Akatsuki of YCM's Hidden Base

[El Make]

His swords are still out! He wishes to fight us! Lets give him a taste of what real power is!

Who are you? That's not Sutoraiki... you're much too evil...

Silly child, I'm the power Tenkai gave you... the darkness... I can give you incredible power if you only just fought my way!

SHUT UP! I'm my own person, and taking this out on Joseph would be wrong...

Kekeke! Do want to know what's REALLY wrong? You, wasting a power like me!

 

Just then, the thoughts were interupted by Joseph, who had spoken something that Yurusu couldn't hear. When he looked over, all of his wounds were going, and this enticed the darkness in him.

 

LOOK AT THAT! HEALING! IT'S AS IF WE NEVER HIT HIM! A PRACTICE TARGET LIKE NOTHING ELSE!

No, that was just a power of his, I don't want ot fight him... he's good...

Yurusu, I'm the power you WEILD, not own. I'M the power, I bend becuase I WANT to, not because YOU want to.... I feel like inflicting some wounds!

No! I said-

SCREW YOU! I'm taking over this fight! HAHAHAHA! IT'S FIGHTING TIME!

 

Yurusu clutched his chest suddenly, and his eyes began to change. The red irises became black, and the whites became red. His hair switched colors, now red with black streaks. He winced as his skin began to turn black, forming like a shell over his body.

 

"Joseph... run... it's... taking over...." The shell of black now completely engulfed Yurusu, the transformation complete. A new voice that spoke was crazy and demoic, almost cackling with each word.

 

"Kekekeke! Joseph is your name I guess from what Yurusu said! However, it's time to die!" The Dark Yurusu rushed forward, unsheathing Sutoraiki and swinging at Jazeth in one swift, powerful motion.

[Lord JZ of the Enigma]

"ah crap...." In that second Josep could see the murderous intent in his eyes, it was one he had only heard of before when people spoke of when they spoke of Jazeth, the eyes or remorseless murdering intent, that of the Satsujinken. "can't move....in time.......dammit.......are those eyes really.....that terrifying?" soon enough he felt steel slice through him, the blood gushing out and the sound of it spilling on the ground was loud in his ears, but he didn't fall.

 

He looked down on his body, and saw nothing, but felt everything, and in front of him, was not Yurusu, but Jazeth. The Dark Lord opened his mouth and in a Dark ominous tone spoke {"is this how you wish to die then? of course not.......but it seems you are to scared to deal with this boy........so I'll do you a favor......"} Jazeth stood in front of him and showed him his own reflection in his blade, revealing his eyes had been slit through from one side of his face to another. {"Fight him without fear boy.....but don't get me involved again or I shall make you blind permanently!"} with those words, he disappeared and everything around him started taking the appearance of only aura, along with a dark one coming toward him.

 

Back in the real world a loud metal clang was heard between Yurusu's blades against both of Josep's swords. His eyes closed but looking directly at Yurusu, and when his eyes finally opened, they revealed to be without light, like a souless puppet's eyes. A sudden burst came on and the brown color of his eyes left turning the iris a grey color, with that he pushed off against Yurusu's blade and landed several yards away.

[El Make]

OOC: Calling the evil dude Invert.... for NO reason at all... need something to call him. XD

 

"Nice block kid! Too bad I don't plan on letting that happen AGAIN! KEKEKEKE!" Invert laughed, holding out his palm towards Joseph. Meanwhile, in the dark regions of Yurusu's mind, the shinigami hudled, thinking for answers.

 

"I.... I can't control my own self... Sutoraiki is so distant, this darkness has control over me... Why Tenkai? Why would you give me this power!?"

"Because he thought you could control it, duh!" The voice of Sutoraiki exclaimed. Yurusu looked around, soon finding the cloaked figure he knew well. But when Sutoraiki threw back his hood, a skull replaced his head. At closer examination, Sutoraiki was nothing more than a skeleton.

"Suprised, huh Yurusu? Don't worry, it's me... but the darkness corroded my body into this, and it'll only return to normal after you gain control."

"But I don't know how! It's too strong! The hate I felt was too big... he took over, and I can't get my power back..."

"Yurusu, Tenkai gave you these power because he knew this would happen! He WANTED this to happen!"

"Why... would he?"

"Because he wanted to make you stronger, to learn how to push awya the corruption and let yourself stand tall! And you need to do that, or Joseph might die..."

