Joshua heard her response, feeling somewhat bad for her as he nodded, his hand up to her neck as he holstered the pistol, Joshua gently putting his forehead against hers. "I'll stop. Only this once, alright, my darling? Just to.. To make you feel better." He kissed her forehead through his bandaged lips, smiling lightly at her. "If the oppurtunity comes, I won't hesitate the second time though."
Joshua laughed lightly, brushing her hair a he stared at her. "Do you like the feel of bandaged lips against your own, my love?" He chuckled lightly, then went to a gentle smile as he pulled do bandages before giving her a rough kiss, lasting a good 5 seconds "I don't, that's the beauty of It." His hands slid to the back of her neck. "I wish I wasn't bandaged, or even burnt.. I could truly feel, then."
FINAL CHAPTER
"An End for All"
"A...Ac..uaack...."
The blood seeped through her lips, her fragile form collapsing onto her knees. A heavy wheeze echoed in her breath, desperately clinging to what oxygen there was in the air, feeling her life begin to seep slowly away from her form. Three bullets from the Burned Man, bones and flesh cracking the fifteen-year-old's body, feeling two of them particularly wound her right thigh. A fragment of Gauss ricocheted off from a nearby wall, colliding against Arya's already wounded right shoulder from Felix's previous and continuing assault, reopening once sown wounds. From blades to magic, firearms to fury, Arya once stood, not an ounce of power in her as she felt her body ripped to shreds underneath the hellfire that greeted her.
A tremble coursed down her spine, the crawling march of Death.
No whimpers escaped her lips, no tears, no signs of visible pain. Ye, she held her head up, her legs giving in, staring at the players, heavily wheezing and heaving as she clenched her shoulder with her right hand. Still refusing to let go of Needle, the sword Jon gave her long ago, Arya began to rasp out, a soft, almost twisted chuckle escaping her lips. It wasn't that she found amusement in her death, but finding amusement in how the universe at each and every corner decided to fuck her. Let the zealots continue their crusade, let the others believe fanatically in their mission, but for Arya, it mattered not now.
"W-We..re..you..e-expecting...m-more?"
A twisted jest, but a true one. Despite her valor, her efforts, Arya had succumbed easily, as with the Mourners, as with the Sufferers, as with the Queensguard. All of them revealed the horrid truth that not all confrontations were long, that some people genuinely did not wish to fight, but rather, were simply caught in the crossfire of this brewing war. Lives were forsaken, but was it the hands of Mercy, or the hands of these "white knights" that put them to the sword? A man may pray to his holy text, and may preach of peace, but live and die under the sword, under the facade of redemption. But, alas, it did not matter, whats done is done, and what has been done will be done.
Her fall began the moment she stepped foot into all of this.
Bleeding and broken, the princess turned her gaze to one man. A man she gave the majority of her abilities away to see life once more. A man that was, funnily enough, caught in the crossfire, presumably put by the Coalition as a liability. A man that Arya knew she could not see die, and a man that she had grown to call her big brother.
With one last effort, one last rasp of her voice, she lurched forward, calling his name. By the time the words escaped her lips, only the flash of light greeted her eyes. A reminder of her constant failure, time after time again, forced to watch her love ones die and her friends spitefully stab her in the back. When the words left her lips, crimson fell with it, the She-Wolf beginning to teeter backwards, her petite form collapsing fully against the wooden floorboards.
"J-Jon..."
I'm sorry
***
He could not stop it.
Like his Father before him, like his brother at the Twins, he couldn't stop what was happening around him. Life had been stripped him, the petite emotions of the human form gone and hollowed. A watcher without purpose, a soulless hollow forced to endure an existence without purpose. The black-clad undead watched, because even he knew, in the darkest depths of his deceased mind, there was nothing that could be done. He had fought so far, and had endured through both life and death to save his sister.
And as the shots rang, as the blades were drawn, as the fires and magics danced, Coldhands could only do what has been doing for the past two years.
Watch.
As the dust settled, Jon walked forwards, not lowering his hood, but knowing Arya could see who it was. He still pondered as to how he still walked among the living, but in some twisted way, he could feel it being Arya's presence. She had denied him death, not to see him suffer, but to see him prosper. Perhaps it was not Jon's death, not yet, but rather, a rebirth. Whatever the cast may be, Coldhands softly rasped out himself, before being succumbed to a flash of white light.
"Ar..ya.."
I'm sorry
***
As Arya's body fell limp to the floor, a flash of light would circle the girl's body. Ludger ran forward, pushing past the fighters in order to get an eager glance at what was happening. This world had been unlike the others, as far as Ludger had been able to tell; There was no divergence catalyst that he could sense and no alternate history to be determined. He'd figured that the world had been conjured by Claudia in order to impede their progress, but as the world had stayed intact despite the woman's death, the only other explanation lied with the small teenage girl that had confounded the Coalition since this mission began.
As Arya Stark lay dying on the floor, the surrounding world began to crack and break, as if pressure was being put on a pane of glass. Ludger watched as the young girl was lifted into the air slightly, her body starting to disappear. Ludger ran to grab her, but by the time he had reached her, she was gone. Before he could wonder what happened to her body, the entire world shattered.
As if they had been standing inside a small dome, the world around them dropped to reveal an even larger surrounding world. The only word that came to describe it was...
Dead.
The world all around was just dead. Perhaps it was fitting as the home of Arch Demon Akibahara. Fire, brimstone, all that ominous stuff. It was all you could see as far as your eyes would allow you to observe. It was just... all barren.
"Welcome, welcome. To my humble abode."
It was the man himself. Arch Demon Akibahara in his human form. His general demeanor and attitude gave an obvious cocky, confident aura to him, and on top of his confidence, you could also feel another kind of aura. The influence. The influence that had compelled many Traitors before in the past to act in his name. You could feel it cloud your mind a little, but you couldn't let him corrupt you this late! Not when you were this far.
"Fuckin' A, you guys actually made it. Not bad. Not bad. Except for like half of you fuckin' shits dying," he said haughtily, giving a brief chuckle, "Couldn't possibly fathom you guys takin' me on with a half-assed lot like you all. May as well keel over right now. Bend over and lemme indulge on some dat... Mmm..."
And then he licked his lips. Yuck.
"You... you're Akibahara..." Shiki murmured, fists clenching tightly, "You're the one behind all this... this never-ending cycle. This deadly game of life and death. Toying with people just for your own amusement..." He said scornfully, almost gritting his teeth, "Akibahara..."
I'll kill him. I'll kill him.
This merely got a brief laugh out of the Arch Demon, who was hardly intimidated. "Whoa, whoa. Feisty, aren't ya? Alright, if that's the way you want it," he said with a shrug and a cocky smile, beginning to stand up, "Yo, Wesker! Where the fuck are ya? You and that broad!"
"Right here, Akibahara. Right here..."
And then he appeared.
Albert Wesker.
"So... the subjects have come. My, my. How delightful," Wesker spoke, appearing beside Akibahara out of nowhere, "You're all exactly where we want you, but I won't give you any time to regret your mistakes. In any case, don't rough them up too much, dear. They're all valuable test subjects."
"Of course, of course. Anything for you," a woman's voice said, before another figure would appear beside Wesker.
It was the first Claire Redfield from the Crossed Incident. The Traitor that had defected willingly for Wesker. The Claire that had betrayed and forsaken her own brother for his worst enemy. The real target of Shiki Tohno's resentment.
"How quaint. It's that glasses boy from before. I hope you'll forgive that I don't remember your name. And of course, how could I forget Ms. Elsa? Or... it's actually Mrs now, hmm? Where's Solaire? Did he die in a ditch somewhere?" The first Claire asked, as if deliberately jabbing, "Where's Vi? Couldn't ever forget that loudmouth, and I heard she was coming with you guys. Did she die too? Aw, so sad, Tsk, tsk," she said mockingly, shaking her head briefly.
For many, it would likely be jarring to see the first Claire like this. She had the same face and voice as the other Claire before you all, but she certainly had a different look and tone about her. As if she was a completely different person.
"You...! Who do you think you are? You have no right to--!"
"Oh, shut up already, kid," Claire spoke, before shooting Shiki in the chest, knocking him back, blood splattering as a result. Shiki fell down without so much as a sound, his glasses falling off as his head collided into the ground.
"I'm the one who won. I guess Claire Redfield always wins, no matter who it is. Isn't that right, other me?" She asked the other Claire with a knowing smirk. Her eyes flashed red, mimicking the reptilian eyes that the Claire you were familiar with now sported.
"A-Ah..." Her clothes stained with blood and her body drenched in water from the previous world, Claire was a sight to behold. She almost looked pathetic standing before this other Claire who carried herself so confidently. That didn't really matter to her now, though. She glanced momentarily toward Aqua, before pulling out her gun and aiming it at the other Claire. They looked almost identical in their stances.
"One of us will win. I just have to make sure it'll be me." This other her had haunted Claire for the last ten years. It was time to end the nightmare. They were not the same. Aqua, Max, Chloe, and the others appreciated her for who she was. This other Claire had no bearing on that-- she just had to be taken down.
"Yes, yes. This is all very fuckin' heartwarming, but I think that's enough talking for now, and more fucking! ... And fucking up!" Akibahara exclaimed, before his human skin would begin shedding. And then he would transform.
Before your very eyes, patches of an armor-like hide would form on his body. His clothes would tear apart, and gradually, he would grow into a hulking, towering monster over hundreds and hundreds of meters tall. It seemed like all he needed to do was squash you, and that would be the end of it.
Meanwhile, Wesker, seemingly unperturbed by the transformation, would produce a small device resembling some kind of phone or remote, pressing a button on it. In no time, you'd all be able to hear what seemed to be savage growling. Howling. Laughter.
And then they would appear. The Crossed.
Armed to the brim with conventional weapons from God knows where, including firearms, bows and arrows, chainsaws, blades, and the works, you were all heavily outnumbered and possibly outgunned. The army looked at you all with sadistic grins, as though looking forward to killing you all.
They had all clearly lost their minds long ago. There was no negotiating with them.
That was far from it all, however.
Zombies. They shuffled as a horde around the army of Crossed. They did not make a move to touch them, their hungry eyes set upon your group only.
Holding up a hand, as though holding them back for now and waiting for a more opportune time, Wesker looked at you all with a smug expression on his face.
"All this fighting you partook in... and it only resulted in nothing but most of you perishing. It's sad, but true. Your efforts were all in vain. You can't hope to overcome this."
"Gah... gughh..." Shiki grunted lowly, recovering from the gunshot wound. His body was weak and slow with this kind of wound, as well as the stab wound the Mikasa illusion had given him earlier. Still, he would not let this end. Not like this.
"J-Just..."
Blood dripped from his mouth. His vision was blurry. His breathing was ragged.
But he would not let it end like this.
"JUST DISAPPEAR ALREADY!!"
With that, he would take out the somewhat sabotaged Ultimate Nullifier out of his pocket. The device was only able to work at roughly 15% of its original capacity, but if the Watcher was correct, it would be enough...!
The device would suddenly emit a large beam of energy, firing right at Akibahara! With an explosion that impacted throughout the entire realm, shaking it a little, Akibahara would let out a fierce, massive yell of pain and surprise as he gradually shrunk a bit. The patches of armor on his hide disappeared, and before long, a good chunk of his power was depleted, changing his appearance.
He was now a bit smaller than before, and far weaker, but one could assume that he was still a fearsome enemy to be reckoned with.
"You... You worthless pissant! What the fuck did you just do to me?! Not that it matters! That's right! That's right!" The Arch Demon growled in a devilish voice. No traces of any human were left. Then again, he was a being that was less than human, "It doesn't matter at all! You're all fucking dead anyway! Fuck 'em, Wesker! Fuck 'em all up!"
"Not so fast!"
A familiar voice would suddenly make itself known from behind. It was none other than Makoto Naegi, and standing beside him was Darth Rex. Together, the two leaders of the Coalition stood valiantly against the massive threat in front of them.
"Akibahara, your reign of terror ends here! In the end, hope will always prevail against the despair that you try so desperately to grow and feed off of! Hope is what drives us to step forward and give us courage to fight against fiends like you! As long as there's one person left standing against you, hope will last forever!"
"In all my days, I ain't ever seen someone that presented such a threat to the multiverse like you have. And I ain't never seen anyone as ugly as you either, Akibahara. This ends here," Darth Rex spoke firmly, backing up Makoto.
Before long, materializing from what seemed to be a portal, more Coalition allies would appear, ready to aid you in the massive battle against the Arch Demon and his forces. Their forces would even the odds against the Crossed and their masters.
Along with them would appear a few surprise guests.
Now that Claudia was deceased, her illusions were no more. Freed from their eternal prisons, the survivors of the Silent Hill incident were warped on to the field. They would be undoubtedly confused, but they would be able to have a role in this fight.
The two armies stared at each other intently, ready to fight at any moment.
"Tch! Oh, yes! It'll definitely end here! I'll make sure of that!" He exclaimed, letting out a demonic roar, "Death! Death! Kill 'em all!"
Like a front general, Wesker lowered his arm, and the Crossed charged forward. Likewise, Darth Rex gave the signal, and the Coalition forces retaliated, also charging forward.
Everything had been building up to this very moment.
The Crossed Incident.
The Gotham Incident.
The Silent Hill Incident.
The Monokuma Incident.
The Reaper Incident.
The Fuse Incident.
They were all building up to this very moment.
The battle for the fate of the multiverse was here.
- - -
OOC Note: If you have another character allied with the Coalition, you may have them appear in the battle and play as them. You may also GM the Crossed if you wish as well.
If you had an illusion of an MGIII character appear in the last chapter, they can now revive! Keep in mind they will have no memories of their time between the ending of MGIII and now, and will likely be pretty confused.
