Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- The Spinoff!

   "I don't know anyone either. My friend I'm staying with has no interest in fighting, not unless he has to."   , Ovarr says.    "He's working on his own stuff. Don't exactly have any other friends here either, so I'll have to leave this part to you."   

Gorochu, confused by the severity of Kikio's reaction, pauses again, allowing Missingno.'s charging-up to go unnoticed.

Lucas uses his Keyblade to block Roxas', though the impact makes him fly back against a wall himself. With how exhausted he already is, he's not going to be able to block such attacks.

A Pigmask crawls over to Xion, cartoonish waterfalls of tears coming out of the eyeholes on his mask.

"Thank youuuuuuuuu!", he cries.

Da Rules, V2

"I wenteth easy on youst lasteth time. Nowsth... I shan't showeth you mercy!", Rouxls Kaard exclaims. He then summons...

A block. Again.

... however, Rouxls' tries to fake I.M. Meen out this time by having the block suddenly launch itself right at his face.

"... is this a joke?", the cultist asks when the Risen gets crushed by seemingly nothing.

By the time Corrin comes to his realization, the three have already turned around and... well, witness his awkward introduction.

Selena then suddenly giggles, showing the rare sight of her smiling.

"Well, I think I'd recognize this demeanor anywhere."

"An alternate lord Corrin?", Laslow asks, intrigued.

"It seems fate's hand has brought us together! ... you are not lost as well, are you?", Odin asks, looking more meek at the second part.

"What are you trying to do with my wyvern!?", Morgan asks the cultists.

"The damned thing doesn't listen to a thing we say, and it keeps snapping its jaws at us.", a cultist says.

"It is nothing but a nuisance and we have permission to get rid of it."', another one says.

"What!? No, you can't do that!", Morgan yells, distraught.

"Yes we can. Miss Hilda, one of the highest ranking people in this fort, said we could. You're nothing but a lackey, like us, so her word outranks yours."

"I don't care what she said! Look, I'm taking care of him already, there isn't even any need for you to-"

"A wyvern that doesn't listen to all of us is a wyvern we can't work with. Now get lost, kid."

"And don't go crying at Grima's feet. She is lower ranked than Miss Hilda as well."

"N-no, I.. w-wait...", Morgan mutters as the cultists turn back to the cornered wyvern, grabbing their tomes. They open their tomes...

"GAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

Darkness swirls around one of the cultists, and he drops dead instantly, blood spilling just as Grima REX was hoping for. But the one responsible for it may come as a genuine surprise to the monstrous beast.

The cultists turn back around to witness Morgan bearing a dark and intense glare at them, showing the eyes of a killer as he channels the Grima's Truth tome. Darkness from the tome flows around him, making for an admittedly intimidating image.

He says nothing, simply starting to cast again, clearly aiming to annihilate the other cultists.

"W-wait-"

He simply raises his free hand, sending the evil magic from the tome towards his targets.

They don't stand a chance.

Edited by DevilPsyco on Nov 6th 2020 at 4:08:32 PM

Missingno. used Sky Attack!

Missingno. imbues the wind into its wings, giving itself a godlike glow, and divebombs at Gorochu. Even with the resistance penalty, it'll still hit like a truck due to Missingno.'s raw offensive power.

Kikio huffs and puffs into her hands, trying to warm herself up. Red, out of concern, walks over to her.

"Uh... is something wrong?" Xion kneels down to the Pigmask.

Roxas spins like a Beyblade, then goes vertical before slashing down at Lucas with full power!

"W-wait-"

The block gets caught in a bunch of magic letters. They stick to each other and start shuddering and rising into the air.

"You fool! This spell was very fragile, and now you've-!"

A black void suddenly opens up from the block, consuming both of the grand wizards along with their surroundings.

???

Baba is You

Meen and Rouxls are dropped into a black space. The floor is invisible, but feels like dirt. Despite the absence of natural light, the two are clearly visible to each other... as are what come next.

