Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 345: Shipwrecked Principles

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Date: March 25th, 2007.
Metal Man (GM): It is far in the wastes of Genetia. Ricky's troops have taken over this area, too. Some debate the legality of Ricky's leadship. Others mention that he apparently attacks just like the Questers. They watch a large TV as Ricky speaks about his current control over the planet.
Ricky: "As you can see, the Questers, and Shadow, are senseless murdering maniacs. Our way is the way of peace! See how we rebuild the planet from its ashes. Soon we can destroy the Three Powers butchers once and for all! Even their leader is mysteriously absent. It is likely he has given up, hiding on Nintendus to avoid the truth of our superiority. Let us rally for one last battle and end these tyrants!"
Metal Man (GM): They get up to cheer for the television. *SMASH.* A hammer flies through it. Metal Man walks out of the television, looking somewhat bewildered.
Metal Man: "This is definitely not the Capital City area I REQUESTED to be warped to. Oh well."
Metal Man (GM): Some of the soldiers point guns at him. He narrows his eyes at them.
Soldier1: "Halt! You are under arrest for being the leader of murderers!"
Metal Man: "Sorry, but I have a space station to visit." *types into his dex.*
Metal Man (GM): They open fire at him moments before he is warped up to the station. At the ARK... Metal Man appears in the middle of the main room, slightly damaged. He extinguishes a fire on the back of his head.
Metal Man: "Gah! Couldn't they have made the systems here just slightly more responsive?"
Metal Man (GM): The Questers are in and/or around the same area. Metal looks for them.
Dragoshi: "..."
Alexia: "..."
Metal Man: "Aha! There you are. I came because it appears I was silly to stay on Nintendus in the first place. Mewtwo definitely DOES NOT know how to run things."
Darkdata: "..."
Dragoshi: *Puts his tophat away.* "...Apparently so. Then again, I prefer to be neutral on such subjects."
Digifanatic: *is in main room.* "Eeeehhh..."
Metal Man: "Now, who of you are here? We need to recover the pieces, pronto. I heard of the Seeker crashing somewhere. If we can get those pieces back together then we can take down this Ricky fellow much easier."
Darkdata: "I am ready to go."
Dragoshi: "...As am I."
Metal Man walks over to the computer and types. "Bah! Such a mess Mewtwo has made. He apparently thought he could control the situation with fleeing."
Alexia: "I'm ready."
Digifanatic: "Yeah."
Metal Man: "Now, here's the setup. We are to secure the Seeker area, and discover what happened to Mewtwo and Glyph."
Douglas walks in. "Oh. Metal's here. On the Ark... Hi."
Metal Man: "Er. Whatever his name is." *Stares at strange symbol.*
Dragoshi: "...Hm?"
Metal Man: "Hop, you know."
Dragoshi: "Yea. Of course."
Digifanatic: .oO(And I don't see Alex. That, and Alexia storming off after the last mission after what he said? Something's strange.)
Alexia: "Oh. Him."
Metal Man: "And we need his robot... we need to build a base of power to repel these invaders." *He looks through the files...* "Yes... we have it right here."
Digifanatic: "Well, let's save the ship."
Metal Man: "...Gerald created this as a massive weapons platform... Once we have the Seeker and the Freedom Fighters..." *He types in a few keystrokes, which bring up a screen.*
Screen: 'PROJECT APOCALYPSE'
Metal Man: "...The Marician Machine is more powerful and directed than the Solarian Machine."
Dragoshi: "...Wha?"
Douglas: "That sounds so humble."
Digifanatic: "Whoa."
Metal Man: "...Using directed energy, we can disable all of their weapons without having to kill any of them. Imagine... all of their guns... ships... buildings... just ceasing to function."
Digifanatic: "...But we want to kill Ricky."
Metal Man: "What good is Ricky if he has no weapons?"
Alexia: "Metal has a point..."
Digifanatic: "Yeah."
Alexia: "And we could use it afterwards, too. I say we go for it."
Metal Man: "He would be rendered inert, and possibly look stupid."
Dragoshi: "...Mhm."
Digifanatic: "But he's still a pain."
Metal Man: "This weapon... you don't know how lucky you are to be here. Had... Ricky gotten here first..."
Dragoshi: "...I just want to see him look like an idiot in the LEAST, if I can't make soup out of hi-Hm?"
Alexia glances around for Alex... nowhere. Hrm.
Darkdata: "Sounds like a good plan. Metal's that is."
Metal Man: "The weapon can be used to destroy entire civilizations, directed at only those civilizations. It is a genocide machine in the wrong hands."
Digifanatic: "Yeah. That's scary."
Metal Man: "But I have studied the texts he left. We can safely energize it by using only artifacts of good. ...The good energy of the artifacts would rule out the death effect and only harm that which is destructive, I.E. weapons."
Alexia: "And what artifacts do we need to power it up?"
Metal Man: "Remember how we destroyed the Chaos Emeralds and Time Stones? Those were the equivalents of chaos and time. There are likely Good Emeralds, just not in our dimension."
Dragoshi: "...Hm. Of course not. That'd be too easy."
Metal Man: "It's a big thing, we'll need a transporter and probably a lot of research. But these emeralds could be used to make whatever evil device they are used to energize... good."
Digifanatic: "Wow."
Metal Man: "But for now... we must search the planet. Come with me." *Opens warp to the Seeker, and walks into the warp.*
Digifanatic: *follows.*
Dragoshi: *Walks into the warp...*
Alexia enters the warp.
Metal Man (GM): The Questers appear on the ruined surface of Genetia... at the Bridge of the Seeker. ...There's two broken cannisters here, the controls are damaged, there's no ceiling, and the walls have been torn open in several places. The way back, to the now-open labs of Garrick and Glyph, and even further back to the arena, and outside are all open.
Metal Man: "Such a sad waste of taxpayer coins..."
Alexia: "Our home..."
Dragoshi: *To Glyph's lab!*
Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi walks into the lab.
Digifanatic: *follows to the labs.*
Alexia follows in a daze.
Metal Man (GM): A strange tuba lays on the ground... and... not much else. Metal scratches his head.
Metal Man: "I begin to wonder if he was a conman all along."
Digifanatic: "A tuba? Huh..."