~CAST LIST~
@Atomyk as Claire Redfield [Resident Evil]
@FireDrake150 as Izana [Original Character] and Ace [Final Fantasy]
@Gummi Bunnies as Red [Pokemon] and Rinato Dormi [Original Character]
@BarrenThin as Lisa Castle and Frank Castle [Marvel Comics]
@The Tactician as Kazuya 'Abel' Mineshigi and Naoya 'Cain' Mineshigi [Devil Survivor]
@Verite as Shiki Tohno [Type-Moon]
@Krieg as Jon Snow [Game of Thrones]
@TheBombMan as Plutia [Hyperdimension Neptunia] and Gnar [League of Legends]
@Emperor Palpachu as Darth Vader, R2-D2 [Star Wars] and The Doctor [Doctor Who]
@Mari as Bayonetta [Bayonetta]
@Klutzy Ninja Kitty as Aqua [Kingdom Hearts]
@Hospes as Teresa Agnes [Maze Runner] and Ridley Duchannes [The Caster Chronicles]
@york as Sophie [Cry of Fear] and Ruby Rose [RWBY]
@TheColourlessRainbow as The Charmed Ones [Charmed]
@Mtntopview as Frenzy [Transformers]
@Mighty Roman as Joseph Aniphage [Original Character/The Noble Magi]
@DapperDogman as Soul 'Eater' Evans [Soul Eater] and Ulysses [Fallout]
@Proxymoron as Nicki Minaj [Real Life]
@Nassi as Dante [Devil May Cry]
@MrDubWubs as Vi [League of Legends]
@Thuro Pendragon as Ezio Auditore and Desmond Miles [Assassin's Creed]
@Infinatis as Grail Trigadon [Original Character] and Specter Knight [Shovel Knight]
@M a r s as Lucy Heartfilia [Fairy Tail]
@Ryu Keiko as Ryu Keiko [Original Character]
@Josh M as Travis Touchdown [No More Heroes]
@Jenny as Margaery Tyrell and Loras Tyrell [Game of Thrones]
@Maddeline as Emily "Hunter" Grimes [Original Character/End the Cycle]
@Librarian Cat as Corvo Attano [Dishonored]
@Raven as Jake Long [American Dragon] and Stitch [Lilo and Stitch]
@TheBlueBurch as Chloe Price [Life is Strange]
@Jeremi as Storm and Crusader [Marvel Comics]
@SirDerpingtonIV as Nito [Dark Souls]
@Wedge Antilles as Legolas Greenleaf [The Lord of the Rings]
@Sandra as Sylveon and Umbreon [Pokemon]
@Dinoteen as Cell [Dragon Ball Z]
@OrlandoBloomers as Maxine Caulfield [Life is Strange]
@Schnee Corp Lawyer as Alice Margatroid [Touhou]
@ShadowPrime as Felix [Red vs Blue]
@Banana Soiree as Harry Hart/Galahad [Kingsman: The Secret Service]
@OrionsHammer as Belphegor [Dark Souls]
@Unlimited RP Works as Archer [Type-Moon]
@Chris Lang as Kalifa and Kaku [One Piece]
@Meira as Revya [Soul Nomad & The World Eaters]
@FancyForrest as Wander [Shadow of the Colossus]
@The Silver Paladin as The Lone Wanderer/Riley [Fallout]
@Nater Taters as Booker DeWitt [Bioshock]
@ResistingTheEnlightened as Joshua Graham [Fallout]
@Lizzy as Link and Fi [Legend of Zelda]
@Black Cat as Sarutobi Hiruzen and Toad Sage Jiriaya [Naruto]
@Ivazel as Albert Wesker [Resident Evil]
@Crimson Spartan as Erron Black [Mortal Kombat]
@CrunchyCHEEZIT as James "Jim" Raynor [StarCraft]
@Kaykay as Sakuya Izayoi [Touhou]
FINAL CHAPTER
"An End for All"
"A...Ac..uaack...."
The blood seeped through her lips, her fragile form collapsing onto her knees. A heavy wheeze echoed in her breath, desperately clinging to what oxygen there was in the air, feeling her life begin to seep slowly away from her form. Three bullets from the Burned Man, bones and flesh cracking the fifteen-year-old's body, feeling two of them particularly wound her right thigh. A fragment of Gauss ricocheted off from a nearby wall, colliding against Arya's already wounded right shoulder from Felix's previous and continuing assault, reopening once sown wounds. From blades to magic, firearms to fury, Arya once stood, not an ounce of power in her as she felt her body ripped to shreds underneath the hellfire that greeted her.
A tremble coursed down her spine, the crawling march of Death.
No whimpers escaped her lips, no tears, no signs of visible pain. Ye, she held her head up, her legs giving in, staring at the players, heavily wheezing and heaving as she clenched her shoulder with her right hand. Still refusing to let go of Needle, the sword Jon gave her long ago, Arya began to rasp out, a soft, almost twisted chuckle escaping her lips. It wasn't that she found amusement in her death, but finding amusement in how the universe at each and every corner decided to fuck her. Let the zealots continue their crusade, let the others believe fanatically in their mission, but for Arya, it mattered not now.
"W-We..re..you..e-expecting...m-more?"
A twisted jest, but a true one. Despite her valor, her efforts, Arya had succumbed easily, as with the Mourners, as with the Sufferers, as with the Queensguard. All of them revealed the horrid truth that not all confrontations were long, that some people genuinely did not wish to fight, but rather, were simply caught in the crossfire of this brewing war. Lives were forsaken, but was it the hands of Mercy, or the hands of these "white knights" that put them to the sword? A man may pray to his holy text, and may preach of peace, but live and die under the sword, under the facade of redemption. But, alas, it did not matter, whats done is done, and what has been done will be done.
Her fall began the moment she stepped foot into all of this.
Bleeding and broken, the princess turned her gaze to one man. A man she gave the majority of her abilities away to see life once more. A man that was, funnily enough, caught in the crossfire, presumably put by the Coalition as a liability. A man that Arya knew she could not see die, and a man that she had grown to call her big brother.
With one last effort, one last rasp of her voice, she lurched forward, calling his name. By the time the words escaped her lips, only the flash of light greeted her eyes. A reminder of her constant failure, time after time again, forced to watch her love ones die and her friends spitefully stab her in the back. When the words left her lips, crimson fell with it, the She-Wolf beginning to teeter backwards, her petite form collapsing fully against the wooden floorboards.
"J-Jon..."
I'm sorry
***
He could not stop it.
Like his Father before him, like his brother at the Twins, he couldn't stop what was happening around him. Life had been stripped him, the petite emotions of the human form gone and hollowed. A watcher without purpose, a soulless hollow forced to endure an existence without purpose. The black-clad undead watched, because even he knew, in the darkest depths of his deceased mind, there was nothing that could be done. He had fought so far, and had endured through both life and death to save his sister.
And as the shots rang, as the blades were drawn, as the fires and magics danced, Coldhands could only do what has been doing for the past two years.
Watch.
As the dust settled, Jon walked forwards, not lowering his hood, but knowing Arya could see who it was. He still pondered as to how he still walked among the living, but in some twisted way, he could feel it being Arya's presence. She had denied him death, not to see him suffer, but to see him prosper. Perhaps it was not Jon's death, not yet, but rather, a rebirth. Whatever the cast may be, Coldhands softly rasped out himself, before being succumbed to a flash of white light.
"Ar..ya.."
I'm sorry
***
As Arya's body fell limp to the floor, a flash of light would circle the girl's body. Ludger ran forward, pushing past the fighters in order to get an eager glance at what was happening. This world had been unlike the others, as far as Ludger had been able to tell; There was no divergence catalyst that he could sense and no alternate history to be determined. He'd figured that the world had been conjured by Claudia in order to impede their progress, but as the world had stayed intact despite the woman's death, the only other explanation lied with the small teenage girl that had confounded the Coalition since this mission began.
As Arya Stark lay dying on the floor, the surrounding world began to crack and break, as if pressure was being put on a pane of glass. Ludger watched as the young girl was lifted into the air slightly, her body starting to disappear. Ludger ran to grab her, but by the time he had reached her, she was gone. Before he could wonder what happened to her body, the entire world shattered.
As if they had been standing inside a small dome, the world around them dropped to reveal an even larger surrounding world. The only word that came to describe it was...
Dead.
The world all around was just dead. Perhaps it was fitting as the home of Arch Demon Akibahara. Fire, brimstone, all that ominous stuff. It was all you could see as far as your eyes would allow you to observe. It was just... all barren.
"Welcome, welcome. To my humble abode."
It was the man himself. Arch Demon Akibahara in his human form. His general demeanor and attitude gave an obvious cocky, confident aura to him, and on top of his confidence, you could also feel another kind of aura. The influence. The influence that had compelled many Traitors before in the past to act in his name. You could feel it cloud your mind a little, but you couldn't let him corrupt you this late! Not when you were this far.
"Fuckin' A, you guys actually made it. Not bad. Not bad. Except for like half of you fuckin' shits dying," he said haughtily, giving a brief chuckle, "Couldn't possibly fathom you guys takin' me on with a half-assed lot like you all. May as well keel over right now. Bend over and lemme indulge on some dat... Mmm..."
And then he licked his lips. Yuck.
"You... you're Akibahara..." Shiki murmured, fists clenching tightly, "You're the one behind all this... this never-ending cycle. This deadly game of life and death. Toying with people just for your own amusement..." He said scornfully, almost gritting his teeth, "Akibahara..."
I'll kill him. I'll kill him.
This merely got a brief laugh out of the Arch Demon, who was hardly intimidated. "Whoa, whoa. Feisty, aren't ya? Alright, if that's the way you want it," he said with a shrug and a cocky smile, beginning to stand up, "Yo, Wesker! Where the fuck are ya? You and that broad!"
"Right here, Akibahara. Right here..."
And then he appeared.
Albert Wesker.
"So... the subjects have come. My, my. How delightful," Wesker spoke, appearing beside Akibahara out of nowhere, "You're all exactly where we want you, but I won't give you any time to regret your mistakes. In any case, don't rough them up too much, dear. They're all valuable test subjects."
"Of course, of course. Anything for you," a woman's voice said, before another figure would appear beside Wesker.
It was the first Claire Redfield from the Crossed Incident. The Traitor that had defected willingly for Wesker. The Claire that had betrayed and forsaken her own brother for his worst enemy. The real target of Shiki Tohno's resentment.
"How quaint. It's that glasses boy from before. I hope you'll forgive that I don't remember your name. And of course, how could I forget Ms. Elsa? Or... it's actually Mrs now, hmm? Where's Solaire? Did he die in a ditch somewhere?" The first Claire asked, as if deliberately jabbing, "Where's Vi? Couldn't ever forget that loudmouth, and I heard she was coming with you guys. Did she die too? Aw, so sad, Tsk, tsk," she said mockingly, shaking her head briefly.
For many, it would likely be jarring to see the first Claire like this. She had the same face and voice as the other Claire before you all, but she certainly had a different look and tone about her. As if she was a completely different person.
"You...! Who do you think you are? You have no right to--!"
"Oh, shut up already, kid," Claire spoke, before shooting Shiki in the chest, knocking him back, blood splattering as a result. Shiki fell down without so much as a sound, his glasses falling off as his head collided into the ground.
"I'm the one who won. I guess Claire Redfield always wins, no matter who it is. Isn't that right, other me?" She asked the other Claire with a knowing smirk. Her eyes flashed red, mimicking the reptilian eyes that the Claire you were familiar with now sported.
"A-Ah..." Her clothes stained with blood and her body drenched in water from the previous world, Claire was a sight to behold. She almost looked pathetic standing before this other Claire who carried herself so confidently. That didn't really matter to her now, though. She glanced momentarily toward Aqua, before pulling out her gun and aiming it at the other Claire. They looked almost identical in their stances.
"One of us will win. I just have to make sure it'll be me." This other her had haunted Claire for the last ten years. It was time to end the nightmare. They were not the same. Aqua, Max, Chloe, and the others appreciated her for who she was. This other Claire had no bearing on that-- she just had to be taken down.
"Yes, yes. This is all very fuckin' heartwarming, but I think that's enough talking for now, and more fucking! ... And fucking up!" Akibahara exclaimed, before his human skin would begin shedding. And then he would transform.
Before your very eyes, patches of an armor-like hide would form on his body. His clothes would tear apart, and gradually, he would grow into a hulking, towering monster over hundreds and hundreds of meters tall. It seemed like all he needed to do was squash you, and that would be the end of it.
Meanwhile, Wesker, seemingly unperturbed by the transformation, would produce a small device resembling some kind of phone or remote, pressing a button on it. In no time, you'd all be able to hear what seemed to be savage growling. Howling. Laughter.
And then they would appear. The Crossed.
Armed to the brim with conventional weapons from God knows where, including firearms, bows and arrows, chainsaws, blades, and the works, you were all heavily outnumbered and possibly outgunned. The army looked at you all with sadistic grins, as though looking forward to killing you all.
They had all clearly lost their minds long ago. There was no negotiating with them.
That was far from it all, however.
Zombies. They shuffled as a horde around the army of Crossed. They did not make a move to touch them, their hungry eyes set upon your group only.
Holding up a hand, as though holding them back for now and waiting for a more opportune time, Wesker looked at you all with a smug expression on his face.
"All this fighting you partook in... and it only resulted in nothing but most of you perishing. It's sad, but true. Your efforts were all in vain. You can't hope to overcome this."
"Gah... gughh..." Shiki grunted lowly, recovering from the gunshot wound. His body was weak and slow with this kind of wound, as well as the stab wound the Mikasa illusion had given him earlier. Still, he would not let this end. Not like this.
"J-Just..."
Blood dripped from his mouth. His vision was blurry. His breathing was ragged.
But he would not let it end like this.
"JUST DISAPPEAR ALREADY!!"
With that, he would take out the somewhat sabotaged Ultimate Nullifier out of his pocket. The device was only able to work at roughly 15% of its original capacity, but if the Watcher was correct, it would be enough...!
The device would suddenly emit a large beam of energy, firing right at Akibahara! With an explosion that impacted throughout the entire realm, shaking it a little, Akibahara would let out a fierce, massive yell of pain and surprise as he gradually shrunk a bit. The patches of armor on his hide disappeared, and before long, a good chunk of his power was depleted, changing his appearance.
He was now a bit smaller than before, and far weaker, but one could assume that he was still a fearsome enemy to be reckoned with.
"You... You worthless pissant! What the fuck did you just do to me?! Not that it matters! That's right! That's right!" The Arch Demon growled in a devilish voice. No traces of any human were left. Then again, he was a being that was less than human, "It doesn't matter at all! You're all fucking dead anyway! Fuck 'em, Wesker! Fuck 'em all up!"
"Not so fast!"
A familiar voice would suddenly make itself known from behind. It was none other than Makoto Naegi, and standing beside him was Darth Rex. Together, the two leaders of the Coalition stood valiantly against the massive threat in front of them.
"Akibahara, your reign of terror ends here! In the end, hope will always prevail against the despair that you try so desperately to grow and feed off of! Hope is what drives us to step forward and give us courage to fight against fiends like you! As long as there's one person left standing against you, hope will last forever!"
"In all my days, I ain't ever seen someone that presented such a threat to the multiverse like you have. And I ain't never seen anyone as ugly as you either, Akibahara. This ends here," Darth Rex spoke firmly, backing up Makoto.
Before long, materializing from what seemed to be a portal, more Coalition allies would appear, ready to aid you in the massive battle against the Arch Demon and his forces. Their forces would even the odds against the Crossed and their masters.
Along with them would appear a few surprise guests.
Now that Claudia was deceased, her illusions were no more. Freed from their eternal prisons, the survivors of the Silent Hill incident were warped on to the field. They would be undoubtedly confused, but they would be able to have a role in this fight.
The two armies stared at each other intently, ready to fight at any moment.
"Tch! Oh, yes! It'll definitely end here! I'll make sure of that!" He exclaimed, letting out a demonic roar, "Death! Death! Kill 'em all!"
Like a front general, Wesker lowered his arm, and the Crossed charged forward. Likewise, Darth Rex gave the signal, and the Coalition forces retaliated, also charging forward.
Everything had been building up to this very moment.
The Crossed Incident.
The Gotham Incident.
The Silent Hill Incident.
The Monokuma Incident.
The Reaper Incident.
The Fuse Incident.
They were all building up to this very moment.
The battle for the fate of the multiverse was here.
- - -
OOC Note: If you have another character allied with the Coalition, you may have them appear in the battle and play as them. You may also GM the Crossed if you wish as well.
If you had an illusion of an MGIII character appear in the last chapter, they can now revive! Keep in mind they will have no memories of their time between the ending of MGIII and now, and will likely be pretty confused.