 

Shadows began to form an orb around Invert's palm, turning half red, half black in a swirl pattern. The orb blasted off towards Joseph, a massive power packed behind it.

 

"Kekeke.... this is so fun!"

[Ultimate Assassin Ninjew]

When Satan claimed to be the opponent, the female guard put her hand up and shook her head no. "No, we have strict orders not to allow you to fight under any circumstances," she claimed, "Now get back to whatever you were doing and stay away." Then as the guards began to die off, the demon guard that was looking in signaled the other guard demon. Both in seconds jumped into the courtyard, almost landing on some of the lowly demons who did not move out of the way fast enough. The guard demons had specific orders from Azera, not to allow Satan to escape, so they immediately located him. Upon hearing his statement of working with Fusion, they located him as well. They each swung their sword at Fusion and Satan, attempting to inflict enough pain to cease movement and use of their bodies. The only reason the strikes could not kill was because, in Hell you cannot die again since you are already dead. The slashes were quick and merciless and were done without a second thought. Any lowly demon caught in the path would only add to stopping the riot. At the same time, the guards on the towers jumped down and began their attempt to control the prision. Even the ones on the inside of the prision took measures to cease the riot. However because of the amount and the death of a couple of the guards, the guards were being overrun. Satan and Fusion would have to deal with their own guard demon before thinking about helping the other one out. The seals on their wrists would make this more difficult.

[Fusion X. Denver]

Fusion looked around to see guards had came in and effectively put a halt to the riot. Damn! Too spontaneous...we need to keep up our assault now, or Azera could separate us and we'll never break free. Fusion then noticed the guard swinging at him. He instinctively tried to charge a Thunderhand, but the seal kept it in and he had to dodge the attack at the last second. He did this by ducking quickly, but the speed of doing so caused him to fall back on his butt. He looked up to see the guard making a downward stabbing motion, and rolled out of the way in the nick of time. Being that the guard had swung downward with full strength, and because of his huge size acting as extra weight behind the attack, the sword would most likely be buried deep into the ground and the guard would instinctively try to wrench it out before resuming his assault. Fusion acted upon this small interval by jumping up right after rolling away, spun himself in the air, then at the last second brought his foot out so it would smack the guard demon behind his skull from above; hopefully the additional spin and drop from above would give Fusion's kick more power behind it.

 

At that moment, Satan laughed at the situation and yelled to the female, "You insolent whelp! For all you know, I probably procreated you with some demon whore in the past millennium!" He didn't bother to look at the guard who successfully slashed through Satan's chest to the point where it was stuck in between his ribs. He turned to the demon and said, "You may not be able to die, but you'll wish you could." He skidded a foot or so backward after being stricken, but he remained standing. Satan mustered all his strength and chopped the sword in two, leaving the guard looking at his new dagger and Satan pulling out the blade, trying to conceal the pain. Satan had purposefully let the guard stab him so he would be able to use his body to make sure the sword was rigid and could not move, then aimed for the middle section since it would be the sword's weak point at that one interval. "You have a nice sting there. He finally took out the bloodied blade as the guard charged him anyway. Satan began exchanging blows with him, but was quickly quelled by the guard's strength. "Ah, that's right. Azera hired you for your strength, which is supposedly stronger than his. But your weakness is your lack of brains and skill, and that is why you will fall." The guard remained passive until Fusion charged from behind and kicked at his legs. Satan had stalled for time as a distraction so Fusion could give him an opening. With the steel stained by his own blood, Satan immediately stabbed downward at the guard's face in mid-fall.

 

Not even bothering to see if any more guards were coming, or whether the two they dealt with could still move, they ran inside the prison. The two of them were in the corridor running at top speed, with Satan holding his gaping wound which secretly hurt, and Fusion running on deep in thought. "I guess we should find a way to remove these seals and to recover our weapons, but I wonder where they are?" Fusion asked aloud.

[Lord JZ of the Enigma]

When his eyes were closed he could see nothing, it would be obvious considering the link to his own sight had been severed, everything had been left in darkness. When he felt a gust of wind blowing towards him, as if trying to run away he opened his eyes to see a distorted yellow background, the composition of the earth, the sky itself had a blue aura, and looking at his own skin he could see his own energy was blue, but before he could look at Yurusu he felt an immense blast heading towards him.

