((Hey guys sorry im late i had a very long weekend and at no point could i get on the computer. RAWRRR!))

--Mushroom Kingdom--

Messorem almost laughed at how over dramatic Plague Knight's "death" was. You could prove use to me Messorem thought to himself.

"People of this kingdom! I mean no harm! I wish to give you wealth, protection and anything you shall ever need! But the land may think differently." Messorem looks over to the portal with a look of despair. He then looked over at the toad captain. "You must be the saviour of your people the land shall be waiting for you and you alone. Messorem walks over to the toad captain and kneels down. "It waits for YOU."

He then walked over to the king of thieves who whispered to him, telling him of the oncoming troops.

"Deal with them. Take this with you." A orb of light them manifested in Messorem's hand. He gave it to the thief. "And if things prove to get to bad that you cant escape then say my name holding this." He hands him a rock with a symbol engraved in it.

"Now then!" Messorem walked to the portal. "I will be waiting for you inside." He enters the portal.

--Kurduhm, Hawk Forest--

"Well! I never!" Sonus said in reply to what Dejna said. He sighed and looked over at the walls of Kurduhm and saw the Praetorian Mk II.

"Oh goody. Its back. At least we have you this time around right buddy!" He looked over to Desidia who was sound asleep. Sonus smile quickly turned into a look of annoyance.

He walked over to Severa and Wes href="(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuRyTf8NlU4)"]pretending to play a violin that wasn't there but there was still the sound of one like he was playing a violin

"So whats the plan now?" He did a little spin still "playing" his violin. "And whos this." He looks at Wes.

((I stiil dont understand how to do it!!

For Pi: What the orb does is that it sets off a huge explosion keeping anything at the epicenter safe and everything caught in the blast a little less so safe. It sets off once the holder wants it to.))

((That's what I like about Chrome. Use ALL the tabs! That said, if you think something may cause your post to disappear, you can always highlight it with Ctrl-C.

By the way, Sono, Dan led those twins from earlier to the Ironbound Shelter... will they be doing anything?))

--The Mushroom Kingdom--

Plague Knight wondered when he could stop faking his death.

--Kurduhm, Eastern Wall--

Amy tensed her legs as Arkhov approached, then leapt to the side to avoid Arkhov's attack, rolling onto her feet. A small click let her know that her gun was reloaded.

"Rexcalibur!" Erk pushed himself and Serra out of the way of Asura's attack, only to realize it was gone. Some new guy had just blocked it.

"Okay. As much as I don't like meteors flying at us, that was awesome."

Erk shrugged. "Telling us to leave, now? We've got weapons and heali-"

Then Erk felt the combined strain of fighting a Swarmling, Sheogorath, those monsters outside of Colchus Primus, those other bad guys inside Colchus Primus, and Arkhov's gang. He was tired. Serra was also leaning on his shoulder, trying to stay awake. "Actually... we'd probably better go."

"Yeah... at this rate, we'll just get stabbed and die. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaawn..."

Serra lifted her Warp Staff, sending Erk a ways down the road; Erk quickly used his Rescue Staff to bring Serra along with him.

Amy, however, wasn't leaving. "I'm not afraid of him! Not one bit!"

Turbo flew around wildly, but Cerok managed to hit his leg. "GAAAAH! I CAN'T TAKE THIS TELEPORTING COWARD!"

"SKUR-RAAAAAK!"

The Phantom Phoenix spread its impressive fourteen-foot wingspan, becoming entirely visible as bright white flames appeared on both its wings. It let out a loud screech, looking at Cerok intently.

"NOW WE'RE TALKING! PHOENIX, TOAST THIS SISSY!"

"Wait, what? Oh, AWESOME, the giant fire bird's on our side! You guys are toast!" Amy drew her gun.

--Kurduhm, Artisans' District--

"Hell, you two look exhausted!" Engie was beginning to move out with his Super Sentry.

"I... suppose." Erk let out a huge yawn. "Listen... you may... want to protect the Regent. Arkhov caught on... is there a bed around here?"

"...caught on? Dagnabbit. Super Sentry, mosey on over to the..." Engie scratched his head. "Where's it he's supposed to live? Some kinda castle or somethin'?"

"Ze Capitol, my friends! Just to ze south of here." Profiteur had walked out of his warehouse. "Ah, but ze two of you look exhausted. Go on, I've set aside some beds in ze warehouse."

"Happy to oblige." Serra and Erk walked downstairs into Profiteur's warehouse, while Engie began walking off toward the Capitol.

"Okay, Qada. Zey are out of earshot."

Qada leapt out from behind a building. "You won't believe what I just found... time residue!"

"Ah, from ze two siblings zat were brought through time!"

"Yes..." Qada grinned. "All I've got to do is..." Qada looked around. "...melt them down within three days, and I can have my time residue! With that, I'll be able to make some positively devious formulas."

"Good luck. Ze Ironbound Champions have ze siblings in zeir apartment... and when I say 'apartment', I should say 'fortress'. It's heavily guarded, and ze Champions zemselves... zey're like Steam-Age superheroes. Obnoxious do-gooders, but I must say, zey've got quite some combat expertise."

