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Originally posted by DrBoris:
[yeah im on your side >:|, please edit that when you get a chance]
[I'll clairfy something here: my writings about the surface team are from the
bad guys point of view, the surface team is working for the aliens who created the
weapon, not Boris, Thanks]

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I knew they were good, but how could the ACs?
 

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Posted by Losarian Prodigy (Member # 361) on :
 
(Yeah, but a blast like that would have killed them, right? We can't kill other people's ACs.)

"They killed Pictos!" said one of the surface team members.

"Luck," concluded another. "Who knew that Pictos had such a weakness? However, it seems that the more they all fight together, the more synchronized their battle strategies become. You saw how those three managed to work together to finish Pictos off."

"Obviously, this should make sense. The more powerful inhabitants would have resistance to the effects of the weapon."

"No, it has to be other reasons. Each one of them would have to have been way more powerful than Pictos too have naturally resisted the effects of the weapon. Let's contact the ship, tell them what we know."
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
The sudden hardness of the bed awoke Happy Bob with a start. He found himself in a hotel room in Threed. There was a dead body in the corner, and a particularly unfriendly note left on it. Not surprising, as many of his nights ended that way.

He scratched his head and sat up in the broken, uncomfortable bed. Something felt wrong. Maybe it was the way his pillow still had the back of his head printed into it. Or maybe it was the way the General Lee was simply hanging in the air on the TV screen. He figured a shower might help clear things up a bit.

So Bob promptly undressed and headed for the shower. He slowly opened the door and stepped in. The handle refused to turn on the faucet. He struggled with it for quite some time before finally getting it to twist. But no water came out.

Now he was sure something was wrong. He put his clothes back on, pulled his knife out of the wall and got up. He pushed the door open and sent the police tape to either side.

"Something's really wrong here, and for once it's not my fault. I'm going to get to the bottom of this."

He walked outside, pushing a few more adjacent corpses aside.

"Man, must've gotten wasted again. Should try not to do that as much any... more?"

He looked at several people and animals standing still. Some of them were stuck doing the oddest things. One man was stuck pulling money from the ATM. Happy Bob rushed over and took the money, then continued wondering what was wrong.

When he could think no longer, which didn't take very long, he decided he'd just go walking in search of SOMEONE who could tell him what in the world was going on...
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
"Sir, our ground troops have mentioned that Pictos was destroyed by the fighters that resisted the stasis field."

"Ah, so they could do it... Get the lead scientist up here, now."s

"Yes sir!" The officer saluted and ran off. About fifteen minutes later, a man in a while lab coat approached the captain.

"You wished to see me, sir?"

"Ah yes. I need you and your team to develop the ultimate fighter to rid that planet of the ones who are immune to the field's effects. I want you to make it as strong as you can, for those people at one point might mess up my plans."

"I see. What attributes would you like to see in this fighter?"

The captain thought for a moment. "I'd say the ability to pull oneself back together from a particularly strong attack(s). A high power level, and... basically indestructible."

"Me and my team will get right on it." The technician left for the lab.

Five hours later...

"Sir, we believe that we have done the job." The deck began to shake from a footstep. A creature approached, but not the one some might expect.

"That thing is indestructible?" The captain asked, ready to burst into a side-splitting laughing fit.

"Yes. It may look weak, but it's very strong. In fact, almost all of my team was eaten by this."

"Wha?" The captain's tone changed. "Well, let's test it against them. Send it to the surface. Oh, and does that thing have a name?"

"Um, how about something... cute, to throw people off? Like... Smidgen?"

"Smidgen?" The captain's mouth was agog. "Smidgen?!"

The creature responded to the name, cooing and hopping up and down with excitement.

The scientist gave a small smirk. "I guess he likes the name."

"JUST SEND IT TO THE SURFACE!" the captain shouted.

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Smidgen landed near the Threed forest, where the group was sensed to be located near. Smidgen looked around and located the group, immediately taking up the challenge.

(Smidgen = strong Kirby-like monster w/ extreme hunger + the ability to combine all powers eaten + once eats person, gets their power permanently until destroyed)
 

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Posted by Starstorm Trooper the Eternal Newb (Member # 198) on :
 
"Thinking it over, that whole shoot-into-the-sky plan was pretty cruddy." reasoned Matt.

Zac sighed. "Well, we're kinda stretching for ideas here..."

GMOE rolled his eyes. "What are we supposed to do NOW!"

The group began discussing plans. Without really having any idea of what was happening, it was a difficult process...

Smidgen sneaked up behind them. It ducked down like a cat and prepared to pounce.

"They way I see it is-"

GULP!!!

GMOE was cut off as Smidgen struck. The creature's mouth opened wide and devoured the poor Mog. Smidgen rolled on the ground in front of everyone then stopped and stood seemingly calmly.

The group looked on in shock, and drew their weapons. Smidgen smiled gleefully at this display.

"What the heck is THAT!" stammered Zac.

Smidgen closed it's eyes and concentrated. It began to "digest" it's meal. And aura of white light encompassed the creature. Small red wings sprouted from it's back, and a single bobbing antenna (maybe that's not the best word for it...) from it's head.

Content with this metamorphesis, it spit out the shaken mog.

"Ugghhh" gurgled GMOE, lying stunned on the ground. "That was easily the worst experience of my life." Kyle helped him to his feet.

Smidgen hopped up and down with pleasure. It enjoyed it's new power and was ready to try it out. It quickly pivoted to face Matt.

It cooed and let loose it's attack. Turrents of holy energy burst from it's hands. It rocketed towards Matt and delivered a glancing blow.

"Hey!" exclaimed GMOE. "That's MY attack!"

Brett grinned coldly. "Well it doesn't take a genius to figure this one out..."

Matt retorted from the attack quickly and began his onslaught.

"Web!"

Sticky strands shot from Matt's fingertips, forming a net over Smidgen. Unable to move, the creature growled unhappily.

Wasting no time, Matt leaped into the air and slashed.

"Gravity Blade!"

Seeing this attack coming, Smidgen focused the holy energy in his hands. Two golden sword materialized. It used them to cut the web and roll out of the way just in time.

Matt struck the ground hard. The sheer force caused the earth to crack and leave a small crater. Temporarily disabled from the shock, Smidgen made his move. Cooing happily it leaped up and devoured Matt.

GULP!!!

"Crud!" exclaimed Zac, watching on as as Smidgen began to digest the fighter. "Everyone circle around it! As soon as it spits Matt out strike!"

The others complied, but things were not looking good. Smidgen had just shot up 2 feet, as did his swords...
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
"We'll do this in waves," Brett suggested. "I don't know if he can be ready to inhale as soon as he spits out, or if he can take in two or more fighters at once. Zac, you and I'll go first." His brother nodded in agreement.

Matt's spit-soaked body was spit out. "Hyaaa!" Brett and Zac shouted, charging the monster. Smidgen was absolutely delighted to see the twins charging at him. Bowing slightly, Smidgen prepared. When Brett and Zac were about twenty feet away, Smidgen took a DEEP breath, causing the two to lose balance and fly towards the deep cavern of Smidgen's mouth.

GULP!!! GULP!!!

As soon as Smidgen swallowed the two, Smidgen's size increased and leveled off near the two's height, around 5'11". The cute monster was also starting to turn more humanoid-like, as it devoured three already. Smidgen's now smaller mouth grew to allow Brett and Zac to be spit out, saliva and all.

"Unngh... I feel gross..." Zac complained.

"So do I..." Brett agreed.

The creature spoke, with the voice now sounding like a mix from himself, GMOE, Matt, Brett, and Zac. "Who else wants Smidgen to devour them?" A sinister smile crept onto his face.
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Pain. The blaring pain. She came to her senses, immersed within the tremendous head pain that came from the long travel through the time gate of Santranus. It had been only 5 minutes since she jumped through that fated gate. It seemed her body wasn't totally ready for the re-emergence through the gate, just like when she was five, only she didn't pass out as soon into the trip as when she came to Santranus as a 5 year old. She looked around, taking note of the lucious green forests around her. She then noticed she was in the middle of a clearing. No, not just a clearing, THAT clearing. The very same one that she came to on the cursed day of her grandmother's death, and the fated hour she herself had disappeared from this world.

Sandra held her throbbing head, still in pain from the body wracking trip back to her own world. She sincerely thank the Bourdan Towers for giving her the final right to let her return home. Santranus believed her quest and destruction of the Phantom Zone king Sardius was enough for her to endure. The elders of Santranus told Sandra they would go to the Bourdan Towers and from reaching into her mind for the answers, summoned the magic power to reopen the very gate Sandra fell through to her cursed life.

Now she was home. Home! So much had probably happened within the 10 years she was missing. Would Twoson even remember her from so long ago? She hoped so. Her sugar-pink hair, and her odd black outfit and arm-length gloves stood out, and almost no one in Eagleland had the hair she did. She shook her head more, trying to drown out the still persistant head-pains of traveling through the gate. Sandra, while doing this, gave a slight gasp at herself. She saw a red outline-like aura around herself. Others around her wouldn't likely see it, since it was part of Sandra's ability to see the effects of magic on sentient things. The red outline indicated she was "Hasted". I don't remember using Haste on myself when I jumped in. I must've gone out of it and used it without knowing it. She thought and cast Dispel on herself. The magic coins came down to her, but were repelled. "What? Dispel's not working." she thought, a nitch surprised Dispel didn't do it's thing. "I guess I'll have to remain this way for now. Not like anyone else can see it anyways."

Sandra had by now managed to completely shove away her recent head pains, and she realized she needed to get re-aquianted with Earth again. First things first, she thought, walking away from the clearing within the Northern forests of Twoson, and out into the path near the back of the Hotel. As she walked out, she noticed a woman, most likely a tour guide or so, frozen still in place, as if she were paralyzed by some kind of force. It was only when Sandra got closer she saw something. A light-pink aura surrounded the woman, which indicated, at least in Sandra's POV from the usage of some of her time spells, that the tour guide was stopped in time. "What the heck?" Sandra blurted out loud. She then turned down the street, noting that an elderly woman on the right sidewalk, a Mr. T look-a-like, and a taxi cab in the road were all still, the two living things also having the Pink-aura of "Stop" around them. "Oh god, please don't tell me I've left one problem, and walked into another. The whole world... couldn't be frozen in time, could it? If so, then why am I not affected? Is it because it might have happened before I got here, or is it something else?"

Sandra's gut instinct kicked in, and she sprinted like a bolt down the street, making a sharp right, zooming towards a familar place, a familar setting: Polestar Preschool. She was darting so fast she failed to look towards Burglin Park as she ran, and a familar face in it, also an appearant victim of the time anomoly. Sandra did however get a faint notice of the red field that seemed to be surrounding Earth. It was then she realized something was terribly wrong on Earth that fated day, as she arrived at the Polestar house. She pulled on the door. It didn't budge. Even inanimate things seem to be affected by this. The whole world must be under some time freeze! Sandra then gripped the knob of the door hard with her right arm, and with good yank, managed to rip the door off it's hinges and threw it to the side. Hoping they wouldn't kill her about the door later, she ventured into the Polestar house with every right to be suspicious of her surroundings...

(finally, I'm back in IF action!! )
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
By now, Happy Bob had become quite lost and quite confused. Not a good combination by any means. Especially when it comes to him.

"Man, this sucks! How am I ever going to do some damage if noone can farking move?!"

He ran up to a man in a suit. Bob began stabbing, attempting to plunge the knife into him. But to no avail. It was like trying to stab a cement slab. Torture in the mind of a homicidal maniac.

Happy Bob suddenly clutched his head, falling to his knees. He began screaming. Screaming and screaming. For once, he couldn't kill anyone. For once, he couldn't gain pleasure from someone else's pain.

When all seemed lost, a ray of hope came in the form of yelling. He leapt off of the man's shoulders and ran towards the source of the commotion. He arrived quickly on the scene and was shocked.

Before him stood a bunch of people. Some of them were drenched to the bone with a smelly, sticky liquid. The rest were ok, as far as he could see. Just as he was about to change that, he saw the monster. All he could do was raise an eyebrow.

"What the heck is this? A mutant vaccuum cleaner? PATHETIC!"

Bob effortlessly leapt onto the creature's back and plunged his knife deep into the creature. It roared in pain, but quickly recovered by sucking the knife into its body. Happy Bob's eyes suddenly looked like pools of water. And then they turned red.

"You... swallowed... my... KNIFE!!!"

He suddenly pulled out Dual Colt Commandos.

"YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THIS!!!"

He began firing on Smidgen, ripping bits and pieces of him off. A large hole was developing in the monster's back. That's when he did it. He leapt inside of the creature, and was sealed inside.

"Hmm, this looks like a meat processing plant. Neat."

He began swimming around in the guts looking for his knife. It was nowhere to be found. After quite a while of searching, he found his knife. He promptly slashed out of its stomach and landed with a solid, blood-soaked crack on the ground in front of the others.

"Hey, this guy peeves me off. I think I'll be on your side of the fight. For now."

With that, he pulled out his Dual Colts again and poised for battle.

The others simply stared.

(By the way, if you are wondering what I meant by "sealed inside," I was suggesting that the monster had regenerated its living cells.)

[ June 12, 2002, 12:07 PM: Message edited by: Zero X. Diamond ]
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Sandra slowly walked into the living room of Polestar, taking note of the neatly arranged toys on the shelves, indicating they weren't watching any kids for the day. No one else was in the living room though, so she decided to look around closely for things. She saw a familar sight: the old bookcase where she remembered the Polestars keeping their family albums. She walked over and reached into one of the shelves, and yanked out an old, dusty book marked, "Pictures of 1984". She flipped it open, and looked through it until the 11th page. The second pic in the third row caught her eye, as well as some of the tears from it. In it were a woman, a man, and two girls. One girl was holding up the other playfully while the picture had been taken. She took the picture and placed it in a small pocket on her outfit, and then put the book back. She then looked over and noticed the kitchen door had been open when the time freeze appearantly occured, making it easier on her, since she wouldn't have to rip that door off like she had the front door.

Sandra stepped into the kitchen, and saw a familar sight again. A woman was at the window over the stove, flipping pancakes, as the pancakes were in mid-air, frozen, and as was the woman as well, sporting the pink aura of Stop that only Sandra could see. Sandra began to form tears and looked away. I'll have to try my best to undo what has happened. But I don't even know what's been happening in the last 10 years! Where do I start?. Sandra put that thought on hold as she took sight of the stairway behind the frozen woman, and walked slowly upstairs into the den she remembered so well. Memories flooded back to her: the day she learned of her strength had come here, as she remembered wanting food so badly, that she walked up to the playpen and had ended up ripping the playpen door off when she was 2, banging it on the floor loudly until someone came up to feed her. Tears streamed down her face now from the old memories, and she walked over to one last door, which she had to sadly rip off as well, since it was also closed when the time freeze occured.

Inside the room, the walls were pink, a small table lay in front of the door, a table she also remembered. She and another girl would play here sometimes when they had to stay upstairs. Sandra remembered a few of the old tea parties she had when she was four, a year before she vanished from Earth. She saw that there was now only one bed though, instead of their being a bunk bed, like she had remembered in her old days. They must have removed it when they learned she had vanished. She was the only person that used the bunk bed. No one else really slept in this room except her 'friend'. "It's time I started over again." she said to herself, stopping her tears for the moment, and walking out of the room, and then out of the den, and then the kitchen, looking back at the woman at the stove, frozen in time, and then through the empty living room, until she was finally outside of the preschool again.

Sandra felt as if she had been given a chance to start over, but in retrospect that she would have to likely fight again to take advantage of that chance. She couldn't start over in a frozen world. She had the idea she wasn't the only one who had resisted the effects of the freeze. Others probably had too. But she knew it wasn't a hopeless cause. Sardius had been probably the worst evil she had ever fought while on Santranus and in the Phantom Zone, but part of his powers and fearsomeness were because she was on HIS home turf. Whomever was intruding on Earth was now on HER home turf, so that made her a little more confident, but she had to be careful, careful not to let confidence put her over in the end.

She once more took out the old photo she confiscated from the Polestar house, and thought to herself. It'll be only a matter of time, then we'll all be reunited again. Be there when I return, please. as she looked at various people on the photo. The man, James, who was her father. The woman, Penelope, who was her mother, the girl on the bottom with the pink hair, herself, and finally the girl she held above her head, giggling madly, Paula, her sister.

With those thoughts, she put the photo back into the pocket on her outfit, and prepared to set out to Onett first. Perhaps someone there was resistant to the effects of the time freeze...
 

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Posted by Ffish (Member # 262) on :
 
Ffish opened his eyes. Blinked. Blinked again. Something was wrong. He stood up. He then realized what was wrong. Saturn Valley was usually alive and bustling with noise this time of day. Rather, he heard silence. Not complete silence, as he could hear wind blowing through the trees and over the valley's cone-shaped rooftops, not to mention the barely noticable pouring of water in the distant Peaceful Rest Valley brooks and rivers, but there was no characteristic nasal Saturn-speak, no walking, no chirping of birds, nothing that would signify that any life-form was still active. Ffish stepped outside, humming a bar from a song he heard not long ago. He arrived outside and froze in pure horror. Saturn Valley was in a perpetual stillness. Everywhere he looked, there was a Mr. Saturn in mid-step, or in mid-air. Though he had to admit to himself it was pretty cool, it wasn't every day that your adoptive family of small pink alien creatures defied all the laws of physics and froze in time and space while you were out astroprojecting. He plucked out of midair a young one that was falling off a ladder and stuck him on the ground. If he could just find out what the heck happened. The swooshing of the wind through the trees again caught his attention. A look of resolution spread across his face. He marched up to the nearest tree and placed his palm on the bark. A stone buried deep in on of his pockets glowed and started telepathically giving off lyrics to a soothing tune.
Superman.
It's what you wanted for me.
To be your everything.
I only wish you could see, yea-eah.
I can't be anything,
but I know the One who can.
And all that I've tried to be,
I've left with empty hands.
And I hope you wake up,
and do your best to understand
that I can't be your...
Superman.
(Note: song- Superman; band- Luna Halo)
Somehow, it all made sense to him. It's not quite clear how he understood that a gigantic spaceship piloted by an alien scientest bent on furthering knowledge even if it cost the lives of an entire populated planet froze all beings in the animal kingdom presently residing on the planet except for a few that were for some unknown reason unaffected, but it was still perfectly clear to him. The tree did a great job of explaining. It also left him with a strange feeling that in another universe, another consciousness, another IF, another life, another something, he was in a similar predicament, except for the fact that he was a semiomnipotent being from another plane of existence. He just shook off that feeling, though, and forgot it for the rest of this IF.

"Oh, well," Ffish decided. "Might as well go find the other un-frozens. PSI Teleport Beta!"

And with that, he homed in on the nearest un-frozen human. Geez. That was convinient.

[ June 12, 2002, 02:06 AM: Message edited by: Ffish ]
 

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Posted by Happy Noodle Boy was SuperSpeedy (Member # 350) on :
 
"WarriorNacemon!" shouted WereGrowlithmon.

"Yeah?" said WarriorNacemon.

"I think it'd be best if we attacked from a distance!" shouted WereGrowlithmon. He unseathed his Staff of Fire, and started focusing. The orb on the end started to glow with power. He thrusted the staff forward. "PYROWAVE!" A huge blast of fire came from the orb, aimed at Smidgen.

"What to do? What to do?" thought Smidgen. "I never saw him fight! Nor did any of these guys I've absorbed. I'll just have to rely on instinct and reflexes."

Smidgen quickly rolled out of the way of the attack, but was singed by the attack.

"Grr," growled WereGrowlithmon. He seathed his staff and unseathed his sword. It suddenly started burning. "FLAMING SWORD OF BATTLE" shouted WereGrowlithmon, shouted as he charged at Smidgen, blinded by his own rage.

But it was a dumb move, because at that moment, Smidgen started inhaling.

GULLLLP!

Slowly was WereGrowlithmon "digested". After a few minutes, he was spit out. Just then, Smidgen started growing orange and black fur over the surface of his body.

"SHOCK STORM!" shouted WarriorNacemon. A black storm cloud formed in front of WarriorNacemon, and huge amounts of lightning flew at Smidgen!

"No! Don't!" shouted WereGrowlithmon. But it was to much.

"BLAZE BARRIER!" shouted Smidgen. A ball of fire encompassed Smidgen, and it deflected the electricity from WarriorNacemon's attack.

[ June 12, 2002, 03:00 PM: Message edited by: Happy Noodle Boy isn't SuperSpeedy ]
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
Happy Bob just stood there, acessing the creature's abilities. It appeared to him that the "mutant vaccuum cleaner" could steal people's skills. He swiped a bit of sweat off his forehead. Luckily for him he didn't have any skills. Unless you count anger as a skill.

At that moment, a person looking somewhat Angelo-Saxon popped out of nowhere next to him.

"Woah, that was cool! Can you teach me that?"

Ffish looked at Bob funny.

"Uh... maybe later? This IS where the basically indestructable Smidgen is, yes?"

"Oh, Smidgen? THAT'S THAT THING'S NAME!?"

Happy Bob burst out laughing. He couldn't help it. He'd never heard anything so absurd in his life. Well, probably other than some recollections of things he'd done before. Once again, everyone looked at him funny.

"Yes, Smidgen. I think the name is probably supposed to be decieving or something." said Ffish.

"Oh," said Bob, getting up off the ground and dusting himself off. "That might explain it, then."

Bob looked over at the others, then back to Ffish.

"Those guys over there are fighting him. It looks kind of bad though, since that thing can steal abilities. Lucky I don't have any, eh?"

Ffish looked at him, scratching his head.

"You mean, you have NO special abilities?"

"None."

"None whatsoever?"

"None at all."

"That's odd," said Ffish. "I thought only people who had special abilities were able to avoid being frozen."

"I guess not. Maybe... um... you should go help them?"

Ffish looked over at the fight.

"Yeah, think I will. Say, why aren't you helping?"

"Well, confidentially, noone seems to notice me. I fight when I feel like it..."

Smidgen blasted Bob in the back with holy energy, a la GMOE. Bob's eyes suddenly turned red.

"Which happens to be... NOW!!!!"

And with that, he rejoined those who were currently fighting.
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Sandra now found herself along the trails of the southern edge of Onett. She had looked at the Ramblin' Mushrooms, Black Antoids, and Ma Mouse, all frozen in time and sporting the pink aura of "Stop" around them, induced by the statis field around the Earth. Sandra felt remorse to all of them. She wasn't expecting to find many people that were not frozen, but she still had the hope backing her up. She also took notice of the frozen Sharks in and around the Onett arcade. They had been gathering supplies for Frank for a food drive they were planning to help make up for all the trouble they caused before Ness shut them out during his own journey. She took notice of the black outfits they wore. They no longer wore the finned hoods of the orignal sharks, but Sandra could realize that they had once been part of some gang.

Another painful memory flooded into her at that point as she walked through Onett, looking for people unaffected. The frozen sharks reminded her of beginner Serpents. The Serpents were a gang that were to an extent like the Sharks, but worse. They flooded into Northern Twoson when she was only a child, before her disappearance. In fact, THEY were the ones repsonsible for her disappearance to an extent. The Serpents weren't like the standard street gangs. It was rumored a few knew Wicca, or witchcraft, and other such sorcery. Sandra's disappearence had been the proof of this. The clearing she came out of earlier had in fact been around the area most of the old day Serpents hid. One Serpent man had opened the fated gate that she was brought to Santranus by. Sandra jumped in by choice, although not good choice. The man planned to summon some kind of monster from the gate that would wreck havoc upon Twoson and all of Eagleland, and Sandra had stumbled along into the forest, grieving her grandmother's death by taking a walk. She realized the only way to stop the monster's approach was to jump into the gate. Doing so reversed the path of the monster, but Sandra wasn't able to get out of the gate, and fell through, into Santranus, to 10 years of living heck in a world not as advanced in technology, but more advanced in the forms of magic. As for the Serpents, they had disappeared themselves the same day, shortly after her disappearnce. She didn't know it, but it was part of the history which had resulted.

Shaking the memory away, it gave her another ray of hope for herself, and perhaps Earth as well. She was so immersed in her memory, that she had missed a person that was unfrozen. A boy by the name of Jake was still searching the Hotel Onett for unaffected people. No one knows if Jake caught sight of her as she passed or not, but Sandra continued towards the Onett library, only hoping to find some kind of clue to what the heck was going on. She had caught sight of many other frozen people, all supporting the Stop aura around them. She looked disappointed still, but she then realized something. I must've been Auto-Hasted because of the time freeze! Sandra had known some of her supportative and curative magic to act on it's own at times, as if it had a conscience of it's own, protecting the girl from death when seriously wounded, or perhaps in this case, from the time field. That must of been why Dispel failed to remove the haste affects on her.

She suddenly heard a loud crash and then a louder splash to her north. Sounded like a big rock fell of the Northern cliffs of Onett and into the water. But that must have meant someone had been unfrozen up there. As far as the Earth was concerned, even the weather seemed frozen in time, so it couldn't have been the wind, or could it? Sandra decided the northern cliffs were her next destination, and like a beam of light, shot off along the path that would concidentally take her by the house of Ness, one of the four heros of the common world, and hopefully to the peak of the cliffs...

