Grey was a tough Bastard. I know I'm inflicting damage but It's likely chip damage at best. Still, I can tank his hits too. His bullshit energy must be keeping his defenses on high.
“There has to be some way to cut his defenses down…” I thought to myself carefully, dodging another swing as I tried to think of what could pierce through his defenses or siphon of his energy…and there were way too many to choose from. “Fu~ck, just come up with the one idea damn it!” I thought to myself quickly, dodging another swing as I used Skysplitter’s ability, supercharging Existance with pure might and swung at Grey again.
As I managed to knock him back, suddenly a blue side swiped him, and knocked him back pretty far.
"Having all the fun without me?" Cript asked, smirking as they had that damn Soul Blade. Darkest Hero… fun to use, bullshit to fight against.
“Yes…also, Darkest Hero is still bullshit.” I commented. “But what took you so long?”
"Had a few personal names on my shit list I had to take care of." He said, blocking a swing from Grey and getting knocked over next to me. "And guess what, I found a few that were on yours."
“Where?” I inquired, firing off a blast towards Grey to push them back from us. “And who?”
"Few dozen light-years east of here. A certain metal bird, would be king tiger, and of course the kirkland brand wannabe Darkest Hero."
Huh, I guess Darkest Hero and Void Key do look similar…
Remembering this was Void Key… I grinned. Finally.
“Oh thank you.” I said happily, bringing out a Starfish Clone who immediately vanished towards finding Void Key. “Finally…so many loose ends, so many vendetta’s…this is going to be real fun.”
"Almost makes me wonder how batshit insane you'll become in retirement." Cript chuckled.
“That’s…a thing I don’t want to think about.” I said nervously. “Ugh, retirement…you’re making me feel old here.” I grumbled.
"Bitch I came out of my retirement to be here." Cript chuckled, looking back over to Grey and smiling madly. "After all, not every day you get to kill your psychopathic insane all powerful father twice in one lifetime."
“That is true.” I said honestly. “Now, let’s beat this bastard.”
I arrived at the location with Kite following behind. The area was crawling with corrupted Void Key users and his possessed.
I had fun breaking every one.
“Come out come out wherever you are!” I called out. “We can do this the Easy way, the Hard way, or My way.” I said, grabbing another possessed Void Key and breaking it in half over my knee.
“And I know Clockwerk’s around here somewhere.” Kite frowned, looking around. “Rajan and Le Paradox to…”
We fought our way through the hordes of possessed Void Key welders. Nothingness was flowing out of us so much it was staining the void ground beneath us.
We soon came up on a familiar face. Le Paradox.
Kite wasted no time in decapitating him.
“Not giving you the time of day ya rat bastard.” Kite growled.
We marched on. Wave after wave of Void Keys came at us and we left nothing but shards behind.
Soon we found Rajan. Held up in some poor excuse of a fancy castle. Kite embraced his French heritage and finished him off with a makeshift Guillotine made from Lindworm and Sky Splitter.
“Well, thematic.” I admitted.
“I’m sure Le Paradox and Rajan are with Clockwerk, this being some stupid nonsense to distract me…” Kite admitted.
“And we’re not going to get cock blocked on this musical number again, we have this whole thing planned.”
Again, we marched on. This time arriving at the door of a void version of Clockwork's volcano base.
As we entered, we noticed that yes, Le Paradox and Rajan were still alive, glaring at the both of us. “Couldn’t have even let me get a word in edgewise?” The french skunk asked petulantly.
“Such violence and bloodlust from a so called thief.” Clockwerk growled.
“Now you’ll be facing the Ruler of these Hills!” Rajan shouted his challenge.
“Ruler you say?” Kite asked, pulling out Arpeggio and strumming it, as a band appeared with the start of a Violin.
Juno was mad, he knew he been had, so he shot at the sun with a gun,
As Kite started the first verse, he dodged a bullet that was fired, water and nothingness starting to swirl around the arena.
Shot at the sun with a gun…shot at his wily one, only friend
As the three immediately rushed towards Kite, the scene shifted to what was more like a slideshow of places.
“In the Gallow’s, or the Ghetto’s, in the Town or the Meadow’s, in the Billow’s and even Over the Sun, every end of a time is another begun.”
As the song progressed, the trio had their attack’s blocked by nothingness hands, the three would be admins dodging attacks from Nothingness thorn’s and Water rippling across with each note played.
“You understand, Mechanical Hands, are the Ruler of Everything, Ruler of Everything, I’m the Ruler of Everything in the End.”
“!meth teG !niw nac yeht kniht yehT ,s'nimdA rieht kniht yehT .oh oh oh oh oh hO”
When the reversed line was said, each of them swung down at Kite, but he disappeared into the waters as the three suddenly witnessed Water Clones of themselves, each a perfect copy but…different…
“What’s the meaning of this!?” Rajan roared, as he witnessed himself dancing in some dumbass baggy pants.