 

"Holy Shiz........" he saw the incredibly dense energy heading towards him at an incredible speed, yet, in this line of vision it seemed to move slowly enough for him to try to react. "gotta do something!" he thought to himself as he placed his hand on the ground and concentrated hard, thinking about how the land had so much to offer, maybe some of it's energy could also be borrowed, normally he couldn't absorb the energy of inanimate things, but with this vision he could see the extra energy of the land, and hopefully he could use it.

 

He opened his eyes toward the blast, his irises turning a yellow color as a large pillar of Earth rose from the ground covering Josep, however the Blast smashed right through the wall as if it was nothing, leaving it to collapse in on itself. It had left no trace of Josep.

 

In the air however Josep was floating, and slowly descending from the sky, on his elbows, knees, shins and shoulders he had patches of earth in the shape of light armoring with a pattern of scales on them, having absorbed enough energy to just barely enter an elemental form, in this case being his Earth Dragon form. When the first pillar rose up in the center a split second later a pillar behind it had catapulted Josep into the air, leaving him relatively safe, unless the blast had special properties.

[El Make]

"Kekekeke! You're going to have to do more than DODGE to beat me you idiot!" Invert laughed, swinging Sutoraiki to his side. Shadows began to swell into the sword, leaving a evil aura around the blade. Inside Yurusu's mind, Yurusu stared at Sutoraiki with a glazed look.

 

"Well I can't handle it... the darkness is too strong."

"Is that it? You're just going to let it destroy everything you've worked for? Because that's what it's doing right now. He's weilding ME Yurusu, and it's turned me into... this!" Sutoraiki exclaimed, making a point for Yurusu to notice he was nothing more than the Grim Reaper lacking a scythe.

"Well, it's not like you're stopping him from weilding you."

"Infact Yurusu, I am. If I had allowed him to use me, don't you think he would have used Bankai, forget Shikai, by now? You need to man up and take back your body! Your soul!"

"I know I need to... but... all this hatred and sorrow that's welled up inside me doesn't want to..."

"Fine! Let yourself be corrupted! I won't fall with you in the process though..." And with that, Sutoraiki fizzled out of view. Yurusu sat there, trying to think of something to stop the darkness, but nothing came to mind.

 

Invert frowned when he felt rebelious thoughts forming in Yurusu, but it was no cause for fear. The boy wouldn't be able to control him anyways. So he focused his attention on Joseph, who looked like an upgrade had been given to him. Invert slashed at the air with Sutoraiki, the aura that had built up around it launching off towards Joseph.

 

"KEKEKEKEKE!!!! LET'S PLAY SOME MORE!" Invert waited for the aura blast to near Joseph before dashing towards him, prepared to strike when his target was hit.

[Lord JZ of the Enigma]

"okay then.....obviously, we're gonna have to knock the crap out of each other.....unfortunately I don't have enough energy for this to last long.....so...." he began rushing toward the attack and raised his hand as wall upon wall began blocking the slash from nearing him, until he could also amass a thick coating of earth on his skin, compressing it into a hard stone, as he rammed through the walls and the impeded attack, losing a large amount of his armoring in the process he saw Yurusu approaching him for an attack, the stone covered Josep rushed him as from the crumbling walls behind the real Josep, having lost his armoring already had been charging an attack in his hands "DRAGON!!!!"

 

The fake Josep rammed into the charging Yurusu as Josep completed his technique, blasting a powerful blue energy stream at the clone and Yurusu. "BLAST!!!!!" The Blast moved quickly towards the two crashing and engulfing both fighters in a large radius of energy.

[El Make]

Invert slashed at the fake enemy, but it was moving to fast for the attack to really be effective. The two collided, jarring Inverts shoulder.

 

"It looks like Invert's about to get blow up... but wait... he'll probably just dodge it."

 

The blue beam came soaring at the pair, first hitting the fake Joseph which disappeared, and then engulfing Invert. The attack was relentless, bashing away at the energy Invert had left.

 

"This... this might be my chance! He's weak!" Yurusu stood up, focusing on on the darkness within him. He began to beat down the evil, slowly regaining control.

 

"GAH! NO YOU DON'T.... YURUSU!" Invert yelled as the black shell that encompased him began to crack away, starting at the feet and slowly working its way up. The shell reached his neck, breaking half of the face mask away. All the while Joseph's attack still poured on.