(Just wondering if Cracked Bat is still around. If so, are you still in the Onett Hotel, or did Jake move somewhere else?)
 

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Posted by Happy Noodle Boy isn't SuperSpeedy (Member # 350) on :
 
"FLAMING SWORD OF BATTLE" shouted Smidgen and WereGrrowlithmon. The two were duking it out like crazy.

Suddenly, someone just drop-kicked Smidgen out of nowhere! Smidgen spit out a glowing, orange-and-black pearl. WereGrowlithmon picked it up to examine it.

"This is really odd," said WereGrowlithmon.

Smidgen quickly grabbed it and pressed it deep into his skin. When WereGrowlithmon looked at Smidgen, his orange-and-black fur was a bit thin. Suddenly, it was bad into a thick and glossy state.

GULP! SPEW!

"YUCKY!" shouted Smidgen, upon spitting out a saliva covered Happy Bob. "Nothing from you? I pity that, foo'!"

~~~~the now dubbed "EVIL" spacestation~~~~
"I've got it!" shouted the lead scientist. "I've got the perfect back-up weapon!" shouted the lead scientist. He grabbed the captain and started to drag him to the lab.

"I'm kinda busy!" shouted the captain.

At the lab, the scientist showed him a computer screen. It showed a knight in black armor.

"A knight?" said the captain. "That's what you drag me down here for?"

"Have you heard of Digimon?" asked the scientist.

"Yeah," said the captain. "Some stupid merchandising chain aimed at kids. Why? Are they real? Did you make one?"

"Yes, and yes," said the scientist. "That is ChaosDukemon, the unholy knight. Mega level."

"That's not bad," said the captain. "But why a Digimon? We could make better creatures!"

"Because I've noticed that the group of fighters resistant to the field has two Mega-level Digimon fighting with them. Eliminate them, and we vastly weaken the group."

"Great!" shouted the captain. "Send him immediately!"

"Actually, I need to modify the *coughcough* control device. This may take an hour."

"Fine. Call me when it's done."

(I used ChaosDukemon as his name, because I wasn't sure what his American name would be. And that's his name in Japan. Want a picture? Clickie!)
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
Bob was lying on the ground, appearing to be shocked. He was flopping about on the ground like a dying fish. He finally managed to take a deep breath.

"Man, this sucks! I'm covered in drool!" he shouted angrily.

He leapt screaming through the air. Poor Smidgen didn't figure on this one being so much trouble.

"YOU'RE GONNA FRIGGIN' PAY FOR THIS!"

A knife landed in Smidgen's forehead. The force knocked the creature back a little. It seemed to be confused.

"How you hurt me like that when you no have power?"

"I have power beyond your comprehension. I have the power of HOMICIDE!"

He pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and stuck it under a fold of skin in the back of his neck. The trigger pulled and a shower of innards came out of Smidgen, along with the afformentioned "pearl." This time, WereGrowlithmon was too fast for Smidgen.

"You want this? Huh? You want this?"

Smidgen was too busy regenerating to care. The blast from the shotgun was pretty nasty. Yet, how come the other, much stronger attacks made on him hadn't done so much damage? Perhaps he had found a weak spot.

Now Bob pulled out a much stronger weapon, the RPG Launcher. He once again stuck it under the fold in the skin. By now, the fur was completely gone from Smidgen, and he was ready to get it back. He easily threw Bob off, who fired the grenade into the air. It came down quite a ways away, blowing chunks of pavement everywhere in Twoson. (Yes, it went rather far. It was a ROCKET Propelled Grenade.)

Bob was lying there on the ground, a little blood dripping out of his nose. He laughed a bit.

"Wow, now that's the kind of challenge I've been waiting for!"

He stood up with ease. But then he screamed in pain and fell down. Apparently, he'd been thrown down harder than he had thought. His leg was broken.

"Argh... stupid mother... if anyone cares to take my word for it, aim for the fold of skin in his back!"

He slouched over, holding his leg in pain. He couldn't move; the pain was actually too much for him. It looked rather bleak for Bob today...
 

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Posted by Greatest Mog On Earth (Member # 309) on :
 
The dark shadow of Smidgen passed over Bob. Bob stared up in absolute horror.

"Well, It looks like this is the end of me. Hey, I wonder if they have donuts in heaven." Thought Bob, although he doubted if he was going to go there.

Of course, Bob didn't die, because we're not allowed to kill each other's ACs, so instead, I'll have Brett attack Smidgen's flap of skin in a nick of time.

"Well, I'm glad I'm not dead, but my leg still hurts. Stupid broken leg. Hey, I wonder how much money I got." He thought, and his thoughts turned to The money he had so unfairly stolen from the guy at the ATM.

Meanwhile, the battle raged on. "PYROWAVE!" Shouted WareGrowlithemon, And a huge blast of fire shot at Smidgen's flap of skin.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Screamed Smidgen, beginning regeneration and turning around to face it's assaillant, which was stupid, as at that time, Zac used his Ion Cannon on the weak flap of skin.

Yes, things were looking bad for Smidgen. They had discovered his weak point and were doing a good job at exploiting it. The battle raged on, and finally, Kyle grabbed Excalabur, lifted it above Smidgen, drove it deep into that weak flap of skin, defeating Smidgen.

As smidgen lay on the ground, colored with neon green blood, Greatest Mog On Earth took notice Homicidal Bob, lying on the ground with a broken leg.

"Hey, it's a Teddy Bear!" said Bob, as GMOE flew over him. He said "I wonder if it can-" "Hold still, this might hurt." GMOE cut him off as he grabbed Bob's broken leg and began to glow.

"Well, what did that do except hurt me!?" Demanded Bob.

GMOE just grinned and said "Stand up."

"What?! You've gottat be crazy! I'll just hurt myself more! Crazy cat thing..."

GMOE lifted Bob to his feet, and, to Bob's delight, it didn't hurt any more. GMOE had healed his wounds.
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Sandra continued up the path to the cliffs of Onett, wondering who could've caused that common. She was soon at the northern cliff. Sandra then caught her first site of the meteorite that fell on the clifftop, the very same one Buzz Buzz came from. She studied it for a second, and put her hand near it. It was still heated to an extent, despite being there for some time now. "Odd." Sandra chirped, not knowing what to do now. There was no sign of unfrozen life at the cliff, though. Sandra did however find the spot were the rock had fallen to the oceans below, as there were still some ripples in the water. Sandra caught notice of some paths along the cliffside that she didn't notice before, and where there was a ladder going to one of them. She looked over towards the hills behind the Minch house, and found that the ladder was connected to that hill, and jumped across to the hills behind the Minch house, wondering what was down that ladder. Since the world was frozen, she might as well get a small headstart of some of the changes in her world within the last 10 years.

At the bottom of the ladder, the paths along the cliffside were pretty straight forward and sturdy looking. Good. At least she wouldn't have to worry about falling off and into the sea below. She looked over again at the water, and then a thought suddenly mentally smacked her upside the head. The water doesn't seem frozen like everything else is. Of course, it could just be my not knowing time anomolies very well. Not important, at the moment anyways. She walked along, soon finding a small opening in the cliff side which looked it, it would lead to somewhere under the meteorite. As she walked in, she didn't notice some of the fish flopping in and out of the water like normal, appearantly unaffected by the time freeze...

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Back in Twoson, another gate materialized within the Twoson forests where Sandra was about an hour ago. The gate was a lot bigger though than the one Sandra went through, about 12 feet to be exact. As the gate stabilized, a deafening roar was heard, and then HE stepped out of it. He was a large 11 foot creature that had the face of a blue-eyed troll, along with white hair and beard hair, wore an opened blue overcoat studded with spikes over the back, a large center-studded crown on his head, had green skin, golden boots, and among the most surprising of features, he had a another face, a sinister looking one, in the MIDDLE of his stomach.

Nebiroth stared around at his surroundings. This had to be the world his master's slayer had been trying to reach since his defeat. Nebiroth had been a lot smarter than the other underlings of Sardius, and staged his death at Sandra's hands during the battle almost 1 year ago. He had been quietly trailing the pink-haired girl since she destroyed his master. He liked his master! He allowed Nebiroth to destroy whatever he wanted, and eat whatever he wanted. He was also mad at another dilliema that the cursed Pink-haired monster caused. She had killed his best friend Austorouto, and taken his cape, and she... she wanted to use the material for a wedding dress! Pitiful humans. Nebiroth thought to himself. Nebiroth was primitive in his vocal speech, but he possessed the mind of a tactical genius. Only problem was because of his primitive tounge, only Nebiroth himself could take advantage of his own cunning. His attacks in comparison with Sandra's were also not much to awe at: a triple stacked beam that was about as big as he was. Sure it was powerful, but it was somewhat slow and easy to dodge if prepared, as well as the fire his other face on his stomach could breathe like a trailing flamethrower. Powerful, but easy to avoid. He didn't think he'd have much chance against that Pink haired thing, but he might as well at least try to avenge his master and Austorouto while he still could.

Roaring out "Nebiroth destroy Pink brat!" in his primative tounge, he dreadfully stomped his way out into the streets of Twoson. He took note of the Tour Guide of Twoson, frozen into position by the time freeze. "Nebiroth EAT!!" the monster shouted happy, and open his big mouth to chomp the tour guide, but her being frozen in time foiled the creatures plans for lunch. *CRACK!* Nebiroth whimpered as he realized the frozen tour guide was harder than titanium and totally unfased by his bite, as one of his teeth were now loose from the failed attempt to eat her. "This insane!! People here are made of rock!" he growled half primatively, and stomped down the street angrily, leaving minor tremors in his anger induced marches. Nebiroth noticed the elderly woman, Mr. T-look-a-like, and the taxi cab in the middle of the streets, and noticed they also weren't moving like the tour guide. He cautiously walked up to the elderly woman, and half attempted a bite on her. No effect. She was also as hard as titanium, or so it seemed. Nebiroth decided to not even chance loosing his already loose tooth on the Mr. T-look-a-like, and stomped ahead. "Nebiroth MAD! Whole world seems frozen!! No eat!! Mad!!" he stomped up and down like a child with a temper tantrum. Of course, being a LOT bigger than most children, he shook the ground considerably. He then noticed something on the ground nearby were some concrete had been blown out. Shrapnel of a rocket-propelled grenade lay on the ground. Nebiroth picked the shrapnel up, and held it up to his nose, and smelled it, and then opened his mouth and tossed it into it, eating the sharpnel. "Hmm... not bad! *burp*" Nebiroth said. Hey, shrapnel was better than going hungry, he would say. He decided to continue following the street, until he came at an intersection at the Polestar preschool, taking note every person in his path was frozen into place. Something in his mind told him going towards Threed might get him more food, so he slowly stomped his way down the road, and then within 2 more minutes, into the Two-Three tunnel.

(Nebiroth is my other AC. He will be revealed more in later posts. Yes he is sorta a bad guy, but he's not working for the people with the time ray, and he's just as confused as everyone else)
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
Bob stood there, feeling quite strange. Never before had he felt so good! He had once again laughed in the face of death.

"Well," he said. "That was neat. Can you show me how to do that?"

GMOE blinked. He blinked again, much harder.

"Uhhh... right."

Bob didn't feel right suddenly. His eyes were like pools of water. He'd never remembered feeling quite this way. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet. Flipping through the numerous pictures of corpses, he discovered one that made him do something he'd never done before.

Cry.

It was a picture of his parents. His parents who had been killed god knows how. He didn't know because he was always left at home, and noone cared that his parents were gone. Most people didn't even know they existed.

Looking upon that picture made him feel lonely. Made him feel a longing for something else in his miserable life. He thought at first it may just be hunger, but then he realized it was something far different. For once, he was longing for something other than killing.

But he had no time to think about this peculiar feeling. He had to get back to being a complete goofball. Happy Bob just couldn't shake the feeling. He didn't know why.

"I'm hungry," complained Bob, "for some meat."

"Well, there's quite obviously nowhere open, as time is frozen."

"But I'm starving!"

Bob clenched his stomach muscles hard. He was so hungry. He could have even ate GMOE at that moment, but he decided not to chance getting shunned. Before he could make another complaint, a large crumbling sound could be heard.

Out of Two-Three tunnel burst the most hideous thing Bob had ever seen. Its name was Nebiroth. And its objective, like Bob's currently was, was to eat.
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Nebiroth stomped into the distinctly more lit areas of Threed. It was only when he emerged from the tunnel, oblivious to the group and Smidgen ahead of him, that he took notice of the redness in the sky above. "Sky red... Why sky red?! This not home! Place is not allowed to have red light!!" Nebiroth had lost his craving for food at the moment, wondering what was causing the red light. He felt the red light to be a mockery of the Phantom Zone's skies, which were crimson red, like blood. Nebiroth suddenly saw a red sparkling speck in the sky, which was actually the ship of the time beam, however Nebiroth thought it was a star responsible for the skies over this world.

Nebiroth began concentrating his energy into his hands, and growled up towards the star "Red star... BAD!!!" and shot his huge tri-stacked beam towards the star. He felt a lot better assuming the star wasn't just going to move and dodge it. It was a star after all, wasn't it? He turned his attention to the group ahead of him not even expecting anything from the star, soon realizing that Bob was staring at him. That human probably thinks I'm ugly. Humans... so vain about their looks and that of others. his more intelligent sounding mind said to himself. He then caught sight of a delicious looking source, a source with Neo Green blood leaking from it: Smidgen. "Nebiroth hungry!!" Nebiroth suddenly remembered his hunger, and stomped past Bob, and towards Smidgen.

However, unbeknownst to all of them, Smidgen was far from defeated. He was designed to put himself back together from strong attacks, and not just via regeneration. Smidgen had the ability to put himself back together, even if in many pieces. Smidgen wasn't able to notice the new arrival known as Nebiroth, but he was still planning his vengence strike, and now deliberating his former weakness. When he fully recovered, that weakness they used against him would be gone, and he would be free to roam again and to eat more people, and to get stronger. He didn't notice Nebiroth picking him up, thinking him to be dead.

Nebiroth was just about to devour Smidgen when the thing's eyes opened with a malicous glee, and the rest of the group jumped back in shock, and perhaps fear. Smidgen noticed Nebiroth about to eat him like some slain deer. Smidgen decided to turn the tables and see what this guy's powers could do and lashed out...

However Smidgen hadn't taken time to calculate Nebiroth's size, and was unable to open his mouth enough to complete swallow the large minion of Sardius, and was stuck with his mouth over and around Nebiroth's shoulders. What the heck!? Nebiroth growled mentally, and with the face on his stomach, uncovered by Smidgen, blew a blast of continuous fire into the creature making a failed attempt to swallow him. Smidgen couldn't resist the effects of the fire long, and released his grip on Nebiroth, howling in pain, and jumping up and down. "Nebiroth eat you! Not other way around!!" the large troll-faced demon bared his fangs, and Smidgen just growled back, prepared to strike...

***

Sandra's trek through the caves within the cliff, leading her through a couple of small intersections, and it made her wonder why such a place even existed under the cliffs. Soon, she came to a place reinforced by steel walls. "Could there be some installation hidden within the cliffs? If so, could this also the be the source of the time anomoly?" She asked herself. She found a door in the middle of these steel walls, and opened it, walking inside.

Inside the room was a basic shaped room with a circular hole in the ceiling, and a single person, trapped in the time field as well, indicated by the Pink aura representing Stop, but when she looked up at the ceiling, she saw a shocking sight: the bottom of the very meteor that crashed into Onett a while back. "They must be using this place to gather samples from the meteorite and study them." She also noticed another door on the other side of the room, a much bigger door than the other that she went through. Oddly enough, it seemed to be made out of something she hadn't seen before. She wondered if she should rip the door off or not...

(Smidgen is supposed to be harder to stop than that I would think, since the scientest said he could pull himself back together from about any attack, and was almost totally indestrucible. If you didn't want him coming back, sorry about that, DrAndonuts. -_-; )

[ June 13, 2002, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: Cecil ]
 

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Posted by Losarian Prodigy (Member # 361) on :
 
(No, I think you're right.)

Most of the rest of the group could only stare at Nebiroth, as he struggled with Smidgen.

Glenn, who had been feeling more or less useless since his sword broke, looked at Nebiroth, cringed, and tried to edge away from the battle.

"Whare'd THAT come from?" said Glenn. "I wonder..." He headed for Two-Three Tunnel.

Meanwhile, Kyle's opinion of Nebiroth was different. He had a natural attraction to evil things, being a creature of darkness himself (to an extent), and if something showed the slightest hint of being good, regardless of what it looks like, he gave it a chance.

"What are we waiting for? Let's help it!" he said.

"What is it?" asked Weregrowlithmon.

"What are you?" asked Kyle.

"..."

Kyle shook his head and got closer to the two battling monsters. He didn't want to get close... it looked a bit dangerous, getting between the two. So, Kyle decided to use PSI. It had been a while, since he basically stopped using it when he got Excalabur and its abilities. Now... how'd it go?

"Er... PSI Shadow Beam Gamma!" Kyle pointed at Smidgen and multiple large beams of dark energy shot at Smidgen.

Nebiroth noticed Kyle's attack and took advantage of it, making sure not to get into the way of the beams. Something's not right about that human, thought Nebiroth. But I think I'll let it help me... for now.

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Glenn arrived in Twoson, and looked around for a clue as to where that monster came from. Near Polestar Preschool, Glenn gave up on obvious clues. Instead he decided to cast of one is more practical rune spells. He drew the rune and spoke it. It split into two and attached themselves to his eyes. Glenn gazed upon the ground and saw large footsteps glowing. But he also saw recently made footsteps of something else. A human, a girl by the shape and size.

The monster's origin could wait. Glenn had to find this girl! With the way the mysterious enemy was sending monsters to take care of the people who resisted the freeze, she might be in danger! he followed the footsteps toward Onett.
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
(Cecil, that's fine. I agree with both you and LP. Plus this is IF, so I'm going with the flow.)

Smidgen was contemplating on how to absorb Nebiroth's powers. Doing this, Brett and Zac exploited this moment and attacked.

The two stood about five feet apart, side by side. Both crossed their arms over their chests. This is where the similarities in the attacks end. Brett's body started to glow pure white; Zac became illuminated by darkness. A few seconds later, faint waves of energy spewed forth from a recently created dome of energy surrounding the two, Brett's dome being white and Zac's black. As "time" progressed, the waves became stronger. As the attacks developed, the two floated closer together, the opposing energies causing sparks to fly in random locations.

"I suggest all but one of us move. Someone needs to keep Smidgen occupied until those two can attack," Matt said.

"I'll keep him busy," Kyle volunteered. The rest of the group took cover, sensing the strength of both attacks. Kyle leapt forward and started to slash away with Excalabur, forcing Smidgen to dodge in place.

"Ready?" Brett asked his twin.

"Yeah, sure." Zac had already started to prepare to fire.

"Instead of having two seperate attacks, let's combine them."

"Sounds good." Zac turned his cupped hands towards Brett. Brett did the same, turning towards Zac. Between their four hands, a good sized ball of light and dark energy formed, sparks flying from the clash in energies. Focusing all of the energy the two gathered into that one spot caused the orb to quadruple in size.

"Omega Beam!" The two shouted. Using a lot of their strength, Brett and Zac managed to swing their arms out to the front and fired the attack. A huge beam of holy and shadow/dark energy shot out towards Smidgen and Kyle. Kyle gave one more slash and jumped out of the way as quickly as he could, barely dodging the attack. Smidgen turned to see the beam flying at him. Instead of being scared, the monster lit up with joy as a huge source of energy came at him. Opening wide, the attack flowed right down to his stomach. As soon as the beam stopped, Smidgen licked his lips happily.

"What the-" Matt looked in shock. "He should have went 'boom' by now." As soon as he was done speaking, Smidgen exploded, sending pink globs everywhere. "I guess I spoke too soon..." Unbenowst to the group, Smidgen was already starting to pull himself back together.
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Sandra decided to go with her curious instinct, and with a breath of caution, grabbed the door by it's vault like wheel, and attempted to see if she could open the door without ripping it right off. The handle however, couldn't handle the eventual pressure she put on it, and broke off the door. Sandra scowled at the door, and screamed "Blizzaga!!", hammering the door with an icy blast of magic, freezing part of the door. Sandra then heard something faintly behind the door, a muffled voice. It sounded much like a cry for help. Sandra, happy to find people not appearantly frozen, quickly took action and screamed, "If you can hear me in there, back away from the door!!! I'm going to kick it down!!!" After waiting for about 10 seconds, she jumped at the door, and spin kicked it. It didn't have an immediate effect, but then a crack formed in the frozen door, which then expanded until it was all the way across the door from top to bottom, and left to right. "Hi-yah!!!" Sandra shrieked and kicked the door once again, shattering it into thousands of small and frozen fragments. Sandra looked into the room beyond, and her mind suddenly give a huge mental gasp at what she saw.

There, along with two other men inside, was none other than James Polestar, Sandra's father. She could remember his face from anywhere. And he and his two colleges was completely unaffected by the time anomoly, as they sported no auras of anything around them, and they were staring back at her, wide-eyed at her feat, and at the fact they were now free of their time induced prison room. Sandra had no doubt that her father probably wouldn't recognize her at first glance, but it didn't matter to her at the moment. At least one person in her family other than herself was unaffected by the time anomoly. It... must have been the door they were behind. It's... the only explanation. She then decided to speak again, "Are you three alright? Are you totally unfrozen?" "We're fine." one of the other men answered her, "But what do you mean by Frozen?" James had during that time walked by his 2nd daughter, not knowing who she was, and examining the other man in the room that was frozen. "I think she means like Johnson here!" he spoke to his friends, pointing their frozen comrade out. "Johnson? Is he... dead?" asked the other of the unknown unfrozen men. "No... I don't think he's dead, just... frozen in time." Sandra answered in an almost absentminded tone, as if it was nothing new to her. James and his two other friends gaped at her like she was crazy. "Frozen in time? Are you crazy or something?" James asked her. "That's what I thought too at first, but if you look outside, there's some kind of red field in the sky, covering the area, and probably the whole planet as well. I believe that's what may be freezing the Earth in time." Sandra replied to his question. The three recently freed men did just that, walking outside along the cliffside, looking into the sky at the red field. Sandra had decided to follow them out. It was a good thing, at least in her case, that she did. Her eyes went wide as she noticed a familar looking shape in the distance, headed towards a bright red star. She didn't realize it just yet, but it was Nebiroth's beam that he had shot towards it minutes ago. It couldn't be... could it?!

Sandra decided to use her aura search to scan the planet for the aura she was thinking of. Sure enough, to her utter shock, she sensed her old enemy's primary minion's energy, coming from the other direction that she came. Crud!! How did Nebiroth find a gate to here?! I thought the Bourdon gate closed after I went through it! She knew Nebiroth was looking for her to try and avenge Sardius' death at her hands, and to recover the cape of his slain friend Austorouto, but it still puzzled her how he found the gate she went though. She also didn't want her father, or anyone else to be found by that thing. She had no idea of his attitude around people. "We gotta get home now you guys!!" she shouted to James and his two friends. "Wait! We gotta at least bring Johnson back with us!" James's second friend replied. "Yeah, we... we can't leave him here. Something could happen to him." James agreed. Sandra thought for a minute as she followed them back to were Johnson was frozen in time. That means we have to carry him all that way. Sandra looked at Johnson, still able to see the Stop aura that no one else could. Then it hit her like another slap on the head. Maybe if I... She trailed off mentally as she walked up to Johnson, and looked up, chanting a small bit to herself, and then screaming out "DISPEL!!"

Three magical coins suddenly appeared above the head of Johnson, and circled down around him, and then melted onto him for a short time, then fading away. After this was done, the Pink aura of Stop had vanished around Johnson, who had fell down on his back from the aftereffects, but was now unfrozen. Sandra soon gained a glimmer of hope. Dispel can counteract the effects of the anomoly! But she looked down as she realized one problem. It's only a short-term answer though. I can't unfreeze the entire planet one-by-one, no matter how much magic I can use on one reserve. There are simply too many people. I'm still gonna have to try and find the source of this. Meanwhile, James and his other two friends were shocked stiff at the fact this girl had just freed Johnson from his time-incuded capture. "How did you... do that?" James asked Sandra, still unaware of the fact he was talking to his lost daughter from a decade ago. "Magic... no time to explain now! I gotta get you guys outta here before Nebiroth finds us. I can probably handle him, but he might use you as bait for me if he finds us all together!" Johnson regained his senses, although he was stunned by the recent events. "What happened? Why was I passed out on the floor?" "No time to explain. This girl says some monster is looking for her, and if it finds us, it might use us as bait against her." James's first friend said to him.

"Alrightly then." James said, "We're gonna take the sewer path to the house." James said. "Sewer path?" Sandra asked. "Just follow us." Johnson advised her. James ducked down, and picked up a large tile from the floor, revealing a sewer grate. He couldn't budge it. "Um, could you..." James couldn't finish as Sandra ducked down and punched the grate, shattering it into small pieces. "No problem!" Sandra said, a bit embarrased with a ^_^; on her face. They couldn't help smiling back just a bit, especially James for some odd reason, as they all climbed than the ladder beyond, and into the sewers.

Meanwhile, Glenn was still using his rune to follow the foorsteps of Sandra, and managed to find the ladder down to the cliffside. With a sense of urgency to protect her, not even knowing who she was, he slowly climbed down the ladder to the cliffside...

*****

Back at the battle against Smidgen, Nebiroth no longer cared about food, or the destruction of any living thing in his path. He was angered outgoingly at Smidgen for trying to eat him, but allowed Kyle to have space for his Shadow Beam Gamma, and then Brett and Zac for what he called their "Spiritual Antipodial Beam Attack". Smidgen was now in pieces again, but Nebiroth not only knew better than to rely on him being dead, but he had also caught notice of Smidgen beginning to reform. Ah poo. I was hoping I wouldn't have to use this attack until I found the Pink-Haired brat again. I was originally saving this for her, but this Smidgen creature is going too far. Forget eating and destroying these humans. They tried to help me. Perhaps master Sardius was somewhat wrong about the human race and it's intentions. I still want to fight that brat though at least one more time.

Nebiroth suddenly formed himself into a pose, crossing his arms and leaning forward, and began to glow a faint bluish-white color. To Brett and Zac, who especially understood energy well, he was charging his power up for a big attack. Friends! He spoke into their minds with a small hint of telepathy, using his intelligent voice, shocking them to realize he was no longer going to be hostile towards them, When he regenerates, if you could, try to distract them. I'm charging up for my 'Body Laser' attack. It might just be strong enough to wipe him out with no trace of him leftover, but I'm not sure. I've never done this before to any specific target. All I know is that the attack is a continuous laser in the shape of my own body, so if it works, it should completely disintergrate him, and he'll be unable to put himself back together. The other stared at him, wondering if they should trust him.

As his energy began to grow, Nebiroth thought to himself Pink-haired slayer of Sardius. I am still searching for you, so do not think you are totally out of this one yet!...
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
Bob was hearing a voice in his head. Not too strange, considering him, but this was different. It wasn't one he'd heard before. But the one thing that stood out most was the word "distract."

"Hey everyone, I can take care of this one myself!" said Bob with a wink. (Or was that just a twitch?)

Yes, that he could. He could distract the entire Eagleland Military for at least an hour. He knew that one from experience. Bob began to walk over to the shivering pieces of Smidgen flesh. He simply sat there playing with a piece of string while the creature rebuilt itself.

By the time the creature was done, he'd already made a cute little noose out of it. And that's when he started the diversion.

"Hey there tall, dark and tubby! You want a piece of this? Grade A meat, kiddo!"

Smidgen's memory wasn't so good, and it once again attempted to eat Bob.

GULP!!! ..... SPIT!

"Yucky! You no have powers! Me not like powerless slob!"

"Aw, shut up. You're so ugly that when you were born, the doctor committed suicide!"

"You no smart. You make Smidgen MAD!"

Smidgen lunged for Bob, attempting to body slam him. He completely missed, landing against a brick wall. The texture of the wall pushed into his skin.

"What's the matter? Can the fat, ugly mutant not catch the scrawny, weak, powerless little human?"

Smidgen now gave chase, Bob leading him around in circles, giggling like a school girl. He hadn't had this much fun since he fell in the alligator pit at the zoo!

Suddenly, a voice echoed through his head.

Foolish one! it blared. Get out of the way, make haste! My attack is ready!

He took this opportunity to push a stick through Smidgen's head.

"Bye now, you stupid ball of lard!"

He dove aside, seconds before a humongous, Nebiroth shaped beam pierced the air. It hit Smidgen and blasted the flesh clean off of its host. The attack pulverised Smidgen into nothingness. Finally there would be peace again.

"So... that's it, I guess." said Brett.

"Yeah, all we can do now is wait for something else to happen." added Zac.

Bob was currently sitting upon a large rock, drawing stick pictures in the dirt with a stick. He just couldn't place the feeling he was experiencing. He'd never felt it before. It was an odd feeling, it made him long for something better in his life. But he just couldn't put his finger on it.
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Nebiroth panted from his use of energy. He had to really charge that last Body Laser up for Smidgen's demise. He silently thanked Bob for being the one to distract him. Perhaps he truly underestimated the humans in general, and their imbitions. Nebiroth had in his past been told by his master Sardius that humans were disgusting little creatures with too much arrogance and no remorse for even their own kind. Of course, until Sandra arrived in the Phantom Zone, Nebiroth had never actually seen a human, so he had to believe Sardius back then.

It was also then he lost some of his motivation to even fight Sandra. He didn't care of avenging Sardius, and only of recovering the cape of his slain friend. However he also thought back to the tri-elemental serpent Hydra and the ice golem Freon, two other former minions of Sardius, both turned to the light side upon Sandra's freeing of their souls. Nebiroth recalled of her ability to summon them specfically during battle. He remembered Austorouto's death wasn't truly at Sandra's own hands, but that of a Delta-elemental attack of the summoned spirit of Hydra. It was then he understood why they turned to the light: the same reason he was now, because they also were under the influence of Sardius, merely his SLAVES. Nebiroth growled out loud primatively without even caring at the thought: "Master lie to Nebiroth about humans!!" and stomped the ground in anger at his former, now dead master, catching some uneasy eyes from Bob, Breet, Zac, GMOE, and Kyle. Nebiroth!! Stop! I know you wish to avenge me! But Sandra's intentions were right. She fought us to protect the world that in returned helped her in settling into her respective role when she was barely out of a toddler state! echoed a voice in his head, not his own. Aust... Austarouto?! Nebiroth was shocked at the sound of his friend's voice from the great beyond. Yes... it is me. I am sorry I wasn't able to tell you before Sandra fought you, but my soul was already out of the Phantom Zone when she reached you. I couldn't speak to you then. Only now, that you are on Earth, as your new human friends call this world, was I able to reach you. I know you are saddened by my death, but we did work for the wrong side. Cockatrice, Barnacla, Mongoliow, Hydra, Freon, I, and even you were deceived by Sardius. He deserved everything he got from that girl. Do you understand?" Nebiroth could only nod mentally in agreement. Good. The Phantom Zone's time has come and also passed. You are the sole survivor of the realm, and it is up to you to live on in our legacy, the legacy of the TRUE beings of the Phantom Zone, before the coming of Sardius. You're right, old friend. I still wish to face the Pink-Haired monster, but now only for the purpose of curiosity. I still wish to know if she has changed. Nebiroth... be warned... the people who have frozen Earth in time. They are aliens from the depths of space, in that "star" you shot at earlier. They have most likely found out about you and are wondering what and who you are. Please, be careful, good luck... and take care of yourself. If you should survive this, we'll talk later. and the voice of Austorouto, friend of Nebiroth, had vanished back to the land of wind and ghosts.

