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A CYOA
Feb 16, 2011 0:46:27 GMT
Post by Yushinoki on Feb 16, 2011 0:46:27 GMT
"I need you girls to hang back with me," you say. June and Minerva create fire and earth clones respectively, who summon Thor, Ra, Gaia, and Fujin. They rush into the battle while you summon Adramalech. He appears in front of you, well over ten feet tall, and massive. Two large bipedal bulls appear with him, around 8 feet tall and toting poleaxes. They charge into the fray without a word. Adramalech literally smashes people flat with his bare hands, and swings his head wildly, sending groups of people flying at once. Suddenly, he has two hands through his chest, flashing with lightning. It's Sasuke and Kakashi. Were, rather. Adramalech rips their spines out one hurls their heads at fodder nin before digging his hands into his own wounds and smearing the blood on his big goat face. He rears his head back and roars a battlecry, and his two minions join in, throwing themselves into a frenzy. Your skeletal minions are faring a lot better than you expected, but their numbers are diminishing quickly. Soon it'll just be your major players against an army of ninja.
"It's time to summon us, harvester," the voices tell you.
"Summon you?"
"We have reached a consensus. All of us will aid you."
"Then what, you go free? Pretty convenient..."
"We are bound to the reaper. We shall return after the battle. It will be tiring, but you were wise to keep allies around to protect you."
1. Summon the souls you have gathered to fight for you. Every last one. 2. Just bide time, see how the fight goes
June A. Fire dragon bullet B. High pressure flame jet C. Lightning hound D. Arc cannon
Minerva @. Earth dragon bullet $. Impaling earth wall #. SotU a bunch of people %. Tremor
Minerva forms a giant SotU, trapping everyone on the battle field before collapsing to her knees in exhaustion. June fires her high pressure flame jet across the battlefield, tearing through many ninjas and skeletons indiscriminately. Adramalech and his minions quickly free themselves from the mud and continue rampaging through ninjas. Lucifer never got stuck to begin with. Finally the mud solidifies again and the battle continues. Fireballs and shuriken and the like fly everywhere until every last spartan is defeated. The enemy ninja forces were cleaved in half, however. Legion completes the summoning and unleashes himself upon the world. You see many familiar faces. Faces of the people that you killed mercilessly. Now they're fighting for you. How funny. All of your victims, from RasenganFreakup to mother ****ing Dracula, charge in and join the fray. The tides have turned completely, you'll win without a doubt.
"Minerva, you gonna be ok?" you ask, panting. The summoning took a lot out of you.
"I'm fine... just exhausted..." she says. She closes her eyes and straight up goes to sleep in the middle of the battle. June's starting to look a little worn out from spamming jutsus at the enemy army.
"June, I think that's good. We've pretty much got this won."
"Yes sir," she says and takes a seat.
You turn your attention back to the battle. There are only a handful of ninjas left. Itachi's susano'o gets torn through by a rasenshuriken. Another one down. You've definitely got this won. Suddenly, a huge skeletal looking figure appears on the battlefield and spits out a dragon looking thing. It sweeps through the battlefield, scooping up your spirit warriors as it goes. Adramalech and his minions try to attack it, but to no avail. Even Lucifer looks a little tired. Things just took a turn for the worse.
"We have to get down there and try to stop that thing," June says. You try to step forward, but your legs give and you fall to your knees.
"Can't... all this summoning took a lot more out of me than I thought," you explain.
"Then I'll have to go," she says, clearly exhausted. You grab her hand as she begins to run off.
"Stay," you say. "You'll die."
"Well if I don't do something, you'll be the one to die!"
"They can still win this, just relax."
"I'm not going to leave it to chance!"
"June, shut up and sit down," you command. She opens her mouth to say something back, but follows your instructions.
"I'll see if I can't squeeze something else out of this guitar." You go to meditate, and find yourself on the beach again. The reaper stands with his scythe over his shoulder, looking like a badass.
"It's time," he says.
"...time?"
“Let us go, human." You reappear in the valley next to June, and something takes off next to you. The reaper is upon the battlefield in an instant, slicing through opponents as he goes. Gedo Mazo turns to meet him, and he cleaves right through that, too, freeing all the souls. After he cleans up the battlefield, he and the souls return to your guitar. Adramalech and his minions just fade into the wind. Lucifer stands patiently. Tips is exhausted, and his barrier fades. You get up to walk to him, but you're dizzy. You almost pass out, but you shake it off. June rests your arm around her shoulders and supports you as you walk to Tips. He stands up, wobbly, and throws up two shaky hands in a combat stance. You pull your arm off of June and walk up to him. You don't engage him in a taijutsu match so much as just slug each other in the face over and over. His punches don't really phase you, but you can tell yours are hurting him badly. He falls back on his ass. You catch a second wind. The summons drained you, but you are apparently really quick to recover.
"It's over, Tips," you say.
