Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 365: Dimensional Madness
Date: 6:31:16 PM, December 14th to 8:31:48 PM, December 14th;
6:41:21 PM, December 15th to 7:25:19 PM, December 15th;
8:27:49 PM, December 16th to 9:05:12 PM, December 16th, 2006.
Alexia: "So what have you been doing all this time, twinkle toes--holy..."
Metal Man (GM): Inside that air, bits and pieces of reality spin around it, attached to it by purple lightning.
The area has its own eerie orange sky, and the gentle hum of electricity.
Aribar: "Interesting..."
Dragoshi: "...Quite."
Fizban: "...no powers. No magic. Save your strength."
Alexia: "Disturbing, too."
Dragoshi: "...Meh."
Metal Man (GM): The information you want... is in the middle of that mess.
Fizban: "...we have no choice. Be on guard, but no powers... come."
*He moves toward the time machine, keep wary and dodging if necessary.*
Aribar follows his Master.
Alexia heads towards the freaky reality-eating machine.
Metal Man (GM): You can't move too close without it pulling at you and lashing near you with purple lightning.
Dragoshi follows as well.
Metal Man (GM): You're pretty sure that wouldn't be good to be hit by it and possibly ripped out of this reality.
It can, however, still be accessed, if you had something that could breach the gap... anything.
Aribar: "I, ah... Might be able to keep the lightning from hitting a single person..."
Fizban hrms softly, looking about.
Alexia tries to pull the mission object out with TK.
Metal Man (GM): No objects in this room can help you; they've been ripped up and spin around it.
Your telekinesis is ripped from you and begins orbiting the machine instead.
Fizban: *...!!* "I said no powers!"
Metal Man (GM): The attack, that is... although temporarily, you can't use any telekinesis either.
Alexia: "So what's YOUR plan, then?"
Metal Man (GM): Something strange happens, though. That causes an imbalance in it, and it chucks out an energy thing, which lands on the ground, then melts into a puddle.
Dragoshi: "...Hmmm..." .oO(Maybe one of those random abomination item things'll wor-...)
Fizban thinks for a moment, watching the puddle...
Metal Man (GM): It finally reforms... into Dr. Ivo Robotnik... well, it should be him, but you don't remember him looking so ripped up and weak.
Alexia ducks into her battle stance, gun drawn.
Dragoshi: "...What the hell happened to you?"
Ivo Robotnik: "...Could you not read those signs? This machine... ...One wrong step could destroy all of time!"
Alexia: "So turn it off."
Dragoshi: "...And, I presume you wouldn't tell us what one RIGHT step would be, right? ...Or possibly if you even KNEW that."
Ivo Robotnik: "...Haven't any of you seen my papers? I don't even know how it works. With the software unresponsive, nothing I have done has been able to stop it. I've been trapped inside it for the whole time... The business associate was supposed to fix errors like this!"
Metal Man (GM): He gets angry and then takes out a pocket computer. It still works, but not very well. Especially not in this sort of mess.
Dragoshi: "..."
Aribar just barely keeps himself from demanding answers from Ivo...
Fizban: "...who is this business associate you speak of?"
Ivo Robotnik: "Hrmph. This is ridiculous. Just two more distortions and all of time is destroyed."
*Points at Fizban* "Why should I tell you?"
Fizban: "You are not in a situation to be questioning us."
Metal Man (GM): He smiles devilishly.
Ivo Robotnik: "I am afraid your... oh, what is that? Lack of logic has failed. For you see, killing me could destroy all of time!"
Fizban: "Anything that either we or you do could do the same."
Ivo Robotnik: "I must finish the Egg Cannon and find that fool who wronged me; maybe I can destroy his precious realm."
Aribar: "We could just leave you here for eternity."
Ivo Robotnik: "Ah... but you ignored my signs. You can't escape the glow once you enter it."
Alexia: "That'll work. Anybody got some rope?"
Ivo Robotnik: "And I have already been trapped here, against my will, for what seemed like an eternity. Oh, don't worry; you're nowhere near important enough to be MY target anymore. A genius like me defeats far tougher enemies!"
Aribar doesn't trust Ivo... He tries to go back up and exit the room.
Alexia: "If you're such a self-proclaimed genius, how come you can't shut this thing off?"
Metal Man (GM): You attempt to go up the stairs; a gravitational pull prevents you from reaching the top.
Aribar mutters a piffle and heads back to the others...
Ivo Robotnik: "I was not only a genius, but committed self-sacrifice to protect you all; I sent myself here to ensure I could keep it from overloading, even putting up signs to warn you!"
Fizban: *Isn't listening anymore. He reaches to his back and pulls that crystal blue spear he recovered from the cave.*
Ivo Robotnik: "It wouldn't have mattered had you left this place intact... why are you here anyway?"
Alexia: "...Fiz, what are you planning to do with that?"
Fizban: "To search for information on the one called Iggy."
Ivo Robotnik: "You know as well as I do I have no threat to you anymore; and my plans may as well be wasted, trapped in limbo forever with you..."
Dragoshi: *Merely just watches and listens...*
Ivo Robotnik: "Iggy? I never heard of such a thing. I only have information on myself and my genius creations here; and even then, the computer to access it with is surrounded by a timeless void which eats everything that gets too close!"
Aribar: "No threat to us? You've done nothing but backstab us and try to stop us for years!"
Ivo Robotnik: "Yes, but how can I backstab you now, trapped in this room with you forever?"
Alexia: "You'll find a way."
Aribar: "I'm sure your 'supreme genius' would find a way."
Fizban stares at the void. Is there any open gap or something in the mountains of stuff?