Nebiroth now felt he had to find Sandra, not only so he could challenge her to a match later, but for some odd reason, he felt the secret knack, to watch her... watch the savior of the souls of the old Phantom Zone, slayer of Sardius, and heroine of Santranus. However, he also couldn't help leaving Zac, Brett, Bob, GMOE, Kyle and... then he noticed. The one named Glenn had edged away during his clash with Smidgen earlier. He had some feeling he wasn't the only one looking for Sandra now, as the boy had going into the Two-Three tunnel, the same way he came into Threed in the first place.

Nebiroth decided to speak again, but to assure the other he hadn't going crazy. "Thank you. Many friends unfrozen here. However, Nebiroth must find Pink-Haired Brat still." he decided in front of them he was still going to refer to Sandra by that name. He didn't want them to totally think he went soft on her or them. "May also be in danger. If you want follow Nebiroth, your choice. Nebiroth not encourage you. Nebiroth not discourage you either." he said, and looked to the Two-Three tunnel, wondering the answer from his friends.

Meanwhile, a single and VERY tiny piece of the late Smidgen uttered a final desperate death plea to his creator through telepathy. Master. Been defeated... Avenge... av..enge... and then the final drop of Smidgen vanished into the dusts of time...

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In the sewers, Sandra, James, Johnson, and Terrance and Lance[the two friends of James from the room he was trapped in] were trudging through the Onett sewer system. "Hey, how is this going to get us to your home?" Sandra asked her father, who still didn't know who she was yet. "Well, the Onett Sewers connect to the sewers under Twoson, and those are connected to the Threed sewers, and so on." James answered. Why does she seem familar to me. It's as if I've seen her before! James was still unable to put his finger on the dillema at hand, and the problems with the stasis field were his primary concern at the moment. "But... how will we get into your house without being spotted?" she asked more. "Well, when we get there.. I'll show you." he put a nitch of pause in his voice as to make Sandra eagar to find out. "Um, okay." Sandra said with a bit of wonder. Dad, when are you going to realize it's me, Sandra?! she thought to herself. She was hoping he hadn't totally forgotten about her, although she knew to think of her fate 10 years ago was also hard on him, her mother and Paula.

Soon afterwhich, they came to a wall in which the bricks seemed slightly out of place in alignment. Sandra raised an eyebrow at this. James walked up and pushed on the wall, but then remembered that the time freeze most likely held it in a strong grip, he turned to ask her for help due to her strength, but then he remember a small detail, "Uh, excuse me." he said to her, "I never did catch your name." Sandra for some reason was grinning mentally. She thought of the shock on his face when she told him her name. "Name's Sandra, my friend. What is your name anyways, now that you remind me?" James's heart almost stopped at the name of the girl in front of her. She did in fact look like a teenager of 15 years, and she DID sport that even-so-familar look. It then whacked him in the head like a slab of concrete. This young girl was in fact Sandra Polestar, his 10-year lost 2nd daughter. He almost felt like breaking down in happy tears there, but Terrence, Lance and Johnson had no clue that Sandra even existed. No one outside of Twoson the very year of her disappearance knew she even existed. Paula had never told her friends, Ness, Jeff, Poo, or even the Mr. Saturn tribes of her existance. It was because she and her family didn't wish for pity and sympathy from others, and wanted to mourn Sandra's disappearence in peace.

Sandra realized her father had gotten the clue by his reaction, even if his friends hadn't noticed. She had read his mind to find his reaction, and caught the part about no one outside Twoson knowing about her or her disappearence, and understood his knack to keep his shock a secret, but it would have to public be annouced soon enough. "Anyways," she piped up again, asking her dad, "You needed my help again?" "Ye.. yeah... thanks." James half studdered, as his 2nd daughter, one of his two prides of joy had began pushing against the wall, soon unlatching it from it's frozen position, but not breaking it down. It was a wall that rotated on a middle pivot, revealing a secret hallway and some steps leading up. There was something familar looking at the top of the steps. Then she realized it. The sewers! She remembered it perfectly now. Twoson in the old old days had been stage for some mobsters and gangsters. They had used secret passageways in the sewers to elude the cops, and the Polestar house had unknowningly until a year before Sandra's disappearance, had a passage of it's own hidden behind a large shelf in the kitchen that could lower to reveal the stairway and the rotating wall in the sewers. Ah, yes. Memories Sandra thought to herself, as they approached the back of the kitchen shelf...
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
By now, Bob had illustrated deaths for all his stick figures. He stood up and continued trying to sort out this feeling. It was kind of like he was empty inside, yet he still felt all his innards in their places. Then he thought of what Nebiroth said.

"Hey, Nebiroth, I'll go with you. Maybe this 'pink-haired brat' can help me figure out what this means."

With that, Bob crawled up onto Nebiroth's shoulder and struck a pose. He truly was a mental case.

[ June 14, 2002, 11:18 AM: Message edited by: Zero X. Diamond ]
 

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Posted by PikaBot (Member # 270) on :
 
The captain on the time freeze ship was not in a good mood. It had started when the scientists had told him that there were people moving on the planet. It had grown worse throughout the events of the day, and it was now peaking. The scientist really did not want to report this news to him. But he sighed and walked up to him.

"Captain...I have bad news. We just got a report from the surface team. Smidgen was defeated..." His voice faltered under the captains glare. Before the captain could say anything though, the tactical officer interrupted him:

"Sir! We've getting a hyperspace signal! Someone just jumped in system!"

The captain groaned as he went over to the Tac. console. Could this day get any worse?

Adure watched as the lines of hyperspace receded. It had been a long time since he had been back to earth. For the past several years he'd been of with his crew on the space vessel Arconas on a patrol against smugglers. It had been a long time since he had seen Rosaline... I wonder if she still loves me... He thought, but he was cut off.

"Sir! We've got a temporal anomaly surrounding the planet. The entire planet seems to be frozen in time! The source of this disturbance seems to be coming from that ship there." Said Hir'Chin, his scan officer.

"Get me a line to that ship." He said as he examined the ship. It seemed fairly mauled. An image appeared on screen. It was a man in a captains uniform.

"I am the captain of the science vessel Nomad. I am proceeding with a weapons test in this system. Do not intefere."

Adure called the captain a less than polite name."Thats my homeworld you just froze!" He shouted. Undo it now!"

"Not you too! We can't, the rebels..."

"I don't care about your problems!" Shouted Adure. "Either you unfreeze that planet, or we blow you to space dust!" The captain responded by cutting off the link and powering up guns.

"All right people, we've got a planet to save!" He shouted. "Shields up, we're going in hot!" He shouted and then the ship was moving, jetting towards the other vessel with amazing speed. Why is it I can never get a normal vacation?Adure wondered right before his crew fired the first shots.

[ August 22, 2002, 09:28 AM: Message edited by: PikaBot ]
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
After pressing a button on the wall, the kitchen shelf in the Polestar Preschool lowered down into the ground, and Sandra now saw back into the kitchern, still noting the frozen door that was open to the kitched from the front room. She, James, Terrance, Lance and Johnson walked up and back into the kitchen, and then James gasped at the sight of his frozen wife Penelope, at the stove flipping pancakes when hit by the time field. "Penelope... hey... Sandra, could you... uh... well..." Sandra was thinking the same thing now that she knew she could reverse the effects with Dispel, and promptly cast Dispel on her frozen mother. The spinning magic coins floated down onto Penelope and melted on her, and the Pink aura of Stop around her vanished. Penelope was suddenly free, but felt a wave of wear and tear, and fell backwards, luckily to be caught by James in time. Sandra noted that like her mother, Johnson had also fallen backwards when unfrozen. Perhaps the time field had some side effects to it she had overlooked. "Er.... James... dear... why are you hold me this way?" Penelope asked her husband, who blushed and helped her back to her feet. "Dear, you were... frozen into place in time." James explain to her, "Look at your pancakes over the stove." He pointed to her pancakes she had been flipping. Penelope just looked at them with a shocked, yet surprisingly calm look in her eyes.... "Um... I see." she stammered, "but... why was I?"

Sandra decided to make herself known again. She wondered if her mother would recognize her first sight, "I believe something has trapped the Earth in a time field, which is freezing a majority of the planet in place. Even inanimate objects seem affected." Another question struck Sandra in the head as Penelope looked at Sandra with an even more shocked expression. Penelope actually recognized her as she had been the one who held Sandra first in her life and had given her that name. The purple eyes confirmed her thought. "Your... your okay!!" Penelope, unlike James, didn't hide her happiness, and hugged her 2nd daughter in a bear hug. Sandra didn't mind it much, however Johnson, Terrance and Lance raised their eyebrows and looked at their best friend. "James, you care to explain this to us?" James gulped, but Sandra defended him to an extent, "Hey, if you saw it from his view, you'd understand why he never mentioned of my existance!" The three friends looked at her with widening eyes, "And just to confirm it, your friend has a second daughter he didn't want to burden your minds about!" "James, you have two daughters?!" Lance asked with a large dose of shock, "I thought only Paula was your only daughter." "I'll explain it to you myself when this is over and passed!" Sandra replied in her father's place.

Sandra suddenly felt about hard thought whack her mentally. "Where is Paula?!" she chirped. "Um..." James was about to respond, when Sandra heard a sound from in the sewers. Who could that be? Nebiroth isn't big enough to walk through the sewers, or is he? Suddenly, she felt the presense of someone else using magic: searching runes. "Someone using search magic? It must be another unfrozen person!" she ran back into the small hallway behind the shelf, spotting an equally shocked Glenn, who had followed her in regard for her safety by using a magical rune to follow her footsteps. When he saw Sandra he realized, This must be the girl, and that looks like Polestars' kitchen behind her!...

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Nebiroth was soon off on his journey to find Sandra, with Bob sitting on one of this shoulders, and Zac floating behind him. The journey Nebiroth was embarking on, he had expected it would be a long way to find his once-nemesis, however, he had little idea he would have a easy time. Nebiroth was now trudging up the road towards the Preschool and it's intersection, thinking The Pink one could be anywhere around here. She could've even found a way around me while I was fighting Smidgen. I have no doubt she knows I'm here. I don't know why I do, but I just do. By this time, he had reached the preschool, and actually took notice of the broken down door this time. He hadn't even paid it any attention because of him being hungry. That very thought made his stomach growl, literally. The face on his stomach growled in an annoying high pitch. Nebiroth whined silently. Now his other face was going to blab until it was shut up by more food. The face on his stomach had a life of it's own when he was hungry. He didn't know why, but the same thing had applied to Austarouto as well. "Hungry! Hungry! Hungry!" the small face on his stomach in fact began to chirp. "Argh! Stupid stomach! Quiet!" Nebiroth growled at his lower face. "Hungry! Want FOOD!!!" the lower face whined in a high pitch, making Bob raise his eyebrows. Now I've seen everything about him! Bob thought to himself. Zac merely tried to ignore it.

Back in the Polestar house, some of the people had caught sound of Nebiroth's hunger problems, and were curious as to see what was going on outside, leaving Sandra to talk with Glenn in the middle of the sewer's hallway for a moment. "Hey, are you alright?" Glenn asked her, panting just a little. "I'm fine right now, unless Nebiroth finds me. But yes, I'm okay. Who are you?" Sandra asked him. "My name is Glenn. I followed you because I saw magic foot prints you and him left behind, and trailed you here. I was trying to find out about his wereabouts, but I felt your safety was more important at the moment." Sandra was a little wide-eyed. "You SAW him?!" "Yep. He was last helping his fight a creature called Smidgen. I edged out of the battle because Nebiroth had appeared, and I never knew anything about his origin, and I was kinda useless during the battle anyways, so I went off on my own, and then found out about you. I followed you all the way to the cliffs on Onett, the sewers, and to here. I didn't even know the sewers had secrets like this in them!" Glenn answered. "Nebiroth... helped you?" "SANDRA!!!" she suddenly heard her parents shriek, and then she got that very sick feeling... Nebiroth had found them. "CRAP!! He's found us!" she said, bolting to the source of the sound. "Wait, I think he's still on our..." she was out of Glenn's rage, "...side." He decided to keep watching her for now.

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Outside, Nebiroth held his throbbing ears, half-deafened by the screams of James and Penelope in addition to his stomach's face's cries of hunger. "Ow! No scream loud! Hurt Nebiroth's ears!" he then suddenly realized exact WHAT they had screamed, "You... know pink-haired brat?" James, Penelope, Terrance, Lance and Johnson only gaped at him, also taking notice of Zac behind him, and Bob still on his shoulder. It was then Sandra, closely followed by Glenn stepping out of the door, and both slayer of Sardius, and former head minion of Sardius once again stared at each other face to face. At first it looked like a stare-down contest between them, but they were brought out of it by a shrill sound, "FOOD!!!!" Nebiroth's high-pitched sounding second face again had cut into their stare-down. "Geeze, Nebi! Turn the volume down on that thing!" she growled at him, still thinking he wanted to rip her limb for limb, not know of his reform. Zac and Bob could only muse at the two accquaintaces and smirk a little...

[DrAndonuts gave me permission to bring Zac with him ahead of time. If anyone else wanted to follow Nebiroth, they still can, but I wanted to post at least once on this IF today, so it wouldn't drop down on the list. Sorry to those like GMOE, Speedy, Ffish, etc if I jumped the gun.]

[ June 14, 2002, 10:38 PM: Message edited by: Cecil ]
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
"Whoever isn't going with Nebiroth, Bob, or my brother, I suggest you come with me to my complex." Brett already started to head northeast into the dense forest seperating the Dusty Dunes Desert and Threed. Brett heard footsteps following him.

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Later

Zac, still smirking at the scene this big guy was making, started to think. Where are the Chosen Four? They should be unaffected by the field?] Also, he took notice of the intense staring contest between Nebiroth and the "pink-haired brat."

"Nebiroth, we need to go and find the Chosen Four. They could help us find a way to break the stasis field around the planet." Stopping for a moment, Zac began to concentrate. Searching for their still energies was going to be tough. An intense debate started over what should be done about the situation.

"QUIET!" Zac shouted. "Please... I'm trying to see if I can find Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo. I need silence." Everyone looked at Zac, not expecting him to shout. Again, Zac started to concentrate. Faintly, he started to pick up a signal. Due to its strength, he couldn't locate specifically where they were. "Somewhere... northwest, but fairly close..."

"That's right!" Penelope chimed in. "I remember Paula say that she and her friends were going to Burglin Park to celebrate one year of freedom from Giygas."

"What are we waiting for?!" Sandra shouted, already taking off for the park. Hang on sis, I'm on my way... Zac was right behind her, almost matching her speed.
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
Bob kicked back and relaxed. He held up a hand and began to ramble nonchalantly.

"Hey there lady. I think the big lug here isn't out to get you. He seems pretty nice to... me?"

Bob opened his eyes and looked at Sandra. The strange feeling he'd been having seemed to change a bit. His body started tingling. He really was beginning to doubt his health. Sandra looked up at him.

"Do you realize who this is? This is NEBIROTH! NEB IR OTH! He's a vicious monster from the Phantom Zone!"

"Me no mean no more. Me only hungry. Need food for tummy."

Bob sat there, staring down at Sandra. He didn't know what to do. He started to clutch his head.

Agh! What is this strange feeling that envelops me? Why is it that I must be at a loss to explain it?

It was as if he were burning up. He felt his heart rate skyrocketing. His blood was pumping faster than ever. Zac suddenly approached Bob with a strange look on his face.

"Hey, you okay over here?"

Bob grabbed Zac by the collar.

"TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME!!"

"Wrong?" questioned Zac. "You sure don't look like there's anything wrong with you."

"I feel so warm and tingly. And my heart feels like it's going to burst. It all started when I saw her."

Bob pointed at Sandra. Zac couldn't help but giggle. It broke out, and he began outwardly laughing.

"Bob, you dog, you!" he joked.

"Are you," questioned Bob angrily, "trying to pick a fight by calling me a dog?"

Zac's face suddenly went blank.

"Uh, Bob? You ever heard of a little thing called 'love?'"

"... L... ove? What is this... love?"

Zac explained the whole thing as best as he could to Bob. Bob's face suddenly turned bright red and his muscles constricted. He fell off of Nebiroth's shoulder and several feet into the pavement. Sandra looked down at the lovestruck maniac.

"Wow, that looked like it hurt. You need any help getting up?"

Bob stood right up and dusted himself off, coughing up a few clots of blood and some dust.

"No, no... I'll... be... fine..."

He started turning red. It was all he could do. This love thing sure did confuse him.

"Oh, heh, I forgot to ask... What's... uh... your name?"

"My name is Sandra, and you are?"

"Happy Bob... the uh... the Homicidal... Maniac."

"Homicidal!?"

"Nonono... uh... not always. I tend to... be nicer... anymore..."

Sandra just didn't get this guy. A homicidal maniac who is turning red and stuttering while talking to her. Oh well, she'd seen stranger, most of which during her stay in the Phantom Zone.

EDIT: Ugh, I hate it when someone posts while I'm writing...

[ June 15, 2002, 12:20 AM: Message edited by: Zero X. Diamond ]
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Sandra, a little spooked to be truthful about Bob for the time, decided to let bygones be bygones, as she ran. She had planned to help regardless anyways of what her parents thought. She knew they have let her anyways. Behind Sandra and Zac, trudged Nebiroth, with Bobon his shoulder again. His stomach's face still screaming "FOOD!!" every 20 seconds or so. Also, Glenn, James, Penelope, Terrance, Lance and Johnson slowly and cautiously followed the large being, still nervous around a being as such, especially since he had called Sandra a "pink-haired brat". Bob was still trying to think well of love and the way it worked.

In the park, Sandra spotted a teak-jerking sight[to her at least]: Ness, Paula, Jeff and Poo were all lying on the ground, frozen in place, looking as if they were staring towards the sky. By the look on Jeff's face, he looked confused about something. Paula's mouth had been open as if she had been talking when frozen, and Poo and Ness had been look up as well with half-wide eyes. Sandra recognized her sister perfectly, and noticed a slight air of change around her sister since last seeing her. She was a lot braver than in their young years from the expression on her face. She still wears a similar wardrobe compared to childhood, and she still has the cute little ribbon she always wears. She then glanced at the others briefly. First Ness: his appearance made him look like a Minor-League baseball player, and he seemed to sport that odd air of a hero's as well. She looked at her dad and asked him, "Who exactly are these three friends of Paula's anyways?"

Penelope decided to be the one to explain briefly, starting with the meteorite landing in Onett, and then Paula's dream about him and Giygas, her kidnapping at the hands of the happy-happyests, Everdred giving them the money for the Runaway 5 show in Twoson, their journey to Threed, Paula's call to Jeff, Jeff's trek through Winters to free her and Ness. Jeff joining them and defeating Barf and meeting the Mr. Saturn tribes, and then the Dusty Dunes and Fourside, Paula's second kidnapping by the Dept. Store Spook, Moonside, Paula's second rescue, Summers, Poo's arrival into the group, Scaraba and the Pyramids, the Hawk Eye, the Stonehenge base, Lumine Hall, the Lost Underworld, the Fire Spring, Ness's experience in Magicant, then the trip into the past, and the battle with Giygas.

Sandra then understood for the time about them, and decided to examine them before unfreezing them immedately. She decided she'd start with Jeff, and cast Dispel on him. Jeff became unfrozen shortly after, but the aftereffects of the time freeze caused him to pass out momentarily. She then unfroze Poo, and then Ness, and then finally Paula, saving her sister for last, in case she recognized Sandra, not wanting to forget unfreezing the other had she been the first. However, like Jeff, they all passed out for a short time from the aftereffects. Sandra picked Paula and Jeff up, and put them over her shoulders, asking Zac and Glenn to grab Ness and Poo to carry them with her back to Polestar. On the way back, she noticed Nebiroth watching her with an odd glare. She stopped for a moment and asked, "Why haven't you tried to kill me yet, anyways?" "Long story, pink-haired one. Need to return to house. Nebiroth explain all to you when we get there and other friends and pink-haired one's sister awake." the monster replied, his tone devoid of anger, which had Sandra really spooked. The Nebiroth she knew wanted to rip her apart to avenge Sardius and Austorouto.

[bleh, the following may be VERY long because of back stories of various ACs. You've been warned -_-; Sorry ahead of time, all.]

Back in the Polestar house, everyone was gather up in the den, Nebiroth had been given some frozen food out of the freezer[he had to eat it that way since the stove was frozen], and the chosen four were asleep in various beds, still not awake from the unfreezing, Paula in her own, and Poo on the floor since he was indifferent to it for some reason. "Alright Nebiroth, please explain your actions, and how did you get here?" Sandra asked as calmly as she could for talking to the head minion of the late Sardius. "Nebiroth talk to pink-haired one's mind. Easier to explain." he said, opening a telepathic link into her mind. /Pink haired one, Sandra. You hearing me fine?/ \Yeah, perfect.\ Sandra replied. /To answer how I got here: do you remember the wizard that would constantly pop out of various places in the Phantom Zone?/ Sandra did remember the blue-clad, mustached wizard Nebiroth spoke of. He had tried to turn Sandra into various creatures many times as a trap set for her, but she always managed to knock him away or avoid his spell blasts if too far to attack him. \How does he have anything to do with it though?\ /The Wizard was once a mage from the Bourdon Towers, where you traveled to as a younger girl it seems. Like the mages that opened the gate you came though, he could do similar. He was able to lock onto faint traces of your aura from the time you came to the Phantom Zone 1 year ago, and from them, he was able open a gate for me to follow you through. As for my reform: it is a long story, you see, when I came to this world, I went a different way than you it seems, and I ran into some of the other guys here, and a monster called Smidgen. It attempted for an odd reason to swallow me, but I was appearently too big for him, and I gave it a hard time, and with the help of my new friends here, as well as a new techinque of mine I had been originally saving for you, we destroyed Smidgen, and I learned that Sardius was a big FAT LIAR! Nebiroth ended that thought on a loud note. \What do you mean by a "a big fat liar"?\ /Sardius told me, Austorouto, Freon, Hydra, Mongoliow, Branclera, and Cockatrice that humans were disgusting, arrogant beings, that they had no regard for anyone, even themselves. But until you arrived, none of us except Cockatrice had seen humans, so we had to believe him. Austorouto also told me that he thanks you for freeing his soul from slavery of Sardius, and for destroying him, and now I no longer want to avenge Sardius because of which, and as for Austorouto, he told me that you could keep his cape. I am still curious to know if you've changed in style at all, but a spar between us will have to wait until this is over. Listen to these words carefully, Sandra. The time anomoly is appearantly being caused by aliens from space, and shooting a red beam, which seems to be the time ray causing this all. They are the ones who probably sent Smidgen, as to make sure anyone unaffected was destroyed. I fear they know of my existance now, but... they may not know about you, unless they can also scan for people recently freed from the freeze, and then you may be in immediate danger./ \So, are you going to stay here on Earth?\ Sandra mentally asked him an important question. /Austorouto told me that the Phantom Zone's time has passed, and that I am the last of a Legacy of the original beings of the Phantom Zone. Likely this will be my home from this point on./ \Thanks for telling me.\ Sandra said.

They decided to talk vocally again, "I guess you were right, Bob. It seems Nebiroth has turned over. Sardius lied to him about humans, and that's way he and his friends fought me. They had attacked the world of Santranus I had lived on during my 10 year disappearance. The Phantom Zone used to be a mobile world under the command of Sardius, that would dock itself outside of unsuspecting worlds, and connect one of it's gates at the Crucible of Flames in their own world, to a cave or gate on the victim world, usually somewhere in the middle of the ocean, where defenders of the victim world were helpless to reach. I ventured there because a few lower demons had attacked the village of magic where I got my elementary magic spells, and murdered some of the magicians. It angered me, and I soon learned of the Phantom Zone, so my friend Carnes and I traveled to the ocean-side gate, but he wasn't strong enough to continue in with me, so I was by myself the whole trip through the Phantom Zone. I met Hydra, Freon and Austarouto and destroyed them all because they had still been evil then, and then I fought Nebiroth outside the inner sanctum of Sardius himself, and appearantly he had staged his death." "No. Was not real Nebiroth." Nebiroth grunted softly, a bit embarrased. "Was fake Nebiroth. Nebiroth was mad from death of Austorouto, and made fake self to lure off guard." "Then why didn't you attack me after I destroyed your fake and went for Sardius?" "Nebiroth still ask that question to this day." he answered sadly, "Maybe good side quickly took over for the time." "You can make fakes of yourself as well?" asked Zac. "Actually, Wizard made fake. Nebiroth requested wizard to make fake." "Ah."

At this time, the chosen were now beginning to wake up. Jeff was oddly enough the first to awaken. He found himself staring into a room full of people, including a large monster that could barely fit the room. "Um.... hello everyone?" he said in a nervous voice. He then saw Sandra. She looked oddly familar, but he shrugged it off. "What's been happening?" "You were frozen in time, that's what been happening!" Bob stated to him. "Yeah. A lot has gone on lately Jeff." Penelope stated to Jeff. Paula herself was second to wake up, she found herself in her bed. She could've sworn she was in the park staring at some large red thing. She saw her parents and a few of the others outside her room, but she had not just yet seen her lost sibling. "Hello, what's going on here?" she spoke, getting the attention of most of them, including Sandra. Sandra decided the time had come to reunite with her lost sister. Walking into the door, almost casually she said, "Hey there, ocean-eyes." she called Paula by an old childhood nickname of hers. Sandra had her own nickname, Sandy, which Paula had given to her. Paula looked blankly at her sister, for what she thought was an eternity. It was all coming back to her like a rush: the Serpents, their disbanding at Paula's hands after Sandra's disappearence, the incident with Wren the two had as 3 year olds where Sandra had stood up for her and all the other kids, the playpen event when they were two, and then their own birth, when they learned of their telepathic bond. \\Sa... Sandra?!\\ She attempted a telepathic message to her though that very bond, forming tears. \Yes, ocean-eyes, it's little Sandy.\ Sandra gave her a ^_^ look in the physical plane. Paula gaped in shock, and then ran up and grabbed Sandra in a bear hug, or least as much of one Paula could do, crying her eyes out. Sandra also formed tears and cried the same, hugging back. James and Penelope looked back at their reunited daughters happily, and Jeff, who didn't yet know about them being family, just looked on with an befuddled expression on his face... "Um, did I miss something?" he said. "Just two sisters reuniting." Bob put it calmly. Jeff's eyes went wide as saucers now, realizing the facial complexions and frames of Paula and Sandra were identical, even if their hair and eyes weren't. Poo was now slowly lifting off the floor. He hadn't even known of anything that had happened, dozing off before the time freeze occured, so he was totally confused to say the least. Ness was also awakening at the same time, and remembered talked to Paula and Jeff about a red star-like object in the sky. He then took notice of the bawling Paula and Sandra still bear-hugging each other like mad, in a moment that felt to both like an eternal tourture to wait for...

[whew, done for now. Zero, just so you know, the Phantom Zone is different from Santranus, but thanks for the 'love' part of your last post, although I wasn't expecting it from you either. I hope I can handle this well, since Sandra may not fall in love with anyone in this IF. Sorry -_-]
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
[ugh, says I. Ugh. Didn't have the slightest clue about the difference thing, sorry. As for the rest, quite all right, understood.]

Bob started pondering his "feelings" some more. "Feelings" were something he had never felt before this day. Especially that of "love." Seeing as how his parents were abusive drunks, you can't really blame him. At the same time, he was rolling several other ideas around in his head.

Who are these other four people? Are they the ones I hear saved the world from some fireball... thing? And why do I find myself so attracted to her?

At the same time, Ness was rolling a few thoughts around in his head.

How did I get here? What was that red star in the sky? Who is that girl Paula seems to know so well? Why is that creepy guy over there staring at me?

Bob's stare didn't land on Ness much longer. Once again his gaze was drawn by Sandra. He couldn't keep his eyes off her. She was like a dream to him. Something infinitely beautiful that he just couldn't reach out and touch.

By now, Poo had managed to sneak up behind him.

"Excuse me, kind sir?"

Bob leapt up from where he sat, startled by the foreign voice. A knife simply shot into Bob's hand and he turned to attack. Poo shielded himself with his arms.

"No! Don't do it! I just was wondering if you could tell me what's going on!"

Bob's eyebrow lifted and his knife disappeared back into his pocket.

"Oh, yeah, that. You see, some alien... thing... kinda froze all the world in time. Some people managed to escape from the freeze. Like me. So we're trying to fix everything, I guess."

Poo ran it through his mind, then his expression turned grim.

"Then the prophecy is finally being fulfilled..."

"Prophecy?" questioned Ness, who was now nearby as well. "What prophecy?"

"Well, it is ancient legend of my people that one day, a great red star would come and stop the world. The legend says, fortunately, there would be a few brave heroes who would escape the red star's evil and save the planet."

"Intriguing!" added Jeff, who also had snuck over near the rest.

"Now only one question remains..." said Poo. "Who the heck are you?"

Bob laughed.

"Who am I? WHO AM I!? Why I'm Hap- erm... Bob Reginald the Second. But I call me Happy Bob the Homicidal Maniac. Pleased to meet you."

Bob shook the three boys' hands.

"Now, if you can excuse me, I've got a lot of thinking to do..." he said, getting back to staring at Sandra's infinite beauty.

"What... about the other girl?" asked Ness, rather confused.

Bob got a little hot around the collar. He couldn't STAND a common reference to something he loved. He picked Ness up by the collar. (That's twice, ladies and gents! Let's keep track of how many times he uses THIS cliche... v.v)

"Listen here, punk. She ain't just a girl, she's a beautiful girl." Pulling out his knife and locating it beneath Ness's throat, he added, "You got that?"

Ness swallowed hard, drawing in nothing but dry air.

"Uh... yeah! Yes sir, yeah man! Just don't hurt me!"

"That's what I thought..." grumbled Bob, returning once more to his deep thoughts.
 

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Posted by Happy Noodle Boy (Member # 350) on :
 
"Hello, everybody!" shouted WereGrowlithmon.

Ness looked at the 7-foot-tall beast. He pulled out his Gutsy Bat without thinking.

"Whoa! Whoa!" said WereGrowlithmon. "You don't recognize me?"

"No," said Ness.

"Then maybe this will jog your memory!" said WereGrowlithmon, as he started glow. When the light faded, Canemon and David were standing where WereGrowlithmon were.

"Davey-boy!" shouted Ness in joy.

"Nessy!" shouted Dave. The two buddied embraced, while Happy Bob gave the 15-year old Dave an odd glance, as did most everyone else. "What?" responded Dave. "Can't a guy give his best friend a hug?"

Everyone continued to look at him strangely.
~~~~~~~~The Nomad (as someone has dubbed it)~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Sir!" shouted the lead scientist. "ChaosDukemon is complete!"