"I won't let you have my soul you son of a *****!" he yells, finally losing his cool. "I'm gonna take all of you bastards with me!" He forms a final seal, and begins to glow white. Before you can even begin to think to stop him, the masked man appears and sucks him into his little vortex. He reappears next to you, and you hear a large bang above. You look up to see a little shining light in the sky. A large shock wave pushes from it, clearing out all the clouds in view above you. A serious explosion.
"You did good," the masked man says.
"You were watching this while time, you bastard?"
"Kinda sorta. You did good. But, you're not done yet," he says.
"Yeah, Kieo and Pyro, right?"
"Yep. See you around," he says. Way to be mysterious. Lucifer approaches you.
"You fought well, human. If you need anything, call upon me, and I will come to your aid. Before I go, I would like to offer you something."
"What is it?"
"Just a small gift. The gift of longevity. I understand your father lost his hair at 30."
"Yeah... yeah he did."
A. Accept gift of longevity B. Go bald at 30
"Uh... I'd like the longevity," you say, unsure as why he even needed to ask.
"Very well." He places his palm on your head and you feel a warmth wash over you. You feel brand new. Lucifer ascends into the heavens.
"Well, that went well," you say. June doesn't say anything. You go and shake Minerva awake, and she stretches sleepily.
"Over already?" she yawns.
"Yeah... over already."
"I wanna go back to sleep..." she says.
"You sure? I'm just about to call Forte to pick us up, but if you want to stay and sleep, go ahead."
"F-Forte?!" she says, hopping to her feet. "Really?"
"Yup..." you say. You text Forte to send the ride your way.
"Well, June, it's basically over. Just a couple more nobodies to take out." She just looks at you and nods with a weak smile. Guess you hurt her feelings again. Oh well, you'll deal with it at a later time. The tornado comes and scoops you up and drops you off at Forte's. You all head inside.
"So, Forte," you start.
"Yo."
"Wanna guess who I just killed?"
"No way... RighteousTip?"
"That's right. And I brought someone home with me," you say.
"Hello, Forte..." Minerva says shyly. Hm, she didn't seem to shy before. She must be June's opposite. Shy to no one but the person she feels closest to. Forte looks a lot less excited than you figured he would.
"Minerva. Welcome home," he says. "But if you'll excuse me, I've got work." He leaves without another word. Odd.
"I'm going to shower," says June as she walks off.
"He seemed upset..." Minerva says. You hear her voice crack a little. Here come the water works. "He hates me, doesn't he? I knew it... I knew this would happen!"
"Minerva, relax. He doesn't hate you."
"Yes he does! I finally see him in person and he just leaves... he hates me..."
"God damn it, Minerva. Stop being such a worrier. He's letting you stay in his house, isn't he?"
"Yeah, but so what? He's not hateful enough to send me off with nowhere to go."
"You're being ridiculous. Just go shower off and get some rest," you advise. You guide her to the other bathroom, connected to Forte's room, and wait for June to finish with hers. You clean off and get dressed. What to do now?
A. Just go to bed. Tomorrow, you'll 1. Kill Pyro 2. Kill Kieo B. Do something else
You decide to just go to bed. June's already out cold, smack dab in the middle of the bed so that no matter what, you have limited room. You sleep on the side against the wall so as not to roll off in the middle of the night. You wake up the next morning to her staring at you.
"You had me worried yesterday," she says.
"Sorry," you reply.
"Why didn't you let me go in and fight?"
"I already told you. I could tell you were on your last legs. It wasn't that hard to tell."
"It's my job to protect you," she argues.
"No, it's not. It's not your job to do anything. I sure as hell don't need you throwing your life away."
"But-"
"But nothing. Come on, we've got more work to do today." With that, you head to Forte's computer room and log on to gamefaqs. Kieo or Pyro? Why not... both? You go to Kieo's first.
"Hey, Kieo!" you post.
"Say no more. I know all about you. Pyro and I are the last ones left, right?"
"That's right."
"We're prepared to take you down a notch." He sends you some coordinates. You go to knock on Forte's door. You hear some crying and a little bit of talking. Maybe now's not the best time. You text Cactus to bring you and head outside. Phobos is sleeping on the patio, still regenerating. Cactus emerges from the ground.
"What's up?" he asks.
"Not a lot. Can you take me to the coordinates I sent?"
"Sure thing." He grabs your shoulder and June's shoulder and pull you into the ground. You emerge on a large beach. Cactus salutes and heads home. It's a particularly stormy day, and the waves are pretty rough. You feel June cling to your arm. She looks a little scared.
"Are you going to be ok?"
"Yeah... I just... I don't like it here."
"We won't stay long. Let's just get these guys out of the way and head home." You feel the heat of a fireball behind you and quickly pull June in front of you, taking the fireball to the back and absorbing it. You turn to see two men facing you down. Pyro must be the fire user, because you remember Kieo to be strictly genjutsu.
A. You and June fight as a unit, focusing on 1. Pyro 2. Kieo B. Take Pyro, have June take Kieo. C. Have June take Pyro. Let Kieo genjutsu you for another mind**** adventure with Deimos D. Just go with the flow. Who the **** needs a game plan?