Dragoshi: *Takes the... Tuba?*
Digifanatic: *scans it to see if there's anything unusual.*
Metal Man (GM): It's... purple, and fluctuates as Dragoshi holds it. It's also very heavy.
Digifanatic: *He puts on his binoculars and gazes at it afterward.*
Dex: "Unknown object. Possibly unstable."
Metal Man (GM): Digi would see wildly fluctuating energy levels with the binoculars.
Digifanatic: "Drag, please put that down. There's some crazy energy flowing in that thing."
Dragoshi: "..."
Alexia: "That's Hop for you..."
Metal Man: "If he was what I hired him for, this would actually have had evidence of him manufacturing or repairing parts, I think." *wanders into the bridge again.*
Dragoshi: "And possibly leave it in the wrong hands? What are you, nuts?"
Digifanatic: "Alright, sorry."
Alexia heads to Garrick's lab.
Digifanatic: "But it could have been unexpectedly volatile or something..."
Metal Man (GM): Garrick's lab shows more evidence of use, but it was also apparently abandoned prior to the ship crashing.
Digifanatic: *also goes to Garrick's lab.*
Metal Man (GM): The X-zone cube glows lividly inside its containment sphere.
Dragoshi: *Shakes head, and goes to Garrick's lab, tuba in hand...*
Douglas: "Hey! Blow into it!"
Dragoshi: "...Nah."
Alexia: "NO."
Metal Man (GM): *Echoes from the bridge.* "Dang."
Darkdata: "Interesting."
Dragoshi: "..." *Searches around the lab for anything of interest... Aside from the cube.*
Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi discovers mostly diagrams for ideas Garrick had, prior to leaving. Unfortunately for Dragoshi he never made anything in here and left it.
Digifanatic: *follows to Dragoshi and checks out some of the drawings.*
Dragoshi: "...Huh." *Examines them out of curiosity.*
Metal Man (GM): They show M-150s, artillery, warp devices, and also 'Dex 4.0' None of them are blueprints, he never went past the conceptual phase on these.
Alexia: "...?"
Dragoshi: "...Wow. So many things... These should be salvageable, right?"
Digifanatic: "Dang, he was about to make some real cool stuff with this."
Alexia looks at that Dex 4.0 one.
Metal Man (GM): It shows a dex which can be telepathically activated and communicates telepathically.
Digifanatic: *Lets her, regardless of whether it was him or Drag that first saw it.*
Metal Man: *Bridge.* "Why must everything I touch zap me? Ow!"
Digifanatic: "Wha...?"
Metal Man (GM): The way to the arena is also open.
Alexia heads back to the bridge.
Digifanatic: *tries to determine whose voice it is.*
Dragoshi: "...Right. Anyway..." *Salvages those diagrams, just in case... And, then heads over to the arena.*
Metal Man (GM): Digi determines it to be Julian.
Digifanatic: *No luck this time.*
Metal Man (GM): Over at the arena, the arena is... intact. It must be bulletproof.
Digifanatic: .oO(I coulda swore it was... nah, he's not that type.) *heads to the arena for now.* "Now, that's strange..."
Dragoshi: "...Wow. This place is durable."
Metal Man (GM): The arena itself has nothing of interest, although there is debris thrown about. The way to the storage area seems to be open from here.
Darkdata: *latefollow.* *Storage room!*
Dragoshi: *Yep.*
Digifanatic: *tries to note the debris before heading to storage.*
Alexia shrugs and follows the others to the storage.
Metal Man (GM): Digi... 'notes' it before finding the storage door locked.
Metal Man: *Bridge.* "Aha! There we go!"
Digifanatic: *Tries to examine what it was.*
Dragoshi: "...Hmm." *Searches the area, checking to see if anything is in the debris...*
Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi and Digi find... nothing of interest. It's just debris. Hunks of metal thrown everywhere.
Darkdata: "Might as well help."
Metal Man (GM): It's just debris. Hunks of metal thrown everywhere.
Dragoshi: "Well, there's nothing in the debris."
Digifanatic: "Huh..." *NOW heads to the storage room.*
Dragoshi: "...Maybe we missed something back on the bridge."
Alexia looks at the lock. What kind is it?
Darkdata: "Shall we beat down the storage room door like normal, or does someone have the key?"
Dragoshi: *Walks back to the bridge.*
Metal Man (GM): Metal is busy messing with the computer.
Digifanatic: "No idea." *Checks the door's composition to see what it is made of.*
Metal Man (GM): Quester-proof Steel.
Metal Man: "I'm trying to find out what happened on your whole journey."
Digifanatic: "Hmm... maybe Metal's got the key."
Dragoshi: "...Ah. Need any assistance?" >_>
Digifanatic: *heads to the bridge.*
Metal Man: "Well, I've got the computer UP, but Garrick didn't really want me to access Nova. I need a hacker to deal with that."
Digifanatic: "Ah. I'll go for it."
Darkdata: "Well I can;t help, I can only do repair..."
Metal Man: "Anyone?"
Darkdata: "Ahh, Lan should help then."
Digifanatic: *whispers to Darkdata.* "Arx isn't here, you can go back to Digi now."
Metal Man: "I want to figure out what happened, so I can praise and punish appropriately."
Douglas: "Who is Lan??"
Metal Man crosses his hands. "I get the impression both the people I hired to maintain the ship are responsible for it crashing."
Digifanatic: *mutters to Douglas.* "Oh, he's screwing my name up."
Douglas: "...Oh."
Metal Man: "I never trusted Garrick, but I didn't think Glyph would also fail."
Digifanatic: *muttering again.* "I'll let him be."
Douglas: "Who DO you trust, Metal?"
Dragoshi: "...I could try, but don't expect anything too useful..." *Tries to hack the comp... whee.*
Digifanatic walks up to the computer and tries to hack his way in.
Metal Man: "Myself, mostly."
Digifanatic: *My goodness.*
Douglas snickers.
Metal Man (GM): Digi gets an image of Nova wagging his finger and going "Nuh-uh-uh!"
Metal Man: "Wolfman, now, he's somebody you can trust too."
Digifanatic: "Let's try that again..." *Hang on!*
Metal Man: "Hm... maybe this still works." *pries open a hole in the panel.*
Douglas: "Agh!"
Metal Man: "Aha, so it does."
Digifanatic: "What is it, Douglas?"
Douglas: "Don't tear out any wires or nothin!"