Blocks with words on them, forming sentences. A horrifying amalgamation of word-magic and block-magic.

Meen is    KIRIK   

Rouxls is    PSYCO   

Meen stands up and pouts. "Now look what you've done! My grandest spell, ruined, and I'm stranded alone in this void with you, you half-baked excuse for a grand wizard! 'KiriK' isn't even a word!" He stomps over and kicks the    KIRIK    block aside... and instantly freezes in spacetime as the Meen is gets grayed out.

The Risen is squashed, and another one appears further away.

At this point, even Grima REX should be able to tell this is Schmuck Bait.

Edited by KiriK on Nov 6th 2020 at 9:19:17 AM

"Great... well, at least you live up to all of Mara's hype," Pietro says.

"Wish us luck, won't you, Ovarr?" Wanda simply replies.

   "... she hyped me up?"   , he then asks, looking proud again. He then nods though.

   "I do. Now that Mara knows where to find me, let her know when Thanos is back and when we're moving out against him, alright?"   

He grins.

   "Heh... the idea of this fight is pretty exciting. I haven't had a decent fight in a long time."   

Gorochu gets hit, and...

Well, ends up stuck in a wall with its head, trying to pull itself out. It quickly does so though, and looks pissed when it turns to look back at Gorochu. Its voice goes lower, sounding less like a battle cry and more like it's outright threatening them.

"Goroooaaaa..."

"O... oh boy...", Meowth mutters, suddenly looking afraid.

"Hm? What's wrong?"

"Wait, can you..."

"I studied up on Pikachu and Raichu language a bit more since last time. I still can't fully understand it, but some parts of what it's sayin' make sense to me."

"Then what's it's saying that's got you so afraid, Meowth?"

Meowth gulps.

"It's sayin'... it's gettin' tired of holdin' back. And somethin' about breakin' a promise."

"Breaking a promise?"

"Does that mean..."

They turn to look at Gorochu again, shaking a little.

"It's been holding back" "all this time?"

Gorochu's eyes narrow, sparks running over its body.

Dangerous Enemy

"He... he's been training against us... all day long... all day long! P-please save us!", the Pigmask cries to Xion.

Lucas, meanwhile, casts a PSI Shield in front of his Keyblade, allowing the shield to take most of the damage of Roxas' attack before shattering and allowing the Keyblade to take the rest of the brunt, with Lucas able to stay standing.

"More!", Lucas suddenly says, after which he summons forth his scepter, from which he fires a point-blank PSI Love at Roxas.

"W-what inst thine finest h-"

He then screams in a rather unmanly manner as both he and I.M. Meen get absorbed into the void.

???

"Oucheth.", he says upon hitting the ground. He slowly gets back up, looking around.

"What in... thisth is noteth the Dark Realm..."

He then witnesses the... rather confusing words, as well as Meen kicking one aside... and then Meen's fate.

"Eeh! Whatesth realm ofth misery andeth confusion did Isth end up in?"

He walks over to I.M. Meen, looking conflicted, as well as confused about what to do. He then notices that the letters are grayed out and ponders.

"I wonder..."

He walks over to    KIRIK    and tries to push it back into place. Hey, it's a guess, and he can't escape from this place as far as he sees, so it can't do any harm in trying this out, right?

... he desperately hopes doing this won't trigger some sort of obvious trap he should've seen coming.

"Of course."

Rising to her feet, Wanda extends a hand towards Ovarr.

"I promise that you won't be disappointed in the battle to come."

"And on the off-chance it does turn out to be a huge-ass letdown, I'll find a way to make things up to you," Pietro assures, getting up from the bed.

   "Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy..."    Kikio cries.

Red calls his Missingno over to guard Kikio, ready to use its current hyper-evasiveness to escape if the two are targeted.

"Wh-" Roxas is blown away by the PK Love.

"This... Something about this isn't right." He dispels Oblivion and gets in a two-handed battle stance with Oathkeeper, matching Lucas's Kingdom Key.