--Kurduhm, Ironbound Shelter, Helena's Workshop--

"There we are! All right..." Helena looked at the West Portal Sector. "...there's a red light flashing. Is that bad?"

"I wouldn't know... this technology's even more foreign to me than it is to you."

Then Helena saw something that looked like... "Fire! There's something going on in there! Walton, the gliders!"

--Kurduhm, West Portal Sector Interior--

"Hey! A light turned on!" The small drive Claptrap had been using had a light that had just turned on.

DeRosa nodded. "Good. Leave that device in there. Now..."

Spy jumped over this ray of light, uncloaked, and threw sappers at both Rick and Dryder. "What a worthless rabble of imbeciles!"

"DANG IT! IT'S ON ME! HE'S GOT THE ELECTRO-THING ON MY ARM!" Rick frantically began bashing his arm against the wall. "GET IT OFF! THIS ISN'T DANGER, THIS IS JUST BROKEN AND NEEDS A NERF!"

"Oh, please. If ANYONE needs a nerf-"

"We're done talking." DeRosa lifted a Teleport Stone. "I believe this is goodbye."

The Teleport Stone was able to teleport DeRosa, Claptrap, Spy, and (if he wanted to follow DeRosa) Khint off the battlefield...

--Kurduhm, Hawk Forest--

"Oh, this guy?" Severa shrugged. "He was one of the guys Profiteur hired. Also, he's LATE."

"And it is NOT my fault. Dang Colchus Primus military psychopaths..."

"Whatever." Severa picked up her Hand Axe. "Let's see what we should do-"

"Minion! You got your sapper on my head!"

Claptrap, Spy, DeRosa, and (maybe) Khint had materialized behind them.

"Fiore DeRosa, one of Profiteur's agents... you must be Severa and Wes. I take it you weren't stealthy enough to get in there yourselves?"

Severa rolled her eyes. "What do I look like, a Trickster?"

"True enough. Perhaps your talents lie in hitting things over the head." Like someone else I've bad memories of, DeRosa mused.

"When you say it that way, it makes me sound like an idiot!" Severa turned away from DeRosa, scowling. "Ugh! Just shut up."

"Oh, please." Spy shook his head. "Do we need to bicker?! They could be after us at any moment!"

"Which is why we're heading for a cave southwest of us. It should be thirty minutes' march."

Wes nodded. "And that's where the teleporter is, right?"

"Correct... now let's be off." DeRosa shook his head. "I haven't the time to stand around."

Wes groaned inside. This new Fiore guy and Severa were mixing like oil and water...

--Kurduhm, Concealed Cave--

A few of Profiteur's minions watched the teleporter. With the system hacked, their own guy had been free to route a portal to wherever they wanted without anyone noticing. Even after it came back online, the portal would remain linked to the whirling Gray Corp. teleporter on the ground...

--Tower of Turrets, Fourth Floor--

Mr. Toasty flew around in circles, its magical levitation device now broken. After ramming into a wall at high speed, Mr. Toasty exploded, leaving only a scattered shower of parts.

"Excellent." Lei Tency's voice echoed, "Now, on the fifth floor, the turrets are immune to Melee damage. But there'll be four points of light, on each corner of the room. Place one Aperture Personality Sphere in each point of light, and I'll be able to get down there and help you out."

"For the toast, Mr. however, has failed on your ear! I beauty, Dragon countless! However, you can not stand up to the fifth thresh. Opponents are waiting for such a dripping phantasms to you! You have to get you something! Bow before me, for I have spent billions of crowns and avoid the pain of death!"

"You know, he'd be speaking in some impressive prose if his dialogue wasn't thrown through Google Translate."

--Tower of Turrets, Fifth Floor--

Awaiting Nylocke on the fifth floor, oblivious to the mysterious points of light, were eight floating Spectral Turrets, all of them immune to melee damage.

Spectral Turret 1 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 2 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 3 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 4 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 5 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 6 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 7 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 8 is at 40000 HP.
0 of 4 Aperture Cores placed.

--Caveland--

"All right, gimme a sec-"

"WAAAAAAAAAAIT!"

Theta rolled down through the tunnel in a panic. "OhgoodIfoundyoubigsisI'msorryIwasworriedcauseIdidn'thearfrom-"

"It's all right, Theta. I'm A-OK!" Eta rolled up to the TARDIS and introduced her 'little sister'. "This is Theta. She's... a bit shy."

Theta said absolutely nothing, instead scanning the strange device the Doctor was inside. After the short scan, she whispered, "There'satimecoreintherebigsisyoumightwantto-"

"Oh, there is? All right, no problem." Eta ran a few processes. "There! Now we've got a temporal waypoint. So we can go right back, OK?"

"Okayifyousayso..."

((Oh right, I forgot about them. They were literally made just for Arkhov to show off, so now I have to make personalities for them.))

--Kurduhm, Ironbound Shelter--

The girl, despite the near-traumatizing moments she recently experienced, was awfully hyper (possible side-effect of that "reanimation" process), running around and admiring several objects in the room. The boy, however, was more calm and turned to Dan. "We didn't really get anyone's names, but I guess we can introduce ourselves first. My name is Zack-"

"- and my name is Sarah. Nice to meet you." His sister finished his sentence, darting back next to them.

