
And to top it off, my sister's turned into some Uber-demon! Great!
Managing to find a liitle place where he could rest, he started to charge mana into his gun.
I can't get close enough to use my daggers or spade. I hope this Anti-Everything Gun really is Anti-Everything...

Just then the GMF spotted TB and saw him charging mana into his AEG.
"You will NOT DEFY ME!!! YOU'll ALL DIE!!!111!!!1"
Just then, TB had enough.
"JUSUS CHRIST, SIS! DO YOU EVER SHUT UP!!"
Everybody paused and stared at TB.
"Uh-oh."

 

[Zenithos]

OOC: This was actually supposed to be a part of a post me and Eterna were writing together but we hit a bit of a snag so it's going to take some work. Anyway, this post has nothing to do with us and everything to do with LL. If you don't like it, LL, we'll be sure to fix it. Also, we've got a scene where you re-enter the battle (to a pretty cool theme song that we've picked out too ). Now....we just need to fix that stupid snag.

"Huff...I actually got out of that one alive..." LL breathed a sigh of relief as he materialized in an empty corridor before promptly sliding against the wall down onto the floor. "That was a close one....how I got out I'll never know but I got a second chance, I sure as hell won't waste it....so my queue to sit this one out." He sighed. "I'm done for the night."

"Are you really?" A voice asked.

LL scrambled up onto his feet and whirled out his staff. Not that the fake staff would do much good, but at least he'd be able to bonk a head or two if need be. "Who goes there?! I warn you, I've got a staff and...."

Bonk...

"And you wanted to be my apprentice...?" The voice sighed as stars swam across LL's vision. Jeez, that wasn't a casual tap on the head. That one had every intention of inducing concussions. "Well, I was at least right about you having the potential of a true Mazoku, boy."

"X-Xellos-sama!" LL gasped, as he blinked the whooziness out of his head. "Wh-What...? How....why?!"

"But you will never be a mazoku." Xellos turned away and walked a few steps down the deserted corridor. "....and you needn't be one." He added.

"Wha...Xellos-sama?" LL started to go after his role-model. "What do you mean I needn't be..."

Xellos suddenly turned and unleashed a barrage of magical spears of light straight at LL at point-blank range.

LL, realizing there was nothing he could do, and having no energy to teleport, raised his hands up before him in a last desperate move to defend himself as he braced himself...

...but the light spears never came...

LL slowly and cautiously opened one eye, before opening the other in shock. Before him a huge kirby doll had somehow appeared and shielded him from the attack. "Wha....?" He gaped yet again.

"Surprised?" Xellos asked, somewhat amused at the Kirby doll. "You now have the unlimited potential worthy of a Mazoku....but you can choose for yourself what you wish to do with that power. The path of a true Mazoku is not one you can tread, but you can always blaze your own."

"Unlimited....Potential...?" LL asked, poking the kirby doll. It was perfectly tangible and was actually quite plushy. "But....how...?"

"Every great power will have a will of its own..." Xellos said, gesturing around him. "Within the lands below you, within its very sky, within the life of every one of its inhabitants is the very power that shaped it all....the power of crack fics. And every great power needs a hand, an outlet, an...avatar, if you will, through which it can act upon the physical world. I am but the avatar of the Greater Beast Zelllas Metallium. And you....you, and very few others, have been chosen by the will that drives the ultimate force of TFF to wield it in its name."

"Crack fics? Power? Avatar...?" LL asked, looking down at his hands in awe and, for some funny reason, incredulity.

"As for the kirby..." Xellos coughed. "I believe it has something to do with the one who fused you with the crack fic force."

"....riiight...." LL sweatdropped as he willed the Kirby doll away, causing it to dissapear in a crackle and flicker of crack fic energy.

"Now, do what you will. Your...friends, await you, I think." Xellos said, turning around once more to leave.

"Xellos-sama!" LL shouted after Xellos' retreating back.

"....yes?" Xellos paused at the corner of the corridor.

"You're not into yaoi, are you?"

"....."

"Just asking."

"Sore Wa Himitsu Desu."

"....ah..."

 

[Mick]

Heh don't feel sorry for that guy. Least I'm not currently related to a dumb ass. Hate to see their family reunion's though. All the same this fight seemed to be dragging on and on..

Hm for a second I thought I heard a sneeze in the general direction of Kyoto..naw that's bs. Probably just hearing things. Anyway I better get my attention back on what's goin on.

"Yo! She-bitch, you ready to just curl up and die all ready or what?" I ask GMF.

Before she could retaliate I unleashed my newest most devastating attack. I spit a very large wad of spit directly into GMF's forehead causing it to splash all over her face.

 

[Epsilon]

She honestly would have blasted Mick for daring to mark her face with saliva but she had other problems at the moment.

Problems such as two speedy cables, coming from that strange alien (who seemed somewhat familiar in some weird fashion), trying to inject themselves into her skin. She quickly formed a sword and tried cutting off the ends but they coiled around her blade like snakes before targeting her neck.

A quick release of her blade and the coils went off balance long enough for her to put up a light barrier. Undaunted, the alien paused as his fingernails on both hands extended to add even more golden claws to his arsenal.

"So anyone gonna do anything while they are too occupied with each other? Anything?" asked Zeni in a flat tone.

"Not exactly in super shape to really kick some more ass, you know. Same with my lady servant here," reported Mick while ignoring Motoko's dirty glare.

David merely continued mumbling gibberish. Probably some random prayer.

"Cripes, the guy just fumbled another insanity roll. This is g-gonna bite when he moves on from her to us," moaned Xaosite.