~CAST LIST~
@Atomyk as Claire Redfield [Resident Evil]
@FireDrake150 as Izana [Original Character] and Ace [Final Fantasy]
@Gummi Bunnies as Red [Pokemon] and Rinato Dormi [Original Character]
@BarrenThin as Lisa Castle and Frank Castle [Marvel Comics]
@The Tactician as Kazuya 'Abel' Mineshigi and Naoya 'Cain' Mineshigi [Devil Survivor]
@Verite as Shiki Tohno [Type-Moon]
@Krieg as Jon Snow [Game of Thrones]
@TheBombMan as Plutia [Hyperdimension Neptunia] and Gnar [League of Legends]
@Emperor Palpachu as Darth Vader, R2-D2 [Star Wars] and The Doctor [Doctor Who]
@Mari as Bayonetta [Bayonetta]
@Klutzy Ninja Kitty as Aqua [Kingdom Hearts]
@Hospes as Teresa Agnes [Maze Runner] and Ridley Duchannes [The Caster Chronicles]
@york as Sophie [Cry of Fear] and Ruby Rose [RWBY]
@TheColourlessRainbow as The Charmed Ones [Charmed]
@Mtntopview as Frenzy [Transformers]
@Mighty Roman as Joseph Aniphage [Original Character/The Noble Magi]
@DapperDogman as Soul 'Eater' Evans [Soul Eater] and Ulysses [Fallout]
@Proxymoron as Nicki Minaj [Real Life]
@Nassi as Dante [Devil May Cry]
@MrDubWubs as Vi [League of Legends]
@Thuro Pendragon as Ezio Auditore and Desmond Miles [Assassin's Creed]
@Infinatis as Grail Trigadon [Original Character] and Specter Knight [Shovel Knight]
@M a r s as Lucy Heartfilia [Fairy Tail]
@Ryu Keiko as Ryu Keiko [Original Character]
@Josh M as Travis Touchdown [No More Heroes]
@Jenny as Margaery Tyrell and Loras Tyrell [Game of Thrones]
@Maddeline as Emily "Hunter" Grimes [Original Character/End the Cycle]
@Librarian Cat as Corvo Attano [Dishonored]
@Raven as Jake Long [American Dragon] and Stitch [Lilo and Stitch]
@TheBlueBurch as Chloe Price [Life is Strange]
@Jeremi as Storm and Crusader [Marvel Comics]
@SirDerpingtonIV as Nito [Dark Souls]
@Wedge Antilles as Legolas Greenleaf [The Lord of the Rings]
@Sandra as Sylveon and Umbreon [Pokemon]
@Dinoteen as Cell [Dragon Ball Z]
@OrlandoBloomers as Maxine Caulfield [Life is Strange]
@Schnee Corp Lawyer as Alice Margatroid [Touhou]
@ShadowPrime as Felix [Red vs Blue]
@Banana Soiree as Harry Hart/Galahad [Kingsman: The Secret Service]
@OrionsHammer as Belphegor [Dark Souls]
@Unlimited RP Works as Archer [Type-Moon]
@Chris Lang as Kalifa and Kaku [One Piece]
@Meira as Revya [Soul Nomad & The World Eaters]
@FancyForrest as Wander [Shadow of the Colossus]
@The Silver Paladin as The Lone Wanderer/Riley [Fallout]
@Nater Taters as Booker DeWitt [Bioshock]
@ResistingTheEnlightened as Joshua Graham [Fallout]
@Lizzy as Link and Fi [Legend of Zelda]
@Black Cat as Sarutobi Hiruzen and Toad Sage Jiriaya [Naruto]
@Ivazel as Albert Wesker [Resident Evil]
@Crimson Spartan as Erron Black [Mortal Kombat]
@CrunchyCHEEZIT as James "Jim" Raynor [StarCraft]
@Kaykay as Sakuya Izayoi [Touhou]
Alice watched solemnly as young Mercy finally fell.FINAL CHAPTER
"An End for All"
"A...Ac..uaack...."
The blood seeped through her lips, her fragile form collapsing onto her knees. A heavy wheeze echoed in her breath, desperately clinging to what oxygen there was in the air, feeling her life begin to seep slowly away from her form. Three bullets from the Burned Man, bones and flesh cracking the fifteen-year-old's body, feeling two of them particularly wound her right thigh. A fragment of Gauss ricocheted off from a nearby wall, colliding against Arya's already wounded right shoulder from Felix's previous and continuing assault, reopening once sown wounds. From blades to magic, firearms to fury, Arya once stood, not an ounce of power in her as she felt her body ripped to shreds underneath the hellfire that greeted her.
A tremble coursed down her spine, the crawling march of Death.
No whimpers escaped her lips, no tears, no signs of visible pain. Ye, she held her head up, her legs giving in, staring at the players, heavily wheezing and heaving as she clenched her shoulder with her right hand. Still refusing to let go of Needle, the sword Jon gave her long ago, Arya began to rasp out, a soft, almost twisted chuckle escaping her lips. It wasn't that she found amusement in her death, but finding amusement in how the universe at each and every corner decided to fuck her. Let the zealots continue their crusade, let the others believe fanatically in their mission, but for Arya, it mattered not now.
"W-We..re..you..e-expecting...m-more?"
A twisted jest, but a true one. Despite her valor, her efforts, Arya had succumbed easily, as with the Mourners, as with the Sufferers, as with the Queensguard. All of them revealed the horrid truth that not all confrontations were long, that some people genuinely did not wish to fight, but rather, were simply caught in the crossfire of this brewing war. Lives were forsaken, but was it the hands of Mercy, or the hands of these "white knights" that put them to the sword? A man may pray to his holy text, and may preach of peace, but live and die under the sword, under the facade of redemption. But, alas, it did not matter, whats done is done, and what has been done will be done.
Her fall began the moment she stepped foot into all of this.
Bleeding and broken, the princess turned her gaze to one man. A man she gave the majority of her abilities away to see life once more. A man that was, funnily enough, caught in the crossfire, presumably put by the Coalition as a liability. A man that Arya knew she could not see die, and a man that she had grown to call her big brother.
With one last effort, one last rasp of her voice, she lurched forward, calling his name. By the time the words escaped her lips, only the flash of light greeted her eyes. A reminder of her constant failure, time after time again, forced to watch her love ones die and her friends spitefully stab her in the back. When the words left her lips, crimson fell with it, the She-Wolf beginning to teeter backwards, her petite form collapsing fully against the wooden floorboards.
"J-Jon..."
I'm sorry
***
He could not stop it.
Like his Father before him, like his brother at the Twins, he couldn't stop what was happening around him. Life had been stripped him, the petite emotions of the human form gone and hollowed. A watcher without purpose, a soulless hollow forced to endure an existence without purpose. The black-clad undead watched, because even he knew, in the darkest depths of his deceased mind, there was nothing that could be done. He had fought so far, and had endured through both life and death to save his sister.
And as the shots rang, as the blades were drawn, as the fires and magics danced, Coldhands could only do what has been doing for the past two years.
Watch.
As the dust settled, Jon walked forwards, not lowering his hood, but knowing Arya could see who it was. He still pondered as to how he still walked among the living, but in some twisted way, he could feel it being Arya's presence. She had denied him death, not to see him suffer, but to see him prosper. Perhaps it was not Jon's death, not yet, but rather, a rebirth. Whatever the cast may be, Coldhands softly rasped out himself, before being succumbed to a flash of white light.
"Ar..ya.."
I'm sorry
***
As Arya's body fell limp to the floor, a flash of light would circle the girl's body. Ludger ran forward, pushing past the fighters in order to get an eager glance at what was happening. This world had been unlike the others, as far as Ludger had been able to tell; There was no divergence catalyst that he could sense and no alternate history to be determined. He'd figured that the world had been conjured by Claudia in order to impede their progress, but as the world had stayed intact despite the woman's death, the only other explanation lied with the small teenage girl that had confounded the Coalition since this mission began.
As Arya Stark lay dying on the floor, the surrounding world began to crack and break, as if pressure was being put on a pane of glass. Ludger watched as the young girl was lifted into the air slightly, her body starting to disappear. Ludger ran to grab her, but by the time he had reached her, she was gone. Before he could wonder what happened to her body, the entire world shattered.
As if they had been standing inside a small dome, the world around them dropped to reveal an even larger surrounding world. The only word that came to describe it was...
Dead.
The world all around was just dead. Perhaps it was fitting as the home of Arch Demon Akibahara. Fire, brimstone, all that ominous stuff. It was all you could see as far as your eyes would allow you to observe. It was just... all barren.
"Welcome, welcome. To my humble abode."
It was the man himself. Arch Demon Akibahara in his human form. His general demeanor and attitude gave an obvious cocky, confident aura to him, and on top of his confidence, you could also feel another kind of aura. The influence. The influence that had compelled many Traitors before in the past to act in his name. You could feel it cloud your mind a little, but you couldn't let him corrupt you this late! Not when you were this far.
"Fuckin' A, you guys actually made it. Not bad. Not bad. Except for like half of you fuckin' shits dying," he said haughtily, giving a brief chuckle, "Couldn't possibly fathom you guys takin' me on with a half-assed lot like you all. May as well keel over right now. Bend over and lemme indulge on some dat... Mmm..."
And then he licked his lips. Yuck.
"You... you're Akibahara..." Shiki murmured, fists clenching tightly, "You're the one behind all this... this never-ending cycle. This deadly game of life and death. Toying with people just for your own amusement..." He said scornfully, almost gritting his teeth, "Akibahara..."
I'll kill him. I'll kill him.
This merely got a brief laugh out of the Arch Demon, who was hardly intimidated. "Whoa, whoa. Feisty, aren't ya? Alright, if that's the way you want it," he said with a shrug and a cocky smile, beginning to stand up, "Yo, Wesker! Where the fuck are ya? You and that broad!"
"Right here, Akibahara. Right here..."
And then he appeared.
Albert Wesker.
"So... the subjects have come. My, my. How delightful," Wesker spoke, appearing beside Akibahara out of nowhere, "You're all exactly where we want you, but I won't give you any time to regret your mistakes. In any case, don't rough them up too much, dear. They're all valuable test subjects."
"Of course, of course. Anything for you," a woman's voice said, before another figure would appear beside Wesker.
It was the first Claire Redfield from the Crossed Incident. The Traitor that had defected willingly for Wesker. The Claire that had betrayed and forsaken her own brother for his worst enemy. The real target of Shiki Tohno's resentment.
"How quaint. It's that glasses boy from before. I hope you'll forgive that I don't remember your name. And of course, how could I forget Ms. Elsa? Or... it's actually Mrs now, hmm? Where's Solaire? Did he die in a ditch somewhere?" The first Claire asked, as if deliberately jabbing, "Where's Vi? Couldn't ever forget that loudmouth, and I heard she was coming with you guys. Did she die too? Aw, so sad, Tsk, tsk," she said mockingly, shaking her head briefly.
For many, it would likely be jarring to see the first Claire like this. She had the same face and voice as the other Claire before you all, but she certainly had a different look and tone about her. As if she was a completely different person.
"You...! Who do you think you are? You have no right to--!"
"Oh, shut up already, kid," Claire spoke, before shooting Shiki in the chest, knocking him back, blood splattering as a result. Shiki fell down without so much as a sound, his glasses falling off as his head collided into the ground.
"I'm the one who won. I guess Claire Redfield always wins, no matter who it is. Isn't that right, other me?" She asked the other Claire with a knowing smirk. Her eyes flashed red, mimicking the reptilian eyes that the Claire you were familiar with now sported.
"A-Ah..." Her clothes stained with blood and her body drenched in water from the previous world, Claire was a sight to behold. She almost looked pathetic standing before this other Claire who carried herself so confidently. That didn't really matter to her now, though. She glanced momentarily toward Aqua, before pulling out her gun and aiming it at the other Claire. They looked almost identical in their stances.
"One of us will win. I just have to make sure it'll be me." This other her had haunted Claire for the last ten years. It was time to end the nightmare. They were not the same. Aqua, Max, Chloe, and the others appreciated her for who she was. This other Claire had no bearing on that-- she just had to be taken down.
"Yes, yes. This is all very fuckin' heartwarming, but I think that's enough talking for now, and more fucking! ... And fucking up!" Akibahara exclaimed, before his human skin would begin shedding. And then he would transform.
Before your very eyes, patches of an armor-like hide would form on his body. His clothes would tear apart, and gradually, he would grow into a hulking, towering monster over hundreds and hundreds of meters tall. It seemed like all he needed to do was squash you, and that would be the end of it.
Meanwhile, Wesker, seemingly unperturbed by the transformation, would produce a small device resembling some kind of phone or remote, pressing a button on it. In no time, you'd all be able to hear what seemed to be savage growling. Howling. Laughter.
And then they would appear. The Crossed.
Armed to the brim with conventional weapons from God knows where, including firearms, bows and arrows, chainsaws, blades, and the works, you were all heavily outnumbered and possibly outgunned. The army looked at you all with sadistic grins, as though looking forward to killing you all.
They had all clearly lost their minds long ago. There was no negotiating with them.
That was far from it all, however.
Zombies. They shuffled as a horde around the army of Crossed. They did not make a move to touch them, their hungry eyes set upon your group only.
Holding up a hand, as though holding them back for now and waiting for a more opportune time, Wesker looked at you all with a smug expression on his face.
"All this fighting you partook in... and it only resulted in nothing but most of you perishing. It's sad, but true. Your efforts were all in vain. You can't hope to overcome this."
"Gah... gughh..." Shiki grunted lowly, recovering from the gunshot wound. His body was weak and slow with this kind of wound, as well as the stab wound the Mikasa illusion had given him earlier. Still, he would not let this end. Not like this.
"J-Just..."
Blood dripped from his mouth. His vision was blurry. His breathing was ragged.
But he would not let it end like this.
"JUST DISAPPEAR ALREADY!!"
With that, he would take out the somewhat sabotaged Ultimate Nullifier out of his pocket. The device was only able to work at roughly 15% of its original capacity, but if the Watcher was correct, it would be enough...!
The device would suddenly emit a large beam of energy, firing right at Akibahara! With an explosion that impacted throughout the entire realm, shaking it a little, Akibahara would let out a fierce, massive yell of pain and surprise as he gradually shrunk a bit. The patches of armor on his hide disappeared, and before long, a good chunk of his power was depleted, changing his appearance.
He was now a bit smaller than before, and far weaker, but one could assume that he was still a fearsome enemy to be reckoned with.
"You... You worthless pissant! What the fuck did you just do to me?! Not that it matters! That's right! That's right!" The Arch Demon growled in a devilish voice. No traces of any human were left. Then again, he was a being that was less than human, "It doesn't matter at all! You're all fucking dead anyway! Fuck 'em, Wesker! Fuck 'em all up!"
"Not so fast!"
A familiar voice would suddenly make itself known from behind. It was none other than Makoto Naegi, and standing beside him was Darth Rex. Together, the two leaders of the Coalition stood valiantly against the massive threat in front of them.
"Akibahara, your reign of terror ends here! In the end, hope will always prevail against the despair that you try so desperately to grow and feed off of! Hope is what drives us to step forward and give us courage to fight against fiends like you! As long as there's one person left standing against you, hope will last forever!"
"In all my days, I ain't ever seen someone that presented such a threat to the multiverse like you have. And I ain't never seen anyone as ugly as you either, Akibahara. This ends here," Darth Rex spoke firmly, backing up Makoto.
Before long, materializing from what seemed to be a portal, more Coalition allies would appear, ready to aid you in the massive battle against the Arch Demon and his forces. Their forces would even the odds against the Crossed and their masters.
