Sowrd of Darkness Part 15: The Beginning of the Beginning of the End By: W.Bob Yankovic I hate to say it but no one else writing on this series has any skill in writing Disclaimers. I am gonna write a good one for ya today. If I my care about ripping stuff off varies inversley to my love of Star Wars, find my care when my love for Star Wars is 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. And if you don't like that, big deal. I have a BIG 'OL CHOCOLATE GUN that wants an appointment with you. We all stood in the arena waiting for MewTwo to make the first move. I don't think that we had fully grasped the idea tha we were fixing to fight the hardest battle ever concieved by a human mind. MewTwo the epitamy of all evil loomed before us like some kind of monolithic shrine to the evil side of the Vortex. "Well, your time is up. Now you must face your destiny and die," He said as the final grain of sand fell through the hourglass. Before anyone could react he shot out four totally seperate beams from out of seemingly nowhere. Each blast hit its mark right square in the chest of us. The small audience behind us gasped and screamed curses at MewTwo. Clink had kinda been a interim leader of the Renegade Force and he quickly explained that they stood no chance against MewTwo and that this was the final showdown between good and evil. The R.Force calmed themselves, regained their composure, and began to cheer us on. "Guys, we have to win this one," Mac said. He quickly shut up when he recieved some really stupid looks that signaled that he had just made a blindingly obvious statement. We all stood up and dusted ourselves off. "I think our best bet is to go full frontal and just let him try to ward off four attacks," Ray said. It kinda matched the way he looked at life, if it is totally out of the question that you will succeed, go down in a blaze of glory. He would never admit this, but I knew him too well to fall for his crap. "I agree with Ray, there is no way that he can block four attacking people at once," Frag said. I don't know why I became so apparent of the way people acted, maybe it was looking down the barrel of the smoking cannon of evil, maybe it was my thoughts of Katrina, maybe I didn't have my half-hourly chocolate bar. Anyway I began to pick up little things that the other three did that reflected their attitudes. Frag was head strong, but wary. He was a battle hardedned warrior just like the three of us. But somewhere deep down inside I knew that he knew this was a suicide mission. And I knew that he was prepaired to die for the lives of the million others on the planet. "Well, lets think out the attack plan," Mac said. He was always the annalitical one of the bunch. He was never blinded by rage, or hatred. He was probably the most mature person in our group. Sure he had his share of the pranks, and sure he had his share of beefs, but he was the non-psycho one of the bunch. Well at least the less psycho one. I felt a deep sence of fear within him, and I hate to admit it but I shared that feeling. In the midst of seeing my friends that I had known for ages in their true selves, something in me fell into place. I think I grew up a little in that moment. I actually let out a tear but played it off like a sand grain in my eye. Unfortunatly my moment was shattered by destruction rain from the sky. When we turned we saw MewTwo about fifty feet in the air just letting it all hang out. He was shooting blasts faster than anyone could dodge. The plan just sprung into action. We all flew up to meet him and began to beat the ever living snot out of him. He seemed to be taking major damage but never moved. "You are wasting your power weaklings," he said. Then he encircled himself in an energy ball. We all stopped pounding him long enough to be flung like rag dolls to the ground when the circle expanded and exploded. "This isn't working guys, he is too strong for regular attacks," I said. Everyone read my mind and nodded. We began to charge up our power and form huge blasts. Yes even Mac was using ki attacks. We all shot out our blasts and they hit MewTwo at the same time. He simply shrugged it off and floated there. This in turn ticked all of us off. Ray and I transformed to Gaurdian and Mac and Frag decided to let us do the dirty work and covered our backs. A huge blast of energy flew over our backs as we flew into close range of MewTwo. Ray charged up some kinda weird energy ball and shot it at him. When it hit him it didn't explode or even do damage, it just made a forcefield around him. "That was a nice idea. Make him invincible will ya," Frag said. But I knew what he was planning to do. He opened up a whole in the Vortex and pure uncontrollable energy ravaged his body. He looked pretty ragged out. But what we didn't know was that the damage that had appeared to been done was just an illusion that he was projecting in our minds. "HE ISN'T HURT!" I yelled trying to snap the others out of it. I have the Force remember I kinda know when someone is messing around with my mind. The others shook their heads, and it seemed that they had overcome his control. Frag shouted to all of us that we had to be aware and alert now that he could hide his true state. MewTwo then