Digifanatic: "Oh."
Metal Man (GM): There's a button labeled 'Metal's secret button.' It's been placed... right under the surface, where Metal tore out the surface.
Metal Man: "I had Dr. Light make this in case this happened."
Digifanatic: "Well, as long as it's Fy'arr-proof..."
Dragoshi: "...Uh-huh."
Metal Man pushes it. "I'm richer than Fy'arr. He can't afford Dr. Light's insane expertise."
Digifanatic: "Okay, folks, abstain before we start any puns..."
Alexia walks back to the bridge.
Metal Man (GM): The system buzzes several times, and it'd seem as if it couldn't go through...
Alexia: "...Why did Metal rip open that panel?"
Metal Man (GM): ...Then it simply types a keylogged session of Garrick entering his username/password.
Digifanatic: "Garrick kept this pretty secure. Metal needed to do something to access it himself."
Metal Man: "Here we go." *Presses 'OK.'* "There. Glyph's files were already left open--he didn't seem to understand much of security--but Garrick's are too now." *looks through the logs.*
Digifanatic: *also reads on.*
Metal Man (GM): Digi sees them...
Dragoshi: *Same.*
Metal Man (GM): It shows, at first, both Glyph and Garrick maintaining the ship. Glyph suddenly stops appearing on it. Then Garrick's continues... until it too, vanishes.
Digifanatic: "What in the world?" *Watches the video.*
Metal Man (GM): Then it shows a hazy video of Mewtwo after starting it to escape.
Mewtwo: (Video) "I have started the ship. But without maintenance from either Garrick or Glyph, I can't seem to escape OR land. Ricky's forces have, in an ironic twist of fate, decided to let me experience the disrepair of the ship for myself instead of destroying it. I don't know if I will survive, but--I will have my revenge on BOTH of them when the time comes... ...There goes the right---" *BAM*
Metal Man (GM): Video ends.
Alexia: "..."
Metal Man: "...This is not good."
Digifanatic: "Oh man."
Metal Man: "The Seeker was undermined from within."
Dragoshi: "...Mhm."
Metal Man: "Ricky didn't have any superweapons." *looks through the logs.* "The shields even stopped him!"
Alexia: "..."
Digifanatic: "Man, what sort of technology we have on this ship?!"
Metal Man (GM): *Shakes his head, now looking angry.* "We must right this wrong. And make sure it never happens again."
Alexia: "Uh, guys, I just thought of something..."
Digifanatic: "Yeah."
Dragoshi: "...Yes?"
Metal Man: "Where is Dr. Ivo Robotnik?"
Alexia: "...Has anyone seen the cube with Leviathan in it?"
Digifanatic: "Figure out some way of mass-producing this and put it up in this planet's atmosphere."
Metal Man: "I can get Dr. Light, but Dr. Robotnik specialized... no..."
Dragoshi: "...I have no idea."
Metal Man types into the panel.
SIMBER: "...Back online. ...No Nova though."
Digifanatic: .oO(They'd probably bicker and fight anyway.)
SIMBER: "Unfortunately, the power systems to both of us shorted shortly before the crash. I believe Garrick took Nova with him, too."
Digifanatic: "Ah."
Metal Man punches his palm. "I should have never let this happen. This is mostly my fault."
Dragoshi: "...How so?"
Metal Man: "I expected them to do their jobs."
Digifanatic: "And they jumped ship."
Metal Man: "I should have never trusted them. They nearly killed you all. Well... time to rebuild, I guess."
Dragoshi: "...Yea."
Metal Man: "SIMBER, where is Mewtwo?"
Digifanatic: "Not much else."
SIMBER: "He tried to repair the ship himself, but gave up. He wandered to the right of the ship."
Dragoshi: "...hm."
Metal Man: "Good... he's alive."
SIMBER: "Sadly, my camera on the other side, where I think Glyph landed, was broken in the crash."
Darkdata: "Well it's good to see... hear at least one face."
SIMBER: "You should also pick up the X-zone cube Mewtwo mentioned."
Digifanatic: "Ah..."
Metal Man nods and fetches it quickly.
Alexia: "..."
Dragoshi: "...What should I do about this?" *Pulls out the tuba he found in Glyph's lab.*
SIMBER: "Treat it the same as the cube."
Digifanatic: "Ah, yes, that."
SIMBER: "Potentially dangerous in the wrong hands."
Dragoshi: "Gotcha." *Puts it back with the rest of his stuff.*
Digifanatic: "Good words."
Metal Man: "Let's get Mewtwo. We need to collect him... and again. Where is Ivo?"
Dragoshi: "...Good thing I took the diagrams as we-...I have no idea."
Metal Man: "Where did you last see him? We need him. He was the only engineer other than Light."
Digifanatic: "Hmm... I think the drawings should be sent as well. Garrick's always got great ideas."
Metal Man: "Go ahead and take them. They're ours now."
Dragoshi: *Tries to remember the last time he saw Ivo...*
Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi remembers clearly Ivo fleeing with the Master Egg after his base exploded.
Dragoshi: "...Now I remember!"
Metal Man (GM): The list also mentioned 'Robotnikland.'
Dragoshi: "Ivo fled from his base on this planet with the Master Egg after it exploded..."
Digifanatic: "Right..."
Dragoshi: "..."
Douglas: "I wonder... Robotnikland... Ivo wanted to turn Turion into a Robotnikland... Is that where it is?"
Digifanatic: "Never know, Douglas... sounds like it."
Dragoshi: "...Ehh. But, anyway... We should go and get that X-Zone cube."
Digifanatic: "Metal has it."
Dragoshi: "...Unless someone else got i-Ah. Good. There's still that storage room, though..."
Digifanatic: "Yeah. Metal, do you have the key for that?"
Dragoshi: "Hey, Metal. Do you have any storage ro-Yea. That."
Digifanatic: "Or does someone like Mewtwo currently obtain possession of it?"
Metal Man: "No, I do not. It was supposed to open automatically. For Garrick, Glyph, and... Mewtwo."
SIMBER: "Nova was involved in it. I can't open it for you."
Digifanatic: "Dang it!"
Dragoshi: "...Great. Well, let's find Mewtwo then."
Metal Man: "Let's get Mewtwo. He probably can be found nearby."
Digifanatic: "Yeah."