Along with them would appear a few surprise guests.
Now that Claudia was deceased, her illusions were no more. Freed from their eternal prisons, the survivors of the Silent Hill incident were warped on to the field. They would be undoubtedly confused, but they would be able to have a role in this fight.
The two armies stared at each other intently, ready to fight at any moment.
"Tch! Oh, yes! It'll definitely end here! I'll make sure of that!" He exclaimed, letting out a demonic roar, "Death! Death! Kill 'em all!"
Like a front general, Wesker lowered his arm, and the Crossed charged forward. Likewise, Darth Rex gave the signal, and the Coalition forces retaliated, also charging forward.
Everything had been building up to this very moment.
The Crossed Incident.
The Gotham Incident.
The Silent Hill Incident.
The Monokuma Incident.
The Reaper Incident.
The Fuse Incident.
They were all building up to this very moment.
The battle for the fate of the multiverse was here.
- - -
OOC Note: If you have another character allied with the Coalition, you may have them appear in the battle and play as them. You may also GM the Crossed if you wish as well.
If you had an illusion of an MGIII character appear in the last chapter, they can now revive! Keep in mind they will have no memories of their time between the ending of MGIII and now, and will likely be pretty confused.
~CAST LIST~
@Atomyk as Claire Redfield [Resident Evil]
@FireDrake150 as Izana [Original Character] and Ace [Final Fantasy]
@Gummi Bunnies as Red [Pokemon] and Rinato Dormi [Original Character]
@BarrenThin as Lisa Castle and Frank Castle [Marvel Comics]
@The Tactician as Kazuya 'Abel' Mineshigi and Naoya 'Cain' Mineshigi [Devil Survivor]
@Verite as Shiki Tohno [Type-Moon]
@Krieg as Jon Snow [Game of Thrones]
@TheBombMan as Plutia [Hyperdimension Neptunia] and Gnar [League of Legends]
@Emperor Palpachu as Darth Vader, R2-D2 [Star Wars] and The Doctor [Doctor Who]
@Mari as Bayonetta [Bayonetta]
@Klutzy Ninja Kitty as Aqua [Kingdom Hearts]
@Hospes as Teresa Agnes [Maze Runner] and Ridley Duchannes [The Caster Chronicles]
@york as Sophie [Cry of Fear] and Ruby Rose [RWBY]
@TheColourlessRainbow as The Charmed Ones [Charmed]
@Mtntopview as Frenzy [Transformers]
@Mighty Roman as Joseph Aniphage [Original Character/The Noble Magi]
@DapperDogman as Soul 'Eater' Evans [Soul Eater] and Ulysses [Fallout]
@Proxymoron as Nicki Minaj [Real Life]
@Nassi as Dante [Devil May Cry]
@MrDubWubs as Vi [League of Legends]
@Thuro Pendragon as Ezio Auditore and Desmond Miles [Assassin's Creed]
@Infinatis as Grail Trigadon [Original Character] and Specter Knight [Shovel Knight]
@M a r s as Lucy Heartfilia [Fairy Tail]
@Ryu Keiko as Ryu Keiko [Original Character]
@Josh M as Travis Touchdown [No More Heroes]
@Jenny as Margaery Tyrell and Loras Tyrell [Game of Thrones]
@Maddeline as Emily "Hunter" Grimes [Original Character/End the Cycle]
@Librarian Cat as Corvo Attano [Dishonored]
@Raven as Jake Long [American Dragon] and Stitch [Lilo and Stitch]
@TheBlueBurch as Chloe Price [Life is Strange]
@Jeremi as Storm and Crusader [Marvel Comics]
@SirDerpingtonIV as Nito [Dark Souls]
@Wedge Antilles as Legolas Greenleaf [The Lord of the Rings]
@Sandra as Sylveon and Umbreon [Pokemon]
@Dinoteen as Cell [Dragon Ball Z]
@OrlandoBloomers as Maxine Caulfield [Life is Strange]
@Schnee Corp Lawyer as Alice Margatroid [Touhou]
@ShadowPrime as Felix [Red vs Blue]
@Banana Soiree as Harry Hart/Galahad [Kingsman: The Secret Service]
@OrionsHammer as Belphegor [Dark Souls]
@Unlimited RP Works as Archer [Type-Moon]
@Chris Lang as Kalifa and Kaku [One Piece]
@Meira as Revya [Soul Nomad & The World Eaters]
@FancyForrest as Wander [Shadow of the Colossus]
@The Silver Paladin as The Lone Wanderer/Riley [Fallout]
@Nater Taters as Booker DeWitt [Bioshock]
@ResistingTheEnlightened as Joshua Graham [Fallout]
@Lizzy as Link and Fi [Legend of Zelda]
@Black Cat as Sarutobi Hiruzen and Toad Sage Jiriaya [Naruto]
@Ivazel as Albert Wesker [Resident Evil]
@Crimson Spartan as Erron Black [Mortal Kombat]
@CrunchyCHEEZIT as James "Jim" Raynor [StarCraft]
@Kaykay as Sakuya Izayoi [Touhou]
{Suggested music: 'Difficult' - One Piece Soundtrack}FINAL CHAPTER
"An End for All"
"A...Ac..uaack...."
The blood seeped through her lips, her fragile form collapsing onto her knees. A heavy wheeze echoed in her breath, desperately clinging to what oxygen there was in the air, feeling her life begin to seep slowly away from her form. Three bullets from the Burned Man, bones and flesh cracking the fifteen-year-old's body, feeling two of them particularly wound her right thigh. A fragment of Gauss ricocheted off from a nearby wall, colliding against Arya's already wounded right shoulder from Felix's previous and continuing assault, reopening once sown wounds. From blades to magic, firearms to fury, Arya once stood, not an ounce of power in her as she felt her body ripped to shreds underneath the hellfire that greeted her.
A tremble coursed down her spine, the crawling march of Death.
No whimpers escaped her lips, no tears, no signs of visible pain. Ye, she held her head up, her legs giving in, staring at the players, heavily wheezing and heaving as she clenched her shoulder with her right hand. Still refusing to let go of Needle, the sword Jon gave her long ago, Arya began to rasp out, a soft, almost twisted chuckle escaping her lips. It wasn't that she found amusement in her death, but finding amusement in how the universe at each and every corner decided to fuck her. Let the zealots continue their crusade, let the others believe fanatically in their mission, but for Arya, it mattered not now.
"W-We..re..you..e-expecting...m-more?"
A twisted jest, but a true one. Despite her valor, her efforts, Arya had succumbed easily, as with the Mourners, as with the Sufferers, as with the Queensguard. All of them revealed the horrid truth that not all confrontations were long, that some people genuinely did not wish to fight, but rather, were simply caught in the crossfire of this brewing war. Lives were forsaken, but was it the hands of Mercy, or the hands of these "white knights" that put them to the sword? A man may pray to his holy text, and may preach of peace, but live and die under the sword, under the facade of redemption. But, alas, it did not matter, whats done is done, and what has been done will be done.
Her fall began the moment she stepped foot into all of this.
Bleeding and broken, the princess turned her gaze to one man. A man she gave the majority of her abilities away to see life once more. A man that was, funnily enough, caught in the crossfire, presumably put by the Coalition as a liability. A man that Arya knew she could not see die, and a man that she had grown to call her big brother.
With one last effort, one last rasp of her voice, she lurched forward, calling his name. By the time the words escaped her lips, only the flash of light greeted her eyes. A reminder of her constant failure, time after time again, forced to watch her love ones die and her friends spitefully stab her in the back. When the words left her lips, crimson fell with it, the She-Wolf beginning to teeter backwards, her petite form collapsing fully against the wooden floorboards.
"J-Jon..."
I'm sorry
***
He could not stop it.
Like his Father before him, like his brother at the Twins, he couldn't stop what was happening around him. Life had been stripped him, the petite emotions of the human form gone and hollowed. A watcher without purpose, a soulless hollow forced to endure an existence without purpose. The black-clad undead watched, because even he knew, in the darkest depths of his deceased mind, there was nothing that could be done. He had fought so far, and had endured through both life and death to save his sister.
And as the shots rang, as the blades were drawn, as the fires and magics danced, Coldhands could only do what has been doing for the past two years.
Watch.
As the dust settled, Jon walked forwards, not lowering his hood, but knowing Arya could see who it was. He still pondered as to how he still walked among the living, but in some twisted way, he could feel it being Arya's presence. She had denied him death, not to see him suffer, but to see him prosper. Perhaps it was not Jon's death, not yet, but rather, a rebirth. Whatever the cast may be, Coldhands softly rasped out himself, before being succumbed to a flash of white light.
"Ar..ya.."
I'm sorry
***
As Arya's body fell limp to the floor, a flash of light would circle the girl's body. Ludger ran forward, pushing past the fighters in order to get an eager glance at what was happening. This world had been unlike the others, as far as Ludger had been able to tell; There was no divergence catalyst that he could sense and no alternate history to be determined. He'd figured that the world had been conjured by Claudia in order to impede their progress, but as the world had stayed intact despite the woman's death, the only other explanation lied with the small teenage girl that had confounded the Coalition since this mission began.
As Arya Stark lay dying on the floor, the surrounding world began to crack and break, as if pressure was being put on a pane of glass. Ludger watched as the young girl was lifted into the air slightly, her body starting to disappear. Ludger ran to grab her, but by the time he had reached her, she was gone. Before he could wonder what happened to her body, the entire world shattered.
As if they had been standing inside a small dome, the world around them dropped to reveal an even larger surrounding world. The only word that came to describe it was...
Dead.
The world all around was just dead. Perhaps it was fitting as the home of Arch Demon Akibahara. Fire, brimstone, all that ominous stuff. It was all you could see as far as your eyes would allow you to observe. It was just... all barren.
"Welcome, welcome. To my humble abode."
It was the man himself. Arch Demon Akibahara in his human form. His general demeanor and attitude gave an obvious cocky, confident aura to him, and on top of his confidence, you could also feel another kind of aura. The influence. The influence that had compelled many Traitors before in the past to act in his name. You could feel it cloud your mind a little, but you couldn't let him corrupt you this late! Not when you were this far.
"Fuckin' A, you guys actually made it. Not bad. Not bad. Except for like half of you fuckin' shits dying," he said haughtily, giving a brief chuckle, "Couldn't possibly fathom you guys takin' me on with a half-assed lot like you all. May as well keel over right now. Bend over and lemme indulge on some dat... Mmm..."
And then he licked his lips. Yuck.
"You... you're Akibahara..." Shiki murmured, fists clenching tightly, "You're the one behind all this... this never-ending cycle. This deadly game of life and death. Toying with people just for your own amusement..." He said scornfully, almost gritting his teeth, "Akibahara..."
I'll kill him. I'll kill him.
This merely got a brief laugh out of the Arch Demon, who was hardly intimidated. "Whoa, whoa. Feisty, aren't ya? Alright, if that's the way you want it," he said with a shrug and a cocky smile, beginning to stand up, "Yo, Wesker! Where the fuck are ya? You and that broad!"
"Right here, Akibahara. Right here..."
And then he appeared.
Albert Wesker.
"So... the subjects have come. My, my. How delightful," Wesker spoke, appearing beside Akibahara out of nowhere, "You're all exactly where we want you, but I won't give you any time to regret your mistakes. In any case, don't rough them up too much, dear. They're all valuable test subjects."
"Of course, of course. Anything for you," a woman's voice said, before another figure would appear beside Wesker.
It was the first Claire Redfield from the Crossed Incident. The Traitor that had defected willingly for Wesker. The Claire that had betrayed and forsaken her own brother for his worst enemy. The real target of Shiki Tohno's resentment.
"How quaint. It's that glasses boy from before. I hope you'll forgive that I don't remember your name. And of course, how could I forget Ms. Elsa? Or... it's actually Mrs now, hmm? Where's Solaire? Did he die in a ditch somewhere?" The first Claire asked, as if deliberately jabbing, "Where's Vi? Couldn't ever forget that loudmouth, and I heard she was coming with you guys. Did she die too? Aw, so sad, Tsk, tsk," she said mockingly, shaking her head briefly.
For many, it would likely be jarring to see the first Claire like this. She had the same face and voice as the other Claire before you all, but she certainly had a different look and tone about her. As if she was a completely different person.
"You...! Who do you think you are? You have no right to--!"
"Oh, shut up already, kid," Claire spoke, before shooting Shiki in the chest, knocking him back, blood splattering as a result. Shiki fell down without so much as a sound, his glasses falling off as his head collided into the ground.
"I'm the one who won. I guess Claire Redfield always wins, no matter who it is. Isn't that right, other me?" She asked the other Claire with a knowing smirk. Her eyes flashed red, mimicking the reptilian eyes that the Claire you were familiar with now sported.
"A-Ah..." Her clothes stained with blood and her body drenched in water from the previous world, Claire was a sight to behold. She almost looked pathetic standing before this other Claire who carried herself so confidently. That didn't really matter to her now, though. She glanced momentarily toward Aqua, before pulling out her gun and aiming it at the other Claire. They looked almost identical in their stances.
"One of us will win. I just have to make sure it'll be me." This other her had haunted Claire for the last ten years. It was time to end the nightmare. They were not the same. Aqua, Max, Chloe, and the others appreciated her for who she was. This other Claire had no bearing on that-- she just had to be taken down.
"Yes, yes. This is all very fuckin' heartwarming, but I think that's enough talking for now, and more fucking! ... And fucking up!" Akibahara exclaimed, before his human skin would begin shedding. And then he would transform.
Before your very eyes, patches of an armor-like hide would form on his body. His clothes would tear apart, and gradually, he would grow into a hulking, towering monster over hundreds and hundreds of meters tall. It seemed like all he needed to do was squash you, and that would be the end of it.
Meanwhile, Wesker, seemingly unperturbed by the transformation, would produce a small device resembling some kind of phone or remote, pressing a button on it. In no time, you'd all be able to hear what seemed to be savage growling. Howling. Laughter.
And then they would appear. The Crossed.
Armed to the brim with conventional weapons from God knows where, including firearms, bows and arrows, chainsaws, blades, and the works, you were all heavily outnumbered and possibly outgunned. The army looked at you all with sadistic grins, as though looking forward to killing you all.
They had all clearly lost their minds long ago. There was no negotiating with them.
That was far from it all, however.
Zombies. They shuffled as a horde around the army of Crossed. They did not make a move to touch them, their hungry eyes set upon your group only.
Holding up a hand, as though holding them back for now and waiting for a more opportune time, Wesker looked at you all with a smug expression on his face.
"All this fighting you partook in... and it only resulted in nothing but most of you perishing. It's sad, but true. Your efforts were all in vain. You can't hope to overcome this."
"Gah... gughh..." Shiki grunted lowly, recovering from the gunshot wound. His body was weak and slow with this kind of wound, as well as the stab wound the Mikasa illusion had given him earlier. Still, he would not let this end. Not like this.
"J-Just..."
Blood dripped from his mouth. His vision was blurry. His breathing was ragged.
But he would not let it end like this.
"JUST DISAPPEAR ALREADY!!"
With that, he would take out the somewhat sabotaged Ultimate Nullifier out of his pocket. The device was only able to work at roughly 15% of its original capacity, but if the Watcher was correct, it would be enough...!