sprung into action. He flew straight at Ray and elbowed him in the gut, which doubled him over and left a clear shot for MewTwo to give him a leg sweep in the back that sent him falling to the ground. Right before he hit he regained his sences and flew up in a long arc which put him behind MewTwo. It didn't do any good because by the time he had charged up a blast MewTwo was already in full speed flight right at Mac. Mac tried to fly out of the way but was too slow for the superior speed of MewTwo. He uppercutted Mac right in the jaw and then threw his tail up and caught him by the ankle. With one small flick of his tail Mac went flailing right toward an unsuspecting Frag who got blindsided. We all could tell that we still weren't any match for him. "Come on earthlings, is that all the skill you have in your puny bodies?" MewTwo taunted. He laughed and blurred out of sight. He reappeared right behind me and landed a blow that would have broken my neck had not Ray and Frag yelled a split second before he swung. I felt my collar bone crack and my shoulder pop out of socket. I let out a cry of pain and floated quickly to the ground. While I replaced my arm and tried to set my collar bone into a somewhat natural position, MewTwo moved in on Frag. He let out a barrage of small purple energy blasts that appeared to be razor sharp because after he was finished Frag's clothing had tons of little cut marks lined with blood. With that move MewTwo succeeded to piss Frag off enough to make him go spuerhuman. With a big flame burst Frag transformed. With his new found power he spead at MewTwo and landed some punches and kicks into his midsection. MewTwo realled back in pain and hunched over holding his ribs. Then Mac flew in and began to pummel the weakened body of MewTwo. He elbowed him in the head and kicked him in the stomach. Then spun around and drop-kicked him in the butt. As he flew to the ground Mac spead up under him and flew up at his gut with his fists extended. MewTwo looked like he was going crazy. He began spinning around in circles shooting blasts that we could see exploding about a mile away out in the ocean. Ray got caught by one and was carried through the wall of the arena and into a large crater about 100 yards away. One of the blast flew by me and burned my leg pretty bad. I was getting really ticked off. I portal hopped right in behind MewTwo and got him with a double axe handle in the middle of his back. I thought that I heard bone crack but I didn't even know if it mattered. MewTwo screamed out in pain and spun around to bear with me. His hand shot up and grabbed my face. He then firerd a huge blast of energy right in my face that sent me sprawling. Right as he turned Ray flew by and landed a punch right across his face. But MewTwo wasn't hurt, Ray's hand was the party hurt in the debacle. Ray began shaking it wildy and screaming curse words at MewTwo. But it was only a ploy because about two seconds later he punched MewTwo flush in the face and left a dent in his cheek. MewTwo flew back and let out a devilish bellow that made the whole arena shake. "Hey, guys I don't think he is playing this time," Frag said. It was clear that MewTwo was hurt, but we all knew that he wasn't using the full extent of his powers. I flew back up and met Ray and Mac in the air. Frag was locked in with MewTwo again and looked to be gaining the upper hand. From somewhere behind us a huge blast hit Mac between the shoulderblades. As Ray flew down to catch him I turned to find MewTwo standing on the arena floor with his hand up in a firing position. Then I looked over to Frag and saw him bleeding from a busted lip and holding his thigh. "You have no chance of beating me!" MewTwo yelled up at us. But Mac had another answer. MewTwo began to fly up at us but Mac flew feet first at him. In mid air going about 70 miles an hour Mac went superhuman. His hair grew out long and his muscles bulged out. "TAKE THIS YOU MONSTER!" Mac yelled as his feet caught MewTwo right below the chin. But MewTwo's body didn't fly off, it simply stuck to Mac's feet as he flew ever faster to the ground. Faster, faster, faster flew Mac with MewTwo in tow. And when he hit the ground a huge fissure opened up and Mac kept flying pushing MewTwo through the ground. About a minute later he flew back out of the huge hole and dusted his feet off. "YEAH!" Ray screamed as he flew over to Mac, "Mr. Generic came through!" But before he could give him a high five a gigantic fireball engulfed him. MewTwo emerged from the hole bleeding and cut up badly. When he got about half way to us I looked over to Frag who was charging up a monsterous ball of energy. "W-BOMBARDMENT!" Frag yelled as the yellowish ball flew at MewTwo. When it hit it made a flash so bright I lost my sight for a few seconds. When the smoke and dust cleared there was no sign of MewTwo. I think we all had the same idea at the same time as we spun around and looked behind us. But no MewTwo. Could it be that Frag had blown him to atoms? No such luck. A huge clod of dirt flew through the air and knocked me to the ground. Mac was the only one who saw MewTwo flying toward me and he began to charge up a blast of his own. "HIKARIHOUGEKI!" Mac screamed at the top of