"ATOMIC GIGAS BREAKER!!" screamed Eterna.

Unknown barely just stayed out of her range. "What the hell type of wrestling move is that?! Get the hell away from me, you psycho!!"

"A new viral dawn is approaching. It will be glorious!" exclaimed the infected Asakura Ryoko.

"........."

 

[David Alan Abramczyk]

David glanced up at Ryoko's comment, then gave a weary sigh. "Gawd preserve us..." he said, before pulling a powerful magnet from his pocket, and hurling at the DITE agent. "Wrap your laughing gear around that, sunshine...." he called.

 

[Mick]

"Rather presumptious to speak for me Michael." Motoko was saying with gritted teeth. "I've been doing just fine with"

"Bull you don't know the first thing about how this whole Master/Servant thing works. I sure as shit don't know and there's no way you can know either. So can you fight at 100%? Because you damn sure haven't been!" I interrupted Motoko with.

"Like your one to talk, you've barely used any of that 'magic' of yours since this whole thing started! I think you've been lazy this whole time and letting everyone else do the work!" Motoko accused me.

"That's a bunch of fucking shit! Let's see how well you do with a hole in your stomach!" I yell back not happy at the accusation. Even if it was true.

"Happened to me earlier because I had to save your sorry excuse for a life. Or did you forget what caused our current predicament?" Motoko brought up from before.

" I sure as hell didn't ask you to do it! Why the hell did ya do it anyway?!" I yell back at her.

"Um.." David tried to interrupt even though the both of us ignored him.

"Thats...that's none of your business!" Motoko was saying with a red face.

"It sure as shit is my business! Why'd ya do it huh? Why?" I ask her again.

"I'm not going to answer so you can stop asking!" Motoko yelled back at me.

"Guys..." Zeni tried to say but was cut off by our arguing.

"Well ya know what that's just damn fine with me! I never asked to come to this hell hole anyway! I could have gone anywhere else to get the hell away from America! But no I had to choose Japan and end up on this fucking tower!" I yell starting to get rather angry.

"Hey listen.." Xaosite was trying to say before being brushed off like the others.

"First I had to deal with those crazy bastards in the miniskirts, then your crazy ass, and all the god damn Youma we had to fight on the side! After that I ended up dealing with these damn stupid zombies and getting my ass kicked by a mama's boy!"

"Shut up you -" Eterna was saying before being interrupted by me again.

" As if that wasn't bad enough, out of mana, my scythe's broken off, and I'm back to using. the. fucking. rock. again!." I say holding this average sized stone that looks like it would barely be more effective then a wad of paper.

"Stuck at the top of the this stupid tower fighting this crazy idiotic bitch of a fangirl who doesn't know what the fuck she's doing! I mean conquering the whole world to make everyone into Yaoi?! What kind of horseshit is that?!" Yelling now at the top of my lungs.

" I don't give a damn about straight or gay that really doesn't matter! There's a whole lot of other problems to be concerned about, or other things she could get if she conquered the world! But what does she want?! She wants everyone to be gay. THAT will solve the WHOLE WORLD'S GOD DAMN PROBLEMS! FORGET THE ENVIRONMENT, WORLD HUNGER, DISEASE, FUCK ALL THAT OTHER SHIT! IT'S JUST SEXUAL PREFERENCE! WE NEED TO FIX THAT FIRST!" I scream out not listening to whatever Xaosite was trying to say.

" Are you stupid or something?!" I begin yelling at the GMF not caring that she's barely evading Epsilon. " Are you so GOD DAMN STUPID that yaoifying the world's the ONLY THING YOU CAN THINK OF?! Can't you get a life and actually do something worthwhile instead of this conquering the world crap?! And now Epsilon's gone bat shit insane!" I yelled hardly taking much of a breather.

"Can't think of what else to say. The music just listen to it, it's great. And even better it plays in a loop so you get to hear it constantly. Just wonderful. Actually the music's worse then life itself! And I'd turn the volume down, except I have to hear the Grandmaster Fangirl Alarm! This whole adventure's just been a test of patience and it can kiss my fucking asshole!!" I yell finally finishing what I felt I needed to say for quite a while now.

"Are you done because I've got something to say." A barely restrained Motoko was saying with her fist clenched on her sword.

 

[Unknown-common-827]

"Okay... methinks Mike just went off the deepside" I say as I move cautiously around Eterna, who has an eye on me the whole time.

"Don't touch my Zeni" said Eterna as I lowered my guard a tad bit.

"Not planning to right now, Eterna. I'm actually considering a joint attack with the three of us to try and halt GMF for a few seconds" I state as I turn toward the GMF as she is still barely dodging the joint attack of Epsilon and Ryoko.

"Keep up if you can, Eterna" I state before rushing into the foray. Within seconds a trail of gold and black was right beside me.

"I accept for now. However, remember this deadman. I will not lose my sister to the likes of you" says Eterna as Zeni looks on with a "why me?" look.

"As much as I can say I'm touched by the sisterly bonds you have had in the past, this ain't the time to be arguing who gets who" I state before charging a lightning strike in my hand.

 

[David Alan Abramczyk]

David moved over towards Unknown and co. He pinched the bridge of his nose, and sighed. "So, how are we gonna deal with the whiny one over there?" he asked, not really caring at this point who he meant. He was only a little away from saying, 'Screw this, let's nuke the place, and go for a pint.'

When Unknown streaked off without even replying, David sighed again. "Sod this for a lark, I'm going for a bloody pint."