"What do ya' mean, complete?" shouted a gruff voice that followed the scientist. "I was perfection from the beginning! Now, where are these beasts that you constantly refer to?"

"Patience, my dark knight," said the captain. "Patience. I'll brief you on your mission. We are on a quest to… er… secure this planet of its treasures. To prevent resistance, we have put the creatures of this planet in stasis lock."

"In English," said ChaosDukemon.

"We froze them stiff," said the chief scientist.

"Anyhow," saod the captain, "for many reasons, some of the creatures were unaffected by the stasis field."

"And I assume you want me to," said ChaosDukemon, "take them out?"

"That's the main part of your mission," said the captain.

"But we have detected that there are other Digimon on the surface of the planet," said the scientist, handing ChaosDukemon a strange-looking raygun. "We want you to use this device to scan their data, so we can copy and alter them into allies."

"Sounds simple enough," said ChaosDukemon. "I'll make sure those rebels get the receiving end of my Dark Lancer and Shield of Destuction attacks!"

And with that, ChaosDukemon left the station.
~~~~~Polestar Preschool~~~~~
"Well, buddy," said Dave, "it's good to have you back."

"Yeah," said Ness. "It was weird. One minute, I'm looking at a red star, the next I'm here!"

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*

"What was that?" said Jeff.

"It sounded like it came from Fourside!" said Happy Bob.

(Guess who it is? Yep. ChaosDukemon has landed!)

[ June 15, 2002, 12:07 PM: Message edited by: Happy Noodle Boy ]
 

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Posted by PikaBot (Member # 270) on :
 
The Arconas Shuddered under the return fire from the Nomad As they strafed them, but the shields held.

"Damage Report!" Called Adure.

"Shields held. We have small holes around sector 45 and sector 32, and a hull breach in sector 50. Repair crews have been dispatched." Called Shin.

"How about them?" Called Adure.

"Their shields were already down, and they've got numerous small hull breaches."

"All right, people!" he shouted. "Lets do it again! Helmsman, take us on an ark under their vessel. Bearing 130398, arc radius 23, 3/4 throttle."

"Aye Aye, sir!" The helmsman set his course fearlessly. The headed straight on course until Hir'Chin spoke up.

"Sir, that course will send us running right into the enemy vessel!"

"I know. Watch and learn."

The Nomad Fired off a set of missiles at them. Adure simply gave one command:

"Fire."

A hail of laser bolts converged on the missiles. they detonated, and the shockwave rocked both ships and blinded sensors for a moment. As the light faded on sensors, Adure was greeted with the sight of a large cannon at the front of the ship swiveling to attack them.

"Evasive!" He shuted, but the cannon was already firing. A large red beam shot from the cannon towards his ship. The helmsman jerked the ship out of the way at the last second. A red glow surrounded a part of the ship that was clipped. A communication came through.

"This is Gregory in engineering. That blast froze everyone else!Everyone's standing around, not doing anything! I dont know why I'm still moving, but-"

Adure gritted his teeth as he cut the transmission. The stakes had just been raised considerably...
 

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Posted by PlasmaPenguin (Member # 284) on :
 
Bad internet! It wouldn't work! I'm back!
(P.S. Dukemon is the japanese name for Gallantmon. I'll call him ChaosGallantmon.)

WarriorNacemon was flying after WereGrowlithmon and saw them in Polestar Preschool. He dove down and de-biomerged.

"There you are! Somethings wrong!" Johnny shouted.

"What are you talking about? The Four are unfrozen-we can take on anyone!" Dave told him.

"No...he's right! I sense an evil digimon!" Canemon called.

"So that's what we heard! Great!" Dave yelled.

"Well, we know what to do!" Nappamon said.

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Digimodify!
Omega Heal Activate!

With that, Omedramon's wings were healed.

"That worked!" Ness cried. Banana Kid decided to check out a digivice to see how digimodifying works.

"If I change the wave frequency, i may be able to make the effects work on humans..."
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
DWGM was speeding off towards Dalaam at an alarming speed. He had been growing more and more powerful, due to the radiation coming from the Sanctuaries he'd been visiting. Without a Sound Stone, his body was absorbing power from them. He was now truly a force to be wreckoned with.

"Hmm, what's this? I feel something coming towards me. Something weak... It's that Omedramon guy!"

Surely enough, with his health restored, Omedramon was going to try a head on assault.

"You won't get away this time, DoomWereGrowlithmon!"

"Oh, I see, you're going to try and stop me. Well the spider has become the fly! Time to say goodnight!"

A single swipe sent Omedramon face first into the street of Fourside. Once again, his wings were mutilated and bloody. Pain wracked his digital body. DWGM flew off out of sight, presumably still on his path to Dalaam.

Banana Kid had by now produced a small item for use on humans. He decided now would be a good time for a test. The device shook wildly, like a washing machine at the cleaners. However, it soon sputtered, coughed and exploded in his face.

"Well, looks like this is going to be impossible..."
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Nole was shocked the say the least as he viewed the memories. From the start he could tell the girl wasn't by any means normal. The first memories he saw were through her eyes as she seemed to climb some odd tower filled with the ghosts of magicians of times past. The memories were devoid of sound, so he couldn't hear her or any of the beings she encountered, but visuals were nonetheless helping out in what he was seeing. Soon he saw a large being that looked like an abomination of a large werewolf-like creature with biological arms, but also ghostly, like a spirit. This being appearantly was named Number 87, a guardian of the tower, by the way he mouthed his words in the view he had. The girl and the being fought for a small time, ending with her the victor, and appearently, she had been taught news powers by her experiences. Soon, the girl's memories showed her fighting two more beings in different parts of the power, but each looked and fought different from the first. The girl had been knocked out once in the second battle, but restored to consciousness seconds later, as if she had a guardian angel or so. Nole recalled some of the spells the monsters had used on her, and some of the one she herself used. It was as if the girl and her foes knew magic on a well known basis.

Another memory of hers included of an elf from another world arriving in her backyard and talking to her for a short while about some odd myth. He wasn't able to discipher many of the elf's words. He had probably his own unique ways of mentioning stuff to the girl. That wasn't much of an important memory, except through it he learned the girl had only been 9 at the time since she had looked in a mirror at herself on one of those mornings to freshen up, which was a remarkable age for a girl to know such a destructive amount of magic.

Another set of memories included her, another boy, his two sisters, his father and mother, and his pet spider being asked by a group to do something, and then they had moved to some new village near the same towers the girl had been to in the previous memories. About 4 months more of memories that revealed a little more about the girl's average life, including that she even had a rival in those days, a green haired kid with a real attitude, who believed he had more powerful abilities than the girl and the other boy she lived with. Somehow, Nole knew the girl wasn't in her real family for some reason, and that these were merely her adopted family.

Other memories include that one day she went into the forests near her village and found the boy she lived with pale and dead, as if he had been thrown through a tree. Then a snake-man had appeared, gesturing to the boy's boy, and smarting off about doing the same thing to her. Nole was shocked as she had in a flash gotten in the thing's face, and rammed her fist through his body and out his back, and then freezing the being in place with ice and shattering it. Nole had then seen her find two other monsters and screaming at them, appearantly about the slain boy. They had talked with her for a while, and then in a show of surprise for Nole, joined her, and returned to the village, and meeting up with her rival, who also in surprise joined him after learning of the other boy's death. They also showed the four going to some castle a few miles off shores, and countless fights with legions on supernatural beings, undead creatures and the like, as well as their fights against countless castle guardians, and some of them giving their powers to her, and the girl's encounter with the ghost of another girl in the castle's library, and also the battle against a powerful man at the end of it all who almost destroyed her, the boy and one of the other monsters with a surprise attack from above. They had been pushed out of the way and saved by the other monster who in turn gave up his own life. Nole was then in awe at her, the boy and the surviving monster as in rage they had casted a combo of spells including a blue dome of elementless energy, a plethora of meteors, and a swarm of blasts from the monster's trident that did the attacking man in, and destroying the entire tower where the fight had occured.

More memories led up to 1 year later. Through them Nole learned of her battles with large red and furry demons called the "Red Guard" as they mouthed it in the visions. She had also defeated them after they had murdered a few inhabitants in a village, and one of them blurted something about the "Phantom Zone", which caused Nole to get suspiscious again. The girl and her former rival then took a ship to a large coral reef miles off shore and get attacked by both a large bird and a large banacle/sponge creature. After their defeats, the rival told the girl something to the effect of staying behind, and that she would have to go on alone, and then she ran through a portal in the face of the reef, and into a world with fire and brimstone castle ruins. Nole recogized the two monsters they fought from Nebiroth's visions, and realized this was the point where his and the girl's fates interwined.

He watched furtherly on the girl's treks through the strange new world: towers of fire, the large worm-like being in Nebiroth's memories, a group of caves that seemed composed of skin and living tissue, the large three-headed beast from Chaos' defeat and Nebiroth's visions, and how it's ghost spoke to the girl and became a light that went to her after it's defeat. This was likely how he was able to be used the way he had against ChaosGallentmon. Summoning. She could summon creatures to fight. More memories included a forest frozen over, large ice walls, a giant ice beast that attacked the girl with detachable ice claws, and had also given her his powers after his defeat. More memories: a large castle hall, Nebiroth's friend, and his death at the hands of the girl and her first use of the three headed-beast's summon, proving his theory she could summon. Battles in a large tower, another fight against a clone of Nebiroth's friend, and then Nebiroth himself, or as he truthfully knew from Nebi's own memories, the fake of Nebiroth, and then finally, their master: the large blue skinned king demon, known as "Sardius" from the wording of his lips. A large battle had ensued, and the girl had finally managed to send the large king into a crumpled heap on the floor, defeating him, or so she at first thought, as the huge room-sized being suddenly metamorphed himself into a smaller, two-headed Kelbeross with blue skin, blue fur, and faces on both sides of his stomach. The "new" Sardius was merciless, and seemed as potent in magic as the girl, seemingly more, as he had managed to cast three instances of the blue-dome spell and knock her out. Nole at first wondered how she could've survived that. Because of there being no sound, he was unable to hear a vital part of her memories, and of exactly why she got back up minutes later, appearantly much stronger than prior, now using a bluish barrier to block and repel many of the demon king's attacks, and retaliate with her own, as well as use a move Nole didn't understand very well from seeing it. She then charged at the smaller Sardius, and tricked him, and then about crushed him in a bear hug. She then slowly floated up above the ground, squeezing Sardius against her for all she was worth, and Nole's view of her memories was blinded by a massive blue flash that only very slowly diminished and showed nothing left of Sardius. The girl had then blacked out and then later awoke again, returning to her own world, and out of the strange demon world.

The last memories show a group of wizards showing her a portal that ended up sending her to Earth, and into a small clearing, and the memories of finding her Earth frozen, and the memory book and photo of her family that she took with her, and of the installation in Onett where she had found her Dad and one of their own spies, and of all the other memories left from then and up to this current point.

Nole's head was spinning from this. He was marvelled by these two: a girl, and large demonoid, who had at first seemed like ironic coinsidences in the game of their life, but now it seemed more certain that they had came to stop them. He had to find a way to STOP THEM. Or in the very least, keep them out of the way. Nole had also gained a powerful feeling at that point. He had a sense of admiration for this girl, one that began to do odd things to his body habits. He was now all nervous and sweaty, and with a slightly beating heart. "Oh my dear creator... no... I'm falling in love with my enemy!! This is insane!!"

Nole left the room, to both go to work on improving his weapon using the data from Sandra's memories, and to get a refreshing drink, maybe to try and quench his thrist of his newfound love for her...
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
Nole's quivering hand soon met with a minibar door. It soon opened after applying a great amount of force. He quickly reached for the nearest beverage, which happened to be a bottle of jynnan tonnyx. He popped the bottle top off and poured it into a glass. The nervous shaking caused most of it to end up in his lap, but he didn't seem to notice at the moment.

"What... is this... tremendous feeling? Overcoming... rational... thought!"

He decided he'd sit down for a while and try to sort things out.

Meanwhile, Bob was having quite a time on his motorcycle, following Zac and his party. Without warning, something hard zipped into his face. Something small and hard. He thought it to most likely be an insect. And this wasn't far from the truth. Rather, it was a small metal bug used for one thing only: discovering the truth about enemies from their past. A memory scanner.

Nole suddenly jolted up from where he sat. What remained of his jynnan tonnyx ended up all over his pants.

"What? Another memory is being scanned already? Hmm... the information screen says the guy's name is Bob Reginald... Well, let's see what his memory says..."

The memory screen lit up shortly, and began to display many garbled colors distorted around images of small objects. It was then quickly replaced by the image of a knife, then a red flash, then blood streaming down the walls of a small room. Then, a small, dark enclosure was seen.

It was a seedy, cockroach ridden room. The young Bob got up and looked in a pile of broken alcohol bottles, attempting to see his face. He swiped a cockroach off of his suit and looked again. At this point, it was hard to read his lips, but it appeared he was babbling something about cheese, killing, dead parents (of course mentioning drunk dad and mom the butterfingers) and getting out and seeing the world.

With that, Bob opened the door of the seedy room and walked down the hallway. Outside of the door were several knife marks and small insects. A few puke stains were evident, most likely from a drunken father. Bob simply walked away after copying down the number of notches scraped into the door.

From that point on, Bob travelled the world. He took up residence in many places during the Giygas War. At one point, a strange, evil statue managed to give him enough stability to seize control of Fourside from Geldegarde Monotoli for a short period of time. He also took note of his tremendous way of getting hastily from place to place by simply drifting.

Then came some images of another seedy place. On a couch sat a pale white girl dressed in all black. He drew closer to her, and it seemed they began talking. This event occured several more times. She made one last appearance.

This time, however, had a less attractive end. Her expression turned to one of great horror. Bob turned around, and several armed men in suits were in the doorway. Thinking quickly, he leapt over the couch. Brains and blood suddenly splattered the wall in front of him. She had been shot in the head.

Out the window he fled, taking a bullet in the back. He landed in a dumpster a story below. A trail of blood haunted him until finally he took off his suit and tied it around his shoulder. And that was the end of his suit.

Later, many terrible, graphic images played themselves out before Nole's eyes. Several times he felt as though he might vomit profusely. Other times he was simply puzzled by Bob's obcessions, such as shiny objects and a transmitted moving picture show known as "The Dukes of Haazard." In which, two men, presumably southerners, drove around at high speeds in an orange car with an oddly marked flag drawn on it, occasionally chased by a fat man in a cowboy hat in a car equipped with a siren and shining lights.

Nole never did understand such obcessions. Moving picture shows never did seem to be anything that amazing back home.

Much more insanity followed. It made Nole's head ache with the pain of a thousand stabbings. He couldn't take it. The raw insanity was astounding. Finally, just as he was about to turn it off, she appeared. His attention quickly returned.

He didn't understand it. Why would he feel so strange all of a sudden? It was as though he were falling into a state of loving towards her person. But how? She was the enemy, and he knew it!

The memories ended with Bob's hand swiftly moving upwards at his head. After that, a simple 16 color test pattern appeared on the screen. Nole rolled Bob's memories around inside his head.

"This is quite interesting... the boy is clearly unstable. He shows interest in the one they call Sandra. And surely I've noticed the acts of strength he is capable of when he appears to be under extreme mental displeasure... This could serve as a problem..."

Back on Earth, Bob was wiping his hand on his pants.

"Yuck, I got black, slippery bug guts all over my hand!"

And somewhere far away, DWGM was approaching a huge mountain. Atop it were many oddly dressed people and a palace. Apparently, this was Dalaam, home of the next sanctuary.

Yet another part of the world revealed a severely injured digimon, climbing out of a hole in the pavement, wings bloody and mutilated. Along with him came Ness, Johnny, Dave and the Banana Kid. They couldn't help but notice that DWGM had become far more powerful.

And in yet another place was Sandra, Paula, Jeff, Poo, Mr. Everdred and Nebiroth. They were in the cold, cold country of Winters, on a visit to Jeff's father, Dr. Andonuts. Outside they had discovered the USA, but had failed to notice the half-filled pawprints leading to the cave of the Rainy Circle.

And in Onett was a pickpocket, running around the Onett Hotel. He had yet to steal everything, so he hadn't went outside. Thusly, he had no idea the whole planet was frozen in time.

Then there was space, in all it's vastness. Just outside the Earth's gravitational pull was the massive starship, the Nomad. Aboard was Captain Jamar, scientist Eric and mutinous scientist Nole, who was currently in a state of emotional distress. Also aboard were a few prisoners, them being Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Polestar and a courageous man named Adure, who had been betrayed by a turkey baster and trapped in a jynnan tonnyx bottle. Positioned nearby was a fleet of starships, led by a man named Boris.

The whole situation was complicated beyond belief. And yet here it was, stretching out even into the reaches of space. The fate of an entire planet was at stake. Only time would tell who would win the struggle. Only time would tell...

[ July 21, 2002, 09:45 PM: Message edited by: Zero X. Diamond ]
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
As Zac and his group rested from their search, the bug that Bob had a run-in with had repaired itself. Upon completion of this task, it flew up and found a new target: Zac.

Beep-beep-beep... The noise woke Nole from his sleep. "Wha..." He glanced at the screen the scanner was connected with. "A new host... I thought it was destroyed. Hmm... I guess I had a repairable program installed in it." The memories started to unfold before Nole.

The first memory shows Zac and Brett being dumped off by assumingly by their father at someone else's house. The rain thundered down from the sky, almost as if the area fell underneath a waterfall.

...Nole noticed a jump in memory. He took note that he saw Zac become sick and slowly slid towards death, all the while a four year old Brett worried that his only sibling might die.

Later, the two trained with their adoptive father in the martial arts. Nole admired how quickly the boys learned, how fast their strength grew. He noted that, together, Brett and Zac could topple almost any problem.

Only a few day ago, he witnessed the fight between Brett and Crypha, how easily Brett decided to sacrifice himself to save that world. What surprised Nole happened to be the strength increase in Zac as his anger rised over his brother's passing. The rebel knew of Zac's plan to revive Brett with the orbs they collected.

"Well, I know now not to anger Zac," Nole muttered to himself. "If, after I take the ship, try to take that world, I best take him out first, so as to not wake the beast within..."
 

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Posted by Greatest Mog On Earth (Member # 309) on :
 
GMOE sat down, concentrating his energy. He didn't need a training room to train. He just had to gather a greater amount of energy. He forced himself to do more energy. He had to keep going.

Then, just as he felt himself go to his limit a sharp pain passed over him, and it all dissipated.

"Ah, crap, I'm at my limit! I won't be able to go any higher for a while. Unless..."

He tried somehing different. He concentrated, and put his spirit into it. It worked.

"Oh yeah, who wants to mess with me now?"

GMOE sat down, put his spirit in it, and concentrated a different way. he was hit hard, and then seemed to be floating he opened his eyes.

"AAAHH!!" he said, upon seeing his body still in the chair. He flew toward it, trying to re-enter. and it worked.

Once back in his body, GMOE blinked, and shook his head. He tried it again, and sure enough, his spirit rose out of his body, forming a ghost.

"I never knew I could do that!" He said, gleefully. He grinned and flew off. He was going to scare up some fun!

[ August 06, 2002, 03:07 PM: Message edited by: Greatest Mog On Earth ]
 

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Posted by PikaBot (Member # 270) on :
 
Adure was in trouble and he knew it. He was trapped in liquid form. If he had reverted to normal solid state, The pressure would kill him. If he turnd into a gas, he would be unable to do anything. There was only one thing to do. He began sloshing around inside the bottle. the bottle began to rock back and forth. Finally, it toppled from the shelf. It fell to the floor. But it didn`t crack. Adure swore.

Looks like I`ll have to do something else...
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
As the others rested, Bob had stumbled off into the nearby woods. He was oblivious to his surroundings, a far off look in his eyes. Bob was experiencing withdrawl. His eyes were completely white, as though he were a zombie. But he just trudged on along, not a care in the world.

Thud. Splash.

These two sounds were what preempted Bob's conversation with the swamp. He awoke, only feeling a throbbing pain in his foot. Quite obviously, he had tripped on some sort of large stonelike thing embedded in the forest floor. This, in turn, caused him to fall into the murky depths of the swamp, thusly making him meet reality in a rather rude awakening.

"AAAAAH!!! A STRANGE PLACE!!! MY FOOT HURTS!!! MY LEFT SHOE IS FULL OF SWAMP MUD!!! Ooooooh... shiny..."

Bob had been screaming and cursing until he noticed what he had tripped over. It was an amber color. In the center were six stars. Light reflected off and through it beautifully. He immediately pulled it (with considerable effort) from the ground and began stroking it.

"Aww, it's warm. Just like mom used to make. I think I'll call you... Mildred! I can't wait to show you to the others!"

Bob ran out of the woods as fast as he could. He began shouting for the others. Zac, who had just finished swatting a peculiarly silver bug from his forehead, came running. The two met with moderate force in mid-step. The amber ball flew straight up in the air and landed on Bob's stomach.

"Nng... Bob, you lunatic! What are you screaming about?!" shouted Zac.

"Look at what I found, Zac! It's shiny, and pretty and warm! I named it Mildred!"

Bob held up the treasures he had found. Zac was in awe.

"That's not just something shiny, pretty and warm! It's a Dragonball! YESSSSS! We're a step closer to wishing back Brett!"

"Mildred is a Dragonball? Aww, and I thought she'd be a perfect conversation piece..."

"... You know Bob, I can recommend a wonderful psychologist."

"I don't need a p-cycologist!"

"... Forget it."

Meanwhile, aboard the Nomad, trouble was brewing.

"What do you mean, Eric?" demanded Jamar.

"Well sir, we're extending the build time for our final weapon, whom we've codenamed Clyde-"

"Clyde? Who agreed on calling our most awesomest, powerfulest weapon CLYDE!?"

Eric smiled.

"Think back to Smidgen. Surprise, Captain! SURPRISE! But if it makes you any happier, his other top suggestion for a codename is Darkside."

"Okay, okay. So why are we extending the build time?"