 

"I'm... not... going... TO LOSE!" Yurusu called out, but suddenly black vines shot out of everywhere and began to wrap him.

 

"KEKE! I won't be taken down so easily!" Invert cackled as the shell started to reform on his body.

 

"I'll be damned if I lose!" Yurusu yelled, shooting electricity out of his hands and onto his attackers. The vines snapped off, shrivling up in the ocrners of his mind, "Now... to end this!" Yurusu formed a orb of lightning between his hands, throwing it at the darkness surrounding him. Suddenly, the whole area lit up, giving Yurusu a moment to regain control.

 

"DAMNIT! NOOOOOOOOOO!" Invert screamed, the shell completely breaking off. Yurusu's eyes, hair, and robe returned to normal, and Joseph's attack ended. The shinigami panted as he kneeled on the ground, glad to be rid of the darkness for now.

 

"Thank you... Joseph..." He whispered before fainting.

[Lord JZ of the Enigma]

Josep crashed in the ground quite hard, , having to keep the Dragon Blast flowing for such a long period was quite exhausting, but it was a good technique for overpowering with will power instead of strength. "Totally knocked my Aura down....." he managed to stand up as Yurusu fainted in front of him. "Might as well help him out....." he struggled to walk towards him, but struggled even more to pick him up. "There should be a town about 12 miles from here........" he looked far ahead....and felt exasperated at the trek, but he knew he would have to do it. "Step.....by step....by motherflippin' step........"

 

It had been a few hours later and the sun was going down, but Josep had made it to a small inn, where he could find a doctor for....well, both of them. "take care of this guy first....Cause I need a frickin' nap....." he stated before he finally fainted as well.

[Daybreak]

Bando had picked up fusions body when they had teleported. He stood there yelling his name at the top of his lungs over and over as if he could communicate with him he started crying. He then took the body of fusion and met up with Tsuki. He then remebered the story of the battle between his master and the sixth hokage. How he brought them back to life. He then went to a nearby temple and focused his chakra to find some of fusions remaining chakra. He found a small amount. He then clasped his hands together and whispered to himself." Reverse Geddo Tensei" immediately he traced the chakra following it all the way to where fusion soul was. He then took his own soul and made it so that he could be there with fusion in case he needed him. He could not fight hand to hand as he was merely a spirit. However he could use his Raigan and help fusion through speech. So he sat down and meditated. When he was calm enough he went straight to where the "rebellion" was taking place he found fusion swooped down and let his feet touch the ground saying"Did you miss me?"

[Mr.WHAM]

Ze'borova was readying his finishing blows on Shadow when he saw they white Hell Butterfly. It would take him straight to Hueco Mundo and he would do his mission...and then to that place. Ze'borva made a Douken Sphere and used it to transport himself outside of the Phazon Dome. Then he released his Shikai and released his hollow mask. "We shall finish this later...I have work to do. Probably killing some of Sven's underlings." Ze'borova contacted the Soul Society after leaving the fight, reapperaing miles away. They told him his mission was to kill all of the Espada for a suprise attack. It was a suicide mission, except for him. "Captain Commander, my friend, the only reason why you hold that position is because mine allows me more freedom. Thank You for your caring for my...trials. I don't know when I will return, but have my Lieutenant take control in my leave." Ze'borova opened up the Senkaimon and entered into Hueco Mundo.

First the Espada Die, then I go to Bossin's Grave...

[Shadow Zero]

Dark Shadow slowly rose out of the ground as the dome of Black Phazon began disintegrating along with the Forest of Phazon, the Storm of Phazon ending. Ze'Borova had left the field of battle, apparently having more important things to do. So he left before the battle was decided. Very well then, it shall be decided at a later time. Dark Shadow anticipated the fight to come, and grinned at the thought of squeezing the life out of Ze'Borova and watching the light of his life extniguish in his last moments. Suddenly, control was wrenched away from Dark Shadow and he transformed back to normal. Shadow was once again in control, and the first words out of his mouth was "Okay, those last thoughts were definitely uncalled for." Using Chaos Control, he teleported back to the area where the others were, the wall of wind that Cortez had summoned starting to die down by now.