 

[Xaosite]

Xaosite stared at Mick for a moment, then shook his head. "I think someone just got off *cough* his meds."

Mick cast a dark glare back for a moment. "That coming from someone that looks like a 3-D jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing?"

Eterna was looking both disturbed and confused. "Yeah. I mean, look at your leg for example. There's a big chunk in the middle of your thigh missing! There's nothing connecting the rest of the leg to the rest of your body! How are you even standing up like that?"

Xaosite opened his mouth, then hesitated, closing it. After a moment, he said, "You know, I honestly do not know."

Zeni piped up, "Any chance of you pulling off another big blast?"

Xaosite shook his head once again. "Sorry, t-that one was pretty much everything I h-*hack*-had." Staring at the GMF for a moment, he continued, "She lost a *wheeze* a lot of hit points, especially with our big fancy ultra-combo *cough* attack. She's regenerating, but not enough to make up for all of that yet."

"So, what? We just keep hitting her until we overcome the regeneration?" David asked.

"If we want *cough* t-to do this the HARD *hack* way. It'll work, it looks like, but it'll be a long, drawn out, and annoying process. Is there any way we *cough* can get rid of her regen, or something?" Xaosite asked.

 

[David Alan Abramczyk]

David thought for a moment. "You know...." he said slowly, an odd expression on his face. "There is something we haven't tried yet...." He looked around at his compatriots, and then slung his gun over his shoulder and walked towards the GMF. "I say, can we talk here?" he asked.

 

[knight_of_ni]

Nikolaus walked over to the conversing David and GMF, with several bags of popcorn and some drinks of course. Can't let the drama go to waste, after all.

"-just saying, why don't you just take the bishi's, after all you don't really care about us less attractive guys." David said, his gun laying across his lap, before he grabbed the popcorn and drink offered to him. "Thanks for that, anyway... I am just saying, why go after everyone when you can just have the ones you actually want."

"Because it isn't as grand, I have to live up to my title you know?" The GMF replied, before similarly taking the popcorn and drink offered to her. "Thanks....what are these for anyway."

"Just sit back and enjoy the drama." Nikolaus replied as he sat down, nodding slightly towards the popcorn. His watched the GMF sip her drink, before he turned to watch as Mick and Motoko continued on their way to insanity, and as Twin Blade slunk away, trying to make sure everyone forgot about his little outburst, when a thought came to him, one of profound importance. "If we write some of the stuff that they are saying down, we could work it into a drama, and make millions..."

"Fair enough...."

"But nobody got slapped yet.." and sure enough, the sound of a well placed slap, who actually did this, know one knows for sure, but the fact that it was Eterna who was sent to the ground from the slap makes things very suspicious. "Well, I didn't see that coming."

"You do realize that they are going to kill us when they see us sitting around eating popcorn." David said looking rather calm inspite of his theory about doom that awaited them.

"Yes...why are you two not trying to kill me, have you finally seen the light?" The GMF asked, looking rather pleased at the thought. David, on the other hand, looked rather sick, and Nikolaus, well, he was still watching the drama.

"No, we aren't on your side. I just decided to see if talking would work." David said, looking rather pleased with his idea of a non-violent solution.

"Well, no, I would rather not be seeing any of that any time soon. Though, I am working on the killing you bit." Nikolaus replied, absentmindedly scratching at the stiches where his arm was sewn back on.

"You poisoned the food, didn't you?" They asked in unison.

"Oh, yes. Oh, I wouldn't worry to much about your food, my friend. I only poisoned her food, doesn't seem to be working, though..." Nikolaus said, before leaning over towards the GMF's face, inspecting it for signs that the poison was effective. "You wouldn't happen to be feeling ill, would you?"

"No..."

"Oh...mh...seems about time." Nikolaus said as he stood, placing his bag of popcorn next to the GMF. After taking a quick sip of his drink, he began to run forward while yelling, "Duck and cover!"

Following his cry; two things happened, the first was that David did just as Nikolaus had, and the second was that a stick of dynamite with an extended fuse hidden inside his popcorn bag went off.

 

[David Alan Abramczyk]

A slightly exploded David stood up, looking like Wiley Coyote after an attempt to catch the Roadrunner. "Look Missus, just leave the Ah! My Goddess series, and the works of Ken Akamatsu out of your plans of conquest, and I'll..." he suddenly trailed off, sensing a lot of scary glares aimed at him from behind. He turned slowly, and gave a nervous giggle.

 

[Mick]

"After all this time after everything we went' through, I thought I could make this work. I gave you chances time after time. But no every time I think you could be.." Motoko clears her throat in the middle of speaking.

"We've been through so much before this, done so many things together. Things were far different then I ever thought they could be. I thought we could be happy. But no every time every damn time you do something to muck things up. Muck things up and make me look stupid!" Motoko was saying eyes glistening ignoring what was going on behind us.

"My friends, none of them liked you! Said you were wrong for me! But I thought I was strong that I could fix you to be the man you need to be! But you still act like a petulant child when things don't go your way!" Motoko was saying tears starting to form.

"I've done so much for you, so much. It never meant anything did it you bastard! Just when I thought I could finally trust a man! But no every time things got to close or too tough you'd run away!" Motoko screamed barely holding back her tears.

"Each time! Each time I swore I'd never take you back! I would be like the way I was before I met you! Always running, always hiding when things got to close!" Motoko was saying with tears starting to spill.

" You have no honor or shame! Your not even a man! Your a coward that's exactly what you are!" Motoko screamed at me before rearing back and slapping me across the face.