"Well, with the discovery of these energy points on the Earth, we'll need more time to properly utilize them in Clyde."

"Very well. What about EvilOmedramon?"

"Well sir, we've been considering reducing him to his compoenents and utilizing him to improve upon Clyde."

"Yes..."

Jamar took this time to take a swig of a cold jynnan tonnyx. He felt refreshed.

"Yes, feel free. After all, we haven't used him yet."

Nole had by now returned to sweating and thinking of Sandra. She was fuzzing up his senses. Had she been Russian, had Nole been American, and had it been the 1950's, he'd probably have thought it to be a communist plot.

"Why? Why does she plague my thoughts so? Dulling my senses, making me sweat..."

Nole's quivering hand reached for a cold, jynnan tonnyx. He'd need to try calming down. Pulling himself together, Nole turned to the monitor. Nothing new. He tried to get to sleep. No dice. So he just resumed thinking of Sandra.

DWGM had by now reached his destination of Dalaam. The citizens were hiding in terror from the much larger, much stronger DWGM. But he wasn't interested in the locals. His only target was the cave on the lowest elevation of Dalaam. Before it stood a bunch of rabbit statues. One swipe took care of them.

The rest of his journey was pretty uneventful. A few Tangoo attacks proved useless against the mighty DoomWereGrowlithmon. Just as he was about to exit to the cloud, two booming voices echoed into the room.

"WHO DARES TO DESECRATE THE SACRED TEMPLE OF THE PINK CLOUD!?"

"I, DoomWereGrowlithmon!"

"YOU ARE NO MATCH FOR THE WRATH OF THUNDER AND STORM!"

With that, two intertwined shapes materialized, and blasted DWGM into a wall with a blast of lightning. That was what sparked the blazing conflict. It went on for hours, the two titans colliding. Finally, however, DWGM overpowered Thunder and Storm. They were forced to escape and allow DWGM passage to the cloud. He dropped a marker and moved on to the Deep Darkness, a dark, unknown land...
 

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Posted by PikaBot (Member # 270) on :
 
Adure began rolling the bottle towards the guard.

I might not be able to break open this bottle he thought to himself, But if this guard is as stupid as he looks...

Adure rolled until he bumped up against the guards foot. The guard looked down and picked the bottle up. Then he, looking furtively around, Opened the bottle.

Adure smiled inwardly.
 

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Posted by Banana Kid (Member # 1317) on :
 
Sorry, i can't ever remembver who has which db. But I probably know more about DBZ than you, so don't insult my idea for a new way to get power. I'm trying to think of a way to beat DWGM.

...Wait. Just had an idea. Heh. Great one. Heh. I'll show you later.

[ September 01, 2002, 04:38 PM: Message edited by: Banana Kid ]
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
(BK, you've done it again. First off, DWGM has the one star ball. Secondly, you don't seem to understand Dragonballs. You collect them and make a wish, not drain power from them. I'll put it much simpler.

DB - Power = NO WISHES
No Wishes = NO BRETT
EDIT: Wishes + DBs = DBs become useless and made of stone for a year.

You get it, right? Good.)

Bob and Zac were back on the road again, with renewed confidence. Suddenly, Bob's motorcycle stalled. He cursed loudly. Zac stopped and looked back.

"Hey Bob, what's the holdup?"

"Something's gummed up. Or something."

Unseen by Bob, a strange, colored mist was emerging from his tailpipe. Then it began taking a shape... It appeared to be that of a young woman. She extended her arms and threw them around Bob. He was immediately blasted with electricity.

"Hi Bob!"

"AAAH! THE SENSATIONAL BURNING!!!"

"You're funny. And so cute! I just couldn't keep away from you, Bob!"

"... *sigh* Well, I suppose we should continue moving then..."

With that, Bob, Zac and Crypha continued on, the future known by noone.

[ August 28, 2002, 07:31 PM: Message edited by: Zero X. Diamond ]
 

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Posted by PikaBot (Member # 270) on :
 
Adure, now dressed in the clothes of a guard, proceeded down the corridor. He saluted sharply to a lieutenant as they passed each other, but he saw no one else, which was good. He marched primly forwards, into the engine room. He knew that he couldn't take on the entire ship full of guards, but he could cripple the ship.He walked by the men manning the consoles, and into the maintenance hatch. He opened the hatch, then unslung the guard's rifle, set it on maximum dispersal, and fired.
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
"How's DWGM doing?" Jamar asked. Just as the scientist asked, an alarm sounded as well as attitude control was lost. "What's going on?!"

"Sir, somehow, the conduits routing the fuel to the engine have been severed. According to my panel, it appears a large energy burst is the cause."

"Someone get to the engine room now and fix this problem!"

As the guards and engineers rounded the corner to the engine room, they found a fried maintenance hatch, a rifle with no charge to it, and a crumpled uniform. Adure had returned to his liquid form and squeezed through a door leading to an escape pod. If I don't want to die, then I better get this pod off of the ship... Returning to his normal form, he punched in a few commands and the pod was severed from the ship.

As the pod drifted away from the ship, Adure saw the extensive damage to the hull from several bouts with starfighters, Nebiroth's beam, and other encounters. How is that ship still together? It should have fallen apart by now. As the pod entered the atmosphere, he saw the ship enter as well, deteriorating from the stress and friction.

"Everyone, to the escape pods!" Jamar annouced on the speaker. "The Nomad won't withstand the friction from the atmosphere!" Running into the lead scientist, he ordered, "Get your final project out and after them. At least get it off the ship!"

From Adure's vantage point, he knew the ship's life was soon to end. Some escape pods lauched and drifted from the mother ship before the ship finally exploded.

"That's that," Adure said to the deceased Nomand. Then, he saw a red light streak from the explosion. "What was that?" He followed the light towards a continent with four distinct cities. Adure adjusted the thrusters on the pod to chase after the mysterious light.
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
As the six-person group of Paula, Jeff, Poo, Sandra, Everdred and Nebiroth crept into the chillingly frozen lab of Dr. Andonuts, they were able to tell that the place had been quite busy. Bigfoot, Dr. Andonut's assistant cavemen, appeared to be frozen in place while chizeling a panel to repair a buggy IRM[Instant Revitalization Machine]. Dr. Andonuts himself was frozen in a more relaxed-looking position, but he was examing a door in the lab near where Jeff had found the old Sky Runner, examining it as if it were a new invention. Paula, remembering about the lab, recalled not seeing this door before and asked, "Jeff, when you'd get the new door?" "Oh, that?" Jeff responded and pointed to the door. "That will hopefully become one of me and my dad's breakthrough inventions. We call it the TransGate Door. We have found a way for Xenonyte to have more use than simply making people travel through time. It'll be a long project and I won't get into the details on it right now because it isn't even in Beta stages yet. Speaking of which, has anyone spotted my father yet?" asked Jeff. "Yes, Jeff. I spotted him right over at his desk!" Everdred answered for him, pointing over to the other side of the room where Dr. Andounts had appearently been Frozen in time while bending over to get something under his desk.

They quickly rushed over and examined.Dr. Andonuts, and the underbelly of the table, which had a strange note on the floor. Sandra decided to quickly use Dispel on Dr. Andounts, and after 2 uses, Dr. Andonuts was free, but since he was already hunched over, he didn't fall back like everyone else she had unfrozen with Dispel. Dr, Andounts looked up at Nebiroth, Paula, Sandra, Jeff, Poo and Everdred. "Wow! Hello Jeff, how are you doing? How was your picnic in Twoson. Waitasec... you left only 15 minutes ago, so how could you be done already." he then saw Sandra there, and Nebiroth, but not Ness. "Where's Ness, Jeff? And who's the new girl and monster-being?" "Dad, calm down a sec. A lot has happened within these '15 minutes'." Jeff explained, and they all went on to explain the Nomad, and the time freeze beam, and how a good 95%+ of the Earth was Frozen in time, and of how Sandra and Nebiroth had come to Twoson from a different world beyond the reaches of the stars, and a basic story of her relation to Paula, and then finally of Crypha, the Dragonballs, ChaosGallentmon, and finally Everdred in Scaraba. "Well, perhaps you made a good decision to unfreeze me then, Sandra. I might be able to make a counter beam, from the Ultra Stasis Array Jeff found outside of Stonehenge, as well as make a compacted form of the original USA. Everdred had been alerted at the mention of Dragonballs, and how they were shaped like orangish-amber sphere with stars in them. "Hey Paula, Jeff, Poo. You guys mentioned Dragonballs, right? Well, I believe I can help you on that." Everdred said, pulling two amber spheres out, one from each of the pockets in his shirt, one with 3 stars, the other with 4 stars in them. Sandra went bug-eyed, "Mr. Everdred! Where'd you find TWO dragonballs?" "Well, I first had read up on them, then tabloids said a rich amber ball of strange power was found in Onett, at Agerate's house. Drove a tough bargain for it, but after about $15,000 he gave it up to me, and then I got advice for a nearby Hint Man about them, and he mentioned one of them was in the land of the pyramids, meaning Scaraba had been the place. I had recently found the other ball in an oasis near the sphinx, and then when I returned to town to swipe a Snake Bag to do personal exploration of the pyramid itself, the beam hit and I got frozen." "Woah! This means we've hit pay dirt in our journey! I think we can probably return to the complex back in Threed." Paula suggested. "Good idea, Paula. Just let me gather a few things for the trip, and we should be out of here!" Dr. Andonuts replied, excited, while making his way upstairs. After 5-10 minutes of waiting, Dr. Andonuts came back downstairs with a suitcase filled with tools and special items he thought he'd need.

The newly growing group soon departed from the Lab. "Prepared for teleportation, everyone." Poo warned. Sandra decided to interupt. "Wait, Poo. Let me teleport us this time." "You can teleport?" Paula asked her twin sister. "Well, not in the way Poo teleports. Poo's teleportation method involves the people running faster and faster until they gain so much speed they lift off into the air and land at the destination. Mine allows me to whisk myself and anyone I want with me to a location I've been to. Since I've been to the complex, I can drop us all off right outside the complex." "Very well, Sandra, do your stuff!" Jeff said, Poo agreed, and then Paula as well. Nebiroth, Dr. A and Everdred were indifferent to it. Sandra then began chanting a little in a low whisper, and anyone watching the group from a distance would've been in for a shock as they all suddenly faded out of existance, only to refade into existance right outside the complex. Needless to say, anyone at the complex would've been in for a shock at this...

(argh, FINALLY I came back to this again. Somehow I got to involved with EB DooM and other things and almost forgot about Frozen, but I'm back for now. )
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
Zac, I believe there might be intruders at the complex. Zac's complex computer spoke via a direct mind link.

Before you take any action, identify them and report.

One moment... There are six individuals, four of which are registered in my databanks. One of the unknowns has white hair, glasses, and bears a striking resemblence to Jeff Andonuts, whom happens to be in the group. The other is unknown, wearing a tropical style shirt, sports a beard, and is wearing protective eyewear.

The two newcomers are fine. The white haired guy is Dr. Andonuts, Jeff's father. The other is a Mr. Everdred. Allow them access... but just keep a small watch on Everdred. I've heard he is known to steal small items every now and then. Dr. Andonuts I give full access to all science equipment, as I know doubt upon seeing the complex, he'll be in science heaven. We'll be back shortly.

"Guys, Sandra and her group are back at the complex. Let's head back."

"Sandra's back?!" Bob exclaimed. Whispering to himself, "My dear, I'll be there soon."

"What was that?" Crypha asked. An eyebrow was raised.

"N-nothing," Bob replied apprehensively.

"Oh Bob, you're so cute when you hide things from me!" She opened her arms, preparing for another hug.

"No! Anything but that!" Bob shouted, but in vain. "Aaaaaaahhh!" A surge of electricity flooded his body. Crypha only giggled.

Zac rolled his eyes. "Let's go. I'll use instant transmission."

"What a fascinating place!" Dr. Andonuts exclaimed upon entering the complex.

"I know," Jeff sighed. "It's even got a fully functional AI computer."

"Really?!"

"Yes, and Dr. Andonuts, you have been given full access to the science area of the complex from Zac. To get there, just follow the green lights along the wall."

"Extrodinary!" Dr. Andonuts adjusted his glasses in excitement. "If I may be excused..." A second later, he was gone to see the lab.

"Hi guys!" Zac shouted as his group rejoined Sandra's.

"How'd the hunt go?" she asked.

"We found two of them."

"As did we. Everdred found both of them, not knowing what they did."

"I assume that DWGM has the other three, so we have to find him and get the others. Then, then we can wish Brett back... Oh, sorry. Hey, where'd Dr. A go?"

Jeff jerked his thumb towards the lab. "He heard from your computer about the lab and got really excited. He had to go and check it out."

Zac laughed. "I see. Let's go and see if he might have any ideas."

"He has a few that might intrigue you."

The group picked up and trekked to the lab.
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
Outside of Earth's atmosphere, a few subtle beeps could be heard inside of a moderately sized space vessel. A bit of whirring and clicking commenced, and the lights came on.

Wake up, droned the computer. It's time to get up.

The Nomad's crew slowly began to awaken from the floor, realizing that they had been moved into the heavily armored control room of the ship. It was the only portion still in tact enough to sustain life inside of it. Many groaned, some needed medical attention from shrapnel wounds from the explosion, and still others were nearing death. At that moment, Jamar swiveled around in the Captain's chair.

"Men, this is a grave time indeed. Though we're still able to continue our experiment with the stasis ray, and we still have the Mass Destruction Cannon, we've lost most of our other projects. However, men, hope is not lost. We still have several Zigs left. Through them, we can recover most of our operations."

Eric whispered something in Jamar's ear.

"What!? Someone stole Zig #FH-351!?" he raged, smashing a recently finished glass of Pan Galactic Garglebuster in his hand. "Who could be so cunning as to elude our grasp!?"

"I believe it was prisoner #PC-54. It is our belief in the science department that he managed to escape from his bottle prison, stole a guard's clothing and escaped in #FH-351."

"Wretch! Well, no matter. Once we salvage the Darkside Project, our little friend Clyde will be able to retrieve Adure for us. Speaking of the science department..." Jamar glanced around the room. "Where is that incompitent Nole?"

Eric looked down.

"Alas, it would appear that Nole was lost in the explosion."

Jamar sighed.

"I always knew that boy's headstrong personality would get him killed... let us have a moment of silence in his memory."

But somewhere else near Earth, inside of a portion of the Nomad, a figure was looming.

"Argh, those fools! They should've been more careful to take evasive actions! Well, at least I've still got Olympus... once finished, he will be the ultimate force."

And a sinister laugh echoed through space...
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Soon after, Nole has ceased his bone-chilling laugh, and proceeded to inspect the remaining section of the ship he was on. He knew that if he stayed, he'd lose a lot of his supplies, possibly Olympus as well, so he went and began gather around his supplies, and floated off the ground he was standing on.

Strange thing was, Nole was of an unique race known as the Jarettins, a race who possessed a natural ability to survive in normally airless environments, like underwater, poisonous-gas chambers, or even the void of space itself. Thus Nole was unaffected by the lack of air in space, and he was also immune to most forms of poison. He cackled with glee, realizing that a lot of his "fellow" crewmates, including Jamar, did not have this blessing and were all probably frozen blocks of ice around the Earth now. Suddenly, he formed a scowl on his face. He remembered back to his rival scientist, Eric, a prized scientist of the late-Nomad, as well as the creator of the "Darkside" project, or as Eric liked to also call him, "Clyde". However, Eric was also of the Jarettin race, but he had lived in a much poorer part of the planet. Eric and Nole had few contacts with each other, and even then, seldom ever spoke to each other, as the first time they did almost resulted with the whole science bay of the Nomad completely destroyed from the battle that ensued from which, and thus ingiting Jamar's irritation at Nole's behavior.

"No doubt that fool has survived this explosion. He's of the same race as me, but he deserves to die! I've always lived it better than him, I should be the luckiest of us!" Nole began to think that because of Eric, most of the crew might have also been saved, even... even Jamar. He clenched his fist at Jamar and his "high-and mightiness" act, and even more at Eric and the Darkside project, so hard that his nails began to draw blood in his palm. He didn't care about that. He and Eric were also blessed with strong and durable bodies, thus tiny cuts and surface injuries, regardless of number, could do no more than hinder their performance a little. Jarettins didn't have the greatest combat ability, but it was hard for even mightier war races to inflict a fatal amount of damage to one due to their hardy skin and armor.

It was then he realized as he was now packing the final tools and the capsule containing the barely started on Olympus, and stared at it, "Even Olympus may not be enough to exterminate him. I must train myself. I must become like the races of war I once loathed." Olympus would still likely be a lot stronger than Nole, even after Nole had trained his best, but Olympus, if destroyed, might leave the defenders on Earth severely weakened, allowing Nole to inflict the finishing blows himself. A suitable backup plan.

By now, Nole had completely packed up Olympus into a special Zig that he had modified for his works, almost like a floating lab in space. The zig was many times bigger than the Zigs the rest of the crew owned. It had been once thought Jamar had once found and destroyed the Zig, since Nole had always had an odd air of malice around him, however Nole merely scoffed at Jamar's futile efforts as the captain had only blown away a prototype, where as the real one was within the bowels of the ship, near his personal lab, known only by him.

Nole was already crazy enough with Olympus, but soon, something conked him on the head that would fuel his crazy and half-warped mind to an even greater extreme. Rubbing his head and catching the offending object, it was revealed to be a glass bottle, a jynnan tonnyx bottle, half cracked, but not quite shattered. Nole was now sporting a very malicious smirk on his face, "Oh yes... I remember this... I heard about the one prisoner they caught from one of the starship attacks. Adure was his name. He surprised us with his ability to change his form into a liquid matter. This was the same bottle Piezo had helped Jared entrap him in." Piezo and Jared were actually two of the few crew members Nole had a shred of respect to, especially now, "This Adure thinks he's gotten away scot-free, has he? Wrong! No matter how good he thinks his powers to be, he forgot a very important lesson in science: DNA is always left behind whereever your body, regardless of form, touches. The DNA in this bottle with be superficial to the process of Olypmus, as with it, it'll soon have the power to change shape. In fact, it may be possible to enhance the DNA of Adures to make Olypmus even more potent with Adure's power than Adure himself, but I'll have to see what I can salvage from the wreck.

It took a few more minutes than Nole had been hoping for, but he had soon gather a few more seemingly useful tools, and gathered them into his ship. He looked down at the Earth, most of it still Frozen in time. He then in the distance noticed the beam was still active, confirming his suspicion. "No matter, the rest of the Nomad thinks I went boom in the destruction of the Nomad, but I will not make their mistakes!" he looked back to the ship and pulled out a remote controller, and pressed a button, causing a strange device in the cockpit of the ship to activate: a bomb, a special proximity bomb that would blow up and take out anything in a 4 mile radius if anyone attempted to 'grave rob' the remiants of the lab, and then, he pressed a button on the control panel of his Zig, and the Zig suddenly began to fade away into a state of high translucency. It was a feature all of the Nomad's zigs had, allowing them to breach the atmosphere of any planet and usually land without anyone nearby on the planet seeing them. It had contributed to their many attacks on the "rebels" they had fought in the past, and it would certainly help now. Nole mentally cackled to himself, as his Zig slowly, yet sure entered the Earth's atmosphere over a group of uncharted islands...

[ October 05, 2002, 01:59 PM: Message edited by: Cecil ]
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
"What are you doing, Dad?" Jeff asked his father as the group entered the lab.

"As I said earlier, I was going to work on making an Anti- USA to reverse the spell on the planet, once you guys get rid of the evil guys here."

"That's cool," Ness said. "Can you hold onto these for us?" The group handed over their collection of Dragon Balls.

"Of course, but what are they?"

"They're supposed to grant a couple of wishes to whomever brings together all seven."

"I see..." Dr. Andonuts mused. "Where are the other three?"

"In the hands of the enemy," Zac retorted. "Somehow, we need to find him." Zac paused. "Hey, could you find what frequency the balls work at and find where the other three are?"

"Fairly easily, yes," Dr. A nodded. Finding an old, big watch, he started removing the face and installing an LCD screen. Opening the back, he changed a few of the wires around, before stopping for a moment to find the balls' frequency. With the number in hand, Dr. A inserted a frequency receiver and set it to the Dragon Balls' one. Closing the back, he pushed the button on the top and the device turned on.

The screen displayed four dots around the center with three of them moving about the world, as DWGM started to finish marking the Sanctuaries.

"Cool, thanks," Zac said. "I'm going after DWGM and the other balls. Who's with me?"
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
"I'll go," said Bob. "I don't have anything to lose."

"And I'll tag along if this cutey is going!" giggled Crypha.

Everyone stared at her.

"What?" she puzzled.

"Uh," Zac began.

He just stopped there. Nothing would get through to her anyway. She had a rather obvious crush on Bob, and nothing could stand against her.

"Fine," sighed Zac. "You can come along, the two of you."

Ness suddenly piped up, "Oh, hey, I forgot to ask. Anyone wanna come train with me, the other chosen and Sandra?"

Bob's eyes suddenly lit up.

"I'll go!"

Crypha also squealed with delight.

"Me too! Me too!"

"Well then," said Ness, a bead of sweat on his face. "I suppose Zac will need more people!"

[ October 17, 2002, 08:37 PM: Message edited by: Zero X. Diamond ]
 

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Posted by StarAngel (Member # 672) on :
 
(This topic's almost dead... I like this. Haven't posted for a couple of months, though...)

Around the other side of Earth, the remaining starfighters launched one at a time through the pressurized air tube at the front of Boris's ship. Shine, Shroud, and Boris finished their conversation. Boris sighed. "Shine, you've always been this way, you bloodthirsty little rogue."

"Bloodthirsty? Yes. Rogue? I think not. C'mon Shroud, let's go. You sound like my brother."

"Yeah right. I say I can get more zigs than you."

"You're on. I'm the best here, and you know it."

The two captains launched out of the tube at the same time, a very tricky and dangerous procedure. They skimmed along the surface of the Earth's atmosphere, using its gravity to pull them along toward the Nomad. Or the remains of it, that is.

A couple of Zigs were launched out, and they were all heading toward the Earth. The rest of the Starfighters were waiting, camoflauged. "What do we do, cap'n?"

"Follow them. Cloaked. Shroud, take your regiment over and see what happened. I'll go and try to capture those Zigs. Cya."

"On my way, Shine."

Shine led her thirty or so group down after the Zigs. In the Earth's outer atmosphere, the underside of her ship burned. But it wasn't anything too damaging. Just made her a little angry at her new ruined paint job. When they were above the frozen clouds, the Zigs turned and fired upon them.

Immediately, Shine did a sumersault and managed to dodge a few lasers, but others hit her wing. Her regiment shot nets and ensnared three fighters, but the others ran for cover in the clouds. Shine started after them, but then she heard her engine die down.

"Oh..."

What would have followed this 'oh' would not have been dearie me, but her fighter fell toward the ground, helped along by the Earth's gravity. She kept trying to start it again, but to no avail. However, at one thousand feet, her engine restarted and she tried to pull up.

The result was that she set fire to a few bushes nearby, and her ship's imminent landing was significantly softer than it would have been. Upon landing and turning over, the ship's engine sort of blew up and smoke blew out of it. Nothing easy to fix.

