BZPB

*Ynot rolls through the gun fire, ricocheting the munitions about OS's underbelly as Ynot enters a chamber overflowing with light*

Ynot: And all I had to do was provide ample distraction via Arceus above and open the door with my Elemental control.

*Ynot shifts back to his normal form, drawing G's Archery*

Ynot: And now to extinguish the spark of Omega Supreme

*Ynot fires a Storm Flame Arrow at OS's Spark*

<Battle of Omega Supreme>

*the Storm Flame Arrow strikes Omega's spark*

*there is lots of fire, and a sound that resembles a person screaming*

*then.....just silence*


*all of Omega Supreme's systems stop working, and he begins breaking to pieces*

*the pieces fall from orbit, and hit Neo Z'Traa*

*the result can be summed up in the words: 'massive explosions'*


Blackout: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That damned Ynot.....always getting in the way.....always trying to be a hero.....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

*he pulls what looks like a flashdrive out of a console, then teleports everyone in the control room to the Dreadnought*


*Barricade, Brawl and Overlord Blackout also teleport to the Dreadnought, which takes off and begins to fly away from the planet*

*a droid begins trying to get the detonators off Barricade*


-----

<Airachnid's ship>

*Abeloth replays David Robert Jones' speech to Airachnid*

DRJ: "You will lead a team to a world called Bara Magna. During the Uterio War, a Great Being battlecruiser called the Harbinger, carrying an important cargo, crashed on that world. You and your team are to claim that cargo for ZFT."

Abeloth: That is all available information.

*Abeloth lands the ship next to the wreck*

*he and the Rahkshi walk out*


*a Vrai watches from the distance*

Vrai: Interesting.....

*he walks away*

-----

<Malchior IV, Hospital>

The Fallen: I am still a true Prime, Nadle. Something that cannot be said of you.

*he shoots a concentrated beam of light at Nadle's chest*

-----

<Malchior IV, Bat-Cave>

F-Blackout: His death earlier in the timeline would not have been a big loss, Rahn. But we shall deal with this later. Now I have a new mission for you. Your job is to plant explosives on as many Malchiorian warships as possible. Is that clear?

-----

<Mordor>

*Turel walks to the ship, and begins checking it for tracking devices*

-----

*As Ynot registers that no one stopped his arrow and it flew true and straight, he opened a portal, perhaps a spacial gate*

Ynot: Off I Go to the Ironclad, fetch those Supplies, and return to my island.

*Ynot steps through, but then is taken aback*

Ynot: Frak.

*Ynot realizes he has forgotten his new ally*

Ynot: If I leave Arceus, I'll fry.

*Ynot changes the destination of his portal and steps through to the surface of Omega Supreme*

Ynot: Arceus, get gone before you are cream! My mission is done here, go and be free!

*With that statement, Ynot is caught in a bright white beam*

[ Datrio, West City Shores: ]

*Miik'lyr launches herself into the air*

*Teeth bared, she launches two superfroze ice spears directly at the flail's chain*

*She proceeds to blast fire at Xie*

OOS: ...Um, Shroom...

...You still have to reply to the Land of Light and Rain.

But thank you for replying to the Datrio thing.

I'm sorry...

~ ~ ~

[ Datrio, West City Shores: ]

Xie: *Grunts, knocked back slightly*

*Scowl deepening, he chants under his breath*

Xie: ...Pagua Sanpha, Pagua Sanpha, Pagua Sanpha...

*Abruptly, a dark, fulminous aura surrounds his flail*

*It lashes out with greater speed and force towards Miik'lyr*

Jade: *Tries to take aim at him* ...!

-Battle of Omega-

*The Leviathan turns and aligns with the Dreadnaught's flight path, ready to protect the ship with a wall of sheer firepower.

From the side opposite to the battle, various beacon-drones are launched from drone bays and warp away in various directions.

The Point-defense system opens up again, forming an 'alley' for the Dreadnaught to escape through*

-Datrio: West shore skirmish-

US:"Not so fast!"

*USarge stops and grabs the door frame by the hinges, spinning it around before throwing it in mik'lyr's direction. The door teleports itself across the gap, appearing between the flail and mik'lyr just in time for the flail to hit it.

With a crack the flail impacts against the door, the momentum absorbed by the 7-dimensional frame of the door*

US: "...I really hope that didn't chip the wood, you have no Idea how annoying that thing is to repair!"

*He 'dual-weilds' his energy bursts and starts backing away, blasting away at Xie with energy blasts*

<RIP>

*The Yerta create a wave made from their elements, which washes over the guards*

Tanrus: Where'd that orange guy go?

-----------------------

<Users room>

*User KoN sits back in his chair and sips Coke*

*Ynot reappears on board the Ironclad and sees the box of things Zev sent*

Ynot: What am I going to do with him? Vultran, take these items to your lab, figure out their uses.

Vultran: Ooo, shiny things.

Sasuken: Heading, sir?

Ynot: Zev wanted me to stop by some shop, by I honestly don't feel like it, take us home.

*The Ironclad returns to Shinobi-Nui*

*Coro screams in terror at seeing the parts fall to the citizens below*

*Klak screams as well as Omega Supreme dismantles all around him*

*Jortenn teleports Aster, Rainn, and Jinx into the last remaining X-Wing that was conveniently floating near them*

Jinx: "Find Klak!"

*an explosion is seen where Klak was*

Jinx: "No.....No....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

*another explosion, Klak is nowhere to be seen*

*Klak seems to be...gone*

Jinx: "They...killed Klak!!!! Klak is dead?!"

Rainn: "This place is far too volatile. We will return later. Make yourselves comfortable, we're jumping to light speed!"

*the ship does so, and they arrive at Malchior IV, and land in a military base*

Peter: "You've arrived! Finally! What happened to the weapon, and where is Klak?"

Jortenn: "The weapon has been destroyed. Klak...has disappeared."

Peter: "What...?"

Jinx: "He's dead, Peter."

Peter: "Freaking...unbelievable. He can't be dead...can he?"

Rainn: "I don't know. Aster, a word with you please. *he steps away from the group*"

---

*Airachnid walks out next to the Rahkshi*

Airachnid: "Rahkshi, come with me to search for any survivors."


---

*Nadle absorbs the light*

Nadle: "And I am a Makuta of light. Something that cannot be said of you! *he charges at the Fallen with a blade of light and a blade of shadow*"

---

Rahn: "Cripple the forces of Malchior IV, excellent idea. What of the other Malchiorian planets?"

---

*Figlio looks at the Mordorian suns*

Figlio: "There must be dusk before dawn."

---

*User Klak shakes his head, and puts his hands to his face*

User Klak: What have we done...?

OOS: Hope I'm not missing anyon.