I held the side of my face in some shock. Had I really been this cruel to Motoko? Was she actually starting to see me in 'that way'? Did I really act like that much of a cowardly asshole? Sure she had me there but it wasn't like I knew what I was doing.

This whole thing was actually new to me I sure didn't know what I was doing. Vaguely I noticed Motoko turning away from me to head off into her own little corner of the rooftop.

Eterna was about to put a hand on her shoulder to say who knows what before Motoko slapped her in the face and knocked Eterna down. I guess she must have really been upset with me to react that way.

"Motoko...I...I'm sorry... I should have said this from the beginning but..maybe.."

I was about to say more before David interrupted with "Enough of this fighting lad. You can save it for later. We still have to figure out what to do about Epsilon and GMF."

"Right because I really give a shit about GMF. I'm trying to fix my mistakes. Can you tell the stupid bitch to wait or what?" I ask David. Really I could only fix one god damn thing at a time.

 

[Zenithos]

OOC: Co-written with Eterna. You can guess who wrote all the U1 comments. Oh, and sorry, I had said before that I had plans for LL's return. So he can't really be on the battlefield just yet. If it's not too much trouble, can you please edit LL out of your posts between this post and the post I made about him meeting Xellos?

"There's no end to this!" Eterna shouted as Virus!Epsilon charged straight at the cloud of smoke left behind by the Popcorn!Dynamite's explosion.

"Zeni, what's wrong?" Unknown asked, a brave stab at a concerned look disfiguring his demonic face.

"I-I'm fine..." Zeni managed in between wheezes as she clutched her chest with her free hand. "This is...dragging on a bit longer than I expected."

"No, Zeni's not fine. Part of her soul force is still inside the GMF." Eterna said, holding Zeni up, while looking up at U1. "She's been fighting at 40% power for the entire battle...if she keeps straining herself like this..."

"Don't worry, Zeni, I'll recover the rest of your soul for you." Unknown said, patting Zeni on the back. "You've done enough."

"No, this is my fight too." Zeni wheezed as she straightened up. "We've gotten here together, we'll finish this together."

"We've beaten her up real bad." Nikolaus said, noticing the GMF faltering under Epsilon, David's, and the others' renewed combined attack. "Her regen's slowing down."

"If only we had a bit more firepower...." Zeni said, breathing heavily.

This Song suddenly filled the air as crack fic energy started to slowly seep out of the cracks in the ground.

They gathered and formed a small yellowish gold whirlwind at first before it exploded upwards into the sky, forming a giant tornado.

Above them, the aerial battle around the Spire had moved over them, the resistance's combatants taking heart at the new song that had permeated the air.

It was the song of the resistance. It was a song that was...well, ok, it was just plain silly, but that's what crack's all about, after all.

"Take heart..." A voice said as the tornado slowly dissipated. "For we are the ones chosen by the Crack Fic Force to wield its godly potential..."

"LL!" The group cried as the tornado dissipated completely to reveal the form of LL.

He smiled, his bright grin as psychotic as ever as a huge yaoist battleship exploded above them, silhouetting his form. "Did somebody ask for firepower?" He asked, raising a hand to coax more crack fic energy to gather around the group. "Thanks to Zero's plan, and the will of the Crack Fic Force, we now have all the firepower in the world." He raised his hand up. "Allow me to demonstrate. CRACK FIC FORCE! GRANT ME THY UNLIMITED POTENTIAL! CALL FORTH A GREAT FORCE TO SMITE DOWN THYE FOES!"

A giant Kirby doll appearead in the sky, hovering gently for a moment before it realized it was floating and allowed gravity to catch up to it as it started to fall...fall....fall....

...becore crashing heavily on the Grand Master.

"Kirby!" Eterna leapt up with joy. "Score one for Kirby!"

"....Great force?" Zeni asked, her eyebrows twitching as the giant kirby doll went up in a puff of smoke, leaving behind a huge crater from which the Grand Master slowly stood up, her head steaming.

"I'm...not quite sure about that....it always seems to do that..." LL said, a bemused expression on his face. "Xellos said it had something to do with you, Zeni. What exactly did you...?" He gave Zeni a questioning gaze. Zeni merely coughed and pretended she didn't hear anything.

"We've got the firepower now!" Locke shouted, as the crack fic energy flowed around him.

"What are we waiting for?!" David asked, grinning as crack fic energy permeated his BAR.

"Now's our time to strike..." Zeni said, her grip on her blade tightening as she looked at the people gathered around her. "LET'S GO!"

With an almighty shout, the group, as one, delivered their own brand of death and destruction down upon the GMF in one combined attack.

OOC: Sorry, there's so many of them that I'd rather not bog you down with details ^^;;

"AAAAAARGH!" The GMF shrieked, staggering backwards from the force of the attack as her body smoked and smouldered from the damage. "WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! MY PLAN WAS PERFECT! IT WAS....IT WAS....uuuuhh...AAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" She screamed into the night as she fell to her knees from the strain. "MUST...FIND...NEW...COMPATIBLE...BODY...." The GMF's eyes frantically scanned the group assembled as a dark shadow started to seep out from her body and gather around her.

"No! Everyone run!" Zeni shouted, pushing Unknown and Eterna back as she darted forwards towards the GMF, blade raised. "I'll stop you HERE AND NOW!"

"Yes....the one....the soul I have devoured....but I want that soul whole...WHOLE!" The GMF laughed hysterically as the last of the shadow detached itself from the GMF and reared up before forming a claw that flew straight for Zeni.