She got out and looked around. Communications were trashed along with her ship, but she still had a traveling cloak and sword. After randomly selecting a direction, she set off into the forest nearby, enroute to encounter DWGM unknowingly.
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
"Well, whomever wants to come with me, they can catch up in a little bit. I'm going to get those other ones from DWGM, one way or another." Powering up, Zac flew off with the radar in hand.

"This sucks," Shine muttered to herself. "Not only is my new paint job ruined, I now have to shell out for engine repairs!" As she walked, she saw a boy sleeping against a tree. Shine almost went past, until she heard a sound and stopped. Normally, she would have assumed she heard wildlife in the forest, but this time she knew that the forest and its inhabitants were frozen, unable to make a sound.

Again she heard the same sound, this time she recognized it as light snoring. Is that boy not frozen? Shine asked herself. She turned to face the young teenager with short, blond hair. She now noticed two swords resting near him. Another sound then stopped her from disturbing the boy's rest. Something from the air.

"Man, I hope I know what I'm doing," Zac sighed as he flew above plains that led towards a dense forest area. As he flew, he glanced at the radar screen again. "I'm still on track." Slowing, he realized that DWGM was hiding in the woods. As he moved the radar from his sight, he saw a boy sleeping near an isolated pine. Conferring with the radar screen, he assumed that the person was frozen.

Landing, Zac was unaware of Shine's prescence. What should I do? I don't know if he's good or not... Shine agured with herself.

Zac studied the teen not too far off from his age, sensing that he was able to move and unfrozen. I wonder if he's aware that Earth is frozen... I guess I should wake him, since DWGM isn't too far off. Zac stepped closer to the boy. Shine saw this and pondered her actions.

(I decided to introduce my newer AC for some variation. He's the sleeping boy and his name is Ben. The swords he has are ancient elemental swords: the Luminescence and the Blaze Blade.)
 

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Posted by StarAngel (Member # 672) on :
 
Shine immediately felt the presence of another person landing. She'd had enough contact in the past to know that humans flying was entirely possible. On Earth, anyway.

She decided to hide behind the tree and watch the behavior of this new person. Something rippled under her cloud of suspicion. Was it familiarity?

The blades on the ground were ominous-looking, and probably magical too. The boy must be unfrozen. But the swords were cool. Shine would have wanted them in her belt as well, but she was not used to using two swords.

Something large stirred behind her. She turned around and met DWGM. A sight that would have made her run screaming "SPACE MONSTER! SPACE MONSTER!" had she not had experience with aliens. Putting her hand to her sword, hidden by her cloak, she engaged conversation.

"Who are you?"

"Why do you ask?" The monster said, in a deep bass voice.

Shine gripped the handle tighter. "Because I'll reduce any living creature aimed to harm me into a heap of dust. Figuratively speaking."

DWGM laughed. Something only chocolate or asteroid wine would remedy. For most people. Shine was made of tougher stuff, including space dust, so she drew her sword and had it knocked into the tree behind her, quivering point in. Whoever this thing was, it would not be simple. Shine jumped away backwards, and landed on the sleeping person, effectively waking him up and getting a sharp poke in the back by her sword. She was able to draw it out, but soon had a claw and a red sword blade at her throat.

"Gurgle." She said.

The boy was standing up, blades in hand. He winked at Shine, something DWGM couldn't see. Shine noticed three Dragonballs hanging from the monster's belt. Or what was supposed to be a belt.

Shine had one Dragonball herself, something she decided to take for herself just in case they would ever had to be used for evil. But it was locked in her dimensional storage. Which was impossible to get into. In theory. But to her relief, the teen, with a flick of his other blade, took out her sword and ran his other through DWGM's arm. The wrist fell, and Shine grabbed her blade out of the air and jumped back again.

Zac came to join them, seeing that they were on the same side. No matter what, no creature would be any match with four unique magical swords. Or at least ancient ones. DWGM saw this and flew away, as to not lose another limb. Shine turned to the two. "So. I guess we're on the same side, eh?"

Zac grinned at the pretty girl. "I take it that your name is Shine. I heard you. Nice way to wake up swordy here." He nudged the teen.

Ben shoved back. "I'm not swordy, I'm Ben. And what are you looking for, anyway?"

Zac told them about the dragon balls. Shine decided to trust Zac with the information. Zac was relieved that the last one was discovered, but still troubled that he would have to fight DWGM, sooner or later. But they had four magical swords between them now, and could turn the tide in their favor. Not to mention a squadron of Starfighters, managing that Shine could fix her ship.

The darkest hour was over. Time for the dawn.
 

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Posted by Greatest Mog On Earth (Member # 309) on :
 
GMOE grinned. He had speeding around the globe using his super ghosty powers, having already scared the living daylights out of everybody back at Zac and Bret's training center, and giving his younger sister implicit instructions not to bury his body. And now he saw Shine, Ben, and DWGM. There's only one word to describe how he felt about them. victims.

He descended on the unsuspecting group quietly. They were unaware of his presence, until DWGM lunged to make the first strike.

"Aaah!" He shouted, lunging at Ben. However, everybody stopped what they were doing half of a millisecond later, as GMOE's ghost appeared all of the sudden.

Shine and Ben backed slowly away. DWGM stood transfixed by the apparition.

"Uuuuuhhhhhh!" he moaned, raising his arms in the air, and causing the winds around him to pick up greatly.

Shine, Ben, and DWGM backed away. They were clearly spooked by this generally ghost-like behavior. They stood there for a tense second, that seemed to contain an eternity, wondering was going to happen next.

The next thing that happened was that GMOE started to laugh his head off.
 

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Posted by The Losar (Member # 361) on :
 
Kyle had left alone to search for DragonBalls. Cut off from the others, he had no idea that the locations of all of the DragonBalls was confirmed.

Alone he searched the world high and low. By world, I mean everywhere within a three mile radius from Zac's complex.

And, well, he had actually forgotten what he was looking for long ago and was probably lost in the woods. At the moment, he had his Excalabur out and contented himself with slashing small trees in half and making his own sound effects.

"Whoosh! Slice! Tch!" Kyle was enjoying himself immensely. He's tried to slice through a large oak not long ago but, to Kyle's utter dissapointment, the tree didn't sit there for a second, then topple over from a diagonal slash. The tree didn't topple over at all. In fact, when the sword came in contact with the tree, it bounced off with a *klunk* and left Kyle's hands wobbly and awkward-feeling. He didn't try it again.

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Glenn dragged himself out of the training room as the others entered. He looked bruised, battered, and a bit bloody. He smiled, though, as he left the chamber and collapsed. Oh sure, he could probably heal himself now, use up all of the magic in him to replinish his strength. But the pain was good at the moment. He indulged in it and his exhaustion stole over him. He slept lightly, though, with his hand on the hilt of his Darksaber. No telling when he might be needed.

(BTW, I'm alive. I forgot about this stiry completely and it surprised me when I scrolled down the IF list and saw it. Luckily nothing much has happened. Or unluckily. Anyway, I'm back and my ACs are ready for action. Or non-action.)
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Soon, Ness, Paula, Jeff, Poo, Sandra, Nebiroth, Bob, Crypha, and Mr. Everdred[who decided to go with them because he had nothing else to do], had entered into the training room. Some of the others were a bit confused as to why Ness asked to use the room, but they had gone along with it anyways, and Bob tailing them for obvious reasons, and Crypha tailing Bob for obvious reasons.

When they all entered, they all sat down and Ness decided to explain his reasons, "You're probably wondering why I asked us all to come in here and train. Well, I do plan on a little training, but I talked with Zac, and I learned about the training room and it's special abilites through the complex computer." Everyone just remained silent for the moment. Ness then turned to behind him, motioning towards the back of the room with his eyes. In the back of the training room stood Pokey Minch, standing rigid and still. Paula, Jeff, Poo and Mr. Everdred recognized him with raised eyes, but the others were stumped to who Pokey was. "Yes, that looks like Pokey, but if I decide to..." he trailed off, and Pokey's shape transfigured into the Starman Deluxe, like a hologram, "...do this, you'll see that Pokey is merely a mentally created hologram. I learned about this from Zac when I asked him some things about the complex and it's capabilities earlier. One can create mental holograms if they transfer their thoughts to the computer's databanks. It's ideal for training as well, as the hologram acts like the real thing, as far as the user can remember at least." "So, exactly why are you showing us this?" asked Bob, somewhat impatient and wanting to get to the point.

"Because, Bob. Now is an ideal time to learn more about each other, and what we went through on our own journeys. You, Crypha, Sandra, Nebiroth, can use your thoughts to create, say holograms of things you've encountered, which helps explaining our stories better. "That's all you pulled us in here for, to ask about our life stories?" Bob was confused, "Yes, but we will train, it's just I think if we all get to know each other better this way, it'll all work a lot better in the end." Ness explained.

Um, oh boy... Bob thought to himself, Surely I'm not gonna tell them all about the nightmares I've been through, am I? I mean, I could scare off Sandra from ever liking me if she saw my old memories and people from them... What should I do?

(back again, I guess )
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
A voice suddenly stopped Bob's thinking, which had spontaneously changed from fear to the Duke boys running away from the sheriff.

"Hey Bob," said Ness. "Why don't you go first?"

Bob swallowed hard, his throat dry as a bone.

"Yeah, you know," said Paula. "You ARE rather mysterious."

He had to think of something fast. He didn't want to lose his chance at Sandra, and it seemed that with this memory projecting computer that it would quickly fade.

"Er, I can't. I'm allergic to holograms."

Bob's lie didn't fool anyone. They simply stepped back from him. And then the image began to change. It quickly took the shape of a terror-faced man, tied to a chair.

"No! Please," the hologram screamed. "Don't kill me! I... I have a family!"

The image suddenly began changing again. This time it took the shape of a panicked woman. She looked up at Bob and began screaming. The image changed again, and again and again. It continued cycling through Bob's victims. Suddenly, several men in black suits and sunglasses took shape.

"Well well. If it isn't our buddy Happy Bob! Oh, oh, you need not worry about us, child. It's you that you should worry 'bout."

Bob began screaming. The image trembled and faded out. It began erratically switching between monstrous images. Demons, splatters of blood, completely abstract blurs... And then the worst image of all appeared.

A man in a blue workman's outfit appeared. He had ruffled brown hair and was carrying a bottle. His eyes were dark, his shirt wasn't fully buttoned. The hologram began stumbling forward.

"Bob! Bob, ya friggin' moron! What is it I'm ALWAYS tellin' ya? Are you LISTENIN' BOY?!"

"Shut up..."

"Boy, I keep tellin' you. Stay away from me! I hate you! You're a loser!"

"I said shut up, old man..."

"How can you tell the man that brought you into this world to shut up? I brought you into it and god @*$*@ it, I can take you out of it!"

"LEAVE ME ALONE, DAD!"

In the back of the room, everyone was staring in disbelief. They were transfixed ever since the beginning.

"Boy, if there's one thing I hate worse then every day of my life..."

"I hate you!"

"... it's spending every day of my life having to deal with you!"

"That's it old man, I don't know why you're haunting me, but I'm gonna make you wish you were back in the belly of the Earth!"

Bob stabbed viciously at the image of his father, but missed and tumbled several times. The image of his father began laughing at him.

"You can't even stab your old man when he's drunk! You're a complete failure!"

Bob got up and dusted himself off and lunged at his father again, and once more missed. This time, however, he pushed himself off the wall behind him and thrusted forward. He knocked the image of his father down. They both rolled across the room, struggling for power.

In the back, Sandra figured it out first.

It all makes sense now... she thought. It was the abuse of his own father that made Bob go off his rocker...

Bob's father had rolled over on top of him. He pulled out a 16" knife from his pocket.

"Well boy, you lose. Looks like I'm finally rid of you."

He raised the knife and plunged it down. A static noise was suddenly heard. The hologram disappeared. Bob fell to the floor. Everyone rushed over to see what happened.

"Bob? You okay, Bob?"

"I... I lost..."

"Bob, it okay..."

"No Nebiroth," he said, faintly. "My dad was right. I am a failure. I'm a total, absolute failure."

"Bob," began Sandra. "I don't think you're a failure. I think you just couldn't stand to see your own father again. It was the way he abused you. It intimidated you, made you feel weak. That's why you left him in the first place, isn't it?"

"No," he answered gravely. "I left because my mother and father both died. And even then I didn't leave right away. I stayed in that freakin' roach motel for a few years before leaving out on my own."

Everyone stood silent.

"Bob, I think you should rest," advised Paula. "Maybe after a good nap you'll be ready to face the training again."

"Maybe..."

Meanwhile, at an unknown location in Eagleland, a sinister figure emerged from a cloaked Zig. He let out a laugh.

"Ah, so I finally get to see this backwater planet up close. It's overrated, if you ask me. Well, it's no matter. What does matter is I begin phase two of my plan..."

With that, Nole climbed back in the Zig and began working.
 

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Posted by PikaBot (Member # 270) on :
 
(Sorry I haven't posted in a while...sorry)

Adure hit the ground hard, twisting as he did so to give himself a clear shot. He fired his rifle thrice before having to leap aside to evade the returning fire. A man in a robotic suit of armor fired from his gauntlet lasers. They splashed on the ground where Adure had been a few moments ago. He fired his rifle again, but it only splashed off of the armor. Adure swore.
I'm not getting anywhere like this. He only needs to get me once, and then I'm gone...
He decided to take a chance. He whipped the dial on the rifle around to the setting named(appropriatly) Leave No Evidence. He slapped the charge button and set about evading a blast. This was a risk. He couldn't fire until it was finished charging. If his acrobatics failed him just once...
He dove out of the way once more, barely evading a missile. He checked the charge gauge. Half charged.
In his moment of distraction, the man in the suit of armor landed, and charged across the open groun towards Adure. Adure tried to dodge, but he was still clipped. He tumbled to the ground, badly winded. His foe pointed his laser at him one final time.
"Say hello to your dead relatives." Said the man with a grin. Then he fired. At the same time, Adure's gun gave off a ping noise to indicate it had finished charging. Adure rolled sideways. The blast hit the ground right where he had been lying. He turned and saw Adure with the rifle pointed straight at him. Adure grinned.
"Eat hot star innards, laser-brain." Then he did three things at once.
First he fired. At the same time, he closed his eyes to protected them from the glare. His eyes still felt like he was staring right at the sun. Finally, he hurled the gun from himself. The gun still got hot enough to burn his fingers.
When the glare had subsided, he opened his eyes. The armored man was gone. the smell of molten metal filled the air. There was a long column of open space behind him where trees had been. A fine red mist was sprouting from where the iron-man wannabe had been standing.
"Whoa." There was a reason you weren't supposed to use that setting in space.

Adure approached the wreckage stealthily. He had spotted a few minutes ago. He had been about to pass by it when he had heard some strange sounds, and insane mumblings coming from it. He liquified, and moved along the ground. He re-solidified outside the edge of the wreckage, and rounded the corner, rifle drawn. Much to his surprise, he saw Nole, the mutinous scientist from the Nomad. He was hunched over a console, working diligently.
"All right, you. Hands up." He said simply, and Nole turned and blinked.
"Oh, it's you." He said simply. "What do you want?"
"Get your hands up and step a way from the console!" Nole grinned.
"Your wish is my command." He said smoothly, then stepped aside. Adure got a look at something horrific. Then a beam lanced out and he fell to the ground, paralysed. Noll bent over him, syringe in hand.
"Fool." He said, then he injected Adure with the tranquilizer he was holding and Adure fell asleep.
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
"What's so funny?" Ben asked.

"Your reactions to my presence!" GMOE continued to laugh.

"Whatever," Zac rolled his eyes. "DWGM is getting away while we stand here and play jokes!"

"Let's get going then," Shine agreed. The three of them started to run after the monster.

"Hey! Wait for meee!" GMOE's "ghost" trailed after the three.

"I need to mark the last two Sanctuaries and gain ultimate power..." DWGM said to himself as he raced through the dense Deep Darkness jungle and headed towards the Tenda Village, his last two Sanctuaries being the Lumine Hall and Fire Springs.

About an hour later, the foursome made it to the entrance of the Tenda Village, only to be dismayed. The entrance had caved in and muffled voices on the other side could be heard.

"Tendas, stand back!" Zac shouted. "In fifteen seconds, I'm going to start drilling the rocks!" The muffled sounds turned into faint cries of joy until they disappeared. Zac started to fire a small beam, not wanted to further risk cave collapse. Ben and Shine pitched in by trying to slice away at some of the rocks with their swords.

"This might be interesting," Ben said. He took a hold of his Blaze Blade. Remembering one of its abilities, he swung his sword while shouting "Fire Flash!" At first nothing happened. Then a thin red line appeared on the rocks. A few seconds later, the rocks touching the line starting to liquify.

"Hey, not too bad," Zac muttered. Only after a minute did a hole big enough to enter melt into the rocks. "We need to catch up to DWGM before he gets the last spot. I'm assuming he already marked Lumine Hall. Let's go." The four jumped down the hole that led into the depths of the Lumine Hall.
 

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Posted by PikaBot (Member # 270) on :
 
When Adure woke, he could move again once more. He just couldn't go anywhere.

He looked around, and saw that he was trappd in an anti-gee field. No matter what he did, he couldn't go anywhere, since there wasn't anything the push off on.

Nole walked aroun before him, whistling a small tune. he manipulated the controls on a panel, then turned to Adure.
"Oh, you're awake." He walked over to Adure. " How do you like it?" He asked, referring to the hulking monstrosity behind him. "It's a real beauty, isn't it? The peak of my career. You should be honored that it happened on your back-water planet."

Adure swallowed. He could see Olympus, and he didn't like what he saw.
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
Bob had long since left the training room. Once again he was in the closet he had stolen his fedorah and comfortable loafers from. Once again he was buried under a pile of shoes. Once again he was having a nightmare.

It began subtle, nothing more than a few blurs. But then the images became stronger. When they finally held, it became a horrendous nightmare.

"Bob," shouted his father. "Bob, look at me you worthless, snot-nosed punk!"

"You're so low I could lay down and not be able to see you, old man."

Bob was still being haunted by the image of his father. It was as though it were a curse suddenly placed upon him in that room.

"Oh yeah, great insult Bob. Where did you get it? Bob Barker?"

"Like you could do any better."

"I know I can, boy. I made you lose it."

"I hate you! Why won't you leave me alone!?"

Bob's father laughed.

"Because you never left me alone. You always were a failure, boy. You never did anything right! So now I'm going to follow you everywhere. And you won't see me until you screw up. Then I'll appear and start making fun of you."

"Why... WHY!?"

"I just told you! Are you really that dense, boy?"

"Shut up... SHUT UP!!!"

With that, the image of his father faded away with one final laugh. And Bob was left alone in his dream, sitting in the darkness...

Meanwhile, at Nole's Zig...

"Oh," said Nole to Adure. "I see you've noticed Olympus."

Adure was wide eyed.

"It's horrible! It's HORRIBLE!"

"On the contrary. He is like a God! He is the model of Olympian perfection! Hence his name."

"The eyes are like cold steel."

Nole smiled.

"Do you know that part of you is in that 'horrible creature'?"

Adure looked at it with disgust.

"You put some of me in that ugly mass of flesh? You horrible...! Why, when I... when I get loose I'll... I'll... ugh, so tired..."

Adure fell over, asleep. Nole had again sedated him, just to shut him up.

"Ugh, petty annoyances. They're distracting me from my work."

He looked at Olympus.

"There there, the mean man was wrong. I think you're beautiful. And once you're complete and alive, you'll quickly become the only thing left on this planet to BE beautiful!"

With that, Nole returned to work.
 

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Posted by PikaBot (Member # 270) on :
 
Adure...
Adure opened his eyes, and thought that he had forgotten to. All around him was blackness. He looked down at himself. Curiously, he could still see himself.
Adure...
Again he heard a voice calling to him from the blackness. It was soft and feminine, but with a hard edge to it. He recognized it at once.
"Rosaline!" He called out to his wife. "Where are you?"
Adure...help me!
Adure struggled, trying to run towards his wife's voice, but it was no use. Something held him fast, and he could not move.
"Rosaline! Where are you? I can't see you!"
Adure...
And then she came wihin sight. His wife was chained to something unseen with chains of red fire. No , he thought to himself a moment later, not fire , light!
"Rosaline!" He shouted, and tried to run to her, but he could not move. "Rosaline!" He shouted again, but then something else came into view. It was a hulking mass, enormous. Its body was sinewy and covered with muscle it radiated power in every direction. He did not recognize it for a moment, and then he looked it in the eyes and recognized it for what it was. It was Olympus, fully growm. If he thought Olympus was frightening at the moment, just wait until he was fully grown!
Olympus reached down towards Adure's loved one. Adure shouted and tried to break free from whatever was holding him in place, but to no avail. One scything arm came down towards Rosaline and-

Adure snapped back to wakefulness, full of energy. He turned to Nole, eyes alight.
"You monster! How dare you do this! If you over here, I'd snap your neck, you filthy coward!"
Nole turned to him quietly.
"Are quite done? I guess the sedatives are losing their potency. That dose should have put you out for at least a few-what the?" A red light had began pulsing on a control panel. He moved over to near it, and a computerized voice sprung to life.
"Warning! Warning! Counter-Gravity field failing! Unexpected power surge encountered."
"Oh, no..." Muttered Nole as he turned to Adure. Indeed, the green glow around Adure was flashing on and off, and finally, it failed altogether, and Adure began to advance on Nole, who fell back, panicked.
"Computer!" He screeched, "Activate prisoner detainment procedure Alpha 2-4!" As he spoke, a green force beam lanced out and snagged Adure's arm. He tried to break loose, but more and more beams lanced out and seized him. They pulled him into the air, and dragged him back to the platform. The anti-gee field sprung to life once more, but the beams did not retract. They continued to hold him in place despite his struggleing. Nole calmly walked over to him and administered another sedative.
"Now," Nole said as Adure sank off into unconciousness "How did he do that?"
 

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Posted by Ffish (Member # 262) on :
 
Ugh... what time is it?
Ffish opened his eyes, closed them, opened them again, and blinked, trying to adjust his eyes. Slowly, forcefully, he got up. He started to walk towards the door, trying to remember what he was supposed to be thinking about. Suddenly, he just barely got his fingers on a distant thought. Trying to focus, a difficult task for any teenager that just woke up, his left foot seemed to forget what it was supposed to be doing. It started pawing, or rather toe-ing, the space a few inches above the ground. His right foot, meanwhile, assumed that its brother was doing its job correctly and stepped at a particularly well-timed...um...time, or so it thought.

Ffish's face was blank for the time being. No attention was being paid to it, so why bother conveying emotions if the brain was too busy delving into itsel-wham.