Metal Man (GM): There are many open gaps.
Ivo Robotnik: "Well... it was Alexia's fault. That attack sent me flying from my unnatural time prison."
Fizban watches, watches... waits... he hefts the spear in his right hand, his eyes like a hawk, waiting for the correct movement...
Ivo Robotnik: "You should have listened to the old man; had you only used your evil, worthless minds instead of your powers, I'd still be stuck in there!"
Metal Man (GM): There's plenty of moments; you could probably throw it right in.
Alexia: "How was I supposed to know that you were a puddle of goo trapped in that damn vacuum cleaner from hell?"
Fizban: .oO(Something must be used to bridge the gap...)
Ivo Robotnik: "How were you to know an attack on that thing would work? It is completely unpredictable. In fact, one more attack may be able to destroy all of time! As tempting as it would be to try one more time travel to escape, the chances of disintegration are high."
Fizban rears his hand back... and slings the spear toward the gap.
Ivo Robotnik: "...So... who replaced me while I was gone? ...!!!" *Turns to Fizban, too late* "You fool!"
Metal Man (GM): You sling it in there. It becomes hit by lightning, and... then another puddle flies out. It morphs into... also Ivo Robotnik?
Alexia: *Blinks.*
Dragoshi: "...Huh."
Ivo Robotnik 2: "Could you not read those signs? This machine..."
Ivo Robotnik: "Look what you've done! There's two of me now! Are you not insane?"
Aribar: "...Hrm. Eternity with two Ivo Robotniks, or destruction of time? ..."
Fizban: "...hmmm."
Ivo Robotnik 2: "What? There's two of me now? Impossible! There is only one genius like me!"
Scott Gibson: "This is really starting to look like a Monty Python episode."
Editor's Note: And somehow I predicted Sonic Generations five years before it even existed. That's my GMing for you!
Alexia: "...Who?"
Ivo Robotnik: "You are lying. I am the original; I came first! You are a fool."
Scott Gibson: "BOTH OF YOU SHUT IT!"
Dragoshi: "...If that was the case, then where's the giant foot?"
Ivo Robotnik 2: "You are the fool; I am the only one smart enough to escape! The business associate did---"
Ivo Robotnik: "...The point of this is that hitting it with attacks will only increase our problems."
Scott Gibson: "Now... Let's try and figure something useful for a change."
Aribar: "Puddles of 'genius', have you ever thought of a way to try to actually fix this thing? If attacks aggravate it... What would calm it?"
Dragoshi tries to think outside the box, and figure out a way to get the acquired object WITHOUT destroying all of time OR causing a bigger mess.
Fizban looks irritated at the--waaaait...
Ivo Robotnik 2: "...The associate is the only one who would know."
Ivo Robotnik: "The associate is a jerk. We're trapped in here."
Aribar: "So, will you actually give us a name or something of this 'associate'?"
Fizban: "Then tell us who he or she is, you pompous fools?!"
Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi: You think you should think with thinking such as something without tethers.
Ivo Robotnik: "Never!"
Ivo Robotnik 2: "Never!"
Aribar: "Even if it could free you?"
Dragoshi: "Huh... Something without tethers..."
Ivo Robotnik: "I have a great idea, though... perhaps we should make several more of me... and all of me could create a device to escape with a combined IQ of 30,000!"
Scott Gibson grabs the Robotniks by the collars. "If your gums don't start flappin' anything useful I may stop caring about saving time."
Alexia: "How about no."
Aribar: "..." *Steps on the first Ivo Puddle.*
Fizban moves over to Scott and whispers into his ear.
Metal Man (GM): Aribar: Your foot bounces off of him and into your forehead.
Scott: They... slip through your hands. Evil slippery temporal disturbances.
Dragoshi: "...Ugh."
Scott Gibson: "Eew..."
Aribar: "Gah..."
Ivo Robotnik: "...The fool who grabbed me has a point. Perhaps we are all the same person, only this machine refuses to release all of me at once?"
Ivo Robotnik 2: "Never! I am the real genius! My name is worth everything!"
Scott Gibson: "..."
Fizban hrms and pokes Ivo with his staff.
Metal Man (GM): The staff bounces off of him.
Fizban pokes him harder, looking to see if he moves at all.
Aribar: "Twit two, he means that you're only a... Hundreth of your charming self right now... Or something like that."
Ivo Robotnik: "Wait... I have an explanation... that Ivo is my indignation and vanity, and I am the pure logic. ...Which means this machine is much more dangerous than it'd seem."
Dragoshi: "...So... Do we merge the two of you together? ...Huh. That too, apparently."
Ivo Robotnik: "...No. He'll just annoy you." *Shoves Robotnik 2 over.*
Scott Gibson: "Then start talking logic man."
Ivo Robotnik: "There is a way out... but, unfortunately for you, it will cost something... yes... I need some payment for this."
Dragoshi: "...What KIND?"
Ivo Robotnik: "I will, again, the genius, myself, go forth into the mess and access the machine for you, at the expense of being partially free."
Fizban: "...no."
Ivo Robotnik: "...I meant myself being no longer free, nitwit. The price is that you must give me one of your smash dexes."
"Preferably a replaceable one. I only want the information."
Alexia: "And why do you want it?"
Ivo Robotnik: "Something to read while I am trapped."
Dragoshi: "...Makes sense."
Aribar: "Wait..."
Alexia: "...You're a horrible bluffer, you know that? Seriously, why do you need a Dex?"
Scott Gibson: "I'll have one warped in for you if Metal okays it... not that he will."