 

As Shadow teleported back to the group, Zera found Fusion, dead on the ground and seemingly beyond any help, completely dead to the world. Zera used the force to stretch out and found that Fusion was indeed dead, but sensed that he was on a journey back to the land of the living. "Everyone, this one still has a chance of survival!" Zera shouted motioning towards Fusion. Shadow walked up and saw Fusion, dead in look and name. Questioning Zera's claim he asked how someone could return from the dead. Zera replied that he did not know, only that Fusion was fighting his way back, although that was all he knew. Shadow nodded once and said "Well, if there is a chance for survival then we should take him to my city and let him rest there. He will be well cared for, and can find us when ready." Zera nodded once in affirmation of this and also added a response of his own saying "When we get there, there is something that I need to speak to all of you about."

 

 

 

Meanwhile, in a far removed corner of the world, in a place of absolute darkness, a new power was stirring from the depths of deepest slumber. Soon he would awaken, and the world would tremble in fear of his power.

[Ultimate Assassin Ninjew]

Fusion though the guard would need his sword to fight, but forgot that a special guard isn't only about swordsmanship. The guard swung his arm into Fusion, hitting him as he went into the air. The hit sent Fusion into the prision, through the roof. The guard then went to remove his sword which was embedded into the ground. As Satan broke the guard's blade, the guard disguarded it and tossed it away. Since Fusion was no longer coming, the guard noticed Satan coming at him. He hit Satan the same way Fusion was hit, sending him near Fusion into the prision as well. Any demon in that section of the prison quickly ran off, leaving them alone. The two guards now were walking towards Fusion and Azera while the one without a sword was speaking to the other one about his being broken and useless. This would prove good for them to run out of the sight of the guards if they could get out of the small pile of rubble that the roof had on them.

 

As Day attempted to go to Fusion, a small barrior kept him out. He was high into the air of Hell, nt even within earshot of Fusion. As Day attempted to get passed the barrior a small smokey writing came in front of him. "One who has yet to die cannot pass through this barrior." Then just as Day had come, he was gone and back into his own body. A small burn appeared on his arm with the same words as the smoke writing. There was also a little bit more under it as well. "None shall enter the plain of the dead without an escort." Though it was a small burn, it was only as a warning and taste of hell.

[Fusion X. Denver]

"God damn this hurts." Satan said, ridding the rubble surrounding himself in a matter of seconds. He saw Fusion struggling to remove a huge piece of roof debris on his torso and helped him lift it off. They turned to the guards who were starting to come towards them and high-tailed it further into the prison. "We need to begin our plan NOW." Satan said to Fusion. Fusion nodded and saw Desool, the low-ranked demon that he was in the same cell with previously. "Yo Desool! what are you doing here?" Desool turned surprisingly to Fusion and Satan. "Fusion...Your Unholiness...I was allowed a visit to my friend who's held on this level and was returning back to my level since I didn't want the guards to bother doing so. Then you two crashed through."

 

Fusion looked around and saw various other demons staring at them. He was going to try to fry all the bars for the cells, but remembered the seals. "Damn! How the hell are we supposed to break these?" he yelled in frustration. Then he remembered the hint the guard accidentally slipped out to him earlier. "Something about a set amount...I wonder..."

 

As Fusion spoke to himself, Satan turned to face the crowd of demons surrounding him. "My fellow minions, or I should say, former henchmen! We're throwing a riot to cause chaos! We are going to recover our weapons, break out of this hellhole, and reclaim my throne! I know everyone here has a bone to pick with Azera, who will join us?!"

 

While Satan attempted to rile up the prisoners, Fusion began trying to charge Thunderhands in both of his hands, but the seals effectively suppressed the energy and sent a burning sensation in Fusion's hands. Wincing, he tried again, only for the process to repeat himself. Then once more, he tried to charge his Thunderhands, breaching a level of pain he hadn't felt in a long while. If...by set amount, he meant the limit seals can suppress...maybe if I attempt to gather energy enough times in succession...I can break the seals by straining them to overexert themselves...man this hurts...