"ZENI! NO!" Eterna screamed as she got up to her feet and ran forwards.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Zeni shouted, slashing at the shadow.....but to no avail. It circled around her and enveloped her tightly. "AAAAAAAAAARGH!" Zeni screamed, falling to her knees as the Grand Master did as the shadow around her slowly poured into her.

"Zeni!" The Grand Master cried, wincing as she held her own wounds. "I've....What have I done?!"

"I...don't blame you..." Zeni gasped as another stab of painful darkness seared through her. "I...should have known....I'm sorry..."

"Zeni...you..." Tears poured down the Grand Master's face. "I'm sorry, I'm so very sorry..." She sobbed.

"Zeni! Are you..." Eterna began as she ran forwards, before she slammed hard into something very solid. "What...the blood fortress...? Zeni?! What are you doing?!"

"Stay...away...." Zeni managed, wincing and grimacing in pain as she fought the darkness. "Run....take everyone...away..."

"Zeni! Don't do anything foolish!" Unknown shouted.

"You...can't possibly kill me..." Zeni chuckled bitterly. "I...have to...do it...myself..." She said as she slowly raised one hand up to her chest. "Good...bye..."

"Terminate." Virus!Epsilon said, appearing behind Zeni, right at the border of her Blood Fortress. He raised his clawed hands and smashed through the weakened Blood Fortress before rushing at Zeni.

"Epsilon! NO!" Eterna screamed.

.....

And then there was silence....

Blood pooled on the floor as Virus!Epsilon retracted his claw out of the huge gaping hole where Zeni's heart was, spraying more blood out.

"Zeni..." The Grand Master shuddered, her tears flowing freely as she fell forwards onto her hands. "Zeni..." She sobbed, her tears trickling onto the stone.

"GET AWAY!" Eterna cried as she blinked away her tears as best as she could. "RUN! NOW!"

"Target elimina..." Virus!Epsilon began....before...

STAB!

A huge spear of blood had risen out of the pool of blood around Zeni, stabbing straight through where Epsilon's Organic Interface's heart would be.

Zeni slowly stood up, blinking a bit, as the wound healed itself with ease. She surveyed her surroundings before looking down at her hands. She flexed them a bit, before grinning as crack fic energy spiralled up from the ground around her, causing the blood to stir and mix in with the crack fic energy, turning it a dull bloody red.

She slowly turned her gaze to the Grand Master, who was slowly getting to her feet.

"Zeni....no matter what....I'm going to save you..." The Grand Master winced as she dragged her claymore up. "I'm not....going to let you...end up like me..."

"Sis!" Twin Blade shouted, running up the Grand Master. "Sis! I knew it wasn't you! I knew it couldn't have been you!" He cried, as he stopped short of the Grand Master.

"TB....I-I'm sorry..." The Grand Master said, breathing heavily. "So sorry...for everything...for mother...for father....and you too...but now I must correct everything I've done....I will save my sister. I can't let her....become me..."She said, taking one step towards Zeni, dragging her claymore behind her.

"Hmmm?" Zeni smiled. "You said you're going to save me?" Zeni laughed. "You should've done that a LOT earlier, mistress. Now, I will have my revenge for what you did to my sisters..." She raised a palm up towards the Grand Master and balled it into a fist, causing a spiral of bloody red crack fic energy to well up from the ground and wrap itself around her, binding her tightly.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" The Grand Master screamed in pain as Zeni increased the pressure, tightening the grip of the crack fic spiral.

"Zeni?! What're you doing?!" Twin Blade shouted. "Let go of sis!"

"Hah! You want her, you'll have to get her." Zeni said, tightening the grasp further. The painful sound of creaking and shattering bone was heard as the Grand Master screamed in utter agony.

"DIE!" Twin Blade shouted, leaping towards Zeni with his palm raised. "...BURN AWAY THE IMPURE! OMEGA...." He began, before he dissappeared under a huge steamroller which came down and crushed him into the ground.

"You know what I find silly about you?" Zeni sighed, watching a few cracks appear as the ground shattered gently under the weight of the steamroller. "Your incantations take too long, idiot. They sound cool, but there's no way you're winning a fight like that."

"Zeni...." Eterna shuddered as she faced her sister.

"Ah, dear sister." Zeni smiled serenely at Eterna. "Don't worry, I'm still the very same Zeni you know and love." She smiled, extending her hands to Eterna. "It's all over. The Grand Master will soon die in my hands and we can return home together."

"Zeni...." Eterna exploded into tears. "I...I..." She raised both her hands towards Zeni. "I love you, sis!" She shouted, as she ran towards Zeni's outstretched arms.

"Idiot!" Unknown shouted. "Stop!"

"Which is why..." Eterna whispered, as two katanas materialized in her outstretched hands, causing Zeni's eyes to widen in shock. "....I won't let that thing consume you..."

STAB!

"...I'm dissapointed in you, Eterna..." Zeni said, looking straight into Eterna's eyes which were only a mere two inches away from her own. "...I thought you loved me....but it matters not now...." Zeni said, as a thin trickle of blood came down one side of Eterna's mouth.

Zeni tossed Eterna's limp body aside with a flick of her double-ended blade before burning the blood off it. Eterna landed with a thump on the stone, her katanas clattering beside her before coming to a rest, silent as she was.

"Unknown, you know I love you." Zeni said, turning to Unknown. "Would you doubt me too? Your beloved Zeni? You wouldn't, right?" She asked, tears suddenly filling her eyes. "I love you...dearly....don't betray my love..."

