"How?" Alucard demanded, coldly angry. "Seriously, how?"
"Just...shut up..." Hsi growled irritably.
"No, seriously, how does a secret society manage to take us down and tie us up?" Alucard insisted waspishly as he struggled against his bonds. "I mean, I get why you lot might get your asses handed to you, that happens. But I'm here! What gives? And how the heck are they keeping me tied down, anyway?"
"Ah, that wouldst be our champion," the leader of the Brotherhood offered with a smug smirk. "He hath angel blood in his veins, but his line is denied by the ancestor he is named for, as angels art forbidden from breeding with mere mortals. As such, so that his ancestor can continue his work, the official state of his line is reflected in his surname."
Alucard blinked for a time. "Wait a minute...are you saying his name is Michael McDoesn'texist?"
"Oh, so thou hast heard of our champion?" the leader demanded in surprise. "Truly, thou knowest too much." Alucard promptly slammed his face into one of the pillars of Stonehenge.
"I'd laugh about that, but it does leave us in a pickle," Hsi grumbled darkly. "These bindings would hold a god."
"Oh, so that's why my claws aren't working," Jackie grumbled as he pulled against his bindings.
"At least the girls managed to get loose in the confusion," Viper muttered. "I mean, I assume that's why they aren't tied up with us. I can't see them anywhere."
"They're tied up at the opposite end of the stone circle," Hsi pointed out dryly. "Guess they wanted hostages to keep us on our best behavior. And no, I can't see or hear them. But I can feel them there."
"Ferget those lasses," Anderson growled out. "What about Scamp? Where's the little 'un?"
"She's on your head," Hsien Ko pointed out flatly.
Anderson blinked and glanced upward. There was little Scamp, sitting prettily on his head in her tiny nun's habit, staring down at him with wide, happy eyes.
The leader of the Brotherhood glanced up and frowned in confusion. "Who...are you speaking of?"
Alucard's eyes went wide, and then he began to laugh maniacally. "Oh god..." Viper muttered grumpily.
The leader drew himself up. "Thine imaginary compatriots are of no moment!" he snapped out insistently. "Now that thou hast been confined, thou shalt not interfereth with our plans anymore! Now hear the greatness and glory that you are powerless to stop!"
"Stonehenge is a magical superweapon you intend to activate and use to level London before moving onto other cities to plunge the world back into the Dark Ages where magic ruled so you can get your power back," Jackie pointed out flatly.
"Despite the fact that, as traitors under the Law of Jade, even if you succeeded in recreating the Dark Ages you'd be hunted down and destroyed, since the blatant violation of the 'free development' decree for magic and science would mean the Jade Council could hunt you down directly and en masse," Hsi Wu pointed out flatly.
"Not to mention someone could just grab the Deja Vu Stone and turn time back so you didn't succeed," Alucard pointed out. "I mean, such a global event would affect every living being on the planet, after all."
"Not to mention Valmont, the new Demon Sorcerer of Light, is rather heavily invested in modern technology in addition to magic," Viper pointed out. "I seriously doubt he'd be okay with you trying to destroy San Francisco...and even if you managed, you'd have a Class 2 Omega Demon Sorcerer after you who could recreate the city from memory right down to the cracks in the concrete through direct energy/matter conversion."
"Oh shit, forgot about that guy!" Alucard declared in surprise. "Guess I gotta bump the guys who make for a fun fight with uncertain outcome for me up to three now."
"Aye, and donna ferget the Veil Authorities," Anderson pointed out. "Appearances aside, th' Guardians are nothin' ta sneeze at, and the enforcers have a lot o' former Council Members in their ranks."
"...must thou suckest the fun out of our dramatic reveal?" the leader complained dourly. He then straightened himself. "Besides, thou art fools if thou believest that we fear the backlash of mere gods or demons! We shall claim this world for our own, as it always should have been!" He raised his arms dramatically, and Stonehenge slowly raised up on a moving platform along with the hundreds of Magisters until it reached open air. "Begin!" With that shout, every Magister except Michael McDoesn'texist began chanting, while the champion kept his gaze locked on the prisoners. Energy began to gather between the rings of Stonehenge, building to a white radiance.