Xion sighs. "I'll see what happens, and step in if I must."

Meen suddenly regains motion. "GAH! What the-?"

Suddenly, more words start appearing.

Wall is    STOP   

Suddenly, walls appear around the two, forming a room.

Rock is    PUSH   

And now rocks in that room.

Flag is    WIN   

And finally, a sparkling yellow flag at the end of the room from where the wizards stand.

Ingame, the words 'Rock' and 'Flag' are closer to Cinnamon and Gold respectively, but if I try and use the same color twice in this particular structure, ie. [[AC:[[gold:Flag]] is [[evil:[[gold:WIN]]]]]], the formatting just breaks.

Meen immediately snags the    WIN   , breaking "Flag is Win" and causing the flag to stop sparkling. "If you want out of here... you'll have to beat me in this new contest of wits!"

I.M. Crazy

Edited by KiriK on Nov 6th 2020 at 10:02:00 AM

   "Haha, excellent!"   , he says, appearing jolly as he shakes Wanda's hand. Despite his massive height and muscled body, his handshake won't actually hurt Wanda's hand. He may be careful not to do so.

He then turns to the door, opening it again.

   "As long as I have some fun in the end, I won't object."   , he says to Pietro, then starts to walk out of the room.

   "See you two later."   , he says as he leaves.

Gorochu ominously starts approaching Red's small group, eyes still narrowed into a glare.

"Gorooo-"

The sound of a Poke Ball opening is suddenly heard, and Mimikyu◊ appears in between Gorochu and Red's group, hissing at Gorochu.

"We wanted to use Mimikyu for a surprise attack...", James says, now standing next to Red.

"But considering what it sounded like it was about to do...", Jessie says, also standing by Red and still holding Mimikyu's Luxury Ball.

"We ain't just gonna watch it happen.", Meowth says, hanging on top of Wobbuffet's head... who is standing next to Jessie.

"Wobbu!"

"Now you better prepare for trouble, Gorochu, because my Mimikyu is no slouch!"

Mimikyu hisses, in agreement with Jessie's statement. Gorochu glares at Mimikyu before unleashing a big Thunder attack. Mimikyu dodges, attempting an Iron Tail, though its attack clashes with a rapid Ice Punch from Gorochu.

"We should get that girl off of the battlefield before things get worse! That thing means serious business right now!", Meowth says to Red.

"Going back to one? Are you tired already or are you going easy on me?", Lucas asks, breathing heavily due to his growing exhaustion. He casts Life Up on himself to restore a bit of vitality, but it's clear that it doesn't end up helping much. ... then again, after training all day no source of PSI would be able to fully bring his energy back in a flash.

The Pigmask looks grateful, even through his mask.

"Thank you... ah man, we wouldn't have had so much trouble if Master Claus hadn't gone back home for a bit for repairs."

"Oh, you're backeth."

He then looks around as the walls form around them, a bit too taken aback to react to I.M. Meen's tricks until it's too late.

"Why you... noteth even a momentsth of gratitudeth, huh? Very welleth... I accepteth this duel!"

I can't think of a title for this

After bidding farewell to Ovarr, Wanda and Pietro proceed to exit the mine through the Markarth Ruins.

• No, I need all hands on deck.
• Good thinking.

Red gestures to Missingno. Missingno. moves away from Kikio.

"...?"

   "Hhhhh... Hhhhh... HHHHHHRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"   

Screaming loud enough to inflict wind pressure, Kikio's clangorous soul emanates forth, empowering her mind and body to dangerous extremes!

Blood of Dragons (Battle! Zinnia)

Angelic-looking spirits swarm around Kikio as she unleashes a plume of energy from her mouth, which builds and billows and condenses into a powerful Dragon Pulse!

"Nah, one puts less strain on me."

Roxas teleports next to Lucas with an uppercut, then vanishes above him and plunges his Keyblade into the ground, creating an erupting pillar of light before he rushes out of it with a spinning drill stab at the boy a la Meta Knight's side-b.