"June, you take Pyro. I'll handle Kieo."
"Alright," she says. You approach Kieo and he begins to form some seals. You just let him. He finishes, and you find yourself in a dark room. The only light is from the rain covered window, and it casts an eerie shadow on the wall. There are no doors, and after checking the window, you realize you are several stories in the air.
“This is... amateurish," Deimos' voice says. The walls begin to crumble away, and you find yourself standing in a graveyard, Deimos beside you.
"He was obviously trying to play on my claustrophobia," you say.
"You think he can recognize your fears?"
"Nah, I'm not even claustrophobic. I'm willing to bet that he is, and just assumed that everyone else must be, too."
"You're getting better at this. I believe you are right." You look around the graveyard a bit and see a man. You approach him. God damn, he looks like a badass. Upon closer inspection, you realize that it's you. You're standing over a freshly dug grave, laughing. You and Deimos draw closer, and you can hear faint screaming coming from the grave. Suddenly, the scene changes. You're standing in a bedroom, dark and stormy again. A figure sits up in bed, gasping for breath.
"Only a dream..." he says in relief.
"Enjoy the relief while it lasts. Deimos, I want you to
A. Make him think he's been buried alive for real. B. Make him think he's in a white padded room, confined to a straight jacket. C. Make him think he's frolicking in an open field. D. Make him think he is a bird, soaring through the sky. E. Make him think he's trapped in a wall.
"I want you to make him think he's really been buried alive."
Kieo gets out of his bed and walks out of his room. You follow behind him. He trips over something and curses before getting up and turning on the light. His jaw drops when he sees what he tripped over. It's a wooden coffin, with his name engraved on it. Suddenly, the electricity goes out. In a flash of lightning, you see a man with a crowbar knock him out. He puts him in the coffin and drags it out of the house. You snap back to reality to find Kieo laying on the ground, beating on an imaginary box and screaming.
"Let me out! Save me! Someone? Anyone?!" You oblige him, putting him out of his misery with a guitar to the head. You turn to see how June's faring. Your victory came in a split second, so her fight must just be beginning. Wrong. She drags Pyro's unconscious body to you and you steal his soul.
"It's finally over," you say. June smiles, a happy smile this time.
"I'm glad I could help you," she says. "So... what now?"
"Live life, I guess."
"I'm glad I don't have to worry about you anymore. Yesterday was entirely too stressful. I'm sorry I acted the way I did."
"I'm sure he appreciates it," a voice says. It's the masked man. "Congratulations on your victory over the writers. You freed your friend, and Forte's as well. A happy ending."
"Ending? What are you talking about?"
"I'm telling you that your story is over. I'm here to wrap it up."
"So, you're betraying me?" you ask.
"Betraying you? No, not really. This is your fate. I'm only helping it along. Sorry, my friend, but there won't be an epilogue." You activate your enton shroud and swing your guitar as hard as you can at the man. He stops it with a finger. The minute it makes contact, you see the background change. You're deep in space. You can see the Earth far off behind the man. Your feet still touch firm ground, somehow, and you're still able to breathe. You back off from him.
"What is this? Genjutsu?"
"Not at all. This is real, my friend."
"There's no way someone could do this for real. It defies reality," June says.
"Define 'reality'," the man says. "This is my realm, and my rules."
"Your 'realm'?" you ask.
"Surely you were paying attention when Tips was talking to you," he says. He snaps his finger and the Earth begins to burn away behind him. "I can do anything I want here. Well, almost anything. There are some things I don't have power over."
"What are they?" you ask.
"I'll tell you if you can defeat me. Show me what you've got."
A. Enton spear while June uses raiton discharge B. Wind/fire/fire dragon bullet with June C. Engage him in CQC, with support from June D. Try another attack(choose one)
You create a wind dragon bullet and June guides her fire dragon bullets into it. It collides with the masked man end explodes. Somehow, a tornado is allowed to exist in space. You're not really sure how that works, but when it finishes, the masked man is still there.
"Pretty good power," he comments.
"How would you know? You just phased through it."
"Actually, I didn't. It almost tickled. Not good enough to impress me, though. Time to smash that puny body of yours." Puny? You're taller and more massive than him. He warps away.
"Stay on your guard. I'll watch your back," June says. The masked man didn't appear near you, though. You see a huge vortex off in the distance. It swallows all of the space off in that direction. The masked man appears, big enough that he looks like he could hold the galaxy in his hand. He rears back to punch you. It seems like forever before his fist reaches you, but there's nowhere to run. You summon the gates of hell, and June creates a lightning and fire wall in front of it, but you both know it's futile. The massive fist easily smashes through the walls. Just before it reaches you, everything changes again. You're back on solid ground. Looks like Africa. The masked man stands in front of you, and some monkey-like men mess around in the background, seemingly oblivious to your presence.