Aribar: "How about something else, such as... A spell book?"
Ivo Robotnik: "...You can't warp things down here, neither contact the outside world. I will only take one smash dex. Or else Number 2 will talk to you for all of eternity."
Fizban: *Glares at Aribar* "Do not continue that train of thought, lad."
Scott Gibson: "..."
Ivo Robotnik 2: "I am the greatest! The evilest! The most amazing super-king of technology! Behold my powers!" *Shoots with poor aim at the machine.*
Aribar: "It would be better than giving him access to all of the Quester's data once we're out of here..."
Ivo Robotnik: "...He may kill us all, too." *Snatches the gun from Ivo 2*
Fizban: "Aye, but magic... wait."
Ivo Robotnik: "How can I use remote data while I am trapped inside a vortex for all of eternity?"
Dragoshi: *Checks to see if Ivo's lying... Even though he partially doubts it. But, still can't be too careful, yanno.* (Doing a Detect Motive check)
Metal Man (GM): He appears to be telling the truth. And possibly bored.
Dragoshi: .oO(Eh. His reason checks out. I guess.) *He then shrugs.*
Fizban looks back at the large machine, trying something. He mutters the first few words of his shield spell, feeling the magic come to him, watching it for signs of it being sucked in.
Aribar: "I highly doubt you'll be trapped in there for eternity..."
Metal Man (GM): The shield appears around you. The time machine tries to grab some of it, but you're too far away for it to grab the energy.
Fizban: "...Master Ivo... the first one."
Ivo Robotnik: "Yes?"
Fizban: "You were planning on walking in there without any sort of protection?"
Aribar: *The elf hrms, an idea forming in his head...*
Ivo Robotnik: "Any protection would be sucked into the vortex. It takes a while to catch on to people."
Aribar: "What if we move the distortion thingy around the time machine away from it?"
Scott Gibson: "How?"
Ivo Robotnik: "The further away they are, the larger the hole is, the closer they come to eating all of time itself."
Aribar: "...Ahhh... Nevermind then."
Ivo Robotnik: "At 98%, we only have one more time to mess with it before it goes critical."
Fizban: "...I see... so, to avoid the vortex, we must simply be fast enough to get to the center."
Scott Gibson: "So it's a one shot deal."
Ivo Robotnik: "I shall do it; any of you... don't want to be trapped in there forever."
Dragoshi: "...Agreed."
Ivo Robotnik: "Now. Give me a smash dex. I also need it to relay the information to you."
Fizban: "...then take mine. I rarely use it."
*He hands him the device.*
Scott Gibson: "Works for me."
Ivo Robotnik: "You'll get another one, knowing your... ...annoying leader." *Takes it*
"Now, adieu. If I do escape, I shall at least give you a few moments to run before releasing my next doomsday device."
Dragoshi: "...'Kay"
Scott Gibson: "Heh... Sounds fun."
Metal Man (GM): He kicks Robotnik 2 into the floating mass of platforms, leaps out, uses the falling Ivo 2 as a platform, and lands on the machine.
He then searches for the information, uploads it to your dexes, and vanishes.
Alexia: "So how do we get out?"
Aribar: "Hrm..."
Metal Man (GM): The dexes show some interesting information.
Dragoshi: "..." *Reads el info.*
Metal Man (GM): Iggy's castle is a metallic fortress floating over Death Mountain.
Alexia opens her Dex and checks the info.
Metal Man (GM): It uses similar properties to the machine you just encountered to remain (normally) invisible.
Scott Gibson: "Cozy."
Metal Man (GM): Not much else is known, except it presents an escape route, as it and this place are linked by their instability.
Thus... send a signal to it and it bounces into the normal timespace.
Aribar peers over someone else's shoulder to read the information. "So... Signals sent go to the normal Nintendus... Would that work with us?"
Alexia: "Worth a shot."
Dragoshi: *Nods.*
Aribar: "...Into the energy field thingy over the time machine?"
Fizban: "...be quick in doing so. I don't believe this will stay stable much longer."
Aribar: "...You know, this means Ivo escaped... With a smash dex... Maybe we can still catch him..." *Jumps into the field.*
Alexia: "..."
Dragoshi: "...He said he would be TRAPPED. Good effin' grief, does no one LISTEN?"
Metal Man (GM): Worth a shot? Hardly.
Scott Gibson: "I listen. That's why you dont' see me committing suicide."
Metal Man (GM): Aribar is sucked into the mess and becomes trapped inside a white void... where no one or anything is.
Also, this sets the machine over the edge.
Scott Gibson: "Shit..."
Metal Man (GM): It begins freaking out and catching on fire.
Alexia: "Uh-oh... this thing's gonna go critical!"
Metal Man (GM): The things begin spiraling further outwards, while the gravitational force increases constantly.
Scott Gibson: "Looks like we don't have much choice now... fuck!"
Alexia: "...Nice knowing you guys."
Fizban: "Quickly! Send the signal!"
Dragoshi: "...Maybe, maybe no-Right." *Tries to send the signal.*
Smash Dex: "Computer offline. Stability null. Unable to send any signa---" *Screech* *Deactivate.*
Scott Gibson: "We're boned..."
Alexia: "Yup."
Fizban: "...well... it seems we have no chance..."
*He makes sure they can't just retreat.*
Metal Man (GM): The entire area destabilizes, and in a few moments, completely obliterates into complete chaos, including bits and pieces of its entire past, present, and future flying around everywhere.
Scott Gibson: "Remind me to kick Ari's ass when I see him in hell."