The sudden pain in his face triggered the gears in Ffish's head that were temporarily jammed.
"Oh, yeah. The world's in trouble. What a time to go back home for a nap..." Ffish muttered sheepishly. He braced his knees and jumped. A silver aura flashed around him, and he rocketed into the sky.

Somewhere in the stratosphere, he sent out a telepathic wide-wavelength message, hoping it would be picked up by someone who needed help.

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Hello?
...wha...? Who are you?
Oh, good. Someone's there. Um...where are you?
I...I don't know.
Mm... no problem, I can probably pick up your thought source. So... um...
...?
...What's up?
Oh, God. I'm being held captive in some ship...that's all I know.
Ah... You...um...need help?
Yeah. Being held captive tends not to be good.
Mmm.

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(I think I'm gonna give up IF. Can someone finish up this leg of the story for me? Just to tie up loose ends, you have permission to kill off my character, so long as I'm sacrificing myself for someone.)

[ January 17, 2003, 08:34 AM: Edited by: Ffish ]
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
Bob awoke abruptly. Shoes were flung all over the closet.

"Ugh," he said. "This bites. My father is haunting me now. That's ALL I need... In fact, the only way this situation could get any worse is if Crypha got out of the bottle in my pocket and-"

As if Bob's misery was humor to God, it just happened that the bottle cap has twisted loose while he was writhing about in his sleep. And wouldn't you know it? Crypha wrapped her arms around Bob, sending volts through him like a string of Christmas lights. The funny thing was, he was so down in the dumps that it didn't seem to phase him.

"Oh, hi Crypha..."

She blinked. It didn't seem like him. She crawled over in front of him and squatted down to meet him face to face.

"Bob?"

He didn't answer.

"What's wrong, Bob?"

Bob just dropped his head.

"If you don't tell me, I'll have to..."

She leaned over and whispered in his ear. Bob immediately leapt up and into the corner. He held his arms out to defend himself.

"No! Don't! Leave me alone!"

She grinned sinisterly.

"If you tell me what's bothering you, I won't..."

Bob let out a sigh of defeat. He knew when he was licked.

"Okay, fine. If you're going to FORCE me, it's my dad. He's haunting me. Ribbing me for being a loser. Saying I'm a shame to society..."

Her face shifted from it's usual happy expression to one of sorrow. She didn't quite understand what Bob meant, but she could see that something about his father was bothering him.

"Awww, none of that's true!"

"Yes it is..."

"Bob, if you don't cheer up, I'll-"

He suddenly adopted a big, false grin.

"Wow," he said, through gritted, smiling teeth. "I feel so much better!"

"Bob..."

"Well, how am I supposed to cheer up when a drunk's ghost keeps appearing and calling me a loser!"

"You cheer up because if you don't, you're doing exactly what your daddy wants you to do!"

He paused for a moment to think. It was a rare moment of the few good gears left in Bob's head turning over a few times.

"You know... you're right! I think I'll go join the others now."

With that, Bob reached for the doorknob. Crypha suddenly stopped him.

"But Bob," she grinned. "What about-"

A scream came from in the closet. One second later, the door had burst open in a flurry of shoes as Happy Bob ran fast as he could to get away from a giddy Crypha. He made it back to the training room without much more event.

... though everyone was curious as to why there was two shoes hanging from around his neck.
 

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Posted by PikaBot (Member # 270) on :
 
Adure's mental link with someone was severed abruptly when he received a sudden jolt of electricity. He forced his eyes open, and found himself hanging in the CG field. He was still trapped by the force beams. Nole took his hand away from a console.

"Well, hello. Have a nice rest?"

Adure tried to spit on him, but the CG field caught it, and it hung in front of him in a ball.

"Temper, temper. You just tried to spit on the world's greatest scientist"

"The world's greatest monster, you mean."

"No, that title belongs to Olympus here."

Adure looked up, and his eyes widened. During his slumber, Olympus had grown ten fold. It towered over Adure, and Adure felt a deep feeling of despair.

[ April 12, 2003, 03:47 PM: Edited by: PikaBot ]
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
Looking at the frightening visage of the creature known as Olypmus, Adure's despair soon turned into anger at Nole for such a maddening creation. How can that loon call something like THIS perfect? Adure shakenly studied Olympus more and more, observing the raw muscles and powerful form of the creation.

However his despair began to fade away... no... not fade AWAY, but fade INTO humor... ironic, poetic humor... He began to chuckle under his breath, realizing something Nole didn't about the creature. Nole noticed his despaired look fade into interest, and then saw the crack of a grin on his face. Nole couldn't help but wonder what had Adure grinning in such a situation like he was. Adure began to suddenly chuckle out loud, startling Nole.

"WHAT!? What is so funny?! How dare you laugh at such a creature like my Olympus!!" the scientist barked in anger at him. Adure suddenly bursted out into laughter, angering Nole further. Nole pressed a nearby button, sending a few jolts through Adure, hoping to wipe that laughter away, but he simply took it all and laughed.

"What is so #^%# funny, you weakling bag of shapesifting flesh!?" Nole growled. Adure stopped laughing, and suddenly turned to him with a smirk. "Your 'perfect' creation is severely flawed, if that's why you want to know why I'm laughing." Nole's eyes widened in what appeared to be disbelief for a moment to Adure, but then went back to normal. Instead of screaming like he had been, Nole simply asked, "Why is Olympus flawed? Explain this to me." Adure replied, "Well, he's your creation... why don't YOU find out?" Adure had expected Nole to go into rage at this point, but now he saw an indentical smirk on Nole's face to the one he had been wearing moments ago.

"That was a rhetorical question... you fool. I already KNOW what you think is wrong with it. You were staring at its' muscle and mass, as well as it current size. You probably think this is the true form of Olympus," Nole said, his smirk now almost from ear to ear as Adure's face began to show worry, "Well do I have news for you! You see... the form of Olypmus that you see before you is current simply a embryonic state. Its' not even techincally born yet, and it will not have that pathetic group of speed-reducing muscle and mass that you see it in now. Olympus has been thoroughly planned by me, and it will actually be the size of most humans of Earth or smaller, depending on what stage of it's evolution cycle it's in, while it is alive." Adure's face showed pure despair once again, and Nole saw every moment, and loved it as he continued, "And yes, Olympus has several stages it will go through. In most of these stages, it will taken on the powers and charactistics of 2 specfic of my current enemies on Earth, usually looking more like one than the other. In fact... why don't I give you a sneak preview of what those fools on Earth will be dealing with!" Nole said, walking to a console and typing something in. A large angled screen lowered from the ceiling of the room, and soon images of the many forms of Olympus began to flash, most of them were wireframe-based shapes, but they seemed to include the following:

A wireframe image of a being the size and shape of Zac or Brett, but with the teddybear shaped physics of what seemed to be a moogle, and also wings like a moogles'...

A wireframe of a form that looked similar to Nappamon, but a little more humanoid, and wielding a weapon similar to Glenn's Darksaber...

A wireframe of what looked like a Picaso painting, combined with the charactristics of another male human figure, which was carrying a sword in an indentical shape to the Excalabur...

A wireframe of a huge, 11-foot figure, similar to Nebiroth, expect that it looked transparent, like a mist, and sported a female face on it's stomach, and Nebiroth's face on the top face. The bottom of the wireframe also thinned out, like a genie coming from a lamp...

A wireframe with the build of ChaosGallentmon, which appeared to possess wings like Omedramon's as well as other various features of him around the wireframe's knees, elbows, head, shoulders, and feet...

A wireframe of a being with Adure's build, well to his own shock. But the huge shock was that the other characteristics reminded him of Nole himself...

A wire frame of a strange kirby-shaped being with a tail, as well as possessing what looked like a ribbon on it's head... The image vaugely reminded one of Smidgen...

A wireframe of a being that looked to have Poo's build, but wearing Ness's cap, and carrying a large bat in one hand, and a gun like Jeff's in the other... [if anyone wonders what this form means, it's a tribute to Rangar in the one story that came before the original Frozen (a spliced and fused form of Ness, Jeff and Poo)]

And finally... a strange wireframe that had a caption in the upper corner, titled: "My Perfect Being, the True Form". This wasn't as much a wire frame as it was a sillhoutte. The shadow on the screen had a female's build, and appeared to be unmerged with any other being. However an oddity was the odd knife that it held, strikingly similar to Bob's knife.

However the fact was Adure didn't know many of any of the people in the wireframes, so he was confused, but he realized that if Nole were had some reason to use all of them. Nole decided to give one final note: "And in its' final form, she will be my vision of true perfection! Nothing will be able to defeat her in her final form. I hope the fools on Earth have signed their wills." Nole cackled to himself, and stared at Adure, hitting a button on his console. Adure suddenly received a crippling shock of energy which sent him into unconsciousness... just as Nole mouthed the words, "Unpleasant dreams, fool!"

[sorry about making Olympus use multiple forms, but for one, being huge and tall with muscles like a greek god slows it down signifcantly, despite how imposing it could appear. Besides, not all monsters should look fearsome... >;)
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
(I keep thinking this story is gone and then it resurfaces... oh well. That's good I guess.)

The foursome, still trailing behind DWGM, stopped to rest. Zac began to grow impatient for the sluggishness of his friends.

"While we're sitting here, taking a break, DWGM probably already has the Fire Springs marked!"

Ben jumped up from a rock, obviously furious. "Excuse us if we're only human! Not all of us have special abilities and all. If you're so impatient, why don't you go stop that guy all by yourself! You're a big boy, deal with him on your own if you can't wait." Ben sat back down on his rock.

"All right, fine. I'll go on ahead, but only to slow him down. I expect you three to catch up as soon as possible." A gold aura flared up around Zac, shooting behind him as he flew through the caverns.

As Zac was flying towards Lumine Hall, he stopped suddenly. Man, that's one huge power. But, it feels familiar. I can sense GMOE, Bob, Crypha, Kyle, Neiboroth... Zac's face paled slightly. Br...Brett... man, why do these guys have to keep reminding me that he's dead!? Zac regained his control. "I need to stop DWGM from absorbing the energy from the last Sanctuary." Zac resumed his chase on DWGM.
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
Bob felt a twitch creeping into his eye. It was a strange twitch, not like the regular kind of twitch he would get. This twitch seemed to indicate something was terribly wrong. His eyes darted about the training room, spotting nothing out of the ordinary.

"What's wrong, Bob?"

"I don't know," he replied. "There's a twitch in my eye, and it just doesn't feel right."

"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means something is horribly wrong out there, beyond our understanding..."

Everyone looked at him funny.

"Uh, Bob... the whole planet is frozen in time. Doesn't that seem out of the ordinary to you?"

"No, it's not that. It's something far more sinister. Like some kind of evil is out there, waiting for the right moment to awaken."

"Bob," Ness said. "I think you need to go rest some more."

Bob slammed his fist into the wall.

"Darn it, this isn't some kind of game! I can feel it! There's something out there that's just not right!!"

There was still doubts drifting around the group.

"Well Bob, even if there is, that's why we're in here. So we can build our strength up so we can face the challenge of whatever comes next."

Oddly enough, Poo had not spoken a word since Bob's eye had started twitching. He was simply staring blankly ahead. Sandra noticed this and glanced over his way.

"Poo? Is everything alright?"

He shut his eyes and shook his head.

"Bob's right, there is something out there, and it definitely isn't right. I can reach out and touch it. I can feel it growing, Sandra."

And for minutes after, all fell silent in the training room.

Meanwhile, in the remains of the Nomad...

"Eric, status report on the Darkside Project."

"Good news sir! Darkside Clyde is almost ready! DWGM has one more spot to link us up to, and he will be ready to be beamed to the surface of the planet!"

"Excellent," said Jamar between sips of his Pan Galactic Garglebuster. "The moment Clyde is energized with the final location, we're sending him down there. It would appear the forces of the native creatures are a lot stronger than we imagined. They must be eliminated as soon as possible."

Eric nodded, pointing at a convenient scanning device.

"They are getting stronger, there's no doubt of that. DWGM has had to resort to caving in enterances just to stay a step ahead of these guys!"

"Quite," Jamar said. "Let's just hope he makes it to that final spot."

"Sir! It would appear he has just made it to and marked the final location!"

"Good," he said, pressing a button on the communication screen. "Mr. Checkers!"

"Yes sir?"

"Energize the transporter, we're sending Clyde to the surface. NOW!"

"Aye sir."

Within moments, Clyde had awakened and was ushered into the transporter. His raw power seemed to burst forth from his very being. As he walked, equipment around him went crazy, giving off incorrect readings or shorting out. They were just able to transport him before it would have shorted.

With that, a beam of fire blasted through the research room roof and smacked on the floor. A tall and gangly humanoid creature arose from the flames and gave a smirk. Two fangs protruded forth as he grinned.

"Hello, my name is Clyde. How are you? I'm afraid I've no time to chat. You see, I have to kill you now."

And with that, the newest nightmare began.

[ June 02, 2003, 10:14 PM: Edited by: Zero X. Diamond ]
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
Dr. Andonuts, surprise on his face, stopped dead with his research.

"W-What do you want with me?" Dr. Andonuts quivered. Quickly without letting Clyde see, he slipped the six objects he was studying into a padded bag on the floor.

"What was that noise?" Sandra asked.

"What noise?" Ness asked.

"I heard something... Dr. A! He's in trouble!"

"Exactly. I want YOU." Clyde grabbed the good doctor and disappeared through the hole he came to. A few minutes later, the group arrived at the scene.

"He's gone," Poo said.

"I can sense an evil aura heading southwest from here... wait, it stopped. We can maybe catch up with it. Darn, the aura's on the move again, still heading southwest. It's moving incredibly fast."

"It's probably heading to meet up with DWGM, because DWGM was being chased by Zac."

"I can teleport us to Lost Underworld. Either me or Ness can. It'll save us on time."

"Zac can handle this on his own," Ness replied. "Right now we need to work on our powers and strengthen our abilities."
 

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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
 
"Ness, wait a second!" Jeff exclaimed, realizing what had really taken place. "Whatever came here took Dad! He was in here studying the Dragonballs we collected!' "CRAP! The Dragonballs!!" Bob said in anger, thinking they had been stolen, but Paula found the small bag Dr. Andonuts had hidden them in and brough it out. "No, Bob! We still have the Dragonballs. He was able to hide them from whatever took him, but that doesn't help us much. DWGM still has the last one!" "Well, since we can't study them at the time, I suggest that some of us each take possession of a Dragonball in case whatever took Dr. Andonuts comes back for them, so it won't be so easy for him to get them all," Ness said, "They can't make their wishes without all seven." "That's right!" Poo said back grabbing a DB, "I'll take one of the Dragonballs." "Then I'll take one as well." Ness said, grabbing another from the bag and putting it in his backpack. "Hey, can't let you hog all the fun!" Bob said, grabbing a Dragonball and putting it in his pocket. "Nebiroth guard ball too!" Nebiroth spoke up in his gruff and primative voice, and Paula put one of the DBs into his hand, which he then put somewhere in his huge overcoat. "Might as well be of some use here. Give me one of those Dragonballs, my old friend!" Everdread said, taking the fifth ball from the bag. Jeff walked up and looked at Paula, Sandra and Crypha. "Sorry to deny you girls of ownership, but I feel too responsible for this. Maybe I can make up for what just happened a little by holding on to the last ball." "Jeff, it'll be okay!" Paula said to him, "I have a feeling he's just going to take your dad back to the ship up there as a scientist. We should be able to save him, and also Mom and Dad as well." Sandra's eyes norrowed at her sister's mention of their parents. She hadn't forgotton that Jamar and the Nomad had taken their parents captive. "Yes, we do need to train Ness, RIGHT NOW." she finally said. No more had to be said as Ness, Paula, Jeff, Poo, Bob, Sandra, Crypha, Nebiroth and Everdred returned to the Training Room.

Ness decided to begin, "So how are we going to accomplish this anyways?" "Simple." Poo responded with his Dalaamese sense of determination, "We'll do what Brett and Zac do. We'll spar, we'll train, we'll beat ourselves up to reach enough power to help save this world again, just as we always do." "Wait... we'll spar?" Bob asked. Bob was a little concerned about sparring. He was worried his insanity would take over and he would try to kill one of his new friends. Worse of all, he was worried about having to fight Sandra, the one he loved. Not because he could kill her, but because he was worried about them killing each other, mosting being killed by her on accident. He was lovestuck with her, but he wasn't foolish either. He had witnessed her in battle, and knew of her experiences to an extent. Bob may have had insanity on his side, but against someone calm in battle like her, insanity wasn't always a trustworthy ally. Also, another part of it came out of the fact that Bob was actually a little scared of her. Mostly scared that she would turn on him, and say he was worthless, or not worthy of her attention. Perhaps that was part of that odd feeling of dread he felt... not to mention he felt himself somewhere in the mix. However Paula interuppted his train of thought, "Okay, we'll spar, but who spars against who?" This was important to know for them, as each of them excelled in various areas, and not so well at others.

"Nebiroth make choice! Fight yellow-haired brat!" the green skinned demonoid spoke in answer. Sandra looked at him in shock, "What?! Why Nebi?" Paula then realized Nebiroth was referring to her since he had called Sandra "pink-haired brat" before. "Nebiroth face pink-haired one, learn she have a sister! Now Nebiroth want to test pink-haired one's sister!" "Nebiroth, I don't think she and her friends' have 10 years of fighting experience like I do! You could kill one of them if you fought!" "No, Sandra... Let him." Paula replied. "Are you nuts?!" Sandra barked back at her sister for her own well being. "No, but I remember something you told me long ago..." Paula replied, and Sandra's look turned to a face of realization, "Oh great... of all things I tell you, you use my advice now of all times..." "Well, you told me that I won't always have help for my battles. It's about time I took that lesson in for myself. You've had the training, so why can't I?" Paula replied. Sandra sighed, "You're right... but against Nebi of all people?! Why not one of your other friends?" "Because he challenged me first, so I accept." Paula replied. "Fine! I just hope you are good at dodging, because Nebi's fake illusion gave me trouble when I faced it, and likely Nebi himself's worse than that." "Nebiroth not hurt yellow-haired brat too much! Just a spar... play fighting." Sandra still looked at him with a glare. Nebiroth continued, "Listen to me close... Nebiroth know what he doing, he won't take battle seriously! Sandra worry too much!" Sandra couldn't help but grin a bit that he actually used her real name for once. "Okay, okay... I'm sorry for overreacting." "No, you act like family should be... what Sardius should have been to us of Phantom Zone... not like tyrant!" Nebiroth assured. With those words, Paula and Nebiroth made haste to one corner of the room to begin their match.

"Okay... I've decided my match!" Bob said to himself, wanting to get his say in before Sandra. "I want to face Everdred in battle this time!" Everdred looked at Bob and asked, "Why is that?" "You probably know little of my past, 'Dred. Let's just say that I too am a bit of a criminal in some ways... you ever heard of Happy Bob the Homicidal Maniac before?" Everdred's eyes' actually narrowed instead of widened in fear like Bob had been excepting. "So, you're trying to kill us?" Everdred asked. "No, Mr. Everdred!" Sandra interuptted, "He's had a rough childhood, to say the least. Heck, his father's even been harassing him in his own dreams!" "What?! Who told you that?!" Bob asked, surprised she knew. "Crypha told me about it, and I also sensed his spirit in your head, saying all those degrading things about you. Listen Bob, he's wrong. He probably wanted you to be Homicidal because he lacked the youth, and wanted someone in the family line to be like him. Have you ever asked your father WHAT he did before he conceived you? He's just mad because you've turned a new leaf unlike what he wanted of you." she replied. Bob looked at her, like she was some sage trying to help him. "No... I don't think I ever asked Dad OR Mom about their past lives. Perhaps that's where my insanity and urges come from..." Bob looked to Everdred then, "And as for you, 'Dred, the reason I wish to spar with you... well, I'll explain it to you when we begin, okay?" Everdred looked at him suspiciously, but said, "Very well... but be warned. I'm not as weak as I was when I was lugging the Mani Mani around months ago. I have strengthed enough that if Monotoli ever tried to mug me again, his flunkies would've lost a few good limbs in the process." Everdred said with a smirk on his face. "Bring it on, 'Mustache!" Bob joked as they went over to their own part of the room.

Now Ness spoke up, "Jeff... you don't mind if we spar for a while, do you?" Jeff looked at him with near-buldged eyes. "Yo... you're kidding, right?! Ness, you'd annhilate me if we fought without our items! I'm not built to fight hand to hand! I'm weaker at it than even Paula is! And that's kinda saying a lot." Jeff winced, hoping Paula hadn't heard is comment, and was relieved when she hadn't reacted. "Jeff, Paula's willing to do it hand-to-hand, and you should as well! I won't go all out the first times!" Ness replied to his friend. "But you have PK! The others have some kind of power, I don't have any of that stuff... just my mechanical knowledge... and that doesn't help me much here!" Jeff replied in despair. Bob heard this and walked over to Jeff. Jeff expected Bob to lash out and scream at him, but instead of doing so, he took Jeff's hand. "Jeff, listen to me. Ness is right. Look at me for instance! I have no PK, I have no Magic, I have no Ki! All I have is my insanity at times, and even that gives me flaws! I still fight, though! You saw how I fought ChaosGallentmon! Even if I didn't know him well enough at first, I still fought him! Jeff... anyone of us can become much strong than he or she is now! Do this for our planet, and all the Frozen people, for pete's sake!" Bob said to him, almost sounding like... Woah... did I just talk like Sandra?! Jeff sighed and gave in, "Okay Ness... I'll go at it for now... but I don't know what else I can do..." Jeff said, half sulking, as Ness led him to somewhere to train without interruption, and Bob went back over to Everdred.

Sandra looked at Poo and Crypha and said, "Well, that lowers it to who I wanted to face anyways. Come on Poo. I challenge you!" Poo didn't show any form of shock or surprise and replied with a small grin, "Very well, Miss Sandra. I'm actually intrigued to see how well Paula's sister would fare compared to us. I may not have the battle experience you have, but I have some abilities that will certainly surprise you." "Fine by me... However, like all the other battles in here, no weapons or items, although you may use armor. Just base strength and skills of PK or Magic, or whatever you use, so you cannot use your sword here, and I cannot use this." Sandra trailed off, reaching into her suit's pocket, and pulling out a chain whip with a spiked ball on the end and tossing it into a storage locker a few feet away. Poo raised his eyes at this. Sandra saw this and said, "Oh... my suit's magical... it has this transdimension pocket that allows me to store near endless stuff in it," she replied, pulling out several other items, such as a SECOND Franklin Badge, which got Ness's attention this time. Sandra felt his stare and turned to him, realizing he'd been staring at the Badge, and saying, "Our grandmother held two badges, and Paula and I were each given one when she died, which was ironically the same day I vanished." she answered his silent question, finally pulling out two small objects that looked remarkably similar to miniature coffee machines: her HyperElixir and HyperEther generators from Gallon, and putting those down nearby in a storage locker in the room. She looked at Poo, who got down in a Kung-fu position. She looked at him, and decided to just keep her normal position, as they prepared for the battle.