Dragoshi: "To the right of where this ship is... Right, SIMBER?"
SIMBER: "Right, right."
Alexia: *Right.*
Digifanatic: "Ah, let's go for it. As long as he hasn't been taken prisoner, shouldn't be that bad."
Dragoshi: *To za right!*
Digifanatic: *Follows.*
Darkdata: *follow.*
Metal Man (GM): The Questers walk out into the dirt-strewn path Mewtwo took. He was apparently rather angry. It goes on for quite a while. As the Questers walk, Metal talks.
Alexia: "I wonder who the betrayer was..."
Dragoshi: "He made a mess, huh?"
Metal Man: "Originally I thought I had to stay on Nintendus, but then I realized there was no need to. By the time I did it was too late to right whatever happened without Mewtwo leading much."
Digifanatic: "Yeah... after that Death Mountain thing, nothing to do."
Metal Man: "Mewtwo, you see, mostly attacks when people misbehave at HQ."
Dragoshi: "...Yea."
Metal Man: "That didn't happen enough for him to realize what was going on. I also essentially gave two subcontractors too much leeway with the Seeker. Once they were gone there were no replacements, so it just fell apart. Literally."
Digifanatic: *Sighs.* "Yeah..."
Alexia: "And now this happened..."
Dragoshi: "...Yep."
Metal Man: "So now I shall fix what happened..."
Dragoshi: "Then again, nothing is right these days, hm?"
Metal Man: "Wrong."
Dragoshi: "...Eh."
Metal Man: "We are right, and we strive to fix the wrongs done by others."
Digifanatic: "Correct."
Dragoshi: "I suppose."
Digifanatic: .oO(Like World War II.)
Metal Man: "That means we also fix our own, of course."
Dragoshi: "Of course."
Metal Man: "You need to know the old Quester way. These claims the wackos make? They only apply to the new thinking."
Dragoshi: "...New?"
Metal Man: "Defend the Stadium, or now Defend the Innocent, as I would say."
Digifanatic: "Yes. definitely."
Metal Man: "Destroy those who are violent and harm those who are innocent... but maybe not so much anymore. Perhaps it would be best to arrest those who are evil."
Digifanatic: "Ah, but can and will they escape?"
Metal Man: "Reserve the death penalty for people who do that."
Dragoshi: "...The problem is, finding a prison strong enough to contain them" :/
Metal Man: "Although... wait... yes. We can tie this into our Good Emerald strategy."
Dragoshi: "Then there are some people that'll jus-Hmm?"
Metal Man: "We can seal them all into the Dark World for all eternity."
Digifanatic: "Ahhhhhh, you're right. I like that philosophy."
Dragoshi: "...Heh. That might work."
Metal Man: "We just would need the Triforce, but we can get the pieces."
Dragoshi: "Yea, I suppose so..."
Alexia: "...I dunno. It just seems like they always find a loophole..."
Dragoshi: "...We'll just have to shoot down the loopholes then. That is, before doing so, finding them first."
Douglas: "Won't they just band together in the dark world, create legions of dark-world fiends, and break through a barrier and kill everyone here again?"
Digifanatic: "Ah. Hmm..."
Dragoshi: "...?"
Digifanatic: "Is there any way to make those things that have concealed Leviathan? Basically, just lock them all up in those for eternity?"
Dragoshi: "...They prolly' wouldn't last that long." :/
Alexia: "And if they broke?"
Dragoshi: "After all, nothing lasts for eternity."
Digifanatic: "True."
Metal Man shrugs. "Ganondorf is dead, the Triforce is in pieces, and I at least have a pure heart."
Digifanatic: "Same here."
Metal Man: "Although. Digi could be evil and we might not know it."
Digifanatic: "Wha?"
Metal Man sticks his tongue out.
Dragoshi: "...Pure?"
Digifanatic: "I am never an evil person. What's gotten into you?"
Alexia: "I think we all have a little darkness in us."
Metal Man: "I can see it now... the Hoffman Military."
Dragoshi: *Laughs.* "What is pure, anyway?"
Digifanatic: "Heh..."
Alexia: "It's just... a matter of controlling it."
Digifanatic: "No chance, Metal."
Metal Man: "Everyone attacks to the theme of the Yellow Submarine."
Darkdata: "I think this is getting a bit silly."
Digifanatic: "Yeah... I would never be that deranged."
Metal Man (GM): The Questers eventually reach where Mewtwo is. He's standing at the edge of a cliff.
Mewtwo: "About time you got here."
Dragoshi: "...Yes. About time, indeed."
Darkdata: "Quite."
Alexia: "...Glad to see you're okay, Master Mewtwo."
Mewtwo: "With insane people wandering the planet, and the ship crashed, we should have probably done what Julian said and nuked this place from orbit."
Digifanatic: .oO(Defend the Innocent.)
Dragoshi: "...I'm not even going to bother mentioning the part about innocent lives."
Mewtwo: "As it is they outnumber us 75 to one."
Metal Man: "Julian said that?"
Dragoshi: "'Cause then some jackass'll pop and ask why we should even CARE."
Metal Man: "Hm. I think I know your problem now."
Digifanatic: "Yeah, numerous times."
Dragoshi: "Then I'd smack them, and THEN it'd degenerate into an argument with penguin slapping."
Metal Man gets a sort of downcast look to his eyes. "Why must it always be other Questers?"
Dragoshi: "I... Have no idea."
Metal Man: "The only way to settle this is for me to absolutely destroy Julian in a fight. To prove he is wrong that violence reigns supreme. Well. Not kill him, just show his brute force to be meaningless. But I've lost over and over again."
Dragoshi: "...Metal. Are you sure you even stand a chance at this point?"
Mewtwo: "I'd make a pretty good profit off of that one. 'Metal Man loses for the trillionth time!'"
Dragoshi: "Maybe I should take the stead for this attempt. After all..."
Digifanatic: "And it turns into mere hypocrisy once you add more fighters to the equation."
Alexia: "..."
Dragoshi: "I've came insanely close to beating him before."
Metal Man: "Who cares if I do. I'm no good as I am standing around here, saying things, when you listen to him."
Alexia puts two fingers in her mouth and whistles shrilly.
Dragoshi: "Maybe not as close as you, but still... Hrm?"
Metal Man glances at Alexia. "???"
