Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- The Spinoff!

   "So, that explains why Lord Narktus 'matched'. He will want to hear about this."    Weiss prepares to warp away.

"I will lend my power however I am able," says Mata Nui.

DMK says nothing.

Dark Riku hops down off his rock and stands there stoically.

"Heh... You're a more difficult woman to find than I expected, sister," Thor says to Hela. "Rest assured, Loki and I haven't come seeking another fight. Rather, we're here to talk."

"And who, may I ask, might your new friend here be?" Loki chimes in.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Feb 23rd 2020 at 2:50:39 AM

You'd seek diplomacy? Asgard has truly lost its roots. She say, shaking her head.

Awfully confident of you to walk up to me without thinking I'll attack.

Darkku smirks.    "Just call me Riku. I'm sure we'll get to know each other very well."   

He is making no attempt to hide his seething eeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiiil.

Cyber nods to Weiss.

"Inform him of everything I told you, if he did not already hear directly."

He then turns back to Eleven.

"Of course, I'm not expecting you to grant us access to your base. The privilege of entering ours is a condition for Pseudo and his close allies. It'd be unreasonable to ask the same of you while not returning the favor."

Then back to the group as a whole.

"Now that we are officially allies, I will soon send you the location of the base we are currently using. We'll need to discuss a plan of attack. Whether we do it there or another, more neutral location, I'll let you decide. For now, we will return to our base."

He turns around.

"Hold on. One last thing.", Pseudo asks, causing Cyber to turn his head.

"Once the threat has been dealt with, I request that our truce will last one more week. To allow us to regroup ourselves."

He smirks.

"If you truly have such a big advantage as you claim you do, then surely you will not object to this?"

Cyber seems to think it over.

"I accept.", he says, nodding, then flies off. Hub turns back to the group with a childish smirk and a teasing wink.

   "Lookin' forward to working with you lot."   , he says before flying away too.

Weiss nods to Cyber and finishes her departure.

Mata Nui stands there, still seeming worried about Yasha...

GE!DMK enters a mirror, then fades away from its image - his own method of teleporting away.

And they said "you're not a good diplomat", pfffff!

She flies off!

Once Pseudo (and Pilly) is alone with Botar and Mata Nui, the chimera suddenly looks pissed, to Pilly's confusion.

"Pseudo? What's wrong? You looked angry a little bit before as well, when he was talking.", she asks.

"Are you regretting your choice?", Botar asks.

"No. It's nothing.", Pseudo says. "Well, let's focus on one of the hardest parts that has to come now."

He sighs.

"Informing our allies our of new, temporary allies."

Pseudo's monitor's screen goes blank, after which it flies off. Leaving Botar with Mata Nui.

Mata Nui looks up at the sky.

"I fear for the coming weeks, Botar. I have an aching feeling that something is going to go very wrong very soon."

"Unless you want to get into a shouting match, Hela, I can't speak to you without getting closer. Now don't worry, I'm not here to try and convince you to forgive Odin for sealing you away or anything," Thor assures Hela. "That would be a fool's errand if there ever was one... No, I think we should form an alliance."

"Well, I do appreciate you not wasting my valuable time with a paper-thin facade of benevolence," Loki replies to Riku, smirking in return. "Nonetheless, it might be in your best interest to tread lightly, my dear boy."

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Mar 8th 2020 at 3:24:26 AM

And why would I want to form an alliance? She says, barely moving any closer.

   "Heh. We'll see about that. And as much as I'd like to rough you up, for now my contract says I defer to her,"    Dark Riku coyly remarks with a nod in Hela's direction.

Edited by KiriK on Feb 23rd 2020 at 5:20:00 AM

"I feel the same, Great Spirit.", Botar says. "What I said was true, but I still don't trust this situation. I suppose we can only hope that the Cyber Angel will go down relatively easily."

Mata Nui chuckles mirthlessly. "The Cyber Angels may be our biggest problem... but I feel that they won't be our only problem."

He turns and walks down the mountain.

"Because this realm is filled with enemies who pose a significant threat to us both. For instance, there's Thanos, the madman who launched that... abomination at a bloody city for no reason other than because he could," Thor begins. "Then there's Gorr the God Butcher, a psychopath who more than lives up to his title. The Assassins and Gravitas, two organizations whose ranks contain people capable of challenging and even defeating someone as powerful as you. But if we were to put our differences aside and form an alliance, they would all fall before us."