his lungs when the attack flew at MewTwo. Right before it hit it split into about a million equally powerful blasts that was ultimatly unblockable. MewTwo's body shook like he was being shot by a machine gun, and when the tiny blasts were through he fell to the ground. We all floated down after him. "Man this guy isn't as hard as I thought," Ray said. I walked over to Mac and thanked him for covering my back. He almost passed out when he realized that I actually gave him credit for something. By that time it was getting dark. We had been fighting for a whole day. But it seemed like an eternity. While MewTwo was piecing together the rest of his power the sun slipped over the horizon. We all wondered what would happen next. Would we keep fighting or take a break for the night? Our question was answered when MewTwo shot a huge glowing energy ball into the air that illuminated the whole arena. "Did you really think that I was going to give you a break?" he hissed out. I didn't get time to make a snappy comeback because MewTwo began to go crazy again. He was shooting power from every orifice of his body except his butt. He looked like a big deadly disco ball. We all ran for cover only to be picked off one by one with the powerful blasts. By this time Ray was fuming. He drew the blade of the Chosen One and flew up almost like he was fixing to preform a Clim Hazard on MewTwo. But right before he got there MewTwo dove straight down and kicked Ray in the top of the head. This must have really gotten Ray mad because he screamed out and began to draw energy. A huge explosion filled the sky as Ray went to Ultimate Chosen One. MewTwo just floated there and chuckeled. "Do you really think that your pitiful superhuman forms are going to help?" he asked. He was answered by Ray flying faster than the speed of sound, causing a sonic boom, and clotheslining MewTwo with his shoulder board. He then launched into a full out death attack. He dove in faster than anyone could track and began to land punch after punch on MewTwo. He flipped up backwards and Frankenstienered MewTwo through the wall of the arena and out into the water. A huge wake followed and the floor of the sea was exposed. Everyone proseeded to get drenched and I guess that Hogo saw his chance. He strutted over to the others' trees and offered each one a towel. They politely excepted and dried themselves off. Hogo, being the only male tree, and being symbiotically grafted to me, was a natural pimp. "Well ladies, what are you planning to do after the battle?" he asked. Gomasaki saw what he was getting at and followed the question up by simply saying "NO!" Hogo was visibly offended and hurt. He turned around and walked over to the other side of the arena and sulked. I guess that Kyuusai and Kousei felt bad about it so they walked over and sat by him. He played the 'You dissed me so I am not interested' game but I could tell that he was just scheming up another plan. I quit worrying about them and turned my attention back to the battle at hand. Under the eerie glow of the fake sun MewTwo stepped toward us. "I didn't expect you to last this long, but you still haven't even matched a fourth of my power," he said. He threw his head back and began a long throaty laugh that chilled me to the bone. He was silenced by a blast of energy from left and right by Frag and Mac who had decided that they would attack together. Then flew in on both sides and began to punch, kick, and fire short ranged ki attacks as fast as only one other person could, and that was Goku but he wasn't here. MewTwo appeared to be standing perfectly still but wasn't even being hit by Mac or Frag. When Pika flew in from the back and fired a kamehameha in his spine he began to slow down and his moves became visible. This fighting went on for at least thrirty minutes before I realized that I was just standing there. I quickly flew into the fray and began to launch attacks of my own. Finally one huge uppedcut/ki attack by Frag knocked MewTwo a few feet away. But he just stood up and began to dust himself off. For hours we all fought MewTwo. He was almost unstopable. He was shrugging off all of our attacks and dishing out more punishment than we could take. After a series of tail beams and highly explosive balls of energy, MewTwo just stopped. He flew out into the middle of the arena and touched down. He stared holes in us as we kept our gaurd up as not to be attacked from the back or something like that. "Can't you see that you aren't getting anywhere?" he asked a little preturbed. He flicked his tail back and forth as he walked in circles. "You have given me everything that you have and I have overcome it. You will never beat me and you surely will never destroy me. Why not just give me the four parts and I might let you live," he hissed at us. "Enough of this," Ray said. He spread his stance and began to charge up. After a few moments he had enough power to fire his attack. "DIMENTIONAL OMNI-POWER BLAST!" he yelled and a huge purple beam of almost pure Vortex energy lashed out at MewTwo. He took the full brunt of it almost thinking that he could stop it. But when it hit him it began to push him back. He threw up his arms in an attempt to fling the blast off to the