The device would suddenly emit a large beam of energy, firing right at Akibahara! With an explosion that impacted throughout the entire realm, shaking it a little, Akibahara would let out a fierce, massive yell of pain and surprise as he gradually shrunk a bit. The patches of armor on his hide disappeared, and before long, a good chunk of his power was depleted, changing his appearance.
He was now a bit smaller than before, and far weaker, but one could assume that he was still a fearsome enemy to be reckoned with.
"You... You worthless pissant! What the fuck did you just do to me?! Not that it matters! That's right! That's right!" The Arch Demon growled in a devilish voice. No traces of any human were left. Then again, he was a being that was less than human, "It doesn't matter at all! You're all fucking dead anyway! Fuck 'em, Wesker! Fuck 'em all up!"
"Not so fast!"
A familiar voice would suddenly make itself known from behind. It was none other than Makoto Naegi, and standing beside him was Darth Rex. Together, the two leaders of the Coalition stood valiantly against the massive threat in front of them.
"Akibahara, your reign of terror ends here! In the end, hope will always prevail against the despair that you try so desperately to grow and feed off of! Hope is what drives us to step forward and give us courage to fight against fiends like you! As long as there's one person left standing against you, hope will last forever!"
"In all my days, I ain't ever seen someone that presented such a threat to the multiverse like you have. And I ain't never seen anyone as ugly as you either, Akibahara. This ends here," Darth Rex spoke firmly, backing up Makoto.
Before long, materializing from what seemed to be a portal, more Coalition allies would appear, ready to aid you in the massive battle against the Arch Demon and his forces. Their forces would even the odds against the Crossed and their masters.
Along with them would appear a few surprise guests.
Now that Claudia was deceased, her illusions were no more. Freed from their eternal prisons, the survivors of the Silent Hill incident were warped on to the field. They would be undoubtedly confused, but they would be able to have a role in this fight.
The two armies stared at each other intently, ready to fight at any moment.
"Tch! Oh, yes! It'll definitely end here! I'll make sure of that!" He exclaimed, letting out a demonic roar, "Death! Death! Kill 'em all!"
Like a front general, Wesker lowered his arm, and the Crossed charged forward. Likewise, Darth Rex gave the signal, and the Coalition forces retaliated, also charging forward.
Everything had been building up to this very moment.
The Crossed Incident.
The Gotham Incident.
The Silent Hill Incident.
The Monokuma Incident.
The Reaper Incident.
The Fuse Incident.
They were all building up to this very moment.
The battle for the fate of the multiverse was here.
- - -
OOC Note: If you have another character allied with the Coalition, you may have them appear in the battle and play as them. You may also GM the Crossed/Zombies if you wish as well.
If you had an illusion of an MGIII character appear in the last chapter, they can now revive! Keep in mind they will have no memories of their time between the ending of MGIII and now, and will likely be pretty confused.
~CAST LIST~
@Atomyk as Claire Redfield [Resident Evil]
@FireDrake150 as Izana [Original Character] and Ace [Final Fantasy]
@Gummi Bunnies as Red [Pokemon] and Rinato Dormi [Original Character]
@BarrenThin as Lisa Castle and Frank Castle [Marvel Comics]
@The Tactician as Kazuya 'Abel' Mineshigi and Naoya 'Cain' Mineshigi [Devil Survivor]
@Verite as Shiki Tohno [Type-Moon]
@Krieg as Jon Snow [Game of Thrones]
@TheBombMan as Plutia [Hyperdimension Neptunia] and Gnar [League of Legends]
@Emperor Palpachu as Darth Vader, R2-D2 [Star Wars] and The Doctor [Doctor Who]
@Mari as Bayonetta [Bayonetta]
@Klutzy Ninja Kitty as Aqua [Kingdom Hearts]
@Hospes as Teresa Agnes [Maze Runner] and Ridley Duchannes [The Caster Chronicles]
@york as Sophie [Cry of Fear] and Ruby Rose [RWBY]
@TheColourlessRainbow as The Charmed Ones [Charmed]
@Mtntopview as Frenzy [Transformers]
@Mighty Roman as Joseph Aniphage [Original Character/The Noble Magi]
@DapperDogman as Soul 'Eater' Evans [Soul Eater] and Ulysses [Fallout]
@Proxymoron as Nicki Minaj [Real Life]
@Nassi as Dante [Devil May Cry]
@MrDubWubs as Vi [League of Legends]
@Thuro Pendragon as Ezio Auditore and Desmond Miles [Assassin's Creed]
@Infinatis as Grail Trigadon [Original Character] and Specter Knight [Shovel Knight]
@M a r s as Lucy Heartfilia [Fairy Tail]
@Ryu Keiko as Ryu Keiko [Original Character]
@Josh M as Travis Touchdown [No More Heroes]
@Jenny as Margaery Tyrell and Loras Tyrell [Game of Thrones]
@Maddeline as Emily "Hunter" Grimes [Original Character/End the Cycle]
@Librarian Cat as Corvo Attano [Dishonored]
@Raven as Jake Long [American Dragon] and Stitch [Lilo and Stitch]
@TheBlueBurch as Chloe Price [Life is Strange]
@Jeremi as Storm and Crusader [Marvel Comics]
@SirDerpingtonIV as Nito [Dark Souls]
@Wedge Antilles as Legolas Greenleaf [The Lord of the Rings]
@Sandra as Sylveon and Umbreon [Pokemon]
@Dinoteen as Cell [Dragon Ball Z]
@OrlandoBloomers as Maxine Caulfield [Life is Strange]
@Schnee Corp Lawyer as Alice Margatroid [Touhou]
@ShadowPrime as Felix [Red vs Blue]
@Banana Soiree as Harry Hart/Galahad [Kingsman: The Secret Service]
@OrionsHammer as Belphegor [Dark Souls]
@Unlimited RP Works as Archer [Type-Moon]
@Chris Lang as Kalifa and Kaku [One Piece]
@Meira as Revya [Soul Nomad & The World Eaters]
@FancyForrest as Wander [Shadow of the Colossus]
@The Silver Paladin as The Lone Wanderer/Riley [Fallout]
@Nater Taters as Booker DeWitt [Bioshock]
@ResistingTheEnlightened as Joshua Graham [Fallout]
@Lizzy as Link and Fi [Legend of Zelda]
@Black Cat as Sarutobi Hiruzen and Toad Sage Jiriaya [Naruto]
@Ivazel as Albert Wesker [Resident Evil]
@Crimson Spartan as Erron Black [Mortal Kombat]
@CrunchyCHEEZIT as James "Jim" Raynor [StarCraft]
@Kaykay as Sakuya Izayoi [Touhou]
FINAL CHAPTER
"An End for All"
"A...Ac..uaack...."
The blood seeped through her lips, her fragile form collapsing onto her knees. A heavy wheeze echoed in her breath, desperately clinging to what oxygen there was in the air, feeling her life begin to seep slowly away from her form. Three bullets from the Burned Man, bones and flesh cracking the fifteen-year-old's body, feeling two of them particularly wound her right thigh. A fragment of Gauss ricocheted off from a nearby wall, colliding against Arya's already wounded right shoulder from Felix's previous and continuing assault, reopening once sown wounds. From blades to magic, firearms to fury, Arya once stood, not an ounce of power in her as she felt her body ripped to shreds underneath the hellfire that greeted her.
A tremble coursed down her spine, the crawling march of Death.
No whimpers escaped her lips, no tears, no signs of visible pain. Ye, she held her head up, her legs giving in, staring at the players, heavily wheezing and heaving as she clenched her shoulder with her right hand. Still refusing to let go of Needle, the sword Jon gave her long ago, Arya began to rasp out, a soft, almost twisted chuckle escaping her lips. It wasn't that she found amusement in her death, but finding amusement in how the universe at each and every corner decided to fuck her. Let the zealots continue their crusade, let the others believe fanatically in their mission, but for Arya, it mattered not now.
"W-We..re..you..e-expecting...m-more?"
A twisted jest, but a true one. Despite her valor, her efforts, Arya had succumbed easily, as with the Mourners, as with the Sufferers, as with the Queensguard. All of them revealed the horrid truth that not all confrontations were long, that some people genuinely did not wish to fight, but rather, were simply caught in the crossfire of this brewing war. Lives were forsaken, but was it the hands of Mercy, or the hands of these "white knights" that put them to the sword? A man may pray to his holy text, and may preach of peace, but live and die under the sword, under the facade of redemption. But, alas, it did not matter, whats done is done, and what has been done will be done.
Her fall began the moment she stepped foot into all of this.
Bleeding and broken, the princess turned her gaze to one man. A man she gave the majority of her abilities away to see life once more. A man that was, funnily enough, caught in the crossfire, presumably put by the Coalition as a liability. A man that Arya knew she could not see die, and a man that she had grown to call her big brother.
With one last effort, one last rasp of her voice, she lurched forward, calling his name. By the time the words escaped her lips, only the flash of light greeted her eyes. A reminder of her constant failure, time after time again, forced to watch her love ones die and her friends spitefully stab her in the back. When the words left her lips, crimson fell with it, the She-Wolf beginning to teeter backwards, her petite form collapsing fully against the wooden floorboards.
"J-Jon..."
I'm sorry
***
He could not stop it.
Like his Father before him, like his brother at the Twins, he couldn't stop what was happening around him. Life had been stripped him, the petite emotions of the human form gone and hollowed. A watcher without purpose, a soulless hollow forced to endure an existence without purpose. The black-clad undead watched, because even he knew, in the darkest depths of his deceased mind, there was nothing that could be done. He had fought so far, and had endured through both life and death to save his sister.
And as the shots rang, as the blades were drawn, as the fires and magics danced, Coldhands could only do what has been doing for the past two years.
Watch.
As the dust settled, Jon walked forwards, not lowering his hood, but knowing Arya could see who it was. He still pondered as to how he still walked among the living, but in some twisted way, he could feel it being Arya's presence. She had denied him death, not to see him suffer, but to see him prosper. Perhaps it was not Jon's death, not yet, but rather, a rebirth. Whatever the cast may be, Coldhands softly rasped out himself, before being succumbed to a flash of white light.
"Ar..ya.."
I'm sorry
***
As Arya's body fell limp to the floor, a flash of light would circle the girl's body. Ludger ran forward, pushing past the fighters in order to get an eager glance at what was happening. This world had been unlike the others, as far as Ludger had been able to tell; There was no divergence catalyst that he could sense and no alternate history to be determined. He'd figured that the world had been conjured by Claudia in order to impede their progress, but as the world had stayed intact despite the woman's death, the only other explanation lied with the small teenage girl that had confounded the Coalition since this mission began.
As Arya Stark lay dying on the floor, the surrounding world began to crack and break, as if pressure was being put on a pane of glass. Ludger watched as the young girl was lifted into the air slightly, her body starting to disappear. Ludger ran to grab her, but by the time he had reached her, she was gone. Before he could wonder what happened to her body, the entire world shattered.
As if they had been standing inside a small dome, the world around them dropped to reveal an even larger surrounding world. The only word that came to describe it was...
Dead.
The world all around was just dead. Perhaps it was fitting as the home of Arch Demon Akibahara. Fire, brimstone, all that ominous stuff. It was all you could see as far as your eyes would allow you to observe. It was just... all barren.
"Welcome, welcome. To my humble abode."
It was the man himself. Arch Demon Akibahara in his human form. His general demeanor and attitude gave an obvious cocky, confident aura to him, and on top of his confidence, you could also feel another kind of aura. The influence. The influence that had compelled many Traitors before in the past to act in his name. You could feel it cloud your mind a little, but you couldn't let him corrupt you this late! Not when you were this far.
"Fuckin' A, you guys actually made it. Not bad. Not bad. Except for like half of you fuckin' shits dying," he said haughtily, giving a brief chuckle, "Couldn't possibly fathom you guys takin' me on with a half-assed lot like you all. May as well keel over right now. Bend over and lemme indulge on some dat... Mmm..."
And then he licked his lips. Yuck.
"You... you're Akibahara..." Shiki murmured, fists clenching tightly, "You're the one behind all this... this never-ending cycle. This deadly game of life and death. Toying with people just for your own amusement..." He said scornfully, almost gritting his teeth, "Akibahara..."
I'll kill him. I'll kill him.
This merely got a brief laugh out of the Arch Demon, who was hardly intimidated. "Whoa, whoa. Feisty, aren't ya? Alright, if that's the way you want it," he said with a shrug and a cocky smile, beginning to stand up, "Yo, Wesker! Where the fuck are ya? You and that broad!"
"Right here, Akibahara. Right here..."
And then he appeared.
Albert Wesker.
"So... the subjects have come. My, my. How delightful," Wesker spoke, appearing beside Akibahara out of nowhere, "You're all exactly where we want you, but I won't give you any time to regret your mistakes. In any case, don't rough them up too much, dear. They're all valuable test subjects."
"Of course, of course. Anything for you," a woman's voice said, before another figure would appear beside Wesker.
It was the first Claire Redfield from the Crossed Incident. The Traitor that had defected willingly for Wesker. The Claire that had betrayed and forsaken her own brother for his worst enemy. The real target of Shiki Tohno's resentment.
"How quaint. It's that glasses boy from before. I hope you'll forgive that I don't remember your name. And of course, how could I forget Ms. Elsa? Or... it's actually Mrs now, hmm? Where's Solaire? Did he die in a ditch somewhere?" The first Claire asked, as if deliberately jabbing, "Where's Vi? Couldn't ever forget that loudmouth, and I heard she was coming with you guys. Did she die too? Aw, so sad, Tsk, tsk," she said mockingly, shaking her head briefly.
For many, it would likely be jarring to see the first Claire like this. She had the same face and voice as the other Claire before you all, but she certainly had a different look and tone about her. As if she was a completely different person.
"You...! Who do you think you are? You have no right to--!"
"Oh, shut up already, kid," Claire spoke, before shooting Shiki in the chest, knocking him back, blood splattering as a result. Shiki fell down without so much as a sound, his glasses falling off as his head collided into the ground.
"I'm the one who won. I guess Claire Redfield always wins, no matter who it is. Isn't that right, other me?" She asked the other Claire with a knowing smirk. Her eyes flashed red, mimicking the reptilian eyes that the Claire you were familiar with now sported.
"A-Ah..." Her clothes stained with blood and her body drenched in water from the previous world, Claire was a sight to behold. She almost looked pathetic standing before this other Claire who carried herself so confidently. That didn't really matter to her now, though. She glanced momentarily toward Aqua, before pulling out her gun and aiming it at the other Claire. They looked almost identical in their stances.
"One of us will win. I just have to make sure it'll be me." This other her had haunted Claire for the last ten years. It was time to end the nightmare. They were not the same. Aqua, Max, Chloe, and the others appreciated her for who she was. This other Claire had no bearing on that-- she just had to be taken down.
"Yes, yes. This is all very fuckin' heartwarming, but I think that's enough talking for now, and more fucking! ... And fucking up!" Akibahara exclaimed, before his human skin would begin shedding. And then he would transform.
Before your very eyes, patches of an armor-like hide would form on his body. His clothes would tear apart, and gradually, he would grow into a hulking, towering monster over hundreds and hundreds of meters tall. It seemed like all he needed to do was squash you, and that would be the end of it.
Meanwhile, Wesker, seemingly unperturbed by the transformation, would produce a small device resembling some kind of phone or remote, pressing a button on it. In no time, you'd all be able to hear what seemed to be savage growling. Howling. Laughter.
