[IC Board] All the World's a Game - Season II

Shining Needle Castle - Gensokyo

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"Dammit I should've done this sooner." Shinmyomaru grumbled as the weight has been lifted from her. She seemed fine, as the jelly wall was malleable enough to give her space to back off into. She began swinging her mallet around and around until she grew in size, until she reached the size similar to Sonic's.



"Good. Now I won't get crushed while trying to give you a tour." Shinmyomaru sighed and began flying again. "Come on, let's go to the Neon Room!"

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Manhattan - New York

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"Nice to meet you, Gaige. I'm Sana." I introduced myself, but I felt dizzy, so I took a seat. Down below the crowd was still trying to make sense of what happened.

"Aye, you can call me Demoman." I turned to find a dark-skinned man with blue outfit and a Scottish accent. From what I saw, he was the man that saved the red-clad soldier man from falling to his death. "That old bozo calls himself the Soldier."

The Soldier... so my description already matched his name. I chuckled a little bit until Gaige came with an interesting observation. I gave it a few minute of thought: it was odd that the man kidnapped me instead of killing me. It seemed he obviously detest America, so he won't take anyone hostage... why? "I think that is odd too. What could it be that makes them pull this elaborate ruse to obtain?"

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Kawashiro Backyard - Kappa Village - Gensokyo

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As Mitori started the engine, she saw Tails out of breath. The engine began with a huge roar and fumes of black smoke that made Mitori cough, but the vehicle was running smoothly.

"Tell me where your plane is and I'll go scoop it up for you." Mitori said as the roar of the machine forced her to begin shouting. "You lie down here and rest! I'll be fine on my own!"

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Myouren Temple - Gensokyo

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As the metallic assailant left, the flash of light was also accompanied with a sudden gust of wind. When the light cleared out, the damage could be calculated. Byakuren stood at an impact zone, blood covering where her ragged clothes didn't. Bang also stood nearby, left topless because of his ultimate attack. Murasa was bleeding off to the side because of a stray bolt.

Manhattan - New York


Gaige sat on a piece of rubbish and took out a screwdriver from her belt, she started opening the main cover of her mechanical arm and saw where the blade damaged the circuits "Just some cables got cut, nothing that can´t be repaired" she said to herself already working on it with her human arm

She then heard the question from Sana "I can only thing on one thing, our abilities as game characters, surely they knew you had great powers, but couldn´t use them for some reason, probably having a gun at your head or something." the ginger guessed and continued

"Some people think we are too dangerous because we could destroy massive things with the flick of a hand. Take for example that war with these alien dudes some months ago, there were some characters fighting the ivaders and boy they were powerful. The media hide it from the public eye but no computer can´t hide from me" she grinned looking for a second to the arm and flinched when it jerked by the sudden charge and went limp again

Betwixt and Between

After the ball was hit, it was pushed back towards Dark John, but after a short second, it came back again with slightly increased speed. At the same time, Dark John decided to answer John's question. "Wish you a merry Christmas, noo, not at all. I was chosen to go here because apparently, there was someone in one of the places where the Nobodies used to stay, and they wouldn't go away no matter what. It was then my job to go on a little pest control, and guess what I find, our favorite team of charcters. We didn't expect to meet you so soon, but in my opinion, the sooner the better" he said, while forming a X in the air. After a bit, the X appeared as something actually floating in the air. Dark John then pressed it in, before continuing to shoot small dark orbs aimed at the group.

Betwixt and Between

"Agreed...", John said to Dark John before seeing the ball of Darkness fly after Mara again.

From what John could tell, Dark John might have been the reason that the ball of Darkness kept homing in on Mara. Based on the evidence so far, he would have to try and break Dark John's concentration before the ball would dissipate. Just then, as John was about to act, he noticed that Dark John was tracing a small "X" in the air, and before too long, a "X" appeared in the air. John had little clue of what Dark John was doing, but he knew that it was dangerous. Right before John could figure out what that strange "X" was, Dark John fired off a barrage of Darkness orbs, each one aimed to hit the group.

Reacting quickly, John fired off a barrage of Light, each orb aimed at the Darkness. As soon as the Light impacted the Darkness, each orb exploded in a grey shockwave of energy. The explosions were not too violent, but they were powerful enough to make anyone wary. Right after firing of his Light magic, John followed up with a stomp to the ground, causing Darkness to seep from around John like tar. as the tar-like Darkness bubbled, it seemed to pulsate, as if it were alive, and right as the Darkness reached this phase, John sprang his hands forward. Without ant warning, seven tendrils of Darkness erupted from around John and sprang at his Dark counterpart, each one flying toward him with the force of a speeding car.





Streets - Santa Cruz - California | Night

AS Shadow's anger built in front of Isaac, Isaac's apprehension grew more and more, finally reaching its climax when shadow threatened to blow up everything. Isaac knew that if he let Shadow go, then he would possibly kill more than just the undead. He needed to act, and he needed to do so before Shadow had the chance to go on his rampage. Right as Shodow began to run, Isaac shot his hand towards Shadow and activated his Kinesis Module, holding shadow in the air.

"Oh no! You need to calm down first. I'm not going to let you go off when you're this pissed. You'll end up doing more damage than the undead themselves.", Isaac sternly said to Shadow, still holding him in the air as he spoke.