"What hast thou to sayeth now?" the leader demanded nastily. "What manner of trickery couldst thou possibly have up thy sleeves to stopeth us now?"
"Wireless Bluetooth speakerphone," Jackie pointed out calmly as something swiveled out of his ear. "I'm full of surprises. Got all that Uncle?"
"Hacha!" Uncle's voice declared happily through the tiny speaker, sounding clear as day. "Uncle is ready to cast counterspell to neutralize Magister spell casting, and Tohru and girls ready to assist."
"Thinkest thou one chi wizard, his apprentice, and a few maidens can stopeth us when we hath generations of power at our command?" the leader demanded angrily as he began chanting to add his power to the building spell.
"One more thing!" Uncle pointed out happily. "Uncle has made lots of friends on Spellbook! One taught me how to make conference call! Everybody!"
What sounded like thousands of voices in chorus poured through the speaker to echo over the land. "Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao...Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao...Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao..." Green energy swarmed out of the phone along with the chant, slamming into the white radiance and struggling to push it back. However, despite initial excitement, it only slowed the progress of the radiance. Slowed greatly, but only slowed it.
"Any more ideas?" Scootaloo demanded crossly as the girls rushed up.
"Waaauggh!" Jackie screamed out in surprise. "How'd you get here?"
"The stairs," Jade indicated, pointing to a stairwell descending into the ground near the platform Stonehenge was on.
"Caught our bindin's on the edge o' the platform so we could slip off as it rose," Apple Bloom explained readily.
"So what are we supposed to do?" Sweetie Belle gasped out. "There's too many of them and they're too strong! They're even pushing back Uncle and all his help."
"Well, it is being funneled through a really tiny speaker," Viper pointed out. "That's some hard bandwidth limitations."
"So reduce the number of Magisters, then," Alucard suggested.
"How?" Hsi demanded waspishly.
"Would they count as cheat people?" Jade asked curiously.
"Huh?" Jackie asked in confusion.
"Scamp's on a strict no-human diet so Anderson won't have to hunt her," Jade explained. "But these guys are enemies of the Jade Council with a 'destroy on sight, they are damned' order. Do they count?"
Anderson blinked and furrowed his brow. "Ah...ah'm not sure," he admitted. "Ah mean, the ruling about not eatin' people is pretty strict...but then again, those named heathens and damned are supposed ta have their flesh stripped from their bones by th' demons of hell as part of their punishment for defying divine will, though that's supposed ta happen in hell..."
"Do you like Scamp enough to cut her slack on location there?" Scootaloo asked curiously. "I mean, Alucard's a direct servant of Lucifer Morningstar apparently, and Scamp's his granddaughter, so technically she is a demon of hell, so..."
Anderson frowned. "Ah admit, the little biter grows on ya..." he muttered. He then noticed the look Scamp was giving him. "Ach, fine! They're cheat people! But don't overeat!"
Scamp grinned widely, her lips slowly peeling back to reveal all her sharp teeth. And then she vanished.
Suddenly the Magisters chanting was being interrupted by screams of agony as swirls of blood and magic sprang up everywhere throughout the group, something blurring through them as they fell one after another. A head flipped through the air...and something black, crimson, and vicious that seemed all bat wings, dragon claws, ram horns, and shark teeth leapt up to snatch it out of the air in its mouth, six limbs snaking around it and digging claws in as the head screamed.
"Andy!" Alucard complained. "You never told me you took her to Hawaii!"
"What the hell are you on about, bloodsucker?" Anderson snapped back.
"Well she had to get the idea for that shape somewhere..."
"London shall be smoteth!" the leader of the Magisters screamed out, racing into the fading radiance and plunging a knife into his hand. As his blood poured into the center of the circle, the magic multiplied and blazed out, a beam of energy shooting up into the sky.