And then they would appear. The Crossed.
Armed to the brim with conventional weapons from God knows where, including firearms, bows and arrows, chainsaws, blades, and the works, you were all heavily outnumbered and possibly outgunned. The army looked at you all with sadistic grins, as though looking forward to killing you all.
They had all clearly lost their minds long ago. There was no negotiating with them.
That was far from it all, however.
Zombies. They shuffled as a horde around the army of Crossed. They did not make a move to touch them, their hungry eyes set upon your group only.
Holding up a hand, as though holding them back for now and waiting for a more opportune time, Wesker looked at you all with a smug expression on his face.
"All this fighting you partook in... and it only resulted in nothing but most of you perishing. It's sad, but true. Your efforts were all in vain. You can't hope to overcome this."
"Gah... gughh..." Shiki grunted lowly, recovering from the gunshot wound. His body was weak and slow with this kind of wound, as well as the stab wound the Mikasa illusion had given him earlier. Still, he would not let this end. Not like this.
"J-Just..."
Blood dripped from his mouth. His vision was blurry. His breathing was ragged.
But he would not let it end like this.
"JUST DISAPPEAR ALREADY!!"
With that, he would take out the somewhat sabotaged Ultimate Nullifier out of his pocket. The device was only able to work at roughly 15% of its original capacity, but if the Watcher was correct, it would be enough...!
The device would suddenly emit a large beam of energy, firing right at Akibahara! With an explosion that impacted throughout the entire realm, shaking it a little, Akibahara would let out a fierce, massive yell of pain and surprise as he gradually shrunk a bit. The patches of armor on his hide disappeared, and before long, a good chunk of his power was depleted, changing his appearance.
He was now a bit smaller than before, and far weaker, but one could assume that he was still a fearsome enemy to be reckoned with.
"You... You worthless pissant! What the fuck did you just do to me?! Not that it matters! That's right! That's right!" The Arch Demon growled in a devilish voice. No traces of any human were left. Then again, he was a being that was less than human, "It doesn't matter at all! You're all fucking dead anyway! Fuck 'em, Wesker! Fuck 'em all up!"
"Not so fast!"
A familiar voice would suddenly make itself known from behind. It was none other than Makoto Naegi, and standing beside him was Darth Rex. Together, the two leaders of the Coalition stood valiantly against the massive threat in front of them.
"Akibahara, your reign of terror ends here! In the end, hope will always prevail against the despair that you try so desperately to grow and feed off of! Hope is what drives us to step forward and give us courage to fight against fiends like you! As long as there's one person left standing against you, hope will last forever!"
"In all my days, I ain't ever seen someone that presented such a threat to the multiverse like you have. And I ain't never seen anyone as ugly as you either, Akibahara. This ends here," Darth Rex spoke firmly, backing up Makoto.
Before long, materializing from what seemed to be a portal, more Coalition allies would appear, ready to aid you in the massive battle against the Arch Demon and his forces. Their forces would even the odds against the Crossed and their masters.
Along with them would appear a few surprise guests.
Now that Claudia was deceased, her illusions were no more. Freed from their eternal prisons, the survivors of the Silent Hill incident were warped on to the field. They would be undoubtedly confused, but they would be able to have a role in this fight.
The two armies stared at each other intently, ready to fight at any moment.
"Tch! Oh, yes! It'll definitely end here! I'll make sure of that!" He exclaimed, letting out a demonic roar, "Death! Death! Kill 'em all!"
Like a front general, Wesker lowered his arm, and the Crossed charged forward. Likewise, Darth Rex gave the signal, and the Coalition forces retaliated, also charging forward.
Everything had been building up to this very moment.
The Crossed Incident.
The Gotham Incident.
The Silent Hill Incident.
The Monokuma Incident.
The Reaper Incident.
The Fuse Incident.
They were all building up to this very moment.
The battle for the fate of the multiverse was here.
- - -
OOC Note: If you have another character allied with the Coalition, you may have them appear in the battle and play as them. You may also GM the Crossed/Zombies if you wish as well.
If you had an illusion of an MGIII character appear in the last chapter, they can now revive! Keep in mind they will have no memories of their time between the ending of MGIII and now, and will likely be pretty confused.
~CAST LIST~
@Atomyk as Claire Redfield [Resident Evil]
@FireDrake150 as Izana [Original Character] and Ace [Final Fantasy]
@Gummi Bunnies as Red [Pokemon] and Rinato Dormi [Original Character]
@BarrenThin as Lisa Castle and Frank Castle [Marvel Comics]
@The Tactician as Kazuya 'Abel' Mineshigi and Naoya 'Cain' Mineshigi [Devil Survivor]
@Verite as Shiki Tohno [Type-Moon]
@Krieg as Jon Snow [Game of Thrones]
@TheBombMan as Plutia [Hyperdimension Neptunia] and Gnar [League of Legends]
@Emperor Palpachu as Darth Vader, R2-D2 [Star Wars] and The Doctor [Doctor Who]
@Mari as Bayonetta [Bayonetta]
@Klutzy Ninja Kitty as Aqua [Kingdom Hearts]
@Hospes as Teresa Agnes [Maze Runner] and Ridley Duchannes [The Caster Chronicles]
@york as Sophie [Cry of Fear] and Ruby Rose [RWBY]
@TheColourlessRainbow as The Charmed Ones [Charmed]
@Mtntopview as Frenzy [Transformers]
@Mighty Roman as Joseph Aniphage [Original Character/The Noble Magi]
@DapperDogman as Soul 'Eater' Evans [Soul Eater] and Ulysses [Fallout]
@Proxymoron as Nicki Minaj [Real Life]
@Nassi as Dante [Devil May Cry]
@MrDubWubs as Vi [League of Legends]
@Thuro Pendragon as Ezio Auditore and Desmond Miles [Assassin's Creed]
@Infinatis as Grail Trigadon [Original Character] and Specter Knight [Shovel Knight]
@M a r s as Lucy Heartfilia [Fairy Tail]
@Ryu Keiko as Ryu Keiko [Original Character]
@Josh M as Travis Touchdown [No More Heroes]
@Jenny as Margaery Tyrell and Loras Tyrell [Game of Thrones]
@Maddeline as Emily "Hunter" Grimes [Original Character/End the Cycle]
@Librarian Cat as Corvo Attano [Dishonored]
@Raven as Jake Long [American Dragon] and Stitch [Lilo and Stitch]
@TheBlueBurch as Chloe Price [Life is Strange]
@Jeremi as Storm and Crusader [Marvel Comics]
@SirDerpingtonIV as Nito [Dark Souls]
@Wedge Antilles as Legolas Greenleaf [The Lord of the Rings]
@Sandra as Sylveon and Umbreon [Pokemon]
@Dinoteen as Cell [Dragon Ball Z]
@OrlandoBloomers as Maxine Caulfield [Life is Strange]
@Schnee Corp Lawyer as Alice Margatroid [Touhou]
@ShadowPrime as Felix [Red vs Blue]
@Banana Soiree as Harry Hart/Galahad [Kingsman: The Secret Service]
@OrionsHammer as Belphegor [Dark Souls]
@Unlimited RP Works as Archer [Type-Moon]
@Chris Lang as Kalifa and Kaku [One Piece]
@Meira as Revya [Soul Nomad & The World Eaters]
@FancyForrest as Wander [Shadow of the Colossus]
@The Silver Paladin as The Lone Wanderer/Riley [Fallout]
@Nater Taters as Booker DeWitt [Bioshock]
@ResistingTheEnlightened as Joshua Graham [Fallout]
@Lizzy as Link and Fi [Legend of Zelda]
@Black Cat as Sarutobi Hiruzen and Toad Sage Jiriaya [Naruto]
@Ivazel as Albert Wesker [Resident Evil]
@Crimson Spartan as Erron Black [Mortal Kombat]
@CrunchyCHEEZIT as James "Jim" Raynor [StarCraft]
@Kaykay as Sakuya Izayoi [Touhou]
Raven looked at everyone around. Just as if she had come from the church she felt her memories struggling to remember till she noticed two out within the crowd. 'They heard...' She thought a small smile appeared behind the hood. She noticed Aki and her memory of what she had done in her first game was event. She was rather quiet however. She could see many others knowing this battle would end much differently than the one she had faced with her father but like before she was with friends.
Raven then went to meet Jake and Stitch along with there friends. "Glad to see you both are alright." She stated in monotone. "If you know anything of my past simply know I am not against but here to help defeat the Arch Demon." Her voice said a serious tone within it. She then looked to the allies. Then her eyes fell toward the Arch Demon. She didn't give Jake time for question's for then her hands began to glow black. She was ready to strike.
Seeing Raven Jake already took a fighting Stance. Then hearing her speak gave a curious look but he agreed the issue at hand was not her it seemed. "Alright but one wrong move and I'll end you" He growled. He knew Raven was considered a witch by the Dragon Council it was only because of his grandpa he wasn't going to fry her on the spot.
Stitch seemed more relaxed but being he would need to fight and it was finally Aki he let all four arms show. "Stitch ready" He stated.
@EVERYBODY
@Wedge Antilles @Lizzy @FireDrake150
(I know I know it's a little short but I feel slow typing compared to others)
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"Actually, yeah." He admitted. "I was hoping killing you wouldn't send the world to nothing as we moved on. I had hoped to get to chance to mutilate your corpse, since none of the morally righteous would have anything against that since a dead person can't feel pain. I was hoping to cut off your arms and use them to applaud your demise. But we don't always get what we want. And I imagine that a bigger fight is coming." He looked around the shattering world and nodded, doing the only thing that made sense. He reached down and pulled out his pack of cigarettes, lighting one up.FINAL CHAPTER
"An End for All"
"A...Ac..uaack...."
The blood seeped through her lips, her fragile form collapsing onto her knees. A heavy wheeze echoed in her breath, desperately clinging to what oxygen there was in the air, feeling her life begin to seep slowly away from her form. Three bullets from the Burned Man, bones and flesh cracking the fifteen-year-old's body, feeling two of them particularly wound her right thigh. A fragment of Gauss ricocheted off from a nearby wall, colliding against Arya's already wounded right shoulder from Felix's previous and continuing assault, reopening once sown wounds. From blades to magic, firearms to fury, Arya once stood, not an ounce of power in her as she felt her body ripped to shreds underneath the hellfire that greeted her.
A tremble coursed down her spine, the crawling march of Death.
No whimpers escaped her lips, no tears, no signs of visible pain. Ye, she held her head up, her legs giving in, staring at the players, heavily wheezing and heaving as she clenched her shoulder with her right hand. Still refusing to let go of Needle, the sword Jon gave her long ago, Arya began to rasp out, a soft, almost twisted chuckle escaping her lips. It wasn't that she found amusement in her death, but finding amusement in how the universe at each and every corner decided to fuck her. Let the zealots continue their crusade, let the others believe fanatically in their mission, but for Arya, it mattered not now.
"W-We..re..you..e-expecting...m-more?"
A twisted jest, but a true one. Despite her valor, her efforts, Arya had succumbed easily, as with the Mourners, as with the Sufferers, as with the Queensguard. All of them revealed the horrid truth that not all confrontations were long, that some people genuinely did not wish to fight, but rather, were simply caught in the crossfire of this brewing war. Lives were forsaken, but was it the hands of Mercy, or the hands of these "white knights" that put them to the sword? A man may pray to his holy text, and may preach of peace, but live and die under the sword, under the facade of redemption. But, alas, it did not matter, whats done is done, and what has been done will be done.
Her fall began the moment she stepped foot into all of this.
Bleeding and broken, the princess turned her gaze to one man. A man she gave the majority of her abilities away to see life once more. A man that was, funnily enough, caught in the crossfire, presumably put by the Coalition as a liability. A man that Arya knew she could not see die, and a man that she had grown to call her big brother.
With one last effort, one last rasp of her voice, she lurched forward, calling his name. By the time the words escaped her lips, only the flash of light greeted her eyes. A reminder of her constant failure, time after time again, forced to watch her love ones die and her friends spitefully stab her in the back. When the words left her lips, crimson fell with it, the She-Wolf beginning to teeter backwards, her petite form collapsing fully against the wooden floorboards.
"J-Jon..."
I'm sorry
***
He could not stop it.
Like his Father before him, like his brother at the Twins, he couldn't stop what was happening around him. Life had been stripped him, the petite emotions of the human form gone and hollowed. A watcher without purpose, a soulless hollow forced to endure an existence without purpose. The black-clad undead watched, because even he knew, in the darkest depths of his deceased mind, there was nothing that could be done. He had fought so far, and had endured through both life and death to save his sister.
And as the shots rang, as the blades were drawn, as the fires and magics danced, Coldhands could only do what has been doing for the past two years.
Watch.
As the dust settled, Jon walked forwards, not lowering his hood, but knowing Arya could see who it was. He still pondered as to how he still walked among the living, but in some twisted way, he could feel it being Arya's presence. She had denied him death, not to see him suffer, but to see him prosper. Perhaps it was not Jon's death, not yet, but rather, a rebirth. Whatever the cast may be, Coldhands softly rasped out himself, before being succumbed to a flash of white light.
"Ar..ya.."
I'm sorry
***
As Arya's body fell limp to the floor, a flash of light would circle the girl's body. Ludger ran forward, pushing past the fighters in order to get an eager glance at what was happening. This world had been unlike the others, as far as Ludger had been able to tell; There was no divergence catalyst that he could sense and no alternate history to be determined. He'd figured that the world had been conjured by Claudia in order to impede their progress, but as the world had stayed intact despite the woman's death, the only other explanation lied with the small teenage girl that had confounded the Coalition since this mission began.
As Arya Stark lay dying on the floor, the surrounding world began to crack and break, as if pressure was being put on a pane of glass. Ludger watched as the young girl was lifted into the air slightly, her body starting to disappear. Ludger ran to grab her, but by the time he had reached her, she was gone. Before he could wonder what happened to her body, the entire world shattered.
As if they had been standing inside a small dome, the world around them dropped to reveal an even larger surrounding world. The only word that came to describe it was...
Dead.
The world all around was just dead. Perhaps it was fitting as the home of Arch Demon Akibahara. Fire, brimstone, all that ominous stuff. It was all you could see as far as your eyes would allow you to observe. It was just... all barren.
"Welcome, welcome. To my humble abode."
It was the man himself. Arch Demon Akibahara in his human form. His general demeanor and attitude gave an obvious cocky, confident aura to him, and on top of his confidence, you could also feel another kind of aura. The influence. The influence that had compelled many Traitors before in the past to act in his name. You could feel it cloud your mind a little, but you couldn't let him corrupt you this late! Not when you were this far.
"Fuckin' A, you guys actually made it. Not bad. Not bad. Except for like half of you fuckin' shits dying," he said haughtily, giving a brief chuckle, "Couldn't possibly fathom you guys takin' me on with a half-assed lot like you all. May as well keel over right now. Bend over and lemme indulge on some dat... Mmm..."
And then he licked his lips. Yuck.
"You... you're Akibahara..." Shiki murmured, fists clenching tightly, "You're the one behind all this... this never-ending cycle. This deadly game of life and death. Toying with people just for your own amusement..." He said scornfully, almost gritting his teeth, "Akibahara..."
I'll kill him. I'll kill him.