Metal Man (GM): Aribar, Ivo, AND several dancing Charleses are thrown out of the mess, and you're all now standing at the corrupted foot of some sort of tower.
Ivo Robotnik: "...Did you not listen? Now look what you've done!"
Scott Gibson: "Correction... we listened... he didn't." *Points to Ari.*
Ivo Robotnik: "The machine has been overloaded, and... if you're lucky, I'm free. If you're unlucky, all of us are doomed."
Alexia: "Gee, what wonderful choices. Is there an option C in this?"
Fizban: "Aye... I will be having a word with him."
Aribar: "...I only did what I thought would transport us to Iggy's tower; send a signal/person, get to the other place!"
Scott Gibson: "Looks like he already arrived."
Fizban walks over to Aribar, forcing him to his feet with a rather strong hand.
Dragoshi: "You apparently misunderstood that."
Ivo Robotnik: "Signals can be relayed by devices; people are merely absorbed. One person too many for that machine..."
Scott Gibson: "Duh!"
Alexia: "So now we're stuck here. ...Anybody bring some playing cards?"
Fizban: "Nay, we aren't stuck."?
Ivo Robotnik: "Not quite. Everything is... strange here."
Scott Gibson: "No fuckin' way."
Ivo Robotnik: "The original trap was solitary; this is clearly some damaged remnant of either our timespace or somewhere that explosion sent us."
Phantom Charleses: "And we already danced, so... we're just gonna wait for the end of existence. Am I right?"
Fizban: "This tower is still in our way. And perhaps it holds the key to our escape."
Phantom Charles and the other Charles's nod in unison.
Metal Man (GM): Your questions are soon answered as what looks like a robot with an upside-down head walks in.
Alexia: "..."
Scott Gibson rubs his temples and tries to make some sense of all this.
Dragoshi: "...Good. 'Cause, that w-..."
ManMan: "Hah hah hah hah! It is I, Man Man! I have found you! You will die!"
Fizban: "...well, perhaps we can kill two birds with one stone, so to speak."
Dragoshi: "...Ah. THERE'S that one Robot Master Metal was talking about"
Phantom Charles and crew: "Man--Man?"
Scott Gibson unslings his guitar. "As it."
Alexia: "How about two birds with one weapon?" *Pulls out the Darkman chain.*
ManMan: "Dr. Wily thought you would wind up here... it was the perfect plan! I, Man-Man, wait inside a temporal hole in reality, for you to mindlessly destroy Ivo's time machine, which, thanks to Diolize, only sent you here instead of destroying the universe!"
Ivo Robotnik: "...Dr. Wily? But there is only one genius in this universe!" *Pulls out a gun.*
Fizban: "After that situation... and this FOOL of a wizard..." *Glares at Aribar* "...I would do well with some combat. I'm sure you all agree."
Dragoshi: "...Huh. Maybe we were thrown into Exception or whatever Metal called it. But, eh." *Readies his scythe and machinegun.*
Scott Gibson: .oO(Remind me to buy Dio a brew.)
Phantom Charleses: "Here here." *They all nod in unison except for the one in the back.*
ManMan: "...He claimed you were dead! Why didn't you die? This is unfair! I will have to solve this simple misunderstanding with violence!"
Dragoshi: "...Doesn't everyone do that these days?"
Metal Man (GM): He rips off his own head and gets ready to hurl it at you.
Boss battle: Questers and Ivo Robotnik vs. ManMan
Alexia sighs and enters her battle stance.
Aribar readies for combat...
Metal Man (GM): Roll turn order checks.
Phantom Charleses of the back: "Before a fight, we drink coca-cola." The others mutter to each other in agreement, sit down cross-legged, and grab a bottle of Coca-Cola from their pockets so they can proceed to slowly drink it. They all pop their tops in unison and proceed to drink said carbonated soda.
Metal Man (GM): Order: Dragoshi, ManMan, Ivo Robotnik, Scott, Fizban, Aribar, Alexia
*gets a drink as well.*
Editor's Note: This log NOT brought to you by Coca Cola! ...Does make me thirsty though.
Dragoshi: *And, Drag bides his time... EoT.*
Metal Man (GM): ManMan takes out his normal weapon, his own head, and chucks it at Dragoshi for no reason.
55 damage if that hits.
Dragoshi: *Which barely hits due to cheap luck.*
Metal Man (GM): It bounces off with a 'PLONK'
Then he tries to punch... Fizban (I do hope Alexia comes back soon)
30 damage if that hits. As he then goes to sock Ivo.
He misses, as the fat man's belly deflects it.
Ivo Robotnik: "You are no match for my intelligence, foolish machine!" *He shoots at the robot once with his chunky, funky laser pistol.*
Metal Man (GM): *ZAP* The robot takes 15 damage. Alas; Eggman without his machines is not much of a fighter.
Scott Gibson makes ready for the attack and decides that for now he'll defend and conserve some TP. EoT.
Fizban twirls his staff, unleashing a fireball as well as two sets of magic missiles, all under AGGRESSIVE ATTACK.
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
Miss miss hit miss hit miss
He's a fast jerk, like most Wily bosses. No wonder how they're able to jump all around like mad.
Dragoshi: *And, Dragoshi concentrates and opens a pair of rifts which... Send some darts and a tarantula flying at ManMan!*
Metal Man (GM): Hit miss hit hit
ManMan: "Ahhhh!!! Pointy, scary implements of my doom!"
Metal Man (GM): He chucks his head at Fizban next.
55 damage if that hits. PLOINK
Continue your turn, Dragoshi; he's foolishly attacking in the middle of it, exposing himself to an AoO.