New words have appeared!

Water is

Lava is

is

and

   FLOAT   

   SINK   

   HOT   

   MELT   

Meen rubs his chin and rushes to assemble Meen is    KIRIK and FLOAT   . Upon completion, he begins hovering off the ground, making him immune to any "HOT/MELT" or "SINK" rules.

Edited by KiriK on Nov 6th 2020 at 10:26:08 AM

This definitely causes Gorochu and Mimikyu to turn to look, and Team Rocket barely dives out of the way of her Dragon Pulse in time.

Gorochu and Mimikyu get hit though, launching the former back a bit and not affecting the latter at all. Fairy Type privileges!

Gorochu lands on its feet though, then gathers electric energy before launching an enormous Thunder at both Mimikyu and Kikio. Mimikyu gets hit, breaking its Disguise.

"Wh-"

Cue Lucas getting pummeled before he even realizes it, and he ends up half-KO'd on the ground afterwards.

"... ooooowwwww...", he mutters with his face down on the ground.

"Thank the dragon, you saved us all!", one of the other Pigmasks proclaimed, and Roxas will find himself glomped by one of them. Though that Pigmask is easily pushed off again.

Lucas slowly sits up, though judging from his tired sigh and his Keyblade being unsummoned, he's probably had enough.

Rouxls thinks his options over, then walks over to the words that Meen just assembled. Curious to try things out, he drags    HOT    over to the other words, places it besides FLOAT, then kicks it aside and pushes    HOT    in its place.

Dexterity saving throw: 19 (and I don't know what the DC would've been but I'm gonna assume that was enough to beat it)

Kikio's shadow extends to the side and she suddenly hover-steps in that direction to evade the Thunder, eyes glowing a malicious red as her figure darkens.

Then she turns completely into a silhouette and vanishes, preparing to use Shadow Force!

Missingno. rejoins the fight, using Bind by attempting to wrap its wings around Gorochu in a pseudo-restraining hold.

Roxas dispels his own Keyblade. "Phew. I swear, you've been working these guys half to death, Lucas. Any reason?"

Meen is dropped to the ground and immediately begins emitting smoke particles as his temperature rises. He is panicked and frightened for a moment... then confused... then he starts cackling maniacally as he gets a feel for it. "Fool! The heat grants me POWER!"

He unleashes a barrage of damaging words - like 'fire' and burning' - as he makes his way over to the spare words and moves them in front of Rouxls' name-block, so that it looks like this.

Rouxls is    YOU   

is

   MELT   

Rouxls will find that indeed, this 'double sentence' structure works and the flaming words unleashed by Meen will hurt very badly if they hit him.

Edited by KiriK on Nov 6th 2020 at 10:50:46 AM

Reprium "You know for a new place this sure doesnt feel mad or wonderous."

A strange looking girl was waling around, a little confused.

"There isnt even any tea shops."

she was wearing a top hat and her outfit was pinks and blues, with sme other colors in between. it was almost chaotic but somehow it worked.

She went over to a squirell and summonded a tiny top hat for it.

"Theres a little madness."

Oh, they're taking it in stride!Y-yes, I'm from an alternate, huh, world. It's a bit complicated... I mean, apart from my physical appearance, I guess things aren't too different?

He smiles meekly as well when asked if he's lost.

Just a biiittttt. He says. Well, I know a fort to go to but there's no map to this place on me. Corrin scratch the back of his head. So I don't think I can help you if you don't want to find the fort, which is, huh, fine of course!

...

REX prepares to kill off another Risen, but Morgan's sudden rage please him more than anything else. Not out of pride, mind you, but rage and fear fed him, and there were plenty to be found here... He still blow off its head though.

He moves in the way of the cultists and block their paths, deliberately, so as to ensure they won't flee. But otherwise, he witness, folding his arms and chuckling maniacally.