“Do you like how I dance? I got Zirconium pants!” The water Rajan sang playfully, as if mocking Rajan’s claim to be a king.
“Consequential enough to slip you into a Trance.” Kite sang, using his Thunder Cane to cut off the water clones head, making Rajan gasp and clutch at his throat, feeling the pain of having his head decapitated but it still being there.
“This…can’t be right…” Le Paradox said worriedly, seeing himself acting like a fool from what his plan would have been when he was an ‘art collector’.
“Do you like how I walk? Do you like how I talk?” Water Le Paradox asked, strutting around like he was on some stupid Putting on the Ritz music video. “Do you like how my face disintegrates into chalk?” Suddenly Le Paradox started to scream as he scratched as his face, feeling like his entire head was dissolving in a vat of acid.
“How dare you flaunt my past!” Clockwerk roared, seeing himself with his wife.
“I have a Wonderful Wife, I have a powerful Job!” Clockwerk said, only to get smacked upside the head by the wife’s wing.
“I criticize him for being egocentric.” The female owl rolled her eyes as they all heard Kite’s laughter.
“You practice your Mannerisms into a wall.” Kite pointed at Le Paradox.
“If this Mirror was Clearer I would be standing tall!” Le Paradox sang, gasping as he was forced to sing for Kite’s amusement, dodging another swipe form the magic’s involved.
“I saw you slobbering over clovers on the side of the hill!” The racoon accused Rajan.
“I-I was observing the birds!” The tiger tried to counter, his ancient fear of water coming back to him as he saw his past mistakes.
“Circling for the Kill…” Kite muttered, looking at Clockwerk. “I’ve been you, I know you, you’re Facade is a Scam!”
Clockwerk teared up at seeing him and his wife…so happy back then. “You know you're making me cry, this is the way that I am…” Clockwerk sang sadly.
“I’ve been living a lie…” Rajan said bitterly.
“A metaphorical scheme…” Le Paradox added, as the trio witnessed all their plans through the Water become Nothing, all their petty want’s of revenge and power meaning nothing.
“Detective Undercover, Brotherhood, Objective Obscene.” Kite said, as the trio’s eyes widened at seeing the giant tidal wave suddenly erupt, immediately cooling down any and all Void Lava as they all witnessed…
Hands…
“OH NO NO!” The trio shouted.
“OH YEAH!” Kite shouted in glee, getting into the real meat of the song, letting the Bridge let the wave of Nothingness Hand’s shoot out and try to grab the three, each one dodging in some attempt to preserve their lives.
“W-wait! I think I got the meaning of this!” Le Paradox said quickly.
“Then do something ya waste of time!” Rajan shouted, as Le Paradox cleared his throat to start the next bit of the song.
“Do you hear the flibbity jibbity jibber jabber
With an, "Oh my god I've got to get out of here or I'll have another
Word to sell, another story to tell
Another timepiece ringing the bell"?
Do you hear the clock stop when you reach the end?
No, you know it must be never-ending, comprehend if you can
But when you try to pretend to understand
You resemble a fool, although you're only a man
So give it up and smile.”
As Le Paradox panted from that fast speech, Kite just shook their head as all three were suddenly grabbed by Hands, so many pulling, squeezing, clawing, all to get more of a hold on the three.
“So close…but I think you forgot something…” Kite said, staring at all three of them.
“Do you hear the flibbity jibbity jibber jabber
With an, "Oh my god I've got to get out of here or I'll have another
Word to sell, another story to tell
Another timepiece ringing the bell"?
Do you hear the clock stop when you reach the end?
No, you know it must be never-ending, comprehend if you can
But when you try to pretend to understand
You resemble a fool, although you're only a man
So give it up and smile.”
As Kite repeated what Le Paradox said, it took on a new meaning, as the three realized how…little they truly understood, hearing Kite’s words they felt…small, like all of their actions truly meant nothing as they were just screaming children raging against something they couldn’t understand.
“You understand, Mechanical Hands are the Ruler of Everything.”
*Snap* Ah~
As Rajan was the first to have his neck snapped, Nothingness enveloping his body and returning him to Nothing.
“The Ruler of Everything.”