Dragoshi: "Fool!" *And, another! And a mech flies out, ready to annihilate the sad sap that is ManMan.*
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
Dragoshi: *And, the mech assaults ManMan with multiple laser blasts!*
Metal Man (GM): He's feelin' that one...
ManMan: "Argh! The pain of a mindless fight!"
Dragoshi: *And, I presume MadMan can continue his turn now?*
Metal Man (GM): He continues it, going to punch Dragoshi twice.
30 damage per hit.
Dragoshi: *Drag feels the first, but summons some sort of aura to block the second... Which disappears. The aura, I mean.*
Ivo Robotnik: "I am sorry, but this is all I can do." *He shoots again.*
Metal Man (GM): *Blam* 15 more damage to ManMan.
Scott Gibson: "Now we have some fun!"
*He sees Drag's move pummel ManMan mid-attack and tries to use the confusion to his advantage. He runs up in an aggressive attack and goes for an old fashioned grab, smash, and steal!*
Metal Man (GM): Miss!
Miss!
Scott Gibson misses his first strike and decides that he'd better make the last two good and goes in for a heavy downward slam!
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
Scott Gibson then follows up with another blow of the same caliber.
Metal Man (GM): Hit.
Scott Gibson then drops back after burning off his TP. EoT
"Eat that."
ManMan: "But I have no mouth!"
Fizban: *Immediately follows up his attack with a bolt of lightning, then a blast of cold magic.*
Dragoshi: "...So you must scream?"
Ivo Robotnik: "I question the logic of Dr. Wily... mindless robots like this are inferior."
Alexia gives Dragoshi an odd look.
ManMan: "Ahhhhhh!" *Hit twice.*
Alexia: "How can you scream with no mouth?"
Scott Gibson: .oO(Or talk for that matter.)
Dragoshi: "...Simple. Mentally. Either that or have a hole your neck like those stupid smokers."
Alexia whirls the chain around a bit before lashing it at ManMan.
Dragoshi: "But, eh."
Metal Man (GM): Miss. He leaps over it.
Alexia: *Once more!*
Metal Man (GM): Hit. It hits him, but only for normal damage ..But that's nearly enough to kill him as-is.
Alexia: *EoT.*
Metal Man (GM): A good push should settle him.
ManMan: "You foolish being! I am the most powerful robot master! That weapon only harms some other one!"
Dragoshi: "...Okay, gimme your weapon! ...Or head. Whatever." *He tries to steal ManMan's stupid head.*
Metal Man (GM): Miss
Dragoshi: *Try again!*
Metal Man (GM): Hit
You steal his head; his body flies away and explodes, making a hole that leads into... Hyrule Field?
Mission ???
Fizban: "...well, that's convenient."
Dragoshi: "...Quite."
Metal Man (GM): +15,000 coins
Scott Gibson: "Good one."
Metal Man (GM): +3000 EXP
Throwing object, use for throws; adds 3 damage, 2 range. A relatively powerful item... but only for moves with throws, and in those cases replace the other objects you'd throw.
Also,
Dr. Ivo Robotnik has joined your party!
Ivo Robotnik: "I cannot let this fake scientist mock my genius! I shall aid you in destroying this foolish faker. He and... anyone else who dares pretend to be more intelligent than me who hasn't decided to inexplicably free me!"
Fizban: "...well, I suppose it's always good to have a genius in our group."
Metal Man (GM): He marches out of the warp.
Phantom Charleses: "Hey... what about us?"
Ivo Robotnik: *Peaks back in* "Uh... I don't think it'd be wise to allow extra-dimensional copies out of here. Hurry up, Questers! We must destroy the fake scientists of this world!"
Metal Man (GM): He then begins walking to HQ. Apparently all that insanity caused him to either flip sides or lose his mind.
Alexia: "...What a loony world this is."
*She enters the warp.*
Phantom Charleses: "So we stay here as guardians of this place and can't leave ever again."
Dragoshi follows, pocketing everything 'cept the head.
Phantom Charles and the 5 others shrug. "Hey, that means we get to do whatever the hell we want here."
Metal Man (GM): Any of you taking ManMan's weapon?
Fizban: "Curious..." *What WAS his weapon? Is it staff shaped?*
Metal Man (GM): It's like a bowling ball. Oh. I thought you meant you were dropping it, Dragoshi.
Either way, Fizban can look at it too. It's literally his head, which is like a giant bowling ball.
Made especially for throwing at people.
Dragoshi currently has it.
Fizban: *...shrugs. He's an old man, he can't throw anything.*
Phantom Charles claps twice. "Okay, guys: In 5 minutes we practice the song 'Beat It.' Hop to it gentlemen!" The 5 others scramble about the room, and the one carrying the boombox changes CDs for said boombox.
Metal Man (GM): Aaand the Questers leave the warp.
Phantom Charleses: "Beat It... just beat it..."
Metal Man (GM): The hole closes up behind them, leaving the extra-Dimensional Charles to guard the weird hole in reality.
The Questers are back at HQ. I also hope Aribar has the... er... I dunno what he'd need, but whatever it is, the... guts? or something? To realize that mistakes in SSQ, while they come close to it, never exactly end the world.
Otherwise I'd have accidentally ended the world enough times to make my head explode.
Editor's Note: In this case, rather than guts, I would say mental fortitude. Guts allowed many others to destroy the world, but mental fortitude is what it takes to accept sometimes actions fail or have adverse consequences.
Scott Gibson ,once back at HQ, goes to Metal's office and knocks a couple'a times with his foot. A ton of disks and manuals in his hands.
Metal Man sits in the Big Room. That seems to be his main office now. "???"