side but it just kept pushing. When he was backed up against the wall of the arena it began to crush his body. Then with one final charge of power Ray pushed the beam into his chest cavity, tearing sinew and organs out of the way. When the dust was cleared a huge pile of rubble remained at the spot that MewTwo had taken. "YOU DID IT MAN!" I screamed as I ran over and grabbed Ray. I threw my arms around him (not in a gay way) and began to squeeze really hard. I let him go when I could see his face becoming a little purpleish around the edges. A cry of joy rose from the R.Force and everyone congratulated Ray on a job well done. As we turned to walk away the battered and bruised hand of MewTwo shot out of the pile.e. A huge chunk of concrete hit Mac in the back of the head as MewTwo blasted his way out. This knocked him out and luckily Frag was there to catch him. That left Ray and myself in a fighting state. I realized that I had been letting the others take the brunt of the fighting. In fact I hadn't done anything significant at all. And I guess that MewTwo knew that so the first person he went after was me. After picking bits of rubble out of the large hole in his chest he looked over at Ray. "You chosen one will have your turn shorty. First I will dispose of this neurotic moron who can't even control his own transformations," MewTwo said. I just stared at him trying not to show him how scared I was. I opened myself up to the Force and the Vortex, and pulled as much power as I could from Hogo who was still trying to pimp on the other trees. I knew full well what was to come next. "I feel you drawing power from your pitiful sources, but I will up the anty a little," he said. The sun had just came up over the sea when it suddenly got dark again. MewTwo had called upon the Sword of Darkness. I was truly screwed. He brandished it around in the air before diving in on me. I had just enough time to pull out my sabre and ignite it. His sword had a good two foot longer reach than mine did so he never even got close enough to let me attack him. All I did was defend the best I could. If I lost I knew that I would die so I had some motivation. He thrusted and I parried, and so on and so on and so on. He finally recalled the Sword when he could see that I would be tierd enough to kill. In good fighting honor I recalled my blade. "So even in your dieing moments you stick to your honor code," he said slowly. It was almost as if he was commending me, but I seriously doubt that. As I stood there trying to catch my breath he began to walk in circles around me. From deep inside me I felt the power of the Force telling me to keep my cool and not let his little head games get to me. I had swam in the Darkside once and I never wanted to go back so I began to use calming techniques that Luke had taught me soon after I recognized my full potential. "You are wise to calm yourself gaurdian, come on let me see one of your many forms," he taunted. "Why would you want me to go to my superhuman form?" I asked trying to stall long enough to make up a game plan. But when he pulled out a small and thin rectangular object I began to lose it. "So, you do have an addiction to this pitiful substance known as chocolate," he said with a snicker. It came to my realization that I had been almost two full days without chocolate. I was in deep crap considering that almost a third of my body was chocolate. I reached out to take the bar from MewTwo but he simply threw it up in the air and disentegrated it right before my finger touched it. "THAT WAS PERFECTLY GOOD CHOCOLATE YOU PIECE OF BANTH POODOO!" I screamed as I began to power up. When he felt the immence amount of power I was drawing he took a step back almost as if he was shocked. The picture of him blowing up the candy bar kept running over and over in my head. Then the all familiar flash of flame and smoke rushed over my body and there I stood as Mega-Chocoholic. "That! is your superhuman form!?" MewTwo asked laughing very heavily. I reached over my shoulder and pulled out the pin that kept the BIG 'OL CHOCOLATE GUN in backpack mode and slid it up to shoulder mounted position. With that MewTwo just busted out in even harder laughter. I began to pour all of my power in the BIG 'OL CHOCOLATE GUN (BOCG for short from now on). I had a really insain idea and hollered over to Ray and Frag to find cover and drag the still unconcious Mac over to it. I guess that the R.Force heard me because they all dove for cover. Hogo sprung into action again and played knight in shining armor and escourted the 3 female trees to safety. When everyone was in a safe place I looked at MewTwo who was still laughing. I put the very last amount of power I had in that form into the BOCG. Then I flew up about ten feet in the air and pulled the trigger. And with the BOCG streaming out a steady beam of midas-type energy I began to spin. I spun so fast and in so many directions that from anywhere else it would have looked like a big brown tinted energy sphere. "PSYCHOTIC CHOCOLATE!" I screamed as the very last of the energy shot out ten minutes later. It seemed like an appropriate name for such a move. "SWEET MERCIFUL MOSES!" I hear Mac say as he regained his conciousness. Then I saw the