[ LOLAR: ]

*Draak'ha seems to jump into action, immediately grabbing one of the imps and throwing at at some other ones*

Shroom: ... The hell?

*Shroom grabs his blade shield and begins slashing at the imps closest to him*

*Moss leaps in the air and throws several knives at the imps*

*Shroom goes on to smash his shield into the ground, making several large blades erupt from the ground, taking out most of the imps*

[ LOLAR: ]

*All of the Imps attacked are obliderated*

*They proceed to drop variously-sized, light blue, hexagonal gems, and blocks of other materials*

*Abruptly, from the sand rise up a number more Imps - Some a dull silver, catlike, dressed like princesses, others dark blue and similarly-dressed, but with Eldritch features*

[5x Mercury Imps Have Attacked]

[4x Cobalt Imps Have Attacked]

*Behind them all slither up a pair of pale purple, serpentine creatures dressed in striped pink garb*

[2x Amethyst Basilisks Have Attacked]

*At last, they are joined by a huge, cyclopian creature of pinkish, off-white skin, with a heavy brow, spiked head, and a short, fat tail*

[1x Alabaster Giclops Has Attacked]

~ ~ ~

[ Datrio, West City Shores: ]

Xie: *Is forced to retract his flail to escape Sarge's attacks*

*However, he roars as a shot from Ahab's Crosshairs burns a line across his thigh*

Jade: Gotcha!! *Realizes she's now a sitting duck* Oh noooooo.

Xie: *Sends flail rocketing towards her*

*However, it's abruptly shattered by a heavy impact after all the hits laid on it*

Xie: ...? *Eyes narrow at who the culprit is*

Galestorm: *Halo has fully lit, as well as a searing glow in eyes*

Xie: *Folds all fingers except middle and index, curling the latter around the former* Pagua Sanpha, Pagua Sanpha, Pagua Sanpha, Pagua Sanpha...

Galestorm: *Seethes in her rage, shoulders raising up like a wild beast*

Xie: ...Pagua Sanpha, Pagua Sanpha! *A dark aura erupts to life* Alright! Let's do this!!

*They both charge each other down, either sending a punch at blistering speed*

*The impact cloaks the area in a sand cloud*

-Datrio:West coast skirmish-

*USarge is stunned for a moment, trying to process the speeds for second before realizing what had happened.

Grabbing the door again, he tossed it above the cloud and walked out of it, looking down at the epicenter from his gravity-defying perch*

US: "Come on, tell me you won..."

-Ex-Battle of Omega Area-

*The leviathan turns towards the remains of Omega, launching salvager drones to start sifting through the massive debris field OS' destruction left behind.

The point defense system stands guard over the drones as the go about their work, breaking of blocks of metal and ferrying them inside, where they would be analyzed, categorized, and if useless, smelted into more drones*

[ LOLAR: ]

*As the group grow close to the dropped items, they all seem to bring themselves into the group's inventory, suspiciously like a video game*

Shroom: Why the hell are we ALWAYS outnumbered?

Moss: I dunno. It makes things more interesting I guess~

*Moss proceeds to quickly dart past the imps, narrowly avoiding their attacks*

*She jumps into the air and turns around, unloading her ivory revolvers onto the imps from behind*

*Draak'ha also works on taking out the first row of imps, launching a few of them into the air so that they are easier to shoot*

Shroom: Good work gi- *Just manages to block an incoming attack from an imp with his shield*

*He bashes the imp back, still recovering from the force of the blow*

*Now at a good distance, he throws his bladed shield directly at the imp's head*

*The shield returns to Shroom after the fatal impact*

Shroom: Now for the big ones...

...

[ Datrio, West City Shores: ]

*Miik'lyr rubs her eyes*

Miik'lyr: Sh!!!!!t sh!t sh!t... Can't see a thing...

*She blasts air around her in an attempt to clear the sand cloud*

[ LOLAR, Shroom & Co.'s Battle: ]

*The imps drop various bits of light blue and dark blue hexagonal crystal, as well as what look like beaded droplets of a dull gray*

*Above the two Amethyst Basilisks and the Alabaster Giclops appear their designations in bright letters, as well as their health bars*

*The two Basilisks rear up on their back legs, before lunging down and forward to breathe flames towards Moss and Draak'ha*

*Meanwhile, the Giclops hefts a boulder and tosses it towards Shroom*

~ ~ ~

[ Datrio, West City Shore: ]

*At last, the dust clears*

*Both Galestorm and Xie lay prone on the ground - Yet while Galestorm breathes quietly and has only a swelling place on her cheek, Xie's neck is turned at an odd angle and his eyes stare blankly into space*

Jade: *Rushes over to Galestorm* Oh nooooo! *Pulls a first aid kit from her long skirt's pockets*

*By the way Jade has been wearing a t-shirt and a long skirt for a while now*

Jade: *Lifts Galestorm's punching hand carefully, wincing at the sharp intake of breath and limp, rolling movements of the joint* Dislocated. *Does her best to make a splint*

Listy: *Groggily rises up* Uuuugh...I feel like someone dropped a cargo freighter on my head.

Vanth: *Picks her way amongst the cyborgs, obviously deep in thought*

Jade: *Tries her best to patch Galestorm up*

-Datrio: West Coast-


*USarge climbed down to the floor, stopping near Galestorm, he pulls up the door and takes out some more basic medical supplies, helping out where he could with his limited knowledge. In his hurry he didn't even stop to glance at the crack in the edge of the door.*

US: "Well, that was a clear victory I guess...She does need someplace better to lie down for awhile though..."

*He looks around for someplace suitable for recovery*


-Somewhere else, in orbit of a green sun-

*The shadow stopped in its tracks, sensing just a tiny glimmer of the artifact's power appearing in its psyche...the time had come at last!

The darkness coiled eagerly, and started moving towards the tiny glimmer, the Shadow constantly changing directions as it tried to lock down the artifact's power across space, time, and the thief's dampening*

[ Datrio, West Shore: ]

Galestorm: *Starts to rise up*

Jade: *Looks up at Sarge* Let's head back to my house for a while.

*Her ears perk up, and she's surrounded by crackling green sparks*

*In a flash, the trio are back in her indoor garden*

Galestorm: *Arm in a sling, a gauze pad taped to cheek, scowls at the flowers all around her*

Jade: *Green sparks dance up and down body, before her skin starts to change hue*

*Abruptly, it adopts a rich, bronzed tan hue, which she looks at in surprise*

Jade: Huh. I haven't seen this in years. *Looks up at Sarge* ...Oh. Well, Jadesprite was naturally kind of ghostly-white. When I fused with her, I more adopted that coloration. I grew up on an island, so I'm naturally tan like this. *Smiles her bucktoothed smile*

Galestorm: ... *Glances at Sarge, then quickly tucks her head down* ...

