"Well a Heart is.......uh......." Pete started to explain to Shockwave, but immediately fumbled. "Well....er....first of all, it got nuthin' ta do with the literal organ, ya know? If it did, that there'd be a LOT more Heartless and a WHOLE lotta more blood. Anyway, a Heart is something, a sort metaphysical typa thing that's the source of peoples' emotions and all that, and it holds a person's memories as well."
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HITTING HELPY!!Doom listened to Pete's bumbling explanation with a raised eyebrow, somewhat intrigued in spite of himself. It was certainly more interesting than the battle depicted on the table—which he had labeled "the Strategium" in his mind—at any rate; how the combined powers of his fellow Overlords could fail to fell a single pyrokinetic school girl was completely beyond him.
The Danse Macabre Codex"A flying Contractor...!"
Mai was surprised to see Zod fly straight at her. Even though Megatron and Zod were about to come into contact with her, the Kryptonian was first due to his super speed and punched Mai. Blocking her face with her arms was futile as the strong force propelled her towards some turbine machinery.
Mao whistled. "Haven't seen a flying Contractor in my life yet..."
"Aw, what do YOU know!" Pete said to Midbus. He then turned to Fawful. "Yeah, of course they listen to me!" Pete said to the Bean scientist. "Not everyone can summon Heartless! Takes a special kinda person with both the right amount of Will power and Darkness to boss these things around! Moderation's also the key! Can't summon too many and too powerful once at the same or else they start comin' after YOU!"
"That is because he is not human at all," Maleficent said to Mao. "I believe him to be alien, but what exactly I do not know." She then saw Mai being thrown into the turbines. "I think both this battle and our objective will be finished soon....."
edited 15th Mar '11 1:41:43 PM by UdtheImp
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HITTING HELPY!!"Looks like it's going to be overkill."
The Shocker Rider said after he spent a few minutes extinguishing the flames from his body, in time to see the projectile from Megatron's cannon make contact to the turbine where Mai's body was hurled at thanks to Zod's punch.
"An alien?" Mao said, hearing Maleficent's suggestion. "Well there was some talk that Hell's and Heaven's Gate were suppose to be done by aliens."
The Shocker Rider marched to the turbine machinery after Megatron had fired his cannon at it, dragging out a wounded and seemingly dying Mai. If any Overlord was listening, she was humming a song as part of her contract payment.
"Looks like she's dying."
The Rider dropped her on the floor.
edited 15th Mar '11 1:32:13 PM by Ominae
—A hiss of hydraulics, and Megatron's index finger and thumb are on opposite sides of the girl's head.—
Face Your Death With A Small Amount Of Grace, Child, If You Can Focus On One Thing At All.
—Shockwave's optic blinked.—
I will need a better explanation than that, feline.
edited 15th Mar '11 1:27:05 PM by Colonial1.1
"He could not know it. For it was not all a joke."Clapping echoed in the chamber behind the group as Sigma revealed himself. Apparently, the Reploid had been hanging back and allowing the other Overlords to tire themselves out so he wouldn't have to fight.
"Congratulations. I could have retired them in a fraction of the time... what's your excuse for your sloppiness?" Sigma's voice dripped with barely contained hatred, but the more observant among the group would notice the plain, unassuming yellow cylinder hanging on his hip.
Sigma's minions said nothing, only observing events.
Locking you up on radar since '09Sigma spread his arms wide, and he made a show of expressing false dismay.
"Oh, you wound me..." His expression quickly darkened. "Really, I don't see why I should let you hold all the cards. If you wish to find out what this is..." Sigma tapped the cylinder, which made a gentle clinking noise. "...Then it will be when I choose."
edited 15th Mar '11 1:57:50 PM by Flanker66
Locking you up on radar since '09"Will power and darkness are being those only things with necessity to summon these Heartless?" asked Fawful, his grin widening ever so slightly.
Although it has not been mentioned before, several Fawfulcopters had been hovering over the Strategium the entire time, recording the challenge for Fawful's later review.
edited 15th Mar '11 2:01:59 PM by Sir_Screwloose
Pretend there's something clever written here."If you're planning to betray us, could you at LEAST wait until we're finished with this challenge?" Maleficent said to Sigma as he was presenting the yellow cylinder. "Its just bad manners to do so otherwise."
"Well, that's as good as an explanation as I can give ya," Pete said to Shockwave. "There's these two guys, Ansem and Xehanort, who got entire entire reports about Hearts and how they work, but only Maleficent has copies of them, so ya gotta ask her for them."
He then turned to Fawful. "Yeah, but I think there's some spell or something that has to been in order for you to summon and control them, or being exposed to them long enough without being consumed after somebody else orders them to follow you around, like what Maleficent did with me. Maleficent could control them from the get-go cuz her heart's really, REALLY Dark......"
A beat.
"That, or maybe because she's a Dark Faerie....." Pete added, scratching his head as he pondered.
edited 15th Mar '11 7:25:06 PM by UdtheImp
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HITTING HELPY!!"If I were going to do that, then you would all have been dead. Try harder next time you fight, though. Your life depends on it." Sigma grinned.
Locking you up on radar since '09"You presume far too much, automaton," Maleficent said to Sigma, the tone of her voice making it obvious the label automaton to be an insult. "If you are as powerful a fighter your ego deludes you to believe, then by all means handle the next opponent we have by yourself. I'll be happy to help once you are within an inch from Death's door....."
edited 15th Mar '11 2:59:06 PM by UdtheImp
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HITTING HELPY!!"My god..." Brita was in shock when she saw Megatron squish Mai's head.
"This is why I don't trust mercenaries." Amagiri told the blonde contractor.
"Hey I do stuff like this all the time." replied the Shocker Rider.
From the control room nearby, a bunch of PANDORA personnel watched the events going on in the turbine room via surveillane cameras.
"So she failed..." A Japanese man wearing a brown suit and red tie commented. "It doesn't matter. Get the Jupiter Ring ready."
"Yes sir!"
Mao frowned, checking out the destroyed room.
"Strange. There should be reports that the Ring system's failing..."
He patted the bell around his cat neck.
"Unless this room's a fake and the real one's by the control room!"

"Here we go again..." Daido said, holding the Eternal Memory.
ETERNAL!
"Henshin!" Daido said, placing the memory into the Lost Driver and activating it.
ETERNAL!
Daido's armor attached itself to Daido from the feet up. The cape forming once the armor was completly formed. "Now... Let's enjoy hell." Daido said.