Digifanatic: "Okay, Metal. I don't want to get beat up by the guy."
Alexia: "We can argue later. Right now, we need a plan."
Mewtwo: "Ow! Oh. You have a plan. I hope it's better than the last one."
Metal Man: "I'll show him some day... er. Yes. Let us go back to the ship. We need access to storage."
Alexia: "..."
Dragoshi: "Yes. That we do."
Mewtwo: "Why do you need access to it? It's full of a lot of... Hm. I see your point."
Dragoshi: "...Also, where did we leave that robot of ours anyway?"
Metal Man: "I don't know." *goes to walk back with Mewtwo.*
Dragoshi: "...I think it might be at the ruins of Ivo's base, but... Eh. It's just an assumption..." *Follows.*
Alexia follows the others back to the ruins of the Seeker.
Digifanatic: *follows.*
Darkdata: *down the yellow sand road.* *'Of all the wonderful things he does/we are off to see the wizard..'*
Metal Man (GM): The Questers reach the ship.
Mewtwo: "Pft. Again and again, we wander around. I hate this planet too. But you want the supplies, I guess I'll get you them."
Traon warps in...
Alexia: "Please... keep your spirits up."
Digifanatic: "I am."
Darkdata: .oO(Mewtwo forgot his happy place.)
Mewtwo: "What point is there to that?" He opens up the storage room.
Metal Man (GM): Inside there is easily enough food and supplies, and repair tools, to rebuild the entire ship.
Digifanatic: *to Metal.* "Well, you discovered the thing about the artifacts."
Alexia: "..."
Metal Man: "Of course I did. Now I just need to deal with Julian and his technique of 'Smash everything'."
Dragoshi: .oO(And, I thought I was the jaded pessimist.)
Alexia smiles slowly.
Dragoshi: "...Yea."
Digifanatic: "Nice supply."
Alexia: "You prepared for everything..."
Metal Man takes out the supplies and piles them up.
Dragoshi: *Assists.*
Metal Man: "Well, as I said. I only trust myself."
Alexia helps cheerfully, her morale boosted by this.
Digifanatic: *assists.*
Metal Man: "So now we can rebuild this ship... slowly."
Metal Man (GM): There are a variety of parts, some redundant, others useful enough to make it fly again.
Metal Man: "As for power, that is why I kept on mentioning Ivo. He has the power. The power we need. But he's a bit far off..."
Dragoshi: "...We still need to find that robot, though." :/
Digifanatic: "Yeah."
Metal Man: "You should really be more careful with people and supplies. They sometimes can't be un-lost. For example... "
Metal Man (GM): There's a cube laying on the floor. It has been blown apart.
Alexia: "...?" *looks at it closely.*
Metal Man: "That used to be the prison cube Charles made."
Dragoshi: "Well, I might have an idea where said robot could be, but it's a guess... That, and it's poss-Hm."
Alexia: "So has anyone found Leviathan's cube, by any chance?"
Dragoshi: "Nope."
Alexia: "...That's bad. What if he's on the loose again?"
Douglas: "...Isn't THAT it?"
Alexia: "...Uh-oh."
Dragoshi: "...Yeesh."
Metal Man (GM): There are tooth marks on it, too.
Darkdata: "... Hop did it."
Dragoshi: "...Okay. And apparently someone tried to eat it. Wonderful."
Alexia: "Who the hell would be insane enough to eat a cube?"
Douglas: "Are you really asking that question?"
Alexia: "..." **acepalms.
Dragoshi: "...Well, I-Nah. Of course it's Hop."
Alexia: "I can think of only one person..."
Douglas: "Seriously?"
Alexia: "And I really wish it was someone else."
Douglas: "There's Hop, sure, but there's also E Li Three, and Metal, and me... and maybe Bowyer, and Doopliss, and..."
Metal Man: "I don't know, but it's bad... but where did he go? ...I don't eat cubes."
Douglas: "But you're crazy enough TO eat one."
SIMBER: "Sensors indicate somebody walked away from the ship."
Dragoshi: "...In which direction?"
Alexia: "Who could it be BESIDES E--what direction, SIMBER?"
Metal Man: "Not one that contained Hop."
Traon looks up and just shakes his head. "If you even think about considering me... You'll never hear the end of it."
SIMBER: "To the North."
Dragoshi: *North then... After exiting this place. Yea.*
Alexia gets up and begins heading north. *...Whichever way that is.*
Traon follows.
Douglas: "...And the Void, and the other Void, and the Phantom Lords, and Traon, and Bowser, and Mr. Saturns, and Tingle..."
Metal Man wanders to the North as well.
Metal Man (GM): Douglas monologues to Mewtwo.
Mewtwo: "Perhaps they also caused the others to wander North."
Douglas follows. >:\
Darkdata: *follow 'WoO style.*
Metal Man (GM): The Questers eventually make it to where Glyph and... E Li Three? are walking.
E Li Three: "So, I say, we replace all door knobs with salmon!"
Alexia: "...Told you."
Glyph: *Leviathan puts his hands on his head.* "...salmon. Sure."
Alexia slowly reaches around and takes out her pistol.
Douglas: "Gee whiz. Calm down, Alexia. E Li Three isn't gonna do us harm."
Glyph: *Leviathan presses his hands on his head and attempts to charge energy. He does not turn around.*
Alexia: "I'll calm down after Leviathan's back in his cage..."
Douglas: "Why don't we just have E Li Three give Leviathan some tests, instead?"
Alexia: "Hey, I'm just preparing for if we need justified self-defense."
Douglas: "I mean... what actual harm has Leviathan done to us yet?.. And he would probably enjoy spending time in those tests."
Metal Man points at Leviathan. "Hey, you! Why didn't you repair the ship, especially since because of your negligence, it crashed with you inside it?"
Glyph: *Leviathan whirls.*
Alexia: "Hiya, Lev."
Dragoshi: "...Hello, there."
Glyph: [Leviathan] "Perfect timing." *coughs.*
Aaron warps in. "Eh."
E Li Three: *Spins around.* "Aha! It is you!" He takes out a stick of butter and smashes it into his forehead. "You cannot stop me from doing... THIS!!!"
Dragoshi: "...If only I had a frying pan, some cheese, and bread, I'd use your head to make grilled cheese." :p
Glyph: [Leviathan] "Internal forces, external forces... always trying to take what is rightfully mine."