Jade: You guys wanna see my house?

*USarge completely misses the glance from Galestorm, too busy pulling the door from 'under' a flower*

USarge: "Huh that's cool, I used to have a tan...but I kinda lost it for various reasons which you already know of and I won't repeat again...Sand sure I'd like a tour...lemme do something real quick."

*Taking out a blank card, US slipped the unused pile of medical supplies into the card, putting the card imprinted with an image of the medical supplies into a deck box he pulled from his coat before turning to Jade*

US:"Okay all done! I'll just leave this here if you don't mind." *He turns to the door, fixing it into a window so that there now seemed to be an easy-suicide door on the windows*

[ Jade's House: ]

Jade: Ah, cool! Haven't had much need of my own Sylladex in a while. Buuut I think I have some Fetch Modi, if you want them!!

*Sarge and Galestorm are lead down an elevator to a foyer, where countless stuffed animals and trophies of animals are arranged all about - As well as what seem to be a few intelligent races mingled in...*

Jade: This is where my Grandfather stores all of his kills. He's nice enough, but can be kinda overbearing about me always carrying a few guns to protect myself...

*She gains a rather faraway look in her eye at mention of her grandfather*

---

[ FLASHBACK~ ]

*Past Jade stands before a large man with rectangular glasses and mustache, silhouetted by the cracking fireplace behind him*

*Taking out a card much like Sarge used after deliberating over some kind of card arrangement, Jade retrieves a rifle and waves it around in front of her Grandfather(?)*

Jade: YES I HAVE MY GUN. YES I AM GOING OUTSIDE WITH THIS GUN. NO YOU CANNOT CONVINCE ME NOT TO. GOOD DAY GRANDFATHER I SAID GOOD DAY. *Lass scamper out the door*

Granfather: *Remains completely still, not moving an inch*

[ END FLASHBACK~ ]

---

Jade: ... *Smiles slightly in her memories* ...

*As the silece drags on, Galestorm quietly clears her throat*

*Choosing not to say anything due to her bruised cheek, she instead opts for a general "What's next?" gesture*

Jade: Oh? Oh! Sorry. Well, I didn't shoot any of these. I'm actually a pacifist for the most part - My crosshairs will never fall on an innocent creature, anthropomorphically persuaded or otherwise! *Smiles brightly at Galestorm*

*She proceeds to lead the two back into the elevator, which ascends almost the way to the top floor of the tower*

*They next head up a flight of stairs at the side, to end up at another door which is passed through*

*Inside a large, spherical room with three windows is Jade's residence*

*All over are stuffed animals and what look like jellyfish plushies, and the walls are dominated by furry posters of various kinds; save for two, one of which depicts cartoonish fellows with mustaches of the something or other denomination "Manthr's Chaps", and the other that depicts the jellyfish-like plushies as "Squiddles".*

*Against one wall are leaned three rifles, with a flintlock pistol lying on the floor before them. Meanwhile, leaned in another corner is some kind of gunmetal gray, largely-metallic guitar that seems to be a bass. Taking up the far corner from this and a good deal more space are various high-tech contraptions, while her bed's blue spread is covered in a cloud-and-sun print in white*

*Lastly, next to a flowerpot-saddled window just beside the staircase the group entered through is a large machine that resembles a wardrobe. While the main symbol on it appears to be stuck on an atom structure design, it can be seen to flicker and waver as the blue designs on Jade's shirt cycle through a sequence*

*Also yes that has been going on for a while now. The cycling through designs I mean. How would you know better than me about this? Shut up*

Jade: Well, here we have it!! This is my room! Although, let's see, where did I put it... *Starts picking through the devices in the corner* Ah! Here we are!! *Lifts up a button attached to a long cord, which she presses to activate*

*With that, the one largely uncovered portion of the wall - Just wide enough to possibly support a doorway - Slides open, revealing a device identical to the house on the Land of Light and Rain*

Jade: This is my Alchemiter!! I figured that we could make some awesome clothes for you guys, Alchemize some weapons for Sarge, etceteras, eteceras. *Smiles brightly*

Galestorm: Um... *Finds that her cheek doesn't hurt from talking, just is swollen and continues* Well, I ushe jusht a plain old Array Fetcsh Modush, if you're wondering.

Jade: Cool!! I'm using my Memory Fetch Modus right now! Although, it's a lot harder to use without my dreamself's powers of precognition...

*She looks to User Sarge as Galestorm takes out a deck of cards identical to what USarge himself used, save for being a light blue, and cycles through it*

Jade: Would it be fine with you if Galestorm and I had some fun with the Alchemiter before making you some weapons??

-Jade's House-

*USarge shakes his head, making the 'go ahead' gesture*

US: "Please, Ladies first! I'd love to have a look through your modi though, I forgot to get one when I first picked these cards up..."

*He takes out the deck and looks through them in an absentminded manner*

[ LOLAR, Shroom & Co.'s Battle: ]

*Shroom manages to shatter the boulder with his shield, but the force makes him stagger backwards*

Moss: I got it.

*Moss, with an insane burst of speed, narrowly dodges out of the way of the fire, singing a leg of her vine clothes*

*She jumps, and leaps off of Shroom's head, gaining another burst of speed and firing rapidly at the Giclops*

*Shroom, who is further dazed, turns to the Basalisks*

Shroom: You okay Draak'ha!?

Draak'ha: *Is shielding herself from the fiery breath with a tree trunk* YEAH BUT I COULD TOTALLY USE SOME HELP

*Shroom nods and spins, launching his shield directly at one of the Basalisks*

*The shield seems to be surrounded by a disk of blue energy as it flies*

*Moss proceeds to angrily throw her now burned tree trunk at both of the Basalisks*

____

[ Datrio, West Shore: ]

*Miik'lyr dusts herself off, feeling much more tired than she was just a moment ago*

*Her headaches rise up again*

Miik'lyr: Ngh... So uh... Vanth?

*She sits down, cross-legged, on the soft sand again*

Miik'lyr: What is there to do in Datrio, exactly?

[ Datrio, West Shore: ]

Vanth: A lot of things.

*She turns slightly to face Miik'lyr and Listy*

Vanth: Shall I give you two the tour of the city?

Listy: I'd be fine with that.

Vanth: You, Miik'lyr?

~ ~ ~

[ LOLAR, Shroom & Co.'s Battle: ]

Giclops: *Roars, its health vial dropping by a chunk*

*It swings one huge fist towards Moss, blocking with the other hand's palm*

*Meanwhile, the Basilisk Shroom attacked gets its health vial knocked down about a fifth*

*When Draak'ha's attack hits them both, the other is dropped by about a third, while the one that has already been hit is dropped down to critical levels*

*Both proceed to focus their flames towards Draak'ha once again*

~ ~ ~

[ Jade's House: ]

Jade: Cool!! I'll just see if I have anything you'd like...