"I..." Unknown clenched his fists, his face growing dark. "I would never doubt Zeni...." He said, stepping forwards towards Zeni. "...but you're NOT THE ZENI I LOVE!" Unknown screamed, raising two thunder charged arms towards Zeni.

"Disgraceful..." Zeni sighed, making a quick broad slash upwards into the sky.

"Hah! It'll take more accuracy than that to..." Unknown shouted....before he was cut off by a gigantic neatly-cut block of stone, most likely a piece of the spire, that fell out of the sky, crushing him under.

"Sigh....and they said they were my comrades..." Zeni sighed. "Nobody defies me..." She said, before she could stop herself. "Ulp...oh, never mind." She sighed, before turning around to face the rest of the group. "Well, will any of you trust me? I'm still the Zeni you know, after all."

 

[David Alan Abramczyk]

A sneer crossed David's lips, and he raised the BAR to his shoulder. "No offence, but I don't take kindly to people who threaten my favourite fandoms." He cocked the rifle and growled. "This is a personal message from me to the GMF: Get the hell off my world. Otherwise, I'll personally drop-kick your arse through the gates of hell, and watch you write in torment as you watch men and women come together in the ultimate expression of their love..."

 

[Epsilon]

There it is again. The painful awakening. Much like how he had arrived in this realm in the first place.

Epsilon gave a groan as he got up, mildly noting that he was back in his human interface form. He rubbed his eyes briefly before he recognized the familiar surrounding of the barren white field, illuminated by the light of the full moon. "What the...? This place..."

"I'm glad you're okay, Onii-chan." He turned around to see the white clothed Len sitting next to him with a relieved smile on her face. "Do you remember this place?"

"...... the place where we first met. It's my first clear memory, without the viral predatory instincts ruling my mind. You were the one to pull me out of my madness... or rather, the original White Len did." Depressing thoughts filled his mind of his parting with the original White Len when she had to go and confront her black clad, silent counterpart.

"Her soul may reside in the original Len but I'm just as genuine too. The buffers are based on the memories and the interactions of the user with the original character. All of the original characteristics, knowledge, memories, abilities and emotions are preserved up to the last memory you have of that person. Where they go from there is up to how the user wishes to develop them."

"........."

"And even though it had been brief, I know without a doubt that the original White Len did come to love you as her onii-chan..."

He had been startled when he felt moisture in his eyes. "I-I'm crying... am I a defective interface?"

"No. You're perhaps one of the few true representatives of the DITE capable of experiencing the full range of joys and sorrows that a human can experience."

Epsilon wiped the tears away before clearing his throat. "Well, that can be looked into a bit later. There's work to be done."

**********

He found himself a good distance away from where the group had been gathered around one of the vampire twins, who didn't seem quite herself. The haze that had settled over him a short while ago was gone, thanks to Len's astral projected self residing in his mind and heart. The hole which had been in his upper torso vanished as if it had never been there.

"Well, will any of you trust me? I'm still the Zeni you know, after all." She paused when she saw the virus get up from the ground. "If you want to play some more, I will gladly oblige."

"HOLY CRAP!! This dude somehow got like a +20 for each insanity roll now! He's stable!!" exclaimed Xaosite.

"What he says is correct. I hope I didn't cause too much damage..." Epsilon then noted the purified Grand Master Fangirl. "So it really was you. Sorry for the whole trying to kill you earlier thing."

Recognition dawned upon the girl's face. "Y-you're...!"

"Hey, good to see you're thinking straight again. You still interested in acting as the DITE rep for the fangirl realm? I assure you that things will be interesting and different from this point on," mentioned Zeni casually, not caring that she interrupted her former friend.

He could tell by the signs of her appearance and the condition of Eterna and Unknown that the yaoi parasite had migrated to her. With her full power plus the additional power of the parasite, a direct attack would be inadvisable. But there are other resources he can tap into.

First, he needed to buy some time...

"The new age is coming! Are you ready for the birth of the viral nation?!"

'Thank you, Asakura Ryoko...' "I'll get back to you on that as soon as I fix her up a bit. Do you mind?"

She shrugged. "Do as you wish but don't keep me waiting..."

While he gripped the infected interface firmly on her shoulder, his thoughts started to race. 'If what Len said was true, the only trump card may be resurrecting the original buffer interfaces assigned to the twin vampires. Should they fail...

...Kami help us all.'

 

[Legacy|iB]

Legacy was confused and lost...as usual.

Then again, drag a hockey player into something like this and that's probably bound to happen anyways. Crackfics, mystical powers, yaoists...

As far as Legacy was concerned, it was a matter of attacking anything that wasn't friendly but now, he wasn't so sure. And especially after watching both Unknown and Eterna get beaten down by the 'new' Zeni...

"Well, will any of you trust me? I'm still the Zeni you know, after all."

Legacy did the only thing he could do - hit his stick against the ground out of anger. Sparks flew and fire sprouted as he did.

"Okay, screw this!" he shouted - the first logical thing he had done all day. "You're not Zeni, and I have no fucking idea what's going on! This is all messed up! This is more of a mess than the '79 Boston-New York brawl! I mean, come on, if Mike Milbury was to come in and start beating somebody with their shoe, that would be normal compared to all this!"

The other looked at Legacy, rather confused as to what he had just referred to.

"There you are!" a familiar voice said, as a pair of old foes crawled out of nowhere.

It was the Mistress Chief, followed by the Master Chief.

"I'm getting tired of this, fire demon, let's finish it...Grand Master?!"