"Figured I'd give you another shot," the man says. Everthing speeds up in the background, and you see the monkey like men figure out fire and learn to build a small village. Then a group of regular looking men wipe them out and take their food. History repeats itself before your eyes. You turn your attention back to the man. What can you do?
A. Summon something(take your pick) B. Try the enton spear/raiton discharge combo C. Double high pressure flame jet D. Double fireball feign, trying to reignite them inside the man himself
You and June exhale a fireball. The man doesn't move, but a wall of earth rises just in time to block them before sinking back into the earth. Just as planned. The fireballs explode from inside the man, but he simply phases.
"I've already seen that technique. Let's just get this over with. It was fun while it lasted." With that, the man warps. You and June stand back to back, ready to fight to the death whenever he reappears. The man swirls back out, right where he was standing. "Nah, I'm just ****ing with you."
"You son of a *****!" you say with a laugh.
"That wasn't funny..." June says. The man snaps his fingers and you're back on the beach.
"I call that 'Ret-con no jutsu'."
"Impressive. So, I have a question. If you're this powerful, why did you let me kill of the writers?"
"You had fun, didn't you?"
"Yeah..." you admit.
"You're welcome. Anyway, I came to talk to you about something. You've met my friends, Lightning Hero and Acemos, haven't you? The guy with the nuggets?"
"Sure have. They gave me a scroll, for some reason."
"Good, good. You know when to use it?"
"Whenever I meet two people I can't take down," you repeat what Lightning Hero told you.
"I'm proud of them. I was half expecting them to forget why I sent them."
"They your underlings or something?"
"Not at all. They're just friends. We share a common enemy. I'd like it if you'd share the same enemy."
"I'd rather not. I'm taking a break."
"I understand. You'll come soon enough, anyway," he says.
"Is that a threat?"
"Not at all. I'm just saying, my enemies have a bad habit of making everyone around me their enemies as well. Just hold on to that scroll. Now, is that it?"
A. No, I have more questions(list them, keeping in mind that you may not get the answer you want) B. I'm good
"I have a few questions, first."
"Shoot."
"Okay, first of all, who is this 'enemy' of yours?"
"A group of people. They're out to destroy. Anything and everything."
"Why?"
"I'm not sure. It's in their blood, I guess. They have their eyes set on this realm."
"What's all this **** about 'realms'?"
"Have you heard of alternate dimensions? There is an infinite amount of them. Each has someone in charge, but just that realm."
"So, you're the creator of this one? The one that Tips mentioned?"
"He was referring to me, yes, but he was wrong about the creator part. I don't want you to think too much about this... let's just say that I'm powerful, and I have the ability to govern things here, behind the scenes."
"Back to the original question."
"Right. This enemy is not my enemy, but an enemy to each realm. They travel from realm to realm, leaving nothing in their wake. They have been successfully thwarted from time to time, but it's a dangerous situation nonetheless."
"Ok, I'm tired of thinking about this. If I see these jackasses, just use the scroll."
"Yeah, let's leave it at that."
"One last thing. Can you see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?"
"Sugar. Alternately: cinnamon toast crunch is a metaphor for life. It's a race to enjoy it to the fullest before things get soggy. And cinnamon toast crunch gets soggy fast."
"Alright then, thanks." The masked man warps you and June to Forte's. It's still early. What do you want to do?"
A. Move the story along B. Do something else while you have the free time. The world is at your fingertips
"This is getting ridiculous..." June sighs. "Is everyone out to give me a heart attack?"
"Don't worry, plenty of time to wind down," you say.
"Good, I'm starving. Let's go inside and eat." You make your way inside to see Minerva and Forte eating at the table. They seem to be getting along a little better, but it's still a little awkward.
"What are we eating?" you ask.
"Oh, hey, man. Sorry, didn't know when you'd be back..."
"Sorry..." Minerva says sincerely. "You can have the rest of mine."
"No thanks. We'll find something else." You lead June back outside. "Let's train a little bit, in preparation for the 'enemy'."
"Okay, but... what about food?" June asks with a hand over her belly.
"We'll work up an appetite. Then we'll go somewhere nice," you say.
"Really?" she asks excitedly. "Just... the two of us?"
"Yep. But that won't come until tonight. Let's learn a thing or two."
"Okay, I can teach you a few things. There's always steam breath, if you want it. I can teach you to create a fire nova. I can teach you to make Fire Feign explode violently. As for me, I'm willing to learn what you want to teach me, or I can upgrade my techniques. I can upgrade the arc cannon to require less charging time, I can upgrade the fire hound to explode on command, or cause the lightning hound to penetrate in addition to paralyzing."
A. Steam breath B. Fire nova C. Explosive Fire feign D. Ask Forte about wind techs instead
1. Teach her Chetley's techniques(pick one) 2. Upgrade arc cannon 3. Exploding fire hound 4. Penetrating lightning hound
June teaches you to overexert the fireball whenever you reignite it, causing a nice explosion. This is a very clever technique. You teach June to create the chakra layer, and flare it up in certain spots to bolster her defense. Then you run with her for a while, teaching her the endurance technique, as well as how to increase her speed. When it's over, she lays on the ground, breathing heavily. You're used to it by now, but you appreciate how exhausting it was the first time you did it.