"You said headquarters-away-from-headquarters?"

"So that means you aren't from here?" Sarah held her finger on her chin and looked up. "I guess that explains why we've never seen you around before."

--Kurduhm, Eastern Wall--

"When the hell are we gonna fight? I'm not the most patient guy here, y'know!"

Asura watched as Erk and Serra left, then turned to Amy, who had refused to leave. "I'll never understand why she's so stubborn."

"Believe me," the hooded guy removed his cloak, revealing himself to be Soteka. "She can be quite helpful." Just then, the Phantom Phoenix appeared, to everyone's surprise (except Soteka, of course).

"What the-" Vhytel was sent launching into a building by a spin kick from Soteka.

"Eyes on the fight, Wash-up!" Soteka was grinning as he sent a fire missile at Arkhov. He rolled out of the way before getting another Haymaker to the face by Asura. When Vhytel dug himself out of the rubble, Akuma lifted the rubble and started sending them at the Immortals. All of them.

Genevra sent out more Dark Pulses at Turbo Minotaur before flying around the Phoenix, checking for any weaknesses.

--Kurduhm, West Portal Sector--

Dryder jumped out of the way from the Sapper. Before he could do anything else, the others, save for Rick, had left. His Buster morphed back into it's claw hand and he shot one of his fingers at the Sapper, piercing and disabling it. "You're welcome," as the finger returned. Dryder then noticed Rick's body. "Where did a Personality Core get a robotic frame like that? I don't remember Aperture Labs manufacturing any."

--Kurduhm, Hawk Forest--

Shiki made a small attempt to make sense of what was going on, but just shrugged it all to 'Eh, f*ck it' and slowly made his way to the wall.

((Who controls captain toad again? I wonder what hes going to do next. Is he going to go into the portal? OHHH the suspense!))

(Since i accidentally Godmodded, And none of that happened, He's with the others)

"Uhh we may want to hurry, THERES A BOMB IF YOU HAVENT NOTICED!" Link said in a very annoyed voice.

((It is possible that Kazookia may be confused. When I heard door originally, I thought that there was a door that lead to the studio, which would have been randomly connected to the carnival, thus would have gone down with the carnival

Let's play how long will it take before someone puts Adeleine in))

--Floralia, Artist's Studio--

((Now that I think about it, only 10 bombs doesn't seem to be enough to thoroughly destroy the Carnival. I think I have a solution for that.

Also, let's just say Link is on the other side with the others.))

Several Bob-ombs marched past the group and through the Star-Door into the Carnival. Soon, they exploded simultaneously, destroying the Carnival and leaving a large crater in it's place.

"Uh..." Kirby scratched his head. "Alright. We should head inside before-" He was about to point to the Studio when he noticed Joe had already ran ahead. Kirby sighed before running after him.

((A few bob-ombs and and 10 normal bombs isn't enough either, here is a solution))

--Floralia, Carnival--

All of a sudden, Shadow Link appeared and threw a giant bomb (From Four Swords Adventure) and then warped out, completely ignoring Link. Then, the Blu Demoman ran through and shot sticky bombs everywhere. Afterwards, random boxes of lit fireworks appeared out of nowhere. Meanwhile, a mad scientist wanted to try his extra explosive explosive missile on the Carnival. When the missile hit, everything simultaneously exploded, completely inilating the carnival.

That should do it

--Floralia, Artist's Studio--

"And there goes that place," said Samantha as the Carnival exploded, "Hey? Where are you going?" Samantha then followed Orange.

((I am assuming Knuckle Joe is headed towards the Tower of Dreams

--The Mushroom Kingdom--

Plague Knight shrugged. "Okay, guys, I'm not dead. Long story. Hey!" He caught up to the King of Thieves. "What does that funny lookin' guy want? He acted kinda like he knew who I was. Ooh, is there something he wants me to blow up? Or maybe I should blow HIM up... decisions, decisions! How to decide..."

--Kurduhm, Ironbound Shelter Guest Room--

"Yeah, we're from another planet. Apparently somebody who called himself 'The Swag God'- yeah, sounds dumb to me, too- merged all 'fictional realms'. Whatever that means..."

Dan sighed. "Our homeland is firmly under the thumb of the corrupt Governor Desmond Skurge, whose foulness knows no bounds. Our old headquarters was overrun, and were it not for fair Cecilia's timely intervention, we would be in the Maker's land far earlier than is natural."

"Oh, come on, you make it sound like I did everything." Cecilia was sipping a small cup of black coffee, walking into the room.

"Cecilia, are you sure you should be up?"

"Oh, I'm fine. Probably shouldn't go running a marathon... but I'm recovering quickly." Cecilia smiled. "I'm Cecilia Blink. The big guy is Alfred Nettles, and this guy is... Dan, can you say it?"

"Most certainly. I am Daniel Erland Rolf Lars Axelsson Van Turbein, known in other lands as The Steamshovel, Mobile Suit Hot Spring... erm, what else... there was Dan Van T, Dan the Man, Shovel Justice..."

--Kurduhm, Southern Wall--

"Good sirrah! Prithee leave at once, or thou shall be cybernetic dew upon my sabre!"