*She heads over to her bed and pulls something out from underneath it*

*It's a large box with a high-tech lock, which Jade easily opens to reveal some kind of brightly colored machines inside; six in all*

Jade: These are the ones I never use, Sarge - Deposit Box, Tree, Time Capsule, Hash Map, Puzzle, and Tech-Hop. You can see which one works for you! Just ask me if you need an explanation for any of them at all!!

*With that out of the way, she heads over to the Alchemiter with Galestorm*

Galestorm: Might ash well shtart here. *Grimaces slightly at how her swollen cheek changes her voice, then takes out two cards*

*From them she produces a Bomber Jacket and a Motorcycle Flames Helmet*

Galestorm: What can I shay, I find ushe for the oddesht of thingsh.

Jade: Alright! Well, let me see here, do you have any cards punched of those two??

Galestorm: *Quickly hands over a couple of cards, punched with several slots and depicting the very same objects*

Jade: Thanks!! Now, I put it on here somewhere...Ah! *Puts the cards one over the other, then inserts them into an appropriately-sized slot*

*A light blinks a couple of times, before a miniature platform - Situated above and slightly to the side of the Alchemiter's main platform - Shows a hologram of some kind of jacket*

*Meanwhile, on a small screen is shown some kind of letters and numerical amount*

BG - 750

*Once Jade activates it, the Alchemiter causes a black jacket with flames along the bottom edge and tough, glossy pauldrons in a blast of sparks*

*A Fiery Biker Jacket has been created*

Galestorm: Cool... *Looks the jacket over as Jade hands it to her*

Jade: Do you use anything in combat besides your fists?

Galestorm: *Hands over a punched card depicting a wooden baseball bat*

Jade: Huh...Oh! I think I might have something that could be useful!!

*She removes the two punched cards from before, then inserts the card Galestorm just gave her*

*Then, on a small keyboard just beside it with a narrow screen, she types in PHxiLh1227*

*On the Holopad is shown a dark gray, almost black bat with several studs*

BG - 1,900 | Shale - 700 | Caulk - 700

Jade: *Goes ahead and activates the Alchemiter, manifesting the weapon*

*A Delinquent's Choice Bat has been created*

Galestorm: *Admires it as it's handed to her*

Jade: You doing okay, Sarge?

*Looking up at Jade, he showed her the Deposit box modus*

US:"Yeah, just haven't seen this one...you know how it works? I might take Puzzle or this one...depends on which one I like better."

*He put the other modi back into their place and turns back to Jade*




-Ex-Battle of Omega site-

*A moderate fleet of salvagers have started working on the main peice of the ruins, slowly tearing it down.

Vents of slag-reject open up along the Leviathan's hull, ejecting the useless molten metals into space*

<Neo Z'Traa system>

*The Dreadnought opens a jump point, and signals for the Leviathan to follow it through*

-----

<the Dreadnought>

*Dreadwing is being hauled to the medbay by some Rahkshi while the Makuta discuss*

Bonecrusher: I hate unsuccessful missions.

Blackout: Bonecrusher, this mission was not unsuccessful. While Omega Supreme may have been destroyed, we succeeded in wiping out a large part of Neo Z'Traa's population. In addition, Omega's remains contained radioactive energon, which will undoubtedly cause great damage to the planet. Whatever Vrai are still alive will not be so much longer.

-----

<Malchior IV, military base>

*Aster follows Rainn*

Aster: What is it now, Rainn? You want to express your distrust of me again?

-----

<Malchior IV, Hospital>

*The Fallen focuses, and absorbs the light and shadow of both blades*

The Fallen: I stand between the candle and the star. Between the darkness and the light. I am the Prime. We shall meet again, Nadle. And once we do your miserable life shall be oh-so-tragically cut short.

*he vanishes in a puff of smoke*

-----

<Malchior IV, Bat-Cave>

F-Blackout: I said plant explosives on as many warships belonging to the Malchiorians as possible. I believe the scope of that statement includes all planets of the Malchiorians.

-----

<Harbinger crash site>

*the Rahkshi split up to look for survivors*

*one Rahkshi notices something in the distance, and promptly falls dead, with a stab wound through its Kraata chamber*

*this happens to two more Rahkshi*

*Abeloth runs over to Airachnid*

Abeloth: Our Rahkshi are being attacked by an unidentified force. I recommend withdrawing into the wreck.

-----

<Matoran Universe, Metru Nui*

*Orion Pax is walking on what used to be the city of Metru Nui*

Orion Pax: This was once a great city, the brain of a Great Spirit. Now it is gone, sacrificed to Blackout's ambitions.

*a Knight of the Great Beings walks up to Orion*

Knight: Generalissimo, the army is almost ready.

Orion Pax: Very well. When they are ready, we move.....on Shinobi-Nui!

-----

<RIP>

*the guards finally stop coming, and the remaining ones fall to the Yerta's wave*

*Kranxx appears in front of them*

Kranxx: Hello. I see you dealt with those guards just fine.

*King Haakon begins to wake up*

-----

[ Jade's House: ]

Jade: Woof! Whoops, hahah sorry. The Deposit Box Fetch Modus?

*She walks a bit closer as Galestorm looks over the Delinquent's Choice*

Jade: Well, whenever you store an item, it creates a one-letter, three-number code. For you to access any item, you have to use the right code to get at it! If you have a really good memory and not too many items to use at one time, it might be for you!

Jade: I personally think that Time Capsule is the easiest to use: All you have to do is insert the item, and once the set timeframe on every card is up, you can access it without any problems! But it restarts the timer with every placement of an item into it. Up to you though!

*She then turns back to Galestorm, who offers her two more punched cards to Alchemize*

*On one is another wooden bat, while on the other is some kind of thigh bone*

Jade: Hmmmmm...Is this a dragon bone?? *Sees Galestorm nod* Cool!!

*She replaces the Wooden Bat card already in the Alchemiter with the next two cards, one over the other*

*The Holopad shows an ivory bat, with black cloth wrappings around the handle*

BG - 5,500 | Shale - 1,500 | Chalk - 1,500 | Sulfur - 700 | Tar - 700 | Mercury - 350

Jade: *Hits the switch, causing the bat to appear with a bright crackling on the Alchemiter*

*A Draco Homerun Has Been Created*

Galestorm: *Fondly regards the bat for a moment, before Captchaloguing it* Shay, Jade.

Jade: Woof? Crap! What is it, Galestorm? *Looks over at her*

Galestorm: How did you get that attachshment there? *Points to the scanner and console on the Alchemiter that Jade has been using* I've never sheen it before.