three walk out of their little chocolate hovel where they had been hiding. The R.Force and our trees emerged from the other side of the arena. As they looked around they saw that the whole arena, indeed the whole island, and some of the ocean around us had been turned into 100% pure milk chocolate. Needless to say I thought I was in Heaven. After everyone had passed out and been roused, and I got through eating a whole section of the bleachers I looked into the middle of the arena and saw a perfect detailed statue of MewTwo, made totally out of chocolate. Suddenly a thought ran through my mind, a thought of almost complete insanity. As I ran down the bleachers I let out a cackle. "OH CRAP EVERYONE DUCK!" Ray screamed. Everyone just looked at him like he was an idiot. "The last time I heard Shane laugh like that a few minutes later there were no more Star Trek dimentions!" he finished. This made everyone dive back into their hiding places. But when the peaked out they saw me transform into Mega-Jester and walk over to MewTwo. When I got there I politely leaned over and broke off a hunk of chocolate that would have been MewTwo's ear. "HEY LOOK GUYS! I DID IT AGAIN!" I said as I fell over cackeling like an old witch. Then a little green orb took its place on my shoulder. I had already filled up a whole arm in a little under a week. But then something really crappy happened. The statue of MewTwo began to move. Then the chocolate shell that I had encased him in shattered. I let out a gasp of fear as he stalked toward me. "YOU ATE MY EAR YOU INFUDEL!" he screamed in my face. I did a back flip and my instincts took over. "BAG OF TRICKS!" I said as I threw my hand in the air. To my surprise a big of bag of tricks appeared. I reached in and the first thing I pulled out was a pie. "Why not?" I asked myself as I hurled it at MewTwo. When it hit him in the face he began to real back and yell in pain. After he was through scraping it, and most of the skin off of his face he charged me. I quickly reached in and pulled out a bananna peel and tossed it at his foot. To my surprise he fell flat on his butt. This was definatly a cool weapon. Just to see what would come out next I stuck my hand in and pulled out a hand buzzer. I slipped it on and ran over to MewTwo. When I stuck it to his back a huge bolt of lightning shot out of it and fried him. I turned to my friends who were all rolling in laughter and raised my hands like I had one a boxing match. That is when a portal opened up and I saw a lovely girl step out. I instintaneously went to Mega-Pimp form when I recognized the one piece semi-transparent body glove with ivy embroidery. I ran over and hugged Katrina. "After three days in a healing trance I am well. Luke told me that you were here and I insisted to come and watch," she said in my ear as I hugged her. I directed her over to the section of the bleachers where Hogo and the girls were sitting and told her that if she had to watch to do so from there. Then I gave specific orders to Hogo not to try anything funny. He just gave me an innocent look and nodded. Then I turned back to MewTwo in time to see him hurling a solid black sphere of energy at me. I dodged under it and felt that it was time to finish him off. When I pulled out the Violater and flipped it over to 'gun' mode the feather in my hat began to glow. As I loaded it and flew up in the air I heard Ray calling NCC and telling them to batten down the hatches. I began to charge up the gun and after a few minutes I pulled the trigger. The huge explosion blew MewTwo out somewhere into the ocean and I of course got a free round trip of the solar system. Right before I flew out of sight I saw everyone in the R.Force and Ray, Mac, and Frag giving everything they had to make an energy sheild big enough to cover everyone. Instead of flying back I portaled to the middle of the arena. I looked around for MewTwo, but he was no where to be found. I looked over to Ray, Mac, and Frag to see if they were ok and they were. The R.Force was fine also, but when I looked over to the trees I saw that they weren't there. I did a Force scan and found them. I looked directly above me and saw Hogo, and Gomasaki in a vain attempt to fight MewTwo. Then I noticed why, he had Katrina in an energy bubble and was holding her as bait. I felt rage build up in me. Hatred followed and then there it was. That cold yet powerful Force that could only be the Dark side. I didn't remember giving in to it but I changed Superhuman form. As I looked down at myself I was in Mega-Fighter, but something was different. My armor was solid black, my hair was not celtic but a deeper rotting green and I felt the Force flood me. Something was wrong, and I knew what it was. _______________________________________________________________________ I know you are about asleep by now but that is through for this section anyway. I don't know who is writning next but they will pick up where I left off. If you find anything wrong with this please e-mail me and explain what it is. Until then see ya later. I am gonna go eat some chocolate, it is Easter and in about 10 minutes I am going to be in a deadlock competition with my cousin in a chocolate eating contest. He has NO chance.