[Ultimate Assassin Ninjew]

The guards peered into the rubble and noticed that Fusion and satan were gone. The one with the sword slashed through the roof, making a large hole. However nothing was to be found. "Azera is gonna have our souls for this one," the one without the sword said to the other. Just as he said it, the escaped guard demon reached the palace and handed the message over to another demon who told Azera. "So escape is what you have done with my Father eh Fusion," Azera said as he looked into the flames in his fireplace. A small camera inside the prision showed the scene inside the prision. The camera's began scrolling as the same scene of rioting and guards being beaten were noticed. Then it stopped as the large image of Satan and the image of Fusion were recuriting and army. Azera noticed Satan doing most of the work as Fusion was focusing on his wrists. What Fusion was doing and thinking were only half right however as the seals did have a set amount they could hold, but they were used to stress and this would not break them. If he wanted out, he would have to fight through enough pain to release the seals, but in doing so he probably wouldn't want to use energy for any residual side effects after they were removed. An angel guard demon hovered into the room and said, "Should I go end the revolt My Lord?" Azera merely shook his head as a smile formed on his face. "No I want to see what he and my father are going to do," he said.

[Shadow Zero]

Shadow nodded his head once and thought for a few moments, then said "Well, I can get us all there right now. I just need to pick up a few others on the way there that seem to have been missing from our group during the fight against the Dragon Lords, as well as others that seem to have left." Raising his hands to the sky, Shadow used Chaos Control to take everyone back to the Ranmyaku Tribes city, making a couple of quick side trips to get everyone else so that they could all be present. Immediately upon arriving in the city, the surrounding citizens called out, welcoming back their leader. Shadow sent for some medical and cryogenics experts who arrived a few seconds later. Shadow had them take Fusions body and put it in stasis until the time that his spirit was able to return to it. They nodded once, although a few of them raised questioning eyebrows. Still, they did as was told and took Fusions body with him to take the necessary measures to ensure that Fusions body wouldn't start decomposing. Shadow then used Chaos Control to take them all to the throne room where it would be a bit more private, telling everyone in it to vacate the premises. After everyone not in the group had left and all of the doors were closed, Shadow turned to Zera and Roshi and said "All right, not tell us what is so important that we all had to be here to hear it. Sure it's not a bigger threat then the Dragon Lords?"

 

Zera looked at Shadow as he was questioned and nodded once gravely in response to his question. I'm afraid that indeed is just the case. I don't know the name of this new evil as of yet, all I know is an old myth that apparently came from another world told in the following words, 'in the Darkness lies the Truth'. I also know that whatever this new evil is, it is awakening, probably even now, and is readying itself to carry out whatever task it meant to the last time that it was stopped. What's even worse is that it's immortal, and cannot be defeated." Upon hearing this, Shadow cried out in anger saying "Oh great, so if it can't be killed then what's the point of coming to us about it!" Zera took a step back, not completely unsurprised at Shadows reaction even though it still got to him a little bit."Hey, I'm not to thrilled by this either, okay? But there is someone who will be able to give us the answers that we need. He won't be easy to reach though, and it's going to require all the help a person can get just to get there. That's why I came to find you guys. I hoped that perhaps you would be able to help me. After all, this concerns all of us, even those of us not directly involved in the fighting."

[Fusion X. Denver]

Fusion was nearly blacking out from the pain. There's a set amount, a set amount, I can do this! Come on, come on, come on, I have to pour in more energy! More and more, more, more, MORE! Fusion's wrists were convulsing and burning as he continued to try and form Thunderhands. With a shrilling yell, he gathered heat energy that he would use for a Shinseiken and forced it into his wrists, practically bringing him lots of pain and brought him to the floor. Satan took notice of what Fusion did, he ran over and saw that the seals had dissipated. "He did it...but.." It was apparent Fusion had spent almost all of his energy and could not move at the moment. Satan sighed and lifted Fusion onto his back.

"You see that?! My partner just broke through the seals here! When was the last time anyone has done that?! The trick is to pour out as much energy as possible until you surpass the set amount the seals can suppress. HOWEVER, it will require you to persevere through lots of pain and frankly, you shouldn't start until we break out! We must now storm the base to collect our weapons!" Satan then began to pick up some of the debris from the walls and threw it at the cell. The cell's bars remained sturdy, but being hit by a giant rock had at least rocked its foundations and loosened them, which was all Satan needed to charge through and knock the bars down with pure strength.

Some of the demons ran out and all began to do the same thing.

"We shall prevail!" Satan yelled in triumph.