Dragoshi follows Scott, papers in hand.
Scott Gibson then opens the door with his foot and steps in. "Got some stuff for ya, Metal."
Alexia heads up to her room.
Scott Gibson then walks in and slams down the tons of disks and manuals onto Metal's desk. "I snagged these from the last mission. They're all plans, diagrams, and all that crap on the X-Zone Gun. Rather give these to you as kindling or something rather than letting someone else get their mits on em'."
Fizban searches him out.
Metal Man: "Ah. I shall store them safely."
Metal Man (GM): You can't exactly find him; the closest thing is that he's now a... business associate... of Julian's?
Scott Gibson: "Thank Hendrix... Hopefully we won't have to deal with that damn thing again."
Ivo Robotnik: *Walks into the Big room* "Where is your lab? I must create destructive weapons and destroy Dr. Wily!"
Alexia comes back out of her room and wanders into the shop.
Metal Man: "Gah! Robotnik!" *Aims his gun at Ivo* "...Wait... what? You don't want to kill us all?"
Dragoshi: *Walks in as well, and puts down the papers he took as well*"Yea. That's all I got. Adios" *Walks a-Nevermind*"About that... Uhhh... Some interesting stuff happened"
Scott Gibson: "Well, my part's over. Later." *Scott heads out of the office and to his room for some shut-eye.*
Dragoshi: "And, along the way we met Ivo, then some odd stuff happened, then we fought ManMan, one of Wily's Robot Masters, and, uhhh... Here we are." @_@ *NOW he leaves.*
Metal Man: "...Whatever. I still don't trust him, but I guess if I have Mack follow him everywhere, he won't break too many things."
Ivo Robotnik: "..." *He crosses his arms, but eventually walks off, apparently to the lab, as he quickly finds Mack.*
Charles Magellean (GM) has something special for you all tomorrow. :D He goes to bed so he can wake up and be refreshed for this. ^_^
Editor's Note: Indeed. The infamous Mind of Magellean! But I'm getting ahead of myself. ...A head. Bad pun, get it? (ManMan)
Aetos: *Ring ring ring, Ring ring ring, Phone Call, Phone Call.*
Metal Man takes out the main screen. "???"
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Ahhhh! Metal Man!"
Metal Man: "Yes?"
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "*Pant* By Bahamut... The IIF ..."
Metal Man: "Yes, I've heard a lot of them lately."
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "We managed to repel their units from their attack on my base, but... Shadow... he completely demolished it..."
Metal Man: "Yes... too late to stop them, as a mysterious cloaked man told us."
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Need... something to protect the other bases... Is Garrick there?"
Metal Man: "I am unsure."
Douglas Craft pops his head up and looks around through the screen.
"Hrm."
Metal Man: "We are on our way to stopping them, just acquiring some... help."
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "No matter... I... well... I think I've decided to go on the search for Aribar's arm, sooner or later... as soon as I finish this checklist for the AI's. I was wondering if there was anyone you know that would care to join?"
Metal Man: "Join you... where?"
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "To the Vanilla Dome!... Wherever that is."
Metal Man: "The Vanilla Dome? Uh. Aribar's arm? I swear I heard something about him being around here, but he hasn't apparently come to see me yet."
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "...What?... K..." .oO(Crazy old man) "... Could I perhaps offer a reward for your mercenaries to join me?"
Metal Man: "I'm unsure. Uh... we have some things of our own going on."
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Huh. Like what?" *Scribbles something onto paper.*
Metal Man: "We have... plans... to build a gigantic rocket."
Charles Magellean (GM): *Now is the time for the cinema.*
(((((( His Arrival ))))))
*The river of pyreflies that flows to the planet of Nintendus has at last reached the metropolis/megalopolis of Eisnaught at daylight. The pyreflies gather in a shadowed alley, re-materializing the being that has transmuted his form into that of a completely black body with a shadow that is white.*
*The being takes a quick glance at his surroundings... but notices something is amiss. It feels the "Gravity" of the situation immediately.*
*Unfortunately, even that is cut short as the being falls about 30-50 feet from the air down into an alleyway, landing on the hard pavement on the face, no less.*
*http://www.ocremix.org/remix/Ocr00250/#*
*Without realizing its own level has been cut in half, the being gets up, slightly holding its face and being very calm in this man--oh who I'm kidding, the being is screaming ---*
*Without realizing its own level has been cut in half, the being gets up.*
Editor's Note: Extra amazement that OC Remix is still around, I corrected the link... just slightly different from what it was back in the day.
???: "OH GOD THIS HURTS!!"
*It slightly rubs its black face, coaxing out some of the pain. It then dusts itself off to relieve itself of some of the pain in the rest of its* "Body."
*The Lunarian Moon barely visible in the daylight, it looks up to it with its invisible mouth twitching.*
"Even... in... FRICKIN' death... shit has to happen. I should've realized sooner that the Moon has abundant energy while this town has just *Pfft*..."
*It stretches its arms high and proceeds to walk into the daylight. It begins to bob its head left and right slightly as the extremely conspicuous shadow being with a white shadow casually walks down the street. Walking on the sidewalk as the only guy in town whose shadow isn't dark. Yeah, apparently it doesn't give a care.*
"Just gotta enjoy myself." *The being looks all around and begins... to sing. That's right, sing.*
"Who's that guy walking down the street? Tweet tweet, tweet-tweet! Shaking & jivin' & grooving on his own two feet? Tweet tweet... tweet-tweet!"
Metal Man (GM): You walk down the street... and suddenly encounter Doopliss, who, somehow, recognizes you.