A well-groomed, sharp-dressed chap with a humming energy blade approached Praetorian Mk II, then spoke in a stuffy British accent, "Or mayhap thou dost want a duel? Thou merely needst ask the question!" This man was Uther Badquarters, the Sonic Fencer of Kurduhm's Special Forces.

--Kurduhm, Eastern Wall--

"Oh, hi, Soteka! How's life?" Amy was glad to see a familiar face. Turning toward Vhytel, she aimed her gun, then fired at his back, muffling the shot; she hoped she'd catch him by surprise while the Phoenix was doing its thing. After the shot, she replaced her pistol in the EZ-Load mechanism.

"HEY! CUT THAT OUT!" Turbo rolled to the side, but still took a darkness blast to the gut. "OW! WHAT WAS THAT?!" Turbo flew away from the fight for a bit to quickly quaff a Cure-3 Elixir, before re-arming his hammer.

The Phantom Phoenix quickly responded to Genevra's approach by creating orbs of white flame that spun rapidly around it. "KREEEEEEEEH!"

--Kurduhm, Capitol Building--

Engie ran to the front of the building. "Ah, hell. A bit more metal... Lone Star!"

Lone Star Prime hurried up to the Engie. "Space space. Ammunition. Ammo in space. Space ammo!"

"Good." Engie lifted his Rescue Ranger, then pulled his Super Sentry across the alleyway, before promptly placing it in front of the building. "Lone Star Prime, the fate of space depends on this Sentry. Don't let it die... for space!"

"For SPAAAAACE!" Lone Star Prime began patrolling the Sentry.

The Capitol was the center of government; while the Ministers and the Regent each had their own domicile, this domicile was for personal use, and was not made public. Engie ran straight inside, with his Wrench out rather than a gun (lest he be taken for an assassin).

The guards stopped him on the way. "State your business."

"There may be an attempt on the Regent!"

"Yeah, we know. That nonsense at the West Portal Sector had us on edge... Badquarters would have cut those guys to ribbons if he hadn't been distracted by the giant robot on the wall. But no portals popped up in the Capitol."

"No, I'm worried about that Arkhov guy- wait, West Portal Sector?" Engie scratched his head. "Somethin' happened there?"

"They managed to hack it for a while. It's back online, with no portals anywhere visible in any place that might pose a threat to any branch of government. So..." The guard lifted his gun. "Who's this Arkhov guy?"

"Some kinda 'shadow immortal'-"

"SWEET CORN CASSEROLE! That freakin' maniac with the sword that only dies from light?" The guards lifted their Beam Rifles. "I'll cover the entrance. Jeff, you get this guy in here and let him talk to the Big R."

"Got it!"

--Kurduhm, West Portal Sector Interior--

"Oh, man, thanks. That was pretty awesome. And yeah, this?" Rick poked his own shoulder. "This is an old Gray Corp. chassis, apparently got its head blown off in a big knock-down drag-out battle. She found it, then threw it out. I picked it up later, and it turns out all it needed was a head." Rick would have grinned if he had a mouth. "And let me tell you. THIS is seriously designed for danger. I bet it could take like two hundred damage before fallin' apart."

"What did we miss?!"

Helena slid down in front of the doorway, a strange electrical device in her hands. "Whoever's up to no good, I've got a few experimental combat apparatus to test out on them!"

"My dear, I think we... missed the fight." Walton landed right next to her. "That said... hang on, isn't that the Minister of War?"

"Hmm... what smells like bad cologne?"

"I suppose that'd be bad cologne... but it appears to be mostly residual. Perhaps someone was wearing it, then left?"

Rick shrugged. "Mighta been that redhead with the rose on his jacket and the overpowered zap magic."

--Kurduhm, Hawk Forest--

DeRosa began leading the group through the woods, toward this... cave. Skarmory eyed him with marked suspicion, while Jumpluff floated near Wes.

"Skarmory, it's kinda impolite to stare-"

"Skaar!"

"Okay, okay. Sheesh." Wes began eating one of his meat buns.

"It's good to be back, minio-"

"Claptrap, how many times have I got to say it?" Severa made a smile that wasn't really a smile. "I. Am. Not. Your. MINION!"

"Okay!"

Spy shook his head. Why did he have to work with this girl?

"So who was that guy?" Severa looked at where Khint had been. "Some kind of mercenary?"

DeRosa smiled the sort of smile that a Pokemon player makes when thinking of an offensive name for his rival. "Why, yes. He's a mercenary. He's also got an IQ with only a single digit, and has as much skill as the average-"

"Oh, you're all kinds of classy. Talking about him behind his back like a chicken! Why don't you say that to his face, you coward?"

DeRosa shrugged. "As if I needed your opinion."

Spy sighed. "This is getting ridiculous. The Scout is not this annoying."

--Tower of Turrets, Fifth Floor--

"Who dares... enter... the chamber... of the fallen defenses?"

Eight ghostly gun turrets began floating around Nylocke. "For a long time, we... have remained failures... lost to the bullets and the bombs. Now... we shall stand... to defend a point... one... last... time!"

Lei Tency's voice echoed, "Don't bother attacking them yet. Put the Aperture Spheres in those points of light around the room." The first point of light was near where Nylocke entered, with each of the other points of light floating in the other corners of this square chamber.