Jade: Oh, well, it's not actually in the Phernalia Registry. *Points up to a series of eight slots, in two rows of four, just below the main platform* This is a compact Jumper Block Extension! Normally it's huge, but Dave showed me how to economize on size heheheh!!

Galestorm: Oh. And a Jumper Block Extenshion letsh you...Hmm...Turn punchshed cards into new featuresh for the Alchemiter, right?

Jade: Yup! *Turns fully* Have you decided on a Fetch Modus, Sarge?

*She walks closer again*

*USarge nodds, before installing the Puzzle modus into his deck. and is promptly buried under an alarmingly large pile of notebooks, computers, ammo boxes, artifacts of all types and keys

US can be heard swearing before the noise suddenly cuts out and the pile collapses a bit. US walks back into the room moments later.*

US: "Welp. That wasn't fun..."*He takes a moment to re-captchaloguing everything* "Sometimes I wonder why I don't leave everything in a pocket-dimension or something..."

*He makes sure everything is back in the new inventory before looking back at Jade and eye-smiling with the mask* "All done~"

[ Jade's Room: ]

Jade: Alright!! *Walks back over to Alchemiter*

*She removes the last two punched cards, and hands all of the cards used back to Galestorm*

Jade: Do you want to start Alchemizing some items for you to use Sarge?? By the way, what's your Strife Specibus? Do you have any Abstrata?? Lemme see...Mine are Fistkind, Riflekind, aaand Paperkind, mainly.

Galestorm: Fishtkind, Batkind, Hammerkind, Shlingshotkind.

Jade: *Smiles brightly at USarge*

-Jade's Room-

USarge:" Yeah, Mine are Bookind, Bladekind, and.... Doorkind."

*Speaking of the devil, the door slowly pushes its way into the wall next to the window as US says 'Door'*

US: "Lets leave Doorkind for last...it tends to react weird when I try carding it..."

*He pulls up his first Strife deck: Bladekind*

US: "Not that I normally use it, but why not start with this one?"


-Ex-BoO site-

*Osseron confirms the command and send a beacon-drone through the jump point, stating that it'll jump through once the capacitor has charged again*

*The Ironclad arrives on Shinobi Nui, the crew disembarking. Ynot approaches Blade, grabs him by the head and drags him to the Cabana*

Ynot: Did I not make myself perfectly clear that entrance while I am away is prhibited?

Blade: Whaff oof feet?

*Ynot drops Blade in the sand*

Ynot: I don't ask much of you. Stay out of my home while I'm not in, Don't harm my crew, If you choose to be with me, don't question my orders. 3 simple rules and you can't even abide by them?

Blade: Look here, Makuta. I never agreed to anything. This is my teams island, you are a guest. It is OUR duty to protect this island and it's inhabitants. We let you stay because, though your potential for destruction is great, you don't want to harm the island. That does NOT make you the ruler of here.

Ynot: Ah, so now we get down to the nitty griddy, eh? You feel devalued, huh? You have no idea how many times there has been a threat you were un aware of that my simple presence has detered. If you feel that way, though, next time there is an attack here, you can handle it yourselves. Me and my team will stay here and be bystanders.

Blade: Fine with me.

*Blade turns to storm off, but pauses*

Blade: What are they?

*Ynot raises an eyebrow*

Blade: The blasted balls in the crevice. What are they?

Ynot: Ah, you got that far, did you? Very well, I will tell you, oh protector of this isle. They are a set of magical items. Once you collect the set, you get 3 wishes from an all powerful dragon. You can see why I don't want such items falling into the hands of anyone else.

Blade: And what, might I ask, would be your wish?

Ynot: That is of no conscern to you.

*Ynot turns away from Blade and dispells the wards on the Cabana, resetting the other security measures and lying on his hammock*

OOS: Now would be the time, DRJ

[ Jade's Room: ]

Jade: Alrighty then!!

*She retrieves a Perfectly Generic Sword from the Deck*

((OOS: Hope you don't mind me putting that there for convenience, Sarge))

Jade: *Re-Captchalogues it, then enters the code on the back of the card into the console next to the Alchemiter's card slot* Let's see...

*Abruptly, twenty purple cards appear to hover in front of her in four rows of five*

Jade: *Waves hand, causing them all to flip over and show their contents*

*They then flip back over mere seconds later, leaving Jade to stroke her chin in thought*

Jade: *Taps one card on her far-left facing the cards, causing it to flip over and reveal some kind of colorful needles* ... *Taps another card, on the second row and just to the right of the center card*

*It flips over, revealing the exact same contents image on it*

Jade: Sweet!! *Lets the faintly-glowing Needlewands fall gently into her grasp*


Jade: Now...Let's just switch the settings on the Code Reader.

*She flips a switch above the card slot from one side to the other, causing the light inside to shift from lime green to pale blue*

*Then, she inserts the card in with the back of it up, and looks to the Holopad*

*It generates a projection of a sword with a handle that matches the needles, a white, crystalline blade, and a larger blue aura*

7,600 BG | 1,550 Diamond | 2,550 Chalk | 2,550 Quartz | 3,550 Garnet | 800 Gold

Jade: You want me to go ahead, Sarge? *Turns to look at him*

Galestorm: *Keeps to the side and out of the way*

-Jane's Room-

*Looks over the hologram of the sword*

US: Yeah that looks more useful than the sword I was using, lets go for it!"

*He thinks for a second then stops Jade*

US:"Could you mix that with something else? I think I have an idea..."

*He pulls out a card containing an image of a battered notebook*

US: This is a booklet I have holding a few cool schematics I've found on my travels, maybe this can upgrade it a bit more?"

[ Jade's Room: ]

Jade: Sure thing!! *Activates the Alchemiter*

*The sword appears on the platform with a blast of sparks*

*A Spellweaver's Sword Has Been Created*

Jade: *Places the sword into its own card, then places the schematics in as well*

*The now twenty-four cards in her Sylladex spread out; four rows of six, this time*

Jade: *Once again, sweeps arm above them so they flip over* ... *Furrows brow in thought as they almost instantly flip back over* ...

Jade: *Taps a card on the third row, second to the left* Ah! *Has found one half of the schematics book*

*She manages to find the other half, but when she goes for the spellweaver's sword, she instead finds a banana*

Jade: ...Oh well! *Taps another card at random, delighted to now have a banana* Here! You should have some potassium to help recover!! *Peels banana and hands it to Galestorm*

Galestorm: *Stares flatly at her* Yeah. Thanksh. *Tucks in nonetheless* Hmph. *Swallows that bite* You grow shome pretty good shtuff.