The Mistress Chief stopped dead in her tracks as she saw the battered and broken body of her master at Zeni's feet. She fell to her knees, shocked and in disbelief. The Master Chief stepped forward, just as confused as Legacy was moments before.

"What's the situation?" the Spartan asked.

Quickly, Legacy thought about the situation at hand - his way. Likewise, he had come up with an answer rather quickly in his logic.

"Alright, here's how it goes," Legacy began, explaining his idea to the two Spartans like a hockey coach. "You've both been traded, and now all three of us are on the same team. Forget everything about the Index being inside me or whatever, or whatever you were doing before - this is what we've got now."

Coming up with a good allegory or example, Legacy then turned around, referring to what he had hoped to be everybody around him.

"This is it! We are in overtime, Game 7 of the Cup Finals, and they're on the powerplay! We've got one chance - just one chance! - to win it here and now! Only one person walks away with Lord Stanley's mug tonight, and the other has to sit around for the summer wondering if they could have or should have won it that night, and god damn it, I am NOT going to be doing that!"

The Master Chief watched on, just as confused as to what the hockey player had said as all the others. Despite that, he shrugged and loaded a fresh magazine in his weapon.

"Count me in."

The Mistress Chief got to her feet, suddenly with a renewed will.

"I serve the Grand Master Fangirl. I vowed to be her will and her weapon, and I will not fail her now."

Legacy had a pair of team mates for now. He chuckled as he felt his powers grow once again. He wanted in on this mess, and he wanted to make it his own mess.

"Apologies beforehand, Zeni, but when the going gets tough, hockey players get tougher. Get ready, 'cuz this is gonna be one wild game..."

He wound his stick back. As he did, flames gathered and compressed in the shape of a puck. The Master Chief threw several of the flame grenades clipped to his belt into the fire, adding to its fury, while the Mistress Chief fired an overcharged plasma shot into it. The puck had finally compressed, being comprised of unstable plasma and fire.

"...MacInnis...Kilger...Phaneuf...Geoffrion...!"

Legacy fired, putting as much of his strength and willpower into his shot as humanly possible.

 

[Mick]

"Ya...eh heh...join ya..sure..sure we will. Look over there a 500 yen piece!" I yell pointing behind Zeni. Noticing some of the others looking for it I grabbed Motoko's hand and bolted the hell out of there. Like usual I had no clue knowing just what the fuck was going on. I sure as hell didn't wanna stick around to find out how warped Zeni became.

" But what about-" Motoko was saying.

" Forget them! If I die here I can't fix you back to the way you were before that mess with Kuno! Now let's get the hell out here! Things'll change I promise!" I yell at Motoko pulling her by her hand.

As we had managed to get closer I wondered what excuse the others would buy for me buggering off. Ya might say what I said to Motoko was true, it was bullshit of course, but I sure as hell wasn't going to tell Motoko. Didn't know anyway to undo what happened to Motoko but there's no way I'm fessing up.

Some might say us being in weak or not so great condition would have held the others back. I hope some ass actually buys that one, will make me look more noble instead of some crock.

Though the real reason of course, I didn't know what the hell Zeni could do now. And I damn sure wasn't about to find out.

Whatever it looks like we're almost home free!

 

[Zenithos]

"Nobody defies me." Zeni said calmly, as the over-energized hockey puck whizzed right for her. She whipped a blazing blue hockey stick out mid-air and swung it hard at the incoming hockey puck, sending it flying up into the air and straight into a resistance battlecruiser where it exploded in a fiery light blue supernova.

"Well...can you all please make up your minds?" Zeni sighed, as the explosion cast a dark shadow across one side of her face, causing her glowing red eyes to light up ominously in the shadow. "Oh well...this should make your decision-making easier..." Zeni said, raising a hand to the sky. "Come now, the clock's ticking for your homeworld..." She said, smiling sweetly.

A low groaning sound filled the air as the yaoist realm above lit up along the dark red veins that scarred its surface. The Spire shook and groaned violently as it crushed the Giant Kirby below it....or rather, above it, and started to consume TFF HQ.

"It's called the Grand Fall. Cool name, right?" Zeni smiled at the others as slowly the horizon rose around them. It seemed as if TFF had started to rise upwards towards them...or was it because the Yaoist Realm was slowly descending towards TFF?

Either way, it was obvious, if the TFFers didn't do anything about it, this story's going to end with a big Grand Slam....and a very painful crunching one at that.

 

[Xaosite]

Xaosite held up his remaining hand, looking in awe at the glowing power of the crack fic energy glowing within it that LL's return had granded him. "This stuff is really something. It's like crack! Well, you know what I mean!" The power surging through him, he looked back at the corrupted form of Zeni and sighed. He couldn't bother fixing his body, not while they were in such desperate straights.

Focusing his energies, he drew on one of the most diabloical powers he knew of: Out Of Character Knowledge.

Reaching into his dice bag, he pulled out one of the hentai doujinshi he'd found earlier. It was a large anthology of yuri, uncensored and everything. Casting his energy at Zeni, she was suddenly surrounded by life sized images animatedly carrying out the actions contained within.

OOC: Sorry to post so short, but for me it's turkey time!

 

[Zenithos]

"Ugh..." Zeni recoiled as her skin started to smoulder. "Yuri....did you think you can take me down that easily...?" Zeni smirked.

"What? How can you still be smiling? You're done for!" Xaosite shouted.