"Thank you..." Miles smiled in gratitude as he took the ice away from his head, pondering how to go about handling this matter. Finally, something occurred to him, "Hey Kazami? Do you have like one of those virtual training rooms? Like, ones that can be adjusted so they force you to adapt to different situations and use abilities you wouldn't normally consider?"

"Well, usually, we'd just use the Nexus for that... But actually, we did have something neat installed recently. Full-immersion VR, linked to the Nexus, made for humans and other non-Avali species. It'll be perfect for this. We can go there right now!" Kazami got up, offering a claw to help Miles do the same.

Miles took the offered hand and let himself be pulled up. He would head out with his fluffy friend only to be stopped by the sight of the girls coming up the hall with their arms full of food containers, "Oh, hey guys. I see you found the food."

"Yep," Nebula took a bite out of a wrap before glancing down to see her friend holding Kazami's hand still, "So...you two dating yet?" At seeing him turn as red as a tomato, she snorted, "Relax. I'm just kidding...well, mostly. Where you two off to?"

The girls listened as Miles explained the situation, and once he was done, they figured to go along with him.

Gorochu, surprised by Kikio disappearing, gets caught by Missingno.'s binding wings.

But as it's trapped in place and Mimikyu dives in for a Shadow Claw, a cheeky grin suddenly spreads across its face, after which it unleashes another Thunder. And since Missigno. is physically holding onto Gorochu right now...

Well, by all logic, no amount of evasion boosts will help it dodge this powerful, point-blank, super effective attack.

Mimikyu manages to dodge it, though has to give up its attack for the turn to do so.

"I can't tell if it's going well..."

"Should I send out Weezing or Carnivine?", James asks, his hand already on some of his Poke Balls.

"I'm not sure Mimikyu'll appreciate dat."

Lucas, still sitting, looks up at Roxas.

"W... well, I..."

He pauses before getting back up on his feet again, after which he resumes talking, to Xion as well.

"It's a bit of a long explanation, so are you sure you wanna hear it?"

"The rules youst followesth maketh no senseth!", Rouxls Kaard exclaims, after which he yelps and warps up in a beam of light to evade the incoming attacks.

He warps back behind the words.

"Two canst playeth this gameth, you loony!"

He quickly switches things up in the hopes that it'll work for him as well.

   MEEN    IS    KIRIK    AND    SINK   

AND    HOT    is broken off in the process.

"Not that much, no.", Selena says.

"A fort?", Laslow asks. "To be fair, we've sort of been wandering aimlessly, looking for a town."

"But a fortress would be an excellent spot to rest up a little! ... Provided that we're welcome, that is.", Odin says.

"So are we?", Selena then asks.

With Grima REX blocking the path, none of the cultists that were about to kill the wyvern manage to get away. Once they've all been taken care of, Morgan spares them not a second glance before he worriedly heads over to his wyvern, trying to calm it down. That display from just now probably scared it a little.

   "Do you see what I mean now?"   , someone speaks up from behind the still camouflaged Grima REX. It's no surprise that the person apparently still able to sense that he's there is Grima◊, though she's looking at Morgan instead of directly at REX.

   "Morgan's personality is nothing but a pain to deal with. So... vibrant and upbeat. Disgusting. But push the right buttons and there's nobody he'll hesitate to kill. He's done it before in the past. I raised him for this after all."   

She chuckles darkly.

   "That wyvern is fulfilling its purpose well. I wouldn't have let Morgan keep a foreign wyvern around if events like this weren't bound to happen. So enjoy your fill... events like this may happen again in the future, especially once word of this incident reaches Julius."   

Now is when she glances at REX.

   "Granted, that's only if you have no problem with keeping Morgan and his little pet around for a bit longer. You must admit... they're useful for you too, are they not?"   

Edited by DevilPsyco on Nov 7th 2020 at 8:49:34 PM

Alright! Well, firstly though, there's, huh, Garon but young. He briefly ponders on correcting himself and addressing Garon by his proper title, but decide to be a rebel. And Beruka, too! We could head back together. I mean, the more the... huh...