"Don't say I didn't warn you, child," Loki simply replies.

And what if I were to tell you that I'm already taken? She says, smirking and pointing her thumb at Dark Riku.

Botar watches him leave, then crosses his arms and sighs.

"In a place like this, problems never come alone.", he says to himself before warping out.

Astil

Lucas is walking around in the forest area, having just finished training for today. The Rope Snake is curled around his neck, napping. Lucas looks around as he wipes his forehead.

"Phew, I worked up a bit of a sweat today. But man, I've become more agile than I ever thought was possible. Hah, I can't wait to show Claus, Kumatora, Duster and Thor my new moves!", he excitedly says. Due to this, he doesn't pay attention to where he's going and walks into a bush, bumping into something and falling over.

"Ouch! Ow.", he mutters, after which he looks up, finding himself face-to-face with a Space Pirate◊, with said Pirate's eyes wide open in surprise and shock when he realizes who he's looking at.

Lucas, however, does not realize anything due to his lack of memories, and gets up.

"I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to... you're not hurt, are you?"

The Space Pirate, a bit stunned, slowly shakes his head.

"What a relief.", Lucas says, smiling. "I should pay more attention to my surroundings."

His stomach then growls.

"Oh, oops. I guess I trained a bit much today. I, uh, gotta go now, mister."

He then starts jogging away, looking back one last time.

"Sorry again!"

He then looks in front of himself as he runs, intending on making his way back to the Hub Centralis. The Space Pirate, snapping out of his shock, immediately grabs a transmitter.

"L-L-Lord Ridley! I... I... I found him!"

   "Follow him. Find out where he's headed. Then tell me right away..."   , Ridley's voice rings out from the device with sadistic glee.

"R-right away, sir!"

The Space Pirate starts to stalk an unsuspecting Lucas...

Dark Riku gives her a flat look of disappointment.    "Did ya really have to play that card? Huuughhhh..."   

He steps forward and throws off his black cloak to reveal his Dark Mode suit, wrapped around him like the exposed musculature of a man skinned alive.

   "So here's where we stand. Hela has already been... shall we say, 'reached out to' by Maleficent with offers of dark powers to augment her already-ridiculous capabilities and whatnot, but in exchange she has to help train me. Now, that doesn't make me your enemy... unless the ladies agree that it does."    He grins like a complete fucking lunatic.

   "Now, what does she have to say about that?"   

Edited by KiriK on Feb 23rd 2020 at 5:52:49 AM

"Whoever this Maleficent the boy speaks of is, I imagine she must see you as little more than a glorified servant to assign dirty work to," Thor calmly replies to Hela. "And once she feels that your usefulness has reached its end, she'll toss you aside without a second thought. I, on the other hand, would not only treat you as both an ally and equal, but allow you access to Mjolnir whenever you need it. Provided you don't attempt to betray us, of course."

"In addition, the foes that Thor mentioned earlier really are as powerful as he claims, so you wouldn't exactly be starved for great battles," Loki adds.

I know. I'll just kill her when I'll need to. And to be honest, I don't really care about getting your respect and being treated as an "equal".

I'm getting bored... hm, how about I say "yes" and you bug off now? If I see you fighting against somebody, I won't stab you in the back, but I won't be buddying up with you anyhow.

Edited by Bolded1 on Feb 23rd 2020 at 1:13:46 PM

   "Tch,"    Dark Riku mutters.    "I'd take Maleficent myself if it weren't more convenient to have a powerful sorceress with loads of worldly knowledge and the only key to Sora's whereabouts on hand."   

More clearly, he states,    "Sounds fine by me, I suppose. So long as there's no personal beef, I'm content to beat up other enemies instead."   

"Very well, then. I suppose we have a deal," Thor says.

"Heh, that's probably the best offer we've had all day," Loki remarks.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Feb 23rd 2020 at 4:40:07 AM

Good.

Hela just turn around and leave.

Edited by Bolded1 on Feb 23rd 2020 at 1:58:59 PM

Dark Riku opens up a dark corridor and walks through it.

   "See ya around."   

It shuts behind him.

The Sons of Odin depart from the premises as well.

"It's about bloody time our luck started improving."

"Provided she doesn't go back on her word, of course."

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Feb 23rd 2020 at 5:15:39 AM