"It's getting late," you say.
"I don't think I can get up, yet..." she pants. You grab her arm and put it over your shoulder, then grab her legs and carry her on your back. You can actually feel her face turn red.
"Alright, let's clean up and get ready to go. You have any preferences?"
"It doesn't matter... whatever you want. I'm just happy to go with you."
"So, Krystal burger it is."
"Wait, what? You're joking..." she says disappointedly.
"You said wherever I wanted." She's silent. "Come on, I said somewhere nice, right? Just not dress-up nice. I can't stomach those places. Maybe a habachi grill or something."
"Okay!" You drop her off at the bathroom door so she can shower, then go see what Forte's doing. He's alone in the living room.
"What's up? Where's Minerva?"
"She went to bed early," he responds.
"Everything alright?"
"We're getting there. I still feel a little guilty, but who knows if that'll go away. Just gotta deal with it."
"Don't sweat it too much. She's got a thing for you. Well, maybe that's an understatement. Anyway, would you mind if I used your shower?"
"Go for it." You do so. You tip-toe through his room so as not to wake Minerva and shower off.
You finish your shower, get dressed and head to the living room. June is ready to go.
"Forte, any habachi grills near here?"
"There's a Tokyo Live way down on the same street as that Krystal burger. Just head in that direction and you'll see it." You do so, talking about nothing in particular with June. She's really excited at the idea of going on an actual date with you. You get to the grill before supper time, so the wait isn't too bad. You and June sip some sake while waiting on the chef. Tastes like piss, but you have to appreciate the strength of the stuff. Eventually, another couple and a family are seated at the same grill. Surprisingly, June gets along just fine, only a little shy at first. Maybe it was the alcohol. Finally, the chef shows up and does his little tricks, throwing eggs in his hat and flipping his utensils around. He makes an onion volcano and all sorts of other nonsense. Still, it's fun. He throws shrimp around for everyone to catch. Everyone at the table is pretty pro at it. At one point, the guy messes up and flings his spatula at June. She catches it expertly and hands it back, and the others applaud, much to her excitement. The man apologizes, but she tells him not to worry. You enjoy your meals and get the ticket. You look at it to find it's not a ticket at all, but a note for a free meal along with an apology for the mess up. You tell everyone bye and head home.
"That was so much fun!" June says.
"I'm glad you liked it. Wasn't the food good? I saw you didn't eat too much."
"I didn't want to feel bloated," she says.
"And why not?" you ask curiously. You have an idea, but play dumb.
"You'll see..." she says, taking your hand. Awww yeah. You finally make it back home. Forte's in bed and the lights are out. June drags you to the bedroom.
You wake up early the next morning. Early early. It's only 3. Maybe you woke up because the lamp was still on, but it doesn't matter. You can't go back to sleep. You gently slide your arm out from under June's head and lift hers off of your chest, trying not to wake her. You smile for a second, remembering how cute she was last night, not a clue what she was doing. She'll get better in no time. You look around for your pants, and get out of bed to put them on.
"Where are you going?" June asks.
"Can't sleep. I'm gonna go mess around on the computer. I went through all this work, may as well start writing."
"You really like to write, don't you?" she asks.
"Not really. I was bored when I decided to start, then all this **** went down. Now it really seems uninteresting after all the stuff we went through, but I guess I should write it, since it's why this whole thing started."
"Yeah, it's been a crazy life. Come back to bed soon, ok?"
"Alright, I will." You log on to gamefaqs and start your cyoa. It's about some loser kid in konoha. You have support from all the people you've met along the way. You update several times in a couple of hours, when you get a peculiar post. It's from Maverickraven.
"Yo! Your cyoa sucks!" it says.
"Yeah, it does, doesn't it?"
"That's it? You're okay with it?"
"Yeah... so are you gonna keep talking, or did you wanna vote?" Suddenly, a fist comes out of the computer screen. You roll back in the chair just out of range, and it retreats back.
"How'd you like that? I just golemized the internet, *****."
"A for effort."
"On to business. We've got a score to settle, don't we? Here's the deal... I know where you live. You have three days to come to the same place we first fought, or I'm coming to you."
"You'd be a fool to come here, Mav. Though, out of respect for my friend's house, I guess I'm coming to you. See you soon." You get off the computer and go back to bed. June snuggles up to you. How will you manage the next few days?
Free will(kiss it, mav[These days wont be divided into three sections. Just give me a general outline])
You wake up again the next morning and sit up in bed. June sits up and leans against you.
"What are the plans for today?" she asks.
"For once, I was thinking we'd just stay in bed." You turn and lay on your side and she pushes her back into your chest, trying to burrow as deep as possible. This whole spooning thing isn't something you're used to. You were always more of a leave early the next morning kind of guy. Still, this was a girl who's been through a lot with you, and it feels right. Maybe that explains why last night was the best sex you've ever had, regardless of her lack of experience. June turns to you and looks at you a while. She's blushing a little, and opens her mouth to say something, but decides against it. She hides her face in your chest to gather a little courage before saying those words.