"Oh, right...blood magic..." Jade muttered worriedly...only to clutch her head as...something shot through her. For some reason, her clothes reverted to the default 'Chosen One robes' of their own accord.
"Behold!" the head Magister cried out. "The return of the Dark Ages!" He gestured towards London...where nothing had happened. Everyone stood in silence for a time. He then blinked. "What? But...but...why is London still standing?"
"Because Stonehenge isn't a weapon, obviously," Michael observed calmly.
"But...but...but then what doth this Stonehenge do?" the leader wailed out before slumping to the ground weakly.
Well, if Guitar Hero has taught me anything.... FREE BIRD!
Wow... I was expecting a major battle from the cliffhanger last chapter. Oh well, what we got was still funny. And seeing the Magistrates' dreams dashed because they mistook what Stonehenge was meant to be used for was worth the minor letdown.
damnit. the cliffhanger on this one is really somethin else.
If you don't do research into what a magical artifact does before you use it, then you failed Villain elementary year 1. If you do that and fail to account for factors you're trying to destroy? Yeah, these idiots are going back to Villain Kindergarten after their stay in hell.
I bet it's not a global weapon, it's a global anti-weapon. A reset button, if you will, to undo the effects of anyone else using a world-reshaping superweapon. But with nothing to undo, you just get a dinging error message.
I almost forgot Jade hold the copyright of this line.
Ok... I am trying to figure out what Scamp turns into here but I'm coming up with nothing... can anyone clue me in to the reference please
Stonehenge does stones.
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That could mean that magic is now back to being secret again. That wouldn't be good as an unmasked world is awesome.
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A demonic version of Stitch.
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Depends how far the rollback is.
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You mean like how that Harmony Spell interacted with Santa's Mundane charms to rewrite all of history so Magic is treated as Mundane and not some super secret power that must be kept hidden at all costs?
I hate to speculate, but... does this mean we're about to witness the rise of the Queen of the Shadowkhan in this new interpretation of events?
affect
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I wouldn't worry about Tats making magic a secret again; things in his stories tend to turn out awesomely.
Chapter One Hundred Ninety
"Aiyah!"
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"One More Thing!"
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Scamp needs to learn some table manners, with how quickly she just ate them she's going to be suffering through a major case of indigestion
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! OH MY GOD!!! YOU... You turned Scamp into a demonic Stitch! My ribs! I can't stop laughing!
So... We still getting the aliens?
Also:
Is that a Lilo and Stitch reference? Or maybe Moana, I'm not sure. Only saw it once.
Stonehenge is no weapon. It is a mana sink. Without it, the Earth's mana levels would be so high that magic would be going off with zero control.
they keeping me tied down, anyway
1. Don't think the comma here is needed.
If anything I can appreciate the cultist taking a stab at it even if it's out of his own hand. E for effort though. At least Scamp is taking a bite of the action.
That's... actually a good question. Clearly it did something, but...
Stitch is canon here. *thinks and gets horrified* The anime isn't canon right? right?!
Okay, I applaud the use of the angel Michael in conjuction with Abridged Alucard. Only you could make it work, Tatsu
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Even if it is it takes place in a different universe!
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Oo I hope so
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Well, they exist in several of the series that have cropped up in this crazy crossover, so why not?
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And with this, my life is complete....the coming of Michel McDoesn'tExist....we all knew it had to happen, now we wait for how this particular insanity plays out...also if we have Demonic Stitch, then the Aliens might be from the Galactic federation...in fact, Calling it Now, Stonehenge was an old way for either stranded Aliens or sufficiently intelligent magical-based humans to contact the Galactic Federation back in the day, and this event would count as a Crank call on an outdated military line by said Government...and now I want the Grand Councilwomen checking in and arresting this bunch of nutters and taking them into space!!
Michael McDoesn'texist is an amazing villain name.
Chapter One Hundred Ninety
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"I'm not his/your Mistress!"