Jade: Awww!! Thank you! *Starts over again with her Memory Fetch Modus, now down to twenty-two; the top and bottom rows are five deep, while the middle two are still six across*

*This time, she manages to successfully retrieve the Spellweaver's Sword, and while she inputs the code on the back of the Schematics book, she retrieves the Perfectly Generic Sword card and replaces it with the Spellweaver's Sword card in the same orientation*

*The Holopad shows a sleek, somewhat high-tech sword, with wrought gold for a hilt, a spherical red gem contained in the pommel, and a faint green crackling up and down the crystalline blade*

BG - 11,500 | Shale - 7,500 | Chalk - 7,500 | Garnet - 8,500 | Diamond - 3,500 | Quartz - 3,500 | Iodine - 500 | Uranium - 5

Jade: Wow! Good thing I was able to take out those Uranium Imps that made it into this Session somehow!! I don't know how they made it here, but being able to pick up their grist was a godsend! *Activates the Alchemiter* Luckily I wrangled tons of grist without having to use too much of it up, too. This baby is going to be expensive if we Alchemize it again!

*The sword appears on the Alchemiter's main platform with a particularly ferocious crackling of bright white energy*

*A Magitechnician's Blade Has Been Created*

*Retrieving the blade and Captchaloguing it, Jade proceeds to return the Schematic Notes and the Spellweaver's Blade to USarge*

Jade: Anything you want to Alchemize with it, Sarge? Like a unique sword that's not too expensive by itself, but would still be useful??

*Her ears perk up attentively*

*USarge puts back the new cards into the deck and then tilts his head, and scratching the back of it while he thinks*

US:"Hmmm....not really, and I think I'll like using the magi-technician's blade."

*he idly flips through the cards of his inventory, not finding any more relevant books. Looking at the sword, he remembers a book of tales he picked up someplace that mentioned a simple-looking but powerful sword...

He takes out the card with the book and offers it to Jade*

USarge: "Here, try this...dunno what'll happen but then again that's how science works!"

*He inserts the book-card into an open slot, and looks at the hologram, waiting for it to show the result*

[ Jade's Room: ]

Jade: Hold on a sec...

*She adjusts a vertical-slide dial, and then inputs the code on the back of the Magitechnician's Blade card*

*What appears in the hologram is a sleek, streamlined silver sword that looks like something out of a Final Fantasy game; complete with two large, glowing green orbs midway down the blade*

Jade: Woof - Guh! Uh, Sarge? I think you might have hit the jackpot here...

Magitechnician's Blade && Book of Tales

BG - 1,777,800 | Shale - 32,800 | Tar - 32,800 | Chalk - 12,800 | Mercury - 12,800 | Diamond - 8,800 | Quartz - 8,800 | Iodine - 1,200 | Uranium - 88

Jade: ...Well, I don't have quite enough Uranium Grist to make this. Would you be okay with taking out some monsters to get the grist we need, Sarge?

Galestorm: ... *Has finished banana and quietly Captchalogued the peel* ...

Jade: They'll be tough, but I think your Spellweaver's Sword and Galestorm's bats will be enough with all of us there!!

*She seems particularly excited to Alchemize this sword*

Jade: Are you in!!?

*USarge nods, and equips the Spellweaver's Sword*

US" Sure, I'll be a bit of a burden cause I'm a bit slow, but with both of you there I think I'll be fine."

*He passes by the door to look out the window, not noticing the growing crack in the door...*




-Somewhere else entirly-

*The Shadow is now speeding in the direction of the door, the sign being strong enough to track down, even through the thief's dampening... Soon it would take back what belonged to it and finish off it and its accomplices....*

[ Jade's Room: ]

Jade: Awesome! Everybody get ready!!

Galestorm: *Carefully slides arm out of its sling, finding that it's moving well enough and without too much pain*

Jade: Um, I know dreamkeepers heal pretty fast, but are you sure you'll be okay Galestorm?

Galestorm: *Equips both the Delinquent's Choice and the Draco Homerun at once* I'm good.

Jade: Wow!! I didn't know you were a dual wielder! Is that even possible??

Galestorm: Well I'm carrying two weapons from my Strife Deck, aren't I?

Jade: That you are! *Equips what resembles a blunderbuss* Let's go!!

*In a flash of green sparks, the group is teleported out of the house*

---

[ Fields Outside of the House: ]

*The group reappears in a flat, grassy plain*

*In the distance, Jade's towering house can be seen, as well as a mountain range extending alongside its own mountain perch*

*Abruptly, five dark green Imps dressed as jesters with orange, red, and pink garb, bearing canine features, appear in a flash of green*

[5x Uranium Imps Appeared]

*They each crackle with green sparks as they encircle the group*

Jade: Don't get too far separated! There may still be a stronger enemy out here!!

Galestorm: *Begins clubbing one Imp with her bats, stunning it and forcing it back a ways*

Jade: *Fires off her Blunderbuss, unleashing a spray of laser beams*

*They enter a number of small green portals, which close just as suddenly as they appeared*

*More portals abruptly open around three imps, sending the lasers firing into them*

*Even with all of these attacks, the Imps have barely lost an eighth of their health vials each*

*The last Uranium Imp lunges towards Sarge with great speed*

*Several Vrai begin running as whatever remains of the parts that have fallen through the atmosphere crash all around them*

*the smaller parts are burned up upon entry, but the larger ones only take minor damage*

*several Vrai mining villages and other habitations are completely obliterated. A fraction of the population of that side of the planet remains. Their memories forever traumatized by the battle*

*they begin migrating to another continent, one that has not been ravaged by wars. One that is not a post-apocalyptic radioactive wasteland*

*their journey is much shorter now that the planet is cubical*

*some have already begun to change*

---

*Coro stares at Neo-Z'traa*

Coro: "Another invention of my species....destroying worlds....being controlled by another invention. We must help them, Chocoman. Whatever survivors are left on that continent, we must help them."

---

Rainn: "Don't get cocky, kid. I barely trust anyone here. But I saved your lives anyway. What I want to ask you is....what do you know about Klak? I connected the dots. The fact that Blackout sent 3 powerful Makuta to stop us from finding Klak. The fact that he sealed him and made sure that he would never get out of Omega Supreme. The fact that none of his other supposed comrades even dared to look for him. That one Makuta made sure that Omega Supreme was destroyed, without even bothering to check where our friend was. If Klak is as weak as our enemies say he is....why the preventive measures? Why would they want him dead? I think they all fear something. Something that Klak will become. You were with ZFT's intelligence. Tell me everything. I will investigate further."

*he touches Aster's shoulder desperately*

---

*Nadle coughs heavily, and goes back to his bed.*

*he makes it, and slips under the covers, falling into a deep sleep*

*Nurses and soldiers run in*

Nurse1: "We heard a commotion! Wha-"

Nurse 2: "He's asleep. Something might have attacked him. Maybe it left."

Soldier1: "Regardless, we will keep watch."