"I love you"
Uh oh. Your fear of commitment tears at your very soul. What are you going to do??
A. Man up! You feel the same way, and you'll tell her so. Not a big deal. Tap that again afterwards. B. Freeze up! Mumble something that kind of sounds like "I love you, too". C. Break her heart! Tell her you just want to be friends. You're not ready for a real relationship. D. Be an extreme ass! Tell her not to throw the "L" word around, as if she did something wrong. You just want to be **** buddies. Try to tap that again afterwards.
"I love you, too," you say without hesitation. She hugs you tightly, as if trying to squeeze the life out of you. You get with the lovin' one more time before you get out of bed. You spend the rest of the day and the next one as well with June and June alone. You do almost everything together. On the third day, you hang out with Forte and Minerva for a while, doing nothing in particular. You don't want to alienate them or anything. While hanging out, something occurs to you.
"Forte, what do you know about the masked man's 'enemy'?"
"Well, all I know is that they're bringing trouble my way, and that pisses me off," he replies.
"So you're going to fight as well?"
"Damn right."
"If he's in, them so am I," Minerva says. She and Forte seem to be getting along considerably better. The day is starting to draw to a close. It's about time to take it to Mav. But first, you have two unused souls. You take your guitar to the back room and meditate, appearing on the beach again.
"Welcome, mortal," the reaper greets.
"What's up? I came to cash in those souls," you say.
"Of course," the reaper cackles. "We'll use this soul to upgrade a fire technique to enton."
A. High pressure flame jet B. Fire clones C. Fireball Feign D. (I may be forgetting one. Pick it if you recall what it is)
"I'd like to update the fireball feign to enton," you decide. That technique is too useful to leave alone.
"Very well. Now to upgrade existing techniques. Upgrade your enton shroud to produce a nova more often. Upgrade your enton spear to explode on command."
"You can also use the souls to upgrade our summonings," Legion chimes in. "I can teach you to summon Adramalech as a basic summon. I won' rob you of your energy like last time. Also, You can learn to summon any three of us at will, as you so choose."
A. Enton Nova upgrade B. Explosive Enton spear C. Summon Adramalech without needing to pass out D. Summon three fallen souls
"I'd like to be able to summon Adramalech more efficiently," you decide.
"It is so." You appear back in the room and go ask Forte to take you to where you need to go. He sends you and June to that small neighborhood in Florida,for the third time. You approach Mav's newly built house and knock. He opens the door. He's pretty massive, but his body is young. He walks out and challenges you in the street.
"Just out of curiosity, Mav... have you even learned anything new since last time?"
"No, but my body is young, and that's all the edge I need." You rub your temples and sigh.
"Alright, then... come and get it..." He does so. He charges you, throwing a punch, but has to pull up his arm to block a kick from June. You activate your enton shroud and close the gap between the two of you. You dodge his punches easily and smack him around a bit, burning his fresh skin. He forms some seals and creates a group of golems. You and June plow through them with ease. One of them almost hits you, but you block with a forearm. Suddenly, your enton shroud explodes, sending black fire in all directions. Mav burrows underground to escape it, but all the golems get burned to a crisp. June is conveniently not effected. She begins tearing through the earth with her electric whip to fish him out.
"Got him," she says. He emerges from the ground holding his arm, with a huge gash on it. This is pathetically easy now... maybe you should just finish it.
A. Enton spear B. Enton Feign C. Wind/Double Fire dragon bullet D. Summon something to do it for you(choose)
You exhale a large black fireball that shortly flickers into nothing. Mav smirks in satisfaction. Idiot...Just as you're going to reignite it, you're all sent flying to your left. The fireball explodes violently where Mav was standing. You get up and turn to see two people standing there. One has his arms extended. You guess he's the one who sent you all flying.
"Who the **** are these guys?" Mav asks.
"Not sure... these may be the ones. What do you think, June?"
"These must be them." The men are in large, black, hooded cloaks, with little red G's everywhere. They wear black masks, and you can't make out their faces.
"Destroy..." the first one says, almost like a zombie.
"Pardon my friend here... he's none too bright. But he's got the right idea," the other says.
"What do you want?" you ask.
"Destroy..."
"Yeah, what he said. We're here to take you down. Normally, we'd just collapse the realm on itself... but someone's doing a good job of keeping it open. So, we have to do this the hard way. Hunt for that person one by one, starting with you three."
"That wouldn't be one by one then, genius," Mav says.
"Well, I said it's one by one, so that makes it so. We can't be wrong, you know."
"Impossible..."
"Mav, what do you say to a truce? We've got a bigger problem on our hands."
"Yeah... I hate these guys even more than I hate you."