Douglas: "What is rightfully yours?"
Metal Man: "...I don't want to know what side E Li Three is on."
Glyph: [Leviathan] "My own body, for starters."
Dragoshi: "...It'll be messy either way, Metal."
Metal Man: "Ah, right... wait. Who, besides those personalities I saw, would want your body?"
Glyph: [Leviathan] "I can't be bothered to remember all their names."
Metal Man: "By the way... which one of you actually knew how to repair things?"
Traon just stands there, tapping his fingers on his arms.
Dragoshi: "...Speaking of which. How many do you have, anyway?"
Glyph: [Leviathan] "I told you, I'm not a fecking accountant! I don't keep track!" *Leviathan puts his hands on his head again.* "Too damn many, that's what."
Dragoshi: "Ah. Okay, then... "
Glyph: [Leviathan] "But it doesn't matter because I'll accomplish everything I want to right now." *Leviathan charges more energy.* "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't leave you all in pieces."
Douglas: "Right. Well let's just go back to the Seeker. We need you to help with stuff."
Glyph: [Leviathan] "Help...? You left me for dead more than once! Remember any of that?"
Douglas: "No."
Alexia: "Because you're running out of Miasma. And we have it."
Dragoshi: "...We do?"
Aaron: "What going on?"
Glyph: [Leviathan] "Not anymore."
Dragoshi: "I thought that was left behind on the See-Thought so."
Traon shrugs and looks at BC. "Your guess is as good as mine..."
Metal Man: "Technically your lack of repairing the ship was what caused you to be crashed out here."
Glyph: [Leviathan] "I've got, what, a canister's worth? It should be enough to end you all, and that's really all I need."
Douglas: "Why would you want to end us all?"
Metal Man: "...But then you'd be lost in the middle of this planet, surrounded by maniacs with guns."
Glyph: [Leviathan] "Wouldn't be the first time!"
Dragoshi: *Not really wise to mention that to a thief.*
Glyph: *Leviathan cackles.*
Douglas: "Right... whatever. Let's go fix stuff now, Leviathan."
Glyph: [Leviathan] "...but... you..." *Leviathan is confused.* "Did you not get the part where I want you dead?"
Alexia: *quickly following along.* "Yeah, let's go. This is getting boring."
Douglas turns around and starts walking back.
Glyph: *Leviathan just stands there dumbfounded.*
Dragoshi: "...Did you see the part where I don't care?"
Douglas turns. "Well, you coming, Leviathan? Let's go already!"
Alexia starts heading back to the Seeker as well.
Dragoshi: "Everyone and their damned grandmother wants us dead. Really. Take a number and get in line. But, anyway... Adios." *Follows the others.*
Douglas: "I'm waitin' on you, Leviathan!"
Aaron follows on.
Glyph: [???] "That's enough of this disgusting display."
E Li Three: "Eh. They only listen to people who actually hit them!"
Traon stands there for a moment, shrugs, and then follows, looking back as he goes. "If I were you Leviathan, I'd just follow along and come with us... Just some advice of course."
Douglas flinches, a new personality that's smarter, great.
E Li Three: "Like meeeee!!!!!" *Hurls a pie at Traon.*
Metal Man (GM): *SMACK* ...Pie damage. A pie filled with walnuts.
Glyph: *??? attacks everyone who hasn't turned back.*
Traon is hit by the pie... and he just stands there... dumbfounded himself. .oO(The hell... 'Oh you had better let me out... NOW!' No...)
Douglas: "Hey, E Li Three! Let's get going already!"
Metal Man (GM): Everyone but Aaron, Alexia, and Dragoshi. Oh, right, not Traon either.
Metal Man: "...You know, while I wanted a battle to show off my abilities, I didn't expect to wind up fighting alongside you, Douglas."
Douglas: "What's that supposed to mean?..."
Metal Man: "Uh... nothing!" *holds a sledgehammer not-so-secretly behind his back.* "Beat them up, traitorous yet loyal yet something person!"
Douglas: "Ok, so, Glyph-person, how are you?"
Glyph: [???] "I am disturbed by these turns of events."
Douglas: "That's nice--" *air darts.*
Glyph: All hit. [???] "This isn't... where the are my shields?!"
E Li Three: "I can get you a shield. Do you want a shield? Of course, I could attack them too. ...Or dance."
Glyph: [???] "Who the hell even are you?"
Douglas: "See how your own partner in crime treats you? We like you more, E Li Three! Really, why else would I travel that galaxies to find you to help save this planet?"
Glyph: [???] "...no matter. I will dispel the madness of my inferiors."
E Li Three: "I am E Li Three, lord of Ice Cream!"
Metal Man (GM): He chucks a giant ice cream cone at Douglas.
Douglas: "Hey!" *jumps over it.*
Metal Man: "Okay, Captain 'I like to Kill people', it's time to be smashed!" *breaks out a sledgehammer and wildly smashes it at Glyph/??? four times.*
Glyph: All hit. *??? releases his energy in the form of a cracked glittering green barrier and brilliant shards of energy. ??? flings the shards at Metal Man, Douglas, and... E Li?*
Metal Man hides behind his shield, and takes no damage, as E Li Three is nailed three times.
E Li Three: "Ow! Ow! Ow! Hit me again baby!"
Douglas: *Ow! Ow! Ow!, As well.*
Glyph: [???] "The incompetence of my former in developing his abilities since last I had control is depressing, no?"
Metal Man: "It reminds me of how much my abilities have decayed from sitting in a chair."
Douglas mutters. "I'm certain I liked your former a lot more, anyway!"
Metal Man: "But no fear. I shall smash you into paste!"
Douglas quickdraws the keyblade and fires a short blue laser at Glyph from its tip, which would seal him in place.
Glyph: Miss.
E Li Three: "Uh... that was not supposed to happen. I shall have to defeat all three of you!"
Metal Man (GM): He takes out a large box with a nuclear symbol on it and begins rapidly fiddling with it.
Metal Man: "Take this! Ha----------SMASH!!!" *He charges up, then lets loose a powerful punch at Glyph.*
Metal Man (GM): *shrug.*
Dragoshi: *Shrug 2.*
Glyph: *??? blocks with his shield.* "You cannot break it. This battle of attrition is already mine."
Metal Man: "We'll see about that! ...Later."