The first two Spectral Turrets floated away, and they fired a constant beam of sickly light in Nylocke's direction. The others waited for their turn to attack.

Spectral Turret 1 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 2 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 3 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 4 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 5 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 6 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 7 is at 40000 HP.
Spectral Turret 8 is at 40000 HP.
0 of 4 Aperture Cores placed.

--Tower of Turrets, Fifth Floor, Nylocke's Inventory--

Inside Nylocke's inventory, the Pyromania Core muttered, "This needs more fire-"

"Will you SHUT UP ABOUT THE FIRE?! In my day, we used as much fire as we **** well needed!"

"Sirs, sirs!" The Classy Core raised his monocle. "Let us not bicker over fire!"

"Oh, I wonder what this dragon is going to do next? Do you think he's actually a dragon? Ooh, that bar has numbers on it!"

"Yeah, that's my health bar." The Grump Core shook his head (well, his eye). "An' it never goes down. Next question."

--Luna--

((We'll just assume that it didn't work on Eta and Theta, because they were robots; however, they have a temporal signature that allows them to return to their previous location in a pinch.))

"Oh NOOOOO!" Theta started to roll backward... then stopped. Eta wasn't running.

"Come on, you waste of battery life! Have some of this!" Eta proceeded to launch a missile at the Machine.

"OhnobigsisisfightingitshemightbeindangerohnoIhavetodosomething..." Theta raised a scope to her eye, then connected a Precision Cannon. "AnenemyofbigsisisanenemyofmeEATLEAD!" Theta unloaded a shot right at what looked like the machine's head.

--Kurduhm, Eastern Wall--

((Cerok and Genevra are literally the only two who aren't having any trouble up to this point.))

Arkhov leapt back, swatting the missile away with his sword before bringing it down on Asura. Asura rolls to the side and swings up with his own. They keep at this until Arkhov slices Asura's left arm open. This sends him back into a fury, throwing his blade down and grabbing Arkhov, tossing him overhead behind him.

Vhytel is hit and flung back from the force of the bullet's explosion. This, however, doesn't phase him as much as it should have since it hit the sword in his arm. Arkhov flies by and crashes into the building as well. Soteka raises a fire dome around them. "Oh, it's fine, really. Dark and Chaos still causing us trouble, but same ol' same ol'. How are the other Champions?"

"Fire? Are you joking?" Arkhov attempted to run through it, however he was knocked back, partially sizzling.

"Ah, chaos fire. Can never go wrong with it." Soteka grinned.

Genevra noticed too late and flew headfirst into one of the orbs. This severely burned her as she went down to a near-crash landing by the fire dome.

"Gah," Vhytel raised his hand, and a massive rune appeared under the trio. "Enough distractions! It's time we took out your leaders For Good!" They disappeared along with the rune, and Soteka dissapated the fire.

"What the-" Soteka was staring at the spot where they were previously. Asura and Akuma went up to him. "'Take out our leaders'?"

"Wait, he must mean the Regent!" Akuma, for once, came to a conclusion AND said it before someone else.

--Kurduhm, West Portal Sector Interior--

"Yeah, the red guy did have an odd smell from him...." (if they look at him funny because of that comment) "What?" (if they say something about what he just said) "I was given something similar to what you know as a nose."

Dryder then went over to the last spot they were at before teleporting away. "I just need to scan the residual remains from their teleportation, and we'll know where they went. I just hope it's not too far...." His scanner eye extended out and began taking in samples of the air.

--Kurduhm, Hawk Forest--

Shiki, rather than following DeRosa to the cave, continued his way towards the wall.

((For Pi: He wants to try to break the toads spirit and he thinks that the toad might know how the portal opened. How hard do you think it is to kill a toad?))

((I know, but it was getting late, so I didn't get to that

That is Paintra DX, correct?

P.S. Can Cerok teleport with them?))

((Wasn't it dark when Spy and Claptrap made their move?))

--The Mushroom Kingdom--

"OOOOOOH!" Plague Knight started cackling with mad glee. "I see... well, then, IT'S FUN TIME! HEE HEE HEE!"

Plague Knight lifted his arm out to the side. "Hey, turtles... I wonder how your GUTS will work in a SALVE? HAHAHAHAHA!" Sliding a vial of some strange crackling orange substance into his hand, Plague Knight then hurled it right into the center of the invading Koopa Troops, creating a ten-foot-wide explosion of burning orange acid. "KILLER VOMIT! That's what I'll call it! Killer Vomit! GENIUS!"

--Kurduhm, Eastern Wall--

"WHAT?!" The Cyborganic Turbo-Minotaur, hearing Akuma's words, immediately made his way toward the Capitol Building. "PHOENIX, COVER THE LEGISLATORS! UTHER WILL KEEP AN EYE ON THE MINISTERS ONCE HE'S DONE WITH THE ROBOT!"

"Kreh." The Phantom Phoenix made its way to the Legislators' shelter in the northeast, making sure to fly high, as its Fire Shield was still active.

"Wait! Mr. Minotaur! Where should I go?"