A. Unroll your scroll, see what it does. B. Try to fight on your own for a bit.(feeling lazy, so you pick an attack to use)
You take out the scroll and unroll it on the ground. There's a poof of smoke, and Lightning Hero and acemos appear. Lightning Hero with both hands in his pockets, and acemos looking around like she has zero attention span.
"You rang?" Lightning Hero asks.
"Yeah, I think we found them..." you say.
"Yea, thts defnly tem," acemos says.
"...what?"
"She says it's definitely them."
"Destroy..."
"Yeah, enough talk. Go for it, Mod 1." The slow one extends his arms and an invisible force sends you, Mav, and June rolling over. Lightning Hero stands, cool as ever. As does acemos.
"Hey, ace," he says.
"Yh?"
"You take the stupid one."
"Il do tht!" Lightning Hero shunshins forward, sounding like an electric shock. He's upon the smarter one in a heartbeat. Acemos just begins to dance around. Not too sure what's going on there. Lightning engages the man in taijutsu, both of his hands glowing with a raikiri. The dumb one tries to shinra tensei him, but he swings his hand back, like a pimp, and returns the force on him. He turns back to the other one, who has already formed some seals. He fires a large fireball, big enough to take out a house, point blank at Lightning. He forms one quick handseal and becomes lightning itself, passing right through the fireball. It flies towards the man's partner, but he puts out a hand and deflects it.
"Don't let her finish that dance!" the smarter one instructs.
"Stop dancing..." he moans.
"It's too late," Lightning says, returning back to his normal state. Some blue looking dust descends from the sky and dances about the stupid one. Suddenly, his body turns to ice. Lightning shunshins and breaks off his legs with a side kick.
"Damn it... it was bound to happen sooner or later..." the cloaked man says. He throws down a smoke bomb and disappears.
"Well, there you go..." Lightning says.
"Appreciate it..." you say. Can't complain that you missed any action, you did go for the scroll immediately.
"Well, let's get back to business," Mav says, turning to you.
"Slow your roll, Maverickraven," Lightning instructs. "We need you two intact. Come with us, please. We'll take this body to study."
A. Just go with him B. Insist that you take the mod's soul
"Alright, we'll come, but I could really use his soul," you say.
"You can have him when we're done, no problem," Lightning says. He forms a seal and a bolt of lightning strikes everyone there. You feel a weird tingling sensation, and in the next second, you're in front of a huge mansion. He and acemos guide you inside, then to a large dining room, with a very long table. There are many familiar faces, and a few you don't recognize. The man at the head of the table is none other than the masked man.
"Ah, there he is!" he says, referring to you, you think. "Have a seat, please!" You see two open chairs between Forte and Yushi, so you and June take those. There's a lot of whispering going on around the table.
"We got one," Lightning says to the masked man.
"I see... put him in the freezer or something, we'll get around to him in a second. Come join us at the table afterward, if you don't mind." Lightning and acemos carry the frozen body and stuff him in the extremely large freezer before filling up the last few seats.
"Alright, so that's everyone," giga says.
"Pretty rag-tag group," another man near the head of the table says. You've never seen him, but you can feel that he's on the level of Lightning Hero. The masked man knocks on the table to get everyone's attention.
"Hello, everyone! I've called you all here to talk about a little problem we've all been having..."
"Those cloaked dudes?" a man you haven't seen before asks.
"That's right. Some of you have had run-ins with them yourselves. As for the others, you'll just have to take our word. They're bad news."
"What are they here for?" Huey speaks up.
"Simply to eradicate. No reason, no cares. It's just what they're made for... I need you. No, the world needs each and last one of you. You need to eradicate them before they destroy life as we know it."
"While you just sit here and sip tea?" a man asks. He has an eye-patch and shoulder length brown hair.
"Hmph. I need to dedicate all of my chakra to prevent them from just shutting down this dimension. “I've got to keep the wheels turning, you have to get after them. If you don't then, kiss everything you love goodbye, and more."
"We'll be dividing up the group into squads," the man who called you a 'rag-tag' group explains. There will be some attack squads, some defensive squads, and some flexible squads, who will assist with an attack or defense as needed. You, the white one with the guitar."
"Yeah?" you say.
"You're a key player in this. You can come with me for the offensive, Lightning for the reaction squad, or giga with the defensive squad. Oh, I'm Nitan, by the way."
A. Nitan's offensive group B. Lightning's reaction group C. Giga's defensive group
"I'll go with Lightning Hero," you say.
"Very well," he says. Lightning beckons you over.
"Alright, we can grab a few other members. So far it'll be me, you, your girlfriend, and Acemos. You can grab three other members. Forte and his girlfriend are available, as is Yushinoki, Huey, Shadow, and Blue Bomb. There's also Big Boss, a taijutsu specialist, or Perfect Cell, who can mimick the abilities of others."
Pick three(Forte and Minerva count as two)
"I want Perfect Cell, Yushi, and Huey," you say.
"Alright, sounds good. Give us a while to get a few things together. We'll look at that body and then hand it over to you."
"Alright, sounds good."