Betwixt and Between

Mara prepared for the oncoming energy sphere back to him, her tiredness was mote obvious as she was panting, yet she was excited. The moment she slapped the sphere, her claws got some cracks but held on.

"Come on dark spartan, give me everything you got" the froslass spoke between breaths as she looked at dark John with fierce

(sorry if its short, but i just got home)

Betwixt and Between

Just as the tendrils were about to ht Dark, John, he simply disappeared, and reappeared behind John, dealing a heavy blow as John was not yet aware of his location. He then disappeared, and reappeared behind the sled, taking cover there.

Dark John could easily see that Mara was panting, and it seemed like he was enjoying it. Soon, this entire thing would be over, he just had to wait a little bit more. As Mara stroke the sphere, it was pushed away again with more speed and was headed towards dark John. This time it seemed like as if it would hit him before it could turn around. Instead, Dark John pointed his gun at the sphere and fired many rapid shoots at it, pushing it towards Mara again, and giving it roughly double to triple the speed it had before.

Betwixt and Between

John stumbled from the blow, but held his ground. He was surprised that Dark John was able to simply disappear, but it wouldn't matter anyway. John was wasting time here and needed to get back home. This entire day had been exhausting, and Dark John was simply complicating things. It was time to end this before Dark John could hurt or kill anyone. It was time to delve a little bit deeper into Darkness. John knew that it was somewhat risky, but as long as he was mindful of the changes within him, he would be fine, or at least he hoped so.

Just then, John took a deep breath, and charged up his Darkness magic while his shields charged back up. After a couple of seconds, Darkness began to seep from John's armor, slowly sticking to the green plating and black undersuit as the seconds ticked by. After only five seconds, John's armor was obsidian black with a ruby colored visor. Not only that, his armor was surrounded by a faint aura of Darkness that smoked and darkened the area around him. John's armor was now imbued with Darkness, allowing him to channel hid Darkness with more efficiency, as well as allowing him greater control over his armor.

Right after the transformation was complete, John charged up even more Darkness, this time faster than before. All of a sudden, many razor-sharp spikes erupted from his Darkness armor, enveloping him in a protective layer of spines. Right after that, John placed his hands onto the ground and channeled his Darkness into the ground, causing 15 puddles of Darkness to form around the area. It didn't matter whether or not Dark John hid. There was no way he was getting away from John this time. Just then, a bunch of turrets began to erupt from the puddles, each one looking more like a lawn sprinkler than a defense system, that was until the three-pronged heads of the turrets began to spin. As the three-pronged turret heads spun, various orbs of Darkness flew out from the prongs, covering the area in a thick field of Darkness orbs. As the prongs launched the wandering Darkness orbs, the center of the heads fired out homing orbs made up of Darkness, each one targeting Dark John. These homing orbs were fast enough for a SPARTAN-II to dodge, but if Dark John got too distracted, then he would be pelted by Darkness strong enough to rival grenade explosions.

Betwixt and Between

Mara grinned when the attack was extremely powerful "John, please enjoy killing this guy, I'll rest for a bit" she spoke calmly as she opened her arms. She just closed her eyes

The froslass was in peace and ready for the blast and spoke her fourth attack "Destiny Bond" she said as the sphere hit her. Mara gasped at the pain and could barely hold her body as she did everything in her soul to not scream

Destiny Bond's effect would make the attacker fall with the one who used this attack. After the explosion disappeared, only the ghost pokemon floated, her body was covered in injuries, the sash wad torn and barely held its place and the mask was cracked "I.. hope you.. rot in.. nothingness.." she said still smiling falling to the ground unconscious

Dark John would suffer the same fate as Mara or atleast be extremely injured and weakened

Fiendish City

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After the plates were removed from the Tortodrone, it seemingly faded away into nothingness and the gate to the elevator opened.

"We close in on our goal and our challenge." HP said, stepping on the elevator. "Are you ready?"

Betwixt and Between

This was something Dark John hadn't exactly accounted for, not at all. It seemed like his opponent had planned to take him with her, and he had no way out of it. After the explosion occurred, he laid on the ground, trying to get up. "That was a pretty good idea. There was something you didn't account for tough. I called for support" Dark John said, with a slight grim on his face, altough you couldn't see it because of the helmet. "Curaza!!" a voice said from the distance, and with that Dark John was pretty much on his feet again. He then saw that John had begun to embrace his darkness. "That's what I'm talking about. Maybe you aren't such a coward after all. Let's just see how you use it" Dark John said, before disappearing from his current location, and reappearing a bit further away. He then looked around the field, examining a few key points that seemed like no importance at all. "Sorry John, looks like you loose this round" he said, as he at the same time dodged everything there was to dodge.

Just then, John got swarmed with blue energy shards traveling extremely fast from all sides. At the same time, Saïx and Riku Replica appeared at each side of John, and began slashing away. Terranort could be seen a bit further away, firing the Ultima cannon several times. Each time it fired, a big sphere like the one Mara had been hit with was released. At the other side of the field was Aquanort. She was the one that had cast Curaza on Dark John, in addition to also firing a barage of magic attacks at John. Dark John waited a bit, before saying. "Don't worry, we're only about half of the organization at the moment. The rest will come shortly."