 

Go was sparring with the man whose name was revealed to be Tomashi. "Harder Go, harder! You must learn to harness electromagnetism like your master wanted and to become stronger overall. There is potential everywhere you look. Electromagnetism stemming from your wall crawling ability can enable you to repel object by touching them or even harnessing control of metallic objects in the surrounding area. Your spider sense, when you become more aware of your surroundings, you should be able to know exactly what is setting it off even if you cannot see or hear what it is. Then there are the tricks that fellow Derek taught you, if you can learn to control the thickness and elasticity of your webbing, you can craft a weapon at any time and adapt to any situation! And through sparring with me, you will grow stronger and more fit for combat. There is lots of potential for you Go Ryoko, and I will bring it out!"

Go countered a left jab with his elbow and he thrust his palm forward, only for it to be headbutted, then he was kicked in the stomach. "But we have a long way to go." Tomashi said.

[BlackSkullCortez]

The distance and the power of the World Rings nullified the Chaos Control working on Cortez and his group, so they stayed there not knowing about it. Cortez stood up and stretched. He was just resting with Liz and Derek so they could recover their energy and be more relaxed. Cortez already planned what to do ahead of time. First on the list was to go back to collect Fusion's body, hoping that the battle was over between Ze'b and Shadow. Next, he was going to meet with Shadow so they could look for everybody else and to ask something else. Everything else needed to be done after those two events. "Alright! Time to go, guys!" Liz and Derek dashed and lightly glided towards Cortez. He gathered his energy from the rings and warped to the old location. Just as he arrived, he saw nothing there. Only and empty field of desert with remnants of Phazon and a few glass where lightning hit.

Derek sighed, "Cortez, you really suck at this."

Cortez ignored him, and felt a strange aura of energy, but there were multiple kinds, so he could not really identify it. Definitely not Shadow and Ze'b reconciling. I can sense SOME Chaos Energy, so it might be that either Ze'b took the emeralds, which is likely, or Shadow has new teammates, which is not likely, knowing Shaodw. Though if its the second one, it will be a lot more helpful. Liz yelled, "The energy of this place stinks with 'Shadow was here'."

Cortez nodded. "Well then, what are we waiting for? Let's go somewhere that isn't in the middle of a desert!" Cortez dashed around and grabbed Liz's arm and Derek's leg and used Chaos Punishment. Liz directed Cortez to Shadow's location, and as they arrived, Cortez saw everybody around him. "Okay, this takes care of step 2. Where's Go?"

[Shadow Zero]

When Zera paused in speaking Cortez suddenly appeared with Liz and Derek, Cortez asking where Go was. Shadow looked around and noticed that Go was not there. Frustrated at this, he located Go's energy signature and used Chaos Control without a word and appeared directly behind Go, seeing that he was fighting against Tomashi. Just as Tomashi would have delivered his final blow, Shadow summoned an omnidirectional shield of Chaos Energy that woulds not be easily broken and cause Tomashi's last blow to glance off of it. "Sorry to interrupt your fight and all, but Go is needed elsewhere." Shadow then turned to face Go and said "You're coming with me." before disappearing and reappearing once more in the throne room of the Ranmyaku Tribes city. Zera sighed when he saw that not everyone had been assemble before and so repeated what he had said earlier for the benefit of those who had not been present as of yet, pausing again at the same place that he had the last time and waiting to see if there was anything that anyone wished to say in response.

[Fusion X. Denver]

OOC: I need Go to finish training. He'll be back though.

IC:

Tomashi was surprised that such a being had found him and Go. "What are you-" but then Go was taken by teleportation. "Oh please." Tomashi said. He warped into nothingness then reappeared in the room with everyone else. "Sorry, but Go and I need to finish our business. Before leaving Go said, "Guys, I will come back, I promise. But I have to finish what I'm doing with Tomashi, it's very important." I'm too weak right now to be any help...I need to get stronger. With that, the two warped away and emerged in a black plane with lots of floating cubes. "This is my own separate dimension, there is absolutely no way to warp into this plane even if your energy can be detected. Are you fine training here?" He was answered by a swinging web-sword. "You know it!" Go grinned, eager to get stronger as soon as possible.