"Uh... THE MINISTERS! YOU CAN COVER ONE OF THEM! MAYBE TWO! THERE ARE SIX... CHECK THE PORTAL SECTOR!"

"I'll do what I can!" Amy watched the Turbo-Minotaur fly off.

"Okay, let's go... I'll go get my friends!"

--Kurduhm, Southern Wall--

"En garde!" Uther Badquarters sidestepped Praetorian's blade, then struck at his core with his energy sword.

((Keep in mind that Uther is Kurduhm Special Forces; he's on the same level as the Turbo-Minotaur and Phantom Phoenix. His sword's more like a rapier, like the Flourish.))

--Kurduhm, West Portal Sector Interior--

((Waiting on Pi.))

--Kurduhm, Ironbound Shelter Guest Room--

((Waiting on Sono... maybe?))

--Kurduhm, Profiteur's Warehouse--

As Erk drifted off to sleep, he began seeing... more of the strange visions.

First, a large target painted on a wooden board. "Fire!" It was the voice of that guy with the steam pack... Erk could see his arms extended with a flintlock pistol in them. Except... they weren't his arms, they were too skinny...

Then... he was staring down at a room that was on fire. A broken pipe was visible, as was a lot of white gel on an otherwise black floor. Bombs were flying around... A vaguely familiar voice shouted, "And another thing! You never caught me. I told you I could die falling off that rail..."

And... what was this? It was a battle... in the middle of Castle Ostia, against a large swarm of Morphs. He could see his allies. Rebecca and Wil were peppering the morphs to the left side with arrows. Dart and Bartre were tearing up armored knights, and he also spotted... himself?

Wait, I remember... I was distracting some archers to keep them from chasing down Farina. Almost died, if it hadn't been for... Was this... was he seeing this scene from Serra's eyes?

Then perhaps the other visions had been... memories? Yes, from other people. Now he remembered the first three... one of them had been from his point of view, of course. Another... he saw it again. "I would simply outlast him," the old man said. Erk looked at 'his' hand; it was wearing a glove similar to the Engineer's. So this must have been the Engie's memory.

But what about the memory with the dark knight...

--Kurduhm, Hawk Forest--

((Waiting on Zhaver?))

--Tower of Turrets, Fifth Floor--

((Waiting on Pi.))

--Luna--

"No problem!" Eta turned around and winked at her sister. "That was a nice shot!"

"Th-thanks..." Theta rolled a little closer to Wilson, speaking quickly and in a low voice, "Soareyoufromaroundhereandifsodoyouknowanywherethatwecanhidefrombadthingsoratleastgetalittlecovertoshootfrom-"

"Theta, calm down. We're gonna be all right, or my name isn't Eta!"

Theta gave a slow nod, but she was still nervous.

((That's totally OK! I have days like that, too. Sometimes weeks. I'll go ahead and post for Hawk Forest, and for Concealed Cave since I forgot about it. *grumbles about Purveyors of Doom from nowhere*))

--Kurduhm, Hawk Forest--

"Now that's not very nice, is it?" DeRosa looked toward Sonus. He could end up being trouble, DeRosa thought.

"Basically accurate, though," Severa muttered.

"I am Fiore DeRosa, Bearer of the Red Mage's Asterisk and one of Profiteur's aides."

"It's good to see you back, mi.....ster Sonus! Mr. Sonus. Is Sonus your last name?" Claptrap pointed toward the cave, and said aloud, "Hey, is that our clandestine rendezvous point?"

"Claptrap... you don't say that out loud!"

Wes shrugged. "I guess nobody's around... then again, we can't be too careful. Wait..." Wes looked at the cave. "There's... fighting going on in there!"

--Kurduhm, Concealed Cave--

"Watch ouAAAAHGLUBGLUBGLubglubglub..."

One henchman was killed by Morpha, but his warning gave the others enough warning to dodge Rusalka's Aqua Regia.

"What the- that's Rusalka, Purveyor of Doom!" The henchman glared. "Hey! The vestal's over on YOUR planet! Get lost!"

"Something the matter?"

Wes flew into the entrance on Skarmory's back, shouting, "Jumpluff, it's time to shine! Sunny Day!"

"JuuumPLUFF!" Jumpluff did something that strengthened the sunlight (in a cave (somehow)), hopefully weakening Rusalka's and Morpha's attacks. The two henchmen remaining whacked the teleportation device with wrenches to keep it working.

"Skarmory!" Wes jumped off Skarmory's back. "Swords Dance!" Skarmory immediately began a frenetic dance that sharply boosted its attack power.

This was quickly followed by a corrosive bullet from Claptrap's Sniper Rifle, aimed at whatever part of Morpha looked the most like a head. Spy walked in cloaked, while Severa and DeRosa moved toward Wes, prepared to attack. DeRosa had Thundaga magic on his lips, while Severa had her Hand Axe at the ready.

((It was? Where did it say that?

I don't know why I called Asura a boy and Soteka a man when Asura is older. Asura is around 17-18 while Soteka is only 16.))

--Kurduhm, Eastern Wall--

Soteka held his hand up to his ear, but something was blocking his signal. "Dryder. Dryder, are you there? Gah. Either of you can reach someone?"