He seems genuinely confused by the expression. Well I don't now but well, we shouldn't leave Beruka alone in that forest, you know? Haha, let's go, huh, gang.

He start to head out back to the duo and then look back. Oh, and Garon too of course. We're not going to abandon him. He course-correct.

...

REX doesn't really seems to listen to his other self. She'd be forgiven for thinking her spiel entered one ear and left by the other.

However, when she try to make a guess on how useful he finds Morgan, he wrathfully stares back at her, his head rotating backwards over his massive body, and then start to glare at Morgan. He's apparently offended enough by her implication that the boy's life is in danger!

Edited by Bolded1 on Nov 7th 2020 at 8:50:16 PM

"A young King Garon?", Laslow asks, all three of them surprised. Though Selena becomes a bit more cheery quickly.

"Beruka is here as well? It's been way too long! ... granted, she's not the Beruka from my world, but how different can she be from mine?"

"We'll come with you then, and I suppose we'll get an answer at the fort itself.", Odin says, after which the three retainers start following Corrin.

"Who else from Nohr is here, Prince Corrin?", Laslow asks. "I remember seeing Prince Xander here, but I'm not sure if he's still here."

"How about Princess Camilla and Princess Elise?"

"Or Prince Leo!"

Grima just snickers, apparently not afraid for Morgan's life or her own.

   "Look, the way I see it is like this. Kill him and you'll have one moment of dread and pain to feed off of. Let him live to let events like this happen again, and you'll have much more of it. Trust me, he's willing to turn his magic on anyone under the right circumstances."   

She chuckles as she starts to walk away.

   "Aside from me of course, and you if you play your cards right. That boy is as loyal as can be."   

Her grin turns dark as she leaves.

   "Him betraying those Shepherds proves as such."   

Missingno. explodes into feathers and a pile of glitchy sludge before Red recalls it with a huff, preparing to send out his next mon.

Kikio appears in the form of a silhouette with glowing-red eyes, lunging at Gorochu before fully manifesting with a mighty mace swing!

"Yes."

"We're happy to listen."

Meen screeches like a banshee as he sinks into the floor, becoming a human puddle.

"How dare you?!"

New words have appeared!

Skull is    DEFEAT   

Some big red skulls appear.

   EMPTY   

   ALL   

Robot is    MOVE and STOP   

And some robots! They move back and forth between the two combatants, pushing them if they come into contact.

The Risen dies. Apparently frustrated at being unable to lure Grima REX away, the Fell Dragon Grima descends from afar, watching the castle.

some forest in the Rift

In walks Roy.◊ He waits awkwardly for an opening to join the conversation.

Edited by KiriK on Nov 7th 2020 at 2:14:36 PM

REX decides to manifest a metal shard in his hand and very angrily throw it at Grima herself, apparently angered by her words. It's half the size of her body and it will not land at her feet. The only thing that stop this from being an all-out attack is that he doesn't continue, but that might be because of the Fell Dragon's presence. Or she has a point and he's too angry to openly acknowledge it.

Dropping out of his invisibility, REX roars and swipe at the air above, apparently challenging his counterpart for a fight. He doesn't do much beside that.

...

He makes a very strained smile and start to tunnel vision a bit. Y-yeah, there's my big brother, and... well, oh yeah, there's a bit of a weird thing. It's a bit unusual but you see, a weird thing that's present, and that I find quite bizarre because of how strange it is, and I think you'll also find it puzzling in its unexplainess, is- He bumps into Roy, having walked into him. Roy may fall over at this point but Corrin doesn't, a sign of his physical sturdiness.

Oh sorry! I don't look where I'm going! There. He try to help Roy to his feet.

Meanwhile, Beruka wake up, instantly opening her eyes despite napping pretty thoroughly a few seconds ago, and look down at Garon, who yawns. Finding him annoying, and curious at Corrin's absence, she decides to leap from her current spot to yet another tree, and then make yet another jump, being surprisingly agile in spite of her gear.