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Thanks for the update and Happy 4th of July
Good thing that not only is Stonehenge not a weapon, it's apparently not even something that can substitute as a weapon simply on account of the forces involved.
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We have met Jake Long several chapters ago and American Dragon and Lilo&Stitch are officially in the same universe (also Kim Possible, The Prouds and Recess), I was actually hoping for Stitch to appear.
If you think about it, in the anime everyone was casually interacting with yokai, so it might have already been in the universe of this story
Oh come on!?
https://youtu.be/yu_RmSJxtUE
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With wings
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What are the relevant episodes linking these series together?
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Lilo&Stitch had several crossover episodes during its second season. If wikipedia is right it should be episodes 52, 53, 59 and 60. They're called "Morpholomew", "Spats", "Rufus" and "Lax".
no pressure tats but if this is drawn out for more then another two chapters I have to find some way to send some of pinkie's cupcakes through the internet without driving the other readers to insane for even Alucard
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I never saw the anime but from the tone I am hearing I guess it was bad
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I have not seen it myself, I speculate however that the Anime itself is not bad, the fact that Stitch has somehow been forced to leave Lilo after she grew up and became an adult is what everybody hates about it because in it Stitch is living somewhere else with a new little girl and Lilo herself makes an appearance one episode to explain why Stitch left her, so folks just up and outright hated it for that reason alone.
Also the characterization may be a bit OOC, I'm not 100% sure on that one.
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True... so time to grab Dictator Horse with Time Travel abuse on her rap sheet.
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If you've not seen the anime then here's a synopsis. Stitch is relocated to Japan because Lilo is too busy with her boyfriend and stuff to pay attention to him. So he meets a 10-year-old Japanese girl who is a Mary Sue replacement for Lilo because she doesn't have the same home life, does karate instead of hula, yadda yadda. In the process, anything he learned while with Lilo is erased and he acts like he had a lobotomy when he is programmed to destroy large cities but doesn't which nullified all Jumba's original programming and observation in the first movie. Stitch will eventually re-meet Lilo and Nani but due to anime law, they age but the girl who adopted him does not and Stitch meets Lilo's daughter who looks like her but Lilo doesn't ask him to come back to live with her. It is just BAD.
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With as many crossovers as this one had, it slipped my mind that because of Jake Long that Stitch existed in this world too.
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Yeah, this is probably one of Tatsurou's craziest (in a good sense) stories with the amount of crossovers he just casually adds. There probably are at least a dozen already.
Also, there is actually an explanation for the age problem. At the beginning of the anime between leaving Lilo and meeting Yuna Stitch and Jambe fall into a black hole, which sends them about a decade into the future. Not sure if Jamba ever told Stitch, though. This is not me defending this trash that spawned out of one of my favourite franchises, I just like clearing up misconceptions.
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Did it give Jade aka the Chosen One a power up or something?
While a little bummed at missing the fight, I remember this episode and look forward to see what the aliens are like.
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Calling it. Stonehenge really is an alien landing beacon. The tabloids were right for once. Now that it's been reactivated, the rest of the space-airport should be unfolding out of the ground right about now, back over where Stonehenge is supposed to be.
This is Portal to Equestria isn't it I'm surprised no one has guessed that yet
Does this mean we're about to see some crossover alien characters show up? Personally i'm hoping for either Lilo and Stitch or Invader Zim, but that's just me.
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Yikes sorry I asked
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Given how the episode itself had Stonghenge call in a UFO, I got a funny idea for the aliens' purpose;
It turns out these aliens have waited generations on the edge of the Solar System of Terran-Star (or whatever title aliens would give to our Sun) for the real purpose of Stonehenge; Signalling the beginning of the greatest, most epic music concert in the entire Milky Way Galaxy (How epic? The earthlings known as Ludwig van Beethoven, Elvis Presely, and The Beatles are merely the opening act)
Yup, these aliens should basically be metalheads, Like alien Bill & Teds
(starts counting the money) that is one bat that went crazy.