Glyph: [???] "Let's see how my copy abilities have held up over time..." *??? attacks Douglas with an afterimage of a giant metal fist out of nowhere!*
Douglas: "Ack?!" *hit.* *Dead.*
Glyph: [???] "My shield may not be in good order, but it still has its special property..." *??? charges his shield to have the luster it had before Metal hit it with the punch.*
E Li Three: "I will destroy you! ...Eventually."
Metal Man (GM): He continues fumbling with the box.
Metal Man: "Okay, if you're such a genius, try to beat this!" *runs up to the shield and aims his hammer...* *...and hits it with his elbows as he hits himself on the head with his own hammer!* "Ow! Meanwhile, I'll just do this..." *He punches his fists together and glows red.*
Glyph: *??? sends crystals over everyone in the battle down the path.* "Gather your friends to fight me--I insist. In the meantime..."
Metal Man: "Never! Er... well, that's their choice, actually."
Glyph: *??? charges up and sends a huge bolt of lightning at Metal Man.*
Dragoshi: *Joins in...*
Alexia turns around and jumps into the battle!
Aaron readies himself for the battle.
Metal Man deflects it off his shield. "I made sure to insulate my suit after that incident with the broken lightbulb."
Aaron grabs the enemy and goes to swing the lumber. "Batter up!!"
Glyph: Hit.
Aaron then sends 4 fireballs in Glyph's direction.
Glyph: *??? takes the brunt of the attack with his shield and lands.* *??? could not protect himself from landing damage...* Miss, hit, miss, hit.
Douglas revives.
E Li Three: "...Uh... take this!" He chucks the box at ???.
Metal Man (GM): He drops it on his foot.
E Li Three: "Ow! Ow! Ow!"
Glyph: *??? looks on at the proceedings disinterestedly.*
Metal Man: "Hm... if hitting you with death didn't work... and hitting myself didn't work... maybe more hitting will work!" *charges up and then unleashes a much stronger version of his punch, while glowing red.*
Metal Man (GM): *BLAM.*
Glyph: *??? thrusts his shield forward, and draws it back... in shards.*
Metal Man: "Hah! Your puny field is now junk! ...Ow... my hand..."
Dragoshi: *Quickly draws his machinegun and fires a Tidal Blast at ???*
Glyph: All hit. *??? is struck with the waves. He stands up and brushes the remains of his shield off.*
Dragoshi: *Drago then proceeds to shoot the guy with an Indignation shot, and follow up with...*
Glyph: Hit.
Dragoshi: *And a tarantula! It then tries to bite ???. ...Yep.*
Glyph: *??? attempts to shake himself off. He is apparently not used to taking direct damage.* *??? cracks his neck.*
Alexia holds a Psy Needle in her hand, forming some nasty-looking barbs on the sides, before throwing it at ???
Glyph: Miss. [???] "It appears I don't need my shield after all."
Alexia then Mindblasts this SOB!
Glyph: *??? again takes direct damage and is pushed around... he does not like that. He builds energy out from his back in the form of giant twisting spikes... they stretch out to the sides and consume over half his turn thanks his dazed state. He spends his last action spraying weak but fast shots over the area.*
Dragoshi: *shrug.*
Metal Man: "Ow! That... wasn't much of an attack."
Alexia does a series of acrobatic flips, turns, and mid-air twists and dodges the shots.
Aaron unloads on the enemy with 4 more fireballs.
Dragoshi: "...It prolly' has some idiotic side-effect. I mean, really... The lack of damage is prolly' a cover-up... Either that, or... Well, I don't know..."
Glyph: *??? is hit with all of them.*
Aaron then ducks into an aggressive defense position. *Return Postage in effect.*
Douglas charges into Glyph several times, slashing superbly with the Lighttech Keyblade using extra windish boosts.
Glyph: Three hit. *??? is not taking this very well.*
E Li Three: "Okay... time to bring on the pain!"
Metal Man (GM): He takes out a box of bananas.
E Li Three: "Eat bananas, scum!"
Metal Man (GM): He chucks one at Douglas. It flies over him and hits a tree, causing it to implode.
E Li Three: "...I said eat bananas!"
Metal Man (GM): This one hits the ground in front of Douglas instead.
E Li Three: "...Fine. I'll use the rocket launcher."
Metal Man (GM): He takes out a massive rocket launcher and fires at Douglas.
Douglas sobs. "But I love you, E Li Three!"
Alexia: "..."
Douglas: *Pow.*
Metal Man (GM): It was oriented the wrong way. It flies behind E Li Three and blows up a tree.
Alexia: "I think E Li's more of a liability than a help here..."
Douglas: *Or not Pow.*
Dragoshi: "...Wow."
E Li Three: "...Perhaps this is why I decided to test people instead of fight them."
Dragoshi: "...I'd see why, E Li."
Metal Man: "It's hammer time!" *smashes at Glyph twice, then fires a beam of Metallic energy at Glyph.*
Metal Man (GM): ... like it'd even hit.
Glyph: *??? is hit by the smashes and is clearly worse for wear.*
Dragoshi: *...Tries to steal the RAWKET LAWNCHAIR-errr... Rocket launcher from E Li, 'cause yea.*
Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi takes it from him. E Li Three then flies at ??? with the force of a 37.
E Li Three: "Hey! I would have given that to you for free, but now you'll have to pay! ...Why am I sitting on a person?" *Gets off of Leviathan.*
Alexia: "Sorry. We needed it impromptu."
Glyph: *??? beam attacks E Li at close range...*
Metal Man (GM): Hit!
E Li Three: "...You people make me feel unloved. I'll have to replace your eyes with shoelaces!"
Douglas: "But I just TOLD you I loved you!" :D
Dragoshi: *Pockets rocket launcher... And attempts to strangle ???*
Glyph: Hit.
Douglas thinks E Li Three is ignoring him.
Dragoshi: *And, then he saves up his remaining strength.*
Alexia: *Charged Heat Beam for starters!*
Glyph: *??? escapes the beam.*
Alexia: *And cleanse the palate with a pair of Psy Shots!*
Glyph: *??? has avoided the last couple of shots, but he's still not looking too good.* [???] "I disappoint myself--I've been too busy attempting to keep fools' minds at bay to focus on what I've been doing." *??? promptly... discards the spikes he had charged? Then he uses... something. He's looking straight forward.* "I might not even win this one." *??? chuckles.*
Alexia prepares herself for... something.