Doopliss: "...Is that... Charles? Or some sort of... ghost? My eyes must be broken."
???: *The being proceeds to stop upon seeing Doopliss.*
"...!" .oO(Okay, play it cool. Just play it like you always wanted to do.)
*The being stops and puts its hand to its chin, signifying its thinking...*
"Are you a ghost, or just some goofball that lost its way to the costume ball? If you're wanting a return on it, the gag shop is about three blocks that way." *He points behind him.*
Doopliss: "I'm not sure, Charles, but..." *He shakes his head.* "Some fool has taken over your group and the IIF has nearly blown apart!"
???: *The being merely laughs it off.* "That's a good joke! The punchline required so much timing!"
"' I'm not sure, Charles, but!...' " *It bends backward a bit, shaking its derriere a bit.*
Doopliss: "A joke? I'm not sure exactly about that. You're likely to mourn the fact Ricky is dead, and the IIF butchers are about to destroy the Second Moon." *He shakes his head.*
???: *It wipes a tear from its left eye and flicks it on the ground. The tear then proceeds to land on the ground, create legs, and scatters off on its merry way north.*
"You may believe you can recognize me, but I'm not Charles... I'm..."
???: I'M!..."
*The being's body proceeds to flicker, and it begins to transforms.*
*It transforms from its black body of no visible details on the body itself, to that of a short bedsheet with eye-holes cut out, a party hat, shoes, a ribbon, and a bit short on height... he's turned into an exact copy of Doopliss!*
Doopliss: "Neat trick, Slick. But what about this?"
Doopliss?: "...YOU!"
Metal Man (GM): He morphs into... an exact copy of Charles, when he was alive.
Charles Magellean?: "So, Mr. fake-sheet man, you should continue project Lunaris Ferranium. Death to the Questers! And now, for Coca cola." *Drinks a bottle.*
Doopliss?: "Hey, you're a metamorpher, too! As for me, I AM enjoying myself. Not caring what other people think, not caring for the repercussions of my actions..."
"Now as for my REAL name..."
Charles Magellean?: "Well, if you are the real me, I mean the fake Doopliss copy of me, then you would likely know that I am the only one still partially loyal to the real Charles, and that the traitorous Young Ward has taken control of everything nice. Now religious fundamentalists plan to destroy the world just to glorify their incorrect beliefs."
Doopliss?' body flickers again and transforms into the shadow being again. It points its finger in the air, moving it to six different points. Pyreflies appear to form letters at each of the points. They spell out, from right to left: M-A-S-T-E-R.
Charles Magellean?: "Master of what?" *Changes back*
Doopliss?: "All I know is that Charles is dead. Nothing can change that and I am not him, but you may call me Ma---huh?"
*He looks up.*
Doopliss: "'Cause if it's Sitcom Jokes, I'm gonna have to run away screaming."
Doopliss?: "...! Whoops!" *Laughs out loud*
"Well I never WAS a good speller. Allow to rectify that."
*It points between A and S. The pyreflies move to allow room for a seventh letter and more pyreflies form an E there.*
"My name is Maester, and I am a new being to this world, and what I offer the world is my happiness!"
Editor's Note: And if that's where Maester left off, maybe that player would still be in the game today!
Maester Magellean: "Oh look at the time! I must be off to spread it."
Doopliss: "...Okay then. If you ever find the real Charles, though, make sure to tell him I know the secret to stop people from tarnishing his name." *He nods, then goes to walk off.*
Maester Magellean: "Take good care, Zack!"
Doopliss: "Uh... yeah." *Looks over his shoulder, then continues walking.*
Maester Magellean snaps its finger and proceeds to manifest a rowboat that floats 9 feet above the ground. It jumps on it and rows to the east. It... sings again.
"Row, row, row your boat... Gently down the streeeammm..."
"Merrily merrily merrily merrily..."
"Life is but a dreeeammm..."
"Row, row row your booaaatt---"
*The being of shadow rows out of the camera's sight, leaving to people to wonder... Is it friendly, is it fiendishly, or is it just another X-zone reject?*
(((((( MAESTER SUBPLOT UNLOCKED! ))))))
(((((( End ))))))
Metal Man (GM): Moon base
Aetos is in the rebuilt moon base. Things seemed fine, but then something big appeared on the newly rebuilt viewscreen....
...Shadow. And he's on his way. Immediately.
Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Shadow the Hedgehog is approaching. Our way off has been blocked by his energies. Diolize cannot interfere on this planet. He will not actually land on the planet, so Bahamut technically can't defend us either."
"He has made it clear he intends to kill us all. How do you proceed?"
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Alright... Do we have the defensive equipment installed yet?"
Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Negative. It was scuttled by the original explosion, and we hardly have life support up. We were unable to bring most of our forces here, and our ships are either destroyed or out of range."
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Well, let's go over our options."
Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Not many... our force field will last a few minutes... our warps can't get through his energy signature... there is no Charles to save us... and we have no weapons. None."'
"Escape is the only one we're really set up for, but we might be kicking around space for a while as a result."
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "And then... what can he do from there?"
Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "He plans to destroy this base, thus ending the Magellean Empire. No intention to disturb this planet other than what it takes to destroy our partially finished base."
"It appears some hatred of those who have now been captured or scattered below on Nintendus fuels his intentions."
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "--Oh, right, about that... I read up about all the Magellean Empire things... and we really shouldn't be using such a stained name... it's probably misleading people. Anyways, can we communicate with him?"
Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "We might not even get the chance to change it; there won't be anything left. All we have is a single escape craft, a partially constructed reactor, and the dusty remains of some laser guns, and a shield assembly. T-minus 15 minutes until possible attack. We must decide as fast as possible."