*Snap* Ah~
The next one to snap was La Paradox, his eyes filled with tears as he thought he could have done something, to have fixed his family…to make his father proud of him and to get his revenge on the Cooper’s that ruined his life…it all meant nothing as the last thing he saw was Hands…
Mechanical Hands…
“I’m the Ruler of Everything, in the end…” Kite then looked at Clockwerk, who was having each and every bit of metal ripped off of him, exposing his true self…
What Kite saw was an old, dilapidated Owl, his feather’s long since dust and his body inches away from death, but the Hate Chip, embedded in the ancient Owl’s chest, kept rhythmically beating like a heart…
“Without looking down…” Clockwerk said weakly. “Gliding around…like a Bumbling Owl I fly…scraping my face on the Heavens…”
“Oh no no…” Kite then stabbed Clockwerk with Memory Stealer through his Hate Chip, the piece of ancient tech shattering as the ancient bird felt himself not succumb to Nothingness…but felt himself become consumed into the power of the Keyblade, all his memories, all his abilities, all his powers…all being stolen away as Time finally caught up with him. “Oh yeah…” Kite sang the final words, as the final breath of air the Owl made being the last voice heard from the light dinging on a clock bell.
I gave a rousing applause to the Cooper version of myself. “Bravo! Bravo!”
With that done, we marched onto the final area. It was a well, old as the void maybe and deep. I could smell the fucker from here.
Hiding in a hole. Pathetic.
“Seriously? Hiding in a Hole?” I called out. “I remember when I first saw you as a giant Beholder all those years ago…now you’re just some pathetic child hiding from the consequences of your actions.”
There was no reply. I rolled my eyes, and jumped down.
I landed on some ground. Before me were… two, three, five more Welders. Behind them was the giant eye, it's pupil was another Void Key, this one felt stronger.
The five welders all smelled… like Coco…
Right… fucker stole her ovaries…
“Oh…I see…” I said slowly. “You…really want to die in a very painful way don’t you?”
The five welders stood, aiming their blades at me.
I brought out Second Chance, raising my blade up towards the five. “You don’t have to do this…” I said to the children.
They didn't speak. Just charged at me.
“Damn it…” I muttered, shaking my head.
With quick, precise movements I dodged and struck each of them, instantly they all reverted to infants. Void was still potently within them, but that was alright.
I shattered those five Void Keys, then looked to the giant eye.
I shoved my fist into the eye, hearing an unearthly scream from it’s ‘body’ as I grabbed Void Key, the real Void Key, and ripped it out of it’s still shrieking body. “Finally found you.” I growled. “And while it would be Poetic Justice to have Coco do it…I made a promise, and I’m going to start with you witnessing everything you worked for go up in smoke.” I said, starting to use my Code work to made Void Key feel his Hive Mind, every single part of this sick weapon’s mind and body that were corrupting so many, shatter one by one, seeing it try and lash out with Void in some vain attempt to stop me as I took…a little too much pleasure in watching in suffer the ultimate indignity.
Eventually I cloaked Void Key in pure Nothingness, making it feel the burning agony of it's antithesis making an endless direct contact with it and used it to hack the body apart. Chunk by chunk, piece by piece until all that was left was the last blade.
Holding it, I sensed within it a rage. An imprint of Void Key, like a faint echo. Alone, it looks harmless. Might make some poor guy go insane, but it will never be what it was.
“No…” I frowned, raising a hand up as I prepared to use Consume. “I will never let you harm another person again. You’ve killed too many, you’ve hurt even more…you put Coco in a Coma and then had the fucking audacity to steal her children and turn them into your mindless slaves…” I growled, seeing it’s rage try and flair up to fight against what it knew was about to happen next. “No more…”
"Stop." I paused, looking up and seeing Heart in front of me, a hand on the thing.
“Why?” I asked. “This…thing deserves the finishing blow…”
"It's still a keyblade, King, and look at it…" They said. "It's a shell, holding nothing more than an abominations echoing rage. It doesn't even have a Core or a mind."
“I…” I sighed. “Alright…but I’m going to make a sister Keyblade to this so it doesn’t destroy people’s lives okay?”
"I figured that would be for the best to." Heart nodded.
I sighed. “Well…I did my musical number…and I finally dealt with this fuck…” I said with a smile. “Things are going well.”
"Progress." They nodded. Gently, they took the empty Void Key from me. "I'll take this back home and these cuties." They added, picking up the babies. "And you come home soon alright?"
“I’ll try.” I admitted. “While thing’s are going well on the Front now that me and Cript are out and about…something just…doesn’t feel right.” I admitted carefully.
"How so?"
“Either like Grey is just fucking with us…or something worse is about to appear.” I said carefully.
"Ugh… don't jinx it…"
“I hope I’m wrong.” I shook my head. “But right now, the battle’s are going smoothly at least…”
WARNING! WARNING!
All Maker Containment Breach
All Maker Stasis Chamber Failure
The Worker and Behemoth are awakening
Truth looked at all the Warning messages, seeing all the work they put in crumble to dust as the war started to literally shake the Machine itself, causing other processes to fail. “I’m sorry my friends…” Truth sighed, as he heard a roar of a beast not heard in True Reality since the First War…”I couldn’t keep my promise…” He said, seeing the Guard’s that were meant to protect the core be demolished to show his old friends…
To be c̴o̵n̸t̸i̶n̵u̸e̶d̴...