Meanwhile, Crypha had gotten some Soda and Popcorn, and waited at the door of the training room, saying giddily "This outta be fun! Go and fry Everdred, Bob! I'll be rooting for you, and if you win, I've got a special hug with your name on it waiting!" Bob looked at her and gulped, saying to himself, "It could be worse than that though..."


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Meanwhile, on the remains of the Nomad, Jamar had noticed Clyde's change in pattern. "What the heck is he doing?! He should be attacking the people in that complex!" "Well, Captain... DWGM IS in a bit of a Jam. There's a few people following him, including that Zac kid, and he's probably NOT in the mood to play games. Also, Clyde DID get that one human scientist. Maybe he has some answers for us we can get out of him." Eric said with a grin on his face. Jamar sighed. Eric had a point, but he really wanted to get the other ones out of the way. At least Eric wasn't like Nole, who wouldn't have hesitiated to annhilate the planet if needed. It was then Jamar suddenly realized something. "Eric!!" "Yes, captain?" "Where's Nole?!"

Eric's eyes' went wide, realizing the full impact of his captain's question. WHERE was Nole?! Had he survived the ship's breaking apart? Of course he had! He had to! He was Jarettin, just like his hated colleuge. "I'm... not sure where Nole is, sir?" "Great... Nole always had a mutunious stripe on his back, and now he's probably taken advantage of the explosion of the ship to divide from us!" Jamar growled in frustration. "Captain! I know he's alive, and you're right... he's been planning something against us from day one. He's jealous of me because he's from a higher Jarettin class than I was." Eric replied. "Stupid arrogant fool! He always thinks too mightily of himself! He's gonna get himself killed!" Jamar replied.

"Sir, I'm going to scour the ship, as well as the outer parts of the ship near where his lab was. Maybe I can find a clue about where he's going, and what he's up to there!" Eric said, and he floated over to the Zig's airlock, and let himself out, to scan around the wreck of the Nomad. He wouldn't have to worry about floating away uncontrollably, since he could control ki to fly, much like Brett and Zac could. He knew Nole could do the same, and sighed in despair. "Comrade... where you have gone to in such a foolish haste...?" he said to himself as he arrived at the remains of the destroyed Nomad...
 

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Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
 
Zac finally arrived at the spring where DWGM had just placed the final power node. He turned around to see Zac standing there, defiant.

"What do you want?" DWGM asked.

"I'm here to stop you from siphoning this place's power."

"You're too late, kid. It's already begun."

Darn it, if I didn't stop for that moment...

DWGM snapped Zac out of berrating himself with a swift kick to the stomach. The blow sent Zac flying into a nearby rock wall. Zac started to slide down before shaking off the rock and flying back to DWGM.

"You've come back for some more?" DWGM taunted. "Or are you prepared to die like your loser brother?"

That last comment broke a mental cord within the recesses of his mind. Since his brother's death, Zac hadn't had a proper time to grieve and thus bottled up his emotional baggage. The lid to the mental bottle burst and the anger and grief Zac felt over losing Brett flooded every fiber of his being. "What did you just SAY?!" Zac gritted through his teeth, trying to control his emotions, as he knew they could get in the way of his fighting ability.

"You heard me! Brett was and is a nothing compared to me! He's a waste of flesh, although his is probably starting to-"

With Zac's self control gone, Zac had flown into DWGM and started to pulverize the creature. His anger consumed him, blinded him. Right now, he wasn't Zac anymore, but the embodiment of anger and hatred themselves. "No one, and I mean NO ONE gets away with insulting my brother!!" Zac incoherently shouted, being too angry to focus on actually saying much. A few minutes of beating down on the villain, Zac flew back and started to gather energy.

DWGM sat on the ground, still stunned by the onslaught that Zac dished out upon him. Barely able to see straight for the moment, his eyes tried their best to focus on Zac.

Zac aura had started out its usual color of gold, but as he gathered energy, the aura turned to that of a clear, midnight sky and growing darker by the second.

"Shadow Bolt!" Zac shouted. All of the energy he gathered flung itself from his aura and into the sky. Arching as it neared the ceiling of the cave, the energy mass bent itself towards DWGM.

"Noo!!" DWGM shouted as the dark energy struck him head on. After a few seconds, the energy dissipated and a fairly injured DWGM lie on the ground, unconscious. Just then, two things happened: Clyde arrived via punching through the cave's ceiling and Ben also had followed Zac and had now joined him.

"Well, I see that you've done a number on my friend," Clyde spoke up as he poured energy over DWGM, curing most of his wounds and allowing him to regain consciousness. Zac growled as he slid into a fighter's stance. Ben, slightly confused, drew one of his swords and readied himself.

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"At last! It's time for Olympus's awakening!" Nole shouted. Turning to Adure, he shouted, "now you'll see its power and my genius! Olympus, arise and bring forth your power!"

At first nothing happened. Then a twitch in its hand. His one foot spasmed. Slowly, the creature began to stir. Adure's eyes slowly started to widen as he could actually feel the energy radiating from him. Not just a little, but mounds of it, like being stuck into an electrical socket without it hurting somehow, only the voltage was exponentially higher. A few moments later and Olympus took its first steps and off of its platform.
As soon as it stepped off of the platform, its montrous size dwindled to an average five foot, eleven inches. Small, pink wings sprouted from its back.

"Finally, my best work yet is ready for some action!" Nole said with glee.

"I am Olympus: Mode Zoogle. What are my tasks for today?" Olympus: MZ spoke. Its voice boomed and seemed to grab one's attention, albeit having a voice mostly like Zac's, but with a hint of GMOE's. Its voice drew your focus to it.

"First of all, I want you to go and find that stupid Captain and his little pet, Eric. I want you to erase them from the picture. After that is done or if you are stopped by the planet's fighters, you are to rid me of them as well. You have a record of all of them in your memory."

Scanning its memory, Olympus located data on all of its targets. "It shall be done. This planet's time is nigh... I will return with good news of my victories." Olympus started to hover off the ground before streaking into the sky to find its quarry.

[ June 03, 2003, 01:54 AM: Edited by: DrAndounts ]
 

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Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
 
Clyde stood a towering eight feet tall, towering over Zac and Ben. His black skin shimmered and his eyes glowed a crimson red. His fanged mouth continued smirking.

"I see you put quite a beating down on my friend here. Bravo, bravo. I must admit that I am impressed. However, this does not deter me."

"Who are you?"

"Who, me? My name is Clyde. Or Darkside. You can just call me Clyde."

"Where did you come from?"

"Up there," he said, pointing to the sky.

"So, you've been sent by that doomship outside the atmosphere, huh?"

"That's correct. Now then, no time to chat. I have other things to attend to."

With that, Clyde sent a gangly black arm screeching into Zac's face. A horrible crunching sound resulted as he was sent hurtling backwards. Clyde zipped behind him in a ball of fire, then slammed him upwards. Zac smacked straight into the ceiling and fell to the ground limp.

"That's it? That's all you can handle? DWGM, you let this guy beat you?"

DWGM looked at him, frustration on his face.

"Oh well, anyways, I guess it's time for the next guy."

Clyde turned to face Ben, who by this time had ran a considerable distance away. He quickly opened a pursuit, screeching along at incredible speed. All the while, Zac was climbing back to his feet and reconsidering his plans.

Oh man! Who is this guy? thought Ben, running for his life.

His running turned into an excersize in futility as Clyde bursted from the ground in front of him. It seemed to be another dead end.

"This is too easy."

Clyde grinned widely, again exposing his fangs. He held his arm level to Ben's face. Sparks began leaping from his fingers, arcing around his victim. Before Ben could even manage a scream, he was blasted through a wall by an inredibly powerful blast of energy. Thinking his work was done, he turned to DWGM and helped him to his feet.

"You sure had a number done on you."

"Tell me about it."

Dr. Andonuts had all the while been tied to a rock above the cavern. He finally managed to break his mouth free of the gag tied to it and yelled for help.

"Hey," DWGM asked. "What was that?"

"That's Dr. Andonuts. He's got the other six dragonballs."

"Oh really? Well let's go up there and get them!"

Clyde and DWGM jumped up through the hole and searched Dr. Andonuts, who detested the search rather vocally. Clyde was angry to find he no longer had them in his posession, but kept up a cool appeareance.

"Dr. Andonuts, I know that you had the dragonballs at one point. I'm just wondering... where did they go?"

"Well," he said, thinking of a lie on the spot. "I took them up in the Sky Runner and dropped them in the six most desolate places in EagleLand. At least, I think so. I wasn't paying attention to where I dropped them."

"You IDIOT!!" roared DWGM. "I'LL KILL YOU!!"

"No, no. Let's keep our cool. What we have to do is simply bring Dr. Andonuts here on our mission to find the rest of them. He should recognize these places."

With that, they took off with Dr. Andonuts in hand.

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As Clyde and DWGM prepared to take out Ben, a beeping sound eminated from Clyde's belt. The two stopped and Clyde pulled out a transceiver.

"This is Clyde, what is it?"

"We have a change in plans for you and DWGM. You two are to track down and eliminate that rogue Nole. We'll rendezvous at your coordinates as soon as you spot him.

"You sure? We were about to rid ourselves of-"

"You aren't to talk back to me! Head out from your current location at once!"

"Yes sir," Clyde sighed. "Let's get going. It might take a while." The two took off through the hole in the cave's roof and disappeared.

"You okay?" Zac asked as he tapped Ben on the shoulder. He didn't respond. "Ben? Ben?!" Zac started to panic. Remembering Brett, Zac grabbed a hold of Ben and instant transmissioned back to where the rest of his group still sat and then instant transmissioned them back to the complex.

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The group reappeared inside the familiar building. Zac, carrying Ben, rushed to the infirmary and immediately hooked him up to the machine. Whew... hey, wait. That's Ben. For a while there, I thought he was... Brett...

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"Sir! We've spotted him. His coordinates are x23/y57/z0."

"Good. We'll be there in a couple of seconds," Jamar responded. The two landed as Eric and Jamar appeared via a functioning transport device from the Nomad.

"Nole, you traitorous, backstabbing cretin. You're through. Clyde, DWGM, slowly take care of him."

Just before the two could carry out their orders, a flash of black streaked in front of the sun. The creation known as Olympus landed between Nole and the two advancing creatures.

"You will cease your actions at once," Olympus: MZ responded.

"Hey, kid, when did you get those wings?"

"What do you mean? I am Olympus: Mode Zoogle. I am not who you think I am."

"Huh? You're not that kid we just beat up at Fire Springs?"

"No. I am vastly superior to him in every way."

"Oh yeah?" DWGM replied. "What can you do, huh?"

"This," Olympus calmly responded. His right fist connected with blazing speed into DWGM's side, sending the digital monster flying into a nearby mountain.

"Let's see you take me on!" Clyde shouted, picking up a sword from the ground.

"Shadow Spear," Olympus spoke. A dark engergy staff formed in his hands and blocked the sword swing. Olympus pushed Clyde away and swung his staff right through the steel blade of the sword. DWGM recovered from the blow and rejoined his ally.

"This might be a bit harder than expected," Clyde whispered.

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Clyde then stared at Olympus and smirked. "Well, if that didn't make you hungry. Perhaps this little gift will!" he growled, and cupped his hands, forming a freezing energy within them, and launching a blast of PK Freeze at Olympus which nailed the superweapon head on, causing a wall of ice to form around it. Clyde didn't stop there however, pulling another sword from the ground and using it as a pole vault and jumped up at Olympus with his feet outstretched in a double kick, slamming into the frozen Olympus will all of his might, sending it reeling back and falling to the ground, shattering.

Well, maybe not totally shattering. Just the shell of ice that had formed around Olympus , rather than totally freezing him like Clyde had expected. Olympus calmly peeled himself off the ground, and stared at Clyde and DWGM and spoke in a dronish, but still humanly voice, "Power attacked by is identified as: PK Freeze Omega. Preparing a proper counterattack." Clyde realized what was about the happen and screamed: "GET DOWN!!" as Olympus unleashed a massive PK Fire Omega attack back in their direction. Luckily Clyde's warning was fast enough, and only he took damage, although not a great amount, whereas DWGM, Jamar and Eric had gotten their bacon out of the way in time.

DWGM decided he would attempt to attack again. He pulled out the Ultra Stasis Array, and began growling to himself I will not allow this trash to defeat us! I JUST got all 8 Sanctuaries marked, and I'll be darned if I let Nole's freak of nature put me down now of all times before I also gain their powers!! He then looked at Olympus and growled, "Suck it, Dolphin!!" and fired the USA right at Olympus. The superweapon took the hit and began to slow down sigficantly. However, just as with Nebiroth in the complex, the USA wasn't fully stopping it, but simply slowing it down. "No!! He's just like that stupid green demon that ChaosGallentmon and I fought earlier!!" Olympus looked at DWGM and stated: "You are bothering me to no end, puny fool. I possess Nebiroth's DNA, thus I am immune to all time-freezing attacks." "WHAT?! NO WAY!!" DWGM growled in frustration. Eric suddenly realized faster than his allies of the horrid truth.

Nole wasn't being stupid... he knew what he wanted to make from the data he collected long before we knew too much on them. THIS must be the superweapon he kept bragging about. But what confuses me is why does it look like two of the Earth defenders combined?! Eric then looked at his hateful former comrade. "Nole!! What is the meaning of all of your insanity?!" Nole looked over to him and replied, with bitter scorn on the tip of his tounge, "The meaning of this is that I'm tired of all of this blundering around with this stupid world. I'm also tired of all the blundering with the rebels, and most of all, I'm tired of YOU and JAMAR. You shall both be crushed today by my almighty Olympus. It will crush you all into grease spots on the planet floor! And I'll be loving every moment of it!! However, don't feel bad, old comrade... I will also crush the rest of the Earth people with this weapon, and use this planet for the reasons we should've used it for in the first place!!"

However Nole appearantly was too indulged in his banter to his old Jarettin counterpart, and Jamar himself had taken the advantage of his distraction and ran in quickly to a console, noting Adure in the CG field. He knew what he had to do, and switched off the console, disarming the CG field. However Adure was too tortured mentally from all the banter with Nole and the jolts he received from the CG field earlier to react. Jamar realized something just then As much as he's given us problems before. Even he doesn't deserve to be in the hands of a maniac like Nole! He quickly grabbed the dazed Adure, and fastened a small device to his back, and quickly pressed it, and Adure suddenly teleported out, back to the escape Zigs from the late-Nomad, where he Jamar would send orders to his crew up there to nurse Adure back to health. As much as he hated to say it. He was probably going to need help from the strange shape-shifting person. He did sorta put them in this predictament, but perhaps he had other reasons for it as well. He ran back over to Eric, Clyde and DWGM, and quickly shouted. "It's time to get the he$$ outta here, Eric, DoomWereGrowlithMon, and you too Clyde. DWGM and Clyde looked at their captain like he was crazy. "Captain, you just released me into this world, and now you want me to retreat?!" Clyde growled. "Clyde, LISTEN TO ME. Eric and I know just how bad Nole can be, and appearantly this... this Olympus thing of his has been planned much longer than you have been!" "NO!! NO THIS... this cannot be..." Clyde growled in denial. "Believe it, you stupid outdated fool!" Nole blasted back. "I always vowed Olympus would be stronger than you, or whatever the goonies Eric made for his Darkside project, and I'll be da%^ed if I let weaklings like you interupt our plans!" "Nole, you are insane. Just remember that, and insanity never truly did anyone good in the end. Farewell, old fool, and I hope you rest in pieces when the Earth people are done with you and your pet project!" Eric growled in anger at him, and he, Jamar, DWGM, and even Clyde, teleported back to the Nomad's escape Zigs quickly, but not before Clyde had gone back and picked up Dr. Andonuts and taken him in as well.

Olympus looked poised to react, but Nole stopped him. "No Olympus... on second thought... perhaps we should bide our time now. The time will come to strike those fools down, and whe..." Nole suddenly stopped in mid-sentence when he realized the full effect of what happened and saw Adure gone. "NO!!! JAMAR... YOU COINIVING LITTLE MONKEY!! How dare he steal MY captive from me!! Bah... oh well... I guess it doesn't matter for now. At least I won't have to worry about him escaping again. And with the record he has around Jamar and the rest of the Nomad's crew. He'll probably get out of their clutches in a matter of time anyways. And when he does come back, your first true mission will be to destroy that shapesifting freak." "Very well, my ally." Olympus simply replied, and decided to curl down in a meditative stance, and simply closed its eyes and waited for the time its master beckoned...

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Needless to say, Jeff was very nervous about sparring with Ness. He may have possessed a zitch more speed, and a good natural defense, but he was the weakest at unarmed hand-to-hand combat out of the Chosen Four, and this worried him. Ness may have said he would take it easy on him, and not use his PK for anything, but it still worried him. Ness however decided to break his train of thought, "Ready when you are, Jeff!" Jeff sighed to himself, and began to think of a good way he could fight Ness without his items. Ness however noticed his nervousness. Man, he's really nervous! I hate to do this, but it's drastic measures! Ness suddenly ran towards Jeff. Jeff caught a glimpse of Ness coming at his with a half decent punch aim at him...

Which had been met by a shockingly good blocking reaction from Jeff, only stinging the boy genius's arms a little. Ness smiled, jumping back for a moment, "See! You're not that bad at fighting!" "Ness, I just BLOCKED a blow. I never THREW one back. Sure I may have good defense, but my physical strength stinks." "Prove it then!" Ness challenged, jumping at Jeff again. Jeff reacted by dodging him, and throwing a punch of his own to Ness' gut, but it only pushed Ness back a little bit. Ness held his stomach a bit protectively. "Well, you do know decent areas to hit, but that doesn't mean you're weak! Come on, Jeff. I want you to knock me down if you can!" Ness challenged again, making a third dash at his friend. Jeff however was just a bit too nervous, and took a decent blow to the shoulders, knocking him aside. Jeff for some reason however didn't complain, but narrowed his eyes. "I guess I do need to be serious, after all, Ness." he replied sternly. Ness simply charged at him again. Jeff studied his movements thoroughly this time, understanding what Ness was going to do this time. Ness came closer, and Jeff suddenly flopped over on his back, and Ness began to fly over Jeff, but the genius suddenly kicked upwards and nailed Ness in the stomach with a actually strong double kick that sent Ness flying to the left and making him roll over as he landed. Ness began to notice, Good... he's learning. He actually analyzed me, like he does anything normally in battle, except that he actually formed a hand-to-hand strategy with it. He looked to Jeff and said, "Okay, you're learning a bit faster than I thought, so I'm going to up it just a bit!" Ness dashed forward at Jeff once again, but he began to Zig-zag as he ran, making it harder for Jeff to analyze the attack, and he caught Jeff off guard with a blow to the upper chest, sending the genius reeling a few feet. Jeff looked up at his friend with a half scowl, as he ran forth towards Ness with determination. He's attacking me for a change! I'll have to see what he tries Ness began to run at Jeff as well, but before they would collide, Jeff made a big dive, spreading his legs out as he slid, both of them catching Ness's legs and tripping him over on his face. Ness grunted in pain, but he was actually praising Jeff's stunt. "Deception. That's you alright Jeff." he chuckled. "I'm not quite finished yet!" Jeff said to his friend, and began to stare at his friend thoroughly, and look him over, and Ness began to sense something odd happening around his friend. Ness's eyes suddenly went wide as he saw a bolt of electricity crackle around Jeff. Jeff's eyes suddenly shimmered, and he screamed, "SANDAA!!" and out of nowhere, a large bolt of pure electricity formed above Jeff, slamming down at an angle and slamming into Ness, jolting him a good amount, and sending him flying at his back, more in shock than in pain.

At that point, another pair of eyes had become focused on that particular fight. Sandra's eyes, which were wide in shock. It can't be... he just used magic!! Sandra recognized the name Jeff had yelled: Sandaa, a level 1 thunder magic spell, and one of the first she had learned on Santranus in her childhood years. She began to wonder if it was possible he could learn more magic, and most of all, if she could teach him, and perhaps unearth it in the rest of her friends. Sure it may not be as strong as her soul-linked magic, but having magic helped every little bit, especially in Jeff's case...

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Paula stared at Nebiroth as they prepared to battle in their own part of the Training room. She wasn't exactly scared of her sister's former nemesis's minion, but more she was worried that she would be a disappointment to him. Her life had really taken a turn in the recent hours. Her sister Sandra had returned from being lost in the universe for 10 years, and she was likely several times stronger than her and her friends, due to all the experiences from her past. Paula many times during the recent hours wondered how Sandra would react to the fact she was still dependant to an extent. She was worried that Sandra would scold her about it if she figured it out. That was the reason she had agreed to fight Nebiroth, so she could realize her comparison to her sister, and to break her dependant mold. Nebiroth stared at her with his own interest. He knew Paula wasn't likely nearly as experienced as Sandra, but she WAS the pink-haired brat's sister, so surely she held her own secrets...

Nebiroth realized that Paula wasn't making the first move, so he decided to start the battle by stomp his way over to her, bringing back an old sense from his days as Sardius's guardian, and when he fought Sandra. He then positioned himself within 7 feet of Paula, and his lower face on his stomach began to flare up with fire. Paula suddenly realized he was about to breath a swath of fire her way, and quickly darted around to avoid in the incoming flames, a few singing her hair a little. Paula grumbled, "That was way too close..." And decided to counterattack by shoot a blast of PK Freeze Gamma at Nebiroth's head, remembering from her talk with Sandra that he was mostly only weak when hit in the upper head. The gust of air moved too fast for Nebiroth to dodge, and hit him dead on, causing icicles to form on his hairline. He grumbled to himself, and shook the ice off. "Not bad for first attack! Nebiroth attack again!" the demonoid growled, and began charging a tri-stacked beam to launch her way. Paula looked at this with some shock, realizing she was too close to dodge all of it, and took a good hit from the lower part of the beam, but not enough to quite knock her out, but she was already winded. Not good... I'm nowhere near Sandra's level... I can't use normal fighting here. she thought to herself. Looking at him, she began to stare him sternly in the eyes. Nebiroth suddenly felt himself soften up a little defensively. She knows how to reduce defensive attributes like Sandra can, I see. he thought to himself in a perfect tone. Paula suddenly moved with near lightning speed and swung a kick into his left leg, hoping to at the very least knock him on his face and stun him.

However she didn't do much damage, and hurt her leg on Nebiroth's harder than though leg. She jumped up and down in pain, grumbling. Nebiroth noticed this and realized I think I understand why she seems nervous. She has nothing near the physical strength of her sister. If that had been Sandra who pulled that move off, I would've been lying on my face by now! Paula on the other hand was yelling at herself mentally for thinking that would've worked. Stupid stupid! Why did I have to do that. Now I've hurt myself worse! However she had little time to think more, as Nebiroth prepared another tri-stacked beam. Paula would've been ab