Douglas Craft mutters and exits the base in wind form.
Metal Man (GM): You exit the base; you see Shadow appearing like a meteorite, flanked by his own highly powerful chaos energy.
Douglas Craft tries to wave at Shadow... considering he probably wouldn't hear any shouting.
Metal Man (GM): He sees you... and temporarily halts his course, telekinetically channeling his words at you.
Shadow: "There you are, filthy Aran lover. You shall die like your master did. Self-destruct your base with you inside and we can get this over with non-painfully."
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) .oO(Woah... how did he do that?) "Can you hear me?... I need to speak with you."
Shadow: "You have 13 minutes to surrender to the cause of the IIF. I will not slow down for you." *He picks up course, but is a ways off.*
"The vile taint of Lunarians; the command to control the planet which Charles once held. The IIF is the rightful controller; you should surrender your base to us, and then perhaps you may keep 1/10th of your worthless troops."
"This does not make any sense. This is clearly a Magellean-esque trick. You just want me to turn my back, so you can infect the IIF with Trevor and rule the world. I am sure of it."
"The Magellean Empire is so named for Magellean, the dictator who nearly killed the planet once over someone misspelling his name. You were raised under his wing. How can you not reflect the same madness?"
"The name is still in use; I cannot allow anything with that name to exist, regardless."
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) .oO(Fine. Hold on.) *Walks back in.*
Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "???"
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Bob, or FAYTH... both of you. Relay a notice to every base still in operation about the organization's name changing. Unless there are objections, this faction will be named, 'The Lunarian Defenders'..."
Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Uh. But... Charles... his name is very important to the faction... why are we doing this?"
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Anyone in this organization still having intent to rule the planet should be informed that this company's goal is not that, and we are no longer just a military."
Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Okay. Sending ou---" *BAMMMM.*
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "We are doing this because the name is very misleading. The old Military was bent on destruction and such. We shall be known now for keeping the Lunarian way alive, and protecting its sacred plan--"
Metal Man (GM): It appears Shadow was just waiting for you to be distracted to hit the base.
The power goes out, and most of the computers explode. The base is down, and you're the only one left inside the darkened corridors.
Douglas Craft mutters again and walks out.
Metal Man (GM): He's nowhere to be seen.
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "EXCUSE ME. I was TRYING To --What?"
Metal Man (GM): It appears to be a sneak attack... a nasty one, too, as you're marooned here with no way to get off.
Massive damage has been dealt to the power generators, and the remaining ship to escape with has been exploded.
Douglas Craft blinks (as much as a purely wind being can). .oO(Great... And if those AI backstab me... hell to pay.)
Metal Man (GM): Various chaos arrow-shaped holes make the base unable to pressurize air, and ice is beginning to form on what is left. The computers seem fried... the AI themselves are likely dead too.
The only miscalculation is that it barely missed you---he probably wanted you dead, too.
Your dex can send out a signal, but it'll be a little while before anyone receives it.
Douglas Craft eyes over to the cave Charles peered at frequently.
Metal Man (GM): Alas; you have no clue what lies in there.
Douglas Craft peers at the moonstone under his feet. .oO(And... the suspended Lunarians.)
.oO(Now how am I supposed to carry on -true- Lunarian customs when I'm stuck on their sacred moon, with no way to relay knowledge?) *Walks to the cave.*
Metal Man (GM): *Fadeout* On Aetos... for something's goin' on on the surface of Nintendus.
Aetos: (Douglas Craft) .oO(Before figuring that out... I think I should take a gander over yonder) --
Metal Man (GM): *Insert theme from Goldeneye 007 on the train when things get hairy*
...On one of the bases of the Magellean Military, Bowser sits... in a command chair????
Bowser: "Hyuck hyuck hyuck. Dumb ol' Aetos. Thought he could rule this, 'eh? Not so!"
Metal Man (GM): He spins around, to Doopliss.
Bowser: "What's the report, so far?"
Doopliss: "The Questers have bought that old man I paid to dress up as you. They suspect nothing. Aetos believed that was Shadow. He will spend all of his time hunting them down while we have the fun."
"Bob, give me current scenario on our... weapon."
Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "The Magellean Superbeam is at 100% operating speed. It successfully destroyed the moon base. Furthermore, it took down Shadow before he could say anything. It'll take those boneheaded IIF people a couple hours to find out what happened."
"Our agent is also en route to kidnap Garrick. I don't know why he wanted Garrick, but we may as well pick his brain."
Bowser: "Excellent. Everything according to plan. Now, we need to move forwards. We lost an awful lot of men to that fake retreat. How are we to fix that?"
Doopliss: "Meta Knight will be here soon. While the Valhalla 2 is down, Zeta returned with McDermid."
Bowser: "Ha ha ha ha! Those Questers won't know what hit them. All right. Prepare all weapons. Tomorrow, we KILL those fools at my son's castle. And if they go after Wily... nothin' but an old man guarding their base. We blow it up."
Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Affirmative, sir."
F.A.Y.T.H.: "All systems are being prepared."
Doopliss: *Salutes* "Not even WACKO could equal our brilliance! The Magellean Military will rule the world... no matter how many people must die!"
Metal Man (GM): The march of troops is seen outside the base... isn't that odd? It's right in Hyrule Field... but, as soon as the camera zooms out, it's completely invisible.
And yet, as the camera zooms in to over Death Mountain, an inferior field around a flying castle can be seen... alas; what WILL the Questers do? Find out, next time on Super Smash Quest!