A Game of Gods: Infinities

Narancia had been watching the group with curiosity. Since they were all from different worlds that would explain why several of them were different, but a lot of them were humans. Was humanity so wide spread everywhere? He honestly expected to see more people like the talking duck or that cowboy looking thing. Speaking of, that duck really seemed to like to hear himself talk. By this point it was background noise. That why he didn't notice anything was odd until it was silent.

The young gangster turned his head curiously and saw a portal where Dodgers had been. Slowly he walked over to it, expecting something to jump out at him. Luckily, after a few moments, nothing happened. He approached and looked inside, not able to make out anything other than swirling magic, or whatever it was. He turned and yelled "Hey guys! The duck is gone!"

Edward looked at the Fuzzles, and then at Stranger. "Well, great. As long as they don't try to eat me, I'm fine with it. And I'm still hungry."

He took a good look at the door as he heard the faint echo of Dodger's scream. "Did anyone else hear that? Sounded like someone having the worst day of his life."

Stranger kept a straight face at Edward's comment, but on the inside he had a very, very unsettling grin as he idly tapped his ammo bag. Maybe he would introduce the fuzzles to the punk sometime, just to say hello.

Cloud nodded. He could easily believe that. Nibelheim was not the best place to let small children go wandering, what with the... unique wildlife.

He looked up at Dodgers's scream. "Probably just more people trying to kill each other."

"Yeah, but that one was too... comical." Edward said, scratching his chin. "Sounded more like someone doing something funny than an actual fight. I think we should check it, Doc. Who knows, there might be food there."

He nodded. "Sure... are you two coming? If it is another fight... well, I only have one way of breaking up fights right now..."

The portal didn't react to Narancia: in fact, it continued to display a black background, waiting for someone to enter it. The portal wasn't making any noises, although if anyone got close enough, they would hear the faint noises of an unusual theme, almost like some sort of band was on the other side. The portal was, however, emitting some sort of signal: it couldn't be seen, only felt, since it was the portal calling for the Champions.

Fumio turned, as if someone had called her name.

And that's when she saw the portal.

She felt herself being drawn to it, but resisted, albeit just barely.

"Does anyone know if that's normal around here?" she asked. "I feel like I should go to it... But I'm worried it could be a trap."

edited 2nd Jan '13 8:14:43 PM by Scrounge

"Oh he was!" Fluttershy said with great concern. "Don't worry, I'll tell him to be nicer to - "

Then she looked up to hear Duck Dodger scream and saw the black. "Its another mission," she said, scowling at the swirling black tear in reality. She turned back to the fuzzles. "Don't worry little ones, mummas' gonna come straight back here after she deals with this mission! I'll get you something before we go!" The pegasus flew into the castle and into the kitchen. A few moments later can came out with two large five pound steaks that she tossed into the cage.

She then cooed to the fuzzles one last time and turned to the others with a scowl. "Come on, let's get this over with....." she said in an annoyed tone. "At least its not vacuuming us up this time," she muttered as she floated towards the portal.

At the mention of Fluttershy leaving again, all the fuzzles flopped over onto their sides and began crying. They did, however, perk up at the steaks and tore into them. They finished them in less than a minute and lay in the cage, content.

Stranger looked over at the portal and sighed. It was looking like he'd be stuck here for a long time to come. He trotted towards the portal.

"I guess... that's a... yes?" Cloud watched Stranger and everyone else amble off, flummoxed. Apparently, whatever this was, it was a regular occurence...

He wandered after Stranger, intrigued, ready to pull out his rifle at a moment's notice.

Jack, having remained outside, could hardly not notice the scream and it was with a heavy heart that he recognized the cause. Another portal and so another challenge began. He sighed, then glanced over to Rey.

"If you would prefer to remain, I understand, but I must try and protect who I can." And with that, he stepped through the doorway between worlds.

Chun-Li watched as another portal had formed in front of them. She was thankful that the portal wasn't dragging herself inside for once.

"Another mission, then," Chun-Li finished her soup and jumped through the portal into a world unknown.

edited 3rd Jan '13 12:20:55 AM by GameGuruGG

Hearing the scream of the annoying duck, Envy turned and saw a portal suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

"Let me guess, this is the dimensional rift that the old man was talking about?"

Envy's guess was confirmed as the other Champions seemed to approach it.

"Ceh! Took ya long enough," He was starting to get bored standing around doing nothing in particular, anyway, so hopefully the next location won't be as dull as these city.

Wasting no time at all, he proceeded towards the portal, where he presumed where these 'challenges' will take place.

Narancia just looked on in confusion as people started walking into the portal with no idea of what was on the other side. He was pretty sure that was a bad idea, but then he overheard some of the others mention that this was one of those missions they were talking about before. He looked around as everyone seemed to be convening now. With a shrug he turned back to the portal and hesitantly stepped through.

"Uh, what the fuck?" Johnny asked, following the others into the portal.

Shotaro heard the faint song of something he'd hear in a detective movie. He smirked and ran right in. If he knew his songs right, he'd be heading right into a Hard Boiled world of detectives. Maybe he'd get to see one in person. Perhaps this is his reward for not letting the stresses of losing Phillip get to him.