The moment Missingno.... uh... brutally faints, Team Rocket's device loudly beeps, enough so to jumpscare the trio and make James drop the device, though luckily it lands on Meowth, not breaking as a result.

It jumpscares Gorochu as well though, making it literally jump, and thus in a state where it cannot avoid Shadow Force. The powerful attack makes it hit a wall yet again, and Mimikyu immediately dives in, delivering a Play Rough upon Gorochu.

Meowth, once he's gotten over the shock, looks at the device, then at Red, and ponders.

"Hm..."

Not too far away from the group, but far enough that they won't be able to see them in the darkness, the being that followed them inside is starting to approach the battlefield. They won't be immediately visible just yet though.

Lucas scratches the back of his head.

"Well, I... may have been kinda lying about how well my memories of my two lives have settled. N-not that I'm suffering or anything, but the way they conflict with each other is giving my mind little rest. It's like... I still kind of feel like I'm two different people, and that puts a lot of strain on my mind... pretty much all the time. Except..."

He looks a little guilty, rubbing one of his arms as he glances down a little.

"Except when I'm fighting. Whether it's sparring or fighting for real, in those moments I just... I just feel in sync with myself. I feel like I can focus, and everything is so clear. And it feels kinda right too. I guess, in a way, you could say I'm using fighting to cope. I'm sorry I didn't say anything, I didn't want any of you to needlessly worry over me. Especially not Claus. Everything's finally, finally good again for us, and I... I don't want to be the reason we have to worry again."

He sighs, then looks at the Pigmasks as they're getting up.

"With how calm everything's been for us since the Cyber Angels were... defeated... I guess I went a little too long without any action and I... may have gone a bit overboard. I'm sorry. I don't want you to think this has anything to do with everything that happened between all of us."

"Oh, we never assumed as such, Master Lucas.", one Pigmask says.

"We know you're not the type to go behind Master Claus' back to get back at us.", another one says.

"If you were not alright with us, we're certain you would have discussed this with Master Claus long ago.", a third one says. This one sounds female, though she wears the exact same uniform as the others, so the only indicator is her voice.

"... thanks... I'll try to be less extreme from now on.", Lucas says.

"That'd... be appreciated, Master Lucas.", one Pigmask that's still on the ground groans.

"Nyahahaha! Howeth doesth thou liketh it?", Rouxls laughs, turning to the new words when they appear, but when he tries to approach the robots get in his way.

"Confound these... ahsth, I knoweth! Just liketh a puzzle, thine solution musteth be..."

While the robots bar his path, Rouxls Kaard instead summons a few blocks near the AND STOP words, having the blocks clutch onto the words, them pushing them into place to form a sentence, having some other blocks push away IS    MELT   

   ROUXLS    IS    YOU    AND STOP

If this'll work how he thinks it'll work...

Both Laslow and Odin look confused by Corrin's strange and stalling explanation while Selena looks a little annoyed. She's about to tell him to hurry up and get to the point when the group bumps into Roy.

"Oh, a fellow knight!", Odin says, with him also moving to help Corrin help Roy up.

"Are you alright?"

Grima exudes an aura of dark magic to break down the metal before it can wound her, glancing back at Grima REX afterwards.

   "Be careful. I'm not as weak as this body might suggest."   

Luckily she has the sense to not attack him back. That'd cause some serious problems. Not for them, but for pretty much everyone else in here.

She recognizes why REX starts swiping the air though, as she also senses their counterpart, and starts walking inside the castle, grabbing a random Loptyr cultist near the entrance.

   "You might want to sound a lockdown alarm if you value your disposable lives. There's a big chance a pair of gods are about to fight nearby, and don't expect me to lift a finger for any of you."   

She laughs sinisterly as she drops him, then starts walking away.