Glyph: *??? stares directly at the person who moved last.* "You're an easy target, do you realize that? I mean that in more ways than one."
Alexia: "I plan not to be, thank you."
Glyph: *??? attacks with Deluge.* *??? sends a wave of Miasma-formed water at Alexia.*
Alexia: *Hit by two of them. Dammit.*
Glyph: *??? then... sends a wave of Miasma-formed water at Alexia.*
Alexia gets drenched by both of them and stands up, shivering.
Glyph: *??? completes his turn by doing... the exact same thing.*
Alexia: "Y-you won't get rid of me that easily!"
Glyph: [???] "No, I suppose not. The result of this battle will be my own fault... for relying on Leviathan and Hop."
Aaron moves up 4 feet into melee attack range. Then lets loose with an uppercut.
Glyph: *??? halfheartedly sidesteps.*
Aaron unloads a roundhouse kick on him.
Alexia: *THAT'S GOTTA HURT.*
Douglas sends another short zap at Glyph through the keyblade to try and seal him, again..
Glyph: *??? is not quick enough to escape.*
Douglas then throws an Air Dart. >.>
Glyph: *??? is practically dead on his feet.*
E Li Three: "This... is for hitting me!" He throws a slow punch at Glyph.
Glyph: *??? steps back.*
Alexia: "You're finished! Give it up!"
Glyph: [???] "...very well." *??? turns to Metal.*
Metal Man: "Have you learned your lesson? Or will I have to deal the finishing blow?"
Glyph: [???] "I would enjoy nothing more than to remove a group so flawed as yours from the face of this world and all others, but I simply don't have the strength to continue." *??? smiles.* "I will destroy you. That much is certain. I simply tried at the wrong times... you may count this as a victory." *??? bows.* "One or two more hits would render my body itself useless, for those keeping track."
Metal Man: "Eh. I have a good idea."
Metal Man goes to KO (but not kill) ??? with his hammer!
Glyph: *??? attempts to dodge the attack, but can hardly move already...*
Metal Man (GM): He stays conscious... long enough for Metal to swing the hammer again!
Glyph: *??? attempts something directly previous to the hit, but he is no longer conscious, so he falls to the floor.*
Alexia: "...Nice one, Metal."
Dragoshi: "...Quite."
E Li Three: "...I guess I'll stop fighting. But only if I can do this!" He whips out a taco and eats it.
Dragoshi: "...'K."
Douglas: "...I want a taco..."
Dragoshi: "...As do I."
Metal Man: "Well, that's a wrap. Let's drag him back and begin our plans for our next mission... we need those Freedom Fighters, after all."
Dragoshi: "Yep."
E Li Three: "I can make more when we get to the ARK. If that is where you are going?"
Douglas: "Bleh."
Metal Man: "How did you know?"
Dragoshi: "Aye. But, as Metal asked, how'd you know?"
E Li Three: "I hijacked your dexes over ten years ago. While people were doing tests, I just... slipped some bugs into them! And voila! I can follow you everywhere, like road rash."
Dragoshi: "Ah. Makes sense."
Alexia: "... All over us like a bad itch, I see."
Metal Man: "...I'll look to fixing that later..." *Picks up ???'s body and walks to the Seeker, and in turn to the warp.*
Metal Man (GM): Mission Accomplished.
Alexia: "I suppose I shouldn't be surprised..."
Dragoshi: "Yep."
Alexia heads back and enters the warp.
Metal Man (GM): *WARP* The Questers are at the Ark.
Alexia looks around a bit once she warps onto the ARK. "..."
Dragoshi: "...Hmm?"
Alexia: "We shall never say the name of that accursed game ever again."
Dragoshi: "...Quite."
Traon walks in. "What game? Truth or dare?"
Dragoshi: "...Okay. Whoever expected that, raise your hands." >_> *Raises his left claw.*
Alexia sighs and raises her hand.
Aaron: "What that?"
Alexia: "An evil game that steals the soul and dignity of whoever plays it. ...As well as revealing some very interesting bloodlines... where's Alex?"
Dragoshi: "I... have no idea."
Alex: *Brought out.*
Dragoshi: "...I'd say that one phrase that ends up in-...Yeaaa... I'm just gonna end that there." >_>;;
Alexia: "Okay, Alex, seriously. What's the truth?"
Alex: "?? I told you already..."
Alexia: "Excuse me, but two people, one having the same last name and the other apparently having psychic powers?"
Dragoshi: *Tries to determine Alex's motive... He won't mention his thoughts on the matter, though.* .oO(I see... Peculiar.)
Alexia: "WHY are you still lying?!"
Alex: "Hmph?? I'm not!"
Alexia: "I mean, hell, you really might BE my brother!"
Dragoshi: *Just watches the drama... Whee.*
Alex: "I told you already, my parents are Sean and Tanya Hunter! Are they your parents?"
Alexia: "..."
Dragoshi: "Well, Hunter is a common last name." :/
Alexia: "No. But you just dug your own grave."
Alex: "Erg. I was lying yesterday, just like you suspected."
Alexia: "Yesterday you mentioned a certain Sasha. Where is she now? And if you were lying then, you could be lying now."
Dragoshi: "..." *Shakes head in annoyance.* .oO(Stupid child... This'll just lead to more tears. Hmph. Errr... Frustration. Dammit.)
Alex shrugs, then.
Dragoshi: *Looks at Alex, calm.* "Well, this has gotten rather... Annoying, don't you think...?"
Alex: "Sure... so why don't you all just drop the subject? It's nothing special."
Dragoshi: "...I wish it was that easy. I'm just watching it, but it seems she won't just drop it."
Traon: "My advise... Run away while you still can."
Dragoshi: "...How does that even qualify as helpful advice?"
Traon: "It works doesn't it? As long as you have longer legs than her and you have stamina, you got yourself a clean get away."
Dragoshi: "...I suppose so, but... Sometimes, running away isn't the answer. ...Nor, is confronting the one chasing you. Yes, I know that's confusing but think about that for a while." :/ .oO(...Wow. That killed the conversation. >_>;;)
Aaron: "Someone explain what wrong."
Alex: "Alexia thinks I'm related to her in some way, that's all."

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