"Purge." Zeni said calmly, raising a palm upwards "And Cleanse." She finished as a small orb emanating a fierce red glow spun into existence atop her palm. She

let it float upwards into the air where it started to absorb blood-corrupted crack fic energy before....

OOC: Do please click on the link

"What a waste of perfectly good doujin...." LL sighed, watching as the phoenix swooped around Zeni and reduced all the doujin images to ashes in its wake.

"Well, since I'm sure you're all not very happy about fighting a dear old friend, I'll let you play with my sisters instead. Come, girls." Zeni snapped a finger.

Everyone froze as yet another fork of thunder lit up the battlefield....small strange shadows flickered amongst them with every flash of lightning....they were here...

OOC: Another new battle theme! FFVII AC Those Who Fight Further

"It's the little creeps again!" Nikolaus shouted, as an eerie giggling permeated the air around them.

"Well, we'll show them what for!" David shouted, priming his BAR, as the first of the Crimson Moon Marionettes leapt for him, a pair of daggers in its little hands, threatening a slow and painful death.

 

[Epsilon]

"Again with the marionettes," muttered Epsilon as he leapt back with the infected Ryoko still in his grip.

'I got that covered, Onii-chan...'

He was about to ask Len what she meant until he just remembered what she could do. '...... oh.'

"NNNNYYYAAAAHHHH!!!!!" An army of Neko-Arcs burst from the ground to clash with the many dolls that were under the control of Dark!Zeni. The head Neko-Arc made a direct dive for the winged vampire.

"Give us your milk!!!" screeched the small furball of insanity.

Upon hearing the thought of milk coming from her sister, Eterna got a small nosebleed. So did that Unknown guy for that matter...

"DON'T YOU TOUCH MY GLORIOUS ONEE-SAMA!!" screeched a white clad doll with a rose covering her right eye who punched the Neko-Arc away before looking over at Dark!Zeni and started drooling. "Ah... more of her for me to love and worship!!"

As evil as she is, even she got disturbed by Kirakishou's look of desire. "GAH!! Get away from me!"

'Kirakishou?! Did she and Barasuishou get caught in my rift?!'

'Behind you!'

He leapt to the side to avoid a crystal chunk that materialized from beneath and turned to see the other MQCE interface fly towards him. Without thinking twice, he shot a cable from underneath his right palm which impaled the doll. "Initiating infection..."

 

[Mick]

Hearing the noises of renewed fighting up above only solidified my resolve to leave. Of course once we got to a certain point the stair's downward ended.

"Damn it..." I cursed before pulling my motorcycle out of stuff space. " Well only one way out so hop on and hold on tight!" I say about to sit on the bike.

"Now wait just a minute...you said things would change. Why are we running away?" Motoko asked me finally suspicious.

"We're not running...we're making a strategic withdraw. Maybe we can get your sister to help us deal with Zeni." I replied.

"Alright if that's what were doing..but I want to be the one driving this thing of yours." Motoko informs me while getting on the bike. Shrugging I get on the bike and hold onto Motoko for dear life. Hope she knows what the hell she's doing..

"Don't you think you should have your hand's a little lower?" Motoko asks me with barely restrained anger.

"Um..er...right" I mutter removing my hands and placing them lower.

"If you don't correct your hand's your going to lose them..." Motoko was saying with gritted teeth.

Damn it! We don't have time for this more of those damned Marionettes are getting closer. All the same I managed to move my hands up a little higher and wrap my arms around Motoko's waist before she drove and smashed the window.

Driving down the road I hoped somebody would figure out just what the hell to do about Zeni. Ah well didn't matter, I was now out of that whole mess at least temporarily.

 

[Xaosite]

"Hey, don't worry! I have more where that came from!" Xaosute shouted, and drew another of the hentai he'd found out of his dice bag. This was the other yuri anthology, though this one still had those tiny black censor bars that really didn't cover anything up. Channeling more crack fic energy through it, he surrounded Zeni with yet annother set of nude females, all grinding and gyrating against one another.

Smoke rising from her body, Zeni shouted, "You fool! Do you think I could be defeated as such? I am invincible! I! AM... urk. I just threw up in my mouth a little. Get these things out of here! Get him!" With that said, she began blasting the images all around her, reducing them to dust. Meanwhile, a set of Crimson Moon Marionettes charged him, weapons held forward to run him through.

Xaosite just grinned and stood there. The marionettes struck, only to find that they had struck through him, in the empty spaces left between his body. Raising his hand, he blasted both away with die shaped crack energy.

Turning to look at the maniacal Kirakishou, he grinned wider yet again. Turing to her, he blasted away at the space between her and Zeni, clearing the space between the two. He called out to her, saying, "HEY! You see her! She's doing away with all those bad images, because she's saving herself for you! Go to her! Show her your love!" His voice wavered at the end as he forced himself to not break down laughing.

"Argh! Now that I've dealt with these, now I... OH NO! BACK, BACK! ARGH!" Zeni cried out, dealing with the last of the yuri images. She turned with the intention of dealing with Xaosite once and for all, but instead was glomped with a loud "ONEE-SAMA!" by Kirakishou.

 

[David Alan Abramczyk]

David muttered darkly, and vanished outside, standing at the base of what looked like a grain silo. He pulled a card out of his shirt pocket, and inserted it into the side of the silo. The walls and roof peeled away, and revealed a strategic, multi-megaton yield nuclear missile.

"I'VE HAD IT WITH THESE #@@*%$@-ING YAOI-ESTS ON THIS #&*%q#)%(^*-ING PLANET!" He shouted, as he began to enter a targeting program into it.