Akuma attempted to call Shiki, however he couldn't get through. "Static. There's no time to lose, we have to get to the Capitol whatever before those Immortals do?"

"Immortals? Are those what we were fighting?" Soteka was still trying to get to Dryder. "They seemed kinda weak to be Immortals."

"We don't have time for this! We have to stop them before it's too late!" Asura ran full speed after the Minotaur.

"He seems nice." Soteka stopped and ran after him, Akuma following behind.

--Kurduhm, Southern Wall--

Shiki leapt onto the wall, hammer electrified and ready to smash something. "Surprise!" He spun and released a massive plasma orb straight at the Praetorian.

The souls of the fallen said a ghostly yes.

(Sorry for such a short post, Not much is going on in the role-play areas my characters are in. And Zhaver you can control the Souls now, speaking of how their obeying your character)

--Mushroom Kingdom--

The Robot Koopas could care less about about the acid. Due to the fact that they are robots, they weren't harmed that much. Instead, they went on ahead, and ignored the KoT and Plague Knight. The yellow Koopas in front soon got in their shells and charged in them towards the toads, in hopes of knocking them out or even better, killing them.

--Luna--

"NOW YOU FLORAN SSSUPPER!" said Floran, as he attempted to slice Wilson with his sword.

--Iron Skull--

"Hi there!" said a voice behind Claymorte, "Would you like to buy some goods?"

--Kurduhm, Southern Wall--

((Although it shows Praetorian with his thingy showing, he doesn't actually has his mouth looking thing open that much at all. the only time he opens is for certain attacks, but it doesn't matter anyway, as striking it does no extra damage))

Praetorian dodged out of the way of both the sword and the plasma, before opening it's whatever and firing a devastating laser from it, (Forgot this part) which then somehow turned around and headed back towards Shiki

--Concealed Cave--

Morpha laughed at Claptrap's attempt to shoot it as the actual Morpha part of Morpha moved down it's body. "Retreat from the Uglys!" said Morpha, going down the cave, "And take their metal thing with you." Rusalka went deeper into the cave too, but not before completely taking the teleporter with it

"After them, for your metal thing!" said the Inkling as she started ink jumping to get speed to chase the two

((Will finish this post later))

((Oh, the story will be told as we go. I'll just say one thing: Eta, Theta, and Upsilon weren't manufactured in the usual manner...

You might have noticed Theta didn't talkreallyfastlikesheusuallydoes. Sometimes, she'll talk really slow instead.

I'll do the Mushroom Kingdom, Luna, The Iron Skull, and Kurduhm: Southern Wall, since I'm waiting on Zhaver for Kurduhm: Concealed Cave and on Pi for... everywhere else.))

--Mushroom Kingdom--

"Boo." Plague Knight wasn't sure how corrosive acid wouldn't fry those robot koopas' circuits.

Oh well! "How about... HARMLESS WATER?" Plague Knight pulled a vat of harmless water about his size from out of nowhere and casually tipped it over into the robot koopa horde... except that it wasn't harmless water, but a volatile oil that promptly burst into flames on contact with the air.

"OOOOOOPS. That wasn't harmless water. Oh well, same difference! HEE HEE HEE!"

--Kurduhm, Southern Wall--

"Well met, sirrah!" Uther, leaping to the side to avoid Praetorian's laser, looked at Shiki. "Let us slay this villain, that I may then go to protect my liege! Huzzah!"

Uther lunged at Praetorian, this time trying to slip his blade in between the slits of Praetorian's helmet.

--Luna--

"NOOOOOO!" Theta panicked, firing a weak Mach-Shot at Floran.

"Theta, snipe his head!" Eta turned toward the Floran. "I'll make sure he DOESN'T bother you!"

"Okayifyousayso..." Theta rolled back slowly and lifted her Precision Cannon, taking aim.

Eta pointed her Missile Launcher at the Floran and fired at its feet.

Upsilon watched, hidden in the trees. Probably best if I let the Floran weaken them first. Otherwise, I could get shot down.

--The Iron Skull--

"What the-" Claymorte whirled about, drawing an assault rifle. "HOW did you get on my ship?! ...more importantly, what are you offering that I want?"

(Waiting for Pi, And I'm thinking of adding another Pokemon trainer)

--Kurduhm, The Capitol--

"I must thank you." The Regent walked into a fortified bunker, behind a hundred soldiers and Engie's now-armed-with-Light-ammunition Super Sentry. "That band of demonic thugs shall have great difficulty killing me now."

"Ain't nothin'. Better let the rest of government know... at least, the ones ya like."

"Ha!" The Regent shook his head. "I'm not one for that's funny."

--Kurduhm, The Ironbound Shelter, War Room--

"Once we're all armed with light-based weaponry, a small group of us has to be here to keep an eye on Zack and Sarah."

"I got that." Alf sat back. "They could hit me ten times an' I'd be fine. But I'm not so quick on my feet."

"Okay, you can hold the line here. In the meantime..." Cecilia looked toward Dan. "We need to find and eliminate that maniac. Arkhov, correct?"

"That's the name I remember hearing."

"Right. You can monitor the city from above, and I'll traverse the ground. I think my Blink Drive's going to be fine."