   "Consider me bothering to warn you as my contribution. You should be honored that I even cared enough to do it."   

The cultist, terrified, wastes no time and runs deeper into the hallway to warn the others.

Outside, Morgan and his wyvern now take notice of Grima REX. Morgan pales and immediately jumps on his wyvern's back.

"L-let's get away from him while we still can. He seems to be angry at something other than me for a change!"

His wyvern doesn't waste any time either, starting to fly to bring itself and Morgan to safety.

Kikio spews another Dragon Pulse, unrelenting in her aggression.

Red sends out a Mewtwo! Uh-oh!

Mewtwo used Psystrike!

"You're just like us, Lucas."

"Yeah. We didn't know who we were either, and when we found the answer, we also fought to cope. This is nothing new."

Meen pushes out the 'SINK' to return to his original position. He throws a bunch of magical blasts at Rouxls, all to no avail, as they STOP against him.

"Hmmmm..."

He breaks all the sentences currently appended to his name (aside from "is KIRIK") so that he can start from scratch.

He rubs his chin in contemplation, and then...

Empty is Meen is    KIRIK   

Every single cubic meter of empty space is now occupied by an I.M. Meen.

"AAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" they cackle in unison.

The Fell Dragon cackles and roars, seemingly accepting REX's challenge.

Uh-oh.

Roy stumbles back, but catches Corrin's hand in time to steady himself.

"Y-yes, I'm fine. My apologies."

Well, there are-

Beruka drop right next to him, and Corrin doesn't seem surprised, simply greeting her with a smile and a wave. Beruka ignores Roy and seemingly Corrin and just stare at the trio, ever so briefly surprised before she resumes her poker face.

It's you.

Yup! Look! It's our friends! Says Corrin. And a red-haired man. And Garon. He fold his arms, and just stand next to Beruka, whom he manages to just tower over. She doesn't say anything but she does put down her axe.

...

REX ignores Morgan and fucking leap right at the Fell Dragon.

Mimikyu's attack ends with it getting Ice Punched by Gorochu, upon which Dragon Pulse hits Gorochu the moment after. It drops on the ground, looking a little wobbly, though still looking determined to keep fighting.

And then Psystrike hits it as well, and after it lets out a yelp from the powerful attack it slumps back against the wall, looking half-fainted.

Lucas pauses for a moment, then hangs his head low in defeat.

"It's not, isn't it? I should've probably brought this up to at least you some time ago...", he says, sounding a little embarrassed.

He raises his head again.

"Though to be fair, I've always been feeling a little funky even before the Envy stuff. Ever since I underwent that Mind Fragmentation stuff...", he says, momentarily forgetting that his Mind Fragmentation is not actually something he or Claus has mentioned to Roxas and Xion before.

"BYETH THE KING'S HAIRY-"

Rouxls chooses not to finish that sentence, despite his shock at being surrounded by I.M. Meens. Uncertain about what he can do in this situation and feeling like he can't spawn his boxes anywhere due to the lack of room, he just tries to attack as many nearby I.M. Meen as he can...

with the power of childish slaps of doom!

Laslow and Odin are caught by surprise, but Selena isn't. Logical, since she's spent a lot of time around her world's Beruka.

"Yup, looks like you're the same as mine.", Selena says, smirking a little.

"It's good to see you again, differing worlds aside.", Laslow says.

"Indeed. Fate has let us reunite across the boundaries of dimensions!", Odin says. Laslow then turns to look at Roy.

"So, who might you be?"

Darkness starts to surround the castle walls. They are all parts of Jormungand magic tomes, the thick dark magic acting as a shield around the castle. Should one of the Grimas fire an attack on the walls or get slammed into them, they should hit the shield instead.

Julius◊ observes from inside the castle, honestly mostly out of curiosity. He wants to see what the Grimas are capable of.

And, depending on the results, he'll know if Grima REX is going to be a future problem for him or not.

Edited by DevilPsyco on Nov 7th 2020 at 10:25:46 AM