"Let the guys you picked know who they are." You head over to Huey and Yushi and inform them that they'll be with you.
"Okay, cool," they say.
"I need to find a 'Perfect Cell', too. Any ideas?"
"No clue," Yushi says.
"I think he's the one with the forest camo hoody on," Huey says. You make your way over to him.
"Perfect Cell?" you ask.
"Yo," he replies.
"You're with us."
"Oh what an honor," he says sarcastically. "I'm on the "key player's" team." You go sit back down by Forte and eat your meal before Lightning calls you back into the other room. He leads you outside with the frozen body.
"He's all yours," he says. You slam the guitar into his head and get sucked into the other realm with it.
"Hello, harvester," Legion says. The reaper waves briefly in acknowledgment. "Ah, this... this souls is extremely powerful... you can learn any of his abilities, or greatly upgrade a previously existing one. He has banshou tenin and shinra tensei, or Chibaku Tensei. You can upgrade your enton feign or enton spear to explode excessively, enough to demolish an apartment complex. You can also upgrade your speed burst to become permanent."
A. Banshou Tenin/ Shinra Tensei B. Chibaku Tensei C. Upgrade enton spear D. Upgrade enton feign E. Base speed becomes speed burst
"I'll go with Banshou Tennin and Shinra Tensei, you say."
"Very well," Legion replies. You appear back in the yard.
"So, you two wait out here, I'll get the others," Lightning instructs.
"Well... there goes our 'living life'," June says in disappointment. "I was really enjoying it, too."
"Yeah... I'm sorry, June. Let's just get this over ASAP so we can get back to doing nothing in particular. I miss it already..." Huey, Yushi, Perfect Cell, Lightning, and Acemos make their ways back outside.
"Alright, here's the deal..." Lightning begins. "We're the reactionary team. We'll assist in attacks and defense, whoever needs us. If you like meeting new people, you made the right choice with this group... we're gonna sign a contract, allowing us to summon each other when needed. When I hear about a threat, I'll summon you all to me and take you all where we need to go. Capiche?"
"Yeah, I get you," you say. You all sign the piece of paper.
"Alright, you can all head home until further notice..." he says, sending you home in a crash of lightning.
"So... what are we gonna do now?"
A. Train up for a while B. Just go to sleep(fast forward to making stuff happen) C. Other
"Let's do a little training, June," you say.
"Okay, what do you want to learn? I can teach you to use lightning jutsus. I can also teach you more fire ones. I can teach you the exploding wisp, which is controlled remotely. I can teach you Flame Vortex, which creates a large swirl of flame that then shoots out, for large scale destruction. I can also teach you to infuse fire chakra with your shinra tensei."
"How'd you know about that?"
"I know better than anyone how upgrading with souls works, and I know you, so your choice was obvious," she smiles.
A. Open lightning affinity B. Exploding wisp C. Flame vortex D. Flaming Shinra Tensei
You teach her 1. Chetley tech 2. Oh, you found Flame's booklet. Teach her to turn her abilities into enton, along with the spear.
"I want to learn lightning affinity," you say.
"Okay, and what are you going to teach me?"
"Here," you say, offering her Flame's booklet. She teaches you to use a small lightning technique to start you off. You can spit out a few chidori senbons with a single seal. She reads over the book for a while before mastering the enton spear and converting all of her katons into enton. You head inside and shower off with her, and laze around for a while until you finally get that summon. You appear with your team in a large city you don't recognize. There is a team of unfamiliar people taking on a couple of mods. Buildings are torn down around them. There are two teams of moderators, and they're overwhelming the group. One of them is spitting lava around everywhere, burning up everything nearby. One is shooting these guided lasers. Another is summoning large animals to do his bidding. The last one is stretching his shadow across the ground and making it sprout up like needles.
"We need to take the load off for these guys," Lightning says. "Hero, you and your friends take two and distract them. Ace and I will assist the others."
"Sounds good," you say.
Pick two from the list to fight
"We'll take the Storm And Lava release guys," you say.
"Sounds like a plan," Lightning says. You use shinra tensei to send them flying away from the rest of the group, and you all take off to meet them.
"More pests," one says. He keeps twitching.
"More pests," the other one mocks. He spits out a wave of lava at your group. PerfectCell mimics him perfectly, and the burning hot sheets collide in midair and crash to the ground, drying rapidly. Huey and Yushi are upon the lava user in a second. The other one turns to you. He shoots a barrage of lasers at you. PerfectCell shoots some back, but they move and miss each other completely. They soar towards you, but you simply hold out a hand and blast them into oblivion. You run in on the mod, activating your enton shroud, and begin swinging at him. He dodges nimbly, but is finally forced off balance. You smash him hard, suck him in with banshou tennin, and smash him hard again.
"I recognize that technique..." the mod coughs while twitching.
"Got it from your dead friend," you say. As he tries to get up, two fire dragon bullets fly toward him from behind you.
A. Feed it with a wind dragon bullet. B. Enton Feign just in case he survives. C. Enton spear D. Another attack?
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