"Arkhov's a dangerous man. We had best get our flares... it may save our lives."

Cecilia nodded. "There's no question about it. We're definitely getting flares."

--Kurduhm, Concealed Cave--

"Ugh! Did I really just see that?!"

"Don't worry!" Profiteur's remaining henchmen opened a secret door near the entrance and quickly moved a spare teleporter out of the cave. "All right, keep them away while we get this working!"

"Understood." DeRosa placed himself in front of the cave's exit; Jumpluff leapt past him, and thanks to its Chlorophyll ability and Sunny Day's effect, was able to send a Solarbeam straight at Rusalka.

Severa, realizing what the plan was, positioned herself so that Rusalka and Morpha would have to go through her AND DeRosa to leave the cave. There were a few gaps on her sides, but those were quickly filled by Skarmory and Jumpluff. "Cynthia! Keep an eye on the teleporter. If one of the water monsters show up, shout at them and stab them before they can sneak off!"

"Irritating little fools..." Spy drew his Electro Sapper. "Well, then. Water conducts electricity. Robots conduct electricity. Perhaps this will work if they come back..."

((Waiting on Pi... everywhere else, I think.))

((Dam Shiki is a badass going for the Praetorian by himself. Doc i think the move you wanted to use in order to light the cave is flash))

((I was talking about post #1128 i thought you did sunny day to light up the cave but i just read it more closely. Being a part time pokemon master i just wanted to make sure you were using the right move.))

((Sorry, I kinda forgot about this

I haven't made a complete post for awhile, so I'll probably go and find out what I need to post in))

((I'll probably get the post out tomorrow))

--Peach's Castle, Throne Room--

"NOT SO FAST!" said what seemingly looked like Bowser, crashing in from the ceiling randomly, "This Castle and Throne Room now belongs to my awesomeness. Now bow down to me or be destroyed!" Robot Yellow Koopas who snuck past the toads ran to Bowsers(?) side

--Mushroom Kingdom--

The Koopas marched on seemingly unaffected by it. "What the?" said the KoT, "Why won't these things die already?" he then proceeded to stomp a robot yellow Koopa, which was sent right out of it's shell. At that point, the KoT got really confused on why that worked when everything else didn't, when the rock spoke, which he spoke back to it saying, "What is this madness?"

Just then, what appeared to be a fly guy flew in and said, "This madness is mustard on a sandwich, the mustard of your doom!"

--Kurduhm, Concealed Cave--

((Your characters are in the wrong place to block them from going deeper btw, but I'll pretend they were in the right place, unless I messed up and your characters really are guarding the entrance to the cave))

"Get their things! I'll take these uglys!" said Rusalka, seeping into the ground, dodging the solar beam. Morpha then immediately crushed the teleporter Rusalka got into pieces, before getting hit by Sonus's sound wave. "Hey! You're going to disturb the whole place if you keep that up!" said Morpha, before sending a long water tentacle to get the teleporter, while moving towards it at the same time.

Due to the fact that it was water and Cynthia didn't have any thunder tomes or anything that could actually be effective against the tentacle, all she could do is waste durability on it

The Inkling shot it and made it orange.

Lance, although like when Jumpluff used Sunny Day, they were in a cave, called in a airstrike. Three small bombs fell towards the tentacle, 1 of them missing, and blew up, which only delayed the tentacle.

--Kurduhm, Profiteur's Warehouse--

((Permission to make Erk have another one of those visions?))

--Kurduhm, Southern Wall--

Praetorian dodged out of the way of the sword but was hit by the hammer, but due to his new 50% electric resistance and the fact that the hammer was electrified, he only took 75% damage. He then summoned 2 (I believe they are called Gear Claws) before buffing himself

--Floralia, Artist's Studio--

"You!" said Samantha, suddenly incredibly angry again at the sight of Pink Kirby, "YoUr InFiNiTe HuNgEr EnDs NoW!!!" She then used Burn to attack Pink Kirby.

Paintra DX laughed at Link as she dodged the sword, which throwing it was probable bad idea. Paintra then proceeded to spin at fast speeds, and headed towards them all

--Tower of Dreams, Secret Lair--

Rick (The Hamster) looked at Starlow. "Do you need something?" he asked

--Tower of Turrets, F5--

But that was no problem for I, NYLOCKE, DRAGON OF FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS, as I jumped out of the way of the beams of light and put the sphere on the holy light of holyness. (Grump Core)

--Luna--

((Now you are making me want to return a Pokemon Trainer

I probably will))

Not-Clone Alex appeared behind the two robots. "Did I miss anything?" he asked. Non-Clone-Kiteh appeared behind Alex, and proceeded to jump on Eta.

"FOOOOOOD!" said the Floran, dodging the stick and kick then looking at the cat, "YOU ALL FLORAN SSSSUPPER!" The Floran proceeded to get into a mech which fired at Eta and Theta. Alex proceeded to counter with Golden Shower to try and debuff their defense

"Your threats mean nothing to mean, for I have fought greater foes then you," said the cat in cat-language.

--Luna, Skies--

The person, was in fact, the demon merchant. "Trade secret!" he said, as he didn't want him to know he actually got lost on the way to Bowser's Castle, "I can sell you anything you want!"