Rey looked to Jack, then back to the portal. He let out a sigh, opening his faceplate, digging into his knapsack a moment, taking something out and putting it in his mouth, then closed the faceplate again, just walking forward, gripping the crowbar in his hand before jumping through to follow after the others.

Fumio watched the others parade past her.

"I guess that's my answer, then..."

Steeling her nerves and readying her chainsaw, she stepped into the portal. not sure what she'd find on the other side.

"A mission?" Edward asked, glancing at the steak Fluttershy threw to the Fuzzles, pondering if he had any chances of grabbing it and using it later. He shrugged, turning to the portal and walking towards it with Cloud and the others. "Well, Doc, I'm excited to see what's on that other side. Who knows? Maybe it'll be a restaurant."

Edward chuckled, flexing his muscles and doing a quick little stretch before jumping into the portal, ready for whatever was on the other side.

"H-hey! Wait up!..." He bit his lip, mulling it over. The last thing he needed was Stranger, or, even worse, Garland, getting on him for getting someone else hurt...

He closed his eyes and jumped through.

The portal seemed to take the Champions to a bottomless pit: the darkness continued on and on, but the wind kept blasting on their faces, the feeling of falling never ending... until finally, it ended. The entire group seemed to have fell in the middle of a gigantic old warehouse. The ceiling had a few holes, the walls had been repainted recently and the windows were blocked with woods. However, as the Champions all fell in a big mount of people, one sound came from the bottom.

"Get... out... you're all... smashing... me!" Dodgers yelled, until he finally squished-squashed his way from under the group. He swept the dust from his shoulders, looking at the place they landed. "Wooow. You think, with the description that guy gave us, he'd give us something with an actual budget!" He said, chuckling, and resting his hand on an unusually placed pillar.

Except what Dodgers rested his hand on wasn't a pillar. As lights were suddenly turned on and the sounds of machines being activated could be heard, it was clear there was something very big surrounding the Champions. It wasn't a monster, or a robot, no, it wasn't an entire factory: and suddenly, one of the claws grabbed Dodgers, placing him on top of the conveyor belt as the machines began to produce a somewhat familiar tune.

Dodgers tried to break his way out of the machine, but it took him to the first area of the factory, where he was blasted with jets of water. He then tried to sneak his way off the conveyor belt, but then the claws grabbed him, making him go through the second area, where he was blasted with jets of three different powders, entitled "children's dreams", "joy" and "a little bit of fun". Once he exited that second area, Dodgers was now wearing a tutu, had fairy wings and was somewhat floating. He tried to cover himself, blushing, but the claws took him to the third area, where he was spun around so fast, when he came out, he was covered in a sparkly gold dust, which was deposited in a bin at the end of the machine.

"Did anybody register that car's plate? Better give me those numbers because I want to register a complaint!" Dodgers said, before falling down in the ground, knocked out. As the factory continued to do its job, the sounds of guns being cocked could be heard as goons dressed as cliche gangsters from the mafia stepped out of the shadows, pointing their very modern machine guns at the Champions. "Stop right there, ya thieves!" One of the thugs yelled, displaying his New York accent. "Hey boss, we got some people sneaking in our Fairy Dust factory!"

"Well well well." A high-pitched voice said as a square being, also dressed as a gangster stepped out of the shadow. "So my little operation was discovered?" The square being said as he removed his gangster suit revealing... the not-at-all threatening image of Spongebob Squarepants. "Well, that doesn't matter! None of you will make it out of here alive, so no one will find out about my secret Fairy Dust factory! Hehehehheheh! Now, before I blast all of you open, mind telling me how you got h— WAITASECOND!" He yelled, his voice getting even more high-pitched than ever as he glared at the group. "We got... we got some toons in here, eh?"

"What do you want us to do, boss?"

"Heheheheh! While I can't kill a toon, I can blast them to smitheerens." Spongebob said, shrugging, as he rubbed his chin. "Keep an eye trained on them, boys! I want to know how these funny little things got inside my fairy dust factory. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SECRET! Fairy dust is illegal outside of movie productions, you know?! Too many people getting high." He said, shrugging, before pointing at the group. "Tell me! How did you get inside here! And maybe I'll tell my boys to end this quickly."

edited 3rd Jan '13 10:07:55 PM by Stratofarius

Rey had taken all of this in with a silent calm, up until Spongebob was finished speaking. After a few seconds, he reached up, taking off the helmet of his armor and holding it under one arm, before reaching up to pinch the bridge of his nose with the other hand, still not responding, before he finally muttered. "I'm sitting this one out. You guys go have fun." He turned to look around again, trying to locate an exit.

"Huh?"

Sora turned around, noticing the portal.

"Hey, Wait for me!"

Sora ran in following everyone else.

Edward stared and stared and stared for a long time at the yellow sponge in front of him, and he suddenly started chuckling once it finished his speech. "Okay, that's funny." He said, shaking his head. "It's a joke, right? It has to be a joke. It's a yellow brick. A talking yellow brick. A talking yellow brick wearing pants. And if I have to tell you guys everything that's wrong with this thing, we'd be here all day." He looked at the others, his smile slowly disappearing. "Please, tell me it's a joke."