---

*Rahn smiles, and rubs his hands*

Rahn: "Shadow Blade! Go get the best bombs you can find in this cave. *he gets up, and walks to a radio. He turns it on, and it begins to play the '60s Batman theme*"

---

Airachnid: "Withdrawing? HA! *she jumps, and burrows underground*"

---

*Ultron extends his mind into the Corrantian Fortress's computers*

Ultron: "This will be in good hands while I am gone. Next target is known as Pirate Lord Ksmota. Participant in the Battle of Liquid Metallicon. All scenarios calculated. The only possible outcome for him is death."

*Ultron flies away from Corrantia, and into space*

---

OOS: In case you want this, Sarge....

*a group of debris goes over to Osseron's ship. A light is seen glowing from it*

*USarge hesitates for a second then dives for the floor, dodging the imp before jumping out of the door that appeared behind the imp. Slashing down with the Spellweaver's Blade. USarge Focuses his chaos-energy around the edge to raise his attack power a notch.

The blow hits the imp dead-on....barely doing a tenth of its vial*

US:"Ack...time for that's too fast for me! Slow down!"

*He dives down appearing a short distance away and webbing the imp with his power before charging again, this time with more confidence in his swings*

-Orbit over cube-planet-

*The drones cluster around the piece of wreckage, dragging it into a analysis hold before returning to the drone storage bays. The process takes awhile due to the sheer nubmer of drones involved.

Osseron meanwhile opens fire on the remaining wreak, pushing the unsalvaged materials into a decaying orbit, to crash into the planet below some time in the near future.

Whatever main cannons that can't lock onto the wreckage instead fire down into any noticeable migration-groups on the planet below, killing even more Vrai out of spite*

[ Fields Near Jade's House: ]

*The Imp fighting USarge takes the hits, snarling*

*It's now a sixth of its health down, before teleporting out of the web*

*Reappearing above USarge, it drops down and prepares to give him an Atomic Noogie*

*Meanwhile, the Imp Galestorm is fighting manages to knock her back with a sucker punch*

Galestorm: *Does a frontflip towards it, halo starting to light up* HrrrrRRRARGH!!

*She smashes both bats down onto the top of the Imp's head*

*Its lower body is buried into the ground, and it's now down a quarter of its health vial*

*Teleporting out, it lunges for Galestorm from behind*

Jade: *Fires at one Imp, scowling as barely a sliver of its health is lost*

*It and the other two Imps surround her, and they begin gathering large amounts of green energy*

*They all fire blasts of green energy inward, reducing Jade's location to a crater*

*Yet without warning, several laser blasts rain down on them from above; all are now a third of their health down*

Jade: This is getting ridiculous!! *Huffs, and trades the Blunderbuss out for Ahab's Crosshairs*

*She fires a concentrated beam into one Imp, steadily shaving down its health*

*With a massive explosion, its health vial is at last depleted*

Jade: *Quickly runs through, collecting the large, hexagonal crystals of pale blue and deep green* Alright!! *Fires a sweeping beam at the other two Imps*

*They both now have a little under half of their health vials left*

*Hissing, they begin charging another pair of blasts*

Jade: *Charges up Ahab's Crosshairs in reply*

*The two Imps' blasts turns into a huge, crackling green shockwave*

*At the same time, Ahab's Crosshairs releases a searing jet of fiery white energy*

Jade: *Keeps the rifle perfectly trained, not budging despite the huge recoil*

*In a sudden push, the beam punctures the shockwave with a blast of black smoke*

*Screaming out the other side of the dust cloud, it hits one of the Imps square in the chest*

*The resulting explosion is so great that, even as the grist is dropped, the other Imp is reduced to critical health*

Jade: *Collects the grist* You doing okay Sarge?? Woof woof woof!!

*She fires a tight cluster of shots into the Imp's chest*

*More grist is dropped, which she collects*

*USarge teleports away from the imp and tries to dive-stab the imp, only to have the imp teleport above him, the cycle keeps repeating to a hialrious speed, even with the webbing the imp is going through, a blur of green and black diving down on each other*

US:"Ye-*warp sound*-ah, I'-*warp*-m doi-*warp*-ng jus-*warp*-t fine!"

*Eventually he warps to the side instead of above, before sweeping upwards with the empowered sword towards the imp hitting it and dealing a critical hit worth another sixth of its vail*

US: I just have little attack power, but I'm grinding hi- *oof!*

*while talking, the imp had teleported over him and delivered another Atomic Noogie, hitting USarge's hat in the middle. USarge sunk down through the floor and teleported next to the imp, attacking with a slightly dazed swing.

The teleporting fight started to drift around the entire battlefield with little visible progress...assuming you could see past the doors and cracks of green lightning.*

[ Fields Near Jade's House: ]

Galestorm: *Has the Imp down to critical health*

*With one last huge impact, it shatters into grist which she allows Jade to pick up*

*Meanwhile, the Imp USarge is fighting teeters back and forth, growing dizzy from the game of teleportation tag*

Jade: Sarge!! Channel the magic into your slashes!! That Imp won't last much longer if you tap into the Spellweaver's Sword's full power!!

*Meanwhile, no one notices a huge presence approaching*

*A cycloptic eye with shimmering green in the center of its pupil gazes over a hill*

*Lifting up some kind of hammer, it draws closer*

*USarge teleports away from the imp, noding to Jade*

US:"Here goes!"

*He focuses the both his own energy and the sword's magic into the slash itself, crating a small energy wave that flies out at the imp, who was too busy trying to un-dizify itself to notice the impending attack*

*Queue decent sized explosion*

US:"That. Was. Awesome! _{Even though I think I didn't channel everything...magic is weird...}"

*He proceeds to slash away with the sword, hacking away at the imp's life vial until it finally explodes into grist*

US: "You can kinda tell that these imps aren't used to teleporting alot...I barely got dizzy from that!"

[ Field Near Jade's House: ]

Jade: *Collects the grist* Oof...We've got a little under half the Uranium Grist it would take to make that sword. If only -

*The ground quakes slightly*

Jade: ... *Turns to look at the nearby hills* Oh nooooo.

*The ground quakes once again*

*Over the hill emerges a creature identical to the Alabaster Giclops on LOLAR, save for its dark green skin, liquid-like green glow in its pupil, and jester's clothing colored in shades of green and pink; carried easily in one hand is a massive hammer of some kind that dwarfs any of its targeted prey*


[1x Plutonium Giclops Has Appeared]

*It telescopes the Sassacrusher's handle, and swings it down towards the group*

Jade: *Manages to shove USarge and Galestorm, teleporting them outside of the radius of destruction*

*However, the huge impact leaves Jade nowhere to be found*

*Abruptly, a beam of fiery white energy glances off of the Plutonium Giclops's shoulder from behind*

*The blast barely makes a dent in its health vial*

Jade: *One of glasses' lenses is cracked, and has a bleeding cut on forehead*

Galestorm: *Spots Jade* Rrrrrrgggghhhhh...