[BlackSkullCortez]

As Go was being tugged away, Cortez said, "Look, there he GOes again." After a few seconds of silence and many pairs of eyes staring at him because of his terrible pun, he said, "Well, does anybody have anything that we can do in the meantime?" He waited, and then walked up to Shadow. Cortez said to him, "I'm going to go to do some... errands, and I'll be back as soon as I get some things sorted out. Derek and Liz are going to be coming with me, just so you know. And it isn't perilous in any way. And once I get back, tell me if anything important happens. If there's an emergency," Cortez passed Shadow a pendulum, "ring me. And I have something to discuss with you once I get back anyway." Cortez used a Chaos Punishment with Liz and Derek to go elsewhere. Derek asked, "Where exactly are we going?" Cortez smiled, "Well, we were a bit unequipped as a group, so I was planning to take you guys to an old friend of mine." Derek narrowed his eyes, "How many Avatars do you know?" Cortez replied, "I think all of them. You're... kinda the newest one, and you've been trapped in a Lab for a while, so you only encountered all of them that one time. I was around the world, so I conveniently know where they all are." The Chaos Punishment ended. They were in the middle of a town, and it was snowing very lightly. Liz put out her palm to touch the snow, and noticed that it was not cold at all. She asked, "Where exactly are we?"

Cortez said, "We're in the land that belongs to King Solomon, who is a legendary king to this whole land." Derek added, "He sealed many monsters away in the past, and still lives as a skeleton. He also discovered certain forms of resurrection, which allowed him to control many skeletal bodies, including his own." Liz said, "So you guys want to come here for Fusion?" Cortez shook his head, "Nah, his body isn't going to become bone anytime soon, so it isn't worth it. It's just so you learn something that he taught me and I taught Derek. Also, I'm going to try to see if he recognizes Sven, as old as he is. Lastly, we're going to a blacksmith that is also the Avatar of the God of the Dead." Derek said, "Wait, so you DO actually know them all. How come when you were describing what..." Cortez smiled, "Uhu, sadly, never thought I was his Avatar for a while. He admitted to me recently that he thought it was Shadow, and he only started tracking me once I got you from Yakunan." Cortez, Derek, and Liz walked into a magnificent looking castle, which was actually old style and very bland when it comes to colors. After looking around, a very large skeleton guard walked to block their paths. "Only those with specific access may see King Solomon."

Cortez sighed, "Do you not recognize me?" He drew his sword, and the guard's eyes widened with surprise, but joy at the same time. "It's been a long time, Cortez! And I'm guessing these are your friends?" Cortez smiled, "Yup, Harut, these are my friends Derek and Liz." The guard stepped to the side, "Pleasure to meet you both! Please proceed!" Cortez bowed to thank Harut and continued walking. He managed to see Liz's questioning look, and said, "That was Harut, who was legendary to Arabian people. I don't know Arabian mythology too much, but Solomon brought him back."

When Cortez saw Solomon, Solomon apparently saw him at the same time. "Cortez! It's been such a long time! How are your journeys?" Cortez shrugged, "Fine, your majesty. But I have a favor to ask." King Solomon leaned over, "Yes?" Cortez smiled, "Could you teach Liz what you taught me? And what you told me to teach Derek?" Solomon quickly glanced at Liz, and his face turned to sadness. "I'm sorry, but it is beyond my power. You see, only Avatars are able to master the technique." Cortez's face showed he was a bit sad, but he nodded. "Thank you, sir. Also, is the name Sven Traigo familiar to you? I mean, do you know his history from before now?" Solomon said, "I do not know much, but all I can tell you is that he was once part of a rich family, who never really cared for him. His brother did, however, and Sven never cared about being rich. He hung out with kids who were not in the same economic class as he was, and his family shunned him for that. His 'death' was when he was hit by a car, and his family did not care. His brother became like the rest of his family, and Sven recently returned as a Hollow." Cortez said, "Thanks. That actually really helps. Has Nico moved to a different town?" Solomon laughed, "Why would he? You would know better than anyone else that he loves it here too much!" Cortez smiled, "That's true! Thanks! Catch ya' later!" Cortez waved goodbye and ran out of the castle. Derek and Liz flew after him. They managed to meet up with him at a store that looked a bit large for the place. Cortez opened the door, and a skeletal boy was waiting. He was wearing a white robe, and although he was a skeleton, he was looking peaceful and normal, as if he was in the exact same mood as an energetic child. He asked, "Hey there, bud. Can I help you with anything? The store's the same! Anything you can wish for!" Cortez smiled, "I have a small favor, but these two behind me, especially this guy," Cortez tapped Derek with his fist, "could get a lot from you."