This merely got a brief laugh out of the Arch Demon, who was hardly intimidated. "Whoa, whoa. Feisty, aren't ya? Alright, if that's the way you want it," he said with a shrug and a cocky smile, beginning to stand up, "Yo, Wesker! Where the fuck are ya? You and that broad!"
"Right here, Akibahara. Right here..."
And then he appeared.
Albert Wesker.
"So... the subjects have come. My, my. How delightful," Wesker spoke, appearing beside Akibahara out of nowhere, "You're all exactly where we want you, but I won't give you any time to regret your mistakes. In any case, don't rough them up too much, dear. They're all valuable test subjects."
"Of course, of course. Anything for you," a woman's voice said, before another figure would appear beside Wesker.
It was the first Claire Redfield from the Crossed Incident. The Traitor that had defected willingly for Wesker. The Claire that had betrayed and forsaken her own brother for his worst enemy. The real target of Shiki Tohno's resentment.
"How quaint. It's that glasses boy from before. I hope you'll forgive that I don't remember your name. And of course, how could I forget Ms. Elsa? Or... it's actually Mrs now, hmm? Where's Solaire? Did he die in a ditch somewhere?" The first Claire asked, as if deliberately jabbing, "Where's Vi? Couldn't ever forget that loudmouth, and I heard she was coming with you guys. Did she die too? Aw, so sad, Tsk, tsk," she said mockingly, shaking her head briefly.
For many, it would likely be jarring to see the first Claire like this. She had the same face and voice as the other Claire before you all, but she certainly had a different look and tone about her. As if she was a completely different person.
"You...! Who do you think you are? You have no right to--!"
"Oh, shut up already, kid," Claire spoke, before shooting Shiki in the chest, knocking him back, blood splattering as a result. Shiki fell down without so much as a sound, his glasses falling off as his head collided into the ground.
"I'm the one who won. I guess Claire Redfield always wins, no matter who it is. Isn't that right, other me?" She asked the other Claire with a knowing smirk. Her eyes flashed red, mimicking the reptilian eyes that the Claire you were familiar with now sported.
"A-Ah..." Her clothes stained with blood and her body drenched in water from the previous world, Claire was a sight to behold. She almost looked pathetic standing before this other Claire who carried herself so confidently. That didn't really matter to her now, though. She glanced momentarily toward Aqua, before pulling out her gun and aiming it at the other Claire. They looked almost identical in their stances.
"One of us will win. I just have to make sure it'll be me." This other her had haunted Claire for the last ten years. It was time to end the nightmare. They were not the same. Aqua, Max, Chloe, and the others appreciated her for who she was. This other Claire had no bearing on that-- she just had to be taken down.
"Yes, yes. This is all very fuckin' heartwarming, but I think that's enough talking for now, and more fucking! ... And fucking up!" Akibahara exclaimed, before his human skin would begin shedding. And then he would transform.
Before your very eyes, patches of an armor-like hide would form on his body. His clothes would tear apart, and gradually, he would grow into a hulking, towering monster over hundreds and hundreds of meters tall. It seemed like all he needed to do was squash you, and that would be the end of it.
Meanwhile, Wesker, seemingly unperturbed by the transformation, would produce a small device resembling some kind of phone or remote, pressing a button on it. In no time, you'd all be able to hear what seemed to be savage growling. Howling. Laughter.
And then they would appear. The Crossed.
Armed to the brim with conventional weapons from God knows where, including firearms, bows and arrows, chainsaws, blades, and the works, you were all heavily outnumbered and possibly outgunned. The army looked at you all with sadistic grins, as though looking forward to killing you all.
They had all clearly lost their minds long ago. There was no negotiating with them.
That was far from it all, however.
Zombies. They shuffled as a horde around the army of Crossed. They did not make a move to touch them, their hungry eyes set upon your group only.
Holding up a hand, as though holding them back for now and waiting for a more opportune time, Wesker looked at you all with a smug expression on his face.
"All this fighting you partook in... and it only resulted in nothing but most of you perishing. It's sad, but true. Your efforts were all in vain. You can't hope to overcome this."
"Gah... gughh..." Shiki grunted lowly, recovering from the gunshot wound. His body was weak and slow with this kind of wound, as well as the stab wound the Mikasa illusion had given him earlier. Still, he would not let this end. Not like this.
"J-Just..."
Blood dripped from his mouth. His vision was blurry. His breathing was ragged.
But he would not let it end like this.
"JUST DISAPPEAR ALREADY!!"
With that, he would take out the somewhat sabotaged Ultimate Nullifier out of his pocket. The device was only able to work at roughly 15% of its original capacity, but if the Watcher was correct, it would be enough...!
The device would suddenly emit a large beam of energy, firing right at Akibahara! With an explosion that impacted throughout the entire realm, shaking it a little, Akibahara would let out a fierce, massive yell of pain and surprise as he gradually shrunk a bit. The patches of armor on his hide disappeared, and before long, a good chunk of his power was depleted, changing his appearance.
He was now a bit smaller than before, and far weaker, but one could assume that he was still a fearsome enemy to be reckoned with.
"You... You worthless pissant! What the fuck did you just do to me?! Not that it matters! That's right! That's right!" The Arch Demon growled in a devilish voice. No traces of any human were left. Then again, he was a being that was less than human, "It doesn't matter at all! You're all fucking dead anyway! Fuck 'em, Wesker! Fuck 'em all up!"
"Not so fast!"
A familiar voice would suddenly make itself known from behind. It was none other than Makoto Naegi, and standing beside him was Darth Rex. Together, the two leaders of the Coalition stood valiantly against the massive threat in front of them.
"Akibahara, your reign of terror ends here! In the end, hope will always prevail against the despair that you try so desperately to grow and feed off of! Hope is what drives us to step forward and give us courage to fight against fiends like you! As long as there's one person left standing against you, hope will last forever!"
"In all my days, I ain't ever seen someone that presented such a threat to the multiverse like you have. And I ain't never seen anyone as ugly as you either, Akibahara. This ends here," Darth Rex spoke firmly, backing up Makoto.
Before long, materializing from what seemed to be a portal, more Coalition allies would appear, ready to aid you in the massive battle against the Arch Demon and his forces. Their forces would even the odds against the Crossed and their masters.
Along with them would appear a few surprise guests.
Now that Claudia was deceased, her illusions were no more. Freed from their eternal prisons, the survivors of the Silent Hill incident were warped on to the field. They would be undoubtedly confused, but they would be able to have a role in this fight.
The two armies stared at each other intently, ready to fight at any moment.
"Tch! Oh, yes! It'll definitely end here! I'll make sure of that!" He exclaimed, letting out a demonic roar, "Death! Death! Kill 'em all!"
Like a front general, Wesker lowered his arm, and the Crossed charged forward. Likewise, Darth Rex gave the signal, and the Coalition forces retaliated, also charging forward.
Everything had been building up to this very moment.
The Crossed Incident.
The Gotham Incident.
The Silent Hill Incident.
The Monokuma Incident.
The Reaper Incident.
The Fuse Incident.
They were all building up to this very moment.
The battle for the fate of the multiverse was here.
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OOC Note: If you have another character allied with the Coalition, you may have them appear in the battle and play as them. You may also GM the Crossed/Zombies if you wish as well.
If you had an illusion of an MGIII character appear in the last chapter, they can now revive! Keep in mind they will have no memories of their time between the ending of MGIII and now, and will likely be pretty confused.
~CAST LIST~
@Atomyk as Claire Redfield [Resident Evil]
@FireDrake150 as Izana [Original Character] and Ace [Final Fantasy]
@Gummi Bunnies as Red [Pokemon] and Rinato Dormi [Original Character]
@BarrenThin as Lisa Castle and Frank Castle [Marvel Comics]
@The Tactician as Kazuya 'Abel' Mineshigi and Naoya 'Cain' Mineshigi [Devil Survivor]
@Verite as Shiki Tohno [Type-Moon]
@Krieg as Jon Snow [Game of Thrones]
@TheBombMan as Plutia [Hyperdimension Neptunia] and Gnar [League of Legends]
@Emperor Palpachu as Darth Vader, R2-D2 [Star Wars] and The Doctor [Doctor Who]
@Mari as Bayonetta [Bayonetta]
@Klutzy Ninja Kitty as Aqua [Kingdom Hearts]
@Hospes as Teresa Agnes [Maze Runner] and Ridley Duchannes [The Caster Chronicles]
@york as Sophie [Cry of Fear] and Ruby Rose [RWBY]
@TheColourlessRainbow as The Charmed Ones [Charmed]
@Mtntopview as Frenzy [Transformers]
@Mighty Roman as Joseph Aniphage [Original Character/The Noble Magi]
@DapperDogman as Soul 'Eater' Evans [Soul Eater] and Ulysses [Fallout]
@Proxymoron as Nicki Minaj [Real Life]
@Nassi as Dante [Devil May Cry]
@MrDubWubs as Vi [League of Legends]
@Thuro Pendragon as Ezio Auditore and Desmond Miles [Assassin's Creed]
@Infinatis as Grail Trigadon [Original Character] and Specter Knight [Shovel Knight]
@M a r s as Lucy Heartfilia [Fairy Tail]
@Ryu Keiko as Ryu Keiko [Original Character]
@Josh M as Travis Touchdown [No More Heroes]
@Jenny as Margaery Tyrell and Loras Tyrell [Game of Thrones]
@Maddeline as Emily "Hunter" Grimes [Original Character/End the Cycle]
@Librarian Cat as Corvo Attano [Dishonored]
@Raven as Jake Long [American Dragon] and Stitch [Lilo and Stitch]
@TheBlueBurch as Chloe Price [Life is Strange]
@Jeremi as Storm and Crusader [Marvel Comics]
@SirDerpingtonIV as Nito [Dark Souls]
@Wedge Antilles as Legolas Greenleaf [The Lord of the Rings]
@Sandra as Sylveon and Umbreon [Pokemon]
@Dinoteen as Cell [Dragon Ball Z]
@OrlandoBloomers as Maxine Caulfield [Life is Strange]
@Schnee Corp Lawyer as Alice Margatroid [Touhou]
@ShadowPrime as Felix [Red vs Blue]
@Banana Soiree as Harry Hart/Galahad [Kingsman: The Secret Service]
@OrionsHammer as Belphegor [Dark Souls]
@Unlimited RP Works as Archer [Type-Moon]
@Chris Lang as Kalifa and Kaku [One Piece]
@Meira as Revya [Soul Nomad & The World Eaters]
@FancyForrest as Wander [Shadow of the Colossus]
@The Silver Paladin as The Lone Wanderer/Riley [Fallout]
@Nater Taters as Booker DeWitt [Bioshock]
@ResistingTheEnlightened as Joshua Graham [Fallout]
@Lizzy as Link and Fi [Legend of Zelda]
@Black Cat as Sarutobi Hiruzen and Toad Sage Jiriaya [Naruto]
@Ivazel as Albert Wesker [Resident Evil]
@Crimson Spartan as Erron Black [Mortal Kombat]
@CrunchyCHEEZIT as James "Jim" Raynor [StarCraft]
@Kaykay as Sakuya Izayoi [Touhou]
Legolas looked at the newcomer. "Legolas, of Mirkwood", he introduced himself. This is Link, Izana, Ace, Joseph, and Lady Fi", he introduced to the others as well.
"We have not much time. The ultimate battle is quite upon us. Let us engage it with honor!" He focused his arrows on the Arch Demon. He looked to Jake. "If you could do what you had last time with Arya. That would be helpful."
@Raven @Lizzy @Mighty Roman @FireDrake150
FINAL CHAPTER
"An End for All"
"A...Ac..uaack...."
The blood seeped through her lips, her fragile form collapsing onto her knees. A heavy wheeze echoed in her breath, desperately clinging to what oxygen there was in the air, feeling her life begin to seep slowly away from her form. Three bullets from the Burned Man, bones and flesh cracking the fifteen-year-old's body, feeling two of them particularly wound her right thigh. A fragment of Gauss ricocheted off from a nearby wall, colliding against Arya's already wounded right shoulder from Felix's previous and continuing assault, reopening once sown wounds. From blades to magic, firearms to fury, Arya once stood, not an ounce of power in her as she felt her body ripped to shreds underneath the hellfire that greeted her.
A tremble coursed down her spine, the crawling march of Death.
No whimpers escaped her lips, no tears, no signs of visible pain. Ye, she held her head up, her legs giving in, staring at the players, heavily wheezing and heaving as she clenched her shoulder with her right hand. Still refusing to let go of Needle, the sword Jon gave her long ago, Arya began to rasp out, a soft, almost twisted chuckle escaping her lips. It wasn't that she found amusement in her death, but finding amusement in how the universe at each and every corner decided to fuck her. Let the zealots continue their crusade, let the others believe fanatically in their mission, but for Arya, it mattered not now.
"W-We..re..you..e-expecting...m-more?"
A twisted jest, but a true one. Despite her valor, her efforts, Arya had succumbed easily, as with the Mourners, as with the Sufferers, as with the Queensguard. All of them revealed the horrid truth that not all confrontations were long, that some people genuinely did not wish to fight, but rather, were simply caught in the crossfire of this brewing war. Lives were forsaken, but was it the hands of Mercy, or the hands of these "white knights" that put them to the sword? A man may pray to his holy text, and may preach of peace, but live and die under the sword, under the facade of redemption. But, alas, it did not matter, whats done is done, and what has been done will be done.
Her fall began the moment she stepped foot into all of this.
Bleeding and broken, the princess turned her gaze to one man. A man she gave the majority of her abilities away to see life once more. A man that was, funnily enough, caught in the crossfire, presumably put by the Coalition as a liability. A man that Arya knew she could not see die, and a man that she had grown to call her big brother.
With one last effort, one last rasp of her voice, she lurched forward, calling his name. By the time the words escaped her lips, only the flash of light greeted her eyes. A reminder of her constant failure, time after time again, forced to watch her love ones die and her friends spitefully stab her in the back. When the words left her lips, crimson fell with it, the She-Wolf beginning to teeter backwards, her petite form collapsing fully against the wooden floorboards.
"J-Jon..."
I'm sorry
***
He could not stop it.
Like his Father before him, like his brother at the Twins, he couldn't stop what was happening around him. Life had been stripped him, the petite emotions of the human form gone and hollowed. A watcher without purpose, a soulless hollow forced to endure an existence without purpose. The black-clad undead watched, because even he knew, in the darkest depths of his deceased mind, there was nothing that could be done. He had fought so far, and had endured through both life and death to save his sister.
And as the shots rang, as the blades were drawn, as the fires and magics danced, Coldhands could only do what has been doing for the past two years.
Watch.
As the dust settled, Jon walked forwards, not lowering his hood, but knowing Arya could see who it was. He still pondered as to how he still walked among the living, but in some twisted way, he could feel it being Arya's presence. She had denied him death, not to see him suffer, but to see him prosper. Perhaps it was not Jon's death, not yet, but rather, a rebirth. Whatever the cast may be, Coldhands softly rasped out himself, before being succumbed to a flash of white light.
"Ar..ya.."
I'm sorry
***
As Arya's body fell limp to the floor, a flash of light would circle the girl's body. Ludger ran forward, pushing past the fighters in order to get an eager glance at what was happening. This world had been unlike the others, as far as Ludger had been able to tell; There was no divergence catalyst that he could sense and no alternate history to be determined. He'd figured that the world had been conjured by Claudia in order to impede their progress, but as the world had stayed intact despite the woman's death, the only other explanation lied with the small teenage girl that had confounded the Coalition since this mission began.