*She flips out and flips onto the Giclops, hammering its eye with her bats*

*As it howls and tries with no success to swat Galestorm off, its health vial is down by a tenth and still dropping*

Jade: *Charging up a blast with Ahab's Crosshairs* Sarge! Try to fire off another shockwave!!

*Her next shot explodes into the Plutonium Giclops' back*

*It's now down an eighth of its health, still being shaved down by Galestorm's attacks*

*However, even as Jade charges up again, a glancing swat sends Galestorm rocketing to the ground*

*In critical health, she tries to raise her bats up as the Giclops raises the Sassacrusher*

Jade: Sarge!! Now!!

*USarge shook his head to get himself collected, it had happened so fast it was literally a blur to him...stupid dimensional puppets. Focusing on the giclops, he sent a pair of weak shockwaves out against it, barely doing any noticeable damage. Deciding to take a gamble, he teleported in front of its eye and delivered a shock wave directly to the thing's surprised eye before turning and throwing the door towards Galestorm.

The door 'slid' itself under Galestorm and opened, causing her to drop into the room inside.

US was however hit by a wild swing of the giclops as it reacted to the pain and was sent flying into the ground a distance away, a large chunk of his health gone*

[ Fields Near Jade's House: ]

Plutonium Giclops: *Roars, hefting the Sassacrusher*

*However, a sweeping blast from Ahab's Crosshairs causes it to drop the hammer, arm twitching*

*Another cluster of shots hits it in the lower-back, and with that, it's down to around half of its health vial*

Jade: *Fires another series of shots into a number of portals, which rapidly close*

*The other ends of the portals open, sending shots into the Plutonium Giclops from all sides*

*Its health vial is now down to barely almost three quarters gone*

Jade: Sarge!! Let Galestorm out of your room and use the door to channel energies! Try to find anything that will provide energy you can siphon to increase your power!!

Plutonium Giclops: *Eye starts to glow brightly* UGHAAAAARRRGGHH!!

*It fires a concentrated beam of green energy towards the mountain range*

*The explosion levels one mountain top*

Jade: *Charges the Crosshairs again*

-Fields Near Jade's House-

*Not stopping to think, USagre dives through the floor again and appears in the room with Galestorm. Pushing her through, they come out some distance away from the giclops.

USarge takes a gamble and diverts all his power into a single slice, leaving the artifact un-dampened for the barest of moments to funnel his energy into one strike.

Swinging the blade, a shockwave easily four times larger than the previous wave. Impacting the giclops and grinding away the majority of its remaining health.

The shadows around the group start becoming darker, and begin to conect to each other in a ring surounding the trio...*

[ Fields Around Jade's House: ]

Plutonium Giclops: *Starts to charge another eyeblast*

*However, Jade fires a fully-charged blast from Ahab's Crosshairs directly into its eye*

*The resulting explosion decimates its body, leaving huge crystals of hexagonal pale blue and deep green crystals, as well as some kind of gel and sizeable, beaded droplets of dull gray and brown*

*Only after Jade collects the grist and Galestorm collects the gel - Restoring her health in the process - Do they realize the shadows drawing near*

Jade: Oh noooooo...

*USarge looks around, wondering what she's talking about before noticing the danger as well*


US:"No...nonononononono! How did it get here so fast?! it should have been a blink!"

*The shadows suddenly leap up and encircle them in a dome, solidifying across every dimension to prevent their escape. A voice rings out, felt more than heard. It is a whisper just next to and behind their ears, yet also echoing softly in their heads*

???:Not this time theif...I won't let you get away with my artifact again...now be a good...*a faint probing is felt by all as it searches for the word* boy...and return it to me. That way I don't risk getting blood on it while killing you and your accomplices...

*A mess of shadows detaches itself from the wall and floats down, slowly condensing and solidifying into the silhouette of a middle-aged man, one hand held outwards while the other holds a sliver of blackness. The area where a human has eyes suddenly opens up, making a strong contrast to the blackness of the rest of the figure.

???:See? I'm even being kind enough to...guise...myself as one of your lowly three-dimensional forms to take it from you. why can't you just give up?

*USarge has been frozen the whole time, trying to look away from the darkness in front of him...he had been trying to move but he couldn't seem to get his puppet to respond.*

*The shadow looks from US to Jade*

???:can you please check his pockets for a book emiting unnatural energies? I'd rather not have to dirty myself anymore than I already have.

[ The Shadow's Dome: ]

Jade: Grrrrrr...!! Woof woof woof woof woof woof - !!

*She's cut off as a huge blast of green energy splits the dome in half*

*A familiar figure darts down, drawing what is now a katana from his chest*

Jack Noir: *Snarls, placing himself directly between the Shadow and Jade*

Jade: ...!! *Looks around, trying to find Galestorm*

Galestorm: *Halo is barely flickering, but she's able to carry Sarge on her shoulder* Jade, let's go!!

Jade: Right!! *Quicky warps over, wraps arms around the two of them, and teleports just far enough that the Shadow and Jack can still be seen*

Jack Noir: *Levels katana with the Shadow, body crackling with green sparks*

*He appears to be waiting for the Shadow to move*

*The Shadow tilts his head, and theatrically sighs as he speaks again, his 'voice' doesn't get any quieter with distance*

TS:Well, clearly this is something you are putting up to delay the inevitable then? Ver well then. I'll play ball, for old times sake...you thieves.

*He darts forward, his form dissembling into a dark blotch that re-forms behind Jack and tries to swing at Jack's exposed back*

??: How is it that you beings say? Ahhh yes. En Garde!

*Meanwhile USarge seems to start to sink into Galestorm's body like when he teleports. The door appears next to them and a person walks out.

Tall but extremely thin, the teenager is wearing a pair of olive cargo pants and a white T-shirt with a blue logo splattered in the center. His skin is as white as Jade's before her instant-tan, and he holds a book in his hands that reeks with unnatural energies.

Blinking at the change of brightness, he looks at Galestorm and Jade before speaking in a voice raspy from lack of use.*

US?: "I hope he's as good as you said he his Jade...otherwise we're all dead."

*He makes a motion with his free hand, and the armor that the USarge puppet had appears on him, minus the mask and hat. he still tries to get accustomed to the brightness*

[ Fields Near Jade's House: ]

Jade: It's not whether or not Bec's powers will let Jack beat him...

*She frowns, clearly scared, and forms a protective barrier as Jack whirls around in the blink of an eye*

Jade: ...It's what he'll do to anyone but me once he wins. *Gulp*

Jack: *Unleashes a flurry of burning slashes from his sword*

*He bares his teeth, wings starting to glow green*