As Arya Stark lay dying on the floor, the surrounding world began to crack and break, as if pressure was being put on a pane of glass. Ludger watched as the young girl was lifted into the air slightly, her body starting to disappear. Ludger ran to grab her, but by the time he had reached her, she was gone. Before he could wonder what happened to her body, the entire world shattered.
As if they had been standing inside a small dome, the world around them dropped to reveal an even larger surrounding world. The only word that came to describe it was...
Dead.
The world all around was just dead. Perhaps it was fitting as the home of Arch Demon Akibahara. Fire, brimstone, all that ominous stuff. It was all you could see as far as your eyes would allow you to observe. It was just... all barren.
"Welcome, welcome. To my humble abode."
It was the man himself. Arch Demon Akibahara in his human form. His general demeanor and attitude gave an obvious cocky, confident aura to him, and on top of his confidence, you could also feel another kind of aura. The influence. The influence that had compelled many Traitors before in the past to act in his name. You could feel it cloud your mind a little, but you couldn't let him corrupt you this late! Not when you were this far.
"Fuckin' A, you guys actually made it. Not bad. Not bad. Except for like half of you fuckin' shits dying," he said haughtily, giving a brief chuckle, "Couldn't possibly fathom you guys takin' me on with a half-assed lot like you all. May as well keel over right now. Bend over and lemme indulge on some dat... Mmm..."
And then he licked his lips. Yuck.
"You... you're Akibahara..." Shiki murmured, fists clenching tightly, "You're the one behind all this... this never-ending cycle. This deadly game of life and death. Toying with people just for your own amusement..." He said scornfully, almost gritting his teeth, "Akibahara..."
I'll kill him. I'll kill him.
This merely got a brief laugh out of the Arch Demon, who was hardly intimidated. "Whoa, whoa. Feisty, aren't ya? Alright, if that's the way you want it," he said with a shrug and a cocky smile, beginning to stand up, "Yo, Wesker! Where the fuck are ya? You and that broad!"
"Right here, Akibahara. Right here..."
And then he appeared.
Albert Wesker.
"So... the subjects have come. My, my. How delightful," Wesker spoke, appearing beside Akibahara out of nowhere, "You're all exactly where we want you, but I won't give you any time to regret your mistakes. In any case, don't rough them up too much, dear. They're all valuable test subjects."
"Of course, of course. Anything for you," a woman's voice said, before another figure would appear beside Wesker.
It was the first Claire Redfield from the Crossed Incident. The Traitor that had defected willingly for Wesker. The Claire that had betrayed and forsaken her own brother for his worst enemy. The real target of Shiki Tohno's resentment.
"How quaint. It's that glasses boy from before. I hope you'll forgive that I don't remember your name. And of course, how could I forget Ms. Elsa? Or... it's actually Mrs now, hmm? Where's Solaire? Did he die in a ditch somewhere?" The first Claire asked, as if deliberately jabbing, "Where's Vi? Couldn't ever forget that loudmouth, and I heard she was coming with you guys. Did she die too? Aw, so sad, Tsk, tsk," she said mockingly, shaking her head briefly.
For many, it would likely be jarring to see the first Claire like this. She had the same face and voice as the other Claire before you all, but she certainly had a different look and tone about her. As if she was a completely different person.
"You...! Who do you think you are? You have no right to--!"
"Oh, shut up already, kid," Claire spoke, before shooting Shiki in the chest, knocking him back, blood splattering as a result. Shiki fell down without so much as a sound, his glasses falling off as his head collided into the ground.
"I'm the one who won. I guess Claire Redfield always wins, no matter who it is. Isn't that right, other me?" She asked the other Claire with a knowing smirk. Her eyes flashed red, mimicking the reptilian eyes that the Claire you were familiar with now sported.
"A-Ah..." Her clothes stained with blood and her body drenched in water from the previous world, Claire was a sight to behold. She almost looked pathetic standing before this other Claire who carried herself so confidently. That didn't really matter to her now, though. She glanced momentarily toward Aqua, before pulling out her gun and aiming it at the other Claire. They looked almost identical in their stances.
"One of us will win. I just have to make sure it'll be me." This other her had haunted Claire for the last ten years. It was time to end the nightmare. They were not the same. Aqua, Max, Chloe, and the others appreciated her for who she was. This other Claire had no bearing on that-- she just had to be taken down.
"Yes, yes. This is all very fuckin' heartwarming, but I think that's enough talking for now, and more fucking! ... And fucking up!" Akibahara exclaimed, before his human skin would begin shedding. And then he would transform.
Before your very eyes, patches of an armor-like hide would form on his body. His clothes would tear apart, and gradually, he would grow into a hulking, towering monster over hundreds and hundreds of meters tall. It seemed like all he needed to do was squash you, and that would be the end of it.
Meanwhile, Wesker, seemingly unperturbed by the transformation, would produce a small device resembling some kind of phone or remote, pressing a button on it. In no time, you'd all be able to hear what seemed to be savage growling. Howling. Laughter.
And then they would appear. The Crossed.
Armed to the brim with conventional weapons from God knows where, including firearms, bows and arrows, chainsaws, blades, and the works, you were all heavily outnumbered and possibly outgunned. The army looked at you all with sadistic grins, as though looking forward to killing you all.
They had all clearly lost their minds long ago. There was no negotiating with them.
That was far from it all, however.
Zombies. They shuffled as a horde around the army of Crossed. They did not make a move to touch them, their hungry eyes set upon your group only.
Holding up a hand, as though holding them back for now and waiting for a more opportune time, Wesker looked at you all with a smug expression on his face.
"All this fighting you partook in... and it only resulted in nothing but most of you perishing. It's sad, but true. Your efforts were all in vain. You can't hope to overcome this."
"Gah... gughh..." Shiki grunted lowly, recovering from the gunshot wound. His body was weak and slow with this kind of wound, as well as the stab wound the Mikasa illusion had given him earlier. Still, he would not let this end. Not like this.
"J-Just..."
Blood dripped from his mouth. His vision was blurry. His breathing was ragged.
But he would not let it end like this.
"JUST DISAPPEAR ALREADY!!"
With that, he would take out the somewhat sabotaged Ultimate Nullifier out of his pocket. The device was only able to work at roughly 15% of its original capacity, but if the Watcher was correct, it would be enough...!
The device would suddenly emit a large beam of energy, firing right at Akibahara! With an explosion that impacted throughout the entire realm, shaking it a little, Akibahara would let out a fierce, massive yell of pain and surprise as he gradually shrunk a bit. The patches of armor on his hide disappeared, and before long, a good chunk of his power was depleted, changing his appearance.
He was now a bit smaller than before, and far weaker, but one could assume that he was still a fearsome enemy to be reckoned with.
"You... You worthless pissant! What the fuck did you just do to me?! Not that it matters! That's right! That's right!" The Arch Demon growled in a devilish voice. No traces of any human were left. Then again, he was a being that was less than human, "It doesn't matter at all! You're all fucking dead anyway! Fuck 'em, Wesker! Fuck 'em all up!"
"Not so fast!"
A familiar voice would suddenly make itself known from behind. It was none other than Makoto Naegi, and standing beside him was Darth Rex. Together, the two leaders of the Coalition stood valiantly against the massive threat in front of them.
"Akibahara, your reign of terror ends here! In the end, hope will always prevail against the despair that you try so desperately to grow and feed off of! Hope is what drives us to step forward and give us courage to fight against fiends like you! As long as there's one person left standing against you, hope will last forever!"
"In all my days, I ain't ever seen someone that presented such a threat to the multiverse like you have. And I ain't never seen anyone as ugly as you either, Akibahara. This ends here," Darth Rex spoke firmly, backing up Makoto.
Before long, materializing from what seemed to be a portal, more Coalition allies would appear, ready to aid you in the massive battle against the Arch Demon and his forces. Their forces would even the odds against the Crossed and their masters.
Along with them would appear a few surprise guests.
Now that Claudia was deceased, her illusions were no more. Freed from their eternal prisons, the survivors of the Silent Hill incident were warped on to the field. They would be undoubtedly confused, but they would be able to have a role in this fight.
The two armies stared at each other intently, ready to fight at any moment.
"Tch! Oh, yes! It'll definitely end here! I'll make sure of that!" He exclaimed, letting out a demonic roar, "Death! Death! Kill 'em all!"
Like a front general, Wesker lowered his arm, and the Crossed charged forward. Likewise, Darth Rex gave the signal, and the Coalition forces retaliated, also charging forward.
Everything had been building up to this very moment.
The Crossed Incident.
The Gotham Incident.
The Silent Hill Incident.
The Monokuma Incident.
The Reaper Incident.
The Fuse Incident.
They were all building up to this very moment.
The battle for the fate of the multiverse was here.
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OOC Note: If you have another character allied with the Coalition, you may have them appear in the battle and play as them. You may also GM the Crossed/Zombies if you wish as well.
If you had an illusion of an MGIII character appear in the last chapter, they can now revive! Keep in mind they will have no memories of their time between the ending of MGIII and now, and will likely be pretty confused.
~CAST LIST~
@Atomyk as Claire Redfield [Resident Evil]
@FireDrake150 as Izana [Original Character] and Ace [Final Fantasy]
@Gummi Bunnies as Red [Pokemon] and Rinato Dormi [Original Character]
@BarrenThin as Lisa Castle and Frank Castle [Marvel Comics]
@The Tactician as Kazuya 'Abel' Mineshigi and Naoya 'Cain' Mineshigi [Devil Survivor]
@Verite as Shiki Tohno [Type-Moon]
@Krieg as Jon Snow [Game of Thrones]
@TheBombMan as Plutia [Hyperdimension Neptunia] and Gnar [League of Legends]
@Emperor Palpachu as Darth Vader, R2-D2 [Star Wars] and The Doctor [Doctor Who]
@Mari as Bayonetta [Bayonetta]
@Klutzy Ninja Kitty as Aqua [Kingdom Hearts]
@Hospes as Teresa Agnes [Maze Runner] and Ridley Duchannes [The Caster Chronicles]
@york as Sophie [Cry of Fear] and Ruby Rose [RWBY]
@TheColourlessRainbow as The Charmed Ones [Charmed]
@Mtntopview as Frenzy [Transformers]
@Mighty Roman as Joseph Aniphage [Original Character/The Noble Magi]
@DapperDogman as Soul 'Eater' Evans [Soul Eater] and Ulysses [Fallout]
@Proxymoron as Nicki Minaj [Real Life]
@Nassi as Dante [Devil May Cry]
@MrDubWubs as Vi [League of Legends]
@Thuro Pendragon as Ezio Auditore and Desmond Miles [Assassin's Creed]
@Infinatis as Grail Trigadon [Original Character] and Specter Knight [Shovel Knight]
@M a r s as Lucy Heartfilia [Fairy Tail]
@Ryu Keiko as Ryu Keiko [Original Character]
@Josh M as Travis Touchdown [No More Heroes]
@Jenny as Margaery Tyrell and Loras Tyrell [Game of Thrones]
@Maddeline as Emily "Hunter" Grimes [Original Character/End the Cycle]
@Librarian Cat as Corvo Attano [Dishonored]
@Raven as Jake Long [American Dragon] and Stitch [Lilo and Stitch]
@TheBlueBurch as Chloe Price [Life is Strange]
@Jeremi as Storm and Crusader [Marvel Comics]
@SirDerpingtonIV as Nito [Dark Souls]
@Wedge Antilles as Legolas Greenleaf [The Lord of the Rings]
@Sandra as Sylveon and Umbreon [Pokemon]
@Dinoteen as Cell [Dragon Ball Z]
@OrlandoBloomers as Maxine Caulfield [Life is Strange]
@Schnee Corp Lawyer as Alice Margatroid [Touhou]
@ShadowPrime as Felix [Red vs Blue]
@Banana Soiree as Harry Hart/Galahad [Kingsman: The Secret Service]
@OrionsHammer as Belphegor [Dark Souls]
@Unlimited RP Works as Archer [Type-Moon]
@Chris Lang as Kalifa and Kaku [One Piece]
@Meira as Revya [Soul Nomad & The World Eaters]
@FancyForrest as Wander [Shadow of the Colossus]
@The Silver Paladin as The Lone Wanderer/Riley [Fallout]
@Nater Taters as Booker DeWitt [Bioshock]
@ResistingTheEnlightened as Joshua Graham [Fallout]
@Lizzy as Link and Fi [Legend of Zelda]
@Black Cat as Sarutobi Hiruzen and Toad Sage Jiriaya [Naruto]
@Ivazel as Albert Wesker [Resident Evil]
@Crimson Spartan as Erron Black [Mortal Kombat]
@CrunchyCHEEZIT as James "Jim" Raynor [StarCraft]
@Kaykay as Sakuya Izayoi [Touhou]
Legolas looked at the newcomer. "Legolas, of Mirkwood", he introduced himself. This is Link, Izana, Ace, Joseph, and Lady Fi", he introduced to the others as well.
"We have not much time. The ultimate battle is quite upon us. Let us engage it with honor!" He focused his arrows on the Arch Demon. He looked to Jake. "If you could do what you had last time with Arya. That would be helpful."
@Raven @Lizzy @Mighty Roman @FireDrake150
Wuya and Jack are back
Wuya and Jack Spicer appeared together using the Tiger Claws. "Jack Spicer's Back Baby" He announced with a smirk. "With his bots and Wu" He said then felt Wuya slap him.
"Jack not now. We are finishing a helin promise" She stated then looked to the demon. "You shall pay and meet the fate of the Yin Yang World" She stated. A flame forming. "Jack combing the Wu pick wisely" She then watched him shift to a monkey and pull out the Ruby of Ramseys. Giving a nod he readied his aim.
Jake nodded. "Stitch like before" He stated and the two readied themselves.
Raven aimed her hands at the same target as Legolas. "Together" She stated in monotone.
@Lizzy @Wedge Antilles @FireDrake150 @Others
"INTO THE FRAY, EVERYONE! YOUR KING LEADS YOU IN PUR STRUGGLED!" Abel screamed as he surged forward along with the others, COMP in hand. However, he wasn't alone in his scream. Behind him, close to three hundred demons followed him into the fray with matching screams, "HAIL ABEL, KING OF BEL!" Heavenly angels, hellish demons, otherwordly aliens, and other famous supernatural figures all charged forward, a personal guard for the young king of demons.
As his brother threw himself into the fray with his consorts, Naoya kept back for a few moments, analyzing the pitched battle to determine the multiverse's future. While his force of a hundred demons were sizable and could handle a head-on confrontation, that wasn't to be its purpose. Abel's force handled that well enough, and why waste energy?
He turned back to his forces with a smirk, his voice ringing out clear for them all to hear, "Men, hear my voice! There is a pretender to your king's throne!" Roars and screams of rage and protest filled the air, a clear signal that they were ready to exact bloody revenge for such a crime. Naoya could hardly keep the satisfaction from revealing itself in his expression, "You wish for retribution for such an act? Then follow me, men, and let us show these fools a preview of what their eternal damnation shall be!"
With a wave of his hand, Naoya summoned the flames of Agidyne to set fire to several of the Crossed and zombies on the horde's flank before leading his men to slam the enemy. Now the battle truly began as the forces of both demons locked horns, with Abel and Naoya at the center of the battle.
